patgizz wrote: step 1 buy the cabover step 2 buy a pickup truck step 3 mount pickup cab and front end on semi frame step 4 build flatbed step 5 who cares you just built a pickup truck on a semi chassis, and are now awesome and can tow anything you want.
Can you drive that without a cdl? what kinda MPG? insurance price?
^its a ZAV, you really dont have to worry about any of that E36 M3
The last time i went to pick and pull there were about 20 kenworth semis in the back that they appeaed to be cutting up and crushing without even putting them in the yard. They were very ratty looking though.
What is scrap value on one of those?
Have a freind who uses one to tow his dump trailer around town, of course he also has a CDL to drive his pulling a 53 foot 5 car race car trailer, but there isn't much you can't pull with one of them, but the maintinence will eat you alive, they take oil by the Gallon.
My library carries this periodical and I sometimes check out the latest issue. I have learned a lot about trucks too. They have old trucks for sale in the back.
CarKid1989 wrote:patgizz wrote: step 1 buy the cabover step 2 buy a pickup truck step 3 mount pickup cab and front end on semi frame step 4 build flatbed step 5 who cares you just built a pickup truck on a semi chassis, and are now awesome and can tow anything you want.Can you drive that without a cdl? what kinda MPG? insurance price?
17,999 lb. GVW is the limit in New York.
I've always wanted something like that so I could fulfill my fantasy of driving though a brick wall at full tilt, kinda like a big mechanical Kool-Aid man. Yes, I am a strange one. 
914Driver wrote: 17,999 lb. GVW is the limit in New York.
In Minnesota the limit is 26,000 lbs (I drove a 23,000 lb GVW truck one summer when I was in college with just a regular driver's license.)
edit: I just checked a couple sources online and it appears it's the same in New York - you don't need a CDL license for trucks under 26,000 lbs.
... air brakes change things?
^^^^ In some cases, there are air brake equipped non-CDL (26K) trucks, but yes it does change things.
Vintage truck show here Sept. 26th. I'll take some pics.
I have a single axle WhiteGMC (600k mi) that I purchased for under $2k and a dual axle Freightliner (900k mi) that I paid $12,500 for. I have modified the single axle with a class IV hitch to tow big trailers and small. You need a CDL for anything over 26k lbs - and I would HIGHLY recommend everyone to get their CDL, it means you can drive pretty much anything. A poorly maintained truck can be expensive but if you compare the maintenance on a good used tractor versus payments on a new F350/3500 HD/RAM 3500 you'll find that a good used tractor can be much less expensive... There are many used truck junkyards out there that you can pretty much find any part of any truck, so if you wanted to build a custom living quarters on a long chassis you could do it for very little $$
PS. I am LopRacer's friend 
I would think most of the people here could get a CDL without much trouble. I managed to.
I've got my class B CDL. It was pretty easy. Just the driving portion of the test around here costs about $125 though. 'Course I consider it worth it. As to scrap value on one of those, I think empty weight for a cabover is in the vicinity of 15,000 lb, so yeah lots of steel.
only around a grand scrap value currently, stuff is down.
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