Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:I used to drive an E350 with a 460 as a newspaper delivery van. It would get loaded from floor to ceiling, front to back all the way to the windshield with tightly packed newspaper bundles. It sagged and waffled badly like that but it would climb hills and stop at the bottom if you gave it some advanced thought. It was a 220 mile round trip. I could barely make it back on one 27g tank. The thing did it every night for the 4 years I worked there and it never broke down. After the 1/2 way point when the thing was loaded with a normal, sane amount of weight it would drive like a family car. When it was empty it would break your teeth on bumps but you could lay rubber until you decided to lift off (if you were an immature 22yr old, that is... It would look like fireworks in the winter with the studs in :)
I remember renting a Club Wagon to deliver some supplies down to the crew at Dover Downs. Our work van was already there.. so I went down to the rental place and they gave me a HUGE 13 passenger van. On the way back, coming up route 1.. I got cut off by a new Mustang heading into the tollbooth. Nailing the throttle out of the booth.. I stayed with him all the way to 85.. and then the rental fuel cut hit and it felt like somebody had thrown an anchor out the back.
I bet the mustang pilot was NOT happy that a van kept up with him
