The Heroes Truck

Over five years, a claimed 50,000 man-hours—1200 for the airbrushed paint job alone—what once was a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado pickup is now this creation, dubbed the Heroes Truck. The rig is a rolling tribute to our service men and women, firefighters, and police, and it is unabashedly the most ’Murican thing we saw at SEMA this year. The body—which can hydraulically separate from the chromed-tube chassis—features painted scenes of troops throughout the ages fighting for our freedom, the September 11 terrorist attacks, bald eagles, ridiculously attractive and well-endowed female angels, and several U.S. Presidents. LCD screens festooned about the truck display images of heroes, though they’re located in some unexpected places. (The shock towers and front bumper, for example.) If you like your patriotism loud, proud, and absurdly high above the ground, and support U.S. heroes, this probably is the zenith of automotive manifestations of such feelings.