Here at AtomicMods, we love to tinker with stuff. When a new car arrives in our shop, we start by taking it apart, piece by piece. Then we investigate every little piece to see what works and what doesn't and what we can do to improve it. We're kind of like mad scientist around here; although there's more madness than science....

Out of all the businesses we've created, AtomicMods has got to be the most fun. Right now, there is our fearless leader, Rob and five others, Maurice, Jay, Frank, Chris Britt, Momo, and Susan.

It all started in 2003 in Rob’s workshop with our first product, the "Lithium Pro Kit". As of August 2006 we have close to 1,500 parts in stock and growing every day.

The story about AtomicMods is an ongoing saga because we are a rapidly growing company. First let’s start with our leader.

Rob must have sprung into this world thinking thoughts like this... "What will I create today? What can I take apart? How can I rewire this? What needs fixing? What can be made better?"

You might say he was "different" than most kids...almost weird. He grew up in a little town in east Texas where there wasn’t much commerce. But that didn’t stop him from starting his first business with 2 employees before the age of 14. His parents were busy running their own businesses, so they let Rob kind of do his own thing. He soon took over their garage with all the local kid’s cars in pieces being rewired with booming sound.

As soon as he graduated from high school, he headed for the big city lights and started an award winning car audio shop, Jam Tek. Rob was a whirlwind during those first years. He took college classes in electronics, became a member of Audio Engineering Society, was voted by Mobile Electronics as one of the "Top 100 Installers" out of 35,000 installers nationwide, for two years in a row. He won numerous awards in car competitions, got married, and ran a successful business. Do you feel exhausted just reading that?

Rob always thinks big and is continually thinking of better ways to do things. If a challenge comes along, he just figures out a way around it, over it, or through it. He needed a new AC unit and wanted to know everything about it. So in Rob’s "special style" he studied, took the exam, and earned his own Environmental Protection Agency License.

So how did AtomicMods start? For Christmas 2003, Chris Britt, our genius computer guy, was scratching his head wondering what to give Rob that year as a gift. We might mention that buying gifts for Rob is very hard. When something new hits the market that has wires, lights, batteries, or I/O ports, Rob can’t sleep at night until he has one in his shop (usually with the case off and a few parts disassembled).

But this year Radio Shack had just come out with the XMOD. Since Rob had played with R/C cars from childhood, and he had a fleet of R/C airplanes and helicopters, Chris thought, "Hey, Rob might like one of these." So from under the tree that bright beautiful Christmas morning, Rob got to pull the ribbon off a Silver Acura RSX XMOD. He smiled:) and took it to his shop for disassembly.

In his quest to go faster, Rob retrofitted Lithium batteries from one of his airplanes into the XMOD, and Walla! the first XMOD upgrade was born with many more to follow.

It’s a fun place to work. We have a bunch of really bright people.

And tell us, how many places can you play with R/C cars all day and get paid?

Its a tough job, but someone has to do it...

If you have looked at our ShopCam, you have seen several different faces.

Well, the most easily recognizable is Stetson, The Rocket Dog. We let him do his tricks for your viewing pleasure every now and then.

Stetson has his own website where you can see some of the cutest pictures. www.therocketdog.com

Eventually we’ll get around to telling you more about us, but right now we are "le tired".