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Old 02-26-2015, 05:46 PM   #5 (permalink)
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It is made of wood with a rubber skin on top. It has been on the truck for 3 months now and i love it.
If you can stand to do something non-stock looking to your pick-up, this is where I would start. There are plenty of other examples of aero-toppers on this site.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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