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Article: MONSTER PICKUP TRANSFORMS OUR PERCEPTION OF BIG.(Monroe Truck Equipment Inc.)(Brief article)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- August 13, 2007
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Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
If you absolutely must have the biggest truck on your block, and money is no object, Ironhide ($81,062) is your truck. Forget Hummer H1s, heavy-duty pickups and even small dump trucks-this pickup based on a GMC Topkick C4500 chassis-cab outsizes them all.
Built by Monroe Truck Equipment, Ironhide takes on the persona-if not the actual transmutation ability-of the Autobot pickup of the same name in the Transformers movie now in theaters. The truck boasts the same tough appearance as the movie character, including 20-inch, black-painted aluminum wheels (fitted with ginormous 40-inch tires), chrome big-rig-style vertical exhaust stacks, ...
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