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blackdog2

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  1. Corporation tax is even worst I know a quite a few company's paid between 10k & 250k for pick up in NY and coming back to CONN.to deliver product.
  2. WAS the dealership bought out ! Conn dealership been bought several times called dealer in Mass for battery box 40.00 cheaper called a smaller dealer in Conn 45.00 they're just parts & service no sales people so I have a new job no pay but a good friend ship .
  3. Ive seen so many people over the years that didn't no about check valves a case of either and still wouldn't start!!! change valves start right up ,10.00$
  4. Camel backs spreads when leaning in a turn and it stays there air ride it changes and it squirrely & flimsily !!! if they knew how to build roads you can keep it in one lane. Pretty much all trucks that roll over have AIR RIDE & CB"s CELL PHONE:S TV screen:s & rocket scientist operating them
  5. went to look at a body in Windsor on way back stop at Marino's yard took pic's of old heavy haul Mack just came back from Mass job 14.0024 tires late 50's camel on top of camel back springs Matt will post pic's helpers look like 44.000 .
  6. Just bought 1993 super duty straight axle 5 speed 7.3 diesel naturally aspirated AM /FM ( dose"nt work ) 95,000 miles took flat bed off fabricated pintle plate lights back up -alarm tow hooks &couple brake lines and put the flat bed back on.
  7. Is Copar done ??? I see Armetta the backer was forced to bankrupt by the state court had a big auction on Friday all crushers loaders and support equipment gone did any one go to Petrosky auction !!!! in Franklin ct .
  8. Ive don it it will smoke a little more keep a eye on the pyrometer
  9. WTBY W Haven BRIGEPORT was owned by Swirskey paper in the 60:s HFD was owned by Petrocelli he work for Boston Mack 1st Island transport tried for a couple years Providence Mack tried now we got Gabrelli it gone down hill fast.
  10. I got tree RATs they tore my attic apart and the eves somebody says give them mothballs now they are crazier with bigger balls.
  11. GILLIS Ellis Island NYC my grandfather kept saying GYLES stuck with Gillis ever since my aunt owned built the Carvel in Thomaston next to fire house and the farm by Echo lake on French st & ice house rd .P S we go back to earl;y 1900:s when they shoved the roads by hand & cut ice out of the lake and stored it at the end of the road.
  12. R.J. Guerrera of golden age of trucks wanted to buy it but Tietz wouldn't sell .He ran it till late 80"s pulling a dump trailer and low bed he has three rears for it one that does 45 mph 65 mph 112 mph , My father seen that truck in Mack dealership show room in the Carolina:s love the LJ so much he went back and the dealer went out of business he spent 2 weeks looking and found it in Florida dealership in 1952 then bought it and 1more sleeper an 2 day cabs . Red Smith that advertise on her use to drive for my dad he since past away . He use to park all the trucks on Buckingham st and Sunny side ave across the street from the bar& pizza in the 60"s 70"s..
  13. My father had two like that and two day cabs around the early 50`s the one my father drove is still working in a gravel pit with a 500 gallon tank for dust control but stays in a garage. Mr Tietz from Woodbury CT told my son when he gets out of collage come talk to him but still visit There is one poping up at car shows all redone but no truck shows seen pictures of it from the WTBY CT area ..
  14. It was show the day before when erecting going on with gentle giants they need exercise to. I no my dog don't want to move she wont I imagine the elephants are the same to
  15. They cant use Elephants any to do work or to perform in the shows anymore That what Pita says.
  16. #1 .03 cent light iron .025 brought 7000 lbs cried the whole time while there complaining that it would bring in 70.00$ to bring it to the ship yard but has a new Volvo 10 wheeler sitting there .
  17. G/E is moving with 800 employees out of Fairfield Conn. do to Danny Boy to Boston Mass. after 40 + years Corporate office is gone but the remaining 5k are still here for now.They gave the state 6 months to renege on the corporate taxes they did not all but took a nice raise . Bill Finch Mayor of Bridgeport lost to a convict for embezzling and taking kick backs but did a few years in the klink . Finch then gave his staff a nice raise with retro before leaving office.
  18. Check for continuity to see if is burnt out ? That old probably is bad also check anti-freeze .
  19. They pick up the smallest measurement of dirt 1 micron, I to wondered I cut one open and did a little research .
  20. What trans do you have some have to be engaged1-5 main box and air to neutral so you can have a selection on speed.
  21. Does that come with viddles & drinks Does that come with viddles & drinks and a plastic card.Over 7 + years all i got was gold pocket watch MY cousin has a condo in Guilford on the water 900 k not bad for union painter.
  22. Actually the chicken farm was in Watertown Ct 15000 plus chickens with a 3 story still 500 gallon cap great grandfather had a speak easy in the Brooklyn section of WTBY in a butcher shop across from the Lithuania church. They tore all the 3 story coupes down about 10 -11 years ago . .
  23. My great grandfather and grandfather did the same thing from Conn to NYC it was a two day trip back in 1930s with Macks & Cadillac's for local deliveries . Some of the stories he told me with tax men making the front page of the WTBY Republican . He said it was good advertisement more business .
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