Frank the Tank on Episode 79!
Conversations with Big Rich
English - October 07, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBAutomotive Leisure Sports offroad rockcrawling overlanding off-road rock crawling overland jeep Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Frank the Tank on Episode 79! Listen in on Frank Alioto’s journey from mechanical engineer to Edelbrock to where he is now. His no-nonsense attitude after a life-altering accident has him back in an LJ and on the trails. This is a good one!
5:01 – we went 2 miles an hour all day and I had the best time!
9:07 – I did burnouts on Woodward in Detroit
12:58 – my first job out of college was designing shock absorbers in Sutter Creek
16:05 – the 405 is at least as tough on vehicles as the Rubicon
19:04 – Edelbrock had a lot of car enthusiasts, but not many of them were off-road enthusiasts
27:48 – I used to hot lap Golden Spike
34:02 – “you never go on a night run with a Toyota without a sleeping bag!”
39:34 – the accident
47:27 – Disabled Sports run on the Rubicon
50:38 – I want this Jeep, and he’s like, you don’t need that Jeep (I got the Jeep)
53:27 – I fI had to thank every person who helped me with the vehicle, this would be 3 hours long – you know who you are and I cannot thank you enough
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