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Ya, who would have thought eh? Good way to disguise your Chrysler testing anyway.....use a Ford, LOL Beau Boeckmann bought the car at auction for $225,000 or something like that, with no motor in it. But they found the motor. I also didn't know Gale Banks was friends with Carroll Shelby and he is the one that did the turbo work on this car. Pretty interesting history.

Anyone see this show called Driven on tv? I'm watching it right now. The Ford Pantera Carroll Shelby used when he was at Chrysler, to develop the Viper. Lee Iaccoca gave him a Chrysler 360 nascar engine and they put twin turbo's on it.

Awesome! Love that F600.

No Snowdog. I have been by that mill because I used to work for Fowler's for a few years with my dump truck. But when I hauled wood I pulled walking floor and did bark, logs, slabs and hog fuel between the Sault and Thunder Bay, Chapleau, Sudbury and as far south as Alban, Noelville and Monetville. And chips and shavings I hauled from all over Michigan to the Sault.

Oh ok. I only have Kubota, so that was all I was sure about. And my Allis Chalmers have oil bath. But I agree, it is a good idea. Back in the late 90's and 2000's I hauled wood chips. That job was brutal on air filters.

You got that right. I have a LOT of friends that got their deletes and programs from that biggest, most famous delete outfit that does all the advertising. And they ALL blew up.

Which is why I like my Kubota tractors. They have an inner and outer element. You change the outer and the inner is there to catch anything that may fall in when you remove the outer. But even on the big trucks, I am more careful than most dealers would be. When I remove my filters I shop vac the cans out and wipe out the intake elbows as far as I can reach. Same with greasing. I wipe the fittings off BEFORE I grease. It irritates me when I see people just push the grease gun on and start pumping the dirt in with the grease.

Another thing people don't think about. When I was still running Cat motors I used to use Cat's SOS engine oil sampling at every change (I changed my oil and filters at 300 hours as it was on/off road vocational use) Anyway one winter I started getting higher than average sodium levels in my oil. I went to my local Toromont Cat and asked the service manager about it. He said "that is the winter road salt getting in through your air filters when you are running in the wet mist." After that I started replacing my filters every spring. And I am not a fan of those gradual lockup filter restriction minders. My new Stars, I get the gauges that read restriction real time. I find them way more accurate.

Cool story mackdaddy. There were a few Freightliner cabovers in my town with V12's but I never got to drive any. Lumber haulers here had some big fancy iron back in the day. Ford CLT's with KT600's, lots if Mack V8's, Freightliners with KT's and V12's, Pete's with 3408's.

Oh ok, LOL It looks like a CH nose in that pic.

Is it just the nose shrunk in that pic because of the curve? Because that sure looks like a CH.

I ran a 1988 R Model. The motor had to be replaced due to a previous drivers neglect. The motor we got for it, we were told by Mack was the very last E6 350 to come off the line as they switched to the E7. I know where the truck is still sitting but it is completely rotten now and someone after me over heated that E6 and cooked it. The truck currently has a 237 they stuck in it.

Did you guys see this. Auto parts manufacturing giant Magna International has developed a Puro ozone sanitizing device that may be capable of killing coronavirus. https://www.thedrive.com/tech/32785/auto-manufacturing-giant-magna-develops-sanitizing-box-that-could-kill-covid-19

Kinda on the same note......I'm in business and I don't answer my phone, LOL The way I look at it is if it is a legit important call you will leave a voicemail. No voicemail....then it is a scam.

Is that true what someone just told me.....General Motors is the one automaker that refused to retool to make ventilators? If it is I would never buy another GM product. Here's the company that took billions in bailout, then moved most of their production to Mexico after taking your tax dollars. Now they don't want to help the country in return.

So my wifes phone rings today. We look at it and it says " Shenzhen Guangdong" and the phone number was "+806........" Ya, I always answer calls that start with a plus sign. That's gotta be legit right? Bahahaha. So then 5 minutes later my daughter's phone rings, same number. But this time they left a voicemail. It was some woman speaking what I will assume was chinese? LOL Unfortunately I didn't have a translator handy, so I guess we'll never know what the heck she said, LOL

Well, I don't wanna make light of this serious virus. It is tragic for those suffering. But on a lighter note, instead of hoarding toilet paper like most idiots in this world, I have been hoarding diesel fuel. The old F550 and transfer tank has been busy. While it may be bad for the economy, it is sure nice for my bank account right now.

Got any pics Mowerman?

No worries, I know you weren't being negative. The R was my all time favorite truck. Looks like we were both into the same kind of thing Snowdog. Sorry the pic is blurry, but didn't have many pics from the old days. But we used to put an MTO sander on every winter up until the MTO disbanded and started contracting out for all highway maintenance. This was my 78 S-Line. NTC270 Cummins. Dump truck in summer, sander in winter. I used to like that sanding job. It was nice and simple back then. You didn't have to deal with all those liquid de-icing agents and crap. And you could put out how ever much material you wanted to. We also had an LT9000 same blue as yours, with a 318 Detroit, and a Fleetstar.

Beggars can't be choosers snowdog....can't find any Mack's around here in salt country that aren't completely rotten. My volunteer fire dept had an old R Model but it is already long gone. That's like me mowerman. I drove quite a few Ford's bu they were all Detroit powered. Except for an LTL that had a 3406B 400 Cat. There were a LOT of 3208's around here back in the day, but this is the first one I ever drove. Not a powerhouse but it sounds good.

I know. I'm in love, LOL I'd rather drive this than the loaded 2020 4900 Western Star, LOL It's got one crack in the passenger side dash top and the door weather stripping and window felts are pretty dried out and brittle. That's about it.

That's what's nice about fire trucks....they are kept in excellent shape and low miles. It was outside and even at cold start there wasn't a puff of smoke from that 3208. I'd rather drive this than the new truck, LOL

We just picked this up today. What a beauty. It reminded me of how much I liked these old Ford's as I drove it to our yard. Going to get a PTO drive for the water pump, and 4 corner sprayers and a gravity bar on the back and used as a flusher truck. Use it to fill pools also. Getting amber lenses for the red lights that are on it. Has a 3208 V8 Cat turbo, 250 h.p. Allison auto, rubber block rear and 24.5 rubber.

That is nice. Color works well too.

Ya, all sounds good, but the construction company we hire out to is sending a crew of their guys north for a highway job. So, a bunch of guys in crew cab pickups, and two to a motel room in a rural town which may or may not even have any restaurants open. And the mine my buddy works for...they are still operating. They have big greyhound buses that they bus their men in for the two hour ride to the mine. Once there, sure you have your own room and washroom.....but they all have to eat in a common dining room. Still lots of stuff like that going on.