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Yeah, he went back to driving after he recovered. He has pins, screws, bolts, nails, staples, gorilla tape, and elmers glue in his ankle but that was actually about all the damage he got. His feet were caught up in there somewhere and it took hours to free him from the truck, but looking at it you wouldn't think he survived.

I looked in my oldest photo album and found these bad pictures of Transtars. That's what H.H. Moore mostly had, with a few KW's and Macks. Later he went to mostly Kenworth K100s. These pictures are old, some are polaroids and they just don't age well at all, and I just couldn't take a decent picture then apparently. This is the first truck I drove for H.H.Moore,a 1974 Transtar with a VT903 Cummins and 13 speed direct trans. The 13 speeds i'd driven before were overdrives, much more common, and this transmission took a little while to get used to because the splitter worked backwards- direct was in the same place but when you moved the button clockwise it went to underdrive, which was a down shift. The first picture was taken at the old Ponderosa Truckstop at the bottom of North Mountain, near Clifton Forge, Va. I was either on the way to Covington with a load of chips or was empty and on the way back to Dillwyn. I drove the International until I got this '77 F-model. F-model with a chip trailer and my brother's combine. This was a nice Transtar Eagle with a 350 Cummins and 13 speed. The driver that wrecked this truck only lives about a mile from me now.

I did have to look pretty hard to find one. I told Jo "he's got to have one in the background somewhere!"

Now that's just funny right there!

First truck I drove was a 1974 4070A Transtar.

I got the mixer running again today. Best I can figure, first time in 6 months! Took a while to get it going, I jumped it with a Ford Ranger pickup. I used silicone spray, and Randy was right, it worked great. I dumped 14,000 gallons of water out of the drum- shoulda stocked it with catfish and left it-then I made 3 or 4 laps around the shop. I was going to take it around the Concord loop, but there's just too much traffic today. Let it run about 30-45 minutes I guess, and i'm not gonna let it go so long again,i'll try to start it every week or so from now on.

I just checked the pictures, they're great. Excellent job taking pictures of things! I liked the orange and black B-model, not fancied up, just looks good. And the big Diamond T,and the Cannonball GMCs. I just have one question-"I'm not takin' any pitchers of any Petes!"- so what the hell is this?

I take lots of pictures of things and i've found the Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries to be the best. I was going to get Duracells for my camera and the camera guy suggested the energizers,said they lasted longer than Duracells. I took well over 300 hundred pictures on the Washington trip a few years ago and never put new batteries in,and they'd been in the camera a while to begin with. Energizer. Lithium. Batteries.

crap...the dreaded double reply! I'll delete this one and write something else-pay no attention to this post.

Saw this in the truck paper, http://www.auctiontime.com/OnlineAuctions/Details.aspx?OHID=1613005&lp=trk&bcatid=27&

Gee...wish I could have gone. Just got home last night, ran 2 loads of lumber to Pa. and one to Ohio this week and loaded steel in Sharon,Pa. back to Lynchburg each time. Would have got to meet Paul- Rob, take a picture of Paul for us. Paul, take a picture of Rob for us and end the mystery. Some people feel that his profile picture is not actually him. You guys have a nice weekend,i'll be in Gladys grilling stuff.

"Jerry"- you are a very brave man. Or perhaps you were forced to do that against your will,eh? I know of a great attorney in Daingerfield, Texas.

I'm an ATHS member and usually get to a couple of shows every year, but I don't even go to the ATHS website anymore-what a bunch of pricks!..i'll just lurk about over here on BMT.

I saw a big Mack manure spreader.

oh.

Actually I sleep better in that than I do at home. That's why i'm on BMT at 2 or 3 in the morning a lot of times.

It's OK Randy, we understand.

This post was started so long ago I just wonder what kind of pictures I might have posted-here's an Oklahoma rerun anyway. Mike always seemed to like it. I like it too, never deleted it,eh?

Wish I could do that. I just wish I could sleep!

That is correct Mark. I bought the whole set a few years ago and there was 8 volumes at the time, but I know there's at least one new volume since then.

one more. You can still borrow the book if you want of course.

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I'll take the challenge- I left these pretty big so i'll just post a couple at a time.