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With: Rae Champoux iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck Two Well we are still at it. It has taken a lot longer than we expected. The delays are many. Lets start with the run down of the last months work on truck two. The cool one. J Whos smart idea was it to […]
Continue ReadingWith: Rae Champoux iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck Two Scott Yach a.k.a. RockRat, from Rock 4X Fabrication, is definitely one of those people who you can tell Just do what you think will be functional and look cool. and have complete faith that the end result will be wicked! I had been […]
Continue Readingwith Bill Johnston Ranger Rick Rick Hall has been known as ‘Ranger Rick’ by the Suzuki community, and has been a well known face at Suzuki events all over the midwest for many years now. He has provided medical support for ZookiMelt ever since I first met him. His newest rig is a 96 4dr […]
Continue Readingwith Bill Johnston Rockin’ Rat Rod When planning a rig, you think of a few points that would make life so much easier. Like a low COG (center of gravity), a strong, integrated cage, big tires, a strong power plant and not much sheet metal to worry about… right? Blake Savage hit the […]
Continue ReadingIt’ll be a World Record! reported by Bill Johnston The World’s Record for the highest altitude driven to by car has just been beaten! On Saturday, the 21st of April 2007, two Chilean people beat the “Driving to the highest altitude by car” world record on the slopes of the Ojos del Salado volcano, […]
Continue ReadingWith: Rae Champoux iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck Two Well it has happened. We started the work on the tin top. We pulled the red tin top out of the garage, after we un-piled two years of stuff off it. You see, the tin top has its own story. We (Mitch […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman and assistance by my father-in-law,” Mr. Anonymous” Part 7: Project Near Completion More painting and finishing touches! Once the wheels got turning, everything just started to fall into place. The painting went much easier than anticipated, and also turned out pretty good (if I do say so myself) even though I was assisted […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman Part 5… Everything old is …. still old. So, here we go again! Last May I all but abandoned the work on the Killer Bee, using the poor excuses of buying an old house and doing repairs, changing jobs, etc. (Read more in this month’s “Welcome Back to Me” editorial) and because of […]
Continue ReadingA case study in tinkering run amok… by TD (Troy) Graham Part 4: Even *MORE* fun with mock-ups. Springage: Believe it or not, this proved to be one of the more perplexing parts of this perpetual pet project. It would be MUCH easier to properly select a spring rate on a […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman Part 6: Finally…. Visible Progress!!! Let the painting begin! After a brief trip to Prague early this month, I stepped right back in (no 9 month hiatus this time) and finished welding the cage in and began the long painting process. A lot of progress was made in a short amount of […]
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