Terry T

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.

Stacy Keach & Jamie Lee Curtis were in it. I watched it a couple times some 30+ years ago.

I was going to mention that 765 was in your neighborhood not so long ago. It resides in New Haven, IN which is my neighborhood. When we had our freight terminal in Ft Wayne, during excursion season, it would regularly run right past our front door as the office of our building faced the tracks and was only about 120' from them & the Lumbard St crossing was just 300-350 feet away. You could feel her before you heard her then you could smell her for quite sometime after she was gone!

I forwarded the pics & post to Mike last night. This was his response: "Im pretty sure Bill Smith did the restoration, there was a very similar truck that was owned and restored by Tom Pierce from MI,but I really don't think this is it,but I could be wrong. Bill Smith's collection had been sold off for 10 years or so,when this G75 and a restored KW were found hidden in a terminal building. Ken Crouse and his now late brother George,bought them,and Ken resold this one,his brother donated the KW along with some of his other trucks to ATHS in his will." Mike's health still has him down somewhat but his spirits are good. He no longer has an actual computer so he doesn't get on this site much at all as he cannot log onto here with his tablet. He does post on several Mack & ATHS related FB pages however. On FB he is Mike Harbison Sr as Mikey is also on FB as Mike Harbison. If a Mack has ever landed in Iowa there is a good chance that the Mike's know something about i!

I noticed last night that this "account" has made (at least) one more post that will get people to innocently respond. My guess is that it's a spammer and the easiest way to find accounts to duplicate is to get the victim to come to you. By people responding to his posts he can just go down the thread and look at profiles and go from there. I'm not in IT nor am I very tech savvy but that's just my opinion.

Mike doesn't get on this page very often anymore because of computer issues. He is on the BMT FB page though.

It's a diesel. I read the info card on it but all I remember is that it's a 1000GPM pump & 1000 gal tank and that it is a 1981 model and is still in active service @ Morning Sun, IA.