Vladislav

Tell to the owner to keep those original double square's if he put round ones on the truck. There could be a bunch of folks interested in getting them. Starting from me

I hope that will NOT be soon. Otherwise the world will finally lost the most attractive-looking trucks

One rare beast. Worth some tongue twisting if the owner is contactable for discussions.

Hi, Neat looking Ultraliner you have! Currently I'm in a process of freshening up my MH613 with e6-350. But that's in a different part of the globe. Would be interesting to see some views of the front end of the chassis and others from under the cab of your truck. Aussie-built ones differ much from Americans. Vlad

Looks fresh. I wish you many miles with it.

Just wonder how that red thing looks exotic on American highways? Suppose it takes some folks' head turning. And sure it's a pleasure to drive. At least if you can accept COE at all.

R-model pre-82 (short) hood length it 53-3/8 The width I'm not ready to state exactly. Close to 2.5 meters but no more. I'd bet 2.3-2.4 m. The hegth is currently unknown to me. Something like 1 meter. The weight is nearly 100-120 kilograms since two men can carry it hard. Three is much better. And four carried it right today for nearly 100 meters with no stops

You are on the ONLY right way if you're going to run your truck well. If mechanics call themselves as they do it doesn't mean they know the matters. And when they ruin a vehicle a customer usually doesn't have a clue to fix the case up. In theory you don't need to undersize the shaft to the exact figures. You may just undersize it to the grade the wear is gone. Then measure it and fabricate new bearings of brass/bronze stock of the size you made your shaft. If you can get factory bearings and keep the correct under sizes it sure would be better. Good luck on your adventure. Vlad

By the word a nice Mercedes car is going to push that bus in its back. I do belive 230/250/280SL W113 "Pagoda".

Almost as said above. Fuse up everything you can to be safe Just try to keep the original (or close to original) look when possible.

Once I googled sources on aluminium round tanks and found out a company which supplied separate parts such as round bottoms, inlet necks and so on. I didn't check out the costs since the company was Aussie. If it was the US I'd order them four bottoms to weld tanks locally. OZ is a way too difficult and costy to import to my location. As for steel ones (and they are original to your nice R) I'd go a rebulid path fabricating new skins of sheet metal with original bottoms and steps. Not extremely much of a labour. It might worth to sandblast the inner sides of the parts you keep original and repair damages before get everything back together. Here's what I recently made to the pair of Mack MH steel tanks. As you can see the "dirt collector" lower can took some weld up after being blasted and showed out the need of. Vlad

Autocar looks like a proud worker! Cool 'classy' job

Thank you for sharing. The RW is pretty!

Seems like the flood catched Macks either. The shots like these make me think of how we people are small and unpowerfull creatures in the relation to our mother-nature.

Congrats on the purchase of that baby!

That's funny about hillbilly bleachers Mike Had to Google it though, hope to keep in my copybook memory.

That's a real pleasure to meet such deep experts on here who can easily identify old units. That mixer looked to me ultimately rare so I just haven't mind of multiple units in the existance.

Neat Macks there. I remember you posted the pics of some of them before. The F-model concrete mixer looks similar to the one at Gary Mahan's collection. Is that a "brother" or just the same truck?

Many thanks for sharing Mike! Looks like it was a great show. And nice rows of hey

Damn impressive! The picture worth to be used as a wall paper. Wonder a kind of a feeling a man would get waking up in his bed and seeing it on the wall in front of him

Wonder what did Macungie-built Value Liner have of the frame? The straight rail design as on the Western trucks or the Eastern R-model frame with wider spread at the front? From the pics above it seems to me more like Western RS/RL rails.

Great looking B! Good luck on what ever you're going to do with it !

That's what I have on the gearbox I bought recently. Unfortunately it was already removed from the truck it was on so no traces of the spots the lines came to. The pointing out of a dash mounted switch makes sence though.

Ho-ho... Let's see how the cards will lay in that game. And from where I'm sitting it looks like no one is winning. So far.

I always thought restoring and collecting tanks is a nice deal. Now your work demonstrates tank trucks aren't an exception