Crazy, but not dangerous…

[Paul Cook]

Kempner, Texas, is a small town with about 1200 residents. Kempner is a “poke and plumb” town. Poke your head out the car window and you’re plumb out of town. US Highway 190 is the main street and the “entering” and “leaving” signs are about two miles apart. (Both signs used to be on the same post.) The speed limit on one and a half miles of it is 75 miles per hour. There are two intersecting roads, neither of which is a cross street so those are “T” intersections.

The Kempner Power Wagon Museum is at the corner of US 190 (75 mph) and FM 2808 (60 mph). It’s very exciting pulling out into the 75 mph traffic, even with my 2005 Power Wagon. The folks around here must think I need to get my pencil sharpened because they make a gesture that looks like there’s a crank on the side of my head when they go roaring past.

Newspaper coverage for the 20,000 Lampasas County residents is provided twice a week by the Lampasas Dispatch Record. The other day a young L.D.R. reporter sought me out to explain the Power Wagon Museum. Here’s his version put together from a visit and my web page www.texaspowerwagon.com .

The other day this article was on the L.D.R. front page. Now, more of the local folks seem to think my pencils are sharp enough. A few days ago I celebrated my 76th birthday. A few of my neighbors have told me they were happy for the article and glad to know that I was crazy - but not dangerous.

http://www.lampasasdispatchrecord.co...ntage_veh.html

[Gordon Maney]

It's a very nice article!

[Bob Thompson]

Kempner, Texas, is a small town with about 1200 residents. Kempner is a “poke and plumb” town. Poke your head out the car window and you’re plumb out of town. US Highway 190 is the main street and the “entering” and “leaving” signs are about two miles apart. (Both signs used to be on the same post.) The speed limit on one and a half miles of it is 75 miles per hour. There are two intersecting roads, neither of which is a cross street so those are “T” intersections.

The Kempner Power Wagon Museum is at the corner of US 190 (75 mph) and FM 2808 (60 mph). It’s very exciting pulling out into the 75 mph traffic, even with my 2005 Power Wagon. The folks around here must think I need to get my pencil sharpened because they make a gesture that looks like there’s a crank on the side of my head when they go roaring past.

Newspaper coverage for the 20,000 Lampasas County residents is provided twice a week by the Lampasas Dispatch Record. The other day a young L.D.R. reporter sought me out to explain the Power Wagon Museum. Here’s his version put together from a visit and my web page www.texaspowerwagon.com .

The other day this article was on the L.D.R. front page. Now, more of the local folks seem to think my pencils are sharp enough. A few days ago I celebrated my 76th birthday. A few of my neighbors have told me they were happy for the article and glad to know that I was crazy - but not dangerous.

http://www.lampasasdispatchrecord.co...ntage_veh.html

Nice write-up Paul. I think that description would fit a great number of us here.

[Frozen Parts]

And I thought I was crazy. Well, you don't have to be crazy to live where zero is a nice day and bears try to eat you but it helps an awful lot! That sounds just great Paul. Stay that kind of crazy! My hometown had to close down the library. Someone borrowed the book and didn't bring it back.

[Hobcobble]

My wife & I were given the personal guided Power Wagon Museum tour
a couple years ago. We highly recommend stopping by if you're nearby.

Happy 76th Birthday!

John

[b4pw]

That is a very interesting article. After hearing Paul talk of his woes of fighting with the town so he could keep his trucks. Just for grins and giggles, I looked up Pauls place on google earth. It was cool to be able to zoom in and see a pw in front of the shop! If you go to the street view on FM2808 you get a real nice view of it. Even better, If you go to street view on US 190, his "05 is in front of the garage and the door is up! I attempted to zoom in to see if you could see him inside, but no such luck. Roy