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Busted Knuckles
BY PHIL GORDON
PHOTOGRAPHY: PHIL GORDON
DEATH TRAP
READY FOR THE APOCALYPSE
M
ovies
can oten impact our lives in a
creative and positive way. And that’s
exactly what happened to Ryan
Shippy of Kansas City, Missouri. “The
movie Mad Max was just released, and I wanted to go
see it,” Ryan tells Truckin. “I was fascinated with the
mayhem and madness these vehicles symbolized.”
Ryan had a couple of trucks at his house, but one in
particular became the focus of his motivation: a ’93
Chevy Blazer S-10.
Ryan decided to start by cutting the front
fender of; when his friends got wind of his idea, they
couldn’t understand his vision. “You’re trashing this
truck,” one friend said. But all their opinions started
to change the minute Ryan fabricated a custom
snowplow. The death plow, as he calls it, consists of
the hood and bumper being cut and welded together
into a sharp, aggressive look. The next step was busting
out all the windows and giving the cage efect.
- VOLUME 44, NO. 07, [24] MAY 17, 2018 -