54 GMC 630 "Jimmy" Detroit Diesel 4-71

let's get this show on the road shall we [Music] you guys are in for a real treat welcome back to the channel it's dane scott from dane scott's trucker's lounge we have the luck of the irish today because we got a beautiful day plus a buddy called me to come in video is 54 jimmy so we're going to take a look at it here and let him explain the history on this great truck what we got here is a 1954 gmc 630 with a 471 detroit this was my dad's first diesel truck that he ever bought he bought it in 1964 used from a mechanic at an old gmc dealership up here in erie pennsylvania called reslink and wiggers and uh dad used it in uh the oil and gas field business back in the 60s when it was kind of booming up here and uh that was the first truck big rig that i ever drove when i was a kid when i was a lad wow uh how old were you remember oh golly i was seven eight years old probably he put me in there it had a winch on the back back in the day he put a 50-ton garwood winch on the back and uh he used to he didn't believe in cutting a lot of trees he would rather just see him winched out of the ground so i got to know the truck just by running the winch controls and moving it from here to there and so on and so forth but you know hey i was driving a truck and uh he ran it up until about the oh i don't know late 60s and he went off on another venture and and it just kind of sat and he used it periodically to to do a little winching work for someone or uh run it down south and haul hay for my grandfather and uh i have fond recollection of climbing a mountain down in eastern kentucky about daylight i woke up probably 9 10 years old and i got to pee dad i gotta go we're halfway up this big long mountain down on us 23 south of ashland kentucky and he said well you're gonna have to hold it because we can't stop and uh so he said well step out there on the fuel tank and hook your arm through the window roll the window down hook your arm through the window okay and so i i remember have fun recollections of doing that how odd that was but he's on the fly being on the fly but it was in the i mean we're doing eight miles an hour crawling uphill right right and uh so he he would think nothing of getting in this and driving it to kentucky uh just get in it and go and about 48 miles an hour about as fast you're going to go and back in the mid 70s you know the speed limit was 55 but yeah so you got to see the right side of every vehicle on the entire american interstate system but it always went and got back and then after it just kind of went into went into disrepair he didn't use it much anymore and it sat out here on this property he owned this property and i ended up buying the property and i told my wife at the time that if i ever get a garage i'm going to rebuild this old truck so you sure did i came home from work one day and she had a pile of lumber laying out there by the road she ordered me a garage and i got to it took about took about five years and it's an amateur restoration i mean it's it's not pristine it's still got its little bugs and quirks uh but i did it myself yeah and uh oh man it looks beautiful the b f liquid transport that was the company he operated under a bit bill and faye he wasn't very original with his name picking but b f liquid transport that was a real thing that was my grandfather's uh address he used to license everything in kentucky because it was cheap right and there was no inspection needed and this license plate back here actually was the last plate that he had registered to this truck before he parked it i found it in a drawer after he passed wow it's even a nice shape yep so it was it was never hung on the truck so did you have to do replace like everything everything yeah the uh the cab actually is a donor cab most of the steel is is donor cab from a truck i picked up also down in kentucky because his was it was just shot the floor pan was gone the cab corners were gone it was just it was just completely shot uh donor trucker that you were telling me about yeah tell that uh tell them about the uh the speedo cable well for the rpm no it was the tack cable right yeah when you're when you're doing gas to diesel because this is a diesel 471 my donor truck was a gas truck court and there's different gauge configurations uh the tach when i was close to having the truck ready to go i sent the tac out after years and i had forgotten about it to have the tack rebuilt well when it came back brand new and pristine the scale was different it was for a higher rpm engine right than this so it didn't work that's that's yeah when i got it back when i finally got the correct gauges in it i had him reset to dad's last before all the cables broke back in the day i had him set to whatever miles he had clocked on the truck and during his usage oh nice so i'm kind of picking up where he left off kind of right so uh this here my wife that passed um she was kind of instrumental in all this getting going um she passed away she didn't get to see it done but i wanted to make sure that you know that she was recognized on it for all of her absolutely for all of her diligence because she liked trucks and and we used to do a little trucking together and she actually picked out those harley-davidson mud flaps okay that's why they're on there in case somebody wants to you're a driver too i drove for a little bit yeah i drove uh early in my youth i drove and then when i first went to work on the railroad uh things were kind of spotty so i would fill in uh driving sometimes and uh loved it really really enjoyed it really loved it both at the same time i was trucking i was yeah what did you do as far as trucking uh usually crushed cars shingles uh lumber okay just your basic run in the middle flatbed freight nothing nothing extravagant nothing extreme yeah were you uh did you have your own truck then or no i was i was using a guy a friend a good friend of mine had some had some lease trucks had some rental trucks and he couldn't never find drivers and i would tell him hey i'm home for this long sure you got something close i'll head out and uh i always manage to get out there and get back without having to to dodge the railroad which is a good thing well we're gonna take a look at this and then we're gonna let you take her down the road a little bit we're gonna hear that awesome stack in detroit that everybody loves to hear and this one sounds excellent i remember the day you started it up for me inside the garage yeah yeah that was uh that was a day actually before i did the interior oh it was loud i mean it's still loud but it's not as loud right right but you see we got we guys we'll take a look at this before we tucked under the hood here we have oh man the old alpine green that's the original engine that uh i guess came with this truck back in 1954 as far as i know yeah uh you know the the original uh what they call the fuel to noise converter that's right that's right they do it so well they do it so well a few little upgrades you know i've had to have just for maintenance purposes you know spin on filters and and a few little doodads that are just the old filters are hard to come by [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] my so [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] is it necessary to make all that noise [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you

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Keywords: GM, GMC, Detroit Diesel 4-71, GMC 630, Old School Trucking, Vintage truck, Antique Truck, Classic GMC, Model 630, ATHS, ATCA, Penn-Ohio ATCA, Dane Scotts TRUCKERS LOUNGE

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Length: 15min 37sec (937 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 20 2022