lapazleo Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Run across this picture and thought it would make a nice scratch build 262 Cummins 10 speed Road Ranger and single with a tag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badluck 13 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Very cool and rare beast,more like "Frankenstein",would be a cool build,bad thing is that there isn't much info on the truck..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapazleo Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 Not even much on the web. All I can find out Fabco had something to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapazleo Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 Looks like a cross between these two trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavejohnson Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 That's an odd-job truck if I ever saw one. Looks sort of like a White got tangled up with a Marmon, Atkinson, and an Oshkosh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badluck 13 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Not even much on the web. All I can find out Fabco had something to do with it. Yeah that and a whole lot of recall info....Did however found these few pics... What an interior,love to see the dash work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapazleo Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 Super! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBad Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 "...a real sweetheart..." is a bit of a stretch! With a face even a mother could slap is more like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapazleo Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 The primered truck appears to be the same truck in the Overdrive mag pics I wander what the production count was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badluck 13 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 The primered truck appears to be the same truck in the Overdrive mag pics I wander what the production count was. That was the same thinking I had about being the same truck......info is so limited,I have read one place that there was only one made ,which I find hard to believe and another source I remember reading awhile back said to be only a few hundred produced for a few years would like to know,I am always up for the strange breeds especially when it come to cab overs!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie-02 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Looks like an FWD might have gotten mixed up in the mix too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Hmm, that's a.............interesting.............um....................truck? That old saying of putting lipstick on a pig or in this case, lipstick, a fancy dress and high heels, comes to mind. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kodiak Island Modeler Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 This would be a fun scratchbuild/kitbash project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavejohnson Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 I know this is an old topic, but I did learn a bit more about this truck from my grandpa. He knows a guy in Lander, Wyoming that has a Wide-Track. The owner used to drive to my great-grandpa's farm and move potatoes with it. The WT had a 290 cummins with a 5x3, and eventually got a 335 cummins. My grandpa said that there was a predecessor of sorts to the WT called the "Knox", he knows the cab was built by Chicago Cab and was fairly certain that it used a Kenworth frame and various Kenworth components. He said the knox looked like a bubble nose Peterbilt with "extra weird rounded edges everywhere". He's only ever seen 2 Knox cabovers, but has seen 10 or so Wide-Tracks. If anyone is interested in seeing either of those trucks, I know for certain that both a Knox and a Wide Track are sitting near a wrecking yard in Lander, Wyoming. Next time I'm up that direction I'll see if I can't get some pictures of both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gray07 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 we always like pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebal442 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 there is one just like that at a Western Star dealership near my house...it is red with a white rood and looks very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharoah Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I want to see the wind tunnel test on that truck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skysoldier46 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 the cab reminds me of some Crane Carrier trucks I've seen and built Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freightshaker Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 With aerodynamics like that it only makes sense u dont see many of em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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