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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,436 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,436 | Please post here when you get home safe.
Vicki and I had a great time meeting back up with old friends and meeting new friends.
Alvin and Tuts did a great job getting everything planned out and go smoothly. This is really a great event.
So please post up when you made it home!
Vicki and I left Townsend about 8:30 ET and got home at 7:10 CT with no issues except for heavy fast moving traffic.
Don
1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck"The Flag Pole"In the Stovebolt Gallery'46 2-Ton grain truck | '50 2-ton flatbed | '54 Pontiac Straight Eight | '54 Plymouth Belvidere | '70 American LaFrance pumper fire truck | '76 Triumph TR-6 Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Got home sunday evening 4pm.
A great time for us....and those grrreat cookies, yum yum. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2018 Posts: 206 Moderator, Great Lakes Bolters | | Moderator, Great Lakes Bolters Joined: Aug 2018 Posts: 206 | Dad and I arrived safe back in Michigan just after 6pm. Got the 54' all unloaded and started making plans for the next repairs....
Made it through the unbelievably terrible highway conditions of I-75 near Jellico, TN and of course the crazy gauntlet of traffic through Cincinnati and Dayton.
Great time as always and can't wait until next year!!! Will post some pictures later today.....
--Tom | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,410 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,410 | Sunday evening 1600, tired and happy.
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
Rocinante, like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
"...my good horse Rocinante, mine eternal and inseparable companion in all my journeys and courses." ...Don Quixote, Cervantes
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."...Yogi Berra
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." ...Eric Hoffer
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 | We pulled in the yard at 8:25 PM Sunday evening. I had to go in to work this morning and deal with some contractors... I'm a bit tired. Did I mention I was tired... 
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400"The Book of Thor"Read the story in the DITY1960 Chevrolet C10"A Family Heirloom"Follow the story in the DITY Gallery'59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting) Come Bleed or Blister, something has got to give!!! | Living life in the SLOW lane | | | | | Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 174 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 174 | Linda and I made it back about 1pm Sunday with a slow leisurely drive. More work unloading and preparation for another trip to Illinois and Wisconsin in two weeks. I have been invited to the annual trust meeting of the heirs of "Bet-a-Million Gates" with the roll out of my new book while sharing many stories about the man who made his first fortune in barbed wire, went on to form multiple steel companies, including U. S. Steel and culminating in the start up of Texaco. Watch for the publication release on Amazon this weekend.
As always, good times meeting up with the Southern Bolters and kudos to Tuts for his recreating and expanding our group's following into being the most active group on the Stovebolt.com site. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 240 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 240 | We left Saturday afternoon. Arrived back at the homestead in Statesville, NC at about 2150 (9:30) hrs.
“Old Blue” 1953 Chevrolet 3100
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | I made a detour through far southeast Kentucky (Whitesburg) to pick up a rebuilt transmission for my big Ford F450 service truck- - - -made it home about 1:00 AM Sunday morning! Don't trust a GPS in the Tennessee/Kentucky/Virginia mountains- - - -the thing will route you through trails that Daniel Boone blazed 300 years ago!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 | Jerry I'm glad you made it home safe, we missed you Saturday. We had several fellas asking where you were. "Thor" says Thank You for the Bellhousing.
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400"The Book of Thor"Read the story in the DITY1960 Chevrolet C10"A Family Heirloom"Follow the story in the DITY Gallery'59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting) Come Bleed or Blister, something has got to give!!! | Living life in the SLOW lane | | | | | Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 818 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 818 | Al, Jay and Tim back in Columbia been driving Jay's trucks and having good times
57 3200 pickup 265 V8 with service tray
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 395 Donald S. | | Donald S. Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 395 | We made it back about 2:00 Sunday evening. Seemed an easier drive coming than going Thursday during a work day.
Anybody but me already reserve their room for next year? We really enjoyed being a part of it. Thanks again to Tuts59 for putting all the pieces together for this event. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 | Donald, it was great finally getting to meet you. Hopefully next year we can both have a truck at the Show. I reserved my room when I checked out.
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400"The Book of Thor"Read the story in the DITY1960 Chevrolet C10"A Family Heirloom"Follow the story in the DITY Gallery'59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting) Come Bleed or Blister, something has got to give!!! | Living life in the SLOW lane | | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,436 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,436 | The new show site will be in the field just east of the Highlander Manor.
Vicki and I will probably stay at the Best Western again which is just east of the show grounds.
I don’t plan on bringing a truck next year though. Too much of a hassle to drag it thru Nashville!
Don
1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck"The Flag Pole"In the Stovebolt Gallery'46 2-Ton grain truck | '50 2-ton flatbed | '54 Pontiac Straight Eight | '54 Plymouth Belvidere | '70 American LaFrance pumper fire truck | '76 Triumph TR-6 Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 | Don, here's an idea, just drive one... I mean I set such great example of that ...right. 
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400"The Book of Thor"Read the story in the DITY1960 Chevrolet C10"A Family Heirloom"Follow the story in the DITY Gallery'59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting) Come Bleed or Blister, something has got to give!!! | Living life in the SLOW lane | | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,436 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,436 | Picked up Tim last night at the local airport during a heavy rain and thunderstorm. Not sure what we will be doing today but read about our adventures in the MBA threads.
Don
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1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck"The Flag Pole"In the Stovebolt Gallery'46 2-Ton grain truck | '50 2-ton flatbed | '54 Pontiac Straight Eight | '54 Plymouth Belvidere | '70 American LaFrance pumper fire truck | '76 Triumph TR-6 Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 2,194 Moderator: Interiors, Texas Bolters, Name that Part | | Moderator: Interiors, Texas Bolters, Name that Part Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 2,194 | Just got home late last night!
Tut, my text messages aren’t going through to you!
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