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Evel Knievel's Mack haul rig, restored
For Overdrive's 60th anniversary, take a run back through the half-decade-long journey of a famous Mack from weeds in a Florida yard to a fully custom-restored museum showpiece in Topeka, Kan., as covered in Overdrive.
February 1, 2021
Evel Knievel's Mack truck and trailer after restoration
Custom Rigs
Ruben Carrion’s recently custom-restored 2000 Peterbilt 379
No, it’s not an e-log exempt unit. “I checked with three different dealers,” owner-operator Ruben Carrion says, determining nonetheless to do a custom-restore of the unit he took about three months off for early in 2018. Catch a video walk-around and more of Carrion’s long trucking history since immigrating from Panama as a youngster.
October 17, 2019
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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
Tobby Donalson’s 1959 Peterbilt 351, pictured from a 2011 photo shoot, competes in the antique class at Overdrive’s Pride & Polish installment at Fitzgerald’s in Crossville, Tenn., June 28-29.
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