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Hate to have to agree with you but Renault seemed to let them be there own company. They had a great Idea trying to get back into the medium duty business with the Midliner----even though they turned out to be Mudslimers! They really weren't that bad a truck just never seemed right to have a bulldog and a Mack nameplate on a foreign built truck. In my opinion they were also, for the most part, a pain to get parts for. Nothing really against the parts guys (they didn't like the idea of them either) but you could call up all day long and order parts for a real Mack and have fun kidding and joking with your parts guys. These are guys that you usually dealt with on a daily basis. Call up and get over all the niceties like hi Bob, Joe, Ted whatever how are you doing today and then turn around and ask for a part for a Midliner and their whole attitude seemed to change----acted like you got up extra early this morning just to piss in their oatmeal! Ron

Great lookin' trucks from much simpler, and I think, happier times! You could actually fix these things without being a brain surgeon!! Ron

Thanks Al I'm glad you enjoyed them. Hope to meet you at Macungie this year! Ron

HolyTee Shirt Batman!

Thanks for the information guys! Ron

That would have to be #223 chassis #H673T1353 What kind of shape is it in and what do they want for it? Ron

Lookin' good Leslie!! Ron

NO F-----G S--T! that's pretty neat. Thanks for posting! Ron

On a regular MC truck or tractor chassis I wouldn't think it would take that long. On a firetruck chassis I don't know, I would imagine it has some type of canopy cab on it? I don't know if that would have any effect how you have to remove it? Ron

It's an MC with a 300 series Maxidyne engine. Ron

Welcome Shaun! Ron

You're right Ken. Her name is Pat Hutchings, a very nice lady!! When we were still in business we a had a farm we used to go to in Vera Cruz, PA. not far from Allentown. We used to pick up brood mares there to take to Ky. to be bred. Not much room for a tractor and trailer so we used to use a three horse Chevy straight truck if we had one mare and foal to pick up which was most of the time. We would then bring them back to West Chester to load on a tractor and trailer with more horses for the trip to Ky. When I had to go I always asked if I could leave early so I could go up to World Headquarters to visit the Mack shop. Then I would stop on my way back down 29 & 100 to pick up the mare and foal. One time I went we had to pick up two mares and foals that meant two box stalls and I had to use one of our six horse straight trucks which were CS300 Midliners. When I entered World Headquarters that morning and said hello to Pat she asked me how I was doing and so forth. Then straining to see out in the parking lot she asked me what I was driving? She said I know it's a horse truck but what is it. I said it's a midliner, to which she replied Oh my! Then I told her about the only two mistakes they made with the midliner------- #1 making them and #2 selling them!!! She got quite a charge out of that! Keep in mind this was in 2009 and the truck was either 22 or 23 years old. They were getting pretty scarce to see! Ron

A lot of companies used Ross steering gears-- horn button said Ross cam and lever steering. We had 260 Brockways with Ross gears in them steered great didn't need power steering! Also used to belong to a fire co. in West Chester that had a'57 Seagrave Anniversary pumper same steering-same wheel but i think the horn button said Seagrave on it. Ron

That bulldog was as you said everywhere!!! Zenon Hansen came to visit us after Christmas one year. Can't remember the year for sure '70 or '71 I think? Pretty neat guy. Well he was wearing a bulldog lapel pin for sure-----but that was just the beginning!!! He was wearing a suit which on which all the buttons had bulldogs on them. Had a pin on his suit coat pocket which was like the united nations leaf symbol with a bulldog in the middle of it Had a dangly tie clasp on a chain with you guessed it a bulldog in the middle of it Had wire rim glasses with 4 little bulldogs in the corners where the earpieces met the frame Was smoking a large bowled pipe with a leather cover over the bowl with---wanna take a guess what was on the front of it? Was wearing a pair of slip on leather dress shoes with a strap across the front with a bulldog buckle in the middle of the straps. Now I have to ask you when you're 14 or 15 years old what do say to a man wearing all this? Well I happened to ask him, being I must admit a little bit of a wise ass, do you think you have enough bulldogs on? Well with this he reached for the zipper on his fly and showed me the zipper pull it was of course a bulldog---needless to say that shut me up!! I told the receptionist at the World Headquarters that story, who remembered Mr. Hansen, and she said he used to get a big kick out of doing that to people. Was glad to have had the opportunity to meet him. Many fond memories!! Ron

Here you go Ken Some pictures from inside the World Headquarters building taken in December 2007. Look closely at the marble wall in the reception area---what do you see? Ron

Kinda have to agree with Mark here-----no offense Ken. But if you want good food to go along with the good sights, in my opinion, your much better off with the Tilted Kilt! Ron

Sorry Mike Got confused as to which truck you were talking about. As mike Yarnall stated that truck was bought as an antique in the late sixties. It is an earlier AB built in 1919. Has a worm drive differential rather than the dual reduction which came out I think the following year. First AB's were built with either chain drive or worm drive rear axle, later ones were built with either chain drive or dual reduction rear axle. As for the difference in the wheels I have no idea, maybe they were more common on the worm drive axle? Ron

On an added note about this when my brother Tommie and I first saw this we thought all hell would break lose when our father saw it. He didn't usually go for stuff like that. Much to our surprise he actually got quite a kick out of it! Ron

Help yourself Vlad, I'm glad you enjoyed them! Ron

Nice lookin' trucks, thanks! I've told Vinnie this before but we used to have a "U" model it's number was #245. I had a nickname for it when I drove it ---I called it "My Snub Nosed Little Buddy" Ron

A whole lotta Benjamins!!! Ron

Mike It was gone a long long time ago. As far as I know it was never modified, it's got budds on the front also. It was a bus chassis, maybe that had something to do with it? Ron

Ernie First one of our 400 series Brockways that we pulled the "road oiler" out of and put an ENDT675 in was unit #201. On one of the first trips out with it after the conversion the driver dolled it up with some of those little gold sticky letters that you use to use on mail boxes. Across the front of it right above the grille it said "HUSKYDYNE" Ron

Thanks Keith!! Ron