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Here's a few pictures from a photo album that I hadn't seen in several years. Possibly because it was on Zina's desk under one of her computer monitors to raise it up a little. Here's a big Mack water truck, up at the old shop at F.L.M. Here's a Cruise liner in Roanoke that I used to pass going to and from the concrete pipe getting place. There used to be 3 of them sitting there with "For Sale" signs in the window, but 2 of them must have finally been sold. I stopped and looked at them and they all had V8s in them and 10 speed Mack transmissions. I saw this Mack a mile from where I used to live, it came from the same place my old mixer did- Concrete Ready Mixed in Roanoke.And this A-40 was sitting in a field in Moneta, VA. just up the road a little ways from where we used to load treated lumber. I don't know what ever happened to it, it was there for a while, then it wasn't.

YES!! Tom Warren and his son Bub of Amarillo TX did the 3 year frame off restoration. Finished in 2009. It now has some scratches, especially in the bed as being the chapter show coordinator it gets loaded with tables, chairs, tent, and misc handouts so I do not have to drag the out of my trailer.

Attached photo was taken at this show. Left to right: Rich (66DC75), yours truly, Matt (MattB73IT), and Hippy (70MackMb). Bronco on left is mine and one on right is my son's who snapped photo. Blackdog showed up later with three of his beautiful red and white Macks. Oh, I'm an old 6'.1, so never post anything bad about Rich's trucks!

For anyone in the Northern Nevada area our local ATHS chapter is having a truck show Sept. 20 at 75 Hudson Aurora Rd. in Smith, NV. Usually have several nice old Macks along with the usual mix of old iron. Lunch and a raffle also.

This kid is a huge grease monkey. He has been fixing and selling lawn mowers for a while now, but it's time to graduate onto bigger stuff- he will be 15 in May and it's time he started thinking about his 16th bday and that little card that goes in your wallet that every 16 year old kid thinks of.......Plus I wanted him to have a manual transmission 'cause he sure as hell ain't learning on my 67 year old truck!!! The package I handed him is the Haynes/Chilton Manual for his newest "Mechanical Conquer" I think I downloaded this video right....... Messenger_creation_E8CE33BB-6FEC-426C-823E-5354F9AABD5E.mp4

2000 Dakota Sport 3.9L V6 5-Speed w/Manual 4WD Runs great but as you can see the body is a bit of a train wreck......needs new rocker panels too.

Finally out of the shop engine overhaul complete with new crank, new undercarriage tracks and final drive seals it was a lot of work but it’s ready for it’s second life

the fire station around the corner from me asked me to move a small shed from the church to the station. It went well. I had a Presidential escort.

Just a little update on our progress so far.The frame has got 2 coats of CIP (rust stop primer) and 2 coats of coloured primer.It is now ready for 2 top coats of finnish paint.It took 2 weeks to sand clean and apply the primer coats.The cab has been stripped and prep for paint has begun.A small window in the sleeper,added by the 3rd owner is being removed and new aluminum is being welded in.5th wheel,5th wheel mounting frame,battery boxes and air tanks have been stripped and primed along with fuel tank brackets and straps...man this is the biggest resto Iv ever undertaken...... Paul

Started with $50/ month back then. Now it is $500/ month. Growing quite well now. 30 yrs making 10%/year has worked out.

about 2 1/2 hours ago on the way to eye exam. 17 year old who just got her license thursday afternoon misjudged distance and lane changed into me at 50 mph. i did not see her until impact. the pit maneuver i put on her put her a bit sideway into the center barrier, but she turned right and did not hit the wall. i turned left and mashed onto the brakes which put me a bit squirrely from the stupid abs brakes. but once clear of her also turned right, let off the brakes and mashed the gas to correct. the V8 engine and 10 speed trans downshifted from 8th to 4th and put me sideways in the road. i think the poor guy behind me almost had a heart attack when he went from looking at my tailgate to the passenger side of the truck with smoke pouring off the rear tires. everyone pulled over. the poor girl was having a panic attack, and crying so hard she started hyperventilating. we calmed her down and convinced her to call her dad to come get her, because she was in no shape to drive home he showed up within 5 minutes, and not once raised his voice to her. once we all convinced her there was no real damage to either vehicle she finally calmed down. but i guess i now need to get a new truck. 😁

Today was productive. Got the whole truck sprayed down and pressure washed today. Blasted a lot of the chipping paint off the box body and quite a bit of the decal residue off the sides and cab and it turned white again and not grey... Got fuel gauge working, electric horn all lights on the box and cab working. The Air dryer is now purging like it should so we are making progress. Turn signals and flashers are still an issue but the manual showed up today from Ebay so now I can really start figuring things out. Was hoping my 3100 psi pressure washer would blow off all the cracked and peeling paint to bare metal. So I'll have to get more invasive I guess to figure out how to get the Decals that are left, and the paint off the box. If any body / paint experts have some ideas I'm all ears.

It amazes me at times about how long it takes to install parts, and It looks so simple when done. Im taking a break. May just drink some bevvies and watch Football.. 🍺

Participated in the Wishes on Wheels Convoy in East Hartford last Sunday(9/14) with the B73. Lots of fun and over 500 trucks participated. It's the largest truck convoy in the northeast supporting the Make A Wish Foundation. Once the trucks leave Rentschler Field they head out to I-84 for a bit, then enter I-384 and head to Exit 7 in Bolton, CT. That's 10 miles away, then turnaround at that exit and head back. Almost as the last truck is leaving, the first trucks are coming back. That's almost TWENTY miles of trucks of every size, variety and type!! I've participated in it for several years now. There's all kinds of photographers, drones and people lining the highway and on top of the overpasses. Cool event to get involved in. My truck got caught by a drone entering I-84 that a drone company posted on Facebook. Lots of photos and videos have been posted and it made all the evening news shows that night.

I have seen one of the Farmall M's converted to a grader at Stew Paquette's museum in Leesburg FL where he used to host the ATCA Vintage Trucks of Florida winter show.

Nothing like having a go yourself.We are painting our Cruiseliner ourselves at the moment...... Paul

Alright guys, I went ahead and installed new cups and injectors. The truck now sounds a little quieter and isn’t quite as strong as before. It’s not slow by any means and I believe it pulls about as strong as our other trucks, but there was a noticeable power decrease right after the injectors. My theory is that maybe the injectors it had on before were off a d13 with larger nozzles? I have no idea, but I’m happy with the results. I will be giving an update in a couple of weeks when the truck works for a bit and let y’all know if this healed the oil level rising problem.

Latest issue of Double Clutch is out. Big write up on the Macungie show AND..... a little paragraph and photo of my truck!! That was so much fun to do the drive and participate in that show. The only downer was Saturday's rain.

I thought it might be interesting to share some pictures and history of the Old Bulldogs I have collected. Truck 1 B-63SX 3156 Truck 2 B-61S 54843 Both formally owned by Latrobe Construction.

Truck 7 B-63 SX 2485

A little bit of progress on the RW 753 , I’m multitasking it seems lately, I’ve went to a few truck shows, hauling equipment, and trying to get this one back on the road, I got some time today to shoot the cab , hopefully I can get the hood painted next week, i don’t have a good place to paint, and I’m not a professional painter , So I kinda do it in steps, this is a work truck so I didn’t strip it down.

Finally for this update, Installed the solid-state 3-Phase rectifier to replace the selenium one. Mounted it to a piece of aluminum and for added measure, added an addition small heat sink to the back. It's mounted on the inner fender. The B-model fender insert hides it well. Plan is to fake out that we still have the old one hooked up, for looks. Note: we and going to be rewiring the truck real soon, so forgive us using the old wires for now.

These are some pictures that I just posted to Flickr. I don't think I posted them before, but I might have. They were all in photo albums and I took them out and scanned them all, that's what i've been busy doing. And I sure did take some crappy pictures then!

Well I now own a 1998 Mack MD-200. I found it a shop a buddy of mine told me about after the one shop I had gone to since 2008 to do my inspections on all my vehicles closed, the owner retiring and selling the building in 30 days. So with a name and directions I found this place. And while they are doing the Inspection on my 08 GMC HD3500 diesel I see this thing across their lot dejected in the corner. And from a distance I thought is was a Volvo, so I asked it they minded If I went and looked at it and once I got close the Bulldogs on the mirrors gave it away. But it was weird, and being a combat vet, a paratrooper my whole carrier I guess I'm a but weird too so it was perfect. I look it over but its locked, so I ask "what's the deal with this thing and do they have keys"? So the old dude take me to the office and I meet the owner and we hit it off so he hands me the keys saying "Its been sitting there for almost 5 years... So I already going, going to need batteries, pull all the filters, add fresh fuel, prime yada yada" in my head. I go out to the truck and open the side door tot he box, its lined and insulated it about 100 degrees in the sun about 80 inside that box. Got cabinets and shelves built in and a Mack Coleman Heat and AC unit on the roof. Stuck on the wall above the desk is a Gaston County Bomb Squad sticker... Well my 1st job in the Army was a 12B Combat Engineer and we blew stuff up and I'm the reason you cant do a controlled detonation of more that 250 pounds of explosives anymore after I did a 850 pound cratering charge a long time ago.... So I was this is a sign.... I unlock the cab and its clean, some trash but clean. For shits and grins I put the key in the ignition push in the clutch and she started right up! Another sign, this is supposed to happen and it's like she was waiting for me to find her.... I was shocked, she built pressure, the clutch feels good the breaks released and its got 111k miles on her. So the deal was struck. Doing a quick search online this forum came up with posts about this model so that's why I'm here. She is a weird duck a Renault/Mack and well its Effing French so yeah it's gonna be weird. SO I may need to pick your guys brains. 26000 pound GVW so below CDL and has the 6.2 Diesel inline 6 with a Eaton 6 speed manual tranny Millennial anti theft device factory and what appears to be a aftermarket installed AC unit over the floor hump and under the dashboard. My plan is on making her into a RV after a bunch of TLC. But I need to find a windshield 1st and I can see that maybe a task.... And yes my truck is a Schrodinger's Mack It is and is not a Mack truck being a Renault import... And it's ok I've had rocks thrown at me before in Albania, Iraq, Kosovo and Haiti so I'm used to it, and I expect a few from Mack purist's... But I know what real Mack's are, being form Canton CT, and Canton Village Construction's fleet of Mack trucks were my across the street neighbor's.

After finding the engine number, the Mack Museum verified this is indeed a 1953 B61T that has an extra axle and winch added. It is awesome to get a bit of information via the order sheets! Thank you all for helping me. Greatly appreciated. Now I need to get it running!

Well Bob, I didnt make excuses.. I spent time in my shop. I ran some modern wireing and hid it under the seat in this side compartment.

I scanned the tractor pictures today, I had some from the Stonewall Antique Power Show, dated anywhere from 2002 until 2007, some were from the Appomattox Railroad Festival parade, and some were from an ATHS show in Troutman, N.C. I'm going to put the rest in the "Tractors and Equipment" category after I put them on Flickr, but these were kind of interesting. These were in the antique tractor pull at the Stonewall show. I didn't know what to expect out of this little Oliver crawler tractor, but I do remember that I expected it to do a little better than it did. I think it pulled the sled about 2 feet and it was done. This is another one that I thought would have done better. A rare piece of equipment, only one i've ever seen. It was owned by the late Bobby Moore. It barely moved the sled either. But this Super M on the other hand... This is not the M that was in the pull off with the 830 John Deere, but it did make a full pull. And you talk about a beautiful tractor! I'd never seen such- the paint and detail was outstanding. This picture is 20 or more years old and doesnt do it justice, but it was really nice. Even all the bolt heads were painted.

I had my Watt's Mack shirt on at the Stonewall show. Zina's dad asked me when when my hair started turning white, and I said "I don't know, probably about 20 years ago."

Truck 5 B -63 SX 3148 Truck 6 1951 A-40 2848 Also From former Latrobe Construction

Truck 3 B-63 SX 3155 Truck 4 B-63 SX 2528 Both also from former Latrobe Construction

For the last picture Geoff posted you can pop off the rubber cover, and with NO AIR PRESSURE in the system, Pop out the snap ring behind the rubber cover and pull the plunger and spring out. Then clean all the parts and barrel good with WD=40 or similar. I have done this along side the road to get back under motion!!!!!

If you still need to move(trailer)it , then leave some sort of guarantee for controlled stopping. whether drive train/ parking brake system. DO NOT rely on a couple of 4x4's behind wheels for stopping. a truck or any motor vehicle rolling off trailer can jump over 4x4's. that statement based on experience.

Had a great time at the Dacusville ,SC Show yesterday! Thanks Brocky for all your hard work!

See, that's what I'm talking about, we have all had those moments in life we're we wanna leave a lasting impression ha ha ha Always good to have some fun and it is a battle to honestly remember some of the stupid stuff I have done Thank goodness there was no smart phones years ago But, I doubt a younger me would of cared, as long as my parents never found out I was doing okay The joys of growing up in a country town were everyone knows everyone If you really make a ass of yourself your parents find out before you make it home and the wrath of Mum and Dad was worse than any law enforcement person Paul

As it has been said by others, Trump could find the cure for cancer and give it to everyone for free, and the left would still hate him. Nothing he did in his first term hurt me and that is holding true for this term. His original tax cuts put more of my money in my pocket and their continuation will keep doing so. The changes to the taxes on SS will add more. Reducing wasteful government spending is the right move. Removing those here illegally is the right move. Stopping the DEI policies is the right move. His efforts to return manufacturing to the US is the right move. When was the last time a democrat in the White House did something to benefit all US Citizens? And he's doing it for FREE!

Friend retired about 15 yrs ago from Food workers union. He had to get out before all the youngins gave away all their bennies. They want cash today!! Not for tomorrow. All this instant gratification crap. I don't have any real retirement so I have been putting money away myself for 30 yrs. Won't be rich, but will have significantly more then SS to survive on.

I remember when l was a wee lad riding with my mother in her '59 Ford wagon. She saw a snake crossing the road and ran it over, stopped then backed over it, pulled ahead running it over again. Why l remember this l don't know. lol .....Hippy

Well, job is complete. On a happier note. I’ve got great turning radius now and steers real good. sector shaft is no longer leaking but the bottom end cap is Joey you had mentioned. Did you put that cap on the wrong side well, yes I did at first and I noticed that as soon as I got it bolted up, took it back off I tore the gasket slightly sealer had already set up in just a few minutes. I thought I could pull a fast one and just goop it up real good with Indian head, but it did not hold. No other leaks. I guess that’s part of the sink or swim. Glad this messy shit is almost over with. Do it yourselfers uuuuuuuuurrrrrrr

I’m unsure how many Cruiseliners Ryder had , They would by a fleet if a customer wanted them. Then some times they would just buy a bunch for the rental fleet. A lot of there trucks had no power steering when I started. And they were Big on Cummins. That’s actually how I got started with Ryder, I was working in the truck shop at our local Caterpillar dealer, Wilsonart moved some trucks here from there Texas fleet ( 1983 359 Pete’s , 3406As ) there were 12 , Leased through Ryder, they had no one or tools to work on them,so they brought them to Cat , after a year they offered me a job, I left Cat making $7.25 , went to Ryder for $7.35 ! Wilsonart ( kitchen counter tops ) increased their fleet, built a plant , warehouse. I stayed with Ryder 32 more years managing that fleet of trucks. Ryder and Wilsonart were good people. When I retired and decided to start hauling heavy equipment with my Son and a friend of his I had 2 retirement party’s , one at Ryder and one at Wilsonart. My son a few days old, 1990 , My wife and Me, Last Day 2017 . From a 1983 to a 2017 I saw a LOT of changes with those Red & White trucks!