Truckspotters

[Curious Hound]

With military stealth, there is more to it than shape. They also have special paints and coatings that absorb instead of reflect. They have electronic countermeasure, also.

For us, It's pretty much all about shape and that shape presents huge slab sides pretty directly in line with where the radarnormally comes from.

Besides. By the time a stealth bomber is presenting you with a big flat bottom to look at, the bombs have already been released and It's moving by too fast for you to do much about it. Better just duck and cover cuz things are about to get real loud and shaky and hot.

 

[racsan]

I saw the first tesla “truck” last weekend on a state highway headed the opposite direction from me, I didn’t realize they were actually out on the road yet.

 

[pjtoledo]

stealth has more to be concerned with than just the angle of a metal plane.
remember those pics of highly magnified polished metal? and how jagged the surface was?

radar beams of the giga-hertz range can easily get into those crevasses and some bounce right back at the source.

 

[Rick W]

Check this out

 

[racsan]

spotted my old 94 in the classifieds, almost a year after I sold it. Knew it was mine from the dash picture.

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[Uncle Gump]

spotted my old 94 in the classifieds, almost a year after I sold it. Knew it was mine from the dash picture.

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Dash picture?

It had me with the paint scheme.

 

[racsan]

Ive been watching marketplace for awhile for rangers, and oddly enough when I saw that dash picture I KNEW it was my old ‘94. ( Its hard to see, but there is a black piece of tape over the abs light, I put it there years ago) He sold the cap & put new tires on it but everything else looks the same, I had reasons for sending it down the road but damn am I so tempted to get a cash advance sent to my bank from a credit card & put that truck back in my garage. I did message him to say “nice truck”, he said its been good but they need something with 4 doors now.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Ive been watching marketplace for awhile for rangers, and oddly enough when I saw that dash picture I KNEW it was my old ‘94. He sold the cap & put new tires on it but everything else looks the same, I had reasons for sending it down the road but damn am I so tempted to get a cash advance sent to my bank & put that truck back in my garage. I did message him to say “nice truck”, he said its been good but they need something with 4 doors now.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

Found a Chevy that was half painted the same color as @Mrs. Eighty Five's Bronco.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I spotted this thing in town about a month ago, took a pic just for this thread and then forgot to post it.

Its rare around here to find such a clean, unmolested bullnose.

 

[superj]

i think its rare anywhere, now days

 

[Blmpkn]

Seems like Fords just get scrapped lol.

I'll see twice as many 40 year old full-size GMs as I do 20 year old Fords up here on a weekly basis. Way more rangers than s10s though.. wayyyyyy more.

 

[superj]

i see lots of old chevies because, for some odd reason, the old chevies are popular in the hispanic culture here. no idea why but everyone has to have an old chevy truck. maybe since ford parts were more expensive and ford went to fuel injection earlier on the trucks?

 

[pjtoledo]

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I spotted this thing in town about a month ago, took a pic just for this thread and then forgot to post it.

Its rare around here to find such a clean, unmolested bullnose.

oh damn, nice set of dual flaps

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Seems like Fords just get scrapped lol.

I'll see twice as many 40 year old full-size GMs as I do 20 year old Fords up here on a weekly basis. Way more rangers than s10s though.. wayyyyyy more.

Funny i was thinking that same thing the other day.