Superdog Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Al, they were the lucky ones getting to park next to your truck. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 if its the one with clint walker i havent seen it in like 30 years.and yes me too,,,,was pissing myself over all that shit as a teenager,,,still do,,hardly any cool shows nowdays.....bob Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Ron,Don't remember the episode myself,but I'd sure like to get their secrets so I could fix my old Schwitzer! LOL!! That thing looked like someone held a screwdriver on the intake side while it running! Al 1 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I remember one episode that they took the fuel soleniod so it wouldn't start. That is when they showed it being a V8. It was "stowaway", where he delivered to a prison and a convict got in his truck to escape. Another one was when they got hooked up with some bad guys robbing a little store. They were broke down? Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleclutchinweasel Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Used to always crack me up when they'd drop their trailer, trailer stayed perfectly still, never shook, dropped lower or anything!Must have been one helluva set of landing gear!I remember one episode in particular, don't remember the details of the plot, but someone sabotaged their tractor by breaking some of the fins off the compressor wheelin the turbo.Couldn't keep these guys down, Will and Sonny welded them back on!Amazing what they can do in Hollywood!Anybody else remember this episode?RonI was JUST thinking about that episode!Sonny claimed that the truck would not start. So, he and Will took the turbo off, pretending to try to find the problem. Then, they broke one vane off the impeller, to show there was a problem. Apparently, truck hi-jackers have no mechanical savvy!Then, Sonny (I believe) pretended to have difficulty holding the piece in place to weld it back on, and asked his captor to help him hold it still. When the bad guy came over to help him, he got wallopped!I had to call B.S. on the welding of the impeller...and I was like 12 or 13 at the time! I remembered wondering if anybody was really that gullible! Oh...memories... 1 Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Come on,if Macgyver can weld a connecting rod together with a couple quarters and a set of jumper cables.................... If I recall he was fixing a generator that was "rattl'n". He said, rod must be broke. He tears it apart, welds it and fires it back up and it just purrs.Of it the A team can have a shoot out with machine guns and NO ONE gets hit?............ 1 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 It always amazed me as a youngster how they would show Will or Sonny driving the truck (with BOTH hands planted firmly on the wheel) and the soundtrack/background would be the sound of changing gears!.............Overdrive Retro re-ran a story from 1974 on the show and interviewed Claude Akins about trucking and truckdrivers..........and as far as I can tell, there are two schools of thought on what ACTUALLY powered their KW! first story says the original W-925 was a VT- 9-0-nuthin' (my Dads favorite description) (903) Cummins in the pilot episode,and when the show was "picked up" the upgraded W-925 a V.I.T was an NTC-350 Cummins...............................Mark 2 Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 as if Bj and the bear was not bad enough, they had to do that spin off crap with sheriff Lobo having his own show,ugh! and I only got to watch the reruns. was more of a Chips, Rockford Files, A team and Simon and Simon Dukes of Hazzard guy myself. even tho I was bout 3 when most of those shows were on for real, got to watch all the reruns after. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleclutchinweasel Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 as if Bj and the bear was not bad enough, they had to do that spin off crap with sheriff Lobo having his own show,ugh! and I only got to watch the reruns. was more of a Chips, Rockford Files, A team and Simon and Simon Dukes of Hazzard guy myself. even tho I was bout 3 when most of those shows were on for real, got to watch all the reruns after.Jim Rockford! Oh, yeah! One of my favorite series. Hey, Jim's dad, Rocky, was a retired trucker! Couldn't be all bad.Even tolerated the one where the equipment thieves were stealing the "D8 Cat"...which looked more like a 450 John Deere, or something. 1 Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I liked Vega$ with Dan Tanna and his sexy assistant Phyllis Davis.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L62EuLRMDo 1 Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Nice Ken! I had almost forgotten how good looking "Bea" was!..................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Nice Ken! I had almost forgotten how good looking "Bea" was!..................................MarkHow could you forget "twin peaks"? 1 Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleclutchinweasel Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 And, of course, there was always T.J. Hooker holding on to the hood of the car! That's about as bad as it gets! Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 And, of course, there was always T.J. Hooker holding on to the hood of the car! That's about as bad as it gets!There was also Starsky and Hutch and their gutless Grand Torino.Vanishing Pointhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA4ymmXa8rsbut at the end it was a Camaro that crashed into the CATs. Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleclutchinweasel Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 There was also Starsky and Hutch and their gutless Grand Torino.Vanishing Point but at the end it was a Camaro that crashed into the CATs.The car changed at the end of Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry, too. 1 Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Forgot the Fall Guy! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 It always amazed me as a youngster how they would show Will or Sonny driving the truck (with BOTH hands planted firmly on the wheel) and the soundtrack/background would be the sound of changing gears!.............Overdrive Retro re-ran a story from 1974 on the show and interviewed Claude Akins about trucking and truckdrivers..........and as far as I can tell, there are two schools of thought on what ACTUALLY powered their KW! first story says the original W-925 was a VT- 9-0-nuthin' (my Dads favorite description) (903) Cummins in the pilot episode,and when the show was "picked up" the upgraded W-925 a V.I.T was an NTC-350 Cummins...............................MarkRemember the movie Hijack with David Janssen and Kennan Wynn.I remember at least one shot in that movie where David Janssen had both hands on the wheel, with the gloves with the strap and the little ball.Shot was straight on from the front and that Freightliner shifted a gear plain as day!I always figured Keenan Wynn shifted it!The damn thing had two engines in it too.One time you'd hear it it 'd be a Cummins, next time it sounded like a 318 Detroit!Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Ron,Hadn't seen that one in a long time. Watched it on YouTube last year. Again,some B.S. but what else would you expect from Hollyweird ? LOL! A bunch of good truck shots,though! Anybody remember the McCloud episode where he drove a 4070 cattle truck? Haven't seen that one in a long time. Al Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I must have missed that one Al!Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ditchkus Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 How about on Rockford Files Jim is being chased by a F-Model Mack Bobtail. It kept up with Jim pretty well. On one episode of the old Hawaii 5O there was a Donald Duck IH DC 400 with 2 sticks chasing or ramming a car. Joe D. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 The Rockford show, he is driving a VEGA...go figure he can't outrun the Mack LOL!! Of course the Mack sounds just like the soundtrack from Duel. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ditchkus Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Larry I forgot about the Vega. Joe D. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Remember the movie Hijack with David Janssen and Kennan Wynn.I remember at least one shot in that movie where David Janssen had both hands on the wheel, with the gloves with the strap and the little ball.Shot was straight on from the front and that Freightliner shifted a gear plain as day!I always figured Keenan Wynn shifted it!The damn thing had two engines in it too.One time you'd hear it it 'd be a Cummins, next time it sounded like a 318 Detroit!RonI noticed that too, the detroit and cummins sound. I ordered that movie last year from somewhere, maybe truckerflicks, because I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. I ordered 2 "Cannonball" dvd's too, from "robert's hard to find videos". I believe that was the name of it. Had 2 episodes on each DVD.https://www.robertsvideos.com/browse.php3?All=&keywords=&NPAL=&MESECAM=&VHS=&DVD=&CDROM=&VHSEP=&VHSSP=&PAL=&SECAM=&MPAL=α=C&catid=&page=8&incr=1 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-227410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleclutchinweasel Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Oh! I completely forgot the B-model flatbed in Police Academy! Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-230097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Anybody remember these two? saw this once years ago,don't even remember what it was about,but knew they drove a Superliner!...................................Mark 1 Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34180-will-sonny/page/3/#findComment-230189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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