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On 3/27/2024 at 9:38 AM, harrybarbon said:

Wonderful purchase. Maybe you could ask if one of these drivers would like to drive it to the show.

Many Inter R 190 and 200 owners in Australia used to bend that gear lever up near vertical from about 3-4 inches below the 2 spd button, so the lever would not touch the seat base and more user friendly for shifting gears. It was bent enough to not touch the dash board. I will see if I can find a picture of a bent lever.

The only issue with driving it to Macungie is the distance, Google says it's 368 miles from here, and the fact that we usually leave there and go to Connecticut to see Zina's dad. I don't like to go to Connecticut but her dad is either 89 or 90 now, so...

I don't know about insurance yet either, I went with Gulfway when I had that mixer truck, but they're no longer in business. But they had mileage restrictions and if I put antique tags on it that comes with some restrictions too, so I'll have to check into all that.

3 hours ago, Vladislav said:

I would say it's a bit early time for congratulations on the purchace so I wish good luck on the purchase!

Really nice looking truck and especial combo of a single axle and integral bunk. Gasser may be also seen as an exotic thing, hope not much worries on the fuel milage being driven ocassionally to shows.

Another great point is that Zina initiated purchasing a big toy. You must be a lucky guy with that. Told her I would also remove that grill protector (probably the community would blame me for that) and brown colors combo would suit the particular truck very well.

Thank you Vlad, that put a big smile on her face! Dave liked that 2 tone brown paint job too, it is an eye catcher and that's what she said she wanted. The one in the picture I posted used to be parked in the same spot in Macungie every year, but it wasn't there last year. 

1 hour ago, harrybarbon said:

4 low ▶️ 5 low ▶️ 4 hi ▶️ 5i, last shift quick to keep the revs up, brings back lots of memories when I learned to drive the GM powered R190 gearbox, no syncro - double clutch/rev and slide the cogs in

Great buy, congratulations. 2 exhaust pipes out the side to let the V8 be heard.

I've driven a GMC that you shifted like that, and some 5 speeds that you shift 4 low- 4 high then straight to 5 high. I actually asked him on the phone about this when I first talked to him, but I forgot what he said. I'll ask him when he brings it.

As far as 2 speed axles go, I haven't driven one at all for many years. Last one was an International Loadstar lime truck that H.H. Moore used to have. I did drive a couple of trucks with Super 10 transmissions though, and always said they were "like driving a pulpwood truck with a 5 speed and 2 speed rear". 🤣

I had told him when I picked it up I wanted him to tell me everything I needed to know about it. And he said today the best way to do that was face to face, and I agreed. So he said he would deliver the truck here and when he backed it off the trailer in our driveway he would be as happy as we were. I doubt that, but anyway, he seems to be a class act.

So, Stevie called me today, like he said he would, to talk about picking this truck up. He had already told me that he would be out of town this weekend. He had to fly- in an airplane, he can't really fly himself- to Iowa and drive a firetruck back to Maryland. 

I could not go to Maryland next weekend because we had plans that we made months ago. And he called today and said he had gotten the check and as far as he was concerned it was my truck. So he offered to bring that truck here on a trailer with his pickup for expense money.

I had a good friend, also a BMT member, tell me the truck load rate would be $1250, but he would do it for $500 and a Hamm's. He also said he was pretty well covered up now and it would probably be about 3 weeks before he could do it.

Then Stevie called and it was almost like he was reading my mind. He had already figured the mileage, his approximate gas mileage, and expenses and said he would deliver that truck next week for $790 as soon as he got back from Iowa. So I told him to bring it.

Stevie said the truck had an overdrive transmission in it, so I'm thinking 5th. gear will be towards the dash anyway.

2 hours ago, 70mackMB said:

IDK, The video that other dog posted is a year and half old that happened in Russia. { In fact, Snopes was able to determine that the footage used in the posts actually showed an explosion damaging the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia and Crimea, on Oct. 8, 2022. }   There are two bridges there and the next day they had pictures of the damage from the explosion taken from the other bridge. There was no explosion on the Key bridge it just collapsed.

The video l posted here before that Red Horse suggested. He explains what happens to the control of a ship with rudder and thrust. A site l watch often is "TimBatSea" who is a tug captain. He always explains what he is about to try and do with the barge. And he will tell you which way the rudder is and why. Which prop/engine is turning in what direction and how fast and what the effect it will make on the barrage. He makes it look too easy as if he was backing out of a parking spot with his car.  My two cents, carry on.    .....Hippy     

 

I see now, I don't know why I didn't catch that, it clearly shows two bridges and the Key Bridge was a single bridge. It was labeled on Facebook as the Key Bridge collapse. I'm going to delete that post if I can.

13 hours ago, Brocky said:

Are you bringing it to York and Macungie???  I plan on both..

We're not going to York, but we're planning on going to Macungie. Whether or not the truck is depends on whether I can find it a ride or not. I doubt if I would drive it that far, Google says it's 368 miles. Be nice to find somebody going that way with room on a trailer, I could help with fuel for a ride.

I haven't even driven it yet, just taking Stevie Stevens- "it's not junk"- and Dave Couto's words to heart. It might drive like a dream, Stevie said it would cruise at 70mph.

Oh, that reminds me - do you remember that real pretty blue Chevrolet tandem dump truck at Harrisonburg? He owned that truck too, and Keith Jones bought it from him and put it in the museum. Maybe it was part of the deal of him getting the International back, I don't know.

10 hours ago, Mean Green said:

Sweet looking ride looks in great shape congratulations hope to see it at watts

Thank you.

11 hours ago, tjc transport said:

is that a R-190?

looks to be mid to late 70's. integral sleeper internationals of that model are VERY RARE.

that is only the third one i ever saw. the other two were tandem axle diesels.

1963 V-190 actually, I don't even know what the difference is though. 

1 hour ago, Freightrain said:

Someone posted a live video shot of traffic on the bridge as it got hit.  Likely from a traffic camera.  It was on FB and I can't find a link now.

I saw that too, don't remember who posted it. Sparks everywhere.

15 minutes ago, Brocky said:

Congratulations!!!!!!!!  Welcome to the "Tired Iron World" !!!!!!!  Going to be a snug fit for Zina and 3 dogs in it on the way to shows??

I told her, "it's going to be smaller than you think". So we'll see. But like I told her, the "coolness factor" is there on this truck, it has "cool" written all over it. A single axle Columbier or Cascadier might be a better show cruiser, but there's nothing cool about them 🤣. She's already painting it, she doesn't like the grill protector, "does it have air conditioning?" so she's pretty excited about it.

7 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

I am sick in my stomach just thinking about what could have happened if it was 12 hours later..   

Oh absolutely, as bad as it was if it had happened at 7 or 8am, it would have been so much worse.

On 3/24/2024 at 1:00 PM, 70mackMB said:

2 hours ago, Vladislav said:

Shivers...

Saw the video on my local news page.

The heigth of the bridge to fall from and the temp of water don't give good chances to survive.

Yessir, that bridge was tall. I've been across it many times, and I read an article years ago that listed it as one of the most dangerous bridges in the US. That was after the I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota I think, and it was considered dangerous because it was on the " most likely to collapse" list. I thought about that every time I crossed it.

Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point was at the north end of the bridge. Huge steel mill, loaded coils there many times. You'd leave the mill, get on 695, stop and pay the toll, then you'd start climbing. It was a pretty hard pull going up that bridge.