The 6th Annual Gear Jammer Magazine Truck Show, an emerging fixture in the New England trucking scene, featured a show of force from Sunderland, Massachusetts-based Patterson Farms' fleet of vintage Peterbilt 379s.
The farm specializes in growing pumpkins and peppers, which it hauls around the region. Other agricultural products like sod get moved in the hand-painted daycabs, too.
Donnie Patterson, the farm's owner, said he owns a shop and does the work "from soup to nuts."
This 1999 model featured some of the cleaner hand painting work, but still a few nicks and knocks here and there to let you know it works hard.
"We've got a painter, me and my cousins do the engines," said Patterson. "They're all original, and all Caterpillars."
Patterson had around two dozen of the old 379s at the show, which itself had a strong showing from the antique and otherwise older-truck crowd. But Patterson's stood out. These trucks worked and paid homage to the classic old look, but weren't afraid to show a little patina here and there.
