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They don't want to pay people to work there,they depend on computer inventory so the few people who are employed there have no clue as to where or what is out of stock . I have seen it take a month to restock simple items and another month to find where they put them.When they are out of stock I leave and shop someplace else, they are just passing on the blame for poor managment.

The only problem i see in what you with what you want to do is there are 5 hinge points and when wear gets in there, the things go out of line ,then it is tapered pin and hammer time ,

to dump from the bottom or swing open you just need to copy any commerically built trailer with that feature,the lay down pick truck feature was always a bitch to get the pins out. so two out of three aint bad.

WTF  no wonder you couldn't even catch the clap there is no pole or stripper in that thing

love the UP big boys it is a shame the one at Steam town just sits and rots away.I had a picture of my eldest son at about two sitting on the front pilot step. It was "gianormus" .I believe the daylight engine was dun  up in red white and blue when it pulled the freedom train back in the 70". then If I remember right the second tender had been converted to a tool /parts room.

I remember back in the late 70's early eighties contractor in Danbury Ct EPK . One of the mechanics put a v 6 something in a little B model 6 wheeler (it had broken down in the sixties and different parts were robbed for other trucks  ,it was straight and not wrecked ) they put it back together with the V6 and it used to scream ,but you shifted it all day long .

I think I remember seeing that truck in Danbury when I lived there,It has been around a long time .it use to run  rt 7 . And it was a dump back in the late seventies early eighties.

My neighbor has a large Ford Transit  transit ,thought not the super sized one it it plenty big in side and the roof is over 6' high .I was driving it a couple of weeks ago and  and spent some time looking it over , and it appeared well built .Looked it 14 or 16 gauge steel was used in body construction ,massive storage over the windshield .Unless GMC comes out with something better I would look to get one next.

well I am sure we are over looking some facts  ,a 30 cf ref is not going to hold 3,000 meals .It has to run off the airplanes power ,be EMP protected and not interfere with other electronic devises and counter measures . plus the FAA inspection and testing is probably the bulk of the cost. Of course I agree the FAKE news presscorps should ride cattle cars on hang on and pray airline . or even better get the Sh#t beat out them on united .

My kids loved the bath time so you most have told him there was no SANTA CLAUS

It may be to cold but it is really taking shape ,the cold gives you time to think things through .

also could be part of POTUS advance team, used to see them move out of DC area when Bush was in office

That looks a like a nice straight silver side bus .Usually the sides are beat to crap when they are this old .

What is the bus lines name on the side,it looks a lot like my cousins  colors  Just needs the letters GRS in fancy script on the side . He inherited  it from his uncle and ran it for several years.

My first tax paying job was stock boy at S.S.Kresge.  even owned stock in them until the first bankruptcy 

I got my first Craftsman tool in about 1958, one piece a week, before that it was Kresge for the dime tools later it was Blackhawk and Proto.I still have a kresge  screw driver with a wooden handle and the shaft running through the handle with a steel button on the end of the handle . I abused that tool more than any I have ever owned but I still got it.

Oh and don't forget the rubber industry in Ct Uniroyal  Naughatuck. Armstrong tire Norwalk  ,AMF Stamford ,Torrington bearing ,Barden bearing . You had Bullard tool in Bridgeport.Some big high pressure Compresser company in S Norwalk , Bridgeport Mills (Where else) ,Jenkens Brass valves ,and General electric  also , And just for old times sake let us not forget Jimmies of SavenRock,

Our Alco's beat the start time by 3 min 10 seconds ,of course our's had a few mod's 180 degree block heaters oil heaters and circulaters  big air start tanks ,. Hit the switch and they started  went wide open and closed to the buss in 30 seconds  ,or else we failed the test. They were awesome machines ,one generator one rcp pump and maybe a few lights.

I don't know how there could be any room for snakes there the place is cheek to cheek houses.

Federal ! my first though was Diamond T tank retriever.

Glad to see you have a sense of humor.

Paul a few have hinted at it but I have to step up and tell bluntly that most of the time you look like the poster child for home less people !!!  LOL

I haven't scene it ,but it looks like it's J.D.Cooper's. He had a lot of old stuff for sale a while back,Macks included .

Is this thing a restro or a ground up build ? looks like something those west coast tin knocker would build .

Well The truck says Dover Plains  on the door and if it is Dover Plains NY up rt  22 there used to be a big mental hospital there .And there  were a lot of slow people there .

well you wouldn't have to load it it already is,that pedal tractor and trailer  may be worth as much as the truck.Did any one notice that snow mobile parked next to it ,Now that looks like something to restore.