Glad to see you made it OK, and after watching the news the last couple of days it looks like your timing was perfect. Lee Prosser WA ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 3:47 PM Subject: [oletrucks] Made it!
> All, > Well, I have made the first step in the migration from north Texas to > central Illinois. I loaded a 15' budget rental truck with boxes and misc shop > equipment and put my '48 3100 on a trailer behind it. The wife followed in her > Buick. We traveled the 850 miles on Sat & Sun the 18th and 19th of Dec. The > weather when we loaded and left was great, in the 60s. When we arrived here it > was in the teens and the chill factor was in the single digits! > The good news is, the trip was uneventful and everything (especially the > '48) arrived without damage. My truck is now backed in the garage at our new > house in Oakwood, Illinois. We will be relocating there permanently in spring. > Anyway, it snowed about 3 inches on the 23rd and stayed for a white > Christmas. > For those of you planning to tow an old truck on a rental trailer, I can > say the Budget rig worked perfectly. Easy to load and unload, and pulled fine. > You do have to fib about what you are hauling, but the load capacity is 4050 > lbs, just about what an AD weighs. FYI, I got a lot of thumbs up and long > looks along the way. Even had two offers to buy it! > Anyway, I just wanted the group to know I made the trip OK and all had a > Merry Christmas (not Happy Holidays) and wish everyone a Happy New Year. > > Mike Klepp > '48 3100 5 window > '65 C-10 stepside > Wichita Falls, TX > (soon to be Oakwood, IL) > > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959 > > *** http://www.team.net/the-local *** > > Your messages not reaching the list? > Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html > > *** unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try > *** http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool > *** http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo > *** Archives at http://www.team.net/archive > > Ole Chevy and GMC trucks rule! To unsubscribe, send an email (with no subject, no body, just the email), to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/old-chevy-truck/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
