It's that time once again, welcome to the next international Z.O.O.M. winner, Steve Todd a.k.a Generalchaos! 

Congratulations for winning the July 2006 Zuwharrie Owner of the Month. How does it feel being honored along with the past winners?

I’m taking this as a great honor. I was blown away, when asked and figured I was a couple years off from receiving this honor.

Before we get into the meat of this interview, who are you & where do you live?

My name is Steve Todd and I’m currently living on CFB Petawawa, (2 hours west of Ottawa) in Ontario Canada. I was born in Hull, England, and moved to Canada in ’87.

You're married with children, right? Tell us a bit about your family. 

I met my wonderful, beautiful wife back at a summer air cadet camp and have not had any regrets. I’ve been married to my wife, Cheryl for almost 6 years and have 2 great little rugrats, Katrina who’s 6, and Alena, who’s 4. My 2 girls love offroading and hopefully with some feet blocks and phone books will have them driving soon 

I've seen some pretty cool pictures that you have posted, where you are dressed in camo and standing in, on, and around some wild looking vehicles.  What do you do for a living? 

I am an armored crewman in the Royal Canadian Dragoons Armored Regiment in the Canadian Military for 9 years now. I’ve been on 2, 6 month tours to Kosovo and Bosnia. Currently I am the Liaison officer’s gunner and temporarily the driver for the Officer in Charge (OC) of my squadron. The vehicle I am driving now is a LAV III wheeled troop carrier with a 25 mm machine gun/cannon which can fire 200 rds a minute. It has a diesel engine, with 8 wheel drive. She weighs almost 20 tons and can go almost anywhere (except swamps…..lol) and still do 100 km/h, or more, on the highway.

What's the wheeling like in Canada?

I live on the Canadian Shield which has a lot of bush and rocks. Unfortunately the area I live in is mostly sand and the training area for the base takes up the good wheeling areas. I haven’t had a chance to explore outside my area yet but hoping to rectify that over the next year. Also for about 4 months a year were under snow, but when that snow melts out comes the mud 

What are your favorite type of trails, and why?

I love mud and puddles ( the deeper the better) If I can put that skinny pedal to the floor and give her all she’s got and have the wave crest over my roof it’s been a good day. Mud is better then rocks cause when you drive home, it shows you off road and then get home wash it off and your back to looking good. Rocks causes damage that I have to repair……can only put so many self tapping screws into a rig 

Your yellow rig is one of the sweetest tintops I have ever seen!  Does it perform as good as it looks?

Thanks I never intended to have a tintop always wanted a softop but after not being able to get my softop saftied, I bought this one. Right now she looks good and that’s about it as she’s pretty much all stock except for the SJ410 transfer case and 3 inch body lift. She’s currently in the garage waiting for parts to install a 1.6L 8v efi engine as well as spoa (possibly Dana 44 axles).

What works, what doesn't, and do you foresee any changes in the future?

Tough question as I’m learning as I go and still at the basics. I had to ditch my pony carb because my expertise level, I just couldn’t get it to run right. Bed liner was so far the best mod I’ve done to her and recommend it for any rig. Once the engine and the spoa or Dana 44’s are in that will be enough for her till I can bring the next vehicle up to the same level and then we’ll see from there