07-10-2010, 05:58 AM
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Conversion Truck Addicted
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denmark, Europe
Posts: 1,552
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Re: love at first sight?
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Originally Posted by Blake_H
My dad had a small construction company, and all they drove were Chevy's. My dad's was a '73 and the rest of the crews had '76's. I didn't think much of them, they were like all the other trucks I saw on the road at the time. For a long time, I didn't even know there were any other brands besides GMC.
But, I fell in love with squares the first time my parents took me to my first 'big time' drag race. We drove 16 hours from Idaho to Ontario to watch the World Finals. I couldn't believe all the crew cabs, with sleepers and Chapparel trailers. They were everywhere. I had been around the races since I was born, but that was first time I really noticed them. I was 6 at the time.
I loved the look of that setup so much that I sold my '01 F-350 cc and featherlite tag to get an '86 cc and Chapparel trailer. It was really special to go with my dad to pick up the trailer, driving the cc.
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Tonight mine pulled a few cars out of snowbanks, and is sitting in my driveway, icicles on the grille, wheels just white cakes of snow, buried up to the lug nuts in powder, straps and chains wrapped around the bumpers, the outline of the wipers clear in 4 inches of snow on the windshield... A tired warrior of the 1980s in a world of low profile tires, front wheel drive, and plastic bumpers, where people stay in their houses until snowplows move the offending substance from their paths, too helpless to travel without AAA and chains and salt, clearing their windows with longhandled brushes while gently stepping around in the snow trying to stay nice and dry.
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