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It sure wasn't easy getting it here. First I spent about a year and a half researching the cab and various other parts, on Ebay.au and a bunch of local wreckers in Australia. Mike in New Zealand helped me out with finding parts and shipping them to my "mate" Tyson in Australia, who built a specialized crate to get everything shipped to the US. Tyson and I both worked with the shipping and transport companies to finally get everything all the way to Baltimore.
It was a whole lot more work then I would have expected. Indoor shows are not near as much fun as outdoor ones. As for how I did, I took first in my class, but since that was pre 88 mini-truck and I was the only mini-truck in the show I kind of expected that. However... after I walked back to my buddy’s booth where my wife was we were talking and the next thing we know is I hear them say 86 Mazda, and it was for OUTSTANDING ENGINEERED for the whole show. It was a pretty big award at that show.
There are about a thousand stories with this truck... Everything from falling off a tow truck, to breaking ball joints while being towed on a flat bed. You name it, its done it. The truck itself started off as a budget build, but while waiting for the bags and four link to show up Corey said, "Lets BD it", right away I said NO. But after a sleepless night I started to see the light and the rest is history.
The funny thing about how I bought this truck is that I actually was looking at the wheels before I even bought the truck. My buddy Derek had bought the wheels for his car, but they were a little too big and he was trying to sell them. I told him it would be great if someone bought the wheels and put it on a Mazda like the yellow one that was on the cover of Minitruckin way back in the day. He mentioned that I should be the guy, I thought about it for a while and decided to take on the task.
Ive always tried my hardest at everything, always tried to be different and mintrucking inspires me to be better at something, but also stay on top of my game. Its just building stuff ive always been an audio designer, fiber-glassing and building unique installs, just never the cliental nor location I live will better that now I build stuff on here for my mazdas and have people all over country knowing my work and seeing my creativity.
We are excited to announce our end of the Year - User's pick for Ride of the Year! There are so many great trucks from the Bscene, everything from daily drivers to eye poppin' show rides. We had a nomination process and here are your top 10 picks!...
Thanks from owner: I would like to thank my parents for their patience while the truck was tore apart all over the place and extra cash to help get it this far.
Thanks from owner: I would like to thank my family for putting up with my insane hobby and my good friend Scott for the gold plating and numerous ideas throughout the years.
Well I bought it last year in June... so that would make it 1 year 2 months. The actual build only took about 10 months, and I have been tinkering ever since. Its not finished, just Under-Construction. And in about a month if I still have it I will tear it back down and do some sort of Front End Conversion... Rebuild the engine, and update the 4-Link.
...one of them is when I was in a major car accident, I was hit from behind by a cop that was going 75Km/h and totaled the truck pretty much, I was heart broken, I'll feel like an idiot for saying this but I actually cried. when I got home from the hospital I thought for sure it wasn't fixable, but a little hard work and dedication she was.
