MT- At last. OK, I'm waitingBruce: Along with the body drop, Art of Noise put an all-sheetmetal bed floor in my truck bed, shaved my door handles, hood squirters, cowl, third brake light, taillights, cab and bed seams, tailgate handle, gas door, antenna, frenched in the tag box through to where the taillight was, added Cadillac taillights, and added a Hagen gas filler door in the floor of the bed.
MT- Wow! Were there no mods on your truck before you rebuilt it? Sounds like you did everything at once.Bruce: The only mods it had before were shaved taillights, tailgate handle, and the Caddy lights in the roll pan. And it was Viridian Green Mica, the factory color I bought it with.
MT- Since we have a specific information column at the end of this, we'll hold the rest of your monstrous list of mods for that area, cool?Bruce: Cool. What other warped questions do you have for me?
MT- How long did it take you to rebuild your truck after you were all healed up and began to redo it?Bruce: It took five long weeks of sleepless nights to get it back to something I even wanted to look at again.
MT- Really? That's pretty quick.Bruce: Yeah, but that was also five weeks without my stereo. It sucked pretty bad listening to myself sing the greatest hits of the '90s.
MT- I don't want to even imagine that. It's a good thing you didn't have to build your truck from karaoke bar money, or you'd be rollin' with some diggity dope g-effects, g-wires, and a ghetto blaster rolling across the floor of your g-ride.Bruce: We were still turning the last few bolts on the truck the morning before we left for Slamfest in Tampa, Florida, in November of last year. We were cutting things a little close to get the truck to Tampa, believe me.
MT- And we've been trying to get your ride on film for most of the time since then. What did you think of the model we found for ya', bro? She's pretty slammin', huh?Bruce: Hell yeah. And if my fiance/other half Kathy's reading this - hon', she's nowhere near as hit-able as you, OK?
MT- Always good to cover yo azzzz! Check you out, with the relationship diaper on.Bruce: Dude, when does the verbal abuse end? I'll have to see my shrink after all this.
MT- You sure that's not the brain trauma talkin'?Bruce: Oh, hell no! Talk about kickin' a person when they're down. Too bad, can't hurt me now; I'm superman with a cover truck. I guess the cover comes at a price, huh?
MT- You don't even know. I hope the checking account is full.Bruce: Well, what else do you want to know? How else can you verbally beat me up me today?
MT- I'm sure I can find something. Let's see now, what was the most trying part of your whoppin' five-week-long buildup? Besides missing your stereo system?Bruce: Actually, it was the anticipation of getting back into the show scene, since I'd been out of action for so long. I couldn't wait to see how my newly revised truck would do against all of the trucks that were in the show scene these days. At the first show I went to, a couple of people who remembered the truck came to me and said, "Damn, dude!". That made me feel like the man, almost like Big John. I felt as though at least some of the pain and suffering I'd dealt with had been for a good reason.
MT- Bruce, I can honestly say that for all of the crap I've given you today, it's been great talking to you over the past four years. Someday, we gotta' meet for the first time. I'll buy you a beer...and a steak.Bruce: Yeah, dude, we'll hook up. Might be your jaw that gets hooked with a right, though! I'm not sure that the abuse is worth a steak. You better not cheap out and try buying me with a Mickey D's Value Meal.