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I saw 1958FWD and Large. And I saw saw this...I have no explanation. I saw several big Mack trucks at Metals USA in Ambridge, Pa. Bulldog on a Dodge. Another girl in another car at another red light. A boat- it used to float around in this little pond, but it hit an iceberg and sank. All the passengers and crew escaped without harm. And check this monster out- it was in the road on 699 just a little ways from here. We were almost home from Macungie when we saw it in the road. I don't know what's going on with turtles, but i've seen lots of them in the road this year- not the usual terrapins, I mean big snapping turtles. I saw three in one day that had been hit in the road a few weeks ago. After the photo shoot I picked this one up by the tail and put it in the field where it was headed to in the first place...hope the old fella made it, he was a big one.

And now...the rest of the story! The real pictures of the week- I hired a painter to paint my picnic table. She put a whole gallon of paint on one picnic table, but she did a great job. I just wish she had waited for it to dry before she sat down. I saw another load of onions. Nice looking onions! Of course I saw a girl in a car- at a red light. I saw a girl by a car in a parking lot. I saw dinosaurs too- Another girl in another car- A moth.

This was the big attraction in both of those GMCs-

I was walking over there to take some pictures of this Cannonball GMC when I spotted Vinny walking towards me! Nice to meet him, him and Pop were both real nice. And there's Jumper and son standing there- I took this picture on Friday and we never saw each other. I only realized they were there when I was looking at the pictures after I got home.

First time for me, and I think Doug Maney was right when he called it "the greatest antique truck show on earth!"

I liked this!

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I'm not doing too good with pictures lately. I'm seeing more wimmens, but not as much truck related activities to photograph. Like this wimmens coming to work in Pittsburgh the other day- That's where I saw this bird- I saw this beauty walking the dog at the service plaza- That's where I saw this load of onions, which also looked pretty good to me! But I also saw a girl in a car. Looks like they're stripping the paint off the giant peach - I saw this load of steel- ....and I saw another girl in another car. And here's a girl in a car from the interweb-

Only took me 45 minutes to get around this one...'course she was over on the service road running parallel to the interstate.

I got behind these biker gals the other day, took me almost 2 hours to get past them.

Yep, I didn't remember that many, but it was a lot- friends, family, work- some I still remember from when I was a kid, and now I have to think a second to remember my own.

I like Chrome.

Yes they do! I had a peddle farm tractor myself.

Well, here's that brisket I bought. I wanted to trim the fat cap down to about a quarter of an inch, and by the time I did there was hardly anything left. I was intending to cook it whole, but after all the trimming I went ahead and separated the two pieces. I wasn't expecting much from it... I put some worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper on it and let in marinate over night though- ...and hung it in that new barrel smoker the next morning- ...and it turned out to be the best brisket i've ever cooked, that smoker worked great- I was afraid the bottom of the ribs would burn, but they didn't and they turned out great too! I saw a girl in a car too. A load of rusty plate that they wanted me to tarp- the broker did that is, but I didn't. It was stored outside where I loaded, and they put it outside where I delivered. And here is A different girl in a different car- I delivered lumber to this place in Huddleston, Va. Got behind this woman on a bicycle on rt. 24 when I left- I saw another girl in another car somewhere along the line- Ad from the 70's- I'm not going to be greedy at all- i'm gonna get in the time machine and go get me a Duster, Roadrunner, and the GTX. Then i'll retire. Even though you could retire on the Superbird alone if you had one of those.

Saw this one in a Truck Roundup magazine.

Now that's a good one right there!

Beautiful place! And yeah, it's a shame when you can't even give the livestock away!

How did this get here anyway?.. page two should have been this week's new "Pictures of the Week"... I remember starting it, must have gotten distracted by something. I hauled two loads of stuff to the dump, hauled a load of scrap metal to Concord, went to Rustburg to get non-ethanol gas for new leaf blower, blew leaves out of the yard with the new non-ethanol gas powered leaf blower...I just don't know.

Back around 19 hunnert and 74 or 75, I went to the Suffolk Dragstrip in -where else? Suffolk, Va. At that time they held national events there, had concrete on the starting line, it was big time. Richmond Dragway was the regular "home track", it was pretty much "run what ya' brung", local guys, mostly street cars, but some heavy hitters ran there too. I don't know what the 1200 on the window means, this might not be at Richmond, but this Camaro ran low 9.90's consistantly. Big block Chevrolet, single carb, no blower, no nitrous. I'd go to Richmond about every weekend. But the one time I went to Suffolk with a few friends the thing I remember most is the two Chevy II Novas that ran 11's with 6 cylinder engines- that's a quarter mile, not an eighth. And my favorite- a solid black Corvette Stingray with a big six cylinder "truck motor" and a four speed. I think it was the big GMC motor, inline six- it had a big hood scoop that sat to one side of the engine, wheelie bars, just bad-ass! No name, no nuthin, just solid black. And when it left the starting line the front wheels would come up about 6 inches, wheelie bars would catch, second gear-front wheels would jump up about 6 inches, same in third, same in fourth! It was great, ran a 10.00000 every time I saw it run, best I can remember.

Yeah, if a TV crew followed me around I expect after a couple of days they'd say "really?..you mean,this is it?..when does the excitement part happen?" I read an article in some magazine one time that was put out by Navistar. It was about how they sent trucks to Alaska to run the haul road to Prudhoe Bay just for test purposes- they did not haul general freight, just big concrete blocks. And one of their drivers said in the article something like "all that stuff you see on TV is bullsh*t, if it was really as bad as they try to make it out to be nobody could ever do it".