Terry T

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My Dad & I drove out to the benefit that they put on for him last September. That was the last time that I saw him but we spoke on the phone several times since. Last we spoke he was tired but still had the fire and was still making plans to do things with so many of his Mack's. I don't know what he felt inside but he put it out there as though he would never quit.

Saturday I had to make a banzai trip from home (Northeastern Indiana) to Kingsport, TN for a funeral. Since 1999 nearly every August we made a similar trip to Bristol Motor Speedway. Corbin, KY and a few small fuel stops east of Corbin always had the best GAS prices so we planned out to fuel in that area. This trip I took my diesel pick up truck. 4.999 to 5.579 was the fuel prices down and back (over 900 miles in just over 21 hours). I had plenty of time to think about things. I am not blaming the current administration or the former. I will however blame government. Washington has a plan. A plan to take care of themselves and those who take care of them. Everyone in big business has lobbyists. Lobbyists and Politicians scratch each others backs. There is a very real reason that crude oil and gas are fluctuating and dropping yet diesel continues to raise in price. Someone want's inflation to continue to move on a record pace for some reason. The most simple way to quietly push inflation is to push up the price of diesel because someone has to eat that. That someone is the end consumer (me & you). This quietly creates inflation and it's in an area that the consumer never questions because they don't realize that if they stop at the very moment that they are reading this and do a 360* look around the room they are in every single item they see was on a diesel powered truck at some point.

Happy Birthday!!!

I've had many business dealing with Ft Wayne Clutch over the past 40ish years. They've been around for a long time & know their stuff.

Actually 3.4 mil in January of 2020 at the Mecum in Kissimmee, FL. Some info about the car. https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0120-397388/1968-ford-mustang-gt-bullitt/

There is a Ukraine on the JOT page and he posted this a few days ago. He has been updating on the board as he can. "Yesterday the occupiers destroyed the largest Mriya plane in the world. From the Ukrainian language, Mriya translates as Dream! They destroyed our dream with wings, but they will never be able to kill the dream of freedom of my people, which will soon come!"

From my Republican/conservative friends who posted on FB it sounds like it was a true sh!t show. From my Democrat/liberal friends it sounded... Well like crickets. Not a single one posted anything at all on FB and I, easily, have 100 friends & family who are on the left side of the aisle. I have to believe that they too are now wishing for a mean tweet or two.

One of Michael Gully's (Necktie) trucks. Gully Transportation & ICX are his companies. He's a long time member of the ATHS.

Over the years I have seen on this very site, on the old ATHS site, on the JOT site & now on FB Mike Harbison (Sr) get grilled by people about his 150-200 Mack's setting outside yet the very people who have blasted him for his desire to not let them get scrapped start stammering "I don't have the money, the place, the time to fix them up" when told to put up/shut up. More recently I have seen Mike respond to people who needed certain parts with "I had one for decades, no one showed interest so it got scrapped last year". It's an impossible game to hang on to the old, rare stuff. Kudos to your Dad for trying to save the right things.

He forgot to swing his doors before he hit the dock...

Perhaps the pictures don't show the true roughness of it but the fire truck looks more than somewhat salvageable. I'm certainly not the guy to do it but although it's dented and bent it doesn't appear to have the rust that one would think it would being exposed to the elements for so long. I'm looking forward to upcoming photos and info for sure!

The 4300 belongs to Bruce Teel of Warsaw, IN and he still drives it daily. I don't see him as often as I used to and get to chat with him even less. This pic was taken from the Auburn Showtime but the truck still looks the same although it's been updated mechanically several more times. The Loadstar is one that we'd pull out when we were running corn real hard and the 2 semi's couldn't quite keep up or when we would transfer corn from the big bins to the smaller bins we had around the various farms.

Long gone now but for years Sheller-Globe manufactured steering wheels in Grabill, IN just outside of Fort Wayne. I thought they were a supplier to IHC until they moved operations out of Ft Wayne to Springfield, OH in 1983.

IDK if they can help or not but you could try calling Fort Wayne Spring Service in FTW. Been around about forever. I use to do business with them often when I was building hot rods, 4X4's and such. 614 E Washington Blvd, Ft Wayne, IN 46802. 260-484-6263

Merry Christmas!

Okay... Now I'm curious about the IHC fire and the MB ladder! Tell us more or work on finding a way to share the link. Mack & Fire friends want to know especially with IHC's history in my home town of Ft Wayne, IN.

Plain and simple: There's a lot more wrong with that truck than there is right with that truck. Maybe it is #1 and maybe it isn't but in it's current condition it is little more than a hack restoration which shouldn't bring any more than current value of any other E9 Superdog.

The link won't work for me but if this is about the B Model at the Pentagon it's a GREAT story!

Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the forum. There's a lot of knowledge within these pages.

As I've been told, "the best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start out with a large fortune...."

It tells me that it is "Age restricted content". We must be too old to view it here at BMT!

Um, Mike this is right in your neighborhood! Maybe you should work out a trade....

It's been a while so I'm not completely sure but in 1999 I was selling Mack trucks and I believe that during 1999 the E9 became unavailable for the 2000 model year in the US & Canada. I think it might have lived on for another year or so down under and in marine applications.