other dog

yeah that was a little old i think i was in 3rd grade the first time i heard that. { otherdog they had beepers & dinosaurs when you wher little??????}

yeah,we first started putting them on brontosauruses-you wouldn't want to get backed over by one of them while waiting in line at the bank on Friday...so what's your point?!

(seriously,first time I heard that joke,Teddy Moore told it-been a while)

The ElCamino's were pretty handy, if you

didn't mind the small cab, and the small pick-up

box.

I actually had two, a 1970 and a 1973. The 1970

was a better vehicle.

Anyway Joe, don't you think Tom should step up to the

pump and spend some of his money to buy that green B-61?

See if you can convince him that he cannot take the money with him,

and that it will get moldy under his mattress and smell bad.

I forgot about the '70 Olds Cutlass Supreme and '81 Regal I had.That Olds was one of the best cars I ever had,gave $800 for it,with a straight body, rocket 350,automatic,power windows. Still ran and drove great when I parked it.

The Chevelle I had was a 396 350hp,which was actually the 402 engine,but it was bored .030 over with a crane cam,tarantula intake ( that's the one the carb. set kinda sideways on ) 780 holley,headers,electric fuel pump,Accel ignition...all the usual goodies. When I bought it it didn't have a transmission in it because the owner wanted to keep it (turbo 400 w/shift kit ) to put in a mud bogger he was building,so I went to Cosner Bros. used auto parts (the junk yard) and bought all the clutch linkage,bell housing,pedals,cross member, etc. out of a four speed Chevelle and put the M-22 Muncie that used to be in the Nova in it. It really wasn't hard to convert to the four speed because the frame was already drilled and tapped to mount all the clutch linkage,so it was pretty much just bolt it in. Only took it to the track once.It was a 13 second car with the automatic on street tires.I turned a 14.30 at 101 mph on a set of G-70 tires (skinny!),but it was still spinning into high gear. Had a Hurst Competition Plus in it at first,then switched to a Vertigate because it looked tough,but the Hurst was actually a quicker shifter ( shorter throw ). Ain't bragging,but it sounded like an automatic when I shifted,foot to the floor. That four speed was a lot of fun.You could take off and speed shift and chirp the tires in all four gears when you weren't even getting into it hard,'course if the cops heard you they'd give you a ticket for it.Then I got married and my hot rod days were over...done...finished.

...yeah,ha-ha Joe. As ol' George says in one of my favorite songs "...I know-everybody funny...now you funny too".About as funny as a screen door in a submarine. And I had moles in the yard,not gophers,there's no treasure buried there. You must have been over there digging around. If you found the bodies,I don't know anything about them.They must have been there when I bought the place. And everybody needs a hobby

That's a good one though.I don't even know if that old Mack's for sale or not,probably not,and they probably wouldn't scrap it anyway,but you never know. They have a lot of old chip trailers parked there too,and trucks,bulldozers,equipment of all sorts.I'm just saying if you run across something like that that might be for sale you can't get it cheap because scrap is so high. I found 2 B-61 single axle trucks before I bought the mixer,one was $1200 and the other was $1000,both in fairly good condition too,but right now they might bring twice that much for scrap. If I had Paul's money i'd have been over there asking about that B-61,but i'm so broke I can't afford to pay attention. Got my mattress stuffed with scrap iron because-wait ,scrap iron-gotta go,see ya

an oldie but a goody .in fact,the first time I heard that I laughed so hard I almost kicked the slats out of my crib

Sad part was a seen about a 2003 Ford Focus one of the 2 door sporty model that had been rearended at the scrap yard. I seen 2 nova ss's, even a 40's chevrolet car. I hate to see ths happen to decent iron, but we can't save them all. Daddyslilgurl your like me I wished I would have grown up in the 60's and 70's. It was just cool..

I was there when it happened. 25 June 1965, 22 years old just married I had just started my first job in a dealership, at a Chevrolet dealer in Roswell GA. At $65.00 a week a new 327 Chevell SS or a 409 Impala were just not attainable. On the other hand, you could buy a decent 55, 56, or 57 210 for $250 to $500. Just the right price line for a young gear head. The old saying that good things happen to those that wait, might have some meaning, for I once owned a 66 325hp. 396 SS chevell

$600, A 64 389 GTO $325, and a rash of 55, 57, 58 Ford Custom 300's. One of my friends here has a 57 Custom 300 show car with an all aluminum 427 stroker engine. It's about a $55,000 car and he is always giving me a hard time about being too cheap to spend the money to have one. I tell him, I had one just like it. I gave $75.00 for, it replaced the drivers door glass $15 and drove it for two years.

I believe that '72 Nova was the newest car i've had to this day. Bought it from my older brother in '74,because he wanted to buy a used Porsche from a friend of his. Think I gave $1800 for that car.Then I had a '68 Camaro,'70 Chevelle SS, a '68 Tempest,'68 Biscayne-all collectors items today. The Chevelle was probably the only one I paid over $1,000 for,but it was a real hot rod.

it's Thursday-early-and i'm home,but not for long,don't worry. Reminds me of that light green B-61 with honeysuckle growing up around it that I posted pictures of. I'd bet that truck was driven to where it's parked. Jeff said he remembered when they were still running that truck,pulled a lowboy with it,hauling equipment around. Then they got the R-model,probably parked the B because it was old,didn't have much power,nobody wanted to drive a quadruplex,no AC,radio,etc. Wish I could afford it,but as you say,if you offered what you thought was a reasonal price for a restoration project,they might say "well,I can get more than that for it for scrap metal". It's just a shame,i'd hate to see a truck like that scrapped,but it's probably gonna happen more and more. Money's tight,scrap's bringing top dollar...it's a shame-it hurts me to see old iron scrapped. ...hurts me!

NICE MUTT WONDER WHERE HE CAME FROM

...like the rusty old tractor with good sheet metal I saw being scrapped a week or so ago. Hope the tax assessor doesn't assess vehicles at scrap prices,I won't be able to pay the taxes on the mixer.

Maybe you can call it Another Dog, but don't call it what steve martin called his dog on The Jerk. Hopefully they'll be enough rain this year for your garden.

just for me?..how thoughtful . I had the fenders on the mixer painted black,thought it looked better than the solid red.Was gonna paint the top of the hood black too,but it's mashed in some and I thought black would make it more noticable.

Tom,

That B Mack looks just like my B-67 did when I

brought it home. Same colors, and looks like the

same condition.

Paul VS

maybe they were from the same litter?

...not ONE single picture?!!

yeah,you'd think! I had a jake too,or c-brake I guess it was- truck had a 444 Cummins w/18 spd. The cop said " you're supposed to have the truck in the lowest gear you've got". I told him if I did that I wouldn't have been there 'til tomorrow. He said "I DON'T CARE,THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO". The common sense rule should apply,but like I always said,safety has nothing to do with it,it's all about the money-they want yours! You used to come off the mountain and you had to go right into the town of Hopwood,but now they have a four lane bypass finished around town and you don't even have to slow down for Hopwood or Uniontown. Back when you had to go through town, right at the bottom of the mountain, the speed made sense,because you might be coming down in a 5 speed Mack with a 237,no engine brake,with a load of green oak lumber grossing about 93,000 lbs,but now it's just ridiculous.

You see lots of old units sitting around in West Virginia. There's all sorts of stuff up in those woods.

I watched the mule video,but couldn't find anything on the other one-I copied the web site and pasted it,but it came up saying it didn't match any documents.

Sharg looking truck. What's your plans for it?

That truck would look good hauling the mixer to a show,but I think Jeff and I talked about that before and found the mixer was too high to haul,even on a lowboy trailer. He suggested I take the mixer off and put a flat bed body on it,but I didn't want to do that,then i'd look like everybody else.

Last year a late frost killed all my peaches, and I only had 3 pears on the whole tree,and one of my apple trees died. I pruned them last fall,not that I had any clue how to do it,but I cut off a bunch of limbs they didn't look like they needed. This year the 2 peach trees are loaded,the pear tree's loaded, and the other apple tree's looking pretty good so far.

yeah it looked about like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree by the time I got back

yes Joe,i've actually dreamed that I still had that Nova. Unfortunately it was totaled in 1975 when I let someone else drive it. Got away from him on a wet road and he went sideways,slid across some guy's yard and hit 2 gum trees.

That tree was the top part of the tree we put up,or a limb or something I trimmed off it. I wedged it between the ends of the floorboards and the metal part at the back of the trailer,decorated it,and it stayed there all the way to Chicago and back. This picture was before I left,it looked pretty beat by the time I got back,but it was still hanging on

I always like to see pictures of someone else's ride. Or just someone having a good time doing the things I like to do. Such as, trucking, eating, building race engines, talking on the CB, or telling an outrageous story. I've got a lot of pictures, if I just knew how to post them.

I got a scanner from Wal-Mart,I just take a picture out of a photo album,scan it,send it to documents or desktop,then upload it here. Click browse to find the picture,right click on the picture, left click select,then left click on upload,and there it is.

ok,more pictures it is

Good pictures, and that's a sharp freightliner. I always liked the fld120's and the coronado's. No rain for the last couple of dys for us, but today is different so my buddy won't get to finish planting his garden. Have a good one buddy

Thanks,it was raining last night but sunny this morning,so I planted the corn,pole beans,and a row of snaps. Now it's raining again.

you should unblock the comments so everybody can read them (my controls-blog settings)

that's a beautiful dog.tell Jeff to put a 20 lb. bag of kibbers (that's a Jobyna-ism) and bits on the weekly supply list.Probably cheaper than sausage bistits too.

I've got a scanner that works with windows 98,don't know what else. It wouldn't work with vista because you can't get a driver for it,so I got a new printer,scanner,copier. You can have it if you want it,it works great,but it would probably cost as much to ship it as a new scanner costs at the Wal-Mart store.

Scanners are nice,you can scan all your old pictures and store 'em on your pc,put them on a photo disc,or whatever. I scanned that "Cannonball" picture out of a hardcover book. Also,if you have rare family pictures,say for instance the only knowm photo of great-great grandpa Elliot,or maybe cousin Judy in a 2 piece you can scan them and give everybody a copy.