other dog

hey James, you're blurry too, get a cup of coffee.

I ordered 5 new cab lights from Watt's Mack last week. They came in a few days and I put them on yesterday.

Good looking lights!

I took the old rusty ones off and put one of the new ones on and thought they were the wrong lights at first because the bulb was towards the rear and the chrome part faced front. So I put them back in the box to send them back, then I gave Barry a call and told him I needed the ones with the bulb on the other end of the light. He said to just turn them around and the bulb would be in the front, so I did and they worked fine.

They fit perfectly and covered where the old lights were exactly, just had to drill new holes, but that's good, you don't want to be using old holes anyway.

Crappy old lights-

shiny new lights-

Then I came home and started slapping up a crude roof over the grill...yes, I know it's not up to code. I didn't buy any of it, it's made of posts and lumber I "accumulated" and had laying around. Got an old plastic tarp on it now, all I need is a couple of roof panels and i'm good.

I'm guessing Loadstar 1800.

Maybe its just me,but that American trucker guy REALLY gets on my nerves! too hyper for me,stopped watching for that reason,i'm sure i'm in the minority,but i never liked that trick my truck either,too much goobered-up bullshit for me,same as most truck shows now,all KW and petes,lets see who can put the most shit on one truck,and dont forget the 6000 watt stereo,and suicide doors,and a bumper you cant get a sheet of paper under! BTW,someone was on here a few months back,looking for parts/advice on that Evel Knievel F-model,but never heard anymore about it..............."Old school" Mark

Yeah, I have to agree, I lost interest in Trick my Truck when they started doing ice cream trucks, service trucks,etc. Haven't seen it lately. Haven't seen but a few American Trucker shows. Most are b.s. but I did like the one...can't remember what it was, but I liked it.

That Evel Knievil truck needs...a cab it looked like. They could hire our most famous member, the one and only...... "Rob"!- and pay him millions to fix it, but it was a real rust bucket. Looked like they dug it up off the bottom of the ocean.

We showed up Friday , I agree I wanted to get pictures with a few trucks with just my family or me without people in them. Like the KW Snowman truck.

American trucker guy "was" there on Sat. but I somehow missed him.. saw the guy from Trick My Truck walking around.

I saw the American Trucker guy, he came in in the wrecker towing the Evel Knievel truck. Then he was up on the hill at the wrecker demonstration, where the tipped over container was. I never saw him after, or met him, there was always a huge crowd where ever he was. I didn't know anybody from Trick My Truck was even there, would've liked to meet them too.

nice pictures,,thanks,,that redheaded chick will do

Indeed, nuthin' like a smokin' hot redhead! I tried to get her in as many pictures as possible...not that I was stalking her or anything.

Thanks Jay, great pictures! You can tell you were there early, by the time I got there it was hard to take a picture without a bunch of people in the way, but that's a good thing.

you know,,this country worries too much about hurting everbody,s feelings,,rather than getting down to business and start making money..who the hell cares about the spotted owl,they will move on to another forest...and endangered fish,,,when your fellow american taxpayer is starving to death.lets bring back logging,and drilling.concerned american.bob

Amen brother! (Bulldogman) You hit the nail on the head there! I wish I had a spotted owl though, i'd marinate it in some teryaki sauce and throw it on the grill.

Which ache gets soothed the best with ice? The surgery, or the prolonged stiffness in the "near and dear"?

Other Dog wants to know.

Rob

Yes, I always have my agent (Rob) ax the tough questions.

I put a few pictures on flickr today, and looked at some old ones i'd almost forgotten that I had. Probably nothing new to see, but now I kinda' wish i'd put the Lincolnton pictures there, I think I like it better than webshots and there's 2 fewer steps to go through to upload a picture. I like the bigger thumbnails too, I cain't see as good as I used to.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/

Joe,

Back in 1971 when I was 17 I was buildin a 67 Dodge Coronet R/T in my garage at my parents house, well I was just returning home from the Vet.(SHOTS) for our German Shepard (Jinx). Ok so I pull down our driveway an I see a light or something shining in the darkness inside the garage! All of a sudden a guy comes runnin out the door, so I let Jinx loose, an he grabes this guy (as he is goin over the fence) in the ass an takes a chunk of his blue jeans along with some ass cheek with the guys wallet in my dogs mouth!! So I guess you know the rest of the story!! BULLHUSK

uhh...i'll take a stab at it- his carcass is buried in a shallow grave in the woods?

Thanks, that's some good pictures right there.

Hey Jay,U-model looks good! seen it in Toms pictures,i kinda like the yellow,a good looking truck for sure,not too often you see a U anymore. Shoulda sent the short bus picture to Tom first,so he could worked his magic on it,put Daingerfield on the side,make Randy proud!.............Mark

how about this?

oh oh,time for corn beef hash,n eggs seeya.bob

one of my favorites for breakfast!

neat trailer! I've never seen such before!

There was some fine looking girls there. We need a section just for them.

Yes there was, but I had to be real sneaky just to get the few pictures I did. Jo loaded the cast iron skillet in the truck before we left, but I managed to convince her that it was too heavy for her to carry around.

that are some very fine trucks.

thanks for posting.

leon.

Thank you, got all the pictures on webshots now. I think now I should have went with flickr, they've got bigger thumbnail pictures. I could have done them on flickr individually without signing all the rights away but all my other truck show pictures are on webshots already.

Got a lot of the truck show pictures here-

http://rides.webshots.com/album/580642862YTyWeG

I haven't finished yet, more to come later. I could have put them straight from Kodak to Flickr but you have to give them permission to add, remove, and edit your photos to do it, so screw all that, I just put them on webshots.

Hey Tom, Nice to finally met you. The green U model is Jay's. The two macks on the trailer used to be parked on Rt 64 at a storage place between Raleigh and Pittsboro. They were there for 4 to 5 years then disapeared about 2 years ago.

Thanks David, likewise! I enlarged the picture on the camera on the way home and saw the owner's name was Jay. I'd say those Macks have been sitting right there on 158 for close to 2 years. I first saw them when I was passing through in the truck, and they were still there when I went to Lincolnton last year, and they're still there now. They're sittin between Stokesdale and Walkertown, just past the Sheetz if you're going towards Winston Salem.

Had a great time at the show today. This is the 3rd. year i've been to Lincolnton and despite the heat it was the most trucks and most people yet. I would have stayed a little longer but the heat was really getting to Jo, plus she has sciatica and her leg hurts when she has to walk a lot. When we came back through Winston-Salem the thermometer said 98 degrees. By the time we got to Altavista it was 101.

Met one of our BMT members there, real nice fellow- goes by the name "David". I also met Johnny Click, a Fed-Ex driver who has pictures on Hank's Truck Pictures. http://www.hankstruc...ohnny_click.htm

Here's just a few of over 200 pictures I took. As usual, i'll put most of the rest on webshots or photobucket, then i'll post a link to it but i'll save that project for tommorrow. I gotta make a couple of picture discs too, then i'll crop and resize them before I put them on webshots.

Here's a nice one for Rob-

Because I know you won't like these-

Jo was standing in front of these trucks and she looked so hot and tired the owner gave her a bottle of water, so she told him i'd post his trucks on here.

See, she's hugging that little bit of shade whenever she can-

Saw a good looking U-model.

Lots of B-models-I really liked this green one.

F-model-

There was even a "Japanese Freightliner" there-

And those Macks on rt. 158 that I first saw well over a year ago are still sitting there- stopped and got a couple of pictures on the way home.

And I only bought 1 item for myself- had to have this B-model T-shirt!

And last but not least- the hot babe of the day-front...and rear!

...and the hot babe of the day first runner-up

front-

...and rear-

Y'all use way too many big words for me, i'm gonna start a new topic and only use little words and lots of pictures.

Prolly try and make it if i get home in time,never been to this one either...........Mark

Here's some pictures from last year's show-

http://rides.webshots.com/album/578301593qEKAFT

I really like the yeller one, thas my favorite color,,,randyp

I really like the red one, but i'd hit them fenders with some black Krylon. I like rattle cans.

Ha ha ,

Update for those like me who didnt know..

American Trucker will be filming at the show this weekend. Were going up Friday and staying the night so I dont have to drive 5 hrs each way in 1 day.

I would do that, but I don't have a dog sitter and that regular cab Ford Ranger ain't big enough for me, Jo, and the dog. Probably be too small for the two of us before we get back, might have to put her in the back.

Here's a picture of her at Lincolnton from last year.

Made one trip this week, to Warren, Ohio. After taking 8 hours to get loaded in Lynchburg Monday, in near 100 dgree heat, I didn't get to Warren until lunchtime Tuesday. Then I couldn't get to Monongahela by 2 pm to pick up so I had to layover and load Wednesday morning. I wanted to get another trip in, but when I unloaded in Petersburg yesterday morning I came to the shop and called it a week so I can go to Lincolnton Saturday.

Saw this heavy duty wrecker in Broadway, Va.

Load I picked up in Monongahela