james j neiweem

How about the AP. Was that a bigger version of the AC.

Navistar also has a big military presence

Volkswagon should pack their bags and head back to Germany and take Diamler and Siemans with you. Who the Hell won the war anyway.

Good picture for seeing the contrast between the L and B cabs.

Mack mechanical E-6 350, E-7 400, E9 500 with Mack 18 speed, or Allison auto and Mack rears with camel backs or Hendrickson suspension might be a start. Aluminum cab to boot lasts a long time.

Boat ride the Vision and the CH keep the R's here

Do I see black and red in its future?

Kind of looks like a ford aero max with camofloge

Makes you wonder if Mack was the first manufacturer to use I beams as frames.

Yup that's the one and there was another one just like it. This was probably used during the construction of the Northfield mountain pumped storage power plant. When they tore down the Connecticut Yankee power plant they used the A-car AP 19.

From time to time I hear reference on this site to the Marino Mack LRSW and their Autocar AP-19. Actually they had or have two of these LR beasts. They were both painted red and black about fifteen-twenty years ago in Portland Ct. I know Marino was bought out by Bernhard a few years ago. I am not sure if they still have the Macks or the Autocar.

Love those old Mack factory photos.

Quality Carriers from Wisconsin was a milk hauler. Used Blue Mack B models and H models back in the day.

Way to send all of the factories overseas Kennedy,Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Busch, Clinton, Busch, Obama, Hillary? Maybe Trump can slow this down. Its doubtful though. Too much money to be made and too many traitors in the mix (Dem and Rhino establishment traitors) IMHO of course.

I wonder what the specs were

Matters got buddies.

There were a lot of pictures of LT's in the logging industry. That's likely where the bad rap came from. Poorly speced trucks are the fault of the Engineers and sales people. Paccar probably was delighted when Macks failed. Pacific and Hayes filled the logging gap. Mack and Kenworth both owned Hayes at one time seeing that it was better to buy a proven product rather than re inventing the wheel.

Like you say QA at the factory. Zip ties I guess you can expect that on the newer plastic trucks. There are different grades of zip ties hopefully they use the higher quality ones. I guess the old metal clips with rubber inserts are to time consuming and are not as adaptable.

I read a comment in Wheels of Time about Mack LT's that caught me off guard. He was comparing classic trucks of the time then and now. He thought that the LT Mack was the truck that set the standard for classic truck appearance considering such things as style and placement of exterior components such as air cleaners, batteries, oil coolers, steps etc. What caught me off guard was that while he considered the LT the standard for a classic truck, the trucks reliability was an entirely different issue. He stated that the LT was notoriously unreliable when compared to other West Coast and Mid West trucks. This may have been a biased statement as I read in another issue that west coast truck operators generally stuck with west coast manufacturers and were somewhat unfriendly to there eastern rivals. Maybe some old timers here have some comments on the west coast LT's and B-70's

Looks in great shape

Nice combo. What are the specs?

Saw a Mack Granite tractor with a dump trailer on route 2 today. Couldn't catch the company. Kind of a rare site in Ct. The only other ones 'I've seen are Manaforts Kind of sad. I guess they are too heavy.

There was a Cardi thread on here somewhere. They have some Granites and one Titan along with the older R's. Nice fleet.

The western Macks were my favorite also. Speaking of recycling parts, look at the headlight areas of the G model and H models. Seem to be identical. Also the window area of the F model and the Budd/Ford/N model.

Love that red and black RB. They would look nice as a lowboy