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In the magazine’s early years, trucks and models went hand in hand. BY LUCINDA COULTER As attractive as they were, the trucks that adorned the covers of Overdrive got upstaged by sexy models. The cheesecake photos also ran inside the magazine. In the early ’60s, truckers nomi- nated wives, relatives or trucking employees for the monthly Miss Overdrive. Later the magazine featured models as Date Masters. The occasional photos that posed these beauties in sleeper bunks were none too subtle for male readers traveling alone for days or weeks. After spicing up the magazine, some of the leggy sirens went on to notable careers. Lynda Wiesmeier modeled for Playboy in the early ’80s, near the time she was featured in Overdrive. She appeared in nearly a dozen movies during that decade. Lexie Brockway, Miss World 1973- truck brand that shared her surname. She later became an ordained minister and authored the 1999 book “What is spirit?” After Randall Publishing Co. bought the magazine in 1986, it focused the editorial mis- sion on owner-operator business topics. Mod- els were rarely used outside of advertising. Still, the Overdrive beauties are part of the memories – and collections – of many older Overdrive readers, such as Werner Enterprises driver Mike Jake Pupillo, who keeps his issues from the ’70s and ’80s. “I loved the girls and model trucks,” he says. FEBRUARY 2011 OVERDRIVE 35