Posted by Noname on August 03, 2000 at 11:26:52:
In Reply to: Sticks & Stones & Big Old Trucks posted by Dr. R.S. Cranium on August 03, 2000 at 00:58:28:
I seen that blue leventy-three earlier in the summer. Least that's what the crazy old coot driving it called it. I should tell you folks, but, yeah, it was in Colorado. I saw it in one of them ole mining ghost towns. Actually did a double take when I first saw it. Was not sure exactly what it was. I got out of my truck and walked a little closer trying to identify it. I was sort of startled when this crusty old fella came bounding out of one of the old buildings. He came on with surprising speed for a broken down old fart. He got darn right offend when I inquired as to the model of his truck. He began muttering jibrish as he warned me away. I had been so focused on the truck to this point that I had not really taken a good look at the old fella. His face was sundried like an old prune from years of outside work and too many cigarettes. Friendly in a way, yet disturbed, maybe it was just one that showed years of hard mountain work. Maybe from panhandling or is it panning for gold. His clothes were tattered. He wore a pair of old duckcloth pants, now shorts, over a faded pair of long red underwear. His canvas shirt was stained with sweat from his labor. As he walked away I clearly heard him say the truck was a blankety-blank WC leventy three. After that it was just a jumbled phrase or occasional word I could make out. A "SEG Dodge" here and a "f-ing trailer Queen" there. He was werid and pissed off about something. He adriotly hopped in the cab, fired the engine(definately some kind of hot-rodded V-8), gave me a scornful glare, and screamed a warning. He warned me not to tell anybody, anything about him or his truck. He did not head up the road, he choose a solid rock outcropping which in which to climb over. Raw power, gears, lockers, experience, I do not know how the old bastard got over those rocks but he did. He disappeared leaving only the footprints of the "WC leventy three".