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Why do people do this?

MORE does not always equal BETTER. I was at Wally-World this afternoon and spotted this little gem. Apparently he really wants to be a pirate someday and if you look closely in the second picture you'll see that he's got a few extra gauges installed - I stopped counting at 12. Enjoy!





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Old 04-25-2014, 02:12 PM
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Maybe he owns a Pep Boys franchise. If not, Prozac might quell that OCD.
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So let me see If I've got this correct. This bothered you enough to stop and take a couple pictures?
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There are these newfangled things called smart phones. Shockingly, some of them have built in cameras.

You'd be surprised to watch how quickly the whippersnappers these days can shoot a photo.
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His wife shops at chinamart too....and you were there LOL
I would wear a disguise if i ever had to go there.
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We go there all the time. No disguise necessary. Only Neimann Marcus for you?
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I bet that's he baby. He loves that truck..... "One mans treasure is another mans," you know the rest.
You have ask him about the pirate thing.
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I bet that's he baby. He loves that truck..... "One mans treasure is another mans," you know the rest.
You have ask him about the pirate thing.
I'm sure it is his baby, and you see alot of the pirate thing around here for some reason. I was more bewildered by the number of gauges he was running. I'm still trying to figure out 12 things to measure on a gas-powered Chevy truck. To each his own i guess - who am I to judge?
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Those may not be gauges but beer can holders and ash trays.
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Those may not be gauges but beer can holders and ash trays.
Good point, I never thought of that. Maybe even shotgun shells??
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Jimmy Buffet fan?
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he probably thinks very little of that stupid little foreign car you obsess about also
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Could be worse, no culvert sized exhaust outlet.
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Because he is free to do so.
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To individualize something. Make it your own.
The Japanese manufacturers even started selling ricer kits because the market want was so high.
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The pirate thing is for the website Pirate4x4.com which is one of the largest off road sites on the web.
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He wants to be in front of the computer fault codes, preventive observation pre fault codes. No idiot codes for this guy.
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Yaaaaarrrrrrr!!!
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Pirate Truckers. Coming to the History Channel.

More Gauges. More Plunder.

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