#1988 pickup

[garrettfuckingkoval]

Got my self a new truck. She’s a 5 speed 88 Toyota, with that bulletproof 22RE motor.

Always wanted a 70’s or 80’s Toyota Pickup. Slowly collecting my dream vehicles.

Got a little rust repair and body work to do to her and she’ll be a looker.

[bruisefender]

https://www.imcdb.org/v083703.html

[automotiveamerican]

Exploring Chevy’s 1988-’98 pickups as affordable projects - Terry McGean @Hemmings

The New Vintage As the humble pickup truck’s place in American culture steadily evolved from simple-but-valued tool to modern fashion statement, it gained a huge fan base. While admiration grew and trucks aged, restorers began returning some of them to showroom shape. Meanwhile, hot-rodders and customizers crafted their own interpretations of the classic pickup. The years rolled on and certain…

[ca-dmv-bot]

Customer: DADS 1988 PICKUP DMV: 88-HITLER Verdict: DENIED

[cantsayidont]

Six songs for the "I hate country, it's all right-wing dudes who drive pickup trucks!" crowd, in chronological order:

k.d. lang, "Lock, Stock and Teardrops" (SHADOWLAND/Sire Records/1988): The apotheosis of k.d. lang's youthful obsession with Patsy Cline, an old Roger Miller song lushly produced in Nashville by famed country producer Owen Bradley.

Emmylou Harris, "Waltz Across Texas Tonight" (WRECKING BALL/Elektra/Asylum Records, 1995): '70s country star Emmylou Harris co-wrote this song with Rodney Crowell as the intensely wistful climax of her mind-altering 1995 album with producer Danny Lanois.

Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" (FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD, ANTI-, 2006): Apocalyptic title track of alt country heroine Neko Case's best album to date. "It's not for you to know / But for you to weep and wonder / When the death of your civilization proceeds you"

Rosanne Cash, "Black Cadillac" (BLACK CADILLAC, Capitol Records, 2006): Cash's valedictory for her late father Johnny Cash, the title track of an album about wrestling with the loss of her father, her mother, and her stepmother in the early '00s. Devastating.

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, "Dwight Yoakam" (SIDELONG, Bloodshot Records, 2015): NB country singer River Shook's twangy drinkin' and depressin' ballad about drowning their sorrows after their girlfriend left them for a guy she met at a country bar.

Karen & The Sorrows: "Guaranteed Broken Heart" (GUARANTEED BROKEN HEART, Ocean Born Mary, 2019): Title track of queer Jewish country queen Karen Pittelman's 2019 album wouldn't be out of place on a Dolly Parton album of the '70s except that the gay content isn't just subtext.

[cleoselene]

Happy new year, tumblr friends. 2024 was a piece of shit, wasn't it? Just a festering pile. Kendrick Lamar ruining Drake, that was like, the only good thing I could think of that happened this year??? "Not Like Us" totally should win the Song of the Year Grammy. It won't, but it should, because that was a fucking commercial moment. It'll probably be something braindead like "Espresso" (no offense to Sabrina Carpenter fans but her music is not my thing x100). But man that was THEE song.

Music wise I was obsessed with Beyoncé most of the year and welp... that news about her husband being an alleged child rapist kind of took the wind out of those sails. Like, I fully believe Bey was groomed by Jay at a very young age and she's like Celine Dion in that the grooming was VERY effective and she will love that man forever and ever until death. It's depressing as hell. Lemonade is a masterpiece, but it was marketing. She was never going to leave that awful man. My mom is trying to tell me to keep loving her music, and I gotta admit, Beyoncé Bowl was phenomenal as like... everything she does is phenomenal. But the joy has been somewhat sucked out of it for me.

Rediscovered Vienna Teng and Phoebe Bridgers after the election, been more tuned out of the news than I have been in like, decades. I passively consume information, but I try to avoid it. Y'all, for me to avoid politics is bizarre. I remember my first election I followed, 1988, when I was 9, and I was SO for Dukakis. My family is politics/news junkies. But if 2016 fracture my spirit for this stuff, 2024 shattered it. Women will always be second class citizens in this country. It breaks me on a level that makes me question my identity -- why did I go to school for seven years getting a BA in Econ/Sociology and an MA in Sociology? Because I care about how the world works but no one else fucking seems to notice except fellow academic politics people like me, and they sure as hell aren't on the news (except Rachel Maddow, and she's just... kind of lost her plot for me too).

My soulmate dog died a week after the election exactly, and ever since the hits have just kept coming. My mom was so hesitant when I decided to adopt a young puppy, but I need her. I need her intense energy and many needs to distract myself from how shitty I think the world is.

I feel like a failure at even being a decent citizen because these MAGA monsters have just drained me. Another four years of this??? What the fuck, America. I went out to run two brief errands today and saw: -a pickup truck with "We The People" in the constitutional font on the back of the truck bed, but the window was covered in a massive Confederate battle flag. hey duder, you are giving your truck cognitive dissonance -a fucking cybertruck -a jeep crudely painted with the front as the American flag and hand-painted the words on one window: "GOD TRUMP LAW" and the other side said "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE" and I was awed at the even greater cognitive dissonance going on there. The font for these painted words I'd name "Scary Free Candy Van Sans" -a truck with a decal of Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes peeing on the words JOE BIDEN. There have been idk thousands and thousands of Calvin & Hobbes comics and Calvin has never ever peed on anything. Also the guy who designed the Punisher logo hates you fascist fucks too -a pickup truck with a decal of the silhouette of a women on her knees from above, and two hands wrapped around each of her braided pigtails as if using them for purchase, and the "drawing" fades out at the hip, but it's clear what's going on. I am saying "woman" because I hope that's what it was supposed to represent, the hair being in braided pigtails? Sus. But right next to that decal was one of praying hands holding a rosary and the word "Jesus" in some reverent font.

and that's a drive around Fort Myers, in Robert E. Lee County, Florida. I hate it here so fucking much.

anyway, here's hoping 2025 is at least gentler. The last two months of 2024 have had me feeling like I'm hanging on by a thread. I think it's my yearly winter MS flare too. Not a full on relapse, but every winter I just start to feel like garbage. And no, it's not S.A.D., I don't get that because Florida and I take vitamin D supplements anyway. it's just the time of year when everything starts to feel more and more inflamed

I'm enjoying World of Warcraft a lot still, but super bummed I can't seem to find an RP guild. Boo-urns

[homestuckreplay]

sweet john and hella dave

(page 325-338)

I would love to have insightful thoughts on yesterday's bumper update (14 pages!!!! stay winning!) but I've been researching the AKAI MPC-1000 SAMPLER all night. Here is a list of AKAI MPCs by release year:

MPC60 - 1988 MPC60II - 1991 MPC3000 - 1994 MPC2000 - 1997 MPC2000XL - 1999 MPC4000 - 2002 MPC1000 - 2003 MPC2500 - 2005 MPC500 - 2006 MPC5000 - 2008

Which is a good and normal and intuitive order for the numbers to go in. There's been a few new entries since Dave's model, but the 1000 is a solid and well liked general purpose model. Seems like it's user friendly, customizable, and offers a storage/memory upgrade for maximum amount of hauntingly sick beats. With the exception of Alec Zander from NYC who gave the MPC1000 a 1 out of 5 and said that 'construction is very cheap' and it has an 'uneven pad sensitivity', most user reviews are positive. helly hensen from TDOT, for example, says 'This machine is dope. I love the size'

This series of Akai MPCs is also really influential in hip hop, electronic music, and DJing, so they must be doing something right. Some people say the preprogrammed samples on the 1000 aren't great, but we all know the real point of the thing is to add your own. It seems like Dave's made a solid choice here, but also a pretty generic one. If Dave wanted to get into a more niche and hipster MIDI sampler, he could have gone for the 2001 Boss Dr Sample SP-303, with its 33 minutes of 44.1kHz mono sampling (with a SmartMedia card) ability to import AIFF and WAV audio files from the memory card.

The sampler minigame is so cool (I would give it the coveted but elusive 5 out of 5 hats) and weirdly feels like the most control we the audience have directly had over a character. We're influencing the art he makes, which is very personal. There are a few secret samples - if you click the samples in all four corners, the screen will zoom out and four extra buttons will appear with bonus samples (as well as a bunch of question marks). I don't know if these also exist in Dave's room or if he can access them. But it is very funny to imagine him wiring up bonus buttons inside a cinderblock.

Anyway Dave has a bunch of web sites which explains everything really. John's house is leaking engine oil, we have multiple characters(?) hanging out in different underground bunkers, Rose and Dave make each other worse, 52 pickup is always a bad decision. whatever. going to make some more sicknasty beats

[20th-century-railroading]

"unlikely encounter"

CN #420 with a trailing M630 is making a pickup in Glencoe, Ontario meeting the westbound NS train from Buffalo to Windsor. As the NS slides by it most likely is the only time NS 7082 will see an MLW "big" on November 25, 1988.

[offender42085]

Post 0621

Brandon L Pawlak, Ohio inmate A672523, born 1988, incarceration intake in 2015 at age 27, scheduled for release May 2050

Theft, Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Assault with a Vehicle, Braking and Entering, Failure to Comply

In 2015, a 27-year-old Cleveland man was sentenced to 35 1/2 years in prison for crashing a stolen truck into a bar, badly injuring 13 people.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Deena Calabrese imposed the sentence on Brandon Pawlak after hearing from victims of the crash and their relatives talk of lingering physical pain and mental anguish.

"You have created and caused havoc in our society," Calabrese told Pawlak. "Drivers like yourself don't care about the safety of other people, what they care about is themselves, and that's what you cared about that night."

Earlier, a jury found Pawlak guilty of 30 of the 32 counts he faced. That included aggravated robbery, aggravated vehicular assault, failure to comply with the orders of a police officer, grand theft, and breaking and entering.

Pawlak stole one vehicle early on the morning of Oct. 23, 2014, then stole another truck from the Sweetbriar Golf Club in Avon Lake around 8:30 p.m. the same day.

Police were called to the golf club and chased Pawlak in the stolen white Ford F-250 pickup at high speeds for five minutes through Avon and Westlake. A police officer threw "stop sticks" on the road, and Pawlak eventually lost control and the truck careened into the Dover Gardens Tavern.

Many of the patrons were at the tavern to watch Thursday night football. Although no one was killed, 13 people were taken to the hospital that night. Four had to be flown to a second hospital to handle their severe injuries.

Pawlak's mother, Karen Boyd, told the judge that she's sorry for the victims, but her son is not a bad person. "Sometimes good people make bad decisions and it doesn't mean they're monsters or have evil hearts."

Brandon Pawlak told the families he feels bad about what happened to them, and that he prays for them every day. He asked for their forgiveness, but insisted he was not the driver of the truck, just a passenger. He said he plans to appeal his conviction.

But Judge Calabrese countered that video played during trial shows Pawlak exiting the truck from what appears to be the driver's side. Calabrese also referred to Pawlak's criminal record dating to 1998, including a conviction for failure to comply in 2011. In that case, Pawlak led Cleveland police on a brief chase before causing an accident.

3g

Last reviewed November 2024

[classicvirus]

Working class: 1955 Mercedes-Benz 170 SD Pickup

With a very low production run, this 1955 Mercedes Benz 170 S-D Diesel pickup truck is a true collector’s item. The seller notes that their last drive in the vehicle was in 1988 or 1989, and it has been stored indoors since then. Despite its long period of inactivity, the engine still turns freely, providing a promising foundation for restoration. The Mercedes Benz 170 series was initially…

[garrettfuckingkoval]

Got some rust removed, and body work and paint done to the passenger side bed of my 88 pickup.

Paid some friends who are actual body work professionals to do it.

Before:

After:

[inflammatory]

The 80s. Everyone was young and quick. Not a single album missed. Then the decade passed and some weird vibes got into them and right before Bruce Dickinson left to take some laps making mid solo material they put out FEAR OF THE DARK, a toss-up between the perfect classic maiden guns and some weird bar rock type shit that you could probably safely fuck to without tearing a muscle. Strangely enough, in my opinion this combination made for the perfect ENTRY LEVEL GATEWAY ALBUM, especially for listeners who haven’t yet found the sound of metal quite their cup of tea. Opens with a typical skin ripping gallop track, finds its arguable apex with six minutes of AFRAID TO SHOOT STRANGERS, slowburning into the most hypnotic melodic riffs they ever did. Gems like JUDAS BE MY GUIDE are hidden at the back of a slightly inflated tracklist. They make you listen to the absolute skip that is WEEKEND WARRIOR before you even get to the historical title track. Not Maiden’s best. But the magic that is there still strikes awe. I believe it was for FOTD that they picked up Janick Gers on guitar, who contributes some really fantastic freewheeling lead slop. Think solos that sound like he’s being chased by a murderer simultaneously.

Settling into their sound, a listener must of course sink teeth into the satanic panic classic THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST. A very chewy forty minutes. This was 1982 where Dickinson, the voice you hear on most of the relevant albums, just arrived. And he immediately displays his chops. See title track for one iconic blood curdling shriek. Maiden makes quick work of this album, and saves their very best for last with HALLOWED BE THY NAME, the song that personally first pulled me into the band. They make seven minutes feel like two. To get there, however, Iron Maiden has written some silly shit that they will first subject you to (22 ACACIA AVENUE, skippable). Many members of the band contribute lyrics, but Steve Harris, behind both the band and the bass gallop that made it, oftentimes writes songs that veer comedic.

So we get to SOMEWHERE IN TIME, another rich 80s classic album that keeps gateway listenability by being sweet on melodies and having no overly outrageous Steve Harris lyric moments. On ALEXANDER THE GREAT he does have Dickinson read off a Wikipedia page, ostensibly. But it’s amazing either way. This album also sports WASTED YEARS, considered Maiden mainstream for good reason.

But forget entry level listening. We want to cut to the very pinnacle of Iron Maiden output. Rest and relaxation after 1986’s SOMEWHERE IN TIME creates SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON in 1988. The idea of a concept album they waltzed with previously appears fully realised, operatically spotless, SYNTHS. There is no Gers slop here. This is the crystallised daddy of modern prog. Dreamy but white hot. Back to back to back, they put CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS, THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, and the ten minute title track together. It is for this reason that the first acoustic guitars crawled out from the ocean and evolved pickups and tone switches.

…You could probably also listen to Powerslave. They’re quick on that one too.

For later there is the earlier KILLERS. This has Paul Di’Anno before they swapped him for Dickinson. He’s got a grit to his voice that Dickinson doesn’t have, which works perfect for the songs they were putting out. See MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, one which should catapult this album to classic status by itself. I hear the basis for a lot of modern J-rock/metal in this one. Couldn’t explain it to you, but it’s in the melody. And I honestly love the Di’Anno sound. I would’ve put him with guitarist Gers for maximum impact. Too bad they’re star-crossed by a decade. Fun fact about Di’Anno is that Rob Halford of Judas Priest once tried to hit. He did not succeed.

End notes: Yeah, the Trooper is good and you’ve probably heard it, but it’s carrying its album.

[homeoftone]

1988 Fender Strat Plus in the iconic Graffiti Yellow finish. This was such a cool guitar to work on. Full fret level, re crown and polish, thorough clean and a full setup had it up and running nicely again!

[auto-manic]

I’ve had some thoughts and observations in regards to the submitted plates I’ve seen on @/ca-dmv-bot and plates I see in person.

The plates on the blog are from 2015-16 and it seems to me that the DMV may have lightened up a little since then. I’ve seen some questionable plates in person that range from just a bit odd to totally hilarious.

I’ll put a read more because this is probably gonna be a bit long. I’m autistic and I’m always observing plates.

Worth noting early on that if a California license plate is black with yellow text it’s a newer plate, almost certainly made after the posts on this blog if I remember correctly. I’m just gonna list off some I’ve seen and give my two cents so here we go.

(Letters I can’t remember)888 - this one stood out to me because this blog shows us that basically anything with double 8s gets flagged as it can be seen as a nazi dogwhistle. Most people don’t know that and there are many people born in 1988 or have cars from that year. 8 is also a lucky number in Chinese culture. This plate didn’t make any sense to me which is why I can’t remember the whole thing. I just found it interesting having seen what I’ve seen on dmv bot.

MILFLVR - I may be misremembering this one slightly but I have without a doubt seen a plate referencing milfs. I recall letting out a cackle and then having to explain it to my grandma.

PICKLE - there’s a dark green muscle car in town I see from time to time with this plate. It’s just really cute.

CARROT - similarly, an orange Civic sport is around here with this plate and again it’s just really cute

ROCK666 - spotted on a pickup in my own neighborhood. You may have noticed plates on ca-dmv-not get flagged for 666 but are typically accepted. My guess is that you can’t deny a plate with 666 as it’s technically religious and violates people’s right to religious freedom. Rock on bro! 🤘🤘🤘

I see tons of plates but I don’t remember most. I know I’m forgetting some that I meant to include here but oh well. There is one however that I’ve saved for last bc it’s my favorite plate ever and always makes my partner and I crack up.

DRIPPIN - this car lives in my neighborhood and what makes it so funny is that it is on the most unassuming vehicle possible. It’s just a white BMW 2 or 4 door. It’s just a basic commute car. Usually slightly dirty. But to its owner, it’s drippin. It’s got that drip, makes the ladies drip. We have only seen this car driving twice and both times it takes us a moment but leaves us hollering “DRIPPIN YOOOO ITS DRIPPIN!!!”

Maybe I’ll make better note of the plates I see moving forward that stand out particularly in contrast to dmv bot’s posts and put them in a reblog here idk

[anti-porn-unicorn]

By the way, good work. We need more anti-porn people.

So I read about Zillman and Bryant (1988) this morning elsewhere on this site, and while looking up details of authorship, publication, etc. to make sure it was a legit academic study and not produced by the Moral Majority or something like that, it hit me. Incels, MRAs, Andrew Tate fanboys, pickup artists, the whole rancid and repugnant lot - it's porn. Heavy porn consumption reduces support for women's rights and increases leniency for rapists, and around the time more and more extreme porn becomes more widely available overtly anti-woman movements become more common.

I very much doubt that's the full story - these things are almost never monocausal - but I'll be damned if porn isn't partly to blame.

Exactly there is multiple causes but porn is definitely a contributor and worsens the problem. You’ll find a lot of their insults are porn based

[japanesecarssince1947]

1988 Mitsubishi L 200 Pickup

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www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935