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Overdrive
| August 2014
Low
Patrol
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"T
rucking's biggest fan," as Robb
Mariani calls himself, bought his
1974 Ford W9000 cabover in 2004
from a car lot owner in Smithville, Tenn. The
truck still had its original 290 Cummins and
Rockwell 3:73 rear end, which remain today,
and only 53,000 original miles.
It originally was bought by the state's high-
way patrol. After Mariani acquired the truck,
he featured it in Season 1 of his "American
Trucker" series on the Speed Channel. When
'American
Trucker' host
Robb Mariani's
rebuilt 1974 Ford
W9000 spent
early years owned
by state troopers
BY Todd dills
Frank Phipps built a new center console, and Mariani and
company revamped the interior in total with old-style Knodler
low-back seats and much, much more. The dash in Low Patrol
is "built from scratch," Mariani says. "We wanted to make a
metal dash that I could integrate my Cobra 8500 HD Pro into."
