Owner: Central Coast Four Wheel Drive Racing Inc.

Truck: The Patriot

Driver: Dan Rodoni

Years Competing: 3 yrs

Age: 38

Birth Date: 9-26-1968

Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA

Marital Status: Married 

Children: 2 Girls

Favorite Colors: Blue & Green

Favorite Food: Italian

Favorite Music: Country & Rock

Hobbies: Hunting, Fishing, 4 wheeling and being outdoors

Danny Rodoni grew up in Santa Cruz on a family owned brussel sprout farm where he had his first job of wrenching and fabrication on farm equipment, trucks and tractors. Danny has always had passion for large trucks and is known in his home town for driving some of the biggest lifted trucks most people have ever seen. This passion for lifted trucks and his natural mechanical ability lead him to pursuing a 4 wheel drive business. Danny left the family farming business in 1995 and started his own 4 wheel drive shop. Danny owned and operated Central Coast Four Wheel drive, a very successful shop for over 10 years.

Danny got his start in monster trucks in 2001 by helping the Team Meents crew in the evenings and weekends when the team was on the west coast.   He traveled with the team when he could in 2001-2003 and decided to build his own truck in 2003.  In 2003 after a trip to the Texas based Racesource shop and home of Paul Huffaker, plans were under way to build the Patriot. The chassis was finished in the fall of 2003 and he spent the next 6 months getting the truck ready for the first show. The Patriot and Danny made their debut in Yakima Washington in June 2004 for J&K Motor Sports.

In fall of 2005, Danny decided to expand the team to a two truck race team. Tropical Thunder was purchased and heavily modified for the 2006 season by the newest team member, “Factory Phil Foster”. The 2006 season also saw the addition of Andrew Peckham filling in for Phil from time to time. The 2006 season was filled with several racing wins by both trucks and some wild freestyles. 2006 was also the year that Danny sold his 4 wheel drive shop to his good friend Lazo and returned to farming

2007 had a busy 1st quarter with a show just about every weekend. "Factory" Phil Foster was aboard once again driving Tropical Thunder for the first 6 events, Andrew Peckham drove the last show in Fresno and Mike Pappas finally made his racing debut driving Tropical Thunder in Merced.

What in store for 2008? “ I can see us going to a 4 truck team 2 going to the east coast and 2 on the west, stay tuned”

Danny’s thoughts about the team; “My success is only as good as my help! I am privileged and grateful to have Phil Foster, Andrew Peckham , Mike Pappas, Mark Olsen, Allen Scott and Chris Slay as  part of this awesome Race Team. To have a team that’s successful takes a good group of people.”

 Truck: Tropical Thunder

Bio coming soon!