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  1. GearheadGrrrl
    As a fleet driver, I've driven them all... Enjoyed the Macks and endured the rest. Paccar products are largely overrated antiques, Freightshakers... well, shake themselves to bits. Whites, Volvos, Internationals, and Fords are OK if you don't ask too much of them. But if you're going to be trucking on city streets or two lane roads or where there ain't no roads, get a Mack.
  2. GearheadGrrrl
    Would be nice with a set forward axle for pulling double 48s in the states and turnpikes that allow them.
  3. GearheadGrrrl
    BTW, that "liberal" George W. Bush allowed the tighter emission regulations...
  4. GearheadGrrrl
    Too much hassle for a 17 year old truck! Besides, the early VMAC versions were just electronic controls on a manual pump.
  5. GearheadGrrrl
    The sleeper option was what the Titan needed all along!
  6. GearheadGrrrl
    BTW, every once in a while is see a red CL700 with US Government plates pulling a lowboy loaded with Humvees around here. Did the military buy many of these CL700s?
  7. GearheadGrrrl
    IIRC, back in the Vietnam era Mack built some DMs for the U.S. military.
  8. GearheadGrrrl
    That's probably just a plain NHCT. The NHCT-CT (Custom Torque) had peak power around 1700 versus 2100 for the plain NHCT and peak torque down around 1200 or 1300 RPM. Same engine, different tuning. The NHCT-CT came out around 1966 in response to the Maxidyne and was replaced by the "Formula" derived PT (Power Torque) engines in the mid 1970s.
  9. GearheadGrrrl
    Menards is one step up from Harbor Freight.
  10. GearheadGrrrl
    Formula engines came out in the mid 70s. The engine in the '71 was probably an NHCT-CT, a 248 HP high torque rise version of the NHCT 270.
  11. GearheadGrrrl
    PT270 was an 855, basicly an Formula 300 with a flattened torque curve and 2100 RPM governor setting. Fleet engines were like a Formula, except governed to 1600 RPM IIRC.
  12. GearheadGrrrl
    'Twas Cummins attempt at building a Maxidyne, but didn't work quite as well. UPS had thousands of them in GMC Astros, they kinda worked but made you wish for a genuine Maxidyne.
  13. GearheadGrrrl
    Rob is working as an organizer for Obama... That should flush him out!
  14. GearheadGrrrl
    This is the kind of PR Mack desperately needs!
  15. GearheadGrrrl
    Both sides are right. On one hand, Mack probably couldn't have survived without Volvo's capital and size to build new engines to meet the 2007 and 2010 emmissions standards... Look at the problems Navistar is having! On the other hand, Volvo needs to show more respect for Mack's designs and the loyal customers who pay extra for them... A Volvo with a Bulldog on the hood isn't going to fool a Mack customer!
  16. GearheadGrrrl
    Some of the profits from you folks buying new Macks end up going to this stockholder in Minnesota, USA!
  17. GearheadGrrrl
    Probably all rusted away... The MB has been out of production for 35 years now. Most were worked hard on refuse work, etc.... Your best bet might to find an MB fire truck.
  18. GearheadGrrrl
    The Europeans, Japanese, and for that part, most of the rest of the world's business don't worry about quarterly results... They're in it for the long run. Renault, Volvo, and Daimler got Mack, White, and Freightliner at bargain prices during the 1980s recession. History may now repeat itself, with VWAG picking up Navistar for peanuts after short sighted management damn near ran Navistar into the ground.
  19. GearheadGrrrl
    Back in the early 70s a local trucking company got a heck of a deal on a bunch of new Mack Western F cabovers with Mack V8s. They thought the V8s were too much power, and replaced the V8s with 237 Maxidyne 6s. The local IH dealer bought the now homeless Mack V8s and put them in IH 4300 Gliders...
  20. GearheadGrrrl
    Hopefully not... Unless our length limits change to favor cabovers. Trying to bodge a North American market conventional out of a cabover Eurotruck is an exercise in diminishing returns... By the time you narrow the cab, redesign the front to accomodate a hood, tool up to build a couple longer sleepers than the Euro market would buy there aren't a whole lot of common parts left between the Euro and North American cabs. As for the NA cabover market, I suspect the big users like the refuse companies prefer something basic like the MR and LE rather than a sophisticated Euro cabover.
  21. GearheadGrrrl
    They may be sitting for a long while... It's damn hard to wear out a CH/CX cab!
  22. GearheadGrrrl
    Looking at the current conventional cabs and the Euro Volvo FM/FH cabs, it's not rocket science that some of the design is shared. But by the time they get done modding a cabover into an acceptable conventional and tooling up to build it here as well as in Europe, I wonder if they're saving any money by going with a single basic cab design? And over here, Volvo customers expect a wide cab and Mack vocational customers expect a narrow cab... If they share the same exact cab between Volvo and Mack, one or the other set of customers will reject it.
  23. GearheadGrrrl
    Continental Baking bought a couple hundred Mack Western F models with 8V-71s back around 1966. Reportedly at least one was still running out of the company's Dallas bakery in the late 1980s.
  24. GearheadGrrrl
    Never trusted Faux News much anyway...
  25. GearheadGrrrl
    First, there are few stockholder owned "american" companies anymore- These companies have owners and directors from all over the world, and where the HQ is or where they're incorporated doesn't mean much anymore. As for the "common cab", they've been headed in that direction for some time- Some of the Euro Volvos and Renaults are getting hard to tell apart!

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