About us

Lucrum Ind. started back in 2003 in Vista, CA (just north of San Diego). Back then we were working on high performance cylinder heads as a part time business doing a lot of research and development with valving on piston engines that led to our first patent involving a idea allowing more efficient flow of gasses within engines at high RPM's. But then one day June 30th 2005 the owner and inventor Chris Marsolais was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident. After nearly 6 months in the hospital and over a year in rehab he has been left paralyzed from the upper chest down. This took a huge toll on the company and it went dormant for over a year. But Chris relied on his savior, and Jesus Christ got him and Lucrum through hard times. Once Chris got home and to the point he could drive he had to change his vehicle. At the time Chris had a Chevy Tahoe, it was a great truck, but he could not get himself or his wheelchair in or out of it due to its lack of handles and door position. Chris sold the Tahoe and began looking for a new car, eventually settling on the Toyota FJ Cruiser. When Chris checked out the FJ Cruiser he found plenty of handles to hold getting in and out of the car as well as plenty of room to get his wheelchair in and out, since the rear doors opened back words. Chris made his own "drive by wire" hand controls, wheel chair lifts and other disabled equipment and adapted the car himself after he could not find any existing disabled equipment that met his standards of quality and reasonable price. This gave Chris the idea of getting Lucrum going again, this time making affordable disabled equipment and outfitting FJ Cruisers for other disabled drivers.
Chris decided to start taking his FJ through some of the Local hills for fun. Before he was paralyzed one of his favorite things to do was to go backpacking though the Sierra Nevada Mountains with his Father and Brother. Since Chris, now paralyzed, was not able to hold himself up let alone go backpacking, he decided he would make his FJ Cruiser into his new "off-road wheelchair" allowing him to get out like he used to (sort of). Since the FJ was new, he again could not find products he liked the quality or prices of that would allow him to do what he wanted with his FJ. That's when Lucrum started making winch mounts for the FJ Cruiser and other products. Since then Lucrum has grown from the part time business it was to a full time operation with products produced across North San Diego County. Chris is still in therapy at a place called Project Walk in Carlsbad, CA, and will continue over the next several years. Recently some friends of Chris started a organization called www.HelpChrisWalk.org for the purpose of raising funds and awareness for Project Walk and continuing his therapy and recovery. No one knows the future and we all will continue to do our best being ready for each new day with QUALITY, INTEGRITY, COMPASSION and INNOVATION.