Rod's old tyme UPS

[Turdferguson]

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Your first package car?

 

[rod]

Your first package car?

No---but I did drive one similar to this for my first peak. It was a real thrill to drive--about all you could do to keep it between the ditches.

 

[Turdferguson]

No---but I did drive one similar to this for my first peak. It was a real thrill to drive--about all you could do to keep it between the ditches.View attachment 88963

Those are some nice tires. Go 4 wheeling in that bad boy

 

[rod]

Those are some nice tires. Go 4 wheeling in that bad boy

Believe me the one I drove didn't tires anywhere near that aggressive.

 

[rod]

another view of my "five pound hat"

 

[oldngray]

Believe me the one I drove didn't tires anywhere near that aggressive.

Racing slicks?

 

[rod]

Racing slicks?

If I recall it had re-capped snow tires all the way around until someone informed the mechanic that they thought it was against DOT regulations to run re-caps on the front.

 

[rod]

I think they then had to inform the mechanic what the DOT was.

 

[oldngray]

If I recall it had re-capped snow tires all the way around until someone informed the mechanic that they thought it was against DOT regulations to run re-caps on the front.

At one time UPS couldn't put recaps on front but either the law changed or UPS found a loophole. They started putting them on front and I think they could get away with it because the routes didn't run enough miles or something.

 

[joeboodog]

One of our drivers had a package one Christmas that was addressed Grandpa and Grandma and the name of the small town (pop about 2,500). That's all that was on the package-no street address or name other than a return address and last name. After asking lots of people if they knew a so and so who lived in what ever town he finally found someone who knew that their neighbors had relatives who lived there. That's SERVICE---that part of UPS is gone and its not the drivers fault.

That used to be the norm, not the exception.

 

[Johney]

I remember all of those things. When was the last time you saw a dimension chain.

Not since Pottery Barn came around.

 

[rod]

refrigerator magnet

 

[rod]

 

[burrheadd]

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First pkg car I ever drove looked like that. I am lucky to have survived the thing was a death trap. Manual brakes that were either off or locked up
1966 Ford straight 6 geared way to high I was 22 years old drove that pos like I stole it

 

[rod]

First pkg car I ever drove looked like that. I am lucky to have survived the thing was a death trap. Manual brakes that were either off or locked up
1966 Ford straight 6 geared way to high I was 22 years old drove that pos like I stole it

I know what you mean. I could do things on ice with my old P-600 that todays professional drifters would envy.

 

[rod]

 

[oldngray]

I know what you mean. I could do things on ice with my old P-600 that todays professional drifters would envy.

Those 600's were tanks. Not a bit ergonomic but built to last.

 

[Catatonic]

That was cool!

 

[joeboodog]

I know what you mean. I could do things on ice with my old P-600 that todays professional drifters would envy.

The old sixes and eights could get you through anything. You show my seven a picture of snow and it gets stuck.

 

[rod]

The only one that counts: