Terry T

The car that was sold at auction was Burt's personal car. There were only 3 T/A's provided by GM for the original movie and all 3 were either destroyed durning filming or were not worth repairing by the end of filming. The bridge jump was done early in produciton & that car was destroyed filming the sequence and was then used as a parts car to keep the other two running for the remainder of production. There is a really good interview with Hal Needham about the filming of the orginal movie that I have on DVD which is where I got this info about the movie cars. Ironically GM was relunctant to be involved in a movie with such highway hijix prior to the release of the movie but afterwards the movie was credited with causing the hugh sales numbers of Pontiac's Trans Am. Personally, I have owned two 1978 T/A's. One black with an automatic & one gold with a 4 speed. Both VERY fun to drive.

Trent, Bill Johnson is no longer with ATHS Some of the RVP's, Kevin Black, Rick Knox included, are trying to get the forum back up and running again like it use to. Many of us who moved to Eddy's Just Old Trucks are in wait & see mode. The JOT has close to as much traffic as the old ATHS forums did but I don't think the two combined have as much as this one does. This is JOT: http://forums.justoldtrucks.com T.

I'd like to see the air intake on the right side where it belongs.... Just sayin' that all 26 (includeing the 1 V8) Cruiseliners that we had, the air intake was on the right side interior to the exhaust stack.

Well, by now Wendy has seen them. Has she packed her bags yet?

All taken in 1994. Columbia SC, Charlotte NC, N. Myrtle Beach SC & Nashville TN.

I ran across this pic on Norm's page. Norm is an owner/driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

I can't remember if it was Mikey or the trailer that clobbered me....

I didn't have any trouble getting in or out...

Dang it Mike, I often wish I had hung onto Thumper...

Seen this one on the "Fallen Flags, Old Trucking" FB page.

This was a few years ago & I wasn't as tall as it appears. I was under 12'.

The 1995 CH613 Century 5030 I drove for Vomac out of New Haven, IN, Smith Brothers, out of Columbia City, IN, R Model with a 750 Holmes & Campbell's CL713 with a B&B 80+ ton Rotator.

Here are a couple we had at Brothers Express back around 1990. Very nice little units. Could turn a u-turn with one and a pup on a 3 lane street/road. They made excellent city P&D units.

In Indiana if an officer made that stop, given the time lapse it would be thrown out of court along with the officer who made the stop. Too much time lapse & reasonable doubt that you were one in the same person/vehicle that the officer seen making the offense. I'm not a "cop basher" they are only enforcing the laws that are created by politicians and doing so the way their superiors require them to. Some are asses, even some of the 70 or so that I know can be jackwagon's but this guy probably wrote some citations that would not stand up in court if you fought them merely because of the time lapse. However, I do believe he is correct as long as you are running an apportioned plate, you are commercial but this still should be tossed because he should have never been able to get that far because he should have never made the traffic stop in the 1st place.

Don't have any pic's but over the past couple weeks we put a new "big motor" into our outlaw superlate for a Memorial race at Angola, IN. On Friday on the 5th lap of practice (and 5th lap the engine had ever turned) BOOM! (metal) confetti.... Wrist pin failed and much of the new engine came out through the oil pan. As of Saturday, when we had switched back to the "little motor" our team owner & the engine builder where in discussion.... The engine builder is a stand up guy (business) and he will do all he can but I don't think it will be enough knowing the team owner like I do.

Here are pic's of mine....

This is the very vid that I was about to go look for but you had already posted it. When I was still Asst Chief with my county's Haz-Mat team we responded to a leaking nurse tank along a State Highway. I made the choice to go into the scene from the down wind side to chase down a truck driver & and another motorist who, unknowingly, drove into the scene just after it happened before people were in place to shut down the highway. I stopped the truck, got the driver in my car and turned the motorist around, then stopped at a home to confirm no one was there. The motorists refused treatment at the ambulance and the truck driver checked out okay. I didn't fair quite as well. I felt the burn on in my throat & chest, very minor, but it was there & now will always be there with me in the form of the emergency inhaler that I keep with me. I don't regret it though, if I hadn't done it we would have likely had 3 fatalities that day. This is a professionally made training video. The scene was staged but it will happen just like that. This is the complete training video:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/12/us/california-bus-crash/http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/12/us/california-bus-crash/

The media is very quick to sensationalize any story. And "an out of control truck careened into a bus full of high school students" is much more sensational than "truck struck by car then hits bus". I've long been a critic of the media, since my late teens when I got involved in emergency services, and I typically take anything reported with a grain of salt but sadly this time I was on board with what was first reported because of the run of bad luck Fed Ex has had over the past several months with high profile crashes in my part of the country. Those of you out west, please keep us up on this story as it continues.

900 head of cattle, 1200 square miles. What are the odds of a cow encountering a turtle in it's 1.25 square miles?

Very little about it on "main stream media" but it is getting a lot of attention on Facebook.

I don't think the headlights are low. Look at the curve of the fender & headlight panel. Not enough room to move them up. It looks more like the bottom of the headlight panel & fender has been abbreviated. Then there is that corner marker light.... Because I don't have any other answers I'd go with foreign built.

I think it is at the ATHS forum, a long, long thread that includes a relative of the company.

Um... Even worse, Nissan has a Titan pickup truck....