Photo gallery: Western Star Optimus Prime at Mid-America

Overdrive Staff

Mar 26, 2014

Updated Mar 31, 2014

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On display this week at the Mid-America Trucking Show is the Western Star 4900X that stars as Optimus Prime in the next iteration of the Transformers movie series. Above is a gallery of the truck on the show floor. (Photos by Jason Cannon)

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