See you learn something new everyday. I did not know they used a R model cab for a short time.
When did Mack close the factory (maybe mid seventies?)
Cheers Martin
Yeah, I'm not sure of the exact year Martin, but I'm almost 100% sure the last Brockway was built in late 1976, or 1977 being the very last of them before they shut down. If I were home now (on laptop in truck, 110 miles away still,) I'd research that. The guy I am referring to with all the Brockways in upstate NY knows everything about them, from serial numbers to all kinds of statistics on them. He's a walking micro fiche for parts too.
Steve...when you're caught up and wanted to make that trip up to visit the Brockway collection, and you have anybody else that would want to ride along...I can call Clarence (owner) and make the arrangements to go see him and the whole deal any time you're ready to. I love stopping in there myself periodically to visit, and Clarence enjoys the company as well.
The very first time I ever met him was on a truck hunt in his area. We stumbled across his yard and stopped in unannounced, 3 of us dummies in an old junk Volvo 4 door car that only 3 doors opened. Clarence dropped what he was doing, we threw him into the back seat with me, and he brought us all over his area showing us different farms and locations where he had trucks stored before he put this new building up last year. I had to keep letting him out my door every time we stopped someplace, lol. He loved the time spent doing that as much as we did that day, great guy to be around. Saw him recently in Ballston Spa, NY at the ATHS antique truck show there with a beautiful late model Brockway with a 3406B Caterpillar, Mack cab series tractor.