A couple of months ago, I made the 853 mile journey down to Rome, Georgia to meet Anthony Fox, owner of the original Mack RS700L from my favourite movie of all time Convoy. I must have seen this movie over a thousand times. My dad taped it off the telly on VHS when I was a kid and I have been hooked ever since! The opening scene and compositions where the truck comes over the hill in the beautiful White Sands National Park in New Mexico and the dubbed growl of the Mack "Tip Turbine" turbocharged inline 6 cylinder diesel had me enamoured with the desert and 18 wheelers ever since! Convoy is the greatest movie ever made - a movie to live your life by. Long live Sam Peckinpah!
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