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| | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 46 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 46 | OK boys ' n' girls, TOMORROW'S THE BIG DAY! I finally get to go pick up my 1963 GMC, looking at a 120 mile trip home from one end of Wales to the other, and long straight narrow roads it ain't! Gas at $7 per gallon means Mrs. Kev don't get no flowers this weekend, but hell, what's new?  I'll try to post some pics once I get home; wish me luck.
63 GMC Fleetside; overbuilt, over-thirsty and over here!
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 221 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 221 | The very geezly best to you old son. That sounds like an enviable trip. Let us know how it went.
p.s. at that price for fuel don't have a 'leadfoot'.
Cheers, George | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Good luck,, how far is that place from Tx? If you brk. down I know a good number to call...regards.Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 221 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 221 | Fred!
The Great Circle distance between Houston, Texas and Cardiff, Wales is 4745 statute miles!!
Cheers, George | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | boy, that would be one run that would be hard to drive straight thru.....thanks,,, would love to visit that area,,,,,,,,Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 151 Member | | Member Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 151 | Hi Kev, Where do you pick it up? Liverpool? Bristol? Anyway, loadsa hills (I used to live near Aberystwyth)to gobble your gas but at least you can coast down em--fun way to test the brakes too, particularly if it stalls while ya coasting. Don't break down out there. The only thing they know how to fiddle with is the sheep.  Take the castors off the sofa and screw them onto the door handles. Ye olde truckes weren't made for going round corners. Enjoy the trip! Let us know how it went. Christian | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 328 Member | | Member Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 328 | $7.00 a gallon!!!!?!?!?!? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 235 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 235 | Hope the trip went well Kev. Send in a photo when you get the chance. Yep the price of petrol is one thing I don't miss about home.
All the best
Bob | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 46 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 46 | Made it!!! Ran pretty good all the way; truck's not been on the road since 1978 so the only (fairly predictable) problem was dirt in the carburettor, despite the seller's best efforts to clean it out. Kept cutting out in traffic, but if I left it half an hour the tick-over came back in. Even overtook a couple of cars! Only casualty was a traffic bollard in one of the towns I pased through; momentarily forgot that the truck's left hand drive! No damage though, it was one of the "easy knock-over" type, give the local council something to do on Monday. Thanks for the good wishes, guys; photos when I find my digital camera!
63 GMC Fleetside; overbuilt, over-thirsty and over here!
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 46 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 46 | Originally posted by HardyRestoration:
$7.00 a gallon!!!!?!?!?!? Bet your sweet life, buddy; and rising! :mad: Good job this is only a small island (well, compared to Texas anyhow  ). The sainted Tony Bliar takes 70% of that in tax; by the way, he's just been in hospital for a slipped disc, first time the SOB has been manipulated by someone else rather than the opther way round!
63 GMC Fleetside; overbuilt, over-thirsty and over here!
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