Cannonball "Fall out" Original air date Feb 23 1959 

thank you 🙏

Wow !!-I used watch this show in Sydney, Australia,-it was a big hit here !!--every "Trucker"-wanted to be like "Cannonball"--

The Truck was either built in Cleveland or Terrytown. The ONLY two Cab-Over GM Plants in North America, Beautiful Truck. THE Deisel is a Cummins

I got out of the marine corps in 1962 and got a job hauling steel out of sparrows point m.d. I drove an 860 jimmy that was bought from mclean trucking down in the carolinas those were the good days All the best Baltimore flash😂

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I was about five years old when this series ran and I remember being enthralled with it at the time.

Long before TDG regulations.

CATERPILLAR . . . Beyond Beyond Category !

Truck driver heaven

That's dirty Detroit was a sceaming all the way

I was 11 in 1959 watching every episode we could tune in with the TV's rabbit ears with my Grandpa. Memories to cherish for a life time.

@@coldlakealta4043 Yea ! even as those old memories and all that comes with it hurts a bit for being 'once-upon-a-time-kind' . . . but in a good way for the soul.

sorry for your loss

I guess the scriptwriters didn't have time for the complications of reality.

If you look at how inset the tires on that car are.The Canadian Pontiacs of that era were on Chevy frames and a lot of them had straight 6 engines.

In the US that 1959 Pontiac was a Chieftain model.

@@dond.200 Was not close to a real wide track Pontiac with a 389.Had to be a big disappointment

How about Helldriver’s?

Sidney James legend.

Trucking was tough back then. Those trucks back then, too. "Barreling down the highway....doing 44. The Detroit is a-screaming....She can't give any more. My eardrums are a-bleedin'...The stacks are belching smoke. I drive all night and drive all day, and still I'm stayin' broke".

They had 2way radios if so equipped...but radios where expensive so most didn't.

Yep, back in the days when a lease operator could still make some money.

@@1693caterpillar R U serious, not disputing your words, but did they even have lease operators in those days?? "Just asking"

@@t.c.3027 More of an owner operator rather then a lease operator.

Just maps, you could call the shipper or receiver and hope you don't get directions from the secretary who drives her Datsun b210 to work every day, and forgets to tell you about the 9ft clearance bridge that's on her route.😮

( At least in the US ) It is a Federal Felony to tamper with Seal in Interstate Commerce . The Criminal penalties were considered more of a deterrent than a padlock , which a semi serious thief could readily enough defeat with hammer, crowbar, or bolt cutters .

Was 7

I think he played Captain Carpenter in “The Fugitive.” He was also “zapped” by a Martian in the 1953 film, “War of the Worlds.”

the jury has just come in. You won your case unanimously.

Yea, but Cannonball was an idiot for shooting his mouth off in the diner.

Yes, at least in his role as General Trelane.

The Cannonball truck was definitely a 71 series engine, but whether it was a 4 or 6, I can't say.I always thought it was a six, but can't be sure.

I reckon

When did you have the 4-71?

I think it was from the 1970s into the 1980s. I sure wish I would have kept those trucks.

@@buelowexcavating I learned 30 years ago dont throw stuff out. Just buy more storage space

Me too!

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That's the same guy that had his pocket bible catch a bullet.

Good think you never mentioned that to a lady hitch hiker or you'd have been standing around like these two bozos with a who farted look on your face.

Never had a lady hitch hiker. And if I did, still none of her business what I was hauling. Come to think of it, what would I care what some woman hitching around the country thought about what I said?

Strangest load I ever had was 2000 pounds of live earthworms for a bait shop in Florida. Best load was a load of brochures for Harlequin Romances. Each one had a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, all 250,000 of them! Never thought about the value in Canadian either but that's a lot of weight!!

Good old show alright! So good it should've at length been out on DVD.

@@peterbarkley2648 Classic NZ 8V92TA trucking ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g-BnwyBK5Hk.html

I hear ya there. Me too

Strangest thing I ever picked up was 2000 pounds of earthworms going to Florida. Even worms get away for the winter but I don’t. Someone else ran them to Florida but that tops the strange load. Picked up 30000 of recycled copper. They photographed the truck/trailer, my licence and me. I think the value was around $450,000 Canadian.

Lol... Just another work day for Homer Simpson and sidekick picking up stuff from the bunny suits at Scary Atomic Laboratory, Inc. then ambling into a truck stop at the Union mandated lunchtime even if you're hauling stuff that could kill a million folks and yucking it up with a hobo about the value of that totally unprotected load. What could possibly go wrong?

farmalmta, Don't forget it's a television show, like every show one needs a plot, or they have no show. A better plot than the Homer Simpson show had, if it even had one.

jerry s, it was over the trailer's rear axles, which is pretty safe.

Kids, This is why you use discretion, rather than tell the public at large, about how valuable your load is like Jerry & Cannonball, the two geniuses!

Or saftey glass or collapsing steering columns, oh yes the good ol days for sure.

Yeah, it could have even been a 4-71. That engine was used quite a bit in the 50s. I don't think they ever put 8V-71s in that series of trucks. I drove a lot of 71 series engines back in the 70s. 6, 8 and even took a 12v71 for a spin once. That sound is forever burned into my brain.

@@2wagondragon... Hi, and thank you for your reply. The 4-71 was Never installed in the 660 Series trucks from GMC, only the 6-71. I worked with Detroit Diesel under contract as an advisor on experimental systems in the early to mid 1970's and studied Diesel Engine Design & Theory for four years (1963 - 67) and directly under P. Nicholas from 1964 - 67, who had just retired from R&D at GM Diesel (Detroit Diesel after May, 1965) and who was one of the three lead designers of the very first prototype 2 cycle engine, from late 1936, on.. until he retired in the early summer of 1964. He presented me (in 1970 after my return from VN) with an 8"X10" framed black & white photo of himself, Charles "Boss" Kettering and one other engineer, with the very first prototype engine, after they had fired it up for the very first time in 1938. It's definitely an historical moment, frozen in time that I will keep to my last breath The First Production engines, were 6-71's under contract for the US. Navy in Sept. 1939. During and after working with DD in the 70's, I purchased my own Semis to help finance my drag racing "vice" and they were powered with 12-71's, which I removed as soon as I got it home from the dealer (my first New one - my very first [a 1969 - 359 Pete, ext hood], I bought from a good friend of the family, who had to retire due to a heart attack), tore it down and then proceeded to "build" it, as well as fully Balance the entire reciprocating assembly for longevity purposes, as well as absolute smoothness of operation. Over the years I've owned three semis with 12-71 power, and "built" all three of them. My personal favorite DD's, are the 3-71, L6-71 (inline), 12-71 and the Series 110 engine. The Series 51 (based on initial production year, Not cyl. displacement as were the other DD platforms) was also a very interesting design as well, and was extremely efficient with fuel consumption, though not a "high" output engine, and worked perfectly for the targeted market they were designed for... Marine use, in the logging / pulp industry, medium size fishing & Lobster boats and stationary use, such as irrigation pumps, etc. I "built" a Series 110 as well, with the intention of retro-fitting it into another extended hood "A" model KW... but wound up selling it, and have dreaded doing that, ever since. Such is life, sometimes. : )

@@Romans--bo7br Very interesting background, thank you. The only Detroit engine I ever owned was an 8V92 T in a 79 Transtar II. Derisively known as the green grenade, except mine was painted IH red. I think they addressed a lot of the issues with the silver series in the early 80s. All of the 71 series engines I drove were in company trucks. Was the 110 ever used for highway applications, at leas in OEM models? I read that the early 110 series used a centrifugal blower which is only good for a constant RPM application.

I agree! Loose lips will sink ships.

i knew don franks since 1959

Did he die from radiation poisoning?

What?! He didn't die from radiation poisoning?

Don is gone now.

I figure that radiation poisoning would have done him in quicker then this

The name semi comes from the fact that they pull "semi" trailers......meaning wheels on one end, as opposed to a full trailer, which has wheels on both ends.

‘Semi’ is shortened up from semi tractor-trailer. Semi is half, like a semi-circle. A semi trailer is considered such as it’s supported on one end by its own set of wheels & is missing wheels on the other end. It’s only got ‘half’ its wheels. The tractor provides the other half when coupled up together. ‘Semi’ - It’s got nothing to do with the tractor pulling it…cab over, conventional or otherwise…

Yeah. Men were MEN in the 50s

If Trump cut a fart you would inflate like a balloon.

And we all know now it wasn't Hillary who cut that fart, it was "Diaper Don" The original "Sirshitsinpantz"

no collapsible steering wheel either--head on collision it shoots straight into your chest 💀💀💀

I drove lots of 6 -71 and 8V-71 engines back in the 70s. Even got to pilot a 12V-71 once. I owned a 8-92 for a while in the 80s. It's a sound you never forget.

the truck was sold after the show to Stone cartage toronto.

Eagle eye for details.Thanks.

Dubbed?

@@2wagondragon the 6-71 is something you wanna forget.lot of noise and stress and crawling uphill. I wanted the 335 cummins

‘padlock’….no paddles involved….

@@chooch1995 "Paddle lock"? Never even occurred to me.

Must be those good ol' days I hear of.

that was 65 years ago. Things have changed drastically since then.

Don't ask!

right

Ya I heard about that, Chub Stanley from the Forest Rangers made a fir coat out of the dog and gave it to the Indian guide!

Rest in Peace.

Good to know that cobalt he stole didn't do him in. 3 hours turned into 50 years.

I think he played the male lead in Francis for coppola version of finians rainbow

Ya Hollywood of the North, this was made in Canada!

They need to get a shot, keep some masks in the cab and get to work, instead of acting like fools.

@@booklover6753 Oh go get your booster shot, buddy.

Peter Martineau that show was "cannon"

@@shsv81661 Yes, but in all fairness, Cannon was kind of cannonball shaped. It's a forgivable error on Peter's part.