Wow, while responding to
another thread, I came upon one of my earlier posts in
this thread, where in response to the below photo:
I posted the following response in November 2009:
MtnLuvr wrote:
Wow...talk about a small world.....
Once I realized it was sponsored by Garmin and looked closer, I knew it looked familiar (although it has a lot more stuff on it than the photos I'd seen). A fellow street-rodder near my dad runs a custom fabrication shop and back probably in 2008 (before I got my KK), I was at this shop and saw the picture hanging on his project-wall. I was interested in the KK and asked about it. He told me Garmin, who is also based in the Kansas City area, came to him and wanted a winch mounted and the front made to look more rugged. He told me he didn't want to mount the winch as there wasn't anything substantial enough to mount it to without replacing the front bumper entirely. Garmin insisted he just mount it "for looks" and that it wouldn't be used.
I had forgotten about this KK, but not about this fabricator. He's worked on one of my dad's street rods and is a very skilled craftsman with a fully loaded shop. In fact, he's been my long-term back-up plan if someone doesn't come out with a winch-capable bumper for the KK, that I'd reserve a slot in his schedule sometime and have him fabricate me a custom front bumper that I'd design and that I'd mount a winch to. Small world..............
I found it funny that back in November 2009 I gave an indication of where I was probably going to go to get an off-road winch bumper for my KK since we haven't had any options. Unfortunately, as mentioned in my
very first post of this thread, I had to repossess my KK from this 1-man street rod fabrication shop after only getting 3.5 weeks of work on my KK out of him after being without my KK for 22 weeks, but he did help me get some work completed, just at a torturously slow rate.
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2009 KK Limited 4x4Jeep Green/partially dechromed/Sunroof/OEM Skids/
Gray Leather/uConnect GPS-Nav/DVD Head Rests/
MtnLuvr's Off-Road Front Winch Bumper, Heavy Duty Rock Sliders, Heavy Duty Off-Road Rear Bumper/JBA 4" AaS Lift w/UCAs/16x8's w/ 245/75R16 GY MT/Rs
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