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Maybe I ought to introduce myself. Old Retired Marine been building and driving these old Hot Rods for a lot of years. Usually have more qustions than answers but I have learned a thing or two over the years, hope I can contribute.

Heres a couple of my toys. And one of my fishing DAWG!!

Welcome to the forum. I'm pretty new here myself but I've ran into some pretty cool folks.

Thank you for your service sir.

Welcome to CHR. Nice looking car. Everyone got to have a fishing DAWG

Welcome aboard. Nice selection of toys. What's it cost to fill up the gas tank on that truck!

Don

wellcome nice stuff boy that truck i something else

Don, Its not to bad really. Those saddle tanks hold 250 gals of diesel, and the Cat 7 liter engine gets surprising milage. I took that picture when I had just finished signing all of the paper work in Orlando and was getting ready to drive it to San Jose Ca were we lived at the time. I was recovering from a really bad accident and was barely able to walk. Getting in that truck was a real chore. I left Orlando and somewhere in the next few hours I got lost and I mean bad lost. Ended up spending the night in Alabama somewhere. Slept in the truck because if I had managed to fall out of the thing I was pretty sure there was no way i was going to be able to get back in it. I was real glad that it held all that fuel on that day.

Roland

Welcome, Hombre, and thanks for your service.

Welcome to CHR . Wow is that a F450 sweet looking truck . Nice collection of rides.

Bobby, No man it is a F-650. Got a Cat C7 and 6 speed Allison Push button transmission. Air ride suspension, I bought this thing to haul my RV didn't work out that way so I turned it into my daily driver.

Roland

Sweet guess it will haul anything . Thought about a 350 but never have a use for some thing that big . So this is my driver while gas is cheap LOL .

Nice Toys Jarhead! (LOL) Welcome to the club!

Pat

I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome, I'm releativly new to this internet thing and the welcome means a lot.

Pat, UHHH RAAA !!! Yea they are toys. Gotta tell you guys this--- No Marine of any rank could afford all of this stuff, and I spent 30 years in the Corps retired a E-9 Master Gunnery Sergeant. So you should know I don't have any money.

But fate deals some of us a good hand right before she slaps us back down to earth. I married a beatiful rich woman with real bad eye sight. That was the good hand, three months after the I Do's she got dealt a real s/-//t hand. I was in one of those far away lands when some group of little people got real P Q'd that me and my Recon team were there, Imagine that? How unfriendly of them!! We after all were just out for a stroll before our supper. At any rate I will spare you the Gory details but lets say i got a nice Helo ride with a lot of people who seemed to be worrying about how much fluids I needed, was consuming or maybe it was leaking.

Joanne my wonderful almost blind wife sent a full grown Marine off to work one morning. What came home almost two years later was a damn big mess. That was a few years ago, today its better than it was and maybe tomorrow it will be even better. But my wife feels the toys help, and I'm not telling her any different.

Once again guys thanks for the welcome.

Roland

Hombre, thank you for your service; and welcome!!

Roland. Not bad making E-9. Don't see to many of those. Sound like you will fit in here real nice. Welcome.

Gunny...sorry to hear about your episode in the bush with the little people.

Let's just say that one of the guys in the Helo was probably one of my brother corpsmen. Fortunately, I didn't make it to Nam, but was a corpsman from 1965-1969. Got injured while in Camp Lejeune during FMF training. While inthe hospital for 6 months, I got orders for the 3rd Mar Div twice. Last duty station was in Quantico, VA. Welcome aboard Marine! UHHHH RAAAA!

Pat