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Oregon is pretty too OD!, I saw the largest mule deer I've ever seen on the banks of the Columbia river there the whole family was there buck,doe, and fawn! Only time I've ever seen a whole deer family usually it's just does! My co driver and I laid over in Missoula Mt. and we stopped in a bar and I ordered a Jack Daniels and ginger ale,this big John Wayne looking "working cowboy" sat down and said "I don't see how you can put that in a good glass of whisky"😁 Needless to say I didn't disagree lol !

That would make a great "hobby truck" had that fat gearshift knob I never cared for them,preferred the small round ones like a B model! I liked the long streamlined headlight housings on that model!

James J, the first big truck I ever rode in was a B&P Brockway 358 I think ,my ,buddy drove for them, we took a load of sheets to Chicago, 1968, a year later I was running team with an an Allied Van Lines contractor in a "crackerbox Jimmy" what a small world!

Va Patentman, Do you remember Ed W Texter trucking? Were on Brighton Rd north of Pittsburgh, ran tandem dumps B models,possibly some Rs and Dms! The friend who taught me how to drive a compound mack drove for them.

Thanks Hancock, did it run? Just the sheet metal I could see was worth that!

Va Patentman, I sure do remember Lightning ! They went out of business before I was old enough to drive a truck I recall them as a mixed fleet. They definitely ran White conventionals, I recall a picture of one of their trucks a White 5000 I think! Also remember their ad under trucking in the yellow pages when I was a kid! When I hauled mail for Waite Inc.( hurry up and wait)😁 I used to pick up at the bulk mail center off exit 3 on the PA tnpke. I believe it was rte 65 up your way! When did you leave north hills?

I'm kinda likin' the "Jimmy" in the background behind the B42 wrecker did it sell?

Heavy Gunner, most of the young guys just put it in the car stock, in the 50s the biggest six cylinder in a Chevy was the 235 cu inch in the powerglide cars,later they came out with a 260 I think. There were 2 and3 carburetor manifolds and racing cams available.I believe the 270 would bolt up to the stock Chevy three speed with the right bell housing leaving only the front mounts to fabricate! A couple of drag racers put full race blown versions in their rail dragsters!

Probably a 270 inline 6, the young street Rodders in the late 50s used to put them in their Chevy cars!

You could stick a fifth wheel wrecker boom on it and it would be a tow truck too!

Car lot, you mentioned Yamaha, did they have something to do with the 92 series like with the heads on the sho Taurus v6? I heard they had a lot of problems with the 92 series Detroit!

Drove a flattop that resembled that in the late 70s 318 with a 15 speed turned up to 3000 was surprised it was still together! Had a magnesium frame,corroded beyond repair! Old iron haulers truck!

I remember Eazor well! My wife's sister's boyfriend was a dock superviser for them! He got me a job on the extra list for Wilson Freight, in Mckees Rocks bottoms,had to drive one of those gawdawful compact cornbinder Cabover with the 5speed column shift! Wilson was another old Pittsburgh trucking company that closed after deregulation! They were very nice people. I seem to recall them being based in Cincinnati Oh. Just found my old local 249 card a couple days ago! lotta memories! There is still a Wilson trucking company, but it isn't the same one. 220, do you remember Waite Inc, used to haul us mail? We're based in the strip district too. I drove for them briefly before they went under! They had a division called Joy Don also named after the owner and his wife. We're out of Akron Oh. I hauled steel for J V Mcnicholas too out of their west Mifflin terminal.they were an all mack fleet too!

Ksb Until this post I never gave one single thought to a.I.,! Possibly proving my simple nature and naivete! Upon reflection does humanity need machine based intelligence which in my opinion would quickly surpass even the intelligence of the smartest human ( Einstein, da Vinci ?) As someone mentioned, the machines lack conscience,morality, or ethics!, and aren't hindered by the need to spend years evolving into a superior being! Look at what humankind has accomplished just using the thought processes of our smartest scientists,engineers and inventors! Having said that,without a conscience it's pretty obvious that the possessors of the ai would eliminate the sick,elderly,disabled,special needs people who cost money and time to care for and create inefficiency! Like Hitler and his "master race" let's go back to trucks!

Yep 41, a BIG,grain of salt! I'm watching the local news this morning,and I see "Three year old killed by truck" I'm looking at the tv and I don't see a "truck" I see a "pickup" I'm pretty sure a lot of folks who hear this on the radio picture a child being run over by a tractor trailer or other actual truck due to what I perceive as the anti truck bias! Same bias that causes many law firms to post billboards on the interstate "Have an accident with a semi?" They know most trucking firms don't want to face a jury regardless of who is at fault" It's a "win win" for them! Just my opinion....yours?

The local Asian restaurant had two bowls of cat food out back the other day!😁 I keep my spare 93 Isuzu p.u in the woods behind the house, a family of wood rats built a huge nest of sticks in the cab!I pulled the brake booster off the firewall leaving a hole,with the master cylinder dangling in space by the hydraulic lines! So I'm salvaging some little part from under the hood and this little face with beady eyes and a pointed nose appears in the hole and is watching me work! They never appear at the house so I let him slide! Not so the scorpions! They get a one way trip from the toilet into the septic system!

Mowerman, I remember all that pc bulls..t about removing nativity scenes in the late 70s, the Jewish holidays fall around the same time as Christmas, so our local school put up a nativity scene and a menorah!, problem solved!

Has nothing to do with rustproofing, but I saw an amusing ad on Missoula Montana's Craigslist. 1970 International loadstar 1600,single axle c/c runs drives and stops,345 engine 4 speed with2 speed axle tires are round and black!😁 750.00 Truck looks better than you might expect given its age! Seller definitely has a sense of humor! Made me think of the movie "Christmas story" where little Ralphie is helping the old man change a flat."The old man's spare is only a tire in the academic sense"

FWD, back in the 70s a guy in my terminal had an early Ford falcon, Pittsburgh Pa uses a lot of salt and the car was rust free! He told me he mixed about a pint of kerosene with the detergent when he washed the car! New clean atf night be better as it doesn't attack rubber,or brake fluid! Would be fun cleaning the Windows though!

Cool!

What a beauty! Do the turn signals have the little arrows,can't tell!,yeah they do! Just enlarged the photo, very authentic!

Hobert that insurance is really reasonable, but you gotta break your wife of drinking that yuppie coffee!😁I noticed that some rust oleum paint cans recommend acetone as a thinner, some don't,I've only sprayed it once( on a garden tractor) with acetone worked fine! Maybe ordinary reducer dilutes the fish oil base?

Guys you have a wonderful variety of equipment! The FWD would fit right in at Pebble Beach! Looks a lot like a Hendrickson! Is that a gas burner? It would be sacrilege but the sheet metal from the Oshkosh would make a great "rat rod"

Rowdy,you should have told him you were delivering the flatbed!lol!