Cool Mike ;
Are you retiring there ? .
-Nate
Mike wrote:
> All,
> Well, I have made the first step in the migration from north
Texas to
> central Illinois. I loaded a 15' budget rental truck with boxes
and misc shop
> equipment and put my '48 3100 on a trailer behind it. The wife
followed in her
> Buick. We traveled the 850 miles on Sat & Sun the 18th and 19th
of Dec. The
> weather when we loaded and left was great, in the 60s. When we
arrived here it
> was in the teens and the chill factor was in the single digits!
> The good news is, the trip was uneventful and everything
(especially the
> '48) arrived without damage. My truck is now backed in the garage
at our new
> house in Oakwood, Illinois. We will be relocating there
permanently in spring.
> Anyway, it snowed about 3 inches on the 23rd and stayed for a
white
> Christmas.
> For those of you planning to tow an old truck on a rental
trailer, I can
> say the Budget rig worked perfectly. Easy to load and unload, and
pulled fine.
> You do have to fib about what you are hauling, but the load
capacity is 4050
> lbs, just about what an AD weighs. FYI, I got a lot of thumbs up
and long
> looks along the way. Even had two offers to buy it!
> Anyway, I just wanted the group to know I made the trip OK and
all had a
> Merry Christmas (not Happy Holidays) and wish everyone a Happy New
Year.
>
> Mike Klepp
> '48 3100 5 window
> '65 C-10 stepside
> Wichita Falls, TX
> (soon to be Oakwood, IL)
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Ole Chevy and GMC trucks rule!
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