Nice old Mack out in the field working .
 

I took the back way home tonight. Thought it was cool to see this old Mack still out in the field doing it's job. Looks to be about 1960 ish??
Call me a geek, but I would like to restore an old truck like this someday. I had a buddy who did a few old firetrucks. Was pretty awesome to see them come together.

this is a 1960...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1365035675.jpg

Nice - I like the classics myself, Fred.

To coin a phrase.....they don't make 'em like they used to!

This belongs to a friend of mine.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1365035829.jpg

I was born in Allentown, PA. Lived on Mohawk st.
My back yard was Mack Industries.
I used to play on the new trucks that were just rolled out to the huge lot.
Back then, mid 60's, nobody ran me off.
Greatest playground ever!

I'm not sure what motor that Mack has, but I live in a major farming area, and it is so cool to see and hear the grain trucks going past the house. There is nothing quite like the sound of a big ole Detroit diesel going up through the gears under a big load, or and old straight piped Peterbilt blasting in stereo.

The B series Macks are seriously collectable, I have a "sorta" neighbor that hit it big in the paving/quarry biz and has a couple restored ones, along with some Macks from the teens and twenties. Along with a fully restored turn of the century sawmill. And a Jetranger, but I digress.

The B's are one of the icons of the era, along with the Autocars and Reo's. Nothing more fun than an antique truck show, its collecting on a whole 'nuther level in terms of the effort involved.

There is an antique truck and tractor museum north of here in Woodland that I have always meant to go check out.

How many ways could you deck those things out? Seen many the tractor trailer setup, dump trucks, giant wreckers, tank trucks.

Check out bigmacktrucks.com

Fastfred this is for sale from the above site, lol...a wrecker 1988 mack wrecker
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Wow..awesome thread. I recently watched (Steven King's) Maximum Overdrive again just to look at the old trucks in that movie...so damn cool.

This tow truck was the best in the movie:
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Not sure if it is a Mack or Peterbilt or International

Very nice Freddy. I looked at the pic before reading and my first thought was boy would that look sweet refurbished.

There is a blast from the past. I went to see that movie with my neighbor when it came out. I think I was 12 I know I have a copy of it somewhere. I'm gonna watch it this weekend if I can find it.

When I was a kid in the early '60s, the gravel pit across the river had been leased by a cement company, E L Casey, from Amherst NS. They had a fleet of Macks that looked just like the truck in FastFred's post, right down to the color of the cab.

When I got a little older, I found out these were not the most wonderful vehicle in the world to drive. The usual transmission was actually two gearboxes which, at times had to be shifted at the same time (ask an old trucker about "twin stick Macks"). Some guys developed the technique of getting their left arm down through the spokes of the steering wheel to handle one stick, while their right hand was working the other. (Hey all you guys who bemoan the demise of the interaction with your cars through the transition to automatics, most of the new gravel trucks around are speced out with autos because it is almost impossible to find someone who knows how to drive a manual.)

Couple that with the noise, literally "gravel truck suspension", no power steering and I would have to say the best thing you could do with one of these old beasts is paint it up pretty and park it at a show..

Brings back some memories.
Les

Near where I live; Berryville, Va. they host a Steam and Gas engine show in the park a few times a year. It is a celebration of all things mechanical relating to farming and rural life. You would not believe the extent and quality of some of the restorations. Everything from giant-@ss steam tractors all the way down to gas powered washing machines.

There are a lot of folks that bring restored early semi's like this hauling antique / restored tractors and machinery of all sorts. They have a steam powered saw mill on site and do demonstrations. Also horse-drawn sled and antique tractor pulls. It is an excellent family event if you want to see stuff like this.

A few from the past year
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Few more
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The tow truck in Maxium Overdrive is a WHITE. Gotta love old trucks!

Truck shown by the OP is a B-60 if diesel, B-61 if gasoline. My family had a B-61 gas engine oil truck. They went with gas over diesel so that the noise from an idling would not disturb our customers in the early ours.
I drove the B-61 for a few years back in the '80's and man what a tough truck to drive. Very underpowered and a notchy trans. Not to mention that a turn had to be started a hundred feet prior to turning so you can get the huge steering wheel moving the fromt wheels where you wanted and the steering box ratio was ridiculous.
1959 B-61
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1960 White 3000

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The white was a death trap. The shifter was offset so many ways that it looked like a pretzel by the time it reached your hand. These trucks were underpowered. I hated driving it. But I miss those trucks.

this guy still used this ol steed for work as a brokered truck. see him on jobs 2 or 3 times a year.

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and it's in better shape n cared for than some of the newer truck i see day to day.

20 years ago there was a contingent of gravel haulers here that used restored, customized and lowered Peterbuilts around SoCal. CARB has taken all of them off the road. In fact, if you don't own or drive 2007 or newer truck, you can't enter the Port of Long Beach.

I love the sound of this. A Diamond T, a 4-53T DEEtroit with a Jake, and what looks like a 4 speed main, and a 3 speed Brownie.

This cat knows how to do two sticks.

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Fred I think you might need to use a chainsaw on your rearview mirror. :)

When I was in my early 20's and going to school, I worked nights pulling a coal bucket (usually overloaded to the top with sewage sludge) with a "single stack Mack with a window in the back". It was nearly new, but it was governed to only allow about 65 mph IIRC. On top of that it only had a 7 speed transmission (no splitter). It was not so much fun in the hills heading towards our daily destination (Toledo to Barberton Ohio and back). On the way home empty, myself and the other drivers would jockey for the lead as we neared our home base because the last driver to return had to wait while the others fueled their trucks at the end of the shift. Most of the other trucks we pretty beat up, but they all had 9 speeds and 13 speeds and were all capable of at least 70mph.

Holy crap, I remember that fuel company and those trucks! :cool:

Any rural area in KS is full of old farm trucks from the '50s and '60s. Amazing that they still get the job done.