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Duel truck. it was... hairy.
when I see a truck I gotta climb it. Climb every truck I see.
this baby is from Steven Spielberg's
first movie. I love a truck. I climb every
single one I see because ever since I
was a kid that's all I ever wanted to do
was climb trucks. I've shot Ice Road
Truckers, I've been around a lot of these
kind of things but I've never driven one
so this should be interesting
okay so I've never driven a truck
before, you know that.
to start out, for your first time ever, to start in the hardest truck to drive is pretty good.
does that qualify me as like a
hardcore badass dude?
yeah I would think maybe it could be on
your way to. okay cool!
yeah they don't don't ever panic or
anything just always just be calm and cool
and it's okay. so the famous Duel horn.
even the buttons hard to press! alright
so clutch in I gotta  find first gear,
apparently in this thing it's very hard
there it is very easy for
me... so far... letting the clutch out we're
rolling... that's your first six inches of truck driving.
all right
there it is all right
okay so right?
You're probably gonna wanna stop right here
oh my god
there you go, push the brake in
my name is Brad Wike and you're here
because I'm a crazy truck enthusiast
I've had a lot of people ask me, they're like
how do you get into get in all this
truck driving? your dad must have been a
truck driver. naw my dad never drove a
truck. when I was a kid I think during
the summer of first grade my grandfather
drove a big truck, not a tractor trailer
but a big straight truck and and I rode
with him during the summer. I would see
all the big rigs and I was always going
you know, I wish we were riding in one of
those you know. my dad introduced me to a
great uncle and I'm just a little kid
and he said your great uncle said
you could go with him and now you get to
ride in a big tractor trailer. he drove a
big R model Mack and hauled gasoline so I
was like wow! he was my hero. yeah
everybody likes Superman or whatever but
my great uncle Alfred was... he was
like my hero. he was a tall skinny guy
and you wouldn't think he was strong
enough to turn the truck but he was the
best truck driver I ever knew and I just
liked trucks from then on. You know I
always knew in the back of my mind I
wanted to run my own trucks I didn't
want to work for somebody else. I'm kind
of an independent guy and I don't really
take orders that good. I got fired from a
couple of jobs for taking people with me.
it's because I always meant somebody to
hang out with me and have a good time. I
decided I wanted to be the one in charge
I met a guy that wanted somebody to help
haul his own materials and so he and I
partnered up. word of mouth got out that
man this guy's hustling. I went to two
trucks, and then three trucks and then
four trucks, and then five trucks. and I
became, you know, BPW
back in 97 I think I went to my first
national antique truck show. I had it on
my mind that I wanted to fix up an old
truck. I'm more of an OEM kind of guy. I like
stuff kind of original. I want to feel
how the driver did, and this is a 73. I
was 7 years old then so I want to feel
how the guy driving this felt when he
drove it. one thing led to another, we'd
build another. We'd build another.
you know trucking is going pretty good,
you know, I buy and sell and trade on the
trucks so you know, it's ...I don't know, it
just kind of came together. went out to
Fontana to a truck show back in 2005 and
they had all loaded down with chrome...
bling-bling trucks. we were walking
through there looking at all these
trucks taking pictures and all sudden... boom... there sat that Duel truck
I'm sitting there going man I remember
that movie when I was a kid I watched
that movie it came on like Saturday TV
or something and I remember thinking
that's a Peterbilt. it was really the
highlight of the show to me even though
it was just ugly
I didn't even know it existed because in
the movie the truck at the end goes over
the cliff tumbles boom boom it's all
destroyed. a few years later they
wanted to add some scenes to the movie
so they had to kinda... I guess they
recreated a couple more trucks to come
in and do that extra footage that was
where this truck came in the picture
this was Steven Spielberg's first film
as my understanding it was his first
full length film. in interviews from time
to time
he'll mentioned that movie that has been
part of his road to success, you know,
that movie. and Dennis Weaver had a lot
to do with it too he played the part.
he couldn't have done it no better.
I mean he was the guy for the job.
and the Carey Loftin was the guy driving
the truck. he was like a stunt the truck
driver and he'd whip that thing all
over the road, and I'm like, man I wanted
to have a truck like that!!
And I do that now.
but back when you're a kid you know
you're fascinated with it. and never
thought I'd own the truck I just
thought it was cool
a friend of mine he ended up purchasing
it. he didn't really have room to keep it.
but uh he contacted me and said I was
the one that should have the truck. you
know every once in a while in your
lifetime you'll see something and you
feel like you just got to have it, and this
was one of those times. I couldn't really
afford it but I bought it anyway.
this is
my second time driving because we got up to...
I'm basically driving Brad's driveway
because you don't want to put me on a
road with traffic in one of these and
that road out there is not straight it's
curvy and it's very narrow. even sitting
in the passenger seat it didn't look
like he was actually in his lane... 'trust
he was... so anyways second time... funny thing
I got out of the passengers seat and
burned my ear on the... on the...
exhaust so officially I've injured
myself on this truck now. It's haunted too! it's haunted??
wonderful... (nervous laugh) okay so I'm now gonna go up Brad's very steep driveway on gravel
road. second time driving a truck... in a
straight line... I think I'm...
aaaaand release the brakes.
go ahead and ease the clutch out. okay it's all yours. a
little easier the second time
I don't know how anybody did any stunt
driving in this thing. it is tough as
nails
I've driven small small trucks but never a semi so
this is completely new
it sounds so cooooooool!
every young boy
has always wanted to hold the steering
wheel like this, big, almost
horizontal
and just know what it's like to do this
but they did some amazing stunt driving
in this truck and I have no idea how he
did it. you have to have some skill todrive this thing
in any speed
more?? oh slow! ok hahaha
it's very hard to drive. this remake of
the truck actually has two sticks and
the original truck that went over the
cliff
it had a regular single stick with the
with the button up and down with
ten-speed. I guess it was a ten-speed. no
power steering. no nothing, you know, it
just goes and it hardly has any brakes
either
it's a 1961 351 Peterbilt and the tanker
is a 1946
it's Cummins powered and they took the
old original worn out completely
suspension out of it and replaced that with a
Reiko suspension. so some of the things
that was originally with the movie time
has been sort of updated so you've got a
little better ride
I'm gonna make a turn....
I feel like a man! I feel like a real man!!
I don't feel like the fancy ass little
hipster I look like, I feel like a man!!
on the back of the cab there's a a box that
represents what would have been back in
the hot days before air conditioning it
would have been a swamp cooler. but in
the movie I think they used that box for
a camera box and Spielberg had to mount
a Camera there to get the... you know the
part where you see his hands turning the
wheel and you're looking out across the
hood and you got that little mirror and
you see the smoke blowing out of the
stack. you know, definitely smoke and
mirrors.
I am now driving a giant
semi-truck over grass in a field on
Brad's property
that's basically what he does. Brad owns
a bunch of trucks. antique trucks, new
trucks, movie trucks. and this is what he
does he just drives them around. he
restores them and he brings them to
shows. I remember watching that movie Duel
you know I actually wanted the truck to win
you know! I don't know... I guess I gotta
say I was dropped on my head or
something when I was a kid to be this
into trucks. and other people is probably
about the movie. there's a following of
people that want to know where that
truck is because not only me who was
fascinated with that truck from the
movie a lot of other people are too.
I think it appeals to everybody in fact
I took it to mad monster and there's no
truckers there. it's all people that are
into monsters and all this stuff a lot
of people like to come by and climb up
in it and just sit there and play with
the steering wheel and think, wow this is actually
a real movie truck that Dennis Weaver
walked around and Spielberg was, you know,
putting these cameras in
it's a piece of history. an American
piece of history, you know, and it's just
times have changed. somewhat for the
better but other ways not. you know, I like...
I like the past. you got things you did
as a kid and you want to relive, kind of
rehash that. getting older every day...
fastest thing known to man is time, so we...
you know, I'm just trying to do
what I like to do and everybody's
invited you know I don't just put it in
here and say nobody can come and see it.
you know, we get stuff out and
play with it and we do fun stuff with it
got a lot of kids that come around and
they like to just sit up in them
always wanted to do this!
now you're a dangerous truck driver!
now I'm a... I'm those guys that I hate when I'm driving down I-40
I don't think truck drivers are looked
up at as heroes like they were back in
the sixties and seventies. which I wish
they still were because without trucks
America stops you know. everything
you've got
everything you own was brought at some
point on a truck and I think New York
City would shut down in 48 hours if they
didn't have trucks coming in there. they
don't grow anything, they don't make any
food there, it's all hauled in you know
so everybody fussing and griping about
trucks on the road you need to think;
you shut that down and it's gonna end
real fast. train can bring it to a
certain point but it can't pull into the
grocery store. so don't fuss about the
trucks going down the road. just give them
room and you know be courteous.
99.9%  of all the truck
drivers are good professional drivers and
their courtesy, you know, it goes a
million miles
and literally millions of miles
and don't crash the gate, doing 98
all right
I drove my truck... a truck...
I drove a truck for the first time in my
life. that was cool and if there's any
truck to drive for the first time in my
life I'd say the Duel truck is the best
truck I ever could have done next up...
coming from me (Brad),  it's one of the hardest trucks to drive.
next truck let's go find Optimus Prime.
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THE HORN! can't forget the horn!!
oh that's so cool!
(BRAD) takes a while to kill... listen..
is that the exhuast?
you hear her breathing?
holy shit...
damn this truck has a life to it!
you know one time we has it sitting in the shed in the lower shop by the woods.
it's real dark. we were coming down, going down to get something like 11:30 at night
I tell this story... We're coming down on the golf cart. The Duel truck was sitting under the lean-to shed
at the edge of the woods. all of a sudden we're coming around and the headlights just come on
NO! YEAH!
really??
NO! hahaha
oh man this is nuts!
that was slightly frightening
makes for a good story right??
;)
