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hey guys we're here at Venture van Expo
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in Chattanooga Tennessee we're with
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Peter with robber Vans uh we did a walk
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through at the Florida van life
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Gathering if you want to check out that
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video on one of his Vans but this is the
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extended version uh this is a mer
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Mercedes uh 170 awesome so Peter take us
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through this build uh we're going to get
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to my favorite bags here in a second the
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Vander Moon bags um we got a live music
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so Peter's miked up so I think we'll be
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all right but take us through the tour
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yeah so as you come in and start with
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the gy right gy is customade uh we have
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an oversized fridge uh Cruise 130 Swing
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Away door costume Grill Rover Vents and
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then this is an in-house cabinet build
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so everything is
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lemonade uh blue motion hinges high
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quality latches and what not
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uh Coran countertop we have an anount
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sink hot cold water uh we choose not to
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put the cook top on it it lives in one
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of the drawers this way you can take it
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outside if you need to cook um yeah
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right above it so we have a cabinet this
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is custom made by us by rber V we will
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offer this for sale pretty soon um it's
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going to come in as an option where you
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can just buy the skeleton and you can
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make these you can buy these parts from
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us and it's going to come in with an
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option where we have doors on it as well
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plus a microwave option as well awesome
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yeah so in the back we have the best of
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the best which is Vander Moon super
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light weight you're looking about 20 lb
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per moon box remember the aluminum shell
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that's wrapped in padding Fabric and all
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these parts look you know magnets and
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then you've got the vro on top of it
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these can stick out this way to make
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more
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room I think they're the best in the
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business um they sit on l track just
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like this
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one yeah so you can add you can take out
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that's nice yeah and um you put this in
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the locations for wagon compatible no we
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actually put them to be compatible with
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our stuff and with the moon boxes got we
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can and some some builds we're going to
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it requires moving this guy out about 2
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in okay and then it sits in the front
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which is nice too because then the El
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will run in front of the Moon box and
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you can still use it while I have this
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guy in place with the bracket ah okay
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yeah
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so uh guess what I was saying these can
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go in a adventure wagon absolutely and
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we have a kids that so far I've been
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just including it if someone is asking
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we're probably going to make a little
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kid for sale it be like minimum like 20
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bucks or something yeah yeah yeah we
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there's a lot of them out in the
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adventure wagon uh world so cool yeah
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yeah the NS below so this is pretty cool
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we have a custom U Uh custom aluminum
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like piece over here just to kind of
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house the monitor uh these guys control
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the overhead lights uh water hot water
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and like an extra USB charger
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so we've got that maxer holder and Sark
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heater in the front awesome nice high
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altitude unit um here we've got a
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Wilderness seat super cool this turns
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into a bad as well so we are actually
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working with Limitless vents um they're
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going to provide us with a swivel for
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this so in the future we're going to be
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able to swing this guy around and then
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connect it with our couch and then have
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a secondary sleeping here I think it
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will be super cool because you can then
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sleep here even you can kind of hang out
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and then you can yeah yeah so this is
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one of my favorite actually features
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like uh this kind of box couch system
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you can work here you know you can kind
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of put your feet up and whatnot and
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still have the you know laptop and work
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on it super comfy but then Super useful
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I mean you've got I have three
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kiteboards in here right now
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so you got plenty of storage um here we
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have a lavio toilet system so lives in
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there so be using it if you needed to um
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and then we've got the two drawers so
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we've got a drawer up front
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here and then we got the same kind that
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pops out over there uh plenty of storage
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in them and then we've got those tops so
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that if you want to make coffee or cook
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outside whatever then uh it's right
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there um this table can lowered so that
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if you want to use it here as well same
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thing and then in the future we're going
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to have a table system that pops out
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over here as well it's going to go up
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and down this way we can extend the
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countertop or if you want to work on
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your laptop or what not here so yeah ah
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shower so everyone probably in the vent
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industry knows about this already tach
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in pops out set up the curtain goes into
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the Electric System very cool and I like
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that it's out of the way I like that
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it's not taking any room in my van where
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I'm only showering you know whenever um
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I like exterior shower better so but
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whenever you can't take it it's too cold
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or whatever you have the option you have
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the
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room yeah so here uh all the power kind
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of lives here so built by Val High Vans
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um the best in the industry in my
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opinion uh 5,000 wi inverter we have two
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24 volt uh external BMS victorum
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batteries so around uh 800 amp hours at
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12 volts or
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424 um high output secondary alternator
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system wake speed controller for that
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we've got solar charging fastest
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charging from the van and then you can
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of course plug in um lots of little
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features like garment control so you can
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kind of play with your lights and
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different you know different components
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of the van um high idle system uh got
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the Drone application alarm so I can
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turn a vent on and off and different
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states kind of monitor you know the
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battery the interior temperature like
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little things if you like to leave your
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van for a while it's kind of nice to be
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able to keep an eye on it yeah and it
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sits in a pretty pretty small cabinet
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um
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and yeah and this nice uh we have the
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three panel B system when put away makes
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a ton of storage but pretty EAS to set
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it back up and then you've got your
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garage you got a big big bed I think 6'4
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this way M and you can sleep north to
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south which will allow you not to have
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flares which I think is nice sometimes
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because you get better installation and
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it saves a little bit of money
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too um plus you don't have to climb over
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anyone so in a big vent I think I think
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this is the way to go when it comes to
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sleeping yeah so yeah I'll set up the
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bed really quick so you guys can take a
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look sure
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so yeah pretty big bed oh yeah and uh
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this is a rrest bed super comfortable
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and the cool thing about working with
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these guys is they um they either
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already have the shape that you will
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need or they'll make a costume for you
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and it just fits and looks and really
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really comfortable so yeah love it nice
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excellent anything on the back yeah
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that's
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actually so probably one of my favorite
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parts of the van
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I may be a little bit partial but is the
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storage on the exterior of the van um
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super useful you know uh if you're into
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mountain biking kiteboarding whatever
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you can kind of have your stuff
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organized and just have it like right
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there you know so you pull up to the
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beach unload you know my pump is right
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there the extension is right there um
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after kiteboarding like I'll put my wet
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suit in one of the bottom Pockets um
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anything that's kind of wet I can just
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kind of throw it in there um the bag
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wall really helps too because I can put
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this guy down and if I have anything wet
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it's not going to get into the vanent um
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yeah really really nice uh that's the
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newest ball um screen that they came up
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with and it's got the optional um
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optional windbreaker on
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here but uh really like this
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system it's got the new insulator
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panel
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yeah I keep telling them to take this
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logo and put it over here because you
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can only see it when it's like all the
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way down yeah but look how cool that
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looks uh it's awesome right just a good
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looking system and just finishes the van
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off so
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nicely but yeah we've got um let's see
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the awning is from dragonfly very cool
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system everyone's kind of like asking
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about it whatnot
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um I'm a big fan I like that I can set
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it up and not worry about the wind so
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we've got that and uh let me show you
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the roof
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rack so the roof rack is a prototype but
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it's really close to kind of what we're
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going to be selling and these are really
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popular yeah Tire yeah the tire carrier
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system is nice
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um we've got a ton of on the
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market but roof rag which is not a final
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design um what's different about it than
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on the market we have the two-tone color
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options so you got the light gray kind
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of recessed inside of it uh the final
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ones will have black Hardware so it's
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not going to have all that silver
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Hardware in there you have we will have
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panels that you can walk on um
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lightweight and uh Mega quiet like that
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was the biggest thing we wanted to make
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this thing as quiet as possible so we
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kind of kept working with the different
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angles in the front so this one as you
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can tell is got a pretty uh yeah which
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we did that we we kept messing with it
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and I finally was like okay I can't hear
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this at all now so
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yeah other than that uh van compa
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suspension probably my favorite uh so
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far really improves the ride especially
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on the highway got some black rhino
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wheels on it uh ko2
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tires uh and this guy is riding on 18in
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Wheels which I think improves the
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highway handling quite a bit and you
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yeah and you're only losing like half an
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inch of a tire so I don't think makes a
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big difference
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off-roading
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but yeah that's like the quick quick
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rundown Co this is
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awesome all right Peter let everybody
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know where where you they can find you
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um well Rover events.com uh we have like
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those Instagram and Facebook pages um
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you can go on that and yeah rv.com cool
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Peter thanks so much for the tour
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appreciate it hey everyone Nick from
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