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leavin thursday am and headed out. its about 2 1/2 hours away. gonna be there thursday thru sunday. so will my radiator screen be carry on luggage Mike? haha joking. hope to meet you guys there. Matt

wow, thats another version of the R model bumper? looks like a modern R model bumper with a top plate on it. the ones i have seen were the old square channel style bumpers from the late 60's with the flat diamond plate on top. i came across a brand new R model bumper from a plow shop. (they threw in jumk pile when the truck was new to put a plow frame on) it has the holes for you to put the chain on the tow hooks but had the holes to mount the bumper straight up and down. maybe it came off a DM? does not have the triangle bolt pattern like most R models. i was gonna weld up the holes and redrill it to fit my 66 R model as the original bumper is junk. also the channel on this one is deeper and the original.

yea i think they been workin on that for like 20 years. its like the PA turnpike, job security lol

yup, i agree. only ever really saw the extended bumper on the smaller R400 version. maybe thats just cause there was a lot of them in upstate ny years ago.

first bench seat i ever seen in an r model and they all have it. guess its more common than i thought? love those long nosed r models. thats on the someday list, along with a B75 with an L or B cab and a superdog

i have seen several R400's that were around 1966 and 1967's that had the flat front bumper like your BCR but had about a 3'' diamond plate on top of it from the factory.

gotta love how some old Macks just look good with Retrac/Chevron mirrors on them. use to see that a lot before around 61 or 62 when back started installin the Delbar mirrow brackets standard on the b models with the bubble back mirrors. kinda odd to see an r model or u model with Retrac mirrors on it. by them Mack pretty much had their standard bracket on everything. like the nice tough spoke wheel look to.

1500 for that B73? god why cant that be in Ny. would cost another $1800 to get it here.

was there a certain year they swtiched from the bendix dual air horn on the r models to the single bugle? or was either an option like the b models? was also wonderin when the door dog started and ended? also when did they swtich from the channel iron bumper on the older r models to the flat ones? some 60's r models also had the channel iron one with flat diamond plate on top also. kinda like a little extended bumper. seen alot of variations, like the tow loops that were cast into the front spring hanger and other had different hangers with regular tow hooks and holes in bumper for them. Matt

maybe that single axle was Re-cabbed backwards and someone put a steel dash on a 78? haha. i have seen it done. also saw a nice all orange Dm with a steel box on it today with a black insert in the hood and i know it was newer but had the old small letters on the front. gonna try to get a pic of it tomorrow. its workin in town, they are tearing all the old cobblestones out of downtown and there is the old DM with steel box workin. god forbid those Peterworth guys put any broken concrete or cobblestones in their shiny trucks haha Matt

im lookin for some aluminum rear spring hangers for a B61LT Mack if you come across any. would take the front rears or rear rears or both.

that B73 is pretty sweet. as usual all the nice rust free parts are 2000 miles across the country

my cousin bought a few old Dm600's one with a 237 and 18 speed quad and the other with a 864v8 and quad from a logger like 10 years ago. the guy wanted 1000 for them. my cousin goes ok ill take the one with the 236 for $500. he goes nope, $1000 for one or $1000 for two, you pick. we put the 237 in his B model and Doug Fetterly ended up with the 864. freakin things had no doors left on them, or fenders left on the hood or floorboards left in themno windshields,. inside and top of cabs were solid grease from the log loaders and no brake or throttle pedals. you had to drive them with the hand throttle on the dash. some people!

yea i recall Doug the outlaw Fetterly having a registration sticker from his 65 B on a 70 something R model tractor last time i was up there course i have been known to swtich a few plates in my day. bought an old 53 Fruehauf flatbe trailer last fall and brought it home with two barely inflated tires and the plate off my snowmobile trailer on it with no air lines to the back and no lights whatsoever. haha

how about this time?

kinda looks pretty good sittin next to my B613T also haha. think we might have drank a 12 pack that night to haha.

it amazes me how many of those old western log trucks arent all beat to shit. god some of the woodchucks here in upstate ny would take that think in the woods and it wouldnt come out with a straight piece on it. amazes me better care they took of those old trucks and they are still around. and where they hell did they find 18 5 hole alcoa wheels for that thing? haha. they are worth more than the truck.Matt

i thought that was the easiest way to drive an old b or r that wasnt registered? just change the door tag and plates and your ready to roll haha. my grandfather said back in the day they would take the plates off some of the dumptrucks in the winter and just run the tractors haulin coal. if they needed a dumptruck they would just switch the plates. he goes sometimes it would take halfway thru the summer to get all the plates back on the right truck again. was good when they ran all green b models. little tricky when they had a few diamond junk reos and fords mixed in the fleet hahaalso seen some old pics of pretty new dumptrucks sittin in the winter in the snow with no tires on them. times were tough back then. they would take the new tires off for the tractors for the winter driving as they didnt need the dumptrucks unless they were haulin logs. Matt

downtown Albany Ny i believe on rt 32/Broadway going north there is a building still painted with Brockway trucks on the side and its about a block or two down from the original Mack trucks dealership. the building still had the M and T engraved in the cement way up high. will have to get some pictures next time im down that way. Matt

downtown Loweville vinny? seems like they been workin on that forever! use to be able to take a left at the Y where Mcdonalds is and head a few miles up twards Martinsburg and they had a bunch of steel nosed RD600 single axle plow trucks that were mint. think they auctioned them off and replaced them over the years. they also use to have a tandem axle B68 that they repowered with a diesel. had a brand new 'Roller' Cresci dump box, the Jersey guys know this box, made in Vineland. was a badass box back in the day. anyways this truck was mint. we bid on it about 15 years ago, think it ended up going for about $8000. was always garaged. use to be quite a few macks workin up that way 10-15 years ago. Matt

looks more like a 67 or so, small letters on the hood, old stlye oil bath air cleaner and fuel tanks and looks like the narrower front axle to me.doubt its a 685 either, probably more like a R607 or 609 with a 711. could have a 237 tho, looks like one shifter, Matt

yeah Kevin All saw mine at atruck show and said it was a shame i had such a nice set of shutters and painted them but i like the painted classic look. if i built a hot rod flashy B model someday ill polish a set up. Matt

i took mine all apart, sandblasted them and replaced a few louvers. took me about three sets of shutters to find enough non bent and broken ones to make one good set but its worth it. also put it back together with little c clips instead of the original wire that rots and breaks. mine are the smooth style shutters tho, have not taken the other style apart with the rubber on them but i assume they are similar. Matt

i think vinny just probably tipped the table over after seein all those U models haha

last i knew Lund was out of business and sold out to Auto Vent Shade company who makes all the visors and bug deflectors and ventshades for cars and trucks. Matt