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Custom Rigs

Low Life, Pride & Polish National Champion

John O’Keefe talks about the inspiration and execution for his 2007 Peterbilt 379 and 2011 Mac dump.

August 28, 2012

Custom Rigs

Pride & Polish National Championship culminates this week

Dozens of trucks square off this week at the Great American Trucking Show for the Pride & Polish championship.

August 20, 2012

Custom Rigs

Quite a stretch

Gene McKinny started work on his 379 by stretching the frame to add a detachable towing unit. From there, he says, it was all down hill.

August 17, 2012

Channel 19

Two custom ’80s Petes for the cabover fanatics

These two Peterbilt 362s, owned by Dustin Kunkel and John Bradford, respectively, we caught out at the Crossville, Tenn., show of the ATHS Music City Chapter.

July 21, 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

Overdrive Extra

Have you seen this custom truck lately?

A look back here a few years to the Custom Rigs magazine vid of Doug Fisher’s The Gambler 2007 Peterbilt 379 Legacy edition, which among other features sports of an actual shotgun as the shifter and a signature by none other than the original Gambler himself, Kenny Rogers. A commenter on the vid at our […]

June 22, 2012

Overdrive Extra

This engine’s on fire

Ray Rodriguez’ repainted engine may be what pushes his ’88 Pete to a Best of Show victory.

June 18, 2012

Channel 19

Farm to market in style — Bill Blankenship’s 1978 W900A

Bill Blankenship, who with his son, Jerry, runs the McMinnville-based Blankenship Farms & Nursery business, found this member of the 1978 class of Kenworth’s long-running W900 model eight years ago, buying it to haul the products of his business. Today, after a long restore-and-rebuild process, he hauls trees to customers week-in, week-out — “32 trips […]

June 17, 2012

Business

Bragging rights on the line today

The Great West Truck Show Pride & Polish awards ceremony starts today at 11 a.m. PDT.

June 16, 2012

Business

Photos and video: Ray Rodriquez’s flamed ’88 Peterbilt 379

Ray Rodriquez discusses some of the details of his 1988 Peterbilt 379.

June 15, 2012

Business

Showing in style

Bill and Marie Sandvik bring the comforts of home to the Pride & Polish floor.

June 14, 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