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04-05-2011, 01:24 AM
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I like that slammed look in the first photo! My favorite big rig was always the old truck from the Dennis Weaver movie "Duel".
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04-05-2011, 01:46 AM
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Nice looking Marmon, you don't see many of those. We had one of the few Marmon dealerships up here back when I was in school. They only had two trucks. A aerodyne gold truck and a blue straight 60 inch sleeper. I rode with my father in the gold one on a test drive, it had a 425 CAT and was the first 15 speed my father ever drove. The only reason he never bought that truck was the gold color, it never really looked right. I remember one of the very few Dodge Bighorn's that were made I saw in the Petro truck stop in Elkton, Maryland, they only made something like 75 of those. I think my favorite truck still has to be my father's 79 White Road Commander cabover with a 290 Cummins and a 9 speed. That truck would go like a bat out of hell, although his last truck, a 2000 black Western Star that he beefed up to something like 675 hp was really something.
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Harley's and big rigs, American artwork!
Thanks for posting this. I always enjoy seeing the personalised
equipment when I'm scurrying around on the Interstate. TACC1
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04-05-2011, 12:26 PM
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Any old Detroit 2-strokers in that bunch?
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04-06-2011, 09:50 AM
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Great pics! I love looking at chrome and lights on other people's rigs, but I can't justify it on mine. It doesn't save any fuel, doesn't get the load there any faster, and I can spend that money on things I really need. Like guns and ammo. 
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04-06-2011, 01:55 PM
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I always enjoy looking but its amazing how much money these guys have in these rigs...some would say nuts
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04-06-2011, 11:01 PM
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I love that stuff, the build quality and attention to detail is amazing! Any pictures of the rig that won the NAST competition? I hear Eilen & Sons hauled a load from Minnesota to the show, cleaned up their rig, took top honors then hauled a load back home...
http://www.customrigsmag.com/files/2...dump-combo.jpg
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This is my father's latest, an International. Not quite as shiny as his last Western star, but a looker none the less.
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