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ATHS virtual truck show featured more than 1,400 trucks
The coronavirus pandemic didn't stop the ATHS's annual truck show. The show went virtual this year, and it was still a hit with over 1,400 trucks. Details here.
June 4, 2020
Custom Rigs
Portrait of two classics: ’71 Autocar and its paint scheme’s inspiration, ’74 Diamond Reo goes to the museum
Ohio-based heavy equipment operator James Green hunts down the inspiration for his late father’s 1971 Autocar’s paint scheme in a 1980 Overdrive issue, and donates his grandfather’s 1974 Diamond Reo, his final truck, to the Iowa 80 trucking museum. Take a run through some of that history with Green here.
May 8, 2019
Custom Rigs
Photos: Antique trucks on display throughout MATS
Members of the American Truck Historical Society’s Kentucky and Indiana chapters brought a fleet’s worth of antique trucks out to the Mid-America Trucking Show. The trucks will be on display throughout the show, March 28-30, at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
March 29, 2019
Custom Rigs
Owner-op Dustin Bates’ 34 years young hauler: The ‘Just Passing Thru’ 1984 Freightliner FLC120
The classic mid-’80s Freightliner conventional body style and striping immediately set it apart at GBATS right here. As Bates himself says, you don’t see many of them around any more. Video, detail on the previously single-owner unit, well-preserved, here.
October 18, 2018
Custom Rigs
Craig Krumpton’s retirement project 1971 Kenworth W900 and classic 1980s Double Eagle sleeper
Another beauty I came across at the Southern Classic Truck Show, owned by retired Craig Krumpton of West Columbia, S.C. Krumpton picked this 1971 Kenworth W900 in 2008. Its original owner-operator team hauled in it through the mid-1990s, and it still bears their original paint and features in large part.
September 21, 2017
Channel 19
‘When a truck was a truck…’
Steve Hearne’s grandfather’s old Ford AA “had a hand throttle like a tractor, and another lever on the column to retard the timing for hand starting.” Hearne, who still lives on a portion of his family’s old 120-acre farm in Vermont, remembers the unit well…
January 30, 2017
Custom Rigs
Retirement rewards: Tobby Donalson’s 1959 Peterbilt 351
Two years after saying goodbye to the highway, independent owner-operator Tobby Donalson finished a rig he waited nearly 30 years for the time to rebuild just right
June 29, 2016
Custom Rigs
Video slide show through ATHS’ national convention
The vid shows scenes from the Antique Truck Historical Society’s national convention this past week in Salem, Ore., the biggest ATHS show of the year. And plenty of Class 8s at this one. …
June 3, 2016
Custom Rigs
1977 TranStar 4200: Old-school ‘patina’ at Pride & Polish
High Gear Photography proprietor and Precision of New Hampton hauler Kenny Hubka’s Transtar harks the first rig he ever steered, his father’s 1972 model.
June 21, 2014
Channel 19
When trucks were trucks: Familiar faces at Fitzgerald’s
Bill Blankenship of McMinnville, Tenn., showed off a classic find of a 1953 GMC 630, powered by a 134-hp Detroit diesel, at the Pride & Polish at Fitzgerald’s.
June 29, 2013
Channel 19
PHOTOS: Nice day for a truck show
Bill Bradford’s immaculately restored 1973 Kenworth K100 and 1977 Great Dane reefer — and more scenes from the Cookeville, TN, truck show of ATHS’ Music City Chapter.
September 29, 2012
Channel 19
Vegas trucking tweets and Music City peeps
The Great West Truck Show gets going today out in Las Vegas, running through Saturday with vendor exhibits, the Custom Rigs Pride & Polish competition, CCJ‘s Fleet Executive Conference (under way as of yesterday — some news here from the first panel on challenges and opportunities trucking the rarefied California environment of late) and more. Follow Overdrive‘s Twitter feed @OverdriveUpdate — […]
June 14, 2012
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