1958 F.W.D.

Ten Five Oh, who is this? I may or may not be a life member at Eleven Hundred........

Seafood McDonalds? No thanks!

This.

I think they should erect a monument. I would visit it, and take flowers to lay in memory of the 4500 lobsters that I cannot now eat.

Gearheadgrlllllllll how have you been?

Never mind, I was able to get an appointment with my Doctor, had to do that. Tired of this constant cough.

Hmmmmmmm maybe I can come out and bring Large. If we do, can we get into the pit area to meet up??

If a shorter stick doesn't bother you, cut it down and cut some new threads on it

The Mack Museum may have copies on hand, submit a request through the museum drop-down on the corporate web site. A suitable donation is appreciated. For a Waterous Fire Pump manual, call Waterous directly (have the pump SN with you) and they will send you SN specific manuals for the pump and the x-fer case.

If you are in Bridgeton NJ give Joe Bertino over at Vineland Auto Electric a call. They specialize in antique truck and firetruck electrical systems, especially firetrucks. Joe owns several antique Macks. I am sure he can help and if not, point in the right direction.

I wound up working the part time job. Way too much money to give up.

Whoopsie....... http://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/coastal/news/2018/07/30/tractor-trailer-partially-falls-off-barge But in all seriousness this guy made out better than the guy who went over the southbound side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at the 12 yardstick last week.

No, I opted for a "12 South" decal instead about 2 years ago. In fact I think Slpwlkr may have gotten it for me.

We have often vacationed on Hattaras Island (Outer Banks, NC) but we have not been down in about 6 years. After we went to Disney 2 years in a row, I put my foot down and told SWMBO that "Summer of 2018 we are going to Avon (the town we always stay in) and she agreed without a fight. Well, we should have gone to Disney again because it has done nothing but effing rain BUCKETS here from the moment we got here last Sunday to the very moment that I am writing this as we speak, it is POURING. There have been moments here and there where we were able to slip out to the beach for an hour or two, and Thursday was beautiful for most of the day, but for the most part this trip has been nothing but a wash out. In fact a record rainfall for July has been recorded (14" +) busting the old record of July 1949. Anyways, here are some pictures. Here is the house we rented- "Bonatide Dream" through VRBO and Hattaras Realty. It was a very easy process, if anyone ever wants to rent a house down there I cannot recommend them more. "Small" Says "HELLO GOOD BMT PEOPLE!" The Cape Hattaras Lighthouse, the tallest (205') Brick lighthouse in North America. It was the subject of one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history when they picked it up and moved it 1200' NNW to get it away from the Ocean. The Cape Hattaras Lighthouse off in the distance (about 5 miles) seen from the Haulover Day Use Area (also known as "The Canadian Hole") which is a small sound side beach just south of the town of Avon. On Friday morning, it was a little nicer so myself, Large and our friend Matt went out on a fishing charter into the sound. We were off Ocracoke Island. I saw a girl on a ferry boat. I saw another girl on another fishing charter boat. We saw a 42" Cobia and Large decided to hook him. Since he was using a line set up for small blues (10lb line with a 30lb leader) and baited with a chunk of squid, all three of us had to be very careful fighting him and it took 70 minutes from the time he hooked to the time we got him into the boat. The guys on the charter said that they never would have thought a Cobia would bite on a chunk of squid, they usually go for live bait. They were ecstatic that we got him in. We named him "Ralph." Ralph gave us about 20lbs of meat when dressed. Here is some of it battered and frying for dinner last night. It was some of the best tasting fish I have ever had. Large and I got up this morning and went out on the beach. The GPS kept saying "You dumbass Swift Driver, make a RIGHT!" This is a screenshot of the RadarScope app on my phone, which is pretty much representative of the weather the entire trip. Avon is inside the blue bulls-eye looking thing. And that storm is moving 100% northbound over us.

Did you get some scrapple while there?

Fairless as in Bucks County, near Philly?

Someone told me once that cherry juice blended with Siberian anti-freeze is pretty good for the gout.

Two words: Bethlehem Steel A few more words: Union greed mixed with conspiring with management cost thousands of people their entire pensions. Many of my elderly neighbors........... The site that was once the flagship of the Bethlehem Steel Empire.....where every US Cannon was cast during the civil war.......is now a fu*king casino and shopping center. Thats all I have to say about that.

Absolutely, however the graphics he has on there are **FAR** from period correct (not only in style and font but wording as well.) I am confident that it was the "Bureau of Fire" at the time and the maltese cross is not correct.

One would think that with the amount of money he dumped into the restoration he could have the correct gold leaf graphics applied.

MACK TRUCKS "TRUCKTOBERFEST 2018" For those of you who have been asking: Due to some planning conflicts, there will be no Trucktoberfest 2018. It has also been decided to switch to an every other year format. Look for the next Trucktoberfest in Fall of 2019. Please spread the word.

Among other issues, yes that is one of them. Lots of rot, the aerial is not certified, the list goes on. For 19,500 he'd better at least offer a current certification. Ask him what he paid for it........

And isn't worth 1950.00 let alone 19,500.

No, the recipes are all videos on their website. Here is a recipe I created on my own, which I did at the picnic at Macungie as well as the Mack Museum Christmas Party: Smoke Roast Beef One (or more!) round roasts Yellow Mustard Dry Rub Spices -Start your charcoal according to the device instructions (I use a chimney) while waiting for the charcoal to get going, rinse the (room temperature) roast beef in warm water, pat dry with a paper towel. Apply yellow mustard liberally, coating the entire roast. Then apply the dry rub to suit your tastes. Put the charcoal into the pit barrel (I find it MUCH easier to pour the chimney activated charcoal into the empty basket OUT of the barrel, put the remaining un-fired charcoal on top of the fired charcoal, and then use heavy welding gloves to drop the basket into the barrel.) Then hang the meat. Put the lid on and for a three to four pound round roast, it will take 2-4 hours to develop an internal temp of 160 degrees (a very pink and juicy medium) I like it less pink (but not destroyed.) so I bring it up to about 165 internal temp. It all looks intimidating but once you get the hang of it you will be fine. Just don't do any expensive cuts right out of the gate- no briskets or rib roasts until you get the hang of it!!!!