Immediate like for jumping right into the activity described in the title instead of: *WHAT'SUPGUYS!* *explosion sound *ITSYOURBOY DOOKIELORD HERE* *rooster call *COMINATYA WITHANOTHER VID* *dj scratch sound *TODAYWE'REGONNA DRIVE A. DE. TROIT. DIESEL.* *crash sound *BUTBEFOREWEGETSTARTED* *scream sound *MAKESURETO SMASHTHATLIKEANDSUBSCRIBE BUTTON* *boink boink sound
An old timer told me 40 years ago. Slam your hand in the door before you drive a 2 stroke Detroit and get fighting mad. Also if they aren’t leaking oil get worried. They are out of oil lol
Used to run a snub-nosed LN 9000. Tach her out at 2300 loaded and let her work. Running empty, tach her back to 1800 and let that 6-71 sing "Roll On Big Mama".
Hi, I'm an old guy now but back in the seventies I bought a '73 Transfer with a 318 Detroit and I took the mufflers off and put 4" chrome stacks up high. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard when under load. They blocked me from driving thru the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel. I pulled a 42' reefer, always loaded with frozen foids. Uphill to she would scream!!
Back in the day this single axle Astro with a 318 and a 10 speed RoadRanger was a furniture mover's Cadillac! And power steering was for girls...also, note the custom (truck stop) gear shifter!
Designer: How much visibility do you want with this? GM: Yes. 😁 By the by, that interior is phenomenal. It's this, Ford's CL9000 and Pete's Corvette dash in my Top Three
A true 8V71 with large injectors is 318 horse power, add a turbo it’s 350 then becomes 8V71T, add a aftercooler it’s then a 370 horsepower called a 8V71TA . And that settles that
I never liked the GMC Cabover, not sure exactly why, seeing the inside of one for the first time, I instantly liked what I saw. The Operations console had a nice wrap around which gave the driver instant view of all the gauges & buttons & switches so it was easy to view & get your eyes back on the road. I didn't expect this Model to be so organized & simple like this. I very much like this truck now & watching how it moved & especially the sound still gives me trepidations as I once had as a young kid. I have only had one trip in a transport about 20 years ago, it was a conventional White or General, I cant remember but my first impression was WOW cause I was up high in it & wasn't quite expecting the movement or vibration of it. It was a day truck as I remember it but fear came over me when we went over our communities Skyway Bridge & that's a high bridge so when we went over it, the guard rails that separated the pedestrians & the edge of the bridge where simply no longer there as I looked out the passenger window., I did & wasn't happy about it cause all I saw was WATER no bridge at all. Immediate freight came over me & almost panic LOL My Stepmom was the driver :P a small 4'7 roundish woman cowboy boots & all the lady accessories a woman could have & she was a force you didn't want to deal with. Her career started in the 60's I believe when her first husband had a heart attack at the wheel & my step mom now had no choice but to move her husband over best she could & take over & her husband to the nearest hospital. TO make a long story short, this is what started her Career as a truck driver. I judged a cabover by many aspects & usually if not always by what kind of reaction I had to it & most times it was with disdain & a frown LOL and by its paint & markings plus its physical profile as it was moving & often I would get an emotional response from these types of Trucks, most of them made me have a pending doom feeling & some just outright frightened me simply because of the loud sound as it up-geared followed by a plume of thick black smoke spewing out of its pipe(s) & its movement up & down shimmy & side to side rocking action & I swear these trucks had evil personalities and souls, if it had a paint job that gave it the appearance of having angry eyebrows especially if it had a single headlight on either side of that eyebrow & the cab itself was one that had a slim profile giving the driver very little room at all for stretching, I remember these quite well because when they started moving from a dead stop, the cab always jumped up & forward & then down as it shifted gears giving it the look of charging at something or you if it where in front of you generating a horrific fear within prompting you to get the hell out of its sight fast cause that truck meant serious business & you had no time to run away kind of fear they gave me LOL Holy Smoke I am writing a story here, well I guess this truck inspired me to get it out of my system lol I loved this video, thanks for the drive & inspection & a sense of how soon is this video over LOL I would seriously hate to see you in my back window coming up hard & fast LOL I am scaring myself LMDAO
When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, I wanted to be a truck driver in the worst way. My dad would take me down to the truck dealerships on occasion and the salesmen would let me sit in the cabs. Quite a thrill for a 10-year-old boy. I thought those Jimmies with the wraparound console were the bomb! Very impractical in retrospect. Seeing this guy driving shows how physical the job was, and how brutal this would be on a body day after day. Times have changed.
add an axle and that was the 1st truck i drove in 1987.still to this day i don't turn the steering wheel unless the truck is moving.you old guys will know what i mean!
Sounds awesome. Love those old Detroit Astros. Was always afraid that those single axle cabovers bareback would front flip over if you jammed the brakes too hard. 😂😂😂 Short wheelbase beats the snot out of you.
Back in the mid 1990’s I worked in a scrap yard in Fairmont WV. I lost count on how many of those GMG Astro’s and Chevy Bisons were crushed and cut up. Piles of worn out 318’s and 671s ..blowers shredded up in the aluminum pile. Sad but they were just to far gone mainly eaten up by the road salt and abuse from rookie drivers. None of the veteran drivers including myself refused to drive those backbreaking no power in the mountains Astros. 😐🙁
I drove a 1978 cab over Kenworth with a V6 Detroit about 20 years ago. Great memories. These old Detroit's sound really TUFF. The closest comparison is the old EMD locomotives. They sound really TUFF also.
When I did Truck Driver school in 1984 in Posen Ill it was in a twin screw GMC Astro cabover ( don't know what year the truck was but similar to this one) and thought how am I going to drink a beer driving down the road with all this windshield. Like being in a fishbowl. Don't worry folks in almost 40 years of shifting gears I never drank in a truck.(Rolling).
GMC never figured out the steering knuckle thing like Brockway had... even though it wasn't power steering it still turned a hell of a lot easier than everything else on the market at the time. Nice sounding and running truck! I saved this video under music!
Must be a cold day at the pool! LOL I’m just ribbing you though, obviously. That’s a beautiful truck, and I’m sure it can pull down a house if you wanted it to. I’ve been seeing a lot more old cabovers around pulling loads on the highway this year. What’s up with that?
If yer not pulling a load, couldn't you tach much lower and skip gears? I see the tach is always way up near the end. I'm not a truck driver either, so maybe that's where the engine must be run at any load/no load? Cool sound though.
Driving in Nashville right off Donaldson Pike. Just passed my dentist office. Looks like he headed to Briley Parkway.😂 Notice all the pot holes this 2billion a year Nashville brings ins and can’t fix our roads.
Try it with 40k on da back. Totally different sound. God i do not miss them cabovers not one dang bit. Best thing ever happened to trucking was them disappearing
Yeah I could not imagine this going long haul. I prefer the deep throb of a big 4 stroke Diesel like a Scania V8 with open pipes. Awesome but not intrusive.
Awww not the worst. Had a double bunk KW back in 80’s wasn’t too hateful. Nice when I did 5 days a week delivery in Chicago hauling auto parts out of Dayton
Well, i have to drive a mercedes benz 1114, the truck is very loud especially when i feel tired, it needs to rev very high because that thing just have 160 hp and carrying 25 tons most of the time is too much for it
Mannnnnnnnn!!!!! I had a 68 V8 Mack cabover with a twin stick a few years ago but I always wanted a Detroit, that was the most theraputic 20 mins ever! Love your GMC , pretty rad truck.
I drove a truck like that. The only difference is I had a tandem axle. The only problem that happened to the truck.was I had to run away then I had to dump the clutch to kill the motor
And Astro is a ball scratcher special , I drove one, the windshield is below your knees so if get a itch every body you meet thinks your playing with yourself 😂
Try steering that out in a produce field where you got loaded by sugar beet picker implement , the steering would almost brake your thumbs when a tire would go over a large dirt clod or rut.
The roughness of that ride reminds me of a guy I knew that quit trucking back in the 1970s because his back and shoulders just could not hack it anymore.
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I’ve been waiting for this cool video! Nice ride along. Cabovers Rule! It’s been many years since I drove an Astro. No power steering I take it? Does it have center point steering? Try using a steering knob on that wheel. It just might make turning a bit easier. I love using mine. Try adding a little weight on that 5th wheel…about 500 lbs or so. That will help the bouncing. I know you have a trailer as well that you’re gonna pull. Good stuff my friend!💥🥰✌️
I drove a 77 Astro , it was a little longer and had air ride suspension. It also had a 430 horsepower 8V92. Had lots of power, and horrible fuel mileage. Best I ever got was 4.7 MPG.
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Never thought I'd see Prince Harry driving a truck. Sounds of the 70s. Fantastic!!😀❤
😂
🤣😅
😂😂😂👍👍👍
He got tired being a prince so he said screw it I'm going to drive trucks.
Just getting some time out from the insuffrable wife
Immediate like for jumping right into the activity described in the title instead of:
*WHAT'SUPGUYS!*
*explosion sound
*ITSYOURBOY DOOKIELORD HERE*
*rooster call
*COMINATYA WITHANOTHER VID*
*dj scratch sound
*TODAYWE'REGONNA DRIVE A. DE. TROIT. DIESEL.*
*crash sound
*BUTBEFOREWEGETSTARTED*
*scream sound
*MAKESURETO SMASHTHATLIKEANDSUBSCRIBE BUTTON*
*boink boink sound
All the TH-cam snowflakes with their automatic Cascadias wouldn’t last a week😂
If trucks still had Detroit's in them there might not be such a driver shortage
Those 2 stroke Detroits got horrible fuel mileage, especially compared to today's diesel engines.
An old timer told me 40 years ago. Slam your hand in the door before you drive a 2 stroke Detroit and get fighting mad. Also if they aren’t leaking oil get worried. They are out of oil lol
that's what I was told by the company that gave me a beater twin stick R model mack.
Used to run a snub-nosed LN 9000. Tach her out at 2300 loaded and let her work. Running empty, tach her back to 1800 and let that 6-71 sing "Roll On Big Mama".
I own the 72 astros single axle.But Minecraft 13 speed.I could do eighty miles an hour easy
Hi, I'm an old guy now but back in the seventies I bought a '73 Transfer with a 318 Detroit and I took the mufflers off and put 4" chrome stacks up high. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard when under load. They blocked me from driving thru the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel. I pulled a 42' reefer, always loaded with frozen foids. Uphill to she would scream!!
They're definitely loud!
The Detroit Deisel is one of the most amazing engines of all time. Long live the DD
The Detroit sings a great tune, love that arm strong steering and a great looking cabover to boot.
Back in the day when the length law was different "overall length limit was shorter" in the USA, cabover semis were the king of the roads.
And everybody that drove or worked around them was deaf lol.
What did you say? I can’t hear you.
@@billloffler8637 W H AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA T ???
Back in the day this single axle Astro with a 318 and a 10 speed RoadRanger was a furniture mover's Cadillac! And power steering was for girls...also, note the custom (truck stop) gear shifter!
I get why we all wanted to be truckers in the 70s. Looks fun.
The sound of old disels running is music to my ears
Designer: How much visibility do you want with this?
GM: Yes.
😁
By the by, that interior is phenomenal. It's this, Ford's CL9000 and Pete's Corvette dash in my Top Three
Definition of optimism, having a CB in a Detroit twostroker
Lmao 😂😂😂
they hear him coming
Lol
That thing has one hell of a tight short travel shifter.
A true 8V71 with large injectors is 318 horse power, add a turbo it’s 350 then becomes 8V71T, add a aftercooler it’s then a 370 horsepower called a 8V71TA . And that settles that
The deep, loud roar sound of an 8V-71 Detroit Diesel with big injectors is beautiful. Not the 6-cylinder engine, but the V-8 engine.
00:34 You really had to eat a few cans of spinach to drive a truck without power steering 😂😂😂
Awesome!
I LOVE the sound of screamin' Detroit. One of the best sounding diesel engines ever produced.
Thanks for sharing.
Perfect for when you feel like taking a cab over semi truck to the corner store
No power steering of course. At least it was only one stick!
Wow this is still alive no way))
Old GMC sound good 8v71 Detroit Diesel love that sound..👍🏼
I never liked the GMC Cabover, not sure exactly why, seeing the inside of one for the first time, I instantly liked what I saw. The Operations console had a nice wrap around which gave the driver instant view of all the gauges & buttons & switches so it was easy to view & get your eyes back on the road. I didn't expect this Model to be so organized & simple like this. I very much like this truck now & watching how it moved & especially the sound still gives me trepidations as I once had as a young kid.
I have only had one trip in a transport about 20 years ago, it was a conventional White or General, I cant remember but my first impression was WOW cause I was up high in it & wasn't quite expecting the movement or vibration of it. It was a day truck as I remember it but fear came over me when we went over our communities Skyway Bridge & that's a high bridge so when we went over it, the guard rails that separated the pedestrians & the edge of the bridge where simply no longer there as I looked out the passenger window., I did & wasn't happy about it cause all I saw was WATER no bridge at all. Immediate freight came over me & almost panic LOL
My Stepmom was the driver :P a small 4'7 roundish woman cowboy boots & all the lady accessories a woman could have & she was a force you didn't want to deal with. Her career started in the 60's I believe when her first husband had a heart attack at the wheel & my step mom now had no choice but to move her husband over best she could & take over & her husband to the nearest hospital. TO make a long story short, this is what started her Career as a truck driver.
I judged a cabover by many aspects & usually if not always by what kind of reaction I had to it & most times it was with disdain & a frown LOL and by its paint & markings plus its physical profile as it was moving & often I would get an emotional response from these types of Trucks, most of them made me have a pending doom feeling & some just outright frightened me simply because of the loud sound as it up-geared followed by a plume of thick black smoke spewing out of its pipe(s) & its movement up & down shimmy & side to side rocking action & I swear these trucks had evil personalities and souls, if it had a paint job that gave it the appearance of having angry eyebrows especially if it had a single headlight on either side of that eyebrow & the cab itself was one that had a slim profile giving the driver very little room at all for stretching, I remember these quite well because when they started moving from a dead stop, the cab always jumped up & forward & then down as it shifted gears giving it the look of charging at something or you if it where in front of you generating a horrific fear within prompting you to get the hell out of its sight fast cause that truck meant serious business & you had no time to run away kind of fear they gave me LOL
Holy Smoke I am writing a story here, well I guess this truck inspired me to get it out of my system lol
I loved this video, thanks for the drive & inspection & a sense of how soon is this video over LOL
I would seriously hate to see you in my back window coming up hard & fast LOL I am scaring myself LMDAO
Father had a 72 with a 13 speed . Kill handle on floor next to seat by shifter
When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, I wanted to be a truck driver in the worst way. My dad would take me down to the truck dealerships on occasion and the salesmen would let me sit in the cabs. Quite a thrill for a 10-year-old boy. I thought those Jimmies with the wraparound console were the bomb! Very impractical in retrospect. Seeing this guy driving shows how physical the job was, and how brutal this would be on a body day after day. Times have changed.
You definitely don't have to worry about arm day with this truck!!😂😂
add an axle and that was the 1st truck i drove in 1987.still to this day i don't turn the steering wheel unless the truck is moving.you old guys will know what i mean!
I drove a '76 IH with the 8v71 318 13 speed, also the 671 IH 10 speed, mice sound to them
This reminds of the truck from Terminator 2 Judgement Day, the scene where John Connor was getting chased on his dirt bike haha.
Always hit the jake brake in public areas
Looks a bit weird with a single drive axle but sounds great!
I've only ever driven cars, this thing looks and sounds tiring to drive, and that's without a trailer and cargo.
Lol it can be, especially backing up a 5x8 with the manual steering.
Sounds awesome. Love those old Detroit Astros. Was always afraid that those single axle cabovers bareback would front flip over if you jammed the brakes too hard. 😂😂😂 Short wheelbase beats the snot out of you.
I can see the shift pattern is a bit confusing. Not your typical "H" pattern.
I thought it was a video game for a sec.
What an awesome nightmare haha
headphones for immersion.
I fell asleep last night watching this. Something about the sound of an old 2 stroke Detroit Diesel has a calming effect on me. 😆
Grabbing gears like a rally car, old trucks are the best.
Would make a good daily driver.
Would be considered a mid sized SUV these days.
I thought it was 2xspeed video until i saw the pedestrian 😅
Nothing like the roar of an old Detroit diesels, i like the low profile dashboard, kind of like a bus 👍
Right On!!! Think this is same kind of truck used in Beverly hills cop...the chase scene..thts Awesome man. Excellent video!!
0:46 the family SUV runs in terror to the sound of the mighty Detroit Diesel!
'Duel' all over again!
Good ol’ Screamin Demon! Pulled out all my Detroit specialty tools and almost shed a tear!😂
Looks like “arm strong” power steering 😎
No power steering 🙋🦾 jimmy 💯
Many Astros had power steering, just depends how it was ordered.
Better know as "Armstrong Power Steering"!
318hp and planet earth amounts of torque
That’s got to be one of the shortest trucks made.
Smooth gear shifting, I suspect the left leg wasn't doing much.
I used to drive a 1980 Astro loved that thing even though it was like driving a fish tank all glass.
It's got a great view in and out.
Nice shifting!!! Love that awesome sound ❤
I take it no power steering either. That wheel looked really hard to turn.
Yeah I wondered the same.
Beamng but higher graphics
You literally read my mind 😭😭😭
Back in the mid 1990’s I worked in a scrap yard in Fairmont WV. I lost count on how many of those GMG Astro’s and Chevy Bisons were crushed and cut up. Piles of worn out 318’s and 671s ..blowers shredded up in the aluminum pile. Sad but they were just to far gone mainly eaten up by the road salt and abuse from rookie drivers. None of the veteran drivers including myself refused to drive those backbreaking no power in the mountains Astros. 😐🙁
Driving Optimus prime when he was a toddler
I drove a 1978 cab over Kenworth with a V6 Detroit about 20 years ago. Great memories. These old Detroit's sound really TUFF. The closest comparison is the old EMD locomotives. They sound really TUFF also.
@Thetrucky69, the old EMD locomotives had 2-cycle GM engines too. Same basic engine, just bigger.
Scream baby scream ! That’s when truckin was truckin ! 😂
Nothing like the sound of an old school Detroit. Hey sure don't make them like they used to. Nowadays, Detroit engines sound like Cummins.
When I did Truck Driver school in 1984 in Posen Ill it was in a twin screw GMC Astro cabover ( don't know what year the truck was but similar to this one) and thought how am I going to drink a beer driving down the road with all this windshield. Like being in a fishbowl. Don't worry folks in almost 40 years of shifting gears I never drank in a truck.(Rolling).
I can't tell, are you wearing earplugs? It sounds awesome, that's for sure! What a treasure you have there, not many Astros left on the roads anymore.
No I wasn't, I only wear them on long trips. Love the Astros, but they are definitely rare.
GMC never figured out the steering knuckle thing like Brockway had... even though it wasn't power steering it still turned a hell of a lot easier than everything else on the market at the time.
Nice sounding and running truck! I saved this video under music!
The standard engine for the GMC Astro. I remember them well as a kid growing up in Detroit, many of them were flat bed steel haulers.
Yep. I remember these.
I'm getting old.
Did you also vote for Kennedy lmao
Only one thing better than the sound of a GM two banger…that’s one on the jake brake!
Love that legendary Detroit Diesel sound!
UNDER THE overpass throttle up. i heard you give it the gas for sound effects.
It's mandatory!
Thats right! i completely forgot TIL I SAW THE VIDEO! I remember ALL of the Greyhound Busses had the detroit's
For the first 5 seconds I thought this was BeamNG
Marvelous sound.
Must be a cold day at the pool! LOL
I’m just ribbing you though, obviously. That’s a beautiful truck, and I’m sure it can pull down a house if you wanted it to. I’ve been seeing a lot more old cabovers around pulling loads on the highway this year. What’s up with that?
New semis are basically electronically controlled junk, so the old, mechanical beasts from the past are seeing reconditioning and a new life.
Imagine with a load and hauling it thru traffic these days! No, thxs!
First thing I learned to drive was a Detroit DIESEL tractor trailer and a woman taught 40 yrs ago.
Great truck and no power steering 😮looks like Optimus prime son
This truck is so loud and sounds like a race car.
If yer not pulling a load, couldn't you tach much lower and skip gears? I see the tach is always way up near the end. I'm not a truck driver either, so maybe that's where the engine must be run at any load/no load? Cool sound though.
2-smokers are happiest at the top of the rev range
You can skip gears I'm just not good at it. These engines do like to be revved though.
@@tnolds Thanks! OK.
Driving in Nashville right off Donaldson Pike. Just passed my dentist office. Looks like he headed to Briley Parkway.😂
Notice all the pot holes this 2billion a year Nashville brings ins and can’t fix our roads.
That just looks fun to drive.
Absolutely love this Astro! Listen to that Detroit sing! Such a cool tractor!
That truck got some get up😊
Try it with 40k on da back. Totally different sound. God i do not miss them cabovers not one dang bit. Best thing ever happened to trucking was them disappearing
Yeah I could not imagine this going long haul. I prefer the deep throb of a big 4 stroke Diesel like a Scania V8 with open pipes. Awesome but not intrusive.
2 stroke cab overs are for Alpha males. Bro dozers and conventionals are for compensators and softies.
Awww not the worst. Had a double bunk KW back in 80’s wasn’t too hateful. Nice when I did 5 days a week delivery in Chicago hauling auto parts out of Dayton
Well, i have to drive a mercedes benz 1114, the truck is very loud especially when i feel tired, it needs to rev very high because that thing just have 160 hp and carrying 25 tons most of the time is too much for it
and armstrong steering 🤣
I love it! nothing better than a Detroit diesel roaring.
""THIS SOUNDSLIKE A DETROIT-DIESEL-ENGINE, ""THAT DETROIT-SCREAM, ""JUST-LEGENDARY""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mannnnnnnnn!!!!! I had a 68 V8 Mack cabover with a twin stick a few years ago but I always wanted a Detroit, that was the most theraputic 20 mins ever! Love your GMC , pretty rad truck.
I drove a truck like that. The only difference is I had a tandem axle. The only problem that happened to the truck.was I had to run away then I had to dump the clutch to kill the motor
Awesome ride along . Thoroughly enjoyed how quick you were going through all the gears. Thanks for the ride .Gotta love a classic.
That thing is rough, I got tired just watching the video.
😂😂
Живут же американцы! Посмотрите какая у них красота на улицах
но ездить не умеют ... движок крутит, как будто на свалку едет в последний путь
Россия потерпит. Ещё 50 лет ничего не будет меняться.
And Astro is a ball scratcher special , I drove one, the windshield is below your knees so if get a itch every body you meet thinks your playing with yourself 😂
Sweet sound! Great driving/shifting! That looks like a ton of fun. Camera placement was perfect. When man is one with machine life is good.
Try steering that out in a produce field where you got loaded by sugar beet picker implement , the steering would almost brake your thumbs when a tire would go over a large dirt clod or rut.
To this day I still keep my thumbs on the outside of the wheel, even in a car.
The roughness of that ride reminds me of a guy I knew that quit trucking back in the 1970s because his back and shoulders just could not hack it anymore.
There’s absolutely no relaxing when driving this thing
Not really lol
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I’ve been waiting for this cool video! Nice ride along. Cabovers Rule! It’s been many years since I drove an Astro. No power steering I take it? Does it have center point steering? Try using a steering knob on that wheel. It just might make turning a bit easier. I love using mine. Try adding a little weight on that 5th wheel…about 500 lbs or so. That will help the bouncing. I know you have a trailer as well that you’re gonna pull. Good stuff my friend!💥🥰✌️
Thanks. It is center point but no power steering. I've tried a knob, but the steering effort was too high to make it useful.
Back in the 70”s that was the sound of money $$
I drove a 77 Astro , it was a little longer and had air ride suspension. It also had a 430 horsepower 8V92. Had lots of power, and horrible fuel mileage. Best I ever got was 4.7 MPG.
That thing is so cool. Sounds amazing.
Thanks friend