The Mack truck

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RustyRatRod said:
I agree. I always wanted to get a single axle truck and sling a bed on the back.
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mack use to build pick up trucks, this is a E model mack from 1937....
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A 3-axle transfer dump pulls into my redi-mix plant in LA one day, I had never seen that patricular one before since all of our haulers were independent haulers. Nice lookin' Bulldog it was :thumbsup: I mentioned it to one of my other haulers "Oh yeah. That Mack is the fastest truck in the LA Basin. 707" of gas burning fun. It'll pass anything but a gas station." A few years later my Dad bought a Bulldog mixer truck which I got to drive on occasion :steering:
 
1st truck my dad drove, mid 40s mack E model cab with an mack LJ hood, grill and fenders an running bords, 7?? ci gas engine, pulled tobacco from sale house's to whare house's all over nc and va!

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sireland67 said:
That needs to be saved.
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it belonged to a older cousin of ours, he crushed it along with bout 20 other antique mack's, 3 H models and bout 4 F models, 1 with rare V8 diesel! and few other makes i know he had 3 browns, and a corbit or 2 and a kenworth chassis! i offered him more than scrap man cash that day and he wouldn't let me buy it...use to play in it when i was a small boy...smdhh!
 
On Adam-12 today. I'll watch it sometimes just for the old cars that were new then, like the Belvedere.
That Mack wasn't new when the episode was filmed circa 1969.

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Most of the V8 diesels Mack built went to Australia for their road train trucks, wouldn't pass emissions in the states. They have a few warehoused in Hagerstown Md. I deliver to Mack/ Volvo Powertrain almost everyday for the last 30 years. Oh, and I drive a Mack Pinnacle day cab.
 
Those IH trucks were every here when I was a kid, I remember a ton of buses with that nose.

Side note, I used to make the air ducts for under the dash in the early 2000's for IH trucks.
 
LoadStar
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Paystar was a heavier one that you didn't see as much, but those other two were everywhere.
 
When I grew up there were R-Model Mack's running around everywhere here. The majority of them were day cabs hauling coal, but they were also around in other vocations.

I used to hangout at Taylor Brothers Trucking where they had about 25 of them. They let me drive them in and out of the shop before I had a drivers license.

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Drove an R model hauling peat moss she was a 300 plus 2 sticker, rubber block suspension rode like a hay wagon. If you lugged her down and stalled it she might start running backwards. You had to close fuel supply before you filled the air filter full of soot. LMAO

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I grew up near the plant where Brockway trucks were manufactured. Fifty years ago, they were all over upstate New York. Most local municipalities used them. There's a farm near where I live now that has at least thirty. Most are worked regularly, but some are restored for show. I had a great picture of all of them arranged in a "V" on a big lawn. But I lost the picture when I turned in a work phone. :BangHead:
I like the Macks, but the Brockways are my favorites.
Here's one of the farm fleet at an old customer's shop.

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A couple more.

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S'cuder said:
I grew up near the plant where Brockway trucks were manufactured. Fifty years ago, they were all over upstate New York. Most local municipalities used them. There's a farm near where I live now that has at least thirty. Most are worked regularly, but some are restored for show. I had a great picture of all of them arranged in a "V" on a big lawn. But I lost the picture when I turned in a work phone. :BangHead:
I like the Macks, but the Brockways are my favorites.
Here's one of the farm fleet at an old customer's shop.

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I went to a show a few years back, and I joked that maybe I'd see a Brockway, it was the only name I didn't see. Well over 300 trucks, but that was the only absent nameplate. A hell of a show, but I walked away missing a few percent.
 
Didn't brockway use mack cabs?

Always been curious what the difference was?
 
Today Mack isn’t a Mack at all. Since Volvo bought Mack in 2000 they basically cloned the Volvo with Mack badges, engines and all.
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