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  1. Zina wants to paint it to "make it our own". She really likes these colors, and so do I. Not something you see every day, which is what she wants.

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    But then I showed her this picture and she liked this color too, and the wood body.

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  2. I had told him when I picked it up I wanted him to tell me everything I needed to know about it. And he said today the best way to do that was face to face, and I agreed. So he said he would deliver the truck here and when he backed it off the trailer in our driveway he would be as happy as we were. I doubt that, but anyway, he seems to be a class act.

  3. So, Stevie called me today, like he said he would, to talk about picking this truck up. He had already told me that he would be out of town this weekend. He had to fly- in an airplane, he can't really fly himself- to Iowa and drive a firetruck back to Maryland. 

    I could not go to Maryland next weekend because we had plans that we made months ago. And he called today and said he had gotten the check and as far as he was concerned it was my truck. So he offered to bring that truck here on a trailer with his pickup for expense money.

    I had a good friend, also a BMT member, tell me the truck load rate would be $1250, but he would do it for $500 and a Hamm's. He also said he was pretty well covered up now and it would probably be about 3 weeks before he could do it.

    Then Stevie called and it was almost like he was reading my mind. He had already figured the mileage, his approximate gas mileage, and expenses and said he would deliver that truck next week for $790 as soon as he got back from Iowa. So I told him to bring it.

  4. 2 hours ago, 70mackMB said:

    IDK, The video that other dog posted is a year and half old that happened in Russia. { In fact, Snopes was able to determine that the footage used in the posts actually showed an explosion damaging the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia and Crimea, on Oct. 8, 2022. }   There are two bridges there and the next day they had pictures of the damage from the explosion taken from the other bridge. There was no explosion on the Key bridge it just collapsed.

    The video l posted here before that Red Horse suggested. He explains what happens to the control of a ship with rudder and thrust. A site l watch often is "TimBatSea" who is a tug captain. He always explains what he is about to try and do with the barge. And he will tell you which way the rudder is and why. Which prop/engine is turning in what direction and how fast and what the effect it will make on the barrage. He makes it look too easy as if he was backing out of a parking spot with his car.  My two cents, carry on.    .....Hippy     

     

    I see now, I don't know why I didn't catch that, it clearly shows two bridges and the Key Bridge was a single bridge. It was labeled on Facebook as the Key Bridge collapse. I'm going to delete that post if I can.

  5. 13 hours ago, Brocky said:

    Are you bringing it to York and Macungie???  I plan on both..

    We're not going to York, but we're planning on going to Macungie. Whether or not the truck is depends on whether I can find it a ride or not. I doubt if I would drive it that far, Google says it's 368 miles. Be nice to find somebody going that way with room on a trailer, I could help with fuel for a ride.

    I haven't even driven it yet, just taking Stevie Stevens- "it's not junk"- and Dave Couto's words to heart. It might drive like a dream, Stevie said it would cruise at 70mph.

    Oh, that reminds me - do you remember that real pretty blue Chevrolet tandem dump truck at Harrisonburg? He owned that truck too, and Keith Jones bought it from him and put it in the museum. Maybe it was part of the deal of him getting the International back, I don't know.

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  6. 9 hours ago, Red Horse said:

    Nice! V-8 right?  I'm confused though-you said 401.  the big Binder V-8 was a 549, then there was a 478?  then smallest one??  401? ALSO ONE OF THE BIG SIXES WAS A 401???

    Yes, 401. I'd never heard of it either. The only 401 I'd ever heard of was the AMC 401.

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  7. 11 hours ago, tjc transport said:

    is that a R-190?

    looks to be mid to late 70's. integral sleeper internationals of that model are VERY RARE.

    that is only the third one i ever saw. the other two were tandem axle diesels.

    1963 V-190 actually, I don't even know what the difference is though. 

  8. 15 minutes ago, Brocky said:

    Congratulations!!!!!!!!  Welcome to the "Tired Iron World" !!!!!!!  Going to be a snug fit for Zina and 3 dogs in it on the way to shows??

    I told her, "it's going to be smaller than you think". So we'll see. But like I told her, the "coolness factor" is there on this truck, it has "cool" written all over it. A single axle Columbier or Cascadier might be a better show cruiser, but there's nothing cool about them 🤣. She's already painting it, she doesn't like the grill protector, "does it have air conditioning?" so she's pretty excited about it.

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  9. 2 hours ago, Vladislav said:

    Shivers...

    Saw the video on my local news page.

    The heigth of the bridge to fall from and the temp of water don't give good chances to survive.

    Yessir, that bridge was tall. I've been across it many times, and I read an article years ago that listed it as one of the most dangerous bridges in the US. That was after the I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota I think, and it was considered dangerous because it was on the " most likely to collapse" list. I thought about that every time I crossed it.

    Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point was at the north end of the bridge. Huge steel mill, loaded coils there many times. You'd leave the mill, get on 695, stop and pay the toll, then you'd start climbing. It was a pretty hard pull going up that bridge.

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