[AT] Big Truck Pickups

[Gene Dotson]

    Another common practice in Florida was to coat all frontal areas with Vaseline. Seems the love bugs were very bad and this prevented the bug residue from sticking to the paint.

                    Gene




From: Indiana Robinson 
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2019 9:13 PM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group 
Subject: Re: [AT] Big Truck Pickups

Tom McCahill who wrote for Mechanix Illustrated more than once wrote of the common practice in Florida, where he was living, of spraying their cars all over underneath with used motor oil. I recall thinking at the time (early to mid 1950's) that I would think that mechanics would really hate working on those slimy under-pinnings. Normal leaking oil was bad enough.



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On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:30 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:

  Years ago I had a publication that advocated coating the interiors of the bottom of doors and any other lower water holding joint with used motor oil. I did try it on one car and it seemed to work.

  Mike Meulens AT List member (meulenms at gmx.com) ; Well, It'll be a long time before I buy a new pickup at the prices they are at now. I have a 2010 Silverado with 110,000 on it, and the rust is beginning in all the suspected spots, the rear wheel well being the main culprit. It'll be a fender flapper in a couple of years, but as long as it's reliable I'll keep it. I've heard rumors, not first hand information that body shops are having a hard time learning how to work on the aluminum body panels. Sure would be nice to have a truck that doesn't rust out before it's service life is though. You guys in the south many not have this problem, due to little or no salt ever being used.  What bothers me is that my wife's Camry has 70,000 more miles on it, gets driven every day in the salty slush, zero rust.

  Phil Auten Texas AT List member (pga2 at basicisp.net); James, that video of the "empty" toolbox punching a hole in the > aluminum bed floor of a Ford was faked. Notice that it is no longer > shown on TV? That is why. GM made a big misjudgement on that one.

  James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com); I have rented a Home Depot flatbed >> pickup twice to carry items that would not have fit in a pickup box.>> I am very impressed with them. The flat beds are probably much more >> puncture proof than those aluminum ford pickup boxes. There used to >> be a commercial of someone dropping a tool box into a ford pickup bed >> and tearing a hole in the bed.
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