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Overdrive Extra
An iconic movie monolith gets a customizer’s makeover
Check out “Piss’d-Off Pete” creator Randy Grubb’s 2001 video metal-working spoof, “2014: A Metal Odyssey.”
March 25, 2014
Custom Rigs
New custom KW under way from Anthony Fischkelta
Anthony Fischkelta is looking toward Mid-America next month with his latest project truck, the 2014 Kenworth W900 with a 331-inch wheelbase.
February 20, 2014
Custom Rigs
A tour through Mike Manuel’s 1984 ‘Custombilt 359’
Manuel’s combo — with a 2003 Benson flatbed — showed at the 2013 Fitzgerald Truck Show and Overdrive’s Pride & Polish in Crossville, Tenn.
July 13, 2013
Custom Rigs
Sweet restoration: 1973 KW K100
Bill Bradford spent three years restoring the KW and a 1977 Great Dane reefer to top condition — catch a photo gallery with pictures front to back here.
October 8, 2012
Channel 19
Behold the Red Giant — Bryan Dax’s custom 1990 Diamond Reo
Just what is that motorcycle doing in front of Two Rivers, Wis.-based owner-operator Bryan Dax’s custom 1990 Diamond Reo “Red Giant?” When I visited with Dax this past week (you may recall his rig from my coverage of the Nashville Chrome & Class show last year) at the tail end of my tour through Minnesota […]
March 30, 2012
Channel 19
Got downtime in central Indy? ‘Steel Ponies’ on exhibit through Aug.
If you have or can schedule downtime in and around Indianapolis in the coming months, there’s a neat exhibit for motorcycle enthusiasts and others interested in the history and culture of two-wheeled transportation at the Eiteljorg Museum of the American Indians and Western Art at the White River State Park downtown — (317) 636-9378. On March […]
February 28, 2012
Channel 19
Visiting with Evel Knievel in N.C.
This morning I’m headed out to Brad Wike’s “Brad’s Classic Trucks” shop and home of his BPW Transport company, both of which have gotten the feature treatment on the Speed Channel’s American Trucker show, hosted by Robb Mariani. Mariani helped engineer part of the reason I’m headed to Wike’s shop: Wike’s doing a partial restoration […]
February 17, 2012
Channel 19
Scenes of Chrome & Class
That’s David Holbrook’s 1986 Peterbilt 359, winner of both Working Bobtail and People’s Choice awards in the second annual Chrome & Class Truck Show, held at the Rush Truck Center location in Smyrna, Tenn., on I-24 just southeast of Nashville. It was a much expanded show this year, with near double the number of entered […]
October 26, 2011
Channel 19
Hardage custom combo unit gets final fix
You might remember Jeff Hardage, owner of the J&C Investments small fleet, based in Garland, Texas, if you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to the news coming out of the Pride & Polish competitions at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas the past several years. Most recently, I wrote about Hardage’s son Eric’s 1963 […]
June 9, 2011
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