10 Things You Didn't Know About Mack Cabovers

Hello and Happy Hump Day Jack's Chrome Shop Fam!! Today we have another new 10 Things You Didn't Know About... video, featuring a few fun facts about Mack's cult-classic cabover engines. Let's jump right into episode #18, folks! Enjoy!
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[@paulobrien7209]

Cruiseliner was the most beautiful truck ever made...now after 46 years of waiting i got one 2 weeks ago...im in 7th heaven.pure class

[@davidroberts6594]

Surprised it wasn't mentioned the later cabs, mh613 had the mack E9-500 v8 as an option, that's 500hp back in the 80's, impressive even by today's standards.

[@aaroncone6778]

When it comes to Mack cabovers, no one can ever forget the iconic F-model variant, the CF-model fire truck. Each one was custom built to its customers needs.

[@captainredneck0683]

I find it very interesting that you left out one very important fact. The postal service has a huge contract with Mack. it's one of the reasons that Mac actually continue to make a cabover for as long as it has.

[@user-bh2fq8in6h]

Thanks for the great video. Bring back good memories when I work on OTR truck as a mechanic 🧰🧰🔧🔧👍👍💯💯🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@shawnmcintosh1574]

There is NO feelin' Like Bulldog mobilin'!!! Truck it up.

[@CaptainCrutch]

Another fun fact for you, Mack made the now ultra rare W-71 cabover truck at the same time as the H model. The H model was considered a cabover companion to the standard L model, but the W-71 was the cabover companion to the famous lightweight western LTL model conventional tractor. All sported a Cummins motor and 5x3 dual stick transmission. Their best feature was the low doghouse, thanks to the spread frame rails allowing the engine to sink lower between them, and the doghouse could entirely be removed for ease of maintenance due to the cab not tilting. Only around 10 W-71s are known to still exist. It’s so rare even the Mack museum doesn’t have one! A very rare and very cool old Mack COE, and one of my all time favorites!

[@mylesdempsey5510]

Jack chrome shop should do a episode of the Mack E9 v8 engine

[@kman-mi7su]

Actually, in the movie "CONVOY", that was a Cruisliner. However, the truck used for the scene at the jail when they ran it thru the jailhouse, was a Kenworth K100 modified for that stunt scene. At the time, the Pigpen's Cruiseliner was actually owned by a local trucking company named Bruhn brothers and was not to be wrecked as it was put back to work after the movie. Work didn't last long though, one of the Bruhn brothers drivers wrecked it by laying it on its side and doing major damage to the cab if I remember correctly.

[@RubberTheRedneck]

I like how people say they're facts but they aren't and they get corrected in the comments 😂

[@andrewking4885]

@@RubberTheRedneck Zack rhymes with Mack. Yes sounds like bullshit to me.

[@johngparker6494]

Thank you for a lot of these truck history thank you for all of these history on truck I have been enjoy this you are doing a good job this thank you and I will talk to you later bye-bye

[@fatlarry1184]

First OTR job out of Fla. in 1974...... "64 F model 6-71 (I think)...no power steering, no radio, no hydraulic cab tilt, just pure arm muscle!

[@stephenbrown571]

Fatlarry mine was a 59 H model wrecker out of jacksonville Florida

[@brucewinningham4959]

Mattie, You have an Awesome voice. I Love it! 💕

[@tomtbi]

#11.. Brockway Cabovers used a Mack F Cabover Cab in the 60s and 70s..

[@kevinrichards3288]

I bet cabovers were the king of the roads here in the USA back in the day when the length limit was shorter.

[@kman-mi7su]

Years ago, I worked for a guy who had several trucks leased to RPS aka Roadway Package System. He had an Ultraliner with the E9 V8 500hp in it. I was assigned a 1987 Single Axle sleeper Freightliner with a 310hp Cat. He used to blow my doors off like I was in reverse. Him and his most senior guy who had a Freighliner conventional with a 425 Cat would laugh and pass me.

[@gary4447]

Never drove for a living, but spent many hours on the greasy side of "F" and "MH" model Mack cabovers. Maxidyne engine coupled to a Maxi-torque transmission hard combo to beat for getting the work done.

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

It's funny, we had an FR700 in Australia with a 320 coolpower 13spd with mack camel back on mack 44s and it had parabolic front springs and it was good to ride in once we made the cab suspension solid otherwise it would whip you like a dog

[@u686st7]

MHs were built through 1993 for domestic use and through at least 1998 for export. They were shipped to Australia and New Zealand in kit form and at least Israel and Chile built up. Mack considered bringing the Renault Magnum (which offered a Mack E9 V8 as an engine option) to the US, but it required too many changes to make it suitable for the US. One was brought to the US. It was never put on the road and AFAIK is still at the Hagerstown plant, shipping marks still taped to the windshield. Magnums were sold with Mack badging in Australia.

[@bertgrau9246]

I never drove a cabover Mack before, but a few R, and Superliner . I liked Mack trucks I started out on a 66, R model, 237, and Mack quardaplex transmission. The last Mack I drove was a CH model actually a good truck E7 engine 350 horsepower. It was a 1997 year model .

[@williamwilson8062]

I use to build the cabs for Mack in Kings Mountain, NC

[@nicholasp9041]

Cool. 👍

[@josephromano6825]

Mack makes good work trucks. They get the job done. The cruise liner was a nice truck!

[@stefankassbohrer2765]

Burt Young sure would agree you :-)

[@bush600r2]

They certainly did back then, not so sure about now though. They basically a Volvo now.

[@mattt198654321]

Every time she says "cult classic" or "fan favorite", take a shot!

[@357bullfrog2]

If you do you'll be commode hugging drunk by the end If the video lol

[@jessiemac100]

I don't want liver failure

[@jimbo8v92]

You guys have some of the best truck/trucking videos out there...would be awsome to see something on the turbine powered rigs from back in the day.

[@brucewinningham4959]

JimBo8v92, Awesome! I didn't Mack built any of these. What year(s) please?

[@jmo6889]

ok this is like history channel for trucks . nice

[@justinrayguitars6024]

I like the photo of Joe Mustang's H model. I have some pics of me and Joe with the truck from around 1989. That was a working truck as well as a head turner. He hauled all around the southwest. Great guy!

[@SK-tr9ii]

I saw his truck in Wheels of Time magazine...awesome truck!

[@mechanicalpirate664]

A close friend who passed away some time ago had a mack fs 700 cool truck 13 speed fuller and a 318 Detroit diesel I replaced the clutch on it along with other stuff great truck

[@neilmactavish4423]

Great video. My dad drove an F Model for Freeport Transport in the early 70's. He said it was a great truck and said he would have liked an F model with a West Coast grille like the one at was at 2:10. He bought K100 VIT in 1981 and that's when I got the trucking bug. At 3:08 is a grey cherry picker pulling a flat bed. I was hauling produce in the early 90's and saw that truck at the old 76 T/S in Fredericksburg, VA. It was across the parking and I should have went over and talked to the owner. A few years later I an interview of the owner. He bought that truck new in the early sixties and drove it until he retired 40 plus years later. He was a bit of a legend out on the west coast.

[@colinlawrence2186]

One more awesome video thank you for sharing this piece of history with us i for one really appreciated all hard work and research you put in to make these videos 🙋‍♂️🇬🇧

[@mikewysko2268]

That was fun.☺ Well done!

[@jasonconklin8172]

Mack and IHC IN THE 60 S N 70 S WERE MOST OF TRUCKS FOR CRAFT FOODS MY GRANDPA WAS THE FLEET MANAGER BOUGHT 1 OR OTHER central pre mix ran exclusively mack trucks in n idaho 4 mixer truck dump trucks !

[@kevinlandess3656]

The cruise liner was a great looking truck to me All COE were Cool

[@JohnHay06]

The Australian F model was named FR as it was easier for The F model Cab to be mounted to an R model Chassis that was already being manufactured in Australia.This saved manufacturing two different chassis. Later FR models had a design change in the Model Badge that made people think that the model was FIR700 and the I stood for Intercooled as it corresponded to newly available Coolpower Engine which featured an air to air intercooler that was driven by a tip fan off the turbo boost pressure. In fact, the I was simply a divider in the bad border between the F and R.

[@oonioomphs9440]

These videos are aewesome!

[@mikeservais888]

Thanks Maddie you do a good job on these videos nice voice and good videos!!!

[@jasonconklin8172]

She does way better than the guys who run thru the verbal way 2 fast on programs!

[@stuartrussell8529]

Best videos going in my opinion! From the UK.

[@kevinrichards3288]

#10 Those models are the only Mack cabovers I see around now these days.

[@92camarodragcar73]

Mack N model are rare

[@bertgrau9246]

tappered front springs made for a much smoother ride! Right and if think that you've never driven a Cabover truck

[@blackscotydog]

Small refer outfit I worked for in the late 80s and 90s had f mod and later changed over to MH ultra liners. the MH `s were real nice for cabovers.good times , I now work in a factory. They also had a 1961 b 61 wrecker since I worked in the shop drove it quite a bit.

[@robertclark4929]

Evil Knievels haul rig was a custom Mack cabover.

[@jhatchit]

Nice Video

[@thecausalgamer7916]

My dad works for republic waste he drives a 2010 mack MRU front loader

[@357bullfrog2]

Cruise liner was the best looking. Ultra liner was sort of ugly I think with the lights down low in the bumper

[@mattt198654321]

Happy Friday? Very optimistic :)

[@timsweet3224]

when i was a kid ? my brother worked for a tire company an he phoned me up (house phone then ),sayin he was changin tyres on a mack so i got on my bike road about five miles an got driven around in a mack yes baaaby that was cool not very much macks in britain .late 70s .

[@johnboggs9120]

Could you do a 10 facts on ford cabovers

[@MikeWooshy]

That first photo has to be taken in the UK....

[@SchnelleKat]

Mack cabovers just like Fords are sooooo underrated... sadly.

[@92camarodragcar73]

Fun fact look up a 58 ford c800 and a mack model N

[@cabovercody4314]

#10. Those are actually classified as " tilt cab trucks." As the cab is tilted forward for engine access. This is a very big misconception among the trucking/ manufacturing industry. They are technically not classified as cabovers because the cab itself does not sit directly over the engine. The engine is house slightly back behind the cab. Most people dont understand this confusing misconception. Not saying youre wrong or anything. Just kinda bothers me that people consider garbage trucks, tilt cabs, Isuzu's, old 50's pickups as cabovers.

[@abpsd73]

What about the model N?

[@Tiger351]

The R series Mack was always far more popular here in Australia than the FR/Cruiseliner/Ultraliner and the cabover variants are very rare now. The Renault derived Magnum model was reasonably popular over here in the 90's but was outsold by the K104, Argosy and Volvo FH, we've pretty much gone the same way as Europe now as far as fleet vehicles are concerned and there's far more cabovers than conventionals now.

[@kman-mi7su]

Here in the US, F models, Cruisliners, Ultraliners, are hard to find these days. The salted roads due to snow in many parts of the US, rotted them and other model cabovers that had steel bodies into dust. A lot of the vintage cabover you see here are the lightweight models with aluminum bodies instead of steel. And then you also had to worry about frame rot too.

[@robertknupp3456]

It's been said that a Mack will kill a driver before a driver kills a Mack

[@gregphillips9670]

No mention of newest cabover, the LR, or the all electric trucks Mack has built and to run in NYC.

[@cdl9239]

Ups had plenty of f model dad had one roughest riding truck mack built I was on KZbin looking for a cruise liner mack with the 500 I never recalled see or it's just me

[@MikeWooshy]

No mention of the Mack Magnum....

[@timsweet3224]

but that cab over isnt on this ?

[@turkwelsch]

Weren’t the Mac Cabover is also known as interstaters?

[@timsweet3224]

oop my bad yup it twas the f786type yarp .

[@mccrackenphillip]

I read the G75 was a rare truck

[@SchnelleKat]

Yup only around 2000 ever made

[@briancapps9344]

these things were workmen comp claims wating to happen. knew several guys that fell trying to get out of cab

[@kman-mi7su]

I knew guys who fell out of KWs, Shakers, Fords, Internationals as well. I used to work for a guy years back who had 3 cabovers and 2 conventional leased on to RPS aka Roadway Package System and I witnessed him on a rainy day slip and fall getting out of his Freightliner cabover. He cracked his head on the side of the truck going down and we had to call EMS. I think he saw birds twirling around his head like in the old cartoons! LOL!

[@glennso47]

Brian Capps I fell out of a Chevy 15 passenger van. They were so high up and I didn’t realize how high they were

[@glennso47]

The VA had one for transportation of veterans to the VA hospital in Madison Wisconsin. They usually had a step stool to help us enter and leave the van. When I went to get out of the van, the driver and I thought I wouldn’t need help with it but I slipped and fell on the pavement because the last step was so high and the pavement was icy. Since then, I have always asked for the step stool to help me with getting in or out of the vehicle.

[@brettknoss486]

If mack had hydraulics, why not make the cab slide instead if tip?

[@RubberTheRedneck]

That wouldn't be able to be done

[@bertgrau9246]

All cabovers were tilt. just an easier design

[@robertclark4929]

Why dont you ever see Mack's as long haul trucks?

[@bertgrau9246]

ABF uses a lot of Mack trucks for over the road use. Tyson Foods used a lot after they bought out HUDSON foods that was in 1997

[@jasonconklin8172]

I BELIVE Volvo bought em

[@user-bh2fq8in6h]

Yes Volvo did buy out Mack truck 🚒🚒

[@deadaccount9826]

Smexy Cruise-Liner

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Wrong the 1st ones where the model then the g model. Then the f model. Then the criuseliner.to the ultra liner The 2nd was the h model.why do you have conventional s when it's about cabovers.

[@sc0or]

UltraLiner was copied by Soviets almost 1:1 ))

[@donaldbartram6315]

They copy everything

[@glennso47]

sc0or MAN trucks made in Germany look like them.

[@u686st7]

The MH has a bit of a Scania look to it. (Look up the Scania LK) Mack and Scania cooperated on a lot of things between the 1950s and 1980s.

[@crizcriz103customz]

The new LE interior has no room. Horrible design