mack pickup!!

[tntway]

saw an AWESOME conversion of a mack r-600 series short wheel base with a ford f-350 dually 8' bed on it. looked like they used a drop kit in the front end. couldn't tell if it had been a SWB dump, or a single axle tractor. how difficult would that conversion be?

i'd love to do one with an R or B series.

 

[Jeff H]

Once up on a time Mack actually built pickups.

 

[Briar Hopper]

Few things look as good as a Mack model "R" or "B"... . I'd love to have one to restore, and use it to pull a 5th wheel travel trailer.....

tntway, my grandfather, Leo Vigneault, was from Rocky Hill, CT. And my uncle drove a Mack dump truck for Hubert E. Butler Construction Co. , near Portland, if memory serves me right. Are they still in business? Been years since I was up that way... .

 

[tntway]

i don't know...

if they're still in business. i've lived in rocky hill for acout 7 years.

grew up in glastonbury--previous 33 years.



as for the macks, told my wife if i hafta wait 20 years, i'm gonna have me one. now talk about lucky, mactruck is an engineer for the marlborough vfd. he gets to drive macks all the time.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Mack built buses as well. I am fortunate to live near Mack World Headquarters in Allentown, PA. Once a year, there is an antique truck show in Macungie, PA. There is a Mack museum there in addition to a tour of Mack's Macungie plant.

 

[tntway]

thanks qtrhrs

sounds like a great long weekend trip come spring...

 

[Wayne M.]

I had always thought about making an everyday truck out of something like an R model. The only problem is I don't think the wife/ family will like the cab!



tntway, Is there a picture of this truck?



I've been to Mackungie on a special tour, and it's a great place to learn about how trucks are built. I'd like to go back during the show- it's on Father's day weekend, right?

 

[tntway]

no, i'm sorry...

i marched in the parade and had already finished the route. i was watching the rest with my wife and daughter. wehadn't planned on staying for the rest of the parade so we didn't have a

camera. wish i had taken one tho'...

 

[The patriot]

I saw that truck at Englishtown, at the diesel truck nationals.

Pretty cool. My wife liked it too!!

Eric

 

[tntway]

thanks eric--

do ya have any pics? what do you know about it?? any and all info would be more than appreciated-- i mean like I GOTTA HAVE ONE, MAN!!!

 

[QRTRHRS]

I found this dated website for the truck show. I went back to Mack's main web page which has a show schedule but still for 2001 only. The truck show should be the weekend of June 15-16, 2002.



http://www.macktrucks.com/antique.htm

 

[stg2500]

Briar Hopper

Just a little info regarding the questions you asked tntway.



i am currently working on a construction project in Cromwell that is using Hubert E. Butler Construction Co. for the fill material. They have a few good looking older Macks that they use.



They are still located in Portland, CT.

 

[Briar Hopper]

Thanks, stg2500, that's cool to know ! My uncle liked working for them, he only left because he missed the Great Smoky mountains in his native North Carolina, and moved home. He now has his own trucking business, with Mack trucks, naturally.

 

[Mactruck]

I do like driving MACKS! But I also like driving my CUMMINS.

Our firehouse here in Marlborough, we run a 68 Mack attack pumper, a 72 Mack Tanker, a 78 Mack attack pumper, and an 89 Mack Hose tender. So when I drive to the firehouse I drive a Cummins, when I leave I drive a MACK .

One problem though, we are specing a new rescue, and we are putting it on an INTERNATIONAL chassis . Macks are getting way overpriced . Too bad.

 

[tntway]

not the best choice

IH that is. glastonbury's old rescue was an IH and when the new specs were written for what's now an '87 i believe, they were told anything but an IH. guess what... rescue 14 is an IH. their new one, rescue 33 is on a KW. i'd stick with mack, although DOT

switched back to IH from freightliner.

BTW, does MVFD still have that sweet mack "b" model that was engine 3?

 

[Mactruck]

Forgot about that one. Engine 3 is a 1953 attack/pumper.



It's our Antique piece now. We retired it only about 7-8 years ago.

Sweet truck