Loading ...I’m not much of a car aficionado. I know a few basics. I know to get the oil changed now and then. I know about rotating the tires. I even learned how to fix my wiper fluid system after it froze solid.
But I had to do some research to explain this oddity.
Jealous?
Someone up the road has themselves a fancy pick-em-up truck. Complete with cardboard grill cover. I can tell it’s a genuine factory-installed piece of cardboard ‘cuz it says “GMC” right there in the middle.
Wait a second.
That “GMC” logo ain’t on the cardboard! It’s just showing through a hole in the middle. I bet that cardboard ain’t even American made!
My first reaction, besides laughing at this person’s cardboard craftsmanship and inability to cut in a straight line, was to wonder why in the blue Hell anyone would put cardboard on the grill of their vee-hicle. According to Car Talk hosts Tom & Ray Magliozzi, putting cardboard in front of the radiator can help the engine reach the right temperature in bitterly cold weather. I had no idea.
But not so fast. Why cut the hole in the middle for the GMC logo? Is the logo that gorgeous? Is it a point of pride on an otherwise rusted and rickety truck? And in case you’re wondering, I did some closer investigation, and the logo doesn’t jut out so far that you just damn better make room for it. The letters are basically flush with the rest of the grill. In other words, you might have good reason to put cardboard on your truck, but there’s no point in the logo hole. And if you’re going to take the time to measure the cardboard and figure out where you need to make a cut-out for the logo, wouldn’t you take just as much time to find a piece of cardboard long enough to cover the entire grill for consistency sake?
And above all else, the melting snow makes it look like the cardboard is crying.
Maybe it is. Self-aware and ashamed of its hole.
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