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UNDER THE HOOD Ep. 2: Car Modify Wonder · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  Welcome back. Hey Under the Hood Episode 2.
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  We're back, baby. On today's episode, we will be
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  talking about the brand car Modify Wonder.
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  Where do we start? There's a lot.
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  Let us begin. Let us, let us, let us pray
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  there's a lot to talk about with car modify Wonder let's let's go
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  back to I guess when we started trying to get their products
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  which was probably like, I don't know maybe take it.
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  Take it way back, way back. Yeah, take it way back to the
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  Inception conception. Inception would.
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  Be reception, not conception. I didn't birth Carl.
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  Modify Wonder. Yeah, I don't know.
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  It's like maybe five years ago. So Once Upon a time there was
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  this brand, I think I can say the company's name because I
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  think that doesn't exist anymore.
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  It was called SSX Works or something like that.
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  It was a distributor. They imported parts from Japan
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  and the main thing they offered was Car Modify Wonder.
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  So, you know, everyone thought this was great.
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  We can get parts now this and that so people start ordering
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  stuff. I now I don't personally know if
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  any of these orders ever made it to the customer, but let's just
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  assume the first ones did. Okay.
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  So they were legit at first, I think so, yeah.
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  And then eventually people did not.
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  People just stop getting their orders.
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  So, you know, I don't know when that.
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  I don't know, probably like three years ago, maybe that
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  started happening. But we also had an account with
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  them. So I think Chris Nazaro was the
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  first person that ordered parts through us.
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  So I was like, okay, I'm going to try to get them through.
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  S s sex works. That fucking name ever?
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  Yeah. I don't.
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  I don't even know how to say it. But so we ordered some stuff.
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  We waited and we waited and we waited and we waited.
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  And they were they like, talked to me.
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  They didn't, they didn't like, ignore me.
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  So I was like, OK, this is, this is all right.
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  But then like I start hearing through the Grapevine that
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  they're ignoring customers. People have been waiting for
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  years this and that. And I was like, OK, well we're
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  at the year mark now, so. I might be one of the people
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  that got fucked. Yeah, I was like, let me let me
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  try to get a refund now before they stop answering me.
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  So we got a refund, so we yeah, we got lucky.
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  So and then within the next like 2 years it really fell apart and
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  I heard the dude was in prison and all this shit so.
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  For for fucking people over, I don't know.
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  I'm assuming. I'm assuming he was involved
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  with other stuff, but yeah. So anyway, why are we telling
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  you this story? We're telling you the story
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  because as far as we know, we looked it up the other day.
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  We think the website is gone. But if we're missing in the
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  website and it's it's under some other thing.
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  If you ever get to a car, modify Wonder website and it's not, and
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  it's in English. So if you get to the website and
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  it's it is in English. Don't order anything from it.
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  Yeah, there's been times where people have called us and
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  they're like, hey, I ordered from Carmen If I wondered, do
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  you know how I could get in contact with them?
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  Because they're not answering me and I placed an order a while
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  ago and order status is just staying the same.
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  Yeah, and like they didn't even get a confirmation or.
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  Just like, yeah, you might be beat, yeah.
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  Because that guy's in prison, so you're not going to get your
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  parts. Ever.
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  Most likely. So anyway, yeah, that
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  relationship fell apart. Our distributor started working
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  with Car Modify Wonder within the last within the last year
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  maybe. Yeah, yeah, Year and a half,
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  man. Yeah, so.
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  So we now have access to car modify wonder parts.
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  Well, before that happened, we were shipping car modify wonder
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  stuff via air from Japan directly, but as you guys are
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  aware, that's very expensive. So now they're being brought in
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  through US container shipments. Yeah, Yeah, you were right.
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  Probably the within the past year, yeah, yeah.
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  I mean the only reason we don't have all the products on the
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  website is because our distributor is just pretty
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  terrible with getting us price sheets.
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  So that's that's really the only issue.
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  We figure out the price when we need something and it takes them
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  four weeks to answer us about one product.
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  Yeah, so we would have a fully loaded website right now, but
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  we're dealing with problems on the back end.
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  So once those problems are solved, God willing.
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  It's like, right? For us, it's like pulling teeth.
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  Then we'll be able to have a full website up.
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  But in the meantime, if you guys need anything, shoot us an
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  e-mail. Yeah, and if you need to.
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  Find a more broad carmodify wonder catalog.
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  The only legit website iscarmodifywonder.com but it's
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  in Japanese. But sometimes your Google
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  browser will translate some of it.
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  Yeah, you gotta use Google. That's the best way to translate
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  all that stuff. So you can go to that app
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  website, find something you need and hit us up and we'll get it
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  over stateside and carmodify wonder parts.
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  Typically, I mean we, we tend to tell customers four to six
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  months. I have seen it come faster.
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  I've seen it come two to four months.
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  So it's not that long of a wait time.
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  So you don't need to worry about it.
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  It's not like being sports where it's taking way too long.
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  Do you remember who started Carmen, if I?
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  Wonder. Yeah.
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  Takashi Haryama. Wow.
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  Come on. I'm surprised you remember that.
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  OK, Yeah. Yeah.
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  So I I made Malcolm watch some videos, had to get a low
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  refresher on car modify wonders and what what's your opinion
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  about the work environment over there?
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  That place is a very messy warehouse.
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  You were about to say that place is a dump.
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  I saw your. I was like, well be careful.
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  It's not a dump, it's just very messy.
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  I like that guy's just cranking out fiberglass in a.
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  Very packed, not even a warehouse.
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  It's like a it's like a shop. It's like.
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  A shop underneath a highway? Along another highway.
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  Yeah. I forget where it was, The
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  location of it in Japan, yeah. I don't know.
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  I don't know. But yeah, so I mean, Malcolm,
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  you don't really watch a lot. Actually, you do watch a lot of
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  Japanese YouTube videos with Chris when you guys eat lunch
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  and. Stuff.
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  Yeah, the one of the guys we watch.
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  He's in Japan. He does a whole bunch of shit,
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  so you kind of know the shops look like over there.
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  Yeah, they're very small. And they seem like they're 10
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  years behind or 20 years behind. Yeah, that's exactly how I feel
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  when I watch him. But yeah, but they're not.
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  I guess, yeah. But.
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  They're, their minds are 30 years in the future.
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  Yeah, exactly. It's very weird.
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  And I think they they have, they don't have as much access to
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  tools as we. Do Yeah, I wonder why that is.
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  A lot of tools are made in the US or something.
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  A lot of tools are designed here.
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  I know that. I don't know if they're made
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  here, but yeah. Is it like when you see a Snapon
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  box in a Japanese shop? You know, he paid that guy paid
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  a lot of money. I got paid a lot of money for
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  that shit. Yeah, they they definitely have
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  a lot of money in that shop. But yeah, so we are just going
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  through the videos and seeing how they do stuff now.
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  I don't know how old these videos were.
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  One of the main ones we watched was from Super Street, They.
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  Were within the past seven years I think, yeah.
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  So the problem is like things change pretty rapidly.
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  So like it are they at the same shop?
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  I mean, I would assume they are I.
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  Hope so, yeah. Because now I'm hearing we heard
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  a little a little information that M Sports is possibly
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  producing the body kits for car modify Wonder, which is not a
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  strange thing to be honest, because if you, if you're in the
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  industry and you have someone that can do something for you
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  that's cheaper or can be produced at a faster rate of
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  speed, then you're going to use them.
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  So that's probably their supplier right now for the body
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  kits and everything. I'm sure he's still making a
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  couple of things here and there at the shop.
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  Yeah, I mean, he still has to be designing stuff on his own time
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  too. Yeah, so that maybe most of his
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  time is spent designing rather than producing, and I feel like
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  we also didn't see anyone in that shop helping him.
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  Yeah, maybe it was the weekend or something, but it was just
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  him it. Was just him in his fiberglass
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  filled closet. Yeah, yeah, just shit all over
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  the floor. Yeah.
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  So he's got a he's got his own little.
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  They were like car ports, yeah, in the shop.
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  And they were just and you could tell like he he put that there
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  because is a lot of fiberglasses.
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  Yeah. So he tried to contain it in
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  that small area, Yeah. And when he's in there, what
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  what they do is they'll have like, pieces of the body kits
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  basically cut off so that when he puts the canards on there, he
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  can, like, measure them and make sure that they're perfect.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's pretty crazy. Quality control, I guess.
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  Yeah, I know. I don't know if he does that
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  with all of them, but I mean, I wouldn't be surprised.
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  Yeah, the way that shop looks. So, hey man, you order a wing
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  from car, modify Wonder Takashi might have kicked it by
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  accident. It might have been on the floor.
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  Yeah. He was using it as a freaking
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  step stool at one point. Yeah, so it's kind of cool that
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