Brocky

That is a great looking original truck.. Before you go the Auction route I would contact Dave Coutu at the Keystone Museum, Colonial Heights VA, to see if they might be interested in it???? Many of us know him as he is the man who takes all their equipment to shows and is on this site once in a while as user: Maint1.. He might even know of a suitable B model tractor available to replace the mixer??

Call Barry at Watts Mack.. Phone # above!!

I agree with Michael!! Keep it intact!!

OK, I understand.. A slow mind in the morning??

It must have had a smaller orifice in the valve cover to maintain oil pressure in the engine????

His user name is Freightrain. Go to one of his posts and click on his user name which will get you to his profile and then you can either PM or email him.

Hopefully Larry Freightrain will chime in?? He added a bunk to his B model but I think he stretched the frame also???

The Osterman Diamond REO Giant built in Carlisle PA used a lot of them until they could not meet EPA emissions tests. There may still be a few scattered around central PA??

Doug Fetterley in Harrisville NY was making aluminum batter boxes.. No idea if he has the latches???

I think that is the way petroleum tankers are designed??? Take a look next time you see one..

I would also add a "come along" type winch from the bottom rear of the cab to a crossmember so you can go gently after it overcenters and not rely entirely on the hydraulic system.

Contact Mike Harbison SR either thru here or on Facebook.. He can answer your questions and supply what parts you might need..

About 1960 (+/-) our school bus contractor had a pusher school bus with a straight air clutch in it, with a foot valve identical to the brake pedal.. This was before spring lock parking brakes, just DO NOT park it in gear or you were going to run over something before you built up air enough to the release the clutch!!!!!!

The man I used to work for north of Allentown PA had a very similar 73 or 74, 290, 13 speed. It was the first new truck he ever bought. After he semi retired he re-powered it with a twin turbo 475, 15 speed. Then gave it a "Touch of Dutch" tune up so it was putting 650 to the ground on the Cummins Ashland PA dyno!!! I believe his sons still have the tractor after he passed several years ago.

No!! It is a 1956 Diamond T 950 with a different grille.. Hopefully the pictures below will blow up enough for you to read the printing??

Bob, You have to remember that when it is raining it is too wet to go out and fix it and when it is not raining it is not leaking!!

Great!!!!! I know you must be proud..

A very neat truck.. Where are you located??? That twin steer and spread drive axles look to be a Quebec Canada set up????

Was that the show they called SERTS, for South Eastern Regional Truck Show, in a city park on the east side of town, south of I-40?? They only had it one year, 2012, then went west to Harriman TN for 2013, then disappeared. If so here is a picture of it at that show.. He is usually parked with FM Satterfield's Emeryville as they are neighbors and run together.

He came up to our chapter tent at Brad Wike's show in Lincolnton and introduced himself. Mid to late 50's, about 5'10", 180 or so, brown hair with some grey.. I would probably recognize his face if I saw him again??

You are right!! Since supposedly both chapters have the same ATHS RVP, I have to assume venue availability may have been a factor.. Did you run into Double Clutching Weasel?? I did not see him at Cherokee and he lives about half way between the shows..

Check the rubber hose between the frame and the drive axle?????

I talked with Randall Howell, from Ball Park GA, last Saturday at the WNC show in Cherokee NC.. The B-75 pictured above is his!!! Originally with a Mack 711 engine. It is sitting on a Pete chassis with a Cummins 400 shoehorned in, or I should say the cab brought up around it!!! Yes, he widened the headlight panels and engine access panels on top of the fenders 2 inches to bring them out to the Pete width. He made a doghouse in the firewall rather than lengthening the hood to make it fit.. That is also a Superliner bunk he got from a friend in Greeley Colo. I Forgot to ask when he completed it but he said he had taken it to the ATHS national show in Spokane Wash which was in 2000(???), and a lot of other national shows since. He is 74 so God willing and his health remains good he will be at several more!! Probably not to the west coast again??

I have pictures of the Princess both at Alice and Tony's.. Lots of times I can put a face and a truck together and not able to put a name between them!!! I still want to thank all you Aussies who worked overtime to make our tour the success it was..

What 60's cars had turbos??????? Studebaker had a belt driven centrifugal blower..