1. Tell us your full name?
Jeffrey Thomas Franta

2. Where and when were you born?
Born in Laguna Beach, CA May 8, l960

3. Do you have any brother’s or sister’s?
Two Sisters

4. Are you married or single?
Single

5. Any kids? Do Dogs and Cats count?
No Human Children, but 2 Pit Bulls, Boo and Gee and lots of cats

6. Where do you live now?
Acreage in Cedar Rapids, IA

7. Where do you work?
Millwright Local Union 2158

8. What do you do there?
Install and maintain industrial machinery

9. Do you have a Nickname that you like to go by?
Chief

10. If so, how did you get this Nickname?
Co worker

11. How many years have you been into the sport of off-roading?
Got my first Heep when I was 29.

12. Who, or what first got you interested in the sport?
Friends and family had always been car buffs.

13. Are you involved in any off-road club’s? If so, what is the name of your club?
None locally

14. What kinds of 4x4's do you own?
1 and 2 1/2 Zuki's

15. Tell us about your Suzuki?
Bought 2 very reasonably (CHEAP). Stretched wheel base, comp cut rear, kick rear axle with coils, RUF, kick 3 into 6.5 Sammi case, 5.12 3rds both welded, fuel injected 1.6 litter on 36.5's.
Still lots of work to do.

16. How long have you had it?
6 Months

17. Does it have a Nickname?
Not Yet

18. How often do you get to wheel?
Not Yet

19. What's the best modification you made to your rig so far?
Bought it

20. What's the worst?
Not enough work done yet.

21. Bolt on Mods, or make it yourself?
Most stuff home built, buying what I can't make

22. What’s your level of mechanical skills?

Top Notch (NASCAR hasn't called yet)

23. How do you like your trails?

Show ME THE PAIN

24. What’s the scariest moment you’ve ever had off-roading?
Rolled a Heep onto the front lawn of a Wendy's Restaurant at 6:00 PM on a Saturday night.

25. What was the funniest?
Got tired of constantly pulling out a friend's 3/4 ton Ford all the time, so just left tow strap hooked to him and drug him around the rest of the day.

26. What have you learned from the sport that you can apply to your everyday life?
Try, Try Again

27. What other outdoor activities do you enjoy?
Fishing, bon fires, dog walking.

28. If you could sit down and talk to anyone, past or present, who would it be and why?
George W. Bush so I could ask him what the hell he thinks he is doing while he is hooked to a polygraph.

29. Books on tape, or sit down and read?
Sit down and read

30. DVD at home or Theater?
Theater

31. What is on your MP3, or in your CD player right now?
Snoop Dog

32. Radio, CD’s or "Trail Music" when your wheeling?
Trail Music

33. When you're not off-roading, or working, how do you like to spend your time?
Hangin at the ZK

34. If I gave you a free ticket to visit anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Australia

35. What did you want to be most as a kid?
Oceanographer

36. If you could learn to speak any language that you do not already know, what would it be?
Spanish

37. What is your best time of the day, morning, noon, or night?
Night

38. What’s your most embarrassing moment (so far?)
Rolling the Heep into the Wendy's.

39. Have you ever met anyone famous, and if so, who?
Vic Edelbrock and Linda Vaugh (his Miss Hurst)

40. Tell me a little known fact about yourself.
Could be a starving Artist if I applied myself

41. If you could give any piece of advice to a future off-roader, what would it be?
Learn to weld

Thank you Jeff, and you are now off the Hot Seat!