Anyone Know Their Peterbilts ?
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Topic: Anyone Know Their Peterbilts ?
Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: Anyone Know Their Peterbilts ?
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2023 at 10:12pm
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I knew the builder/owner of this truck personally and have seen it up close and personal on a number of occasions. He told me just what model of Peterbilt extended day cab that he used for this conversion; but, that knowledge has escaped me. I thought surely he must have added the extended length; but, to the best of my rememberance, he claimed it was a factory-original creation. If he did add the extended area, he done a darn good job; as, inside and out, it looks factory-original. The frame and running gear is 1989 D-350 Dodge/Cummins. Can anyone pinpoint the year and model of the cab ? I used to be able to search these things out; but, Google is becoming more and more useless; the information highway has become too cluttered with billboards and money traps. Thanks for reading. Saturday_16-August-2014   |
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Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2023 at 10:32pm
| i know a guy in idaho thats building one useing a willys pick up cab |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2023 at 11:00pm
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I did find shallow mention of an extended day-cab 359X; very limited production and not a single picture. However, the hood/breather area doesn't look like any 359 I ever saw = no scallop to clear the air tube.
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Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2023 at 11:15pm
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We built a lot of the dies for the Peterbuilts during 1985 to 1991. Those fenders, cab corners and sleeper. Built the sunvisor tooling also. Top of radiator cover also. Built a front bumper die, but not that one in pics. Late 80's I would guess. Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2023 at 2:02am
| A friend of mine, (he's passed now) bought a "lil pete" from a dude in KS that builds them. bought it to pull his camper. I told him when he decides to sell it, i'd buy it. apparently that info never made it to the rest of the Family. anyways...i'll try to find what town that builder was from, my friend said he always had a waiting list. he said he mounted the original cabs/hoods on 1 ton chassis of buyers choice. his was on a ferd, but later had it changed to a Dodge. |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2023 at 2:11am
The guy who put this one together did it by himself with the help of a big-truck-boneyard owner friend of his. He was a local guy and married a girl just down the road from my Grannie's; they done well for themselves (a long away from poverty row Kentucky) and, besides owning a home here in Kentucky, they owned homes in California and Arizona as well. The big-truck junkyard was in either California or Arizona. People who have tons of money seem to always be able to get better deals than those without and the fact that he built this with the help and blessings of his junkyard friend allowed him to put it together for a lot less than one would think (or otherwise be out).
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shameless dude wrote:Posted By: Jack(Ky)
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2023 at 5:18am
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I've done bodywork on Pete's a long time and I've never worked on a cab like that. It is definitely pre 359 in my opinion. Looking at the windshields and door handles makes it look really old to me. ------------- '59 D14 '68 170 Diesel '81 7020 40 All Crop |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2023 at 6:56am
About like so. . . 
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2023 at 8:59am
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Having worked Petes since 1976, can say that is a conglomerate of several pieces of several different Model year Pete Conventionals as well hand built Extended cab and hoods. Only the Cab Firewall and doors are actually all Pete. Even the Grill is a custom reman. Had considered that for the KW before got hard into the rebuild.
This most likely started out as a mid 60s 281 Single Axle Day cab.
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Posted By: Lcombest
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2024 at 4:50pm
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This is my Dad's truck. The Cab is a 1951. It came off of a dump truck, if my memory serves me right. He stretched the Dodge frame 17 inches. The only thing that was cut on the cab was the grill. Thank you for showing this picture. My dad is 93 and doesn't drive any more but he still goes out and plays with his truck. 
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Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2024 at 12:20am
I am sure he already knew this; those photos were taken at Richie Curtis's Annual Old Timer's Reunion in Adair County, Kentucky; the date is in the post with the photos. If your father is able, you guys should drive the truck to the huge car show at Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee on Saturday_07-September-2024; it would sure attract a lot of attention there.
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