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RONALD WALTENSPIEL - HEALDSBURG, CA. FIDDLING WITH STERLING TRUCKS
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6 SITTING IN THE SHOP is a 1948 Sterling 1
0 truck with modern running gear that Ronald 2 “Nobody y Waltenspiel still uses around his dry farm in A Healdsburg, California. The truck has a 350 m Cummins engine and Late model KW rears. else was fiddling with r r e e them” k k C C u u r r T T g g o o L L
ABRIGHT HISTORY Rare Sterling trucks find home on Ronald Waltenspiel’s farm
story by brandon Hansen tore it all apart,” Waltenspiel Photos by kevin core said. “my wife came in and For Log Trucker asked if i knew where all the parts went. i said no.” The reason ronald Walten - But he persevered and even - spiel collects rare old Sterling tually got the truck all back to - Trucks is simple. gether. Waltenspiel learned a “nobody else was fiddling valuable lesson - however - of with them,” Waltenspiel, a dry taking photos of the truck as - fruit farmer by trade, said. sembled beforehand. The Healdburg, Ca resident Sterlings range from medium has a collection of 20 Sterling to heavy trucks and Walten - Trucks, with most of them being spiel’s collection ranges from stored in buildings he owns 1917 to 1953. around his farm. While he ad - “You can’t tear things apart mits that a few are out in the and then go down to the au - weather, they’re all slated to be toparts store to get a part,” Wal - restored. tenspiel said. “a half day can Sterling trucks are rare for a THERE’S PLENTY OF CHROME ON THIS 1928 Sterling. The radiator and just evaporate working on these variety of reasons. The company cap for this truck has a little more style to it than your normal work truck. things.” was sold to White motor Compa - Working is exactly was Wal - ny in 1953, and then the line tenspiel plans on doing. He said stretches back to the dawn of the trucks from germans, for obvi - was discontinued shortly after - that his wife ruth took a class 20th century when William ous reasons,” Waltenspiel said. ward. Sterling trucks were com - on aging and that in some indus - Sternberg began a wagon com - So Sternberg turned his atten - plex with a degree of personal tries, the average time of people pany. tion to the english - and turned craftsmanship that you don’t see passing away after retiring is a “Then they began putting mo - his company name to Sterling. from a modern-day assembly year and a half. tors in their wagons and went Waltenspiel found his first line - only about 12,000 trucks “if something doesn’t get you from there,” Waltenspiel said. old Sterling truck over a decade were made before the merger motivated to get out of the bed in 1916, Sternberg tried to ago in a truck magazine and de - with White. in the morning, you’re going to Waltenspiel has been collect - sell trucks to France during the cided to bring himself home a ing Sterlings for about 12 years first World War, but they project. (continued on Page 11) but the history of the company wouldn’t bite. “i said to myself i’d better fix “They said we don’t buy it so i brought it in my shop and See “Sterling” 5
5 BUILT DURING WORLD WAR 1, this 1917 Sterling truck is one of the first trucks to bear the name “Sterling” as company owner William 6 1
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