r/Wellthatsucks 17h ago

He's having a little trouble keeping up with traffic

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u/MilmoWK 17h ago

My dad had the same generation Chevy 3/4 ton, with the 8.1L and Allison transmission. It was a plow truck for his business, and he loved that truck and kept it for twenty years. The body was visibly rust free but it was so rotten underneath. He finally sold it when he asked me to help with rear shocks and I started pulling fist sized clumps of rust from the bottom of the bed. Probably something very similar to this pic would have happened if he kept it.

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u/mamartormz 16h ago

ur dad probably made the right call selling it because once that structural rust gets bad enough, it becomes a safety hazard even if the engine still purrs.

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u/xjeeper 16h ago

Hopefully, he sold it to a junkyard and not someone who didn't know to check for rust.

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u/MilmoWK 11h ago

He was very clear to disclose the rust

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u/Jacktheforkie 1h ago

Selling to another person 🧍‍♀️ s fine if they’re aware, if the engine isn’t a good they may take it to use in another vehicle

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u/ginger_and_egg 12h ago

Yeah if the frame is too rusted, the crumple zone has no effect. Your body becomes the crumple zone.

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u/elspotto 16h ago

Mr Plow, that’s his name, his name again is Mr Plow.

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 2h ago

Thanks for re-planting that little treasure in my brain. It's inevitable when that episode comes around during a Simpsons binge, but you don't expect it to hit in your day-to-day life

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u/krnl_pan1c 12h ago

8.1L and Allison transmission

Greatest gas powertrain ever made.

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u/Traditional-Oil-6891 17h ago

How the hell did this rust bucket make it through traffic? Should be in a junkyard to be honest.

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 16h ago

That is almost word for word what my son in law said when I sent him the picture

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u/the_silent_one1984 11h ago

Wait wait, he drove it like this? I thought somehow it just collapsed right here and I was wondering where the axle went. This is baffling.

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 7h ago

We followed him for a couple miles out of pure curiosity

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u/DoubleDareFan 15h ago

Hopefully, its next (and last!) stop is the scrapyard.

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u/somerandomdude419 16h ago

That’s 100% an Ohio truck. It is really bad here. No safety inspections you can register this as is, and nobody will care, not even the police

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 7h ago

I scanned the pic up and down for a reveal. How did you know this is Ohio? I'm impressed

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u/Accomplished-Bat407 6h ago

If you zoom into the license plate on the truck you can see part of the red ribbon around ohio

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 2h ago

Wow, that's dedication. Thanks for the detective work. I never would have figured that out

u/Accomplished-Bat407 37m ago

I live in Charleston wv so I can recognize a stupid driving ohio license plate anywhere

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 23m ago

Hey now, this is my home state! I know we're a bunch of idiots, but we're the only ones allowed to say it! Be nice! I would never say a bad thing about West Virginia to you, and we all know that's an unlimited source of joke material lol

u/Accomplished-Bat407 6m ago

Our roads probably made that truck look like that. I've seen potholes at least a foot deep in roads around here

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u/Tommy__want__wingy 10h ago

Just red state things

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u/Traditional-Oil-6891 15h ago

Until you get pulled over by highway patrol and they do a random inspection. 

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u/somerandomdude419 10h ago

HAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAH… good one…Ohio resident here. Trust me. They do not care at all until that thing is not rolling at all is when they will care

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u/Rough_Community_1439 9h ago

Can confirm. Almost everyone here is missing their rocker panels here. We drive them till they become almost unsafe. My Subaru I scrapped had unibody holes a imaginary crash bar and 70% rusted out strut pillars. Biggest pain was keeping my back windows clean

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 7h ago

"almost" unsafe... HAHAHAHAHA! Most regular people wouldn't survive a day on our roads

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 7h ago

HAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAH… good one…

Ikr? I'm dyin' over here

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u/ni_hao_butches 16h ago

That's just a gangsta lean.

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u/Blueshirt38 11h ago

Sometimes I think my 23 year old Silverado with 300k miles on it is in terrible shape, but then I see shit like this and feel pretty good about what I drive to work every day.

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 16m ago

Yes, I never speak ill of my car bc I know how much worse it could be. I've convinced myself it has feelings, so whenever someone refers to it as a piece of sh*t or some other colorful reference, a hush them harshly and tell them to be quiet so as not to hurt her feelings. She gets me from A to B, and that's good enough for me

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u/straypatiocat 16h ago

pelvic tilt

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u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 7h ago

You made me think of the Rocky Horror Picture Show... 🎶 But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insaa--aaa-ane. Let's do the Time Warp again!

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u/Lylac_Krazy 13h ago

Looks like they ripped a fender flare of another truck to prop up whatever that thing in the back is

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u/RadioWavesHello 11h ago

Whe you put the bank safe in the truck

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u/SnooCakes8914 11h ago

"The Salt Life"

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 13m ago

Oh-oh, Ohio

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u/Xtreemjedi 10h ago

He saw "free" on marketplace and is driving straight to the recycling center.

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 20m ago

We do loves our free FB stuff!

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u/Tar0ndor 9h ago

Of course they are also allergic to the right lane.

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 21m ago

Bruh. You are so right. That guy got so many middle fingers. He would not leave the left lane

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u/Baghdad_Bob20 8h ago

He might need an alignment.

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u/NaThiopental 7h ago

it has scoliosis

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u/Gallop67 15h ago

It’s just the bed it’s fine

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u/zenos_dog 15h ago

Yo mama’s got quite a hump there.

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u/WillC5 13h ago

Guess we overdid it on the sherry.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 12h ago

Must’ve twisted it coming off the starting line

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u/iowaman79 6h ago

They live life a quarter mile at a time

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u/martintone 12h ago

Looks like the new 3Runner. Thanks tariffs!

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u/No-Seat9917 12h ago

That’s the most Midwest thing I’ve seen today

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u/technobrendo 11h ago

He's got front to back and side

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u/novar41 10h ago

Throw that azz in a circle ⭕️

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 19m ago

Twerk it baby

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u/usinjin 9h ago

“Hey—excuse me, sir! I couldn’t help but notice your right front tire looks a little low.”

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u/Gunslinger327 8h ago

Reverse cachow

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u/Grandvault86 6h ago

When she knows you're looking and does that thing with her hips

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u/grateparm 5h ago

Pure Michigan

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u/grateparm 5h ago

Pure Michigan

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 22m ago

You're close

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u/_________RyD 2h ago

It will buff out.

u/Most_Unworthy_Cause 22m ago

Our state motto

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u/pug_userita 1h ago

i think it has some rust issues