Learn about the rigs at the Easter Jeep Safari.
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00:00 If you're coming to Easter Jeep Safari, be advised, the traffic on the trails can
00:08 be like an LA freeway, as the jeepers wait their turn to advance up the mountain.
00:14 Some of the rigs we're seeing this week hold double duty as daily transportation and
00:18 backcountry wheeler, and we'll touch more on that later.
00:22 There's a real science to what these jeeps are doing.
00:25 The climbing ability of these rigs is not by horsepower and suspension alone, finesse
00:30 can be king.
00:31 We'll show you how it's done.
00:34 Hey Craig, do me a favor, show me these rigs.
00:39 Modifies spring mounts and you know, shock leaps and stuff like that.
00:44 What kind of times involve them?
00:47 It varies, you know, just depending on what state the vehicle's in when it comes in, whether
00:51 it needs a bunch of repair or if it's in good shape.
00:56 Most of the time, anywhere from six to eight weeks, you can pretty much do a complete,
01:01 you know, ground.
01:02 We kind of like to keep them looking like a jeep, you know, not all cut up and stuff.
01:06 It seems, you know, you can still put a top on them.
01:09 Yeah, how's the law in Colorado for driving these down the road?
01:13 They're pretty lenient actually.
01:14 We don't get harassed very much at all as far as the law goes.
01:19 If you've got a horse in the ride or something, you know, sometimes they'll start reprimanding
01:23 you a little bit and saying, "Oh, you've got V-Bots and they're letting you work your
01:26 jeep now."
01:27 But most of the time, not.
01:28 How long have you been doing it?
01:29 Oh, I've been doing this, oh, I mean, I used to have a friend in Michigan who got him started
01:36 in jeeps.
01:37 I was, I mean, not very tall now, but you know.
01:41 Almost everybody that's in a jeep knows those jeeps.
01:45 I mean, this is basically a trademark in the, you know, world, I mean, as far as that goes.
01:55 On this one, we got basically the same thing.
01:57 Rod did the front end himself.
01:58 He got a few parts for me and stuff and he took it up on himself one winter in his garage
02:03 and kind of got this one lined out and everything.
02:07 He came to me about a year later and said, "You know, I ain't doing it again.
02:10 It took me way too long."
02:11 So we come over for a couple weeks and we piled out the rear end and everything.
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