carlotpilot Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 $ pinstripe example 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-334032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblin-Goblin Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 Took the truck to a show today at Thompson International Speedway with a dealer plate. It was good to get it out on the road and it drives nicely. Glad I bought it, but it's a challenge having two of these big beasts at the same time. I could see myself selling it in the future. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-334095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Quote Glad I bought it, but it's a challenge having two of these big beasts at the same time. One to work on, one to show. With any luck they are never broken at the same time. Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-334112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblin-Goblin Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 Neither one is broken, and given how much I used the B61 last year with no hiccups, I'm hoping both of these trucks are good-to-go. It simply takes a fair amount of resources to own, maintain, feed, and house these things. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-334114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Quote Neither one is broken Not to jinx you, but if you go to enough shows one eventually will or you will decide to do something to one of them to make it better. In my book two trucks are just the right number to own and show. You don't have so many that they lack love and you get the chance to vary the trucks you take to shows. Besides you will never recover what you have in them and like most of us you will regret selling one as soon as it leaves the driveway. Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-334227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblin-Goblin Posted May 24, 2016 Author Share Posted May 24, 2016 21 hours ago, fxfymn said: ...you will regret selling one as soon as it leaves the driveway. I already am to a degree. Part of me can't believe I'm even entertaining getting rid of it. B81s are my "holy grail" trucks, and I'm not far away from finishing it and having a darn good one. It's just that I really can't get rid of the B61SX ('Mater) because it was my first Mack truck, and I want to continue working and learning on additional trucks in the future. Unless something changes, I don't know how I can have two of them while adding a third as my next project. We'll see. As an aside, after painting the B81SX, I took it out for a run and drove past a guy's house who used to work with my dad driving mixers back in the '60s and '70s. He was outside working in his yard as I went by and later he stopped by to check it out. Even though he hadn't seen the truck yet, he said that he knew it was the B81 coming up the hill because it sounded a little different than the B61. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-334340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblin-Goblin Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 Truck is sold. Here's a video and a photo from the day I delivered it. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-341487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-341531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblin-Goblin Posted August 7, 2016 Author Share Posted August 7, 2016 It's actually a good thing. The family that owns the concrete plant that I've used to do a lot of the work on the two trucks bought the B81. It will stay local to me and they will finish refurbing it. On top of that, they can garage it, while I couldn't. It may sound weird, but I'm kind of happy it turned out this way. They agreed to offer it back to me first if they ever decide to sell it, so that's cool, too. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-341553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarnall Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Wow! It is hard to say congratulations but you know what is best for you. Glad it got a good home. So what is the next project? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43156-b81sx-is-now-in-its-new-home/page/6/#findComment-341569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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