Rockchump
They call me Bondo
Hi! My name is Orlando but most people know me by Bondo.
There has been a build thread going on another site for over decade I’ve been updating periodically as I work on this thing off and on.
I was told that I should just start a new thread here so here I am! My first post. I used to be very active on pirate from the late 90’s and after the crash in early 2000’s all the way up until 2015. I did competitive rock crawling in 3 western series in the early and mid 2000’s until 2011 when my father passed suddenly. I have done desert racing in Baja and United States as well. Co drove a few US races in class 10. Drove and codrove V2R 2015 for 3rd in 1600. In 2014 I drove and co drove the Baja 1000 and 2022 I co drove the Baja 1000 again.
This project started life as a 1965 CJ6 and quickly morphed into a Jeep Skinned Chromoly Tube Chassis based off the King of the Hammers 4500 Class rules. I thsatred this build in 2013 and took a 6 month break to help move shops for the buddy I was building it in. Then in mid 2015 my mother got ill and I parked it in storage and for 8 years. I brought it out to finish it in 2023. It’s currently at a shop in Temecula getting finished. When will it be done your guess is as good as mine. I’ll make some post summing some phases of the build. Up until now I build everything myself. Engine and trans wo
rk have been done by good friends of mine.
There has been a build thread going on another site for over decade I’ve been updating periodically as I work on this thing off and on.
I was told that I should just start a new thread here so here I am! My first post. I used to be very active on pirate from the late 90’s and after the crash in early 2000’s all the way up until 2015. I did competitive rock crawling in 3 western series in the early and mid 2000’s until 2011 when my father passed suddenly. I have done desert racing in Baja and United States as well. Co drove a few US races in class 10. Drove and codrove V2R 2015 for 3rd in 1600. In 2014 I drove and co drove the Baja 1000 and 2022 I co drove the Baja 1000 again.
This project started life as a 1965 CJ6 and quickly morphed into a Jeep Skinned Chromoly Tube Chassis based off the King of the Hammers 4500 Class rules. I thsatred this build in 2013 and took a 6 month break to help move shops for the buddy I was building it in. Then in mid 2015 my mother got ill and I parked it in storage and for 8 years. I brought it out to finish it in 2023. It’s currently at a shop in Temecula getting finished. When will it be done your guess is as good as mine. I’ll make some post summing some phases of the build. Up until now I build everything myself. Engine and trans wo
. I think I might still have those detachable side panels if you have a use for them. Too bad I didn't save the strip I cut out of the roof section haha, could have made your life easy for extending it. I appreciate the idea for a run around town rig as well, that's the plan for mine.
