aht. or, "maybe i should make my nondescript truck into a well-known landmark"

[rmd]

so, these are the kind of idle thoughts i have.

i've got a pickup truck. i have great affection for this pickup truck. it's 11 years old, it's got something in excess of 120K miles on it. it's a green chevy S10 with a white cap on the back. (i need to replace the passenger side mirror, but that's a different problem)

at this point, i mostly use it for trips to home depot and costco and otherwise carrying things that won't fit in the mini. occasionally, the truck goes off and has adventures on its own, too. some more peculiar than others. but that's folzgold's story to tell.

it's cheap enough to keep that the convenience is totally worth it, so there's no real reason to get rid of it. i figure it should be good for quite a few more years of light use like this. my vague plan is to keep it till something expensive goes wrong with it. and then either sell it to someone who wants a shitbox truck or donate/junk it.

but i keep thinking "hey, i could totally make the truck into an art truck now that it's semi-retired". but i don't have a strong vision of what to do to it. at least not yet.

i don't want to do anything that will interfere with the basic truck-like functionality of the vehicle. and it needs to continue to fit under the carport in my driveway. so i can't make it into a smaller replica of la contessa or the weinermobile or something incredibly whimsical like that.


[Poll #934745]


[1] "non-representational and abstract" here is another way of saying "i don't draw well"

Comments

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

"If I were in your position" what I woudl do, honestly, is sit around and think of all kinds of cool things I could do to my truck, but never actually get around to doing any of them. That's because I'm lame. So I, personally, would go for any idea that doesn't have so large a ramp-up that it never happens. I dig the chalkboard idea because it's readily doable, and it's hyper-cool. I'd vote for anything that could actually be accomplished in a day, knowing my own limitations.

that'll be 2cents, please. ;-)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

"If I were in your position" what I woudl do, honestly, is sit around and think of all kinds of cool things I could do to my truck, but never actually get around to doing any of them.

see, i spent today making a livejournal poll about it rather than actually doing something to my truck, or even doing a fun paintjob on the mini's new hood scoop (which i still need to paint and replace).