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He grew up about 4 streets away from me where you only saw Mack Autocar and Brockways and he's shown photos of the Autocar his father drove. I guess the shiny stuff drew his attention

I need to pull Mike aside and give him a class on Mack. He's spent all his life running around in Paccars.

And I wasn't going to take the trucks because it was going to rain

Next Chassis for the ambulance bucket. One more thing that's going to delay painting my R model.

131k Absolutely rust free

I've been running this one for a dozen years. 4le80 transmissions had porous cases. I've got a spare one but I would need to have my transmission guy swap the innards into it which is basically same labor as rebuild.

51 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

Ouch......

Yup just had the trans rebuilt about 10k miles ago.

Npr tranny bell housing broke ( they are notorious for this). Started adding up everything it needs. New tranny case, intake gasket leaking coolant, front springs needed, rear brakes coming up, getting rust jacking at crossmembers. I think it's time for a remount on newer chassis. I think I'm going for a uhaul E450 cab and chassis. They sell them really cheap and since I'm really cheap it looks like a good match.

1 hour ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Saw this truck on YouTube the other day, very impressive and a great watch 

The Boston trucker really done well on this video, well worth a watch 

 

 

 

 

Paul 

I talked to Mike yesterday  told him he did a good job with that video. Pelligrino's garage in Brockton always had a real no trespassing vibe (probably because it wasn't in the best neighborhood). I was going by there one day and the overhead doors were open and the chain across the parking lot entry was down so I took a chance and stopped. Anthony's father Sal ( dressed in black sitting in lawn chair) was more than happy to let me look at the trucks  seemed like a nice guy.

Npr w4500 HD 5.7 gas and 700r4

Won't win any races but it gets us there cheap.

I'm also the first one on the block with a combination isuzu  ambulance bucket truck.

4 hours ago, Red Horse said:

Rich-new bucket truck?

Nope, built that one about 9 years ago.

I didn't watch this drive away but I'll bet it could take out a lot of pedestrians every time he turned a corner. Middle of Boston acroos from Berklee College of Music not exactly wide open space