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Originally Posted by Chris Tobin
Tank's truck is a very nice rig, and most people wouldn't think it was self built!
As for driver, trucks we do feature them too, but most readers want to see the "dream truck" type of feature so they have something to build toward rather than just the same basic truck that is in their own driveway.
Chris
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Agreed... to a point. A dream to many of us is a form follows function truck. Most that we see in the magazines are just a whole lot of add on parts, a snazzy paint job and a whole lot of chrome. We're not stupid, and we know what will take real world abuse. We'll flip through the magazine on the rack, but we won't buy it unless there's a practical how-to article.
Perhaps just throw in one featured truck a month that goes above and beyond in creative engineering to perform a task. That's what trucks are all about. Tank's is obviously one such example. I spend more time studying a picture of a truck with an ingenious solution to tool storage than I do a truck with a pretty amp rack behind the seat. For example, I just about had a wreck the other day trying to get a second look at a custom welding bed some guy had constructed that had a charcoal grill embedded in the side of it.
To us, those guys with the purdy rigs with all the chrome are just posers, who don't use a truck for what it's built for.