Most of what I've bought in my lifetime has been used, I haven't bought a new one since 2003...But apparently someone can afford new ones because they keep selling......Ben
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Most of what I've bought in my lifetime has been used, I haven't bought a new one since 2003...But apparently someone can afford new ones because they keep selling...
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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My last new truck was a Ford 350 manual SRW crew cab long bed loaded. Loaded didn't mean a lot on trucks back then though. MSRP was $38,000. I ordered it and got it for $32,000. was waiting on it when it came off the truck. Now a days you can't even buy a F-150 for that, not if you want wheels. I'd have to have a bunch of money before I thought about spending $80,000. on a truck.
This is your mind on drugs!
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
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In a former life I had a B model Mack tractor "twin stick". It had a main transmission with 5 speeds and an auxiliary with 2 speeds and reverse. To get decent performance, there were splits that required both transmissions had to be shifted simultaneously. Depending on road conditions that required you to put your left arm through the spokes of the steering wheel and then grab one of the two sticks.
If interested, go to YouTube and "Twin stick Pappy".
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That truck also had an air starter on it. I quickly learned to be aware of any unsuspecting people in the area---while the reaction was funny it could also be dangerous.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I always wanted one of those...They can be found on some 5.9 Cummins, but I haven't found one for the 6.7...It would just be another expensive toy to annoy the unsuspecting folks anyhow...Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Often, I wanted to drive into and do some bidniss in Shooter’s Station when Herr Ben owned the joint, but parked outside was this huge jacked-up black behemoth truck, and I was frightened off...frightened off, I tell you.
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Allay thy fears, oh timid soul...Such a beast exists now only in memory...Alas!......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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What? You got rid of the truck?
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Fate and misfortune got rid of it for me...I wrote it up in my blog when it happened...Last year was not one of my better ones......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Sorry to hear that.Fate and misfortune got rid of it for me...I wrote it up in my blog when it happened...Last year was not one of my better ones...
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Into each life, or so they say...Sorry to hear that.
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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X2Sorry to hear that.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Thanks, Dave, but not to worry...Its memory lives on, but its replacement is also taking shape...Still a ways to go yet...X2...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Thanks, Dave, but not to worry...Its memory lives on, but its replacement is also taking shape...Still a ways to go yet...
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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