I did not notice it until 3 PM on Saturday. But it happened Saturday morning...It was a good truck 10 cylinder manual trans ...A good combo for pulling... when I reported it I had someone put it on Facebook it took a day but they parked it 5 blocks away at a apt complex...for the whole night...then came back and got it! For real... if you’re going to work .. on jaguar you need a car lift trailer and away to pull them

 

I use a tow bar with good results. However I also have a tow service included with my
insurance that tows for free for up to 25 miles. The only issue there being you have to
wait for the insurance company to arrange the tow.

 

I bought a cheap pickup to do pickup things like move heavy, large and/or dirty things, plow my driveway and tow my cars when they inevitably need to be towed.

Here it is when I acquireed my XJR a bit over 2 hours from home. The color is a complete coincidence, I swear!

 

Ha....there is no such thing as a cheap pickup. It's kind of one of those "pay me now...or pay me later"
sort of things. I have a '77 Chevy Silverado Step-Side that I get by with, but would love to have one of
the newer Quad cabs...on second thought the Chevy gets the job done.

 

$1200 three years ago, put about $2k into it including a snowplow. Of course I've probably spent more than that on gas over the last 25k miles, but its never let me down.

 

Yeah, I don't know how anyone can get by without a pickup truck, particularly if you own a home or an old car. I'd bought new Ford and GM full-sized pickup trucks back when they were reasonably practical. Then at one point, don't know what came over me, I decided to get a FZJ80 Landcruiser to pull my boat and everybody to the lake, my first and probably last SUV. But every time I needed to go to the salvage yard for car parts or take an engine block to the machine shop, it was a royal pain to have to remove the 3rd row seat and carefully wrap and secure my cargo so as not to damage the luxury interior. I decided to go back to a pickup truck and get one of the new crew-cab configurations that were becoming so popular.

My cousin worked as a Honda technician and he had just bought a new 2006 Ridgeline. I wasn't even going to look at them, but then he showed up with a trailer load of ATVs easily half a ton more than my boat, plus a bed full of camping gear. I was impressed so I bought a new 2007. He's got well over 300,000 miles on his Ridgeline now tho mine has only about 80K, always having been a 2nd vehicle, doing truck duties and filling in when the Jaguars are broke. Knock on wood, I haven't ever actually needed to tow a Jaguar sedan (and that's what AAA is for), but the Ridge handles sports cars on an open trailer just fine long as I'm not in any hurry. I wouldn't want to try to go over the Rocky Mountains with a maximum load, but around Texas it'd do just fine. I posted about my first time pulling a car on a trailer including a photo (which is surprisingly still there after 14 years) on the Ridgeline forum. Perspective tho makes it look more impressive than it really was.

I can't imagine buying a new full-sized truck ever again now tho. They're so tall now that I couldn't even lift a bag of concrete into the bed. I'm only 5'7". I'd have to buy a forklift to go with it. I mean its seriously ridiculous to make a 2wd truck with a bed so high that the tailgate has to fold out into a step ladder.

Keep that 77 Chevy squarebody Randy. Good thing about it, besides the practical size, its so popular you can probably always get reproduction parts and restore it over and over and over again.

 

Well Phil, We have Rod Runs here in the Pigeon Forge area, and sometimes I will
take the truck. People are always trying to trade\buy\barter or otherwise pry it from
my hands. The built 350 with race cam combined with the chrome stacks running
up behind the cab seems to draw them out of the woodwork. It sounds really nice
and apart from some rust on the rocker panels, it is pretty sound.