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52 | Overdrive | May 2017 CUSTOM RIGS Truck Frames 866-851-6478 Toll free: www.pgadams.com Guaranteed accuracy Extreme lengths Easy-bolt frames with holes Easy-bolt www.pgadams.com Crossmembers 24 hour turnaround Get Our FREE CATALOG Call 603-224-7370 Or Go To www.BERUBES.com T he story behind West Virginia-based Bill Warner Jr.'s rig is fairly exceptional. Warner says the prior owner – a small fl eet in Pennsylvania whose owner had kept it around for years as a personal truck – used it so little that, to this day, it's got fewer than 200,000 origi- nal miles on the odometer. Powered by a 425-hp Cat – the original motor – through a 15-speed transmission and 3:70 rears, the 1987 Peterbilt 359 has been under Warner's ownership for more than a decade, just waiting to be given the treatment it got during the PKY champion- ship at the Mid-America Truck- ing Show in March in Louisville, Kentucky. The rig came away with Best of Show in limited mileage/ dump combo and garnered an award for its use of chrome. Warner's nine-truck fl eet has hauled for the same principal customer within about a 200- mile radius of Circleville, West Virginia, for two decades. '87 Pete has original motor with less than 200K miles. BY TODD DILLS Low-mileage classic LEFT: Warner's minor interior modifications were done with a mind to preserve the dash's original character. His intention for the 359 from the day he acquired it was akin to a pres- ervationist's, given how few of these remain around and in good condition today. ABOVE: Bill Warner Jr. brought home Best of Show in limited mileage/dump combo from the PKY Truck Beauty Championship at the Mid-America Trucking Show and garnered an award for best use of chrome. Warner and company's fresh coat of paint on the 359 changed the colors and scheme slightly. Catch more photos of Bill Warner Jr.'s low- mileage Pete in a video on Overdrive's Custom Rigs playlist at youtube.com/OverdriveMag. Catch more photos of mileage Pete in a video on Overdrive playlist at youtube.com/OverdriveMag. Photos by Todd Dills

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