Shannon Te Huia wanted a vehicle to help promote his Blue Blooded American Bully Kennel. The brief was simple: it needed to be tough, it needed to be something everyone would remember, and, most importantly, it needed to be American.
Sitting at home with time to burn during New Zealand’s Covid lockdowns, Shannon started looking online for a suitable vehicle. He found a New Zealand-new ’48 Chevrolet Thriftmaster with the steering wheel on the correct side of the truck for New Zealand’s roads.
The deceased estate truck was originally bought by Corey Jorgensen of CJ Customs with the intention to build a ‘patina truck’. However, Shannon says, “I’m not about that,” and he wanted to take it in a whole different direction. Corey had put a fair bit of work into the truck but decided to put the unfinished project up for sale, and Shannon quickly decided
