30 10-4 Magazine / September 2025 truck to see. Painted in Mercedes white with IROC Camaro blue and Gunmetal grey stripes, this bad boy also has a KTA600 under the hood. The build was completed in 2016, and it made its first appearance that year in Louisville. The yellow and brown 1960 CJ923 narrow nose is powered by a Big Cam IV and was completed in 2018. It appeared for the first time in March at MATS and then came out again the following month at the 75 Chrome Shop truck show in Florida, where Chris Fiffie from Big Rig Videos and I had the opportunity to photograph it for the chrome shop’s calendar. Not to discredit the others, but in 2024, they brought out a showstopper that I heard so many people talking about and posting pictures of – a 1984 Kenworth W900B with a cool old school paint scheme in white with orange, grey and gold stripes. 2025 on the other hand brought something just as cool but even more unique. With how different this truck was, JR said he was unsure how it would be received. The white truck with dark red stripes is a 1958 Kenworth CJ923 they had lost interest in that was parked in the back of their shop. What you saw in their booth at MATS (2025) was this truck, fitted with a big block Chevy 632, stuffed under the butterfly hood. This cool swap came to be because JR and Dan are big into drag racing and thought it would be cool to build a race car hauler truck. What started out as a joke has turned into an annual gathering called the No Coast Large Cars Truck Show. The talk was always that cool trucks only came from the east coast and west coast, and even Facebook pages were started, so their idea (or joke) was to bring notice to the cool trucks that called the Midwest home. This began as the No Coast Large Cars “club” that increased in popularity.
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