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Rich'sToys
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Some cool old Jimmys on there. Thanks for posting!
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Janicholson
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tehachapi pass made my day. Woof. Goose bump city. Jim
I can remember shows like this in the late 50s into the 60s. Cannonball the TV show with real scruffy looking truck stop lunch counters. 5here are several on utube.
Cannonball
Cannonball
Olliejunkie
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Thanks Larry! Now I want to go on a roadtrip. Nice video.
Crazy Horse
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Cab overs are getting rare over here these days, you seldom see one and if you do, it is probably an older Freightliner. But in Europe and other parts of the world, you see a lot of them, more common I think that conventional long-snout cabs. I've been told that the cab over design enables a longer trailer(s) to be hooked up, also they are easier to turn with on tighter and narrower roads that might be more common elsewhere. Maybe someone else could comment or shed some light on this.
Meanwhile, Cannonball Mike Malone, I remember him wellalong with his partner Jerry Austin. Here's a short video of the program's introduction. Looks like he was wheeling a GMC ..... not sure if that is a true 100% cab over or not.
Cannonball TV introduction ....
Meanwhile, Cannonball Mike Malone, I remember him wellalong with his partner Jerry Austin. Here's a short video of the program's introduction. Looks like he was wheeling a GMC ..... not sure if that is a true 100% cab over or not.
Cannonball TV introduction ....
Brings back memories.
I well remember watching Cannonball on our 21" RCA tube type B & W TV. It put out enough heat that little additional heat was needed in the parlor most of the time.
In the evening, my Father liked to listen to Wait Hoyt broadcast Cincinnati Reds baseball games on our 40s vintage RCA console radio/78 RPM record player. It had a transformer-coupled, push-pull power amplifier with a pair of massive beam power pentodes. You could almost see the heat rolling off of it.
Dean
I well remember watching Cannonball on our 21" RCA tube type B & W TV. It put out enough heat that little additional heat was needed in the parlor most of the time.
In the evening, my Father liked to listen to Wait Hoyt broadcast Cincinnati Reds baseball games on our 40s vintage RCA console radio/78 RPM record player. It had a transformer-coupled, push-pull power amplifier with a pair of massive beam power pentodes. You could almost see the heat rolling off of it.
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After the wreck I had in 2001, you will not even get me to move a cab over across the parking lot.
An idiot in a pickup truck pulled over onto an icy shoulder, spun out, lost control, and came right across two lanes to end up right in front of me with no place to go. Had I been in a cab over, I would probably not be here to type this.
As a point of information, though, there are advantages as well as disadvantages to cab overs.
1) they are generally shorter wheelbase. That allows them into spots that may not have been accessible in a conventional.
2) they are generally rough riding. They beat you to death!
3) Visibility is both better and worse at the same time. The driver sits higher in a cab over, giving a wider field of vision, but there is a huge blind spot from about just in front of the driver's seat all the way around to the right side. Anything within 15 feet of the cab is invisible - right in the blind spot. Claw mirrors help.
4) a conventional tractor with a set back front axle will go anyplace a cab over will go for the most part.
An idiot in a pickup truck pulled over onto an icy shoulder, spun out, lost control, and came right across two lanes to end up right in front of me with no place to go. Had I been in a cab over, I would probably not be here to type this.
As a point of information, though, there are advantages as well as disadvantages to cab overs.
1) they are generally shorter wheelbase. That allows them into spots that may not have been accessible in a conventional.
2) they are generally rough riding. They beat you to death!
3) Visibility is both better and worse at the same time. The driver sits higher in a cab over, giving a wider field of vision, but there is a huge blind spot from about just in front of the driver's seat all the way around to the right side. Anything within 15 feet of the cab is invisible - right in the blind spot. Claw mirrors help.
4) a conventional tractor with a set back front axle will go anyplace a cab over will go for the most part.
caterpillar guy
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He is either bob tailing or empty to run those hills that fast with that old hill sniffer. Yup you can put in big injectors more turbo and it is still a hill sniffer. No torque falls flat on it's face in a hard pull with a load. I've driven all of them Cat, Cummins, and hill sniffers (Detroit). Those old detroits could smell a hill long before you got to them.
Loaded he couldn't pass my Cat like that.
Loaded he couldn't pass my Cat like that.
the term 'cannonball' comes from a company of the same name back in the '50's, they ran primarily gmc 860 road tractors, Detroit powered, it was a fast freight service back east. when these guys trucked, they trucked! . the company is long gone now, but the term cannonball is used to refer to the 860 seriec gmc trucks, now days it seems to include most models of snub noced gmc's
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good topic Larry. As a driver for 44 years these old trucks are the reason I wear hearing aids today. The trucks in my early days of trucking are all antiques today. They were built to do the job at hand and had few if any driver comforts that we have in today's trucks. As a member of the American Truck Historical Society for 33 years I like the old rides. Most of the drivers today you could not get them into a cabover truck. I put a million miles on them back in the day. I am the proud owner of a 1964 IH DCOF-405 cabover, known to the drivers of the day as an "Emeryville" because they were built in Emeryville Ca. Some times I can get on youtube and watch old truck videos for what seems like hours. in the old truck hobby the cabovers are making a comeback, which I am happy to see. Thanks for posting this and taking an old driver back in time.
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