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I thought I saw you walking by one time, I was headed south and you were going north, but I said "naw, couldn't be, I hadn't seen your truck anywhere". It was up near the road that separates the 2 main areas. The man at headquarters where you register said there were 150-some trucks there then. (That was this morning) He said they've always had over 200, and they could handle over 300 easily. We got there around 8am and left at 10:30 this morning and probably only 6 or 8 more trucks had come in. It was very disappointing to see so few trucks, I've been going since 2005 or 2006, and have seen the place packed before. But the man at headquarters, don't know his name, also said this was the 3rd. year in a row that it's rained. It was almost like last year, Friday was beautiful, and while it hadn't rained more than a little sprinkle when we left, it was coming. We hit it on 81 before we got very far and it rained the rest of the way until we were almost home.

Afraid so. But at least I learned a valuable lesson 🤪

It's getting hot up here. I was going to put our canopy up, but apparently some dumbass left the top part- the importantest part- at home in the shed. I just assumed it was all in the carrying case together. And you know what they say about assuming anything.

Happy birthday!

Thanks, I'm going to watch that again on TV when I get home.

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!