[AT] tractor hauling truck

Indiana Robinson robinson46176 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 16:02:52 PST 2019


I knew I read somewhere about the steel alloy being too tough to form with
conventional stamping equipment being part of the reason for the shape.

https://insideevs.com/features/383976/why-tesla-cybertruck-makes-sense/


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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 6:17 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> I have one of those old White trucks.  The guy in the middle would have
> to sit on the engine doghouse though.   The real problem with the truck
> is the air brake pods would drag when in soft ground.
> We tried to make a hay truck out of it.  It had a 400 ci Diamond Reo
> 6cyl engine  Original threw a rod, and I found one in a st eel yard in
> Tulsa.  It only used a quart of oil every 50 miles.  It was great when
> the mosquitoes were biting.
> Cecil
>
> On 11/27/2019 10:29 AM, James Peck wrote:
> > This Isuzu looks something like an old Buffalo White. They offer three
> across front seating, a hard feature to find. You could put a tilt bed with
> winch on it or a service body.
> >
> > https://isuzucv.com/en/fseries/
> >
> > Phil Auten Texas AT List member (mailto:pga2 at basicisp.net); Must be
> from the "early adopters". They will pay when the bugs start showing up.
> Sure hope that
> > something like the runaway issue doesn't rear it's ugly head. I wonder
> just how fast one of those ugly things can go.
> >
> > Cecil Bearden AT list member, Oklahoma farmer, and Professional Engineer
> (crbearden at copper.net); I got an email yesterday saying that they already
> had orders for over 180K of those ugly electric "pickups"...
> >
> > Mattias Kessén AT List Member and BM 350 Boxer owner (
> davidbrown950 at gmail.com);I can't even imagine how someone even can come
> up with the idea of something that ugly.
> >
> > Reminds me of when Honda were gonna begin marketing the new Honda Fitta.
> Later called Jazz in Europe and (I believe) Fit in the rest of the world.
> They've even made brochures with the slogan "Small on the outside, big on
> the inside". Problem is that fitta in swedish means cunt. All scandinavians
> and many people in northern Europe knows that. I think you all can imagine
> how many funny "car tests" that were made from that... I was takin' the
> .... for a ride. It was a pleasant... etc.
> >
> > Steve Offiler AT List member Mechanical Engineer (soffiler at gmail.com);I
> am sort of a Luddite.  Well, at least, I'm the opposite of an "early
> adopter" consumer. Late adopter I guess?
> >
> > The idea of electric vehicles gives me range anxiety.  That's a real
> thing, a concept explored by GM with their EV-1.  Remember that electric
> car?  They built 1000 and leased them so they could get them all back. It
> was a giant engineering experiment that I found brilliant.   But a whole
> bunch of environmentalists who didn't grasp that concept hate GM to this
> day because they couldn't keep their EV-1.  I guess they didn't read the
> fine print.
> >
> > Anyway, you can keep your electric cars (and now trucks) until they
> cost on par with a petrol-fueled equivalent, and recharge more rapidly than
> they do now, and charging stations are everywhere.  I refuse to accept less
> convenience and less utility for higher cost.
> >
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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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