Paul Hitch

C10 Talk

Truck Talk Media

Leisure, History, Automotive

5 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Paul Hitch was the Chief Engineer of Chevrolet Trucks from 1965 - 1976. Working for GM from 1935-1978.

Paul turned 102 just a few months after this recording dropped. He passed away March of 2020, just after truning 103. I always enjoyed my time talking with Paul, and I will be forever greatful for his friendship, and that I was able to share that with you all!

Paul shares some great knowledge with us about the trucks, the history and his career.

His son Doug Hitch sits in on this one as well.

There is also some recordings I had with Paul after this initial pod, so listen until the end. I hope you enjoy this Re-Pod, as I always enjoy hearing Paul's story - The GREATEST Generation!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Truck Talk Media.
0:02.9	C-10 Talk episode 126?
0:07.8	That's got to be a mistake.
0:10.2	256.
0:11.6	A little repod with our buddy Paul Hitch.
0:15.6	Mr. Hitch was the chief engineer of Chevrolet trucks from 1965 through 1976.
0:22.9	He will be 1002 years old.
0:26.1	We were designing a new small vehicle to compete with the Ford Bronco.
0:33.2	And we had the design pretty well finished.
0:47.9	And the tooling, the cost of a whole new line of trucks, the tooling was so high that we couldn't advertise our tooling based on the estimated sales volume.
0:54.4	So I said, well, the cheapest thing we can do is take the pieces we have for the C-10 truck
1:01.8	and shorten the wheelbase to 104 inches and use the cab and forward and then marry the pickup truck to the rear of the
1:18.9	cab, making it one unit. And he said, well, go ahead and start that. So that's the way we started the blazer.
1:29.1	Damn, son.
1:34.5	Let me tell you what Melvin's post is packing right here.
1:37.1	I've got 411 posy trackout back,
1:39.4	750 double pumper,
1:40.7	Edelbrock intake, scored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbojet 390 horsepower.
1:47.2	We're talking some fucking muscle.
1:50.3	What does that do?
1:51.0	Is that below your mind?
1:52.4	That just happened.
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