I Went to 2023 Overland Expo & Was Floored by All Tiny & Giant Overland Rigs...Especially THIS One!

hey guys we at tfl would be completely lost without our friends at Onyx off-road click on the link below to learn more welcome to the very very wet but fun 2023 Overland Expo West Nathan what up yeah check it out this is uh Global expedition vehicle smaller uh International I mean driving this thing you're 10 feet off the ground can you come can you walk up to this truck yeah you want to scale okay I'm 6-1 when I'm not slouching so there's Nathan and the door of the of the cab yeah it's way up there now by the way earlier they had people who were partying up there on the third story first one third story so is this our second one in a third on top have a look on the other side you'll be able to tell probably yep probably so these are the type of vehicles that of course show up here we love this event don't we we do indeed it is raining right now we're going to take you for a tour around here so we're going to leave this vehicle which I'm really hoping Roman will give us a budget to get one of these you know because there's so much wait wait wait wait wait wait hold on I I want to point something else okay it has rear steer uh the rear axle steers now the real question is will Mr truck freak out when he sees that and be able to figure out how it works whether it's using what Delphi or something like that wow anyways so this is Extreme I mean so but then on this show let's walk around and it's been raining for what five hours uh pretty much yeah all day we're completely drenched but we want to show you guys what's happening here um at the show for example immediately something uh hey what up hey guys uh something very manageable here which is the Polaris Expedition yeah yeah real bummer then when you get a chance to drive one of those but check it out there's our buddies over at Fox yep and we actually had an opportunity to hang out we're gonna hang out with them again later on wait wait let's walk over here because uh something uh something that kind of belongs to it actually does belong kind of of course it does there it is a trail Hunter ah Trail Hound he's here in the fox Booth because Nathan you were involved with this right yes it was indeed so uh yeah we recently just did this bumper or had this bumper done I should say and among other things we're actually kind of hoping they would level things out but yeah it maybe it did a little bit but not entirely but yeah of course we use the BDS Lift Fox shocks Fox 2.5 performance system we have Lu cabin on the back of course AV bumpers and if we had any sense we'd be inside the LA cab right now but all right we're just hanging out here let's let's keep going this way sorry I've been keeping redirecting you but that's right I'm just I'm just like uh I'm seeing squirrels that's quite all right let's just uh steer around one of the things that's ironic is that I have an absolutely outstanding poncho back at the hotel yes yes yes we don't we just don't have it here we it was because and sunny this morning and there was no rain forecast and then five hours so it just dumped so this show is probably bigger than ever we've been coming here for what almost 10 years yep uh it's for quite some time and not only this one but we've done um let's see Pacific Northwest and Mountain West we haven't made it to the east coast I haven't made it to the east coast oh you have yeah and it's not with tfl so further down we have Lexus and they actually brought out an interesting vehicle as well yeah well for those of you who are wondering yes Lexus doesn't exactly build overlanders but they're familiar with the fact that people will buy the GX especially used ones and convert them into serious off-road capable Vehicles so so with that in mind over the past few years especially they've been building some really cool Concepts yeah and also you know the new Jacks is coming yep they finally teased it uh of course the LX is here the new one and the GX is coming could that mean that the new Forerunner could be like a year away what do you think well one would hope I mean considering the fact that we just had a debut of the new Toyota Tacoma yes I have a feeling a lot of that's going to be featured with the new 4Runner but I'm not sure oh look at this this is so well done that's a Land Cruiser like a two-door shop dude yeah it's incredible let me poke inside them okay you go ahead and do that sorry hey how are you excuse me connect Pokemon inside of here really quick very cool very compact nice yeah considering that we saw a three-story one I mean that that was a very unmanageable Story one as cool as that is is utterly useless for anything other than huge wide areas but the purpose of overlining is to be able to go to places that are hard to reach right I don't see how you could if you go to Coachella maybe I mean you could burning man yeah and this is a cool setup up here nice love these motorcycles oh you want the motorcycle yeah of course I do look at it that's the only one I ever wanted yes it's a Soviet Ural dry baby and even I can balance on one of these this brakes yeah this is a a true off-roader I love it all right I want to visit I think our friend Jay couch is here she's over there somewhere but we honestly that's completely on the other side of where the entire show is little but can we see can we just take a quick peek please let's go okay look at the 80 Series right there bam still I think one of the most capable nice lift right yeah it's pretty nice I don't know why this guy's beating on it though figure that out later Overland Cruisers sweet look at the bumper yeah oh I saw him in Colorado last year I think all right so oh here's the dirt box Overland guys and we've met the couple that took this all the way to I think Alaska and Beyond yeah and they were actually they camped in it lived in it yes at really cold temperatures right let's see if Jay's hanging around here somewhere if he's smart he's probably in a really warm Cafe right now yeah so here's just really quickly so uh couch off-road engineering of course is known for building unimogs right yep properly there's one there's look at that one that looks familiar oh that's the one we've had but he also has another company called dirt box that's right and also this really cool trailer design that we're good this really cool trailer design uh where you can kind of you know the vehicle drives on it it slides over and you can bring it anywhere it's very lightweight Jay actually showed us right after he was done with this yeah how this thing sets up and it's fully adjustable which is super cool and look what he's throwing it with a RAV4 hybrid yeah I don't know if I do that but there it is there's of course here's the Unimog let's take a quick look at its dirty box and look at this there's an oven kind of a field field cooking setup yeah I don't think that's part of their repertoire ah there look I mean Jay puts his machines to the ultimate test uh we've got a suspension system on this Gladiator the door box is the build out with a tent on top of it and uh yeah really tough and kind of modular system where you can kind of Mount almost anything to this very nice yep let's head this way yep yeah Jay's not here right now who knows he's probably baja or something like that fishing yeah is it raining harder now maybe okay keep on going he also has that Tundra build out which is pretty cool nice [Music] all right let's go yep if we wait any longer the sky is going to open up again yeah earlier I mean it was thunder and lightning and really heavy rain yes so this is as nice as it's been for the past five hours and so we're just gonna have to push through guys and we also want you to uh see this because it's happening you know this weekend when we're publishing this video right and you're seeing the latest and the greatest Machinery right that is correct so we're about to go into the actual event so you guys can really have a look here we go and of course we have many many partners and friends that we work with yep uh we already showed you our project truck but it doesn't stop there right oh no no no it doesn't as a matter of fact both Andre and I are here from two different automakers that actually brought us here for different reasons I'm here with Honda and Andre's here with Toyota yep Andre why are you here with Toyota well because they're unveiling and we have a separate video for this they're unveiling they're all new 2024 Tacoma and specifically here at this event the TRD pre-runner right and the pre-runner was something that you did not see when you were in Hawaii am I correct right and the pre-runner used to exist right yep and it went away for a little bit and now it's back correct the Mundo so we're just gonna make a quick little jog to the left and then head down this aisle way and this is quite interesting because I see some electric trucks here yep in fact that looks does that look lifted to you it almost does wow so they have an r1s and this is from this is an Optima I think boof maybe they only Power them with Optima batteries I'm guessing no they probably but look look at these tires dude so this is a pretty uh beefy BFG all-terrain ta-ko2 let me look at the sizing 295 65 R20 these look like at least 35s dude they look even bigger than me but just because yeah they look really beefy inside the uh the wheel well yeah so of course this is kind of the next Frontier yeah look at this a lithium power station there you go oh that is built to charge a vehicle in the rough but then again do you tow it and then charge hey hey how are you guys can you tell us a little bit about this well this is a really cool truck this is his is this yours it is a cool truck what kind of tires you got I mean is it has a slightly bigger tire yeah and they're round oh yeah not Square no no okay we tried that didn't work for me tell us a little bit about the trailer here sure this is the Optima Power Station we built this um in conjunction with the upgrades on the vehicles but one of the biggest issues that we find is people have a lot of range anxiety especially when they say well you're going to take your rivian off-road where are you going to get power right so we tow our fuel station with us and this guy the little roof is that solar panels can I stand underneath it because it's raining can I be underneath it because it's raining yeah yeah so how much energy so this has this has uh 55 kilowatts of kilowatt hours lithium power nice so the rivians have 130 kilowatt pack so this will charge almost half of a rivian fuel tank okay but typically we kind of use it to power the campsite and then anytime you're off-roading you you come back to Camp if you just don't have enough to get back into town this gives you that emergency hookup yes very cool thanks thanks for sharing that I appreciate it thank you we were with tfl Studios we're from Colorado yeah oh cool so thank you very much thanks appreciate it all right appreciate it okay let's see keep on going right around the corner yes is Honda now so yeah why are you here so Honda brought Honda brought us a Honda pilot trailsport and they wanted me to Overland in it leading up to this event so what I did was I worked with Honda put a mattress in it yes and I've slept in it for three nights so you've truly Overland it yep I did you're not kidding which explains why I'm walking a little weird and it has nothing to do with the vehicle actually the vehicle was great and you're going to see a couple videos with it specifically one showing it over Landing going to Moab to the Grand Canyon here and then probably New Mexico when we're done wait is that yours the blue one is that yours no mine's covered in mud and goo okay it smells like a wet shoe so this one these are the ones that are on display and we're going to be doing another video here tomorrow where they have a display vehicle they're going to be bringing in that we're going to do a walk around with yeah but uh yeah I like this color by the way I really like it is a really good color Honda's finally figuring out that people want a little bit more Jazz with their 4x4 or their off-roader and they want cool colors but you also have that's a real skid plate down there way in there but and the recovery Point too yeah but it's way in there and once again I actually have firsthand experience with that just one second okay so another thing that I have for standing experience with is that the air intake is way up here and that's really important if you go into water are you foreshadowing something yeah I am indeed okay um so here are friends at the AV exactly so AEV actually we're talking to Nate earlier and he may be there and he was the guy who worked with us on our trailhound project replacing the front bumper yeah this is a beefy truck dude oh this is what I wanted Trailhead to look like I mean we could get there eventually all we have to do is scallop a little bit scalloping friendly um this is their prospector now this is the newest one they actually had on the previous generation they had a project similar to this yeah so they had this bed the thing about this bed is that if you're serious about actually hauling stuff and accessing stuff this is to me like the ultimate because all three sides can go down one side whatever and then it's very lightweight because it's main mainly aluminum yes uh very cool stuff and I love their wheel design and of course well they have been working with another manufacturer so if we walk around we will see that they're of course working with GM that's why we have a Chevy ZR2 bison we recently actually had this in Colorado yeah well we owned one uh well we didn't know Mike bison there too yeah yeah so the Bison takes it up a step in terms of extra armor it's still the same vehicle underneath but they add front bumper rear bumper Wheels I think Wheels right yes uh skid plates and of course a couple touches and a couple touches yeah but for the most part yeah they if you want a heavily armored vehicle for off-roading that's kind of where they are okay all right let's continue there's Nate right hey Nate hey hey what up we're just walking around yeah we're shooting this live and sending it directly to your employees to show you say nothing mad see ya but now this GMC of course is not gonna miss out on the action right and this is their latest 84x AV Edition as well that's right it's interesting to see that uh GMC and Chevy are are doing similar things but not exactly the same thing which I kind of dig oh look at this oh yes Andre you could have had one of these I did not get it I got a Colorado I know look this shows a few accessories for example Rock slider with detachable steps oh they are detachable yeah because these kind of hang down a little bit but they don't have to hang down well one of my Jeep friends says everything's detachable if you think about it okay if you have a knife or a saw no you know if you drive the right way you know maybe I could take this off of here and put it on my truck would be nice wouldn't it yeah fit perfectly wouldn't it so here we are you just thinking out loud because you're alarming some of the people who are hired by GMC to represent the vehicle I'm gonna speak louder so they can hear me just just warning you uh okay here's we have the Hummer EV SUV yep I just wish they can start producing them Nathan and actually get them to the people yeah or perhaps making them somewhat affordable and getting them to the people or lighter and getting them but they put a true beadlock capable ring on this so they're kind of showing that they're not kidding around they're beefy Tire yeah and of course a tent system on top as well I'll say it again is even though I'm not thrilled with these things I love the way they look they're just fantastic to look at but all right let's continue let's let's keep going this way yep and so in over there's a lot of motorcycle stuff over there and we'll see it better well case is not here so Alex is in here you know Alex is not here so in previous year this is Fort Tuthill here in Flagstaff Arizona yeah and it used to be all dirt kind of like this and they paved a lot of this which kind of changed the vibe a little bit because it's a little bit less dust well it's raining also yeah but some of the areas we've been into have been really really gooey yeah if you looked in there you could clearly see side by sides ATVs and more importantly motorcycles there you have it but we're gonna just kind of skip yeah a big machinery because this is what you and I kind of specialize in indeed it is so wanted to show you guys here we go yeah now their Pavilion is much smaller than it was a couple years ago well you know what they don't have quite as much new stuff exactly what I don't want to show you so just so you guys know Andre flew in this morning from Hawaii on a red eye to Arizona yes and then he took a ride from Phoenix to here I mean wait I couldn't wait no he couldn't wait meanwhile I was walking around the place kind of checking it out this caught my eye well I think this is a SEMA one of their SEMA Concepts right rampack Rebecca I love this because this this kind of opens up I don't know if no this is locked is it locked oh locked nothing's locked Nathan so they use the ram box and then they extend it upwards dude this needs to be in production now like right now yeah you could tell by feeling it that this is not quite production but also this needs to be in production right now this is basically a way to clamp different materials or if you're working on something and making your tailgate into really a bench look at this I got millimeters too Andre millimeters for me yeah for you also a water storage well that's exactly what that's for yeah so let's keep on going look at that T-Rex with matching motorcycles [Music] I look good doing it so if you wanted motorcycles finally you get motorcycles yeah well here's what's important these are actually Ram motorcycles no no the KTMs no but they're matching this TRN Isn't that cool look at that I mean that's you couldn't even wow that is just a really cool Motif they got going there so this is another kind of a concept vehicle from them yeah because it's rolling on 37. I think what Ram did they saw the raptor r and 37s and they said well how about this or just a regular Raptor 37 yes yeah and and they should they really should be doing that frankly yeah it looks really good so if here's what I I've noticed so there are some several prototypes from Ford running around yeah uh camouflage uh we've seen you know GM unveil recently several different afro trucks indeed and I think Ram needs to freshen up at least maybe their power trains a little bit and offer more choices I would say yeah yeah I I have a couple theories about that but they're just theories some of that has to do with the fact that with stellantis they're just trying what they can to maintain profitability without having to dive too much into r d because they've already produced an electric truck and that's probably because and they're working on that too very very expensive by the way what this is is a heavy duty Rebel yes next to uh light duty Rebel yeah you've driven the heavy duty yes yeah we recently had this at our office and we put it through a battery of tests yeah and this is it combines a stylish design with a tough off-road capability but I think they could have gone further they could have gone through but but I think that there's this thing a balance because you already have the power wagon right so how far do you go with this before you're in the power turn the rebel into a Current Power Wagon and you can turn the Power Wagon into an insanely good Power Wagon here's the thing this can be had with a diesel yes whereas in the Power Wagon cannot but there's also now they're heavy duty bison right and of that heavy duty GMC where we saw so there's stuff over here oh Tommy would be happy not just Tommy the other boys too Alex and uh case are getting into this oh it's wet can I put the half tires four tires it's difficult to modulate right difficult to modulate it's just on your fingers actually really sensitive oh yeah it's really smooth see I would use full power and launch it come on Kid full power it's very cool so this is one of the things they have here it's a really cool off-road course and it's mixed in with some product and see that's what would have happened to me had I gone full power on it well Nathan you only have one mode it's 11 right usually right come on let's have a look by the way I noticed these before I saw these I think I saw these at Sema and I really like them there's the rigid but Ridge is coming out this new design and I just really like how compact it is and they're super powerful I don't like like 50 lights on a vehicle I like it just a couple small ones that could do the job especially nowadays with LEDs and they're also working with manufacturers like on Toyota yeah with production vehicles and you know what else the new Taco has what is a color changing LED so it goes from white to Yellow uh with a flip of a switch so just to be cool or is there a reason uh to be cool okay I sweet anything that was built by or before either the Korean or Vietnam War Tommy's into uh and that would be these two dude this is unreal look oh Tommy's gonna lose you know trucks used to be you can see how narrow the track width is right yeah and that wasn't the narrow tires either yeah but underneath it's got some Modern Drive traffic I think that's a pretty much an all-modern platform yes but they kind of kept the The Styling true right the way it was now this one's interesting because there's a little bit of a mix of new and old yeah do they have the divorce transfer case is it the is it I don't think so oh yes it is divorced wow look at me yes it still uh has to pay uh for child support but it is the worst no no that was pretty damn funny Andre that was a good joke divorce transfer case is basically it's not attached to the transmission it's uh in this case in the center of the vehicle right so and then they also call it equal length drive shafts so there's a drive shaft going to the front and the rear in the earlier days of off-roading when I was a kid I remember people talking about using those putting them into jeeps and some other vehicles because they were so unique and because you were able to get better articulation and whatnot and nowadays obviously it's a little bit more uh right it's turning into a boat right now well actually it's doing pretty good stay in the float yeah let's keep on going hey guys oh thank you very much appreciate it Ron nice to meet you my wife Marcy Marcy pleasure to meet you thank you thank you all your truck or something what's not so I appreciate it I kind of look at the Dodge I was looking at the uh the Power Wagon oh yeah I like it okay so no it's not but the RAM Rebel 2500 which just came out is diesel well you can get it as a diesel and almost everything that you get with a power wagon yeah yeah I like that and then um I like the um I want to say the auv but I guess you don't do AV the EV uh what's it called prospector yeah yeah we do AIDS yeah and we do work with AEV actually we just did a project with them okay yeah so at the fox Booth I don't know if you saw out the front uh the ram um silver truck yeah it's actually our truck that was in yeah that's our Trail Hunter that's on display yeah yeah okay yeah I was watching him oh I know that guy yeah I'm sorry okay no that's okay that's all right well yeah we'll bleep it out okay all right nice meeting you guys thank you [Music] uh once in Hawaii and the other one's probably in Vegas [Laughter] oh speaking of Tommy thanks take care guys look at this oh he would go crazy oh I love old Jeep wagoneers and this one still has yep it still has leaf spring suspension but it looks like everything else underneath is new whoa oh dude look at this 350. 350 V8 I like that badge here hold this I just wanna now I gotta look um oh can you can we open it thanks sir we're just doing the walk around you guys all the time appreciate it Daniel oh my goodness this is beautiful it's on Arcade company builds there's not Studios case Allen Wayne will you ask your buddy your boss if he'll trade this for a Hyundai Santa Cruz uh nice and good all right then maybe a Chevy Colorado I'll think about swapping that with this maybe the Colorado yeah I'm drinking let's think about the suspension seats right to everything I don't want it to get too wet in there it's nice thank you for sharing that thank you for showing us yeah very sweet and this is like patina basically kind of kind of painted on there yeah as you can tell it's starting to actually potato yeah that's yeah the real thing happening right there yeah oh this thing is awesome thank you very much for your time we appreciate it man thank you all right take care all right let's uh let's keep going yeah we have some more new stuff hey look Nissan Frontier it was in the oven I don't think it's a display model we've actually been talking a lot about the Nissan because it's an unusual place right now considering what Toyota just debuted yeah and I mean mid-sized truck segment is being really rejuvenated this year and that's a good news it is one hanging right or a left a few let me let me think let me think where are we at you know we should I think we should go let's go this way and then snake around how about that sounds I like the snakey part so one of the things that Toyota has done is they brought in yet another four-cylinder turbo into the game so now you've got Ford you've got well General Motors and now Toyota three big players Nissan still has a V6 and only a V6 yeah and the only other V6 out there I guess technically would be the Honda Ridgeline yes you're not going to see how that many Hondas here hi hey think so but I I I'll tell you 2019 it was all four of you and I was telling you that I followed you guys um and I did all of the stakes because I saw you guys do it oh and Jeep yeah when we did it in the Jeep yeah I just retired it a few months ago I put 240 000 miles on it oh my wow I'm sorry what is your name again I'm Phillip Phillip Nathan it's nice to meet you again before y'all got as big as y'all got thank you for doing that we're doing the walk around nice to meet you so you're on the show sorry to put you through all right thank you so thank you and um thank you do you still have thank you so much I appreciate that or something well we want to entertain as much as we can too sweet we fight hard to make it happen so that that trip did you see the new one they have it on display right down there absolutely thinking about it my wife is gonna Knuckle Up On My Head done at least one Trail and every state that's it's but it's just I just did a big trip to Alaska went across uh Canada and then dropped down the East Coast You've Been Everywhere man well my license plate even is everywhere oh there you go I'm going to Chile and I'm starting November for a year and a half plus two I saw a chili wow so I think when you met us last time in 2019 we must have had the H2 remember because all of us were here we drove our Hummer yeah I drove the I drove the Hummer here that's a picture of us all hugged up but I'd have to scroll for like a half an hour no no that's totally all right yeah yeah it was Tommy and Roman as well I think yeah reaching a hundred thousand ah and he said when you reach a hundred thousand contact him he gave me his card and said he wanted to do a full-blown interview and everything oh okay well you're both welcome anytime please and reach out and let us know when if you can come back okay all right you got it all right all right take care guys so check it out cross promotion yes all right we're not beyond that so absolutely take care guys wow that was awesome so let me hold this while you might yeah let's pause for a second okay just let go I got it this is why we come here dude because oh thank you so much appreciate it it's because everybody's so nice yeah super nice and it's really cool to see where our fans are and what they're doing because remember how hard our trip was our 2015 Jeep trip inspired you know this gentleman and it's inspired you know many other people think about what that trip involved 50 states in one year exactly one year and every Monday had to have in the can another episode from another state and not only that but Andre and I bit a majority of them hey hey Gloria thank you so much appreciate it man um and we hit every state um Roman did Alaska and Hawaii and several states of course yeah yeah but I'm just like those are like the far reaching ones Andre and I did the entire East Coast the entire South that was that was not easy yeah it wasn't easy it was a lot of fun I mean in the end looking back on it looking back on it it was fun yeah neither of our wives were very happy no because we were gone a lot a lot our kids were not happy either no all right so let's let's take a look a little bit more so normally when we come here I like to kind of take the Pulse and see what's the most common vehicle we've seen a lot of Toyotas of course but you know wait a minute what is this it's jxl I think we've seen it before something similar there's like another foot and a half yeah oh it's more than a foot this is yes it's got to be 18 inches or so yes third row because it was one it also has this kind of tent built-in yeah wow so that's interesting you know at first I thought it was a gladiator but it's not no it's not it's not a gladiator so yeah I mean there are a lot of jeepers of course huge in the community Toyota is huge I I and I think we're starting to see a little bit more GM tracks as well we are seeing more GM trucks than if they were smart that they would Crank It Up a couple notches and start doing uh before this back in the big way because of Bronco I think yeah but here's the crazy part I mean you we see them on display here and there which is great but Ford actually sponsoring their own builds haven't seen a lot of that not as much as I've seen with cheap that's for sure I thought that they would hit hard so you know here you saw GMO had a factory Booth here uh Lexus had a factory Booth Toyota has one so and RAM has one ram has one yeah four dozen yeah you haven't seen fourth have you nope okay nope and that's one of the things that's kind of curious I'm sure some of you guys are probably like well you know they do other events and you're right but this I think is the new big thing and this is a little bit mad max-ish a little bit right so just kind of very simple you know um if you're not doing aluminum aluminum is really expensive right yes it is uh but steel bumpers are very heavy so this is kind of a compromise I would say it is a compromise uh the only thing I would say that might be an issue for some people is that debris and all that isn't being banged away yes and also your radiator may be really exposed here's another look at another bumper now this is much closer to what I like personally speaking because it has this cutaway so you have a better approach angle on your tire you might say an approaching goal then again you lose some approach angle up front when you have because of the winch is there so there's always that thing by the way Nathan I'm seeing a lot more come up yeah you know they kind of burst onto the scene they really are big I mean almost every other one I'm seeing has it hello very cool yeah um so let's snake back around yeah because I I heard there was some couple really cool Builds on this other side there's um something you guys should know we're only covering about oh what 40 maybe 40 of this entire event plus if you go just to where everybody's camping you will see the most amazing collection of unusual awesome off-road rigs over Landing Rigs and trailers and older Rigs and just simple Rags really oh come here this is great I saw this before one next to the dent oh that's awesome that's just a badge of honor that's exactly it I think and he also put on where where it happened nice I think that's I also love when people put like little Band-Aids on there on their uh um dents yep under and I think we know the owner of this knit CBC but we're not 100 so okay we'll just keep walking oh look at this tundra look at this bumper on this bad boy yeah but once again is the question because of this the way the chin juts out are you gaining or losing when it comes to approach angle well the tire is a little bit more exposed yeah but you I you know this is something yeah and but then you go here this is the exact opposite by removing all that stuff that he has huge Incredibles yeah so that's you know you have to weigh that I know people are so excited to slap on that stuff onto their vehicles and add weight and add oh look at the tires oh my God that's where these Mickey Thompson's are what is that 43 no every show has what I call the common question and as soon as you walk my booth now I'm just like 43. okay there's nothing to do with what we sell but just the answer to the question it does stand out quite a bit though I mean you saw it all the way down to the other end of the page yeah yeah so we build Jeep campers okay and you can see Mild to Wild like we perfectly happy on the stock Rubicon where you can go over the top of it so what's the name of the company Ursa Miner Ursa might hog okay very cool so is the camper built into I have a microphone here is it built into kind of the top of the Jeep or how does it work replacement top okay so we basically take your stock top off ours is a bolt-on so you'll remove your stock top and this one bolts right in place I gotcha so no modification of the vehicle necessary can you open the door of course made a line across and it's accessed through the interior ah gotcha so from the back seat you go straight up so you keep all your gear in the back still cook out of the back sure um and climb into the center very cool oh it sounds like a hatch basically yeah how much does that way would you say uh we net change on this camper is 150 pounds of the vehicle okay so the Camper's 300 you're pulling 150 off when you pull your old hardtop gotcha so yeah that changes 300 pounds okay 150 pounds new but the answer to the meaning of life is 43. correct 42. that holds for tires well it's supposed to be 42.50 pops okay there it is it's very Universal all right okay well this is really yeah it catches your eye certainly does it catches your ride we always look for something in the booth that brings in some folks so yeah this one did it for us this year for sure yeah but that one over there is also another example though right over there behind you Andre and look at that window too that's our sliding quarter window you can retrofitted any stock top yeah that's very cool well thanks all right thanks for your time appreciate it all right the answer is 42 really right yeah it really is 40. 42 is the proper answer if my wife heard this she would start yelling 42 right yeah same with my brother he's a major Douglas Adams fan all right excuse us nope sorry thank you all right some interesting electric bikes here by the way there's a lot more electric motorcycles and bikes in the area we've noticed some tooling around and for those of you who sell them or build them let us have a couple for next year so that way fat lazy guys like me could actually ride around here and cover three times as much stuff in the same 40 it'll be 120 it'd be 120 yeah so just keep that in mind I'm so glad that it stopped raining me too we're both I mean we're soaked but that doesn't matter it definitely my skin is a little clammy we're spoiled because Colorado you know it's very dry and things gonna get wet and it dries almost immediately even if it's snowing here is not like that oh this is what you could do to your Colorado bra oh wow well not exactly well something I could do you know something like this a little bit more articulation a little bit more wide body stance it's pretty cool and of course I could do all that too yeah let's see I think we're getting to the area where I really wanted to check out we're getting close oh okay there's our friends over at Wolf Riggs oh I promise that we do a walk around why don't we just should we stop in maybe we stop in and say quick hello now this guy is based in Colorado not too far from us actually near Denver yeah and what he's doing is taking a Humvee platform gutting it completely hey how's it going and um going all the way down to the frame then he builds up this RV he actually has a shop and and he's out of Denver he's out of Denver yeah and we might be visiting his shop soon uh according to them this thing is just fuel has a door open maybe we can walk around actually yeah the interior is what's important to see so come on let's have a look-see and so it is a kind of a recycled tambi chassis yeah but but according to him you go all the way down to the bear chassis he actually gets he's able to put his own fin on it and he produces this as an RV out of the box and it's certified as an interview exactly certified as an RV so what we're going to do let's get inside excuse this guy I'm sorry we're just doing a little walk around here yes so have a look on the inside we'll give you a little bit more of a backstory but it's a little home it's nice well in the back is where the bathroom is and there's a converted bathroom so it actually pulled the toilet will pull out I'm just about 6'3 almost and I'm just clearing the ceiling so it's an impressive amount of space for how relatively compact this particular motorhome is with a large bed here in the front and also super afro capable right that is correct come on let's let's step on these people into place so um water on board the watering board is a 60 gallon and there's 25 gallons of gray water on demand water has 800 watts of solar 500 amps of battery storage and what he's doing right now is he's actually converting these to Cummins diesels he's getting rid of the old well because those those old engines are all in general yeah yeah they were yeah they're really underpowered so he's putting like a seriously heavy powered powertrain in here which is very cool and once again we're hopefully we're going to stop by and see his shop well I want to see this thing moving I do too and that's why we want to go to a shop one final component though price yes 350 000 okay I know first I would say that's a lot yes but but if you look at one million dollar Earth roamers exactly and that's what he's competing with to a certain degree um and he his whole point is to have something that's even more afro-capable that's what he's saying well because it's a little bit more compact which is my point at the end of the day these massive Earth roamers and all these other unimogs and everything else that I love well if you're going on the trail you're not going to fit on many and that is the most important thing is maneuverability capability oh and the dog's wearing boots that's important too which are waterproof and of course our boots are not work well it's kind of waterproof kind of waterproof although I'm definitely going to have to um air out my feet later on you're lucky you're not sharing a room with me all right this is where I think we're going to uh start dialing it down a little bit oh this is cool these guys see that's proper over Landing right there got a little fire going oh yeah but I wanted to show you over the gate what's over there oh the actual yes camping as well what you guys may not know is that at Overland Expo at least here there are a lot of people who actually camp out and bring their rigs or their tents and everything else well this is not just a show this is no and it surrounds the entire perimeter and hundreds and hundreds of people camp here and you could clearly like there's a brand new Bronco over there some really cool teardrop trailers a variety of different setups and you know it's there's The Boondocks there's no electricity out there there's no sewage or anything else granted everybody's close to each other well you camped three days on the way here so you were you were immersed in this yeah so I was actually inside the vehicle fortunately I had a refrigerator and um well it was it was a little rough but stay tuned for the video oh look at this thing up ahead of us what is that oh that that's adrenaline actually he's from uh Utah yeah did you drive one of his no no that's Plan B no but we've seen them we've seen them um at quite a few shows because he also uses liquid spring suspension like our friends at elevation off grid right oh hi hey thank you very much originally yeah I'm from Russia I'm from Moscow you have an accent like like us I thought you were from Argentina but um from Russia originally Russia yeah cool yeah cool Cabeza but but I see and uh mucho uh um well thank you I said nice things I swear no no that's okay what's your name Martin nice to meet you nice to meet you man we're just wrapping up this video we're going to do a little bit more of a walk around no no it's a pleasure meeting you though it's okay we like meeting our cancer it's all good thank you are you in this room no I'm a Opera Vehicle Systems I have a Land Cruiser 70 series oh from is there anyone right yeah I just bail for SEMA last year but it's on display yeah yeah okay fantastic we'll look for you take care all right so Connie Spanish is all broken I couldn't even say something that was like dumb or something no I said you were handsome oh and anybody who's watching knows I'm telling the truth yeah and that you were matcha um yeah so this is the uh I was talking about with the liquid spring suspension so you can go off this company also I mean there's that work with like ambulances and Christians and look at suspension yeah um just just hold this for a sec yes right live action oh live auction 200 on this can we get one please oh let's start bidding yeah with Roman's money all right all right oh let's look at this we need to be a little bit around this because I really want to check out there's a brand new 2023 super duty here somewhere ah and I really want to check check it out [Music] see oh there's one but it's not modified of course it's just rolling by yeah of course uh that's not what I was looking for this no that's not it either let's walk let's walk down this area just a little bit more all right well guys what this is as close to live as we can get with this the whole thing so we do apologize earlier on for a slight Miss with a word but we can't really censor the people who we interview right no yeah and this is real real life that's the whole point but you can see the atmosphere here is still very very easy despite the fact that there was a massive downpour now had that not happen there'd be 10 times the amount of people here which there were this morning and it would definitely be check out the electric bike setup up there and it definitely would be far more uh entertaining I think is the way to put it yeah very cool yeah hello oh is this a super duty I'm not going to point 10 anymore if you say no no well I'm not pointing at any more Super Duty said but there's a bunker yeah there's a lot once again I really think that Ford should actually establish a presence here on their own like a factory presence yeah exactly yeah I know Ford is broke they don't have the money to do it they're only selling every single thing they build and there's a backup going over a year everything they design is really desired yep Maverick Bronco hybrid f150. Farley Farley's the guy in charge yeah hey Farley yes why aren't you here oh you might he might show up he's actually a good guy so we're kind of ending up what I just like the setup on this GX it's pure GX yes yeah that's pretty sweet with a spare tire that's really cool I'm curious to you you guys before we wrap up I have this conundrum and that is some people are all about rooftop tents yes in this organization this public if you turn the camera every other vehicle has one yes I'm not a big fan yes because even though they're only like the lightest one is around 100 pounds heaviest one could be a thousand pounds it makes the vehicle a little top heavy makes it less aerodynamic people leave them on their vehicles when they're not using them year round and it's just you know it's going to be one of those things where you're sending autographs and stuff hey no no we're we're live hey yeah hey how are you great job thank you appreciate it it's so fun thanks thanks um so it's it's one of the things that's just kind of always bites me because I know they look cool and I've slept in a few well there's a couple things let's just finish up here right yeah um there's a tent I believe on that Bronco right there so there's a couple things first there's a few ways of doing it you can put a tent on top you can tow a trailer you can build Like the Wolf rig right yeah the Humvee you could build a camper on top of your vehicle or or make your vehicle the camper or what I discovered doing my pilot thing living in it yes you can use a hotel and a hotel but is better but still travel yeah why not just travel different places and stay out I've learned that my friend sorry it's been a long couple of days so there you have it well hopefully you enjoy this um trip around the uh the the latest show yep and we could show this big rig here oh is this the one you were talking about no damn it so we'll do more videos how about this uh we'll zero in on a couple projects yes learn a little bit more about them indeed and thank you for joining us once again at this wonderfully crazy and exciting Overland Expo yeah I I can't wait to come here tomorrow and we will be here for a couple days so stay tuned all right I appreciate it thank you guys and check out all tfl.com for Everything Automotive in one place

Channel: TFLoffroad

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Keywords: tfloffroad, tfltruck, 2024 toyota tacoma, toyota tacoma, jeep wrangler, overland expo, overland expo west, flagstaff arizona, arizona, 6x6, expedition, ford super duty, ford f-150, chevy colorado, toyota tundra, ram hd rebel, ram trx, ram 1500 rebel, 2024 tacoma, ford raptor, ford bronco, ram prospector, aev conversions, gmc sierra, chevy silverado, zr2 bison, heavy duty bison, at4x aev, sierra hd at4x, 2023 overland expo, nathan adlen, andre smirnov

Id: SQfE-1C7qGQ

Length: 54min 12sec (3252 seconds)

Published: Sun May 21 2023