mean truck photo
 

http://images.craigslist.org/0101120...bbf000aa7c.jpg

Saw this photo on a CraigsListing selling a truck.

The photo is just there to show how BIG the truck is.

Isn't this like demeaning Rhode Island by saying how many times bigger another state is than Rhode Island?


"Look at my truck! It's gotta be at least 4.6 Geo Metros!"....

believe it or not, how big it is is a selling point in my county. If it's already got a lift, by golly that'll save a lot in labor time!!!

I wonder if he's selling that festiva? :D

It did. He is selling it :p

I asked people in Houston about why they had this, since being from a cities in the northeast you don't see it too much, and they almost all told me it was for "muddin." A term I had never heard before, actually; normally people here call it something along the lines of "four wheelin." Then you ask them how often they get to go since it seems like it's well over a hundred miles before you can find dirt, and they almost always say "maybe twice a year." That doesn't seem worth it to me at all... Granted a few people said they want to sit above traffic.

Ha... It may be big.... But that Geo is blocking is path forward!

That competition = Stalemate.

Next time someone sells a metro they should take a picture just like that except with each vehicle at the gas station getting filled up, :)

that car looks like a 1st gen ford festiva.

I disagree! The truck is blocking the path forward of the economy car!

Lets just hope the truck isn't getting ready to "monster truck it" over the econo!

But it's okay! The economy car has it's engine off while stopped :D

Naw, I've never seen someone in a truck... in a parking lot, decide they want a compact car's parking spot and just part over it... Truck drivers may use a lot of gas... but I doubt they're dumb enough to even attempt to drive over someone else's car...

That little car is a Ford Festiva.

OK, so how many FESTIVAs = one big truck?

4.6

lol, I think muddin' was almost a religion in my little hick-town. :p

I see a lot of Jeeps looking like this at the gas station where I occasionally work.
http://www.gallupindependent.com/200...mages/mud0.jpg

But I'm from jersey and the whole "muddin" thing is as new to me as it is to you GenKreton

WHAT!? you've never heard of the term "muddin"!? I thought everyone knew what that meant!!!.

...Do you live near me? cause the whole gravel parking lot at my school has a place with trucks, all with the words REDNECK in bright red letters covering the rear windshield.

One guy has his dodge ram completely covered in a giant vinyl sticker... it's leafy camo.. the whole truck is camo...

3 weeks ago was drive your tractor to school day.

That jeep isn't anything near as muddy as the schools muddiest truck competition. You can still see the paint.

I'll take some pics of the kind of vehicles I see in the parking space in front of me. One truck has somewhere between a 6-9 inch lift.

At the impound yard today we saw a very large pickup. It must of been a good 7.5, maybe 8ft tall.

The only markings on it were "Heavy Duty" and V10.

I'm willing to bet it got a record breaking 1/2 mile to the gallon. :D

wow, im not from a small town (although there are alot of small communities around here) but muddin' or wheeling (or whatever you choose to call it) is pretty common knowledge around here. anyhow i always find pictures like that amusing, it would have been better if they would have parked it against a saturn or something (quite a bit shorter than the car pictured) my thought being that geo's and festivas have quite a tall roof line. honestly i dont understand the whole "lift it up, toss on giant tires, but keep it on the road" mentality, i havent lifted either of my jeeps and i go off road all the time (maybe a little too often)

/end rant

john

One day I'll post a long description of how I used my Metro to pull my freinds jeep out of the woods.
Boy that'll get the Jeep guys goin'.
S.

sounds like a good story, not quite sure why it would bother most of us (at least on this board) yes we have pride in our American made vehicles but that doesn't mean that we all have big egos, ive gotten my jeep stuck a few times, one time my brother tried to pulle it out with his toyota camry, that was a sad show so we went and got my other jeep and winched it out with that. oh well..

so now lets hear your story :)

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eh, that's not too bad, we went muddin' in a 95 ford escort hatch, and ramped it a few feet in the air. and I recall white smoke pouring out from under the hood atleast 7 times... Mud up to the front bumper.

I don't think we'd take offense to getting pulled out of mud by smaller cars.

I know that its funny when I see a lil wrangler pull out a hummer or FJ cruiser out of the mud and then trudge right through it. The vids around here somewhere...:D