Re: Today's pickups

Posted by mark on June 22, 2005 at 11:11:03 from (172.152.45.182):

In Reply to: Re: Today's pickups posted by dhermesc on June 22, 2005 at 08:27:21:

I don't understand why some folks enjoy misery. When I was a kid we had a '56 International pickup...it was nothing more than a buckboard wagon with a 6 cylinder engine it. Damned thing beat your kidneys out, was cold in the winter, hot as hades in the summer, required Charles Atlas arms to steer it and was geared so low that 52 mph was top speed. Yeah boy....real truck (not)! Same as everything else from years ago folks opine about. No AC in the house and rolling in sweat until 3 am trying to get some sleep during July and August. Sitting on the front porch in the evening......swatting mosquitos until you retreated. B&W television and getting all of 2 channels....nothing like watching Walt Disney features in B&W. Or Marlin Perkins/Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom taking you down the Amazon River and seeing the beauty of gray forests. Uh hmm. Then back to those great old cars and trucks......and tractors. Change the plugs and points every year...at least, because they were burnt up. Those polyester tires going thump-thump-thump until they warmed up and got the flat spots ironed out. You ever bang your head against one of those steel dashboards..back when they made 'real cars'? How about thinking a car was way over the hill when the odometer showed 100,000 miles. Pickups had fenders bolted on and they started flapping in 3 years as the mounting tbs broke off and of course, the wooden beds rotted out. Yeah boy, I remember them. ventilation was via a wing window that blew harder the faster you went....heaven forbid you were in town....or a bumblebee blew in the cab going 40 mph down the road. Anybody recall trying to coax a 6 volt anything......especially a tractor in January, to start? Yeah man, nothing like a sulky plow, a drag disc and a sickle bar mowing machine...in heavy hay and broken pitman arm. Round bales and kickers? What's that? It was armstrong all day long. Ever try to cram 4 people in a pickup cab? Can you imagine hooking a trailer....camping, hay or cattle.....to a 1960 vintage PU with a 3 on the tree and a 250 cu. in 6 banger? HAR!

Now, you know why today's PU's have 300 horsepower, comfortable seats, ac, power steering and brakes, towing packages and a radio capable of receiving something other than the Hootin' Holler Trio brought to you by the makers of Bag Balm on WHIC AM radio. I don't begrudge my fancy PU, new JD tractor or anything else they make today. especially medicines. How many kids you hear of dying from whooping cough nowadays? measles? typhoid fever? Pneumonia? And best of all, no more trips to the stinkin' outhouse when it's 10 below!

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