SAC B52 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Just wanted to say hi, and introduce myself to the forum. I'm a former driver now working in a different field. I've been around semi's my whole life minus my time in the Air Force, because of my dad, I fell in love with them when I was just a little guy. He use to drive an H-63 and 67. He later changed jobs and drove a 63' Emeryville COE.I've driven F's-R's-U's and Superliners during my carrer along with KW'S COE and Conv, Freighliners COE and Conv, Pete's both COE and Conv. My favorite trucks to be around are any but I really love H-67's especially tandem!. I always liked the way they sat high on the frame. My dad brought home a new 1978 Transtar II Cabover when I was younger and I loved the way they sat high on the frame also.Anyway, fun to be aboard! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpwlker Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Welcome to the jungle Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I'll be the first to welcome you to the web-site. You may be asked to give alittle more info as to what part of the country you reside. Just encase you are fortuate enough to live close to the famous, one and only ROB. He just might have picked up on the Pete truck you mentioned. mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I'll be the first to welcome you to the web-site. You may be asked to give alittle more info as to what part of the country you reside. Just encase you are fortuate enough to live close to the famous, one and only ROB. He just might have picked up on the Pete truck you mentioned. mike I seen that. We all make mistakes in life. It's how we learn from those mistakes and lessons that makes us what and who we are. Sounds like SAC learned rather well of trying to operate one of those things and has discovered how easilly the negative experience is left behind.Welcome to the new member.Rob Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC B52 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I seen that. We all make mistakes in life. It's how we learn from those mistakes and lessons that makes us what and who we are. Sounds like SAC learned rather well of trying to operate one of those things and has discovered how easilly the negative experience is left behind.Welcome to the new member.Rob Sorry Gentlemen, I figured it out! I put a little more info in there. I don't own any Semi's, just drove a few. I do however have a cool little 47 Ford pickup with a 500HP 472 Big Block Ford, that will haul some you know what! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpwlker Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Sorry Gentlemen, I figured it out! I put a little more info in there. I don't own any Semi's, just drove a few. I do however have a cool little 47 Ford pickup with a 500HP 472 Big Block Ford, that will haul some you know what!That is a sweet looking ride. Atleast you kept it all Ford and not kill it by putting a Generic made chevy motor in it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC B52 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 That is a sweet looking ride. Atleast you kept it all Ford and not kill it by putting a Generic made chevy motor in it. Thanks alot! Yeah, it's pretty basic just brute power no chrome or fancy paint. I get a ton of compliments for a primered old Hot Rod. I can't believe how many college age girls go crazy over it. My wife say's this old truck gets too much attention!. It's alot of fun, my four kids fight to drive around in it but you can only really fit two people in the cab, it's very small. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpwlker Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Thanks alot! Yeah, it's pretty basic just brute power no chrome or fancy paint. I get a ton of compliments for a primered old Hot Rod. I can't believe how many college age girls go crazy over it. My wife say's this old truck gets too much attention!. It's alot of fun, my four kids fight to drive around in it but you can only really fit two people in the cab, it's very small.I had an old F250 i did up. Had a 300 6 banger in it that would eat up alot of mustangs.I had about 2500 into that motor. Inline 6 performance parts where not cheap. Had a 4 speed with the low first. If I could keep hubs in it I could smoke all 4 tires Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 hey welcome aboard,,i saw the sac,and thought i had a new neighbor,,,not to many of us mack fans this way,,hehe..nice pickup,,,have fun...bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC B52 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 hey welcome aboard,,i saw the sac,and thought i had a new neighbor,,,not to many of us mack fans this way,,hehe..nice pickup,,,have fun...bob Thanks Mowerman! Yeah SAC stand for Strategic Air Command, I used to be a B-52H Crew Chief up in Minot, N.D. Thanks for the Compliment on the Truck. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyp Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Welcome SAC, hope you enjoy it here, will warn you though, theyre a rough, bloodthirsty bunch, specially one called "Other Dog". Keep your doors open, and bombs armed. randyp Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Welcome A fun group here that enjoys stories, lies,..... Thank you for your serviceMaybe OD won't mess with the pic, yeah right. Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhasler Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 How-dee, welcome aboard, and pleased to meet you! As Hatcity said, thanks for your service. Quote "Mebbe I'm too ugly and stupid to give up!" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC B52 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 How-dee, welcome aboard, and pleased to meet you! As Hatcity said, thanks for your service. Thank you both for the kind words, I would have to thank my country and veterans before me, to have the honor to serve this great land. Please remember all the fallen and wounded who have made the ultimate sacrifice on this Memorial day. I have to say it was the way I was raised.We all served in my family and my Dad and both Grandpa's and Unncles the list goes on. We basically have one Uncle left,from WW2 who flew as a B-24J liberator top turret gunner out of Wendling England. Another Uncle was lost at age 18 when his B-17 was shot down over Germany. My little girls remember them every night at dinner time when we are together as a family. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Welcome aboard! always glad to have another "Jersey Guy" as a member,spent many a summer at Raceway park in my younger years,good friend of mine ran a 68 camaro in SS/F 396 four-speed,quite a handful! neat lookin' ford btw,but personally ida went with a small-block chevy LOL! (yep,i'm a GM guy) good bunch of guys on here,a lot of fun,just remember to keep the peterbilt references to a minimum! LOL! and you'll do fine! i also appreacieate your service,my mom's father was a right-door gunner on a B-17 1943/1944,fortunately made it home in one piece,but he was a tough old bird!.................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC B52 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 Welcome aboard! always glad to have another "Jersey Guy" as a member,spent many a summer at Raceway park in my younger years,good friend of mine ran a 68 camaro in SS/F 396 four-speed,quite a handful! neat lookin' ford btw,but personally ida went with a small-block chevy LOL! (yep,i'm a GM guy) good bunch of guys on here,a lot of fun,just remember to keep the peterbilt references to a minimum! LOL! and you'll do fine! i also appreacieate your service,my mom's father was a right-door gunner on a B-17 1943/1944,fortunately made it home in one piece,but he was a tough old bird!.................Mark Yeah, I noticed that P#TE#B!L$ stuff is pretty bad! I'm sorry for any offense. It's all ok though, us Jersey guys have pretty thick skin, it's from drinking all the Mercury in the water when we were kids. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgallamore Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 wellcom aboard sac, don't haf to tell ya how i feel about them petes. Quote http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/uploads/1272400769/gallery_4852_794_314995.jpg Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Thanks Mowerman! Yeah SAC stand for Strategic Air Command, I used to be a B-52H Crew Chief up in Minot, N.D. Thanks for the Compliment on the Truck.well thats quite an achievement,,,we,ll all proud of you,,,bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvin1 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Welcome Too The Forum. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC B52 Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 well thats quite an achievement,,,we,ll all proud of you,,,bob Thanks again! and bigen that CH is real pretty! I love that shot of the mountains behind it. I have a real cool pic somewhere of a H-67 laying in a field in North Dakota when I was there in the 80's I 'll try to find it later. And off topic again, mowerman i'll try to dig up pictures I have of a inflight refueling mission high over the Sierra Nevada range about 40K feet if i remember. Pretty neat stuff, we were on our way to a bombing competition at Mather AFB outside Sacramento. I was in the KC-135 Tanker getting pics of my B-52 getting refueled.Here's a shot of me (on the left) and my two buddies after we landed in Sacramento. We left North Dakota it was 4 degrees out and landed at Mather AFB and it was 65. The troops at Mather had jackets on, they were laughing at us in our T-shirts. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 wow!!! rite on,man...thanks.bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/19185-new-guy-here/#findComment-78415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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