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Jan 30, 2013 | 12:32 PM

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Stealth

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From: Burleson, Texas

I let an idiot have it in a CCFL thread. lol

Jan 30, 2013 | 12:44 PM

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Patman

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From: DFW

Home sweet home

Jan 30, 2013 | 12:59 PM

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Home sweet home

You get moved back in?

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Jan 30, 2013 | 01:06 PM

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Yea getting settled in, its all starting to come back to me

Jan 30, 2013 | 01:10 PM

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Hope it all goes well.

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Jan 30, 2013 | 01:11 PM

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From: Lovely Land of Iowa

well im pondering on shaving the emblems off of the 1990 we have when i do the clip swap. In the process of fixing rust on the new clip.

Jan 30, 2013 | 01:15 PM

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dsq3973

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From: In a house, in a small town

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How are you coming along with that Peterbilt truck...I really like the 379 and the 359 model's.

Haven't found one that's whispered the right sweet nothings in my ear yet. I'll get one I just need to find the right one that's not a ragged out pile of junk. There's diamond in the rough restore-able and there's total ragged out POS and most of what I've found are the latter......

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Jan 30, 2013 | 01:16 PM

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From: In the fast lane from LA to Tokyo...

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Originally Posted by Stealth

I let an idiot have it in a CCFL thread. lol

And that he was.....better you to do that than me......

Jan 30, 2013 | 01:18 PM

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88racing

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From: In the fast lane from LA to Tokyo...

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Yea getting settled in, its all starting to come back to me

That's good....

Jan 30, 2013 | 01:27 PM

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From: Lockport, La.

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You can spend a small fortune restoring one that's bad off...almost up to the price of a new one. Check out the pics on page 5381 I posted of some old truck brochures I still have. Great to see some of the old rig's that have been restored and still working.

Jan 30, 2013 | 01:43 PM

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dsq3973

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From: In a house, in a small town

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Here's a brochure with one of the first conventional Freightliner's ever built...mid to late 70's. We had a few like this at Texaco pulling tanker's.

I found one of these on Truck Trader not to long ago and it was in really nice shape.

Jan 30, 2013 | 02:02 PM

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From: In a house, in a small town

PawPaw here's one I found today.

http://www.commercialtrucktrader.com...064T-108026001

Jan 30, 2013 | 02:22 PM

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Ugh, I feel rotten... Again!

Jan 30, 2013 | 02:58 PM

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From: In the fast lane from LA to Tokyo...

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Ugh, I feel rotten... Again!

Winter blues or the cold/flu.....???

Jan 30, 2013 | 03:40 PM

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fordtruckgirl

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From: Hempstead, TX

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Winter blues or the cold/flu.....???

Headaches man! Sick of 'em...