Cumming, Georgia-based Kimball Transportation pulled the 1996 Kenworth W900L featured right here out of the weeds about eight years in the past with the intention of rebuilding it to place it to work within the firm’s open-deck enterprise.
Owned by Adam Kimball, the corporate runs 5 vehicles pulling largely conestoga, flatbed and RGN freight. The fleet additionally has 4 different vehicles which are primarily present vehicles, together with this ’96 W9.
Jackson Spencer’s been serving to out round Kimball Transportation since he was 14. Lately, he is into gentle mechanical work and extra for the corporate at 18, hoping to leap into driving for Kimball when he turns 21.
Jackson Spencer
Spencer was readily available with the Kimball group on the 2024 Stars, Stripes and White Traces Truck Present at Atlanta Motor Speedway final fall, the place he walked by way of among the {custom} work put into the spectacular Kenworth.
When the truck was first pulled out of the weeds, Spencer stated it was in fairly tough form with “rats within the sprint, and the coolant was brown. It was only a mess.”
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The truck was initially deliberate to be constructed to work, however Kimball’s group “went a little bit loopy with doing it up, and it’s been sitting within the shed for some time,” Spencer stated.
“I feel the preliminary two or three years of it was getting it able to work, after which one thing occurred and we received one other truck and put a driver in it and slowly did issues to this, and it type of was this present truck,” he added.
The paint was initially a darkish inexperienced coloration, and Spencer stated Kimball wished to go together with the 007-style paint scheme however along with his personal aptitude.
Kimball’s work vehicles are largely painted blue, so the group integrated the blue into the striping and “put our twist to it and our personal model,” Spencer stated.
Aside from the paint, Kimball additionally added a 22-inch 12 Gauge entrance bumper, added lights all through, wrapped the gas tanks in stainless and extra.
Kimball did wish to maintain among the truck unique, significantly the inside, which boasts Kenworth’s premium Seattle bundle.
“The within is totally untouched,” Spencer stated. “It’s all the unique inside. That’s one factor we made a degree to go away. It’s a Seattle bundle, so it’s one thing particular about it.”
Underneath the hood, the rig incorporates a rebuilt Cummins N14 with simply 30,000 miles on it, with an 18-speed and three.55 rears.
“We tried to maintain loads of the unique stuff on the truck and type of freshen it up apart from the paint and stuff like that, clearly,” Spencer stated. “However the wheels, inside, it got here with an N14 from the manufacturing facility, so it is simply type of freshened up and made cool once more.”
On the present, Kimball Transportation’s W9 was hooked to a Fiftieth-anniversary Path King Benefit Plus! hydraulic gooseneck.
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Jackson Spencer: My title is Jackson Spencer, based mostly out of Cumming, Georgia, and that is Kimball Transportation. So we do loads of Conestoga, flatbed, just about something, generally van stuff or RGN, just a bit little bit of every thing right here and there.
So I began after I was 14-ish, simply type of cleansing on the vehicles, and now I am doing oil modifications and brakes and tires and the fundamental stuff like that, however perform a little little bit of every thing now.
So it is a ’96 W900, it is received a N14, a model new N14, and it is received 30,000 miles on it. It is received an 18-speed 3.55 rear ends. And I imply, we pulled it out of the weeds eight years in the past and type of, we constructed it to work it. That was initially going to be one in all our driver’s vehicles and type of went a little bit loopy with doing it up and it has been sitting within the shed for some time.
So it was inexperienced, like a darker inexperienced coloration and all simply the traditional sitting, there was rats within the sprint and the coolant was brown. It was only a mess. So type of received in a little bit deeper than I feel he had supposed to, and now it is right here. It is utterly modified every thing.
So he wished to do the 007, the precise that goes up the sleeper, however he did not wish to copy it an excessive amount of. So our coloration is blue usually, so we type of put our twist to it and our personal model.
So it is received a 12 Gauge, 22-inch bumper, I imagine. We put lights on it simply earlier than this present. We put this picket bracket gentle after which the lights down there on the bumper. It has been a protracted, during the last, what, eight years. We have type of carried out issues right here and there, so I received to recollect, I do not see, this truck would not go away a lot, so it has been lined up for the final yr or two within the shed.
The within is totally untouched. It is all the unique inside. That is one factor we made a degree to go away. It is the Seattle bundle, so it is one thing particular about it. We received Iowa Customs mudflap weights, stainless wrap tanks, Brunner containers. These are the unique wheels, simply polished. We tried to maintain loads of the unique stuff on the truck and type of freshen it up, apart from the paint and stuff like that clearly. However the wheels, inside, it got here with an N14 from the manufacturing facility, so it was simply type of freshened up and made cool once more.
We supposed it to work and type of had it constructed to have the ability to work, and now we put the entrance finish on the bottom and it is extra only a present truck now. You’ll be able to’t do, you might work it, however it’s only a lot simpler simply to have it sit and never fear about it. I feel the preliminary two or three years of it was getting it able to work after which one thing occurred and we received one other truck and put a driver in it and slowly did issues to this, and it type of was this present truck.
