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WHERE TO FIND IT: WHERE TO FIND IT:
ISSUE #8 ISSUE #39
OWNER: BRETT OWNER: STEVE
KENDRICK ‘Big Nasty’ is the name LOURENCO
of this truck, and it’s
PHOTOGRAPHY: KEN quite appropriate. This PHOTOGRAPHY:
ADKINS ‘41 International may JERRY
have begun life as a
RIPLEY
lowly dump truck, but
look at it now. This was
the fi rst build of any
kind by owner Steve
Lourenco, who also
designed the crazy
cantilevered
rear suspension.

There’s a lot to love about
this ‘55 Anglia Thames
Panel. Most of all, it’s an
Anglia Thames Panel, which
is usually found on the other
side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Those that made their way
over here were normally
made into gassers, but
Old Smokey was born
somehow, this one escaped.
of a 1940 Dodge one-
It was also built outside in a
ton dump truck – if
gravel driveway and not in
that doesn’t scream
a garage so like the saying
TRUCK we don’t
goes, ‘where there’s a will,
know what does. And
there’s a way’. Something
to think, Frank built
else cool? The turboed 250-
this monster for a
inch Chevy six-banger turns
Welding Technologies
8.60’s in the eighth-mile
class. A+
drags. That translates to
mid-13’s in the quarter.
WHERE TO FIND IT:
ISSUE #18
OWNER: FRANK
MOHR
PHOTOGRAPHY:
DON
CARRICK

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