There's a pretty good reason the trucks and cars that ran 216's were geared the way the were. I can hitch a cat to a coaster wagon to pull me down the street, but it takes a lot of work with a peachtree switch to get any speed out of that combination! If a 216 gets coupled up to a 4 speed main box and a 3 speed Brownie so it can run 3500 RPM all the time, it can move a pretty good load- - - -it just can't do it very fast. I knew a guy who had a good-sized wrecker bed on a cabover stovebolt with a 216. He could haul a load with it, but he was sort of rowing it with the shift levers most of the time!
Jerry
