1988 WhiteGMC WIL
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2015-11-19 21:59 |
White/GMC/Volvo of some kind. |
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◊ 2015-11-20 06:16 |
For sure the grille of a 1981-87 (Volvo-) White truck or of a 1988-97 WhiteGMC one. • as White, a WC (like... White Conventional). With that aerodynamic sleeper cab, it would then be an I.T.S (Integral Tall Sleeper); • as WhiteGMC, a WCM. More precisely a WIL, due to the sleeper cab. If someone knows the meaning of these initialisms, please share the info .gif ":)") No WhiteGMC logo in the lower left part of the grille could indicate a White model. But if I'm not mistaken, the aerodynamic cab here looks a lot more like the one of a 1988+ WhiteGMC vehicle: ![[Image: whiteits.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/18713/whiteits.jpg) ![[Image: whitegmcwil.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/18713/whitegmcwil.jpg) (White I.T.S. vs WhiteGMC WIL) |
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◊ 2018-05-18 17:28 |
The truck is-to get real specific here-a 1980's White WIL42T. W stand for White. The second letter in the identification, I, stands for Integrated sleeper. If there was no sleeper on the truck, the second letter would be C for Conventional. Now, on the third letter I'm running off what I've seen in this post, so the L stands for Long Hood. If it was a medium, short, or aero hood, the third letter would be M, S, or A respectively (the aero hood was introduced in 1987). The two numbers in the name-42-identify the truck as having a 4x2 axle setup. There were no tag axles available, so the three axle version of this truck would be a WIL64T. The last and final number in this detailed but somewhat convoluted name is T, which tells us that the truck is a Tractor, and without it the truck would be a straight truck (i.e. dump truck, delivery truck, tank truck with no 5th wheel). Now, there would be more to the name. For instance, the red truck in the picture above would be a WIL64TTS, the TS standing for tall sleeper. If the truck had the integrated 60" sleeper, which is easily identifiable by the slight raise in the middle of the roof, it would be a WIL64TES, the ES standing for Extended Sleeper. Even better, if the truck had the raised roof AND the extended sleeper, it would be a WIL64TTES, the TES standing for Tall Extended Sleeper. This-as far as I know-also goes for the High Cabover, removing the hood and putting the H (for high cabover) in between the W and the I, but I am not very knowledgeable in the cabover section of the White/GMC line (they didn't seem all that popular). Anyway, I asked about this on Hank's Truck Forum a while back, and I got this in response. Here you go. http://hankstruckforum.com/htforum/index.php?topic=79277.msg689023#msg689023 |
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◊ 2018-05-18 17:36 |
Also of brief note, if you go looking for a Western Star cabover, you won't find much as they were just rebadged White/GMC cabovers. Also, in Australia they rebadged first gen Freightliner Argosys as Western Star Cabovers. Note: I gave up on trying to insert images -- Last edit: 2018-05-21 17:12:05 |
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◊ 2018-05-18 22:27 |
@FireStar01, you're close, just put a '/' (slash) in the code after the image (as [/img]) That works for many other codes as well. For an image link to work, you have to include the link to the actual picture. You just have links here to pages. When you copy and paste, check that you do have the full web address to the picture you want to show (and please don't show a hi-res 4k picture this way - storing it on imcdb and posting a preview link is better - even if antp's new server will fill up rapidly....) -- Last edit: 2018-05-18 22:43:54 |
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◊ 2018-05-19 23:48 |
Here the links are not image links, so there should be no [img] tags at all. And in case of real image links, it is often better just to post the link and not embed it in an [img] tag, except if the image is not too big, otherwise it quickly takes a lot of visual space in the comments. |
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◊ 2018-05-21 17:09 |
Well, I tried what I assumed where the actual links, and then I tried these, so I went from warm to artic cold. I'll find the images again. -- Last edit: 2018-05-21 17:11:12 |
