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would those words pass today's ... ? 🤔 he was a classic!

Yes, the analysis I read forecast the population to be under 100M, based on current age of the population, births and deaths. And I read a similar article that forecast the China population to fall for same reasons as in Japan coupled with China's 1 child policy. Hence why the Chinese powers have changed and allow 2 children.

A few years ago I read an analysis of the Japanese population, birth and death rates, the conclusion was that within the next 10 years the total population will decrease by about 20 million, unless the birth rate rises dramatically. This has not followed for various reasons, one example I saw young couples interviewed and they said it was to costly to have the baby and to raise it to 20 odd years, so they had no plans to have a child. Plus Japan never had and never will in the foreseeable future have an immigration policy to allow people to go live in Japan, it has been a closed country and will remain closed to new migrants. Unlike USA, New Zealand, Canada and Australia, new migrants have been coming for 60 plus years and that boosts our economies. Good or bad, I am not qualified to comment. On that basis an aging population, it is comparable to a dying country town or like Detroit City, people leaving and place becomes empty, take 20 million out of Japan, no need for new buildings and infrastructure, etc!!!! What will that do to the Japanese economy?

notice the front trailer - Mortgage House - is that a pun? Is he still paying for it?

Interesting comments! Maybe not on point here but worth noting. I read a review and excerpts from a new book by Michael Shellenberger's - 'San Fran sicko" . The reviewer's opening sentence was - "the road to social catastrophe is paved not only with good intentions but with huge amounts of taxpayers funds as well, according to this disturbing study about the decline of San Francisco and the progressives etc". If true to whatever level, how is it that a once thriving city like San Francisco declines/decays - and Tony Bennett sang "I left my heart in San Francisco ...". By coincidence over recent weeks local free TV has been running Clint Eastwood movies and in one Dirty Harry San Fran movie (about early 1970's) he grits his teeth in disbelief when in the city prosecutor's office with the police chief, he is being scolded for his tough actions and he is told in put down language by the city prosecutor that the bad guy irrespective of what he has done will be out on the streets by the afternoon. To which DH replied words like ... 'who is going to speak for the dead young girl pulled out of the drain pipe that he killed and how long are you going to wait until he rapes and kills more innocent women ...'. This week I saw 'Bullitt', 1968, it too had a similar message coming thru loud and clear ... especially the slick would be mayor! The messages were there, maybe ahead of their time, so going on the San fran sicko book, if objective and relevant today, well someone has let the rot set in and what happens now? We have it here too, but seems nobody is home 😂

All the best Steve with your Superliner.

Correct aluminum cabs, in all the 3 cab sizes built. But from my reading of Crismon's International Truck book/bible the early low rise cabs were steel. Not sure if any of the low rise were aluminum! I have seen pictures of the DCO 405's being built in the Illinois plant considering that the majority of the built DCO's were operating east of the Rockies, especially in big fleet operators. For about 4 yrs (early 60's) the DCO 405's were the highest selling class 8 truck in USA. The low rise cab models which came out first around 1956 were widely used by local east coast council's for waste units, fire trucks, local delivery trucks and US military.

Paul yes there are F models particularly at a certain Mack man's yard in SE Queensland, he has a few of them, frames and cabins are in good condition, little rust, but not complete trucks.

Real men call it 'MAN PORN' 😂 And we dream about it as well 😁 Matt that is excellent!

Thank you, that is Michelle. She gave her best promptly without any hesitation, wonderful human being. Her LTL was a great looking truck and well kept by Michelle, tandem drive, Cummins, it had a sleeper (60 inches) and I think it may have been red colour, not sure? Condolences to her family and friends.

Seems deliberate, destroy an icon, 1 of only, take possession at worst but not destroy such a useful and successful transport of large items by air. Now sea freight is alternative.

Brocky - please do you recall if Michelle was in the military in her younger years? Possibly I had several communications with her around 2015 when I was interested in some non Mack trucks in the US that were for sale and if it was Michelle, she knew the vendors and she was very helpful.

I recall reading that there was a 2nd AN-225 incomplete sitting in a hanger in Ukraine.

Matt your timber floor is pretty good too, reflection of your appreciation of quality!

Clean guests are always welcome😂 Matt you will notice the LS effect on road noise plus the corrosion protection, including stones etc. Our Kermit's underside fenders, the LS is same as when we applied it 6 yrs ago and we have done many klms to put it to the test. And do the hood underside, it all helps.

A question I can ask Gary the Aussie Mack man

That is an interesting question because Mack Australia made the 16 Superliner Bicentennials for the 1988 Australian 200 yrs history/celebrations, I wonder if Mack gave those 16 Superliners special serial / frame numbers, given that Mack was building lets say standard Superliners at the same time over the extended period it built the Bicentennials.

that is a smooth business!

Of the various trucks with external alloy radiators, I am biased for sure, but this Mack B model radiator is timeless, it's design, shape and shutters (we have the split type just because I liked them and bit sturdier) are pure class. We have a set of the wide shutters, so we can swap at any time. There is 1 issue with the alloy, it was made with various products, not high quality, it cannot be polished to hard because the imperfections in the alloy appear, also porous. The Auotcar, Diamond T and Peterbilt external radiators are not comparable.

The guard rail/barrier is the real protector here as I look at it. It appears to be precast concrete, if yes, then it has not collapsed on impact and after with the weight of the van and truck above. That's dam good concrete, made when quality was taken seriously.

Robert Malone was 1 of 8 prominent medical specialists who were a panel interviewed by a journalist about 6 months ago on this very topic. It was an excellent and extremely informative interview and was posted on Youtube. I watched the interview, it should be must watching by ALL. All 8 panel specialists spoke objectively. The no 1 point that all 8 spoke about from their respective medical specialisation, was that the vaccines are experimental and therefore unproven. But you guessed it - Youtube deleted it words like not to community standards. And the all the people that I know and are being infected with covid are double vaxed and they are getting very sick. Here in Victoria, Tuesday 11 people died from covid, 9 were double vaxed!

Try Tylden Heritage, Kyneton, Vic they may still have some later cabs. I cant see enough of the cab damage, but if it is a generally rust free cab, (which it seems to be good) the door can be replaced and if the cab shell is not twisted, then a decent body guy should be able to get it back, at a reasonable cost

"urea" - maybe short for "your rear" = you going to cop it up ... 😬 - seems this is another on a long list from ... and we supply the coal and gas!

If you have sprayed the LZ all around especially where there maybe some gaps or small holes, the LZ should have sealed those 100%. We have had no leaks or similar in our B model cab after the LZ, we did not fit any other sound product and the Sound Control and the LZ have made the cab quiet, easy to listen to music and have a conversation without screaming Looks good. Do the inside of your doors all around, you will notice the difference and do the inside bottom of doors it will seal and minimise rust from inside, the LZ will seal the metal joins.

The Austrian govt has announced the current hard lock down for all it's citizens and 100% mandatory vaccinations by February 2022, otherwise (based on published information by BBC) jail and or massive $ fines. For a democracy that has suffered enormous loss of life and all else over the last 100 yrs, has the past been forgotten? I get the feeling that something is not right. There are growing demonstrations evolving around Europe against lock downs and mandatory vaccinations. Do you guys think anything like what the Austrian govt has done could happen in USA? And if it was to happen what do you think may follow? My history lessons I recall, were that many of the major conflicts in last 200 years have somehow been ignited in the territories around Austria, Hungry, Serbia and the Balkans generally. Is there any connection here?