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Old December 31st, 2016, 02:02 PM
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Default Re: Gmc V12 in trucks

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Originally Posted by Rap'em Pappy View Post
Attachment 5998I took those 2 big hunks of iron to a car show in Wis in 2012. The wife drove
the long nose and I drove the L7000. If you drive the L7000 without a load, you
should have a real good chiropractor. The little Rap'em Pappy long nose rides and drives just as good as her Buick she says. The old V12 can cruise the Indy Brickyard sweet also.
RAP'EM PAPPY - next time you have your trucks out to play with I'd like to take a closer look at them. I live three, maybe four miles south of Sun Prairie!

I rode shotgun with Dad hauling livestock to Chicago stock yards and packing plants all over Iowa and Illinois as a kid. I forget the year, was mid/late 1960's but we went to Chicago 50 Sunday's one year. Lot of big V-6 GMC's, Ford's, lots and lots of Binders. I only remember hearing a rumor about one V-12 GMC owned/used to haul livestock. Gas tractors were favored by most livestock haulers back then, many older farmers believed diesel exhaust harmed cattle especially, and tainted the meat. By the early '70's that idea faded and the gas trucks disappeared.
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