One week ago today a few friends & Stovebolters left early in the morning for the annual Stovebolt Homecoming in MD.

I led the charge in the 51 GMC and had a reasonable route picked out with the minimum of interstate driving only where much quicker/straighter than the smaller roads.
About 40-50 minutes into the drive we're on I-64 headed east just for one exit when Alec calls ahead and says let's just crest the mountain on the interstate... Sure, why not? His reasoning is it's not as steep as the old road. We were moving along at about 55-58 MPH, and sure enough we climbed the mountain without losing any speed.
Staid on the highway another 30 miles, no problems.

The homecoming was great, read about that here:
https://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/forums/50/1/The_Old_Dominion_Stovebolt_Soc.html

On the way back home we again took the interstate over the mountain but headed West it's a whole lot more hill. Again the GMC was able to keep up a good pace, but 55ish was all it could do, and did well. Down hill on the other side was a comfortable 60 mph at an idle..

It was nice to drive the GMC on a long trip, makes me think about even longer trips in the future.

Otherwise not much time for the truck lately, and probably not anytime soon frown

Grigg

•1951 GMC 250 in the Project Journals
•1948 Chevrolet 6400 - Detroit Diesel 4-53T - Roadranger 10 speed overdrive - 4 wheel disc brakes
•1952 Chevrolet 3800 pickup
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