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2 unusual facts about The Trucks


The Trucks

The Trucks went on to become a popular band in the Northwest music scene, opening for such acts as Federation X, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Harvey Danger, and The Presidents of the United States of America.

The song Zombie is featured in an advertisement for A&E's The Beast starring Patrick Swayze, and is also heard in the last trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife.


Clickpop Records

Bands who have achieved this goal to some degree include Idiot Pilot (who signed with Reprise Records very shortly after releasing the first CD), and The Trucks who have gained a nationwide audience and been featured on the cable TV program The L Word.


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Africa Eco Race

Motorcycles title for Martin Fontyn and the trucks category was won by Anton Shibalov with his Kamaz truck who finished second on overall, ahead of Tomáš Tomeček and his Tatra truck .

Berliet T100

The trucks were designed and built in secret, and with a tight deadline; the first was finished after nine months, at the factory in Courbevoie.

City of Life and Death

After Minnie Vautrin and other Westerners plead with the Japanese, Ida permits each refugee to choose only one man from the trucks to be saved.

GE U36B

These units, built to Seaboard Coast Line specifications, were originally fitted with Blomberg trucks; when Conrail purchased them, the railroad asked GE to replace the trucks with AAR Type B instead.

Izieu

The Gestapo, under the direction of the 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie, entered the orphanage and forcibly removed the forty-four children and their seven supervisors, throwing the crying and terrified children on to the trucks.

Pickup Truck Racing

From 2011 the trucks could be fitted with either a Vauxhall Petrol Injected 2 litre red top engine or a Ford Duratec engine, both of which are four cylinder engines with a 2 litre capacity and 16 valves.

St V

The students first meet at the Sablon/Zavel Square, and after several hours, the trucks start to move towards the Brussels Stock Exchange on Boulevard Anspach.