What are the Biggest Fibs that Sellers Tell?

[CarolMarie]

True story....the most despicable RV dealer in the world looked me in the eye and whispered "You can trust me...I'm a Christian..."

[steve dunham]

Originally Posted by Robin G

But there are people who don't actually ever use their trailer bathroom. They think it's icky to dump! But they will hike across a campground to sit on a cold, dirty public toilet! Alrighty then!

That's Me!!

[Raz]

"Keep track of your repair expenses, we'll take care of them."

"We'll send those parts right out."


Yea, right.

[Bob Miller]

When I asked how much it weighed I was told:
"No problem, ANY car can tow this one"
(Seller was selling a 16' Scamp)
and the best one:
I don't really know the answer, I'm just selling it for my "XXXX". (Insert Uncle, Grandparents, brother, friend, pet Gila monster etc

[rabbit]

+1 on using the cg facility if one doesn't have to hold one's nose and "cantilever." Lots a little dumps mean no big one at drag up.

jack

Best line not fib at all: I have the corncob for the hasp somewhere.

[Jim Bennett]

Originally Posted by Robin G

But there are people who don't actually ever use their trailer bathroom. They think it's icky to dump! But they will hike across a campground to sit on a cold, dirty public toilet! Alrighty then!

Originally Posted by steve dunham

That's Me!!

Me too!!

I don't mind the dumping at all though, and we have to as my wife uses the bathroom in the trailer a fair bit, but me mostly just for my evening trip.

Most of the campground washrooms I have used are actually quite clean. Plus, I just enjoy the walk most times, and the socializing along the way. Jasper (our dog) loves to tag along too.

Probably 75% of the time we are camping we are boondocking, and where we usually go, we have a nice outhouse built.

[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by Frederick L. Simson

The others agreed that I could have 1st right of refusal since I was the early bird. He only wanted the NADA guide price,and I offered $200 less because of the leak damage I pointed out. Neither competitor wanted to offer more so I won!

Wow!

Talk about nerves of steel- how many buyers with two more wannabuys pacing in the background would have the cojones to do that? If I ever need a middleman in SoCal, Frederick, you can expect a call from me!

Francesca

[rgrugg]

Oh sure. Your (name your tow vehicle) can tow anything on our lot. Actually had a salesman tell me that.

[Thomas G.]

Originally Posted by rgrugg

Oh sure. Your (name your tow vehicle) can tow anything on our lot. Actually had a salesman tell me that.

Well, he didn't say how far.

[Mike Magee]

"He didn't say how far." Exactly! What comes to mind is the picture of a Tundra towing the space shuttle... yes it did, a stock Tundra, but not at 70 mph on the expressway!

[Bob Miller]

For all the Hoopla about, and the huge cost of making the clip, I have only seen the ad of the Tundra pulling the space shuttle across an overpass a single time.

[Francesca Knowles]

I don't get what the big deal is about the Tundra moving a plane a few flat feet- there's an ancient video out there of a man moving a cargo plane.

And:

When my Trillium's in the shop with its tongue on the castered ballmount I rigged up, I move it all over the place my own delicate self.

I guess that means that I can tell folks that it can be "towed by an old lady"- and be telling the TRUTH!

Francesca

[Bob Miller]

I don't know what man pulled what aircraft and how far, but here are a few weight values for empty aircraft

DC-6 54,000 lbs
737 84,000 lbs
Shuttle Endeavor 165,000 lbs

There must be something to it, otherwise they would have just towed the Endeavor from LAX to the Museum with a couple of big rigs and saved the several million it cost to move it the way they did.

BTW: The shuttle and the mover together weighed more than the bridge could support, so they had to offload the shuttle, move each part across the bridge, and then remount the shuttle on the mover.

And Toyota paid the Museum big bucks for that oportunity.

[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by Bob Miller

I don't know what man pulled what aircraft and how far, but here are a few weight values for empty aircraft

DC-6 54,000 lbs
737 84,000 lbs
Shuttle Endeavor 165,000 lbs

The video I was thinking of was in black and white, and way back when...but here's a more current one:

Mark Kirsch setting World Record for heaviest Plane Pull by an individual
1/3 Million (333,000) lbs Boeing 767 (100 ft distance).
The World Strongman Entertainment event featured the first Professional Strongman Jumbo Jet Plane Pull in the United States. Mark set the world record on July 15, 2008.
The feat was voted World's Greatest Strength Accomplishment.

World's Strongest Man - In History - Heaviest Plane Pull - 1/3 Million lbs. Boeing 767 - YouTube

[Bob Miller]

Good trick but, in spite of claims of it weighing 1/3 of a million lbs, according to Boeing, an empty 767 freighter is about 210,000 lbs, as was mentioned in the video, and absolute maximum take-off weight is 385,000 lbs.
All that aside, I would think that the advertising coup by Toyota was a lot more of an achievment than the pull itself.

[Raz]

My thought was they were on a bit of a down slope. That's a lot of mass to get moving (inertia) without the help of gravity. Raz