- What's up guys, my name's Dustin. I'm a graphic design lead
here at Custom Offsets. Been with company for about
three and a half years, and today I'm going to
break down my story. (upbeat music) I consider myself an enthusiast, that I've been an enthusiast since before I walked in the door
of, you know, this place. I would say the majority of my life, growing up in California, I was very much so into motorcycles, but Custom Offsets has
really driven me towards the truck and automotive
scene and side of things. In my life, I've owned majority trucks, so I don't want to say that I didn't ever, or I didn't always have
a passion for trucks. I just, I didn't really
know it until I came here, that that's what it was, right? I've had a couple of cars. My first car was a 2002 Honda Civic, and since then, I've
pretty much have owned nothing but Jeeps and trucks. I had a 2004 Jeep Wrangler
TJ that I lifted up and, you know, put some
wheels and tires on. I've had like six Rams. My first one, I did it
from the gallery episode that I told you guys all about. Was a pretty wild
hodgepodge mess of a vehicle with extended fender flares
and unpainted fricking bedsides when we pull them off,
and just, it was a mess, but it was awesome to me, right. I thought I was super cool. From there, I had a 2014 Ram. I've had a 2010 Ram that
had like crank windows, and it was like at six speed, whatever. And when I started here, I did have my '14 Ram and I went ahead and I put wheels and tires on it right away. It was right when we launched Arkon and I thought it was the coolest thing to be able to take a wheel that, you know, we started the company for, and throw them onto a truck and be one of the first trucks
in the world running these. And that was like the gist of what I did. I basically stuffed the wheel
wells with as big of wheels and tires that I physically
could put on the damn thing, and then that was it. I didn't level it. I didn't lift it. None of that. Then I was like, hell yeah, that's cool. You know, I fit right in. After that, I decided that wasn't enough. So, when I walked in the door, I saw CO2, and this was CO2
like two generations ago, right. This was before it had the
white powder-coated BDS and you know, the Lincolns, and I fell in love with that model. Like I fell in love with
that build in itself. It had the red, I believe they were, what were they? They were Ax or TIS, I forget exactly what they were, but I just saw it in the showroom, and I was like, 'Man, I love this thing'. So, I begged Shawn at
that time, and mind you, I'm only like three
months old at the time. I begged him to sell it to me. And, you know, he basically told me to shove it, and I was like, 'Okay, whatever'. So I went to his cousin, John, and I bought the Hummer because that's all I could
buy at the time, I guess. It was cool though. It was sweet. It was the Hummer H3, it was all black. It was like the Military Edition. It was sitting on Arkons as well, lifted, super cool,
compliments all over town. When it came to trucks, I'm not super mechanically inclined by any stretch of the word. So like, it's always made
me worry a little bit to do any of that, you know? I always had Banker, or someone that I could lean on to help me with those types of things, 'cause it just doesn't connect for me. I'm not a mechanical guy. I'm a graphic designer
for a living, you know. I use a computer and
not necessarily my hands when it comes to this. It always deterred me a
little bit from building because I couldn't do it myself. So this time around,
again, we sold the Hummer. I bought an Audi, I made that mistake. I bought a 2012 Audi A7, thought it was the
coolest shit in the world. It was a Sportback,
silver, mint condition, thing was awesome. Right there, it solidified, set in stone, that I just was not a car guy. It was probably the coolest car I feel like I could've bought
for being a bigger guy, and it was a big car,
and it was like a limo, and still, it just wasn't enough. And every day that I came to this place, I saw the trucks on the pad. I saw the trucks in the showroom. I saw CO2 and it made
me really realize that I needed to go back to another truck. So back to the drawing
board, sold the Audi, reached out to Shawn again. I call him, I said,
'Shawn, you're in Florida. The CO2 sits in the showroom, you're doing nothing
with it. Let me buy it'. And he told me I go through vehicles like I go through underwear, and I don't disagree. I mean, since I've been here, I've had like five vehicles
or something like that. But I knew if I bought
something that awesome, that I would've kept it, you know? And I tried to pitch that to him, he's just not a guy that accepts that. So I lost that battle, unfortunately. And he, not only did he
not sell me the truck, he came and got it and took it to Florida. And so that sucks. So I guess it's kind of cool though, 'cause it lets me do something
I was never able to do, which is take a vehicle from the ground up and truly build it to
what I want it to be. Not that I know how to
install all the parts, not that I know even
what all the parts are, like when it comes down
to the little brackets and all that shit. Like, this gave me an
opportunity to do my own thing, and that's kind of what we're
going to talk about today. So I spent countless hours
after Shawn told me no, I went, 'I'm going to
build my version of CO2'. I knew I didn't care whether
it was a 2500 or 1500. I knew CO2 was also a gasser. So at that point, what does it matter if it's
a diesel or gas, right? Like, so I was like, 'Okay, I'm going to build
the black version of CO2' was kind of like my goal, because that was the truck
that has caught my eye from day one of walking in here up until day 900 and
whatever the hell we're at, thousand and somethin' now. And so I went on the internet, and I knew I needed a '14 to '15. I knew I was looking for a 1500, something in that year range. We live in Wisconsin, and up here, rust is such a big factor, that one of the biggest
things that I looked for was I wanted something
that was low mileage. I wanted something that was clean. I wanted that exact year
range and a 1500 in black. I searched and I searched
and I searched and I searched and the craziest thing. So, you know, my phone kept dinging to me and telling me that, you know, there was a new thing
listed for Silverado, new thing listed for Silverado. Finally, I clicked on one, the guy happened to live on my street, like the street that I live on. So I went over there, and went and looked at it,
and it was super clean. Like inside and out, the guy
took care of the vehicle. It had absolutely no rust, you know, a little bit underneath, nothing major, nothing to be concerned about
that can't be wire wheeled off and, you know, undercoated,
but there was no body rust, no rust in the wheel wells, which is again, like if
you guys aren't from here, it is so- once you see rust, that shit spreads like wildfire. And I wanted to make sure
we didn't have any of that. It was exactly what I wanted. It was a black 2014 Chevy Silverado. It had just under 80,000 miles on it. It was very well taken care of, it was super clean, no rust, exactly what I wanted to at T. So ended up, you know,
talkin' with the bank, gettin' ahold of him. He held it for me and came and
delivered it for me at work, and so that was super cool. I was getting a ride back and forth after I sold the Audi in
between buying the truck, and so he came, delivered it, handed him some cash,
and then it was mine. But anyways, I figure we'll get into the build. Once we got the truck solidified it, brought it to the garage,
or brought it to work, I started to really dial in what I wanted to do with this thing in order to make it as close to, you know, obviously it's not going to
be an exact match to CO2, but I wanted that vibe, you know. I wanted the same style of kit, the same style of wheels, the, you know, like I
wanted it to be my like, when I get out and I shut that door and I'm walking into a gas station that I'm looking back goin',
'Hell yeah, that's mine', you know. I started reaching out to
some of the best companies in the game and that
started with the suspension. So the suspension, we went and we reached out to Belltech, and Belltech ended up sending
us the first in the world I believe, or the first in the country, I apologize if I'm wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that this is accurate. For this year, make, and model, it's there a coilover kit, which looks super good. It's basically, you know, red springs on gold coilovers. It's beautiful. All the parts were like carbon gray besides the actual suspension components. So the cross-member, the
front and rear, the sway bar, all of that is like a
real dark, like graphite, gray-ish metal looking. It looks super awesome. Super excited to throw that in. We'll be working with Radar Tyres. They sent us a brand
new set, Renegade R/Ts, 35/13.5, 24s. And those are going to be wrapped around some Arkon Lincolns 24x14 -81. That'd be the black version, the black and milled version
of the Arkon Lincoln. We went with some
performance on the truck, so we ended up doing
the Superchips' Dashpaq, the Superchips' Dashpaq
Plus from Holley Performance and Superchip, obviously. The Flowmaster Outlaw full exhaust system, the Flowmaster intake, a
B&M rear differential cover. As far as the performance
goes, that's pretty much it. I also purchased on
the side, a EAS system. It's gonna allow me to control my lights right through my tuner, kind of cool. We're working with Black Label Lighting on the Rock Light kits that are going to be
going inside of the truck. Rough Country took care of us, and we'll be working with them on some of their brand new steps. So it's the Rough Country
RETRACT power steps. They have, you know, the lights on 'em, go up and down as I open
and close the doors. That'd be pretty sweet. Body Armor, working with
them on the bumpers. They did front and rear bumpers,
the Eco Stealth bumpers. Morimoto for the lighting, so we're going to go Morimoto
headlights and taillights, front and rear. I'll be working with FX Window Tinting to ceramic coat the whole
truck when it's all done. So we're going to polish
it up, get it all nice, and then we'll end up ceramic
coating the entire truck to keep that polish, you
know, make, keep it clean. I also picked up a Rough Country, three piece, hard Tonneau cover, Tri-fold Tonneau cover for it. I was tired of going to the store and having to put everything
inside of the truck. I have a daughter, and I just want to make
sure that I can throw things in the bed to where she
wasn't crammed back there if I bought a bunch of stuff at the store. So I bought that to kind of finish it off and make it super clean, super classy. So I'm very excited. I'm super pumped to be able to, again, like envision what I want and watch all the stuff come in and we're so close to getting
ready to launching it all on there and watch this process. And, I hope there's some
guys like me out there in the audience that really
don't know the mechanical side of really what goes into this, 'cause I'm going to be bugging
the shit out of Banker, asking a lot of questions. The why's, as to what he's doing. I've seen him build a
million trucks, you know, since I've been here,
but they were never mine, so I never asked those questions. I never, now that it's mine, I'm going to be like a,
you know, a five-year old, 'Banker, Banker, Banker', you know, 'What are you doing'? And I hope that helps some of you really understand what goes
into a lot of this stuff and understand with those
little pieces and brackets and bolts and whatever are, you know, throughout this series. (beep) (beep) (beep) I have no idea what any of this is. I look forward to seeing
the final product. I have a vision in my head of
what it's going to look like. I tried to render it up in Photoshop. It didn't come out nearly as awesome as I thought it was going to, so I guess we just really have to wait and see the final product
and wait for her to be done. And, yeah, I mean,
that's really all I got. It's kinda my story why
we're doing this thing, you know, Papa Shawn said no. So I said, I'mma build my own. And that's where we're at. We're going to build our own. (upbeat music)
