‘Ready for the show:’ Cleaned-up ’81 KW

Mar 25, 2016

Updated Dec 1, 2016

Overdrive reader David Schnautz submitted the photo below of his 1981 Kenworth W900A into Overdrive’s Reader Rigs gallery with a simple description: “Ready for the show.”

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