Tom
Bring that truck on up here before Dennis gets there..I'll take care of it
for ya..err...yeah..right..;-)
t 06:59 PM 08/27/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Larry, that's really good to hear....especially since Hurricane Dennis is
>supposed to make landfall just a few miles from where I live. I made it
>through the one last August. Hope I'm just as lucky this year.
>Tom Caperton
>'47 2nd 3100 in Whiteville, NC...Hurricane Magnet
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ldfinley@juno.com
>To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
>Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 1:48 AM
>Subject: [oletrucks] Takes a licking and keeps on ticking
>
>
>>Last May our little town got plastered by a big bad F-5 tornado. Some of
>>you may have heard. Fortunately, I was out of town, but my '51 3100 5
>>window was parked outside about 400 yards from where the center of the
>>tornado passed. The destruction was unbelieveable, as the winds there
>>were over 318 MPH. I would conservatively guess the wind speeds at my
>>house were 175 to 200 MPH from the damage I saw when I got back. All my
>>neighbors who rode it out, said that they thought they were gonna die.
>>
>>But you can guess my great relief, to find just a couple of relatively
>>minor 1-2" dents in the top of the cab of the 3100. You could see many
>>scratches, and impact points along the side of the truck, where pieces of
>>other people's houses had hit it, but with only that and no broken glass,
>>I was a happy man. A very, very little bondo, and a new paint job and it
>>will be as good as new.
>>
>>The insurance adjuster, just scratched his head and said, "I guess they
>>just don't make them like that any more." Nearly all my neighbors around
>>me, weren't so lucky as they had pieces of lumber and telephone poles
>>sticking through the sides and windows of their relatively new cars. And
>>they were the lucky ones.
>>
>>I'm not saying to anyone out there to deliberately drive their 3100 into
>>the maw of a major tornado, but isn't it comforting to know you're in
>>your "safe room" when you're out cruising down the road.
>>
>>Happy Truckin!
>>
>>Larry Finley
>>Oklahoma City
>>"The Mighty '51" Tornado Truck
>>
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>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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Bill Bailey
57 Chevy 3100
http://members.tripod.com/~oltruck
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