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#16 - Joshua Deliz of Front Street Drift Club · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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All right, guys, what is going on?
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Welcome to the faction after-hours podcast.
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We have a pretty special one here today.
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Aside from the normal crew, we have local celebrity Front
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Street Josh. All right, we have a, we have a
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guest today. We got Josh and he robbed Of
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Front Street. And everybody was telling us
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when we asked who do you want to see on the podcast?
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They said Josh. So now we have them here.
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If you haven't tuned in to the chat now, is your opportunity to
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ask some questions to. We're going to engage you guys
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today. But yeah, today is all about
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Josh. I personally have just been
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following Josh. Josh me so uncomfortable.
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Yeah, like I just like I feel like um he's gonna go following
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a, makes you feel like you're on for a while?
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Like I just, I I follow what you're doing like it.
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It's dope shit. I like all your car's, your
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driving's dope. But I today I kind of want to
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ask like you know just like everybody else where did it kind
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of start and like what do you have planned for the future?
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So that's kind of how our conversations going to kind of
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go today I think. But yes so Frankie's doing a
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plug for the YouTube but where did it start for you?
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Like did you do the same thing that everybody else did you was
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a 240 or first car or like where did it start for me like cars
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Just like gone through like my entire existence essentially,
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like, you know, my family's into cars, my dad's into cars.
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So, I like grew up like with American cars and whatnot.
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So it's kind of how it started. The 240 thing that started
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initially weirdly enough. Like when I was younger, I
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wanted to Mark through Supra because like one of my family
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friends had one and like that was kind of like my first taste.
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I like import cars and like first-hand experience was like,
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alright, sick like, You know, I would entertain that idea but
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end up not going through with it.
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I want to say the 240 thing. The first 240 I got, do you
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remember the game Need for Need for Speed Pro Street ProStreet.
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Lyin Cruz. Yeah that was the weirdest Need
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for Speed variant. There was Ice.
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Yeah right. I didn't really know like
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anything about. I mean you know I played like
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underground shit like that but I never really paid any monster
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like to 40s but like in that game I was like oh like this car
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is like kind of cool and like I use it as like a drag car like
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funny enough so I don't know. I just started looking into him
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from from there and how old were you then when I kind of first
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figured out that I thought it was sick like 15 16.
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So it was earlier than I didn't know shit about 240 when I was a
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kid. Like I didn't either I didn't
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know anything about it. Like I knew Honda Stuff Chris,
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you got me into the 240 thing, but like, that's crazy.
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You started from American cars so you didn't own it.
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You never own an American car then or have no like not like a
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like modified American card not to like later on until I got my
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truck and chip but um yeah yeah no no, no American cars.
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Your first car was a 240. My first no, that was my second
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car. My first car like when I got my
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driver's license was a Maxima. Oh shit. 92 maximum.
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Is that the Vince is that Vince has and fast enough No, it's a
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gen before that. Like the more not the square
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body but not the like fully box that one but I think it's a
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bunch around there. Something in there.
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Yeah, it's an old. You actually I remember having
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this conversation on the podcast.
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You like the VG 30 but the turbo.
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Yeah, that car did like 140. No problem.
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Oh fuck, yeah. And that's why I still like the
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fastest gun in the car. I feel like you share a lot of
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those videos. How fast one for the Maxima.
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Yeah dude. Easy, baby t-bill head, calling
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it all people, modify those things, or know, the one like,
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Vince a started like modifying those and then back from their
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own because that was a house like to you two.
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Yeah, two that there's that scene in the movie where he
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doesn't burn out and that's like the only thing I know about
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Maximas is that when I was a kid I was like that shit's
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front-wheel drive. She's weird then uh car said all
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right. But okay so you got into
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Japanese car to 40s after Looking at a super is, which by
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the way, was it a turbo on your neighbors?
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Yeah, your family. Yeah, it was a one like now that
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like I know like what I know it was like a non vvt-i 1j like
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with almonds, that's a seven em. Yeah.
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Remember it was yellow, it was on lowering springs, not vvt-i
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1j like Mark for Super Wheels. Like yeah.
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And I was like sychar. Fuck.
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And also side know, you were big into skateboarding to right?
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Yeah. I think.
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Do you still skate? I don't know.
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I don't know if you still not as much.
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As I would like to think if I tried to skate right now, my
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ankles would just exit the chat. Definitely make us all look like
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idiots. Those who still Josh?
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Like, if we kick foot. Yeah, okay, yeah, here Tony
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Hawk. And yeah, eyes dude.
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Yeah, we're talking about this today to it.
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Shredding it on the ramp, you guys.
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Yeah, I was thinking, we first put it together, he was
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hammered, and he was just on there killing it.
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And it, we were like profusely sweating.
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Yeah. I don't know what to do with my
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hands. Okay, so you've got the two for,
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well, what was your first 240? The one that you had for a
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while? No, my first 240, I got on eBay,
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I remember, was I hope my first shot.
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Yeah, dude, I want it for like a thousand.
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I remember this is there like a thousand twenty-five dollars and
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one will block you want a bidding war with people.
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Imagine getting a 240 on eBay for a thousand dollars.
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That's yeah, fire. I remember it had A little under
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two hundred thousand had teen teen Springs Ajax strong.
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WhatsApp XE, exhaust coil radiator?
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Had Wheels? Yeah.
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No it ran. It just was fucking rotted.
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A shit like I didn't know anything about 240 is like, I
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don't know what to look for the like you just had it friends
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that were into me, either? No, not at the time and I didn't
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even know how to drive stick. And my dad was like just did not
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care to like teach me at all AJ he was pissed like he bought a
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car and he Didn't know how to drive it was the same shit.
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Yeah, so my dad, we picked it up, picked up from the Bronx, he
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drove it back and then like he was just like, did not want to
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fucking teach me at all, as I car finally, like, fuck it,
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whatever. So, it goes to teach me like, in
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front of the house and the car stalls.
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This is like, dude, from the get like, 24th it and never turn
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back on. Never turn back on.
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We had to push it to the gas station because we're like maybe
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it's got no gas in it. Like what's wrong with it?
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And that pretty much started from there and then I was a
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senior in high school when I when I got that car.
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So I was like taking the bus to school and then like, caging
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they would let me drive it and shit.
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Was it was a piece of shit. Like, shit was going wrong.
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Like I remember had no clutch fluid in it once like this shit.
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The like I didn't know like I'm just barely learning.
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How to drive this car. Did you have like, mechanical
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experience at this point? Or do you were no?
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Like you could but you probably catch moldovia, though.
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Yeah, did you have this OV Account button?
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Yeah. Probably koki crisp.
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Yep. Best name ever?
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That sounds like such a cool day.
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Is it was it Cookie Crisp 180? No, no.
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That was my first Instagram name.
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Okay. Damn.
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I was my did I think I don't think Sylvia was opened for
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every like raishin any more like when we were, dude, I probably
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saw his Sylvia name before I met him, which is the, that's how
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crazy the internet works that. Yeah, that's why I like, yeah.
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Like I know, like, I see, I remember reading your thread, I
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don't know that was after him that you or not.
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But no I was already like in that like for a little bit.
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Okay. So you get this car you working
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on it. I pretty much learned like my
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dad like really didn't want to like teach me much like he was
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always like fixing it and he's got like pissed off.
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Like I remember I'd go skateboarding one time.
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Like, I ripped on the car and I don't know.
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We're just like, shut off. Is like, oh no.
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Like in the middle of like like in the middle of like second
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gear, like doing a Pull and like just come to a complete stop
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like rolls, dude. Like the like, the distributor
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plug got, like, wrapped around the fucking, the clutch fan and
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it likes. Yeah.
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And like fucking wrapped around that.
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It probably popped off and then there was no shroud.
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I don't think it had it had to happen because that's I feel
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like suck up the plug that. Like, I don't remember fastest
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route or maybe it broke just from that.
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Like, it just whip, lashing. Yeah, but I remember like my
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dad, like, depending on Adam. Like wiring it like on the side
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of the road like old pissed off at me, like you said, it's
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pretty good with cars. Yeah.
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Yeah, my dad's like yeah, savvy. So that's kind of where I got it
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from but like, he didn't really wanna show me much.
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At the time, there was a kid that I had grown up almost a
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grown up with skateboarding. But someone that I knew
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eventually that he had a 240 and he was always like buying and
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flipping cars, and I remember like, like to this day like I
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still think the cars cool had like ordinary Go on it, had a 18
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inch like XD nines, like over fenders.
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Like what is your roughly is this around?
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Do, you know, I want to say like 2008-2009 so early, like and he
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bought this car for like two grand.
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I remember like as is with the origin, is or start, as is like,
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what the work Wheels? It was like stock suspension,
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but it had like the bronze, like, 18 by 10, like, work
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Wheels, like, is this the same car that opens up in Texas?
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Zona. I remember you telling me about
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some kid. They used to that.
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You grew up all my friend, Carlos, no, this is like,
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before, before that, like, this is like, when I started, like,
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getting a little more Hands-On with the stuff and okay.
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Yeah. His friend shop was like kind of
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like in the hood and whatnot. And I Know It kind of just like,
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showed me the ropes a little bit like this.
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Like, older like Jamaican guy is like, oh, like I do like, just
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like showed me shit. Like, I remember like someone
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like the first things I did was he, my car was Shark nose and he
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had like a parts car. I was like a No scar.
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I'm like my seats are like beat up like my interior is all
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fucked up and like one of the first things I did was like you
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know, swap the seed, swap the carpet.
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So I started like getting like familiar with shit like that.
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And then eventually the KA my car in the blowing and then he
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showed me like you know how to like swab and do shit like that
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but dams. Okay so you had a mentor pretty
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kind kind of all that least somewhat older guy the car.
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Yeah, exactly. Like I don't want to say it was
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somewhere safe but like somewhere to live Like, you
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know, like start working on the car and so like, when did when
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did you start kind of? So you got kind of more familiar
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with mechanical stuff when you start kind of modding it because
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obviously you have a rear wheel drive your early 20s.
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Now I'm assuming at this point. No, I'm not.
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Not even I'm like 18. Okay eating later You're Gonna
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Want to drift this thing right? I like I had no that's the best
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part. Like I had no interest in
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drifting at this point like none like whatsoever.
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It wasn't till I was like 21:22 like from the get like, you
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know, like going like car meets and shit like that.
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Like bumped into people like in my area that were like integer
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thing and they would peer pressure me.
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But, you know, I knew like from the get I was like, do you need
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money to do this? And like, where I'm working?
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I'm working like part-time jobs. I'm in college.
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Like, I don't have money to do this shit.
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Like a big deal for me, was like, trying to buy, like, use
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coilovers. Like I remember that was, like,
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always like a benchmark. Like I need coilovers like that
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will, like, make everything so much.
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Each different will fix the whole car, did you sorry to go
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back? Did you buy the car for drifting
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or eyeballs a car? Because I like the car.
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Okay, I had no interest in drifting.
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Okay, so I kind of like that. Yeah.
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There's not a lot of people that like like damn, I like I want an
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s13, right? Like Watson that one but like
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for mean like drifting was like around but, you know, I just I
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don't mean and just got my license, I don't really know.
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Much like I know, like cars and like just about, like, any make
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and model of car. But like, I didn't like, you
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know, going to like, the depths of the internet or finding like,
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oh, like this car drifts like any of that shit was I just
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genuinely like the way the car looked.
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And yeah, that's kind of like where it started.
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I could definitely relate to that on that level because when
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you had your 240 and stuff, I was like, damn this which looks
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cool. And I don't know what a drift or
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anything nor did I have any intention to, but then wag said
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the same. Same thing, when they said the
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same thing, like they thought that drifting was this
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unattainable thing. Oh yeah, yeah, right.
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So like that's kind of like where you're going well and we
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set us on the last one we were like, no one really thought it
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was obtainable until you went to Club loose and then you were
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like, oh you can just drift like people are doing this.
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Yeah. I mean I get that was drifting
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on the street like they were ready like tandem Wing at this
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point. Yeah.
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Type shit. Like they weren't even going to
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the track. Yeah but Club losers around but
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Still wasn't like, I don't wanna say it wasn't obtainable, but it
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was just at the time when we were teenagers and like that was
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young, go crazy to let go to attract and like, do ya.
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It wasn't, it wasn't tells like, 21:22 the like I went to my
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first Club loose event. Okay, but what was your first
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drifting experience? Like what made you go?
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Like right? Fuck it.
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Like I'm going to learn. Yeah.
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It was one of my questions to like, how to drift is I'm always
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curious like, how people get to the level that they're at now.
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Damn, it's like I can't even. Like, do you have in like yeah?
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Like I haven't like thought that far back and so long but
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definitely like Forza, like shit like that.
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Yeah, my best friend, Rob. He eventually, you know, kind of
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got phased out with the skateboarding and then got into
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cars because of me, then he had a 300ZX, it was non-turbo and I
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don't know what made him like start doing it, but he was like,
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fuck it. Like I'm gonna try to drift this
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shit like He started drifting it, like, with the V LSD, like
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he'd always drift in the rain, and he was good.
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And I think my first drifting experience that was like, this,
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like weird, like, roundabout, like Jug Handle type shit.
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And I remember you just gave me the keys to his car is like
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yeah, you want to learn how to drift like Bart row and I'm
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like, yeah sure like, oh no, I'm not clutch kicking like straight
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into his Garland. I don't know what the fuck I was
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doing. Like a thing about you do.
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That shit is a fucking on ramp. On ramp, but it was still like
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mid second gear and there's a guardrail like on each.
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I'm definitely not that smart. And now that I'm thinking about
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it, like the shit that we would hit, we would hit shit during
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the day, like oncoming traffic like like real dangerous shit.
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Like we definitely have clips of this stuff, too.
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Like I remember like being on the phone with them.
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Like yeah, like you're good. Like and he's coming down the
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side of the road and like just missing all the cars.
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Like my God. That's how it's okay to do
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anything like that now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, you Younger too though. Yeah, like we really.
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So you can almost kind of relate to the Takeover.
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Yeah. Because they're young, they are
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young and they're fucking around cars and parking lots.
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I mean he was doing drip like a legit drifting, but it was
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still. He was still doing dangerous.
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I don't want to get into the Takeover shit too much but
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obviously, we all are against it.
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But yeah, I mean early like in those days to I remember car
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meets, everyone have fucking to 40s and everyone was doing
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donuts. And like drifting, like meats
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are all Meats, have always been ruined.
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And buy donuts by just people as long as meets of existed, it's
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just happy to be to take over people before car.
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People were doing it like they were ruining their own shit.
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Now they're just as they've gotten older.
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Now, they have someone else to blame.
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And yeah, we can all agree that like the Takeover people aren't
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car people, but how many times back in the day have you gone to
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me and should get shut down? Yes, I'm doing a burnout
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arriving but not to the extent that it's doing and they're
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doing it. No, now is like Holy.
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They would be like that one guy. You just you here and start
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doing donuts, to be honest. It was Dustin at one of the
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take, one of the Edgewater meets.
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I remember it was fucking Dustin just like doing donuts in the
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back lot. And all right.
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That was the only every Thursday, right?
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Remember that story? Yeah.
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Everything's every Thursday, no. But those means were pretty
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good. No one really fucked around.
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Craziest thing that interests me.
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So every Tuesday behind me it's and they always got ruined like
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yeah. I think the craziest thing that
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happened at that at one of those events that I went to This is
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just a side note, as I think. Somebody got stabbed.
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Yeah, we definitely left. Never have.
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I never, I don't know if I ever went back there.
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Everybody know, you know, we used to do the Edgewater me
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would get shut down and we don't just go in the back of it.
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So yeah, we go to the back of it Sue and then hang out over there
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because it wasn't really important to us to like be with
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the rest of the cars. Would ya hanging out?
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That's kind of like what happened to like eventually like
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with the fun friend group and what not like we would park we
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would hang out at the meet but we would park.
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Far away from the meat away from everyone like cars all look like
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shit. And yeah, it didn't matter
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because I first met you Josh, so I think I was going to say, I've
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been there. Yeah.
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What year was that? Keep wrong.
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I was with you. Okay?
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Yeah. Is that when we met, how did you
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meet Frankie because anchors you live?
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I was trying to think about this when I was writing a lot.
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Unlike the story, we remember yesterday, do everyone.
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We have like 10 minutes away from each other.
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You live pretty far. I met him because Is like he had
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started faction already but he was like, working out of his
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house and I think maybe from Club loose classifieds like I
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was looking for something and he was like, yeah.
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Like I can like get you this like new but like you would have
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to pick it up. I was like, oh, look whatever.
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And then I end up picking the part up from his house and I
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remember when I first met you, I met me Augie.
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Okay. And I had my car and then it
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kind of goes by like two Thousand Eleven or twelve.
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Yeah. So you had your 240 already.
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This is my second one, maybe two thousand where you Street dry.
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Like did you drive? I've to Frankie's house with the
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240 when we. Yeah, we are cars that that's
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yeah. I feel like if you pull up I
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always Drew drove to like maybe a year and a half ago.
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I was just kind of stopped. Meanwhile.
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I mean he still hasn't us 15. I was gonna say I think you're
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right. Yeah I started 24 breakfast.
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You don't see those and every time it's so good it's like mad
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blurry out Front Street on Front Street.
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Josh on Instagram. Yeah that's what it is.
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That's our 24 breakfast that I When you came and we worked on
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our cars that day. We had that one photo where
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they're both in the garage. Yeah, I remember something was
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wrong with my front end. You doing the backyard
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alignment, the string with the string?
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Yeah, I'm like, all right, like shit is good and like shit.
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We lined it, he liked, he stabs the brakes and like the whole
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front ends. I got like four degrees fucking
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toe out. Yeah, I kind of roll Mangal is
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that Oh, I remember had those stupid those PBM solid bushings
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and the rack was sliding over. So the whole rack, like, if I
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went full lock the whole lime, it will get thrown out of whack,
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which is weird because you're supposed to glue those oh
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really? Yeah, you're supposed to like
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epoxy it onto the, I think they re I think they updated the
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design and it's better now. But yeah, I remember everyone
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talking about how those were sliding around and like don't
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use them but talking to Heather. The iodine, he was like, no they
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got me, show me a photo. And I was like, Kind of can't
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move so I don't really know it's good.
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It's weird because like it has like that little indent to fall
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into the slot but it's still round on the, on the bottom and
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probably if your racks like leaking or dirty this grease
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under it. And, you know, I still remember
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that was definitely a common thing.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That's the good old string alignments and I don't think it
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was really not accurate, just for the record but it worked for
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drifting. I didn't think in a million
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years that I would find out that you were over there doing
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backyard alignments. I mean, I mean, I think I was
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this I think yeah. Not like a service and service
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desperate and we were like, oh that's hang out.
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Like just bring the car and just drive it was so fucking steep.
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Like that was like another project.
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The cars are always, it would take like an hour to get out of
20:46
this kids. Fucking driveway, like, we would
20:48
need planks and shit, and your car was way lower than it was.
20:52
Now we just take off the bumper as but besides girls would still
20:54
be pretty bad that drive. I was pretty bad for sure, but I
20:58
got it down to a system. Somebody in the chat, I think
21:02
it's Johnny, he said that your squad.
21:06
Yeah. Josh is Dad's Maximas dope.
21:08
That I didn't like, we gotta give Joey's got a current one,
21:12
right? Oh yeah.
21:14
His dad's got a current Maxima. So is this the thing I know?
21:18
I was just, I don't know. My dad got one and he like
21:21
lower. Did he put G35 wheels on it?
21:25
Yeah, sometimes it looks good. Don't think so fucking Gap.
21:29
You dude. All right, so he's so we pretty
21:34
much covered when you got into drifting and then you started
21:37
going to clubs loose around. What 2011?
21:39
Yeah, 2011. So I had my second child at this
21:42
time. Yeah.
21:44
So what's up with that? So, you buy another car?
21:45
Yeah. So this shows like toast.
21:48
Like, I'm like learning how to, like, you know, do all this shit
21:51
on my own. I remember I had the jack stands
21:54
like behind the back seat. I'd just finished on doing the
21:57
drive shaft and like a minute later, like went through the car
22:00
like Wait, what had? Yeah, like that's how like a
22:03
jack stand. Oh no.
22:04
I just finished undoing the drive shaft but the jack stands
22:07
like, you know how the backseat are against like Rusty.
22:09
Yeah, like that back. Pat's like yeah.
22:11
Like I just finished in a minute later.
22:13
His car just like hit the floor because it went through like
22:16
this car was because it was prodded the fuck out.
22:18
Yeah. Did you also get this on eBay?
22:20
No no it was the one is the one that I've got one on eBay.
22:24
Yeah. Oh so like I gave up.
22:26
Yeah so that this shell that I got.
22:29
I remember I got for my 20th birthday.
22:33
So this is like 20 2010 when I got this car.
22:37
So I took all the parts of that car.
22:39
I remember I paid 350 bucks on an Xbox 360 controller.
22:43
For I got the car in Brooklyn, the kid was forced to sell it
22:50
because, you know, there's like all the inside working and shit
22:53
like that, his mom had got surgery and him, and his mom
22:56
were, like, pushing the car like across the street, like, in two
22:58
spots and he was trying to do a head gasket.
23:01
It was a single cam. Okay, and he just like didn't
23:04
have the money to do. It is like fuck it.
23:06
IMA get rid of the car. It sounds like I bought it
23:08
stories with to 40s. Yeah.
23:10
So yeah, it took the K that I had because I had bought one, I
23:15
told you the red one, the red chili had it blew up.
23:18
I stopped another dual Cam that so that motor was good at this
23:22
point. I had already had coilovers arms
23:26
wheels. So you know basically just
23:28
Charles Schwab like ordered a manual.
23:30
And I kind of drove that as is to like around 2011 and, you
23:35
know, I was like, you know what, like I could probably like do,
23:38
like give this drifting thing a shot.
23:39
So at the time, like, I got more into it because my friend
23:44
Carlos, he was like, have you on like Sylvia.
23:47
And I already had like a group of 240 friends at this point.
23:51
So, you know, we went to like Army, it's like 240 motoring me.
23:55
I had already spectated, a caboose event at this point so I
23:57
was like, all right, like this is what I want to do.
24:00
Motoring. Holy shit.
24:02
I haven't heard the name. Why can't?
24:03
Why does its 240SX morning? But yeah.
24:07
And Connecticut is that Connecticut.
24:09
Damn, that's that dumb. That's way before my time.
24:12
They're like, not this other site, really?
24:14
Yeah. Like the earlier groups.
24:17
That's cool as hell. Yeah.
24:19
So again of that, they used to have like 240 only meets
24:22
remember had pictures like drift faction cars.
24:24
And, like, at that time, yeah, like Peak, like just all their
24:29
cars like late frame, they I'd like five or six cars and in
24:32
their group they were hosting events.
24:34
Then that same summer, I remember, spectated, East Coast
24:39
bash, they were drifting that I was like, all right, those cards
24:42
are sick. Was that 11 or 12?
24:45
I think it was 11. Yeah.
24:47
Because this is the same summer that flushing was at its peak.
24:52
And I was like going out. That's a drip sound drip
24:55
zombies. So, at this point, I'm still
24:58
spectating, I'm hooked. Like this is what I want to do
25:03
and I was spectating that event to and we're the same age
25:06
zombies. So we literally got into Club
25:07
lose basically at the same time. Yeah, essentially.
25:10
So remember watching trip zombies, you as a young kid, I
25:13
would just see it on YouTube. Yeah dude that was right when
25:17
YouTube was probably getting. Yeah.
25:18
And this is what we're talking about.
25:19
Takeovers like running stuff. Like this was like, take
25:22
oversized meat. But drifting, it's like a legit.
25:26
This was a grifter, the most legit not legit event, people
25:30
would Come on trailers. That's they would have people
25:32
flagging like three fingers out the window tandem Wing.
25:36
Like it was kind of like Club, loosen away, like they were use
25:38
it. They were they have same thing
25:40
layout as like the parking lot event.
25:43
Like you couldn't click third in this layout, like it was long
25:47
like nothing to hit like they was poles in the middle but you
25:50
were using those as I clipping points like, make different
25:52
layouts and stuff. But I remember like Peak summer,
25:55
we'd get there, you know, like 10:30 11:00 at night and the
25:58
song would come up and yeah, that's it.
26:01
And all summer, every single night like this.
26:05
If it was Saturday and if it was Saturday night, like that would
26:09
be the peak night. But there was drifting Friday
26:12
Sunday, Monday Tuesday, every night.
26:15
Literally every night for your bones that no one's had a word.
26:18
And this probably went on for like a solid year and a half
26:21
before you know, then it kind of wasn't a thing anymore.
26:26
Cops were like all right. Well you know as we should stop
26:28
that's cool as hell in the videos alone.
26:30
You're on YouTube and you type in google.com bees.
26:32
Yeah. Flushing Meadow drift.
26:34
You can see like people on the highway.
26:37
Yes. And for the lot was their one
26:39
chance for the highway highway so watching on the fucking on
26:42
and they would have not for nothing.
26:43
It was safe. Like people weren't standing on
26:45
poles like film and shit. Like everyone was like to wear
26:48
away from, or away from everything and everyone had this
26:51
set up like super good. I think like the island slide
26:53
guys like had that. But you got to keep in mind,
26:55
that was pretty much before Instagram.
26:58
Yeah, we all every single say it again.
27:01
Instagram really did ruin shit because there was a when you
27:03
think about it there wasn't really a lot of faithful and
27:05
stuff but it wasn't. There was no one like standing
27:08
in the front row is nothing about sharing, like, couldn't
27:11
share stuff. Like unless you were friends
27:12
with someone like directly like you couldn't see but now, you
27:15
know, I was on and now you look at like takeover videos and
27:17
there's a million cameras at all like and everyone wants to catch
27:21
everything. So they had phones at this?
27:23
Yeah. Like all those videos they're
27:26
all on like a camcorder or like a Yeah, and there's but there
27:30
were so what I'm saying is like, there's no one like like
27:32
nowadays, if that was to happen to be 40, people standing at the
27:34
pub, or in the doing it, yeah, people weren't doing it for the
27:37
tension, like, people were there, like, total Jenna me to
27:40
practice, like, you know, we didn't have like East coaster
27:44
school at that time, like it was either like you go to Club
27:46
loose, or you go on the street. I mean, it's still kind of Like
27:51
the way it is. Yeah, it's kind of hard now but
27:53
now East coaster school has definitely made it way.
27:56
Oh yeah, I feel like it's like more obtainable now but that
28:00
wasn't even have a lot of time back then.
28:01
Yeah a lot of customers are coming events weren't even that
28:04
frequent as there are now. Yes guarantee.
28:06
That's the other thing I was going to say is like you'll be
28:08
saturated now like you if you really want to like you can go
28:12
to event every weekend with in the East.
28:16
I want to say like as low as Virginia to like as high as like
28:19
New Hampshire, like Basically march to November, you could go
28:24
drifting every single weekend if you wanted to and Josh knows
28:27
because you just done it. Yeah.
28:29
Literally pretty much this last year, which is going to be
28:32
another question of mine, but I'll save it for later.
28:34
Just I feel like you've been doing every event.
28:36
Yeah. So until your diff went well
28:39
yeah well yeah and I was like, all right, so drift zombies is
28:43
going on. Now you're going to Club.
28:45
Well, you're expecting. I didn't--yeah I spectated Club
28:47
loose and then my first event, did you swallow swallow?
28:50
Michelle's already, I miss that. Yeah, I had already had the car,
28:54
the hats, the back hatch. Okay, so I want to say.
28:58
Yeah, it's got to be 2011. Midsummer I did Wednesday.
29:02
Wednesday event. Oh yeah, parking lot.
29:05
We prop. Now, we probably did the same
29:06
drift nights is that the one that you're talking about?
29:08
Going to find this shit? So, I mean, I have no drift
29:12
experience other than my friend, trying to show me how to drift
29:15
in the car at that point. So, you know, I'm trying to do
29:18
this, you know, like there's a drive.
29:20
Line. But like to me it just looks
29:22
like a giant open parking lot like Zach.
29:24
I don't know where to go. Yeah.
29:26
I just see a calling like yeah you're gonna want to go around
29:28
those cones. I can third gear and turn.
29:30
You like what? Like, like never even like, done
29:34
like a doughnut like out of first gear to go third around.
29:37
The shit had no working e-brake. So I'm just like pulling e-brake
29:41
or like kicking the clutch until Oblivion like, no, we're
29:44
spinning out and had will or take on my car.
29:49
So, I mean he's still doing like Club blue stuff now so he gets
29:54
in my car, he's like, show me what to do is like art, gonna
29:56
see it like I'll show you like this week you're going to want
29:58
to like fate entry and says like one turn, it was like a sweeper
30:02
and like you're going to hold through the turn.
30:04
I want to say we got maybe like three laps in, and my car is
30:08
blown up like it's knocking, like insane.
30:13
Like it's fuck. We pull off.
30:14
He gets out of the car and then my cars on fire.
30:16
So there's my first drift event. So I'm like a rust hole like The
30:20
see underneath the carpet that I didn't know about and the header
30:23
was so hot from the car running lean that it touches the carpet
30:27
and it just like ignited. So now my new I Street drove
30:31
there I'm with my friend, my interior is full of
30:35
extinguisher. My engine is full of
30:37
extinguisher like an Amish. It's blown up and this is my
30:40
only car. So that was kind of like my
30:44
first drift experience drift event burger.
30:47
And yeah like look single hand expenses.
30:50
A pretty solid. Well, I might have tried to find
30:54
a different hobby, right? Like, you probably spent time
30:58
money, you're young. Like, I don't want to say too
31:02
much money, like I don't think I, I didn't know what I was
31:05
getting into at the time. Well, but at that point, it was
31:07
like a turning point. Yeah, that was like, the Turning
31:10
Point, like, what you guys were talking about the other podcast,
31:12
like I brought a bunch of like, fucking tires.
31:15
That I wasn't going to use like a Steely like four lug tires,
31:19
like I have all this shit with me and We really know, like I
31:22
didn't know how poorly in my car was set up, like it looked the
31:25
part but like for a drifting it was not set up at the time like
31:30
like car, like, I didn't have any of the pinch weld hammered
31:33
out. The wiring harness is rubbing
31:35
like this. All things I like I learned from
31:37
drifting. Yeah.
31:39
At this point, which nowadays, you really don't have to go
31:43
drift too low. You can go on YouTube, go to
31:45
Oxford Motorsports YouTube channel and see everything Sims.
31:50
Yeah. Getting I know you're not a big
31:52
fan of the same life I Lyin. I can't get into I like I like
31:58
the idea of it all but I try it and it's nothing like, it's not
32:01
for everyone. Like I know a handful of people
32:03
like that too. There's driving real.
32:05
There's no connection like at all.
32:07
Like like, oh, like you can set air pressure on all the stuff
32:09
like you don't feel that feeling?
32:11
Yeah you don't feel weight transfer like I think it's a
32:16
good tool. Like if you're really going to
32:17
commit to it where I don't know like you Basic techniques.
32:22
I think a lot of problem. I see like with people that
32:25
start with Sims and they get into drifting is that they think
32:27
it's like the Sim and then they have like this weird new habit
32:31
that they can't break like like missing a hand bringing all the
32:34
time. Like that's what like yeah.
32:36
Like weird I do I can't comment on it too much because I'm not
32:40
that into it but it just something I kind of see ya well
32:43
coming from me like or to try to relate to you on.
32:47
It is like I would use the Sim Um and then I can compare it to
32:52
like drifting in the rain. That's exactly what it feels
32:55
like. Like you could, you could whip
32:57
the car around and stuff and it helps with like muscle memory.
33:00
So like you could also develop bad habits, though.
33:03
Like you're saying and then you get a car and you're doing the
33:05
same bad habit. So like it's all about.
33:07
I feel like how you use it but yeah, what I like about it is
33:09
that you could like practice on a track that like you've never
33:13
driven before or something that like you can get familiar with
33:16
the line because yeah that's I think all that same stuff is
33:19
like pretty. Don.
33:21
Yeah. And it's only gonna get better
33:22
from here like you know, in terms of yeah, this is growing
33:26
pains with everything. Yeah.
33:28
There's a lot of situations where you get to attract and
33:30
you're like, okay, here we go. Yeah, no idea.
33:32
What the hell I'm doing? Yeah, I mean that's like a good
33:34
99% of the time for me but like I like remember when we went on
33:38
our first private day? Yes.
33:40
My first time driving front rack.
33:42
And I was like that shit. Right off the ribs.
33:44
But I was already playing. Oh yeah.
33:47
Yeah you were you were Actually has like the bar and everything
33:55
in it. Like yeah.
33:56
Like you like come out like basically like through the grid
33:59
and everything. Like, it's all.
34:00
It's pretty spot-on. There's a home and in the newest
34:04
rendition of it. There Chris is just standing on
34:07
our Chris nap is standing on one of the clippings oil.
34:10
You just sitting there with his thumbs up like this or
34:12
something. But so, so so now you're you,
34:18
you had your first drift event, what made you want to go?
34:20
Back and like, wait, first did you get home with that car?
34:24
No, I got. Okay, I was gonna say cheese.
34:26
Well, wherever he was working at the time.
34:29
He had a tow truck or like had a friend with a tow truck.
34:32
He told it, he felt bad. He thought he did it.
34:35
So I was like, I don't know, like it is what it is.
34:39
So it is, is this the call show you?
34:42
Because we have it, we have it up on the Malcolm.
34:44
Has this new thing where we can have pictures on the thing.
34:47
I sent him this without your car, but it didn't look like
34:49
that. It was, this is that's a little
34:52
after this is. Yeah, there's a little after
34:54
that's 2012, that looks so, it's like fast forward.
34:57
Like high banks are, oh, pretty pretty close.
35:00
I always wanted. I was into like, the Sylvia
35:02
shit. Like I always even before
35:04
drifting, I wanted to Type X car.
35:06
Were you a Cameron bronze? Yeah.
35:09
Fortunately, I feel like horse. That was like, you know, for
35:12
sure, the goal at the time. Yeah.
35:14
It's just crazy how cheap the type ax stuff.
35:17
Like, I was a college student at the time, like that stuff was so
35:19
obtainable. Murr, I got side skirts or 200
35:23
wing for 200. Although we have stuff, all we
35:26
am bumper 300 like complete. The only thing you couldn't get
35:33
at the time where the lips who I was like, there was a company at
35:37
the time, like, Japanese brand is called Vanquish.
35:40
Like, if people are like bringing those in like you could
35:43
get that but there was no replica.
35:46
But those are flapper glass. I think.
35:48
Yeah. So they were all fiberglass.
35:50
So like I was Chopping those up like fucking crazy, but my car
35:54
at that time was like partially, at the time of that club, loose
35:57
event at Type X skirts, Type X rear type X-Wing tails and I
36:03
still have the pig nose front bumper because a tails on the
36:06
bump. Yeah, my favorite things on a
36:08
wall that's up was like super, like obtainable at the time.
36:11
So you went from Ka now, I bought and now in the buying and
36:17
Ice are, so I got a, I got an Sr.
36:20
Around the corner from my house. It's like one of my 240 friends
36:26
at times again my friend as Sr, whatever I paid a thousand
36:29
dollars for the Swap all, full swap.
36:32
So it was down pipe down pipe just like sketchiest in a
36:37
cooler, was a blacktop motor, the stock harness.
36:42
It was a, I don't even think wiring supposed to see this was
36:45
a thing then. So it was like you had the OEM
36:47
harness and it was like spliced up.
36:49
So it was that Yeah, my friend helped me put it in and I was
36:53
like, my first like turbo experience.
36:55
Talkies to you stocky. See you?
36:57
Yeah. None of that RS enthalpy stuff?
37:00
No. Not yet.
37:02
Yeah. So how long did that last you?
37:05
Because I now the not yet has me that motor lasted me.
37:10
I had it running for in my car about like two and a half years
37:13
and then I sold it to Kristen's arrow and then he had it running
37:16
for another five before he put, the are sent to be computer and
37:19
blew up wait. So How long did it last?
37:21
You sorry. Lasted lasted me two and a half
37:24
years and I sold it because at this point I was doing like a
37:28
complete overhaul on my car. Yeah I remember I read the
37:31
thread. Yeah.
37:32
So I had tubs build. That's are like funny enough.
37:37
It had like a Grady Grady, like you man is computer and then I
37:40
switched it for the stupid are sent to be computer.
37:43
So you guys put the tubs in that car, Chris get Casey did it.
37:46
Okay. Yeah and that's it.
37:48
You just thought you needed them.
37:49
Yeah. Like that's One of them, no
37:52
drifting experience. Like you start doing things like
37:55
you see, like other deaf people doing.
37:56
You don't know why they're doing it?
37:57
Like, all right, I guess I need that.
37:59
Yeah, tried Frank. I had a rust repair how to do is
38:02
like, oh, might as well. Do tubs.
38:03
Like, might as well do Knuckles, you might as well do this.
38:06
Like built motor? I mean, the motor had like an S
38:10
14 turbo, but it was still like Stupid Fast.
38:13
Ha ha. It was, it was really fucking
38:16
quick. It was Bill, had cams like told
38:18
me they like full told me like Valve train.
38:21
But that's not be posting that cheap.
38:23
I bought this waffle like 2,500 bucks.
38:26
All of this was in it all the way with the computer and
38:29
everything. Imagine that I mean it's still
38:34
like at the time like it's still a lot of money, a lot of money
38:37
and like if you're not making any money and you're in school
38:40
like just a little scrapping up, pennies like I couldn't even
38:44
think about buying a motive, I was a kid.
38:45
I had I have such, I have a spending problem now back then,
38:48
it was probably worse. I would always like You know,
38:51
like you would sell part like The Used Parts.
38:53
You had to like recoup to buy, like the newer stuff you wanted.
38:57
Yeah, I remember I think I sold Chris, the Suave like ate my
39:00
soft, like, 1,800 bucks like stock intercooler.
39:03
Like, basically, like dropping ready to go and that was his
39:06
daily driver at the time. So like we'd swap that in.
39:09
So I like he could get back to school like that.
39:11
Same Monday, like pull like pull the car like into his, like
39:14
parent's job, Friday night, worked on it all weekend.
39:18
I got it running Monday and like back to School with it.
39:22
I think I was like, at this time, like, building this whole
39:25
car. It took me maybe like a little
39:27
less than a year. So I was like, I want to say
39:29
2013 is like when I started drifting the car again, I'm
39:34
scoping the internet for photos your car.
39:36
And now, did you say you did cook?
39:37
Talk about Chris and him get in the car and everything or that's
39:40
my next question. Like, when did Chris get
39:42
involved? Because I think you were, well,
39:44
we all had, like, Onsen Island be all had.
39:47
Like the same group of friends. I would like peer, pressuring us
39:49
and like, doing shit. So Like they already like Alex
39:53
had already had his car at the time.
39:55
Oh, okay. Yeah, Alex got his car when he
39:57
was like 15 or 16. Chris got his car when he was
40:01
like 17 18. I think there's actually Chris's
40:04
second car. Yeah, they're younger than me.
40:07
Like for like four years. So yeah, I didn't meet Alex and
40:13
any of them to like I knew of them because like skate park and
40:16
everything yeah but I didn't start hanging out with them till
40:20
I started dating Jonna and John has oh yeah Alex is whatever sub
40:25
brother stepsister. So he had already have the car
40:28
and be like you know we're talking I think I sold him like
40:31
a steering wheel or something. And then we kind of just like
40:34
always hung out since then, because I was kind of like their
40:37
friend group at the time that ties into my kit, did this?
40:42
Is this like the start of Front Street?
40:45
What if I run stream tactically? Probably, not yet, but soon.
40:49
Yeah. Like we didn't have like a drift
40:51
team but like we have like this, like, stupid group was called
40:54
team bath salts. Yeah.
40:59
There's like one bath salts. I like that was sort of people.
41:03
Yeah. So yeah, we don't even think
41:07
know, my car was a part. There's like when I started
41:09
doing like that rebuild at the time.
41:10
Yeah so Alex had an Sr. Our but he wasn't drifting yet.
41:14
Chris had his 240. It was like a manual.
41:16
Pig-nosed car, Tom didn't have a driver's license yet.
41:20
Nick actually had a car. He had a white S14.
41:22
So like, we all had cars, but we weren't at the track yet.
41:26
We were just like doing like dumb shit on it.
41:28
Was called tea bath salts. Yeah, I do.
41:31
It literally literally just because the bath salt thing
41:34
happened in Florida and they heard it and they were probably
41:36
like joking around. Yeah.
41:38
It's like became became a thing and no one knew the sidewalk or
41:41
even this. Grieving these pictures because
41:43
I can give you like timelines. Yeah, like right now this is the
41:46
engine like right now that engine bay with the tub photo
41:49
that's like team bath salt. So it is progress primer.
41:53
Oh wow. That's like in the prime of it
41:56
but and that's when you start this is that's probably like no
42:02
this is that's like Front Street or okay.
42:05
So maybe some of these are like this is 2014.
42:08
Yeah that's yeah. That's yeah, fuck.
42:11
So that's like Don like repainted I'm already like in
42:15
full swing. That's my dad's car.
42:16
Okay. That explains everything, I was
42:18
like, I was like, wait, what's going on here?
42:20
Ya know, my dad had her member that hatch?
42:23
Yeah. Oh when you get her then I also
42:25
exhaust. Yeah.
42:27
First of all types faction faction mistakes.
42:30
Yeah. So then you had team bats.
42:33
Yeah, we had Team battles. We were doing a bunch of dumb
42:35
stuff. Do you want to say?
42:37
2013, 2014 is like, when we all started like, taking this Like
42:42
more serious. Like now we're like attending
42:44
regular events, Tom as a car but he doesn't have a Chase car.
42:49
No, Tom had a license that was that white car.
42:51
He had that car that Jeff just scrap.
42:53
That was his first car ever remember that?
42:57
Oh, now the cat end of it Jeff posted and said end of an era.
43:00
Yeah, that was Tom's first car. He senior in high school like
43:05
it's you want to walking out with an over Fender at Home
43:07
Depot? Yeah.
43:11
Hello Wyatt. 2013. Why did you need to bring that
43:16
just by trying to figure out what size rivets or some shit?
43:18
That's probably what it was. It already have the holes like
43:21
punched out for it and I just that's why I have like a
43:24
thousand of them like in that car at that time.
43:27
But what engine is this one right here that is definitely
43:31
the built one. That's the one you just you
43:33
swapped in your like first that's her.
43:36
No that's the second one I've been.
43:39
By the time I had the tubs that was The built built motor.
43:44
Okay, let's see. Em at this point that's this is
43:51
sick. This is yeah that is when I
43:54
started to like go to Club loose I got that point like regular
43:57
like make make an effort, fuck this is bull.
44:00
SPL suspension on that car. At that point PBM coilovers had
44:03
bucket seats so you don't motor like you got pretty.
44:07
I mean you got it done pretty quick because this is 2013 and
44:10
it's yeah. It was like about like eight.
44:12
I want to say like about eight months A down that car in like
44:14
June of 2012 because now I'm like officially withdrawn at
44:18
this point. So yeah.
44:20
Like a know someone like 8 to 10 months a little less than a
44:24
year. I got that car back together and
44:25
then it was just like full swing from then you just started
44:28
drifting committed. Yeah, you middle like so you're
44:31
like yeah, whatever. I could afford at the time to
44:33
like go, I'm reading the comments on this Facebook photo
44:36
and it says, yeah, dudes been a week and it's been rough
44:38
destroyed oil. Pan first day out.
44:40
Yeah, like so much dumb shit at that time.
44:45
Yeah. All right.
44:47
All right. So then Front Street happened
44:49
that night. Your kind of well Front Street.
44:51
No, this is still bats. Yeah, this is so bad.
44:54
So bad, so bad. So it's okay, dude.
44:57
Everyone Street? Yeah, no Front Street are, was
45:00
when my car got painted, but when did we come driven room?
45:04
Me and Justin came and Drew, and Miyagi, you know, that was Front
45:07
Street. That was from transfer.
45:08
Yeah, I was actually need to Front Street.
45:10
Yeah, that was like, 2015. I had the city archives.
45:13
Whenever the city archives in the car was like fully painted.
45:16
That was furniture that photo I just sent you, Malcolm is what
45:21
happens when a sway bar hits your oil pan.
45:23
Dude I was like going to say that's the most uniform pressed?
45:26
Yeah. That's when you hit something in
45:27
the sway bar and the sway bars upside down.
45:29
Yeah. Like reverse.
45:31
Yeah. The oil pickup is right in there
45:35
that probably yeah probably being starved.
45:36
I don't know if this motor blew up or not that one was I caught
45:39
that pretty pretty early. I got lucky with that one.
45:45
I'll click on that Cressida picture real quick.
45:47
Story time, I posted a post it on my Facebook, maybe a few
45:52
weeks ago so that car, right? This is like the first 240
45:56
motoring me that I go to yoga. This dude has a s are swapped
46:00
Cressida, what the fuck has solid lifter stock, head power
46:05
of C is dudes like yeah, check this out and it just like revs
46:09
to. Like he has the the commander
46:11
out the window and it rough. So like 9:00. 600, like with a
46:16
bottom out of Turbo and everything was like, what the
46:18
fuck like and has a two-step like, blows the hot dogs, like
46:22
off the table? Like whatever tables.
46:23
Like behind that. Like a barbecue.
46:26
And that was like, the most ridiculous thing I ever saw.
46:29
Yeah. Some S14 wheels and shit.
46:31
Like. Yeah, it looks like it.
46:33
Yeah, Chris come like ours, that car was insane.
46:37
It's a, it's a crescent was a nice.
46:39
Are at a 240. Motoring meet that.
46:41
I saw that had like a built valve train.
46:43
Solid lifters and this dude never said a word since guy in
46:47
his life is. Okay, check this out.
46:48
I'm like revs this shit to like 90 600 RPM.
46:52
Like I remember seeing that on the commander It was man's.
46:58
He's probably a Loggia. Probably just some dude.
47:00
Like yeah, this was this is when you guys went to Asia, I don't
47:04
know. I would have just kept a1j and I
47:06
put it one just the way home. This was H to all right.
47:10
Yeah. So that was like front Front
47:13
Street Front Street at that point.
47:16
This is was like yeah this was around the Inception Fitness
47:19
optionally. Yeah.
47:20
Okay. Chris made the name did this is?
47:23
I'd yep. That's like she's the one who my
47:24
favorite name. Yeah, it is honestly like one of
47:27
the coolest like so explain it goes hard.
47:29
Yeah, funny not wearing the shirt.
47:32
Everyone to share a hot minute but 50/50 skate park was located
47:36
on Front Street and the lot that we were messing around in was on
47:39
Front Street. So that's like, origin of like,
47:42
where the whole friend Gruber. Yeah.
47:44
Pretty much soul friend group. And yeah, just the earliest to
47:48
date Shenanigans of the group, messing around at the time and
47:52
then, yeah, the name stuck. So Kristin's arrow is the The
47:56
originator of that name. Damn, you should go was hard.
47:58
He killed it with that one. Yeah, this photo.
48:01
Okay. So what made you go like that
48:05
was that was like, one of my final questions for like their
48:07
origin story but now I always wondered like what made you go
48:11
from Sr to Jay-Z. Well this point I blew up like
48:16
30. Not yeah, I was gonna say that's
48:18
a long jump in time. Yeah.
48:19
Is it? Yeah?
48:20
Okay. At least 34.
48:23
Yeah, this is like about a solid.
48:26
I want to say maybe solid like 23 years.
48:28
It seemed like longer because it just kept happening so frequent.
48:31
But that you're blowing a SARS blowing us ours up, like left
48:34
and right and the same, the same shit keep happening.
48:37
I couldn't figure it out like, swapping, all this different
48:40
stuff. And then, eventually, I just got
48:42
fed up with it, and I was like, there's like when the 1j swaps
48:45
are getting like more popular. I think the earliest 1j swap
48:49
that I saw was this dude Angelo from the steam velocity Stars.
48:53
Chris had picked up a set of wheels from them And he had a 1,
48:56
J and his car and I was like holy shit like this kind of like
48:59
fits in there. Pretty good.
49:00
Like he had like a swap super clean.
49:03
Like super like, you know, sock. But you know, it funny enough
49:07
like it looked like it belonged in there.
49:08
The way he had it was like, all right, like tell me like more
49:12
info was like, all right, I have this Mount.
49:13
I have this mount kit, this in a cooler like basically bought
49:16
everything from CX racing and I put it in whatever, it's in my
49:20
head and like just never thought of it again.
49:22
And then like few months later, I blew that Sr and I was like
49:25
Like I'm like, fuck. I'm yeah.
49:28
I'm kind of over this at this point.
49:29
So I talked to him and I was like, all right, like what, what
49:34
could I do? Like I've really, I'm not
49:36
familiar with the hybrid swap. Like, would you be interested in
49:39
doing any was a gift? Sure.
49:40
So he took my car, he wired it up.
49:43
What year was it if I find it? After you guys went, no not fine
49:49
about like before, yes before? Okay, So, what's your final
49:55
bout? Did you guys go to find about
49:58
three raise? My first one, is that the one
50:00
that so you were at that one, too then, yeah.
50:03
Yeah. This will be your second.
50:04
Remember when I said we rolled out with a bunch of cars and
50:07
trucks on the street? I know.
50:08
So your third one because you went well, that would ya, might
50:11
the one I've been to? Yeah, my third but the one we
50:13
drove at was a second. And remember, when I told you,
50:17
we had, they had like all the cars down the street.
50:19
Oh, yeah. That's right.
50:20
Yeah. That was that night.
50:21
Damn. That sounds fun.
50:23
Double questions. So I want to bring up the when
50:28
you when we watch the final bout video at 50/50 skate park.
50:32
Yeah, we weren't even in final value yet.
50:35
We weren't even there. Yeah, that must've been the
50:38
first final Bell video, right? Thing is like, we've been like
50:41
jumping back and forth like all these like dates and years.
50:44
It seems like a blur at this point, like I know what happened
50:47
but I can't pinpoint like what year exactly shit was basically
50:51
they had a premiere of a final bout, I think Is fun about one.
50:55
It had to be at the skate park at the skate park which was 60
50:57
like everyone met up there. This is through like a mini
51:00
meet, like people came. Like yeah, we all just hung up.
51:03
We're like sitting on a on a ramp watching.
51:06
Yeah. We had it like on the reject.
51:07
That's cool as hell. It was like.
51:09
Yeah. And you guys had your cars in
51:11
there too. Right?
51:11
Yeah. Tom had his car in there.
51:13
I wanted to bring up this this photo right here and have you
51:16
explain a little bit that what? Nothing nothing to do with me.
51:21
Yeah, but this was at the skate park.
51:24
I a nose car like his first 240 that he thought he was going to
51:30
build and do an LS swap to and then I think he got flooded or
51:33
some shit like some Hurricane Sandy probably yeah and I think
51:37
I got sand heed. I like his old workspace and
51:41
then I don't know, I guess it makes me were already friends
51:44
with Joe at the time. I guess I don't know.
51:46
All these like dates are blurry at this point was 14.
51:49
Yeah. Tom made that I think Tom made
51:52
that pretty. Yeah, that's funny.
51:54
I just never seen that. I was like like this skate parks
51:57
got a 240 in it. It's a little was that there at
52:00
the final bout for me, for sure. Yeah.
52:02
I think so. Because this is 2014 so I don't
52:04
remember it lasting that long. Yeah, I think it, I think it
52:08
was. But yeah.
52:09
So that final bout Premiere was sick and that kind of like, put
52:13
Front Street kind of on the map when it comes to final bout.
52:16
Because I mean, that was one of the reasons we did it too
52:18
because it was like, oh, let's get some exposure.
52:20
Yeah, get some exposure. So, I mean, so they know about
52:23
Front Street to because I mean, this point they were looking for
52:26
like other teams and like, yeah, and I'm self.
52:28
And I always, I mean, at that time was like, wow, that's like
52:33
a super Sid go. Like I wasn't into drifting that
52:35
long but to, you know, I was into that caliber and that style
52:39
of cars. So that was kind of like the
52:41
peak where you kind of want to. I don't want to say fit in but
52:46
where you belong essentially, I mean the event was in general.
52:49
Awesome, too. Like, it's just like it's
52:51
something you want to attend like the proceed guys will at
52:54
the I'm we knew him risky devil like when we were watching
52:56
videos and yeah, that's what I was talking about.
52:58
Like we just we're pretty much Fanboys of the Chicago style.
53:03
So when it came to like oh you guys can actually drive over
53:06
there and do this. It was like, oh we got it.
53:07
Yeah, it was like a like a big honor.
53:10
Yeah, pretty dope. And then once we went I was like
53:12
okay. I'm not Front Street needs to
53:13
come like next year. Yes.
53:15
I just remember like begging and pleading like who do we talk to?
53:18
How do we do this? Like we do, we gotta pay what do
53:21
we got it? Hey, we're gonna send pictures
53:23
like, All right so final final bow that's a good way to keep
53:28
it. So you did find about three and
53:31
that was all we got sidetracked with the 1j shit.
53:34
Oh yeah that's what threw me off because so yeah I did that one J
53:41
Swap and then well I didn't do it.
53:43
I paid to get it done and at that point.
53:45
Yeah. Just the car never broke.
53:48
And that's kind of where I got the bulk of my my seat time.
53:53
Because the, the Jay-Z was just aside from the fact that it
53:56
overheated like every three laps.
53:58
Yeah. You just wait for it to cool
54:00
down and then just go back at it.
54:02
Like, I don't have to worry about it blowing up and, you
54:05
know, doing anything. But yeah, that was definitely
54:07
like the bulk of my seat time and where, you know, I started
54:11
getting familiar with the track. I was still be group when when
54:15
that car was Jay-Z. Yeah.
54:18
Feel how different did that feel going from Sr to Jay-Z?
54:22
Did you? Tell any difference, like, it
54:24
felt easier really, it's torquey.
54:26
So just, I don't know. Like, now, looking back on it,
54:29
like reason why I took it out as it was kind of boring.
54:33
It made it too easy, just made it to eat.
54:35
Yeah. Like it just would fry the
54:36
tires. Like you would never have to
54:38
clutch kick like it's doesn't belong in that car like it just
54:42
you step on the gas and like it goes like it's sick.
54:46
Like I'm not saying that it's a bad motor just overall.
54:50
Like once I started getting like really People in a car and then
54:54
I still had an Sr car at the time.
54:56
I had my zenki that I was dealing.
54:58
So I never really straight away from the SR stuff, but once I
55:01
had like the sea time under my belt and I think it was James.
55:05
Yeah. It was James Carr.
55:07
He was true drifting. A line is like oh help me get my
55:10
car set up whatever. And I drove this as a holy shit
55:13
like this is way more fun. Like I remember like you know,
55:16
like e breaking. I'm like dropping the clutch
55:18
revving, her up like you know, it's more more, more involved.
55:23
And I'm sure that's like I said, this kind of work out the bulk
55:28
of my see time and then Adventures kind of got bored of
55:30
it, Nick from Front Street said, bro, you had two 15s, yeah.
55:36
Oh, what on the rear on the rear?
55:38
I guess, I guess in reference to you saying it was boring.
55:41
Well, but I had the coolest, a decent guy, Jay Z so.
55:46
Well, I still have the coop to onto 65s with the Jay-Z and I'm
55:50
still the same shit still White. You know, I got rid of it and
55:54
it's not like he's saying it's about engine.
55:56
Yeah. Yeah.
55:56
It's not a bad engine. Just it didn't.
55:59
I do like the soul of the car was kind of like not there, not
56:04
there yet. That all comes down to driving
56:07
style. I mean if you're not into how
56:09
its feeling then that's yeah, I got some I'm not saying that
56:12
like, I'm good but like, I got to a point eventually like when
56:15
I did that machine check with James but I find about video
56:18
where I kind of peeked with that car.
56:22
Like what? That set up the alignment.
56:24
Like the way the car was, I was already consistently driving at
56:27
this point. And yeah, it was a group because
56:30
the car was caged and I was just like, all right, like I need
56:33
something more. Like, I feel like the setup is
56:36
maxed. Hmm.
56:38
I'm still throwing, I'm still throwing Malcolm old photos
56:40
because I haven't got to the Jackson area event.
56:43
Yeah, this was fun from the final bout Premier event.
56:46
And this was, I mean, I don't know if this was Peak but it was
56:49
definitely close. Was that when you guys had that
56:51
burst Style, Vinyl on that. The premiere this is before,
56:56
this is where that. Where that yeah, cause that's
56:58
what I discovered was. Specially the one with the two
57:00
cars is Chris and Josh when they were at age 20, I think.
57:03
Yeah. The first final bout related
57:06
event we went to a special stage.
57:08
Hmm. And then that's what I want.
57:11
Yeah there's a lot of photos. A singer SRS.
57:14
Are we a lot of photos in here? Is our cook going in and coming
57:18
out? Yeah, like early like Tom stuff.
57:21
This is. This is your car in here.
57:23
But the AVS has and yeah. Before the Jay-Z did I remember
57:27
seeing photos of them? Just their cars inside the
57:29
skatepark just and a party going on.
57:32
I love that photo. That fish is so sick.
57:34
As hell. What this is a this is on Front
57:37
Street. This photo.
57:38
Yeah. Is that the spot?
57:39
This is actually the first official French.
57:42
Remember, we made the Instagram and I was like the first
57:45
official photo we had. Okay.
57:47
So Instagram is that you and Jonna.
57:50
Oh, yeah. Or maybe Christina.
57:52
I probably Took that picture and photo.
57:54
I think, Christina and Jonna. Were there.
57:57
Chris the good life? He commented seven years ago.
58:02
Almost 10:00. All right.
58:08
Send this photo to. Well this is when this is, when
58:12
all the shenanigans really started.
58:13
Yeah. Like this is when the phrasal
58:15
thing like, oh, like, oh my fucking god.
58:19
What is this leaking fuel? That's allergies.
58:23
Yeah, that's Josie, no, yeah, that's true.
58:26
The fuel line was leaking. Alex didn't want to get dirty.
58:30
I didn't want to do it and he's like, fuck it, I'll do it.
58:33
But I'm taking my clothes off because I don't want to get
58:35
fucking dirty. That's just an excuse for him.
58:37
He always wants to be naked. That is also true.
58:40
Yeah. Whose car is next to him, right?
58:42
That's mine. Wait, wait, whose car was that's
58:46
out? It was Alex's.
58:47
Now it's mine. Oh, I do remember that face?
58:50
Yeah. Oh, here we go.
58:51
Okay. Finally found a photo of the
58:53
Jay-Z. So the thing was money, middles
58:57
2015 is when he changed it. So that final bout I mean that
59:00
find about Premiere video, we showed a photo we showed of his
59:03
car that was that was the end of the SR never really liked looked
59:09
at and like at it up close because every time I saw
59:12
drifting I was like in the stands but like that's a nice.
59:15
I mean this this also probably is when you started like getting
59:19
real. That's why I'm saying I started
59:21
like I was getting the lapse in because it wasn't breaking.
59:24
Whose is that right? Yes.
59:28
That's mine. What?
59:29
Yeah, yeah. Is what the fuck is a daily for
59:32
a bit, right? Yeah, that's a great daily
59:34
stock. No.
59:35
But I what I was saying was like, I'm noticing the black
59:38
engine bay like, it looks so similar to how your engine bay
59:40
looks now. Like I feel like this is when
59:41
you were starting to like dial in the engine bay building
59:44
techniques to like as you have a very he has like a very specific
59:49
way. He does said that to her like I
59:51
said it to you earlier and he said he wasn't and I was like
59:53
nine does Because he's done other people's cars to and they
59:56
all are very much similar. Yeah, no.
59:58
I love the way that you like so just want it stole the yeah.
1:00:01
Like cause now I'm getting like the seat time in and I don't
1:00:05
know I think everything I know is from drifting and with
1:00:10
drifting what can go wrong will go wrong.
1:00:13
Yeah. So then you start like doomsday
1:00:15
prep in like weird things and that just becomes like the nitty
1:00:18
like random details that you wouldn't think of like oh shit.
1:00:21
Like I caught that zip tie wrong and it's like rubbing.
1:00:24
Yeah. Watching a wire like that wire
1:00:26
might get caught one day or that clamp is too long like I should
1:00:29
get the right size clamp because that clamp is touching the other
1:00:32
heater core holes like it's just like inevitable.
1:00:36
That's just always like how my brain works.
1:00:38
One of the things that you do when you build our, I think you
1:00:40
might have posted an alignment photo.
1:00:42
But one thing that got me when I was and that this is why I was
1:00:45
like, dude, this guy builds, like there's paint, Marco the
1:00:48
paint marks on, on all the bolts and to normal person you're
1:00:52
like, what the fuck is that? But like, I guess that's the see
1:00:55
if something moved. Yeah.
1:00:57
Like that's like just so like involved with the car.
1:01:01
Like I'm not Noble, I'm not checking bolts like every
1:01:05
freaking event. Yeah.
1:01:06
So can under that, I'm like good like yeah and go but then no
1:01:12
fucking curse ends up check and shit in it ends up being loose,
1:01:18
Chris is actually the the nut and bolt Checker.
1:01:20
Yeah, because he has it up on the rack and you double check
1:01:23
and everything. Yeah.
1:01:24
Remember the first time you seen Josh just got here when I
1:01:27
started working here is it was purple and like are not purple.
1:01:31
It was lavender lavender. Yeah.
1:01:33
The pinker's I remember looking in the engine bay and I was
1:01:35
like, holy shit. This guy's way more OCD than me.
1:01:39
And Frankie combined weight, you can give me an example.
1:01:44
What did you see? Well I mean for like usually
1:01:49
when mean for you, put it together car, like first thing
1:01:51
you see is the coupler clams. All facing the same way like,
1:01:56
his are like dead straight. Like, I'm pretty sure you put a
1:01:59
level on it, it's going to be 0 and then the heat wrap
1:02:04
everywhere and everything I'll talk nicely.
1:02:07
So the next photo Malcolm's going to share is, is me and
1:02:10
Josh 2015. And you don't have a Jay-Z on
1:02:15
his podcast, gone for like there's so many like, they're
1:02:17
trying to cop except that we can cover.
1:02:19
Its, we're just trying to give a rough.
1:02:21
So the thing with this podcast, it's only like a part 5.
1:02:23
Your yeah. This is not the only time you're
1:02:25
going to be on. So yeah, that's why.
1:02:27
I'm like, if we could give him whatever the bases.
1:02:29
Yeah, we gotta give like a backstory that way when you come
1:02:31
on here, and we talk about current shit.
1:02:32
It's not like if the people listening now I got out of the
1:02:36
loop. Yeah, they know what's going on.
1:02:37
I also in like, looking from the outside in, because like, I feel
1:02:40
like there was, and I think I wrote it here.
1:02:43
It says, when was the turning point because your driving style
1:02:47
kind of have the same question? Yeah, did you really it's
1:02:50
coming? It's coming soon.
1:02:51
Like, I feel like, I don't know when, but You might have sent it
1:02:55
to me because oh you saw it on my thing.
1:02:58
No, I know you didn't you copying my questions and why did
1:03:00
not look sandpaper right here? Let's all watch is a lot of how
1:03:03
far we get. We're halfway there halfway.
1:03:05
So actually we're no 3/4 now but like your driving style.
1:03:09
I feel like changed like the and and the way that the car was set
1:03:13
up change like what does that say to eat it up?
1:03:17
I wrote tune it up because I was like why is it like that?
1:03:20
And then I'll go and then it occurred to me.
1:03:22
I'm like, yeah, maybe that's how he could get that.
1:03:25
Aggressive like flake? Yeah, pretty much.
1:03:28
Let's, let's do a quick. We'll go through some photos and
1:03:31
then we're going to jump into that because I think that's a
1:03:33
good transition. So the next photo is 2015, who
1:03:40
is this? You Chris.
1:03:40
It's me, Chris, yep. So Tom's car is not white
1:03:44
anymore Supply, which one is Tom.
1:03:45
The one on the back, one on the right, the black on black, the
1:03:50
black one. Chris had the t's on it so now
1:03:55
you guys pretty much made a move like, all right, we're going to
1:03:57
have black cars and then yeah, it was just easier to do black
1:04:01
cars because mine was already black.
1:04:04
This is black Alex's was like dark grey so might as well been
1:04:10
black and then yeah. Tom was like the only like
1:04:13
Oddball like full-blown white and easier to peer pressure
1:04:17
teenagers to paint their car then for us to change colors.
1:04:21
I He like black cars because it's all right.
1:04:24
This is a stupid reason to like a black car but if you if you
1:04:27
mess up your fiberglass and you got to do a quick patch, Sharpie
1:04:30
black is the easiest one. Like I had a, I had a can of
1:04:34
paint like, oh yeah, yeah yeah. Case on the tried for a missile
1:04:38
car like yeah, nice car things looking back on is like the
1:04:42
worst color. Yeah.
1:04:43
Because it's so boring here to see things too.
1:04:45
That's all. Yeah.
1:04:46
You could pick out a dent from far away if it's black agree
1:04:48
with that. It is boring and so boring like
1:04:50
if you're gonna go out Your way to like make a very eccentric,
1:04:53
like standout car and then you paint it black like gaming
1:04:56
scene, wasted your time. You feel like black looks good
1:04:58
though when you have vinyl on it which it'll look better than
1:05:03
having nothing on it. You guys decided to do that.
1:05:05
Yeah, the next photo is just a drift day.
1:05:08
That was my first time tandem me.
1:05:10
Oh, it was. Yep.
1:05:11
And her, we have that picture of like all six of us over there.
1:05:15
Yes. Her it was there.
1:05:16
That was the day we all drifted with hurt.
1:05:18
That was the first time I drifted with you and that's the
1:05:20
first time I tan them. Holy shit, there's a video of
1:05:22
this somewhere. I remember.
1:05:23
Yep, that's cool man. That looks sick.
1:05:26
Only have a sick. Photo of all of us, stacked up
1:05:28
on Turn 1. It's like when you meet I think
1:05:31
I'm leading I think I see her is like in the and we were all
1:05:35
lured. Okay, can't show that photo.
1:05:42
Um, having on top fucking. Okay.
1:05:48
I'm showing this one. This is this.
1:05:51
This is what I mean by this is when the shenanigans really
1:05:54
started best photo ever, I never seen that.
1:05:58
Oh my fucking god. No, no, no, no, no ha, ha ha.
1:06:05
So I guess that's when I started changed her name.
1:06:10
Oh my God. But alive.
1:06:17
Yeah. Oh, it's on there right now.
1:06:18
Yeah. No, it is the OWN.
1:06:20
For those of you who don't know, that's a brand, that no longer
1:06:23
exists for obvious reasons, it was called Isis.
1:06:27
Yes, we give me the rundown because they might not know.
1:06:28
Is our was once called Isis. Oh, we're gonna say yeah.
1:06:31
Why not? All right.
1:06:32
Okay. That's that's gonna go.
1:06:34
That's old news, Trump took that took care of that problem.
1:06:37
All right? It's really worry about that
1:06:38
anymore. alright, next photo is 2015.
1:06:44
So so sick. Yeah.
1:06:46
It's tiny. All the photos with the fucking
1:06:48
E-Town wall in the back. Are the best.
1:06:50
Yeah, I just love that stock type exit.
1:06:54
So this is all one J stuff. Then I got the cage and like,
1:06:57
looking at it. Okay, so you cage.
1:06:59
Yeah, you cage it. I think, my first official, a
1:07:02
group event was whatever that year was, was a sleigh ride or
1:07:07
something around that time. Ook, at that photo, it has to be
1:07:11
the same photographer. The one that's on the wall, it
1:07:15
is. Yeah sure.
1:07:16
Yeah I think so. Yeah, I honestly don't know
1:07:21
what's going on there. Yeah, just i.c.e. fans and stuff
1:07:23
you're trying to figure out the fan situation, probably to.
1:07:25
Yeah. But I always liked ran that that
1:07:27
same stuff. All the pillows.
1:07:31
Not upside down. I don't fucking because they saw
1:07:38
one dude in Japan. So that was it.
1:07:41
Oh, what is this? That's Canaan.
1:07:44
Okay. Is that an older track?
1:07:48
I mean, Kind of throw it up kind of because they don't allow
1:07:52
drifting anymore because that's just how that's the shenanigan
1:07:57
PJ posted a picture of that like a few days ago and I was like,
1:08:00
Jesus Christ, if I knew like what I knew now and like I could
1:08:02
go back there. Whoa, that you're saying, yeah,
1:08:06
yeah, wait, this looks so fun when I was in New Canaan, New
1:08:10
Hampshire. Yeah, this is where special
1:08:13
stage. The first special stage East was
1:08:15
host to see if I could jump smooth.
1:08:17
Yeah you I drove it was like seven hour drive like Street,
1:08:21
drove it up there. Drove on the same tyres and came
1:08:24
back. This is one of my favorite
1:08:26
photos. A Josh ideal because he doesn't
1:08:30
have a black male sucks. What was the name of that?
1:08:32
Try K naught? It was just Canaan like Speedway
1:08:35
or something. Yeah, damn.
1:08:37
Okay, yeah. He's a racer like Rich, dude.
1:08:40
And then he'd always cry about the stupid grass and their sons
1:08:43
dirt whole thing. Yeah.
1:08:45
Like I remember one time he made us like sweep it like he He
1:08:48
stopped all of us. Like, we all had to stop
1:08:51
drifting. Everyone had a broom.
1:08:53
Everyone had a sweep straight because we were like, dirt
1:08:55
dropping, and then me and Tom, like, hid in the woods.
1:08:57
And do you think that's what they do?
1:08:59
And it's Portland. Yamanashi.
1:09:02
They think after the event, they clean up like, any, like loose,
1:09:05
like, chunks of Tire. Yeah, but they're Japanese it.
1:09:07
They're used to being polite. They're very clean.
1:09:09
Yeah. Mahon they do that.
1:09:10
She's from New York. Dude.
1:09:12
I'm an attending their events. They sweep the track.
1:09:15
Oh yeah. So this is the photo from
1:09:16
special stage, right? Yeah, okay.
1:09:18
Okay, so this is like a street. The last one from story came out
1:09:23
full force. I saw that photo.
1:09:24
That's the photo that I. Yeah, I can feel the first car
1:09:27
with the Type X front. That's my car now.
1:09:30
Yeah, it's Alex old car. That's Alex's old car.
1:09:32
That's my current car. That's your Coop.
1:09:35
Yeah, that's yeah, that's mine. And then that's Joe.
1:09:39
It's Tom me and Chris, and Chris catch AZ, probably thrown off
1:09:44
somewhere. He left in this town.
1:09:48
He was out. New track.
1:09:49
It's your to that track to, right?
1:09:50
Yep. Wow.
1:09:51
Proud of him and he drove his car up there.
1:09:53
So this is at that Canaan. Please Cannon.
1:09:56
Yeah, man in Canaan. I don't know that I definitely
1:10:03
remember that photo. This is early Instagram stuff.
1:10:06
Yeah, I know, Instagram was in full force at this time.
1:10:10
I think early Instagram is like 22.
1:10:11
What is this 20? Remember that 16 17, 16, I
1:10:16
remember that night. It was snowing a little salt.
1:10:18
All this Is on Route 23? I think and Justin was with us,
1:10:20
right. I saw that through drifting in
1:10:22
the fucking snow. I saw that photo and I was like
1:10:25
thank God, somebody did it because I was waiting for
1:10:27
somebody to do that. Vinyl what I was looking back on
1:10:31
it and knowing what I know. Now, I definitely wouldn't do
1:10:34
that. But yeah, for the time it was it
1:10:37
was pretty good. There's snow on the ground.
1:10:39
FYI. Don't put signals flash.
1:10:42
If you don't get a approval from Signal Auto members FYI.
1:10:46
So if you got a signal Splash take it off.
1:10:49
Yeah. Next photo is me and Josh street
1:10:53
drifting or something, one night, but there was snow on the
1:10:56
ground. So it's kind of ridiculous.
1:10:58
But, I mean, that's kind of like, what we used to do.
1:11:01
What cousin? Well, you're still driving your
1:11:03
car, like you, you have no choice.
1:11:05
You want to go drifting is go. That's like the best part of
1:11:08
having. Hatchback like you can just load
1:11:10
your shit up and yeah. Go to the track with it is that
1:11:13
Johnny? Yep.
1:11:14
Yeah, that's Johnny. Johnny when you said drift
1:11:17
Johnny Josh and you watched after some street drifting, you
1:11:20
remember that. And I know that much when I met
1:11:23
Johnny before he went type, he was the first one that I met.
1:11:27
Who had a 240 that wasn't you? I don't remember how I met
1:11:32
Johnny because I met him through you, Frankie, you have showed up
1:11:36
at Nissan when I was working one day and my Bosses are you know,
1:11:39
your boy came through. I'm like who he's like, I don't
1:11:41
know. He got one of your cars.
1:11:43
I was like, oh, and then like I see him drive by and I'm like,
1:11:47
what the fuck? Who is that?
1:11:48
And like, yeah, he just showed up me, like bought a bumper or
1:11:52
something, like a Type X bumper. Yeah, he bought the type of X
1:11:54
bumper from from us, from Nissan.
1:11:56
Probably for me. Technically, it's cool as hell.
1:11:59
That was one. Frankie is double dipping.
1:12:01
Yeah, I was like sonning used rapping.
1:12:03
Yeah. Faction on one phone and a
1:12:06
Nissan parts on the other. Need OEM stuff.
1:12:09
Yeah, you know, Imports. All right, order from them sell
1:12:13
to myself for like nothing and then sell it.
1:12:16
Yeah, hustle now. But yeah, that Johnny was one of
1:12:21
the first ones that I had a 240 aside from Chris, that I knew, I
1:12:25
think, cuz I met him at a club elusive in when his car blew up
1:12:28
and went home on a trailer. Well, I knew Johnny because I
1:12:31
did his Sr swab. Oh shit.
1:12:32
Oh wow, I didn't even know that I got slide ways that was around
1:12:37
the time where like why are you so much?
1:12:38
These wasn't really a thing where you had to supply the the
1:12:42
pigtail harness for the. I think it was becoming a thing
1:12:44
just then but it's like I had a warring species harness in my
1:12:47
car shop. You were at wasn't about to buy
1:12:49
that. So let me bottom of what are you
1:12:51
doing? I thought you guys always just
1:12:53
but there was a time where we had to do the dash blog every
1:12:55
single time. Yeah.
1:12:57
That was like inevitable. Remember like even doing that
1:12:59
with the K. Like the single cam 2.
1:13:01
Dual cam. So the next photo is super D.
1:13:06
What is this? When did you total this?
1:13:08
And find about three. So this is fun about three.
1:13:11
You told you ended up totaling this thing.
1:13:13
So what had happened was so ha. Ha ha ha.
1:13:17
So see how I had the whole hot rod arrow and everything?
1:13:20
I never had fiberglass Arrow ever.
1:13:22
So I was like, oh, he's already paranoid.
1:13:24
So what we used to do was, well, not what we used to do.
1:13:28
But Chris have this idea where we would use skatelite as like
1:13:33
as a bali. I have the same thing way too.
1:13:36
And I mean, that would could Take a hit better.
1:13:40
It was like water resistant, so we don't have to worry about it.
1:13:42
So what we did was, we would make this bracket that would
1:13:45
bolt onto the bumper support and we would face it down.
1:13:48
So when it would hit the car like when the body of the car
1:13:52
would like hit the floor, it would hit that but it wouldn't
1:13:54
like true the bumper. So what I had crashed after the
1:13:59
competition it was like already night time I hit the wall and
1:14:03
that crazy like support that I had for it.
1:14:07
It was a test of the frame rail. End up sending like, you know,
1:14:10
forced to like the driver, like rear frame rail and had a rough
1:14:14
spot on the back, like, underneath the crossmember and
1:14:17
it just like sheared my frame and it was like like the hey it
1:14:20
wasn't bad. Like that could have been fixed
1:14:22
but it was just what happened from, you know, Russ being
1:14:25
exposed. Like, rip that off.
1:14:28
And it just, it wasn't table. Unfortunately.
1:14:31
Damn, like it just like wasn't worth the work and then that
1:14:36
essentially, a transition did you didn't even try to repair
1:14:39
your transition to yeah. So remember how I said I was
1:14:41
kind of like at a plateau where I was like, like I don't know
1:14:43
what I want to do with this car anymore.
1:14:45
Yeah, I had bought that S15 I'm like well, I'm looking at my
1:14:49
photos now. I had the S15 so I was thinking
1:14:52
at that time like our, I'm gonna put the 1j in that car anyway,
1:14:55
like do all this shit and then when end up by seeing the One
1:14:58
person was like I can't do this like because the same thing when
1:15:01
I got my black pepper, for those of you who don't know, Josh has
1:15:04
an S Satine. We're showing it now that and
1:15:06
I'll show what he means by. It's so clean.
1:15:08
It's really fucking what year is that?
1:15:11
Cause I remember you getting old 20, 2017 is when he got it.
1:15:15
That's my question. When you has been five years at
1:15:18
this point. Okay.
1:15:18
I was just thinking about it. The other day.
1:15:20
I was like, holy crap. Yeah, I do remember when you
1:15:21
bought it. Then I remember seeing you
1:15:23
pulling the motor out and all that.
1:15:25
Yeah. Damn.
1:15:26
That's the underneath of it. Yeah.
1:15:29
I was like, I can't. Okay.
1:15:32
And I like, you know, like I was fresh.
1:15:35
I like Prime at all like the jams in the seals and everything
1:15:38
I por-15 underneath the car had a S14 at the time.
1:15:43
So I took all like the subframe the front and rear end out of
1:15:46
that car because everything was like refreshed with like
1:15:48
bushings and everything. It was just easy to pop that and
1:15:51
I kind of like build that car in a month and a half.
1:15:54
That's fucking. And then I bought like a turnkey
1:15:57
S15 swap from some do that like What are our B-26 in his F-16?
1:16:02
So I got like a full drop in Swap and 6 Speed and everything.
1:16:05
Yeah, six speed. So that's a Spec s.
1:16:08
It's a spec as car and then just full, like spec are drivetrain
1:16:12
dude. Yeah, that's it's Plug and Play.
1:16:15
Like it was automatic car. So same Shadows S14, just jumped
1:16:19
the wire and that's it. Like turns on that you do you do
1:16:23
not see a ness15 everyday? Like and that one is extremely
1:16:27
clean. Yeah.
1:16:29
Keeps the have like 37 Thousand Miles when I first got it.
1:16:33
I am so somebody like 2527 fucking insane.
1:16:38
Now, it has like 100, just like those at six.
1:16:41
I just like this is a photo binocular explosion.
1:16:44
Every so often in your photos because something breaks Fuck,
1:16:51
dude. That's that's so yeah, then and
1:16:54
and Uptown S14. I sold, I put that car back to
1:16:58
stock. So I put all that certain stock
1:17:00
shit on that car. I took the SR out of it, I sold
1:17:04
it to Joe. I took his Ka put that and then
1:17:06
I sold sold as 14. So I won't point I have.
1:17:09
That's 13. 14 and 15? Just like kind of cool.
1:17:12
Yeah it's like every isn't Cassie.
1:17:14
Nerds is dream. Yeah, literally.
1:17:16
So as you're building this s, You're also trying to figure
1:17:19
out, I got to get rid of this car, and I gotta get a new drift
1:17:22
car, right? Yeah.
1:17:24
So I had parted everything out on the hatch.
1:17:28
I don't know exactly where, like, my plan was car wise, but
1:17:34
Alex decided he didn't want to drift the more because we don't
1:17:37
have a shop and the buying that car and like that was that?
1:17:41
So he crashed it. I find about three also, it's
1:17:44
like one of the shot Dynasty cars and he sold it to me for 5
1:17:48
grand. Had I just sold the stupid one J
1:17:51
out of my car. So now I have another one Jake
1:17:53
are again, so that car is one J Type X Arrow cage.
1:17:59
I got the car for 5 grand but it was crashed have no blonde work
1:18:02
to it. Yeah.
1:18:03
So I'm posting I'm showing this photo right now of it when it's
1:18:06
done but that is like, what? That was my favorite.
1:18:10
Yeah, I bought that car. I remember Valentine's Day of
1:18:14
whatever year that was and I don't know what.
1:18:18
In when yeah. Whoo that photos from March
1:18:24
29th. That means he transform that
1:18:27
whole car into that and like maybe I don't know why because
1:18:31
you told me Nakia was coming to California, super D?
1:18:35
Yeah, dude, get another one, that Frankie ruins your life
1:18:39
real quick. Okay, let me, this is the first
1:18:41
time we were ready, you know, once we are and what we are, the
1:18:44
two people that ruin lives of our friends.
1:18:47
Yeah. Yeah, like he does it for Front
1:18:49
Street and I do it for faction. So he basically course me is
1:18:52
like dude this crazy-ass events going on super D.
1:18:57
It might be in April or whatever.
1:18:59
I was like damn shit. Like I gotta go like I might be
1:19:03
yeah, either reason. That you your car's high now?
1:19:07
No, because I don't you go to that car.
1:19:10
I wanted to set it up like this to begin with.
1:19:13
Okay, only reason why I wanted to at the time is because Alex
1:19:17
was going to do this on his own. He was already.
1:19:20
So he was. He already wanted to do this
1:19:23
like he was already like super like inspired by like the Seas
1:19:25
garage cars. He's like I want to put a big
1:19:27
tires on my car. I want to raise my car and I
1:19:30
want to do whatever body kit. This is I don't think we knew
1:19:33
like it was racing line at the time but okay, it always sounds
1:19:35
pictures. Like this is what I want to do.
1:19:37
This is when football transition starts happening.
1:19:40
So I figured screw it. Like you know I'll build my car
1:19:43
like this. Maybe we'll get him motivated to
1:19:45
buy another car and do it again and it didn't for a while.
1:19:48
But But but eventually he eventually like it, did.
1:19:51
Yeah. Click the photo with like the
1:19:53
mismatched arrow and everything. That's so good down and that's
1:19:57
over. Yeah, there we go.
1:19:58
I was trying to find a photo of it so it's like March at that
1:20:01
point. Yeah Silvio racing Line kit is
1:20:06
Have aggressive now but every time I look at it I'm like I
1:20:09
want to have them all. Yeah.
1:20:11
Like I wish I could just like rotate them like on Deck.
1:20:15
Why just like the I like the racing line.
1:20:17
Get what is he like? That is not big.
1:20:19
Yeah, that's my favorite part looks different than than your
1:20:23
standard like, you know, being a proxy like yeah.
1:20:26
Like, you know, hands like bubbly.
1:20:28
But yeah, I know what you're saying.
1:20:29
Upside down FedEx box. That's various like, but like it
1:20:35
just looks different. Also the fact that you painted
1:20:37
the other layer like of on the bottoms like you painted with
1:20:42
yeah, like so undertone. Damn.
1:20:45
So yeah, that was like the start of that car so I had had the 1j
1:20:49
in that. We went to Super D my life,
1:20:52
really got corrupted at that point.
1:20:54
Yeah, super D was I feel that's what I say in the other night on
1:20:57
a podcast. I said super do was really the
1:20:59
pivotal that's seeing the okey and Julian and everyone.
1:21:03
That's a turning point for you. Yeah.
1:21:06
Turning point for me because now we are like on the complete
1:21:09
opposite end Coast. I want to say, I don't know,
1:21:16
like there is more to Drifting other than what's in the east
1:21:20
coast and that was like just a big eye-opener in general.
1:21:24
Like that was kind of like the first time where you kind of you
1:21:28
feel like you're a big fish in a small pond and then you go
1:21:31
outward that way. And then you have international
1:21:33
guests and then you feel really small and a really big On real
1:21:36
quick. Damn, you're like, wow, like if
1:21:39
you thought you were a good bike, just got that thought,
1:21:43
like out of your head to begin with because you're not, these
1:21:47
are some photos. I'm going to center it.
1:21:48
Now, this is before you want to Super dierent are.
1:21:50
No, no, no. So you did.
1:21:51
Yes after super-deep. Yeah.
1:21:53
Super T is like 20 2018. So the vinyl came after super D,
1:21:57
I was just trying to find some super D photos but I guess I
1:22:00
don't have any. I don't do anything crazy.
1:22:03
I was I was drifting but I, ya know.
1:22:06
Thing like memorable or like worth noting that.
1:22:09
So driving with all of those other influences, you saw the,
1:22:14
we you were giving I wasn't even driving with them.
1:22:16
I just, I watch this. I mean, like now he was like
1:22:20
gunning down cars with double the horsepower and like yeah,
1:22:23
decreasing radius track and you're like, wow, like all
1:22:26
right, you don't need like any of this crazy stuff.
1:22:29
And I remember my new, this is a Matsuri.
1:22:31
So it was like 48-hour, like straight event like yeah, like
1:22:35
there was no All no down time it was.
1:22:38
Whatever got there. Friday night set up Saturday
1:22:41
10:00. We did not stop.
1:22:43
You didn't hear a tire screeching stop till Sunday like
1:22:46
6:00. Yeah, remember that.
1:22:48
So not literally all night. Wait, so like, any time of the
1:22:51
night, like, if you just never stop, there's like two cars on
1:22:54
track. You're like, damn, I'm yeah.
1:22:56
Get on, Just Go. It only stopped because I think
1:22:58
the generator went out at like 4:30 5:00 in the morning.
1:23:01
So there was no lights and was we're in the desert.
1:23:03
It was Pitch Black. Damn.
1:23:05
That's why. Okay, cool.
1:23:07
I remember like looking under that car and this card stock
1:23:10
brake lines, like just regular Knuckles, regular control arms,
1:23:13
regular sway bar, like yeah. Like my new like they built the
1:23:19
car for him but it was as bare minimum as it could get.
1:23:24
Yo, we have eaten Lazarus in the hood.
1:23:28
You were there to pretty, right? Yeah.
1:23:31
You were there. Yeah, like over cars are still
1:23:40
like dorks back at the time. Whoa.
1:23:44
Chill. Ha ha ha.
1:23:47
Yeah, like I said, it was just like a completely like just
1:23:51
different like Game Changer, like seeing like animal style
1:23:55
kind of like on their home front, like what they with the
1:23:58
driving style that they like to do and I was like, wow.
1:24:01
Like I want to do that like how the hell do I start doing that?
1:24:05
And I don't know, it's kind of were you like falling out of
1:24:08
love for Like the lower style cars at the same time or was it
1:24:15
just like these cars drive harder?
1:24:16
So I need to just raise my car. It wasn't, it wasn't.
1:24:18
It was I couldn't convey how I felt at the time because like I
1:24:24
said, with the hatch, like I felt like I had plateaued
1:24:26
already. So I now really know what
1:24:28
direction. Yeah.
1:24:30
Like I didn't know what direction I wanted to go.
1:24:32
Like so I want to say aesthetically I think at the
1:24:35
time like when I wanted to keep it, I wanted to do like car.
1:24:38
Modify Wonder with like a bigger tire set up.
1:24:41
Yeah. You know like raise a car and
1:24:43
everything and either way you were thinking bigger tire.
1:24:47
Yeah. Like that car.
1:24:48
I thought I'm super do you had to Thirty fives all around?
1:24:50
- I only had like two months, put that car together.
1:24:53
So I still had PBM coilovers that were essentially whatever
1:24:57
picture you showed like that was like the max height that you
1:24:59
could get out of the rear before it fell out of the shock body.
1:25:02
So I couldn't get the car, any, any taller than how I had it at
1:25:06
that point. That is that problem that I'm
1:25:10
running with now because in my car I have an is and like it
1:25:13
runs. I have like, BC extreme lows and
1:25:16
I can't get it up higher. Well, that's just get bigger
1:25:19
shock body now. I'm gonna avenge.
1:25:20
Yeah, that's the plan. Yeah, the burner right now.
1:25:24
You're shocked by these are longer collar or just switch
1:25:29
them out for stands. Good plug.
1:25:32
Yeah, yeah. So the Matsuri thing is suppose
1:25:37
that they do know that I thought that it was just like no, no,
1:25:40
no. That was a pivotal point for me,
1:25:42
for sure. And then and then you went to
1:25:44
Japan and you actually went to Japan that was until 20 those
1:25:49
three years ago so I was around 29 2019.
1:25:53
So you got to actually experience right before the
1:25:55
panda that really ruins. Yeah, that that was like the
1:25:59
turning point and then Out there.
1:26:01
I was like, all right. There's no coming back from
1:26:03
this. That's pretty much.
1:26:07
There's a lot of photos from this event, like if my life
1:26:09
wasn't set up the way it is now and I had nothing to, I be gone,
1:26:14
I'd be out there working doing something, somehow to like,
1:26:17
permanently be up. If Jonna wasn't a thing, you'd
1:26:20
be gone in Japan. So Gone, like I do not want to
1:26:25
be. I want to be here.
1:26:26
But mentally like driving driving wise?
1:26:29
I do not want to be here. Yeah, at all.
1:26:32
So that was a big moment for you and I I remember you were when
1:26:36
you came back, you were like, really, really stoked on
1:26:39
everything. Yeah, I was already changing and
1:26:43
then that was kind of like, the point of well, yeah, because the
1:26:46
videos that I would, we would watch it would be like, like the
1:26:50
flakes were completely different.
1:26:53
Like the way you're initiating and shit, it just looks so
1:26:55
aggressive. And I'm just American style.
1:26:58
Drifting is more sweeper and like on throttle like big open
1:27:02
stuff and everything kind of Japan.
1:27:05
And like at least from what it seems like most tracks.
1:27:08
Like it's like a it's designed to entertain spectator so
1:27:13
there's always like a big focal point of a track so usually like
1:27:18
your first turn or like your main street or something is like
1:27:22
where you know you initiates like do something kind of like
1:27:27
ridiculous. So most of the tracks out there
1:27:29
are like decreasing radius which, you know, you're going
1:27:32
full Sprint as fast as you can, and you need to slow down.
1:27:35
So that's kind of like the driving style.
1:27:38
I like, because it's more scary, because you're trying to come to
1:27:42
a controlled stop while staying online to get back on throttle
1:27:45
and, and get out. So yeah, it's not so much like
1:27:48
reverse entries or doing back he's or whatever.
1:27:51
It's like the style driving I like is aggressive tracks with
1:27:55
layouts. That have decreasing radius and
1:27:58
dangerous and dangerous. Yeah.
1:28:00
Because so you're heading into the corner as fast as you can.
1:28:03
Pretty much. Yeah.
1:28:04
Like, I like that. So you see it coming.
1:28:06
So controlled, stop, so Technical and yeah, it's there's
1:28:10
a lot more thought like you're looking like where you want to
1:28:14
go and like, point the car as opposed to, like, driving a skid
1:28:17
pad or an oval, or like yeehaw, like Lauren it.
1:28:20
Like I just have no, no interest in doing anything like that.
1:28:25
Yeah. Easy to stack up on a big wide
1:28:28
course that, you know, you're on throttle, like, you have time to
1:28:31
correct and shit. Like, in that bigger question
1:28:34
time, there's just Is nothing scary about it.
1:28:38
It's I don't know. I don't want to like shit on it
1:28:41
too much because that's kind of like you know people like that's
1:28:45
what they like to do but that's just not what I'm into and I'm
1:28:47
just yeah interested in entertaining that kind of
1:28:50
driving. Yeah.
1:28:52
Like some tracks we go to like you're kind of forced to run
1:28:54
like a layout like that like where you're like kind of mangy
1:28:57
like in the middle and like doing like soupy slow stuff
1:29:00
stacked like yeah, it's fun for a tandem and like getting close
1:29:03
but I want to I want to die. Yeah, I feel the same way about
1:29:08
mangy, know, like every time there's a mangy section or
1:29:11
something. Like so aside from Club loose,
1:29:13
like what would you say your favorite courses like to death
1:29:16
to a remote that kind of Japanese style, I guess here in
1:29:20
the US? The US before they've ruined it.
1:29:23
Apple Valley. Grange, they made it wider.
1:29:26
So it made it easier. Yeah.
1:29:29
Like they could have not made it as wide as they could but like
1:29:32
you know now they got like people doing like 360s down the
1:29:35
street. It's too wide.
1:29:37
Yeah, they're doing that. Then it's like that.
1:29:39
Super d. That's who the event.
1:29:41
Like you could barely fit three cars across like if there was
1:29:45
three cars going down the street.
1:29:47
And there were like nose-to-tail the third car was already like
1:29:49
basically in the gutter of the opposite side.
1:29:51
Like there was no room to breathe like you had a, you
1:29:54
know, be aggressive State and stay on the track, no room for
1:29:58
error. Yeah, there's no room for error
1:29:59
because if not you were going through the dirt and through the
1:30:02
brick wall and the in the drop-off on the track was Uh
1:30:05
yeah. Did you like a foot?
1:30:08
How did you like that one? Frankie did your Transmissions
1:30:11
horrible? I'm already know.
1:30:13
It was cool to spectate. Ha ha ha!
1:30:15
My car was too. He's got a heavy foot.
1:30:18
Yes, I spent way too much time prepping.
1:30:20
My car for that event to just break it by falling off the
1:30:23
track on the first turn so I wasn't even mad.
1:30:26
I was like, whatever I keep throwing Malcolm's and photos to
1:30:29
put up, this is just when the car still looks the same and I
1:30:33
mean the second to last one, we Mystery turn your probably tell.
1:30:37
In Englishtown, I remember that. Let's before I put the stock
1:30:41
outers back on. I couldn't get the car backwards
1:30:45
and this is what we're talking about dangerous.
1:30:48
That's Jeff. Stone by eating the tires.
1:30:51
I got a clip of that we're doing like oh, a little under 100.
1:30:55
Uh-huh. It was like hot lap.
1:30:58
Yeah, they're starting from like the back.
1:31:00
Yeah, we started from the back. That one.
1:31:03
I'm act pretty bad. Yeah.
1:31:04
This is what he means by like this.
1:31:06
So now the driving the driving is getting way crazier than
1:31:09
well, it was bad to be fair that photo was like, very pathetic.
1:31:13
It was cold and I pulled the ebrake on the cards are snapped
1:31:15
in two so that was just an accident.
1:31:17
Yeah, it's just a dumb accident. That's how I'm being dumb.
1:31:21
Yeah, that's not even worth putting up.
1:31:23
Just Tom change another transmission or something.
1:31:27
Damn, I hear you. I wonder when that turning point
1:31:32
is going to be for us as I like this, this year, like Frank and
1:31:36
I've been taught her. Well, maybe I actually talking.
1:31:38
I actually like, it took me years, it literally took me
1:31:41
years, like, yeah. But you never, you never.
1:31:43
I feel like when you're in that moment, you probably didn't even
1:31:46
you were just trying to, you're just trying to get better at
1:31:48
what you love. You always think.
1:31:52
I don't know. It's, I don't know how to like
1:31:54
really, like convey this but Basically obviously like what
1:31:58
you your driving experience at this point like what you know is
1:32:03
what you know and like that's it like you you are at your
1:32:07
ultimate form right now and then at some point like two years,
1:32:10
three years down the road, you're going to look back at
1:32:13
this exact moment. Like, wow.
1:32:14
Like I didn't know shit and I thought I was really good, or I
1:32:18
thought I was decent off to do this, but I was actually really
1:32:20
trash and I have that Epiphany every single time I drive.
1:32:26
Ya And I just, I'm always pushing to, you know, like
1:32:32
Elevate or try something more dangerous or I don't, I don't
1:32:38
really know what I'm what I'm getting at here, but no, I mean
1:32:41
you just progressing your drug. Yeah.
1:32:42
You're you're progressing in, you're driving and you would
1:32:45
back in. You're like, well, that that's
1:32:46
kind of whack. Yeah.
1:32:47
And the new learned so much like in between like it's it's just
1:32:52
growth. Yes, honestly.
1:32:54
So the next photo I sent him is The competition.
1:32:57
You want to write? Yeah, Street series u.s.
1:33:00
Drift actually. You are not second.
1:33:02
Yeah. Oh shit.
1:33:03
I figure number. Not all because you keep going.
1:33:06
Second arm. Yeah, yeah.
1:33:08
Super d, 1 p 2. So at Super G Quest.
1:33:13
He got second place as well. S, this is when the competition
1:33:16
competition straight kind of starts.
1:33:18
And yeah, so that's US Direct seat Street series.
1:33:24
I got second in that. I've only won one competition
1:33:28
which one was yeah. I was lock city streets.
1:33:31
Here is the first one. And my car kept falling apart
1:33:35
and then it's like either like kept placing or some stupid
1:33:39
would happen. I want to drive lock City looks
1:33:42
fun. Gone in like all allegedly in,
1:33:46
like two weeks. Oh yeah, I'm not the one that
1:33:48
you told me about. Yeah, we're trying to get
1:33:50
everyone to go. Yeah, you told me about this a
1:33:52
week ago, she knows what's up. You're driving, Tino Martinez
1:33:56
coming. Yeah, I remember he was in the
1:33:58
chair with the alignment photo. Wow.
1:34:06
What happened to comment on the the turning point that you
1:34:13
experience. I feel like for me and Carl is
1:34:16
if we had a designated drift car, it would be a lot sooner.
1:34:20
It's like me like me drifting the Sylvia.
1:34:22
I like I'm never going to get there.
1:34:23
Feeling, always just scared. You're gonna mop it up.
1:34:27
I think that made it easier for me to because then I have that.
1:34:30
So Tina's, the streetcar and then they'll the Chrome like
1:34:32
whatever. Like you that thing is not that
1:34:34
I seen the photo of what it looks like underneath.
1:34:37
There's no changing moment. You proposed Jonna.
1:34:43
Oh shit. And you got a house, dude.
1:34:47
Yeah, you're living because this is a, this isn't yet.
1:34:49
Like feel like everyone thinks this is like, you're like
1:34:53
everyone's full time thing. Well, with Josh, a kinda is,
1:34:56
yeah. Like I was going to get to that
1:34:58
punching. Busy becomes a second job and
1:35:00
then try to bounce drifting and then you get is crazy bouncer.
1:35:05
Really? It's hard.
1:35:06
It's not easy. I can't believe you got a
1:35:08
fucking house. I remember that.
1:35:09
I was like He got a house and he proposed make, damn, he's gonna
1:35:12
get married and he's doing all the drifting like all of it.
1:35:16
Yeah. That's that's it was not easy.
1:35:20
I'll tell you that. You will your, if I made it.
1:35:21
Look easy. Sorry.
1:35:22
It's not. You did make it look easy
1:35:24
because I don't sleep. You got us over here thinking
1:35:27
like fuck, yeah, that was wrong. Well Josh struck luck man.
1:35:32
You know like son has a John and for putting up with all that
1:35:36
good. Oh my God.
1:35:37
Anybody wouldn't want to go to every single event wish I could?
1:35:40
Where can I find that? Video is immediately knows.
1:35:43
I'm talking about what he's doing a donut, and she's just
1:35:45
like overhears this video. A jonathas filming herself
1:35:48
inside the passenger seat of Josh's car.
1:35:50
One night, he's in a parking lot, just drifting around and
1:35:52
all you see is just John is facing her hair blowing back and
1:35:55
forth in the middle she like one jug.
1:35:57
Yeah. That's my favorite video ever.
1:36:08
Yeah I mean that's my Rocking my support system.
1:36:12
Yeah, well congratulations that's always good to hear that,
1:36:15
always. Always want to hear somebody
1:36:17
succeeding. Yeah.
1:36:18
Not everyone has that luxury, me and Frankie.
1:36:21
And Chris and well I don't you know, you're my support system
1:36:26
called saying that she lets everything like well like oh
1:36:29
yeah, just do whatever you want, but I'm keeping you alive.
1:36:32
Wow, Car. Chris got mad at that.
1:36:34
All right, I take it back now, you take it back now, but You
1:36:38
have any more questions? I've got a loss.
1:36:40
I got a few. All right.
1:36:41
Because I have you know obviously I want to I want to
1:36:43
ask like what sin if there are a couple questions in the chat to.
1:36:46
Yeah let's go to the chat real quick.
1:36:47
Yeah with the chats been going on here.
1:36:49
Let's read a couple of them down here.
1:36:53
Why test? 15 suck, Mike Martine.
1:36:55
Oh yeah, well he's got one shot that's why you change the color
1:36:59
of his car. Ethan here not not this eaten in
1:37:03
the room but you didn't the chat as is probably about almost an
1:37:07
hour ago. He asked is a better to have a
1:37:09
mentor / friend with more knowledge and resources then you
1:37:14
or should you make make your way up by yourself?
1:37:18
That's a good question because I feel like I was a guinea pig
1:37:22
like personally for a lot of things because I didn't really
1:37:24
have anyone to reach out to or talk to.
1:37:27
So, you know, I unfortunately made a lot of mistakes but
1:37:31
that's kind of where I got to like, where I am now.
1:37:34
Like, were you saying before I look kind of like the OCD thing
1:37:36
like, oh, yeah, you you wouldn't know that these things happen
1:37:39
unless it actually happened to you like it.
1:37:42
Or you wouldn't take something as serious as if someone with
1:37:45
more experience. Is telling you like oh hey like
1:37:47
do this but I mean, I want to say now like drifting so
1:37:51
saturated and accessible, there's a lot of people that
1:37:54
have, you know, mentors and people that you can look up to
1:37:58
and talk to for things and that definitely, you know, rapidly
1:38:02
like exponentially, like, pushes your progression level, and you
1:38:06
see it now with, like, a lot of younger kids or parents out of
1:38:10
first, all parents, like being supportive and the hobby that
1:38:13
they want to do, like getting them Asim or even helping them
1:38:15
by a drift car or like just being like a Act.
1:38:18
Add like, you know, bringing them to the track.
1:38:21
There's a lot of there's a lot of kids that are coming up that
1:38:24
are ridiculous at this time, right?
1:38:26
Yeah. Like it's kind of getting kind
1:38:28
of like how, you know, skateboarding is now where you
1:38:31
see like all these prodigies, like eight-year-old,
1:38:33
ten-year-old prodigies. Oh yeah, well that's that's
1:38:35
actually one of my questions. Let me just get into this wall
1:38:38
lower on it. Basically, I was going to say
1:38:41
how does it feel to have kids in the drifts and looking up to
1:38:43
you? And I was as I'm writing this,
1:38:45
I'm like having a realization like I'm like, well I never
1:38:47
really thought about Out, until I started asking this question,
1:38:50
but it really is similar to when you were skateboarding, you
1:38:54
know, when you're, when you're younger and you're looking up to
1:38:56
these people that are like, not necessarily Pros, but they got
1:38:59
like six videos and like, you see them in different videos on
1:39:03
well, like subculture like, do you mean?
1:39:06
He's like aspect. Yeah, for us.
1:39:08
But, like, and now it's like now we're becoming the same thing to
1:39:13
them except yeah, just even more easily, accessible.
1:39:16
Kind of you kind. It was like, you Watching DVDs
1:39:19
and shit for yeah, I mean we've been doing this.
1:39:23
It seems like we're always trying to like reach to find the
1:39:26
next thing but like when you look back on it like we've had
1:39:29
this whole podcast where I'm like that was what year like I
1:39:31
did. I like and I'm like looking at
1:39:33
all these pictures and there's just been so much growth and is
1:39:36
like a journey along the way. Well, like just pretty sick as
1:39:39
an a like, like right here, me sitting right here.
1:39:43
I'm an example of that because I ask you a bunch of shit.
1:39:47
Yeah, like I think Carl's for, I always think you're like on the
1:39:51
same level as me, same thing with Chris, but then I'm like, I
1:39:53
guess they're a little know they're couple years before.
1:39:56
Yeah. And I didn't really get fully
1:39:58
enveloped in this thing until like, I don't know, until I
1:40:01
started working and I started buying shit.
1:40:04
Yeah. Then and like, spending money to
1:40:06
go to track days or this. Them has a different level time
1:40:11
for growth. Yeah, life.
1:40:12
I could have done it sooner. I would have if I had like a
1:40:15
mint or something. Who could steer me in the right
1:40:18
direction? Or even someone other than my
1:40:21
parents, like an actual adult that could have told me like
1:40:25
that, since the drifting like, hey, like if you really want to
1:40:27
get into shit, like you should really think long-term like, get
1:40:31
like a real like solid career. That's going to allow you to
1:40:35
afford your thing and do like this kind of stuff.
1:40:37
Well, I mean people don't have that and then they kind of get
1:40:40
stuck in these like, weird patterns where, you know,
1:40:43
they're buying and selling shit on their car just to get by and
1:40:46
then, Got phased out and then they have you know no job or you
1:40:51
know like struggling to make ends meet.
1:40:53
That's what that was literally me.
1:40:54
You like what? Two years ago a year ago?
1:40:57
Yeah. And then Frankie is yelling at
1:40:58
me like you're talking a car right now.
1:41:00
Keep fucking buying all these cars and shit semi Wheels today.
1:41:03
He's like yeah we never see these will never sell cars.
1:41:06
Like whatever a car I have like I'm going to die with it to ya
1:41:10
and or total it or toilet. Yeah.
1:41:12
But not it seems like even when it's totaled you're going to try
1:41:14
to keep it? Yeah.
1:41:15
Like it's you can. By just about any corner of the
1:41:19
car at this point now. Yeah, you can make it.
1:41:21
I just found that out recently. Yes, cause I'm like I'm tired.
1:41:26
I said, okay, it happens. Is this growth.
1:41:28
I'm 32 now, I called you, I'm 27.
1:41:31
Yeah, like a 27. We were drifting in the snow.
1:41:35
Yeah, like doing which I would probably still do.
1:41:37
No, no, I wouldn't do that, but definitely wouldn't be no way.
1:41:40
I don't think I would do. I wear, it's the, it's the part
1:41:43
now that like I appreciate in a different way like when I was a
1:41:46
kid like I would just Toss around.
1:41:48
I had an s13 hatch with an Sr and it didn't appreciate it for
1:41:51
what it is. Sold it and shit because I
1:41:53
wanted to try to do other things.
1:41:55
Well, Carl has this thing where he he's in, he's addicted to
1:41:58
buying cars, straight up. I mean, I love because you want
1:42:00
to chant you, you liked want to experience it all.
1:42:03
Yeah, that that is we are, as I have, definitely me and Josh,
1:42:06
are there like the same? Yeah, we don't have that issue.
1:42:11
When we get something, we keep it until literally.
1:42:13
Like my, I still have my car from 2012 and the only way I'm
1:42:16
getting rid of it is If I total it, I would have kept my car.
1:42:19
Like, if I could have like my hats, that was drifting.
1:42:21
Yeah, things change. And like things happen that are
1:42:24
beyond your control and you got to got to work with as long as
1:42:27
you got a Chris or Tom or anything that can weld
1:42:29
everything for you and because I mean, our cars have been twisted
1:42:34
and shit before. Like I guess that's also like a
1:42:37
message in case we have like any young.
1:42:38
Listen, if there are any young listeners and out, there we got
1:42:40
some good language, I mean some good, some good info right off.
1:42:44
The bat would be try to figure out what you want before you Are
1:42:47
buying a car. You can't tell somebody to
1:42:49
figure something out right off through.
1:42:50
You can because they got YouTube video or even see our way you
1:42:53
want to buy figure out where you want to end up, where you want
1:42:57
to end up in life because this is not, I mean, like earlier,
1:43:03
like we didn't know that like, this would grow to what it is.
1:43:06
Now, it's so saturated and expose, like this is never going
1:43:09
anywhere and it's only going to get bigger.
1:43:11
Yeah, the only problem I can see now is, if someone's having fomo
1:43:16
buying A certain car that they might not be able to afford
1:43:19
because it's going to be more expensive later on.
1:43:22
Yeah. But I don't know, try not to, I
1:43:25
mean, I know I'm going to sound like a hypocrite, but try not to
1:43:28
have like fomo, like, oh, like I need to, like, make this event
1:43:32
or I need to do like this like think long-term like get your
1:43:36
money together. Have a plan.
1:43:39
And things kind of just definitely.
1:43:41
Definitely do sound a little girl.
1:43:42
That's like the most that's like the most like La Jolla Shores,
1:43:47
but that's smart though. Yeah.
1:43:48
Like you gotta think. You got to think ahead.
1:43:51
Yeah, for sure. I'm supposed to like, if you're
1:43:53
young, like, if there's something you want to do like
1:43:56
nothing, you gotta go to school but really figure it out.
1:43:59
Yeah, figure out where, where you want to live the cost of
1:44:02
living actually like talk to people that are experienced and
1:44:07
you know Thing and that are really in it.
1:44:11
Not like, oh, I hit like 12 events, like people that are
1:44:14
like regularly making events. Like I could break down like,
1:44:16
how much a season costs like yeah.
1:44:20
At this point. Like how much tires are like?
1:44:23
You answer the question? Yes.
1:44:24
Having a mentor would probably be very helpful.
1:44:27
Yeah. And not to plug the YouTube.
1:44:30
We have a lot of informational videos on like kind of do's and
1:44:35
don'ts sort of and where we keep making space.
1:44:38
We just advice and like information that not a lot of
1:44:41
people put out there. We make these videos because we
1:44:45
been through the experience so that you guys don't have to and
1:44:48
then you can make the right choices and not waste your
1:44:51
money. Yeah.
1:44:52
But also take it with a grain of salt too.
1:44:54
Yeah, I'm the ignorant side like I've made a lot of mistakes
1:44:58
going through. You know, this.
1:45:00
Chris would always tell me the right thing.
1:45:02
I feel like you you and Frankie and Josh.
1:45:04
You guys are having a CVS. Receipt of all the things I've
1:45:07
done wrong, like yeah. Oh Chris.
1:45:10
Chris was of awesome money. It does this cost you money.
1:45:13
Yeah and you don't make that mistake again because you
1:45:16
fucking paid out your ass to do that and then do the work twice.
1:45:20
Yeah you got it. Chris was the one that would
1:45:21
always tell you not to do something.
1:45:23
You did it anyway, easily read over.
1:45:24
He didn't listen to anybody until I met you.
1:45:27
I don't miss anything because I remember when your car broke
1:45:30
down, we talked about it. The other one, when your car
1:45:32
broke down on the way back from final bout that is when I found
1:45:35
out everything about you because that was when all your friends
1:45:37
were talking mad shit because they're like Why are we in this
1:45:39
fucking position? You know.
1:45:41
All that kind of kid has but I'm the one who's not an intended,
1:45:43
it would make it. Yeah.
1:45:44
I know. So everyone is like, what the
1:45:46
fuck? So Chris is what your daily like
1:45:49
broken. Yeah.
1:45:50
So Chris is like, you know, Carl.
1:45:52
He makes these decisions. I try to tell him not to and
1:45:55
this and that and I was like, well, you got to start fucking
1:45:58
slap the shit out of him or something because but it just so
1:46:00
happened like I feel like that moment might have been a turning
1:46:04
point for Carl Carl. Yeah.
1:46:06
Just sick of all this shit man. Like Just sucks like well
1:46:10
because then you kept you kept it is you're actually drifting
1:46:13
events with it. You don't look like a while to
1:46:15
build. It was my daily.
1:46:17
Yeah. So like I saved up bread.
1:46:19
Did the manual swab, then welded the desk?
1:46:21
The worst worst thing you could do.
1:46:24
Well, I wonder if the daily now because I bought it, I bought a
1:46:28
daily like yeah. And I was like, fuck it.
1:46:30
I like this car. It's a good platform.
1:46:33
I can't get into an S chassis again.
1:46:35
If I wanted to maybe want a namakkal about this.
1:46:37
Yeah. So, I just built it on his stock
1:46:40
angle been. I was like, alright, stock
1:46:42
angles, kind of boring. I want to drift harder now, you
1:46:46
just gotta break that addiction to buying shit.
1:46:47
Now, will ya? Which a lot of people have?
1:46:50
I do a lot of people have that Joe.
1:46:53
Yeah, Joe is like that, just change setups and whatnot to
1:46:56
Branch off. Carl's answer.
1:46:57
Just now, even the same guy in the chat just asked and it's
1:47:02
probably good for a call answer right now.
1:47:04
Would it be more cost? Efficient to keep one car and
1:47:06
keep upgrading it to Upgrading it or keep buying and flipping
1:47:11
cars with more experience. Before you give me a pencil,
1:47:13
answer. Carl as want to describe Carlin
1:47:15
one word. It's all about the experience.
1:47:20
Fuck, you just want to experience everything.
1:47:22
He's like, I feel like you're a glass half empty that prison
1:47:27
like you want to set the right words.
1:47:29
Probably not but it's obviously that's a full.
1:47:31
Like I look at everything as fun.
1:47:33
Like I'm like. All right.
1:47:33
Fuck. That was fun.
1:47:35
And then we went on to the next thing but you just want to
1:47:37
experience everything. I mean, yes.
1:47:38
Yeah, dude. If I could go back though, I
1:47:41
would have kept that. That yeah, exactly.
1:47:44
Because like for Derek on the bicycle tank, complete had an Sr
1:47:48
bone stock. I never reached the potential of
1:47:50
that car. My driving never exceeded the
1:47:53
car, but it doesn't matter. It's getting there now.
1:47:55
Yeah, I mean so what was the question?
1:47:56
Exactly. Are we would it be more cost?
1:48:00
Efficient to keep one car. Bring the phone to you because
1:48:03
the mic, Would it would it be more cost efficient to keep one
1:48:09
car and keep upgrading it or keep buying and flipping cars
1:48:12
for more experienced. Come on, man.
1:48:14
Keep the one that question is self-explanatory.
1:48:17
Keep the one, what did I not see that the person asking that is
1:48:21
someone who is just like Carl? Yeah.
1:48:22
And he's trying to convince himself, not to me.
1:48:24
I let me tell you, Ethan, look, here I had em in the eyes.
1:48:28
I had a silver, is nobody knows this, but I had a silver one.
1:48:32
This thing was a slick, top. Click top.
1:48:35
That doesn't that's that's that's that's not an is like
1:48:39
common thing. It was a slick, top had cloth
1:48:41
seats, no heated seats, no, nothing that was the car to
1:48:43
build and then guess what happened?
1:48:45
You told you know what? I'm gonna sell it.
1:48:47
I need a normal daily. What did I get a fucking Honda
1:48:49
Accord. Sold the Honda Accord.
1:48:51
Got the blue is and then it's been there ever since I've been
1:48:53
having more money ever since then I could actually improve on
1:48:57
my driving because I'm not fucking hopping from car to car.
1:49:00
Yeah dude you're not going to do anything doing that.
1:49:02
Well, how many times did you? You get into a car mod it then
1:49:06
sell that, then get another card then modded, then sell that.
1:49:08
And how the amount of money you probably dumped.
1:49:11
I mean, it's kind of like Tom blown up engines.
1:49:14
He has the same. You bet it's like the same story
1:49:17
over and over and over, but it's like car though.
1:49:20
No, that's the thing. Yeah, props the time for keeping
1:49:22
one car but we're just saying, like, you get into these
1:49:27
situations where it's like, boys, a different breed.
1:49:29
Yeah. There's something wrong with
1:49:30
that. Well, we'll have time on soon,
1:49:31
guys. A different breed.
1:49:33
I don't know if I want to hear his side.
1:49:34
Or again, for that nine millionth time, but whatever it
1:49:39
is, what I was told to build a one-car building, one car for
1:49:43
sure. Stop spending money, Ethan,
1:49:46
unless it's like some obscure drift car.
1:49:49
Then don't do that. Don't do that.
1:49:51
Yeah that's another take a look at it from a cost.
1:49:53
The reason why again, I got one of the reasons why I keep the is
1:49:56
is because parts are on the Shelf.
1:49:58
I can go into an AutoZone and pick up, like, I don't know.
1:50:01
Fucking yeah. And then you compliment how the
1:50:04
nice the door closes? Yeah, I got AC on hell, you got
1:50:08
a sunroof? Yeah, he likes to luxuries, and
1:50:11
then I see one picture of my oven s13 and I'm like, fuck we
1:50:16
touched on this before, but I do have a question.
1:50:18
I want to own asked him before. You get into more.
1:50:21
Of those questions. Yeah, I'm just going to read
1:50:25
this because it's easier. I was I was Let me see what I
1:50:30
really sure. It's easy to read.
1:50:31
Yeah, it's not because I'm talking the way I wrote.
1:50:33
These notes is like me talking to Josh directly.
1:50:36
Talk to Josh. He's right next to you.
1:50:38
I was like you are one of the most dedicated Grassroots
1:50:40
Drifters. I personally know which is a
1:50:42
fact. Do you have time for anything
1:50:44
else? Take me through weekly schedule
1:50:48
straight up weekly schedule right now.
1:50:50
So wake up quarter for 3:45. Yeah this is the thing.
1:50:56
I want these listeners to understand what So work for 30.
1:51:01
I work from 4:30 currently right now.
1:51:04
To 6:00 I leave work. I go to the gym.
1:51:10
It is about 9:00 9:30 at this point, I eat, and I go to bed
1:51:15
and what if you have a drift event that weekend?
1:51:18
Um, I better pray to God that the car works because right now,
1:51:20
I'm pretty dedicated to the gym right now.
1:51:23
So you probably weren't going to the gym when you got to work on
1:51:26
the car or something. Yeah, so that's kind of like,
1:51:28
one thing that I've been trying to, like, focus on more.
1:51:31
Like my like, mental, my mental health.
1:51:34
Like, like I am at work and I am working, but I'm not working.
1:51:40
Like how most people would wear their literally straight.
1:51:42
Like I have like gaps and like time like in between like with
1:51:46
my schedule and everything. So like if I can multi manage
1:51:49
and like get things done like go to the gym or you know, like
1:51:52
ship out orders for fronts tree or oh, I have an event coming
1:51:56
up. I'm going to drive my car to
1:51:57
work. Come to Fashion.
1:51:59
Got a line, go back to work. Like finish what I got to do,
1:52:01
like, just my time is very valuable, and there's definitely
1:52:06
no time in my life to be bored. So I'm always like on the Move.
1:52:09
That's Fucking dedicate. It is though.
1:52:11
Yeah. Hell he he he lives in Staten
1:52:13
Island so he's no. I live in Jersey, you live in
1:52:15
Jersey. Now our consent basically.
1:52:17
Yeah. Basically, across the river, but
1:52:20
so he has to drive all the way up here on his, the time in
1:52:24
between shifts or at least it's closer from Staten Island to
1:52:26
here than it is for my house. Luckily.
1:52:29
Oh yeah. So he does that comes here, gets
1:52:31
an alignment. Hopefully, we can figure it all
1:52:33
out and the amount of times I think I picked up or borrow like
1:52:36
yeah, then you some drive back and that's having multiple times
1:52:39
like Or he'll go in or you probably go work on your card
1:52:42
sometimes too. Like I'm yeah that's the break
1:52:45
as like big enough like right now like my work schedule is
1:52:48
like really bad so I have not touched the car like it hasn't
1:52:51
been running right since maybe grid life and I honestly I
1:52:55
haven't even looked at it like I've haven't gone near it.
1:52:58
I went to the staggered event. I drove it ran like shit and I
1:53:02
don't like we're trying to do that lock City Event where
1:53:04
Martino was coming and yeah I pretty much have this weekend to
1:53:08
figure it out if not I'm not Going because just my work
1:53:11
schedule and my trying to say like really like dedicated, it's
1:53:14
like going to the gym and, you know, just trying to do
1:53:17
something other than drifting. No, I'm with that.
1:53:20
I'm with some. Which is kind of a first.
1:53:22
Yeah. So not like for me it was
1:53:26
catching up to me like like they got to a point that I was
1:53:29
feeling like really like shitty and looking April just like
1:53:33
yeah. Like I just felt so like
1:53:34
disgusting with myself like my new like my job occupation.
1:53:38
I'm like always in the seat. I was just about 190 and April
1:53:43
and I did. I'm now like the lightest that
1:53:46
like, I've weighed in like a long time.
1:53:48
I'm like 167 now so trying to not Branch off that and have
1:53:53
like another Outlet other than course, because it is called,
1:53:56
it's a good idea and like there's more to life than that.
1:54:01
Yeah. And you don't want to Frankie to
1:54:03
go out to eat or let me know when you go shooting.
1:54:05
Yeah. And then he doesn't.
1:54:07
Yeah, I gotta get better at that.
1:54:09
Um, It's in the same boat. Don't worry, invite me, then.
1:54:13
It actually you do now is we're boys.
1:54:14
Now, he always does. I will say something?
1:54:16
Like did every time we got a gorilla Grill, I fucking forget.
1:54:19
I'm like, God fucking damn it. But the thing is, we always
1:54:22
decide that shit late. I know he's a good.
1:54:26
Do it though? The wood, though, because I want
1:54:28
to hang out with my boys in it. yeah, yeah, that's a good like
1:54:36
Yeah, I'm doing some paint painting right now.
1:54:38
I'm just trying to be. I've been literally been telling
1:54:40
Frankie to paint or I've been talking to Frank about how stuff
1:54:43
and whenever we do that that's an example right there.
1:54:46
It's like nice to not talk about, not talk about cars.
1:54:49
Yeah. Because then you're like
1:54:51
exploring. So it's like newer slimy like
1:54:53
the house stuff that's well, first time.
1:54:56
Like I kind of just like going like a rampage.
1:54:59
Like, if I see someone like complaining about that car, I'm
1:55:01
like Facebook, like a unfriend them and like hahaha Like I
1:55:05
don't know, just kind of like on my Instagram and like everything
1:55:08
else. I've kind of been just deleting
1:55:11
all like, the unnecessary car stuff.
1:55:12
I really don't want to see because I already understand
1:55:16
like the nice aspect and drifting that I want to see.
1:55:19
And like I can count like the 10 cars that I want to see like on
1:55:22
hand drive. Everything else is like, just a
1:55:25
distraction for me. But like, I love like, seeing
1:55:28
like people like I grew up with like, you know, doing house
1:55:31
stuff or like getting married. Like, I mean, it sounds like
1:55:34
repulsive, to Um, people were in our thirties now.
1:55:36
Yeah. Like I don't know.
1:55:37
I like seeing the I like people like seeing people do shit like
1:55:41
that. Like, oh, like they did
1:55:42
something like on the house. Like oh.
1:55:43
Like that's the open. Like yeah.
1:55:45
BS with them or like, oh, like what pain are like?
1:55:48
What did you use? Like, I don't know.
1:55:49
Like, just another, it's another Outlet.
1:55:51
Yeah, literally another Outlet. I mean, it was kind of me with
1:55:54
motorcycles, too. I mean, that's still like a
1:55:56
motorsport though. You know what I mean?
1:55:58
Yeah. But it's different because I'm
1:55:59
surrounded by this all day. So, yeah, so it's just an
1:56:02
outlet. Yeah, so sure on the weekends.
1:56:05
I mean, like, working on and stuff is similar, but my bikes
1:56:08
new. So I don't really do that.
1:56:09
Like, I modified it and then, that was it just like to ride
1:56:11
it. Exactly.
1:56:12
Yeah, that's what I like. So, it's kind of like, where my
1:56:16
car is now to, like, I like experience-wise.
1:56:19
Like I don't see the need to, like, by like those new like
1:56:23
revolutionary part. Like my card, the only reason,
1:56:26
like, why I'm working on my car is because something broke on
1:56:29
it, and I'm just replacing what broke and that's it.
1:56:31
Like I'm gonna seeking, although you do Do I'll take a look like
1:56:36
yeah that's like a lineman set up and stuff like that but the
1:56:38
parts are staying the same like the power levels, you know,
1:56:42
saying the same I just want to stay on track and keep doing
1:56:46
what I'm doing. So that's kind of helped with my
1:56:49
other Outlet, like with the gym to like I have, you know,
1:56:52
something else to look forward to.
1:56:53
And I know the car works for the most part so I can just get to
1:56:57
it like when I can actually goes hand-in-hand to like if you're
1:57:00
in a drift car and you're fucking out of shape, And it's
1:57:03
hot. Yeah you ever have which I think
1:57:06
they all goes out the window for me like s.
1:57:08
I'm in the car. I don't think about that.
1:57:09
These are like things are like I think about like when I'm at
1:57:12
work or like when I'm just not moving and I'm stagnant like
1:57:15
that's kind of like when my mind is going but like drifting is My
1:57:20
brain is not there or like when you're about to go to bed and
1:57:22
you're like shit I should start going to sometimes do too.
1:57:24
Sometimes I grab sometimes. I'll grab that e-brake.
1:57:27
Little too hard. I get out of that car.
1:57:28
I'm like goddamn as you're jacked.
1:57:31
No I'm like oh I felt that when we tend them, right?
1:57:37
When we remember where it's happened to me a couple times I
1:57:41
have a day. Yeah, I just kept pulling
1:57:43
because I didn't want to spin out because I was scared.
1:57:46
I was gonna spend on like Frank. He's just going to be right
1:57:48
there on me by what? Playing it so many times or
1:57:50
like, oh starting to cramp in my for yeah, literally.
1:57:53
Well miyagi-san has to because it's like the seat is.
1:57:55
It's all awkward. So like that was really my
1:57:58
charger if you need potassium, that's not an S chassis.
1:58:03
Not the right car. I was going to say, can we talk
1:58:06
about donkey saw or is that too underground for this podcast?
1:58:09
That was really not really underground.
1:58:11
I just I'll call her like the basis of it, like how it
1:58:15
started. So, first off as nothing to do
1:58:18
with ride height or like Anything like that.
1:58:21
Damn, okay. I'm everybody's always everyone.
1:58:24
Yeah. Like that's literally not what
1:58:26
it was. It was just like an inside joke.
1:58:29
Remember one ABO, came to Virginia.
1:58:31
Yeah, we just talked about this. Yeah.
1:58:33
So so um, basically what it was was, you know, it doesn't really
1:58:39
speak English good. So he was saying something like,
1:58:42
oh, I'm coming to America. I want to show you my Dory style
1:58:45
and then just the way it sounded, it sound like he said,
1:58:48
I want to show you my donkey style and James like lost his -
1:58:51
starkel laughing is like what the hell is donkey sound?
1:58:54
And we're just started like pretending like oh yeah like
1:58:57
recently. Oh yeah.
1:58:58
That's donkey. Like, just like ridiculous
1:59:00
things. Like would never be that but it
1:59:03
never had anything to do with like, but it kind of cars or
1:59:05
anything, like it kind of turned into it though, because then it
1:59:08
was Bozo and Donkey Style. Yeah, like we just like made
1:59:11
like random. I don't like terms but never had
1:59:15
anything and never had anything to do with.
1:59:19
Oh, like donkey means this and Bozo means this.
1:59:22
It was just, we're just messing around like trolling, making
1:59:25
memes. Yeah, pretty much any much it.
1:59:27
Like I wasn't, I was just the The Stunt Driver.
1:59:30
I wasn't making. Everyone loves Donkey Style.
1:59:34
No. Um, all right, any more
1:59:37
questions from the live stream? No, I had a question of like,
1:59:45
What do you sell? Are you just going to continue
1:59:47
to keep driving the same chassis?
1:59:49
That's what, that's your future entails.
1:59:51
I only like us chassis. So whatever is obtainable like a
1:59:55
chassis. I'm just going to keep doing and
1:59:57
that goes back to your. Other question is it worth
1:59:59
changing cars and trying to? There you go.
2:00:01
Yeah, he's not interested in doing that.
2:00:03
Yeah. And he personally thinks that us
2:00:05
chassis is the best roof car. I think it looks the best drift
2:00:07
thing. It is literally, that is
2:00:09
aesthetically the most pleasing car and all forms, except zenki
2:00:13
and convertible. So like this is like the
2:00:16
opposite of Carl. Yeah.
2:00:18
Because you want to try different things.
2:00:20
No. My gosh wants to take he's like,
2:00:22
okay, this is the one like other cars but not for drifting.
2:00:26
Yeah. And if someone's like drifting
2:00:28
that car, it's like cool. Like you can enjoy that for you
2:00:32
but I'm gonna keep hitting like, what's good for you?
2:00:35
You it's good. You can't wait.
2:00:37
Like I you don't, you can't drift is the same way that in
2:00:43
s13 can. And that's It's why I'm with the
2:00:45
fact that yeah they look the best drifting.
2:00:48
They drift the best and they have like a crazy aftermarket
2:00:52
support. You could fucking do, whatever
2:00:53
the hell you want. If you wanted to I like the I
2:00:56
asked because I like the the 110 that's like the only like nice
2:01:00
jzx car in my opinion because it looks like an is yeah.
2:01:05
Yeah. I mean I had one like it's just
2:01:07
it's a sick looking car. Like will it drive like an S
2:01:10
chassis? Not know like what is your
2:01:12
exact? This is just a personal
2:01:14
question. Me because me and you are pretty
2:01:15
similar. So I want to know like when you
2:01:17
see a jzx drifting or something, are you like You still
2:01:21
appreciate watching it or are you like this is just dumb
2:01:24
because it's not a strategy. I don't say it's Dom.
2:01:26
I just I mean I mean in your mind yeah I'm watching it drive
2:01:30
and I'm like yep. That's a drift car.
2:01:33
Like it's not even really like entertaining.
2:01:36
You just want to see as chassis drifting.
2:01:38
Yeah like yeah, there's sick driving, that goes on with like
2:01:41
old cars but then my brain is just mathematically Computing
2:01:45
that it's not enough chassis. And I'm like, alright.
2:01:47
Next like hahaha and then it could be like an F chassis
2:01:50
spinning on my The car looks cool.
2:01:51
Like yeah, literally. All right, I'm going to start
2:01:55
reading some of these Facebook questions and then we'll, we'll
2:01:57
end this. I mean, I'm sorry.
2:01:58
Instagram, we're at two hours. Yeah.
2:02:00
So I'm so bad at this because I just don't read their names
2:02:05
because every time I go to read their Instagram name, I don't
2:02:07
know what the fuck it says, like get some better names guys.
2:02:11
Yeah, this one's easy Samurai Chad.
2:02:13
He asked a bunch of questions, so that's a minute.
2:02:17
Okay, so we'll we'll ask some of these.
2:02:20
I'll ask the ones that haven't been answered already any?
2:02:25
I was, it says, any tips to give the youth starting out, but I
2:02:29
feel like we did a lot of those. Get a real job.
2:02:32
Yeah, real job Mentor helps. And yeah, figure out what car
2:02:39
you want to buy. And if you have the means to
2:02:41
make it happen by it but don't like feel compelled to initially
2:02:46
modify it like get what you want first then get the job.
2:02:50
He pretty much asked all the questions that we just answered
2:02:53
in the last five minutes but one of them is RS.
2:02:56
Chassis cheat codes for drifting or are the drivers actually that
2:03:00
good that's kind. Different.
2:03:01
So meaning if you buy - Jesse are you like is that like a
2:03:06
cheat code because it's so good. I would say yes.
2:03:08
Kind of ribs different for sure. Yeah I would say I guess because
2:03:11
it's more rear bias like oversteer friendly.
2:03:15
I mean from people that I mean I'll use like Brian as an
2:03:18
example like he had a fox body Mustang that he was like a hot
2:03:23
minute and he did like every modification Under the Sun to
2:03:26
like make a drift and I think he was just driving like a private
2:03:30
day with like the This workers and he drove like just a bone
2:03:34
Stock 240 like Sr and welded definitely like, wow.
2:03:37
Like I just wasted a lot of money.
2:03:39
This is this is what I wish Miyagi would do but he just
2:03:44
won't do a CO like I just wasted all this money and time and this
2:03:47
car was blown struts and a weathered if still dressed
2:03:50
better than my car. Yeah, not saying that.
2:03:52
Like a Mustang is not a good drift car but that was his
2:03:54
experience was a fox body. One to write that kind of is not
2:03:58
a good car to drive. I feel like it's like, s13 cool.
2:04:01
Up from where Stockholm? Yeah, literally.
2:04:06
Favorite car of all time. Answered that favorite trap?
2:04:08
Well, not really s13 Coupe or hatch.
2:04:11
Yeah, obviously, it's what do you mean?
2:04:14
It's like 118 it. Come on now.
2:04:19
I like them all. Except, I like them all, except
2:04:21
for and zenki, but favorite car of all time, all private
2:04:25
favorite drift car of all time. Like if I had to, if I had one
2:04:30
car, one car only and I was stuck with it.
2:04:32
Yeah hatch. Yeah, because I can fit tires.
2:04:35
It's really--it. Favorite track.
2:04:39
You've driven of all time. Favorite track.
2:04:43
Definitely got to be Mahon still think that's crazy.
2:04:46
That you actually drove them. Yeah.
2:04:48
Like what's your favorite u.s. track?
2:04:50
I want to know Grange. Okay, I think you answered that
2:04:53
one earlier. Yeah, probably US Air.
2:04:57
Club loose know like particular order but for the driving I want
2:05:01
to do Grange most fun. Us are just overall, like best
2:05:09
fun track where you kind of get a little V 3 Caboose.
2:05:12
Yeah I would agree with that. Yeah a lot of these were
2:05:17
answered already. Fuck marry kill Jake Parish Eric
2:05:20
or Tom answer it. Fuck.
2:05:29
Marry kill Eric and Tom. Damn, yes, marry Jake.
2:05:39
He's fun. All right.
2:05:43
Looking kind of spicy. Guess you could get the nod.
2:05:47
Definitely kill Tom, Jesus Christ.
2:05:52
All right. Um it's how to do that.
2:05:55
Well answer. Broasted I forget I owe this
2:06:01
from Club Lucia locking. Okay this is my this is Young,
2:06:07
Dave's brother Mike. He said he wants to know about
2:06:09
locking himself out cutting a hole in the door to get back in
2:06:13
of some car. You had to do that on.
2:06:16
Oh my. Is that the coop?
2:06:18
Yeah. So what?
2:06:19
Oh yeah. You explain it.
2:06:21
I remember. So I was driving an event at
2:06:23
Spirit and this is right before had a Tube the rear end of the
2:06:27
car was competing. I washed out like 70 plus miles
2:06:32
an hour into a guardrail like into a tyre wall.
2:06:35
Just straight like, did not move.
2:06:37
And yeah, like the car was like, so mangled the door, like the
2:06:41
rod the mechanism, it like Snapped off the plastic.
2:06:44
So the only way to like open the door, was I like cut the outside
2:06:48
and I would have to pull the rod to get the door to open.
2:06:51
Did you bring car here like that once?
2:06:52
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember I drove it like that
2:06:55
for a hot minute till I refresh. Still.
2:06:56
You have to like specifically open this door out certain way.
2:07:01
That's fucking Next Level. I like this one every time Josh
2:07:04
brings his car is always something new.
2:07:06
Yeah, new cork world's best film ever.
2:07:08
Asks if he couldn't drift an s13, what car would he tripped?
2:07:12
I'm going to make this better if you can drift an F chassis.
2:07:14
What car would you drift and don't say you wouldn't drift?
2:07:18
No, I feel like I was at this question would have came but I
2:07:22
think Polly 86, or 110, G BF 110.
2:07:32
Those are opposite ends of the spectrum, but 86, you get that
2:07:35
aggressive. That's why I, that's why I'm
2:07:37
thinking he has like, drive that thing.
2:07:38
Yeah, like what you said before, that's a driver's car.
2:07:42
Yeah, I've won. 10 is just like an aesthetically pleasing car to
2:07:46
me. Like, so that's the one thing
2:07:48
arrow that like, looks good on it felt like raw Driving
2:07:51
Experience. Like 86.
2:07:54
Okay, that's one of my bucket list cars for sure.
2:07:58
Jimmy J wide world, Jimmy ass. How has driving more local
2:08:03
events. This year been going, sorry, how
2:08:07
has dropped how is driving more local events?
2:08:09
This year been going compared to traveling, which are right when
2:08:13
you say like that was my plan. It seem like I traveled more
2:08:16
this year than, right? The year before.
2:08:20
And it just seems like there was always something going on where
2:08:23
someone would want us to attend and I didn't really get to do.
2:08:26
Like what? Want to do like, at least like,
2:08:29
you know, like these events we were doing, like, they were like
2:08:31
demos like, you know, stuff was, You Know, cover like events and
2:08:34
stuff like that. So it's kind of hard to say no
2:08:37
to things like that if you know the most burdening expenses or
2:08:41
being covered but I don't know. I just like I could have done
2:08:45
more local events honestly you just but you did a lot of like,
2:08:49
East Coast local events this year I feel like yeah but when I
2:08:53
think local maybe just because we're so spoiled like I think a
2:08:56
club looks like that was Kind of like my agenda, like, I just
2:08:59
wanted to drive Club lose like predominantly Club loose and
2:09:02
then it started that way like from the beginning season.
2:09:05
And then it was like, oh hey, like we want you at this event,
2:09:08
or we want you to do this and I was like, all right, like, how
2:09:11
can I say no? And like the whole like summer
2:09:13
in the rest of the season slip by like we're ready like
2:09:15
approaching November like shit. Like I only drove like Photo.
2:09:19
You can always do haunted moves, I could, that's the one.
2:09:22
I'm trying to get everyone to go to.
2:09:24
I feel like that would be fun. Yeah, I mean the seasons like,
2:09:26
not over but I still have tires. Like, yeah, nothing really
2:09:29
holding me back. Come on, Chris.
2:09:31
You want a drink, the U2, and Miyagi and AJ.
2:09:36
I'm living through you guys right now.
2:09:38
Well when to that question next year, hopefully.
2:09:41
Alright, last question on this living through you vicariously,
2:09:48
Zone. 97-90 one asks yeah that's the boy that's that is what was
2:09:54
Josh's old JC set up and how did he like it compared to S?
2:09:58
Are you kind of went over this? But maybe like go into like the
2:10:02
actual setup going to stop was dead stock act HD clutch and it
2:10:09
had a tripod are 154 and that was it.
2:10:14
No upgraded turbo and you I went over.
2:10:18
I mean, that was thought that was another thing we did Skip.
2:10:21
I wanted to mention earlier. He obviously took the Jay-Z out
2:10:25
and 1's are at some point and and you did that because of what
2:10:29
you said covered it. Yeah.
2:10:31
The feeling of the car was kind of gone and I wanted to do that
2:10:35
initially, when I part out my hatch, I sold my my Jay-Z Suave
2:10:39
to Brian. So I wanted to buy like an Sr or
2:10:42
like an Sr car, and then, just the deal for the coop was too
2:10:45
good and I just dealt with the Which court with the Jay-Z for a
2:10:50
little longer? Yeah, I was initially the SR
2:10:52
that's in my car. Now, I was trying to buy before
2:10:55
I even had a car and by the time something happened, where it's
2:11:00
sold. The, the engine was local and I
2:11:03
was like shit. Like I really wanted that engine
2:11:05
yada. Yada months like went by, I was
2:11:08
driving the Jay-Z car and then I saw that engine for sale again
2:11:12
like completely untouched like just it just unfortunately move
2:11:16
from like 40 minutes from my house.
2:11:18
So seven hours away. I was like, all right, like this
2:11:21
seems kind of like meant to be and I just did some crackhead
2:11:24
shit. I went up there.
2:11:25
Shane the dude actually dropped her off at chain, latches house.
2:11:28
And I remember he held it for me.
2:11:30
And I went up there and I picked it up, dude.
2:11:32
I bought it sight. Unseen.
2:11:34
I saw that engine for sale. Do you remember that?
2:11:36
That was what was looking at a Motorsports originally, right?
2:11:38
Yeah. I was really very nice are rough
2:11:39
getting flamed, it was like 5 grand and was like it was five
2:11:43
grand five grand music. What if that's fucking crazy
2:11:46
like, why would you spend And five grand on us.
2:11:48
Aren't funny. Had 3071 Turbo Power.
2:11:52
See injectors clutch nowadays, friends.
2:11:55
Yeah, and back, right. That engine valve cover.
2:11:59
It was a bad engine. Still, in my car on touch.
2:12:02
It has not been pulled Tom's. Like fried 30 more Motors.
2:12:07
I'm Still rocking the same five grand motor.
2:12:10
Like I want to say there's at least 40 events on that engine,
2:12:15
maybe a little more. I've just changed.
2:12:17
On it tell if it blue I wouldn't even really mad.
2:12:21
I've got, I've got my money. You got your money's worth?
2:12:23
Yeah, yeah, 100%. I was I'm just thinking about
2:12:27
this. It's funny how I was nervous
2:12:29
before this because I didn't think we'd have enough
2:12:30
questions. It's been true and I stand and
2:12:34
I'm sitting here thinking my head I still have more questions
2:12:36
and I'm not going to ask him because it's been too long.
2:12:39
But yeah. So this is definitely a good
2:12:40
one. I do have one question just to
2:12:43
end this on. If you haven't, if you had an
2:12:46
opportunity to Restart the last 10 years of your life and not
2:12:49
get sucked into drifting. Would you take it?
2:12:52
Well, that's a good. Easiest Christ is deep.
2:12:54
I told you. I did my homework deep.
2:12:57
If you had a chance to basically not get into drifting 10 years
2:13:00
ago and restart your whole life. Would you take that opportunity?
2:13:08
I do my homework like, I would stay on the same path because
2:13:15
I'm thankful for the relationship that I have and the
2:13:19
friends that I have and honestly Outside of drifting.
2:13:22
If I were to stop now, like I have the family and friends that
2:13:26
I'd want to keep forever. So if that meant like losing
2:13:29
that, then obviously not going to do that.
2:13:31
Yeah, it is a good way that it goes.
2:13:34
My end that was my own question. You know.
2:13:36
That was that was the most thoughtful question, I think
2:13:38
I've ever heard you, well, he'll be back, we have more, I got
2:13:41
more. I'm thinking of so have, well,
2:13:43
we'll have you back when we when we won't Wonder all the
2:13:47
shenanigans. I mean, yeah, in friends, like a
2:13:50
decade at this point and Like, basically, like my one of my
2:13:55
best friends. So, yeah, that's what I call say
2:13:57
earlier. We've been talking every day.
2:13:59
Pretty much since we met yeah, weather.
2:14:02
Like we want to think that or not.
2:14:03
But yeah, literally, where we've been in contact minimum.
2:14:07
We got that. We got the group chat we've been
2:14:08
in. Yeah we have the Glorious group,
2:14:11
chili mean yeah. All the events and everything
2:14:14
we've been through. Like, I mean, we kind of, I mean
2:14:18
it's good for listeners. Like my drift Journey you
2:14:21
basically been the Inside it, like pretty us the whole way,
2:14:23
like whether I mean, you haven't been driving the past couple of
2:14:26
years, but he's very mad about it, I'm sad about that.
2:14:30
Yeah. Like Josh is Josh gives me shit
2:14:32
about that all the time but I worry you've been supportive
2:14:35
like economically and like helping me out like service,
2:14:38
like with the car and everything.
2:14:39
And I've definitely look to feel like professional, you know,
2:14:43
like more of like the business side of things and that's gonna
2:14:46
make me cry right now. On a podcast alive, 12, they do
2:14:50
be giving that advice man. No, but it works both ways me
2:14:54
and John like I said, earlier, me and Josh are like, kind of, I
2:14:56
don't want to say where the captains of the arc teams.
2:14:58
But we're the ones that like we are kind of the ones that push
2:15:02
people to do things and get them to you know.
2:15:05
Fucking. Yeah.
2:15:07
And it's sometimes it's a stressful position of being and
2:15:10
I know, Josh knows that. Yeah.
2:15:12
It's why he's bald. He's no, I wanted to ask, you
2:15:16
always been bald. I mean I've just been like
2:15:18
holding as long as I've been and then you just decided I just
2:15:23
said fuck it. I never disease I don't think
2:15:25
I've ever seen or met you when you know yeah they're here.
2:15:28
Yeah and then once Tom blue is like fourth engine is started
2:15:31
slowly disappearing. All fucking Tom's fault.
2:15:34
It just started as early as like wanting to paint the cage of his
2:15:38
car. White.
2:15:38
Your kids wait. Yeah, one day we will have Tom
2:15:42
and Josh on here and it's going to be a shit show, but that does
2:15:46
have to get the formal ones like out of the way before we get.
2:15:48
Yeah, that's exactly. It was nice.
2:15:50
Mainly just because Or well, I don't know how close you and
2:15:53
Josh are, but I really didn't know you at all.
2:15:56
And like now I now to kind of know that like, there's more to
2:16:00
you than just a drifting thing. It's like, oh shit.
2:16:02
He's like a normal guy. Yeah, like us.
2:16:06
Yeah, I like thanks for making me feel subhuman.
2:16:11
Celebrity, dude, there's so much shit.
2:16:14
We could go into the, oh, my God.
2:16:15
Yeah, I'm just thinking about, like, all the shit we've been
2:16:18
like me and Josh of literally, like texting each other
2:16:20
sometimes like Dude like what the fuck are we going to do?
2:16:24
Like just for getting getting certain people?
2:16:26
Yes. Remember like when Justin will
2:16:28
lose his mind and sell his car and then like it's like oh now I
2:16:31
don't have a drift team again like in, he would be the one
2:16:34
that I would bounce ideas off of because it's like he's in the
2:16:37
same position as me in. Like a team of people that it's
2:16:43
a group of dudes that have emotions and ideas that like
2:16:48
change like that. So like someone will be like
2:16:51
Dead set. I'm going to drift forever and
2:16:54
then all of a sudden, the next day they wake up and they want
2:16:55
to you know, live in the woods or you know whatever yeah or BMX
2:17:00
forever and not do anything else.
2:17:02
And then it's like, okay, well I mean Josh have these plans where
2:17:05
we want to grow our teams and like get bigger in this industry
2:17:09
and you know whatever you want to call it.
2:17:12
I usually get mad about stuff like that but yeah.
2:17:14
Now I kind of like I just don't care because I'm just in my own
2:17:18
world and I'm enjoying what I'm doing.
2:17:19
Like if you want to come back to it on your own.
2:17:22
Terms like so be it like, yeah, and I'm kind of the same and we
2:17:26
all we each had our like moment where that happened.
2:17:29
I feel like, I think the only thing I wish is like, if
2:17:33
everyone was kind of on the same page that like, I was for like
2:17:37
few years at a time, like, this could have maybe generated more
2:17:40
serious, where, you know, people would do it more, where can
2:17:44
become like a self-sustaining hobby like in terms of like
2:17:48
getting sponsors sponsors, they like that like to make it
2:17:51
easier. Yeah.
2:17:52
Yeah, so sometimes I do growth comes in different ways.
2:17:56
Sometimes it takes longer longer than other people.
2:17:59
Like we've been doing this like a super long time but like I'm
2:18:02
nowhere like where I would like to be like on an economic level
2:18:06
and in terms of like opportunity for drifting and you have no
2:18:10
plans on stopping I definitely have no plans on top me either
2:18:13
good. Okay so we're going to keep this
2:18:15
East Coast drift club stuff rolling, let's keep it going.
2:18:19
All right. On that note I guess we're going
2:18:21
to have a Josh, you have anybody want to shout out or anything?
2:18:24
Oh, yeah. Do you have anything going on
2:18:25
this weekend events or anything like that?
2:18:29
I don't know. I don't think I'm driving
2:18:30
anything. Because, well, you might do that
2:18:32
behind in, right? Like City may be haunting moves
2:18:35
of. Yeah, maybe lock City.
2:18:37
Would I would need to like, fix the car?
2:18:39
Okay. Well, if you need alignment, you
2:18:41
know, you know, where to actually, I've been good.
2:18:44
I've been trying not to like Charter, do anything because I
2:18:47
don't have one. I have the time to come here and
2:18:49
to, like, raw, like what did you fucking Raise it a little bit
2:18:53
more. Yeah, I want to hear like the
2:18:55
quickly. I wanted a comment down on
2:18:57
earlier. We're talking about Josh's
2:18:58
schedule. Yeah.
2:18:59
Josh would come here on his like minimal free time, right before
2:19:03
his shift and like, I'm doing his linemen for those of you
2:19:07
don't know. When we align drift cars,
2:19:10
they're not a quick thing. Yeah, especially between me and
2:19:13
Frankie like if we test drive it and it doesn't drive straight,
2:19:17
we're going to align it again. Yeah.
2:19:19
And that's probably one of the one of the things that we
2:19:20
guarantee with that service, but That'll come here on a short
2:19:26
period of time. I line it and I'm like, not
2:19:30
always confident with it and he's like, well, fuck it.
2:19:34
I'm going to drive a home and I'm like, I'm over here panic.
2:19:36
I'm like I know the steering wheels off and she ain't driving
2:19:39
straight. And then Frank, you will come
2:19:40
out of nowhere and be like, always says, it's good.
2:19:43
I'm like, no, it'll be like the Monday after the weekend and
2:19:45
I'll just show you a video of him, doing a backwards entry or
2:19:48
something. Yeah.
2:19:48
And I'm like to return. All right.
2:19:52
Said it was good. So but yeah.
2:19:55
Do we have anything going on? That's another question.
2:19:58
Crash racing seat. Yeah, we do have some bestow
2:20:00
love to thresh racing ones gamma.
2:20:04
Yeah. Omega.
2:20:06
Red and I can't freakin tab. Yeah, it's a problem.
2:20:12
That's like my brain. I just have a computer.
2:20:16
That's why I don't sleep. All right, I have it here.
2:20:19
I have it here. Calm down everyone.
2:20:22
No, once. No, I don't.
2:20:23
I don't have it here. All right, that's it, guys.
2:20:25
I hope you enjoyed this one. Check us out on YouTube,
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2:20:50
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2:20:58
A lot of thank you so much for listening.
2:21:00
Yeah, thank you, guys podcast going.
2:21:02
So I have some to listen to Mom in the gym because that's when
2:21:06
you listen to us in the gym. I'm fucking, I'm like,
2:21:10
hysterical, laughing half the time.
2:21:13
I feel like I'm there. Yeah, Frankie or friend, he's
2:21:15
laughing about something more. Like he says like an inside joke
2:21:18
that yeah, thanks that you guys know but it's only me and him
2:21:22
and Like I'm like, looking at them and no one's laughing.
2:21:25
I'm like, okay, I'll text him and I'm like bro, dude, I still
2:21:31
like I'm saying, I'm like delusion.
2:21:32
I feel like these guys were like in our friend group for last 10
2:21:34
years, but then I remember, I'm like, oh I guess it wasn't like
2:21:36
that. I literally was so fucking
2:21:38
scared of you. Like the whole, the longest
2:21:40
time. We're gonna do two like I'm in.
2:21:42
Well Josh always has the the bitch I was like damn what they
2:21:45
call yourself. The first time I met Josh.
2:21:53
Was that what? Edgewater meat?
2:21:55
Yeah. And we start popping everybody's
2:21:56
Hood, just roasting everybody's cars.
2:21:58
Enter the amount of shit talk, that was happening now.
2:22:01
And then at the end of the meat, they go all you want to come
2:22:04
with us to Coach House. I was like so whose house coach
2:22:09
how the diner at the diner. Okay.
2:22:11
Went to that Diner. Was that one that photo that you
2:22:14
have outside? I don't think so.
2:22:16
Is that the one with the split you brought you brought your
2:22:18
nose. 14, that's Bendix Diner. That's the one that different in
2:22:23
the Twilight Zone. Has that been like 20.
2:22:26
If we go drinking that night or no, have the zenki then, yeah,
2:22:29
the zenki then. Yeah, but yeah, you guys are
2:22:31
like you want to come to the Coach House.
2:22:32
I remember going on and the food was horrible.
2:22:36
Like usual. Yeah, yeah.
2:22:38
That that was just like a side note.
2:22:40
We can talk about that later. Yeah, we got Wings.
2:22:41
We have like three more nakum's trying to end this thing.
2:22:43
You keep staring at me, like he's mad.
2:22:46
This is this, this is because Malcolm just he, you guys will
2:22:50
see in a second. But he said at this perfect,
2:22:52
Hang on our new equipment, the outro he's got everything set,
2:22:55
he wants to. All right, so here it is Click
2:22:57
321. We're out.
2:22:59
Woo. All right guys.
2:23:16
Thanks for checking out this episode of the podcast, I want
2:23:18
to thank Josh for coming over here and doing this with us.
2:23:22
This was what I wanted to do for a minute now.
2:23:24
He's one of my best friends and also of I would say one of the
2:23:28
most dedicated Grassroots Drifters in the area.
2:23:31
So, This is definitely an important one and this is kind
2:23:35
of going to kick off our new way of doing this.
2:23:37
Not new way. We're still going to do Random
2:23:39
episodes you're in there but we're going to definitely try to
2:23:41
get more guests on here. The only thing is I'm trying to
2:23:43
keep it to an in-person type of deal.
2:23:46
I don't really want to have remote guests on the show, so
2:23:49
it's if we can as long as we can keep it that way, then we're
2:23:52
going to have a decent amount of guests and we do plan on doing
2:23:55
some traveling. So you know, if there's anyone
2:23:58
you want to see on the podcast and make sure to shout them out
2:24:01
in the DMS and Get us their information so we can contact
2:24:05
them. You know, local people would be
2:24:07
better for us right now because it's offseason, we're not really
2:24:11
traveling. But next year, when we start
2:24:12
traveling for drifting, we do plan on going west, and checking
2:24:16
some people out over there. Make sure you check out our
2:24:20
thrash racing presale or pre-order?
2:24:23
We still have two seats. Left pink, love and circuit spec
2:24:26
Omega, just send us an email if you can sales in faction motor
2:24:29
sports.com. If you try to pick one of those
2:24:31
up, definitely check out. Circuit speckle Mega.
2:24:33
That's the last I think it's a red one too.
2:24:35
So that's that's one of the last good ones.
2:24:38
Pink love you know I mean if you're into the pink love see
2:24:40
you're into it but that's kind of a particular buyer.
2:24:44
The other thing I want to mention is we do have a power
2:24:48
steering cooler kit coming out for to 40s.
2:24:50
So keep an eye out on that. It's it should be, should be
2:24:54
figured out in the next couple weeks.
2:24:56
I know we've been slacking on that a little bit, but we're
2:24:58
just waiting on brackets, so that will be coming out in the
2:25:01
next couple weeks. And Then origin pre-orders right
2:25:04
now. We are taking origin pre-orders.
2:25:06
They hopefully will be here. December or January, just again,
2:25:11
shoot us an email. If you want to stop, if you want
2:25:13
to check something because we kind of have a list of what's
2:25:15
coming in. It's a rough list but we can use
2:25:18
that and confirm before you place your order.
2:25:22
That's really, that's really it. I do want to say Josh's info
2:25:26
again, because in case, no one knows them, it's on Instagram.
2:25:28
It's at Front Street. Josh.
2:25:30
It's at at Front Street underscore Josh and then check
2:25:34
out front street drift Club as well.
2:25:35
That's his Club. From Staten Island at Front
2:25:38
Street drift Club. That's it.
2:25:41
Thanks again for listening. And we'll catch you next time.