{"id":3396,"date":"2013-06-01T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2013-06-01T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:08:26","slug":"a-tribute-to-smokey-and-the-bandit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2013\/06\/old-time-trucks\/a-tribute-to-smokey-and-the-bandit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute To Smokey And The Bandit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JuneOTTpic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3399\" alt=\"JuneOTTpic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JuneOTTpic-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JuneOTTpic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JuneOTTpic-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JuneOTTpic-195x110.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JuneOTTpic.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Winston H. Wilkinson III of Alexandria, Virginia bought this 1977 Kenworth W900A in 2004 from a fellow in Atlantic, Virginia. The truck spent most of its working life running produce, but Winston retired it when he bought it and began restoring the truck \u2013 he finished in 2006. The Kenworth is powered by a 400 Cummins Big Cam II with a 13-speed transmission, has a Kenworth double bunk sleeper, and is equipped with Peterbilt air-ride suspension. A 1987 Great Dane reefer trailer, purchased in 2009, completes the combination. Because Winston\u2019s favorite movie is \u201cSmokey and the Bandit,\u201d he decided to restore the tractor-trailer as a tribute to it. A group of Trans-Am owners, one of whom is a graphic artist, did the artwork on the trailer. The truck is also a tribute to Jerry Reed, who played \u201cSnowman\u201d in the movie. Along with Charlie Daniels and others, Jerry was a strong supporter and fund-raiser for The Wounded Warrior Project. The trailer\u2019s interior displays artwork and photos in honor of the armed forces, along with a dummy load of Coors that folds out of the way when transporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston H. Wilkinson III of Alexandria, Virginia bought this 1977 Kenworth W900A in 2004 from a fellow in Atlantic, Virginia. The truck spent most of its working life running produce, but Winston retired it when he bought it and began restoring the truck \u2013 he finished in 2006. The Kenworth is powered by a 400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-old-time-trucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}