re: Anyone have a spare set of truck nuts they want to part with?

As an aside, googling that image I noticed that apparently "truck nuts" has its own wikipedia page. Who knew there was so much to learn about truck nuts?

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The truck nuts phenomenon existed in small numbers in custom-made form beginning in the 1980s. The earliest known commercial store-bought truck nuts appeared in the late 1990s but remained a limited phenomenon.[3] However sometime in the mid to late 2000s, Truck Nuts exploded, becoming well known throughout society even featuring on national television shows.[3]

A number of people claim to have invented the truck nuts industry (i.e. plastic store-bought truck nuts). David Ham (alias Bozzy Willis), owner of YourNutz.com, said he saw a pair of custom nuts at a rally in the 1980s, then in 1996 began manufacturing and selling plastic nuts commercially. John D. Sallers, owner of BullsBalls.com, says he was out 4x4'ing when someone yelled "Go Ernie, show'em you got balls!" and with that he came up with the idea and began selling them in 1999. The two men sold Truck Nuts through the late 90s and 2000s, competing both in the market and in private exchanging angry phone calls and emails. This conflict escalated into PR wars, social media conflicts, posts on review sites, blog attack posts and finally leading to legal cease and desist orders.[3] Vice News called it the 'Great Truck Nuts War'.[3]

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