Bellweather, & Stradbash,
LOL, Yeah I wish. My 16yo daughter gets up at the crack of noon on the weekends if I pull the covers off her bed, & hose her down with ice cold well water.
When she turned 16 she asked me what kind of car I was getting her for her birthday. I told her "A deuce & a half :laughing: :dance1: She got a puzzled look & I told her to go look it up. 20 minutes later I heard "MOM!!! Dad's being mean to me again!: :cool2: I don't know, my parents never gave a vehicle. They did sell me a '71 dart, 225 with 300k on it for $500
(AKA "The A$$less Rust Bucket" because the rearend was rusted out & it couldn't get out of it's own way.) & a '74 dart Se, 318 with 500k+ on it for $250, (AKA "The Blue Smoke Bomb", Never had to change the oil, just the filter, burned the rest), but GIVE me a car? No.
I'm NOT kidding about the deuce & half either. These are my reasons:
Indestructable (1/8" steel on 1/4" I-beam frame),
Reliable (why the US military used them for 50-60 YEARS),
Plenty of spare parts available, (Since they were made for 50-60 yrs on the same basic pattern, & they're being sold off as surplus)
Cannot be lost (too big, ugly, & OD GREEN sticks out like a sore thumb),
Stolen (who'd know how to start, or drive a 12sp split rear, diesel with a starter switch & PTO, present group & Veterans excluded, of course),
Stuck (6WD + the 35000# winch + 30" of ground clearance),
Run out of fuel (2-65Gal fuel tanks),
Run on ANYTHING (These beasts are All Fuels, They run on everything including the used vegetable oil free from Macdonalds, or Burger Fling, so fuel costs aren't an issue),
Only 2 bucket seats, (with 2 sticks, PTO lever & a HUGE hump between them, no fooling around in the cab),
Open flat bed (or maybe she can have the unheated canvas hoop back. Either way, too uncomfortable to fool around),
Will always turn over, 2 separate & switchable 24V batteries (so having a dead battery is NOT an excuse for a missed curfew),
Cheap insurance (cause if anything hits it, who cares? They'll do more damage to their own POS, IF they can even drive away. If they can't, well then, they pay for repairs. If she hits anything with it, they die, so she can make up whatever story clears her.),
No stereo, GPS, or Phone (So it won't distract her while driving),
Safe (because nobody will get near it with 5/16" STEEL bumpers front & rear),
Speed, There IS a governor, 65mph is going to be the top speed. (It can pull a stump out of the ground, but It isn't going to out race VW Beetle.)
Won't get busted up being broken into, (nothing worth stealing, & they can See that fact)
Cheap (they're being auctioned off for ~$4k).
Works for me. :laughing: The wife wasn't amused, no sense of humor. :confused3: Women, go figure.
My 12yo son is a different ball of wax, up at 06:00 everyday
7:00 on the weekends. Maybe not a smiling bundle of joy, but up, dressed & ready to go. :thumbsup: Ask him if he wants to do anything involving the tractor & stand back. :tractor: :cloud9: He's a good Scout. He said he'd take the deuce & a half if his sister didn't want it. :licking: :drool:
T-Man.
