Twins restore a classic cabover

May 15, 2017
It took three years to bring this Western Star back to life

Identical twins Pete and Carl Caporal fell in love with cabover tractors as kids. When they grew up and became truck drivers themselves, they decided to find an old one and restore it back to a near showroom-new like condition. And they did that and then some for a 1979 White Western Star cabover; a project that took them three years to complete.

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