2019 Pride & Polish flashback: Top antique combos

Jan 23, 2020

Updated Jan 30, 2020

The 2019 Overdrive‘s Pride & Polish competition featured 52 standout rigs competing in a variety of categories. Overdrive is looking back at the show by featuring the winners of each of the categories.

Up this week is the Antique Combo category. Photos below are all by Jason Kindig.

First place: Geo Cuellar, of La Porte, Texas, with his 1985 Kenworth K100E and 1980 Matlack van, “Clyde”

Second place: La Porte, Texas-based David Schnautz with “A Dream Come True,” a 1981 Kenworth W900A and 1982 Wilson livestock hauler

Third place: Delma Gibbs, of Detroit, Texas, with his 1980 International Transtar II Eagle 4070B with a 2005 Chaparral step deck

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