other dog

yes they did but they one truck that sticks in my mind,they had small dumb truck that delivered small loads, my mother ordered a load of sand one day for my sand box and that is were the love began.

Now that's a good story!

hello everybody my name is Darren Landis I don't have a truck yet.I have always like the B-Models since I was 10 when I lived next to a concrete plant.

Hi!..so,they had lots of B-model mixers?

Thank you Skip-thank you very much indeed,and merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and yours.

Yes it is, you from the area?

No,I'm from Virginia but used to pass through Danbury a lot going to Boston. Haven't been in the area for a long time now.

Thank you everyone,and right back at ya'- merry Christmas to all,and happy new year!

Hi! Is that Danbury as in Connecticut?

Aw, what the hell, here's another OT post.

Looking at your Ford brought back memories of my reckless youth, and the 1969 Chevelle that I had back then.

It started out as a Malibu with a 307,powerglide and 10 bolt open rear with rust holes in the fenders and quarterpanels and gradually over a couple of years I kept finding parts and changing things around

Had to get rid of that powerglide! Automatics are against my religion!!!!!

The finished product in the photos had a 427 'Vette engine bored 30 over, 13.5 :1 pistons, Crower solid lifter cam, Hooker headers, Edelbrock Tarantula Manifold, Holley double pumper, Accel dual point distributor

Scattershield etc.

Trans was M22 Rock Crusher 4 speed with 4.11 posi 12 bolt rear with ladder bars.

TRW heavy duty front coil springs

Air shocks in the rear

Cragar Super Sport wheels

I never ran it at a track, it was a street machine.

My favorite saturday afternoon activity at that time was to drop the headermufflers and blast around town with open headers.

That reminds me of my '70 Chevelle SS engine-I had a tarantula intake too,same valve covers,same Accel Super coil,same air filter-about all the filter you could have and close the hood without a scoop.I bought it from a friend of mine and he wanted to keep the turbo 400 trans. to put in his blazer,so I went to a junkyard and got all the parts and linkage and put an M-22 Muncie in it too. It had a .030 over 402 in it,not quite as hot as yours,ran 13.80's on street tires with the stock rear,3.70's I think. A long time ago-as what's his name sings,thanks for the memories.

Try hitting the enter key.

Oh...that sounds pretty easy,I'll give it a try. Thanks David

Barry,they say there's no such thing as a stupid question,but...I can't figure out how to start a new paragraph,like when i'm writing in my blog and go on,and on,and on...so this might qualify as one-how do you start a new paragraph?

Usually you don't even have to run a continuous bead,just kinda stick the rod in there and go round and round a couple of times,and the weld will "draw" it enough so it comes right out.

Gee you get up early!

I get that too,I'll be looking forward to reading it.

Just got my "Double Clutch" today.Good story,though sad,about the Procter Company.Just a great restoration of the B-813SX though.What a tough truck!

Welcome indeed-some (OK,one then)of my best friends are from Ontario. (Elliot Lake)

Hi Paul,just got a preview of the '08 F.L.Moore and Sons calendar-has an H-model on it.

Hey!

Hi!

this is a nice looking B-67 that was on the F.L.Moore and Sons calendar this year-best looking truck on the calendar.Didn't say who owned it or where it was from.

I'm very sorry to hear this,i'll be praying for him too.

this is the closest thing to a shop i've got-a shed packed so full of crap I can barely get in it!

As I said before,i've been driving a long time,but i'd never driven a quadruplex until I bought that B-53 mixer.Kinda like Freighttrain,I learned by doing it.I knew the procedure,but had never actually shifted one before.I shift it like a triplex on the road,only use lo-lo when i'm off-road making a pour...which is never. I did order the "Trucks With 2 Sticks" DVD's and noticed that most of the drivers in the videos scratched and scraped as many gears as I do,so then I felt pretty good about myself...for a while.I just don't drive it enough to get what you'd call really good at it,so I just take my time and shift one stick at a time. Usually if I try the "high speed-2 hand,arm through the steering wheel like I know what i'm doing shift" ,that'll be when I monkey up.

Another photo of the same old dog

That's a nice unit there-you've got two classics in one.I didn't notice it was a Brown body until I enlarged it. H.H.Moore trucking used to have some old Brown trailers they made chip trailers out of.

Yes,sounds good-I didn't know y'all were in Kittanning too,might stop by sometime just for curiosity and pretend like I want something.I also just read the new "Wheels of Time" and saw the announcement for next year's open house and truck show.Hope I can make it,i'm gonna try.

Yeah Paul,nice shop and I like that B-67! I had a hard time posting pictures too,so i'd just mail them to Barry to scan and post for me.I like to think the problem was my old PC (STUPID COMPUTERS! ) Ever since I got this new one I haven't had any trouble.

Oops! That would be 3 posts just to say nice mixer. The 50s and 60s models were off the road for the most part before I was old enough to really appreciate them. Most of the oldies I see in my neck of the woods are rusting away out behind the local Clampet houses.

I agree that the older machines could tell you plenty just by the sound of the engine. No fancy diagnostics needed. You could hear them coming around the corner also.

Yep,when I was a kid an 860 Gmc with a 6-71 would pass by the house about every day hauling shavings,and you could hear it about 3 or 4 miles away.Thanks for the compliment on the mixer-Jeff Moore keeps telling me I should take the mixer off it and put a flat bed on it,but I told him then it would lose it's character.You see lot's of B-models with flat bed bodys on them,but I haven't seen a B-model mixer at any truck shows.I did see a rusty one behind a wrecker going west on I-68 in Cumberland,Md. last year,but I went south on 220 and it continued west,so I don't know if it was a restoration project or if it was headed to the junkyard.The former I hope!