Happy New Year 2022
Happy New Year 2022 to all DT readers, commenters, tippers, spammers, and yackers. We at DT appreciate everything you guys do each day to make this site lively and interesting with your witty comments and stunning tips. Hoping you the best in 2022. -DT Editor Vince
We bought an ’05 GMC Sierra single cab a couple days ago, our first entry into the world of full size trucks. I’ve never wanted one but since we acquired our ’49 Beetle we need something to tow it to shows on a proper auto trailer. Its Vortec 4.8 idles like it’s not running and proceeds down the road like the proverbial irresistible force. It’s totally no-frills: crank windows, manual locks, not even a lock cylinder on the passenger side, a monument to guys who scoff at frippery and complexity.
I didn’t realize how cool the Roll N Lock bed cover it came with was, it’s like having an 8-foot long lockable trunk. https://rollnlock.com/
All in we’re at $7500 for one with 122k miles and a receipt for $3,000 in recent suspension rebuild, shocks, tie-rods, brakes and more work. Looks okay in arctic white and it only took a few hours with a pro-grade upholstery cleaner to get the odor of wet dog and cherry stripper spray out of it, or as my wife called it “stripper dog”.
So yeah – happy new year to you too. Let’s keep this place focused on the lighthearted and oddball and be a port in the storm of daily bad news.
When searching for a house/small farm/yard/boat truck this summer I was seriously drawn to your exact model of truck. Would have even bought if I could have found one that was even remotely reasonably priced. Ended up with a not nearly as practical 1983 Toyota 2WD Diesel Pickup that is yellow and I am now in love with. Happy New Year to all!
“ cherry stripper sprayâ€
I can’t imagine what that is and my imagination is pretty good.
A cherry scented spray worn by strippers?
An agricultural product sprayed on cherry trees to make the cherries fall off?
Cherry scented spray to attract strippers? Like axe?
A friction modifier sprayed on stripper poles that has a cherry scent to hide the smell of surfboard wax?
I won’t even begin to speculate on the possibilities of a spray for strippers that combined the odor of wet dog and cherry.
Oh wait you live in Florida. That certainly expands the range of possibilities. Perhaps an edible adhesive for gluing cherries to skin?
Please explain.
I’m no expert about strip club strippers (as opposed to paint strippers) despite living in Tampa but I’d guess cherry is the same scent they wear. It smells like the previous owner dumped a bucket of it over the cloth interior to mask the wet dog odor. Happily our neighbors left a nearly new deep carpet shampoo machine curbside when they moved and I wasn’t surprised to discover it was fully functional and pulled yeoman duty on the truck. It has a handheld clear plastic wand you can see the schmutz suck into and the black slime it pulled from the seats was epic. The upholstery got a thorough scrubbing and cleaning filling the hopper multiple times with dreck.
So yeah: stripper dog. I’m thrilled to report that now the fabric looks great and smells like clean laundry.
We spent a half day repairing the Roll N Lock bed cover as it had a bent aluminum spar that had detached from its neighbors. That took a few C clamps, creative hammering and gluing strips of reinforcing fabric to it to persuade it to stay connected but the work was worthwhile. It’s an astonishingly cool truck accessory. I really wonder at people’s inability or disinterest in trying to fix stuff. It looks like the previous owner couldn’t fully shut the cover for years …
Any port in a storm I say