As many of you know - Matt is a great writer (and I am not) so MAYBE he should be writing this blog and not ME? There is a Harper/car/mouse story that he really needs to get put down on paper. I will get his on that soon.
Here is a email Matt sent me this winter - which was a COLD COLD winter!!!
Fact #1 When the temp is 5 degrees or colder, 1967 Ford trucks don't like to start, they will, but they don't like it.
Fact #2 When the temp in 5 degrees or colder, 1967 Ford vinyl seats explode upon entering the truck. I believe Ford engineers designed the seats this way to remind the drives that it is too cold to be out on the roads. The seat is equipped with an automatic reminder mechanism in the form of a painful pinch when the driver places any part of his body over the cracked vinyl.
Fact #3 When the temp is 5 degrees or colder, it takes approximately 1/8 a tank of gas to bring the 1967 Ford truck up to operating temperature. Once again, I believe Ford designed the truck in this fashion to remind drivers that they have no business out on the road when it is this cold. Ford engineers figured that if the painful vinyl pinch didn't deter driving, the pinch on the pocket book would.
Fact #4 When the temp is 5 degrees or colder, the speedometer in a 1967 Ford truck is non-existent. I have no evidence from Ford to back this up, but it is my belief that the loud buzzing coming from the speedometer cable is a designed in feature to remind the driver that when it's too cold for the speedometer to work, it's too cold to worry about how fast one is driving and that the driver has no business on the road in the first place.
Fact #5 When the temp is 5 degrees or colder, 1967 Ford trucks go into auto air conditioning mode. Although the truck may not be equipped with AC, the driver will experience crisp cool air moving about the cab, even with the heater on high. I searched the Ford archives, but came up with no concrete evidence of this being a designed in feature. I have to believe that Ford engineers added auto air conditioning mode to further remind drivers to stay home and stay warm when the temperature dips into single digits.
I hope this has been an informative and entertaining look into the 1967 Ford truck driving experience.
Written by Matt on 02/09/2010
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