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This is a white Chevy 3/4 ton, extended cab pick-up truck.
It was bought gently used by Marcia's dad in early 2002 from a
dealer in Watertown. At that time, they had a low profile
fifth wheel camper trailer that he was towing with a half ton
Chevy pick-up. He wanted something a little more
"capable".
He felt at the time that it was about
the nicest truck he ever owned. As it turned out, he passed
away in October of that year and never really got to drive it
much.
It became our third family "tow truck" when we bought
it from
Marcia's mom in January 2003. We bought it so that we could tow her
fifth wheel
for her so that she could continue to camp. By the end of
the summer of 2003, she decided that she would sell the camper and
David found that he would rather tow a fifth
wheel than pilot a motor home so we sold the motor home and
bought our own fifth wheel. The camper is gone but we kept
this to tow our utility trailers and boats around.
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This Chevy has the 6.0 liter (364 CID) Vortec V8 in it. It did a
nice job towing the camper, which was a 29 foot medium profile
fifth wheel weighing over 7300 pounds dry. Genie had it
all equipped with the fifth wheel hitch and it has the louvered
tail gate for fifth wheel towing. It also had a factory
installed under chassis Class III hitch. The truck has
multiple personalities. In addition to being a tower, you
can also dress it up. Normally, I run it with a tonneau
cover on. If we weren't towing, I could leave the
fifth wheel hitch on and it was covered from the elements and
couldn't be seen. Genie had a tool box in the bed
which is very handy. He also made stake racks for
it. This is a throw back to the farming days. The
racks stand above the cab top and allow you to carry larger
items. This is especially true for moving people, which has
been done often with this truck and trailer.
In the fall of '04, we took the truck in to Mort Backus and
Sons and had a graphics package applied to the sides. This
was done by an after market contractor that they have. We
had the same package applied to the trailer so that the two
match. In the summer of '05, we had stainless steel panels
installed, also at Backus. These run the length of the
truck, just above the rocker panels and dress it up.
As time passed, the beast got tired. On April 14, 2016,
we drove this to Mort Backus and Sons to see about trading it
in. Chevy was running a pretty good set of incentives, so
we bought a 2016
Chevy Silverado, and said good-bye to this one. It had
76,566 miles on it when we let it go. |
