Marmon Trucks

Just too bad there isn't many of them around anymore. There's an old completely restored Hayes HD and a restored Pacific for sale down on the coast. Guy wants $55k US each. Probably works out to about $70k Cdn. Probably gonna do a Hayes or Pacific if I can find one when my KW is finished.

 

Jerry hammen transportation of cohasset minn ran marmons in the late 80s ...smithway swallowed em up years ago and then Western out of Nashville bought smithway .

 

East Penn use to have a sizeable fleet of them. They still have a few in there yard supposedly for sale. There are still a number of them in the area. I see a nice blue one running up and down 87 all the time pulling a Thomas English muffin trailer. Around 5 years ago this old cabover was sitting on a farm not far from my house. I stopped by a couple times but the guy wasn't home. Ran into him afterwards at an ATHS show but he had just sold it dirt cheap.

 

Brockway was owned by Mack for many years.

For years there was infighting between Mack and it's Brockway subsidiary. Sometime around the mid to late '70s the main Brockway plant went on strike. That put the nail in the coffin of Brockway. At that time, Brockway had a new "western" truck in development, it became the Mack Superliner.

 

I know where there is one that was converted to a wrecker,
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.206...4!1sEOLn6f-1a5nJ55spvkogBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Ok that was the trippiest thing I've ever seen. Google street view on my phone works like I was standing there in person. Full 360 degree view just by moving my phone around.

 

It was said: If you were not man enough to open that big Marmon hood, you were not man enough to drive a Marmon,

 

I recall Brockways, Autocars, Marmons, Diamond Reo etc etc etc etc.

Forget Heaven and promises, put these things back on the road one more time.

You younger generation do not know what you have been missing.

 

I'd like another chance to take an old Freightliner cabover for a spin, even though I don't have very fond memories of bobtailing a spring ride 1979 FLA86 from Chicago to Salt Lake City. That truck beat the ever-living-hell out of me. I wanted to leave it on the side of the road and just walk about halfway there.