Revisiting 'the dirty dozen' plan - TheChronicleHerald.ca
No doubt the vehicle of choice for much of the spring cleanup will be a pickup truck. the workhorse of contractors, plaything of the outdoor set and hauler of everything from snowmobile trailers to fifth-wheel palaces on wheels. There has always been a pickup truck in my life from my father’s Mercury and Ford models to the three I now own a 1988 GMC Sierra 3500, a 2010 GMC Sierra 2500HD and a 1965 Ford F100 I’ve been fussing over for 20 years. Years ago, we were asked by a Detroit auto manufacturer to find the toughest job in North America for a heavy-duty pickup truck. Of course we came up with a dozen of the jobs along with a plan to have a single truck do a work stint in each job over a one-year period. The Dirty Dozen, as the plan was coined, never came to fruition but wife Lisa Calvi and I had our work cut out pulling the logistics of the ambitious plan together. Imagine the bragging rights of that pickup truck when placed in the Detroit Auto Show among those flashy new trucks and SUVs that had done nothing more than drive from the end of an assembly line to a car carrier to a detail shop to another car... But what would the plan have entailed to gain those bragging rights. Source: thechronicleherald.ca
