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Hey '41, Glad he made it home. Thanks to him and to you for your service. Harry F.

My uncle served for a while under Patton. Said he was one crazy SOB but he and the other men loved him and his spirit and would (and did) follow him anywhere. Makes you wonder where are the men of that caliber today? I don't see them in Washington. A veritable dearth of leadership... I remember George Carlin talking about the "pussification."

Yes, all who served deserve our heartfelt thanks and respect. In WWII my dad in Hawaii, an uncle in the airforce, another uncle in the landing at Anzio, an uncle in Belgium, and both grandfathers worked for a while at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia where 53 ships were built. They saw some horrific stuff but never spoke of it after the war. Quiet heros that did what they needed to do. And so for all of our vets before and since. You may have ssen this video before when I posted it last year, but if not, definitely worth seeing. The music is quite moving too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7HPQM0Jgg

Yowza, I was gonna say donuts on sale but Hatcity beat me to it...

Yep, and I got a feeling we ain't seen nothing yet. Say you take your family on a driving vacation, pull your electric car up to an electric car recharging station. That charging station will immediately read your car and credit cards, check for outstanding warrants, unpaid traffic tickets, charge you more for your electrons because your electric car is not efficient enough per new government standards, and calculate your average speed since the last recharge and fine you accordingly. It's almost impossible to travel under the radar these days. Eventually the do-gooders will outlaw any vehicle over 20 years old. It may be too late to get any of our privacy back. I guess we'll see...

What a beauty!

All great performers!! Classic music that stands the test of time. Unlike some of todays singers, these guys will be remembered 50 years from now. Women back in the day too, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, Jeanne Pruett. etc.

Better to be lucky than good (they say)

An acquaintenance well-known to both the red-headed one and Waylon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxHu_71sU1E

Congrats! Glad all is well! Daughters are great. I have 3 of them and no sons (which is probably a good thing.) I remember all of the things me an my brother did when we were kids, busting up stuff, out of control, school troubles, cops after us frequently. I don't think I could have taken it if I had sons that were like me and my brother were to my parents, God rest their soles...

I agree with Mike D. I called a N.Y. trooper one time on a speeding ticket and asked if he could cut me a break on account of this that and the other thing. He let me plead guilty to an inadequate muffler and pay the fine.. No points. In Texas, local small town cop wouldn't help, said I'd have to call the judge. So I called the judge. Same kind of deal, mail in the ticket with the box checked for no lo contendre (no contest) and pay the fine - but no points. Nothings for sure but worth a phone call to ask. Admit you screwed up and ask for forgiveness.

Yeah, it's kinda strange about women and old trucks. When I bought my not-running, rusty, milky-windowed trashed-out B20, the guy I bought it from delivered in on a trailer and we pushed it into my workshop out behind the house. The wife sees it being unloaded and says "Oh no, what a piece of junk." Clearly not impressed. Several weeks later, truck is still sitting in the shop untouched. Wife has an interior design woman come to the house to talk about some new curtains. My wife decides she needs to show her something in her (wife's) office which is in the back corner of the shop. So, they go out to the shop, wife opens the door and they go in. The interior design woman's eyes light up when she sees the truck, flashes me a great big grin and says "wow, i want a ride in that when you get it ready." Wife's jaw drops, they look at each other, no words but expression pretty much said it all. Interior design lady keeps pinging me on various social sites but no way I'm going there if you know what I mean. Old trucks are in the eye of the beholder - male or female.

I notice it's located in Houston. It's painted in Haliburton colors.

FYI, speaking of discounts, just in case you didn't know... Lowes gives a 10% discount to any active military and vets and also immediate family. So if you are/were military you can get the discount - just show copy of your discharge papers or your drivers license if it indicates military. If you aren't military you can still get the discount if a relative was. I show them my father's navy discharge paper dated 1945. They don't even question it. I bought a compressor for $1000.00 and got the 10% knocked off no problem. Bought the extended warranty later and took the 10% discount on that too. Every purchase large or small I get the 10%. I just keep a copy of the paper in my glove compartment. Crazy not to use it.

All beef. (Eyeballs, snouts, and genitals.)

Take this down... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpmswBKVN4

I don't know if many of you guys are old enough to have driven that kind of 50s and 60s American iron back in the day. But I did. They were heavy, soft suspension, and handled badly. About 110 mph was all they would do because most of them didn't have overdrive transmissions. Crappy rayon bias tires since radials weren't around yet. Drum brakes that faded quickly. Needed a tune up every 20K miles. Points, plugs, rotor, cap, etc. Many a Olds, Caddy, Buick, Chrysler, the pride of the fleets, were junked at 100K miles as the engines were plain worn out with big-time blow-by. On a cold morning you'd have to let those things idle in the driveway for 20 minutes to warm up enough to be drivable. They are nostalgia and cool to look at but you would want to have one for a daily driver unless it had been updated. And to top it off, no such thing as FM radio or XM. POS AM radios only. I had lots of 60's cars but the only one I really liked was my 66 Corvette. 327/350, 4 speed, leather seats, side pipes. Bought it for $3250. Needless to say I wish I still had it. By the way, the cars with the bigger V8s did accelerate good because the engines were high compression and 100 octane gas was about $.28 a gallon.

Two things to remember... - An old truck will not make you sleep on the couch. - An old truck will not change the locks on you.

My understanding, it was a very slow truck market at the time Renault and Volvo first got involved by taking a minority interest. Mack did something wrong? No, I'd say a proud American company with a tradition of doing the right things. Didn't go bankrupt and stiff the shareholders and bondholders like hundreds of other companies. And they provided good jobs and careers for thousands of people along the way. I don't see any new GMC, or Ford, or Dodge, or Sterling, heavy trucks driving around. Just to stay alive, GM had to screw their bond holders, declaring their bonds (IOUs) worthless and borrowing billions from we the people. Chrysler couldn't make it as a public company. There have been at least a dozen airlines that went bankrupt in recent years. Businesses come and businesses go. It's the way of things. Who knows, maybe one day the truck business again will be very soft and Volvo will fall on hard times and spin-off to new owners that valuable asset (brand) known as Mack Trucks. I'm sure they would sell the name for the right offer. The fact that Volvo continues to use the Mack name speaks volumes. My two cents.

Thanks for the posts and the laughs at 'em all over again. Glad to see my sense of humor isn't all that abnormal. Flipping channels and I come across Blazing Saddles and my wife walks by and says "Oh no, you're watching that AGAIN.". And the first time I saw those guys ordering their meal in Jive I laughed so hard i nearly fell out of my chair. And of course the "nice beaver" bit. And the "I picked a bad day to quit sinffing glue" Lloyd bridges is a riot too. And, you gotta recall the railroad workers in the beginning of Blazing Saddles who claim not to know any spirituals and then break out into 5 part harmony of "I et no kicks from champaign." And then Slim Pickins rides up and starts whacking Burton Gilliam with his hat "What in the wide world of sports is goin on here, dancin aroun like a bunch of Kansas City xxxxx."- Classics for sure.

Yep those are good too! And who could forget Vegas Vacation. The kid gets a phony Id as Nick Papageorgio from Yuma and wins all those cars.

A lot of those old movies are a riot. I watch movies for only one purpose - to laugh. Some of my favorites below. Blazing Saddles Silver Streak 1941 Naked Gun 33-1/3 The Final Insult Tough Guys Tin Men Police Squad Spies Like Us There are of course lots more, but, any of these guaranteed to make you laugh

Laugh all over again every time I see this. Contains profanity. Do not open if you will be offended! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVm84MD4vU4

Sometimes it can work the other way though... I recall back in the day I had a Chevy C50 flatbed with a home made rear bumper out of 8 in. heavy channel iron. Had it parked by the curb out front. Roommate yells "somebody just side-swiped your truck." An old lady in a Oldsmobile managed to snag her front wheel well on the end of that bumper. Opened that Olds up like a can opener the whole length of her car. She never stopped but the whole thing made me laugh. No damage to my beater truck.

Your damn right things have changed. When I was a kid back in the '60s, after pheasant hunting on a Saturday morning, we'd trudge from the fields, back in to town, into the Rexall drug store on Main St. to get something to eat. We just stood our shotguns up in the corner by our table and no one gave it a second thought. That was in N.J. in a town of population 20,000 or so. Can't imagine what would happen now if a couple of teenagers did that. Truly sad how things have changed.