Seeing this creation, one’s reminded of that saying about climbing the mountain because it’s there. When you look at this hot rod truck, it’s arguably useless. But almost any car guy who sees this 1960 Peterbilt 351 will appreciate the 15 months and 3,000 hours of work that was put into this truck to make it so.As you can see, it’s barely recognizable as a semi, because builder Randy Grubb chopped and reshaped the cab to the proportions he felt would make the truck more aggressive and mean-looking. However, the quality of the work can be seen from the fact that the cab isn’t painted, so any flaws and fitment issues would glaringly show.
In case you didn’t notice, the centerpiece of this creation is the engine, which is a 12 cylinder 12V71N Detroit Diesel. Stock, it’s rated at around 430 horsepower although some reports have the engine on this thing making 500 horsepower. Not much in terms of outright power, but the torque should be something else. It would probably have enough pulling power to pull a house off its foundations, never mind tree stumps. The video below will show how the engine wants to twist the frame. An Allison 4-speed automatic is used in place of the original transmission.
When it was tested in the quarter mile, its time was a 16.63 but the engine is limited to 2,500 rpm, because the nature of these engines are, again, for pulling, not top-end power. The truck has since been sold (not to Jay Leno as the video erroneously claims), which gives builder Randy Grubb more funds and time to build another project.
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