I'm Mike Rowe, and this is my truck.

[gridlore]

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.



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.

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)

Comments

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

Nice set of wheels. Though if this thing is going to go cruising in the desert, it'd need some spikes on the front bumper and a fifty in the bed. :D

(I always wanted to run / participate in an RPG chase scene with a tactical in it.)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

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.

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

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.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yeah but we're going for that Mogadishu-chic technical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(fighting_vehicle)) look.