other dog

As long as the attack includes A Slow race & weight sled compition

later yall

Vinton is bout 20 miles north of Gallipolis. I live 4 miles north of Vinton on Ignorant Ridge. A lot of maps don't show Vinton.

Now, the ball is in your court - where is Gladys, VA? It don't show on map either. I grew up in VA but theres still bunch places there I ain't heard of.

Tom

I've been through Gallipolis many times,used to run rt. 35 pretty often. I've seen signs for Vinton. Gladys is about 20 miles south of Lynchburg on rt. 501,between Rustburg and Brookneal.I don't live downtown though (actually,there's one store and a post office in Gladys and that's about it ) .I live off of rt. 699 on a smaller road,about halfway between Gladys and Altavista.Kind've like 'MIDDLE OF NOWHERE",surrounded by forests,woods,and trees.

Well,shoot! I went around Gladys and raised a sizable militia,and all three of us were going to march on Millington,Tn.,and attack.But,since personal attacks are against the rules,as acting general I called it off.Must be your lucky day...you know who you are...

Good onya mate, hope you got Bill sorted out! Im guessing that is your B model pictured.....

Well,shoot! I went around Gladys and raised a sizable militia,and all three of us were going to march on Millington,Tn.,and attack.But,since personal attacks are against the rules,as acting general I called it off.Must be your lucky day...you know who you are...

The GMC "Big Cab" 900 series Heavy Duty Truck Line, of this body style, was '50-'59. The '49, & earlier 900 series trucks, were the Art Deco" style, with the smaller 2 man cab's. Spanky Hardy....Collector Of Fine Old G.M. COE Trucks & Antique Holmes Wreckers. http://community.webshots.com/user/snubnose4754

I like the idea about the taillights otherdog, I might try to run by there this evening to see what i can find out. I'm hoping it won't be to dark after work to check on a few things. Ramble away otherdog i like listening or reading in my case about things.

yarns? what's that?...there's no yarns,it's all true...I must be off now,Bill Gates just called and he wants me to fly over to his place to help him with a computer problem.

If you crawl under the the truck, look on the driverside of the tranny about the middle and you should find a flat spot with a few lines of numbers on them. Like Mack mentioned "TRD", "TRT", "TRQ" (the last letter means "d"uplex, "t"riplex, "q"uad) and the following numbers gives the gear ratio inside. There are alot of different gear ratios available, but that is not all that critical right now.

If you want wiggle the handles and figure out the patterns, then that is a cleaner way to find out what you have.

Joe,

We need little more info on the gear shift with the splitter - little chrome flipper that goes side to side?? This could be a 9 or 10 speed Unishift and the second stick could be a aux. box (go faster box!). When you crawl under this B to get trans number, look long enough to see if short drive shaft from trans to another small trans. Let us know!!!!

For the MR BIG TIME TRUCKER - Rob put my thoughts in civil words. Out here on Ignorant Ridge the language would be - Pal, when you get enough B model miles on your ass, it won't be so smart!

Oh sorry,my train of thought got derailed by brake lights.The truck you're looking at- no idea what it might be for.I did see an old White with a 5 speed main,4 speed auxilliary, AND a 2 speed rear. And this was from the factory,not like the guy with the thirteen speed,3 speed ,and 2 speed rear.There I go again...

I had a couple of those old aluminum range selector valves in my tool box,they don't use that type now,they use that little plastic flipper button,and I polished one of them up and put it on my old Ford pickup gearshift.Strictly for decorative purposes of course.That was some years ago,but it's still around somewhere i'm sure. And i've seen a B-53 mixer with a little chrome flipper switch in a CB antannae ( sorry,I can't spell antenna ) mounting bracket on the compound gear shift that worked the brake lights-that would be me. I put LED tail lights on it,and they had to be wired backwards to work with a positive ground.I got the marker lights and turn signals working and figured 2 outa 3 ain't bad,and just put 2 more lights on for brake lights and hooked them up to the spring loaded toggle switch on the gearshift lever.Might not meet the official "brake light standard of installation and operation procedure comittee" rules,but it works great.

What is this DPF? Sounds like some sort of emissions control thingamabob-see,i'm not up on the technichal terms. I saw these trucks and thought they had been traveling in a convoy and the one in front stopped too quickly for the second two!

Hard to say about the trans,not much info to go on.It must be a duplex,triplex,or quad. if it's got 2 sticks,all were available in B models.The hi-lo splitter,I don't know-does it have a 2 speed rear too? If you can get the number off the trans. you can go to www.oldmacksrus.com/trannys and find out what it is. And oldmacks.com has a trucks for sale page,with photos,where you might get some idea what it's worth.I gave $6000 for my B-53 mixer 3 years ago,it was in very good condition.I have seen B-models around for as little as $1,000-$1,200 but they needed lots of work.There was one in Cumberland,Va. for $3500 that was in pretty good shape,a single axle B-61 tractor.

Wow!...when I started driving nothing around these parts could hang with a V8 375- or a V8 325 with a little fuel turned to it for that matter,they were awesome.And what a sound with a straight pipe!

According to my GMC history book the 900 was available from 1947 until 1951,with several versions. Sharp looking truck,I like them 'ol jimmys too!

OK guys...if you missed it, you missed one of the best Lititz shows yet! The weather was great and the old iron fans were out in full force! Here is just a sampling of what we saw...

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a12/bigma...cks/Lititz2007/

im 28 but have the same tast in music as most "older" (i use that term lightly!) folks. Floyd,Stones, the who, led zepplin, good steady beats for pulling them hills. I also like some of the later classic rock in the likes of ACDC,the police,sabbath,kis etc.. I was a 90s genaration kid so alternitive or grunge as some call it was popular. Alice in chains,Stone temple pilots,Metallica,Tom petty as long as its Rock, good blues, jazz and it holds a good rythem I can listen to it. I dislike rap and pop as its a joke to me. Theres no tallent involved to dub inyour voice behind an electric background drums guitar and bass. The "bling bling" rappers are the worst. how did we let that happen?

trent

I don't know,but I agree totally

I'm the same age as you, and I'm still into that type of music too.

My wife says "WTF is the matter with you listening to that sh*t at your age"?

I tell her "If you don't like it, get some earplugs".

Here are a couple Pink Floyd links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v240bYbbrM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enwnt7-j90k

Pulse and Live at Pompei. I saw the Pulse tour at Raleigh.

OK, I know this isn't the recipe corner or music discussion forum,but I was just looking at Aussie Floyd on You Tube.That's an Australian Pink Floyd tribute band,and very good I must say. I'm 51 years old, married most of it,been driving a truck for 29 years come January,and Pink Floyd is my Favorite band. Got to see them live in Raleigh,N.C. in the early '90s-I've seen the Eagles, Jimmy Buffet,Lynard Skynard,Dan Fogelburg (former girlfriends idol,that's the only reason ),ZZ Top several times,and many others-but Pink Floyd put on a truly awesome show,far and away the best concert i've ever seen. So my girl friend and I got into this discussion-well,most drivers my age are into Country and Bluegrass,and I like some country music,but mostly like the Floyd,ZZ Top,George Thorogood, etc. and I always listen to classic rock on my XM when I listen to music. I've completely worn out a couple of "Dark Side of the Moon " tapes...so the question is-am I an aardvark or not?

Hey Greg, that sounds like my girlfriend driving my Ford Ranger.

LOL...sounds good! We've been seeing the same results! I can't wait for the 16 liter MP's to come out! Should be all kinds of fun!

But what about the tree ? Is it still upright ?

I know where an A-40 gas is sitting in a field too.Don't know if it's for sale or not,but it's been there a while.There's a picture of it in my gallery.It's still in the same spot in Moneta,Va.

Seay milling in Dillwyn,Va, had an R-400 tandem straight truck with a van body on it .Had a quadruplex trans. in it,not sure about the engine.As far as I know it's still sitting in the field behind their store in Dillwyn.