[SunRescue] Dodge vehicles

[Michael S. Schiller]

Hi All.

Nothing can kill the Dodge Diplomat! I used to run a fleet of taxicabs,
and the only cars I would use were Dodge Diplomat ex-police cars! You
just can't kill them! In the fleet I was leased thru there were 3 of us
that owned most of the fleet, I had 12 Diplomats, one guy had nothing
but Chevy Caprices, and the last guy had nothing but Ford /Mercury Crown
Vics / Marquis.  I generally paid 1/4 of what the other guys paid per
car, and had 1/4 the mechanical problems with them too! I sold off most
of the cabs when I moved to TN, but I brought 4 of them up here with me,
and started (and fairly quickly closed) a small cab company here. I
still own 2 of the Diplomats (although I might sell one of them, I got
TOO many cars!), and my main vehicle is a Dodge Ram 1 ton diesel dually.
The only thing I got that's not 100% chrysler is a 79 Jeep, but since
the buyout, I guess it's retroactively a Chrysler product now :)

The newest Diplomat I had was an 87 (this was just a couple of years
ago), and the earliest was an 82, and they regularly were MUCH more
reliable than the 90 chevys the other guy was using! I never had any
problems with computers or sensors going bad (well, ok, one computer did
die on me), but the Chevy's and Fords were always having sensor
troubles. Of course there's no harder test of a car than making it a
cab, they run 24/7 and actually get harder use than a police car does!

Back onto the topic of computers, mentioning the rackmount drive trays,
I have one in my SS690, but it only had 4 drives in it rather than the 6
it could hold (this is the tray that holds 6 5.25" differential drives),
anyone know where I can get the brackets that mount the drives into it,
as I currently added the last 2 drives, but without proper mounting
brackets I just have them sitting on old mousepads in the box, and I'd
like to fix that. Thanks.

-Mike

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:37:00PM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> >
> > On a trip up to San Jose from L.A., I managed to pack 8 of the large Sun
> > rackmount drive trays into my '78 Dodge Diplomat (4D sedan), plus 2
> > passengers and a bunch of extra drives. That included about 60 5.25" FH
> > hard drives with a total weight of well over half a ton.
>
> Ah yes, the famous "dodge4d" architecture.
>
> I have found Chrysler products ugly and cheap, but quite good at holding
> lots of stuff.  I often drove a Caravan ("minimax" architecture) around with
> up to about 4000 pounds of stuff in it when I worked for my family's business.
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> patrick at zill.net
>
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