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Yup, business trip to Vegas for the sign trade show to see my customers. Work work work. Plus the marathon is the most boring thing I can think of.

Count's Kustoms and Welderup

Used to see a lot more of them 15 -20 years ago. When I first met Merk (R model Mack pickup truck that's at Macungie every year ) he had 3 of them lined up out back in Shrewsbury Ma. They are long gone now. I don't think the Wayroc truck got driven much they said it was like having concrete tires it rode so hard

I think that Barrington show was about the only onehe ever took it to. Walter Balchunas, an old truck mechanic friend of mine next door to my old shop did the mechanical work on that when it was being restored.

Wow I didn't realize Wayne sold that truck. It was parked in a garage 3 miles down the street from my house. It was the only C model I've ever sat in, didn't get to drive it though.

My dad was the milkman fir a couple of years in the mid sixties. He went back to building houses and from the Divco to an Autocar dump. I used to drive by the Divco dealer (Whittemore Truck Sales Brockton Ma) twice a day going to and from work in the early eighties. They still had a bunch of used ones there for sale and ones being repaired. Went to our son and daughter in law''s house Saturday and noticed they had a milk box by the garage door, home milk delivery alive still.

My first car was a 65 impala 230 straight six with a powerglide slow as hell but I loved that car. Wish it had that hood ornament. Had an 04 Impala too, real good car keep an eye on the coolant level they almost always need intake gaskets by 100k.

Doctors could use that photo to induce vomiting

Actually both, cut all the rust out but didn't want to do 5-6 little patches so put some rust reformer stuff on and welded an overlay on. Hard to tell from the photos but that door has a pretty thick skim coat of bondo on it from a previous paint job, overlaying brought the metal closer to the same level as the rest of the door. I was planning on being there yesterday but the others guys couldn't go and I haven't got much done lately, hoping to get the fenders on this week.

Got a few more small things done, interior lights, front shocks, patched the passenger door and made and installed kickpanels with speakers. I need to get under the dash and finish tying the wiring harness up. I got some gas struts off amazon for the hood. I held the randomly ordered mounting bracket up to the Mack bracket that was on the hood and THE HOLES MATCHED UP PERFECTLY! The pistons worked out great, they don't push the hood up when it's closed and holds it up just right. Found some time to relocate the toolboxes on the new crane truck from on top to under the body.

Buy that thing and that 63' fifth wheel camper and hook it all together

Fired up the vinyl plotter yesterday and put some lettering on it. One of these days I'm going to learn how to hand letter and stripe.

NH 250 was non turbo and did not have external injector lines, just a line to the front head and a return from the rear.

Could have had an NH220 too in those trucks the engine was laid over to the right.

When I started in the sign business we used to do a lot of traveling to do installs. The boss would give us his American Express card to stay wherever and eat whatever we wanted. He said we were away from home making him money so we should at least eat good. Steak, lobster king crab, scrapple, we were spoiled. Now I 'm happy if there is a waffle maker in the breakfast room.

Yeah they wanted photos of the trucks in the garage

RAMMING SPEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've using Hagerty, 3 trucks under $500 a year and they let me pull my trailer as long as I'm only hauling my stuff. They sent me this email today, looks like they are embracing old trucks. https://contentsharing.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=2743836350&message_id=13987629&user_id=HAGERTY&group_id=4054938&jobid=36542083

That truck is a couple of towns over from me. I looked at it a few months ago. Walorz trucking used to be an authorized Mack service center. The B model which is advertised with this truck was restored by them i believe for a customer who didn't pick it up and it became their's so it was relettered. It seems that the family hired a 3rd party to sell the trucks. The asking prices are pretty high and they have been for sale for well over a year now. That R model has been outside the whole time but it is as solid as it looks in the photos. Being a Mack parts and service dealer they probably had a new steering wheel hanging around, just me guessing and I have been known to be wrong.

yup just getting broken in

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Thanks, Bob Nope, was parked in heated garage and was used by a house framer to set trusses and wall sections

99 T300, 3126 Cat 250 horse, 6 speed Eaton. 14 Ton Terex 73' main boom 40' jib 113' total tip height. Bought from original owner, pretty sure he was the only one who ever drove or operated it, 120K on the clock

I wasn't as lucky

Customers keep sending me bigger and heavier signs to put up and my old 45 year old Skyhook sign crane wasn't always quite up to it. So onto the interwebs I went, every crane I called about locally seemed to get sold the day before I called. A crane dealer one town over had this one on their website but it turned out they were just doing a courtesy ad for a customer and the truck was in Bloomfield Ohio. Made some calls found a local mechanic to look at it (he turned out to be a founding member of BMT small world, huh?) got a loan and a driveaway company and it showed up last night. I really wanted a single axle R model crane truck but they are non existent so the KW is a good runner up. Seems like most of these are on F800s with rust issues. Now I can go pick things up and put them down.