- What's going on guys, biggs of custom offsets.
Today we got another reviewing employees first rides.
You guys love this series.
Today we're going to bring in a few people
that you might not have ever seen on video before.
So it should be pretty interesting to see what
they rolled around when they got their first truck.
So, for that,
let's get into it.
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All right first up, we have Travis, Travis
the new Anthem videographer
and he's already doing some dope stuff with Anthem.
And this is his first ever appearance in a video.
Travis has a pretty dope truck
and he has some pretty cool future plans for it.
I'd imagine.
So what is your first truck?
What are you driving right now?
What did you do to it so far? - All right,
so my first is actually the one I'm currently
driving right now.
It's the GMC Sierra 1500.
It's the 2013.
So it's just before the 2014 model
the newer style came out.
It's the SLE, which is like the special luxury edition
which I liked because it has all the nice leather interior,
it has the Chrome edition
has a nice chrome look to it
and then yet against the GFX version
which I love driving it to crew cab.
I've done a lot to it so far.
I'm excited to see what I do to it later on,
put an MBRP exhaust system on there for exhaust system.
Three inch tip,
I put a 6.75 inch screen in ,
put 15% tint on there.
I got aftermarket headlights
and then a rough country got to go with a rough country
a light bar to it.
You got the Amber light to it also
and you can always flash people on the highway
if they ever just take you off, you know.
- [Biggs] There you go.
- [Travis] Yeah, I've done a few things to it.
Like I said, now I just need to
maybe invest in some new wheels, Anthem.
We'll go from there.
- All right.
That's what Travis has built it's going to look like
I kind of hope he goes with the new Anthem rogue's.
And if you guys didn't know it, Anthem is dropping the rogue
and you guys have probably already seen it by now.
It's a pretty sweet wheel
and it looks good on just about any truck build.
So we're going to pull someone else in
and go over what they are going to build or have built.
All right, next up, we have Coda Coda.
What was your first truck?
And what did you do to it?
- My first truck was a 99 Dodge Ram 1500 with a 5.9
360 engine in it.
I got it for my 16th birthday from my dad.
So it was given to me I didn't pay for my first truck
- I didn't pay for my first truck either.
- Am thankful for it.
- Daddy's money.
- Yeah.
So I took it.
First thing that he said to me was,
here you go, don't cut the exhaust off of it.
- [Biggs] What did you do? - About two days later,
I cut the exhaust off of it.
I thought, all right, well,
there, it all started from there you know.
- [Biggs] Yeah, what do you do now?
- I bed lined the bottom of it made it black.
I bed lined all the things, spray paint and all the things.
The bumper took the back bumper off
cause I thought that looked cool
and then put every single decal
I possibly could on the back window
so I couldn't see anything when i pulled over all the time.
Car track and left it on for about five months
so I would never come off.
I did buy a body lift for it.
I bought a three inch body lift,
- [Biggs] It keeps getting worse folks.
- And I was like, all right, here's my first actual
modification that I can do to this truck to
make it not stop.
So body lift came in and I called all my friends to see
if I could borrow their shop for like six hours.
Cause that's what it said.
The duration on the body lift install was.
- [Biggs] I feel like you are taking off (mumbles)
- [Coda] I ended up getting about halfway through
no idea what I was doing and took it to an
actual shop and they finished it in about two days.
So.
- Yikes. All right, folks, I don't know why we have not
had Coda on a previous episode before we got to
episode three, because this is the epitome of like
you get your first truck
you want to modify it the best you possibly can on a budget.
And he did everything.
- [Coda] Oh I was full high schooler status.
- [Biggs] Literally everything.
He got rattle canned out.
He got the bed lined out
like everything that a high schooler would do
to their first truck Coda did it.
- Yeah.
I didn't even get like aftermarket wheels.
I took my actual wheels and I just spray painted a ball.
- Oh my, like you spray painted and not even like plasti dip
or like try to do it the right.
- [Coda] Nope. Just spray paint.
- [Biggs] Semi right way if you're going to try to do that.
- [Coda] Like two dollars spray paint from (mumbles).
- [Biggs] Oh God, this is bad.
- From the other night, yeah, I found this giant
like 70 ton shackle and I put it on my hitch
cause I thought that was cool.
- [Biggs] Oh God.
- [Coda] But it got stolen last year.
So
- [Biggs] Last year.
So that means he had this truck for.
- Well, I didn't know.
I actually took the shackle off
cause I kept thinking that it was cool
and just put it on every new truck that I had.
No, that was my first build
I guess you could call it.
I just kind of took it and made it mine.
- Yeah. And that that's exactly what we want
from this series it's kind of like what you did
to make it your own because none of us had money back.
Like none of us had money for our first truck.
So like what do you do to do, you know
your sticker bombing, you have spray paint sheet
that you probably shouldn't spray paint.
- You buy your eBay headlights and tail lights and then
you hit and you break them out like a week later like I did.
- Yes, Koda is everything this series should be.
All right, let's go through your bill now though.
Cause you know,
you recently finished a really sweet bill.
- Yeah, so this truck right now,
it's still a second gen Dodge
and it's a 99 Dodge Ram 1500, but with a 5.2
318 in it this time
and I started completely bone stock bought it for $300.
It had rust and damps
on every single body panel on the entire truck.
And then I just took it.
I made a completely rust-free did all the body work myself.
The only thing I didn't do is paint it, I had my buddy Jack
over at Leon's peanut. Did the lift kit,
had the lift kit all painted contrast gold
and then threw some racing seats in it.
Cause that's different.
You don't see a lifted truck on racing seats
but a five inch suspension lift for most rough country
two and a half inch coil spacer up front
and a five inch in the rear,
35 13 and a half amp mud terrains
on 24 by 14 arc-on Lincolns
with three inch spacers, courtesy of Junior
Right off of his Bronco build.
Other than that, just a little miscellaneous stuff
like headlights taillights
5% tin from fine line performance.
I'll be bringing it to Daytona this year.
- Yeah, so stay tuned for that.
If you're going to Daytona.
You did this truck the right way.
I mean, you probably had a little more funds to
do it the right way and it turned out crazy though.
- It was all on a budget though.
It took me about three years to finish it
up to where it is now.
- Yeah. It's like,
just the transformation of what that looked like before
to what it looks like now. It's pretty crazy.
A lot of work was put into it.
- Yeah. I'm fairly happy with it.
I'm not quite done with it yet
but it'll be nice to see where it goes.
- All right.
That completes Coda's first truck and his current truck.
We're gonna pull someone else in.
And that's pretty dope.
- [Both] Hell yeah.
- All right, next up we have Dustin.
Dustin, what do you do here?
A lot
- I lead the graphic design department.
So all of the photos and what not
that you see on the front end, my team created.
- All right.
What was your first truck and what did you do to it?
- I bought a 2005 Dodge Ram Daytona 1500
that I thought was awesome.
- Everyone's first truck is amazing to them
but you know, looking back I'm
like my truck actually wasn't that cool.
- No, this one was not that cool either.
Came from Northern California.
I came to Wisconsin shortly thereafter
to realize a truck was a necessity.
The car that I had wasn't cutting it.
I hopped on good old Craigslist.
I went and found this truck, you know, from the photos.
I was like, all right, it looks a little goofy.
I think we can work with it though. And we went over there.
It was, I think it was eight grand or something like that.
And it was my first like kind of, I'm going to go
to the bank and buy this thing and purchase it.
And I got there and I was like, you know
maybe it's not for me,
but we can get into why I ended up buying it if you will.
- [Biggs] Yeah go for it.
- [Dustin] So I got to the guy's house.
And so it was a single cab, 2005 Dodge, Ram Daytona.
It was white.
It had double-wide fender flares in the rear on ball.
And I was like, okay
I had to ask the guy like,
what the hell is this? You know.
And so anyway, the guy used to drag race to the truck.
So he used to take it to the track
and he had like 20 inch wide like tied wheels
and tires or whatever on it, but I didn't want those.
- [Biggs] Right.
- [Dustin] You know.
So now I had a truck with double-wide.
It was like dually fender flares
on a single cab Dodge, Ram 1500 right.
That had stock wheels and tires on right.
So I was like, okay, this looks a little goofy.
So my first question was, can I take these off?
And you know, the answer was, yeah.
And my next question, I said, does it have an exhaust?
And the guy said no.
And instantly I was kind of like, okay,
I'm a little deterred from buying this thing, whatever
like that's a 19 year old kid, I need an exit.
Like I need this thing to start and sound good.
And he was like, let me start it for you.
So he went in the house
and grabbed the key and he went to start it.
And it was the meanest sounding truck,
I feel like I've ever been around in my life.
He was lying completely.
You know, like it definitely had exhausted
I don't know if it's possible
but I think it was like three and a half inch straight pipes
from like the heteros back or something. It was gross.
But anyway, so right when he started it
I was like, okay, I'll buy it.
I'll figure everything else out.
I'll figure everything else out, down the road
whatever I'll buy the truck
and mind you he tried to sell me those 20 inch wide wheels
and tires or whatever he wanted
like the same price of the truck for whatever these were.
So I don't know what they were, whatever.
Anyhow, I had the truck,
I guess my first step was like, okay
you got to make, you know, wheels kind of cool or whatever.
And I went to, I think the good old 19 year old
route of grabbing plasti dip and, you know
hitting up the stock, you know, Ram wheels,
it was like the five spoke
like bubble looking wheels or whatever.
And so we sprayed those down and then
the next step was okay, I got to remove these fender flares.
I went over to my buddy John's house.
I was like, help me take these off.
And we took them off and the guy completely had lied to me
like a hundred percent its entirety.
- [Biggs] Like well.
- [Dustin] Yeah, no, no, they weren't well,
but the truck was painted with these on there.
So I started finding history of this truck as I
went down the road that it had been
like rolled in a ditch at one point in time.
And it had been like upside down and the guy's dad was
like a body shop guy and ended up fixing it.
And I knew it had
like a whatever title rebuild or whatever the hell it was.
But anyways, whatever.
So we ended up taking the fender flares
off and it exposed complete bare metal, right.
In like a half moon on the, I was tired
of being known as the, the single cab duly guy, you know
that doesn't have the four wheels on it.
I took them off and it exposes half moon
of bare metal that I was like, okay, well maybe
I can get like regular vendor players to cover it.
So I bought those and no they're still, you know
three inches of bare metal that went all the way around.
They were huge. Yeah. Yeah.
Like I said, the truck though, it was
it was a trusty vehicle for me.
It sounded awesome.
That always drove off to me.
I think it only had 50,000 miles on it or something.
So it wasn't, it wasn't like beat to death.
I guess it was.
- It was makeup on a pig but it looked new .
- Yeah, it was like rolled a ditch
at one point in time or whatever.
But at the end of the day
it still got me to where it needs to go.
I drove it to California back probably nine times
or whatever the case was.
I drove it around when I lived in Southern California
I double limo tinted all the windows.
So I couldn't see a thing out of it.
You know, once it turned dark out,
besides out of the windshield,
I had to back up, I had to roll down the windows,
but you know, I felt that was cool.
But yeah, no, that was, that was really, it, it was
it was a good vehicle for me.
I tried to race every other truck I saw
on the road because this thing was
like a three 10 Hemi and a little mini truck.
It was kind of fast.
Yeah. Four wheel drive still.
- Oh really?
- Yeah. It was it, like I said, it was a good truck.
It had like the Daytona badges in there
with the model number and, and whatnot.
It had a wing. I didn't even talk about that.
So it had like, a tunnel cover that was on the hydraulics
but the wing was on the tunnel.
So that, that got taken off immediately right into,
I think a dumpster.
I don't think I tried to sell it or anything.
It was just right into the dumpster.
I was like, the wings got to go.
I was literally known as the guy.
They would be like, bro
that's your truck be like turning the lap.
- Knowing you now though,
the car you have now in everything like the gear
about it kind of fits, you know, for that first truck.
- Right? No, I loved it.
- Like you stepping out of that truck,
that's fitting for your first like vehicle.
- Right. And I'm still with
the same girl I was when i had that truck,
she misses it.
She loved it. She used to drive it around all over the place
and I would definitely buy another
not so single cab Dodge Ram Daytona that year again
like, I absolutely love the truck now.
I have a kid and whatnot I got to worry about, but if I
as long as I have my car, I would definitely buy another.
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