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Photos: 2011 Readers' Rig Grand Champion

Dec. 9, 2011

Bill Warner Jr. spent five years restoring his 1989 Ford Aeromax LTL 9000 to a "like new condition," largely as a salute to his trucking roots and those of his father as they both started their trucking careers behind the wheel of similar models. The attention to detail he and son Cody paid to this old Ford -- which looks old no more -- is but one reason why they were named the "Grand Champion" of American Trucker's "Readers' Rig" section for 2011.

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