A new chassis, heavier axles, and more rigid frame marked the 1937 Mack Jr as a serious truck built to Mack standards. Mack revised the 1937 Mack Jr, replacing the 4,500-pound 1M pickup with a 5,000-pound 2M with a special axle, it could even take an extra 500 pounds of cargo. The program worked: Mack registrations increased from 1,515 in 1935 to 4,226 in 1936, with the Jr accounting for 2,343.
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This was light compared to the "real" Macks, which started at 18,000 pounds.Įight model choices ranged from pickup and panel truck to a school-bus chassis. The Mack Jr debuted for 1936 in 1/2-ton to 3-ton ratings (gross vehicle weights of 4500 to 14,500 pounds). Hoping to improve sales during a lean period, Mack arranged with truck builder Reo to sell slightly disguised Reo light-duty trucks with Mack badging. (The model name was never spelled out, or given a period.) Mack used the slogan in advertisements for many years especially when they produced buses: 'The first Mack was a bus and the first bus was a Mack. But only truck historians may realized the Allentown, Pennsylvania, company also once built a "personal Mack," the Mack Jr in a size that would fit most every garage. To view this listing on, see Pick of the Day.Mack's heavy-duty trucks are synonymous with big-rig toughness. The 1923 Mack AB truck on offer is located in North Phoenix, Arizona. The plates showed a bull dog wearing the word “Mack” on its collar was illustrated chewing on a book titled Hauling Costs. Mack first used the Bulldog as its corporate emblem in 1921 with a metal plate riveted to each side of each truck’s cabin.
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They also built rail cars and locomotives until 1930.Īmong innovations the Mack brothers introduced were Gus Mack’s constant mesh system that protected gears from being damaged by inexperienced drivers, and Jack Mack’s selective feature that enabled drivers to shift from high to low and vice versa without going through all the intermedia speeds.īecause of their design and tenacious qualities, British soldiers nicknamed the Mack AC model trucks they used in World War I as the Bulldog Macks. Around 1905, however, they moved the business to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and began building trucks under the Manhattan brand name until 1911, when they applied their family name to their trucks.
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They produced “Manhattan” vehicles seating 10 to 30 people in wagonette, tonneau or tally-ho styles. The Mack Brothers Company experimented with electric- and steam-powered motorcars, and unveiled a 17-seat “big car” at Madison Square Garden. A year later, another brother, William, who had his own wagon-building business in Scranton, Pennsylvania, joined his brothers in Brooklyn. John “Jack” Mack went to work for carriage maker Fallesen & Berry in Brooklyn, New York, in 1890, and three years later he and his brother, Augustus, bought the company. Starts on first crank and drives,” the seller notes.
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The seller adds that the truck has a rust-free body and uncut frame and that it runs and drives. There’s a video in the advertisement that shows the engine running.
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“I had to buy the truck and get it running.” “I grew up working in a Mack truck dealership,” the seller says. So what truck is the Pick of the Day? It’s a 1923 Mack Model AB with a C-style cab. Although the private seller of the Pick of the Day is asking $111,000 in the vehicle’s advertisement on, that seller admits it is “tough to price the truck so I am accepting realistic offers and serious inquiries.”