Cabover

Had a good friend from Pa. that had a CL-9000,was leased to CF back in the day with me. He ordered the truck new,had a KTA 600 Cummins. Rare to see any kind of Fords,with that monster in it. One of the few trucks I couldn't keep up with strollin across the southwest deserts.

 

Ya know that reminds me.

I had a little truck with a older detriot (I forget the exact model, it's something like a 200 horse engine back in the day...) zip by me.

The problem was it's Indiana I-74, I had my 94 COE wide open at about 124 or so at 2150. Just came off a summit into a nice long down. Creeping up on 132 or so.

This zipper... He's GONE.

Now I dont know how it's possible that someone doing better than 150 pouring fire from stack blow my doors at 125 or whatever... but he did.

Every time I think about that little pass he done on me I have to question my perception in this life and reality as presented to the brain in my head. I must be sick up there. Radio lit up with trash talking to me"NYah..." I had no words.

But things got interesting FAST when a state trooper some miles away got on and growled. You better not be stepping on my #### laser boys...

At those speeds a few miles is about a minute or two, hardly enough to knock it down to legal speed.

 

I tell you what. I spent a year in a 83 model with the sleeper and round headlights otherwise it's identical down to the steel wheels (Oy... the humanity...) That was the year I learned to add lug nuts to my pretrip routine among other things.

 

AHHH, those pics made my mouth water! Awesome rig for sure. I've always loved the look of a classic cab-over and would love to have one of my own one day. Even if it's just for running withing a few hundred miles of my home. What I daydream and envision my cab-over looking like, is just about a spitting image of yours. Stacks and all. About the only thing I'd probably prefer is a bit longer wheelbase, (maybe) and a simple all black paint scheme, or something unique, but besides that, you've got my dream truck lol. Hell I'd drive it just like it is all day lol.

There's a cab-over that's always sitting off the access road in the front yard of someones home, next to a tin bulding about 8 miles from my house, hooked up to a dry van. I can never tell if there's a for sale sign on it, but it never moves. It definitely needs paint, so who knows what the rest of it looks like. I'm sure having a nice stash of cash for repairs and other things would be a necessity when buying an older cab-over, as most I see for sale aren't in great condition, and currently, spare cash to throw around for something like that isn't something I posses lol.

My best bet would probably be to buy an older cab-over or long nose pete outright, then fix it up over time and go out on my own, in terms of O/O. Avoid a payment, and get it how I want before hitting the road. I've got a local company I used to work for that would bring me on running various types of stone out of a couple local quarry's. The work is cake. Home daily just running to different cities within Tx. Pick load up at quarry, about 25 miles from my house, deliver and head home. I made pretty good money when I was just a company driver there. At-least that's what I'd like to do some day. I think my goals are within reason as they're not necessarily "outlandish," just gotta start saving accordingly, which is another situation altogether lol.

Dave

 

There is one in 31 south near Lonoke by teh fish farms, got a tree growing through it. I managed to watch it progressively take it and make it a part of it these last 20 years. Makes me sad.

However in Searcy right off 67 near Loves truckstop there is a small yard, about three acres there is a number of tractors rotting in it. Mostly for parts. But some are still intact. I think. Sometimes I pull off and take it in remember what it was once.

There is a old Pete that might do something if you have the cash to work on it. (Long nose) and a couple cabovers maybe even a Areodyne from KW. OR something or other. I get shaky on the details. I should grab a video and post. I don't know when I will go that way, but hundreds and thousand do.

Anyway...

Anyone old enough to recall the old glass ply tires possibly? Our nation moved somewhat away from natural rubber for war purposes and finally into what I think is carbon black and other materials to make tires.

They were only good for maybe 10,000 miles on a passenger car, alot less than that in a muscle one.

To this day no one has ever taught me anything about commercial tires out of that era. Other than it's flat. Once flat toss it. Drop a new one on kid start bolting. And that's that. Feed air.

Today's commercial tires for trucks sometimes go through hell for a variety of good reasons for example, I caught my rig suddenly acting like she had indigesting, boosting turbo, pyro temps and rpm demands to hold 65 went up a bit too much. PResto, one flat drive tire. It's been 100 miles since it had air. Dumb me in a hurry. hot hot hot. THAT made the day very.. um... alive at that point hazmat on board. Even now I shake a little bit and maybe i need that Versed...

Anyway, that's enough from me here. Someone needs to give me a history on those tires and why no one wanted them after they go flat.

 

Thanks for the information Heavy. I'm in he dark on the tire issue, but I'm equally intrigued in the reason for that as well. I need to get out more and do some scouting around the area, to see if I can find me a diamond in he rough that's for sale lol.

Dave

 

I drove #199 same spec's as #193. Yard full of COE's
60 Series powered.

 

Where is this location?

 

Thunder Bay On

 

Thank You Sir, unfortunately she aint mine... Although I been keepin my eye out fer an older double bunk K100 like my Daddys in my avatar. Ol boy that owns that one had his son make a run in it with a hopper bottom and some lady on a bicycle forced him into a ditch. So I picked it up and fixed it for him. Its got a good runnin 3406B Cat with a 13 speed and 3:55 rears.