Truth be told there are always about a dozen vehicles you see at SEMA that are totally awesome, brilliantly done, and about as useful as a slotted spoon in a soup eating contest. This International Metro ice cream truck is one of them. I am in love with the thing. The paint and craftsmanship on the truck is beyond words and the stance is cool. It has an injected small block Chevy engine that basically sits right next to the driver and there is an untold amount of money into the truck. All this said, what the hell happens to a rig like this after the show is over, after it hits the local car show scene for a while, and after the shop or the owner looks around and says, “Well, that was fun.” Chances are it gets sold for pennies on the dollar to the next guy and ends up sitting in a collection or is parked in the corner of a furniture store or something. Again, it sounds like I am speaking ill of the Metro and I am not. It just seems that stuff like this has a shelf life and once it runs out, the thing really takes a nose dive in what it is worth to people.

As this thing was parked outside there was not any sort of information on the builder or the owner. We’d love to give those people props because the work is top shelf. We have never seen a Metro in the modern times bought as a project that was not half rotted to death. We’re thinking that there was untold hours of work put into the body before any of the actual hot rodding stuff happened.

The paint on the truck is absolutely awesome and that’s the takeaway for us. The finish on the Metro is just amazing and we loved spending some time looking at it. When you add in the small block with the FAST EZ-EFI stack injection, the MSD ignition, and what we’re assuming is an overdrive transmission, you can cruise it down the road and keep those pesky kids that’ll be chasing you at bay!

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