10-4 Magazine September 2022

10-4 Magazine / September 2022 79 driven for Reinsfelder, and it is always good to see him and talk trucks. Arien Ruell pulled into the show with his freshly painted – and I mean freshly – 1993 Peterbilt 379. Powered by a Cat motor and a 13-speed, the red and black rig rides on a 327” wheelbase. The truck is also fitted with a 96” Double Eagle sleeper he found. I walked up to him after he got parked and asked, “Is the paint dry yet?” It had just come from the paint shop. He told me that he has been working on this truck for the last six years. He stretched the frame and took off the 63” Peterbilt flattop sleeper to make way for the big Double Eagle bunk. We at 10-4 Magazine would like to congratulate Arien and his bride Rae Rae on their recent wedding nuptials, held on July 30. Congratulations! Valerie and Austin Walker out of Somerset, PA brought their teal 1970 Pete 359 with a white stripe and a 36” sleeper. They did a three-year restoration on the rig. Austin’s cousin Chad Walker did some of the body work and paint on the truck. It was really great to meet the Walkers! Last year I met Chad, and this year I got to meet his nephew, Taylor. Taylor is an apprentice under Kevin Montgomery at Morocco Welding in Somerset, PA. Kevin has some cool tricks up his sleeve and in his head, as a lot of really cool stuff has come out of the Morocco Welding shop from Kevin. It’s really awesome to see Taylor Walker take up a craft like this after graduating from high school. We need more young men and women, working with their hands, and working in the trades. Something you don’t see a lot at shows are International trucks, but James Brown of Indiana, PA fixed that by bringing out his 2007 9900ix with a 72” mid-roof sleeper cab. Powered by a Cat motor and a 13-speed, what really caught my eye was the 1970-ish port hole window in the shape of a heart. Back in the 70s, with the custom van craze, there were all sorts of oddball shaped windows, but they were all cool.