I'd buy one.

69.5CUDA said:
doc id have to dissagre on the headlights..gimmy an H4 conversion lamp over a sealed beam...at that point they could have used any of the "euro" versions of h4s that have the "running light" and used IT for the turn signal and done away with the 3rd hole on each side...
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I'll go with you on the H4 conversion, except for the running light/turn signal thing. The H4s look like a normal headlamp. It's not that I don't like the turn signals, I just don't like the way they were done on this truck.

In 71's case, he didn't have the opportunity for momentum, so having something that will actually grab the ground makes a huge difference.
 
I need tires I can get miles out of, and I don't drive in dirt, often anyway. I bought the most aggressive tires that last. Hell the tires on my Ram are highway tread, but she's 2 wheel and doesn't get offroad at all.

I paid $1100 for the Ford's tires and Trish had tears in her eyes, that was half of what she paid for her Jetta. I put 25K on those tires and they had a lot of life left, well more than 50%, when she went away.
 
Like I said, I'm not suggesting you should've gone with dedicated mud tires, but A/Ts are just not well-suited to what you were doing. I understand what you need from a tire, but you can have all the truck in the world and with the wrong tire you simply will not accomplish your goal.
 
But I did, I succeeded in not making my wife cry over tires twice in one year. :D

I don't go offroad often, or in areas where I need more aggressive tires. If I were to acquire a 4 wd truck now it would be a whole different deal, it wouldn't be primary transportation nor a work truck and relied on as such. Therefore it would be able to be beaten on mercilessly.
 
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the nice thing about h4's with integrated turns is unless you hit the turns no one sees them...i love the setup...im not saying the trucks turn signal is bad its just to me it made the nose clunky..even stock....and of the 60s dodges i LOVE that face except the turns...if i ever get back to my stubby 70 camper special it WILL have that nose
 
The problem with that is that if you eliminate the stock running lamps, you're leaving yourself open for a ticket. On a truck that old, it didn't even have forward running lamps, just headlights and turn signals at night. On newer cars, though, you have to have them. Around here, the police will pull you over for just about anything they can. When I'm walking, I'll flag people down and tell them they have a non-functioning lamp of any kind. It might save them from a larger headache should they get stopped.
 
Dr.Jass said:
I watched Stretch's truck bury itself to the axles with a similar-design tire and have to get pulled out by a loader.
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Yes But mine were bald (about 1/4 tread) and I proved to you that my truck trully does have sure-grip diffs in both ends.
 
Around here, you'll probably get pulled over if your car is actively on fire. Other than that, equipment violations largely remain in the realm of "it's in the traffic code, but I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for that."
 
Stretch, I don't know that double the tread would've made much difference. They're just not a self-cleaning tread design for situations like that. They clogged just enough to not have traction, yet leave enough sipe to set your truck on the axles.

v8440, we live in a county of maybe 30,000 people and have five police departments. We have, average, maybe one murder per year. The police around here bore rather easily.
 
forward running lamps are NOT required out here
but on a dual light truck you could easily have 1 set as running and 1 set as turns and boom your back in the letter of the law
 
Forward running lamps (park lamps on while the headlamps are on) are a Federal law starting I believe in the 1970 model year.
 
Talk about violations, I've owned my trailer for almost 2 years and have yet to register it :D

Right now I'm running the temp tag from my truck on it, which expired in July. But it's relatively new, and looks it and all the lights work sooooo... I will break down and get it done soon, it's just $165 I really didn't/don't want to spend :(
 
Dr.Jass said:
Forward running lamps (park lamps on while the headlamps are on) are a Federal law starting I believe in the 1970 model year.
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That would be in '69. The '68 to '70 B-bodies share the same dash but the headlight switch for a '68 is different.


Ask me how I know this. :(
 
Two of my friends owned the same '69 Satellite. I could've sworn the park lamps went off when the headlamps were on... but that was a long time ago. Who knows... maybe it had a '68 switch in it. The first friend bought it in '89, and sold it to the other one in '91.

I know they stayed lit on my '70 Super Bee, though I never actually drove that car at night.
 
ummm you talking the SIDE lights or the gril lights cause on 67 a bodys the grill ones come on with the headlights
 
The forward park lamps, not the side markers. For instance, my childhood friend had a '63 Polara. You could cruise around with just the parking lights illuminated, but the second the headlights were turned on, the park lamps switched off. The only lamps visible from the front were the headlamps, unless you activated a turn signal or the hazards.

Side markers became law in 1968, but Chrysler exploited a loophole in the wording of the law and installed reflectors instead in 1969 on most models. The law was changed for '70 to make sure they were lit any time the headlight switch was in the "on" position.
 
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