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Here you go- https://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/

...who dat is?

I talked to the owner for a while, nice guy. He used to drive for Trans-Con. Great restoration on that truck! I have close-ups of the signs too. There ain't nuthin' like a V8 Mack. I'm too tired to continue...i'll get back at it in the morning...zzzzzzzzz...zzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzzzz...

Lots of Superliners there too...is this a good pic or what? I'm still resizing and cropping pictures...

Well shhhh-oot!.at least I got to see Mike! It was a great show, great weather, lots of trucks I hadn't seen before, lots of old favorites- and don't worry Ken, I took 297 pictures. I haven't processed them yet, but here's a few- I'll post a link to flickr or photobucket or where ever it is I put my pictures ASAP. The one thing that peed me off was the Ford cabover with the 903 Cummins. I was all the way across the lot when I said "hey- that's a 903! I haven't heard one of those in years!" So I went over to the registration tent and waited for him to fire it up again and drive off, so I could get the sound on video...and by the time I figured out how to set the camera on video, it was long gone. And all I had to do was press the little red button with the video camera emblem on it. Dang it- now i'll probably never hear another 903 running again. Had straight pipes on it too. I saw this truck there too, but I never saw the owner. Kept looking for him all day. Brocky probably knows him, how many Diamond T's could there be in Waterloo,S.C?

Hope to see y'all there tomorrow, i'll be leaving here shortly.

They put them in all our trucks because they got insurance cheaper. It starts recording if you reach 75mph. so mine records a lot on I-79 in W.V.

I drained the gas tank, put new gas in it, took the carb. off, didn't see any dirt or trash in it, sprayed it out with WD40,still nothing. I didn't have any ether here. I guess if a new plug doesn't do anything i'll have to take it to a buffessional, but the plug was sparking good even when you pull the rope easy.

Many were texting, but they weren't wearing short shorts.

I get all the antique truck magazines that I know of, and I like them all. But Old Time Trucks has to be my favorite. Lot of Mack stuff in the last issue, and a very good article about Pacific trucks.

Those forage harvesters today really eat up some corn! We used to call them a "silage cutter", and they were pulled behind a tractor and blew the silage into a Gehl silage wagon- that's the only kind I ever saw. ...and if Mike was hauling silage, this is probably how he'd get it done-

It's been sitting since I used it in the spring to till the garden, but the gas had Sta-Bil in it.

Saw this wild creature yesterday. We always called them a walking stick, I don't know if that's the official name for it. This is the biggest one i've ever seen. Looks like a stick, eh? And I saw this p.o.s. tiller yesterday- I tried all day to get it started. I bought a Huskee lawn mower with a Briggs and Stratton engine in 2005 and from the day I got it until now i've never had to pull the rope more than twice and it starts. That was one reason I got the Huskee tiller. I pulled and pulled and pulled yesterday until I started to get a blister on my hand, and nothing. Took the plug out and pulled the rope, getting a good strong spark. Put new gas in it, took the air filter off and shot a little WD40 in the carb, nothing. Never hit a lick. I used it in the spring and it ran fine, probably has less than an hour total use since I bought it. And it's a piece of junk.

At Hubbard, Oh. about a month ago.

Oh. The old Whites were the only trucks i've seen them on before.

I wonder what became of Fred Craig's GMCs? All these, and several more, were in Winchester in '06 or '07. The yellow one had the V12 gas engine in it. I'd like to have the D860 myself.

Are you talking about the brackets on the front corners? About all the 7000 Whites had those, never did know what they were for.

That looks like if you hit a speed of 103.663 mph. the front wheels would start to lift.

I went to Moneta and unloaded lumber Monday- truck was clean as a pin, the truck washer guy had washed it over the weekend. Saw a metal spider and scorpion in Moneta. Instead of reloading treated lumber there I had to go to Dillwyn and get a load of kyanite going to Chester, W.V. The paper said the load was at the Upper Gieseke plant. Chester loads are usually at the Mullite plant just north of Dillwyn, but I figured they should know where it was so I went to the Gieseke plant. You have to go to the back side of Willis Mountain to get there, about a mile down a dirt road. The water truck had just made a pass when I got there... There it is right there- The clean didn't last long. And the worst part was, the load wasn't there, it was at the Mullite plant...grrrrr! I saw a smoking dump truck along the way. This fellow hitched a ride when I was leaving the Gieseke plant. 60 mph. on rt. 15 and it's still riding. He finally jumped off when I stopped at the red light at Sprouses Corner. Kyanite tarped and ready to ride. Load of pumpkins on I-81. Goats in the field. Goats on the cliff. The seldom seen and rarely photographed Summersville goat on Powell Mountain. Road shot west of Moorefield, W.V. Much dirt and rock was moved to make this road. Took a picture in the mirror while I was waiting to get unloaded in Chester of this woman's north side as she was walking south. I saw a raccoon in Chester too. A girl walking by the railroad tracks in McKees Rocks. I took a load from Lynchburg to Spencer, In, then got a load of bricks from Westfield, In. to Indiana University in Indiana, Pa. then went back to Mckees Rocks to load back to Lynchburg. Some random pics on the Indiana University campus- A girl in a car eating an apple...or it could be a pear. The wrecking ball knocking down this tower looking thing. A pig and a gorilla. I saw lots of big yellow machines this week. As the old saying goes "you can't swing a dead raccoon around by it's tail without hitting a big yellow machine." Steel I loaded in McKees Rocks. A girl in a car not eating an apple...or a pear.

That's a sorry way to do business. Sorry for somebody to buy it out from under you like that on the buyer's part, and the seller should have honored your agreement if he had agreed to your price in the first place, even if somebody had offered three times as much. A deal is a deal- at least it used to be. At the very least the seller should have told you he got a better offer and given you the option to match it instead of sending your check back.

I didn't make it, went from Moneta back to Dillwyn and loaded kyanite going to Chester, W.V. I was in the area yesterday though, but I didn't see anybody.

I might be lurking around the area tonight and tomorrow, but I don't know yet. I've got to unload lumber in Moneta, and i'll probably reload there and head up north somewhere.

I picked this many peppers today to put with the ones already in the freezer. I went ahead and picked the biggest Tabascos too. A couple of them had turned orange and I picked them before, but I don't know if they were going to turn red or not so I went ahead and picked the biggest and brightest ones. And I bit the end off of one and ate it. I don't know how they compare heat-wise with the jalapenos and cayennes, but my tongue is still burning from it. Still got a lot of cayennes on the plants that are still green. Here's the entire crop so far-

I was going to go to this show but I decided to wait and go to Winchester in a couple of weeks instead. I wish they still had this one in July like they used to.