Will Ameriflight get Cash For Colts?

[EatSleepFly]

My favorite was the Colt in Jackson Hole with the bald tires. Nothing like slip-sliding your way to the crew apartment Mr. Toad's Wild Ride-style in the morning snow, half asleep, with 4x4 trucks and SUV's threatening to use your little jalopy as a speed bump.

The Colt in Fresno was special, too. I think that was the one where you couldn't close the drivers window all the way because the driver's door couldn't be opened from the outside.

In Brookings, OR there was a late 70's Plymouth Valiant. That thing was a boat. You couldn't step on the gas too hard or it would start to go and then quit. Wish someone would have told me that before I went to pull out in traffic....

Good old Ameri-colts. Still better than waiting half the morning for a taxi or hotel shuttle. Always wondered what the ladies thought when they saw you roll up to a coffee shop or something and check them out as you get out of your pimpin' Colt- all decked out in grungy layover clothes, greasy Ameriflight hat, and so tired you looked drunk at 10am. Bet they wouldn't in a million years guess that you just flew in their stupid Valentine's Day roses or whatever else they just had to have.

I remember I was doing my CFII down at MYF. I was standing outside on one of my breaks when around the corner came speeding and sputtering a white dodge colt. It was beat to he!! and back with rust laced dents and holes poked into the sheet metal throughout various locations of it's body. It was packed full of blue shirted hooligans whooping and a holering with drink cups from the nearest Jack 'N' the Box in their hands. I knew then, that I wanted to become a freight pilot.

Hell yeah!!! imp:

 

[Whistlin' Dan]

Wasn't there also one about...

...a Plymouth Duster that ended up floating down a canal outside Doris, CA, with the bank bags still in the trunk? It was located a day or so later at the base of an overpass a half-mile downstream...

...another Duster that drove from some desolate high-desert airport about 5 miles into town on a flat tire, becase there was no spare (and no cell-phones)? By the time it got there, it was totally steel-on-asphalt...no rubber left.

...a Chevette going down one of the main boulevards in Bakersfield under it's own power, with the hood up and the pilot running alongside trying to jump through the passenger window?

...a pilot who got so drunk on a BFL layover that he didn't "feel safe" about driving back to the airport, so he asked a local UPS driver to pick him up and drop him off there? He was met on the ramp at ONT...

At Ameriflight, the stories about driving were always as good as, if not better than, the ones about flying.

 

[pilotpm]

WestAir used to have a Yugo as the crew car to get to the layover Apt. in Cresent City. It was the FOs job to push when you had to push start it.

 

[barnyard]

In Brookings, OR there was a late 70's Plymouth Valiant. That thing was a boat. You couldn't step on the gas too hard or it would start to go and then quit. Wish someone would have told me that before I went to pull out in traffic....

That only seemed to happen to me in that car when you had the left blinker on

 

[DeathPencil]

That only seemed to happen to me in that car when you had the left blinker on

hey barnyard, I think the deathstar in PDX was the best, eh?

 

[DirtyBeech]

I spent some time in the DeathStar. The old Thunderbird up in Pampa that was rented to AMF deserves honroable mention.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Also remember that the Idaho Falls Colt had bullet hole stickers all over it, and I heard an AMF legend that someone had written "We Fly Airplanes Too" with ducktape on one of the Colts. Good times.

 

[barnyard]

hey barnyard, I think the deathstar in PDX was the best, eh?

Ha! I was thinking about that the other day...

 

[freighthumper]

Also remember that the Idaho Falls Colt had bullet hole stickers all over it, and I heard an AMF legend that someone had written "We Fly Airplanes Too" with ducktape on one of the Colts. Good times.

Im pretty sure you are talking abou this one. It was in Yreka. Someone "decorated" it in full AMF splendor and as rumor has it, someone in Yreka(one of the couriers perhaps) emailed a picture of it to BUR and VERY shortly after it was replaced with a brand new Ford Focus.

 

[woog315]

Im pretty sure you are talking abou this one. It was in Yreka. Someone "decorated" it in full AMF splendor and as rumor has it, someone in Yreka(one of the couriers perhaps) emailed a picture of it to BUR and VERY shortly after it was replaced with a brand new Ford Focus.

hahah, I assumed you guys were exaggerating how bad they were

 

[EatSleepFly]

and I heard an AMF legend that someone had written "We Fly Airplanes Too" with ducktape on one of the Colts. Good times.

On one side it said "Ameriflight Company Car" and on the other it said, "We Also Fly Planes" or something like that, all in blue speed tape. :nuts:

I have some pictures of it, but not where I am so I can't post 'em. I'm sure someone else does too.

 

[cherry20's]

Hahaha, thats some funny sh!t!!

 

[weekendwarrior]

Im pretty sure you are talking abou this one. It was in Yreka. Someone "decorated" it in full AMF splendor and as rumor has it, someone in Yreka(one of the couriers perhaps) emailed a picture of it to BUR and VERY shortly after it was replaced with a brand new Ford Focus.

Actually it was Eureka. I had the Yreka run last year and there is still a POS colt, although not decorated as nicely...looks like a badger and a monkey got into a fight with the windows rolled up.

 

[Hand Commander]

The '73 Valiant is still alive and kickin. or smokin. Its now the Crescent Schitty car. I guess ops figured we divert there so much, why not have a nice sled to get us around in the fog. Florence still has a colt. Top speed: 42mph. I would strategically park it under any large tree at the airport or the hotel with the hopes that an act of god would rain down large branches and trunk to put that thing out of its misery.

 

[Linetech]

holy crap i didn't know we still had These dinosaurs kicking around.