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1 hour ago, Brocky said:

Thanks for the pictures!!! Will be looking forward to the entire album after you get home.. Will not be able to see you due to the wife's health problems.

Sorry you couldn't make it, hope your wife is OK. It'll probably be a while on the pictures this year, because we're still moving and I haven't moved my computer yet. And we've already cancelled the internet at the old house, so I just don't know. I won't be able to post any pictures that I take with the camera until I get the PC going.

On 6/13/2023 at 12:19 PM, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Saturday. 

Oh, wait I never heard of Macungie. But if I had, the BMT picture is at the Watts tent on Saturday at high noon. 

What if it's raining at high noon, do you have an umbrella I can borrow?

11 hours ago, mowerman said:

Absolutely I was going to add something to that story I mentioned about somebody found a bunch of old 50s cars in a warehouse buried for  years got me to thinking about almost 40 years ago. I was rapping with a guy and Oakland California that bought one of those World War II CJ four jeeps this thing was absolute tits.everything .  brand new old stock But he was telling me the only problem he has. It is just about every oil seal on there leaks at that time. The parts were all 40 years old. I’m thinking that’s what you would find with the cars that have been stored since 1965…. Bob

That's like that guy in Lynchburg a while back- he died and they auctioned off his collection of old cars, truck, boats, even an airplane. He had them stashed in several old buildings, and the thing is nobody knew any of them were there until they started moving things out to get the ready to sell. I heard about some that were sitting in one place in Lynchburg and me and Zina went to investigate. Then I saw more of the guy's stuff in Madison Heights that had been in another building when I went to the eye Dr. 

A fairly young guy I think, filthy rich, and had all these old and rare vehicles stashed around that nobody knew about- weird. I'm pretty sure I posted pictures of some of the stuff here.

19 hours ago, mowerman said:

And yes, I expect I really don’t need to tell anybody who that is !!!!!!!!!

I could use a couple of dressers if you run across any good deals.

I wonder if Paul Birch and William Campbell really drove the cannonball? You can tell in a lot of scenes that there's not even a windshield in the truck. I've only seen the 2 episodes that I have on a DVD since I was a kid, many years ago. They're also on YouTube, maybe they're the only episodes in existence now. 

On a side note, there's a William Campbell High School here between Gladys and Brookneal. Probably named for a different William Campbell though 🤣

9 hours ago, mowerman said:

They both look like they are original shape 

Yes they are.

6 hours ago, 70mackMB said:

This is my favorite from a few years back.    .....Hippy

 

That's one of my favorites too, and the one with Freightrain.

19 hours ago, other dog said:

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 just saw a Facebook post on the fat cab GMC page, J.B.'s truck are already loaded up to go to Macungie. These two are true "barn finds" that you hear about. He's been bringing the Cannonball for a while, I think last year was the first time for the D860. They both have 6-71s.

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.

11 hours ago, Draggin Wagon said:

Things ain't looking good for that trip (900 miles round trip). Seems like everything around here is falling apart. Wonder Woman is having some doctoring problems. I have been pulling old concrete from in front of shop, started forming today. Tomorrow is choke a doctor day so not much progress on concrete. Next week is clear plugged up with "got to do" crap! So feel free with plenty of pictures from the show! 

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 ?

On 6/3/2023 at 11:11 AM, Joey Mack said:

Never had  NEVER WILL...   Miller Lite, when Im in the mood for a beer..  I'm a Lite weight now..  

Me too.

14 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

Here it is DCW,,,  No B.S. here..    I could go all day long on redneckin' my Moffet Mounty..  

I guess I should 'a' put a beer in it for the ''photo -op''   

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.