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Overdrive's Report on the '70 Western F model


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I had an FS786L in '75 it was my first 300 and no driver with the biggest and baddest large car on the road today could be as proud as I was the day I took delivery of that beautiful and (for then) powerful truck.

A lot of the older O/O's used to laughingly tell me that I was gonna rub the paint off of it because if I wasn't polishing it then it was being driven or I was sleeping in it.

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It was pretty well known that Mike Parkhurst liked Macks,but he wasn't afraid to criticize them in his reports. Anybody else notice they had the pic of the passenger side storage box upside down??

Yeah Mike I noticed that too!

I also loved the picture of the pedals with the one on the extreme left being the windshield washer, the reservoir was a Trico plastic bag mounted on a bracket

under the drivers seat with the hoses running under a plate screwed down over the driver's door threshold.

This pedal wasn't just hooked to a switch you had to pump it like an old tire pump-----1st class to say the least!

I often wondered this-- If you were going up Pike's Peak fully loaded in an "F" model with say a 255H.P. V-8 backed by a triplex and your windshield was constantly

getting dirty would you be able keep your windshield clean and downshift at the same time??

Sure would keep your feet busy!

It's really funny when you look back on some of this stuff, but heck you didn't need a crystal ball to fix them then either and a lot can be said for that!!!

Ron

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It was pretty well known that Mike Parkhurst liked Macks,but he wasn't afraid to criticize them in his reports. Anybody else notice they had the pic of the passenger side storage box upside down??

Does anybody remember when they (Overdrive) reveiwed the new Marmon cabover? they had the famous basketball player Wilt Chaimberlan in the side-box,and he fit with room to spare!....................................................Mark

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Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate.

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I've got an Overdrive from the 70's which has a review of the new Freightliner Powerliner...they didn't have much good to say about that truck! I've got another issue with a tour of the Brockway factory in Cortland and they were impressed with how tough the Brockways were built.

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