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Very appropriately 2 days late.

Thank you, hope you're doing all right. We are in Florida to see Vicki and we went to the Turkey Rod Run yesterday. I'll have tons of pictures from there, I took 281. I have to put them on the computer before I can post them here, or anywhere because they're on the camera.

I have to blow the leaves because if I don't I'll be completely covered in a little while. I blow them often because it's harder if they get too deep, a lot harder. And I have to blow the front yard all in the same direction because I can't put them in the neighbor's yard, and the back yard is the same way, I just blow them from the house into the edge of the woods. I have a "leaf wall" about waist high at the back of the yard, and in the front it's even higher. But that's OK, it keeps me busy. Can't even see the house for the trees. I'm the blue dot. This was Nov. 2nd, before the wall was very tall, but there's a dog peeing in the background.

Oh. Yeah, you might be on to something there.

All I've been doing is blowing leaves and getting the last of these teeths pulled before I get dentures. They pulled the 4 small ones in front on the bottom Tuesday. I'll be eating soft food for a while, and a lot of camel soup. I did find a camel soup recipe that I'm gonna try though.

That's the same as here in Virginia, northern Va, Richmond, Roanoke, and the tidewater area control the entire state.

Yes it is. I still see some of these same trucks now, but there are others that I haven't seen since this show, like the Forsyth Macks, I don't think I ever saw them again.

I just posted some more pictures on Flickr, but they're not new pictures. In fact, they're so old I took them with a film camera, the last pictures I took before I jumped on the digital bandwagon. I remember I took a pack of film with me that had 4 rolls of film in it with 24 exposures on each roll. It was also the first truck show I went to, and I was out of film in about 5 minutes, so I had to go to Walmart and get more. I mailed all the pictures to Old Bill, the "Diesel Gypsy", after I had them developed and he scanned them all and put them on his website, then he mailed them back to me. I guess the originals are still around here somewhere.

If that was to happen I would forgo the Turkey Rod Run and take a trip to the Hellertown Truck Stop instead.

Happy birthday!

I guess if I had to pick, 66-67 would be my favorite years for cars. I was saying a while back the '66 and '67 GTOs, Chevy IIs, and Chevelles are some of my favorite cars. A '67 GTO with a 400 4 speed would be the cat's ass.

It looks just like this-

Check out this guy, he's no slouch either! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdykqOiXxns

We went to the grocery store (Walmart) Saturday because we were low on about everything, had a shopping cart not even half full, and it was $245. I think that's the most I've ever spent at the grocery store. And we didn't buy anything exotic or fancy, no steak or lobster. We did get 2 1lb. packages of hamburger though- and it was $245!

Remember "wild willy" Bosch? I think that's how it's spelled, he WAS wild. Had the fake arm on the door so it looked like he was driving with one hand.

Yes indeed, the GMC blower was never intended for the high RPM and pressure of a typical engine built for drag racing, but they do look cool. Freightrain has a 64 Ford with a blower motor, he might have pictures of it on here.

I've been wondering about him too, hope he's ok.

https://theblowershop.com/tbs-roots-style-superchargers/71-series-blowers/

There used to be a small fleet tanker co. in Roanoke that ran all VT903s in cabover White Freightliners, called Lemmon Transport. I was going up 220 to Covington with a load of chips one day when one caught me going up Silver Dollar hill. He might have had the VT 350 as they called them, still a 903 but before they stopped offering them in trucks they raised the HP from 320 to 350. Here's the one I drove. Sitting at the old Ponderosa Truckstop on rt. 60 at the bottom of North Mountain with a load of chips, heading to the Westvaco paper mill in Covinton. I'm headed up because you can see chips in the vent holes.

They might have been the ones that had the stack on the left side of the cab, when every other truck in the U.S. had the stacks on the right.

It was.

They sure do get a lot of hate nowadays, but I liked the one I drove. It was in a 74 Transtar and it did a pretty good job. H.H. Moore had several 903s and he never had any major issues with them that I can remember.

Here's a good picture of a Brown from the Colfax show. Not my picture.

Yes it is.