Reader's Rigs
8 CUSTOM RIGS Winter 2009 For an opportunity to see your rig appear on this page, submit the highest resolution, best quality beauty shot you have of your truck along with a few details about your ride. Just go to the Reader Truck Gallery page on www.customrigsmag.com and follow the directions. It's quick and easy. Lanier Norville SHOVELHEAD Shovelhead, a chromed out tri-axle heavy hauler, took home the award for Best of Show working bobtail at the 2008 Mid America Truck-ing Show. Warren Nyland of Martin, Mich., owns the1996 Kenworth W900L, which runs on a 550hp Cat and 13-speed transmission. READER RIGS READER RIGS Reader Rigs Reader Rigs GONE POSTAL Robert Ewing of Commerce City, Colo., acquired this former USPS truck in a local car auction, gave it a paint job, and named it Plum Postal. The renovations led to some comments about going overboard, Ewing says, so he renamed the truck Gone Postal. Modifications include Lakester-style exhaust pipes, a custom-built headache rack, exterior lights and lots of chrome. Vamanos Vamanos, meaning Let's go in Spanish, is a favorite saying of Hank Hall, the San Antonio, TX o wner of this 2004 Peterbilt 379. The Pete runs on a 600hp Cat an d an 18-speed Eaton Fuller. Cus -tomizations include custom logo s and 12-gauge mirror brackets , suicide doors, custom fenders, 8 -inch Lincoln stacks, a chopped sleeper cab and a jet-black pai nt job. The 98 Robert Benjamin of Harpursville, NY, took home the Rising Star award for a first-time bobtail at the 2009 Mid-America Trucking Show with this 1998 Peter-bilt 379. Benjamin converted the high top design into a flat top and installed the windshield plates shaded-side down, opposite of how they're usually installed, so when the sun reflects off the hood he doesn't get blinded. SWEET 378 Don and Rosemary Christenson of Edgewater, Colo., haul grav el in this 1996 Peterbilt 378 dump truck, powered by a 425hp Cat an d an 18-speed transmission. The Christensons chose a blue flame th eme and let their painter, John Pugh, go crazy with graphics. The C hris-tensons removed the truck's air horns, added LED cab lights, lo wered the mirrors, dropped the visor and removed the hood emblem s.