FOR SALE OR TRADE 1965 864 MACK V8

[Bigdogtrucker]

Can you get any pictures of them? If you could also get the vins on them and send them to me.

Thanks, Josh

Not right now,they're in Southwick MA.I'm in GA now...

[bobcotkg]

I've got to stick up for the owner. It is his truck, he wants to put a 237 in it do it.

Cool to keep it original, but... I personally would either sell it and buy the "right" truck, or swap it out and keep the V8 in the shed for the future.

I wouldn't be afraid of fixing the old beast up to haul with every day. Make a real truck driver out of ya. I would do it just to prove that I could. I may very well do that with my old truck too.

[RowdyRebel]

Even Danny from Count's Kustoms (Counting Cars on the History Channel) had a guy come into his shop wanting major modernizations & some updating done to a very NICE classic Caddy...wanted it to be safer & more reliable for his kids & grandkids to drive...and Danny wouldn't do the work until he'd checked all of the numbers to make sure it wasn't still an original. As a car guy, he didn't want to be the first one to hack up a car that had survived 50-60 years intact. I am in that same camp myself...if a guy wants to modernize a classic vehicle, start with one that has already been altered...and leave the numbers-matching originals to the collectors and restorers. Swapping the motor out of a numbers-matching truck could depreciate the value of the truck by far more than you paid for it...especially if the numbers-matching aspect was not known and therefore not factored into the price when you bought it. If that is the case, do a little research...contact the Mack Museum...and if it really IS still all original, you could probably sell it to the right person for enough to buy a non-original truck, a spare parts truck, the motor you want, overhaul the new motor, and have it installed. Or, hack up the truck you've got and you just have a truck. Of course if the info you get from the Mack Museum indicates that the truck is NOT, in fact, still original, then by all means do what you want with it and send the motor to a good home.

[Bigdogtrucker]

Even Danny from Count's Kustoms (Counting Cars on the History Channel) had a guy come into his shop wanting major modernizations & some updating done to a very NICE classic Caddy...wanted it to be safer & more reliable for his kids & grandkids to drive...and Danny wouldn't do the work until he'd checked all of the numbers to make sure it wasn't still an original. As a car guy, he didn't want to be the first one to hack up a car that had survived 50-60 years intact. I am in that same camp myself...if a guy wants to modernize a classic vehicle, start with one that has already been altered...and leave the numbers-matching originals to the collectors and restorers. Swapping the motor out of a numbers-matching truck could depreciate the value of the truck by far more than you paid for it...especially if the numbers-matching aspect was not known and therefore not factored into the price when you bought it. If that is the case, do a little research...contact the Mack Museum...and if it really IS still all original, you could probably sell it to the right person for enough to buy a non-original truck, a spare parts truck, the motor you want, overhaul the new motor, and have it installed. Or, hack up the truck you've got and you just have a truck. Of course if the info you get from the Mack Museum indicates that the truck is NOT, in fact, still original, then by all means do what you want with it and send the motor to a good home.

Well said Rebel...That's also why I like my B75 so much,it's nearly all original.Being a B75 it seems like the majority of them are stretched/repowered ect...And while I do love those modded trucks i'd never drastically alter mine,i'd get another to do that if I could.

[Maddog13407]

id alter yours Bigdog, at least the title and out it in my name . im with rebel on the B815. IF it is in fact original with the 864 I wouldn't alter it. Cliff Sharpe in Nj is an 864 guru and would probably be interested in it for a good price. as rebel said you could probably buy a 237, another truck and restore for the price you could sell that original 815.

[Vladislav]

Let me toss a question wich probably is on many other's mouth - could we see how that misterious B-815 looks?

[Jocko]

heres my b815

[Maddog13407]

about the only thing I would do with that truck is give it a coat of paint and get rid of those horrible signal lights and put some big 7'' lollipop signals like they use to run in Jersey. that truck is sweet.

[Enck762]

Cool truck. I'll trade you my B-81 and you can swap out 673 to 237. Although i doubt NJ emissions will let you do much other than drive it in a parade. Actually my 673 runs great and why not use it instead of going through the whole swap thing?

[RFCDrum]

Good point I have to go to my favorite Korean in North Bergen to get my International to pass. Some sort of Korean computer voodoo. With a pump leaking oil and fuel out of it but that's another story.

Rob

[Superdog]

Cool truck. I'll trade you my B-81 and you can swap out 673 to 237. Although i doubt NJ emissions will let you do much other than drive it in a parade. Actually my 673 runs great and why not use it instead of going through the whole swap thing?

Then I can trade you my 759 for the B815

[Bigdogtrucker]

I think you should trade for the 6cyl B81 if you want something to "work".

[Enck762]

Your pretty sly superdog

[Maddog13407]

then I can trade you my B475 Firetruck for the B813 Mike??

[Superdog]

then I can trade you my B475 Firetruck for the B813 Mike??

How about a nice R model instead??

[Enck762]

Mike- is the 457 wrecker off limits? My father is more into the b-81 than 759's

[Maddog13407]

eh id take a restorable LJ or B75

[Superdog]

I couldn't let the wrecker go,it's way too handy.Besides as rusty as it is it would probably shake apart before it made it to NY

[Superdog]

eh id take a restorable LJ or B75

How about a green B73 from NV??????

[Bigdogtrucker]

I couldn't let the wrecker go,it's way too handy.Besides as rusty as it is it would probably shake apart before it made it to NY

Brian know's a good welder,rust doesn't scare him!

[Maddog13407]

ehhhh no can do Mike. not a Cummins fan haha

[Maddog13407]

rust might not scare him but there wouldn't be anything left to weld to after rattling up the worst stretch of Rt88 out of Binghamton Ny though

[Enck762]

Mike-you got me laughing on that one. I guess i will take my 457 down the road and get it welded up!

[PaulLowboy]

I know you have that autocar too. Use that. It would break my heart to see that old motor go. It is a rare truuck and v8s are so sweet

[Bigdogtrucker]

The truck has been on Craigslist for several days now. $10k.

Hope someone makes an offer and it ends up in a V8 fans ownership...