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KRUZIN KUSTOMS IN THE BUILD

TRICK ’37

hen your son runs his own fabrication shop, you can rest assured that your personal projects will feature some really trick engineering, and that is most certainly the case with Dave Peterson’s ’37 Ford pickup truck. The work began with the body, which started life as a ’37 sedan before being cut down into a pickup using a barrel-nose rear firewall. To get proportions correct, the roof has been sectioned, stretched, and chopped two inches. The work doesn’t stop there.

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