Yellow Hats and Gas Tanks with Tony Pellegrino on Episode 58
Conversations with Big Rich
English - May 13, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBAutomotive Leisure Sports offroad rockcrawling overlanding off-road rock crawling overland jeep Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What do yellow hats, gas tanks, Jeeps, and bicycle parts have in common? Tony Pellegrino and Genright. Tony is the founder of Genright, a company now supplying thousands of SKUs for your Jeep, listen to how it began with a gas tank. Lots of personal history in this one with Tony and his family, Debbie, Jamie and Jordan. Names you know in the industry.
4:37 – My parents sent us to parochial school to straighten us boys out.
10:14 – I won an award for building a four-wheel drive radio controlled car from scratch.
12:27 – I drove home in reverse so I didn’t miss my curfew
14:41 – the start of the off-road bug
17:23 – I did my homework
18:58 – the next job found me
24:00 – I met the one
26:10 – I worked like a dog
31:18 – remember the rc car?
36:53 – the evolution of Genright
41:43 – The problem with ramping up a company during an economic crash
49:45 – too many guys that are disconnected from reality
58:44 – the importance of trail etiquette
1:05:30 – tremendous industry relationships have come from Ultra4
1:12:02 – the origin of the yellow hat
We want to thank our sponsors Maxxis Tires and 4Low Magazine.
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