mattb73lt

It's been a great year, with lots of miles on our trucks!!! Looking forward to even more next year!!

I added the picture that wouldn't upload last night to my last post.

Busy, busy with the B73 this weekend!! Spent Saturday morning cleaning it up from Lititz for an event Sunday. Then Saturday evening my wife and I were in our Tahoe enroute to a family event, when a brake issue left us stranded. Rescued it with the B73. Then out all day Sunday at the “Back the Blue” motorcycle ride and car show, hauling vehicles for the State Police Museum. Another great event and weekend with the truck!!

Nice work, that looks great!!

Welcome aboard!! Really great find and pretty rare, too. I love the B70 series, either B or L cab. Not too many 77’s around. Keep us up to date with what you do with it? Matt

A GMC V12 cabover survivor that actually runs and drives. I heard it only has 12,000 original miles. Jim Rymes out of Florida, formerly of New Hampshire, just bought it on his way to Gerhart's in Massachusetts.

A large amount of Superliners showed up. There must have been at least four dozen there.

Factory sleeper B61. This one was really well restored, great paint in and out and a lot of attention to detail poured into it.

This guy built a replica of his full size cabover. I thought it was remote controlled. Nope, tilt the cab up and slide into it. Amazing detail he put into it!

So many things to see there. Amazing trucks from all over.

I actually landed there, between your trucks and the power lines, during the Anthrax investigations several times with the State Police helicopter. Brought in FBI agents and State Police bomb techs and investigators. A woman from Oxford died from her mail that was cross contaminated from that postal facility. I think that was right around October, 2001. Five people over all died in the region due to that.

I finally made the pilgrimage to the big Gerhart's All Mack Show in Lititz, PA. Drove down Friday morning, leaving the house at 5AM. Missed most of all the traffic the whole way. But what a show!! So many amazing trucks and vehicles. Met people from here and many others that have read this page. Did a lot of talking and spent a lot more time at the truck than at Macungie, so people could find me. Left for home today just before three and rolled up the driveway just around 7:45 PM and traffic wasn't too bad. Truck ran perfectly, put 571 miles and 11 hours on it for the trip. Quite the adventure!!

Well I went. finally met several people from here and had some great conversations!! Met a lot of anonymous people that have read my page here. It was a great time and many amazing trucks showed up.

Anyone of the mind to go? I've been wanting to to go to this show for quite a while and with the B73 done I figured I'd make the trip this year. I got a hotel room and one of my co-workers my go, too. If he goes, we may put my truck on his lowboy trailer and haul it there.

Participated in the Wishes on Wheels Convoy in East Hartford last Sunday(9/14) with the B73. Lots of fun and over 500 trucks participated. It's the largest truck convoy in the northeast supporting the Make A Wish Foundation. Once the trucks leave Rentschler Field they head out to I-84 for a bit, then enter I-384 and head to Exit 7 in Bolton, CT. That's 10 miles away, then turnaround at that exit and head back. Almost as the last truck is leaving, the first trucks are coming back. That's almost TWENTY miles of trucks of every size, variety and type!! I've participated in it for several years now. There's all kinds of photographers, drones and people lining the highway and on top of the overpasses. Cool event to get involved in. My truck got caught by a drone entering I-84 that a drone company posted on Facebook. Lots of photos and videos have been posted and it made all the evening news shows that night.