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I’m going to try to polish those rear fenders some. They have some pretty good scratches on the rear where the lowboy gets into them on some of these Pigtrails around here. I’ve got some finishing touches to do before I start tearing down that Freedom.

They look better than the H I bought for parts , hopefully they will take 2 and make a nice one

Put some fuel in this morning, Spent most of the day cleaning the interior, Took it on a spin to the post office, Drove good.

Thank you so much for your post,, It’s great to hear from someone who saw the truck back in the day! And yes All 10 tires have The Millers name bonded on them, I have the original tube type steering tires, Rotten but still mounted. Im going to have to replace all 8 on the rear because I only have 40psi in them, one blew out loading it on the trailer the last show I took it, I’ll probably find 8 tube types , I have plenty of tubeless but I love the old school look of the flat aluminum wheels. That way I can drive it to local shows again.

Yes! After talking to a few of the guys that live in the northwest and used both or knew people who did, The “ H “ was more suitable for the logging industry .

I’ve made some progress on the RW 753 I’ll try to put some fuel in it and pull it out this week a take a better picture, I just put the tanks on Thursday.

Yes they were originally aluminum,, I would say that the roads in Alaska were pretty rough and probably beat them pretty hard. His nephew told me they made new ones and never drilled the holes for the stainless trim. He said he never did anything with it, keep it under a shed . He sold it to Johnny Extine whom I purchased it from , he saw it setting in the shed and kept asking about it until Mr Millers nephew sold it to him, He replaced the steering tires with tubless because the original ones were rotten. He had the seats recovered, Bought the correct Mack emblems and the stainless trim, they were still in the box, I installed the emblem s and trim after I clear coated it . He only had it for a few years. Unfortunately it sat out in the weather and started rusting some of the chrome. I still have the original tube type wheels for the front.

Thanks for the comments , It was great talking to Wayne Hiatt and him telling me the story himself about riding home from Oakland with his Dad when it was new, I told him I would love to visit there someday,, it’s been fun and interesting researching the history of this LTH ,, and I’m still learning new things, even with this topic.

That’s great! I love those old black and white pictures! I’m sure there were some taken on this truck back in the day, maybe some will turn up but if they don’t I feel fortunate to have the timeline pretty much intact from 1955 to 2025 , there are some unanswered questions,, but still loads of interesting history! She’s had an Adventurous Life for Sure! 2 pictures I always wonder about, when she was about 10 years old hauling equipment in Alaska,, And a picture of her when she turned 18 , when she was all dressed up ! A knock out for sure!

I’m sure a V12 would fit! You were also commenting on the color, I think FarNorth helped on the color origination , and hopefully I’ve given some insight on John C Miller and Alaska .and why out of all the equipment he had he picked the LTH to make a show truck for his horses. When I first bought it I thought it would look great Black ! Because the paint was old, faded and chipped, it didn’t really look Yellow, kinda brown. If you notice it had the wrong Mack emblem on the hood and no stainless trim, because when they customized it they made new hood sides, when I removed the Mack emblem it was bright yellow, so I sanded the whole truck with scotch bright to bring out the yellow, a friend of mine at the paint store matched it with base coat the best we could, because the fenders and lower door panels were terrible. I sanded and sprayed them then taped the complete truck and sprayed it with a semi gloss clear to seal it and preserve the original paint, I couldn’t bring myself to strip it and kill all that history. The doors originally said 10Tucky Stables, Lewisburg TN . I found a fellow who still does hand painting like it was originally,, we added a little extra! I think Tennessee Miller would approve of my addition .

It’s heavy flat stock, cut , welded, finished smooth. All the fabrication is smooth and professional.

I just saw this, my cousin was a Big Detroit guy,, he bought a 3 cylinder, aluminum engine from one of those, he put it in a C30 Chevy truck, he took it out and I bought it from him, hopefully one day I can install it in something else.

According to Joe Jaines, Mr Millers nephew they had a top notch maintenance facility I think in Anchorage ( maybe Fairbanks also) . Some of the engine mounts, fan shroud, firewall modifications for the air compressor looks amazing being it was done in the middle 60s , and Joe also worked for the company on the North Slope ( that’s where he said he got frostbite) . He said they kept new Detroit engines waiting for retrofitting in the shop. And also liked Terex equipment because of the 2 stroke. Thanks for the information. Here’s a few pictures of the Detroit retrofit.

I looked up a old picture of Frontier Transportation in Alaska, this is from the 80s and does sort of have the same paint scheme as the LTH , I know one of those articles says John C Miller was founder of the “ Frontier Companies of Alaska “ so I don’t know what that includes,, if I get a chance in the next few days I’ll try to call Alan Abee who’s Dad worked for him, I haven’t talked to his nephew in a couple years but I’ll do some more research, clues like FarNorth posted is how I found a lot of history on this truck. I’ll dig up some pictures of how I decided to try to persevere the paint scheme.

Have you got the old bearings out ? They should have a part number on them and should be marked, Standard, or .010,.020 or something like that and like Joey mentioned if the crank has been turned down it should be stamped with the amount it was turned down to. There’s a bunch of them still running . There are a lot of variables when your asking for bearings, you will have to get those numbers .