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  1. I'd only had Hondas - a '74 360, a '75 or '76 500, and Kawasakis- a 750 and an LTD1000. That LTD1000 was a super nice bike, 4 cyl, very powerful, very, very fast, ran smooth as a clock. A friend of mine that I worked with was strictly a Harley man, and he always said I should get a Harley. I told him I couldn't afford a Harley, and the Kawasaki was paid for. This was right around the time the 883 Sportster first came out, and I liked the looks, and they weren't too expensive. So him and I rode to Lynchburg to the Harley Davidson dealer one day. I was "just looking", not there to buy, but who knows? So my friend knew the owner and he asked him "will you take this Kawasaki on trade for one of the Sportsters?" And the man said "yeah, just like he ain't got one." And that was all I needed to hear. I left on my Kawasaki, and never went back. Kept the Kawasaki until I sold it and bought a 69 Ford pickup. It's just no way to talk to a potential customer, putting their bike down. Truth be known, it was probably a far better bike than any Harley he had anyway.
  2. I suspected that!
  3. ...also true...
  4. My favorite was when they were delivering ice. They had a big block of ice, I remember when you could get ice like that, anyway they had to carry it from their truck up some long stairs to someone's door. Of course they always had some sort of mishap and dropped the ice and it shattered every time, until the last time Curly made it all the way and it was the size of an ice cube like you put in a drink when he finally got all the way up the steps with it.
  5. Wow! That's some amazing, beautiful machines, just awesome!
  6. Yup, I have one. I would have worn it at Macungie but I forgot it. I wore a B model shirt one day and a BMT shirt the next day.
  7. Uhh...umm, sorry i'm a little late too, but happy birthday.
  8. Looks great Bob!
  9. I don't have any idea what y'all are talking about, so i'll just post a picture of a girl with oversize boobage periodically.
  10. I just looked in my book to see if it said anything about the engines, and they were 600 hp. Cummins. I got to reading and one of the biggest problems on the whole trip was with broken axles in the trucks, due to the extreme cold. And on more than one occasion when they would get one one the massive trucks stuck they broke an inch and a half cable trying to pull it out with bulldozers. The trailers they were pulling were 12 feets wide and 60 feets long. Gross weight over 300,000 lbs. Amazing! I've got to read this book again, i've read it twice already.
  11. ...and here's an F model that somebody posted on facebook. They said it was at some detail shop in Richmond, and somebody else said that some tank line owned it, but I don't remember who.
  12. Absolutely, I tried to stay hydrated, thought I was, but it was not enough. I figured it up and I tarped and untarped 9 loads last week. And I would have to agree about the pain, I could hardly walk. When I was in Norcross, Ga. I got out of the truck to untarp, barely able to walk because of the worst attack of gout I've ever had- No doubt because of all the sweat I've poured out this week- and the guy driving this truck right here, the "Engineered Floors" truck, gets out and helps me pull the tarps, fold them, unchain, unstrap, and put my chains and binders away. I could not thank him enough.
  13. Thanks Vlad, i'm glad you liked it! I was doing all right, but I have not worked all week because I have gout. I think it was because I got very dehydrated several different times last week. It's been very hot, upper 90's all last week. I had to untarp in Lynchburg Monday morning, then tarp a 2 stop Greenville, S.C. load, then picked up a load in Charlotte that took 3 tarps to cover, then back to the shop and had to tarp a load going to Atlanta, then picked up another load in Winder, Ga. that of course had to be tarped. Every load I hauled last week I had to tarp in that heat. It might have been over 100 in Ga, I don't know. All I know is that I was just pouring sweat, and i'm not as young as I used to be.
  14. Nope, not that I remember.
  15. A big Mack truck. A girl in a car. 6 Other girls in other cars- A girl out of a car-
  16. Yep, I froze a gallon bag full last week, and 2 quart bags yesterday.
  17. You're right, with the rain, seldom being home, the mud in the garden when I was home, the grass just got plum away from me.
  18. Garden's looking pretty good this year, because of all the rain i'm sure. Also more mosquitoes than i've ever seen. Froze a gallon of green beans yesterday. Peppers look really good. Birds are looking good too- Like this girl in this car- Big Mack trucks- Part of a big Mack truck- Got lots of tomatoes too- Getting a few ripe ones. Big Mack truck- Another girl in another car-
  19. Yep, I ended up getting a 2016 Impala, 4 door, V6, with 46,000 miles on it for $12,000. A little more than I wanted to spend, but that seemed like too good of a deal to pass up too. Clean as a pin, can't tell it's ever been sat in.
  20. I have been thinking about upgrading my vehicle for some time now, getting something bigger, stronger, faster, and newer than my 2002 Ford Ranger pickup. Which is the best vehicle i've ever owned by the way, i've had it for 13 trouble free years myself, and I bought it used. I wanted something that I could get in and drive it to Wisconsin, or Florida, or even Macungie, and not have to rent a car or worry about it. The Ranger was a 4 cylinder, and it had around 165,000 miles on it. So I called Van, the car guy that used to be at the Chevrolet dealership in Appomattox that his father used to own. I hauled an Allis Chalmers bulldozer for his dad one time, all super nice people. Anyway, back to the story- Van said he was going to have 2 cars soon that he was going to sell himself, not through the dealership. The former school superintendent in Appomattox was going to take two cars to Lynchburg to trade them both on a new Chevrolet. Van said he told him that he could sell them for him and get him more than he would get trading them in. He knew the cars too, he had sold both of them new .One was a 2012 Malibu, with 85,000 miles on it, he said he was going to ask about $8500 for it. Exactly what I was looking for, something around that year model, mileage, and price range. The other car was a 2000 Impala...i'd already lost interest, I wanted something newer than the pickup, not older. He said the Impala wasn't the former school superintendent's car, it was his sister's. She was in a nursing home and couldn't drive it...hadn't been driven in a while...only had 24,000 actual miles. Back seat never been sat in. Now i'm really interested. Van said he was going to ask around $4500 for the Impala. So this was almost like getting a brand new 2000 Impala. Or about average mileage for a two year old Impala today, for $4500. I'm all in now, I figured it was a heckuva deal even if I put 4 new tires, new radiator and heater hoses, and a new belt on it, just for my own peace of mind. Turns out it didn't even need that, it had 4 new Michelin tires on it. So I thought I couldn't really go wrong with either vehicle, but I decided I would buy the Impala. ...until he sent me a message the next day, saying that the man had given the Malibu to his grand daughter, and he sold the Impala to his next door neighbor for $5,000.
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