Superdog Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Is there no longer an AC Mack on display in Washington,DC??? My daughter was there yesterday as part of a school trip and I told her the only thing I wanted her to get me was a pic of her standing beside the AC.She searched the entire day they were there and asked at the info booth and nobody knew what she was talking about.I suppose Obama pawned it!!!!!! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I was there 2 years ago in 5th grade for a trip. Don't recall seeing any Macks. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 it was donated for permanent display in 1963. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHfred Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Where is it supposed to be? I will probably be doing some touring there in a couple of weeks. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Where is it supposed to be? I will probably be doing some touring there in a couple of weeks.It was in the Museum of History and Technology section along with a teens Simplex truck a Superior Bus a Model AA and some other trucks in 2006, it may now be in the Smithsonian American History Museum in the" America on the Move Exhibit". Paul Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuhlz Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I have heard that they have started removing all the agriculture displays from the smithsonian. There is a wallis tractor that we have been trying to get information about for quite some time but nobody will respond. I wouldn't be surprised if the AC is moth-balled away in some corner somewhere and not out on display either.It makes me very sad to know that one of the greatest musuems does not care about the preservation of our agricultural and trucking history. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 it was donated for permanent display in 1963.I remember the story in a BULLDOG magazine from years back,Mike.There is supposed to be a Freightshaker there too,that was the 1st one sold outside of CF. 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/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 Just picked Lilly up from her trip and was looking thru her pics,no AC Mack as I already knew,but what was there in the Smithsonsian for the whole world to see???????????????? A GD Werner Enterprises Peterbilt!!!!! No wonder this country is so screwed up. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I remember seeing it when I was a kid,buts that's a long time ago! IIRC,it was from Jersey? only two heavy trucks I remember were the AC and one of the first White Freightliner C.O.E's they also had one of Evel Knievels bikes,and one of "Big Daddy" Don Garlits's top fuel rails...........................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I'm not sure but I think that AC Mack was Otilleo and son's Mack from Paterson NJ, I am sure the truck was from Jersey. I was in his yard a couple a years back and he still had his DM 800 Black Beauty Cummins powered Mack in his garage. He had a lot of DM 800's with V-8's back in the day pullin large demo trailersBULLHUSK 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 I think you are right,Ernie Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 OK I still can't find a picture but the truck was donated to the SM by V. Ottilio & Son's Paterson NJ (A 1930 AC Restored) in 1963BULLHUSK Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 I'm not sure but I think that AC Mack was Otilleo and son's Mack from Paterson NJ, I am sure the truck was from Jersey. I was in his yard a couple a years back and he still had his DM 800 Black Beauty Cummins powered Mack in his garage. He had a lot of DM 800's with V-8's back in the day pullin large demo trailersBULLHUSKThanks for the info Ernie! I knew it was from Jersey,just couldn't remember where!.....................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Thanks for the info Ernie! I knew it was from Jersey,just couldn't remember where!.....................................MarkMark, if you look a hanks pic's you'll see his Black Beauty DM 800 that I think he still hasErnie DS Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 41chevy Posted June 9, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2013 I knew this was in all the vintage photos I bought!! 5 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 My dad had a picture of a Mack like that one that he drove before he went into the army. He used to pick up at I think it was Freeport Brass on LI NY and bring ingots to the Blk. Navy yard, then when you were done with that you got a load of sugar bags in NY and brought them back to Jersey! NO forklifts back then 100 lb bags and heavy brass and a sore ass!! ... Did I just make a funny??BULLHUSK 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-187884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Here's a copy of an article about when it was donated.I've driven a Bulldog Mack before and can't imagine driving one from Paterson N.J. to Washington D.C.!!!!!!!!!!Ron 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-190201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kameno Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 You are correct. That Mack did belong to V. Ottilio & Sons. I am actually the grandson of Vito, which is Victor Ottilios son. Unfortunately he died long before I got here but the stories I heard where amazing and growing up running around the yard with all the trucks and cranes was something I'll never forget. The last I heard it was being stored in a warehouse, it's a shame. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-342701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Superdog Posted August 17, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2016 36 minutes ago, Kameno said: You are correct. That Mack did belong to V. Ottilio & Sons. I am actually the grandson of Vito, which is Victor Ottilios son. Unfortunately he died long before I got here but the stories I heard where amazing and growing up running around the yard with all the trucks and cranes was something I'll never forget. The last I heard it was being stored in a warehouse, it's a shame. If I were you I would go to Washington and load it up.Tell them your great grandfather didn't donate it to be stuck in a warehouse & forgotten. 5 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31480-ac-mack-in-smithsonian-museum/#findComment-342705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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