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You can’t talk about ‘Wild Torquey’ without covered by Luke elsewhere in these pages. What’s
talking about the bitchin’ trailer she’s pulling. Starting so amazing is that Luke is still a young guy with no
with a PJ Trailers 22’ tandem axle gooseneck with a formal automotive education, and literally couldn’t
hydraulic tilting deck, he ordered the trailer uncoated, change his own oil until he was 18. Granted, his
allowed it to rust and then coated it with a two-step father is a pro and served as a wonderful mentor
POR-15 coating process. This trailer has worked out over the years, but it takes a lot of dedication and
great with the car and hooks up exactly like it would determination to master the many skills needed to
in a truck, except that you can hook up without fabricate and entire vehicle by yourself in your own
having to lower your tailgate. It works well when shop. Plus, Luke learned tons of stuff by scouring
hauling around Luke’s ‘66 C10. the Internet, which is something anybody can do -
Luke’s talents are no stranger to these pages, even if your father isn’t a mechanical whiz.
as that C10 mentioned above was featured in Issue Sometimes things get in the way of our goals.
# 23. More recently, he’s been contributing to the But no matter what happens…if that goal is
magazine by sharing his wealth of knowledge important to you, you just have to make things work
about air ride systems in a series of tech articles. and persevere. It makes the achievement of that
In fact, most of the deep tech from this build is goal that much more satisfying in the end.

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