diesel541

Love the E9. I've smashed a lot of fingers on those! Sweet valve covers

Im 37, grew up riding and driving in Superliners with my dad. I could'nt even begin to say how many countless days and hours i have working and driving Macks. Out of the 3 Macks we had, only one is still with my dad, a 1984 with an E-9 and 18speed. In the early 90's this particular truck could out run and pull any 105,500# rig on the road, and everyone in the dump truck community new it. Sadly, the crank broke in two. The only salvaged part of that hot rod v8 was 2 heads!!! We could never get it to run out like it did......

My dad bought a brand new 87' and it had the grey plastic dash, it also had the turn signal/hazard buzzer box!! Only thing that buzzer was good for was reminding drivers they still had the rear-ends in inter-lock!!

That IS a good question! Was it when the interior color was switched to gray? My father-in-law had an '85 R688ST(Canadian-built) that had a beige/brown interior yet.I remember going to an open house at Elgin(Ill.)Mack with him in the fall of '86 and seeing a new '87 with the gray interior,but didn't notice if the dash was the hard plastic or not.Yes,Mike I liked that version of the plastic,also.More durable than the padded type.Although, I liked the beige/brown or tan interior(even the red or black Western) colors better,for some reason!