1979 F Model

[supercabs]

I seen this yesterday You may have already seen it, just thought I would Pass it on.

http://www.truckertotrucker.com/listings/16081.cfm

[Truck1536]

Beautiful Truck. I have a feeling Thaddeus is going to like this one.

[bulldog man]

1 clean looking F Model yall

later

Bulldog (aka )

[ThaddeusW]

Beautiful Truck. I have a feeling Thaddeus is going to like this one.

Your darn right!

I love the F's and have seen that one a while back. There are two nice F's on American trucker that aren't restored. I would like to get the both of them but 1. I have no real room for em and 2. how the heck do I get them without spending as much as I paid for them. Oh well. I would love to find a V8 powered F.

Nice long wheel base:

http://www.trucker.com/inventory/specsheet.asp?ID=1583114

Headache rack included and a longish wheel base.

http://www.trucker.com/inventory/specsheet.asp?ID=1827694

[GearheadGrrrl]

Those F models bring back fond memories. As for finding an F with a V8, it appears many were canabalised. Here in Minnesota an International dealer was even putting Mack V8s into International glider kits. Fallen flag carrier TCF had a whole fleet of F models single axle nonsleepers set up to pull double trailers. Reputadly they bought a lot of them from unsold dealer stock with V8s, then swapped out the V8 and replaced it with a Maxidyne 6 and sold off the V8s. Another fallen flag, Murphy Motor Freight, had a bunch of single axle nonsleeper Fs set up to pull doubles too- but those 1973 models had the 325 horse V8 Maxidyne. Murphy couldn't pull doubles in much of their area of operations in the 70s, so they didn't put many miles on them. Thusly the company I worked for back in '78 got a good deal on three of them, but one was stolen before we could even put it to work. The Mack V8 was truly a legend in those days...