Junkyard Find: Oh, Those Clever Tow Truck Drivers!
Every once in a while, you see funny things written on junked cars, presumably by waggish junkyard employees. There was the Bee Careful Cressida, for example. On a recent trip to a Colorado self-serve yard, I spotted this very charred pickup with some more examples of the Funny Junkyard Guy genre.
You have to wonder if it’s even worth putting burned vehicles out on the yard. Maybe the rear axle is still good.
Get it?
Ho, ho!
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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If the FD used chemical fire extinguishers on the engine the substance goes into the engine and ruins it. I tried to get a set of heads off a small block and found a mass of solid material from the carb on down to the engine block.
With the color that this truck was painted, I'm surprised that it didn't put the fire out by istelf.