Corbitt D800 is a strange looking truck. We explain
The Corbitt D800 is a strange looking truck from the fifties of the last century. The looks of D800 always attract a lot of attention, and yet it is almost impossible to see this truck with your own eyes since only several of them survived to this day.
For its interesting appearance, the truck was nicknamed the Highboy. Production of the Highboy began in 1951 and ended in 1953
But this fact only makes this truck even more interesting. How to get into the cabin and to the appropriateness of its design?
In the late forties of the twentieth century, all American truck manufacturing companies without exception were struggling with an important problem - equipping a berth directly in the cabin itself. The states were overgrown with a network of high-speed highways, so trucks had to...