Cabbage story

[Mad Mac]

When I went to the local dump today with a load of rubbish in my 1929 RPU, I met an old Guy in his late eighties. His eyes lit up when he saw my truck, as though he was meeting an old friend and he told me about when he used to load boxes of cabbages from his market garden onto his Model A pickup truck just after the war. Once with a full load she got stuck in the soft earth, so he set the hand throttle and hopped out to push (as we all do in that situation). But she got away on him and he couldn't catch her up, so he had to stand there and watch as she bumped across the rows of cabbages in a big wide arc until she came back and crashed into a small pump shed (the only shed in the field) and stalled. He was amazed to find that the truck was completely undamaged. Listening to such stories is one of the many pleasures I get from owning an old Model A.

[C26Pinelake]

Glad the only building was not an outdoor outhouse or the story would have had a crappy ending.
Wayne

[Ted Duke]

If it were a modern car the "bumper" would have been destroyed.

Ted

[bambooboy]

good one wayne,1'st laugh of the evening.tom

[Tom Wesenberg]

Originally Posted by Ted Duke

If it were a modern car the "bumper" would have been destroyed.

Ted

But it could be repaired for $4,378.49

[Wingnutz]

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You can't make this up... I love it!

[ronn]

I think the old guy was full of crap, I mean cabbage!

[james hitchcock]

My dad had a story but it was a Model T. Grandpa pulled up to their place and left dad in the front seat. Grandpa opened the gate and told dad "don't touch the steering wheel and to just push down on the pedal the car will just go straight in. Well dad pushed the pedal and kept his hands off the wheel. The tires caught the wagon ruts in the dirt and steered the T into the fence post. Dad said there wasn't a mark on the T but it snapped off the post like a match stick. Good ol American steel.

[dankurth]

In the late fifties my uncle saw an accident involving a Cadillac and a '29 Tudor. The "A" struck the back of the Caddy at a stop sign and my uncle said the "A" bucked like a mule when it stopped, raising the rear wheels off the ground. The back of the Caddy was demolished and the Tudor had some scratches on the bumper. A neighbor bought the "A" soon after this for $100. The owner said he couldn't push the brake pedal anymore.

[Ted Duke]

I had a 1971 Vega Station Wagon. Piece of crap, except it was built like a tank. I was parked at my mother-in-laws house one day and my sister-in-law, young blond teenager, backed her mother's Chevy out without looking back. She hit the Vega, the front bumper took the impact, raised the rear wheels off the ground and it moved back about five feet. No damage to either car. Those were bumpers. What we have now is insurance premium increase fluff.

[John Duden]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

But it could be repaired for $4,378.49

That's not including paint or labor