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OWNED BY MIKE SNODGRASS
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PHOTOS BY JERRY RIPLEY
MODELED BY TIFFANY B (MITTENS)
WRITTEN BY RICK LOXTON
hen one builds a rat rod, the
idea is usually to take a stock
body (or cab, in the case of a
W truck), and modify it x amount
to personalize it and make it different.
to personalize it and make it different.
When Mike Snodgrass got the cab, it
When Mike Snodgrass got the cab, it
was in a jillion pieces, as the previous
was in a jillion pieces, as the previous
owner had already started to chop
owner had already started to chop
and otherwise customize it. For most
and otherwise customize it. For most
people, that would have been a great
people, that would have been a great
advantage. Mike took a different
advantage. Mike took a different
approach with this 1948 White WA20-
approach with this 1948 White WA20-
series truck. He liked the stock look,
series truck. He liked the stock look,
so his fi rst order of business was
so his fi rst order of business was
reassembling the body back to its
reassembling the body back to its
stock confi guration, which also meant
stock confi guration, which also meant
refabricating the wooden skeleton on
refabricating the wooden skeleton on
which the body panels were hung.
which the body panels were hung.
This took two months of work out of
This took two months of work out of
the entire nine-month project.
the entire nine-month project.
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