K100 Aerodyne

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And the first of their kind.

Quite a to-do when they finally started building that design. The industry thought it was TOO Fancy. But the drivers started asking for them.

I liked them. No reason to give these a hard time. With the exception of half the frame mounted stuff too close to the steers, they could have moved it back by the catwalk.

 

When KW came out with the studios and improved on the glass form factor to make them better I lusted after one of those 135,000 dollar tractors for years. Big Kitty, enormous 18 speed, a freaking apartment in the sleeper with everything and 500 gallon fuel tanks on a 280 inch wheel base with setback front axle.

NOM NOM NOM.

I never did accumulate the 135K to buy one ... sheesh.

 

They made them before you were alive. About 1984 I think.

 

We had a trucker tired of fighting headwinds in his Pete cabover. "Why do these things have to be square?"

Presto designed a areo pete cabover that really shook the industry. The first of her kind.