I drove a 1963 with a 6 71 a 10speed . It was a single axle with no tag. That thing had so much slop in the shifter it was insane but it always shifted good. It had as much power as any 8V71 I ever drove. This was back it 1974, 75. Thanks for the memories.
Certainly a blast from the past. Those trucks were a dime a dozen around the steel mills where I was raised, single screws with tri axle trailers to haul steel coils of flat stock. Amazing you even found one in that condition or lack there of. Definitely a survivor
A friend of mine took an old cracker box and tore in down to the frame and rebuilt it from the ground up back in the late 70s. Put a 8v 71 in it with 13 speed. New way tag axle with a killer paint job. We hauled bulls Al over the US him in the cracker box and me in my W9 with a 3408 5x4 tranny. He made that Detroit sing! Those were some fun days! Sorry to say he has past on…
I remember pictures of that truck on the ATHS website about 10 years ago. An older gentleman had run it for years until he retired. There was more said about it at the time bu that is all that I remember.
Rattled around all over the Country hauling steel with a buddy of Mine. Fresh out of high school and headed for Mechanic's school in '76. Good Memories 😊
@@rossman0297Never seen a crackerbox with power steering, only what they called center point steering. I had one that I had to change gear boxes out on because of wear, put one from a 78 Astro with power steering. Was a huge pain to do.
This isn't power steering as in the trucks today but has a pump and cylinder that assists the turning. My grandfather blew steer years ago on hauling grain and said if wasn't for that he'd been in the ditch.
A friend of mine has a crackerbox with a tandem with only the front being the driver. Also, the air ride works all on one airbag. Its quite a mechanism.
Oh wow, the Crackerbox is one of the first trucks to fascinate me!!! After noticing the one in Movin' On, I began to notice them on the highways, as the last of them were still less than ten years old.
In my opinion, this is the best truck video on TH-cam. Informative, interesting content, very well produced and edited. I suspect your wife has something to do with that. Plus, being from the south, hearing the banter amongst the New York boys just cracks me up! Thanks for the time and effort you put into making these.
I worked on wedge brakes for years , they worked very well , they still make kits , parts , ECT , for them , they were used on city coach busses for a long time , RTS was one company for example !!!
O-H-I-O Porters🇺🇸 Thrilled to see the old 65 GMC come back to life! The old truck sure sounded good & really wanted to run! WOW!! I have a 62 model as well, but it’s still sitting & awaiting some TLC. Just haven’t been able to touch it yet. I enjoyed all the interaction going on while getting things to operate properly in order to fire it up. What a thrill! Hope to see more of the truck & get more info about the axles, frame, etc. And it’s For Sale? Maybe not yet? Those Crackerboxes were quite tall & very unique looking! I saw mine just sitting in a field & had to inquire about it. I made an offer & the guy called me a while later to tell me to come get it or it was going to junkyard. I’m sure that several of the old timers loved them. I sure do! Cabovers Rule! Good stuff! I shall check more of your videos out to get more on this rig! Thanks again, my friend! Blessings! 🥰🤩✌️
Amazing back in the day everyone was making semi's! GM, Ford, Mac, Autocar, White, Peterbilt, Freightliner, KW, Westernstar, everyone and their mother's!
Great video Wayne nice GMC Crackerbox the 671 sounds good . Looking forward to the Kenworth you bought hopefully in the next video. Thanks for sharing stay safe Wayne 👍
Always enjoy the cameo appearances by Greta and the Shake Weight commercials.😂 The interior on that crackerbox is just yummy looking. Didn't smell bad? Maybe it was an exceptionally clean mouse family living in it! Someone really did love that GMC, they did quite a bit of extra work to it. The passenger side cab ladder had to come from a KW K100. At least it runs, but it does need just a little bit of work. Well... a lot of work... a whole lot of work.
That tag set up is super cool...my 1955 b model mack is a sinlgle axle spring ride with a York air assisted tag...i really like it and the look ... Awesome find..
I first saw this truck at walcott jamboree about 2009 father and son brought it there. They both slept in it together and they weren't actually petite! This truck has history! It was a house hauler for Pabts Blue ribbon. Where did you find it? Please respect her she's american history! Ps some had factory side boxes in place of the 45°
I'm from Michigan I remember the beautiful fleet of Steel case trucks the owner of the company I worked for in AnnArbor was so impressed with them he went to grand rapids to see get a tour of the trucks after that our fleet was painted dark blue metallic
It’s a cool looking truck but what do you do with something like that, it would take a small fortune to get that thing safe and updated and road legal again. She is a looker though!!👍
That old 6-71 sounds like it might be a good runner! When I lived in PA. back in the late 70's, I worked for a large dairy that had several GMC Astro 60 C.O.E.'s with 6v53's and a 5 & 2. They were the worst kidney killers ever, loaded or empty. We even had one that was a straight truck with a 500 gallon stainless milk tank on the back, and the only one that rode halfway decent! Those 6v53's were N/A and therefore, pretty much gutless.🤪 ..and noisy! You'd be half deaf after 8 hours in one of those giant tuna cans! I took the Turnpike route once a week to spell the regular drivers. We went from West Philly to New Stanton and served all the Howard Johnsons along the Turnpike with shake mix and other dairy products. What a grueling run!! 😜😉
That is part of what you need. That genset 12V71 would slip right under that cab nicely. All old Wayno needs is a set of rails with a decent pair of diffs, bang it all together and hes got a hot rod. The DDEC 92 from the Haul truck could work too.
I’d rather have a cracker box, then a full hood, driving around town. With a two stroke Detroit diesel with a-full-Jake. Just a scare the hell out of people on the street. love to get my hands on an old GMC Cracker like that but where I live, they’re all rusted to dust. (North East US) Sweet Little Ride 🚛💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨👍🏻 PS…. I can smell the inside of that cab, from way up here boys.
Wasn't that truck in a u-tube video about 10 years ago, posted on "Just Old Trucks" ? Owned by a father and son in Iowa , both with same name. Then the son went off to work at a big truck wrecking yard in that area . They were active when the late Michelle Cole was active with her N model and later with an LTL Ford . But Wayne, thanks for rescueing the old box and quickly get it running . PS : 15" drums on wedge brakes , so gotta change all hardware.; backing plates, cam brackets, shoes and drums ... or swap housings .
Thousands of those old birds had new way tag axles on them. They were just get the job done Trucks. I had to laugh before you tilted the cab. You haven’t worked on cab overs until you sent a Stanley thermos through the windshield Then you’ve graduated to expert
The 65 GMC Crackerbox truck still looks like it wants to live for another day. it will take a little time to get it back in good shape. have a beer on me Mate.
Imagine a day cab one of these with an ill fitting dump box. Apparently my grandfather was a GM nut back in the day and this was our first diesel. According to dad it would carry the steer axle when spreading gravel because the box was so far back on the frame.
I could count on no more than maybe both hands & one foot the number of those 29" KW raised-neck tanks I've seen (used only from mid-'68 through 1972) and they look to be in great shape.
@@Ol2Stroker if you look at the neck castings they will KW part numbers on them and likely a date etched in with one of those electric pencils. They loved those things.
I know you don't like that truck but I absolutely love Detroit engines and I especially like the older engines they are becoming rare every day please be kind to these old girls
Funny you have a cabover this video I messaged you a couple of days ago about the scammell trucks that had detroit engines, the cracker box predates that by around 6 years though at least this has a tilt cab the crusader had a fixed cab but a hinged grille that you pulled the engine out through to work on, not the best system, coincidentally Bedford imported a couple of cracker box gms to the UK when developing their TM model for evaluation, they hardly got used and were scrapped a couple years later despite being essentially brand new.
I used to drive straight trucks with 2 speed rear axles and I hated when you go to shift into high and it doesn’t shift so you pop it back down and listen to it rattling until it goes BANG 😂
How hard would it be to just swap out both the rear axles to a newer style axle from a junk yard . with the current style brakes, Vs making it a single axle truck . I think you would have to do a transmission swap to through which sucks
This truck does look better with the panels that they put on the side, instead of having the goofy looking 45 degree cut at the back of the cab... Love the dog. I've had a couple Labs. He didn't seem very impressed with the GMC. He must not have noticed the polished half fenders LOL... The long hood 900 was interesting. Don't see the Canadian spread on the drives very often in the U.S. Was that one a V12 ?
You all can say what you want, but when it was brand new, there was one happy Trucker behind the wheel
A happy driver 😂 I'd agree with a wise assed grumpy one
@@travisgauthier1836 ...and deaf.
@@travisgauthier1836 He was driving a framall AC before he got that.
Was a badass ride back in its day I agree!
I drove a 1963 with a 6 71 a 10speed . It was a single axle with no tag. That thing had so much slop in the shifter it was insane but it always shifted good. It had as much power as any 8V71 I ever drove. This was back it 1974, 75. Thanks for the memories.
My first ever ride in a semi as a kid was in a Crackerbox. Grandpa’s grain hauler, Dad was driving.
That truck was a Tractor of the Month in the old Overdrive magazine.
No way?! What issue?!
@@Ol2StrokerYeah. I think 🤔 it was too! Many many years ago. Hearing that CrackerBox run reminded me of the one used on the tv 📺 show Movin’ On 😁👍
@@stevencaka
Wasn't it called "Pig Pen"?
@ I believe it was on the show. Certainly appeared like one on screen compared to “Sundance”
@ I have them all. I’ll try to find it.
Dude I love the GMC cracker box. Coolest little COE out there.
They were awesome in there time
Certainly a blast from the past. Those trucks were a dime a dozen around the steel mills where I was raised, single screws with tri axle trailers to haul steel coils of flat stock. Amazing you even found one in that condition or lack there of. Definitely a survivor
Wish I got to it sooner
A friend of mine took an old cracker box and tore in down to the frame and rebuilt it from the ground up back in the late 70s. Put a 8v 71 in it with 13 speed. New way tag axle with a killer paint job. We hauled bulls Al over the US him in the cracker box and me in my W9 with a 3408 5x4 tranny. He made that Detroit sing! Those were some fun days! Sorry to say he has past on…
Sweet! Thanks so much for the cracker box memory
I remember pictures of that truck on the ATHS website about 10 years ago. An older gentleman had run it for years until he retired. There was more said about it at the time bu that is all that I remember.
OUTSTANDING !!! Always liked them old Cracker boxes great video as always
Rattled around all over the Country hauling steel with a buddy of Mine. Fresh out of high school and headed for Mechanic's school in '76. Good Memories 😊
I love those Cracker Box Jimmy's!! Would love to drive one. My Grandpa talked about them
My brother welded for Neway for years when they were in Muskegon Michigan
Have a 1964 Crackerbox my grandfather drove many miles. 6 71 with 5 speed and 2 speed diffs twin screw.
With power steering
@@rossman0297Never seen a crackerbox with power steering, only what they called center point steering.
I had one that I had to change gear boxes out on because of wear, put one from a 78 Astro with power steering. Was a huge pain to do.
This isn't power steering as in the trucks today but has a pump and cylinder that assists the turning. My grandfather blew steer years ago on hauling grain and said if wasn't for that he'd been in the ditch.
A friend of mine has a crackerbox with a tandem with only the front being the driver. Also, the air ride works all on one airbag. Its quite a mechanism.
This is my favorite truck this site has ever had I watched the whole video for the first time
Oh wow, the Crackerbox is one of the first trucks to fascinate me!!! After noticing the one in Movin' On, I began to notice them on the highways, as the last of them were still less than ten years old.
Loved Movin On!
PigPen in the cracker box!
They even had the new GMC Astros!
Bus driver seating.
@@Torsee Benji and Moose!
In my opinion, this is the best truck video on TH-cam. Informative, interesting content, very well produced and edited. I suspect your wife has something to do with that. Plus, being from the south, hearing the banter amongst the New York boys just cracks me up! Thanks for the time and effort you put into making these.
YES!!!! So glad you have a crackerbox on the channel! I remember seeing this truck hooked to a flatbed years ago. Hope you keep it like this.
What a challenge!!! Thanks!
I'm two days behind on this video. Love the ol cracker box trucks. Very cool cabovers. Very rough cabovers. Love it
Oh word up!!! A Video drop boys.
“Having fun in GMland” haha i do it every day Wayne
I worked on wedge brakes for years , they worked very well , they still make kits , parts , ECT , for them , they were used on city coach busses for a long time , RTS was one company for example !!!
O-H-I-O Porters🇺🇸 Thrilled to see the old 65 GMC come back to life! The old truck sure sounded good & really wanted to run! WOW!! I have a 62 model as well, but it’s still sitting & awaiting some TLC. Just haven’t been able to touch it yet. I enjoyed all the interaction going on while getting things to operate properly in order to fire it up. What a thrill! Hope to see more of the truck & get more info about the axles, frame, etc. And it’s For Sale? Maybe not yet? Those Crackerboxes were quite tall & very unique looking! I saw mine just sitting in a field & had to inquire about it. I made an offer & the guy called me a while later to tell me to come get it or it was going to junkyard. I’m sure that several of the old timers loved them. I sure do! Cabovers Rule! Good stuff! I shall check more of your videos out to get more on this rig! Thanks again, my friend! Blessings! 🥰🤩✌️
Amazing back in the day everyone was making semi's! GM, Ford, Mac, Autocar, White, Peterbilt, Freightliner, KW, Westernstar, everyone and their mother's!
This is what I learned to drive in. 18 speed. Detroit V-8, supercharged. It was awesome.
Really cool truck 6/71 backbone of this country
Hell I'd love to have that old rig for hay hauling out here in nm.
It could be yours 🤣🤣
Great looking truck. For what it is, it sounds pretty decent. Loving the volume of videos your pumping out keep up the great work!
Great video Wayne nice GMC Crackerbox the 671 sounds good . Looking forward to the Kenworth you bought hopefully in the next video. Thanks for sharing stay safe Wayne 👍
Thanks man stay tuned!
Fantastic, my first truck had a 238 with a 10 speed trans. Hope you get running and clean it up. It looks great
Love those old cracker boxes
Especially the day cabs! I don't why but there's just something about the short cab that I like
A man has to set, and know his limits. This is definitely outside the limits LOL Fun video for us though, so much appreciation from here!
Always enjoy the cameo appearances by Greta and the Shake Weight commercials.😂
The interior on that crackerbox is just yummy looking. Didn't smell bad? Maybe it was an exceptionally clean mouse family living in it!
Someone really did love that GMC, they did quite a bit of extra work to it. The passenger side cab ladder had to come from a KW K100.
At least it runs, but it does need just a little bit of work. Well... a lot of work... a whole lot of work.
My dad had one in the late 60's. Now I want!!
I love your opening! Makes me want to watch Maximum overdrive!
what an awesome truck!
never did like those.. great video tho bro
Steam cleaner for the win.
I'll be there tomorrow. You think she'll make it to Virginia? 😂 I love Tracy's comments! Thanks Wayno ❤
🤣🤣 good luck! I know that 671 won’t be what lets you down
His face when that handle broke was priceless 😆
Classic neighbor kid.
Love the GMC Crackerbox
"You gonna pull out? Alright that's what she said" 🤣
when i saw the brake release i started singing and then BAM! best u tube into ever !!!
That tag set up is super cool...my 1955 b model mack is a sinlgle axle spring ride with a York air assisted tag...i really like it and the look ...
Awesome find..
I first saw this truck at walcott jamboree about 2009 father and son brought it there. They both slept in it together and they weren't actually petite! This truck has history! It was a house hauler for Pabts Blue ribbon. Where did you find it? Please respect her she's american history! Ps some had factory side boxes in place of the 45°
Dad had a kw 100 with 8v71..steelcase furniture painted white. Named Miss White. 13 R.R. loved that truck. Wedge sucks. Update that.
I'm from Michigan I remember the beautiful fleet of Steel case trucks the owner of the company I worked for in AnnArbor was so impressed with them he went to grand rapids to see get a tour of the trucks after that our fleet was painted dark blue metallic
Great video Wayne! She definitely runs, hopefully she drives 🤞
Pretty decent old truck. Didn’t take much to get it running. Bring it to Onaway, Im sure you will make a few bucks. Thanks for the Videos.
You just have to change the brake spider, I've done a few.
It’s a cool looking truck but what do you do with something like that, it would take a small fortune to get that thing safe and updated and road legal again. She is a looker though!!👍
It’s such a shame because the thing totally has the look of
That old 6-71 sounds like it might be a good runner! When I lived in PA. back in the late 70's, I worked for a large dairy that had several GMC Astro 60 C.O.E.'s with 6v53's and a 5 & 2. They were the worst kidney killers ever, loaded or empty. We even had one that was a straight truck with a 500 gallon stainless milk tank on the back, and the only one that rode halfway decent! Those 6v53's were N/A and therefore, pretty much gutless.🤪 ..and noisy! You'd be half deaf after 8 hours in one of those giant tuna cans! I took the Turnpike route once a week to spell the regular drivers. We went from West Philly to New Stanton and served all the Howard Johnsons along the Turnpike with shake mix and other dairy products. What a grueling run!! 😜😉
671 runs really nice actually im real happy with that part
Put a airbag drive axle in that cabover,the tags already airbagged,keep it super simple,its an idea,cheers from australia 🇦🇺
That is part of what you need. That genset 12V71 would slip right under that cab nicely.
All old Wayno needs is a set of rails with a decent pair of diffs, bang it all together and hes got a hot rod. The DDEC 92 from the Haul truck could work too.
ABSOLUTELY--------> AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!. 🙂
I love the total disinterest in this thing 🤣 crabby Wayne makes me giggle
Crabby Wayne was big crabby
I’d rather have a cracker box, then a full hood, driving around town. With a two stroke Detroit diesel with a-full-Jake. Just a scare the hell out of people on the street. love to get my hands on an old GMC Cracker like that but where I live, they’re all rusted to dust. (North East US) Sweet Little Ride 🚛💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨👍🏻
PS…. I can smell the inside of that cab, from way up here boys.
Wasn't that truck in a u-tube video about 10 years ago, posted on "Just Old Trucks" ? Owned by a father and son in Iowa , both with same name. Then the son went off to work at a big truck wrecking yard in that area . They were active when the late Michelle Cole was active with her N model and later with an LTL Ford . But Wayne, thanks for rescueing the old box and quickly get it running . PS : 15" drums on wedge brakes , so gotta change all hardware.; backing plates, cam brackets, shoes and drums ... or swap housings .
Open the doors when tilting a cab over. Works on the Japanese ones at least.
@@kingofthepod5169 unless the torsion bar is broken. Had to replace one. I was always scared of lifting them after that 😂
Thousands of those old birds had new way tag axles on them. They were just get the job done Trucks. I had to laugh before you tilted the cab. You haven’t worked on cab overs until you sent a Stanley thermos through the windshield Then you’ve graduated to expert
Or a big Ben alarm clock!
I ran an old Ford tipper in the 70s, tilted the cab one day and the windscreen fell out 😊
(from behind the camera)..."put your back into it!". Ok i had to laugh-I'm sure that's not the first time Wayno has heard that😂
Pb blaster needs to sponsor you.
Free All you mean? I agree!
Always check shut down cable to the emergency plate .and yes id buy that
The addiction is real! 😂
Scott is so funny😂. I died laughing at the "WhaTd yOu Do!" clip that was perfect.
One of my favorite moments I’ve ever caught on film
The 65 GMC Crackerbox truck still looks like it wants to live for another day. it will take a little time to get it back in good shape. have a beer on me Mate.
Just a gem of a truck..lol heard stories of the old girl being a back breaker.
Wayne you with that cracker box G.M.C., I think you have been hanging out with Mark Taylor too LOOONNGG🏁🏁🔥
Bahahahaha
Imagine a day cab one of these with an ill fitting dump box. Apparently my grandfather was a GM nut back in the day and this was our first diesel. According to dad it would carry the steer axle when spreading gravel because the box was so far back on the frame.
opening the door helps when lifting the cab
This is a great idea and probably never would’ve occurred to me
I would gladly take it. But I am in north dakota. I love those old cabovers
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From South Korea 🇰🇷 💕 💓 😊
I love this stubborn cracker box. Was it on marketplace recently?
No it wasn’t
I could count on no more than maybe both hands & one foot the number of those 29" KW raised-neck tanks I've seen (used only from mid-'68 through 1972) and they look to be in great shape.
Hmmmm I was thinking those were freightliner tanks. Interesting!
@@Ol2Stroker if you look at the neck castings they will KW part numbers on them and likely a date etched in with one of those electric pencils. They loved those things.
I know you don't like that truck but I absolutely love Detroit engines and I especially like the older engines they are becoming rare every day please be kind to these old girls
Good truck
Thats a cool truck!
Funny you have a cabover this video I messaged you a couple of days ago about the scammell trucks that had detroit engines, the cracker box predates that by around 6 years though at least this has a tilt cab the crusader had a fixed cab but a hinged grille that you pulled the engine out through to work on, not the best system, coincidentally Bedford imported a couple of cracker box gms to the UK when developing their TM model for evaluation, they hardly got used and were scrapped a couple years later despite being essentially brand new.
Awesome Wayno
How are they hangin today , mate how about a competition for some swag mate I’d love to win some 🎉
its the Ritz ... nice bones LOL V12 Cracker Box
This rig reminds me of the Pig Pen rig on the TV series Movin' On
Outstanding 👍
Hey Dane Scott (Dane Scott's Trucker's Lounge TH-cam Channel) there's a vintage GMC Crackerbox with your name writtwn all over it.😂
You did good
Dane Scott would be proud of you, Wayne, if you kept it! 71 Series!
Cracker box 😎
Good job !!!!!!!
Still a pretty cool old truck. 👍🏻
It did have a nice valve cover.
It's a well known truck.i seen it in Walcott 14 years ago 😊
I used to drive straight trucks with 2 speed rear axles and I hated when you go to shift into high and it doesn’t shift so you pop it back down and listen to it rattling until it goes BANG 😂
Man thats is a sweet wayne
New here was wondering if yall do customer work or just do your own thing
Ehhhh it depends. I used to do a lot more of it. Best to send me an email ol2stroker@gmail.com
@Ol2Stroker cool I understand pick and choose i do the same thing I'll try to email ya thanks
still cool ol junk
How hard would it be to just swap out both the rear axles to a newer style axle from a junk yard . with the current style brakes, Vs making it a single axle truck . I think you would have to do a transmission swap to through which sucks
Love these Crackerboxes - one of those "so ugly it's bea..." well, nah, still pretty friggin ugly, hahaha. Love em, though.
put a v12 in it and make a one of a kind show truck out of it , that would be SWEET
This truck does look better with the panels that they put on the side, instead of having
the goofy looking 45 degree cut at the back of the cab...
Love the dog. I've had a couple Labs. He didn't seem very impressed with the GMC.
He must not have noticed the polished half fenders LOL...
The long hood 900 was interesting. Don't see the Canadian spread on the drives very often
in the U.S. Was that one a V12 ?
Dog is as enthusiastic about the cracker box as I am hahahah! What kw?! 😁🧐🧐😅😉
Sooo what's with the KW?
……
Boooo! @@Ol2Stroker
Dane Scott’s Trucker’s Lounge might be one who’d be interested in this…..