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too bad it's not the same weekend, you'd almost be there! I haven't been since '06, maybe '07, because i'd go to Lincolnton,N.C.in summer, and Colfax, N.C. in November. This year they moved Lincolnton to September also, so i'm going to check out Winchester again. It was a good show last time I was there, and a lot more trucks than at Lincolnton i'd say. here's some pictures I took in '06- http://www.thedieselgypsy.com/Tom%20Blackwell-truck%20show.htm

Oh, and i'm gone- i'm behind the Lowes store in Oakland, Md. now.

everybody loves boobage!

I hope i'm done for the week now, been sitting around all day. If I have to leave tonight i'll have to stop in Winfall and get a Red Bull.

...next thing you know you'll be talking about them wimmins too.

wow Vinny- you're starting to talk like a truck driver or something!

Anybody planning on going? I think I might go this year, since they changed the date of the Lincolnton, N.C. show. It's September 26-28.

That's what worried me about that blown airbag yesterday. I had a load of treated lumber on, had to go from Lovingston up to rt. 6 to turn around, then back 8 or 10 miles to drop the trailer. I was thinking the whole time "if another one blows from all the pressure i'm gonna be in a world of doo-doo!"

Jo asked me what it was, and that's exactly what I told her- "it's one of them things where they back it over a big iron container of hot steel and connect to it, then they lift it up and take it someplace else and drop the container, then a crane dumps the container into a thing, then this machine takes the big iron container back to where it started, to get more hot stuff." They can turn that thing around on a dime though.

I was lucky there, we were sitting at a red light.

I went to truck enterprises in Lynchburg, they gave me a ride to the shop and I got the pickup and came home, it's only about 5 or 6 miles from the shop.

So far anyway, but my week might be done. I ran two trips to Milton and back, but I had an air bag blow out on the truck today when I was on the way to Oakland with a load of lumber. Blew out in Lovingston, so I turned around, dropped the trailer at the old Tye River Truckstop, and was going to bobtail to the shop so they could put an air bag on it in the morning. But Truck Enterprises said bring it by there and they could have a new one on it in about 15 minutes. So I go to Truck Enterprises, and had just started looking at a National Dragster magazine when the service manager came in and said he wouldn't be able to finish it tonight because the centering pin on the rear end housing was apparently sheared off, which let the spring move. It had moved to the left, and the tire was probably rubbing the air bag, which caused it to blow out in the first place. I didn't see much this week, but I did see a girl getting gas. Saw a nice looking cabover Freightliner out of Canada down at the steel mill. Took this one in the mirror- Here's a long stretched out cabover Freightliner with some long piling leaving the mill. Picked up a wide variety of stuff in Milton on the last trip. A big yellow machine at the mill...really big. I saw a girl in a car too. Then later I saw another girl in another car. And, I saw a busted airbag.

Yes, one of the orange H 61 was taken at Troutman, N.C, which is the same show they moved to Lincolnton. The other one of the orange one and the green one were both taken at Lincolnton.

Yeah, it's one of my favorites! It has a 5 spd. with a 2 speed rear, and a 6-71 Detroit. It sounded great too! I actually got to drive that truck some, it was a wrecker at the garage I worked at right after I finished high school. I think the other lever must be for the pto? You can still see "Cumberland Auto Service" on the doors. It was a single axle then, I think they just put a tag axle under it for hauling grain. I was happy to find that truck again, now it's gone from where I took these pictures, I don't know where it is now.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

yes, they were taken at Brad Wikes place in Lincolnton.

that's how you stay out of trouble- "I was not taking a picture of the redhead with the nice legs and fine ass, I was taking a picture of the Mini Cooper!"

The Duel truck was at Lincolnton, N.C, the Bison was in Colfax, N.C. Both of those shows are coming up, Lincolnton next month, Colfax is in October or November, usually the last show of the year around here. Colfax is just west of Greensboro, only a couple hours from here.

thanks Mack.

...that weren't really lost, I just forgot I even had a flickr account, most were on webshots and they're gone for good. I was doing an image search for something else and saw my own picture! Clicked on it and rediscovered my flickr pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/with/4218701789/

something like this?

I like the Chevelle. This one belongs to some friends of mine from Cumberland, Va. Runs in the 9's in the quarter.

I like the green in the mud flaps.

That is a good looking truck, looks like one of those "barn finds" you hear about from time to time!

I spent many hours on one of these when I was a teenager. I think it was a '68. It had the same front bumper on it as the 4000 Ken posted. No, that's not me, I did an image search for a Ford 5000.