1958 F.W.D.

I cleaned a set of warning lights and three radio antennas off the roof of a firetruck once because some asshole standing at the remote door switch (who thought that the money for the heating bill came out of his own pocket) got punchy with the "CLOSE" button...........

Dammit. The shelves in my garage are beginning to get polluted with all kinds of crap. There goes the neighborhood........

I was going to say too much brain damage

That's a pretty sexy boat anchor.

Is that a lot lizard?

Are you on drugs? What on God's Green Earth would you want to do that for? Quick....We need to get an intervention going for this guy....... At least he doesn't want to put a 2-Stroke Mechanical Asshole into his build..........

Oh....Yeah....Good point. Guess I'll need about 4 skids of these: http://www.grainger.com/product/OIL-DRI-Absorbent-Pads-1HEH7 Unless if I find an E9 or a 3408 to drop in there. If I do, I'll light up that demon seed before I pull it out and let the drain plug loose and firewall the governor.....That way it will never hurt anyone else ever again, whether by hearing damage, environmental damage or what have you.

Hmmmm lets see.... -A Sig-Sauer Spec Ops .45 (stainless)| -A Taurus PT1911 .45 (black) with Picatinny Rail -A MIG welder (thats gonna happen whether Santa brings it or I buy it myself with my Holiday Bonus from work -A 1927 Ahrens-Fox R-K-4 firetruck -A single-screw Hayward F-Model with a 300/5-speed and aluminum rails -A tandem screw Allentown F-Model with a 300 "plus" and a 10-speed -A Superliner with an E9 -A new shop, 100x100 with 16' ceiling, 14' high doors, concrete floor (in-slab radiant heat) exhaust extraction system, a paint booth, a wash bay, an office for me, a "Man-Cave" for all my books and truck shit errrrr ahhh I mean stuff, the pool table, the bar etc etc etc This will be the Librarian for my truck and firetruck book collection -Everything in the 2016 Snap-On Catalog. Ok thats greedy. Maybe leave out Page 77.

Some Aussie hardware recently seen here in the States at the Mack Trucks Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania at "Trucktoberfest." and yes, we were all drooling.......

FDNY Rescue 2 (Brooklyn) Nathan, Delaware Rescue 23

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Harry Muschlegal remained CEO of JEVIC until about 2003, maybe 2004 when as part of a deal to go public on the stock market, he had to sell all interests in the company and step out. Not long after that the new bosses (who could have retained the old JEVIC leadership under Harry and say to them "keep doing what you do") started changing things all around (some of you may know this was Saia and YRC....) and Dad saw the writing on the wall. He retired in 2005 and took all of his retirement money and got it into a private IRA. As we all know, in 2007 JEVIC went into the shitter and thousands of employees were not as lucky as my old man. Here's a pic of him and "LARGE" on his very last day. I took large over to Delanco because I wanted Grandpa to give him his very first ride in a tractor, so we got the keys to this Vulva, backed it under a load and took it out to 295, up one exit and back. It meant a lot to my old man to give LARGE his first truck ride.

steelman, will it be ok for 14 and 12 gauge sheet, and angle........ as in the body of a 1978 Firetruck??

Don't forget the FWD- First truck I ever rode in when I was 3...... We went to pick up the FWD when I bought it....Dad was in the passenger seat, I was behind the wheel....I remember looking at him, he was looking at me and we were both like "DAMN THIS IS WEIRD!" (then I looked out past the steering wheel across that hood that looked like it was 7 miles long and I was like "oh my god what the hell have I done?" HAH!!!

So Dad ran that Mercedes until he decided having a bunk was a good thing, and traded it into the Dallas, Tx Mack branch on a used 1974 Hayward F-Model with a 300/5-speed and a single drive (more than plenty for empty trailers.) Not many pictures exist of this tractor- I know there are one or two but have not come across them in years- I'm pretty sure they are at my parents house somewheres. But I do have the bulldog, the M-A-C-K and the door "half-bulldogs" off the Hayward tractor out in my garage. So Dad ran the Hayward until it started rotting. About that time, he met Harry Muschlegel, who was an O/O himself and leased onto Southwest Freight Lines in Kansas City (Mo?) Harry lived close by and got Dad to help him out once in a while when he had a lot of freight. Then eventually Dad figured out that freight paid a lot more than trailer work so he went with Harry. Then in the early 1980's when the ICC deregulated the operating authorities, Dad obtained his own authorities in most of the lower 48. Harry started putting together a group of truckers under his own company- in the beginning there were 12 O/O's (Dad was one of them....) They called themselves the "Dirty Dozen." Things took off, and then Dad bought a used Hertz/Penske Allentown F-Model with a 300 plus/10-speed an twin screws. Much better for freight. No pictures exist of this truck that I know of. Things REALLY started taking off and Harry brought Dad into the office to help him obtain his operating authorities under a little company called JEVIC TRANSPORTATION. Dad would be in the office for a week, then out on the road for a week. Off and on, off and on. Then the office periods started lasting a lot longer until Harry offered to put a driver in the F-Model so that Dad could keep making the payments. Then finally Harry just bought it outright. I still remember the day Dad came home, and announced that he sold Harry the truck and was coming off the road and into the office full time. Mom was as happy as a pig in shit but I was one pissed off 12 year old kid!!! But he calmed me down by promising to get a truck once in a while and taking me out on trips, and then of course I could ride with Uncle Dennis. One memorable trip was a Texas run in this cabover freightliner....had a 3406 and a 13 speed....Was Louie Miller's truck and was tuned up real good.....We had a load of tastykakes....couple of stops in Nashville, Knoxville, then DFW and I think we emptied out in Dallas, Then over to Huntsville (arrived on Saturday with an appt to load on Monday Morning) where we got a hotel room, then he took me to the Alabama Space and Rocket Center. I got to see some cool shit growing up, riding with Dad and Uncle Dennis- went to the west coast 3x with Unky. Learned to drive on I80 west of Des Moines when I was 15- aint nothing out there cept blacktop and corn.....In one of the first generation Aardvark KW's with a 3406B and a 13 speed. These pics were from when Jevic trucks had the stripes painted on instead of the hideous light blue decals later on...This was a 48 foot trailer, never would have made this with a 53.

Came across some old pics. Many of you know of, or have even met my Dad at Macungie or the Mack Museum. Back in the beginning of time, he was an Owner-Operator leased onto Charles E. Danbury, a trailer broker and the bulk of his work was hauling brand new trailers out of the Trailmobile factory in Lansdale, Pa. His second tractor was a 1971 Mercedes Benz LPK1319 OM360 engine. 6 cyl., 210 HP. ZF 5 speed manual trans. fully synchronized. 2 speed rear. Trans was not short 4th, so 4th high and 5th low were pretty much identical gears. It was a demonstrator, and when he bought it, it only had 10,000 miles on the clock. He traded it in with just shy of half a million for his first F-Model (The Hayward F-Model....) Dad says about this picture: I remember taking that picture. It was at the Trailmobile factory branch in Birmingham, Ala. where I was delivering them. Triple decks were a pretty common load for us. This was what we called a transfer, where after completing delivery of a new trailer from the factory, we'd pick trade-ins or something used and go somewhere else. I can't for the life of me remember where I got these but I think it was Pittsburgh or Cleveland. I didn't do that tie down job, either! "this one was at the Bobber Truck Stop in Effingham, Ill. This was the first set of doubles I ever pulled. It was long before doubles were legal in all states. The normal route from Longview, Tex., where this trip orginated to, Dayton, O, where they were going would have been via Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati to Dayton. That would have been all interstate after Texarkana. But since doubles were also illegal in Tennessee, I had to go US 67 from Little Rock to Poplar Bluff, Mo. I-57 wasn't done yet so I had to run US 60 from Poplar Bluff through Wyatt, Mo. to Cairo. and get on 57 above town. That was also my first trip across the old, narrow, two lane Cairo bridge. Quite an adventure."

Found this pic of me when I was about 7 or 8 years old, circa 1980 or so.....Me in the 78 Hahn, probably at the Hatboro (Pa.) Christmas Parade.

Here ya go Paul....the welder and the cart in a kit, $300.00 Hmmmmmmm and I'll get my holiday bonus check on Friday....and the store is less than an hour away....hmmmmmm hmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmm

Hmmmmmmm That thing looks like the cats ass!!!! Exactly what I think I'm looking for- best of both worlds- MIG and core flux.....And there's an Eastman Catalog Store less than an hour from here.....Hmmmmmmmm

Thanks for all the advice Lads. I did do some welding back in the day when I worked in Jevic's trailer shop but it's been years. Carl, yes this will be for the Hahn. Going to work on some of the less-visible stuff before I tackle the exterior visible stuff. Please keep the tips coming, I appreciate everyone's help and advice.

Looking for a small MIG welder, that can run on 110 or 220, no more than 40 amps, that can handle 14 or 12 gauge steel..... I know Miller has some smaller portable units......Looking for the whole kit, the nozzle, wire feeder, and regulator too (bottle too if you happen to have one.) I'd rather buy one from someone on here that I trust rather than some schlep on Dreg's List.

Time for an oil analysis......Just because you can't see it in the oil, doesn't mean it isn't there.....Is it being burned and residual running down into the crankcase??? Pay the $15-$20 and get an analysis done.

Octopussy?

Adjust the dwell?

Is that girl in the grocery store shopping for sausage? Kielbasa? Maybe a fresh fish of some kind- trout? Snapper?