My grandpa had a love affair for the old Detroits. Seems everything we had had one of one series or another. I know he had some old Letourneau(sp) diesel electric scrapers with 6-71's, a 2 HD-19's with them, a wabco diesel electric and who knows what else. He also had a 222 Wabco that had a 8v-71 in it that has a interesting story behind it, a Dynahoe that had a Detroit of some flavor, a Diamond Reo day cab tractor with, if I remember right, 8v-71, and if that wasn't enough, he had 2 bus/motor home conversions that were Detroit powered.... So we got to listen to them on vacation to.
O well I guess that explains my love for the sound of them. I've seen some videos of guys putting them in pick up trucks.....would love to do that myself.
My dad had a old single axle GMC dump truck that had a 6v-53 in it. I was turning wrenches for a guy that lived approximately 3 miles from dads house. It was Friday afternoon, we were all caught up, shop cleaned, just waiting on quitting time. I hear that distinctive sound out in the distance and I looked at the boss man and said " dad will be by in a minute". He gives me a crazy look like how do you know.... $50 says he will be. He agrees, couple minutes later, here comes dad cruising right along that ole 53 screaming.....took my $50 and went home!!!!