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like that."
On its heels came one of the
more prominent and
longer-lasting trends: Lots of
chrome and stainless. "People
started going for the air horns
and the big six-inch stacks,"
Martin says.
Darian Stephens, who picked
up more Best of Shows in that
decade than any other Pride &
Polish competitor, remembers the
chrome generation well. He hung
plenty of chrome on his 1995
Freightliner Classic XL, taking
cues from the show cars of
the day.
"I was always a chrome person,"
Stephens says. "I like what [the
cars] did, but I think we ended
up getting to that level and
surpassing it," he says.
In the mid- to late '90s, lights
also exploded, Martin says.
Custom truck owners hung lights
wherever they could, with trailer
lights being a go-to for both show
and working truck owners.
Also popular in the mid- to late
'90s were striped paint jobs,
Martin says, like those that came
