Welcome King 'O Obsolete.
Glad to have you here with us K.O.O. I stumbled across your site somehow last year and got addicted to following adventures in Great White North myself. I even went as far as to name one of my irons "Curse of Reverse"...(please don't be mad at me for stealing your original handle for one of your crawlers, but it fit my situation so stinkin' perfectly, I had to do it.)
I also like to hear the stories of Screaming Ford, as I am a Detroit Diesel fan of the older 2 stroke jokes myself.I drove many a Yamaha in my day, and loved to make those 4" stacks speak to me back then, and really love to make them sing even more now...I drove a 71 Brockway years ago with an 8-V71 with a 5 & 4 double-over 2 stick, and a jake brake with twin Donaldson hollowed-out mufflers that did nothing except take up space in the mirrors; as far as muffling goes, there wasn't any at all from those contankerous old tubes.But my word, could you ever hear me coming. Most folks that knew the truck and the owner knew I was driving, because of my particular style of shifting. You had to know what you were doing to keep from getting the auxiliary stick jammed in between gears and then you'd have to stop and take a tire iron out and re-align the forks on top of the transmission to get going again.I learned quick not to jam it up...
I hope you stick around and keep us posted on current activities pertaining to Snow Cat Adventures, etc. Good stuff to say the least.
Best Regards,
LowBoy (Tommy Z.)
