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    Someone Stole My Car & Trailer

    in General Discussion

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    6 hours ago, JACK M said:

    As for the advertising on a trailer.

    I got pulled over while doing a friend a favor,.

    He had a race (show) car parked in a shopping mall in a city a couple of hundred miles from home to promote a race in that area.

    I took his trailer up there to retrieve the promotion car.

    On the way back a state trooper pulled me over and we had a talk about the advertising on trailers.

    Turns out that the advertising  is furthering of business interests.

    Therefore the trailer becomes commercial, this requires DOT certified driver with DOT certification and a health card.

    Fortunately I was in a fair mood that day and played real dumb as I was only doing a favor for someone else.

    We talked about hobby (race car)(horse shows etc.) advertising of coarse and he pointed out that there is a payline at these events so qualifies "further endeavor of commercial interests".

    He didn't site me but weighed me and checked that my truck was rated as was the trailer to haul that weight.

    I wondered why he followed me for twenty miles or so to light me up right at the scales.

    I do know that often there will be bill boards so to speak on trailers that have nothing to do with the advertised business.

    I asked a guy about that at a truck stop once, he said that he is indeed within the commercial requirements and sells the advertising space on his trailer to some Harley dealer. He said it covers much of the costs of his trailer maintenance.

     


    that has all of the signs of a Maryland stop. Actually I sorta agree with him that advertising on our trailers does put you into DOT territory   oh if you do travel Maryland read the scale stops signs carefully as all of us car haulers must stop for inspection 

    robert

    Someone Stole My Car & Trailer

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    3 hours ago, edinmass said:

     

    The old shove it up your axx for money deal. I drive a plain white truck and trailer.....and its 22K GVW.....and private non commercial plates. Drive right past the scales every time. I have been stopped twice in 400K miles. I just tell them I am on vacation with my family, carry a copy of the federal DOT rules for occasional recreational use, and just don't open the trailer door.......ever. Yup it pisses them off. They bitch about everything. I show them my state inspector license, explain to them I am legal in ALL lower 48 states. They bitch and complain......and I go on my way. 

     

     

     

     

     


    Ed have you noticed Maryland scales signs. Yep you are required to get checked at a Maryland scale with your rig!  As am I. But I always get Greenlighted on I-95 and I-70/68 but get really the business at a scale on the shore.   I could write a book about my Maryland scale problems

    Robert

    Cruising in 1972 - Where were you?

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    23 hours ago, plymouthcranbrook said:

    Anyone besides me remember Grand-Spaulding Dodge in Chicago? Although more from the 60’s as far as I can remember it went into the early 70’s as a performance Dealer. They did a lot of highly modified Dodges for street and strip.  Went there once with a friend who wanted to see if he could afford to buy a High Performance Dodge Dart. Not a big place but what a bunch of cars!  By the way, he couldn’t.


    I took this at the 1965 Super Stock Nationals at York PA

    Robert

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    Cruising in 1972 - Where were you?

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    4 hours ago, supercargirl said:

     

    Other than being the saddest looking bunch of hipsters I ever saw (and not for lacking style which you got going on) but what's the story there?  Looks like you rolled it and then parked it?  Great car by the way.  Great sunglasses. 


    gee thanks I guess. Yes this was the day after at the junk yard in Raleigh NC. Unfortunately back in those days these Nova SS cars were just transportation. The SS was replaced by a Gran Torino GT 

    Robert

    Cruising in 1972 - Where were you?

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    2 hours ago, padgett said:

    Ace Wilson's Royal Pontiac was the home to many "factory" cars. Milt was his best tuner. Any relationship between a Bobcat blueprinted Ram Air IV Pontiac 400 is purely coincidental. Pontiac often used Royal to produce a car that would meet specific performance requirements (like proving a 67 QJ was faster than a tripower). The "stock" 64 GTO test cars with 421s also came from Royal.

     

    BTW that Blue White RA V car was interesting officially you had to build a RA V from parts. Everything including the block was "different". Ports were ginourmous. Fahgedabout any street cruising, needed 3k rpm for the fuel to atomise properly. 303 I worked with was even worse. Fun times.


    I remember a Car and Driver magazine test in the 60’s but have forgotten the specifics but I do remember the Mercury Cougar test car had been massaged by Bud Moore and the Pontiac car used had been delivered by Royal Pontiac.  Those were the good days

    Robert

    Vietnam veterans and the old car hobby

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    I was into cars before ‘Nam era as I graduated in 1964. Between 1965 and drafted since I lived in NC I was drawn to FE powered Fords after visits to Holman Moody. Hey I still have their catalogs!  That was my performance period. After 1972 release is when I gravitated to restoration but never leaving the 60-70’s era as first project was a 66 big engine Corvette.  That evolved to full size early 60’s 409’s

    Robert

    New workshop and storage for the cars

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    8 hours ago, Mark Shaw said:

    My Buick Barn is a 40' X 60' metal building only ten blocks from home.  I often have to go home to get that one tool I need to work on something. 

    So, I suggest you keep a duplicate set of tools at your new shop; floor jack, air system, hand tools, etc. 

    Also, replace the florescent lights  with "high Hat" LED lights to get more light for less $$.


    I concur great advice along with Ed’s fire extinguishers comments. With two separate locations not only do I have to have down time going for a tool but on occasion I needed something specific and couldn’t remember which place it was in!! But the younger folks don’t have that problem.

    Robert

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    Hershey 2019

    in Hershey Meet

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    Annie as always thanks to you and Joel  for the photos we really count on you providing.  I liked the personal  touch last ones at the steak house and with the new wagon addition.

    Robert

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