A Lot Of Old Trucks

ACCRA — At least 17 people were killed in a blast in western Ghana on Thursday after a motorcycle collided with a vehicle carrying explosives, according to officials.

An additional 59 people were injured in the explosion, according to AFP.

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Thanks Andrew. I loved it. Named it Maxine. It was a 300 I6 that I straight piped Actually sounded pretty good!
Despite what everyone says, the FoMoCo 300-6 can be destroyed. I know because I destroyed one
But thankfully Junkyard motors were plentiful at the time. It was my first time pulling out an engine and replacing it.
Baptism by fire.

 

Reminds me of an experience I had. We had managed to get 40 bales of hay in our 63 Ford P/U. I made it up the hill from the river bottoms and the 8 miles into town. I had to stop at the stoplight on the square. All of a sudden, the lug nuts popped off both sides of the rear wheels and the truck fell on them. We couldn't jack it up, nor could a tow truck get to it as the tailgate was down. We had to unload the whole truck and fix it in the middle of town. Ahhh, the good old days.

 

This is an interesting phenomenon I have witnessed first hand (lug nuts departing all at once)

I was following a loaded gravel truck on a city street ... noticed a wobble in the right rear dual wheels ... next red light I was going to tap on his window and tell him.

But just as he stopped both wheels came off and the axle dropped to the pavement .... I put my flashers on , walked up to the truck , and saw the 8 lug nuts sitting in a perfect little pile about 6 feet behind the truck.

To this day I am still intrigued as to how they all came off at exactly the same time.

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Vibration. It affects all of them equally, since normally, all are torqued to the same value. I had it happen to me on my '81 Fairmont I had back in the Nineties.

 

This story reminds me of the old '54 Ford 3/4 Ton Flatbed the lumber yard I worked at had. The '64 International 1600 2-Ton was out of service and our boss told us to use the Ford in place of it. I couldn't believe he told us to use it and I told my co-worker that there was no way it was going to work but we loaded it up anyway, even though I knew that there was no way it would all fit. We put all we could on it and went to drive away and the truck would not move. We looked underneath and sure enough the springs couldn't take it and the flatbed was sitting on the rear tires, lol.

 

Now this story reminds me of another story. I had the '64 IH one day, backed up to a house and unloaded it all by hand. Jumped in the truck to go and the truck wouldn't move. I was under an overhang that cleared just a few inches and when I had it all unloaded, it raised up the truck up enough to wedge it in, lol.

What did I have to do? Go back in the house and load the truck up enough for it to clear, then drove the truck out from under the overhang, then unload it all over again. Not fun, lol.

 

Reminds me of Kenneth Leishman (The flying bandit)
He had carefully planned out a robbery of gold bullion at an airport ... had commandeered an Air Canada van to load it onto for the escape.

Shortly afterward they transferred the gold ingots to a family station wagon intending to continue the journey in a slow and casual manner which would not attract police.

Trouble was they forgot to consider the weight of the gold and the rear suspension bottomed out and the front wheels were almost off the ground.

Ken Leishman - Wikipedia

 

Now that's a strange one. It must be for practicing taxiing an aircraft that isn't built yet.

 

Maybe this one?

 

But yeah, usually, an aircraft design is built as a full mock-up, then goes through basic checks to see if there are any problems with the design.