Ohio Meet A Sucess!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Got home around 9pm from Fine 69's, a real great turnout and a super bunch to hang with!!!! Some good rides were there,a few parts and great food. Thanks Mike and Rhonda!!!!!!!!!! Mike's got the list of who was there. Some work was done on the trucks,its good to get to see stuff done firsthand and even a lesson on readin' gas pumps right Jewels? LOL!!!!!! It was super to meet everybody and hope to do it again. The only thing I missed was not havin' my truck ready to go. Hope everyone had a good time like me and again many thanks to Mike and Rhonda for there time on this. Oh yea it was great to meet Andy aka... Longhornmail.They was takin' alot of pics so there should be some good ones. Hope everyone had a safe trip home. Later Weasel.:bowtie: :flag: :bowtie:

yep best 13 Hrs I have spent in a long time got some good pics and met some good people. Jewels, watch out for those gas pumps lol. many pics to follow

see ya
Darren

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#4 Andy Taking a pic of his truck

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#9 our crazy host

#10 our parts supply

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#12 late night snack

#13 diesel Queen Jewels

#14 last one it was fun hope more will turn out next year

sure wish I couilda been there. Oh well, maybe next year.

Well Shadetree. You were here. In thought. Oh yea, and in "diesel" thought. Jewels was real thankful for your help today. You need to make sure you dont put work before play. Work is overrated anyway. You woulda had more fun here.

We all had a great time. Worked on stuff till 3am. More showed up than i thought would. And glad it worked out that way.
It has alreay been asked if we will do the same next year. Plan is already in the works. Keep your calenders open in August.

now the question of the day is, how much was Andy flirting with Jewels? (sorry man, gotta get in my daily joke with ya :devil: )

I don't know about everyone else, but my son and I had a good time. Meeting all the good people in attendence, seeing all the trucks, swapping BS, getting ideas for future work on my 70 GMC, finding out a little about how mine is supposed to go back together.(after 10 years in pieces) Food was good, hospitality was great. I definitely got some pics to post on my website. JEWELS was renamed the DIESEL QUEEN. I'll let her explain. Got some tips and pics on removing body panels, and installing HEI distributors. Got some good pics of some great looking trucks from the Buckeye State. One real nice truck from PA. (72 Longhorn looking good) Indiana, West Virginia, and I believe Kentucky were all represented? Met some who's name I can't remember. Shoulda took a group picture before everyone started leaving. I wimped-out about 4-5 PM. At 50, I'm to young to feel this old. Will post some pics as soon as the ole woman shows me how to download them from the camera. Mike, thanx, and can't wait until next year, or tomorrow, or next month, whenever?

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the meet was great!!! glad to have been able to go
it was great meeting all the board members,and seeing all the trucks!!
a BIG thanks to mike and all his family for taking us all in for the day and making us feel like we were blood..great people.
next time mike i will be in mine!!! if i got to wear a wet suit.

A Great Big Thanks to Mike and Rhonda for being so gratious to us.
Met some good friends up there. passed out about 12 when the heavy rain started and i took my nighty-night pill.
Thanks to everyone, especially Jewels for bending over the fenders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome pics!. Looks like it was a blast

{even a lesson on readin' gas pumps right Jewels? LOL!!!!}..........im gonna take a shot in the dark here,,,,but did someone put fuel in theyre truck that had a "GREEN"cover on the pump handle by accident,,,aka ....DIESEL FUEL?.......LOL

ding ding ding Jeff you are the winner

Hey. I just wanted to let everyone know that i truely enjoyed holding this event at my place. Everyone was very gracious and helpful.
My family did tons to help(did most of it)out all my truck drivin' friends.
Here is a list of the board members who showed up,
dmurphy68
Weasel
Longhornjeff69
Buxman66
Dwaite72Longhorn
Jamie72
Huck
6772King
badeblazerbabe
longhornmail
BigBlue72
OhioDan
Pierce
Cheesewagon
jewels(aks DieselQueen

And myself, fine69

I must say i was a little worried about the event. We didnt really have a plan in mind except for avoiding rain. Which we did for most of the day. The weather turned out to be way better than i expected.
And best of all some of the members got stuff fixed on their trucks. That was my goal. We all know how hard it is to get motivated to work on your projects. It does tend to be easier when you have a few buddies around to help,hand you wrenches,and let you know when you are screwing up.

But most of all, I want to say THANK YOU ALL. I really enjoyed myself. And all of you who know me personally know i wouldnt say that if i didnt mean it.
And THANK YOU JOSH BRADY. For creating this board for us and maintaining it.

Just got home at 5:00pm sunday. 970 miles round trip averaged 12mpg in the longhorn, left sunday at 8:30am first leg of the trip to New Stanton PA got 14.4mpg but ran at 55mph all the way. Great to meet all of you and thanks Mike and Rhonda for your great hospitality. I'm the bald guy in picture 14 above.

thanks mike for the use of your place ,all the pop and such was pretty cool!!every one needs to meet andy though,wealth of info. on these trucks and a pretty cool guy to hang out w/and shoot the b.s.....hell so was the rest of you there!hope to do it again next year ,hopefully no rain so's i can drive the truck up.

it would be great if some one who knows who every one in the pics are,could give a quick reply w/name and pic# in 1 post....i already know who is in pic#13,,,,,lol,,,,

That's a very nice longhorn in pic#7

...sounds like a great time wish i could have made it...so is there going to be another one next year?...i hope if there is i'll start planning now...

.....by the way i know there had to be more pics taken over there...where they all at?????

picks on the first page were dmurphy Jewels had a digital camera also the rest of the pictures are on 35mm cameras.

Wow...real long weekend...but AWSOME!!!!
Longhorn Jeff showed up from Illinois on friday evening, we stayed up till bout 3 AM just shooting the crap, then up at 8 AM to get loaded up for Mike's. I had about 6 or 7 hrs labor into the GMC washing, waxing, cleaning it all up. Spent about 16 hrs there at mikes, had some fun, learned some stuff, and for anyone who was wondering about the whole 68 ignition bezzel problem that Jewels was having...I got it all set up for her. ;) Did't crash untill about 4:30 this morning, then it was up at 9! Jeff left for home this afternoon, and should be home later on around 9 or 10 I'm thinking.
Many thanks to everyone I got to talk to, deal with, learn from, and esp all the deisel jokes, we ragged on her pretty hard, but she took it all with a huge smile!
The attendance was outstanding, and I can't wait till next year.
Give me a few min to d/l my pics, i have quite a few to do here.
One interesting thing...there were only 2 short beds, mine and jewls trucks, but 3 LONGHORNS!!! Who woulda figured?

Here's a hand full of pics out of the 30 or so i took....

First, the people...
From left to right, #1 with hands ion pockets...I don't know, #2 with hand on burb...again, not sure, #3 looking like he is pointing down at his shoes...Jamie72, #4 is Pierce, Way in the back, I think that was Dwaite72Longhorn, Next to him is another I can't tell in this pic, and then our deisel girl Jewels.

http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...3850319_vl.jpg

Here is dmurphy68's 68 Chevy. Sweet guages, and thanks for the door prizes! I already installed them on both rigs! He was pretty cool, and his girl friend was cool too.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...80884309_v.jpg

I am terible with remembering names...but I think this one was BigBlue72's rig, trying to catch up to me with only250K on the clock. ;)
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...88476999_v.jpg

Here is Mr Huck's sweet truck, a hyd clutch/5 speed (!!!) 350 powered 71 or 72 chevy. That would be Mr Cheesewagon on the left...not sure who he's talking to though. (sorry!)
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...3341137_vl.jpg

Here is the 67 that was for sale, belonging to buxman66 if memory serves.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...8761042_vl.jpg
More to come....

Nope, no pics :confused: :( C'mon Andy, let's see some pics.

I wished that I would've gone, I will next year if there's another meeting. :)

did not see any pics here either Andy, sorry guy and gals I wish I would of taken more pics but was having so much fun b.s.'ing with every one that I forgot to take more

Sorry guys, I was trying something that didn't work...here's some more....
Cheesewagon's cheese wagon! A pretty cool burb about to go under the knife for a full frame off headache. Now sporting buckets.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...3943548_vl.jpg

Here is Longhornjeff69's 69 longhorn CST/20 Custom Camper. This is one smooth riding longhorn (I drove it around Columbus on Friday night) and has some pretty nice stuff like 396/TH400, tach,speed warning, dealer installed GM logo spot light, and a Jeff built/modified 8 1/2 foot camper shell.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...2450287_vl.jpg
Here is Jeff cooking up some awsome wings for everyone. I don't think he even knew I took this picture.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...1987114_vl.jpg

Another Longhorn...this one a 69 GMC, belonging to Pierce from southern Ohio. Cool ride with late model 16 inch rims.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...1900669_vl.jpg

More to come...

Man-o-man... sounds like a blast..Andy Longhornmail, Longhorn jeff69...wrenching till 3:30am...sounds like the Pennsylvania trip Andy. I'm going next time.
I dont see any Blazers!!!
Would i be the only one??
Did anybody tent it??
Randy:bowtie:

No wonder I didn't notice Jeff's Longhorn, it didn't look like this!

Yet another Longhorn...this one being the best example I have ever seen. I don't think there was a bolt that did not get attention, be it cleaned and painted or simply replaced...this truck is a work of art. (soon to be seen on the pages of my longhorn site) Everyone who says that this color grows on you, you are absolutly right...it does.
I only hope that my one ton rig can look this good...one day.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...7825093_vl.jpg

Does this one need a caption? The turd that we all recognise (which is why I parked it right off the street for a while) my 69 GMC/Chevy hybred. (or is that inbred?) I put 3 coats of wax on that sucker, even on the green fenders. Kinda came back to haunt me as I sat on the hood talking to dmurphys girlfriend and I kept on slipping off. :rolleyes:
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...6451355_vl.jpg

And the star of the show...the only deisel powered truck on the lot!
LOL, I'll let her tell that one. ;)
SJewels said it best herself, pictures do not do this truck justice. This short/step has been pretty much completly gone over in the last 10 years that she has had it. She will be the first one to point out little flaws that no one would ever even notice.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...7571373_vl.jpg
Told you it was sweet.
I think we all learned a thing or two while helping her to make her truck ride/run just a little better.
That's her lookin tired/p!ssed, Fine69 holding the distributor, and BigBlue72 on the left.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...3752106_vl.jpgLook at the paint on this thing y'all...even inside the cab was pinted just as nice, and just as smooth. onless you are blind, you'll see the reflection of Fast68's old dump truck rescued from the tortch by our host.
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...7339589_vl.jpg

Compaired to mine...with fresh wax. ;)
http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/885...0767479_vl.jpg

I can't wait till the next meet that I can make it to...be it fine69's second one next year, or at another member's place before the end of the season. I had a blast, and it was great putting a face to some of these screen names.