Dream Pickup With Kenworth Cab, Chassis

Dream Pickup With Kenworth Cab,Chassis PICKUPS Modifications 5-5-17 If you were going to design the "perfect" pickup, you would probably dream up something much like the Kenworth "pickup" recently displayed at a western Canadian farm show. With a standard Kenworth cab and chassis, it's none-the-less rated as a one-ton pickup, the perfect vehicle for long distance travel and heavy hauling. As showgoers gathered around the hybrid truck, sales people from the exhibitor, Custom Truck Sales, Ltd., in Regina, dashed any hopes farmers might have had of buying a similar truck for themselves. They explained that the truck was not for sale and that there aren't any more like it. "We bought the truck from a do-it-yourselfer who built it for himself. We thought it would make a real eye-catching exhibit," a sales representative told FARM SHOW. The truck has a standard 1972 Kenworth cab mounted on a Kenworth semi-truck chassis. It's powered with a V-6 Cummins diesel engine. Special fabricating involved getting the cab down to pickup height, and manufacturing the pickup box and rear fenders. Custom Truck Sales doesn't know how much was originally spent to build the truck but representatives said that the price of the truck, if it were manufactured, would no doubt be high enough to make the Kenworth a true "dream pickup" for most farmers.

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