for sale 1965 B-53 In TENN On Hemmings

[HarryS]

Hemmings Auction. Not mine just happened to see it.

 

[HarryS]

Here's a link to the site. Lots of interesting info including a chart showing values over the past few years.

Custom Hauler: Stretched 1965 Mack B53 Tractor - Hemmings.com

[Joseph Cummings]

Wonder what It'll bring

[HarryS]

Looks like it bid to $10300 and was a no sale. Now asking $21000.

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 1/28/2025 at 9:20 PM, HarryS said:

Looks like it bid to $10300 and was a no sale. Now asking $21000.

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Not worth anything like that. Too many things done wrong. He states that it will run 92 MPH (Geared Wrong). Frame stretch looks hacked. Air ride is from something with wider frame rails, and I'm not seeing any overlap or fish plates. Drive shafts were all made a little short (Look at the spline engagement). Tip turbine intake is hot underhood air. Too many signs that he didn't know what he was doing, so I'm sure there are other problems

[mowerman]

dont know looks real good,,,but that long frame,,,usually people want something newer and for super truckers,,,engine is too small....good luck to him would probably go well with a tilt flat bed,,,,thanks for that    bob

[mowerman]

you might be right about price lotta nice body work and looks like all good tires seems to run real healthy but pieced together and i think mark T was saying B model audience seems to be shrinking ..haha  lets see if he gets lucky,,,,id like to have it looks real good

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/2/2025 at 9:31 PM, mowerman said:

dont know looks real good,,,but that long frame,,,usually people want something newer and for super truckers,,,engine is too small....good luck to him would probably go well with a tilt flat bed,,,,thanks for that    bob

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Rears must have like a two something ratio. Every "Custom" Truck I see is poorly engineered and hack work, covered up by paint and chrome. I can think of one that came in for inspection that had the frame flanges notched to put a headache rack on it that was for something else. Looked good from across the lot though. Just don't crawl under them

Oh, and like always with "customs" all the lubrication points are bone dry

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 3 by Joseph Cummings

[Licensed to kill]

  On 2/3/2025 at 2:54 AM, Joseph Cummings said:

 

Rears must have like a two something ratio. Every "Custom" Truck I see is poorly engineered and hack work, covered up by paint and chrome. I can think of one that came in for inspection that had the frame flanges notched to put a headache rack on it that was for something else. Looked good from across the lot though. Just don't crawl under them

Oh, and like always with "customs" all the lubrication points are bone dry

 

 

 

 

 

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Perhaps you can post some pics of your truck builds to show us how it’s done?  BTW, “custom” trucks (and other vehicles, like classics, hot rods, restomods and all other vehicles that are/were built to be special to the owner) often have “dry” looking grease zerks because the owned wipes the zerks clean after greasing. “Show” vehicles often get a lot more detailed attention than daily drivers or work trucks, oh, and the definition of what constitutes a vehicle worth wiping the grease off the zerks is entirely at the discretion of the owner. 

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/7/2025 at 1:01 AM, Licensed to kill said:

Perhaps you can post some pics of your truck builds to show us how it’s done?  BTW, “custom” trucks (and other vehicles, like classics, hot rods, restomods and all other vehicles that are/were built to be special to the owner) often have “dry” looking grease zerks because the owned wipes the zerks clean after greasing. “Show” vehicles often get a lot more detailed attention than daily drivers or work trucks, oh, and the definition of what constitutes a vehicle worth wiping the grease off the zerks is entirely at the discretion of the owner. 

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There are pictures of my stuff on here, pictures of my 10,000 square foot shop with 20 foot clear ceilings too. And I'll say it again, ALL CUSTOM TRUCK BUILDERS ARE HACK JOBS

Edited February 7 by tjc transport
lets be civil here please.

[Joseph Cummings]

[cruiseliner64]

10,000 sq ft shop....you lucky sod.Iv a 40 by 30ft wide open space with gravel to work on our truck.Still ya gotta work with what you have I guess...

Paul

Edited February 12 by cruiseliner64

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/12/2025 at 1:53 AM, cruiseliner64 said:

10,000 sq ft shop....you lucky sod.Iv a 40 by 30ft wide open space with gravel to work on our truck.Still ya gotta work with what you have I guess...

Paul

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Took a long time to get here. Wish I would have had it in the first 54 years of being on the planet, my body probably would feel a lot better.

 

Edited February 12 by Joseph Cummings

[Joseph Cummings]

And I get called a keyboard warrior by a guy who doesn't know a duplex from a 6 speed low hole

[tjc transport]

mehhh. i got called a "show off" by a "profesinumal" driver.

he could not figure out how to shift a mack 5 speed even using the clutch on a test drive. 

i told him to leave the clutch alone. then told him when to get off the throttle while i shifted from passenger seat.....without grinding any gears, and when to get back into the throttle. 

could not switch seats with him because we were on a two lane with no shoulder. and at the two turnarounds we had cars behind us and green lights. so i just shifted from passenger seat for the 3 mile round trip. 

[cruiseliner64]

  On 2/14/2025 at 12:23 AM, Joseph Cummings said:

And I get called a keyboard warrior by a guy who doesn't know a duplex from a 6 speed low hole

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Theres always one....on the other hand I think any day I dont learn something is a bad day.....By the way Id kill for a shop like yours.It fantastic....

Paul

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/14/2025 at 12:19 PM, cruiseliner64 said:

Theres always one....on the other hand I think any day I dont learn something is a bad day.....By the way Id kill for a shop like yours.It fantastic....

Paul

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[67RModel]

Are you still in business? How do you heat that sucker? I couldn't imagine heating 10,000 sft just to tinker with old trucks.

[terry]

  On 2/14/2025 at 2:41 PM, Joseph Cummings said:

 

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Nice shop, lots of room!  terry

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/14/2025 at 8:26 PM, 67RModel said:

Are you still in business?

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Kind of when I feel like it

  On 2/14/2025 at 8:26 PM, 67RModel said:

How do you heat that sucker? I couldn't imagine heating 10,000 sft just to tinker with old trucks.

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EFM Coal boiler, sometimes I use some propane. One side is built into the hill. 

Not just to play with old trucks. The cats go out in the shop to play and I don't want them to get cold so I keep it like 45-50 and only heat it higher when I want to work out there

[67RModel]

  On 2/14/2025 at 9:24 PM, Joseph Cummings said:

EFM Coal boiler, sometimes I use some propane. One side is built into the hill. 

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Pretty hard to beat an EFM 520. I never got into stokers but am familiar. It’s not uncommon to hear of ones running essentially nonstop for decades without fault. I’m pretty sure they still make them pretty much unchanged from the original design. 

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/14/2025 at 9:51 PM, 67RModel said:

Pretty hard to beat an EFM 520. I never got into stokers but am familiar. It’s not uncommon to hear of ones running essentially nonstop for decades without fault. I’m pretty sure they still make them pretty much unchanged from the original design. 

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Yeah I have 2 of them, but only really run one. It's a DF520 with the port in the side so I can run oil or gas in it too. I've got an almost brand new dual fuel (Gas or Oil) burner gun that I plan to put in it. I talked to the manufacturer and they said no problem setting it up for propane so I could do propane or oil

The other one is an older 520 with the round door

[davehummell]

Joseph I just went past your garage on Wednesday was shopping down to Hometown and had lunch at the Beacon diner first time I ate there was about 1973 we were heading in the stripping's to repair a Cat. I have been in that garage more than once if memory serves it was Yamula's back in the dark ages. Didn't I see an old R model on the lower side and another old truck?

[Joseph Cummings]

  On 2/15/2025 at 2:12 AM, davehummell said:

Yamula

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George Racho

[davehummell]

Boy does that name bring back memories we did work on Racho's stuff I get the names mixed up anymore and where all the coal stripping's I worked at on Cat equipment I just can't remember anymore. I was in that garage one time and they were rebuilding a shovel bucket Cicione was around there across the street I helped to replace his waterpump on his Mack years ago.