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Nice Aussie type bull bar you have leaning on the wall.

There were lots of B and R model Macks in Spain and possibly Portugal, with same motors. Is it worth a bit of Sherlock Holmes work to see if you can find anything there? Also maybe try contact Kevin Allmacks, he may have some suggestions becasue he has exported many trucks and parts.

This 1983 Superliner was sold by Paul Cootes on 30 June 2025 at auction for $AUS 342,650 / $US 266,150, including auction buy fee of 10%. Motor - EM V8/440, 12 spd gearbox and 4.64 rears on Mack spring suspension. The sleeper is a crawl through type. History is it was bought by a gent named Bromage, who carted fuel for Shell out of Melbourne for many years. His fleet was Mack for many years, the later years being all v8 Superliners. Bromage was one of the first Superliner owners. Bromage's trucks were painted, yellow, blue and red, possibly green as well. He may have owned about 20 trucks and tankers when sold to Ian Cootes. Paul Cootes father, Ian Cootes, bought Bromage's business and all his trucks and tankers around 1989. Ian started his transport business maybe around mid 1960's with 1 tray truck and built it to a successful major fuel transport operation across the eastern coast and inland. Ian ran a very high standard operation and excellent safety record. Cootes mainly carted all types of fuel and LPG for Shell. Cootes trucks were painted dark green (like the old International green) and white with scroll work. Ian sold his business many years back to another fuel operator, then private equity bought it and onsold to another operator who completely f...d it up, in every way possible. Cootes tanker business was liquidated about 4-5 years ago. When Ian was operating his business he had operators waiting to buy his trucks when he sold them for new replacements and he got top prices. Many of his trucks are working today still with the original green and white colours. Ian died about 18 months ago from dementia related illness. Ian sold this ex Bromage Superliner because he did not like the V8's, he sold all the V8 trucks and replaced with R model 600 series with E6 and E7 motors. Later he bought Freightliners and KW's, but most of his fleet was Mack. About 3 years ago Paul re-bought this Superliner and restored it.

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You may notice this second model the cab was moved forward so the door could be made bigger and drop down around the set back guard. There was zero comfort with those fixed single seats, we had 1 or 2 bed cushions for comfort. The V8 petrol and Perkins motors were relatively quiet compared to the Cummins V8 - 555's. And little ventilation. Some had assisted power steering, but around corners it cut out, not fun.

Here is the second model cab

My dad had the early Acco with the same cab door as the Army version. Perkins diesel motor, five speed direct or overdrive with 2 speed diff, poor vacuum brakes about 18-20 foot tray with a tandem wheel pusher axle. They loaded them way beyond what the motor could pull. They were pricks to work on, had to remove the plastic dog box which barely fitted thru the cab doors. And it was laying over the seat to access the motor to do a service. Getting in and out was tricky. Getting out often caught our shoes/bare feet on the horizontal section next to the guard and caused us to fall out of the cab. Must have been a challenge for the army guys with their heavy boots. Inter redesigned the same square box cab door by modifying the guard and made the door bottom to follow the guard curve to the cab floor, removing the horizontal section the door front section was level with the floor and this made the world of improvement to get in or out and stop tripping out and falling. The early models had straight six petrol engines, 5 spd box and single spd diff. Then the 6 cyl Perkins, Inter 345 V8's and later Cummins V8 - 555 which was not successful, lot of owners lost money. Both of the early models were used extensively for concrete agitator work, single steer and later twin steer with 5 X 4 gears, vacuum brakes. Air brakes were introduced into the next model in the early 1970's. There was one positive of the early Acco's, being nearly 2.4M wide, using a roll up soft foam mattress made a great bed with a sleeping bag, during winter the engine heat helped to get to sleep, but it got very cold when the engine cooled.

We had the same BS and blatant deliberate lies here in Victoria Australia arising from Covid. At an orchestrated inquiry with very limited powers, no one remembered who ordered the private security guards to do the hotel quarantine, which lead to the worst and longest lock downs in the world. Not one could remember, however the premier, at daily press conferences rattled off all sorts of information with no notes. They know exactly who did what, who gave the approval and who called the shots. Moreover, there must be a written log/record of who gave the approvals, where is that log book. All long haul drivers must record their trips etc, so why not for the most powerful position in the USA?

This Aussie Truckin Life helps. One of the mack world wide 3 R model special limited series was the Freedom and often referred to as the Liberty because they have the Statute of Liberty symbol on both sides of the hood. In the USA Mack also had the Magnum series. From the info, the Freedom aka Liberty was only made in the R model Superliner. The Magnum was made in the R model Superliner and the Cab over version - Ultraliner series. The Champion museum collection is the only one that has the 3 special R model Superliners and the cab over Magnum. Truckin Life Annual 2019 - Tony Champion Limited R models.PDF

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Here are the 2 examples of the cab connections. The V shaped style is the Bicentennial and also John's Yellow Superliner, showing the V starting about 600 mm from the base, the rubber boot is fixed with aluminium strips. With John's set up there is no movement between the 2 cabs. This would be the better opening system for your cabs and in keeping with the system used at the time for Superliners and many Valueliners. The other 3 pictures are the V8 Valueliner sleeper connection being about 1450 mm wide and about 1200 mm high. If you like I may be able to contact John and ask for the opening measurements.

This is the yellow Superliner with the red frame and similar sleeper to your sleeper. I would think the system of this yellow sleeper and truck cab would best suit your Superliner. John the owner did the set up when they repaired it after his Superliner rolled over, he said the ride is wonderful. I will try find some pictures of the connection between the cabs.

I forgot to mention with the air bag system there is one separate frame (chassis) onto which the truck cab and the sleeper are mounted. The front of the frame pivots on the truck cab mounts at the front and at the back of the frame are the air bags and shockers. This system gives a great ride in combination with the truck cab air ride seat and you have the air bag rear suspension. With this set it will ride beautifully, bob tail or loaded. many Mack drivers who drove the V8 Valueliner with this separate air bag frame said it was the best Mack ride ever. The newer Macks have this set up. I have also seen the set up of the usual truck cab mounting with the 2 shockers and the sleeper also with fixed rubber mountings at the front of the sleeper and 2 shockers at the back of the sleeper. The gap between the 2 cabs and the flexible rubber seal between the 2 cabs allows for adequate movement.