cappy625

The first couple of pics I thought I was looking at an actual GMC astro brochure....very impressive!!

WOW! AWESOME BUILD

some nice pics, thank you!

I would like to see a CH model mack and a f model mack also a more common tanker than the one amt has out now...im not complaining about the tanker we have now, its just a rarely seen unit now a days.

if I'm not mistaking that truck was designed to be a rolling class room. the big sleeper is where all the students sat..i remember reading about this truck years ago.

what a shame, I used to love cracking open a beer and spending hours on that site on a snowy or rainy night.

wow! a blast from the past. my dad hauled a lot of beer out of that brewery back in the early 70s. some times in the summer I would ride with him...that brewery and I think it was piels real draft in the Bronx also we would go...back then you would still see some of them old white 3000s running around the city.

not by any of the major model companys but there is an after market resin 1/25 scale b model and other mack models by a resin castor called aitm, American industrial truck models and he's right in your homestate of nj. you'll have to by a mack r600 or dm 600 kit for a donor kit. he also sells engines trans, tires amd much more...check him out, www.aitruckmodels.com

yes .

all depends on what the customer would have ordered...freightliner came with just about any suspension airride, reyco, Hendricks. and others in the 70's..i hope this helps you.

no problem.

I see some members building these on here so I thought I would throw some pics up in case someone needs a reference pic.i remember building this kit back in the day and one of the most confusing things about this kit for me was how the interior engine cover mounted so I included a pic of that as well just in case someone else has the same problem. we still run a couple of them in our fleet .they used to be cement mixers then were converted into water trucks. if anymore pics are needed of a certain part just let me know.

found this one sitting in a yard at the Philadelphia naval base.

hello everyone, its been a while since I posted anything on here but there is a member on here named tim he was the peterbilt Guru I don't know if he is still on here but his website is still active. he has all kinds of model petes on his site. its tims trucks.com..i don't know how to put a link up but you can google it if your interested.youll spend hours looking at all the models he built'

edge comb steel actually has one of these stainless steel autocars parked out front of their steel mill for display.

awesome build! is it 1/16 scale?

back in '89 I drove a international 4200 with a 318 DD/ 10spd. hauling steel coils with it out of US steel in fearless hills pa. I remember the owner of the truck always telling me to keep it wound up tight and run it like your mad at it. she would use about a gallon of oil every 4 days. I always thought because they were 2 stroke engines that they were just vibrating parts on the engine loose. I also remember the air compressor leaked a lot of oil on that truck. but I think Sam is right a 2 stroke engine would build up a lot of crankcase pressure and that would definitely cause leaks.

let me see if I could remember, just a bear was a local or county cop. and a full grown bear was a state trooper. a kojak with a Kodak was a bear with radar. if we were check'n out seat covers we were looking at the pretty girls passing us. buster brown was a ups truck, wow clayton your bringing back a lot of memories!.. keep the shinny side up and the greasy side down 3's to ya we gone!

thanks gator. same to you and everyone here!

Hello Michael. I too still use the cb when I'm in my big truck, like clayton said it's mostly to communicate with the asphalt plants or the loaders down in the quarries or if I'm on the lowbed to find out where they want their machines. as far as finding out where the troopers are. well the CDL put an end to my hammer down days. and the last 17 years I've been getting paid by the hour so when I'm in the big truck I'm not looking to go very fast anyways LOL! but back in the day when I was traveling in my 4 wheeler or on the 2 wheeler. I would always try to run with the greyhound stagecoaches. they were always hammer down and always seemed to know where the speed traps were.. I still always get the mile marker # where the picture taker or the speed trap is so I could warn others. I do miss the cool handles we had and the crazy cb lingo we used.

I saw this ol' pete sitt'in in a yard next to a job site I was delivering a piece of equipment to just the other day. she's not back on the road yet, but she sure is in restorable condition. I struck up a conversation with the owner. he told me his dad bought it as a new glider kit back in 1978. now the pete has a 650hp 1693ta in it and the truck is for sale. i didn't bother to ask how much because i don't have a garage big enough for it. i wish i did!

I agree with superpeterbilt and plastic trucker, you wouldn't want to drive too far with just the gooseneck. because they will slide around on you. if they do'nt slide too far you can reattach on a slight angle. but if it goes too far your gonna need some type of machine to move it back. it happened to me once. lucky I had an excavator on deck an just used the boom to straighten it out. as far as holding the gooseneck up there is a hydraulic ram under the gooseneck that rest on the frame of the tractor. I can get a picture of it on Monday if you like. and if you have to leave the whole trailer you just release the ride height pins lower the trailer to the ground and disconnect the hydraulic hoses. the rest is just like dropping any other trailer.

I like the missing cylinder head. I'm guessing a bad head gasket is what put this old girl out to pasture. a lot of attention to detail. well done!

very nice! that's definitely a show winner.

WOW! a bull dog boasting twin air breathers. gotta be some serious horse power under that hood! AWESOME!