[FC] A Rampside Trip

[J R Read_HML]

Greg,

The crushed stone and the Monza parts are missing from my (otherwise the 
same) list.  But, I've also carried town dignitaries in the 4th of July 
parade.  The bed is painted with Smoke Grey Rustoleum and once a year I 
touch up ( = paint over) the scrapes and scratches.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg & Virginia" <walthours at starpower.net>
To: "The Corvanatics list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] A Rampside Trip


> In the few years since I got my Rampside on the road, I have also hauled a
> beautiful old upright piano, new washer & dryer, crushed stone, mulch 
> piled
> as high as the top of the bed, firewood, and at least one memorable trip 
> to
> the scrap yard with the remains of a '66 Monza coupe.  I'm actually afraid
> to make the Rampside look any nicer, for fear I will not want to use it 
> for
> what it was built for, a truck!  Greg in Alexandria, Virginia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "VirtualVairs AA" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
> Cc: "Corvanatics AB" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 3:11 AM
> Subject: [FC] A Rampside Trip
>
>
>> Yes, I know, I still owe you VV folks the final installments on the Route
> 66
>> trip.  With any luck, I'll get to that later this week.
>>
>> This story is fairly short - about the utility of a Rampside.
>>
>> Saturday it was all cleaned up and participated in the first LSD (Lake
> Shore
>> Drive) Kruze in Chicago.  It was a good turnout - estimated 600 or more
> cars
>> on display at Soldier Field parking lot.  Probably over 1,000 that 
>> cruised
>> the drive.  Six cars from CCE were in the cruise portion and four (parked
>> together) stayed for the show portion.  There was another seven Corvairs
>> scattered thru ought the shown - all cars that no one from CCE had
>> previously seen.  Obviously, we did our best to talk those folks into
> coming
>> to our meetings.  We'll see what happens on that.
>>
>> It rained like H on the way home.  Several traffic lights are still out 
>> on
>> some of the main routes near my home and many businesses were without
> power
>> for 8 hours or more.  We sent that stuff over to Indiana, right Warren?
>>
>> Anyway, Sunday morn was an "up early" day and a quick trip over to
> Elmhurst,
>> IL where I (and helpers) loaded a piano - probably around 550 pounds into
>> the Rampside.  Staying on local roads and not traveling over 50 mph, I
>> arrived at my daughter's place in New Berlin, WI.  Technically this was
> not
>> quite legal since I have AV plates (not truck plates) on the vehicle.  I
> DID
>> plan the route through Wheeling, IL where a relative happens to be a
> police
>> officer.  Hey, it couldn't hurt to mention his name if I should happen to
>> get stopped for having a load on the truck.  Other than one wrong turn 
>> and
> a
>> stop to air up the tires (steering was much improved by that), the trip
> went
>> smoothly.  Perhaps these things were built for piano moving?
>>
>> After the unload and a quick bite to eat, the trip back was down the
> express
>> and toll ways.  I found that there was a fairly stiff wind.  Flags were
>> standing straight out on about a 45 degree angle to my direction of
> travel -
>> so I figure that (subtracting the cross wind factor) I was probably
> driving
>> into a 20 to 25 mph head wind.  The ambient temp was in the upper 80s and
>> fairly humid.  There is an air dam on the front so the cross wind factor
> did
>> not affect me very much at all.
>>
>> The Rampside has a Spider dash and I found that the head temp was right 
>> at
>> 400 so long as I kept the speed below 60 mph.  I had done an oil change
> the
>> night before (Mobil 1), so I was not all that concerned even though it
>> typically runs at about 375 head temp on cooler days and higher (like 
>> 65 -
>> 70) speeds.  I got a spike or two into the 425 range when I tried going
> over
>> 60 or up long gradual hills or bridges, so I just kept it over in the
> right
>> lane and stayed between 55 and 58 mph.  In a total of 220 miles, it has
>> fallen just below the full mark on the dipstick.  So it used a
> "measurable"
>> amount of oil during the trip, but not terribly much.  If it continues to
>> spike temps above 400, I'll probably remove the lower shrouds.
>>
>> So, anyone else move a piano in a (nearly) 45 year old Rampside recently?
>>
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>>
>> Later, JR
>> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
>> '65 Monza Convertible 4/140  (temporarily X 2)
>> '66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140 (1/2 ownership)
>>
>>
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