Looks like Scott Chesney from Greer, NC should have parked his '64 C-10 next to our Finest Five winner Adam Strawn's Chevy to give interested buyers a good before-and-after view! | 
David and Judy Miller's '54 F-100 is a wonderful labor of love. David built the truck from the ground up at his home and took the time to use many unique early and late-model parts to create a distinctive F-100. | 
A Dodge Li'l Red Express like this '78 isn't a common sight these days, seeing as they were only produced for two years, totaling just over 7,000 trucks, with only 2,188 being made in 1978. |
Everyone should own a good-looking beater truck at least once in their life if not for its entirety, and Rob Seals' '72 Chevy from Tennessee is a perfect example. The shortbed wears most of its original garb including truck Rally wheels and has of course been lowered, but if you look carefully it looks like Rob swapped out the stock hood for an earlier '67-68 model. | 
North Carolina must be Dodge country because they seemed to be in numbers that rivaled the GM and Ford trucks at this year's show. John Kleto made an extended cab out of his '47 and ditched the flathead six for a 360 Mopar V-8 and a 727 trans. | 
Coming all the way from Ohio, Steve Shuler had fun driving his stout, 460-powered F-1. The '49 wears a cool gunmetal-gray paint job and matching interior, and sits nicely on a set of polished billet five spokes. |
Couldn't find a name on it, but power-parked inside the show was this Bumpside F-100 waiting for someone to take it home. The truck already had dropped 'beams, been lowered in the rear, power steering, power brakes, and a 302 V-8--not a bad start. | 
Here's one last Dodge for you, hey we gotta take 'em when we get 'em! This '55 model belongs to Lou Muller from Cherryville, NC. Besides having its body cleaned up and painted silver, the seemingly little truck has a 289 Ford and a three-speed under the stock two piece-hood. | 
While in North Carolina, I ventured 15 miles or so away from the track to Fatman Fabrications' headquarters for a long-awaited tour. Having known Brent, aka The Fat Man, and using his products for many years, (including much of the chassis components on my Bumpside Build-Off '68 F-100) it was cool to actually visit the shop to see where it all happens. |
If you own a Ford then you've most likely heard of Dennis Carpenter Reproductions, and it just so happened that their compound (for lack of a better word) was just a stones-throw from Lowes Motor Speedway. It was still raining so I stopped in...for a few hours! Dennis has built a huge reproduction facility and has more N.O.S. Ford parts than one can imagine, and to top it off, he even has a museum on the property full of vintage Ford cars, trucks, motorcycles, scooters, Ford tractors, automobilia, and much more. Definitely a must for anyone in the area--Ford lover or not! | | |