Hey, looks like some guy built one similar to yours. I'll have to get the issue and see how far the similarities go.
Congrats on making the cover. As someone who has read 4wor for years that is cool. Come to think of it Metcalf and his flatfender were in a mag last month too. Cool being around all you celebrities, at least virtually. Again, that is bucket list cool, congrats.
I got mine in the mail yesterday and had a chance to read the article. Very cool to get a magazine feature. They definitely took the overland point of view in the article (not the cheap truck p.o.v.)/ Your truck has always been one of my favorite builds on ExPo.
Thanks! The magazine showed up yesterday in the mail and I went by Wal-Mart and wiped them out while the lady was stocking them this morning. It really is a cool bucket list thing to have a project vehicle featured in a globally recognized magazine, especially for a truck nerd like me.
AND today this showed up! While the plaque is not free I was more than happy to pay for something like this.
Funny story….. my oldest brother bought me subscriptions to FOUR WHEELER and Peterson's 4 Wheel & Off-Road clear back when I was in elementary school in the early 80's because he was tired of me stealing his magazines. I've maintained subscriptions to both magazines every since and the bad thing is I still have ALL of them, and a lot of his from the early to mid 70's. Some of those magazines are now defunct. The bad thing about keeping all of them is they take up a lot of space and are heavy to deal with if you ever have to move. Many times I've had to justify keeping all these boxes of old magazines to the wife. Back in the day the Westcott's square body GM Turtle truck was my all-time favorite where I wanted to have something like that. My K10 is loosely modeled after their old Turtle truck. That said, it is really a neat deal for a truck nerd like me to get a feature after being a reader for 30 years.
The other really neat and somewhat surprising thing was learn how down to earth and flat out nice Rick Pewe, Fred Williams, and Jay Kopycincki were to hang out with. I always figured the magazine type guys would be pretty stuffy and arrogant folks like some other periodical editors in this 4x4 genre. Those 3 guys are not any different than any of us, which was cool to learn.
The photoshoot actually ran over two years but they were not happy with any of the shots from 2013 as there was too much clutter in the back ground to make a nice feature so I was told. In the actual magazine feature they ended up using all photos from the 2014 photoshoot which turned out great, although the only disappointing thing is they did not use any of the action shots from 2013 that Rick Pewe shot where we were crawling through a big hole at the Overland Expo. I was hoping they would at least find one usable photo with it crawling through the hole but I am certainly not complaining with the final feature. Turned out great!
These are some of the ones I that would have been nice to see in the feature as well.
Truck Camper Magazine shot some video during some of the photoshoot in 2013. The video is a bit chopped up but still fun to watch.
Nick and his awesome Cummins powered '72 Super Suburban also got a photoshoot in 2013. Hopefully we'll see his rig in there sometime in the near future. I was really hopping they would have both been in the same issue.
