'54 GMC Cannonball Part 2
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THAT IS SURE A NICE UNIT AND GREAT VIDEO
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that has got to be one of the nicest rigs ive ever seen. sounds like it has some serious nuts to!
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Love the sound of that sceeaming ole DETROIT!!!!
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LongRoadPro - Your videos keep getting better. I'm hooked on these old beautiful machines. Great camera work too!
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Man, that's a Cannonball all right. You know, so many of those old trucks looked right, & they sounded right. Heaven knows where we went wrong when I look at this SHIT we've got today!
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The most beautiful, sexy looking truck ever built... ...a work of art compared to today's 'boxes'!
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sure is a pretty rig ...even if it is an old jimmy hahaha...really nice guys!
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@longroadpro was this around about the same time GM used their TWIN 6? i think the twin 6 was used between 1960-1965 before diesel was being more widely used in big trucks
How many gears is that
johnblessing 2 months ago
@johnblessing This had an early 10 speed Fuller RoadRanger.
longroadpro 2 months ago
Double clutching is much slower then going with the engine speed with no clutch. I drove a 6-71 and you can really shift fast if you know what you're doing-and that's not double clutching for one.
donnactrc 3 months ago
@donnactrc I've always felt with my own trucks is the best way is what ever style of shifting is going to be easiest on things like the center of the clutch and the splines in the drive shaft and so on.
Alot of times I find going up through the gears without the clutch is actually easier on the driveline.
Downshifting, I have always used the clutch.
longroadpro 3 months ago
Hi! Why is he double clutching with gas while shifting up? I had to double-clutch with gas while shifting down and without gas while shifting up. Does a diesel loosing his rotational speed so much faster than a gasoline engine? Please tell me! Hello from Switzerland
68knative 4 months ago
@68knative I guess he has found that to match the engine speed and the driveshaft speed a little throttle in between seems to help. Those old Detroits run pretty high rpm's.
longroadpro 4 months ago