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Guess I'll work on the old International this week. Last time I drove it the radiator was leaking around the radiator cap. Since NAPA didn't have one I ordered one that I thought would fit from Amazon. 6 bucks. 37 bucks from the old International trucks web site. Anyhow, the radiator is also leaking on the opposite side from the cap too, the solder on the frame supports on each side is broken, and the solder around where the bottom hose connects looks like dirt daubers did it, so I'm going to try to get it off Monday and take it to a radiator shop and have it fixed right. I pondered going with stop leak and hoping for the best for about 2 seconds, then said nope, just bite the bullet and take it off. As the old saying goes "if it ain't one thing, it's something else".

I've heard rumors that he only has to shift when he's leaving a stoplight because even though he drives a Mack it has a huge Cat engine in it. Huge.

A friend sent me a picture from a movie and asked me if this truck that was in it was a truck I used to drive for H.H. Moore Jr. It was taken from the TV screen I guess, and it was really blurry but I told him it sure looked like old 368. So today we found the movie, and I watched most of it just to see the truck. One of the stupidest movies I've ever seen by the way, but it was indeed the last truck I drove for H.H. Moore Jr. Trucking Co. before I went to F.L. Moore and Sons in 2005. It was filmed in N.C, and it came out in 2006. The guy in the picture was laying by the road there, the truck pulls up and stops, blows the horn, and that's all it shows of it. This is the truck when I drove it.

I looked this morning, I didn't see a name anywhere on anything.

There's no brand name on the paperwork, just M&M Motors. That's the used car lot that sold it. I'll look at the carport itself tomorrow and see if I see a name.

I don't remember, but I'll look when I get home.

Carport guy came yesterday, along with his dad and his nephew. They were out of Mt. Airy, super nice folks. The dad is 78 years old, still helps them out. They didn't get here until after 4pm. but they stayed until it was finished, looks nice.

I just painted the corners over the rear windows at first, but I didn't like it. It had a square corner at the top rear, and it just didn't look right because there's not a square corner on this truck, everything is rounded off. So the I decided I needed to go all the way around with it. I started the light green at the bottom of the drip rails and went all the way across the back of the cab. I didn't like that either, I said "it should be below the windows in the sleeper". So I taped and masked it up again and went down to the top of the black stripe this time. Zina said she loves it, but I'm not sure. I overthink things sometimes but maybe I should have just painted the visor and fenders and left everything else alone, I don't know.

I've been busy again.

Nice, thank you. The teal colored Ford with the white top is really nice.

I was wondering about that, if I drove the big green watermelon looking International to the show in Winchester would I have to stop at the scales? I don't really want to drive it that far, might get ran over on 81. I'd like to get it there though, hoping Wayne Ellis or somebody might be able to haul it up there for me.

Wow, I posted this from my phone. I moved it a while ago because carport guy is supposed to be here Tuesday. Fired up as soon as I hit the key. We drove it around the block, ran great too.

painting the visor is a good idea too.

Nice!

That's a great idea!

I was actually pondering painting the top of the cab with the light green, then I thought the hunter green like the doors would look better, but I still don't know if I'll paint the top of the cab or not. I've been waxing and polishing on it every morning, while it's in the shade and it's looking better and better.

No, absolutely not, I was wondering about the air conditioners that are self contained, you have to put ice in them. Their ads say it lasts for 6 1/2 hrs. I always read the reviews on pretty much everything I buy, but these- some people say they're great, other people say they're a waste of money. But I would like to find something that cools, in case the dogs want to ride. 😁

Anybody know anything about air conditioners? I'm not even going to try to put an AC compressor on the engine, but maybe a battery powered unit, an RV unit, some kind of portable AC that would work- anybody rigged up something like that before?

OK, great- I didn't have sound on the phone or the computer.

I still can't get sound, not on my end anyway. The sound works fine on the original you sent.

Bob sent me this video to see if I could get it to post- VID_20240731_062742.3gp Looks like it posted OK, but I have no sound.