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Nick name of one of the most prolific fleet trucks of the 60's & 70's the 7400 White nicknamed THE JAPANESE FREIGHTLINER

You got it but you would be surprised how many people will argue that it never existed. I GOT A BRAND NEW CAB FROM THEM(Strick) that was removed from one of the New trucks that they bought to construct this monstrosity. CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT MAKE&MODEL TRUCK IT WAS THEY STARTED WITH?? A HINT IT WASN'T A MACK

A Corbitt was the tallest, but does anyone know who produced the shortest and also probably the most ridiculous truck ever built? I have seen any number of people who live in the region of the country where it was manufactured who post on BMT on a regular basis.

Superdog,have you read my post on Mackdaddy's topic of H-Model posted 2 Or 3 days ago, you of all people can probably appreciate it.

The truck was sold 42 years ago finding the serial # now would be next to impossible. That's why i posted it here trying to find someone else who had seen or heard of that option. I was offered the truck before he sold it,but I couldn't bear to give him what he asked for it ,because I watched him pay man he bought it from and knew what he paid for it. He asked me almost double what he had paid,and I was his son in-law and I had driven the truck home for him when he purchased it for FREE.

in answer to Vanscottbuilders,my father in-law passed away a few years ago. THE TRUCK WAS SOLD IN '71 but I give that truck credit for my interest in H-Models and my father in-law credit for my lifetime of trucks and trucking. Years ago people would laughingly ask me what I would have done with my life if Mack had never made trucks? Maybe to some it is a hobby, but to me it has been an obsession since '69 The year I came home from Viet Nam and bought my first truck a 65 F Model ser#F607T1173.

It was factory and was not aftermarke The truck was a 62 Model and was purchased originally to haul explosives (blasting caps,dynamite,ammunition). I actually went with him to pick it up when he purchased it from the original owner,a man in Va. Who had 5 H- Models and it was the only one with this option.which he assured us was original. This truck had notebooks that went with it that documented every thing including the date of all repairs and went beyond normal maintenance records and were so comprehensive that they had a record of every fuel purchase as well as mileage and repairs as inconsequential as an 1157 bulb. Based on his meticulious care of his trucks I tend to believe he knew what he was talking about! IT WAS FACTORY INSTALLED AND WAS AN OPTION IN 62 I AM NOT SURE IF IT WAS OFFERED PRIOR TO THAT.

My father in-law had an H-67 with factory air ride steering axle. Anyone ever seen one? I know that he really liked the way it rode and handled,it was powered by a 673P,9speed overgear with an Olen Granning tag axle and I know that he had it till about 71 & then sold it to a produce hauler in Florida.

Old trucks are like old cars,you look back on the trucks just like you look back on the one (or ever how many) that "had I only know)!! When I think of some of the trucks that I let go of , some to export others to someone just getting getting started in the trucking business. One thing of which I am pretty certain is that some of the B's, Rd-Sx's,DM'S & OTHERS that I sold are probably still being used on the road somewhere in some third world country,instead of being driven down a road in the USA as part of the metal used in building some foreign car that we've imported! !!

Back in the 70's to early 80's before the restoration bug bit so many of us, so many of the older Macks were a dime a dozen. The need for bigger engines more speed and such things as airride suspension was at the forefront then and the boys in Allentown did't seem to catch on until they had lost a large share of the OTR business. THE FOREIGNERS came over with suitcases of cash and Mack being their preferred truck and me having a yard full of obsolete trucks and no driver being willing to drive more than a few weeks while the other drivers drove more powerful better riding trucks with ameneties ie: ps ac airride suspension cab and seat.Having these trucks just sitting around rusting made no sense so the man with the suitcase full of cash wins every time.It waseither sell them for export or scrap them.What would you have done??? NUFF SAID

I used to deal with them in Atlanta when they first started. It is owned by Iranians who realize that the American dream is still possible, and were foresighted enough to know that Mack Truck parts were the ones to start with, which in turn forced Mack dealers to become more competitive on the price of their parts.Why is it, that people from other countries come here and prosper, while those of us fortunate enough to have been born here sit back and dream of the day when we hit the lottery, and all of the old Macks that we would buy and restore.

Don't despair I found another one in Pa.it just cost alot more than $1000. I sure was glad to hear that Joe(Mustang) Glasco hadn,t passed away.The man was and is a legend !!. Those of his generation are owed a heart felt thank you, For not only could they talk the talk, but they could also walk the walk!!!The average driver today would not have any concept as to what it was like back then. I used to have an old B-61 that always sat behind my shop 673t and a quad box and I would like to have a dollar for every driver who said that he had started driving truck in a B-model and used to put his arm thru the steering wheel and shift both sticks,I would ask them do you think you can still do it??Most said yes so then I would inform them that i had an old B-model out back with an 18 speed Quad and I would bet them twenty bucks that they couldn't drive one mile with out getting both sticks out of gear and having to stop and start over,I bought a lot of lunches with their money and only had to pay out one time . Few people (TRUCK DRIVERS) could have even envisioned ,must less have built the amazing truck that was so far ahead of it,s time.Back in the early to mid 70,s I had a driver driving for me who encountered Joe in Chicago and told me that he would,'ve traded my one year old Transtar for it without any hesitation and once that I had seen the truck that I wouldn't have even been angry at him for doing it. So I knew it had to be exceptional cause I still owed about two more years of payments on the Transtar. Thru the years I heard of the truck many times, and the amazing truck driver who not only drove it,turned the wrenches, and who was also responsible for it,s being the only one on the road like it. How one man drove the same truck for 35 years only goes to show what joy that truck that he conceived, and was capable of building must have brought him. I presently have a 55 H-63 that for the last few years I have been telling myself "This year I'm gonna finish it" and if I only had one half as much of the creativity and ability that Joe has" I Would!!

back in the day we used paint stripper the best we ever used was called Tal Strip and had much success with it on aluminum just do a good job of cleaning the tanks afterward and then you are ready to polish I have probably done a hundred that way thru the years as polished aluminum is one way to really make your truck stand out in a crowd

In the 70's and 80's there were still a few brand new in the crate H model cabs still around, and for years I offered a finders fee to anyone who could locate one for me. In the early 80's I located one myself in Atlanta, it had been left behind when Bowman moved their terminal on Moreland Ave.and having not run H models in many years they had just left it behind, abandoned. A local scrap yard had picked it up for free but the man who owned the scrap yard wouldn't part with it, So I told him to contact me if he ever changed his mind. He called me in the early 90's and said he would take $1000 for it as he owned the salvage yard and that the state had purchased his property for the right of way, Being that he had the crusher there at that time already crushing trucks and cars. I jumped in my pick up hooked up to a rollback pull behind trailer . Not really believing my good fortune( I was willing to give him up to $5000 for it) I. broke a few traffic laws (speedlimits, following to closely), and a few more that I no longer remember . Arriving in record time, only to be met by an elderly man who seemed to be troubled by something, and as it turned out that something was the H model cab, that much like your H-633 in California, his college educated sons trying to help their elderly father had seen fit to expedite some of the things that they deemed had been there the longest and that had the least value Yes, one of those things was the H-model cab and it had already been run thru the crusher.

Is Don Niles still in the trucking business in Wellsboro? He had some sharp trucks in the 70's & 80,s .

Having been extremely interested in the Joe Mustang H-63 since the 70's. I searched for it for years and only discovered a few years ago that you had purchased it. I read the article that you wrote about when you went to pick it up. You said in the article that you had promised Joe that you would make no changes to the truck while he was still alive. So by what I just read, where you had considered changing the cab, I take it that Joe must have passed away. Having never had the opportunity to have seen the truck, I have always wondered how he got that 1693 under the cab.

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