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Last one for tonight and it's from Graham Kircher who has sent this selection to me and sorry for dragging my heels mate! The first up is this yellow Bulldog and Graham says: "Still working for a living! This Mack Flintstone LHD Dumper was on display at the HCVAQ truck show 2009 .How Many of these found they way to the land down under one asks!" And click through here for a cornucopia of classic iron!
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Graham continues: "1949/50 Morris PV light truck with Australian-made cab---one of 200 produced, could pass as a mini Foden? I know of two remaining and rare as rocking horse poo..."
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"Driving around in my local area came across these little beauties a Euclid Dumper and the front end of a White truck bus,it was free to a good home or was off to China....but luckily someone fell in love with it and is now being restored, I love happy endings..."
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And to finish...
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I thought the tag 'Flintstone' was coined for Australian R-model Macks that were fitted with fixed steel front guards and butterfly bonnets...
The Mack is one of six that were delivered to Bell Bros West Oz,We ended up with five of them hauling river gravel fairly well worn at the time, they where replaced with larger off highway Wabco rear dumps. Two had five speed and three with 4 by 4 Quad box and P 673 diesels, the Hyd wedge brakes needed a lot of attention and cab rust chased us as well.
They where bought in groups from our business by dealers and maybe only one or two remain today.
Digging OZ outta debt
Ray Jay
Graham,
That yellow Mack is not a Flintstone (R-600), it's a DM800 (a American construction model) - the 8 part in the 800 bit is because it has the 375hp Thermodyne V8 engine in it!
There is also a DM600 with a 6 cylinder engine in it!
Joe
Geez the reply/comments reach me by email before they go on here which is frustrating... what's with that??
There is a lot of misinformation here...
That's not a Flintstone and Joe the '8' part of 800 doesn't signify a 375hp Thermodyne... You'll find the '97' after the '8' i.e. as in '897' does and is correct.
Here's some references to substantiate:
http://images30.fotki.com/v42/file8YTl/91109/1/117425/460059/MackDM197711.jpg
http://images30.fotki.com/v43/file3iOB/91109/1/117425/460059/MackDM197704.jpg
Robert,
If you refer to this post, of which the photos in it are mine:
http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2009/01/the-flinstones-biglorryblog-ce.html
you will see the DM's bonnet!
Joe
Joe, that link is to an R600 Flintstone not a DM (I'm banging my head against a wall...)
Wow Pretty sure those where DM600 (Dumper Mixer) can be ordered with steel or plastic front. R series cab is centered and the feature of the DM was off set 13 inches to allow better on side vison, all of the Mack DM's we owned where direct US imports and left hand drive, none had the twin air filters shown here and konwing how Mack brake engine blocks the factory lump would be long consigned to scrap.
Remember old truck are fun guys
Digging Oz outta debt
Ray Jay Mack who Atkinson the Knight of the road and off road too
Hi, I think any of those Steel Fronted Mack Trucks are 'Flinstone'. Or is it 'Flintstone'? I generally refer to them as a 'Steel Fronted' Mack. Whether it be a military RM6866R, a run of the mill S/F R600, a DM800 or a S/Fronted DM600. 800 refers to the vehicles weight ratings. If it were as Joe said, there would'nt have been any V8 R600's. Regards Jeff
The yellow Mack at the top of this thread is a DM800, it has had its cab or another cab centred on the chassis, this basically turns it into an R800. I think it was originally a DM811SX, i.e. ENDT673C and Quad trans. DM800's only came with steel front. DM600's had steel or f/glass.