Chuck P

Beautiful beasts! I snapped this shot as they came thru our little town back in '07 for a 325 year anniversary parade. These were from the "Merrimack hitch".

Blair brings a lot of equipment to the Diesel Drags at Englishtown. The date is Saturday the 14th. He has a few Pete's and W900's but always brings the Macks too. He races a few on the 1/4 mile and yes they are turned up a bit.

Nice calendar pic. Crossroads is just a stone's throw away from Hot Dog Johnny's in Buttzville.

Mark, yes Grones is still very much in business. The shop is located at the Lakewood/Toms River border on RT9. As for the 5-axle GMC, it is displayed every year at the Englishtown Diesel Drags and it doesn't appear road-worthy. I believe they bring it in on a Landoll and drive it to the display area and set it up. The funny part is they don't bring any of their other working tow trucks......it just sits by itself.

Bring that bad boy!! I want to see it in person and have a good look see. I'm a big General fan from way back in the day cutting my teeth in a 6V-92 dump truck with spokes and big rubber. I haven't decided yet if I want to work at the event (Track Official) or just walk around with my 12 YO son and go for pleasure. It's one of my favorite events of the year.

Something similar happened at an all-VW car show last weekend. A kid in a newer GTI decides to do a burnout in front of a crowd in an asphalt parking lot. 3rd attempt it made a loud bang and broke an axle. Boy did he look dumb. As for the loud Transtar at Macungie, I was right in front of the truck when he stood on it. Okay, a few raps and it probably would have been fine..... but it went on and on it wasn't cool anymore. Not for that type of show anyway. Now if you build a truck for noise and want to show it off bring it to Englishtown for the Diesel Drags on September 14th (cheap plug) and have at it. Heck you can even race it if you want. There'll be 20 other guys with 6/8/12-71's and 6/8-92's just like yours doing the same thing all day long. Just sayin'.

Some recent pics from 2011 fully decked-out. They certainly have a unique sound to them.......almost like a V8 Mack.

They did. Look at the rim on the green LTL. Alcoa whipped up a small run for the 60th anniversary of the aluminum wheel. http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/26737-Alcoa-Wheel-and-Transportation-Products-Proudly-Celebrates-60-Years-of-Innovation

Very close Mark. I thought the same thing at first.

Lots of good info there. A truck way ahead of its time..... super-singles and side trailer fairings. It looks like the early pics show a smooth area above the grille. Perhaps heat issues arose and a mesh opening solved that problem. Also interesting to note is that it looks like nothing was borrowed from the then current H-Series cabover.

I don't think it's up to code.

Back when I was a kid I subscribed to Overdrive magazine and I recall a back cover Peterbilt ad that offered a 33 rpm record of the sounds of their turbine-powered cabover. Perhaps a writeup about the Pete is in order........hint, hint.

Wow, that's really come full circle. In another thread there was a data sheet for the H-60ST version of that truck. If you said the single axle was gutless, I could just imagine two driven axles.

Get that V12 Mack running. I want to see that bad boy!!!

Here's a twin-steer Crackerbox from the Raceway Park Diesel Drags truck show. Dual stacks would indicate a 6V71 setup that fits neatly under the day cab.

Another easy way to tell the '67 was the lack of side marker lights. '68 and up had to have them by law.

Kelvinator was Nash which then became Rambler/AMC.

I know where that spot is off of RT1 in Rahway. The old B8? in the 1st pic is the old Cardell single-axle lowboy rig from Keasbey, NJ. It's been there for probably 30 years. That truck was restored by the shop and caught fire soon after. It was fixed again and then parked when Cardell bought their new 8V92TT-powered GMC General.

Beautiful truck! Are those the Alcoa Anniversary 5-hole rims on that truck?

What an impressive rig from the pics I've seen on the web. Most shots peg it as a '68 but it looks like its been completely gone through. Beautiful matching truck and trailer and the color is something you don't see everyday. It looks like it's still a working truck too. It seems to be show quality but I've never seen it at a local PA show. Pic borrowed from the internet.

Like you said, Syclone was '91 only and went for $25k and change. The Typhoon was '92 & '93 and topped out at 30 large. I like that Aspen Green JT...........there was a Teal as well.

Cool! This is always a great event for the track. It's awesome seeing the floppers and slingshot rails. Will it be a static display or you going to make some passes? Just make sure your harnesses are up to date and you have a Snell 2005 and newer helmet if you plan to run it. I work at the track as a show judge so I'll be there Saturday for the Vette Show and Sunday for the Street Rod/Musclecar car show. I'll have to wander over into the pits to check out the '55.

The Syclone and it's cousin Typhoon were badass back in the day. I recall reading an article on them when they were new. It read "0-60 in 4.6 seconds........in the rain!" I test drove one at my local dealer and I was quite surprised with the acceleration, and this was after getting out of my '86 Buick GN. Very pricey for the time too. Neat little trucks.

Interesting cab design on the early cabovers. You can see the "teardrop" window they squeezed in to accomodate the windshield rake.

A pair of Diamond Reos taken at this year's Macungie show. The blue one is an '83 Giant.