1958 F.W.D.

A 2-stroke Superliner? Makes me want to throw up.

I know you are in the Netherlands, but if you get desperate, try this guy: JOE BERTINO Vineland Auto Electric 382 South Delsea Drive Vineland, New Jersey 08360 (856) 691-5845 Joe is extremely knowledgeable of antique Macks and antique alternators (all types.) He has restored several Macks and currenly owns an absolutely gorgeous 1926 Mack Ladder Truck. He has helped me on several occasions including rebuilding the Delco-Remy alternator on my 1958 F.W.D. firetruck. If you want, maybe I could call him and get his email from him for you. Let me know.

Just wait until you have to drive yours for 8 hours. Then come talk to me. When I was a firefighter at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard many moons ago, we had a Ward Lafrance/Maxim Ladder Truck with an 8V71 behind you........the noise was so bad that the Chief came out with an SOP that any firefighters riding in the jumpseats had to wear ear muffs.

Nice looking FWD Firetruck. Eats Oshkoshes, shits Walters.

Thank god.....

I wish I had taken a picture of him slobbering all over the 1958 FWD with the thunder pumpkin with (GASP!) spark plugs & a carburator!!!!!!!!

This one kept falling out of the left side of his crib when he was a baby......

Ok everyone, HR4024 made it through the house, next stop is the Senate. Senate Bill S2372, which will be heard on 6/27. Please contact your state senators and ask that they vote in favor of this bill.

He ate too many lead paint chips as a child

I have a headache now and there is oil all over the desk under the computer

Kent, earlier you identified the clutch make/model. When I called the guys in Baltimore, they knew right away what I was talking about. They specialize in older clutches, but then again double plate spicers are pretty common, so anyone should be able to do it.....They fully rebuilt my single plate 15" Lipe-Brown clutch- new pads, rebuilt the complete assembly, and even spun-balanced it all. Now if I can just remember who the heck the place is.....I have it written down somewhere.....somewhere......lol

Does anyone have any good pix of Hayward F-Models?? Back when my father was an O/O leased onto Charles E. Danbury Inc. (trailer broker) he pulled mostly brand-new trailers out of the Trailmobile factory in Lansdale, Pa. (near Philly.) He had a Hayward F-Model with a 300, 5 speed and a single Rockwell drive axle. I did many miles in the right-hand seat of that truck in the summer time and on weekends. Then later on, he leased on with Harry J. Muschlegel onto Southwest Freight Lines. That single screw/5-speed tractor was great for empty trailers but eventually got too small for freight work, so Dad bought an Allentown F-Model with a 300+, an up-and-over 10-speed and twin screws. He worked very hard wade through the paperwork to obtain his own ICC operating authorities back when they de-regulated all that crap in the early 1980's. Thats when Harry Muschlegel asked him to come into the office "for a few weeks" to help him obtain operating authorities for the company he was forming- a little old outfit called JEVIC TRANSPORTATION. Dad's "few weeks" in the office turned into 20+ years driving a desk. Jevic finally went public with the stock, and that was the beginning of the end- Dad retired about 3 years before Yellow sold them out and they went tits-up. But enough with memory lane- Hayward F-Model pics anyone?????

If yer gonna replace the throwout bearing, you may as well replace the clutch or have it rebuilt since you are pulling it anyways. I know it is a little far from you, but there is a fantastic clutch place in Baltimore that rebuilt the Lipe-Brown clutch on my 1958 FWD......It was only $400 bucks and they did a top-notch job, and the guys there are top shelf people too. I couldnt recommend them any more, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the place. IIRC someone on here pointed them out to me.....Does anyone else on here know of whom I speak of????

Does anyone know what the final count was, and who/what won the best of show award???

Randy Yardumian email to search is yardo@rcn.com anyone is welcome to "friend" me, just tell me in a message you are from bigmacktrucks.com

If anyone is on Facebook, I posted about 100 pictures in a new album. There are also pictures of the show from years past.

I'm gonna buy it and fix the cab so that it's not lopsided- look at the pictures, its all crooked

Check out this thread: Tri-Axle comes down an 8% grade (1+ mile long) to a T-intersection, plows an SUV straight into a fire station, sets the fire station on fire (kills the driver of the SUV) destroys the fire station and the three firetrucks inside. Happened here about a month ago. http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/25280-tri-axle-crash-with-ensuing-fire-destroys-firehouse-video-of-an-old-cf-doin-the-deed/page__fromsearch__1

Doug, how or with whom would I ask or suggest that the stone driveway (over by where the buses pick people up) get paved???? Every year all of us over there have the same complaint- anytime someone drives by (especially with a non-clutched fan) the dust gets unreal and gets all over our trucks. Is the park privately owned? Owned by Macungie?? Do you think ATCA would consider giving the town a donation to go towards paving? I cant imagine it would be all that expensive, the stone drive is only 100 yards long or less.....Maybe John Haines IV would even consider helping for a tax write-off.....just throwing out suggestions.......

Hey by the way, Vinny is a big boy....I was thinking pudgy little 12-year old....We better not pick on him or lopsided trucks too much, it wont be too long before he can kick our asses!!!!!!

Joes Mack, several builders have recently built pumper/tankers on Mack Granite chassis, I know for a fact that KME and Pierce have both done recent units. Also, consider contacting Toyne Fire Apparatus in Breda, Iowa. www.toyne.com if you want, I am very friendly with their national sales manager Mike Watts, who would be more than happy to talk to you or have the salesperson for your area talk to you. Toyne is relatively unknown outside of the mid-central USA, but have been recently breaking into the east. They built us a custom 1500GPM stainless steel CAFS pumper on a Spartan chassis back in 2007. They are great to deal with and think outside the box. Their staff is top-shelf and I could not reccomend them any more. Also, if you are buying a spec truck on a state program like COSTARS or whatever, you can customoize to a certain extent, however you might be limited to certain chassis builders.

Vinny, did you take a picture of the FWD? It looks like a U-Model if you close one eye.......

I thought it would be nice putting faces to some of the names, until I saw how ugly some of the faces were HEY JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!! (the last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!!!!) It was nice meeting some of you guys!!!! Good company and good lies errr ahhh I mean talk!

Fullfuel if you get there very early on Sunday you'll see some trucks, however the majority of the show leave saturday late afternoon & sat night. If you are coming far on Sunday, I would say stay at home & save the gas. (or fuel.)

You sure it doesnt say "Detroit Diesel" on the valve covers?