Airbrushed murals on rigs aren’t nearly as common today as they were in decades past, but Wayne Smith and the team at Maryland-based Summer Breeze Farms brought just such a work of art to the 2026 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this year.
The 1967 Kenworth W925A featured in the video up top is the brainchild of truck owner Mark Cullison, Smith’s uncle -- “an Al Capone fan through and through,” Smith said. Smith works as a mechanic and fill-in driver for Summer Breeze, which provides roll-off, dump and other work in southern Maryland, and he helped bring his uncle’s vision to life.
The rig sits low and long with custom features all around.Photo courtesy of Summer Breeze Farms | Facebook
The rig started out as a single-axle, and Cullison and Smith bought it at auction. “My uncle had this idea of making it a gangster hauler, and it was kind of his theme,” Smith said. “We just took it at the shop and ran with it.”
Day or night, the truck stands out.Photos by Matt Cole unless otherwise noted
The project took the better part of five years, with work on the unit happening “when we got rainy days in the shop for the guys and weekends,” Smith added. “It’s been a slow process,” but when MATS rolled around this year, the team was “pretty happy with the way it turned out.”
When the team got to work on the build, they “started with stripping it down and adding a bunch of frame from the fuel tanks back,” Smith said. The original plan was to build a roll-back for it to hold a Capone car that Cullison also owns, but they “couldn’t get the body we wanted for the length, so we ended up putting the fifth wheel on it.”
The team then pulled out the 400 Big Cam Cummins and rebuilt it with some injector and fuel pump work and a big turbo, and painted it to match the pearl white and green theme of the rig.
After the cab was painted pearl white, Frederick, Maryland-based airbrush artist Chuck Buckler got to work depicting Capone and adding other gangster-style themes on the sleeper doors, the back of the cab, the fifth wheel cover and even under the hood.
Back of the cab
Sleeper doors
Fifth wheel cover
Under the hood
That airbrush work earned the truck a first-place trophy in the Antique Paint category in the PKY Truck Beauty Championship at MATS this year.
Smith said just about all the trucks of the Summer Breeze Farms team feature green, and this build is no different with the engine, deck/frame and fifth wheel.
Custom parts for a ’67 W925A are hard to come by, he added, so the team either custom-made or -modified near all of them, including W900L brackets and boxes. Smith noted that out of all the parts he bought for the truck, only two -- the grille and exhaust brackets -- fit without modification.
“Everything else, we either had to buy for something else and make it work, or have it made,” he said.
As impressive as the rig's exterior is, the interior steals the spotlight. Joe’s Superior Interiors in Waldorf, Maryland, “took the idea that we came up with and ran with it,” Smith said. The sleeper's decked out like a 1920s-era barroom, and the final product no doubt fits the vibe.
A chandelier, mirror on the back wall “give it that barroom scene,” Smith said.
That’s not to mention the Tommy guns mounted on the back wall, too.
Also, the bottles and barrels of whiskey on display.
The barroom feel of the sleeper really comes to life at night.
In the cab, the seats were pulled out and reupholstered to match the sleeper, and the dash panels were wrapped.
Owner Cullison’s Al Capone collection extends beyond just this truck. Smith noted his uncle also owns “an original Capone car,” and the plan is to build a matching trailer to haul the car out to auto shows and other events.
Keep tuned for that.
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Wayne Smith: He's an Al Capone fan through and through. So that was his vision, so he kind of picked what he wanted and we ran with it.
All right. My name’s Wayne Smith worked for Summer Breeze Farms.
Overdrive: What kind of work do you guys do?
Wayne Smith: We do roll-off business, dump truck, tractor-trailer.
Overdrive: Very unique truck sitting behind you. Tell me about it.
Wayne Smith: It’s a1967 925A. Started out as a single axle, little road tractor. My uncle had this idea of making it a gangster hauler, and it was kind of his theme, we just took it at the shop and ran with it. Been working on it for 4 or 5 years. Just work on it when we got rainy days in the shop for the guys and weekends when we ain't doing nothing.
So, took the motor out, had it rebuilt and painted that.
Overdrive: What's the model of the engine?
Wayne Smith: It's a 400 Big Cam. It's got some injector work. Fuel pump work with a big turbo. Ain't much on the old Cummins, throw a little bit of fuel on the old 400, you can get it to run pretty good.
Put a lot of modern-day truck parts on it because it was so hard to find parts for the year. We got W9L mirror brackets, W9L 40-inch boxes. He's crazy about the double-hump gangster fenders on the back, so a lot of our bills have those fenders or had those fenders.
Overdrive: Who did the airbrush work?
Wayne Smith: Chuck Buckler in Frederick, Maryland.
Overdrive: What did y'all do with the interior?
Wayne Smith: We took the interor to Joe's Upholstery in Waldorf, Maryland, and kind of told him what we were looking for. Once again, he took the idea that we come up with and ran with it and installed a pretty cool chandelier in there, and the mirror on the back wall gave it that barroom scene. Looks pretty good in there. Turned out good.
Overdrive: Yeah, I noticed the the Thompson's.
Wayne Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Yep. And, took the Bostrom ride stock low back seat, and he cut the black fabric off and redid them so they matched.
Overdrive: And then the, you know, the green frame to go with the, the pearl white. Was there a certain thought process behind that?
Wayne Smith: Nah, just anything done our way mostly is green. Green is king. King at the company. For the most part.
Overdrive: Was there anything that you ran into during the build process that was particularly challenging?
Wayne Smith: Everything. Everything. I bought two parts for this truck that fit on without any modification. One was the grille and two was the exhaust brackets. Kenworth was still able to get them. Everything else we had to buy for something else and make it work or have it made.
