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Truck of the Day : March 12, 2015; SpecCast '01 Peterbilt 385 Tanker
Topic Started: Mar 12 2015, 07:57 AM (583 Views)
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The SpecCast 2001 Peterbilt 385 is the truck for today.

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Peterbilt Motors Company, founded in 1939, is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas. Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas (1980), and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec. From the early 1960s until the mid-1980s, the company was based in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, with its headquarters, and main plant all in Newark, California. The Newark plant closed in 1980 and consolidated manufacturing at its facilities in Denton, TX and Madison, TN. In 1980 headquarters and engineering also moved to Denton.


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Various inline six cylinder diesels were available for the 385.

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the early part of the 20th century, Tacoma, Washington plywood manufacturer and lumber entrepreneur T.A. Peterman was faced with a lumber logistics problem. He could not get logs from the forest to his lumber mill quickly or efficiently. He sought to improve upon the methods of the day: floating logs down river, or the use of steam tractors and horse teams. Peterman knew that if he could develop the then-nascent automobile technology and build trucks, he could solve his problem.

Peterman was rebuilding surplus army trucks, improving the technology with each successive vehicle. Then he put a battery on the starter (instead of the crank) and soon purchased the assets of Fageol Motors of Oakland, California in 1938 to supplement his need for a custom built logging truck chassis. Fageol had gone into receivership in 1932. By 1938, the Great Depression had driven the value of the assets to nearly zero. Peterman acquired the defunct truck manufacturer and although he produced two chain-drive logging trucks, they were unsuccessful. In 1939 he began selling his trucks to the public. T. A. Peterman died in 1944. His wife, Ida, sold the company (less the land) to seven individuals within the organization. They expanded it into a major producer of heavy-duty trucks. In 1958, Ida Peterman announced plans to sell the land to develop a shopping center. The shareholders, not wanting to invest in a new manufacturing facility, sold the company to Pacific Car & Foundry Co., then primarily a manufacturer of railroad freight cars, which was looking to expand its truck manufacturing presence. Pacific Car & Foundry Co, which had acquired the assets of Kenworth in 1944, was already a competitor in the heavy truck market. In June, 1958, they acquired Peterbilt Motors as a wholly owned subsidiary. One year later, Pacific Car started construction of a modern 176,000-square-foot (16,400 m2) manufacturing facility in Newark, Calif. In August, 1960 Peterbilt moved to the new facility and became a division of the parent firm. Pacific Car and Foundry Co. changed its name officially to PACCAR Inc. in 1971.


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Proving once again that true 1/64 models rock! This meticulously detailed Peterbilt features a chrome visor, diecast body + tanker and model specific wheels. I bought this at the 2015 St. Louis Farm Toy Show.

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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Beautiful, indeed, from all angles,
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69Stang
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That's one impressive piece of machinery!
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Dean-o-mite
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It looks very well detailed and it must be one impressively heavy rig!
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That is a real winner truck in the 1/64 scale, so detailed, looks great :thumbup:
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Very cool!
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diomakr
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this is one of my all time favorites... never seen it in red, only have the silver& white. wish I had more of 'em
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You cannot go wrong with Spec Cast models - they make very nice trucks and farm equipment.
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