Hi!
New here and I'm the proud owner (2nd) of a 1977 El Camino Classic.

When I was in the Oil Field, manager of a Fire Safety Company, they called from Lafayette (I live in Laurel, MS) late on a Fridayand said they needed 1,500 pounds of hand fire extinguishers ASAP.

I said, I'm coming to Lafayette this weekend with my wife to visit her family, what's in it for me! Turns out a free dinner at a nice restaurant.

I loaded the Elky up, pumped up her air shocks and drove the 250 miles at 9 miles per gallon! She never held the road so well! 8O

But here's one to top that.

Skip forward quite a few years, we're remodeling the house and I need to pick up sacks of mortar mix, concrete blocks etc. for the bricklayers.

I haulded 2,000 lbs (front wheels barely touched the gound) in that sucker all the way home. The people at the store said "this can't be done!" The guy in the dump truck carrying the sand driving behind me said he couldn't believe it! 8O 8O

She's in sad shape right now, but she's running good and soon she'll shine like in days of old and she won't have such loads to carry!

Come on, what have you haulded?

I once hauled a ton of enriched urainium across Iran, dang donkey couldent keep his feet on the ground.
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Oh, welcome to ECC, Jay.

had a couple of fat bitches in the back one time.

When I'm in my ELKO it has tonage in the front! Lite in the A--! I did one time carry me, my 2 sons, a weeks worth of cloths and a NINJA 650 from Dallas to Nashville, one air shock busted along the way and I had to stop, jack it up, and put a 2x4 between the bed and rear end, made the rest of the trip with no problems
Donny

had a couple of fat bitches in the back one time.

:lol:

I hauled my tko600 home in mine(shipping blanket under the card board) and I haul my straw hat with sun glasses slid over it all the time for ballast.

had a couple of fat bitches in the back one time.

Sorry boys, fat chick or fat broad, fine, but "bitch" don't cut it here. :evil: And yes, I am one!

had a couple of fat bitches in the back one time.

Sorry boys, fat chick or fat broad, fine, but "bitch" don't cut it here. :evil: And yes, I am one!


what are you talking about? I had to take my dogs to the vet.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/images/articles/a-puppies-mothers-6966.jpg

had a couple of fat bitches in the back one time.

Sorry boys, fat chick or fat broad, fine, but "bitch" don't cut it here. :evil: And yes, I am one!


what are you talking about? I had to take my dogs to the vet.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/images/articles/a-puppies-mothers-6966.jpg

Yea right, poor attempt to cover your butt. So you are Dr Foster Smith who's site those dogs pictures are on? Give me a break. Last I knew this is supposed to be a family friendly site for Elky people. You want to get off color come on over to the trucking site I belong to, most anything goes there.

more of a joke than an "attempt to cover my butt". whatever this is the general BS section. I keep my content helpful and clean in the tech forums. sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes.

I hauled an upright piano in the back of my elky. That is the heaviest load it has seen.

About half a ton of gravel a long time ago. :oops: I treat the baby a lot better than that since. 8-)

You tell em MaMa Mayhem! No need for that kind of speak here. :mad:

lol, you can't tell me you guy's didn't giggle one bit at the dog joke... and did air shocks come stock on these car's? or did y'all just put them on?

Well I do have a new name for mine now. We had to empty my black water tank on my 5th wheel trailer, so I have one of these toter things so you dont have to move the trailer. Well the tank was so full it took 3 trips to empty the tank. So now, the nick name for my elky is "Turd Hauler".

I worked for a health food distributor way back and carried a pallet load of bottled flax oil 50 miles from the plant it was made all the way back to the warehouse. There were about 5000 glass bottles in the pallet and I didn't realize it weighed over a ton.

I guess I should've guessed from how my rear bumper was 1/4 inch from the ground. I still had the 400 in mine at the time and it went up the hill to the warehouse like a champ.

That was the end of the air shocks though and I swore to never abuse my Elky that way again.

I don't carry anything heavier than me back there now...

:D

My father abused the heck out of my elk before I got it from him. He purchased it from the factory in 86 with a special heavy duty tow package. So it came with front and rear sway bars, HD air shocks in the back and Different leaf springs from what I understand. Also a posi rear end. And it has a ridiculous hitch on the back that doesn't say a rating but bolts to the frame then a midpoint of the frame then to the rear bumper. He used to haul a 4500# sea ray around with it with no trailer brakes in connecticut and upstate new york. Then about 4 years ago (before I got it) he moved a 2500# safe in the bank of it. Broke one of the tailgate straps doing it and destroyed the fairly new air shocks for any future ability to hold air but he did it. Now that I have it it hasn't seen any loads at all. And even when it does it won't be anything over 1k pounds.

Gee...I don't know, how much does a case of empty beer cans weigh? Mind you, I'm not advocating drinking and driving...I was just hauling them to the scrap yard so they could be recycled into a brand new Ford Mustang...that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

My heaviest load was rock. I put blankets on the sides of the bead so in case the guy driving the Pay loader missed (he never hit the blanket) and I told him to load me up. I had air shocks and told him to quit when I had just a little spring left. I then went to the scale and I had on 1700 lbs. I was a little supprised.
elamott

elcamino74guy takes the cake! i just got my first elky two days ago 1968 i plan a full resto, but i wont put nothing hevyer than me back there

Mine carries a full load to Carlisle every year, at least the last two. 1 small tent, 1 sleeping bag, miscellaneous camping stuff, 1 10x10 pop up, car show stuff, coolers. It's a full load, but doesn't weigh much.

My father abused the heck out of my elk before I got it from him. He purchased it from the factory in 86 with a special heavy duty tow package. So it came with front and rear sway bars, HD air shocks in the back and Different leaf springs from what I understand. Also a posi rear end. And it has a ridiculous hitch on the back that doesn't say a rating but bolts to the frame then a midpoint of the frame then to the rear bumper. He used to haul a 4500# sea ray around with it with no trailer brakes in connecticut and upstate new york. Then about 4 years ago (before I got it) he moved a 2500# safe in the bank of it. Broke one of the tailgate straps doing it and destroyed the fairly new air shocks for any future ability to hold air but he did it. Now that I have it it hasn't seen any loads at all. And even when it does it won't be anything over 1k pounds.



can you post pics of the rear suspension? I've never heard of a G-body with leafs. I'd like to know the details of the car. a rear factory sway bar as well? sounds like a one of a kind car.