Get er home yet? Awaiting more pics.. maybe I should have searched for "El Combino"
Yep, towed the El Combino home yesterday. :busted: It's still sitting on Badbuggys trailer out in the street, I need to unload it today. I was going to put it in the garage out of sight, for the good of the neighborhood but my diesel Jetta really hates sitting outside overnight and starting the next morning, so the El Combino will have to wait out Winter in the driveway.
I had a friend who was going to tow the car for my with his 1 Ton Dodge, but he ended up needing to take care of other business, so we towed the big trailer and the El Combino with the wifes '03 V8 Toyota 4Runner. It has a towing capacity of 5,000 #'s and I'm sure we exceeded it by a few hundred pounds. The trailer is big and heavy and the car itself originally weighed 3,600 #'s. I was actually surprised how well the 4Runner towed that much weight. I thought it would be sketchy, but it handled it very well. I think the stiffer OME suspension really helped the load distribution, it hardly sagged. The 4Runner wasn't unstable at all towing at 60-65 MPH, plenty of power and it even managed 12 MPG towing over 5,000 #s!
I cleaned out the bed of the El Combino yesterday, it has window screens, bricks, old tires, TONS of leaves, etc all piled up in the bed. After that, I hauled it down to the car wash and sprayed it off. It cleaned up pretty well.
After a closer look at the plates, it appears that the car was last registered in '86. Hopefully that means it was running and driving then, which if it was, it may be a matter of some work to get it running again.
Time will tell!
