You’re looking at it.
Renault bought into both Mack Trucks and AMC in 1979. And the Eagle arrived in 1980. So maybe it’s a coincidence, or maybe not?
And I just noticed a couple of interlopers from the new equity owner, hiding in the bottom.
Renault 5s. How appropriate!
Easy answer; an Independent trucker.
With a Sleeper no less!
Somehow it seems appropriate that a truck full of AMCs is photographed outside a Piggly King supermarket. I’m not quite sure how Piggly King fit into Piggly Wiggly’s store branding, but it doesn’t quite matter to me — I’ve always thought of Piggly Wiggly as being the Independent of the supermarket world.
Talk about a rare bird, the 2 door Eagle sedan had less than 5,000 sales after their first year. As they were cancelled for 1983. It looks angelic here in all white. The Eagles will likely all get the familiar Noryl wheel covers.
I liked the subdued light khaki green corporate colour of the Convoy company trucks you featured earlier. They appeared to use that khaki green for years. It de-emphasized the truck and trailer, making it easier to appreciate the load of cars. Many of these later car carrier companies seemed to like garish colours.
I was focusing on that 2 door sedan when I thought I saw another one directly behind it.
Two rare birds!?
Shouldn’t that truck be an International Transtar Eagle?
A Brougham truck – the mind boggles… Wood on the dash is a given, but maybe a vinyl roof? Opera windows in the sleeper? Loose pillow upholstery including the sleeper? The graphics look more Trans Am than Brough Am though.
Take a look at a Diamond Reo Raider!
Renault + Mack seemed like an odd pairing, until I thought back to how they looked in 1920. Identical twins, separated for 60 years, finally reunited.
The Mack brothers’ forefathers were Huguenots, so from France.
Anyway, here’s a more recent Renault with a Mack V8.
So would the Alliances and Encores go on a Mack Mid-Liner with an actual Renault (or “Club of Four”) cab?
As a cabover it looked distinctly fresher than the ancient Ford C-Series, GM 72″ Steel Tilt and IH CO Loadstars that made up the bulk of medium-duty cabovers in America circa 1980.
The conventional-cab adaptation just looked odd; adapted pickup cabs were and to some extent still are the norm, even the IH S-series kept most of the proportions of one albeit squared up to absolute 8-bit cubist flatness.
Here you go!!
I remember thinking around 1982 that if AMC/Jeep had any money (they did have a little, but were wisely spending it on the XJ Cherokee) they could redesign the old Gladiator/J10/J20 full size truck into something contemporary and perhaps call it a Mack pickup, capitalizing on their corporate sibling.
Mack actually built pickups for a few years in the late ‘30’s. Here’s an article from How Stuff Works:
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1937-1938-mack-jr-half-ton-pickup.htm