Colin grew up buying and restoring pedal bikes and really enjoyed working with his hands. When his dad took a job in Washington with Boeing, Colin bought a 1940 Ford which was quite a step up from the bicycles. He went to college at Washington State University and preferred to look for car projects instead of studying. Having to haul dead cars all over the place, Colin began looking for better solutions to tie them to the trailer. In 1993, he made the business official and started to sell his products. In 1994, he met Tim Foss of Street Rodder Magazine and took a job working for them in advertising and sales. He spent 5 years there while still doing Mac’s Custom Tie Downs on the side.
In 2003, he moved the business from Washington to Idaho and was done for personal reasons not business benefits. His new facility is 17,000 sqft which houses all their manufacturing machines, assembly equipment, shipping supplies, inventory, and even Colin’s collection of project vehicles. He employs 16 people and have been steadily growing over the years. They make all sorts of products for securing your gear including the Versa-Track systems, ratchet straps, wheel tie downs, tow straps, wheel chalks, and many more!
163: Stewart Waliser of Stews Self Service Garage
162: Nathan Cicio of Cicio Performance
161: Chris Riggs from Speed by Design
160: Ben Silcock and Andre Simon return to discuss HP Academy
159: Bryan Thompson of Powerhouse Racing
158: AJ Hartman returns for an update on AJ Hartman Aero
157: Matt Beenen returns with BuiltRight Industries
156: Alejandro and Pablo Moreno of Tandem Automotive
155: Theresa Contreras and Sara Morosan of LGE-CTS Motorsports
154: Vadim Belogorodsky from CANtrolls
153: Reid Lunde returns to discuss his interconnectable relay entered in the SEMA Launch Pad Competition
152: Johnny Cichowski of Nine Lives Racing
151: Jonny Mill of WheelWell.com
150: Charlie Eklund of Hennessey's Tuner School
149: Richard Tomlin of Apex Auto Works and White Pony Dry
148: Bob Morreale of The Tuning School
147: Dave Carapetyan of Rally Ready Driving School wants to teach everybody how to drive a rally car!
146: Dan Kahn of Kahn Media started by sending articles about his car to magazine editors. Now he runs his own PR firm.
145: Joe Gambino of Rogue Fabrication couldn't find a tube bender to meet his particular needs so he went out and made one himself!
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