Red Horse

looks like could have been a fatal

Attached photo was taken at this show. Left to right: Rich (66DC75), yours truly, Matt (MattB73IT), and Hippy (70MackMb). Bronco on left is mine and one on right is my son's who snapped photo. Blackdog showed up later with three of his beautiful red and white Macks. Oh, I'm an old 6'.1, so never post anything bad about Rich's trucks!

Got some bad news this morning from Bob Manchester that his dad passed away during the night after an on and off battle with cancer. Bob started a career with Amoco as a driver and when he retired he was a terminal manager. He and his sons established a beautiful collection of Macks, Autocars and a 761 Brockway that carried the name "Manchester Bros" and were kept in Cromwell Ct and Downingtown Pa. He was a most knowledgable person when it came to distribution in the oil industry as well trucks in general. And most importantly , a great friend who will be remembered and missed by many. Bob

Correct. I was told that by a commercial truck Ford guy. My comment was .."and the 6.7 Power Stroke doesn't generate a lot of heat". an absolute bullshit excuse IMO. Think of the west coast volume they would gain.

Did Adley use the slogan on their bumpers..."A Sleeping Giant Who Never Sleeps"??

Remember them for sure. And I would say they were strictly a "low bid" fleet. Looking at the variety of trucks they had, I would guess whoever had the lowest bid price, they got the order.

Family feud?

Ford should have these Aussies engineer the air brake option for 650/750 gas jobs seeing Ford keeps saying they can't offer air brakes on these God Zilla powered trucks because of under hood heat issues! absolute BS

Drive safe Rich. My shoulder is fine-relatively speaking , But now my right knee is killing me-old age sucks. As Brocky said, send pix, and regards to everyone. Danny and Kenny heading down tomorrow with the R model fire truck

For sure!!

KSC..No argument on the 7.8 parts availability, but that LN with an LTL grill is one good looking truck IMO..so much so thatI wonder if that is not a very good piece of photoshop work.

Has seen better days for sure!

Nice but how about a pix of the LTS next to it

yes but an L-10 or 3306 were what? 5-8 grand more..Just guessing..but if you wanted either in a Louisville I think you had to get a 9000 vs an 8000.

Wow! who owns that

Correct on Ford. They were introduced as "Ford V-225"- The 225 being the HP. I think that was the highest rating and I think they went as low as 160? Paul made a good point as to what speed limits were when it was introduced. And I think for example while a 6-71 was 218 HP here this motor was 225 and probably cost a lot less than a 6-71..or a 220 Cummins. I remember loading trucks in our lube plant in Buffalo-1968🤔. Red Star driver comes in with a new C-8000 single axle tractor . I asked him how he liked the new truck with the "Ford diesel"...he says ..."A beast -pulls 40,000 like it wasn't there "..I think that was a problem..the horsepower rating had people using it beyond its intended "mid range" use.

Beauty!! That yours after Ryan had it before you lucked out??

Well one thing for sure...I doubt that picture represents the truck as it currently is. Never heard of a 3208 in an R Model. We had V-185 Cummins in DM's..a real disaster. Maybe the poster was looking at a 413 Mopar..didnt know what those 8 wires were for🤣

Nice shot..I assume that is rt 17 in background

Nice! Didn't now Tilcon had anything but Cats! That a drone shot?

Rich for sure..spokes are in its heritage!

Dave, Are you aware Perkins sold out? Century Aggregates from Albany bought all the Perkins facilities. Century is Clemente. Clemente came to US from Italy in 1903 -his grandkids run it now. He also started Bonded ready mix in Albany . Check out their website. PS This is my Mack on the scales at Sterling a couple of years ago. this was my post in the ATHS 45th anniversary book. My caption was..."as I pull off the scales at the quarry I wonder if the gGranite in back of me will be on the road 60 years from now."

Wow- forgot about that. What ever became of the site? Wonder if that method is still used? A lot has changed in almost 40 years as far as construction technology. We always bitch about government imposed safety regs but I guess good example maybe of what can happen.

I think that was Patsie C's Dad

I said same thing first time I saw one..get rid of that curve on top and for sure by today's standards a winner in the looks department. From a safety viewpoint I also like that stand alone turn signal