we're here for the debut of the Colorado
zr2 but we're also seeing some very cool
support vehicles with me right now
Todd hubber ride and handling engineer
at General Motors look why are you here
for the Colorado zr2 so that's a good
story I'm actually a ride handling
engineer with a small car program to Jim
but because of all my extensive
experience with the Hummer and the h3 I
got pulled in on this great program as a
subject matter expert for the rock
crawling aspect of this here too so I
think we remember you from the h3t in
particular which was a great truck we
had it but now doesn't exist anymore
correct so talk to us about this vehicle
this looks pretty special it's pretty
cool we we started this thing off it was
a year to end a camp vehicle that was
used for a lot of the development and as
some of the newer pre-production models
rolled in this freed up for us to do
some cool things we started off by
putting a one-inch body lift and some
bigger 33 inch dirt track tires on it
and there looks familiar those are what
are those those are at h3 total AG so we
built some frame extensions bolted those
right in as a recovery point added a
whole new cross member support for a
recovery receiver hitch for a winch
recovery hardwired the winch also put a
hole here for a flag rack and when you
go ahead over legs and do's and yeah you
like to keep the
shields or Custer's our stock everything
else is Doc's ear - so what kind of
parts and pieces do you keep inside well
right now we have a Afrojack toolbox in
all our tool bags and we're joking phase
2 of this project we're going to have
some custom storage units back there to
hold but this is what I can talk about
this oh you got a VR - 33 inch tires but
this is a service can so it's got you
can put anything with the service body
we actually recovered it from the
parking lot at work it was used for some
testing kind of love to die so yeah all
sorts of compartments for ratchet straps
and what are these I noticed that we
made some custom where you want to
maintain the integrity the Box
off-roading so we have custom rocker
guards and kind of the electrical center
we added a second battery it's tied into
the alternator air compressor winch and
to come are some spotlight fantastic so
oh that's excellent and we had to open
up the wheel opening oh yeah I know so
it's a little bit longer this will be
longer than he has two flares but lera
ektu to make one but it you know it
still looks like a zr2 so let's guess
again you did some custom work here on
the bumper took a bumper we trimmed it
off so it fit on the service body add a
winch for recovery got a spare tire fair
tire what's in a safety bar with off
fluids and things that we might need
mileage and a spare driveshaft
yeah bad idea so and so you can walk
this all down this whole thing can lock
down which we like to we don't have to
worry about our stuff in parking lots or
whatever
excellent that's been telling ya we need
thoughts about making this a production
option of aux Delete on a zr2 you know I
don't I don't think there's any plans
right now but I think you know there'd
be a select few people to think like we
do think it's really cool I think you
might be surprised they didn't either
he's nothing like baby thank you very
much I thank you very cool truck and
well I'm sure we'll be talking about so
in the future as well - thanks for right
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