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Good one!

Many years ago, when the yellow triangles "baby on board" just became popular, I had a yellow triangle, except it said "nobody on board".

It's important to always tweak everyone's sense of reality. C'eci nest pas une pipe.

Speaking of old trucks in Santa Cruz county: For many years, I used to carry stuff in a '77 F250. We inherited it from our neighbor, when he passed away. It barely ran. The neighbors had taken it to Tahoe (it had 4WD, so it was good in snow), but by the time we got it, it was old enough that it was unreliable and hard to drive. The furthest I ever took it was Gilroy (and that was a scary long trip). Freeway driving with the 4-speed and the long-ratio rear axle was torture (the engine was spinning like a top, when it topped out at 70 mph). Even though the engine was a full-size V8, going up Hwy 17 with a full load of gravel or bricks in it, or towing a tractor on a flatbed trailer was really slow. Gas consumption when hauling loads was laughable, single-digit mpg. The electrical and fuel system (traditional carburetor) had become so unreliable that I programmed the phone numbers of 3 different towing companies into my cell phone; a few times we had to ask neighbors and friends to tow us home.

Then two bad things happened to it: First, a big oak tree fell in a winter storm, and squished all sheet metal in front of the windscreen (fenders, hood, crossmember that holds the radiator). Strangely, the cab itself and the engine were not hurt, and the frame no more twisted than usual. With lots of trips to the junkyard, we fixed that ourselves. A year later, the front differential stripped itself when using the truck to tow a tree out of the forest in 4WD on wet ground. We ended up breaking the universal joint, shattering the half-shaft, and turning the front differential into a bucket of metal shavings. At that point, we sold the truck to friends of ours (a family of farm workers from Watsonville), who fixed it the Mexican way (an enormous investment of ingenuity and hard work, and very little money), and continued to use it for several years to haul stuff. Then their son rolled it down a hillside on Summit Road, and it looked like a cross between a pretzel and a squished banana. Fortunately, he was not hurt.

That truck worked its heart out for its three owners, in its 33-year life. It didn't quite make it to 100K miles, but each of those miles were hard hauling.

Saw a truck similar to yours parked on a street in Atlanta with an orange sticker in the window,"THIS IS NOT AN ABANDONED VEHICLE."

"MY OTHER, VASTLY MORE EXPENSIVE CAR
has a much, much funnier bumper sticker!"

My two personal favorites:

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy EVERY minute of it"

"Sarcasm, just another free service I offer"

Chuck

goodgigs wrote:I went to the used car lot and got it a "LIKE NEW" window sticker, and it now receives smiles, laughs, pointing shouts, and compliments.

PIX! WE WANT PIX!

Last summer I played a block party gig on the public square of a nearby town on a Friday night. Of course, everybody brought their rods and show cars. But the best looking truck IMO was an original 1946 Dodge that was in what was left of its original paint and still being used as a daily work truck by its owner, the father of the guitar player/lead singer of the band.

"If I passed you on the right, you're in the wrong lane!"

Teubonium wrote:"If I passed you on the right, you're in the wrong lane!"

This one is sadly closer to a political statement, because of apparently widespread lack of agreement over 1) whether the posted speed limit is the upper or lower limit, and 2) whether there's any reason we should pass on the left if possible, vs. the right.