Stupid-looking owner mods

[Jason]

They're only used for fuel economy. They have less rolling resistance somehow.

Do you remember the "Aqua-tread" tires that were supposed to be impossible to hydroplane with in the rain? They have a deep groove in the center so they channel water out of the way. You get the same effect with a set of duals. A heavy truck needs "X" amount of tire width to distribute the weight. Duals accomplish the weight carrying capability and by having a gap between the two tires, they don't hydroplane.

A single tire with twice the tread width as a single conventional tire acheives the same weight loading but they lose that water channeling ability. So they're more likely to have traction issues in bad weather.

As for the red "thing" in the pics above, I think it desperately needs some big tires .. it just looks stupid with a full size Peterbilt cab and hood but car tires. If it's 2WD and used on the street, tall skinny commercial tires, conventional truck tires could be used. If it's 4WD, I'd just go with big mudders.

Assuming you buy cheap tires.

 

[CHKNFKR]

I was thinking Michelin xzl in a 40-44" flavor.

 

[RICO9]

 

[Twister]

I saw a get metro done like this the other day. Made me wanna

 

[Tonka]

There was a body shop in Joliet, IL a few years ago... they had taken two brown 2nd gen rangers and put the cab and front end from one of them on the back side of the other where the bed used to be, facing backwards, so the only way to tell which end was the front was the fact they'd put red headlights on the one in the rear.

 

[shane96ranger]

 

[adsm08]

I want the bus, the Del Sol, and the bobbed K-car.

I would drive all of them.

 

[AllanD]

The Chopbacked VW with the ranger Tailgate looks like it's in the parking area at the Carlisle Fairgrounds.

As for the Yellow Ranger with the mercedes grill if theire isn't a mercedes engine behind that grille the owner should have that mercedes engine rammed up his....

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[Tonka]

The Chopbacked VW with the ranger Tailgate looks like it's in the parking area at the Carlisle Fairgrounds.

Methinks this thing might have spent too much time parked at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

 

[CHKNFKR]

I want the bus, the Del Sol, and the bobbed K-car.

I would drive all of them.

I'd do more than drive the bus...

 

[Tonka]

I wonder what the clearance is on that bus. For some reason I seem to recall some entry in my "encyclopedia of useless knowledge" that school buses were 11'9" tall. From the approximate height of the van tail-lights on up, ... would put it over 13'6" which is the height of most semi-trailers. Viaducts that are above 13'6" are not always posted. I hope they know what they're doing. Also that thing would have a high center of gravity. School buses are 6" skinnier than 18 wheelers too.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

That Dodge with the rocket launchers on the front bumper is actually functional. Instead of pounding them in the beach and pulling them back up all the time you just roll the truck back and forth with the tide, Supposed to be fishing and drinking not swinging a big hammer.

 

[adsm08]

Methinks this thing might have spent too much time parked at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

Nah, the TMI radiation myth is so over-stated.

I used to fish there all the time before 9/11 and I didn't get any mutations or nothing. I mean everybody grows an extra toe on each foot and has their tongue glow in the dark once they turn 13, right?

 

[Tonka]

Nah, the TMI radiation myth is so over-stated.

I used to fish there all the time before 9/11 and I didn't get any mutations or nothing. I mean everybody grows an extra toe on each foot and has their tongue glow in the dark once they turn 13, right?

LOL. One time I was supposed to go pick up a load somewhere directly across the water on the west side from that nuke plant.

I typed a reply message "That's right across the river from Three Mile Island nuclear plant. I don't want to go there and get sick with some kind of china syndrome or something."

The boss replied: "I don't know which part of that statement to correct first".

But the load was cancelled anyway. I've never been any closer to it than the bridge over that river on the PA turnpike.

 

[adsm08]

LOL. One time I was supposed to go pick up a load somewhere directly across the water on the west side from that nuke plant.

I typed a reply message "That's right across the river from Three Mile Island nuclear plant. I don't want to go there and get sick with some kind of china syndrome or something."

The boss replied: "I don't know which part of that statement to correct first".

But the load was cancelled anyway. I've never been any closer to it than the bridge over that river on the PA turnpike.

I've been in most of the formerly unsecured areas of the plant. I've been on the helipad that was build for Clinton's visit to the plant. I've been on the back section where I found an old crossbow and the outter shell of a toy 9mm pellet gun. Caught some nice trout and a good sized cat out there. Scooped some shad out of it with a long net too. I've also been in the cooling tower of the dismantled reactor. It's pretty cool.


My dad's one friend is an engineer there. He used to be able to get us onto the island before 9/11. Now he could lose his job and be arrested for even trying because security is so tight at all the nuke plants.