Custom Rigs

• When Winning Isn’t Everything
  August 2010
  

  The black heavy-haul Kenworth daycab is a bit of the odd truck out among dozens of brightly painted and bejeweled Peterbilt bobtails and combos parked around the floor of Dallas Convention Center. There’s neither fancy signage in front detailing all the sponsors nor a small posse of helpers standing by to wipe away any specks of dust or fingerprints from admiring hands. Instead, there’s one guy standing off at a distance leaning against the wall, relaxed with arms crossed, taking in the surroundings as the crowd mills among the custom rigs on display at Custom Rigs Pride & Polish contest…

• INSIDE PROJECT ONE
  August 2010
  

  San Antonio big-rig customizer’s 651st build, Project One, is one wild custom ride you can see at the 2010 American Trucking Show in Dallas this week…

• Custom Ash Hauler
  June 2010
  

  One of the most wicked ash haulers on the road is a rare 2005 Peterbilt 379X called Haulin’ Ash, owned by Burningham Enterprises of American Fork, Utah, located about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City.

• HELL ON WHEELS
  May 2010
  

  Sherry Martinez’s 1990 Peterbilt 379, affectionately known around Southern California as either The Mean Bitch or 666, is visually hell on wheels born from personal trials and tribulations…

• Decepticon Motormaster Video
  April 2010
  

  DECEPTICON MOTORMASTER VIDEO
  Just a sneak preview of one of the new videos we have coming out on our web site over the next couple weeks…from our Pride & Polish 75 Chrome Shop shoots. We’ll have a full interview with Travis Lyon, the owner/builder of this ultra cool ‘87 KW, as well as a  feature on [...]

• Custom Race Car Hauler
  April 2010
  

  Reader’s Ride
  V. GAINES ROLLIN’ IN STYLE
  Gino Guadagni, owner of the flamed-out KW, Inferno Joe, featured in our Summer issue, sent us a photo of the custom rig that hauls his dad’s Kendall Oil Avenger to all the NHRA events.

  V.Gaines’ custom rig is a 2005 319″ Pete 379X powered by a healthy 625 CAT backed with [...]

• Dead Man’s Chest
  April 2010
  

  When California flatbed hauler Ernesto Rubio turns into the Old Castle Precast prefabrication facility in the heart of Fontana’s industrial area, the security guards at the main gate wave him through as if he were a celebrity.

• A Peek At The Past
  March 2010
  

  Complaints come over the CB about high fuel prices, low pay and long hours. Texas owner-operator Drennon Durham’s response is lacquered across the rear window of his 2007 Peterbilt. One word say’s it all: Kwitcherbitchin. “Easy Money” is the 23-year-old entrepreneur’s CB handle, given to him by a fellow trucker in recognition of Durham’s success at such a young age…

• Creating Mayhem
  February 2010
  

  Jersey isn’t the first place one would think of being a hotbed for customizing trucks. Gangsters ripping them off and hijacking their loads? Sure. But truck dealerships ripping a new rig apart and transforming what was once ordinary into an extraordinary work of rolling artisanship and craftsmanship? Fuhgetaboutit. That is unless you’re thinking pure Mayhem…

• January Rig of the Month
  January 2010
  

  When the company Robert Ewing works for, Hi-Plains Leasing, bought a ’97 Mack previously owned by the United States Post Office, turning the truck into a show rig was one use he hadn’t envisioned for the box-bodied, snub-nosed “Gone Postal.” Other than a paint job, Ewing and Hi-Plains used the truck as purchased for nearly three years before taking it out of service, putting it into the shop and, ultimately, leading it onto the truck beauty show scene.