June 2016 Diesel Doodles
Six year old Erin Judd is the artist behind this doodle.
Six year old Erin Judd is the artist behind this doodle.
If you have been a subscriber to LargeCarMag in PRINT for a while, the name Tidey should be very familiar to you. But this may be your first time you are hearing the name Greg Tidey. Greg is the father of Chad and Chris Tidey, who are long time friends of LCM and whose Freightliners have graced our pages.
This year the theme of the 2015 Brooks Truck Show was Mack trucks and there were a lot of them at the show as well as a ton of other makes of trucks. The weather was great all weekend except for a bit of haze and smoke in the air that blew in from the forest fires from central Oregon and Washington.
Rich Stark’s coverage of the 2015 Brooks, Truck Show –
Alicia Larson went to the Eau Claire Big Rig Truck & Tractor Show held at the CVTC parking lot in Eau Claire Wisconsin on Aug 14th-16th 2015.
The 26th Annual Great Salt Lake Kidney Kamp Truck Show was held August 14th and 15th 2015 at Electric Park at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi Utah. The 2015 show was the biggest since its move to Thanksgiving Point with over 80 trucks in attendance and around 100 vehicles on display.
On July 24th-26th Alicia Larson made her way to the very cool town of Rantoul Illinois for the 8th annual Top Gun Largecar Shootout. Tom and Devita Reitz have done an amazing job making this one of the best show’s in the country.
Alicia Larson attended the 2015 Walcott Truckers Jamboree on July 9th-11th at Iowa 80 Truckstop and got these great images to share with all of you.
The 2015 Carlisle All Truck Nationals were held August 7th-9th at the Carlisle Fairgrounds in Carlisle Pennsylvania. If you’re into trucks, all trucks from big to small, this is the show for you!
Shane Becker sent us these pictures of his 1999 Peterbilt 379. As you can see a lot has been done to make Shane’s 379 such a head turner.
What a great lineup. Taken in the early 80’s at Servicetown in Feredericksburg Va.
Matthew L. Wigden, age 9.
Welcome to the August 2016 edition of LargeCarMag Online!
On September 19th we rolled up to Pension Road we were met with the longest line of trucks we have seen in years waiting to get in the gates at the US. Diesel Truckin Nationals held at Raceway Park in Englishtown New Jersey.
The 4th Annual Eastern Shore Large Cars Truck show was held September 12th 2015. The show, referred to by many as being “laid back”, was held at the Eastern Shore’s Caroline County 4-H Park located in Denton, Maryland.
For 16 years, Jim and Brenda Finn have put on one of the greatest weekends of the year for truck crazed people from all over the planet! Trucks start rolling in to the Dodge County Fairgrounds in Kasson, Minnesota as early as the Monday before the show and by Friday it’s packed with big rides!