Mackdaddy2030

Heres another Chicago R model I pulled a low boy with this tractor in the early eighties when Ed Beltz owned it he bought it from an oil company in elgin had a much nicer paint scheme then. The horn button read this truck custom built for John Yazel so it was one of his early trucks it was sold to Shanahan when Beltz went under. I tried to buy this truck numerous times and Jeff Shanahan never gave me the courtesy of a call back I spoke to his secretary a couple times left him my number and even had some of his employees relay the message to him. So now it sits in a yard for sale in Michigan after sitting idle in Shanahans yard in south elgin a mile and a half from me for years I cant tell you how ticked off I was when I saw it advertised in the truck paper.

Back in the day they put the "custom built for" plaque on the horn instead of the dash?

It's hard to tell from the pic, is it a long hood?

That really sucks that he never got back to you!!!!!!

That is Chicagoland history.

Let them keep laughing I took our 99 mp7 powered Mack to a points Championship this year in ChampTruck race series !image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! That's awesome to see!!!!

You have an MP7 in it? How much power?

I was in Jacsonville FL today and stopped by a dealer to check out a Superliner and found these three gems from Chicago. 1 '96 and 2 '00 RDs from Marina Cartage. They were in really rough shape. One even had a hole through the floor. I never found out how many miles they had on them, but they wanted $15,999 for the '00. You can still see the name and phone number on the doors if you look just right. And you can tell one of them was orange at one time so idk who's it was originally. They said they got them from an auction in GA.

Check out the custom "ram air" exhaust on the one truck.

And here I thought I wouldn't have any pictures from down here to post to the Chicago thread, lol

Thanks Storkmack. Now that you say it I remember.

That green Superliner look pretty good to begin with. Those guy find some nice trucks to begin with. How long until we see the finished restoration?

That's what I was thinking.

Helena's, who bought Hintzsche, R model at Troxel.

Smith Cartage tanker unloading at Lorig's asphalt plant in Crystal Lake, which use to be Curran's old plant.

"D" construction Vision

And I think the red and black RD is J&S construction.

I was at Shanklin's a couple weeks ago and took these pics.

Can't remember the name of the company with the red RD. I took a picture of a picture lol

Then a cool local First Gear R model

And orange and white Lowe truck was just traded in while I was a there. Might be the same as the one above. Not sure how many RDs they had. They bought an '07 CXP day cab. I guess they made those at the end of '07 and it had a MP7, but without emmisions.

I'm very, very interested!!!!

I would love to find someone that has E7 performance parts

Hoping glue will get him back in shape.

Got my Christmas edition First Gear B model out, but Santa had an accident.

Saw the Lenzie Superliner on Monday and the Nissen Superliner yesterday.

I've always wanted that Nissen Superdog!!! I'm sure they will never sell it. Very short wheelbase.

A friend of mine that works a Zimmermans sent me these photos of their recently redone 1990 DM rolloff.

I've seen it out a few times. Sharp looking truck.

Are they still gonna keep the old one on the road?

Got an up close picture of the Zimmerman Superliner. E9 powered I believe. This was the former Bulldog Earthmoving lowboy.

Don't they have one orange and black also?

And I love the DM!!!!

I see you have a '07 CXP. Do you have the MP7 with no emmisions?

If so, how do you like it?

I heard of a guy in central IL that had two shortys and I guess he loves them and hasn't had any problems. Though those are shortys. I've seen some picks of long dongs laying over cause the sides buckled.

Such a cool picture!!!! Love seeing stuff like this!!!

I also liked the way my '98 steered. It was nice and effortless. The '12 is really hard.

Sorry to hear all you went through. I was told to stay away from the Twin Y also, thankfully I stayed away. Though I bought my '12 CHU used with 366,000 miles and it liked to wander around also. They replaced the drag link and it went away.

What is the AL suspension? Idk what mine has, but it's not like my old '98 CH had with the Mack rears. This one has Eatons and the suspension says Mack.

Another one went to the dark side lol

I'm not against Petes, I just don't like half the guys that drive them that think if you don't have a Pete 359,379,389 you are not cool.

I like some of them, but it's like a '67-'69 Camaro. Every car show is full of Camaros just like Petes at truck shows. One of the last truck magazines I got showed all the different class winners for the show and every category was a Pete. Really shocked there wasn't a KW at least.

It's all persanal preference in what you want and like. I've sat in many and it just doesn't fit me right. And I hate how the clutch peddle is also. Though I've never driven a C15 and I always hear once you drive one you will never want to drive anything else.

I think it's cooler that you had an RD working everyday and looking that great.

I will never say I'd never own own. I sat in that new vocational truck Pete has the 567 axle forward and that was a really nice truck with the new redesigned cab. But I guess I still wouldn't be cool cause it's not a 357,379,389 lol

I went with the E-Pak steel trailer when i was looking. It is pretty light for steel, I put it on material hauling 80% of the time. Then it has a 2 way gate that is really easy to switch. I do a fair amount of demo, so the trucks can still haul demo debris and concrete from me. With the E-Pak and the Pinnacle, we can squeeze 22.5 tons on if you run 73,000. The selling point with E-Pak was the quick delivery time, dealt with the manufacturer, and had some say in the design. My one complaint is that the dump angle is not steep enough, but they are working with me to fix that. I think a taller ram will make it fine.

Just watch the debris and concrete that they put in there. It's light, which means not as thick. I saw a guy this year with a brand new Coras and he already had to put patches in it cause it was too thin.