Dunedain Ranger
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- Thomas
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2020
- Threads
- 7
- Messages
- 141
- Reaction score
- 472
- Location
- Pensacola, Florida
- Vehicle(s)
- 2020 Ford Ranger XL Super Cab - 2WD, 1995 Honda Accord EX Station Wagon
Oh man - you stirred memories with your 74 Chevy Wagon. Even though I drive a Ford, Chevrolets back then were awesome. We had a 1963 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon (blue with white trim) when I was a wee lad and that thing was bullet proof - My dad was with Monsanto (Chemstrand back then) and was sent to Luxembourg in 1964-1968 and he took that wagon with us (traveled by ocean liner back then). Drove it all over Europe - somebody in Luxembourg offered to buy it from him to use as a hearse LOL. He drove the wheels off that thing. In my late teens, early twenties, I had a 1976 Chevrolet Malibu Classic Station Wagon (blue) and thing was a party-mobile - it had a 350 - solid as a rock. Several buddies of mine piled in the vehicle and went to a RUSH concert in Mobile, AL. It was their "Moving Pictures" tour.I think you point out something rather important. The size difference between a 2001 F150, and a 2023 Ford Ranger is negligible. The F-150 was between 3,935 to 4,994. A 2023 Ford Ranger is between 4,145 to 4,441 lbs. People also often dont look at the physics involved. They will often think that bigger is better in terms of simply stopping a trailer, thinking that the momentum of a heavy vehicle stopping automatically translates to the trailer stopping. They forget that that hitch is a pivot point and that the physics says that trailer will want to keep moving, if it doesn't have its own brakes, and if that means pivoting, to the left or right, to keep moving it will. Another example of this is the pivot point of a wheel. Ride a motorcycle, or bicycle, really fast and then apply only the front brake. The back of that cycle wants to keep moving forward. If that means flipping butt over tea kettle, using the front axle as the pivot point, it will.
PS I had a 74 Chevy Impala Station wagon back in my early 20s. God they were battle wagons lol
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