$100k Project Car | F_cking Cars Podcast Ep 14

What's the best thing you've seen this week? Oh, no

Hey in cars

Oh, yeah, probably this white Mustang behind me

The things really got you in

Well, you know

When you get a car in the shop and then you have a customer here you want to get

Kind of like look it over do an initial look over and get a list together of like this is what we see right now

you know before we start turning and

So I was kind of nervous about I was kind of putting it off until the last

Day as far as like looking at it because sometimes you see stuff you don't want to see so

Got it up in the air wife was cleaning it off and

Yeah, there's still red oxide primer on the bottom

Like you could clean off large majorities of it with like swacks and grease them over and like some rubbing compound and it would look

Like brand new it's pretty nuts

There's like a small hole in the bottom of the dryer passenger wheel opening at the way at the bottom in the back

That's kind of a notorious spot, but I mean like you've worked on mustangs those in the

Inner aprons where the apron parts overlap. There's usually like swelling and those are always rusted out

These are like cherry

Like everything that's all the bad spots where I know where to look on a Mustang

Those spots are all great. So it's it was like finally, you know

Yeah, and it's a six cylinder car so it needs another torque box put in it, but he's gonna put a hot small block in it

Yeah, I don't know. He's really into

High-revving small blocks like a naturally aspirated

Carburetted small block. So that's kind of the route. He's going he's more into the

Vintage racing like it's not necessarily gonna have like a vintage race car with leaf springs. It's gonna have a

Coil over, you know link system in the back, but it'll still be utilizing as much stock

Mustang stuff as we possibly can so I dig the vibe

We were just we're just kind of like going over the build and like what he's expecting out of it

What his vibe is actually, you know

What he's looking for because we kind of talked about putting it, you know getting a

Chassis for it potentially and he's like, I just don't want to go like that's not the car. I envision he's like I get it

That's the next step, but he's just not that's not the car. He wants in his in the end. He wants more of a

little closer to

Vintage race car kind of a feel that's cool as far as like

aesthetically

Not chopping with the car. He's like he still wants a Mustang in the end and if it's there's a problem

He's like and that's a Mustang problem. Okay. Well, I get it

So he's just trying to be like in the in the middle of it of all that territory

Which is the suspension that he was looking at was Street and Track, which is some pretty nice stuff and it was

We were looking at it and troubleshooting some potential problems, but they were they were all pretty minimal

He's asking me about home. What about what about moving this frame real a little bit or just cutting out a little piece of there

I'm like, that's like small potatoes for me, man. That's super small

Right. Yeah, it was good conversation and yeah, definitely looking forward to digging in that

We won't be able to dig into that until like

Hoping February probably merge somewhere in there

But we just got into the building so we can kind of get get our minds wrapped around it

If we have some time we can start disassembly and that's

That's cool. I kind of like the idea of you know keeping the veg car still kind of vintage. Obviously, it'll be

Better with having you know coils and stuff in the back, but still make you feel like you're driving an old car

Yeah, and I think that's yeah, you know, I think he wants it to feel like a

Like a road like a race car on the road like a vintage race car for the road

When we first started talking I'm like, well, yeah, everybody wants a fast car on the road

And then you know, what does that actually mean for you and what are you going to do with it?

Sometimes asking somebody what you're gonna do with the car seems like they're like, what do you mean?

Like what the fuck does that matter kind of a thing but

You know what I'm saying like they're like, well, what does it matter to you just build the car how I want it?

It's like well

There's things and decisions that you can make along the way that would make things better or worse or like help the vibe hurt the vibe

You know, yeah, and you want everybody to be on the same page. Oh

Yeah, for sure because I mean if the whole idea is to make the customer happy that I mean the car is

The car is the

Equation to make them happy so you just have to you know, it's it's a balance for sure

He's like I want you to have be

Yeah

He's like I want you to be proud of so proud of it

There were like you're like you would take it somewhere and say you did this

I'm like, well, that's what we do try and do with everything we do here

But it's awesome that you're coming from that standpoint as well. So right. Yes

Look forward to getting into that. I mean we next month

Yeah, next early next month, I'm gonna be digging into that that Chevy truck finally the 58 so

Also looking forward to doing that. Yeah

Yeah, fucking cars, you know

Roadster shop chassis right on that one

Yeah, yeah, all new. She was talking about my last name. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I mean, it's fun to just have

new stuff like

You're not dealing with rusty rusty rusty cars or I mean, I mean wrong. I think there's a place in the world where

Replacing the bottom half of a car could be kind of satisfying

But it's still just for you know, placing sheet metal that was there and trying to be as accurate as possible to what it's supposed to be and not like taking liberties

The liberties is where I like being

Well, I think this is a great chance this and for two things one I'm so glad I moved out of the rust belt

It's not good

Yeah, everything I work on it's just like oh, I guess got to crack this bleeder on this 25 year old brake caliper click and it just comes loose

You know what I mean? It's just wonderful, but uh

The best thing I have seen this week is I found what I've been jokingly called calling the Japanese version of me

There is this I don't know if I sent it to you. There's a guy that took an 86 Corolla body. That's like

Complete Swiss cheese destined for the junkyard and then he built a tube chassis

for a rotary on it and he's like basically just slipping what's

You know like the roof and like the door frames over and then a little bit of the quarter panels and then he made some like wild

Over fenders for the rear that likes

Kind of like on the on my tundra how the bed sides are like slash cut up and you don't have like the full body coming down

Well, he's got that cut into the back because the whole back was Swiss cheese on it often glued a picture on here

It's really it's hard to explain, but it is like

We might have seen is it just like it looks like some garage kids putting a wide body on a car. I might have seen it

I'm not sure

It's a the the channel is Ishikawa body. It's like a body shop in Japan

They have like seven seventy thousand subscribers. I guess it's like a van shop

They're like he said in the one video that he's a van builder, but I mean sure

It's not for everybody the channel because it's you know, mostly in Japanese. There was a part of it where he was must have

Recalled like talked into his phone and then recorded Google Translate and it was like reading in the AI voice in English

Yeah, and so like some of the words they'll be like it's a pipe chassis instead of like a tube chassis and stuff like that

so but

It's definitely not like a high quality entertainment watch, but for me as

Someone who loves taking something that's completely

like gone and bringing it back like something that's

You don't have to be held up by you know like that 67 you got the thing is so clean like

It's a it would be a shame to really like hack a car like that up like you want to kind of you know

Utilize some of that clean body

That's what I was just telling the customer like it's the nicest it's the nicest

Platform to cut up because nobody's gonna be like shouldn't have done that it was you know because it's a 67 coupes six cylinder car

Right

What I'm getting at though is like I like when

It's not so nice and like such a fancy model that there's

Like you're not held up by the stigma of the value of that car

It's just you just got free reign because it's a junkyard car

And I just I don't know I enjoyed that with like that fair lady Z I had it was an imported right-hand drive

Dotson and the value on those things was just going crazy, but it was so rotten. I could just do

Whatever I pleased with it and you know at least it had a life again

I'm be sweet to do

that that

That Corolla body that's on Alibaba. So it's such a like hat. That's like a hatchback, right? It's like a pretty yep

pretty fancy Mackie car like to

Mid-engine that car like by that body and just cut, you know, it's brand new

That's got my I just like cross my mind right now like man

That'd be like you're you're so far ahead. I'd be kind of quirky because it's that car

You know because it has a following so there'd be people that are like, what are you doing?

I sent you a picture. I don't know if you got your phone on silent, but I do

What a good podcaster

Not it's pretty nuts

But they there was a video

Where they had the car sitting at some show or whatever that they had some other vehicles at like a drift track or something and

There were there was like two or three guys and they were just grabbing the tube chassis in the back and picking the back of the car

Up and then they walked to the front and then they picked the whole front of the car up with like that the engine in it and everything like it's that

lightweight

It it's just I don't know

I like to see people having fun with stuff and sometimes when you have a completely rotten car

And it seems like from what I gathered from the video the car had some history

So like with somebody they knew that was a big drifter and you know, maybe it sat in the field or something like that

So they're almost like breathing life into kind of something that was formerly cool

No, you do that. That's pretty cool

That's a lot of work though. Oh, we go I always think about because fast Freddy they he did a

Corvair we put LS in a Corvair and but it's the second gen Corvair

It's like man, who would be cool to do a first gen Corvair and kind of

Do the same thing and have to in the same area mid Wisconsin have like two LS Corvairs

What different the different gents to you know, that'd be kind of cool, but man, it's just a lot of work

I want to admit it in something but

Building it's just gonna be a headache

Yeah

Usually to get it to handle, you know, if you're gonna build the chassis to get it to actually handle good, it's gonna be

Handful, I think

There was

Not that long ago on marketplace. I wonder if it sold somebody had a Porsche 9-Eleven

Targa body that like they put on top of like a blazer frame or something because it was rusty and

They were selling the body for like under $1,000

No title no title, but I don't know

Figure it out. Yeah, pretty much nowadays that seems I'm actually seeing people advertise for it

But if you open an LLC in Nevada and there isn't anything

Red flags on the VIN number you are not Nevada Montana

You can just register the vehicle in Montana and then you can get a permanent plate for really cheap and

Then you can register stuff without a title

You know and get a title for it that way if it's a certain age and there's no red flags

Like it was a stolen car or whatever you can go that route and re-register an older vehicle pretty easily

It seems like for whatever reason Montana's real lenient on it. So you can filter

a car through Michigan and get

Base what was it a salvage title

Removed from the from the title like the salvage part removed if you filter it through there's some way to do that through Michigan

But I know Wisconsin

It's easier now than it ever has been to get a cold car and get that it doesn't have a title and get a title for it

Like it used to be a pain in the ass almost impossible

And now it's actually possible as there's just a route you have to go. I mean, I'm sure there's less resources now since the there's like

Government cuts and shit now because everything seems to be slower than it ever has been but you're still a route to get to it, you know

You're not up shit Creek if you have a car that doesn't have a title. There's there's ways of doing it

It's not necessarily going to be a fun way if the patrol have to come and do an inspection on it because that's

Never wanted

Do you remember back in the day at the swap meets where there would be the the booths set up where they sold old car titles for collectors

Documents or documents. Yeah, document collectors. Well, they got raided at at Iola for that

There's somebody that got like they took everything confiscated everything. I thought that was all

And that might be specifically where I was talking about maybe not. Yeah, yeah, it was either I was in Wisconsin

It was either Iola or the spring Jefferson. I can't remember one or two

Yeah, I don't I don't know if I showed it to you, but I had a

25 five window coupe model T body when the last couple years I was living in Wisconsin

I traded a muzzle loader for it. Oh

It's true this guy I don't I found it on

I don't know if it was craigslist or marketplace

But we drove to this middle of nowhere town

I think it was somewhere near Medford

It wasn't that long of a drive

But the guy was living on his family's

like

I don't know what the word like a homestead

No running water

No electricity. It was like his grandparents built it in the early 1900s. No running water. No electricity

He had a solar panel to charge his phone

And then I think he had a solar panel water pump on as well to pump some water out every day

Like he charged the battery and then he would pump out a little water on the battery, but uh

What what is it? Why do you have a car?

Um and the 25 model T had been sitting next to in the woods there the body next to the creek

Like there was literally three feet from it where there was running water

And it was sitting in the ground and um, he said that the neighboring property

had a

uh

another parted out model T and then there was a

um

Like a complete one

When the people because I think his grandparents and then maybe some other family owned that neighboring one

And so they think that this was like a parts car like because back in the day

If you had a couple of model T's and then one breaks down then you just start robbing everything off of it

And I think what happened is they just kept robbing everything off of this and he had it listed for pretty cheap, but he wanted to

uh trade if possible

And um, we'll just say for the story

I traded him a muzzle loader because that seems like what you would trade a guy that lives in a uh

No water and power house probably looking for some food

But um

Yeah, so I had that five window coop body and I was doing a couple things with it. I didn't have a title for it

I wasn't totally sure how to do it. I wondered if

one of those uh

Document collectors would have something but I kind of just figured I'd have to go through

You know one of the state channels to get a title for an old car

You can find if you can find a

Document that's close to what you have especially for bodies. There's no numbers on them anywhere. You just like this is my car

Always gonna know

Yeah, I ended up, um

I was gonna drag it down here when we moved but I had so much other stuff

With more monetary value that and I didn't want to make two trips

So I sold it to a kid that I worked with to build with his son

It's probably just sitting in his yard like I'd sat in my yard as a yard ornament, but

You know after 80 years sitting next to a creek. It's not like it was gonna get worse. It wasn't the floors were gone, but like um

The firewall and the the aprons and the the bidors and everything were were salvageable. So it was

It was a salvageable rat ride. I wanted to do like a tall tee with it or something

I don't know

Yeah, I don't know

Marshes below with the rough pretty rough is still remaining tall. That's pretty rad

Yeah

The thing is this model tee stuff is just so like it's

It was flooded so much that there's you can buy a done model tee for 10 grand and change it to what you want

It's pretty nice

The one customer I had with the model a that's it's he's gotten it back last winter. So um

He bought here. He built a model tee with his dad before that and he's like

I've lost my he's like I thought I could build it and at least get my money back out of it. He's like

No

well

It's hard to do like if that was a business model everybody would be doing it, you know

Like there's so many tv shows that everybody would have caught on, you know

Yeah, I don't know how many model teabodies were made, but they seem to be plentiful

All

I think people stop building them just because they're not like monetary wise. They're just not worth anything. Also, they're very tiny

I know one guy that's making

Uh from look across that's his name. He bought my camper

Well, while you're thinking I just looked it up and apparently there were 15 million model tees made

ah

That's a lot

That's a lot, but that's like

But that's from that's those are all a model tee. Like they make model tees for 10 years or something

Uh from 1908 to 1927. So basically 20 years

Very

So that's a lot of different fringes use of them, but yeah, that's a lot

Yeah, only 4.8 million model 8s, obviously that's spanning all like the touring models and the ones that people don't want

Yeah, but um

I mean you gotta think though twice as many model tees as model a's

so

They're not going to be as valuable

They're old and they're cool, but

I can't remember that guy's that that guy's name and it's

He usually listens. So it's gonna be he's gonna be like, hey, what the fuck man?

But i'm bad with names. So sorry, dude

But anyways

Yeah, I don't know

Good story talking cars. I think i'm gonna carve out between

I'm doing it. I'm committing myself between new christmas and new years. I'm working on my car

That's beautiful. Call me out on it if I don't do it, right?

All right

The podcast after christmas that we're going to say quintin. How's your car coming?

We're going live

Fuck it. We're going live

Actually kind of want to figure out uh, if I can without bogging our internet down try to livestream this

While we're recording because I think we'd get a lot but we'd get a lot more traffic if we were doing that

Yeah, I also just realized that I can put my

Computer on my backstow like anvil stand thing and it I could actually like right now. We wheel it around

You know what I'm saying some show and go

So yeah, there's some I think that'd be cool to do something like that as far as like even uh

Like could do a little bit of like what are you doing here?

You know, let's move over to the car kind of a thing. Yeah, I don't know

We'll see all in time right man

I think this is episode 13. So um, oh

That being said we we've I think we've outlasted the majority of podcasts

That's true

there's probably like

10 million of them that get to

10 episodes and that's it. Yeah, there's there's yeah, there's millions and millions of podcasts, but most don't make it

Um more than I think it's like more than five and then a really small percentage make it past 10 episodes

And we're talking hour and a half episodes. So or hour plus on ours most of them. So we're doing all right

Not that that was exciting to hear about

Three wheeling or anything with your truck this last week

I don't know if I can three wheel it. It seems like my leaps might be tight enough that um, they're acting because leapsprings act like a rear sway bar

Um

So it seems like they might be tight enough that they don't let the rear articulate enough to let me pick one up with the

Travel I have I'm thinking you gotta put some weight in the back get to a parking lot and just turn and go

Yeah, I think if I um, I don't want to do it in my cul-de-sac

But I think

In like an open cul-de-sac and I could just crank on it and then like keep pushing it up and pushing it up and pushing it up

I could probably get it off the ground

But I've tried like just in a in like um

Like going to the end of a road with a big median and then doing like the u-turn

around um, and seeing if I would but it would rather uh, just spin tires than pick the pick it up

so

It is interesting with the front end even as high as I have it now

It seems like me. I can just break the tires loose like so easy

interesting

I don't know much power

My torque curve is really weird because I can break the tires loose

But then it's like it they'll spin but it doesn't give me like a lot of rpm in the burnout

Sure

So it's like a lackluster

To go kind of where you might have like a sweet spot with your your gearing with your tires and gearing you should yeah

um

Not that I really want to burn 250 piece tires up

All the facts. Yeah, you know, but it's fun for a little while

I think um

I've been working on my

One year of videos of building the truck and putting it together as like one super edit

Um

I've been working on that all week

Um, I've been working on it since last sunday

And I am up to

Five minutes. Uh, I got about six hours editing in and I have about five minutes of video

You're gonna tell me an hour

No, no, no, no, because I want so I'm gonna do some uh extended ones. I've had build videos like uh

Like vlog style

Um as I've been going like, you know, I did like the engine build and I did this

Like an engine tear down video an engine build video. I haven't done like the suspension video

specifically because I wanted to have

You have to have a beginning and an end. Otherwise, it's it's hard to watch otherwise

You're just watching a guy wrench on or weld or whatever. So um,

Maybe that's what youtube is pretty sure that's me. That's all of what it is

You're just being hard on yourself

I'm always hard on myself, but uh, it's uh

To get people to want to watch the series. I'm doing a like a super cut where I'm just doing like a really punchy

This is what my build is. This is what it cost me. This is the end result

You know starting with the blown up truck last november. So literally one year ago

um

to

My wife making the mistake of telling me to build the truck to

Where we're at now and uh, I got the price list exactly what I spent, you know what I mean

Full regret mode

So then people if they liked it, you know, if they come in they watch, you know

A six seven minute video and they get to see this truck go from

start to begin and

You know, it's just a lot of clips. It's not um

Really focused on the build just to give you an understanding. I get that. Um

Then if they like that then there's gonna be a lot more but i'm gonna do some long

videos on like the suspension specifically

And you know things like that obviously already did pretty much everything up to that on the channel. So

um

I what I guess what I was trying to get at is I'm planning to go throw the sticky mount

On the truck and do some more

driving

Uh, there's kind of a back

Uh area in the neighborhood where there's a really wide median that I think goes down and up a bunch

And I'm thinking about just ripping median with the with the action camera on the windshield pointing at the you know

Driving I don't really have a chase vehicle

Somebody record me, you know, like driving next to me while I'm off-road

But um, I'll get I have somebody to do it just not

Right now. They're busy. They're busy this weekend, but um, I'm gonna go get a couple more action shots and pretty much wrap this thing up

So

It's fun driving it. Um, I I sent you that suspension traveling video where

I was driving it and I hit off-road and I felt like

Oh, it's not really cycling that much and then I looked at the video and it was you know going I probably had

Wasn't going crazy off-road, but I probably had six inches of travel throughout the just that little patch

And it was like, oh, it did not feel like that. So

Um, it's definitely working

So that's a bonus

Now if you were to take a stock vehicle over what you did, it would have been like lumber wagon, dude

Yeah, unfortunately with the leafs in the back. It's still

Kind of stiff and the truck's really light in the back. I'm gonna move my

Battery I'm gonna build an aluminum battery box put that in the bed. I'm gonna build a or I want to

Do some other stuff in the bed like I talked before about building a

Storage at the back behind the rear axle under the spare tire and then I got to build the tailgate the tube tailgate that holds the spare tire

I think it's like

actual like

Real world weight

Like, you know, the the right weight over the rear wheels

Even to where you're probably not going to be able to haul much

That's going to be when it's going to ride the best, you know

Yeah, that's why they always hang the spare tire kind of off over the back bumper because

They want as much weight in the back to can to keep the truck level through the, you know, when it's working

Because that's hard, you know, the the rear ends so light compared to the front. I think mine's

My truck's got about a thousand pounds more in the front almost in the back

Is that made engines things?

Um, what they do is they just sink the engine so far into the firewall

So basically their whole engine

Mounted to a plate that's behind the suspension the front suspension. So you're sitting next to it almost

It's like being in a cab over van or something

Or yeah, they kind of almost have it like a van where the the engine's like between you

We're like that too

But like, um, each one of them is over kind of like that too

Yeah

Anyway

So I just got uh

The other side of the Mustang I got the bottom of the wheel wells all done bottom of the quarter panel

The rear valence the rear bumper bolts got them aced and shaved off

I'll say get done

Why don't you show us how anvil stand works and turn towards the Mustang?

Oh

There it is

I don't want to move everything it's gonna be like trying to balance it. No, no that was fine

So you're getting more and more well done

Yeah

My uh, I have like different welding masks and helmets and stuff that I'm trying to not overly wreck my neck on so it's

It's been a lot of figuring out like what my neck can handle welding stretching my neck back out

But it's getting a lot a lot a lot better, which I'm thankful for I can definitely see where people can work all day and all night

I could probably pull that off but I have to do a lot of stretching

Before and afterwards just uh, pull it on because you know, I'm getting old gonna be 40

or zero

It's almost time to give up

you know

singing we're having a party at the shop and then I

last weekend I'm like

Fuck that. I don't really don't want to have a party, you know this weekend. I'm like

Kind of want to have a party

Wow

I always envisioned maybe having like a band here or something like that, but that seems like way too much sticking around

I don't know you just turn turn the music on it seems a lot easier

Yeah

I don't know you only get one time. That's a pretty big one

Then I'm 50 and 60 that's all like

40s the I don't know it doesn't seem like

It was like when I was growing up 40s like oh my god, it's over

I don't know. I look at kids now and I'm

like when I say kids I'm saying like

18 year old 21 year olds and and I'm like

Man, I feel like I'm not that far away from that, but I am

It's crazy

I actually noticed that um

A lot of those the guys that I talked to in their 20s

Sometimes they struggle because they look and like we'll talk to each other

And we like talk to each other on the same level and they feel like we should be pretty close

And then they have these struggles

They have these struggles because they'll be like

Yeah, and it's like hey listen, I've got literally over a decade more than you do right now. It's like yeah for sure

Yeah, I've had the same experience with a couple guys that are you know in the early 20s

And it's you almost saying the exact same things

like

I need to do this this and this we're saying the same thing and like you said 20 years difference and it's like

Calm down kid. It's they're not kids. They're adults. So it's hard to say that, you know

yeah, I always try to like

Build up the teams that I work in wherever I work and like sometimes I'll have people over and the one time

I had a couple over and they were 21 and 20 right and they come walking in the house and they're like, oh my gosh

You like you got a nice house and stuff and like they think you know, they it's hard because he looks

You know, we talk to each other like buddies. We work at the same place

We're doing kind of the same job and then he walks in the house and it's not that I have a crazy house, but um

You know, it's way better house than I had when I was 20

And they'll be like and I look and I went, you know, you work hard and in 10 years

You could probably buy a house like this too. Like it's literally the timeline I was on

But no, I've had a same experience with a

Buddy of mine. He's I said something about uh, you know

Going back to my house for lunch or something and something about uh, I said, it was just a

Whole whole freshy

nice

Nice

Are you saying something about having a house or buying a house and them being too expensive right now?

I'm like, I agree. I think they're too expensive

I'm like, I'm just lucky I bought my house when I did because it was you know

A lot more affordable than when houses are now by about half

He's like, well, at least you have a house and this and that it's like, well

I didn't when I was 20

Am I like 21 to 25? I didn't think that was even obtainable

Right

You know looking at houses was like very intimidating

Like and you're gonna sign your life away and it's but it was under a hundred grand

You know, just losing your brain over something that's under a hundred grand and now it's

Now you're now you're like a hundred grand. That's what is that?

And so yeah

Not that anybody's making a lot of money. It's just

That doesn't seem to mean as much as they used to

There's people making money and there's new buildings getting put up all the time

I mean, there's a lot of money to be had. It's just a matter of

finding the avenue to get

For some of these the younger generation there

I've had it where they want to they walk into a place

A business and they're like, well

You guys have all this and you know, they're like

It's almost the same thing as the house

But they feel like they should be farther in in business and all this stuff. It's in professionalism. It's like a lot of this is learned

The idea of like stepping back far enough to keep the longevity going of a business model

Whether it's in cars or anything like you got to zoom out a long ways

I mean, if you're zoomed in too far, you're you're gonna lose track of what's what's going on. I think

And that's very broad as far as what we're talking about but

I think a lot of it is like this generation that's brought up on

Automatic validation with their cell phone

I've had I've had a person in a collision shop

before I started here and

she wanted to

It was like buffing a hood and it was just uh

It was just paint correction stuff

But the first thing she wanted to do is put a tape piece of tape down

So she can buff one side and then do a video of peeling it first thing first fucking thing

Don't even touch the buffer yet and she's putting a piece of fucking tape down, you know, it's like

Well, you're not even here to learn. You just want to make a video and look cool. Like I don't think it's gonna work

Staying people on the internet making videos. They're the worst

Yeah, exactly

I

It's so true though. I mean it is it's like anybody you and that's the hard part about trying to do something

Uh, you know and put put your name on it on social media and in in any matter

I mean there's people on that your uh suspension video. We're knocking you about your freaking ball joint. I'm like

You know how close ball joints are to tires on fucking stock cars

You ever looking on and see how close your strut is to your tire?

You guys are idiots. Like that's a normal thing

Yeah, I literally have more wheel offset now than stock

And that's a stock spindle and hub. So I'm literally

Not any closer than factory

Stupid so it's hard to put yourself out there or not like you have to expect idiots. It's to be expected

So that's the hard part

Hey, okay, so uh, let's let's go down that avenue. So people want to make a video and they want instant gratification

We are literally

Five minutes ago. We're talking about how I'm taking a year of building a truck and filming footage and making a five minute video

right, right, right, right

Yeah, so to make a good five minutes. I have 12 months

Yeah

And I I mean I

There's uh, I love the editing part of it if I could like if there's I could see in another world of just sitting and editing

I I can see it

but it gets like

I just to get like in sitting in front of a computer. I just I can't I like see starting to see black after a couple hours

even when I was trying to uh

When I was managing a shop and stuff like that is just sitting in front of a period

Like oh my god, I just got to go out in the shop and like

Swing a hammer at something for a little bit. I don't know. I think it's just the technician in me

You know, it's not uh, it's I don't think it's anything other than that

Just like I being the technician being beaten into you from other shops, you know, yeah

Get something done. You're not doing anything. Yeah, physical production feels more uh, validating. I think then, you know

Um, I don't think we were meant to I don't think we were put on this earth to just

I mean for one be behind a screen and to work your ass off all day

We weren't I mean we were supposed to like hunt gather food and eat and then sit on your ass for nine hours

That's that's what we were supposed to do. That's what they've been doing for the last

2,200,000 years probably

Yeah, I

Agree I like so I have kind of made

The the thing I tell everybody like that wants to get into making videos and I encourage everybody is I tell them like

film what you're already gonna do

and then what I do is because I

I sure it's the dad in me, but I don't want to be a consumer consuming consuming consuming consuming swiping swiping swiping

It's so easy to get stuck into that. So what I do is I take the time

I'm doing things and then I film in whatever way is basically the easiest for me

obviously that's

stepped up and up and up along the over the years of making 2000 something videos, but um

I try to film in a way that isn't interrupting too much of what I'm doing

Um, we all take a second step back and look at what we're doing. That's just normally is a time for me to move the camera

While we're working on something and then I use my downtime like when I got to come in because it's Florida

I'll come inside and I'll sit on the couch and cool off for a little bit. I'll use that time to edit videos

and so I feel

Like I'm still being productive when I'm like sitting down and cool enough because I

I think I'm lazy like if I'm sitting around so like if I can use that time to at least produce something

I feel you know better about it because

My my crazy and me is I have to create not no

I don't mean create like be a creator and social media. I just mean in general. I need to be

Making something. I need to be fixing something. I need to be producing like that's my job

As that's what the testosterone in me needs to to be converted into into creation. So

Um, that's what that so I I use my my downtime to edit

And so like if I have more downtime or it's crappier outside or I'm just too tired to work on something

I'll edit even more and so like I'm just trying to

Convert energy into some sort of output not just endless consumption

I get that

Yeah, I get that

Yeah

So is there like a

if you had

a

Let's say you had a hundred you had a hundred grand somebody was like you need a

I would say thank you

No, you get you you either get to buy you either get to buy multiple cars or one car

And what is it? What is it slash? What are they?

100 grand

To buy a car now. No, I can't I can only spend this on the purchase of vehicles

Well, let's just for the for the sake of well, would you rather it be a done a done vehicle or a project?

Let's start there

It would end up being a project

You think so

I maybe not like a severe project

I think I would go like

Not a race car, but almost a race car

Like that's somebody that's something that somebody's already kind of put together probably

If I had a hundred grand and I could buy an actual trophy truck, maybe that's what I would do

I just saw one actually there wasn't it wasn't that expensive and there was one

Because in wisconsin, there's a lot of trucks. It wasn't that far away from here

It was definitely not road legal. I'm sure you could probably like wire, you know, like make it road legal as far as like

Nobody's gonna fuck with you, but it was like 55 or something

It wasn't bad. Like as I honestly looked at it multiple times. I'm like

That looks really fun. Like and to be able to

Get into something for 55 grand and not necessarily be like

Right into the competition, but be able to actually go around the track at Crandon. Holy shit. That would be fucking fun

like

55 grand to launch it like and you can launch it

Like it was that truck, you know, that'd be sweet

Yeah, but I don't know. I don't think I would I would definitely be buying something. Uh,

That was a corvette

I don't think I would buy if I had a hundred. I don't think I'd buy it. It would have to be there. It would have to be, uh

I

Don't even know. I don't think it would be uh, I mean

It would definitely be something corkier than that

Oh, yeah, let's you know, if it's like I have the money and it's going to be

You know, I

I think uh, like a like a race car or somebody already put together that you could modify for the street

potentially

Something like that if I had

basically

I would go and get to that internet breaking car that we talked about and I would sink

95 grand in it

Yeah

I could see that

The problem is with some of the time it's just you gotta have the time to

I mean, you can buy 50 grand in parts and it's still nothing

Like you can you can have 80 grand and it's still just parts on a shelf

It's not a car. So

That's the hard part. I mean, it'd be cool to if you're gonna build something like, uh

Roadster shot build or they have a

Not that I'm in love with panterras, but they have a chassis for a pantera

So you could fuck with a pantera a little bit. That would be, you know, mid-engine that'd be pretty neat

um

You could have something to scan

That'd be pretty cool

Just have something really quirky scanned and have a chassis made for that

So I guess maybe a hundred. No, I would still buy something done. I'd still buy something done for sure

Yep

Even though it's that mid-engine

Factory five car. I don't know if you've ever seen that

I'm gonna send you a picture. It's really good. They're pretty sweet

They look there was one for sale in

I think it was like Milwaukee and they wanted like 55 grand and had an LS in it. It was really really cool

I don't think I've looked at factory five stuff in 10 years

The other reason I

I mean, I've had a customer that had a factory five

Car that came so I was contacting factory five as far as like body fitment stuff and

Yeah, I mean

They're

They were helpful on the phone, but they were the problems I was having were

It was pretty hilarious. So it was

um

We're having problems as far as like getting the body to fit up on the stroke on the chassis far enough and

like the customer kind of threw it together

And had me kind of he's like the body's ready for the body's ready for body work and it was not finished mounted and

It was just like a lot a lot a lot

And we were it was just a lot of body fitment issues

As far as like I think it should be one thing, but it's a kick car and you kind of have to

It's when they call it a kick car and you're you're going into it thinking it's a regular car body. It's not it's like it's very

Kit car ish

So you're just everybody's making their own

Way, you know getting things to fit their own way everybody's having their own

There's people that just like buff the body and leave them raw and there's like that the bodies are rough

The seams are fricking like there are some that seams were like an inch tall where the yeah

And you ground some of the seams you ground down and you were through

Because they there weren't enough in the backing like where they connected them. It's it was a fucking nightmare

You know, I wasn't exactly a huge fan of factory five stuff, but I get it the prices there

I mean if a guy were to make it out of aluminum, it'd be another 60 grand

They don't too much for those kids and when you look at what they get for an aluminum body cobra

It's a significant jump

Well, aluminum versus fiberglass there is a significant jump

That's where it's the fitment and the fit and finish

of

Of them. I mean, it's it's hard for I would suspect it's pretty hard for a business to sell a car

Have a following for it, but they don't necessarily finish them themselves

Right you almost have to offer

Offered finished ones also that's where I was just kind of really blown away that like

Well, this is this they're telling me this is how you do it. This is how you do it

And this is how other shops do it

But they've never done it themselves like

not

I mean, well, so they're like, well, well, yeah, I have done it myself in my garage. I'm like, okay

So what did you do?

Well, I had to do this and I had to do that like so everybody's got a different story and everybody's cars fit differently

like

Is it because they all the bodies come from South Africa and like they're just building these two chassis and throwing them underneath of them

Like I just don't

I don't get it

it was um

Like the chat the body sits the top of the body

sits on

a piece of flats

I think it's flat flat stock steel. It's got an arch in it with like

a

Fun noodle not a fun noodle, but it looks like that cut down the center with you know

Just like foam down it and the body just sits on that. There's no attachment points in the top

So the top of the body is just held by

the windshield posts

Not moving it and the roll bar posts not moving sideways side to side in front to back

Like from the top of the body point that everything just

That's how I expect it to be done

Yeah, it's like there's no real like this is how it looks like or this is how it is finished

It's like no, it just all floats and hopefully it all lines up when you take it down the road. It's like

I don't know how you can expect the doors to shut properly every time and you know, it's just very very cheesy

I mean, I don't want to speak bad on the company, but maybe uh

Maybe that's a fiberglass body thing, you know

Yeah

Well, I mean every

Imagine if you had a steel body that you didn't mount properly

How's the doors going to shut every time if the aprons can move and you know what I mean

The unicide wasn't connected to something sturdy imagine

but uh

Yeah, that's wild

You know florida's the wildest part

The wildest part about those cars is there's no

There is zero steel structured

from a side impact

Yeah, that's kind of scary

Like even even from where you're the the tube the tubes the main tubes that run down the chassis

Are right underneath of you. So if you were to get hit it's directly into you

Like there's no it's

If it's an actual hit you're getting it's going through the body and it's hitting you and the frame rail almost at the same time

It's pretty nuts

I can't imagine having anything that didn't have like reinforcement in the door and then at the rocker

Right

That's kind of scary

After after you know like digging around on one and and getting the body to fit we got to fit pretty decent

And then they got the roof. Um, they got a roof from

427 hardtops. It's like a removable hard top

And it makes the car looks ultra cocky

I've never seen a cobra that I I like we put the roof on it and set back and I'm like, dude, I want one

This is fucking cool. Um, but uh

There there's limitations to that to the the aftermarket. It's like aftermarket on aftermarket, you know

But the roof that we got from 427 hardtops was actually the nicest part of the whole vehicle

that was like the the gel coat was literally like

Not even a nib in it. It was sand it down put your put some

Surfacer down and just paint it like it's it was ready to go like fucking nice nice as it should be

Yeah, right, right, but it was

Well, he told me how much it was and it was it wasn't 20 grand, but it was over 10

Including

Including shipping. Yeah, but when you looked at it you look at the inside the inside had a it wasn't just one layer of fiberglass

It had an inside layer that had in like a

Interior spray like velvet interior sprayed on it. Um, it was the channel was there

It had all the latches the side windows the stainless the stainless and another

I think it was like mock stainless or I can't remember what it was for trimmer on the windows

there's like it was a whole kit it was

if you're going to get into

A roof on a factory five or a cobra

I would not the factory five came out with their own

that um

Their own removable roof on the mark five that they did but it removes the wind you have to take the windshield with it

So you're removing the windshield with the roof and then replacing and then putting a different windshield in it for

In verbal style, right?

Well, this roof retains the windshield that factory five has or your or your kit has you sometimes have to deal with the angle angle difference

um

But you're just removing the roof and man

It's ultra light

Like the only reason I can't lift it by myself is just because it's awkward

But like me and the wife lifting it off super duper easy

It's like two two latches a couple screws and you're like lifted it off. It's pretty awesome

Well, that's what I thought, you know, even uh, well, you know

We're talking about those cobra bodies and the guy that's building cobra bodies and he's trying to sell his business

If you did a roof

Did a cobra with a roof and then a reselled front and a rear end

Like it's a whole different car at that point, right? Like a whole part

Yeah, well, I mean

They took a austin haley and restyled it and then you had a cobra and that's a whole different car

You know what I mean originally

um

Yeah, that's pretty wild. What's your thoughts on the Daytona coupes the shelbies

I think they're pretty cool. I have a customer that has uh the guy with the national shop. Um

his girlfriend has uh

Some I don't know. So somebody that he knows has a factory five Daytona and I mean, it's kind of the same thing. They're

I think

Finding one that's done, you know, I think it would be beneficial

People think that they can buy this kit and they're gonna put it together themselves

And there's a guy in town here that wanted those doing a cobra and he wanted me to he thought he could

paint the body off of the chassis and then just put it on

I'm like

Do it's like a it's like

It's like a big flimsy piece of shit when you're having off the pie. It's like a big just

So I think it's gonna crack out. But anyways, um back to that Daytona. It was

They're cool cars, but they all need like

Think because they're all kit cars and everybody has their own way of putting them together and finishing them. There's all different

Fit there's all different fit and finishes out there. So

And everybody thinks that well, this this factory five was worth 55 grand. So mine should be worth that, right?

and it's like, uh

So, I mean, I even offer if if that customer I said what at one time

I'm like if they want if you want to sell that car like I would definitely be interested in a Daytona

That'd be really really cool, right

It's blue and white

It's like the quintessential blue and white and then on the back. It's got half blue half white

It's like it's cocky looking car with the right if you lowered it down with the right rims and tires

That would be like really really banging. Um, but

You know, he's like, well

It she thinks it's worth that and also like

It needs this and it needs that and I'm like, well, it doesn't sound like it's worth what you want. Like yeah, I was like, well

Yeah, I don't want

No, thanks, you know

I've um

I've always loved the proportions

and the slash cut back on them like that they just

But just so purpose built they're not like uh, they don't follow the rules really, you know what I mean

As far as aesthetics go, hey

I mean

I always there are I mean, they're really close to being

I don't think to me it's not exactly the lines like it needs like another three percent of tweaking

I think to make the proportions like perfect perfect in my eyes, but man, I would I would drive the hell out of it

Oh, yeah, and there's not a lot of Daytona's around so even to just have one drive around it's not like traffic

It looks it doesn't look like traffic

It looks like some what the fuck is coming down the road, you know

Yeah, they're almost like a jaguar e-type

uh

They're similar to that almost like the front end and the roof line

Yeah, there's like old Ferrari in it too. I can see, you know, there's a lot of stuff

Oh, I would drive it. I would love it

But I don't know if I want one for like

I don't know if a guy would like one for like I think 55 grand is it would have to be a nice

Nice nice version of them just because it's fiberglass and i'm a picky bitch as far as like fit and finish on a on a body

If i'm gonna be paying for something

I mean, that's probably me being

It's probably still cheap, you know, even if it it was decent if it's a

Legit drivetrain and stuff. I think 55 grand would probably be nice, but I don't know. It's me just being a cheap bitch, too

I mean if it drove decent and the doors closed

That'd be one thing

I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure

He drives it here from like I think 45 or 50 minutes away. So I mean he's like

He kind of complains well when he gets out though

Anybody that's used to like having

Automotive aesthetics gets into

Not a race car but kind of a race car. It's kind of a different driving experience, you know

It's gonna be hot in the summertime, you know complaining about it being hot in the summertime in a car like that's like

You should be wearing worse clothes. Yeah

Put some shorts on dude

Get the get the little vents down by your feet where you crack them open when you're going on the highway

Yeah blows the shorts up

It's not bad

You appreciate it

Yeah, I mean I would still entertain the idea of of uh, I still have a picture of it that I stare at once in a while

But I don't know the last time I talked he seems like it might it doesn't seem like it was the very obtainable, but

Yeah, you know

You never know well, you don't have your hundred grand a whip out right yet, so

No, I don't have it at all

Not at all if I if I did I'd be probably buying a property with the money, but what for down payment

Yeah, I don't

It's just a hypothetical Ethan get off my back

Come on, man. I'm holding you to this

Yeah, right

Oh, yeah

I don't know it'd be cool to buy a bunch of uh

Just buy like a couple vehicles that are done, you know that you don't have to worry about but seemingly a hundred grand doesn't buy anything

That's like ultra cool

and

nice

right like

Silver out was really not that nice anymore

I have not um

I've built a lot of stuff

I don't know that I've built anything that was ultra cool and nice for myself, but I've kind of come to realize over

20 years of grinding and cutting on stuff that uh

I don't

Like I like the option of driving stuff, but it seems like everything I build I just like

Rarely drive it. I just it to me. It's like all the the

The love is just put into working on stuff and staring at it

Now I mean I like to me I like the chase

You like the what?

Like the chase of finding find like even the old car stuff like trying to find uh, like when I say old car stuff

I'm talking like

50s and older like

Physically trying to find the right part if you're trying to stay somewhat traditional. That's like that's really fun sometimes

And swap meeting trying to find that one needle in a haystack part. It's pretty fun. It gets exhausting, but it's pretty fun

Yeah

I still like driving them more

I don't know. I like driving them. Um, I've realized

Now that I've got the truck together that

I am just not that aggressive of a driver like I

I'm so like I'll be like, all right. I'm gonna hit this really fast and I'll as soon as I'll like set the camera up

I'll hop in the truck. I'll hammer the gas and like right as I come up to it. I'm like break break break

turn

It's how you trophy truck man. You're not supposed to break before you're supposed to hit it. You're supposed to foot down

Yeah

um the exhaust

Definitely after um, so I put headers on it when I put the motor in it just some stainless

shorties and then um

It doesn't have cats because they clogged up and um florida doesn't test for anything

and then um

When I got rid of the majority of the exhaust and put the flow master on there, it is a lot snappier on the bottom end

Nice, so that's cool. Take the wind there, but um

my kid and I were I picked him up from

something the other day and um

We were hitting the train track and right as I was hitting it

He said something and so like right at the the apex of the train track

I slammed the gas and it it just made you feel a little light. You know what I mean?

It was pretty pretty fun. Got him excited

That does sound pretty fun

But I I haven't quite gotten myself to send it into the air, but baby steps plus

Baby steps kind of still testing everything. It's only got like

30 miles on the new suspension, so

Probably uh ease into it. Yeah, that's not a good idea. Not a bad idea

Yeah

It's being uh salt's flying in this uh area now and there's still people driving driving fucking I've seen the course

I've seen a c8 convertible friday driving around salt. I mean there's piles of salt on corner intersections

I've seen uh, oh yesterday we seen a 60

It was a small back window, so I had to be like a 67 c 10

Four wheel drive long bed fully restored

Fucking awesome paint driving around in the salt

Old couple driving it. I'm like they're living their best life. They don't give a fuck

That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I mean it is what it is, you know, you can complain about it all day long

But it's like it's their money. Shut the fuck up

Yeah, I mean, uh, isn't it about having fun anyways

Yeah, I mean when I've seen it was like an elder like an older couple. I'm like, ah, I'm not even like

Maybe like at first I pull up and I look over at my wife. I'm like, what the fuck is this?

What are they doing? I look at the older couple. I'm like

Ah, they're just really asked. Yeah

If it was some kid I would be like you dumb prick

I uh did a friend's

square body like a garage restoration of my friends and uh

It was his dad's truck. It was a 78 and we just did everything factory. He even wanted like single stage

Which I try to talk him out of but he wanted everything done

He didn't want it super perfect. He wanted like a factory truck

He wanted like his dad's truck when his dad got because his dad got like a year old or something like that

So we did that and then I ended up having to deliver it in the salt, which I hated but you know it

He pretty much

He picked it up drove and then there was a car wash like literally on his block

So he did the whole undercarriage wash and then put it in the garage. So

That's the worst. That's like literally worse than

I think that's the worst

You're driving it in salt and then you're getting it wet and pushing the salt into every crevice

Like it's the fucking worst

Yeah

Like that's the worst

But anyway, thankfully this friend of mine is one of those lunatics that like takes waste oil and sprays it in all the door

The door dams and stuff. So it it's good and oiled down. I'm sure of it, but

When I was uh coming out of high school and working in shops, there was up in medford. There was a guy that had

67 to 72 style truck

And it was like not it wasn't like restored or anything

But it was all original and very solid

But it would drip he took he had like a spray gun with oil in it and he would just

Spray them but like it dripped oil everywhere like literally out of every panel inside of everything was dripping oil from everything

I can't imagine working on the thing. It had to been just like layers and layers of grease

But underneath it's all fresh and good. So

Yeah, I had to do cab corners on this truck and I can tell you that there was a lot of

Before I could weld anything just like cleaning everything out a lot of brake cleaner and wax and grease remover just to weld new panels on

Yeah, that's I mean

Especially with some of these trucks where some of the body shops have

Done repairs before that's usually the worst

Yeah, there was a shop in town that their idea of fixing your wheel well rust was

cutting it out

So

Putting rust proofing on

And then getting a big enough flare to just put over the top and then leave it rust proofed and open

Because that's not gonna do it. It's not gonna get worse then

Oh

Yeah, cutting the whole box side loose is a fucking good idea. Yeah, they don't they don't need to be uh stuck together at that wheel arch

Yeah, you cut the rusty box side

Apart and then it lasts longer

Right, come on guys

They would glue everything too

They wanted me to glue rockers and cab corners. Like you're flanging the edge gluing and riveting counter sinking rivets

Yeah, dude

It's like a whole like trying to wrap your mind around what other shops want you to do sometimes is like

What you can see why the industry is where it is

Yeah, like you want you're you're just trying to get this thing down the road like I understand you're

You're just trying to glue this car together and you think it's going to last longer

Because it's not you're not creating corrosion problem with welding

well

When rust gets behind it and starts pushing it loose it pops the whole fucking thing off

I know personally know of a guy that glued rocker panels on his truck

At one point shut the door and the rocker panel fell on the ground

So their solution after that was put rivets in it so it doesn't do that like so it all breaks loose and still like

It's not the answer. Come on

I worked at a body shop where the the top flat rate body tech bed sides

He would tack weld four corners and the rest is just well bonded

There's a guy in there's a guy. I know that would paint them before gluing them on

That's a that's honestly a sadly a common practice

That's insane things and then gluing them on

That's nuts to me

That's wild just to think about

yep

Absolutely nuts

Hmm. This is really taking a turn

Well, that's uh, there's a there's a large push for

um

I can't remember what insurance company just pushed for it

but for oe standards because the insurance companies are pushing

Their standards as far as like well 3m says their glue can do this and 3m says

It's stronger than uh, weld and this and that so they're going to buy these aftermarket guidelines

Of repairing it. Well the eagle collision

lawsuit in texas

Has brought forth all these issues as far as

What is the repair responsible for if a roof comes off of a car?

from a repair

Who's responsible for it? Is it the shop that did it or is it the insurance company that delegated the repair?

Well, it's honestly on the shop. So now

Now your shops are putting their foot down saying we need to do all these oe

Repairs as far as if there's a procedure

We need to be following it because if something happens the liability gets pushed to them not you not us. It's them

so there's a large large push for that and it needs to happen but

All of the things that need to happen in the insurance the auto insurance industry

Are just going to further push the rates like it's just going to make things ultra ultimately more expensive

um, so it's just like

Pushing inflation farther than it needs to go to in my eyes. I mean

To a certain extent it's just in insurance companies being greedy

That's my personal opinion when they don't pay for a physical primer on an estimate. That's fucking bananas to me

Everybody let's the truth in sensual nonsense you go you it says repair on an estimate

That's that it says let's say it's a it's a dent like it's a whatever size dent and they say it's a five hour repair

Well, if you go and dig deep into what all of that means

And you're going to go into the what they call p-pages and like figure out what does a repair mean?

It means

It means put taking the dent out and getting it into filler work up to 100 grit

That's their definition. So it's not not feathering anything out. It's not priming it. It's not the cost of the primer

So there's so then we started introducing feather block and prime. So that's paying for all those actions

So now you're trying to educate

An industry that doesn't even know what the hell fixing the car looks like

You know, it's just it's

manning

Yeah, well insurance companies don't get

Don't aren't profitable if they're paying everything out. So they uh

Their business model generally is to not let's let's I the only pushback I have to that is every ceo wants

I I had a list on my desk of all the ceo's how much money they made more

than the year before

So when I have progressive calling me and telling me they can't afford to pay for primer and d-nib and finesse the the

And the clear coat on the on a job. They're telling me they can't afford it

I'm like, dude, your ceo just made 10 million more this year than he did last year

And because of things like this

So it's either you pay us this and your boss fights and now he's paying you

Your boss the boss ahead of that to all get your heads together and figure out why you're not paying us

And then ultimately say you're not gonna pay for it anyways

That ultimately is more expensive than you just paying us like just pay it. That's it. It's easy

I understand the body shops in the 80s and early 90s had it dicked and they just kind of fuck

That's the reason why the insurance company position the body shops are in the position they're in but

Boy, it's fucking bad

Like when even when uh, there was a body shop in in medford that had they had their shit together

They had the rates were right. Um, they were they actually got progressive out of the area because they were

They were giving basically saying they're not that they weren't paying for the things they need to pay for and they were pushing the

The cost of the customer and then it got so far down the line that progressive actually

Were almost phased out of the area

but when

that

Shop changed hands to the sun. It was like starting over with these insurance companies. So it's like

It's just fight after fight after fight with these people and it's it's fighting over things that are just

literally ridiculous like

Yep, like you don't need you don't need that good of a part like buying junkyard stuff from literally all over the country

We got to get off this insurance company deal

To me, they're just investment companies. That's not an insurance company. They don't insure shit

engage

rage

rant

engaged

Yeah, I can't stand it like there is a

But when you get into the morality of what they're doing and

What they're supposed to be doing and what they actually do is it's not it's I mean

In any insurance company doesn't seem like there's you can say one thing but it's you're gonna contract your way out of that and fuck around

anyways

It's a car good

What are you working on this week?

I think we're gonna go I gotta talk to customer

But I think we're gonna put some time in on the model. They get some of that rough welded together

I have a lot less well to do. I don't know

I don't know how many feet of welding last thing so I just have the roof seen across the back some spot welds

and then

Finish everything out then I can get moving on to the

You moved on to the bottom of the quarter panels the wheel openings

the flanges remade and

the body line in the back

The bottom of the quarter panels in the back but trunk where they meet the trunk and all that there. It's all fucked up

So I don't know. I wish they made just quarter panels for it. They would just buy quarter panels and put them on but

What are you gonna do?

Make some welded in

I think all I have planned is uh, I'm gonna go through and bleed my brakes again

I was messing with the proportioning valve and

There must have been some air

Built up in the rear brakes, but since I had it

Um, kind of closed off that it didn't didn't go through right away

So I was messing with my proportioning valve the one day and then all of a sudden brakes got real squishy

So, um, they work at the bottom of the pedal. They work great, but um, I think there's just got to be some air trapped in there

But when you're tear a lot of it apart, you kind of have to fight some air bubbles, especially if you're just bleeding manually

I might actually go borrow a vacuum setup and just suck it all out. But um

With my my car here, I um accidentally put the calipers on upside down. So that was pretty fun

So the bleeders are like, the brakes look like shit. No, you put them on upside down. Oh fucking ding ding

Yeah, that'll that'll do it. Um, yeah, I think I'm gonna do that and then I'm just gonna try to drive this thing and

Hopefully get some better action shots

I don't know. I gotta break it in

Get comfortable just pounding on it

You can do like have your wife go down just on the highway and shit and just like flat foot it next to her or stuff like that

I'd be pretty great. Pretty cool. Yeah, it's not super loud

for whatever reason that

that uh, 4.7 liter v8 is like pretty mellow, uh, mannered

but, um

It sounds good like it's throaty. It's healthy, but it's not like

It's not like a small black Chevy screaming loud. You know what I mean?

So even when I had it straight pipe

Uh, when I when I was doing the exhaust you have to any time you're doing exhaust on your own vehicle

You always have to start it up straight pipe and hear it

Or as like I like to call it the no masters

starting it up with a no masters on it, but uh

It's just really not that loud it was a kind of funny when I switched the engine out

I went from the log style stock manifolds to the

You know, they're not equal length, but I put headers on it and it is the the amount of noise at the

From from the exhaust or like at the engine is so much quieter now because it's just smooth

It's like the exhaust balls aren't fighting each other

So there's less like turbulence in the in the header and so it's just it's smoother and quieter

But uh, yeah, I want to do some like yeah driving

I told my friend we would put the suction mount on the side of his truck

And he can just chase me down the road and I'll just

The area we live in has a lot of like uh

four-wheeler and side-by-side trails right in the neighborhood

So you can be driving on the road and and there's like a sand trail right next to it kind of like

You know not at all like california or the desert ones where they're driving on the highway and the guy's hitting like all the

Whoops right next to it, but uh, you know, we have a milder

softer sand version of that and then

I want to do some of those and yeah like where the camera's on the back of the vehicle and then my truck

You know like I throttle up and then pass them and stuff like that

Now the fun starts instead of just

Yeah, the the action camera I bought I bought specifically for being able to do rollers because you can uh

It's handy

You can take the screen in the back and flip it up so I could have this hanging down six on a

on a

Uh like stick six inches off the road and I can flip the screen up to however I want so I can see

What I'm filming what's happening. Oh, that's you know, whereas like a gopro. It's just on the back or on the front

So I got that for this and then um

I

Want to do a bunch of shots like that

You know, right, you know, I've been in the lat for the year last year

I've been in like the trudge mode of just like trucking along building the truck and getting it to a place and now

It's like people pull up and they're like

Whoa, you have a trophy truck in your driveway. I'm like not really but it's pretty sweet

And then any time

Yeah, anytime I like have the hood flipped open and it's like the big flip front end and it's tipped forward

everybody always gets a kick out of that but

What it needs to really set it off is a

Roll cage in a v12. I think

I think you need a roll cage. What the hell are you gonna do the roll cage?

That's like worst-case scenario. Just it's different the chassis up

Yeah, I guess

That's really what it's about. It's not so much about um, I'm gonna roll my vehicle over. It's more so because I mean

realistically that a truck cab is

Designed to take a roll over

Slightly, you know, but um

More than like a sixth muscle car, you know, definitely. Oh, yeah

so, um

Basically, I want to do the engine cage because I want to get rid of the aprons because they just severely limit my my

suspension movement where you know, the wheels can tuck

um

So I want to do get rid of the aprons do an engine cage and mount the core support probably do a bigger radiator

Well, I won't have a radiator up there if I do a v12, but um, I want to do that just for suspension clearance and then

You just cage it at the cab and everything just to stiffen the chassis up because it the tundra

Doesn't have a box chassis the whole way through so there is

Some wiggle to it if you're really pounding the hell out of it, but um

In time in time that's phase two

Or I don't think there's any truck

If you're going through some from some whoopee shit and you look in the mirror that your cab isn't flexing

To your box, you know, I mean shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah

so

baby steps, I don't know if I'm gonna

Just drive mine and then start really going ham on my kid's truck or

I don't know. I I sent out some spoilers to a couple to an importer for a for an engine

We'll see where that

I sent a follow-up email on friday. We'll we'll see. I'll have to call them at some point, but uh

We'll get there. So maybe I'll go heavy on my kid's truck. I just enjoy mine

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