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Truck swap to Atlantic City... |
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Posts: 5286 06/30/2008 17:53
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I had to pick up an International straight truck for one of customers... Tow it down to Atlantic City, NJ and swapt it out and bring back aanother
International straight truck that had a blown motor... Dam... I almost forgot how hot a B Model Mack could be on a hot summer day? But the old girl reminded
me real fast what I have been missing....lol... Thanks.. Steve
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Posts: 2178 06/30/2008 18:07 Australia |
Always great to see the B model.......
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Posts: 1271 06/30/2008 21:28
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WreckMaster #99567 |
I think Id deal with the heat just to get in a peice of history like the B.
That unit is why I love to do what I do. Nice little ride to the Atl!!!!!!!!
Will Cain
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Posts: 3124 07/01/2008 02:19
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Sweet looking good.
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TRPC "EST 1963" TRUCKWASHING@aol.com East Hartford, CT Cell 860-878-8509 |
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Posts: 6089 07/01/2008 06:53
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Very nice looking...
Scott Hedgcoth 160*131818*5 
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Posts: 3777 07/01/2008 21:27
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Nice run Steve. You didn't manage to drop a few coins in the slot while you were down there did you?
Thanks,
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Posts: 28 07/01/2008 21:53
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Steve, I love that old girl she is awesome!! I was is Springfield, IL over the weekend, and saw a tow co. with a blue one like yours, couldn't catch the
name though. May someone on here knows them. There needs to be more old iron out there!!
when you time is up, where will you go? Smoking or non?
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Posts: 8661 07/02/2008 15:10 
Featured Member April 2002 
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A/C will spoil you very quickly... Although remember how it was in the good ole days of no A/C
Devin 
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hpgtowing |
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Posts: 5297 07/03/2008 11:07
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I really don't think it's a matter of being used to A/C or being spoiled? I think it's we just can't take the heat as well any more? The truck
didn't get any hotter? We just get older and can't hold up to the elements as good as we did when we were younger & stronger... I really don't
know how I did it years ago? Sitting on the Cross Bronx Expressway in traffic on 100 degree days all day long? Now? You will need to send Life Flight and Air
lift me out! Just another hint we are getting older... "The Older I Get? The Better I was" Be safe and stay coooool...
Steve
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Posts: 314 07/03/2008 11:13 
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truck looks great, how come your using the show truck to do alll them tows? she'll know you didn't forget about her..
  Chuckie Jeswald
Jeswald Auto Truck Service 6528 Mahoning ave. Austintown, OH. 44515 Ph.330-799-7054 1-888-jeswald Nextel 136*80107*4 |
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Posts: 1468 07/03/2008 11:35 Friend Member
WreckMaster #99675 Ohio |
WOW!!! What a piece of history you got there!!!
"If you do it... they will follow!"
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Posts: 1322 07/04/2008 10:46
WreckMaster #98943 |
hpgtowing wrote: even the 60point 2 a/c dont work sitting on the cross bronx what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger |
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Posts: 2288 07/04/2008 12:39
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you know you can always add AC...
stay safe Rod |
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hpgtowing |
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Posts: 5310 07/05/2008 21:31
New Jersey |
Yeah I know Rod... One: It's a bit tight under the hood with the late model motor,And I don't like the unit on the roof.... Two: Being a B-model? It
only has a 750GPH flow radiator.. The Maxidynes Motors require a 1100 GPH radiator of which I don't have? I adapted a bigger fan and with the shroud it
will run cool enough...The A/C would just be to much I think to cool it down... On long pulls on hills with something in tow? I sometimes have to drop a gear
or two even though it's not required? Just to let the turbo not work as hard and let it cool down.... it already has the short water pump on it.. So there
is not even room to thicken the core... It's pretty tight under that hood with the 300 motor.... I guess I can tuff it out... Traffic is the real killer...
If ya can keep moving? It's not so bad.... Be safe... Steve
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Posts: 217 07/05/2008 22:28 |
I know I am new school compared to alot of you guys, and I ma not as familiar with the old Macks and such, but I ma very curious??? My big question on the is
truck is what kinda wrecker body is that on the old mack? It is a great looking truck, i am just curious about it??
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Posts: 1255 07/06/2008 13:41
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I believe it looks to be a Home Made wrecker??
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Posts: 5314 07/06/2008 18:13
New Jersey |
Yes it is home made... This truck was a Gin Pole truck with a fifth wheel out of Houston Texas.. We towed it in off the pike with a bad Aux trans... We
installed a used Aux. and he drove it home to Texas... They called a few weeks later to ask if we were interested in the truck. We paid $5,500.00 for it in
April of 1961. My uncle Dominic Avella drove it home and we built the boom here in our shop... We installed a brand new Brownlipe/Spice Aux trans. when it got
home.. The boom arches were trucked to Brooklyn, NY to be Cold Rolled so not to loose strength.. it is bolted and welded down to a sub-frame which is fish
plated to the double rail chassis... It's fish plated from the front springs back to the tailgate.. It has a Tulsa 45,000 lb. wide spool winch with 350
feet of 3/4 wire rope... The winch is run off the Main transmission.. It has a reversable PTO on the main box... with the Aux in neutral? It has 5 speeds in
and 5 speeds out... The winch is driven via a double idler shaft for reduction and strength.. And an Ortiz heavy duty tow bar... It uses HolmesScotch Blocks
which chain to the rear tailgate area.. We have been running this truck ever since... in 1980 we put a rebuilt 300 Maxidyne motor in it and a brand new rear
end housing with 4;62 ratio double reduction rear.. It was also painted at that time and still has that paint job today... The truck will run about 85 on the
road... It rides and handles great and is an extremely tight truck... It will lift and tow loaded tandem and tri axle dumpers and roll offs... Kinda light in
the front but it will do it non the less.... I have been from all over Canada to Key West Florida and as far as as Wisconsin in this truck... It's getting
near time for another overhaul... Guess I need to make time for another project soon..Thanks... Be safe... Steve
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FT FIRE PT TOW |
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Posts: 122 07/06/2008 19:22 |
Do you have a light bar on the truck in the last picture I see that the shaft is removed.
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Posts: 5318 07/06/2008 23:55
New Jersey |
Nope I cannot tell a lie.. I'm guilty I didn't put one out... I put the 4 way flashers on.. I got lazy?... Steve
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Posts: 20 08/13/2008 18:34 |
very nice old piece gotta love that old iron
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Posts: 17 08/13/2008 19:16 |
nice B steve
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