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I love old pickup/work trucks. Even though I grew up during the muscle care era in the late 60's, I've always preferred pickup trucks. As a teenager back in the late 60's, all the guys I knew with a new camaro, mustang, or firebird were punk-ass rich kids and Daddy had bought them that awesome car. All the old farmers around me that I admired/respected were MEN and they could actually teach me something useful, give me a job, and they all drove pickup trucks. Maybe they got me to relating driving a pickup truck to becoming a man. In fact, I've just realized I haven't actually owned a car since I got out of the Army 45 years ago, so there may be some validity to that thought....

I stay in touch with some of my oldest friends on Facebook and today I came across a picture of a really nice looking old pickup. When I clicked on it, it took me to a FB page that features nothing but old trucks. I loved it and thought I'd share with some guys on this Forum that seem to love old trucks also. Here's the link and a picture of an unusual truck that is posted on that FB page as a teaser to the rest of the content and it's something you don't see every day. I wonder if that 1929 Colorado "Special Permit" has expired.....
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Thanks Fred, that was an awesome video. I've actually been to that museum in Maggie Valley NC. I went to a Motorcycle Tech School right after I got out of the Army (1975) and worked in a Honda shop for 3 years. 1st year the Gold Wings came out. I was the low man in a flat rate shop, so I worked on de-crating and setting up a lot of Gold Wings for the showroom. Had a factory guy from Honda show up in Colorado Springs. He was there to gather some high altitude jetting data for Goldwings (we were at 6,000'). We'd pulll the carbs, put in a set of jets and go for the test run, with me following in a van. Less than 50 miles West you could climb to 10,000 in the Rockies. Come back, record the data, and do it again. We must have made 20-30 test runs, over the period of about 3 weeks. The best thing I got out of that experience was he taught me how to take off, or install, the entire quad carburetor rack on a GL1000 in around 10 minutes. After that, I instantly became the Goldwing guru. That's pretty much all I did was work on the 1st generation Goldwings the rest of the time I was in that shop. I have two GL1000's sitting in the shop right now and I've had one (1977) for almost 30 years. I'd love to work on motorcycles, out of the shop, but there's just no market to support it any more.... The younger guys don't ride as much as we did

P.S. Got some riding mates from when I was a kid visiting MS this weekend. We're heading over to Leeds, AL tomorrow to visit the Barber Museum. That's going to be an awesome road trip. Spend the day at the largest motorcycle museum in the world

Yeh!!, I thought you may like the video Bob, I suppose the bike was a board tracker going by the handle bars, I was disappointed that the capacity wasn't known, but would have to be +/- 500cc's.

Your Honda experience would have been great at your age and I will say all of the Honda range were good, I can remember the day when a new 350cc Honda Dream twin took on a 650cc Triumph on a WW2 airstrip, one of many in our area, in a drag race and the Dream stuck with the Trumpy for most of the 1/4 mile, I also remember a Honda with twin pipes around 350/360cc, used to scream up the highway at night and one could hear this bike coming from miles away, I think the bike was a Honda Samuri with twin upswept straight through pipes with inserts in the ends and these run along the RH side of the bike, I am sure the inserts were removed and with a 180 degree crank, the sound was awesome.

Of the many bike have owned, CB500 four, CB750 F1 four, and CL100cc bored to 125cc, 250XL, 350XL and a 500XL, all road bikes, and I would have liked for the XL350 and XL500 to have been around when I was flat tracking, the 350 alone in standard form would have outclassed my BSA 500cc, and the 500 was even better, if only.

Enjoy your ride to the Barber Museum, I will envy you just for the fact you are out on a bike and my one wish is to throw a leg over the saddle of a bike and go for one last ride, not to be though.
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Seen a lot of Work Orders in my time, always reviewed the 3 C's ....... This one is perfect, contains "Just the facts, Ma'am"

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Yep..... It' is a time honored tradition to screw with the rookie. Got to entertain the old guys, before they'll share with you what they know;)

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Yep.... I say it a lot. Citroen built some weird lookin' stuff

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The forerunner to the White half track??.

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Actually an interesting story on the Golden Scarab, if anybody would like to Google, French students and instructors plus Citreon in 2016 built a full size replica of the Golden Scarab half track.


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A great effort, one would say.
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Joe --- How's your heart health? Check your BP after you take a look at this Hudson.....

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You hit my weak spot, because I've mentioned my love of old Hudson trucks here several times. That one appears to be a 1942. A little known fact is that all the Hudson trucks of that era were 3/4 ton trucks.
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You hit my weak spot, because I've mentioned my love of old Hudson trucks here several times. That one appears to be a 1942. A little known fact is that all the Hudson trucks of that era were 3/4 ton trucks.
What I really like about that Hudson is the hood is longer than the bed:cool:
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I've always thought this was the original SUV.....

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After I retired, I picked up a job with the Post Office and there was one of these baby's behind a barn on my route. Same sort of colour, but not the same sort of condition, I'm afraid!
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Back in the days before you needed a cheap Chinese scan tool to even work on 'em.....

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Pretty rare to see a Studebaker 4-wheel drive, but there was an old farmer down the road from me when I was a kid that had one.......

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1952 International (Binder) "Patina" truck. Looks like he's done the typical and is using mineral spirits & boiled linseed oil rather than a wax to give it somewhat of a shine, as opposed to clear coat (Everybody knows It's crazy to wax rust). Downside is it looks like crap after a rain, but you do get even with anybody that wants to rub their fingers over your truck to check for fake rust at a car show:cool:

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I mentioned "Fake Rust" in the post above. Yep... That's an actual thing in vehicle restoration with younger guys now and just to prove I'm not the one that's crazy...
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I suppose you could even go a step further and take a 12LBS sledge hammer to the fenders to get the same "Patina" as Pogobill's Diamond T:cool:
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That was no 12 lb hammer, it was a big ol' Missouri hay wagon. :p
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That was no 12 lb hammer, it was a big ol' Missouri hay wagon. :p
Better story yet...... Throw in "And there may have been liquor involved, but I don't recall much about that day";)
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Yep..... Been there way to many times

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There were some in use near me on the Delaware river near Philadelphia, PA. They had a couple of fatal accidents and I believe they shut down operations around 2016. It was a BIG deal in the news at the time. Ride the Ducks suspends operations in Philadelphia
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Man I sometimes miss the old days before scan tools and you had to know what you were doing........

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