Local Rig Faces Top Truck Challenge

Truck manufacturers tend to choose rugged names for their pickups. There’s the Dodge Ram, the Toyota Tundra, the Jeep Gladiator – and then there’s the Volkswagen Rabbit. Not a name that inspires images of toughness. Spokane resident Matt Huit just may change that image. Readers of Four Wheeler magazine selected Huit and his 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit pickup to compete in the Top Truck Challenge next week in Hollister, Calif. The competition is in its 21st year, and Huit has followed it from the beginning. “It’s a huge honor to get to go,” he said/Cindy Hval, SR. More here. (Colin Mulvany SR photo: Matt Huit, in driver’s seat, and his pit crew, from left, Jared Harmer, Brian Ault and Allan Lundberg are shown with their 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit pickup)

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