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rzucker

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RZ are you talking Conventional or COE. The odd bird for the COE was a Powerliner. If it was a Conventional, there were some built with a narrower hood and grill
early on, mainly for Consolidated and Lee & Estees had some I think. But I don't remember the cabs being different.

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They were COE's. I'm wondering now if the one with single headlights was actually a 60's model and the owner wasn't aware of the age. It did have twister door handles and the teensy miserable stirrup steps just over the wheels.
 

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If you scroll down on this link to a ATHS thread you will see three facing front. The one in the middle is much older with smaller windshields, but someone
installed the later big name bracket on it. It will be the sixth picture. The Powerliner you couldn't miss, the grill on those was almost to the headlights and
bigger windshields.

http://forums.aths.org/PrintTopic110292.aspx

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rzucker

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Yep the one in the center is a smaller cab. And the Powerliner is unmistakeable, I used to run with another grain hauler in the early 80's that had one with a KTA 450, well... we would load together and he would just disappear even when I loaded first. (my GMC was an 8V-71). His was a bronze metallic color with a set of loud pipes pulling a 40/20 set. You may have seen him in E-Berg too. We both hit the Schaake feed mill in those days.
 
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Ok now is where my art work comes in. Use a caliper and measure the distance between the outer headlights on all three trucks. Photos are very deceiving.
Because the windshield opening in the center truck is smaller it makes the cab look narrow and taller.

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Ok now is where my art work comes in. Use a caliper and measure the distance between the outer headlights on all three trucks. Photos are very deceiving.
Because the windshield opening in the center truck is smaller it makes the cab look narrow and taller.
 

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Ok this is where my art work comes in. Using a caliper measure the distance between the outer headlights, measuring from center of headlights on all three trucks.
Photos are very deceiving, because the opening for the windshield is smaller on the center truck it makes it look more compact and slightly taller. But measuring
from several points its basically the same cab.

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