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Originally Posted by flashed
You know you will find more cool stuff while on this side of the pond to take back with you .
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Certain I will find some stuff.
Just need ti be sensible mate.
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Originally Posted by Palf70Step
Keep on smiling Rian, the time is almost here!
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You have no idea how broadly I am smiling Bill.
Well.......
Life can get better.
It just did this morning.
Got this message from my friend Steve in Arkansas.
My friend Danny got back from the GoodGuys road trip last night and we talked a few minutes ago. Unless George sends him off with the truck unexpectedly he will be able to go down with us on Tuesday the 11th.
Looking forward to your visit. We are not formal people and neither are our friends. The operative words here are relax and enjoy.
Belinda is in Tunica, a casino location about 20 miles south of Memphis for a girl's outing with her best friend from grammar school and her daughter who is also our god daughter. Kathy, the friend, is a retired Arkansas State Police Trooper and she "packs" most of the time so I don't worry about them running around without manly me to protect them.
See you in a week!
Steve.
So it looks like George Poteet is happening. Just how good can life get??
Below, From 2010 mainly quoted as I love trucks.
And six years on, still fresh, I would love to own and drive a truck like this.
Dreams do come true. Even the fleeting thought we have reading a magazine or watching telly, internet or going to car shows.
"Early Truck of the Year award, prolific hot rod builder and financier George Poteet took this year’s award with his “Miller Hauler Special” Indy-inspired 1932 Ford pickup that debuted earlier this year at the Grand National Roadster Show. Brian Stinger designed the truck while the Rad Rides by Troy team assembled it."
Specification:
The truck has what seems to be a million thoughtfully placed louvers and mind boggling amounts of milled aluminum, chrome and custom fabbed parts and pieces. The focal point is the polished custom grill built by Steve Moal. The body features a wedge chop, stretched cowl, custom hood and hood sides by Stinger and a custom box out back. The engine is a 201 cubic inch Donavan 4 banger linked to a Tremec T5. The truck rolls on a genie deuce frame with custom front horns. A Magnum 5 inch drop tube axle insures a killer stance. The Brakes are 12-inch Bendix style with custom machined fins which stop the 19 inch gold Dayton wires. Sitting in the custom Stinger-built seats gives you a birds-eye view of the immaculate Diamond T dash featuring Classic Instruments gauges and MG steering wheel.
Other cars in George Poteets stable of over 200 turnkey cars (from what I know, and I know very little) includes "Sniper" a 1954 Plymouth Savoy built by Troy Trepanier.
And one of Georges cars out on the salt flats.
I think its needless to say, but this road trip may just have kicked into high gear.
More as I find out or do stuff.
Hang on, its going to be a good ride.