GMC Crackerbox for Minuteman

[Trucker1973]

[FONT=&quot]Somebody has information about GMC F-Series 8x4 Tractor with trailer for transportation of Minuteman missile, which have made in early 1960s?
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[tcody]

I saw those at Barstow truck. Always curious about what they were asking and what condition they were in.

 

[gavan]

Some of those old crackerbox's had v12 gassers. This is a different style truck, but I would not be surprised if it had the same motor.

GMC Twin-Six V12 Myths

Gas mileage would suck, but it would be pretty cool!!

 

[tcody]

OK I know this is a little off topic, but that GMC V12 is pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/puJaDfB4UFM

 

[vtdeucedriver]

Just noted when this was posted and from where.......................................Wonder if he had GLG 20 clearance..................Fitzhume?????

 

[Barron]

We had a crackerbox with a 6-71 on the farm when I was a kid, and now I'm deaf, and my kidneys are somewhere down around my ankles..

 

[tcody]

We had a crackerbox with a 6-71 on the farm when I was a kid, and now I'm deaf, and my kidneys are somewhere down around my ankles..

 

[hndrsonj]

Pretty sure there's one with the V-12 still on the base at FE Warren out here!

 

[Trucker1973]

Manufacturer of this vehicle is Goodyear Aerospace. In book about Goodyear history I have found the factory photo of 1966 year.

 

[quickfarms]

Neat truck and with super singles in 1966

 

[gunboy1656]

Imagine the turn with that combo. On coming traffic would have some good concerns. Make a 90 degree right turn and hit the first 5 cars at the intersection.

 

[quickfarms]

I wonder what the gvw is?

 

[maddawg308]

Imagine the turn with that combo. On coming traffic would have some good concerns. Make a 90 degree right turn and hit the first 5 cars at the intersection.

I'm sure with the size of the truck, and the payload (probably nuclear missile of some type) the route would have been planned well in advance and contingencies made in case of any potential threats.

 

[auron]

and how would you know this .... tell me who your informant is!!!!!

 

[mudman]

it's beer...Beer knows everything!!!

 

[jj]

A website called www.6066gmcguy.org has a lot of information on the Twin-Six V-12. And a lot of other neat old truck stuff. Including some pictures of these trucks. A few years back, i hauled a very similar looking rig on an eighty-nine foot railroad flat to slower, lower Delaware. It was waybilled to the NASA Wallops Island research facility. I have seen at least two more go to the same place, since. As i recall, the waybill called it "Loaded, Ordnance". I jokingly tell myself that for about twelve hours, i WAS a nuclear power. I think i may have posted pictures of the load on this site.