Riding High: the Harley-Davidson Freightliner Coronado twins
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013) · Staff Writer
Rear Vision | First published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2, Summer 2013.
Two black Freightliner Coronado 114s carried Harley-Davidson styling in a collaboration ACT featured in Issue 2. The project grew from a visit to Freightliner’s Cleveland manufacturing plant in North Carolina, where Dr Kolja Rebstock noticed staff wearing Harley-Davidson clothing. That observation led to a meeting between the brands in Australia.
The trucks were customised in-house by Freightliner Australia as a demonstration of what its team could add to a production vehicle. ACT recorded Doyles leather trim and interior artwork, stainless-steel details fitted by Daimler Trucks at Huntingwood, and black cab paint by Workhorse Collision Repair.
A matched pair
Both Coronado 114s used the Detroit DD15 15-litre engine, listed in the original feature at 560 hp. The pair shared the same specifications and carried the Harley-Davidson identity across the cabs and trailers. Easton Chang’s photographs captured the trucks on the road and in the workshop alongside a motorcycle.
The original feature documented a brand collaboration as it stood in 2013. Its appeal was straightforward: two working heavy vehicles turned into unmistakable showpieces through paint, trim and carefully coordinated detail.
Words: Staff Writer. Photographs: Easton Chang. Images recovered from the original ACT Issue 2 print file.
Featured image: One of the Harley-Davidson Freightliner Coronado twins. Photo: Easton Chang / ACT Issue 2.
Rear Vision: where is it now?
This is a 2013 archive account, not a statement of current ownership or operations. Did you work on these Coronados, photograph them, or know where the twins are today? Tell ACT what happened next and share a current photograph.