Originally posted by Racer X 69 I miss the early Econoline vans.
A longtime friend moved from Mineral Point, Wisconsin in his lime green 1963 Econoline. It has Cragar SS wheels, and the inside was dark brown shag carpet and real wood paneling.
It was awesome.
When he bought his 1972 Dodge van I "borrowed" the Econoline for a couple of years, as I had little income and needed wheels. It was great, and offered a place to stay when I couldn't afford a house.
I miss that van.
I liked the Econolines and the GM mid size (Astro/Safari) and full size RWD vans. Never had any experience with a Dodge full size, RWD van, sorry to say. Considered buying a '96-97 Dodge B200 window van with three row seating, 318 Magnum V8 for family use. Our kids were young, and Dodge had a table that could go up in the middle of the seating, you could reverse one of the bench seats for long travel, also make it into a bed. It would of been the mid range wheel base, not extended. We pulled a folding trailer on holidays and have an Old Two freighter canoe that could fit atop the van and carry our little Evinrude O/B in the cargo area, along with the rest of the camping stuff. Instead we bought a '97 Astro, 4.3 liter Vortec V6, HD suspension, Eaton locker on the RWD. It worked fine.
I recall those early Econoline vans, also that era E series pickup. When I was working at the company I mentioned earlier, they had a fleet of Econolines , no window, only driver seat, commercial vans...all of them white in colour, which I think was a common colour so companies could put some cheap lettering on these commercial trucks, also probably white was cheaper paint I'm thinking..
They had a '70 Econoline (2nd gen) E 100 with a 240 inline six, 3 on the tree, two '70 E 300s (one tons) with the 300 cube inline six and HD C6 transmissions. Back then I wasn't a Ford guy, strictly Chevy
, but with all these Ford trucks I was driving, I came to respect their durability, reliability, robustness and with the 300 inline six their low and mid range power to move a heavy load.
They also had (for a short time) a single rear wheel, early box Econoline, with a 302 V8. That one was the exception. Timing chain, head gasket, tranny issues abound. So much that they traded it in on the E 350 DRW, cab and chassis with the 14 foot box. It had the 460 V8/C6...and that thing was dead reliable. Never an issue for anything and it could haul a load with that torque rich , big block V8. One of my all time favourite light trucks to drive and work in. MPG's were atrocious, but that was not surprising.
It was the only Econoline from that era that didn't have alignment issues with the front Twin Beam front suspension in the company. I really liked it.
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Originally posted by Racer X 69 Can you copy images from the SD card in your digital camera to your computer?
I can and do.
I tried to send a pic to the poster via private email, but I couldn't get the picture to go on the email. I'm a major league Klutz
when it comes to computers and at my age, I accept my limitations.