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To: everlast

Pickup trucks are unique in that they are the only vehicles that actually look better with a few dents and scratches.


46 posted on 09/02/2015 11:07:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I once owned a real beaut of a 52 3/4 ton.

One local writer that I knew in the small town I was living in at the time described it as looking like it had survived a bombing.

It was so be-a-utiful, that when stopping at four-way stops, even police would yield;

My own looks may have enhanced the effect.

After a while, I got a newer truck. '61 C10. Rusty but trusty.

Drove down to L.A. once with a load of firewood filling the bed, about level full.

Stopped somewhere down there to get fuel, and I guess the looks of me in stained Carharts, scuffed boots, t-shirt, loose flannel over shirt, beard, along with the appearance of the truck I'd paid every bit of $300 for up in Oregon, had one of the L.A. denizens say out loud;

I was kind of shocked at first, he was some distance away, saying it loudly, and it took me a moment to catch on to his meaning. At first considering he was joking, I said something like, "well, you don't have to make fun of me, just 'cause the way I look" to which he replied,

I got a pretty good laugh out of it.

The guy walked off, shaking his head, saying, "I don't believe this..." lol

61 posted on 09/02/2015 11:38:41 AM PDT by BlueDragon (We know all about the how, what we want to know is why, why now, Brown Cow?)
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