stev

I know some of you look for things like this, I don't know anything about it. http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/3159296896.html

You'll probably love this one. Check out the first image . . . . http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/bfs/3162557876.html

5500$ seems steep for a single screw Cabover from 1972 . . . . . Maybe he thinks he is up here near Boston, where Macks are expensive . . . . . . . http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1972-mack-f-/110922491140#ht_500wt_948

I talked to the guy selling it several weeks ago. It is not the owner painted on the side of the truck, it is someone flipping it. It is at a friend's house right now. He didn't seem to know much detail about it, but maintained it was in great shape. At that time, he had several people interested in it, I suppose it none of them came through. It used to be on Craig's list west of Boston, but wasn't there the last several times I checked (just got back from 10 days "away from it all" so that might have changed.) If it had been the most recent owner, I would have driven out to look it over. Since it is someone who doesn't seem to have a facility to deal with even a cursory inspection, I just moved on. The price was not low enough that I felt comfortable dealing with any potential problem I might find after purchase. while it might be a great truck for the money, it is still 25 years old, and may have issues that don't become obvious initially.

Canada? They already have something that sounds similar, or worse, depending on your position: http://www.canadian-healthcare.org/ If you don't want obamacare, or something like it, pass a law freeing medical businesses from liability from not helping people who can't prove they can pay for the service. This will cause the costs for the rest of society, who won't have to pay extra to support people who can't afford it, to drop, since part of what is raising them now is this "unfunded mandate". Oh, yeah, and make sure you never leave the house without some proof that you can pay if you are ever taken to a hospital, they may not believe your word that you can pay. And if you can't pay, well, don't leave the house, I suppose. If you want the nanny government out of your pocket, don't forget to be responsible for yourself. Btw, who pays when someone who can't afford it hurts someone else who can't afford it, who was just minding their own business? Do we just allow them to die?

So, do you remember how much it was worth a year ago?

So, from a permitting point of view, does it matter if you are doing this for yourself as opposed to doing it for someone else? If you are picking up a truck you bought, do you still need permits and log books?

Wow, that third one is oddly compelling. Something like what batman would drive if he would drive something like that. I will say, while the dumps were embarrassing, the, I don't know, car?, shows quite a bit of body work skill, melting together the dodge hood, car body, and fabricating the rear end . . . . . An intervention mint be just the thing to reaim those skills in a more productive manner.

You can't buy a running Superliner out here for 10,000$, even if the drivers seat is torn;) I assumed all magnum's had a v8. Guess I was wrong . . . . .

Not a bad price, not bad looking: http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=3436493&

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1962-B61-Mack-237hp-Thermodyne-quadraplex-transmission-/200746346769?pt=Commercial_Trucks&hash=item2ebd6a2911#ht_1147wt_1021 Wow.

He should be. Putting your phone number on the Internet without doing something to it like that is advised, unless you want to start receiving a lot of spam text messages. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/04/08/text_messaging_spam_on_cellphones_is_a_growing_problem/ There are allot of people using programs to troll places like this looking for phone numbers to sell. Reminds me of when I was a kid. A lot of magazines had an ad in the back for nose hair clippers. Really cheap, too. Turns out that the company selling them basically sold them at cost, because their real product was not the nose hair trimmers. Their real product was their customer list, a collection of the names of people who cared about their looks so much that they would buy a nose hair clipper out of the back of a magazine. They sold this customer list to hundreds of companies looking to sell things to people that they might want, but would be reluctant to but at a store where people can see them. made a fortune that way.

So, like a lot of us, I watch the prices of Macks, and have for some time. I happen to live north of Boston, home to, it seems, Macks built of solid gold, based on the prices asked. Recently I have noiticed that R models are getting scarce on the ground, but Superliners seem to be backing up and not selling. I am also seeing prices on some of them actually drop, and some recent listings are for prices substantially lower than I think they would have appeared at a year ago. Has anyone else noticed this, and is it also showing up in other areas of the country?

it sez so right there in the description . . . . http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mack-F-600-cabover-/130656809045?pt=Commercial_Trucks&hash=item1e6bc0b055#ht_500wt_1182 not a bad looking truck, actually. i'd like to see more pictures of the cruiseliner on his website . . . . .

i have mixed feelings about this show. i like seeing some of the places they go. my issue relates to how they try and take advantage of people who don't know any better. they consider themselves successful when they can buy something for 10% of what they think they can get for it. i much prefer Pawn Stars, which is up front about paying somewhere between 33% and 66%, depending on how much extra they need to put into it, and how long it will sit there before it sells. but there does seem to be a lot more cool stuff on Pickers, can't deny that. . . . . .

http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=3424929& so, since i lack the facilities and knowledge to do this, anyone have an idea about how much it would cost to [fix /swap] the engine and put it all back together? i know you can swap engine cores for rebuilt ones, not sure about the transmission. how many man hours are involved in replacing the motor? how much will the swapped engine cost? i doubt i can make it work, but i am interested enough to ask . . . .

the wrecker is also listed: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1969-Brockway-Tow-Truck-Wrecker-Excellent-Condition-/260957415306?pt=Commercial_Trucks&hash=item3cc246278a#ht_524wt_1182 it has a reserve, and the buy it now is 12K$.

got to be careful, that can piss them off . . . . you really don't want that . . .

presented without further comments: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/01/travel/big-trucks

there are a lot more pictures of her her: http://www.google.com/search?q=redheadedcontroller&hl=en&pwst=1&rls=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=6HEbT8nzDY6p0AGC55TgCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAQ&biw=1377&bih=790 again, none of her face . . . my favorite is the red bikini top . . . .

Some of the pictures are blurry, and so close I can't imagine what is in the picture. 3000$ seems steep for what is there, also . . . . http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1964-Mack-B-67-twin-screw-truck-673-Thermodyne-concave-cab-runs-great-/120845947340?pt=Commercial_Trucks&hash=item1c22fad1cc#ht_500wt_948

if you select "view other items" there are more pictures of her in another auction. when there, if you select "completed items" (on the left side of the list of his auctions, you need an ebay account) there is a third, already closed auction, with more pictures of her. sadly, none of her face.

Have any of you ever wondered why russia is a huge energy exporter? When i was younger, it seems that most of the big oil has been under water or near the equator. Now, Russia, a country that seems a lot like the US in physical charastistics, is a huge energy exporter. Where were did that come from? As it turns out, from a US scientist. He wrote a book about it: http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Hot-Biosphere-Fossil-Fuels/dp/0387952535/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325615187&sr=8-1 It is an interesting read. Not too thick, if you get my drift, and not too technical. He doesn't assume that you have specific prior knowledge about any of the science involved. US geologists and other scientists disagreed with his positions. The Russians, probably mostly because they were interested in science that was different than the common beliefs in the US, decided to take it up and run with it. Today, the Russians are the second largest oil producers in the world, after Saudi Arabia, according to the CIA factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2173rank.html Tomas Gold, the author, was famous for challenging the status quo in various areas of science. I wonder if the stuff we are starting to see now (like fracking) are a result of people finally thinking he might have been onto something.

It is my impresson that what we are exporting is refined products like gasoline, not unrefined products, like crude oil, which we import. If you want to make this more difficult, go ahead. It will put more Americans out of jobs when that work moves offshore, and may end up costing even more jobs if it turns out to be cheaper refining the products elsewhere where the laws are more lax, and shipping it here. This will also leave us more exposed to other countries jerking us around. As for other countries selling things like gas for subsidized prices, there are actually a lot of countries what do this aside from Venezuela. They include Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and until recently, Libya. None of them are famous for their civil liberities, nor are any of them considered stable countries. All things considered, I prefer things the way they are.

one other thing about those roads. notice in the second video that all the lines on the road are white. that makes me crazy in foreign countries. unlike here, they do not use yellow lines to separate traffic going in different directions . . . . .