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  1. Red Horse
    I think "Super Duty" was applied to certain Pontiacs long before the Trans AM. Wasn't it a bored or stroked 389 that came out as a 421 cube??
  2. Red Horse
    Your prize is in the mail. I was there this week helping him load out a 1915 P & H-
  3. Red Horse
    For you old guys who remember what a Super Duty was! Guess where these are!
  4. Red Horse
    Which one?
  5. Red Horse
    Matt-good pix-thx-sorry I missed it but had to attend 97 year old uncle's birthday party! Amazing that there always seems to be something you have never seen in the area. New England is not that big.
  6. Red Horse
    You guys are forgetting two most important items in the dress code-flat brim baseball hat at a 45 degree angle pulled over the upper ears plus no air in the seat so you can barely see over the dashboard!
  7. Red Horse
    Amen! Only two US class 8 builders left-International and Paccar. Hopefully Navistar survives and maybe Ford makes up their mind and gets back into vocational class 8's when 750 production moves from the Bluediamond JV in Mexico to the Ford plant at Avon Lake Ohio.
  8. Red Horse
    For sure- it had been off the road a long time in 89! Steel dash!
  9. Red Horse
    Matt, Was plowing snow in Chelsea in 89 when I started. I believe it pulled a small single axle tank when it became a yard truck. Was probably put in service there as new truck.
  10. Red Horse
    Nice looking- junior and the Ford! It almost looks the same as my 68 Bronco. I think the color was called turqouise. I've thought of painting it to match the B Model (Adirondack Green) then again it is an original color-and the bronco is "uncut" so.......
  11. Red Horse
    KSC- good intel! I read the article about this guy in the WSJ but it said nothing about his prior stint at F'liner. That IS significant. Also I think the move by Diaz to Nissan is significant given Nissans move into commercial trucks. Keep in mind the head of the Nissan truck effort is a former Ford commercial truck guy. Now Nissan has two guys in house with American commercial truck experience.
  12. Red Horse
    Guys-How do you get an old b & w photo into digital mode with such clarity?
  13. Red Horse
    Like what kind of Cummins issue- just the big one? (15)
  14. Red Horse
    McDermontt?
  15. Red Horse
    As for the lawsuits, I have to believe they will have an uphill fight. One of the plaintiffs is a union. Duh! While I always hoped Navistar would make it, was I skeptical on their approach? I certainly think so-at least I wasn't going to put a pile of money on their idea as the only thing I kept thinking as they went down their EGR road was..."hmmnn-what does Volvo, Cummins, Daimler know that Navistar doesn't". Like I said, hoped they would make it but anyone who bet big on them should realistically have known what the odds were-or better yet, that the technical minds of these other companies had other ideas.
  16. Red Horse
    More trouble for Navistar. Several suits filed over failed EGR program. Allegation that Navistar misled investors to prop up stock price. As always a win-win for the legal community.
  17. Red Horse
    You NY/Vt guys probably know Gorman Bros out of Albany. I was in their Albany yard say 5-10 years ago and noticed a large pile of "scrap". It was a milling machine. They were out on a job and hit a gas line. Operator saw it and managed to get off the machine before it blew. The job had been marked but the story was the gas line was a directional drill job and apparently when they bored it, they hit some hard material and the line took path of least resistance and "bumped up" enough to get in the critical zone. Boom!
  18. Red Horse
    Checked out the BC-now that was a rare truck. the B-180 was a 61. I also saw your Ford TLB. we had an 801 that had an Eranco driving front axle. that was a rare site in the 60's, was a 4 speed with a shuttle stick. Had a 14' back hoe on it. Good little machine-for its time.
  19. Red Horse
    I drove a B-180 dump in the early 60's when I was in school. that was series before Loadstars. V-345, 5 spd, 2 spd rear, juice brakes. factory GVW of 24,000 lbs. I would routinely CARRY 12 ton of asphalt or graded base! trans had square gears but I drove it like it was a 10 spd, split shifting and the 345 would FLY! Great motor!
  20. Red Horse
    Paul, Just saw it on 10 O'clock news. ??? looks like level ground? Load frozen on one side???
  21. Red Horse
    I don't think the M was necessarily a driving front axle. If my memory is right, it had the same R cab as an F-230 but I think it did not have a setback axle and the hood was a bit shorter.
  22. Red Horse
    That Matt is good logic. Bad enough that you have a road failure-Worse when the dealer says..."Can't fit you in the shop till next week"
  23. Red Horse
    Thx for your comments. I just hope Ford has some good performance/oversight language in place. Think of the risk. Navistar is supposed to keep cranking out a quality product while Ford gears up to fight them again head on- in class 6 and 7 and probably vocational class 8 too.
  24. Red Horse
    Nice- I was working for a developer in Conn. in early 60's. We had an 801 Ford with a shuttle stick and an Eranco driving front axle. In those days a 4WD TLB was a rare thing. Drive shaft for the axle came out the side of the trans case on the left side, then under the foot rest to the left side of the axle. The tractor was red/gray but we had a new 14' hoe that was cream color with red ford Script. iittle devil would do a lot of work. I found a B & W picture, I'll see if I can get one of my kids to scan. Took about 5 minutes to put the hoe on or off.
  25. Red Horse
    So KSC, what do you think this new guy's view of Bluediamond is? As Ford was International's main competition in class 7 and a worthy competitor in 8, I can't see how they will run the risk that Ford could again be viable. Before the 6.0 "divorce", they had a good mutually beneficial relationship but now-different story.

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