V8 Detroit Cabover Drives Under Its Own Power 

Love the videos Jake love seeing the old iron come back to life.

Great stuff cobber 😁👍

Great job Jake to see it moving.

I love the sound of the old 2 stroke Detroit!

Little Kenny lives again, sweet

Grey truck will keep you busy, and the rest of us entertained! 👍🏻

Great stuff mate. The cabover will pull surprisingly well being single drive. Brilliant old truck, and the W model has plenty of potential. I can’t afford one though🥲🥲, they are a collectors item up here. Well done mate and all the best

Awesome Jake, Ohh the music of the 8V71, There was a truck when I was a kid that had a 12V71 in it, From memory, Only two I understand came into NZ, I think they were KWs, One was local to where I lived growing up, Ohh the joy it brought hearing the roar of that purr. Keep up the great work Jake, This brought back some memories. Looking forward to more to come. From kiwi land.

Great video Jake! Good to see the cab over bouncing up and down the paddock, definitely harsh on your back those short wheel base leaf spring trucks. If that box is anything like my road ranger fuller, it needs a constant air supply to engage low range, so if the compressor is still missing that’s why it’s stuck in high. I loved seeing it driving under its own steam though 🤙🏻😎 brilliant video mate! Can’t wait for the next😁

Hi from France,another great little video, those old bangers will out live all of us,they don't build trucks like that any-more,all that's really missing is an air-start,didn't they scare the shit out of you when you weren't expecting it.....Over here i work for a huge transport company (22,000 trucks),the truck i usually drive ended up in the garage (DEF problem) so i had to take the spare truck,mate what a shocker,no oil,no cooling liquid,no windscreen washer liquid,no lights (well very few) engine retard out of order (pretty hilly where i went to deliver),mate that old cabover should be over here,as the spare truck,might change the mentality of the drivers over here.

Hi Jake 2 more early trucks kept out of scrap pile, the cab over is in better condition but the 923 is the better choice for restoring, but the cab will try out the best sheet metal workers, as rust will be deeper the skin deep, but basic fabrication to rebuild frame

The cows don’t like screaming jimmy 😂😂

Gday Jake, back in the day you’d no you done a trip in that, it would be as rough as hessian undies mate, good to see it driving again, cheers

Hi Jake that looks like a win. Door latch must not work on the little cab over. Sounded like a good runner tho. Looked like you were having fun running around the paddock there. Have a great day

Right hand drive .......send it over here to Aus mate

Hi Jake another great video and it's great to see the Kenworth moving under it's own steam. I know of another one that you could get parts from to do that one up in north Queensland. Love it's sound. If you have an email address I'll send you pictures of my father's old Kenworth's he had?

My first truck I started driving on the high was a 1970 cabover 8v71n bogie drive it was painted the same as that one to in primer

Score ! Bring on more junk Jake ! Cheers, Ard

Crapover needs to be sold to some lucky punter and the W900 next I think!

Make a cool show/drag truck with some super singles on the back .

just a bit of slobber out of the exhaust. all good

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She would make a sweet burnout truck

The better engine for that single drive would be a 6-71T. Better on fuel and a bit quieter. What's happening with this KW Jake? It needs lots of work I just hate those trucks ending up in wrecking yards.

Burnout truck

I drove a 871 with 6 Donaldson straight through to Canberra from Gladstone and I wentbdeathnmy earsvwouldnt stor ringing for 7;days ,,,And I’m not a fan of 871 to noisy drives me mad my 25 centsvwortkm👊🇺🇸🥶🥶😀

Tatura sorry

Tatars $95,000

Surprised to see rust issues arent just a north east american thing. Lotta good old iron been victimized, and gone to scrap because of it.

Another 2 Stroke lives again converting Diesel into Noise .

You do all the driving you dad a good camera man😂😂