- What's going on, guys?
Biggs with Custom Offsets,
Today, we have another episode
of "Employees' First Trucks."
I love these.
You guys love these.
We're gonna pull these people in
and we're gonna go over their first truck,
see what they had.
It's gonna be pretty dope.
But before we get started,
if you guys want to trick out your first truck,
or even if it's your current truck,
whatever it may be, head on over to customoffsets.com.
Pick yourself up some parts.
We got performance parts.
We got accessories.
We got literally the whole nine yards.
Go build your truck.
That way, your first truck is cooler than most,
because I know what mine looked like,
and Custom Offsets could have made it look better.
So go do that.
All right, the first truck we're going to go over is Sawyer.
Come on, Sawyer.
- Hello. - All right, this is Sawyer.
Sawyer, tell us what you do here.
- Hello, my name is Sawyer.
I'm a Customer Service Lead here at Custom Offsets.
I work with all of the reps
that you guys talk on a daily basis.
And I also do all of the employee purchases,
and the sponsorship orders.
So any ambassadors, influencers,
all those kinds of purchases,
those all run through me as well.
- So if you guys want some wheels from CO,
this is the guy.
You know, be nice to this guy.
- That's me. I'll get you a deal.
- Yep. Perfect.
All right, my first question that I have for you
is what was your first truck?
- It's a 2000 Chevy Silverado 1500, in gray.
Silverados up here in the North, a lot of rust,
but you know- - Yeah, you'll have that.
- Yeah, it had a newer bed, so rocker rust was gone,
but you know, throw some wheels, tires, a lift on it.
Take your eyes away from the rust, you know.
- All right, well, that kind of leads me
into my next question.
What did you do to it?
You kind of said you put a new bed,
you put wheels, tires.
It sounds like suspension.
So just kind of run us through wheels,
tires, and your suspension, of course.
- Yeah, yeah.
So I had a four-inch Rough Country lift on it,
as well as 33-by-12 1/2 General Grabber All-Terrains,
and then some American Outlaw Buckshot wheels,
which aren't even made anymore.
But yeah,
it was a good build. - Such a cool name.
Buckshot. - Yeah. Buckshot.
- That's such a...
Those should go
on a Silverado from Wisconsin. - Honestly.
American Outlaw Buckshot.
Just a really good name.
- It literally fits.
- Clack, clack! Buckshot!
- So you kind of said you did a full build here,
but say you had maybe a little more money,
or, you know, a little more funds.
Would you have done a different build,
or would you have stuck the same route,
or what's kind of your end-all goal?
What's your dream build on this truck?
- I definitely would have gone bigger and a lot wider.
Back then, even Arkon wasn't a thing yet.
But I definitely would have done,
if it's a dream build, some 24-by-14 Roosevelts, for sure.
On the black milled.
Probably a six, seven inch lift.
I'm not too sure on the tires, honestly.
Anything mud terrain.
I know I had some all-terrains on there,
so there's a lot of good options out there,
but definitely a mud terrain tire.
- Heck yeah.
So you would make it kind of into a little show build.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Only it's a little hard to have a show build
when you're from the North in a truck like that.
And it's, it's sad.
- Yeah, you have the black F-150 now, correct?
- Yeah, I actually have some sponsored wheels and tires
that are going on here pretty soon.
Some TIS wheels and some Radar mud terrain tires.
- Heck yeah.
- So, but on there right now, put some DWGs.
DW14, I believe.
They're 20-by-12s with some, what is it?
RBP mud terrain tires on there.
So the Repulsors.
Six-inch Rough Country lift on it as well.
Spec-D headlights. I just put in.
It's got like an LED running strip on it.
Makes the front end look way cleaner.
Black honeycomb grille.
Some Spyder tail lights.
You know, just some general stuff.
Just making it tall and wide, and making it look clean.
- There you go.
Yeah. That's sick.
Those are Sawyer's builds.
Pretty dope.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing your build now.
I didn't even know that was happening,
so you kind of kept that on the low.
So that'd be dope.
Hit that Subscribe button
so you can see the dope wheels that TIS are sending us,
'cause I've seen them.
I think everyone around the shop's seen them.
They're pretty dope.
We're gonna pull someone else in.
We're gonna go over their first build,
and see what they got going on.
All right, next up,
we have the man, the myth, the legend,
Dakota Stone from Fitment Industries.
Come on. - Do I come in now?
Do I come in? - Yeah, yeah. Right here.
- All right.
All right, I don't want to...
Hopefully I'm not too nervous.
- Yeah, if you guys don't know,
Dakota is the man of Fitment Industries.
- Hey, can I?
I'm in a couple, two, tree videos over there,
every once in a while, yeah.
- Yeah, if you guys know anything about Dakota,
I have a surprise for Dakota.
You guys are gonna like this.
Hold on, I'll be right back. - Okay.
All right, I like surprises. - All right, you ready
for this, Dakota?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Come on.
- You want me to slap that puppy?
I've never slapped a...
(metal clangs)
- There it is. - Oh, okay.
(metal clangs)
- There it is. - Oh, okay.
- Hell yeah. Let's go.
- Doesn't have the same ring to it,
but it's solid.
It's a unit.
- Yeah. It's definitely no car wheel.
That thing is a little, a little big.
It was-
- Yeah, you're a strong guy.
- Yeah, I tried to find the smallest truck wheel we had.
(Dakota laughs) I tried to grab an Anthem,
and they said, "No, you gotta get a bigger one."
So, all right, speaking of truck wheels.
- Yep.
- What was your first truck?
- So I had a Chevy Silverado, the LLY Duramax.
I was, you know,
I'm a big car guy- - Huge car guy.
- But in the past I was like, all right,
I gotta get out of the car game.
I gotta do something different.
I'm spending too much money on cars.
So somewhere in my brain,
I thought it'd be a great idea to pick up a Duramax,
'cause that's how you save money.
(Biggs laughs)
- Not a great plan.
- Yeah, and I got a good deal on it.
So it was my dad's friend,
stored his truck in the winter,
and they'd use it to tow his boat in the summer.
That's all he used it for.
So it was a gem.
It was a diamond in the rough.
And I got it for a steal, too.
- You shoulda kept that. - I know, I know.
But well, then I get it.
And then I'm like, I started doing modifications to that,
'cause I can't leave anything stock.
So like leveled it, put it on some Fuel wheels,
some 35s that rubbed to holy hell.
I could do about like a quarter turn,
and it just (mimics tire grinding).
But then once I started getting into the oil changes,
the fuel filters,
getting ready to start looking at replacing the injectors.
I was like, what the did I get myself into?
- I mean, I guess it's not an LB7, so-
- Yeah. LLY, baby.
It sounded good.
I added straight pipe.
She whistled like a mother,
you know what I'm saying?
But no, I realized that this is no different
than the car game.
If anything, it's more expensive-
- Oh, it's definitely more expensive.
- Than the car game.
So I ended up selling it.
Like, as much as I loved the truck,
I had no use for a diesel whatsoever.
Like a gasser is more than I needed.
And I still went with a diesel,
just because like I was from Beaver-tucky,
where everybody and their brother
had a big ol' lifted truck.
And I felt like I had to fit in, so-
- All right.
That's Dakota's first truck.
Do you wish you still had it?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- What would you have done to it?
- Yeah, if I still had it, like I wanted to tune it.
Maybe do a little bit more performance.
I needed to lift it higher,
because the leveling kit, it looked good.
Like, I liked the stance of it,
but it just, like I said, it wasn't functional at all,
so probably would have did that.
And then maybe some different wheels down the road, too.
But I did like the simplicity of it too.
Just like a nice cat eye that's clean,
lifted, on some good wheels.
Like, you know, it doesn't get much better than that.
- I just don't think they look good super built up.
I think like some simple four-inch,
you know, low and wide.
- Hell yeah. - Simple.
It looks good.
It's still functional.
It's still practical.
And it's still a head-turner, at the same time.
But like, you know.
- Especially up here in Wisconsin, you see a clean cat eye,
you gotta double-take.
- Yeah.
You're like, wait, why is that clean?
Those rockers should be rested.
What the heck? - It's gotta be rusty.
- Yeah.
(creepy violin music)
So you would have put a bigger lift on,
what, with four-inch, six-inch?
- I mean, at the time,
I remember wanting a six-inch super bad,
so I probably would have did that.
Maybe the hideaway steps-
- Oh, and steps. - Those are nice.
Keeps 'em clean.
But again, everything is so damn expensive.
And I was pretty young when I owned it.
I was probably, I don't know, 22.
- Oh, yeah. - Something like that.
So I didn't have a ton of money.
I wanted to do a bunch of stuff to it,
but like, I got the wheels secondhand.
I got the leveling kit secondhand.
I had a friend install this stuff,
and yeah, that was it.
I was just kind of a broke kid with a diesel,
and then it made me more broke.
So then I sold it.
Oh yeah.
The thing had an under 100,000 miles, too.
I think I bought it, and it was like 80,000 miles.
Got it for like 16 grand.
- There's gonna be 16-year-olds in the comments,
trying to jump through the screen
and punch you right in the face right now.
It's gonna happen.
- I feel like I kind of deserve it.
So that's okay. I understand that.
I understand the pain. - Yeah.
You're gonna get some hella heat for selling this truck.
- I know.
You're gonna help me get a truck?
- Yeah, you want a truck?
Let's get you a truck.
- Yeah.
- Drop a comment down below what Dakota should get next.
- Yeah. What truck fits me?
- Yeah.
- I'm a big boy.
So I need a nice big boy truck.
Not a diesel.
I just, I don't need it.
They sound cool.
They're fast, but I don't need it.
I got the cars for that.
Ye-ye.
- Exactly.
- I think that's how that goes.
- All right.
That's Dakota's car, trucks,
literally everything in between.
So that's pretty sick.
Let's get this man a truck again.
- Hell yeah.
- All right.
(hand slams)
- [Dakota] Thank you.
- Hell yeah.
All right, next up we have Jerry's 2015 Chevy Silverado.
All right, come in here.
We're gonna talk about Jerry's first truck here.
All right.
What was your first truck again?
Let's read-
- My first truck was Shawn Chartier's work truck,
our old truck from Custom Offsets,
which was a 2015 Silverado 1500.
Also known as CO 23.
From way back then,
so there you go. - CO 23?
Is that 'cause he's had 23 vehicles?
- It seems like it.
He goes through them like no other.
- All right, so you have his old 2015 Silverado.
And this is your first truck.
And what did you have before?
What did you cruise around?
Did you have a car?
- I did.
I rolled in the Sunfire gang.
I had a four door gold Sunfire sedan.
Rocked that out, and then rolled it,
and then proceeded to get a blue Sunfire two-door,
so I sported up a little bit.
She was fancy.
And then that one died,
and then I got another two-door red Sunfire.
She was mint.
- All right.
So let's go over your truck build,
'cause it's pretty much fully built.
- Yeah, so I started off,
Sean had some, like, I think 22
or 20-inch Dub Ballers on it.
Low-profile tires.
And then I proceeded to lift it up,
got the seven-inch Rough Country Vertex on it,
with the coilovers all around.
Put another two-inch leveler to make it nine.
Got some 37 inch Federal tires on there,
with some 24/14 Arkons.
Body Armor bumpers all around, Morimoto headlights,
some Recon lighting in there, too.
Black Label lighting, rock lights.
I got some cubes that just got in here,
and I'll be putting those on the bumper.
- I think...
If you do it, and I like it, I might do it, too.
- You might have to copy soon.
- Let's bring it back.
- Let's do it. - Let's bring the RGB back.
- Let's do it.
I believe we can be the frontmen for it.
- I 100% agree, because I'm a big lights guy.
It sounds like Jerry is a big lights guy.
- Big lights guy.
- Dude, that looks sick.
Are there any future plans for your full...
Your build going forward, I guess?
- I'm trying to get the sound system done in it.
I got the new deck in it.
Just need to get sub boxes.
Then not too much.
I want to get it to a point where I can sell it,
and then get a dually, for non-dually things.
So that is the future plan.
- You just really want a dually now.
- I just really want a dually.
- Why, what's your- - For non-dually things.
- Are you gonna make it...
Are you gonna lift it really big?
- Absolutely.
It's gonna be obnoxious.
Not nothing Gabe Farrell like,
'cause his is pretty badass.
(soft hip-hop music)
- What, what are you looking for?
Like, what kind of dually you wantin'?
- I'm doing a Dirty-max.
I want to do 2015 or newer.
Chevy guy all the way, so-
- Boo.
- [Jerry] Yeah, sorry.
- All right.
That's Jerry's full build truck.
First truck. Dude.
Your first truck's sick.
- I know.
Yeah, if you think about it, first build, first truck.
Just getting into the game, only three years in, so.
- Yeah, this is my...
Technically, my truck now is my second truck.
My first truck was pretty sick,
but like for a first truck, like you went all out.
- Now you've gotta get yours up.
Gotta get it taller.
- It's happening. - Gotta get it fatter.
- It's happening.
I'm just waitin'.
All this stuff's rolling in.
It's just gotta be put on, 'cause I ain't doing it.
- Can't wait to see it.
- Ah, I'm excited, too.
All right.
That's our episode of "Employee's First Trucks."
There are some sick ones.
You got a Dakota Stone wheel slap in here,
so we can't go wrong with that.
But if you guys need wheels, tires, suspension,
so you can have cool trucks like they did,
head on over to customoffsets.com,
and get yourself some stuff.
Also, don't forget.
Drop a comment down below what your first truck is.
I would love to look through those.
Those are sick.
I'm sure some of you guys out there
have some pretty sweet first trucks,
and I would love to look through those.
So that's what we got for you.
Peace.
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