Overheard conversation!!!!

[Redbug]

I look around at the fancy 4x4 trucks people are driving. Jacked up, big tires, black seems to be the color of choice lately. Big hat no cattle. Those trucks have never been off road. All for ego and looks. Forget about the future, budgeting, and retirement. It all looks great from the outside.

 

[Einthewoods]

I look around at the fancy 4x4 trucks people are driving. Jacked up, big tires, black seems to be the color of choice lately. Big hat no cattle. Those trucks have never been off road. All for ego and looks. Forget about the future, budgeting, and retirement. It all looks great from the outside.

I've said for years that the majority of 4x4's out there have their only off road experience when the driver accidentally goes over the white line for a minute.

And I always love the big hat - no cattle line. LOL

 

[mjarrels]

I watched a show last night about "payday loans". It isn't just young kids. No wonder the rich keep geing richer and the poor poorer.

mark

 

[MossRoad]

I look around at the fancy 4x4 trucks people are driving. Jacked up, big tires, black seems to be the color of choice lately. Big hat no cattle. Those trucks have never been off road. All for ego and looks. Forget about the future, budgeting, and retirement. It all looks great from the outside.

Well, when we were kids it was fat tires and traction bars, but most of those cars were never taken to the drag strip. :laughing: Just a different set of toys for the current kids.

 

[aczlan]

I look around at the fancy 4x4 trucks people are driving. Jacked up, big tires, black seems to be the color of choice lately. Big hat no cattle. Those trucks have never been off road. All for ego and looks. Forget about the future, budgeting, and retirement. It all looks great from the outside.

Even better when it is a 2WD truck that is lifted with big tires under it.

Aaron Z

 

[Bird]

Even better when it is a 2WD truck that is lifted with big tires under it.

Aaron Z

Reminds me of when I was working in my brother's tire dealership and garage in Anchorage in 1972. We were usually very busy, but one day when one of my brothers happened to have some spare time, a young fellow came in, driving a really nice, but a few years old, standard cab, short bed, 2WD Chevy pickup. He said he was just about to graduate from high school and that he'd like to get that little truck raised way up in the air, put some huge tires and fancy wheels on it, and that his dad had said he pay for that for a graduation present. Well, my brother spent a fair amount of time showing the kid what was available and what each item would cost. When the boy left, we NEVER expected to see him again, but about an hour later, he came back with his dad, and dad paid for the whole thing IN ADVANCE.:laughing: I told my brothers that it seemed a shame to charge thousands of dollars to ruin a nice truck.:laughing: But the kid was just happier with it than a pig in a mud wallow.

 

[MacLawn]

Boys, I ain't never seen it this bad. I tell ye, we ain't got a chinaman's chance. I'm 69 years old, never seen such in my long life. Young'uns these days, why half day's fair work would put'ed down. Down for good. Me? Even with all my arthritis, heart mess, pain, when I have a half way good day, I can work circles around these whippersnappers these days. Doomed, rooned I tell ye. Y'all boys excuse me while I go find a piece of bark that needs chewing...

 

[turnkey4099]

I heat with wood and sell a few cords of the excess. New customer last year stopped, made a deal and said he'd be back with a truck. Showed up with one of those jacked up short bed ***** wagons. He said, "I bought it to haul wood" - I wonder if he ever learned what a mistake he made, The tailgate down hit me just about throat level and I am 6'

 

[bunyip]

I see them here with body lift kits on 4WD's, makes them top heavy and unstable on the road and when they go off road they still hang up on the diff.
Known collectively as wanker wagons.

 

[4570Man]

Even better when it is a 2WD truck that is lifted with big tires under it.

Aaron Z

Not that it makes any difference. They’re all pavement queens.