"Yankee Joe" truck

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Steve Rooke
Can any of you informed gentlemen tell me how these trucks came to be known as a Yankee Joe? Was this just an Australian nick name. Did other trucks such as the larger GMC have a name?

Steve,
It would seem to be an Aussie nickname, anyone in Europe, looks mystified if you say "Yankee Joe". Up here they are known as "Bl*ckman's Chev" (censored in the interest of PC).
Of course the GMC CCKW is universally known as the "Jimmy", or "Duece and a half".

Richard

[cantankrs]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

Of course the GMC CCKW is universally known as the "Jimmy", or "Duece and a half".

This is a bit of a sidetrack but I came across something that raises a question about the above nicknames from an Australian standpoint. A chap who was in the RAAF in SWPA during WWII talked to me before he passed on a couple of years ago. He referred to all GMC/Stude 10 wheel trucks as "Ten Wheelers" and the Douglas DC3/C47 as "Doug" ("My old mate Doug"). I was surprised by these quaint terms but he seemed to be indicating that those were the colloquial terms when he served. Were those common Australian expressions then? - Have we unknowingly gravitated to using US slang now that interest in this (US designed and built) equipment for restoration has arrived? We like to do the most accurate restores we and our skills and finances can support, but as Aussies are we missing another expression of accuracy?

Regards

Alex

[Dr Deuce]

If there is an engine in the back, behind the cab, it IS a GMC, not a Chev earth borer (I own a Chevy borer). That would make it VERY Very rare. The chevy borers are VERY rare and this was before them.

Also if it has 5 lug Budd wheels it is a GMC