[60-66 Nut]

I think the "supergoose" may refer to a type of gooseneck beverage trailer that we used back in the late seventies - early eighties. It was called the Swan SuperGoose, made in Powhattan, Virginia. They were designed to be pulled by 1 ton pickups, and I think they had the trucks built to their specs, since the truck and trailer were sold together as a rig. All of the trucks we had were 76-79 Chevy Dullys, and they all had the 454 engine, 4.56 gears and the TH400(or 475, whatever it was called) except for some of the 79's which had the SM465 4 speed.

I can't remember if they were called 475's or not, but I do know they were different from a regular 400. For one thing they had no park gear, because they claimed the park gear may have not been able to hold the weight of the trailer. They also had different drums, sprags, clutches and other parts that had to be ordered anytime we had one of them worked on. They did have the 6 bolt convertor and bolt on yoke, but I believe those are both very common to truck 400's. Most all of the truck 400's I've seen had the bolt on yoke, and we had some 78' model 3/4 tons with the 6 bolt convertor.

I do know that if we stuck a regular 400 in their place, they wouldn't live long. The trailers were very heavy when fully loaded, around 32,000 lbs.

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