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Tennesse 4 seater build up!! She is going to be BIG!!

Hell reading all that has me curious now.LOL , how many people work at your shop Mike ?

You guys knock stuff out quick, great work thumb.gif
 
bentandtwisted said:
We build all our own chassis, at this shop and at the Colorado store. Between the two of us we now have 8 different chassis to choice, three 48 inch 2 seaters, two 54 inch two seaters and a few different way to build a four seater like the one here. We are dealers for just about everthing between the two of us so we can give the customer about anything we wants. The customer on this built had his own motor, we build trannys at the colorado store, so we did the TH 400, I got the Stak. Customer had the axles and coilovers. We have all our own tabs and brackets cut, many to resale, some I have custom cut like the ones in this build. We buy time from a couple of different people for our cutting. We have our own bumpers and link brackets cut also. We use alot of PSC stuff but we do use others also. We also use turn Key for alot of our motors in build ups, but I jsut got tied into a deal here close that I will be offering Gen. 3 type motor for a steal, they are used but some as low as 1700 miles on them. We do alot of custom tube bending here, most of it is done by me but Grant has step up here alot the last few weeks. The phones rings here alot so I dont always have time to go in the back and walk them through it all. We set up most of our 4 links the same way, not like this four seater, so it makes it pretty easy to knock them out fast and we keep most tabs, brackets, heims and the like in stock so we dont have to wait on stuff if we have builds to do. We use alot of axle from Solid, Currie and a couple from Spyder Tracks, we set up all our own axles, gears, lockers and the like, pretty much a do it all shop, If I cant do it, I'll find someone who can and get it done. This four seater was built in Colorado by Jason at the Jimmys 4x4 store. We will have our new 54 inch 2 seat done here in a couple of weeks, if not sooner.
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I thought you guys were using Jimmy's chassis. But do you bend chassis just like them and still keep their name on it, or how does the deal work. I think it is great how some companies are coming together in the off road world. The more we can work together the faster the sport will grow.
 
Woodlee said:
I thought you guys were using Jimmy's chassis. But do you bend chassis just like them and still keep their name on it, or how does the deal work. I think it is great how some companies are coming together in the off road world. The more we can work together the faster the sport will grow.
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I agree its cool to see calobarated efforts thumb.gif Jimmys, Solid MFG,and Mike that whole circle has me confused laughing1
 
I'll try to keep this simple and not go into our bus. stuff too much. Randy and Cottin own Jimmy's Outback 4x4 and Solid MFG. Just two different companys. Solid MFG. makes the chassis and Bent & Twisted 4x4 and Jimmy's Outback 4x4 are the only two dealers for this company, We just kinda bought into them. So we sell our chassis from only two locations in the US. If that makes it easy. We now build our own chassis here in Ar. The back east thing is different than out west and we saw a need for different chassis, so we are now building a new 54 inch chassis, a new single seater and now our own four seater chassis, along with still being a dealer for the Solid MFG. chassis, wow, did that make anyone :spin: Hope this helps some what. The big think it helps is buying power, with all of us buying product from other compines it gets us the best price we can get on that product, thus saves the customer money, we can sell for cheaper. All of you know it takes along time to get bought into some compines, so with two shops it just makes it faster for all of us.
 
That is awsome business work. It does help for sure on the buying power and if you get stumped on a problem then more than likley you can find some one to help you out. Great job guys.
 
bentandtwisted said:
Here a couple with tires on it :eek:
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Looks sick... I love big rigs like that. 8)
 
Randy and I talk almost every day about stuff, what we want to change on the chassis, if anything, products we should get, what customers are asking for, we yell at each other too, not really but you have to do all kinds of things to try and stay on top of the game, things change daily in this sport.
 
bentandtwisted said:
things change daily in this sport.
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I'd imagine fuel prices don't help any. I'd have ALOT more money to blow on cool wheelin' parts if fuel was back where it was 3 years ago :eek:
 
MUCHADO said:
I'd imagine fuel prices don't help any. I'd have ALOT more money to blow on cool wheelin' parts if fuel was back where it was 3 years ago :eek:
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Yeah, no kidding. I can remember a buddy that had a diesel truck way back and he used to laugh at all of us with gas burners cause diesel was so much cheaper. And I can remember in the late 90's paying 97 cents a gallon for gas.
 
bigsilly said:
Yeah, no kidding. I can remember a buddy that had a diesel truck way back and he used to laugh at all of us with gas burners cause diesel was so much cheaper. And I can remember in the late 90's paying 97 cents a gallon for gas.
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I remember that too, I paid $0.89 once in Jackson... looking at $3.14 and up now
 
$4 a gallon in a diesel chuggin' excursion is takin' it's toll on me!! Now I know why Greg sold the X to me and bought an older 12V cummins... nearly twice the MPG :eek:
 
MUCHADO said:
$4 a gallon in a diesel chuggin' excursion is takin' it's toll on me!! Now I know why Greg sold the X to me and bought an older 12V cummins... nearly twice the MPG :eek:
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$3.77 a gallon here today at the Flying J
 
I have paid $4.01 for diesel. :eek:

Back to the program. Mike whats thing thing going to weigh in at one in full dress?
 

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