(mellow hip hop music) - My name is Jordan.
I'm also known on Instagram
as 7.3_queen and I drive a '93 F350.
What got me into building was my dad.
He had a very large role.
He always had trucks when I was younger.
And I remember him telling me a story,
and he thinks this is funny to tell everybody,
that he had this, I don't even remember what,
it was like a 2003 F250, and I guess when I was younger,
I thought it was the coolest thing.
And when he sold it, I cried for days
and he knew that I was in trouble (giggles)
and that I was also gonna be pretty obsessed with it.
What I enjoy most about building is definitely meeting
all of these amazing people throughout the industry.
They've been first connections through companies
that would help me build my truck.
And they honestly became some of my greatest friends.
So I think that's probably the biggest pro
in this whole thing.
Someone that motivates me with my build
is actually somebody that I met just recently.
It's actually Dude Lovejoy.
I kind of started following him on Instagram
a couple years ago, and I remember seeing
how dedicated he was into really just perfecting
each piece of his builds.
And I feel like he posts on Instagram
at like four o'clock in the morning almost every single day
in the back of the shop at 8:00 AM.
And it's just kind of something that I'll see,
and I'll be like, wow,
maybe I should step it up a little bit.
Maybe I should add a little bit more, you know,
I've got the extra money this month.
Maybe I could do something that I wasn't planning on doing.
And yeah, definitely that's played a huge role for sure.
My passion definitely started when I was younger.
My dad definitely played a huge role in it.
And I remember when I was in seventh grade,
I had a computer class,
and we got to choose our desktop background.
And I remember for some reason, it wasn't even a truck
that I was like super, super crazy about,
but I just loved the look and I wanted it to be
bubblegum pink one day, obviously I didn't do that,
but it was a 1969 cherry red Chevy Stepside Short Bed.
I don't know why I loved that thing,
and that's probably what kind of fueled
and turned into the love for the OBS trucks.
So getting into trucks definitely is an expensive hobby.
There's a lot of other things that you can get
into that may cost you a little bit less
but I definitely think the relationships that come
with building a trucks, it's almost like a family.
You know, you hear of Fury family, Hostile family,
and it's definitely true.
Once you start working with some of these companies,
you know, first they're coworkers,
and then they're friends.
And then you're texting each other every once in a while,
and then you're invited to their wedding.
So I definitely think that's something that sets apart
a lot of the other hobbies that somebody could get into
because this is so widespread.
I mean, I'm talking about friends in Canada, friends in,
you know, all the way across the coast in Oregon,
and I'm down here in Florida, Texas.
It seems to be never-ending.
My friends and family could not be more supportive
of this whole thing.
It's definitely, I would say blown up a little bit
as far as the social media.
And it's been very beneficial in a lot of ways.
I've been able to collab with a bunch of companies.
It's been super awesome for my business,
so that's also pretty great,
but they definitely think it's funny.
Sometimes we'll be out, and they'll like to crack jokes.
They'll be like, "Oh yeah, have you seen her on Instagram,"
or "Have you seen her on TikTok?"
And it's definitely something to joke about,
but I couldn't ask for better friends or family.
Currently, I'm not a part of any truck clubs or groups.
I personally think it would be unfair, I guess,
to join one, kind of one of those things to where
if you join one, how do you say no to them all?
There's a bunch of my personal friends that are in them,
so I don't want to hurt any feelings.
So I just felt as if it'd be best to just not be in any.
Anti truck club, I guess. (laughs)
I do have a couple sponsors, JC's Customs.
He's definitely been there since the beginning.
I think he did my door handles for me.
He makes custom billet door handles.
He can even engrave them for you if you want.
And he also did a pair
of wing window billet handles as well.
I think I got those a couple years ago.
And to this day, I think just yesterday,
he sent me a picture of a pair of billet oil caps
that he put my name on top of.
So that's super, super cool.
OutlawLEDs is another one of my sponsors.
They built my headlights and my taillights.
And then also Explosive Kustomz,
they made my iPad dash for me as well.
The current setup that I have in it for the suspension,
it's about a six to seven-inch lift.
It's got Super Duty leafs on the front.
and it's got the stock OBS leafs on the back.
I've got the 2 1/4 PMFR, yeah, Precision Metal Fab RSK
up on the front.
And I've got 24x14 Hostile four-inch wheels,
they're the Punishers, on 35x13.5 Amp tires.
I've got a couple of custom things
that I've added to my truck
that I really feel have pulled it all together.
I've got the iPad dash from Explosive Kustomz.
I've got my matching heads and tails from OutlawLEDs.
So hopefully we'll have a couple of rock lights under there
to brighten it up a little bit,
show off the FarFromStock diff pans that I have underneath.
I think that's actually pretty much.
It's very basic I feel like for the most part,
but I wanted to keep it pretty clean and simple.
My future plans with my truck
funny enough are kind of some of the same plans
that I've had since the beginning.
I've done a lot of things that I definitely
wanted to do as far as customization
like the OA bumper was something
that I really looked forward to when I was younger,
so got that out of the way.
But I would love to do a lot of performance work with it.
It's still kind of can't get out of its own way,
but that's also what keeps it reliable,
and it was my daily for six years.
So now that I have another form of transportation,
I'm definitely gonna be able to pay more
a little attention to that.
And I wanted to do coil shocks for the longest time,
but I think I'm actually going to go with air ride
once I do start to beef up the suspension a little bit,
'cause go big or go home.
My biggest setback while building my truck happened
I would probably say 2018.
I was prepping for Daytona.
I was in the middle of swapping out my suspension,
and I only swapped it to the Super Duty leafs,
but I was actually planning on just sticking
with OBS Leafs and doing the RSK,
but I found a little bit of difficulty
in getting the leafs to match.
So I think I went through three different sets
of leaf springs before I was finally able
to make it all flow together.
And it may not be that serious of a setback,
I think it was, you know, up on a lift for,
I think, probably about two weeks,
and I thought it was gonna be a weekend project. (laughs)
So I would say that's definitely the biggest setback.
I learned how to build my truck,
I would say, from experience.
I obviously didn't go to school for any form of mechanics
or anything like that.
I luckily have a lot of friends
that are into the same industry, into the same scene.
So I mean, it started when I was 16,
and I was in my friend's shop at the time.
We'd be like, "All right, we can't figure it out.
Let's pull it up on YouTube," or "let's call up so-and-so
and we'll just kind of go from there."
But definitely a learn-every-step-of-the-way
kind of project.
But I think that's probably the most fun
and the most memorable for sure.
Truck shows that I plan on attending,
starting off strong with LST.
That's coming up very soon.
I think it's about five weeks away.
I'm super, super excited for that one.
I've got, let's see,
I really would love to go to World of Wheels.
I would love to go to Scrapin The Coast.
That'll be one I haven't been to before.
Of course, Daytona.
Oh, I actually am planning on going to Music City Showdown.
That's in Nashville, Tennessee in May.
And we'll see if I get to go to SEMA this year as well.
What I love most about building trucks,
aside from all the great people
that you get to meet along the way,
is honestly simply just learning.
I'm a big learner, I guess. I enjoy learning.
I think it's fun.
So whenever I'm, you know, trying to replace something
or trying to make a new modification
and you gotta kind of come up with something
that maybe hasn't been done before,
I just think that's super, super cool.
It's fun.
And yeah, definitely pretty satisfying. (giggles)