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Originally Posted by cadillackid
You going to put a 643 in the ford? Or you have a different bus/truck that has a 545?
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When we decided to move to Montana for a couple of years I got an IH 4700 with 26 foot box and lift gate for a whole lot less than a moving company would have charged us to get the household across the country. That's the truck with the T444E and AT545. It made the 2500 miles West and back four times but the slushbox is annoyingly inefficient.
I toyed with the idea to convert that truck into a rolling vacation apartment but the E-350 (7.3L PS and 4R100) with 14' box is more nimble, cheaper to operate, and has enough space for my needs. The idea of looking for a Ford cutaway came from a visit to UJoint Offroad, located just a couple of miles from my current domicile. I still may put the necessary items in it to qualify as a "house car" (North Carolina lingo for RV) since the weighted tags it currently has are expensive in NC.
School buses definitely have the cool factor in their favor but box trucks are so stupidly easy to convert for someone who stands 6'6" that I could not resist going that route.