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12 hours ago, Rob said:

And this one doesn't have "it"?

That truck belonged to Roy ?? out of Nevada. It was a self loading logger when new. His LTH with Ellis split manifolds is in the Keystone Museum now. I have a picture of him as a young man driving a 47 LT log truck. I think back with a little sadness of all the great trucker buddies we have lost over the past decade with Roy being one of them.

13 hours ago, Mike Harbison said:

That's odd.

It is and I have been looking closely at all of the early B's and F's that used the same style side panels. There appears to be many different styles and I assume it may have to do with the engine that is installed. This BM was ordered from the factory with the larger cube engine that was the standard in the BX so I am thinking there must have been a difference??

On 2/28/2020 at 9:31 PM, Mike Harbison said:

 Do you have the emblems for the side of the hood ?

I do but this hood doesn't have space for the emblem? Note the distance between the louvers and the hinge.

6 hours ago, CaptainCrutch said:

C motors have the exhaust manifold on the driver side of the truck, this one has it on the passenger. The thing that leads me to believe it’s a B motor is the pattern on the block. My ‘53 has a B motor in it so the year isn’t really a reliable way of figuring out which motor I’ve learned...

yes it is a B

A Bob Brown original...…...the LTL...…..Bob Brown...….The Greatest Name in Trucks. That is how I made up the plaque honoring Bob at the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum Store. That LTL was sold to a guy in Rutford, VT and Bob drove it all the way out there with his wife following in the car. When he got there the guy didn't have the money and refused to buy the truck. Fortunately for Bob the Eiler Bros in VT wanted it.

50 minutes ago, carlotpilot said:

mackdaddy  .    whats the story on those two ars. machines in the photo ? are you involved in that kind of work or are they just in for something else?  super nice job on the mack 

I have a dozen of those machines. yes, I am an industrial painting contractor. Steel grit works great out west inland where there is no humidity and months without rain!! we also do a lot of robotic blasting with grit in penstocks. we had 4 units on this project for 2yrs.

8 hours ago, Mike Harbison said:

Another show stopper. 

Waiting for the shutter surround from the chrome shop and then reassemble the shutters and that should be about it for now. Hope to put a 5th wheel and winch on it someday.

8 hours ago, CaptainCrutch said:

The W actually used the same frame rails as the LT, with a dip at the front so the engines would sit lower... other than that I’m just repeating what Mack themselves have said...

The H is the cabover L but the W is specifically the cabover LT...

The W model used the same frame rails as the LTL. The LTH was 1/16" thicker and of course less aluminum pieces. I have built from scratch both the LTL and the W model. Until you get up to the front spring hangers and the front axle they are identical as frame and cross members go. of course there is also the cab mounts that differ.

12 hours ago, CaptainCrutch said:

Unfortunately... I didn’t think the W-71 was exactly unpopular, does anyone know why they stopped making it so soon? I have a hunch it’s because it was just a cabover version of the LT so they wanted to retire the two together despite such the limited run of the Ws...

The G model was much more advanced for the times and was the Western Mack replacement.

On 1/30/2020 at 8:11 PM, convoyduel said:

Interesting that they went with the earlier CH style shallow rear wall cab, I guess to get the BBC down.   Nice looking truck but the auto shifter is straight out of a mid 90’s setup.  Also, without a crew cab option, they miss out on a lot of muni/state DOT sales.  Hopefully they aren’t priced like the Titan was.  

Is the cab the same width as a CH or did it get narrowed down?

A guy in Medford Oregon had a new one he ordered. Engine finally blew on him and he pulled it. The truck sat in the back at Leanardo's in White City and I tried a few times to buy it. Nice straight cab (had the small first series R cab) and body. It seems to me it was gone last time I drove by. RS755

The W model shown is now in Tony Champion's collection in Australia. That particular sleeper add on was done by Able of Los Angeles. I would say there are at least 4 different style of sleeper add ons to the 

W model by different body builders.

On 12/28/2019 at 12:40 PM, Swishy said:

 @ the 2018 Mack Muster Kyabram Australia 

Nuther Ozzy V:

This

At least the hood......which makes the truck has a well known designer. Tony Champion and company.

On ‎12‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 12:10 PM, h67st said:

Is the bumper jack to keep from flat spotting the tires?

The floor is not level so we are keeping the truck level as we install the wood to fit and other made to fit items like the hood, doors, etc.

Nice looking restoration of a real classic! Where did you get the aluminum casings on the running boards? I assume that is what I am seeing? 

Looking for the proper front shutters as well as headlights. Did the shutter assembly carry on to other models in the future years?

I have often thought the same after seeing the Scanias coming at me when in Europe. And Mack originally partnered with them on the V8.

I have only read about the unfortunate accident. I did get a copy of the official FAA accident report. I am a pilot as well as a Mack collector so it is of interest to me as well. Was your father a Mack employee? How old were you then?