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Yep, that's it!

I'm ready to turn the page here, but one last picture- the other day when paint guy was here looking at the truck he said "what's that red thing?" And I said "I don't even know". I'd been so busy working on getting it running ever since it's been here I'd never even paid any attention to the red thing. So I opened it and it has an extra headlight and marker light bulbs in it.

We have a color in mind already, we were going to paint it gray with blue fenders, I think it would look fantastic, and different. And since we live in Appomattox - civil war, blue and gray, it would have fit right in. I'm sure it would have been a big hit in the Railroad Festival Parade they have every October. Then we changed our minds.

Thank you for sharing with us Vlad! Great pictures!

We could certainly get by without painting it, we just want a different color on it mainly. And I wouldn't seriously consider any engine swap, even if the engine in it just disintegrated - it would be on marketplace immediately 🤣

Man, ain't that the truth! And it'll cost another fortune to paint it.

Does the R have a longer hood than the V models? Kind of looks like it, but it might be an optical illusion too. I was thinking- not too hard, but thinking- about how neat it would be to have a 6-71 in that truck when I was having all that trouble trying to get it to run. I just didn't think it would fit without a lot of cutting, chopping, grinding, welding, sawing, drilling, hammering, and cussing. A 4-53 would probably be a lot easier, but still not a driveway job.

Wow, super nice looking truck!

I'm pretty sure it hasn't, a guy who knows the truck, and some of it's history, said the last...3 I think, previous owners just took it to truck shows and it always arrived on a trailer. The rest of the time it sat in a building somewhere, for the most part anyway. I did see a picture of it pulling a milk tanker in a parade, and the guy that knew of it saw the same picture and said it was early 2000's and it was a show truck since then. I might not drive it very far, but I'm going to make it a point to drive it somewhere often. That was the biggest issue with the B53S mixer I had, it sat too much. We talked to a guy about painting it a month ago, and he just stopped by the other day. He paints right up the road from here in the big building across from the stop sign, where some cars and pickups are sitting, you can see it in the video. He said we would be looking at around 10 grand to paint it and do the body work. That's about twice as much as I expected.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EoMAyHKYNzdQsbYC9 Here's the one Zina took.

Bob, it's a 5 speed with a 2 speed rear. Carburetor guy found that the rubber O ring, or whatever it is, was gone off the thing it was supposed to be on in the accelerator pump. ( I'm not a carburetor guy🤣). It was laying down in the bottom of the carb, and he said he found more trash and debris in it, which was most likely clogging something up. It ran good, it was surprisingly "peppy".

I finally drove the International out of the driveway today. I went up to Sheetz and put some gas in it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ff8kEm26qJtUHRNz6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/46K913tixCahPa5r7 The first video is when I left here, the other one is on rt. 460 on the way home. It ran great! I need to practice driving it though, I was scraping every gear like it was the first time I'd ever been in a truck.

I actually saw a picture similar to that before I ever went out there. I just tried to duplicate it, but my little disposable picture taking device wasn't the greatest. I think the picture I saw was taken from that same spot, so they might have made that pull-off for them.

As much as I'd love to have you over for a barbecue, if you can only do one or the other, the museum would be a much more memorable experience...or maybe it wouldn't 🤣 I've seen Mt. Rushmore, I delivered a water tank to a campground near there in 98 or 99. That's a '98 Freightliner I was driving. All the pictures I took on that trip were taken with disposable 35mm cameras that I bought along the way, so the picture quality wasn't the greatest. I think they were just getting started on the Crazy Horse monument. I've never seen the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone park either.

Well I can't take much credit, I had lots of helpful advice from people here, especially Freightrain, maint1, and Draggin wagon. And if you get near the 'hood there's always that barbecue! Or, if you could, the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum is well worth a visit. It's about 2 hours from here, me and Zina got married there. It's right off Interstate 95 in Colonial Heights, Va. Let us know when you're gonna be there, we'll ride down. Maybe 1958FWD will come too. I'm at the blue dot, the museum is at the red balloon. All we have to do is follow that little gray line.

We usually make a pit stop here at Bear Swamp Beverage on the way in, just to get ice of course.

Maybe Hippy will bring us some to Macungie...hint-hint...😁

It sounds ok Bob, all I have to do now is put the air cleaner back on. I didn't earlier because I wanted to finish cutting the grass before it rained, but I didn't make it. It did smoke a little bit after it idled a few minutes, but not too bad I guess. And I did put enough Lucas in it to treat 100 gallons of gas, and it has about 10 or 12 in the tank. I'm going to drive it up to Sheetz when I get a chance and put more gas in it. When I get it out here on the ol' super-slab, rt. 460, I can tell more about it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ydsEgcn2FX13QMPD9 I don't know if this link works or not, I took a 15 second video of the truck running with the choke open for the first time since it's been here. Carburetor guy just left, he set the air mixture screws and said it should be all right, so I hope so. Just gotta put the air cleaner back on now. If it doesn't work, here's a girl I saw at the Winfall Coffee Bar & Cafe last weekend. She asked me if she could buy me a cup of coffee but I told her no, I didn't have time to fool with her or a cup of coffee.

I've heard of it too, but don't remember ever seeing it. I might have up north and didn't know what it was. I remember 41 Chevy talking about it, he said it was good.

How about the Iowa 80 Museum? They have a great museum with lots of antique trucks, but not as many as the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum in Colonial Heights, Va. It's not as far south as it used to be, due to global warming. That's a great place to visit, they have a restaurant, gift shop, truck parking, everything you need. Let me know when you're gonna be there, I'll buy everybody lunch.

Carburetor guy dropped the carburetor off today. He's the guy around here that everybody says knows carburetors and how to work on them. Young fella too, looks like he's about 60. He told me to call him when I put it on and he'd come over and make any needed adjustments. He said there was indeed still debris in it, and I'm definitely NOT a carburetor guy, but he also said the rubber thing on the accelerator pump was off of whatever it's supposed to be on, and laying down in the bottom. I know rubber hates ethanol gas so even though it's more expensiver that's all I'm going to put in it. If it finally runs that is, if it doesn't it's either going away from here or something that will run has to go in it. I was going to try to put the carburetor on in the morning but there's a 90% chance of rain tomorrow, so I don't know. I have to do everything in the driveway, I have no shop, and the only tools I have is a big hammer, a long handle punch, a screwdriver, pair of channel lock pliers, and an adjustable wrench. So here's another girl in another car, from the interweb.