Chris Homfeld: My name is Chris Homfeld, Classic Trucking LLC. I’ve been doing this for… See, I’m 52. I’ve been in it all my life. I grew up in the trucks and so I’ve been doing it for 20 some years, 30 years at least. It’s just been a family tradition basically. But I bought my first truck when I was 23, 24, so been there all the time.
This is a 2000 [Peterbilt 379]. I bought it about 18 years ago. I’ve had it all that time. It’s nicknamed “Baby Cakes.” My sister-in-law gave [the name] to me, says it’s the love of my life. We’ve done a lot with it. Signature Series 600 Cummins, 18-speed, 3.55s. It’s been remodeled once. This is a second remodel, just got out of the shop, called an orchid color with a lot of metal flake. It’ll change colors throughout the day. Put new frame rails. She’s totally… New skins, everything.
My wife says it’s the love of my life. So it’s still a little bit of work in progress. 295 wheel base. So my dad, really first time this paint come out on the truck when we first painted it, it’s been stuck in with him and my wife. So it’s been a big thing. Just loved the truck. It’s been part of my life. When we bought it, that was the ultimate thing, it’s going be our show truck. So we just went basic. I took all the lights off of it, just basic way, going back to regular style lighting, incandescent lighting, kind of simple, kind of clean. It was just… A lot of people say, oh, you ain’t going to like it. Yeah, I love it. A lot of people do too, and it’s just been the ideal.
We put the different headlights on it for big LEDs. New grille, just about all the stainless on it, it’s all been changed. Visor, all the lights, just everything has been changed on this truck. We put the newer style mirrors on this truck. It used to have the door mirrors, put the 389 mirrors on it, put a different floorboard in it, did the total floor, the steps, and plus the length on it.
Originally it was a deeper purple or somewhere between purple and this. It’s when the first shop painted it, it didn’t come out. My wife didn’t like it, my dad did, but then they both… We all fell in love with the colors after having it. So we just stuck with it. Stay with the basics. Yeah, it’s flashy, but kind of the way it goes.
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