The toothless Scania

[mrsmackpaul]

I received a Australian vintage truck magazine yesterday and in one of the stories it had this photo 
Thought of KS straight away 
A bloke who seems pretty fond of both makes and might end up torn between the two LOL

Back in the day Scania ran a whole series of adds about the benefits of their trucks as they were trying pretty hard to get a good size bite of the Australian market 
And in their adds they featured trucks with teeth painted on them as you can see in the lower half of the photo 

Mack was really well known for first it's Thermodyne and of course then the Maxidyne but when the coolpower was released onto the Australian market it was a game changer for Mack 
I feel the Mack Coolpowers were really what you felt like a Mack should be, they had balls and could out pull a 400 bigcam Crummins and do it for less fuel and also for millions of km

This photo is all about the Econodyne which marked the end of the Coolpowered Macks out here 

Then again on this site Im no doubt preaching to the converted as we say out 

Anyway have laugh I know I did 

Seeya

 

Paul  

[macks in nigeria]

The grudge between the scandinavian trucks and Mack started a couple of decades ago.

[41chevy]

U.S. had Scania powered R400 Macks and isn't the Scania V8 Mack based design?

[macks in nigeria]

I saw those small engines years ago in some Trucks here and thought it was someone's creativity as transplanting engines was a common practice here,till date most single axle Rs are running with MAN rear axles.