Maybe I have completely lost my mind and maybe I have been completely spoiled by getting to see a lot of neat stuff over my time in the high performance aftermarket but then again, maybe I am not. I look at these two old, rusted, thrashed White Cabover cabs and see insane potential for greatness. There’s such an incredible level of talent in the metalworking world these days these things could give up whatever bones they have left to an array of the amazing fabricators and car builders that exist in the industry today and end up as something amazing.
These White trucks were made in the 1950s and 1960s and their design is some whimsically cool that it is pretty amazing to think that they were working trucks. Most rigs of the era were all angular and kind of awkward in their own cool way but the curves and shapes that these trucks have going on are beyond compare for their era. Adding to the awesome is that the “complete” truck has a rarely seen sleeper cab attached to the back of it! Today’s sleepers rival rolling apartment buildings but these were basically little cubes were a guy could sleep…provided he was not diving as a team and being bounced out of the rack by every bump in the road. Even at rest, this thing is not exactly deluxe accommodations.
The second cab is very little left of it, not even a frame as that was torched off just past the end of the cab. There appears to be an engine and transmission left but that’s about it. The steel is rusty and likely part thin, but who knows, maybe there is some stuff that can be used to help out the sleeper cab.
At the end of the day both of these cabs are ROUGH with a capital rust but who sure hope that someone out there has the gusto and the giant piles of money to make them into some bad ass stuff.
eBay find: These two White cabovers are way far gone but could be amazing, right?
In my opinion these trucks and the 40\’s Diamond reo\’s were by for the coolest old big trucks.He is asking 6K for the pair,I have no idea what they are worth ,who cares if you want them. Go buy yourself any 5.9 cummins 2 ton truck .Fix up one of the cabs and but it on the late model frame and running gear.You would have to build one hell of a hot rod to haul around on it. Because the truck would take all the attention .I wouldn\’t be all that hard to make something out of these . I am waiting for you BS people to come up with a Dodge L700 cab over.Very cool trucks .Glad they did not get crushed years ago.
In my opinion these trucks and the 40’s Diamond reo’s were by for the coolest old big trucks.He is asking 6K for the pair,I have no idea what they are worth ,who cares if you want them. Go buy yourself any 5.9 cummins 2 ton truck .Fix up one of the cabs and but it on the late model frame and running gear.You would have to build one hell of a hot rod to haul around on it. Because the truck would take all the attention .I wouldn’t be all that hard to make something out of these . I am waiting for you BS people to come up with a Dodge L700 cab over.Very cool trucks .Glad they did not get crushed years ago.
Someone put Allison power in one of these…i want to say Jim Little? The Quad Al guy.
I would love to have that truck especially with the coffin sleeper it us the best I always liked them there used to be 3 of them on the property as you were goiby east on 60 and going to the north 15 hyw in Calif.but the guy would not sell them what a waste
these things need one of those 60s gmc v12s
crush em …