My name's Ron Wilson I'm out here at the Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, this is about
my 5th year coming out, I really like coming out here there's just a variety of everything
you can see from cars to trucks to just ratrods and it's just great.
Yeah I usually come out with a buddy of mine, he's got a 53 Chevrolet and his daddy's got
a panel truck so it's just a good time coming out, you know hang out with everybody, listen
to the stories, you know people talk about so just a real good time.
Well this is a 64 Mack, it's a B model 61, had the truck about 2 years, took me about
a year to restore it, a lot of al weekend from Friday to Sunday, a lot of grinding and
sanding, it's just a good time, it was all there, original truck, still has the thermodyne
engine in it which is a Mack motor, it's a duplex which is more or less a high and a
low.
It was actually a yard truck, come out of up in Indiana, done got a pretty good steal
on it I think, didn't give a whole lot for it, but it's all original.
You hear a lot of the guys, you know their up in their 50's and 60's, their dad's you
know run these trucks years ago and when I was a kid I grew up, my cousin you know he
drove a tanker truck and I can remember it wasn't a B model but it was an R model, the
series after this, and I could always remember just barely seeing over the dash and you know
you could see that big bulldog out there and everything's shaking because these old trucks
still shake and that's just one reason why I done it, a lot of the older guys will come
up, you know "my dad run one of these" or "I drove one of these" and you had to be pretty
tough years ago to drive one of them, it's a real truck.
You're looking maybe, 5-6 mile to the gallon, but you know, if your gonna play you got to
pay.
You got to have chrome when you got a big truck, bad thing about it, I spent about as
much on exhaust as I give on the whole truck, but you got to have the chrome stacks, and
you got to have dual stacks, so I mean there's an old saying, you know, "I got a double stack
Mack with a window in the back", you got to have it.
There's a few things on it that actually, you know it's after market chrome strips that's
on you know, newer model cars, but where I put it, it looks original.
You got to have the chrome that's really about the only thing I went overboard on, and didn't
go too far.
Looking to do about a 20 foot lil ole' boy trailer, haul some tractors with it, go to
some tractor shows.
We have a club in Warren County, which is the local antique tractor club, with several
members so that's my future, what I'm wanting to do.
Well I actually work for a local distributor here in Bowling Green, been in business for
over 100 years, it's family owned, I work for Coca-Cola.
We handle Coke products and beer products, we have all the Miller/Coors brands, really
good company to work for, nice people.
Got AC on it?
Oh yeah yeah!
when you get up to about 55 mile an hour and roll the windows down, it blows in cold air
so, at 55 that's about it.
I graduated in 88 from school here locally in Warren county and about my Sophomore year
I got a nickname Tator, so some people call me Tator some call me Tator Ron, a lot of
people don't even know my name.