This man was my step grandfather, man was truly one of the best people you could of known! Warms my heart to know so many people have seen this video. Miss you Dave! ❤❤
This looks like it’s around Fyshwick area Awesome old truck not many could handle a two sticks love them 6V53s is it still around Hopefully somebody restored it
I vaguely remember his face, although it has been 35 years since I worked at Everlast. We used to bolt out the door whenever we'd hear the Jimmy coming up the road in order to get the full-on sound of it!
You should always apologize to the vehicle when you screw up. I had a '69 IH schoolbus about 20 years ago. 345/4spd/2spd rear. It was a hoot to drive, but not nearly as awesome as this.
Hey Graham, I found the video amongst some of Bills photos so I thought I would upload it as a tribute to Dave. I wasn’t sure if you would want your name on it, if it’s ok I’ll put your name on it?
This is a beautiful machine and an incredible driver. Few people know how to do what he does today. The 6V53 may be the best sounding of all engines, of any kind, that has ever been made. Thanks for sharing this!
Beautiful old truck! Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Your video illustrated how much work was involved in shifting gears in an old truck like this.
I mechanicd for an International dealer when I was a pup I worked on a lot of loadstars they were gas and diesel and they were left hand drive and 2 sticks were quite common, most of the ones I worked on that were diesel were Internationals own DV550 engine they were great trucks IH built them from 1962 to 1978. The S series replaced them the early s series was basically a loadstar chassis with a S series cab they were great trucks also.
This kind of reminds me of my pop. The guy used to run an old Kenworth with 3 shifters. He always had a cup of coffee in his hand and knew the exact time to light up his Marlboro. That’s is something that comes with age and time.
I started driving in high school with the series previous to these. It had a twin stick and a guy was showing me how to drive it. I missed a gear and he started laughing at me as i went into a state of panic. They eventually got rid of that truck and upgraded to an s series. I was rolling down the road in a head wind and the windshield blew into the cab with me. I got it to the side of the road somehow. Fortunately, i wasnt injured. International sent some reps to investigate. As it turns out, they sent a letter warning about this and the dealerships were supposed to affix a reinforcement on the windshield. Well, they didnt and the rest is history.
My god.... is this just fantasticability. You can not imagine what pure love this is. Sad of the mis shifting, but, my god the Rig... pure love. Thx for sharing. (can I have a ride? I fly there any moment)...England... pls pm :)
Bucket list , drive a road train , and shift a twin sticker............. All from the wrong side of the truck !!!! Keep it loud and proud driver !!!! 👍☮️🚾
Nicely done. I garentee the few of us here in the states that are left that can still shift like this, even twin stick drivers wouldnt be able to drive that lol. Ive had a couple twin sticks but I couldnt run that truck down the road. Shifter being on the left an all. Even though our shift patters are the same, using that other hand would be a struggle....
I drove from 1994 to 2010. First job outta driving school was pulling a flat with a cabover and a 21-speed Eaton-Fuller Road Ranger. Glad I never had to drive a twin-stick rig. That's too much work!
Mazda or Ford T4000, bout 2.5. /3 tonne trucks had similar gear shift pattern in twin shift box’s in the 90 s. ,great video , all that noise and his cracked 60 Kph .❤️🦘🦘🦘
Thats a real mans truck right there buh buh! i had a load star with a 392 gas v8 was going to swap in a N/A detroit but i got a 99 Topkick instead if i get tired of the 366 gas and alison combo i think a 10 speed road ranger with a 6v53 would be lovely
lord I hope he had it warmed up before he got in it an ran it half chat, that aint good for anything unless to running temp :/ but I must say he knows how to twin stick, looks like a road ranger to me there straight cut gears so they might grind a hair, but what a great ride, thanks for taking us with you lol
How would the AMT drivers of today handle this? Many cannot even drive a roadranger now! I learned on a 13, but then had to learn twin sticks. I don't miss it, but it's cool to know how to do. These trucks sounded more like race cars than heavy diesels.
Cool video but I’d betcha a dollar the main box is fully synchronized and all the double clutching is for show. Drove a bunch of 60’s and 70’s IH tandems and all had a synchro 4 or 5 speed main. Too bad the main box ratios and the aux weren’t set up properly. Lots of overlapping ratios in that setup.
i am so confused i see subway sign and other stuff correctly but everyone's on the left hand side and it's a right hand drive... is this detroit england?
Not much can be done with the old 6v53 to make power but maybe a propane breathalyzer. Your on wrong side of cab going down the street on wrong side... either that or I am/LOL lots of word keeping up with the ol' girl but labor of love. Missing sound of Jake Brake... not a option on her? Good times
Before the advent of more modern transmissions where you could fit 15, 18 gears and only use a single shifter, trucks could only fit 5 or 6 gears and would run out of steam, so they came up with a second, smaller transmission called a "Crash Box" or a "Brownie" that would allow them to get more gears by introducing sub-gears. This truck most likely had what was called a 5 & 4 setup where for all of the five main gears, the Brownie added an additional 4 gears and you would have to shift through them. It would start with 1-1, then you would go 1-2, 1-3, 1-4. Then you would pop the main into second gear, bring the Brownie back to one (2-1) and continue until you got to 5-4 and reach top speed. The Brownie's gears could also be used in reverse so this truck would have 24 total gears. Couple that with the transmissions not being synchronised meant that the driver would have to make sure the revs from the Detroit matched the revolutions of the drive wheels or it would not go in and perhaps break his hand/wrist. This happened a lot in the day. Notice when he was downshifting that he would blip the throttle to get the engine running at a higher RPM? That's why he didn't grind the gears. He was fantastic at rev-matching, but there were guys that could do _all_ that and *never* used the clutch:. They could just hear the engine and just slide it in without missing a beat. Those were _Gearjammers._ Hopes this helps, even if a bit late.
Joe R 8,000? I'm really sorry to be the one to say this but a little under 4 grand is that engines top end. Peak power was rated at around 2,800 rpm. Idk where you got 8, if the TAC read it it was definitely off. But there would be 6 very large pistons on the ground before you got to 8 grand. It's a 2-stroke so it does rev higher than a lot of Diesel engines but it also sounds like it's revving higher than it really is because the piston is firing every time it comes up. There are diesels that can make it to 8,000 but they are small engines for use in variable applications. There is a UA-cam video of one in a dirt bike by Visio racer I believe that I think hits 9,000. But high rpm and diesels don't usually mix well. These old 2-strokes are a small acceptation just because of the nature of how they run
Viper Strike Many Detroit motors were used in Australia after WW2 The first installations were the 2Valve 6-71s that came out of tanks and were repowered in NR Mack log trucks replacing the Lanover engine & Diamond T s etc replacing the original petrol engines and then in the early 1960s the S-model Kenworth came with the 6V AND 8V71 as they were probably the only diesels that would fit. KW, White, Dodge, Atkinson, Leader, International Transtars. Detroits were available in Macks in the 1970s and 80s as an option. It was the 71 series that put GM on the map and was proven in Australia as well.
You have two separate transmissions: The Main set (stick close to the cammer) and the "Brownie" (closest to the driver) so that within each of the gears in the main trans you would have 4 sub-gears. This truck was most likely a 5+4, meaning 20 forward gears . It would go 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4 and so on until the Main trans was in fifth gear and the Brownie was in fourth for top speed. Now this setup would also mean that there were 4 reverse gears as well as the Brownie could be used while in reverse so this truck most likely, if it was a 5+4, had 24 total gears - all done manually with no synchronization...and he only ground the gears a couple of times. A Master of the Twinsticks.
@@danielseelye6005 I've never heard of a 5X4 that shifted the way you describe. And he certainly didn't shift like that in this video. He used 3 gears in his Brownie, under, direct, and over. Starting at 5:20, you can see the shift pattern. 1 under, 2 under, 3 under, 4 under, 4 over, 3 under, 3 over, 4 under, 5 under, 5 over.
This man was my step grandfather, man was truly one of the best people you could of known! Warms my heart to know so many people have seen this video. Miss you Dave! ❤❤
That's amazing. I'm sorry for your loss, but glad his legacy lives on.
This looks like it’s around Fyshwick area
Awesome old truck not many could handle a two sticks love them 6V53s is it still around
Hopefully somebody restored it
Salute to a soldier, a veteran equipment operator, a trucker.
I vaguely remember his face, although it has been 35 years since I worked at Everlast. We used to bolt out the door whenever we'd hear the Jimmy coming up the road in order to get the full-on sound of it!
That`s the Everlast tow truck in Fyshwick ,Canberra Australia. I`ve seen that screamin jimmy cruisin round for over 30 years at least!
He's spent some time in that cab. Absolutely beautiful.
Them 6v53's were one tough 2 stroke motor.
One very talented musician, playing one HELL of an instrument... and making some beautiful music!
Yip the man's got talent
Notice the hole in the dash? No need for a radio when Twinstickin' a Detroit!
@@danielseelye6005 . Yeah I saw that too . What would be the Point .
at 6:17 "sorry". Man and machine at work here. He wasn't saying it to the passenger, but to the truck itself.
You should always apologize to the vehicle when you screw up.
I had a '69 IH schoolbus about 20 years ago. 345/4spd/2spd rear. It was a hoot to drive, but not nearly as awesome as this.
Bet that truck turns heads for both reasons:
1. The noise - insane
2. The fact it's still a great looking truck
That gentleman sure is good at handling a twin stick, and to hear that 6/53 Detroit is music to my ears. Thanks for a really great ride.
Well, it'sbeen two years since the last time I listened and watched and still just as sweet.
A real "gear jammer", much respect.
Damn! That fellow can really run through those gears! What a beautiful old beast of a machine! purrs like a kitten.
Yea!! Trust me he is a fast dying breed too!!
Detroit Diesel: The most efficient way to turn fuel into noise.
Nice to see that someone took the liberty of uploading my little production on UA-cam.
Hey Graham, I found the video amongst some of Bills photos so I thought I would upload it as a tribute to Dave.
I wasn’t sure if you would want your name on it, if it’s ok I’ll put your name on it?
This is a beautiful machine and an incredible driver. Few people know how to do what he does today. The 6V53 may be the best sounding of all engines, of any kind, that has ever been made. Thanks for sharing this!
Those small (only 318 CI) Detroits make the most wonderful racket! That guy sure knows how to drive it too!
Nice old IH. Glad that it’s still being used.🤩
Beautiful old truck! Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Your video illustrated how much work was involved in shifting gears in an old truck like this.
I love the sports car sound of the 6v53 stroke
Yea let's see if these pussies that drive trucks today can handle this!!!
Now's that my friends is what you call a truck driver. Catching gears, double sticks, double clutching fiend!!!
Only 4:00 in. Holy gawd that thing is bad ass. How does this not have a million views?
That's the only way to drive a Driptroit, wring it's neck. Nice brownie action Mate!
Those old Detroit’s sound amazing.
There's something I haven't seen on youtube before -- a twinstick being shifted all the way DOWN through both boxes.
Undoubtedly the BEST, SWEETEST thing on UA-cam. My favourite GM in my favourite 'Inter' and here in Australia. Well done Sir!
This man was my step grandfather, his name was David buckeridge and he was one of the best drivers/mechanics around ❤
Watching this video makes my eyes and ears happy.😆👍
Great video! This man sure knows his machine..
The IH Loadstar's were built in the UK in the 1960's, fitted with Perkins 6-354 engines. Can't recall seeing any on the road though !
I mechanicd for an International dealer when I was a pup I worked on a lot of loadstars they were gas and diesel and they were left hand drive and 2 sticks were quite common, most of the ones I worked on that were diesel were Internationals own DV550 engine they were great trucks IH built them from 1962 to 1978. The S series replaced them the early s series was basically a loadstar chassis with a S series cab they were great trucks also.
It takes a lot of know how to shift a tandem axle truck. This guy's got some mad skills. It's almost like second nature to him.
depends on how it is setup, some split shift and others are just high low... the latter is much simpler.
Amazing truck! I'd pay gold to see those ol' bisons in Italy too! :D
Cheers!
This kind of reminds me of my pop. The guy used to run an old Kenworth with 3 shifters. He always had a cup of coffee in his hand and knew the exact time to light up his Marlboro. That’s is something that comes with age and time.
I started driving in high school with the series previous to these. It had a twin stick and a guy was showing me how to drive it. I missed a gear and he started laughing at me as i went into a state of panic. They eventually got rid of that truck and upgraded to an s series. I was rolling down the road in a head wind and the windshield blew into the cab with me. I got it to the side of the road somehow. Fortunately, i wasnt injured. International sent some reps to investigate. As it turns out, they sent a letter warning about this and the dealerships were supposed to affix a reinforcement on the windshield. Well, they didnt and the rest is history.
My god.... is this just fantasticability. You can not imagine what pure love this is. Sad of the mis shifting, but, my god the Rig... pure love. Thx for sharing. (can I have a ride? I fly there any moment)...England... pls pm :)
I couldn't stop the video i had to watch it till the end it was way to good
When trucks still looked nice...
One heck of a driver, nothing like the sound of a screaming Jimmy
Hey my man very awesome sound an amazing driving talent your performance is of that old cool wrecker tow 🚚.truck.
Bucket list , drive a road train , and shift a twin sticker............. All from the wrong side of the truck !!!! Keep it loud and proud driver !!!! 👍☮️🚾
thanks for the ride
that old 653 sounds great love a screaming Jimmy
Who needs a radio when you can listen to Corn Binder music?
Notice the hole in the dash? No radio 😁
Nothing got sound of an old ihc cas beautiful deep grunt to the beautiful smooth sound of the timing gears whirring especially sb ihc 304
Nicely done. I garentee the few of us here in the states that are left that can still shift like this, even twin stick drivers wouldnt be able to drive that lol. Ive had a couple twin sticks but I couldnt run that truck down the road. Shifter being on the left an all. Even though our shift patters are the same, using that other hand would be a struggle....
I drove from 1994 to 2010. First job outta driving school was pulling a flat with a cabover and a 21-speed Eaton-Fuller Road Ranger. Glad I never had to drive a twin-stick rig. That's too much work!
Ahhh the song of my native people! So soothing
You ripper mate!
Mazda or Ford T4000, bout 2.5. /3 tonne trucks had similar gear shift pattern in twin shift box’s in the 90 s. ,great video , all that noise and his cracked 60 Kph .❤️🦘🦘🦘
i work in a machine shop down the road and would kill to have a ride in this one day!
Thats a real mans truck right there buh buh! i had a load star with a 392 gas v8 was going to swap in a N/A detroit but i got a 99 Topkick instead if i get tired of the 366 gas and alison combo i think a 10 speed road ranger with a 6v53 would be lovely
I love how they sound like like they are about to throw a rod or two on cold start.
What kind of transmission do you have
Thr one I drove most was a 10 speed fuller
nice trip around fyshwick
What a beast , awesome
King of the road
Sonido hermoso!
Damn that's experience right there
Beatyful desde. Mexico
lord I hope he had it warmed up before he got in it an ran it half chat, that aint good for anything unless to running temp :/ but I must say he knows how to twin stick, looks like a road ranger to me there straight cut gears so they might grind a hair, but what a great ride, thanks for taking us with you lol
Detroit's don't get warm at an idle, you have to drive the crap out of them. They make all their torque up top too
Two stroke Detroits don't like to idle, leads to all kinds of problems. As soon as it gets oil pressure, you go.
Twin stick pappa! Jam them sticks!
My brain is broken after watching him shift
Now I know where to find some used batteries
Listen to that Diesel roar!
Cool!
Strange lorry mate
American Spirit!
rumor has it he's still pushing down the accelerator slowly to warm it up
How would the AMT drivers of today handle this? Many cannot even drive a roadranger now! I learned on a 13, but then had to learn twin sticks. I don't miss it, but it's cool to know how to do. These trucks sounded more like race cars than heavy diesels.
Just drive them Detroits like you're mad at it. Now old IH BINDER
fantastic old piece of machinery.. but not much floating there.. must be hard on the knee in every day work..
Oh shit, AUSSIE Loadstar!
The Scream-n Demon How many gears does she have??
I knew about KWs and Macks but I had no idea international were imported downunder also?
I’m so jealous
We had 1962 with a 392 with a 5 and a 2 speed
Cool video but I’d betcha a dollar the main box is fully synchronized and all the double clutching is for show. Drove a bunch of 60’s and 70’s IH tandems and all had a synchro 4 or 5 speed main. Too bad the main box ratios and the aux weren’t set up properly. Lots of overlapping ratios in that setup.
what kind of transmission does your truck have buddy
👍
Must be in Australia, mate!
Shane Spencer sure is Canberra act
T'anks, mate!
Does she still work?
A diesel with some powerband issues, guess that's what you get for being in the two-stroke club!
In America they call these engines ''The jade Grenade''
no, we call them 318's...
It's a 6V53 not an 8V71
Andrew King what’s 6x53 lol 318
This truck was built back when men actually had testicles !!!!
Yer my dad's stolen red one is floating around that area
where was this taken cause the video looks backwards to me
Right hand
Australia.
Id say you could probably put 'woke up this morning' on but you wouldn't be able to hear it.
I said why is he getting on the right side of the cab? Then it was like... oh never mind. I'm from the states don't hold it against me.
53 series never came in Line for the 6 cyl so it should read 6v53
Tom Lowe I know. Had me super excited for a second thinking I might see a unicorn engine. Although the 8v53 and 12v53 are still my favorite
i am so confused i see subway sign and other stuff correctly but everyone's on the left hand side and it's a right hand drive... is this detroit england?
Australia.
Not much can be done with the old 6v53 to make power but maybe a propane breathalyzer. Your on wrong side of cab going down the street on wrong side... either that or I am/LOL lots of word keeping up with the ol' girl but labor of love. Missing sound of Jake Brake... not a option on her? Good times
bigger injectors, change the blower seals, and put a turbo on it. just about like every other detroit...
He's in Australia
:)
What is the power of this engine?
210 HP
why does it have two shifters?
What do i google to learn more about this?
Twin stick most likely a 5x4 transmission
Before the advent of more modern transmissions where you could fit 15, 18 gears and only use a single shifter, trucks could only fit 5 or 6 gears and would run out of steam, so they came up with a second, smaller transmission called a "Crash Box" or a "Brownie" that would allow them to get more gears by introducing sub-gears. This truck most likely had what was called a 5 & 4 setup where for all of the five main gears, the Brownie added an additional 4 gears and you would have to shift through them.
It would start with 1-1, then you would go 1-2, 1-3, 1-4. Then you would pop the main into second gear, bring the Brownie back to one (2-1) and continue until you got to 5-4 and reach top speed. The Brownie's gears could also be used in reverse so this truck would have 24 total gears.
Couple that with the transmissions not being synchronised meant that the driver would have to make sure the revs from the Detroit matched the revolutions of the drive wheels or it would not go in and perhaps break his hand/wrist. This happened a lot in the day. Notice when he was downshifting that he would blip the throttle to get the engine running at a higher RPM? That's why he didn't grind the gears. He was fantastic at rev-matching, but there were guys that could do _all_ that and *never* used the clutch:. They could just hear the engine and just slide it in without missing a beat. Those were _Gearjammers._
Hopes this helps, even if a bit late.
Wow. A diesel that turns 8000 rpm :-)
Joe R 8,000? I'm really sorry to be the one to say this but a little under 4 grand is that engines top end. Peak power was rated at around 2,800 rpm. Idk where you got 8, if the TAC read it it was definitely off. But there would be 6 very large pistons on the ground before you got to 8 grand. It's a 2-stroke so it does rev higher than a lot of Diesel engines but it also sounds like it's revving higher than it really is because the piston is firing every time it comes up. There are diesels that can make it to 8,000 but they are small engines for use in variable applications. There is a UA-cam video of one in a dirt bike by Visio racer I believe that I think hits 9,000. But high rpm and diesels don't usually mix well. These old 2-strokes are a small acceptation just because of the nature of how they run
That engine was never anywhere near even 3000 rpm in this video. 2 Stroke!!
This is NOT the recovery truck to get a no pay customer and quietly drive away lol
Nice truck but strange to see someone driving on what we American's would see as the wrong side of the road.
why are there so many detroits in Australia
Viper Strike Many Detroit motors were used in Australia after WW2 The first installations were the 2Valve 6-71s that came out of tanks and were repowered in NR Mack log trucks replacing the Lanover engine & Diamond T s etc replacing the original petrol engines and then in the early 1960s the S-model Kenworth came with the 6V AND 8V71 as they were probably the only diesels that would fit. KW, White, Dodge, Atkinson, Leader, International Transtars. Detroits were available in Macks in the 1970s and 80s as an option. It was the 71 series that put GM on the map and was proven in Australia as well.
Where's reverse?!! Lol
Geee, thats a lot o' work for the driver! So each normal gear has a High and Low range..??
You have two separate transmissions: The Main set (stick close to the cammer) and the "Brownie" (closest to the driver) so that within each of the gears in the main trans you would have 4 sub-gears. This truck was most likely a 5+4, meaning 20 forward gears . It would go 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4 and so on until the Main trans was in fifth gear and the Brownie was in fourth for top speed.
Now this setup would also mean that there were 4 reverse gears as well as the Brownie could be used while in reverse so this truck most likely, if it was a 5+4, had 24 total gears - all done manually with no synchronization...and he only ground the gears a couple of times.
A Master of the Twinsticks.
@@danielseelye6005 I've never heard of a 5X4 that shifted the way you describe. And he certainly didn't shift like that in this video. He used 3 gears in his Brownie, under, direct, and over. Starting at 5:20, you can see the shift pattern. 1 under, 2 under, 3 under, 4 under, 4 over, 3 under, 3 over, 4 under, 5 under, 5 over.
Drive a GM full bore they will run for ever
I shuld been born in 53 not 73 .....and get trucks like that .....
53 is cylinder displacement, not year
71 series have been around since 1938, 53 series since 1957, 92 series since 1974
Va al revés room way
Too much shifting lol
Well WTF?! Right hand drive?! Lol!,! Where the hell is this?! Lol!! Wait he's driving on the wrong damn some of the road!!??
Australia
Only in Mexico