Greetings,
Over the course of this spring, summer, and early fall, I 'll be finishing
up my long-term, killer 912 vintage race car.
Finally, I'll get to go to Vintage events as an entrant...something I've
been looking forward to for many years.
Anyway, during this final push on getting my car built up, I'm looking for
both a tow vehicle and a trailer.
As far as trailers go, I was planning on picking up a new 20 ft box from
Pace...so, on to this used truck I found:
I found an '86 Ford f350 crew cab dually here in the little town I live in;
Seems like a nice enough truck; well maintained, low mileage (153k orig
miles...) has a Banks Turbo equipped 6.9 Diesel engine,
recent re-paint, recent re-interior, alcoa wheels, new tires, camper shell,
full configured for towing (huge fishing boat) everything works (even the
A/C which, as I understand it, is a weak area on Ford trucks) and the guy is
asking 7Kobo for it. My thought was, if everything checks out with the pre
purchase inspection(s) I'd offer about 6k for it.
My questions to the list are:
- Does anyone out there have any experience with these mid-80s ford diesels?
- Any gotchas I oughta be aware of?
- Are these engines really capable of supporting a Banks Turbo?
- Anything else I should look out for?
Looking forward to hearing from any of you...When responding, please copy me
offline.
Thanks for the help - I appreciate it, hopefully I'll be seeing you out on
the track(s) soon
Cheers
Thom Kuby
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