41180 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 im just wondering what yr mack switched from the tan interior to gray ? my friend recently purchased a mack rd log truck with tan and brown interior and a hood scoop and it has a 5 and 4 tranny. he thinks its a 1986 but i know its older than that. it has round fuel tanks but they were made in 1995. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I think around 82 or 85 maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41180 Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 that was my guess . we had a 82 r tractor that had tan interior . i know a guy that has a 85 superliner that has gray so it must be in the 83 or 84 range . i dont know if they overlapped any Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Yea, I just looked on TruckPaper and theres a 1987 U model with a silver interior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterwelder Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I drove a 85' with a tan interior. I thought the switch was 86'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storkmack Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I have an 85' R with tan. -Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 86 it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Why couldn't the person ordering the truck spec the interior color of his choice? Seems awful Henry Ford of 'em to only have one color choice.... Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterwelder Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 The steering wheel also changed with the change in color too... right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 The steering wheel also changed with the change in color too... right?Yes, and the steering wheel style was changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glensts Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 My 84 was tan and 87 was grey with the new steering wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 85 was split the last year of all tan was 84 the first year of all gray was 86 I have an 85 that is gray had an 84 that was tan, almost bought an 85 in tan and there ya go, the word I got was they were using up what they had in 85 remember some trucks built in 84 were 85's and some built in 85 were 86's that would explain the color overruns. Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 hood scoop and a 5 and 4 with 1995 fuel tanks and tan interior? sounds like a mutt truck someone put together. didnt think a quad would last behind a 300+. i always liked the tan interior, especially if it was clean. hated the newer style steering wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41180 Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 yeah i think shes a mutt. it has hendickson rubber block suspension and mack rears with cone style axles six lug . deffinately a strange truck. it also has button tuck headliner and a oil fied truck type bumper. ill post a picture the next time i see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxidyne237 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 We had an 86 rd with the base tan interior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 yeah i think shes a mutt. it has hendickson rubber block suspension and mack rears with cone style axles six lug . deffinately a strange truck. it also has button tuck headliner and a oil fied truck type bumper. ill post a picture the next time i see it.my 84 rw had the brown button tuck interior on a tan base that was the high level interior option back then, after they went to east coast production only the button tuck died, a sad day if you ask me. Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Do you mean folks gray is a metallic gray painting on interior metal parts?I have it in my 88 and meant of a reason this strange paint in relation to light green outside.I used to see European vehicles. They just paint everywhere the same color. Any vehicle that has different inside/outside seems to me as recolored.Vlad Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Vlad...standard macks in the early 80s had a tan interior paint with a tan plastic headliner, tan door panels and lower wall cloth or cardboard panels. in 1985-86 Mack went to a Grey interior paint and had a gray cloth headliner. I also think this is when the grey overhead plastic radio console was introduced? . I always liked the western button tuck interior with the heat stamped bulldog door panel best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storkmack Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Vlad...standard macks in the early 80s had a tan interior paint with a tan plastic headliner, tan door panels and lower wall cloth or cardboard panels. in 1985-86 Mack went to a Grey interior paint and had a gray cloth headliner. I also think this is when the grey overhead plastic radio console was introduced? . I always liked the western button tuck interior with the heat stamped bulldog door panel best.I have seen a few tans that had the overhead console in tan. The 85' that I recently acquired has the tan overhead console. -Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 what about black? was that just a western thing? had a 82 Superdog that had black painted inside doors and black plastic dash and steering wheel, but had the tan padded door panels with the pressed into them and had black bulldog printed seats.. just wonderin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I have seen western Mack interior painted in black and tan. My 1977 RS was tan with tan door panels. I have seen early super liners I with black interior paint and red,black,blue, cloth headliner and door panels. All the east coast r models I have seen were tan or the later gray paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I've also seen at least one R model that had a red/maroon interior. It was pretty trashed out when I saw it, think it was probably a early to mid eighties model. I bet it looked really sharp when new. Were there different shades of the tan, and also of the green in the earlier models? My '80 model and two '79 models we had were a somewhat dark tan, but had a '73 that it was a lot lighter shade. Same thing with the green, had a '72 700 model that was pretty dark green, and a '69 and '70 that were lighter shades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoos Brothers Construction Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 My 76 RS700 came new with tan interior with a tan plastic headliner but in 1989 the second owner put a tan plastic radio console in with all new tan vinyl back cab panel, head liner and door panels. Now the new cab I got for my RS was off an 84 Canadian R600 and it came from the factory with the tan dash and door panels and painted tan inside but had a black plastic radio console and a tan cloth headliner like out of a diamond tuck interior. I thought at first some one put it in there but after a closer inspection it came that way new. I looked at 84 Canadian R700 a few years ago and it had the black dash with the ox blood red diamond tuck interior with the Bulldogs stamped on the door panels as well. I have pictures of it somewhere. I'll have to dig. I'll have to post some pics of the tan interior in my truck as well Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I interested mostly for is the gray is just a gray, or metallic ?I have my cab inside with I can say "dark silver" color, with aluminium powder in it.Had an idea to play with a paint but would like to keep it original if it was factory.Dash panel is gray with gray radio console. Door panels, seats and floor carpet are dark blue. Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveigou Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 There was another change that happened about the same time (calander year 1986 / model year 1987) along with the silver/gray interior, revised steering wheel and overhead consol, Mack also went with a totally two sided galvanized steel cab. Up until then there were only some galvanized parts (doors?) Quote See my Flickr photostream page http://www.flickr.com/photos/96692978@N05/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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