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I can’t tell what the old ones are, ( it would be nice to know what Mack used back then and years before, just for the history on their choices of wood vs Metal. ) 

Yeah you see several different floors in them, I’m sure you’re correct on years of u joint grease and trans oil soaking it up like a lamp wick. I have no clue what wood Mack used, looks like plywood, that’s what I’m using to replace it (1/2 inch) . 

One of my parts trucks has the floor replaced with metal, this one still has the original wood, but in bad shape where the accelerator pedal and foot pedal bolts down , and it’s soaked with oil from underneath, I have no idea how it got so oily, I steamed cleaned both them and it’s like brake shoes,, just keeps bleeding out. 

Just in time hopefully for warmer weather, it will go quickly when you get all your parts laid out to install in that refurbished block! 

I know where a Giant and a Raider is but I’m not by that way often, about 50 miles from me. I stopped and looked at the Raider about 2 years ago, it was all there, Cummins, 13 speed. He wanted $5000 for it, I thought about buying, but I have too many projects already! If I’m out that way I’ll measure them. 

Just saw this on eBay,, still available!  I’ve got to many Hobbies/ Projects, if someone has a HO collection it would be a cool addition, I don’t think it’s complete , probably worth $40 for parts. 

That’s 20/20 Hindsight,, like all of us have,, I remember when I started driving the LJ , Mason Dixon , Carolina Freight was selling B models for $2000 . 

Yeah I see crap like that all the time,, I guess someone has nothing better to do than hack websites trying to get people to click on it. That person probably never saw Ukrainian. We’re talking Mack Trucks, no time for BS 

No doubt,, I’ve gave $400, 600 , 500 for stock ones with good body’s , Yes they offer a complete 5 window cab now. But 100’s of thousands made, old 50s Mack’s were a couple of thousand here and there . But that makes them more unique! 

They are hard to find nowadays without being rusty, and if you do their bringing top dollar, I’ve had 3 though the years, good thing now is you can buy every part  to make one ,, I wish it was that easy for a L Cab Mack. 

I built the 55 gasser “BADMAN” back when I was 10 or 12 , I always wanted one, so this one came along and I was able to afford it because it needed finishing, I probably could have bought one completely done for what I spent,, but it made it seem less because I didn’t buy all the parts at once,, plus I enjoyed it . I still have the BADMAN model, also built a DM Mack and a dump trailer , still have it , had a few other trucks but after 50 years and a few moves they were falling apart . 

Yep Mech , that would be awesome to all chip in and write a book. ( Nice save with the Mack/ Coca Cola pitch,) lol 

It’s all fun,, I’ve been around these trucks ALL my life,, ( and about 3 months before , Dad had a run hauling eggs from a hatchery about a mile from here in 1958,59 to Miami, bringing watermelon back to New York City, with a trailer he put ice in a hooper on the front with a 1 cylinder gas motor pulling a fan, my Mom rode down to Miami and back a couple times when she was pregnant with me in his H63 ) I still learn something from all y’all every day! 

Heck about 25 years ago a fellow called me wondering if I was interested in a old H  Model Mack for parts because he knew I had a LJ ,,( doors were about all I could use) I remember his Dad pulling a lowboy with it when I was young , needless to say, I didn’t part it out,, that put the LJ on the back burner another of probably 10 times in 30 years. Plus I changed it from a tandem (dead axle ) to single axle, stretched it to now a rollback. Rabbit chasing ! 

Yes  Im prone to chase rabbits! I’ve been restoring  the Cocoa Cola LJ half my life,, and a lot of topics came along with it , thanks 

It was probably a 150 or 210 ,, I’m sure I could find it with the vin ,, it’s a cool car but it kinda goes back to the comments I made about truck parts vs car parts . Take for instance my Grandson, he likes the 55 Gasser ,,, But when you mention one of this old Mack’s he will give you a history lesson,, because they all have done something, been somewhere. From the LJ that was the first local Diesel Coke truck, to the C Model my Dad drove new , H Model that hauled furniture new , The LTH was a log truck new . Trucks are just different, they have a Story to tell . 

Unfortunately you are correct! I have a 55 Chevrolet Gasser and. 68 Chevelle SS and restored both,,, Big truck people are Much better to deal with, NOS or reproduction or used ,, 90 % of us grew up around these things or use them .