Truckin’ – October 2019

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Inside the Build

Year/Make/Model: 1986 Mazda B2000

Owner and City/State: Jeff Giles; Greenville, South Carolina

Club Affiliation: Relaxed Atmosphere

CHASSIS:

Front Suspension: 1.5-inch drop spindles with flipped ball

joints, Firestone 2500 267C airbags

Rear Suspension: C-notch with four-link, Firestone 2500

267C airbags, Little Larry’s valves, stainless steel lines, two

Viair 444c black compressors, two 4-gallon Air Lift air tanks

DRIVETRAIN:

Engine: 2.0L, ’73 Vega GT carburetor, factory Vega air

cleaner, intake modified to fit, L4 polished aluminum radiator,

TIG-welded vacuum lines, all components painted

BODY/PAINT:

Stock floor body drop; Grabber Blue with pearl; Lesonal

base and clear painted by Gary Timms at King’s Kustomizing

in Easley, South Carolina; bodywork by Jeff Green; Mazda

Miata door handles; Toyota 4Runner bumper extended

to meet fenders; four-wheel-drive sheetmetal; Cadillac

taillights; shaved cowl; raised bed floor; smoothed B-pillars;

billet inserts in grille; airplane gas door; shaved firewall;

Grant Fabrication roll pan; shaved tailgate handle; relocated

tailgate handle to inside; Raptor spray-in bedliner color-

matched by Shon Reece

INTERIOR:

’93 B2200 bench seat and door panels, gray carpet and

headliner done by Three R Trim Shop, Budnik steering wheel,

APC white-face gauges in kilometers

Stereo: Kenwood Exelon shallow-mount head unit, Kenwood

Exelon five-channel amplifier, Kenwood eXcelon components

in custom kick panels, two Rockford Fosgate P2D4 8-inch

subwoofers

WHEELS & TIRES:

Wheels: 17x7; Boyd Coddington Sting Rays

Tires: 205/40R17; Nexen N’Fera SU1

Special Thanks: My wife, Brandi, and our daughter, Lindi;

Jeff Green; Gerald King; Travis Kay; Gary Timms; Brandon

Broom; King’s Kustomizing; and Reed’s Auto Parts