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 ABOUT BASS-ON!
BASS-ON! started as a simple idea for a license plate. On a Friday afternoon I went to the tag office to get a personal tag for my truck. The original theme was "Bite-Me, but that tag was already taken, so after about 30 minutes and many other tag ideas that were already taken the worker behind the counter said that they were closing in one minute. So while standing there, I threw my arms in the air and said
what about "BASS-ON". She checked the computer and said that it was available. So I told her that I wanted BASS-ON 1 for my truck and BASS-0N2 for my boat trailer. After about 4-5 weeks, my tags came in the mail. After placing the tag on my truck I stood up to walk around to the boat and glanced at the tag. The #1 after Bass-on looked like an exclamation point! So I looked at it again and said Bass-on! and the hair on my arms and back of my neck stood up on ends. Instantly, saying Bass-on! reminded me about "Game-on" for sports, "Rock-on" for music, and "Right-on" back in the 70's.
Being a Bass fisherman myself, I really thought the name BASS-ON! had a ring to it, so I then had the BASS-ON! logo trademarked. After trademarking the name, I had my truck and boat lettered with the BASS-ON! graphics. This looked great, but after about 4-5 months I felt like something was missing on the truck, so then I added some MERCURY stickers to the rear sides of the truck. This helped but still wasn't what I was looking for. So one day I stopped by INKTRAX, to see about having a custom vinyl wrap done on the truck. I asked about doing some TRITON graphics down the side with a bass scene in the middle of them. INK TRAX said that it wouldnt be a problem to do. After thinking it over a minute, I realized that everyone uses that idea in one way or another and that I wanted something that no one had ever
done before. I then told the graphics designer that what I rally wanted to do was turn the truck into the Worlds largest bass. he looked at me with a blank look on his face and said "we can do this, this will be insane!" So instantly they went to work on a design. After about a week they called me back and said they needed a live bass to photo to make a lifelike image on the truck. So that afternoon I went to my friends
pond and caught a bass and kept it alive overnight till the next day. The bass was photographed and released back into the water the next afternoon.
Two weeks later, I unveiled the BASS-ON! truck in Destin FL at the BASS PRO SHOP. The truck turned out way better than anyone had expected it to. The crowd was blown away when I pulled the cover off. After a couple of weeks passed by, I decided that the truck needed to be named. While running various names through my head like "BASSINATOR, "BASS-HUMONGOUS" and "BASS-ZILLA, I wanted a name that had never been used before. So I ran ideas in my head for a couple of days. While having the truck displayed, a lot of people asked me, SIR, YOU BASS FISH A LOT? For some reason this question stuck in my mind. Finally at work one day I kept running this question in my head and suddenly these words stuck out "SIR YOU BASS FISH ALOT. I added these words together and came up with SIR BASSALOT. This was a perfect name for the monster bass truck. So as you can see, BASS-ON! is all about being very original and setting yourself apart by just being yourself and believing in yourself!
David E Partridge
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