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  1. Green Dash
    The CL looks great as a highway tractor. I haven't seen many with a sleeper. Is the front bumper painted? That's quite a shine.
  2. Green Dash
    The one I saw was wearing a blue vest but is otherwise identical. I take it y'all have seen this or something similar, but here goes...
  3. Green Dash
    It's becoming more difficult to figure out which brands of trucks are more reliable than others. Most of today's manufacturers have been designing and building trucks for the better part of a century and it seems they all have some stupid little flaw that will eventually leave a driver sitting on the side of the road and truck with an excessive amount of downtime because some engineer wanted to reinvent the wheel. It's 2012 and Kenworth cannot build a reliable clutch pedal mechanism?
  4. Green Dash
    That's great news! Thanks for keeping us posted.
  5. Green Dash
    Happy Birthday!
  6. Green Dash
    They're closer than you think. I'm certain I saw something that looked like that at a WalMart in West Virginia, and it wasn't in the pet department.
  7. Green Dash
    When I first started with Pitt Ohio I rarely drove the same truck 2 days in a row. At the time we had 5 speed and 9 speed Macks as well as the 10 speed Sterlings. Switching between a 9 and a 10 was challenging enough for my feeble mind. Throw a 5 speed into the mix and it sounds like I'm driving a mobile machine shop down the road when I first leave the terminal.
  8. Green Dash
    That's actually a very good question for someone who's never driven a truck with a 5 speed Maxitorque. Many drivers think the Maxidyne/Econodyne engines with 5 speeds are junk when in reality, they are often times not being driven properly. Follow the advice given above. I've found the hardest part was resisting the urge to downshift to soon, but you will eventually get used to it.
  9. Green Dash

    B'day boy:

    Green Dash replied to Rob's topic in Odds and Ends

    Happy Birthday! (heh heh, Rob said Pete)
  10. Green Dash
    What do ya think they use to make dry ice? DUUUUH!
  11. Green Dash
    No Photoshop-ing there. The poor souls had to use real water. That is so not right, but in a good way.
  12. Green Dash
    Beautiful truck. It couldn't have gone to a better home.
  13. Green Dash
    Sure did, so it wasn't all bad.
  14. Green Dash
    Oh well. That's a chance one takes when choosing a career as a lowlife, p.o.s thief.
  15. Green Dash
    You only get credit for one B model, but there is a Pete 352 in the first B model pic. Partial credit will be awarded for the Pete at 1/10 the value of a B model catch. I wonder if girly girl lost her phone and if she would like some help locating it.
  16. Green Dash
    The kids like Firefox and insist it's better, I was just comfortable with IE having used it for so many years. I may have to give it a try. I'm not liking this Chrome, it's too hard to find stuff.
  17. Green Dash
    Wow! I used to see the Autocars quite a bit in the mid 70's, usually at Port Newark. The drivers I'd seen had quite a few years on them too as I recall. I've spotted Tar Heel trucks as recently as 5 years ago. They had Pete 377's (still old, still red) as tractors and were pulling Dole cans, presumably out of Wilmington, DE. I passed them heading south on 301 in either MD or DE-saving bridge tolls on 95 I guess.
  18. Green Dash
    I'm on a different laptop than I normally use. This one has not been used for access to internet for at least a few months and when I tried to run updates, I get an error message. I'll have to take care of that issue and hopefully the rest will fall into place. Thanks. 63 attempts to date? All you had to do was ask and I would've handed over my identity. It comes complete with instructions on how to contact me when it's time for you to beg me to take it back.
  19. Green Dash
    I'm using Google Chrome at the moment but prefer IE, mainly because I'm used to it. When I go to the BMT home page, only the header is loaded and the buttons are dead. Everything works fine with Chrome. Any suggestions??
  20. Green Dash
    I guess it was worse than I'd thought. I was young at the time but have since spoken with my Sister and and she remembers my Grandma as being well liked by her neighbors and could not recall any problems. I remember Friendly Frost. It was on the last block of the industrial area, near the Wantagh Parkway. I believe the name of the street was Friendly St.
  21. Green Dash
    My Grandmother never had any trouble up to the time she passed in 1970, but Prospect Ave always was, and I understand still is, a dangerous place to be. I lived on Dryden St, down the block from the water tower, from 65'-'70. I believe the residents on the street are mostly Spanish now. It was a typical residential American neighborhood, right out of "The Wonder Years". The street looks much the same today, but when I visited a few years ago on a mid-summer day, there was not a soul in sight. 45 years ago, the middle of the street looked like a playground.
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  23. Green Dash
    Well put. Green horns are always welcome. What we don't need is another Green Dash.
  24. Green Dash
    Looks good. It appears to have a.....watchamacallit....green dash. That would be an early '73.
  25. Green Dash
    . Numbers are infinite. I also call the slimy 70th spot.

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