To date:
Davey boy 1
Nprecon 2
Blacknight 1
Ralley-t 1
That's five skids NOW on order so we have met Sean's baseline needs for him to begin to fabricate these skids. Come on all you other guys and gals who have been hesitating. Pile on!!
I have an additional personal motive for buying these skid plates. I spent six plus weeks on the Gulf coast immediately after Katrina had beat the crap out of the area working with many of the town, city, county, state and federal government agencies all along the Mississippi coast line providing security, food and water distribution, etc. One thing I noted in the red zone (I arrived about one week after the fact) was the number of cars and trucks sitting around without fuel. A lot of ordinary people turned to theft to obtain many of their essential resource needs (stuff normally easily available to all of us but which we take for granted because of this fact). Fuel was a HUGE issue for about a one hundred-plus mile radius from the coast. People were going around and literally punching holes in fuel tanks of vehilcles in order to drain the fuel from them. Car lots and parking garages were poplular.
There were hundreds of vehicles sitting around that had either been ran out of fuel and were just left OR they had their fuel tanks punctured and drained of fuel. With gas prices continuing to rise, I look at these skid plates as just a little additional insurance to make sure the fueld I put in my trucklet.... gets used by the engine in my trucklet. I already have a locking gas cap on my beast, but the factory skid doesn't cover the sides too well and plastic fuel tanks can be punctured easily by a pen knife. Too easy. Sean's skids won't be punctured/by-passed easily.
I spent $57 dollars refueling last week. Tank wasn't even on emptry. Americans aren't use to paying the higher costs for fuel that just about every other nation on earth pays. I don't own a refinery and I know fuel won't become any cheaper in my lifetime, in fact I am quite sure it will continue to rise, so I ALSO view Sean's tank skids as a little additional protection from more than just "the rocks".
