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Very nice pete!

Thank you Bruce!

Thank you Larry!

Thank you Alan! I really wanted to get the truck with the real one, also was really nice it happened to be hitched to the Black trailer.

Thank you Victor!

Thank you David!

Thank you Victor!

Thank you James!

Really? Well at least you know what a MAC Corp crusher is now! They sure are impressive machines, wait till you see an E-Z log baler! Its a pretty neat piece of equipment.

Based on the Yard truck at Phipps Auto Parts, which is a Peterbilt 377 with a 60 series Detroit, 15 speed transmission, Hydraulic tank and lines, and that killer front push bar (which wasn't put on yet!) This 377 was first sold in Georgia when it was then sold to Staker Alloys, and became there 8th truck, hey Staker Alloys 8!! After The Cohen brothers bought out Staker Alloys it was then used up until 2014 or so, then was sent over to West Carrolton and used as the yard truck in Cohens West Carrolton Shredder, there it was once "stress tested" with way over 80 thousand pounds worth of material in a trailer that is in remarkable shape for its age, after that in around 2020 or so it was sold to Phipps Auto Parts as a yard truck. Still wearing the logos of its former owner it currently works as a yard truck. Stacks flipped over it doesn't get put on the road, this worked until someone ripped the driver stack off. It will, at one point get the front ram bar from a Cement truck thingy. The trailer is a scrap trailer, for sheet metal. Also a former Cohen trailer that was painted blue. When it was sold it got repainted, and the paint didn't last well... The Recycling C or Cohens current logo has come from underneath the paint, and more importantly the P, now proudly displaying "Chipps" while also having Cohens phone number and website bleeding through. The Truck is an Italeri Peterbilt 377, passenger fuel tank switched to two smaller ones, stacks messed with, and rear flaps/brake lights of a Revell USA 359. Trailer is a AMT big rig trailer, the IMC one thats about 36 foot. cut the roof of and "filled" with sheet iron and such.

Thanks Alan, from my own guesstimation people are more familiar with E-Z Crushers then MAC Corp crushers.

Thanks Michael, I started a junkyard, maybe I'll post progress of it.

Thanks Larry!

Thanks Larry!

They have made MAC car crushers since the 70s, and at that pretty much unchanged. The only things I have noticed is the switch from a Detroit Diesel 4-71 to John Deere and Cummins power sources, Dayton Spoke wheels to steelies, and the removal of the cab, besides that they're pretty much the same. Me and my dad built this one based of a either 80s or early 90s MAC car crusher with a 4-71 Detroit. Some came from the factory with a 4-71T, or turbocharged 4-71. I didn't have of those, so we did the rational thing and used a 8v71 out of the GMC General kit. Which is basically two 4-71s put together. If a 4-71 can feed the hydraulic pump enough to crush a car in 40 seconds, then a 8v71 could probably do it in about 20. Not overkill at all! The base is the AMT furniture van, engine from a GMC general, Rims also from a furniture van. Oversize load and grille decal from the bulldozer and the rest is either kitbashed or scratchbuilt. It rained so I couldn't get pictures on the blacktop. Thanks for looking!

Thanks David!

Thanks James!

Thanks Jeff!

Thanks Alan!

Thanks John!

I don't know why it does that, possible because its an embedded image link failing to load. But here should be some pictures that work.

I mean its practically rust free, only needs a few things, like all new sheet metal, but that's only a little bit. Drinks a little oil, slight exhaust leak, use a nail to start it, lost the key, has a slight knock, use thicker oil, brakes a little weak, but hey its got all new bulbs! I'd say 15,000 firm, no lowballers, I know what I got! What Once was a beautiful 1968 Mercury M100 V8, automatic, in a beautiful blue metallic was then sent through 43 years of northeast winters (and salt!) then to 2 years of rough beater offroad riding, and then finally the engine started knocking. Sat for 10 years and then slapped together to be sold as a survivor restoration candidate. Somewhere between all the salt and failing breaks it gained a new bed, which never got painted blue. Hit a deer, driver fender was salvageable and oncome the primered fender and faded paint hood, which was off a junker F250. Moebius M100 with a F100 hood, besides that box stock. Thanks for Looking!

Thank you Michael! I think this is maybe the 3rd or 4th one of these I built, they're fun kits for sure!

Thank you Philippe!

On my ever growing quest to build all the trucks from my local junkyard, (I have like 30 to go, so close to this goal!) I need to build #15, a Kenworth W900 with a Holmes 750 and Underreach. Started with a Revell USA W900 and cut the sleeper off, then lengthened the frame. This Is the first mockup Sleeper sourced from the AMT Kenworth, the bed is scratch built and the, I guess base of the Wrecker is 3D printed, designed by myself. I then Painted the front half of the truck because I wanted too, I don't have good reason besides I wanted it to have some color. Currently siting like this, I need to finish the 750, and an underreach, paint it all, then letter it Here's a picture of the real truck. That's all for now, Thanks for looking!