{"id":3917,"date":"2013-10-01T18:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T22:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2013-10-01T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T22:09:56","slug":"old-macks-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2013\/10\/old-time-trucks\/old-macks-never-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Macks Never Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OctOTTpic\"<\/a>The saying, \u201cOld Macks never die, they just rust away,\u201d might have been a true description of this 1959 Mack B-61 if Cam Hiltz of Queensville, Ontario, Canada hadn\u2019t intervened.\u00a0 Originally, the Mack was a Texas truck that hauled groceries from Phoenix to Dallas.\u00a0 As a kid, Cam worked for Mel\u2019s Express out of Bradford, Ontario, washing trucks and helping out in general.\u00a0 Later, he drove for Mel\u2019s Express for about ten years.\u00a0 Mack\u2019s history as a truck manufacturer in the U.S. is pretty well-known, but in Canada, not so much.\u00a0 By 1911, Mack had become one of the largest builders of heavy-duty motor trucks in the U.S., and in 1912 the Fairbanks-Morse Co. of Montreal became Mack\u2019s first Canadian sales agent.\u00a0 In 1921, Mack established the first official Mack-owned sales outlet in downtown Toronto, and by the 1960s, Mack was building trucks in Canada.\u00a0 Although Mack no longer builds trucks in Canada, the company still has 40 distributors and 63 service centers there.\u00a0 When Cam bought this B-61, he decided to restore it to resemble one of the Mel\u2019s Express trucks he\u2019d admired.\u00a0 Performing a full body-off restoration, Cam painted the Mack in Mel\u2019s two-tone green color scheme and added a lift axle.\u00a0 The single-axle Mack with a tag axle is equipped with an integral sleeper, a 673 turbo engine, and a 5×3 Triplex transmission.\u00a0 Now, the hardest work this old Mack has to do is pose for cameras at truck shows!\u00a0 To see more \u201cweird and wonderful\u201d old trucks, visit www.oldtimetrucks.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The saying, \u201cOld Macks never die, they just rust away,\u201d might have been a true description of this 1959 Mack B-61 if Cam Hiltz of Queensville, Ontario, Canada hadn\u2019t intervened.\u00a0 Originally, the Mack was a Texas truck that hauled groceries from Phoenix to Dallas.\u00a0 As a kid, Cam worked for Mel\u2019s Express out of Bradford,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-old-time-trucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}