1958 Wide Track cabover

[lapazleo]

Run across this picture and thought it would make a nice scratch build 262 Cummins 10 speed Road Ranger and single with a tag

[Badluck 13]

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.....

[lapazleo]

Not even much on the web. All I can find out Fabco had something to do with it.

[lapazleo]

Looks like a cross between these two trucks.

[cavejohnson]

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.

[Badluck 13]

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...

[lapazleo]

Super!

[BigBad]

"...a real sweetheart..." is a bit of a stretch! With a face even a mother could slap is more like it.

[lapazleo]

The primered truck appears to be the same truck in the Overdrive mag pics I wander what the production count was.

[Badluck 13]

_{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!!!}

[Charlie-02]

Looks like an FWD might have gotten mixed up in the mix too.

[Ben]

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

[The Modeling Hermit]

This would be a fun scratchbuild/kitbash project.

[cavejohnson]

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.

[gray07]

we always like pictures.

[Rebal442]

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.

[pharoah]

I want to see the wind tunnel test on that truck...

[skysoldier46]

the cab reminds me of some Crane Carrier trucks I've seen and built

[freightshaker]

With aerodynamics like that it only makes sense u dont see many of em.