Carlos Perez AKA AllMotorCRX - EP.151

Hey, and welcome back to the next episode of the Right Hand Drive Guys podcast, the podcast

for guys who like right hand drives.

I'm Bobby.

This is Aaron.

Hey, yo.

And here we are back yet again with episode 151.

And we are back on our guest thing, I guess, as you could say, we're pulling them back

through.

And this week, we have a guy, you know, he definitely caught my attention.

He posted, somehow, I come across this one reel of this guy.

And it's like this garage full of yellow type Rs.

What?

Like literally one whole side of a garage, two levels, like they're on these SkyDollies

or whatever.

I don't know what you call them, but, you know, and it's all yellow type Rs, like

EK9, DC2, whatever, you know.

And then we think we saw like a what, like a field side NSX.

Maybe.

Because it was tucked in the top back corner.

I'm just like, what is that?

S2000, Supra, R33, like all these things.

So he has all of them.

Yeah.

That caught my attention.

And I was like, all right, like let's chat with this dude and see what's up with him.

So this guy's name is Carlos Perez.

He is from Florida.

And he goes by the name All Motor CRX on Instagram.

So check him out right now so then you know who we're talking about, why we're

talking about him and talking with him.

Heck yeah.

All of it.

All of that.

So yeah, let's just get into it with him.

He's ready to go.

Episode 151 with Carlos Perez.

All right.

And we're back with Carlos.

What's up, man?

Hey, what's going on guys?

How's everybody doing today?

Pretty good, man.

We appreciate you coming on for sure.

You know, like when we were talking about before, you know, I saw that garage.

I'm sure anybody watching on YouTube is seeing it right now.

And I was like, dude, we have got to talk to this guy.

He has it going on.

Yeah, man.

Definitely.

This is my main case.

I actually spent more time inside here than I do in my own house, believe it or not.

I can't blame you, dude.

Yeah.

Tons of beautiful women in there.

Yeah.

My wife is definitely jealous.

I'll tell you that.

Carlos, man.

So this is good because Aaron and I don't know a ton about you.

So I love when we have people on that we don't know a ton about because we really get to actually

learn about them for the first time through the podcast.

Yeah, for sure, man.

Yeah.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, man.

Where are you from?

What got you into cars in the first place, anyways?

Well, my home right now is Florida.

I wasn't always born here.

I originally come from Cuba.

So that's part of my life journey coming from a different country here.

And right now I live in Florida and pretty much been here since, pretty much my whole

life since 1998, kind of pretty much came here when I was about 11 years old.

Definitely new for me, different language barrier, different world than what I'm used

to.

Came here with my family.

And then we pretty much been here and floated on my whole life, man.

So my grandparents in Cuba and my dad, they're always been into cars.

Me, I didn't get into cars to be honest with you, like later into my life.

It was just not a luxury for me to get into cars at the time.

It was just more about just getting through life, figuring out what I'm going to do,

work, pay bills and whatnot.

And then cars just kind of came along the way and they just pretty much stayed, you

know?

So definitely super, super humble and proud to say all the cars that I have now compared

to where I originally come from.

So yeah, that is pretty cool.

That's one of those stories, right?

You know, like coming over from Cuba looking for a better life, you know, dealing

with the struggle and then, damn, dude, you found the better life, I would say, huh?

Yeah, for sure.

You know, it's funny because like, you know, like now that you see this, you know,

everybody's first impression is, oh my God, this dude must be filthy rich or something.

You know, obviously everybody's life starts at a different scenario.

You know, like I told you, I came to this country, we pretty much nothing

but the clothes that I was wearing on my back, you know, to living, sharing

a room with three siblings to like pretty much having nothing, you know?

So you kind of learn to appreciate the process while you're living through life,

you know? Yeah, I could see that.

For sure, man, it was definitely I was not born with this, you know?

I did not get born into filthy rich parents, you know?

This was just one grain of salt at a time

until, you know, everything kind of came together, you know?

So yeah, that's sweet.

And I mean, yeah, it seems like, you know, let's just say coming from

let's just say where you came from, it always seems like guys like you

like appreciate it much more, you know, which is obvious, right?

The dude that did have, let's just say family money, had a trust fund,

you know, bought a bunch of amazing cars like you have.

He maybe doesn't appreciate the process it took to get those like you do.

Yeah, no, man, for sure.

Like I said, you know, coming here, it was just we pretty much came with nothing,

you know? So growing up, I didn't really have a regular American

life's childhood, you know, while kids were going to the beach or playing

at the park, I was cleaning offices with my parents or delivering newspapers.

So, you know, like I always pretty much had

I wouldn't say I had like a regular kid life growing up.

It's just I just started working very young, bro.

Like, you know, my my mentality behind my lifestyle and my life goals

and my motivation and everything really comes from, you know,

my parents coming to this country and kind of

explaining to us like, hey, this is the opportunity that we gave you.

Don't waste it, you know?

So for us, it was always, you know, everything that was 13 years old.

I was delivering newspaper, cutting the labor's long for five

graph or five dollars or washing a car.

Like I always had like that mentality of, yo, like.

I want to do my own thing sooner or later, you know?

So and then growing up and having very odd jobs

and struggling through, you know, very, very odd jobs like

ballet parking and like cutting grass and, you know, stuff like that.

It kind of like

more, more, more, more, more you into like wanting a better life growing up, you know?

So and obviously, what's the better place to do that in America?

You know, I mean, literally this this country gives you all the tools

to be who you want to be.

It's just up to you to take advantage of it, you know?

So true. Oh, yeah.

Cool, man.

So I see the cars right behind you.

You obviously have some Hondas GTR.

What what exactly do you have in your collection?

Bro, like over the years, obviously, this is not something that happened

from one day to the other one.

This is just being, you know, one car now, another car later

and working deals, taking trains and somehow like here.

Here's the thing about like doing car as car as a business

and being a car guy.

It's like they say, don't get high on your own supply, you know?

But it's just very it feels very difficult because sometimes you end up

with so many of these cars that we're not supposed to stay here from the beginning.

And then they found their forever home here now, you know?

So it's like you get them eventually down the line to be a flip car

or sell them or whatever.

And then, you know, being a car guy, it's like, damn, like this car is too good.

I never going to find this car again.

I can't let it go.

So you kind of like, OK, you can stay here for now

with the hopes of leaving later, but never leaving, you know?

I mean, you know, and that's how all these cars.

But I think right now, bro, like over the years,

I think I have probably around 35 to 40 cars, man.

You know, and it's a combination of mostly my mostly

mostly the collection is most Hondas because I'm a Honda guy.

You know, obviously my what I I race Hondas.

I learn cars doing Hondas.

Hondas is pretty much been my my hard

in that school into cars, you know?

Actually, my first car was a 1990 Honda Corp.

Your typical grandpa burgundy with the burgundy interior.

You know, it's funny because when I first got that car,

you know, like I said, I started working very young.

So I started saving a little bit of money plus, you know, my dad said, OK,

you have a little bit of safe when the time comes for you to get

your driver's license around 50 years old, your permit or whatever.

I'll help you find a car.

And I remember back then what really hooked me into cars

man, I went to go look at a Honda Civic and EG hatchback at the time.

You know, it was going to be my first car.

And I went with my dad.

I didn't know how to drive sticks here, but nothing like that.

And at the time, now granted, this is like I'm ready back

with like days and stuff like that.

But I probably have to get some around

maybe all 506 give or take, right?

So I go grab my my my my first car

and we go look at a Honda Civic.

And this thing was an H 22 swap Honda.

Now granted, back then I didn't even know what the hell a single

can was. I didn't know what oil change.

Like I was the most heartless guy you can possibly think of.

You know, I always been a nerd my whole life playing video games

every now and then and stuff like that, but not into cars.

So my dad gets into this Honda Civic with an H 22 swap

and he takes it down the street and he rips it and it's like,

there's no freaking way in hell I'm buying you this as your first car.

So I got so upset because, man, I wanted a Honda Civic so bad,

you know, I cried, I plead him and nope.

And then I ended up with an automatic Honda Corp, 1990.

But granted, I was in love with that car, man.

It was, you know, your four door sedan, CB seven.

You know, at the time square, obviously, yeah, I'm speaking lingo now

because I know this now, you know, back then I was just a Honda Corp.

So I get into this car and it was automatic and stuff like that.

And then, you know, I not granted, I was not into cars at all.

I just wanted a car, you know, and somehow I ended up with this car

that used to be a trade in or whatever.

And ever since that day, I just love Hondas, man.

Hondas has always been, I think I really fell in love with Hondas

because at this time they were affordable.

That's why everybody used to get into Honda for sure.

It was the cheapest cheapest thing on the market

that you can buy in a tuner car world, you know, back then at least

now Hondas are definitely not cheap anymore.

I don't care what nobody says.

I can tell you, you know, I collect them.

So they definitely now you're typical, oh, you got a Honda,

you're you want the cheapest car now, you know, so.

But I definitely, yeah, I got into that.

So I pretty much got my first car back then.

And then ever since it's just, you know, my neighbors

across the street from me, they they use pretty much the ones

that got me into like the racing scene of Hondas, you know,

those guys used to have the GSRs with the got it out cars.

And, you know, racing every weekend type of stuff.

And then, you know, when you kind of grow around that that that scene,

it just you kind of get attached to it, you know, and you play

with what you can afford, you know, obviously, I would have loved

to have an R33 or R34 back then, but I was way out of my budget.

You know, so I ended up with with Hondas, so.

So start start listening some off for us.

What do you got back there, dude? Come on, bro.

I have two NSXs.

I have a Bilsai NSX.

He's already spotted that.

Is that the one in the top right?

Yeah. Yeah. That's the one in the top right there.

That's like one of, you know, it's funny.

That's my most hated car that my friends don't like, you know,

for me, because, you know, like this is the thing about people

that like Honda guys, at least these days, you know, back then

with things was different. A lot of Honda guys these days,

they're just like more simple stuff, you know,

the OEM plus bills, they're like period, period, correct.

Even though that car is period correct, because that car was

actually built by Bilsai for the SEMA show back in 2006.

You know, so it's got some history to it that they don't

understand, but I do because my car, I own it, you know.

So, but every time they see it's like, oh, my God,

his body kids are right.

Yes, it looks so ugly.

Like, you know, and yeah, and yeah, that's a Bilsai NSX.

I also have another NSX, which is your regular Honda guy

that they would prefer, you know, OEM plus with the T37s and whatnot.

So I got two NSXs.

I have two MK4 Supras, once a 96 and once a 2000, you know,

different years as one versus as two.

They're both RXPs, you know, like usually in my collection

that I own for me, I always like getting the cars

that I'm going to hold their value down the line as well

because it's also an investment, you know.

So you get to live your dream while you collect the cars,

but then also think about what people are going to want down the line.

And RSV Supras is like one of the Supras most wanted colors

that the Supra guys like, you know.

So, Hondas, bro, I literally have like 20 Hondas.

I have like 10 Integra type R, literally.

But it's crazy because, you know, I have so many of them,

but like once again, like, you know, like if you knew more

about the cars, you kind of will understand a little bit more.

Even though I have 10, a lot of them are different.

You have a JDM version of one.

You have the USDM version.

You have the Euro version.

You got the one that's a Mugenbill, the one that's a Spoon.

So even though they may all seem like, oh, my God,

this guy got all the yellow cars that look alike, you know,

once you get into the indepths of what every car is,

they're all a little bit different, you know, in the sense of like.

So for me as the collector that I'm now, you know,

that's kind of what I want.

I want to have a little bit of everything

with different versions of the same variations, you know.

So EG6 is the SIR.

I have about four of them.

I'm working on getting number five right now.

So I pretty much have like almost every color that, you know,

white, black, blue, yellow and then red is on the way.

So I got two GTRs.

So surprisingly, even though I have two GTRs,

I'm an R33 person, man.

That's like my favorite chassis.

I could have had an R34 if I really, really, really wanted one.

It's like, you know, but for me, I just love the 33 man, you know,

it's like that's like my dream R33.

You know, that's why I have the white one in the background.

And then I have the midnight purple

on the other car lift over there, you know.

So and then a little bit of everything.

I have a C7 Corbecio 6.

That's like my baby.

I feel it's crazy because I've been a Honda guy

and a car guy and stuff like that.

That's probably will be the last car that I'll ever get rid of.

And it sounds crazy.

It's just a C7 CO6, you know.

But to me, that car has so much emotional value

over everything else that's in here

that if I ever had to get rid of all my cars, that would probably be the last one.

Even though I'm a Honda guy and I love GDM and stuff like that.

But it's just so much the what that car means to me, you know,

over everything else in here.

So that's cool.

Yeah. And then we have two Honda Actis too, you know.

We just saw you raffle them in those.

Yeah, I had three, so I had needed to get rid of one, you know.

As you can see, man, when when when so many of these cars come along now,

it's just hard to pick and choose which one you're going to keep

and which one you're going to let go, you know.

And then you're I'm also limited with space.

You can see I can barely fit anything back here anymore.

So you fill that up, dude.

Yeah, I'm trying.

I'm trying to be innovative and look for ways

that I can start putting some of these cars in the air.

You know, I must put a bunch of listing here

because it's definitely hard to pick and choose the cars that you want,

you know, because to me, as a car guy, as a collector,

as a person that wants cars, they're all so great, you know.

And it's a very difficult choice to do to pick and choose

which car goes and which one comes.

But, you know, I try to build the collection

around a little bit of everything. I don't, you know.

Yeah. So speaking of trying to make some room,

whenever I was checking out your Instagram,

I was zooming in on the picks.

What exactly is the second level on?

Are those like skydollies?

Yeah. Are they like a jack stands?

Correct. Bro, it's so crazy

because I guess so many DMs on those things.

This is something that one of my friends kind of made out of

necessity for his own shop.

You know, he works on my it's one of my really, really good friends.

His name is Omar Crespo.

He runs Area 51 race cars.

I mean, maybe you guys might know,

and the guy has like tunes and those wiring

for some of the fastest cars in the world, you know.

So he has a very, very busy shop, you know.

He gets like cars brought up from all over the world

to do wiring and tuning.

And, you know, when you're in the business,

you don't turn down business, you know.

So you take cars in and then he kind of made this

innovation dollies to kind of put cars in the air.

And, you know, those pretty much exactly what it is.

They're just car dollies, you know.

He's working right now to get it like into a pattern

and then kind of start maybe offering to the public

after we already did, you know, some research

and development and stuff like that.

But yeah, they're pretty much car dollies, man.

And then he, you know, he doesn't really have some

for sale right now to the public,

but he's a really good friend of mine saying he understood

my pain of running out of room here.

So he's like, I'll give you a hand.

I'll build song for you for now.

And then that's what that is.

Damn.

That's really cool.

That is cool.

Yeah.

So, OK, what's your favorite car that you currently own?

My favorite, favorite, favorite car.

It's my C7 C06.

OK, it's very easy.

I know.

Yeah, JDM car.

OK, sorry.

Thank you. Yeah, yeah.

My favorite JDM car that I own will probably be

my 1991 original Carnival Yellow EG6 SIR.

And notice how I said 1991, when I say that,

I get into so many arguments over people

because everybody thinks that the EG is only 92 to 95.

But once you learn the history of the cars

and stuff like that, you will know that in Japan,

there were some special models that were introduced in 1991.

You know, so and then one of those rare models

is pretty much the unicorn of the Honda Civics,

at least the EG6 body style,

which is an original Carnival Yellow.

It's not our car that's been repainted.

It's a factory car, you know,

and it comes with this super, super rare yellow interior.

Like as a Honda, as a Honda collector,

this is what you want in your collection, you know.

So and that car was mostly offered in 1991.

So it's very, very few of them, at least the OG one, you know.

So that's probably my, my favorite.

Bro, no BS.

I've been hunting that car for at least 10 years.

Every person that currently owns one, they will not sell it.

And I have offered a stupid amount of money

for some of those, bro.

And they still won't sell that car, you know?

That's crazy.

You ended up coming across one.

Yep.

I finally got my hands in one and I,

it's crazy to tell you this,

but I think if somebody comes and offers me

half a million dollars right now, I would not let it go.

That's how much that car,

how rare that car is to me.

And you might be like, oh my God,

this guy is so crazy by doing that.

But man, this is a part that you ain't gonna find

nowhere else, you know?

So and being a collector right now, at least in my life

that I'm living right now,

I rather just hold on to it for the next 15, 20 years,

you know, and kind of enjoy it, share with my kids.

And then if I'm still alive by then,

if I decide to sell it, I'll sell it.

If not, then, you know,

I guess it'll be passed down along the family.

That's sweet.

Like the car guy's heirlooms, right?

Like he got a 91 EG6 SIR that you're passing down.

That's pretty legit.

I mean,

Yeah, that's definitely my most favorite price procession

right now.

It might not be the most expensive thing in here right now,

as far as like dollar amount, you know?

But for what the car is and what it represents

and what it means in my collection,

it's irreplaceable right now.

I can literally go and buy every single car

that you see behind me right now,

somewhere I can import it from Japan,

I can go to Europe and find one.

If I need to, I can find one here in the States,

but the EG6 SIR in carnival yellow.

Now, when I mean that, I mean all original.

This is what makes that car special.

You know, everybody can get a car

and rotisserie paint a yellow

and now you have a yellow EG6, you know?

But to have something been matched by been,

by title, by year,

by originality, matching interior,

that's what kind of makes the car the gem that it is,

you know?

And that's why I say it's irreplaceable.

It literally took me 10 years to find one, you know?

And I know people that have another one

and I literally offered two, three times more

than what the car is worth

and I just will not let it go, man.

It's just one of the cars that the Honda guys

and the people that know what the car is,

they just appreciate it for what it is, you know?

And that's what makes that beautiful, you know?

Mm-hmm, absolutely.

That's the saying that says that money can buy everything

but sometimes it cannot, you know?

So, I guess. That's true.

It depends to the person that has what you want, you know?

That's so true.

So, tell us about like, what's, is it asylum?

Elysium. Elysium motors.

What is Elysium motors?

What's up with the raffles?

Like, what's the deal?

Like, fill us in.

Elysium motors is pretty much,

I used to watch a lot of animates.

Like I said, I'm a nerd, bro.

You know, prior to car guys, I'm a big,

I collect video games too.

I have like literally every console you can think of

in your old school games and blah, blah, blah.

That I grew up over the years

and they used to be these cartoons

that I used to watch.

I should have tattooed them on my back.

It should be Tensea.

It's about like these warriors, you know, whatever.

It's a Japanese anime, right?

And a part of their battles used to be called

in the Elysium Fields.

Elysium Fields is kind of like a Greek mythology

for like where all the warriors die

and their souls get to rest in peace, stuff and stuff,

you know?

So that name always like kind of came along in my mind.

I just like the sound of it and it's different.

And you know, obviously the motors

comes from the whole car perspective of it.

And that's how Elysium Motors came aboard pretty much, you know?

It's not really no nothing specific,

just a cartoon that I like

and there was something that just catch my attention for

and that's a perfect, let me just name it, you know?

Why not?

And then the Carl Raffles, bro,

it's just something that I do as a side gig, you know?

I've been doing it for a while

and it kind of just started from nothing, you know?

I've been doing this for, I think, well,

five, six years plus now with the Carl Raffles.

I always didn't do cars, you know?

Cars kind of started coming along

where people started wanting cars, you know?

I used to do very small raffles for like car parts

and stuff like that.

Because, you know, part of my business, you know,

I come from a finance background.

That's what I pretty much got into

as far as like my career, if you want to say that,

to begin with, once I actually realized

what I wanted to do with my life and stuff like that.

So I come from a finance background in the car business.

I started working as a salesperson

and then worked my way up into the ranks of the dealerships

and I kind of learned the business in and out.

So I kind of flip cars, buy cars, park our cars.

And then the Raffles kind of came along

where it was just kind of hard to sell cars, man.

People didn't have money, you know?

And the idea came to me at the time, you know,

granted back then

there was not a lot of people doing Raffles, man.

I'm pretty much like kind of consider myself

one of the OGs in the Raffles, as far as like Raffles,

you know, that's why I kind of continue doing them

over and over and over and over.

But back then there was not a lot of Raffles.

So what I decided to do was, you know,

rather than sell a car part for $600,

I rather just sell 60 tickets at 10 bucks

and somebody gets to have a deal.

And I found that to be a faster way to sell car parts, you know?

So versus finding that one specific guy

on Facebook Marketplace that asks 50 different questions

and never comes by nothing, you know?

And that's kind of just how that started, man.

And then along the years,

you kind of create a loyal customer base

where they kind of just love what you do

and they want to support you.

And then from car parts, we move into cars, you know?

I've done multiple car giveaways

where there's been three people

that want a car for a dollar, you know?

So it kind of just, I do that as a side job

as far as like, you know, along the ways of my,

all the businesses that I do and stuff like that, so.

Wow, that's pretty cool, man.

I mean, yeah, you definitely see,

that's like a thing now, right?

Like now it's like almost played out.

Like, you know, so many of these people

just started doing Raffles like constantly,

which it sounds like- A lot.

Yeah, you were in there way before,

which does make sense.

You probably do have people who look for your raffles

because, you know, you're trusted.

But yeah, it's crazy, man,

how many people are just raffling, whatever, dude.

I saw this dude raffling off his couch the other day.

I'm just like, dude, I can't chill.

What the hell?

They need to chill with this stuff, dude.

Yeah, like literally, bro, this day and age,

that's all you literally scroll social media.

That's all you see from all over the place.

It's kind of like the new norm, you know?

Oh, let me good jump and do raffles, you know?

I mean, some people get along with it.

Some people kind of try it and it doesn't work out for them.

It's very difficult, man.

Believe it or not, maybe I might make it look easy

in the sense of like doing it every week,

don't stop back to back.

And, you know, I have friends of mine

that have tried to do it their own

and they just, I have people that had

three, five, 10 times more followers than I do, bro.

And they're trying to do a car raffle

and it just doesn't work, you know?

It just necessarily means just because

you have a lot of followers right now

and you're gonna do a car raffle

and it's gonna be productive or it's gonna work, you know?

It just kind of takes time.

And like you said, you gotta develop that trust

with your supporters that have been following,

you know, your whole journey where you come from, you know?

I'm heavily involved in racing.

I mean, I don't know if you're seeing

on my social media and stuff like that.

I do a lot of drive racing.

So a lot of my following also comes from that as well,

you know?

So it's just people that just want to support you

and they like what you do and they just, you know,

they want to give in to the cost

and at the same time have a chance of winning

an awesome car, you know?

I mean, I'm doing an NSX right now.

Wouldn't want to win a freaking Acura NSX

supercharged for five bucks, you know?

Yeah, seriously, I would love that.

Yeah, it's kind of a win-win for everybody, man,

because at the end of the day, you know,

you get to enjoy, at least for me,

I'm around these cars constantly.

Like, it sucks because, man, over the years,

you kind of like, you don't lose the passion for the cars,

but it kind of becomes numb to you

because you go through so many cars,

you get to see every make a model,

you drive them, you enjoy them and stuff like that.

And, you know, we do so many different cars

when it comes to like the car raffle stuff, you know?

Yeah, I'm sure it's easy to lose the luster, you know?

Because like you said, you can just walk

around your garage, it's like, after that,

like there's little that can impress you, you know?

I mean, yeah, but you know what I mean?

It takes, like I said, right now,

that's what my collection is so unique

because being around so many cars all the time

that they come and go,

you kind of start like hand-picking like

the real, real, real gold gems, you know?

And you kind of like start building your collection

based on different values

because now you want to get the best of the best,

the originals of the originals, the one out of ones

and stuff like that.

And, you know?

You kind of start developing a different mindset

when it comes to cars, to the average person,

they see an accurate annex in a parking lot.

I mean, I had guys when I go to put gas

in some of these cars, they come running to me,

I freak out because I was like,

is this guy going to like try to like hit me

or something, you know?

And they come with their phones like,

oh my God, he's out of Supra,

oh my God, he's out of GTR.

I was like, yeah, man, you know?

And like, you know, that type of reaction

that a person that's not around all these cars all the time,

you know, they don't have that.

And it kind of sucks, man.

I wish that it was different for me

because I want to have that feeling also, you know?

Yeah, yeah.

Of like appreciating in like the cars for what they are.

But I walk around some of these NSXs in Supra

and it's like, oh, here's another one,

here's another one, here's another one.

You know, it's like, damn, you know?

It kind of sucks.

I watched back and I was like, man,

that's, you know, like,

I wish I kind of like had that,

like the happy feeling for the cars, you know?

Yeah, that is tough when, because you used to.

And so it's like, yeah,

once you've just been there so much,

I'm sure it is hard and you start to kind of take

advantage of it a little bit.

For sure, for sure, man.

And like, I mean, never in my wildest dream, bro,

like not even growing up,

or if you asked me a question 20 years ago,

what do you think or what type of cars

you're going to have when you grow up, you know?

Stuff like that.

I wouldn't ever guess that I would have

so many cars right now that I have.

And many of them are like JDM cars, you know?

Yeah, I mean, just like you said,

having every color, the EG or, you know,

whatever it may be, like those things, that's sweet.

Like when you put all these things next to each other,

it must be pretty sweet though,

to just stand back and be like, damn.

It is, man.

Sometimes, like sometimes, you know,

when I'm working in the garage, you know,

like later when I'm ready to go back in the house,

I'm there drinking a beer,

and you look at everything, it's like,

how the hell did this happen?

You know, like, not granted, man.

Like I say, you know,

I came to this country with absolutely nothing whatsoever,

man.

And just, you know, from where my life started

to where it is now, it's just,

it's just crazy to even think about it, man.

You know, sometimes to catch myself,

like, am I gonna wake up tomorrow, you know?

And like, this is all a dream, you know?

Tim, your wife must walk out in the garage

and say, how the hell did this happen too?

Dude, she must be like, what the fuck?

For sure.

My wife, my wife's like, you buying another car?

You buying another car?

That's like, that's literally all I hear from my wife.

But she's cool though, you know,

she kind of understands me of what I like

and what I enjoy, you know?

That's what you do.

So she kind of supports the cause

and she's happy that I'm here in the garage working

and kind of enjoying myself

rather than being somewhere else

and doing all the things, you know?

Yeah, no doubt, you could be at the bar,

you could be over the money's doing drugs, whatever, right?

No, you're just working on cars.

Like I think that, you know,

even though it is kind of like a drug

and some people would definitely compare it to an addict,

you know, just the way that it's like.

Bro, this is definitely, this is definitely an addition.

This is an addition, and I tell you, it's an addition.

It's like, sometimes I'd rather be hooked on drugs

than this actually, you know?

Yeah, no doubt.

It's definitely an addition, man.

And like I said, you know, it's just,

but it's also an enjoyment, man.

You get to enjoy the cars

while you get to own them and collect them.

And you know, it's just very hard for me

to drive all these cars, man.

And to be honest, there's cars in here

that I probably wouldn't even drive, man,

because I think I'll go to jail

if somebody crashes one of my cars, you know?

Oh yeah, for sure.

And I stop, you know, I mean,

I got cars in here that are just collectibles, man.

I probably wouldn't even want to put miles on those cars.

And it sucks, you know, because once again,

you're a car guy, you know?

Yeah.

And once you get into the whole car collecting,

it sucks, man.

It's a different feeling, man,

because you kind of start like

not appreciating the cars for what they are.

You get to collect them, you know,

you own them and stuff like that,

but you don't get to drive them

for what they need to be driven, you know?

Some of these cars, it sucks that they just stick

in a garage, man, and just stay here for the whole time,

you know?

Yeah, you don't get to connect with them

like you would like to.

Yeah, correct.

I mean, I move every now and then around the house

when I take them out for like my monthly cleaning,

I take all the cars out, I clean the floors,

I clean the spider webs, I wash them

and stuff like that.

But like, I don't really get to enjoy them

like, oh, let me take it

to like an hour drive or stuff like that, you know?

I think out of all my cars that I own,

I maybe drive three or four, five or most

to like when I go to car meets and stuff like that, you know?

So it's only a very, very few of them

that most people usually see me driving

and some of the, most of the cars that I drive

to the car meets would be like my C7, C06.

I drive one of my NSXs, I drive the Supra,

my YGTR, I drive that car a lot.

Like, I think probably one of the cars here

that I drive the most when I do drive them

is my YR33 GTR.

I love that car, man.

That's like probably my top three cars that I own here,

you know?

And I actually get to enjoy that one a lot, you know?

So, but it's very hard driving all these cars

when you just own so many, you know?

Yeah, I could see, you know,

somebody listening to this is like,

oh, must be nice, you own so many cars,

you can't drive them all, you know?

Like there's somebody saying that, but it's like,

bro, I get that all the time.

Like, once you like kind of get into this lifestyle

of like owning so many cars and having so many things,

that's like everybody's favorite word, bro.

And at first it used to annoy me a lot,

if I'm being honest with you,

because everybody's like, oh, it must be nice

of owning all this stuff,

but they don't know the struggle that you went through

to kind of get to where you are today, you know?

I mean.

It's true.

It's easy to assume there was no struggle.

Yeah.

I literally sacrificed my whole 20s, bro.

Like I had in my 20s from my 20 to like my 32s,

I had no life whatsoever, bro.

I was stuck in an office working six days a week,

you know, holidays, Christmas,

all my friends used to be out at the beach

or in the jet skis or going to car meets.

Not me, man.

I was out working and saving my money.

And, you know, so it's not always,

oh, it must be nice, you know?

It's definitely like,

there's a lot that a person goes through.

Like I said, I don't come from money.

I didn't win the lottery.

Everything that I have owned up to today,

I pretty much work my butt for it, you know?

Oh yeah.

That's how it should be.

Every time you hear that phrase, oh, it must be nice.

It's like, you know, I kind of just ignore it these days

because I don't want to get into the arguments

that I used to get in the past about, you know?

I just, whatever.

Yeah, it must be nice, whatever, you know?

That's a sign of growth right there, right?

You just ignore it now, you don't let it trigger you.

Yeah, you have to, bro, because at the end of the day,

especially with today and social media,

there's so many people that just say things

behind a computer and stuff like that, you know?

So you kind of just, especially being in raffles,

you know, when you do raffles for such a long time,

and then especially the background

that I come from with the car business,

you kind of develop what is called alligator skin,

you know?

You don't pretty much let things bother you

or what people say and stuff like that.

You're like, okay, yes, you just thumbs up.

You get them to death, you know?

So what is, what's next for Carlos?

What's like, what can we expect from you

in 2026 pretty much?

Well, 2026, I'm gonna be a dad for the first time ever.

Oh, yeah, congrats, man.

Nice.

So definitely that will be the kid

that will be boring to describe, you know?

I wanted to be that kid.

Why couldn't it be me?

You know?

So yeah, I think fatherhood is definitely

along the way for 2026, you know?

Obviously that's why I'm gonna stop my love for cars

of what I do, you know?

It's just kind of gonna create another important milestone

in my life, you know?

But when it comes to the cars and stuff,

man, just keep doing me, man.

That's one thing about me

that I've been doing my whole life.

And, you know, the kind of people that know me

and people that support me, they appreciate that.

I mean, I'm just me, I'm just a person, you know?

I don't, the same guy that you're talking to here today

is the same guy that you will talk,

have a conversation at the track with and stuff like that.

I'm very, you know, humble when it comes to cars

and people and stuff like that.

But 2026 would just be another year in the books for me, man.

You know?

It's just keep collecting more cars

and trying to grow the collection, fine-tuning it

to like what I really, really, really want

from my cars, you know?

Is there one car on the list that you gotta get?

Like is there like a, what's your crosshairs on right now?

I think the one car that I would like to own right now

that I don't have is an R34 GTR.

But I just don't want to own any R34 GTR, you know?

I would like to own maybe like a J-Green, North Spec,

like one of those, you know?

So I just gotta sit down

and kind of look for that specific car that I want

and obviously trying to get at a good price

because there are those cars these days.

They're, they cost a house these days, more than a house,

you know?

So I'll definitely not be one of my goals.

If it's not like a J-Green R34,

it'll probably be like an active red, you know?

One of those, or I got my eyes on a yellow one.

Obviously gotta be yellow, you know?

Yeah.

So I probably, that's probably one of the cars

that I would like to get that I don't own right now, you know?

And I just want to wait for the right one.

I just don't want to buy one just to have it, you know?

Like I said, right now I'm at the point

in my collecting of these cars that I kind of,

I'd rather just wait for that part that I want

rather than just buy whatever comes across, you know?

Yeah.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

Just kind of fine tune it more into that.

I also have racing going on next year.

You know, this year I kind of took a little break

from racing.

I'm heavily involved in racing, man.

I do a lot of like Honda racing mostly, drag racing.

What's your car?

I have a few, man.

I have like five or six of them, you know?

So yeah, I know, it's difficult, you know?

But the car that, obviously the car

that I used to race the most I don't have anymore

is my CRX, that's where my name comes from.

All motor CRX, that kind of what pretty much made

my racing portfolio, if you want to call that, you know?

I spun fact right now for those that don't know,

I actually hold the world record right now

for the fastest all motor CRX in the world, you know?

Wow.

That's sick.

Yeah.

That's cool to be able to say.

Yeah, and it's crazy because, you know, back then

you come from racing these little cars in the street

or the track and then to actually sit down

and be like, you have the fastest one in the world.

It's still mind bogging to me these days

that I can say that, you know?

Wow.

I just don't collect cars, man.

I drive in too.

I build them, I race them and stuff like that.

So racing definitely has been a big part of my life

for sure that kind of got me into this stuff as well.

So, but that's about it, man.

Just get more into racing, you know?

I got to get, I kind of took a little break this year

just because I'm in the process of building the shop.

You know, everything that's done in here, man.

I done it myself.

That is.

You know, and stuff like that.

So I'm kind of splitting myself into between work

and, you know, raffles and racing and life.

So you kind of just do everything little by little,

you know, but 2026, I want to get more back into racing.

This year, I only race like maybe one or two events.

And then I'll probably have two more,

three for the rest of the year.

And then I'll be pretty much for racing.

So that's probably what I want to do more next year.

You know, just get back more into racing

because by then the shop should be done

so I can start putting more focus into the cars, you know?

So I kind of have a goal in mind next year

with my Overdrive Honda that I got.

I don't think anybody has ran sixes yet

in an Overdrive Honda besides Speed Factory

and the B Series.

So I would like to run sixes in the K Series platform.

So that's my goal for 2026.

Wow.

That's a good goal.

Yeah, yeah, you know what you want for sure.

Yeah, you know,

I haven't really brought out the car this year.

I had the car ready, man.

The car is pretty much all done up.

So almost like a 1500 horsepower build, you know?

Crazy to say you can get 1500 horsepower out of a car

these days on at least a four-cylinder Honda, you know?

Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, but I got the car ready.

I just decided to just show this here

and kind of prioritize the shop and the businesses

and stuff like that over fun this year, you know?

So, Carlos, so before we get done here,

where can everybody find you online?

Like if they want to get in on the raffle,

if they want to check out the collection,

whatever it may be, lay it out.

My most active social media is Instagram.

That's what you guys saw me and you found me, you know?

It's all motor CRX, just like that.

That's where it's all motor CRX, you know?

And then on Facebook, I also have a group

that's mostly strictly for like the car raffles.

I school Florida Street Imports and, you know,

on Facebook, so if anybody wants to hop on board

and win a car for a few bucks, hop along.

If you want to come and check out some reels

or some cars and on your daily explore page,

then, you know, hop on by.

We're always around cars, pretty much 24-7.

Oh yeah, man, that sounds awesome.

We appreciate you coming on, man.

It's always good.

It seems like every time we have a Florida guy on here,

it always goes smooth.

They're always just really cool, chill guys,

you know what I mean?

Yeah, man, for sure, for sure.

Yeah, no, I appreciate you guys having me, you know?

Yeah, if we ever make it all the way down to your state,

dude, we're gonna hit you up though.

I hope you know that.

We're gonna bug you to make it down there.

Yeah, for sure.

If you're in Florida, hit me up, man.

I guarantee you, man, it's a different feeling

seeing the whole cars on social media

than when you actually hear in person, you know?

Once you walk to the shop

and you have this mountain of cars,

you're like, what the hell is this, you know?

This guy's crazy.

Definitely, I get that a lot.

Yeah, it's like, oh my God,

why you have so many yellow cars?

Oh, look, it's a Supra.

Oh, look, it's a GTR, you know?

It's an N6.

Man, that's awesome.

Carlos, we appreciate you 100%

and it's good to know that we got another Honda fan down there

holding down the yellows for sure.

Yeah, it's for sure, man.

Thank you, thank you guys.

All right, buddy, we'll see you next time.

Have a good one, bro.

Peace.

Bye.

Dude, Carlos has it all.

He has a lot of it, if that's for sure.

If he doesn't have it all, he's very close.

Got a majority of it, yeah.

I'm just like, I'm like, oh, well,

I'm like, well, I have a 34 GTR.

You know, you're like, hey.

He's like, yeah, I don't want a base model.

Yeah, yeah, I'm like, aw.

I'm like, wah, wah.

But now that's pretty cool, man.

Like he's definitely, he sounds like he just,

you know, was inspired by the way that he was raised.

He was inspired to do it bigger and now he has

and he's gonna be able to pass it on to his new child.

That's like super dope, you know?

Some people see that view and they get jealous.

I'm just like, dang, dude, all right,

I need to figure out how to lay.

How can I do that, right?

Yeah, like, you know, he's not gonna tell me.

I can't take the way he did it.

I need to find my route and do that.

So yeah, that's cool.

You know, and I saw him on Instagram

and I'm like, dude, let's just have him on.

Like, and I think that, yeah, that was cool,

you know, because you get this person's perspective

that maybe not a lot of people have gotten, you know,

maybe they'll be inspired by it.

So I am.

For sure, we appreciate Carlos 100% super chill guy

and like, dude, Carlos, I'm telling you,

if I'm in Florida, I'm gonna be up your ass, dude,

because that is, I need to see that.

I've seen some cool collections.

Yeah, but like, I'd like to see, I'd like to see his.

All right, cool.

So episode 151, if you're not following us,

it's at our HD GUIS.

Find our Facebook group, it's in the show notes.

Come in, talk crap to us, whatever's good.

But for this episode, I'm Bobby.

This is Aaron.

See ya.

Peace.

Carlos Perez AKA AllMotorCRX - EP.151

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