Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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CUSTOM RIGS 44 | Overdrive | June 2016 CADILLAC + CUSTOMIZED INTERNATIONAL EAGLE = The Game Changer Z ebie Daniel's "The Game Changer" has all the class of his nickname – "Cadillac" – and all the spunk of a one-of-a-kind customized truck. "I fi gured it's time we brought something dif- ferent to the equation," Daniel said last August at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. "That's why I call it The Game Changer." He entered his 1998 International 9800 Eagle in Overdrive's Pride & Pol- ish at the 2015 GATS. It placed second in Bobtail, First Show. Daniel says his nick- name originated when he was about to become an owner-operator. "My family has this thing, when you become your own businessman, you need your own CB handle," he said, recall- ing a time when he and a friend were discussing possible names. "He liked 'Cadillac Man.' He said 'You always drive Cadil- lacs. You're on your fourth Cadillac already.' So that's how Cadillac Man got started. It rings like a bell with all the customers I ser- vice with this company." Daniel is especially proud of the truck's colors: "Corvette Day- tona Sunrise Orange, against metallic gray." The interior work – fl oor, ceiling and seats – was done by Big Truck Paint and Body of Houston. The rig has several spe- cial touches: suicide doors, a rear window taken from a pickup truck, an ornate steering wheel that says "98 Caddy" and bears the Cadillac emblem, and a fuel tank converted to storage, accessible via a hinged lid. See a video of Zebie Daniel and his 1998 International at the Custom Rigs playlist of youtube.com/OverdriveMag. Zebie Daniel of Tomball, Texas, hauls liquid oxygen for GenOx Transportation of Deer Park, Texas. BY MAX HEINE See a video of Zebie Custom Rigs playlist of youtube.com/OverdriveMag. This extra-tall shifter was made from an aluminum fence post in Zebie Daniel's yard.