Wow....., yeah even we here in Europe remember these iconic trucks! What wonderful beasts these trucks were and still have so much character. Thanks for saving, restoring and presenting these fantastic machines to the global audience of enthusiasts.
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BJ and the bear was one of my favorite shows as a kid,, great seeing that old girl in such good shape
awesome video. I'm 53 years old and those trucks shaped my life. Growing up watching those trucks on TV influenced me to drive trucks. I started out in 1983 and still out here plugging away. It's been a hard life being away from everyone and everything I love, but I'd never do it different. . thanks so much for the memories. Glad to see that iron surviving.
Wow - thanks a lot my friend! I think we are cut from the same cloth! Our goal was to get those iconic rigs together - in one place, and we made it happen for fans like you! We have some new stuff coming up, follow us on semifreaks.com
Having five of the most iconic trucks of the 70's all together in one truck show is no easy feat. There was a lot of time and hard work that had went into achieving this nearly impossible task. If anyone else want to call upon any other iconic truck they can put forth their own efforts to do so. I think that by you having these five iconic trucks in one location was awesome enough as it is! Great job!
Fantastic! I loved these shows as a kid growing up in Australia and built model kits for fun. The Rubber Duck and Movin' On kits were on my shelf and a mate had the BJ and The Bear kit. It would've have been just awesome to see these iconic rigs altogether in one place.
GREAT VIDEO!!! MY SON MAX 8 LOVES IT OOHH SO DO I ,, I LIVED THOSE DAYS!!! AND SAW ALL THOSE GREAT SHOWS MY SON MAX ONLY SAW DUEL ON VHS HE IS HOOKED ON THAT MOVIE SO AM I,,, WE LOVE THE WHOLE TRUCK BUT THAT OLD OIL TANK I REMEMEBER IN THE 60S... THANKS ALL YOU GUYS PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@patriciajrs46 it wasn't meant as a dig at any of these trucks. Just a line from "Smokey And The Bandit." The word 'tick-turd' above, in the comment by @John McCartan is also a line from that movie. 😬
OMG!! That brought back some great memories of being a kid laying on the floor watching TV. thanks for the memories. It was great being a kid in the 70s
Yes yes!!!!! Ima 3rd generation truck driver and I grew up watching that bull wagons roll in at My paws farm. So I also was glued to the tv..... catch ya on that flip side!!
@@icenesiswayons9962 you and me both, looking back, not having any worries was the best part. A pocketful of bubblegum and quarters and not a care in the whole wide world
I was there, I met Robb, Brad and many awesome people at the show. I enjoyed every minute of it. Brad did an outstanding job putting together such an amazing trucking event! I traveled from Chicago to attend this show. It was definitely worth the trip!. I hope they do this again when the pandemic finally subsides.
I grew up watching these shows and movies myself . I am a trucker and have been since late seventies .Just last week while in a truck stop on the state line of North and South Carolina much to my surprise a iconic truck pulls in and its the first Smokey and the Bandit Kenworth . Made my day so cool ! It has been restored with such great detail I was impressed. The guy even used the old style pain in the --- Budd wheels in the restoration. Truckers today have know idea what trucking was like just back in my early days let alone how difficult it was20 yrs. or more before my starting days . Thanks for showing these trucks only bad thing it I'm feeling older all the sudden . Thanks again Bob Mohr
I grew up around some very wealthy families and we traveled a lot. I had never seen anyone so respectful to the truckers as my dad and my friends dad. They feed you, clothe you, bring you shelter and medicine so you better give them the right of way. When a truck passes you make sure when it is clear to flash your lights and keep the lane open until he can get over. If you pass him at night give a very fast flash of your high beams so as not to blind him but let him know your coming around. If his load is off center or blows a tire, use the CB and let him know. Do people still do that I wonder? I do and thank you for what you do.
Thanks for this! I remembered BJ and the bear and my fav Smokey and the Bandit but didnt know Duel at all. I was absolutely floored when I saw the Movin' on truck, because I had completely forgotten about that series but after remembering it, realizing it was (for me) the show that started the whole truck craze. Add to that, my old man was a long haul trucker at that time and you get the picture. Cudos to those people that took the time and many $$$ to time to find and restore these childhood TV icons. Well done.
It's a real truck they run flatbed out of Wisconsin. I met one of their guys one day. So cool. I said this looks like the moving on truck from the show. He said all our trucks look like this. Cooler yet. That was a good day.
Thank you snoman003!! Movin' On was the original TV/Trucking series [1974-1976]. The truck is better than new right now!! Keep up with us on some of our other projects @ semifreaks.com
my dad was a truck driver and my uncle owned a trucking business I grew up loving big rigs /I bought the large matchbox superkings and watched all those iconic rigs on the big screen and tv,,,i always wonderedwhat happened to them …//im glad someone saved them and restored them //they are just as important as movie cars ,,thanks for being custodians of them ...great video ...thankyou for sharing /////
Rob, thanks so much for this video. We are about the same age and share the same passion for trucks. My dad was an Owner/Operator and in 1973 he bought a brand new Kenworth K100 flattop with the 110" bunk. It had a 425 Cat with a 15 speed. It cost him 32k. More than our house. Going OTR with him in that truck are my most treasured memories. It's nice to see you waving the flag and keeping the spirit...even after American Trucker. Keep it between the ditches big buddy...
Truly find this very interesting why back 1970s listening all country music songs and Truck songs on radio stations and Tv show 4 them watch but one had watch on UA-cam. Movin On Tv show and Smokey and The bandit. Movie theater in 1978 in Iowa and BJ and The Bear was turn set on found this tv show. Convoy song on radio stations and film movie. Still enjoy watching it. Why two uncles were truck drivers and my late Grandpa use Haul gravy back then. And had CB radio back in early 1970s lots great memories lane though yrs. Thank You. Got see Jerry Reed in Concert. Sign my Smokey The bandit card. Back 1970s regular tv or movie theater. No internet or cable box at all. No video box or dvd or Blueray dvd or 4 K all came later in years
I also grew up loving these trucks...later I became a 15 year veteran trucker..what pains me the most is over the few years our trucking industry has become a UA-cam Joke ..with crash videos ..swift-JB Hunt- Werner..ETC. and also thanks to these Three Week Driving schools . Its Really Great that channels like this Still Remember What it was like to be a Real Truck Driver!!! I'm proud to say I've got 500.000 thousand Accident FREE miles under my belt .I've been to every state.except Alaska and Hawaii ..lol. thank you for you time making this video...IF YOU HAVE IT IT YOUR HOUSE ?? A TRUCK BROUGHT IT TO YOU..
You're totally right. I couldn't agree more. I am not a veteran driver like you, but really looked up to guys like you as a kid, and still do. I always wanted to drive truck, but my career path took me another direction. It wasn't until I got thyroid cancer that I decided to follow my dream and drive. I went to a good truck driving school that had night classes for 2 months and I worked during the day. It wasn't one of those crap schools, like CR England, where my trainer got his education, and it showed. It is sad that trucking has become what it is now with this you tube crap. I hate the disrespect that driver's show each other...no one stops and helps out a fellow driver anymore. 4-wheelers are truly disrespectful and have no idea how to even drive around a truck. I still think of truck drivers as heroes. If you have it, a truck brought it. People need to show more appreciation toward and respect to drivers.
Thank you brother, for keeping America moving and delivering our needs kile food, fuel, clothes, etc...many people don't realize all the work behind the scenes
You don't have to watch them if you don't like them. One thing for sure they are real. You can't fake stuff like that and you can't fix stupid! Do you think any of us pre driving school guys would of lasted 2 weeks I if we would of went around tearing up stuff the way these wheel holding truck killers do?😎
As a kid growing up in the 70s. These movies shaped my life. Steel Cowboy was the first one I remember. I started driving trucks in 1980. 5 million miles & still trucking. I’m just living a dream. I’ve been blessed.
Thank you David!! Seem to be a lot of Duel fans in these comments - check it out: www.overdriveonline.com/life/video/15281430/the-duel-1960-pete-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-its-star-turn
Hey Robb. I to grew up watching these shows and lovin the rigs they used. I also remember you on a TV show all about trucks. In one episode you were featuring the BJ & the bear truck. You got so excited to have found the trailer and tracked down a correct refer unit. Miss that show and your genuine enthusiasm for trucks. Being a former trucker, I was bitten by the bug young, and fulfilled that boyhood dream. Unfortunately the trucking industry is not independent trucker friendly due to over regulation. Keep the videos comin. Great job brother. Keep the bugs off your bumber and the bears off yer tail. We gone.
Man, seeing these trucks really takes me back 40 years. ESPECIALLY the BJ and the Bear truck. I loved that show when i was a kid. Glad to see these trucks being preserved. They truly are iconic.
Thank you GoldenEra 4ever! Time fights us all - but the preserved big rigs will live on past us for the future generations - hopefully!! Visit more truck things at semifreaks.com
I can't believe it took me this long to come across this video. I have watched each of these movie/shows over 100 hundred times. I can't tell how much I appreciate this. It brings back some very cool memories. I wish I could have been a part of this in person. Thank you for this moment.
i can't believe I recovered my password for this channel! Haaa! Thanks for the note - you are what we are all about! We are stoked that you dig those rigs as much as we do! Please check us out on semifreaks.com
Time moves on all of us - but we captured the moments on Hollywood Hill - 5 TV and movie star trucks hung out for a while... Follow us on semifreaks.com
Wow that's fantastic! Watching BJ and the Bear in the 70s made me fall in love with trucks especially BJ's. I love to see a show come to Colorado some day where I could see all those beauties up close.
I had The B.J. and the bear model kit. This is an awsome video.Love seeing these classics again.I watched all these shows growing up. Thats one of the main reasons why I became a truck driver.
I still think that the Kenworth truck from BJ&The Bear is terrific &so is the Truck from the movie convoy just the same with famous Trade mark on it in the front on the hood !Rhonda
Huge thanks Iron Lung 71!! I never had the BJ & the Bear model, but I think I had every 1 /25th scale truck kit ever sold. We have a model page on semifreaks.com - thanks for your driving service my friend!!
enjoyed this clip on the old trucks and tv & movies. In my 50's now and it brings back alot of memories. my dad was truck driver.He drove interstate 95 east cost. He pulled flatbed trailer's with load of steel. I was kid back then and would ride with him on summer breaks from school. It was the best times. I was nuts over trucks back then, watched all the shows and movie's. Did those truck models also. Its a time gone by. When i got my truck lic. i started to work in same job for 10 years as my dad. As time went on i moved onto other things. But my passion for trucks is still strong. It was a great time growing up. thx for the memories rob, did enjoy it---john
You are awesome Commodore! It's always the little things that stick! Way to be one of the 18 wheel club! You are why we have been creating semifreaks.com - check it out!
Unless your grandpa took you for a ride along once or twice, or even just watched Smokey and the Bandit with you, you probably missed how badass, cool time/culture this was. Great video, a million old school truckers would agree!!
Steven Spielberg does say on the documentary on the special edition dvd that there was occasions where Dennis Weaver did the driving as he was in the back seat filming over Dennis' shoulder. Most of the stunt driving in the car was done by Dale Van Sickel and the truck was driven by the legendary Carey Loftin. It's one of the best films ever made. Steven also goes on to say that after completing the film, he had to go back and shoot additional scenes as it wasn't long enough for the British format (ours is 90mins as opposed to the American 70 but there we go), so that is why the scene of the truck trying to push the car into the train is there
Thanks for bringing back all those great memories. I'm 53 now and watched and loved em all. I also built the Movin On truck model in 76 or 77. All those trucks are iconic representatives of a great era in America.
I am so mad!I live only an hour from there and missed the greatest truck show on earth.All my heros in one place.WOW thank you so much for posting this.
Another good trucker movie available on UA-cam is the 1973 "Hijack" starring Daved Jansen and Keenan Wynn. I loved the Movin on series. Claude Akins is 1 of my favorites.
@@joeschmo5021 hey that peterbilt from DUEL is basically the same as an autocar diesel from the movie over the top....same fenders....same front headlights....same grill shape and design pretty much....overall same truck just different brands right
Thank you Patty-Lynn!! I wish we could go back to those days, but since we can't - we live in the past with all those rigs!! We are always "playing with trucks" - semifreaks.com
Sir, I was born in 98. And I can assure you these trucks modeled my childhood as well. I remember watching Smokey and the Bandit with my dad then I found Convoy around age 5. Never heard of Moving On truth be told but Bj and the Bear along with Duel are ones I didn't watch until later in life. Those rigs did the same to me as they did to you. I know it isn't as glorious and romanticized as it was back in the day but my dream ever since I was in preschool was to be a trucker. All thanks to at least 2 of those pieces of cinema history
I'm with you there. When I was a kid I almost never had the chance to watch "Movin' On," because my grandmother would strictly enforce bedtime on school nights, plus she had her own preference for TV. The more she enforced her will, the more I wanted to see the series and get a model of the Kenworth. Now, I have both the series AND the Kenworth model (well, two models, actually), all acquired just within this past decade.
A few years ago, on my way to Minnesota, the trailer I was hauling had a flat. I ended up pulling in to Paul Sagehorns shop. I saw pictures of the 2 KWs and he took me to see the trucks! Movin' On inspired me to become a driver, and seeing the VIT and the Aerodyne was a dream come true! I still tell people that was the BEST breakdown I ever had!
What a great story Clyde!! Paul is a very good dude. His passion for the Hollywood trucks will live on forever. When we took his BJ and the Bear KW to the Ohio plant that built the truck for NBC was one of my favorite American Trucker episodes! I never thought that we would bring that truck to Brad's years later - and park it next to other big rig celebrity rigs!
Story I live in Minnesota and grew up watching moving on the show was almost through the second season before I knew what color Sonny's truck was because we only had a black and white tv I'm curious where Paul sagehorns shop is located
Super cool! Brought back some great memories of when I was a kid. So glad folks are investing the time and money in these rigs and not afraid to take them out on the road. Thanks to the Owners and Operators for sharing and thank you for taking the time to document and post on the internet.
Big props to you Jason! Thank you! Some of those trucks I featured once on the American Trucker TV series. The time and money to restore or recreated those trucks is from pure passion, if not obsession, so people like you can live in the memories - we certainly do... Check out our other projects on semifreaks.com
@@semifreaks I miss your American Trucker TV Series. I watched every episode. I really hit a gold mine when I discovered that. In addition to showing off the trucks you always made a point to show some respect for the truck driver. I really appreciated that. My Father was a dedicated professional truck driver. Covered over 2 million miles during his career. I always looked up to him for working so hard to deliver goods that we all so desperately rely on. Thank you for giving them some time in the spotlight.
Wow talk about the glamor in the trucking industry? I started in 1977 with a COE International Tran-star with a 318 Detroit. I fell in love with trucks like the 74 Cabover KW grew up with the culture of the day and loved every minute of it as a young truck driver. Im now a retired fuel transport driver with a truckload of memories thank you guys for posting this great movie of the trucks we know and love.
Thank you Trucker John! Update: The Movin' On W900 has a new owner ( a pilot for Fed Ex bought it)! He has restored the original KW torsion-bar suspension and a bunch of other things! He's a fellow semi freaks like we are. semifreaks.com
That is one of the five original one made for the show. I have pictures of me sitting in that truck a few years back, great people they also own the movin on truck yoh see there.
As a kid in the UK I watched a show before all these it was from the US called Canonball That's what got me into trucking just retired last year after 42 years in UK and Europe . Safe driving to all you truckers Bob UK
For that to happen it would have to exist.......and nobody knows if it exists or not because nobody's resurrected it yet to prove it still exists. Time will tell, we can only enjoy what we know is still around till then.
I lived in Lincolnton for a while and then moved to Morganton so its funny to see them on the screen. I do not miss the humidity but I do miss the mountains and some beautiful women. Yes I watched all the shows growing up. Thanks
born in 78 step dad was a OLR trucker he watched all the movies and tv about big rigs happy memories sitting on the dog house man do i miss that fond memories
My dad drove truck for over 20 years, his handle was "the Blue Mule". My brother has drove truck for over 20 years. I grew up on B.J. McKay, and Smokey and the Bandit. Live to Survive!
So cool to see this I was 17 years old and was a fuel jockey at TA in maybrook NY and got to park the moving on kenworth in 1977 been hooked on driving the rest of my life!
I can relate to the author's obsession; when I was a kid I shared his fascination with trucks, and I have to say that the Pruitt rig was my ultimate dream. It was not until about 9 or 10 years ago that I finally got my mitts on an AMT kit, finally fulfilling a dream I had as a 9-year-old child...or so I thought. When I got my mitts on the series only about three or so years ago, I learned that the kit and all the toys based on the kit were not accurate to the series. So, last year I started to do something about that. I discovered a 1/25-scale model of a Kenworth W900, a kit that was a good 95% accurate to the series truck, made by Revell's European branch, so I got one. I later found a seller in Australia who reproduced the decals for the series truck in the same scale and got a copy of those decals from him. Along with a few spare parts I was able to find elsewhere, I was able to bring this model to a 98%-accurate series replica; now I have two "Movin' On" Pruitt rigs: The AMT version, and a more-series-accurate version, complete with interchangeable trailers (one a 40-foot dry-goods trailer, which was appropriate for the '70s, and a 53-foot reefer trailer which is common for today). I remember "Duel" when it first aired, believe it or not, and I always had a love for that movie. I also had an urge to build a model of the notorious "Duel" truck, but there was a bit of a problem there: Nobody ever made a 1/25-scale model of a Peterbilt 281, let alone the low-slung tanker trailer. Some folks have skills and equipment to make resin reproductions, but I'm not one of them; so I had to make do with what I could find, and I think I got a good alternative. The closest-resembling model truck was an Autocar A64B, made by AMT about 1970 or so. This truck does bear much more than a passing resemblance to the Peterbilt 281; much of its configuration is identical, from the narrow nose and freestanding single-pair headlights to the smokestack on the right-hand side. The nearest I could get to the tanker trailer was a Testor kit, which isn't 100% accurate but was pretty close. Altogether I think it turned out quite well.
I thought the AMT kit was just the company's way of cashing in on the series, till I finally saw In Tandem. I don't know if it's totally accurate, but it's close to the movie version. BTW, I took 2 of the kits to make Sonny's VIT.
Aloysius - you are my kinda people! WOW! LOVE your passion and dedication! Can you please post us some pics of your models?? Can't wait to see them! We have a new site (it is being added to all the time) - semifreaks.com - we have a model page on there!
@@semifreaks Sure, I'd be glad to share pictures. I'll take some new pictures of the three rigs with their respective trailers and post them there when I can.🙂
Moving on CW McCall and a late night radio show call Jock radio for truck drivers was what made me become a truck driver. Growing up in the 70s was the best
Yes thier is some trucks.that aren't their.but.it still bought back alot off memories.when thier was a truck on TV.i left my sandbox.ran into the house tripping over my toys to get to the TV
Maybe the Blue Mule wasn't available for the show. When I was in high school, the trucker down the street from me bought it and used to for actual trucking.
I operate a small farm in Iowa, my biggest tractor is a FORD 7740. Named the “Blue Mule”! Nice to know there are people out there, that understand. Most farmers, Don’t get it!
You rock! Thank you!! More to come! Check out our Duel Truck tribute: www.overdriveonline.com/life/video/15281430/the-duel-1960-pete-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-its-star-turn Go to semifreaks.com for further truck freaks!
Yes! But I believe there are no original surviving Blue Mules, which is probably why it didn't make it to the show, but otherwise I'm sure it definitely would have been there.
Great Job! Great Passion! I remember those tough drivers Will and Sunny doing good things to good people, like always having hope in people and always getting into a fist fight deffending a friend or a gal.... congrats...! you have a great gattering there...
Its strange I actually had the same model. I loved watching Movin On, My grandmother was in one of the episodes filmed I Portland, Or. Also I just started watching Movin On here on You Tube. Thanks for bringing these trucks back to us it was nice to see them again.
Movin' on was a great show! I always think about it around the Holidays as the Christmas two parter was My fave episode of the series. Man the 70s was the best.
Unfortunately, they used only one Goblin truck for Maximum Overdrive and it got destroyed (blown up) during filming. The remains were hauled off to a scrapyard.
HalcyonDaze I Know where the goblin is. I worked for the now owner of it. It was sitting in the weeds the last time I saw it. The person I worked for did work for the studios here in Wilmington, NC.
Some of these trucks, Sonny Pruitt's Kenworth in particular, is the reason I chose to try driving for a living. Twenty Seven years later with a break in between, and I'm still liking it. These were iconic trucks to me. Thanks for capturing this for us fans.
Pretty cool man. I was into trucks as a kid in the 70s and early 80s big time. Had the hats, the belt, buckles, shirts you name it. Awesome memories. Thanks
I remember every one! Movin’ On was one of my favorite shows (along with Cade’s County). Too bad [neither] lasted very long . B.J. ...lasted for 3seasons . Although I liked Claud Aikins better as Sonny, a serious truck driver,than a buffoon of a cop. He was an excellent actor.
Rhett Corbett. Some of my favourite films had him as an actor ''The Mechanic'', ''Buster and Billie'' ''Danger Island'' and driving that COE Ford in WLF. He did his own stunts in that film no double for him. Cheers from Australia.
@@generalyellor8188 Well, to be more precise, they TRY to make movies like that...and almost always fall short, trying to throw in more of a background plot into their attempts and missing the mark as a result.
The "Movin on" KW, needs to have the multiple plates, put on it, and the correct wheels, and the 78,100 gross wgt. on the door, and the correct taillights on the back, and pulling a 45' Fruehauf to look authentic...
Chris Griffin yeah 1st thing I noticed was the gross vehicle weight. Was it a 45', I though it would have been a 40'. I maybe wrong, but I think max at that time was 40 foot, I believe 45 came out in mid 80s. A lot of drivers were still using 40 in the late 80s.
WOW this brought back so many memories, Thank you so much. I still have a die cast model from my childhood of the Mack in Convoy! I`ve cherished it for years.
trucks can only weigh 80k total and of that can only have12k on the steer axle and 34k on the tandems the 5th wheel and tandems slide on trucks and van trailers to move the weight around the various axles but the tandems on tankers are fixed so the 5th wheel on the Mack is set back to keep to much weight off of the steer axle
Pete Eborall that was for the bridge law. The other reply explains most of it. In some areas you could only have so much weight in a distance. If done "right," you could in effect run over weight but not be ticket because of the bridge laws. And if that wasn't going to work, you could always slam your brakes on the CHPs portable scales. Or my favorite, snap your driveshaft to keep from being weight.
gomangojoe Eastbound and down loaded up and trucking we gonna do what they say cant be done. We got a long way to go and a short time to get there I'm eastbound just watch the old Bandit run. Sorry Joe thats the best I can do for ya brother. Keep on Truckin there good buddy.
@@drivin379 That's correct, Thad - that was the truck used by Jerry Reed in "High-Ballin'", which also featured Peter Fonda and Helen Shaver. If my memory serves me correctly, "High-Ballin'" was filmed in Canada; to be exact, Southern Ontario.
Wow....., yeah even we here in Europe remember these iconic trucks! What wonderful beasts these trucks were and still have so much character.
Thanks for saving, restoring and presenting these fantastic machines to the global audience of enthusiasts.
BJ and the bear was one of my favorite shows as a kid,, great seeing that old girl in such good shape
awesome video. I'm 53 years old and those trucks shaped my life. Growing up watching those trucks on TV influenced me to drive trucks. I started out in 1983 and still out here plugging away. It's been a hard life being away from everyone and everything I love, but I'd never do it different. . thanks so much for the memories. Glad to see that iron surviving.
Wow - thanks a lot my friend! I think we are cut from the same cloth! Our goal was to get those iconic rigs together - in one place, and we made it happen for fans like you! We have some new stuff coming up, follow us on semifreaks.com
Having five of the most iconic trucks of the 70's all together in one truck show is no easy feat. There was a lot of time and hard work that had went into achieving this nearly impossible task. If anyone else want to call upon any other iconic truck they can put forth their own efforts to do so. I think that by you having these five iconic trucks in one location was awesome enough as it is! Great job!
These trucker shows are what influenced me to be a trucker! Watched every last one of them! It's amazing, how television can shape one's life!
That's what we're talkin' about Howard!! Thank you!!
Fantastic! I loved these shows as a kid growing up in Australia and built model kits for fun. The Rubber Duck and Movin' On kits were on my shelf and a mate had the BJ and The Bear kit. It would've have been just awesome to see these iconic rigs altogether in one place.
Great stuff!!!! Any kid growing up in the 70s, even in the UK, will remember all of these so well!
GREAT VIDEO!!! MY SON MAX 8 LOVES IT OOHH SO DO I ,, I LIVED THOSE DAYS!!! AND SAW ALL THOSE GREAT SHOWS MY SON MAX ONLY SAW DUEL ON VHS HE IS HOOKED ON THAT MOVIE SO AM I,,, WE LOVE THE WHOLE TRUCK BUT THAT OLD OIL TANK I REMEMEBER IN THE 60S... THANKS ALL YOU GUYS PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Anyone who'd paint his truck up like that would show up at a minister's funeral wearing feathers."
@Lime Soda Your souped up truck is just one big tickturd 😂
To which truck are you referring? There were at least 5 paint jobs there.
@@patriciajrs46 it wasn't meant as a dig at any of these trucks. Just a line from "Smokey And The Bandit." The word 'tick-turd' above, in the comment by @John McCartan is also a line from that movie. 😬
OMG!! That brought back some great memories of being a kid laying on the floor watching TV. thanks for the memories. It was great being a kid in the 70s
Yes yes!!!!! Ima 3rd generation truck driver and I grew up watching that bull wagons roll in at My paws farm. So I also was glued to the tv..... catch ya on that flip side!!
I'm with ya bro. The floor the TV a good damn movie on Saturday night with the family life. What I'd give to revisit that time.
@@icenesiswayons9962 Hell ya, those were the good days, not like today, families don't even sit together to even have supper anymore???
@@crazycanuck2578 they sure don’t, I miss dinner around the table too.
@@icenesiswayons9962 you and me both, looking back, not having any worries was the best part. A pocketful of bubblegum and quarters and not a care in the whole wide world
I was there, I met Robb, Brad and many awesome people at the show. I enjoyed every minute of it. Brad did an outstanding job putting together such an amazing trucking event! I traveled from Chicago to attend this show. It was definitely worth the trip!. I hope they do this again when the pandemic finally subsides.
Duel truck scary beast even today is scary as hell.
I grew up watching these shows and movies myself . I am a trucker and have been since late seventies .Just last week while in a truck stop on the state line of North and South Carolina much to my surprise a iconic truck pulls in and its the first Smokey and the Bandit Kenworth . Made my day so cool ! It has been restored with such great detail I was impressed. The guy even used the old style pain in the --- Budd wheels in the restoration. Truckers today have know idea what trucking was like just back in my early days let alone how difficult it was20 yrs. or more before my starting days . Thanks for showing these trucks only bad thing it I'm feeling older all the sudden . Thanks again Bob Mohr
I grew up around some very wealthy families and we traveled a lot. I had never seen anyone so respectful to the truckers as my dad and my friends dad. They feed you, clothe you, bring you shelter and medicine so you better give them the right of way. When a truck passes you make sure when it is clear to flash your lights and keep the lane open until he can get over. If you pass him at night give a very fast flash of your high beams so as not to blind him but let him know your coming around. If his load is off center or blows a tire, use the CB and let him know. Do people still do that I wonder? I do and thank you for what you do.
I loved these trucks way back when I was snot nosed. Probably why I still drive trucks today.
Thanks for this! I remembered BJ and the bear and my fav Smokey and the Bandit but didnt
know Duel at all. I was absolutely floored when I saw the Movin' on truck, because I had completely forgotten about that series but after remembering it, realizing it was (for me) the show that started the whole truck craze. Add to that, my old man was a long haul trucker at that time and you get the picture.
Cudos to those people that took the time and many $$$ to time to find and restore these childhood TV icons.
Well done.
It's a real truck they run flatbed out of Wisconsin. I met one of their guys one day. So cool. I said this looks like the moving on truck from the show. He said all our trucks look like this. Cooler yet. That was a good day.
Thank you snoman003!! Movin' On was the original TV/Trucking series [1974-1976]. The truck is better than new right now!! Keep up with us on some of our other projects @ semifreaks.com
my dad was a truck driver and my uncle owned a trucking business I grew up loving big rigs /I bought the large matchbox superkings and watched all those iconic rigs on the big screen and tv,,,i always wonderedwhat happened to them …//im glad someone saved them and restored them //they are just as important as movie cars ,,thanks for being custodians of them ...great video ...thankyou for sharing /////
Rob, thanks so much for this video. We are about the same age and share the same passion for trucks. My dad was an Owner/Operator and in 1973 he bought a brand new Kenworth K100 flattop with the 110" bunk. It had a 425 Cat with a 15 speed. It cost him 32k. More than our house. Going OTR with him in that truck are my most treasured memories. It's nice to see you waving the flag and keeping the spirit...even after American Trucker. Keep it between the ditches big buddy...
Truly find this very interesting why back 1970s listening all country music songs and Truck songs on radio stations and Tv show 4 them watch but one had watch on UA-cam. Movin On Tv show and Smokey and The bandit. Movie theater in 1978 in Iowa and BJ and The Bear was turn set on found this tv show. Convoy song on radio stations and film movie. Still enjoy watching it. Why two uncles were truck drivers and my late Grandpa use Haul gravy back then. And had CB radio back in early 1970s lots great memories lane though yrs. Thank You. Got see Jerry Reed in Concert. Sign my Smokey The bandit card. Back 1970s regular tv or movie theater. No internet or cable box at all. No video box or dvd or Blueray dvd or 4 K all came later in years
I also grew up loving these trucks...later I became a 15 year veteran trucker..what pains me the most is over the few years our trucking industry has become a UA-cam Joke ..with crash videos ..swift-JB Hunt- Werner..ETC. and also thanks to these Three Week Driving schools . Its Really Great that channels like this Still Remember What it was like to be a Real Truck Driver!!! I'm proud to say I've got 500.000 thousand Accident FREE miles under my belt .I've been to every state.except Alaska and Hawaii ..lol. thank you for you time making this video...IF YOU HAVE IT IT YOUR HOUSE ?? A TRUCK BROUGHT IT TO YOU..
You're totally right. I couldn't agree more. I am not a veteran driver like you, but really looked up to guys like you as a kid, and still do. I always wanted to drive truck, but my career path took me another direction. It wasn't until I got thyroid cancer that I decided to follow my dream and drive. I went to a good truck driving school that had night classes for 2 months and I worked during the day. It wasn't one of those crap schools, like CR England, where my trainer got his education, and it showed. It is sad that trucking has become what it is now with this you tube crap. I hate the disrespect that driver's show each other...no one stops and helps out a fellow driver anymore. 4-wheelers are truly disrespectful and have no idea how to even drive around a truck. I still think of truck drivers as heroes. If you have it, a truck brought it. People need to show more appreciation toward and respect to drivers.
Thank you brother, for keeping America moving and delivering our needs kile food, fuel, clothes, etc...many people don't realize all the work behind the scenes
You don't have to watch them if you don't like them. One thing for sure they are real. You can't fake stuff like that and you can't fix stupid! Do you think any of us pre driving school guys would of lasted 2 weeks I if we would of went around tearing up stuff the way these wheel holding truck killers do?😎
As a kid growing up in the 70s. These movies shaped my life. Steel Cowboy was the first one I remember. I started driving trucks in 1980. 5 million miles & still trucking. I’m just living a dream. I’ve been blessed.
Watched them All! Loved them all! Gotta say DUEL scared the crap out of me, but that trucks my favorite.
Thank you David!! Seem to be a lot of Duel fans in these comments - check it out:
www.overdriveonline.com/life/video/15281430/the-duel-1960-pete-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-its-star-turn
Heavy Equipment...Fire/Rescue mechanic.....because of my Dad (Veteran and Trucker)...plus watching these shows as a kid... thanks for posting!
Hey Robb. I to grew up watching these shows and lovin the rigs they used. I also remember you on a TV show all about trucks. In one episode you were featuring the BJ & the bear truck. You got so excited to have found the trailer and tracked down a correct refer unit. Miss that show and your genuine enthusiasm for trucks. Being a former trucker, I was bitten by the bug young, and fulfilled that boyhood dream. Unfortunately the trucking industry is not independent trucker friendly due to over regulation. Keep the videos comin. Great job brother. Keep the bugs off your bumber and the bears off yer tail. We gone.
Man, seeing these trucks really takes me back 40 years. ESPECIALLY the BJ and the Bear truck. I loved that show when i was a kid. Glad to see these trucks being preserved. They truly are iconic.
Thank you GoldenEra 4ever! Time fights us all - but the preserved big rigs will live on past us for the future generations - hopefully!! Visit more truck things at semifreaks.com
I can't believe it took me this long to come across this video. I have watched each of these movie/shows over 100 hundred times. I can't tell how much I appreciate this. It brings back some very cool memories. I wish I could have been a part of this in person. Thank you for this moment.
i can't believe I recovered my password for this channel! Haaa! Thanks for the note - you are what we are all about! We are stoked that you dig those rigs as much as we do! Please check us out on semifreaks.com
Wow- I wonder if that collection of trucks will ever be together again. Very impressive.
I would have loved to have been there in the presence of all that classic iron. I remember as a kid watching all those shows. RIP Bandit.
Time moves on all of us - but we captured the moments on Hollywood Hill - 5 TV and movie star trucks hung out for a while... Follow us on semifreaks.com
Wow that's fantastic! Watching BJ and the Bear in the 70s made me fall in love with trucks especially BJ's. I love to see a show come to Colorado some day where I could see all those beauties up close.
I had The B.J. and the bear model kit. This is an awsome video.Love seeing these classics again.I watched all these shows growing up. Thats one of the main reasons why I became a truck driver.
I still think that the Kenworth truck from BJ&The Bear is terrific &so is the Truck from the movie convoy just the same with famous Trade mark on it in the front on the hood !Rhonda
What did u do with that B.J. model kit? Worth alot of 💰
Huge thanks Iron Lung 71!! I never had the BJ & the Bear model, but I think I had every 1 /25th scale truck kit ever sold. We have a model page on semifreaks.com - thanks for your driving service my friend!!
enjoyed this clip on the old trucks and tv & movies. In my 50's now and it brings back alot of memories. my dad was truck driver.He drove interstate 95 east cost. He pulled flatbed trailer's with load of steel. I was kid back then and would ride with him on summer breaks from school. It was the best times. I was nuts over trucks back then, watched all the shows and movie's. Did those truck models also. Its a time gone by. When i got my truck lic. i started to work in same job for 10 years as my dad. As time went on i moved onto other things. But my passion for trucks is still strong. It was a great time growing up. thx for the memories rob, did enjoy it---john
I loved Movin' On and still remember that horn blast at the opening of the show! 40 years later and I am finally driving my own rig!!
You are awesome Commodore! It's always the little things that stick! Way to be one of the 18 wheel club! You are why we have been creating semifreaks.com - check it out!
Unless your grandpa took you for a ride along once or twice, or even just watched Smokey and the Bandit with you, you probably missed how badass, cool time/culture this was. Great video, a million old school truckers would agree!!
Movin' On was the best show ever and it was really cool that they had the 1970 Valiant that Dennis Weaver drove in Duel.
woxyroxme He was chased by it, he did'nt drive it.
Yes, if only the “Dual” truck was there, it would have been incomplete.
pg1171 ❓
pg1171 wrong. He did in fact drive the Valiant, being chased by the Pete.
Steven Spielberg does say on the documentary on the special edition dvd that there was occasions where Dennis Weaver did the driving as he was in the back seat filming over Dennis' shoulder. Most of the stunt driving in the car was done by Dale Van Sickel and the truck was driven by the legendary Carey Loftin. It's one of the best films ever made. Steven also goes on to say that after completing the film, he had to go back and shoot additional scenes as it wasn't long enough for the British format (ours is 90mins as opposed to the American 70 but there we go), so that is why the scene of the truck trying to push the car into the train is there
Thanks for bringing back all those great memories. I'm 53 now and watched and loved em all. I also built the Movin On truck model in 76 or 77. All those trucks are iconic representatives of a great era in America.
I am so mad!I live only an hour from there and missed the greatest truck show on earth.All my heros in one place.WOW thank you so much for posting this.
These series and movies,
got me started driving trucks.
I've been doing this for over 30 years
and I don't regret it for a second.
🌟 🚚💨 🚨👊 💯
Awesome I loved Duel and Convoy when I was young.
Another good trucker movie available on UA-cam is the 1973 "Hijack" starring Daved Jansen and Keenan Wynn.
I loved the Movin on series. Claude Akins is 1 of my favorites.
@@joeschmo5021 hey that peterbilt from DUEL is basically the same as an autocar diesel from the movie over the top....same fenders....same front headlights....same grill shape and design pretty much....overall same truck just different brands right
@@robot4829 Hey, thanks gor the reply
Oh, thank you so much for showing those sim's. I love seeing B. J.'s truck. And the one from Moving On. Thank you.
Movin on rig my fav of all time never seen a nicer paint scheme ever
Agreed👍✌
ARE THEY STILL CALLED SONNY STRIPES? ❤️
Multiple dittos to that!
Omg I wish I were there. I love those trucks!!!! I grew up watching all those shows. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING.
Thank you Patty-Lynn!! I wish we could go back to those days, but since we can't - we live in the past with all those rigs!! We are always "playing with trucks" - semifreaks.com
Thank you, you brought back my own childhood memories of a simpler time!
Sir, I was born in 98. And I can assure you these trucks modeled my childhood as well. I remember watching Smokey and the Bandit with my dad then I found Convoy around age 5. Never heard of Moving On truth be told but Bj and the Bear along with Duel are ones I didn't watch until later in life. Those rigs did the same to me as they did to you. I know it isn't as glorious and romanticized as it was back in the day but my dream ever since I was in preschool was to be a trucker. All thanks to at least 2 of those pieces of cinema history
For me it was always Sonny Pruits Green KW. What a fine machine!
I'm with you there. When I was a kid I almost never had the chance to watch "Movin' On," because my grandmother would strictly enforce bedtime on school nights, plus she had her own preference for TV. The more she enforced her will, the more I wanted to see the series and get a model of the Kenworth. Now, I have both the series AND the Kenworth model (well, two models, actually), all acquired just within this past decade.
I OF COURSE REMEMBER ALL OFF THESE TRUCKS AND AS A DRIVER STILL....U LOVE THEM ALL
A few years ago, on my way to Minnesota, the trailer I was hauling had a flat. I ended up pulling in to Paul Sagehorns shop. I saw pictures of the 2 KWs and he took me to see the trucks! Movin' On inspired me to become a driver, and seeing the VIT and the Aerodyne was a dream come true! I still tell people that was the BEST breakdown I ever had!
What a great story Clyde!! Paul is a very good dude. His passion for the Hollywood trucks will live on forever. When we took his BJ and the Bear KW to the Ohio plant that built the truck for NBC was one of my favorite American Trucker episodes! I never thought that we would bring that truck to Brad's years later - and park it next to other big rig celebrity rigs!
Story I live in Minnesota and grew up watching moving on the show was almost through the second season before I knew what color Sonny's truck was because we only had a black and white tv I'm curious where Paul sagehorns shop is located
Super cool! Brought back some great memories of when I was a kid. So glad folks are investing the time and money in these rigs and not afraid to take them out on the road. Thanks to the Owners and Operators for sharing and thank you for taking the time to document and post on the internet.
Big props to you Jason! Thank you! Some of those trucks I featured once on the American Trucker TV series. The time and money to restore or recreated those trucks is from pure passion, if not obsession, so people like you can live in the memories - we certainly do...
Check out our other projects on semifreaks.com
@@semifreaks I miss your American Trucker TV Series. I watched every episode. I really hit a gold mine when I discovered that. In addition to showing off the trucks you always made a point to show some respect for the truck driver. I really appreciated that. My Father was a dedicated professional truck driver. Covered over 2 million miles during his career. I always looked up to him for working so hard to deliver goods that we all so desperately rely on. Thank you for giving them some time in the spotlight.
Wow talk about the glamor in the trucking industry? I started in 1977 with a COE International Tran-star with a 318 Detroit. I fell in love with trucks like the 74 Cabover KW grew up with the culture of the day and loved every minute of it as a young truck driver. Im now a retired fuel transport driver with a truckload of memories thank you guys for posting this great movie of the trucks we know and love.
Iconic indeed, Fantastic, I'm so glad they have been preserved in history.
Thank you Trucker John! Update: The Movin' On W900 has a new owner ( a pilot for Fed Ex bought it)! He has restored the original KW torsion-bar suspension and a bunch of other things! He's a fellow semi freaks like we are. semifreaks.com
When I was a kid I bought the Moving on Kenworth model kit. I built it for a hobby store contest and won 1st prize. Great video alot of memories.
The moving on kenworth is breathtakingly beautiful
Great video, hell yes those trucks bring back a lot of good memories, happy to see them being looked after and honored in this way.
Can't get enough of that big red K Whopper COE. BJ Bear truck is all time classic truck. 35 + years since the show still awesome design.
That is one of the five original one made for the show. I have pictures of me sitting in that truck a few years back, great people they also own the movin on truck yoh see there.
Aram Scorza
In the 80’s I was working in a garage at a truck stop off I-80 and replaced the water pump on one of the BJ trucks
As a kid in the UK I watched a show before all these it was from the US called Canonball That's what got me into trucking just retired last year after 42 years in UK and Europe . Safe driving to all you truckers Bob UK
this was a 90% perfect video you're missing one truck white line Fever The Blue Mule
RIP Jan Michael Vincent
For that to happen it would have to exist.......and nobody knows if it exists or not because nobody's resurrected it yet to prove it still exists. Time will tell, we can only enjoy what we know is still around till then.
@@scottp5803 what about over the top, that old Autocar Rocky drove?
The Autocar from Over the top and the Wizard.
@@scottp5803 after the movie was made, a dude down the street from me bought that the Blue Mule and drove it every day.
The moving on truck is the baddest will never forget that show
Great Vid.. Thanks for capturing these haulers in all their glory !... I'm going back to work on my "time-machine" now.
I lived in Lincolnton for a while and then moved to Morganton so its funny to see them on the screen. I do not miss the humidity but I do miss the mountains and some beautiful women. Yes I watched all the shows growing up. Thanks
Duel was such a great movie
born in 78 step dad was a OLR trucker he watched all the movies and tv about big rigs happy memories sitting on the dog house man do i miss that fond memories
The duel truck is a 1955 Peterbilt 281
And the Orange car is a 1971 Plymouth Valiant
The Plymouth Valiant was CHERRY red.
My dad drove truck for over 20 years, his handle was "the Blue Mule". My brother has drove truck for over 20 years. I grew up on B.J. McKay, and Smokey and the Bandit.
Live to Survive!
that was so cool, words can't even describe it.
HILLBILLY HERE, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT !! - "AMEN"!!!! 😌
Thanks! Grew up watching these great movies and shows.
Nice trucks, I love the fact they included the car model used in the film duel.
Thank you!! We have some clips on semifreaks.com
What I'd like to know, this was 2016. Where are these Trucks Today, now in 2022 ?😄😄
this is so cool loved those shows growing up
So cool to see this I was 17 years old and was a fuel jockey at TA in maybrook NY and got to park the moving on kenworth in 1977 been hooked on driving the rest of my life!
I can relate to the author's obsession; when I was a kid I shared his fascination with trucks, and I have to say that the Pruitt rig was my ultimate dream. It was not until about 9 or 10 years ago that I finally got my mitts on an AMT kit, finally fulfilling a dream I had as a 9-year-old child...or so I thought. When I got my mitts on the series only about three or so years ago, I learned that the kit and all the toys based on the kit were not accurate to the series. So, last year I started to do something about that. I discovered a 1/25-scale model of a Kenworth W900, a kit that was a good 95% accurate to the series truck, made by Revell's European branch, so I got one. I later found a seller in Australia who reproduced the decals for the series truck in the same scale and got a copy of those decals from him. Along with a few spare parts I was able to find elsewhere, I was able to bring this model to a 98%-accurate series replica; now I have two "Movin' On" Pruitt rigs: The AMT version, and a more-series-accurate version, complete with interchangeable trailers (one a 40-foot dry-goods trailer, which was appropriate for the '70s, and a 53-foot reefer trailer which is common for today).
I remember "Duel" when it first aired, believe it or not, and I always had a love for that movie. I also had an urge to build a model of the notorious "Duel" truck, but there was a bit of a problem there: Nobody ever made a 1/25-scale model of a Peterbilt 281, let alone the low-slung tanker trailer. Some folks have skills and equipment to make resin reproductions, but I'm not one of them; so I had to make do with what I could find, and I think I got a good alternative. The closest-resembling model truck was an Autocar A64B, made by AMT about 1970 or so. This truck does bear much more than a passing resemblance to the Peterbilt 281; much of its configuration is identical, from the narrow nose and freestanding single-pair headlights to the smokestack on the right-hand side. The nearest I could get to the tanker trailer was a Testor kit, which isn't 100% accurate but was pretty close. Altogether I think it turned out quite well.
I thought the AMT kit was just the company's way of cashing in on the series, till I finally saw In Tandem. I don't know if it's totally accurate, but it's close to the movie version. BTW, I took 2 of the kits to make Sonny's VIT.
Aloysius - you are my kinda people! WOW! LOVE your passion and dedication! Can you please post us some pics of your models?? Can't wait to see them! We have a new site (it is being added to all the time) - semifreaks.com - we have a model page on there!
@@semifreaks Sure, I'd be glad to share pictures. I'll take some new pictures of the three rigs with their respective trailers and post them there when I can.🙂
Moving on CW McCall and a late night radio show call Jock radio for truck drivers was what made me become a truck driver. Growing up in the 70s was the best
awesome! !!!!!! Would still like to see the western star from Maximum Overdrive with goblin face and happy toys dry van.
Yes thier is some trucks.that aren't their.but.it still bought back alot off memories.when thier was a truck on TV.i left my sandbox.ran into the house tripping over my toys to get to the TV
That's runnin up around Charlotte NC, for real, but he took off the goblin face
PURE AWESOMENESS!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for this trip down memory lane.
They forgot the “Blue Mule” from White Line Fever.
RIP Jan Michael Vincent.
What about Cannonball
Yes it ain't complete without the blue mule
Maybe the Blue Mule wasn't available for the show. When I was in high school, the trucker down the street from me bought it and used to for actual trucking.
I operate a small farm in Iowa, my biggest tractor is a FORD 7740. Named the “Blue Mule”! Nice to know there are people out there, that understand. Most farmers, Don’t get it!
These trucks are soooo nice! I love them and their history. Thanks for sharing this great moment of the reunion with us!
You rock! Thank you!! More to come! Check out our Duel Truck tribute:
www.overdriveonline.com/life/video/15281430/the-duel-1960-pete-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-its-star-turn Go to semifreaks.com for further truck freaks!
you forgot one the blue mule white line fever.
Yes! But I believe there are no original surviving Blue Mules, which is probably why it didn't make it to the show, but otherwise I'm sure it definitely would have been there.
Hopefully someone will build a clone....
Derrell Barnhill the orangal blue mule is in Montana or was five years ago 4 were built only truck 2 survived
a guy in new mexico has the mule..he hauls pottys and movie set equip for Hollywood..and he has a bj and the bear kw..you can find him on flickr...
his name is carrol jo hummer..
I remember all of those shows. That is one awesome gathering!
Great Job! Great Passion! I remember those tough drivers Will and Sunny doing good things to good people, like always having hope in people and always getting into a fist fight deffending a friend or a gal.... congrats...! you have a great gattering there...
Wipe the drool... exactly! I grew up in a trucker family, these rigs are as familiar to me as my hand. Great video! Thank you!
That is just too fucking cool!! I would have loved to been there for that!
Even without the Blue Mule it was still great to see those trucks. The memories it brought back were great.
Its strange I actually had the same model. I loved watching Movin On, My grandmother was in one of the episodes filmed I Portland, Or. Also I just started watching Movin On here on You Tube. Thanks for bringing these trucks back to us it was nice to see them again.
I know that episode it was partly filmed at Jubitz truck stop
yep thats the one. the trailer park is just down the road from jubitz
Movin' on was a great show!
I always think about it around the Holidays as the Christmas two parter was My fave episode of the series. Man the 70s was the best.
I would like to see the White-Western Star truck from Maximum Overdrive , that would be cool.
boneman12319 The green goblin truck was a Western Star. I used to think it was a KW too, but it's definitely a WS.
or even the White 9064TD wrecker or the Autocar A64B seen in the film
Unfortunately, they used only one Goblin truck for Maximum Overdrive and it got destroyed (blown up) during filming. The remains were hauled off to a scrapyard.
HalcyonDaze I Know where the goblin is. I worked for the now owner of it. It was sitting in the weeds the last time I saw it. The person I worked for did work for the studios here in Wilmington, NC.
Truck didn't survive but the face did
Some of these trucks, Sonny Pruitt's Kenworth in particular, is the reason I chose to try driving for a living. Twenty Seven years later with a break in between, and I'm still liking it. These were iconic trucks to me.
Thanks for capturing this for us fans.
It would be awesome to find the White Cabover from Whiteline Fever too & the trucks from Maximum Overdrive
White line fever COE was a 74 Ford COE, with a NTC 350 Cummins.
I knew happy toyz wouldn't be in here 😪
Pretty cool man. I was into trucks as a kid in the 70s and early 80s big time. Had the hats, the belt, buckles, shirts you name it. Awesome memories. Thanks
I remember every one!
Movin’ On was one of my favorite shows (along with Cade’s County). Too bad [neither] lasted very long . B.J. ...lasted for 3seasons .
Although I liked Claud Aikins better as Sonny, a serious truck driver,than a buffoon of a cop. He was an excellent actor.
I'm proud to be a Catawba county native. Born in Hickory . Born in 1972. I miss I hometown very much. Peace
RIP Jan Michael Vincent. The Blue Mule.
Rhett Corbett. Some of my favourite films had him as an actor ''The Mechanic'', ''Buster and Billie'' ''Danger Island'' and driving that COE Ford in WLF. He did his own stunts in that film no double for him. Cheers from Australia.
@@andrewking9761 I'm from Australia. Wollongong. NSW.
"White Line Fever" white and blue Ford cabover! Fast forward to the 1990s Freightliner cabover wrecker from "Terminator 2".
I loved the movie "DUEL," they just don't make movies like that anymore.
Of course they do. Duel set the standard for its type of cat & mouse movie plot.
@@generalyellor8188 Well, to be more precise, they TRY to make movies like that...and almost always fall short, trying to throw in more of a background plot into their attempts and missing the mark as a result.
Absolutely great to see these 5 movie stars together, 3 legendary truck brands ! Best regards from south Germany
The "Movin on" KW, needs to have the multiple plates, put on it, and the correct wheels, and the 78,100 gross wgt. on the door, and the correct taillights on the back, and pulling a 45' Fruehauf to look authentic...
Chris Griffin yeah 1st thing I noticed was the gross vehicle weight. Was it a 45', I though it would have been a 40'. I maybe wrong, but I think max at that time was 40 foot, I believe 45 came out in mid 80s. A lot of drivers were still using 40 in the late 80s.
WOW this brought back so many memories, Thank you so much. I still have a die cast model from my childhood of the Mack in Convoy! I`ve cherished it for years.
Does anyone know why the fifth wheel coupling on the rubber duck truck is set so far back on the chassis??
trucks can only weigh 80k total and of that can only have12k on the steer axle and 34k on the tandems the 5th wheel and tandems slide on trucks and van trailers to move the weight around the various axles but the tandems on tankers are fixed so the 5th wheel on the Mack is set back to keep to much weight off of the steer axle
Pete Eborall that was for the bridge law. The other reply explains most of it. In some areas you could only have so much weight in a distance. If done "right," you could in effect run over weight but not be ticket because of the bridge laws. And if that wasn't going to work, you could always slam your brakes on the CHPs portable scales. Or my favorite, snap your driveshaft to keep from being weight.
My God thats a beautiful BJ & the Bear truck. My childhood is calling.
I have yet to see a replica of the Mack R-Model from The Road Warrior
There is. They have been at Mad Max shows here in Australia.
Big, beautiful machines; all of them! Wish I could have been there! B.J.'s red Kenworth Aerodyne is my lifelong favorite!
Thank you so much!! The video is you being there - or as close as we could get it! semifreaks.com
Love the video. It could have used some 70*s truckin back ground music.
Yeah wtf ?
gomangojoe Eastbound and down loaded up and trucking we gonna do what they say cant be done. We got a long way to go and a short time to get there I'm eastbound just watch the old Bandit run. Sorry Joe thats the best I can do for ya brother. Keep on Truckin there good buddy.
copyright issues/demonetization of the video? But i agree!
Thanks for the memories of when I was a kid. It's cool that those trucks are still are around and still in the condition they were in when on TV
u also forgot Peter Fondas high ballin truck
Ambrose Mackinnon Nono was jerry reed driving high ballin car hauler. I think
@@drivin379 That's correct, Thad - that was the truck used by Jerry Reed in "High-Ballin'", which also featured Peter Fonda and Helen Shaver.
If my memory serves me correctly, "High-Ballin'" was filmed in Canada; to be exact, Southern Ontario.
I swear when I saw Jerry Reed's rig and BJ McKay's rig roll up, I shed a tear. Thank you for putting this together.
The Smokey and the Bandit Kenworth is the only truck that's a replica out of all of the trucks shown in this video, But, It's still cool to see