Custom Big Rigs

[apextrans]

I'm not sure why people do it on everyday road trucks, but in my situation, I put 2 feet in my frame when I speced the truck so I could put a full size car behind the cab over my drives & put a crewcab longbed truck above it, without pushing to far into the loading space on the trailer. It does help pull some weight off my steers when I'm loaded but I lose manuverabilty & legal lenght overall. There are some scales I BARELY fit on & some I don't with the fifth wheel slid all the way out. I see alot of cattle haulers with crazy wheelbasees & can't figure out way they do that .

 

[rubberfish]

I'm sure I'm missing something...what is it?

Me thinks they may be trying to compensate for something :Sly

 

[Deezle1]

Only you would think of that Bob!

Dom

 

[Mike]

Hmmmm, wonder if he needs another project..........!!!!!

I don't really want the ground affects.........just a long frame and a shiny paint job!

At one time I heard how much money Cotta invested in that little project and it was enough to blow your hair back. Remember this was a decade long project. I watched it go together bit by bit slowly day by day year by year.

I dont know if it is a project your average Joe could finance.

 

[Mike]

That's one talented friend you got there!!!

He is a master at metal work. If given the time and resources he would and could make all the new kids in the business today look silly. He can lay paint like nobodies business as well. Gene has been in the custom body business for nearly 40 years now. He gave up running a commercial body shop when everything went to insurance jobs and and you get "X" number of dollars and it takes "X" number of hours to put a car back on the road. He's one of the guys that does it because he loves it.

 

[Duke]

THAT'S the guy I want pimping my truck.

Damn, what a stud-bodyworker that buddy of your's is!!!

Thanks for sharing those pics, Mike.

 

[Freightrain]

"I dont know if it is a project your average Joe could finance."

NO doubt!!!! and I'm wayyyyyyyyy below average Joe!!!
Heck my "new" truck is 46 yrs old
Truck payments that are double my house payment is NOT what I need

I got to agree that most of the TV wonders are not as talented as the people like him. American Chump'rs........ (lets see, I'll weld these two pieces together then pay someone to do the bodywork, paint and then I'll bolt it together.... )

Yes, 350" wheelbase is insane for actually use, but sure looks
(no, I'm not trying to make up for something that I don't lack! ;p )

 

[jvencius]

He is a master at metal work. If given the time and resources he would and could make all the new kids in the business today look silly. He can lay paint like nobodies business as well. Gene has been in the custom body business for nearly 40 years now. He gave up running a commercial body shop when everything went to insurance jobs and and you get "X" number of dollars and it takes "X" number of hours to put a car back on the road. He's one of the guys that does it because he loves it.

Hmm--I might have to look him up when Maggie and I get down to WY this summer. I'd love to get the fender and tailgate badges pulled off of my truck but because they have those holes for the locating pins in the sheetmetal, I've been leery of doing it. If I could find a GOOD, old-school body guy (not like some of the knuckleheaded punks I've checked out up here) who would weld the holes closed (not Bondo them over)/repaint as needed and do good work, I might be willing to get that work done.

 

[Truckie]

Damn that yellow Mack is just simply sweet.

 

[Mike]

Hmm--I might have to look him up when Maggie and I get down to WY this summer. I'd love to get the fender and tailgate badges pulled off of my truck but because they have those holes for the locating pins in the sheetmetal, I've been leery of doing it. If I could find a GOOD, old-school body guy (not like some of the knuckleheaded punks I've checked out up here) who would weld the holes closed (not Bondo them over)/repaint as needed and do good work, I might be willing to get that work done.

You wont find him in Wyoming, (though he may be in Sturgis in Aug) he is from a sleepy little town in Northern California.

 

[jvencius]

You wont find him in Wyoming, (though he may be in Sturgis in Aug) he is from a sleepy little town in Northern California.

Oh, scratch that idea then. Besides, somebody that talented is probably WAAAAAAAAY out of my price range.

 

[Deezle1]

Hot rod Kenny

Dom

 

[Deezle1]

I found a couple in my little treasure trove of rigs

 

[Sbrem]

Hot rod Kenny

Dom

I don't really care for the low pro tires, but other then that that is a great looking truck

Stephen

 

[maniac]

Here ya go

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