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They still pump your fuel for you at Lee Hi, and clean your windows and mirrors. They used to give you a free coffee when you fueled, but not any more. One time the girl at the fuel desk asked me if I wanted my fuel receipts stapled and I said "yeah, at least i'll get a free staple."

OK, more models then- T shirt models.

Looks like the real thing here-

I took this at the old Ponderosa Truckstop in Longdale Furnce, east of Clifton Forge,Va. right at the bottom of North Mountain on rt. 60. I'd just left the truck wash ( ) Didn't take a lot of pictures back then. It's still standing as far as I know, I should check it out some day. We used to stop there a lot to fuel, eat, get tires fixed,etc. when we were hauling chips to Covington. They had a hamburger called the "Hennis Burger". After it closed, don't remember the year, we got fuel at Lee-Hi in Lexington. Still do sometimes. And Pliny Truckstop on rt.35 in Pliny, W.V. had a huge burger called the Pliny Burger, it had one of everything on it- a burger patty, ham, salami, maybe bologna, maybe even Spam, plus the standard lettuce, tomato, pickles, and onion. It's closed now too. Used to be a lot of Blue and Gray truckstops in Indiana. You could order the catfish platter and you got a whole catfish, as long as the platter. Hard to find a real meal any more, it's just fast food and most of the old truckstops are gone, now it's travel plazas that mostly cater to 4 wheelers.

I stopped there once in '79, hadn't been driving but a few months. I had unloaded in Deptford, N.J. and was going to Gardner, Ma. to pick up something, load of furniture I think. I was scared to get out of the truck though.

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It does! That was a good place to stop in the 80's, about the only truckstop I made it a point to stop at every time I went up 81. Good food and great scenery.

A girl in a car I wish i'd seen but didn't...from the interweb.

I like going to this place because they have somebody to help you back in. She's really nice too.

I'm not gonna say you have a man crush on him, or he's gone,get over it because you were wondering. Can't just pretend like people were never here when they were.

Reminds me of a picture Olivetroad posted a few years back. The title of the thread was "see the pussy?", or "can you find the pussy?"...something like that. I copied and pasted Justin Beavers face into it and said "yeah, I see it!" There really is a cat in it by the way, to the left of Justin's face.

Saw these on the Australian Mack fan page on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/79561274073/

I left in the morning and went to Milton and back. Pretty chilly when I left this morning. My leftover ginger ale from yesterday was frozen. Saw a couple of these trailers at the shop. Never seen such a big chunk of iron just break like this! They machine the inside of these rings, then put them in a big oven. Then they lower the shaft down into it and let it cool...that's what this one was doing when it just broke in half.

All I got so far, but the week ain't over yet. I was headed back to Milton,W.V. with a mill roll today when I got a call from headquarters. They said the roll I was bringing back wouldn't be ready until about lunch time tomorrow so I might as well bring it to the shop and leave in the morning. So I did- brought it to the shop that is, I haven't left in the morning yet. I took a van load of kyanite to Chester, W.V. I got there Sunday night and backed blind side in the dark through the gate and up to the dock. I just back up a little at a time and get out and look. It's either that or back in off the road, rt. 2, which is pretty busy. It's not too bad blind siding in, there's no cars in there at night. Trucks at Tucker Equipment...nothing new here. Then I went to Alliance to pick up a load of firebrick. Here you have to go down and circle around that big pile of dirt and come back to where i'm parked to back up to the dock. There's a "no parking" sign right above the "stop" sign, those two pickups on the left aren't even supposed to be there. This guy caught hell backing in around them, and the fence and pole doesn't leave much room to maneuver on the other side. Sumbitch is parked right where I need to be! They finally moved it before I back in. Seen a state truck in Lynchburg that had lost both duals on the driver's side. The brake drum was on the pavement when I went by the first time, you can see the gouged pavement, when I came back they had it jacked up. They were ready and waiting for the snow. Saw a big Mack truck in Petersburg this morning. The mill roll I brought to the shop. Road shot- I-64 in Va, west of Covington,heading to W.V.

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almost everybody likes ice cream.

Here's a gif.

Thank you.

Middletown- now that's a place you wouldn't even recognize from 20 years ago, that place has really grown!

I ran 15 to 29 to 66 to the beltway, then 50 east to 301 to 896 to 95. When I came back I ran 896 to 301 to 50 to the beltway to 66 to 29 to 15.

D'oh!!!

hmmmmm...probably a different Vernon Hill.

me too Vlad!

Holy mackerel! I can see Farmer52 out in the field plowing with his big John Deere and this V12 passes him running about 40 mph. pulling an 8 bottom plow.

I was unaware that I passed right by Vernon Hill's house. I went to school with a guy named Vernon Hill, probably a different one, eh?