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True that! Zina called the motel in Fogelsville to inquire about another night because we're going to Connecticut to see her Dad again and they were completely booked. Probably a lot more people are going because of the ATHS convention in York the weekend before.

Yes sir, it's the little things like this that I don't mind doing, and like doing. The whole "truck runs and sounds great, I'd drive it anywhere" like I was told by the seller and found to be untrue, and taking a month to get it running, not so much. Like Jeff said, "no wonder he wanted to deliver that truck- he didn't want you to call him when you were sitting on the side of the road somewhere trying to drive it home". I bet he was happy as could be that he managed to keep it running long enough to get it off the trailer. We drove it around the block again yesterday.

I got the last 2 lights done. Had to drill all 4 screws out, but they look a little better now. I didn't have a good "before" picture for comparison.

They need a Twin Peaks in Macungie. And a Twin Peaks in Hellertown, and a Twin Peaks in Spout Spring. Fun fact of the day- I just googled Twin Peaks franchises and a typical Twin Peaks restaurant generally makes about $1 million more per year than a Hooters restaurant! Wow!

Working on some little things. I painted the gladhands and put new seals in them. The old ones were hard, cracked, and dry rotted. And I got 3 out of 5 cab marker lights of and painted the base with some chrome paint. I'm gonna try to get the other 2 tomorrow. I had to drill the heads off of 4 of the screws I got out today because they were stripped.

Vicki from Florida will be with me and Zina, but Bob from Nevada doesn't get in until 9:30 and we have to pick him up at the airport, and Belle, Roman, and Mack have to be somewhere, so I don't know if we can even go. Roman has terrible separation anxiety.

Funny you should say that. I went to the Winfall Walmart store today and saw this girl sitting in a car in the parking lot right next to me when I came out carrying my 12 pack of PBR. She said "excuse me sir, but would you happen to have a set of jumper cables? My car won't start- I'll make it worth your while if you jump me!" I said " yes, as a matter of fact I do, but I don't have time to jump you. I have to get home before my PBR gets hot!"

I finished putting the seat belts in today. They're just lap belts and they're not mounted exactly like they're supposed to be but they're probably better than nothing.

I changed it a little bit today- this IH emblem was painted solid silver at first, but I spray painted it black and then put some reflector tape on it. It's not the "official" color but I tried to paint it first with a little artist's brush and the more I painted the worse it looked 🤣. But I like this, looks pretty good I think. I'm installing seat belts in it too. They're not exactly like they're supposed to be either, but I've just gotten so used to wearing a seat belt I'm putting them in. I just have to go back to the hardware store tomorrow and get a couple of longer bolts. Then I'm going to start trying to get the cab marker lights off so I can paint them with some canned chrome. The heads of some of the screws are stripped, so I might have to drill or dremel-ize them off then hope I can get them out with vise grips.

Nice pictures Vlad, thank you!

Thanks, I was on old Internationaltrucks.com, they have a lot of parts too. Never looked for gearshift knobs, but I don't particularly like the one that's on it. My shift pattern is like this- The seller said it had an overdrive transmission, but I don't think it is. I looked at brochures and spec. sheets for this particular model truck and it did not even list any overdrive transmission as an option. I know that doesn't mean it hasn't been swapped out sometime in the last 60 years, but I don't think it has.

Yep, that's it!

I'm ready to turn the page here, but one last picture- the other day when paint guy was here looking at the truck he said "what's that red thing?" And I said "I don't even know". I'd been so busy working on getting it running ever since it's been here I'd never even paid any attention to the red thing. So I opened it and it has an extra headlight and marker light bulbs in it.

We have a color in mind already, we were going to paint it gray with blue fenders, I think it would look fantastic, and different. And since we live in Appomattox - civil war, blue and gray, it would have fit right in. I'm sure it would have been a big hit in the Railroad Festival Parade they have every October. Then we changed our minds.

Thank you for sharing with us Vlad! Great pictures!

We could certainly get by without painting it, we just want a different color on it mainly. And I wouldn't seriously consider any engine swap, even if the engine in it just disintegrated - it would be on marketplace immediately 🤣

Man, ain't that the truth! And it'll cost another fortune to paint it.

Does the R have a longer hood than the V models? Kind of looks like it, but it might be an optical illusion too. I was thinking- not too hard, but thinking- about how neat it would be to have a 6-71 in that truck when I was having all that trouble trying to get it to run. I just didn't think it would fit without a lot of cutting, chopping, grinding, welding, sawing, drilling, hammering, and cussing. A 4-53 would probably be a lot easier, but still not a driveway job.

Wow, super nice looking truck!

I'm pretty sure it hasn't, a guy who knows the truck, and some of it's history, said the last...3 I think, previous owners just took it to truck shows and it always arrived on a trailer. The rest of the time it sat in a building somewhere, for the most part anyway. I did see a picture of it pulling a milk tanker in a parade, and the guy that knew of it saw the same picture and said it was early 2000's and it was a show truck since then. I might not drive it very far, but I'm going to make it a point to drive it somewhere often. That was the biggest issue with the B53S mixer I had, it sat too much. We talked to a guy about painting it a month ago, and he just stopped by the other day. He paints right up the road from here in the big building across from the stop sign, where some cars and pickups are sitting, you can see it in the video. He said we would be looking at around 10 grand to paint it and do the body work. That's about twice as much as I expected.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EoMAyHKYNzdQsbYC9 Here's the one Zina took.

Bob, it's a 5 speed with a 2 speed rear. Carburetor guy found that the rubber O ring, or whatever it is, was gone off the thing it was supposed to be on in the accelerator pump. ( I'm not a carburetor guy🤣). It was laying down in the bottom of the carb, and he said he found more trash and debris in it, which was most likely clogging something up. It ran good, it was surprisingly "peppy".

I finally drove the International out of the driveway today. I went up to Sheetz and put some gas in it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ff8kEm26qJtUHRNz6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/46K913tixCahPa5r7 The first video is when I left here, the other one is on rt. 460 on the way home. It ran great! I need to practice driving it though, I was scraping every gear like it was the first time I'd ever been in a truck.