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Travels with BillyBob Log

WHAT'S NEW is a chronological listing of updates to the BillyBob site.

TRUCK LINKS including vendor sites for old parts, custom parts, and tools as well as sites for classic car and truck organizations

STORE Operating in association with Amazon.com, books, recordings and tools can be purchased.

PLANNING for the restoration including project schedule and cost estimates.

TRAVELS WITH BILLYBOB With apologies to Steinbeck, this area of BillyBob's Garage will be used to log the trips BillyBob and I make together.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS is the restoration of parts of BillyBob that I can accomplish without a garage.

PRE-RESTORATION includes log entries of minor repairs and and adventures between time of purchase and the time when I started restoration, a piece at a time.

JR'S KORNER JR's Korner is the history of BillyBob before I got him authored by my brother, Wm. C. Kephart.

BILLYBOB MAINTENANCE Ever changing detailing, oil change, lube, etc. maintenance routines specifically developed for BillyBob, including required tools, materials and procedures.

PARTS SHOP The Parts Shop is a repository of How-To articles. Things that I have done over and over enough times to have developed a procedure. This gives me a checklist and saves brain cells.

STEALTH SHOP Urban residence design with large integrated shop and separate living quarters for a relative or renter.

10. Hutchinson Roadtrip Day 6

SITREP

Had trouble with the intarweb this morning from this location. There were some sites I post these log notices to that I just could not connect to. Will have to wait until I get settled in in Hutchinson for the notifications.

Thursday, May 22th 2008
Day 6 PRE Check

Windy as all get out this morning. The bed cover has to be fully unsnapped to get to all the tools and fluid containers for the morning checks. Last time I unsnapped the bedcover in the wind, it acted like a sail. Took me fifteen minutes of grunting and cussin' to get it snapped back in place. I settled this morning for an engine oil check only. It's still at the full mark.


1.	Date and Time	May 22, 2008 9:00 AM
2.	Odometer	30,891
3.	Comfort Supplies	Cellphone, AAA+ membership, reading glasses, my lucky WWII Army Air Corps mechanics cap, cheap aviator sunglasses, small cooler with water and trail mix
4.	Roadtrip Supplies	Inventory
5.	Prep	Mount navigator, setup GPS tracker

Engage

Hit the road for the short run to Hutchington Best Western Sun Dome where most of the OldGMCtrucks.com rogues were stayin'. Mother is still set to avoid unpaved roads but a few hundred yards from the Blackwell hotel entrance, she directed me down eight miles of gravel road.

Passing thru nice farm country here. Have my eye on the sky constantly for bad weather. So far, knock on wood. I can see the Interstate that I suspect Mother wants me on running parallel to the gravel road in the distance to my left (It's not in the pic).

Stopped for my last gas up before Hutchinson after we got off the gravel road and got on I35. Mother could have gotten on I35 at the motel intersection but chose to ignore her unpaved road avoidance instead. I've been working on BillyBob to exhibit a farm truck flavor and his new patina of dust fits right in with the mason jar of hooch and pack of Chesterfields on the seat.

The rest of the run was uneventful, mostly on divided highway. even the run thru Wichita was mild compared to the cities in days past. Arrived at the Best Western Sun Dome about 11:30 am. A motley crew erupted from the lobby doors as I pulled up. It was Cletis of both the OldGMCtrucks and Stovebolt forums and Greg Hill (Greg_H at OldGMCtrucks). Greg's father and son were here too. We couldn't check in yet so we headed off to the show grounds with Cletis in the lead in his red Task Force Chevy pickup. It's either a '55 2nd Series or '56.

Day 6 Google Earth Track

Day 6 Google Map Track


1.	Date and Time	May 22, 2008 11:30 AM
2.	Odometer	30,999
3.	Mileage	108
4.	Elapsed Time	2 hrs, 30 min

ATHS Truck Show, Thursday

We got to the Kansas State Fairgrounds were the show is being held and got our registration and photo processes taken care of first. Greg got 52geemsee on the cell phone to see where our group was. This is a big show with potentially 1,000 trucks. You can get lost. We were located in the building with the GMC exhibits but were soon to be evicted. One of the officials led BillyBob and I over there in a golf cart. Helped to load up and move to another location outside.

When we got the trucks settled in, 52geemsee's demo GMC 302 engine was unloaded. This thing is fired up every once in awhile to wake people up. Here, Greg Macha (gmacha) explains some fine point to Arlyn Unrein (52geemsee aka Deerslayer). Arlyn looks like he needs more convincin'.

Here's the lineup so far. Two Jimmys and 2 Chebbys. Cletis's Task Force Chevy in the foreground, then Arlyn's GMC with the trailer that hauls the engine, then BillyBob with Rick Wagner's (BigSix302) Jimmy Suburban on tne end.

Here's the lineup from the other end. Rick's suburban is deceptive. There is a hopped up military 303 in that engine bay. Bob Dyck (GMCBob), the fella on the local scene who orchestrated our local events arrived later with his Jimmy Pickup with yet another 302 GMC engine.

Some of us did a walkabout and came across the old Ferd handyman's wagon, undoubtably named Henry. A lot of time was spent walking around this thing and trying to decipher the faded signs. Bill Burch (v4Bill) determined that the chickens were not NOS.

GMCBob arranged a catered a getogether for us on thursday night at a local park pavilion. I'll try to provide some names. Left to right is Bill Miles (Bill), Tim Lederman (tclederman) and Greg Hill (Greg_H).

Jerry Van Cleve (GMC 55) walking, Alice & Martin Das, Loretta Gortmaker, Rob English (OldCarKook), Karl Gortmaker (kgee70+) following Loretta, Rick Wagner (BigSix302) and KCMongo.

Tim Lederman, Bill Burch and Bruce Cowie (BruceGMC) on the left seated. Loretta Gortmaker, Karl Gortmaker and Alice Das seated on the right. Robert Dyck, standing, being presented with a OldGMCtrucks "ski suit" by Rob English.