gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Don't Drive Angry!)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2008-04-13 03:29 pm
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I'm Mike Rowe, and this is my truck.

There's a wonderful Monty Python routine that has two of the pepperpot ladies sitting on a bench. One ask the other if she's been shopping. Then she asks what the other bought.

"A piston engine" is the reply.

Today, I bought a piston engine, along with the Ford Ranger it came wrapped in.

Nice Ford

With the rebates and all, we got the payments down to a reasonable level (and can refinance next year.) It's a pretty basic truck, but comes with a bed liner.

[livejournal.com profile] kshandra, of course, has dibs on it for That Thing In The Desert.

The most shocking thing was seeing our credit scores. 700+ across the board. As the finance dude put it, it's good credit but not deep credit. So we keep making payments and keep building things up.

I bought a truck.

I need beer. Stat!

(More photos at my Flickr account)

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Kirsten says that the spikes + pintle mount .50 counts as a "car with shit glued to it" and would not be allowed at Burning Man.

They're no fun at all. I didn't even get to the 106mm Recoilless on the cab roof.

[identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't even get to the 106mm Recoilless on the cab roof.

Who needs a recoilless? Just carry a couple of Javelins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin) in the cargo bed, and call it good.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah but we're going for that Mogadishu-chic technical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(fighting_vehicle)) look.