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Old 07-07-2006, 06:01 PM
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1. You keep a cup of diesel fuel on your bedside table because the aroma helps you sleep.
2. You've ever dabbed diesel fuel behind your ears before a date.
3. You scoff at trucks when you realize they are gassers. (see #36)
4. You ever hooked up and towed a trailer, just because you CAN.
5. You don't unhook your trailer from your truck because it really makes no difference.
6. You have ever got stuck in a drive-thru because you forgot the trailer was still hooked up.
7. You've drag raced your diesel truck.
8. You get "aroused" when you hear a diesel engine or a turbo whine.
9. Someone comments to you how loud your truck is and you reply, with a grin and a chuckle, "Ain't it, though!"
10. You don't think the CTD is loud enough so you remove the muffler so you can "hear" it better. (This also applies to turbo silencer rings)
11. Regardless of outside temperature, you still roll down the passenger window when in tunnels, under bridges, or beside Jersey walls, just so you can listen to your truck "sing".
12. You have your right rear view mirror tilted down so you can "admire" the smoke from your tailpipe.
13. You're always watching the mirror after the turbo spools up so you can see how perfectly your smoke cloud formed.
14. You continue to watch your rear view mirror to see how the traffic behind you deals with your smoke cloud.
15. You say "YEAH!", "YAHOO!", or any other shout of joy if you see that you stopped at least one vehicle behind you with your cloud. (grinning from ear to ear doesn't count because you do that even when there's no cloud, as long as you're driving your truck)
16. When you aren't driving your diesel truck, you roll down the window at traffic lights to hear ANY other diesels that might be around.
17. You have more than one turbo on your CTD. (CTTD)
18. You hold down the smoke pedal just a little when your starting your 12 valve, just so it shoots a big puff of smoke.
19. When you make your friend drive your truck down the road, just so you know what your "audience" hears when you ride by.
20. You keep 36 bags of cement in the back of the truck most of the time because while you don't notice any difference in power, the truck rides nicer.
21. While maybe not a truck, you're trying to get the wife to drive some kind of diesel powered vehicle.
22. You finally get your wife to drive a diesel powered vehicle, you can't wait to bomb it.
23. You start talking about getting a new vehicle and your wife says that she wants to trade in her Jaguar on a new CTD.
24. You respect lesser diesels than the CTD just because they are diesels.
25. You put the cat in the garage and put the new turbo in bed.
26. You can guess what diesel is in the truck coming around a corner before you see it.
27. People look at you strange when you run down the driveway waving at the UPS truck.
28. Folks leave the campground cuz your talking to all the diesel owners about BOMBing and those folks don't know what BOMBing means.
29. You aren't driving your truck, you're on a Diesel web site conspiring with other diesel heads.
30. Alert sounds on your computer are your favorite diesel engine(s) starting up or running.
31. You've ever raced a ricer while the gooseneck trailer was still hooked up.............and won.
32. You like to take people for rides in your truck so you can show them how MUCH your truck smokes.
33. When someone says they have "twins" and your first thought is of turbos and how they are setup.
34. You feel guilty because you're not spending enough time with your truck.
35. When someone mentions their "other half" and your first thought is they are talking about their truck.
36. You find yourself looking for the number of lug nuts on a truck to make sure it's "qualified" to have a diesel before you look for the diesel name plates or big tailpipe.
37. You can recognize the smaller rear end cover of the lesser 1/2 ton axles and know instantly it is a lesser truck.
38. If you have ever driven somebody else's diesel truck and felt as if you were cheating on your own.
39. If someone mentions "B1" or "B2" and you think of turbos, rather than the bomber airplanes.
40. You read this whole list smiling and nodding your head.
41. You're now thinking of one that wasn't mentioned here.
 
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Drew,

This is a good one. I think my other half will get a kick out of it, I'm teaching her bad habits about other diesels and gas pot's
 
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Old 07-08-2006, 03:02 AM
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OK, OK..... Gonna go out on a limb and sound stupid here but I am new to CTD's and dont know. So, here it goes..... What is "Bombing?"
 
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Old 07-08-2006, 11:49 AM
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42. You can't use drive-in windows for food cause they keep making you shut off your diesel to order.
43. You end an argument with "yeah well how many tons have you towed lately".
44. You lean your head out the window when another Dodge approaches to see if he's/she's worthy of a "wave'.
45. You sit up a little straighter when another CTD pulls up next to you at a red light.
46. You cop an attitude when your neighbor down the street buys a CTD.
 
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Old 07-08-2006, 04:58 PM
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BOMBing. . .

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13. You're always watching the mirror after the turbo spools up so you can see how perfectly your smoke cloud formed.
14. You continue to watch your rear view mirror to see how the traffic behind you deals with your smoke cloud.
15. You say "YEAH!", "YAHOO!", or any other shout of joy if you see that you stopped at least one vehicle behind you with your cloud.

Awesome. Just this weekend in Chicago.

My wife, brother in law and I at a light, side by side with a new Cadillac CTS with his windows down, sun roof open enjoying his cigarette. [sm=smokin.gif]

Light turns green and I Go , I look back and actually see the (black) smoke rolling out of his sun roof as hes driving! [sm=smiley11.gif]

We laughed, we cried, we laughed some more.
 
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4th of July Fort Hood fireworks show, me, my wife, and baby daughter, sitting in the back of the 4x4 CTD in a field near post to watch the show. I could have driven in the field on the flat side, but I just had to use the 4 wheel drive and climb the steepest part of the hill facing the highway, and then cruised by so the head turners could see that its a CTD. How are you guys with an 06 getting it to smoke, b/c mine wont, even when I get on it, it burns so clean it's almost scary.
 
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21. While maybe not a truck, you're trying to get the wife to drive some kind of diesel powered vehicle.
Hehehe....Awesome! I just had my wife take a test drive in a Diesel Jeep Liberty this weekend. She loved it!
 
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I guess i'm a Diesel Nut!!!! I like to make people[:'(] with my smoke bombs.

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Default RE: You know your a Diesel Nut when. . .

mike, my 04.5 is the same way, but my kitty ran away so I get a bit more black stuff comeing from the tail pipe.

anyway, put on a performance box and you'll see the smoke start blowin
 


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