1958 F.W.D. Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Kingston is 20 minutes from me and i never knew this bad dog was so close, they may leak oil but nothing sounds as good as a 12 banger, especially if it is tuned right and has a nice exhaust system in place, i would love to have this unique piece of history!A rod coming through the block sounds best!!!! Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 A rod coming through the block sounds best!!!!Only if the truck is owned by someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 A rod coming through the block sounds best!!!!Maybe with extensive therapy, you wouldn't hold your emotions in and let the bad feelings fester.I have a 6-71 DD and they are only half as loud as a 12-71..... 1 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Maybe with extensive therapy, you wouldn't hold your emotions in and let the bad feelings fester.I have a 6-71 DD and they are only half as loud as a 12-71.....I did have therapy. The therapist told me to let my feelings out, let them be known. To voice my anger, hate and distrust of all things two-stroke Detroit. Then we hugged and went and raced his Superliner with the E9-4V and left a few 2-stokes and Kittens sitting on the line sniffing our exhaust and wondering "what the hell was that?" Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What? What? WHAT?hmmmm.....for some reason my hearing isn't so good after spending time in the Brockway. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Detroit you say? just ask the man who owns one! 1 Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post other dog Posted February 14, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2015 Kingston is 20 minutes from me and i never knew this bad dog was so close, they may leak oil but nothing sounds as good as a 12 banger, especially if it is tuned right and has a nice exhaust system in place, i would love to have this unique piece of history!I always liked the sound of a 6-71, probably comes from one of my earliest truck memories. We lived on rt. 13 in Cumberland, Va. at a place called Sunnyside. Most of my family still lives there. About 3 or 4 miles east of there is a place called Tobaccoville, in Powhatan county. Rt. 681 turns off of rt. 13 there and goes to Amelia, Va. There used to be a D860 GMC that passed by the house regularly. We'd be outside playing on summer nights and could hear that truck coming when it started out from the stop sign at the end of 681. We would all run to the front yard and wait to watch it go by, it was our favorite truck and it made lots of noise. I remember Daddy saying it was hauling shavings for chicken houses. Holly Farms was big then- this was early 60's- and a lot of people in the area raised chickens for Holly Farms. 4 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felicello122 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Those 238 had a sound of their own, matter of fact all the w stroke detroits had a sound of their own, from a 671,8v71,8v92 and the v12, all awesome noise makers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I think this video would be appropriate now. Otherdog posted it almost 2 years ago. A very cool sounding 6-71.Sorry, not in a Mack, the audio is the important part though.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klRq8D97S8c 1 Quote Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Straight pipes no less. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 That's a good one! Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I did have therapy. The therapist told me to let my feelings out, let them be known. To voice my anger, hate and distrust of all things two-stroke Detroit. Then we hugged and went and raced his Superliner with the E9-4V and left a few 2-stokes and Kittens sitting on the line sniffing our exhaust and wondering "what the hell was that?"I don't thin so kimosobi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff M Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 OK, seeing as we've broken through the Detroit curtain on the Mack site, allow me to post my favorite shiftingvideo. This guy's secret is not only in the shifting, but most importantly in the way he uses the throttle. NOSUDDEN MOVEMENTS of the throttle results in a very smooth technique. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I don't thin so kimosobi!Is Yardo the Lone Ranger? Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Lots of good Driptroit shifting vids on YouTube.One of my favorites... Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 What I wouldn't give to find this truck. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I think this video would be appropriate now. Otherdog posted it almost 2 years ago. A very cool sounding 6-71.Sorry, not in a Mack, the audio is the important part though.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klRq8D97S8cThis would be Jim Herriot. He has a cool KW with 1693 in it too. Met him through ATHS. 2 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex g Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Jim sold his KW last year he still has the Jimmy.I bought his float last year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillconst1 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 P.L.Duncan Trucking, in Cumberland, Va. used to have an F model with a V12 in it. It was eventually wrecked and totaled in the crash. But they would go- A man from Buckingham had one in a cabover Peterbilt and had it leased to H.H.Moore Trucking. He pulled chips from Dillwyn to Covington with it, and i'd see his driver hook to a load of chips at the wood yard and take off down rt.15 and I remember thinking that I couldn't take off that fast bobtailing. I was driving an International with a VT903 at the time.Johnny Harris had a V12 Fmodel too. He told me the story of when he stopped at the truckstop in Berkley Springs, W.V. one night and got to talking with a couple of "large car" drivers. They were all going to the same area and decided to run across the turnpike together. When they went outside to leave one of the other drivers asked Johnny what he was driving. He pointed at the F model, with a load of green lumber behind it. So they asked him if he minded if they pulled out first so he wouldn't hold them up, because they were in a hurry.He said "not at all, go ahead". You had about 6 or 8 miles of 2 lane to run before you got to I-70. The other guys pulled out, Johnny followed them up rt.522 to 70, and the first big hill you get to he pulled into the left lane and smoked them both. He said by the time he got to the top of Town Hill Mountain he couldn't even hear them on the radio.And "Hard Rock" told me one time that they had several trucks hauling chips from Rupert,W.V. to Covington, from the yard Burns hauls from. He said it got so cold up there one night that every single truck except one froze up and cut off during the night, even with them idled up. The only one that kept running had a 318 Detroit in it.On the other hand, the old saying "it'll pass anything but a fuel stop" was pretty much true about those V12 Detroits.That's all the Detroit Diesel stories for today,........ unless I think of another one.Those F models were bought new by Holland Lumber Co. from Millers Tavern, VA and Dick Holland claimed they would top Afton Mountain with 90,000 on at 45 to 50 mph. I think there were 3 or 4 of them and when they were sold off Dick lost track of them. He and P.L. were good friends which is I guess how he ended up with one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshPhelps Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 While we're talking about V-12's, let me ask this: I saw a YouTube video yesterday that featured a 359 Pete with a Cat 3408 and Heavy Spec. 379 Pete with a V-12 Cat, presumably a 3412. Do we know if there are any of those in any Mack trucks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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