Superdog

Saw these 2 on Ebay.Poor old dump looks like it needs a hug real bad.The tractor is a '68 and looks pretty darn nice.

My wife rode along to pick the truck up,and for some reason she was a little pissed when she found out we were picking up another truck,seams that I was a little vague as to the intended cargo we were going after.So when I saw this sign,thought it would be a good idea to stop for lunch.It worked,kinda.

Yep,I said I'd had this cab a long time.2 things that seem to grow real well here at my place,horseweeds and those damn little trees.

I not familiar with the model #'s Neway uses,but I will tell you from my experience,they are a very good heavy duty suspension,but parts are high priced and sometimes hard to find.I haven't had to do mine yet,but have been told they are a pain in the ass to re-bush.The ride is good,but they make simple tasks such as greasing and adjusting brakes a real pain in the ass for anyone with any size to them.

Recently added a new chapter to my trucking career,meat hauling.A few years ago I started filling in part time to help a cousin with his live turkey haul.I've got my son pretty much leased to him full time now,but I still do a load now & then.Awhile back he called needing help with some cold loads,so I thought I'd give it a try.It's ok once in a great while,but I think I'll stick with hauling hogs.

I've had this cab for a long time,and it definately is 110% better than the cab that's on the maroon one now.I was always hoping to build this truck someday,but where it needed an engine put in,and a cut off,I knew it would be a long ways off,but now by combining the 2, I should have a decent truck in the end with alot less time involved.They are pretty close relatives,actually.Both 1960's ,the green one is #28121 and the new one is #28453.

It has a END673 natural,& 10 speed Duplex.I was told when I bought it that it "ran when parked" and luckily in this case,it still does. The tag axle is a Neway,single air bag set up.I'll get some better pics when I get it unloaded,it was too muddy yesterday to get to my unloading dock.The cab is really,really bad.I'm pretty sure that I'm going to replace it with a better one I have,and save this one for future use.

A friend of mine replumbed the air lines from the splitter with larger lines after having similar trouble when his truck was new,said that help alot.Those transmissions also have a spin on air filter that is often overlooked.

Got the old sleeper cab B-61 home yesterday.Probably the easiest retrieval mission I've ever been on.They had the old girl loaded up on a roll back and running when I pulled in the driveway,backed up to the rollback,tilted the bed a little and drove the B on my trailer.I was chained down and back on the road in 20 minutes.Truck sounds good.

I was guessing it probably was just a clone,but you never know with a truckpaper listing,the are generally chock full of typos and wrong info. Where'd you get the list of Magnum VIN #'s?We need to get a similiar list for the Freedoms.

Did you see the Magnum on Truckpaper,Travis??They are calling it a '87,maybe it's just a repaint.

Mack offered page&page suspension as an option,so I'd bet it was factory.I've got 3 Macks with factory p&p,but they are the 60/40 suspension,not the dial a ride.I wouldn't say it was worth anything,other than it would be a conversation piece since it was such a rarely ordered option.

Looks to me that the original mount was broken like most you find are.I'd say they bolted the Bulldog to a generic chrome radiator cap and then attached it to the radiator shell above the remains of the original mount.

there was a BCR single axle cab & chassis on a used truck lot in Galva,IL a couple years ago,don't know if it's still there or not.I also have hard pics somewhere of a BCR in Wisc. that Mike Pagel took some years back.There was also a BCR wrecker on Ebay a few years ago.There was another in Chicago in the lot where my Celli B613 was,but it got scrapped,Trent could fill more in on that one.

I'm still waiting on pics of the parts truck before I bid.Those Riecher's beds are top notch.

I still have the Unishift out of the H67,plus a Duplex or 2.You can call or PM me.319-759-1776.

Thanks,Al,guess my memory ain't as bad as I thought.

Exactly,what could be more humiliating than to be branded for life with that awful symbol.

I agree totally,it don't sit well with me at all.Scrapping of Macks should be punished by suffering from a plague of red oval shaped boils over the offenders entire body.

It's a '74 isn't it,a '71 couldn't be a FS786,the ENDT676 didn't come out till '73.

Has anyone ever seen a R700 BCR or literature pertaining to one?I heard once along time ago a few were built to convert B-70 series trucks but never have seen any documented proof.

I don't think anyone meant they should be scrapped,but for the condition of the above mentioned trucks a fair price would be scrap value,which nowadays is pretty high.Most of the 140+ Macks that I own I purchased for scrap value or less,back in the days when the going rate was $20 to 50/ton.Pretty hard for most of us to afford to save trucks like the above when scrap is $200+/ton.Don't get me wrong,they should be saved.In my eyes,scrapping a Mack,no matter how bad,should be a capital offense.In a perfect world,owners of trucks such as these,rough,rusty,incomplete,and non running, that wanted rid of them should offer them to collectors at a much discounted rate knowing that some good would come out of them,be it parts or just to be saved as is,but unfortunately the buck is more important than the Bulldog to some.

I've got a cab here you can have.A '77 R686 wrecked several years ago,frame broke and it jackknifed.I've got all I need off it.

He does turn up some pretty sweet trucks,though.That EHU beer truck and LT #1002 he listed awhile back,for example.

I never knew livestock hauling was considered a "low mileage operation".