Archive for January, 2006
Tuner 01 Caliper Covers
30 January 2006If you get a great set of wheels for your truck, you don’t want those old crusty brake calipers showing through and ruining the whole image. Tuner 01 has caliper covers in a variety of finishes, carbon fiber and several powder coated colors. You don’t have to upgrade your brake calipers just to make them [...]
Bushranger X-Jack
29 January 2006Do you sometimes head out into bad country where getting stuck is pretty much expected? Ever find yourself in sand, mud or snow where jacking your truck is almost impossible? The Bushranger X-Jack slides under your truck and attaches to the exhaust. It will lift 8800 pounds. The X-Jack won Best New Exterior Accessory award [...]
Cook’s BBQ Kitchen
28 January 2006Take the kitchen with you, it’s easy. Cook’s BBQ Kitchen has everything you need to cook for everyone wherever you go, hunting, fishing, camping, the beach, tailgating, if it’s food you want to cook, this is the outfit you need.
Each unit comes equipped with a 90,000 BTU BBQ unit, 3 Grill Boxes with lids, [...]
GM Futurliner goes for $4.1 million
21 January 2006That Futurliner we mentioned the other day just went for $4.1 million at Barrett Jackson. New record price.
Barrett Jackson truck results
19 January 2006A number of really great older trucks have been going across the block at pretty reasonable prices, all things considered. Here’s a few:
1960 El Camino $21,060.00
1957 GMC 1/2 Ton Stepside $50,220.00
1948 FORD F-4 1 Ton Dually $11,880.00
1960 FORD F-100 Stepside custom $27,540.00
1940 [...]
More Diesels from Chrysler
18 January 2006Dieter Zetsche, CEO of DaimlerChrysler AG, indicates there will be more diesels in Chrysler’s line up before long.
We are installing BlueTec (diesel technology) in the Jeep Grand Cherokee. How far we will stretch this technology in the Chrysler product lineup is not finally decided at this time. But quite definitely, DaimlerChrysler, including the different [...]
Saleen S331
17 January 2006Steve Saleen has built another high performance vehicle which debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show and this time it’s a truck. The S331 is based on the Ford F150 and comes in two flavors, regular and super. The normally aspirated version of the 5.4L 3 valve engine puts out 325 horsepower and 400 lb-ft [...]