Eye-Catching Cow Pickup

Eye-Catching Cow Pickup AG WORLD Ag World 20-3-21 "Everyplace I go people stop to look. Some even take photos of it with their family," says Bruce Sykes of Brookville, Penn., who decorated his white 1989 Mazda longbed pickup to look like a Holstein cow. He painted the pickup white, then covered it with contact paper and used a special tool to cut out openings. He then spray painted the pickup black and peeled off the rest of the contact paper, leaving the distinctive black and white pattern. The final step was to apply a clear gloss coat over the entire pickup for protection. A pair of steer horns bolts to the roof, pink mudflaps on back are cut into the shape of udders, and a black yarn tail hangs down from the tail-gate. Sykes also suspended a cowbell from the front grille, covered the interior with black-and-white fabric, and installed a cow horn. He even obtained vanity license plates that say "MOOART". "I'm an artist and my white pickup was just like a big empty canvas," says Sykes, an art teacher at a local high school. "I tell my kids to be creative, to be different. Every couple of years I use that philosophy by painting my pickup something different." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bruce Sykes, 60 Walnut St., Brookville, Penn. 15825 (ph 814 764-5111).

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