Freightrain

Very nice. You guys do great work.

I printed out the spec sheets from here many years ago. It lists the transmission code and gearing.

Click on link(2001 Mack) to see details. $32k, E7 powered.

Not the same Amish i saw riding around in a pontoon boat monday afternoon.

The Fageol is way cool. Love to make a car hauler out of it. That would be very different showing up at the track. Leave it painted in original scheme. Buying a Mig 21 just to have? That is the ultimate in yard art. You likely won't have a neighbor with one? Lol!

Race cars...ugh. I dont spent much on mine typically. Though last year it needed a new block after 20 years. Then my 24 yr old alum heads started puking water over winter. Start over and just duplicated what I spent last year on short block to replace top half. Groan. Should be good til I retire racing? This is my 25th straight season now. None of my stuff is pristine. Again, too much work and anymore I HATE work!!

Fantastic!!! Wow. We're all kinda sick when it comes to hobbies like this. We all spend our own various amounts of money on things that will never be worth anything close to the total spent. We do it for the love and the personal satisfaction. Many dream of a truck like yours, but like me, I like to use mine too much and that kind of restoration would be a moot point because I could never keep it at that level. I have friend with show cars and even drag cars that would meet that kind of level. I laugh about having to wash my hands before working on them.

Local fellow in my truck club has similar coe. He owned a sod business and used it for decades. Still looks like new, though he and the truck are retired and only taken to shows now.

Glad I bought mine 15 yrs ago...when they were still "reasonably priced"......

They are shutting down ER's and hospital wings due to no patients. I'm thinking they are too afraid to go because of Covid. Are more dying at home? No information there. Or is it all the "Oh, I have a paper cut and need to go to the ER" people not going and that is the reason for no one being there? I'm sure there is a percentage of people that have no health care that used to go to the ER as their only option to get medication for a cough or headache.

Was gunno say i don't recall the pinstripe on Stans super. I got a couple minutes behind the wheel a few years ago. Man.... I want a V8!!

Very, very cool story!! Now he has some bragging rights on his buddies that don't have a license yet either!

Welcome to the forums. I'm a drag racer myself.

Jim was his name and I did meet up a couple times in Michigan at a race we both attended. Truck as nice in person as pictures show. He did only run it a few years though. Have not seen him in some time now.

When it stops running, it's broke. No need for the driver to know anything else LOL!! Nice Bronco. A buddy bought a local one that was parked for decades. Nice, solid unit, red/white top, automatic. Likely sit in his garage for another 20 yrs before he actually does anything with it. I'd drive the wheels off it all summer.

Connex and Stryker are "black box" export radios. No real limitations on power so they do much more then the legal 4 watts in the USA. Thus many guys like them. I have three Unidens and a President Madison base. TP tools is like 45 minutes easy of me. Been by it, but not in it. We do buy stuff for work through them for blast cabinets. We have an Eastwood store about an hour north. Never been there, but salesman at work did go up and buy a plasma cutter last year. Sure seems like I'm in the right part of the world when it comes to stores. The McMaster Carr is 45 minutes north also. I get same day service for them if you get the order in soon enough in the morning. Jegs is 2 hrs south, but don't buy much there. I do shop around and will use Amazon if need be. I do try to use local small shops if I can.

Lucky I live 15 minutes from Summit Racing. Too common that shipping is more then the part. I just order more to make it worth while. Hell you're paying all that cost, might as well get something. I agree, nothing is cheap anymore.

I use State Farm for the Mack, since they have my house, pickup and Harley. My hot rods are through Condon/Skelly and race car/trailer through Hagerty.

Just a side note. Originally I cut my rear leafs down so it would move withy race trailer on the back. After a few years one side broke. Guess those 50 yr old leafs weren't suppose to move that much? So if you plan on removing leafs so the remaining move, watch as they may break over time. May want to get new springs made?

Found it, thanks.

Tom, I'm in the same boat. Got all this shiny new paint to show off and no place to go!! Dave, maybe I'll make Gerharts this year? Depends on my racing schedule and "if" anything actually starts this year???

So, in reality you could start out in like 4th over and shift it twice to get up to speed? LoL!

I'm waiting for the hammer to drop on our local show that weekend. Time will tell.

Plus the offset cab allowed better visibility to the rear.