H Model

[Milaca]

Those photos are great! That B-75 with the gravel box would be a good mate for my C-600.

[tkobes43]

That Superliner wasn't really a Superliner,but a recabbed RS700.When I saw it listed on OldMacks,I emailed Dennis about it,as I was interested,but told him in no way shape or form was it really a Superliner,as the rame was wrong,VIN was wrong,steering gear location was wrong,etc. I got an email back about how many years he worked for Mack,and he knew this and he knew that and that basically I didn't know what I was talking about.

Ironically,a week later the listing was changed calling it a RS700 with Superliner cab and hood fitted. I really think he's been blinded by $$$$.

Yea i delt with him a few times... Not my cup of tea... Ill just leave it at that.

Oh sweet pictures btw, i really enjoyed them!!

Tom

[mowerman]

WOW! not only a bunch of classic Macks,but some nice Chevys too! i like that coupe,and the 61 impala!..........................................Mark

you know 1961 is a rare find anywhere,,,i dont know why,,you never see them,,,even back in the 70,s they were far and few between....that one looks excellant...bob

[mackdaddy]

A few more pics of the car shed.

[vision386]

you know 1961 is a rare find anywhere,,,i dont know why,,you never see them,,,even back in the 70,s they were far and few between....that one looks excellant...bob

Bob,there is a 61 impala sitting in a field near here,looks in real nice shape,all original right down to the hubcaps! best thing is its a four-speed! i have tried to find out who it belongs to,but thers never noboby home at the closest house,if i get i chance i'll see if i can get some pictures......................Mark

[41chevy]

Bob,there is a 61 impala sitting in a field near here,looks in real nice shape,all original right down to the hubcaps! best thing is its a four-speed! i have tried to find out who it belongs to,but thers never noboby home at the closest house,if i get i chance i'll see if i can get some pictures......................Mark

See about the Allis Chalmers powered bullet holed COE.....

[Milaca]

So many L-model Mack trucks in one place, amazing! That Peterbilt is quite a sight too, the radiator shutters appear to be an add-on accessory.

[vision386]

So many LT's so little money!...........................................Mark

[607t1173]

Having been extremely interested in the Joe Mustang H-63 since the 70's. I searched for it for years and only discovered a few years ago that you had purchased it. I read the article that you wrote about when you went to pick it up. You said in the article that you had promised Joe that you would make no changes to the truck while he was still alive. So by what I just read, where you had considered changing the cab, I take it that Joe must have passed away. Having never had the opportunity to have seen the truck, I have always wondered how he got that 1693 under the cab.

[mackdaddy]

Joe is still alive and doing well at 98. I visited him this past spring in Honolulu where he lives. Joe wrecked the H model in the early 70's and he had always thought he would change the cab some day. In fact he purchased a cab that was still in the crate to do so but he never got around to it. When I bought the truck he told me the dealer that had the cab but by then the dealer was out of business and who knows what happended to the cab.

The cab is in really bad shape but we decided to save it. Joe is well aware of the work that is being done to the truck and approves of it.

The 1693 modification was well done. The original dog house is raised up about a foot and there is no passenger seat now. Here is a picture of my son Adlar and I with Joe this past spring.

Joe did well for himself and now lives in a condo overlooking the pacific ocean in Honolulu.

[BOB DINGSDALE]

he looks in great shape for 98 year older.have picture of him beside mustang looks the same now.

[j hancock]

Nice photo! It is good to see him still dressed in his traditional black.

Is he still wearing his trademark cowboy boots?

[mackdaddy]

he switched his cowboy hat to a sailors cap as he hangs out at the local dock and helps out.

[607t1173]

In the 70's and 80's there were still a few brand new in the crate H model cabs still around, and for years I offered a finders fee to anyone who could locate one for me.

In the early 80's I located one myself in Atlanta, it had been left behind when Bowman moved their terminal on Moreland Ave.and having not run H models in many years they had just left it behind, abandoned. A local scrap yard had picked it up for free but the man who owned the scrap yard wouldn't part with it, So I told him to contact me if he ever changed his mind.

He called me in the early 90's and said he would take $1000 for it as he owned the salvage yard and that the state had purchased his property for the right of way,

Being that he had the crusher there at that time already crushing trucks and cars. I jumped in my pick up hooked up to a rollback pull behind trailer . Not really believing my good fortune( I was willing to give him up to $5000 for it) I. broke a few traffic laws (speedlimits, following to closely), and a few more that I no longer remember

. Arriving in record time, only to be met by an elderly man who seemed to be troubled by something, and as it turned out that something was the H model cab, that much like your H-633 in California, his college educated sons trying to help their elderly father had seen fit to expedite some of the things that they deemed had been there the longest and that had the least value Yes, one of those things was the H-model cab and it had already been run thru the crusher.

[57 bcr]

In the 70's and 80's there were still a few brand new in the crate H model cabs still around, and for years I offered a finders fee to anyone who could locate one for me.

In the early 80's I located one myself in Atlanta, it had been left behind when Bowman moved their terminal on Moreland Ave.and having not run H models in many years they had just left it behind, abandoned. A local scrap yard had picked it up for free but the man who owned the scrap yard wouldn't part with it, So I told him to contact me if he ever changed his mind.

He called me in the early 90's and said he would take $1000 for it as he owned the salvage yard and that the state had purchased his property for the right of way,

Being that he had the crusher there at that time already crushing trucks and cars. I jumped in my pick up hooked up to a rollback pull behind trailer . Not really believing my good fortune( I was willing to give him up to $5000 for it) I. broke a few traffic laws (speedlimits, following to closely), and a few more that I no longer remember

. Arriving in record time, only to be met by an elderly man who seemed to be troubled by something, and as it turned out that something was the H model cab, that much like your H-633 in California, his college educated sons trying to help their elderly father had seen fit to expedite some of the things that they deemed had been there the longest and that had the least value Yes, one of those things was the H-model cab and it had already been run thru the crusher.

OH NUTS! Sorry to hear that!

[607t1173]

Don't despair I found another one in Pa.it just cost alot more than $1000.

I sure was glad to hear that Joe(Mustang) Glasco hadn,t passed away.The man was and is a legend !!. Those of his generation are owed a heart felt thank you, For not only could they talk the talk, but they could also walk the walk!!!The average driver today would not have any concept as to what it was like back then. I used to have an old B-61 that always sat behind my shop 673t and a quad box and I would like to have a dollar for every driver who said that he had started driving truck in a B-model and used to put his arm thru the steering wheel and shift both sticks,I would ask them do you think you can still do it??Most said yes so then I would inform them that i had an old B-model out back with an 18 speed Quad and I would bet them twenty bucks that they couldn't drive one mile with out getting both sticks out of gear and having to stop and start over,I bought a lot of lunches with their money and only had to pay out one time .

Few people (TRUCK DRIVERS) could have even envisioned ,must less have built the amazing truck that was so far ahead of it,s time.Back in the early to mid 70,s I had a driver driving for me who encountered Joe in Chicago and told me that he would,'ve traded my one year old Transtar for it without any hesitation and once that I had seen the truck that I wouldn't have even been angry at him for doing it. So I knew it had to be exceptional cause I still owed about two more years of payments on the Transtar. Thru the years I heard of the truck many times, and the amazing truck driver who not only drove it,turned the wrenches, and who was also responsible for it,s being the only one on the road like it. How one man drove the same truck for 35 years only goes to show what joy that truck that he conceived, and was capable of building must have brought him.

I presently have a 55 H-63 that for the last few years I have been telling myself "This year I'm gonna finish it" and if I only had one half as much of the creativity and ability that Joe has" I Would!!