The truck

Fiction

I met this guy in collage who got four hundred thousand miles out of his Ford Ranger. It was a 1985 Ranger too. That was not a good year for Ford pickups.

He said that a relation of his had an airplane parts business. Every weekend or so, this guy would get a sweetheart deal to act as Currier for his uncle or whatever. He drove all over Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and even farther. It was routine for him to put a thousand miles on his truck on the short trips and double that on longer ones.

He went through three engines and four seats. He finally got rid of the truck after a couple years because the bolt holes were wallowing out in the frame. That and he was mightily sick of the truck by then.

All that traveling and he says he only used three clutches. He joked it was one per engine. Road miles will work like that sometimes. If you keep your foot off the clutch round corners and while sitting at lights, it will make a clutch last a lot longer.

I've never heard of anyone getting that kind of mileage out of a Ranger, new or old. It is funny how some makes and models will last and others won't.

End Fiction

This is another one of those stupid stories that won't get out of my head.