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I haven't posted any updates on the old rustbucket lately, so here's the latest- my emblems that I ordered came today so I slapped them on the side. I wish they were about twice as big, then they would have covered up the other two holes from the original emblems. I should have closed the hood for the picture. Anyhow, here's a girl in a car, for no good reason. Zina from Gladys said the truck needed some stripes or something, so I said "no problem". A can of Rust-oleum later, we have stripes. I painted the grill, put some red reflector tape over the former blue oval, so now it looks like a Peterbilt oval, and painted that brush guard thing too, all with spray paint. I have a new brake booster in the shed that i'm going to put on it when I get motivated enough to do it, the old one has a constant vacuum leak so I ordered one from Rock Auto. And i'm going to look into why the rear gas tank leaks too, when I get around to it, it's too hot now. So here's a girl making lemonade. If lemonade doesn't interest you, I saw this hawk in a tree across the road one day, so I grabbed a quick picture.

I had several Scouts, I used to do some mud bogging in this one. It had a Chevrolet engine and transmission and I won some trophies with it. But I probably had as much or more fun with this old '64. It had the 152 4 cylinder, which was half of a 304. It was bored .060 over and had a little head work done by the previous owner, who used to race it. Still wasn't any kind of powerhouse, but after he moved on to something bigger (faster) I bought it- after it had been parked in the weeds for about 10 years. About all I did was get the carb. rebuilt and fixed the brakes and I was riding. I used to ride all the Westvaco logging trails between rt.24 and rt.60 when I lived in Appomattox.

Happy 4th.of July back Bob.

Yep, that's Joe Ditchkus. I yelled and flagged him down one morning not realizing that he was in the middle of a Facebook live thing.

He's into snowmobiles, wimmens, cars, girls, trucks, girls, working, and wimmens now. He said it was his first trip to Macungie in 5 years.

you're very welcome.

All the pictures have a number. They look like this on my computer. I also see the numbers on flickr, but that might just be because I posted them, I don't know. But here's Vinny, U model nut, with his fuel tank.

That's right, and it's here on this thread too, a few posts back.

That picture no. 5025 is U model nut by the way. Everybody remembers U model nut. He bought a fuel tank at the flea market and he was riding on a golf cart holding the tank. His girlfriend was riding, I guess a friend was the wheel man, or it might have been the seller just hauling the tank for him. He was just a youngster when he was a regular on here, now he's a grown ass man. I talked to him for a few minutes.

You're welcome Vlad, we enjoy going and I enjoy taking pictures. I even enjoy that editing part. I read a review a while back about a "magic bullet" lens for a Nikon camera, an 18-300mm. lens. I would love to have one of those, but when I looked on Amazon it was a thousand dollar lens. But it would take the place of all the lenses I have now, which is only three. Then I could take everything from wide angle to super zoomed shots with that same lens. I just keep the smallest one I've got on the camera, but it doesn't have much zoom capability. If I used the next bigger one I have to be 50 yards away to get more than just a door in the frame, so I make do with what I've got. I should get a new memory card for Zina's camera and try that sometime. Her's doesn't have interchangeable lenses but it has awesome zoom, it's one of those super-powered P900's. It has 83x zoom, equivalent to a 24-2000 lens. And it takes great pictures. I have a Panasonic with 60x zoom that's my "everyday" camera. That's the one I used to carry in the truck, but the picture quality is not even close to the Nikon.

Oh...wow, that's a great idea, how come I never thought of that?

Almost forgot this one- it was in the motel parking lot. and here's a random girl working in the kitchen, from the internet.

By the way, all these pictures are still on my camera, full size and uncut if anybody wants me to send them any of them. I'm going to delete them, but I haven't yet. I delete mine every time I put them on the computer, Zina on the other hand has never deleted any off her camera since I gave it to her for Christmas several years ago. Which is like 2,200 pictures, I just looked. Good thing I got her a big memory card for it too.

Wow, I'm sorry to hear this too Dave, hadn't seen this thread in a while. But here's another link to the Macungie pictures in case anybody missed it on "Odds and Ends''.

thanks, I will check this out. I do mine one at a time, and usually crop people, golf carts, poles, or something out of every single one, that's what's so time consuming.

I was hoping to too, there were plenty of photo-worthy specimens there Friday, as it was close to 90 degrees. I just never...it would have been too obvious is I guess what i'm trying to say.😁

You are welcome 😁.

Well, I finally got my Macungie pictures posted to Flickr. Just click on the picture...and remember, I have over 10,000 pictures there for your viewing pleasure.

yeah, and I kind of like that old 7400 White, don't see a lot of those any more.

Is this Ted?

This International belongs to Charlie Tackaberry from Canada. They always have great looking trucks in Macungie, and this is one of the prettiest Internationals i've ever seen. This was one of Tackaberry's trucks too. They usually bring a blue Cannonball too, but it wasn't there this time.

You're absolutely right Vlad. I hope you can make it back to Macungie soon. We did have a great time, there were "half nekkid wimmens" (randyp,1984) everywhere Friday, but I didn't get any pictures, because...well, you know. And on Saturday Randy ( 1958 F.W.D. ) had the "tailgate party" which was great, and of course there was all those trucks to see! I'm resizing my pictures now, I take most of mine with my camera and if I don't resize them they take so long to download them. I usually end up cropping most of them while i'm at it too. I told Zina I didn't think they were as sharp this year as usual, but that might just be me. Or it might be that I was walking around with a dog on a leash in one hand, a hotdog in one hand, a drink in one hand, and the camera in one hand. Funny, I don't remember ever seeing this sign before. But I drank this on Friday, and it was delicious with Coke. I had a little "airplane bottle" of it at the tractor pull last week, and it was so good I bought this big bottle and brought it to Macungie.

I need one!

We paid $5 a gallon for gas somewhere on the way home Saturday. I think we were still in Pa. It was $4.37 here over at the Walmart store yesterday, so we filled up again.

Yesterday was hot, around 88 degrees I think, I was walking around sweating. This morning it was 63, cloudy, and windy, with gusts up to 25mph. the weather thingy said. I made fun of Zina for packing a jacket when we left, and this morning I was wishing I had one. I didn't even have a long sleeve shirt, and it was cold with that wind blowing and no sun!