Longtime trucker-songwriter Tony Justice’s fourth annual Giant Vehicles and Guitars truck present and music pageant was held final weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, and Overdrive Video Editor Lawson Rudisill was readily available to seize every little thing occurring on the occasion.
The present featured upwards of 150 vans, Justice mentioned, and raised greater than $40,000 for the Susan G. Komen Breast Most cancers Basis.
„We had been up fairly good on truck depend,“ Justice mentioned, including that there have been additionally between 80 and 100 present automobiles on the occasion.
He famous that parking workers for Bristol Motor Speedway mentioned they estimated 10,000 attendees over the course of the weekend.
The present „has grown every year since we began,“ Justice mentioned. „We get higher at placing it on,“ and he expects the expansion to proceed into the fifth 12 months in 2026. Preserve tuned for extra on the small print of that occasion, he added.
Held at Bristol Motor Speedway for the primary time, the occasion introduced collectively a variety of working and show-ready vans from throughout the nation the times main into Memorial Day, Could 22-24. In case you missed it this 12 months or desire a nearer have a look at simply who and what rolled in, take a look at the next video, the place Rudisill captured a little bit of footage of each single rig standing up for the present.
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Whereas the present is non-judged, there’s one award handed out — a Youngsters‘ Alternative award chosen by youngsters in attendance on the present. The winner this 12 months was Tom Logano — father of three-time NASCAR Cup Sequence Champion Joey Logano — together with his 1971 Peterbilt 359 outfitted as a tow truck to haul one in all his son’s race automobiles.
The 2025 Giant Vehicles and Guitars Youngsters‘ Alternative winner — Tom Logano’s 1971 Peterbilt 359Lawson Rudisill
Preserve tuned to Overdrive within the coming weeks for extra protection from the 2025 Giant Vehicles and Guitars occasion.
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Bryant Mann: At this time we’re in Bristol, Tennessee, for Tony Justice’s Giant Vehicles and Guitars. I have been coming to Tony’s Present because the starting. Really I met Tony in New Hampshire at one other truck present and he mentioned, „If I ever have a truck present I want your truck there.“
Vann Brown: Tony’s grown his present into one of many largest truck exhibits and music pageant, and it is a non-judged truck present. One of many few that you’ll go to the place it is not in regards to the trophies it is in regards to the camaraderie.
Bryant Mann: Great folks, nice ambiance. You have no of the stuff that goes together with the large time exhibits it is extra it is extra of a personable present.
Steven Myers: You meet lots of neat folks out right here, and never solely be lifelong buddies however be household. That is what we’d like extra out right here is extra household.
