[FC] A Rampside Trip

Thu Jun 9 07:46:08 EDT 2005

Maybe that 10 x 10 shed assembled would make a neat camper option for a
Rampside!
Clark Hartzel

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[mailto:corvanatics-bounces at corvair.org]On Behalf Of J R Read_HML
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [FC] A Rampside Trip

Oh, there's been other STUFF too.  Last fall I carried home my new 10 X 10
backyard shed for example.  Of course, it was not yet assembled.  That was
probably a little heavier than the piano and a lot bulkier.

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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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