Broken down truck

fixerupper · Jul 9, 2015

Saw this in the paper. The article claims the truck "broke down". Well, yah! I couldn't help but laugh at the big hissy fit they made about two gallons of gasoline that leaked away when this happened. Jim

Oops, forgot the pic. Here it is.

Old weldor · Jul 9, 2015

Looks like a chevy to me!

Bob · Jul 9, 2015

It happens to ships too, (at least in comedy routines)!
The Front Fell Off

Dick2 · Jul 10, 2015

WE had quite a few Chevy pickups in the fleet that bowed the frame right behind the cab. We made Chevy straighten the frames and put in reinforcement plates. We spec'd the next buy with reinforcement plates - but the trucks were delivered without the plates. Chevy denied that they needed plates, so we refused to pay for the trucks; dealer had to fix the frames the frames to get paid - after that he wouldn't bid Chevy trucks again.

mj · Jul 10, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:36:50 07/09/15) Looks like a chevy to me!

Or an early eighties Ford. 8)

Owen Aaland · Jul 10, 2015

Those GM vans were basically a unibody style construction. There is no frame under them like a pickup has. Once the back of the van body is removed and replaced with a box they are not very strong. My parents had a 70s motor home with that design that had started to fail in the same manner. The dealership I worked for in the 70s and early 80s had a service van like that. Once it started to split apart they had what passed for a frame reinforced but it still managed to bend in other places.

Rick Kr · Jul 16, 2015

Those vans are not a unibody construction. They have a frame.

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