Tuesday :: 09 March 2010 :: 12:52 PM
291 days to Christmas!
Diesels are here to stay! Just a few years ago, the word diesel brought up images of slow moving trucks lugging heavy loads up steep hills slowing traffic. Not anymore! Diesels are now breaking into the racing category. My son has a Cummins Diesel pickup that races the quarter mile in the 12s. Next year, Chevrolet is bringing out a Corvette Diesel. Soon, we will be looking at diesel motorcycles. Amazing!
Gas motors cannot measure up to the power, speed and fuel economy of a diesel. While gas pickups are hauling trailers and campers around on vacation, sucking up a gallon for every eight to ten miles on the road, diesel pickups haul the same load up the mountainside at seventy miles an hour, consuming only one gallon for every fifteen to twenty miles.
There is absolutely no comparison between a gas and diesel motor!
BP4 Photo Shoot And Dilemma Discussion
This is a dilemma. My wife says she is glad I bought this pickup so I won't expend the time and expense restoring the '56 truck. I like the '55 AND the fact that the work is completed and all I have to do is drive it and feed it! However, I kinda had my heart set on restoring the black beauty. Not to mention, I was planning a mod with a four-cylinder diesel engine.
But my wife has a point and I have a better chance of having a life if I sell the '56 and leave the project to someone else. However, the whole point of this website was to document the step-by-step frame off restoration of the '56 Binder!
While we sort out this dilemma, the photos are a walk around the vehicle.
Isn't this '55 a beauty? The people who have restored this truck have done a beautiful job. I know this will be a fun truck to drive on Saturdays and to events (might sneak it to work, the days I am not hauling trailers with my F350 Powerstroke Dually).
If you have any great ideas, for the '56 or this site, send me an email at the link below. Maybe this will be a site for you to show off your project truck. I would be happy to host your story, whether it is a frame-off or a mod.
Regardless, we will be posting more stories. So you are going to want to check back from time-to-time. Hope to see you again, soon!
Random Humor: Rudolph And The Weather
Rudolph the Red is sitting in his office, staring out the window, when his wife comes in and says, "Boy, it sure is snowing outside."
"It's not snowing," replies Rudolph, "it's raining."
His wife insists it's snow. Finally after going a few rounds this way, Rudolph interrupts and says, "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear."