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Wow, I haven't done "Pictures of the Week" for almost 2 munts. We went to a little small car show, or cruise-in, or something, in the big green International that doesn't run Sunday afternoon. I was actually surprised at how many people looked at it and commented about how good it looked. Not one person said it was an ugly looking piece of crap. Not that I heard anyway, and most were impressed when I told them the paint was "Rust-oleum spray paint from the Walmart store". They didn't have a lot of vehicles there, but the ones that were there were very nice. This is Roger and Judy Morris' Camaro. He used that car strictly for drag racing for a long time, trailering it to the track. He's got a little age on him now, and most of the local drag strips have closed anyway, so they put a "street" engine in the car, or "streetabilized" the race engine, I don't know. I'm sure it still has more than enough "get up and go" though. Anyway they made it more drivable and completely street legal again. A '68 or '69 Chevelle- I never could tell the difference, I think it's something about the marker lights. A big green International truck- A couple more trucks- ...and a car. And here's a girl in a boat. Great, the Zinahorn came yesterday- i'm gonna go put it on now.

meanwhile, back at the ranch... Later, that same day...

I had a 68 Camaro one time, I was about 20 years old. It had a 250 six cylinder in it with a 3 speed transmission and the rear main bearing seal was bad. So bad oil pretty much just poured out of it. I never fixed it because I bought the car to swap in a 350 and a 4 speed that I already had. But I would run that car out of oil, drove it home many times with the oil light on and it would be clattering and clanking, fill it back up with oil, the racket would stop, and it was fine, until the next time I ran it out of oil. After that I always figured that the 250 6 cylinders had to be one of the toughest engines ever made, because I abused the heck out of that one.

We drove it to the Walmart store in Appomattox with only a minor issue. The adjustable throttle return spring holder slipped on the shaft and it was very slow to come back to idle when I was trying to change gears. I moved it back where it was when we got parked at the Walmart store but I'm still going to get another return spring and put it on it. I remember when every gas station and a lot of country stores had things like carburetor return springs and battery cable ends hanging on the wall.

Not to be changing the subject, but that's one of my issues with the big green truck that doesn't run. (It runs great now, but that name kinda stuck) I do all the work on it outside, in the driveway, with common hand tools, and for the most part by myself. Not so much "fun" in it anymore 🤣

Well, that's it. Think I'm done painting. I painted the top of the hood black while I had it off. Got the hood and bumper back on the other day when Timmy stopped by to help with them. I drove it around the loop the next morning, didn't see any leaks anywhere. Then yesterday morning I went out to move it and there was a big puddle of antifreeze in the floorboard, right underneath the heater. I'm not a mechanic or anything, but I figured it might be the heater core leaking because there was more antifreeze on the bottom of it. So I just disconnected it. I might take it off someday if I feel like working on it and take it to the radiator shop, or I might not.

Yeah, that's a thought🤔! Zina wanted to take the grill guard off from the start, but it's all welded together, so it's one piece. Heavy too- very heavy! I just got back from dropping the radiator off at a shop in Danville. Real nice guy there, said he was 77 years old and has been there since he was 13. Only works until noon, but he said he would have it done this week.

The radiator cap from Amazon was a Stant, a name I've heard of forever, but like everything else it was made in China. Jerry Ayers, a member on here and owner of several antique trucks himself, recommended the shops in Danville and Harrisonburg so I feel fully confident in either of them. I'm going to take it to the one in Danville though, just because it's a little bit closer, and it had good reviews on Google.

Bad part is that the radiator shop in Lynchburg that I used to go to- actually, everybody used to go there for radiator repair, Evans Radiator Shop- has been closed for years so I'll have to take it to either Danville, Harrisonburg, or Winchester.

Guess I'll work on the old International this week. Last time I drove it the radiator was leaking around the radiator cap. Since NAPA didn't have one I ordered one that I thought would fit from Amazon. 6 bucks. 37 bucks from the old International trucks web site. Anyhow, the radiator is also leaking on the opposite side from the cap too, the solder on the frame supports on each side is broken, and the solder around where the bottom hose connects looks like dirt daubers did it, so I'm going to try to get it off Monday and take it to a radiator shop and have it fixed right. I pondered going with stop leak and hoping for the best for about 2 seconds, then said nope, just bite the bullet and take it off. As the old saying goes "if it ain't one thing, it's something else".

I've heard rumors that he only has to shift when he's leaving a stoplight because even though he drives a Mack it has a huge Cat engine in it. Huge.

A friend sent me a picture from a movie and asked me if this truck that was in it was a truck I used to drive for H.H. Moore Jr. It was taken from the TV screen I guess, and it was really blurry but I told him it sure looked like old 368. So today we found the movie, and I watched most of it just to see the truck. One of the stupidest movies I've ever seen by the way, but it was indeed the last truck I drove for H.H. Moore Jr. Trucking Co. before I went to F.L. Moore and Sons in 2005. It was filmed in N.C, and it came out in 2006. The guy in the picture was laying by the road there, the truck pulls up and stops, blows the horn, and that's all it shows of it. This is the truck when I drove it.

I looked this morning, I didn't see a name anywhere on anything.

There's no brand name on the paperwork, just M&M Motors. That's the used car lot that sold it. I'll look at the carport itself tomorrow and see if I see a name.

I don't remember, but I'll look when I get home.