Batman giving Batgirl the Batpipe.

It was a truck that came out to address a very specific set of rules and regulations concerning overall length of vehicles. They shortened the tractor as much as physically possible. This was a time when COE tractors usually still had some kind of hood on it, albeit a short one. I believe this was the first of the…

Where I live there are plenty of taco trucks within walking distance of me where I can get a better meal than any Planet Hollywood and not even finish off a tenner. There’s a little shack on the side of a Shell station right up the street that sells nothing but Tamales. $8 (plus a tip) is enough food from there to…

I had a big old argument with my asshole brother a couple decades ago about his F250 4x4. He was a contractor, and insisted he had to have that truck to impress his customers. I told him he’d be better off with a nice Isuzu NPR cabover with a flatbed that could actually haul his stuff, but no. He had to have an F250…

I grew up in 60's and 70's Ford F150s and F250s. They’re reasonably sized trucks from an era with unreasonably sized cars and the term “compact parking space” hadn’t been dreamed up yet. (A time when the original Ford Maverick was considered a “compact car.”)

Hahahahaha! The International Harvester “Sightliner.” I’ve driven one. It’s awful! They literally took their standard medium duty truck cab, cut off the hood, raised it up on a weird platform, added those weird lower windows, and called it a COE.

Why you have’ta make it weird?

If you hadn’t posted that, I would have.

Almost certainly, but it’s also an indication of someone who bubba’s something rather than do a correct “restoration” or repair.

Too many bubba mods to this one. The cheese-whiz steering wheel, the seats, the wheels, and the air cleaner all point to a shade-tree mechanic got his tendrils into this one. Who knows what sins that Maaco paint job hides? Why does it have 3 fuel filters?

I’ve seen pictures Who can say?

One word: “Vajazzled.”

How about simply “Olympia”?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Peak Human.

😁

I’ll break out the canoe.

Good advice. Even then, I’ve been living alone now for over fifteen years, and I don’t know if I want to clutter up my life with a roommate anyway.

My new downstairs neighbor has been pretty cool so far (about 4 weeks now.) I repaired her laptop, and she helped me move my Mom’s old (urine stinking, destroyed) chair out from her assisted living unit and replace it with a new one.

Not exactly true. No tire guy I know uses a cage for airing up modern tires. The “containment cage” was something OSHA came up with back in the day when split rims were more common. Split rims use a separate detachable ring to hold the tire on. The good thing about them is they’re easier to put a tire on the rim. The…