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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

  3. 7 minutes ago, Red Horse said:

    Nice Rich on all counts.  That door repair-is the piece just laid over rusted area or did you cut old area out?  Sorry you missed Sat-usual good crowd.

    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.

  4. 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.

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  5. 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:o, we were spoiled.

    Now I 'm happy if there is a waffle maker in the breakfast room.

     

  6. 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.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Red Horse said:

    Rich-  sounds like a home run-hard to believe that is a 99.  And an owner operator in what I would call light duty-residential roof trusses! 

    Take it easy getting used to it.  See too many of these tree guys around here who either don't look at their charts or don't think they need bigger pads on the ground!

    Unlicensed yahoos

  8. On 2/15/2017 at 10:15 PM, Willie dog said:

    Stripped multiple layers of paint and primer from both doors and what do I find underneath?????

    NOTHING!   No filler, no rust holes whatsoever. Just a small crack where the mirror bracket attached to the door. Oh, and a dent the size  of a quarter.  I can even see the factory spot welds that hold the door skin to the door frame.

    I guess this makes up for the tank body that needed a "little work".

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    I wasn't as lucky

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