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OldTrucker

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  1. Had a buyer for my little Buick Special. Had him meet me at the police station and he looked it over and took it for a drive. One of the fill in officers who is a county officer was working today and had come out to see what the deal was. He suggested the guy leave his drivers license while taking the test drive while his girlfriend waited. Came back and wanted to pay with a personal check and I reminded his the deal was cash only and he acted a little funny about it. He got the cash from his girlfrind and when he was counting out the 100 dollar bills the officer picked one up and held it up to the sun and immediatly arrested the guy. 18 of the 30 100 dollar bills were bogus! Between this and people that leave you hanging I give up. EA plates are cheap and only costs me a little over 20 bucks a month for insurance I'll just keep it.
  2. I feel your pain. Been dealing with it since 1997 after herniating 3 disc in my back slipping off the step of my truck. Got worse after my lumbar fusion surgery that left me worse. Was on opiods for a long time for it and finally took myself off them several years ago and now just use tylenol and an anti inflamitory.
  3. Had to return with my new glasses to Walmart Vision because they were so bad after a few hours they actually would make me ill. The first time they found they got the measurements wrong at the lab. This time the measurements look good but the left eye is affected bad so now have to go back tomorrow and a different dr will redo the exam. I suffer hypoglycemia and if my sugar was low at the time of the first exam it could have made a difference according to them. Told the lady that if the exam comes out the same I want a refund and I'll go elsewhaere! The wifes glasses worked great for her!
  4. Looks great! I'll use your's as a guide to building mine soon.
  5. Over 50 test dives and three to the Titanic of I read reports correctly. That is a lot of stress it was subjected to without any proper inspection for stress if it was even possible to find.
  6. I saw yours researching the kit while building. I like your extension on the rear panel and may do that on mine in the near future as it looks right.
  7. Finally got it painted after nearly a year. Joined it up to the Ford 800 that was built for it.
  8. I don't want to ruin them with the wrong setting solution. Anyone have insight into how well they form and what you used on them?
  9. I had that kit when it was first released. I believe I finally stomped on it!LOL
  10. Was about .50 cents a pack when I quit cold turkey for my new bride late 1970. Started back up for a couple years while working for the government Funny thing is still after almost 50 years not smoking every now and then I catch a whiff of someones smoke and for a second or two feel the urge!
  11. That's a work horse of another color!
  12. Great looking Mack Cabover! Really miss the days that these were still on the road!
  13. Poor old Chevy. One of my favorite years.
  14. It is not a day for wishing happiness and I don't like being thanked for my service on this day as it is a day for rememberence of those that made the surpreme sacrafice for this country and them alone.
  15. The second one you mention did not work with the wife and myself!LOL
  16. I remember them showing these films in drivers education. Most the girls had to leave the romm along with a couple of the guys!
  17. I now live in a small farm town that still has a "local mail" slot. They were told to remove it yars ago but the Post Master here refused to do it. Where we did live before if I mailed a letter across the street it had to go 70 miles south get sorted and sent back because in the 1990's someone decided that we didn't need a mail sort in our central post office so now instead it goes to a private owned sort center. Every holiday season they hire a bunch of people to sort and load trucks. My son applied and went there and only stayed a week because it was a bunch of people that had no real incentive to work and werfe openly stealing cards and opening packages! When he brought it to the attention of management he was told mind his own business! I did ask the guy that drops mail here every day (contract hauler) about packages being mis-routed and all he said is "they call it logistics" and laughed!
  18. Thanks! I'll have to try it. I have used the old Testors decal set with good results but with the rivets and other irregular surfaces it needs a bit more.
  19. How did you get the stripes to lay down so good? They literally look painted on!
  20. Last video on youtube was 8 months ago.
  21. I was debating green or white but the truck leans more to the later white paint trucks.
  22. Still can't paint outside so started another project. Will be a CF with doubles when done.
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