other dog

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.

LOL! now thats funny right there! i just hope there does'nt come a time when i gotta'run my boy outta' my truck for something like this! be a teenager before i know it! and i know what a pain in the ass i was at that age! not lookin' forward to it!......Mark

Whew!

Yeah, the general public finds the young, late teens, scantily clad high schoolers more entertaining than me however.

I feel cheated.

Rob

Sorry Rob-no offense, but scantily clad babes tops clowns every time.

Got to do a little cookin'out myself this weekend! we went up to my cousins'up in drakes branch,VA, he has a BIG 4th of july BBQ every year, next year wll make 20 consecutive years,we had every kind of food you can think of! ribs,fish,chicken,burgers,dogs you name it! got to see a lot of family i normally don't cross paths with too often. Had'nt seen him in a good long while (he runs a truck too) turns out he's got a B-73 covered up with a tarp out back! factory sleeper, cummins, tri-plex so, i'm gonna see what goes on with that, its pretty rough, but complete, he told me he had plans to restore it, just ran outta' $$$$$$ and kinda' lost interest in it so we'll see...................Mark

You shoulda stopped by,Drakes Branch is a stones throw from here- if ya got a really good arm...but then you could play for the Yankees.

We used to haul a lot of Lumber out of Drakes Branch when I drove for H.H.Moore, had loads going to Cortland,N.Y. and Meadville,Pa. pretty regularly. Can't remember the name of the sawmill,but it's probably the only one there.

I had the good luck of seeing Larry's race trailer on Saturday morning. The wife said "Hey look at that old Mack". I looked and saw the black and white B and said "That's Larry's truck!". She just pulled off a red light and was into her 3rd gear and was only half way through the intersection! LOL!!!!! She looked good pulling that trailer.

Didn't know Larry let his G/F drive it-he must have been up in the trailer sleeping.

Yup they can and do. But they have a stupid populace to pay for it in the millions.

Rob

that's millions with a "B" probably.

I'm out grilling for the 3rd. day in a row.I like it though. We gave all the leftovers to the "guests" Saturday and yesterday. It's in the upper 90's here now,90's tomorrow,and supposed to hit 100 again Wednesday.Garden looks terrible.

Yea, so what's goin on? Which Fartliner did you end up buying...???

??? this one?..I dunno

I had the good luck of seeing Larry pulling his race trailer on Saturday morning. The wife said "Hey look at that old Mack". I looked and saw the black and white B and said "That's Larry!". He just pulled off a red light and was into his 3rd gear and was only half way through the intersection! LOL!!!!! She looked good pulling that trailer.

I look around every time i'm around the Canton area, but never seen it yet. When I do i'm gonna flag him down and see if he'll sign my hat or something.

Here's some of Rowdy's winners from years past-

his first car-2006

his first homemade "snowmobile"-2007

his last car,before going all truck-2008.

Now where is my truck at with the fuzzy dice?

right here-it hasn't gone anywhere.

no wonder we haven't seen or heard from him- he's been doing his truck driver training and passed with flying colors!..should be hitting the road soon.

Here's a secret spy photo taken on his last day of training, courtesy of secretspypitchers.com

I was going to go to Altavista and get a new serpentine belt,a battery,and a K&N filter cleaning kit for the pickup today. First I had to get another checkbook because I wrote the last one in the old one Saturday morning...except I didn't have any more. Don't know why I didn't notice the last one was the last one in the box.Maybe I thought the two empty boxes that I didn't throw away were full of checks.

Got in too late to go to the bank Friday night,so my paycheck is still in the box at the shop...no checks,no cash,garden's drying up and dying-think there's still some beer in the cooler outside though...might as well I guess.

The local methodist church, high school music booster club, and high school cheerleading squad each do them a couple times a year here to raise funds.

They are always busy. I donate use of the dual wand pressure washer for mudbusting and presoaking, the fire dept a tanker of water, and cleanup etc., and all the entertainment one can stand over the afternoon.

Rob

ohhhh...entertainment. So that explains the clown suit.

Even pick the hair outta your teeth for three days? Deal with stubble punctures to your tongue? Hock up hairballs like a feline?

Rob

well,nooooo...but I believe I could make the sacrifice for her-except that picture's probably 20 years old.

Was it just beavers, or SHAVED beavers he was looking for?

just beaver-he's into widlife

All this got started when my son was here yesterday and was looking at image results for beavers. I told him to turn the safe search off and see what happened.That's when we saw that cartoon so I told him "save that for me".

No need to be confused, Tom. A 9 over is over driven in the front box at .73. The 13 over is a 9 speed direct which is over driven in the rear box at .87. When you combine the two you end up over driving an overdrive. You are absolutely correct in thinking that it makes little or no sense. Keep in mind however that at the time this was sort of popular. 9 speed overdrives were rare, if not readily available. Also you could not buy a .336 rear or find a .355 that you could buy. Most used trucks that anyone could afford, were set up with leasing company specs, a 290 or 350 Cummins, with a 9 speed direct and .370 rears. Dependable, but slow. If you were going to make 36 or 37 trips from the east coast to California, and back, during produce season, you needed a horse of a different color. I have run 1500 miles in California, just picking up my return load. 8 or 10 pick ups were not uncommon. A good hot rod transmission then was the 9558LL. Easy to work on, with big spur cut gears, but rough on it's small counter shaft bearings, with no oil cooler. There is better equipment, more readily available now.

H.H.Moore was getting 9 speeds for a while,all direct drives. The 83,84,and 85 K100's I drove all had 9 speeds with 3.70 rears.Then he bought one IH conventional with a 350 cummins that had some odd ball nine speed. Don't know what model it was but it had 4 speeds in the low side and 5 in the high side which was opposite of the ones I drove.

AAWWW hell tom! you aint gonna offend me! you should hear some of the shit i come up with! gotta' remember i AM a truckdriver LOL! i grew up with a dad and grandfather that worked in profanity like an artist uses paints and clay, they said things that would make a china sailor blush!!!! not too much i have'nt heard!.......Mark

Oh,well then,that changes everything-and he's been to Hooters. I've only been once,in York,Pa. about 10 years ago.

heh heh,,,I guess you know definition of virgin in oklahoma,,,,,10 year old who can outrun her brother,,GRAND POOBAH Randy (third degree)

Thought that was West Virginia