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Neat work. Where's the iron lung
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That Cummins can only be fired up once

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LOL!

Good someone noticed that. :lol:

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50's 351's were built in Oakland.

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I'm likin' the pictures

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A couple more, hope they are of interest.

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Thanks for posting more original ads Peanutbutter. These are the trucks that inspired me into the hobby. Present day trucks ( or the last 30 years or so ) where its all about aero dynamics and efficiency, are of no interest to me. Anbody notice how Peterbilt front bumpers seem to grow as they get older?

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I notice 18" (or more) bumpers going on about everything. It's sure refreshing to see an "unaccessorized" truck

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factorystock, I thank you for helping move this thread along, your input has been great. You solved the issue of why my 288 is pink from the factory, I hope other people are enjoying the pics and info as much as I am. Hope we keep it going a little longer.

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My 288 didn't have a bumper at all when I got it, only one I could find was the rough looking 359 bumper, think I'll experiment with it and stripe it, never seen one that tall being striped before. Thats as tall a bumper as I want, don't want one that looks like a snow plow.

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Enjoy them while we got'm, my private stash is running out.

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Made up my mind, the 281 is my favorite! Wouldn't it be great if Peterbilt did a retro 281? similar to the current generation Camaro's, Challengers and Mustangs? Before you paint your engine Cummins Beige..............

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I hear what you're saying about the 281 but I already payed my dues on a 351. Now I'm looking at easier maintinence with the tilt hood, when I go back to the aluminum hood I can check the oil just by opening the cute little door on the side of the hood. Just today we could just stand on the engine and finish the lock strip on the windshield and work on the cab marker lights without painfully resting on our knees. But you're right, theres something about the 281. You notice there seems to be alot more advertising on the 281 than the 288.

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Me too, especially in color.

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Is this sharp or what?

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I was really to young to enjoy the narrow nose pete's when they were in their prime, never saw any single axles around here anyway, all three axles here. My wife and I wish we had been born 10 years sooner, we missed out on the really cool stuff like 55 and 57 Chevys when they were brand new and the really great trucks. Now all we got is 15,000 lb Kia's with fifth wheels on them and they got no class. Keep the pics coming guys, I love it.

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When I was in Humboldt County,CA in the mid-late '70s I saw a lot of needle nose log trucks. Between those and traveling cross country seeing the various rigs from different regions planted my (adult) truck love seeds. Tonka Trucks are really to blame (from childhood)

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'71 still works part time.

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Hey special-K, is that your collection, I like the orange hiway dept drag line, the only hiway dept piece I had was the single axle dump truck. I was out building roads and stuff when I was 6 or 7 years old, never out grew it.

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KQQL IT, is that a single axle or 3, wish my 288 looked that good.

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I'm from central Ca home of the 2axle.
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Last one for tonight.
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Sharp trucks! You might like the 2nd video in Post #306 In the "Trucks Are Beautiful" thread

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You mean some day mine could look as good as those in post 102 and 103, I don't know, take alot of time and money, I'll have to work on that. thank you, can't wait to add those two into my collection. Here in a hour or so I'll show you what our 288 did today.

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First real work trip for the 288 and hyster, truck and trailer worked better than expected, wife and I spent all last week fabing the mounts for the 30,000 lb tulsa hydraulic winch and getting it operational, air shift PTO worked great with air cylinder to dog out the winch. Good thing I took my big snatch block, winch stalled on the steepist part of the ramps, from now on anything that heavy gets loaded from the front. I think this 955 is close to 40,000 lbs, maybe extra 8,000 in counter weight, rops and side dump bucket. She fought us all the way, glad our son came along as he's ex halliburton and well versed in winch trucks. Had to be careful not to put to much weight on the driver. Put it on the cat scale day before and empty had 7,800 on front axle, 10,800 on driver and 7,600 on trailer axles, thats why we had to leave it farther back than normal. Got home safe and sound, no tire or DOT problems, needed air conditioning as it must have been 100 degrees in the pete, was glad Sindy had the dodge with air.

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More Cat 955 pics. In picture 4 we had a chain malfunction and some how the wife caught the 3/4 cable in mid air, thats why you always stay in the clear. Thats when we double wrapped the chain on the belly pan and put the block in.

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A few more pics of 955.

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Peterbilt brochures pics, gives a better idea of the model differences.

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Pink Kaiser sand gravel mixer spotted, but not a Pete.

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Random pete pics including a not so vintage duel movie truck that just doesn't work for me. The rest are great vintage pete's.

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Cool action shots! I'm glad nobody got whipped by the cable. I looked at picture of you lookin' back out the window and was gonna ask if guys ever put expanded steel over the window or a rack with that set-up.
So,what's the model on that next to last one? (red w/camper)

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There's trucks that don't have anymore protection than mine but most of the everyday oil field rigup trucks have alot more structure above the winch. I had 2 days to get that 955 moved or lose it so we were up aganist the wall on this one. It was kind of a learning day to see what the winch would pull, it looks like the pressure relief opens before it breaks the 3/4 cable so thats good. I knew something had to give so everyone was in the clear, ramps are to steep to pull 40,000. I need more practice dropping the gooseneck on the ground, we wouldn't have broke anything and wouldn't have needed the snatch block. On the red and white pete I believe its a 280, they just call them an iron nose pete because of the different radiator shell, I saw this truck at the Brooks Oregon ATHS show last year, they don't get any nicer.

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This is the way it should have been done, but I wanted to see where the weak link would be, turned out to be my less than adaquate chain I had strung through the belly pan.

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Great action shots.

I used to break 3/8 Chain dumping large loads of lumber. Not sure what grade it was, but believe it was some pretty strong stuff that the company I worked for bought.

Everything was Chain and Binders back then.

Bill

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We had one broken strand on the cable about six feet back from the end, my son said he'd stop at the local chain and cable shop and pickup a new lebus tail chain and hook plus one of these new high tec cable nuts like halliburton uses. This was the day before we went to get the 955, the bill for the two pieces was 327.00, for that much money it better be a life time warranty on the lebus tail chain.

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Well,I wasn't knockin' anything you did,just wondered. I've done some winchin' and have always been sketchy about the cable...especially when things don't pull easy. You got it done!
Here's a Pretty Pete from the show last weekend. And I mean PRETTY!!

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That is a real nice looking truck.

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Ya, I don't know if I could keep a truck that nice and still use it to drag home dead cats. I may have to settle for middle of the road but I'll still continue to make up grades when ever possible. It looks like I'm looking for a quieter newer transmission and a power steering conversion. Power steering being at the top of the list, I pressure washed the trans the other day and discovered the trans is pink too. That means the trans has over 970,000 miles on it and getting a little noisy.