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That is going to be a real tall order I'm guessing. They have to have been extraordinarily rare, and of those probably none were saved due to their "undesirable" nature. Of the entire Diamond Reo Trucks Flickr group there is only one photo of one:

VTG 1975 ADV Diamond Reo Rogue Detroit Diesel Caterpillar Cummins Gold Comet Rio | eBay

I have an original raider sales brochure. I’ll have to dig it out. Just based on observation the vast majority or Diamond Reo trucks I see that still exist are some type of vocational truck. Very few are tractors. I think they were marketed as a premium vocational truck. From what I can tell they were highly customizable and could be build to custom specs. I have even seen some 6x6 that were mixers. I’m not sure what White was thinking by buying Diamond T and REO then merging them into a premium vocational brand when they already had Autocar in that space. Too bad the folded. I always really liked the Diamond Reos from the late 60s to the 70s

Yes definitely a Diamond Reo Rogue

Did your employment take you to all these fire houses as a vendor rep or trainer or something or did you just as a hobby visit fire stations and take pictures. Hard to believe a guy from Georgia was randomly in the Brighton Heights Pittsburgh neighborhood in 1988 and happened to get a photo that good...Just curious

How did you come to photo so many different company's trucks all over the country? Do recall which year you took the photo of engine 35 in Pittsburgh? I had to google it to see which area of Pittsburgh that station is located. I was curious since its local to me. Its in the Brighton Heights neighborhood on Pittsburgh's North Side. Not a bad area but not too great either. Was probably a lot nicer when the photo of the Brockway was taken. Attached is a Google street view of the station as it is now. Hasn't really changed much at all. What's interesting is you can see in the carved stone marker above the overhead door it says Engine House No. 15. The county real estate records say the city acquired the property in 1898. The building looks to me like it was built in the teens or 1920s.

Exactly the way I remember them running. First time I drove one back in the day I was thinking it would run like a 300 Maxidyne. I shifted "early" and thought the thing was going to stall. IMO they have terrible performance below 1400 rpm for what their intended purpose is. Seems to me there was "nothing there" until the turbo really started doing something which was around 1400. As I remember the AMIs were much less problematic than the AC version, and all things considered were actually a pretty solid early emissions engine. They just do not have the same performance characteristics Mack had been noted for up to that point. The fuel consumption seems pretty high but I never really paid attention to that when I drove them as it was a slip seat deal..

AMI is one of two engines that could be under the hood of an 07. Well possibly 3 technically. I think maybe the MP7 was out in 07 but that’s beside the point. In the early 2000s Mack offered ASET engines. “Application Specific Engine Technology” AMIs were for vocational applications and the AC version was for highway stuff. The main difference between the two was how they cooled or managed the EGR. AMIs seemed to be the less problematic of the two but yea real gutless wonders and laughable low end torque

You know the model and serial number is stamped into the outside face of passenger side frame rail somewhere between the leaf spring hangers? If you need to utilize that one. Theres always the possibility that the door was changed and the tag on the door doesn't match the truck. Doubtful but always a slim possibility until verified. I would think the stamping in the frame rail would be the real one if there was a discrepancy. Just an FYI....

in 94 an R model could be fully mechanical or VMAC. I'm assuming the same goes for the CHs. Do you happen to know which type of E7 you have? That piece of info would greatly help with a diagnosis.

Well the red roof “miracle house” from Maui is 100% real. There are a litany of news stories on it and interviews with the owners. They were not even in Hawaii when the fires happened. It is their vacation home. I think they concluded it was stucco and had a metal roof and almost zero shrubbery or vegetation around it is what saved it.

The ticket is a red roof. It’s camouflage to make the embers and fire think the house is already on fire and to just keep moving on elsewhere. How do you think the “miracle house” from the Lahaina Maui fires in 2023 survived?

So are you saying if you had functioning city water, a 6,700 gallon pool full of water, an engine driven trash pump full of fuel and all you could find was a functioning 3/4” garden hose you would throw your hands up and walk away? I have personally put out camp bonfires in my back yard that had flames 5’ tall and had been burning for hours in mere seconds with a garden hose. I don’t think this man was trying to extinguish a fully involved structure fire or go into a burning building and knock down a raging fire. He was simply going around putting out embers. In fact he says as much in the video. He said all he did was kept small embers drifting through the air from starting actual fires. I don’t think he had any specialized equipment and from what I can gather saved 3 homes with what he had on hand, which were most likely garden hoses fed by a poorly functioning public water supply. I don’t know. Is he a fool? Is he a hero? Is he lucky? I personally don’t think he was any of those. I think he was a resourceful man with logic and critical thinking skills that had everything to loose. I get the impression he knew nobody was coming to save his house. I can’t answer that since I don’t live in that area. That is a question for everyone that abandoned their home. It probably has a lot to do with evacuation orders and people not disobeying. It is noted in that video the man defied evacuation orders. It could also be that many people did stay behind and the city water supply was completely depleted. In that case it makes no difference what hose you have. Again I don’t know the particulars. However, there are many documented accounts of people saving their homes. I saw one where the gentleman ran out of water and was using potting soil from all his inside plants to snuff out hot spots. What I do know is if you were to literally do absolutely nothing and evacuate then I think there is a good chance your house and all your belongings would have burned down to ashes. If you stayed and used a garden hose to keep embers from turning into fires you may be able to save your home. I think based on the many accounts it’s possible. Worst case if your house catches fire, get in your car or on your bicycle and leave. At least you don’t have to lay down at the end of the day for the rest of your life knowing you did nothing….

I don't know. Maybe. I know nothing of firefighting. Perhaps if your trying to extinguish a fully involved structure fire. Based on what the man said there were small embers floating through the air that landed and started very small fires. He claimed it took very little water to put them out. It looked to me like he was using a garden hose. And from what we are told the municipal water system was at questionable performance and/or failed. Heck he saved three homes, presumably with a garden hose.

That video shows the man having a pool in his backyard. I don’t know it looked like maybe 2 or 3,000 gallons possibly. I would think a ton of those homes that burned up have similar or larger pools. It’s easy to say this in hindsight but I would think it would be handy to have a small engine driven trash pump rigged up to accept a garden hose as a fire contingency plan. Much like people in cold climates have a wood stove or generator for backup power.

Looks like 3 years of no heat

Yea it seems the NYC procurement people had a really nice spec for all these units. They all were generally set up the same. single axle R models and DMs all with about the same wheelbase and the wrecker body is always a Weldbuilt. I have seen them with a variety of different under reaches installed. I don't think Weldbuilt made an underreach and/or whoever bought them at the surplus auctions could have installed them after buying the trucks. Allison automatics and big, heavy, counter weighted push bumpers. I have seen them sold as surplus from NYC sanitation, tunnel authority, NYPD, and FDNY. There could be others too. All built like brick $hithouses. Here is a few for sale on FB Marketplace: 2003 Mack rd688p - Commercial Vehicles - Prompton, Pennsylvania | Facebook Marketplace | Facebook 2001 Mack rd wrecker tow truck 30 ton boom - Commercial Vehicles - New York, New York | Facebook Marketplace | Facebook

To me all three wreckers look like Weld Built units originally manufactured for any one of the litany of municipal users in the NYC boroughs. They all have that same look and come up sale quite often. Whats interesting to me is the "accident scene" isn't "secured" and there are not 1,000 blue and red strobe lights flashing for no reason. Just 3 guys winching out a truck and that's it. And 40 or 50 people were content to just stand there and watch a mere 10 ft away from all those cables under tension and nobody cared or told them they had to leave. If you tried that in this country and didn't comply I'm fairly certain you would be arrested for "interfering with official business" or some other law....

If I'm not mistaken they were just rebadged Diamond Ts. At least the first ones. Maybe later on Mack manufactured them on their own. Just looking at the two photos. The red and green Jrs are completely different. The red one's cab resembles a Mack LT cab and the green one looks nothing like it. The green one has completely different fenders and running boards etc..

I know it’s not a Mack but it’s a pretty neat old White that doesn’t look like it would be too bad of a restoration for someone. I think the cabs are aluminum. Not mine just passing along. I have a soft spot for the old Whites lol…. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/948515697190981/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post

Have you tried Watt's Mack?

I’d love to have it. I would like to have a 700 series long hood R model with a Cummins or cat to put one of my rest rite bunks on. This one would be perfect but ain’t in the cards right now. Too many projects and I just purchased a farm I need to dump some money into

Its name checks out: "Jackery"