other dog

Just for the record, heres a few pictures of some of my alltime favorite cars (showing my age i guess) but this is what "real" cars look like! hell everybody likes a GTO right!?..........Mark

yes! I like this one best,

but the '66 and '67 were the best looking GTO's in my opinion. I had a 72 Nova,68 Camaro,and a 70 Chevelle SS in my younger days,then it was "family" cars.

Probably shouldn't have been bragging about the garden before. It was pretty and green then, growing nicely. Then the rain stopped. Not much left of it now. The green beans died,for the most part, after 2 pickings. Bugs ate most of the cabbage. Couldn't find sevin dust so I sprayed them with a liquid bug killer I got at Wal-Mart. Apparently it was quite tasty.

Cut all the cabbage yesterday,ran the tiller through it,and sowed greens there. Probably sowed them too early and there'll be bugs there with little tiny knives and forks waiting for it to come up. Pulled up the onions too. They didn't do too bad but they didn't get very big either. But once the tops fall over that's all they're gonna do. Peppers and tomatoes are hanging in there but look pretty bad.

And I planted several "pepper" plants that turned out to be herbs-basil or something. Won't be much hot sauce this year unless I hit my Daddy up for some of his.

looked like this about a month ago-

Here's the 2010 Colfax info, from the ATHS site.

Saturday, 11/6/2010

ATHS Piedmont Carolina Chapter Truck Show

At Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, Sandy Ridge Rd at I-40. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location: Colfax, NC

Contact: Bruce Essick

Phone: (336) 431-6824 day, (336) 664-0974 eve

The Mayor/Bishop tried to get that, but nobody would be able to enforce. I believe the courts hurt it.

he wanted to impress on those that wore that attire that it would be difficult for them to get a job, be taken as a responsible person and improve their life cred.

Closest i go to Riviera is Mack. I don't fit in with the locals

OD- aint nobody runnin 9's nowday. Gots to have uh AK

oh...I'll fix it

AAAWWWW man y'all be dissin ma ride. Gonna havta call LL come put a cap in yo ass.

Funny thing that was mentioned about the saggy pants. Is actually a prison thing to walk around at nite looking for "service"

Aren't they the same group that have numerous drive by shootings?

We be losin street cred

The latinos are also doing this but with wider tires

Randy please make a video of that B running. I would love to hear that straight piped beast.

here's one

AAAWWWW man y'all be dissin ma ride. Gonna havta call LL come put a cap in yo ass.

Funny thing that was mentioned about the saggy pants. Is actually a prison thing to walk around at nite looking for "service"

Aren't they the same group that have numerous drive by shootings?

We be losin street cred

The latinos are also doing this but with wider tires

I'm gonna' havta' get up there some of these days! looks like he has a lot of stuff right up my alley!..........Mark

here's more-forgot about these!

http://rides.webshots.com/album/572065624hKgZmm

Here's one from a local ATHS show here in Sparks a couple of years ago.

Russ

Here's one at P.L.Duncan's in Va.

Back in the mid 90's I had two UD series trucks that were branded International. Both were rollback carriers and very good trucks. They were supported through the Mack dealer used at the time with no problems. Parts were expensive in comparison to an R model but other than the occasional clutch, there were no outstanding, or recurring problems. One of the trucks was a 1500 series, the other 1800 series, with 175, and 210 hp engines. They were smooth, quiet trucks, but prone to rust.

I let both go and purchased a CS-300P Midliner that yielded very good service also until the wrecker entity of the business was phased out.

I've wondered for a few year since the severance with Renault, what series of truck would replace the class 6/7 segment provided from the Mack brand.

Rob

Powell's Truck and Equipment, the International dealer in Lynchburg, used to sell UD's.

I don't even like those 20" (I guess-I don't know what size they are really) wheels on a classic car, like this Olds or the otherwise perfect looking 68 or 69 Chevelle I saw the other day-the wheels ruin it for me,needs some Cragar SS's or Keystone classics on it.

Must be like putting broken pieces or rubber straps down through the steps on a truck,there's just no logical explanation for it.

I have put my notable brainpower on this idea,and come up with the following use for the "tarballs" my proposal is this,properly mixed with other "organic" material re: dairy lagoon waste, the aforementioned "tarballs" can then be sold to the USDOT to be used as patches for interstate 40 nationwide,eliminating the high cost of re-paving,and finding suitable government contractors! i am willing to invest the contents of my super secret criso can (contents in excess of $40.00) towards getting this project off the ground. My only request is to have the board meet, and vote on an un-limited expense account for me (trucking and logistics will not be cheap!) plus i will need a "staff" i am currently interviewing busty young women for this opening,then there is the matter of rolling stock, i have already put in an order for 30 new tractors,25 flatbeds with side kits,25 walking floor trailers,6 new end dumps (just in case) 1 vaccuum trailer,plus numerous "incidentals" to be billed F.O.B to randyp enterprises inc. Texas,USA......Grand exaulted dictator of trucking/transportation and logistics Mark

Rats!..that was gonna be my plan, use it to fix the roads...maybe be named to a high ranking position by c.e.o. Randy, with lots of young, nubile, busty assistants...but once again i'm too late. Guess all I can do now is invest my total net worth of $7.43 into the company, because I do believe in it strongly.

I can assure all the board members that my expenses are indeed "legit",i will forward the corperate minutes from my first staff meeting (photo 1) and i have the upmost confidence in my newly hired construction supervisor,she is already hard at work in the gulf, extracting the seawater/oil mix for transport to our refinery (photo 2) and as for the accusation of me "moonlighting" in the furniture industry, rhasler has his macks mixed up! does this look like a vision to you?(photo 3) was'nt me did'nt do that! anyway how were you going to "bug" a non-existant sleeper berth? all my business dealings have been with the good of the company first! you should be ashamed of yourselves thinking i was only looking out for myself and just looking to make money!.....Corperate hired gun Mark

uh...if you could spare just one of your staff members to be my assistant, the one standing far left looks most qualified to me.

I figgered it out...

2) Blonde realizes she can make a donation on the 4th floor- when she spits it out

Might have had something to do with it...

Transcraft once had the reputation of building some of the best flatbeds. They bought several new Wabash flats when I was at H.H.Moore's and they were flimsy pieces of crap.

good thing you got that wheel tied down-wouldn't want it blowing away into the corn field.

Nice work on the tractor!

I'm still trying to figger it out....could go a few differn't ways

1) Dude looks like a lady

2) Blonde don't realize she can't make a donation on the 4th floor

3) Lezbo wanna have a kneehigh and can't get knocked up by her lover

4. none of the above

Where did you manage to grab a photo of my super secret laboratory???? I've always been accused of having "Shit for Brains" so I built my private research center to achieve closure to the ordeal. I've had my feelings hurt much too often from the likes of the participants on this board.

Rob

secretspypitchers.com

heh heh ,,gosh all mighty,,heh,,all i can say,,other dog will be impressed,,Donator Randy

I am.

You'd be trouble and money ahead to just start with a Superliner and update the engine if that's your goal. If nothing else, find a recent RD and start there so at least you've got the cab mounts and everything that you are just moving back on the frame.

Here's a Superliner for ya. In fact,there's 2 of them on his lot.

Some great pictures there! i remember those days too! my uncle buddy retired from Mclean with 40 years (he's gone now) my uncle cecil retired from ESTES with 35 years service, my uncle morris put in 20+ years at PILOT, then went on and ran a lowboy at J.H.Martin const. in richmond for another 20 years. I never knew roadway ran crackerboxes, never saw one! my uncle buddy always liked the crakerbox for some reason! last truck he ran for them was a GMC brigadier,8V-92 detroit, he worked a short time for food lion after he "officially" retired, ran a daycab road commode for them. Used to love to hear them trucks roll by all hours of the night, have some real good memories spending time at my grandparents house....Mark

check this out then

I'm gonna try and make that one myself, but with the way the furniture plants are closing down here left and right, i kinda' gotta make my hay while the sun is shining! ya' know what i mean? LOL! but i'll get with you later on,see if i cant work it out, cause i'd sure like to go, i been runnin hard as i can, have'nt done much of anything but work since we moved! needing a break! i remember when i was a kid ALL the big freight outfits ran down 360, used to love and sit with my grandad and watch em' go by! PILOT,McLEAN,BRANCH,OVERNITE,THURSTON etc........Mark

I remember those days well-

all photos courtesy of http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm

Yea Larry, thats a good lookin rig ya got. But some guy in a station wagon is tailgating ya wants around pretty bad looks to me like hes goin to buy tha backend if he don't get off your tail soon.

mike

Guys I hate to bust your bubble but that is not a beaver shes a sportin. Its a Cha Chia advertised on TV a couple years back. You just leave it out and it grows hair right before your eyes. I can't believe all yaw'd git it wrong. Yaw bin lookin at too many bad films or sumpin.

mike

Thanks Mike- see,that's what happens when you're not here to guide us!

I've been meaning to take a ride up that way sometime,i heard tell theres a trucking outfit around there with a bunch of old macks sitting around, maguire trucking??? my grandparents lived up that way for a good number of years, right off 360 at wylliesburg. spent some summers there when i was a kid, but don't really know much about the area, i sure do like to run 288/ then 360 outta' richmond when coming home from the north, lot less traffic/stress/ BS...can get right with it too! never had any "bear trouble" runnin' the woods!......Mark

A lot of trucks used to run 29 to Danville,58 to South Boston,then 360 to Richmond out of the Carolinas for that very reason,instead of I-85 to I-95. Branch trucks always ran 360.

If you take 360 from South Boston up to Wylliesburg,turn on rt. 15 south towards Clarksville-right across from the Tastee-Freez- and McGuire is about a mile or so on the left. Never seen any old Macks sitting around,but i've never stopped to look either.

By the way, i'm taking my vacation the first week of August. Hope to go to Lincolnton,N.C. to the ATHS show July 31. Nocluejoe might go too. He came up here and stayed a couple of days last summer.Not sure of his plans this year.