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Updated Jun 1, 2021
The following story was originally penned in 2016 by the most enthusiastic among trucking-culture enthusiasts, former American Trucker television series host and producer Robb Mariani, about a history-making event that year. It was updated slightly from its original form in June 2021 as part of Overdrive s 60th-anniversary celebration and its series of lookbacks at trucking history.
Contemporary trucking seems about a million miles away from what trucking was even a decade ago, much less 50 years or so. But on a day in 2016 in Lincolnton, North Carolina, the past met the present as vintage truck owners got together to fellowship and pay homage to the equipment of yesteryear, much of it still in hardworking order today. While that wasn’t particularly unique – it happens all around the country at a myriad of truck shows all summer long every year – what was special about that September day in Lincolnton was that five of the most famous trucks of the 1970
Feb 01, 2021
Robb Mariani near the beginning (left) and end of an almost five year period as he helped spearhead and promote the restoration of the 1974 Mack that was daredevil Evel Knievel s last tour truck.
There is no pairing of photos I could come up with that better exemplifies the years-long restoration of the piece of history that is Evel Knievel s former Mack haul rig than the two above. I took both, the first (left) on the occasion of the rig s arrival at the small fleet and sometime custom shop of BPW Transport owner-operator Brad Wike in Lincolnton, N.C., in February 2012, the second upon unveiling of the resto job at the Great American Trucking Show in August of 2015.