EHS students tell us about their trucks

story by Kelby Dressler ≫

Jack Penrose, Jr., found himself taking on the 4-week project rebuilding and rewiring his Cummins truck. He spent 48 hours, day and night, doing a motor swap. Unfortunately, two weeks later he flipped it on a paved road.

Some students just want more than to drive their vehicle, and many Eudora students find themselves improving, restoring and fixing up their vehicles – especially trucks.

To some it’s a big deal. Senior, Ty Pearson, agrees.
“For something that doesn’t really matter that much like to a lot of people, I get really into it, that’s really all I have interest in,” Pearson said.

And to many, it’s a way of life.

“For me, it’s a sickness it’s not a passion. It really is a lifestyle once you get into it because you learn so much about it and you just start buying trucks and working on them,” said Penrose. “After a while, everybody starts to make fun of you cause you got so many trucks and all that.”

In the senior and underclassmen parking lot here at EHS the very back row is considered what some might call “The Truck Row”. Few students agree to park back there and show off their trucks. As far as restoring may go, some only make minor changes and some take apart the truck completely to rebuild the whole thing.

Penrose is able to do what he loves in his shop that was passed down from his grandpa. He works on his trucks and occasionally a fellow Eudora student or two will drop by to do something to their truck, along with Jack’s 15 other vehicles he has collected over the years.

“I bought my first truck when I was 10 years old and I bought another one like a year later and now I have 15 different trucks,” Penrose said.

Even though some people don’t agree with how a truck should look on the outside, Ty cares a lot about the engine behind it and constantly focuses on that aspect of his truck.

“I mean everybody has their own vision of what they want to do, a lot of people disagree with what I do, I’m just like: ‘yeah it’s my truck I do what I want’,” said Pearson.