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Deckin Around

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I’m so proud of these guys, 2 of my best friends I grew up with and what they have built from nothing. 110% self made. It’s “my fault” they got into off-road fab in our early 20’s. Check out their new shop tour video of their 3 companies under 1 roof, link below. Fab shop starts at 6min mark. After Covid, everything they used to outsource is all done in house now and the race shop is like nothing else in the off-road industry, anywhere. They just bought another 20 acres of property connecting to our existing in Johnson valley. I’m pretty excited to see what happens there.

 
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So impressive. I admire the ability to manage that chaos, they have to have some very talented folks working for them. When you have customers spending that amount of money everything has to be 100% dialed. The training and QC team must be as big as the production team!
 

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I’m so proud of these guys, 2 of my best friends I grew up with and what they have built from nothing. 110% self made. It’s “my fault” they got into off-road fab in our 20’s. Check out their new shop tour video of their 3 companies under 1 roof, link below. Fab shop starts at 6min mark. Everything they used to outsource is all done in house now and the race shop is like nothing else in the off-road industry, anywhere. They just bought another 20 acres of property connecting to our existing in Johnson valley. I’m pretty excited to see what happens there.

Wiping off the drool to keep it off the keyboard! very impressive
 

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Man, if I was wealthy I would 100% have something like that luxury prerunner.

Not sure how long they’ve been in that shop, but my buddy dropped his truck off at their place for a Baja kits mid travel system, carbon fiber front fenders, front and rear bumpers, and a few ither things a couple months ago. It looks bad ass and he’s saving for LT now.
 

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Excellent video thank you for sharing. Kinda weird but, when they were talking inside of the engineering office and said “this is where the arguments start“ that element of production is what Makes the term “Made in America” so great. these guys seem to have truly embraced the manufacturing renaissance our country needs so succeed.
 

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They do it right!! Love the standardization that they are incorporating.
 

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Making all the Speed guys drool wishing they had a place to tour😂
Amazing accomplishment for your guys & great looking product. 👍

When Robby first announced he was building his own SxS this is exactly how I pictured it!! Low production, Highest quality! Boy was I wrong!


Hats off to these guys! They definitely have their shit together, doing it right, and know their customer base! And they can proudly say MADE IN THE USA!!
 

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They are top notch. Love seeing and hearing success stories like theirs. The American dream is alive and their for anyone willing to work their ass off for it 🙌 One day I will own one of their trucks! 😍
 

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I used to go to their previous building - very impressive what they continue to do and build.

We all know the gap between the wealthy and everyone else continues to widen. Kudos to them for serving both groups
 

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Just watched it tonight. I wish they’d do more videos. They are very good at explaining why they do things the way they do.
They did a pilot show for Discovery or other network. If that works out, you might get to see one weekly. I am keeping my fingers crossed it could be like west coast choppers they could retire selling branded Tshirts.

It looks bad ass and he’s saving for LT now.
Lots of smart marketing at Baja Kits. They just started a deal where he can trade-in his prerunner and mid-travel kits toward the purchase of the Long Travel kits.

Man, if I was wealthy I would 100% have something like that luxury prerunner..
Get it with the highest level package of sound proofing interior. You’ll be wearing headsets either way. I think that requires FU money on top of wealthy but then again, they have buyers where the truck costs more than where the guy lives.

Can Robby franchise these guys out for speed cars? Asking for a friend.

I hope they design some aftermarket parts for Robby‘s car just to piss him off. I have one on order I put a deposit on for no reason that they will definitely see when it arrives. It took awhile to get them to build canam arms from Baja Kits and it was because they had a fleet of pre runners that were breaking/bending them. Still no RZR parts but I’m pressing Jordan to design rzr200 stuff for my kids because his 2 boys will be in them soon and I know he isn’t busy😆
When Robby first announced he was building his own SxS this is exactly how I pictured it!! Low production, Highest quality! Boy was I wrong!

And they can proudly say MADE IN THE USA!!
Made in America and establishing themselves internationally. They flew all the subassemblies and parts and 2 different teams of guys to China to weld up and assemble two trucks for some rich businessman. Apparently off-road rallies in China is a thing. I like when China wants our stuff from a company that doesn’t need theirs.
Those boys have been all over the world from the Dakar in Europe and South America to delivering trucks in Australia and Saudi, setting up distributors and installers for Baja Kits in Dubai, it’s fuckin nuts.


Not a surprise I run everything they make for all my vehicles
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Probably be $150K but would be bad ass. Similar to a Buckshot Bullet.
They just designed and built batches of class 10 chassis and sand cars. Race UTV could happen, but more likely built UTV pre-runners by Baja Kits. I dunno.
 
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They did a pilot show for Discovery or other network. If that works out, you might get to see one weekly. I am keeping my fingers crossed it could be like west coast choppers they could retire selling branded Tshirts.

The ought to just start filming stuff on old iphones and putting up weekly short videos on youtube. Network TV is dead from a viewer and money standpoint, they would have a much better product just making 15-20 minute youtube episodes and build a grass roots audience, there is a huge void in that market segment on Youtube.

I'm blown away by the quality of stuff available on Youtube that was filmed, edited and uploaded from cellphones. Stuff like Perkins Builder Brothers or Millennial Farmer are getting a quarter of a million views in the first day or two of being uploaded. And no fake for TV drama, just real actual informative and awesome content.
 

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i remember them posting new drawings and ideas on alot of the offroad related the forums in mid 2000's.
after they enrolled in welding and cad design classes, Jordan designed and built an extended swing arm for his crf50. I wish he still had it and mounted in his office.
I think the first trophy truck they built was the Tonka marketing truck for Todd Ramano (Speed Utv Todd) and now they have multiple toys and rc cars modeled straight from their cad files
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Wow. Their operations rival some I've seen in Indianapolis and Mooresville. It takes a crazy amount of self confidence and management skills to run something like that. If trucks aren't ready to race or they break, there are consequences, but it appears they have it all under control.

Very impressive.
 
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