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Towing with a GMC C60

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mkirsch

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On my way home Sunday I came across a truck/trailer combo for sale on a back road.

It's a 1984 GMC C60 with a late model 14K 24' Corn Pro gooseneck. Apparently it was used to haul antique tractors because the trailer has 3 ramps.

The truck has a 350 and a 4- or 5-speed stick (couldn't tell through the window), and I was just wondering what kind of performance you could expect out of a rig like this.

It's probably not going to end up in my yard, but I was just curious.
 

It would handle the load much better than ANY 3/4 or one ton truck ever thought about, but probably, depending on the rear end ratio, would not be real comfortable with interstate highway speeds, and fuel mileage would be somewhere around 6 to 8 MPG. There would also be some licensing issues that a pick-up truck does not have, it would be more subject to D.O.T. inspections, and might even require the driver to posses a CDL. If you were going to be doing a LOT of tractor or machinery hauling, that C60 would be the way to go.
 
Thanks Rusty!

I agree, for lots of local tractor hauling the C60 would make a nice rig. For truck and trailer, he wants $6500.

The truck looks okay, has some rust on the running boards. The interior looks clean and in good shape. Probably needs tires though, as they look a little dry. That won't be cheap for sure.

Too bad it's not what I want/need. I just can't see driving that beast 1000 miles out and 1000 miles back to pick up a tractor, or hooking a camper to it and showing up at a campground.
 
That's unusual, I thought most of those trucks had the 366 or 427, or the old 4 stroke "fuel pincher" 8.2L detroit diesel.
 
(quoted from post at 17:39:07 05/03/10) That's unusual, I thought most of those trucks had the 366 or 427, or the old 4 stroke "fuel pincher" 8.2L detroit diesel.
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Not really. The small block 350 seemed to be the engine of choice for most of these 2 ton trucks, and quite a few even had the 292 in-line 6 or in a GMC, maybe the 351 or 401 V6. You wouldn't win any races with those engines, but they WOULD give you an honest days work and fuel economy at the same time.
 
That's the type rig I really want for personal, farm use. I'd be mostly in-state with the exception if I bought something out-of-state.

CT
 
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