Anyone Know Their Peterbilts ?

I knew the builder/owner of this truck personally and have seen it up close and personal on a number of occasions.

Edited by BuckSkin - 05 Apr 2023 at 11:57pm

I did find shallow mention of an extended day-cab 359X; very limited production and not a single picture.

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.  

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.

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.  

Edited by DMiller - 06 Apr 2023 at 9:02am

Lcombest wrote: 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.