brickhouse15 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Looking for a chrome radiator shell for a B61. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Watt’s Mack? 4MF426AP4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 yea, ok, good luck. maybe Tidewater Mack circa 1993 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 ^^^^^ What he said. You can have one chromed but it will be expensive. I had one done and FedEx destroyed in with a forklift in their warehouse. Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Probably be cheaper in the end to send yours out for plating. Watts did a limited pre sold run of repro's in 2006 for $600 each and the last new Chrome shell was on here in 2012 and sold for $1250 plus shipping. Better investment than gold. 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/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 I paid $730.00 and shipping to have my radiator shell plated back in 2003, or 2004 and the shell I'd sent was very much nicer than a brand new one. I fought with FedEx for almost six months over that claim as it was run over with a forklift in their dock facility and we settled at #1250.00 so I could get another done. So far, I haven't. 1 Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 16 hours ago, Maddog13407 said: yea, ok, good luck. maybe Tidewater Mack circa 1993 Ain't that the truth. Should have loaded up with all sorts of goodies back then. Buy now and save! My Tidewater inventory sheet dated Jan 1, 1993 shows a chrome B shell at $285.00. Damn! Top and bottom radiator insulators at $3.50 each..... 2 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 agree, and illl take 400 Thermodyne emblems and 4 pallets of vent windows, that would be 4 pallets each of lefts and right, might as well throw in a few pallets of floor mats and if you need me all be retiring in the year 2010 in my beach house somewhere in the south..... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Matt Pfahl bought the last remaining B model parts in Tidewaters inventory i believe. i remember there being a big family dispute and Bob Doub wanting to keep the restoration parts business and he was shut down by family after they sold the business?? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 I was there several times in the mid to late 1980's and B series parts were easy to get. Bob was always cordial to talk with. I was in the Navy then. Hindsight is always 20/20. Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/53153-b61-chrome-radiator-shell/#findComment-397249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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