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Passion for old truck * Canada - How the Mack came back
Ontario man with a passion for old trucks spent a decade lovingly restoring a ravaged icon of heavy hauling
Toronto,ONT,CAN -The Globe & Mail, by BOB ENGLISH -July 3, 2009: -- The 1935 Mack BM truck owned by Garry Mack spent its early hard-working years hauling gasoline to Toronto service stations for the British American Oil Co., and was then employed by Canadian Pacific Railways in Western Canada. It was saved from a likely fate on the scrapheap by one truck enthusiast, then reconceived and immaculately reborn in the hands of another... It's always amazed me how the minds of old-vehicle enthusiasts function. It's hard to imagine how their mind's eye can take the reality of something like the derelict old Mack workhorse that was found decaying in a CP warehouse that was being torn down in Calgary and envision it becoming a fully restored reminder of a bygone era...
Mack did virtually all the work on the truck himself, with a little help here and there from friends McBride and Milt Fredsburgh. The paint was donated by DuPont, which Mack had spent 35 years working for before retiring seven years ago... As trucks were usually painted in company livery, originality didn't matter and this Mack's colour scheme was chosen to make it unique. Mack says on visits to truck shows he'd overlook the field from a high point and soon determined most were painted red, black, grey or green. "I wanted something that would make it stand out," he says... And the two-tone blue Mack certainly does, but not just for its paint scheme or even Mack's painstaking restoration efforts - its one of only about a dozen survivors of its type and one of only three in Canada... (Pictures by Vob English / Globe & Mail - This 1935 Mack BM, sporting a unique two-tone blue colour scheme, is one of only about a dozen survivors. An Ontario man with a passion for old trucks spent a decade lovingly restoring a ravaged icon of heavy hauling)Labels: older trucks
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