Posted by Alex J [172.69.62.31] on Thursday, April 05, 2018 at 13:43:57 :
In Reply to: Re: Carryall Wrecker on e-bay posted by Jerry in Idaho [172.68.174.19] on Thursday, April 05, 2018 at 11:31:57 :
I'm with Clint on this one...
What was it between those two points in life? Was it a Carryall that was T-boned and destroyed? Maybe a tree fell right through the middle of it. Perhaps the truck was rear-ended terrible like mine was and the upper gate lived on but the lower half was smashed and at that point the option was to build what you see there for sale. It still has Carryall doors, and a Carryall SN. If someone wants it to be what it was, they can still make it that, its only metal... right? Both of my Carryalls were scrap junk at some point based on their conditions, however they slipped through the cracks or some other value was seen in the truck; a value not every individual views in a machine.
What if this thing for sale actually had the human qualities so many of us like to infer upon these old machines? If that were the case, and the machine was "alive" you are looking at someone that has quite the story to tell and has outlived so many of its counterparts; but just in a different way. You see a wrecker body, but the truck sees it as a prosthetic leg. When we swap engines and axles, are we not merely heart surgeons trying to give more life to something? Could let it die and be scrapped like so many more were. Do you view these "Frankenstein" trucks as monsters? Are the builders themselves horrid mad men locked in their castle of a garage, toiling in the night, creating this beast to torment the townsfolk? Perhaps?
Sorry, the "leave things alone" mantra gets under my skin. If it weren't for the ones that die, the others could not live for so long.
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