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Great picture of an interesting truck.
For anyone who has never read it, there is an interesting story about Cole's Express and those trucks online. Bill |
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i wonder how they solved the roblem after the rulechange if they whent back to going back empty or put tanks under the trailers
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Those Coles trucks show one example of the many things the trucking industry has tried in the never ending quest for more efficient ways to move freight
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Very nice! I always liked those better than the Ford C series.
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GM somehow captured the CK cab styling on a box without making it look too funky. Just funky enough to be cool. 60-66s were the most stylish bodies ever. Actually, 55-66, but these tilt cabs were only made in this style. They truly are a unique body. The new LCFs were stout looking trucks, too. I believe that truck shown is a '75.
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they would never get me to move under those treetrunks like that
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Yeah, all that on a 60 series?? I imagine it took as long to carefully place all those above the stanchions as it would take to haul a second load. Totally staged. I wondered what the truck behind was up to
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I bet he even drove the truck himself back then. For those not familiar with Nascar, he owns a top notch team today in the Cup Series. Bill |
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Great looking truck!, just a simple work all day machine
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Do they classifiy as a 5 window cab?, I know I know...
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Good looking trucks.
I would say you could call it a 5-Window Cab. They were options that were usually found on Road Tractors more than any other. |
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I recall seeing the cabs with the blank cutouts
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Or the usual single rear window with the corners uncut
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Right, the "Blank" sheet metal is there on all of them that didn't have the option.
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5 distinct body types in one year. How great those days were! (Yeah I know,there's 6, but the 550 and 600-670 are the same design except fender/grille width). How about that fat cab 800? Advance design cab/Task Force nose. The DFs and D/DWs are all Advance Design and the rest are all Task Force. GMC was ridin' high in the saddle back then!
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the thing i notice is only a mirror at the drivers side ........ they mustve had steel nerves those drivers changing lanes totally blind
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I bet about all gt the RH option. Crazy that wouldn't be standard, though. There weren't a lot of dual hiways back then and the trucks probably rarely saw LH lane time. I can't imagine backing a van body trailer!!
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And even when they got the RH Mirror, it was this little tiny thing. I was from the generation of the Senior West Coast Mirrors. The generation before me had those "little" Mirrors. At the small outfit I worked for (approx 6 Large Trucks, 6 1-Tons) I was the first one to put a Convex on the RH Side. All the large trucks should have had them really, but on a GMC 9500 Tandem, it was pretty much a necessity. I drove it for months without one and what a difference after I put one on there.
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prolly had the co driver guide them in from the front
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Back around a dozen years ago, I bought a model 700 fat cab , down in remote SE West Virginia . It had a small displacement "big six" engine, had been a fire truck in New Jersey, later got repurposed as a tractor with 5th wheel, air compressor for trailer brakes with an air over hydraulic master cylinder. Kind of an unsafe truck because no brakes til you got air built up, somebody took the parking brake parts and lost them .
It had the unusual cab with no center window , but had the corner windows. I first thought somebody,[perhaps the firetruck body manufacturer], had taken a sheet of steel and blocked off the rear window . But soon a friend sent me a copy of that same ad regarding fat cab options . All in all, it had a nice chrome grille with only 1 hole in back of cab for a heavy duty radio antenna. I was gonna repower with a 4-71N with an added turbo, but ended up selling and delivering it to Indiana, Pennsylvania . |
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I drove through that era of small round mirrors, then I bought rectangular heads that were about 4 by 6 or maybe 5 by 7" for my 2nd truck which was a new GMC model 353 with the 248" engine .
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There was one old truck I used to drive when I was 16. It was an AD, I'll guess about a '53. Believe it was a 3/4 Ton and it had a Flatbed with a pretty restricted Head Board on it. I believe it had a Small drivers side mirror and None on the passenger side. That truck had no business being on the highway, but those are the roads we took sometimes. I would always ride in the right lane to not get into any "situations" with it, but once in a while you had no choice, lol. I remember one time yelling over to my friend to hurry up and look out the right side to make sure nothing was there!! Glad I never was alone on the Interstate. Boy that truck had horrible Brakes too.
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