Brocky

Turn off the computer and TV and YOU will get a lot done!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the tip, BUT I DO NOT do Farcebook.. They told me my account had been hacked and wanted a selfie video of my face to continue.. Jeff Lakazcychak posted on JOT that he put 30+ pictures on Farcebook also.

Orange, Contact Dean Jenkins, user name 1961H67, He lives in Fairview NC and has been a mechanic in the Ashville NC area for 50 years. He should know someone with the right lap top??? He owns several Macks, but I doubt if they are electronic????? If needed PM me and I have his email address.

Sorry to hear about another "Mudcungie"!!!!!! Will be looking forward to your Flicker Album after you get home..

Paul, It was the trip of a lifetime... I should have gone back a couple of years later, rented a car, and done Australia at my pace instead of a programmed tour.. PM me your email address and I will send you links to some of the rest.. Everybody said "take Pictures" so I have about 1600!!!

She definitely qualifies for a "Motorboating" experience!!!!

It sure has!!!!!!! To the point my legs and knees will not let me walk any where as much..

For those who might have missed it before here is a link to my Flicker album of Tony's facility. These were taken in Sept of 2015 on the ATHS Down Under Tour.. Click on the first picture to open.. They are in reverse order to how I took them. The maroon "road train" of Macks in front of the shop, not unloaded yet as it had just returned from the Australian Truckies Renunion in Alice Springs, is Tony's "Southern Cross" edition. Later that evening, after dark, Tony lit it up and the 4 letters of MACK on the hood are raised and back lit with white LED lights. On both sides and rear of the bunk the words "Southern Cross" are cut out of a stainless sheet and back lit with red LED lights. My apology's, but my camera was back on the bus by then.

I am not going to be able to make it this year😒. MY wife is still in treatment for her swollen and leaking legs.. Please post plenty of pictures!!!

Harry Thank you for the article on Tony Champion. I had the honor of visiting his facility in 2015 while on the ATHS Down Under tour.. I urge ALL Mack enthusiasts to contact Tony and take a tour of his Gallery. It is truly a one of a kind facility.

BUMP!!

Paul, Dean's Superliner is here::

I know he already has a summer job!!! Restoring a Freedom Superliner..

Also remember that the Aussie's tend to mount their cabs and bunks about 4 inches higher to let the heat escape!!

I know what you mean!!! Driving a Ram 3500 quad cab with a 9 foot tray body can become challenging at times.. Best if I can find a parking place with lawn behind the curb so I can let the back end hang over.. As far as the plow driver, as long as the parked car is in the highway "right of way" the car is at fault..

I am not quite as far out in the boondocks as Paul.. BUT we have good traffic flows in the small city about 15 miles from the house.. But as a young man operating a snow plow I did put the wing in someone's back window and opened his roof like a can opener while "pushing back" and he was parked tooo close to the road!!!

Looks like it has a "Bowtie" on the hood??? Did they build a 9500 with a short hood???

Great!! A little elbow grease and polish and it should look new..

Welcome to the forum!!!! I hope you enjoyed your trip to Australia.. I DID!!! They are great people Down Under... It looks like you have a good base Superliner.. Please start a topic in the Antique section and keep us updated on your progress.😀

Somewhere on here, (last summer??), Vlad from Moscow has a topic post from his vacation trip to Iran which has pictures of Macks still in operation there including a Brockway.

A man I worked for while in high school had a 1958 or 9 Brockway with a 220 Cummins and an Overdrive Transmission that shifted like that , but I do not remember where 1st and reverse were. It was a single axle with an air shift 2 speed rear and you were not supposed to use the rear in low when the main was in overdrive.

Many of these southern Rebels have asked this Yankee how to drive in snow... My Answer is to mentally tape a rotten egg to your right toe, And DO NOT break the egg!!!!!! In other words go very gently on both the throttle and brakes..

The Cole's Museum in Bangor is a definite to put on your bucket list if you get up to visit Maine. Everything from a wheel borrow to a railroad locomotive. Even bicycles hanging from the ceiling!! Also are the Transportation Museum in Owls Head with large engines, aircraft and race cars, The Erv Bickford collection in Yarmouth, now operated as part of the Gary Mahan Foundation in two parts, a display open 24/7 in a city park and his shop and storage building which may be accessed by appointment, Then probably by appointment and open for specific events the late Daryl Gushee collection in New Gloucester.

That looks like an old Matlack dash!!! They even had 7 day ones for the F model sleeper teams, with a key lock only the home shop had the key to!!

Paul, NOT really!!! The road our bus took up from Cairns to the Tablelands were very similar to the American ones up into our eastern Appalachian mountains.. The sign said something like a 100 bends (curves) switchbacks in the next 20 KM.. We gained about 2000 feet of altitude at the same time.