Vladislav

Happy B-day!

If the stroke is the same I'm pretty sure the shaft itself is the same too. Not 100% sure though but 99%. The best way is to check out the part ## of the particular engines.

Are you also goin' to drive it ???? As for my droolings about the Mack I could probably put it into conteiner at Seattle and get to Lithuania or Finland in a couple of months. Not a deal for my wallet these times. I enjoy that ugly cabover (and it's even a cabrio!) but would be much more exited by a factory NJU.

An umbrella would be required

Tsss, my friend, fingers crossed. And I have already read about the smoker

Might be not too expensive being put into a sea container and shipped through Panama canal to East coast. Or even over Pacific Our Nigerian member should know it better

Jim, I thought Mack didn't produce commercial trucks from 1942 to 44. Was that one ordered by War department? Or any other way?

Should be R688ST from seeing E6 4V under the hood.

Happy B-day Gearhead and bbgrig!

Looks like Buick to me but I'm way off from being sure. Those guys had a couple of perfect job restored American cars including that one. When I attended the show in the previous year a friend of mine who was a paint shop guy kept my company. He spent some while looking those cars and stated he saw an absolute top notch job. I suppose the firetruck is in the waiting line to be restored. Maybe we will see it done in the future.

You are partly right Mike. Those GAZ and ZIS didn't have Studebaker and IH cabs but those were designed and built using basically the shapes. Plenty of US-6 Studebakers were supplied to Soviet Union indeed so Russian engineers had enough samples of technical solutions working on after the war generation of vehicles. I suppose nobody here thought too much on a matter of copyright rules those days. The most of the industrial part of the country was destroyed and also Cold War isolation allowed to do what they want to do with foreign technologies which came avalible to research or copy. Looking over drawings and parts books of Russian trucks of 50's you can't find completely copied rigs of different producents. But lots and lots of technical solutions look identical to what was used in German or American vehicles of 40's. Sometimes it could be general plan of a rig, sometimes a unit desingn, sometimes parts of general appearence. But I can state the most trucks, assemblies, units or parts were not just copied but made close to some originals after research, revision and upgrates in many cases. BTW the most hardware and many basic sizes were reworked to metrics.

No, that one was of a line of vehicles to recover descent devices with spacemen after landing. Those rigs were designed to operate as a convoy of 3 or 4. One should be for transportation of personal including medics and cosmonauts but the one on the pic seems to load and haul the descent device itself. That's the reason for the crane mounted on. Russian version of DUKW looked really close to original GMC's. Had some good upgrades though such as openable read gate. But it was made later, starting from 1949 so the improvements were done to the original design. It was not a complete copy but sure difficult to find differences in the look.

Sounds funny about the horse and the steel ball. Probably wasn't that funny when out there. Good they allowed you to use your camera. Very impressive load of a rail road constructing set. Looks enough if you'd like to build a track from your house up to the main road. Oh, a set of rails was not included Oh, and Everest... That's only the beginning, right?

This is also one of onknown to me units. Looks like made in the US but I'm not any sure on that. Sorry no Winfall kind pictures from me. Hope it could be covered by our professional posters in the different thread.

These khaky-painted WW2 units were found at Kurilskie islands where they fought Japaneses in August and September of 1945. Tandem GAZ and ZIS are extremely rare so such an avanture of 10,000km travel with a boat trip and nobody knows how gotten permit to visit those near-the-border islands was involved to acheve these examples. Sure a full restoration was done to them since the trucks spent 70 years outside on a small island with hard winds, snow etc. I was too impressed being told the fact. A rare GAZ-72 Pobeda car in 4x4 version. Someone found them two and did a perfect job. Not sure those were original, could be rebuilt using a common single drive Pobeda.

Some experimental off-road truck of 50's or 60's and a pre-war time GAZ-AA

There were also some American firetrucks which were imported from the US in the recent years by private collectors. No Macks here (as always) so I can't tell anything about them. But expect descriptions from BMT firetruck guru's .

Two nicely restored pre-war ladder trucks - GAZ-AA (Russian Ford-AA version) and ZIS-5. A hand-driven water pump built in Moscow in the very beginning of 20th century

This ladder truck has an interesting background. The ladder unit was a German made one and imported to Russia in 30's mounted on some German chassis, Mercedes-Benz or Krupp. During its service the chassis had been beaten to death but the ladder stayed good. So it was reinstalled on Russian built ZIS long wheelbase chassis to continue the service. Many were redone that way in the late 30's. This one is the only known surviver and ZIS tandem chassis is an extremely rare thing too since the most were lost during the war. The other big truck with a tank is 7 ton YaG-6, a pre-war predecessor of YaAZ trucks (the one on my avatar pic). These are extremely rare because not many were built and all before 1941 so the war took the most of them. This one is the 1st I have ever seen in person. I mean a truck at all, not particulary a fire version. The one with the hood open is a 50's UralZIS. During WW2 ZIS plant was evacuated from Moscow deeper to the East, to the Ural rocks region. The trucks built there were rebranded and that particular pre-war model was in production during 50's. Its roots go to some 30's or late 20's Autocar model which was bought as a license to produce ZIS-5 trucks in Moscow.

Recently a regular Oldtimer show took place in Moscow which i used to attemd. This time I found out a big exposition of firetrucks represented there. The reason was a 100 years anyvessary of fire guards service in Russia. So there was a 2nd hall full of units painted red. Along with some other trucks put to the show by different people the event looked like a truck show a little bit. That surprized me since you don't use to see a truck-specified meeting as a common practice here. To my sorry my camera ran out of power so I rested it home relying on a stupidphone. Just didn't expect to find out much interesting to make a pic of and stepped in a pool. The trucks represented were taken from different collections and museums for the event. These are GAZ (smaller ones) and ZIS engines of 50's and early 60's.

Thank you for the advice. I'll try that for a practice. I found one of such carriers in my shed apart from the axle housing and could read the markings on the bearing cup without removing it. Didn't write the # on a paper but those are not the ones I need.

Sounds very promising. I don't drool about a birthday in April since I have one myself. But Macungie this year is a second reason to keep my fingers crossed. Let's see. On the other hand a life should make turns to a good side sometimes. Just remember to steer smooth

Basically they're quite similar to what was installed on tandem L or B models. The banjo shape was slightly different and neat-looking axle bumpers were used to limit their travel up to the frame rails. Those were a pack of spring leaves attached to the lover side of the rail, the same spot you can see a bumper on a B or even R/DM. Looked like a common spring pack cut in halves and one such half is installed above each axle end. Sorry difficult to describe and probably more difficult to figure out. I just don't have a pic handy. There's a book with green cover of Mack historical series describing early F-series trucks. You will find detailed shots of those bogies there along many other amazing photos.

Great old pics! And what is interesting to me they brings the feeling of the time. A pleasure to see people doing job, not just spending time enjoying some stupd things. And it's not difficult to count out my favorit one. Yes, I like pouring concrete too Thanks for sharing.

Best of luck! And I will keep my fingers crossed for you