bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Any idea where I could find a horn button for a '80 model R? Tan interior. I might just switch to the newer style steering wheel when I get to fix it up, but this one isn't cracked or anything. Kids vandalized it, kicked both windshields out, and took the horn button. We bought the truck new, and it means a lot to me. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Very sweet R model! Love the dual pipes. Dont know if this will help, but Watts has a Custom Built For horn button I think. Good luck on the truck! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Also, watch Ebay for them. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Luckily I have the original windshields, so I'm going to put them back in it until I can fix it up and go with new ones again. I was the custom horn button thing, but I think that is just a sticky emblem that sticks to you're existing horn button... It had been sitting where it was for about 4 years, on some land a developer we work for owns. Checked the fluids, stuck some batteries in it, it didn't turn over 2 times before it started. didn't want to build air, and we found a plastic air line broke, so we spliced it, it built 125 pounds of air, I drove it about a mile down the road to my ex-brother in laws house where it is safe now. I'm just glad they didn't tear it up worse than it is. In the last week, it's been vandalized, I had three pickups and a gooseneck trailer stolen from my shop, AND now, or rottweiler is missing from home... NOT A GOOD WEEK... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Very sweet R model! Love the dual pipes. Dont know if this will help, but Watts has a Custom Built For horn button I think. Good luck on the truck!Thank you. This is the only brand new big truck we ever bought. My dad bought it from Mack Trucks of Tulsa, from Perry Harper, Rick Harper's dad. It has just over 200,000 original truly one owner miles. Dad traded his first Mack in on it, I think it was a '68 model, 237 with a 5X4. He bought it in 1976 I think. I remember it didn't have air parking brake, had a manual parking brake handle on the floor. Didn't have power steering either. I havn't decided if I want to keep this as a tractor, I have a '91 Pete that I use to move my equipment now, so I've thought about fixing the Mack up as a dedicated winch truck. It's already got a winch on it, and I have a winch bed I could modify to fit it. I don't really need more than one tractor anymore, and it's a lot cheaper to tag and insure a winch truck. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Oh man sorry about all the bad things. Good luck. Vinny Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Hope you catch the bastards that tore your truck up.I should have a extra horn button. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 I'm pretty sure it was kids that vandalized the Mack. They had been playing in it. If I'd done something like that when I was a kid, I probably wouldn't be around anymore... The thieves are the ones I'm after. They got a '96 Dodge 2500 4x4 V-10 that I bought brand new, only had about 60,000 miles on it. Also got a '94 Dodge 1500 that I was using for parts... The one that has me madder than HELL is my '90 Chevy 4x4 dually silverado, 454, custom $800 seats... That my dad got me new for Christmas/High school graduation just 2 years before he died... It was like the Mack, not something I ever considered getting rid of... Everybody that's known me for any length of time, knows the value I hold those two trucks at. I was about as pissed as I've probably ever been when I found it missing... Last time I know of that I got that mad, was the day we found out dad had cancer, and that was 20 years ago... I've been thru a lot since then, including a bad divorce, and not been that mad... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Here's a few more pics:scan108001.bmpscan120001.bmp Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick harper Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Come by the shop and I'll donate a set of windshields for the Mack. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 for some reason, that didn't work right... The first pic is my dually that got stolen, with my first ROTT, Bandit in it. The second pic is my Mom, Myself and my Dad when he was about to start taking cancer treatments in 1991. The third pic was supposed to be my Mack with my 170 Case trackhoe (which was vandalized beyond repair about 8 years ago. The fourth pic was my Mack, with me standing in front of it when I was about 14. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Come by the shop and I'll donate a set of windshields for the Mack.Thank you very much Rick. I will take you up on your very generous offer. I havn't seen you in a long time. Again, I really appreciate it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 Well... I think I found one of my trucks. What's left of it anyway...The custom seats, doors and tailgate appear to be all that's left... I am PISSED... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Well... I think I found one of my trucks. What's left of it anyway...The custom seats, doors and tailgate appear to be all that's left... I am PISSED...Oh man, I agree with Mike, I hope you catch them dicks who took your stuff, and beat up the R model. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 well,I sure hope you have better luck dealing with the law than I ever did with stuff I've had stolen and vandalized.Keep us posted. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 I really don't expect I'll get any of it back. I think if it had been up to the deputy that I gave the pictures to today, we probably would have went down there right then. The good cops hands are tied, the sorry cops don't give a shit... this is an actual wrecker company that is going around stealing vehicles. Not just someone with a wrecker. I kinda wish I hadn't even filed a police report... my options would be a lot more flexible if there wasn't paperwork with my name involved... 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 I really don't expect I'll get any of it back. I think if it had been up to the deputy that I gave the pictures to today, we probably would have went down there right then. The good cops hands are tied, the sorry cops don't give a shit... this is an actual wrecker company that is going around stealing vehicles. Not just someone with a wrecker. I kinda wish I hadn't even filed a police report... my options would be a lot more flexible if there wasn't paperwork with my name involved... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-144688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 Well, I did get some pieces back. The complete front clip showed up at the wrecker yard, so I got My '90 chevy dually front clip complete with bumper and grill guard, both doors, the seats and the tailgate... That's all... Wrecker dude told the cops that he did come to my place to get the dually, because a "homie" of his said it was his, and he wanted it hauled... He doesn't remember "homeboy's" name though... Said he bought these parts off of him for his own use... Claimed he didn't take the other two trucks or the trailer, which ALL came up missing the same time...Now, keep in mind, that just a month earlier this same guy was charged with a criminal felony, for trespassing and stealing a car from someone else in Tulsa... His arraignment on that case is the 28th of this month... And they didn't even arrest him this time, or impound the wrecker... The wrecker was back at his house that same night, and I have pictures of him at his "yard" the next day with the wrecker... I just feel that if I was caught doing something illegal of this nature, I'd be sitting in jail, and my shit would be seized... 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 What a terrible things are going around you!To sorry about all that happened.Vlad Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 his cousin must be the sheriff 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Here you go.........http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Mack-Bulldog-Steering-Wheel-Cap-/170940795182?hash=item27ccdd892e&item=170940795182&pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 .....& just order the "Custom Built For" ring from Watt's (around $18.00) get it engraved at a shopping mall and ,WALLAH!! You'll be back in business,Bandit!! Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 Thanks for the e-bay link. And I was thinking about the custom ring already. The two '79 models we had both had built for rings on them. The '72 and '73 dumptrucks I'm thinking had custom aluminum buttons that said "Custom built for Flatiron Paving". I guess that was a rather large company in Colorado. We bought both of them at an auction up there in 1988. There was over 60 Mack dumptrucks in the sale. The story behind how we ended up with 2 is kinda funny... The '73 R600 was lot number 277, and the '72 R700 was lot number 279... We decided we wanted one of those two, so about the time they get to about lot number 265, dad decides he needs to find a restroom. He told me, "if I'm not back by the time they get to those trucks, try to buy one of them. He said to go to about $15,000... So, we get to #277, and it got to where it was just me and someone way on the other side of the crowd bidding. I went up to 13,500. It sold for 14,000... No big deal, I'll try on 279... So we get to 279, and I got it bought for 13,000... I thought I did pretty good. So about 10 minutes later, dad walks up, and I told him We got 279. He gets this funny look on his face, and asks if I had been bidding on 277. I said Yes, id went to 13,500 and quit... He said, he was glad I quit when I did, because he didn't know it was ME he was bidding against... I about fell over. I said, "well, at least I got a better deal on mine, I spent 1,000 less than he did... We had driven the motorhome up there to the sale, and took mom and granny with us to visit relatives while were were there, so I got to drive "my" dumptruck home from Denver to Tulsa. I was only 16 at the time, so we got to cut down thru the corner of Colorado, into the Oklahoma panhandle to miss the scales and bypass Kansas. That was a trip I'll never forget... We got home, made a hitch to bolt to the back of the R600, and also put a hitch on the back of the little car that we pulled behind the motorhome ( a Pontiac Phoenix) and dad pulled the car toter trailer back up there with the car, then bolted the hitch to the back of the 600, loaded the car and brought that one home that way. We used to do a lot of things in an un-conventional manner like that, and I wouldn't trade the memories for anything. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1trucking Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 We didn't even actually go up there looking for a dumptruck, we went because they had a bunch of excavators. We were primarily looking for another 225 Cat, and they went really high for used machines. So then we ran at a 792 John Deere, and it ended up bringing 90,000. SO then they had a 245 Cat, nobody was really bidding on, because it was so big. We already had a 666 Koehring that we had to take the counterweights and bucket off of to move (taking it from about 115,000 to 75,000 pounds) so dad starts bidding on the 245. I finally asked him how we were going to move something like that with what we had, since it weighed about 145,000 pounds. He thought about it and quit bidding. He quit at 57,500 and it sold for 60,000. So at that point, he decided we needed to upgrade dumptrucks. Our only tandem dumptruck at that time was a '70 international with a 345 gas engine, 5 speed with a 3 speed brownlite, with hydraulic brakes... SO the 2 Macks was a MAJOR upgrade. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Thanks for the e-bay link. And I was thinking about the custom ring already. The two '79 models we had both had built for rings on them. The '72 and '73 dumptrucks I'm thinking had custom aluminum buttons that said "Custom built for Flatiron Paving". I guess that was a rather large company in Colorado. We bought both of them at an auction up there in 1988. There was over 60 Mack dumptrucks in the sale. The story behind how we ended up with 2 is kinda funny... The '73 R600 was lot number 277, and the '72 R700 was lot number 279... We decided we wanted one of those two, so about the time they get to about lot number 265, dad decides he needs to find a restroom. He told me, "if I'm not back by the time they get to those trucks, try to buy one of them. He said to go to about $15,000... So, we get to #277, and it got to where it was just me and someone way on the other side of the crowd bidding. I went up to 13,500. It sold for 14,000... No big deal, I'll try on 279... So we get to 279, and I got it bought for 13,000... I thought I did pretty good. So about 10 minutes later, dad walks up, and I told him We got 279. He gets this funny look on his face, and asks if I had been bidding on 277. I said Yes, id went to 13,500 and quit... He said, he was glad I quit when I did, because he didn't know it was ME he was bidding against... I about fell over. I said, "well, at least I got a better deal on mine, I spent 1,000 less than he did... We had driven the motorhome up there to the sale, and took mom and granny with us to visit relatives while were were there, so I got to drive "my" dumptruck home from Denver to Tulsa. I was only 16 at the time, so we got to cut down thru the corner of Colorado, into the Oklahoma panhandle to miss the scales and bypass Kansas. That was a trip I'll never forget... We got home, made a hitch to bolt to the back of the R600, and also put a hitch on the back of the little car that we pulled behind the motorhome ( a Pontiac Phoenix) and dad pulled the car toter trailer back up there with the car, then bolted the hitch to the back of the 600, loaded the car and brought that one home that way. We used to do a lot of things in an un-conventional manner like that, and I wouldn't trade the memories for anything.Thats a memory you'll have forever!!! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28139-r-model-horn-button/#findComment-145735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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