GMC 8V71 CRACKER BOXES "The Crackerbox Hunter"

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  • Come along with Dane Scott as he hunts down not only ONE....but TWO GMC 8v71 Crackerboxes. Both are 1968s and are close in VIN numbers to boot!
    Great history and vintage iron from OHIO Steel Haulin and Mechanical talent days!
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  • @robertprice7246
    @robertprice7246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I do love the sound of a Detroit Diesel ! Back when I was a boy, I'd keep my room windows open on a quiet summer night and lay there quietly drifting off to sleep listening to the trucks gear down to make it up the hill on Hwy. 41 To the North of Springfield. Usually about 5 or 6 gear downs. I miss those days and that sound

  • @danielrenovetz5721
    @danielrenovetz5721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Dane Scott---- Thanks for featuring and honoring 2 members of the Northeast Ohio ATHS chapter. Their matching Crackerboxes are a hit at many local shows, as they're oddities in many shows that seem to draw a gaggle of "large Cars" . Bob's award is special because he survived over 50 years wrenching on many makes and models of trucks.......and engines, but is our local "go to" guy for Detroits. Herm Miller's truck is a beautiful tribute to the late Herman Miller, and Mom Rachael is cool riding with her sons.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was my pleasure ...trust me. I enjoy them at the shows too. Thanks for watching.

  • @durango8882
    @durango8882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic

  • @Mr.Highway
    @Mr.Highway 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Coming out of the Era of
    73,280 and 38' trailers..
    2 stroke Detroit, best engine ever..
    Still get parts world wide...
    Hot in the summer and cold in the winter..
    Great trucks !!

  • @danbrown6555
    @danbrown6555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Bob worked on my dads 66 cracker box, his had a 6-71 with a 5 speed trans and a 2 speed rear end. Dads was also bought new from the same dealership. I grew up and lived within a few miles from Bobs place up until a few years ago. Dad always said no one could set the rack and tune a Detroit better than Bob. Thanks for the video!

    • @truthseeker2321
      @truthseeker2321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Army used Detroit diesels in their tanks and armored personnel carriers.
      The M-60 tank used a 12v71 and the M113 personnel carriers used 8v71 , I believe, if memory serves me correctly.
      Those engines were perfect for those jobs, because they didn't require a warm-up period- you could cold start and go full throttle, even in freezing conditions.
      The first tractor trailer I drove had a 6-71, and that was 34 years ago. My ears are still ringing!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats just so cool. small world. Thanks for watching!

    • @jimmycline4778
      @jimmycline4778 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like the ones without the sleeper the best!

  • @miketee2444
    @miketee2444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another couple that are safe for a while. They are both running well and sounding even better..

  • @kelvintorrence5994
    @kelvintorrence5994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i freaking love those old gmc crackerboxes i grew up with them and hearing those old dirty detroits screaming all day and nite,love em

  • @annsalsgiver
    @annsalsgiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That's my Papa ,I grew up in that house ! I love this

  • @markraymond1196
    @markraymond1196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I drove one of those crackerboxes for a few years back in the early 80s. Ran NJ pulling a 42 ft trailer. Same year as these 2 trucks. 671 inline 6 238 hp. Couldn't pry the smile off my face back then

  • @cornpopfailed4141
    @cornpopfailed4141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I would love to see these at a truck show. Really loving the cab over videos that are having a sort of cult following now.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes they are getting more attention thank goodness! I’m sure they will be at the Dying Breed Diesels “Family Reunion “ show downtown Columbiana Ohio Oct 2nd.
      Thanks for watching

  • @albertcoburn5674
    @albertcoburn5674 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Growing up at a country store out from Tifton, Colonial Stores had a distribution center in Thomasville, and I would see these trucks many times a day pass by. Colonial had a fleet of them.

  • @sumsumgiver27
    @sumsumgiver27 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I miss riding bobs (my grandfathers) craker box with him and going to shows, i did that with him since i was little and polished for the shows to, he was taken to early from me and my family and his friends but im just glad that he was able to show his prize joy to the world other than his model t's ❤

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I truly enjoyed my interactions with him. Very nice man 😔

  • @DanEBoyd
    @DanEBoyd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember seeing Crackerboxes used by UPS on I-70 in Ohio in the early to mid 1980s. I was young and didn't know that they were Crackerboxes because they were daycabs and UPS debadged most of their trucks. But I knew what a Crackerbox was from having seen Benji and Moose on the TV show Movin' On. I remembered the distinctive "A" framing above their front bumper , and later in life realized what they were.
    UPS was still running White 5000s at that time as well, another truck I wouldn't identify until later in life!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Awesome memories for sure! I didn’t even know UPS used the cracker boxes I’ll have to look up that info for some pics. I love that set up Benji and Moose used on moving on. I used to watch that show as a kid religiously. Thanks for watching and sharing your memory.

  • @gerardpoltawsky4656
    @gerardpoltawsky4656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i m from nyc and as a kid this is the only truck i remember , my fav orite and the one in the background i had a king size matchbox double dump truck lol thanks for the show

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh ya! The childhood connection is the foundation to the love of these vintage gems. Thanks for watching.

    • @gerardpoltawsky4656
      @gerardpoltawsky4656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE one of the reason why i luv trucks is because of these great design s , thganks for the great mems !

  • @shaunchappell784
    @shaunchappell784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hope you don't mind swearing, but from an Englishman who appreciates all things V8.........those look and sound majestic as fuck!!!
    MURICA!!!!

  • @dr4963
    @dr4963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A GMC Crackerbox was the first truck I ever drove, just like the red one. learned how to drive a truck with it. In 1975 fresh out of high school a neighbor hired me to help him truck cross country with him I didn’t even have a CDL…called a chauffeurs license back then…. After about six months he said well I guess you ought to get a license and I did. Thought I had something back then hauling freight with that 318 Detroit lol. I went on to truck for a living from 1975 to 2017 but with some big Peterbilts and Catapillars. The good old days of trucking are long gone now.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes they are, which is why I'm doing the channel. What a great story from a great American Driver! Thank you for watching.

  • @timothyedmiston8756
    @timothyedmiston8756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never get tired of hearing that sound

  • @philipmichel215
    @philipmichel215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey there fellow Ohioan. I was born and grew up in Canton and now reside in Toledo. I am a 2 stroke Detroit Diesel junkie. Those are two fine ceacker boxes for sure.

  • @scpittman5769
    @scpittman5769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love seeing rare gems like this with 8v71 in them

  • @TandemAdventurers
    @TandemAdventurers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful classics!!!!!!

  • @paulmays7996
    @paulmays7996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Reminds me of the (Blue Mule) in the movie White Line Fever, loved that movie as a kid, I’m 60 now loved all those old trucker movies

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do agree! Thanks for watching

    • @DanEBoyd
      @DanEBoyd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Blue Mule was actually a Ford W series.

  • @greenbeenie2
    @greenbeenie2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yes two wonderful cracker boxes....the blue sure is a pretty paint scheme, and of course the carpet interior is the "best looking" interior I have ever seen in one. congrats. Keep them rolling boys....

  • @tazgee6609
    @tazgee6609 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Nice old trucks!!! Good to see them in such great shape and not rotting in a field!!!! Thanks for showing them.

  • @hermanmiller6287
    @hermanmiller6287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thanks to Dane for getting these two classics together for this video. An awesome Sunday afternoon of reminiscing about Dad's Steelhauler and the man who turned the wrenches💪

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am honored to honor them! See you soon.😬

    • @annsalsgiver
      @annsalsgiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is Awesome I love these guys that's my Papa

  • @patricktownsend6002
    @patricktownsend6002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful trucks

  • @arthurschipper8906
    @arthurschipper8906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I want one!

  • @peteschiavoni
    @peteschiavoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love these old rigs. I remember seeing them as a kid. So very cool

  • @MilePost106
    @MilePost106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want to go back to the old days of trucking!

  • @TERoss-jk9ny
    @TERoss-jk9ny 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My dad was flown to Seattle in the mid 60’s to pick up a brand new cracker box, single screw hay hauler. The stories I could tell.

  • @PoptartGoneTrucking7016
    @PoptartGoneTrucking7016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These trucks are amazing if only I had one

  • @445xone
    @445xone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice memories...I had lots of jump seat miles in a Crackerbox with my dad..

  • @pauljohansson695
    @pauljohansson695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the sound of the 8V 71

  • @ronrichardson1276
    @ronrichardson1276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Drove both cracker box and Emeryville for Winn Dixie back in early eightys Louisville KY

  • @dp.oennismaurer205
    @dp.oennismaurer205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My ex trucking part- ner's dad worked for a company from New Brunswick,N.J. Smith & Solomon Trucking. They ran a lot of crackerboxes, non sleeper that had derated I-6 71's. From an old GMC brochure when I had collected info from many man- ufacturers, there was a contractor in Michigan that ran cracker boxes with 12V-71's, super size earth mover style single tires on the drivers and the triple axles on both trailers. It looked quite strange with the regular truck tires on the steering axle and the earth- mover style on the drive axles. The cab was non sleeper & the V-12 protruded out the back of the cab.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can only imagine it musta looked AND sounded like a monster! Thanks for watching 😬

  • @alvan4080
    @alvan4080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The first company I drove for in the early 70s had a bunch of old cracker box day cabs that were old road trucks from Norwalk truck line -they had over a million miles-no power steering and no air seat -after 12 hours in one of those you were beat

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can only imagine the pain lol! Thanks for watching.

    • @truthseeker2321
      @truthseeker2321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No air seat!? After 12 hours in one of those, you could probably use an ass transplant operation.
      I started out driving various cabover trucks, like Internationals and Freightliners, and they all had air seats, air ride suspension and air ride cabs, and those would still give you a good beating!
      Can't imagine what it was like before the 80's!

  • @garysumma5527
    @garysumma5527 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    👍 , when I first started driving in the 80's . Guys were still hauling steel and grain in my area everyday with them!😂

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yepp, I remember seein so many of them and lovin how unique looking they are. Thank you for watching!😬

  • @donaldjohnson2813
    @donaldjohnson2813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    my uncle had'63 screaming"jimmy"he drove for United Van Lines in the lower 48 & Canada with a/c

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loved that old "United" paint scheme! Thanks for watching.

    • @joeyswafford2504
      @joeyswafford2504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If your Uncle had put a lot of wood inside the cab for woodgrain look. I remember talking to him about and admiring his truck at a truck stop in the early 90's. Very nice man to talk to. Loved his ole truck.

  • @dieselwrench3621
    @dieselwrench3621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I need one of those. I love the cracker box👍

  • @paulludwig2822
    @paulludwig2822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Old Detroit's. Go to love 'em. Would hear them coming long before you'd

  • @christophershick1571
    @christophershick1571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thanks for sharing my Dad’s toys! Bob still plays with trucks and is having a blast with these antique gems.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is my pleasure, the hobby is all about the people that are behind the wheels.

  • @joeyswafford2504
    @joeyswafford2504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks Dane!! Great video!! Love the ole Cracker Box cab GMC's!! Those 318's sound great!!! Nothing like the old two strokes!!

  • @hardit359
    @hardit359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm amazed he could drive and steer with one arm

  • @Ramblur66
    @Ramblur66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thanks for sharing. My dad ran crackerboxes in the 60's from Columbiana and knew these guys well. Great memories for me!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So glad to be able to share and make the connection for you. Thats what this "Hobby" is all about ....at least to me. Thank you for watching!

  • @jessecondit2211
    @jessecondit2211 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice job you guys, first semi truck I rode in. Now I'm a 40 year driver. They look amazing!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hat tipped to your service Driver! Thanks for watching as well. 😬👍

  • @keithjones197
    @keithjones197 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cracker box was first truck I ever drove.havent thought about it in a long time

  • @FlorentinoRebuildingCo.5644
    @FlorentinoRebuildingCo.5644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I absolutely love this video. I remember seeing the cracker boxes when I was a kid....not over the road, but shuttling trailer pups off of railroad flat cars and to various nearby industries in the downtown LA area in the late 60's and very early 70's
    Thank you for posting.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Awesome memories of the heyday of trucking for sure. Thank you for sharing AND watching.

  • @jamro217
    @jamro217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That blue one is the cleanest running Detroit I've ever seen. No blue cloud.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It IS beauty in motion. Thanks for watching

    • @hermanmiller6287
      @hermanmiller6287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Engine still runs great and hasn't been touched for any major mechanical work in over 25 years 😎

  • @7080nik
    @7080nik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SO COOL the old trucks are. I was 8 years old when these were new. I remember, as a kid, seeing them everywhere on the highways hauling stuff. Actually, they kinda freaked me out. I was a little scared of them. LOL. I gotta go to one of these old truck shows someday. Thanks for posting this awesome vid!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm right with ya Budd, They have that mean look to them...and with the sound of an angry Detroit 2 stroke....YES!!!

  • @kingbee5155
    @kingbee5155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I MUST have a truck like that. Single rear axle, though. With sleeper.

  • @dirtydiesels3110
    @dirtydiesels3110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing I was born in 68 lol way kool seeing this stuff still exists love it what a history lesson

  • @stevieraymac774
    @stevieraymac774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent video!!!!

  • @wescottllc9522
    @wescottllc9522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    (Posted by Rick Pickell) Both Jimmy's are awesome. But I'd take that old Dodge shot in the back ground too.

  • @danw1955
    @danw1955 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That blue and white rig sounds amazing with the straight stacks!! What a beauty! I've sacrificed a kidney or two back in the day to a few of these rough riding S.O.B.'s!!🤣👍👍

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol, we’ll hat tipped to you Driver for your service and sacrifice 😬👍

  • @Marbleheadjed
    @Marbleheadjed ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful trucks , great guys .

  • @Plowguitarist
    @Plowguitarist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man, brings back lots of memories. Two of my brothers drove cracker boxes and I rode many miles in them. Ruined me lol been trucking 38 years this year myself. Thanks for the memories..

  • @robertpoudrette4483
    @robertpoudrette4483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They're both in beautiful shape. Very nice!

  • @oldman975
    @oldman975 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It amazes me that over 50 years ago someone was able to figure out how to build a cabover with a virtually flat floor.

  • @clydediddit5753
    @clydediddit5753 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the sound of those 2-Stroke Detroit "Screamer" engines!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And how!😬thanks for watching

    • @bertgrau3934
      @bertgrau3934 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Clyde,
      I agree, nothing sounds like a 2 stroke Detroit, I lost some of my hearing because of those loud noise makers, still they sound sweet

  • @jimwood4726
    @jimwood4726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rember these old girls grow up & started to learn to drive on these type of trucks nice viedos

  • @BIGRCTRUCKSUPERJETTURBO
    @BIGRCTRUCKSUPERJETTURBO 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    AMAZING CLASSIC TRUCK.

  • @tygreenwood472
    @tygreenwood472 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was a really cool video the GMC cracker boxes and Emeryville were two interesting looking coes for their time neat that the blue one originally came from Zelienople Pa I use to drive for a company out of Zelienople!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hats off to you driver! I agree. Thanks for watching 👍

    • @hermanmiller6287
      @hermanmiller6287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My father bought the blue one from the owner in Zelienople, Pa. Only 2 owners to my knowledge 😎

  • @TheFluffyWendigo
    @TheFluffyWendigo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That thing started faster than my accord

  • @caseyjones3684
    @caseyjones3684 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the sound of V8 2 Stroke Detroit....

    • @js7447
      @js7447 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The V-12's sounded like a diesel symphony orchestra 😊😊😊. There's a guy on TH-cam restoring a '72 Peterbuilt COE with a DD V-12 Two Stroker... Thing sounds wicked👍👍👍

  • @rickmartin5221
    @rickmartin5221 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was a kid in the mid-60s, my dad drove a "crackerbox" (at the time, he called it a "slab cab Jimmy") for a while, hauling lumber out of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, for an outfit called Fleron Lumber. I remember a few trips with him down into Michigan. Man, was it loud in that cab! Thanks for bringing back some old memories for me.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s what it’s all about for me, being able help connect us to some great memories. Thanks for watching Rick.

  • @danielkennedy1524
    @danielkennedy1524 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    With that weight the 71 and 92s needed as many gears as possible. Good HP however light on torque. Great machines! Love them!

    • @lembriggs1075
      @lembriggs1075 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope. Heavy on torque as well.

    • @alejandrozarate8299
      @alejandrozarate8299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rebuenisimo.mejor.que
      Los nuevo
      De ahora
      Eso socamiones nunca. Vía acá. En argentina lastima los otros camiones si como
      Sus camionetas

  • @Retired88M
    @Retired88M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I had a friend that ran one of these coast to coast until he bought his first Astro

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow! I’m sure that was a long ride of “comfort” lol.

    • @Retired88M
      @Retired88M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      This was before all the interstates we’re completed and the US Routes we’re in better shape than some of today’s interstates because they were built to last not to fall apart to keep the construction guys working

  • @TheBostonTrucker
    @TheBostonTrucker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Screaming Jimmies!!! This was great! Thanks for the interviews! Couple of awesome guys!

  • @the.porter.productions
    @the.porter.productions ปีที่แล้ว

    O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I’m getting around to this video. I had not seen it before…shocking! I love hearing the stories & the action as well! WOW! Herman had his at your show & it was so good to see it in person. It’s one sharp rig! I saw a Crackerbox at a show years ago. He was looking for a parts truck. I saw one in a field when I was out one day & checked it out. I made an offer on it so the owner wouldn’t junk it. He delayed a bit & then called me a week later. I had a friend tow it to my house. When I told him I had he decided that he didn’t want it. I kept it for quite some time, but never attempted to start it. My brother saw pics of it & wanted it, so I gave it to him. He was so thrilled to get it. It was a project that we were gonna do together. We never got that far on our brother projects. I love the way those trucks looked & sounded. They are so cool & unique in so many ways. I have yet to ride in one. Thanks for sharing! Jaw dropping AWESOME! 🥰🥰✌️

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks buddy, sorry you didn’t get to share that resto with your brother. There’s just something special about them…. At least to a lot of us.

    • @the.porter.productions
      @the.porter.productions ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE 🇺🇸 I saw it just yesterday. My niece asked me if I wanted that truck, too. I really didn’t know what to say to her. I have kept adding to my list of projects. The good thing is that I have at least one of my boys that is wanting & willing to work on these truck projects with me. I have such good memories of my brother & his legacy will live on through me as I work on my trucks with my boys. My brother was quite special & unique to me! Anyone who knows me surely knows how I feel about my family. Who knows what trucks I will add to my collection. Time will tell! Blessings!🥰😎✌️

  • @cuttnhorse2013
    @cuttnhorse2013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Had 2 friends that , 1 owned the cracker box and the other was a great welder/metal worker. They made a double wide cracker box! It was as cool as cool can get! Would love to find it again!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds killer looking. Thanks for watching 😬

    • @cuttnhorse2013
      @cuttnhorse2013 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was, they also stretched the frame some, can’t remember how much,but it looked great back in the day! The truck was red. Forgot to mention that in my first post.

    • @joeyswafford2504
      @joeyswafford2504 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe I remember seeing that truck before. Can't remember where but wondered if it was a factory double bunk?? That's kool you mentioned it.

    • @cuttnhorse2013
      @cuttnhorse2013 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joeyswafford2504 Thanks, Cletus ran mostly out of Detroit, Cleveland, North and South with steel and lumber.

  • @oldtrucker672
    @oldtrucker672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is the first time to see one of your videos. I just subscribed. I was born in Youngstown in 1950. My Dad hauled steel out of Youngstown back in the 1940's Back in the early 1970's I drove a 1968 Pete COE with an 8v71 engine and 4x4 trannies hauling produce from California to the old Chicago Produce Market. Top speed was 105 mph.
    The sound of that Detroit is music to my ears. Thanks for the video. :)

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes sir! Thanks for watching!

    • @topturretgunner
      @topturretgunner 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huh??? What? I can’t hear you. It must be that 318 DD screaming in my ears.😂🤣😂

    • @oldtrucker672
      @oldtrucker672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@topturretgunner 10-4 on the "screaming in my ears". Vietnam started my tinnitus, and then the Detroit Diesels finished it off for me. All I hear now is ring, ring, ring. It is maddening. But a person can get used to just about anything if forced to.

    • @topturretgunner
      @topturretgunner 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oldtrucker672 My friend as a former President once said. “I feel your pain.” Like you I’ve had tinnitus most of my life. Listening to a 318 DD and then the cab noise and the high pitched turbo charger whistle finished the job. I’ve got 35 and 40% hearing loss. You weren’t artillery over there were you?

    • @topturretgunner
      @topturretgunner 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oldtrucker672 If I pay attention to the ringing it’ll REALLY get on my nerves.

  • @bernardbahus2072
    @bernardbahus2072 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the memories !!

  • @rosshemming1347
    @rosshemming1347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you i used to drive the cracker box;s my self now i drive a volvo 98 with a 3406 cat thanks again ross hemming temming tow

  • @ralphe2839
    @ralphe2839 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great show. Nice piece of history. Thanks. Dane And thanks to the guys that owned them beautiful trucks.

  • @robertmorris8259
    @robertmorris8259 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool,bring them over to my shop,can put them on the lift, thanks for being a great math teacher mr.miller im across from the dragstrip

  • @user-xh4vn7dh3x
    @user-xh4vn7dh3x หลายเดือนก่อน

    The first truck i was ever in was a cracker box, i loved the yellow transit ones.

  • @richardstippick2446
    @richardstippick2446 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Dane i aways enjoy you're videos. In 1972 i was 12 yrs old my dad had a 64 or 65 dark blue crackerbox wasn't the cadilac of the interstate i would always lust after the KW's and Petes but something about tht old work horse that appealed to me that has stuck with me to this day. A few years later he bought a used KW. I have only seen one dark blue crackerbox that reminds me of my dads it was online except that it had no sleeper. to me crackerboxes have such a devious look about them that is so boss. Dane thank you sir keep the coffee perkulatng!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think we have the same love of that “devious” look of the Cbox. They are very unique! Coffee’s on! 😬👍

  • @wilburhartsell6981
    @wilburhartsell6981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One sitting on the front row of Peirson Trucks for years. I-70 north service 174 mm. New Florence, Missouri.

  • @muffs55mercury61
    @muffs55mercury61 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those first 12 seconds had beautiful music coming from those trucks. Love almost all the old Detroits especially a 6.71 straight 6. And almost right when you started talking I could see that it was a 1971-73 Cadillac you were driving (I've had several in the past so that was an easy one to notice) The hood confirmed it.
    I love the stories behind these trucks and it reminds us when the USA was a mighty industrial power, devoid of things made in China and employed millions of people and kept the middle class intact.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can tell you appreciate the finer things in “retro” life 😬. Days gone by ... great times in America. Thanks for watching!

    • @muffs55mercury61
      @muffs55mercury61 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE I live in an old house, still use old things (more reliable than the new imported stuff such as appliances) drive old cars, have old things made in America on the shelves. Yes we're appreciating it by all means.

  • @bigcharliesmodelgarage296
    @bigcharliesmodelgarage296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey guys, thanks for sharing your trucks. Love the Detroit Diesels. I live 8 miles from West Point Ohio.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should come to the Dying Breed Diesels show in downtown Columbiana on Oct 2 and set up a display of your models. I’m sure Braydon Tucker who coordinates everything would love that.

    • @bigcharliesmodelgarage296
      @bigcharliesmodelgarage296 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE cool. Didn't know about that. Where they showing models at or just set up a table?

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you shoot me ur number in an email I will put you in touch. It’s soulman@gwcmail.net

  • @user-ry5pw2my2r
    @user-ry5pw2my2r 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Love you Tractor

  • @miller7759
    @miller7759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cracker Box Jimmies.....Awsome
    Back when Trucks were Trucks
    Drivers were Drivers....Hello from Butler Pa The Birth Place of the Jeep. Just up the road from Zelienople.....

  • @O.G.Bossman7025
    @O.G.Bossman7025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good 👍. Nice rigs..

  • @gliderider7077
    @gliderider7077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had a 67 day cab cracker box. I so wish I still had it. What I learned to drive truck in.

  • @SSGTA440
    @SSGTA440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey....I see a Dodge cab and cowl....in the back there....another cool truck. I remember when I apprenticed at the Kenworth dealer back in the '70's and we had a customer with a crackerbox with the V12 gas motor in it, not a diesel....what a cool unit!

  • @geraldwise8420
    @geraldwise8420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I live about a mile from Bob. The first time I saw his truck was at the ATHS Show in Auburn, In

  • @blythkd9017
    @blythkd9017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video, beautiful trucks with a glorious sound. Thank you. I have an old Chevy Titan that I use for a grain truck every fall. Wish it had an 8V71 in it. I have a small cam 350 Cummins. Good power but nowhere near the cool factor of the old Screamin Demons.
    The only thing I didn't understand was the owners comment on the blue truck that his dad had changed the hubs over so he could switch from 22" to 20" rims. I thought 22" and 20" used the same rim and the only time you would have to switch hubs would be for 24" rubber. But I'm no expert on this stuff so probably just me.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, I wasn't sure what that meant myself lol. Thanks for watching!

    • @bertgrau3934
      @bertgrau3934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think you would have to change the hubs, because every size wheel needed to fit the spokes, with disk wheels, you can used any size wheel, from 20 inch to 24 inch.
      If you use 22, or 24 with the spokes, you can use the 22.5 and the 24.5 with the 22, 24 tube types. There's not much difference and they can fit from 22 to 22.5 with no problem personally, I prefer the disk wheels, look better

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bertgrau3934 Thanks for watching

  • @rebeccaevans311
    @rebeccaevans311 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just love all this, a man’s world!

  • @johnwhohasanopinion7939
    @johnwhohasanopinion7939 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love it. Just don’t see any of these beauties anymore. UPS ahead a bunch of them in our local yard. In Yorktown Hts , NY Was always good to see them driving thru town day and night. Great video Dane thx.

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      John! You mean UPS did use Crackerboxes? I was wondering

    • @johnwhohasanopinion7939
      @johnwhohasanopinion7939 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE Hi. Dane. , I stand corrected on the cracker box and UPS I researched an old high school buddy on Facebook who drove for UPS back in the mid 70s, I see that what he was driving back then was the short cabover Mack I looked up the cracker boxes as well and see that GMC was produced from 59 thru 1968 so I had them mixed up , memories aren’t as clear as they once were but I do remember seeing him in the brown cabover, looks like from his Facebook page he spent a lot of time on the road but he’s older now just like me , I’m guessing that we (you & I) are the same age. 63. Why else would we like everything old lol thanks for the quick education. J

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnwhohasanopinion7939 Ya I remember all the Mack’s but never saw any Crackerboxes so you had me wondering. Anyways you’ve got a few years on me but who’s counting? Lol.

  • @Terraceview
    @Terraceview ปีที่แล้ว

    What absolute beauties, thanks for sharing!

  • @kevinbrady2863
    @kevinbrady2863 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a blast to watch. Years ago I drove for a United Van Lines agent, and we didn't have any crackerboxes, but we had two White Freightliner cabovers (a '73 and a '74) that both had 8V71s. God, they were fun to drive, and they sounded just like these Jimmys. They were the fastest tractors in our local fleet, and I think the only guys that could outrun them were the OTR drivers with 430 Detroits or 425 Cats.
    Nice production on these videos - they remind me of Lindsey Crawford's work from 15 or 20 years ago. Thanks for sharing!

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed them too Kevin. Love the freightliners as well. Thanks for watching

  • @glennmorrell4907
    @glennmorrell4907 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those cracker boxes are nice trucks, TY for getting the history on them and getting the men to drive ‘em around. I also saw an MCI bus and a Dodge semi in the background…So cool Dane! Love truckers lounge!

  • @thesailjunkie
    @thesailjunkie ปีที่แล้ว

    I have always loved the cracker box.

  • @__________6597
    @__________6597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very beauty full truck

  • @DH-tp9ns
    @DH-tp9ns ปีที่แล้ว

    beautiful trucks!!

  • @glindabeaven6805
    @glindabeaven6805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love the sound of those Detroit Diesels

  • @zigman8550
    @zigman8550 ปีที่แล้ว

    The grill on those trucks look like they're giving you a mean scowl. It looks cool!

  • @TomSmith-pd7ly
    @TomSmith-pd7ly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A bus company I worked for in the early 70’s had a US Mail contract between Reno and Las Vegas. They had 4 single drive axle crackerboxes pulling a single 26’ trailer full of mail. As the Assistant Operations Supt I had to driver the route if one of the truck drivers got sick. They were a hardy bunch of drivers. The only time they called in sick was twice a year when the new Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs were mailed. Each mail bag weighed 70 lbs with those catalogs 😆

  • @thomashillman1176
    @thomashillman1176 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm glad He saved it!

  • @Smittyschannel
    @Smittyschannel ปีที่แล้ว

    He's got quite a nice assortment of random vehicles there

  • @brucebonkowski4526
    @brucebonkowski4526 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love those old Detroit love the yellow dodge

    • @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE
      @DaneScottsTRUCKERSLOUNGE  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes sir! You’ll see the Dodge up close very soon. Thanks for watching 👍