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Welcome AC, nine years for your first post but a good one!    .....Hippy 

l think we have touched all the bases about lights and no lights. Watch now that l have said this. Rain, fog, snow, road spray, dawn or dusk. The color of the car or pick-up that will NOT have it's lights on will be silver or lite gray. What ever color blends in perfectly with the road conditions.   Remember, Wipers on Lights on.   .....Hippy 

Well here in NH no one is writing tickets for failure to dim lights. Seems like everyone is going around with driving/fog/aux headlamps on in traffic. We have our own drivers and outside carriers that cant shut them or the head lights off while in the yard or backed up at the dock. l've always dimmed and turned the head lights off as soon as l set the brakes. One of our guys has a three foot LED light bar on the bumper of his jacked up 350 Ford. l've never seen him turn it off even in traffic, hell l put the high beams to him one morning when l met him.   .....Hippy   

l know of a fuel draw line that came apart on the inside. A small piece of rubber would drop down and act like a flapper valve. lt would do it every now and then, drove my friend nuts until he found it.   .....Hippy 

That sure was a hell of a line up!!   .....Hippy 

The wife and l turned Baltimore/Washington twice a week many moons ago. The old '77 R model had a crawl thru 36" bunk on it.   .....Hippy  

On 10/15/2018 at 12:15 PM, Quickfarms said:

 

From a quick internet search

This water tower lies right alongside the former path of Route 66, which has since been paved over to create US Interstate 40. During the early and mid 20th century, passersby on the Mother Road were intrigued by the severe tilt of the tower, asking themselves what on Earth could have caused it. A crashing plane? An earthquake? A giant tornado?

In reality, it was the work of a heavy-duty vehicle and a bulldozer. Ralph Britten, a man who wanted to start up a truck stop and restaurant off Route 66 in Groom, bought the water tower from the town of Lefors as an ingenious marketing technique to attract new visitors. He towed the enormous thing 34 miles to Groom, wrote “Britten USA” on top, and then, using a bulldozer, elevated two of its legs off the ground, dangling them in midair without support, so that the water tower made an 80 degree angle with the ground.

This helped his business immeasurably. It would catch the eye of every passing motorist on the route for years, many of them becoming terrified that the tower was in the process of collapsing. This played right into Britten’s hand. Worried route-takers often swerved off the road and into his truck stop, shouting “watch out! That tower’s about to fall!” Britten responded that it had been like that for years, and then asked them to sit down and buy food and a drink.

Britten’s manipulation of the tower did, however, require sufficient knowledge of physics. If the water tower were completely empty or completely full, its center of mass would be directly in the middle of the can, making it topple when slanted. So Britten filled it only partially, so that the low level of water would place the can’s center of mass near its base, directly above the two supporting legs, keeping it aloft.

Unfortunately, after many years of success, Britten’s truck stop burned down in a devastating fire, closing down all sales. Despite this unfortunate event, the leaning water tower is still one of the most photographed oddities on the way out west.

 

And now we know the rest of the story! Thank you very much.   .....Hippy

ls the water tower leaning from the wind or into it? Looks like the lettering on it is level tho! ha   .....Hippy

Bob, WBZ channel 4 says the truck got a flat tire near your house. You didn't toss anything out on Rt 495 did ya?     .....Hippy

Welcome Dan, lll be the first one to say it! Pictures-Pictures-Pictures of what you have, the more the better!   .....Hippy

21 minutes ago, BillyT said:

MB I remember they promoted the Allis Chalmers as a road engine for awhile in the middle 70s but then you didn't hear any more about them.

l don't know how long they were used but this one ran like a raped ape, it would fly!   .....Hippy

On 9/21/2018 at 12:17 AM, 41chevy said:

THE BEST!

https://www.prpsjeans.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/biscayne-crisp-f85p53v

lf she would like too wear them over to the house, l'll help her make a pair of Daisy Duke's shorts out of 'em!   .....Hippy 

I know of one F model that had an Allis Chalmers in it. Came out of the mid west somewhere. Guy in Milford NH owned it around '78-'79.   .....Hippy  

Ricky is going with his CF doubles, leaving Sat morning.   .....Hippy

Welcome back, The show to see would be Macungie, Pa in mid June put on by the ATCA. ATHS's national show will be May 30 - June 1 in Reno, NV. Have a good time!   .....Hippy

7 hours ago, j hancock said:

Based for many years in Milford, NH.

Jim,  How many do you think the 'ol girl dragged off of Rt 101 and Temple Mt?   .....Hippy 

6 hours ago, Hobert62 said:

If your changing I'd put an alternator on right away too.  Much better charging for your elog.     

It doesn't go fast enough to activate an elog into motion mode!

Thanks everyone for commenting   .....Hippy

So we are thinking of going to negative ground on the (1970) MB. What would be the best short or long version to accomplish this? Thank you for your time and info.   .....Hippy

My mother was moved to a nursing home from NH to PA years ago. If my brother or l went down for a visit and didn't bring a case of Moxie with us. Boy! Were we on her shit list l'll tell ya! lol   .....Hippy 

1 hour ago, 1965 said:

Never heard of moxie 

LOL!  The taste of New England and the Official tonic (soda/pop) of the State of Maine.

3 hours ago, ws721 said:

What about the freightliner COE next to it? Were there any other COE's there? My son was showing his Dairy calf at Cornish fair so we didn't make it to the show

Yup! Ricky had his CF Freightliner with the doubles there. And my half size COE MB was there too!   .....Hippy