Terry T

This is the C Model that Mike Harbison bought near me and asked me to pick up and store for him many years ago. It did eventually make it to Morning Sun and is still there today.

Yes. Mike Harbison on FB is Mikey, Mike Harbison Sr on FB was Mike. In the pic Mike is sitting on the golf car & Mikey is standing next to him. I took this at his benefit 09/18/21.

Good deal! Like I told Mikey, He might have a lot of NOS/Great condition items that you might like to repop!

I just messaged Mike Harbison (Mikey)

Way back in the day I delivered to Central Indiana Hardware in Ft Wayne & Indy, IN. The Indy location at the time was in a building that looked like a strip mall in front with an alley in the back and was cramped but easy to hit until the neighbor was doing renovations and a roll-off box was dropped to the east of the dock. I got out of my truck just as the whse guy was pulling out the ground level door with the forklift. He stopped, looked, with a puzzled look and as I got to him he asked "how'd you do that?" I said it's just like parallel parking. He then told me that Yellow was just there with his Ford C & little city trailer and the driver told him there was no way he was going to get in there.

I just flagged two more.

Went to Big Sky one year skiing back in the mid-'90's. The actual night time temp was -35* at our condo & two days later the actual afternoon temp at the base was 40*. That's a 75* swing in 2 1/2 days. We'd shed another layer of clothes each run down the mountain & we were still sweating. I've skied in several states but for the beauty, peace & quiet hands down MT was my favorite.

Rob Swallows. I believe he was from central Illinois. Lot's of knowledge about almost anything mechanical. He was an "original" as well. He was on when I joined back in the very early '00's.

When younger people ask me what it's like I always tell them it's like late summer when the locust/cicadas are out. For me it sounds like late summer year round everywhere. Hearing aids have helped a little but not much.

The only two forums I still check in on & I check in almost daily are BMT & JOT. JOT mostly for the WAI and also for Dima's update on the Russia/Ukraine war. He's a long time member & Ukrainian. It doesn't matter which side of that war you believe in his daily post (albeit favoring his country obviously) brings the whole thing closer to home and helps to remind us that the people it affects are real and lives are being lost. I use to be extremely active on both sites now I mostly read & browse. The earliest days of the ATHS & BMT forums were even more fun because they both had chat rooms. Eventually we all migrated to just one and typically we would have 20-50 people in and out during the course of 2-3 hours each night & some were from other parts of the world not strictly in the US & Canada.

If I'm remembering correctly this is actually the 2nd BMT site. The 1st being antiquated and replaced by this one. I joined BMT in '02 or '03 I believe. I don't remember for sure anymore. There have also been several members from the beginning of the century who have passed, some struggled with update to the forums & not being tech savy. As was previously mentioned there was an issue that started with politics and that caused many to leave, some were banned because they didn't understand that "anything goes" does not belong here. Prior to Facebook I was a member of about a dozen different forums involving old trucks, racing, wreckers, horseshows, cars, and many other things. Facebook pretty well crushed forums to the point that only this one & Just Old Trucks are still around for me to enjoy. The rest are now gone. I think most of these things as well as others have played a big part in the loss of members.

A little lesson learned more than 10 years ago when I was still married & had 2 dogs & 3 cats. All blankets, bedding, towels, & anything else pets might lay on, go in the dryer 1st. After 30 minutes in the dryer then they can be washed & dried. The dryer has a way to capture hair (lint trap). The washing machine does to (Pump inlet). It's much easier to pull out and clean the lint trap!

I cannot even begin to help you with this one. If the rest of this group is stumped as well try the guys over at Just Old Trucks. ( justoldtrucks.com ) There are members there that are overly familiar with trucks from the beginning of the 1900's through the end of the 1900's.

I'm going off topic here for just a moment to commend everyone. I believe that this is the 1st thread to go into triple digits here at BMT. I'm not positive of that but I think it is. There use to be a racing forum that I was on that had a thread that went to 424 pages and stopped so we began a 2nd thread to continue on and the software was updated at some point and that thread went beyond that amount but then Facebook happened and most forums were abandoned. I'm glad that this forum did not meet that fate.

Did you hit up Mikey? I sold my 70 F to Mike several years ago. Might be able to look it over and see if they could be made or there might be something laying around.

Back in the day I saw F's, D-REO's, Astro's & MH's. I have seen pics of the Pete's but never saw any in person.

A Mack without a Bulldog.

I remember some of our mid-70's 4070B's had keys with the AMC logo on them. The 4070B also use that style door latch as did the 4200/4300 of the period.

and the reason he was on the race track is because he drove the American Flag around Iowa Speedway during the National Anthem before the Nationwide race there that year.

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25043935/mike-harbison/morning-sun/iowa/snyder-hollenbaugh-funeral-cremation-services

My Dad & I drove out to the benefit that they put on for him last September. That was the last time that I saw him but we spoke on the phone several times since. Last we spoke he was tired but still had the fire and was still making plans to do things with so many of his Mack's. I don't know what he felt inside but he put it out there as though he would never quit.

Saturday I had to make a banzai trip from home (Northeastern Indiana) to Kingsport, TN for a funeral. Since 1999 nearly every August we made a similar trip to Bristol Motor Speedway. Corbin, KY and a few small fuel stops east of Corbin always had the best GAS prices so we planned out to fuel in that area. This trip I took my diesel pick up truck. 4.999 to 5.579 was the fuel prices down and back (over 900 miles in just over 21 hours). I had plenty of time to think about things. I am not blaming the current administration or the former. I will however blame government. Washington has a plan. A plan to take care of themselves and those who take care of them. Everyone in big business has lobbyists. Lobbyists and Politicians scratch each others backs. There is a very real reason that crude oil and gas are fluctuating and dropping yet diesel continues to raise in price. Someone want's inflation to continue to move on a record pace for some reason. The most simple way to quietly push inflation is to push up the price of diesel because someone has to eat that. That someone is the end consumer (me & you). This quietly creates inflation and it's in an area that the consumer never questions because they don't realize that if they stop at the very moment that they are reading this and do a 360* look around the room they are in every single item they see was on a diesel powered truck at some point.

Happy Birthday!!!

I've had many business dealing with Ft Wayne Clutch over the past 40ish years. They've been around for a long time & know their stuff.

Actually 3.4 mil in January of 2020 at the Mecum in Kissimmee, FL. Some info about the car. https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0120-397388/1968-ford-mustang-gt-bullitt/