Does your dad have any engineering background? The things he figures out and designs are simply amazing (fwd t-case for example), how much are you involved in those projects? Your senior design project should be a snap.
Marlin is a hard working self taught prodigy child. His older brother is hobby-less and lives by himself and his younger brother is an excellent electrician but also lived alone for most of his life. In HS Marlin had 3 different paper routes and repaired his teachers cars as he paid his own way through private school. His parents were very poor and Marlin had to do everything he wanted to by himself. But because of his hard work, he got a full 2-year scholarship to a Private college because his HS teachers wrote a letter to the college and told them how hard of a worker Marlin was and that he could never afford to go to college. He graduated with a AS in Industrial Tech I believe and then got hired as a Machinist where he worked for I think 6 years. And then in 1986? he started doing Mechanic work out of his garage and 1 year later opened up Marlin's Automotive.
He was into sand rails and buggys and hit the dunes all the time. He was a avid backpacker/hiker and he can get lost in the forest and survive of the nature without any problems. He has amazing confidence when it comes to the mountains and hiking. He will just head straight off the trail and we wont see him until night fall where he will already be at camp with a fire going .. the whole way without even using the actual trail.
Then he got out of dune buggies and bought a 1980 Toyota truck back in 1984. He is the 2nd owner. He wheeled it for a while and then around 1994 he found out how to build a Crawler and the rest is history.
He's the smartest guy I know.
