Date:         Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:19:47 -0500
Reply-To:     mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      bashing was: vanagon engine conversions
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> I've been wondering myself why pick ups have gotten so huge. I think a car
>
> company might be able to make a mint if they produced a normal "old
> school"
> type pick up. You know not S10 small but "normal" Then again what do I
> know?
>

My boss is an Englishman who has embraced many aspects of Americana I could
do without. One of these is his penchant for The Big Ass Truck. He currently
has an 04 Dodge Ram 2500 4X4 with some huge diesel engine. It is
embarrassingly big and tall.It gets 14mpg on the highway. He claims there
were insufficient diesel trucks available to choose from. Perhaps this is
true but it smacks of late-mid-life crisis truck to me.

His dear mother comes over from Portsmouth often and she has to mount his
truck with a small stepladder, a most undignified thing for a lovely woman
of 80+ years.

When he was building a big addition on his house, he could justify having a
big truck as his main ride. Now, he looks like an ass to me. I threaten to
put a pair of those plastic testicles on his hitch when he least expects it.

  --
mordo
1990 Carat