Brocky

If my health and checkbook are willing I would like to go up there again this year..

Matlack also had a large fleet of R models very similar..

Was that a Mack of Australia only model???? If so where did they source that cab from????

He must be a "Youngin" as air starters have been around a long time!!!! I remember in the mid 60's while collage a B Model parked at the library loading dock, with a lot of foot traffic around it, hit his air starter. I think the echo of girls screaming was even louder!!!

I respect the right that everyone has their views, But I hope that the administrators are keeping an eye on user "Truckcrazy" as the user is starting to sound like "Teamster Giirrrlll", or whatever many user names she used, who used to create so many negative arguments.

Same here!!!! Mowed lawn last Saturday then a bunch of rain on Sunday night and all day Monday..

NOW we are totally off topic!!!! Bob, Now at age 80, I am glad we did our traveling while we were still in the late 60's and early 70's.. Health problems have caught up with us!!!! Granted I had to steal some out of our 401/IRA's to do it, BUT it was money well spent.. Including 6 days in Hawaii on the way home, the Aussie trip was in ball park figures $25k for the two of us. It could probably be done cheaper and more interesting with a rental car, regular motels, and eating in local pubs rather than the air fare, fancy hotels / restaurants and bus/tourist tours we were on. The travel agent was the daughter of ATHS past president John Vanatta so she has connections in the antique truck hobby as well as she attends a lot of the American National shows.. In 2013(??) we drove to the ATHS national show in Yakima WA and made a slight detour on the way home by way of Fairbanks AK!! That trip was 6 weeks and 15k miles on the ground not counting the inland waterway ferry from Bellingham WA to Haines AK. Totally self guided for about $12k..

Save your pennies, and plan a trip to Australia!!!!!!!!! Tony Champion in Rockhampton QLD has probably the biggest Mack collection, BUT there are enough other Museums and private collectors Down Under to make the trip worthwhile.. Pick a year that ends in a 0 or a 5 as that is when they hold the BIG Truckies Reunion of over 1000 trucks in Alice Springs NT.. I was able to participate in the 2015 ATHS Down Under Tour, it was a once in a lifetime experience!!!! PM me and I can give you the email address of a travel agent who knows of them and the antique / historical truck hobby..

Harry, Thank You!!! These are the rims I mentioned earlier.. How well did the chrome stand up versus paint???? I do NOT remember any of them up here in the States?? Bur we went to polished aluminum Budd's a lot sooner..

The Aussie's chrome plated some of those steel rims.. Maybe Mrs Mack Paul can elaborate some more???

Then your clutch brake is working... It's only purpose it to stop the transmission input shaft from turning so you can engage a gear from clutch engaged neutral without any grinding.

Thank You!!! I did NOT know there were such large "milk factorys" in the upper midwest.. I have seen them in Texas and New Mexico.. and I must assume California as well by the number of loads of hay I have seen on I-10.

WOW!!! How big is this "farm" to produce that much moo juice???? Or is it a consolidating point for various 3 axle farm pick up units????

There is one of these left, on a Diamond T chassis, I think???? Jeff Lakazcyck in Florida Had a topic on it.. He also had an article in Double Clutch..

Bob. I am somewhat in the same position.. After retirement my motivation level went way down.. After them morning news I like to check my emails and truck sites, THEN I have to force my self to get off the computer and do something.

Any reliable Mom and Pop upholstery shop should be able to repad and recover them as long as the frame and springs are workable.. Check your local body shops for a reference??? Also check out boat, if you have any lakes, upholstery / cover making places????

That is a beautiful truck!!!! Welcome to BMT. Pleas add some pictures of it working..

Is that one of the winch propelled fold up trailers like Swishy from Australia has?? I think (???) it is the first one like that I have seen up here???

Both are beautiful trucks.. In the Diamond T numbering system from 600 to 900 the higher the series number the heavier duty the truck was.. I am not that knowledgeable on IH's numbers, but I would say they are about equal in working strength???? Going by the background in your pictures I am assuming you will only be using them, basically locally, in planting and harvest seasons. Personally if both trucks are roughly equal mechanically I would keep BOTH!!! and still keep my eye open for another Comp-fo-vision cab? Be careful though!! They are not totally interchangeable!! DT bought the raw stampings from IH, BUT assembled them in the DT Factory and there are some differences, especially in the cab mount area..

I had heard that T-Line was mostly ex Osterlund DR Giant people and had a lot of experience with them. You are right that today it is very hard to break into the market, even with a special specked assembled truck, as the regular manufactures make so many options available they cover the market.

You want Truckin' songs?????? Go to You Tube and search "Slim Dusty" !!!! Pushing Time, Married to my Bulldog Mack, Trucks on the Track, Lights on the Hill, I'm Gonna Take My Dog for a Run, Highway One, and many more.. I have his 4 disc box set of 80 trucking songs.

Simply Amazing!!!!!!!! I wonder if there is any way to find out where these funds went???? If so the recipients should be prosecuted...

If he had done just the steering axle it would have been period correct. But he is bling happy!!! Even his father was upset

Bob, Copy your picture in the album then take the copy to Paint.com then you can crop it there and save it back to the album. That is what I have to do to put them in my newsletter.

Buckskin, That picture was taken at the Western North Carolina chapter show at the WNC Ag Center in Arden NC in the fall of 2014. It is one of the pictures we used when presenting him with his 50 year achievement award. His son has since changed the wheels to aluminum Budds.😟