Truck-Lite Trophy winners announced
Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Winners of the 2005 Truck-Lite Trophy, symbolic of the national championship of the National Association of Show Trucks (NAST), are:
First place, national champion — Pierre Cinq-Mars, Iron Bridge, Ontario, Canada
Second place, runner-up — Bo Trout, Tecumseh MI
Third place — Neil Finegan Jr, Litchfield MI
Cinq-Mars made showing his red 2002 Western Star a family affair. His wife, Kerry Lee, and sons Matthew and Mitchell attend as many shows as possible and help prepare the truck for each show. Cinq-Mars hauls wood products and industrial equipment and is leased to Muskoka Transport, Bracebridge, Ontario. His truck, the “Maple Leaf Pride,” is adorned with 313 Truck-Lite lamps, a mural of a maple leaf on the hood, and a Canadian lynx on each side.
Trout operates Bogie's Express, a small fleet transporting aviation fuels to small airports in the eastern United States. His truck is decorated as a tribute to military aviation and the armed forces. The 2005 Kenworth T2000 is muraled with a modern Navy F-14 Tomcat jet fighter on the driver's side and two World War II aircraft on the passenger's side, an Army Air Force P-51 Mustang, and a Navy/Marine Corps F4U Corsair.
Finegan's 1974 Peterbilt 352 cabover has just 720,000 actual miles and still has its original Cummins 350 engine. The truck, named “Tribal Dance,” is decorated with a mural of Native American themes on both sides and back of the bobtail.
