Cabover on a conventional chassis?

I new a gentleman that had a mid 80's Pete 362 COE. It was a flattop. The added on camper/sleeper had an extension that went over the roof of the cab. The extension contained a bunk and was areo shaped, continuing up the roof of the unit, making it like a fairing.

The Camper/sleeper jacked up to the rear. You jacked the sleeper first and then the cab. It was like a drawbridge. A somewhat wedge shaped foam piece sealed the opening between the two units.

He and his wife put a couple million miles on that truck. They raised and "home schooled" (road schooled?) three kids in it.

 

The Petes with the one piece windshield came out in 1981. They were taller and had a lot of changes from the previous models. There is a picture of a three wiper late 80's Pete COE in my trucking photos.

The one in the picture looks to be a '77 to '79 judging by the grab handle and fuel tank style. I believe the underdoor step is off of a double sleeper, as I don't remember seeing that long step on a small sleeper, but I could be wrong, as it has been a few years.

I think '77 was the first year of that style grab handle/step combo that was open to the front. You could sure miss that thing easy.

 

back in the early eighties there was a truck that ran around that was a frieghtliner cab over on a peterbilt conv frame with the pete hood still on it he used to pull for ranger before they become landstar it was a pretty wild looking outfit have not seen it in years though

 

Looking on Truckpaper website search for sale.category:heavy duty trucks class 8.Subcategory: Cabover truck w/sleeper.

Showing over 200 used units in almost every combination imagineable. I suggest buying rust free from southern CA. on this stuff. Maybe even a clean as a pin single screw.Then add my own late model twin cut-off,ect.

I remember what your saying old-school about the wild configuration rigs. The ones I remember ran grey primer paint jobs,and every time I saw them they would add or delete somthing. The grey primer also made repairing the cracks easier.

The Areodyne models (KW and Freightshaker) have tons of interior room.

 

As I was sitting here thinking about your original comment I was thinking of a truck my co workers were telling me about. It was an Inernational cab over, it had four doors kind of like a new four door pick up truck. They said it would almost touch the ceiling in the shop when you lifted it. Now that I have said that think about this, fire trucks have extended cabs, they are cab overs. They have no issue raising them.

 

I always fancied the international 9700's never got to ride/run one but I did like the way they looked.

 

I used to own this one. It really drove and rode good, and a person could get lost in the sleeper.

It had a turned up 11.1 Detroit, 9 spd. 4.10 rears, with plenty of power and great fuel mileage.

 

I almost bought one of those a few months ago off of ebay for 6k with a reman motor. been running produce to the west up till two weeks before. I bought my 359 instead. If I had bought the cabover I'd be driving it now though instead of working on my 359

 

it's from another site I am on. Can't post it but you can pm me for it if you want.

integral just isn't how it's done, at least I have never seen one, don't think it would work or be wise anyways. the sleeper stays and the cab jaks up. Also you have to crawl through the old sleeper to get into the big one unless you have one of the ugly flat floor cabovers

 

International made the 9800 series with a set forward axle and a flat floor. It looks just like the one I have pictured in my last post. Mine was a 9700, so it had the dog house. You could stand on the dog house while in the sleeper and not be able to touch the roof.

Most of the flat floors had the set back axle like JB Hunt used. I think Wal-Mart had some of the set forward flat floors with a flat top sleeper.

The 9800 flat floor, set forward is hard to find, but there are some out there. If a person had a flat floor big sleeper condo and a drone, it would be one more big living space.