Reason #56 To Love Philadelphia: Jon Lieber’s Truck

Last year, Aaron Rowand showed up at Spring Training with a jacked up Ford F-250. Jon Lieber couldn’t let that stand. So he bought a house and converted it into a truck.

Well, okay, he special ordered it from Ford. And yesterday, Jon Lieber showed up at Spring Training (hooray!) in a giant Ford F-650. It cost him $211,000, which is cheaper than the same truck models owned by Shaquille O’Neal, the King of Jordan and Sheik Mohammed of Dubai. So he got a great deal!

(I know, I suppose we should hate that truck, since I’m sure it’s responsible for roughly 5 percent of recent global warming, but let’s pretend it runs on rainbows instead of diesel.)

Some fun facts: Passengers must go up two steps to enter the vehicle. It costs $500 to fill up (four 50-gallon tanks) and gets 12 miles to the gallon. The satellite service on the truck costs $4.99 a month. Ford apparently sold 60 of these things to people.

And, yes, it’s owned by a pitcher who went 9-11 with a 4.93 ERA last year yet makes more money than you or I will ever see. Wait, why is this a reason to love the city again?

Lieber’s camp arrival wheely amazing [Daily News]
[Photo via DN, by Jim Stem]