Back in the day . . .

Guys with a CB had a green 'porch lite' (usually one of those cheap beehive lights with the right angle bracket) mounted on the left mirror so you knew when you saw a truck with a CB radio (at night).... this is pre-1973 stuff before the CB craze put a CB in every truck...

And how about the hand signals we used to use before CB's to communicate with drivers to let them know the coops were open, there was a smokey ahead or that you could "wind it up'..... and we used to give a little courtesy wave to every oncoming driver... I still do that but i usually just get blank stares back.

 

I think you old guys will enjoy this video.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crSSzDh2tms&feature=player_embedded

 

Thanx, Krooser! Some mighty fine looking vintage tin there. Couldn't help but notice the preponderance of Macks. Guess ya just can't keep an old Dog down!

 

Very cool move...I must agree.

I got that link on my normal truck site.... www.hankstruckpictures.com the click on "hank's truck forum" . Great stuff if you love vintage trucks...

 

Looky here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6BfuXFsCM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


Is that Neil Young wearing that nifty leather stove pipe hat?

 

Does anyone remember in Southwest MO the running Camel "humpin to please" ? I can not remeber the name exactly, Camel 66 maybe.

 

when i started driving the was the place where it happened....you could get anything and everything..good home cookin...good lounge..repair shop..trucker store and more..them were the days...somebody reopened the shenandoah for a short time but like you say now she no more than piles of block and rocks...and lots of old memories....i stop at the gomart across the street quite a bit ...when leaving always look over and recall fond memories of the way things used to be..( back when i looked at a bulldogs ### everywhere i went)..( miss that old truck too..but dont miss teh camelback susp)

 

my grandfather (who drove locally for 47 years) has told me stories about his brother (who drove OTR back in the day) sleeping in his daycab on a plank of wood resting on both seats...ive heard from both my grandfather and my father about the old 2 stick trucks

 

Yup Shenandoah had its good points--but unfortunately it was the parking lot shenanigans that did it in--but I do wish I WAS THERE the night it all came down--3 of my buds were--and they still alugh their #####* off about it--was quite a scene from what I've been told!

 

Those were some nice trucks in those vidoes above, I am obsessed with the old iron, prolly wouldn't be any good with a twin stick though, but I sure would love to learn how to drive one. Have massive respect for the old school drivers...