Sunday, July 23, 2006
What's OverKill Off Road and who are we?
My name is Lilly and my hubby's name is Mark. We are very big into the Jeep thing and have been for many years. Mark has been into 4x4's since before having a drivers license.
He always bought older Jeeps and built them up and made them stronger. Well, finally he decided that wasn't the way to go because it would never be completely what he wanted. So with the last one he started with a frame and added the things he wanted to it. I'll try to get him to write the more technical stuff about OverKill for you later. The picture of it is in our profile or see some of the build-up pictures at http://www.overkilloffroad.net/overkill.htm .
While in the middle of that project he was finding that companies where not offering things heavy duty enough or exactly what he wanted, so being a tool & die maker by trade be started making his own things. Our Jeep club buddies, www.jeepalliance.org , decided they liked some of his ideas and wanted Mark to build things for them. That's basically how we got started with OverKill Off Road in a nutshell.
OverKill Off Road was started in a 2 car garage with minimal equipment. We now have a 40 x 60 building with the equipment needed to build, fabricate and weld, including a car lift! (That was my mother's day gift! lol)
We are currently building another Jeep for me!! We're calling that Lil Overkill. It will be overkill for a daily grocery getter but more then capable on the trails. As long as I can drive it correctly. You can see the pictures to that at Lil OverKill. We're still debating on the final color of it, but that's a ways away at this point anyway.
There is also another project underway in the shop, but I'll have to ask the owner if I can discuss that here. It's pretty cool too!
As a side note - I have an eBay store,
http://stores.ebay.com/Jewels-To-Auto-Parts?refid=store , where there are some Auto Parts at the moment. In the very near future there will be Jeep parts and off roading parts listed, So go check it out too! LADIES - There is a LOT of vintage costume jewelry for you there!!
He always bought older Jeeps and built them up and made them stronger. Well, finally he decided that wasn't the way to go because it would never be completely what he wanted. So with the last one he started with a frame and added the things he wanted to it. I'll try to get him to write the more technical stuff about OverKill for you later. The picture of it is in our profile or see some of the build-up pictures at http://www.overkilloffroad.net/overkill.htm .
While in the middle of that project he was finding that companies where not offering things heavy duty enough or exactly what he wanted, so being a tool & die maker by trade be started making his own things. Our Jeep club buddies, www.jeepalliance.org , decided they liked some of his ideas and wanted Mark to build things for them. That's basically how we got started with OverKill Off Road in a nutshell.
OverKill Off Road was started in a 2 car garage with minimal equipment. We now have a 40 x 60 building with the equipment needed to build, fabricate and weld, including a car lift! (That was my mother's day gift! lol)
We are currently building another Jeep for me!! We're calling that Lil Overkill. It will be overkill for a daily grocery getter but more then capable on the trails. As long as I can drive it correctly. You can see the pictures to that at Lil OverKill. We're still debating on the final color of it, but that's a ways away at this point anyway.
There is also another project underway in the shop, but I'll have to ask the owner if I can discuss that here. It's pretty cool too!
As a side note - I have an eBay store,
http://stores.ebay.com/Jewels-To-Auto-Parts?refid=store , where there are some Auto Parts at the moment. In the very near future there will be Jeep parts and off roading parts listed, So go check it out too! LADIES - There is a LOT of vintage costume jewelry for you there!!
