Bringing home 69 Pete

[Peanutbutter]

special-K, that was posted on the the web by a fellow ACMOC member that lives in Australia, if you go on you tube and do a search on hyster folding goosenecks he has 3 or 4 vids showing his in operation, he goes by Swishy. I almost forgot to explain, ACMOC is antique caterpillar machinery owners club. If you like old cats this is the place.

[Peanutbutter]

Sitting here killing time, so here is a few of my favorites.

[special-K]

Thanks for learnin' me about that club. Every single truck you showed just is a great example.

[C10 - C90 Bill]

Cool trucks.

Really like the orange and black one.

[Peanutbutter]

I think orange and black is my favorite too but its a hard call, its a colorado truck but over closer to denver. The pic was taken at the ATHS show in brooks oregon but not last year when we were there, to bad. The green and orange 288 is just like mine but 67 instead of 69 and it was on Ebay a few years back. They had a dozen pics but I couldn't copy them at the time. Now, can anyone tell me where the number 2 pic, the red carnation milk truck was taken, there were hundreds of trucks pics taken here. I know its southern cal coming up out of LA but can't place it. If you look at lots of truck pics you will recognize the spot.

[Peanutbutter]

More favorites which I have to many.

[special-K]

That orange & black is super sharp w/o the polished goodies. After years of digging rigs all dolled up with polished stainless & aluminum I've really come to appreciate a fleet truck with a well thought out color scheme. I always liked that,but now like it more cuz it's more historic. They'd do stripes on bumpers or arrows,etc for visibility but damn that looks good!

Fathers day weekend I'll be heading to the ATCA national show at Macungie,PA. Mack has a plant there and they shuttle you over for a tour. Never dine that and I hope to this time. Either way,I started a thread in General Discussion for 2013 event pictures and I'm sure to have loads to post there.

[Peanutbutter]

Hope everyone had a great memorial day, I did, first trip out for the blue and white, everything went well. Our son came up to have a small barbeque and then go for a drive. Got out on to the open road and the 335 was smoking bad, I mean like a barn on fire, I didn't know a truck could smoke that much. After about five minutes it started to go down to a normal smoke level, decided to head up the mountain to see what the temperature would do. Never got over 180 degrees, turned around half way up the mountain, son was late for a fishing date so we headed for the house. Discovered the jakes not working but had plenty of air and brake, finished the day pulling one windshield out to have new one cut and drive out two bad wheel studs on the rear, got to try and keep DOT happy you know. It was a great day.

[Peanutbutter]

A few more favorites, hope you like them, two new rear wheel studs and half a new windshield today, try and mount PTO hydraulic pump tomorrow on blue and white. Should have winch operational by end of week.

[C10 - C90 Bill]

More on the Duel Truck(s):

http://www.stlouisdumptrucks.com/Duel/Trucks.html

Be sure to click on some more of the links on the left side of the page.

Bill

[Peanutbutter]

Why is he calling truck number 1 and 2 281s instead of 351s unless they were tags in which case the frames were not long enough or they put 3 axle cutoffs on them to make them 351s. Unless he doesn't know his model numbers. If they built 4 trucks where did they find 4 matching fuel tankers, it must have been harder to find 4 like trailers than the trucks themselves.

[KQQL IT]

She still lives. I'll dig up a pic and a friend has a b/w from back in the day
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[KQQL IT]

Found it.^^^


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[Peanutbutter]

Is this a recent pic, do you know where it is right now? I'm thinking the Bertoline, can't read the whole name paint skeem is exactly the way I'm going to redo my blue and white. Do you think these two trucks are one in the same?

[Peanutbutter]

How do you like this one, they don't get any better than this.

[C10 - C90 Bill]

Originally Posted by Peanutbutter

Why is he calling truck number 1 and 2 281s instead of 351s unless they were tags in which case the frames were not long enough or they put 3 axle cutoffs on them to make them 351s. Unless he doesn't know his model numbers. If they built 4 trucks where did they find 4 matching fuel tankers, it must have been harder to find 4 like trailers than the trucks themselves.

I don't know my Petes good enough to comment, but I do know that the guy that owned it is pretty knowledge-able. He is a current member on one of the newer truck boards I go to now and then.

I'm not real sure, but I believe there was only one or two trailers. Probably at least two, as one went over the cliff.

I would have to check into it to be sure.

Bill

[Peanutbutter]

Maybe you could write him and ask him why trucks 1 and 2 are 281s instead of 351s, I guess its not a big deal. All my literure notes a 281 as 2 axle butterfly, 351 as 3 axle butterfly, 289 as wide hood 2 axle and 359 as wide hood 3 axle. My 288 narrow tilt hood 2 axle, in a 3 axle is 358.

[Peanutbutter]

A few more favorites. It makes you wonder where they went.

[alsriv2]

Those old Pete's are beautiful looking trucks. I am a CDL A driver and would love to have the opportunity to own/drive one of those one day, but not in the cards (yet). Keep the pictures coming!

[Peanutbutter]

Hope I'm not overloading ya with my favorites, its a narrow nose pete thing.

[KQQL IT]

Local to me truck.
It is so well built.



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[factorystock]

One of my favorite photos, I wouldn't change a thing on this 351, has single exhaust, single air horn, single head lights, narrow front bumper, diamond hole steel 2 piece rims, bias tires, long wheelbase, only thing I would add is the missing Peterbilt emblem.

[Peanutbutter]

Thats a great shot, thats the kind of photos I'm looking for, keep digging. When trucks were trucks and logs were logs, the first truck they put me in was 51 diamond T, wasn't safe enough to be on the road but it was. Two weeks later the boss brought me a 1957 351 with new red and white paint job, 262 with 5 and 4, hendrickson rubber pad and 10 yard box, man I was in tall cotton. Hauled asphalt all summer of 73 or 74 in Steamboat Springs. Glad I ended up with 288 tilt hood, my shoulders wouldn't like a butterfly anymore.

[Peanutbutter]

Up date on blue and white, always thought the cab was put on after the chassis was painted, wrong, found pink when I pulled windshield moulding the other day, not showing anywhere else though.

[factorystock]

A cool ad from 1963.