Red Horse

They DID-was sold with the rest of big trucks to Daimler. Daimler (Sterling) built them for a few years then dropped it. Ford in the meantime, still builds them in Brazil and Turkey- See KSC's recent post on Ford Brazil going after refuse market.

I do believe I saw a Volvo hood piece in one of the pictures

Wow-what a novel idea- identify a key market and go after it! Hope someone in Dearborn sees this.

Okay- Denis Yaworski's RD 800 out of the barn! Ready for an Alan Diaz lettering job.

for sure-he made his own rotisserre! Cab off, new outer rails.

Duh! Thx-read it too quickly

I can't understand how an eyewitness account is disputed? They say "no evidence of previous fire"-how the hell do you come to that conclusion-truck was toast! Also couple of other "facts"-at least as reported. Fed Ex driver was I believe 32/34? That sort of says to me, highly unlikely he had a medical emergency. Also, no sign of brake application. That says to me he fell asleep or was unconscious. Even if he was asleep, the minute he hit the median think he would have been awake and on the brakes? Now eyewitness says flames were coming out from under cab. Not illogical to me that if there was a fire, could he have been knocked out very quickly by some very toxic smoke? Nothing adds up IMO. I think one of the photos I saw showed an intact hood section-looked like a Volvo. Autopsy report should have some good clues as to just what happened.

KSC- Just curious-Article lists Ford at 19% in class 6/7. If you go to the Ford australia web site, they don't list a medium truck-in fact only "truck" is the world Ranger and a Falcon car based "Ranchero" type vehicle. So what are these 6/ Fords?

Matt-this one is a tandem, 12 speed, E-9

Well here is Dan Melone's B-81 making its first "gathering" today after Dan's rebuild-which except for the cab painting, he did pretty much himself. A beauty which has been in his family for all but one year since it came down the line.

Also correct

Correct!

Well made the trip to Denis Yaworski's this week and here is his latest. Unreal RD-800, E-9, 12 speed, 65 rears, Atlas body (that had been in the Yaworski working fleet.). The exhaust was apart so Denis could not move it out for pix but you get the idea. This truck has been professionally done.

IMO, they should stick to what they know best. Wonder how Cat figures they own the "rights to the Paystar cab" How about..."they own rights to the ugly hood"

I would say this issue is not dead yet. This truck was specifically donated to the New England Chapter of ATHS. ATHS says chapters can't own anything. I guess solution is the former chapter must sell the truck? Or donate it to something like the Mack Museum? In the short term, my understanding is the truck will be on loan to the Mack Museum I believe ATHS would like to sell it to cover their overhead and fund other great projects-or should I say projects they deem to be great-like spending almost 100 grand to erect a huge CF/MFX neon sign on their property! Hopefully it will end up as apermanent addition to Mack Museum.

Thx Lanny- looks like a little roll over recovery-maybe Berlin turnpike?

Thx-Which supports the theory that B-70's had different hood lenghts per the Warth book and also substantiates Rossi's B71 has same BBC as a B-61.

Cl= single rear axle, CLT= Tandem

they still in business?

Obama organization-I throw it in the trash!

Matt- I think I remember that F-2000D Binder. I just remember all the Ford Super Duties they had back in early 60's

Ah Joe's Garage, Fountain Street! How about Plunske, Rt. 5 Wallingford- Got any pix of their Ford Super Duty Fleet???

And plenty of power right?

Smart Ass! Just how old do you think I am???? I do have a soft spot those for those old slant back Penn Tanks with the manual pump up internals!

Boy have times changed. Whatever happened to....."No replacement for displacement." Imagine 165 cubic inches in a half ton pick up! Now as for the Ecoboost concept, I have a Taurus SHO. 365 HP and the thing is amazing-it will climb hills in 4th or 5th at about 1100 RPM. Push the gas a little harder, it holds the gear and accelerates. truly a low end torque machine. Just hope thay are not pushing the envelope too far. In any case, love to have that 2.7 in my 04 Ranger instead of the gas hog 4.0 V6!