Terry T

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/

There is a Ukraine on the JOT page and he posted this a few days ago. He has been updating on the board as he can. "Yesterday the occupiers destroyed the largest Mriya plane in the world. From the Ukrainian language, Mriya translates as Dream! They destroyed our dream with wings, but they will never be able to kill the dream of freedom of my people, which will soon come!"

From my Republican/conservative friends who posted on FB it sounds like it was a true sh!t show. From my Democrat/liberal friends it sounded... Well like crickets. Not a single one posted anything at all on FB and I, easily, have 100 friends & family who are on the left side of the aisle. I have to believe that they too are now wishing for a mean tweet or two.

One of Michael Gully's (Necktie) trucks. Gully Transportation & ICX are his companies. He's a long time member of the ATHS.

Over the years I have seen on this very site, on the old ATHS site, on the JOT site & now on FB Mike Harbison (Sr) get grilled by people about his 150-200 Mack's setting outside yet the very people who have blasted him for his desire to not let them get scrapped start stammering "I don't have the money, the place, the time to fix them up" when told to put up/shut up. More recently I have seen Mike respond to people who needed certain parts with "I had one for decades, no one showed interest so it got scrapped last year". It's an impossible game to hang on to the old, rare stuff. Kudos to your Dad for trying to save the right things.

He forgot to swing his doors before he hit the dock...

Perhaps the pictures don't show the true roughness of it but the fire truck looks more than somewhat salvageable. I'm certainly not the guy to do it but although it's dented and bent it doesn't appear to have the rust that one would think it would being exposed to the elements for so long. I'm looking forward to upcoming photos and info for sure!

The 4300 belongs to Bruce Teel of Warsaw, IN and he still drives it daily. I don't see him as often as I used to and get to chat with him even less. This pic was taken from the Auburn Showtime but the truck still looks the same although it's been updated mechanically several more times. The Loadstar is one that we'd pull out when we were running corn real hard and the 2 semi's couldn't quite keep up or when we would transfer corn from the big bins to the smaller bins we had around the various farms.

Long gone now but for years Sheller-Globe manufactured steering wheels in Grabill, IN just outside of Fort Wayne. I thought they were a supplier to IHC until they moved operations out of Ft Wayne to Springfield, OH in 1983.