June 2011 Cruise Night

While I was in Alaska on a fishing trip with my friend Steve Atherton from Texas, Joe took Thunderpig over to a local diner that hosts a cruise night every month.. Mikes One Man Band in Spanish Fork UT.

On the evening of June 22nd, I received the following text message that said: "You won hottest hot rod at SF cruise night!" I was thrilled. Way to go Thunderpig!

Here are a few of the pictures I was able to dig up from the event

Way to go Joe!!! Thanks for taking the time to go to the show. Thats one of my favorite awards.. Hottest Hot Rod.. Just sounds cool doesn't it?

Show and Tell day at work

Today was one of those days where I just couldn't resist the temptation to take the truck to work.. blue skies, a freshly polished paint job.. why not! :)

Zach and I agreed that today was the day.. We high fived, then he went to day care and I sped off to work.. whoohooo!

It was fun showing the truck off to all of my co-workers.. they've been hearing about the truck for a long time, so it was fun to finally show them it in person.

I even parked in the cool car section. That's my friend Sam's Porsche, I doubt he'll door ding Thunderpig.. but just to be safe I parked one parking space over.. heh heh.. ;-)

Art City Days 2011

This weekend we took Thunderpig to Springville Utah for the car show during Art City Days.

Before we headed over to the car show we walked downtown to check out the parade. The kids loved it.. candy, cars, and music.. awesome.
Thunderpig had a front row spot at the Art City Body Shop (the heart of the car show)

There were a lot of people at the show, this picture made me laugh, because I barely caught Logan as he zipped by in this photo..

The freshly painted head panel of the bed looked great and we received a lot of comments from spectators asking why we named it Thunderpig and how beautiful the truck turned out.

Apparently the judges agreed.. We won TWO trophies at the show! Best Truck 2011 and Best of Show 2011. We were really excited because these were Thunderpig's first awards and we received two from the same show. Pretty awesome. I owe it all to the hard work and amazing workmanship of my Dad and everyone from Horvath Hotrods as well as No Limit Engineering, and Doug Herbert Engines.. :)

More finishing touches

We wanted to give the truck a little more flair so we had Eric paint "Thunderpig" on the front bed panel, and the bowtie on the tailgate received a nice deep coat of red paint. The same tone that was used in the darker layer of flames on the truck. It's subtle but makes the bowtie pop out more when you look at it.

Here's a close up of the new airbrush work in the front panel of the bed.. Thunderpig!!!!

The panel was just sprayed and still needs a coat of clear on it before it can be reinstalled in the truck.

The tailgate (shown in the paint booth) now has a deeper shade of red on the bowtie which really makes it stand out better now.

Next up.. reassembly and bedwood! :-)