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The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

How to Finish What You Start with Petey—Gear Head, Chopper Pilot & BT’s Friend (Part 1)

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9756 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lots of people start things… very few finish. Recorded live at the Barndo, where BT is restoring a WW2-era Dodge Power Wagon, he is joined by his friend, Peter Standhart. Petey is a gear head, a former Army helicopter pilot, and a man who won’t quit. In part one of this two-part conversation, the pair talk cars, choppers, and why finishing what you start has the power to change your life. 

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0:00.0

I showed you around here earlier on with this project.

0:03.4

I'm doing this 1952 Dodge Power wagon.

0:07.7

It was, speaking of the military, the history behind it was it was the truck for the Second World War.

0:15.6

And at that point, probably half of the GIs came from the farm.

0:21.0

America was an agrarian economy to a much larger extent than we are right now.

0:25.4

And they thought, man, these trucks are amazing.

0:28.8

And they said to Dodge, man, I'd love to have these on my farm.

0:33.6

And Dodge said, really?

0:35.6

You think there's a market for this truck on farms? They said, oh, yeah. So they kept them going and they just dominated the market. They're more tractors than they are actual trucks, top speed of like 47 miles an hour or something like that. But I just love the look of it. And I knew that when the Jeep was done this was my next project

0:55.5

so I got this I got this Jeep I bought this truck who was in Indiana picked it up brought

1:03.4

it here it's been sitting here for a year and then I pulled it out and I started started actually

1:09.5

working on it and I was going to get I'll start working on it. And I was going to start working on it. And you sent a

1:14.5

very discouraging text. Tell us what that discouraging text was, PD, and why you said it. The

1:19.8

discouraging text was, no. That's it. You sent me a note and you said, hey, I'm working on the power wagon.

1:28.1

Can you come and help me?

1:29.0

And I said, no.

1:30.5

And you quickly responded back.

1:33.8

Why?

1:34.7

And I said, finish the Jeep.

1:36.9

And then the phone rang.

1:38.2

And he's like, hey, are you funning with me?

1:41.2

And I said, no, I'm not funning with you.

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