Desert Turtle Racing - Rocks & Rookies (Full Movie)

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7 жыл бұрын

This documentary is of the 9 month journey Desert Turtle Racing took to get to the 2016 King of the Hammers ECM Race. Follow along from just and idea to the dramatic finishing of the EveryMan Challenge.

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@chumpchange1846 3 жыл бұрын

Best. Hammer. Documentary. Ever.

@ectosports 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks much. We are really proud of the memory.

@ClimaxOffroad 11 ай бұрын

This video was what inspired me to get off my ass and put together a car for KOH. I’ve now raced 2 times in 4600 and am now going back with a 4400 car. Thank you, I’m sure I’m not the only one that was inspired by this video.

@ectosports 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! It would be great to meet you on the lakebed this year.

@donaldhalls2189 2 жыл бұрын

What a race, incredible stamina, glad you were able to finish, it's one wild race, people don't really realise how excruciating the race can be, all the best to yous and your loved ones

@josemartinezfumado3240 Жыл бұрын

I loved this story, great people, perfect team. I would really like to participate in this fantastic race. What an adventure!!

@matthewweese7406 4 жыл бұрын

What a great story! I have almost the same one. I didn’t exactly tear it apart that day to enter KOH first thing, just started with dirt Riot, Ultra 4’s tiny baby brother. But you motivate me to keep working up. I’ll be out to watch the race in 20, who knows maybe 21 will be my entry year. Congratulations to you guys not only going for your dream but finishing and placing as high as you did. Super strong

@gregchatham3890 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats guy’s and crew members, goals accomplished and y’all worked your tails off. That Jeep is amazing, and once you dialed in the shocks, there was no stopping it but flats. That’s great to be able to finish that race! 💪🏼👊🏻

@brianmarek9008 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and well done showing what it takes to go and compete there.I have friends in the ultra 4 906 car and would love to go there some day,hope to meet yall.Great Job

@mayk3lll 5 жыл бұрын

The 35 thumbs down came from the teams they passed on the course haha. I don’t know these guys at all but the story they just told and showed has me emotional for what they achieved. Good on you fellas! And congratulations!

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

Nibiru3064 Our guess is that it was John and his crew at Proving Grounds Racing.

@RockstarGarage 3 жыл бұрын

Epic cut, guys, love the story you put together here.

@macheteddie 7 жыл бұрын

Its really awesome seeing Dustin Hoffman involved in offroad racing. hell of a race guys. thanks for sharing.

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

hahaha... I've heard that before.

@closedaccount902 6 жыл бұрын

Just... Awesome..! Instant subscriber you guys killed it, every part of that build, the movie, and the race itself. The first time I saw that race I knew I had to do it. My fiancee was PISSED when she got home and found my H3 gutted in our two car garage, only one week after the VA put me on Military disability. I wish I could post a pic for ya, it's empty... And now I found your accomplishment, and I am totally impressed guys..! I don't care what it takes, I'm going to run my H3 through that course. Thank you for the inspiration.

@areject17 2 жыл бұрын

This is soo cool!

@markgeletzke6328 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 12th place finish in your class.. Thanks for sharing the emotion, I get it and can feel it.. Great Job to everyone involved..

@KimLusk 7 жыл бұрын

I actually heard someone mention "desert turtle racing" when we were out at chocolate thunder. First of all, it was our first year out there, for only 2 days of the week, and the very end of the EMC, and no idea what trail we were even at when we pulled up... and no idea who desert turtle racing was. Then this video pops up on my KZfaq as a recommended video, never having searched for it before, what are the odds. Watched the whole video and made me tear up. It's a very grueling race and even just to finish is an honor. What a great video. I can't wait for next year.

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!!!! We didn't have such a great race in 2017 but we will be back again in 2018. Please stop by and say hi.

@bwz7275 Жыл бұрын

amazing guys keep.on rockin!!!

@venture4adventure911 5 жыл бұрын

One day we MUST go through a similar experience. We are working towards that direction! Greeeaat film!

@YJKadventure 4 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! Congrats on finishing the race. Looks like an amazing experience. Thank you for sharing it. Great video quality and editing 👌🏼

@josephduarte1034 4 жыл бұрын

RIP to a legend @ 48:17

@dobrzpe 5 жыл бұрын

excellent excellent excellent video guys. THANK YOU for putting this together and sharing!

@rokguitarstar 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! There's nothing more satisfying than finishing a race in a car that you built!

@gorillahd9247 6 жыл бұрын

Outstanding job guys! From the drivers, designers/builders, and the support staff - you guys freakin' killed it out there! Seriously motivating stuff! Scott

@spiritcallsus 6 жыл бұрын

An outstanding presentation! The win/finish even brought tears to my eyes.

@genecoppedge5972 6 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, I wasn’t there but dam that was emotional! Amazing journey guys!

@jameshill7694 6 жыл бұрын

WOW! Congrats. Don't tell anyone, but when you guys made it across the finish line... I wept. Good job!

@aussiemotorsportmick 7 жыл бұрын

Great video and an inspiring story...go DTR!

@jeepindude_0173 7 жыл бұрын

What a great video! I really liked the out takes at the end.

@ZakarooNetwork 6 жыл бұрын

Inspired to make it to Everyman, Thumbs UP!

@zxtuner4lyfe 6 жыл бұрын

KZfaq needs a love symbol next to the like. This is beyond liking a video. Epic. Congrats

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks much

@michaelgarcia6960 6 жыл бұрын

perfect example of why I am going to school for welding, awesome video

@TheDuckumz 6 жыл бұрын

Great job on the build, race, and video. Hope to see more!

@jgmunchmunch 7 жыл бұрын

fantastic story guys love your work and commitment very inspiring!!

@kimb7543 5 жыл бұрын

what a awesom watch. Thanks for sharing ur journey ..congrats

@skinnymonkey23 5 жыл бұрын

This is a better movie than Rudy

@ectosports 4 жыл бұрын

hahahaha... nice comment.

@mikhail2400 6 жыл бұрын

Yall built a very nice rig and to do it in 8 months and finish the EMC is nothing short of amazing. Like alot of others i would love to do this myself but the closest ill ever get is to ride the area when i make my bucketlist trip from GA to MOAB, The Rubicon and alot of other places. Keep up the good work guys. I look forward to seeing more videos from you.

@jeffriley2502 5 жыл бұрын

Great Job guys! Going in a couple weeks for 2019 KOH. Addictive....

@bcanvidsc2898 5 жыл бұрын

DTR DTR !!! Great job guys best KOH story/video.

@paulharris8282 6 жыл бұрын

This was AWESOME !

@Caribbeandreamzz 7 жыл бұрын

Great video guys !!

@trevin1691 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent! win your class this year !!

@jeffblack9277 7 жыл бұрын

Great bunch of guys and and great story,

@gillracing3330 5 жыл бұрын

Guy's you did s great job with the build and first to race it to come 12 the in your class is amazing in it self.

@bradmcmanis2289 5 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't forget it take a normal rockcrawler build it for king of the hammers 2 guys that's dedication to finish 1 up BEST U KEEPED IT AS JEEP BODY GREAT VIDEO GUYS

@PathmakerProductions 7 жыл бұрын

Nice job guys, love the video!

@pluggz213 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing ! I need some stickers for my mud truck !!! Haha great video

@eduardodedios8213 7 жыл бұрын

Great video, great story, best luck!

@GoatBastard 7 жыл бұрын

excellent work! compliments !

@snowmodrc 6 жыл бұрын

You guys and your team are DAMN inspiring! Job well done! and good luck at KoH2018!

@coloradoprospecting1034 4 жыл бұрын

Heck yes that was an amazing experience to watch

@nandsinghrajput7653 3 жыл бұрын

amazing video. thanks for sharing.

@arizonacardinals6196 3 жыл бұрын

Great job guys this video filled my heart no joke

@dolarmangr 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen it 5 times very good 👍

@SICMRR 7 жыл бұрын

Great video enjoyed it, way to go.

@jonmolotte2852 5 жыл бұрын

Great flick guys!

@tylersnyder246 6 жыл бұрын

Awsome video guys I'm inspired

@markgueren9633 6 жыл бұрын

That was great!

@geg777 6 жыл бұрын

wow amazing.

@wpg56 7 жыл бұрын

Very good job for ROOKIES, 12th in class is fanatic! with All your HARD work it padded off, well Done.

@Peashoot88 7 жыл бұрын

great film!!

@sriperera 6 жыл бұрын

amazing

@rokguitarstar 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty Cool Guys!

@rfaracing391 7 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah DTR!

@bggalvan4973 4 жыл бұрын

Now that scx10 is the most rare rc crawler from axial

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

BG GALVAN so bummed there wasn’t more backstory about the Axial DTR RC. First RC car to complete the EMC!

@richmunoz8725 7 жыл бұрын

Nice job 💪

@chrisstrobel3439 3 жыл бұрын

Second time watching this .. great movie, so on the rear you basically cut the original chassis frame off behind the cockpit and replaced it with all DOM tubing?

@robbukacek8629 2 жыл бұрын

Front and rear were chopped off and tube frame added.

@texasforever5776 4 жыл бұрын

Y'alls final product is a better rock crawler then what you started with .

@nelsonenaccion4x424 6 жыл бұрын

What a biuld What DTR rig What RACE and what finish niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice video nice team SUCKS TIRES but great rig and team you guys should continue race i love it no metter what place win o no what is metter be in the competition you guys are winners the hold team thanks for shear the video

@travis4man 4 жыл бұрын

epic!!

@jake-coombs 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome documentary of the dtr team. Hats off to you guys amazing build and achievement. Is there anymore to dtr team story?

@ectosports 2 жыл бұрын

DTR is no longer as of 2019. We finished our first race in 2016 and then chased the finish line for the next few years.

@rafikisafari9111 6 жыл бұрын

Im a huge AXIAL fan

@ljtimmy2621 4 жыл бұрын

that was awsm

@chrisgraves3624 6 жыл бұрын

those guys are cool

@jeepslivin 6 жыл бұрын

Great job you dirty turtles! i had thought KOH had gotten to "big" for the common man. guess i as wrong

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

LOL.... It's Desert Turtle

@arizonacardinals6196 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see something like this on Netflix there is absolutely nothing for jeep life rig life crawler life

@georgefales7964 4 жыл бұрын

You gotta have a support on back of your transfer case, it will save your studs.

@neonafterlife 3 жыл бұрын

good music

@vincefairleigh6899 7 жыл бұрын

What size tires were they? What did it cost to build? Awesome that you both finished! Great video!

@CADTECHTOM 7 жыл бұрын

Vince Fairleigh The EMC modified class restricts tire size to 37's. As for cost I know it was more than anticipated and still counting !

@vincefairleigh6899 7 жыл бұрын

RockBottom Jeep you guys are inspiring! This is what I want to do eventually.

@exhaustfumes927 2 жыл бұрын

48 min are jessi combs . Nice touch rip.

@CADTECHTOM 2 жыл бұрын

RIP indeed. Jesse was an amazing person.

@bthompson1767 7 жыл бұрын

good deal

@pkuudsk9927 6 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Awesome wife = awesome life, awesome friends = awesome life. You have both.Congratulations on finishing that brutal race. Will you be tackling this again in 2017 ? Not sure why 14 people dislike this but morons are everywhere unfortunately, film quality was great storyline in sync nothing to bitch about IMo. I would have given you my jeep and paid you for the original point you started from and you could have cut it up LOL.

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. We competed but failed to finish the race in 2018. We'll be back.

@robsgotit1 5 жыл бұрын

that steering wheel flex when "prerunning" is a but worrysome

@samuelwilliamson1939 7 жыл бұрын

How did you guys do this year?

@CADTECHTOM 7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately they battled mechanical issues all race. Started with two flat tires in the first three miles. ended the race at mile 88 with steering issues. They will get them next year!

@MidAtlanticBracing 2 жыл бұрын

Jessi Combs @ 48:16 RIP

@davidalejandrojaralopez7975 5 жыл бұрын

no tenian llanta de repuesto, no sabian como cambiarla, o que chow

@bustamantealdo 6 жыл бұрын

i wish i could do cool stuff like that, sucks being poor:(

@thecatalyst7743 5 жыл бұрын

What was your power plant cam and gears?

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

The Catalyst It was stock 5.3l from a 2002 Silverado with a 4L60 trans. Magnaflow did our exhaust which is why it sounds so great. Gears were 5.38’s if I remember correctly. Honestly, it had barely enough power and I was amazed the motor lasted the race. The Turtle tipped the scales at over 5k lbs. Shes a pig. The reason we finished was because we had to go slow and run our own race.

@woosta45 3 жыл бұрын

John Grounds good people.

@robbukacek8629 2 жыл бұрын

John is a good friend. When he relocated to CA from FL, his first trail run in CA was with us. He broke a front axle shaft on the gatekeeper of the John Bull trail in Big Bear, CA and still ran the entire trail without so much as a tug. Pretty sure that's when he caught the rock crawling bug. We all had a good time with lots of friendly competition between us.

@rafikisafari9111 6 жыл бұрын

I have a AXIAL scx 10 jeep rubicon

@xd_gangster693 5 жыл бұрын

so since you have like advanced adapters stuff on your rig they just give you the parts if your racing?

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

xd gangster69 It depends. At our level, they’re not going to just give us anything we want but some sponsors are happy to throw a few parts your way when you’re competing and displaying their name on your rig.

@TM-lw8wn 5 жыл бұрын

i could have swore i heard him say something about keeping the "cost" down, didnt see any evidence of that happening.

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

T M It certainly appears that way but it wasn’t. Over half our costs were covered through sponsorships from people we have relationships with in the industry that we have known and supported for years. We took a 2005 TJ, with a tired 5.3l and trans from an 02 Silverado added a used 14 bolt, a used Dana 60, traded a lift and tools for much of the fabrication and worked nights and weekends to get it built.

@alfonsomartinez1984 6 жыл бұрын

What engine are they running?

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

Vortec 5.3l V8

@chrisstrobel3439 3 жыл бұрын

I’m curious what Axial supplied?

@ectosports 3 жыл бұрын

The details of the sponsorship cannot be disclosed haha. But they had a pretty big part in getting us into the race.

@chrisstrobel3439 3 жыл бұрын

ectosports I wish they would sponsor a serious RC race there sometime during the week there in KOJ JV.

@ectosports 3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisstrobel3439 maybe this year. Watch for detials coming.

@chrisstrobel3439 3 жыл бұрын

ectosports Ahh cool! Actually I think they should do the whole 165 mile, etc. course in Ultra 4 RC’s, that would require the fitness of ultra elite endurance runners and athletes .. which would pretty much rule out anybody I’ve ever known in the 1:1 crawling world 😬 Would make for quite the show as you tune in week after week to see their progress 😬 lol. Anyway assuming Biden doesn’t shut down America next year for Covid .. I look forward to going to 2021 KOH as a 1:1 spectator, and RC enthusiast, and wish you the best 👍

@garrettlo83 4 жыл бұрын

They keep talking about a car, but they're working on a Jeep...

@spacejaysun 4 жыл бұрын

Cool content, cough cough theres no way a patched tire would make it through that, way to cover that part up. lol

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

Jason Mejia You’re wrong. It absolutely did.

@spacejaysun 4 жыл бұрын

@@rbukacek idk man it seems shady... especially the way that was edited... must be the worlds best insta flat then lol what brand was the tire patch you should do a brand deal haha cool video none the less

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

Jason Mejia They were tire plugs. Sidewalk had a gash in it from hitting a rock. It’s not uncommon at all to use a handful of plugs to seal a sidewall tear. You can believe it or not. Makes no difference to me.

@spacejaysun 4 жыл бұрын

@@rbukacek Ripley's

@ectosports 3 жыл бұрын

@@spacejaysun hahaha... Since I am the one that plugged the tire, I can raise my hand and swear. If there was ever an opportunity to endorse a plug company this would be the best. It took seven plus to fill the hole and hold air. I had no faith it was going to work but it did.

@antiviruus5260 7 жыл бұрын

Right at 32:50 mins, looks like someone lost their screwdriver.

@KruzKedreck 7 жыл бұрын

Shade Tree what ?

@antiviruus5260 7 жыл бұрын

Kruz Kedreck look on the ground under the jeep.

@Brackfra03 6 жыл бұрын

@paulsouza85 7 жыл бұрын

Sooo. How much$$$?

@garyjohns4711 4 жыл бұрын

better carry 2 spares if it legal

@rbukacek 4 жыл бұрын

Gary johns The Turtle is with a new owner and team. They modified it to carry two spares this year. 😉

@feaudetailing 5 жыл бұрын

kenny fabrication looks like it should be called shoe string budget fab. wow talk about zero tool or equipment.

@forkedroad 7 жыл бұрын

Probably just me, but annoying pet peeve of mine, whenever they say "car" instead of 'jeep' or 'rig'.

@Luke-jw6zn 7 жыл бұрын

Pro teams call them cars as well.

@jeremysmith8990 7 жыл бұрын

Be eS totally correct it is not a car or truck it is a JEEP

@markgueren9633 6 жыл бұрын

Yup annoyed the crap out of me...lol

@ectosports 6 жыл бұрын

I have been practicing to call it a rig because it is far from a car. Or I just call it the Turtle.

@patrickspringer6534 6 жыл бұрын

Man....it makes me cringe too. You're not alone.

@frostback8160 4 жыл бұрын

semi modded jeep could beat this build no problem

@georgefales7964 4 жыл бұрын

You should of just sold the trail rig and bought a cheep base model tj. You wasted a rubicon and used nothing from old rig. Build and learn I guess

@ectosports 3 жыл бұрын

It was not much of a Rubicon to begin with. The original axles were already upgraded 44's but we knew the rig needed 60's. So the old axles were sold.