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mowerman

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  1. yes im quite familiar ,,,my DM has the same top end......kinda gets old in a hurry with everyone taking you apart on the highway...... gotta new transmission for it a few years ago.....im not sure if it will pick up the top end or not....bob
  2. well....im sure that truck,will go anywhere now....have a ball with it...bob
  3. wow excellent ....thanks j.....bob
  4. im sure its different then what i have i bet norm taunten has one if rob cant help you....bob
  5. by the way your coming right along with it....nice work...bob
  6. ok im lost i was going to say thier still available or atleast i thought...good luck...bob
  7. well an old timer,,,i buy lawn mower parts off of,,,,told me when the recoil starter came out in 1955... thier was alotta older felles,,that didnt trust them for the longest time,, they were ordering the original wind around spool a number of years after........probably the same concept...lol.bob,
  8. as i mentioned too long ago to remember,,,but maybe my dad was test driving it for m,y uncle..it might have been a good deal and maybe my uncle was concidering buying it for a spare,,,i know he did have an emeryville he used to sent out when one of the brockways was down again too long to remember,,,,but seens he picked up the cornbinder somewhere around 66
  9. come to think of it,,,im sure it had a split windshield,,,,and no vents.....way too long ago,,and i was very small....i believe it looked like the white one............did bring this up before,,,,,but by pop picked me up in it,,,,,and i dont know what he was doing with it,,,because he was driving for my uncle back then,,,and my uncle had all brockways....bob
  10. I had a really cool poster of my dad‘s company truck when I was a young teenager made it out of a bro sure my mom threw it out when I was around 20 she didn’t think I needed the kids stuff anymore on my walls I was furious Haven’t been able to find any photos of those trucks at all ever since beacon fast freight
  11. Well it was certainly excellent while it lasted thank you for all you have done,, hank... bob
  12. Not too many around,,, pretty cool... bob
  13. Pretty cool I rode in one with my pop somewhere around 1963 ,,,, all I remember about it,,, engine was really loud and I couldn’t see out the windshield... bob
  14. All the same,,,,,, great progress bud... nice neat work and detailed ... hats off man bob
  15. You da man lol bob
  16. Wow looks great,,,,,god love ya for working so fast,,,,glad you got it all ready ,, come over here and start on mine lol bob
  17. all makes sense i drive a brand new kenworth and i can barely even hear the engine while driving down the road,,,,riding with my pop,,,,back in 1970 in a U600 that thing sounded the cats ass,,,especially him going through the gears,,,and yes the truck was very loud.........bob
  18. rob,,,,your too tough for me,,,,but that creeper,,,,looks like the ticket......wow....bob
  19. ya,,,,but you got to admit,,,,,those older engines,,,,although alot less horsepower than these modern engines,,,,why is it they sounded alot better,,,,lol...bob
  20. man,,,,,beautiful rig,,,,thanks for posting...bob
  21. im sure you know,,,,,i ran both of them,,,,didnt care for either one of them....bob
  22. ahahahahahahahahahahaha i knew you were going to make a smartass comment....180 and 237........both boat anchers.....bob
  23. 335 cummins and a 13 speed,,,,lol..you could actually use it to pull a load and keep up...seems to be worth atleast 6-7 Gs...bob
  24. it looks like its still working....and decent shape........bob
  25. wow,,,,sounds like a pretty good paying racket.....although alotta setup,,and travel...bob
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