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Thats a good looking 359 Paul! What year is it, it looks like a later one? Nice progress too!

Brian

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I love the old school paint scheme, going to be beautiful when you get her finished:D:D:D

Big John

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That's a really nice paint job! And the 1:1 truck is awesome too. I can tell already this will be a fine truck when it's finished.

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**** thats good work son!!

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Looks great Paul.:cool: I drive buy a truck that looks real similar to that one evry day only real difference I can see is the blue is a little darker on yours and the bunk is a little longer. With all of these new trucks Joey is going to confiscate the orange truck and you will never notice.:D:D

Travis

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Thanks Much Jon.. SnP did the awesome paint work for me..

Thanks Much Nate..

LoL! Thanks Cory

Thanks Much Travis.. Joe will be ok I have his started but he wants a Army truck not a pretty truck :D

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Your off to a great start Paul!
looks like you are going to build another masterpiece:eek:
I think you must have an assembly line set up in your shop or somthing!
The paint looks awsome.

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This truck is looking great already, the 1:1 is gorgeous. I'll really be watching this build. Nice work Paul.

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Thanks much Troy if it come out half as good as your A model I will be very happy..


Thanks much Nick.. I am hoping to do the 1:1 some justice the truck is a part of there family and has even been totaled at one time I have seen the picks it was just destroyed and to see it in this shape is amazing..

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OK we need to get this thread on the right track......

Paul had a very short time to talk to Derrel at Tracey's truck show and he has some of his facts wrong on this truck and some history so we are going to straighten some of this out because I know. I drove the truck. So here we go.

The truck was built in Dec of 86 but is titled an 87 but is not a numbered classic for you at home in 87 Peterbilt built 359 numbered trucks before going to the 379 in the early summer of 87. OK the truck was speced by Michael Bennett out of Seneca KS and was bought by Derrel in early spring 90. The only truck Derrel bought brand new was an 84 which his son wrecked in Arizona in 86 and it had the paint scheme we have here.

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7056/dsc00281w.jpg
Here is what the truck looked like in 1990 when I first started driving it.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5821/dsc00289ses.jpg

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6749/dsc00287azh.jpg

The truck was not painted until the fall of 2009 to the scheme you see today and the stretch on the frame from factory 252 to 303 was not done until the spring of 2010 and this is what it looked like in the summer of 2010

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1171/dsc01012hw.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4316/dsc01006o.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5472/dsc01011es.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5552/dsc01013m.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2171/dsc01007f.jpg

I wanted to straighten things out because Paul is doing a great job on this truck and this build means a lot to me seeing I drove the truck.

Paul Keep it up man Looks Awesome.....

Thanks Wade

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Wow that truck is my child hood all contained on 10 wheels. I grew up in 3 different 359 extended hood Peterbilts. I even learned to drive a manual transmission at 12yrs old on an 85 359 exhood with the same 6&4 trans as this truck. We were in a produce pier in Philadelphia with our reefer full of grapes from Chille.LOL...So let me guess its got the typical ole 425hp 3406 mechanical Cat. Just so you are all aware I'm in love with these ole Petes, if I won the lottery I would spend my days buying restoring/customizing and driving old peterbilts. Screw ferraris and lamborginis. I'm loving this build and as soon as I find all my old photo albums in storage I will post my fathers many gorgeous old school owner-operator set ups. Keep up this great build Paul.

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Thanks much Wade I was not sure if I had got all the info right..

Thanks much Nick I am just waiting on the sleeper to get back to me and Ill get going on it again..

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Wow, that truck is a beauty. Sometimes I get the urge to buy an old Pete just to restore and fix up, but that's the last thing I need. I don't know that I could ever afford to restore one, and I don't know what I do with it afterwards!

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does this guy pull a covered wagon i swear i see him at the mill in st. paul called ameristeel

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Do you haul in to that mill Cory? I hate that place, stupid Gerdau:D Thats for the history on the truck Wade, You lucky dog. I would love to learn how to drive a twin stick

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I drove a Mack with a twin stick for a year.... Not fun

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yes i haul out of that place i drive for LAP-HAM HICKEY STEEL! They sure know how to make you waite. I make appointments for 1100 am and get loaded arount 200 pm! and it just a dust hole i would hate to drive a truck i own in there. some guys drive through there like there qualifiying for a race and kick up so much dust! that truck im thinking of is a KW with same paint scheme and shorter wheel base! i swear he was in kasson for the truck show! the kenworth that is. that baby blue with white is awesome cANT WAITE TO SEE THIS DONE

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I learned to drive a manual trans on a twin stick pete, then when I got in a car with a five spd trans I was like "that's it?" LOL

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Paul, u lucky dog.....now i gotta change my scheme :D A frined of mine drives one here pulling a hopper btm, same scheme and (model, i believe) That is going to sharp. Keep up the good work!

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God thats a beautiful truck. Love the old Petes, Kenny's and Freightliners.
I gota go with a Detroit though.

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Any progress.....your slacking lol:D

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YEAH LETS ROLL IT!!

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Sweet, I'm glad to see this one going again. I like this Pete alot. Looking great Paul.

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I love this truck, and you can never go wrong with the old skool paint scheme. VERY SWEET!!!:D:D:D:D

Big John

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Looks like the mail man brought you some goodys !!!!!!!!!

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that is just sick i love that blue!! glad to see you back at it!

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Glad to see this build picking back up!! Cant wait to see the end result. you turn out some sweet looking trukcs TC!!! Great work!!

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Just a Beautiful paint Scheme on that body ...John definitley has the best painting skills on the board..Bar None!

Looking great Paul !

Alft

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Looks great!! The cab lights, choped sleeper, and rear window looks really good with the combo you have going on there! really cool looking rig!

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The attention to detail of this build really sets it off.
I particularly like the tanks, they are going to come off great when you've painted them.

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Wow are those lilttle polished air tanks behind the fuel tanks? This thing looks awesome, great job Paul. I can't wait to see it finished.

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Another killer build Paul.The air tanks give it a nice touch.Great job!!

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Thanks Much Dabears

Thanks Snowman

Yep Nick the 1:1 have a extra set of air tanks on the frame. Thanks Much.

Thanks Buddy..


Well I got the truck painted and mostly put together still waiting on some parts from Jon and I have some detail painting to do and mud flaps and MFU and extra lights but getting close so here are the picks.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...0Picks/003.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/004-1.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/006-2.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/012-3.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...0Picks/007.jpg

Stainless window visors and cb whips
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/008-2.jpg

Proper drive shafts and carrier.
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/009-1.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/010-2.jpg

Dreamweavers scale shocks.
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...icks/011-2.jpg

Here is a close up of RC4WD new scale bolt headed screws I used them on all visible screws they are great and I am going to use them on all builds from now on and I even replaced the screws on my trucks with black frames that are on the shelf they just add so much to the truck..


Thanks for looking guys.