{"id":50608,"date":"2026-03-01T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/?p=50608"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:12:32","slug":"jc-alts-1986-pete-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2026\/03\/out-of-the-archives\/jc-alts-1986-pete-359\/","title":{"rendered":"JC Alt\u2019s 1986 Pete 359"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<p>This month\u2019s \u201cOut of the Archives with Bette Garber\u201d features Jason \u201cJC\u201d Alt\u2019s 1986 Peterbilt model 359 and 2000 Timpte Super Hopper.&nbsp; \u201cAce in the Hole\u201d was powered by a 425-hp Caterpillar 3406B, hooked to a 6&#215;4 Spicer 2-stick transmission, and 3.70 rears.&nbsp; The truck, which had a 265\u201d wheelbase and rode on a Peterbilt Air-Leaf suspension, featured a 60\u201d flat-top sleeper, suicide doors, and the famous \u201cSwoop\u201d paint scheme done up in Sovereign and Lauderdale Blue, with maroon, mauve and gold striping, and the trailer painted to match, as well.&nbsp; Bette took this picture in Walcott, IA at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop, probably during one of their annual Truck Jamboree shows, held there each summer in July.<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s \u201cOut of the Archives with Bette Garber\u201d features Jason \u201cJC\u201d Alt\u2019s 1986 Peterbilt model 359 and 2000 Timpte Super Hopper.&nbsp; \u201cAce in the Hole\u201d was powered by a 425-hp Caterpillar 3406B, hooked to a 6&#215;4 Spicer 2-stick transmission, and 3.70 rears.&nbsp; The truck, which had a 265\u201d wheelbase and rode on a Peterbilt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":50609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-out-of-the-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50618,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608\/revisions\/50618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}