Kickin' back with an OG rockcrawler, Charlie Melchner
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English - April 29, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBAutomotive Leisure Sports offroad rockcrawling overlanding off-road rock crawling overland jeep Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We’re kicking it old school this week with one of the OG competitive rock crawlers, Charlie Melchner. Charlie comes with a unique knowledge of cars and what they can do, but a limited sense of how to build “I can measure with a yardstick, mark it with a crayon and cut it with a torch.” He left the finesse to the builders. Join us for a great conversation while Charlie fills us in on wheeling with all the greats of the sport.
3:16 Lessons learned: Never compliment a salesman on his truck, you might end up changing careers.
4:43 The moment Charlie’s life changed forever and what Bigfoot had to do with it
10:49 What do you mean you’re out of gas money? You only made it to Indiana…
16:29 Lost in Johnson Valley, this is starting to be a common theme in our podcasts
30:53 BFG introduces a new unobtanium tire to rock crawling
47:34 Why you shouldn’t test the buggy the night before a competition
54:04 Introducing the Poop Chute
1:06:39 How Charlie came to race KOH by accident