[AT] I found a historical or hysterical photo

Tue Feb 16 20:59:43 PST 2016

I think my wife took the picture with her camera.   She met us East of 
Cincinnati as I remember and we headed toward you place the next 
morning.  I certainly remember that it was snowing every time I 
stopped.  On the morning of last day I woke up at 4am at the Holiday Inn 
near Rolla MO and disconnected the governor on that quadrajet 
carburetor, then with the help of the fellow in the picture with long 
jacket, I lengthened the throttle rod so that I could really get the 
throttle wide open.  ( This next statement is the truth.:  I had a dream 
during that night, and remembered how to disconnect the governor!!! )   
The truck had a 427 chevy engine with an RTO913 13spd overdrive 
transmission.   It would do 100mph with that governor disconnected.   It 
actually got better mileage.  We increased our average speed from 40mph 
for the last 32 days to 65 mph from Rolla to Oklahoma City!!   Needless 
to say those back barrels on that quadrajet started working when I 
crossed the border into Oklahoma!!!  It really was a sweet running truck...

A couple of years later, we were in the start of the drought, and were 
experiencing a lot pasture fires.   I started working on the truck to 
get the water tanks connected and the pump connected to the front drive 
of the motor.  While it was up on blocks/ramps next to the shop, my Dad 
hit the front tire with the loader on the 4010 and knocked the truck off 
the blocks and tore a big hole in the front tire.   A replacement tire 
was going to cost a small fortune, and there it still sits.

A couple of years ago I bought 2 fire trucks from the town of 
Piedmont.   One was their first truck, a 64 F-750 with a 293 V-8 with a 
1000 gallon tank and no pump due to some scavengers.   The other was a 
73 Mack tilt cab with a 1000 gallon tank a Maxidyne engine, and an 
automatic transmission.

in late 2009 I got the Ford LT9000 with the 3406B Cat and 12Spd Spicer 
Transmission.  I built a hydraulic motor and control to run the 40000lb 
winch to run off the hydraulic system it had to dump a trailer..

I guess this was a ramble to your ramble.....

Cecil in OKla

On 2/16/2016 9:55 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Running a bit slow reading my email...
> This calls for a loose ramble.
> Yeah Cecil, that had to be around 15 years ago or a little more. My mother
> was still living in the bigger house (behind the firetruck and the
> buildings) and I was still living in the smaller house we put up in 1976. I
> moved to the bigger house after I had to put mom in an assisted living
> facility and she was there for several years and died in 2007. One of our
> daughters now lives in the smaller house. She and her husband operate a
> kind of unusual contracting business (I should elaborate on that later)
>   and  they have remodeled it quite a bit  to fit their needs.
> Looking at the picture, both of those dogs and that old blue truck have all
> long since passed on.  :-)
> I had bought that 1983 F-150 truck from one of Diana's younger brothers
> after it had started running very badly and making a constant clattering
> noise as it ran. He was trying to sell it not running for $225 and it was
> not selling. He was ready to send it to a scrap yard and in those days they
> would have maybe given him about $60 for it if they hauled it. I had looked
> at it and it had 4 nearly new tires on it. I knew he needed the money so I
> gave him the $225 for it. I pulled the valve cover (300 CID straight 6) and
> all that was wrong was that one of the rocker arm studs had slipped out of
> its socket and the rocker was banging around in there. I fixed that and
> used it for several years before selling it.
> I too had been following The Great Firetruck Adventure and enjoyed being a
> part of it even if the visit had to be brief.  I'm guessing that my wife
> must have snapped that picture with your camera Cecil?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Gayle Chew <gorrchew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My goodness, I remember this. You kept us all posted as your adventure
>> unfolded...  Great picture! Great memories!
>>
>> Ron & Gayle
>> On the CASE
>> Granite Falls, WA
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Several years back ( over 10 years ago as I remember ) I traveled to
>> Mount
>>> Holly NJ to pick up a Chevrolet Fire truck and drove it back to OK during
>>> one of the worst snowstorms in 25 years on the PA turnpike.  We stopped
>> at
>>> Farmer's place to pick up a generator that I had bought on Ebay.  I was
>>> supposed to meet the seller in Indiana, but was running about 1 1/2 days
>>> late.   Farmer graciously agreed to let me store the generator at his
>> farm
>>> until we could get there. Cecil Munson was calling to check on us and
>>> posting our progress to the list.   I guess that was the last time I
>> really
>>> had an adventure!!
>>> We were clearing out some drawers in the kitchen and found this photo of
>>> Farmer and the truck and a young friend of mine who traveled with me.
>>>
>>> Farmer: my thanks again for your help!!
>>>
>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>
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