Tuesday :: 06 January 2009 :: 01:20 PM
353 days to Christmas!
Diesel Domination! Just a few years ago, the word diesel brought up images of slow moving trucks lugging heavy loads up steep hills slowing traffic. Not anymore! Diesels are now breaking into the racing category. My son has a Cummins Diesel pickup that races the quarter mile in the 12s - diesels do dominate! Next year, Chevrolet is bringing out a Corvette Diesel. Amazing!
Gas motors cannot measure up to the power, speed and fuel economy of a diesel. While gas pickups are hauling trailers and campers around on vacation, sucking up a gallon for every eight to ten miles on the road, diesel pickups haul the same load up the mountainside at seventy miles an hour, consuming only one gallon for every fifteen to twenty miles.
There is absolutely no comparison between a gas and diesel motor!
BP4 Photo Shoot And Dilemma Discussion
This is a dilemma. My wife says she is glad I bought this pickup so I won't expend the time and expense restoring the '56 truck. I like the '55 AND the fact that the work is completed and all I have to do is drive it and feed it! However, I kinda had my heart set on restoring the black beauty. Not to mention, I was planning a mod with a four-cylinder diesel engine.
But my wife has a point and I have a better chance of having a life if I sell the '56 and leave the project to someone else. However, the whole point of this website was to document the step-by-step frame off restoration of the '56 Binder!
While we sort out this dilemma, the photos are a walk around the vehicle.
Isn't this '55 a beauty? The people who have restored this truck have done a beautiful job. I know this will be a fun truck to drive on Saturdays and to events (might sneak it to work, the days I am not hauling trailers with my F350 Powerstroke Dually).
If you have any great ideas, for the '56 or this site, send me an email at the link below. Maybe this will be a site for you to show off your project truck. I would be happy to host your story, whether it is a frame-off or a mod.
Regardless, we will be posting more stories. So you are going to want to check back from time-to-time. Hope to see you again, soon!
Random Humor: Another Bureaucrat Joke
A Texas cowboy was working his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Soon he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a consultant for the GOVERNMENT." says the cowboy.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows...
"Now give me back my dog."