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1958 F.W.D.

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  1. Vinny, those aren't the battery box brackets, they are the kickstand brackets.
  2. U-Models....Mopiles......You ate lead paint chips as a child, didn't you?
  3. I have an iphone.....just email the picture into your own email. Then get on your home computer, download/save the pic and then upload it in here as you would normally.
  4. Rob was gone?
  5. Thats the great thing about my method- take out ONE of the stupid idiots, and none of them will fuck with you.
  6. If he ever approaches you, and makes a sudden movement, you smash him in the nose as fast as you can, as hard as you possibly can. Lightning speed dude. Dont fuck around, dont hold back. Fast and hard right into his schnozz. I was taught this back in high school when one of the big wheels of the football team was bullying me for weeks on end. I finally couldnt take it anymore, and was advised by a close friend who was like a big brother (who drove a U-Model making local p/u's and deliveries, I know I'll prolly regret saying that....) but he said "tell the other guy something to get him to swing first." So the next time he had my blood boiling, I said something about the fact that he was so ugly it looked like his mother should have swallowed him in order to protect his familie's gene pool........He went to make a move and all of a sudden he was gushing blood like a faucet. We both got a 3-day suspension, my parents never grounded me because they believed in me having the right to defend myself, but the best part was no one, and I mean no one ever fucked with me again after that. That 3-day suspension was soooooo worth it.
  7. Now I'm calling bullshit on you- because the 60 Series DD was one of the best engines ever put into Fire Apparatus. There have been just as many 60's installed in fire trucks as there were Lawn Boys, if not more. The fire service cried when DD announced they would no longer produce engines for the fire service. Also many truckign fleets out there touted the 60 as one of the best engines. Jevic, which had a fleet of 1200 tractors when they claimed bankruptcy and closed down had thousands of 60's in the fleet throughout the years, and their record of performance versus time-lost breakdowns was stellar when compared to the Cummaparts and Kitty Cats. (Kitties being better than the Cummaparts.)
  8. Hey I busted my ass during the day LOL!!!! (and some nights too as we ran 2 and then 3 shifts...) We took over a school district's bus repair garage and property. We were the mass care warehouse for about 10,000 folks in between KC and where we were located (name of town escapes me now.....) Wehad it all- food, drinks, essential living supplies and cleaning supplies. We supplied the foodstuffs to several area school kitchens where they cooked it and then people came in and ate there, or it was distributed aboard red cross vehicles as they drove through neighborhoods- three squares a day. We had 20+ 48' reefers that I had to have fuel and oil levels monitored constantly, I had three roll-backs that were the "loading docks" that myself and two other guys could operate.....Plus we had three Hertz rentals 28' straight vans that we loaded out every night, for deliveries the next morning. Very hard work but very satisfying, the people of the midwest from Rock Island, Il. to Des Moines Iowa to St Louis MO all were so greatful, I shook thousands of hands thanking me by people who lost everything. It was very humbling. Too bad there is so much bad politics in the Red Cross, I might still be working for them. The moral of the story- I deserved the "R & R."
  9. I suspect she'll get better justice over there than she will here.....maybe hard time in a not-so-nice pen in siberia somewhere, or maybe even she might die of a 9mm brain hemmorage.....they still do that occasionally......
  10. Wow...12 years old and he has half of it figured out already!!!!!!
  11. If Joe cant help him, no one can. Not only does he do antique alternators/generators/starter-ators as part of his profession, Joe has restored several Macks.
  12. Democrats, 2009-2012: "It's not a tax. Congress has the power to regulate commerce." Republicans et al, 2009-2012: "It either violates the Commerce Clause, or it's a tax on the middle class. Either way it's bad." Obama, 2009-2012: "Heavens no, I would never raise taxes on the middle class.." SCOTUS, 6/28/12: "It violates the Commerce Clause, but that doesn't matter because it's actually a tax and therefore legal." Democrats/Obama, 6/28/12: "Yayz!" Republicans et al, 6/28/12: "So you're raising taxes on the middle class." Democrats/Obama, 6/28/12: "..............."
  13. You damn kids.....lol.....yes young Vincent, a Lawn-Boy is a 2 stroke mower. Hence all the DD/Lawn Boy jokes.
  14. U models need a minimum of three fat chicks on the porch, a DM you only need a minimum of one.
  15. I have three wives,maybe four...lost count. I cant keep em happy all of the time, you can borrow her once in a while, as long as there is no more talk of putting a Lawn-Boy in my FWD.
  16. Oh, you didnt know....I'm mormon. They both are......and Jennifer Love Hewitt, too.
  17. This does not sound good. In all seriousness, I never met the man but I hope he is ok.
  18. I came down the stairs and sat at the table as the girlfriend cooked a breakfast of eggs, bacon, pancakes and all the trimmings......The mail was on the table.....She was on the cover of the new Playboy. I looked up and my son was on the Wheaties box.....and my wife was on the milk carton......
  19. The best looking Detroit Diesel I ever saw had a huge hole in the side of the block with part of a rod through the hole.
  20. Find the value of the portion of land that he staked out, then offer to sell it to him for that, plus he picks up the cost of going to the county for the subdivision of the lot...When he laughs, hold a steady face, and when he says "you're not serious?" say "I am. Or you can take those stakes on my property and stick them up your ass sideways."
  21. Agreed. When I was a young'n helping out my father with one of the F-Models or the firetrucks, if I didnt have grease & dirt from head to toe, ear to ear and in me arse, he would tell me I wasnt working hard enough. I also knew when I was working hard enough depending on how loud my mother screamed "GET HIM INTO THE TUB!" when Dad would bring me home from the shop or the firehouse.
  22. mmmmmmmm farmers daughters.......Back in 1993, I was a paid staffer for the American Red Cross in Philadelphia, where I lived in a typical Philly-style rowhouse, 15' wide by 45' deep, 40 on one side of the block, 40 on the other side, 80 houses total on one city block. I was part of the DSHR (disaster services human resources) and was sent to the mid-west for the floods in 1993. I spent about 2.5 weeks in a little town about 50 miles north of Kansas City Mo, running a disaster supplies/food warehouse operation. Holed up in a hotel with a small restaurant next door- the only food for 20 miles. Spent a lot of time in there and got to know this one waitress.......For the sake of protecting young Vincent's "pure-as-the-driven-snow-ivory-soap-white innocence" I will refrain from further detail. I assume she was a farmers daughter, she took me to the house one evening, and when I said how much land do you have, she said "see the horizon"? I said ya....she said "and then some." So farmers daughter got all interested in the City Boy, and bodily fluids errrr ahhhh I mean addresses were exchanged and after I went home, she came for a visit...Wanted to see the big city....Well when she saw that the combined amount of grass of all the front yards on my block equated to 1/2 of her front yard, she got a little depressed....She stayed her four days and went back to Mo.....never to be heard from again. But the memories are good!!!!
  23. Here's what my father had to say....I know it doesnt help you much, but at least you have a little history..... "This sounds like what Oreland had in the Cs. I drove the old 703 to several fires. Centre Square's early CF had that trans behind a 237 Maxidyne. When Spicer got wind of it they told Mack "you will not ever again." It won't take the torque of a Maxidyne. I don't know how the thing held up over the life of the truck. I think that trans was originally designed for transit buses. In the 50s the PTC (now SEPTA) got a huge order of GM buses that had 4-71s and that trans or something similar to it. But I think it had some kind of air shift arrangement. I remember riding them an when it was time to upshift, the driver would lift his foot up off of the throttle. You'd hear some air hissing and the trans would go "Wham!" into direct drive. (That order of buses has quite a story of its own behind it. I don't have enough time to tell it right now.)"
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