Lachlan McCutcheon backs his old 1965 B615 Mack out of the shed. Listen to the beaituful note on the V8 GM871 'bird scarer' engine. Incidental music by Dan Skinner.
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.
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 :)
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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".
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.
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!!!!
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
I just sold a beautiful 1965B Mack with AC unit on the roof. This one looks amazing, thanks for posting. I have one truck left to sell 1959 diamond T. They were my fathers he restored and the T is the last one.
@@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.
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.
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.
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👍💪🍻🦅🦅🦅🦅
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.
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
