Where is everyone #5

She’s up for grabs, I’m so tempted

 

Sittin back in Kenly NC. pickin another machine up in Halifax NC in the morn. Kick it off in Kingsport TN in the evening. Get to pull black Mt and run up I-26 tommorow. See how ole Monster does !

 

I think so too. I recognize that fuel tank from an episode of American Pickers.

 

Finishing up another head gasket tomorrow. Lots of little stuff lined up outside. Its another busy week. Even ended up with 12 hours OT

 

Since we're both being honest ( what a revolting development. One of us being honest at a time would be bad enough, but both ?? At the same time ?! yeesh )
I've been really disappointed reading about the purposely poor quality tricks that both Ford and Chevrolet did to save a penny, even though it was obvious that the shortcuts were going to cost the customers a lot more than that.
None of those Bozo's in Detroit got serious about putting out a competitive product until the foreign brands were way ahead.
When the government put the new CEO in charge of GM he gave an example of how bad the culture was in the boardroom. He made the point of how they had no concept of the urgency of the situation. He made a certain Meeting mandatory. One of the Executives said ' I won't be there. I have a scheduled appointment elsewhere then. It's already been scheduled. '
He responded with " Be there or don't come back. "


In truth, I admire good machinery no matter who or where it was made..

 

I have two of those, both in our company pickups. They help quite a bit!

 

Agreed, Have you watch The Cars that made America series. Really good, really shady stuff by all 3. Now the investment into Saturn was the only shot at competing with overseas. Saturn worked and then they tanked it on purpose.

But Dodges rust and have a funny sounding starter.

 

Yeah. I agree too. I never could understand Fernandomania.

Oops. Wrong thread.

 

The exact same thing happened to me right after they first opened the new Truckee inspection station on Donner in the mid 80s. It was a 78 Freightliner cabover that had that steering. I explained to the inspector that if I adjust the "slack out of it" that it will screw up the how the orifices line up, or however it works, and I may not be able to steer at all. Nope, wouldn't let me leave until it was adjusted. I removed the big cotter pin and adjusted the cap in until there was no play, went back inside and told the inspector that I was ready for him to look at it, to which he replied "pull it back in this bay". I started to turn to line up to the bay and could barely get the wheels to turn at all. I jumped out and walked up to him and told that the truck won't turn now, and I'll need to adjust it back before I could get it in the bay. He marched back outside and I gave him a demonstration. Fortunately I had counted how many turns I screwed the cap in and was able to get it back where it needed to be.

Anyway, he didn't put me out of service, but gave me a warning about loose steering linkage.

 

That sounds exactly what I would like to watch.
Have you ever seen the series of books called Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader ?
Tons of short trivia. Some more interesting than others.
They covered the story of how one of the Big 3 ( I believe it was primarily GM ? I'm not sure.) bought up tons of trolley lines, scrapped the Steel rails that were easy to remove, scrapped everything they could, vacated the Rights of Way and all so they could sell Diesel buses to the same communities that had to have public transportation. Which they had just deprived them of. Which was a much better system in most ways. Plus it was already paid for and extremely affordable.

That is referred to in the movie Who killed Roger Rabbit, although it's not very clear, at least to me.