Light Up the GMC Christmas Truck

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What happens when you take a 2WD GMC regular cab, an eight-foot truck bed and 3000 Christmas Lights and put em all together? You get a Christmas Truck. According to legend, Kris Marshall was hauling a generator and a few strands of Christmas lights to his church in a $50 used truck. He simply combined the two and The Christmas Truck was born.

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Marshall, who happens to be GMC truck salesman in Iowa, not only brings Christmas cheer to the residents of his neighborhood, but it also makes a great sales tool! He’s received a few tickets for illegal use of lights, and when Marshall Jr. goes to pick up a lady in the Christmas Truck it tends to be “a dealbreaker.”

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Here’s the lighting math: 50-70 strings with a mixture of 50 and 100 lights each, about 3,000 lights in all. They are the cheap $0.89 ones, though he’d like to add some to take pressure off the taxed generator.

Great find via Jalopnik

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