1980 Chevy Trucks laserdisc

From the unused side of a DiscoVision movie. I couldn't get it to play to the very end, there's a point where it freezes up then stops.

[@MATTFROMMI]

According to the road signs and buildings, the Silver's truck pass-by at 6:18 to 6:27 was filmed at the intersection of Fort Street (M-85, a sign proclaiming so is one of the visible signs) and King Road in Trenton, Michigan, with the truck heading south on Fort. The first visible building was the old Vulcan Mold factory that was torn down in 2006, the second is what is today a Kerkstra Precast facility.

[@abodza4520]

what a nice vid, those where the times when they made good looking, long lasting trucks and cars..

[@Carstuff111]

Gods.... Why can't trucks just be this simple again?

[@ohiopower]

Right. Pull out gauges? A 5 minute job back then. Is an all day job now and you'll never get the dash to not shake when you get it back on.

[@Deorse]

God damn, I wish I could go back in time and just buy up every last square body Chevrolet and GMC C-series Truck and just basically horde them all in a giant steel building as a private collection/museum. Though they wouldn't be put on static display, I'd drive one or two of them once a day every now and then just to keep seals good on the engines.

[@wll1500]

Seems like every other farm in the United States has at least one square body Chevy medium duty truck somewhere on the property

[@JustGuitarThings]

Yo no way it’s deorse! Love your drawings man

[@JustGuitarThings]

Woops didn’t see how old this comment was

[@markdanielczyk944]

Great trucks, I started driving in '88 and we had C70's with the 8.2L/Allison and a Kodiak with a 3208/Road Ranger 13 speed, great trucks. Only complaint was the air ride seats in the C70's, hit my head every bump, not made for someone 6'5"!

[@edwardpate6128]

Great trucks! I spent a lot of time in the late 70's driving a Chevy C65 with a 24 foot stake body. It only had the tried and true 350 V8 and man did that thing have to work overtime!

[@Mr_Chris77]

Back in the days when diesel was well below gas prices and would have been a hell of a bargain.

[@juansaladzar]

That was the coolest ending to a video I’ve ever seen brah

[@edwardpate6128]

Those were great trucks!

[@virtualcowgirl3922]

My dad's buddy was an engineer at General Motors during this time, and the heads at GM told him they built their vehicles to break down at a certain point, otherwise they wouldn't make any money on newer models each year...

[@TheMediaHoarder]

Bad way of thinking, any time I have something break beyond repair due to bad workmanship I replace it with another brand!

[@jjano2320]

I think your right as far as rust was concerned. When your car started looking bad you'd get a new one.

[@alijuman195]

That's the thinking that's Killing gm

[@wolfmanradio]

I can attest to the quality of the 1980 C60. We still use our C60 dump truck with 350 small-block and 5-speed stick just about every day.

[@u-shanks4915]

These are beautiful trucks

[@shnorth888]

I've always liked the older Chevy and GMC C-Series trucks. They were great trucks

[@Deorse]

They still are. A lot of them are still running and still being put to work even over 40 years later after first rolling off of the assembly line brand new (I'm referring to the 1973-74 model Chevrolet/GMC C-series that shared the same body style as the 1980 models).

[@Deorse]

Those medium duty square body Chevrolet/GMC C-series trucks share the same cab lines as the square body C/K pickups.

[@juliogonzo2718]

And now gasser medium duty trucks are making a bit of a comeback due to reliability issues with diesel emmisions systems

[@jeffvanmatre3663]

I bought a 1977 AND 6000. I love it

[@mattt198654321]

I've never, ever seen one of the tilt tab trucks at 4:12 in the wild before. Not even in the 80s.

[@motorhomeman1949]

I've seen a couple of them, but they're definitely rare! One of them was hiding behind an old grocery store and looked like it hadn't moved in at least 20 years.

[@owengovenlock]

Just seen one here in greater Edmonton area Alberta Canada For sale on marketplace I bought the c65 instead

[@KevinRichards-rk3gp]

The nose design on the school bus didn't change to the same as the ones on the other medium duty models until 1985 which was why it still had the previous design.

[@JamesEllison69]

2:16: and that translates to 98% in today's medium duty diesel trucks.

[@johnvellis5148]

Beautiful truck 💪🤠🇺🇸

[@mathman1923]

I always loved our '75 C60 with a 350 in it. Was great more than enough power on the farm, but there was nothing economical about it. The only thing that was worse were the same ish year Ford F700's my grandpa had. You couldn't pour the gas out of a can faster that it burned it and most of the energy went to making noise as they were gutless

[@daveb1081]

it's a good motor, I'm a big truck guy, love GM,. and my father and I both have 350s in our cars, mine an 81 Vette and his a 67 Camaro! sounds awesome, both more suited to cars more so than the big trucks!

[@jjano2320]

Newer trucks are better but still not great on fuel.

[@carlachambers3771]

I miss the Detroit Diesel 2 strokes.❤

[@1bakagaijin]

I always thought these trucks looked good but International trucks of this era were just better in every respect.

[@buckster2575]

No they wasn't you still see these Chevy trucks out there.

[@josephmcclintock7681]

I love my 89 C60

[@marlborodemoura1377]

Qwantuz HP? ?

[@nomadcowatbk]

centron produced?

[@joserafaelgrangefuenmayor7744]

Me gustan esos camiones modelo Chevrolet C65 año 1980

[@danielv.r.6418]

+JOSE RAFAEL GRANGE FUENMAYOR si son muy bellos, en Argentina siguen circulando por carretera y los cargan con 30 toneladas, porque ese es el limite de carga aqui. :D Yo quedo facinado cuando veo uno por aqui.

[@danielv.r.6418]

+JOSE RAFAEL GRANGE FUENMAYOR si son muy bellos, en Argentina siguen circulando por carretera y los cargan con 30 toneladas, porque ese es el limite de carga aqui. :D Yo quedo facinado cuando veo uno por aqui.

[@ابنالعراق-ي1ز7خ]

سيارة قمة الروعة جنيتها 15سنة من سنة 1997الى 2011

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Fuel Economy? In 1980? Damn, I guess gas prices were high

[@icemanroyal]

you must be too young to remember, or look into, the fuel crisis of the late 70's.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

icemanroyal Yeah I've recently studied up on cars and this was the time that fuel economy really became a necessity

[@timmensch3601]

that "fuel pincher" was a worthless piece of shit lol

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

School Bus shown is a Thomas

[@dvereckis]

yep bluebird wipers swing up from the bottom.

[@chosenone101]

I see lots of these trucks in the bone yards.... Follow me on Twitter twitter.com/A_J_dalton Specializing in trucking photography (New, classics and junkyard finds) ...updated daily!

[@icelineman]

3208 cat engine poor choice for a truck

[@mikecubes1642]

the 3208 was good on fuel but some were lemons

[@daveb1081]

@@mikecubes1642 I've heard that too lol, good motors but no cyl sleeves , so it's got it's pros and cons. the one motor I never knew they offered was the 225 Cummins, I've yet to find a rig with one, so I guess they are rare, I've also heard that motor was not that great! I'd take a 3208 over the Detroit though!

[@PlayWaves1]

The Detroit 8.2L Fuel Pincher also had a reputation for poor reliability.

[@ravisoares7914]

chevy kodiak

[@farhannaufal9409]

Sayas 2019

[@jasperdomacena6491]

Jesus H. 200hp's from an 8.2 Turbo Diesel V8 an Isuzu 6.5L 6 cylinder turbo / NA diesel of the same era has more power than that! 😂 160-200hp's can give more MPG's as well.

[@flintrivermonster2773]

While I know nothing about the Isuzu 6.5 liter diesel you mention I'm going to guess that the Detroit 8.2 liter probably makes more torque.

[@jasperdomacena6491]

@@flintrivermonster2773 it's got a similar torque curve 🤷 470 lbs.ft@ 1,700rpm on the turbocharged version. does the detroit get 12MPG's?

[@dvereckis]

@@jasperdomacena6491 I have an Naturally asperated 8.2L in a 1983 Chevrolet b60 with a 42 passenger bluebird body and on a 2 day drive I was able to achieve 19MPG with a head wind at 45-55mph and 22mpg on the return drive at 60mph.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Aw, too bad it didn't fully play.