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Nice collection there. I like that McLean truck-mine's a straight truck.

whereabouts in central Va. are you,if anywhere?

That's exactly why I hate Advance Auto Parts! You can't even buy a generic type item without a serial number for something! I tried to get a battery for an MTD mower once, but didn't have the serial number. The parts guy threw his hands up and said "I need that,there's a thousand different batteries!" So I threw my hands up and said "they don't even make a thousand different batteries" and left the other items I had picked up on the counter and went across the street to Western Auto. Told the man what I needed and he went and got one off the shelf. Pretty much the same deal as when I stopped at a different Advance store to get a headlight for the truck,and told them it was for the spaceship I was building in the backyard.

If I had only realized then...I'd have bought a truckload of 'em and put them in the deep freeze! 30 years ago you could walk into any truckstop and they had dozens and dozens of gear shift knobs on the shelf,all shapes,colors,and sizes. Now you just can't find them or they're outrageously expensive. I had 2 red glittery ones,one was in the top of my toolbox and I put one on the transfer case lever on the mud bogger. The guy I sold the bogger to gave it back to me when I asked him if he'd sell it to me, and I put both in the mixer.

It do,it do! That's pretty much what I use,but I left out the can of beer this time. I did hear several people say it was the best chili they'd ever had. I put 4 1/2 lbs. of ground beast in it.

Man,what a bunch of b.s! The DMV's must be the same all over-I had to pay personal property taxes on a '94 Taurus I had for 2 years after it had been parked with a blown engine! I kept telling them the car was off the road,junked, but I had to take the title to the DMV and turn it in,so it can't be titled again,or I had to keep paying taxes on it. Pretty good car too,all it needed was a motor-everything else was fine.

That's my m.o.

hmmmm...think i'll go over to Altavista to the Chinese restaurant.

This pretty much says it all...

Indeed.

coulda' been worse-good thing you didn't get him a bazooker and wonder what it would feel like to be shot in the ass with it

Well, since I had to go to Appomattox today I stopped and got some good pictures of the black Superliner-not even blurry. I've seen this truck on the road many times. It was Carter Bros. Logging's truck, I just didn't know it 'til today- I could still see the name on the door. Didn't look quite as good up close as it did from 460, but still a nice looking unit.

me too- "that's just funny right there" (Larry the Cable Guy)

I believe it's in Birmingham,AL...yeah, pretty sure it's Birmingham.

I guess real Texas chili doesn't have beans or ground beast in it,eh?

I started chopping onions about 5:30 this morning...chili in the making!

Amen brother! (Bulldog Man)

I'm making chili tomorrow

Any other time we'd probably cross paths somewhere- but i'll be headed south to Mississippi Monday.

hmmmm...dirt and grit? I might be in trouble, I have to shovel my floorboard out periodically because it gets so dirty.

Yes, I live near Gladys, about 25 miles from Madison Heights. Jo said he was "eccentric", but whenever I went to an antique truck show he always liked to see the pictures. He let me take pictures and showed me all of his trucks and told me their story, I thought he was real nice. I saw in Wheels of Time where he's joined the ATHS now. His name is Robert W. Harris. The no. is 434-847-7564, but Jo said the last time she tried to call him she got the "disconnected or no longer in service" recording, so I don't know. Can't find Harris Construction in the yellow pages-maybe he retired. I tried the no. and got "not in service" too. If I get a chance i'll ride by and see what I can see if you want me to.

Probably, it didn't look like it was going anywhere. But he had to move or get rid of some of his stuff because his neighbors complained about the "junk yard". I took the pictures about 4 or 5 years ago. His name is Bobby Harris and he owns a construction company. Here's the 2 pictures I have. Didn't get real close because of the brush.

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There's a man in Madison Heights that lives behind where Jo used to live who has an old Brockway parked in the woods with a V12 Detroit in it. He was her landlord as a matter of fact, and had a lot of old trucks in the woods, including a V8 R-model. I took pictures of most of them with my old 35mm camera, but my scanner doesn't work so I can't post them unless I take a picture of the picture with my other camera.