1985 Mack Super-Liner II "Magnum"
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Topic: 1985 Mack Super-Liner II "Magnum"
Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: 1985 Mack Super-Liner II "Magnum"
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 5:11pm
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Tuesday_25-February-2025 1985 http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Super-Liner" rel="nofollow - One of 186. Thumb-tacked to the office wall at Jones Transport.  - --- -  |
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Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 7:48pm
 Long time ago but I think it was 1989. That was I think a 1989 Superliner with 21 ft box. That is myself with the truck. Drove it for about 6 weeks. Truck was almost brand new - had about 20,000 km on it when I got in it. 😀😀
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Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 7:56pm
| What did the “II magnum” designate? Motor size maybe? The one in my pic was a Mack 350 with 8 sp transmission. |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 8:36pm
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The "Magnum" series of trucks had the Mack 998ci V8 engine rated at 500hp.
The "Superliner" series I had round headlamps and the steering gearbox was axle mounted. "Superline II" had rectangular headlamps the steering gear frame mounted. 1985 was the changeover year between the two series. 1985, or 1986 brought the galvanized cab structure, and dark metallic gray interior color as standard. ------------- That's All Folks! |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 9:23pm
Thanks for posting your truck photo. Like said, the "II" was the second edition Super-Liner. Your truck, by being a 1989, is a Super-Liner II. The "Magnum" was a special appearance package to introduce the debut of the "II" edition; only 186 "Magnums" were made. They also at the same time painted 64 Cruise-Liners in the Magnum scheme to make a total of 250 Magnums in all. Lots of good information if you click the link above.
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Ed (Ont) wrote:Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 9:35pm
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In the early 1980s, I drove a Super-Liner that was all Mack w/5-speed, hauling crude-oil out of some extremely rough territory, rough enough that the truck had a rocking cradle fifth-wheel that would allow the trailer wheels to be on one side of the creek bank while the truck wheels were on the other and not flip the whole works onto it's side. Most of the time, the bed of a creek was the road. A couple big chain-saws were an absolute necessity.
You had to remember to un-pin the cradle when leaving the road and be sure to re-pin it when returning to the road. When I first started driving the truck, I thought it was thirty years old; come to find out it was one of the newest in the fleet and maybe six months old. Always at night in the dark, we put those trucks/trailers in some unbelievable places; I guess if it had been daylight and we could have seen what we were doing, we might have lost our nerve. |