The West Coast Influence

Every piece of art requires three things: a canvas, a builder, and a vision. This story covers one canvas in particular, an unassuming, affordable, almost completely overlooked piece of automotive ingenuity. For nearly 40 years, minitruckin culture has grown from its infancy with strong influences from the preceding van culture. It has blossomed into a platform of choice for this diehard community that would be labeled as “minitruckers.”
From the wild paint to the custom wheels and suspension modification, lifetime enthusiast Todd “Radar” Hendrex brings you the story of how a simple truck would be the catalyst that would breed a culture that would thrive for years to come. With the help of Weekend Celebrity Productions, the group travels to ground zero to bring you the story from the originators themselves, a story that would be known as “The West Coast Influence.”

[@TickledFunnyBone]

I was sport truckin' around that year. 1984 extended cab square body with the line smoothed out, smoothed door handles, 5-7 drop, special rims, roll-pan, with a smoothed tailgate. never drove it though because it was so much work that my dad gave up on me. so i turned around and Bought (loan) a 1990 C-1500 sport (the down version of the 454ss) standard cab short box and put air-ride on it and a roll-pan and other upgrades. had to give the truck back to the bank. i later bought another 1989 full size chev truck (standard cab short box) and completely re-did the body, the chasis and replaced the box with a sport side box. my dad ended the project by flattening the tires (slashed) and put it behind his shop where it sits today. and that is where i am today missing a truck. i went from being a Mini-trucker even working on buddies trucks and then went to the full-size. i still prefer the full-size chev. i once convertablized a buddies square body s-10, he was into those radical concepts i am into sport trucks, camaro or corvette and truck together. hopefully someday i can once again cruise.

[@kscarcello]

Awesome, can't wait to see the entire video...Not sure if you noticed but 7 of the 10 trucks shown in the video while taking about the influence of Orange County CA. were Southern Oregon trucks...

[@150shifty]

my dad was born in 1970 in 86' Glen Oaks, Louisiana he was minitruckin

[@Glamishooked]

Man wish I could see more videos of the early days to learn how it was to teach how it should be done. It was the little things then that would set you apart from what I understand

[@LuckyGreenStripes]

Great teaser, I'm looking forward to seeing the entire video.

[@wor2022]

R.I.P. Sean

[@austinevans3969]

This is really cool hope you guys do more on this

[@xedouts10]

Awesome video

[@TaylorMadejdm1975]

Excellent vid man!...

[@swiftxb]

Great vid guys!!!! Thanks..... :)

[@Matt___Mason]

Sweet

[@emilioescalante4134]

0:07 VHS Tape Insert Sound Effect

[@bobbycowper2915]

hydraulics only people or your not minitruckin.

[@TickledFunnyBone]

my comment got deleted and i do not know why.