Why? Just... Why???

The thing is it doesn’t matter where I’ve run, because anywhere in this country it is easy to find places that were built back when cabovers with 40’ trailers were all the largest thing allowed anywhere in the country.

Some places I’ve backed in or backed out of instead of turning around inside and I wasn’t the first one to do it either. I’ve delivered to apartment complexes some under construction with all of the parking spots filled with materials and equipment and some finished and the lot full of cars but they needed them shingles for a new roof. All their shrubs are flowers survived.

Now I sometimes wind up at peoples houses and they said sure you can get a truck and trailer in here but they were thinking a pickup and boat trailer.

Have you ever been out of the NE in a truck? Or anything? As an adult.

 

Its a 81 with a 1984 ...3406b... 15 speed with 3:70s... its not a show truck but its not all butchered up either pretty much all original
I got a 85 .....359 that is a project truck that I hope to make my daily driver its the 1 I referred to in a earlier post I'am fix'n to cut and stretch

 

Nice! Love it!

 

You keep talking about the north east and how tight it is......you ever been around some of these elevators in the south? Built in the 30’s and 40’s. Lots and I mean lots with only 10-6 to 11 ft of overhead clearance. Scales at the pit that doubled as lifts to dump trucks with no lift. So let’s add narrow to that. I had to back in many places I went. Southern Cotton on Chelsea Ave in Memphis has a pellet scale that’s a ##### to get into. Yet......everyone that was stretched got in. Where there’s a will there’s a way

 

I've been in a few of them in Kansas even that I swear were built for a model T and nothing wider, sneeze and you stick a mirror in the wall. The short ones a longer frame is better it seems, you can at least get the front hopper stuck under the spout more than a couple foot past the divider wall.

 

Thank You.. I found it in Az about 20 yrs ago sitting in a shed with a bad motor....

 

Them are some ugly pieces of plastic fantastic ####

 

Out side of this forum my wife and my one friend. I don't talk to very many people . I tell you this so when I say ive been thinking about how this post is morphing from one subject to another. I don't look foolish. I literally have very little else to think about.
When the op posted this, I have to admit I didn't understand the question. And I know that's a experience thing. However now that I get it. I have no idea how practical something like this is. Nor do I understand hot tubes in pick up trucks. What I do appreciate is the energy and the time to do this work or to have it done for you. From planning to finishing. Some people have a great eye for detail. Some people have that drive to be able to maintain the cleaniness and the mechanical aspects of it. Some people just enjoy the challange to see if they can do it. I don't have that mentality. Nor time, nor cash flow. I would never own anything that requires that much up keep.
My wife has to pay me to mow the lawn. But different people enjoy different things. Working on engines is what I like.
As far as the subject on hand goes. I enjoy seeing these non cookie cutter trucks. Motorcycles, houses. Etc. The best looking truck I ever seen paint wise was a cab over car hauler. It just blew my mind. I couldn't make since of it. But hey thats them.
Seeing something out of the ordinary is nice. Its like a fresh well done tattoo. Its cool to look at. But they do it for them and not us.
As far as why...just why..? Goes, what confuses me is the ones with apartments on the truck. Genuinely I would love to own one, and will if I ever get divorced. But once I'm passed the "that would be nice to have" thought. I'm into " where on earth do they go, don't you all know how many bumpers and mirrors and scatches I mess up. And I'm running a short nose cascadia.

 

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Thats a beauty of a truck. He is headed to a old truck show in p.a. this morning. Gave me a couple mins of his time. He said its a 8 cyl five speed hes the second owner.