Cabover lives!

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Powell-Peralta, Aug 27, 2010.

  1. Powell-Peralta

    Powell-Peralta Road Train Member

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    My faith in humanity has been restored(for now).

    What happened was that yesterday i got real dejected and got into despair over the fact that i thought no decent trucks are being produced any more. So, after going to the international, mack, and freightliner websites and not really finding anything decent, i went to the KW site.

    If you snoop around long enough on their site, you will find that yes, the K-100 is still being offered (although it's not called a k-100 anymore.)

    Click on this:
    http://www.kenworth.com/brochures/WorkTrucks.pdf

    And scroll to pages 2 and 20

    Being that a KW is basically a customized truck to customer specs, i'm sure this could be spec'd out to be built into more of a highway cruiser designed to tow vans/refers etc. So, for all practical purposes this is bascially a k-100. The axle is a little set back further than what i would like, but i'm sure the factory could probably move it forward a little.
     
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  3. C16KIWI

    C16KIWI Medium Load Member

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    New cabovers form down under

    YUCK:biggrin_25513:
     

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  4. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    Cabovers were OK when we HAD to run them...Now they SUCK!
     
  5. dwmac71

    dwmac71 Light Load Member

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    That's a C500K for export or off road use only, not for the hi-way.
     
  6. Jas

    Jas Medium Load Member

    You got that right!
     
  7. Hongkong076

    Hongkong076 Bobtail Member

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  8. RW.

    RW. Heavy Load Member

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    Why, pray tell, do you want a cabover instead of a conventional???:biggrin_25513:
     
  9. Donk

    Donk Have a Cup Of Concrete

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    and i thought the K108 was bad....... LOL!
     
  10. MassHole

    MassHole Medium Load Member

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    +1, not a fan at all
     
  11. BrainHurtz

    BrainHurtz Light Load Member

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    That brochure is out of date by a lot. The tooling for the left hand drive K100 was scrapped years ago. The new K500s are built with DAF cabs. (just do a google image search for K500, you'll see plenty of them). The going price for a k500 is between 200-350k depending on how it is spec'd (i.e. the 10x10s aren't cheap)
     
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