Maddog13407

82 R600 300 with 9 speed Roadranger. Ex Ryder Rental truck. only R model I have ever seen with these square tanks still in 82..

so it was the night before Macungie and Matt was STILL putting the fenders back on his B model....... and still left New York State by 7 am headed for Macungie.. had to take the top of the stack off so it would squeeze in the garage for late night work

JUNK! they may fit well but you may have to tap the outer edge in with a hammer so it doesn't rub and trust me, when you close them, you will know the difference. its like closing the door and hearing a piece of roofing tin rattle. cheap, thin, junky. totally not a solid door closing sound like a good old R model or B model door. not that the early R model latch was a prize cause it was a piece of junk compared to the B model latch also.

years ago I sold an old LF mack. was cobbed but had a solid frame and cab. this was way before they got popular and woth 1500 for junk. I wont tell you guys what I sold it for, make ya cry. anyways this guy pulls up with an R model roll off with a roll off container that he took the torch and cut the sides off. loaded the LF on the flatbed and hoisted the whole thing up on the roll back. measured and it was EXACTLY 13'6''. tied it down and took off down the thruway and onto the Mass pike. dunno how he made out or if the LF was a convertible by the time he got home or not. first time I had ever seen a homemade rollback like that before.

Rick Lucia bought up a bunch of scrap years ago from Talerico Construction,( that's where I got my no rot 66 R model cab) they had a bunch of those scrapers and took the engines out to use in their gravel pit. I was there when Lucia sent guys up to scrap them. this old man chewin on his cigar with a 325 Cat excavator grabbed those big scrapers and dragged them onto lowboys like they were Tonka toys. they also scrapped a bunch of old GMC dumps, diamong Reos, and a few DM's along with those two R models(the one I posted with the extended homemade hood a while back with the Detroit). the old man had a grapple on the boom instead of the bucket, he NEVER got out of the cab to hook up the grapple chains, he was a magician with the controls. just swung the boom and hooked the chains and dragged stuff on the lowboy.

scrap just fell thru the floor today in Upstate Ny. $200 a ton for cars and $150 a ton for short steel. was about double that a month ago

this day and age.... who the hell has carpet anymore Otherdog???? they leave nothing to the imagination anymore. don't even have to hunt for anything

yup! that's what I was thinking. M and G car carriers was all yellow GMC's usually with a big Ryder sticker on the door. M and G vanished also. probably because of all the spare parts that were sold out the back door. heard many horror stories of brand new Detroits never even makin it off the loadin dock and would end up in someones trailer behind a pickup and I know of a few guys who worked for them who NEVER bought home heating oil for their truck and ALL their friends who were truckers always had good looking rubber on their trucks...

yup I see the jake heads now... also has the skinny 237 exhaust manifold

anyone close enough to go look at it for us? I know my Brother is serious about buyin it but not sight unseen 8 hour away. would like to know the condition of the floors and back of cab.

looks like its an old M and G Carriers truck on the hook of that Brock. or were they all yellow? I forget, I think Ryder was involved with them for while? hears tons of horror stories about M an G. guys working for them ripping them off left and right, probably why they are no longer around. kinda like D W Winkelman in Syracuse. they were big big back in the days, the workers ripped them off so bad finally the old man said screw it, im a Millionaire and he shut the doors and got rid of them all.

up, agreed. they didn't make magnums in 89. definitely just a sticker.

looks good to me haha. rougher lookin the cheaper, I mean better in the pictures..

think ill give him a call tomorrow. truck looks sad

the 300 was a Maxidyne, the 300+ was a Thermodyne I believe. not that it matters. all of the E6's were good engines

as long as you don't start singing that god aweful Tammy Wynett song D I V O R C E . we will have your back

B61 must be sold? was gonna try callin but the listing is gone again.

Mine are Mack part number 88GB439P652 on my 711' could go one size smaller as they are right at the end of the adjuster slot.

so where are all these GUTLESS 237's? that no one seems to like? I could use about four or five or them for free that nobody wants. I think Freighttrain might take one to.

sweet truck . sold for about 3 grand cheap I think

yup didn't know Alnye had any b models. when I worked for a house builder years ago we built a brand new house for the owner and out B42/B61 tow truck was bought from Aln ye's yard in Utica.

I counted the one F, one DM and the two R's. still not seein any Kw...

what Kw? I was eyeballin the two R models in the background

yup was thinkin the same thing Ron haha

soak it insiderher? I mean in cider??