Past Overdrive's Pride & Polish champ "Wicked," a custom 2015 Peterbilt 389, and "Hardway," a 1988 379 heirloom of sorts for Salinas, California-based owner Ray Rodriquez, were but two stars of the show back in June 2022 in Merced, California. There, Rodriquez and his wife, Suzanne, were among other family and friends on hand for the 2nd annual A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show.
On a Western 48-foot step deck behind the Wicked 2015 389, the Rodriquez family also showed off Suzanne's 1959 restored convertible Chevy Impala and Ray's '48 Fleetline. Behind Hardway, among the trucks in which Ray Rodriquez got his start as an owner, a 1964 Impala rested on one among the fleet's flatbeds, a car bought for their son.
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Ray and Suzanne Rodriquez showed their two trucks and three antique cars at the 2022 A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show in Merced, California, last summer. In the video above, catch views of all five vehicles and hear about the custom stylings on each.
Ray Rodriquez said his "Wicked" 389 was strictly a show truck up until 2021, then he put it to work pulling flatbeds, step decks and RGNs hauling mostly heavy equipment.
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