Advertising - Bah Humbug! (11/05/2014)

The Incredible Hulk came with advertising. I do not drive my vehicles around with someones advertising on them. So yesterday I set out to remove the advertising from IH. The Idaho Motor Pool gave me a partially filled one gallon bucket of the paint they use to paint many of their vehicles before selling them. The color is Forest Green which has nothing to do with military olive drab colors. (I just found out that there is a Forest Green military color although I have never noticed one.) I took the can to a local paint store and asked them if they could put some of the paint in the bucket in a rattle can. They could, they did. So yesterday afternoon I set about removing the advertising from IH.

Here was the advertising on the mud flaps.

And here is what it looks like up close and personal. The advertising is the same on both flaps.




Here is what the mud flaps look like now.

 Here is what the front bumper looked like.






IMP (Idaho Motor Pool) on the right and 199 on the left which corresponds to the last three characters of the VIN number.









 Here is what the front bumper looks like now.

After removing the advertising I took IH out to be weighed in preparation for obtaining a WA state title. All of the documents state that a deuce and a half should weigh between 13,200 and 13,400 pounds. IH is slim and trim, he only weighs 12,890 pounds. Of course he doesn't have the canvas covering and its associated hoops over the bed of the truck which would probably make up much, if not all of the difference.