Japanese big rig art
Snapped in Aichi, Japan, at a Truck Show for kids, this photo by Roger Snider captures a customized refrigerated delivery truck with around $100,000 worth of artistic enhancements. According to Snider, on this day, some ‘300 of these Art Trucks from various truck clubs showed up to help fund-raise for less fortunate kids’.
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