Popular Post Freightrain Posted Wednesday at 05:35 PM Popular Post Share Posted Wednesday at 05:35 PM Facebook marketplace. Listed as 285. Actually 315. Etaz673. 31k miles. Was a Vacuum truck so miles are low, probably lots of hours. No problem. Looks like new turbo and air compressor. It may have had cam/lifters because side covers look like they have been resealed. Read that it is common with these engines. Looked at yesterday and will be picking it up as soon as it gets pulled. Getting 5 spd with it. That will be resold. Will be next motor for the B in the coming years. 5 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Wednesday at 05:55 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:55 PM That’s excellent Larry thanks for letting us know according to the photo. The cab is probably really rough. I’m sure there’s lots of other parts that you could sell. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Wednesday at 05:56 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:56 PM Even with 285 you would be pissing yourself at the difference Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
seyser Posted Wednesday at 07:18 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:18 PM Very nice! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehummell Posted Wednesday at 07:26 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:26 PM Larry I tried to buy a 285 that was in an R model truck but it had a tight spot when turning it over with battery's so I settled for a 260 hp. I really wanted that 285 I used to drive an R model triaxle and I liked the way it pulled that R run a lot better than the 237 Macks I ran. I have no complaints with settling for the 260 plus I scored a set of jakes when I went to pickup the engine Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Wednesday at 07:29 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:29 PM ya i used to run a 237 years ago and a buddy of mine had the 285,,,and he used to blow my door off up hills,,,bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Wednesday at 07:33 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:33 PM hell even a strong head wind with doubles felt like the brakes were dragging.lol.bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Freightrain Posted Wednesday at 09:13 PM Author Popular Post Share Posted Wednesday at 09:13 PM Yes, cab is scrap. Yard said he gets trucks from this place and typically the vac is junk and reason it is junked. Too pricey to fix an old truck. Likely can't find drivers for old stick shift truck anyhow. Once weather warms up I will try to get it started. I may get an inframe kit for it just because. Easier to work on it sitting on the ground than in the frame of my truck! I was going to rebuild the 237, but might as well go BIG. 3 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted Wednesday at 09:16 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 09:16 PM 1 hour ago, davehummell said: Larry I tried to buy a 285 that was in an R model truck but it had a tight spot when turning it over with battery's so I settled for a 260 hp. I really wanted that 285 I used to drive an R model triaxle and I liked the way it pulled that R run a lot better than the 237 Macks I ran. I have no complaints with settling for the 260 plus I scored a set of jakes when I went to pickup the engine I rolled this over with breaker bar and it went smoothly so that is why I bought it. Zero temperatures and lack of pieces to make it run on a whim I had to just roll it over. Oil clean, antifreeze was already drain. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Wednesday at 11:25 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:25 PM 5 hours ago, mowerman said: The cab is probably really rough I can remember back around 1990 a brand new R model cab fully dressed was about 7,000 bucks. During the 80's Acme Markets used to buy a lot of them and the Pedigree engines that were about 6,500. I'd love to have a few of them now. There were a couple of BCR kits running around Philly area too. I was always curious what a BCR kit cost back in the day 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mowerman Posted Thursday at 12:16 AM Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 12:16 AM this guy used to be on here 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted Thursday at 01:33 AM Author Share Posted Thursday at 01:33 AM Al Rhino. 1 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 02:04 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:04 AM I wanna say I bought some grille extensions from him for my DM but I can’t remember who it was. I thought it was him. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 02:06 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:06 AM 1 hour ago, mowerman said: this guy used to be on here As far as prices go on a kit, sometimes I look at some of these spec sheets on some of this older shit and it’s amazing how much money they were spending especially back in the 50s for a brand new rig Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Thursday at 05:04 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:04 AM 40 some years ago I was at the parts counter at Trenton Mack and talking to the parts guys about BCR kits. I'd never actually seen one at that time and wanted to know where I might find one to look at. One older parts guy told me they sold one to somebody (I can't remember the guy's name) and the guy never put it on a truck. It was supposed to be up in a loft above the guy's garage in the crate or on the pallet just the way it was delivered to him. I never hooked up with the guy to see it. (I was probably too busy chasing some blonde bimbo). But anyway it was somewhere in the Trenton NJ area. Probably would be worth a fortune if somebody had it just like that now. Later on I saw one that was a tandem tractor in Philly, and then a single axle dump but I just saw them in traffic. Later on I was hauling crane parts to a contractor we worked with sometimes. He was dredging the Duck Pond at the Haas Family estate (Rohm & Haas was a big international chemical company) and he had a green 10 wheel dump there and something looked odd about it. He pulled up where we were staging, and sure enough it was a nice clean working BCR with an ENDT673C and a quad box with old style 44,000 rears. I said, no shit a BCR kit and he looked at me with a big smile. Seemed to be happy somebody knew what he had. That guy was from West Chester, but damn I forget his name now. Well it's been over 30 years ago, so I guess being a little senile is ok 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cruiseliner64 Posted Thursday at 12:16 PM Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 12:16 PM 7 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said: 40 some years ago I was at the parts counter at Trenton Mack and talking to the parts guys about BCR kits. I'd never actually seen one at that time and wanted to know where I might find one to look at. One older parts guy told me they sold one to somebody (I can't remember the guy's name) and the guy never put it on a truck. It was supposed to be up in a loft above the guy's garage in the crate or on the pallet just the way it was delivered to him. I never hooked up with the guy to see it. (I was probably too busy chasing some blonde bimbo). But anyway it was somewhere in the Trenton NJ area. Probably would be worth a fortune if somebody had it just like that now. Later on I saw one that was a tandem tractor in Philly, and then a single axle dump but I just saw them in traffic. Later on I was hauling crane parts to a contractor we worked with sometimes. He was dredging the Duck Pond at the Haas Family estate (Rohm & Haas was a big international chemical company) and he had a green 10 wheel dump there and something looked odd about it. He pulled up where we were staging, and sure enough it was a nice clean working BCR with an ENDT673C and a quad box with old style 44,000 rears. I said, no shit a BCR kit and he looked at me with a big smile. Seemed to be happy somebody knew what he had. That guy was from West Chester, but damn I forget his name now. Well it's been over 30 years ago, so I guess being a little senile is ok I think the Blond Bimbo bit held us all back when we should have been paying more attention to the trucks🤣🤣🤣 Paul 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehummell Posted Thursday at 12:25 PM Share Posted Thursday at 12:25 PM I used to work a street over from the Acme warehouse and I used to see the fleet of Macks leaving in the morning. Used to see Defazio's old Brockway's up on R-81 for years. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 02:43 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:43 PM lol wine woman and song...i also blew off a big money making opportunity because of it,,,,lotta fun though and i still made out ok.as far as fully loaded cabs,,they have always been very expensive.bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechohaulic Posted Thursday at 03:34 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:34 PM 16 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said: I can remember back around 1990 a brand new R model cab fully dressed was about 7,000 bucks. During the 80's Acme Markets used to buy a lot of them and the Pedigree engines that were about 6,500. I'd love to have a few of them now. There were a couple of BCR kits running around Philly area too. I was always curious what a BCR kit cost back in the day couldn't tell you the price ; I built two B C R kits back when they were "a new thing" . mysterious fire caught the cabs of two B-61 dumps while inside a garage. must have been an insurance job. price never told. later years I believe they were banned. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted Thursday at 03:42 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:42 PM 6 minutes ago, mechohaulic said: couldn't tell you the price ; I built two B C R kits back when they were "a new thing" . mysterious fire caught the cabs of two B-61 dumps while inside a garage. must have been an insurance job. price never told. later years I believe they were banned. Mack sold many BCR kits. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechohaulic Posted Thursday at 03:46 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:46 PM possibly the word banned wasn't good. I'm old.LOL also wasn't the B C R's banned ;;the glider kits came under scrutiny from being built. I did a U-model glider back in the Mack days. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Thursday at 04:22 PM Share Posted Thursday at 04:22 PM Is anybody still making R Model cab panels? If someone wanted to rebuild a cab, how much is available? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted Thursday at 04:43 PM Share Posted Thursday at 04:43 PM 52 minutes ago, mechohaulic said: possibly the word banned wasn't good. I'm old.LOL also wasn't the B C R's banned ;;the glider kits came under scrutiny from being built. I did a U-model glider back in the Mack days. No. We sold them until demand fell off. In other words, when we reached that point where every customer who wanted to convert a B into an R had done so. And after all, an R was a better truck than a BCR as they were available with Walter May's and Win Pelizzoni's game-changing Maxidyne powerplant. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Thursday at 05:11 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:11 PM 19 minutes ago, kscarbel2 said: No. We sold them until demand fell off. In other words, when we reached that point where every customer who wanted to convert a B into an R had done so. And after all, an R was a better truck than a BCR as they were available with Walter May's and Win Pelizzoni's game-changing Maxidyne powerplant. I always found it kind of odd that there were people still buying stuff like ENDT673C and the 300 + long after the Maxidyne went into production. I remember one contractor buying brand new DM600 ten wheelers in the 80's with ENDT673C engines. I forget how many, but it was more than 10 trucks. Beautiful trucks 55 rears Bristol Donald dump bodies, air con, 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted Thursday at 05:24 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:24 PM 13 minutes ago, Joseph Cummings said: I always found it kind of odd that there were people still buying stuff like ENDT673C and the 300 + long after the Maxidyne went into production. I remember one contractor buying brand new DM600 ten wheelers in the 80's with ENDT673C engines. I forget how many, but it was more than 10 trucks. Beautiful trucks 55 rears Bristol Donald dump bodies, air con, They bought on price. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75053-latest-find/#findComment-567428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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