The perfect gifts for those who take pride in their ride!

Christmas is just around the corner and if you haven’t a clue what to get your trucking buddy, trucking spouse, or trucking boss, think outside the typical Christmas gift box.  Think art.

Think photographs of their favorite custom rig in a frame, on a coffee mug, calendar,  mouse pad, coasters, or even T-shirt.

Or maybe you just want to sent a Christmas card someone’s way with a picture of your own truck, or hang a custom tree ornament picturing it.  We have those as well.

We’ve got the pictures and the place to buy them. Images are from our in-house files, so they are top-shelf and many never seen before. You can get them printed on just about anything you want. WWW.BIGRIGPHOTOS.PRINTROOM.COM.

Just go to our photo web site and browse through the multiple galleries listed on the left of the home page.

Those open up into images we’ve gathered in the last year. Click on the photo(s) you like, and then on the different gift options to see how they look.

Special 10% discount is in place, so start your Christmas shopping early!

4 State Trucks/CSM celebrate 30^th anniversary with Joplin blowout

The invite for the early October truck show simply said, “Come join us for our 3oth Anniversary Celebration. We guarantee a good time will be had by all.”

When you get an invitation from the boyz at the Chrome Shop Mafia like that there’s no way one can turn it down. You just know the turn out is going to be good and the hospitality terrific.

We weren’t disappointed, either. When we arrived Friday afternoon at 4 State Trucks Joplin, Missouri, compound the rains had subsided and the cold winds had begun to diminish.

We also found 97 trucks on site—72 of them registered in the Chrome Shop Mafia’s Truck Show.

It was the first day of their two-day gig, and Bryan “Bossman” Martin and his brother Bryce were up to their cold ears trying to get vendors and show participants shuffled around and squeezed into 4 State’s parking lots.

“Weather wise it wasn’t looking too good yesterday and this morning,” says Bryan. “But this storm’s blowin’ out and it’ll be good tomorrow.” And it was.

Unlike miserable Friday, Saturday morning was perfect for a truck show; the sky was clear and blue, the temp cool and crisp, and the wind just a light breeze. By 10am the crowds were rolling in and by noon parking spaces for spectators were getting very hard to find. By 2pm it was a capacity crowd.

Ice Road Trucker Alex Debogorsky

Freightliner was showing off their new 2010 Coronado and giving away four NASCR tckets w/pit passes and four Petty Driving Experience to some lucky winners later in the day.

Alex Debogorsky from Ice Road Truckers was there to shake hands and sign autographs, as were the CSM gang who were celebrities themselves. Dozens of people lined up every time the Bossman gave “VIP” tours of their shop and showroom during the day, too.

We also learned a dozen of the rigs on display were treated quite special by being photographed by Paul Hartley for the Chrome Shop Mafia’s 2010 calendar.

“Saturday night a huge bonfire we lit off in the 4 State compound as Matt Coleman & Road Hammers wound up the crowd with some kickin’ tunes,” says Martin of the end-of-day events. “And there was no shortage of BBG and food thanks to our friends at Red Hot & Blue ( a local Joplin purveyor of such cuisine.)

“Everybody in attendance was relaxed, havin a good time, ‘all smiles’ and had a ‘spring in their step’ as Joplin was ‘right where they wanted to be,” say the Bossman.

Form what we could tell, the 30tth anniversary bash was a winner. We have been told we’re on the invite list for next year’s October Fest—Chrome Shop Mafia style. Woooo-Hoooo!—CR

GBATS WINNER’S LIST

Winners:

Poker Run: Jayme Snow

$650  gift pack: Shannon Crenshaw

$1000 gift pack: Chad Blackwell

$2000 gift pack; Cupp Farms

Lights:2nd – Jerry Kissinger

1st -  Billy Carter/Steve Hendershot

Paint:  2nd – Matt McCord

1st  – Jeremy Graves

Interior:2nd – Dallas McCord

1st – Paul Saline

Stereo: 2nd -Colin Stuart

1st  -Jeremy Graves

Peoples Choice:

Bobtail – Thomas Ivy

Combo – Jeremy Graves

Competitors Choice:

Bobtail 2nd place……..:Doug perkins

Bobtail-Best Of Show..:Matt McCord

Competitors Choice:

Combo 2nd Place…….:.Jeremy Graves

Combo Best of Show..: Wayne Baker

Larry Martin Memorial Award.: Randy Huddleston

2010 CSM CALENDAR TRUCKS

Hoewing Trucking

Troy Huddleston

Randy Rebillard

Andy FIero

A.Wise Trkg

Dave Schroyer

Chad Blackwell

Gary Salisbury

Jeremy Graves

Nathan Deacon

Paul Saline

Doug Perkins

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