This is a post rolled over from hardline.... Thought it should be posted here too.
Since Adam and Randy keep coming up in posts, and some good questions have been asked, I will elaborate. The deadline is what it is. Been working double time ever since the Jeep showed up. Now that I am so far into this build, I can see infinite things I could of done differently. All the work will do it's job. Too late to change plans, but just another great reason why this build is so critical looking towards what will come in the future. The Jeep is coming back after it's debut ride to have more work done.
When I was 16 or 17, docking boats and pumping gas, one of my friends showed me a photo in a magazine of Adam Woodlee doing a burnout in front of a painted wall.... Haha, heavyweights like Adam Woodlee, and Randy Slawson, are extremely well known. I guess I'm in a club of my own when it comes to living under their combined shadow. Living in that shadow, has been wicked awesome, and sometimes 'not fun. When it came time to break the chains, I didn't have any means of showing everyone what I took from the crazy adventure I had been on. Love em to death.... These 2 guys stand out in a crowd of people I have spent time with, and learned from. Living, and working with them day in and day out, has had a massive impact on my life. When a 23 year old knows he's ready to unleash everything he's got, but the world holds him back for a couple years - A shadow like that will make that him go bonkers!!!! haha maybe you've noticed.... Hell, most of my family wouldn't even believe me or my stories from burning up thousands and thousands of miles through the desert with these guys. When Josh offered up this equipment for a job, I basically went banana's, beyond comprehension....
I doubt there is a book to read on how to break chains from Randy Slawson and Adam Woodlee, but this one shot, hail mary attempt has proven to be one hell of a roller coaster ride. Can't wait to sit back one day and laugh at it.
There are a million Jeeps and they have been built in just about any way imaginable. Randy and Adam both have very different ways of seeing things and this build left me with the challenge of taking a JEEP and building something that neither one of them would of built. The way I saw it.... It would of been suicide from the beginning to play the copy cat game and say, hey, I can build the same stuff they do. Ya'll know I'm right too. Haven't heard one person say this looks like anyone's work. The only way to take this Jeep and show you that I can create something with my own mind, was to use some bold tactics and build something exciting that everyone will watch come together. Hopefully, now people can see that I'm not new to this game, and hopefully everyone has had some sort of fun watching this fiasco.
Josh is going to show up at the house tonight, while I am at work. We're going to try our best to get this thing on its way home at the end of this tough weekend.
Stay tuned, hopefully we can get some good pictures of it outside in the day light. He's got to get it home and install the new horsepower, haha