More about Matty than you ever wanted to know...

B orn October 23^rd, 1971, grew up in Rochester NY… born at a young age.
Most of my life has been spent outdoors. I grew up in western NY and was in the woods tracking deer and fishing every chance I could. In 1985 I was given a snowboard by the local skate shop owner and 2 years later I was a factory sponsored professional snowboarder competing on the New England World Cup Tour and Western Mountain series. I sat on the very first committee that sat before the Olympic panel in 1989 to have snowboarding as a trial sport in the Olympics. I got to travel to 7 countries to compete and was sidelined in 1993 with a major injury to my knee and shoulder while filming a cliff-drop video for K2 Snowboards. After competing was over for me, I was involved for almost a 10-year stint in the custom car audio industry. I ran regional IASCA events at the shop and traveled to car audio shops doing sales and install training, as well as product reviews for a few of the industry rags. And after all that here I am in Florida with no snow! Rats!

4 Wheel History

I was always into big Trucks; I used to collect magazines from the 80's when Bigfoot, Bearfoot, Boss Hogg, and the like were still actually "real" trucks. My Brother took me wheeling when I was 11 with a friend who had an old Power Wagon with 40" Gumbo Monster Mudders on it, and I was hooked. I proceeded to follow the 4-wheel path with various vehicles, mostly Nissans, to see what I could do to them and where I could go. Since then, I have moved to Jeeps - still got a Nissan though. My first was a 94 YJ which was great, but I decided to build a crawler for more western-like terrain and started all over again with an '04 Rubicon, 5.5 RE Long arm kit, and 35's. Now living in Florida, my wife and I teach 4x4 driving, recovery, trail safety and wheeling classes for our club and other clubs around the state - and hopefully around the country. We have wheeled all over Moab/southern Utah and northern AZ as well as most of VT, MA, NH, and CO. Reviews' for 4X4REVIEW.COM are my newest rewarding venture in the 4x4 industry.

True Loves

• My Wife (see honey I do care)
• My Dog
• 40' plus cliffs into deep powder
• Superpipes
• Showing off
• Whisler/Blackholm Mtns in BC Canada
• Moab…..nuff said
• 4X4REVIEW.COM

Peeves!

• No Rocks
• No Snow
• No Mountains
• Copycats

Misc

My wife and I own an off road and rock crawler themed Action sports line of T- shirts called Switchback Designs. Look for the website soon www.switchbackdesigns.com

The specs on my rig

• Silver 2004 Jeep Rubicon
• RE 5.5Long Arm lift with three link upgrade
• Dynatrac Diff Covers
• Kilby dual battery setup
• Complete On board air system
• Parnelli Jones Dirt Grips 35x12.50
• Rock crawler rims
• Toys by Troy Front Bumper
• Toys by Troy Rear bumper Carrier
• Bilstien 5150 series Shocks
• 456 gears
• Tom Woods Driveshafts front and rear
• Steering box and other various skid plates
• Warn xd9500I winch front
• Winchline.com synthetic cable
• Rock rails
• Air Raid cold air intake and throttle body spacer
• CB with 250watt booster
• High Lift jack
• Air tools
• 1000 watt 110 to 12v inverter

Upcoming Mods

• Dynatrac pro rock 60 rear axle
• Atlas II
• Custom roll cage
• Walker Evans bead locks
• Front Dana 44 strengthening
• Front and rear ARB's
• Front tube fenders
• Rear side sliders
• Cross over steering with ram assist