Are you kidding? Start the truck, pull it out of the garage then pull it back in? Come on, open the hood and show us around the truck... We really do want to see the truck, it's an awesome classic.
@@AZ-kr6ff I dont want to say he is an idiot , but yes we all would like to see way more :) I wish i had my old 1974 H2 Kawasaki 750 2 stroke 3 cylinder , they nicknamed her The Widow Maker true story :)
The B model Mack is one of the most beautiful trucks ever made. I loved them since the first time that I rode in one with my dad as a young child many many decades ago.
The thumbs down are from those of us who anticipated hearing the two stroke in full song instead of lame ass banjo music. Nothing against the truck, plenty against the producer of the video
Someone needs to adjust the "rack" so it will run smooth. One of my favorite Diesel engines when it is adjusted right. The 71 series came in 4, 6, and 8 cylinder. 471 meant four cylinders, 671 means six cylinders, and 871 you get it. Those were the most versatile engines in existence. You could make it run clockwise or counter clockwise.
Very Nice. Not many equipped that way in the U.S. (from the factory, anyway). Almost none with a Fuller transmission also. And with an 8V-71 or, God forbid, a 6-71 inline with any of the twin stick Mack transmissions (Duplex, Triplex or Quadraplex) a guy would have been very busy keeping the RPM's between 1600 -2100. Below 1600 the Detroits' power curve dropped off the cliff. I owned 3 8V-71's and had good luck with all of them. 8V-71 was rated 265 hp. and I believe the 6-71 was 195 or about. The secret to success with a Detroit Diesel was to drive it like you were mad at it. If you lugged it, it was "lights out".
Have driven Detroits with air starters for years and they were loud and high pitched. Didn't hear that with this Mack; maybe it had a "muffler" on the starter exhaust port. In that metal building an air starter I am familiar with would have been deafening.
I love them old trucks. My fire station had a B-61 Mack. You had to run your arm through the steering wheel to change the gears. You really had to have a feel for the truck to know when to change gears because you had 2 gearshifts to move. Great old trucks that could make it through anything even time.
I knew this video was gonna be awesome seeing that beautiful Mack in the thumbnail. And with the airstarted V8 on Spoke wheels you can't get much more perfect! Cheers!
@@ivanivonovich9863 usually there are at least 2 nearly identical vehicles used in smash-'em-up movies. One is rented and used to film most of the non-accident scenes. The other is a junker, sometimes painted to look like the first, and is used to film the "big crash" scene.
She's a beaut and all steel and also remember a similar Mack where my Dad worked years ago at a Fabrication Tank shop... used it for light duty hauling materials around the yard.
You people never had an experience in your life unless you just came out of the service in 69 and got a job hauling a bulk dry tanker with a B model Mack with a triplex and only drove a five speed before. I'm sure there are a 100 ways of doing it wrong but i have to that's not true I found more. Some of the Trucks had a duplex in witch finally figured out.
The epitome of what us Europeans see as an 'American Truck'. Lovely..though I'll never understand why they made the cabs so incredibly small on them. I like the sound of that 2 Stroke diesel. Greetings from the UK
They were small for 2 reasons. 1. People were much smaller on average back then. 2. There wasn’t a need for all the technology as of today coupled with business didn’t push as hard and traveling distances weren’t as far. Trucks didn’t commonly run from NY to LA. It was much more regional.
Never seen a right hand drive Mack much less one with a 2 cycle air start diesel. All of the ones I ever saw here in the states of that vintage had Maxidyne engines.
Plenty of right hand drive stuff here mate. Come and have a look one day. I don’t know when Mack started building trucks here but Kenworth built them here from the early ‘70s. Slightly different to the US ones and a lot tougher for our conditions.
@ Gerry Carmichael, I do believe the B Model Mack Diesels were actually Thermodynes... The Maxidynes were brought out when the R Models started coming out, beginning with the 237
Love the sound of air starters firing up those old diesels. Drove an old Mack 61 in Florida many years ago hauling oranges from the groves to the cannery . Lake Wells..
This is only the second B61 Mack that I know of with an 8V71. The first was Billy Gordon's, a single drive that he used to race at Calder raceway 1/4 mile back in 1979 .
@@tracylemme1375 You are correct that is the air starter tank, there is a priority valve in the air system that recharges this air tank before the brake system.
in my 70,s now I drove the B models for years in the US on the road the roads were smaller then more 2 lane highways lots of B 's were gas . the seat ! man in them days no air ride no air so on . but that seat man it was a bench seat the seat that ready killed my back ready did . to this day my back is so bad from it ! ! great work truck last for ever . love them hate them . I can tell you lots about the B built a few love to see the old girl is nice to see again . she her can tell lots .
Theodore Bowers thanks for sharing, it's been 50 years of driving not 40 for me, The worst part was the steering wheel when it snapped back it killed your thumbs, but we kept driving and working and not crying like drivers today. God bless driver stay healthy.
@@mr.b1094 No Power Steering MAN In Them Days You Start To Turn About A Block Away lol Remember Them Days The Rids Were Smaller Too.. are the best days of my lifetime some tuff times also. 📌 The saying go's TUFF TIMES MAKE TUFF PEOPLE RIGHT 👍
Theodore Bowers. I started on the u model, then the r the last one i think it was ch model, the only one with power steering, Then I bought a Pete, now a shitty freight liner. Hey gotta pay the bills. I remember driving over the GW bridge on onto the cross Bronx in NY worst road in the NE. You bounce around , hit your head and hold man. Still wound not change those days!!!!
I thought it was some kind of black magic when he got in the wrong side and it backed out!!!! Then I saw the bull bar on the front and realized,it's the land of Oz. Love the fact that those crazy,impressive Australians love American iron! Onliest place on Earth to get a BRAND NEW Kenworth cabover! Seriously,though,could you get one shipped to the US? Don't know if they are up to all the stupid rules and regs we have here. Probably not,as they seem to still be good trucks,while most new trucks in the US are computered and emissioned to death.
tom cline my ausie friends and relatives tell me since ford and holden (gm) have ceased all vehicle production, they have learned just how good European truck are, light years ahead of Mack,
Back in the '70s, I ran a B model just like this one, hauling heavy (10 to 20 ton) earth moving equipment, on a gooseneck lowboy trailer. it had the twin stick transmission, and a gas engine. Once someone showed me how to shift it properly it was easy to shift. Surprisingly, it was a very comfortable ride.
We're talking a tri-plex transmission back in the day I got a ride with a buddy and he steered with his knees because both hands were shifting the gears wow we came a long way
Complaining about the single stick is true but a little unfair to today’s drivers. In the day the engines had half the power an torque than today’s average rig. I had to have twenty forward gears as I was hauling fourty tons of dozer on a twenty five ton trailer in the Piedmont section of NC, using 264 hp. Hell I even took it to the Drive-in movie once trailer an all😇
Very nice truck! I live in Allentown PA USA, I grew up seeing newly built Macks leaving town all through the 80s untill they moved to SC, they still make the specialty truck chassis in Macungie PA about 15 min away. I miss seeing that giant Bulldog on the old world headquarters building. It is now hospital office space, I pass both the old original 1900s factory and the huge 5c plant on my way to work. So sad to see it overgrown and slated to become warehouse space. My Grandfather worked for Mack in the offices till it closed. There is now a visitor center and museum at the old Mack R&D test track facility and a bunch of neat old restored macks at the America on Wheels car museum in Allentown, Macungie hosts an antique truck show on Fathersday weekend each year. Worth checking out if you love old Macks and are near the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania.
reminds me a lot of the R series IH tractors we had here in NZ working on the hydro schemes, when I was a kid. Beautiful trucks and very capable. This is a real gem having that beaut 2 stroke under the hatch.
I drove a couple r- series macks in nz back late 90's/early 2000 I enjoyed driving them. Almost bought one not long ago too, cool old rigs, But got a 94 kelowna built western star with an old 12.7 series 60 in her and a 15 spd OD, I enjoy it, plus the trucks got sentimental value to me.
I lived next to Mack Trucks 3 blocks away drove Macks for yrs B R cabs so on what is a H I can not picture it o its the the heavy off road truck look right ? big hood I think . I am old in My 70,s
@@theodorebowers9737 My Dad H model was a cabover and my uncle had a G model mack with a 220 cummins with a trilex two stick 15 speed.In Allentown Pa theirs a museum of old trucks there have your kids look them up on your PC.
@@theodorebowers9737 the H model and the G were cabovers they were before the F models Smith Tranport out of Stauton Va.had a big fleet of them all green with no stacks.
In 1984 I drove a B-61 model Mack in the City - Mobile AL. Looks much like that. Was a interesting Truck. Only had 185 HP new. Had automatically opening louvors In the hood grill. Two sticks with 5 on one and 3 on the other. 15 forward 5 in reverse. When hitting bumps ya had to lean head to right or hit your head on the roof. Great driving Truck just very small. To small for 45'-102" (biggest Trailers on the road then.) with the mirrors adjusted all the way out ya still could not see down side of Trailer. ! To my surprise It had air operating windshield wipers. A Air valve Brake Restriction valve for Bobtail Driving. And many other features I found interesting for a Truck that was a Barn Find and a Antique at that time. I hope someone enjoys reading about these GREAT AMERICAN MADE TRUCKS.
My dad had a structural steel fab shop and bought couple Bull Dog Macks. Dealership gave him a paper weight some lapel pins, tie tacks and cuff links of the Bull Dog. I still have them stashed somewhere. Thats in the 60+yrs ago vicinity.
Must be Australian with right hand drive and exhaust on left side. Odd to have Detrout power. Mack's back in those days had exclusively Mack Thermodyne engines.
Beautiful, Truck🍺 Greetings from Dearborn/Detroit Michigan, USA 🦅🦅🦅 Detroit Diesel 8V71🤗 Nothing, sweeter😺 Except, two bolted together 16V71🤤🤤🤤 I remember goin' on the tour of dad's plant(Detroit Diesel Redford, Mich) and watching them run till they blew😎👍🍺 Then dad and crew would go over it with a fine tooth comb testing all the "schtuff"👍💪👌 THNX👍💪🍻🦅🦅🦅🦅
GM's (Detroits) were never called "bird scarers" that name was given to the 555 Cummins and later the 903's. That GM is "hunting" at idle, needs rack adjustment. No Mack transmissions , nice paint.
I drove Macks for yrs all of then just about . in My 70,s I al l so deliver Macks all over the counrty . lived 3 blocks from mack trucks main plant by 8th st ,bridge
I have T600 KW fully loaded with a five and quarter Cummins and thirteen speed I put just shy of two million on her and I would love to have my old B-61 back for just one day
Ah I remember driving one of those during ww2 hauling powdered sheep hooves from here in the states to the allies on the frontlines in Europe. Good times good times
I know what you mean. For example a 237 Maxidyne has more torque than an a 8V71. I once saw a 6-71 in a single drive Flintstone. A circus truck used for hauling 3 elephants around that weighed about 6 ton each and a belly tank of water underneath.
left hand shifting would be wierd to me for sure if i could even get used to it after driving in usa i be all over the place first 10-20 miles for sure. hoping i still had gears left after the first 30 miles.
My grandfather drove a b model Mack until he retired in 1966. He hauled jet and rocket fuels for sac bases . I couldn't say transport inc (the company he worked for) I called them STINKPOTS
We hade one of those and it was a wrecker,Grandad would pull up tree stumps with it .Put a large pole winch on it and it would care a whole care in the air..Those were really the good old days at the age of 7.thanks for the memories
Same in Canada. My brother and I ran a RL 700 Mack in the early 1970's. It had Dayton wheels all around and when we were Stateside we heard lots of comments about "plow wheels" but it was all in good fun.
Air starts were popular in Australia way back when there may not be a service shop, or any other living person, for days around. No Battery no problems. Even if the air tank is dry, bleed air from some of the road wheels to get her turning.
I have owned many old Macks and many Detroit 53, 71 and 92 series engines. This truck is a beauty. I love how he chromed the cap ends to the full floating axles. Nice touch.
Are you kidding? Start the truck, pull it out of the garage then pull it back in? Come on, open the hood and show us around the truck... We really do want to see the truck, it's an awesome classic.
I know.
Not even a single shot of the whole truck.
Videographer is an idiot.
Not even a drive.
Unbelievable poetry in motion even if only for 25 seconds Love it 🌞
TooManyHobbies - Absolutely agree with you, i feel almost cheated :)
@@AZ-kr6ff I dont want to say he is an idiot , but yes we all would like to see way more :) I wish i had my old 1974 H2 Kawasaki 750 2 stroke 3 cylinder , they nicknamed her The Widow Maker true story :)
The B model Mack is one of the most beautiful trucks ever made. I loved them since the first time that I rode in one with my dad as a young child many many decades ago.
The B Model is hands down the Absolute Best Looking Truck that Mack ever built, followed closely by the R Model Mack in Second Place.
Let us hear her on a good drive with a loaded Trailer. This is Piss Weak.
Great looking unit.....love to hear it out and about
She's gorgeous! I was hoping you'd take us for a ride
No birds were scared in the making of this video.
I'd never get tired of looking at that gorgeous glossy dashboard, and dashes are always my favorite thing!
The Mack is beautiful any one who gives it a thumbs down must be a cyclist.
The thumbs down are from those of us who anticipated hearing the two stroke in full song instead of lame ass banjo music. Nothing against the truck, plenty against the producer of the video
@@303nitzubishi4 ,
You have something against the "Aussies"?
Don't go there... I rode my mo'cycle to my truck driving job. Love the Mack Bs.
Big thumbs up from me, and I’m a cyclist 👍😀
@@colinthompson5881
Bullshit.
You're probably a banjo player.
You don't often see an old Mack with a Detroit down in her especially here in the states she's a beauty!
Beautiful truck. I love those 2-stroke diesels.
Gotta love those B model Macks. Never saw one with a 871 Detroit. Beautiful old truck.
B Model, personal favorite!
Detroit, Bonus!!
Sid McCutcheon repowered it.
This engine is so competitive and reliable, and good sound too. Why its discontinue?
Emissions requirements killed the two stroke. I loved the acceleration.
@@jeffmorton5092 yeah maybe the carbon emission was cause their being killed, but there is no way to inovating the new clean 2 stroke engine?
Air starter! Haven't heard one of those in a while.
When i watched "The Road Warrior" I wondered why the truck sounded like that
@@maplebear6527 same with maximum overdrive lol
My VERY thought!
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How I was harassed as an apprentice - scare seven shades of shite out of you
If you looked up truck in the dictionary, this is the picture you would see.
Derp.
@Hugh Jaanus agreed, i didnt see it either. Someone is lying.
@Hugh Jaanus SMH
*Should see 😉
Someone needs to adjust the "rack" so it will run smooth. One of my favorite Diesel engines when it is adjusted right. The 71 series came in 4, 6, and 8 cylinder. 471 meant four cylinders, 671 means six cylinders, and 871 you get it. Those were the most versatile engines in existence. You could make it run clockwise or counter clockwise.
I remember seeing an old eagle tour bus that fired up backwards one day 😂😂
Yes it is hunting.
Bus Grease Monkey showed that it's a governor adjustment that stops the hunting idle.
I LOVE that Aussies love trucks
And that’s a beautiful one there
Where were these trucks made?
Aussies do love trucks.
@@brosefmcman8264 In Australia, of course. Note the right-hand drive?
Does every big rig in Australia have the "kangaroo guards" in the front?
i just had to hear a 2 stroke v8
Check out the rudezon build another guy has on youtube, that ones got expansion pipes and all.
Very Nice. Not many equipped that way in the U.S. (from the factory, anyway). Almost none with a Fuller transmission also. And with an 8V-71 or, God forbid, a 6-71 inline with any of the twin stick Mack transmissions (Duplex, Triplex or Quadraplex) a guy would have been very busy keeping the RPM's between 1600 -2100. Below 1600 the Detroits' power curve dropped off the cliff. I owned 3 8V-71's and had good luck with all of them. 8V-71 was rated 265 hp. and I believe the 6-71 was 195 or about. The secret to success with a Detroit Diesel was to drive it like you were mad at it. If you lugged it, it was "lights out".
Have driven Detroits with air starters for years and they were loud and high pitched. Didn't hear that with this Mack; maybe it had a "muffler" on the starter exhaust port. In that metal building an air starter I am familiar with would have been deafening.
Did they have an option for electric start?
@@austinshackles549 yes they did co. got them because it save money buying a fleet cheaper
Very nice looking old Mack. Was kind hoping to hear that Detroit Screaming down the road. Stay safe.
crslyrn we’d all have an orgasm if that happened 👍
That would remedy many men suffering erectile dysfunction..
That would be a great protester street cleaner.
All the face gear might be rough on the paint.
Bye bye CDL if you did that.
Petal to the metal....
I love them old trucks. My fire station had a B-61 Mack. You had to run your arm through the steering wheel to change the gears. You really had to have a feel for the truck to know when to change gears because you had 2 gearshifts to move. Great old trucks that could make it through anything even time.
That's when Mack made a truck
Daddy Mack of all Mack s .Looks very gorgeous!!
I knew this video was gonna be awesome seeing that beautiful Mack in the thumbnail. And with the airstarted V8 on Spoke wheels you can't get much more perfect!
Cheers!
George Miller should have used that truck in one of his "Road Warrior" movies!
What? And have it destroyed in the movie? What a waste that would be...
@@ivanivonovich9863 usually there are at least 2 nearly identical vehicles used in smash-'em-up movies. One is rented and used to film most of the non-accident scenes. The other is a junker, sometimes painted to look like the first, and is used to film the "big crash" scene.
He did. The one he goes to fix up to haul the gas out of the fortress. You can hear the air starter when he starts it.
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I wanted to hear this "old girl" work under load. That's when the 2 strokers come into there own.
She's a beaut and all steel and also remember a similar Mack where my Dad worked years ago at a Fabrication Tank shop... used it for light duty hauling materials around the yard.
I still have a special place in my heart for the old 53 and 71 series Jimmys.
Screaming Jimmy's
I had a cracker box for yrs 318 Detroit they had ready small cab cooled and hot I put together to become a owner operator
You people never had an experience in your life unless you just came out of the service in 69 and got a job hauling a bulk dry tanker with a B model Mack with a triplex and only drove a five speed before. I'm sure there are a 100 ways of doing it wrong but i have to that's not true I found more. Some of the Trucks had a duplex in witch finally figured out.
The epitome of what us Europeans see as an 'American Truck'. Lovely..though I'll never understand why they made the cabs so incredibly small on them. I like the sound of that 2 Stroke diesel. Greetings from the UK
Gareth Ifan they built the cabs small so the drivers couldn’t get comfortable, it was a work truck only.
@@deborahchesser7375 Odd logic..seen as the drivers spent more time there than anywhere else..
The cab is so small because it was designed in the late 1940's and kept the design for nearly 20yrs.
More cab=more weight
More weight =less payload
They were small for 2 reasons.
1. People were much smaller on average back then.
2. There wasn’t a need for all the technology as of today coupled with business didn’t push as hard and traveling distances weren’t as far. Trucks didn’t commonly run from NY to LA. It was much more regional.
Never seen a right hand drive Mack much less one with a 2 cycle air start diesel. All of the ones I ever saw here in the states of that vintage had Maxidyne engines.
In Australia and NZ pretty much all macks come out with air starters! Battery start were uncommon.
Plenty of right hand drive stuff here mate. Come and have a look one day. I don’t know when Mack started building trucks here but Kenworth built them here from the early ‘70s. Slightly different to the US ones and a lot tougher for our conditions.
@ Gerry Carmichael, I do believe the B Model Mack Diesels were actually Thermodynes... The Maxidynes were brought out when the R Models started coming out, beginning with the 237
Sure is a beauty...My Dad drove a faded Red one with a small sleeper/ bunk....A little fan on the dash...
Aaron King They were not built for much comfort back in those days! We are spoiled now.
@@JCrow-kz4nw Amen to that....Luxury sure wasnt much back then. I wouldnt trade those days for anything.
I hear an Air Starter on the Detroit when you fire it up !!!!!
Love the sound of air starters firing up those old diesels. Drove an old Mack 61 in Florida many years ago hauling oranges from the groves to the cannery . Lake Wells..
At first I wondered if it was air start because of the tank to the rear of the fuel tank. It had no filler.
That was pretty cool
This is only the second B61 Mack that I know of with an 8V71. The first was Billy Gordon's, a single drive that he used to race at Calder raceway 1/4 mile back in 1979 .
@@tracylemme1375 You are correct that is the air starter tank, there is a priority valve in the air system that recharges this air tank before the brake system.
These two strokes all sound the same, regardless of the number of cylinders, except for the three cylinders, which sound pretty distinctive.
The 16v71 also has a distinctive sound
Great looking truck! Whoever restored is a true artist! Definitely wish I had one just like that!
I learned how to drive a truck in a 5 speed Mack in 1970, still driving a truck 40 years later. Gotta love it, or you can't do it.
my 1st truck was 58 B read what I did its in the comments
in my 70,s now I drove the B models for years in the US on the road the roads were smaller then more 2 lane highways lots of B 's were gas . the seat ! man in them days no air ride no air so on . but that seat man it was a bench seat the seat that ready killed my back ready did . to this day my back is so bad from it ! ! great work truck last for ever . love them hate them . I can tell you lots about the B built a few
love to see the old girl is nice to see again . she her can tell lots .
Theodore Bowers thanks for sharing, it's been 50 years of driving not 40 for me, The worst part was the steering wheel when it snapped back it killed your thumbs, but we kept driving and working and not crying like drivers today. God bless driver stay healthy.
@@mr.b1094 No Power Steering MAN In Them
Days You Start To Turn About A Block Away lol Remember Them Days The Rids Were Smaller Too.. are the best days of my lifetime some tuff times also. 📌 The saying go's TUFF TIMES MAKE TUFF PEOPLE RIGHT 👍
@Beau Cat BULL DOG
Theodore Bowers. I started on the u model, then the r the last one i think it was ch model, the only one with power steering, Then I bought a Pete, now a shitty freight liner. Hey gotta pay the bills. I remember driving over the GW bridge on onto the cross Bronx in NY worst road in the NE. You bounce around , hit your head and hold man. Still wound not change those days!!!!
@@mr.b1094 drove may U models also great get around truck trun on a dime. 👍👍👍
That’s absolutely gorgeous! What a great rig.
Trucks where beautiful those days... That is how I Imaged the future must look.
They're too pretty today just aren't as tough, sound as good or as fun to drive. The old ones look the best by far.
Cool truck, was hoping to hear more of that screamin jimmy! 😁👍🏻
the 318 Detroit was called the Screamin Demon in my day I am in my 70,s
I thought it was some kind of black magic when he got in the wrong side and it backed out!!!! Then I saw the bull bar on the front and realized,it's the land of Oz. Love the fact that those crazy,impressive Australians love American iron! Onliest place on Earth to get a BRAND NEW Kenworth cabover!
Seriously,though,could you get one shipped to the US? Don't know if they are up to all the stupid rules and regs we have here. Probably not,as they seem to still be good trucks,while most new trucks in the US are computered and emissioned to death.
Our emisions a little behind the us ,when it come to a Cummins powered KW.
tom cline my ausie friends and relatives tell me since ford and holden (gm) have ceased all vehicle production, they have learned just how good European truck are, light years ahead of Mack,
Absolutely beautiful machine. Gotta love that Detroit 8V71 sound...
I'm surprised there's no 'twin stick' transmission in this beauty.
It's been converted
Wish they would have kept the twin stick in it. Looks like it got an Eaton 13 speed. Easier to drive but not near as nostalgic in a truck like that.
Back in the '70s, I ran a B model just like this one, hauling heavy (10 to 20 ton) earth moving equipment, on a gooseneck lowboy trailer. it had the twin stick transmission, and a gas engine. Once someone showed me how to shift it properly it was easy to shift. Surprisingly, it was a very comfortable ride.
We're talking a tri-plex transmission back in the day I got a ride with a buddy and he steered with his knees because both hands were shifting the gears wow we came a long way
Complaining about the single stick is true but a little unfair to today’s drivers. In the day the engines had half the power an torque than today’s average rig. I had to have twenty forward gears as I was hauling fourty tons of dozer on a twenty five ton trailer in the Piedmont section of NC, using 264 hp. Hell I even took it to the Drive-in movie once trailer an all😇
Absolutely gorgeous piece of machinery!
I want to see that beautiful truck on the road with a loaded trailer behind it.
No doubt. Beautiful truck but that was 2:06 of my life that I'll never get back.
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Gorgeous Mack, perfect color combo.
Nice! That sun visor makes it! What a gorgeous truck!
"Two days ago I saw a vehicle that could haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here. Talk to me"--Mel Gibson/Road Warrior.
Reminds me the Spielberg motion picture "Duel"
Hmm. I wanted to see it go down the road or maybe scare some birds or both. It is really cool though.
Very nice truck! I live in Allentown PA USA, I grew up seeing newly built Macks leaving town all through the 80s untill they moved to SC, they still make the specialty truck chassis in Macungie PA about 15 min away. I miss seeing that giant Bulldog on the old world headquarters building. It is now hospital office space, I pass both the old original 1900s factory and the huge 5c plant on my way to work. So sad to see it overgrown and slated to become warehouse space. My Grandfather worked for Mack in the offices till it closed. There is now a visitor center and museum at the old Mack R&D test track facility and a bunch of neat old restored macks at the America on Wheels car museum in Allentown, Macungie hosts an antique truck show on Fathersday weekend each year. Worth checking out if you love old Macks and are near the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania.
reminds me a lot of the R series IH tractors we had here in NZ working on the hydro schemes, when I was a kid. Beautiful trucks and very capable. This is a real gem having that beaut 2 stroke under the hatch.
I drove a couple r- series macks in nz back late 90's/early 2000 I enjoyed driving them. Almost bought one not long ago too, cool old rigs, But got a 94 kelowna built western star with an old 12.7 series 60 in her and a 15 spd OD, I enjoy it, plus the trucks got sentimental value to me.
This makes me cry my old man had a 63 H model mack he drove it till it fell apart .Honey was her name 15 speed triplexx with two sticks wow.
I lived next to Mack Trucks 3 blocks away drove Macks for yrs B R cabs so on what is a H I can not picture it o its the the heavy off road truck look right ? big hood I think . I am old in My 70,s
@@theodorebowers9737 My Dad H model was a cabover and my uncle had a G model mack with a 220 cummins with a trilex two stick 15 speed.In Allentown Pa theirs a museum of old trucks there have your kids look them up on your PC.
@@theodorebowers9737 the H model and the G were cabovers they were before the F models Smith Tranport out of Stauton Va.had a big fleet of them all green with no stacks.
In 1984 I drove a B-61 model Mack in the City - Mobile AL.
Looks much like that. Was a interesting Truck. Only had 185 HP new. Had automatically opening louvors
In the hood grill. Two sticks with 5 on one and 3 on the other. 15 forward 5 in reverse.
When hitting bumps ya had to lean head to right or hit your head on the roof. Great driving Truck just very small. To small for 45'-102" (biggest Trailers on the road then.) with the mirrors adjusted all the way out ya still could not see down side of Trailer. ! To my surprise It had air operating windshield wipers. A Air valve Brake Restriction valve for Bobtail Driving. And many other features I found interesting for a Truck that was a Barn Find and a Antique at that time.
I hope someone enjoys reading about these GREAT AMERICAN MADE TRUCKS.
Got an Air Starter on that V8 ! Awesome
My dad had a structural steel fab shop and bought couple Bull Dog Macks. Dealership gave him a paper weight some lapel pins, tie tacks and cuff links of the Bull Dog. I still have them stashed somewhere. Thats in the 60+yrs ago vicinity.
Go find an old Detroit/Allison Mechanic to smooth that out. You’ll thank me later on. 🤠
Must be Australian with right hand drive and exhaust on left side. Odd to have Detrout power. Mack's back in those days had exclusively Mack Thermodyne engines.
I guess the engine is just as custom as the paint!
Detrout? Must be fish powered
Mack&Mack Western always had optional GM,Cat&Cummins available 👍
Absolutely Spot On Gorgeous truck mate!!!!! Very rare to see one with right hand drive.
Beautiful, Truck🍺 Greetings from Dearborn/Detroit Michigan, USA 🦅🦅🦅
Detroit Diesel 8V71🤗 Nothing, sweeter😺 Except, two bolted together 16V71🤤🤤🤤
I remember goin' on the tour of dad's plant(Detroit Diesel Redford, Mich) and watching them run till they blew😎👍🍺
Then dad and crew would go over it with a fine tooth comb testing all the "schtuff"👍💪👌
THNX👍💪🍻🦅🦅🦅🦅
Love the sound of 2 stroke diesels! Airstart in '65?
I guess I didn't know.✌
Beautiful rig. Drove a mack midliner for two years loved that thing. Tough as nails. Love mack trucks
Now that's a good looking unit, good job in looking after it 😎👍
GM's (Detroits) were never called "bird scarers" that name was given to the 555 Cummins and later the 903's. That GM is "hunting" at idle, needs rack adjustment. No Mack transmissions , nice paint.
When I was a kid in the 60’s my trucker Dad drove this era Mack. Good old days. Thanks for the good memories.
I drove Macks for yrs all of then just about . in My 70,s I al l so deliver Macks all over the counrty . lived 3 blocks from mack trucks main plant by 8th st ,bridge
I have T600 KW fully loaded with a five and quarter Cummins and thirteen speed I put just shy of two million on her and I would love to have my old B-61 back for just one day
Ah I remember driving one of those during ww2 hauling powdered sheep hooves from here in the states to the allies on the frontlines in Europe. Good times good times
Yeah them powdered sheep hooves are hard to get these days
@@davidstoyanoff everyone is hoarding them from the stores
Oh yeah...brings back the good ole days!!!!! No check engine light,no TPS...life was great back then.
Saw a pic of this truck on a forum a while back. That engine just barely fits under the hood of that mack.
So...thats it?? Back it out and pull it back in? Boring!
At least drive it round the yard, mate. 😞
Zero bird's were scared in the making of this video
Very cute! ✌😜
Love that sound old school
Love the air starter
13 speed is an odd choice. An old school deep reduction 15 speed would make that thing hea en on a stick. Lol
Maybe being able to split the top box of the 13 would keep the Jimmy on the boil.
Best thing to ever happen for a Mack is Detroit Diesel power.
I always thought it was degrading for a detroit to be in a Mack.....so under it's capabilities
Mack made some good engines but I hate there transmissions pulling a mack triple countershaft trans is like pulling a couch out under the truck lol
I had always heard if a mack had a gold bulldog it had a mack engine if chrome bulldog it was a another mfg engine in it. Kind of neat they did that.
I know what you mean. For example a 237 Maxidyne has more torque than an a 8V71.
I once saw a 6-71 in a single drive Flintstone. A circus truck used for hauling 3 elephants around that weighed about 6 ton each and a belly tank of water underneath.
I just realized I don't like seeing trucks parked facing the wall...
Last time I saw an old Mack like that was in Tom Fountains old garage/ sheds at the Esk Turn Off.
That is one beautiful truck and a excellent year 1965 same year I was born 😁
Esse caminhão tem história muito lindo show parabéns pelo seu caminhão
What a beautiful machine 😃 a real credit to you - love those air starters 👍
Unless they leak down! Then you need a BJ! Lol Always keep em running!!
Can we see a video where you run through gears? Perhaps under load? I love these old 2 stroke diesels they make such an amazing racket!
Man, a B model Mack and an 8-V-71 Detroit. It doesn’t get better than this. No matter what side the steering wheel is on.
This is the sound of a Diesel engine should sound like
left hand shifting would be wierd to me for sure if i could even get used to it after driving in usa i be all over the place first 10-20 miles for sure. hoping i still had gears left after the first 30 miles.
Nice rig you have there. I'd like to row through the gears.
My grandfather drove a b model Mack until he retired in 1966. He hauled jet and rocket fuels for sac bases . I couldn't say transport inc (the company he worked for) I called them STINKPOTS
Is if me or does there seem to be little headroom in that thing
Need to get an original chrome gear knob and range change to finish the job! I hope we see a video of it on the road soon.
We hade one of those and it was a wrecker,Grandad would pull up tree stumps with it .Put a large pole winch on it and it would care a whole care in the air..Those were really the good old days at the age of 7.thanks for the memories
You Aussies sure love the Dayton wheels
Had no choice, we didn't get the "alcoa" rims on trucks here until the late 80's early 90's
Same in Canada. My brother and I ran a RL 700 Mack in the early 1970's. It had Dayton wheels all around and when we were Stateside we heard lots of comments about "plow wheels" but it was all in good fun.
Coolest rims a truck can have 😁
Much easier to r and r roadside. No cell phones to call for service.
Love the sound of the air starters but you better not have a air leak
Charles Greer Can you pump it up
I'm sure u can
Coming from Ohio...did anyone else hear that air starter?! Shazam!!! Love old trucks! 🥰
Air starts were popular in Australia way back when there may not be a service shop, or any other living person, for days around. No Battery no problems. Even if the air tank is dry, bleed air from some of the road wheels to get her turning.
Brutal!!! Que belleza!!!👍
Que Dios le dé salud y se lo deje disfrutar.
I have owned many old Macks and many Detroit 53, 71 and 92 series engines. This truck is a beauty. I love how he chromed the cap ends to the full floating axles. Nice touch.
I love those classic Macks! They are the most iconic big rig truck!
Great parade truck
Beautiful truck.
To me the engine lopes like an old 238 6-71. Any way was great to hear!
871 was big power in 65
Two stroke? Wow did not know that . Amazing how you learn something every day!
Air starter. Sweet, take that dog for a walk I want to hear it.
Nice truck but I didnt see any bird scaring haha