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In the 70's Steelcase out of Mi. Ran the cleanest and best looking fleet of F Models in the country they were in their Company Colors of Blue. Just spent 90 mins on Hank's looking for pictures of their trucks, with no success, does anyone have any pic's of what was the best looking fleet in this country ( only of their Macks)

I had a friend in grade school whose father won one of these little Thunderbird replicas in some kind of contest. We had tons of fun riding that thing, when it wasn'r broken down ( which it was most of the time ) that kid grew up to become a counterman in the parts dept at a local Mack dealership and later on to be general manager at another dealership.

i didn't claim that they had the same pistons just the same turbo's

I have seen several posts that mention 711T's, over the years I've seen many 673T's and even owned quite a few. My question is did any trucks leave the factory with 711T's ? I have owned several with naturally aspirated 711's and only two an F and an R with 711T's, On closer inspection I found that the turbo's on both 711T's had the same part #'s as the turbo that Mack used on the 673T's and when I had one of the 711T's apart it had the same pistons as the naturally aspirated 711. Someone posted here that they were early C motors, which I know to be wrong, so maybe someone can enlighten me

Wonder how many "Truck Drivers" out there today could"ve driven these.... maybe 1/10th of 1% if that many!

The Emeryville look .... Is definitely apparent , and appears to be the same cab if you were to put the headlight panels beneath the cab. I've had an aluminum cab Emeryville and lots of steel cabs, but they too should've manufactured some in fiberglass.

I think freightrain summed it up very effectively.

Sure is a sharp Powerliner that he had. And a very fitting tribute to a man who could not only talk the talk but who also could walk the walk.

years ago wh Years ago I gave the Gibsons of Cow Pens SC an L J that I needed to get rid of while cleaning up one of my storage yards (the EPA has no respect for old trucks ) turns out I had to many trucks "potential hazard" and not enough paved storage space I guess that's what I get for having the audacity of having been there for years before they built the five story corporate office building on the property adjacent to mine. Anyway back to H- Models the Gibsons told me that they thought the truck was sitting inside a barn some where in in NC only thing they weren't certain where in NC...... I am still interested in the possibility of purchasing it.

Maybe am hard of hearing ,but as I just stated .I'm not a very proficient typist.

Seems as if all the heavy duty truck manufacture's built an experimental turbine powered truck..... That truck pictured here hands down was the tallest. It appears judging from the the cars sitting along side I think they were called English Fords' or Tanus that it was tested in Europe. So in terms of production trucks Corbitt is probably still the tallest . And as for that only ten were built and they were all for Turner Transfer. This is according to the Corbitt Co history.

Seems as if all the heavy duty truck manufacture's built an experimental turbine powered truck..... That truck pictured here hands down was the tallest. It appears judging from the the cars sitting along side I think they were called English Fords' or Tanus that it was tested in Europe. So in terms of production trucks Corbitt is probably still the tallest . And as for that only ten were built and they were all for Turner Transfer. This is according to the Corbitt Co history.

Oops! BCR's I GUESS I SHOULD PROOF READ MY POSTS BEFORE I HIT THE ADD REPLY

57 BCR I HAD NOT SEEN THE THREAD BEFORE MY LAST POST ....SORRY. I HAD AN OLD BCR BACK IN THE EARLY 70'S 673 DUPLEX WITH A NEW WAY TAG AXLE. THE LOCAL MACK DEALER WHO ALSO HAD ICC AUTHORITY. USED SEVERAL IN THEIR TRUCKING COMPANY FLEET AND WHEN THEY SOLD THE DEALERSHIP I BOUGHT ALL OF THEIR B'S BRC'S and H'S BOTH 63 and 67's

I'M NOT A VERY PROFICIENT TYPIST( JUST AN OLD RETIRED FORMER TRUCK DRIVER ) WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TRUCK "NUT"AND I INTENTIONALLY LEAVE OUT PUNCTUATION TO SPEED THINGS UP .....THE GUY THAT BUILT THE TRUCK WASN"T NAMED WAYLON ! ( THE MAN IT WAS BUILT FOR ).... WHO INCIDENTIALLY NEVER TOOK POSESSION OF IT. JUST HAPPENED TO BE COUNTRY OUTLAW AND FORMER ROCK & ROLLER WAYLON JENNINGS. IT HAD BECOME WHAT WE TODAY CALL A RESTO- MOD IE: REPOWERED AND AIRRIDE P/S A/C AND WITH A NEW 24' VAN BODY.

There is alot more to this story,I had been aware of the truck two years earlier and had tried to buy it while it was still a single axle tractor. It had been described to me as probably the nicest and most original single axle H Model in the country. The same guy who built it for Waylon owned it then and when I called him about it he told me then that he was turning it into a straight truck for Waylon.In '80 when I saw the truck it was extremely sharp.

It did in '80.

In the late 70's Waylon Jennings had a guy in Knoxville Tn. Build him an H-67 straight truck.Before everyone starts telling me that he never had one I need to tell you that I actually saw it in 80 while going thru Knoxville on I-75. HE HAD IT BUILT AND NEVER PICKED IT UP. The guy who built it asked me 50 grand for it and told me that Waylon was having money problems and couldn't afford to pay him the balance still owed. All that I was paying for brand new KW K100's with all the bells and whistles wasn't much more than 50K so of course I passed on it.Haven't seen and have only heard of it once since 80 anybody know who has it?

One of the other problems with the Unishift was having to depress the clutch pedal so far before it would shift. I bought an F Model that had a C motor backed by a Unishift and it didn't want to change out of hi into low,until I took the clutch linkage arm off and built up the surface that came in contact with the air actuator and then adjusted it till all you had to do was just tap the clutch pedal and after that it became a pleasure to drive.

There is alot more to be taken into consideration in boosting horsepower than just swapping a pump.

But you still have to admit that Andy Zary's B-61 is one of the sharpest trucks at any truck show. And a tribute to a man that was able to drive one old B for 2.5 million miles.I can't even remember who many B's I've owned . But of one thing I'm certain that none had 2.5million+ miles on them. My father in- law drove a B Model when they were new and he never appreciated anything much more than he did when I put an ENDT673C and air power steering in his B-61.

I am pretty certain that alot of young guys came home from war and with determination and the desire to be truck drivers and O/O'S. I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING (at times) WIFE WHO WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO HELP ME ACHIEVE MY DREAM.ALSO CHILDREN WHO OFTEN DIDN'T GET TO SEE THEIR DAD AT THEIR BASEBALL FOOTBALL BASKETBALL GAMES LIKE THEIR FREINDS. BUT OF ONE THING THAT I KNOW WHEN ASKED WHY THEIR DAD WASN'T IN ATTENDANCE THEIR PROUD REPLY ALWAYS WAS "MY DAD OWNS A TRUCKING COMPANY" AS IF THAT WAS ALL THE REPLY NECESSARY. No thanks for my service in Viet Nam needed cause I got to live the American Dream and many boys of my generation never got the chance to do the same. But thank you BCR for your reply!

I am pretty sure that the green Hi-Binder in the upper left photo was for sale in W.O.T. maybe a couple of years ago.

With some 80 grit sand paper and a DA sand out the biggest gouges and scratches after that just use progressively finer paper until it's ready to polish. Then use your preffered compound and a buffer until it looks like a mirror. I USED TO HAVE AN ALL ALUMINUM AUTOCAR AND THE SANDING BUFFING AND POLISHING THAT IT TOOK TO KEEP IT UP GAVE ME ALOT OF O.J.T.!

The problems that the unishift caused. I only had two or three trucks with this transmission and all that anyone had to say about it was negative. The first was in a '62 H-67 and it lived up to it's reputation,leaving me on a 700 mile trip stuck on the low side not being able to split the gears and only being able to get 45 mph ln 9th gear on down grades. That little 673 must have thought that I had mistaken it for a 675 as much as I lugged it.But it gave me a greater appreciation of what the older drivers driving gas burners on the two lane highways had to endure. And also that if you are hauling a time sensitive load in sub zero temperatures that you needed to keep the alcohol evaparator full. After learning that lesson and a little tweaking on my part I never had anymore problems with the Unishift and actually came to like it.