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I made it almost to Winchester before I ran into rain. Had about 20 miles to go. But we're here...or is it "we're there"? Anyhow, here we are.

Doesn't matter. Everything he does is for the greater good of this country, but to some people the TDS is so bad he could cure cancer today and bring about world peace tomorrow and they'd still complain about him.

You're right, think I'll go get another one.

I've been sweating my ass off today. I waxed the hood on the furniture truck, then went to Truck Enterprises and got some lug nut covers, stopped by the dump, went to vote, filled the Zinamobile up with gasoline, then came home and waxed the rest of the truck. There's lots more to do, but now I'm going to sit on the porch and have a beer. It'll probably rain as soon as I leave for Winchester.

There's very few of them around. The Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum has one, and I've seen one or two at truck shows, and that's about it. I don't know what happened to the one Bobby Moore had either. Or any of his stuff, he had a mobile crane, an R International crane truck, a 7400 White day cab truck, and an immaculate short bed square body Chevrolet pickup, and probably other stuff I hadn't seen.

Yessir, and not only that, it had a "15 double over against the dash" in it ( 🤔 ). Extremely rare. Extremely rare. Extremely.

A C model, or an M grader?

Yeah, I don't like nit-picking jack ass inspectors, like say, the one at precision auto care, some things don't affect the safety of the vehicle at all. I got rid of a nice '76 3/4 ton Dodge pickup one time because the windshield had that cloudy looking stuff around the edges. Just a little, but it wouldn't pass inspection. Or a hole in the exhaust pipe, minor stuff. But I took the Ford Ranger I used to have to an inspection station right up the road from where I lived. Got a new inspection sticker on it, drove it to the truck show in Winchester that weekend, and a few days later when it was sitting in the driveway with the wheels turned a little I noticed the cords sticking out of the right front tire on the inside edge. Now that kind of scared me, that should never have passed inspection and I drove it up I-81 to Winchester and back like that, running around 200 mph the whole way.

I washed the Mack and the Zinamobile today.

I got to start cleaning and washing and waxing the old furniture truck tomorrow. I was going to do a little bit today but I watched the entire Charlie Kirk service. It was awesome. I couldn't help but think how much better a Christian his wife was than I am. She said she forgave her husband's murderer, and when they showed a handful of protesters outside before it started I was thinking how great it would be if God sent them a message by vaporizing them with a bolt of lightning. 🤣 Anyhow, the Tri State ATHS Show is this weekend in Clear Brook, VA. so I think I'll take it up there. If it's not raining that is, I'm not going to bobtail that far in the rain. All I did today was slap some decals over some spots where the paint was chipped, and this one on the front. Looks kind of stupid, but I like it. Kinda looks like a pig in the picture, but it's a bulldog 🤣

Wow, that's some scary sh- uh, stuff! Glad there was no major damage done, could have easily turned into a disaster!

I used to have a "clanger" back up alarm on the mixer I had but I took it off. Last time I remember seeing it it was in a 5 gallon bucket in the shed, but that was years ago. It might have been in the shed that burned up, I don't know.

As most everybody knows, I have a beautiful 1984 GMC Brigadier that I've decided to sell. Runs like a clock, and drives like a car. Since the sleeper turned out to be no good, I have no use for it. I'm asking $7500 for it. I paid a lot more than that for it, then had the injection pump rebuilt and 2 new air bags and a leveling valve installed. I've already reduced the price A LOT, It has an L10 Cummins engine, 9 speed transmission, and 4.11 rears. It has an RV 5th. wheel, 2 hitch balls, and a receiver hitch. The body that's on it is 10' long, and there's 6' between the body and the back of the cab.

I found a picture of the C model Bobby Moore had, and I grabbed a quick picture of the road service mechanic and her helper when they were over here today. I don't even know what they were doing, but they only charged me $800. I thought it was a good deal.

It's probably exempt because of the 200 mph tape.

That's just awesome! I'm touched, I'm not even gonna make any wisecracks - well done!

Yeah, I don't think so either. Makes me wonder what ever did happen to it though, hope it wasn't cut up and sold for scrap. I don't remember exactly when it was, but the price of scrap metal just exploded for a while. It was bringing top dollar and people were dragging all the junk out of the woods and selling it. Saw some old tractors going to Shredded Products in Montvale back then that a lot of collectors would have loved to have. Bobby Moore had a C model Mack up there too. He bought it from Truck Body Corporation in Lynchburg, they used it as their yard dog. He had it for sale too, but I never heard whatever happened to it either.

Could possibly be the same one, I don't know what ever became of the one Bobby Moore had. I saw a Porsche tractor in the pictures too. I think it was at the ATHS show in Troutman, N.C. but I'm not 100% sure. They also have one in the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum and I was wondering if that was the same one. Couldn't be too many Porsche tractors out there, or I wouldn't think there would be anyway.

Just some tractor pictures i've had since before I ever got a digital camera. Some from an antique tractor pull, some from car and truck shows, some from parades. The dates on some of the pictures ranged from 2002 until 2007.

I scanned the tractor pictures today, I had some from the Stonewall Antique Power Show, dated anywhere from 2002 until 2007, some were from the Appomattox Railroad Festival parade, and some were from an ATHS show in Troutman, N.C. I'm going to put the rest in the "Tractors and Equipment" category after I put them on Flickr, but these were kind of interesting. These were in the antique tractor pull at the Stonewall show. I didn't know what to expect out of this little Oliver crawler tractor, but I do remember that I expected it to do a little better than it did. I think it pulled the sled about 2 feet and it was done. This is another one that I thought would have done better. A rare piece of equipment, only one i've ever seen. It was owned by the late Bobby Moore. It barely moved the sled either. But this Super M on the other hand... This is not the M that was in the pull off with the 830 John Deere, but it did make a full pull. And you talk about a beautiful tractor! I'd never seen such- the paint and detail was outstanding. This picture is 20 or more years old and doesnt do it justice, but it was really nice. Even all the bolt heads were painted.

What about the old "football helmet" cabover Peterbilts? 🤣 I think they're at the top of my ugly list!

Here's a few pictures from a photo album that I hadn't seen in several years. Possibly because it was on Zina's desk under one of her computer monitors to raise it up a little. Here's a big Mack water truck, up at the old shop at F.L.M. Here's a Cruise liner in Roanoke that I used to pass going to and from the concrete pipe getting place. There used to be 3 of them sitting there with "For Sale" signs in the window, but 2 of them must have finally been sold. I stopped and looked at them and they all had V8s in them and 10 speed Mack transmissions. I saw this Mack a mile from where I used to live, it came from the same place my old mixer did- Concrete Ready Mixed in Roanoke.And this A-40 was sitting in a field in Moneta, VA. just up the road a little ways from where we used to load treated lumber. I don't know what ever happened to it, it was there for a while, then it wasn't.

Happy birthday!

I've got some more pictures from that Stonewall Antique Power Show that I'm going to scan, just of some of the tractor pull. The antique tractor pull was my favorite thing there. The pull between the 830 John Deere and the Super M that I've told of before was awesome. Meanwhile, I've got this meatloaf smoking- Wednesday morning I have to be in Lynchburg at 7:30 for an eye appointment. They're going to evaluate to see if I'm a candidate for laser surgery to get that pressure down in my left eye.

I know a man who used to own his own truck, used to build log trailers from the ground up, worked in H.H. Moore's shop for a while. One of the hardest working men I ever knew. If he was working on something at H.H's. and needed a tool or something that was on the other side of the shop he wouldn't just take a leisurely stroll across the shop to get it, he would run. The engine swapping made me think of him. He said when he was young he used to cut pulpwood. He had a Chevrolet pulpwood truck and a Camaro. He said he would cut pulpwood all week, then take the engine out of the truck and put it in the Camaro so he could cruise on the weekend. Then Sunday he would put the motor back in the pulpwood truck. Next weekend, same thing. I don't remember if he eventually got another pulpwood truck, another car, or another motor, but he did that for a while. Hearing that from most anybody else I would have thought "what a total B S. story, nobody did that". But coming from him I didn't doubt it at all.