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Brocky

Pedigreed Bulldog
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  1. That Matlack unit was probably out the Albany / Glenmont terminal.. I had just started driving out of Syracuse when that storm hit and remember working on New Years Day as the top guys did not want to..We had the older White 4000's with "Velvet Ride" about the only good thing was it did not hop and would go thru snow..
  2. Welcome to the Board from South Carolina... Look forward to a lot of your pictures... Hope to see you at one of the southeastern shows.
  3. DadGum.. The boss let you get that far from home??? And you found your way Back!! Thanks for the great pictures..
  4. "To each his own" This is why I enjoy truck shows a lot more than a lot of the car shows. NO NIT PICKING JUDGING!! A person can enjoy, and learn from, many of the modificatons. Especially in the safety areas if it is being driven on the road.
  5. I only made a few safety/driveability upgrades to my Diamond T 201 when it was restored. changed to 12 volt, electric fuel pump, although I plumbed it thru the mech one so when you lift the hood it looks original, electric wipers, turn signals, rear bumper and full lights on the rear. I set it up to be able to drive it locally (15-20 mile radius), but it is still a beast.. If I were to build something, especially a big truck, to drive to shows I would upgrade ALL the safety related items and keep the rest as stock as possible.
  6. Joe and Doug I think (???) the first tiltable COE was the 1949-50 White 3000 with an electric screw jack. The LCF Diamond T built by the Murty Bros in 1952-3 used a counterbalanced coil spring to tilt the cab and this method was also copied into the full sized DT 921 COE. I have tilted mine by myself. Do not know who was the first to use a hydraulic jack??
  7. Aussie Paul If you get down north of Melbourne by about an hour and half, you must visit Ian Lee's place for a real hoarder/collector http://forums.justoldtrucks.com/84264/Down-Under-Trip?PageIndex=8
  8. Jim Was this picture taken at Dick Kemp's???
  9. Welcome to the DOG house, even if you do not have a Bulldog.. Thanks for keeping us updated..
  10. Tim and Paul Y'all beat me to it!!! I love all of Slim Dusty's work. After listening for a while you can pick up on the Aussie accent and slang and really enjoy him.. Start here and let them go Underdog Do a you tube search for Slim Dusty and they are all there.
  11. Merry Christmas to ALL..
  12. A Merry Christmas to all and have a safe one if you have to travel.
  13. Also another reason for different cabs outside the US was because of import tarriffs/taxes... By building the cab locally people were not importing a whole truck..
  14. Paul and upstaters In you second picture I see the brand name "Land O Lakes" on the side with a Geneva address on the door. Was Land originally an upstate NY company from the Finger Lakes area???
  15. Paul That General looks like an oilfield truck and most of their welders are artists when it comes to fabbing up something like that.
  16. It is not just cars and trucks.. The local Toro lawn mower dealer counter man wanted the VIN number to be able to find a set of BLADES after I had told him the model number and deck size?? My reply was "Computers and Dipsh#t parts men" and walked out!! Went to the Ace Hardware and he picked them right off the shelf.
  17. And the twice the pipes was prolly a 9-0-nuttin..
  18. Tom Great pictures!! Especially the ti..res on the Jeep.. Been on 501 lotsa times as we had a customer in Stinking Springs..
  19. Sounds Great Randy.. Rent the whole building then then sub rent storage space.. Yarnell you listening???
  20. I am another 700 miler, only north from South Carolina!!!
  21. I think everyone has rotation problems from phones?? Try emailing to you house computer and then rotate and post??
  22. Oldspwr (Tom Millard) has an extensive photo essay on the application of Dynamat into his fathers Brockway 361 on the Brockway trucks website. http://www.brockwaytrucks.org/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1044
  23. Here in South Carolina with low taxes along the interstate fuel runs $2.05 to $2.10.. 2 weeks ago I fueled up for $1.95 at one place.
  24. Sooner would say it was liquid sugar or corn syrup.. In the 60's to 80's Pepsi owned a sugar beet plant, then converted it to corn syrup, in Montazuma NY at the north end of Seneca Lake.
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