other dog

I left here last Sunday,put my new radio in before I left ( the old Cobra wasn't acting right,but i've had it for 5 years ),and went to Brook Park,Oh. Reloaded at Brookfield and went to Roanoke,then to Dillwyn and on to Fremont,Oh.Then to Brookfield and Roanoke.Then to Moneta and Clarion,Pa. and Brookfield and Roanoke. Got to Roanoke about 6:30 last night and got unloaded at 11:30 So,instead of being home I slept in the truck up at the truckstop just south of Lynchburg. Called Jo at 5:30 this morning to come get me. She didn't cuss me or anything (well,at least not on the phone!),she came right on. I've put well over 200,000 miles on the truck now,and Jeff will have had it 2 years sometime in August. Think i'll run over to Wal-Mart now and get some fertilzer for the garden,they're calling for more rain today and tomorrow.Grass needs mowing again too. Maybe I should teach Jo how to push a lawnmower, but maybe I shouldn't push my luck. I have no new pictures now,so here's a recycled picture of a '66 Chevelle.

I forgot about the '70 Olds Cutlass Supreme and '81 Regal I had.That Olds was one of the best cars I ever had,gave $800 for it,with a straight body, rocket 350,automatic,power windows. Still ran and drove great when I parked it. The Chevelle I had was a 396 350hp,which was actually the 402 engine,but it was bored .030 over with a crane cam,tarantula intake ( that's the one the carb. set kinda sideways on ) 780 holley,headers,electric fuel pump,Accel ignition...all the usual goodies. When I bought it it didn't have a transmission in it because the owner wanted to keep it (turbo 400 w/shift kit ) to put in a mud bogger he was building,so I went to Cosner Bros. used auto parts (the junk yard) and bought all the clutch linkage,bell housing,pedals,cross member, etc. out of a four speed Chevelle and put the M-22 Muncie that used to be in the Nova in it. It really wasn't hard to convert to the four speed because the frame was already drilled and tapped to mount all the clutch linkage,so it was pretty much just bolt it in. Only took it to the track once.It was a 13 second car with the automatic on street tires.I turned a 14.30 at 101 mph on a set of G-70 tires (skinny!),but it was still spinning into high gear. Had a Hurst Competition Plus in it at first,then switched to a Vertigate because it looked tough,but the Hurst was actually a quicker shifter ( shorter throw ). Ain't bragging,but it sounded like an automatic when I shifted,foot to the floor. That four speed was a lot of fun.You could take off and speed shift and chirp the tires in all four gears when you weren't even getting into it hard,'course if the cops heard you they'd give you a ticket for it.Then I got married and my hot rod days were over...done...finished.

...yeah,ha-ha Joe. As ol' George says in one of my favorite songs "...I know-everybody funny...now you funny too".About as funny as a screen door in a submarine. And I had moles in the yard,not gophers,there's no treasure buried there. You must have been over there digging around. If you found the bodies,I don't know anything about them.They must have been there when I bought the place. And everybody needs a hobby That's a good one though.I don't even know if that old Mack's for sale or not,probably not,and they probably wouldn't scrap it anyway,but you never know. They have a lot of old chip trailers parked there too,and trucks,bulldozers,equipment of all sorts.I'm just saying if you run across something like that that might be for sale you can't get it cheap because scrap is so high. I found 2 B-61 single axle trucks before I bought the mixer,one was $1200 and the other was $1000,both in fairly good condition too,but right now they might bring twice that much for scrap. If I had Paul's money i'd have been over there asking about that B-61,but i'm so broke I can't afford to pay attention. Got my mattress stuffed with scrap iron because-wait ,scrap iron-gotta go,see ya

left front looks a little low too,better pump it up before you hit the highway

an oldie but a goody .in fact,the first time I heard that I laughed so hard I almost kicked the slats out of my crib

I was there when it happened. 25 June 1965, 22 years old just married I had just started my first job in a dealership, at a Chevrolet dealer in Roswell GA. At $65.00 a week a new 327 Chevell SS or a 409 Impala were just not attainable. On the other hand, you could buy a decent 55, 56, or 57 210 for $250 to $500. Just the right price line for a young gear head. The old saying that good things happen to those that wait, might have some meaning, for I once owned a 66 325hp. 396 SS chevell $600, A 64 389 GTO $325, and a rash of 55, 57, 58 Ford Custom 300's. One of my friends here has a 57 Custom 300 show car with an all aluminum 427 stroker engine. It's about a $55,000 car and he is always giving me a hard time about being too cheap to spend the money to have one. I tell him, I had one just like it. I gave $75.00 for, it replaced the drivers door glass $15 and drove it for two years. I believe that '72 Nova was the newest car i've had to this day. Bought it from my older brother in '74,because he wanted to buy a used Porsche from a friend of his. Think I gave $1800 for that car.Then I had a '68 Camaro,'70 Chevelle SS, a '68 Tempest,'68 Biscayne-all collectors items today. The Chevelle was probably the only one I paid over $1,000 for,but it was a real hot rod.

it's Thursday-early-and i'm home,but not for long,don't worry. Reminds me of that light green B-61 with honeysuckle growing up around it that I posted pictures of. I'd bet that truck was driven to where it's parked. Jeff said he remembered when they were still running that truck,pulled a lowboy with it,hauling equipment around. Then they got the R-model,probably parked the B because it was old,didn't have much power,nobody wanted to drive a quadruplex,no AC,radio,etc. Wish I could afford it,but as you say,if you offered what you thought was a reasonal price for a restoration project,they might say "well,I can get more than that for it for scrap metal". It's just a shame,i'd hate to see a truck like that scrapped,but it's probably gonna happen more and more. Money's tight,scrap's bringing top dollar...it's a shame-it hurts me to see old iron scrapped. ...hurts me!

...especially if he's got a forklift in his hands

1958F.W.D.,ken used to drive for Jevic,but I don't know when.They're also out of Delanco,N.J.They also have blue trucks.What a coincedence!

MUTT?!! ...Hey,how about I bring him over and he could breed your rock chasing dog-all he chases is cars,but he's very choosy about which cars he chases. No telling what the puppies might chase.

...like the rusty old tractor with good sheet metal I saw being scrapped a week or so ago. Hope the tax assessor doesn't assess vehicles at scrap prices,I won't be able to pay the taxes on the mixer.

Another dog-that's a good one! If you want him I'll buy him a bus ticket and send him on down. He's a good dog.

just for me?..how thoughtful . I had the fenders on the mixer painted black,thought it looked better than the solid red.Was gonna paint the top of the hood black too,but it's mashed in some and I thought black would make it more noticable.

...geez Speed,you do more in a day when you're sick than I do all year,and I feel...well,not too bad.Glad you're feeling better,we were about to send a search party out for you and Bulldog Man

maybe they were from the same litter?

...not ONE single picture?!!

Got the grass cut this morning,then had to put a fence around the garden to keep these two out of it. They've been trampling,digging,and laying all over it. Otherwise,it's looking pretty good so far. The big dog is not mine-he's lived here as long as I have,and we feed him about 3,000 lbs. of dog food a week,but he's not mine.

I know the feeling.I loaded some of those big air conditioner units that go on the roof of a building in Amherst,Va. one Friday that didn't deliver in Norristown,Pa. until Tuesday.I said great,I won't have to leave until Monday evening. ken said "no,I've got plans for you for Monday". So Woodstock and myself had to go load two long loads in Lynchburg Monday morning and deliver them in Harrisonburg that evening.They were actually the columns that held up the new scoreboard at James Madison University.Then of course we had to take the trailers back to Lynchburg,then go to Appomattox and pick up the AC units and be in Norristown first thing the next morning. We didn't get empty in Harrisonburg until late that evening,well after 5 o'clock.

Indeed! I wore mine to the shop one Saturday before the Christmas parade,and everybody wanted to know where I got it.Timmy said he was going to order one,but I don't know if he did or not.

yeah,you'd think! I had a jake too,or c-brake I guess it was- truck had a 444 Cummins w/18 spd. The cop said " you're supposed to have the truck in the lowest gear you've got". I told him if I did that I wouldn't have been there 'til tomorrow. He said "I DON'T CARE,THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO". The common sense rule should apply,but like I always said,safety has nothing to do with it,it's all about the money-they want yours! You used to come off the mountain and you had to go right into the town of Hopwood,but now they have a four lane bypass finished around town and you don't even have to slow down for Hopwood or Uniontown. Back when you had to go through town, right at the bottom of the mountain, the speed made sense,because you might be coming down in a 5 speed Mack with a 237,no engine brake,with a load of green oak lumber grossing about 93,000 lbs,but now it's just ridiculous. You see lots of old units sitting around in West Virginia. There's all sorts of stuff up in those woods. I watched the mule video,but couldn't find anything on the other one-I copied the web site and pasted it,but it came up saying it didn't match any documents.

Just a little side note-I'd been hearing rumors for a week or two now that PGT had bought H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co.,and it must be true,or they wouldn't be taking H.H.Moore off the truck doors and putting PGT on them.

I didn't cut no tire-oh,you said "one of..." never mind

Another long week,and short weekend coming up. Delivered in Butler,Pa. early Tuesday morning and went to Brookfield and was loaded and ready to go by 10:30 am,figuring i'd get to Roanoke and unload early Tuesday night and come home. But,that all changed when I had to go to Malta,Oh. and make another pickup.Last time I went there and loaded the cement mixers I was empty,this time I had on almost 44,000 lbs. of the big Metalsa coils right in the middle of the trailer,and couldn't make much time on the very narrow,crooked,small,twisty,skinny,roads getting there. Picked up 5 mixers and a small skid of unknown product over there,going to Vinton,Va,near Roanoke. So I didn't get home,but I got paid for 2 loads in one,so it was a very good round. Then I had to go to Petersburg and get a 60' load going to Wheeling,W.V. that wasn't ready until about 6 o'clock Wednesday night. I delivered there Thursday morning,then went back to Brookfield and loaded more coils for Roanoke. Got that off this morning and went to Dillwyn and loaded kryptonite,or kyanite I mean, (I can't haul kryptonite,it makes me sick,especially green kryptonite) for Brook Park,Oh. That's near Cleveland,so I'll be leaving early Sunday. Got a roll of film developed today that I took during my recent travels-a B-model Mack on rt. 60 between Rupert and Charmco,W.V, a plane towing a sign when I was unloading in Avon,Oh,a Superliner for sale in Moorefield,W.V,3 shots of climbing the mountain out of Uniontown,Pa. headed east on U.S. rt. 40-the little notch to the left of the sign is where i'm headed,then i'm almost to the top with Uniontown visible in the mirror,then the motel at the top. This mountain is so steep the speed limit going down is 10 mph. I once got stopped going down it for doing 17 mph in a 10,with an empty flatbed . Cost me about $100 near as I can remember,that was about 20 years ago. And,some of those giant windmills on a mountaintop,somewhere near Pa,W.V,or western Maryland. P.S.-How about Mushroom colors on your B-67 Paul? I like it,very colorful.