bobgil Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) Any body own or have any experience with a C model Mack?I have one bought it while back but have not gotten too much done on it. I am working on changing the wedge brakes out for S-cam brakes.Though I might find some one else to talk a few things over with. I know where there is another one about 200 miles from me but the Dad had the truck and he has passed and the son is still running the business and does not know much about it. He is not using it but not talking about letting it go either. It has a newer engine it in but he does not know every thing about that either. The job was not completed when the Dad passed away. Still setting where it was with the front clip still off.I took picture of it a while back but I have put them all up and not sure where to find them now.Some might remember when I first got it.Bob Edited January 29, 2012 by bobgil Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 do you have any pictures of the c model? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I have 3 of them.What do you need to know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgil Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Have you ever had any problems with the clutch linkage rubbing or binding? Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgil Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 1 Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Dang that thing is awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaddeusW Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Very nice truck! Its rare to see a C model let alone a long wheel base tandem. You keeping it a grain truck or are you planning to do otherwise? I would make it a tipping flat bed with stake pockets and wooden gates. Quote -Thad What America needs is less bull and more Bulldog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 O&G in Ct. Had a C model with a air compressor on it. I remember the first time I saw it I was wondering what model it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgil Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 I have taken the 20 ft bed off of it and replaced it with a fifth wheel.It was a tractor at first and has been stretched by the original owner.It was used at a cement plant to haul the powdered cement, when the cement company was sold he kept the truck and used it around the farm and to haul feed for a small feed mill that they had on the farm just out side of Dallas. It going to be cut up and sold for scrap when a friend of mine who was going to cut it up told me about it.I don't remember the exact millage but if I remember it right it is about 70,000 I think, and all original. It still has the riveted together 10:00 20 wheels on it. The wedge brakes on it worked pretty good when I drove it home but when you set the parking brake it would free wheel and roll away. I could not get the parking brake part of the wedge brakes to work, and could not find a sorce for parts for the old style so I have been trying to convert it to S-cam brakes. I will try to get fresh pictures of it in the next few days, but it is in a building where the roof fell in under 18 inches of snow about three years ago. The owner did not have insurence and we have not had the money to rebuild it. I am the 2nd owner. Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivetroad Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Nice looking truck - what are its spec's - rear ends, engine and trans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Blais Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Here's one from a small New England show in 2005. Swing out fenders are a good feature. Appears to be the same cab as L model. Not sure on production years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Have you ever had any problems with the clutch linkage rubbing or binding?No,the clutch on my '65 with the pusher axle works fine,the other 2 don't run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgil Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) I don't remember how many of them were built. Not a lot I think only about 1100 of the 607's that I have. It has the 673 with a duplex on the reverse camel back springs on the rear.I have the build sheet some where.I have only seen about 8 or 9 of them and never seen one that was driven much at all. It seams like the people that have the are collecting and hauling them around. Edited January 30, 2012 by bobgil Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 C607 - 301C609 - 1064C611 - 16C615 - 208total production from '63 to'65 - 1589 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGiant2 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 these one that came in a few months ago in a local junk yard here. very rough.gg2 Quote We the unwilling, Lead by the unqualified, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgil Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 The ones that were used by the freight companies were pretty much used up I understand.I took some pictures of the C today when I was at the shop. They are not the best and it is alittle covered up with stuff that has been moved around since the roof has fallen in on us.I also showed the old wedge brakes and the new ones still not completed. I also showed the way i have the rear of it redone.Bob Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Did it dent the truck up when that thing fell on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgil Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 No it did not hit the truck when it fell but it is too low at the door to drive it out.I am going to have to remove some of the roof to get it out. Quote Bob Gil If it an't a Mack could it really be a truck??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Oh good I'm glad nothin hurt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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