10-4 Magazine April 2024

10-4 Magazine / April 2024 67 for a long time. Troy and Todd decided to stop by Amy’s apartment for a visit. Todd said she was proud to show him her truck models. Troy owns and operates one of Amy’s favorite rigs – a beautiful International Transtar Brougham. She told us that Internationals are her favorite truck because they were the trucks that her family owned. Thank you, Todd, for sharing some of your pictures. Most of the models that Amy has built are beautifully displayed in her apartment on the walls and in 3-foot by 6-foot bookcases. Her favorite model of them all is her International Transtar 4300 Brougham. When Amy mentioned that she has got parts from other model builders, we asked if she knew our friend Christian Chapson from France and she said, “Yes! I’ve got parts from him.” Trucking really is a small world. We wrote about Christian and his custom truck models back in May 2022. Going to the Mid-America Truck Show and Walcott Truckers Jamboree are on her bucket list, and we hope that we can help with making both of those things happen. If everything goes right, Cara is planning on taking Amy up to the Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show this September in St Ignace, MI. We have been to that show twice, and it is a spectacular location. Hopefully, it will work out one day that her friend Troy can take her for a truck ride. Recently, Amy built a model for our friend Bill Kruger, and she has plans to build him another one soon, of one of his other trucks. She has also custom built a model for Renee Anderson, and she is excited to tackle John’s famous purple Kenworth truck and trailer to sit next to the one Christian built for him. Although she is unable to ever drive a truck, Amy Wright is driven to build them, and that is pretty cool. n