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JRBECK64 · 01-27-2010, 04:11 PM

Here I am driving around in my Sons 64 Shortwide and I decide to pull into the Local Human Bean Coffee Drive Through. I pull up to the window were there is not enough room for me to get out of the truck, Luckily my Son was with me and the Horn Sticks On (DUAL EXTREMELY LOUD HORNS STUCK ON) and the Girls in the Coffee Shop start laughing their backsides off. Well after I got my face back to a shade of other than the same red as the truck I then remember that the horn relay is now in the Fuse Box rather than under the hood where my Son is trying to find it with me yelling at him. This seemed to me like an eternity of people driving by looking at my nice truck, laughing their butts off. Well I figured out what was wrong with the Horns and it could have been a huge major problem (Mechanical Steering Issue). Its fixed now and hopefully this doesn't happen again. So much for a non stressfull drive in the ShortWide.

JRBECK64

xJoey Dubsx · 01-27-2010, 04:28 PM

I have trainhorns in both trucks, that would suck for me! haha.

*72lb4x4* · 01-27-2010, 05:27 PM

Sounds embarrassing...

BTW:

SWB = short wheelbase
LWB = long wheelbase

The bed styles are fleetside and stepside.

TwiggyTheDrummer · 01-27-2010, 06:12 PM

Man, that sucks big time. And it's definitely a good thing that you didn't have dual train horns like Joey. I bet your son could have kicked you for that one.

monolith · 01-27-2010, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by 72lb4x4

Sounds embarrassing...

BTW:

SWB = short wheelbase
LWB = long wheelbase

The bed styles are fleetside and stepside.

GMC calls them "wideside" and "fenderside."

Hilarious story!- I did notice there seemed to be a drive through coffee place on every corner when I visited Oregon last summer.

TwiggyTheDrummer · 01-27-2010, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 72lb4x4

Sounds embarrassing...

BTW:

SWB = short wheelbase
LWB = long wheelbase

The bed styles are fleetside and stepside.

When he refers to it as ShortWide he is only shortening it from Short Wheelbase Fleetside. The GMC bed's were called Wide Side(Fleetside) and Fender Side(Stepside) back in the 60's as they were termed by the manufacturer. It's simply just a term that quickly describe's what you have and was what it was known as in a kind of spoken shorthand.

jchav62 · 01-27-2010, 06:21 PM

That really blows!!

Pun intended...

TwiggyTheDrummer · 01-27-2010, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jchav62

That really blows!!

Pun intended...

JRBECK64 · 01-27-2010, 06:54 PM

Thanks for all the support everyone. Im even being heckled about using the term ShortWide (SWB-Fleet). Its all good. At least my steering wheel didn't come off and who knows where I would have ended up.

JRBECK64

TwiggyTheDrummer · 01-27-2010, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by JRBECK64

Thanks for all the support everyone. Im even being heckled about using the term ShortWide (SWB-Fleet). Its all good. At least my steering wheel didn't come off and who knows where I would have ended up.

JRBECK64

No problem man. Did you forget to snug up the bolts or what?

JRBECK64 · 01-27-2010, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by TwiggyTheDrummer

No problem man. Did you forget to snug up the bolts or what?

A little worse than that. When we welded the joint on the steering column it must have been a cold weld and it seperated, but luckily not all the way. Today when we got home from the Horn Incident we drilled a 1/4 inch hole through the steering column and put a bolt in it so it wont come back apart again.

I guess this is part of the shakedown that the truck needs being its been setting for 4 years. As long as I keep learning and dont repeat these kinds of mistakes everything will be ok.

JRBECK64

TwiggyTheDrummer · 01-27-2010, 07:06 PM

Haha. That could have definitely gotten pretty scary for the two of you.

*LILRED66* · 01-27-2010, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 72lb4x4

Sounds embarrassing...

BTW:

SWB = short wheelbase
LWB = long wheelbase

The bed styles are fleetside and stepside.

Short = short wheel base = 115"
Wide = fleetside
Long = long wheel base = 127"
Narrow = stepside

I have heard them called "long narrow" and "short wide". I think it depends on where you are located. The Aussies and Kiwis say Chev instead of Chevy or Chevrolet.

62gmc910 · 01-27-2010, 11:38 PM

here in in the great white northwest we just call em rusty

*LILRED66* · 01-28-2010, 12:18 AM

funny....

bluesfella · 01-28-2010, 11:36 AM

One Thanksgiving a few years ago, we were driving to my aunt's house for our big family get together, and pulled into the neighborhood right behind a cop. As we went over the first speed bump, something wiggled loose in the horn button, and the horn started beeping with EVERY tiny bump we went over. Over the next minute or so, it goes worse, and the cop right in front of us probably thought we were crazy. Luckily, he didn't pull us over.

Needless to say, I disconnect the horn when we got to my aunt's house.

JRBECK64 · 01-28-2010, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bluesfella

One Thanksgiving a few years ago, we were driving to my aunt's house for our big family get together, and pulled into the neighborhood right behind a cop. As we went over the first speed bump, something wiggled loose in the horn button, and the horn started beeping with EVERY tiny bump we went over. Over the next minute or so, it goes worse, and the cop right in front of us probably thought we were crazy. Luckily, he didn't pull us over.

Needless to say, I disconnect the horn when we got to my aunt's house.

Bluesfella,
Its kinda funny that you wrote this because we were heading home from going to the auto parts store and my Son had mentioned that we had followed a cop almost all the way from where we were to the Human Bean Coffee shop we pulled into where the horn started blowing. So, I guess it could have been worse. Maybe the Cop in front of you had a similar incident happen to him. Either way its funny. Thanks for sharing.

JRBECK64

*LILRED66* · 01-28-2010, 11:25 PM

My brother lives in Medford/Central Point, OR...there is a Dutch Brothers coffee kiosk on every other corner...I'll take a large Dutch Freeze with chocolate, please.

jgh64pkup · 01-28-2010, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JRBECK64

Im even being heckled about using the term ShortWide (SWB-Fleet).
JRBECK64

i say ShortFleet

but at least you got to drive yours

JRBECK64 · 01-29-2010, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgh64pkup

i say ShortFleet

but at least you got to drive yours

Its all good. And I bet you will be driving yours before long.

JRBECK64

68GMCCustom · 01-29-2010, 01:51 AM

Funny

jgh64pkup · 01-29-2010, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRBECK64

Its all good. And I bet you will be driving yours before long.

JRBECK64

nope not this year i dont think

JRBECK64 · 01-29-2010, 12:12 PM

There is one thing I forgot to mention. Just before I turned into the Human Bean where all this happened I was in the left hand turn lane and right across from me was a 1969 Chevy 4X4 completely restored and looking great. So of course we were giving each other the thumbs up and if the horn would have stuck at that point I think I would have been even more mortified by the event. Luckily he had already turned the corner and was gone. The Chevy Gods were smiling upon me in that instance. Only the Coffee Ladies and the passer by's were privy to the incident. My Wife stopped by the same Human Bean this morning and the Girls up there know her, I guess they are still laughing at the my Red Face and Embarresment.

JRBECK64

If you cant laugh at yourself who can you?

Revoh · 01-29-2010, 12:29 PM

Don't listen to these guys. "Shortwide" is exactly the right thing to say, because it rhymes with "ride". Sometimes you have to take a little artistic license when you're a wordsmith.

And your story is hilarious, by the way.

JRBECK64 · 01-29-2010, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LILRED66

My brother lives in Medford/Central Point, OR...there is a Dutch Brothers coffee kiosk on every other corner...I'll take a large Dutch Freeze with chocolate, please.

LILRED66,
If you come out to visit I will buy you one. This is the land of the Drive Through Coffee Joints. Starbucks, Human Bean, Dutch Brothers and Many Many more.

JRBECK64

01-27-2010, 04:11 PM	#1
JRBECK64 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cornelius Oregon Posts: 1,073	Took the Shortwide For a Ride Here I am driving around in my Sons 64 Shortwide and I decide to pull into the Local Human Bean Coffee Drive Through. I pull up to the window were there is not enough room for me to get out of the truck, Luckily my Son was with me and the Horn Sticks On (DUAL EXTREMELY LOUD HORNS STUCK ON) and the Girls in the Coffee Shop start laughing their backsides off. Well after I got my face back to a shade of other than the same red as the truck I then remember that the horn relay is now in the Fuse Box rather than under the hood where my Son is trying to find it with me yelling at him. This seemed to me like an eternity of people driving by looking at my nice truck, laughing their butts off. Well I figured out what was wrong with the Horns and it could have been a huge major problem (Mechanical Steering Issue). Its fixed now and hopefully this doesn't happen again. So much for a non stressfull drive in the ShortWide. JRBECK64

01-27-2010, 04:28 PM	#2
xJoey Dubsx Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Brook Park, Oh Posts: 206	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride I have trainhorns in both trucks, that would suck for me! haha. __________________ [CENTER][FONT="Arial Black"]-------------------- Joey Dubs -------------------- 2000 Dakota - Bagged, Shaved, and more 2003 Ram - Fast, and perdy 1951 GMC Stepside - All apart, like a puzzle.

01-27-2010, 05:27 PM	#3
72lb4x4 Account Suspended Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DFW Posts: 1,427	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride Sounds embarrassing... BTW: SWB = short wheelbase LWB = long wheelbase The bed styles are fleetside and stepside.

01-27-2010, 06:12 PM	#4
TwiggyTheDrummer Keep It Simple Stupid.. Nope.. Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Live Oak, FL Posts: 665	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride Man, that sucks big time. And it's definitely a good thing that you didn't have dual train horns like Joey. I bet your son could have kicked you for that one. __________________ 1963 GMC SWB Fleetside in Sunburst Orange Metallic 305E V6 w/ Plaid VC, Powerglide, BOSS 313 20" Chrome Wheels, Kumho Ecsta STX 275/45/R20's, Alpine/Clarion System, Dynomax Exhaust Old custom classic trucks have soul. Their dashboards aren't plastic, and they've survived both the best and worst of what the 20th century had to offer. For the owners of these trucks, it's often the same story. Through both good and bad times they persevered, until one day they could turn the key and roll up in a customized truck everyone with good taste would admire. – Custom Classic Trucks

01-27-2010, 06:21 PM	#7
jchav62 1962 C-10 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico Posts: 4,978	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride That really blows!! Pun intended... __________________ Joseph Chavez "See the USA in a Chevrolet!!" ......................_____ .........________//__{\_____ ,,,,,,,/__(O)___//___/__(O)_/ 1962 C10 Shortbed Fleetside 327/th350 GV overdrive 1974 C10 Longbed Fleetside 350/th350 "The Trash Truck" 1999 Chevy 2500 OBS, Longbed 5.7/4L80E 4x4 2015 GMC Sierra SLE 1500 4x4

01-27-2010, 06:54 PM	#9
JRBECK64 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cornelius Oregon Posts: 1,073	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride Thanks for all the support everyone. Im even being heckled about using the term ShortWide (SWB-Fleet). Its all good. At least my steering wheel didn't come off and who knows where I would have ended up. JRBECK64

01-27-2010, 07:06 PM	#12
TwiggyTheDrummer Keep It Simple Stupid.. Nope.. Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Live Oak, FL Posts: 665	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride Haha. That could have definitely gotten pretty scary for the two of you. __________________ 1963 GMC SWB Fleetside in Sunburst Orange Metallic 305E V6 w/ Plaid VC, Powerglide, BOSS 313 20" Chrome Wheels, Kumho Ecsta STX 275/45/R20's, Alpine/Clarion System, Dynomax Exhaust Old custom classic trucks have soul. Their dashboards aren't plastic, and they've survived both the best and worst of what the 20th century had to offer. For the owners of these trucks, it's often the same story. Through both good and bad times they persevered, until one day they could turn the key and roll up in a customized truck everyone with good taste would admire. – Custom Classic Trucks

01-27-2010, 11:38 PM	#14
62gmc910 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Cremona AB Canada Posts: 370	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride here in in the great white northwest we just call em rusty __________________ 62 GMC 910 short fleetside 454 super t10 14 bolt w/gov lock 70s c20 front discs (built in the 80s) 65 GMC 930 dualwheel 292 4spd all origonal 39k mi(my sons truck) 63 GMC 950 camperized school bus, (Gus the bus) 350 4speed 2 speed rear 64 GMC 950 "spare" bus 283? 4speed detroit locker 53 GMC 1ton dual wheel bus 78 GMC c25 short course off road race truck(son's truck) 355 th400 14 bolt (www.wheel2wheel.ca) 88 Peterbilt 379 longhood (hauls race truck)

01-28-2010, 12:18 AM	#15
LILRED66 Account Suspended Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas City, KS Posts: 3,906	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride funny....

01-28-2010, 11:36 AM	#16
bluesfella Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 53	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride One Thanksgiving a few years ago, we were driving to my aunt's house for our big family get together, and pulled into the neighborhood right behind a cop. As we went over the first speed bump, something wiggled loose in the horn button, and the horn started beeping with EVERY tiny bump we went over. Over the next minute or so, it goes worse, and the cop right in front of us probably thought we were crazy. Luckily, he didn't pull us over. Needless to say, I disconnect the horn when we got to my aunt's house. __________________ www.vancerutherford.com

01-28-2010, 11:25 PM	#18
LILRED66 Account Suspended Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas City, KS Posts: 3,906	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride My brother lives in Medford/Central Point, OR...there is a Dutch Brothers coffee kiosk on every other corner...I'll take a large Dutch Freeze with chocolate, please.

01-29-2010, 01:51 AM	#21
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01-29-2010, 12:12 PM	#23
JRBECK64 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cornelius Oregon Posts: 1,073	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride There is one thing I forgot to mention. Just before I turned into the Human Bean where all this happened I was in the left hand turn lane and right across from me was a 1969 Chevy 4X4 completely restored and looking great. So of course we were giving each other the thumbs up and if the horn would have stuck at that point I think I would have been even more mortified by the event. Luckily he had already turned the corner and was gone. The Chevy Gods were smiling upon me in that instance. Only the Coffee Ladies and the passer by's were privy to the incident. My Wife stopped by the same Human Bean this morning and the Girls up there know her, I guess they are still laughing at the my Red Face and Embarresment. JRBECK64 If you cant laugh at yourself who can you?

01-29-2010, 12:29 PM	#24
Revoh Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Music City, U.S.A. Posts: 638	Re: Took the Shortwide For a Ride Don't listen to these guys. "Shortwide" is exactly the right thing to say, because it rhymes with "ride". Sometimes you have to take a little artistic license when you're a wordsmith. And your story is hilarious, by the way. __________________ 1963 C-10 My car blog, for your reading pleasure.



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