Stumbled across this beast on craigslist. For you big truck lovers...

1953 Ford C600. All steel cab on 1998 Peterbilt model 330 chassis. 220" wheel base, 8.3L Cummins Diesel 300HP, 9 Speed Roadranger trans. Hydraulic tilt front end. 36" Sleeper from a '78 Kenworth. 9' Moritz Flat Bed. Tow package.

Seller says the built took 5000 hours over a 7 year period to complete. Asking $65,000











https://chautauqua.craigslist.org/ct...278696785.html

 

C series Cummins wouldn't be the optimum engine choice imho, but it probably came with the Pete chassis. The dual Donaldson's are nice. Beautiful truck. I can see where lots of work went into it.

 

Wow! that is something else. I would love to see interior pictures.
The buying audience has to be tiny for a truck like that at that price.
I would say he is not making money at that sales price. Cool as heck, but who is going to buy it?

 

That is neat but the bed looks too short compared to the length of the cab and sleeper.

Definitely a lot of work went into it. He just didn't slap a cab, hood and fenders on a different frame. How much work did he do to make the fenders fit? And I think the hood is a cab over hood but look how long it is! And not to mention making a crew cab with 4 doors!

 

This truck is about 15 miles from me and I have seen it up close. I have talked with the owner several times. He started with a Calif COE and stretched the hood nose and frt fenders. He then filled the original doors and added the rear cab section. He grafted the Pete dash into it and changed a few things to make it look like it belonged there. He mounted the cab on the Pete chassie and the sleeper. He contacted me to build an alum body for it but then changed his mind and went with the steel body to offset the weight on the rear, All in all an interesting truck.

 

Wow. That looks like a project that got out of control. Can't imagine anyone building something that ugly on purpose...
Sorry, JMO.

 

Not my taste, but you can see where the hours went. Lose the quad cab and keep the sleeper, and the proportions would work better for me.

If he keeps watering it , it is going to keep getting bigger.

 

i agree but its a little late for that. Maybe just get rid of the sleeper and get a longer bed.

 

I can tell you one thing, it takes an acre to turn it!

 

A lot of talented work but to me almost everything is out of proportion or just plain wrong . It will be a very small circle of buyers if any .

 

Do you know what the current owner used it for? It does seem very specific given the current configuration. Regular cab with sleeper or quad cab without sleeper would have been more conventional configurations. (Unless the sleeper sleeps 4?!) I can certainly appreciate all the work but, as others have mentioned, the 9' bed seems to somewhat limit it's hauling potential. Nonetheless, thought it was worth sharing.

 

I believe it was to haul his 5th wheel camper and a car trailer. Never saw it hooked to anything though.