[AJD] My new tractor hauler / last purchase ever of the wife will kill me!

[chester win]

Chris,

Hope we see some pictures later with the deck on and loaded with 
tractors.  That looks like a "King of the road" tractor hauler to me.

Charlie

----Original Message----
From: jdnutinwa at yahoo.com
Date: 04/05/2007 19:18 
To: "ATIS LIST"<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subj: [AJD] My new tractor hauler / last purchase ever of the wife 
will	kill me!


   Ok,  I promise I won't buy anything else...really..
 

   For quite some time I have wanted an old truck to
haul my tractors to shows on.  As a youngster playing
on my grandparents farm,  I would always love it when
Don would roll in it his yellow trucks.  (He was the
one that rented my grandparents land)  It always meant
that there would be equipment for me to watch and
hopefully get a ride too!  

   Well,  Don has retired from farming,  and most of
his equipment went when he sold his potato outfit
several years ago..  My cousin has a 1965 KW that was
one of his trucks,  and I have been working to talk
him out of it for a while now..  with no luck.  So I
finally approached the new owner of the packing plant
and bought a 1972 KW from him that had been one of the
McMoran Farms trucks.  I got to drive it home today.

    The state out up quite a fight,  as they wanted me
to pay more sales tax than what I actually paid for
the truck.. by with some fancy footwork and a few
forms getting filled out,  the finally went with the
price on the bill of sale..  I paid another $7.50 for
a 'Farm Exempt' liscence,  and wahla,  I am now a
farmer..

    The truck has pretty new tires on it,  solid
rubber mounted Hendricks suspension,  a 290 Cummins
that is turbocharged (which I believe makes it a 335)
with a 5 speed main and 4 speed brownie..  I wish we
could put two stick transmissions in out fire engines,
 that would keep the girls from behind the wheel for
sure!

    My hopes are to have it ready to go to a show in
Omak on Mother's Day,  but I think that may be overly
ambitious..  

    Here is a link to it and a few other KW's that I
have run across..
  
http://public.fotki.com/jdnut/kenworth-trucks-1/1972-kw-tractor-
hauler/

                     Chris




 
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