Vladislav

Vlad, what beach was the photo? Looks like Juno or Sword from the contour. Was it near CAEN? About 12 kms.

Thanks

mike

Mike,

Good knowledge of the matter.

The beach was Gold.

English sector.

It was near Aromanches, about 30 km West from Caen.

Thanks to everybody for the kind words.

To me it looks like an optional equipment.

That bezel is showed out in the parts list.

Anyway if any one would clear us up on that thing it will be very good.

Jim, thank you for sharing the pics.

They gave me one year back, I just felt the athmosphere there.

Wonder what vent in Kilt this past time

Diamond-T mixer is awesome.

And the rabbit is out of comments.

Good catch of the girl in the car.

I used to pay attention to such points but still had no luck on a picture.

Thank you for posting Tom, I haven't seen your reports for some while.

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

Driving an LM and seeing an NO! Wow. That must make you smile from ear to ear! Those are two serious trucks. Thank you for the pictures.

Greg

There also was NR. You can see it secont in the row of trucks in the camp.

Just behind the LM wrecker.

Thanks for sharing Vlad. I don't think i've seen that many Army vehicles the whole time i've been alive. I wonder if the Mack NO is the one on You-tube pulling a Howitzer?

mike

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"

Do you Owen one of the dodges? Nice pics

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.

Real sobering feeling looking at the beaches to stop and think what those soldiers went thru for US we must never forget......also all the old trucks looked good.......thanks Vladislav ........bobby j.

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

Hello Vlad!

Beautiful pictures and some really classy trucks there! I just wonder, why did they put the national star upside down on the door of that Mack in the first pictures? Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Hi Pawel!

The white star on the Mack's door is turned over because it was Canadian unit. They had it that way.

Great pics! Thanks for sharing!

P.S. Yardo has your parts.

Thanks Ken, I was sent a PM from him.

Vlad very nice pictures thanks for taking us along on your trip! What is the cargo truck with the forward mounted axle? looks like some thing they would build for mud racing here.

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.

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.