WT - what car?

[Satty]

Bump

Cause Dodge Rams with a Cummins turbo diesel are starting to trickle down to the WTs.

[XP715]

How have we all managed to go five pages without mentioning the front wheel drive Lincoln Continentals of the 1990's, bearing their trademark blown rear air suspension? Nobody here can tell me that they haven't passed many a filthy, rusty Continental filled with garbage, nose to the sky, popping its perpetual wheelie as it drags the rear bumper cover down the road.

I'm just gonna re-post my answer from a year ago and extend it to the rear-drive Town Cars that also have the trademark blown rear air suspension. Bonus points if they have a carriage top that's coming unglued and DOUBLE bonus points if you see one with a driver smoking with all the windows up. Ass-dragging Lincolns really are THE white trash whip of choice around here.

[Sixty8panther]

True 'bout the Stinkin Lincolns... but also worth mentioning:

- Rotted out midsize pickups w/a bed full of crap, high percentage of these are Toyota Tacomas & Ford Rangers.

- Old W-bodys, Contours & Tauruses w/ nASScar stickers all over their rumps.

- Ford Aerostar/WIndstar, Dustbusters & Mopar minivans, esp. with garbage bag for a window...

[A Horse With No Name]

True 'bout the Stinkin Lincolns... but also worth mentioning:

- Rotted out midsize pickups w/a bed full of crap, high percentage of these are Toyota Tacomas & Ford Rangers.

- Old W-bodys, Contours & Tauruses w/ nASScar stickers all over their rumps.

- Ford Aerostar/WIndstar, Dustbusters & Mopar minivans, esp. with garbage bag for a window...

[A Horse With No Name]

Bump

Cause Dodge Rams with a Cummins turbo diesel are starting to trickle down to the WTs.

Still a hell of a truck, though.

Chris

[Satty]

'Nother bump, just to get some new insight

[Blake Noble]

A man with a neck that was particularly odd shade of red asked to buy a cigarette from me on my break at work today. He was driving a Chevrolet Cavalier, the jellybean model, with bungee cords holding down the decklid and the front bumper, the window tint peeling, the hubcaps non-matching, and a not a straight body panel in sight. I've seen two other Cavaliers in similar condition tooling around the parking lot at work as well.

In addition to the Crapalier, the first-generation, post mid-cycle enhancement S10 is just as bad. And they're usually fitted out with Alteezas.

Mmmmmmmmmmm ... redneckmobiles.

[Satty]

parking lot at work as well.

Based on that post, I can only assume you work at a Kum 'n Go.

Kum 'n Go is the WT gas station of choice around here. Murphy USA (conveniently located in the Wal-Mart parking lot ) is a close second because they typically have the cheapest cigarettes, but not many locations. Edited March 22, 2009 by Satty

[Blake Noble]

Based on that post, I can only assume you work at a Kum 'n Go.

Kum 'n Go is the WT gas station of choice around here. Murphy USA (conveniently located in the Wal-Mart parking lot ) is a close second because they typically have the cheapest cigarettes, but not many locations.

You were on the right track when you said Murphy USA ...

[Satty]

I hate going to Murphy USA and paying cash because there is always some trailer trash in front of me who needs to know if they have any BoGo smokes. If you're so poor you've got to resort to smoking whichever brand has "Buy 2 get 1 Free!" packs that week, you've made some real mistakes in life.

[Intrepidation]

I can't rightfully say much about WT vehicles in the truest sense of the meaning, because only like 20% of the city's population is white and of that 20% most live in the nicer outskirts.

Although I was rear ended by an old guy in a beat to hell 80's Town Car. This thing had dents on every panel, rust all over the place, missing trim, duct tape and bungee cords holding various parts of it together. I was pissed that he wasn't payng attention and ear ended me, but after seeing it barely scratched the bumper of the Prizm I didn't bother with the insurance mess out of pity.

Some trashy vehicles in general...

I've snagged a couple photos of 90's Accords with bungee cables and coat hangers holding the bumper and fender together...at a Wal Mart parking lot no less.

Plenty of vehicles of various makes with a trash bag over the broken window.

[Robert Hall]

Plenty of vehicles of various makes with a trash bag over the broken window.

I actually did the trash bag over the window thing (twice) on my sister's Merc 500 SEL when the rear power windows failed (first the right then the left). Both times, they failed on Saturdays. But the bag only stayed on until Monday when I was able to drop the car off at the Merc shop. It's a good thing the shop is only a mile away, I felt like a total 'tard driving an old car w/ a bag over a window. Edited March 22, 2009 by moltar

[Blake Noble]

I hate going to Murphy USA and paying cash because there is always some trailer trash in front of me who needs to know if they have any BoGo smokes. If you're so poor you've got to resort to smoking whichever brand has "Buy 2 get 1 Free!" packs that week, you've made some real mistakes in life.

I guess the White Trash Masses didn't bother to crawl out from under their Cavaliers and S10s long enough to make a trip to Walgreen's to find out that they always have some sort of deal on at least Marlboros if they're purchased in counts of two or three.

Then again, if you're White Trash, that means you have to get dressed up in order to go to someplace other than Wal-Mart or Dollar General. Which means you have to rummage through the unwashed clothes on the bedroom floor of your 15 year-old Fleetwood doublewide for the Harley Davidson t-shirt that actually has sleeves, the pair of 501 Levis that haven't been made into a pair of jean shorts or that doesn't have oil stains on the knees, and the boots that have about an inch less of mud on the soles. Edited March 22, 2009 by YellowJacket894

[Satty]

I did it when I first bought the Buick because the back window on the driver's side would go down, but would only go back up when it felt like it.

[Intrepidation]

Well you gotta do what you gotta do, but when people just leave it on is when it's trashy.

[Blake Noble]

I've seen the black Hefty bag on the broken passenger side window plenty of times around here. But I've also seen a lot worse. How does a 1993 Ford Escort wagon with a do-it-yourself red Krylon paintjob sound?

Also, I think a lot of people overlook this particular truck: the 1988 - 1999 C/K Silverados and Sierras. Leaving for my lunch break today, I got to see a perfect female example of a White Trash Bitch hop up into "her man's" stepside Silverado, circa 1992, with a stepside bed, front driver's side fender in primer, and the air dam missing from the front bumper. Also, I caught a glimpse of the interior, which was littered with empty Busch and Coor's cans and missing the driver's side door panel.

You just can't make this shit up. Not when you live in the K-Y.

[Satty]

I once worked with a woman who drove a gray Chevy Celebrity. One dai, it was a slightly different shade of gray. She had painted it with what appeared to be house paint. Judging by the lines, she used a paint roller with a brush for the edges. She painted the sunroof closed, and to top it all off, she attempted to paint the steel wheels with the same paint and technique. Edited March 22, 2009 by Satty

[Robert Hall]

Someone around here has a '97+ Century (W-body style) that looks like it's been spray painted with black Krylon primer, the entire car, grille, the wheels, etc. No shiny chrome trim visible. Very strange for something that recent to have a home paint job like that.

[Blake Noble]

That's a tough act to follow.

But I think I might have it topped.

Back when I used to work at a Marathon station (which was located just a few miles away from Jackson County, one of the biggest white trash meccas of Kentucky), a white trash cracker redneck motherfucker pulled up to pump 3 in a green '80s Dodge Daytona that was, no lie, missing its hood. It also had a red passenger side door, which means he actually managed to find another Daytona to scavenge for parts. The passenger side headlamp was in the open position while the driver's side headlamp was in the closed position and the taillights were fixed with red tape. And, as he pulled away to go back to the backwoods shack he crawled out from, his engine sounded like a horrifying combination of Leatherface's Stihl chainsaw and a sperm whale queefing in a pool of tapicoa pudding.

There was also a very disgusting Dodge Spirit that was a regular at that gas station. At some point, it had been drunkenly painted black primer (you could see the original silver-blue paint in patches underneath it), drunkenly re-painted gray primer (you could see the black primer in patches underneath that), then it had caught on fire (there were scorch-marks on the hood and roof). It still ran, surprisingly, by the means of some redneck engineering and a few rolls of duct tape.

I think with the economy in the terrible shape its in, I'm going to see a lot more cars like these. White trash rednecks are going to spend a little less on automotive maintenance in order to afford their cheap beer and cheap cigarettes. Edited March 22, 2009 by YellowJacket894

[Robert Hall]

That's a tough act to follow.

But I think I might have it topped.

Back when I used to work at a Marathon station (which was located just a few miles away from Jackson County, one of the biggest white trash meccas of Kentucky), a white trash cracker redneck motherfucker pulled up to pump 3 in a green '80s Dodge Daytona that was, no lie, missing its hood. It also had a red passenger side door, which means he actually managed to find another Daytona to scavenge for parts. The passenger side headlamp was in the open position while the driver's side headlamp was in the closed position and the taillights were fixed with red tape. And, as he pulled away to go back to the backwoods shack he crawled out from, his engine sounded like a horrifying combination of Leatherface's Stihl chainsaw and a sperm whale queefing in a pool of tapicoa pudding.

There was also a very disgusting Dodge Spirit that was a regular at that gas station. At some point, it had been drunkenly painted black primer (you could see the original silver-blue paint in patches underneath it), drunkenly re-painted gray primer (you could see the black primer in patches underneath that), then it had caught on fire (there were scorch-marks on the hood and roof).

Ah, Kentucky. My parents and my grandparents are from eastern Kentucky, Knott and Floyd Counties (Hindman, Prestonsburg). I'm sure I have some distant cousins, etc that adhere to the WT ethic. Thankfully, my folks moved to Lexington when they were young, graduated from the U of K and moved to Ohio before I was born. I've been back to rural eastern Kentucky a few times for grandparents' funerals and other occasions, and it's a pretty bleak place.

[ShadowDog]

Ironic that just yesterday I commented to the wife, "That Tempo has the perfect paint job." The windows were taped up reasonably well, and EVERYTHING else was done in a dark gray. I would almost say primer, but there was a semi-gloss to the finish. The door handles, trim, bumpers, rubber seals, you name it and gray was on it. I thought better than being too critical because it was in a handi-capped parking stall. It's understandable that someone with a disability may not be able to afford a nicer car. BUT, we were getting our son strapped in to his seat and just as I turned the ignition, my wife said, "Look! He doesn't even have a cane!" The skinny dude was wearing a tattered plaid work shirt, tucked in only the front of his dirty jeans; grungy black hat on his scruffy long hair and stubbly, week-old-looking facial hair. Not a hobble in his step, he fired up the Tempo with a blue shot of oil out the back and off he went.

WT - to the extreme!

[Blake Noble]

Ah, Kentucky. My parents and my grandparents are from eastern Kentucky, Knott and Floyd Counties (Hindman, Prestonsburg). I'm sure I have some distant cousins, etc that adhere to the WT ethic. Thankfully, my folks moved to Lexington when they were young, graduated from the U of K and moved to Ohio before I was born. I've been back to rural eastern Kentucky a few times for grandparents' funerals and other occasions, and it's a pretty bleak place.

Ah! We have something in common, moltar. My parents and grandparents are also from eastern Kentucky; Leslie, Harlan and Breathitt Counties. I was actually born in Leslie County and moved to Lexington with my parents when I was five. And I have to say, compared to the more wealthy parts of the state, it is pretty bleak. I mean, it's not as bad a Dianne Sawyer made it out to be, but there are more than a few places are that rouggghhhh. Eastern Kentucky really needs some industry outside of coal (and, to a lesser extent, logging), but that isn't going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately.

[Robert Hall]

Ah! We have something in common, moltar. My parents and grandparents are also from eastern Kentucky; Leslie, Harlan and Breathitt Counties. I was actually born in Leslie County and moved to Lexington with my parents when I was five. And I have to say, compared to the more wealthy parts of the state, it is pretty bleak. I mean, it's not as bad a Dianne Sawyer made it out to be, but there are more than a few places are that rouggghhhh. Eastern Kentucky really needs some industry outside of coal (and, to a lesser extent, logging), but that isn't going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately.

Cool...I have aunts, uncles and cousins in Lexington and Louisville...the area around Lexington is quite beautiful. Eastern KY, like West Virginia, is a harshly beautiful place...unfortunately, their have been few opportunities for people there for a long time.

[daves87rs]

That's a tough act to follow.

But I think I might have it topped.

Back when I used to work at a Marathon station (which was located just a few miles away from Jackson County, one of the biggest white trash meccas of Kentucky), a white trash cracker redneck motherfucker pulled up to pump 3 in a green '80s Dodge Daytona that was, no lie, missing its hood. It also had a red passenger side door, which means he actually managed to find another Daytona to scavenge for parts. The passenger side headlamp was in the open position while the driver's side headlamp was in the closed position and the taillights were fixed with red tape. And, as he pulled away to go back to the backwoods shack he crawled out from, his engine sounded like a horrifying combination of Leatherface's Stihl chainsaw and a sperm whale queefing in a pool of tapicoa pudding.

There was also a very disgusting Dodge Spirit that was a regular at that gas station. At some point, it had been drunkenly painted black primer (you could see the original silver-blue paint in patches underneath it), drunkenly re-painted gray primer (you could see the black primer in patches underneath that), then it had caught on fire (there were scorch-marks on the hood and roof). It still ran, surprisingly, by the means of some redneck engineering and a few rolls of duct tape.

I think with the economy in the terrible shape its in, I'm going to see a lot more cars like these. White trash rednecks are going to spend a little less on automotive maintenance in order to afford their cheap beer and cheap cigarettes.

Damn YJ, I just about fell out of my chair after reading that one.....

[daves87rs]

A man with a neck that was particularly odd shade of red asked to buy a cigarette from me on my break at work today. He was driving a Chevrolet Cavalier, the jellybean model, with bungee cords holding down the decklid and the front bumper, the window tint peeling, the hubcaps non-matching, and a not a straight body panel in sight. I've seen two other Cavaliers in similar condition tooling around the parking lot at work as well.

In addition to the Crapalier, the first-generation, post mid-cycle enhancement S10 is just as bad. And they're usually fitted out with Alteezas.

Mmmmmmmmmmm ... redneckmobiles.

Which made me notice the last few weeks..I've never seen so many beat up 03+ Cavaliers...


And these cars are barely 6 years old! I spotted an 03 Blue sedan rusting from every door!



At least the wife's 03 still looks pretty good for it's age...clean, waxed, and running very well for a 55k car...


Though if that damn clean driver's side visor breaks AGAIN, I swear I will have to redneck it....


Damn GM and those cheap 90s cars....

[LosAngeles]

I must note: LOL@ Yellowjacket for "white trash cracker redneck mother-F." Laugh of thee morning, for sure.

Anyways, as I look back, co-sign on Toyota minivans. Those things are always clapped the hell out, driven by trashy families, and layered in Auto Zone tack-ons.

I really hate how ubiquitous the 88-91 Civic sedan is also. I get sick of seeing that thing with its toadish proportions tooling bumfighters around town