X-RATED

A ’59 Apache That’s Naughty by Nature

- JOHN MATA JR.

THEY SAY THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS. Well, if that’s the case, then allow us to introduce you to Satan himself—well, in truck form. Rich Grubert has painstakingly made every effort to make his ’59 Chevy Apache unlike any other you’ve seen before, and to do that, he’s elevated what’s to be expected from a custom classic truck. There is a lot hiding beneath the surface here, and the deeper you look, you’re guaranteed not to see it all at first, second or even sixth glance.

Being a ritualistic huntsman by nature, Rich is quite fond of scouring the outlying realms beyond for perfectly sun scorched truck parts needed to get his current project closer to finished.

“From junkyards to backyards, there was not a location that we did not pursue in search of the patina paradise,” he says. “The journey did finally end though after two years of stumbling upon what would be soon be transformed into my X-Rated Apache.”

While Rich locked down the truck and all the panels he’d need to bolt a complete pickup together, it would be another two years down the line before anything really got cooking.

“I was waiting for the ever-elusive ideas/concepts to surface before making any big moves,” he admits. “In that time, however, I reached out to my partners Driven Speed Shop and Phoenix Hot Rod Company to start developing what it is we could make out of this thing.”