Vladislav

Welcome! I'm not Dutch but I'm shure The Netherlands is the most "Mack paying attention" country in Europe. Look for a very good book "De historie van Mack trucks in Nederland". It's awalible. And put the date of Oktober 12 this year on your calender - Mack day in Amsterdam. Vlad

There also was NR. You can see it secont in the row of trucks in the camp. Just behind the LM wrecker. I think you're right Mike. At the moment there are 2 or 3 NO's in Great Britain wich used to show out to the public. The one on my picture has purple letters on its front - "FLOOZY" No Ray, I don't. While there I enjoyed them Dodges and the thoughts of the wrong kind started to build up in my collector brains. Now at home I continued over my unfinished projects and got such the thoughts off my head. At least it appears to me.

That's a very good think you pointed Bobby. Being there I saw some veterans of those days who came to the celebration. About 80-90 years old now. And it wasn't difficult to note - most of the people there who were dressed in an old uniform, drove vehicles or just came to look around - they observed the event as a big fest, holiday. A nice game to play with vintage toys. But when you saw the faces of the veterans, they were of the different kind. Those men cam on the shore making their service and many payed a high price for that. And I'm too thankful to them because they made the war shorter and sure sawed lots of soldier's lives in the Eastern front. Vlad

Hi Pawel! The white star on the Mack's door is turned over because it was Canadian unit. They had it that way. Thanks Ken, I was sent a PM from him.

If you mean the truck on two pics with British flag on it's Scammel Pioneer. They used to be recovery vehicles with some equipment in the rear. They look awesome on my mind although I doubt about great success in mud racing. There's original diesel engine of not too big capacity and they are 6x4. Rear bogie also keeps its originality with the axle as a trunnion and some special gears (covered, chains?) to the wheels. Front suspension on the single spring adds a special taste to whole the unit. If you look on the 2nd pic you can note there were two of them.

The event was planned earlier so I went. DMM is now on the list. Horrible it's about the same distance. But to North East instead of South West Thank you for comment.

Along one of the cruises over the area I saw this Mack NO. The only Mack I saw there excepting two in our camp. As an addition here are some scenaries of Normandy.

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Most the time we were at the camp side, making food, eating and drinking, made a lot of driving around and on the beach. I took a bunch of pictures, you can see the most interesting and attractive ones. There were many English vehicles of those days and lots of American ones.

Hi folks, I have been off for a while but it doesn't mean I wasted the time. And as we all know the time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted. Today is a little late day to talk about 6th of June although I've just returned from the trip and able to post now. So... I had a nice time making trip to Holland and countinued it having a journey to Normandy, France. The company I was keeping were Dutch friends who liked WW2 vehicles. They were so nice so I was allowed to drive all the way to France and back this khaki beast. About 1200 km at all. 1943 LMSW, 6x4, 14.00-20 all around, no power steering. Here are also some pics along the way.

I like the white rims although the flaps are asking for dogs. Glad to see it ready to go.

Do you work with the "new" bogie ? I mean 6.5 carriers.

I put 12R24´s in place of 10.5-24´s and the last were much larger. Although it was not a B Mack. For the best you should come to a shop and measure up an actual tire.

That moulding was recently avalible from PAI. I bought it new but can´t remember now from Watts or PAI. Probably the PAI one and it was good. Keep a look on evil bay also, I noted such a stuff couple of times there.

If you gonna sell those bushes you should pay much more care about them when pulling. Or if not why did you pull them off? Ah, the s**t list, a paper and pencil ... Hope the foundation is still tough.

I like the last pic best of all! Just kidding. A lot of interesting stuff, I'm not familiar with many of them but they shure all worth to pay some attention. It's always nice to see vehicles wich owners put labout and love into. Thank you for posting.

I Googled this alot and found out Chinise light units on ebay with clear glasses. Don't know how good they would work. My task is slightly different, I'm looking for Euro lights to install to the MH.

In the area I live I've never seen any vehicles with no springs. Mixers rode springs and tanden cranes have special equipment to lock springs to work without outriggers. Maybe that DMM was originally heavy tanker indeed and had walking beams for the same reason as a mixer. Keep discussing with the owner about a way of transportation.

Interesting find. Looks long for a single axle. Hope you'll be able to get it.

Cool looking rig

Ken, The FWD runs fast and smooth You shouldn't have a worry on this matter.

Thank you for your minds folks. Interesting point of the walking beams for a mixer, it makes sence. I spoke with other guys here and we resolved the truck probably was a chassis with some drilling equipment for oli fields wich are plenty of in that area. On my mind it would be funny (and easy) to put just a fifth wheel on the end of that long frame or vice versa to split it if the frame has damages (looks like it has) and get an extremely short all wheel drive tracktor. On the other note here's a big difficulty with chick magneting. Moscow govnt limited access of vehicles more than 12 tons GVW into the city at a day time. Maybe one more reason for trips to Saint-Petersburg. A lot of to magnet there

Yes, for me. Ken, thank you for the asking. There's the export facility in Secaucus NJ wich helps me for overseas shipping. They're quite close to Newark airport and to NYC. Work during a working time. If anyone is going to the show from that area some help would be good. Just if it's really close to you and wouldn't cost much trouble. Vlad

Vehicle's chassis components keep some mistery about their weight ratings on my mind. That bogie American guys call (called when I was in America at least) a walking beam suspension. It doesn't have any springs excepting tires itself. The only reason I see is an ultimate weight capacity. The axles of the vehicle don't seem extremely heavy but more strange there's the single frame. Much more strange that frame is 10.5 meters long. About 35 feet. If I ever get that baby I will put a Camelback in it. By a chance I have one off 1945 army Mack. But that's a long story. I feel a road trip in the nearest future indeed. But that's another one. To Europe. So I'm gonna crazy. No matter having one more Mack or having not. There are not many Macks in this country so picking one up is not a common thing.

Welcome! Here shure is the place you have great chances to work out your ideas. Vlad