Here is my 1999 Cheverolet Suburban LT. By far the lowest milage and most expensive vehicle I've ever owned. I wouldn't even look at such new vehicle except it was a 3/4 ton with a 7.4L big block, not an easy find in these parts.
This will stay pretty much stock and be used to run errands, haul stuff, and tow my Jeep and Corvette around. I want to put some BFG all terrains on it as the current tires are terrible off pavement. Its not a trail runner(although it does that fairly well), but pulling trailers around campsites or events in bad weather can test any tire. I had checked out a banks power pack, but that is pretty much a pipe dream. Still, moving up to 350 HP and 500 lb.-ft. of torque would be nice!
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I had two earlier generation 1/2 ton suburbans, which would have sufficed, but the immediate predecessor, pictured below, had a worn out engine, leaky transmission, and at the end the rear Eaton locker just grenaded leaving me with front wheel drive only. While I could have patched all that up, the opportunity for a set up 3/4 ton was just too much to pass up.
As a side note, the Jeep Wrangler is one of the few vehicles that has made it all the way from the early 1940's with much of its design still intact. Yes, it does keep getting wider and heavier, but also much more powerfull.
Well, I was surprised to learn that the little jeep doesn't have much on the Chevrolet Suburban, which has a continuous heritage all the way back to 1937, and maybe even 1935 depending on your sources of information. Although, four wheel drive wasn't available in factory Suburbans till sometime in the 60's, and the early ones were two doors, the layout was largely the same. Three rows of seating goes back a long way too.
