{"id":2258,"date":"2012-06-01T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:50:12","slug":"one-of-a-kind-gmc-crackerbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2012\/06\/old-time-trucks\/one-of-a-kind-gmc-crackerbox\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Of-A-Kind GMC Crackerbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jim Semon of Westlake, Ohio photographed this unique truck at a small truck stop located at the intersection of US 4 and US 20 just west of Bellevue, Ohio.\u00a0 It is, believe it or not, a 1965 GMC Crackerbox that the unnamed driver purchased in 1976 for only $1,000.\u00a0 After buying the truck, the new owner extended the tractor\u2019s frame 5 feet and built the trailer from scratch, then later designed the fiberglass nose to improve fuel consumption from 4 to 6 mpg.\u00a0 The original Detroit 671 engine has never been completely rebuilt, but Jim said that it still sounded great.\u00a0 The owner claimed to have over 2 million miles on this rig.\u00a0 He and his wife live in North Dakota and travel across the country, moving belongings for military personnel.\u00a0 Although his wife no longer drives, she does still take care of all the routing and log books.\u00a0 The owner\u2019s engineering background explained the modifications he made by himself, but he said that he loves trucks and prefers driving to office or engineering work.\u00a0 Leased to Suddath Container Services out of Jacksonville, Florida, this \u201cweird and wonderful\u201d truck may not be the prettiest thing on the road, but it has served this couple faithfully for over three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Semon of Westlake, Ohio photographed this unique truck at a small truck stop located at the intersection of US 4 and US 20 just west of Bellevue, Ohio.\u00a0 It is, believe it or not, a 1965 GMC Crackerbox that the unnamed driver purchased in 1976 for only $1,000.\u00a0 After buying the truck, the new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-old-time-trucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}