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Trucks....what is the appeal?

Old Sep 4th 2016, 8:40 am
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by dbd33
Are you huge and stiff?
The truck has a step so you can climb in.. You're referring to that compensation nonsense, right?
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Old Sep 4th 2016, 1:01 pm
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by dbd33
Are you huge and stiff?
If you're huge and stiff you can drive what you like, including a puce fiat 500.

For the rest of us chaps, there's trucks.
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Old Sep 4th 2016, 1:24 pm
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by caretaker
The truck has a step so you can climb in.. You're referring to that compensation nonsense, right?
I was thinking of an arthritic fat man, friend of my parents, Frank Cannon they called him (though that wasn't his name). He drove his black cab all the time because, he said, he couldn't fit in his wife's poncy little cars (an xj6 and later a roller).
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Old Sep 4th 2016, 2:12 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
...Frank Cannon....
BBC, Saturday nights before Match of the Day....Kojak, Cannon etc
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Old Sep 5th 2016, 1:12 am
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by dbd33
I can't picture how one's knees are injured in the course of getting out of a car. Are you huge and stiff?
Yes, but not in the way you are referring to.
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Old Sep 5th 2016, 1:53 am
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by daveincolchester
Yes, but not in the way you are referring to.
Ah, well I'm in awe. Nonetheless, being stuck through the steering wheel wouldn't obviously involve one's knees. I suppose though that the need to accommodate such a vast swelling would explain dropping one's trousers and so having one's knees exposed for skinning.

I trust you have an understanding spouse, "You notice little carpet burn" sang Amy Winehouse about a knee, presaging disaster.
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Old Sep 5th 2016, 8:53 pm
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And here was Mark driving down to Sainsburys with his mate Barry
Looks like they rescued the Batmobile from a car crusher... thirty seconds too late.
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Old Sep 5th 2016, 9:05 pm
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Looks like they rescued the Batmobile from a car crusher... thirty seconds too late.

I gather Barry aka Robin was intensive care for 2 months.. I hope that he is making a good recovery
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Old Sep 6th 2016, 9:56 pm
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Hi
I have a truck, (ranger)
my main reason is my motorcycles dont fit on the roofrack or in the trunk of my focus hatch
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by jerry brewer
Hi
I have a truck, (ranger)
my main reason is my motorcycles dont fit on the roofrack or in the trunk of my focus hatch
cheers
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How do you like the Focus hatch? Is it the ST edition? Thats one of the cars i'm looking at. (Along with VW Golf/Golf GTI)
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Old Sep 6th 2016, 11:04 pm
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by Gozit
How do you like the Focus hatch? Is it the ST edition? Thats one of the cars i'm looking at. (Along with VW Golf/Golf GTI)
Boy racer......
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

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Boy racer......
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Old Sep 6th 2016, 11:48 pm
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

Originally Posted by Gozit
How do you like the Focus hatch? Is it the STD edition? Thats one of the cars i'm looking at. (Along with VW Golf/Golf GTI)

If it isn't at first I doubt it will take long.
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Old Sep 6th 2016, 11:55 pm
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Default Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?

I had a Dodge Dakota. Anything bigger would've felt unnecessary, but for the dirt and gravel roads I spent my weekends on, that thing was ideal, throw all the camping stuff & bikes in the back, head off.

A friend visited from Britain, who'd always been damning of such things, since a small hatchback was all a person needed. After fifteen miles down a track with potholes half the size of his car, I turned and asked "so that we're clear, you'd be ok bringing a Polo down this?". He replied "So that we're clear, you chose this road on purpose". Yes I had. But it wasn't unrepresentative. An SUV would also have done the job, but with its own downsides, and less flexibility (the bed was very helpful whenever friends wanted to move large things).

For many entirely urban residents (and almost all cases in places like Britain), a truck is entirely for aesthetic. For various lifestyles or professions, they make perfect sense. I'd always wanted one, but would never have one in Britain. If my partner & I end up in Vancouver we're unlikely to. If we go back to Kelowna, probably will.
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Old Sep 7th 2016, 1:51 am
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Our place, Foreclosure Farm, was a sensible purchase for us despite some compellingly unattractive features. Some were the result of the imminent foreclosure but some were the result of inexcusably poor taste. For example, the house and the garage were covered, completely covered, in that greige plastic shit beloved of firms that throw up housing projects. Vinyl siding they call it.

Today I looked at a huge pile of griege that we've ripped off the house. "This is no time for a Fiesta", I thought, this is why it's good to have a truck.
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