PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Sound system!

 

Does it even have a tape deck?

 

If that were my truck, the radio would be the first thing to go! And A/C would be the first to go in!

 

A classic scene from one of my favorite cartoons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tey4vGtD4Xs

 

Why are tow truck drivers such douchebags?

 

I figured I'd share the story of Jonahmusto on here...

It all started on YouTube in about 2009. I unintentionally started an HVAC video revolution on YouTube in late 2008-early 2009. There was this autistic kid named Jonah who lived in the Philly suburbs (not that far from me). He was more obsessed with ceiling fans than I was with HVAC, to the point of being incredibly annoying.

It did not take long before everyone else in the HVAC and ceiling fan communities on YouTube was utterly sick of him. In December 2010, he created a duplicate of my YouTube account (then called ClassifiedInfo) by switching a replacing the "I" in Info with an lowercase "l". One of my YouTube friends notified me of this, I immediately notified YouTube, and the account was promptly shut down.

2011 was one hell of a year for numerous reasons. Most notably, I finally got my driver's license in May of that year, and I probably put 3,000 miles on the Tacoma that year just driving around taking pictures (mostly of trucks) and making videos (mostly of air-conditioners and heat pumps). That was also the year that Jonah Musto really pushed us all too far. He made a very rude and inappropriate YouTube video (thinly disguised as a song by Raffi called "Bananaphone") to antagonize and mock one of my fellow YouTubers and HVAC nuts who lived in Australia. He also somehow obtained the Aussie HVAC enthusiast's home phone number and called him.

By the summer of 2011, all of us young HVAC enthusiasts on YouTube had decided to do a mass blocking of Jonahmusto. However, Jonahmusto literally had nothing else to do so he would create new accounts and subscribe to our channels. He eventually gave up on this when we kept blocking those accounts too.

Then, while I was in Atlanta visiting my aunt in August 2011, I discovered that Jonahmusto had mysteriously become unblocked for the umpteenth time. Sitting in my aunt's kitchen on my laptop, I finally realized that Jonahmusto had somehow managed to hack our accounts and unblock himself!

While in the Atlanta suburbs, I made numerous HVAC videos, including one at the townhome of my aunt's friend and coworker. Specifically, it was a 2.5-ton Trane XE1000 straight-cool A/C unit, filmed with the friend's permission.

Jonahmusto had been going on a rampage of "downrating" videos of the HVAC guys he believed had wronged him, so we started giving his videos "thumbs down." Jonahmusto took offense to this and decided to file a false copyright claim against one of my videos. The video he chose at random was my aunt's friend's Trane XE1000. Imagine my shock when I logged into my YouTube channel one day in September and found that it had been flagged. With a few clicks, Jonahmusto had ruined this account (Stamped Octagon Productions I believe it was). Not only did he the video I'd made of the Trane XE1000 with the homeowner's permission removed, but I was no longer allowed to upload videos longer than like 12 minutes. Before I could access my account again, I had to watch some stupid "piracy" video. The joke is on YouTube, because I just fast-forwarded through it without watching it and clicked the box saying I'd watched it. My account was no longer in good standing, so I just deleted it and started a new channel. Jonahmusto all but disappeared after 2012, and I still have the new channel.

I was understandably pissed at Jonahmusto, and without going into explicit detail, lets just say that upon finding out my account had been flagged, I basically started screaming about doing things to the little twerp that would result in his death. It didn't take long for the whole community to find out what Jonahmusto did, and he was pretty much disowned by everyone.

I did some research on Jonahmusto, and found out that he was well-known (infamous) in vintage ceiling fan forums and Harry Potter fan forums for doing pretty much what he'd been doing on YouTube.

So yeah, aside from getting a "cease and desist" letter from a record executive for posting videos of a musician I know, that's about the most interesting fiasco I've had on YouTube!

 

This sticker was found by the Montgomery County Sheriffs here in NY LOL.
Safety inspection is fine by me, the emissions part can be a real ball buster on older cars.

 

I am probably going hit 98K within the next two weeks! And none of it will be the result of driving Uber! A week of round-trip commuting to and from work, a few trips to the gym, two trips to my Grandma's house and back, and three car shows!

 

Does it have intermittent wipers?!?!

 

A cruise night in Exton tomorrow night, a car show at the Nirvana Family Fitness Center in Bristol on Sunday, and the Street Rod Nationals in York on June 1st.

 

What time is it? I'm working from 8am to 5pm. The one Exton is from 5pm to 8pm I think.

 

I am considering driving to Carlisle since it's less than 50 minutes to York. The Ford Nationals are going on that weekend. I like Ford trucks, but I'm not much of a Ford guy in general.

 

@Taco critter

I probably WILL NOT be going to Carlisle Ford Nationals, but I did reserve a hotel room in York as I do not feel like driving two hours there and two hours back in the same day.

 

@Taco critter

I went to the Carlisle Truck Nationals for the very first time in 2012. I'd had my driver's license for less than a year and a half at this time, so my parents didn't want me driving all the way out there alone. My dad booked a hotel in Mechanicsburg (or was it Mechanicsville) and we drove out there in his 2008 Acura TL on Friday night. We went to the fairgrounds first thing on Saturday morning, stayed there all day, and drove back home that night. In 2013, my parents still didn't want me making such a long drive on my own, and my dad had to go to a wedding, so I missed the 2013 Carlisle Truck Nationals. My dad and I went to the 2014 Truck Nationals, this time not staying at a hotel. We left first thing on Saturday morning, stayed there all day, and drove back home in the evening.

My Grandma died in January 2015, aged 88. She was cremated, and her funeral was scheduled for August 2015. She lived in Virginia from 1999 to 2015, but she had lived in Connecticut from the 1950s until 1999. As such, she was buried next to her late husband at a church in Greenwich. We rolled the funeral and the annual family reunion into one trip and everyone chipped in to rent a house in Connecticut on the Hudson River. The reunion started on the weekend of the 2015 Truck Nationals, so I had to miss it. My dad and I did go to a car show in Connecticut though...

To make up for missing the Truck Nationals, I talked my dad into going to the 2015 Carlisle GM Nationals instead, which was in June 2015.

In 2016, a few months after we moved into the new house, I made an ultimatum...

I basically told my parents that I was going to the Carlisle Truck Nationals no matter what, and I was driving myself, NO MATTER WHAT! They let me go, but I made the mistake of attempting to do it in one day. I got up first thing in the morning, stopped at the local IHOP for breakfast, and drove out to Carlisle. I spent the whole day there, probably 10-12 hours, and then drove back in the evening. I will NEVER do that again (driving two hours someplace and two hours back in the same day). I was so fatigued on the drive back home that I almost fell asleep behind the wheel. It was well past 90°F in that day, and even cranking the A/C on the drive home barely helped. I was also a bit pissed because my mom didn't want me driving two hours back home at night, and as a result I missed the truck-dragging contest.

The following year (2017; first time I met @Taco critter and his wife), I set money aside and reserved a hotel for the whole weekend. In 2018, I did it again, and I just reserved my hotel for this year. Considering that I'm just a part-time car detailer at a dealership, I've been making insane amounts of money, so why not do two all-weekend events this year?

 

What I miss?

 

The tow truck drivers who work at the body shop next to my place of employment think they own a certain cluster of public parking spaces.

Don’t worry, my truck didn’t get towed because I don’t park illegally.

 

Joke/riddle:

What do plumbers and therapists have in common?

 

What?

 

They both get paid a lot of money to deal with people's shit on a daily basis!