Junkyard Find: Oh, Those Clever Tow Truck Drivers!

by Murilee Martin

April 18th, 2012 11:30 PM

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!

#BurningCars #DownOnTheJunkyard #Fire #Junkyard #JunkyardFind #Truck

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GS650G on Apr 23, 2012

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.

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Redmondjp on Apr 23, 2012

With the color that this truck was painted, I'm surprised that it didn't put the fire out by istelf.

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- Redmondjp on Apr 23, 2012
  
  itself . . . lysdexia strikes again!
  
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