It’s National 4×4 Day! Well, when I am writing this it is 4/4. I know, it’s only a fun marketing campaign promoted by Jeep, but even us Toyota guys can enjoy a good reason to celebrate our sport. However this day, 4/4/2020, is one day when most of us are under “Stay-at-Home” orders, or some […]
Fighting the War on Cancer
Article from C4x4.com Online Magazine http://c4x4.com/Articles/Oct2019/BPCFAR/BPCFAR.html The Big Paw Crawl 4 A Reason Off Road Charity Event to Kick Cancer in the Axle By Jon Maib The Big Paw Crawl for a Reason, benefitting the American Cancer Society, took a slight detour this year. The last couple of years, the event has been held […]
The Ultimate Overlanding Get Together
Original article found on C4x4 Online Magazine http://www.c4x4.com/Articles/Oct2019/Ozarks/Ozarks.html Rendezvous in the Ozarks The Ultimate Overlanding Get Together By Matthew Anderson We just pulled in from our latest adventure, and what an adventure it was. Camping and overlanding with over 440 rigs at the event, trail rides, and even evening movies for the kiddies. The […]
UCORA Heads to Disney
Original article Found at C4x4 Online Magazine http://www.c4x4.com/Articles/July2019/C4C2019/C4C2019.html By Brian Letendre With record rains throughout the midwest in the spring and early summer, all eyes were watching the water levels and spillway status for the 2019 Crawl 4 Christ as the days got closer. Grand Lake O’ The Cherokees, at Pensacola Dam was recording […]
Build it Better
Original article from C4x4 Online Magazine More pictures and tons of videos at http://www.c4x4.com/Articles/May2019/Overlander/Overlander.html By Steve Garrett The Jeep world and the offroad community is infatuated with the idea of ‘being sponsored’. The subject seems to come up in every other conversation. Personally, I have never held the goal of obtaining sponsorship, but […]
The 2019 Ford Ranger
In the early 1980’s, Ford Motor Company introduced a new name in the market of compact trucks, the Ford Ranger. As time marched on, the Ranger saw a few upgrades, but still maintained the small truck look and feel which was slowly becoming less desirable to truck buyers with the rise of the mid-size truck […]
SEMA: A first-timer’s report
At the end of October, I had the honor of being introduced to the automotive industry icon that is known as SEMA. Specialty Equipment Market Association, or SEMA for short, is known by just about anyone who does anything with automotive stuff. From classic cars and restorations, to off-road trucks, Jeeps, and UTVs. They also […]
When a 1-hour lunch turns into 2.5
When a 1-hour lunch turns into 2.5 Being stranded on the interstate really gives you time to reflect By Brian Letendre, UCORA It was about 98 degrees air temperature, about 108 on the pavement, and I was on the way back from the nearby Wally-World buying some wash supplies for “Bumble Bee.” On the on-ramp, […]
Work vs. Play
When your job is to create amazing custom builds and make sure everything performs better than ever, you have to test the products frequently. 2018 Crawl 4 Christ exhibitor Twisted Axle Customs sent me this email today. Do you think they were rubbing it in? “Our team from Twisted Axle went on a test run […]
Products of SEMA
from C4x4.com It goes without fail, every time we head to SEMA, there are so many cool new products that we would like to throw in our backpack and haul home. Some may not fit, but that’s ok, we still want to bring them home. Here are a few of the items that we thought […]