10-4 Magazine September 2024

Truck Show Report: By Frank Strohmyer his wife, with his 1983 KW K100. Ross Wright and his son Wyatt came out with their two new 2024 Peterbilt 389’s (Ross’ is gray and Wyatt’s is turquoise), both pulling their nicely polished pneumatic trailers. The Hartman family brought out their 2024 custom black Peterbilt 389 built by Dickerson CustomTrucks, called American Dream, and this amazing combo took home a lot of hardware. Tony Huttenstine came out with his white 2005 Peterbilt 379, riding on a 280” wheelbase, with a large Double Eagle sleeper – one of the last ones ever built. This truck is called Casablanca, and it has some very unique features, especially in the sleeper, including a shower and sink, a convection oven, and a bed mounted lengthwise instead of the normal widthwise method (a smart use of space in an 80-inch bunk). On June 21-23, 2024, Kuhnle Bros. held their third Quebec styled uphill semi-truck drag racing event at Kuhnle Motorsports Park in Thompson, OH. Many improvements have helped this event to grow from the two events they held last year. For the year 2024, they have three events planned. Originally, they only had two planned, but after a big race in Canada was shut down by the government, the team at Kuhnle decided to plan a third race weekend. In conjunction with the uphill truck drag racing, there was also a truck show. The truck show was put on by NAST, but there weren’t many trucks in attendance for this part of the event. With the Ohio Vintage Truck Reunion happening the same weekend, I am sure that affected this event, but regardless of that, there were still some cool trucks. I got there Saturday afternoon, June 22, wanting to focus on the truck show portion of the event that day, and I’m glad I did, because after the awards, everything was taken down and many who entered the truck show packed up and left. It could be in part because the temperature was in the mid-90s that day, and everyone was just baking on that asphalt. I invited Chad Keegan to come out to the show and he showed up, along with 60 10-4 Magazine / September 2024 IT JUST GETS BETTER