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Re: 67-72 C/K/T-40's-90's!
Yep, construction began spring of '70, assuming ready for the '73 models.
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Great picture, thanks for posting.
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Those 'Ford Blue' Caterpillar diesels always busted me up. Their blue Detroit Diesels as well!
Detroits supplied to International Harvester were sometimes painted 'Farmall Red'.
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And GM, since they made their own diesel, wasn't concerned with matching their gas engine color.
Here's a nice one
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And Cummins too?
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Another question for Bob or anyone else who would know. Somewhere around the late'70's to mid '80's you could get a GMC 7500 with a 6V-53 Detroit and a Road Ranger Trans, but only in a Tandem Axle truck for some reason. It seems like the Single Axle trucks could only get a 5-Speed and 2-Speed Rear at best. Wondering why this was and could you Special Order a Single Axle with a Road Ranger back then?
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You never know, some fleet may have put in a large special order for 6V-53 7500 tandems with the small Road Ranger 10 or 13 speed and GMC decided to make it an R.P.O..
I remember you talking about a truck with a 637 gasser and a 10 speed. From all I have ever heard about the 637, that sounds like the ideal combination. Yet, most were built with 5 speeds. I wonder how the 637 would have been with a 5X4.
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Bob, I have located some 637's online with 2 sticks. A town in NY had some. The 637 and the 10-Speed RR was a good combination. With a full load (30,000) it would die on some hills like a Detroit and require a lot of shifting, which I didn't mind, but was pretty impressive none-the-less. I always wished they gave me a Detroit though, lol.
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Here are a couple we use around the farm. The 72, 366, 5+2 has been there since it was new. The white 70 350, 4+2 is handy for hauling out of the field, but it has made several trips to the elevator. Just have to be extra mindful in the curves!
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I love seeing that you work these trucks. I see a few in use on farms around here, grain bodies. I think that's just great.
I don't know if I've showed these yet. But I keep finding them on Purplewave.com. I hope one can wait for me before they all get cycled out. One day I hope to raise crop on the family place up home in the mountains. Not a lot of land, but could offer my services around the county, just to enjoy putting one to use. I guess I could do that here for now
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Heavy Mediums are cool trucks.
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I'm on a weekend trip with my wife & I swear I've seen 3 67-72 C50s or larger trucks. Scavenger hunt in western NC.
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Just picked up this beautiful '67 C50. It was sitting in a field less than 5min. from my house. And yes that is a Radioshack speaker mounted in the corner -gives a whole new meaning to the term head-banger
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Looks good. Keep us posted on it.
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Looks like a good one! Radio Shack, that would be Realistic, right?
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67 c50 custom cab grain dump with 27k miles. 292/sm465
67 c60 fire truck with 6300 miles. 366/sm465
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Cool truck, interesting story, great work on the wheels. But you could probably guess what I'm going to say, lol. Too bad it's an Automatic.
Truck also sounds great and pretty surprising fuel mileage. My 478 Gas would only get about 7-9 MPG.
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