CaptainCrutch

They take a truck off the assembly line and run it loaded around without stopping it until it comes time to replace the old one which is typically decided by either a breakdown, which is pretty rare, or that the vehicle has put enough miles on it that they decide to make sure it’s stoll the way it should be. Or atleast that’s how Mack does it, basically quality control for the drivetrain plant. They’ve got a few running around at a time usually. You can tell which ones are the test mules because they’re a solid color, are hauling giant cement blocks, and have Mack Trucks Inc. written kinda small somewhere on the truck. The other ones I’ve seen are a long Cassis MR, an LR tractor, a granite tractor, and now this Pinnacle. They really never shut them off unless there’s a breakdown and they never stop but to change drivers and fill up with fuel.

I happen to occasionally see the Hagerstown Drivetrain Plant’s rest mules on their runs, and today they had a new one, a brand new black Pinnacle with a huge sleeper. The only chrome is the stacks. I’ll try to get some pictures the next time I see it. It’s hauling a flatbed with a bunch of weights on the back and in smaller red text on the sleeper it says Mack Trucks Inc. along with the DOT number. It’s a pretty sweet rig.

Do you mean the arm breaker or the crankshaft?

He’s probably just going for that rat rod look... Very rare but definitely one of a kind.

The worst thing it could be is a brand new Chevy Colorado... I think we’d all like to see your latest rig.

Superliner seeing as the hood side is pretty flush with the side of the cab. And it has fenders that slant in the front. It’d be interesting to dig that one out, it’s got a nice paint job on it. Looks so nice Mother Nature decided to take it back...

The 707 is a great engine. When we first brought our LS wagon home the carb was still running a little lean but the governor was still kicking in in 5th on some of the straightaways, if that’s any idea. Even before we brought it home and it was running on 3 cylinders, the handle on the landoll trailer we were hauling it with got stuck and on the 3 cylinders the truck was climbing about a 35-40° angle. It sounds amazing too. After driving around in it you can still feel the beat in you chest for atleast an hour afterwards. Still have yet to get it pumping, though I did see a B with a 707 pumping, and it pumped like a beast, it’s not often they have to yell at you to turn the pressure down. Granted all of my experiences are with fire engines but I’m sure you can get the idea. Wish I could submit videos on here because I have a few of us running around town with it.

I’m fortunate enough to see atleast one R model everyday, the local concrete plant has a couple DMs and there’s a beautiful tanker that appears every so often. All of them are still on the job.

It’s a shame none are for sale, I’m not even there and I already see a few interesting projects I’d like to work on, return some of these to the road instead of to Mother Nature.

Yes this is an incredibly unusual truck as before it was assumed that the smaller radiator somehow restricted the L cab from being used, but clearly that’s not the case. It’d also be interesting to learn how many of these were made with an L cab. It also begs the question to know if a CA-31 could be put on most other Bs, the only restriction being the size of the motor in relation to the hood of course. I personally prefer Bs with larger L cabs and if it could technically be available on most Bs then that would be a very interesting discovery.

Found another picture of one of those Holmes Wrecker bodies on another H. They do look pretty sweet.

I wonder if that rig is still around somewhere. It would definitely be one of a kind seeing as it’s got 2 wrecker arms. I’d love to see it pull off the same stunt again.

38 minutes ago, 609albert said:

Your Mack is a classic ,the molded in roof lights are one of a kind, how could anyone scrape its twin? I would love to see the Mack when you get it done,where in pa.are you? (MACK Capital of the World)

It’s especially a shame because not only did it have the molded roof lights, it was a 3 door sedan cab. I haven’t quite given up hope on it yet, but all sources lead to it ending up with a scrap dealer. Hopefully he knew what he had and atleast kept the body around. Actually both my engines are Fredrick, MD engines and have stayed in the vicinity since delivery. They both had twins that are untraceable.

I’d like to see how he deals with a split rim. Imagine the levels of bike racks he’d need for that.

I firmly believe that the free market’s natural innovation is the solution to 99% of our problems. Assuming that global warming is true (even through the average temperature of the earth has only risen 1.8° F since the mid 1800s) then at the very minimum companies such as Tesla will innovate new ways to do what we already do because eventually we will run out of resources. Coal and Oil will cease to exist one day, so at some point companies will have to innovate ways to travel and create power that don’t need these materials. For the past 20-30 years we’ve had 8 years before we can’t go back because we’ll have messed up our earth so much. I was talking to a guy who used to live in PA and he told me when he was a kid the rivers would be orange. It’s certainly not like that now. I’m quite certain it’s not because the EPA stepped up and cleaned it. I remember reading that Germany was banning the sale of gas powered cars in 10 years which is definitely the wrong way to go, gas power will phase itself out as time goes on as I’ve already proven. Overall we should just let the market innovate like it always has instead of forcing it to change. We all know how well that worked out for the U.S.S.R.

And does anyone really believe that a planet that survived 2 major extinction events, an ice age, and the impact that created the moon, would even blink at something as insignificant as a race of organisms who burn some nasty stuff? This earth will continue to host life until it gets incinerated by the sun.

This is the only picture of it on the ad. Glad I saved it. It’s quite the rig.

I wouldn’t say this will hurt anyone’s profit margins, Chevy isn’t exactly known for their reliability these days and newer Chevys seem to hold their value like a colander holds water. I know people who bought a Chevy and when to trade it in 5 years later for the new model and the trade in barely covered the down payment. I will say though, I am biased towards Dodge RAM and Toyota because of my limited experience with all of them. Chevy has just not impressed me in a long time.

Australia also had Superliners for a while longer. It’s a shame that Mack’s home has it’s toys stolen from it before everyone else. I will say I see a ton of Rs and Superliners still on the road in actual service, and quite a few CFs running fires as first due. Atleast the classics are keeping up to make up for the newer models.

Tonight I got another one of these insurance scam calls. The fun part tonight was the guy trying to tell me he’s never heard of ‘the Mack’. He hung up after a while of trying to inform him that Mack does in fact exist. Definitely a new one.