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December 10, 2009

Not Street Legal But Who Cares?

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The Christmas Truck

All Marshall needed to create his twinkling wonder on wheels, was a generator, a few strands of Christmas lights and some duct tape. And that's basically how the Christmas Truck was born. It has between 50 and 70 light strands, each featuring 50-100 light bulbs. That ads up to a total of over 3,000 lights.

Posted by Vanderleun at December 10, 2009 7:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Wonder if he put a mattress in the tailbed, like Mr. Rodham-Clinton,,

Posted by: Blastineau at December 10, 2009 12:07 PM

I read about that and thought "How wonderful!"

Years ago, at the camp, workers would decorate te city trucks for Christmas in July, with tinsel and bulbs. It was fun. Of course, many of the campers, in the trailers and the tents, would string christmas light bulbs year long.

I did that in the youth camp. I liked the lights, and stringing them along the trail to my tent made it real easy to find my way back at night.

For Independence Day I would fly a US flag off the back of the truck and play Sousa Marches from the tape deck.*

*The truck was a 1984 F-150 (#165); it came without radio. Since the truck was assigned to me I installed a cheap radio tape deck, hooked it to the cigarette lighter wires (note: make certain the radio is off when you park for the night) placed a couple of speakers behind the seat, and ran an antenna out of the back of the cab behind the driver's seat.

Damn, those were good summers.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at December 10, 2009 3:52 PM

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