Magazine Content

• August tool giveaway contest ends Monday
  June 2010
  

  Get your entry in this week
  As I’m packing my gear to head to the East Coast Large Cars.Com truck show in New Jersey this weekend it struck me to remind all of you about our GearWrench Tool giveaway contest.

  We’ll be choosing four winners this coming Monday for inclusion in our August (Summer) issue and sending [...]

• A truck photo worth tools
  May 2010
  

  Take a photo of your truck, submit it to our Truck Gallery, and send us a note why you need some new tools. If we like what we see and read, you could be adding hundreds of dollars in tools to your toll box. No contest could be easier…

• T’s for tech
  May 2010

  What I’m going to do for the rest of the year is send out a half-dozen Pride & Polish T-shirts to those of you who send me the best tech questions each month. The questions can be about anything in your truck from engine related to audio systems, suspension to interior, custom or stock.

• Proud Parent
  May 2010
  

  Breathing Life Into A New Magazine
  I have been a magazine journalist for nearly three decades, which is a long time. But the years I’ve spent working in the magazine business have flown by so fast it makes my head swim thinking of how many cool things my job over the years has allowed me to [...]

• Pedal to the metal
  January 2010
  

  Being in the magazine biz is just like the trucking biz: If you slack off even for a moment the bills don’t get paid and your competitors get the upper hand. Not going to happen around here. Its peddle to the metal!

• Starting a new year
  January 2010
  

  Rolling Into 2010
  It seems the older I get the faster a year goes by. I’m sitting here in my office looking at a 2010 Custom Rigs wall calendar (right) and wonder where in the world 2009 went. I’m glad it did, though; the economy the way it was and the jobs lost across the country [...]

• Frenchman still rollin’ ‘em out
  November 2009
  

  Cool custom rig models
  In our Fall ‘09 issue Lucinda Coulter, managing editor of our sister magazine, Overdrive,  did a nice article on a Frenchman who builds replica scale models of all types of big-rigs as a hobby. His favorite trucks are American custom rigs.

  The twist is Christian Chapson is literally an ocean away from our [...]

• WINTER ISSUE OUT
  October 2009
  

  CUSTOM RIGS WINTER ISSUE OUT
  Get your copy while they last!
  If you are a subscriber to Custom Rigs, then you’ve probably already read our Winter issue from cover to cover. My copy arrived yesterday.

  Those of you who aren’t subscribers better hoof it down to your local Petros or one of our Preferred Partner chrome shops who [...]

• Making the photo grade
  July 2009
  

  Aim high, shoot big
  Larger images better your chance of getting in the magazine pages
  We get a number of truck owners submitting their rig’s photos into our Reader Gallery every week. At the end of each month we look at each entry so we can choose a few to show in the pages of our parent [...]

• MAY ISSUE ARRIVING SOON!
  May 2009
  

  The Summer (May) issue of Custom Rigs is ready to come off the press, so be looking out for it at your favorite chrome shops and Petros truck stops. Subscribers should be seeing it in mailboxes any day now.