A few years ago, if you wanted a Peterbilt pickup, you needed a lot of fabrication skills and loads of time. The finished conversions were really popular, but not everyone can take on a project of that magnitude which means Bob Suffern of Nashville, Tennessee is the man you want to see. His company, Lil Big Rigs, can set you up with a body kit to convert your long bed extended … [Read more...]
Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Navistar Study Aerodynamics for Fuel Efficiency
There's a lot of work going on these days to increase fuel efficiency, but most folks tend to think more about cars or light trucks, but think instead about the amount of fuel burned by the big rigs and you'll realize the benefits of making them more efficient. Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Navistar are putting the 18 wheelers in a wind tunnel to test various methods of … [Read more...]
Ford F350 Peterbilt Pickup Truck
A little while back we wrote about a Dodge Peterbilt pickup conversion. It was pretty impressive. Little did we know at the time that someone else was working on another Peterbilt pickup, this time based on a Ford frame. As impressive as the Dodge based pickup was, this one is a step up. Lynn Mullinax of Albertville, Alabama had done all this before, building a … [Read more...]
Dodge Ram Peterbilt Pickup Truck
In what has to be the ultimate truck body kit, Greg Severt of Jacksonville, Florida took a brand new 2005 Dodge Ram 3500 Pickup, removed the original bodywork and then mated the Dodge chassis with a cab and tilt front end from a '94 Peterbilt plus a bed designed for a '53 Chevy. Power comes from the original Cummins turbodiesel and it retains the stock four-wheel drive. As … [Read more...]
APE Wraps – vehicle wraps replace custom paint
Ever notice the elaborate paint jobs on race vehicles and custom trucks? You can only imagine the hours and hours of labor a highly skilled custom painter put into it, laying out the elaborate design and building it up little by little until it was finished, ... that's how they did it right? Maybe, maybe not. It might not be paint, it could be a vehicle wrap, the kind that's … [Read more...]