OH, WHAT A CIRCUS,

[satx78247]

Friends,

As several of you know, I bought a one-owner, low-mileage 6.9, Super-cab 1986 XLT LARIAT (sight unseen) off of a ranch up in North Texas. - Rather than PMing everyone that asked, here's the story.
(54,927 actual miles.)

A friend of the seller volunteered to bring the truck to me for a LOW cost.

The circus began last night at 2100, when he arrived on the ranch with truck & trailer. It took until 0200 to get the PU loaded & boomered down on the trailer, after having to take the fenders off the trailer.
(This was accomplished in a major thunderstorm. - Dion said that the two of them looked like "drowned rats" by the time that the truck was loaded & the fenders put back on.)

He left the Ft Worth area about 0300 & headed south to San Antonio, driving the 300 miles through "a major weather event" with heavy rain, large hail, flooding, damaging winds, etc. & finally arrived in San Antonio at 1300.

Then he got lost on the way to my place & it was nearly 1430 by the time he found my place & we unloaded the PU off the trailer.

BRAVE MAN to have delivered the PU through that MESS. = He averaged about 35MPH through the storm.

Nonetheless, the PU is NICE & as the saying goes, "all's well that ends well".

yours, satx

 

[The Warden]

Glad all ended well! I got to see a major thunderstorm in Texas once...I think I'll stay out here

 

[FORDF250HDXLT]

oh yeah even a nasty tornado event and flooding to boot.good to hear they got her to you safely.

 

[satx78247]

The Warden; FORDF250HD,

Like I said, Dion is a BRAVE MAN to have driven through that mess.
He said that the only thing that he didn't have to drive through was a tornado, though the winds were gusting to 60MPH, according to a radio broadcast.

yours, satx

 

[riotwarrior]

Threqds like this are so useless without pics...no really they are...

 

[satx78247]

riotwarrior,

UNDERSTOOD. - We're in the midst of a major storm cycle all over South TX, so this week doesn't look too good for photos.

Once I get a camera & learn how to use it AND get the PU cleaned up a bit, I'll do that.

yours, satx

 

[laserjock]

If it was drug through 300 miles of car wash it should be squeaky clean.

 

[satx78247]

laserjock,

Well, there is that, though it was likely more like 12 hours in a power-washer machine = Supposedly >8 inches of wind-driven rain since Midnight!!!!!!
(CHUCKLE)

yours, satx

 

[The Warden]

Supposedly >8 inches of wind-driven rain since Midnight!!!!!!

Meanwhile, out here, we get "STORM WATCH" warnings for light drizzle, and 2 inches in a day is considered the Storm of the Century.

On the other hand, we have our own custom foot massager...only problem is, we don't get to choose when it powers on, and it only lasts a few seconds (and sometimes takes out buildings or overpasses)

 

[satx78247]

The Warden,

Remember, we live on the edge of the desert & rain here seems to come in FLOODS & NONE at all.

yours, satx