Terry T

All, I don't often post about myself but I just want to say that this was a very special Thanksgiving. I went to the girlfriends home & before I grilled steak & she fixed broccoli & baked potatoes I had decided to give her the birthday gift that I bought her. I'll be at the races in Pensacola on her birthday. After giving her the earrings that were for her birthday I couldn't just stop there so I presented her with an engagement ring & her matching wedding band. She said yes & we're planning to marry in the summer of 2026. Right now she is going through some health issues and hasn't worked but a few days in 2024 so our 1st step is getting her strong enough to get back to work (she's a private contractor home care provider specializing in dementia patients) then getting a plan together to liquidate belongings and get two people who have lived on their own for a combined total of 36 years into one home. It was just the 2 of us when I proposed but we did get a picture later in the evening at the hockey game.

Happy Thanksgiving to all y'all. May it be a safe & blessed weekend.

Yes, I remember this when it was released. It was a Ryder (Obviously) ad explaining how their employees are willing to do whatever it takes or something along those lines. If I remember correctly they actually did lift the truck but it was extremely gutted and a lot of what you see is faux.

If you are on Facebook look up Mike Harbison. His dad amassed a huge collection of Mack trucks, a lot of B's during his life. He just might have what you are looking for. I don't think he is parting anything out but they had a massive collection of parts as well.

Cancer is what finally did Mike in. This is Mike at a benefit that was put on for him a while before he passed. My Dad & I made a banzai run from NE Indiana out to spend a few hours with Mike and then drove back home. It was the last time that I got to visit with him. The picture of Mike & Me was a few years earlier when I was in the neighborhood for the celebration of life for another friend from that area. The 3rd pic is from 2011 after the South Bend ATHS show Mike came to my place & loaded up my F Model and took it home with him along with a Freedom Edition Superliner hood and some other misc parts that I had for him. Mike was a bit younger than me & he had some rough times that created some late night, long phone calls but things were going really well for him until the cancer came back.

I believe that I have had 14 cars & 4X4's. 4 Cycles, 2 Suzuki's & 2 Harley's. I'm not counting campers, ORV's or golf cars. Once I ordered & paid for my 1993 K1500 Silverado I slowed down on buying & selling. I kept that one 7 years, replaced it with a 2000 K2500 that I still own and added a few vehicles since that one. It is now my plow truck & wood/scrap hauler. My daily is a 2014 Duramax powered Silverado. Below is a "fleet" pic. I've since sold the XJ8 but I still have the bug and a friend is trying to sell me her 1994 XJS Convertible with 18,800 miles on it. The seats still look brand new but I'm resisting....

I bought my 1st car in 1980 when I was 15. A '69 Pontiac LeMans with a '68 nose & '67 GTO wheels. I bought & build my 2nd car, a 1970 Nova a year and a half later. I even built a 1/25 scale model of the Nova as I would have liked it to been finished as, after all it was the "BIG '80's! I still have the 1/25 version, the other two are LONG gone.

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I don't have any photo's of R Models with bunks but here are some of our Wabash Fiber Box fleet. These are new 1978 units. I also included Larry Yoder's Superliner for a sleeper reference.

I watched CONVOY last nigh in memory of Kris. Willie is the last of the Highwaymen now.

The one in your picture is a '69. Below is my mom's '68 back in the day. They sold it about 3 months before I was ready to buy a car. Front bumper & parking lights, tail lights, side marker lights & such as that are different.

I was curious so I bought a copy on Amazon. Hopefully I'll have time to read it this winter.

I wonder how Dan is doing. It's been a few years since he's posted here or, as far as I know, anywhere.

They do have a Superliner set up with a lift on the right side for a disabled driver. I think I first saw it at Auburn, IN at the ATHS convention. I don't know if it was at South Bend but I also saw it at Mike Harbison's benefit but I don't have a picture of the right side of it.

I don't know if it's fair to say "it's still with us" but Boeke & Son's Truck Sales cut this one to use as an eye catcher in front of their truck sales business. Still has engine, trans & driveshaft in it. The interior is rough. It's an eye catcher though. Bob is a LONG time Mack guy. He was a mechanic with the area Mack dealership before he founded a trucking company and eventually grew into an independent truck sales dealer along with his boys. I may or may not have drank a beer or two with him over the years...

WTG Larry!

Another difference in the cab is the recess in the left rocker on a U (and I assume the DM) that the R does not have. Sorry, the best pics that I have of each model in my collection.

Just wondering if it isn't a Mack chassis with a cab swap. Fertilizer is hell on steel. Maybe the cab rotted out and they swapped what they had... I remember Mike Harbison having a few R Models that had been in ag in their later lives and most of each truck was still there but the cabs were destroyed by rust.

I've mentioned this truck before & have posted pictures of it. Sorry the only way I can post this clip is via FB. Larry is still running his E9 daily. https://www.facebook.com/reel/373944118965291

Happy Birthday Barry!!!

IDK if both round/square headlights were available during the entire production run or if it was a model year change. Our 1st 4 or 6 MH's had round and the balance of them were square. 20 of the MH's were ordered units. the 21st was bought off the dealers lot, used i believe, and it was a Freedom Edition. If only I had realized at the time that the company sold it what it actually was...

It's never a waste of time when talking Mack Trucks.

The 1st pic is one of the 21 MH's that we had at the companies that I was involved in as a teen & into my mid-twenties. The 2nd is a friends family business. I posted the 2nd just because it seems that no matter how well they're taken care of the front corners just seem to take a beating.

If you are on Facebook look for Mike Harbison. His Late father (on FB Mike Harbison Sr) had a huge collection of Mack's and parts. Mikey has done a very good job of organizing the collection. I know for fact that there is a Freedom Edition Hood there someplace because I bought it out of a salvage yard for Mike and he took it home with him several years ago when he bought my '70 F Model. Mikey has popped in on this forum only a few times. The youngers don't seem to enjoy this life as much as the FB & other social media lifestyles.

He was off work all last week. He drove the motorcoach & enclosed trailer down and they were parked in the infield up against the fence. He flew out of FLA Monday morning & came straight into work. Our airport is only 1.5 miles from our facility.