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I was all excited when I saw this truck in the "for sale" lot in Macungie. I thought I'd found the truck I was looking for, a GMC with a 2 stroke Detroit , 6V-53 with a 5 speed and 2 speed rear. Unfortunately, it was just parked there in the unloading area until they parked it on the show grounds.

When I drove that T660 with the PACCAR engine it went through 2 turbos after it got backed into on the ramp in Pa. that time. The turbo was $6,000 for that engine, but the warranty covered them. Took 2 failures for them to figure out that the pipe in the grill had a hairline crack in it from when the guy backed into me.

Well, I would have, but I just didn't have time.

Wow, you sure do know a lot of people!

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Yes, then you could have stopped at the Iowa 80 museum too!

Happy birthday!

Yeah, ain't that the truth!

Happy birthday!

I saw "Hijack" not too long ago. I used to have it on DVD, but I think I loaned it to somebody. Anyway, it's a TV movie from 1973 and sometimes the White Freightliner that David Jansen's character is driving will have a Detroit Diesel and sometimes not. I don't know if they used several different trucks or overdubbed the sound effects.

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We had a great time. It was nice to see everybody, but we really didn't invite any of the "rowdy" friends 🤣. Man, some of the cookouts I had in Gladys in years past... 😲

Making that pulled pork- My aunt and uncle, my mother's brother. I'm really glad they made the trip up here.

We had a lot of my family here, chern, aunt, uncle, brothers, sister, nieces, nephews, grand chern, in laws, out laws...

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I drove a '77 F model that apparently had absolutely zero air leaks anywhere. It's the only truck I ever drove that I could park on Friday and when i'd get in it to leave on Sunday it would still have 120 pounds of air.

Thanks Bob, it must have been pretty good, it sure disappeared quick! I wouldn't even have gotten a taste of it myself if Zina hadn't stashed some away for me in a Tupperware container before it was all gone.

I smoked a Boston butt in the offset smoker yesterday, and pulled and shredded it this morning. I like when I have plenty of time to smoke it, and it pretty much just fell apart when I pulled it apart this morning. I always discard most of the fat and yucky stuff, but I leave enough of the bark for extra flavor. I've got it back on the smoker now just warming it up, got folks coming over later.

I stopped by the truck washer guy's place on 460 when I was on the way to Lynchburg this morning. We'd seen old unit 55 sitting there for a couple of weekends now, and we'd always say "we should stop and grab some pictures, while it's still around" but we never did. Well, today we did. I got this truck brand new and it's the one I was driving when I retired. Really nice truck, always did a fine job for me, but I heard it had some issues after I got off it. I think they had to put a transmission in it, I know Jeff said there was some kind of problem with the transmission. Clean as a pin on the inside too. I saw a nice looking smoker too.

I like to eat breakfast over at the Winfall Diner. The kitchen seems kind of disorganized sometimes, but they always manage to get things done. My favorite is the big breffist platter, you get some of everything.

Those are fantastic pictures, thanks for sharing. I don't get around like I used to, but I sure did love running out west. And I would have put at least 8 chains on that transmission.

I saw this in the Wheels of Time magazine, they might know something. I was looking for a different ad that I see all the time for a place that deals in old, obsolete, and discontinued tire sizes. As usual, I can't find it when I'm looking for it.

I saw a couple of memory pictures today of when I met Tom Brady at the Watt's Mack show last year, and at the ATHS Show in Harrisonburg. He was wearing a Battlestar Galactic T shirt in Harrisonburg, which I thought was pretty cool.

That cornhole game was really big around here a few years ago, everybody was making cornhole boards, or whatever you call them but it seems to have died out now.

We found 2 more hiding in the grass. Two that were ready to pick, there were several more green ones.

I saw a woman in Kroger in Winfall with a couple of nice melons yesterday. They looked good but I didn't buy any because I pulled this one out of the garden. I'm sure there's more out there hidden in the grass that are ripe. The grass kind of took over this year, and we're still getting more peppers than I know what to do with. Those little orange ones are Tabasco peppers and they're just starting to turn from green. They're waaaay hotter than the jalapenos too!