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Here's the "Titan" "brother" of the Chevy medium tractor I posted last week.
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2734/...8e9d87ee_b.jpgChevrolet TITAN 90 SS by PAcarhauler, on Flickr

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Love that truck. That paint is the reverse of the classic green with black
That's a handsome big Chevy

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Wow, what a great truck, 6-71 ta boot, Simply awesome.

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Yeah, that is a pretty awesome truck.

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Went back and looked closely at this truck. I think it might be an MH-9501, not the standard 9500. The 9501 was a special lightweight 'western' style long conventional (think Peterbilt 359). The 9501's usually came with Alcoa wheels, lot of other aluminum parts like fuel tanks, ect., and a 318 horse 8V-71/Roadranger. One other feature the 9501's often had was a 3 trumpet Grover air horn. Take a close look at the horn on this one.

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Yeah, those Triple Factory Horns are pretty interesting. My Twin Standards are pretty loud, I can just imagine what they sound like. I also see it has the heavy style Cab Lights as well. Cool to have the usual 8V-71. Was the Road Ranger a 13 Speed?

Bill

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Yes, I think they had 13's. In some of the ad copy, GMC referred to the MH 9501's as the 'Magnificent Hauler'.

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Alright, so I know it's all the way back on the first page, but this thing is gorgeous.

What's something like this worth?

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Truck looks real nice.

Is that the project that has the 13-Speed Road Ranger in it?

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I can't remember.
Walked around a corner a the show in Clovis and there it was.

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The cannonball owned by Mr. Wells in pic # 807 originally had a Twin Hydramatic transmission . 7 speeds with a healthy overdrive . It was sold around Denver about 20 years ago, driven to Ontario, Canada. Some time later the fluid coupling[as it didn't have a torque converter] had a problem . It got to Port Clinton, Ohio to a car transmission repair shop, found some fins off the fluid coupling and no parts available . We hauled it to Twinsburg, Oh and proceeded to convert it to a 13 speed. Whoever was the advisor on the transmission selection, should have spec'd a double overdrive because it would only run 53 MPH . Canadian owner got disgusted and sold it to an acquaintance in Avon, OH , who resold it to Mr. Wells .

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I never knew they made an Auto Trans in a truck that old. Funny to think that I could have been cussing them back then, lol. My company mechanic would mention Autos to me back in the '70's and I thought that was early !!

Bill

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i did had some posters in my room when i was about 12 or so from allison automatics for big rigs so 70's is pretty close to wat that mecanic was mentioning
then again :
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allways wondered if it was possible to connect one automatic transmission behind another , did some benchracing about it and figured the biggest problem after the space under the car would be building up oilpressure in the second trans

main reason i thught about it at the time was because the 4 speed automatics coulnt take the amount of horsepower i was figuring on (cheaply)

was thinking on two powerglides in series or a th400 with a full manual powerglide behind that kindah like a gearvendor setup

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Air ride too

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I'm not sure the load is low enough (or the stacks high enough).
Going down the road with a flaming load of hay would be quite a sight.

Greg.

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was thinking the same thing . looks like they stacked the front row higher to deflect the soot from the top of the rest of the haybales

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Bales are 7 high shouldn't be too terribly tall.
Trucks is a '48 and lives today.

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trucks like that usually only see action during a sertan time of year (like during harvest) and then only drive locally

there fine for that , wouldnt ant to drive them long distance nowadays as my back would be crying and my kidneys and ears bleeding after the first 3 hours or so

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Like the Conventional Cab one. Don't remember ever seeing one like it, but it's pretty cool.

Bill

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Crown Steel used to make the cabs for Mack and White Motor Co. 50 miles down the road.

Allison released automatic transmissions for trucks in 1957, but prior to that had planetary power shift transmissions that were used off highway. The early MT 40,41,42 had front and rear pumps so could be push started.They normally started in 3rd gear...................unless the driver selected the 1-2 position. The HT 70 was similar, but bigger and could be behind 8V71, 350 Cummins, but Allison always had an input torque limit .
GMC used the Hydramatic car 4 speed in medium trucks in 54, possibly '53 .

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I think the Hydramatic first appeared in these M135/M211 GMCs built for the military starting in 1951. When I was in the army (1966/67) most were used for driver training or Nat'l Guard. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/...5e375ef5_b.jpgXM211, 1952 (GMC) by PAcarhauler, on Flickr

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That's ^ nice!!!

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Sure is load of gold there, including the truck hauling it.

Bill

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Good stuff indeed!, I like the red Autocar, Wondering what's powering the early Autocar with the later chassis/rears, Cool trucks.

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Great picture.

The truck looks fairly new.

Bill

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Do the C40 and up follow the pickup cabs. Look like that is a 64-66 cab?
Or where behind a bit

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Right, that is basically the same as a Pick-Up Cab. Many of the parts will interchange.

Bill

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I thought that was the case. Just was curious if the years followed the pickups.
60-63 64-66 and so on.

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Right, they followed the same style Cab in year models. Same with '67 to '72, a C-70 Medium has basically the same Cab as a C-10.

Bill