The vehicle used today by #SpaceX to transport Falcon 9 boosters began life as the Orbiter Transportation System. It was built in 1983 by an Italian company called Cometto to transport the Shuttle orbiter at Vandenberg (CA) AFB, where #NASA intended to have a second Shuttle launch site. It was later transferred to #KSC. After the Shuttle program ended, NASA sold it to SpaceX.

Here are Nov 28, 1984 articles from the Lompoc Record and Santa Maria Times reporting on the OTS delivery.