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These are 2 of my favorite trucks, right here. Old GMCs, an 860 Cannonball and a D860. Unrestored, looking like they did when they were still working. And the owner, J.B. Stoltzfus, encourages people to get in them and take a look.

I went to the ATHS National show in Harrisonburg the year before last... wasn't it?.. because Harrisonburg is 2 hours from here and it'll probably never be that close again. I didn't even go when it was in Baltimore, I'm not going to one of the top crime centers in the country unless I get paid to. Harrisonburg was nice though, it was at the fairgrounds and there was plenty of room. I've already heard that they're asking people to drop trailers somewhere else in Reno because of a lack of space at the show grounds. Sounds like they didn't really pick the best spot to have it, I'm sure there are plenty of wide open spaces there that would be better suited for a truck show. Macungie on the other hand runs like a well oiled machine, every time.

I don't know what happened to the JOT site, but this reminded me of another website that I miss a lot- Hank's Truck Pictures. I used to love to get on there and look at all the truck pictures, especially the old ones. Hank's was no surprise though, he said he was going to shut it down. So many people shared so many of the pictures on Facebook that he said there wasn't much point in it anymore.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/albums Don't worry. Hope Wonder Woman is doing fine, maybe we'll see y'all in Winchester.

I understand there's a pretty big truck show coming up in Macungie, Pa. very soon. In fact, it's been called "the greatest truck show on earth" (Doug Maney, 1986). Just wondering if anybody was planning to go ?

It can do all that and it's also impervious to dents and scratches!.. apparently.

Me too.

But probably not a bud light.

I thought it was taken in the parking lot at the Hellertown Truck Stop. The story I heard was that a driver had just picked up a brand new red Ford straight truck from the Ford dealership and stopped there for a cup of coffee on his way home. Last I heard he was still there waiting for his free refill.

Yes indeed! I was just reading a post on Facebook about Joe Biden tripping and falling- again- that Gregg Hoffman posted (underdog on BMT, but he's another one who's seldom on here anymore) and he referred to Biden as "hero of the stupid". 🤣

That looks great! I'd like just a slice or two to put on a bun to sample please. Oh, throw some of those baked beans in the envelope too before you put it in the mailbox. Thanks!

Yes indeed, y'all are right. Every night my hands just ache from arthritis, the more I've been toting and lifting during the day the worse it is, and I try to be very careful when I hold anything because I have dropped so many things. After dropping and breaking a couple of 4 or $500 cameras I said enough is enough. I had to get a bigger but not near as good camera to take with me on the road because I could grip it better. And whenever I pick up my my "good" camera the first thing I do is put the strap around my neck. I get up in the morning and both of my knees pop, then I moan and groan and complain about my back hurting for a while, then start the day- after the local news and Family Feud goes off.

I got the bulldog and stuck it to a piece of tape, I'll stick it back on there when I get some glue. One of the mirrors is broken too, and the piece of the mirror bracket is stuck in the hole. I've just got it dangling by the top bracket.

Huh? 🤣

Great, found 2 more boxes of stuff to try to fit in there somewhere. Found this ring that I got from H.H. Moore's for being there for 20 years. Me and my wife also got treated to a steak dinner at the best steakhouse in Lynchburg.

I cooked these ribs in the barrel Saturday. I cut them up and cooked them on the grate instead of hanging them from the rebar. Last time I cooked ribs I used the hinged grate and hung one rack and cooked the other one on the grate and everybody (everybody meaning Zina) liked the ones I cooked on the grate better.

Yep, they really do a great job as a smoker. The only disadvantages to them really is that the little fire box doesn't hold much, so you have to add more wood every few minutes, and probably the biggest thing is that most people don't want an old gas or electric range sitting in their back yard. But man do they cook great!

We're still moving of course, spending the weekend at the new place. It has a sleep sofa that had never been used before, still had the plastic on the mattress. It is extremely uncomfortable. Anyhow, we brought the corner cabinet over and my son helped unload it Saturday and I was putting my stuff back in it yesterday. I took everything out of it in Gladys and put it in a box. Some idiot had set the box down on the arm of the couch instead of putting it on the floor, then I- I mean he- bumped into and it fell to the floor. Broke the mirror off of everything in it. Broke the little tiny bulldog off the hood of the mixer too. Old Bill sent me a lot of that stuff, like the Akubra hat with the crocodile hat band, and the leather Trimac cap. I bought the DM model in Macungie a few years ago, but it's too intimidating for me to even attempt to put it together. I might get a tube of Super Glue and some tweezers and try to put the bulldog back on the mixer, that's about all the model making I'm gonna try.

I was talking about my smoker made from an old stove a while back, and I just happened to run across these pictures. That's a couple of Boston butts in it. This picture almost makes me want to find another one...but not quite.

I have a high-low range selector valve off a 10 speed in the pickup🛻 🤣

My truck is only made from 2 trucks, I think, it has a push button starter, and I disconnect a battery cable when it's parked because something drains the battery, but it doesn't beep when I back up. Guess that disqualifies me!

Actually it did a great job- or it seemed to at the time. I'm sure if I went back to driving it now after getting out of a 500 HP truck I would think it was a slug though. It had 3.87 rears and it was comparable to the 350 Cummins they had as far as pulling. It was slow taking off from a dead stop, but once you got going it was fine. I remember having 25 tons of fertilizer in a van and went up Christiansburg mountain with it in 4th. gear. But most hills, like on 460 west of Blacksburg, and coming down rt. 8 from Butler, Pa. I had to pull in 3rd.

That's a tough question. I liked all of them, but some more than others. I liked the Transtar, it had a VT 903 and a 13 speed. Both F models were good trucks. The orange and white one was a 300/5 speed and I drove it all over, when I hauled kyanite they loaded 14 pallets of it, which weighed 50,155 lbs. Unless it was going to Missouri, Illinois, or Indiana, then they only loaded 12 pallets. The other one had a 350 Cummins with a 10 speed. All the K 100's were good trucks. The first one was the first brand new truck I had, nobody else had ever drove them before. The first one had a 350 Cummins, the next 2 had 400's in them with top of the line interiors. The first 2 T800's were good, especially the black one. It had a 444 Cummins with an 18 speed. Now, the teal colored one- that was one of the worst. It had a cat engine and a 13 speed. I think it was a 3406E, but I'm not sure. It was supposed to be set at 425 HP, but it never ran right, it broke down a lot, people I ran with said it was the weakest 4 and a quarter cat they'd ever seen, even though it wasn't the old original "4 and a quarter". The transmission went out in it too. And every time I took it to Truck Enterprises in Roanoke they would pretty much say "ain't nuthin' wrong with it, it's supposed to be like that". The 350's I drove pulled better. That's when I told the boss that I wanted my next new truck to be an International, and they were. The red one and the white one both had 500hp. N14 engines with Super 10 transmissions and they were good trucks. The black Freightliner was good, N14 460hp. I turned it over when the trailer got into a ditch at a job site. The blue one was one of the worst. It looked good- from afar anyway- but it had the cheapest interior you could get in a truck, and you could shut both doors tight and still stick your fingers inside at the lower rear corners. My wife could put her whole hand inside. And you had to wear a rain coat inside when it rained. But it ran OK, 475 Cat with a 10 speed. The last one was good and bad, it was a nice truck, looked great I thought. But it was when the ISX engines first came out, and it had a lot of EGR issues. So if I had to pick a "favorite" it would be tough, but I'll go with the black T800.

I would typically leave on Sunday or Monday and get home on Friday or Saturday. If I got in on Friday I would unload and then load a load to leave on Sunday with. If I got in Friday night or Saturday I would unload and leave again on Monday. Sometimes I would get in and go home during the week, but not very often.

I started to put this in "Other Truck Makes", but there's a couple of Mack's in there. These are every truck I drove for H.H. Moore Jr. Trucking Co. from 1979 until 2005.