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Much goes through under "quality of Life" crap. Riverhead Township Code Enforcement told me one day that they are going to fly those little drones over properties looking for illegal sheds, additions, pools and "abandoned vehicles" The Deer in headlites look was priceless when my neighbor and I told him the camera on the drones last image from our properties will be the muzzle flash for violating our airspace and frightening our animals. Not as good a look as the woman whose going to let her dog into the field with my sheep "to Play" when I told her "if the dog goes in running, it will leave in a box. I'll shoot it". She called the town Sheriff who told her it is my legal right to shoot any animal attacking my live stock.

With cleaning and moving stuff to VA winding down, I looked at my toy equipment and promo collections and decided to cull the horde some. We have a Vintage Toy Dealer who has been here for 25 or more years and has a 5 star rep. So I called him today and asked him to make an offer on about 90 vehicles. mid 50's Buddy L Texaco tankers and a Texaco Ship, Structo, Nylint, Tootsie, Dinky, Wyandote and some Doekie for equipment. A Marvelous Mike Bulldozer from 1954 and Hubbley Allis Chalmers Tractors and a couple dozen of Ford, Mercury, Olds and Rambler Dealer Promos from the 1950' and 60's. Kind of iffy on parting with them. Called the toy guy and told him what I had to sell and added in a 1964 Aurora Model Motoring Slot Car set in the box. The conversation when from that to him yelling he's sick of people calling him to shake him down for money (?) Let him rant for a good 2 or 3 minutes and thanked him for his time and told him to have a nice day. I guess that was the "Powers That Be" way of telling me to keep all of them. Life's Good. Paul This is "Marvelous Mike" My favorite toy in 1954

Now it is really not nice to talk about our current administration that way. . .

Because in our society objects and victims are the guilty parties- not the person who did the crime. There are no personal responsibilities today for actions taken by someone. Blame it on a hard up bringing, a cruel parent, a gun that jumped into your hand and told you to pull it's trigger, the child/ woman asked for it. . . . We have a society of idiots, taught by idiots, and ruled by idiots.

Coming along very nice. Did they Rhino line the interior too? Paul

BINGO!!! But most people will kowtow and drop into line. To much trouble to learn they are not wrong. Now that said in Suffolk and Nassau counties in N.Y. you may not have any unregistered, damaged vehicles, boats or trailer. On my farm I have antique tags and insurance on 28 vehicles...some of which have not rolled in 20 + years. Not thing one they can do about them. Kills them too.

http://www.uaw.org/articles/uaw-statements-ford-investment-mexico

Jersey City will fine you $50 for parking backed into your driveway or parking space. The City Consul and the J.C.P.D. got the law passed because " we cannot determine if a vehicle is is current on the registration as they have no registration sticker on the front tag...rear tag only.

As long as it has an updated but classic Superliner look, not one that looks like wax sitting in the hot sun.

Beautiful Work! The details and colors a perfect!! With the right back ground it would be hard to tell from the real deal. Paul

MACK says 53 1/4 inches for the 1981 and older short hood and 54 1/4 for the 1982 to 1989 long hood plus or minus 1/8 inch (3.1 mm) is pretty good. Don't think anything needs to be moved for the 1985 hood.

Check the contacts in the s/p switch could be mung fron sitting.

OOPS!! I had it reversed, you need to cut 25 mm off the longer hood to put it on the 1981 and older R models The Short hood will fit on the 1982 to 1989 R except for the missing 25 mm at the back. The hinges,mounts and clearances are the same between both of them and NO 25mm Spacers needed!. That was the info given me when I bought my R hood from Jones Performance. I didn't cut the newer hood on mine, I spaced it out so I could add an auxiliary cooler in front of my radiator. The longer hood is 54 1/4 inches long (1377.950 mm) my old hood was 53 3/8 inches (1355.725 mm). Sorry for getting it reversed. Paul

Lots of work done to it all ready. But wonder if the hard to get parts are in the 3 boxes? http://www.auctiontime.com/OnlineAuctions/Details.aspx?OHID=6197137&lp=trk&bcatid=27

HaPpY BiRtHdAy!!!

Heres a little history on it St Louis bought a block of R608 between April and July 1968 from S/N 1004 to 1015 1968 R608F10-1008 Saint Louis, Missouri MO E23, E13 1000/500 Mack R Received 5-5-68 A member on here Convoyduel bought it's mate S/N 10-1006 in 2010 Here's his link http://www.stlouisdumptrucks.com/

Space the hinges off the hood 25mm add the same on the back edge with Fiber Glass from your old hood, if you feel the need. Worse comes you have a source for patch panels. Can't be a lot of R goodies around Russia. Paul

I will say one thing. My generation played Army, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians. Had toy Rifles, Six Shooters cap guns, Bows and Arrows, Waster Pistols and later BB guns and Whamo Sling Shots. If you grew up in the country a .22 rifle or a 410. We grew up watching war movies about WWI, WWII and Korea. We watched T.V shows called Combat, Rat Patrol, 12 o'clock High, Walter Cronkite's 20th Century, The World At War andVictory at Sea. Watched countless Westerns and other shows like The Un Touchable's, Naked City, Dragnet and such. we had Comic Books like the Haunted Tank (haunted by Jeb Stuart) and others. We did not grow up angry and violent. We got in fights but didn't stab or shoot anyone. I never pointed a real weapon at a person until in the Army in combat. The only differences I see are parents who took the responsibility to raise us with values and taught us right from wrong. Teachers who taught knowledge not their views. Police, your Principle and your parents hands weren't tied by the ACLU and the Government. Screw up you got a swat, a paddling or the worst two. . . a note from your teacher or the local cop bringing you home to your parents. Lawyers were somebody you used to buy or sell property or a Will. Scrape you knee or arm, get a bruise or a shiner.... mom patched you up and than a lecture on being stupid or careless. Parents went for Band-Aids and Bacteen not a lawyer and money. How did we manager to undo all that in 30 or so years aftere having those valiues for 200 or so years ? I tihnk it started down hill with LBJ's "Great Society" in 1965

Maybe those that think it is racist show read this. A page from the 1936 book on the History of the Military of the Confederate States of America. by Major General William Durward Conor , Superintendent U.S. Military College at West Point. Veteran of the Spanish-American War, WWI and WWII Awarded two Silver Stars and the DSC. It was during WWII, required reading by the Cadets. "A few other lesser known Confederate militia units of free men of color were raised throughout Louisiana at the beginning of the war. These units included: the Baton Rouge Guards under Capt. Henry Favrot, portions of the Pointe Coupee Light Infantry under Capt. Ferdinand Claiborne, and the Augustin Guards and Monet's Guards of Natchitochesunder Dr. Jean Burdin. The only official duties ever given to the Natchitoches units were funeral honor guard details. After an August 1861 battle near Hampton, Virginia, Union army Colonel John W. Phelps, of the 1st Vermont Infantryreported on the Confederate forces he faced there. Colonel Phelps' report reflects his scouts as reporting that among the Confederate artillery there was the Richmond Howitzer Battery that was manned by negroes. One account of an unidentified African American fighting for the Confederacy, from two Southern 1862 newspapers, tells of "a huge negro" fighting under the command of Confederate Major General John C. Breckinridge against the 14th Maine Infantry Regiment in a battle near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on August 5, 1862. The man was described as being "armed and equipped with knapsack, musket, and uniform", and leading the attack. Following the July 1862 Surrender of Murfreesborough, Tennessee, Lieutenant Colonel John G. Parkhurst of the 9th Michigan Infantry reported on African Americans serving with the Confederate First Regiment Texas Rangers and the First Georgia Rangers. His report states "There were also quite a number of negroes attached to the Texas and Georgia troops, who were armed and equipped, and took part in the several engagements with my forces during the day." Several African Americans are known to have participated in some capacity on the Southern side in the Battle of Gettysburg. After the battle in July 1863, "reported among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in Confederate uniforms fully armed as soldiers." Dr. Lewis Steiner, Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission while observing Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson's occupation of Frederick, Maryland, in 1862: "Over 8,000 Negroes must be included in this number [Confederate troops]. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in the rebel ranks. Most of the Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc.....and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army." Union Brigadier-General D. Stuart observed that "...the enemy, and especially their armed negroes, did dare to rise and fire, and did serious execution upon our men. The casualties in the brigade were 11 killed, 40 wounded, and 4 missing...." The number of African-Americans, both slave and free, that served in the Confederate Army in a direct combat capacity was minor, and was never official policy. After the war, the State of Tennessee granted Confederate Pensions to nearly 3,000 African Americans for their service to the Confederacy. While an accurate estimate of the number of African Americans who served in the Confederate armed forces may never be known, the United States Census of 1890 lists 15,273 African Americans who were Confederate veterans.:"

So to replace the Confederate images for an MLK image will be an interesting. The Georgia park is leased to Herschend Family Entertainment, who own operates 26 other properties, ranging from Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., to Missouri’s Silver Dollar City and Showboat Branson Belle. They have 35 years left on the Stone Mountain Lease and get 4 million paying visitors there a year to the monument alone. That alone adds $16 million to the local economy and employees 720 full time people there and 350 seasonals there and at the Stone Mountain Amusement Park (adds another 1.5 million visitors a year and 6 to 7 million additional money to the local economy. Unless there is Big money, Federal intervention via Eminent Domain I don't see it happening. Not to detract from the non violent and honorable way MLK got his points out, what benefit does this have for the people of Georgia beyond pushing an agenda on them?

To bad you couldn't get that mint one from the trashed white R that was for sale a while back remember it? Don't think it sold that time. http://www.ebay.com/itm/73-Mack-RS700L-8v-71-Detroit-13-spd-Fuller-/201347193640?forcerrptr=true&hash=item2ee13a5b28&item=201347193640

and taking excellent care of illegals and criminals while our poorest and senior citizens have crap!

Vets take care of our own. The worst thing is for anyone to feel forgotten and alone on a Family Holiday. With it only me, the 3 Bassets and Inky in the house I feel the need to volunteer at the Vets home, helps me more than them I think. Paul

The politically correct crowd. want to keep riding this anti-racism gravy train all the way to ZERO free speech is tolerated. The Governor of New York has 95% legislative support to ban the sale, trade or display of Swastikas, iron Crosses, Maltese Crosses, Skull and Crossed Bones, the SS symbols (my '63 Impala will be a no no ?), Soviet Hammer and Sickle, Red Star, USSR and CCCP markings, All are offensive to him? Now what to the 2 aircraft museums do with the WWI, WWI and Cold War Aircraft? There is an Armor Museum with WWII and late Soviet Armor what happens there? If they would teach non politically correct, non biased, factual history in schools, these things would not be issues, would we?. by the way, The Confederate flag is not racist and it truly was only ever used as a symbol for the South, as they exercised a constitutionally protected right to secede. Oh the cruel irony of political correctness.