The 1978 International Transtar II, a flat-faced semitruck with its engine positioned under the cab, started its life in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
It worked in a gravel quarry in Muncie, Indiana, idled for long time in a barn and then hauled grain before ultimately ending up in a garage at the Truck Parking Club headquarters in Ringgold. Its odometer reads roughly 133,000 miles — a rarity when some truck drivers can go 100,000 miles in a single year.
When Chad Keegan drove it from Muncie to his house in Defiance, Ohio, that was the first time it had been on the interstate since 1978, he said.
“This is like a diamond in the rough” said Keegan, who is restoring the vehicle and drove it to Georgia from Ohio. “You can’t find trucks like this.”
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