Bobby toner2

Kenworth Hustler hauling steel.

23 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

A post came up on Facelessbook yesterday and it appears no one knows much about this style of bonnet (hood)

 

Anyway the first thing I thought of was I had seen that style before on BMT forum

 

The style of the headlights was similar but thats about all 

 

Anyone have any ideas 

Paul

 

the picture frpm FB

A close up of the headlights

 

The truck on BMT that has sinlar headlight arrangement

A close up of the head lights 

 

The obvious difference is the FB truck has a tilt front and the hood is shorter were as the BMT has what I would call a butterfly bonnet or hood

Guessing the headlight bezzels (the chrome look headlight surrounds) are maybe from a cab over 

 

Any thoughts anyone?

 

Was a FB suggestion the bonnet was made shorter because of, read bellow .....

I am an Old Fart that has been around Autocar Garbage trucks for over 50 years and my Theory is that There were LOADS of the Long nosed A cars with the 25 cu yd Bodies on them for over 25years. In the mid to late 70's  garbage companies were buying the Longer 31cu yd bodies and could No Longer use the longer nosed Autocars which was {at the time} One of  Preferred Trucks they were using {Brockway, Mack, Autocar} Due to Length restrictions Autocar, had to come up with a "Stubnose" {shorter Nose} Model wich I started seeing around the 77-79 time period, with the 31yd Longer Bodies. Mack and Brockway already had Stubbies  for years.  This is My Theory wich Older guys than me told me as well. Hope This is accurate. If anybody Knows anything to back what I am saying Please inform me.

Or this from FB .....

Early model Constructor model. Right after Volvo bought them out and ruined them.

 

Anyone know as I definitely don't have any idea and am curious 

 

Paul

 

 

It’s and autocar model ds, seen them spec’d as mixers.

On 1/11/2021 at 8:05 AM, mowerman said:

wow,,,jackpot...ive never seen them.....thanks for the post,,,most of them look like thier still alive..bob

The yellow b model is from St. Louis, JH Berra is the company. Was just in their yard and saw this roll off.

The city had some mr’s in the 80s.

They have never run a Mack, their fleet has been International, Freightliner and Crane Carrier.