This creation was one of my favorite trucks to drive. I bought a Volvo with a Boydstun 4-car headrack and mated it to a Cottrell quick-load trailer. It had an electronic 3406 that I had upgraded to factory specs for 550 hp. It just had a nine-speed so it thought my next project was to upgrade to the thirteen but after i drove it I realized I didn’t need any more gears because the powerband on that cat was so wide. I was based in San Diego at the time and even running over the mountains was really no problem with the 9-speed.
I did modify the headrack because those old boydstun four-cars didn’t have enough up travel on position two and three to get a car behind the cab after you had loaded the top when doing four on the headrack. We modified it enough to load 3 ford taurus size cars on the top and still drive a small pickup underneath.
Just a little overlength I’de guess.
When the sliding fifth-wheel was in it was legal. On that particular load I had to stretch out to turn so what I did was suck it in to cross the scales. The front of that white car on the bottom was close to the back of my truck.
I was looking at the rear overhang, its hard to tell, but it looks like you were about 6 feet past your tailights. I used to try to back the last one on because I thought the overhang looked shorter even though overall it was actually longer.Lol.
Your’e correct, but at the time 6 feet of rear overhang was legal in Calif as long as it was lit at night or flagged during the day. Now they make you run a cord with lights but back then they wouldn’t say anything if you just pulled the parking lights on on the vehicle.
Oh, no kidding. All my hauling has been here in the Northeast, and all we get is 4 past the lights and not an inch more.
We got four feet in the front and four in the back without any flag or lights and 6 1/2 feet out the back with lights/flag. We also got spoiled because we could run 14 feet tall. You guys definitely have it tougher than I did.