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You are right indeed. JCI is a good company. Speaking of stocks, I'm getting old now, and conservative, so I just buy stocks that pay a good dividend and aren't going away. Stuff like Verizon, Hawaii Electric, Tampa Electric, Altria, Plum Creek Timber, XOM, etc. These things pay about a 5% dividend on average. I buy the same stuff for my kids with the dividends automatically reinvested. I think they can ignore these for 30 years and do just fine..

I wouldn't buy an Exide POS battery under any circumstances. I owned some Exide stock years ago, thought it was a good investment when they brought in Bob Lutz (from Chrysler) to run the company. 2 years later he bailed and the thing went surprise BK - tits up. My stock then worthless. Lutz musk of have quickly learned how dishonest an enterprise they were. They lost Sears and some other major retailers when it was discovered they we taking used and recycled batteries and putting them in new cases and selling them as new. Bad stewards of the environment too, EPA problems with contaminated properties. One generation of thieving management ruined an old and once-proud company.

You two are pretty foony!

We could get a deal on the Taj Mahal casino and hotel in Atlantic City and use that for the New Mack headquarters Carl Icahn is several hundred million underwater on that investment. And, I think he has a major position in Navistar. The man has the financial wherewithal if he was interested... Just sayin.

Hello Mr. Carbel?? Would this be even remotely possible -- to pry the Mack name away from Volvo? Could a deal be structured to make this happen? Help from a venture capitalist, an investment bank, maybe with some cash from another American truck manufacturer, either equity for them or options for future purchase, or?

Aagh, glad I already digested my dinner. Somebody please offer him $500 and take it off his hands... Sell the parts or bring it back to life. Too far away for me and past my skill level to fix it up.

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You might get a self-contained 24 volt roof mount unit, add two new 12 volt batteries and a new 24 volt alternator slave driven off wherever you can add a pulley. These babies draw quite bit of current so with this setup your a/c is completely independent from the rest of the trucks electrical system.

By all means, go with daughters. Family is too generic. Or even better, family and then list their names below bulleted. Maybe get your sign painter to work up several possibilities..

The courts have ruled there is no requirement to protect and serve. It is all about the money. When you get ticketed for a few miles over the limit, or having the wrong papers, or some regulatory bullsh--t, then... ask yourself who was the injured party??? No one hurt, nothing damaged - so who IS the injured party. It is just about collecting money plain and simple. p..s. If you want to get ahead of the curve, turn in your guns now before Hillary becomes the next.

Can't see his hands either....

I am reminded of my '73 Corvette back in the day. 454, 4 speed, 12 mpg. Removed the EGR pump and picked up 4 extra mpg even with a lead foot. Never could figure out how 25% - 30% less mpg was good for the atmosphere.

All depends I guess. Nurses like anything else - some good, some bad. My middle daughter graduated 6 months ago with a DNP (Doctor of Nurse Practice) and is now a CRNA (Nurse Anesthetist.) Knock you out for surgery and bring you back. 7 years of really tough, no bullshit college course work you can't fake your way through. And she has $150K student loan debt since they get no pay during internship and have to cover their own cost of living. The really good news, her first job starting pay is $85. / hour with as many hours as she wants. Yowza. I'm sure as hell not smart enough that I could ever do what she did and we are super proud of her. Glad there is at least one smart one in the family. ;-)

Interesting - Camden looks about the same as it did 50 years ago.

I have a similar brake system on my 1955 B20. My brake system is dead just like yours, sat for nearly 20 years. I haven't yet started to work on it but reading about it on the web, setting up the Hydrovac isn't quite as straightforward as you might imagine. And, if you don't follow certain procedure steps in order you can damage a newly rebuilt Hydrovac. Lot's of info on the web including how to rebuild a Hydrovac if your up for the adventure. Just Google Bendix Hydrovac. I don't know much about them so will gladly defer to the experts on this very site. Gotta be some old timers that have experience with these systems.

Wow! That's something to see. (The fish is nice too.)

I'm thinkin' it was worth getting the car a little damp...

You can always use this formula to figure approximately right: MPH = engine RPM x tire diameter inches / trans ratio / rear end ratio x .002975 So, confirming J hancock numbers above: 1441 rpm x 40.6 in. / 1.0 for the trans / 2.66 rearend ratio x .002975 = 65 MPH (.002975 is a constant that takes into account Pi, the number of inches in a mile, and minutes in an hour, so it never changes) An example, If you added a 0.7 overdrive transmission, then 1441 x 40.6 / 0.7 / 2.66 x .002975 = 93 MPH

I agree with Bigdogtrucker. What an ugly machine. I caught the show from the middle and was excited to see what they built --- and then what a disappointment. Butt ugly.

I grew up in Moorestown, only 15,000 population back in the '60s. Moorestown has grown a lot since then and much different now. Jersey was nice but I had wonderlust after high school. Moved to Buffalo, then Rochester, then Philly, Miami, Daytona, Tampa, Houston, Tulsa, and now the last 30 years here in Dallas. I like the wide open spaces here and the attitude - which is you can do pretty much any damn thing you want to do as long as you don't interfere with somebody else doing what they want on their property. Oh yeah, and no state income tax. Jersey was OK but no way I'm moving back. To each his own - makes the world go 'round...

I grew up in S. Jersey back in the early '60's. And, it was a "Garden State" back then. Thousands of acres of tomatoes and carrots grown there for Campbell's Soup, Camden, NJ. And lots of small farms growing melons, peaches, pole limas, and corn that they would sell at roadside stands. The corn was so fresh and so good, my Mom would ask the farmer how long ago it was picked. If over 4 hours ago, she'd go to the next stand down the road. Sadly, seem like you just can't get that kind of delicious fresh vegetables an more. And, a dozen ears of Silver King white corn, $.59 dozen. Them waz the days...

Yeah, about 2/3 your favorite beer and 1/3 Clamato. Sounds goofy but try it some time. Does go down easy....

Get a Honda!! My two cents...

Turning 60? Now you can probably appreciate a famous quote... "The trouble with youth is it's wasted on the young." (George Bernard Shaw) lol

Not a lot that can be done I'm afraid other than to vote some of the bums out of office in the upcoming election. We just had a primary runoff here in TX and threw out a coupe of them including the Lt. Governor who basically controls the legislative agenda here. He supported legislation to give in-state college tuition benefits to illegals and had been an advocate of instituting a state income tax. No worries, we voted him out. And you can do it too. Please. take time out to vote and help get rid of the bad apples... My two cents.