Bulldog Mack

This is what we believe to be a 1915 Mack. This truck was at onetime set up with a drill rig on the back in one of our quarries in upstate New York. It spent many years parked in a hedge row then one day the then president of the company saw it and said take it to the Skaneateles shop and fix it up. About the only sheet metal we saved was the hood. Welder fabricated the rest of cab using the rusted parts for a pattern. Wooden wheels were repaired by a local woodworker. My self and another mechanic were given the job of getting the engine to run again. That story could about fill a book.

Took some good imagination on our parts as mechanics as this truck was older than either of our fathers and we had little other than our own theroy on how it should work. It was used for a few years as a parade truck at various locations in the state. This picture was taken the last time I saw it about 10 years ago at an open house at a plant outside of Syracuse NY. I don't know where it is these days.