On my list of things I have to get this spring (probably more like late summer) is a new truck. Perferrably a class 6. I wanted to go bigger, but if I did the fiance and my dad couldn't drive it if need be. I'm not saying they would but if they have to they wouldn't be able to. No air brakes of course...
Anyway... that's all irrelevant. Where on earth can you find information on older trucks? I can't find specifications or manuals or anything about them. I'm looking in the 80-90s range. I'm looking further down south mostly, because trucks driven mainly up here are total crap after 400k miles. So I'll end up having to either fly down or get a ride down from someone in order to pick it up. But I'm also wanting to make sure it's able to pull a decent weight as well (14k min).
I was actually dead set on getting a M35 (probably A2), until I realized the max towing on it is 10k lbs on road. Even 1/2 ton trucks can pull 10k these days... So is there any resource out there to find such info? Like GCWR, GAWRs, wheelbase... etc...? Even info on the drive train would be helpful as well.
Anyway... that's all irrelevant. Where on earth can you find information on older trucks? I can't find specifications or manuals or anything about them. I'm looking in the 80-90s range. I'm looking further down south mostly, because trucks driven mainly up here are total crap after 400k miles. So I'll end up having to either fly down or get a ride down from someone in order to pick it up. But I'm also wanting to make sure it's able to pull a decent weight as well (14k min).
I was actually dead set on getting a M35 (probably A2), until I realized the max towing on it is 10k lbs on road. Even 1/2 ton trucks can pull 10k these days... So is there any resource out there to find such info? Like GCWR, GAWRs, wheelbase... etc...? Even info on the drive train would be helpful as well.