rockinrandolph

yeah- there's nothing like the sound of a V8 Mack!

you are right about "that sound" I especially enjoyed rolling my window down as I go up over Fancy Gap just to listen to those puppys growling as they blew that nasty 500 detroit in my cornbinder right off of the road. I miss my Macks, I think that my Cruiseliner with E6 350 2 valve would pass that pathetic excuse of boat anchor material known as 500 horse 12.7 litre detroit, maybe my F700 with a 237 /5 speed would have been fairer competition for that detroit.

I always had good luck with my camelback's . I ran a 76 f700 for almost a million with only one broken spring I was using it hauling my car crusher from site to site, I hauled though plowed fields,up logging trails and pulled my dump trailer, flatbeds, and packer trailers with it without major malfunction, it only had 34,000 springs in it and I know that when I was hooked to the crusher that it was running close to 38,000 if not more. I had to get a d9 with a winch to pull me out of a big swampy spot about a mile up a logging trail but only because the flattener was settled into the mud up to the belly pan up against a huge tree. 80,000 plus slid sideways down the hill in the mud up against a huge tree that wiped out the profit had to get it cut down and then buy it. I really miss the good old days. I had reyco suspensions and airrides but my preference was camelbacks with auto mack powerdividers. the macks just kept going no matter what the on or off road conditions I had 3 mh,s 1 had airride and 2 had camelbacks I preferred the camelbacks over the airride any place I put them. I ran my 82 cruiseliner pulling reefer trailers all over the east coast from miami to new hampshire to ohio,new york city and jersey. I was grossing up to 90,000 plus to new york city with an e6 350 2 valve and 9 speed only broke one 34,000 lb spring and that was on the cross bronx. I never really felt that the airrides rode a whole lot better for the extra repairs replacing z springs, air bags and air valves.

I,ve got a 76 cruiseliner that had an air ride cab suspension, but it was welded together, don't know why but it did have it in 76

I was hard pressed to answer just 70/80's because I rode in my dads 53 mack with the integral cab(at least my diapers got changed there a lot) as my mom and dad ran from fla. to ny with a reefer trailer and then I really got a taste of otr riding with my dad in a 63 F model Mack the summer of 63 That mack was a diesel w/duplex trans. It ran 80 plus mph. My first truck was a 74 F model 237 w/ 5 speed,I owned 3 F models ,3 MH's and my favorite 1982 Cruiseliner WS787lst Still sits in the backyard , starts and runs yet. only had 680,000 miles when I parked it.I bought a 76 ws with a 325 v8 from Oregon but I never got the time to put it back together. I started in conventionals in 96 but I still miss the power of that old 2valve 350 mack with that 9 speed fuller going up over fancy gap or through the poconos, outpulls my 500 detroit and got better fuel mileage. I never did get my dreamtruck (80's superliner with big puppy power) oh well maybe someday. I am ashamed to admit that I strayed and owned a gmc, and several cornbinders {International for the youngsters)