10 Things You Didn't Know About The Mack R Model
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- Hey there, what's going on Jack's Chrome Fam!? Today we are bringing you episode #11 of 10 Things You Didn't Know About... the legendary Mack R Model. Many of you guys have asked for us to create this video, so here it is! We hope you all enjoy these fun facts about the fan-favorite Mack R truck!
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Hhmmm no mention of the most famous Mack truck ever from the movie Convoy.
Please see our 10 Things You Didn't Know About... Mack Trucks video for more on "Convoy" ;)
I'm not a Mack fan but I like the R model because of that movie.
Rubber duck .
I agree the rubber duck in convoy was 1st real movie where the Mack was the star of the movie. all other movies with it came and followed it.
1 thing they don't know in the top 10
No. 11 The R model Mack would wear out 10 men and still be tough enough to wear out 10 more
RJ,
sir, that is so true!!
@@bertgrau9246 It wore me out off road before I broke it!
In Mack trucks hand book it's moto was "performance counts" it said nothing about comfort. lol it's true look at their early 60s advertising
Coming from an old driver that bounced from one coast to the other in a Mack You forgot about the best Mack truck song out there, Phantom 309. "...when I ask why'd you call your rig such a name he looked at me and said this old MACK can put them all to shame... "!
"There ain't a driver, or rig running any line that's seen nothing but taillights of phantom 309!"
At least back then Macks WERE Mack’s...not Volvo! Mack’s were some really good looking trucks.🤩
Probably the best looking MACK's of al time 😎👍
I remember growing up in the 80s, before ULSD and DPF, seeing these big boys rolling coal everywhere they went. So awe inspiring. Too bad my boys will never get to see that :)
I used to love seeing an R or D series Mack tri-axle dump truck smoke out an entire intersection when it starts moving from the red light!
Matt I don't know what part of the country you live in, but here in Southeast Kentucky, in the coal fields, Mack trucks have hauled more coal than any other truck! I have drove them all, from the B-61, R Model and the DM's.The DM's, DM 600 and DM 800 were the toughest coal hauling trucks ever to hit the road back here in these mountains! I also hauled a lot of coal with R Model tractors, great trucks!
@@1945pappy he is talking about black smoke, not literal coal.
Douglas DC-9, thanks! Yes these old Macks could put the black smoke out, that's for sure! Now days with all this computer stuff on trucks, you don't know if they are running or not till they start moving!
I remember many weekends servicing and washing the Mack Trucks that kept my Brothers and Sisters and me fed and Clothes on our backs growing up in the 80’s, Hard work but they were AWESOME trucks.
I drove a 79 R model for years, it was by far my favorite truck in my 35 years in the business.
I've Driven hundreds of these dog,s! My Grandfather owned a fleet of em! The best Truck ever built! And MACK THE GREATEST NAME IN TRUCK,S Although I drove a new PETERBILT 389 but RModel MACK,s & all Mack,s will always be my favorite.
Well you left out the song "Six Days On The Road," where the old boy says, "Just because she's old, doesn't mean she's slow!"He was driving a "Mack!"A lot of the early R Model Mack's had the wonderful old Mack V8, the 864, 865 and 866! The 864 turned about 365 hp from the factory, that was a lot of power in the 60's!
Bernard,
Don't forget, they had more torque than any other comparable engine of the day as well
So is it true a Maxidyne engine has 309 hp @1200 rpm?
I grew up in and around R models they definitely have a place in my heart. I can't think of my dad without thinking R model.
That r model Mack was always my favorite
Don’t forget chicken lights and chrome, Two stack Mack with a Bunk in the back.
One stack Mack with a shack on the back! Have a great day friend!
And she’s chrome from head to toe
A one stack Mack with a window in the back
Single stack Mack with a window in the back. My Dad drove a bunch of these, both tractors and dump trucks. Thanks for bringing back some memories.
I Love these videos about truck history. I also Love the Narrator's Beautiful female voice. Please keep them coming.
I love Mack trucks 😍
Great vid and I have driven many Mack's in my days and I will say the R model was the best of the best and the E-7 350 Mack was one fine motor!! 👍
The gold Bulldog represented a "Pedigree" way before 2007.
It meant that all the components to the last bolt were Mack original parts.
In Puerto Rico we called them Borinquen Special.In here,Mack is king.
Charlie,
You're correct, I don't know how they came up with 2007, I'm certain it started in 1967 with the new engine
I've must have owned at least 10 R Models and a few DMs over the past 40 years From a 66 with a 711 and duplex on camelbacks to an 88 with the EM6-300 with a TRXL-107 with Mack 44,000 on camelback. I even owned one of the first Maxidine trucks that had a separately bound Maxidine Supplement owner's manual.
Not one of them had a gold bulldog. I still have an 86 R600 285, TRXL107, Mack 38,000 on camelback with 125,000 original miles and bought from the original owner. Nope no gold dog
@@joecummings1260 My whole point was that the video was wrong. The gold dog came out before 2007.
@@charlieallan2513 Oh yeah, I bought a bunch of Mack parts at an auction in the mid 80's and there were 6 brand new gold dogs in a box of trim I bought. Most of the trim that came in the box was 60's and 70's, Like the half dogs for the doors, and the letters for the hood.
The R was the last of the real Mack truck's
Yeah they destroy the name after they change the model
lone wolf you're so right about after they discontinue the r model they went down hill
I spent eight years looking up that bulldog' s rear end.
He never let me down once.
Tough but rough old truck with those camelback rear springs !
I am right there with you guys, I own a mack R 600 with a 227 Hp engine, 5 speed trans. and mack rears all mack from front bumper to tail light, the absolute toughest truck I have ever owned
@@richardswann5300 you just made me realize that when you drive a Mack, you look at a dog ass...
Nice to see a New Zealand (Kiwi) truck in the gallery with the Orange Freightways example which is possibly a 797RS (or painted to look like one of their heavy haulers)
I drove both B & R models, Macks are, and were rugged, dependable workhorses, I loved 'em !!!
I love all the R models esp the R700👍
Ed Wu don’t forget the rd model.
Just watch your left pinky finger on the windshield pillar when your turning the bigass steering wheel. That hurts, alot
Oooooowwwwww!!!!!!! Many times!
Ha ha ha my left pinky is crooked to this day. I’m sure I broke it at least twice in the gravel pit. Pre CDL trucking to current day, the R model will always be my favorite.
I know
Omg I completely forgot about that.😂
B Models were notorious for the vent window injuries too.
Had 2. A 79 with a 300 and a 5 speed and an 80 with a 237 2 stick. 5 on one and high, low, reverse in the other. Gave 5 PTO speeds with first stick in 1 to 5 and second stick in neutral. We turned the 237 up. Both would pull down to 1200 RPM and then just pull.
Nick, I could never understand why and how Macks pulled so well at low RPMs. I started out driving Crane Carriers. I thought a Mack engine would have been a better choice because of the Low End Torque.
Just awesome to see Ned Kelly"s R series, Orange and Red Freightways unit from the mighty Hawkes Bay in New Zealand in your Jack's Chrome shop film. A very classic looking Mack truck that turns heads when it turns up at any truck shows etc.
Alway looks like it was just made yesterday. Bloody awesome, and good to see it with some other American Mack Iron.
Ned has spent a hugh amount of time rebuilding this awesome truck. Even better news, he is Currently working on a 8 wheeler FR to match also in the Freightways colours so can't wait to see them side by side just like in the 1980's.
We've owned probably 50 R-600 tractors, and a couple of DM600 dumps since my grandfather bought them in the 1960's. All but 3 were Maxidyne powered and all Mack components. I still have an 86 R-600 285 Maxidyne six seed low hole 38 Mack Rears on a Mack Camelback. 125,000 original miles and mostly garage kept. Not one of them had a gold bulldog. Some we bought new, and lots were ex Matlack and Chemical Leaman tractors
The first Mack I drove was a mack cabover with a 237 5 five speed manual trans and bearly get to 55 mph going Downhill loaded. And that was when you could only load 72380 lbs on a 40 foot trailer LOL (1978/9)
Hauled a lot of coal in r models,dml’s and dmc’s in the 80’s and 90’s. Great memories
thanks for the video, interesting to hear these facts, love my bulldogs and will never forget driving with my dad in those old macks, he had an early 70s r model with a compound transmission.
You guys should do a "10 Things You Didn't Know..." about the Super-, Ultra-, and/or Cruiseliner or even the B model
Pulled a lot of logs with a 1980 R model with a 350 and a 9 speed. It is hard to find a good clean one anymore. I see one on the road ever now and then. Have a neighbor who still uses his 85 to haul rock and sand. Best truck on the road............
Really like these videos. 🤔, I wonder if there'll ever be a series about - truck brands that no longer exist, like the Brockway?
Brockway, Autocar, Marmon, White, Ford, and GMC all on our list. Ford drops on Monday December 2nd.
Jack's Chrome Shop - Yes! Looking forward to them, thank you!
I drove an RL-700 back in the mid 70's pulling a flatbed. My loads were mostly steel rolls from US Steel in Fairless Hills PA and and asbestos sewer pipe from CertainTeed in Ambler, PA. The RL-700 was a great truck with a 318 Detroit and the sloppiest RT-910 I ever drove. You could just look at that thing and it would pop into the next gear lol. The RL-700 itself was built like a Mack truck :-).
one of my favorite mack trucks but my total fave is the cruiseliner. how about doing a cruiseliner video!! I really like the cruiseliner western big Cummins power 13 over on air ride. my childhood dream r model went up for sale, 1967 r600 dump truck. it a one owner worked 5 days a week and maintained in their shop from new!! it made 7 mile trip each way to the gravel pit. I would stand by the rail road tracks and listen to it top the hill empty, it sounded so good to me. it went to ritchey bros and sold, I still have my memories!!!
Another song where a Mack truck is mentioned is "Goodbye Says it All" by Blackhawk. "It's just another back door sneakin in where ya been midnight. Quiet as a Mack truck lotsa luck thinkin up an alibi"
I bought and partially restored an r model. It’s running and driving but I still have more to do on it.
The truck I learned how drive in was a mack u series with a 5 spd I hated it at the time but it was very good truck to learn in because of the transmission and it was tough as hell
I drove some U models years ago too. I worked for Cumberland Farms and they ran tons of them. A couple of times I rode shotgun in them which sucked because of the engine tunnel.
Thanks a lot
I grew up around the R model and still think it sits on the same shelf as the old Petes, KW’s, and Autocar’s
Nothing like a V-8 Mack ! A twin stack Mack with a can on back ? Those were the dayz 😎😅
Scott Wilke no engine of any make sounds as good as a Mack V8
Mack should do a retro series of truck's. The r model, the superliner and the u model and if coe's ever make a come back a cruiseliner. Modern drivetrains with styling cues of the classics. I bet other manufactures would do it as well.
Very awesome ideah, but they wouldn't be as reliable as they old ones....
I spent a lot of time in the R- model Mack with sleeper great old truck
There was one in the movie Super Troopers as well😎
Venezuela a paradise for Mack, when we were a wealthy land. 3 Jointer plants in the country. My dad had 8 R models between Canadians, American and Venezuelan versions, 1 DM686 (Venezuelan), 1 RD688 (American) 2 CH 613 ( 1 Venezuelan 1998 model) ( 1 American 1991 model) and a 1987 RW713 (American model)
Mendoza, que hay mi pana. Tu has visto un Mack hecho completamente en Venezuela? Ve el Mackario que hizo Francisco Herrera H. . TH-cam: Mack DM 800 a es cala
Grew up not too far from Allentown, so Mack was the home team. I love 'em all , but when someone says Mack the R-Model is what I think of first. You could turn those Maxidynes up, bypass the puff limiter, and let 'er fly.
Dont bypass the reversing valve...on your injection pump remove air actuator add a washer or two done. You got the off idle power not too much smoke
A Mack R model was also featured briefly in the movie, Super Troopers as well. Early R's were also available with Cummins power as well. Mack Trucks were also manufactured in Oakville Ont. Canada plant too. The Mack RL/RS chassis's, were known as "Westerns", until late 70's, then known as "Value Liners". Diehard Mack Man right here!
Aaron Cone Worked in a truck junkyard. Ive seen them with Detroits in them too.
@@michaelcuff5780,if I can remember correctly (the way the story was told to me, by a couple of older owner/drivers), Mack had a strike, at one of the engine plants around that time, & yes, were assembled with Detroit engines too. Detroit was also distributing information (thru it's engine dealers/distributors, around the same time), to repower older Macks, & install new Detroit engines into glider kits.
Convoy !!!! How boucha rubber duck 🤠,, that was one deeesile stibb blibby 🤠
Own a 1959 B-61 w/ intergal sleeper. Powered by a Maxidyne 300+ and 5 speed
When I was 17 my dad and I took a 59 B61 all over the country. Had a thermodine and dewplex
Sorry it had a 5 speed and dewplex. It needed a Quadra plex
The first ever big rig I drove was a 84 Mack r series it was a beat up truck but I still wouldn’t trade that experience for anything
Mack R models were all over South Florida hauling gravel. Johnny Sessa had 80 of them in single axle pulling a Freuhauf gravel trailer. I used to see them all the time growing up on my way to school on the bus. All the gravel companies used them because they were so tough. Gory Tile had a bunch that had a long bed with a conveyor boom and giant tires. They never seemed to break down or fall apart like other trucks which is why they were so popular.
Got to use all sorts of company trucks from a 84 GM General to a 2015 Pete For shunting. The Mack was my favorite to Shunt with ! When finally got a real single axel Shunt truck was completely lost for feel the 1st week!
It’s another back door sneakin I where you been midnight
Quiet as a Mack truck lotsa luck
Thinking up an alibi
Good bye says it all!!!
I love my RB quad axle. 8LL Eaton trans, camel back locking rears & air spring cab. Its one hell of tuff truck...
The U model was in the music video "Cruel Summer"
The R model...
a TRUE legend.
With an almyghty maxidyne 350?
Priceless.
Btw,the Mack R model is the only one whom sound of a straight pipe is beautiful.
How about the RS700L??? I spent seven years staring at a Bulldogs backside from coast to coast, you need to include some of the real gems. How about the tyrannies like the Duplex and the Triplex, you got to show your talent shifting a Triplex.
Mack R600.. The tractor I learned on. An old APA Transport Linehaul tractor. Single Axle. What a beast. Had the coldest AC I ever felt.
A R model with a 300+ and a 2 stick 6sp transmission and 4.17 44rears doesn't get any better
I spent eight years looking at the bulldog's rear end !
Rough, but a good solid dependable old truck.
I learned in a R600 I think. Had air start..Mack 9 speed..285 or near about and a back end that made it ride like a monster . Did forestry road repair . Loved the torquey engine .
I worked R Model final assembly chassis at 5C in 1984/5. The best job I ever had.
I still have 3. A 79 an 89 and a 21.
Amazing narration, great job
Still Mack R model being used in Iran - 🇮🇷even my father used to have one for 31 years . God bless Mack and all truck drivers . 🙏👑👑👑👑👑
Weyerhaeuser had several B model Macks with R cabs. They were purchased in 1965 all used for log trucks Snoqulamie had 5 or 6 of therm as did White River. and Pee-Ell. Looking back, they had to be at the exact time of the change over. They had the B model butterfly hood and the rounded fenders. I think they were labeled B 81s. I got to drive a R600 with a quadraplex annd a 14 yard gravel box on it. Probably the best truck I ever drove until I got my '69 KW 923. The R cab was probably the finest truck Mack ever made especially for someone who was over 5'9". The DM series was a real mistake. I drove a 72 DM 800 and went back to my old 66 R cab for the comfort and reliability.
I've looked at bulldog butts for 50 years and they never get old. But I sure am!
Great pics and video.
I'm working on one at work rite now and just so cool everything about it is just of a different time Era 😀👍
When I started out learning to drive it was a Mack B-61 with a quad transmission. That was in 1965.
I learned in a 1959 H model. That was in 1983.
@@stephenbrown571 I recall those H models as well. B
I like to tell people that back in the day for AC you let the window down and for air ride you had it when your ass left the seat. I also had pretty good size arms from the steering not being power steering. 🤣
Larry Cobb yeah I was 120 pounds. Back then 100 of it was arm’s. 🥴🥴
The 11th thing you didn't know about the Mack R model, the light and grille setup was taken from the Mack F model cabover. The F model was in production years earlier than the R model which started in 1965.
My dad had a 1967 R Model with the 673 engine and Quadraplex transmission. It had a Holmes 850 wrecker on the back. Oh, I miss that truck!
always been my favorite truck
I was just thinking the other day... What the Hell am I going to do when I can't find any R Model Mack's around for sale anymore?..... That's all I've owned and ran for over 32 years.... I still have a '69 R-686 Twin Screw Tractor than runs down the road... Best thing about Mack is mostly all of the parts Interchange... You have a truck you run and 2 or 3 in the Bone Yard out behind the Barn, you're gonna keep on trucking no matter what...
I had a boss who loved Rs h Us for his log trucks
Single stack Mack with a can on the back. Twin stick with Armstrong steering.
But I miss my 97 DM tri axle Mack the most.
One stack Mack wit a window in the back!
Love them Mack trucks. Truck that seen me to retirement. Mack 101 the rabid dog. Damn I miss that truck
In 1994, the country group "Blackhawk" released a song called "Goodbye Says It All". This song also references a "Mack" truck in the lyrics.
Have a mack r 1997. Love the thing. Set up to pull folding neck low boy trailer. " trucks that means bussiness"
Learned to drive truck in a B-68T , My families oil business had LJ Mack's way back then B-42P's , We had a 65 R-400 straight oil truck with a 475 Thermodyne , Duplex . Noisiest truck I ever drove. Tractors were B-68 and B-61ST's. I bought my First R model in 1978 R686st and another in 79. The last Mack I bought was a CH back in 1990. Have been retired and miss shifting a duplex !!
Chicken lights and Crome had a reference to Mack trucks as well
Hola buenos videos desde panamá city un saludo ala distancia
Woof woof 👌🏻
I love the B61 Ma k tractors, but it's hard for me to sit behind the steering wheel anymore! 😂😂😂
No mention of the legendary Convoy Movie, featuring a 1970 Mack RS700 with a doghouse!!!
Mack r model is my favorite truck!
IIRC, in the 70s/early 80s, the 300+ was rated at 300 horse. It had the silver dog. Many called the 285 a "300" but had the gold dog. That's how you could tell the difference.
In the review of the songs is forgotten the song, Phantom 309
I agree how could you forget about Big Joe, and where would you get that dime for coffee, ...he said here have another and forget about the dime keep it as a souvenir of Big Joe and Phantom 309!!!
@@michaelcerkez3895 is 1 of my favorites and don't forget teddy bear song and katty mathea with 18 wheels and dozen roses
Forgot one popular old song. Red Sovine Phantom 309. "This old Mack can put them all to shame"
Don't forget the song "chicken lights and chrome" by Jesse Watson.
love these old macks ! i got a few videos up on my channel of mine
No matter what color the were painted they always look good
My dad had a 1965 U-600. 1965 was the first year of the U model
The R model and the DM. Best trucks ever built. Oh yea watch your pinky on that vent window,hurts like hell!
I Learned on a Triplex MACK back in the 80'S, and a Duplex Mack tractor, if you can driver them you drive anything !😁 Now the trucks can pretty muck drive themselves ! and now they have automatics & the 18 speed transmissions took over the grilled & duplex transmission which made it much easier to drive. What would the New school drivers have done if they had to drive them for a living Now !😶😶😶 They would be lost. I know , because I drove everything out there. Don't get me wrong, I Love the air ride instead of spring ride and the 18 speed, But I still Lover the R model Macks, Once in awhile !😁😁
My grandpa used to drive a U model carrying tractor 🚜 and implements
The U model was offset to make it a great city delivery/pick up type truck. With the cab offset it was easier watch the trailer as you were backing.
The RL meant it had an aluminum frame to save weight , the RS was a steel frame.
The high torque low RPM engines were advertised as coming out in 1967, I drove a 1966 R model that had the new engine, and talked to a few others that said they also drove a 66, that had the new engine as well. The one I drove had the 237 horsepower, and I could run circles around a 250 Cummins, and 238 Detroit.
Got to admit, nothing sounds like the old 2 stroke Detroit's .
I learned to drive in a 15 speed R Mack
I remember the one from the movie convoy that was a cool truck
Bring back the R .
I'm no fan of Mack trucks but if I were to ever buy one it would be a R model. Can thank the movie Convoy for that.
Looks like a few of my pictures made it into your video