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[SSGOldSchool68W3P]

Well I now own a 1998 Mack MD-200. I found it a shop a buddy of mine told me about after the one shop I had gone to since 2008 to do my inspections on all my vehicles closed, the owner retiring and selling the building in 30 days. So with a name and directions I found this place.

And while they are doing the Inspection on my 08 GMC HD3500 diesel I see this thing across their lot dejected in the corner. And from a distance I thought is was a Volvo, so I asked it they minded If I went and looked at it and once I got close the Bulldogs on the mirrors gave it away. But it was weird, and being a combat vet, a paratrooper my whole carrier I guess I'm a but weird too so it was perfect.

I look it over but its locked, so I ask "what's the deal with this thing and do they have keys"? So the old dude take me to the office and I meet the owner and we hit it off so he hands me the keys saying "Its been sitting there for almost 5 years... So I already going, going to need batteries, pull all the filters, add fresh fuel, prime yada yada" in my head. I go out to the truck and open the side door tot he box, its lined and insulated it about 100 degrees in the sun about 80 inside that box. Got cabinets and shelves built in and a Mack Coleman Heat and AC unit on the roof. Stuck on the wall above the desk is a Gaston County Bomb Squad sticker... Well my 1st job in the Army was a 12B Combat Engineer and we blew stuff up and I'm the reason you cant do a controlled detonation of more that 250 pounds of explosives anymore after I did a 850 pound cratering charge a long time ago.... So I was this is a sign....

I unlock the cab and its clean, some trash but clean. For shits and grins I put the key in the ignition push in the clutch and she started right up! Another sign, this is supposed to happen and it's like she was waiting for me to find her.... I was shocked, she built pressure, the clutch feels good the breaks released and its got 111k miles on her. So the deal was struck.

Doing a quick search online this forum came up with posts about this model so that's why I'm here. She is a weird duck a Renault/Mack and well its Effing French so yeah it's gonna be weird. SO I may need to pick your guys brains. 26000 pound GVW so below CDL and has the 6.2 Diesel inline 6 with a Eaton 6 speed manual tranny Millennial anti theft device factory and what appears to be a aftermarket installed AC unit over the floor hump and under the dashboard. My plan is on making her into a RV after a bunch of TLC.  

But I need to find a windshield 1st and I can see that maybe a task....

And yes my truck is a Schrodinger's Mack It is and is not a Mack truck being a Renault import... And it's ok I've had rocks thrown at me before in Albania, Iraq, Kosovo and Haiti so I'm used to it, and I expect a few from Mack purist's... But I know what real Mack's are, being form Canton CT, and Canton Village Construction's fleet of Mack trucks were my across the street neighbor's.

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by SSGOldSchool68W3P
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[67RModel]

Parts are unobtanium for it. Just sayin

[SSGOldSchool68W3P]

Well I like a challenge.... lol

[Joey Mack]

Those were great trucks in their day.  I wish you the best with it.  I have a few books for them, and i think i have a parts book.. i wont part with the books but i can post pics from time to time.  You said Gaston county,   im in Rowan county. That is if you are in N.C. 

[Freightrain]

18 hours ago, 67RModel said:

Parts are unobtanium for it. Just sayin

Was at local dealer a year ago and a guy came looking for brake treadle and it was $2000+ and they were trying to find one in the system.

 

Yikes!

[h67st]

1 hour ago, Freightrain said:

Was at local dealer a year ago and a guy came looking for brake treadle and it was $2000+ and they were trying to find one in the system. Yikes!

That's absolutely criminal.