peterbilts,then and now

...cunning .. i think that mustard and white conventional you mention is the one that is now owned by myself...

...was purchased direct from Alltrans/TNT from Dave McNee and an ol' mate and was painted to resemble, somewhat, the Cannington colours....she later went through a few owners including Geoff McDonald, and had a custom paint job with ''Duel'' on the bonnet sides....

...if it is the same conventional we are referring to Bruce ... as i can't really recall any others of note that got around Sydney and were running the highway in these colours around your early era....cheers mate

The one I'm referring to had a KW bonnet with Peterbilt badges and was also a rigid tipper, That's why I was thinking it was the blue one Phil. As a truck obsessed youngster..........I was confused

The Peterbilt with a W-model hood Cunning is referring to is one of the Pioneer 351s and ended up with Barbro Smash repairs,they repowered it with a 8v71. Cheers James.

The Peterbilt with a W-model hood Cunning is referring to is one of the Pioneer 351s and ended up with Barbro Smash repairs,they repowered it with a 8v71. Cheers James.

....thanks Jimmy and 'scuse me cunning .. never gave a thought to the KW bonnets or the Barbaro modified Peterbilt....which was originally ordered for Ray Fitzpatrick Quarries (ch/no 19427) and was one of two for that firm.....both came with NHE225 Cummins and compound 4X4 Spicers....

...there are/were at least six Kenworth bonnets converted onto our Aussie conventional Petes over the years AFAIK....cheers

...make that at least seven Aussie Petes that operated with the W model KW bonnet....

ch/no's 16923, 18353, 19427, 19895, 20036, 20037, and 22061 ...

...it is no discredit to this sort of thing occurring as it may have been a situation of a truck being able to hit the road ........or otherwise parked up through a lack of available (usually hard to get) butterfly front sheetmetal

...also ch/no 18353 was re-instated with the original front sheetmetal whilst being restored quite a few years ago

The one cunning is refering to used to run out of the kurnell sand pits about 17 years ago . The one that belonged to dave mcnee was brought from kenworths when they were at lansvale . Dave was a driver at russo's and i was the bowzer service boy there as well , we both walked up to kenworths and walked down a line of petes that had had been traded by tnt . There would have been easy 10-20 of them and dave and i looked at them and he picked the best one he thought of the lot . He rebuilt it in bay number one of the workshop at express freight , and i helped him out when he needed it . I havnt seen him in years if anyone see's him tell him the dog say's g,day .

...thanks for that interesting info scummy BTW Dave McNee's Peterbilt was ch/no 22064 and was used in with Allied freight when it was taken over by Alltrans/TNT....Jimbo 51 has a half decent piccy of this truck at that time....


...also just for posterity's sake (or otherwise... in case i ever forget!) there were a few Aussie conventional Petes that ended up with another makers cab...

...ch/no 16437 (first conventional into service) now sports an Autocar cab...

...ch/no's 19895, 17786, 17787 and 20301 now have a Kenworth W model cab fitted to them....

...and lastly ch/no 17527 (ex French Petroleum 6X6) has a home built semi wooden structure that really bears no resemblance to a Peterbilt cab : : : .....cheers

Actually a crap photo, I was shaking so much from excitement! For what it's worth ....

...thanks jimbo .. that piccy is still worth its weight in rocking horse doo doo ...

...no matter how crap any picture may be....there is still a ton of info that can be gleaned ....cheers mate, and thanks again

Here is one at the Oaklands Truck Show ,sorrow about the reflections didn,t see them till I put the photo on the computer
Colin