Morford: Kiss My Megatruck, Dude

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 | Mark Morford

[js1138]

Seems to me that International is part of Navistar, which used to be International Harvester, which went through a couple decades of downsizing rather than compete.

Maybe they got some new management.

[SavageRepublican]

Hey, look over here. I just found what you're gonna get me for Christmas!!!!

[Servant of the 9]

I hope International gives a CXT to the people living across thte street from Morford.

So9

[tx_eggman]

There is this threshold you reach where you finally just have to toss in the moral and spiritual and intellectual and commonsensical towel and just laugh out loud and shake your head and sigh and then run off to the woods with a bottle of fine sake and the collected Coltrane.

God I love this country. Big trucks for those that want them, hybrids for those that don't. My reaction is to pour myself 2 fingers of Tesoro Paradiso, light up a nice cigar and listen for Mr. Priss's whining noises. It sounds like the bleating of sheep.

I love to see them with their feathers ruffled, it's so pitiful it's funny

[SlickWillard]

I think I may be experiencing pickup truck envy.

Sigh...

[Mercat]

hmmm, why wouldn't I want people to know I drive a Miata? It's a chick car, I'm a chick. I have my screen name as my vanity plate. It's ten years old so don't start with the made in America stuff. That was pre Freeper days.

[wayne_b24]

truck envy? i can't even blink right now. gawd...
i drive an 04 f-250 diesel supercab longbed; tows my 12k 5th wheel camper to nascar races...agh agh agh (tim allen?)
sometimes i'll plug the camper into a gas generator, and dare i say ... burn two fossil fuels at once?! international makes my engine, btw.
big-truck freepers, unite!!

[presidio9]

Um, you may be a chick, but the Miata is the official car of the poofter community.

[B Knotts]

He'd like it if it had a rainbow paint job.

[Lurker]

International Truck had a golf outing at her place of employment and one of these bad boys was there.

She didn't call me. Boy is she in trouble...

L

[PLMerite]

Man, I hope that guy lived.

[freedomlover]

Ok let me get this right. He has the truck held up with 2 4x4s and is welding in the close proximity of the gas tank??

[Right Wing Professor]

What's a Miata?

[RichInOC]

Mark, I'm going to save your life right now. One of these days, sooner than later, you're probably going to see one of those beasts while you're driving your hybrid around the Bay Area, tricked up with custom wheels, a booming extremely-high-end sound system and front-to-back and side-to-side hydraulics, and carrying several fine, upstanding citizens of the East Bay who make their money the old-fashioned way: all cash and tax-free. Your first instinct will be to lecture them on their irresponsibility in owning and operating such a profligate vehicle. Don't. In addition to the bling and the machinery, those pillars of the community will be armed like the Secret Service's presidential detail.

[presidio9]

http://bayareamiataassociation.com

[Right Wing Professor]

I see, sort of like a Camaro or a 'vette without all that nasty horsepower. How very gay.

[Mercat]

LOL, just shows I have great taste. And that is funny because the only other Miata that I know personally is driven by a Lesbian (which I ain't) but her's has fake tiger fur seat covers so I shoulda known.