Here is a pic of my toad setup.  We bought this little 71 Beetle specifically as a tow'd vehicle.  We wanted something small and light (under 2000#) that would not require heavy duty hitch setups and tow bars and brake controllers.  Bought the car and it came with the towbar already for less than the Blue Ox and Brake Buddy would have cost me to setup my VW Golf (at the time)

Here is a photo of my 345 alongside two other 345's in Indy.  You can see my VW hitched up to the back of mine in the middle.

How's backing with that set up?  I just bought a hitch like that to put on my 1973 VW Thing but have not tried it out yet.

Don't plan on backing up very far!!

I can only back it up a few feet. Even then, I usually don't unless I've overshot a parking space or something that's pretty much a straight shot. I have had to disconnect it to back up the moho only twice.

Was one from where the picture was taken in Colorado?

Whoops.  I ment Indy.....

Yes, Indy. I drove up with 85/345 in mine met another member (robfike) in Indy at Wayne Olsen's place to see his Cummins/Allison powered 345.

I bet the diesel powerd unit was a hot set up.  What kind of mileage was he geting?  Did you get a test drive?
How was the performance?

I did get to test drive it. It definately "felt" a lot different then my gasser. Another member here (85/345) and I drove up from Louisville in mine. I had a chance to drive the Cummins 345 and then drove my gasser again on the way home. The power was not overwhelming, but it just never stopped. Seemed like the few rollers we went up and down on the interstate didn't even effect it. I tend to accelerate into hills (up to 65+) so I can stay on the torque curve over the crest. This thing just powered through it all.

It also felt heavy. Not thet I've driven one, but like a school bus. It also vibrated like a school bus. Noise on the highway was higher than the gasser, but not as loud as at idle. Actually the vibrations in the chassis at idle seemed to be where the "noise" was coming from.

All in all a great conversion and well done. Keep me motivated to search the classifieds for a rolled Dodge p/u from time to time.

I went back and looked at some other posts about this conversion and think he mentioned getting something like 12 - 14 mpg with the Cummins setup.