Vladislav

Tom, thank you for posting the beauties! I saw that B-model parked outside at the back yard behind the main museum building when visited the place in 2018. But EHU is almost new to me and seems extremely rare being E-cabover and integral sleeper at the same time. Looks nicely done from what I can see on the picture. Happy New Year to you and Zina!

Would be (damn) interesting to learn what NZ Superliner II used of the chassis. The hood on your 2nd photo looks definitely of American style. And the battery box with air tank attached to also points to the US style RW chassis.

That's Australian version of RB set back axle model. Thank you for the picture. Never seen one of this good quality.

From the shape of the front bumper I would say that's RW2 with just early hood attached. Front bumper bolt holes mate to the chassis brackets. So a trouble to fit different bumper without sufficient modifications. RW1 and RW2 hoods insteed are smoothly interchangeable.

You should check your registration on Wattstruckcenter web-page. Watt's send X-mas Specials notifications, not BMT.

I got all the emails and the hub cap offer was on one of the days. Unfortunately the last of 12 days was yesterday. I remember a couple or even more years back Barry posted on here that he couldn't continue notifying of upcoming Specials on BMT by some reason.

Looks like still plenty of them in the right neighbourhood. Iranians post a lot of pics on Instagram and it seems they're doing well with old Macks. I have no idea on how they can supply themself with spares due to the sanctions. But trucks run so that means with a help of Allah they do I have a kind of idea roaming over my mind to go to Iran and check the things myself. From talks with people who lived there I learned it's possible. Just not sure their officials would have no questions due to US entering stamps in my passport. And what seems more important is a point of view of US consul in ambassady when I request US visa for the next time after such voyage

Necessities in the cab is an everyday reality when you travel up to 3000 km from home not always over developed areas and in many cases being having to live in a truck for a few days or even weeks waiting for a load or repair. Many (or the most) Russian truckers do that way of things either. Even with a cost of 3 dished meal of $4 on avarage in a road side cafe.

Welcome to the party!

Paul, It's a real pleasure to cheer your friends when you enjoy something. Just a part of our hobby you know. Right at the moment I'm looking at those photos and smiling from ear to ear and a little. And would very like you to participate. Worth waisting bugger all, isn't it?

Merry Christmas BMT! Hey, Eastcoasters - don't you also have any snow on the ground? Just like me, in Russia??

Heavy and probably Iranian-made 5th wheel.

Of what I learned the chassis, transmission and the diffs were imported from the States and the cab and the hood were produced locally. As i understood the engine was Iranian production copy of American E6 but I could be wrong on that. The cab is quite simple steel box with small integral sleeper and seemed having no American made parts. Of what I noted were R-model steering column, early steel rimed dash gauges and complete factory vent windows in the doors. The rest was Iranian but looked quite well done and also very solid after many thousand km the truck covered up since it was made in 1983 (the engne was swapped in 1997). Interesting feature I noted was a rear cab attachment. You can see a leaf spring seated on the frame rail brackets supporting the center of the rear cab wall. Looks simple and reliable at the same time. A pair of shocks could be seen at each side if you lean your head to look below the cab floor.

It was very interesting to me to explore the design Iranian Macks were made by since I only could see them on web pics and knew there was a factory producing them by some way. Being able to actually (and finally!) put my hands on and put my nose into I found quite interesting matters. In fact the truck I saw (and by the style of the front bumper attachment the most other Iranian R's) was built on a heavy double frame of a DM600 model which rails have different shape and size than American R-model does. The engine looked like a classy E6-350 4V but the driver told me it was tuned up (or made that way or anything else??) up to 420hp. The tranny was two stick 10-speed unit I couldn't recognize but it looked like a 3 countershaft housing so probably T100 series 10 speed (T1070 or so). The rears were really heavy setup with elephant ear trunnion brackets, Camelback spring packs and cast axle housngs. They looked at least as 44000 series or even (and probably) heavier. 6 spoke hubs with 8 bolt jack shaft cones were fitted with 12.00-24 tube type tyres. The driver told me the most he could do down a highway was 60km/h so with that tall wheels it's even difficult to imagine of how slow the diff ratio was. Possibly the tranny was direct in the top hole but I was out of my Iranian speaking capabilities to figure such a detail.

I had a lucky chance today to see a very rare beast. Sure it's rare in my neck of the woods but I expect it even much rarer in the US or Europe to show up. A friend of mine was told by someone that Iranian Mack truck was parked in Moscow industrial area. The truck was seen 3 weeks earlier running down a highway in the night but no extra facts. This time chances were much higher so we picked up our cameras and went exploring the faith. We found the truck with no efforts at the parking lot we were told it was seen at for the last time. The driver was there also so we could talk a little . In fact "talking" was a literally word since he knew just a few Russian words but it was great anyway. He was loaded with a piece of heavy drilling equipement for construction and waited for oversize permit to move it to Iran. It was taking a while so he had to hang up in Russia, probably longer then he would like to. Lucky him there's still no snow in the central area of the country so he would go home relatively easy. At least I hope and wish that to him.

Seems like someone just removed the missile at the last moment you provided the purchase. Hope you'll be able to manage all those gauges and other stuff sucessfully enough without that sure expensive option.

Paul, Do you mean of applying silicone sealer before putting a layer of primer and paint being put onto? Or onto already painted surface? And which kind of silicone are you talking about? A common gasket sealer from a tube? I'm pretty sure there's plenty of sealers used to apply on body parts for example to seal weld seams etc. Or are those products should be ment as poliurethane, not silicone?

As said above. For instance I don't have Instagram account and not going to set it up. On the other hand being true I'm not a serious buyer for a restored B-model at the moment

Can't figure is that a sleeper cab? Looks long for a daycab but short for a sleeper? A half sleeper H?? Quite rusty indeed but an H-model is not a truck you see everyday. Sure if you don't have it by your shop

Nice B! Hope you're able quite enough to keep the track on all your Mack projects Good luck on this one either!

That's even a DMM. Seems they had to remove RH running board to clear front tyre. Not easy to crawl to the passenger seat Thanks for sharing.

To say great is to say nothing! The body is unbelivable! Now I just hope to get a chance to visit Macungie show one more time and see that beauty in person. Congrats on the perfect deal done!

That's not DM bumper. That's optional heavy duty Superliner bumper. The one which was origially on the truck (red one) looked nostalgic. But I doubt it would look nice after the truck get fresh paint. What was impressed me the most is the condition of the frame rails. They seem as brand new and someone put scratches on them just to make used look Good luck on the project!

Happy Thanksgiving my American (and Canadian!) friends!