GET TOGETHER 2007

Saturday Morning - breakfast at Maples Restaurant and a guided tour at "The Golden Age of Trucking Museum" both in Middlebury,Ct.

by Dan "Dano" Statler and his Dad, Sandy.

Although Terry and the Northeast Diesel Get Together are close by neighbors to us this was our first taste of GM Diesel ownership having purchased our Indigo Blue Silverado CC early this spring 07.

Terry's "zoning nightmare" sign announcing the get together in his yard along US Rt. 7 as well as his handing Dan a postcard at the local fuel stop perked our interest and we marked our calendars and booked the weekend full of events. We had many questions to ask with our 1st diesel ownership and meeting Tom and Glenn from Montreal (Fine Tuning Transmission) at the potluck entertaining , educational and informative. We headed home Friday evening having many of our questions answered , as well as enjoying a good meal (see the receipes page) and good company.

Saturday morning came early and Dan and I left Cornwall at 7 am to make sure we had plenty of time to arrive at Maples restaurant.

Dan drives the big blue Silverado CT Rt 45 to Rt 341 to US 202 into Litchfield, and CT Rt 63 South - one of our favorite roads.

Its foggy. The Silverado's fog lights help.The directions are good.The new "gps" works. It announces "you have arrived" as we pull into Maples Restaurant parking lot. We are early so we meet the Duramax and GM diesel owners as they arrive - fifteen persons in nine trucks in various ranges of models, colors and trim.
The food is good , and the service was good with a pleasant waitress.

NORTHEAST DIESEL GET TOGETHER 2007

After breakfast we follow Patty to the truck museum. I thought she was wearing heals, but she is able to operate the accelerator OK. Our new engine is just past the break in period. WOW, we see the crew cab likes 75 mph as it gobbles up interstate 84 just fine !

The museum is GREAT ! A wide range of beautifull restorations from "The Golden age of Trucking". Everyone enjoys the hardware. Some of the guys fulfill a dream and sit in a "cab over" Kenworth which they always wanted to do..

We could have spent more time there - and will be coming back for another visit with friends.

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