Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days............

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Back when I knew a Demolition Driver he said some vehicle were much better than others...
 
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The guy in the Bel Air was ejected and run over by a Semi.
 
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ER Doc only lets his teens drive full size SUV... think Suburban.

Seen too many injuries when smaller vehicle goes under larger one...
Had a coworker rear-end a semi trailer with a 1 ton truck.

It was a good thing he ducked, or he would have been a dead man. Still had to get cut out of the truck and multiple surgeries. Hip and knee replacement on the same leg, plus shoulder surgery.
 
   / Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days............
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Whats that ole saying, you can learn a lot from a dummy, that video proved it....
 
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^^^
That is nice. They have a lot of interesting trucks on the various auctions... always in Ohio or on the other side of the continent.
 
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
How much did you bid.........
 
   / Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days............ #460  
59 Bowtie flat SUCKED, whole rear end went where it wanted in turns. Knew a man dang near got burned up cause 59 Bowtie broke out in turn and stopped between 2 trees den lit itself.

Jeep Crotch of Enginitwits had bunch of in WW-2 wid air compressors & jackhammers in back, also bunch wid Hobart Bros welding machines. Trench saw and 3 point along wid PTO came along after war tryin to sell Jeeps to farmers. PTO came off transfer case, other machines drove off split drive shaft to rear wheels sorta like pumper fire truck to get full power to machine. Trenchsaws had downpressure dozer blade on front too for backfilling. Most Jeep mount machines made by shortline companies like Go-Fer Digger. Chainsaw stop whole machine when it met rock bigger den softball, good in sand, miserable in rocky dirt.

First car phones around 52, operator driven, called MTS - Bell System. Second generation called IMTS put dial wheel in car, operators went on nap. 13 channels wid automatic selection by de radio in trunk. Pilot Motorfreight had em in lot of flat fender Dodge PowerWagon mechanic trucks. Engine had to be running to talk less you had startall in back of truck. Battery killer. Tell you one thing for true, dat fat man wid phone in left hand about to hit someting. Dem cords had strong attraction to steering wheels. Around 85 cellphone come along and ruint whole world.
I am really having to work hard to follow what you are writing.
 
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