Quanah stuff
Originally posted by Jim Fulmer
Jim, what time did you roll through Altus? I went up there ~6pm.
Ben, I went through about 7:00-7:30, I only made 2 drags as I found some friends then I left after they opened the roads up.
Should have been easy to spot, the only heavy fueled Diesel doing burn outs(several) with PiersDiesel.com and DieselTrans.com on the back window.
I go through Altus when I go home from Quanah!
Jim
Gotta tell you an interesting Quanah story. I was passing through there in November coming back to Colorado. Two trucks pull out in front of me, each one hauling half a mobile home. They block up the damn highway through town so I pulled into the center (left turn) lane and go around 'em. Sure enough, I heard a bump as I ran over something in my brand new Honda Pilot I just bought my wife in Dallas.
Three miles west of Quanah I realize I got a flat tire so I pull over and stop. As I'm getting out of the car, here comes the two trucks laughing like hell and blowing their horns. I gave'em the international salute, naturally, and called AAA to come change the tire.
"We're 75 miles away," AAA said, "you're out in the middle of nowhere. It'll take us two hours or more to get there. "
S**t! So I change the tire myself and put the little thingy tire on and go back to Quanah and talk to the only tire repair shop there. A very nice man checks the tire and says it ruined. He also says he doesn't have one to fit the new Honda Pilot.
But he knows somebody in Childress, 30 miles down the road who might. So he calls Childress and the tire dealer says he has one. So I drive to Childress.
Childress dealer's got a tire but it's a highway tire and I want something with MS on it. He sends me to his brother-in-law on the other end of town. "He might have a tar (people in Texas don't know how to pronounce 'tire') like you want," he said.
So I go down and talk to this feller and, sure enough, he's got a tar. He's also got about 3" of dust on the floor of his shop which he keeps wet down with tobacco spit. But I buy a tar from him and git on my way agin (hell, I'm even talking like these boys now!).
All in all, it was a nice trip. Left Dallas at 6 a. m. and got home in a Colorado snowstorm about 10 p. m. But I won't fergit them folks in Quanah who hepped me out.