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That is fantastic art work. I wonder if the artist realizes those are headlight brackets he drew on there and didn't use. Here's a nice real one:

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/IMG_0221.jpg

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It's time for some Hendrickson love:

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A couple more...bigguns:

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COOL!! First some darned showy workin' rigs,then some real loads with darned nicely set-up (and looking) tractors.

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The TV series "Movin On" was one of my favorites as a kid. I wanted to be a truck driver so much back then.

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I like those mercury sleepers.

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Great TV/Movie rigs! I think it's time for Mack to get it's face in here. Where would a truck thread be without those bulldogs?

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Man, great thread here! Thanks Special-K Tim! Heck, I work for a class 8 truck manufacturer and learned a lot of our own history in this tread. I can guarantee you we don’t have this good of photo history on file and I doubt people in my own company know as much about some of these old rigs as you guys do. I am at International/Navistar but come from a GM manufacturing background. The old guys left in the company long forgot about most of these old trucks and that would include the old guys that I worked with at GM that worked with the old GM class 8s as well.

Back in the day manufactures built trucks to each specific order and no two trucks were built alike. Unfortunately, poor records were kept back ithen so new combinations pop up all the time in the resto world on the internet. Some could be real, some could be cobbled together and nobody would ever know the difference. The whores at Barrett-Jackson would never be able to validate legitimate combinations in the old big truck world like they do the muscle cars. Keep the big truck picture coming!

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Hey thanks for the appreciation,Larry. American truck history has it's grips on me. I am learning more all the time. I always knew trucks were built from combined components,often sharing drivetrains with other makes. But,to see companies I'm familiar with built trucks I never knew about is stifling.Made to order. Some blur the line between tractor/heavy equipment and truck. Just cabs really get me. To see the same cab used on so many trucks is way cool. It shows that was the least significant part. You built the truck as needed,then it's"What the heck can we do for a cab? Here's one. We'll just slap one of these on there and fab up a front end to fit":lol: Actually,it's a pretty expensive component to make that is more economical to buy from a company and help then recoup their tool & die investment. They become disguised up there within the truck somehow anyway. I always wondered,as a kid,if some trucks just looked a hella lot alike or is one company made the other with a re-badge or,as it turns out,the one company bought from the other. IH cabs are sitting on the later Pacifics and those older Hendricksons. I never even heard of these companies until I found out about the American Truck Historic Society and went to a national show. I know it sure gets my interest. I'm glad to hear some others like 'em,too.
I think of Macks,Whites,and Internationals as your common economic fleet rigs. But,taking a closer look they are all over the history map. I don't know all the ins and outs of the business. But I know it hasn't been an easy road (get it?...road/trucks?...give it a minute). White gets me all confused trying to follow ownership just since the '70s. That and the other companies involved,like Freightliner,Volvo,Mercedes,Sterling,GM,Ford...what??? All intermingled here and there. It's cool that back in the day there were truck lines manufactured by freight companies. Imagine that. Things sure change in the economy and trucks sure have played a huge part in 20th century American history.

Mo' Mack:

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Check out this great photo of a big rig and BIGGER load.

The story can be found at this link

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Yeah,WOW!!! Now that's balance right there.

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Hey Mack,what're you lookin' at?

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Here's a old '67 Cabover C60 on Craig'slist right now -
http://slo.craigslist.org/cto/2345519148.html