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Memories for us old truckers

Truck Shop

Truck Shop

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56wrench said:
Doesn't seem like enough $ for all your time and effort:(
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I started that challenge knowing full well that the time I spent was not going to be
a profit. I built it because I wanted the challenge and knew it would be my last plus
it had never been done before with that type of truck or vehicle, sure some ask why?
If I never spent the time and energy latter on I would wish I had in my last years.
There are some things in life a person feels they just have to do and this was mine.
I proved to myself my ability was not gone in the last years of my life as a mechanic.
I'm proud I did it. What ever happens to it after it's gone is out of my hands. I know
what I achieved, not everybody could single handedly done what I did. My plus mark on
on my career.
 
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Truck Shop said:
I started that challenge knowing full well that the time I spent was not going to be
a profit. I built it because I wanted the challenge and knew it would be my last plus
it had never been done before with that type of truck or vehicle, sure some ask why?
If I never spent the time and energy latter on I would wish I had in my last years.
There are some things in life a person feels they just have to do and this was mine.
I proved to myself my ability was not gone in the last years of my life as a mechanic.
I'm proud I did it. What ever happens to it after it's gone is out of my hands. I know
what I achieved, not everybody could single handedly done what I did. My plus mark on my career.
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I think of you doing this project is the same as one choosing to climb a mountain, run a marathon, or other such endeavors. Some do things to prove to others they can do something and then others do them to prove to themselves they can do something. Or maybe a little of each? Then there are those who just like taking something that most would send to the scrap yard and make it in to something.
 
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There's even more to it than that Mike. you were doing something you really enjoy and I don't think there's a price to put on that.
There is just no point in trying to define everything by profit.
I have a custom wood bed that I built on my 96 two-wheel drive Dodge Cummins truck. I'm selling the truck and I don't care what happens to the bed. it doesn't fit anything that I have, it's not practical to modify, and most importantly I really enjoyed building it.
My dad and I built a 24-ft trawler with a little 3-cylinder diesel in it back in the '80s. he got to live his dream for a couple of years before his heart attack. I could have kept that boat and it would have just been a shrine to him and a real anchor for me. instead I found somebody who wanted it and sold it to him at a good price. We had a great time building it there are lots of memories.
It sure wasn't about the money.
 
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kshansen said:
Just remember if that Mack does end up heading to New England and is passing through Upstate NY I'll buy a meal for who ever is driving or hauling it if I can get a first hand look at it!
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KS I will see what I can do-but can't promise anything.
 
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40 years ago I was working as a mechanic in a truck dealership.
I was given the job of installing a Jake Brake on a Cummins NH220.
The engine was in a old 1960s tow truck that looked like a Hayes.
The owner corrected me and said it was not a Hayes but a "something" Crane Mover
or something like that. The cab and rad and hood were obviously built by Hayes.
It had an amazing amount of chrome on it. The dash panel was chrome and the gear
shift levers. As I remember there was a lot of chrome in the cab.
Does anyone here remember a truck company called ____Crane Mover?
 
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Speedometers were not all that accurate back then, engine company's would use a mileage counter also hooked to a graph to check
engine performance more accurately. It was fairly common for engine manufactures to test with real time/in the field conditions years
ago. Today's world the passenger side of cab is filled with a total onboard read out. In the early 90's I worked on a 1981 W900 KW
that was originally used as a test truck at the KW Arlington Wa. test track facility. The passenger floor was equipped mounts and some of
the test leads were still in the dash. That test track is a high bank oval .
 
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