1965 GMC 3500 Rescue Squad
 

This is not really a build but a Journal for my 1965 GMC 3500 with Black Built Bodies Rescue Squad.

This truck was on ebay back in about 2002, I really wanted it but could not come up with the money to get it at the time.

Here are the 3 photos they posted on eBay back in 2002.



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More to follow!

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It's been really cold here this month, this morning we had freezing rain, but it has warmed up to the point that today is and warmest day of the month, got to about 32* So anyway I was pushing the snow & ice out of the driveway, and was wondering if the old Rescue Squad would even start up. I got in, pulled out the chock, pumped the throtttle and turned the key, it fired right up!!! so I let it run for a while to warm up and make sute the batteries got a full change. I even drove it out of the snow bank and pushed the snow out of the way beofre parking it back here again.



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A short Video of my Rescue Squad from today.



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* Video from last summer



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Enjoy!

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So on with the story of this truck and me.

after having to pass it up in 2002, I didn't give it much thought, then one day some one, I think it was Arthur, sent me an ebay listing for it, that was in spring of 2012. This time around I have some extra money kicking around so I bid on the truck. I got outbid by a bogus bidder just trying to screw me over, but I don't fall for it and never up the bid. so when the auction ends, the other bidder is found to be bogus and they offer me the truck at my first bid.

So I send off the money and hire a truck to bring it across country. Its with a guy I Know from the ATHS, and he is giving me a good price on the move, I just have to wait tell he has a truck coming this way with extra room.



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The truck arrived in the last weeks of June. A lot of guys said I should fly our and drive it back, but that would have been a mistake, the truck needed a few things fixed, one exhaust pipe broke off during shipment on the truck! So I had to find a dock we could unload it at, and one was not too far away in Brigham City.



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Once I get the truck home, I find it is not charging and the batteries won't stay charged.

So I remove th eold 105 amp genarator;



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and swap in a smaller, lighter 165 amp Alt.



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I had to find a double grove pulley and make a bracket to fit the top of the alt.



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Once I had the Power Flowing again I needed some place for it to be stored, so I installed 2 new batteries.



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After getting the chargine system straightened out, it was off to a friends place to weld up the exhaust pipe.



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Then is was time to show off some, here we are doing the Honeyville 4th of July Parade



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and then on display at the Honeyville City Park after the Parade.



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I didn't much time during the last summer to show off the truck after July 4th becasue I spent most of my summer driving charter bus to & thru Yellowstone, so it kinda just sat around while I was gone. Here are some pics of the Black Built Bodies end of the truck.



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One thing the Guy I bought the truck from didn't know was that there is a Onan Electric Plant onboard, I guess in the few years he had the truck he never opened any onthe rear compartments. I seen the switch on the dash for it and sent a question to him and he had to send some one out to check to see if there was one.



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I had it running and it powers the flood lights.



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its on slides so you can pull it out to run it.

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Greetings to Jolly and the Group!

Looks like you got a little bit of snow there, (nice pictures by the way, a really beautiful truck) and glad your truck fired right up for you. But then, did you have any doubt that it wouldn't fire up? After all, it's a real truck, a GMC. I remember when we towed the 62 GMC pickup home for the engine swap I had planned for my old 63 Chevy, (I-292 six to GMC 305 V-6) the GMC hadn't been started or run in over a year. First thing I remember doing when I got the truck home was to put in new points and condenser and a battery (was -10F and the truck was outdoors when I did it), got in, pushed in the clutch, pulled the choke, cranked it over and got gas to the carb (the gas was rancid on top of all else), and the old fellow fired right up and ran like a Swiss watch. I guess that's what I like about those old V-6 engines is the fact that they were so reliable, and almost indestructable unless they were abused by running without or low on oil, continual overheating, or revving them beyond safe limits. God I miss that old truck!

George Bongert
Oshkosh Wisconsin

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While I was driving Charter Bus to YellowStone National Park all summer,



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I drove the truck around a few times when I was home during the summer when I had days at home, taking photos at Local spots just to get some nice photos of the truck. Here are some pics in Brigham City Utah.



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Brigham Citty Oregon Short Line Depot



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Brigham City Temple



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Brigham City Rail Yards.

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Very nice truck, love the photo next to the EMD (GM) SD40-2 in the rail yard. I myself like to restore trucks n my buddy like to restore trains. He has as FA2, two GP9's, a SD35 and a SD40, talk about a costly hobby. Anyway, wanted to say great photos, Jeremy Cooper, Winchester Va.

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Here are some more photos of my GMC Rescue Squad out & about. you can use these as examples of How to take photos of your truck, First rule, Get Out Of The Driveway!!!

Keep the Background smiple, nice old building or just open space works well, but a Corn Field is Ok too.



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Corn Field Photo!



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The Old Bernard Hansen & Co. Store in Bear River City Utah.

You Mite need to move the truck a little when taking photos at a location to get the best framed shot. in the abover pic the truck is pulled up in front of the store, but below I moved it back some so it was not blocking the store front.



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But some times its better to block out some of an old building.



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This is the Old Tolman & Sons Store in Honeyville.

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Some times you can get away with a Driveway shot, like this one.



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Its not my Driveway, but I took the photo so none of the near by houses showed up in it. Near Water is a good place for photos, next to a river of lake works well, whil the pic below is next to a small man made skiing lake, if you didn't know you mite think is at river side instead.



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Calls Fort Water Ski Lake.

If you live in a big Urban area and can't find any open space for photos, a City park mite work out OK.



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Honeyville City Park.

You say you don't have a city park near by why not try the park every one if dieing to get into, the local Cemetery. {I know bad joke eh}



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Calls Fort Cemetery

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Without a doubt that is the coolest most photogenic purpose-built vintage truck I have ever seen. The places you have found for photos have even made it look better if that is even possible!

Rt click-save, rt click-save over and over again!

Thanks---DAC

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Of Course being an Emergency Vehicle I just had to stop in front of the Honeyville Fire Station for a photo or two.



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Also with one of Honeyvilles Fire Truck while at the Park on the 4th of July.



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The Big Event in Box Elder County is held by Brigham City in September every year, it called Peach Days, and its has the BIGGEST FREE car show in the state of Utah, Nearly 1000 cars, Trucks & Rat Rods.

The night before the show they have the Poker/Fun Run, and the Wife & I made the run in the Rescue Squad. I didn't get any pics at the starting line, wich was at the Local GMC Dealer, Hansen Motors. The first stop was in Perry Utah at the Park, which was a short drive from Hanson Motors on back roads.



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Then to back to Brigham and up the Canyon, going up the Canyon I could max out the engine in 3rd gear, then get 4th and the power would drop off, I needed a egeat in between, like maybe a 2 speed rear axle.



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In Matua for the 2nd stop and our 2nd card.



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3rd stop was back down in Brigham as was the rest of the stops. Again I didn't get pics at the 3rd stop. the 4th stop was at Intermountain Mini Trucks.



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The Final stop and last card was at John Addams Park in Brigham City, this stop was the best as they had Burgers waiting for us.



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you can see my truck on the left side of the pic with the hood up, as folks wanted to see what engine I was running.

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On Saturday was the Peach Days Car Show, the BIGGEST FREE car show in the state of Utah, Nearly 1000 cars, Trucks & Rat Rods showed up in 2012, but only 2 Emergency Vehicles, a UHP car and my Truck.



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Anyone ever try to get a photo of a Full Moon? To start with look at the info found on this website:

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in most cases you can not get a photo of you truck at night with the full moon in the background with out the moon being a little tiny with speck of washed out light. You can get some nice pics of you truck at night with a good Camera, Tripod, remote trigger & some time. I set my camera up on a 10 sec timer, use a remote tiger and shoot under the light of a full moon, of course you need to keep the moon to you back. you will get photos like this with some practice.



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This is a night shot! it looks like it could be daylight, in the backgound you can see the ribbons of light form the Hwy and the stars above. notice how I look a little fuzzy compaied to the truck, that because you have to stand really still durning the photo and if you move even a tiny bit this is how the pic looks. this is on a full moon night, there are about 5 days you get this kind of light at night, the 2 days before & After a full moon and onthe night of the full moon.



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In this shot you see more sky, so the camera didn't stay open as long making the truck come out darker, but this looks more like a night shot, and whats that star formation in the sky?

Now if you want to get a hsot of your truck under the full moon, you need to add the moon into a night shot.



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Here is the same photo as above with the full moon added into it.

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Now lets look at what happened when I took a photo of my truck at night with all the lights on.



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As can be seen here the photo came out vary dark, that is because the camera is picking up all the extra light and not staying open as long. its kinda the same problem as shoting the moon, your either going to have dark photo, or one with the lights washed out. So what I did was to get help running the camera for the next shot.



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I set thing up like before, only this time I have some one to push the button on the camera to start the timer as i'm too far for a remote triger to work, if you look you can see me sitting in the cab. Once the camera was taking the photo, I turned on all the Emergency lights then turned them back off so they were only one for a sec or 2. I did this 2 or 3 times to be sure I got a photo I could use.



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Than i slipped the moon into the photo in PhotoImpact for this photo evey one likes.

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How about some pics of inside the cab tonight.



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The shift lever was hitting the Siren control box so I moved it to the left & lined it up with the light control box.



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Some time when buy an old truck you will find it has Electrical Demons, even on a truck that looks this nice. you see some of the lights didn't work, and there was two radio system that had been partly removed.



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For starters, thi si sthe mess I found under the dash, most of thes wires are "Extra" that got left behind after there useful lives had ended. any wire I found under the dash the had nothing hooked to it got check for either power of ground, and none was found it got removed. with with power on them also got removed. wires showing ground got tested to see what the operated, some were just grounded out on the other end.



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This is just some of the extra wiring removed, I had a big box full of unused wire by the time I had finshed.



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This is how things looked under the dash when i got done. every wire has a job and there are no extras just hanging around.

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The inside of the "Aid Station" is about the same size as a side in camper, and I'm thinking with vary little work one could build a place to sleep onboard.



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The back doors even have windows you can roll down for added vetalation.



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There is lots of Outside storage space in the outter compartments, with one containing the Generator and another a big power cord on a reel.



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There is some storage inside with these cabinets up on the walls on each side.



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and these at the rear of the air station.



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There is also a cabinet over in the space over the cab, it had Radio equimpent in it that will be removed.



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The truck came fully equiped with all the trash you see inside.

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I just got the word that My truck will be on the back cover of the SPAAMFAA's Magazine, Enjine!~Enjine! comeing out mid March.

SPAAMFAA = SOCIETY for the PRESERVATION & APPRECIATION of ANTIQUE MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS in AMERICA

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Good news, Jolly:
That's a sharp truck and have been following since you got it.
Would like to see it in person sometime.
It deserves to be there, imo.

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Well Spring is in the Air, I got the Old Fordson Power Major up and running, and my Father-In-law has been driving it around the farm....


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I figuered it was a good time to get the Rescue Squad out and air up the tires, they have looked low from the time it arrived in Utah last summer.


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The front tires & outside rears all had 32psi, kinda low of a truck this size, the manaul saids 65 should be the high end, I pumed them up to 70psi. The inner duals, both of them, had only 10 psi, I wonder if they just never checked them.

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Good to see the "old gray", uuhh, blue horses back for spring work.

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Took the Rescue Squad for a short ride yesterday.



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Ended up parking it out front of the house.

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Parked near the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham City Temple.

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Looks great. That church looks like a marzipan cake lol

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I took the Rescue Squad on Saturday to Brigham City to put in an appearance at the North Stake Center 50th anniversary open house,

Brigham City Utah North Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrated its 50th anniversary with an open house on Saturday, May 18, at the stake center, 620 North 300 East.

To re-live the event, organizers invited people who have 1963 or older cars to park them in front of the stake center, thus recreating the atmosphere which existed at the time of the original dedication in 1962.



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So I showed up in my 1965 GMC Rescue Squad, which is the same basic body style as 1962 and older. there was only one other old car there.



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Looks good, Jolly. I bet it still was a lot of fun.
How far was it round trip, and what kind of mileage does it get?

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I just went back thru your thread from start to finish and those snow pics are postcard material!

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Cayoterun, I have not checked the mileage, I just keep it filled up when I go on the road. I fueled yesterday after the show and only added about 7 gallons.

Most of my trips will be short this summer, I mite get out of the country once or twice, but Brigham City is only 6 miles one way, add 2 more to get to the fueling station.

The Fuel gauge is not working right, so I carry two 5 gallon cans with me just in case. I need to make a stick as the cap is inside the cab behind the seat I could check it by just dipping the tank.

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When your truck starts to act like it has a Govenor on it and you know it don't, its time to check your fuel filter, this is the only one on my Rescue truck, they removed the under cab filter, and it look a tad dirty eh.



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I got a new one and a spare from Walmart, so maybe it will run a little better for a few more miles.



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I'm getting my Truck ready to go to Malad Idaho Next weekend, first thing I had to do was mow the shop floor. so I got the air filter changed as well as the fuel filter. need to find me an oil filter before removing the canister.

I'm also thinking maybe I shoud install another fuel filter down on the frame just to keep thing clean, as the genorator sucks fuel from the tank with out any filtation.



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LOL I guess varnished filters don't work so great. I wonder if that'd work on my 16 yr old's car as a "stealth" governor?

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I fired up the Onan Electric Plant on my Rescue Squad today and let it run for a while, I ran it tell dark so I could see how well the flood lights work, and they do a good job of lighting up the aera around the truck.


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So late Saturday I noticed that the tail/turn/brake and marker lights on the back of the truck were not working, today I took on that job.

First I tapped the front park lights & the tail light together so that the front markers now stay on with the headlights. You can learn how to do that on the website.

Next I checked for power at the rear, and I was getting it now, to one light, so I pulled it and found that the turn was burned out. Next I pulled the non-working light and found both tail and turn burned out.

Next I found that bulbs were loose in the sockets so they would not ground all the time, so I headed off to town and picked up four new tail lights. I removed the old tail lights and the back up lights {because they didn't work either and I'm going to put flood lights on later}.

So once all four light were installed I found one was not working right, it turn out to be a Bad bulb, yes even new bulbs can be bad.



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Here is a side by side of the old & new lights.



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The view you see if you get stuck behind me.



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One more shot of My Rescue Squad in my side yard.