other dog Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Don't know what this is. Looks like it might be a Pacific. It's very tall anyway. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Heres a couple from me. Took these back in the summer I think, a Diamond Rea and an MH. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 How about this SEXY Oshkosh cabinover!! 89825698.jpgA friend of mine from Des Moines bought one of these Oshkosh's on a internet gov't auction,they were used for hauling missiles.His was extremely clean and low miles.KTA 600 Cummins,automatic,all wheel drive.He drove it to one of our Central Iowa Chapter meetings last year and the following week it was stolen from his truck yard in Bondurant.Luckily he had survailence cameras and it showed the truck being loaded on a lowboy pulled by a Pete 362.Through some detective work by his nephew and a stroke of luck,they were able to locate the truck some 120 miles east in a small town SW of Dubuque. The roof had been chopped off to clear underpasses on the way to the theif's home,so the truck was pretty much ruined.After they found the truck,it took quite awhile to get cooperation from the local law,but the truck was finally recovered,along with several other stolen items. The theif's fate is still pending,go figure. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Fire up the KTA and mistakingly run over the sob.Oooops, sorry...... Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Military (Air Force,I think).......Had a KTA-600 Cum-a-long in it! 89825776.jpg89825748.jpg89825754.jpg89825778.jpgThats one hell of a truck right there!.....................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Fire up the KTA and mistakingly run over the sob.Oooops, sorry......No mercy for theives! You're right,run 'em down! Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Damn! that Big Oshkosh is pretty plush insde for a "Govmint" truck,i mean the button-tuck sleeper upholstery and all, OOO LA LA! KTA 600 Cummins and an automatic? must have been fun to drive!..........................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Granpop had a friend that had one like this,it was a gasjob,i only ever seen a couple those IH's in person,pretty sure that green and gold one in the pictures was a 220 or 250 Cummins?............................................Mark. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifth wheel Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 I didn't know Mack made a cabover until I bought this one in 1967, and rebuilt it in 1980. More interesting cabover information, This is from the Diamontd T sales sheet; 1955New release in the cabover model 921C, double wall aluminum cab, insulated fiberglass roof,and the first ones used L model Mack doors.Don't know if it is true or not but a Mack engineer left Mack to develop the Diamont T cabover.Later production the top of the door was squared off. Might be similar to the G model Mack and KWsitituation. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GearheadGrrrl Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Saw one of those Oshkosh COEs on the move up by Minot a few years back. Was hooked to an oversized trailer (probably 10' wide by 60' or so long), looked like they tried to make it look like a normal truck from a distance. Also saw a Marmon conventional with very thick windows pulling a similar trailer. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 It's interesting that most of the early COE's were just a raised version of an existing cab, but Mack chose to use mostly new sheet metal for their entry into the field.I especially like Ford's attempt to use the Bud (C cab) cab combined with what looks like the N cab to make a COE. Makes it pretty obvious that the bean counters had quite a bit of say in the design shop. Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Here is another of the prototypes using the LCF Diamond T 22 series cab set up and to the back. It has Diamond T badges and the picture is taken at the DT factory in Chicago. After about 5 pages of discussion on the ATHS What am I forum in 2009 it was finally decided that it went on to become the Emeryville. 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Here is another of the prototypes using the LCF Diamond T 22 series cab set up and to the back. It has Diamond T badges and the picture is taken at the DT factory in Chicago. After about 5 pages of discussion on the ATHS What am I forum in 2009 it was finally decided that it went on to become the Emeryville.Nice! Thats the way I heard it,first a Diamond T,and then the Emeryville (and the smaller IH low cab forward). I also like the story behind the original "Tilt-Cab".I think that was explained in W O T years ago.Named after C. A. Tilt,.President of the Diamond T Motor Car Co. Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackniac Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 I agree about the green and brown high binder. It looks strange. The fenders are higher than on the other trucks. My father just called an N model Ford a two story falcon a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember hearing that growing up. I said the Reo was the china closet, but it was really the Diamond T. I don't know if they had a knick name for the Reo's. Here is a better better picture of my AC pumper since someone asked about it even though it has nothing to do with cabovers.pictures from phone 075.jpgMikethat is a beauty !! Quote Makniac , collector and customizer of die-cast model in 1/50th scale Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackniac Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Don't know what this is. Looks like it might be a Pacific. It's very tall anyway.yep it a Pacific ! another good truck gone when McCormick (aka International) bought them of . Quote Makniac , collector and customizer of die-cast model in 1/50th scale Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 You mean one of these?strick-cabunder.jpgHow'd you like to hit a deer or the occasional stray bull with that one? YIKES!! Guess thats why the TEAMSTERS were so opposed to its use by the big fleets. I remember that being in all the big truck mags at the time.The driver sat in it like he was driving a damn Corvette! Aluminum cab and all.You write your own obituary in your logbook,before you take off! Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 An MH I once saw. I had Jo stand in front of it and sip a soda for a height comparison. She was arrested for trespassing right after I took the picture.mhimg_2699.jpgSippin' a soda in front of a Freightliner.100_2873.jpg9000 Ford100_4347.jpg Sipping soda while standing on one leg, what is she some sort of gymnastasist? 1 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
h67st Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Those pictures of the Ford 9000 remind me of when I drove one once in the 80's, it had 4 air bags on the cab. When you turned the corner, the cab swayed so far it felt like you were going to roll over! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Here is another of the prototypes using the LCF Diamond T 22 series cab set up and to the back. It has Diamond T badges and the picture is taken at the DT factory in Chicago. After about 5 pages of discussion on the ATHS What am I forum in 2009 it was finally decided that it went on to become the Emeryville.Always wondered about the name Emeryville. Is Emeryville where the cab or truck were manufactured? Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry T Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 They were first built in Emeryville, CA and later in Ft Wayne, IN if I remember correctly. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-161939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milaca Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Ford turbine experimental truck. Photo found on cimbeon.com Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-162040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
607t1173 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Seems as if all the heavy duty truck manufacture's built an experimentalturbine powered truck..... That truck pictured here hands down was the tallest. It appears judging from the the cars sitting along side I think they were called English Fords' or Tanus that it was tested in Europe. So in terms of production trucks Corbitt is probably still the tallest . And as for that only ten were built and they were all for Turner Transfer. This is according to the Corbitt Co history. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-162054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
607t1173 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Seems as if all the heavy duty truck manufacture's built an experimentalturbine powered truck..... That truck pictured here hands down was the tallest. It appears judging from the the cars sitting along side I think they were called English Fords' or Tanus that it was tested in Europe. So in terms of production trucks Corbitt is probably still the tallest . And as for that only ten were built and they were all for Turner Transfer. This is according to the Corbitt Co history. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-162055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Ford turbine experimental truck. Photo found on cimbeon.comI don't remember Ford's streamlined turbine but I do remember GM's. The cab looks to be trailer height (whatever the legal limit was at that time). Thanks for posting! Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-162061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
james j neiweem Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Seems like the Illinois truck manufacturers IH/Diamond-T/Hendrickson shared alot of components and technology. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29744-tallest-cab-over/page/4/#findComment-162073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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