Wow!!! Randy, that thing is just oozing potential!!!

 

Hey! Nobody, and I mean NOBODY gets to drive Black except me!! Sheesh, and I thought we were buds Scott.....LOL!

I'll be sure and send you the "OFFICIAL CHAPTER TRUCK PAYMENT BOOK" Rob, since this was YOUR idea....




Well, at least you still have Blue and the Mustang Chrissy!

 

this one is the one i'm working on now,new set of points and should have it running <a href="http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk117/randysfords/?action=view&current=jeeps016.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk117/randysfords/jeeps016.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

 

Hey Randy, how goes it? I'm going to have to pass on that hood, unfortunately. There is no way I can make it out that way this weekend.

 

i'll try and get it off,suckers are heavy,lol

 

yea, i will have the Stang whenever i need it so that is cool!!

 

If you can do that, and tuck it away somewhere safe, I'll get it from you when I can! I know what you mean, I took mine off of the 67 by myself! If you have something to hold up the front, it's not too hard.

 

Just let me know when you want to move Blue, and I'll come out!

 

well, your my No.1 customer so guess i could for you,lol

 

ok, joe has a long weekend starting tomorrow and we may have plans sat. but maybe sunday if that is possible.....

 

I could probably do it Sunday. I'll be working on the 67 that day, so just have Joe give me a buzz!

 

i will do that!! there is a chance we may get to go horseback riding on sat....joe hasnt been on a horse in 20 years and its been 2 for me since my last lesson so if we do go, we will see how the kids are around the horses that are used for therapy for disabled children......

 

The lawyer for the 21-year-old University of Nebraska honor student involved in a collision that killed four motorcyclists said he assumes drunken driving caused the accident.

“We're not stupid,'' said Steve Lefler of Omaha. “We know that criminal charges probably are going to be brought.''

Lefler said he expects to see the results of lab tests for the alcohol content of his client's blood next week.

“We're expecting the worst,'' he said.

Lefler spoke at a press conference in his downtown office.

At his left sat a stone-faced Andrew Schlichtemeier of Murray, Neb., the driver of a pickup truck that veered into the paths of four motorcyclists Monday about 40 miles north of Council Bluffs on Interstate 29.

In an interview, Bryan McCormick of Omaha said about 15 minutes before the accident he watched Schlichtemeier stumble against the wall of a gas station beer cooler, straighten himself, buy a beer in a 40-ounce brown-glass bottle and drive away north on I-29 in a red pickup.

The episode wasn't McCormick's first encounter with the red pickup that day.

McCormick was driving his pickup to Sioux City, Iowa, to have some work done on the vehicle, when he was passed by a red pickup just south of the Interstate 680 link to Interstate 80, about 15 miles north of Council Bluffs.

The vehicle settled in front of McCormick at about the 70-mph speed limit. At the I-680 exit, the red pickup drifted toward the ramp's shoulder, returned to the northbound I-29 lanes and clipped a guard rail near the I-680 bridge over I-29, McCormick said.

McCormick, 42, said he expected the driver to stop and inspect the damage to the side of the vehicle.

“He didn't. He kept on going and he was weaving a little bit. That threw up a red flag,'' McCormick said.

McCormick said the red pickup then tailed within 8 or 9 feet of another vehicle for about four miles until reaching the Missouri Valley exit, often drifting to the shoulder rumble strips.

The red pickup left I-29 at Missouri Valley. McCormick followed.

“I was just hoping that he was pulling off to buy gas or eat and I could have someone call law enforcement,'' McCormick said.

The red pickup pulled to the gas pumps nearest the door of the Shell gas station in the northeast corner of the interchange. The driver walked into the building and went to the rest room.

McCormick said he asked a clerk to call the sheriff. The woman dialed and handed McCormick the phone.

McCormick, who said he was struck by a drunken driver several years ago, asked the dispatcher to send an officer to check out an impaired driver. The dispatcher asked for basic information about the driver and vehicle, including the license plate number. McCormick went outside to get the plate number and wrapped up the call.

By now, the pickup driver emerged from the restroom and walked around the store a bit. The man headed toward the beer cooler and stumbled against the wall before opening the glass door.

Meanwhile, a second clerk had called 911 on her cell phone. She got McCormick's attention and handed it to him. While he repeated the information he gave a dispatcher minutes earlier, the pickup driver carried a large bottle of beer to the first clerk.

The clerk later told McCormick that she asked the man if he had been drinking. He told her no, McCormick said. She sold him the bottle of beer.

The pickup driver walked to his truck while McCormick was finishing his call with the 911 operator. McCormick and the clerks stood at the door and watched the red pickup drive away and head back north on I-29.

As McCormick opened the door moments later, a law enforcement officer arrived. McCormick told the officer that the red pickup had just left.

“He said they had another officer down the road and he'd take care of it,'' McCormick said. The responding officer, however, drove north a short distance on I-29 before returning south toward Missouri Valley.

McCormick, too, resumed his trip north to Sioux City. In a construction zone near the I-29 interchange at Little Sioux, about 20 miles up the highway, McCormick came upon an accident. He stopped.

A red 2004 Chevrolet Colorado pickup lay on its right side in the left lane. Two wrecked motorcycles lay on the shoulder of the passing lane. Another was near the pickup and a fourth was north of the pickup.

McCormick got out and noted that the wrecked pickup had the same license plate as the vehicle that stopped earlier in Missouri Valley.

Several passersby, including two female motorcyclists, a truck driver and several men in neon green vests — McCormick assumed they were highway construction workers — were attempting to help the victims.

A few of the people appeared to know what they were doing, checking pulses of the motorcycle riders, McCormick said. At one point, someone shouted that one of the motorcyclists had a pulse.

McCormick said the pickup driver was inside the tipped vehicle, his head pressed against the passenger door window.

Rescuers arrived soon and took control of the accident scene. McCormick left the scene at the time a medical helicopter from Omaha landed on the Interstate.

Killed were Dale E. Aspedon, 49, of Glenwood, Iowa; Steven Benscoter, 62, of Pacific Junction, Iowa; Jay C. Bock, 48, of Omaha; and Dennis E. Chaney, 62, of Glenwood. The four were in the last hour of a six-day trip to and from the Black Hills for the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, S.D.

The four-lane Interstate is narrowed at Little Sioux to two lanes, one carrying northbound traffic and the other southbound vehicles. Schlichtemeier's pickup was northbound when it crossed the center line into the path of the southbound motorcycles, authorities said.

Investigators will work for several weeks before they're ready to meet with the Harrison County attorney to consider possible charges in the deaths.

“We are just getting it started,'' Iowa State Patrol Lt. Brad Pollard in Denison said Wednesday. “A case like this can take quite some time. It will be several weeks, at a minimum.''

Harrison County Attorney Jennifer Mumm said a decision on charges will be made after patrol investigators forward their file to her office and to the Iowa Attorney General's Office for review.

McCormick said he never thought to try to restrain Schlichtemeier from driving away from the Missouri Valley gas station.

“I probably could have tried to talk to him to delay him, but in the moment you don't fully comprehend what to do,'' he said. “Sure, I probably could have tackled him. . . .but at that moment it didn't seem the rational thing to do.''

McCormick said he tried to do the right thing.

“I thought that giving accurate and timely information was the best thing to do,'' he said. “We were just trying to do our civic duty.''

Pollard said a trooper was sent to the Onawa hospital where Schlichtemeier was treated after the crash. The trooper spoke with Schlichtemeier.

Based on undisclosed evidence collected at the crash scene, Schlichtemeier was given and failed a preliminary breath test, authorities said. He then consented to a blood test for alcohol content.

The blood was sent to a state laboratory in Ankeny for analysis.

If tests show Schlichtemeier's blood alcohol content was .08 or higher, the legal standard for intoxication in Iowa, troopers will work with the Harrison County attorney to ensure appropriate charges are filed, authorities said.

At the press conference, Lefler said Schlichtemeier was experiencing a “private hell'' in knowing that he was involved with the deaths of four people.

Schlichtemeier arrived at Lefler's office on crutches. A cast covered his broken left foot.

Don and Bonnie Schlichtemeier of Murray sat silently behind their son. Don's family has farmed in Nebraska for more than a century. Bonnie is a secretary at Conestoga Elementary School in Murray.

They were silent. Their eyes were red and their faces drawn.

Only Lefler spoke.

He said the Schlichtemeiers didn't want to delay public acknowledgment of their sorrow and grief for the families of the four victims.

“They can only imagine the pain that must accompany the knowledge, the fact, that four good people's lives ended senselessly and that Andrew played a part on that loss,'' Lefler said.

Lefler said cynics may interpret the family's appearance as an attempt to soften public opinion of Schlichtemeier. That would be wrong, he said.

“The Schlichtemeiers wanted the victims' families and friends to know that while they can't share fully in their grief, they will never forget the pain and will be forever sorry this occurred,'' he said.

Lefler said Schlichtemeier hopes to start his senior year at UNL as an agronomy major later this month, if he is lucky enough to remain free on bond when charges are filed.

Schlichtemeier has been working and living on the family farm this summer, Lefler said.

Although advised by Lefler not to answer questions, Schlichtemeier whispered a few answers to his attorney to relay to reporters.

Lefler was asked if his client would be seeking counseling to address his drinking problem and to deal with the motorcycle deaths.

Schlichtemeier nodded yes.

 

Well hey you never showed up to meet up with me, so wasnt sure! HAHA And I figured help out a fellow FTE member

 

Randy, they need to toss that kid in a cell for a loooooong time. He has a ton of other convictions before that.