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The real oddball would have been the ME-9500. Long conventional with the 637 gas V-8 in it. Brochures show that model available in '66-'67, wonder how many they built. I have seen JE-9500 short noses with the 637.
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California... it's a gas job with some B.O.P didn't recognize it. |
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The '71 9500 I used to drive had a 637 in it. It also had a 10-Speed Road Ranger in it. To this day, since we got the truck in the spring of '72, I have never seen, or even heard of another, with a Road Ranger trans. Just about all the 637's in J or H 9500's I have seen (online only) through the recent years were in Fire Trucks, but every one was a 5-Speed, 2-Speed Rear. Glad to learn something new. I never knew my old truck was a "JE". Also never knew they made an "ME". My "JE" had 12 Fronts and 34 Rears (20 Ft Flatbed Dump). I'm going to say that the RR was a 610. The 637 didn't have much Torque and you had to do a lot of Shifting, which I didn't mind, lol, but was a real good all around truck that hauled some interesting loads. |
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It is strange as we also had a 478 V-6 in a '62 6500. The 478 had a ton of Torque, and they both looked alike. The 637 looked just like a 478 with 2 extra cylinders "welded" on.
That always puzzled me until one day someone explained that even though they looked the same, they were very different inside. |
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Bob,
We may have asked you this already, but do you remember any 12V-71's in an MH-9500 Long Nose? Some say they were available and some say they weren't, but it seems that somehow, some were out there. Bill |
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Another GMC 'unicorn' is the tandem axle Steel Tilt 9500 with an 8V-71 in it. Both the 6V-53 and 6V-71 were used offered in Steel Tilts as regular options, but I have been told there were some built with 8V-71's for auto haulers, notably Pacific Motor Transport on the west coast. |
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Very interesting. Looks like that thing was one heck of a wrecker in it's day. It's day could come again!
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They are both very restorable.
The Long Nose has the indications of a '66 or '67 though. Are you going to buy them Tim? |
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I don't know why they couldn't put a price in the listing. I hate calling just to find out if I even want to consider buying something or not. Fact is, if they were $1,000 I couldn't do it anyway.
I was thinking the same thing on the long nose being 66 or 67, then I saw them claim it's a '69 and started doubting what I thought I knew. I see the emblems and turn signals not on the front indication early model |
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three horns.... doesn't that indicate some special package ? or was it optional seperately ?
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Not sure the year but he's about to drive up on the portable scales
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I'm not good at the older years, but I'm going to say some where around 1935.
Interesting picture. |
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realy like the looks of that era trucks
theres not a lot left here out that era because of the ww2 they all gotten scrapped for the war effort |
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here's one for you to "put a year on" ! lol
front mounted lights ( one of each ) tilt hood chevy, no emblems and 3 different clearance lights ! https://farm1.staticflickr.com/766/2...98f12b20_c.jpg oh and mounts for a single grover horn ( the horn currently resides in the cab ) |
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just noticed the no air horn truck in post #171...... are those millitary NDT tires on the rear ? what a gawd awful beast that must have been on the road, wonder if it was a special order mining or construction truck or something?
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No. They're not NDT's. Close. NDT's at least of that era have a wider tread separation. Had a truckload of them at one time.
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Seen several references to "steel tilt" hoods. Can someone explain what that is?
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