The HOT ROD that STARTED it all is for sale!!!

[Kilroy]

The truck formally known as Rudy's is for sale again...

Sorry Mike but if you want to see the auction...

Heres the innocuous link... (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6221&item=24437008 77)

[daign]

I'm buying it, driving it straight to tijuana, getting hookers painted on the doors and spilling tequila all over it.

-Dane

[Petejoe]

This guy had a 28,000 price tag on it when I went to the Pumpkin Run near Cincinnati. Hell you could build Three of them for that price. I liked the tequilla logo better. Still a cool looking truck.

[Rocky]

I'll buy it, sand it down to mostly bare steel and let it rust..call it El Rocky 36.

[=mike=]

I wonder how tough it was for a middle aged white guy , to drive around in that thing with a hitler youth dager as a cowel vent lever http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif . it is still a badass little truck regardless of the paintings there or not there .

[TV]

lets see,engine $8500,trans $700,frame$1500 cab and bed$1500 seats and misc.$650,wheels and tires $650.axel,rear end and running gear$1000.Fab and assembly $6000,Rad $250,Misc $500.Looks to me like If you payed more than $23500, unless you drive the wheels off of it for the next 4 years,you gona be way upside down.IMHO--TV http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif PS--I Love the truck

[young buck]

i have been drooling over this truck since i first seen it in a magazine..
petejoe and i looked over the thing for hours loving everything we saw.....my friend is starting a truck that will end up just like this great work of art..
petejoe and i will be there ever step of it and the best thing is that our budget ride will have less than 6000 in it......

[Elrod]

Damn! It's cool when vehicles come up for sale like this. Makes me wish I had gobs of money to throw around.

I like what the auction says...

[ QUOTE ]
I perfered to leave orginal, gives it more character.

[/ QUOTE ]

Then why did he take the hookers off the door????? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[seldom scene]

I heard his Mom made him change the whorehouse street art. Don't try to clone this truck. Create your own ideas, be original! What a concept.

[ray]

"The body is all orginal steel, for the most part is nice. I perfered to leave orginal, gives it more character"


um, kay.

not exactly untrue, but funny nonetheless.

character?

[justinm]

started what?

a bunch of shitbox copies of a shitbox truck?

big deal.

['Flyin' Dutchman']

There's a WCC sticker on the cowl.... Nice truck though...

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[zibo]

he might have gotten it if he left it original,
or restored it (with og graphics)
to RODDERS JOURNAL quality.
tp

[50mercfan]

it's a cool truck no doubt. but couldn't a guy build this thing for 5 or 6 grand? i guess flat motor stuff is high. but hell there's nothing else there.

[Donzie]

Man, that was short lived. First his ole lady (mom or wife) makes him paint over the too cool art work, now he's selling it. Glad I don't live in that household!

[Kilroy]

Psst... Justin....

It was a JOKE. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[LUKESTER]

Check out all that guys tools and stuff in that garage, I'll bet he can build and fix almost anything in there.........LUKESTER

[41sled]

We need a Pack Rat to steal.... Get it over here and we'll have a nice HAMB chop shop http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gifhttp://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Buick59]

............uh................started what?.............Im confused

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Petejoe, you couldnt build that truck with any amount of money

Justin, take your pickup, your fairlane, and your volvo and blow them out of your ass

Has anyone ever seen the bottom of that truck? Did anyone bother to look at the finished product in person? Rudy can work a circle around just about anyone on this board.

does anyone know what your fucking name is?

[hatch]

All the truck needs is black lacquer, red tuck and roll and a bunch of chrome and polish and it will be done....I'm not kidding, I think it would look great finished.

[justinm]

you forgot to call me a scooter fag bigmouth........

did i ever say i didn't like it?
i think it's bullshit that eveyone tried to copy it after it was in all the "cool" mags- all the while i hear stories about how the builder himself is making fun of all the corners he cut. i won't dispute his talents though- i've seen his work.

what are you defending anyway?

oh, and i just got the joke..........

[**DONOTDELETE**]

[ QUOTE ]
started what?

a bunch of shitbox copies of a shitbox truck?

big deal.



[/ QUOTE ]

that's fucking comedy you hack

There isnt a shitbox within 10 miles of that car unless he drives it to paso.

I'm a bigmouth? Check yourself son. Maybe try reading a few of my posts.

[choprods]

why would anyone want to buy a car that was"famous" in the first place.....thats like bein a lousy elvis impersonator..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Petejoe]

[ QUOTE ]
Petejoe, you couldnt build that truck with any amount of money....Has anyone ever seen the bottom of that truck? Did anyone bother to look at the finished product in person? Rudy can work a circle around just about anyone on this board.


[/ QUOTE ]
Your Making alot of assumptions Low and loud....
I have seen this truck in person and it is well put together.
Rudy no doubt can make anything he puts his mind too. I admire his work. But don't ever tell me what I can and can't do..............Jerk

[Luke Jivetalker]

blah blah fucking blah..............
you guys need to settle the fuck down, it's just a godamned hotrod, no reason to get all pissy with each other
Paul, you're right, Rudy could work circles around most anyone here, 'nuff said
Skip
PS- if you don't like my comments, GO FUCK YOURSELF!

PSS- if anyone doubts the quality of the work on the truck, I have a CD full of detailed shots showing every little detail, be happy to email em to you, just so that my good friend Rudy's name doesn't get dragged thru the shit!
once again, if you don't like it, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!

[hatch]

I agree chop...who gives a shit about owning something someone else created.

[Roothawg]

I am amazed at the same old tired topics that continually get the same old tired debates.

Give it a rest would ya..........

[Iceberg]

Pretty cool truck, however I would hate to try to fit my 6'1" fat assed body into it! I am tight fit in my stock cab......oh to be a little shit! It does need a coat of flat black w/ a red & white pleated interior. Some cool red & white lines would be also be great. It sure seems like a lot of dough!

[choprods]

Yeah Hatch- I think they want to achieve an "identity"/.or "claim to fame"/ [based on owning it]-Huh?why dont it occour to em to just set out to build a better mousetrap of their own? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gifwhy not be an original-Damn it!~

[hatch]

I can't think of anything WORSE than a line of dumbasses constantly asking me.."Isn't that Rudys old truck???"....I'd rather walk.

[Mojo]

I'd raise it up about 2", and paint it a dark, dark blue with black wheels. I'd love to see it finished too.. it's had it's fame as a beater, I think the next level should be clean and polished, so that the shape and workmanship has a chance to shine through...

[Terry]

I would buy it in a heartbeat no matter who owned it last! I have had wet dreams of that truck ever since I first saw it. That truck and Rocky's 33 is the reason I'm building mine.

Oh and I can't leave Butt R. outa that group too!

Really though if you can't tell, when I think of a rod I see a picture of that truck.

[Terry]

Damn, I'm a ass. I forgot Lukester's truck! Gives me that warm and fuzzy feelin' everytime!

[DrJ]

I looked at the Rudy truck as a really original work of art.
Rolling sculpture of the original calibre of an original Roth, but different obviously.
(I'm not saying it's like Roth's cars, I'm just saying it was an original style, like Roth's cars were an original style at the time)

As a work of art it was a stand out, but then something went dreadfully wrong.
The new "executor" of the art mutilated the work.
It's as if someone bought the Mona Lisa and painted over the homely woman's face with a continuation of the land/cityscape that is in the background.
Sure it would still be the canvas the Mona Lisa was painted on and it would still be the same background, but "Mona Lisa" would be gone, destroyed.
That's what happened when the doors got painted over on the truck.
If the guy was so henpecked that he wasn't "allowed" to have this famous truck as built, then he should have put it up for sale then and there, instead of mutilating it.
I think the only way to make that truck worth mor than the parts it's made of would be if someone could get Rudy to restore it to the way it was.
If that's possible.

[Django]

[quote if someone could get Rudy to restore it to the way it was.
If that's possible.


[/ QUOTE ]

Now THAT is freakin' hilarious. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I love that truck. But whomever buys it is screwed. It will forever be Rudy's truck in our little world and no amount of new owner updates will ever overcome that. I would bet that is at least a factor in why he is selling it.

[hatch]

I guess it wouldn't be so bad to have people asking me "Isn't that Doane Spencers old car?"....Lust is in the eye of the beholder. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Unkl Ian]

[ QUOTE ]
I would hate to try to fit my 6'1" fat assed body into it! I am tight fit in my stock cab......oh to be a little shit!

[/ QUOTE ]
I think I know why he's selling it. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gifhttp://www.autohammerart.com/Time%20Bandits/Moody1.jpg

[Unkl Ian]

If I'm not mistaken,the man's name is Steve Moody.
And since he paid for it;it's his,not yours.
He can do whatever he wants with it.
I'd rather see it painted,and driven,
than to have it hidden in some private collection like too many cool cars and bikes.

http://www.autohammerart.com/Time%20Bandits/Moody2.jpg
If it will make you feel better,build a Clone and paint Hookers on the doors.

[plan9]

[ QUOTE ]
blah blah fucking blah..............
you guys need to settle the fuck down, it's just a godamned hotrod, no reason to get all pissy with each other
Paul, you're right, Rudy could work circles around most anyone here, 'nuff said
Skip
PS- if you don't like my comments, GO FUCK YOURSELF!

PSS- if anyone doubts the quality of the work on the truck, I have a CD full of detailed shots showing every little detail, be happy to email em to you

[/ QUOTE ]

Luke... if you aint shittin about sending those pics, id like to get em http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Plan9, why bother, Petejoe can build you one for 9,300 bucks!
I'll take one too

[Curt Six]

[ QUOTE ]
why would anyone want to buy a car that was"famous" in the first place.....thats like bein a lousy elvis impersonator..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

Man, you're right. Kurt McCormick, Barry Mazza and the rest of those dorks are real jackasses for laying out the cash to buy and restore all those cars that were made famous by OTHER people.

Sure, none of us would buy that truck because we'd rather try to build our OWN piece of future hot rodding history. But I'm also happy to see that there are some people willing to lay down the scratch to keep a current piece of history in circulation so that 50 years down the road it's not turning up in a scrap yard like so many cars did.

Remember the Moonglow? Wouldn't it be cool if some Elvis impersonator found that before the crusher did?

By the way, I'd like to see those build pics of this truck, too.
Curt

[plan9]

[ QUOTE ]
Plan9, why bother, Petejoe can build you one for 9,300 bucks!
I'll take one too

[/ QUOTE ]

there is the CAHUILLA TAXI, then there is everything else....

never seen it up close... mark of a true craftsman is how effortless he/she can make something look... there is pure skill embedded in that HOT ROD.

[DrJ]

[ QUOTE ]
[quote if someone could get Rudy to restore it to the way it was.
If that's possible.


[/ QUOTE ]

Now THAT is freakin' hilarious. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I love that truck. But whomever buys it is screwed. It will forever be Rudy's truck in our little world and no amount of new owner updates will ever overcome that. I would bet that is at least a factor in why he is selling it.

[/ QUOTE ]

Django,
If you're going to quote me out of fucking context at least include the whole damn sentence!
Jeeze..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Django]

Sorry DrJ, but I didn't feel the need for people to reread the entire thing.

Maybe I should have elaborated more. It just struck me funny that an original truck cut up into a hot rod, should be "restored" back to it's original condition as a hot rod 2 years prior. People always bitch about the restorers, cars being too nice to cut up, etc, etc. I think the whole traditional movement is based on restoration if you really think about it. Recreating what was done years ago.

It's not worth getting bent about. No disrespect intended.

[PEDDRO]

You know what, guys?? WHO FREAKIN' CARES????!!!

GET LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fat Hack]

My brother-in-law was bidding on that truck the first time it cycled through e-bay, and the current owner out-bid him on it. He was so geeked about that heap, and I was like, "Yeah, whatever!".

Then, I got the chance to see the truck in person at Kulurepimp's shin-dig down in Indy, and managed to talk briefly to the current owner.

Seeing that rig in person made all the difference...it's a kick-ass rod no matter WHO owns it...and the guy driving it came off as a good guy. I was impressed with the overall look and some of the little details, and didn't even miss the chicks on the doors!

I'd lay a coat of color on that thing and drive the wheels off of it.

Rudy's truck??

Yeah, I can relate...I sold my Pontiac twice and to this day, locals still call it "my" car...even though last time I saw it, the car had been painted a different color, ran different wheels, and had a whole different drivetrain. I liked what the guy had done with it...and he was about three owners past my last tour of duty with the car!

"Rudy's" truck was a killer rod, and still is. Seeing it on your monitor doesn't do it justice...I had to see it up close and personal before I was impressed...but damn, it ROCKS!

[ESnacky6]

[ QUOTE ]
why would anyone want to buy a car that was"famous" in the first place.....thats like bein a lousy elvis impersonator.....

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't care man...
if I had the opportunity to buy, let's say,
the Hirohata Merc clone...
I'd be ALL over it...!! (if I could afford it that is..!!)

Not exactly the same type of comparison, but you get what I'm sayin'..??
Rudy's old truck was pretty 'neat'...saw it at Paso in person...
Lots of cool details on it, good 'craftsmanship' it seemed,
didn't look too 'thrown together' to me, like things were finished correctly...
but the whole 'fad' that seemed to follow kinda spoiled it for me...

just my 3 cents...

[Petejoe]

Low and loud, I don't like your attitude at all.
[ QUOTE ]
Petejoe can build you one for 9,300 bucks!


[/ QUOTE ]
I was not there when Rudy built that vehicle, Wish I was.
I would love to see the build pics of it. It was made from different junk yard pieces fit together in a very artistic crafted manor. I hope someday I too could build a piece of hot rod history. The coolest thing about it, in my eyes is the fact that it was fashioned with these parts and not from aftermarket crap. It doesn't take 29,000 to build a Mona Lisa....just paint, brush, canvass, and a vision. The reason this vehicle is demanding this price is because it's cutting edge and began the popularity of our type of rods.

[hatch]

Gotta disagree about a major point....these types of hot rods and lifestyle(retro) were popular in Europe before it hit the U.S.

[Missing Link]

My cat just fell in the toilet. But it managed to stay afloat via a nut-filled log...

[Petejoe]

Link, Thats how I bath my cat... Stick it in..lower lid.. and flush... Be sure to be out of the way when lifting lid.....

[Steve]

That truck is bitchin. You can say what you want about it but lownloud and lukshittalker are right rudy has more skills then most of the people on this board. saw that truck in person before I met rudy and couldn't keep my eyes off of it. Its just plain bitchin.

[Nick32vic]

Call me an idiot, but who is Rudy? Is he on the HAMB? The truck is really neat. Fill me in on who this "Rudy" is please. Thank you http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Nick

[Unkl Ian]

[ QUOTE ]
but who is Rudy?

[/ QUOTE ]
And what has he been doing since he sold his truck?

[Steve]

did you guys not see low n louds pictures from the orange county bbq post mia's roadster was one of his projects. plus a flathead caddy powered I believe it was a truck he was working on for someone last time I was there.

[Kulturepimp]

You know what I am tired of all this crap.. the guy is in his 609's, way cool.. His mother did not tell him shit, he dumped a shit load of money in the truck to make it "right" and road worthy. He drives the thing every fricken were, and at his age thats fucking cool... So fuck off with all the arm chair comments, and fucking drive your rods...

[Tman]

Who buys famous cars???????????? Well....me, I bought the Rocky 33, owned it for a bit an sold it to a pal that needed worse than I. Nobody in my little burg had a clue that the Famous Wayne Gosson had built this truck!!!Anywhooooo...

Everyone here is getting a little wound up over nothing. The cars and trucks that mena shit to us on this board are nothing more than blips on the radar to most car folk. They dont care.....they dont know..........that this was "RUDYS truck" It is a truck that looks like something they saw in some mag...was it Popular Hotrodding? I dunno Clem? This board and the floks that surround it do influence things more than most realize, but we are not the epicenter when it comes to the average "Lemmingrodder"tm

[AV8-Rider]

Hi Gentlemen

Please don't forget to debate weather it's trad enough.

This reminder should boost about a 30 reply's I guess.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Luke Jivetalker]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
but who is Rudy?

[/ QUOTE ]
And what has he been doing since he sold his truck?

[/ QUOTE ]

lesseeee, since the truck Rudy's built a bitchin little t bucket that Mike Zenor now owns, built a kick ass 29 roadster on 32 rails, done work on friend's cars, mine included, has started work on a really neat 32 roadster, oh yeah, did I mention he also has a full time job and 2 young sons to spend time with? Kulturepimp is right Steve Moody is a helluva guy, NOBODY told him to paint the doors on the truck NOBODY! He just felt that they weren't "him" he has driven the wheels off that little truck, and now it's time for him to build another car ( this is the first car he's ever bought, ever, in like 40 years of being a gearhead )
So good luck to him, and as I stated before, GO FUCK YOURSELF!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Plan 9, I tried to email you pics but Yahoo kicked it back for being too big http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[PFF]

[ QUOTE ]
started what?

a bunch of shitbox copies of a shitbox truck?

big deal.



[/ QUOTE ]Thanks, so where do you draw youre insperation from.

[alchemy]

Hey PFF, your truck has even better proportions than the "Rudy truck". You took a good idea and made it better. Just don't chop it stoopid low to "be like Rudy".

alchemy

[Iceberg]

You might even fit well enough in it to drive it PFF!

[justinm]

a bunch of assholes on the internet....
barring that- my french bulldog Peanut.

maybe i was wrong in calling it a shitbox.
the fact of the matter is- that truck is very visually stimulating- it stops alot of people in thier tracks before they've even decided whether they like it of not.
i don't understand why someone would want to copy it though. and there are alot of people who are.
shit- i love- LOVE the roach rod. that car is the shit- visually and practically- yes- i've drivin it on a number of occasions. i would't copy it though.... not exactally.
and i don't consider myself terribly creative.

it's gonna be hard for you guys that are building these z'd late 30s trucks to not have it compared with Rodriquezes...........
that would be a problem for me- maybe my insecurities????
do what you want
i'll set my own pace.

i still don't what Paul's problem is though.........

[**DONOTDELETE**]

think of your fellow man, lend him a helping hand and put a little love in your heart

[SamIyam]

All you have to do is look at the way Rudy dropped the cowl onto the motor, set the moto back into the firewall and then ingeniously used a Model 40 grille to match the hood reliefs in the cowl and you can see why that truck is head and shoulders above the rest...

And if you think current owner is capitalizing on the sale of a "famous" hot rod... wait 'till I whore the Roach Rod out... you guys haven't seen shit. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Sam.

[El Caballo]

I could only get through about half of this thread and I have concluded...

[plan9]

cool story lowNloud... i say again, that truck has skill/talent embedded in it.

if a hotrod fenderless truck is to be emulated, it should be the taxi

[mytlo56]

I'm with the horse (El Caballo) on this one folks.

[JamesG]

Man ya'll are rough. Dudes got a nice truck.

[Nads]

El Caballo, Richard's gay? Say it ain't so?

[Iceberg]

Somebody kill this thread for Christ sake! Maybe one of Richard's group hugs is in order for some of these sensitive pansies!

[G V Gordon]

Ok, My vote for the one that started it all. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[MoFoMOD]

I have only known Rudy for a lil while and he's the real deal... it doesnt matter what he builds, drives or sells the guy is a fucking genius and not caught up in all the bullshit of it all.

[Tim]

DUDE PFF whast are the specs on that truck!! the portportions look dead on


nice work, lets here more about it

tim

[ESnacky6]

[ QUOTE ]
On that advice, my dad gave a $50,000 (alot of money at the time) brand new Porsche to an 18 yr. old Rudy to go through.


[/ QUOTE ]

low-n-loud- Why would he have a 'brand new' car 'gone through'..?? just curious is all...

[Kilroy]

Dude I started it and I want it dead...

Kill my thread! I started as a way to kinda poke fun at the kids who think that Hot rodding began with Rudy and Shine and to say that the truck is for sale. But now it's TIRED. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Stock 911s are a mile off the ground. air conditioning on 80's Porsches are junk, EFI, and clutches only lasted him 15,000. 6 speed RUF gear box. etc.

Yeah, thanks phil.

[El Caballo]

Apparently 80's Porsches are shit. Fight the hype, yo!

Reminds me of an amusing anecdote:

I was going out to lunch with three other guys from my office and going out into the parking lot to pile into my Galaxie. Lo and behold there is a Tom Selleck wannabe leaning against his early 90's 911, looking all for the world like he was in a cigarette ad, leaning ever so nonchalently against his pride and joy waiting for the office strumpet to arrive. I walk by and say, "Nice Volkswagen." He pipes up and says, "It's not a Volkswagen, not with dual exhaust like that." Then I say, "Oh, is it a kit car then?" My buddies heard that and started howling with laughter. I get in the Galaxie and fire up the 390 and he says, "Nice Chevy."

Nah man, too fast to be a Chevy...

This guy is on the Accident Prevention Council for the project with me and he won't talk to me to this day.

Ha ha ha ha ha hahhhhh....

[plan9]

haha.. caballo... good read http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Rix2Six]

[ QUOTE ]
I agree chop...who gives a shit about owning something someone else created.

[/ QUOTE ]

Those that don't have the talent or means to make there own!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Sam F.]

man,..sure glad there was NO INTERNET back in the 40's & 50's...

...shit,from all the funny men and shit talkers here,there would probably be nothing around ....


no iskeridan knock-offs of his turtle decked T

no 36 roadsters chopped,lowered and re-grilled..Westergard style

no 49-51 chopped mercs,cuz Sam Barris ALREADY DID THAT!

no 56 chevys with seaweed flames(WATSON)

no ugly ass 58-59 t birds with custom paint(again WATSON)

no T buckets with shortend p/u beds

those are just a few off the top of my head,im sure you can name more,,but what im saying is that im SURE that some one in the past 60 or so years has THOUGHT of the idea of making one of these "late model" truck cabs into a hotrod,BUT Rudy was the first to pull it off sucessfully and make it bitchin. i saw the truck in person this summer and it was bad ass,its not "rough" at all,very refined..

when i look at my truck im building,it looks REAL rough compared to his,AND i DIDNT try to knock off his truck,actually at the time,i just somewhat finished dumping every other paycheck for the last 3 years into my 56(well,it SEEMED like it! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) and wanted something to build,,,i wanted a 32-34,...then figuered id SETTLE for a model A,and even those where out of my price range,,,,

so i had a chevy CAB donated to me and built around it,,i have less than 2G's in it,so if you want to call it a Rudy knock off ,thats cool,i'll take that as a compliment!