Tammie Grove: So I said, let’s just keep it old school. And he started putting these hexagon things on. I said, Charlie, that looks like a dragon. And it just went from there.
My name’s Tammy Grove. I’m with my Black Sheep Trucking Company, incorporated, and the reason I’m here is because the man who did the graphics on this truck is now 80 some years old, and this was on his bucket last. He wanted this truck to be shown at Kentucky Truck Show. That’s why I’m here.
It’s a 379 Peterbilt. It’s a 2001. It has 1,000,200 miles owner. He’s retired. He was retired in 2000 and fifteenths.
Start out with the dragon right here. And then you wrap around the back. Back here. His tail comes through here. Back through here. His tail extends right here. And that comes around the back going to the fenders. And that’s all airbrushed on there.
We used to put it in the parades for the kids. So we did the dinosaurs there for the kids. I just love it. It lights up at night, but it just made their day. We bought this truck brand new. Got it. Okay. We had a driver in the truck. The side of it was smashed up, so we just it sat in the shop.
Everybody robbed parts off of it and my husband hauls windmill blades and I called him up and I said, I’m going to fix that truck up. And he said, go ahead. And that’s what I did.
And then me and my mom did the whole interior.
Lawson Rudisill: What all did you do to the interior?
Tammie Grove: Everything. We ripped it completely down. There was nothing left in the truck. We ripped the dash out. We painted it, but we recovered everything that’s in there. We covered the seats. My mom was a sew-er. Whatever I asked her to do, she did.
Hit or miss. We didn’t know what we were doing. We just did it. Like I said, it was an old truck sitting in the shop. I told my husband, I said, I’m going to fix it up. And that’s what I did.
And then the same guy who did the graphics on the truck, Charlie Murray, he did the floor for us. So we got a piece of wood and he just he made it look really good.
It took us three months. And my mechanic helped us a lot, too. Elvin Kinsinger. On the side of the truck, you’ll see there’s a there’s a sign and it’s my mom’s on there and Elvin’s on there and Charlie Murray to one. Like I said, he did all the pinstriping, all the graphics. He did all that.