Meet the Ohio Farmer With a Sick Fleet of 6×6 Chevy Trucks

Not every man is like Bruce Bishop. That’s because most people see 6×6 pickups as a novelty instead of suitable everyday vehicles, but here we are. The Ohio farmer currently owns four Chevrolets with three axles apiece, and as he tells me, he’s daily driven one or another since 1997.

It started with a 1985 Chevy, which he added an extra driven axle to after a couple of years of ownership. Not many people were doing it back then, whereas now it’s a go-to for tuners that want to sell 6×6 trucks for supercar money. You can see mentions of Bishop’s Squarebody pickup in forum threads from the 2000s, and he still has it after more than two decades. It rocks a 535-cubic-inch big-block V8 with 4.10 gears and a pair of Detroit lockers, in case you were curious… read more >

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