this old truck

larry@stinescorner · Mar 24, 2013

saw this one today

Kerry50 · Mar 24, 2013

gotta love those old B model Macks

ray hofstetter · Mar 24, 2013

Lyle and Rusted are going to fight over that one, that's a
sweet truck!

larry@stinescorner · Mar 24, 2013

I think the hood said b 42 ? It Wasnt a tandem

Shetland Sheepdog · Mar 24, 2013

:? Aw man! That ain't old, it even gots built in head looks!

:lol:

jm. · Mar 24, 2013

More than likely started it,s life as a RoadWay Freight company truck. At least that was their paint scheme in those days.

Butch-Ia · Mar 24, 2013

These were rough riding and awful noisey, but they sure were pretty restored. Butch

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Mar 24, 2013

There is a B-42 like that on Hwy 15 South Tennille,
Ga. at a truck place. It is complete and almost no
wear showing. Think it was a fuel truck at Warner
Robins Air Base in Warner Robins,Ga. It shows
almost no sign of use.

D beatty · Mar 24, 2013

The B model Macks were built from 1953 and until 1966. If you could look at the frame it has been extended because it was most likely a tractor. RoadWay used very few straight trucks they used a lot of 28 foot pups.

Paul from MI · Mar 24, 2013

I drove a Mack B61 in 1962. Still great looking old truck, even with the two stick transmission.

Brian G. NY · Mar 24, 2013

Larry, I"ve been driving past this one in Sheffield,
MA for a few years now and I finally got around to
taking a picture last Fall.
I really like the old L model Macks but you hardly
see any of them anymore.
These B models are good lookers too!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2013

I think it has a Pa. Sticker on the windsheld, AND that means it's in MY back yard.lol. Besides them there dang kids can't drive two stick and one stacked Macks.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2013

Larry, the b-42 stands for bumpy and 42 mph.

showcrop · Mar 24, 2013

The first is a B-81 The second is the owner and his son. The owner picked me up when I was hitch-hiking in mid winter in 1970. Like all dump truck operators at the time in the winter he had stakes in the back and hauled logs or pulp wood (pulp wood was the predecessor to chips for paper) to the mills. The owners family owned one of the first big ski lodges in the country in Sugar Hill NH. I got together with the owner last summer when I was in the area. They still use the B-81 as a site truck. I drove an R model Mack rubbish packer for a friend for a few days in the 80s so that he could go on vacation. With 250 stops in a day my left knee was killing me despite using the clutch for starting and stopping only. On the morning of the second day his sons showed me how to start and stop with no clutch using the Duplex transmission.

SweetFeet · Mar 24, 2013

larry@stines,

That is really neat. Thanks for posting.

My husband says he wants a Mack bulldog hood ornament... I've seen a lot on ebay, but we would like to find one in a junkyard that we could buy (better memories that way).

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2013

Sweet Feet, Did you know that the old time truck drivers us to tell the young drivers to trun the bulldog around so that the bulldog could look at a askhole for a while. lol.

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