Kristian Thordarson

My addiction to the off-road world started back in about 2010 when I helped a buddy start building his crawler under a lean-to off of his house. Not long after I bought a mildly modified '98 TJ. That lasted about a year and instead of upgrading it chose to buy the old '97 TJ Project Recycle from John Herrick at CRAWL magazine thinking that would be enough. With the dream of someday racing at KOH the TJ went under the knife to build it to run in the 4500 class. After about a year and a half of work it became apparent that it wasn't going to be a competitive rig at KOH. We started with a Jimmy's 4x4 spec cars at KOH 2019. We DNF'd in 2019, missed 2020 to buy a business and moving and then finished 17th in 2021! Now we've got the old May Motorsports 4400 car, converted to 4800 and debuting it at 2022 KOH! We still have the spec car and will have both racing in 2023. I'm very lucky to have the support of my beautiful wife who thinks I'm crazy for doing this but supports me anyway even though she has the task of taking care of two young boys while I'm gone for a week.