BeastMaster
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IDIoit, I really love to see people make things like this...to me it's functional art.
Thanks for posting that...it's an inspirational photo for me.
I am still at the stage of figuring out how to re do the dashboard on my van. I want to build a "Back to the Future" style contraption and mix very old and new technology...just for the clash of the latest touch panels, and ancient tech.
Still a plain old white panel van outside.
The whole shebang will be started up by keying in some Morse code on a telegraph key. If it's the correct code, the van will power up. Else it will just play games with you and display technocrap on it's displays.
I will even have sound effects.
The computer programming and electronics is no problem. I've done that for 50 years. However I am going to have to get help for the mechanical stuff. Even something as trivial as building a replacement dashboard is beyond me.
I am going to spend money for transportation one way or another...
I echo dgr.... The cab's gone. Swap it out. Get some help. Your physical truck has worn parts, which need to be replaced.
But, your truck lives in you. It's your memories and knowledge of it. The cab, the engine, water pump, or light bulb are only parts. It's the assemblage of all those parts, in precise order as reflected in your being, that constitutes your truck.
Once you have adopted it, it is like anything else you have loved, pets, people, places, and removing it leaves a big empty space. Many memories involve your truck. They all tie together. Maybe, consider it as a souvenir.
I intend to make a lot of memories in mine. And leave it to my family.
It's only a truck? Consider Sulaco. Towcat's truck. I believe everyone here has feelings about that truck, even if they only knew Towcat by the reputation he left here.
These are works of art once someone adopts them and pours their heart and soul into them, much like an artist transforms stuff into a creation of his own. I sure like reading here of IDIoit adopting the Sulaco and what he's doing with it. Towcat lives on with the memories he left. The Sulaco is not just another truck.
Neither is yours, once you've adopted it
Thanks for posting that...it's an inspirational photo for me.
I am still at the stage of figuring out how to re do the dashboard on my van. I want to build a "Back to the Future" style contraption and mix very old and new technology...just for the clash of the latest touch panels, and ancient tech.
Still a plain old white panel van outside.
The whole shebang will be started up by keying in some Morse code on a telegraph key. If it's the correct code, the van will power up. Else it will just play games with you and display technocrap on it's displays.
I will even have sound effects.
The computer programming and electronics is no problem. I've done that for 50 years. However I am going to have to get help for the mechanical stuff. Even something as trivial as building a replacement dashboard is beyond me.
I am going to spend money for transportation one way or another...
I echo dgr.... The cab's gone. Swap it out. Get some help. Your physical truck has worn parts, which need to be replaced.
But, your truck lives in you. It's your memories and knowledge of it. The cab, the engine, water pump, or light bulb are only parts. It's the assemblage of all those parts, in precise order as reflected in your being, that constitutes your truck.
Once you have adopted it, it is like anything else you have loved, pets, people, places, and removing it leaves a big empty space. Many memories involve your truck. They all tie together. Maybe, consider it as a souvenir.
I intend to make a lot of memories in mine. And leave it to my family.
It's only a truck? Consider Sulaco. Towcat's truck. I believe everyone here has feelings about that truck, even if they only knew Towcat by the reputation he left here.
These are works of art once someone adopts them and pours their heart and soul into them, much like an artist transforms stuff into a creation of his own. I sure like reading here of IDIoit adopting the Sulaco and what he's doing with it. Towcat lives on with the memories he left. The Sulaco is not just another truck.
Neither is yours, once you've adopted it
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