Shawn Barrett

Should we have this pinned somewhere on the forum for easy access to the Mack fans? http://mackexperience.com

Ok Ok Its time to get specific...although I was at the Macungie manufacturing plant just in the giftshop yesterday....Thats NOT where these pics were taken. This is at the former engineering, design, and proving grounds in Allentown PA just down the road and around the bend from the former Mack World headquarters which was closed down and relocated to Greensboro N.C. two years ago. They have been renovating the old R&D plant for the last 2 years and now its the Mack Museum and Customer center. Where you can see the oldest Mack known to exist, study Mack history, or if in the market take a brand new Titan or whichever you fancy for a spin around the complex!! This is also where they are keeping the historical documents on our trucks gentlemen! To say the least...it was awesome, and if you havent been there yet, well....get off your axle. http://mackexperience.com

Name: B67

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Owner: B67 BullDog

B67 BullDog

4,000+Lbs

Heres some long overdue shots of me removing the ratty old dump bucket from my former road tractor B67-enjoy

April 2011

Very welcome. Gorgeous isnt it? That Bulldog at the end of the line is theee very same bulldog that was mounted on Mack world headquarters since the early seventies. Recently relocated too....well nobody guessed yet.....

You MUST be thinking of Brockway.....Close!!!....but no cigar my friend. Heres more....

Nope...try again....heres some more.

Congrats on the progress. Just made some progress on my 67 recently. I ripped that ratty old dump body off the back. Looks so much better. I can just see the 5th wheel on there now... haha. I sure hope I dont whind up having to do a CSI investigation and recreation of the murdur of my brake components like you did. Will post pics of the old Dog soon. -Shawn

Jim that truck is absolutely spectacular. Congratulations on an awesome build.

-Shawn

Thanks for all the warm welcomes fellas I appreciate it. And Rob I'm glad you read the truck story section thanks alot. And that looks like one helluva nice collection you've got there! Thanks for the pics.

Thats a great story, nice to see one come "full circle" once in a while! especially one with some family history! looks to be in pretty good shape as well,best of luck with the project,and of course,welcome to the site!...........Mark

Thanks for the replies fellas, glad i could share our story with you guys who can appreciate it. And thanks for the warm welcome.

The old girl looks real solid,you leaving it a dump truck?

Actually I'm planning on turning it back to a tractor. If you are interested I wrote up a pretty lengthy backstory on the truck and my father who it used to belong to in the "Truck Stories" section. B67 Bulldog

I'm Shawn Barrett a new member as of today and my truck is a 1964 B67 Mack. This truck used to belong to my father James Barrett. He ran his own trucking company here in eastern Pennsylvania for many years starting in the mid 50s. His truck of choice?....Mack.

My father was born in 1919 in Scranton Pennsylvania. In his youth he started driving for local milk and bread companies making deliveries in Scranton and then eventually operating trolleys and buses for Scranton Transit. During World War 2 he was drafted into the service and served with the 99th infantry batallion in Normandy, France, the Ardennes etc. Wounded in battle and awarded a purple heart medal they then patched him up.... and threw him back in the war!! After the war was finally over and he could return home he sold his boots on the way home to buy his son a toy truck. He began driving trucks again for Eastern Light and Electric in Allentown Pa and then for General Electric. By the mid to late 50s he started tooling around with his own trucking outfit and the rest is history. He started Barrett Trucking in the late 50s servicing Pennsylvania and most of the surrounding states. And continued on until semi retiring in the late 80s. I was born in 1988 and grew up in the trucks and learned everything i know from my father and mother who were truckers all of my life. My father had an expert understanding of trucks what made them tick and how to handle them he tried to teach me as much as possible at a very young age. My father... the greatest man in my life passed away in 1997.

In the heyday of my fathers company he had a fleet of single axle B-model Macks they were all "Omaha orange" had Barrett painted on the doors....and were the greatest trucks ever built as i had heard all of my life growing up.

Fast forward to today.

I always wanted to get hold of one of my fathers old glorious B model Macks And just last month I did just that.

I knew three of my fathers trucks still existed at a local junkyard. Two of them were in bad disrepair and didnt have much left of themselves, however there was one... a B67 that had been kept in very good shape for many years. It was repainted a forest green and had the fifth wheel removed and a dump body installed, but it was still my dads old Mack. Well a few years go by and unbeknownst to me there is an auction held at this junkyard. And my worst fear came into being, My fathers last surviving Mack....was sold to the highest bidder.

A few more years go by and for 2 or 3 years I asked around and got leads on the old truck and i went hunting from time to time searching for it. Until one day. At another scrap yard up north a buddy and i went looking for parts for his car and as soon as I got through the front gates, there it was just as i had always remembered it. I immediately jumped the first person i could find for info on the truck. Turns out it was for sale. A few days later and a phone call to a long time friend of my fathers with a BIG WRECKER,the Mack was back in the hands of the Barretts.

And now with a recently acquired class A CDL of my own and my fathers faithful old iron. It is my intention to return this truck to its former tractor status, paint it Omaha Orange, paint Barrett on the doors and restore it in loving memory of my father James Barrett.

My name is Shawn Barrett and I am from Pennsylvania very near Macungie Pa. {A very important place to us Mack fans.} I am 21 years old and last month I purchased a 1964 B67 Mack that used to be owned by my father James Barrett 30 some years ago. I tracked it down and brought it back home after a few years of searching. I will go into more detail in the "truck story" section later. However I am happy to be a new member of the forum and Im excited to meet and talk to my fellow Mack fans. I will be restoring my dads old truck soon and I'm sure I'll be looking for information from the Mack experts. I am just resting up from being at the Macungie truck show Alllllll day yesterday and what a show it was, awesome turn out of trucks and awesome weather. I just wish they would've continued the show into today Sunday...... I woulda been there! So I'm pumped up about the old Dog after seeing so many fine examples yesterday, I took some pics of it today and I'll be sure to post them for the rest of you to enjoy.