weatherby
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Wellllllll......it's been a LONG time coming but it's finally here..... the tracks are DONE and INSTALLED back on the 601..... and for the first time in about 22 years, it moved under it's own power. It is now about 95% complete, I still have some things that need to be done, but they are all small things, like painting the engine cowling & installing it, also install the seats and the lights and the beacon that go on the roof. There is still some lettering that has to be painted on, and install the spare military fuel cans on the back. I also received in the mail today, some very special pics.from another Fourms member WESLEY. He sent me pics of my 601 when he looked into buying it back about 15 or 16 years ago the same time I was trying to buy it, BUT I never took pics of it sitting ware it had been sitting for some years before I saw it for the first time back then, and always kicked myself for not taking those pics. But now I have them and they are very good color pics.thanks to WESLEY
(but seriously THANKS) OK....now back to some serious stuff. Mainer showed up on my door step in the middle of the night last night and woke me and the wife up with his pounding on my front door, so I asked the wife, should we let him in or not, and she said.....Wellllllllll it is raining outside.... and he really looks cold....so yea...open the door & let him in, as soon as he gets in he starts saying.....you can't accept Boggies offer....you can't accept Boggies offer...over & over & over again until the only way I could get him to stop was to promise him a peek at the 601 out in the barn. So then after he calmed down a little bit and I asked him, why I cant I accept Boggies offer.......and he said because I have already driven it, and I said no you haven't..... and he says yes I have....and I said when?.....and he said as a matter of fact I've driven it hundreds of times, and I said how can that beeee........and he said...in my dreams...in my dreams...I've been dreaming of driving it for months now and Boggie NEVER said anything about you couldn't DREAM of driving it, so that makes me the FIRST. Now I can't get him to leave unless I give him a ride in it, he is even offering me some grousers for a ride. Now between you & me...I think... IF I play my cards rite...I think I can get a spare track off him for a ride. I'll let you know how many spare parts I end up with
Dang straight! Mainer be no slouch! And let me tell you... that ride was well earned between non-stop driving, begging, pleading, parts... I'm just lucky I brought a trailer of spares to barter with! I really thought the Boggie was the master negotiator... but when it came down to it, I had a stack of grousers sitting in the passenger side of Weatherby's 601 (it cost me 2 NOS slave cylinders to have him put the driver seat in for me), and then each foot that I drove her... I had to hand over one NOS grouser out the window to him....another foot...another grouser... until I finally just said "Have it all!" and I tore ass right around the yard.... man....did she drive and rip and howl !!!! It was a howl like none other I'd heard except for those rumored along the Dew line from years 'afor... from the belly of the beast after being masterfully brought back to life!
