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#87 - Ken Fujimatsu · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  Welcome back to another episode of Faction Motorsports After
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  Hours podcast. On today's episode we have a
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  good friend of the shop, Ken Fujimatsu.
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  He came in and pretty much gave us a a a history lesson I would
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  say on the American drift scene since he's he's kind of been
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  involved in the Nissan 240SX world since the inception of it
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  in the United States. I would say Ken probably would
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  think that's a little drastic of a of a claim but as you guys
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  will hear in this podcast, he's he's kind of been around since
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  Nissan's Nissan two 40s were sold in the dealerships.
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  So it's a really interesting to hear his stories.
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  We even talked about Fast and Furious coming out and how that
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  affected the culture and everything.
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  So yeah, this was a really awesome episode.
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  We learned a lot of stuff and I hope you guys enjoy.
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  Undercover. All right, well, welcome
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  We're here to bring you another episode today.
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  Or this afternoon. Tonight is this night.
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  Yeah, coming live from East Rutherford, NJ.
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  We have our good friend Ken Fuji in the building.
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  Where's the camera? Hi.
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  Everywhere there's cameras. Everywhere.
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  There's cameras There, there, there, in.
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  No, I'm just kidding. But there might be in the new
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  studio coming to you soon. Coming soon, man.
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  That's insane. This was going to be the one.
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  Except bro, no, you're don't rush it.
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  Don't rush it. Rome was not nice.
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  You're going to love it, Carl. Stop.
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  I was literally willing to donate my TV to you.
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  The master plan is coming together.
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  You're going to, You're going to.
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  Love it. You just wanted this guy, Ken.
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  This guy wants to be Joe Rogan so badly.
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  We're just copying his. Do you know what he said to me
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  the other day? What is that?
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  He said. How do we put a smoke vent?
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  No, that wasn't my idea. That was Malcolm's idea.
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  No, it was Malcolm's idea. Malcolm, Malcolm.
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  Malcolm. Was it your idea?
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  That was my idea, yeah. He wanted to do an exhaust fan
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  so people could smoke in there, and then my landlord was here
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  and he was like, yeah, we should do that.
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  And I was like, what the fuck? Well, how else are you going to
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  get the smoke out? Yeah, then people could smoke
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  weed and shit. It's legal.
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  Insurance. I'm down to figure it out.
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  Whoa, I thought. What?
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  No, you said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I thought Frankie was like, I'm down to try it out.
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  Straight out for life. Yep, there you go.
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  Come on. But Ken is here.
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  He's a long time member of the import scene.
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  Definitely. We were at my house hanging out
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  once and Ken had some of the craziest photos and we watched a
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  couple DVDs. One of them was like a car show
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  from I Forget which one. Do you remember which one you
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  showed me? It was a debut of The Z You.
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  Know what it could have been like?
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  It was the 2002 National wait. It.
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  Was shit. Like, really get it on here.
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  OK. Is this better?
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  Yeah, you can pull. It towards your yeah, you can
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  pull it. As close so you could stay
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  comfortable. You know, my adjustments sound
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  kind of kind of a little. There we.
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  Go go it. Gay when you're talking about
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  it, you pull it, tug on it, you know?
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  Whatever. You're the only one that thought
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  that sorry, I'm comfortable in my I.
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  Know how it is. Yes, with you, I don't know.
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  I kiss you. I might kiss.
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  You You know what? I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
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  You guys heard it. But anyway, yeah, so the debut
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  of The Z was the video that you showed me at my house.
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  Yes, I think it was the 2002 240SX National Convention that
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  was hosted by Socal 240. Yeah.
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  So we met a lot of people. I mean, even before that, that
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  was the first time we met because I went to school out in
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  Arizona. I'm born and raised in New York.
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  I went to Arizona State, and actually I went there because I
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  loved golf like I wanted to become.
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  A Yeah, we were talking about this, yeah.
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  So yeah, I I went out there and then just met, just kept meeting
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  people, and eventually, like, I got into Hondas, like I had a
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  Prelude 1990 prelude SI red one. Is that?
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  AB. It was AB 20.
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  No, I'm trying to think of like what that looked like a 90
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  prelude is the one with the triangles in the OH.
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  Still had to flip up headlights so almost looks like a 240
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  coupe. Careful, now a lot of people can
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  get really angry. Really bad so.
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  You moved to California or Arizona, Arizona, Arizona.
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  So yeah, I started tinkering cars through Hondas through my
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  wait. What happened with the golf
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  career, I want to hear. About oh, eventually I realized
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  that I'm not good enough. Fair enough.
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  I mean, I'm above average, but yeah, not pro level at all.
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  Yeah. That's what she said.
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  But that in golf, if I feel like, OK, I go on to a golf
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  course, let's say me and Malcolm get on a golf course, I
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  guarantee you we can make it through the course.
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  It's going to be a while. And also the numbers may or may
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  not match up as well of what other people are doing.
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  Isn't it called being over par or something?
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  Ken. Why are you looking at me, dude?
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  I thought you played golf. You.
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  Literally go there to get a day away, like you're just with the
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  boys, with some motorized vehicles and maybe or maybe not.
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  At the end of the day, just have fun, right?
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  It doesn't really matter. Yeah, because you're not like,
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  you're not going to be a professional, right?
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  No. Like, unless you want to become
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  a competitive golfer, you know, like you have to know the rules
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  and all that kind of stuff. But now they're sending kids to
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  school for that early. For golfing.
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  Yeah, it's weird. Is it play golf or do I go golf
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  or what is it? How do I say that I never always
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  feel weird? I.
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  Don't think there's a proper. Hit the grass, hit the grass.
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  Yo you Are you a closet golfer? Yeah.
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  You cannot. I'm not.
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  You said that kind of seriously. I don't know.
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  I'm not. I'm not.
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  I don't know if you're not. I've tapped into the video
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  portion of this. But Frankie looked really
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  serious when he said yeah, and then he then he had to back it
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  up. I think he's talking about
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  different kind of grass. Yeah.
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  No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.
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  No, no, I never actually played a round of golf.
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  Like I've never played the actual game.
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  I. Just feel like you would be good
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  at it. I feel like.
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  Don't you think that, Frankie? Would be good at it.
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  Malcolm's like, no shot. You can't throw a.
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  Ball at. The deaths.
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  Like anything else, right? Like Drifty and golf.
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  It's all the same thing like. I tell you, he's probably good
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  at it, but for no fucking apparent reason.
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  Who, Malcolm? I never.
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  Tried. I'm sure you're a pro.
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  That's got to be. Racially motivated?
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  Now I'm just kind of is, but he's just good at everything.
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  He is good at everything, but The thing is.
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  Literally never swung a Golf Club, so I have no idea.
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  That's bullshit, I guarantee you.
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  You don't, bro. It's, it's.
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  Literally a a stick and a ball and like you're swinging it.
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  There's no way you don't get the concept.
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  You watched it before. I guarantee you, Malcolm.
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  Would be amazing Ken back me up. It is not a normal easy skill to
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  learn. No.
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  It takes a lot of practice, a lot of discipline.
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  Like it looks so easy but like. It looks insanely hard.
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  To me, no, no, no. I'm not saying that it would be
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  easy for Malcolm to, like, get good right away.
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  But like I'm saying, if we went on a golf course today and we
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  all started at the same time, we were in a group, you're in a
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  threesome. Me, Frankie and Malcolm in a
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  threesome. I'm the gay one, bro.
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  That's what it's called on the Golf.
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  Way for real. Yep.
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  Yep. Two sons.
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  Threesome foursome. You thought I was being weird,
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  but I. Actually knew.
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  Come on, man. So let's say we were in a let's
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  say we were in a threesome, and then we're going.
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  I guarantee you Malcolm, if we're we're driving this thing,
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  he would get down the furthest, down the fairway.
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  Is Malcolm the most? Athletic.
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  Yeah, by far. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty
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  athletic. If you can can eye coordination,
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  you'll pick it up fairly quickly.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll give it a try one day.
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  Maybe start at top golfers. We have this Lady Mania podcast
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  in the chat today and they're saying 24 years of friendship
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  and they did not know that you're a pro golfer.
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  I mean, you know, I'm far from. I'm telling you.
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  Let's say if you, let's say you just.
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  Had a friend you ever play basketball with?
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  A friend who knows how to play basketball.
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  I played basketball. That's not what I'm talking.
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  About you wanted to know that? I'm talking about, well, love
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  you. Thank you for that.
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  Because now I do know. I'm just picturing Frankie
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  fucking. Yeah, I think I got knocked out.
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  Someone checked me real good. Are you sure it wasn't hockey?
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  What do we? No, They, like, literally.
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  Like, they set a pick, right? And there's some shit.
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  And then boom, I was done. I think maybe you were looking
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  for a pass and they were setting a pick and you ran clear clean
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  right into them. I think I blacked out for a
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  second. But no, when I play with my
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  friends who know how to play basketball, it's like fucking.
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  I'm like, damn, like, how do you know to do that right there?
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  You know? There's things that they know
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  about it. So I feel like if we played golf
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  with Ken, it would be like, fuck, like my ball's way over
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  there. Dude, yeah, I don't think I
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  don't. The golf is way too hard.
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  No, it's fun, dude. You really got to know what.
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  You're doing it's fun it. Also depends on your personality
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  too. Like there's some people that
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  just get really angry. Oh, you know, actually I don't
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  like playing with people like that.
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  Chuckled a little bit. You think?
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  You think, well, in a sense where like, you know, you're
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  just an amateur, you just started playing, but like every
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  shot they're like just critiquing themselves.
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  Like, yeah, that would be me that.
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  Would be me, yeah. I'd be like, well, that's not
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  how you do that. But then, like you know, you
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  drink some beers, you start relaxing.
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  But he doesn't do that either. I got liquid death.
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  Yes, all right. Liquid death, The greatest water
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  on the planet Earth. Yeah, water from the Alps or
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  Chicago, wherever it's from. Anyway, what the fuck were we?
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  I don't know. We're talking, we're talking
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  about we're. Talking about We're supposed to
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  be talking about car and drifting, but.
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  No, no, no, no. No.
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  No, no, no, no. Well, you went to Arizona.
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  You realized you didn't want to do golf anymore.
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  No. Well, I was, I kind of, I did.
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  I did play golf for a long time, even while in Arizona.
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  But during that time I started meeting friends from Hawaii and
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  from like California, and they really got me into cars.
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  Like at that point, like I was into like lowriders and stuff
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  like that. So, like, that's my real first
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  love of cars. Like.
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  Wait, where? Where in Arizona were you?
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  Tempe AZ Tempe Chandler, Gilbert.
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  The whole like, all the same shit, yeah.
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  Pretty much every. Every time I go there, I'm like,
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  this is just one town. I don't know where any of that
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  stuff is. Or all around Phoenix, it's
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  like. This is literally in the middle.
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  Where's Phoenix and where's Scottsdale?
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  Same place, yeah. That's the same place.
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  Yeah, so Phoenix is here, Bachelorette party cabinets in
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  the center and then like Scottsdale's a little bit north,
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  like. Yeah, Scottsdale's the they got
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  a lot of fucking money, right? Why the hell do they always have
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  Bachelorette parties down there? That's where all the clubs are,
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  that's where all the strip clubs are.
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  Oh, I want to say all the strip clubs, but we're.
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  Going to have to go check it out maybe.
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  You know what's cool? Is it called Old Town?
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
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  That's just South of, like, downtown I'm.
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  Sorry, it just. Sounds like an Old Town.
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  That you love. Scottsdale.
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  That's a fun after. Frankie loved that kind of
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  thing, which I also like now because of Frankie.
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  So it's a lot like the wild, Wild West almost, right?
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  Like it has that vibe, but it's paved roads now like, but they
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  still have a lot of like statues and stuff from like from that.
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  Have you ever been to a tombstone, AZ?
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  I haven't. Oh, I went there.
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  How was it? She was sick, yeah.
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  So you went to a time capsule? Oh yeah.
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  Yeah, it was pretty cool. But that's cool, man.
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  I love Arizona. Yeah, I like it too.
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  Speaking of Arizona, I'm probably going to go back there
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  again this September. October.
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  Yeah, A friend of mine, Greg Childs.
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  He's the owner of Nikko. Oh, really?
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  His wife is putting on a Route 66.
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  Ken knows everyone. Dude, no.
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  But like, there are people that. I don't.
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  I saw that you put it. Yeah, so there he's like his
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  wife puts on a classic car show up in Flagstaff.
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  Yeah, every year. And like this year, I think now
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  that I finished my vert painting in itself, like I'm trying to
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  drive it out there. Gonna go out there where you're
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  calling. I think so, yeah.
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  With the RV. With the RV.
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  I drove it. You should have seen the smile
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  on his face, yeah. It goes.
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  I was smiling about everything except for the vert part.
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  Bro, you can't keep you. Look, his hair was.
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  Waving you look. Beautiful.
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  Did you? Did you?
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  See it? I didn't see it.
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  Fuck what you probably. Looked majestic as hell.
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  Yeah. Probably like a fucking Unicorn.
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  Dude, I've been thinking about putting an RV in something.
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  Not my car. Not my car.
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  In what, then? A boat.
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  Another S chassis. The IS300.
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  No. No.
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  You're. Not I know where you're getting
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  it too. Oh, you.
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  I told you no. No, you didn't.
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  But I just know because like you're on the Internet for two
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  minutes and everybody see you do something.
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  I was. Like, what is this guy?
• 17:22
  Doing. He literally has like 7.
• 17:24
  Cars. And then he has a nerve to.
• 17:25
  Yell at me, Damon Camry on Bronze.
• 17:27
  I know. Oh my God, it was that car.
• 17:30
  He we we were talking. He's like, dude, just come get
• 17:33
  the car. I'm like, all right, he gave me
• 17:35
  a good price. I love that guy.
• 17:37
  But I got to make a move because yeah, I know he doesn't want it
• 17:39
  anymore, but like, that car is so.
• 17:41
  I mean you got to have space for it.
• 17:43
  Though, yeah. So that car is.
• 17:44
  Sounds like a yes. I don't know if you were a type
• 17:47
  X nerd like I am, but. I I kind of love both the I'm
• 17:52
  more of like Chooky and the Cokie 180SX.
• 17:56
  Yeah, but yeah, there's certain looks of the Type XI love.
• 17:59
  Like the tail lights I love. When I was getting and drifting
• 18:03
  Camry on Browns, was that was the car like that was the Sylvia
• 18:06
  thread you go to to like nerd out.
• 18:08
  And now I I was always waiting for this moment where he's like,
• 18:10
  yeah, I'm going to get rid of the car.
• 18:11
  And now I'm like, I feel like I have to buy this car.
• 18:14
  But I'm also scared because lately the things I want to do
• 18:19
  to as chassis involve overfenders and I really don't
• 18:23
  want to do that to his car. I'm in the same spot as you.
• 18:27
  The fuck. You want to keep the rear
• 18:29
  quarter of stock, right? Yeah, I get.
• 18:31
  That like, I feel like if I cut that car apart, I'm going to
• 18:33
  hate myself forever. I'm So who are you today?
• 18:37
  Not the kind of style you think it's not.
• 18:40
  Working OK give me. I like because your.
• 18:43
  Car has overs. I want to do a car modify wonder
• 18:47
  like a real nice. With an RV in it.
• 18:49
  I was thinking an RV. What are you trying to build?
• 18:51
  A fucking fast car tooted and booted type of car.
• 18:55
  OK, I can get behind this. OK.
• 18:57
  Like an S15? I was thinking of.
• 19:00
  Are you trying to? Build a race program right now.
• 19:02
  I'm just trying to build a fast Ass S chassis.
• 19:05
  And then I was and then I was like SRS are kind of, you know,
• 19:07
  kind of not for that. I think for the price you might
• 19:09
  as you could get like you know like a Jay-Z.
• 19:12
  Or I don't want to put a Jay-Z in it.
• 19:14
  Are we with this? Are we 25?
• 19:16
  I'm thinking. We could just put a Jay-Z in it
• 19:18
  and it would work. I know the five wires.
• 19:20
  It's either going to be a like an Sr. but like a VVL header,
• 19:23
  some crazy shit, or it's gonna be RB.
• 19:25
  Yeah, I'm I'm picturing it. You know what I'm picturing I'm
• 19:27
  picturing a car that is coming into mobara twin circuit
• 19:32
  reverse. So you're you're going this way,
• 19:35
  and I'm picturing a fat clutch kick right at the when you
• 19:39
  settle in. Just a boom boom.
• 19:41
  And then it would just. Light it up.
• 19:43
  Priorities, though. It needs to be a fast highway
• 19:46
  car. Wait.
• 19:48
  What? And then a.
• 19:49
  It can drift? I think.
• 19:50
  OK, I don't even care. I don't want to build a car.
• 19:52
  What? Is the purpose.
• 19:53
  Of the car. Just hellcats, OK?
• 19:57
  That's what we're going after. OK, OK.
• 19:58
  OK. OK.
• 19:59
  OK. You.
• 20:00
  Still behind it? That's it.
• 20:01
  Yep. That's all you got to tell me
• 20:02
  all. Right.
• 20:02
  That's all I tell you. See.
• 20:03
  Frankie's trying to take it back to the early 2000s of like
• 20:05
  street racing and like, maybe drifting sometimes.
• 20:08
  I see that, Frankie put. That car on an episode of True
• 20:12
  Life once I'm a street. Racer.
• 20:15
  That was. But anyway, you think this is a
• 20:16
  good idea. I was on board with him for a
• 20:20
  little while, 'cause I was like, is this guy trying to fucking?
• 20:24
  I started getting. He's just giving me a good deal.
• 20:26
  I'm. Like DA goes in here, Is, IS, IS
• 20:27
  is. Are we trying to send faction pH
• 20:30
  to FD right now? Is that what we're trying to do?
• 20:33
  No, definitely not then. OK, see, so that I'm just
• 20:35
  building a shop car that I can see it being maybe cool.
• 20:38
  That's a shop car. Yeah, just a just a cool car.
• 20:41
  It's going to be Immaculate when we're done.
• 20:42
  You're trying to build a cruiser.
• 20:46
  I'm trying to build a fast car. I never had a fast car, dude.
• 20:48
  So he just was a fast. Dealer driver, that's been
• 20:50
  sassy, right? Yeah.
• 20:51
  Yeah, you know it was. We drove Brian's car the other
• 20:53
  day. Me and Malcolm drove our
• 20:54
  customers, A friend of ours, STI.
• 20:56
  We just did like a crazy IAG build on.
• 20:59
  It's not even that crazy. It's got like they made like 550
• 21:04
  E 85. Bro, shut the.
• 21:06
  Dude, I drove it down the street over there.
• 21:08
  We hit Boost. I was like, OK.
• 21:11
  I've never driven nothing. Yeah, OK.
• 21:14
  Over 300 or nothing so. We're all in the same boat,
• 21:17
  pretty. Much I had.
• 21:17
  The fastest car I ever had was my 2004 Subaru with a JDM Swap
• 21:21
  bone stock, that shit. Third gear that.
• 21:23
  Well, your car right now is about to be fast.
• 21:26
  Don't you think I know that, brother?
• 21:27
  Yeah, I'm fucking cleaning so hard.
• 21:31
  So yeah, that car. Got I've never wanted a vape as
• 21:33
  hard as I want. The One J right now I could give
• 21:36
  a shit about which I'm still clean.
• 21:39
  Nah, now. That I said it on the podcast.
• 21:40
  I really have to go get that car because someone's gonna.
• 21:44
  I wanted my other friend Nick to get it, 'cause he was looking
• 21:47
  for a show to make like a nicer car.
• 21:49
  I believe that's what the reasoning was.
• 21:51
  Shout out Nikki D Nikki. Yeah, it's not a bad car.
• 21:53
  I know, I know, Damon's freaking out.
• 21:55
  But it's not, it's not bad at all.
• 21:58
  So. It sounds like he really wanted
• 22:00
  Frankie. I want.
• 22:00
  I want it because of the history I don't care about.
• 22:03
  That, Yeah, there you go. He's kind of like a big.
• 22:06
  He likes the journey A. Little bit.
• 22:07
  I always told him too though, I was like, if you get rid of that
• 22:09
  car, let me know. Like I always would message him
• 22:11
  that because I wanted to get it and I wanted to get it and do
• 22:14
  what he wanted to do. But the problem is, I already
• 22:16
  have a car that's almost exactly like that.
• 22:19
  Well, that's even better than. Yeah, because that way you could
• 22:22
  trash one and then leave the other one, basically.
• 22:26
  Well, the other one is is going to be not drifted probably so.
• 22:30
  But this one, I'm just like, oh, I mean, I could try to build it
• 22:33
  and not do over fenders, but I just don't think it's going to
• 22:36
  look the way I want, you know, but.
• 22:38
  What about instead of over fenders, you get Ethan to like
• 22:43
  create your own metal fenders? I would.
• 22:45
  I would probably not even. Want to do that even more?
• 22:46
  Because I don't fuck that. I mean, we'll get it.
• 22:52
  We'll see what's going. On I'm.
• 22:53
  Just shocked today with you. Honestly, really weirded.
• 22:57
  Out. Amen.
• 22:57
  I'm weirding myself out lately, so it's fine.
• 23:01
  But anyway, so you're in Arizona.
• 23:03
  So yes, I was like, please, can we hear about I'm.
• 23:05
  Talking to me like I'm in Arizona, I'm at Arizona State.
• 23:09
  I have a Prelude SI. So this is.
• 23:11
  ASU go devils. Go Devils.
• 23:13
  Yeah, OK, Yeah. Sun Devils.
• 23:15
  All right, Sun Devils. What do you know about?
• 23:17
  That dude. I know.
• 23:18
  Shit, he loves Arizona. I wanted to go to Arizona for
• 23:21
  architecture. I couldn't get in you.
• 23:22
  Will love architecture. Yeah, their architecture school
• 23:25
  was one of the top. They're one of the best in the
• 23:28
  in the nation. Yeah, couldn't do it.
• 23:29
  I. Could see you being an
• 23:30
  architect. I wanted to so bad.
• 23:32
  I just it would I would be up to my balls and debt right now.
• 23:36
  Not that I'm not, but. Just actually I have a 1JA.
• 23:41
  Friend of mine went through that whole program and graduated from
• 23:44
  Arizona State with architecture degree.
• 23:45
  That's sick. Yeah.
• 23:47
  But so how'd you How'd you like it?
• 23:49
  Arizona. Yeah, it's.
• 23:50
  I loved it. Also, there's, you know, there's
• 23:53
  times where it's kind of frustrating, right?
• 23:55
  Like. 'Cause we're talking about a
• 23:58
  different time here, Ken, not to age you, but to our listeners
• 24:00
  out there who don't know. Because, Ken, you look great.
• 24:02
  You'll probably don't look a hair over 30.
• 24:04
  Thank you. But I actually know how old you
• 24:06
  are, so that's why I'm I. Was going to say when were you
• 24:08
  in Arizona? I was in Arizona from 93 till I
• 24:12
  left around 2007. Oh wow.
• 24:15
  So you were there. For a little while, you stayed.
• 24:18
  You hung around? About, yeah.
• 24:19
  About 14 years or so. I mean, the first four or five
• 24:22
  years, I kind of commuted back and forth from New York to
• 24:26
  commuted, not commuted, but like, you know, like come back
• 24:29
  home for the winter, summer. Snowbird.
• 24:32
  Snow. Yeah, kind of, I guess.
• 24:33
  Yeah. Is that?
• 24:33
  What that's called? I think that's what they call
• 24:35
  Jersey people that go to Florida.
• 24:37
  Or just like anyone. Anyone from the East Coast,
• 24:39
  yeah. That Yeah, he's a snowbird.
• 24:44
  Did you know this? No, no, you never.
• 24:47
  Heard that? I never heard.
• 24:48
  Oh shit, no. Like my dad is a snowbird right
• 24:50
  now. Your dad is not.
• 24:53
  You guys are not. Yeah, we are.
• 24:56
  Bro, we were at Ken. We were at fucking what?
• 24:58
  What event was that? Where was hot?
• 25:00
  Probably FD or it. Was ALZ event I think, yeah.
• 25:03
  Regardless, we were at E Down. It was sunny as hell.
• 25:06
  There's a shadow line like of where the tent is providing
• 25:12
  shade and like a sliver of sunlight, Frankie's dad is
• 25:15
  standing smack dab in the sun. And then Frankie is sitting in
• 25:19
  the shade, tucked away, wearing all black.
• 25:23
  And then Frankie's dad's wearing like a white polo, looking all,
• 25:26
  you know, fucking. Like you should be at the golf
• 25:29
  course or something. Yeah.
• 25:30
  Nah, he yeah, he he was he. Loves the sun, Enjoying the.
• 25:34
  Heat that day. Crazy skin it looks like.
• 25:35
  Here's the thing that the older you get, oh shit, like it gets,
• 25:38
  colder you get. Did you tell you?
• 25:40
  Well, yeah. No, exactly.
• 25:41
  Yeah. That's my opinion.
• 25:42
  That's what he's doing right now.
• 25:43
  My sister's down in Florida, so he's what?
• 25:45
  Do you wear? He goes back and forth, OK,
• 25:48
  Yeah, he retired two years ago. Love you Chris.
• 25:50
  Thank you. Thanks, Chris.
• 25:56
  Carl and Chris are having a moment.
• 25:59
  That's my man's right there. Stop.
• 26:01
  You got a lot of and it's of course it's a Budweiser for
• 26:03
  Malcolm. Whoa.
• 26:04
  Whoa, this is just happens to be a drink.
• 26:07
  Whoa, whoa. Doesn't that there, Ken?
• 26:09
  No thank you. It affects my gout.
• 26:12
  Oh shit. I'm not looking forward to that,
• 26:14
  dude. Well, take care of yourself.
• 26:16
  I'm. It's got to be in my I am
• 26:19
  Filipino. Yeah.
• 26:20
  Is that a Filipino dude? Ken's not Filipino, in case you
• 26:23
  didn't know I. Well, yeah, I know he's not, but
• 26:26
  other people have talked about it, like Chris and everything,
• 26:28
  and every time we go to Korean BBQ, it gets brought up.
• 26:30
  It's. Common dude, what is that?
• 26:31
  I have a high, terrible diet. Like I'm fucking.
• 26:35
  But can someone explain to me what it even is?
• 26:37
  What is Gout Ken? So gout is a type of arthritis.
• 26:40
  It's triggered by like the levels of uric acid in your
• 26:43
  blood. So I think there's like two
• 26:45
  different types, but the one that I have is like when my uric
• 26:47
  acid gets to too high like all these like crystals like kind of
• 26:52
  form on your joints and that part is very painful until like
• 26:54
  kind of breaks off. Oh my God.
• 26:56
  So just recently, I finally got, like, new medication from my
• 27:00
  doctor. I just actually picked it up
• 27:01
  before I came here, so I'm gonna give that a shot.
• 27:03
  OK? And Michelle's father actually
• 27:07
  is on the same medication. So like.
• 27:09
  How's it working for him? Said.
• 27:11
  It's great. The last last.
• 27:13
  Few years now. Now, why does this conversation
• 27:14
  always get brought up at Korean BBQ?
• 27:16
  Does it does meat? Affect this, Yes.
• 27:18
  So red meat is one of the triggers for a lot of people.
• 27:20
  Oh, red meat. Can be that mic a little.
• 27:22
  Closer Sorry. Yeah, so, like, a lot of.
• 27:24
  The no. Just pull like legitimately just
• 27:26
  pull the mic. It will make you go put it up.
• 27:28
  To your lip, I can do this like I can.
• 27:30
  Up to your lip. Like I can do this with.
• 27:32
  It We always tell people get rough with it.
• 27:34
  You know, get rough with the. Mic, you've only told like, two
• 27:37
  people that. Don't.
• 27:39
  Don't give people this idea here.
• 27:40
  Get rough with that mic you're. Going to get Ethan excited?
• 27:42
  No, I'm just kidding. My Ethan.
• 27:44
  Not your Ethan. Or our Ethan.
• 27:45
  OK, back to the gout. OK, gout.
• 27:47
  So, yeah, so that's like red meat.
• 27:50
  I think beer is a pretty, pretty common trigger.
• 27:53
  So like one of the first times I ever even experienced it, I was,
• 27:56
  I was actually telling Carl this the other day.
• 27:58
  I was in a a casino up in Scottsdale or someplace in
• 28:02
  Arizona playing poker, and I'm having a Heineken and all of a
• 28:07
  sudden my ankle is just tingling and tingling.
• 28:09
  It just gets worse and worse and worse.
• 28:11
  So like, I was like, I got to go home.
• 28:12
  Like I can't walk. Like.
• 28:14
  What the? Fuck.
• 28:15
  Oh my. Fuck.
• 28:17
  I'm terrified. I was.
• 28:18
  Oh my God, I don't want. To sing, Carl, I was about your
• 28:20
  age. I was like 28 years old.
• 28:22
  When that happens to me, yeah. Now you know if you feel that.
• 28:27
  Tingling, dude, because knock on fucking wood.
• 28:31
  When you get it, it feels like 1000 needles, just like
• 28:33
  throbbing, throbbing. Throbbing, but my foot be
• 28:35
  falling asleep. It feels just like that.
• 28:37
  No, no, no, no. You'll know when it's you'll
• 28:40
  know, 'cause you're like, just cut my foot off.
• 28:43
  I'm the person that when I get that pins and needle, I don't
• 28:45
  know about you guys. I don't know if it's a check and
• 28:47
  relay either. But when I get the pins and
• 28:49
  needles, my mentality is like, OK, yeah, like get rid of this
• 28:54
  shit. Yeah, that's a good way.
• 28:55
  To do like, walk it off, type what would happen?
• 28:59
  OK, I'm just not gonna do that now.
• 29:00
  Yeah, you won't be able to even do that with your leg.
• 29:03
  Like a piece of cloth hits it. You're like, it's painful.
• 29:07
  Yeah, but I'm so used to it now. It's not that bad.
• 29:13
  I just can't walk. Sometimes I have to put brace
• 29:15
  on. Right now I have a knee brace on
• 29:16
  under this. I wouldn't have even known.
• 29:18
  Yeah. But OK, so the reason why that
• 29:21
  kind of freaks me out is because I have this sort of idea and I'm
• 29:26
  probably going to jinx myself here and you guys are all going
• 29:28
  to hear it. That for the most part, aside
• 29:32
  from like a few little minor issues, I feel like I'm kind of
• 29:35
  OK right now. Like, you know, maybe not
• 29:37
  mentally or whatever, but like, when is that going to happen?
• 29:43
  And then I'm going to have to give up some stuff that I love
• 29:46
  to do. Like, does it ever affect your
• 29:49
  driving or drifting? How do you?
• 29:51
  Shift the stage. Fucking and clutch or whatever.
• 29:54
  So yeah. So there are a lot of hobbies
• 29:56
  that I can't really do anymore. I'm hoping this medication kind
• 30:00
  of changes that. Like when I first moved back to
• 30:03
  New York, I was bored. Like I kind of at that point I
• 30:06
  was burned out with two 40s and drifting and all that.
• 30:09
  I was just like, I had it, like I can't do this shit anymore.
• 30:12
  And then, like, I'm out and, you know, out of New York, I'm like,
• 30:16
  well, learn how to dance salsa, oh.
• 30:17
  OK. All right.
• 30:19
  So, like, that's like, I kind of got immersed into that and like,
• 30:22
  I fell in love with dancing salsa and like, so like, yeah,
• 30:26
  but I can't, I can't really do that anymore because I'm like,
• 30:28
  yeah, you know, it's. Some of them clubs.
• 30:30
  You can't do it. Cuz of my knees and my ankles
• 30:32
  like if I. You'll be going that hard where
• 30:34
  it's. Well, I don't even have to do,
• 30:35
  like much stuff. Like, I'll go on and dance a
• 30:38
  couple of songs and then like the next day, like my my knee is
• 30:41
  swollen, you know? Like it's just.
• 30:43
  I got a uncle my my my godfather has gout and ever since I was
• 30:47
  young the worst part about I feel like his situation is that
• 30:51
  he had gout which is not great but yet every family member shat
• 30:56
  on him for it. They would be like they would be
• 30:59
  like here you go Lester. I'm just kidding.
• 31:02
  You going to cap gout like that's that's some bullshit but
• 31:07
  like growing up that's I just knew it was a painful thing and
• 31:10
  it does put some limitations on stuff like my uncle he loved or
• 31:14
  my godfather he loved fucking bikes and and like just toys in
• 31:18
  general. Frankie, are you going to keep
• 31:20
  fucking shaking your mic. Sorry.
• 31:21
  Man, I need a fucking mic stand, bro.
• 31:23
  I fucking hate this shit. All right.
• 31:27
  Continue, Carl. Anyway, I'll wait, but I just
• 31:33
  knew it was like, not great and he did have to give up some
• 31:36
  things and like, it wasn't. That sucks.
• 31:41
  And I feel like I right now can't do that.
• 31:43
  I can't think of giving. Here's the thing that I love
• 31:45
  doing. When I get my gout attacks, it's
• 31:47
  usually like my ankles, my knees or my shoulder and that's like
• 31:51
  where I had previous injuries and I never took care of.
• 31:53
  Myself, What kind of oh from? So for example, like when I was
• 31:56
  younger, I used to play a lot of pick up basketball and all that
• 31:59
  kind of stuff. Also while doing like high
• 32:01
  school sports, I'll spray my ankle and the next day I like
• 32:04
  I'll have a game or something. I was like, I'll just tape it
• 32:06
  up, walk it off, put some dirt on it and, you know, like.
• 32:08
  Can of corn. You know, like that's what I
• 32:11
  used to do. You never heard?
• 32:12
  That can of corn, yeah. No can of corn.
• 32:15
  Wait till like. Can of corn, I'll be fine.
• 32:17
  OK, Carl. You never seen that video?
• 32:19
  No. I forget what video it is,
• 32:21
  hopefully somebody can can. There goes Carl's brain again.
• 32:25
  It's gone. It's gone, dude.
• 32:27
  Honestly, Yeah, it has been gone.
• 32:31
  I'm exhausted. This one GS got me fucked up
• 32:34
  dude. It's just.
• 32:36
  Just chill out. Because the problem is, is that
• 32:38
  like I'm attacking these problems.
• 32:39
  I'm sorry Ken, I just need to get this.
• 32:41
  I'm attacking these problems right now and like I I I can't
• 32:45
  like attack them and not try to learn about it.
• 32:47
  Which means I have to learn something and learning something
• 32:51
  is great but it's also takes energy and time and like.
• 32:55
  You got plenty of time. Do we?
• 32:58
  You do, do we? Because, because.
• 33:01
  You call me every day. All the time.
• 33:03
  Yeah, you answer half the time. You got a lot of time, so you
• 33:06
  got time to. Laugh.
• 33:06
  I just need 2 minutes of yours sometimes to just be like, all
• 33:09
  right, I got to get to work. I answered today.
• 33:11
  You did? Anyway, so you're in Arizona.
• 33:15
  And. How many times are we going to
• 33:17
  say back in? Arizona.
• 33:20
  Literally. Like 2 hours in.
• 33:21
  So back in Arizona. I want to hear like because OK
• 33:24
  you said 93 to what 2000 and. I was there until about 2007.
• 33:29
  OK. That you kind of entered the
• 33:33
  digital era, right? There.
• 33:34
  Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 33:35
  Yeah. No.
• 33:35
  So I kind of grew up through the whole digital, like before I
• 33:38
  went to Arizona State, there was no Internet.
• 33:41
  Oh my God. Like Frankie?
• 33:43
  Relax. That's.
• 33:44
  Crazy. Like everything was like
• 33:45
  Netscape right? Like so if you want to Internet
• 33:47
  like Netscape. What is that browser?
• 33:50
  What the fuck is that? Netscape.
• 33:51
  You don't know what that is. Netscape.
• 33:53
  No. Oh.
• 33:54
  Shit, sorry, first burp on the pond.
• 33:56
  Have we never done that? I don't know.
• 33:57
  You haven't. But it was a cute little one.
• 33:59
  It was. It sounded fake that.
• 34:01
  Was kind of weird. Malcolm hates.
• 34:04
  Us. He's just saying there's a.
• 34:05
  Bullshit this. I'm sorry.
• 34:07
  Ken, all right. Sorry.
• 34:08
  Anyway. Yes, I.
• 34:10
  Wait. Hold on.
• 34:10
  Wait. Wait, wait, wait.
• 34:11
  Malcolm is something wrong? He's just mad at me and you
• 34:14
  bantering. But we're all just hanging out.
• 34:17
  I know. It's just so.
• 34:18
  Weird. It's kind of weird because like
• 34:19
  this whole Internet thing is kind of how I got into like this
• 34:22
  whole like 240 community. So like, this is probably like
• 34:26
  9495. Like I'm learning how to I I
• 34:29
  just, you know, go to the browser, inspect it, like you
• 34:32
  see a little Pikachu dancing in the background.
• 34:34
  Like, how do they do that? Like you just kind of look at
• 34:36
  the code and I just kind of like reverse engineer it and I just
• 34:40
  kind of taught myself how to do all that stuff.
• 34:42
  You learned how to code in 95. I wouldn't call it coding is.
• 34:47
  That like HTML. HTML.
• 34:49
  And I used to do that on Myspace.
• 34:51
  Yeah, basically, yeah. 10 years later.
• 34:54
  Yeah. Look.
• 34:56
  So back in the day, I think it was like we're doing Geocities.
• 34:59
  Do you guys remember that? Yes, what is that?
• 35:02
  So it was kind of like the OG version of like Tumblr.
• 35:07
  It was like your own little like like a diary bloggish kind of
• 35:11
  thing. Like you like just go in there.
• 35:13
  It's like today I did this and today I'm trying.
• 35:15
  To remember the earliest blog, and I forget the name of it, but
• 35:18
  it was something weird. Jenga.
• 35:21
  Something Zynga. Zynga.
• 35:23
  Zynga. Someone might know in the chat,
• 35:24
  but that was the earliest blog I.
• 35:26
  Remember. Wait, why did that unlock some?
• 35:29
  Yeah, sort of. That was the earliest blog and
• 35:31
  then and then like WordPress and all that.
• 35:32
  But that was. Like, oh, that's way after,
• 35:34
  yeah. I think it was Zynga.
• 35:35
  Yeah, Zynga or. Something Or Zynga.
• 35:39
  Yeah, Zynga. XANGA Oh yes.
• 35:42
  Yes, yes, that. Was that that came after before.
• 35:46
  So Geocities is before, and I think that came after.
• 35:49
  So like, during that process, I was just kind of learning how to
• 35:52
  code once. And like, I'll just reach out to
• 35:54
  like someone like Benson who had like, you know, he's putting
• 35:57
  together like silly Mania. Like he has a really beautiful
• 36:00
  website. I'll just kind of message,
• 36:02
  e-mail and was like, hey, how did you do this?
• 36:04
  How'd you do? That.
• 36:04
  But how did you know? To message him like you must
• 36:07
  have gotten the two 40s right. Yeah, I was already into like I
• 36:09
  don't remember what year year was, but like I was, I just got
• 36:12
  my 2 fourty. But I was also into I learned
• 36:17
  about drifting like around the time when I had my prelude.
• 36:19
  What year was that? Oh man.
• 36:23
  I feel like you learned about drifting when it fucking
• 36:24
  started. It well, dude, I was.
• 36:26
  Wondering when you. Started in the United States,
• 36:28
  right, Like or kind of like it's because I back in that 2002
• 36:32
  National Convention, there was still no drift days or anything
• 36:35
  like that. It was called like car control.
• 36:38
  Whoa. Yeah.
• 36:39
  So like there was no drift events like come to this car
• 36:41
  control event at Willow Springs or wherever.
• 36:44
  Nice dude. I told you we will learn some.
• 36:47
  Shit. Did you catch that on camera
• 36:50
  with me and Frankie Just met eyes like that, did you?
• 36:54
  Did you feel that? What if we named an event that?
• 36:57
  I'm sure it's fine. I don't know like that, but like
• 37:00
  that was. We're cooking right now, like
• 37:02
  if. You go to Still Lady Mania's
• 37:03
  podcast, I think one of the season one episodes with like
• 37:08
  Trial, Speed and like Moto and all those guys, all, you know,
• 37:11
  like they go real deep into like what they did, how it was all
• 37:14
  kind of came together. And a lot of those things like,
• 37:16
  Oh yeah, that's how they did is like I was there like I was at
• 37:19
  that event or like is that. I think, OK, so when we hung
• 37:24
  out, really, for the first time, like, Ken would talk to me about
• 37:29
  these stories and I'm over here. I'm like, oh, this is cool.
• 37:33
  We're talking about drifting. And then I'm like, wait, this is
• 37:35
  literally like a completely different time.
• 37:39
  Like the cars, the pictures, the way they looked.
• 37:41
  Dude, you see, You ever see an S14, like, rolling like this?
• 37:48
  Dude, it's, it's. The worst thing in the.
• 37:50
  World. It's crazy.
• 37:51
  But The thing is, is like, the vibes were probably so fun.
• 37:55
  Well, like, not a care. Well, back in the day, if you
• 37:58
  had an S chassis, like you're in this special club, right?
• 38:01
  Like like everyone's into Honda's.
• 38:04
  Like Integra's like Civics, you know?
• 38:06
  Dude, I feel like he was still like that up until 10 years ago.
• 38:09
  Possibly. I really do.
• 38:10
  Maybe like I think the pandemic definitely kind of like opened a
• 38:14
  a lot of eyes on to the S chassis.
• 38:16
  Like like when we when I got into drifting around 2010, I
• 38:20
  feel like it was still like that because people were like 0240.
• 38:22
  Like only people that kind of wanted to drift got those cars,
• 38:27
  I feel like or a there's a handful that wanted to.
• 38:29
  Just not just drifting, though. It wasn't just drifting.
• 38:32
  The car was about. That car was a good car.
• 38:34
  It was a. It is.
• 38:34
  It is a really good car. I mean to me like the the one
• 38:37
  like the 180, like the 240 Fastback is one of the most like
• 38:41
  beautiful chassis that Nissan made.
• 38:43
  Yay really to ME180SX. Yeah, to me it is like it's it
• 38:47
  has like that very classic body lines like from the old.
• 38:52
  Like it is the most. Like all that?
• 38:54
  So then let's ask the most important question here tonight.
• 38:57
  What is it for him? Why?
• 38:58
  Do you have a convertible? Oh, so why do I have a
• 39:00
  convertible? OK, so back in 2016.
• 39:03
  Seventeen. Oh, so this is about like 10
• 39:05
  years after I I moved back. Oh man, I like.
• 39:09
  I wanna That's chassis again. Well, you're living in the
• 39:12
  future compared to us, so maybe, maybe that's the move you get
• 39:14
  the me and everything. It's not like I went out to look
• 39:17
  for a a convertible. So I was out in the markets
• 39:20
  like, you know, I've had S chassis like you know S13's and
• 39:24
  I was like maybe I'll get this S14.
• 39:26
  I saw one out in like I found one in like Craigslist.
• 39:30
  It was like S14 Zenki, a white one and it was like $3500 like
• 39:37
  clean. Oh hell yeah, it was clean.
• 39:39
  I was like stock like 5 speed, right?
• 39:41
  Like it was just maybe had some coilovers on it and had like
• 39:44
  some like shitty like Rep wheels on it.
• 39:47
  I don't know. But I I contacted the guy.
• 39:49
  I was like, hey, like, I want to go see this car.
• 39:52
  I want to. He's like, all right, cool.
• 39:53
  So like, the day I was going to head up there, he's like, oh,
• 39:56
  I'm sorry, I just sold it. I was like, oh fuck, man.
• 39:59
  So I started looking around. I'm looking around.
• 40:01
  I was like, oh, shit, there's this convertible.
• 40:05
  I was like, I'm not a big fan of convertibles because it was just
• 40:09
  not a popular chassis at the time.
• 40:11
  When I came in the RB25. 5 speed transmission, had the PBM coil
• 40:17
  overs like had like pretty much a lot of like pretty nice like
• 40:21
  bolt on stuff like it was 55 Volt converted.
• 40:24
  Had the Z 32 calipers from the rear.
• 40:27
  It has the five Z again with the Goza again, exhaust like blitz
• 40:32
  down pipe, all that kind of stuff.
• 40:34
  I. Don't know if it was the
• 40:36
  Cannonball one, but I love that one.
• 40:39
  But I was like, you know what? It's got all the right parts.
• 40:41
  Like I'm just going to buy this and then buy another S chassis
• 40:45
  and swap it over to that and that just never happened.
• 40:49
  So you were literally just gonna use it as a donor car?
• 40:52
  Yeah, exactly. And then like, I drove it
• 40:54
  around, it was like, you know what?
• 40:56
  Like I kind of like this. Like, it's different.
• 40:59
  Yeah. And it's like it's almost like,
• 41:00
  you know, like it's like riding a four wheel like motorcycle,
• 41:05
  like you get into a crash with that car, you're pretty much
• 41:07
  dead. You know, like, it's like like
• 41:11
  you wear seatbelts in that car just for like you don't get a
• 41:13
  ticket by the cops or something like.
• 41:15
  That I had a vert as well. That was my first Dutch chassis.
• 41:18
  It was a vert and I enjoyed it. Like it?
• 41:21
  Actually, you're a. Convertible type person.
• 41:24
  What the fuck is that? No.
• 41:30
  But it's but it's like no. No, no, it was.
• 41:33
  I just like to enjoy life. Like what can I?
• 41:35
  Talk about. Yeah, that's exactly what I
• 41:36
  meant. By that I know.
• 41:37
  I know. I know I know.
• 41:38
  I knew, I knew. But.
• 41:39
  Yeah, the one of the things about the vert there was that
• 41:41
  the chassis is so soft like compared to like.
• 41:44
  Yeah, because it doesn't have a roof.
• 41:46
  But you made a good point with the door thing.
• 41:50
  He, he, we were talking about this at my house because I was
• 41:52
  telling Ken how I I used to Jack the vert up by the front and you
• 41:57
  would see the whole car like just goes like that.
• 42:02
  And I'm like. Where would you track it up?
• 42:04
  The front tow hook. And it would bend.
• 42:08
  Yeah, not like don't if you're not picking up a pool noodle,
• 42:13
  but like, you can definitely see well.
• 42:15
  We've had two convertibles in here for like a couple months
• 42:17
  for some fucking weird reason and we've been pointing out like
• 42:20
  all the little parts they added on the bottom, really
• 42:23
  interesting, they. Like, but the door thing.
• 42:25
  The door. So yeah, like if you look at
• 42:27
  that convertible out there, there's like a little latch
• 42:29
  that's connected to the rear subframe.
• 42:32
  Well, not rear subframe, but the rear quarter.
• 42:34
  Yeah. So like that door kind of
• 42:36
  connects that portion and it creates that upper support that
• 42:39
  it doesn't have with the roof. It's so crazy.
• 42:41
  So like if you put coop doors on it, like, aesthetically it looks
• 42:45
  much better, right? Because it has that nice clean
• 42:47
  like almost like a low rider look to it like.
• 42:50
  Well, you're you're saying the door, the outside appearance is
• 42:53
  way different too. Well, because that the the the
• 42:56
  coop door versus the vert door has like that extra pillar.
• 42:59
  Yeah, the pillar. So like a lot of people take
• 43:01
  that pillar off, but that pillar is very important because that's
• 43:04
  part of the structural integrity of the chassis, because that
• 43:07
  kind of locks that door into the chassis and gives us that extra
• 43:11
  upper support. Yeah.
• 43:12
  And when you cut that off, it kind of makes the chesty a
• 43:15
  little bit soft. It's already flexible to begin
• 43:17
  with. Like, that was the first thing I
• 43:19
  noticed with the vert was that, oh man, this is like driving
• 43:23
  around in a rubber band, Almost like just like very spongy
• 43:26
  compared to like a a fastback or a coup.
• 43:28
  Drifting it, Drifting it. The moment I got rid of that car
• 43:32
  and I got into another car, Drifting felt way more solid.
• 43:36
  Like especially when you hit a clutch kick, when you feel the
• 43:39
  ass kick out with the vert, I feel like it would.
• 43:44
  It did it because mine had a welded in it and it did it but
• 43:49
  just didn't really hit like the other car did, which was I got a
• 43:53
  coupe after that. So correct me if I'm wrong,
• 43:56
  those cars were imported as regular two 40s and then
• 43:59
  somewhere in California they modified them.
• 44:01
  Or is that? That's what I hear.
• 44:02
  Yeah, there's a company out in like I forget what it's called,
• 44:05
  like AESC or AACS or something like.
• 44:08
  That so some car manufacturing company or modifying company?
• 44:12
  Maybe. Yeah, so like Nissan contracted
• 44:14
  those guys to make, was it like 1400, like convertibles using
• 44:18
  like coupes? So did they bring?
• 44:21
  I wonder if they brought the whole car over as a completed
• 44:23
  car. And probably, yeah, they did.
• 44:25
  Cut the roof off, change the doors, add these.
• 44:27
  Supports. Undercoat everything again and
• 44:30
  then send it out. Pretty much, yeah.
• 44:32
  So interesting. From what I understand, yeah.
• 44:34
  Cuz they were not available in Japan, right?
• 44:36
  Well, Japan had their own convertible.
• 44:39
  It was different. Different.
• 44:41
  How different? Like.
• 44:43
  I'm actually really really curious right now cuz I.
• 44:45
  See pictures is like the way the roof is created is completely
• 44:51
  different. So there's like this little big
• 44:54
  kind of bulkiness to the back. Yeah, where where the the US
• 44:59
  version is, they literally just cut the roof off and where the
• 45:01
  speakers would go is where the roof kind of falls into.
• 45:05
  I wonder, well, it makes sense because there's probably two
• 45:07
  different companies doing it, so maybe they have different ways.
• 45:11
  To So one was Nissan. What was that company in?
• 45:14
  California Oh, so you think so? Nissan made their own, yeah.
• 45:17
  Made their own in Japan, but that that was never imported.
• 45:20
  OK, yeah, that one came with the Sylvia front end and stuff.
• 45:23
  Like that. Dang.
• 45:24
  I never knew that this whole time.
• 45:26
  I always thought that. I really just thought that
• 45:30
  that's they somebody was trying to make like, oh, a vert came
• 45:34
  out in the US, let's make one here in Japan.
• 45:36
  Yeah, why would they it? Just makes no.
• 45:39
  Sense why it looks sick. That they would do that in Japan
• 45:41
  but not send that car over. I know the front end is
• 45:44
  different, but well. It's also around the time where
• 45:46
  they had those automatic seatbelts in the United States.
• 45:49
  So that was part of the regulation, right?
• 45:51
  So, like, that's why you had that stupid, like, pillar thing
• 45:54
  designed with a seat belt like this.
• 45:56
  Like they have to like have it like kind of like an automatic.
• 46:00
  So in Japan, is the door different?
• 46:02
  I think so. I think they.
• 46:04
  I don't wanna. It has a coupe looking door it
• 46:06
  doesn't have. That it probably has the coupe
• 46:08
  door cuz their safety stand is a lot lower than ours compared to
• 46:12
  SO. Interesting.
• 46:13
  Dude, no. You ever see pictures of them?
• 46:15
  Like drifting? There's one on an Ebisu.
• 46:18
  Course is, though it needs to be higher.
• 46:21
  No, no, no, no. On the on a Sil.
• 46:24
  On a Sylvia one, or would it be a?
• 46:27
  Technically would be called a Silvia.
• 46:28
  Sylvia, yeah. Would that be a Varietta but a?
• 46:30
  13 I would think so. Yeah, because X15 Varietta,
• 46:33
  yeah, yeah, probably damn Sylvia Varietta.
• 46:37
  But anyway, that like with a coupe and Sylvia front.
• 46:43
  So that means no pillar you're you're you're kind of driving
• 46:46
  around in a slab, but it looks good.
• 46:49
  I'm just thinking when the seat belt usually mounts on a coupe
• 46:53
  is where it mounts in the convert.
• 46:55
  Right. Like it's more above your
• 46:56
  shoulder. Yeah.
• 46:57
  Like with the vert, it's just like, right here.
• 46:59
  Like it's right on top of your shoulder.
• 47:01
  So if they tried anything different in Japan, it would be
• 47:03
  real sketchy so. I think theirs is actually
• 47:05
  mounted on. A seat.
• 47:08
  Maybe on on the back quarter where the frame is.
• 47:11
  So it kind of like it's almost like a Miata style, like it just
• 47:13
  kind of goes over your shoulder, yeah.
• 47:14
  That shit ain't going to work when?
• 47:16
  You. Yeah.
• 47:16
  I'll tell you what though. My power top worked Florida
• 47:19
  State and and that shit, I would be doing that shit going like 25
• 47:23
  miles an hour. You do that at like 80.
• 47:25
  I'm unsure And then try what what?
• 47:27
  Is. That not normal?
• 47:28
  You don't. Think that you would unlash that
• 47:30
  thing and it would immediately. Just throw back quick.
• 47:33
  Release not on the other side. For a little while, like when I
• 47:38
  started drifting it, I fucked up the harness in the wheel well,
• 47:42
  which houses a lot of the top stuff like, and I was wondering
• 47:47
  why the soft top stopped working.
• 47:49
  And then I looked in there and I was like, oh oh, like what?
• 47:52
  Are these wires? Yeah.
• 47:53
  Because I I mean, I really, I really, back then I wasn't
• 47:56
  really like, let me go YouTube this that wasn't like my first
• 47:58
  instinct. I was always just like fuck.
• 48:00
  Well, I'm fogged like so then if you didn't know and if you have
• 48:05
  a vert and you don't know, you can go to the trunk on, you open
• 48:09
  up the bypass valve which then makes it a manual roof and then
• 48:14
  you just unlatch and you just throw it back manually.
• 48:19
  Dude, I just. Everything I've learned is
• 48:21
  because a struggle happens there really.
• 48:25
  That's true. That's life though.
• 48:26
  It is. It is.
• 48:27
  I never learns. It gets better by like waiting
• 48:30
  all the time, you know. It's been testing me.
• 48:32
  I'd like, I don't know, man. Yeah, it's just been testing me.
• 48:36
  Fuck. You're all right, Carl.
• 48:38
  Yeah, we're good. Yeah.
• 48:41
  So are you like a convertible person now?
• 48:43
  No. I wouldn't say that like I My
• 48:45
  heart is still with, like, the fastback.
• 48:47
  Yeah, that's still my. That was sick.
• 48:50
  Do you have? I have two shells right now.
• 48:54
  Yeah, I was waiting for him to say something because I'm like.
• 48:57
  They're both hatch, yeah. Like Frankie?
• 49:00
  Are you good? He's good.
• 49:02
  You just had a little side quest.
• 49:03
  Well, we have. We have one of his engines here
• 49:05
  that we assembled, so. Yes, I don't know.
• 49:07
  It's. The most beautiful engine I've
• 49:08
  ever owned. We should roll it in.
• 49:11
  Dude, roll it in the. Well, we might be able to, we.
• 49:14
  Could do that. But what what I think is funny
• 49:16
  is that when I'm watching videos I'm like, that is like the
• 49:20
  perfect engine to use for that video.
• 49:22
  It looks like a fuck. That's why we're using.
• 49:23
  It I saw out the box. Yeah.
• 49:25
  So which car? What?
• 49:26
  What Car is that? Going into, that's gonna go into
• 49:28
  one of the fastback shells. Any goals?
• 49:31
  Yeah. So that one will kind of be like
• 49:33
  kind of what Frankie was saying about his kind of fun car.
• 49:38
  So like, occasional drifting, but it'll be like AI wouldn't
• 49:42
  call it a daily driver, but like it was something where I
• 49:45
  wouldn't care if it's raining outside, I'll go drive it, have
• 49:47
  some fun with it, keep it clean, and then the other shell.
• 49:51
  It's kind of, I'm going to say a rust bucket, but like the
• 49:54
  previous owner, I got her from like he did some hacky stuff to
• 49:58
  it. Such as?
• 49:59
  Such as when he cut the exhaust, he went sawzall and like, cut
• 50:04
  the tunnel with it as well. So I got to get that welded back
• 50:08
  on, like it's not that bad of incision.
• 50:10
  Like maybe it's like a couple of inches here and there.
• 50:12
  So like, you know, I just got to stitch that up.
• 50:16
  Did you see why Max manifold? I did.
• 50:18
  It's beautiful. It's nice I.
• 50:20
  Like it? Well, I really like them.
• 50:21
  D Max manifold. Yeah, we got them.
• 50:23
  Now see, I get to run one of those stickers now, yeah.
• 50:26
  Fuck. Carl just loves.
• 50:28
  Stickers, Dude, no, no, no, no, no.
• 50:30
  I like the stickers because it's like somebody had to design it.
• 50:33
  You know how hard it is to design A sticker?
• 50:35
  Yeah. OK, it's a really.
• 50:36
  Fucking. I love collecting stickers.
• 50:38
  Dude, you have some of the craziest ones on the time.
• 50:40
  He comes here, he gives me a sticker.
• 50:41
  He's like, yeah, this is from. You have any idea how old those
• 50:44
  are? Yeah.
• 50:44
  He's like this from this from AD One event in 2001.
• 50:47
  Here you can just have it. I'm like, Are you sure?
• 50:50
  Yeah, like every now and then I'll find like a stock of like
• 50:52
  the other day I found a stock of like, Drift Alliance stickers.
• 50:55
  Because when we used when I used to like.
• 50:57
  You gave me one, right? I gave you.
• 50:59
  I gave you one. One.
• 51:00
  I think I gave you one for Carl, but I don't think he ever got
• 51:03
  it. I gotta go.
• 51:06
  Look, you're I. Gotta look.
• 51:09
  I gotta look, dude, you gave me like a drift line sticker or
• 51:12
  something. Yeah, yeah, That's.
• 51:13
  Crazy. So that's how I got that, is
• 51:16
  when I was running when I was admittingaz240sx.org.
• 51:22
  Hopefully that's coming back. We'll see.
• 51:26
  AZ 240. Sx.org.
• 51:28
  All all three members. No, no, no, no.
• 51:30
  We had, we had like maybe 40 to 60 cars.
• 51:33
  Really. Yeah, dude.
• 51:34
  I always think about Arizona. Like when I go there, I'm like,
• 51:36
  I don't see two 40s. Anymore.
• 51:38
  Well, that's the thing. That's what made it so special,
• 51:39
  right? Like, so one of our members,
• 51:42
  like, he had his great ideas. Like, hey, why don't we just
• 51:44
  print out? It's like, I work at Kinko's or
• 51:46
  something like that. It's like, I'm gonna print out
• 51:48
  some business cards. Yeah.
• 51:49
  And they're like at the next speed, like he just kind of
• 51:51
  handed all, you know, key them out to people.
• 51:55
  And whenever you see a 240, stick that business card on the
• 51:58
  windshield. Yeah.
• 52:00
  And people come onto a forums like yeah someone drop this but.
• 52:03
  That was also when 240 were, like, actually on the road.
• 52:06
  True. True.
• 52:07
  What were you seeing him? Where you're.
• 52:08
  Very rare. Like we'll see.
• 52:11
  Like at some point we knew it. We thought we knew every 240
• 52:14
  owner in the state of Arizona. So there will be times where
• 52:20
  like someone's hey, I just saw this guy and I left the car.
• 52:23
  So be on the lookout for some guy in a coupe or some guy in a
• 52:27
  hat for an S14. And then like a week later, it's
• 52:30
  like, hey, I got this business card and then either they love
• 52:34
  us or hate us and they fuck off or they stick around.
• 52:37
  Damn. Wait, Wait, wait.
• 52:38
  Wait. Wait.
• 52:38
  Wait. You see.
• 52:39
  You hear how that timeline just happened?
• 52:42
  It was a week later and then you can maybe find out if they got
• 52:48
  your message or if they're going.
• 52:49
  To. I mean, it was just that
• 52:50
  they're. Only back with you.
• 52:51
  Yeah, it was like information traveled a lot slower back in
• 52:55
  the day. Would you say, did you like it
• 52:58
  better that way or do you like the rapid?
• 53:01
  It's like a little sword, right? Because for my personal use,
• 53:05
  it's great to have all the information at your fingertips.
• 53:08
  But I also think that like this, the phone is like one of the
• 53:13
  worst things to be ever invented for like in terms of society.
• 53:17
  You heard it here first, I'm. Gonna say the.
• 53:20
  It's like it's part of the reason why society is so
• 53:23
  decayed, right? Now he really, I mean, he was
• 53:25
  pretty confident in that. Wait, OK?
• 53:27
  Because wild. Tangent inbound.
• 53:30
  Wait quick before I Have you ever seen a 240 being sold at a
• 53:32
  dealership brand new? Yes.
• 53:34
  OK, we'll go. We'll circle.
• 53:35
  Back Yes. No.
• 53:36
  I used to work on a Nissan dealership as a salesperson.
• 53:38
  Really. In the truck department called
• 53:40
  ABC Nissan out in Phoenix, AZ. Oh.
• 53:43
  Shit. What cars were you selling at
• 53:44
  that time? Used D20 ones like.
• 53:46
  Hard body, Hard body. Oh, right, that's got that's
• 53:48
  like a five year cab. Standing cab was 6.
• 53:52
  Foot either like a 222 wheel drive or like, you know, 'cause
• 53:55
  they had K20 fours at the time, right?
• 53:58
  Yeah. And then the the four by fours
• 54:00
  had like the V6 in it the single.
• 54:03
  You were a salesman. That was horrible.
• 54:05
  Hold on, Horrible. Frankie, Frankie, Frankie,
• 54:07
  Frankie. Walk into a dealership.
• 54:10
  Right now Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 54:12
  What are you looking at? What are you looking at?
• 54:14
  Me and you? We're walking.
• 54:15
  Wow, I know what I'm looking. For look at.
• 54:17
  Hey man, I'm just looking for a car today, man.
• 54:19
  Me. What do you want Frankie like?
• 54:22
  I want that 240. SX because I can't afford the
• 54:24
  300SX. Did you sell any two 40s?
• 54:27
  Oh, but you said you're in the truck.
• 54:28
  Department. I was in the truck department.
• 54:29
  Yeah, dude, let's go check out the truck department.
• 54:31
  We can't sell truck. Department, there's one truck.
• 54:33
  Frontier. No, no.
• 54:34
  What is a frontier? That's a.
• 54:35
  That's a hot. So that was before, yeah.
• 54:37
  I mean, that was the hard part. So I was working before the
• 54:40
  frontiers so it was just a hard. Box.
• 54:42
  It was just literally. One truck.
• 54:44
  No, it was. 30 Pathfinder. They had the Pathfinder too, but
• 54:48
  like they had the, well there's four, right?
• 54:50
  Because they had the four by four with the standard cab and
• 54:54
  the extended cab and then they had the 2 wheel drive with the
• 54:57
  with the extended cab or like the single like regular cab.
• 55:01
  And those are the four trucks that we sold.
• 55:03
  Are they all the same truck? The the two wheel drives were
• 55:08
  it's just one is longer than the other and the four wheel drive
• 55:11
  ones I think they also had it was a little bit bigger.
• 55:14
  It's more like the Pathfinder. What engine was that?
• 55:17
  I think it was like the VG30VG30.
• 55:20
  That's a good engine. E Yeah, that the DE And then the
• 55:23
  other truck had the K 24 E carbureted.
• 55:27
  Ethan Ethan, who's making a lot of fucking noise in the shop
• 55:29
  right now. He's the one that had that.
• 55:31
  Isn't he working on your fucking car?
• 55:33
  I don't think he is. Oh, no, he's not even.
• 55:35
  He's got a bunch. Of jobs to do.
• 55:37
  But yeah, just so everyone knows what that noise.
• 55:38
  Is yeah, fully functioning shop. We're, we're we're working right
• 55:41
  now. Sorry Time.
• 55:42
  Yeah, 9798 Cokie 240SX. It was just sitting there, brand
• 55:48
  new and waiting to be. How much, How much money I
• 55:50
  think. It was like 22 brah 24.
• 55:53
  Thousand wait, wait, whoa. I'll buy.
• 55:54
  Two of them. Right now Malcolm, do you know
• 55:56
  is there such thing as that like inflation calculator thing like
• 56:00
  what's 22,000 and 98 to today? It's probably like 35 grand.
• 56:05
  Let's look. You tell me, what was $22,000
• 56:07
  like back then? $22,000 no true, It's true like.
• 56:11
  How many many double s can you buy?
• 56:12
  Or is it? Way more money It's.
• 56:14
  Like in today's standards, it feels like a lot more money.
• 56:17
  Bigger guess today. Like 30?
• 56:18
  5. Wait, what was it?
• 56:19
  What was it? What was your guess, 35?
• 56:22
  And your guess 33? $22,000 in 1998 is equivalent to
• 56:28
  $42,000. Holy.
• 56:31
  Shit. So they were really, really
• 56:33
  expensive. Like, did they feel that way?
• 56:34
  Or no, no, Like, no one wanted to buy it, 'cause they're like,
• 56:37
  oh, that's a secretary's car. Yeah, you know, like.
• 56:39
  But, like, every day, like I went to work, I'm like, I'll go
• 56:41
  over to buy the new car sales. I'm like, oh, this car's still
• 56:44
  here. Like one day, one day I'm going
• 56:46
  to get this. Like the one day that.
• 56:47
  Employee. Discount's going to come right
• 56:49
  to work. I don't.
• 56:50
  Believe that calculator, Malcolm.
• 56:54
  I don't know. Pick.
• 56:56
  Pick a different one. Pick a different one.
• 56:57
  Are you serious? No, because I'm going off the
• 57:00
  way he's reacting and I I feel like you don't think it felt
• 57:02
  like 43. 1000, no, it's, I mean I no, I don't think so like.
• 57:08
  And he's living proof. I will try another one.
• 57:11
  He's going to try another one. He's he's waiting.
• 57:13
  He's going to give this computer a virus right now.
• 57:16
  OK, here we go. But if you compare it to like
• 57:17
  today's like market of what? How much cars cost?
• 57:20
  Like how much does a Corolla cost nowadays?
• 57:22
  Like 40,000? Dollars. 30 grand?
• 57:24
  35 grand. No, you can't.
• 57:25
  Probably can't get a car for 30 grand now.
• 57:27
  You can. It's, you can.
• 57:29
  It's literally the. Same exact fucking number.
• 57:31
  It's 4040, yeah, 41.6. I don't.
• 57:35
  Know. That's that's a lot of money for
• 57:37
  a 240, Yeah. Would OK, here's the question.
• 57:41
  And FRS right now is what? 40 Grand 30 30 Something 35.
• 57:46
  That's GR 36, yeah. Go one you cannot buy AGR 86
• 57:50
  for. Yeah, it's like the MSRP is
• 57:52
  like, what, 31? 30 and goes upwards to 30 Oh
• 57:58
  wait, yeah 38. OK, so let's say let's say for
• 58:02
  the upper one, let's say for 35. No, no, no.
• 58:04
  That's for the special edition. No, no.
• 58:07
  No, the GR86 Toronto edition is 39,000.
• 58:10
  Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, but the 38,000 is like
• 58:13
  Jimmy's. No, it's not I.
• 58:17
  Literally looked these up the other day.
• 58:18
  Well, it it says. It starts at 27.9.
• 58:20
  There you go. OK, why are you looking these?
• 58:24
  $27,000, but the 240SX is 42 grand that doesn't.
• 58:28
  Yeah, see, like I would say the GR86 or like the FRZ is like the
• 58:31
  equivalent of today's like S like today's equivalent S
• 58:35
  chassis as it. Was that was going to be my
• 58:36
  question was like, OK, let's say, let's say the 240SX comes
• 58:42
  back out. OK.
• 58:44
  It would be. It would be $30,000.
• 58:46
  It would have to commit, yeah. Imagine the.
• 58:51
  Slap EV like it'll look ugly, They.
• 58:53
  Won't imagine the. They'll wait fucking 20 years
• 58:55
  and then re release it as a fucking EV.
• 58:57
  They will do that. They'll call it the Silvia, no.
• 59:01
  Oh, they would. Call it, they call.
• 59:03
  They would have called it the Sil like SEV.
• 59:09
  No, my boy, my boy. Right there.
• 59:12
  We're on and then. Synchronicity Remember when they
• 59:14
  said the Juke was their sports car?
• 59:16
  What? They asked why?
• 59:18
  When are you going to release? A.
• 59:19
  The knees were a Juke. Yeah.
• 59:20
  When are you going to release a entry model sports car?
• 59:23
  And they were like, oh, we have the Juke.
• 59:27
  Everyone's like. Whoa, wait, actually the other
• 59:30
  the other day I was literally driving.
• 59:31
  Or maybe somebody sent me a picture of one, but there was a
• 59:34
  Juke with a wing on it. Like a?
• 59:36
  Terrifying. Like a chassis mount.
• 59:37
  You know that thing is hauling ass, bro.
• 59:40
  No, it's not. Yeah, it is.
• 59:41
  But how could they say that way? He said It was a straight face.
• 59:43
  It's in an interview the whoever the owner of Nissan was at the
• 59:47
  time, he's like, oh, we have the Juke.
• 59:49
  Was he, was it the French guy? Maybe.
• 59:51
  The guy who, like stuffed himself in the suitcase to,
• 59:53
  like, get out of the country. Yeah, the guy that ruined
• 59:56
  Nissan. Yeah.
• 59:57
  What is in the VQ? I don't know, but I do remember.
• 1:00:01
  I know exactly what's in it. What?
• 1:00:03
  I'll tell you what's in it. Cancer.
• 1:00:04
  Not all-wheel drive. Oh.
• 1:00:06
  Right, it's a. Front wheel drive.
• 1:00:08
  Car. Here's how Nissan worked when I
• 1:00:10
  was working there. This is how they worked.
• 1:00:12
  Oh, the Juke, you know, you you work at Nissan, You try to force
• 1:00:16
  yourself to think something's cool.
• 1:00:17
  So you're like, oh, I guess the Juke could be kind of cool.
• 1:00:20
  Oh, they make Nismo shit. That's cool.
• 1:00:21
  And then you start looking into it.
• 1:00:23
  You can get it in manual. That's really cool.
• 1:00:26
  Only the front wheel drive one. Oh, all-wheel.
• 1:00:28
  Drive you cannot get in manual. But what does it have?
• 1:00:30
  Like a DCT? There's some garbage shit all
• 1:00:33
  the. Transmissions are.
• 1:00:34
  Trash I don't. Know all the transmissions they
• 1:00:36
  have are trash. Literally.
• 1:00:39
  Do you guys remember the Juke where some company, I don't know
• 1:00:42
  where it was either in Europe or Japan, they swapped in that GTR
• 1:00:45
  engine? Yeah.
• 1:00:46
  OK. That's that is a sports.
• 1:00:48
  That sounds like a mismo. Juke for a.
• 1:00:49
  Small price of $60,000. You can have a Juke.
• 1:00:52
  That's cool. Yeah, but still automatically.
• 1:00:56
  Do you understand that you can't get a GTR for $60,000?
• 1:00:59
  You could, but let's say you had a.
• 1:01:01
  Let's say you had a Juke that was fully functioning GTR for
• 1:01:06
  60K. Yeah, but it's not.
• 1:01:08
  I think they're it was a concept.
• 1:01:11
  It wasn't fucking made. No, it was like one of one.
• 1:01:13
  Yeah, yeah. That sounds awesome though.
• 1:01:15
  But the Nismo one I'm pretty sure was it could have been
• 1:01:18
  all-wheel drive, but it was automatic, so it didn't matter.
• 1:01:20
  Like you were just like you're trying to make it cool in your
• 1:01:22
  head, but you're just like, they just fuck everything up, dude.
• 1:01:25
  Yeah, like, and then the ZS sound like fucking trumpets.
• 1:01:29
  Something like that. Is anyone going to fix this
• 1:01:30
  problem? Or are they just going to look,
• 1:01:32
  man? You just don't take the cat off,
• 1:01:34
  you know, get a high quality exhaust.
• 1:01:35
  I think you'll be fine, yeah. And turbocharge it.
• 1:01:38
  That's the. Key Yeah, so I guess they did
• 1:01:40
  fix. That not always dude.
• 1:01:41
  Like some, I've heard good sounding ZS.
• 1:01:43
  I have not ones ever in my life. Yeah, that's Cap, you've
• 1:01:46
  definitely. No, I'm not kidding.
• 1:01:48
  I the new ones with the turbos are fine.
• 1:01:51
  Not fine. But they're better.
• 1:01:53
  Yeah, you know, but a 350Z now, dude, I really don't think I've
• 1:01:56
  heard a nice one. I.
• 1:01:58
  Don't think that HR one with a good exhaust sounds good.
• 1:02:03
  I don't know. What do you think, Ken?
• 1:02:04
  I think, well, it definitely has a higher pitch, but like as long
• 1:02:08
  as you don't go cheap with it, like you don't get the really
• 1:02:11
  thin metal exhaust where it's a lot tingy and stuff.
• 1:02:14
  Like I I don't think like a titanium could also be good.
• 1:02:16
  For you know what it is, I think.
• 1:02:17
  I just don't like V sixes and I think.
• 1:02:19
  That's what I was about to say. I.
• 1:02:21
  Don't think you just like the sound.
• 1:02:22
  That's. It.
• 1:02:22
  And I'm going to blame every G35 owner while I was growing up.
• 1:02:27
  And and Oh no, not only those. What's the other one?
• 1:02:30
  The fucking Infiniti truck. Oh.
• 1:02:32
  Oh, the FX35. Bro, why do they don't have to
• 1:02:35
  be straight piped and and why like?
• 1:02:38
  When I was a kid. When I was a kid, I don't know
• 1:02:40
  why, but when that FX35 came out, I thought it was, you know,
• 1:02:44
  given I was like. Eight years old.
• 1:02:46
  And then ten years. Old of them drive.
• 1:02:47
  By but no, no, no. Like, I remember seeing one and
• 1:02:51
  the lights were so thin. I was like, whoa, that that
• 1:02:54
  looks futuristic as fuck. Ride my bike around again.
• 1:02:58
  The block just to go see it again.
• 1:03:01
  Damn. Yeah, I remember that.
• 1:03:01
  Totally. That car was.
• 1:03:03
  Cool with exhaust pretty much on them, that's.
• 1:03:05
  Probably why I liked it, because when it would leave it would you
• 1:03:08
  would hear it from inside the house.
• 1:03:09
  Like an elephant like. Also the lady that drove it on
• 1:03:12
  the block. There there, there's a tree.
• 1:03:16
  Smoking. Smoking.
• 1:03:17
  You don't think I'm going to remember that?
• 1:03:19
  I mean, I I used to drive AQ50 with a Was it the HR engine in
• 1:03:22
  it? Q. 50 Yeah, that's literally.
• 1:03:26
  That yeah, I I had no issues with the sound of the exhaust,
• 1:03:28
  like everything was stocked by like that car is fast.
• 1:03:31
  That has a water to air in it. Is that the turbo one you had?
• 1:03:34
  No, I didn't get. The turbo.
• 1:03:35
  Oh OK yeah. The only problem is that they
• 1:03:37
  only made an automatic so. I don't know, dude.
• 1:03:40
  When I when this Z was coming out, my my hopes were so high.
• 1:03:42
  I was like, Oh my God, finally, if we're going back, we're going
• 1:03:46
  to, we're going to do something right.
• 1:03:48
  And then it came out and no one bought one ever.
• 1:03:50
  I've seen one on the road in fuck two years.
• 1:03:52
  I. Don't I don't think the stock is
• 1:03:53
  there like I'm I'm sure there's a market for it's just that it's
• 1:03:56
  just. No, the the problem is there.
• 1:03:58
  You're selling them for $100,000 and all the people that want
• 1:04:00
  them are us, so no one's gonna buy them.
• 1:04:03
  Whoa. I would have.
• 1:04:05
  I don't have. If it was 30 grand, I would have
• 1:04:07
  bought one or tried to. I would have been like, fuck it,
• 1:04:09
  let's get one for the shop. That would have been a really
• 1:04:10
  good car to build. We even talked, we talked about
• 1:04:13
  it at one point, and then they came out and they're like, yeah,
• 1:04:15
  they're selling them for $100,000.
• 1:04:16
  Oh, good. So no one's gonna buy them.
• 1:04:19
  And here we are, two years later, no one's bought them.
• 1:04:23
  Like, it's sad. I I really thought that was
• 1:04:25
  gonna be like. Yeah, I think we're talking the
• 1:04:27
  other. I don't know who I was talking
• 1:04:28
  with. Was it you, Carl?
• 1:04:29
  Where's we're talking about how we don't see maybe it was on the
• 1:04:32
  Discord, like we don't see any of the new ZS.
• 1:04:35
  No, you don't street at all. You don't just you just see it
• 1:04:38
  on like some YouTube channel, so.
• 1:04:39
  Me and Malcolm have seen one and we both saw the same one, and
• 1:04:44
  it's somewhere in Hackensack area.
• 1:04:48
  Route 4 somewhere around there and that shit looks sick as.
• 1:04:52
  Shit, I haven't seen a Z in a long time.
• 1:04:54
  I haven't. Seen one either in person.
• 1:04:57
  You know, the last ZI saw was Togay Factory Days.
• 1:05:00
  Yeah, that car was cool. Dude only want Dave's.
• 1:05:03
  Dude, of course it's going to be cool.
• 1:05:04
  Yeah, well, so he basically did what we were just talking about
• 1:05:07
  he he got one so they could work on it and make shop.
• 1:05:10
  Car. But nobody has one.
• 1:05:11
  So nobody. Can buy them.
• 1:05:12
  I know it sucks. And like the only time I see him
• 1:05:14
  is either at the dealership. I'll occasionally see one being
• 1:05:18
  brought into the shop, mind you, by someone who doesn't know how
• 1:05:21
  to drive a stick. And then the guy's yelling at
• 1:05:22
  him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let off the
• 1:05:23
  clutch and either just driving this brand new Z I'm like, Jesus
• 1:05:26
  Christ dude, just typical dealership shit.
• 1:05:29
  Literally doesn't even know how to drive the car.
• 1:05:31
  And they're like, yeah, yeah, just pull it in, you'll figure
• 1:05:33
  it out. Do you?
• 1:05:34
  Have you seen that video of the kid with a Tesla Plaid in the
• 1:05:37
  dealership parking lot? No, Malcolm.
• 1:05:39
  What does he? Do.
• 1:05:40
  Bro. Floors it.
• 1:05:42
  This is some Ramsay Nissan activity.
• 1:05:44
  I'm so sorry. Like when me and Chris are not
• 1:05:47
  that Ramsay. Ramsay needs to know as a fine
• 1:05:48
  establishment purchase a car from the other great people.
• 1:05:50
  But like. It was just.
• 1:05:52
  I was like, this is some goofy bullshit me and my friends would
• 1:05:54
  do. They basically had a Tesla
• 1:05:57
  Plaid, which in case you didn't know, has that Ludicrous mode or
• 1:06:00
  whatever the fuck. At least I think that's what it.
• 1:06:02
  Was, Yeah. So Spaceballs some fast shit
• 1:06:05
  like some some non physics defying shit.
• 1:06:10
  They're in a parking lot. It's got to be maybe the length
• 1:06:12
  of pop. Now would you say it half the
• 1:06:15
  length of Poplar? Let's.
• 1:06:17
  Say maybe a a three quarters length. 3/4 is generous.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, that's generous. But 3/4 the length of Poplar and
• 1:06:26
  they go from a dig to full blown to try to stop, and I guess they
• 1:06:34
  didn't think that they needed that much room to stop.
• 1:06:37
  I heard the brakes are trash on those things.
• 1:06:39
  Are they? It's just a.
• 1:06:40
  Rumor If Gran Turismo 7 is anything like it, it's it's it's
• 1:06:43
  a horrible car driving. My car, Gran Turismo Ken.
• 1:06:47
  You got better options out there, man.
• 1:06:49
  Well, I do AC as well, yeah, but like Gran Turismo 7 is like Gran
• 1:06:53
  Turismo is like my first love when it comes to.
• 1:06:55
  Automotive 1000%. Wait, OK, wait.
• 1:06:58
  Just to put a cap on the Tesla, they caused a butt load of
• 1:07:00
  damage. A couple.
• 1:07:02
  Somebody in the chat is gonna say how much damage, but it's so
• 1:07:04
  much damage. Oh my God.
• 1:07:07
  But Speaking of Gran Turismo, so you were there when all of that?
• 1:07:11
  The first one? Yeah, PlayStation 2.
• 1:07:14
  That's need for speed. I never listened to need for.
• 1:07:17
  Speed. Because.
• 1:07:18
  Ken is a man of class, bro. You.
• 1:07:21
  Think he's playing your. Your your your.
• 1:07:23
  Baby games. Well also I just stuck with like
• 1:07:25
  what my my roommates, my friends had because I never really owned
• 1:07:28
  a console till like later. Damn.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah, because how much was APS? One, How much is A?
• 1:07:33
  PS1 That's no idea. I would say like 300 bucks.
• 1:07:35
  What? Back then, that's a lot of
• 1:07:38
  money, yeah. I kind of.
• 1:07:39
  I just probably. Remember. $1000.
• 1:07:41
  I just kind of remember it being very expensive.
• 1:07:43
  And I was like, yeah, that's the way you pass my, like, budget,
• 1:07:46
  you know? You probably plan it.
• 1:07:48
  Like, but also like I had like, like, I don't know if like, if
• 1:07:50
  you know me, like, I'm a man of like 100 million hobbies, you
• 1:07:54
  know, really like during that time I was, I mean.
• 1:07:56
  Salsa dancing is crazy. So.
• 1:07:58
  During that time I was a ADJ. You were a DJ?
• 1:08:01
  Yeah. Nah, Nah, Ken.
• 1:08:04
  Ken Ken's got some musical knowledge when it comes to like.
• 1:08:07
  Yeah, I used to. Do I want you and Daryl to like?
• 1:08:09
  Talk. Oh yeah.
• 1:08:09
  Daryl's not crazy. Every time I'm running with
• 1:08:11
  Daryl, it's like, that's a good playlist.
• 1:08:13
  Yeah, like. That that playlist I had on in
• 1:08:16
  the shop, that's 100% Daryl. Yeah, so like, I I always like,
• 1:08:20
  I've been volunteering my services for like this coming
• 1:08:22
  season for like when you guys go to club Blues or wherever
• 1:08:26
  Evergreen. Like I was like, yo, I'll bring
• 1:08:28
  my controller. Like I'll oh shit, you know,
• 1:08:30
  like I'll bring also like you know I'll, I'll be the dad of
• 1:08:34
  the crew. So I'll like, bring my I could
• 1:08:36
  smoke meats while you guys are doing it.
• 1:08:38
  You know, like oh. Now.
• 1:08:39
  Frankie's interesting, you know, mention the Schmidt and
• 1:08:41
  Frankie's in. Yeah, we could do all kinds of
• 1:08:44
  stuff. Like when you guys are doing
• 1:08:45
  construction here, I could be outside of the driveway cooking
• 1:08:49
  up. So that's perfect, cuz I'll be
• 1:08:50
  outside then and then that'll make in turn.
• 1:08:53
  You're making Frankie happier. We're definitely going to have
• 1:08:55
  some. Yeah, all about like, you know,
• 1:08:58
  because going back to Arizona, Arizona 240, like one of the
• 1:09:02
  biggest things that we used to do is like barbecues, right?
• 1:09:06
  So like we'll rent out a a Qantas park out in in Tempe, AZ.
• 1:09:11
  And like the first one we had like maybe 15 cars show up.
• 1:09:14
  And like, we just kind of rent out like a few BBQ stalls and
• 1:09:17
  like just cook hamburgers and hot dogs and all day long.
• 1:09:21
  And just like some people shows, like, hey, I need to work on my
• 1:09:24
  car. If there's like a car propped up
• 1:09:26
  on Jack stands, like doing some, you know, like we would have
• 1:09:31
  like garage days, Like, like somebody will volunteer the
• 1:09:34
  garage for the weekend. And like 15 people show up with
• 1:09:37
  two 40s. Like, oh, I need to do this.
• 1:09:39
  Like, all right, who's next? Like, oh, I got to do a brake
• 1:09:41
  change, like oil change, like, whatever.
• 1:09:43
  Like you just like, that's cool. Kind of do that you know like
• 1:09:46
  and I think the last one I hosted, we like, we filled the
• 1:09:48
  park out. We had like.
• 1:09:50
  Maybe. I feel like Carl's house is
• 1:09:51
  still like that, yeah. Sometimes.
• 1:09:53
  So hanging out with Carl like that's the vibes I get, like
• 1:09:56
  it's very nostalgic that. Thank you, Ken.
• 1:09:58
  I fucking love that you just said that, but I don't know if
• 1:10:01
  while, if if it was just me, but maybe some of you who are also
• 1:10:04
  listening when you were just describing that to me.
• 1:10:08
  I'm literally picturing it sunny day.
• 1:10:11
  We're all just kicking. The birds are like mega loud.
• 1:10:16
  I mean, that's how it was too at my house before.
• 1:10:17
  I know. Where the fuck did that go?
• 1:10:20
  I got an apartment. Now now it's just stress, bro.
• 1:10:23
  And I have a shop to run. That sucks.
• 1:10:24
  Too Nah. But you're you're having one
• 1:10:27
  thing I have been pretty happy to see you do is you're you're
• 1:10:29
  having fun with your shit right now, which is dope.
• 1:10:32
  Occasionally we will have a like remember that time you came with
• 1:10:35
  your barbecue? And then we were we.
• 1:10:36
  Were. Yeah, Frankie, this is Frankie's
• 1:10:39
  definition of a BBQ. Frankie called me at 5:00 or
• 1:10:46
  4:30 and said yo come by the shop and I'm like, what the
• 1:10:51
  hell? Like this doesn't happen.
• 1:10:53
  But it worked. I mean, Chris was doing
• 1:10:55
  alignment on his. On top and then he said.
• 1:10:57
  We're grilling stuff there. You go put the grill.
• 1:11:02
  The grill. The grill of.
• 1:11:03
  Work. Yeah, just have me, man.
• 1:11:04
  I'll be the I'll be the grill master for the weekend like let.
• 1:11:07
  Me. But we still got it done.
• 1:11:09
  And you know why, though? 'Cause you had your grill.
• 1:11:11
  Because the 2004 Toyota Sequoia had a grill.
• 1:11:14
  Oh yeah, and I pulled it out. I just so happened to have it on
• 1:11:18
  me ready to go. You're a funny guy.
• 1:11:21
  Call. Dude, dude.
• 1:11:22
  Yeah, Ken actually has asked me when we were at my house, He's
• 1:11:26
  like, which one do you think you you love more 'cause we were
• 1:11:29
  standing in the driveway of just like talking about the koi
• 1:11:31
  laughing or whatever, but but you asked me, do you think you
• 1:11:35
  like the IS or the koi more? I was like, I don't really know.
• 1:11:40
  That car has got so much character.
• 1:11:42
  You like the Sequoia more? I really.
• 1:11:44
  No, I like the IS. Usually he's usually he screams.
• 1:11:47
  Sequoia I mean. I bet you if he could drift to
• 1:11:49
  Sequoia, he'll be driving that with the drift events, right?
• 1:11:53
  You probably would try. Could I do that?
• 1:11:56
  Maybe you Weld the diff? One Jay-Z swap, lower it.
• 1:12:01
  You could have like 6 people like.
• 1:12:04
  The 1JZ. Right along.
• 1:12:05
  I'm I'm the one JZZ thing is having me tweaking like I don't
• 1:12:10
  even know if I'm like now. I'm like, how am I going to
• 1:12:13
  drift? That it's going to be fine, man.
• 1:12:15
  I'm just perfect amount of power.
• 1:12:18
  Crazy. I'm going to be so giddy all the
• 1:12:21
  time. I'm just going to be sitting
• 1:12:22
  there like. That makes me think though, when
• 1:12:27
  did you get your first 240? Did we go over this?
• 1:12:30
  So. I want to know the.
• 1:12:31
  Power like so I want to say I think it was either 991999 or
• 1:12:37
  98. I got my 2:40.
• 1:12:38
  I don't remember the exact. Year, so you got to use S13.
• 1:12:42
  Use S13. I treated in my 4 years old.
• 1:12:44
  I treated in my prelude PSI and I got that.
• 1:12:49
  You traded it in like to a dealership.
• 1:12:51
  You're talking about it was, yeah.
• 1:12:52
  So it was a used 92 champagne color.
• 1:12:57
  What is it called? Sandstone?
• 1:12:59
  Yeah. So yeah, that's hatchback.
• 1:13:02
  And I got it for like I think $3500.
• 1:13:05
  Yes, Sir. Those things didn't hold their
• 1:13:08
  value. Damn.
• 1:13:10
  Yeah, 20. Hold on a minute.
• 1:13:12
  Yeah, so this is a 90, So yeah, it's like a what, a A7 year old
• 1:13:17
  car at the most. And it dropped from 22,000 to
• 1:13:19
  yeah. It was, well, that's that was.
• 1:13:22
  14 so it's different. No, it was a S13.
• 1:13:24
  Yeah. So S14 was 22, was S13 less?
• 1:13:27
  Oh, I have no idea. That was before.
• 1:13:28
  Yeah, I I don't, I don't know how much that was, but.
• 1:13:31
  Probably was. God damn, the depreciation is
• 1:13:34
  insane 'cause I'm trying to think.
• 1:13:36
  OK. Because we're going to compare
• 1:13:38
  it to the FRS, right. So if you bought an FRSZN Six, I
• 1:13:42
  thought they not the new one, maybe they don't.
• 1:13:44
  Let's say you bought AZN Six. I how much is AFRS now?
• 1:13:47
  I don't know, like 20 grand. I don't really know. 15 grand?
• 1:13:50
  Yeah, Let's say it was at a dealership CPO.
• 1:13:54
  Oh. What, like 20 grand?
• 1:13:57
  I mean also to be fair, in Arizona, like a lot of cars are
• 1:14:02
  high mileage because you have to drive everywhere.
• 1:14:04
  Everything is just like. Is that is that how it is out
• 1:14:07
  there? I think my car had just under
• 1:14:10
  like 100,000 miles and it was like a six year old car.
• 1:14:13
  Damn, they were driving a pee pee out of that thing.
• 1:14:16
  And like also the other thing is there was like this little
• 1:14:18
  misfire on the KA1. It took me like 2 years to
• 1:14:23
  figure it out. So it was technically.
• 1:14:25
  What was it? Broken.
• 1:14:25
  Do you remember why it was so cheap?
• 1:14:27
  I think it was like a leaky injector or something like that.
• 1:14:29
  Oh yeah, and it's just that I can't I replaced the injector,
• 1:14:33
  but like, I don't know how I was doing but.
• 1:14:35
  I probably made it worse, so. How I was AutoZone bought me AK
• 1:14:41
  injector and I put it in. I was like, man, this doesn't
• 1:14:43
  seem right. So so how are you learning about
• 1:14:46
  this stuff? Because again, I'm not just.
• 1:14:49
  Forums Fresh Alloy. But.
• 1:14:51
  Yeah, yeah, I know a lot of people, Yeah, a lot, a lot of
• 1:14:54
  people have PTSD from even lurking on what you don't.
• 1:14:58
  Remember. That it was the do.
• 1:14:59
  You know how old I am? Did you forget?
• 1:15:01
  You can find it now though. No, fresh alloy is long gone.
• 1:15:04
  It doesn't. What is fresh alloy?
• 1:15:06
  Fresh alloy for me. So Fresh Alloy was like this
• 1:15:09
  Nissan dedicated forum back in the day.
• 1:15:11
  It was kind of like Nico, but like, it was more pretentious, a
• 1:15:15
  lot more trolls. But that was our home.
• 1:15:18
  Like it was like one of those things like where that's How I
• 1:15:20
  Met a lot of these, you know, like people like Benson and like
• 1:15:24
  it just went on Fresh Alloy, like, hey, what's up like?
• 1:15:28
  Yeah. So I was born.
• 1:15:30
  In the wrong decade. That sounds fun, yeah.
• 1:15:32
  So yeah, like because of a fresh alloy, I got to meet a lot,
• 1:15:36
  like, like, Benson says, like Internet friends.
• 1:15:38
  But like, I feel like I'm one of his Internet friends, you know,
• 1:15:40
  like we've met online. And like it was at the like a
• 1:15:44
  2002 Socal 240 BBQ. Like, I was like, hey, I want to
• 1:15:51
  go check it out in the one of the the main guys at Socal 240.
• 1:15:55
  His name is Alex Chang. He's like, oh come over.
• 1:15:57
  You can sleep in my house. Like, I've never met this person
• 1:15:59
  in my life, right? Just.
• 1:16:00
  Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. These are multiple red flags.
• 1:16:03
  They they. This is this is the the start of
• 1:16:06
  the don't trust the Internet sometimes.
• 1:16:08
  But like, I've known this person for like a year.
• 1:16:11
  Oh yeah 'cause you're just exchanging stuff on forum.
• 1:16:14
  Right, exactly. OK, it's not if you're going to
• 1:16:16
  kill. Me it's.
• 1:16:17
  Not an AOL chat room, OK? Like it is, no.
• 1:16:21
  But you you have, you have a common denominator of one thing,
• 1:16:25
  Car. Yeah, the the serial killer on
• 1:16:27
  the other end is consistent and goes on the same form everyday.
• 1:16:30
  All right. That's, you know.
• 1:16:31
  That sounds like you know what you're doing over there.
• 1:16:34
  Frankly, is one of the admins on the forum too so, but like you.
• 1:16:38
  Yeah. Just credibility.
• 1:16:39
  Like you could stay over at my house in Torrance, CA.
• 1:16:41
  I was like, OK, cool. So you just drove there?
• 1:16:43
  We just drove there six hours from Arizona like.
• 1:16:46
  Did you have any modifications done here?
• 1:16:48
  At the time I want to say I had this is 2002, I think I had like
• 1:16:55
  JC coilovers. Hell, yeah.
• 1:16:58
  Big. Was it?
• 1:16:59
  Was it? Cool to have coilovers back
• 1:17:01
  then. Already it was like it was a
• 1:17:02
  larger like if you had coilovers you were the shit, cuz everyone
• 1:17:06
  else during that time was like kyb with like drop springs right
• 1:17:10
  stuff. Like that, yo.
• 1:17:10
  And a factory. I don't know if a lot.
• 1:17:13
  There's probably people out there who don't know what a
• 1:17:15
  stock one looks like, but a factory 240 Spring is, like,
• 1:17:18
  this big. It's huge.
• 1:17:20
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:17:21
  And you never think you could fit wheels under there.
• 1:17:23
  What the fuck? Yeah, and with the Kybs with the
• 1:17:26
  adjustable dampening on them. Yeah, that was, that was that
• 1:17:29
  was if you were rich. Yeah.
• 1:17:30
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:17:31
  I got, otherwise got. What?
• 1:17:33
  What? What all?
• 1:17:34
  Those. Secondhand, but yeah.
• 1:17:36
  Otherwise you got you got the silver ones without the
• 1:17:38
  adjustable ones if you. Remember.
• 1:17:39
  Oh yeah, no, I just got secondhand shocks and springs
• 1:17:43
  because I need them for my S14 or.
• 1:17:44
  Something so like but. It had the adjustability.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah, yeah. That was that was that was state
• 1:17:49
  of. Art.
• 1:17:49
  What other? What are some other like?
• 1:17:51
  Mods of. That era.
• 1:17:52
  So before that, previous to that like we didn't have 5 log hub
• 1:17:57
  like kits, kits you have to go find the S14 and like do OEM
• 1:18:01
  stuff. Yeah, like same thing with Z32
• 1:18:05
  calibers and stuff like that was probably at the time we didn't
• 1:18:08
  even do the rear ones because we couldn't figure out how all that
• 1:18:11
  E Break stuff. Yeah, that was probably like
• 1:18:13
  going to find the new world, trying to, trying to put those
• 1:18:16
  on, yeah. And then someone.
• 1:18:19
  And one day you wake up, you go on the forum and someone's done
• 1:18:22
  all of the the they did all the research, they did everything,
• 1:18:26
  and they post a whole how to and you're like, holy shit.
• 1:18:29
  Yeah, I used to be one of those people.
• 1:18:31
  Yeah, like document everything. But like all that documentation
• 1:18:34
  is gone because Fresh Alloy doesn't even exist anymore.
• 1:18:37
  Was there Sr. swap information here?
• 1:18:39
  I'm I'm asking and I'm transitioning brilliantly, by
• 1:18:42
  the way, because Benson mentioned in the chat ask him
• 1:18:45
  about Sr. swaps because everybody knows Sr. is the way.
• 1:18:49
  Swaps is one of the main reasons how I I I became friends with a
• 1:18:52
  lot of these people from California.
• 1:18:54
  How so? Because Sr. swaps was like
• 1:18:56
  California was the the hub right that.
• 1:18:59
  Was Yeah, but. How isn't it strict over there?
• 1:19:01
  I don't understand this. Fucking.
• 1:19:03
  State, dude. Like if if if there's a will,
• 1:19:05
  there's a way? Right you're real hood.
• 1:19:07
  Gangs. But also back in the day,
• 1:19:09
  everything was ODB 1. Right.
• 1:19:12
  So like, if you know somebody you just like, woo woo, woo
• 1:19:20
  under the table, right? Like you didn't really have to,
• 1:19:23
  like, plug your car into, like, the the thing.
• 1:19:30
  Ken just keeps doing this motion with his hand and I'm like,
• 1:19:33
  yeah, I mean, I guess that's how I plug my OBD port.
• 1:19:35
  In there? Well, like for example, like the
• 1:19:36
  240 Sr. like one of the things is like, I'm going to get a SR20
• 1:19:41
  because this case shit like I can't.
• 1:19:42
  It's always idling rough like it's burning a bunch of guests,
• 1:19:46
  right? Like my tail.
• 1:19:47
  Sr. has got to be better. Like, it was like, it was like,
• 1:19:50
  that's Godsland yeah, that's Godsland I was like, I want an
• 1:19:53
  SR20. So I found this local guy named
• 1:19:56
  Pong and. Named what?
• 1:19:59
  Pong. Pong.
• 1:20:00
  Like sounds like it's gonna be. Good so far.
• 1:20:02
  So he was this. He was like this old mechanic
• 1:20:06
  from like Thailand, I think, and he had a shop out in like West
• 1:20:10
  Phoenix. So like, I hired that guy to do
• 1:20:13
  the swap for me, 'cause I was at the time living at my friend's
• 1:20:15
  house. Like, I really have space for
• 1:20:17
  it. But like, I knew, like, I did so
• 1:20:19
  much research. Like I knew that the swap was
• 1:20:21
  pretty straightforward, but this guy had no idea what the fuck he
• 1:20:24
  was doing. Like he literally hacked up my.
• 1:20:27
  So you knew more information than he did?
• 1:20:29
  Yeah, wait. Wait, wait, what?
• 1:20:31
  Prompted. But also you had no space.
• 1:20:33
  Also, I I've never really worked on cars before that right?
• 1:20:36
  Like I've done like simple shit like on my Honda, like, but
• 1:20:39
  intake maybe a suspension, right?
• 1:20:41
  Like, I've never done, like any, like, engine swap.
• 1:20:45
  I was like, scary as fuck for me.
• 1:20:47
  Yeah. So like, I hired this guy,
• 1:20:48
  supposed to be a professional. Like, I go there one day.
• 1:20:51
  Like, he has my whole entire chassis harness and my fucking
• 1:20:54
  engine harness. Like, I'm like, what is going
• 1:20:58
  on? It's.
• 1:20:58
  Like. Have you seen Sex Drive?
• 1:21:02
  It's a scene from. Sex drive walks down, Amish
• 1:21:05
  people, the seats out and everything.
• 1:21:06
  What the fuck are you doing? I work on these old things.
• 1:21:10
  We'll have it ready by morning. Don't you worry about it.
• 1:21:12
  It's like. Pong.
• 1:21:12
  It's just five fucking wires. What the fuck is all this going
• 1:21:15
  on? So, like, maybe three months
• 1:21:17
  later finally got it running. But it just wasn't like it was
• 1:21:20
  fast compared to the KA. Like I almost crashed into the
• 1:21:23
  telephone pond the first like I was in a Mustang out of cars and
• 1:21:26
  coffee because I wasn't used to how the turbo kicked in at the
• 1:21:30
  time. I was like, oh shit.
• 1:21:31
  Cars and coffee in Arizona are nice, too.
• 1:21:34
  I've never been really. It was day and a half cars.
• 1:21:36
  And coffee. Oh.
• 1:21:36
  My God, we were the cars and coffee.
• 1:21:38
  We for ourselves with the 240 like meet ups and stuff like
• 1:21:41
  that. Wait, he had the whole harness
• 1:21:42
  out? Yeah, man, he like so like
• 1:21:45
  eventually, like, you know, I I spent one summer, I pulled the
• 1:21:50
  car back in in the backyard of my friend's house and like in
• 1:21:55
  110° weather, like I'm out there with the soldering and I rewired
• 1:21:59
  a whole entire fucking car. So you ended up doing it anyway,
• 1:22:02
  yeah? So.
• 1:22:03
  That was and that's how I got into like, you know, I was like,
• 1:22:05
  oh, I need to like learn about this shit, right?
• 1:22:07
  Like so I I I taught myself through forums to like people
• 1:22:12
  like Benson. Like, I re reached out to Mark
• 1:22:15
  Hutchinson, like from Slide Squad like he was one of the 1st
• 1:22:18
  SR20 SWAT people that I need because I read in a super
• 1:22:21
  street. I was like, oh, shit, this guy
• 1:22:23
  has an SR20. So, like, oh, he's on the
• 1:22:25
  forums. Like, I think I emailed him like
• 1:22:28
  like, mark@slidesquad.com. It's like, hey, I'm doing an Sr.
• 1:22:31
  swap. It's like, can you help me out?
• 1:22:33
  He's like, yeah, like, you know, he gave me some information.
• 1:22:35
  I was like, yo, the wirings aren't matching up.
• 1:22:37
  And it turns out it's because he had like a 89, OK?
• 1:22:40
  And I had a 92, but that took like a little while to figure
• 1:22:43
  out, like we went on the forums like that was just like all
• 1:22:46
  brand new information. By the time, by the time I came
• 1:22:49
  in, all you guys already did all the research, you put all the
• 1:22:52
  how TOS on. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:22:53
  And then we came in. Me, Carl generation absolutely
• 1:22:58
  wasted everything else. But like back in the day like
• 1:23:03
  like our one of our like you were saying how the hell did you
• 1:23:06
  get Sr. in California? Like one of the places a guy
• 1:23:09
  named Marco SR20 store. Oh.
• 1:23:11
  Obviously you go to. Marco.
• 1:23:13
  Yeah, he's still around. Like, he's like one of, like,
• 1:23:15
  he's even more like old school than me.
• 1:23:17
  Like he's like he's probably like a walking encyclopedia of
• 1:23:20
  Sr. 20s. How do we get him on this?
• 1:23:23
  Oh, I don't know, bro. We got.
• 1:23:26
  A picture of Marco is just we yo and then and then he's like,
• 1:23:33
  then he's like. The people, so he's.
• 1:23:39
  We're looking about SRS. So if you remember the 2002
• 1:23:43
  National Convention DVD we're watching, there's like a maybe a
• 1:23:45
  picture or some sort of like there's like a 5-10 with like
• 1:23:48
  this beautiful S14SR swap in it, yeah.
• 1:23:52
  That's his actually, which is. I think if I remember that was
• 1:23:55
  his car. But like, I like he had so many
• 1:23:57
  beautiful swaps. I just can't remember.
• 1:23:59
  But like. Carl, can we go to do a
• 1:24:00
  California trip soon for a podcast?
• 1:24:04
  I. Shit, man.
• 1:24:05
  I gotta fucking finish my one, J.
• 1:24:07
  That's all I did I want at a time.
• 1:24:09
  Don't you don't, don't, don't. You have a lot on your plate
• 1:24:11
  right now, like. Yeah, but I just want to go, you
• 1:24:13
  know? How am I going to be the
• 1:24:15
  responsible friend right now? I want to bet my.
• 1:24:16
  Podcast out in California we. Got California One.
• 1:24:19
  There's one event I would love to go to.
• 1:24:21
  It's that Japanese classic car show out in Long Beach.
• 1:24:24
  It's around in October. What the fuck?
• 1:24:26
  Frankie. Frankie.
• 1:24:27
  Frankie. Frankie.
• 1:24:28
  Frankie. October uh huh?
• 1:24:30
  We can do that. Yeah, so I was trying to like
• 1:24:32
  'cause I had that Route 66 classic JDM classic.
• 1:24:35
  So you're. Trying to make a little.
• 1:24:36
  Right. So I was going to go, you know,
• 1:24:38
  attend that and then like maybe we're kind of in the behind the
• 1:24:42
  scenes kind of talking about putting together like a a
• 1:24:44
  reunion, like BBQ. Like Ken, we're trying to go on
• 1:24:47
  tour with you. Can we do?
• 1:24:49
  This be some groovies, yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:51
  Let's be the Harley. Groovies, we were talking about
• 1:24:53
  event in September or October and we were like oh what if we
• 1:24:57
  stopping through Texas and do that and then we'll do one of
• 1:25:00
  the knuckle up events and what if we.
• 1:25:01
  Go to Arizona. Oh, we're drifting this.
• 1:25:04
  Is drifting. I want to do a drift tour.
• 1:25:05
  Oh, get the Chevy going. Yeah, I know, 'cause then we
• 1:25:09
  could out throw you some money from oh, fuck, no, dude, no, no,
• 1:25:11
  no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's.
• 1:25:13
  The car trailer. Car no, no, no.
• 1:25:15
  No, that's. Fucking house money, dude.
• 1:25:18
  Get over it. You can't drift that house.
• 1:25:20
  What the? Fuck is this fucking?
• 1:25:22
  Drift that house. I I I fucking dare you to try
• 1:25:28
  it. Looks like everyone chips in
• 1:25:29
  like like money. Just buy like a car out there
• 1:25:33
  for like, the trip in itself. No.
• 1:25:35
  If my car runs, I'm bringing my. Yeah, I know.
• 1:25:37
  I'm working kind of hard on my car right now.
• 1:25:39
  I'd like the world to see it. Oh.
• 1:25:41
  So are we going to caravan out to the West Coast?
• 1:25:43
  Yeah, let's do that. That would be.
• 1:25:44
  Fun. That's the.
• 1:25:45
  Plan right your car. So this one.
• 1:25:49
  I'll trailer it. OK.
• 1:25:50
  Yeah, I would be so fucking. Concerned they don't make it.
• 1:25:54
  That car will make it like where like I trust that car more than.
• 1:25:56
  From Arizona to California, we used to have like caravans at
• 1:25:59
  two 40s like it was. So.
• 1:26:02
  Like like hindsight. Like is like one of those things
• 1:26:04
  like you probably don't really see anymore.
• 1:26:06
  Like we'll have like 1015, two 40s, just like on the I-10, you
• 1:26:11
  know, or whatever. Like going going out to like
• 1:26:14
  past, like Palm Springs and shit, like going to LA, just see
• 1:26:16
  like two 40s, two 40s. Damn.
• 1:26:21
  That's cool, man. It's like Fast and furious.
• 1:26:22
  Yeah, that's what. Literally would have been.
• 1:26:24
  So that was probably the beginning of the end for me.
• 1:26:26
  What? Yeah, no.
• 1:26:27
  Fast and furious. So hot take, hot take.
• 1:26:29
  No, no, no. This is because everybody, if
• 1:26:33
  you think about it, cuz when we we had Jason Kim on and he did
• 1:26:40
  not like when Fast and the Furious came out.
• 1:26:41
  'Cause it blew up the spot? It did, yeah.
• 1:26:44
  Like and I I feel like one of our first conversations was that
• 1:26:46
  you could relate to that. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:26:49
  Yeah. I still remember the day I went
• 1:26:52
  to go see Fast and Furious. What was Yeah, I bet that
• 1:26:55
  fucking parking lot. I I I drove in my 2:40.
• 1:26:58
  I already had, I think I already had Sr. swap in it and like my
• 1:27:00
  friends with the, they're like souped up a cord or like Honda
• 1:27:05
  Civic, right? We just kind of all roll in park
• 1:27:08
  and after the movie, like there are people like trying to do
• 1:27:12
  burnouts and like skid out of the parking lot, Nothing is
• 1:27:15
  crashing the curves, right? Like, but before that, that's
• 1:27:17
  never happened before. Like as soon as I saw that was
• 1:27:20
  like, oh man, this is. But did you like the movie?
• 1:27:24
  Yes and no. Why yes, Why?
• 1:27:27
  No, I I liked it because Brian was from Arizona.
• 1:27:31
  Yeah. Oh, yeah, of course.
• 1:27:33
  No, no, I get that. I get that.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah, and then the second part is, I used to work at a shop
• 1:27:38
  called Intense Motorsports out in Gilbert, AZ.
• 1:27:40
  That's sick too. And I don't know, I know Carl
• 1:27:43
  loves the story, but like the one, the two, Jay-Z from that
• 1:27:47
  movie, that engine stand and stuff is from that shop, really.
• 1:27:51
  So if you go back to that movie and look at the engine stand of
• 1:27:54
  that scene where it's like O2, Jay-Z, no shit, and they start
• 1:27:57
  working on it, there's AIMR sticker up an engine stand.
• 1:28:01
  And that's from intense Motorsports and intense
• 1:28:04
  Motorsports. Engine or something or how?
• 1:28:06
  I don't remember the exact because it was like maybe I
• 1:28:10
  would say like few months before I started working there.
• 1:28:13
  Basically I just went in there was like, hey, I'm going to
• 1:28:17
  school to become an engineer, software engineer.
• 1:28:19
  Like you guys need me to do anything like a help with the
• 1:28:21
  website and stuff like that. And at the time, the owner of
• 1:28:24
  Kent was like, yeah, I need to, I need someone to create me a
• 1:28:27
  custom point of sales software. So this is like before, like
• 1:28:32
  around the time like QuickBooks just came out.
• 1:28:34
  So it's just like very basic. A lot of stuff is still on
• 1:28:38
  Excel. So I was like it's like hey, I
• 1:28:40
  know a little bit of coding. So you built a website for them
• 1:28:44
  and that? Was your job.
• 1:28:45
  I built a inventory slash point of sales software for them.
• 1:28:49
  That's so cool. Casual.
• 1:28:51
  Casual. They're not.
• 1:28:53
  Fuck, they're not there anymore, right?
• 1:28:55
  No, they, yeah. 2008. 2000 I'm. Just going to take a guess.
• 1:28:59
  Probably no. Probably 2910, but.
• 1:29:03
  Like, right after the fucking yeah.
• 1:29:07
  Yeah, yeah. But like when I was working
• 1:29:09
  there, like, you know, I love coding, I love cars.
• 1:29:13
  So it was like like right after school I just kind of head over.
• 1:29:15
  I I was hardly ever home. Like I went to school full time.
• 1:29:20
  I went back to school. I went to DeVry, so I was doing
• 1:29:24
  that and I was working at America West Airlines for 40
• 1:29:28
  hours and then like I had an internship for another like 20
• 1:29:32
  hours. So like I was probably working,
• 1:29:34
  going to school, all that kind of stuff, like close to like
• 1:29:36
  maybe 80 hours to 100 hours a week.
• 1:29:38
  There'll be days like I don't sleep for 2-3 days.
• 1:29:41
  Well. Yeah, it's.
• 1:29:42
  Cool though, you you found a job.
• 1:29:44
  Well, you found that job. That was, you were into cars and
• 1:29:47
  then you. Yeah.
• 1:29:47
  So, like, through that I met a lot of interesting people,
• 1:29:50
  right? Like I think either during that
• 1:29:53
  time or like it's already happened like we already had AZ
• 1:29:56
  240 up and running started off from Yahoo groups if you guys
• 1:30:00
  remember that. Groups.
• 1:30:03
  Is that like a? Is that like a group chat forum?
• 1:30:06
  Kind of like. Yeah, chat room.
• 1:30:07
  Not chat room is more like a forum, like back in the day,
• 1:30:11
  Yeah, so like Socal 240 was offering Yahoo Groups as well.
• 1:30:16
  That's how it got started. So that's when I reached out to
• 1:30:18
  Alex, I was like, hey, I want to start my Arizona, like how do I
• 1:30:22
  he's like just fucking create one like this, not organized or
• 1:30:24
  anything. I was like, oh, OK, so yeah, so
• 1:30:28
  we started me and a couple of friends like started AZ 240,
• 1:30:33
  like, is it me, Dave, Brian and Sean?
• 1:30:39
  Brian is one of the OG like Cressida, Jay-Z swap guys.
• 1:30:43
  Like really? He did a lot of.
• 1:30:45
  What's his phone number? Sorry.
• 1:30:47
  I don't have his phone number, but.
• 1:30:49
  On his Facebook. Oh wait, so I I'm sorry.
• 1:30:52
  When you said it's not formal, like, weren't you guys concerned
• 1:30:58
  with like what what was stopping somebody from like just making
• 1:31:00
  their own thing too? Like like that didn't happen as
• 1:31:03
  much, sort of like when like now it's like a random drifting.
• 1:31:07
  Form. Yeah, it was so small.
• 1:31:08
  Like like you had to explain to people what drifting was.
• 1:31:11
  What was car control? That's the way, Car.
• 1:31:13
  Control, yeah. They're like.
• 1:31:15
  Oh, that's just like this is doing doughnuts.
• 1:31:17
  Yeah, so you're just doing doughnuts in a parking?
• 1:31:18
  Lot like you're just doing. Yeah.
• 1:31:19
  Like you just power over. It's like, not really.
• 1:31:22
  I had to explain what what drifting was to somebody who
• 1:31:27
  didn't know anything about cars recently.
• 1:31:30
  And I was like, it's kind of like being in control but like
• 1:31:35
  not really, but like actually kind of sometimes you are.
• 1:31:39
  And that's how. She was like, oh, OK, that
• 1:31:41
  sounds that makes sense. Carl, do you remember like when
• 1:31:45
  I started drifting, I would have to explain what drifting was
• 1:31:48
  pretty much every single time I brought it up until maybe like
• 1:31:52
  five years ago or less? Yeah, that's.
• 1:31:54
  And then all of a sudden you go, oh, I have a shop, we work on
• 1:31:58
  drift cars and everyone knows what it is.
• 1:32:01
  You know what? The Tokyo Drift helped.
• 1:32:03
  Yeah, definitely helped, yeah. Yeah, that that was probably I.
• 1:32:06
  That was before I got into drifting.
• 1:32:08
  So that was already a thing. But not everyone knew what that
• 1:32:11
  was. So there was a whole another
• 1:32:12
  group that didn't know what it was.
• 1:32:14
  But now, dude, I feel like it's so mainstream now, the people
• 1:32:16
  that definitely should not know what it is.
• 1:32:18
  Yes, that's true. They're like, Oh yeah, yeah,
• 1:32:20
  yeah. Drifting.
• 1:32:21
  Yeah, I. Know, I think I the first time I
• 1:32:22
  came to the shop like a few years ago pulled up in my in the
• 1:32:27
  240 in the vert and some UPS guys like, hey you drift that
• 1:32:30
  thing. I was like what?
• 1:32:31
  No. What are you talking about?
• 1:32:33
  Yeah, you just leave me. Alone.
• 1:32:35
  Yeah, sure thing is so big now. Here.
• 1:32:38
  It's crazy to think about that, but.
• 1:32:40
  But the OK, here's here's the thing.
• 1:32:42
  Is it drifting? Or are they describing to you
• 1:32:46
  something like because I've. Because I've had somebody do
• 1:32:48
  this as well. On the contrary.
• 1:32:51
  Oh yeah, I've seen that. I've seen drifting.
• 1:32:54
  I saw somebody drifting around 10 people once.
• 1:32:56
  Yeah, like I got and I'm like stuck in a light the other.
• 1:32:59
  Day. OK.
• 1:33:00
  Listen, And then this is where I laid on them.
• 1:33:04
  I got a podcast and I try to tell kids don't go to that kind
• 1:33:07
  of stuff because that stuff can injure people.
• 1:33:09
  And then they're like, no, it looked pretty controlled and I'm
• 1:33:12
  like, OK. All right, Have a good day.
• 1:33:16
  So back in my day, it was not takeovers, it was like street
• 1:33:19
  racing, right? Or like.
• 1:33:21
  Just like so, like one of the rules we set on our forums is
• 1:33:24
  like, you know, like, I'm not going to tell you what to do,
• 1:33:26
  but like, don't promote that shit on the forums because and
• 1:33:30
  at the end of the day, we could be liable for it, right?
• 1:33:32
  Like, yeah, of course. So, like, you know, but there's,
• 1:33:35
  you know, a bunch of folks that used to go.
• 1:33:36
  It wasn't really street racing, but at the end of the day, it
• 1:33:39
  turns into like, oh, we found the spot, go drifting right and
• 1:33:43
  they're like, do that. I was like, keep it chill.
• 1:33:46
  What was the street? Hold on, Frankie.
• 1:33:48
  Let's let's get into cuz I'm telling.
• 1:33:50
  You. Here's the thing.
• 1:33:51
  There's I need a place. Well, this place doesn't even
• 1:33:53
  exist anymore. One of the places we found was
• 1:33:55
  this old abandoned airport and we used to call it tire hell.
• 1:33:58
  Why? Because it like cheese gratery.
• 1:34:00
  Oh yeah, the if you if you understand the runways, there's
• 1:34:03
  there's little grooves in there or like plains of land.
• 1:34:06
  So like it doesn't you know it gives them more grip or
• 1:34:08
  whatever. But we used to drift on that or.
• 1:34:10
  But at least I tried and I was like, man, this shit, I don't
• 1:34:13
  know. I give you more grip, though.
• 1:34:15
  But do you guys remember you guys went to final about this
• 1:34:17
  year, right? Yeah.
• 1:34:18
  Do you guys remember that yellow FD?
• 1:34:21
  Yeah. George's car.
• 1:34:22
  The really nice FD, yeah. So he's one of the OG.
• 1:34:25
  Yeah, I remember that car. AZ 240 members, he's from
• 1:34:29
  Flagstaff, AZ and like, that's probably one of the like we
• 1:34:31
  were, you know, we knew each other on the AZ forums and stuff
• 1:34:35
  and like, we're talking about tire Hells like, Oh yeah, come
• 1:34:38
  down. He shows up one day, We're like,
• 1:34:40
  what the fuck this guy fucking rips like?
• 1:34:43
  That's awesome. He's doing like stuff in his
• 1:34:45
  like really stuck 240 Coupe like.
• 1:34:50
  Wait, what's his last name? I can't pronounce it.
• 1:34:53
  Starts with an M OK, yeah. Wait, did he have a?
• 1:34:57
  I might be making this up. Did he have a 2 tone coupe?
• 1:35:01
  OK, did he bring that car to last?
• 1:35:03
  Last No, no, that's his friend. OK, that's his friend.
• 1:35:06
  OK. Yeah 'cause I remember that car
• 1:35:07
  too. Yeah, but like back in the day,
• 1:35:08
  he had a a Sylvia front end, 240 coupe.
• 1:35:12
  OK, yeah, yeah, those cars are. So I remember those.
• 1:35:15
  When I saw that those or that FD and everything, I was like, oh,
• 1:35:18
  I remember these cars from the forums and whatnot, but I never
• 1:35:22
  seen them in action, so that was cool.
• 1:35:25
  Yeah, So like, first time I saw on Drift was like, Oh yeah,
• 1:35:27
  there's no way I'm doing this professionally.
• 1:35:28
  I was like, I'm going to leave this to the young kids.
• 1:35:34
  Like I can't do this like. I think you're.
• 1:35:37
  We'll get you a couple East Coast because.
• 1:35:38
  I was more like, I was more like track, you know.
• 1:35:40
  I love grip racing and stuff like that.
• 1:35:42
  Like, I just didn't have, like I didn't have the budget to like
• 1:35:48
  be able to crash my car and be like, you know, like like I used
• 1:35:51
  that 240 as my, it was my daily driver, but that was my main
• 1:35:55
  form of transportation. If that car wasn't running, I
• 1:35:57
  was driving around in this old Dodge Dynasty, yeah.
• 1:36:01
  What the fuck is a Dodge Dynasty it?
• 1:36:03
  Was nicknamed the nasty. The.
• 1:36:05
  Nasty. Yeah, I got a car nicknamed the
• 1:36:09
  Nasty. As my nasty yo, that car never
• 1:36:15
  had an oil change. I never had to.
• 1:36:18
  I never had to like do a coolant flush or anything because like
• 1:36:22
  every month or so like oh oil is low, coolant slow.
• 1:36:25
  And like this my tailpipe never smoked.
• 1:36:27
  I don't know what happened, like, yeah.
• 1:36:29
  Like, just don't build them like they used to I.
• 1:36:32
  Swear to God, I bought that car. I bought that car from a friend
• 1:36:35
  of mine for $500, right? And I traded that car in because
• 1:36:39
  at the time I was working in Tense Motorsports Han, one of
• 1:36:42
  the owners, He's like, I signed you up to buy an XP and I was
• 1:36:45
  like, sign an XP. He's like, yeah, it's the
• 1:36:48
  release release model to the yellow one.
• 1:36:51
  He's like we need a shop car for the XP so we can fit stuff.
• 1:36:53
  On it? What do you mean he signed you?
• 1:36:55
  Up. Yeah.
• 1:36:55
  So he kind of forced my new car, basically.
• 1:36:58
  Like we didn't. Talk about this the other day.
• 1:37:00
  Like I said, oh, he was. Like, basically he was like,
• 1:37:02
  your car's a piece of shit. You need the better one.
• 1:37:03
  So I signed you up for this car. Frankie.
• 1:37:05
  Don't you? Ever fucking dare.
• 1:37:08
  Don't you ever fucking dare. Get a new GR80.
• 1:37:11
  Six. So check it out.
• 1:37:12
  The trade in value for that car was $400.00.
• 1:37:16
  Nice. So I drove around that car for
• 1:37:17
  like 3 years. It cost me $100 to drive that
• 1:37:20
  car around for two years. It was the best domestic car I
• 1:37:23
  ever owned. Holy.
• 1:37:24
  Dodge dynasty. That sounds very.
• 1:37:26
  Wheel Drive V6. Oh, okay.
• 1:37:29
  You never had. To Maybe we should have just
• 1:37:30
  left it at Dynasty. Like you never had to do an oil
• 1:37:33
  change. Clearly, clearly not.
• 1:37:36
  You know, actually. Radiator flash like it just you
• 1:37:39
  just filled it up, topped it off and you're good to go.
• 1:37:41
  Actually that Integra that I had that I mentioned on here, the be
• 1:37:44
  patient on lowered one. That car for a little while was
• 1:37:48
  burning so much fucking oil that I would just put quarts in it
• 1:37:52
  and it would just be fucking fine as well, 100%.
• 1:37:56
  I mean, if you're burning enough oil, do I do oil?
• 1:37:59
  Change V but. Here's the thing.
• 1:38:01
  My car would never smoke. Yeah, like there's no white
• 1:38:04
  black oil screen. Wait, but it was burning it.
• 1:38:06
  Or leaking it. Wait, wait.
• 1:38:07
  Whoa whoa. Whoa, my GTA friends, that's a
• 1:38:09
  that's a that's the car they put in GTA.
• 1:38:11
  It's like this. Yeah, it's kind of like the the.
• 1:38:13
  Willard or whatever the. That is literally the GTA.
• 1:38:16
  Car that's that's that's what people that's the picture of a
• 1:38:22
  car that is of that era. Holy fuck, can you picture Ken
• 1:38:28
  driving that? I'm not going to lie, you
• 1:38:29
  probably look kind of cool. I.
• 1:38:31
  Haven't seen this car yet? Hold.
• 1:38:32
  On you're not even looking at the screen.
• 1:38:34
  My shit's delayed. I watched you look at it.
• 1:38:36
  I was looking in the chat. I saw the car.
• 1:38:37
  That thing's pretty sick. Yeah, I I can't see you driving
• 1:38:41
  it, but it's pretty sick. Maybe on some Dayton's?
• 1:38:46
  It was it was my like, you know, it's my my reliable parts hauler
• 1:38:50
  car. So when?
• 1:38:52
  Did this. When did this job end
• 1:38:54
  eventually? 2007 when I moved back.
• 1:38:57
  Oh, right before the collapse of the car industry, bro.
• 1:39:03
  So I had two questions for you. The first question is how?
• 1:39:09
  What was it like to get to order parts like you got you got an
• 1:39:12
  exhaust and coiler? Or shots.
• 1:39:13
  So yeah. So there's different ways I used
• 1:39:16
  to acquire parts. Before you worked at.
• 1:39:20
  Before I worked at Intense Like it was usually like you know,
• 1:39:25
  you go to like super street or import tuner.
• 1:39:28
  And they see the ads. You look for the ads, right?
• 1:39:30
  But also like at the time, like it's just forums now, right?
• 1:39:33
  So like someone had like a group sale, a group buy.
• 1:39:36
  So like you kind of join that or like through like the different
• 1:39:39
  advertisers, through the forums, like you learn about these
• 1:39:41
  specialized shops that will like get parts for you and stuff like
• 1:39:45
  that. So like, that's how I kind of
• 1:39:46
  did it. But then eventually with eBay,
• 1:39:52
  Yahoo Auctions and PayPal, I created this connection with
• 1:39:57
  this Japanese guy through eBay. I don't know how I did it.
• 1:40:02
  It just, it just worked out. I think I was selling something
• 1:40:07
  or like he was selling something and I bought it from him and I
• 1:40:10
  just kind of messaged him and say, hey, if you have anything
• 1:40:12
  like this, you know, just let me know.
• 1:40:13
  I just, I want to buy buy this stuff from you.
• 1:40:16
  I mean, it's a smart idea. And then he's like, hey, there's
• 1:40:19
  a bunch of like, he was like, he was this huge fan of like old
• 1:40:22
  American, like pop culture. So, like, he was into like,
• 1:40:26
  Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, like Chubby Chase, like all that kind
• 1:40:29
  of stuff, right? So like, he's like, all right,
• 1:40:31
  I'll make you a deal. Like, like, I'll get you
• 1:40:36
  whatever you want on Yahoo auctions.
• 1:40:40
  Like, let me use your address to just get shit from eBay sent
• 1:40:44
  over and you can mail it to me, 'cause like, there's a lot of
• 1:40:46
  people that like US, only US only.
• 1:40:50
  So like, I'll get like shit load of like 45 records, like
• 1:40:54
  magazines, just like trinkets, little like memorabilia, and
• 1:40:58
  just like pack it all up, ship it off to Japan for him, like.
• 1:41:03
  In some sort of bartering way you got.
• 1:41:07
  So I was able to get like I was telling Carl the other day.
• 1:41:10
  I feel like. I feel like I was one of the
• 1:41:14
  first people to have like a wooden Nardi from back in the
• 1:41:17
  day. That's cool.
• 1:41:18
  Like I bought like three of them off off Yahoo Auctions and I put
• 1:41:22
  it on. The first one was like, oh, this
• 1:41:23
  is too big. So I eventually went like 3, 360
• 1:41:27
  or 350mm one. And Brian, the friend with the
• 1:41:31
  Crescent with the Jay-Z swap, he's like, oh, I love that.
• 1:41:34
  So like, I gave him the other one like for cheap.
• 1:41:37
  And then like third one, I don't know what I probably sold it on
• 1:41:39
  eBay or gave it some other foreign member.
• 1:41:42
  So like, I used to get a bunch of parts off of Yahoo auctions
• 1:41:44
  for like super cheap. Wow.
• 1:41:47
  So I have like all these little like toys I have.
• 1:41:51
  That's the stuff you got from like, the auctions?
• 1:41:54
  Yeah, interesting. So having all these little like
• 1:41:57
  Matchbox cars from Japan, they're like little micro
• 1:42:00
  machine looking things. Like, are we going to be this
• 1:42:03
  Jeff, Andy. Are we going to be this cool?
• 1:42:05
  Benson said. Jeff Oh, Jeff.
• 1:42:08
  Andy. Why is that the person?
• 1:42:10
  Do you remember? Jeff, Andy.
• 1:42:12
  Frankie. Or is that before?
• 1:42:13
  Your time it's before me, so. Can get a little.
• 1:42:16
  So, so, Jack. Andy.
• 1:42:18
  Yeah. So he was this, I think he was
• 1:42:20
  this military guy. Oh, is that Were we not?
• 1:42:22
  Was that not that guy? Because I thought that you they
• 1:42:24
  were referencing. No, no, no.
• 1:42:26
  So this is a different guy. This is just, this is a Japanese
• 1:42:29
  guy, like an older Japanese guy I just kind of made friends with
• 1:42:32
  on eBay. But Jack Bandy was.
• 1:42:34
  He lived out in Japan, I think it was in the military or
• 1:42:37
  whatever, and he would just go to like Auto Box or like just
• 1:42:41
  some used car shop. He was like, here's a Sylvia,
• 1:42:44
  like headlights, 300 bucks plus shipping from Okinawa or like
• 1:42:48
  from wherever he lived to the United States.
• 1:42:50
  So a lot of people used to source parts from Japan through
• 1:42:54
  eBay, and back in the day, you could just type in JDM like you
• 1:42:57
  get all the shit that you need. Like it wasn't like, you know?
• 1:43:02
  I did not. Yeah, you could just type in
• 1:43:04
  Sylvia JDM and get like everything that was on sale on
• 1:43:07
  eBay without all the bullshit. It was a such a niche like thing
• 1:43:11
  back then that it was so easy to search and like, nobody was
• 1:43:15
  really buying it except for like all the same people in the
• 1:43:18
  forums. And, like, you know, so like,
• 1:43:21
  we're basically outbitting each other.
• 1:43:23
  Like sometimes we'll fight on the forums like fuck you Like
• 1:43:25
  stop bidding on my shit. Damn.
• 1:43:29
  Dude, it's probably so much stuff to buy too.
• 1:43:33
  Like, Oh my God. Like I still.
• 1:43:35
  Think about but but but it has to be posted by somebody.
• 1:43:39
  See. So like that, that's probably
• 1:43:40
  your battle right there, 'cause it's not like again, the
• 1:43:43
  exposure wasn't crazy. They they probably didn't even
• 1:43:46
  know. And by they I mean like the
• 1:43:47
  Japanese market or like the the sellers probably didn't even
• 1:43:50
  know that that was like a demand full.
• 1:43:52
  No, the sellers, exactly. They knew they did.
• 1:43:55
  Already he was, Yeah. He.
• 1:43:56
  Was I know what I got? He he found them like a need and
• 1:44:00
  found a market that was like like, so you know, we wanted
• 1:44:04
  parts in the United. States, I mean they had, they
• 1:44:05
  had part stores already Carl, So I guess they knew.
• 1:44:09
  Yeah, but like Otto, Box and. What year are we talking about
• 1:44:13
  right now? This is probably like 99 two
• 1:44:16
  thousand. OK, that's before because we.
• 1:44:18
  Didn't 2001? Didn't when did the import scene
• 1:44:21
  really take off to, like, you know, before the crash?
• 1:44:26
  That kind of happened in 2000. Seven I would say.
• 1:44:30
  I would say the Fast and Furious movie was a huge huge catalyst
• 1:44:34
  for. I mean before that it was pretty
• 1:44:37
  underground right. So like a lot of people were
• 1:44:40
  into Honda's Integra's and and stuff like that.
• 1:44:43
  So I remember going out to Vegas with my friends and like hang
• 1:44:47
  out with his family now and like they would have like these like
• 1:44:52
  souped up like integra's with all DC sport, everything on it,
• 1:44:56
  right? Like it's like at the time that
• 1:44:58
  was like I, you know, that was like.
• 1:45:01
  I I had. So much DC sports.
• 1:45:05
  Like, back in the day, that was the shit, right?
• 1:45:06
  Like all the Boltons like. Yeah.
• 1:45:09
  No, I thought that it was a good brand until.
• 1:45:12
  I mean it. Used to be.
• 1:45:14
  I I had ADC sports cap back, a strut bar, lower tie bar.
• 1:45:19
  People still have all those. OK.
• 1:45:20
  Yeah. DC Sports exhaust, man.
• 1:45:22
  That sounded. Good.
• 1:45:23
  Oh my shit dude. Like, yeah, so.
• 1:45:26
  I want to circle back. You told us the things you liked
• 1:45:28
  about Fast and Furious. What didn't you like about the
• 1:45:30
  movie? Probably it's, well, it depends
• 1:45:34
  how you want to look at it, right?
• 1:45:35
  Like we were at the movie theater.
• 1:45:37
  They're talking about all the like, they're looking at like,
• 1:45:40
  yeah, Brian's engine Bay and like, oh, you got a turbo in
• 1:45:44
  there, huh? Like what turbo?
• 1:45:45
  That's a freaking NA Like get the fuck out.
• 1:45:47
  Of here, of the Civic, or of the eclipse?
• 1:45:49
  Of the eclipse, yeah. What engine?
• 1:45:51
  It forked. 4/4 a GE. It's no no four GS sub 2T66
• 1:45:57
  turbo G. 63 is the oh it was it oh, it was actually a 4G63.
• 1:46:02
  Though I think so, yeah. Right.
• 1:46:03
  It just wasn't the all-wheel. Drive.
• 1:46:04
  It was the GS, not the GSX. Wait, it wasn't the NA1?
• 1:46:08
  No, it was the GS. Yeah, because the GST is the
• 1:46:11
  turbo. I thought GSX.
• 1:46:13
  So it was the NA1. Yeah, the GS.
• 1:46:15
  Yeah, so it was. I thought the engine was a 420.
• 1:46:18
  AI might have made that up, but I thought that's what it was.
• 1:46:21
  And but here's the main thing, we're 20.
• 1:46:23
  Pretty sure the engine is facing the other way.
• 1:46:26
  I think. The NA one is not the same way.
• 1:46:28
  No, no, no. They're all.
• 1:46:29
  I thought it was all the same. They're all sideways.
• 1:46:31
  'Cause you could, no. No big letters, not like that.
• 1:46:33
  I mean the opposite side of the engine Bay.
• 1:46:35
  No, I think that's. Later later model like Evos and
• 1:46:38
  stuff like that. OK.
• 1:46:39
  Yeah. 'Cause at that time I remember
• 1:46:41
  all the galants. No, not the galants.
• 1:46:44
  Was it? What are the other big salon?
• 1:46:47
  The Talon? Yeah, they all had the same
• 1:46:49
  engine. It was just like, right.
• 1:46:50
  Either it was a Plymouth or a Mitsubishi, yeah.
• 1:46:53
  And yeah, I just remember like it was either NA turbo with
• 1:46:58
  front wheel drive or turbo with all-wheel drive.
• 1:47:00
  So you guys noticed all the corny stuff?
• 1:47:02
  Oh, it was hilarious. Right off the rip.
• 1:47:05
  Oh, there was like, we had a whole row of people were just
• 1:47:07
  like laughing. And people around us, like, what
• 1:47:09
  was it? What are they talking about?
• 1:47:10
  I. Feel like it would.
• 1:47:11
  I mean, that's how it was or that's how it is now when I've
• 1:47:16
  finally somewhat got into drifting a little bit more and
• 1:47:19
  now I'm watching Tokyo Drift and I'm like.
• 1:47:20
  Yeah. You can't fucking you can't do
• 1:47:25
  that. No.
• 1:47:25
  The funniest part watching Tokyo Drift is literally the fact that
• 1:47:28
  they're racing that to me. That's.
• 1:47:31
  Oh, that's, yeah. That's interesting.
• 1:47:32
  Yeah. That's not what are we doing.
• 1:47:34
  Are you sure it's not the fact that?
• 1:47:36
  No the. Movie is based on a fucking
• 1:47:39
  little bit of a conflict between a girl.
• 1:47:42
  No, it's literally. Over a girl they're.
• 1:47:45
  Like, yeah, this is a race we we race.
• 1:47:47
  And I'm like, no one's racing dude.
• 1:47:49
  Hold on, because this is, well, the other day Ken and I were
• 1:47:52
  talking about how? Well, like on the mountains.
• 1:47:55
  No, early version Formula drift which we can talk about.
• 1:47:58
  Did you go to a formula drift out there?
• 1:48:01
  No. So when Formula Drift became a
• 1:48:04
  thing, I was already kind of like burnt out with the whole
• 1:48:08
  import scenes. Like when did it start?
• 1:48:10
  Five or three or? I want to say like between 6:00
• 1:48:16
  and 7:00 5/6 7:00-ish. Hold on, Ken.
• 1:48:18
  I want you to, like, put that shit, like, right here.
• 1:48:20
  I. Keep leaning back.
• 1:48:22
  Hold on, let me. I'm stuck here.
• 1:48:25
  There you go. OK.
• 1:48:26
  Thank you. Thank you for innovation.
• 1:48:28
  There you. Yes, I think.
• 1:48:28
  I don't quote me on this. I think it was about like
• 1:48:31
  between like O5 and O 6:00-ish is when it happened.
• 1:48:35
  What's that? Is that the video that I we
• 1:48:38
  watched in the Discord the other day?
• 1:48:41
  I'm sorry, me and my in the Discord we were watching.
• 1:48:43
  Quan had something up. It was D1 and it was that Irwin
• 1:48:48
  deal. I can't remember the year, but
• 1:48:50
  is that might have been the first one.
• 1:48:52
  Oh, that was, yeah. That was, I think, one of the
• 1:48:54
  first official. Huh.
• 1:48:57
  Events. But by then you were burnt out,
• 1:48:59
  so you didn't. I was, yeah.
• 1:49:00
  I was already also like, it wasn't 'cause I was working on
• 1:49:07
  intense Motorsports at the time, right?
• 1:49:09
  So like, I was at a point where I like, I'm doing all this work
• 1:49:12
  and I'm still broke as fuck. So I was like, you know I need.
• 1:49:15
  To. I need to change something,
• 1:49:17
  right? Like I keep spending money on my
• 1:49:20
  all my hobbies. Like the problem was like I had
• 1:49:23
  a lot of things I love to do. So like cars was just one of the
• 1:49:27
  many things that I I did. So like I was like I just need
• 1:49:31
  to consolidate my life and figure shit out.
• 1:49:33
  So like one of the opportunities was like move back to New York
• 1:49:37
  or move to like California and try to find a job as a software
• 1:49:42
  engineer. And after doing some searching
• 1:49:45
  and stuff like that, I found a couple of opportunities in New
• 1:49:47
  York. So like, I decided to move back,
• 1:49:50
  hang out with my parents for a little bit and until I see the
• 1:49:53
  money to buy a house and then like live the.
• 1:49:56
  American dream. Yeah, kind of.
• 1:50:00
  Really. No, but like to this day, I
• 1:50:02
  still. I don't regret it, like as a
• 1:50:05
  part of the process, but I do miss my hatchback.
• 1:50:12
  I thought it. Was going to get real emotional.
• 1:50:15
  I missed my house. I thought it was going to.
• 1:50:17
  Be a fucking. Should mark that one then.
• 1:50:20
  I I thought it was going to be. I miss life back, Yeah.
• 1:50:27
  I should call her. Like some something.
• 1:50:29
  Like that all of a sudden it's. I mean, that was my.
• 1:50:31
  Girlfriend. That's 240.
• 1:50:32
  Was my girlfriend. S13 hash.
• 1:50:37
  Yeah. Like, you know, it's like that's
• 1:50:40
  a car. I I, I I learned a lot of things
• 1:50:42
  on, right. Like I learned how to work on my
• 1:50:44
  car. Really like.
• 1:50:45
  So did you sell the car when you moved?
• 1:50:47
  I did. I still.
• 1:50:48
  That's one of my AZ 240 members do.
• 1:50:51
  You know where it is. I have no idea now.
• 1:50:54
  He ended up selling to someone else and then like last I saw
• 1:50:57
  like the car is painted like weird, some weird orange brown
• 1:51:01
  color and from there I just assume it's like in a junkyard.
• 1:51:06
  So we're running away. We could hope the best, but
• 1:51:08
  yeah. But here's the thing that that
• 1:51:10
  car had all the JDM goodies of that time.
• 1:51:14
  Like that seat. The R32 GTRC came out of Sam's
• 1:51:21
  Sam Chang. Like J Spec Sam, he had the
• 1:51:24
  yellow S13. The Riverside one.
• 1:51:28
  No, no. No, it's like.
• 1:51:30
  Or not Riverside. Sorry.
• 1:51:31
  That's the one that's just top of mind.
• 1:51:32
  That's yellow right now. Yeah.
• 1:51:34
  So he's like, oh, so you were asking about like, where do we
• 1:51:37
  get parts from? So like one of the guys is Sam
• 1:51:39
  from JSPEC. He was one of the importers of
• 1:51:42
  parts and stuff. So like.
• 1:51:43
  Jspec. I remember that.
• 1:51:44
  He's out from. He was out in a city of
• 1:51:46
  industries, I think, and he shared a a place with phase two
• 1:51:52
  Motorsports. Wayne from phase two.
• 1:51:54
  Yeah, we know, Wayne. Yeah, so like one time I think
• 1:51:58
  it was drift a 12 or something like that.
• 1:52:01
  It was at California Speedway, if I ever remember correctly.
• 1:52:03
  Like like that hose, that's that radiator hose that's underneath
• 1:52:09
  the manifold that cracked on me. And I was stuck in California.
• 1:52:13
  I had to go back to Arizona. I was like, oh shit, I'm fucked.
• 1:52:16
  So like some of my, you know, I think it was Alex or somebody
• 1:52:19
  like called. A few people say just go over to
• 1:52:21
  Wayne's like he said he could use his garage or use his tools
• 1:52:25
  and stuff. I was like, Are you sure like
• 1:52:26
  like, know the guy? That's probably the same shop
• 1:52:28
  they have right now. Maybe.
• 1:52:30
  I don't know. But like, yeah.
• 1:52:31
  We were trying to visit it when we went, but we had so many
• 1:52:33
  places to go so. Where are we?
• 1:52:35
  That's one of the places I want to go.
• 1:52:36
  Yeah, Like so to this, to this day, like, you know, like I try
• 1:52:39
  to support him just for that one time, like he helped me out like
• 1:52:42
  so like whatever I need like hose clamps or whatever.
• 1:52:44
  Like like I try to use his products, you know?
• 1:52:47
  Yeah, Yeah. P2 MI ran a lot of their
• 1:52:50
  products we. Sell a lot.
• 1:52:51
  Of their stuff, P2M is one of the one of the things we sell
• 1:52:53
  the most parts of, because it's just things that you need that
• 1:52:56
  you can't really get any. P2M we got corner light.
• 1:52:59
  Corner light every all the lighting for two. 40s OK.
• 1:53:02
  We got them on the website. Yeah.
• 1:53:03
  I had the I I bought the tail lights for by for the vert, but
• 1:53:06
  I decided to just go OEM. Yeah.
• 1:53:08
  Like there's something about that OEM tail light like I just
• 1:53:10
  like, yeah. But because also I think
• 1:53:12
  everyone has the, you know, the aftermarket tail lights now.
• 1:53:16
  So yeah, but like the most popular sellers like the marker
• 1:53:19
  lights and all that stuff. And they're KKAEGR delete.
• 1:53:24
  Oh yeah, the EGR deletes. We have, though.
• 1:53:26
  Just little things that you like, you know?
• 1:53:28
  Yeah, I mean you need it. Because like now, now talking to
• 1:53:31
  Ken, I'm like this person probably ran into this issue
• 1:53:36
  collectively with the group, then came up with a solution and
• 1:53:40
  is now selling it and now it's talk to him.
• 1:53:43
  Now it's like almost getting just washed away in the waste,
• 1:53:47
  not washed away, but like, people don't even know that
• 1:53:50
  history of it. Yeah, that'd be.
• 1:53:51
  Really cool. It's so easy to work on car cars
• 1:53:53
  today compared to back in the day.
• 1:53:55
  Hey just type in How to 1JZ J ZX1. 100 giant, right?
• 1:54:01
  Like if if you're gonna do a Jay-Z swap into an S chassis,
• 1:54:04
  like you just go and buy the engine mounts, yeah?
• 1:54:06
  Yeah. What was the process back then
• 1:54:08
  you make it? Yeah.
• 1:54:09
  Yeah. Christ, dude.
• 1:54:11
  The. RB The RB mount tweak on two
• 1:54:13
  40s. Fucking crazy.
• 1:54:15
  Back in the day. It's like the engines just
• 1:54:17
  hanging over. It's like a it's like the mount
• 1:54:19
  is in the subframe and then just a piece of metal like tack
• 1:54:22
  welded on and it's just hanging over like 6 inches.
• 1:54:25
  Well, I don't know what picture I'm or what what build this was,
• 1:54:28
  but when I picture somebody making motor mounts I'm
• 1:54:31
  picturing like tube with like a flat piece.
• 1:54:36
  With. Holes drilled into it so that it
• 1:54:38
  can get to the engine. Yeah, the RP mounts are crazy.
• 1:54:42
  I can't believe those. But I mean, that's that's
• 1:54:47
  insane. Wait, I I know we are crusting
• 1:54:50
  over the two hour mark. But Ken, I know you brought a
• 1:54:54
  flash drive, Malcolm, were you able to plug that in?
• 1:54:57
  Yeah, so. There's a folder in there called
• 1:54:59
  Faction where I I. I Ken brought over some pictures
• 1:55:02
  that, by the way, you will probably never ever see anywhere
• 1:55:07
  else because these are pictures that were taken by you.
• 1:55:12
  Not myself. Oh some of them are like for
• 1:55:14
  example we were very lucky at AZ 240.
• 1:55:17
  It was like we had we had some really great photographers and
• 1:55:20
  like some of them are like professional photographers not
• 1:55:23
  like for example Mike Maya is like he was working for many
• 1:55:27
  automotive magazines. Justin, he's a professional like
• 1:55:31
  wedding events, both photographer now and there was
• 1:55:35
  someone else that kind of like took both of them under their
• 1:55:37
  wings like he was coming. He would come out to like events
• 1:55:40
  with us. Like he was the guy that got
• 1:55:43
  like helped a lot of these kids become like professional
• 1:55:45
  photographers. Like he'll show up with like one
• 1:55:47
  of those like 800, nine, 100mm Canon lenses that would cost
• 1:55:51
  like thousands of dollars. And just he'll come out to like
• 1:55:55
  Phoenix International Raceway for like Drift Event and he'll
• 1:55:58
  just take pictures for all of us and stuff like that.
• 1:56:01
  Wow. So like one of the I think
• 1:56:04
  things in there I know you like is the signal auto.
• 1:56:07
  Yeah, I was hoping that would be then there.
• 1:56:08
  Yeah, so one of them it was. I just.
• 1:56:10
  Text Ethan. I'm like coming here.
• 1:56:13
  I don't think it's drift still. I think that's his truck right
• 1:56:16
  there. So yeah.
• 1:56:19
  So Tucson Drift Day, like through some folks at AZ 240,
• 1:56:24
  like they became friends with like Chris Forsberg, Tony
• 1:56:28
  Angelo. And then they're kind of like, I
• 1:56:31
  would say they were part of the Drift alliance at the time.
• 1:56:34
  And that's how I got all the stickers.
• 1:56:37
  Oh, wow. Yeah.
• 1:56:37
  Like they wanted to advertise on our website.
• 1:56:39
  So I was like, I don't want money, just send us some swag so
• 1:56:42
  I could share with my members and like, you know, we'll have a
• 1:56:45
  raffle or whatever. Street team.
• 1:56:48
  Pretty much, yeah. So yeah, so parts.
• 1:56:50
  Of the street. Yeah.
• 1:56:51
  So like they they came out and during that time Chris Forsberg
• 1:56:55
  was driving for Signal Auto. That's.
• 1:57:01
  A fuck I. Didn't even know Whoa that.
• 1:57:03
  Was the thing so he. Brought this one of the Signal
• 1:57:04
  Auto 180SX out to Tucson Drift Day.
• 1:57:08
  It was the very first drift event in Arizona.
• 1:57:11
  Now I want to talk to Forsberg. Now why you now I?
• 1:57:15
  Want to Alex Pfeiffer was there too.
• 1:57:18
  Alex Pfeiffer was one of the instructors like.
• 1:57:20
  So we had like all these like this is the.
• 1:57:22
  First drift event in Arizona, yeah.
• 1:57:25
  Yeah, So what are the pictures? What are the pictures?
• 1:57:27
  About like before Christ right now.
• 1:57:28
  Like, what the hell? So what are the pictures?
• 1:57:31
  There's a there's a picture of the signal auto 180 with the
• 1:57:36
  S15. Front You got the photos,
• 1:57:37
  Malcolm? And it has the IT has the AZ 240
• 1:57:41
  sticker on it, like we were like he was like, yeah, slap it on
• 1:57:44
  there. One of those guys just slapped
• 1:57:45
  the AZ 240. Sticker.
• 1:57:46
  That shit makes me hype. You know, that was like one of.
• 1:57:49
  The That's the kind of shit that happens at final bout right now.
• 1:57:51
  It's yeah, it's I guess it would be kind of that vibe, but like
• 1:57:54
  it's just one of those things like at the time like we knew we
• 1:57:57
  were witnessing, you know, we're it was a special event, right,
• 1:58:00
  Because everyone had a good time.
• 1:58:04
  Like a lot of people were exposed to drifting for the
• 1:58:07
  first time. And before, I'm sorry, but what
• 1:58:10
  year was it again? I think 2004, So 2004 ish is
• 1:58:14
  around the year when drift events started becoming a
• 1:58:18
  reality. And that was Tokyo Drift year,
• 1:58:19
  right? It wasn't O3 like I thought.
• 1:58:21
  I don't. Know four or something I think
• 1:58:23
  we talked about. This don't know when Tokyo Drift
• 1:58:24
  came out, but that definitely did help yeah with explaining
• 1:58:28
  what it was. That's so interesting.
• 1:58:32
  It's so, I mean, I wish Ethan could come in here because he he
• 1:58:35
  was into drifting probably not that early, but maybe it's 7-8
• 1:58:40
  so he could probably relate more.
• 1:58:41
  But right, we found the photos. Malcolm has finally done this.
• 1:58:44
  I wanted to tell you how to do that so badly.
• 1:58:46
  And that's exactly how I was. Like he's doing exactly like I'm
• 1:58:50
  not. Using delayed, this is delayed,
• 1:58:52
  so it's about 10 seconds. So that's me driving at the 2002
• 1:58:56
  National. At the new Podcast Studio, we
• 1:58:59
  will not have this right. We won't.
• 1:59:01
  But which, by the way, don't go out of your fucking way, please.
• 1:59:05
  Oh, we've already done it. There's 100 thousands of them,
• 1:59:08
  probably 1000 / 1000 / 1000 dollars spent on this podcast
• 1:59:10
  video. What the fuck?
• 1:59:12
  Hold on a minute. Why?
• 1:59:14
  Two more cameras. Same ones, $600 a piece.
• 1:59:19
  Big Ass table. That's already over $1000 five.
• 1:59:22
  $100 cables. What the fuck?
• 1:59:25
  $100 Mike got to get another Mike Malcolm What do we do?
• 1:59:30
  It's factions on top. Stop playing.
• 1:59:32
  Don't forget. Don't forget about the computer.
• 1:59:34
  That's fine. The what?
• 1:59:36
  They built a computer for the podcast studio.
• 1:59:39
  We needed another one. We needed another one.
• 1:59:41
  Yeah, so this isn't a good month so far financially.
• 1:59:44
  No, it's not. I would have told you not to do
• 1:59:46
  any of. This at least.
• 1:59:47
  We got that done though, you know.
• 1:59:48
  Scared money? Don't.
• 1:59:49
  It's an investment. It's an investment, Carl.
• 1:59:51
  Hey, yo-yo, get that all in here for Q1, we'll circle back Q3 and
• 1:59:55
  we'll get them with, don't worry that's.
• 1:59:57
  What we're hoping for. All right, back to the photos,
• 1:59:59
  Ken. These are nice.
• 2:00:03
  Nice look at bro. Look How are they still on?
• 2:00:06
  Look at the look at the roll. That's it.
• 2:00:08
  Leaning. In that's what my Jac coil
• 2:00:11
  averse. Do you see?
• 2:00:13
  That oh, the car in the back. Yeah, that was probably like KYB
• 2:00:16
  with TN. So that was your car right
• 2:00:17
  there. What wheels do you?
• 2:00:19
  Got some Chrome 16 that came with the car.
• 2:00:23
  We use that as a. Look at you driving that thing.
• 2:00:26
  Dude, you're like, lean the fight.
• 2:00:28
  No you that. Oh, so that's the Carl.
• 2:00:30
  Fuck you. Are you guys familiar with
• 2:00:32
  Streets of Willow? Eat familiar.
• 2:00:34
  So that's the skid pad area where you kind of turn back into
• 2:00:37
  the course through the straightaway.
• 2:00:40
  So either you can go into the pits from there or go straight
• 2:00:42
  down the straightaway across the starting slash finish line.
• 2:00:45
  OK, so that's where they took that photo.
• 2:00:47
  It's like where it's like a huge sweeper coming in and if you're
• 2:00:51
  not careful you could easily go sideways on that thing.
• 2:00:55
  God forbid we we kicked a car out a little bit.
• 2:00:58
  So during this time it was like, yeah, you had like, you know, it
• 2:01:02
  wasn't, so are. You are you guys not trying to
• 2:01:05
  drift it? For this, no.
• 2:01:07
  It was a trap. For this particular part, it was
• 2:01:11
  just grip driving. I hate to notice, but those are
• 2:01:15
  JDM corner lights. It is, yeah.
• 2:01:18
  It is. Do you notice those?
• 2:01:19
  Yeah. Yeah, I know you did too,
• 2:01:21
  Frankie. Yeah, those are.
• 2:01:23
  That's a JD. M What else we got in here?
• 2:01:24
  Mel Yeah. Can you hit the next button?
• 2:01:26
  Hey yo, that's a brand new car. Literally.
• 2:01:29
  That's. That's a brand new car.
• 2:01:30
  That's a 7 year old car, right? That's the equivalent of us
• 2:01:33
  seeing a ZN 6 right now. That's what I'm saying.
• 2:01:36
  It's like to us when I see we see an old older FRS or BRZ,
• 2:01:41
  whatever that's that's like what they that's like.
• 2:01:44
  He's got the cokie wing on. It also that's AKA 24 turbo.
• 2:01:49
  Was that not as common back then, really?
• 2:01:51
  Like a lot of the, I mean, there was only a handful of people
• 2:01:53
  with with turbocharged Kas that I recall.
• 2:01:55
  Oh, OK. If you're not tuned into the
• 2:01:57
  video portion, actually the video portion is available on
• 2:02:00
  Spotify. On Spotify.
• 2:02:01
  Congratulations. Yeah.
• 2:02:02
  Thank you. I don't think it's.
• 2:02:03
  On anything else, But yeah, if you guys are listening to this
• 2:02:06
  anywhere else, we're just showing photos right now.
• 2:02:08
  So yeah, checking the YouTube out.
• 2:02:10
  Yeah, yeah. So that's Ty.
• 2:02:12
  What? The tape.
• 2:02:13
  Tape. No, you need that.
• 2:02:14
  You need the tape on the. I'm saying it's thumbs down for
• 2:02:16
  Cokie. Oh.
• 2:02:19
  That's that's. Ty, you guys recall White Bunny
• 2:02:22
  clutch kits? Yeah, well, he's one of the
• 2:02:25
  that's named the White. Bunny.
• 2:02:27
  He's white Bunny. Is this the white Bunny, right?
• 2:02:29
  Here, Bunny, Yeah. Oh.
• 2:02:30
  Holy bro I had a white Bunny clutch on my vert.
• 2:02:35
  That was all. Competition Clutches, No.
• 2:02:37
  Yeah. But it's a kit that was pieced
• 2:02:38
  together to be quote UN quote I. Think I don't remember?
• 2:02:41
  Yeah, but like, he's the one who kind of concocted the the
• 2:02:44
  formula of the white white Bunny clutch.
• 2:02:49
  So there's another member at the time, Mike Lee.
• 2:02:53
  He owned a red S13 coupe with T66 turbo.
• 2:02:58
  KA made about 600 horsepower on stock block or 500 on stock
• 2:03:03
  block. Stock Block 500.
• 2:03:07
  That doesn't fucking suck. That's fine.
• 2:03:08
  That's. Fine.
• 2:03:10
  Hold the T66. Though that was that was the
• 2:03:12
  turbo you put on a Jay-Z. That's for like, a super.
• 2:03:15
  Yeah. But like, yeah, that's that was
• 2:03:18
  one of the in. The Fast and the Furious, when
• 2:03:20
  they're looking at the Eclipse engine Bay, they're literally
• 2:03:23
  saying T66 Turbo in that scene. Oh, did he say that?
• 2:03:27
  Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 2:03:28
  There's no way that's happening. No.
• 2:03:30
  Cheese. Cheese Ken, It's like I was
• 2:03:33
  there at the premiere with you in that way, cracking up out.
• 2:03:36
  Of all the Fast and Furious movies, Tokyo Drift is my
• 2:03:39
  favorite. Really.
• 2:03:40
  They, they, they, they, they put some stuff.
• 2:03:42
  First one is mine. First one.
• 2:03:44
  That first one is my second favorite.
• 2:03:45
  You don't like the second one When he says no, the second one.
• 2:03:50
  Well, the second one, I think I don't like it for The Fast and
• 2:03:54
  Furious, but I do like the comedy from Tyrese, yeah.
• 2:03:58
  So. The comedic relief from Tyrese
• 2:04:00
  was gay. I also I also hate when he does
• 2:04:03
  this. I don't know if you anybody else
• 2:04:06
  is weird enough to pick this up, but in the scene when he's
• 2:04:08
  yelling at the police officer, he takes the sandwich.
• 2:04:13
  I want to throw that he. Takes the sandwich.
• 2:04:15
  What is that I? Don't.
• 2:04:16
  Want to throw that either? Give me that.
• 2:04:18
  He takes the sandwich, right? And he and he's like, hey,
• 2:04:20
  that's mine and he eats it. Whatever.
• 2:04:22
  He goes. But no.
• 2:04:23
  But he when they're leaving, he throws the sandwich.
• 2:04:28
  He's like, all right, I'm gone. But then he gets up and grabs a
• 2:04:32
  sandwich that's funny and walks away with it.
• 2:04:35
  And I'm like, what was the point of you throwing that on the
• 2:04:37
  ground? Oh, thank you.
• 2:04:38
  Ethan's here. Ethan.
• 2:04:41
  Ethan look at. Ken Ken is an old school JDM
• 2:04:43
  guy, so we had to get you in the room.
• 2:04:45
  Look at it. These are these are original
• 2:04:48
  photos. Oh, so that's white deal right
• 2:04:50
  there. Those are Reggae Masters
• 2:04:51
  Original. Bunny Clutch Masters Clutch Kit.
• 2:04:53
  He's. He's the white Bunny right
• 2:04:55
  there. How much did they cost back
• 2:04:57
  then? Yeah, what the reggae masters.
• 2:04:58
  22. 1000 The white the white Bunny clutches.
• 2:05:01
  Oh, I don't. Know, like 300 bucks.
• 2:05:05
  The wheels or the clutches? OK, next photo.
• 2:05:07
  Oh, that's oh. My God, the wheels are
• 2:05:08
  expensive. I already remember like, yeah,
• 2:05:10
  he had. I don't know how he got a hold
• 2:05:11
  of them, but those are the original, like Wreck O Masters
• 2:05:14
  from Russia. But they're black.
• 2:05:16
  That's sick. Black wheels on black pavement,
• 2:05:18
  man. You can't see them.
• 2:05:20
  Has to be silver or white. No, that street's a Willow.
• 2:05:24
  Yeah. So that's.
• 2:05:25
  Yeah, that's the vibe right there.
• 2:05:26
  That was. There's some, I think that's
• 2:05:30
  Mark, Mark's Mondoy's car, right.
• 2:05:33
  Am I right, Benson, if you're on there.
• 2:05:36
  Benson went to go pick up his kids.
• 2:05:37
  But thank you though Benson for tuning in.
• 2:05:41
  Yeah, this is the OG Podcast tonight.
• 2:05:44
  Yeah, those. That was my first time.
• 2:05:46
  Dude, the five zigging flag. Yeah, yes.
• 2:05:49
  So Alex Chang, he was the admin for SoCal 240.
• 2:05:53
  He's he worked at 5 Zigen and he's one of the reasons why we
• 2:05:57
  had the FNR 10 CS. That's so cool.
• 2:06:01
  I had eight of them at one point.
• 2:06:02
  Ken has four of them. I had a pair at one time.
• 2:06:07
  They were. Those were my some of my
• 2:06:08
  favorite. Wheels.
• 2:06:08
  Did you really? We we had a thing where we had a
• 2:06:11
  pair. I had a pair and then Jesse or
• 2:06:15
  someone bought them. And the deal was these do not
• 2:06:18
  leave the group ever. You can buy them.
• 2:06:21
  You can sell them to your friend, but they can't the the
• 2:06:24
  five Ziggies. Didn't they left?
• 2:06:25
  Not not ours. Oh, did they?
• 2:06:28
  Did they? Did they wax?
• 2:06:30
  Has. Where are they?
• 2:06:31
  Yeah. No.
• 2:06:33
  Are you sure? Yeah.
• 2:06:34
  I don't think Wag's gonna sell. Yeah.
• 2:06:35
  No. No, no, no, no.
• 2:06:36
  If it's wags, no. Jet to wags they can they can
• 2:06:40
  get sold only within the group but you cannot sell them.
• 2:06:43
  Yeah, the black ones with the dent.
• 2:06:44
  Remember one of them had a dent. Oh but they were the good spec.
• 2:06:48
  The 10 wide 1717 by 1017 by 10 was a crazy wheel to.
• 2:06:52
  Find Yeah Plus 18. No plus 12.
• 2:06:57
  That's what Chris got. Yeah.
• 2:06:59
  No, Chris has 10 + 30 or something because I was.
• 2:07:03
  Able to run. Yeah, it was a crazy size.
• 2:07:05
  It was a cool wheel, the. Only thing I don't like about
• 2:07:07
  and by the way, when I first. Wait a minute, dude.
• 2:07:11
  I think those might have been Matt Powers.
• 2:07:13
  Old wheels eat them. All Ken brought snacks over and
• 2:07:16
  now Malcolm's digging in. Those wheels.
• 2:07:18
  Those wheels were Matt Powers Old wheels.
• 2:07:21
  I swear to God, yeah. Is who?
• 2:07:23
  Matt Powers, the Formula D drive.
• 2:07:25
  Don't tell me that's before your time.
• 2:07:26
  It is well before my time. I only watched Formula D for the
• 2:07:30
  first time, like a few years ago.
• 2:07:34
  Ethan. Old boy.
• 2:07:34
  Here, here, Ethan, take the mic because this is more of your
• 2:07:37
  time, Pops. And then I'm going to go pee.
• 2:07:39
  No, but really, like, I think someone had.
• 2:07:42
  From the from the green car. Yeah, literally.
• 2:07:44
  I think someone had that. Damn.
• 2:07:46
  Damn, Someone had those wheels and they, like, got them from
• 2:07:51
  him and then they sold him on Sylvia.
• 2:07:52
  And then that's, those are the wheels we got.
• 2:07:54
  And I remember I was mad. I spent 400 bucks.
• 2:07:56
  I was angry. I was like, that's too much
• 2:07:57
  money. Now it's like.
• 2:07:59
  Fuck. So cheap.
• 2:08:00
  Fuck you. I know.
• 2:08:01
  Everything used to be so cheap. Yeah, I remember buying full Sr.
• 2:08:04
  swaps for like 1000 bucks. Oh yeah.
• 2:08:06
  We didn't even talk about that. Oh.
• 2:08:08
  Yeah. So Sr. swaps, like I think that
• 2:08:10
  two side drift day event back in the day, that's all the drift
• 2:08:14
  events were on the Oval track. So you had to drift off a bank
• 2:08:17
  and like for this particular one thing it was off the bank and
• 2:08:19
  then there's a chicane in the center.
• 2:08:21
  Yeah, first time out I'm going, I spin out and I was like,
• 2:08:27
  alright, let me go back again and like here like tick tick
• 2:08:29
  tick. Tick.
• 2:08:30
  Tick. Tick.
• 2:08:30
  Oh no, spun a bearing. Oh no.
• 2:08:33
  So I call up Marco from the start 20 store.
• 2:08:36
  Yeah, it's like, oh, I got you. I think it was he bought me.
• 2:08:38
  He sold me alarm block brand. Like it looked even better than
• 2:08:41
  the one I had for like 500 bucks.
• 2:08:44
  I remember those days. What?
• 2:08:46
  What year was that 2000? You can't tell me the clutches
• 2:08:50
  were about the same. Price So I got into it in 2007.
• 2:08:53
  So that was. Yeah, see?
• 2:08:55
  So he's a little bit. He's before me.
• 2:08:57
  He's like 3-4 years before me. So he's like, in between me and
• 2:08:59
  you? Yes.
• 2:09:00
  Yeah. Yeah, so like, I sold my old one
• 2:09:02
  to one of my Arizona 240 members for like 200 bucks or 300 bucks.
• 2:09:06
  Yeah, that was like the going rate we used to offer like Sr.
• 2:09:09
  swaps like all said and done in the car.
• 2:09:11
  We used to work at a shop, Slideways in Palisade Park.
• 2:09:16
  At a place like Voldemort. Yeah, we don't.
• 2:09:19
  Yeah, we don't talk about it. Ethan's got some bad blood, but
• 2:09:24
  that's where I mean, that was the place.
• 2:09:25
  To They were the only 240 shop around.
• 2:09:28
  I had totaled my STI, got a 240 and ended up there.
• 2:09:32
  Yeah, full Sr. swaps, 3500 bucks intercooler exhaust.
• 2:09:37
  Now, now full Sr. swaps done really nice.
• 2:09:40
  That's like 10 grand. 10 grand, yeah.
• 2:09:42
  Do you guys remember when like you could buy a full clip for
• 2:09:44
  like $2800 with Sr. Yeah, and I was like I.
• 2:09:47
  Got too much? I got a mint brick front clip
• 2:09:50
  for I think I paid $800. For it.
• 2:09:53
  And I will never let go of any of that.
• 2:09:55
  Yeah. You can never even buy the
• 2:09:57
  headlights for 800. Bucks.
• 2:09:58
  Yeah, if you want to. If he ever has a BBQ or anything
• 2:10:01
  in the summer, you got to come because he's got collection of
• 2:10:03
  shit like he's. Got a lot of stuff.
• 2:10:06
  You still have the order. You still have the engine, the
• 2:10:08
  RB. Which one?
• 2:10:10
  No, I only have the head left. OK, he had a brand new RB
• 2:10:13
  fucking block. Oh, I.
• 2:10:14
  Shipped the N1 block to new. Zealand N1 block just chilling.
• 2:10:18
  Yeah. What?
• 2:10:19
  Yeah, he's got crazy. Ethan had crazy shit.
• 2:10:22
  Still have some crazy Yo, Carl, you got a big head these these
• 2:10:24
  headphones don't fit. Suck my Dick.
• 2:10:29
  All right, let's go back to these photos.
• 2:10:30
  Last time I ever give you the headphones, mother.
• 2:10:34
  So that's my old baby. Hey, yo, those are, that's the
• 2:10:36
  color. That's my baby.
• 2:10:39
  That is OK. Wait, I'm sorry.
• 2:10:40
  That's in. 2002 so I didn't have all the.
• 2:10:43
  Ethan's, Ethan's geeking right now.
• 2:10:44
  I've never seen Ethan so excited.
• 2:10:46
  I knew you were like somebody else has the same color that.
• 2:10:49
  So we had a twin in SoCal 240. Mike Mamos had the same.
• 2:10:55
  His was a Zenki and my hand was a Chuki.
• 2:10:59
  So Mike Mamos is owns and operates clearcorners.com.
• 2:11:04
  Clearcorners.com. That's clear cornering lights,
• 2:11:07
  right? Wait, is this really a thing?
• 2:11:10
  Clear. I would have never fucking so
• 2:11:15
  like. I don't know what it is so.
• 2:11:17
  He he was like one of the first people to kind of incorporate
• 2:11:20
  LED lighting into cars and stuff like that.
• 2:11:22
  So like the tail light that's on my car here in this one is like
• 2:11:25
  one of the OG clear corner tail lights with the you know how the
• 2:11:31
  OE Chuki had like the orange turning signal?
• 2:11:35
  Well, he he pulled that out and changed it with a clear 10, OK,
• 2:11:38
  and. You got any other photos?
• 2:11:40
  Me behind them. Oh, so that's Jan That's that's
• 2:11:45
  Sam J Spec Sam's. It might be.
• 2:11:54
  I can't see that far. It's probably not me though.
• 2:11:57
  I was a lot thicker back then. OK, I thought that.
• 2:11:59
  Was I was a Husky boy, but those seats eventually ended up in my
• 2:12:04
  car. That's cool.
• 2:12:07
  I see the J spec sticker, that's, yeah.
• 2:12:09
  Every that that was like the thing if you didn't have AJ spec
• 2:12:12
  sticker on your car like but you weren't cool like the bigger
• 2:12:18
  bigger the stickers were like the more money you spent for
• 2:12:20
  the. Picture of a fucking.
• 2:12:22
  Hold on. Hold on, hold on.
• 2:12:24
  Oh. Isn't that a vibe?
• 2:12:26
  Yes, it is Toyota. Yeah, so that's Streets of
• 2:12:30
  Willow. See that?
• 2:12:33
  Toyota I love that photo. Good shit.
• 2:12:39
  Mudwiser, mudwiser, mudwiser. Where is this track?
• 2:12:42
  Probably right around the corner from Apple Valley.
• 2:12:44
  It's in that same. Area I was going to say I think
• 2:12:46
  I've. So this is where the all the
• 2:12:49
  like if you go to Gran Turismo like you could drive this like
• 2:12:51
  this is one of my favorite tracks to go in Gran Turismo and
• 2:12:54
  just drive like it's very. I think this is the one I drove.
• 2:12:56
  I'm not good with tracks. I'm sorry, everyone, because
• 2:12:58
  there's. Hiked here, Frankie.
• 2:13:01
  That's literally where you hiked and you took a picture of it and
• 2:13:04
  you drove. Up to the track, Yeah, yeah.
• 2:13:05
  Remember. Yes.
• 2:13:07
  What do you mean? Do I remember you're the one who
• 2:13:09
  did. It the guy.
• 2:13:10
  Left. So I so I'm driving to a
• 2:13:11
  wedding. I'm driving to Josh Delise's
• 2:13:13
  wedding. And then I'm like, I'm like, I
• 2:13:15
  see a sign and I'm like, oh shit.
• 2:13:17
  And I I pull off and I just drive down the dirt road.
• 2:13:19
  And then I drive in and I'm like, and some guy comes up to
• 2:13:23
  me. He's like, hey, what's up?
• 2:13:24
  I'm like, I'm, I'm from Jersey. I'm just hanging out.
• 2:13:27
  I thought I'd drive here. He's like, Oh yeah, go nuts.
• 2:13:30
  Just go drive wherever you want. Oh, I was like, OK.
• 2:13:33
  And I just drove my, my, whatever, Colorado, whatever it
• 2:13:36
  was, I drove a shit around, took some photos.
• 2:13:40
  I was like, this is sick. So that's that's why that was
• 2:13:42
  that. Reminded me Taylor.
• 2:13:43
  I got a speeding ticket. Probably.
• 2:13:45
  Yeah, no, not probably. When you took a picture, you
• 2:13:47
  took a video. Was that the the altitude alert
• 2:13:49
  mountain? Wait, what?
• 2:13:51
  You. Hiked alone.
• 2:13:52
  No. No, no, this was a different.
• 2:13:54
  That wasn't the one where you said you got like, altitude.
• 2:13:56
  No, that was when I was with Carl, the day after Carl left.
• 2:13:59
  Oh yeah, it's 'cause I left. Yeah, if he was there, he would
• 2:14:02
  have saved my life. Bad friend.
• 2:14:04
  What else we got here, Malcolm? These photos are sick.
• 2:14:10
  The wheels. The wheels.
• 2:14:11
  The wheels. The wheels.
• 2:14:11
  So the reason why I have this picture in here, I have no idea
• 2:14:14
  whose car that is, but look at who's holding the flag.
• 2:14:16
  Do you recognize that guy? Yeah, it's fucking JP, He.
• 2:14:22
  Looked like JP, right? JP, right.
• 2:14:26
  Wait, hold on, let me try it again.
• 2:14:30
  Would I know him? Yes.
• 2:14:31
  I don't know about personally, but you know who he is.
• 2:14:34
  It's one of Carl's favorite Drifters 1.
• 2:14:36
  Of his favorite. Drifters Oh, I know who it is.
• 2:14:38
  Is that Ken Gooshi? No, it is.
• 2:14:41
  Oh shit. I think there's another picture
• 2:14:43
  that you could totally tell that's him.
• 2:14:45
  Yo, Ken, I had the same Abercrombie and Fitch.
• 2:14:47
  Oh yeah, there he. Is he's a flagger?
• 2:14:49
  This is amazing. I thought that was.
• 2:14:51
  I think this is during the time when his license was suspended.
• 2:14:53
  Look at the kid. Look at the.
• 2:14:54
  Kid on the S14. Diego, you need that shit.
• 2:14:59
  Well, that bottom piece on that kit is so thin.
• 2:15:02
  Can we post some of these photos?
• 2:15:04
  Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.
• 2:15:05
  Dude, no that kit. Just let us just let us know who
• 2:15:08
  we got to do you see it give credit to.
• 2:15:10
  Look how thin that kit is on the bottom.
• 2:15:12
  Yeah, I'm looking at it the bottom Valence.
• 2:15:14
  You hit that on one thing, dude. Those Cali roads.
• 2:15:20
  Though yeah. Don't got to worry about.
• 2:15:22
  It like, I think these photos I took, so that's fine, yeah.
• 2:15:25
  That color is nice. All right.
• 2:15:28
  What else? What else?
• 2:15:28
  Wheels. I don't want to do all through.
• 2:15:31
  How many you got? Like a million.
• 2:15:31
  There's not many. I just feel bad for the audio
• 2:15:37
  we're looking at. It's a signal auto car.
• 2:15:40
  Yeah, it's the signal that was one of.
• 2:15:42
  Three. That's the colour you like.
• 2:15:43
  That's the one I'm trying to replicate.
• 2:15:45
  See, why can't people be like this?
• 2:15:47
  You see how the spares match the fucking front wheels?
• 2:15:50
  That's fucking. But they're not the same wheel.
• 2:15:53
  That's sick. That's sick.
• 2:15:54
  Oh, is that is that what you like?
• 2:15:55
  OK, noted. Let.
• 2:15:57
  Me, dude, that's sick, man. But the you know what we haven't
• 2:16:02
  talked about and you barely even notice it.
• 2:16:06
  It's a 15. Front.
• 2:16:08
  Oh yeah, on the 13. You don't notice it.
• 2:16:10
  Because do you know why? Because they did a great job
• 2:16:13
  executing. Yeah, they did.
• 2:16:15
  They did. And so it looks OK.
• 2:16:16
  You're right. It's all in the way that it's
• 2:16:19
  done. Like look how great that.
• 2:16:20
  Looks oh, it's a delayed. I can't fucking see it.
• 2:16:23
  Just leave the car up. I don't care about CNS.
• 2:16:26
  What? What brakes?
• 2:16:27
  Hold on. Let's look at this a little bit
• 2:16:28
  more. I'm looking at the height and
• 2:16:32
  that's the kind of height I I like for my car.
• 2:16:34
  Currently that's not even low. Dude.
• 2:16:36
  I know that's the. Front of that is how high Josh's
• 2:16:38
  car is. What's very.
• 2:16:39
  I'm just kidding. I'm just.
• 2:16:40
  Kidding. OK, OK.
• 2:16:42
  OK. Josh's car is hideous in the
• 2:16:44
  front. It's like 20 feet in the air.
• 2:16:48
  That's my friend you're talking about.
• 2:16:50
  That's like my best friend too. It's I don't I'll talk shit all
• 2:16:52
  day about. It.
• 2:16:55
  Dude, the but the back. You see how the back is is
• 2:16:59
  almost above the tire, which is. That, yeah, but that's that
• 2:17:02
  rake. It's 1718.
• 2:17:04
  It's gotta be right I. Don't know 18. 18.
• 2:17:08
  Yeah, I don't know about 1818. 18's are very pretty rare back
• 2:17:11
  in the day. I think it's a 1718.
• 2:17:13
  It's definitely an 18 in the back.
• 2:17:15
  That's an 1818. Look how thin the tire is on
• 2:17:18
  both ends. Yeah, I'm trying to trying to
• 2:17:20
  discern with the front end that looks.
• 2:17:21
  Give me a piece of paper. Measuring the wheel, it's going
• 2:17:28
  to be biased. You can't measure it like that,
• 2:17:31
  No. Measure the measure the actual
• 2:17:33
  height of the wheel, like put put something in the.
• 2:17:35
  Yeah, there you go. Cat. 18. 18 fucking knew it.
• 2:17:45
  It's the same. Yeah, that's right. 1818.
• 2:17:48
  That's why it sits like that next.
• 2:17:49
  Picture. That car was honestly probably
• 2:17:51
  trying to set the trend for the rest of the cars and then they
• 2:17:55
  downsize the front. It's a bit of a.
• 2:17:56
  Better. Well, no, it's just some people
• 2:17:58
  do 1718 and nowadays you just do 1718.
• 2:18:02
  The wing for a for a 180 or that's thirteen.
• 2:18:05
  Yeah, the wing's cool too. None of the colors match, but
• 2:18:08
  yet I like it. Well, the blue the roof matches
• 2:18:11
  the the splash. OK, name something else.
• 2:18:15
  The gold wheels are nice. It's orange.
• 2:18:18
  Just like ghosting. I don't.
• 2:18:20
  Yeah, I don't. I don't.
• 2:18:21
  I never like one stickers. I like that name.
• 2:18:23
  SUS tech. SUS tech.
• 2:18:25
  That's the SUS. That's.
• 2:18:26
  Tanabe Tanabe. Yeah, Tanabe suspension.
• 2:18:29
  SUS tech. So eventually I I ended up with
• 2:18:32
  a Tanabe Coilovers on my 2:40 and it's because Benson was
• 2:18:36
  sponsored by Tenabis. I was like I got to support my
• 2:18:38
  friend. I only know what SUS tech is
• 2:18:40
  because when I was looking for. Forsberg, sorry.
• 2:18:44
  So that one, I don't know if it was Forsberg.
• 2:18:45
  Or not. It looks like it might be him.
• 2:18:46
  Because that one was at D-Day Drift a 12.
• 2:18:52
  Wait, who's this? That's your boy.
• 2:18:54
  Yeah, I know it's the. Emperor.
• 2:18:57
  That's Koguchi. That's Koguchi at 2000 2004
• 2:19:01
  Drift Show off. What?
• 2:19:03
  Ethan, this shit is crazy, man. Oh wait, no.
• 2:19:06
  We watched also this video. Yeah.
• 2:19:08
  We did, yeah. That's why.
• 2:19:10
  So this is 1 where. Someone built him that car.
• 2:19:12
  I know 80 for life he he got that shipped over from Japan.
• 2:19:16
  Really. Yeah.
• 2:19:18
  Wow. Falcon sticker.
• 2:19:20
  Imagine trying to coordinate that without the Internet or
• 2:19:26
  not. Maybe not the not the crazy
• 2:19:29
  developed type of Internet that we have today with.
• 2:19:31
  The Cusco cage in it, that's a that's a good photo too, by the
• 2:19:34
  way. That is a really good photo.
• 2:19:36
  And here's the thing too, that's on film.
• 2:19:40
  So somebody was tracking that car and like was taking one or?
• 2:19:46
  Maybe the angle of that shot is. Perfect.
• 2:19:49
  Look at the No Angle kit. You see that?
• 2:19:50
  Yeah, that's the best part. Hold on.
• 2:19:53
  I want to look at what else is going on in the background
• 2:19:55
  really quick. Hold on, what do we got?
• 2:19:56
  What do we got? We got nothing.
• 2:20:00
  Nothing. So those are the.
• 2:20:01
  Parking lot at California Speedway or was it Irwindale?
• 2:20:04
  I can't remember. Those are the things that I
• 2:20:07
  would like to look. At We're going to have to
• 2:20:08
  contact you tomorrow and double check before we post these
• 2:20:10
  because. Damn.
• 2:20:12
  So that's that's the Finals with Benson.
• 2:20:18
  And Koguchi. Koguchi, yeah.
• 2:20:20
  Benson just tan, just casually tanning with Koguchi.
• 2:20:23
  Well, it was more like. How did you guys know of Koguchi
• 2:20:27
  back then too, like? He was a legend already.
• 2:20:29
  Like already, yeah. Yeah, way better than us.
• 2:20:33
  He was. He was like back in the West
• 2:20:35
  Coast, like we like, admired all those, like, you know, through
• 2:20:39
  Drift 10 Goku Option Magazine option videos.
• 2:20:42
  Japanese population, which definitely brought all that.
• 2:20:47
  Shit so so back in the day cause option videos and like Ikaten
• 2:20:52
  and stuff like that they would actually have it on like on TV
• 2:20:56
  there like so like you could ask or like maybe I I don't I don't
• 2:21:00
  know exactly how it was but I could go to my Jack local
• 2:21:02
  Japanese like market in Arizona and rent an option video that's
• 2:21:08
  the VHS and like. What's going?
• 2:21:09
  Recording. Like.
• 2:21:11
  What's the same thing? You know, and recording.
• 2:21:12
  Yeah, we'll just done it. We'll just you.
• 2:21:14
  Get the double VCR so you can put two tapes in.
• 2:21:17
  Come on, man. I know what I'm.
• 2:21:19
  I know what I see. I know what I've been.
• 2:21:21
  Through I love that photo. Too, man.
• 2:21:23
  I just like how grainy they are. No.
• 2:21:24
  No, no, that's a that's a leak. There's something wrong with the
• 2:21:28
  oh. Yeah.
• 2:21:29
  The way that that was I. Just like how the cones aren't
• 2:21:31
  focused. So that's something that
• 2:21:32
  recently got reprinted, like through my 335mm.
• 2:21:36
  But it's just that that thing was so old that like I had when
• 2:21:39
  they redid it. Like it's just all grainy and
• 2:21:41
  stuff. It wasn't like that before.
• 2:21:44
  What's next, Mel? Now.
• 2:21:48
  He's leaving, and now Benson got left.
• 2:21:51
  Damn. But you, I mean, like the skill,
• 2:21:53
  the gap in skill level was just so yeah, they're they're like,
• 2:21:57
  you could just feel like, oh, that's just an extension of
• 2:21:59
  their body. Yeah, The thing is, OK, I'm
• 2:22:03
  looking at this photo and something that I'm struggling
• 2:22:07
  with, struggling with right now is that I want something to make
• 2:22:12
  the look, the car look cooler, right?
• 2:22:13
  Like everybody's like oh. Get a livery.
• 2:22:15
  Get a livery. Get a.
• 2:22:17
  That kind of livery right there is not something that I would
• 2:22:20
  ever run, but yet it's it like works in this photo and it works
• 2:22:25
  in this setting. It has captured that point in
• 2:22:26
  time perfectly, like it's not a livery now that anybody else is
• 2:22:30
  going to run. Type of shit.
• 2:22:32
  You know. I mean, to me that that look is
• 2:22:35
  very specific to Koguchi, right? Like, even like, that's the red
• 2:22:39
  missile, right? Like his green missile is very
• 2:22:42
  similar in terms of the livery as well.
• 2:22:44
  Actually, yeah, it's just the white is more refined.
• 2:22:48
  'Cause I think there's a Blue Falcon 180 or 240 that Ornie
• 2:22:52
  Fixmer used to drive for D1 or Formula Drift or whatever was at
• 2:22:56
  the time. You know what I'm thinking too
• 2:22:58
  when I'm looking at these I'm, I'm thinking about how Ben's car
• 2:23:01
  ended up kind of looking like Koguchi's with the red and the
• 2:23:06
  body kit and everything, like the Hatch he has now.
• 2:23:11
  Like, I'm like, OK, that's kind of interesting.
• 2:23:14
  And he's tandeming with. I mean, I me personally, I think
• 2:23:17
  Ben's car looks better than that, but.
• 2:23:18
  Oh, you mean, I think that was was that his car or was that
• 2:23:23
  Nadine's car? I think it's his car as far as I
• 2:23:25
  remember. I'm going to find it.
• 2:23:29
  Right now. Like a lot of the things, is
• 2:23:32
  also like a blur. Yeah, no, this is his car I'm I
• 2:23:35
  found. Is it weird to be talking about
• 2:23:37
  this stuff like it happened yesterday?
• 2:23:39
  Well, because. That's the car I'm thinking of.
• 2:23:45
  How do you just have that on hand?
• 2:23:47
  I just looked it up. Yeah, I don't.
• 2:23:50
  I think that's during his like pro days.
• 2:23:54
  OK. Because I know, he started.
• 2:23:57
  Yeah, it has to be way after this, right?
• 2:23:58
  Yeah, I think he started off with a sill 80 because I
• 2:24:02
  remember that having like a Hot Wheels delivery on it at one
• 2:24:05
  point. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:24:07
  No, I mean, that's what I would assume because that's what his
• 2:24:08
  thing is, sill 80 mania. So, and that always confused me
• 2:24:11
  because I always thought of this car, but yeah.
• 2:24:15
  So yeah, that's my car. I'd drift show off.
• 2:24:18
  I I I did one run. I did one run and spun out in
• 2:24:21
  front of the judges. I was like, yeah, I'm good.
• 2:24:23
  Wait. Was this?
• 2:24:25
  The was this the? Event that we were talking about
• 2:24:27
  where you bro Frankie listen he. Told me that he spun in the no.
• 2:24:31
  No, no, no, no, no. This is there was they had an
• 2:24:35
  event or something and Ken signed up.
• 2:24:37
  Yeah, and then? The way he advertised it, right?
• 2:24:39
  It's like drift day, whatever. Drift day 10, it's like, all
• 2:24:42
  right, cool. I'm signing up because Koguchi
• 2:24:44
  and those guys are coming. It's like, well, for like 40
• 2:24:46
  more dollars, you could kind of meet and greet and they'll like,
• 2:24:49
  kind of show you how to do stuff.
• 2:24:50
  I was like, fuck, yeah. So I signed up for it.
• 2:24:54
  It turns out it's a fucking drift show of competition.
• 2:24:57
  So like, we're sitting there. We're sitting there like they're
• 2:25:01
  like giving us like, oh, like, you know, we have to follow this
• 2:25:03
  line. They're like on the whiteboard
• 2:25:05
  showing us like, we're looking for the fucking lines.
• 2:25:07
  Like, what are you talking about lines?
• 2:25:08
  We could, if we could connect to fucking turns.
• 2:25:11
  I'm happy. Like, what are you talking about
• 2:25:13
  lines? It's like what it's like, is
• 2:25:16
  this a competition or is this like going to show us how to do
• 2:25:19
  stuff? Or like, it's like, no, it's a
• 2:25:20
  competition. It's like, it's like, no, I'm
• 2:25:24
  not good enough for that. So I was like, so I was like,
• 2:25:26
  oh, might as well just go and try it.
• 2:25:28
  Like, like first gear? Second gear.
• 2:25:32
  Oh, I'm too scared. That's how I feel too.
• 2:25:36
  All the time was. Like I can't go with the third
• 2:25:40
  like. Still got the Harbor Freight
• 2:25:43
  Jackson in, right? There.
• 2:25:44
  Oh yeah, I think, yeah. Whoa, whoa.
• 2:25:46
  Wait, control zoom, Control zoom.
• 2:25:48
  Enhance, enhance. So, yeah, I think that's the
• 2:25:51
  biggest enhance. Dude, yo, that Is that a fucking
• 2:25:57
  Centro? Yeah.
• 2:25:59
  I hate. That's an ultimate.
• 2:26:00
  That's an ultimate. I hate that me and Ethan sense
• 2:26:03
  of humor. Dude, the shop is sick.
• 2:26:08
  Bro, shut up. You're making that.
• 2:26:11
  This. Is sicker than mine, yeah.
• 2:26:14
  Yeah, exactly. I can make you that right now
• 2:26:16
  plexiglass. Below that door.
• 2:26:18
  Oh. Dude, wait, so where?
• 2:26:22
  This is like in Torrance, I think, Or Gardena, like it was
• 2:26:25
  right across the street, like from one of the places we used
• 2:26:28
  to stop by anyway. So they stock parts here too.
• 2:26:31
  It was more like a like a service center, right?
• 2:26:35
  So like, you go there, Like if you look at the Bay, it's just
• 2:26:37
  all like regular. Cars, Yeah, I see like the
• 2:26:39
  Maxima whatever. Yeah, so they didn't, they
• 2:26:42
  didn't really work on. Maybe they did.
• 2:26:45
  But. Like, it's similar to here.
• 2:26:46
  Their their bulk of like I think their business was like oil
• 2:26:49
  changes, alignment and all that kind of stuff, right?
• 2:26:52
  Like gotta keep the doors open. Somewhere I know I'm thinking in
• 2:26:54
  my head, I'm like, look at this fucking Corolla that's got,
• 2:26:59
  that's getting that's on the left and it has a signal auto.
• 2:27:02
  Yeah, Banner man. Sticker on stop.
• 2:27:03
  Sick. Dude like.
• 2:27:04
  What? Like they don't even That's just
• 2:27:07
  the Jiffy Lube to that. Person Yeah, it looks like it.
• 2:27:09
  Wasn't you also like? And these are people who build
• 2:27:11
  race cars. Also, like, if you like, there's
• 2:27:14
  a lot of Japanese. It was a big Japanese community
• 2:27:17
  at the time. So like if you're from Japan
• 2:27:19
  where you're going to go, you're going to go to a shop that
• 2:27:21
  speaks your language and like, they're from Japan, right?
• 2:27:23
  So, like, they're going to take their cars there.
• 2:27:26
  Damn. And like, I went there, I bought
• 2:27:28
  a GTR Zippo and a Signal Auto Zippo and I still have that,
• 2:27:33
  like a lighter lighter. Yeah, like that lighter is still
• 2:27:36
  like brand new, like not a scratch on.
• 2:27:38
  I still have the case on it. Oh my God.
• 2:27:40
  The HK actually, not the GTA I. Have to freak.
• 2:27:43
  Out about that. Yeah, I bought your.
• 2:27:44
  HPS Zippo. That one's all scratched up, but
• 2:27:46
  that's one of my favorite zippos to use.
• 2:27:48
  Whatever. Yeah.
• 2:27:49
  Because I used to be a chain smoker back in the day.
• 2:27:51
  Ethan still is so. You did not he.
• 2:27:56
  He. Needs that signal Auto lighter.
• 2:27:58
  Just fucking Lucky Strikes. Spin it on here.
• 2:28:02
  Yeah, I could do all the tricks like flip it and.
• 2:28:05
  Wait, so that car that's in front of the you can keep it
• 2:28:07
  right here, Malcolm, But the the orange car?
• 2:28:10
  That's an S15. That's an S15.
• 2:28:11
  How the fuck is that in California, then?
• 2:28:14
  See, I don't get that. Don't.
• 2:28:15
  Worry about that. All right.
• 2:28:16
  They imported it as a race car. Drifter X.
• 2:28:20
  So that's that's. Just directs blue car, right?
• 2:28:23
  Yeah, Komatsu. Yeah, yeah, so that so they he
• 2:28:27
  has a different car here I guess like he didn't bring his car.
• 2:28:30
  Well, I think he did bring his car over at one point, but this
• 2:28:34
  is a different one. Damn, that stripe they got was
• 2:28:36
  so cool, man. Delivery was just so simple, but
• 2:28:39
  like it's. So, like Timeless?
• 2:28:42
  Like that whole? Building signal.
• 2:28:45
  And I think it was just that section right there.
• 2:28:49
  OK. Is that how the shops are in
• 2:28:51
  California where there's just like six of them lined up and
• 2:28:54
  like you could just take your pick, like where's the demand
• 2:28:58
  and like the strategic business? Strategic, yeah.
• 2:29:04
  Because a lot of them were like, I think if I remember correctly,
• 2:29:07
  they're like, like they were called like, I don't know, like
• 2:29:11
  it was like a shopping Center for like automotive stuff.
• 2:29:14
  Yeah, I know what you're saying. What's the next one?
• 2:29:17
  I want to see all these. More in my car you could just so
• 2:29:21
  that was taken by Mike Maas this is on our way to that you know
• 2:29:27
  the drift show off or like the all Nissan Festival DD12 drift a
• 2:29:32
  12 it's. Cool, man.
• 2:29:34
  I love. I love desert shots.
• 2:29:37
  So if you look at that, I think I have the GTR seats on there
• 2:29:40
  with the winning sexy belts like oh.
• 2:29:43
  What the hell? Hold on.
• 2:29:44
  I looked at my phone for two seconds to check the chat, and
• 2:29:46
  now we're on a roller. Hell yeah.
• 2:29:50
  I had the 180SX quarter glass on there already.
• 2:29:56
  That's what's up. No, just the environment I.
• 2:29:58
  Did I did the same thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause like,
• 2:30:00
  back in the day, I wanted to keep my car just sleeper, 'cause
• 2:30:03
  I don't want to get harassed by the.
• 2:30:04
  He said he had the 180 glass on the on the.
• 2:30:06
  Car. No, but I know why were you
• 2:30:08
  stupid for? That it's just it's.
• 2:30:09
  Crazy. It's an insane.
• 2:30:10
  Thing at the time like to get it, it was just like.
• 2:30:12
  And to rip out your glasses to put it in because it says 180
• 2:30:15
  is. I'll still do.
• 2:30:17
  It bro. 180 for life. Crazy.
• 2:30:19
  Yeah, I hope Johnny's still in your hears me saying that shit.
• 2:30:23
  But that Ken like, does this ever.
• 2:30:26
  First of all, the quality of the photo.
• 2:30:28
  Well, that's taken by a professional photographer.
• 2:30:30
  Here we go. What is that?
• 2:30:31
  A Mercury back there. That is the.
• 2:30:34
  Or a. Nissan Quest is one of the same.
• 2:30:37
  But no, the the quality like that looks like actually Gran
• 2:30:42
  Turismo 7, which is insane to me.
• 2:30:46
  Like that car is just aged in a way where we still appreciate
• 2:30:49
  it, the way that people were back.
• 2:30:52
  Ethan, I know you loving that color.
• 2:30:53
  Right now, look at that shit, my.
• 2:30:55
  Car's still the same color. Dude, look at.
• 2:30:58
  That. Look at how straight.
• 2:31:00
  It is. Look at the pinch wells.
• 2:31:01
  Look at the. Bottom look at the.
• 2:31:03
  Bottom. Also, it's Arizona, so no rust.
• 2:31:06
  Is this the park that you guys? Oh, I see this.
• 2:31:09
  Photo So this is one of this is the first time I met those guys
• 2:31:13
  from Socal. This is what are the their BBQ
• 2:31:18
  meetups that they have, which is kind of what gave me my idea for
• 2:31:21
  doing that same thing for Arizona.
• 2:31:23
  Are those five Z again FZRSF? Five ZRS.
• 2:31:27
  Five ZRS? Yeah, I tried finding a set of
• 2:31:30
  those the other day. This 'cause I couldn't afford a
• 2:31:32
  work Equip 5 spec. I know, but I like the five ZR,
• 2:31:36
  it just they come in like such weak specs.
• 2:31:38
  Oh, are they heavy? Heavy as fuck.
• 2:31:40
  OK, you. Know what?
• 2:31:42
  Maybe not. But it's just insane, because if
• 2:31:46
  you think about it like none of these people like just DM D each
• 2:31:50
  other to show up, that's the craziest.
• 2:31:52
  Parts of it that you're expecting through Yahoo Groups.
• 2:31:54
  Yeah, you're expecting these people to just show up?
• 2:31:57
  I mean, we had nothing else to do.
• 2:31:58
  That's true. Like oh.
• 2:32:05
  Where's the oh, so this is Tucson Drift day.
• 2:32:07
  This is when Forsberg, Angelo Pfeiffer all came out to, like,
• 2:32:13
  teach us how to drift. Damn, Alex.
• 2:32:16
  Yeah. Is that a familiar name either?
• 2:32:19
  He's an OG, yeah. He's a legend, man.
• 2:32:23
  Used to drive the RSRS 2000 and. Yeah, there you go.
• 2:32:26
  With Orito as his teammate. Damn, they actually drifted that
• 2:32:30
  thing. What do the shirts say?
• 2:32:32
  Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 2:32:33
  O'neal's battle version I don't the mad rock the house is the
• 2:32:38
  signal auto. Shirt, that's the signal auto
• 2:32:40
  shirt, yeah. What is the older 1 rolling on?
• 2:32:43
  Dope. I mean that shit.
• 2:32:49
  In Motorsports. Malcolm, go to that website.
• 2:32:51
  Can you can you go to that website really quick?
• 2:32:54
  VIP Motorsports. Probably is the same VIP
• 2:32:56
  Motorsports. I hope so VIP.
• 2:33:01
  If it's not in Tucson or in in in like Phoenix.
• 2:33:05
  Box. For sale, if you're.
• 2:33:07
  Interested. I knew.
• 2:33:11
  It we got questions too, Carl. Just, yeah, yeah.
• 2:33:13
  Yeah. Sorry.
• 2:33:14
  Sorry. Sorry.
• 2:33:15
  All right. Next.
• 2:33:15
  Next. Next.
• 2:33:16
  Yeah. So you see Forsberg in there.
• 2:33:17
  Oh, so that's. Wait, wait, wait.
• 2:33:18
  Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, wait, I need to see what
• 2:33:21
  Forsberg look like at. This time, right with the blue
• 2:33:23
  shirt. Yeah, holy fuck.
• 2:33:27
  There he is. What?
• 2:33:32
  It's Richard, it's Scott. This.
• 2:33:35
  Yeah, just a lot of. Bringing back memories.
• 2:33:38
  Yeah, it was a good day. Big Tex trailers still in
• 2:33:41
  business back then. That's that makes some crazy
• 2:33:43
  original. Oh.
• 2:33:47
  Damn, man. Relax, brother.
• 2:33:48
  That. Isn't that the car that's
• 2:33:49
  outside? But this is on a bank.
• 2:33:51
  Yeah, it's on a NASCAR like, small, like.
• 2:33:54
  Damn I. Think that's Angelo?
• 2:33:58
  Tony Angelo. Killing.
• 2:33:59
  So $35? Really.
• 2:34:02
  I'm pretty sure he ran into Justin's truck.
• 2:34:05
  He backed his trailer into his truck at Club Lewis, too.
• 2:34:07
  Tearing. At me he was like, oh.
• 2:34:10
  Get me See the AZ 240 sticker on the signal?
• 2:34:12
  Auto never paid, Yeah. Hey Tony, you owe my boy Ethan
• 2:34:16
  35, hot. Rod, AZ 240 that's.
• 2:34:21
  Right, man, we were. I feel like we.
• 2:34:22
  Were the Riverside sticker. I'm just looking around rotor
• 2:34:25
  piston like it's such a why do you keep zooming in?
• 2:34:33
  To him I. Don't know who this guy.
• 2:34:37
  'S like, what the fuck? He's just been, he's probably
• 2:34:39
  like. The owner of the track, Yeah,
• 2:34:41
  he's like, what the? Fuck wait wait wait.
• 2:34:43
  Malcolm. Zoom into the tank, tank top,
• 2:34:45
  bottom, middle of the screen. Zoom in.
• 2:34:48
  That's Justin. That's a.
• 2:34:51
  Woman. Oh, there's Pfeiffer on the
• 2:34:53
  right there. Is he smoking a cigarette?
• 2:34:55
  Yes. No vape.
• 2:34:57
  Not a vape insight. Oh, there's no vape back then.
• 2:35:01
  That's how it would be, Ethan. Let's smoke cigs in here, OK?
• 2:35:07
  That's Blair in the middle. Driver's meeting.
• 2:35:11
  Yep, exactly what it was. Dude, this just.
• 2:35:14
  I'm sorry. It looks like it's literally 100
• 2:35:17
  and actually it looks like there's a mild breeze.
• 2:35:19
  It looks like it. Was a nice day that day because
• 2:35:21
  I think it was like March. O'Reilly auto parts.
• 2:35:25
  Supercuts. Yeah, Waste management.
• 2:35:27
  That's how you had to advertise back in the day.
• 2:35:28
  You didn't have a fucking not. The Zeke right under that.
• 2:35:32
  Hold on. Look, look, look, I know
• 2:35:34
  Malcolm. Like that, yeah.
• 2:35:36
  Yeah. Malcolm looks Look at the look
• 2:35:38
  at the Wendy's sign. That's when Wendy's had yellow
• 2:35:40
  chili cups and drinks and. From till 1:00 AM, remember that
• 2:35:44
  Wendy's get back to. They're literally open till 2:00
• 2:35:47
  AM, You scumbag. They better be It's.
• 2:35:50
  An hour later. They better be.
• 2:35:52
  That's the last photograph, all right.
• 2:35:54
  All right. Questions.
• 2:35:55
  Questions. Dude, we were able to just see
• 2:35:58
  those just now. And we're gonna post those up
• 2:36:01
  tomorrow 'cause I want everyone to see those.
• 2:36:03
  Yeah, I. Feel like people probably have
• 2:36:05
  never seen those. Ever.
• 2:36:06
  It's not like. Ken, you're like.
• 2:36:08
  I'm sure a lot of people don't even know about Tucson Drift
• 2:36:10
  Day, right? Like.
• 2:36:11
  Maybe we sure should did not. Like half of people like maybe
• 2:36:13
  the people that were there like, but like that was the very first
• 2:36:17
  drift event in Arizona and we were blessed to have like some
• 2:36:20
  you know three of like the future drift legends come up and
• 2:36:24
  like show us a little thing here and there like this is how you
• 2:36:27
  drift. Crazy.
• 2:36:29
  You know. Damn.
• 2:36:32
  You want to read them or you want me to read them because you
• 2:36:34
  know everyone. That's the thing.
• 2:36:35
  That's true. That's the only.
• 2:36:36
  Thing I don't know. Everyone.
• 2:36:38
  Fuck you. I just happened to talk to
• 2:36:39
  everyone that seems to talk to me.
• 2:36:41
  Lachlan, are you a baggy pants or tight fit type guy?
• 2:36:46
  Who's that for? Is that?
• 2:36:46
  That's for you, Don't worry. Like back in the day, I was
• 2:36:50
  baggy pants. Maybe we should bring that back,
• 2:36:52
  kid. I feel like you rock some
• 2:36:53
  cargoes right now, I mean. I'm too fat for baggy.
• 2:36:56
  Pants No, that's. That's why I.
• 2:36:57
  Rocked a little it. Makes you look even fatter,
• 2:36:59
  right? What?
• 2:37:00
  I'm just comfortable. That's all I care.
• 2:37:01
  About, I mean, I'm more of a sweatpants kind of guy now.
• 2:37:06
  Best story from the old Streeting days with Ben.
• 2:37:09
  Oh, hey, that's on my boy Diego right there.
• 2:37:15
  Thank you, Diego. I feel like Ken wasn't really
• 2:37:16
  much of A St. drifting person. No.
• 2:37:18
  Well yeah, I tried. What was a street scene like?
• 2:37:21
  Were you ever Did you ever dabble into the I?
• 2:37:24
  Got pulled over for drifting on the street.
• 2:37:25
  You got the street cred, that's all that.
• 2:37:27
  Matters. Right.
• 2:37:28
  All right. He's but also like the like I
• 2:37:30
  would be the yes officer, like Oh yeah, the foot got stuck
• 2:37:34
  beneath the the the carpet. That's how it's supposed to be.
• 2:37:37
  Clutch got popped and like I, you know like yeah, there was
• 2:37:40
  once I've got there was a option video drifting Goku video at the
• 2:37:43
  time when no McCann was like teaching you how to drift right.
• 2:37:46
  Like and you could do throttle control and one of the things
• 2:37:48
  you do is you initiate it, let go the steering wheels like,
• 2:37:52
  right. He just like modulates the
• 2:37:53
  throttle. So I was doing that in the
• 2:37:54
  middle of the street and a cop saw me.
• 2:37:57
  We mean eye contact. I'm like.
• 2:38:00
  Immediately, I feel like Kens of no, I'm not that guy.
• 2:38:04
  Please not that guy. Just drifting with your hands
• 2:38:09
  up. And at the time I had these
• 2:38:11
  obnoxious red 16 inch gab wheels, They're like 16 by 8,
• 2:38:17
  like really aggressive offset. I had this tire stretched out a
• 2:38:20
  little bit. So like it was just like.
• 2:38:24
  Pull me over. Yeah, looking over.
• 2:38:26
  Right, like, so he saw that. He's like, oh, impressive
• 2:38:28
  driving. Like, what are you doing this
• 2:38:30
  like, oh, sorry officer. I came up with some bullshit.
• 2:38:32
  Yeah, he's like, well, be careful.
• 2:38:34
  And then, like maybe a month later, Tokyo Drift comes out.
• 2:38:39
  That that that cop at home, he was like, fuck, I knew he.
• 2:38:43
  Knew he was up to no good. Yeah.
• 2:38:46
  Damn it. The timing.
• 2:38:48
  RHD. Matt asks.
• 2:38:50
  So what was it like meeting Coolio?
• 2:38:53
  Oh my goodness. No, no, no.
• 2:38:55
  Because Ken is a hip hop guy. So Coolio actually met him as
• 2:38:58
  Tima. Oh really?
• 2:38:59
  Yeah, it was either like 2003 or 4:00-ish.
• 2:39:02
  Like it was at the club called The Beach, which is right across
• 2:39:05
  the street from the Convention Center.
• 2:39:07
  OK, I don't. Know if it's still there.
• 2:39:08
  Did you guys go there, Frankie? We didn't get across.
• 2:39:11
  But like at the time, there was a day that was the same day DJ
• 2:39:15
  Cool was there. Funkmaster Flex.
• 2:39:17
  No, I've had enough of that guy. I've.
• 2:39:19
  Seen that guy all? Over the place.
• 2:39:21
  No, bro, Every time I go on vacation and we're going and
• 2:39:25
  there's like a lot, oh, we're going to go see this DJ.
• 2:39:28
  He's crazy. He's from.
• 2:39:28
  Over. Yeah, You told.
• 2:39:29
  Me. It's international.
• 2:39:32
  Carl just turns around. It's fucking.
• 2:39:34
  It's literally the guy here on my way to.
• 2:39:36
  Work, bro. What up, New York?
• 2:39:37
  Like fucking. Everybody, let's go if.
• 2:39:39
  You're on the way to new. York right now.
• 2:39:41
  Let's see those. Hands.
• 2:39:45
  Yeah, every fucking song just cut it off.
• 2:39:47
  I. Feel like I mean.
• 2:39:49
  But back then, he was probably crazy.
• 2:39:50
  Well, Funk Flex is a person. I'm sure he's great.
• 2:39:53
  But as a DJ? Yeah.
• 2:39:55
  Like it's it's like in. Person.
• 2:39:58
  I want to see a DJ battle between you 2.
• 2:40:01
  Dude, Ken can definitely spin, dude.
• 2:40:03
  Oh my God, Lachlan, what's with these questions?
• 2:40:05
  No, no, no, no. I want to ask the other Jesus.
• 2:40:08
  Christ can't. Ask, but back to Coolio though.
• 2:40:11
  I I was walking out. He was walking in.
• 2:40:13
  I was like, Coolio, he's hey, what's up man?
• 2:40:15
  I was like, we're just chatting for a little bit because we're
• 2:40:17
  waiting for my my friends to go to the parking lot, bring the
• 2:40:19
  car back. He's like, Oh yeah.
• 2:40:21
  He's like, like what's up with all the cameras?
• 2:40:23
  Like, oh, I'm doing this thing like I'm trying to make my own
• 2:40:25
  TV show. I'm making a pilot, right?
• 2:40:27
  Like, he's like doing his own blog thing at the time.
• 2:40:29
  Before that was even the. Thing that's kind of crazy.
• 2:40:32
  Like he was. He was, you know, he was very
• 2:40:34
  smart. Like, like, like he was very
• 2:40:37
  creative. Like I didn't know how well he
• 2:40:39
  was. Like like how he was until I met
• 2:40:41
  him. I just know him from like
• 2:40:42
  Fantastic Voyage like this. I was about to say, I think.
• 2:40:46
  That's 20. So, like, so then, like, I met
• 2:40:49
  him. He's like, oh, like, and then
• 2:40:52
  like I said, hey, Coolio, like, you know, hook me up with a
• 2:40:56
  picture. He's like, OK, all right, cool.
• 2:40:59
  So I was like, oh, so that was a, you know, I and I didn't get
• 2:41:01
  that film developed till recently.
• 2:41:03
  Oh my God. What?
• 2:41:04
  So I don't even know if that film was going to, like, come
• 2:41:07
  out like I had. It was a disposable camera.
• 2:41:09
  And you got it though. And then, like, just like maybe
• 2:41:12
  was it during the summer, I found like a bag full of, like,
• 2:41:15
  old film. I think one of these is Coolio
• 2:41:19
  in here. Bro, so I brought it up to.
• 2:41:21
  Bergen Camera and have them like develop all the film.
• 2:41:24
  That's why, like some of them are kind of granny, because
• 2:41:25
  they're just like old film. But like, like when I was like,
• 2:41:29
  oh Coolio, that's the one picture I just wanted.
• 2:41:32
  And like, I found it. That's worth it, bro.
• 2:41:34
  And like a stack of five. 100 photos.
• 2:41:38
  The pain. I have all, I have other photos
• 2:41:41
  I'll try to find next time like I have.
• 2:41:43
  I have photos on like. Yeah, we'll definitely be doing
• 2:41:46
  this one again for sure. Sema early in the days like like
• 2:41:49
  I have a album full of just like import models from that sema
• 2:41:52
  show. Ain't like that anymore.
• 2:41:56
  I wish it was. Favorite wheel for your current
• 2:42:01
  car, And that's to Malcolm as well.
• 2:42:03
  That's from Alan Kyle. Alan.
• 2:42:06
  Trucking. Keep on trucking.
• 2:42:09
  That was my part I was telling Alan to.
• 2:42:11
  Keep on trucking. Did you say that was for Malcolm
• 2:42:12
  as well? Yeah.
• 2:42:14
  He's just saying I'm included in that question, too.
• 2:42:17
  Yeah. Is it?
• 2:42:17
  Weird for your current car. Is it weird that he included
• 2:42:21
  Malcolm? For like, saying all of us,
• 2:42:22
  yeah. No, no, no, no for Malcolm.
• 2:42:25
  Yeah, he's got a Toyota 4 Runner 4 Runner.
• 2:42:28
  O3 advan RG2 next OK, you're clearly not deep into it
• 2:42:33
  brother. You got to start typing in 6 by
• 2:42:35
  139.7 on Facebook marketplace every day.
• 2:42:38
  All right, find me some car for. Me, I got you Sequoia wheels.
• 2:42:42
  Frankie Favorite wheel for your current car.
• 2:42:46
  This is Silverado. Your 240 is still your con car.
• 2:42:50
  What's your? OK, no way you're gonna.
• 2:42:52
  Say you're gonna buy wheels or the Silverado.
• 2:42:54
  I don't. Know Blizzo 3?
• 2:42:56
  I like it still. OK, you said they were ugly.
• 2:42:59
  Yeah, you said. I really don't like that wheel
• 2:43:01
  this. Guy.
• 2:43:02
  Is. I'm not a I'm not a wheel guy.
• 2:43:04
  He's a. Capper.
• 2:43:05
  He's a We're in the discord literally talking about your
• 2:43:08
  wheels. And I'm over here backing up the
• 2:43:10
  fact that you said, yeah, I actually don't even really like,
• 2:43:14
  I don't. And I'm like, yeah, Frankie
• 2:43:16
  accidentally built like the most hot boy spec of like blitz O
• 2:43:19
  threes, it looks. And then you're over here saying
• 2:43:21
  you don't actually. Put that on the car.
• 2:43:22
  Yeah, I just. I'm not a wheel.
• 2:43:23
  Frankie's one of the reason why those wheels cost, like, 10
• 2:43:26
  grand. No, I'm not.
• 2:43:28
  It's Adam. I was.
• 2:43:28
  Like you blame him. Capper with a hard R.
• 2:43:31
  Jesus Christ, What's your favorite wheel, Carl?
• 2:43:39
  It is. What's going on in Sequoia?
• 2:43:40
  Here we go. On the Sequoia it's a TE that's
• 2:43:47
  it. And on the IS it also be sick if
• 2:43:52
  they were also Tees? The TE 37 is just to me, like
• 2:43:58
  when I found out about cars, I was like.
• 2:44:01
  That ain't it, Brett. I like the T ES.
• 2:44:02
  I like T ES. It's six poke.
• 2:44:04
  That's what they. Look like I don't know what
• 2:44:05
  Ethan stair wheel. Is he fucking has T ES already?
• 2:44:08
  Don't ask this guy. See like.
• 2:44:11
  A. Cheap I They weren't just cheap.
• 2:44:13
  They was fucking 1800. Favorite wheel Ethan?
• 2:44:18
  Oh, this is tough. You know what, I'm just going to
• 2:44:20
  go with SE37KS. I don't even know what that is.
• 2:44:23
  Is that is. It.
• 2:44:24
  GTR Spec OK can we look this up I.
• 2:44:29
  Thought was they got to be GTR spec though 'cause they look
• 2:44:31
  like shit. Any other way, they do look
• 2:44:35
  fucking. Horrible.
• 2:44:37
  Yo put a put up like a pull up SE37K on like a GTR.
• 2:44:43
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I watch GTR.
• 2:44:47
  OK. Yeah, fucking eat a Dick car.
• 2:44:52
  You guys are always. Just give me T30 Sevens now.
• 2:44:55
  Fuck you. They they're not rotors.
• 2:44:57
  And that's one of the favorite wheel is It's AT 30.
• 2:44:59
  Favorite wheel all time at Van Oneis the original ones.
• 2:45:02
  Oh, the multis. Like.
• 2:45:04
  There the final 555 ball, 5 ball.
• 2:45:08
  Pattern 5 luck. Good luck with SEAL.
• 2:45:10
  Close second is the work meisters.
• 2:45:13
  Yeah. Wait, I want to end it with
• 2:45:17
  Eddie's because he's on. He's got the Patreon 1.
• 2:45:20
  So I I want to I'm going to let a couple of the maybe two of
• 2:45:23
  these off and then one Jordos. Thank you for tapping us into
• 2:45:26
  halfway hangs. He said up a mate.
• 2:45:31
  I don't know what that is but shout out to you bro.
• 2:45:36
  Much love from the US How do I get to the you do.
• 2:45:44
  How are you going to do that? I'll just play it right here.
• 2:45:47
  This is this is from Eddie on the Patreon.
• 2:45:50
  And then can 4G63 your Sr. 20. Oh shit.
• 2:45:54
  Question. Is.
• 2:45:59
  That of what? He wanted What is everybody's
• 2:46:05
  favorite flavor of gum? I know yours said gum or cum,
• 2:46:09
  but I think. It was gum.
• 2:46:11
  Malcolm Malcolm is weird for that.
• 2:46:14
  No way. Our Frankies is Trident
• 2:46:21
  spearmint. The green one.
• 2:46:23
  No, the blue one. The blue one.
• 2:46:25
  The blue one. Yeah, there it is.
• 2:46:27
  There it is. It's the blue one.
• 2:46:28
  The blue. One, Yeah, that's the everyday
• 2:46:30
  carry. That's the Everyday Carry.
• 2:46:32
  I like the green. One, but I do like the double
• 2:46:35
  the double mint gum. Double, double, yeah.
• 2:46:38
  Hold on. Double your pleasure.
• 2:46:40
  Double your fun. Double double mint.
• 2:46:43
  Double mint gum. This is what?
• 2:46:45
  My grandpa would have in his car when I was growing, he would
• 2:46:48
  have. He would have all the pieces,
• 2:46:50
  not not the pack. He would have the pieces out of
• 2:46:52
  here in the ashtray and you just.
• 2:46:54
  Pull that out. Pop.
• 2:46:55
  Pop one in as you're going. Down in the.
• 2:46:57
  Buick, yeah. Who in the Buick?
• 2:46:59
  Buick bench seat. Yeah.
• 2:47:00
  Land yacht Double mint gum. He would have a big red, Big
• 2:47:03
  red. I was a dentine guy, if you
• 2:47:07
  wanted to say, and that was just my dad.
• 2:47:09
  You remember? Did anybody else like when you
• 2:47:12
  eat the Big Red in school, you lick it and see who could?
• 2:47:15
  Have it fucking. Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
• 2:47:16
  I know what you're talking about.
• 2:47:17
  Oh, yeah, like burns. Or can you go back to that
• 2:47:19
  statement? What do you big red is some
• 2:47:20
  ginger activity? Why do I feel like you're right?
• 2:47:24
  Because I am. What is that activity?
• 2:47:27
  Like, who else do you know is eating Big Red?
• 2:47:31
  Dude, he's got this weird thing. I I'm having flashbacks as this
• 2:47:33
  girl with orange hair eating big.
• 2:47:35
  Red OK, I didn't mean to do that.
• 2:47:37
  Like like. She was big red.
• 2:47:39
  Oh, she was big. Red, Yo, Big Red.
• 2:47:42
  Nah, probably because she was chewing on Big Red when.
• 2:47:46
  No Carl Ken Favorite gum? It's going to sound a little
• 2:47:51
  corny, but like cool mints and maybe black, black, black.
• 2:47:55
  Dude, what do you think is? Black.
• 2:47:56
  Black. What the hell is a black?
• 2:47:57
  Black Is this a JDM? OK, so.
• 2:48:00
  When are you? Your nationality is Japanese
• 2:48:03
  Ken. Yeah.
• 2:48:04
  So like his JDM is like normal. I feel like, like, you know,
• 2:48:07
  like he's exposed. I need some of this gum.
• 2:48:10
  So OK, I'll get it for you next time.
• 2:48:12
  Yeah, I'll try. It.
• 2:48:13
  Yeah, Black. Black.
• 2:48:15
  So it's like it's the the purpose of that gum is like
• 2:48:19
  instead of eating caffeine, it's like a very intense flavor of
• 2:48:23
  gum. So it keeps you awake.
• 2:48:24
  I want. To try, cool is.
• 2:48:26
  Like it's got it's got a little like.
• 2:48:29
  I need that for. The road.
• 2:48:30
  Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I'll next time I'm
• 2:48:33
  going to meet too, I'll. Did the Japanese stores have?
• 2:48:37
  I remember I got it like once or twice from a Korean grocery
• 2:48:40
  store. They had like it was gum that
• 2:48:42
  came in like a toothpaste tube and you like, let it sit in your
• 2:48:45
  mouth and it would convert from like a gel to a piece of chewing
• 2:48:48
  gum. It was like the craziest thing I
• 2:48:50
  had ever had. And then it was just gone.
• 2:48:53
  There's probably a reason. For that I've.
• 2:48:54
  Never happened to Hubble Bubble Bubble tape.
• 2:48:56
  That shit was I like. Bazooka too bazooka.
• 2:48:58
  Is the. Best bazooka.
• 2:49:01
  Yeah, bazooka is the best for 15 seconds and then it's.
• 2:49:04
  That's giving it a. Little too much.
• 2:49:05
  Same with Juicy Fruit though. Yeah, yeah, Juicy Fruit.
• 2:49:08
  Yeah, you're. Right, Juicy Fruit.
• 2:49:10
  Hey, your double mint gum gave me flashbacks because I'm like,
• 2:49:13
  I'm going to take a piece out of there and I'm going to shock
• 2:49:15
  myself because that's the fucking gum they use for that.
• 2:49:19
  Rapper What about great? Big League.
• 2:49:22
  Chew Big League Any Big League Chew or the.
• 2:49:25
  Sour. Sour you sick.
• 2:49:27
  I used to steal so much from Sports Authority.
• 2:49:30
  That. Lip pack of lip, yeah.
• 2:49:31
  Fuck up a whole pack of big league.
• 2:49:33
  What about the bubble? And about the bubble?
• 2:49:35
  Stew, bitch. The Bubble Tape I.
• 2:49:37
  Just go like this. Do you guys whole?
• 2:49:39
  You're. Sick whole corner.
• 2:49:41
  You're fucking sick. For that whole corner.
• 2:49:44
  Fuck is a circle, have a. Corner How did this?
• 2:49:47
  I'll show you later, honey. You're fucking crazy.
• 2:49:51
  Yeah. This guy.
• 2:49:52
  Cigarette. Gums.
• 2:49:53
  Cigarette what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they.
• 2:49:55
  Were like, they came in a pack of like, it looks like little
• 2:49:58
  cigarette boxes and there was like maybe 20 gums in there,
• 2:50:01
  each one like. Looked like a cigarette.
• 2:50:02
  Yeah. And then you were inhale you.
• 2:50:06
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to do that in front of my
• 2:50:10
  mom to foreshadow and tell her, hey mom, I can't wait to smoke
• 2:50:13
  cigs. And then, you know, I started
• 2:50:15
  smoking cigs. I LED right into it.
• 2:50:17
  That's why I got rid of that stuff.
• 2:50:19
  Wow. But they should keep it around
• 2:50:21
  more, so maybe kids would just do that.
• 2:50:22
  Instead of vape. Instead of vape.
• 2:50:24
  Yeah, right, 'cause when I was eight, I didn't even think about
• 2:50:26
  hitting vapes. I was just hitting fucking Hope
• 2:50:28
  bubble gum. Cigs, you know.
• 2:50:30
  So yeah. Yeah.
• 2:50:32
  Remember when that was a? Trend.
• 2:50:35
  I mean. The kids these days.
• 2:50:37
  That's something. Yeah.
• 2:50:38
  It went from Tide pods to fentanyl.
• 2:50:40
  What? The fuck I know what's wrong?
• 2:50:41
  With. It off the Fenty cart.
• 2:50:44
  We protect our kids, too. Much like, you know, yes.
• 2:50:48
  I don't have AI, don't have a single kid, but yes.
• 2:50:52
  Feel like you know? That's why she.
• 2:50:54
  Doesn't think anymore. Bullying isn't a thing, I don't
• 2:50:58
  think, because like, no, actually.
• 2:51:01
  Bullying is still this thing 100%.
• 2:51:03
  It's just not strong enough, probably.
• 2:51:05
  Worse. It's worse now, I think you.
• 2:51:08
  Can't get away. From it, Yeah, online they.
• 2:51:10
  Can. Because yeah, yeah, they don't
• 2:51:11
  give them a chance to get hardened this.
• 2:51:13
  Conversation is going to get dark real quick.
• 2:51:15
  So yeah, let's. Remember.
• 2:51:16
  Back in the day, if I got bullied or whatever, like you
• 2:51:18
  could fight somebody and not have to worry about getting
• 2:51:20
  expelled or anything like that. No, no, you.
• 2:51:22
  Can't really do it. Now you call somebody ugly and
• 2:51:24
  you're getting suspended like this retard.
• 2:51:31
  Can't say that word either. Hey, you.
• 2:51:37
  Can did you have anything you wanted to end off with?
• 2:51:41
  No, Just, you know, it's really honored to be here.
• 2:51:44
  Honored. We're honored to.
• 2:51:45
  Have you. Thank you so much.
• 2:51:46
  Dude. We have a long season ahead of
• 2:51:48
  us, man. Like Ken's.
• 2:51:49
  Ken's on here. Ken was the reason why Casino
• 2:51:51
  Royale happened the way that it did for me, like it was.
• 2:51:54
  Great. I had a great time.
• 2:51:56
  Yeah dude man, can you brighten. You brightened the shop too.
• 2:51:58
  When you first came here and you told us your history and
• 2:52:00
  everything it made me feel good. I I I appreciate your company so
• 2:52:05
  I appreciate yeah. Thank you for.
• 2:52:06
  Coming. Appreciate everything that you
• 2:52:07
  guys do. And yeah, I apologize in advance
• 2:52:10
  to the people listening if I got some of the facts, wrongs or if
• 2:52:13
  I didn't mention you guys, but like.
• 2:52:16
  You you got your bases covered. This guy is this guy is a
• 2:52:20
  professional. Hey everyone, stay posted.
• 2:52:22
  Ken will be back. After For sure, For sure, for
• 2:52:25
  sure, for sure. Again, thank you Ken for coming
• 2:52:28
  on Frankie. We have a lot of stuff to do in
• 2:52:31
  the next coming weeks, so if you guys are free and if you got the
• 2:52:36
  time, tune into the podcast. Stay tuned on the Instagrams and
• 2:52:42
  just support in any way that you can.
• 2:52:44
  We appreciate it. Thank you so much for listening.
• 2:52:45
  This has been faction after hours peace.
• 2:52:48
  Bye peace. That was a really good episode
• 2:52:52
  that that was about AS. Good as I thought it was going
• 2:52:54
  to be. Oh, that's good.
• 2:52:55
  I I I was. So we had those conversations
• 2:52:57
  yesterday or no two days ago, you know and and actually the
• 2:53:01
  last time. That.
• 2:53:12
  All right, guys. I hope you enjoyed that history
• 2:53:13
  lesson from Ken. He's definitely going to be
• 2:53:16
  back. Yeah, that's it.
• 2:53:17
  That means a walk in time capsule.
• 2:53:19
  Yeah, and for those that are listening and did not get the
• 2:53:22
  get to view the pictures, we're going to try to post those later
• 2:53:26
  and tag some people because. Yeah, we'll post it on our
• 2:53:28
  Instagram. There's a lot of FD drivers just
• 2:53:30
  hanging around, being teenagers or whatever in those photos, so
• 2:53:33
  that's. Awesome.
• 2:53:34
  Just in the middle of the desert.
• 2:53:35
  Yep, middle of the desert. Best place to be?
• 2:53:39
  Yeah, thanks, Ken, for stopping by that.
• 2:53:40
  We're going to have you on here again to dive even deeper and
• 2:53:43
  into your, you know, the history of the OG drift scene or silk.
• 2:53:47
  Not even drift scenes, OG 240 scene.
• 2:53:50
  Yeah, but it was like, it was like the.
• 2:53:51
  Beginning of drifting too. He really was there for for
• 2:53:54
  everything, which is wild. And then luckily we had Ethan
• 2:53:58
  here because Ethan is the middle between me and Ken.
• 2:54:01
  Yeah. So he was able to chime in and
• 2:54:04
  and I mean, you guys let us know, was that a good episode?
• 2:54:07
  Did you enjoy that? Do we need to find more people
• 2:54:09
  like this? Because Ken has a plethora of
• 2:54:12
  friends from that area and in California.
• 2:54:16
  Got to get take a trip out there, frankly.
• 2:54:18
  Yeah, I really want to, Don't really want to do that, but you
• 2:54:21
  know. You need to make it wet W
• 2:54:23
  coastless and that requires. Us.
• 2:54:27
  We're going to need some money for that for trips like these.
• 2:54:29
  Yeah, Best way to support us guys is buy stuff from us.
• 2:54:34
  You know, first thing you can buy is merch.
• 2:54:36
  We got merch, faction, Motorsports, merch.
• 2:54:40
  We're going to have some new stuff coming in the next couple
• 2:54:43
  weeks, probably, maybe sooner. It's going to be cool.
• 2:54:47
  So look out for that and buy something that really helps us.
• 2:54:50
  Most importantly, the the shirts and the hoodie we have coming
• 2:54:53
  out are should be cheaper. Oh cool.
• 2:54:57
  Wait. Oh 'cause they're a little more
• 2:54:59
  simple. One color, one color.
• 2:55:01
  Yeah. So we're hoping they're going to
• 2:55:03
  be a little cheaper. I I got to double check
• 2:55:04
  everything goes up in price. So yeah, it's hard to.
• 2:55:06
  We're doing it for the people. We tried it.
• 2:55:08
  I mean, that's always what it's been.
• 2:55:10
  I'm not really making any money here, but we're just trying to
• 2:55:12
  make a cool shop. Speaking of which, we're doing a
• 2:55:14
  shop expansion right now. Yeah.
• 2:55:16
  So if you guys need your car worked on anything like that,
• 2:55:19
  now is the time. Hit us up because we are
• 2:55:23
  bleeding money right now, as they say, trying to get the
• 2:55:26
  podcast studio all done up, trying to paint everything over
• 2:55:29
  there and make this place the, the place to be.
• 2:55:33
  This, this year we we're planning on doing a lot of car,
• 2:55:37
  cars and coffee, stuff like that.
• 2:55:39
  We're trying to make this the sickest JDM shop in the
• 2:55:42
  tri-state area pretty much, and it's gonna happen.
• 2:55:45
  Yeah, I mean, it has to happen now.
• 2:55:46
  I'm too into it. Yeah, too late.
• 2:55:48
  There's no turning back now. Too late to turn back?
• 2:55:50
  I keep saying that every time we like, do something, there's no
• 2:55:52
  turn back now and then Malcolm looks at me.
• 2:55:54
  He's like, it's been too late a while ago.
• 2:55:57
  Yeah, you're right. But all right, what else we got
• 2:56:01
  for you? We got some arrow in stock.
• 2:56:02
  If anybody's looking for Arrow in in house Easy pickups, we got
• 2:56:07
  some Origin body kits in stock. Let's see what we got.
• 2:56:12
  We have 180 SX, aggressive line, racing line, streamline.
• 2:56:15
  Oh yeah, 180. You have a lot of 180 kits,
• 2:56:17
  yeah. S13 Silvia Drift line kit in
• 2:56:20
  stock and a whole bunch of front fenders for Silvia S13.
• 2:56:26
  We got aggressive Zenki kit for S14 and stylish cokie kit, so
• 2:56:34
  check. And that's all Origin.
• 2:56:35
  But we also have. Yeah, we also have random stuff.
• 2:56:38
  Yeah, we have 30 mil rear fenders for 180 XX by Carmen If
• 2:56:43
  I wonder a Kazama hood for AGR 86 Awesome hood, Jay ZX90 Mark
• 2:56:49
  2M Sports hood and also APS Deuce 1 via kit.
• 2:56:54
  Yeah, the PS Deuce 1 via Kit. I don't know.
• 2:56:57
  Man, we also have more, but I can't name it all.
• 2:56:59
  You know they're. Sleeping on that one via kit.
• 2:57:01
  Yeah, somebody's gonna snag it. Yeah, it's.
• 2:57:02
  Gonna end up being Ethan because yeah, no one's buying that
• 2:57:05
  thing. Also, if you guys are looking
• 2:57:08
  for Arrow, that's not in stock right now, we offer a service to
• 2:57:12
  have it shipped from Japan directly so we can get fenders,
• 2:57:15
  wings, hoods. That's pretty much it right now
• 2:57:18
  as far as Arrow goes, no full body kits, but we can all get
• 2:57:22
  all that stuff shipped from Japan.
• 2:57:23
  So if it's not in stock in the states, just click that option,
• 2:57:27
  you'll see the price change in the cart and you can get it
• 2:57:30
  shipped directly from Japan. The wait time is definitely
• 2:57:32
  going to be a lot less than having it shipped from the US
• 2:57:37
  And you know you have to wait for the container to get here.
• 2:57:39
  And we all know how slow all these companies are with getting
• 2:57:42
  parts in. I mean, it is what it is.
• 2:57:45
  There's not enough people buying this stuff to have containers
• 2:57:48
  come in every month. So you just got to either wait
• 2:57:51
  or you have to pay the extra money and get it shipped from
• 2:57:53
  Japan directly. Yeah, what else we got?
• 2:57:58
  Frank website been a bit busy so I haven't been able to upload
• 2:58:02
  new parts to the website but. What else is on there?
• 2:58:07
  Oh, wait. We got our usual stuff.
• 2:58:09
  We got Nissan Gasket maker on there.
• 2:58:11
  Yeah, we got Nissan gasket maker and I called a Nissan about it.
• 2:58:14
  They said it's really hard to get that.
• 2:58:16
  Really. They said oh, if you really,
• 2:58:18
  really need it, we can get it. I said yeah, please, he said.
• 2:58:22
  When I say I really, really if you really, really need it, that
• 2:58:24
  means I don't want to get it. I.
• 2:58:26
  Know exactly what it means 'cause I used to work there.
• 2:58:28
  And then I said, well, if you really, really can, can you get
• 2:58:30
  it for me? I.
• 2:58:31
  Hate that shit, man. Yeah, they're just lazy over
• 2:58:33
  there. Oh.
• 2:58:34
  My God, I don't want to talk bad about them.
• 2:58:38
  Yeah, so we got, we got an OEM 3 bond Nissan branded gasket
• 2:58:43
  maker. So if you guys want to be super
• 2:58:44
  OEM about everything? We'll get it for.
• 2:58:46
  You guys, yeah, we'll get it for you guys.
• 2:58:48
  And we used to have it in stock, but that shit expires.
• 2:58:50
  So you got to, you got to watch out.
• 2:58:54
  What else we got. Well, we already talked about
• 2:58:56
  the shop. I mean like I said if you guys
• 2:58:58
  got work for us if you want us to do your oil change alignments
• 2:59:01
  tire changes rotations docket full engine builds to send it
• 2:59:06
  over here. I don't you know we we need
• 2:59:08
  everything we can get right now it's the it's it it is the
• 2:59:12
  depths of the slow season right now this is this is as bad as it
• 2:59:15
  should get is right now going into March as well.
• 2:59:19
  So April, everything should be back to normal and we, we will
• 2:59:22
  shut up about being slow. But yeah, we need all the help
• 2:59:26
  we can get. Just help us put some food on
• 2:59:28
  the table, yeah? Please, Malcolm's looking a
• 2:59:30
  little skinnier than normal. Help.
• 2:59:33
  We also are going to be doing car storage at the new shop, so
• 2:59:37
  this will be called the Auto preserve.
• 2:59:40
  If you guys notice, there is actually an Instagram, there's
• 2:59:42
  nothing posted on it, there's no photo, but I made it so that
• 2:59:45
  none of y'all stole it. So if you want to go like that
• 2:59:48
  and get ready to see what we what we're going to post on
• 2:59:49
  there, feel free. I think we'll end up posting
• 2:59:53
  some cool stuff on there too. You know cars we have here or
• 2:59:56
  just how this shop looks. You know we're going to have to
• 2:59:59
  get Eddie in here taking real photos without flash
• 3:00:01
  photography, please. And then, yeah, it'll look
• 3:00:05
  pretty good. So yeah, check that out.
• 3:00:07
  Hopefully. Hopefully that will be going
• 3:00:09
  live in the next month or two. Unfortunately, because there is
• 3:00:12
  just too much work to do here and not enough.
• 3:00:16
  Funny enough, there's not enough space for all of our shit.
• 3:00:19
  Yeah, somehow can never have enough space.
• 3:00:22
  Yeah. So now we got to, you know,
• 3:00:23
  figure out where to put everything while we paint walls.
• 3:00:27
  Yeah. All right guys, for all of our
• 3:00:29
  old and new listeners, if you have not already, please leave a
• 3:00:33
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  the algorithm I would say. Pretty much the only way that
• 3:00:40
  you can. Yeah, we're at over 200 reviews
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  on Spotify so far, so that's awesome.
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  And if you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe, like
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  and subscribe. We're trying.
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  We're trying to hit 10K Subs for this year, I guess.
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  That's Malcolm's goal. I think it'll happen.
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  We're at 57 or something around there.
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  Malcolm Malcolm's like child. Here is the YouTube he he's been
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  working on that YouTube since he started here.
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  And yeah, yeah, what what was the percentage you saw?
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  Did you just say that? But I missed it.
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  I don't know the. Percentage of people that watch
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  it that are not. So 87% of our viewers are not
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  subscribed. That's crazy.
• 3:01:22
  That's crazy. Yeah, that's a lot.
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  Imagine if you all just subscribe.
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  Please. I'd pick a view please.
• 3:01:28
  Yeah, please give us a hit that subscribe button on YouTube
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  though to help us out immensely. And then we also have the
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  Patreon. Yes, please follow our Patreon,
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  Patreon me, upload exclusive content on there.
• 3:01:37
  We have little weekly vlogs, behind the scenes info, videos
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  and yeah, we just act really dumb on there.
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  Oh yeah, and it's unfiltered. Content Eddie's been good about
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  putting up a Monday video every every Monday.
• 3:01:53
  Yeah, that's the Faction Weekly we call it.
• 3:01:55
  It's the weekly vlog. Everything, anything that's
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  going on in the shop, Shout out to Eddie for coming in every
• 3:02:00
  Monday and recording, taking photos and editing for us.
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  Yeah, yeah, guys, if you want to directly support this podcast,
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  that's the best way. Just sign up for the Patreon.
• 3:02:09
  All right, That's pretty much it.
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  Next week we are hoping to have no next week we definitely will
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  have auto specialty wraps. Nice.
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  Yeah, check out our sponsors because they are the ones that
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  are helping out with this podcast.
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  And yeah, we'll have them in here.
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  They can talk about all their services.
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  So for all the people living in Jersey, you guys can find out
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  what they can offer you as far as you know, vinyl and detail
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  detailing, everything. So it should be a really fun
• 3:02:37
  conversation. And all right, there's the
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  phone. The phone.
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  Ringing guys are calling. Already back to work.
• 3:02:41
  See you guys. Bye.