Vladislav

They drive quite nice in case you enjoy owning the truck. Welcome to the site and we all here too like to see PICTURES!!!

From looking the avatar picture I can tell the truck is in Saskatoon. Or at least it was there and it was there for a quite long while. As long as there's a picture of the truck(s) made in 1988 and posted in Bart Vanderveen's book. Actually there were 3 Mack NR's there. One blue and two green. All were recabbed with after the war all steel L-model Mack cabs. Once the trucks were posted for sale on e-bay if the memory serves. And we discussed it on here. The engines were original WW2 Mack Lanova indeed. 519 ci 131 hp pre-chamber Mack diesel. In fact it was the 1st series production Mack diesel introduced in late 1938. Sure would be cool to learn more about your truck and the purchase history. You are very welcome together with pictures more to come Vlad

Thank you. Just don't remember seeing before. I had some ideas on that matter but was ways off from being sure. Now will keep it in my mind.

Looks like a driver profession is becoming an operator of a truck, not a driver. Such person costs cheaper. But sometimes it turns out into a ten times more worth.

Yes, that's what I thought. And probably the same thing was used on GPW (Willis) during the war times.

Can't figure out what that black mascot on the hood means.

Jim, I'm afraid Winfall brand is already a copyrighted thing. At least so much time and efforts were spent into its grow up. And if it's even stll not copyrighted if you (or anybody else excepting OD) would try using it anybody would feel it's not a genuine product. Tom, thanks for the pics. The tree which is a truck is increadable. And the cats have such faces like they knew who took all the furniture away but would never tell.

I would bite a bullet and end up with the exterior paint. Maybe in the spring, not now. Overall a nice looking B.

A good thing there's not only the part number but also a good quality picture of the decal. For a case if someone will want to draw it and than print a new sticker.

Quite a common story. I can appreciate when anyone takes a pile of parts and than try to get something solid of it. But much usually a guy takes some quite solid or complete vehicle, butcher it up along the way of his fantasy and than later runs out of cash/power/interest.

As said above. The only thing would be required is to paint it Olive drab with some white stars. Sure a cool thing to have in the yard.

I didn't note you said it was straight 6 4.0L. Only later series XJS had straight 6. That's why I thoufght it had V12 5.3.

Are you sure your service brake lights (at the rear end of the truck) are working? I can tell you a small switch on the firewall just behing the engine rear head is what activates the service brakes light. And they light on when the parking brake is applied either. Sorry can't tell about the particular switch you're asking about. From my memories it is attached to one of the dash brake valves behind the dash face panel. But I'm not 100% sure at the moment, didn't tinker with.

Those Western battery box bottoms don't suit Eastern covers, no matter aluminium or steel. Two batteries would be quite enough to start and drive your truck, especially in your warm region. I have two batteries installed in one Eastern box which looks smaller than yours. The only and important thing you should insulate the terminals in the other box very well. Otherwise some inside the box welding or a blast in the other inside might happen. No ideas on the matter of the device atop of the filter. Pretty sure it's an aftermarket thing. Could be a water sensor if the filter is a fuel one. The location of the filter itself doesn't seem familiar to me either.

Do you currently have some V8 under the hood in place of original V12?

Nice looking R and the crane/flatbed combo is sure always handy. Is that a Hayward built unit?

Yes, the bear was very strong and pissed off. And too probably shocked. The guy who was telling about a knife was too probably shocked either and didn't know WHAT he was actually going to do. At least it seemed to me that way. Don't know where those folks drunk or not. Maybe not, just too much emotions hitted them. And I'm pretty sure the event took place in a far and low-habitated area of the country. Bears along with much other wild life are scarce in the areas people live. Too much of illegal hunting took place in the distant past.

Yes, they were. Honestly I had expectations on what I will hear but have to state I'm not ready to type everything of their speach on here. The start words with 2 or 3 repeats were "We must kill him right now". Than "give me a knife and I'll do that". Than later woman's voice starts screaming "the bear is about to get out, guys come into the car ASAP." Needless to say 60% of the speach is "what the f***ing hell" and so on.

Or for the actual part. Need a part# for the rubber gasket/seal for the R-model left side cowl vent.

All those crews are sure great looking but seem dangerous and I wouldn't like such visitors at my back yard. The pics are excellent.

Yes, I agree on what you think on the matter. With the cost dance of one hundred plus-minus you have much more spending in time and attention. I know what it is, also have an idea to reproduce Superliner fender turn lights in bronze. i suppose it could be made here in Russia for nearly $100 apiece if order 4-10 castings. Haven't worked it out because no actual need at the moment - no Superliner.

Tom, thank you for the deeper excursion. Interesting thoughts floated up in my mind. Here in Russia you can find many really old and ancient memorial objects such as churches, kremlins, monasteries and so on.Some of them are dated as 10 hundreds years old or so. But on the other hand much newer but either vintage artifacts of for example industrial kind are quite scarce.Being in Netherlands I once noted a really old riveted roof structure above a railroad platform. It was in a small city and a local station. But the roof looked vintage, well-cared and solid. In Russia you can seldom see anything really old in service. The most things get redone every 5-15-30 years and many are poor-made structures. Maybe excepting some really large railroad bridges made of steel. And what I dislike nobody estimate such objects as any historical value. Everything working must work and that's all. Sure there's a reason of shortage of old buildings and so due to the WW2 which took a really large part of the country. Actually you can easily recognize the area of German occupation and non-occuped just be the number of old churches. But The Netherlands were occupied either. And Dutches have those vintage railroad staitions/ Russians - don't. P.S. The said above has direct relation to old trucks either.

The Autocar - I'm in love!! looks great at the picture.

Yes, as said above. The boot tops on the pan and than you put sheet metal frame on top of it and secure with machine screws. My R has a carpet from the factory but now its condition doesn't allow to judge it was atop of the boot retainer originally or below. More looks like 1st case. The boots itself are a mystery to me. There are two styles of them (both avalible from PAI). One is a small rectangular shape and another is elliptic on its sides. And twice larger. The 1st one is what I have in the R. The 2nd one is installed in MH but I saw some pics of Superliners (and R's ?) with that big one either.

I like that covered bridge no less than red R-model. Could you drive through that one? No, I don't mean with the R-model