Longtime trucker-songwriter Tony Justice's fourth annual Large Cars and Guitars truck show and music festival was held last weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, and Overdrive Video Editor Lawson Rudisill was on hand to capture everything going on at the event.
The show featured upwards of 150 trucks, Justice said, and raised more than $40,000 for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
"We were up pretty good on truck count," Justice said, adding that there were also between 80 and 100 show cars at the event.
He noted that parking staff for Bristol Motor Speedway said they estimated 10,000 attendees over the course of the weekend.
The show "has grown each year since we started," Justice said. "We get better at putting it on," and he expects the growth to continue into the fifth year in 2026. Keep tuned for more on the details of that event, he added.
Held at Bristol Motor Speedway for the first time, the event brought together a wide range of working and show-ready trucks from across the country the days leading into Memorial Day, May 22-24. If you missed it this year or want a closer look at just who and what rolled in, check out the following video, where Rudisill captured a bit of footage of every single rig standing up for the show.
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While the show is non-judged, there is one award handed out -- a Kids' Choice award chosen by children in attendance at the show. The winner this year was Tom Logano -- father of three-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Joey Logano -- with his 1971 Peterbilt 359 outfitted as a tow truck to haul one of his son's race cars.
The 2025 Large Cars and Guitars Kids' Choice winner -- Tom Logano's 1971 Peterbilt 359Lawson Rudisill
Keep tuned to Overdrive in the coming weeks for more coverage from the 2025 Large Cars and Guitars event.
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Bryant Mann: Today we are in Bristol, Tennessee, for Tony Justice's Large Cars and Guitars. I've been coming to Tony's Show since the beginning. Actually I met Tony in New Hampshire at another truck show and he said, "If I ever have a truck show I need your truck there."
Vann Brown: Tony's grown his show into one of the biggest truck shows and music festival, and this is a non-judged truck show. One of the few that you're going to go to where it's not about the trophies it's about the camaraderie.
Bryant Mann: Great people, great atmosphere. You don't have any of the stuff that goes along with the big time shows it's more it's more of a personable show.
Steven Myers: You meet a lot of neat people out here, and not only be lifelong friends but be family. That's what we need more out here is more family.
