Re: [RC] Love our Trucks - Endurance that is - Barbara McCrary
Lud has been buying "chalk rock"
colored trucks for some time. His current truck is a 92 Dodge Ram diesel.
It has a 5-speed stick shift, 4WD. I think we get about 12 mpg while
hauling, if I remember correctly. It has a diamond plate flatbed, carries
four steel toolboxes under the bed, and always a large assortment of
tools.....shovels, Pulaskis, chainsaws, tow chains, hammer, nuts, bolts, nails,
wrenches, pliers, you name it! It also has a Warn winch on the
front. It pulls our 20' aluminum gooseneck stock trailer, in
which we converted the front section into a LQ. The back section can haul
four horses or a number of calves, or a 2500# bull, or 5-6 cows. He's
about due for another truck and plans to buy a 2004 model because all that
remains in CA are white ones. I flat-out refused to have a white
truck. Everything else he can choose, but I put my foot down about "no
white". There is a lovely "almond" color that we both like, but he has to
order what he wants in equipment, so he'll wait until the 2004 models come
out. His current truck has less than 100,000 miles, but they have been
brutal miles! His trucks always get used like mini-bulldozers around
here. Baths are optional and occasional.
Hey, I am really enjoying and interested in reading about everyone's
endurance rigs. I think we all love our trucks almost as much or maybe
more? than our horses. I know that I make sure my "rig" is clean and
shiny before I head out for a ride.
*I'm laughing at this , as I probably have the dirtiest
truck then, it never gets washed, until the first winter rain, that
is. Just plain no point to it, as we are very dusty; would be dirt
covered by the next day. Plus the dirt hides all the strange scratches
in the paint that appeared one year; key marks? Well, I sure did make a
mistake with the color! got seduced by the rich, dark purple (love
purple). Next year Dodge came out with a gorgeous bronze...sure wish I
had picked THAT color as it most resembles the color of the dirt we have
here. Next truck I buy definatly will be dirt colored.
