j_martin

You don't fully understand this picture.

The strap is not to hold the load on the bed. It is to hold the bed on the truck. The load just got in the way.

Bark

Makes me feel a little better since they are in heated areas.
I got a good infrared thermometer for my Sister to use in her goat cheese production.
She was having electrical problems in the mobile home part of her place and that thermometer probably saved it from burning down.
One of her outlets with very little load on it was about 50° hotter than the others. Loose connection, AL wiring.
Hard to believe they didn't do a recall on those old mobile homes.

j_martin

I always thought mobile homes were a fire trap by design. Way back in the "good old days" they wired the things with lamp cord.

Spooler

Picked up a new daily driver. A 2012 Nissan 370z Nismo edition.

NJTman

Love the gas tank...... under your passenger's buttocks....

Lary Ellis (Top)

I can remember driving my pickup with the tank behind the seat...real common on older trucks

Bark

Yup. I can remember driving like the teenage fool that I was with five people crammed into the cab,
everybody smoking cigs less than six inches from the behind the seat tank that always seeped a little.
The safety feature was no seat belts so if it blew you would get thrown out of the burning vehicle.

NJTman

Getting me one of these

patdaly

Nah, the safety part was you had to keep the windows down year round because of the holes in the floorboard that let the CO in......that and the seeping tank meant you ran windows down, 100 degree weather or -30.

It was the rite of passage for a kid with a truck.

Only the best of us could speed shift that three on the tree though....... I used to drive my buddy's nuts with 2nd gear scratches out of the '66.

patdaly

Hey, you laugh, but as a kid, running the WD-45 all night long, I would have killed for a cab............

Scotty

I learned to drive with a 59' Merc half ton. Loved that truck. 3 on the tree, cast iron front bumper...vacuum wipers...LOL As soon as I hit the hill on my way home it would rain and the wipers would s l o w way down and stop.

Lary Ellis (Top)

Wipers are for sissy's

I had a 57 Caddie with vacuum wipers...they did the same thing you just had to back out of it a little on the hills when it was raining really hard

Bark

My 57 Buick special had vacuum wipers too. Also had a cruise control of sorts.
Set the dial to the speed you wanted to go and a buzzer would go off if you went faster than the setting.
The air filters sure were cheap though.

Scotty

If I hit hwy signs at 55 mph, I'd have a collection in the bed when I got home.

j_martin

I had cars with vacuum wipers also, I think the 48 Dodge, and the 53 Chevy. Big deal was to fit a double acting fuel pump so the wipers would keep running under high throttle. The fuel pump had a second diaphragm in it with the sole purpose of keeping the vacuum up to the windshield wipers.

Kinda like replacing the first gen brake booster with hydraulics.