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CUSTOM RIGS Best in the West T hough the Great West Truck Show migrated to a new venue this year – the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas – it had no trouble wrangling up dozens of the most dazzling show trucks from around the country. The four Best of Show winners from the June 14-16 show also punched their tickets to compete in the national championship judg- ing round at The Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Aug. 23-25, where they'll square off against Best of Show winners from the previous four Pride & Polish shows for the title of National Champion. CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE Four Pride & Polish National Champions will be named this month at The Great American Trucking Show. Four more qualifiers will be named there, too, before the final judging round, but here are the current qualifiers. WORKING BOBTAIL Brent Greer 1996 Peterbilt 379; 2011 Charlotte Diesel Super Show Armando Burguan 2009 Peterbilt 389; 2011 Truckin' for Kids Ronald Huey 2010 International ProStar; 2012 75 Chrome Shop Show Best of Show, Jerad Wittwer 2006 Peterbilt 379; 2012 Great West Truck Show (Continued on next page) Limited-Mileage Bobtail The Millennium Yellow paint job on Michael Most's 1999 Freightliner Classic was inspired by a friend's Corvette. The M&M murals follow Most's nickname and initials. 68 | Overdrive | August 2012 Best of Show, Working Combo Ray Rodriguez of Salinas, Calif., brought his 1988 Peterbilt 379 and '03 Fontaine flatbed to Great West this year with a newly painted engine and repainted trailer. Bruce W. Smith Bruce W. Smith