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Well, I haven't posted any pictures of the week for a while. I don't get around nearly as much as I used to. I have to go to the interwebs to find a picture of a girl in a car, something I used to see all the time. So here's a girl in a car, from the interwebs.

Oh, and there's this- I don't want to jump the gun, or count my chickens before they hatch, but the check is in the mail for this unit.

We've been wanting another old truck for a while, Zina kept saying "you need to find us a truck", but nothing really suitable came along. I told her we really needed a single axle unit with a sleeper so we'd have some room in it, like an old fleet truck. Then I saw this on marketplace one day and showed it to her and said "that's a neat looking truck". And she said "you should call". 

I said "but it's really small, we need something with a walk in sleeper"...

"That's a neat looking truck, you should call the guy".

So, anyway, his check is in the mail. Dave Couto, "maint1" on BMT approved.

I actually saw this truck at Winchester a couple of times but I never really paid much attention to it. 

It has a 401 gas engine with a 5 speed transmission and 2 speed rear. 

This man used to own it, he sold it to the late Jerry Howard, Keith Jones from the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum bought it when they auctioned the Jerry Howard collection, and Dave called him to see if he wanted it back. He did, bought it, and he said he spent about $4,000 on it putting a fuel tank on it, tuning it up, rebuilding the carburetor,etc.  The gas tank had rust in it and kept stopping the filter up so he put a tank that had only held diesel on it.  He sold it for $1,000 more than he gave Keith for it. He said he would drive it pretty much anywhere. 

I called Dave and asked him about it and he verified everything and said he liked it, so we bought it.

Almost- his check is in the mail.

And just because - another girl in another car.

Too soon?

Here's the next to last truck I drove. It was sitting up at Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg after it was traded in on the last truck I drove when this picture was taken

. I'd bet they would be asking twice that much for that truck in that condition now, the way truck prices are.

This is the last truck I drove, identical specs. The only difference was the breathers on the outside, but it never seemed to run quite as good- almost, but not quite.

That Cummins pulled better than the Pete I used to drive with a 550 Cat engine, with the same transmission and rears.

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I've been fencing all week, except when I was watching TV- I had to watch the news in the morning, and sometimes Family Feud before I got started because it would be 25 degrees in the morning and in the 50's by afternoon. 

I put up new fence from the far corner of the chain link fence, out around the well, then down the hill and across, then back uphill to the house. I had much difficulty getting the wire tight with all the elevation changes, and putting up fences is not really my field of expertise.

The home made wire stretcher I made worked pretty good though.

We were going to pay a buffessional fence putter-upper, but couldn't find anybody that was interested. So my job might look crappy but I'm sure we saved a lot of money by doing it myself. 

It still wasn't cheap- 3 100' rolls of 4' wire, 20 metal posts, and a 6' gate were over $700. Then I went back and got 6 wooden posts and some other items for $139 more dollars.

All so these fellas will have more room to run.

They're watching the driveway people now...

I ran the tiller through the garden a time or two and planted a row of potatoes and a row of onions this morning too, before it started raining. Then I took the rest of the day off.

We also had the driveway biggerized. Zina's gotten stuck in the yard twice. I would have put a circle driveway in here at first if it was up to me, the driveway was kind of... weird.

And, in the "this doesn't have anything to do with anything" department, I ran across this picture today when I was looking for a different picture. I know we were talking a while back about how the propeller of a plane or helicopter looked like it wasn't moving in a picture. This is a picture I took of a chopper that was leading the "Truckers Against Cancer Parade" the year before last.

41 minutes ago, Brocky said:

Back to museums!!!  The Keystone Museum in Colonial Heights VA should be at the top of everyone's list!!! First exit north of the 85 / 95 split with 18 wheel parking.. Tractors, trucks, toys and a on premises diner.. And a motel with in walking distance.. Plan on spending ALL day!!!! Call ahead and a group could possibly get a back room tour of their shop????

For the drag racer there is the Gartlis Museum in Ocala FL to combine with the ATCA Winter Nationals Bushnell FL in January..

And the Brockway Museum in Cortland is actually 4 museums in one!!!! The Central New York Living History Center.. 

I agree, the Keystone museum is great, well worth the trip!..me and Zina got married there you know. Dave took us on a tour of the shop where he did most of the restoration work one time, a few years ago. I still owe Dave a hotdog and a Pepsi, but he says I owe him a steak dinner- which I would be more than happy to buy him. When me and Zina reconnected in 2017 it was because she somehow saw my picture on Facebook when I was sitting in Keystone 's PIE Freightliner in Winchester, Va. and Dave took my picture. I was glad to see he made the trip to Florida recently. Let us know when you're going, we're only a couple hours away!

And we've been saying for years that we were going to Don Garlits' museum in Ocala when we were in Florida, but we just haven't gotten around to it yet.