1941 GMC CCKW 353 Cargo [G-508]

1941 GMC CCKW 353 [G-508] in Earthquake, Movie, 1974

Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin:

Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Author	Message
badlymad ◊ 2006-11-05 07:28	GMC CCKW
CougarTim ◊ 2011-10-26 01:40	The blue truck on the right is a White 3000 with a Towner refuse truck body, as noted by www.classicrefusetrucks.com . According to them, that makes it a very rare vehicle: "Towner was a tractor implement maker that burst on to the refuse truck market in 1955 with what was probably the first full-pack front loader in the industry. ... However, despite an advanced design for 1955, the Towner front loader turned out to be very short-lived. They dropped out of the refuse body market almost as fast as they arrived, and eventually closed up shop altogether. As a result, scant little evidence survives today of the groundbreaking Towner front loader." It is known that "a Towner truck ... had been sold to Universal Studios, one of the biggest producers of motion pictures and television shows in the world. Ostensibly, this truck was used for refuse collection on their massive studio lot." http://www.classicrefusetrucks.com/news.html
Bruno58 ◊ 2011-10-26 18:42	CCKW 352
4x4peru ◊ 2016-03-22 18:41	The angle is perhaps misleading? This is a 353, note the spare under the bed.
no-a ◊ 2016-03-22 20:56	-- Last edit: 2016-03-22 23:18:37 (night cub)
eLMeR ◊ 2016-03-24 12:51	As usual, the "2½-ton 6x6" part of the complement is a redundancy, as all CCKWs were 2½-ton 6x6 trucks. G-508 in US army nomenclature.