OT Whatcha don't see on the Interstate [Archive]

Mojo

08-29-2003, 06:56 PM

I got passed by a truck on Interstate that was carrying a small pine tree (think christmas tree), a bunch of 2x4's, and blocks that I could see piled on top of the tree (!?). Not a bit of it was tied down. I'm doing 75, and he passes me like i'm sitting still. It belongs to some contruction company, becuase I saw it every morning.

About 15 minutes later, I come up on that christmas tree in a lane. I swerve to avoid it. Then, some 2x4's laying in the road. I swerve around them. While swerving around them, I look farther forward and see a white box in the middle of the lane. It was too late to swerve, so I hit it dead on.

Well, it wasn't a box. It was a 1'x1'x3' block of white granet.

It made the front of my old 79 Malibu hop at least 6" in the air. I pulled over ASAP, and killed the motor, expecting to see oil everywhere. It hit clean on the crossmember, which kept it off the oil pan. Then, a big chuck hit the driver's side A-arm, and bent the lip back, put a 1" deep dent in a 2" square trans crossmember, put a 3" deep, 3' long dent in the DS floor, and put a 2" deep pucker in the bottom of the gas tank. It also caught the exhaust pipe crossing over to the right (both pipes run on the right side until after the trans), ripping it off the manifold.

I limped it home, and kept a lookout for that dipshit in the white truck for at least the next two weeks. Never saw him again.

Rocky

08-29-2003, 07:12 PM

Ahhhh, yes. The roads are crammed fulla idjits from north to south, east to west. I was coming home from last years' Back-to-the-fifty's in a friend's 41 ford pickup. I was rolling about 65 when a late model ford 4X4 passed me doing about 75. It was a very windy day and as the guy passed me, I could see all of his camping gear was heaped in the back with a big metal beer cooler perched on top of the pile. Nothing was tied down at all and as the fool pulled back into my lane, a wind gust caught the cooler and it LEAPED out, onto the interstate right in front of me! I pulled hard to the right, hitting it with the left front fender while praying the cooler wasn't full of gold bars or something equally heavy. The impact swung the pickup violently back to the left, cancelling out my paniced right turn and leaving the little truck pointed straight down the interstate again with a grinding noise and the front end darting around like crazy. I had to pull over.
Luckily, the brain donor pulled over too, having seen the carnage in his mirror and I was aable to get his insurance company name, license number etc etc ......the damage was 4100 smacks!
My buddy was happy to get the $$$, Plus, he sold the truck before he hadda get it fixed....he took me and Mrs Rocky out to dinner with the proceeds from the sale.

Fat Hack

08-29-2003, 07:21 PM

When my sister was moving, we had a bunch of guys over helping to load the rented truck. I was the truck driver, but a few other guys showed up with pickups to help us get it all in one trip.

She had a huge garbage bag filled with empty pop and beer cans and plastic bottles, and asked if anyone wanted them. (They are worth 10 cents apeice here in Michigan at any party/grocery/convenience store). One clown helping out announced that he'd take 'em...then ordered me to put 'em in the bed of his truck!

Well, I figured anyone too lazy to carry a lightweight bag of booty out to their own rig deserves what he gets...so I set the big ol' bag of empties way up on top of everything else...then hopped into the U-haul and took off!

The guy arrived at the new house cussing me out...and relating the story of how the bag launched into the air at about 50mph going down Michigan Avenue through Inkster at night. He said he looked in the rearview mirror and saw dark figures darting from the shadows to scoop up the cans and bottles before they even stopped bouncing!

Like it was raining dimes in da ghetto!

Pigiron

08-29-2003, 07:40 PM

Couches? We don't need no stinkin' couches! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Micha

08-29-2003, 09:17 PM

Now that's what I call bench racing... http://www.aimoo.com/Forum/images/messageicon/lol.gif

lulabelle

08-29-2003, 09:33 PM

Kinda off topic.But I took this while driving.Plywood wing!!!

Missouri_Mike

08-29-2003, 10:03 PM

I've always heard that drivin' them big Lincolns was like driving your living room couch, but damn, this guy's making sure of it... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Crosley

08-29-2003, 11:43 PM

I imagine most of the roads in your folks areas see an increase of broken furniture parts laying on, in the middle, near the roads as people move at the end of or the first of the month....... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Sam F.

08-29-2003, 11:54 PM

on one of our road trips back from cali with my dad, i was ridding shotgun when a truck flew by us with a ladder hanging out the back,he said "look, that ladder is about ready to fly off" ,,,we got up the road about a mile and there was a ladder in the middle of the road and 2 cars in the median and one on the shoulder...however,the truck was nowhere to be found

james

08-30-2003, 12:33 AM

Once in a while I help a freind install signs. Well, about a year ago he had a job on the other coast (of florida) and we loaded the signs in the trailer, loaded the ladders on top of his fiberglass shell, and took off. We worked straight through, installing 38 under canopy signs in 43 hours (stopping only to eat), then started heading back home. (3 hour drive). It was about 4 in the morning and we stopped to get gas, and half way through filling the tank he noticed that the entire shell (with ladders on top) was GONE. We hopped in the truck and started back tracking and found it about 5 miles back, smashed to hell with state troopers checking it out. Luckily it was a 2 lane state road and noone hit it, but somehow we were all too tired to hear a camper shell loaded on top with aluminum ladders blow off. And some how it must've blown straight up, because it completely missed the 14' long trailer we were hauling. All the c-clamps were still there on the bedlip, with little ripped peices of fiberglass under them. Wild night, and I'll never work 43 hours straight again!

Dirk

08-30-2003, 01:37 AM

Saw this Mexican once getting on the freeway with palets stacked God knows how high. As he was getting on, I saw him make the sign of the cross.

I got over fast.

TINGLER

08-30-2003, 02:34 AM

Deyomatic

08-30-2003, 02:44 AM

I was with my buddy on a road trip from Connecticut to Florida. It was like 3 am, as dark as you can imagine and I'm the ONLY car on the highway. My buddy is fast asleep in the passenger seat. I've got the music on low, getting a bit tired from driving all evening, and I'm just watching the road and kind of daydreaming as I drive because there weren't any other cars on the road. No lights in front and none behind. Out of the corner of my right eye I see a shape next to the car, passing me very closely on the right. After a couple seconds I realized what it was.
It was an 18-wheeler driving with his lights off at 3 am. He passed, and then another vehicle, a car this time, doing the same.
All I could picture was that movie Duel.

mr57

08-30-2003, 03:10 AM

Leon

08-30-2003, 04:40 AM

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coming up the other side of the interstate was a LOCOMOTIVE

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JT - does this look anything like what you saw? We got pictures of it on Power Tour 2001

SKR8PN

08-30-2003, 09:07 AM

Leon......I saw that thing on the SAME Power Tour! Cool as hell. If I remember correctly the guy said it was built as a promo unit and he bought it when they were done with it??Based on a motor home chassis I think.

CharlieLed

08-30-2003, 12:05 PM

There was a guy here in San Diego that built a motor home alot like the Sante Fe train vehicle in that photo. This guy took and old DC-3 (?) airplane cockpit and fuselage for the body and then added wheels. Not something that you wanted to see in your rearview mirror when you're coming home after a night on the town... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

TINGLER

08-30-2003, 01:29 PM

You know Leon, I bet that was the train I saw!

It was several years ago and I only got a glimpse of it....so in my mind I remembered it as a real old one with a smoke stack and all....BUT, I bet that was the one. I remember it freaked me out.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thats a pretty cool pic, Now at least I know I'm not crazy.....

I was just checking my files looking for a pic of another weirdo car (I can't find the pic).
Anyhow, this car is made out of a BOAT. I have seen it the last two times I have been at the Grand Rod Run in Pigeon Forge TN. You guys would get a kick out of it...
Weird man, weird.
JT.

53Chebby

08-30-2003, 01:46 PM

Actually Von Tingler it probably was an older one. There is a guy from Nebraska I think that built a locomotive engine on a Oldsmobile chassis I believe. He tours around the country with it now and has even built "cars" to pull behing it. I think I have a picture of it somewhere here.

TINGLER

08-30-2003, 02:31 PM

Ohhhhhh.....

Wow there are MORE of them out there. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
JT.

manyolcars

08-30-2003, 02:44 PM

For many years, there was a street locomotive here. Driven by the VFW

scooter

08-30-2003, 03:25 PM

hahaaa raining money! the can and pop bottle story is great , love the wing and couch too .
I will share one of mine , while working at the home depot .
I worked in the garden dept and tis guy comes in and says he needs a whole pallet of red brick pavers , can he pay for them and go get his truck , i say sure but i sure hope its a big truck cuz thats a heavy load , he says nooooo problem and gets some mulch and a whole buch of sand ta go w/ his buy .About a 1/2 hour later he says he is ready ,i ask wheres your truck , right outside , ok i will get your stuff .He came in a 70 toyota truck !
i tell this guy your truck will not haul all this he said sure it will , i say ok if you insist but you must sign this release and waiver he does so w/ a smile as to say i will so this guy .I get the fork lift and load it as far foreward as it will go poppin and creeking the whole time .Waving a thank you after the sand and mulch were added he leaves scraping the whole way and bottoming out on the speedbump as we are all gathered out front watching the show .I guess that 3rd speed bump did not like him either and leaving the parking lot he banged and scraped one more time loosing his bumper ! NO WORRIES FOR THIS GUY he just kept going and left it in the drive way .who knows if he ever made it all the way home .his tires looked like a 300lb lady sittin on an inner tube w/ 10 lbs in um .amazing what people think thier vehicles can handle.

TagMan

08-31-2003, 01:54 PM

Maybe the dude with the couch on the roof was really a gold-chainer going to a car show and didn't know about the cheap, Chinese fold-up pieces of crap chairs!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

OGNC

08-31-2003, 07:38 PM

Charlie, I remember seeing that thing (airplane RV) on the 94 freeway one time when I was a kid from the back seat of my dad's 67 Camaro. I must habe been 9 or 10 and I started yelling "airplane on the road". My dad looked in the mirror and saw that thing and I swear that a little bit of pee came out of him. He almost drove us right off the road!

seymour

11-26-2006, 09:22 PM

"Fuck your COUCH!!!" :D

NICKEYCHEVY60

11-26-2006, 09:46 PM

COUCH? I'd call that a SLEEPER:D

47 Ford Panel

11-26-2006, 09:49 PM

Tdreamer

11-26-2006, 10:31 PM

i still like the staineless steel rocket car i see around here it is an old ride and the driver stands up front like a steam boat captain, gives rides to passangers, next year when i see it i'll take some picks it looks bad ass!

Royalshifter

11-26-2006, 10:43 PM

I seen a dumbass in a 4 door Honda that had 2x4's through the back doors side to side hanging out, on top of that he was on the Highway at about 65.

DocWatson

11-26-2006, 10:50 PM

This gets around to a lot of air shows in Australia. It was built in 47 (Could have been 46??) from a surplus C-47 fuselage. Painted in Royal Australian Air Force heavy lift livery and built on a Bedford truck chassis. It really turns heads on the road.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/docwatson1938/c47camper.jpg

Doc.

safariknut

11-26-2006, 11:39 PM

This is a GREAT post!How did I miss it the first time!

Worst one I've ever encountered was with my Safari on a trip to Massachusetts.We were on Route 17 between Jamestown NY and Elmira.

For those not familiar with the road,it is two lanes(and a breakdown area) in both directions and not too well traveled.

We are driving along about 60 or so and I glance in my rear view and see a truck bumper!I'm in the right lane so I'm not about to move over.Then I see it moving to pass and I realize this guy is hauling a BUILDING on the back of the truck!Not a half-modular home but a whole building.

This guy breezes by us(had to be doing about 70 by now)and heads on down the road.OK.

I look up in the distance and about a half mile ahead are two more trucks;one of which is carrying what appears to be another building.

This guy is getting closer to them and I realize he is going to try to pass them as well!I wake my wife up and tell her what's going on just in case I have to pull over quickly.

Damned if this fool doesn't go right by BOTH trucks! I doubt there was more than a foot separating them and he had his left wheels almost off the road onto the dirt still doing about 70 mph!

Craziest sonofabitch I've ever seen in my life!

Bugman

11-27-2006, 12:26 AM

Damn it. now I have to buy an old bus to make a train out of. I hate you guys sometimes...

:mad: :rolleyes: :D

DocWatson

11-27-2006, 12:35 AM

Got a call out to a car accident once while I was a Paramedic (Army) we covered the local area as we had a better turn out time.
Some idiot had put an 18ft boat on a tandem trailer, tied it down with two thin lengths of rope.
Hey what'ya know?? He hit the breaks hard and launched the boat through his car (You through) and into the car in front of him!

Another one was returning from an exercise when I was in an artillery regiment. We had M198's, 155mm Howitzers. They traveled all the way back from Darwin to Sydney with no problems. About 10km from base while turning off the highway one of the guns sheered off all the lug nuts and the gun rolled over a few times ending up on the bonnet of a car sitting at traffic lights. Not something you see every day.
Doc.

Mad-Lad

11-27-2006, 01:37 AM

I took this picture a while back.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/Mad-Lad/bbqincar.jpg

skajaquada

11-27-2006, 01:40 AM

i hauled an antique gynecologist's exam chair home in the trunk of my '84 delta88 once...only had to go a mile though:D

rubberrodder

11-27-2006, 02:00 AM

I like that Plywood wing.....gives me some ideas! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I once was driving in Ohio on an interstate, I looked to my left and coming up the other side of the interstate was a LOCOMOTIVE. I swear I wasn't drinking at the time either, and it was in broad daylight. This thing looked like an old fashioned engine outfitted with car tires of some sort and it was going right up the road.

I have never heard or seen anything about it since.......Anyone ever hear of a vehicle like this? Anyone ever seen it?

It was freaky man.

JT. was a guy out on the north coast of washington state that built an old truck chassis into a "locomotive"-ish looking thing. I think he used an old boiler from a building for the main body and just built a shack on the back with a smoke stak up front. Ever been to Ocean City or Copalis beach ,tingler?

rustynewyorker

11-27-2006, 03:24 AM

One time this broad in a Dodge pickup passes us doing like 75. Hanging by a rope out the open back of the bed is a dolly, wheels up, the top of it bouncing off the road making sparks. Since we didn't want to do 80 in a 65 to stay ahead of her, we slowed down some more. I thought maybe we'd get a free furniture dolly, but it must have stayed on past where we got off the highway.

I had some guy pass me on the thruway one day, too.. or did I pass him, I forget now, but he had a huge pile of stuff just stacked in the bed. One of the things was a box full of papers or books or something maybe a foot and a half wide. I think I was ahead of him when I noticed something that looked like snow in the mirror - this was in the summer - and the box of papers had fallen out and basically exploded all over everything. He never even slowed down. I hope that wasnt 10 years of old tax returns...

Wasn't that long ago I saw a ladder in the road. I'd have picked that up but someone had run over one side of it. I have this big-ass heavy orange tarp, too - it fell off of a Schnieder National truck in front of me as I waited at a light. It had been set behind the tractor someplace and stayed on until he made a left to go to the truckstop. I picked it up and drove down there figuring I'd return it, and I get in there and there's 4 of those trucks and I have no idea which one it fell off from. I figured no matter which one I asked first, he'd say "sure, that's mine" and that would be that... so I kept it.

I actually have hauled a couple loads of crap without tying it down, but I usually find some big stuff to pin things under the lip of the bed or some bungee cords to hold it - or cover it with a tarp. The only thing I've lost was something I wanted to lose -

dillonivik

11-27-2006, 03:35 AM

I love stupid people!
I have seen so much stuff that would be worth picking up, unfortunately I5 in seatle is not scavenger friendly:)
But there was one time when i didnt fully think through a load myself. I was transporting 2 10' 4x4s scavenged from the sheetmetal shop i work at (was used for shipping aluminum). So anyway i drop em in my pickup with the ends on top of the cab of my pickup. I throw a ratchet strap over top and torque it down. Well i hit the bumpy part of I5 outside of Fife (if youve been there you know it gets downright violent). So anyway the posts decide the have had enough and slide off the side of my cab. Well it was interesting getting to the shoulder with about 3'of wood hanging off the side of my pickup. From there i wraped the strap around the posts. They were fine then...

rustynewyorker

11-27-2006, 03:40 AM

Last winter, a gentleman drove by my work everyday in a 1964 Chevelle 2 door with the trunk removed and a large wooden box strapped into the trunk. He hauled pallets and other stuff in the back of this nice driver. Someone must have releaved him of his driver because I haven't seen him this year.

People have been doing that forever, too, but 10 years ago a guy in Geneva had a '73 or so Impala that had a wooden box in the trunk. Car was pretty clean otherwise, but just an old 4dr, nothing special.

Bad Bob

11-27-2006, 09:08 PM

I love seeing those dumbasses with the new matress on top,and a piece of twine holding it on. Tip:stay off the Long Beach frwy on Saturdays. A hispanic fellow(being as polite as possible)had a bull in the back of his pick-up,with a rope tied around its neck. As I go down the frwy about a mile,there goes the bull,running right towards me,and went right by!Holy Shit! I always wondered if it got hit or something.

Bad Bob

11-27-2006, 09:19 PM

Can't tell you how many times i've seen boats in the middle of the 605 frwy. People have NO clue,how to tie things down. A guy who had been building this boat for about 15 years,had a company haul it and lost it on the 405 frwy and it just blew apart. Saw it on the news.

Squablow

11-27-2006, 09:29 PM

I saw a mattress on the roof of a minivan once, already about half way slid off, held on with a bungee cord. Was actually 3 or so bungees hooked together in a string, stetching from rocker to rocker. I guarantee it fell off on the highway but I got ahead of him before it did.

I also have a big box of LP's and 45's that I found on the road one day. I always wondered how they ended up in the middle of the road, and how they didn't get smashed. Must have been good timing.

hiboy

11-27-2006, 09:40 PM

Saw a muncie 4-speed in the road once but after going around the block the guy in front of me picked it up.:mad:
Today a 4' step ladder in the slow? lane on the interstate but didn't have the nerve to try for it at rush hour traffic.:eek:

RustyBolts

11-27-2006, 09:44 PM

I saw an old fart pull off the highway once with a BIG stack of gyprock plaster board panelling on the back of a Ford Ranger. He didn't have the boards tied up and they went flying into the ditch like they were pitched by a Vegas blackjack dealer. They make nice puffs of white dust when they hit...

Pretty funny. That reminds me of a time when I was driving across the Dumbarton Bridge which goes over the southern part of the San Francisco Bay. A guy in front of me was going about 60 in an old van with a pile of those extra long 4x12 sheets of Sheetrock tied to the roof with one rope across the middle. The front of all of the sheet rock was curving upwards in the wind and I knew it was a disaster waiting to happen so I drifted back and kept watching him from a distance. As he hit the peak of the bridge where the gusts of winds are the highest, the pieces of Sheetrock started snapping in half and the front halves of them caught the wind and shot way up into the sky like giant paper airplanes and went hurdling off to the side into the bay, which was about 100 feet below I guess. The rest of the Sheetrock all blew onto the bridge in big white puffs. The guy looked a little confused when I pulled past him and laughed at him. I think he was just wondering why his rope was fluttering and didn't even know he'd lost his entire load. He kept going like nothing happened.

:rolleyes:

LOWCAB

11-27-2006, 10:45 PM

Was driving near San LouisObispo when this guy drives by with two mattresses tied to the top of his car with a single piece of thin rope. He passes my brother and I doing about 70, he gets about 50 yds. in front of us when the mattress's let go. Those things flew straight up in the air over our car and one hit the car behind us straight in the windshield. No one was hurt thankfully.

BR

rusty1

11-27-2006, 10:51 PM

[ QUOTE ]
coming up the other side of the interstate was a LOCOMOTIVE

[/ QUOTE ]
JT - does this look anything like what you saw? We got pictures of it on Power Tour 2001
...I know the guy who owns/drives this, his name is Charlie, and lives in Princeton, Illinois. It was built in the early 50's by the SanteFe railroad as a promotional vehicle to be used in parades and such. It was built on an early 50's Dodge 1to 2 ton truck chassis and was orig. powered by a Dodge flathead six; now it's been upgraded with late model V8, auto (big Ford V8 I think), and Charlie takes it to parades, car shows and did indeed drive it on one of the Power Tours. He says the kids especially love it.
I've seen it at a couple of truck shows. This thing looks kinda scary comin up behind you on the interstate.

Charlie Chops 1940

11-27-2006, 11:13 PM

Passed this guy several times on I 80 while heading to Bonneville. He was going at least 75 mph. He must really love that couch. Maybe it and the car were all he had left after his divorce.

http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL237/1412684/2695457/32793904.jpg

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Lookin' at old pictures, eh Bob? I remember that guy. Didn't we pass him a couple times out in Nebraska?

That was a good trip.

Charlie

Brad54

11-27-2006, 11:27 PM

Coming home late one night when I was a kid, I hear my dad say "Shit!" and hear a loud bang and the Dodge conversion van stutters. We pull over, as does the dumb ass that was hauling his Sauder book case in the back of his pick-up truck. The book case hit the ground in front of dad, and he hit it square. Bent our license plate a little bit, and completely destroyed the book case. Nothing bigger than 6x6 inches.

Here in Atlanta, there are ladders on the Interstate all the time. I'm constantly amazed no one is ever harpooned with one. A year or two ago, some idiot bounced an unsecured clothes washer out of his pick-up, and some other poor dumb bastard hit it and died. They tracked the washer's owner through Home Depot, where it was just purchased, and got the guy.

Last year I was driving and saw an old dump truck with low bed sides, stacked full of 3-foot lengths of 1/2-inch wall x 8-inch pipe.

When we came back that way, a car and the truck were pulled over, with the car in front of the truck. The car's windshield was smashed at the top, and a foot-wide section of the roof was peeled back like a sardine can. One of those pipe sections fell off the truck and hit the car (with a family of four in it). The driver of the car must have sped past the truck and pulled in front of him--that's the only reason I can see for the car being in front of the truck when they were parked.

I'd have liked to hear that conversation.

-Brad

hotrodladycrusr

11-27-2006, 11:35 PM

HotRodDrummer's Uncle got killed by something coming off a trailer and ending up in his windshield with his young daughter in the backseat watching the whole thing. Sad, very sad.

Lots of stupid people in this world

Gumpa

11-28-2006, 12:08 AM

Passed this guy several times on I 80 while heading to Bonneville. He was going at least 75 mph. He must really love that couch. Maybe it and the car were all he had left after his divorce.

http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL237/1412684/2695457/32793904.jpg

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I wonder if that could be considered "Curb Service"

49ratfink

11-28-2006, 01:50 AM

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I could make a good living just driving around picking up bedliners and camper shells off the freeway and selling them on craigslist. I'd consider it if not for the risk involved in picking them up.

47 Tudor Guy

11-28-2006, 04:58 AM

When I was in high school I hauled home a Motoski snowmobile in the back of my 72 Pinto hatchback. It was scary how well it fit. I slid it in the hatch backwards - track first and left the front end hang out the back with the skis danglin in the air. I tied it down with a couple of tie downs and away I went. I only had to go a couple of miles, but don't think that I didn't get a few strange looks -- especially from my dad when I pulled in the driveway!! :)

bcarlson

11-28-2006, 07:08 AM

About four years ago, when Michelle and I were first dating, she moved to a new apartment. Her 16-or-so year old brother volunteered to help, and so we loaded his truck with some boxes, and a cheap walmart/target computer desk and whatnot. We got her moved in, and everything was good.

About two weeks later, we finally got around to setting up the computer, and realized we didn't have the desk... must be in the ditch somewhere... oops! :o

Ben

Nosurf

11-28-2006, 09:50 AM

In the '50s my Dad worked at a dairy farm in Lyme CT. The old farmer would haul his bull around in the back seat of an old station wagon.

He would open up both back doors and lead the bull through, shut the one door with the bulls head sticking out the window, and shut the other with the tail hanging out, and off he'd go...

re49

11-28-2006, 10:56 AM

One time I passed a guy with a big dog in the back of his pickup, untied. A few miles down the road he passed me and the dog was standing like a statue on top of the cab. I don't know how he stayed up there, but he looked like he did it all the time.

RacerRick

11-28-2006, 10:59 AM

I saw a guy loose a brand new SBC race engine off of the car trailer he was pulling. I don't think he tied it down, and he passed me doing about 80 onthe 401 here just outside of toronto with this chromed out tunnel rammed engine sitting in a little wooden dolley in the middle of the trailer. When he cut back in front of me the engine was rocking and I though he was going to loose it. About 5 miles up the road, I see cars up ahead of me all swearving to avoid something in the middle of the road - and ther was the engine - all smashed to hell and the pickup truck and trailer on the side of the road a bit up ahead. Why didn't he just drop it into the back of the pickup?

Bruce Lancaster

11-28-2006, 11:16 AM

I once saw a big old Impala going down the interstate with six foreign looking guys inside and a humungous king sized mattress on the roof...each of the four guys with a window seat had an arm out holding on to the mattress. They all looked cheerful and determined. From time to time I imagine them all at their destination, laid out like six sardines on their mattress, happily asleep, dreaming of their next transportation challenge...

flt-blk

11-28-2006, 11:50 AM

Same guy??
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=220585&d=1157508617

eltiberius

11-28-2006, 12:06 PM

I commute 45 miles to work every day on a motorcycle. I see contractor's trucks loaded badly every day. Items I have seen coming at me include: A hammer (sliding on the highway next to me right next to the botts dots). A water heater box, a full size mirror (in pieces), lots of ladders, coolers, tool boxes, dogs (dead), and many other wonderful items...and they never slow from 80mph.