I am Bruce Winter and i'm from Mountain View Arkansas and
my friend here this is Pugly I am with Pugly this truck allows us to be
with it
it's a 41 Ford cab over engine truck it's a
COE for short
this is the truck that my wife and I built in our garage
It was an eight-year project I was working full time
my opinion of the
the Hot Rod Reunion here is it's
amazing I mean it's got everything wrapped up in to
one single event you've got drag races going on you've got a car shows going
on
you've got vendors going on here you got all kinds of stuff going on here so
but this is our first time here and that is just
just absolutely amazing I don't know why well I know why we haven't done it
before we've always had conflicting dates
but this time fathers day
this one's for us that's why we're here
our whole thing about building this particular truck building Pugly
was that we could take travel long distance with it
said it was going to be comfortable the air
definitely had to work you don't travel into the south
with air that doesn't work a yeah
and so what we started with
was a cab actually it was two cabs
from a 41 Ford cab over engine truck
you have
what I did with it is I took the doghouse
that covered the engine took the dog house out of it
because as you can see I'm a pretty good size guy
and this was originally a pretty small man's truck it had a big dog house
that sat inside that covered the engine right through the center and then it had two
very small seats
so by taking the doghouse out
that was one way to give me some room the other
I was looking for a sleeper and this is a mid 60's Peterbilt sleeper
that I took 27 inches out in the middle of it
shoved it together and it had two very small doors
these doors were just so and so one of them was
for an escape door if you're in the sleeper
and there was a problem where you had to get out quick the other was a luggage
compartment so I took those out
found these doors and cut them into it now by doing that
what what happened is when I put the seats in
I could pick and let the seats go back into the sleeper a little bit
that gave me the leg room because I'm 6'2
it's a motorhome chassis 85 GM
P-thirty chassis
and it lends itself very very well to a project like this
because a P thirty motorhome has totally flat frame rails on it unlike most trucks
where it has a raise in the back so
to put air ride in this this has
air ride all the way around so and I in the back it's got a four
lengths
with rolling sleeve airbags back there so
we can take and raise or lower the ride height but more importantly is that
we do a lot of towing
put an 02 24-valve 59 Cummins in it
and it's got a 47RE Chrysler overdrive
with a triple lock torque converter also
for the train 70 issue here with the track lock it should the horsepower on this
I'm told that it should be putting out right close to 400
it did eat up a little bit of the bed but
I haul a Harley on the back also theres a shock back there for it
if we're hauling our 5th wheel other than that
the body's the paintwork
which is something that my wife and I have never done we've never done
body and paint work in our lives we built the whole truck her and I together in
our garage and it was a
it was a fun project sometimes frustrating but
we have in the last four years it's been on the road we put them honest 75,000 miles
on it
this truck has been just one of the most amazing trucks
we were in Gainesville at the Gator Nationals
and in April we were in the Bakersfield California
and now here it is Father's Day and we're in Bowling Green Kentucky