Well, people did start sending in their photos of various older truck configurations with home-made and shop-built sleeper units added on to them (pre legacy studio sleeper days).
And as people send the photos to us, we’ll add them to this page with the details people also send, so this page’ll grow a bit yet.
So here they are:
These three are of the same bullnose Kenworth pictured in the original post (click here), shared by Rowdy Farrington:
And another one, a burgundy conventional, slapped together by the master builder Cliff Wilkins, shared by Rowdy Farrington.
Expediter
What do you all think of this dump truck? It’s a 4900SA Expediter by Western Star. I thought it was worth at least posting it up here, as it’s a kind of striking machine, although I’m not sure of how many of you out there reading our vehicle posts are into this type of truck.
It’s a 2011, and they came with Detroit Deisel DD13 engines, which put out between 350 and 450 horsepower, and had Eaton Fuller FR-13210B tranmissions (they came in between 10 and 18 speed versions).
The cabs were steel conventional types, and the frame was 5/16 x 3-1/2 x 10-5/8 in. steel 120KSI. They had WABCO 4S/4M ABS brakes and had 12,000 / 36,000 suspension (with a taperleaf on front and flat in the rear).
The front axels had 12,000 pound capacity and the rears had 40,000. Wheelbase was 188 inches.
I’ll write up more on these types of trucks if there’s interest in them.
Classic Cabover
Since our first write up on this classic truck, a lot of people have been filling in the details on it. Not only filling in details, they’ve been posting their own questions.
So this is for all you out there who want some info on this big classic Kenworth.
To view our original write up on this custom cabover, click here. There’s another update there too from that page that has some info about how the truck used to be.
According to Milton Wood III, this truck at some point after this photo was taken (photo above) had its big sleeper removed, and the owners cut the tractor really short and repainted it. It was painted white. Johnny Di Franco said he thought it lived somewhere in Ontario now. Then, according to Ernie Erickson Jr. it has been painted again and he sent 2 photos (photos down below), one of the cabover and one of the bunk that used to be on it (special thanks to Ernie here). It was originally an ATDS truck. It was originally an ATDS truck.
Not only did a bunch of people say they remember the truck from when they were young, and some said they saw it at Truckers Aid, they said they’d like to know where it is now. Since it’s changed quite a bit since the photo, its a good thing people took these photos. Thanks photographers (by the way, we want to know who you all are, so we can note that in here too). Thanks guys.
