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◊ 2010-10-05 15:08 |
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◊ 2010-10-05 15:54 |
White, I forget. UPDATE: I just remembered. It's the 5000. http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/goudy/ads/white5000.jpg http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/dshull/2005/july/file011.jpg -- Last edit: 2010-10-05 21:58:27 |
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◊ 2015-10-09 04:56 |
Okay, I watched the movie -- This is Not a Test. IMCdB.com should give the trailer -- the big box that says "Discount World" -- a feature role and the tractor a supporting role. You would not BELIEVE how unique that tractor is! Thats a genuine White 5000. Let me bore you to death with the features unique to that truck: That was the ONLY FibrGlas cab ever made, just as much fiberglass as a Corvette, man. All of the body was made of fiberglass. Even the floor! And you can't tell from the movie, but the gearshift was a little bitty thing, like a pencil with a ping pong ball on it, that was an Air Shift. No kidding. It was a Fuller RoadRanger ten speed, with Full-Aire. Didn't work worth a DAMN; had no feel. You couldn't feel the gears. Plus -- and I swear, this is true, even though it could NOT happen -- it would get STUCK! It would get stuck between gears, or in a gear, just nothin'. Now see, that can't happen in a truck, because if it does, you might be going down a grade and you'll be a dead man by the time you hit the bottom. But they did it. That truck had an air clutch, too. So good luck if you run out of air. And it had a radiator that went up with the cab, so it had about a dozen S-shaped hoses to deal with. See how short the cab is? A pancake cab. White would sell it with the tagline about how you could run more feet of trailers with this cab than any other cab. It had a Cummins 220 that was laid over at a slight angle, too, and a crazy arrangement of belts and pulleys so you had a big fan at the top of the engine that was in front of the radiator that was mounted on the cab instead of the frame. Those windshields, though, they really took the cake: That's why they called it a Japanese White, because those windshields had a droopy glass kind of extension at the lower corners. This was back when truck windshields were like postage stamps, and this tractor had windshields that were like, panoramic. You'all get the idea --- this was one crazy vehicle. Tell you what: The next model of White truck was the 7000, and it was the most plain-Jane tractor ever made, just a big steel box with an engine and transmission and rear end and a seat for a driver and that's about it, and it was advertised as "Easy to Maintain." So this one in the movie was the one that "Easy to Maintain" was made to fix! The truck gets driven a little in the beginning of the movie then it stays parked. There's no codriver in the scene where the White 5000 is being driven over to the side to park it; the codriver is the hitchhiker who the Deputy tells everybody is a murderer on the lam. The actor who plays the truckdriver didn't get a lesson in how to drive, even for faking-it purposes; that tractor didn't have a "real" gearshift, it had that pencil-and-pingpongball on top of a little air-box, and you just kind of nudged it into gear. Man, that is such a RUSH to see my first truck in practically the starring truck role in a feature film. |
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◊ 2024-10-26 06:20 |
I wrote thta comment ten years ago. Just stumbled on my own comment. I just wanted to add that a FibrGlas cab was pretty cool, very un-truck-like; very sculpted, like a Corvette. A thing of beauty, even if it was a pain in the ass to drive. |
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