posted on July 14, 2001 11:39:52 PM new
I drive a utility, (pick-up truck to Americans), and I'm going to sell it and buy something newer.
It is used as a hack and rarely gets a wash, let alone a clean inside!
It's amazing what you find. I've been cleaning out the cab, under the seats etc.
The tally so far is $40 or so in change, enough odd tools to start a workshop, three old pairs of golf shoes, more used golf balls than they've got in the golf shop, a fossilsed lizard, tons of candy wrappers, empty cigarette packets, a full can of beer I'd missed and all sorts of goodies!
I've taken off fencing wire and put bolts back where they should go, cleaned the upholstery although I can't remember what colour it was to start with, and generally spent all day tidying it up.
Hope my efforts are worth it and I can get a decent trade in!
posted on July 15, 2001 01:50:14 AM new
Geez Bob you are getting rid of the ute.........who will cart the grog.
I usually do not have to clean the car out, because the kids' have taken to doing it, I suppose they figure they may as well get the benefit of any loose change that may fall on the floor or under the seat. My car is a 4WD Landcruiser and we tend to use it for all the work that the trucks are too big for, so it takes a beating at times. It is normally the outside that is the dirty part on my car.
I still can't believe you actually took the rusty wire off the ute. LOL
posted on July 15, 2001 04:49:06 AM new
Sell it quick - with the wire gone if you hit a big pothole it may disassemble.
I clean out my car once each summer. As you said it is it's own self contained ecology.
I have broken down and cleaned under the seats when they will no longer adjust back and forth.
posted on July 15, 2001 04:57:54 AM new
You guys driving trucks and SUV's reminded me of a story. Last job I had the company owned a huge river vally behind the factory and we would often see as many a 6 deer while sitting outside on our break.
One morning the first couple fellows to work at the crack of dawn saw a couple fellows with high powered rifles park a pickup at the edge of the woods and slip away toward the river. Since it was middle of the summer and not near hunting season we knew they were pouchers and the foreman was particularly fond of deer. So when we finished loading up a great big company tractor trailer with molds for Washington State abbout 2,000 miles away they scooped up the truck with a big HiLO fork lift and put it on the back of the trailer.
Told the driver to have the crew in Washington set it in the parking lot out there and forget it ever happened. What a surprise when they came back with a deer and no truck and the rifles they had no business with that time of year. Must have been very inconvenient.
Bob, your sense of humor cracks me up! In a lot of ways you remind me of my dad. *sniff* I'll never forget the day I traded in my first car. I had that little car for 7 years and it saw me through several semesters of college, many road trips and desert parties, among other things. It was amazing what I ended up hauling out of that thing. Most of it did not end up in the newer, nicer car. Your statement about the fossilized lizard reminds me of all of my geckos I have arounf my property. Here and there an unfortunate one slips into the house only to provide hunting skills and entertainment for the cats or even the dog.
Gravid, that is too funny. Your bunch sure has a way for getting even or thinking of ways to.
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
[ edited by MouseSlayer on Jul 15, 2001 05:18 AM ]
Your statement about the fossilized lizard reminds me of all of my geckos I have arounf my property. Here and there an unfortunate one slips into the house only to provide hunting skills and entertainment for the cats or even the dog. 
Hippy wannabe 
~^~