By day, Anthony Eiting is an engineer for a large agricultural contractor, but in his spare time he’s managed to grab the attention of Hollywood with his true-to-brand Mad Max car builds.
Anthony: My name is Anthony … Anthony Eiting … and I’m an engineer. I work in the construction industry, and on the side I really like working on cars, and this has turned into one of those projects. If you can’t tell from the styling, I’m a bit of a Mad Max fan, and this has a lot of influence from that movie.
Onscreen text: Turning a vision into reality
Anthony: I had this vision … this shape in my head … so I just started modeling it up and was like, “Man, if I could just OSH Cut all these pieces so they fit together, then I could do the welding … I can make stuff fit where I want it to … that’d be great.
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with this, but the human eyes are very sensitive to symmetry and so something that was symmetric really mattered to me, versus a “garage fab” object. So, I went ahead and modeled it, sent in all the parts and got them cut. The thing was so heavy that the back of the car went down like two inches when I was hauling it all back.
I got the parts and started welding them all together. It fit gorgeous. You can see that I also designed a bumper back in here for all the plows to anchor to, and yeah it was just a match made in heaven. This thing was so heavy that I actually had to put a two-inch lift on the front of the car to get it off the ground. So, it’s been a really fun journey and the journey doesn’t end with this; I’ve got another car I’m working on that I’m now designing an entire subframe and suspension for, using the OSH Cut parts, especially now that they offer the DOM tubing. It’s been a really fun journey and adventure.
Onscreen text: Turning heads in Hollywood
Anthony: There’s an event out in California … it’s like a ComicCon, but just for Mad Max, and I went out to that. There were a couple people there who were really into Mad Max cars; they saw my car there and said, “Ah that’s really cool!” I thought nothing of that. Well, fast forward to last May … I get a message out of the blue on Facebook and it’s this gentleman over there in California. He runs a company that makes movie cars and he’s like, “Hey, we just got contacted by Warner Brothers and the red-carpet production company that Warner Brothers hired … they’re looking for Mad Max cars. We’ve got two or three that we’re going to supply as escort cars but they wanted a couple more. They picked out your car out of this huge selection of pictures. Would you be interested in coming out?” And of course, I was like “Yeah!” … trying to keep my cards tight and play a poker face, but I was super excited.
I typically drive this thing out to California but that was one event where we’re like, “Okay, we’ll trailer it just in case.” We get it up on the trailer, drag it out there, show up, and (no kidding) the production company said, “What we’re doing is … you guys are going to be the escort vehicles to drop Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy off at the red carpet. They’re going to go in, they’re going to do an interview on Jimmy Kimmel live, and then come out and we want all your cars staged around this.” I was like, “That sounds amazing!” So we go, we do the rehearsal, and then they block off Hollywood Boulevard for two blocks (in the middle of the day … it started at like 10am) and we sat there and did rehearsals all day. And then finally at 5pm all the actors come out, they get them staged on a motorcycle chariot, and they’ve got my car right behind them, with the other two off to the side … and we escort them in. It was an awesome experience; it was so much fun!
Onscreen text: Why do you recommend OSH cut to others?
Anthony: The beauty of OSH Cut is you can explore your idea on a 3D model with investing the time, money and … let’s face it, it snows here a lout in Utah … without being out here in the snow working on stuff, and start to get a sense or idea of if what you’re planning out is going to work, fit, and look good. And then when you’re ready to execute and get the parts, you have the opportunity to get part of the project started. You know, so like me, I got my subframe and coil buckets cut out first so I could work on that in the meantime. You also have the ability to recut stuff. I might have mentioned that there was a first rendition of this bumper that got destroyed. Well, if something happens and this gets destroyed, I’ve got a 3D model. I can get these parts cut and with a weekend of welding, I can have my assembly back.
This is also true for everything we see in the line construction where I’m working. Our customers will have old conveyors or old sections of grain elevators wear out and if something happens, we’ve got all those files. We can easily just hit PRINT and replace it.
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