BIG DUMMY

OWNER: Frank Schettini VEHICLE: 1981 Chevy ENGINE: Chevy 454 cu.in. CARBURETION: 2 Predators atop a BDS 6-71 blower HORSEPOWER: 1,000 TRANSMISSION: Art Car TH400 RUNNING GEAR: 5 ton Rockwell military axles TIRES: 66X43X25 inch Goodyear Terras SUSPENSION: double Rancho leafs, and 4 RS7000 Rancho shocks on each corner. FEATURES: Shaved door handles, mirror mounts, fuel tank door, hood, and tail gate. Suicide doors, Bushwacker fender flairs, fiberglass bed cap, and roll cage. $50,000.00, 2,600 watt Pioneer stereo with 10 tweeters, 8 six inch midranges and 8 sixteen inch woofers, 8 power amps, a cassette deck and 6 disc CD player. Full raise body, 12 KC Daylighters and a 12,000 lb. Warn winch. COST TO BUILD: $85,000.00 for the truck, $135,000.00 with the stereo.

Frank Schettini sent me these 3 shots to build a model.

I took the first 2 pictures in Bloomsburg, Pa. 1994.

This is a model I built for Kirk Dabney using a Hammer Head model. COST TO BUILD: $21.oo TIME TO BUILD: 72 hours SCALE: 1/25 th Hand fabricated frame, body lift, bed cap made of plastic and bondo. I shaved all door handles and filled in the tailgate handle, hand made spoilers where the bumpers would be. I made the suspension with 8 sets of leaf springs. One set on top of the axle and one underneath. Completely hand painted.

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