EP 07 Rob Bender Park

A play on the triumph and losses in performance and life.  The Talent Tank podcast will navigate the inner workings of lifestyle, lives, family, teams, careers, programs, and technology in and around the offroad motorsports industry.  What breeds success with your Talent Tank on full, failures when its on empty.  From the journey to the Starting Line to take that Green Flag, on to exploring trials and tribulations on and off the track in pursuit of victorious achievement and the Checkered Flag.

Episode 7 throws Rob Bender Park @robbenderpark current head of fabrication at Motobilt, and host of the hit TV series Truck Night in America into the mix.  Rob walks us down history lane of the Tin Benders, Pirates of the Rubicon, King of the Hammers, numerous welding projects, Enron, California, Alabama, terrible humidity, the difference between 13" & 15" Dickies, and whats going on at Motobilt with their new 10kW Fiber Laser Cutter and shop move, and what it means to be tasked with innovation.   

After the Checkered Flag-
As mentioned here's the link to Pirate4X4 Bendin' Tube 101 By Rob Park https://www.pirate4x4.com/articles2/tech/bendin_tube

Truck Night in America wiki, is a History Channel program that debuted in 2018.  In the show, contestants compete through a series of elimination events, and the final two remaining members race independently against each other on a three-mile course known as "The Green Hell." Whoever completes the course fastest, or, in the event that neither finishes, gets the farthest wins a $10,000 prize. After the first elimination round, when one loser reduces the group to four contestants, a selection process teams an expert coach to each driver. The coaches had been desert racing champion and truck builder "Pistol" Pete Sohren, extreme sports pioneer and dirt track racer Glen Plake, truck builder and master fabricator Abe Wine, and rock crawling champion and master fabricator Rob "Bender" Park, but "Pistol" Pete Sohren was killed in January 2019 in a UTV accident in Mexico, leaving a vacancy in the show. His replacement has not been announced.Some events change between episodes, while others remain the same. Drivers get a one-hour opportunity to make repairs or modifications to their trucks twice during the competition.

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