{"id":4196,"date":"2014-01-01T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2014-01-01T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:17:13","slug":"cool-camper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2014\/01\/old-time-trucks\/cool-camper\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Camper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JanOTTpic\"<\/a>This 1982 GMC General, now owned by the Shaw Family of Byron, NY, did not start its life as a camper. Although Corky Shaw is not sure exactly how his GMC began its career in trucking, he can account for its whereabouts since he bought it for only $300 in 2004. He decided to stretch the frame six feet, then removed the camper from his old International 4070B and installed it on the GMC. He built a frame under the camper from five-inch channel steel and then used four U-bolts to hold it onto the truck. The camper has a 5000-watt generator plus lots of storage and tool boxes. The walk-in sleeper has a bunk bed, chemical toilet, and closet. To ensure a comfortable ride while driving to shows, Corky installed air-ride on the rear, taking a Meritor 3:70 rear axle from a 1998 Freightliner, and then made a driveline to fit. The air-ride system, along with the 270-inch wheelbase, gives it a smooth ride, and a hitch on the back allows Corky to pull a trailer loaded with his other trucks to shows. The General is powered by a silver 6V92TA Detroit engine hooked to a 13-speed overdrive transmission. The Shaws like being in the middle of things at shows, and with this camper, they don\u2019t have to stay in a hotel or campground away from the action. Speaking an obvious truth, Corky said, \u201cThe GMC is fun to drive and a real attention-getter at shows.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 1982 GMC General, now owned by the Shaw Family of Byron, NY, did not start its life as a camper. Although Corky Shaw is not sure exactly how his GMC began its career in trucking, he can account for its whereabouts since he bought it for only $300 in 2004. He decided to stretch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4197,"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-4196","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\/4196","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=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}