[Bob Carriere]

Recovery from Goderich was a breeze for the first half.....

What Rob said....ditto.

Here are some pictures I took at Gordon Yeo's farm when the cab 12 was picked up.


First pic is the shy little cab 12 being coaxed out of the dry barn by a John Deere half is age.

Truck is remarkedly complete and will be treated accordingly. I now have 3 rusted 2B1 cargo box to copy from for a reversed engineering project ...... can't find a good one so I will make one.

Rob made a killing scrounging every good Dodge parts for his radio truck.... Gord was gracious enough to give them to ROb as they were earmarked for the Chinese bumper factory.

Taking pity on Grant who was about to leave empty handed Gord went back in the many sheds/barn and came back with a cab 13 door, a Chev grill
with Chewvy Badge and some hting else I forget now.

Now.... look at the tires on the loaded trailer..... they are not properly lined up.... so the suspension shackle breakage must have occured before we got there...... drive back to Acton in the dark the missalignment was not so evident.

It was nice to have an established network across this great country of ours. Once I knew that the suspension springs were resting on the frame I could not in good conscience attempt to drive back any further with a vehicle that could cause and accident or hurt someone. So boldly I drove to the infamous "Chicken farm" and without have a chance to contact Brian Gough for permission dumped the truck and trailer behind the chicken coop to be retrieved later. So my apologies Brian I hope ti willnot cause anyone any problems.

I have already picked up the parts necessary to repair and recover the recovery vehicle and NO I am not leaving the cab 12 behind as payment.

We will leave at the crack of dawn this coming Saturday with suitable jacks. axle stands, assoted tools, a portable electrci generator and a portable compressor...... might even bring my small Mig 110v welder if necessary. If we can't fix it we will build a new one...

For those counting this is no# 4 for the cab 12 and one cab 11 I am working on. I now have one badly rusted box form my cab 11 which might donate the floor..... another one with a rusted tailgate whcih will be used as a pattern and this last one which still has the original fender wells/boxes with the footman loops for the cushions...... oh and one good set of drop sided.
In all enough to reproduce a good solid 2B1.... and I have the canvass form Stew.

Before closing must mention that the Acton gathering was also a highlight of our weekend. Alwasy find things to buy fron Brian A. and from Andre... neede more of the door canvass "thingies" now that I will have more than one cab 11/12 to work on.

Nice to see all the old familiar faces and meet new ones like the young lads working on a UC in the Whitby area.

Life is sweet ..... now if I can just live to be 146 y.o. I can break even with my projects..... one day I will eventually grow up and decide what I want to be !!!!!!!

Bob