Old Petes and kw's never die , nice old rig good to see the old boy stile on the job , this is a true driver , respect and pride for his profession and equipment , sad to see how trucking ended up , hats off to the true drivers who take pride in there equipment and there appearance of being a professional ,
It takes a top shelf driver and mechanic to keep a truck that nice for that long. If he didn't turn his own wrenches, he had a talented mechanic on standby. A good friend of mine bough a '58 Autocar in the early 60s & ran it almost 40 years. I love to see the old trucks out there still doing there job, and usually more reliably than the new ones.
Also nice to see that that old Pete is still working daily. Always nice to see old big rigs still putting in some type of work. Never retire them and put them in showrooms.
That a truck I love how old truck had a mechanicalness to them. They didn't try and hide their nuts and bolts and just about everything was made of metal and were attached with screws, nuts and bolts instead of clips and other cheap cost saving crap
Just ran into Butch today at a dairy, made my day to see he is still hard at it. The old Pete is up to 3.8 million now and he is still one of the most personable guys I've ever met.
@@audreyhuber2504 I never met the man. But I could tell what kind of guy he was. Sorry to hear he has move on. I think I have watched this video of him 50 times. What was his full name?
He was my Dad. Everybody called him "Butch", last name Mueller. They brought the truck up for his funeral and I rode in the cab with his urn to the cemetery. A fitting last trip.
ha and all these guys who buy new trucks every few years are jokes, that's a real trucker to buy a truck like that and still run It after all there years is just great, being a trucker myself it makes me smile seeing old trucks like that still on the road
Great Pete !! My Dad had a 68 KW narrow nose he called it. One thing I've noticed in my 35 yrs trucking. Its so much easier to handle the trucks of today. They are a lot more safe and with all the operational safe guards its getting so anyone can drive them. Can you imagine putting one of today's drivers in a vintage rig. No power steering or AC they weren't built with air ride suspensions. When it was hot out it was brutal. Cold try an old emeryville around zero many miles wrapped in all the blankets from the bunk. Have fun keep the shiney side up and the greasy side down
+Mike Harlow Hi Mike...I loved your comment. When I read it my I thought of my brother-in-law. The guy is a corporate attorney and cannot drive my Ford ranger because it has a standard 5sp transmission. I get the biggest kick out of this!!
wow, perfect unmolested vintage working truck. The owner seems like a really nice guy, you can tell by the look of that truck that i bet he does or did all of his own wrench turning! thanks for posting it!
Time Capsule , good lookin ride not all pimped , or Resto Rodded out , or a football field long overloaded with chromed up. Just as it was when rolled out of Peterbilt and still ready to go to work.
Is this truck kept in Wi? I'm almost positive i've seen it on the interstate by Wi Dells. It was pulling a tank trailer. I think i've seen it in Reedsburg Wi, also. If not there is one just like it running around that area.
I can tell you, if he did sell it. I would be the one to buy it. Even if I have to sell both legs and arms plus the kids to do it. But since he has a son who drives and a Grandson who will drive some day, I don't think its going any where...
I'm not a semi trucker casue i wanna do hotshot trucking but God damnit i would take a vintage rig like this like this any day of the week before i buy a new 2020
@wannalayya I hear you.. The Needle Nose Peterbilts are the prettiest trucks ever built.. I'd love to see that Bodystyle revived in some fashion.. the radiator technology is there to do it. I'm an old trucker myself.. with 1.4 million miles of service... I've seen temperatures in El Centro and Baker California of 115 deg- even newer trucks struggle somewhat at those temps to keep water temps under 220.. it's a trip "slower" not stopper, you ease up on the throttle and keep going.
i don't know alot about US trucks but that is one heck of a truck. does he have a whole house in the cab? it is an true american bigrig real nice condition to be an everyday work horse. very clean and tidy.
+just me I've owned a couple of classics, an 84 KW K100 with a 400hp Cummins and a 13 speed and an 85 KW W900B with a 3406B Cat and a 15 speed. I ran them long distance and from a certain standpoint they were better than the late models. They certainly got the looks and thumbs up as I went down the road, and most of the time if something broke you could fix it yourself. But the ride quality, fuel economy and incompatability with ultra low sulphur diesel did them in. The 99 Freightliner Classic with a Redtop Cummins was my favorite though. Old school style with an easy to work on electronic diesel and no emission controls. Even with a cracked block, she just kept going.......RIP Ginger.
@TheLargecars Nope and I never will. The Truck is one of a kind, because he kept it the way he wants it. Heck The pictures of his kids that he has in the cab are even from the 70's...
Theres nothing like the older trucks!..as a kid i use to go around and take pictures of them and in 1976 my friend bought the kenworth bicentenial edition VIT200 , conventional, There were only 42 of them made while the cabover had 200 made for the celebration of the bicentenial , The truck had a 286 inch wheelbase along with a 3406 catepillar engine , it was the introduction of the first aerodyne double bunks with top windows ! don,t find no history on them anymore which is strange! .
@@andrewnorris1514 Yup !It was a 286" wheel base , Only 42 conventionals were made and 200 cabovers were made for the bicentennial that year in 1976, I remember the trailer lengths except for the N.Y.state thruway which allowed double 48,s for transport between U.S. and Canada but for the lower 48 the trailer lengths were regulated to 40 ft !few years after they went to 42 ft then to 45 ft then they maxed out at 48 ft as we have now !
Old Petes and kw's never die , nice old rig good to see the old boy stile on the job , this is a true driver , respect and pride for his profession and equipment , sad to see how trucking ended up , hats off to the true drivers who take pride in there equipment and there appearance of being a professional ,
Sounds awesome. Could listen to that idle all day, nice n steady.
Your neighbor has more style than most people of today can even dream of. Thanks for sharing!
AMEN BROTHER
that is a sweet old girl that dosent owe any one a dime keep rolling proud mistress of the road.
It takes a top shelf driver and mechanic to keep a truck that nice for that long. If he didn't turn his own wrenches, he had a talented mechanic on standby. A good friend of mine bough a '58 Autocar in the early 60s & ran it almost 40 years. I love to see the old trucks out there still doing there job, and usually more reliably than the new ones.
He did most of the repairs n work on it himself
Also nice to see that that old Pete is still working daily. Always nice to see old big rigs still putting in some type of work. Never retire them and put them in showrooms.
Sweet Pete Rider 1971 until 2071. A Long Live Peterbilt !
Nothing like old iron!!!!
Not the junk they sell today.
Love to see these old work horses going up and down interstate
That a truck I love how old truck had a mechanicalness to them. They didn't try and hide their nuts and bolts and just about everything was made of metal and were attached with screws, nuts and bolts instead of clips and other cheap cost saving crap
This truck is the truck that is on this months jx enterprises/ peterbilt calender I believe I from Wisconsin tooo
I like all the old needlenose trucks there all beutiful
One of the prettiest Pets ever built!
damn she is beutiful,reminds me when i was young driving in my dads pete old #7
I love big trucks old and new - there, I said it !
Just ran into Butch today at a dairy, made my day to see he is still hard at it. The old Pete is up to 3.8 million now and he is still one of the most personable guys I've ever met.
Is he still working
@@andrewnorris1514 no. Sad to say he passed away in January 2022
@@audreyhuber2504 I never met the man. But I could tell what kind of guy he was. Sorry to hear he has move on. I think I have watched this video of him 50 times. What was his full name?
He was my Dad. Everybody called him "Butch", last name Mueller. They brought the truck up for his funeral and I rode in the cab with his urn to the cemetery. A fitting last trip.
@@audreyhuber2504 Sorry you lost your Pa. Thank you for posting.Is the pete being cared for?
ha and all these guys who buy new trucks every few years are jokes, that's a real trucker to buy a truck like that and still run It after all there years is just great, being a trucker myself it makes me smile seeing old trucks like that still on the road
now there is someone who loves their rig ALOT!!! just look at it. almost like new :)
Cool truck and I like the old guy!
OLD stile RULZZZZ wery beautifull truck i love him
I wish my neighbor had a truck like this
Great Pete !! My Dad had a 68 KW narrow nose he called it. One thing I've noticed in my 35 yrs trucking. Its so much easier to handle the trucks of today. They are a lot more safe and with all the operational safe guards its getting so anyone can drive them. Can you imagine putting one of today's drivers in a vintage rig. No power steering or AC they weren't built with air ride suspensions. When it was hot out it was brutal. Cold try an old emeryville around zero many miles wrapped in all the blankets from the bunk. Have fun keep the shiney side up and the greasy side down
+Mike Harlow Hi Mike...I loved your comment. When I read it my I thought of my brother-in-law. The guy is a corporate attorney and cannot drive my Ford ranger because it has a standard 5sp transmission. I get the biggest kick out of this!!
Tough trucks for tough people
NICE!She just like a part of the family.
One sweet Pete!!
What a beautiful truck.
Truck is still alive an well and working. Pretty sure I met him coming out of Mauston WI a couple weeks ago.
What a beautiful machine.
Beautiful Pete man! Thats a helluva guy you got for a neighbor! A true truck driver with an appreciation for a fine machine.
thats one sweet looking old rig there
nice rig, its great 2 c that its still working
I wish my grandparents were that cool.
One beautiful truck love to have it
Verry nice old working truck not just a show quean got to love it.
Man I love trucks that look the way they came. No stupid custom garbage.
wow, perfect unmolested vintage working truck. The owner seems like a really nice guy, you can tell by the look of that truck that i bet he does or did all of his own wrench turning! thanks for posting it!
big beast!! i love it. could be nice to live in 50-60s..
Now that truck has STYLE!
I maybe young but hey! Old skool is still cool! At least in my mind anyway...
Same here
Damn straight
wow, now thats a REAL truck
love them needle nose KW's...thanks for sharing
Time Capsule , good lookin ride not all pimped , or Resto Rodded out , or a football field long overloaded with chromed up. Just as it was when rolled out of Peterbilt and still ready to go to work.
That's one tough Peter!
I hope he gives it to one of his grandkids so it can go another forty years.
it will go another 300 if you keep up on maintenance/ replace engine when needed
i own a 1971. 1693 ita cat
5 and a four 3.36 and unlimited
@@tonycouch8971 how many miles on the 1693? I swapped mine out for a 3406c.
Yes ,its not a needle nose. But it is a very cool truck......... I started out in the early 70,s driving Macks...... Pete was the top truck.
Amazing!!!
Is this truck kept in Wi? I'm almost positive i've seen it on the interstate by Wi Dells. It was pulling a tank trailer. I think i've seen it in Reedsburg Wi, also. If not there is one just like it running around that area.
My first truck I learned to drive was an 89 Pete ex hood 425 cat 15 speed reverse
15 spd reverse?
Thanks man but the true credit goes to the owner "Butch" a true pro Driver and a great guy
What's Butch's last name?
I love it
I can tell you, if he did sell it. I would be the one to buy it. Even if I have to sell both legs and arms plus the kids to do it. But since he has a son who drives and a Grandson who will drive some day, I don't think its going any where...
AWESOME . I love your reply
looking great (oryginal) without frame streching, lowering suspension, plascics and candy colours
+Tomek1985 I agree. They look so stupid when they stretch them.
+Dqalex tht stretch kinda helps with the ride....I drove 1 with a stretch we hauled oversize beams
@@redlikewater2453 this truck ain't going nowhere
I've heard of this old cat and this truck before....pulls a milk tanker, doesn't he?
NICE TRUCK!!!
Ein schöner alter Truck , thanks
great looking ol pete
Love it.
now this is a classic!
got any pictures of your ride? great to hear that you run yours too. Because they where made for the road.... 5 stars back at you..
trucks like this are the backbone of American Tucking
8 idiots dislike this video? WTF! That's one sweet truck and tip my hat to it.
Wish I woulduv never got rid of my needle nose two months ago
nice truck
i just watched that movie lol
I was trying to figure out the same thing I see it running up 13 quite often. I run out of Junction City for Wayne Transports.
Sooo flippin cool.
Chulada de camión
I'm not a semi trucker casue i wanna do hotshot trucking but God damnit i would take a vintage rig like this like this any day of the week before i buy a new 2020
@wannalayya I hear you.. The Needle Nose Peterbilts are the prettiest trucks ever built.. I'd love to see that Bodystyle revived in some fashion.. the radiator technology is there to do it. I'm an old trucker myself.. with 1.4 million miles of service... I've seen temperatures in El Centro and Baker California of 115 deg- even newer trucks struggle somewhat at those temps to keep water temps under 220.. it's a trip "slower" not stopper, you ease up on the throttle and keep going.
China lake California 122 degrees
Looks like its in not bad shape for a work truck
nice old pete
Classic.
What engine is in that Pete? Sounds like a Big Cam 400 Cummins?
she sounds realy good
To each is own. the paint job is factory select and defiantly belongs on the truck... But like I said to each is own.
This is awesome
Sheer functional beauty
Yea GOOOOOO BUTCH!!!
haha it look big untill the man walks past it!
nice ole needlenose
It was, truck just looks very familiar
es una joya, pura lata
496velle...i agree wit you 100%!
sounds like a good ol cummins
i don't know alot about US trucks but that is one heck of a truck. does he have a whole house in the cab? it is an true american bigrig real nice condition to be an everyday work horse. very clean and tidy.
sweet
one million two hundred thousand. wow
sorry forgot to mention that needle nose or narrow nose as some will call it. referees to the size of the front end compared to the other models.
that looks like the truck off of smoky and the bandit...
reminds me of Smokey and the bandit
How much does it cost to insure an older semi for everyday commercial use?
1,000,000 dollar policy with 25,000 dollar theift insurance is about $572'00 per 6 months rot 6 months l have a 1975 vin #73967]
I prefer kenworth over peterbilt but this is a beutiful truck
Would take this sweeeeet o'l girl over any new truck, any day!
+just me
I've owned a couple of classics, an 84 KW K100 with a 400hp Cummins and a 13 speed and an 85 KW W900B with a 3406B Cat and a 15 speed. I ran them long distance and from a certain standpoint they were better than the late models. They certainly got the looks and thumbs up as I went down the road, and most of the time if something broke you could fix it yourself. But the ride quality, fuel economy and incompatability with ultra low sulphur diesel did them in. The 99 Freightliner Classic with a Redtop Cummins was my favorite though. Old school style with an easy to work on electronic diesel and no emission controls. Even with a cracked block, she just kept going.......RIP Ginger.
@TheLargecars Nope and I never will. The Truck is one of a kind, because he kept it the way he wants it. Heck The pictures of his kids that he has in the cab are even from the 70's...
single-stack too.What R we haulin.
i think not... the truck off smokey and the bandit was an A Model KW
How many miles on that thing ?! Original Engine ?
Theres nothing like the older trucks!..as a kid i use to go around and take pictures of them and in 1976 my friend bought the kenworth bicentenial edition VIT200 , conventional, There were only 42 of them made while the cabover had 200 made for the celebration of the bicentenial , The truck had a 286 inch wheelbase along with a 3406 catepillar engine , it was the introduction of the first aerodyne double bunks with top windows ! don,t find no history on them anymore which is strange! .
I'll bet they were not 286 inch wheelbase. Totally not with the times and the laws
@@andrewnorris1514 Yup !It was a 286" wheel base , Only 42 conventionals were made and 200 cabovers were made for the bicentennial that year in 1976, I remember the trailer lengths except for the N.Y.state thruway which allowed double 48,s for transport between U.S. and Canada but for the lower 48 the trailer lengths were regulated to 40 ft !few years after they went to 42 ft then to 45 ft then they maxed out at 48 ft as we have now !
lol u say wish u could smell that smell at the girl with u starts coughing lol
Don't keep her in there please . She needs a museum. Lol
@DIESELFUMESS hay did he ever go to truck shows with it i bet he could win!
Yep thats the one. he lives in Wisconsin rapids and hauls milk .
i thought those needle nose Peterbilts had a single horn right in the middle of the roof
All kinds of various specs,locations,variations