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Before arriving at Askew's trailer camp, I stopped at Dave's military store in Pearl MS. Civil war, WWII, and other re-enactors take heed. Dave also introduced me by phone to Steve Cunningham at Fred S. Treecorps where they refurbish MV's. I could not visit however since it was raining and...

Well there's always more to the story.. BTW Andy's wife sent me off with a loaf of that good home made bread, and I'm having some now in the hotel room. I can't tell yall how super-good it is, nothing like it I've ever had before. I think my carb allowance is blown for the next couple days! If...

Today started out good. I have to say that Andy and his family are real fine peope. Around there, they make their own bread, and everything's good and healthy. Went to change the belts, no problem, got them on, but then when tightening the tension bolt, the little ear on the alternator broke...

With a turbo (or maybe without, I don' know) and a little fuel you can climb 2%-3% grades very well. You might be able to hold 40 in 4th on a 5% grade. Turning up the fuel more will fly you up that grade, but will the engine melt before you get to the top? That's the issue, you can only keep the...

After that fine breakfast, out to the truck and to discover that there was but one alternator belt remaining, and it looked pretty chewed up. OK, no problem, that's why I had the spares from TNJ Murray. Except the darn things are too small, there was no way to get them on, unless there's some...

The weight now is about 19200. Don't know what the 1100's versus the 900's add to the factor. It's 0530, so I can see the sun coming up through the flying J diner window. It was cold last night, and I figured out that I can't deploy my army cot inside the truck unless I eject a couple of...

You'll have to let us know how the move goes, it should be very interesting! I might be on the way from Corpus, depending how you go.

Looking at the receipts I can find at the moment, I think I have done about 1480 miles so far. After a thoroughly fine day and night at Bjorn's I've gone to Commerce, GA to the Flying J truck stop he reccommended. It's a few tens of miles north of Atlanta proper. I'll camp here tonight. The...

Thanks Clint! Same here, Those trucks look great sitting next to each other. I was really impressed by the dump bed, never seen one in person before. I can tell you know trucks and also the same for workmanship.

It looks like it's south on 77 to 85, on into the flying J in Commerce at exit 147 according to the truck stop giude. I will be trying to get there maybe 9 or 10 PM! I would welcome late-nite greazy sleazy truckstop burgers with y'all! I got Clinto and alphadeltaromeo's 's cell numbers so when I...

I probably won't be able to visit SECO, as much as I would like to, it is in the opposite direction. Commo Central would have been possible, had I been a little earlier, not delayed by the rain so much. Maybe I can visit that another time. I'll call them certainly, and see what they got.

I will take you up on that, Atlanta is on the way south, and I'd like to do lunch and see Shirley's. Might take me a day to get myself on track..

I would like to, but seeing it took me about all week to get here, I better head south in the morning. I could always visit another time, and if you are ever in Texas please look me up! After this trip, I think a yearly MV road trip should become an instituion.

We got some pics, maybe not all the trucks in one pic but all of us with the trucks. I'm on Bjorn's computer, maybe he can post some. Traded a few parts and pieces etc, and I got to see how the engine brake works first-hand, it's really cool! Fun? you betcha this is alot of fun! Clarks's I...

Hey I'm at Cranetruck's place. Opie is here as well. We just finished looking at the crane truck, the 8x8, and Opie's M109, which is real nice and clean inside. well the coffee is brewing and have to go,

Well Doghead, the locals have tonight told me it was a "hoot owl", but I am not sure. According to them the big birds are afraid of nothing, and that one was just unlucky. I was only a little more lucky than the alleged dragon, as the next morning (today) about 30 miles out of Winchester in the...

No additional brake, just the load of the engine. It takes power to turn the engine, so remaining in a low gear as the slope is descended gives a braking effect. Someone calculated the horsepower etc on the mil-veh list before, perhaps it is in the archives.

Thank you guys for all your support here. This is the most fun I have had since 1986. Shirley's and Commo Central both seem like good ideas. I stopped by Howard's and talked with Buddy. The report is that nearly all the military vehicles are gone to scrap. What is left is junk and piece parts...

Right on all counts! there's alot less worry because of this group, whether it's subjective or objective, it makes a road trip more do-able. I appreciate steelsoldiers members very much and would have not so easily decided to do such a long and mostly random road trip without this group support.

Today I took a side trip to Grinders, TN. The home town of Minnie Pearl. From I-40, I took HWY 50 southeast, and then north 1/4 mile to the city square. It's an olde-tyme city square for sure, with a huge bronze statue of Minnie right there. I didn't take the time to explore, since the 18 miles...