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During the CB Craze, before and after, many many amps were built all over the US. In commercial assembly business's to garages, to kits. So there is a large amount of amps out there that were not so popular as others. A lot of the Ham Radio manufacturing companies, their engineers and technicians made amps at home, to put a few bucks in there pocket. So Folk Lore CB Radio history, who knows?
After seeing the insides I would call it a "Rough One-Sixty". With a pair of MRF-455s it should be good for about 160W peak output meaning it should be driven with fairly low power maybe less than a watt to give about 40w dead key at the output and it will then faithfully reproduce a properly adjusted radio with 100% modulation and reach 160W on voice peaks. Drive it with 4 or 5W dead key and it will probably put out just about full power and have zero room for the 4X increase in peak power during modulation.