Date:         Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:08:45 -0800
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From:         Nunya Business <bulletheadx@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: bashing was: vanagon engine conversions
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I was just recently reading an article about a city councilman or state
assemblyman or some such blowhard in a NE state that had introduced a bill
to ban those things- the fake testicles, not the big trucks. Dude ought to
concern himself with something usefull like bumper height legislation and
not piss away public time and money on personal annoyances.

Cya,
Robert


On 1/17/08, mordo <helmut.blong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>