Posted on 01/02/2017 12:50:18 PM PST by heterosupremacist
“People in Texas will buy trucks even if they’re not going to haul anything heavier than raindrops.”
The NY Times went on safari to Texas, and it has an article about a peculiar love of the natives for trucks, Rodeo Offers a 90-M.P.H. Glimpse of Texans’ Truck Mania:
Tim Spell has noticed a peculiar condition that affects Texans’ mental, physical and automotive well-being.
“I call it ‘truck-itis,’” said Mr. Spell, the former automotive editor for The Houston Chronicle. “People in Texas will buy trucks even if they’re not going to haul anything heavier than raindrops. I was interviewing one guy. He had a 4-by-4. I said: ‘You live in Houston. Why do you have this 4-by-4?’ He said, ‘Well, I own a bar, and 4-by-4s are higher, and I can climb up on the cab and change out the letters of my marquee.’”
Whether for high-up urban letter-switching or more rural and rugged purposes, pickup trucks are to Texas what cowboy boots and oil derricks are to the state — a potent part of the brand. No other state has a bigger influence on the marketing of American pickup trucks.
Having diagnosed the symptoms and named the disease, the Times tried to understand by taking a safari to the Texas Truck Rodeo:
This year’s rodeo, held in October at the Longhorn River Ranch here in Dripping Springs, in the Hill Country outside Austin, left me with a new appreciation for the word truck-a-thon….
At the outdoor awards ceremony, everyone gawked at the two-handled Truck of Texas trophy. In the end, it went to the 2017 Ford Super Duty. A mere five voting points separated the Titan from the Super Duty. John Rieger, Ford’s Super Duty brand manager, gave the trophy a long kiss in the glow of the headlights.
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I love my Ram 1500 with a Hemi !
Texans are truck-ulent? (Pun, pun, pun, pun, cruel and unusual pun-ishment)
Physically, it may seem in excess. But I’m coming more and more to look at the spiritual side of things. I see a lesser form of it in Omaha, Nebraska (right smack in the heart of the USA) and not all of these are literally trade vehicles. (In Canada, more are, and they are even called “tradies.”)
Trucks symbolize the carrying of loads, and a lot of Texans have truck-sized hearts when push comes to shove. I actually tend to think it’s worth it when other important things are not being sacrificed for its sake, just like no church building needs a steeple with a cross on it, but many have some pretty awesome ones. Keep your trucks, Texans; and keep your hearts. And some day you may need the trucks for other things. I remember using mine years back to collect all the firewood I could after a big storm and the fallen trees had been sawed into pieces that were left at the curb.
We talk about America’s guns as being something that might dissuade terrorism from going even further than it has here.
However, I wonder about America’s trucks, too? This would be an awesome way to pull together an impromptu fighting force. Just because the guns (and the trucks) aren’t doing much, most of the time, does not render their presence pointless. “A well regulated [drilled] militia.”
I even wrote a song about that once. Aw shoot, here it is. I trust nobody will steal it....
Doug and Tom, their trucks are “the bomb,”
And they’re rollin’ ‘em in the mud
With Jeff and Ted, who’d been left for dead
In the tropics stained with blood.
It’s a redneck warriors’ rally — the vets from the alley
Sportin’ in a backwoods bayou;
No one dares ask ‘em why; they simply do or die
As they’ve done a hundred times through!
It’s been a long time since they swept a mine
And the mem’ries are decades old;
But the “boys from the ‘hood” are still real good
As they carry out their missions bold.
It’s a redneck warriors’ rally — the vets from the alley
Sportin’ in a backwoods bayou;
No one dares ask ‘em why; they simply do or die
As they’ve done a hundred times through!
[Interlude]
And so onward they thump until the last trump
Calls them to the vict’ry above;
It’s a puzzle to their kids why these desperate bids
For the costly freedom they love.
It’s a redneck warriors’ rally — the vets from the alley
Sportin’ in a backwoods bayou;
No one dares ask ‘em why; they simply do or die
As they’ve done a hundred times through!
Houston floods because the city is more focused on building new stadiums and letting men enter the ladies’ restroom and dressing room.
A truck gets you a little above the flash flood zone in traffic.
Yep - ‘37. I’m running a ‘57 straight-six coupled to a 700R4 automatic (I got tired of searching for antique transmissions). I put a Camaro axle with 355 gears in it so it behaves on the freeway.
Lot’s o fun ;’}
They still think they are cowboys deep voices, riding horses, boots and all. Like the commercials.
If a family has two vehicles one needs to be a pickup truck.
NYC types live in high rises. They don’t understand why you don’t haul yard trimmings to the landfill in the back of your Prius
He could see the same thing in New York City, the suburbs, New Jersey and Connecticut. he doesn’t have to go to Texas.
Time to break out the old Rush Limbaugh favorite for these reporters. ‘In a Yugo’
There is more than one way to yeehaw, of course.
So you kept a stovebolt in it? Fantastic, most people just drop a crate V8 in ‘em. The 700R4 is a good choice too. Enjoy it!
CC
This is part of the journos Operation Outreach....an effort to find out how the inner states came to elect Trump.
The journos are carrying rucksacks of chewing tobacco and moon ies that they hope to trade for colorful anecdotes about religion,
Heh heh heh... if they stay too long, they might learn some Texas twang too. I’ve sometimes wondered why Nashville had to own country music. Much of it is more characteristic about what goes on in Texas. But again, it needed its Hollywood, and Nashville became it.
This is part of the journos Operation Outreach....an effort to find out how the inner states think and feel and ho they came to elect Donald Trump.
The journos are carrying rucksacks of chewing tobacco and moon pies that they hope to trade for colorful anecdotes about Bible-based religion, four-wheelers and the sex habits of farm animals.....maybe even a recipe for cornpone.
(paraphrasing Dave Barry)
My horse trailer would give the snowflake and his Chevy Volt the vapors
I would ask how much you wanted for it but when you found out that it was going to be used as a farm truck you would probably refuse to sell it.
Yup, the farm animals breed, and the humans breed, but most certainly separately. The idea of mixing the two wasn’t a redneck idea. It was a Mooslim idea.
LOL.......nice comeback.
Which is supposed to be about what?
Maybe it’s time to get those heartstrings fixed.
Physician, heal thyself.
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