Tag: truck restoration

Custom Rigs

80-year-old truck restorer rebuilding 1938 FK Mack concrete truck

Concrete truck headed for exhibit

November 15, 2016

Custom Rigs

More on the Kelty Farms 1976 International TranStar COE

Current owner Kyle Kelty tells the rest of the story around his restoration of his grandfather Jack Kelty’s 1976 International TranStar cabover, a big part of the Kelty family for decades now.

September 29, 2016

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

Oldest known complete Peterbilt ever built restored, on display

The oldest known complete and operable Peterbilt, a 1939 Model 260 — just one of 15 built by the truck maker that year — is currently on display at Peterbilt’s facility in Denton, Texas.

June 18, 2014

Custom Rigs

Sweet restoration: 1973 KW K100

Bill Bradford spent three years restoring the KW and a 1977 Great Dane reefer to top condition — catch a photo gallery with pictures front to back here.

October 8, 2012

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

Cabover fanatics, this one’s for you: 1973 K100 vid

Bill Bradford’s video of the restoration of his antique Kenworth COE.

June 25, 2012

Channel 19

From the shop to the road: One operator’s 359

This 1986 Peterbilt 359 is the result of a three-year project conducted from 2007-10 by owners Wayne and Kelly Ziegenfuss, today leased to Bennett Motor Express and hauling mining equipment to Arizona, coming back with copper, on a step deck from a Hendersonville, N.C., home base. I met the pair at the Southeastern Regional Truck […]

May 31, 2012

Channel 19

More trucks, scenes from Knoxville show last week

Cinderella sleeper storyI was stoked at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend when, on Saturday morning, this yellow Mack pulled into the lot with none other than my childhood hometown of Rock Hill, S.C., lettered on the doors. The unit is the four-year project, completed when he put the truck in […]

April 22, 2012

Channel 19

Evel Knievel’s driver and the 1973 Overdrive interview

Unearthing the history behind Evel Knievel’s 1970s touring operation with former driver Mike Draper. Bonus: Videos of the old Mack haul rig, currently undergoing restoration.

March 12, 2012

Channel 19

VID: Cracking Evel’s safe with Robb Mariani, Brad Wike

And, most importantly, small fleet owner Wike’s lead mechanic Frank Phipps (pictured), who did the vast majority of the heavy lifting with a blow torch and drill, Wike himself with the plasma cutter, at Wike’s place of business in Lincolnton, N.C., on Saturday. As with many such endeavors, the process of it all was much […]

February 20, 2012

Channel 19

Safe-cracking time: The Evel Knievel haul rig restore-in-progress

If all goes well, says American Trucker host Robb Mariani, tomorrow he, North Carolina-based Brad Wike and the rig’s owner will at least attempt to crack a gallon-size safe found under a cabinet in the floor of the Evel Knievel haul rig Mariani located and featured on his show last year (check out the “Finding […]

February 17, 2012