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Nice pictures Vlad! You get the "randyp kodiakotronomy of the day award". You have room for more-

Here's my thoughts- you could hardly go wrong if you can get it for $1,000. It looks to be in pretty good shape, the seller seems to be honest in his description, but more pictures would be nice. You'll spend some money on it, but I doubt you'll find one cheaper to start with. Here's some pictures out of a photo album of a couple I looked at before I bought the mixer. The owner was asking $1,000 for the lime green one with no hood. There was a lot of rust around the bottom of the cab, but it had good tires and good glass. There was an exact mate to it, out of the same fleet, bought at the same auction, in Amherst,Va. for $1,200. It had no glass in it and bald tires. I thought about buying both to make one. It was really what I wanted, single axle/duplex, but then I found the mixer at a good price- I figured i'd end up spending what I paid for the mixer to get one of the B-61s roadworthy. I looked at the other one after i'd already bought the mixer, or I might have bought it. The owner wanted $3,500 for it. He used to work for Mack, and when I was about to ask him what was the least he would take he said "I'll tell you one thing, they aren't making any more of them." And that's true, so I thought it would be a waste of time to even ask. So even if the engine was no good, which probably isn't the case, it looks like a pretty good deal to me.

well danged if it doesn't! I didn't even notice that at first.

hmmmmm...you might be on to something there Ed. Or maybe they didn't wear their tin foil hats and were taken over by aliens. You tried to warn them, I wear one 24/7 now.

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I voted and put my absentee ballot in the mailbox this morning.

Hope you're OK. You should check in periodically, along with olive,Timothy,rhasler,Paul,leversole, and on and on...if i've offended you,i'll just go away quietly,never to be seen or heard from again. But here's a hot babe just for old times sake-

so...what i'm hearing you say is you'll probably never pitch in the big leagues again?

...and like 41chevy said, if it has rubber fuel lines the inside of the line will suck together and cut the fuel flow off when they get old sometimes, and it will still look fine from the outside. I had this happen before on a cabover KW. If you go with an electric fuel pump, the closer you mount it to the tank the better, rather than closer to the carb, so it will push the fuel.

I'll copy it with my new obamaphone and it'll be upright- like magic...

I like it- not too fancy or chromed out, just looks like it's supposed to.

Another hay picture from the interweb machine, saw it in on facebook. Maybe this is what Olive's been busy doing lately. Wonder what's holding up the center bales on the tanker? And here's the birth announcement Morgan put in the Appomattox paper- ...wonder where he gets it from...

A fellow around here had a pretty good size fleet of tandem dumps in the '80s with 427 engines and 5x2 setups, and they ran and pulled well with no major issues that I know of. I could have bought a 1960,61,or 62 C-80 once for $500. It was a single axle,5spd,2 speed rear,no body on it,good cab,just a little rust on the fenders,and it had a good running 348 engine in it. The owner didn't have a title but he said he'd help me get a title for it. I've wished ever since i'd bought it, the engine was worth the asking price. Don't know what ever became of it,but the man who had it was killed just a year or so ago when a tree he was cutting fell on him.

I don't remember seeing any either. I have seen cabover Diamond Reo UPS trucks though.

wow, didn't know they'd wear out that fast.

I took a load up there from the same place a few years ago, it wasn't too bad.

Too many folks!

I went north to Oakland, Md. this week, reloaded in Leetsdale, Pa, to Petersburg, Va. then took a trip south to Dothan, AL. Saw this Freightliner for sale in Oakland- no big deal, but it was way over yonder from where I took the picture. Saw a really neat John Deere combine made out of hay bales. A girl in a car. Beautiful fall scenery. A bulldozer on a trailer going down the mountain. An Autocar with bulldog mirrors. Another girl in a car. A big Mack truck. Some construction equipment in N.C. on I-85. Another bulldozer. Eufala, Al. is a pretty place. Another girl in a car, this one had a KW emblem between her legs. A big cotton pickin' machine in the field. 3 nice looking Petes for sale just up the road here on rt. 29. Load of things I picked up in Enterprise, Al. yesterday. They deliver Monday in Lakehurst, N.J. Good paying load, but I dread the thought of having to go to New Jersey.

Dang, sorry to hear of this! My thumb is still sore from where that strap broke when I was tightening it, and that's just a thumb- you gonna be hurtin' a while!

I've never seen it either, apparently I haven't missed anything though. Ice Road Truckers did kind of jump the shark. Except for Hugh, Alex, and Rick, all they do is whine about who's leading the load count. The gold mining in Alaska show is pretty good though- I heard that guy on a radio interview once and he said not one bit of that show is staged, it's all real just like it happens.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

Thanks Vinny.

From the Full Throttle Saloon facebook page.

sounds like something olive would say- are you really olivetroad, posting under an assumed name?

Here's a picture of an extremely rare, seldom seen, and never before photographed UB-53S mixer.