phenrichs
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I know this is off topic but there have been alot of weight and overweight threads this week so I was compelled to post this.
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five'er
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Must be staged/fake. I can see it being done but why would anyone think it's better to load this than pull it?!?
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Camper JamesB
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You or whoever took the picture are much braver than i am!!! I would not have been within 100 yards of something like that.
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I wonder...does that qualify him to use the carpool lane?
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chuggs wrote:I wonder...does that qualify him to use the carpool lane?
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phenrichs
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I did not take it. A friend sent it to me after we had a towing/weight discussion about his TT. I would not have been within camera range of that.
Personally I would have gone with one more strap. Ha ha.
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romore
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I wonder if the truck was being left at the wrecker's too. I think that is photo shopped, I had a scrap dealer pick up a derelict car that had no engine. He showed up with a beaver tail deck on a one ton junkyard refugee. Winched the car onto the deck and left with no straps, just the winch cable between him and disaster. He likely had to tap the brakes so the front wheels would touch for steering.
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SoCalDesertRider
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I think it's photoshopped.
There is only one strap holding it down and that strap is behind the truck and rearward of center of the car. That strap would tend to pull the back end of the car down and out of the truck. With no strap up front pulling the front end down, the center of gravity position of the car likely being right around the tailgate area of the truck, I don't see how the car could stay in the truck without falling out backwards. Just my opinion.
I also think that, with that much weight centered behind the truck's axle, those tires, which appear to be about stock size on the 1/2-ton truck, would likely be quite bulged out and squashed down. They don't appear to be bulged at all in the pic.
It is certainly a funny, albeit scary, photo though!
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five'er
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yeah.. now that you mention it.. look at the size of the taurus vs the truck.. seems the car is a bit big no?
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