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I'm seeing a lot of sweet old iron in here but there's a serious lack of Pacifics.
Made right here in North Vancouver until the early 90's

http://www.coastpowertrain.com/graphics/c_pt_01.jpg
http://www.pacifictruckclub.org/Photos/tcp151.jpg
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pi.../oct23/010.jpg
http://vancouverislandimages.com/car...ging-truck.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/Luke76/Photos...orth%206x6.jpg

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Wow, those look like some real brutes!

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Some big time Heavy Haulers there.

Were any Detroit powered?

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Love the dual stacks next to each other is cool.

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According to this site:
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/ha...ific_story.htm

They could be had with Detroit diesels and Allison automatics.

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Pretty interesting history.

Thanks for posting the link.

Bill

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No problem. I thought it was interesting as well. I just finished reading it all the way through.

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Old school " What ever it takes "

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...Untitled19.png

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You didn't see all the Pacifics I posted? Great trucks! Thanks for posting. That last one is a Walter

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Can't remember if this was on here before or not, but here's the first video of a Pacific build. I'm sure you can find the rest.:lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFZ_RPR0Wls

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Don't forget the Hayes trucks that started it all on '22..."The Bear". In '69 they sold out to Mack who sold to KW in '75 who shut them down. Pacific was started by former Hayes employees in '47 and sold to International in '70. They kept it till '81 when they sold it to a company in Singapore. Last Pacific was built in '91. What was left of the business (parts,etc) was sold to CCC out of Oklahoma who sold the Pacific name in '02 to an outfit back in British Columbia

Big Hayes 6x6

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:ito:

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That is really one load of logs. The average person out there most likely does not know just how heavy a log is, especially green.

That truck must have one heck of a set of springs. It hardly looks loaded.

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Gotta love a truck with final drives!

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That thing in front of the bumper is for attaching it to the rear of another truck to make a 'road train' There's some cool photos on the intraweb of 4-500ton loads on the move with 3 or 4 trucks that size in series.

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Here are a couple trucks that sit about 20 miles from my house. The first one (the white one) is their tow truck. The International is pretty chopped up. The badge on the side of the international says "200" so I'm guessing it's an R200 cab and that's where the wheels, tires, suspension, and rear end came from. It has some sort of V8 in it but I'm unsure what kind as I'm unfamiliar with IH motors (if that's what it is).

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Tim------Thanks for the links to Pacific history. One very heavy duty truck.


Studda------IH rat rod engine is probably a 549 cube, although they also had a 477.

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I can't imagine how much those weight.I know I hauled a couple trailer loads of cherry last week and the truck felt that worse than the loads of seasoned locust I hauled this winter. I really noticed the difference. The tree had just blown down live.
Gear head's wet dream :lol:
Gotta find some prime mover road train videos to stick in here
Fire truck! Cool (not so) little toys
Those were amazing trucks. Glad to see ya post. I've been meaning to drop you a line...for a couple months. Must bumped my head and forgot a time or two. Hard to believe Macungie is but a couple months away.

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Here are a couple custom jobs. Definitely weird. The two are combinations of cab overs with conventional hoods. The other is beyond me.

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All 3 are actually.

The truck in the top picture is determined not to run out of fuel...

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That guy must need a dangerous goods permit when his tanks are full! Jeezus!

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It looks like, on the first one, that they used two cabs to make one single cab. It still has the door on the back one even.

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That second one didn't come out too awful

Actually,Bill,that first one was the first prototype space shuttle GMC produced for NASA. They couldn't get the brakes good enough to stop it on it's return landing so the project was scrapped.

Man,that first step up is a doozy!

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Vandals struck one of the job sites . So the old 73 KW had to go drag the 7 E back to the yard . 8V71 350 hp 5 speed main 4 speed aux . That truck drug everything the old company had from equipment to office trailers

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The crossbred GMC in post 519 was at the Pocono truck races back in '82 or 83 when they held drag races and qualifying for the oval race on Saturday with the big race on Sunday. MH 9500 with 8V71 under the hood grafted to Astro cab, grafted to KW hi-rise sleeper.

Keep in mind those tanks ain't all for fuel on an RV. You need fresh water, gray water and black water [AKA sewage} besides diesel fuel, and maybe propane for the water heater and kitchen stove in the typical RV. We've been trailering since the early '90s.

Post # 524--------Jimmy Diesel to the rescue in the neat KW, geared to move anything .