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Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.

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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 07:54PM
Wait, did you say?
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Akbash or Pyrenees

This is my Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepperd puppy's take on this thread...
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 08:17PM
I don't think the flexi part is really a bad thing. The cage lessens that a wee bit. The downside of trucks for me are the increased weight, somewhat cramped room, the increased weight, not the best balance, the increased weight... and so many of them have a POS leaf spring rear axle that needs converted to coil springs.

Ah Grasshoppah...notice the mighty oak that bends in the wind. True strength is in bending and surviving rather than resisting and breaking...
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 08:59PM
I think it doesn't fucking matter if someone wants to rally a truck or not, John is just bored as I haven't given him anything to through a little girl shit fit about for awhile. *rolls eyes*
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 09:33PM
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I think it doesn't fucking matter if someone wants to rally a truck or not, John is just bored as I haven't given him anything to through a little girl shit fit about for awhile. *rolls eyes*

Fucktard Timmy, you're so unimportant the only reason you even get a comment is just to remind you how stupid your latest plans are.
Obviously nobody else bothers to tell you.

So how's the career carousel going?

Gonna be a fireman when you grow up?
Or a fighter pilot?
Or a private eye.?


Started on the ultimate killer Focus or Honda yet?
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 10:38PM
As long as I'm not a bitter old washup like you, I'll be ok.
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 11:08PM


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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 20, 2010 11:43PM
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As long as I'm not a bitter old washup like you, I'll be ok.


Like essentially everything you writer Timmy, you're wrong there.

and guess what, I'll give you a nice present since it's Christmas, itäs called knowledge of the world+++something you are berift of:
It's far better to be a has been, than a never was---and at your rate, a never will be.

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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 12:08AM
First of all flexy chassis are not the same thing as not durable smiling smiley






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For years the chorus of people repeating to innocents who foolishly think they want to fawk with trucks "Oh yeah get a truck! Trucks are STRONG" has made me do forehead slaps in full force because i know that ladder construction C channel shit full of hols are pure shit, lets just be frank: SHIT.

If a chorus is a few random people occasionally than sure.eye rolling smiley

You know people meant general prangability and stronger things like wheel bearings etc but you enjoy pretending the self inflicted sand in your vagina is some claim by non existent people that trucks have awesome razor like handling and super rigid platforms ripe for super accurate suspension tuning.thumbs up smiley


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Note: these are CURRENT, NEW FULL SIZED junk
Not econo-shit junk mini-truck shit from 15-20 years ago...

They're leagues worse---so there. (neener neener)

First of all Tundras blow. Hardly a yardstick for measuring anything against.

Second of all where's your data point for modern/older mini pickups? How does this vid prove anything about those? It's apples to oranges.

Not that I don't agree that trucks are flexy just that your vid proves little about anything except how much a Tundra frame flexes.

Volvos are great and they make awesome cars. But you frame your arguments the way you always do that makes even people who generally agree with you become irritated over your zealous unprovoked bloviating.

Rust free 240's don't grow on trees everywhere. Some people don't want to buy a car then re-engineer 1/3 of it either.

For every (mythical) chorus of people saying trucks are the only thing anyone should ever build for any reason there are 10 real choruses of people claiming you absolutely MUST have $2-$4K suspension on whatever you are running before you can even consider putting even 1 stage mile on your vehicle or else you'll explode or somehow regret it and become a destroyed dejected shell of your former self.

Same thing applies for OMG you have to stitch weld every seam everywhere on the a car and chip out every oz of undercoating and have to get super duper close ratio this and high final drive that before you should even fire a single neuron off in your head about actually getting on stage.

Those are bigger red herrings than the supposed truck building rally mafia are.
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 04:30AM
Weird. Tim's puppy looks just like him.
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 08:22AM
This thread sucks, lock it up kids.
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 10:30AM
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Weird. Tim's puppy looks just like him.

Just to derail this thread a bit more. Holy hell, wish I had known how easy it is to pick up cute girls with a cute dog like this before I got married eye popping smiley It's like fishing with a fucking gill net...
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 10:36AM
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Weird. Tim's puppy looks just like him.

Just to derail this thread a bit more. Holy hell, wish I had known how easy it is to pick up cute girls with a cute dog like this before I got married eye popping smiley It's like fishing with a fucking gill net...

Oh my god. Seriously. I used to tell Mark that he needed to get a job somewhere where he could take puppies with him everywhere. Like a pound or rescue or something.
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 10:54AM
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Weird. Tim's puppy looks just like him.

Just to derail this thread a bit more. Holy hell, wish I had known how easy it is to pick up cute girls with a cute dog like this before I got married eye popping smiley It's like fishing with a fucking gill net...

Oh my god. Seriously. I used to tell Mark that he needed to get a job somewhere where he could take puppies with him everywhere. Like a pound or rescue or something.

But you gotta have a good lookin dog first....
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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 11:05AM
Puppies and Toyota trucks rule!



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Re: Fantasies about trucks strength---at last info.
December 21, 2010 11:26AM
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First of all flexy chassis are not the same thing as not durable smiling smiley






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For years the chorus of people repeating to innocents who foolishly think they want to fawk with trucks "Oh yeah get a truck! Trucks are STRONG" has made me do forehead slaps in full force because i know that ladder construction C channel shit full of hols are pure shit, lets just be frank: SHIT.

If a chorus is a few random people occasionally than sure.eye rolling smiley

You know people meant general prangability and stronger things like wheel bearings etc but you enjoy pretending the self inflicted sand in your vagina is some claim by non existent people that trucks have awesome razor like handling and super rigid platforms ripe for super accurate suspension tuning.thumbs up smiley


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Note: these are CURRENT, NEW FULL SIZED junk
Not econo-shit junk mini-truck shit from 15-20 years ago...

They're leagues worse---so there. (neener neener)

First of all Tundras blow. Hardly a yardstick for measuring anything against.

Second of all where's your data point for modern/older mini pickups? How does this vid prove anything about those? It's apples to oranges.

Not that I don't agree that trucks are flexy just that your vid proves little about anything except how much a Tundra frame flexes.

Volvos are great and they make awesome cars. But you frame your arguments the way you always do that makes even people who generally agree with you become irritated over your zealous unprovoked bloviating.

Rust free 240's don't grow on trees everywhere. Some people don't want to buy a car then re-engineer 1/3 of it either.

For every (mythical) chorus of people saying trucks are the only thing anyone should ever build for any reason there are 10 real choruses of people claiming you absolutely MUST have $2-$4K suspension on whatever you are running before you can even consider putting even 1 stage mile on your vehicle or else you'll explode or somehow regret it and become a destroyed dejected shell of your former self.

Same thing applies for OMG you have to stitch weld every seam everywhere on the a car and chip out every oz of undercoating and have to get super duper close ratio this and high final drive that before you should even fire a single neuron off in your head about actually getting on stage.

Those are bigger red herrings than the supposed truck building rally mafia are.
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