A blue and white paint job. An 8-track player and shag carpeting in the cockpit. Couches and an optional disco ball in the rear.

What sounds like the end result of a JoePa appearance on Pimp My Ride is actually an RV owned by brothers of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.

"It's a way to bring the party atmosphere, on wheels, from our house to anywhere we want," said Brian Fitzgerald (senior-turf grass management), co-owner of the RV.

Fitzgerald and fellow fraternity member Ryan Owsiany (senior-industrial engineering) purchased the 1973 Dodge Titan RV with a paltry 45,000 miles from eBay this past summer.

"Sophomore year, we got a golf cart and wrecked it within a month," Fitzgerald said. "After that it was like, 'What's the next thing we can buy?' One night we found it on eBay and got it for $1,150."

Fitzgerald and Owsiany are gearing up the party-on-wheels for the 1,100 mile-trip to New Year's Day's Outback Bowl in Tampa Bay, Fla.

After successfully scoring tickets through Penn State's lottery, seven Kappa Alpha fraternity members will attempt to make the trek down South.

"We are very worried, but it's nothing $1,000 cash and a credit card with no limit can't handle," Fitzgerald said.

Because of the RV, tailgating for this year's football season has been great, Owsiany said.

"We bring tables, the speakers from our house, everything," he said. "One of our brother's brother is a DJ, and we had him come with his equipment."

Since purchasing the RV, the duo have painted the entire exterior blue and white, tweaked the engine and replaced several other parts, totaling 30 hours of work and upping the total investment to more than $2,000, Owsiany said. This weekend, they plan to gut the entire interior and turn it into a Penn State worship center.

"We're gonna put blue Astroturf on the walls, blue and white everything on the inside, TVs, the works," Owsiany said. "But we're not touching the shag carpet up front. That's classic."

Fitzgerald and Owsiany will both graduate in the spring and already have plans to pass the torch.

"We want to carry on the legacy and sell it to someone else [when we graduate]," Fitzgerald said. "Maybe sell it on eBay or somewhere on campus."

And while the restoration project the two Kappa Alpha fraternity members are engaged in is a labor of love, the adventure to Tampa Bay is a mission and a chance to prove something to their fellow fraternity members.

"When we saw it person, it really set in how much work the RV needed," Fitzgerald said. "Now, we want to prove everyone else wrong that it can make it down to the Outback Bowl."