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Ultimate Class IV Topkick Pickup:

OCR

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And... speaking of trucks/pickups... has anybody ever seen this critter??

Ironhide-movievehicle.jpg

Here's the link... scroll way down to: Ultimate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_Topkick


On Edit: This probably belongs under a new thread, but I'm not sure how to "Edit" it into a new one... now that I've posted it.

Sorry about the high jack, changexlt... :eek:


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Thanks Dualie,

Looks good to me, at least from that angle.


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The Kodiak Top Kick truck that played Iron Hide in the movie transformers was designed and built between the company(Hasbro) and Monroe Truck Inc.(in monroe wisconsin). The cost to buy the road legal replica of Iron Hide was around $90,000. My wife handled a ton of calls the first few weeks after the movie with a ton of people wanting information on the truck, til they found out the actual cost. For the 2nd movie, hasbro just took the stuff that MTE had built and used on the other trucks. I still kick my wife for not driving it when she was given a chance.

http://www.monroetruck.com/Pdf/QuickQuotes/PU_4X4_IH_gen.pdf

GM has since chose to discontinue their med duty line of trucks, so get one while you can.

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The truck in the first post pulled in the local sled pulls at a church near my house in northeast ohio back in the middle of july. Cant remember what he pulled, 312ft maybe. I heard he drove up from florida to pull, his buddy lives out by me so I heard
 

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These trucks are so crazy!!!! I wonder, does anyone know how much it coses to have the rear wheels changed from dually to single.Thanks!
 

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its just rims and tires thats all... the axles are the same, as a dually. The tires are called super singles...
 

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Here is Vid form a guy that races his Kodiak there are several vids of his truck out there and its a bit fast nowadays Mid 8s IIRC

YouTube - Drag Video
 
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