Best Tow Car

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Aubrey N Bruneau

In 1986-1990, my 63 Pontiac Parisienne Safari station wagon did the job, pulling my 61 Biscayne on a dolly trailer. Factory 340 HP 409 4 speed. I changed the rear gears to 3.55 for towing the car.

Now THAT is what I call a neat tow car. How many 63 Pontiacs (Parisienne's) have you seen with a 409 AND a 4 speed built by the factory !

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

"Went from the Olds & tow bar to a ramp truck. There went the gas mileage. "

Yeah Ed , but the one ton ramp truck was the safest way to tow.

Very little swaying ,decent ride, you only feel each bump twice instead of four times, easier on tolls, (that would be the Will Rogers Tnpk for you) and you could haul *** at 80 mph, all day and night..

We also have the Turner Turnpike between Tulsa and OKC. I ran 80 all the time towing. Did pay double at the toll gates. Oklahoma really likes toll roads. I have a Pike Pass under a tee top in the race car, and one in the motor home now. It reads the one in the race car, inside the trailer. Whoda thunk it?

[Aubrey N Bruneau]

Guess it depends where you are, Tech Man !
Well, these are 64's:
Here's my 64 Parisienne Safari project car... documented 400 HP 409 4 speed ( this is the large port, 11:1 engine, using the Z11 cam ). PS, PB, PRW, posi. Colour is Sunfire Red Metallic / Ermine White roof.
How many ?
One(1) built. Not one pink one. One only built.

then, while looking for parts for it, a guy said to me, "hey, I have the pink wagon with a 409" ?
He did... sort of. Around 1977, some low-life street rodder needed metal for his project, and cut the roof skin off this car. the wagon was a in a yard ( engine/trans had long before been removed ) with 200 other cars. This guy saw 409 valve cover gasket laying over the hole in the floor for the factory 4 speed shifter, and the tach up in the corner of the dash, and decided yes, this is the one... and took a cut off saw to it.
64 Pontiac Laurentian 9 passenger Safari wagon.
Documented 340 HP 409 4 speed... yes, same colour as the 400 horse car.
How many ?
again, one(1) built
I'm actually just about to start work on this one

[Paul Ceasrine]

Those Safari cars were 'top-of-the-line'

Pete,
Post your story on the 'Worst Tow Car'.
1966 International Harvester Travellal.
Poor rear suspension. Upper frame section ripped out during
a trailer tow to New York National in 1970, and the trailer hit a guard-rail along Sunrise Highway.
Left the Travellal there on the side of the road. 3-weeks later, the
Travellall was still there. No one wanted it.
Engine blew out so much oil-smoke, it looked like one of those
neighborhood 'Bug-Sprayers'. A quart-a-day-Charlie'

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Aubrey N Bruneau

Guess it depends where you are, Tech Man !
Well, these are 64's:
Here's my 64 Parisienne Safari project car... documented 400 HP 409 4 speed ( this is the large port, 11:1 engine, using the Z11 cam ). PS, PB, PRW, posi. Colour is Sunfire Red Metallic / Ermine White roof.
How many ?
One(1) built. Not one pink one. One only built.

then, while looking for parts for it, a guy said to me, "hey, I have the pink wagon with a 409" ?
He did... sort of. Around 1977, some low-life street rodder needed metal for his project, and cut the roof skin off this car. the wagon was a in a yard ( engine/trans had long before been removed ) with 200 other cars. This guy saw 409 valve cover gasket laying over the hole in the floor for the factory 4 speed shifter, and the tach up in the corner of the dash, and decided yes, this is the one... and took a cut off saw to it.
64 Pontiac Laurentian 9 passenger Safari wagon.
Documented 340 HP 409 4 speed... yes, same colour as the 400 horse car.
How many ?
again, one(1) built
I'm actually just about to start work on this one

Ahhhhh yes.....back when they made cool cars with real metal in them and not the junk we see today. Who cares about gas milage.....lol.

[sst1988]

Originally Posted by Dinsdale

This is a very cool rig I saw at Mission today..

This got my vote....

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

Id like to see everyone go back to open trailers and ramp trucks. There would be more room in the pits. Cant turn back the clock though.

Some of us STILL HAVE open trailers and dream of stepping up to a ramp truck !...............LOL

[treessavoy]

Back in the day it wasn't unusual for guys to flat tow stocker's or trailer dragsters with old Hearses. Some painted them but most just left them black, if you were lucky you could find a hearse flower car that had a small pickup bed for your tools and stuff.

Neatest combo I saw was a 1950 Studebaker with a Pontiac OHC 6cyl, 4 speed and 1956 Olds rear flat towed by a Hearse flower car with the funeral home name still on it. The car ran in the six cylinder gas class, I think it was I/gas. Pretty neat rig built by a bunch of Airmen from the local Air Base.

JimR