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GMC Top Kicks - By Ed Saunders


This pair of GMC Topkicks from Ed Saunders each started out as different models. Ed cut and sliced together the two different trucks. The red and white trucks were both dump trucks in their former lives. Ed first cut the red one behind the cab making two parts, a long rear section and a short front section. The white one was done just the opposite with long front frame with cab and a short rear frame with drive axles and fifth wheel. Ed added the short drive axle frame to the red cab and the long drive axle frame section to the white cab. The red one was then hooked to a scratchbuilt 3-axle drop deck lowboy trailer made from an underframe of a 42 foot moving van trailer with a Liebherr crawler loader on it. Ed then had a short wheelbase red GMC Topkick tractor and a long wheel base white GMC Topkick for utility use.

Posted November 4, 2004