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#120 - Damon Young a.k.a. CamryOnBronze · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode
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of the After Hours podcast. On today's episode we have Damon
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Young. He is a long time friend of mine
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and if you guys spent any time on the forum Sylvia, you might
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recognize him from the the Cokie Arrow thread or his build
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thread, which was a popular one for a long time.
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I've known Damon for, which is crazy to say, but I've known
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this guy for 10 years and we literally have one, one major
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thing in common. We love 180SX styling, we love
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240SX vehicles, Sr. 20s, and I know he likes the band
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Silverstein, and so do I. So I guess there's a couple of
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things that we have in common. But yeah, this was the first
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podcast we recorded on our way to Final Bout 7, and it was
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honestly probably one of my favorite ones we did.
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I known Damon for a long time like I mentioned, and we never
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really get to sit down and talk. We rarely even get to hang out.
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I only see him when I go to final bout and he hasn't been
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there for a year or two. So it was nice getting getting
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to sit down with him and actually hear his full story
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from, you know, from his own words because usually you're
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just either seeing things on forums or random Instagram posts
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and stuff like that. But Damon actually laid out his
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entire life with his 180SX or 240SX and we got to learn a lot
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about it. He also talks about his time
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that he spent writing for Modified magazine and the
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article that he was in as well. So yeah, just a lot of
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information in here. If you guys are into 180 SX at
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all, like the styling aspect of it, Cokie, Arrow, stuff like
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that, this is going to be a good one for you.
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Damon is not much of A drifter, but as I mentioned in the
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episode, he literally is part of the drifting culture in the USA
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and he doesn't even drift. What a lucky guy because I'm, as
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You're welcome everybody. Today we are here to bring you
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another episode for Fashion After hours.
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We're here on the final bout round of podcasts.
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We have Camry on bronze, Damon or or Cameron, whatever you want
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to whatever you know, Max, I now know your name is Damon.
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But thank you so much for coming on the pod.
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I'm not going to make you do the laughing track.
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Don't click the button. I don't.
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Yeah. This thing will shut off if I
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try to do it. Don't.
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Wow. We, but we usually have a.
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Laugh track. Wow.
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Yeah. We have.
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We have. Don't.
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Did you just no. No, no, we're good.
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Don't worry, Carl. Oh my goodness.
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But thank you for taking the time.
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Thanks for having. Me, we had we had the way too
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like, but we're here at your beautiful home and it's
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beautiful. Like I'm talking like kids are
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playing outside. This is the spot.
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If you know Camryon Bronze, this is the same home that you've
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seen in all the photos of the driveway.
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And I used to get roasted for that.
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Really. Wow, It's the same car in the
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same driveway again. Like.
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And I was like, dude, I'm just like, not sorry, I'm not going
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anywhere. It's just I don't know.
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One thing that I pointed out was that your car is also the one on
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the eBay ads, like a lot of eBay ads.
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I didn't know that. Like the East Bear lip?
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Yeah, Always, really always Damon's car.
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Oh, like the with the red Xenon lip.
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Yes, Xenon lip. Yeah.
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I still people still message me like, hey, where did you get
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that lip? And I'm like, dude, that was
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like so long ago, dude. I don't know if you can still
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the. Product you were getting was not
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that because I ordered I I ordered one of those, it did
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not. Because the the real 1 is like
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bulletproof, yeah. Like it was like the material of
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like OEM bumpers. You could like the east bear
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lip, the the xenon or xenon, sorry, the east bear ones are
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like yeah, I think those were like really thin fibre, but that
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thing was like thick and like super flexible.
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Like I hit a rack dead raccoon was one of those one time when
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it was high car. I feel like we've all hit dead
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raccoons and. It was like totally fine I.
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Hit a live 1 but then he was dead.
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That is the. Worst, it smells.
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A lot everywhere. A a turbo car down like the
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downpipe cooking raccoon roadkill would be so.
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Bad There was in my hatch, there was a time that I was going to a
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car show or something and I like was behind somebody on the
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highway and I went to like pass them on the right and I was like
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too kind of too close to them. So I couldn't really see when I
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when I went to go like like ripped it and went around them
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and as soon as I like cleared their car, I hit a dead deer.
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Like I I swear the front wheel, the front tires came off the
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ground. So like.
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You you want to know what's going?
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Crazy. Speaking of Speaking of hitting
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a deer, you see? You see white lightning right
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here in the driveway? I like you.
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Yeah. I knew you would like that name.
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Yeah. For those of you who live who
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are listening and follow me on Instagram and saw what?
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Frank didn't even know. He doesn't even know story.
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Yeah, so I'm obsessed with my Toyota Sequoia, Damon.
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I did not see you guys were trying to decide.
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How about what's the count? What's the count, Lewis?
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19 You got one more before we leave you here, he said.
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It's Toyota Sequoia 19 times so far on this trip.
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Dude, the sequoia's sick. Like I I don't I don't remember
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if I voted at which you should drive. 164 to 42, dude.
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I didn't want to hurt Frankie because I know he loves that
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truck. I saw that truck do work, came
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to my house, picked up my shelf. It works.
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So now I had Lewis come by. The reason Lewis is here right
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now, it's because I bought his truck and I said this is the
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extended test drive. Not because I would.
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I'm happy that Lewis is here. What are you?
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I said hey. Do you want to come to final
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bout? Lewis is here in the background,
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making sure everything's just have a.
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He's got a he's got a non refundable down payment.
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OK. And then?
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Non refundable. And then if I don't want the
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truck, I don't want the truck. But I so far, I think we're
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going to take the truck. Wow dude, that's stressful.
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Like of all the test drives you could do, driving to final bout
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is like something's going to happen, but.
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So he took this. This van, This is the second
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time I've ever ridden in this van.
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The first time we are going to a haunted house.
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That's not my thing, first of all.
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Second. It's Frankie's thing, yeah.
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It's. Frankie, who loves it you?
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Never find me at one of those right?
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Ever. Not not really that great.
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You're not missing out. I was like, I was like, Louis,
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come by, let's fill up that van and go to a haunted house.
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He loaded it up. It was that.
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That's what I was all for. That that's fun.
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Oh. Yeah, I guess you should tell
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him the story. That's.
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Totally great. No, I'm telling the story
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because he brought up the dead deer.
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Yeah, go for. It We are driving, we're going
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home. Who is driving you?
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Louis. Louis.
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Louis is driving. I'm sitting smack in the middle
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like I would. You would see my head right
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there. We're driving.
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A deer comes out. Lewis swerves away from it.
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We're clear now. We're fully clear.
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The deer. The deer inches out a little
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more. Lewis swerves back.
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What does the deer do? Swerves right runs.
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Right in front before we hit right.
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Before it and smokes the right. Side the.
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Passenger side, left side he ran by and then.
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And it and it like frisbee across the side of it.
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Malcolm was in the back and he said he just saw the deer going
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by like in a circle by the but. Here's the thing.
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We were we're still at speed. We did not slow down it.
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Didn't even remotely so. 50-60 up.
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Still, and and I just, I asked Lewis, I'm like, do you, do you
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feel? I remember asking like, do you
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feel anything? And he hits a left right.
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Totally fine. Yeah, totally fine.
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That was just another reason to buy that truck it.
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Just took it, but yeah, I don't like hitting.
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That is like my worst fear that could be.
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I mean, God forbid you, but we have your beautiful 180SX here
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in the background but. We got a lot of deer problems
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around here. That's crazy.
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The only car I've owned, again, knock on wood, that has like hit
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a deer is. And I the way I have to tell the
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story for my wife Alicia is the deer hit her I.
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Have been that's. The only thing I can say, I
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can't say she hit a deer, but she was in the vibe.
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And this is like four years ago and I'm still dailing this thing
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that isn't infamous. Car, by the way.
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Yeah, but she, a deer ran into the front side of the vibe and
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she called me and was like, hey, like I what are we gonna do?
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Like I just totaled your car. And I was like, well, hold on.
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Like she's like, no, the Fender, the doors, like everything is
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trashed. And I was like, is anything
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leaking out the bottom of it? And she was like, no.
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And I was like, then it's not totaled.
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It's behind like just. And I was like, just drive it
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home. I was like, just drive it home
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because she was a couple miles from home and it was like a
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Saturday night at like 12:30 in the morning.
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She was had been hanging out with her mom and her sister.
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And I was like, you're gonna get pulled over.
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I promise you, you'll get pulled over because you're driving a
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smashed car dragging pieces through town at 12:30 in the
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morning on Saturday night. Yeah, I think you're drunk.
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Big, big and then. She's like, OK, I'm gonna just
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leave you on the phone. It was like 30 seconds.
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And she was like, oh, I'm getting pulled over.
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And I was like, yeah. And the cop was like, do you
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need like, a thing for insurance or anything?
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And I was like, no, like it's like it's like the basic
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insurance and won't like I can't get it fixed you.
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Don't even got it totally. Totally.
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And then she got it home and I was like, I threw a Fender, a
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headlight on it, like hammered the core support out, spray
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painted the Fender and I was like dude it's good.
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It was like 4 years ago. I need to, I need to ask you why
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you keep that vibe around. Dude, it just keeps going.
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You know what that. It keeps going.
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You know what that's powered by, right?
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What? That's a Toyota 2 ZZ.
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Engine Toyota. So that's the only American car
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I've ever owned, and it's perfect in my town because it's
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like super hillbilly and everybody hates foreign cars.
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So I can be like, hey brother, like got my Pontiac.
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But actually it's very calculated.
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Wow, Yeah. So it's my brother-in-law was
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selling it like eight or nine years ago, and he was going to
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trade it in because he had a photography business and he was
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like, I need a newer car. It's embarrassing to drive this
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thing. That's actually the most perfect
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car for that, actually. What were they thinking?
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But so he was like, they're only gonna give me a grand for it.
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Do you want it for a grand? And I knew it was Toyota collab.
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So I was like, because I had a Matrix before.
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So yeah, dude, I'll take it. And I was like, maybe I'll drive
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it for a year or two and it's still like is like 250.
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That's a manual one, right? No, no, it's auto.
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Which, great, 'cause my old commute was like an hour and a
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half, two hours, yeah, total stop and go traffic.
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So I just be chilling. So comfy.
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Is that minivan yours too? Yeah, that's the family vehicle,
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that's the new car. So you have the 2008.
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So you have 3 cars. Yeah, currently we have 3, yes,
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because we don't have 2 S thirteens anymore because I say
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we but. Yeah, we need to get a little
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bit of his history, yeah. Because I don't know where to
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start. I want to start with the Camry.
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Yeah. So the name for those of you
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just like myself, I was saying it, I was saying it really
16:06
wrong. I was like Camryon Braun.
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I don't know why. And I'm like, why did I say it
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like that? Now that you told me what it is,
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I'm like, I'm dumb. I didn't.
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Confuse me to I guess. But so I didn't get my license
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till I was like 17 1/2 because I didn't have a car, so I didn't
16:25
care about driving. I was into cars like my dad was
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into cars. So that's how I grew up into
16:28
cars, but I was like, well, we just have a caravan.
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I don't want to drive that around.
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So I just didn't get my license. And my mom was like, I need you
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to take your brother places like you need to get your license.
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I'm going to get you a car. And I was like, OK.
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And so she got me like a 10 year old, like 94 Camry 4 door
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automatic for. The round one, it's round.
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It's the third Gen. if you will. If you will, we have no idea.
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Yeah, you have no idea. The ones that like, so it's like
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92 to 96. The ones that just are like
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bulletproof. Yeah, like you still see them.
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Dude you are still driving the one with the shifter that looked
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like you had to push it on the top.
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Yeah, yeah, it has a side. Ball button on the Yeah.
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So I got that and that was like because I graduated high school
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in 2004, so I got that in like 2000, two, 2003.
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It's like right around Fast and Furious.
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And I was like buying like, Oh no, I was buying modified, you
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know, luckily I didn't have any money so it was fine.
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So as far as I got with that car was like clear turn signal
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lights, clear tail lights. They probably look fun.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. All.
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Clear tails not. Altezas like all clear.
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Yeah, yeah. No, no red in there.
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No, and so then. Oh I wish, I wish you could
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bring up photos for. This wait, no, no, no, just
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cause. Dude, yeah, that tail lights a.
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Long tail light? Is it the tail lights?
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At the center. Yeah.
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So the centerpiece I painted body color so that to match.
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So that was like white because the car was white and then the
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tail lights were clear. But it was weird.
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It looked like a spaceship 'cause it didn't have any
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colored lights on it. And I always got pulled over
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because I would, I had to buy red bulbs 'cause otherwise
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they'd light up like headlights, like, you know, 'cause it's
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clear tail like, but you don't want a red bulb in there.
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So people on the forums used to like do a really light spray of
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silver spray paint over the red bulb so that it would still
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light up. But it was like pink.
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It wasn't red. And I got pulled over one night
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and the cop was like, what color is the tail light supposed to
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be? Sun.
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And I was like, red. And he was like, what color is
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that? And I was like pinkish red.
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And he was like, yeah, maybe, like, maybe you put the wrong
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color bulb in. Like he didn't know they were
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aftermarket. And he was like, maybe you
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accidentally got like a pink bulb instead of a red bulb.
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And like, this guy doesn't know anything about cars, dude.
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Like that's not a thing. Is this like this is what it's
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like getting pulled over up here?
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Is that like? Yeah, I think it was just 'cause
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I was a high school kid. 'Cause you mentioned when Alicia
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was driving home, if you get pulled over, Yeah.
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And and he I'm assuming they let her go home.
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Yeah, yeah. They were like, oh, you're good,
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like. Right there they're they're,
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they're asking you the whole book.
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But we don't have any like I don't go off topic, but like we
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don't have any restrictions to a vehicle in Michigan like at all
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like. You're going to go off topic
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because he's going to. Have luck.
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We don't have emissions, we don't have inspection.
19:10
We don't have you can drive whatever pile of garbage down
19:13
the road you want and like you might get hassled, but there's
19:16
no year to year. Like I mean the only difference
19:19
is we don't. We have emissions and
19:21
inspection. And, you know, and I was about
19:23
to say like. But not for a car that's old.
19:25
You can take that with a grain of salt though.
19:26
Like you know, I got a couple cars myself.
19:29
Ask me how many inspections I get.
19:31
Well, yeah, some people just don't.
19:32
Do it. Well, yeah.
19:33
And then, like everybody I know that's in like states that have
19:35
it, they're like, hey, where can I go get my inspection done?
19:38
Yeah. So it's like, it's all just
19:40
comes down to money. That's New Jersey, too.
19:42
Yeah. But I think it's because of the
19:43
like Motor City, Detroit muscle. So they tried to just.
19:47
So they let you go with that pink bolt?
19:49
Like, did he let you go? Yeah.
19:50
Yeah, I didn't get a ticket or anything.
19:51
Yes. See, that's what I'm saying.
19:52
They would've, but yeah, so I had the Camry and then like I
19:56
had that beginning of college and I like paid a shop to make
20:00
like a cat back for it and I got like headers.
20:03
I got these headers. So it was like I was like big
20:05
shot in the Camry community having headers, having $400.00
20:09
headers. Like I was in the top five for
20:11
sure. Like on Toyota Nation.
20:14
That was the forum I was going to.
20:15
Ask you what forum was. Toyota Nation had the Camry sub
20:18
forum. That's what are you already?
20:20
Are you already Camry on bronze at this point?
20:22
No so originally. Oh no, still.
20:25
Camry on aloe. And AOL Instant Messenger.
20:28
It was Camry on Steely's. Yes, that was my first.
20:31
I was joking. Because I, I took, I took my
20:34
hubcaps off in high school because I was like, oh, sick.
20:37
I was different than stock. That's cool.
20:39
You know, I was joking. Yep.
20:41
So, and that's still my like, when people like buy parts from
20:44
me, they're like, tell me that you're like, what's your PayPal?
20:47
No and. Then they're always like, wait,
20:49
seriously? They find out.
20:50
And I'm like still my like Gmail.
20:53
So they'll be like, what's your if I get spammed now?
20:56
But they were like, yeah, they're like, wait, really?
20:59
Cuz it's like, are you just joking?
21:00
Cuz it's Camry on bronze. And now it's Camry and I'm like,
21:02
no, that's what it is. They're like, oh, OK.
21:04
I I was joking when I said Camry on alloys.
21:07
Since, yeah, it started. Yep, you were close.
21:09
It started at Steely's, but then, you know, once I got my
21:12
money up. Yeah, yeah.
21:14
Early college, Yeah. I bought a set of bronze Anki
21:19
evo 5. She probably won't even know
21:21
what these are cuz that's like very very old evo.
21:25
And the bronze was like coffee colored.
21:27
It was a really weird bronze with a polished lip.
21:30
Try to get Malcolm and Eddie to edit this so they can put photos
21:33
of your. And they were 17 by 7 + 40.
21:36
Yeah. And I got those bad boys put on
21:39
and I got H&R lowering springs. Yeah.
21:42
Silky go struts put in and those were I paid a shop to put them
21:47
on because I didn't know how to do it, but it was like, I
21:49
remember being like, I don't want to be like too low.
21:51
So there was like a 1.25 inch drop.
21:54
Yeah. And isn't that and a Camry needs
21:56
to be lowered like, yeah, there they are.
21:58
Terrific. Lewis has them.
21:59
Yeah, it was nice. And like, yeah, it's so you
22:01
couldn't tell it was lowered. But like every driveway I went
22:03
in, I was like, oh, I got to go slow because like my car's low,
22:05
you know, But like it was not. I have to send you guys a
22:08
picture of it. Wasn't allowed at.
22:10
All and how like those ads used to read the variances between
22:13
the lowering spring advertisements.
22:15
It was always like 1.5 inch drop and then you just mentioned a
22:19
1.25 inch. Drop.
22:20
Oh, that's more. Realistically, nowadays I feel
22:22
like you're not even gonna yeah, that quarter inch you're.
22:26
But it was. You were like right here, right?
22:28
No, it has coil. Overtime.
22:29
Oh, it does, yeah. So it had them already when I
22:31
got it. I guess the guy said that the
22:33
stock struts were like blown out so.
22:36
My stock is like way higher. Yeah.
22:38
I keep thinking it's so high, Yeah.
22:40
Like when I walk up to it in a parking lot and like, oh, it's
22:42
so high. But I think it was like a few
22:44
inches higher than that, Yeah. 240 yeah height.
22:46
Oh my gosh, this is what I'm picturing stock height to be,
22:49
Yeah. No this.
22:50
Is like that 1.5 inch drop, yeah.
22:53
Honestly with that I'm now all these years later I'm back in
22:55
the same dude you are. Probably so hot in the fucking
22:58
Camry forum, dude. Yeah, because I'm thinking like,
23:01
because the those are the threads that I was.
23:04
So I by the time I got into like my first car and modifying stuff
23:08
and I I was catching the tail end of what it what you guys
23:11
were writing. So.
23:12
Like 20/15/2014. Which I think the forms are
23:17
still kind of. They're kind of still going.
23:19
Strong, but they were. They were going.
23:20
They were still there. You were still able to buy
23:22
stuff, that was for sure. It was like just the Ogs hanging
23:25
out in there, like, oh, it's not dead yet, but then.
23:27
But yeah, where does that work? Like hey, but then like you
23:30
would like comment on my stuff? You would see the person who's
23:33
like, yeah, I did this, this, this and this, and then you're
23:37
like, damn me, hot shit, real. That was you with the Camrys.
23:41
It's funny, yeah. I had like.
23:42
I was gonna say So what happened to the Camry?
23:44
So I ended up like, I didn't do much more than that.
23:47
It was like the full exhaust and suspension and like little stuff
23:50
like lights. And then I got like, I had a
23:52
carbon fiber hood and trunk and they're like, yeah, they only
23:56
made like eight of these carbon fiber trunks.
23:57
Like they're really rare. For the Camry, still we're
23:59
talking about. Somebody did a group buy.
24:01
Remember, group by? Yeah, somebody did a group by.
24:03
Group by were serious? Yeah, I've only done one group
24:06
by ever. Yep, it was.
24:07
So the Camry came to an end in college because I got some my
24:13
dad had passed away. So his his dad passed away and I
24:16
got a little bit of inheritance like junior year of.
24:18
College. Which is, you know, in a college
24:21
student that's into cars, it's going to be a disaster.
24:23
Oh God, and oh God, no. So so.
24:25
Before like 'cause I wanted like Terminator 2 wing that like the
24:28
Civics had in fast and furious, like I wanted like the the crazy
24:31
like body kits that they made for like every single car you.
24:34
Can't remember which one it was. Yeah, that.
24:36
Always makes your wings in class and stuff.
24:38
So I always wanted to do that, but I didn't have any money for
24:40
it. So like in college I took the
24:43
Camry to get manual swapped at this shop in central Illinois
24:47
that used to work on like Mr. Twos and stuff.
24:50
And there were a couple big like Camry dudes down there, like the
24:53
coolest dudes. Like one of them was in modified
24:57
his Camry. And this banner back here by the
25:00
way, fire modified mag banner. I had to buy that.
25:02
I had bought a couple modified mags back in my day.
25:04
Because Modified has connections to me too.
25:07
We'll get to that later. What the fuck.
25:08
But SO I went down to the shop. I had this shop like paid him to
25:12
manual swap my car and then I was going to supercharge it like
25:16
a 200,000 mile like 4 cylinder. This is That was the next.
25:20
But I was like, I need it to be a manual.
25:22
I'd never owned a manual car. This is embarrassing.
25:24
You know? I need to be a manual.
25:25
Just the automatic. That was the only embarrassing.
25:27
Thing. Yeah, That was the only car.
25:28
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything else was fine.
25:30
The fact was the Camry was a little bit embarrassing.
25:33
But they called me. They called me on my Christmas
25:35
break like right after I got this inheritance and they were
25:37
like, listen, like this car is like rotted out.
25:40
Like like the rear main seal is leaking.
25:43
Like I don't want to manual swap this because it's going to cause
25:45
all these other problems. It was going to, I was going to
25:48
pay like $500 to swap it. And they're like, oh, it's going
25:50
to be like 1000 now. And I just got this money.
25:53
So I was like, I don't care. Sure, do it.
25:54
And they were like, no, like don't put money into this car
25:58
like the guy just didn't want to do.
25:59
It that's really nice. Of them, yeah.
26:00
Actually, it was amazing. It was really nice that that
26:02
happened. Yeah.
26:03
So I told my mom. I was like, hey, mom.
26:06
They basically said like, my car's falling apart.
26:08
Like I need to use some of the money I got to buy a new car.
26:10
And I was like I don't want to buy a brand new car but I need a
26:13
nicer car because it sounds like mine's basically wrecked, which
26:15
it wasn't. I drove it for like 8 more years
26:18
after that was my winter winter beater a long.
26:21
Time. I don't know.
26:21
How it was 8 but a long time as my second car I just kept it as
26:25
a beater. It's tired, let it sleep.
26:28
Yeah, no, it was that thing went forever, dude.
26:31
But so then I bought a Solara, which was like 2 door Camry.
26:37
Oh God V6. Here we go.
26:40
Again, fast V6 and it was manual.
26:43
Oh. OK.
26:44
Well, that's good. 2 door manual V6.
26:45
So I was like, all right, it's basically like a cooler Camry
26:48
because it's, you know, like it's the cool version.
26:50
Like it's fast now. What V6 was that was a one MZ.
26:54
One MZ, Yeah, Yep. That's not even that great of a
26:57
no. No, it's not fast, but I thought
26:59
it was. Fast.
27:00
I was like wait. What was it?
27:01
What was it that? Yeah, so I got that and I
27:03
started going ham on that in like college.
27:07
What does that look? Like what does ham mean where
27:09
there's solar? So they had a bunch of TRD parts
27:11
for it. Oh, so I got like TRD aero kit.
27:15
It was like TRD sold the molds to Caminari.
27:18
So it was like you called it a TRD kit, but it was Caminari.
27:21
But it was like a seven piece like lip kit and it looked, it
27:24
looked pretty cool. I know.
27:25
Exactly what that looks like, yeah.
27:27
Once you said Caminari, it's very sharp.
27:29
It's it's it's. Like a Pearl white car.
27:32
So I got that kit. I got coil overs, I got a set of
27:38
gram lights like gold 57 S which I think we're still like 18 by 8
27:45
plus. 13 How did you figure out all the fitment and everything?
27:48
I didn't really know like what I was doing.
27:50
We we did actually have to roll the fenders.
27:52
So I was making progress. Oh yeah, now, now, now we're
27:56
it's evolved, but it was like. Kind of OK looking, you know?
27:59
Yeah. In gold.
28:00
Why do I? Feel like I know that you knew
28:03
that you had a Solara just now because you mentioned it and I
28:05
feel like. I think I've seen it before.
28:06
You've you've also you've also mentioned it because I feel like
28:09
not a lot of people. A lot of people thought it was
28:11
an S15 which like, I didn't know that much.
28:13
About. I didn't.
28:13
Know much about S chassis yet? So every time somebody said
28:17
that, I was like, no, like it's Solari.
28:19
Like what are you talking? About so you had both of those
28:21
cars at the same time. Yeah, the Camry became my
28:23
beater. I sold all the parts off of it
28:25
except unfortunately I couldn't take the exhaust off 'cause it
28:27
was welded so it still sounded really loud and it's.
28:30
Probably terrible it. Was awful, yeah.
28:31
No resonators or anything. It was terrible on his auto.
28:35
So then I'm like modifying the Solara.
28:37
That was over a course of like 2 years.
28:38
And that was the that was when my wife and I were dating in
28:41
college. That's like when we started
28:42
getting serious and that was the first like fight we ever had.
28:45
But she found out that I bought the wheels for it and they were
28:49
on eBay. A local tuning shop was shutting
28:51
down and so they went out of business.
28:53
So they had these brand new gram lights and I was like, damn,
28:55
that's a deal. They were like 900 bucks or
28:56
something and she was like, I've never spent that much money in
29:00
my life. Like I can't believe you could
29:01
just spend $900 like that. But now we do it no problem.
29:05
Yeah, but I was like, oh, sorry. Like I that's, I don't know,
29:09
that's Clark. People are there.
29:10
What's happening? You know, like, sorry.
29:12
And then that like came up later because I bought a TRD
29:16
supercharger for it on eBay. Probably a lot more than.
29:20
Which like. Which adds like.
29:23
Carls choking on a donut has like. 40 horsepower and like you
29:27
don't have to tune it because like the factory ECU can
29:30
compensate for the boost. So there was like a little like
29:33
boost controller that you had to splice into your wiring to make
29:36
it cut fuel when it shifted or whatever.
29:39
I don't even know what it it's pretty.
29:40
I don't think it even did anything.
29:41
How much was it? So it was on eBay and I was in a
29:44
bidding fight with a guy and me and my brother were up late.
29:47
Like the only two people in the country that need this, yeah.
29:50
I didn't want solar. But it was it was discontinued
29:52
and the kit was brand new. So it was like, oh, I want a
29:54
brand new one. I want the nice.
29:55
You know that will become a problem for years and years and
29:58
years still of like I want the new like nice.
30:00
Oh yeah, this will be a. This will be a.
30:02
This is where like maybe it started to get bad.
30:04
Yeah. And kind of noticing that this
30:06
is this is really. It's going to get really bad,
30:09
yeah. Yeah, it does.
30:10
It does. It gets bad before it gets
30:11
better. I don't know.
30:12
Arguably hasn't gotten. Better yet, so I he's like bid
30:16
more, bid more. And so it was, it was 2020
30:20
$600.00 which this is in 2000. You could have bought that in.
30:25
2008 I could have bought ASR swap Dude I thought I could have
30:28
bought 2 Sr. Swap.
30:29
Yeah, actually, but I was like so.
30:31
Stoked. And then like when I put it in
30:34
the hood wouldn't shut and I was like what Like why won't the
30:37
hood shut? And it ended up being a kit for
30:41
a Sienna because the Sienna first Gen.
30:45
Sienna had a one MZ the TR they made a TRD supercharger kit for.
30:48
Looking at the Sienna right now, picture if that was.
30:50
Supercharged. That would be a little.
30:52
Bit old. Oh my God.
30:53
But. Wait, so you bought the wrong
30:55
one? So the supercharger was fine,
30:57
the car ran, but the idler assembly there was a big like
31:00
bracket with all these pulleys that the belt ran through
31:02
because it's a belt driven supercharger was taller for the
31:05
Sienna. So I had to like find someone on
31:08
the luckily I found somebody that had the correct 1 and I
31:11
swapped it or whatever. And then of course like as soon
31:14
as I drove it, the clutch slipped immediately because they
31:18
told me like the clutch had been replaced so they couldn't.
31:21
So I was like so as soon as I test drove it.
31:23
It was just like. Like I just revved out if I'd
31:25
want any. More that was probably making
31:28
up. I think it made like I got it
31:30
tuned later with an SAFC. When I put bigger I put super
31:34
injectors. So it didn't stop.
31:36
It didn't stop. No, no.
31:37
I. Thought that maybe after it
31:38
started. Smaller pulley, you know.
31:41
I want to know what you said to Alicia when you bought a $2600
31:44
supercharger. So, yeah, because it's $900
31:46
that's. A funny story too because I
31:47
hadn't told her yet and my cousin knew about it and we were
31:50
at my cousin's grad party and he walks over to me while Alicia
31:53
and I are getting food and he goes So when are you getting
31:56
blown? And I with my cousin, this is
31:59
like really cringy and says terrible stuff like that.
32:02
Yeah. And so first of all, I'm like,
32:03
that's a terrible thing to say, first of all to.
32:05
Me. I mean, I understand what he
32:07
meant, but. The blower, the charger, so
32:10
that's. It's a saveable conversation, by
32:12
the way, right here. Yeah, this is saveable.
32:14
Yeah. So that's when I but that's when
32:16
I, I don't remember what happened.
32:17
It was. I probably blacked.
32:18
Out. He blacked out after that, yeah.
32:19
Right, 'cause that was way more than the wheels.
32:21
So I don't know yeah, what happened, but.
32:24
You got into fight or flight mode right there.
32:26
Yeah, you have to have. And the funniest part is like,
32:28
so my father-in-law is a financial planner, thank
32:31
goodness. So like he caught me before I
32:33
spent all the money. I was like, no, no, no, like
32:36
whatever. I like whatever is left, you
32:38
need to like invest it, pay off your student loans, like all
32:40
this stuff. So like I couldn't get to it
32:43
anymore because like you locked it all up for me.
32:45
Thank goodness. I think we used it to buy that
32:47
van like later, like years later, you know, when we had
32:49
kids and stuff. So luckily I couldn't keep
32:52
wasting it all on us Lara. But like I I remember in
32:57
college, like last year of college, taking it to a car show
32:59
in Detroit Autorama. And like the basement is a hot
33:02
rod show, but the basement used to be the like tuner section and
33:05
it was all just like the terrible stuff that you would
33:07
picture. Do you have anything?
33:09
What other car, what other cars were taking over that scene in
33:12
there? I do remember there was.
33:14
A dude in the. GTR there like but now they
33:17
don't have it in. I just went for the first time
33:19
in like 12 years to Autorama, and we were going in the
33:22
basement and I was like, oh hell yeah.
33:23
Like I saw my friends, like I can't wait to see all that.
33:25
And they're like, they don't have that anymore.
33:26
Like there's no tuner cars anymore.
33:27
And I was like, what, where is it?
33:29
And they're like, no, dude, nobody has that anymore.
33:31
I was like aw man this sucks like.
33:33
That was in Detroit, you said. Yeah, it was all like rat rods
33:36
and stuff. They didn't have imports
33:37
anymore. That sounds like a cool name
33:39
though. Yeah, obviously that, but I
33:40
remember going to that show and Alicia on the way home, I had to
33:43
use her like debit card to put gas in my car because I was that
33:46
broke. You're on a car.
33:48
Show where I'm like look at my City car and I'm like no, you,
33:52
you. You built a life.
33:53
Because I just like locked all my money away.
33:55
Like any money I had was invested.
33:56
So I was like, I don't even have gas to get back to college.
33:59
Like can you like pay for my gas?
34:01
Life's life's starting to have. She still married me.
34:03
Like that's pretty nice. That's what I'm saying.
34:05
That's what I'm saying. Like that's the red flag city,
34:07
right? There.
34:07
So this is this is you got. This car in the car show and you
34:09
can't put gas in it. There's a.
34:11
Good ending here, but I need to continue to hear about.
34:16
Things I know I. Got to keep it rolling, yeah?
34:17
Because so the solar started running good, made power.
34:23
It's maxed out like it's did you.
34:24
Did you change reliably the color?
34:26
The clutch. Oh, yeah, yeah.
34:27
I had a shop put the clutch in. So I met a guy out in West
34:31
Michigan, Mike, that worked at like his brother's shop.
34:35
And it ended up being, it was called All Speed.
34:38
But that you did You skateboard, Frankie?
34:41
Not much, but yeah. Do you know, like who?
34:44
Wait, what's the dude's name? I always mix it up.
34:47
It's not Rob Dyrdek, it's like a dude that skated with him.
34:50
I probably do know him. For DC, skated.
34:52
For DC, well, I can't think of his name.
34:56
Yeah, Rob Dyrdek is from Ohio, so that makes sense.
34:58
So maybe. Yeah, but it wasn't 'cause he's
35:00
like in Robin, big and stuff. So it's his like Josh Kalis.
35:03
OK, it's not familiar. He owned the shop, so it was his
35:06
like brother that was working on my car.
35:08
And we were dinoing the Solara one night, like tuning it.
35:11
And he was like, he said, yeah, yeah, we're tuning, tuning it on
35:15
that. Yeah, tuning it on the SAFC.
35:17
And he was like, oh, 'cause I was like, 'cause he had a really
35:20
nice M3, like 2 door M3 with like HRE wheels and stuff.
35:25
And I was like, how do you have this car, dude?
35:27
Like you just work at the shop and he's like, oh, my brother
35:29
owns a shop like Josh Kalis, like skates for Alien Workshop,
35:33
whatever. And I was like, I grew up
35:34
skating. So I was like, wait, what?
35:35
And he's like, yeah, I'm pretty sure he's been here when you're
35:37
here before. And I was like, I didn't know
35:39
that, but I ended up being friends with Mike and he like
35:43
welded my exhaust and like did the clutch and all this stuff
35:46
for me. So I was paying a shop to do it
35:47
'cause I still, I was in college, I didn't know how to do
35:49
anything. Like, yeah, I was starting to
35:51
make a little progress. Like I changed my oil.
35:53
I put the supercharger on. That's pretty myself and stuff.
35:55
So it was. Do you have the same tools that
35:57
you used back then? Yeah.
35:59
That like little Craftsman box on the floor, the.
36:01
Fact that you put a supercharger in with those tools is no.
36:03
No, no, yeah, I'm going to say what I said earlier while you
36:07
were inside. I said, you know, this car works
36:10
pretty good because all the tools are right there in that
36:14
corner. There's the only tools I see in
36:17
here. So this car has to just drive.
36:21
All right. For right now, yeah, I haven't
36:22
done anything. Right now I'm.
36:23
Judging by the story, it's probably a matter of time.
36:27
Yeah. But it also was like a cool flex
36:29
back then, like, Oh yeah, this modified FX, like tuned my car.
36:33
It like worked on my car, you know, like a shop.
36:35
So when I started hanging out with him, I would go to the shop
36:38
in college and just like hang out at night.
36:40
He got an S13 coupe with an Sr. swap and I helped him put the
36:47
Sylvia front on it. And I was starting to learn like
36:50
I was bummed about the Solara around that time because I had
36:52
like swapped to black interior had like sparkle recliners with
36:55
harnesses and like daffy gauges. Like it was pretty sick.
37:00
Sparkle. Camry never made it to like one
37:02
of the top ones in my opinion. Sparkle.
37:04
Torinos. What kind of sparkles?
37:06
Yeah, yeah, Torino is the best thing.
37:08
Yep. What so like?
37:09
Is that the reclinable? Yeah.
37:11
Yeah, the Little Dorito. With the sparkle harnesses like
37:14
so the Solara I think was pretty sick.
37:15
Like that was like top three like it was.
37:17
It was a pretty cool car, but I started hanging out with him and
37:20
I was like, it sucks there's no like JDM parts for my car
37:24
because it was only North America they didn't sell.
37:26
It in Japan. So I was like, there's no like,
37:28
cool Japanese parts I can get for my car.
37:31
Like yeah, I have like. Why did you have that?
37:34
Hexi exhaust and all this stuff. Why'd you have that urge to want
37:37
to get JDM parts? I don't know because that's
37:40
your, I think it's reading the magazines, so.
37:42
I need to know where this? I think it was from the
37:44
magazines because at first it was cool.
37:47
Like I think maybe some people always have it, but you know how
37:51
like there's people in the car community that you're like, oh,
37:53
this is the only one in the US that has this.
37:56
And I was like that. So I'm not making fun of that
37:58
'cause I was like that. Like I remember I had a a brid
38:01
seat that we like made a bracket for and put it in the Solara.
38:05
That was fake. It was like a piece of crap seat
38:08
with a brid head pillow on it, but I didn't know it was fake.
38:11
And so I was like, oh, this is the only Solara with like a
38:13
bridge seat and it wasn't even like I didn't but I didn't know
38:15
till years later. I was like that was not a real
38:17
bridge seat once I got into it. But I was so into the magazines
38:21
and like wanted to get in the magazines so bad.
38:23
And I think that all those cars. They all had like JDM stuff.
38:27
Yeah. And they were all like the very
38:28
specific platforms that, you know, everybody was, you know,
38:31
you didn't see a Solara or a Camry in there.
38:34
It was also the way that I feel like it was presented too.
38:36
Like always when you saw him in the magazines again, I caught
38:39
like the tail end of this stuff. But like when you saw that those
38:42
kind of parts and the magazines that needed to be imported, they
38:45
were always just like presented to you in a sick way.
38:49
Like the little photo of the car that's this big with the part
38:53
that you're looking for on it. Like I'm like I'm literally like
38:56
8 years old looking at this. Shit, yeah.
38:59
So like Mike had that S13. I was going to say Sylvia, but
39:03
it was AUS car and we like put the Sylvia front on it one night
39:06
and I was like oh, this is cool. Like it looks totally different.
39:09
This is how it was in Japan. Like I'm learning a little bit.
39:12
And he painted it like Pearl white, like the same colour as
39:15
my Solara and it had the same gram lights on it.
39:18
So I was like oh, this is sick. But it was making like 400 wheel
39:21
horsepower or something. Oh my God, he let me drive it
39:23
and I was like, holy crap, this is fast and then like.
39:28
Dude, this mic guy ruined you. Yeah, this is it, Frankie.
39:32
This this Mic and I. Still talk to him.
39:33
He's a fabricator in California. Like he does crazy stuff like
39:36
he's always working on like 2500 horsepower, like Vipers and
39:40
stuff. So like he's like really gotten
39:42
really good at fabrication. Like he would probably not be
39:45
offended if I said like he wasn't good at fabrication when
39:47
he's working on my car, but he is very good now that's.
39:49
Kind of sick. I I this is just a random side
39:52
note, but I like that when you have friends where you you can
39:55
like see that happen to them and you're like, yo, that guy used
39:58
to be. Yeah, yeah, and he's like making
40:00
amazing like crazy expensive, like turbo that is awesome
40:03
setups and stuff now. But so around that time we had
40:07
another friend Steve that had like a grey Zenki S13 hatch with
40:15
it was just like lowered had pig nose, lip, stock body and then
40:19
it had bronze. 5 Zegan FNL ones like you know the standard and I
40:25
was like this thing is sick. And we had a dyno day at the
40:29
shop and we dynoed my car and then we dynoed Steve's car and
40:34
Sr., stock Sr., and it made like 2:30 and my car made like 2:45.
40:42
And he was like, oh, I'm gonna take you for a ride after.
40:44
And yours was supercharged. Yeah.
40:46
And AV six, Yeah. And his is an Sr. and so like he
40:49
took me for a ride and it had rained a little bit and it was
40:52
just like. Like through the gears.
40:54
And I was like, dude, I want an S13.
40:57
Was that your first time experiencing that?
40:59
Yeah, that one. And Mike's.
41:00
So those two dudes, like I'd always hang out with them and I
41:03
was like, this feels completely different.
41:05
How does this make less power than my because the solar is a
41:08
heavy car and the front wheel. Drive and the platform, I was
41:11
going to say yeah and. It's like a Camry.
41:13
So it's so comfortable, even like lowered and stuff.
41:16
Like it was a nice car. Like nice.
41:18
Riding, Yeah. Oh yeah.
41:19
And I was like. Like I want one of these but I
41:23
was like I never parted out a car like my Camry.
41:26
I kind of did, but I still had it in winter beater.
41:28
So I was starting to think like I might part out my car and get
41:34
at 2:40 and then I sort of started to part out the car.
41:38
That summer is my last summer of college.
41:42
I started parting out the Solara to buy Alicia's engagement ring.
41:45
So I sold the supercharger to pay for the ring.
41:48
So maybe that's how I never got in too much.
41:50
Trouble. Yeah, maybe.
41:51
Like a year later I sold the supercharger.
41:53
We pretty much paid for the Ring.
41:55
But then I was like, this suck, this car suck.
41:57
And I think I sold my wheels and got cheaper wheels.
41:59
I got like some like $400.00 wheels and that's how I was
42:02
coming up with the money. And then I was like, this sucks
42:05
now though, 'cause you know, like when your car's like, cool,
42:07
and then like if you like take, make it less.
42:09
Cool. Yeah, and I'm like I.
42:10
Don't think I've really ever like parted out a car like.
42:13
You've never done that. But you're like a professional.
42:15
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
42:15
I'm really good at it now. But that was the first time.
42:17
But so I was used to like, I don't know, I was like, so when
42:21
you're younger and like I was so into cars, like that was my
42:24
whole identity. And so it was like, this is one
42:27
of the top like cars on the forum.
42:29
And so I was like, Oh no, like. So you really were like on even
42:32
even that car on the forum was. Yeah, like people.
42:36
I was like in dude in that cool group.
42:39
Not a solar. Allowed to say yeah I.
42:41
Feel like not a Solara in the country in the world probably at
42:45
that time. Is there even any now like
42:47
there? Were like there was a dude that
42:48
had like custom wide body on his and then I don't think anybody
42:52
swapped those. But when I had the Camry when I
42:54
went to the dudes house they had a so the one dudes car was in
42:58
modified it was a coupe with like a full crazy cage and had a
43:02
3S GTE swap and he was like one there were only like 2 people
43:06
that did it. So like when he was in Modified,
43:09
I was like, that's so sick. Like that's what I want.
43:11
So the Solara, I got into the like readers rides issue.
43:16
Yeah, Modified. Used to do that too I think.
43:18
So Modified used to do an issue that was the whole issue was
43:21
readers rides. And so it was like there were
43:23
like 3 or 4 like full features, like a full magazine feature.
43:27
And then there were like some that were like one page, there
43:31
were like four or six of those. And then there were at the end
43:33
there were just a ton of pages with a ton of, you know, like
43:35
1/4 page. So I got one of the full page
43:37
ones and like everybody went nuts.
43:39
Like my grandma went out and like bought a bunch of them.
43:41
Realized rides. Yeah, it was like the reader's
43:44
rides issue. You remember that, Carl?
43:46
No, because. It's an.
43:48
It was like your. Chance to like if you couldn't
43:50
get it, if your car wasn't crazy enough for like a full feature,
43:52
that was like your chance. I didn't know about that, but
43:55
yet I had a similar idea for factoring quarterly because I
44:00
like writing still, yeah. Like, yeah, we really want to.
44:03
I never really got into that. It never happened yet.
44:06
So, readers. Were actually thinking about
44:08
this right now and. Then they would like.
44:09
We got to include him. They would write a blurb about
44:12
it and they would like say what they liked and didn't like and
44:14
they would like roast people and they like didn't say some of
44:17
them, some of them. They were gross people, but they
44:19
didn't like say anything bad about mine.
44:21
And they were like, this is like way to take like a not popular
44:25
platform and modify it in a tasteful way to like respect or
44:29
whatever. And it was it was Peter Terry
44:32
that does speed Academy now. He's the one that wrote it.
44:35
And so he was the editor in chief at the time.
44:36
And I was like, dude, this is so sick.
44:38
And I like I really wanted to work in the industry.
44:40
I wasn't going to school for anything car.
44:42
I was doing graphic design, which cut could be, but I wanted
44:45
to work at a car. Like I was like, I want to
44:46
design modified or like super street, like I want to lay out
44:49
the magazine like that would be the coolest job.
44:51
That's how I could tie this together.
44:53
And like, my senior project in college was like, I made my own
44:56
car magazine and like, laid it out and yeah, I'd rather help me
44:59
do the I mean. You had a relationship with
45:00
Modified and yeah. That or something.
45:02
So I'd reached out to him like dude, thank you so much, like
45:05
for putting my car in there. And I think he like responded
45:08
like he's super nice dude. And like I was just like, this
45:11
is so cool. I think he bought something from
45:12
our website once and I freaked out.
45:14
Yeah, yeah. I was like, what the fuck?
45:16
Yeah, he was like, because Modified was the one I liked.
45:18
I still bought Import Tuner Super Street.
45:20
Yeah, but Modified I was like, I think they they like had just
45:24
gotten rid of having models in it, which like was always.
45:28
Like modified for me was. That's why I was buying the damn
45:30
magazines bro. But that's like when I was like,
45:33
engaged. So I was like, I don't want this
45:34
thing showing up in my house with like babes all over it.
45:37
The way that so you were you guys got the subscriptions, the
45:41
way that I was getting them was that I would tell my mom.
45:44
I used to go buy them too. Actually to go buy them.
45:46
That's the first hint of like being terrible at finances.
45:50
Yeah, I'll just drive there in my car and buy it every month
45:52
for six or $7.00 instead of spending 20 to get it all year.
45:56
The even worse for me, it was like, yeah, let me just like not
46:00
we talked about boy lunch, pretzel and Gatorade.
46:03
Let me just like let me pretzel and Gatorade for three days and
46:06
then I can go to the convenience store and tell my mom I'm
46:08
playing at my friend's house and go buy a.
46:11
At that time it was so fun. Yeah, I remember standing in
46:14
Barnes and Noble, one of the last times we used to have these
46:16
big car meets at at in Edgewater, NJ, And it must have
46:20
been like 2012, 1314, somewhere around there.
46:23
And we were standing there looking at magazines.
46:25
And then I looked at the price. I was like, I'm not fucking
46:27
buying this for. 12 months and they got you like 10?
46:28
Dollars. And they were so thin by then.
46:31
Yeah, I'm like, how do I just be like 300 pages, like super
46:34
glossy? But even just talking about
46:35
this, I'm like, dude, imagine getting a magazine like that.
46:40
That's what I. Want right now dude, I want to
46:41
do. That, that is crazy.
46:43
And that was to be. And that was like the peak
46:45
thing. Yeah, to listen to.
46:46
Me. Yeah, like that was the
46:48
ultimate. Like, I was like, dude, if I
46:50
ever got a car in a magazine, yeah, that would just be
46:53
incredible. Like when final bout was in or
46:54
whatever final bout was in Super Street and one of the photos was
46:57
me and Josh and I was like, Oh my God, does this count?
47:00
Yeah, I'm like. Trying to figure I'm like does.
47:02
This count I'm in super sick. Yeah, yeah, I've been in one
47:05
magazine. There's a USDM freaks.
47:07
It's like I went actually that goes out and I didn't know when
47:11
Chinzo shout out Brian Chinzo put a.
47:14
Picture of my current same one we're in.
47:17
It was from like 2018 or something.
47:19
Yeah dude, it might be the same one I.
47:20
Got that issue I saved. It That's a sick magazine.
47:22
I saved it like I, I'd never thought because OK, what I was
47:26
doing, I didn't never finish this.
47:27
What I was doing with the import tuner, modified Mac, anything I
47:30
was getting from that store that was a car magazine, I was
47:32
chopping them up and I would have a a composition notebook
47:36
and I would tape and make my own one that I like and I would draw
47:40
my own cars in there and then have it do it.
47:43
I tried finding it. I don't, I don't know where that
47:45
could possibly be. Honestly.
47:47
I think my mom probably threw it out, but that's what I was
47:49
doing. Dude, red composition notebook.
47:51
I had all of them. You got to put like the pictures
47:52
in the locker. Yeah, or I've had a lot of
47:55
people either like, message me and say like, that was my
47:57
desktop in like middle school, your car.
48:01
But before that, like people will say like, oh, I cut out
48:04
your magazine feature and like, put it in my binder, like in the
48:07
front of my school. Binder and I was.
48:10
Like, dude, that's or their locker.
48:12
I'm like, dude, that's the coolest.
48:13
But I was doing. I feel really old, but that's so
48:16
cool. Yeah, like.
48:17
I like tracing them like so like the photos, the drawings of the
48:21
photos. I would use that binder like I'd
48:24
slip yeah, the the picture in that front cover and then I
48:28
would trace it that way and change it.
48:30
Like that's so cool. Dude, yeah, Oh my.
48:33
God I wish I had AI, don't think I subscribed to any of them
48:35
back. I honestly, I don't think I.
48:37
Did either. I don't.
48:38
I don't think I subscribed to Modified until I was like
48:41
writing for them so. Modified.
48:43
Modified for me was like. The more it was always like, the
48:46
more like, yeah. It was still like they're still
48:51
like technical and they were like more about performance and
48:54
the cars were more conservative, not in the beginning, but like
48:58
towards the end. It was more Peter.
49:00
And I think Peter brought a lot of that was like, oh, I want
49:02
like a purpose built like streetcar that is clean and
49:05
tasteful and whatever. Did you start writing for them
49:08
before or after you got a S13? After so it's after I parted out
49:12
my first S13. Oh, after you parted out the
49:16
first one, see. Yeah, that's why I got to get
49:17
moving, because nobody wants to listen to the Camry stuff the
49:19
whole time. No, no.
49:20
Yeah, yeah. Whoa, so I got this.
49:22
The Solara. Yeah, we'll come back to
49:23
Modified. Yeah, the Solara.
49:24
Got in the magazine. That was like my crowning
49:26
achievement. It had like there was actually
49:28
an ad like over part of the page.
49:30
It was like one of the full page ones, but like part of that page
49:32
was an ad. So it was really like 2/3 of a
49:34
page. It was kind of awful, but I was
49:36
like, so. And my brother took the pictures
49:37
that they used. He was a really good
49:39
photographer. So, yeah, so I was all stoked
49:41
about that, but I was starting to be and even the cover of that
49:44
issue had a a Sylvia on it or an S13 coupe with instant gentleman
49:50
kit, like grey. And it had really big like work
49:53
wheels, like black with polished lip.
49:56
I don't remember. It was like, but I was like, oh,
49:59
like, that's cool. And I still didn't know the
50:00
difference between like Sylvia 180, still 80.
50:04
I just knew they were all two 40s or like S13.
50:07
So I was like, cool. So I was starting to like I kind
50:10
of want to get one like how am I going to and?
50:12
Then what year was this around? This is 2008 and then so.
50:16
Bro I was in the 4th grade bro or 5th grade dude.
50:20
I thought you were doing this shit decades before me and we're
50:23
going to be like. Two years, that's what I'm
50:24
saying. You guys are close.
50:26
Yeah, so Labor Day weekend before college was starting my
50:30
last semester, Alicia had already graduated because she
50:32
got done a semester early. I had an extra semester because
50:35
I screwed around and I needed an internship and I couldn't get it
50:38
till the last summer. So we went to Chicago to visit
50:43
my now sister-in-law. She was Alicia's roommate in
50:46
college. My brother ended up marrying.
50:48
Oh wow. So like now she's in my family,
50:50
so it's really cool. So we went and hung out with
50:52
them. We left my brother there and
50:54
then we went to the beach in Grand Haven on the West side of
50:56
Michigan, and that's when I proposed that weekend.
50:59
But the day we were leaving to go there, before my brother and
51:04
Alicia came to meet up with me, I got rear-ended in the Solara
51:07
and it got totaled. No way we're talking about a car
51:09
accident right now because my mom just texted me and said that
51:11
my sister got into a car accident right now.
51:13
So that's fucking weird. Let me just call her for like a
51:15
minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
51:16
But that is. Freaky simulation.
51:19
That is weird. Yeah, that is weird.
51:20
Something weird is going on here.
51:21
Still going to listen right over.
51:23
Here. So yeah, yeah.
51:24
So she so the car. So I had to like not be
51:28
devastated because I was going to propose that weekend.
51:31
It was right before we went on this trip.
51:32
That's a. So I had to be like, hey,
51:34
everything's cool. Like it's fine.
51:36
I don't really care. You know, because I could.
51:38
Because I was going to be like, depressed the whole time.
51:40
So but you were still parted out?
51:43
Yeah, so yeah got totalled Yep and I had insurance on that car
51:47
like so I got money for the car. I didn't have insurance on the
51:50
parts, but I I could get a check.
51:53
I think I think I paid like 7 grand for the car.
51:55
I think insurance gave me more than I paid for it, which worked
51:58
out pretty sick. But yeah.
52:00
We went on the trip still. We drove my brother's car.
52:02
He was into cars too. He had a 2.5 Rs Subaru, like a
52:05
2000. He ended up paying a shop to
52:07
swap it. It blew up.
52:09
He used all his inheritance also.
52:11
Oh no. And then it's has been sitting
52:13
in a garage for like 10 years. Thank God you didn't go the
52:15
Subaru route. Yeah, dude.
52:17
Because it would have been bad. No, no, no, no, no, no.
52:20
I loved them. I.
52:21
Wanted a WRX because like the bug I came out in the US when I
52:24
was in high school and they had this sick commercial of the blue
52:26
one like rally sliding in the gravel.
52:28
Obviously I wanted one but like, I love them but I'll never own
52:31
one ever. Yeah.
52:33
But so yeah, after that happened, then I was like, I
52:36
guess this is time to get a, an S13 and I still have my Camry as
52:40
a daily. And but also like, we just got
52:43
engaged. So I was like, hey, I want to
52:46
take the money from my car and get a new car.
52:49
And Alicia was like, well, you already have a car, how about
52:52
you stop doing this? Stupid.
52:54
She didn't say that, but it was sort of like, hey, like any
52:56
logical human would be like, maybe it's time to stop
53:00
modifying a car like a teenager. You're getting married and we
53:04
need a house, so maybe we should save that money for the house.
53:07
So what did you do? I bought the two for you and I
53:11
found it on Craigslist and it was pretty much stock.
53:17
It had like gold racing hearts on it like 17 by 7 stock.
53:21
No it had coil overs but it was super high up.
53:24
They were seized and no front bumper blacktop Sr. swap.
53:30
Was, I'm sorry, was it a coupe? It was a hatch.
53:32
This is my hatch. Yeah, the black, the black, the
53:34
one you have. Oh, OK.
53:36
This is the black hatch. That was my S13 I bought.
53:38
I was wondering if you. Oh, OK, so you only.
53:40
Had that I bought. That was your first 240?
53:42
Yep. That one I thought.
53:44
There was another one. No, yeah, that was it.
53:45
That was the first one, so and it was out by my school.
53:49
I went and like test drove it. I talked to a guy and he was
53:52
asking 5 grand for it. Wow.
53:54
In 2008, that's a lot. Yeah.
53:56
And everybody. With an Sr. swap but still a
53:58
lot. Yeah, still a lot like that
54:00
should have been and like 3 tops.
54:02
So everybody thought I was an idiot when I bought it because
54:05
they're like, wow, you got hosed like, but it didn't.
54:08
I didn't know much about the rust issues.
54:10
Didn't really have. Everybody told me like check the
54:12
frame rails and the spare tire and I didn't really even know
54:15
what a frame rail was. So I'm like looking under the
54:17
car and I was like, I don't see. You look at rust wells, you're
54:19
like. Yeah, I was like, I don't see
54:21
rust. And it did have really clean
54:23
rails. It still does.
54:24
So like I got lucky like so that in itself was worth buying it to
54:27
me for that much money because I was like, it had blacktop Sr.
54:31
like whatever, but it was like sketchy compared to the Solara
54:36
'cause it's like a 93 versus a 99.
54:38
So it's like an older car. The interior's really junky.
54:41
It smells weird. It's like the S13 smell, which I
54:45
love now, but back then I was like, and there's like a hole in
54:48
the carpet. It did have rust holes in the
54:50
Hatch from the foam spoiler. This was an SE so and it had no
54:55
bumper. So I remember take buying
54:56
Mikey's old bumper 'cause he had Sylvia swapped.
55:00
Like dude I was talking about, he had his chooky bumper still.
55:02
And I was like, can you have your shop, like, paint this so I
55:05
can slap it on the car before Alicia sees the car?
55:08
Because I'm like, she's. Going to be like, what did you
55:10
just do? You bought this pile of crap
55:12
with the money from the Solara and I bought it.
55:17
I don't know if I should go into this.
55:18
I lived at SO my last semester of college.
55:22
I lived at Super 8 Motel. You lived?
55:25
Yeah. By campus, so a professor owned
55:28
the Super 8 OK and he had posted on campus like hey, you want to
55:32
rent A room for the semester? It's like 1000 bucks for the
55:34
semester and all my friends had graduated.
55:38
Alicia and I just got engaged so I was like I'll save some money.
55:40
Like I was live at Super 8 so I lived at the motel.
55:45
So so the S13 with no bumpers in the parking lot of Super 8?
55:49
Did you live there so you could afford to?
55:51
Two things. I think it was I think it was
55:53
pitched as like this will help us save for the house.
55:55
OK, because other because the on campus spot would have been like
55:57
3 grand. I would have had roommates that
55:59
I didn't know because my friends all graduated.
56:01
So I was like, whatever, I'll just live at Super 8, tough it
56:03
out. He bought an S13.
56:04
So now we're in the S13 realm. My sister's all good.
56:07
OK, That's her first car accident and she just started
56:09
driving like actually comfortably.
56:11
Well, now she'll Dr. defensively.
56:13
She will never drive. Again, I don't think oh or that.
56:15
Caitlin's not going to listen to this either so but I'm glad I
56:19
heard Super 8. Yeah, he lived at a Super 8
56:22
motel. Solara got totaled.
56:24
This is what 2 for? Lisa tried to get me to not buy
56:26
another car so we could save for a house.
56:27
I was an idiot though and I bought another car which was a
56:30
worst car. This is my 2:40.
56:31
Dude, God bless her man. She Yeah.
56:34
Dude, I'm telling you, man, telling you.
56:37
And second big. Hurdle here like.
56:39
This is like the second or third, yeah.
56:42
And so and I think I might have said like, I'll I'll also sell
56:46
the Camry and just daily the 2:40.
56:49
And I bought it in November. I bought it Election Day when
56:52
Obama got elected. I remember driving it home that
56:54
day. OK.
56:55
And that's really random. I don't follow politics, but
56:58
like, yeah, people decide to say like Frankie Obama's very first.
57:01
Thanks. Yeah, I don't yeah, I don't do
57:03
politics at that. So but I do remember that date
57:06
for that reason. But I drove it for like a week
57:11
to class and stuff and I was like, this is so sick.
57:13
Like it had a huge excess power in her cooler with no bumper and
57:18
I was like, this is. She didn't see it all.
57:20
Cool. No, because she was working so
57:22
she was back home at see her on the weekends but she hadn't seen
57:24
the car yet. And you're not.
57:27
You didn't tell her about it? No.
57:28
No, she knew I bought it. We had many, many hours long
57:31
conversations about why I shouldn't do that.
57:34
So she knew I had it, but she hadn't seen it.
57:36
And so I had the shop like paint a bumper 'cause I had no front
57:38
bumper. So she's going.
57:40
To see it and be like, what? That you got to sell this pile
57:42
of garbage? Yeah.
57:44
So you're living at this hotel by yourself?
57:46
Yeah, Super 8 Motel. OK, a subway like you somehow.
57:49
Convinced her to live in a motel.
57:50
No, no, no. She was living.
57:52
She had her own apartment. Like she was being an adult
57:54
because she graduated. She had a real job.
57:56
So she was like in. You were just trying to get
57:58
through. She was.
57:58
Like an hour and a half away from where I was at at school
58:01
and I'd go see her every weekend because I had an internship at
58:03
the time too. So I'd go see her.
58:05
But so I drove it for like a week.
58:08
She did ride in it. I got it like a little bit
58:11
sideways. I still don't know how to do
58:13
that, but it had been like rain slash snowing and she was like,
58:18
this car is scary. Like scary is the word she used.
58:22
She's like, I don't you're gonna like end up.
58:23
I don't think she ever said you're gonna end up dead in this
58:25
thing. But it was like this is a death
58:26
trap, like the auto seatbelts and everything but it's fast but
58:29
like ugly, like falling apart so.
58:31
I would have been like, that's the fun.
58:32
Part. Yeah, that's the part that makes
58:34
it kind of. Cool, I think I drove it for
58:36
like 2 weeks and I passed somebody one day and I flicked
58:39
my headlights on like before I passed them.
58:42
I don't know why. That's why yeah, they.
58:45
Pop up and I left them on so then the battery died.
58:48
So then I had a company come like jump it like with my
58:52
through my insurance and I don't know if the dude like hooked it
58:55
up backwards. No.
58:56
I think that's what happened, but the car was dead dead dead.
59:00
So I bought this car here like 2 weeks ago.
59:01
I spent all this time convincing my wife to let me buy it.
59:04
My fiance at the time. Oh hell yeah.
59:05
OK. And I wouldn't start and I'm two
59:07
hours from home because I'm at school.
59:09
So I was like, Oh no, like I just said, like I could daily
59:14
this thing. Not gonna.
59:14
Drive wheels or turn, you're gonna yeah, there there is a
59:16
solution here. OK, well, so I got to get it
59:18
home because it was coming up to Thanksgiving break.
59:21
So I was like, I got to get the car home because it's going to
59:23
start snowing bad out here. I was on the West side of the
59:25
state, snows a lot more there. And so my cousins came out and
59:29
my brother, my cousin had a big like Cummins, like diesel Ram,
59:33
and we were like pushing it in the parking lot, dumping the
59:36
clutch, like pushing it with the pickup against the rear bumper
59:39
and trying. To get a start.
59:40
S13 rear bumper very strong. Yeah it was fine, very strong,
59:43
but it wouldn't start. So we had to rent AU haul Dolly,
59:46
2 wheel Dolly and tow at home. Towed it to my grandparents
59:49
house. My grandpa, my grandma, had
59:52
recently passed away. So there was a spot in the
59:54
garage. And so my grandpa like, let me
59:56
keep it in his garage. So I put it in there.
59:59
And then I was like, I don't know what to do.
1:00:01
So I'm like, I put a supercharger in at this point,
1:00:03
but like wiring, like I'm like, I put a new battery.
1:00:07
I took the starter to AutoZone and managed to get the starter
1:00:10
out and it was fine. So I'm like, I don't know what
1:00:12
to do. Yeah, I'm kind of screwed right
1:00:14
now. So I just started like buying
1:00:16
parts for it that weren't related to that at all.
1:00:18
Wait, what was the what was it powered by at this point Sr.
1:00:22
Yeah, black. It had a black top Sr.
1:00:23
It was basically a stock car. I started ripping out the whole
1:00:26
interior because I was like, I need to replace the carpet, I
1:00:28
need a bucket seat, I need gauges, I need.
1:00:30
So I started doing whoa, I started doing all that stuff.
1:00:33
Wait, wait. But the car's still broken,
1:00:35
yeah? It didn't run, but I was like,
1:00:37
I'll figure it out along the way, but I'm going to start
1:00:39
buying cool parts because I have the insurance money from the
1:00:42
Solara and I sold all the parts off the Solara.
1:00:46
So like when I took it to The Body Shop, the Solara, when it
1:00:48
got totaled, I told the guy like, Hey, I don't really know
1:00:51
what to do. But like I have all these parts
1:00:52
on this car. Like I had headers,
1:00:54
supercharger. I didn't have a supercharger
1:00:56
anymore. But all this other stuff, I was
1:00:57
like, I want to sell all this stuff.
1:00:59
Insurance isn't insuring these parts.
1:01:01
And the guy was like, oh, it quit running when it when you
1:01:03
got hit, right? I was like, no, I drove it home
1:01:06
from school and he's like, no, no, the car died right when you
1:01:09
got hit. And I was like, Oh yeah, yeah,
1:01:11
it died. And he's like, yeah, don't worry
1:01:12
about it. So like when I turned it in for
1:01:14
insurance, it had like no exhaust on it, it had no fuel
1:01:19
pump, like no brake calipers. Is that big brakes on it?
1:01:23
And then like, because they're like going to look at it
1:01:25
probably. Yeah, he's like, it doesn't
1:01:26
matter. It's just going to get auctioned
1:01:28
as a totaled car or whatever. So I sold all those parts and
1:01:31
started buying other parts. Like I think the first thing I
1:01:34
bought for it was the like ARC cooling panel.
1:01:37
It was on Sylvia for like 60 bucks.
1:01:39
There he goes. He's starting to buy OST.
1:01:41
Now they're like $1,000,000. Yeah, yeah.
1:01:43
And then I was like, oh, cool, dude.
1:01:44
Was there a mention of Sylvia before?
1:01:46
Not yet, no. Yeah.
1:01:47
Yeah, so I had joined Sylvia when I started getting into S
1:01:50
thirteens, like when I still had the Solara, I was like, I wanna
1:01:53
see what this is about, like what's doing your but.
1:01:54
You didn't have like a a build thread for.
1:01:57
No, no, I didn't have anything. Yeah, I started a build thread,
1:02:01
I think a few months after I got the car because I was terrified
1:02:05
of Sylvia. It was so different than the
1:02:07
Toyota forearm. What?
1:02:09
Was scary about. It people just say whatever they
1:02:11
want there dude. And it is like it's way bigger
1:02:13
for I mean there's way more S13 people than Camry or whatever,
1:02:17
but the stuff like people are saying on there and like the
1:02:20
whole Camry community, if you're tuning a car, it was like the
1:02:23
number one thing was like don't make it a ricer.
1:02:27
Like it was like, don't get a fart can, don't get fiberglass
1:02:31
arrow. This is probably.
1:02:33
Like it has to be clean or you won't be respected, which is
1:02:36
true. It was a Camry, so you couldn't,
1:02:38
like, do all that stuff. Yeah.
1:02:39
You had a fine line there. Yep.
1:02:41
So it was like when I had an exhaust, it was like it was an
1:02:44
Oval muffler with a slanted double wall tip.
1:02:46
So it didn't look like a big cannon, like you couldn't do
1:02:49
that stuff. And I always.
1:02:50
Best muffler is a big. Yeah, that's it.
1:02:52
That's not it. No, no, no.
1:02:53
That one. I like that.
1:02:55
And it's pointed straight. Don't you dare angle it like or
1:02:58
you're gonna. Nobody's gonna.
1:02:59
I respect you. Don't get AGT Wing.
1:03:00
Don't. Don't my.
1:03:01
Favorite exhaust is a fart cannon, just angled.
1:03:03
Well, now mine is too. I couldn't do that then because
1:03:06
that was the way the community was.
1:03:07
So I got on Nico Club and Sylvia and I remember I always tell
1:03:11
Teddy this story. Teddy of realized, yeah, I still
1:03:15
talk to him, but we just talk about Pokémon Go all the time.
1:03:17
Don't talk about cars really anymore.
1:03:19
I talked. To Chuck and I talked to Jay,
1:03:21
Yeah. And I'm like, hopefully you guys
1:03:22
can find, yeah. We really want to, yeah, we
1:03:25
really want to do something. It would.
1:03:26
Be great but I saw Teddy's coop when it was teal and Teddy had
1:03:31
the teal pants and had white wheels on it like Muslane or
1:03:34
whatever. His team, I don't know how to
1:03:36
say. It yeah, I don't remember.
1:03:37
I remember seeing the coop. But I saw a thread on Nico that
1:03:41
Teddy made of that car and everybody was going nuts over
1:03:44
it. Like this is the sickest.
1:03:46
Like coolest in it was like the bumper was all smashed up, zip
1:03:49
tied on on the ground with like slanted exhaust.
1:03:52
And I was like, I thought people were being sarcastic because I
1:03:56
was like, no. This is not culture.
1:03:57
This is a really big. Culture shock clean like this is
1:04:00
this thing is like you can see the zip ties hanging off, but it
1:04:03
was like the drift scene and I didn't know anything about that
1:04:06
and I was like, no, this is real.
1:04:08
Like this is people love this car.
1:04:10
Like this dude is like legendary over here and like what's going
1:04:13
on? What year was that you think?
1:04:15
So that must have been like around 2008, 2009 as well.
1:04:18
OK, so I was like OK, this is different, this is a different
1:04:21
world here. But I eventually got connected
1:04:25
to a local guy through friends that was like kind of sketchy
1:04:28
dude that was like probably my age now, like almost 40 back and
1:04:32
had kids and stuff but was like he was from Thailand or
1:04:36
something I think. And he like, but he like had.
1:04:40
All the parts. Right hand Dr. S14 like he had
1:04:42
all this stuff that like you shouldn't have in the US but he
1:04:46
knew like he instantly fixed my car.
1:04:48
This is the plug. This is the plug.
1:04:50
Yeah, Yeah. He came over original.
1:04:51
He was. Like you need 75 amp fuse, you
1:04:53
need like really thick accent and he was like, oh, I think
1:04:56
your ECU shot like I brought an ECU let's swap that and the ECU
1:05:00
was fried they. Just.
1:05:01
Fried. Yeah.
1:05:03
And it just this mysterious dude like helped me fix my car.
1:05:07
He ended up powder coating my valve cover for me.
1:05:10
What the fuck? He had like a huge all in a one
1:05:11
day. No, not in a day, but like he
1:05:14
took it for me and and there were a lot of local people that
1:05:16
were like, oh, this dude ripped me off.
1:05:18
So I was really nervous. But I was fixing my car though,
1:05:21
yeah. But like he has a reputation on
1:05:22
the forums for like ripping people off.
1:05:24
He's like been banned a couple times and stuff.
1:05:25
Remember Carl, that one guy that you were going to go to and then
1:05:28
we were like. Yeah.
1:05:31
Yeah, same situation. Well, this is.
1:05:34
Because Carl was like, well, this guy seemed really nice and
1:05:35
help. Well, no, because he's helped me
1:05:37
out. Like we have somebody in our
1:05:38
community up there where he's helped me out more than once.
1:05:43
He's he's been very upfront and but then I hear like a past from
1:05:48
him and it's weird. What's?
1:05:49
Like Carl, People like scumbags like that.
1:05:51
They're weird. They like help some people out
1:05:53
and trick people and then and then massively fuck people over.
1:05:57
I'm just like, well, I don't really understand.
1:05:59
So I had a couple like running. I actually got my GS400 from
1:06:03
him. OK when I had that car I bought
1:06:05
that shell from him. I traded him some wheels from
1:06:08
the Evo for that. But Shell, yeah, I'm gonna need
1:06:12
to. I'm gonna need to go roll around
1:06:13
on the marketplace. For a little bit too, but yeah,
1:06:16
so that winter was when I made that car into the the chooky
1:06:21
version. Yeah, like that.
1:06:22
You see the one picture by the lake with the wheel turned with
1:06:25
the. There's a couple people that
1:06:26
have a tattoo of that. Oh my, I have learned.
1:06:29
Stop. Yeah.
1:06:30
There's of your car. Yeah, because it's it was on
1:06:33
Google images if you searched S13 like it was the car.
1:06:36
Yeah, it was. So people were like this girl,
1:06:39
like messaged me and like had a tattoo of it on her arm and
1:06:42
Alicia was like, what the and I was like, I don't know this
1:06:45
person. They didn't know they just
1:06:48
because I posted a picture of it, like an old picture of it or
1:06:50
whatever. And they were like, oh, didn't
1:06:51
know that was your car because it looks very different.
1:06:53
Yeah, it's complete. It's not type X at all.
1:06:55
It's like. Yeah, so that first.
1:06:57
With the red outline on the gram.
1:06:59
Lights yeah, that was really that's exactly what I remember
1:07:01
gram lights again Yep. So.
1:07:03
That's the third set of gram lights you've mentioned, no?
1:07:05
Yeah, that's the third that I had.
1:07:07
Or second. Yeah, Yep, Yep.
1:07:08
So that was that first iteration of that car was that winter, and
1:07:13
I got it done the next summer, but I'd go home and work on it.
1:07:16
And then once I graduated, I lived at home for a few months
1:07:19
before Alicia and I got married that summer and got her own
1:07:21
place. So when I was at home, I had a
1:07:23
real job now. So.
1:07:25
It was like just dumping money because I was like, I got to go
1:07:27
into being married with the car. Like, done.
1:07:30
Otherwise it's not good. Yeah, yeah.
1:07:33
Look how much has happened since that.
1:07:34
What's the what's the, what was your motive there 'cause I know
1:07:37
a lot of other people. I think it just feels like, I
1:07:40
don't know, I think you're just like, I won't be able to do this
1:07:43
anymore. Dude, I think it's like
1:07:44
everything else. It's like I need to have a house
1:07:46
before I have kids. I need to do this before.
1:07:48
I get married, I better like have a.
1:07:51
Car I. Need to put my socks on before
1:07:52
my shoes. Yeah, that's that's all I got.
1:07:56
That's I'm trying to do that. Yeah, So that was like the first
1:07:59
version of the car and I didn't do anything to the engine other
1:08:02
than get it running. And I think I replaced it and I
1:08:04
got a greedy intercooler kit instead of the Junky 1 and I got
1:08:07
different exhaust. But otherwise it didn't touch
1:08:10
the engine. I just did like OEM cheeky like
1:08:12
side skirts revealances. And then you got like that the
1:08:16
house. Yeah, so I got the car done that
1:08:19
summer as the chuky version. It was like it broke all the
1:08:23
time. It was like an ejector failed,
1:08:24
the coil pack failed, the turbo fell off the manifold from the
1:08:27
four not not having the correct, you know, so it broke all the
1:08:30
time. So then we had an apartment.
1:08:35
So the first year we were married, we had an apartment and
1:08:37
that when we got home from our honeymoon, I had stored the car
1:08:41
at my mom's. I went and got it to bring it to
1:08:42
our apartment and the turbo was like shrieking like when the
1:08:45
gasket is like blowing out. I was like this thing sucks like
1:08:49
it breaks all the time. So I was like, I'm tearing the
1:08:51
motor out this winter. And whenever you do it, here we
1:08:54
go. So I took it to my cousins house
1:08:55
because I had an apartment kept in my cousins barn all winter.
1:08:58
We pulled the motor and that's when I like dove into Sylvia of
1:09:01
like, what do I do to this engine?
1:09:03
I never pulled an engine before. I was about to ask.
1:09:05
Yeah, my. Cousin.
1:09:06
That that was just like a zero to 100 thing.
1:09:09
It got well, I had to learn how to work on it because it broke
1:09:11
all the time. And I was like, I can't like pay
1:09:13
somebody anymore. I got to figure this out.
1:09:15
So little by little I was reading stuff on Sylvia,
1:09:16
figuring it out. My cousin was in school for
1:09:20
mechanical engineering, so he like took auto shop in school.
1:09:23
So he knew how to do stuff. So he kind of, I mean a lot more
1:09:26
than me. So he helped me pull the motor.
1:09:29
I took the motor to another buddy's house on the opposite
1:09:32
end of the state because he was a Toyota tech.
1:09:35
And so he was like, I'll help you.
1:09:37
I want to do the head gasket. I want to do AT28 turbo.
1:09:40
I want to do Grady manifold, like I want to do all this cool.
1:09:43
So I want to refresh the whole motor.
1:09:45
But then I was like, I also want to change the whole outside of
1:09:48
the car. And that's when I got into Coqui
1:09:50
180 aero because a friend had sent me that Mike, the guy that
1:09:54
did the Sylvia swap with me and stuff.
1:09:56
He sent me a stock, a picture of a stock Cokie 180SX and he was
1:10:00
like, you should do this when I first got mine.
1:10:03
And I was like, oh, that's kind of ugly because it was what?
1:10:05
Because it was stock. It was literally a picture of
1:10:07
this car. Like it was high off the ground
1:10:09
and the front bumper was all weird.
1:10:11
Like I was like, I don't know. And I was still, you know, the
1:10:13
wing. I couldn't be liking the wing
1:10:15
coming out of the camera. Oh my God.
1:10:16
It's the best wing on any car I. Was like, no, no, I don't think
1:10:20
so. And I and I otherwise I and you
1:10:21
didn't see it online. Like nobody had that.
1:10:24
And there weren't even like pictures of it.
1:10:26
I didn't know how to find it, and so that winter I had finally
1:10:30
like that was right when so this is like 2009, 2010. 2010 is when
1:10:37
I started like building the car that people knew it as.
1:10:40
So I got the CR Kais. I originally got all seventeens,
1:10:43
but then I was like, oh, I should do 1718.
1:10:46
But this is right when corrupt R on Sylvia who's like Wooster.
1:10:50
On Instagram, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he.
1:10:51
Had the black 1. He had black and red wheels.
1:10:53
He's got Hondas and stuff too. Yeah, yeah, he's got like he's,
1:10:56
I think he still has his shell. You said he's, what color was
1:10:58
the car? It was black and he had black
1:11:01
with, he had black and red time attacks CE20 eights at the time.
1:11:05
So I kind of bit off that a little bit.
1:11:07
And he also had. The.
1:11:09
He also had the red, the he did the red wrinkle, red valve cover
1:11:14
like a Honda. And I did that too because I was
1:11:16
like, that's sick. So he was on Sylvia.
1:11:18
He had a sick built dread. His car looked amazing.
1:11:20
And then BH had just got the S13, so he was doing Cokie 180
1:11:26
arrow, Yeah. And I was like, oh, that's sick,
1:11:28
actually. And he would.
1:11:29
Post in live the Cokie thread. The Cokie arrow thread.
1:11:32
Yeah, that started in. Arabia, yeah, that's.
1:11:34
Right, I can't remember if that thread started before I got the
1:11:37
arrow. Probably because I was on
1:11:38
everyone. Post before?
1:11:40
Yep. Part 3 was where I would go.
1:11:42
Because I remember being excited, like I can post in that
1:11:44
thread, Yeah, when I got my like arrow kit.
1:11:46
Yeah, dude, Now you're a veteran.
1:11:48
Now, at this point, while you're you're, you're in there.
1:11:50
Yep. So that was a long stretch.
1:11:52
It was like, I think it was close to a year that took me to
1:11:55
do the whole engine thing, yeah, and go through that whole thing,
1:11:59
T28, Power FC, all that. Stuff.
1:12:01
Oh wow, so it was. Tuned got it tuned at a shop
1:12:04
yeah, I got a shop to tune in Power FC, but that was like a
1:12:07
long time ago. So they, they and back to then
1:12:10
they were like, I don't really want to deal with this, but.
1:12:12
We'll do it. I can't wait.
1:12:13
It's weird. That's what most people say to
1:12:15
us now when we 20. 25, baby, it's going in.
1:12:17
They had tuned my Solara so they were like, yeah, like I don't
1:12:21
really mess with Power FC, but I'll do it because you, you
1:12:24
know, I know you brought your car here before or whatever.
1:12:27
Had to buy a whole fucking setup for that.
1:12:29
Yeah. And then so midway through
1:12:31
building that like that iteration of the car is when we
1:12:35
got our house, this house. So we trailered the the car here
1:12:39
as a roller and. Sorry, I was looking at the mic
1:12:43
stand. I just want to make sure Carl's
1:12:44
OK before the. Whole thing comes.
1:12:46
It's like moving a little bit do.
1:12:47
You think it's going to fall in Louis If you want to try to like
1:12:49
I got it. OK, I can also pause this.
1:12:52
How long have you you. So you've been at this house a
1:12:54
while? Yeah.
1:12:55
Yeah. This looks like a pretty new
1:12:56
house. That's why I'm like.
1:12:57
I think it's like 04/05 or something that got built, but we
1:13:00
got it in 2010. Oh, so right around the same
1:13:05
time. That's when we bought the house,
1:13:07
and I was halfway through. So when I brought the shell
1:13:10
here, the roller, it had the coqui arrow painted on it.
1:13:13
OK. So I had it, you know, And then
1:13:16
I brought the engine back from my other friends.
1:13:18
My cousin and I put the engine back in.
1:13:20
And then those first here. Yeah.
1:13:22
And then those first pictures of it like in the driveway
1:13:25
scanadors and the OEM arrow, the silver C archives, That was all
1:13:28
like here. Yeah, those are the photos that
1:13:30
everyone remembers. So I was really surprised the
1:13:34
reception that my car got in the chuki form because I went into
1:13:37
240 ownership because I've been chasing this like I want to be
1:13:41
like one of the top people, you know, it's.
1:13:43
Calamira comes from the Yeah comes from the Camry and the
1:13:47
Solara. And then but the 2:40, I was
1:13:49
like, there's so many of these cars, everything's already been
1:13:51
done. I'm never going to have any sort
1:13:53
of notoriety or recognition. So I'm just going to do what I
1:13:57
like and maybe I'll share it on the forum still or whatever.
1:14:00
So when people like really liked the two Yuki car, I was like,
1:14:03
oh, really like everybody. I didn't think I did anything
1:14:06
different than anybody's ever done.
1:14:08
But like people still liked it. And I think it's also like how
1:14:10
much you were sharing because I would like be trying to update
1:14:13
my thread like every week. Like I got this part now I'm
1:14:16
doing this like I was always working on it.
1:14:17
I didn't I. Followed your thread.
1:14:19
Yeah, it's like all I did. It was like, Oh, no, I don't
1:14:21
have anything to share this week.
1:14:23
Yeah. And that was before people were
1:14:24
like, I got to make content or like it wasn't.
1:14:27
Instagram and your photos were good like it.
1:14:29
It showed what people wanted to see it was.
1:14:32
It was something like you could be at work and be like Monday
1:14:35
morning, like, what did everybody do?
1:14:37
I'd go on, Sylvia. You know, like, what did people
1:14:39
do to their I? Tried to have my build thread
1:14:41
too, it's still up there but I could not update it all the
1:14:43
time. I'd like go in every like six
1:14:45
months. My first two jobs, like I'd
1:14:47
never had anything to do. Yeah, I was on Sylvia all day.
1:14:50
So you could get all the parts like right away when you.
1:14:52
Know I wasn't annoying. Damn.
1:14:54
Before the office, job life. Yeah, damn it.
1:14:57
Putting photos online and putting those and I was like,
1:15:00
I'm good you. Just use photo work.
1:15:02
Yeah, it was it. Just felt like.
1:15:03
Thankfully I never used Photobucket.
1:15:05
Oh yeah, 'cause it. Had that crash.
1:15:06
I did use image shack for a little bit and that died.
1:15:10
But that one is the one where it's really a great Yeah, it
1:15:13
just says image not available. Yeah, you can't find those
1:15:16
'cause you didn't have a page. There was no, there was no
1:15:18
username. You just went to the site,
1:15:20
dumped it, gave you a link. So once that was gone, it was
1:15:22
over. Luckily, like shortly after I
1:15:24
started building the S13, I switched to Flickr, which I
1:15:29
still use for my blog and stuff. But you have to like pay for it
1:15:33
now. So I've been paying for it
1:15:35
literally just to try to keep the blog images on.
1:15:37
There so I'm like. Nobody's probably even looking
1:15:38
at it, no. People probably are Damon we.
1:15:40
We we we should we can download that get your.
1:15:42
Subscriptions down. I'm like, it's getting kind of
1:15:44
sad. Like I'm pushing 40 and I'm
1:15:45
like, I've got to keep my pictures on there.
1:15:47
No, you can see it. I'm like, that's dude, there's
1:15:49
so many things that are broken now.
1:15:51
That just like how? Just like how you said earlier,
1:15:55
just there was a bunch of people doing it, but you're just going
1:15:58
to post what you like. I'm a big advocate of that just
1:16:02
because otherwise if we don't do that, then we're just going to
1:16:04
have a bunch of stuff that's all the same.
1:16:06
There's nothing really there that differentiates it.
1:16:10
So I think that it was the whole package like it was because you
1:16:14
were taken again, you must be standing like right over there,
1:16:18
dude. Like right by that tree.
1:16:20
You get the photos of the tree car in the driveway because
1:16:24
there's there is like a series of photos where it's all on
1:16:26
different wheels, all on different arrow, but like it's
1:16:28
right. Yeah, it's in the same.
1:16:30
All in that same spot. Yeah, when I pulled up to this
1:16:31
house for the first time, I was like, oh shit, that's the
1:16:34
driveway. That's why I know it's people
1:16:36
have been around a while. Like Teddy did the same thing.
1:16:38
He came to my house 'cause we went to the first final bout
1:16:40
together. Felt like I was going to.
1:16:41
Washington, DC, the driveway. And I was like, what?
1:16:44
On the pictures? And I was like, Oh, yeah, yeah.
1:16:47
But like that, that's it's, it's it's like the whole thing.
1:16:50
That's what I feel like it made a note like you went the extra
1:16:53
mile to do these things. I.
1:16:54
Think it's all about execution too.
1:16:55
Yeah, yeah, that's what people care about.
1:16:57
If the car's obviously done really well.
1:17:00
I also think it has to do with what you said, posting a lot.
1:17:03
Yeah, because people can. Follow it and like.
1:17:05
Yeah, before content. Generally, yeah.
1:17:07
Not now. Yeah, it's.
1:17:09
Even crazier. And I tried to be like,
1:17:12
generally a nice person on Sylvia and like, ignore people
1:17:15
that were being really terrible. And like, I think people were
1:17:20
receptive to that a little bit too, almost to like where they
1:17:23
wanted to get me to break. Yeah.
1:17:25
You know, like. And I.
1:17:26
Did break a couple times. I did go off on people a couple
1:17:28
times, but I tried to hold it together like in real life with
1:17:31
my friends. I would be like talking trash
1:17:33
about stuff, but I wouldn't do it online.
1:17:35
So I was like, I'm still kind of like that.
1:17:37
Yeah, I'll talk trash, but. I I had to stop, dude, every
1:17:40
time I go on Facebook, I'd say some shit, yeah.
1:17:42
And I'm like, every time I go on Facebook, I get into some shit.
1:17:44
Yeah. And I don't even, it's weird.
1:17:47
Like someone will say something and then I just rebuttal, but my
1:17:49
rebuttal is way too crazy, I guess.
1:17:52
And then they're they they freak out and I get like banned or
1:17:55
something. I was like, OK, I'm done.
1:17:56
I just, I made a rule where I just never comment on Facebook
1:17:59
ever again. I.
1:18:00
I cannot. I cannot.
1:18:02
Like no matter what. When I got that version of the
1:18:05
car done, that's when Broadfield hit me up.
1:18:10
This guy owes. Me, Kyle.
1:18:11
This guy owes me light switches. We got it.
1:18:13
We got to find it. Oh yeah, that's right.
1:18:15
I haven't talked to him forever. I gotta find that most people
1:18:17
that's a name that like I was thinking about doing this
1:18:19
podcast and I was like, how many people left are even gonna like
1:18:21
no, I. Remember him because of your.
1:18:23
Thread Broadfield. Now I can say Broadfield and
1:18:26
people are like what? And I'm like, no, like that was
1:18:28
he was the GOAT. Like he was the one displaying.
1:18:31
The Carl with this. Guy who is Broadfield.
1:18:33
So this sounds like Broadfield was like hidden character in
1:18:37
the. Flat right now.
1:18:38
Oh, it's not up there anymore. I forgot I took it down.
1:18:40
I had my like modified feature thing on the wall and I forgot I
1:18:44
took it down to put hang up fenders, but so when my car.
1:18:49
So this dude Broadfield was like legend on like mostly Nico club,
1:18:52
but Sylvia too. It's just like he owned his own
1:18:54
like car audio shop, but he had a white S13 coupe stock body
1:18:59
with a Sylvia front SRS 15 Sr., like a really big turbo and it
1:19:06
was on like it was always on like really aggressive 8 teens,
1:19:10
but with like really fat tire and like no arrow, which was
1:19:15
weird. But it was just very clean, like
1:19:17
OEM plus kind of style. He had a BBQ every year.
1:19:21
He would post his address on Nikko Club in central Illinois
1:19:25
and be like, yeah, if you have a Nissan, like, pull up, like come
1:19:27
hang out this day, which is nuts to think about, but.
1:19:30
You just know you're not. Today, but he also was like the
1:19:33
kind of added he he was a very like.
1:19:37
Come try me. Yeah.
1:19:38
It was like, that's kind of. Exactly what I'm getting right
1:19:40
now. This dude Kyle used to hang out
1:19:42
with him that was a little bit younger than me.
1:19:44
I think Kyle was the one that DM Ed me and was like hey you
1:19:46
should come PM Ed me. Sorry, not.
1:19:48
DM It was a personal mess. Yeah, Brazil.
1:19:51
Yeah. A private message.
1:19:52
You should come, you should like cool car.
1:19:53
You should bring it to Broadfield's barbecue.
1:19:55
And I shoot pictures, so I'll take some pictures of your cars.
1:19:58
And I was like, I don't know, this dude seems cool like he had
1:20:01
AI. Think Kyle had an S13 Sr. swap
1:20:04
coupe at the time. So I was like, oh, these dudes
1:20:06
seem like Broadfield's like legendary.
1:20:08
So I was like, yeah, I'll go hang out.
1:20:10
So I like stayed with Kyle's house, but I like didn't stayed
1:20:13
with Kyle at his parents house. But I didn't even know him.
1:20:15
You have. To understand, remember,
1:20:16
remember when we had what's his face on the podcast and they
1:20:18
were talking about like meats in California and stuff like back
1:20:20
in the day, Alex. Yeah, this is like that.
1:20:23
So the only other thing that happened like after this was
1:20:27
final bout where like everyone from the forums and everything
1:20:30
came together and met at one spot.
1:20:32
It didn't happen really, but. Dude's house brought to.
1:20:34
You this is like just some, it's like that was the first time you
1:20:38
met a lot of people from Sylvia and everything probably.
1:20:40
Dude it would be so easy to kidnap.
1:20:42
Somebody. Yeah.
1:20:43
And I think there are you like. Serious dude did you just hear
1:20:46
what what you just said it was like?
1:20:49
Yeah, man, you got a cool car. I'll take photos of your car.
1:20:51
Come stay at my house. Yeah.
1:20:52
And I was like, OK. And it wasn't like, acceptable,
1:20:55
like everybody, everything is online now.
1:20:57
Like online, Like everything is online.
1:20:59
But then when I was on the Camry forum, I went to Maryland for a
1:21:03
car show and stayed with this dude that I used to chat with
1:21:05
all the time on there. And Alicia was like, wait, where
1:21:07
are you going? And her parents are like, what?
1:21:09
And I was like, well, no, it's like it's Bobby or whatever,
1:21:11
Like I know. I'm from.
1:21:12
He has a Camry physically, I know him.
1:21:14
I'm staying at his like dorm or whatever.
1:21:15
And she was like, what? He bought the same car as me,
1:21:17
it's fine. Yeah, I was always like online
1:21:19
talking to people and like meeting them in real life and
1:21:21
they were like, that's really bad.
1:21:22
And now I was like, everybody gets married from like people
1:21:25
they meet online and stuff. That's and.
1:21:26
That, but it was very weird back then everybody's like what are
1:21:29
you doing? Hey, I got.
1:21:30
I got. I'll take pictures of your car
1:21:32
over here. Just come all over here and get
1:21:33
in my van. Yeah, yeah.
1:21:35
But so like I posted pictures of our cars together in his
1:21:37
driveway that Kyle took I. Think I remember that.
1:21:40
Yeah, we went around town and like, took pictures that
1:21:42
weekend. We had the BBQ, like 20 people
1:21:44
came. There's a bunch of S thirteens
1:21:45
there. Whatever.
1:21:46
Yeah, it was cool. And then like the next week,
1:21:50
Peter from Modified's brother PMDD me on the local forum,
1:21:55
which was Exceed speed. That's the Michigan forum.
1:21:58
XCE Yeah, that was the Michigan forum.
1:22:01
That's how he was like why my brother is like editor in chief
1:22:05
of Modified. He wants to shoot a feature of
1:22:07
your car with you and Broadfield's cars together, like
1:22:11
a dual feature. And I was like, I almost like
1:22:14
fell out of my chair. I was at the office, of course.
1:22:16
Getting this message, yeah, I was like to sit there and just
1:22:18
what, pausing for the rest of the day like.
1:22:20
What? So then he's like, here's his
1:22:21
e-mail. Like emailing.
1:22:22
So I started like, emailing back and forth with Peter.
1:22:24
And he was like, I want to shoot the cars, like down in Illinois
1:22:29
or we were deciding where to do it.
1:22:31
And Toby was about to have his second kid.
1:22:33
So he was like, I can't leave. Like, if we're doing this, you
1:22:35
got to come down here. Which is still like his attitude
1:22:38
too. Like everyone, whatever.
1:22:39
If you want to shoot to come down.
1:22:40
He'd already been in a magazine. He didn't.
1:22:42
Even care he's like and. Honestly, I felt so insecure,
1:22:44
like my car is just getting in because it's with his and like
1:22:47
my paint wasn't not like I was so worried.
1:22:50
I was like, my car is not magazine quality, but like I was
1:22:52
so excited. So they like, flew out a
1:22:54
photographer from California, Alicia and I went down to
1:22:56
Illinois again for the weekend. She didn't come to the BBQ, but
1:22:59
she came with for the shoot. So we went down there in
1:23:01
October. They shot the car cars together.
1:23:05
And then it came out in December.
1:23:07
I think it came out right before my birthday at the end of 2010.
1:23:11
And like, I got it. I had subscribed by then.
1:23:14
So yeah, we were on the cover. Yeah.
1:23:16
And they ended up using because they shot a bunch of our
1:23:19
pictures on this road in a cornfield.
1:23:21
And I expected mine to be like, is there a joking during the
1:23:24
shoot, like Toby, 'cause they were telling me to like position
1:23:26
the cars and Toby's like, keep going, keep going.
1:23:29
Like it's trying to get like really far away.
1:23:32
And this is. Sick.
1:23:32
Wait, so this is a cover? Photo Do you have the magazine
1:23:35
here so we could show Carl? Or is it?
1:23:38
I do have one. It's like buried in the
1:23:39
basement. Don't worry about it.
1:23:40
I'll get it out though, yeah. I'll, I'll pull it up.
1:23:42
When when we're doing the clean I.
1:23:43
Just pulled it up immediately on my phone like it's saved.
1:23:46
It's my yeah, here it is. But yeah, they said like black
1:23:50
cars never make the cover because I guess it doesn't sell
1:23:53
because like, you can't see anything of the car.
1:23:55
Yeah, I remember he made me like put my sunroof down and I was
1:23:59
really bummed. What?
1:24:00
Because it because Toby's car was.
1:24:01
Behind mine and he. Was like the sunroof is going to
1:24:03
block this. Active arrow.
1:24:04
You can never feel it. I got roasted on Zolvia because
1:24:06
everybody's like, yeah, sunroof not popped.
1:24:08
And I was like, I know I could. See that happening?
1:24:09
Gotta pop it. That's one of the guy.
1:24:11
Had it and the guy made me shut it but.
1:24:13
I that will always be popped no matter what.
1:24:15
Even if it's down pouring. If you're at the track and
1:24:17
you're drifting, that needs to be open.
1:24:18
It doesn't matter. Dude I I still live it today.
1:24:21
OK on the IS I'd be tilting every photo it looks so weird
1:24:26
photo. Like at 180 looks so weird
1:24:28
without it. Yeah, but so then yeah, like so
1:24:31
yeah, I always wanted to get a magazine feature.
1:24:32
Got on the cover with Toby which is like.
1:24:35
I have that magazine. Saying like, I bought a bunch of
1:24:38
copies, you didn't get any for free, you had to buy them.
1:24:40
Yeah, they gave you like a discount on them.
1:24:42
So I bought like 20 of them, spent all this money.
1:24:46
But yeah, like we, we were on vacation in Florida when we
1:24:49
found it. We're on vacation with Alicia's
1:24:50
family in Florida. And we went to like, Barnes and
1:24:52
Noble. Wow.
1:24:53
Like, there it is. And I was like, dude, like we're
1:24:56
taking pictures like on our flip phone of that.
1:24:57
Was. I don't even have the pictures.
1:24:59
That was probably such an. Insane it was.
1:25:02
Crazy because I always went to the store like yeah.
1:25:04
You had to go. That's my car.
1:25:05
Like, holy shit, yeah. It was so cool about like all of
1:25:08
them. Wow, so like.
1:25:11
Man, that was probably really it's.
1:25:13
Still like, it's like embarrassing how like much it
1:25:16
means to me. Well, no, no.
1:25:18
No, like it means a lot to me and it's not in my car.
1:25:19
Well, now I feel like. If you have.
1:25:21
With our, with our iPhones and stuff and or whatever phone you
1:25:25
got, like you can just take a picture.
1:25:27
It's not the same, but at least if you wanted to relive that
1:25:30
moment it's a lot clearer and you can like zoom in and shit
1:25:33
like at it. Yeah.
1:25:35
You. You mentioned a flip phone so
1:25:37
and and 2010 like. Yeah, I didn't get it like
1:25:39
phones. Weren't really like that readily
1:25:43
available with the crazy camera, you know what I mean?
1:25:45
So you're using when you saw that again now it's and you're
1:25:49
able to see it again like I def print yeah, it's probably cool.
1:25:53
Awesome. Feeling.
1:25:54
I think they sent me. I think he sent me the proofs
1:25:57
before, like before it came out, but I hadn't seen the cover or
1:26:01
something. I didn't.
1:26:02
Know on vacation like yeah yeah no big.
1:26:04
Deal Like yeah, I. Remember, we went to dinner
1:26:07
after and the whole time I was just like, just like staring at
1:26:10
it like, this is so cool. So Peter wrote the article too?
1:26:13
Or. So Dave actually wrote it.
1:26:15
The other Speed Academy, Dave Pratt wrote it.
1:26:18
And so like, yeah, that was like insane.
1:26:23
And so. He came out and.
1:26:25
No, he just emailed with me and then the photographer came, Nate
1:26:28
Hassler. He still does like really
1:26:30
awesome auto photography. But I, yeah, like, would e-mail
1:26:33
with all three of those guys all the time 'cause I really wanted
1:26:36
to work in the industry. Yeah, yeah.
1:26:38
So did that ever, anything with that ever come to fruit?
1:26:40
So the next summer was like the best season of my that 240 ever.
1:26:47
That was like when I had the Silver TE and then.
1:26:49
At. The end of that year and that's
1:26:51
when I got the cage and then the end of that season is when I got
1:26:54
the red zeros from BH's old seat and like so then that was like
1:26:59
the best season though, because it like the car worked.
1:27:01
We took it to like Tennessee for import alliance.
1:27:04
OK, We like drove it all these places like week fest in
1:27:06
Chicago. That's cool.
1:27:07
Went there and like that's where I met Chaab and Josh and Phil
1:27:13
like all the risky devil like back then dudes, and they were
1:27:16
super nice to me and I couldn't believe it.
1:27:17
Josh was. Like just messaged me and was
1:27:19
like tell him I said hi. Yeah, dude, they were so nice.
1:27:21
And Chop was like, what's up from Chop?
1:27:23
And I was like so scared. Like he's like shaved head tank
1:27:25
top like. And I was like, I know who Chop
1:27:27
is like he had asked for. Yeah.
1:27:29
Yeah. That's where it's, yeah.
1:27:30
Huge wheels. I didn't meet Ilia, but those
1:27:32
guys are like so intimidating. Yeah, I was terrified.
1:27:35
And I was like, wow, they. Really.
1:27:36
Were, Dude, we were talking. I was.
1:27:37
Still terrified of. Yeah, and I am, I still say to
1:27:41
this day, we were talking about on the podcast the other day,
1:27:42
they are the nicest people I've ever met.
1:27:45
I can't. And I took Josh took pictures of
1:27:47
our cars together after in the venue.
1:27:49
Like when everybody left, she was like, let's take some
1:27:51
pictures of our car. And it's like, what?
1:27:53
And I was like, oh, I thought like, you guys would like roast
1:27:55
me because I don't drift. And Josh was like, dude, I
1:27:57
wouldn't drift a fucking thing, man.
1:27:59
It's so nice and I. Was like, oh, OK.
1:28:01
Thanks, man, Like he's like Gary Carson.
1:28:03
I wouldn't drift that either. And he's they're so welcoming,
1:28:06
but they're like, so they ran all these like risky devil
1:28:09
videos then where they're. Lifting.
1:28:11
They're doing all kinds of debauchery.
1:28:13
And I was like, this isn't really my speed.
1:28:15
Like, I was like, what are these guys doing?
1:28:16
Drugs? Like, what are they doing?
1:28:17
You know, I was like, I don't know what's going on here.
1:28:20
The the thing that gets me is that when I see pictures and
1:28:23
videos of of Josh, because I have pulled up the videos, I
1:28:27
don't really know a lot of the other people in in the video you
1:28:30
will soon except for Josh. Yeah, yeah, I I feel like I know
1:28:34
we will. We.
1:28:35
Got two of them on the and on this list of I was sick.
1:28:38
So he he just like, he just looks like and Josh, I'm so
1:28:42
sorry, but he just looks like one of my older cousins.
1:28:46
And I'm just like, all my older cousins were nerds, bro.
1:28:48
Like they didn't do anything like that.
1:28:50
So like when Josh got on the screen and said like, my heart
1:28:53
is in the street. I'm like what?
1:28:56
The fuck? Like that was like I was.
1:28:58
Like like it is going on that. Was the most like like important
1:29:03
drifting video I've ever had in my life.
1:29:05
It was so different. And they were all, like, skate
1:29:06
videos, Yes. Like, the same kind of vibe.
1:29:08
Yeah. And like T2 was filming them.
1:29:10
T2 is awesome. Just thinking about.
1:29:12
You gonna be there just. Like, dude, that was probably
1:29:14
such a weird thing for his family to see.
1:29:16
I feel like, like, like, so to me, I'm just like, my family
1:29:19
would be like, what the hell is this kid doing?
1:29:21
Yeah, yeah. It's so fun.
1:29:22
Art is in the where. Put them in the books.
1:29:25
Put your heart in the books. Yeah, that that that summer,
1:29:28
that year was like when I met Joey Lee from the Chronicles.
1:29:32
Like a Honda, California Honda, dude.
1:29:35
Sticky dildo. Yeah.
1:29:37
Yeah, what the? Fuck I met him at import
1:29:39
Alliance and he like my car got on his side.
1:29:42
I didn't know Kyle was really into Hondas and he had the red
1:29:45
hatch that was bronze T ES and stuff.
1:29:47
He went to that meet with me. OK.
1:29:49
And so we met him and a couple other, like, California dudes
1:29:53
like DPK, David and Kyle knew, like, who they were.
1:29:56
They were like celebrities to him.
1:29:57
But I didn't know about Honda's. So I was just like, oh, cool.
1:29:59
But then we were on like his blog after and a picture of my
1:30:02
car got in Super Street from him because he wrote the article
1:30:05
about Import Alliance. Oh, OK, that's cool.
1:30:07
So I got in like a couple magazines that summer.
1:30:09
It was right after the other one.
1:30:10
Yeah. And I was like, at the peak.
1:30:12
Like my car is like peak. It's crazy because you built the
1:30:15
car like the year before. Yeah.
1:30:17
And then I actually got to drive it a lot.
1:30:19
And then, yeah, went to all these events and like met all
1:30:21
these industries, street people. So I was getting all into it
1:30:23
like I'm going to get a job, like whatever.
1:30:25
And then and. Then you found out that you
1:30:28
don't want a job there. Yeah, I did.
1:30:30
Eventually after after failing to do it a couple times, I
1:30:33
realized like I don't because I was watching modified like tank,
1:30:36
like Peter was like, there's nobody here anymore.
1:30:39
I don't have any staff. And then the magazines were
1:30:41
getting axed one by one. That was a little bit later, but
1:30:46
so that that winter is when I tore the car apart to shave the
1:30:50
Bay because I went to Import Alliance.
1:30:52
I saw all these Hondas. I went to Week Fest.
1:30:53
I was like, that's sick. My bass sucks the paint still.
1:30:56
Stops. Oh yes, so I gotta like Tuck.
1:30:58
Everything, yeah. So that's when I like ruined my
1:31:01
car basically in my opinion. Yeah, I was thinking when it
1:31:03
went too far, you said that. That's when I went too far and.
1:31:06
I remember you like. That's when I did the Blitzo
1:31:09
3's. Tucked in the water season the
1:31:11
water harness. I put it in the glove box.
1:31:13
Yep. I gutted the glove box.
1:31:14
I took out the HVAC. I never had AC, but I took out
1:31:17
the heat. I put all the glove boxes behind
1:31:19
the dash so that there's no wiring in the Bay.
1:31:22
I had this Bay painted like I did all the bodywork.
1:31:25
Still came out good and this car still yeah it.
1:31:26
Was nice and that's when I swapped to the red interior
1:31:29
that. Just sounds.
1:31:29
So it was just. It was.
1:31:31
Just too. Much what do you need to do to
1:31:33
service something that was in one of those boxes?
1:31:36
That's when I should have stopped though that season where
1:31:38
like everything worked, the car was clean, I was getting some
1:31:42
attention. It was perfect.
1:31:44
Like silver Tees that was perfect.
1:31:45
And then? Yeah.
1:31:47
I really feel like it was just the HVAC and the wire harness
1:31:49
that really. Yeah, like if there was and.
1:31:51
The O threes, honestly. You didn't like the O threes?
1:31:53
So the rears were I did that set up because of Ressa, Daniel
1:31:57
Ressa with the green Zenki S14 that.
1:32:00
Had O threes Yeah, everyone did O threes because of.
1:32:03
Him, yeah, I did that because of him.
1:32:06
And I had Utah built those wheels 'cause he was working at
1:32:10
wheel flip at the time. He had the, the really famous
1:32:14
like 240Z that had the like Japanese bomber plane, like kind
1:32:19
of red circle on the door. It was like crazy low.
1:32:23
He hung out with like Franklin and all those dudes back then.
1:32:26
So he worked at wheel Flip. He built the L threes, but the
1:32:28
rears were 10 1/2 and they were too big.
1:32:31
They were too big for. I could talk about the photos.
1:32:33
Quarters and stuff. So they rubbed down the inside
1:32:35
of the chassis and so I was like hammer and stuff.
1:32:38
And then when they first got built, they accidentally built
1:32:41
them to 10 1/2 + 10. So I had like 10° of cambra and
1:32:46
I was like, this doesn't seem right.
1:32:47
And they were like, Oh yeah, we accidentally built.
1:32:49
They were supposed to be plus 20.
1:32:51
So then they had to send them back.
1:32:52
It took forever. I hate the experience of
1:32:55
flipping wheels. You know, I had, I knew people
1:32:57
that were like helping me and it sucked.
1:32:59
You always tell Jimmy that like I'll never run three piece
1:33:01
because I can't. They'd have to be like all
1:33:04
original because I can't deal with this community and process.
1:33:07
Yeah, I don't think I. I can never have four O 3.
1:33:09
I've never, I've never had to deal with that because I like
1:33:12
the OK, I'm going to buy wheels. I'm going to just put them on.
1:33:15
You can't. You can't like I can't deal
1:33:17
with. It Frankie's going to drift on
1:33:19
those O3. 'S well, the good.
1:33:20
The good part about that is like when we crash or something.
1:33:23
And once you learn how to do it, it's easy.
1:33:25
So you order, order a lip, get it, cut the stuff, take the
1:33:29
bolts out, put the lip on. Yeah.
1:33:30
It's one of those things that. You can have to do.
1:33:32
It. Yeah.
1:33:33
So it's you. Have in your head like, I can't
1:33:35
do it, so I just don't. Somebody else?
1:33:37
I mean, it's not fun. I'm.
1:33:38
With you, Damon. I'm with you.
1:33:39
Yeah, with you. So like, that's when it went off
1:33:41
to rails. That time also was when we got
1:33:45
pregnant with our first kid was that season, so that I was under
1:33:48
the gun again because I was like, I got to finish the car
1:33:51
before they're born, before I came, before my oldest
1:33:53
daughter's born. I got to get it back together.
1:33:55
I got to have it. So I was because, and Alicia was
1:33:57
exhausted when she was pregnant, so she would sleep at night and
1:34:00
I would be out here just like I got to get this thing back.
1:34:02
Well, that's what people do at night, damn it.
1:34:04
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
1:34:05
Yeah, that's what I do. That's what I do now.
1:34:07
I know that now. But then I did.
1:34:09
But I was still chasing this like because you get addicted to
1:34:11
that feeling of like finishing it and putting it online and
1:34:16
talking to people about it and getting recognition and like I
1:34:19
got in a magazine. So it's like, what am I going to
1:34:20
do next? How am I going to keep the And I
1:34:23
just love the build. Like I'm like a build person.
1:34:26
Like whenever I got it done, I couldn't leave it alone and
1:34:28
enjoy it. I had to like, what am I going
1:34:31
to do next? And then everybody is like
1:34:33
commenting and you're like, oh, what am I going to do now?
1:34:35
You know, like I can't just like stop.
1:34:38
And so I got the car done really late.
1:34:42
I, I think I got it done like right before Kinsey was born end
1:34:46
of June. But then like, it never really
1:34:49
drove the same anymore. And I like did all this front
1:34:52
suspension stuff to try to have more camber and I just like
1:34:55
weird IKEA formula arms and like, I don't even know how to
1:34:58
say it but 'cause I'm always on the Internet so I don't know the
1:35:00
correct way to say anything. I wonder but.
1:35:02
I just ruined it. Yeah, 'cause you.
1:35:04
You veered pretty far. I took the heat out, so like I
1:35:06
drove it to Toby's BBQ that fall again and like six hours away.
1:35:11
I remember this post it. Was freezing.
1:35:13
I couldn't defrost the windshield.
1:35:15
Kyle and I were credit carding the windshield trying to.
1:35:17
Like, oh, I was already. I already knew in my head what I
1:35:19
was about to do. I was like.
1:35:20
And so I was like, this sucks, I don't want this anymore.
1:35:24
I'm having a kid. They can't go in it.
1:35:26
It's all these like crazy bars in the back and stuff.
1:35:29
So, and the same thing kind of started to happen the last
1:35:32
couple months of knowing we're going to have a kid.
1:35:33
It was the same thing as with the Solara to the 2:40, except
1:35:36
it was 240 to Evo. Like I want an EVO.
1:35:39
He doesn't even know about. This I feel like.
1:35:41
I also saw it kind of briefly. Yeah, like it's a 4 door 13,
1:35:46
like it's the same kind of motor.
1:35:48
It's all-wheel drive, So what color was it?
1:35:51
It was red. Oh, sick.
1:35:53
It's. So.
1:35:54
Good. Yeah, I took the car.
1:35:55
I took pictures of it on the O threes.
1:35:57
I like, flew down the highway like the fastest I've ever
1:36:00
driven it. And then I pulled it in the
1:36:02
garage and I somebody was coming the next day to get the arrow
1:36:04
kit, so I ripped all the arrow. So you parted it out.
1:36:06
Yep, pulled in the garage. I took like a picture with
1:36:08
Kinsey in her, like Ferrari Walker, like right in front of
1:36:11
the car. That night I pulled it in, shut
1:36:13
it off and started tearing it apart.
1:36:15
What year was I parting it out? That was 2012.
1:36:17
OK, so I was like, I'm getting an EVO, I'm parting it out.
1:36:20
That was when I got out, that was when I was getting.
1:36:22
That's when I bought my first, my only hatch.
1:36:25
OK, Was 2000 right around then? OK, yeah.
1:36:27
So then everybody on Zilvia was all mad.
1:36:29
You're probably the reason I bought a hatch by the way.
1:36:31
That's funny. You're one of the sorry like 3
1:36:33
reasons. You are his, Mike.
1:36:35
Yeah, see. Isn't that crazy how that works?
1:36:37
It is. This is all because of your
1:36:39
friend Mike, dude. It's probably you, Josh de Lise
1:36:42
and Rev Gasm Josh, probably those three.
1:36:44
I would say I just. Think it's crazy because you're
1:36:46
able to pinpoint we after the whole.
1:36:48
So throughout the whole story so far, all I could think about is
1:36:53
if you didn't go to hang out with Mike that day or whoever to
1:36:58
get that, to get that first run in with a 240.
1:37:02
Yeah. Whoa.
1:37:03
Where would your life be? Where would your life be?
1:37:05
I I try to think about that all the time.
1:37:07
If I didn't meet Chris, if I didn't meet you.
1:37:09
Yeah, Yeah. Damn, I would be so rich.
1:37:12
I'd be happy. Yeah.
1:37:13
Much money. Like everybody else on my feet.
1:37:16
Dude. OK, Wait, Damon, you can
1:37:18
understand, dude. Yeah.
1:37:19
Yeah. Because you work in an office.
1:37:21
There's it's really, I feel like rare, not rare, but it kind of
1:37:26
sucks when you see somebody and you kind of know, like outside
1:37:29
of work. No, then that word isn't normal.
1:37:32
But they're not. Yeah, it's it's like the cars,
1:37:36
they give us something. Yeah.
1:37:37
We're in Michigan, right? We're in Michigan, right?
1:37:39
Yeah, we are. We're in Michigan and we're
1:37:41
doing a podcast because of this. Thing.
1:37:45
Right here. Crazy.
1:37:47
Yeah, it's crazy and. And not a lot of people could do
1:37:49
that. So like I, I.
1:37:50
Think all the friends you've made, Yeah.
1:37:52
Yeah, Oh yeah, and the. There's the memories alone, like
1:37:55
even and, and memories you're able to, dude.
1:37:57
Not a lot of people are able to say they had the same lady
1:38:02
throughout the whole thing too. Like your memories are not just
1:38:05
with the car, but it's like you, you've started a family all
1:38:07
around it. Yeah, like you think.
1:38:09
About when you guys came to final bout, I met both of you, I
1:38:12
think, yeah. Final about two I think yeah,
1:38:14
right. Yeah, because you drove, dude,
1:38:16
I. Remember, I pull, I pull into
1:38:17
the hotel and I'm like. Holy shit.
1:38:20
That's Camryon bronze. That's.
1:38:22
Camryon Bronze's car, holy shit. I'm like, I'm going to park next
1:38:25
to it. I'm going to park next to it.
1:38:26
And that was my car the second time, yeah.
1:38:28
So like. And I parked, yeah, that's, we
1:38:30
didn't get to that yet. And I parked next to it and I
1:38:32
was like, holy shit. And I remember I took a photo.
1:38:34
I went inside and then we were coming outside and you were
1:38:37
there. And I was like oh fuck, I don't
1:38:39
meet this guy now and. I was like, I love Frankie's
1:38:41
car. Yeah, and then you probably said
1:38:43
something like that. And I was like, holy shit, I
1:38:45
was. Like taking picture, I know I
1:38:46
have pictures of that I took next to your car because I was
1:38:49
like, oh, this is like a drift car that like is my style.
1:38:52
Yeah, like I'm like it's. Really.
1:38:53
That was crazy to hear too. Same cloth type shit man, just
1:38:57
just. Well, it's cool when you meet
1:38:58
someone online, but you don't realize, like, how much they
1:39:01
mean to you until you are walking out of the hotel.
1:39:03
Yeah, you can't like. Fuck anything.
1:39:04
It's like I saw a celebrity, but it's like he's just like us.
1:39:08
He's just on Zilvia, but it's like.
1:39:09
A regular person that was so weird.
1:39:11
Like when I parted out my car the first time, everybody, a
1:39:14
dude asked me like if I bought the intercooler, like would you
1:39:17
sign it? And I was like, what?
1:39:21
I'm just a guy, dude. Like I'm just a person.
1:39:23
Like I'm not famous or anything. Like you're in this like tiny
1:39:26
little community that just like it's such a weird.
1:39:29
I feel like it's tiny, but then at the same time I feel like
1:39:31
it's fucking massive. It's.
1:39:32
Huge now it's weird. Yeah.
1:39:34
It's weird. And like it's I from time to
1:39:38
time will get a message of like maybe somebody who's getting
1:39:40
into cars and they're listening to the podcast, you know, like,
1:39:43
dude, I, I was scared to do it. Now I'm doing it Like that's
1:39:46
just to me, that's that's the kind of thing that's like, hey,
1:39:49
man, don't. Yeah, you're trap.
1:39:51
Yeah. Dude, I've said that so many
1:39:52
times. It's a trap.
1:39:54
But but no, that is that's got to be a weird feeling, dude,
1:39:57
because I'm telling you like. I had that feeling.
1:40:01
I was seeing his car and everything like 20 times that
1:40:05
weekend. Final bout 2 it's.
1:40:06
It was so weird. Final bout 2 is.
1:40:08
Because it was like I was meeting everyone and I actually
1:40:10
had because I was at final bout 1, but I actually had my car now
1:40:13
right and I was like, wow, this is crazy Yeah and I gotta like
1:40:17
Rev gasm like that was yeah, that was a big one for me.
1:40:20
Yeah, final bout was nuts. So like, I'm gonna go really
1:40:23
fast through the next cars. Can we talk about the Evo
1:40:27
though? Because the Evo is one of my
1:40:28
favorite cars you ever. Owned.
1:40:29
I got the Evo part about the 240.
1:40:31
Bought the Evo. Evo was the most expensive car
1:40:33
I've ever owned and now they're insane.
1:40:36
I'll never have enough. Yeah.
1:40:38
Evo Red Evo 8 it was pretty much stock R Us no OK in an Rs.
1:40:44
I I automatically gravitated there just because.
1:40:48
Rs thing actually I knew. That is the one that people
1:40:50
like. Yeah, I wanted, what is that
1:40:52
crank there like lighter? Crank window.
1:40:55
OK, it's a light. Version yeah so like I got that
1:41:00
and I immediately wanted to be like oh I want to make a crazy
1:41:03
evil and you did that so you. Did though it was crazy.
1:41:06
It was a what? Full voltex kit.
1:41:08
Yeah, so it was. Well, so it was my first, it was
1:41:12
my only car, part of the deal to buy that car.
1:41:14
I had a matrix at the time, the XRS matrix.
1:41:17
The six feet with like revved out really high with the air.
1:41:19
Oh yeah, good engine in there, but I.
1:41:21
I had to get rid of that and the 240 and buy the Evo and I was
1:41:24
going to daily the Evo. That was our deal because I was
1:41:26
like Alicia was like if you're spending that much money and it
1:41:28
was the money from the 240 paid for it.
1:41:30
But it's. Just a fair.
1:41:31
Compromise we just had. It's like we could use that
1:41:33
money for more practical things 1000.
1:41:36
Dollars I. Love how you.
1:41:37
Sold the 2:40 because you were having a kid and there's no way
1:41:40
you could. And then you were like, well,
1:41:41
this, this one has four doors, so.
1:41:42
Is A4 doors A? Minivan, Yeah.
1:41:45
Dude, I mean it was one kid at this time.
1:41:47
Yeah, yeah, I just had Kenzie. She was a baby.
1:41:50
So I did stock arrow. So I swapped to Evo 9 front.
1:41:56
I did JDM headlights and tail lights, JDM rear bumper.
1:42:00
I didn't have to do like side skirts or anything.
1:42:02
And I did bronze C archives, lowered it and then the engine
1:42:06
Bay. I did like all the ARC parts
1:42:09
they had like they, yeah, they had like a they had a titanium
1:42:12
intercooler pipe that I think I paid like $500.00 for, which is
1:42:19
insane. And now I saw somebody selling
1:42:20
it's like almost 5 grand for a pipe that doesn't even do
1:42:24
anything. Yeah, I was about to.
1:42:25
Say I got charge pipe stuff and I was like, I'm done.
1:42:29
But that was like immediate yeah, it's done in like 6
1:42:32
months. And then I was like, that's the
1:42:33
list of everything I was going to do to this car.
1:42:35
So then I was like, Voltex Arrow was pretty sick, yes.
1:42:39
So then I got like the Voltex, front lip, side skirts, rear
1:42:44
diffuser, Tomei titanium exhaust.
1:42:47
These things are not cheap. No.
1:42:49
So it was starting to become a problem.
1:42:52
And how did I say that? How are you getting this stuff?
1:42:54
So. Right when I parted out the
1:42:56
2:40, I've been talking to Peter at Modified and he was like,
1:43:00
hey, have you ever because I told him like I really want to
1:43:02
work in a magazine. I had interviewed at Automobile
1:43:05
because they were based in Ann Arbor.
1:43:06
Car and driver in Automobile Magazine were in Ann Arbor.
1:43:09
I interviewed with them through like all the rounds of
1:43:12
interviewing to be their designer and I had a job at the
1:43:15
time and at the very end they were like, oh, it's down to you
1:43:17
and one other person. And we gave it to him because
1:43:20
you already have a good paying job.
1:43:21
Like you'd have to take a pay cut to take this job and you
1:43:24
have a kid. So they were like, you know, you
1:43:27
don't want to work here. And I was like devastated.
1:43:30
Like I was like, I was going to be the designer for automobile.
1:43:32
Like I was going to lay out the magazine, the one person.
1:43:35
And in hindsight? So glad he was going to take
1:43:38
like I was going to take like a $12,000 pay cut and I would be
1:43:42
like, well, I'll just figure it out.
1:43:43
Like it's my passion. And you wouldn't.
1:43:45
Have a journey and I'm so glad. I'm like, I was so mad they made
1:43:47
that decision for me. But so I was bummed because I
1:43:50
was like, OK, I struck out again.
1:43:51
I'm not going to work in the industry.
1:43:52
Peter was like, have you ever written before?
1:43:54
Because I really wanted to design.
1:43:56
And he was like, we have a designer.
1:43:57
The photographer told me at my modified shoot, he was like, oh,
1:44:00
yeah, the girl that lays out the magazine that designs it, like
1:44:02
she just wants to do like fashion stuff.
1:44:04
She doesn't even like cars. And I was like, are you serious?
1:44:07
Like, how does she even know what she's like?
1:44:08
Well, it's design like, so she can do whatever.
1:44:10
She's not into it. So I was like, I'm going to get
1:44:12
her job, you know, like I'm going to figure out a way.
1:44:15
And I didn't. But Peter was like, have you
1:44:18
ever considered writing, 'cause he's like, I, all my writers are
1:44:22
freelancers now, 'cause my budget's cut.
1:44:24
And he's like, I just need people that are responsible that
1:44:26
like, know how to form a sentence.
1:44:28
And like, he's like, why don't you try it?
1:44:30
Like, I'll pay you as a freelancer to write an article.
1:44:33
I'll tell you what to do. And so I had to like, e-mail the
1:44:36
owner and like, they sent me the pictures of the car and they
1:44:40
were like, write a feature. I feel like you'd be.
1:44:42
Good at that. I don't know, I guess maybe from
1:44:44
the blog stuff because I was writing my blog a lot then and
1:44:48
it worked and so I ended up doing that for like a year and a
1:44:51
half. But all that money, it wasn't
1:44:54
much money. I think I was getting like 250
1:44:57
per feature. Damn, like $250 to write a
1:45:00
feature. And then there were a couple of
1:45:02
off cases where they did a special issue for like UTI,
1:45:07
yeah, the like college or whatever.
1:45:08
And he's like, we have a bigger budget so I can pay you 500
1:45:11
story for the ones that go in that.
1:45:12
And I was like, oh, sick. So when I get that money, I was
1:45:15
just like, hey, evasive, like send me some voltage right in
1:45:18
it. So I knew I was just blowing it
1:45:20
right on the I. Knew it dude.
1:45:22
Modified mag paying for the modified Yeah.
1:45:25
So that was super cool because I was like, I made it.
1:45:27
I write for Modified now. This is sick but like I never
1:45:30
really like interacted with anybody in real life.
1:45:32
Holy and calendar for the dollar check.
1:45:33
Yeah, yeah. Getting paid like almost, but I
1:45:35
would write those at my job. So I'd be at my other job
1:45:39
getting paid writing features because that's what I had to do.
1:45:42
So that was sick. But yeah.
1:45:44
So then I did the Vortex on the Evo and then I was like, oh, I
1:45:47
need to have the the real Vortex bumper, the full bumper with the
1:45:50
canards, and I need the GT Wing, Vortex, GT Wing.
1:45:54
So I got both of those. And that was in winter.
1:45:56
So I had all the parts. I took everything off to drive
1:45:59
it in the winter because I had to drive to.
1:46:00
Work. Oh my God, it's a daily.
1:46:02
Driver. Oh my God.
1:46:03
I forgot I was like wait. Vortex arrow on a daily driver,
1:46:06
yeah. Yeah, so.
1:46:06
Then I would take it off in the winter, I'd put a stock bumper
1:46:09
on. Take the side that was your
1:46:10
plan, OK. That was, and I only did this
1:46:12
one winter, Yeah. And then I got the wing, I got
1:46:15
the front bumper and canards. I got it painted.
1:46:16
It was ready to go. And I was thinking about doing
1:46:19
the overs, the vortex overs. Like the full of cyber.
1:46:22
You can do Yeah, because it looked great the way it was.
1:46:25
Yeah, it was pretty good. I should have again, should have
1:46:27
left it alone. Yeah.
1:46:28
But then I was like, I have spent too much money, but also I
1:46:35
want a project again. I was like, this isn't a project
1:46:38
because anything I do it has to be ready to go to work Monday.
1:46:41
And I was like, I miss having a car in the garage that I'm
1:46:43
building. So you wanted a SO?
1:46:45
I wanted a project so I was like, I think I'm going to part
1:46:47
out the Evo, get a daily. So I got another Camry for a
1:46:51
daily. Oh, you lapsed you This is, this
1:46:55
is a relapse right here. This is this is a relapse. 13
1:46:58
again and I thought that getting the Evo was like, oh, this is a
1:47:01
higher scale community than the 240 community because
1:47:03
everybody's like on the 240 community's trash.
1:47:06
It's all kids. They all.
1:47:07
I don't think so. I saw a lot of good in it, but
1:47:09
there was a lot of there was a lot of that too.
1:47:12
And it made older people mad. I was like, I don't really, I if
1:47:15
I don't like it, I don't look at that.
1:47:16
I just do what I enjoy. Yeah, you can't really throw
1:47:19
everyone into the same car because if I saw your car coming
1:47:21
down the road and then I saw one of the cars that goes to the
1:47:23
track by us, yeah, it'd be a little bit different.
1:47:25
But I want and the community wasn't any better really like I
1:47:28
thought it was. I have an I'm an Evo is more
1:47:30
respected than a 240. Yeah.
1:47:32
Just because it's a little bit more money.
1:47:34
Yeah, and it's like, that's all it was.
1:47:36
So I was like, I think I want a Toyota again because I've always
1:47:39
like, that's my roots, Toyota's. I was like, I want to get a
1:47:42
Toyota. I always thought like.
1:47:45
I was so mad at you when you saw the Eva.
1:47:47
Yeah, you didn't even know me. But.
1:47:49
Well, and that was the other problem.
1:47:50
I was racking, I was racking miles on that thing.
1:47:53
And the value of those cars at that time was strictly related
1:47:56
to mileage. So I bought it for like 17 grand
1:47:59
with like 70,000 miles and it had a hundred.
1:48:01
It was about to hit 100 and the value was like 12 I had.
1:48:04
An STI I was like the same thing.
1:48:05
Yeah, I'm like, these are just, that's all anybody cared about
1:48:07
was mileage. So I was like, I got to get out
1:48:09
of this thing before I lose my butt on it.
1:48:10
Yeah. So I was like, I wanna, I've
1:48:13
always liked. I knew there was a turbo Camry
1:48:16
rear wheel drive called the Chaser.
1:48:18
I knew that in high school when I had a Camry, I didn't know
1:48:20
anything about him. I still kind of don't really
1:48:22
like all the different J ZX. Yeah, I had to learn it.
1:48:25
But I don't know the difference. I can get it all but I was like.
1:48:28
He knows everything right? There, but I was like, I want
1:48:30
one of those, but you can't get one of those.
1:48:32
So, and this is like 2013 or something.
1:48:36
So I was like, I'm going to get AGS and 22J, swap it, manual
1:48:41
swap it. And by then we were having a
1:48:44
second kid. So Hattie, the one that's been
1:48:47
hanging around today, she was born right when I got the GS
1:48:50
shell. Yeah, you traded the wheels
1:48:52
before. Yeah, I I had some AME tracers
1:48:55
that like the Cyber Evo had I had gotten those to replace the
1:48:58
C archives, but I never they may never made it on the car.
1:49:02
It was winter and I never finished it so I just quit.
1:49:04
I never got the GT wing on, which would have been so dumb on
1:49:07
the street like sick, but like I would have got harassed so bad
1:49:10
in this area. I got harassed at the stock evo
1:49:13
wing like diesel trucks were always like really rolling coal
1:49:16
on me Yeah because like nobody likes imports here.
1:49:18
They really don't at all like you took someones job.
1:49:22
If you drive an import here, even if it's like 25 years old,
1:49:25
it's kind of chilled a little bit, but it was like that.
1:49:27
I feel like the car. It gets crazier the closer you
1:49:29
are to Detroit. Yeah.
1:49:30
Yeah. Way more American cars are on
1:49:32
the road. There's almost.
1:49:33
I thought it was like that everywhere.
1:49:34
The first time I went to meet Broadfield, everybody had like
1:49:37
Nissans and Toyotas down there and I was like, isn't the whole
1:49:40
US like they hate porn cars? They're like, what are you
1:49:42
talking about? Yeah, dude, when you go to
1:49:43
Detroit from your jersey, you're like, what happened?
1:49:45
Everybody used to have the bumper sticker that said out of
1:49:47
a job yet keep buying foreign Oh.
1:49:49
Wow and. Everybody had it here like when
1:49:51
around this time, so. Dude, I want that on my damn
1:49:55
when I get off Harley, bro. Oh yeah.
1:49:57
So this was right around when Chaab got AGS OK and Chaab's I
1:50:01
was watching it become sick. So I was like I want vertex
1:50:04
arrow. I wanted it to be red like knobs
1:50:07
every so so I got this shell. I traded the wheels for the
1:50:11
roller. It had a blown V8 in it because
1:50:13
you need the GS300 to 2J swap. You can do the 400 but there's
1:50:17
like wiring involved but that's all I could find and it was
1:50:19
green. So like this sucks but whatever
1:50:21
I'll figure it out later. So I got it.
1:50:23
I bought a motor from like New York.
1:50:25
Some importer like JDM? GTE.
1:50:29
Right down the street from us, honestly.
1:50:30
Probably he has like JDM engine depot or something.
1:50:33
That's literally. Like but you bought a turbo 1?
1:50:35
Yeah, yeah. I bought the Aristo 2J, OK,
1:50:38
because I wanted, I'm like, I need the motor.
1:50:39
That's the Aristo 1. I want that.
1:50:41
Such a quick little hop, you know the guy.
1:50:44
Got the shell the roller from was the guy that helped to fix
1:50:46
my S13. This kind of sketchy?
1:50:48
Guy he. Came back in the picture later
1:50:51
and he was also like I have an R-150 four, so I bought that and
1:50:55
and he was like I have this exit twin disc because he was going
1:50:58
to build the GS and it was like I have 17 cars, I don't have
1:51:01
time, whatever. I remember watching this one
1:51:03
come together too on. Yeah, on Speed Academy when they
1:51:05
first started on. I think it was on Sylvia too.
1:51:10
When they first started Speed Academy, that was part of the
1:51:12
deal with the Evo 2 is I could get some parts like for a deal
1:51:16
through Speed Academy if I wrote an article about it because
1:51:19
Modified had died by that point. And I was really bummed.
1:51:22
So Peter's like, oh, I'm starting a new thing with Dave.
1:51:24
We're going to start our own YouTube thing.
1:51:27
And I remember thinking like, oh, that's tough business.
1:51:29
Like, I don't know. And now they're like, huge.
1:51:31
Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
1:51:32
Never doubted those dudes. I am.
1:51:34
So I'm just connecting this dot really quick.
1:51:37
Is Speed Academy the guy who's like, come on, DP?
1:51:40
Like, yeah, yeah. I don't actually know.
1:51:42
I don't think I've watched Speed Academy, but I.
1:51:45
We watched. I mean, like I told you guys,
1:51:47
I'm like a bad at listening to podcast, watching videos, Like I
1:51:49
never do that stuff. Yeah, but I have watched some of
1:51:52
their stuff. But yeah, that's.
1:51:54
That's them. That's who we're talking about
1:51:55
this whole time. PT is the guy that ran Modified
1:51:58
and Dave is the one that wrote my feature in the magazine.
1:52:01
I've watched so many of their videos.
1:52:03
And they started, they started Speed Academy like Peter was
1:52:06
emailing me at the time. Like what do you think about
1:52:08
this? Name like.
1:52:09
Speed Academy or speed? I don't remember what the other
1:52:11
one was. And he was like showing me logo
1:52:12
mock ups and stuff like because we'd chat just like all the time
1:52:15
through e-mail, because I was like, this guy is like my hero,
1:52:19
like talking. My mind is just blown because
1:52:21
I'm like, dude, I've watched that Channel so many times and
1:52:24
like, I'm definitely saying it's PT.
1:52:28
Yeah, right. Well, DP is the other guy.
1:52:30
The other guy. OK, so the main guy.
1:52:32
PT they're the main two. Yeah, yeah.
1:52:36
Not for nothing, I'm so sorry, Speed Academy, but the, the
1:52:38
smaller one always yells at the Balder one.
1:52:41
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And oh the the Balder 1 is
1:52:43
always doing all the labor, I always feel.
1:52:46
So bad for that friend. I'm like bro, he's always
1:52:48
working. Yeah, they're so funny.
1:52:50
I got to meet Peter in person, like around the Evo time.
1:52:53
I think he had to come to Ann Arbor for something he needed,
1:52:56
like a car, 'cause he was in there in Toronto.
1:52:59
Yeah. So they shipped a car from
1:53:01
California. When he moved from California
1:53:03
back to Toronto, when modified shut down, he shipped a car and
1:53:07
my grandpa had passed away and his house was just sitting like
1:53:09
empty. And he was like, I need to ship
1:53:11
this car somewhere close to Canada and I can come get it.
1:53:13
And I was like, Oh yeah, just like ship it to my grandpa's
1:53:15
house. So like we did that and stuff.
1:53:17
But he helped me like get my Silver T ES.
1:53:19
He helped me like get a deal on parts all the time.
1:53:22
That's insane, dude. Yeah, I did some writing on
1:53:24
Speed Academy when they were more like A blog before the
1:53:26
video stuff really took. I don't know if they still
1:53:28
really do blog stuff. They probably do.
1:53:31
Not. But they were like, document the
1:53:32
evil on there. And then I was like, oh, I think
1:53:34
I'm getting AGS. And they were like, oh, I meant
1:53:36
that build on there. So like I got the motor, I got
1:53:39
all the parts to manual swap it. I put the clutch pedal in, I got
1:53:42
ganadores like I put bread seats in it.
1:53:46
This is the car that doesn't run.
1:53:47
What the fuck? I got just like running through
1:53:50
this. Perfect.
1:53:50
It's the same thing again. I got to like test fit the motor
1:53:53
in it and then I was like this is I'm never going to finish
1:53:56
this like I was I don't have the money to finish this because I
1:53:59
wanted to do the single turbo. I wanted like a gratty manifold.
1:54:03
It was like $1200. I was like, dude, I can't like
1:54:06
and Alicia and I, I remember that was like the rockiest car
1:54:09
time we ever had was like, what is going on?
1:54:12
We're having a second kid like. There's a car I.
1:54:14
Know you're thinking a ton of money in this thing like what is
1:54:16
happening and so right around when the GS was failing I went
1:54:21
to the first final bout that. Was a good time.
1:54:24
Perfect. Yeah, Yep, SO and I had
1:54:27
messaged. Chop about like, how do you do
1:54:29
this stuff to your car 'cause he had just started drifting the GS
1:54:32
at the first final bout. And I told Teddy I'd never met
1:54:35
Teddy in person. I talk to him online all the
1:54:38
time. He had an internship 'cause he
1:54:40
does like film and video stuff. He had an internship where he
1:54:43
worked on a movie in the Detroit area for three months.
1:54:46
And we never hung out 'cause I was always like, oh, sorry,
1:54:49
dude, like I'm not available. And then like the movie ended
1:54:52
and we and he'd always give me a hard time 'cause we talk all the
1:54:54
time, but we never hung out. And I was like, dude, you should
1:54:57
fly out for final bout and drive my Camry to final bout 'cause I
1:55:01
just had a stock purple Camry at that point.
1:55:04
The radio didn't work. And he was like, OK.
1:55:07
And so he like flew to Detroit. I picked him up at the airport
1:55:09
and he was like, hey, nice to meet you, man.
1:55:11
When he got in my car at the airport and then we drove to
1:55:14
Shawno from the airport, not knowing each other, with no
1:55:18
working radio, and we didn't stop talking like the whole
1:55:20
time. It was amazing.
1:55:21
It was just like. So much fun realized.
1:55:23
Teddy No Worship Radio. This is before you know.
1:55:26
Is realized Teddy not for nothing?
1:55:27
Is he like your age? How old is how old are they
1:55:30
real? A little bit younger than me.
1:55:32
He's AI think he's a. Little bit younger than me.
1:55:33
I don't know. That Jay's younger than all of
1:55:35
them, right? Yeah.
1:55:36
So I think I know Teddy's a little bit younger than me, but
1:55:39
I. Have no idea because.
1:55:41
I don't even think realized existed yet.
1:55:43
No, definitely. Not till fine about two right?
1:55:47
Is that when they all came out or was it even later than that?
1:55:50
I don't even know but. I just realized, man, they had a
1:55:52
funny channel too, because Teddy, yeah, chefed the hell out
1:55:55
of those videos. YouTube channel was funny and I
1:55:57
don't even watch YouTube. Yeah, it was amazing.
1:56:00
We like on the way home we like stopped at one of those like
1:56:03
Oasis in Ohio and got lunch or in Illinois and got Lunchables
1:56:07
and like sat on the head of my Camry and ate a lunchable like
1:56:09
11:00 PM at night and that. Was so cute.
1:56:11
Yeah, it was amazing, dude. It was awesome.
1:56:13
So cool. I love Teddy.
1:56:16
So like, yeah, we did that and at final bout I saw the black
1:56:22
hatch that bought my Coqui arrow kit from me when I parted out my
1:56:27
2:40. So this it feels like forever,
1:56:29
but that was like a two year span.
1:56:31
I got rid of it end of 2012, got the Evo, didn't dinked around
1:56:35
with the Evo for like just over a year, parted it, got the GS
1:56:39
for like that summer I hit the GS but I never never ran, never
1:56:44
finished. It you weren't happy with the
1:56:45
car thing, so now it you. I'm paying, but then I was like,
1:56:49
I'm spending too much money. I can't 2 J is crazy.
1:56:51
I can't do this. And then I went to final bout.
1:56:54
I saw the guy I sold my arrow to and he had the kid on the car.
1:56:56
It was a black hatch and I was like, I just wanted 2 here we
1:57:00
go. And I was like, I tried these
1:57:01
other platforms that I thought were superior and I was like, I
1:57:04
just want my 240 back like. Relapsed, bro, you've relapsed.
1:57:07
Final bout did it yeah. So I was like, I just want an
1:57:10
S13 again. So the dude I sold it to was
1:57:14
kind of a friend from the forums.
1:57:15
He's a really nice guy. He was building an LS1 for it.
1:57:18
I knew it was local. He never got it running.
1:57:20
He did some suspension and brakes and he was building an LS
1:57:23
but it never made it in the car. So my shell is still sitting
1:57:26
basically the same way. I sold it to him.
1:57:28
So I got home from final bout. I was like, I was trying to buy
1:57:31
another S13 from another friend that was really rusty.
1:57:34
The rails were shot and I was like, it was a single Cam hatch
1:57:37
and I was like, whatever, I'll fix it, I'll fix the rest.
1:57:41
Because I had asked the dude I sold it to Suraj.
1:57:43
I was like, hey, sell me the car back.
1:57:45
And he was like, I know I'm not making progress on it, but I'll
1:57:48
probably never sell it. He was a Honda guy so he had a
1:57:50
really nice Civic and he's building this as a second build.
1:57:53
He's like, I know I'll probably never finish your car.
1:57:55
It's taking me forever which has been like 2.
1:57:57
Years. And he was like, but he was
1:58:00
like, I probably will never sell it though.
1:58:01
And I was like, OK, that's fair. So I pursued buying this other
1:58:04
one that was way worse and two weeks after I'd asked him when I
1:58:08
was about to send deposit for the worst one, he was like hey,
1:58:11
I'll sell you the car if you want it.
1:58:13
Wow, Hub's fast. So I got it back like December
1:58:16
of 24, like two years later after I sold the shell to him
1:58:19
almost to the day like 2 years, I bought it back, brought it
1:58:23
home. I remember that.
1:58:25
And it was. And that's right.
1:58:26
Before your birthday because you just mentioned your birthday was
1:58:28
ready for the vacation was in December as well.
1:58:31
And I got my car back like and it was a roller and I bought a
1:58:37
smashed up coupe that had an Sr. in it that my buddy was going to
1:58:42
start a 240 build, but he was like, I'm an idiot and I want
1:58:45
to, he did that like six or seven times.
1:58:48
That red hatch I parted out a couple years ago.
1:58:50
That was super nice. That was one of his cars, Tim.
1:58:52
So it was the same. Like that you were plotting the
1:58:54
whole drive home, probably from final back.
1:58:56
So I was like I got a wheels turning.
1:58:58
I was like, I'm making the same car basically.
1:59:00
So I was like I got to get OEM arrow, I need an Sr. and.
1:59:02
Now you're on Instagram. Yeah, Instagram is happening
1:59:05
now. Instagram happened it was like
1:59:07
right when I got the evo yeah so now I'm on Instagram I'm like
1:59:10
hey I got my car back the. Internet goes.
1:59:13
Crazy. So I got it back in December and
1:59:15
I think I had it like together by like May, but at that time I
1:59:20
was like, no, you know what? I need to do some stuff a little
1:59:22
bit differently. So I got the hot Rd. kit.
1:59:25
But you didn't like the hot Rd. kit?
1:59:27
I think no. Because I tried to do stuff
1:59:28
differently and I didn't like it and that's why I have the same
1:59:31
thing I've like. I was gonna say like.
1:59:33
I've seen maybe a few photos of it with the hot Rd. kit and
1:59:36
then. I didn't I couldn't handle This
1:59:38
is why I could never drift like I would wash it and when I would
1:59:41
be drying it, the fiberglass would be like like in the front
1:59:44
and I was like this sucks. How do people do this and I
1:59:47
wanted it to fit perfectly and it didn't.
1:59:49
It fits pretty well for aftermarket arrow but like the
1:59:52
rear valence always fell off all the time, like it would always
1:59:55
be sagging and like. This is this is around the time
1:59:58
period where you just kept buying the same mirrors and then
2:00:00
selling them and then buying them again and then.
2:00:02
So many times, Yep, so many times, I just buy ganadores and
2:00:06
you know, eats bears and then sell them and like they kept
2:00:08
selling for progressively more money.
2:00:10
My favorite wheels you ever had on on that car.
2:00:13
Did you take a guess at what they were?
2:00:14
The Z twos. Yes.
2:00:16
So when I did the hot Rd. I got blitz Z twos 1718 like
2:00:20
were. Those, the ones that I was
2:00:20
talking about, they're 5 spoke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:00:24
Dude I almost owned a set of those for like 600.
2:00:26
Bucks, you said you didn't. Like those, right?
2:00:30
Jimmy always talks about that's like, he's like, that's the era
2:00:32
of the car that was. Too short lived.
2:00:34
He's like the Z twos with hot Rd. was way too short lived.
2:00:36
Yeah. And yeah, I don't, I don't know
2:00:37
what it was it didn't like. I just didn't quite like them.
2:00:40
And I buy the end of that season because I usually got new wheels
2:00:43
at the end of every season before the next year.
2:00:46
I did those, didn't make it a full season and I got bronze
2:00:48
Tees. Yeah, I remember.
2:00:49
I was like. So I swapped it.
2:00:51
So then that was right before final bout 2.
2:00:53
The thing is, bronze Tees on this car also sound like they
2:00:56
would be one of my favorite wheels.
2:00:57
So yeah, the ones you like the most, the silver ones, that was
2:01:01
not my favorite era. No, see, I, I.
2:01:03
Went back and forth so much on it though because it was like no
2:01:06
cool. One 80s in Japan had silver T
2:01:09
ES. They were bronze or white bronze
2:01:11
and I was like so good. The worst is when I ordered
2:01:13
those T ES, I had to wait five months to get that silver.
2:01:16
And I was talking to the people at Mac and Industries because
2:01:19
they were like importing them then because Peter hooked me up
2:01:22
with them to the magazine and they were like, hey, we have
2:01:25
bronze like 17 by 9 + 1518 by 9 and F + 12 in stock for $300.00
2:01:30
less. Do you just want those?
2:01:31
And I was like, Nah, I think I want the silver.
2:01:33
Like I could have bought brand new OG bronze Te's in perfect
2:01:36
specs. And I was like, I'm gonna wait
2:01:37
for like, hey, I like I look back to that and it was like,
2:01:41
the bronze ones are like 2400 bucks.
2:01:43
It's OK. You sold them anyway.
2:01:45
I know it wouldn't have mattered.
2:01:47
Let me guess, in true Camryon bronze fashion, you bought them
2:01:50
later on for more more money. Oh yeah, used ones yeah yeah, Oh
2:01:54
yeah, but that's yeah that was leading up to final bout 2.
2:01:57
So final bout 1 I had the GSI went there.
2:01:59
I wanted an S13. There were tons of S thirteens
2:02:01
there. I saw that my old arrow.
2:02:02
I regretted it. Final bout 2.
2:02:04
I pulled up with the hot road T ES the car back again like and
2:02:09
that's when I met Frankie and that was like, that was cool
2:02:12
because I was like, OK now, because the first final bout
2:02:14
sucks because everyone I met, I was like, oh, I just have like a
2:02:17
Camry. Yeah, yeah.
2:02:19
But I had to be like. Same thing me at final bout 1.
2:02:21
I didn't have a car there. Yeah, it was like, this kind of
2:02:23
sucked, but that's also where I met Jimmy.
2:02:25
Was that final bout one OK. And then we like, started
2:02:28
talking after that and became like best friends.
2:02:30
Yeah, you guys are like definitely best friends.
2:02:32
Yeah, I would. I would say that you guys are.
2:02:34
Because he had his white hatch at the time and I had seen it on
2:02:37
like I. Don't even remember that car.
2:02:38
Yeah, I saw it on Mayday Garage Blog.
2:02:42
Oh yeah, back then. And I was like, dude, yeah, I
2:02:43
remember. Your car's sick.
2:02:44
I remember. Seeing it then.
2:02:46
Probably, yeah, yeah, because that was towards the end of like
2:02:48
blog stuff too. But when?
2:02:52
Where did like, where did it? Where did you lose your way with
2:02:56
that one? So that was the yeah, the same
2:02:59
car the second time. So yeah, I had.
2:03:02
It for a long time. I did a stock engine because I
2:03:04
was like, I can't do AT28 and all that fancy stuff again
2:03:06
because now I have two kids. I don't have money for this, so
2:03:09
I'm going to just keep a stock Sr.
2:03:11
Oh yeah, I got a bunch of stuff from Speed Academy, so like
2:03:13
coilovers, suspension arms. It wasn't brands that I wanted.
2:03:17
It was like US stuff that I think, I don't remember if they
2:03:21
were with turn 14 at the time. I think it was a different
2:03:23
distributor that's like not around anymore.
2:03:25
But they were like if you write a feature.
2:03:26
So I got like a clutch, a flywheel, I got a bunch of stuff
2:03:28
to build it from writing for them.
2:03:31
So then I was like, I have to compromise on this.
2:03:33
This isn't like I always wanted cool Japanese parts.
2:03:36
This stuff isn't cool. But I don't have money anymore.
2:03:38
I can't keep doing this. I have two kids now.
2:03:41
So like I had to compromise on the stuff that you wouldn't see,
2:03:43
but I was like, I'm going to spend the money where it counts.
2:03:45
Like I'm going to get cool arrow, cool wheels, cool seats
2:03:48
and the rest. The working stuff is fine,
2:03:49
whatever. Stock Sr. is fine.
2:03:53
So then, yeah. So I had that from 2014 to like
2:03:56
last year. I had it much longer the second
2:03:59
stretch because the first stretch was four years.
2:04:01
The second one I was like, I love S thirteens.
2:04:05
I know now that I've tried other cars, I want nothing to do with
2:04:08
any other platform ever again. And I still feel that way.
2:04:11
I made that realization in like 2015.
2:04:14
When I got it back, I was like, this is my car.
2:04:17
I don't, I have no interest because so many people would
2:04:19
change platforms all the time, like every couple years they'd
2:04:22
be like, now I'm going to get an FD now I'm going to get this now
2:04:25
I'm going to get this. And I was like, I'm done.
2:04:28
Like I tried other ones. I'm done.
2:04:29
I know this is what I want. And I also didn't have the
2:04:32
feeling anymore of like I got to do something unique.
2:04:35
I got to do something different. I got to be like the only one.
2:04:38
Oh no, that guy has a black hatch with Cokie 180 arrow with
2:04:41
T ES too. I was like, I don't care.
2:04:43
This is what I like now. You got pushed over the edge.
2:04:46
You were like. Yeah, and I changed.
2:04:48
I tried different stuff like I did the Z Twos, I did the Hot
2:04:50
Rd. I tried to do different things
2:04:52
and I was like no, you know what, like this is what I like.
2:04:54
So I sold the after the first season, I sold the hot road and
2:04:57
I went back to OEM and then I left the OEM arrow.
2:05:00
I was like this is what I want. I got bronze Tees.
2:05:03
I ended up buying the silver Tees back again from the person
2:05:06
I sold them to. I had then sold them again, sold
2:05:09
them again. His life is a lot, a lot of
2:05:12
repetitions. But yeah, because I couldn't,
2:05:14
like, there wasn't anything to build 'cause then I knew what I
2:05:17
liked. So I was like, all I can do is
2:05:19
change wheels and mirrors and seats.
2:05:20
So I just did that all the time. I was like, get different seats,
2:05:23
different mirrors, whatever I'd go through like, oh, I want like
2:05:26
the car to be all factory inside so my kids can ride with me.
2:05:29
Yeah. And so, like, around like 2018
2:05:32
is when I started getting obsessed with the OEM
2:05:35
restoration stuff. And my friend built that red
2:05:38
hatch. We never went into Broadfield
2:05:40
what he did. Yeah, yeah, he may never talked
2:05:43
about what he he made. That you remember the vents in a
2:05:45
240 that could replace the air vent and it would be the gauge
2:05:48
pods or whatever. Yeah, he's the one that like
2:05:50
made that. Wait wait wait wait wait.
2:05:52
The middle, the middle one, the middle H track vents, the one
2:05:55
that always say S13 on it now. He made like the OG nice
2:05:58
version. Yeah was like they were angled
2:06:00
towards the driver. They were had slightly.
2:06:03
Some vent in it to me. Not those were the later like
2:06:06
copies. Yeah.
2:06:07
So people then just started selling ACNC plate on eBay and
2:06:11
you it would fall out of the dash all the time.
2:06:13
I had one. I had.
2:06:14
One as well and like. There was no way to oh.
2:06:17
We made it. We made one.
2:06:18
But his were like custom setups that people paid for.
2:06:20
Like he made a setup in the Evo for me 'cause everybody would
2:06:23
take out the radio and put in three gauges and he molded it
2:06:26
into the center console trim and like.
2:06:28
He did it the whole center trim. He just did custom install stuff
2:06:31
like mostly Gauge I. Need to find this guy, he owes
2:06:34
me. This guy's name Some windows.
2:06:35
Yeah, sounds super mysterious. I'm not even gonna hold his.
2:06:38
So his S13 had the first like it was, was a cluster of all Defy
2:06:42
gauges. So it had like the boost gauge
2:06:44
and tack, the really big ones. And then it had two small
2:06:47
gauges. And then he had three gauges in
2:06:49
the center. So he had all the gauges and
2:06:51
then he molded into the like the clamshell cover that goes over
2:06:55
the steering column. He molded the Defy heads up
2:06:57
display with the speedometer right there.
2:06:59
Oh wow. So it was like transparent.
2:07:01
He made like a piece of plastic that's transparent that it would
2:07:04
project your speed onto and then the other gauges were behind it.
2:07:06
That's crazy. But then it would be like 2
2:07:09
grand to get him to build it and you had to find all the gauges
2:07:12
and the gauges were discontinued.
2:07:14
So then it was like I had all the stuff to build one at one
2:07:17
point, but I'm. Trying to think if I can make
2:07:19
something like that real quick. But it like to the level that he
2:07:22
did it, it looked like factory. Yeah, and his.
2:07:24
Car was perfect and it was like cars look nice online and then
2:07:28
you see him in person. My cars are always like that and
2:07:30
you're like, oh, it's like all dented up and the paints also.
2:07:32
No, no, no. No, no, no.
2:07:33
It was like perfect. Everything about his car was
2:07:35
absolutely perfect. Yeah, dude.
2:07:38
And he had like the the brid like Dias like seats with the
2:07:43
Mizora back. Oh yeah.
2:07:45
I don't know how to say it, but the yeah like.
2:07:47
Color. Changing pink.
2:07:49
Yeah, the backs were. Yeah, they were crazy.
2:07:51
Like expensive. Like it was super sick.
2:07:53
Mysterious Brookfield. But then he don't.
2:07:56
Worry I can get his address on Nico clubs.
2:07:57
That's crazy. Still on there.
2:07:59
Yeah, but he like he was at the age like I think around, I think
2:08:06
he parted out his car right after I parted out my S13 the
2:08:09
first time. He had decided to LS3 swap it
2:08:13
when that was a thing. So he's get sold to Sr. and he
2:08:15
was LS swapping it. He took his whole chassis
2:08:18
harness out with like bolt cutters one day 'cause he was
2:08:21
like, I'm just going to rewire the whole car 'cause he was a
2:08:23
wiring genius. Like he could do that.
2:08:25
So he's like, I'm going to make my own custom harness.
2:08:27
I mean he always made custom sounds like.
2:08:29
And then he was like, Nah, screw it, like I'm parting out.
2:08:31
And I don't think he does. Car he got into built I heard
2:08:34
from Kyle as I haven't talked to Toby in a long time but I heard
2:08:37
he got into building like custom fish tanks.
2:08:40
Like a. Saltwater wreath tank makes
2:08:41
sense. And then Kyle was like he's the
2:08:43
broad field of fish tanks now that makes sense.
2:08:45
Like everybody pays him to build these tons of money setups and
2:08:49
then, I don't know, I had like lost touch with him, but like.
2:08:51
Shit man, yeah, you need those window switches.
2:08:54
Though Yeah, I think that throughout the years as well,
2:08:57
since you stuck with what you loved, right?
2:09:00
Like the the, the second, the final relapse.
2:09:04
I'm gonna call it because I feel like now you the.
2:09:06
Final relapse is there. You're pretty, you're pretty.
2:09:09
You're pretty set in stone. You know what you like, you know
2:09:12
what you love. And obviously it shows.
2:09:15
Yeah, now you have. This Why'd you get rid of the
2:09:17
other car? So feel free to So then you fall
2:09:20
into, when you talk about details relapses, Carl, I I knew
2:09:24
what I liked. My hatch was like done.
2:09:25
There was nothing to do. But I liked the build stuff.
2:09:28
Yeah. So I was like, hey, you know
2:09:30
what? I never really liked them but I
2:09:32
really want an S13 coupe. Oh yeah.
2:09:35
Oh my gosh, I forgot about that relapse.
2:09:37
Yep, Oh my gosh. So.
2:09:39
Like that was like 20/17/2018. I don't even remember anymore at
2:09:42
what point, but I was like, I need to get a coupe shell and
2:09:45
start collecting all the parts for it before I can't get this
2:09:47
stuff anymore because it's getting scary.
2:09:49
So I was like Alicia, I just want to get the shell.
2:09:52
And I was like, there was one on Facebook Marketplace.
2:09:55
My friend that was in the two 40s Tim wanted to build a drift
2:09:58
car, never ended up drifting. So we both did the same thing,
2:10:02
but it came with 2K as and it was stock.
2:10:05
The guy had torn it apart, stock car, tore it apart to build it
2:10:08
didn't build it on Facebook 1000 bucks.
2:10:11
So I was like Tim, you have a truck and trailer, you don't
2:10:12
have any kids yet. I have 3 kids now, so I should
2:10:15
probably get another car. And so I was like go down to
2:10:20
Indiana, buy this car, I'll split it with you.
2:10:22
I had been selling parts on Zilvia or on Instagram by the
2:10:25
way. So I started, I parted out a few
2:10:27
cars on the side. Well, this is when I started
2:10:29
parting out cars this time. So I was like, go get the shell.
2:10:34
You can have the motors and all the, the transmissions.
2:10:37
I will keep the car 'cause I want to have the shell to build
2:10:40
someday and then I'll sell all the stuff we don't need and
2:10:42
we'll probably make our money back.
2:10:44
So we did. We, we, I got the car free, he
2:10:46
got the motors for free. I sold all the extra stuff
2:10:49
'cause he doesn't really do Internet W he doesn't do the
2:10:51
Internet. So like I had to sell all the
2:10:53
stuff, ship it all. So it's perfect.
2:10:54
So I was like Alicia, I got a second car, it was free.
2:10:56
I'm not building it right now. It's just here and then I'm me.
2:11:01
So I started like easy sell, easy sell.
2:11:03
Like wait, that worked out pretty good.
2:11:05
Like I bought this car and I got it free and I was like, I bet
2:11:08
like So what else is on Marketplace?
2:11:10
I'm sorry looking at. Modified mag thing all.
2:11:12
Over teens and I'm like, people are buying parts on Instagram.
2:11:15
Like I can just ship it. Like I have a bunch of boxes in
2:11:18
the basement and tape and I can like get postage and just ship
2:11:21
it like because nobody buys stuff around here.
2:11:24
But I was noticing like people are paying a lot for like
2:11:26
interior parts all of a sudden. Like stuff's getting 'cause this
2:11:28
is around right before COVID. Yep, I was about to say like
2:11:33
this sounds like that time period where it.
2:11:35
Was it was starting to get weird.
2:11:36
Something was. Changing automotive where you
2:11:40
could buy fucking anything. Yep, so I bought a coupe with an
2:11:44
Sr. swap for 3800 bucks. It had five lug coil overs
2:11:49
wheels. Sylvia front.
2:11:53
It was pretty banged up. But I bought it $200.
2:11:55
And I got Alicia's dad actually like helped me because he was
2:11:59
like this could be like a business.
2:12:01
And he's like I'll because I was like I don't have 4 grand to
2:12:04
just blow right now. And he was like, oh, like I'll
2:12:07
front you and then like, give me back whatever when you make
2:12:10
money off it to see if like I could really do it.
2:12:13
And I kept the Sr. swap and that's the one I used in my
2:12:15
coop. And then I made like grand on
2:12:17
top of oh, wow, parting out the car.
2:12:20
So I was like, oh, so then I now I paid him back.
2:12:23
Now I have some extra money. And an Sr.
2:12:25
And an Sr. So then I was like, I'll try to
2:12:27
find another one. So I'd find like a stock.
2:12:29
And they're all rusted out here. Yeah, but there were still cars
2:12:32
back then. Where are you keeping?
2:12:33
The there's. Yeah, my house was trashed, like
2:12:36
Alicia's car. The van was outside in the snow
2:12:38
in the winter, so I had to get her a remote start.
2:12:41
So I was like, I'll get you a remote start so that you can.
2:12:43
Compromise. All right.
2:12:44
OK. Like what?
2:12:45
Is going on. Our garage is trashed, like
2:12:48
ripped apart us thirteens and I started bringing them in one
2:12:50
after the other. Some of them will be like a
2:12:52
stock single Cam with no frame rails left, no rockers, but it
2:12:56
had a full blue interior, no cracked dash.
2:12:58
People buy the blue interior. Yeah.
2:13:00
People like I've been looking for.
2:13:01
One cracked brown one. They're so.
2:13:03
Rare. Yeah, so I like one after the
2:13:06
other. I was like, this is paying for
2:13:07
my coop. So every car I parted out, I'd
2:13:09
be like, this one has a clean trunk lid with no wing.
2:13:12
This one has a black dash and really clean door.
2:13:14
Paint. I was about to say it's probably
2:13:15
this. So I'd put some of it on mine.
2:13:17
I'd sell the rest. I'd make some money and then
2:13:21
we'd, you know, our dishwasher died.
2:13:23
I'd be like, oh, we wouldn't have the money for that, but I
2:13:25
can use my S13 money. So along the way I'd be like, I
2:13:28
got us a new fridge, I got us a new bed.
2:13:30
Perfect. But I also got some stuff for my
2:13:33
car and like. Look, if I wasn't doing this, we
2:13:35
would have a new fridge right now.
2:13:38
Honey, honey, I swear, the kitchen, look how beautiful the
2:13:40
kitchen is. I only had to do that, but I
2:13:44
might have just gotten another. Actually, we fixed the kitchen.
2:13:47
Yeah. It was a good run though.
2:13:48
It was a good. I think I did like 7 or 8 of
2:13:50
them and. Then and then.
2:13:52
Once So I thought when COVID hit, I was like, this is it?
2:13:55
Everybody's going to lose their job and have to part out their
2:13:58
projects and I'm going to get some sick deals.
2:14:00
No opposite. This couldn't have been more
2:14:02
wrong. I worked at a hospital doing
2:14:04
graphic design. So I was like, hospital, they're
2:14:06
going to make a ton of money wrong.
2:14:08
Like so I got laid off in COVID. I got furloughed for like 12
2:14:13
weeks and I was on unemployment building my coop because I had
2:14:17
all the stuff here. So that's when I like finished.
2:14:19
It was when I was just at home doing.
2:14:20
Wheels too. It looked so out of the ordinary
2:14:23
for what you built in the past. I was like.
2:14:25
So that came to that car came together in like 2 years or
2:14:28
maybe less when I said I wasn't going to build it.
2:14:31
It's going to just be a shell that I had nowhere to store.
2:14:34
Oh, oops. So I have two of these.
2:14:35
Came a running car and everything like it was.
2:14:37
Yeah, yeah, I got it running. I had the Bay painted before I
2:14:40
brought it home so that it and it was going to be black, so I
2:14:42
was going to paint. It the same as this one, like
2:14:44
you treated that car nicer than your other car at the end of its
2:14:46
life. It did like because then I I
2:14:48
wasn't painting this you never. Had the other car, yeah, I had
2:14:50
like. One fence I had a lip that
2:14:53
wasn't painted. The front fenders weren't
2:14:54
painted. I was because I because I had
2:14:56
two now. So everything you buy or do, if
2:15:00
you're like, oh, I want to get like a Nismo clutch line and
2:15:02
slave cylinder for this car. Why would I get?
2:15:03
It for the other one, better buy. 2 So they have the same,
2:15:06
but it's the same car. Why do you need two of the same
2:15:08
car? So then I was just so
2:15:10
overwhelmed because then I couldn't do anything I wanted to
2:15:14
anymore. I couldn't do the stuff I wanted
2:15:16
to do because I didn't have the money.
2:15:17
And I was like, I can't do this twice.
2:15:19
And so then both cars, like, quality fell.
2:15:23
And I had always thought like the people online that were
2:15:26
like, oh, I got 6S thirteens. I'm like, yeah, but they're all
2:15:30
trashed. They.
2:15:31
All suck or they'd be like, I have all these rare parts and
2:15:35
like, but they're like in your basement, like you're not,
2:15:37
they're not on. I mean, that's cool.
2:15:39
If that's what you're into, that's totally fine.
2:15:41
But I never wanted that. I wanted one car that was like a
2:15:43
reflection of what I could do. I was proud of it.
2:15:45
I could enjoy it. And I always said like, don't
2:15:48
get another one. Don't get another one to people.
2:15:50
And then I did it and I was like, this sucks.
2:15:54
And you watched the results real time.
2:15:56
And then they both just sat because I couldn't do anything.
2:15:59
And then we had some stuff come up, like financially, we had
2:16:04
some stuff with our kids health, and we had some stuff where
2:16:06
like, we didn't have the money for it.
2:16:07
And I'd always, yeah. And I'd always said like, if
2:16:11
anything ever happened, if we had an emergency, I would part
2:16:13
out my car immediately to do whatever we need to do.
2:16:16
And so that was the coup. Like I was like, I had to
2:16:20
basically halfway part it out to pay for this program that we
2:16:23
wanted our daughter to be in. And then I was still clinging
2:16:26
on, but I couldn't do anything. Was like, I this car isn't
2:16:29
painted and I'm embarrassed of it.
2:16:31
This one has no suspension now. And I was like, well, I'll get
2:16:34
more later or whatever. And that was last year and I was
2:16:36
like, I finally got to like RIP off the Band-Aid.
2:16:38
So you guys like I just need to focus on one car.
2:16:42
So I got rid of the coop. Now we're up to last year.
2:16:45
We caught up really fast, got rid of the coop.
2:16:47
Really bummed me out, but I was like whatever.
2:16:49
I kept some parts off it that I've slowly sold since realizing
2:16:53
I'm not immediately getting another one like I thought I
2:16:55
might. I'll find a way to get another
2:16:56
one. And so then I just had my hatch
2:17:00
and I was like, I had it lined up to get painted because I
2:17:05
always wanted it to get painted. The whole car it had rough spots
2:17:08
on. 10 year process of him trying to get this car painted.
2:17:10
And I could never do it. I always painted just the arrow
2:17:13
or I painted like whatever needed to be painted the Bay.
2:17:15
But I never could do the. I couldn't pull off the.
2:17:17
Body, It was always clean. Full paint job and it bombed me
2:17:21
out a lot. It bothered me.
2:17:22
It was swirly. It had like rough spots and
2:17:24
stuff. Not bad, but enough to drive me
2:17:26
crazy. And so I was like, all right,
2:17:28
this is it. Like I got it lined up to get
2:17:29
painted this year. This spring is when it would
2:17:32
have got painted and I put it on stands because I'm like, I'm
2:17:35
going to start going through it, get it ready for paint.
2:17:37
But then it sat on stands for a couple weeks because I was like,
2:17:40
I've never had these side skirts off in the last like 8 years and
2:17:43
I know what's going to be behind them.
2:17:44
Oh no, you don't want to. I know there's rust on the
2:17:46
rockers behind it. S13.
2:17:48
No makeup. And then what?
2:17:49
Yeah. And then one night finally, like
2:17:52
the girls were all in bed. Alicia was at like a girls night
2:17:54
or something. And I was like, I screw it, I'm
2:17:55
going to pull the skirts. Tonight and just.
2:17:58
Big rust bubble, it's the night. Because they're, I think because
2:18:01
hiring for this for so long. Fuck it, I got to do it.
2:18:03
Yeah, drinks. Yeah, I had a nice zoo.
2:18:06
Sounds like we're talking. We went out there.
2:18:07
Really. Bad, Yeah.
2:18:08
It sounds like we're talking about something really bad, like
2:18:11
I'm going to do it. It was going to go.
2:18:13
Into the living room and. Yeah.
2:18:15
No one's home. No one's home tonight.
2:18:17
Tonight is it? I'm pulling off the side skirt.
2:18:20
Yeah. But I remember, like, it had a
2:18:23
rust bubble on the rocker when I bought it in like, 2008.
2:18:26
And I was like, I'll just get side skirts.
2:18:27
Yeah, You know, because it was a junky old car.
2:18:29
Who cared? They weren't expensive, but
2:18:31
whatever. I was covered up.
2:18:32
But then I kind of forgot because the skirts had been on
2:18:34
it since like. They've been on.
2:18:36
It for like 8 years. You accidentally built the
2:18:38
nicest 180SX, Yeah? So then I was like, all right,
2:18:42
it's finally happening. I have all the I've by then I've
2:18:44
sourced every like molding for the car.
2:18:46
I have brand new 180SX quarter glass.
2:18:49
I have like this strip up here that's this continued.
2:18:52
I have every piece of rubber on the car that I've been buying
2:18:55
over the last like four years from Japan because it was
2:18:58
discontinued here. So I at work when I had nothing
2:19:01
to do, I'd be searching all these part numbers.
2:19:02
I'd be finding where can I get it?
2:19:04
And I'd have it shipped over like Streeter sending me stuff.
2:19:06
Yeah. So I have all that on deck to
2:19:08
paint the car and I'm like, it's finally happening.
2:19:09
I'm cleaning up my life. I'm getting rid of my car so I
2:19:12
only have one. I can focus.
2:19:13
It's going to be perfect and I'm done.
2:19:14
I know what I want and I get it. Painted This is such a hot
2:19:17
world, such a climb right now dude.
2:19:19
I take off the skirts. Huge rest, bub.
2:19:22
In my opinion, Huge. Frankie got here was like, what
2:19:23
are you talking about? This is easy to fix.
2:19:26
And I was like, no, I don't want to fix it because I hit a point
2:19:29
where I was like, if I'm going to go through tearing a car down
2:19:32
and painting it, you're going to want to do it one time.
2:19:34
I'm old and I was like, if I'm going to do this, I'm like, I'm
2:19:38
pushing 40 here. If I'm going to do this, I want
2:19:40
a real 180. I was like, I don't want to put
2:19:43
all this work into a stoop. And I've always wanted the US
2:19:47
car because I've always been like.
2:19:48
Left hand drive. Yeah, left hand drive, it's
2:19:51
convenient. And I was like, I appreciate
2:19:53
someone taking a base US car and making it the Japanese car.
2:19:56
That's what I wanted with the Solara.
2:19:57
That was I want all the JDM. The whole JDM thing.
2:20:00
I want it and I respect that. Like I'm like, that looks like a
2:20:02
clone of the Japanese car and you did all the work.
2:20:05
You're set like you wired in that cluster, you did the
2:20:07
lights, you did the arrow, you did the seats.
2:20:09
Like that's cool. You expect that that's a
2:20:11
modified car, whereas like. And imported people were by then
2:20:13
people were bringing over Cokie one 80s and I was like that's
2:20:16
cool but like you just brought over a stock car like you didn't
2:20:19
do anything to it it just came that way yeah well then as you
2:20:21
get old I'm like the car coming that way sounds pretty nice like
2:20:26
it's already got the arrow mounted up from the factory the.
2:20:29
Holes are all. AC yeah, it's like it's a.
2:20:32
No, the holes are not there. No, the holes are there for the.
2:20:37
No, I'm talking about like the rust holes.
2:20:39
Oh, they never put on properly. They're just like zip tied on
2:20:41
like they're supposed to be All these clips and I had bought all
2:20:44
those clips. I was going to drill all the
2:20:45
holes in the rockers and figure out how to do it.
2:20:47
And when I painted it, I'm going to be exactly like the real deal
2:20:50
because I've been for years trying to make this car out of
2:20:52
AUS car. That's what I wanted.
2:20:55
And I was like. No marker lights in the back,
2:20:57
Yeah. Yep, that was on the list for
2:20:58
when I painted it like shave the rear marker lights.
2:21:00
Like I wanted to be as authentic as possible.
2:21:02
And then I was like, if I'm doing this, if I'm painting a
2:21:05
car, like I just want, I want one that came that way, 'cause
2:21:08
I've done, I've, by now I've done so many stupid things that
2:21:10
I regret doing when I was 22 that now I'm like, why did I cut
2:21:15
holes in that? Why did I do that?
2:21:17
Why did I do that? Yeah, the car had a lot of
2:21:20
mistakes or. Like re band aided.
2:21:22
Like, yeah, like regrets. The car had a lot of regrets on
2:21:26
it. Yeah, like when I shaved the
2:21:27
whole Bay, we talked about that being the tipping point.
2:21:29
When I got it back, I undid all that, so I drilled all the holes
2:21:34
back out for ACI, drilled out all the holes for the wiring.
2:21:38
Everything had been welded shut, molded, painted and I cut it all
2:21:41
back out to be like factory. What's hilarious is you did all.
2:21:44
That or had it done. But yeah, somebody help me like
2:21:48
Mike help me with the welding one of my other, one of my other
2:21:50
buddies. But just masochism like really
2:21:54
2. Of them, like, man, like no.
2:21:56
It was like starting over with what I know now, yeah.
2:21:59
Or what I didn't know then. I have all experience now.
2:22:01
I was like, no, I'll try to find a one 80.
2:22:03
But then I'm like everybody is in my ear, like there's no good
2:22:06
ones left. They're all rotted out.
2:22:09
They're all $1,000,000. They're all destroyed.
2:22:11
And this car got posted by somebody from Sylvia.
2:22:15
And right around when I came to this realization, it was
2:22:18
November of last year, this got posted for sale and like a
2:22:21
million people DM D it to me on Instagram 'cause I had said
2:22:24
like, hey, I'm, I think I'm getting a 180.
2:22:26
I'm parking out my car. I want to get a 180.
2:22:28
Yeah, and like 80 people sent me this listing and I was like, I
2:22:32
know I saw crazy. That yeah, those 80 people know
2:22:36
you. They're like everybody and
2:22:39
there, it's not like there were a ton of them listed for sale.
2:22:41
Like I thought I was going to have to figure out the auctions
2:22:43
and stuff. And I was like, I'm dreading
2:22:45
this because you're seeing like team Free Spirit that like posts
2:22:48
all the Japanese cars that get imported that are scams, like
2:22:51
spray painted over everything. It's all Bondo.
2:22:53
It's Oh yeah, that would make me.
2:22:54
And I was like, dude, I'm about to spend how much money, like
2:22:57
over 20 grand on a car that's going to be like that.
2:22:59
Yeah. And I was like, if that happens,
2:23:01
then I'm out. I was like, I'm just going to
2:23:03
quit. Yeah.
2:23:03
And but I went into this knowing like, I felt so weirdly like
2:23:07
weight lifted when I started parting out the 240, the Hatch
2:23:10
to do this. And I was like, if I don't find
2:23:12
one, I'm just put this money in the bank like I'm done.
2:23:15
And I feel like I'm finally OK with it.
2:23:17
Yeah, when I picked up the car, a little part of me is not, but
2:23:19
I was like, dude, this. I'm living right now.
2:23:21
I don't have a car anymore. When I got the car over him, he
2:23:24
felt that way, like he was, he seemed like he didn't care.
2:23:27
I was very different and he's like the first time.
2:23:29
Nah, Nah. It was very different.
2:23:31
I didn't care. And it's so.
2:23:33
I was begging Frankie to come get it because I wanted somebody
2:23:35
cool to get it, but I also didn't care.
2:23:37
Like I was like, I don't care if some kid off the street just
2:23:39
comes, takes it. Get it out of here like I'm
2:23:41
done. Yeah, you gave.
2:23:42
Me. You gave me a very, very
2:23:44
generous deal. So that you would come get it.
2:23:47
Because I was like, because a few people were like, oh.
2:23:49
The fuck? It did not say anything.
2:23:50
But I was like, nobody's going to come get it.
2:23:51
He disappeared. And then I was like, we kept
2:23:54
having to push it back and I was like, I don't think Frankie's
2:23:56
going to come. So I kept like lowering the
2:23:57
price. Dude.
2:23:58
Get over here like he disappeared.
2:24:00
He was like, yo, would you go to Michigan, do podcasts with with
2:24:06
Camry on bronze? I'm like, and I was like, what?
2:24:10
Yeah, totally. What?
2:24:11
Yeah, let me know when it is. Boom.
2:24:13
One day there was a story where he was standing right there with
2:24:17
a Fanny pack on. And I was like, I was like,
2:24:20
that's the. Last, what the?
2:24:21
Fuck, he went without me. That's crazy.
2:24:23
I wanted. To meet, I wanted to meet I
2:24:25
just. Wanted to go hiking.
2:24:26
I just wanted to make on that that was but no that I keep low
2:24:31
key forgetting that I see that car like once a week, twice a
2:24:34
week. Yeah, I keep seeing it in the
2:24:36
videos and stuff and. I almost forget, I just see that
2:24:39
doors for it. So Lewis actually who's sitting
2:24:42
here in that Lewis found a car that he was parting out and he,
2:24:46
he was like, what do you need for this car?
2:24:48
And we went over there and we just kind of looked at
2:24:50
everything and yes, it's for that car, but it's also just I
2:24:55
hoard 240 parts. So if it ends up on that car,
2:24:58
great. If it doesn't, then whatever.
2:25:00
So we made a list and he also got a good deal for me on all
2:25:04
those parts. So I was like, all right, I
2:25:06
can't really say no. Yeah.
2:25:07
So it's just like one of those things like I don't plan on
2:25:09
doing anything with that car right now, but.
2:25:12
You have 3 hatches, yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
2:25:15
The amount of shit we have going on right that.
2:25:16
Was the there were a couple people that wanted it and they
2:25:19
all had multiple S thirteens and we're like Ethan, my other buddy
2:25:24
from Ohio was the first one, but he just got married, just got a
2:25:27
house. So he was like younger.
2:25:28
He's at that point and he was like, I just don't know where I
2:25:30
can store it. And he had three one 80s at the
2:25:32
time. And I was like, dude, I was
2:25:33
like, I want you to buy it, but it was what you what you were
2:25:36
saying earlier. I was like, don't like and same
2:25:39
as Frankie. Like I was like, dude, I want
2:25:40
you to take it, but I kind of don't want you to.
2:25:42
Don't. It's not that.
2:25:43
Guy. 'S.
2:25:44
Life right there can Frankie has a shop?
2:25:46
I can just sit there, you see? But I also was like, dude, don't
2:25:49
spend money on it. But by the time I got to
2:25:51
Frankie, the deal was so good that I was like, he can sell
2:25:53
this other stuff and get the money back.
2:25:54
Yeah, like if I really wanted. And I was like, I don't care.
2:25:56
If I wasn't an idiot, yeah, I could make a lot of money off of
2:25:58
that. But I'm an idiot, so I.
2:25:59
Couldn't sell that local stuff like the market in Michigan is
2:26:02
really bad or I'm disconnected that's.
2:26:04
What you said. Yeah, you can't sell like an
2:26:07
uncracked dash here and people California, we're like, please
2:26:09
ship it to me. Like there are $1000 here and I
2:26:12
was like, man, I wish I was there.
2:26:13
It's. Crazy though because like if I
2:26:15
if I wanted an uncracked dash I would drive here, that's how.
2:26:19
Insane we are, but most people aren't like that.
2:26:21
Like I would be from California. I'd be like, oh cool, I'll just
2:26:23
go drive there and. There are a couple of people
2:26:24
like kind of talking about it, but I was like, you know,
2:26:27
there's not. I would have done stupid.
2:26:28
Stuff. I was talking to Josh, my friend
2:26:30
Josh de Lis from Front Street the other day.
2:26:32
Yeah, yeah. And we actually, I think, I
2:26:33
think they put it on the video, but we had a video about him
2:26:35
doing it, getting an alignment done.
2:26:36
And I was like, Josh, can you explain to these people that
2:26:39
they don't understand what it takes to be this obsessed with
2:26:41
cars? Oh yeah, yeah, it's not that
2:26:43
one. Yeah.
2:26:44
That's, that's a good example. Yeah, 'cause like in my mind I'm
2:26:46
like, oh, I'll just drop across the country for an uncorrect
2:26:48
app, right? And that's, that's insane.
2:26:50
Yeah. That is actually weird for for
2:26:52
normal people to yeah. But for me, I'm like, duh, you
2:26:55
would do it. Yeah.
2:26:55
Why wouldn't you do that? Yeah.
2:26:57
And I can't. I don't have the time to do it
2:26:59
anymore. Like I can't.
2:27:00
I would always do stupid stuff like that.
2:27:02
That's another thing, Yeah, you have to.
2:27:03
But I can't be away. So like, I like I got some stuff
2:27:07
painted for this car, like a couple different front bumpers
2:27:11
and mirrors, mirrors, again, mirrors.
2:27:13
And I was taking them to B St. in Chicago.
2:27:17
And I was like, well, I can't just drive to Chicago.
2:27:19
When am I going to do this? But we were going to get our
2:27:21
puppy from Chicago. And I was like, hey, Alicia, do
2:27:24
you mind if I, like, bring all these parts and drop him off at
2:27:25
this dude's house? And I was like, I'll figure out
2:27:27
picking him up later. And like, LA always helps me get
2:27:29
parts. But I'm like, I can't like, just
2:27:33
go anymore. Like, it's a huge ordeal.
2:27:35
And it's like almost turns into a little bit of like a fight.
2:27:38
And I'm like, I don't wanna, like, I can't be like, hey, can
2:27:41
I drive to California to get this part?
2:27:42
I want you like I'm. You're drowning in kids.
2:27:46
Like, where do you think you're going?
2:27:47
Yeah, Like I'm like, no, no, no. So I I always have to find a
2:27:50
way. Like, even when I got my coop,
2:27:51
like years ago, Yeah. When my youngest was still a
2:27:53
baby, I was like, hey, man, like, you got to go get it for
2:27:55
me. Yeah.
2:27:56
Like, go get it and bring it to my house and, like, I'll give
2:27:58
you some money. I think that that.
2:28:00
Is good signs of you not losing your way but also handling what
2:28:06
needs to get done. Yeah.
2:28:07
It just, it's getting harder, yeah.
2:28:09
Like but you love it enough where you're still.
2:28:11
Doing this, I'm trying to so it's still like, yeah, so this
2:28:15
180 kept, I talked to the owner a little bit and but it was auto
2:28:19
and I was like, I don't want to immediately have to hack it up
2:28:22
like it's going to turn into my other car.
2:28:23
I immediately got to drill the firewall, you know, like I don't
2:28:25
want to do that. I want it to already be manual.
2:28:27
But then like, and there was one that was stateside already that
2:28:29
was white. I really wanted any color but
2:28:31
black. When I first wanted an S13 and I
2:28:34
bought this one, I wanted a white one.
2:28:35
'Cause my oh just so with. Jeremy and my Solara were white
2:28:38
and it's an easy color. You don't have to know how to
2:28:39
detail. You can't tell that it's swirly
2:28:42
and stuff. And black is like you got to
2:28:43
know what you're doing. I still don't know.
2:28:44
I have no clue how to detail the car.
2:28:47
So like I didn't want. I was like, why does it have to
2:28:50
be black like but you can't find him with a sunroof either.
2:28:53
The 180's with a sunroof are really hard to find.
2:28:55
And I wanted the sunroof. I would not do no sunroof.
2:28:57
Yeah, that's that's you can't compromise there.
2:29:00
I talked to him in November about it and then I was like,
2:29:02
I'm going to keep looking. There was a white car out West
2:29:04
that was a manual, had the factory arrow because the lip
2:29:07
and the rear valances are optional.
2:29:09
So not all of them had it. And I wanted it to already be
2:29:12
there. I was like, I want it to counted
2:29:14
from the factory, like they put it on at the dealer, like I want
2:29:17
that. But it was like 29 grand and I
2:29:23
was talking to the person about it, but it was already here.
2:29:26
So I was like, you know, I parted out my 2:40.
2:29:28
So I was like, I think I can, that's a little out of what I
2:29:31
can get, but I'm close. Like I might be able to do it.
2:29:34
And I was talking to the dude about it.
2:29:35
And then I zoomed in on one of the pictures and like the rear
2:29:38
rocker had like a you could see had like a plate welded into it
2:29:42
where it had rested. And I was like, oh, nobody
2:29:43
mentioned that, you know, but I zoomed in at work like enhance.
2:29:46
Enhance. I was like Enhance.
2:29:48
Nope. And I already had a weird I was
2:29:50
getting really low quality videos and photos and I was like
2:29:53
this is a lot of money. This isn't like a $5000.13
2:29:56
anymore. So then like I looked for a
2:29:59
little while, I didn't even really get into auctions yet.
2:30:01
I didn't know who was going to import it.
2:30:03
And then I was like maybe this car is not sounding that bad.
2:30:06
Maybe I should see if he sold it.
2:30:08
So that was like January, late January.
2:30:12
And he's like, yeah, I still got it.
2:30:14
Like, I don't know. I haven't really been trying to.
2:30:16
He's like AI think his name's like DJ Chi on Sylvia.
2:30:22
He's one of the more abrasive dudes on there.
2:30:25
So I also was hesitant to work with him and I knew that he was
2:30:30
U.S. military affiliated living in Japan.
2:30:32
And Jimmy and Liam curb stomp like R34.
2:30:36
Liam is like one of my best friends.
2:30:37
Also they were both like, dude, don't go anywhere near a
2:30:40
military person. And I was like, I don't know, it
2:30:43
seems like a really nice car. Yeah.
2:30:46
And I ended up talking to him on Instagram, like over the phone,
2:30:48
like a bunch of nights for like hours about cars.
2:30:51
And like, he has very similar take to mind.
2:30:53
He's a really nice guy. I think.
2:30:56
Like, I do stuff that rubs him the wrong way.
2:30:58
And he wouldn't really admit it, but like, yeah, I think he he's
2:31:01
one of those people that really doesn't like when things on the
2:31:04
Internet get attention. Oh.
2:31:06
Or is like very like I'm on Instagram, like look at me, I
2:31:10
have all these followers like he hates that kind of stuff.
2:31:13
So I, I have a suspicion he feels that way about me, but
2:31:15
like wouldn't admit it. We'd probably just want to sell
2:31:17
the car, but he. Was just he was playing trails.
2:31:20
But he was being super nice. We have a lot of the same
2:31:22
opinions. I had talked to him for years
2:31:23
about stuff like message him about stuff on Instagram and
2:31:27
Sylvia and stuff. But I ended up I was like, I
2:31:30
think I got to compromise on the manual just otherwise it's like
2:31:34
it has the full arrow, has the I.
2:31:35
Think that's a big deal personally.
2:31:37
It's clean. It looked clean.
2:31:39
So I was like, I think I'm going to do it like whatever.
2:31:42
So it got imported to Texas, right?
2:31:44
Yeah. So I originally was Tweed and
2:31:48
Richard, they used to run GTR Garage.
2:31:50
Remember that whole deal a while back?
2:31:53
No, they were like an importer shop in Indiana.
2:31:59
He works with Tweed now as the stateside person.
2:32:02
He, Jimmy, did that internship in Japan through GTR Garage.
2:32:06
So it was like through Richard. He went and lived there for like
2:32:09
a month and he rolled that R32 and stuff that was like one of
2:32:13
their cars. Yeah, they had Brisby Mike.
2:32:16
Brisby Mike did it too. He went and lived in Japan and
2:32:19
like worked for them for like a month and just drifted and
2:32:21
stuff. So Richard's amazing.
2:32:24
So he was like great at like reassuring me because I don't
2:32:27
know how to import a car like this is sketchy and like I don't
2:32:30
know what's going on. So and I had to go like wire
2:32:33
transfer the money to him at my bank.
2:32:35
And I work for my bank. Like it's not a bank, a credit
2:32:38
union. They get mad if you say bank.
2:32:40
So in case they listen to this, nobody's going to sit through
2:32:42
this for this long that I work with.
2:32:45
But they were like, so you know, this person and I was like,
2:32:48
yeah, yeah, I know. I'm like, I'm just, he's AUS
2:32:51
citizen, but he lives in Japan because he works for the Navy.
2:32:53
And they were like, you're just going to wire this dude all this
2:32:56
money. And I was like, yeah, it's for a
2:32:58
car like, and they're like, what kind of car?
2:33:00
It's like a 97 like Nissan. They're like, so like the wire
2:33:05
didn't go through. My impression was wires are
2:33:07
really fast, like instant. It didn't go through for like 10
2:33:09
days. And I went to the branch and I
2:33:11
was like, hey, like I sent this wire, I thought it would like go
2:33:14
through and they're like, oh, it got flagged as fraud.
2:33:16
Like we got to talk to like the department, which is like the
2:33:18
people that sit by me at work basically.
2:33:21
Oh, we got it cleared. They sent it.
2:33:23
But I'm like, this is great because this is my employer now
2:33:25
and they think I'm nuts. But.
2:33:27
It it finally worked and then Tweed handled all the export
2:33:31
stuff on that side. So the car had to be shipped
2:33:34
like 5 hours across Japan to Osaka area because it was out in
2:33:37
the middle of nowhere. There was no port, so they had
2:33:40
to ship it on land 1st. And then, yeah, I shipped it to
2:33:44
Baltimore. And we went on vacation to
2:33:46
Florida for spring break last this year, earlier this year.
2:33:49
And we got off the plane and Alicia was like, do you hear
2:33:51
about that bridge in Baltimore? And I was like, what?
2:33:53
And she's like, people were talking about this, like bridge
2:33:55
collapse, like a boat hit it. And I looked it up and I'm like,
2:33:57
that's where my car's going. To get.
2:34:00
Yeah, yeah. I was like.
2:34:01
That's where I'm shipping my car to.
2:34:03
And they were saying, like, this port's going to be shut down for
2:34:05
who knows how long, and my car was just about to leave Japan.
2:34:08
I was like, no, no, no, no. Like I don't want to be trapped.
2:34:11
There. And I was gonna have like, which
2:34:15
is really insensitive to like a disaster happen.
2:34:17
Oh, you gotta do what she goes. Oh.
2:34:18
Her like I didn't, I was like, Oh well, also like I'm sorry
2:34:20
that this happened, right? But you see a cargo ship with a
2:34:23
bridge laying on a bunch of containers and like that could
2:34:25
be my car. Did did Alicia know about the
2:34:27
car already at this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was not
2:34:29
she not. Her going, not her going.
2:34:31
Like she really gonna like this? Like, are you really gonna
2:34:34
wanna? She didn't connect that it was
2:34:36
the same port. She's kind of this was like,
2:34:39
why? This one so much.
2:34:41
Like by this point, we've been married 15 years.
2:34:42
So she was when I was like, I want to like, part out my car
2:34:45
and import a Wendy. She's like, yeah, go ahead.
2:34:46
Like do whatever you want to do. She knows that you're.
2:34:49
She's like, I don't, we don't need to have these conversations
2:34:50
anymore. Like whatever.
2:34:52
I don't, I still don't think you're going to be happy, but
2:34:53
like also do whatever you want. And it's like, OK, I'm just
2:34:57
going to. Just like you got to the final
2:34:58
level. It was like, I know at this
2:34:59
point that you're not doing stupid.
2:35:01
You're not like, we're not going to lose our house.
2:35:03
You, you know, she hasn't worked in seven years because our
2:35:07
youngest, when we had our third kid, she stopped working.
2:35:09
So I was just kind of like, don't worry about it.
2:35:11
So I got a hold of Tweed. I was like, hey, can you
2:35:13
actually ship it to Galveston? Because we originally were going
2:35:16
to do that so Jimmy and I could drive it home.
2:35:19
We were going to tow it with his truck.
2:35:21
You guys, like we always talked about importing 180.
2:35:23
For years, we'd make these spreadsheets of how much we
2:35:25
could get for our cars and be like, I want to import.
2:35:28
I want a real 180. I'm going to part out my car.
2:35:30
And that's what we do at work. We just make spreadsheets.
2:35:33
Not dude. And keeps your Excel
2:35:34
productivity up this. Guy's she pulled up.
2:35:38
They're like, oh he's working. Yeah, that was a we were like.
2:35:41
But then they're looking over like, whoa, cost, expense.
2:35:47
What are you doing? What?
2:35:48
Are you doing in Excel anyway? Whoa, whoa.
2:35:50
Get a door mirror. Yeah, what?
2:35:52
Dude, we were like. But stuff shot up so much that
2:35:55
it was finally like, I could do it and like I could, I could
2:35:58
make enough money to do it. So I got a hold of tweet and.
2:36:02
But at the last moment, Jimmy has two kids now.
2:36:05
So he was like, dude, I can't like be gone for a week to haul
2:36:07
a car up with you. Like have this, bro road trip.
2:36:10
And I was like, gay, right? That's not going to happen.
2:36:12
So I was going to have Derek King haul it from Baltimore.
2:36:15
And it was a lot of money. Like, probably not.
2:36:17
It's probably reasonable. I don't ship cars.
2:36:18
But I was like, well, that's a lot of money.
2:36:20
But I guess, you know, I, I, what else am I going to do?
2:36:22
I can't go get it. We can't leave the house for
2:36:24
that long. And so then I was like, I'm
2:36:26
going to switch it to Galveston. Like, will you go get it for me?
2:36:28
And then I'll figure it out from there.
2:36:30
And he's like, yeah, I don't care when it comes into port,
2:36:32
I'll go get it. So I switched it and then we
2:36:35
waited whatever and then Jimmy went and got it for me when it
2:36:38
came in in June and stashed it at his house for me for a couple
2:36:43
weeks and IA bunch of people were like, why don't you just
2:36:46
drive it home? I said that.
2:36:48
Yeah, a bunch of people were like, just drive it.
2:36:51
And I was like, dude, I'm too old to be driving an S13 that.
2:36:54
Far. It's coming like.
2:36:56
It's coming off the boat like I don't know anything about.
2:36:59
No, it's. I don't know if it runs.
2:37:01
I mean, I've told it runs. I don't want to risk it because
2:37:04
I think a brake on that drive. This is the most reliable
2:37:06
vehicle. No way I've ever.
2:37:08
Driven in my life the. Most reliable, reliable vehicles
2:37:10
back there. Silver behind the 1st.
2:37:12
Silver. The most reliable vehicle is
2:37:15
just Chevy right here. No, that's right. 3500.
2:37:18
No. White Lightning.
2:37:20
White, but then I got like quotes to ship it from there
2:37:22
because that's way farther than Baltimore.
2:37:24
I'm glad you have to drive it. I'm glad.
2:37:26
So it was like, it was like 3 grand to ship it and I was like,
2:37:32
guess we're going to run it. I think I'm.
2:37:33
Going to start to. Start shipping.
2:37:35
Cars out, Yeah, with that thing. It's a lot of money.
2:37:40
So I got Liam to fly down with me and because he's like, we
2:37:46
don't get to hang out that much. He's in Toronto.
2:37:47
Oh, yeah. And I don't leave the US.
2:37:50
It's the greatest country in the world.
2:37:53
I just like to make that. Damn right.
2:37:55
Because of where I live, that's like the mentality here.
2:37:57
So I like to lean into that a little bit.
2:37:59
But he's like, yeah, I'll go like I'm gonna, he's like, I'll
2:38:01
quit my job and go or whatever. And it's like what?
2:38:05
But he was like at a point in life where he was like, I'm I'm
2:38:09
ready for an adventure, like let's go.
2:38:11
So like, I booked our plane tickets and he like drove over
2:38:14
the border to the US and we flew down to Houston back in June and
2:38:18
he's like, we'll just run it home.
2:38:19
Like we'll just drive it home together.
2:38:21
And it was probably fine. It was pretty much fine.
2:38:24
There was something the tires were dry rotted and I knew that
2:38:26
ahead. So I bought tires, sent them to
2:38:28
Jimmy's house. We got those changed out.
2:38:30
We did plugs, we did oil change, looked over.
2:38:33
Everything seemed pretty good. I was running all right.
2:38:35
Went and got gas in it down from Jimmy's house.
2:38:37
Me, Jimmy and Liam all drove in it and then, and then.
2:38:40
This is Jimmy, Jimmy. Yeah.
2:38:43
He's pretty tall. He isn't a fan.
2:38:45
You're not exactly that short. Yeah.
2:38:48
How big is this, Liam? Character.
2:38:49
He's pretty big too, actually. Weird though.
2:38:51
Yeah. So it's been funny and then I'm
2:38:54
driving. I've never driven.
2:38:56
I drove his R34 once and Shawno on the street.
2:38:59
But I'm like, I'm hitting the wipers and like, I don't.
2:39:01
And they're like, you're they're gonna crash into the median
2:39:03
because you're so far away. And I was like, are you serious?
2:39:06
And they're like, yeah, you're way over.
2:39:07
Like you need to move over. But we went and got gas And then
2:39:10
they're like floor it. Like when we're leaving, they're
2:39:11
like, dude, floor it. And I'm like I am.
2:39:13
And they were like. This thing is way too slow.
2:39:16
And I was like, well, it's stock Sr. it's auto and they're like
2:39:19
no, no, something's wrong. Like it's not.
2:39:21
This is not working. Not when you want to hear.
2:39:24
Yeah, I'm like, well, like it's still like idle's great.
2:39:27
It's not smoking sounds good. It's fine, whatever and Kev
2:39:33
showed up Cokie Kev from Houston as well.
2:39:37
He was like, I don't think it's making any boosts and I was
2:39:41
like, I don't know. So Jimmy's like let's go get a
2:39:43
boost gauge from like AutoZone, like the like auto meter ones or
2:39:46
whatever, and he's like, oh, screw it, I'll just Amazon it.
2:39:48
It'll come tomorrow from Houston.
2:39:50
So you like Amazon just like glow shift boost gauge.
2:39:53
And then we just like screwed around the rest of the night and
2:39:55
didn't do anything and hung out and ate pizza.
2:39:57
That's. Right, I watched them.
2:39:58
This sounds see this sounds more my speed.
2:40:02
It was fine and then the boost gauge came, then they took it
2:40:05
out. I didn't even go drive.
2:40:06
I was really nervous, like I was in a different mental state than
2:40:10
them because I was like, I. Have I just done?
2:40:12
Yeah, how am I gonna get home like they're.
2:40:14
Just like fucking around. Or they're, they're I gotta be
2:40:16
home by Monday to like go to work and like help with my kids.
2:40:19
You were. You were being roped into that
2:40:21
drifting mentality. Real.
2:40:22
Quick and they were like, whatever.
2:40:23
So they went out and drove it. They wired up the boost gauge
2:40:26
with a Milwaukee drill battery so they didn't have to tap into
2:40:29
the wiring, electrical or painter, saved it to the dash
2:40:32
and went out and they came back and you're like, Yep, no boost.
2:40:34
Like the turbo seized up. We think the turbo seized up.
2:40:36
And I was like, I didn't even know that could happen and like,
2:40:39
RIP it apart. So Liam and Kev did like all the
2:40:41
work. I was just like, so you guys
2:40:42
actually. Took it apart.
2:40:43
Yeah, I was just a nervous wreck.
2:40:44
So then they were like, all right, 'cause it's stock, so it
2:40:47
has like the air box, the EGR, like all this crap in your way
2:40:50
that's normally not there. So we had to unbolt all this
2:40:52
stuff. They did it.
2:40:53
I didn't even. And they like grabbed the turbo
2:40:56
and they're like, yeah, it won't spin.
2:40:58
It's literally seized. The compressor wheels just
2:41:00
seized, so like all right, so. Everybody.
2:41:03
Easiest car to figure out. Boom, done.
2:41:05
So everybody gets on Instagram, like, SOS, like we need AT25 in
2:41:09
Houston, like now. And we found one from this dude
2:41:13
Raul, that, like, had actually been hanging out with us the
2:41:15
night before, 'cause he, like, bought parts from Jimmy and then
2:41:18
ended up just staying the whole night and, like, drinking with
2:41:20
them. We're hanging out.
2:41:21
Yeah. So he's like, oh, I got one.
2:41:23
It was in my trunk last night. And I was like.
2:41:26
Are you serious? And he's like, yeah, dude, it's
2:41:27
all yours. So Liam and I had to go get it
2:41:29
because he was like, oh, I'm at a birthday party today for like,
2:41:32
my nephew or something. So we had to drive like almost
2:41:34
an hour across Texas to go get it while Kev ripped the old one
2:41:37
out. Then we got home and then like,
2:41:40
we didn't have gaskets or anything.
2:41:42
They were like, whatever, stop it.
2:41:43
Just like slapping them in there.
2:41:44
And I was like, oh, no. And then like, we almost had it
2:41:48
back together and Jimmy's like, hey, check that box up there.
2:41:50
I think there's like one part we needed like an O-ring or
2:41:54
something for the turbo lines. All the turbo gaskets are in
2:41:57
there. But we already.
2:41:58
Bolted the whole he's like, oh, I forgot about that.
2:41:59
I was like, dude, we could have because now I'm like, I'm going
2:42:02
to have to do it again as soon as I get home so the gaskets are
2:42:05
fried. Did you do it?
2:42:06
No, I haven't fixed it. I've just been driving it out
2:42:09
yet. I'm going to drive it to final
2:42:10
about tomorrow like that that. Whole little adventure was the
2:42:14
best. It was so fun though.
2:42:15
That sounds totally. And you know what?
2:42:19
For the past like 30-40 minutes, you've been like, I don't do
2:42:22
that anymore because I'm old. I.
2:42:23
Don't do that more because I'm old and.
2:42:25
So you got to do it again. And so that makes me happy
2:42:28
because I'm like. Yeah.
2:42:30
Yeah, some fun doing that. The boys and my best friends and
2:42:33
they did all this work to help me and they were all stoked
2:42:35
because they know I've wanted 181 of the cookie 180 and like,
2:42:40
you got it. Like it's here.
2:42:41
They were all like, you know, they always roast me all the
2:42:44
time for like everything, especially Jimmy.
2:42:46
And he's like, no, it's a pretty nice car.
2:42:47
And I was like, oh, that means a lot.
2:42:49
Yeah. Usually because he called me
2:42:50
when he picked it up from port and I thought, he's going to be
2:42:52
like, this thing's all Bondo. It's trash.
2:42:54
Yeah, you know. And he's like, no, it's pretty
2:42:56
nice. And I was like, OK.
2:42:58
Feeling. That's also growth.
2:43:00
That's some friendship growth right there.
2:43:01
He probably knew. Yeah, hopefully was like, yeah,
2:43:04
let me not actually give Damon a fucking.
2:43:06
Heart might be giving him. A lot of you might be giving
2:43:09
them too much credit. No, I'm just kidding.
2:43:11
So you're driving this thing. Found out.
2:43:14
Yes and now I just drive it to work all the time and I haven't.
2:43:17
I kept all the parts from my hatch that were like I kept my T
2:43:21
ES and my LMGT fours, my miracle bar got like 4 bridge seats in
2:43:25
the basement. I have the full suspension to
2:43:28
like all the Nismo arms bushings.
2:43:31
I have all that stuff, but I haven't.
2:43:34
I was like, let me just enjoy this car as a car.
2:43:36
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
2:43:39
That's. How I know that's you?
2:43:40
That's how I know I'm old too. That stuff would have been.
2:43:42
I would have ripped this thing apart the day I got home.
2:43:44
I know, but what now? It's just going to happen again.
2:43:47
I was. Just I know that's why I'm at
2:43:51
this weird spot because I was like these nobody's rolled these
2:43:55
quarters. Like when you dry it, you're
2:43:57
like. When I've ordered.
2:43:59
It Yeah. The paint still has like the OEM
2:44:03
me type of peel. It's not I've been.
2:44:05
Wondering, I've been worried about that like 'cause my other
2:44:07
car didn't have that and I'm like was this thing resprayed?
2:44:09
No, that's or is. This is very OEM like.
2:44:13
That makes me feel better 'cause I've been worried like.
2:44:14
If it's super glassy, that means somebody worked on it, you know
2:44:18
what I mean? Yeah, true.
2:44:19
Then why is this so clean like this?
2:44:22
Like now it's sussing. Me out, yeah.
2:44:23
I need somebody that knows what they're doing to like.
2:44:25
If you get detail. It 'cause there's I want to know
2:44:28
where it's at, I. Forgot what the fuck the name is
2:44:30
called. I think it's called like a
2:44:31
spectrometer or something like that.
2:44:32
But like, you put it to the paint and it'll tell you.
2:44:34
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, where consistencies are.
2:44:37
Yeah, I'm like way. I'm so bad at all that stuff.
2:44:40
No, I it looks it's pretty OEM and I want.
2:44:43
To take a look at this thing after we're done with this,
2:44:45
yeah. Yeah, it's nice though.
2:44:46
Like it it has coil over so it's still like a little bouncy, but
2:44:50
otherwise like the tires are so big that.
2:44:53
Like you're probably. And it's high off the ground so
2:44:55
I don't have to worry about hitting anything.
2:44:56
But I also am like, I gets a lot of attention, which surprises me
2:45:01
'cause I'm like, well, it's just a stock 180.
2:45:03
It's not cool. Yeah, it's not what I think is a
2:45:05
cool 180. But you don't see this driving
2:45:07
around in Michigan every day. This is so like, people are
2:45:09
excited about it. And I'm like, maybe I could
2:45:11
cause a lot of people like, you should leave it auto, you should
2:45:14
leave it stock. You should just.
2:45:15
And I'm like, well, I don't know, this isn't that fun like.
2:45:19
But The thing is, it's like but. It's nice, though it's hard to.
2:45:21
I know I've ruined a few of them now, so I know what's going to
2:45:24
happen. It doesn't.
2:45:24
I don't want that to happen too. Far.
2:45:26
You know what I mean? Like you can be in traffic and
2:45:30
the average person might be looking straight ahead.
2:45:33
Maybe somebody who's in the cars might be glued to their fucking
2:45:35
door like geeking like. Yeah, it's either geeking or
2:45:38
like nobody knows or nobody cares.
2:45:39
Did anyone call it a skyline yet?
2:45:41
I don't think so, no. The guy Chick-fil-A called it a
2:45:44
Trans Am last weekend. That's that's a compliment.
2:45:46
Cause Alicia and I went to the drive through and I was like all
2:45:48
excited 'cause she always like asks for extra stuff and she's
2:45:51
always like, oh, can you like do this special request?
2:45:54
But now I don't know and I'm like, now you have to do it
2:45:56
'cause you usually like lean over me.
2:45:58
And I'm like, tell them what you want, babe, you're at the window
2:46:01
now. But I like she had to open the
2:46:03
door 'cause I was so far away from the window, 'cause I'm not
2:46:05
used to that side. Like I can't get close to this
2:46:08
stuff on the passenger side now, 'cause I'm like, I'm afraid I'm
2:46:10
going to hit something. I can't.
2:46:12
It's. So you're driving this the final
2:46:14
bout. Is she coming with you or?
2:46:16
No, I'm going on my own solo. Yeah.
2:46:18
I haven't gone since 2019. That's when Liam and Jimmy and I
2:46:23
say that we flew too close to the sun.
2:46:24
Like what? That's our phrase.
2:46:26
Because we just like, I don't know, we just had like, too much
2:46:30
fun and like, all of our spouses came and saw us like in our
2:46:33
insane element. And.
2:46:35
And then like, I never. I haven't been to Shawno since
2:46:39
I've been in five years, so there's so many.
2:46:42
All those friends I made that we were talking about, it's like I
2:46:45
don't see anybody anymore. I think this final bout is going
2:46:47
to be a really good. One, it's going to be nuts dude
2:46:50
and I never drifted and I signed up for a club Fr event with my
2:46:57
old car once and I didn't end up driving.
2:47:01
You bailed on Yeah. OK, I just like lost the money.
2:47:04
I wonder if you'll ever find that bug.
2:47:06
But it's done now. Like that was my last that was
2:47:09
like 2016 or something. I.
2:47:12
Kind of remembered that, but. Yeah.
2:47:14
And Jimmy, Jimmy was in town for work and we were going to drive
2:47:17
my car up to USA and we ended up just taking a rental because I
2:47:20
didn't finish getting my Arrow on because when I switched from
2:47:22
hot road to OEM, I didn't finish getting it on.
2:47:25
And my exhaust wouldn't fit right.
2:47:26
And I was up till like 2:00 AM and I was like, something bad's
2:47:29
going to happen to my car. And I was like, I'm just not
2:47:31
going to drift. Yeah.
2:47:32
And that was the final. I was like, that was my last
2:47:35
chance. I feel like in my mind, I was
2:47:36
like, drifting is out now. I won't do it ever.
2:47:39
Drifting would be like a whole nother realm of problem.
2:47:42
I mean, listen to, yeah, listen to the problems I have with,
2:47:45
like, just a car that sits here. Imagine if I was, like, out
2:47:48
drifting. And I love it.
2:47:49
And I think it's really cool. And like, I like watching other
2:47:52
people destroy their cars. But I can't.
2:47:54
You're literally part of the drifting community and you don't
2:47:56
even drift. But I I would say, and I know a
2:47:59
lot of other people that we're both friends with would say you
2:48:01
are part of the community. So it's kind of cool.
2:48:03
I think so too. Yeah, we're going to finish this
2:48:06
up. Anyway, we got the do you?
2:48:07
Have a Do you want me to? No.
2:48:09
Do you have anything? I was going to say we could,
2:48:11
honestly. We got a lawn mower in.
2:48:13
The back. Three hours.
2:48:14
Yeah, almost 2 1/2 hours. Almost two hours.
2:48:16
It's a long type of bat. It's a lawn mower in the back.
2:48:19
No, I this has been one of the most free flowing podcasts just
2:48:24
because you had the most perfect timeline like laid it out for
2:48:31
us. We were actually able to.
2:48:34
Now I know your birthday is actually in December.
2:48:37
It kind of embarrasses me sometimes because like, I'll
2:48:40
know you're like, when was this like, oh, if it had this bumper,
2:48:43
it was November of 2010. And then somebody at work will
2:48:46
be like. No, no, no.
2:48:46
The one that got me, the one that got me dying was I picked
2:48:50
it up. It was Obama got elected that.
2:48:54
Day I was like, Oh yeah, fuck. The presidency, right, like you
2:48:57
got. Latina Day.
2:48:59
People at work will be like, oh, like somebody just had a baby
2:49:02
and they have kids. They'll be like, when did your
2:49:03
kids start crawling? And I'm like, I think it was,
2:49:07
well, I know it was when I was building the Evo.
2:49:09
It's like, it's like, really. Cringy.
2:49:11
It's so cringy. Exactly, that's the only way I
2:49:13
can remember. It's the only way I can remember
2:49:15
stuff. That's what I.
2:49:16
Was hoping you were not going to say.
2:49:17
No, that's a true. Part ahead.
2:49:19
I don't say that to them, but then I'm usually like, I don't
2:49:21
know. Dude, Damon, thank you so much.
2:49:24
Yeah, I know we're probably going to linger around here for
2:49:27
a little bit. Just because I want.
2:49:28
To see here but oh man dude, that was.
2:49:31
Never been on a real pod, I hope it wasn't too boring.
2:49:33
No, that was amazing. This is this is really good.
2:49:35
I was. So much I was.
2:49:38
Like, actually like here. Yeah, and.
2:49:39
There was another one of our morning podcasts, which we we
2:49:41
actually love doing the morning podcast.
2:49:43
It's a totally different vibe because usually it's called
2:49:45
after hours. I mean, it's literally after
2:49:47
work. So oh.
2:49:48
Yeah, I got the out of office on baby action out of office this
2:49:52
week, but. Yeah.
2:49:53
Thank you very much. Thank you.
2:49:54
Do you have any other messages that you want to but out there
2:49:58
or? I don't think.
2:49:59
Look out for when, when, when Damon starts to, you know what
2:50:02
I'm saying? The the final relapse.
2:50:04
Final form. I don't know, yeah, we'll see.
2:50:07
Like I mean I have my head like I had in my head like final bout
2:50:11
and then BBQ because I've been doing this will be the third
2:50:14
year I've been trying to do a BBQ like Broadfield and have
2:50:17
like kids here that have S chassis come over.
2:50:20
I. See it all the.
2:50:21
Time I put my address on the Internet.
2:50:23
Yeah. Nick.
2:50:24
Nick. Dimitri.
2:50:25
Comes. Here.
2:50:25
Yeah, I was just talking to him this morning.
2:50:27
Yeah, I was seeing him. Yeah, I'm going to see him that.
2:50:29
I'm so excited. I met him when he was like 16
2:50:31
yo. He invited me to his grad party.
2:50:33
You definitely got to do a BBQ he.
2:50:35
Has been driving and like I've followed him for a while.
2:50:39
He had a pig nose and white wheels and I was like.
2:50:41
Such a good driver dude. What is what is going on?
2:50:44
This dude just, yeah, got to ride with him last.
2:50:49
Year he's a great dude a crazy driver dude he's great crazy but
2:50:53
yeah that was going to be my like milestones was final bout
2:50:55
in the BBQ end of September and then I was going to like crunch
2:50:58
the quarters on this thing so see if it happens or not I think
2:51:03
so I might see it for sale I don't know I think tomorrow I'm.
2:51:06
Just waiting for you to buy your car back for me.
2:51:08
I hope, I think. This weekend, you're going to do
2:51:10
it again. Fired up or something because
2:51:12
that's what's, that's what happened to me two years ago,
2:51:14
three years ago whenever we went.
2:51:15
Yeah. I went with no car.
2:51:18
My car was down and then I'm hoping.
2:51:21
To leave with that feeling, yeah, Get it going a little.
2:51:23
Bit I hope he does. I'm tired of driving alone bro
2:51:26
I. Have it right now.
2:51:27
We've been getting work done, yeah.
2:51:29
I think he's just getting bullied.
2:51:30
To hell with it. It's working the whole Internet.
2:51:33
It doesn't always work. It's working, Yeah.
2:51:34
The bullying thing doesn't really work for me.
2:51:37
I like, I If that was having an effect on me, I would have sold
2:51:40
my car by now. It's not the bullying.
2:51:42
Yeah, yeah, it's more like it's been a long time.
2:51:45
Yeah. So it needs to.
2:51:47
I'm getting forward. Bro.
2:51:48
Yeah, I need my team. That'll be I believe in you.
2:51:52
I believe in you. We're going.
2:51:53
To be it'll happen. I'm excited, yeah.
2:51:56
I'm not going to put any deadlines, but I have a deadline
2:51:57
in my head, so BN. Sports, all of them.
2:52:00
So the car's so good all. Right, let's get the hell out of
2:52:03
here. We got to go to Chicago.
2:52:04
Appreciate it. Do we?
2:52:05
Yeah, we do. Like now.
2:52:07
Well, guys, this has been the round #1 of Final Bow podcasts.
2:52:12
If you enjoyed this one, make sure to let us know how you
2:52:15
actually, yeah, you're going to enjoy this one.
2:52:16
So yeah, thank you guys so much. Make sure you check out Henry on
2:52:19
Bronze on Instagram. And it's his name is Damon.
2:52:23
It's not Cameron. Cameron.
2:52:25
It's not Cameron. Holy.
2:52:27
Shit, great podcast bro. Bye, right when the last.
2:52:32
All right guys. Well, that concludes Damon
2:52:35
Young's video. We are recording this like how
2:52:40
many days after 7? Seven days, really.
2:52:44
God, we're recording this outro right now, seven days later.
2:52:46
So excuse me if I don't remember much of the conversation, but I,
2:52:51
I really did enjoy that conversation.
2:52:53
Damon, Thank you. Thanks again to Damon for
2:52:55
letting us do this in his garage with, as always, his whole
2:52:58
family was there and they are the sweetest people we've ever
2:53:01
met. So yeah, thanks and thanks to
2:53:04
his kids for not screaming or throwing anything at us while we
2:53:07
were recording the podcast because he gave, he warned us
2:53:10
that we would probably have kids running around and we got pretty
2:53:13
lucky. So yeah, just glad we were able
2:53:16
to do this on the way to final bout and can't wait to see him
2:53:19
again.