ranchhopper

I like the long hood but after 30 years I had forgotten how many turns of the wheel it takes to round a corner with out power steering.

Im going to shop around for the parts I need the truck will for sure be repainted this coming spring having trouble getting the passenger door to latch tight had to drill and tap the handle lots of corrosion on the smaller side of the handle people looking it over at the auction had it pulled partially out of the door shell.

I have a couple things Im going to change on it it will get a set of dual chrome exhaust stacks I have a trade deal in the works with our head mechanic at work for the set on his personal mack for the muffler set up on mine. Im also going with a set of polished aluminum budd wheels on the front I will be saving everything I take off so if I decide to sell the truck down the road sometime it can be put back to original. This is only going to be a parade truck we do lots of them every year so some bling is required I see the frame was originally black where it didn't get painted under the cab I may just paint it red as it is or return it to factory black all things I will decide to do over the winter. Today after it gets to my place a complete cleaning of the interior is in the works as well as figuring out how to tackle the few rust spots that need attention I just wish I could have gotten it during the summer so I could work on it more. I may have to rent space in a heated shop this winter to do the paint and body work the hood and doors will be taken off so a proper paint job can be done to it the doors need to be realigned anyways they close tight but the door handle side just touches the gasket. As for the 237 in a long hood truck that old 71 RS700L I drove years ago was set up the same as this manual steering and a 237 hooked to a straight 5 speed pretty much an identical truck and superdog is correct now that I think about it most of Harry Kuhns R models had a plate on the glove box stating it was built for him

Its missing one of the RS700L emblems I am going to have to find one for it.

It has the cleanest engine compartment by far of all the trucks I looked over I couldn't buy any of the others until I was sure I wasn't going to get this one and it worked out for the better. The 1971 RS700L lowboy tractor I drove in the 80s had this truck custom built for John Yazel on the horn button as well as the R models Harry Kuhn had all read this truck custom built for Harry W. Kuhn..

Wonder what happened to the mixer trailers harry used to use on paving jobs.

I have a few things to do like new paint I figure I can repaint it in late spring tomorrow I will clean up the interior real good.

Is this the horn center you speak of?

Paint is not original I think it might have been an off white I can see where the red on the door stops and the white takes over the interior is white too.after the state got done with me tax, title and DOC it was 8300.

That old chevy is a 74 bought it rustfree in Montana 10 miles south of the canadian border got really lucky a truck was coming down from Canada going right through the town it was in got it hauled here for 700 bucks I probably couldn't have drove there for that let alone back again. The exporters were at the auction today too they were buying all the semi tractors I told one guy the truck didn't have power steering he said where the truck was going to be sent he didn't care it was going to be sent to Africa I feel pretty good that I saved it from a slow death.

Drove part time for Harry filling in for guys off work on my vacation time while working for Clearwater farms hauled chips to the plant all day or asphalt or just following a grade all loading up broken curb that was quite an operation very impressive.

I drove an RB for welch for two years it was always the cleanest best taken care of R model in the gravel fleet until they put me in a loader this year its a shame to see it now I think it may have been washed once this year.

Got 10K for it.

Sold my military truck on ebay in three days now I have money for my mack and some extras.

Well they are in the process of growing the government since the campaigner in chief became president they have to have lots of stupid rules to keep their buddies in enforcement busy to justify a paycheck.

You would be surprised at how light those fruehaufs are we had four steel ones and one aluminum quarter frame at Clearwater farms we used them all the time.

No the red one comes from way south of us I know who the original owner was because its engraved in the center cap of the steering wheel.

I noticed some weird things on some of their trucks some have newer interiors must be recabbed some have the frames painted but the rest is crappy looking slap on some newer parts and get premium money for them.

Don't forget the do gooder democrats that want to tax the farmer for the amount of gas produced by his cows farting.

That's the one I saw they said they would pull the engine and sell it off before they would drop their asking price I have been checking out several nice oil field trucks in texas the shipping may be a deal killer unless I can get a good buck for the winch and headache rack off the back.

Yes that is the one I know you search the truck paper too it was funny there was no pictures in the ad I asked if that was their final price and they said they would pull the engine and get their money out of it that way if they had to.