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Doug Fetterly was making some very nice chrome or stainless covers for R models. He was selling them at Macungie this year.

Here is a photo of the one he makes for the R-model in stainless, he also makes complete stainless and painted bumpers for B-models. PM mactrucknut on this forum.

rest of the pictures are here-

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/creativeapps/photoPicker/albums.jsp?cm_mmc=ptnr_kes-_-v8-_-GalleryTab-_-ViewMyGalleryHome-_583025933703&cm_ven=ptnr_kes&cm_pla=mykodak&cm_ite=home&UV=52698552054_221599512212&cm_cat=links

click on the thumbnail pic. to open gallery if they don't come up by themselves

hmmmm...I never knew I could do that,or even what "easy share" was. It's an all day job to put that many pictures on Webshots,this took about 10 minutes!

You must have to be a Kodak member to view this, it wouldn't open for me.

No radio. WTF i would go crazy.

Is this better? In freight each driver brings their own.

What are general specs? S/A or tandem engine/trans. Any "goodies"

This purchase should put the total number of Pinnicles since 2008 to almost 800 units, all single axle with the MP7 engine and 10 speed Roadrangers.

does anyone happen to know what issue of Double Clutch the article on Sears Oil in Rome,NY was in? been lookin for the issue for some time now. im sure i have it just dont know what to look for. thanks,Matt

Matt,

It was January/February 2003.

John K

When I was a kid, I rode in one of Red Star Express's G-models from the terminal in Glenmont NY to the Exit 23 compound and back, one fellow drove it over, and my Brother drove it back, I sat on the doghouse. I remember it was brand new and it may have been experimental because it was the only one I ever saw. I wish I had a camera back then.

This is also a great place to insert a Doug Fetterly photo of one.

C models were built between 1963 and 1965. They were an interm model between the B and the R. There were about 3100 made. They have a L cab, B67 fenders, L radiator with a different top tank, swing open fenders and a butteryfly hood. From the front bumper to the back of the cab was 89 inches. this was to accommadate a 40 foot square nose trailer and still be with in the length laws of 55 feet for New Jersey and Pa. The B67 was on the same order but with a concave cab. The power train was a 711, 673, or 864 (v8) Transmissions were mostly duplex or triplex.

Here's one from the gallery

Got a fresh batch of Doug Fetterly photos in to pass around to the folks, I think Doug said this was in 1985.

Two more photos, hope they help. I can relay the question, but unfortunately, these two guys "in the know" would rather break a 10.00X20 tire than to be on a computer...

The setup works just fine, pulling a 16,000 lb. camper for years.

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Hi, is there any way you could find out for me if that B75 in the picture has a factory power steering column for that shepherd box or is the column out of something else?

RC,

This is said to be factory power steering.

Happy New Year Everybody!

John K

Thanks for your response! So the blue truck pictured with the chrome filter housing has the 676 engine in it? And your saying it also is using that filter arrangement with the plate on the block corresponding with that filter arrangement? Also do you know the amount of oil pressure that 676 is running at? I've been questioned as to weather or not that old filter arrangement can handle the increased oil pressure from 60lbs. in a 673 to perhaps as much as 90lbs in a 676 engine. Thank agian for all your help!!

Two more photos, hope they help. I can relay the question, but unfortunately, these two guys "in the know" would rather break a 10.00X20 tire than to be on a computer...

The setup works just fine, pulling a 16,000 lb. camper for years.

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This is the setup on my friends B-75, even though he and another person in the know, say that the two and three filter system will fit. They also say it will be tight. This is the "duplex" canister and the plate on the block is one of the two pictures from the book.

The bigger problem is the 676's fan is higher and doesn't fit in the origional 711 fan shroud on the B-75. My friend put the water pump from the 711 on the 676 to make it fit.

Was surprised when I saw that this old wrecker is a Mack, unfamiliar with this model, but the grill looks the same as that EH's

A peak inside the old B-61

Looks like those heavy CHEP pallets busted right out of the trailer roof.

Another shot of it...

Here is an interior shot.

These photos are from the C. Grier Beam Truck Museum in Cherryville NC. Mr. Beam was the founder of Carolina Freight Carriers.

It appears to be the same as this one, unfortunately I didn't focus on the model, I was too busy drooling over the B-67 and the H-67 there. (Click on it to make it large)

just wondering- anybody know anything about those electric picture frames? I looked at some in the store yesterday while I was getting my eye drop prescription filled. The box said they hold 1,000 pictures, but how do they work? Can you put pictures off your PC on them or do they use a camera memory stick? Couldn't find anyone to ask in the store, besides I know I can get the straight scoop here.

Already made my Christmas list- I ain't gettin' nobody nuthin'. But I thought my mom and dad might like one of these because they like to see my road and truck show pictures and I put them on discs for them, but they have to look at them on the computer.

Buy a larger one, or at least see what the pictures look like on the one you are going to buy. The photos look distorted on the smaller ones.

The 1G memory sticks are cheap now and can hold hundreds of photos.

In the late forty's and early fifties, my Father owned several Brockways with Continental gas engines, He was talked into buying a Reo Comet gas job and never liked it, removing the Reo engine, He replaced it with a Continental. Still unhappy with the Reo, which he had lemons painted on the hood, he sold out and went to work for somebody else.

Back in the day, my Father would haul a load of cement every now and then on a saturday for Schwerman Trucking. He would say of the B-models, that they were the only Macks that he ever saw, that had Roadrangers in them.

Went to a construction equipment auction locally, mainly to see who once belonged to these '09 KW's, thinking they were local, they were not, they came from an outfit in Kentucky which I could faintly see on the doors (maybe somebody knows of them). There were 10 of them, mated with tri-axle dump trailers, Mac's and Benson's (sold separately), each with 550 Cummins, 18 speeds, all with 50,000 to 60,000 miles on them, all top of the line. The first one went for $83,000, and the rest were $77,500 down to $76,000. They were said to be $144,000 new.

There were also 4 2006 Granites tri-axles (325,000 miles average) with Mack 427's and steel dump bodies that went for around $47,000 each.

indeed-we'd like to see the rest

A couple more for your viewing pleasure.

Recently attended the Carolina Freight Employees Reunion in Cherryville NC and got some photos of the many Macks at the museum, here are just two, a B-67 and H-67.

C. Grier Beam was the founder of Carolina Freight.

I recall a time when I was driving a Brockway with a 425 Cat engine and a 13 speed, and another guy that worked with us was driving an R700 with a ENDT866 and 12 speed.

There was a long hill on RT 22 in NY state that had 2 lanes going up the hill, trucks were supposed to stay in the right lane. I was following the R700, we were both pulling Fruehauf trailer dumps loaded equally with bank run gravel. Going into the hill, I got on the Cat motor as hard as I could,and pulled out into the left lane to see if I could pass the R700. The Brockway pulled about even with the R700, and then it was a stalemate, I couldn't outpull that 375 HP Mack with the 425 Cat, and believe me, I was on that Cat motor for all it was worth.

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HK,

I hate to get too far off topic, but could this be one of the Brockways that you speak of? I understand this was one of several Cat powered Brockways (origional color) that pulled dump trailers up and down route 22 back in the day.

Here is the steel replacement, the plastic one can only be straightened so many times.

Many of you, I'm sure, have seen this beauty before at Truckshows in the northeast hooked to a tri-axle 5th wheeler. This is RV ing at it's finest, where "getting there" is more fun than "being there"! This is from the Harford PA show.