Pickup Trucks

I’m not gonna lie…. There’s Something about a pickup {man}

Tell me you know that song right?  Joe Diffy?  Ringing any bells?

Well anyway… if not, google it!

Over the weekend the hubs, {step}daughter, pups and I had a mini photo shoot.  I just pulled hubby’s truck down in the field, we got the tripod and wireless remote out, set a 2-second delayed timer for the remote so we could hide it and wound up taking 520 photos.  We had a ball!

But there truly is something about a pickup!

I had Tbug jump in the driver’s seat for this photo.

This morning I sent the photo to her mom in a text message and she came back talking about how Tbug has already said when she’s 16 she wants to drive a pickup.  I said yeah, I knew that because she kept telling her daddy he better not get rid of the red truck, that we traded off earlier this year.

Hey diesel prices were eating us alive!  We traded for a Hyundai Tucson, 1 week before the 20 inches of snow we got and got stuck in our driveway for 2 days until my dad brought us the old farm truck.  The old farm truck gets 6mpg.  No bueno, but at least we got out and made it to work!  If the Tucson wouldn’t make it out in the snow, my car definitely wouldn’t!  We high centered in both but that’s beside the point!

But you know, there truly is something about a pickup!

So we contemplated this summer about what we were going to do come this winter if we got into that situation again.  In fact, we still have my dad’s old farm truck sitting at our house.  It is a 1986 3/4 Ton 4×4 with a 460 big block.  She’s a powerful, gas guzzler!

I was the first to throw up in this truck 3 weeks after my dad got it in Sept ’86.  I learned how to drive in this truck when I was 4 years old in a freak lightening storm.  I then turned around and learned how to drive a standard transmission in this same truck when I was 12.  Because of this truck I’ve learned how to add water to the engine when it’s over heated, learned the value of having a cell phone, and even made collect calls home.  She takes a lickin and keeps ona tickin!

But we need to take it back to my dad.  So we debated and contemplated what to do.

And as a side note, I’ve never dated a guy who didn’t drive a pickup :).  It was a little strange to see hubs trade off the big red beast, but it was what we decided to do.  One of our first big decisions as a married couple.  But this summer, we chose to trade off the Tucson and get hubs back in a truck.

And we’ve never looked back… well except to make sure we didn’t back into something ;).

I have to say my heart has always been Ford, but I love this Chevy!  Now the dealership can kiss my a**, they were a**hole’s to deal with and I’ll never deal with them again, but I love this Chevy!

So maybe my {step}daughter is more like me than I thought…  We’ll have to wait and see what the next 8 years brings, but I too wanted a pickup when I got my first vehicle.  My parents came through and got me a 1994 Ford Ranger…  Only time will tell for her though 🙂  A lot can change in 8 years….

Maybe, by then I’ll have a pickup again… hey hubs, wanna drive my car, I’ll take your pickup for a spin!

There truly is something about a pickup truck!!