Industry icon, Clayton Walters, in Episode 39
Conversations with Big Rich
English - December 31, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBAutomotive Leisure Sports offroad rockcrawling overlanding off-road rock crawling overland jeep Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Clayton Walters is an industry icon, building Clayton Off-Road from the ground up. He is the name in long-arm kits. Listen to his story and how it began and where it’s headed next. There’s a lot of laughs with a guy like Clayton..
3:22 – always had a knack with mechanical stuff
6:26 – lifting Grand Cherokees, “it’s just terrible”
9:48 – I’ll build this for $1500, but I gotta have ten orders
11:40 – my lousy pick up line “I can put a long arm kit on that”
14:14 – we had a one-car garage with a portable garage beside it
17:07 – I can’t send the government a bunch of control arms
20:58 – how’re we going to save money? (listen up as Clayton explains their process)
27:30 – adding value for our customers
31:13 – it was a rude awakening with football
33:26 – don’t let the Night Rider get ya
40:54 – is my 25 year old mind having issues with my 58 year old body? Or vice-versa?
44:19 – the wet t-shirt contest
46:20 – building Erik Miller’s first Jeep
51:49 – racing the Rausch Creek qualifier…and the expensive piss
Clayton Off Road, the premium Jeep Suspension Company. www.claytonoffroad.com
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