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Pride & Polish
Pride & Polish Weekly Video Encore, No. 28: Dean Bugg’s ‘Low-N-Long’ Pete 359
Up this week at No. 28 is Dean Bugg’s “Low-N-Long” Peterbilt 359 from the 2009 Pride & Polish event at the Mid-America Trucking Show. The rig features suicide doors, 10-inch stacks, a 339-inch wheelbase and more.
February 17, 2020
Pride & Polish
Tennessee-based ministry’s 1985 Peterbilt 359 with airbrushed Bible-themed trailer
The driver’s side of the trailer depicts a number of Bible stories, ranging from creation to Revelation. The rear and passenger’s side of the trailer feature American flag graphics and the seals of the U.S. Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. It also features a tribute to truck drivers.
November 7, 2019
Custom Rigs
Custom-built 1980 Peterbilt 359
Dave Tompkins out of Scranton, Pennsylvania, had this custom Peterbilt built by Kevin Love of Stretch Customs out of Wingham, Ontario. While not a trucker now, Tompkins has always had a love of trucks and wanted to have one to take to truck shows.
April 25, 2019
Custom Rigs
Peterbilt 389 rebuilt to mimic 359 style
Hollen says he’s always loved the 359 style, so he added a custom 359-style bumper, 359 cutouts and stripe on the hood, all new panels, a custom 359 wood-panel dash and heater cover, 359 air cleaners and bonnets and more.
June 28, 2018
Pride & Polish
2016 GATS Best of Show winner, Limited-Mileage Bobtail: The Premier 359
Owner-operator Kary Bryce of Sibley, La., founded his fleet in 1988 with a single Peterbilt 359. He’s always had 359s running in his operation, now at 116 trucks, he says. What’s now Bryce’s most-famed 359 he bought in 1996.
October 4, 2016
Custom Rigs
GATS Pride & Polish preview: Rollin’ Transport’s 1985 Peterbilt 359
The 359 of perennial Pride & Polish champ Vinnie Diorio is a different animal from his long-and-low newer models of recent years. It combines both old- and new-school features for a tastefully nostalgic design.
August 25, 2015
Custom Rigs
Chi-Town Large Cars’ Southern Prez and his 359
The Chi-Town group’s annual benefit and truck show is August 15 in Lynwood, Ill. — Eady and his classic custom Pete (find photos here) are sure to be a part of it.
August 4, 2015
Custom Rigs
Back in black: ‘86 Pete 359 still hauling logs daily
Owner-operator Richard Shaw Jr. runs this 1986 Peterbilt 359 daily hauling logs, which the Woodville, Texas-based trucker says he’s done for 20 years.
March 24, 2015
Custom Rigs
‘Destination unknown’: New project 359, cancer cure effort from Eldon Jaeger & co.
Small fleet owner-operator Eldon Jaeger ramps up production on his Pete 359 build, which will be given away in a raffle to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
March 16, 2015
Custom Rigs
Total rebuild: Owner-op’s ’81 Pete 359
Russell Riano says he has “totally rebuilt” this 1981 Peterbilt 359 upon his 2005 purchase of the rig. When business got slow in 2005, he says, “I found this old 359 and went to town.”
December 26, 2014
Custom Rigs
10,000th student for B.R.A.K.E.S.; Keeping up a classic 359
10,000 more teen drivers now have been trained on safety around big trucks. Also: Photos of one classic workhorse of a 359.
December 21, 2013
Custom Rigs
Bringing out the stripes in an ’86 359
Small fleet owner Ronnie Adams combined a few historic paint/strike schemes of the 1970s and 1980s to create the color combination of his ’86 Peterbilt 359.
August 16, 2013
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