Chatting with Alex and Peter from Legit Street Cars

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After hours. Another special episode with

International guests, nine hundred thirty four thousand subscribed, persons, mr. Alex kill, Mary from legit

streetcars and his, I would say you're Robin to his Batman, Peter. Hey, you guys going.

Good going great. We are, we just wrapped up with

work. On week-long week.

What you guys been doing this week, what cause you been playing with and and it was that is that not not you can't you Let's hold a moment like hater. Just walked in my house.

We just gotta drive shaft made and I'm like, you won't believe how much this cost. And it was like 500 guy was a

total of eight hundred dollars to have a now, but Chef modified. So I still the stock driveshaft.

It's for my van. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know if your brains are in the conversion there.

That's, it's very expensive. Yeah.

Pretty much just double it. Yeah.

Pretty much close to me. That's funny.

I bought this for thousand dollar Chevy Express 3500.

It's a 15-passenger band and we're putting in eight thousand dollar Transmission in it and now an eight hundred dollar drive shaft in it. So it's going to be the most the

strongest Driveline on a Chevy van ever.

Well, I mean, you guys liked about it was that we got stuck with other stuff in the beginning of the week.

So yesterday, Alex and I would just like, hammering it out.

Were like, we're going to finish.

If it kills us yeah, you know it's killing us too much.

So like you guys going your ham with that with that LS in that in that van, right? So when you got it, you're going

to kind of need to like back it up with a strong trans.

I'm strong and drive shaft that everything to make it, to make it to work. Otherwise use going to have like

a million horsepower is just going to blow off like really hot spot in the bed so it's good that he's got the ProCharger in the mail to so that's going on soon.

And it's we're going for the fastest 15-passenger van.

Man, I must have respect for that but I also know like drop shot some stuff. A Nutty smell cheap.

My brother's got like 1,000 horsepower car, and he had to get one custom-made and then he got it back from the shop that they did it and they didn't align it, right?

So it was like all like at 80 kilometers an hour, which is like, I don't know what that is in American miles an hour, but it said it was just vibrating the whole cast who had to get her whole all, like, your balance and everything.

It was just, it was just like, turn out to be a bit of a nightmare but Really cost him an arm and a leg to get it done.

But yeah, I know how expensive they can be a gentleman.

Thanks again for coming on the show.

I know you guys got a busy schedule and I thought I'd just just preface this with, with a big, thank you to break to both of you been watching your videos for quite a while, become become a fan. And yeah, I just thought I'd

reach out. And thank you for saying, yeah,

you'd be happy to come on the show.

So I just want to give you a big thank-you first.

Yeah. Course we'd stock cars like

literally 24/7. So it's like, let's talk more

card. Like, even one when the camera

turns off it just continues on with the same conversation.

So and said it was like, oh, thank God.

Yeah. I would like kill you.

I'm like yeah that's fair enough.

So yeah yeah, she's a good sport with all this, you know, because she's not super into cars, like, you know, except from what she's learned from me. But you know, it's a fun hobby.

So she's very supportive, not at, that's awesome.

That's really good to hear. But just to speaking of speaking

of like, what when, you know, obviously this is less like a cop program and you guys just leave them breathe causes.

Well what do you guys into college like like like what was the turning point was? It was it like it always kind of

Of just just ingrained in you or did you guys just like say one day I started working on a car. I was like this is actually kind

of fun. What kind of got you guys into

cars? Here we go.

First, let's see what got me into cars.

I think like like a like a lot of little kids I had like, you know, the Hot Wheels and you know, RC cars.

And I I think it was It's a combination of being interested in cars. Like most, you know, little boys

that are but then also like wanting to take Part.

So I would like take everything apart that I could and reverse engineering and my mom was like, you know what, as long as you're staying out of trouble, and you don't take any of my stuff apart, you can have had and go for it.

So that kind of like culminated in my first car purchase and I was like 13. Now that I probably took that

apart and then it's like, you know, Skies love that.

Yeah, similar with me. I honestly, I don't even know

my. All I know is that my mom told

me when I was, like, 23 years old, at least, Tearing out the window, watching the cars, go by and making car noises.

So like I just always remember just being interested in cars, I remember as a kid, I would look out the window and I would count how many tailpipes each car had and I equated that with how fast they were, that's how like it had one.

It was it was a slow car but a to I was getting up there and then if it up for that one, as a kid I was like the more smoke the better and and yeah. Is kind of Tumbleweed it from

that. I went to a actually.

We both went to the same high school as an all-boys Catholic High School College Prep. So no trade classes whatsoever.

And I just remember having a meeting with the counselor and she's like what do you want to? What are you going to do?

Like you know out of high school and like I'm just going to be a mechanic and I was the last meeting we ever had because then they would not with me, they're like, okay I'm like I'm not going to college. I'm going to I'm going to be a

mechanic. I'm gonna go to mechanic school

and that's what I did. Two weeks out of high school.

I started mechanic school and a year out of high school.

I was an apprentice at Mercedes. So it's just something I've

always been into and so like obviously you're a ticket societies for quite a long time. Did you just want to like go to

Mercedes or was I just won the place that offer you a few a gig like it was not. So so basically I had never even

touched a Mercedes before I walked into that dealership.

So when I was going to school in Wyoming WyoTech for a trade school and the only idea Had for who I wanted to work for.

It was just a very logical thing.

I was like whoever makes the motor cells.

Most expensive cars is going to pay the most to their mechanics to fix that. I didn't know if that was true

or not, and it turned out probably not to be true, but but that's all I knew. I had no interest in Mercedes.

European cars, Japanese cars, I was all American cars through and through and then so it was, they came to the school for a job. Mercedes-Benz.

Chicago came to the school for a job fair.

And they're like, oh you live in Chicago because multiple a lot of the applicants didn't and they're like, we don't have to relocate. You, you got good grades.

You want to do you want a job? And I'm like yeah, sure.

So that was it. They are.

What year was that, was that like 20 two-year-old?

Like Mercedes to wait an hour. Yeah, I was in school for two

thousand and well, I graduated high school in 2002.

I graduated expect School in 03 and then I started an oath.

Yeah, yeah. So so you would have been

working on like, like early, like, 55s and instead of em.

Yeah. That's that's what that, yeah,

that and that's why I got 350 fives at my channel.

I had dreams like, I was doing the pre-delivery inspections on the first w211, you 55 in 2003. When I first started, that was

one of the first jobs they gave me is that I'm Prentiss.

So, I remember just in there and I'm like, man, one day, I'm going to have one of these and then like, 20 years later, I get home. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like or they is like an acquired taste over there.

II live like them forever. Dude.

Wagons? Yeah wagon.

I think they're cool. I've had a lot of wagons but the

general public does not think they're cold.

It's like an inverse thing. Is that like the cooler?

We think it is like the worst. The general public is like.

That's a good. Accomplice, it's a granny wagon,

like it's your grandma in the 80s when they made a lot of wagons, that's who drove them and that's what they associated with. Ya know, in the wood panels, at

least you're honest. Case we had the fake was like,

yeah, stickers have never gotten away from that stigma.

And the numbers, the sales numbers just speak for themselves. At least here in the states.

Yeah, people. Yeah.

I'll buy a wagon and then like in the example of the E55 there's 100 and like 90 wagons versus like 9,000 sedans.

So it's like no one put their money where their mouth was an ordered the wagon, you know. So I don't know, I called those

crazy people. Thanks, I don't know what the

numbers are. Sex.

But that one I feel like that one that has done pretty well.

Yeah, the new one for sure. We got 250 RS6 is heel and every

time I see you, I'm like damn, that's a cool looking cool, looking wagon. But like you guys got a really

cool wagon know that we didn't get, which was the CTSV wagon, which was like, with available with a manual.

I'm just like, dude that thing is sick.

I would I would totally Rock. One of those are the closest

thing we got. We just something that it's

related to one of the cars you've got Alex in New York in your Caprice, which was based off a Commodore here, the Australian Australian car we got the The we got we have the sports wagon which actually a really good-looking guy and I don't know if you've ever seen one.

But yeah, when I got the Caprice on the channel I get emails and emails from people from Australia, sending me everything I need to know. I really want to do you know how

they do convert like the you conversions on rg8?

Yeah. Also I want to do a wagon

conversion. I've not heard one of those

here. Like yeah, well the the wagon

was based off the you platform. So so There's a guy in the state

that actually brings them in. I don't know, I don't know if

you didn't keep saying yeah like he brings them in there and I think he has to put like American vind engine American and engine numbered cars into him which is the same thing, really? Anyway and he sells them and but

if used to get a wagon that would be that would be so sick.

That it would be really cool. I think before he does that, you

know, which is which is really cool because like, and it's really odd go. Because, like, I've watched the

episodes with, with your capris and it's weird though because like the Caprice that you The reason you guys get is basically our long-wheelbase Commodore here.

Alright. So but the Caprice was supposed

to be like our top of the tops back and you get like a real poverty spec I guess, because I'm at, if there's a police car police car but like the The Caprice, one the priest, the priest cars we get here. I like full deck that we like,

said screens and headrests and like, like, really nice cars.

So it's obviously more Caprice out there.

Is that what it's called? No, it's just called a Caprice.

It's just called. It's called, it's only because

it's Like The Commodores like bison, you got the luxury version of that, which is called the Calais.

And then you get the long wheelbase, which is a Statesman, and then statesman/caprice, which is like the like top-of-the-range. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah.

Mine has zero options. There's like one speak with

plastic seats and they ripped Interiors out, you know, but slowly, kind of bring I put A real back seat in it.

That's pretty much all I want to center console.

That's all, that's all I've done.

Really? Yeah, so it's still very basic.

That's definitely one of my favorite cars.

Like, we just go if we go to the auction, like, which is like basically a big dirt field for like miles, we have one of the biggest auctions in the country. Here, we take the capris and

we're just ripping around like a third.

Yeah, it's so much fun there. She handled quite well to like

the quite well, engineered. I mean, you guys got the, like,

the Chevy SS, which is like based off how VF, commodore.

In the Pontiac G8 and, and all that.

And even the GTO which was which.

Yeah. So like you guys did like them.

But yeah, it wasn't enough to save our industry here because now we don't do anything anymore.

Bam, I'll show ya, it's a shame. But yeah, it's your channel

which is actually really, really cool.

How did you become a mechanic Peter?

Like because like it's because you obviously would just like playing with cars and then you just you've obviously become a mechanic. How did that?

How did that transition for you? So I was I went to school after

I graduated high school, I was actually in Japan for a little while so Alex and I went to the same high school but I was kind of every other year I moved back and forth from Japan with my parents and and when I when I graduated high school I got a scholarship to go to university and and so I'm you know, of course like what's the car thing to do in college?

You go to do engineering. So, I went to did engineering

for for a while. And I was on the formula is a

team there and so I did was kind of doing some motor sports stuff and then I got recruited by a and then D cards team and I did a season with them as a data engineer and then lose a lot of moving around and it's kind of like a really lean and mean rock star lifestyle, we like in a different Hotel every, you know, so often and you know, it's like you're on the bus and then you're on a plane and then you're in a new place and then you go do a race. You wake up at 2 in the morning

to go to, like, some of the Our and then you're down 11:00 p.m.

you're you know, doing the driver's meeting with the engineer on the driver. And so that was it was it was a

really hard life and I was like, you know, very unstable.

I was like I don't do that. So I moved over to I was like do

I want to still do race car stuff but then I wanted to find a manufacturer and do some some R&D for them and so I found one in Portland. It's a small a small company

that makes like cars it's called palatov and they do.

Yeah. Just like two frames or There's

a smaller like track only specials, so there's like motorcycle engine. So like jinxers and Hayabusas

usually turbo, all-wheel drive like, you know, 900 pounds and 600 horsepower and then the bigger the biggest street-legal.

Cars were the, you know, mostly LS, powered with human orgy 96, but everything mid-engine gearboxes, so we did a bunch of those. And so, I was there for, I think

I was with them for three years and we did a couple Pikes Peak things and then Then after that, I came back, I want to do, you know, I came back to Chicago and I worked as a worked in like a couple mechanic shops. When I started a automotive,

like, he has like a stem program at a, like kind of a group home for underprivileged kids. So, I did that, I did kind of

like some charitable work stuff and then pretty much.

Yeah, that's when Alex and I have met and then he's like, hey, you wanna be my slave and I said, sure, You've got our giveaway. Basically, he emailed me just to

kind of learn how to make videos and stuff.

And I was like, oh you work at this place called Mercy home where they it's basically like an underprivileged kids and I was like, I'm looking for a good person.

They give a car a way to and maybe there's someone at aged out of the program and that's how we connected.

We is create a friend named Kumar and we gave him a Lexus and like that we fixed up. It was pile when I got it.

But Yeah. And that's just kind of I'm

like, hey, you want to come? Come to the shop and work with

me. I'm like, I need someone.

So that's it. Obviously free of charge.

He's not paying you if he does. You just think it's really

really cool like that. You got you guys got such a

great Dynamic on screen. And like, you know, whether you,

whether you're speaking Japanese Peter or Alex, you doing like you're really cool Italian American accents, they could that they couldn't even see. I'm doing anymore.

That's silly big. Is that Alex actually speaks

Italian? And I pretend to speak Japanese

Jeffy Jeff like Japanese is month for this analysis.

Italian and alleys but he doesn't speak like fluent Italian like can you like like like yeah like yeah my mom only speaks to me in Italian. Technically Italian was my first

language because when my mom came here, she had my sister Italy, but then she came here and had me shortly after she didn't really speak English, you know, she was learning.

Yeah. So as a kid, I probably spoke as

a really little kid, I probably spoke better Italian than English and then once you start going, you know, fifth grade, you know, they're all kindergarten first grade stuff like that. It kind of flip-flop because

there's no italian-speaking kids here.

So we're here are but I don't know what to speak.

Artsakh in Italian. That's one thing.

Like I don't I learned how to speak as a kid going and we Go to Italy to visit my family and I would just play with other kids. So it's not like we were talking

about camshafts and I agree the valve timing.

So like when I go to Italy my cousin's, friends will be like, oh, it's the car. Get, let's talk cars.

And I'm like, dude, I don't know the words though.

And, you know, for the technical stuff.

Yeah. So that kind of stuff.

It's so you might be saying camshaft Olli or stuff like that. Yeah, I love when you

impersonate Italian. Just always goes like this.

Really do talk with their hands out there too you know like like Scotty and I both actual like well I'm a high school teacher studies are like a preschool teacher which is like an elementary school over there and at my school we've got a buck a big, Italian immersion program. So there's one class at the kids

just do straight and straight Italian.

So I like they do like their like three other subjects and it ended in Italian and so, so a lot of that stuff, they said to me was in town. I'm like, dude, I don't know

what Don't know, we don't know what the hell.

You're saying to me right now, but they always use my hands and stuff and I like, it's good. It's good because we like L like

where I kind of live, it's a pretty like Italian e based, kind of kind of, kind of, kind of suburban and, and the school is quite Multicultural. So it's actually cool to say and

and then when I come on YouTube and watch your videos.

I just I just laugh because you just, you just doing what doing those and it's makes it all worthwhile makes the connections work, but I always have to remember to keep his hands in the frame, so I can get the other Half of what he's saying.

Yeah, I was wondering so when it comes to engineering and working on the cars, is it any that you look at and go I don't want to touch or do you just kind of take up that challenge like you happy to work on any kind of car?

I mean, yeah, we're pretty happy to work on anything.

I mean like we just, you know, I just bought this McLaren and I don't really know what we're going to run into, but I know will eventually figure it out, you know, if it's a fact, Car.

I'm pretty much all in the one thing I've been kind of, the one thing I've shied away from it is like custom stuff like swaps and custom stuff, I've just because I'm fortunate enough to already have been interested in what I think are really good platforms.

Like, for example, the guys that are super into like Nissan 240, s Miatas, stuff like that. They almost are pigeon-holed

into having to do like her swallow.

There's, those are swap meet. They very much need to swap

about Brendan better transmission.

You know, but I've always liked all LS Vehicles, you know, and then I got into the AMG vehicles are ready had good engines and Transmissions you could build off of them.

So I've never been into the custom stuff.

That's the only thing I shy away from is is retrofitting and custom building because I'm, I'm not a fabric.

I'm not a fabrication shop. And in order to keep the videos

like, coming out with any kind of relative consistency, that stuff is out of my control. So but yeah but if it's a very

complicated You know, I did a twin-turbo V12 Mercedes a couple years ago we just got done with another Duel of break, a Mercedes engine. Like I all that stuff.

I'm not afraid of because it's been fixed before so we can figure it out. Yeah, you know.

But building custom cars hasn't been anything?

I'm super into Alex is almost ready to throw the van out.

Once he realized, we had to get a custom driveshaft like that.

It's gets it. I become Ultra sensitive to it

because I have such a strict timeline with the videos.

So I get, like, it's mostly the kind of a new thing that's come up with me with video stuff because my Trans Am I did a ton of custom stuff but there was no deadline.

There was no, it was just my project like whatever, right?

But now, people are waiting for the video.

So if something holds me up for a month that I can't do myself, it's like it's really turns into a big deal, you know, that's what I like with my new videos and stuff for like, obviously now that, you know, you You've gotten quite big at what point did you realize like wow this is like this is getting this is getting huge now and and it also like how big is your team?

Like, I know you got Max Max. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, it's three of us. It's me Peter Max, that's all.

Yeah, yeah, it's I probably realized that it was something real about, I would say after I hit like 100,000 subscribers and then I was like, okay, like this could turn into something and then, It kind of Tumbleweed from there.

So I quit my full-time like real job in July of 21 but probably in the early 2020 was when I decided that I was going to go down that path so I had like a solid year and a half of working that job and join YouTube and knowing that I was going to quit that job to do you too. But I have three little kids

like I had to take everything in kind of baby steps as far as you know making sure we were all going to be okay, you know.

But because the first two or three years of YouTube Was - money like I made - yeah I mean because the the overhead of doing Automotive is so expensive that anything I pulled in wasn't what I was putting out, you know, so I needed I wanted to know for two or three full years that I was actually producing income before I could quit you know.

But but you know what helped me a lot was just making a lot of YouTuber friends that were just a little ahead of me and so I could kind of foresee the future a little bit like okay yeah you could actually support it. Family doing this if you do it

right and stay relevant, that's the biggest thing, you know.

Yeah. The crazy thing is that that job

didn't exist 10 years ago, right?

It didn't like none of it exists so now you're, you know.

Yeah, that's on things. Like how long is this Gonna

Last? Like you watch a really

successful like sitcom like Seinfeld or whatever it's seven or eight seasons long. So that was a big factor to

which is like all right well by the time I quit my job I was already like five years four and a half five years into it.

So I'm like You know there's still always that nerve-racking thing where you know is this are people still gonna like these abandoned car and by and I was like and like so it stayed relevant is definitely still a concern but yeah I'd say I realized probably early 2020 that I could do something with this. If I am really consistent and

diligent and don't slack off, you know.

Well and like I think it's a big thing.

Like I mean if you guys probably heard of The Mighty Car Mods, the Australian guys that Like, they've been doing a few.

Let me know if he is and and like, I was poking them.

Like, I don't know if you met them, study of you met money, I had a line. Yeah, I met him like twice.

They're really nice guys, and they basically just just like, how would you have explained it? Like, they've been doing it for

such a long time now that, like, everybody kind of basis their style. I think that, you know, and idea

that it can work off of these guys that they did it, like, really alone. If you look at their belly

Basics, up, it was really basic like, the how to put a napkin and are, you know, how did how to do this and And unlike other Automotive, YouTube channels, have just ran with it.

But like, I guess what people like, kind of like is what they kind of like, right? So like so your new initiative,

like, finding a car. Like like, for example, that the

eclipse you just got, you know, people have went nuts for that because it's just like, it's so cool from that.

It's very period-correct of that era as you mentioned and, and people can relate to that car and then people can relate to a van and people can relate to, you know, the lightning so it's like you having your branching out.

I think you guys are doing a great job with that and I think you're going to definitely stay relevant.

Yeah, I hope so. Luckily I and this is a map

reader to we grew up with very like normal like blue collar type of live so like I was never in a super cars or anything fancy which actually kind of lends well to like we really do like these cheap cars. Thank, you know, like that's

just like you know the getting the McLaren was actually a big like difficult decision to make you know it was a significant departure for the brand. Yeah.

Yeah, but keep it in the same theme.

It's like the cheapest McLaren through it does not.

Look at broken, you know. Cannon can DIY guys do this.

You know, that's that's the big question mark, you know.

So I think that formula it will ends well to basically any car like I've always said the story is more important than the actual car because I've had Successful video series on cars that are not cool. Like the Lexus IS 250 automatic.

Yeah like it's like a big if A very base model, whatever we got millions and millions of views. You know, where the TransAm that

didn't have any wasn't going anywhere, the one that you found. Yeah.

Like the the power washed, it all right.

Yeah. Well that's it.

Really another. That car was essentially

thousand dollars junk car. You know, that there was going

to be though, nobody else. Yeah.

If I did like that you said that wasn't there was going to be for the couple but you might have you do you just you just sign out. I'm going to be my camera

everywhere. Like is that, is that kind of

just what happens now, or like just in case you come across some Like wow. Okay, this is really cool.

No, I mean at this point everything is pretty well.

Planned out on my end like we like it.

We have to run a pretty tight ship, you know, especially now that with Peter on board like the goal with Peter was to put out two more videos a month. So when I when I hired Peter you

know, full-time it was you do know you're doing a good job.

If we're able to get a total of six videos out of month, you know? So like to do that and to have

the videos be anything that resembles like a Like a professional proper video where you have a beginning, a middle body and a conclusion like you have to have everything pretty well planned out. So there are everything I do

with cars is in the videos but I don't I don't have time to do anything outside of that really you know?

So like all the car purchases, everything is ultra planned out.

You know we find if we find the car it's like alright when are we going to know? Dates are put in the calendar to

go get the car, have everything prepared for the car like so Something like that. So yeah, it's not.

It's not like I'm just walking around in like you know, we just find find one. I mean most of them kind of have

them comfortably from subscribers.

Just emailing me like hey there's a cool car here is the Facebook or Craigslist ad and if it fits the bill, I mean I'll buy it, you know. So that makes some of the week's

like pretty tight like just it was just last week that we did the went out and we picked up a car for Monday Tuesday.

And then Wednesday Thursday. We did the Talon like we

finished off a video on that one and then Friday.

We did like 60 or 70% of a C63 video.

Yeah. And so.

And yeah. So it's sometimes, sometimes

during the week we might work on five or six different cars for five or six different videos and then they get Mash, you know, then edited together and stuff. So there's just there's a lot to

like keep in order. So yeah, at this point it's I'm

definitely not winging it anymore, you know.

Absolutely. Yeah sometimes we do have to

like, you know, we'll run into an issue and this video.

Come out, the Saturday's, a pivot and I think more in the beginning. It was like we had to do that.

Where but more recently we've had like a little bit of a, like, no way. Yeah, we've got a little bit

better and having a couple videos in our back pocket where it's like we can Shuffle some things around and we don't have to really like, yeah, worrying too much.

Yeah, we're organizations. Spend.

That's the biggest thing, really.

I just want to kiss up pretty big.

I like to sit statistic side of things and I was just double-checking, that's why. I popped up and I can't hear

your own voice. Then that's what it's a.

Make sure that what I'm going to ask is right because while I've been watching bottle of your videos, they seem to be a lot longer than majority. That other ones that people do

out there, I guess they're looking at a short attention span of people these days and things like that.

You know, they tend to keep them between like 10 or 20 minutes but you know majority of yours about 40 minutes.

So I was wondering with the statistics on the side of their that seems to be working for you and I'd feel that would be A lot harder for you to be able to keep those people actually watching through your whole videos to.

Yeah. Yeah, you're definitely, right.

So the length of the videos is evolved for me.

I remember thinking that no one would ever watch one of my videos. It goes over 10 minutes and and

so, but then, as I started making them, I really wanted to focus on having a proper intro, a middle body.

And then we end with some kind of conclusion, not necessarily the Project's finished. Finished.

But we pick, we pick something. Yeah, and it is done at the end

of the video and to do that meant that the video go Scout progressively longer and they settled around that 45-minute average, but I don't make that really happen anymore.

It's just because of the formula.

I have an in the types of videos that I make it at, they always end up being right around that time.

So, there's never a point where I add anything to put it to that time. Usually, it's fun.

Now, yeah, we're usually cutting down a lot of those and there's quite a bit that ends up on The Cutting Room.

For yeah, yeah. So the videos are longer and

that was always a concern because yeah, everything is going to short-format, people's attention span.

So I was worried about that, but it never what everybody was saying, was never ended up coming to fruition with my channel, like the longer I made the videos, the better, the videos did that the happier people were with the videos.

So there was there was a point where I was like, this is too long. I should cut this down, but I

like it so good. Like all the information is

relevant. I'm like I'm just keeping it.

I don't care if the views suffer, I'm like I'm putting it all out there. I used to do sped up time lapses

to cut things down, and I stopped doing that too, because people wanted an explanation, which is surprising because we're in this world where with Tick Tock and all that, where it's 10 seconds, and they're on to the next one.

So, but the retention rate on my channel is way above the normal average. You know, we have our long

videos that get 50% retention, it might sound bad to someone, that's not into the YouTube analytics, but it's actually Really high like to keep someone for a half hour is very difficult and and they stick around, you know, some of them are even higher than that. So yeah, we've had a I think we

had our longest one ever recently as I got on our 19 minutes or something like that, and if you look at the last McLaren videos, I think it's over an hour.

And it's got 650 thousand views in a week.

So all everything that you'll read about, will point to make shorter videos, but everything I've experienced in my, My channel has said, just stay doing exactly what you're doing.

So I've kind of pushed it out of my mind and it's just the only thing I think about is, is it a quality video?

That's it. You know.

And it just and it works there's a lot more storytelling like like, like Alex said is that you have to have that you know, and introduce the the like the problem.

And then you have to think as we go through it like we're filming it. Like we don't leave out like

very much at all. Like I said that that's kind of

Separates us from a lot of other people is that they're like, oh yeah, then we had this problem. And then, we saw that, we move

down the next thing other. No, no.

We're going through the process, and then we figure it out.

And then you, and then you get that that great, you know, cathartic and to it, good or bad.

Yeah, sometimes it's like a really bad.

Yeah, that's like a really, you know, I think that's your unique selling point like and it's, and because it's so detailed with with your videos. And I think that I think that's

why I think that's how I got hooked because I'm like, you, especially when you You need the Caprice episode.

Like episodes, I should say when you drop the motor and, and, and did the care that, like, did all that stuff and like you were so intricate and like, and really explained everything and like that was a series that kind of got kind of got me hooked because I love all that stuff. Like I love seeing how things

work and and seeing how things come up hard.

And I think that's why I've been a fan like I do you put in the show Wheeler Dealers like, you know, into from the UK because like, you know, you can see him by a car, fix it, sell it and, you know, and how they fix it, how you do it.

It's it's Really, really cool. And kind of a really unique way

of doing things. And for people that find that

interesting, you've definitely got that that that neat really, really, you know, locked down because, you know, people that do like that, I really appreciate the time and effort that you go into show, I can't get the spark plug out because of the, you know, it's in a really bad location like when you're doing the Corvette series, but you know, the supercharged C4 like, you know, some of that was in a nightmare to work on and you were saying this is a nightmare to her.

Burke aye. But you're still showing you are

still showing how you were doing it and it was, it was great.

And then like I love that series because I think there was such a, such a really cool thing of just to see to see you guys.

No offense to see you guys struggle, but to see you guys struggle and figure out the problem.

I was about to say that it makes me feel better that when I'm struggling and swearing and losing my mind, I'm not alone.

Morning, Hot Rod TV shows that we had here.

I don't know if you guys got those in the 80s and 90s but you know horsepower TV and all those out.

Wow, earn a block shows that they did.

You guys get those or something similar?

First car shows on TV where they work on card.

Yeah, what we definitely did that we didn't get as bigger range as you guys, but but we definitely got better think up some like we got some through to Discovery Channel and some stuff here like, okay, and that was essentially my inspiration but the one thing I didn't like about those shows was how ridiculous it was that in a half hour.

They would have a like a rusted-out body and then at the end of it, the thing was done with, you know, the engine paint and everything and I'm like they didn't show any of the steps.

And and what I realized early on in YouTube is that there are some channels that are going after the general public, which could be really good financially, because you can get a lot of use if you make things acceptable to the general public, but I didn't really like that.

I wanted to show more Even if it would sacrifice the channel growth, you know, because there are some entertained for entertainment channels. Where you know, you see them

just turn the bolt in in the parts just on you don't know what happened but it's shiny and you don't know anything about cars so you're like cool it's done and then it's booming and I'm like that's great but there's already so much of that.

You know something I always wanted to show like all the little struggles in the real things even if it would make for a longer video. And man I mean especially after

I had a half a million subscribers.

I was like completely content with the amount of subscribers I had. I was like I don't care if it

gets that big I'm like I just want to make good videos.

Just have to be good at. That's it you know.

So anything like past that was like, where I could like support a family. I was like, it's just a bonus

because I want to keep the videos detailed, you know.

Absolutely. And you know, the fact that you

with every call, you've got you doing that.

It's just as brilliant light. It's really, it's really

top-notch. And, you know what, that leads

into my next question about about these That you do.

You've obviously got so many cars on the go that, you know, within your kind of Fleet that you've that you've got there.

What are your plans with them? Like like like we some like the

Corvette like you got to a really cool, really cool place.

And and it like I know you will I think ProCharger were was hitting. You like a newer version of that

and and stuff. So like do you plan on keeping

that car? Would you plan on saying?

Okay, now I'm done with it. I'm good.

Yeah, that car in particular I will be selling this year.

It just depends on the car. So if you see a car that gets a

custom license plate that says LSC and then something after it, that's your sign that I'm keeping in that car.

That's it. That's it.

Yeah. So yeah.

So yeah. So there's the ones that are

like honestly the talent is one of those where I know that as soon as we're done with these videos we're getting rid of that car. That's actually Peters car.

But you know when we Did you know he found the car and when I was like all right yeah we're going to bring this down the channel. The plan was always to finish

that one here, get rid of it because neither one of us had any kind of attachment to. It wasn't our build.

It wasn't our build. It never will be you know who's

also not our style of car. Yeah.

It's not a legit streetcar, you forget it's not a car, it's not a street. So there's other stars like

that. Those are like tier three cars

that are really cool and I know they're going to do well in videos hopefully and and whatever but there's nothing I I need to have, then there's tier 2, which are kind of like cars that will stick around about a year after the project is done because it's a car. I've always wanted to enjoy for

a little while but nothing. I'm super like attached to and

then there's the, like the tear top top here cars like Buick Grand National, that's like a dream car I've ever met.

I've always wanted since I was a kid so that I just ordered the plates LS, C. GN, so that's sticking around,

is weird. It is, it is the Vans out A

gigantic van. That was a love at first sight.

14. Hell my gosh, I love it.

Like we just started working on the car and he already has the place for it. Like yeah I'm out like with the

blown Transmission in North Dakota and I was just like, this is my van and that's like the most common so it doesn't matter how rare the car is. Yes, it's the most common band,

like in America and I love it. So I'm keeping the van.

Something like my Turbo Trans Am.

I've had for like 20 or so keeping that the lightning is something I've wanted since I was a kid.

Some keeping the Lightning Thief 55 the E55 wagon is something that I like. But yeah.

So it's yeah, that's basically it.

Now we're actually running into an issue with the shop is getting too small because now every year, there's like probably on average two of these cars that I never want to sell.

And so, now there's like five cars in the shop that were like, done with the never going to sell, and they're just getting in the way. Shop because Liberty and they're

getting dirty and we're grinding and spray paint stuff.

And it's like, okay, these don't deserve to be here anymore.

But yeah, most of them the vast majority of the cars gets old I would say, within a year. You know, basically so Pita with

your with your Conquest, I'll be going to see like a like, a series on that because like, because like, that's a really cool car but we never went, we got them as asterion here which I think you guys got staring as well there.

Yeah, I think that was the air. They had like a voluntary

throttling of the number of cars that Japanese companies could import. So how they got around?

I was that they would just do gray market and Borg revenging.

So they, so, they sold. I think the volume is, like, 2

to 1, the number of Conquest, that got stoled versus starting hands. Yeah.

And so that was so, yes, I have, I've the conquest and, yeah, that's that's been my car. And, and we always meant to do a

little side piece off, but like, because that's the same, He got the, the eclipse there were like, Hey we're going to do have two of the same Motors. They're both for G63 mortars and

and so, whoa - technically a 64 with a 63 top.

But yeah, when it's like the same, they're both 66 boat motors, and we're going to build into the same time and kind of like, it'll be a side like a little feature at, in the GSX build. So yeah, I don't know if we're

going to actually do a video for that one, I'm specifically, but if not, then I'll make videos and, you know, kind of really summer, Whatever. I don't know.

You know. So we were always thinking we

would like, and do the engines at the same time, you know, he's got ready, got a built-in super his and then at least, get his like running and driving and then like all the little details he wants to finish up. You know he can do, you know,

because he's had that car for five years.

It's like his car. So that's my other.

Um yeah so yeah it'll be it'll definitely be on the channel.

It just might not be one of those like where we come out with all the videos after each other and they're in order and because you know, he's got a lot of ideas.

Our steering and suspension and custom stuff that just wouldn't work for, you know, for me, like I wouldn't decide to do that stuff. You know, your Eclipse.

You said it was going to be a caper I so you're going to do is apply is going to be like Jesus. Yeah, it's it's LSC DSM.

I want this DSM. Y'all was gonna go to sex and

then we kind of talked about it. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna

go DSM because it's more car guy.

Like, I just want, I just ordered those two but yeah, that'll be a cool cool, little car.

And It's a keeper to. It's hard to find a rust-free

one. That's not all packed up, you

know? Yeah.

Like you get those. No.

We never got those like that. I think I think that's I think

that's like a, like a North American kind of car, really?

Yeah. We just saying because it's

actually a really cool looking car.

And, and I remember seeing what in the first fast and furious, I was like, oh no, what is this thing?

Is this? So cool.

I'm going to evoke the world. Never got like it correct.

It's a very cool car. Yeah, they break a lot mostly

from people just put in a ton of power through them, you know, because they're all wheel drive, there's stuff that breaks are, you know, differentials axles, all that, good stuff Transmissions. Now it's just stinks because

it's hard to find parts for watching.

I like a was an American show years ago but like was like a first-generation Talon and in they that they had that and a lady was to had a Honda Civic and there was a guy that had the talent and then they just throw a bunch of power out.

And like it's going to break on the drag strip and they did like a like a raise and a broken the drag strip.

So I was like, okay so so they're quite fragile in that aspect but engine-wise like the pretty good.

Like Scotty set up kind of had an EVO.

Yeah either a didn't you just got here?

Yeah 8mr yep tomorrow and and you know like the quite well loved a 4G especially over here and I don't know when the states because you guys got first general.

You guys got the Galore The all fours and stop right?

Like you guys. Yeah we did.

It was very is pretty low bowed numbers.

They are we doing at the airport allowance?

Yeah. All right.

I think the dsm's are, it's not like basically the same drivetrain as well. One, two, three, Evo where the

edges on the other side for the 429, sit all day, all done, just rotated the other direction they were flipped over so we didn't get any like the rest of the R&D of that platform we kind of missed all of them between the floors.

And then we picked up at the end date and I got the swan song.

Yeah, import rules. Work out there.

Can you guys import American cars?

We can? We've got similar to what you

guys got like a 25 year old because like, we're from here, that's popular right now, over there.

Um, how do I have you? But you Scotty.

But I've seen, like, heaps of 64, Impalas everywhere.

Okay, dude. Allison Blake, everybody in the

world. Wants those the 6263?

Yeah, where's yeah. There's such a cool car.

We got lots of Mustangs here, we've got like, I'm more like the oldest of nothing. Really new.

What we do have we do have new ones here, but like, that will have to be converted because I'm with a 25 year-old.

We can import like let's say, F250 F, 150 Euro, like a, you know, like icts or something here, but they have to be converted to right-hand Drive. No.

Yeah, I didn't big deal. It's long.

But that's for newer cars right now.

Because yeah, that's man. Less than 25 years old, correct.

Yeah, yeah. So, we don't, we don't we don't

even have that option. Oh yeah, we can.

It was only for the rest of his life.

Well, it's older than 25 years. You guys don't have to convert

it into left. That's better than here.

They don't even have the opportunity to bring it over and all if it's than 25 years. So, like, are there stuff coming

in from like, the not like are there like 89 Trends and like 90s Firehawk. Like, you know, stuff like that

rolling around that over there. Yeah, he's Camaros and that

getting around to. Yeah.

Yeah. Over those here.

You know I saw a Lost Generation Like Yours Like A fiberbed.

I read one like Jesus. Probably a couple months ago

just just cruising past mirror and like what hand drive version like it's been converted. I was I was like dude that's so

sick like I don't do is that was that platform ever offered in right hand drive or do you have to like get a custom Drive?

Or dashboard and idea gosh, what happens here in Australia, right? It's a little bit different.

We've got like shops here that specifically import American cars and convert them to right-hand drive and they look they look spot-on. Like they they kind of like just

mirror the dashboard over the other over the other way.

So like, it looks like a factory, right?

Hand drive conversion and it looks like it would be done from the factory. So so this car looked like how

your interior of your of your Trans Am looked Alex and it just just The way rather than weird. Because I all the videos I say

are all left hook cars. And and you say, what did you

say when in Ryan? And I like, I saw that there's a

guy that gets around here with the CTSV.

There's a few, there's a few hellcats around and stuff that we see that are, all right, hand drive all been converted and like the conversion costs, not shaped.

Like, I'm not gonna lie like that.

Like, I don't know what the hell, can over there with like, like, they're like, 60 Grand u.s. right?

70 grand. Like a, you mean, like a decent,

used one, like a brand new one? Like Doug, they're like nine.

A thousand dollars. The demand has.

Oh yeah, I can't believe how long it's lasted.

Yeah, it's crazy. Like, it came out in 2015.

Yeah. And it held their value like

really well. So even the new ones, which are

essentially the same super old body at this point super old interior and engine are still getting over sticker price at the deep water. It's insane style.

So it's like yeah now yeah, now we have the Hellcat.

You goes and the house cat keeps and they're like a hundred thousand dollars. They get like eight miles per

gallon and people are just financing them for the rest of their lives. They don't care today and he was

like, yeah, I was like, I really want to get a Hellcat Durango.

He's like it's $1400 a month but it's so cool.

And I'm like, dude that's like half my wage.

This is a car that like, gets horrible mileage, you know, and he's gonna drive it every day in the salt and then ruin it, and just, I don't get it. But, yeah, my brother got

married recently and like, we, we won't, we won't we all went to his Barbers, to get to get a haircut, like the day before the wedding, and I'm telling Sam talked to the barber and, and, and what we got to about cars because I have no life and no friends. And so basically, what we get to

talking and he's like, oh yeah, I've got a few key because my God, yeah, what do you got? His eyes.

God, I bought a brand-new Hellcat from the state's, got it shipped over and got a converted.

So if it's not a grin u.s. he paid, he paid.

So I think it's a little bit above sticker, got it shipped here. Why to wait an extra three

months for them to convert it which cost him and I think an extra 30,000 dollars to do like 30,000 like Oz.

Like I don't know what that is in in Freedom dollars, but but basically it's kind of like it was not, it's not cheap and he's like, dude, I love that. He's like, I went to Hawaii.

I'm like, I'm like why a Hellcat like out of all cars?

He's like, well I went to Hawaii on.

A holiday and rented one. Because like he did it, he did

Toro because we only just recently got to her ear, and he has eyes, like, two days. Like I had to have one.

So I got back and I could I go and I bought one.

I like holy crap. Like that.

That's really cool. So he's got like a 20-minute

Barber. Yeah, right.

Yeah, so they're essentially Australia's to jai which nobody knows about. He's cars so legal, like if he

gets pulled over like, he's, it's like he's in knees and all sorts of try, all sorts of trouble bit.

Like, you know, the we're not as strict as like, especially in California, and stuff like that. They're quite full on there, but

like, we can so we can get like SVT like Raptors and all sorts of stuff. I've seen, I've seen many of

them here. We kind of love for some, for

some reason. Like, you know, Rams, F trucks,

you know, a civil right? Toes and all that sort of stuff.

So we got a lot of them here and they're actually coming coming more and more prevalent. Hey, it's all right, so what was

that natively? Sold your dealerships.

Oh wow. Like there's like 12, there's

one Toyota dealership here that that brings in Tundras and like converts them at the dealership and sells them through they dealership, go. So yeah, full-size pickup truck.

That's normally sold out there. Like a Ford Ranger.

Okay. So that's as big as they get,

you know, okay, yeah, but I say yours getting around here on our rows, just like, oh my God. It's like, you can see nothing

but Grill in your rear-view mirror.

You like holding a wreck, Pickup trucks.

It's just it's crazy. They become like a status

symbol. You know what used to be a

utilitarian vehicle is now like a hundred thousand dollar luxury, you know, car truck? It's yeah, it's, yeah.

I don't know. I don't understand where that

like, you know, you're you're pick up your like, basically your farm truck ended up in like high-end, Mercedes territory.

Yeah, and the knowledge Factory right hand drive that you can buy from the parachute for it has like has come said recently, like holy crap. They're doing it.

What are we doing it? So, now Ford's offering this

year for the first time in years because we used to sell F trucks years ago like in the 80s and 70s.

We still have like f-100's and F-150s and, and stuff like that.

Now they're bringing him back to you.

So we're getting the F-150 back for the first time in like years. And Losing their mind over it.

But, you know, we get Factory Mustangs now from from, from Ford. And that's because I, like, the

last one was, like a, like, a, like a world car.

But like, these bigger companies like, like, you know, like, you know, GM and stuff like now saying, holy crap will instead of instead of just, you know, selling them here.

We can like make more money by by offering, right?

I had a factory right. Hand drive version.

So, these conversion shops have been doing it for, like, 30 years in Australia, are going to be in a little bit of trouble, because they're not going to be able to do anymore.

So they're going to be more specialized, I think.

Yeah. Get like a Camaro that's been

shipped out there. Converted and then ship it been.

Yeah yeah Australia. Being converted to right-hand

Drive. Can you just bring that back in

and be like totally cool? Like could that, can I be like

kosher there or like is that y'all know 100%?

I think, in some states like California, Probably have to do you have to do like an annual inspection so long as like, but we don't really care. I don't know of any places where

right-hand drive car is specifically for being right.

Hand drive is like that. That's an issue.

Yeah. Just like a year.

Yeah. As long as it has like all of

its smog stuff like all of that's untouched and Factory and a passes, you know the tailpipe never to us.

Sometimes there's an old biddy plug test like to make sure that the software is not the devil, but as long as all that's fine, like it doesn't matter what the Cosmetic bottle There's a lot of States here that don't care about any.

Yeah, you know, that I say Illinois where we are.

If the cars older than 95 or older than 96, so 95 and older, you don't have to do anything like you can and so I try to make it suck and I bought the clips.

I guess, when I bought the eclipse, I wasn't even sure what year it was. I just saw no rust and I was

like, bye. And I'm like, oh man, I hope

this is a 95 and at the 96th. Yeah, damn it I gotta go to

emissions even though it's the same car, the 1995 and so stupid, you know, Yes. Yes, are way more lenient than

others. It's winter.

The words. Like it's becoming similar /.

Like some of the thing here in Australia, like, with between allow States, I like what we're in Victoria, right?

And like, we called the cut, we called California Australia on of Australia because like, we're quite stringent with that sort of stuff. But like, other states, like,

you can be super just lie near like, like they don't really care as much. And it's, it's weird that like,

especially with inspection American.

There's such a vast array of a of like laws in terms of what's allowed even state-by-state. Like, so I live in the city of

Chicago, Max lives like an hour from here in a little town.

There's No emissions in his town.

If you own, you register R2. His little town.

You're good. So it's in the same state, just

an hour away and and in-laws are different.

So, you know, so you would almost be you had like a vast cart. Action that you didn't want to

deal with the missions to buy like a 30,000 dollar Shack like where Max lives and just register all the cars here and then you can save all that money and trying to make them all emissions compliant and all that crap you know.

So like that's actually I think yeah.

Mostly my cars. Just get back on the whole that

we should say. Like, it's just crazy.

Like, like I've seen like, some of the cars like roadkill and stuff, do they just like, no exhaust to just like completely built, belching smoke it like, like a lot of the diesel stop you guys who got like the diesel trucks.

I like these cards would have never seen a dirt road and they like massive over the top. Yeah.

What kind of things are like I've got like a 1970 Honda in 360 which is like a cake. Oh hey And like, like what?

I think of them as a sin, 600 there.

And like it, I will put up next to a, I'm next to it next to an F-150 of all things and I'm like, I felt like I was going to die. My, I don't know how, how, how,

like I just blows my mind how like, you can have these big diesels. I just like, just go just like

just suit everywhere. And it's like totally cool in

one state but in California it's like a big No-No.

I like it just it just completely boggles my mind.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't stay two differences.

They are they span many It's not just cars there's vastly different states and all sorts of, you know, different.

I don't know the spectrum of all sorts of rules and laws.

It's like moving to another like country.

Yeah, you know, like some people do the Montana loophole which is like if you own, you know, some kind of like an LLC in Montana.

I like some kind of like business or your business license is registered there and you don't have to pay any like there's no taxes when we purchase a car, so they Register all their cars there. And so, you know, a lot of guys

who are, you know, in the middle of a hundred, two hundred, three hundred thousand dollar plus, you know, car like price tags, like, hey, you can save, you know, what's that in Chicago would be about 10%? So yeah, he's a big 30 grandma

just registering an out-of-state, so they so you could, you could get an LLC, which cost you $150 to get the LLC paperwork from the state of Montana.

And now all of a sudden, you register all your Ferraris there and save, 30,000 dollars, a pop. So it's crazy that this has been

going on. For like, over a decade.

You'd think that someone would catch on to be like clearly a scam. Yeah, it's very, it's out in the

open. It's an open people laugh about

it. I have one of my cars is

registered to Vermont because like, I can get four years and tags the no inspection and no emissions.

I can get it for. I think it's like $150.

Whereas here it's like $150 per year and then you also have to go through all those Loops things like that, get the inspection, get the The emissions and everything, like, yeah, so, so, so that calm particular is a proper, a proper mechanics card. It'll get fixed once, once every

four years. Yeah.

Just how you can work through those kind of, you got those loophole options because he are assuming to move to, you know, a new state. You have to change it straight

over into that state. So I have that as well.

Like, if you get pulled over and your driver's license says local here. House.

But your your plates you have to have a pretty good explanation like you have maybe a summer home like a but the explanation would just be I have a summer home here or something you know so it's really not that hard but were you say I just moved here and my tags are good for three more years.

I'm not gonna renew them. If they don't need to get

renewed when they expire, I'll get it done.

But you know in the far future like free.

So if you like driving your car from like let's say Illinois to let's say California and it doesn't make it Missions there and it doesn't meet someone there.

Can you get like screwed over there?

Or is it because you've got Illinois tags.

You're totally totally kosher. It's just the law.

Is that your car should be registered to your primary residency. Like that or two.

Well, I take that back to if that car is going to be driven in that state and you have a primary residency, there it should be registered there. Well, the only difference would

be is if you have like a summer home but then again, it's like who's it would? Be a police department that's

like keeping tabs on you specifically.

And they count how many days of the year are?

Oh, you're not here for the majority of the year with that car. Like so it's one of those things

where yeah, technically you're supposed to do something.

But who's going to enforce it type of thing?

I've known some guys who live in who like moved to Nevada, which is right next to California, and then they drive in California a lot, what their modified cars and the cops, give them a lot of like, you know, they'll pull them over and they'll say, you know, I saw you here, you know 33 Weeks ago when I gave you a ticket. And so you're just trying to

skirt around and then they'll Bill impoundment car.

And so you have to prove that you've only been in the state like yeah, those two guys. So, yeah, it's um, it depends on

the state like California is the worst childlike is absolutely the worst. Yeah, it's amazing to me that

they have the car culture that they have, because their rules out, there are really crazy and you know, obviously it's the weather some like that. That's why they have a lot of

nice cars but like as an Enthusiast it seems like a huge pain in the ass. Has to be out there, you know,

like it's hard to modify cars that are admissions are very strict, you know, but here we're actually are pretty okay?

Yeah. You know, annoyed, surprisingly

and where we only, we only do the the plug test.

So yeah. As long as your computer says

that you Pat, the only all you're behind.

This monitors are set like you're good to go.

They don't they don't, you know, do the the tailpipes never done?

Yeah, we never knew that. Yeah.

It's like with your with your Trans Am, right?

Like because obviously it's quite heavily modified.

Do you have to do that test as well.

And they plug it in there like yeah but so good.

See you later. Passes.

Okay, we'll go with that. In part it passes and really

colors. Very that, that's good.

That's good. What's happening for the what's

happening for the channel? I is, is there any got any big

plans going forward with it? Or is it just like keep it as it

is? It's solid, it's working.

We're happy with what it was, what it's doing or you were saying, you know, I want to come on, a kind of do this, or I want to kind of do that. Or I want to go International

like going on a trip or something.

Like, what do you like, what are your, what are your plans for the show? Because I know.

All right. Peter, those Japan, quite you

got to Japan quite a lot, obviously, and a bit like, you know, would you? Because would you consider like,

doing doing like going and trying to buy like, and like a chiropractor about that and maybe two trips ago where we think it would be cool to go Rescue an abandoned car in Japan. Yeah.

Um, so we would obviously fly out there and do the same.

Show we do here just in Japan. That's all There might be some

where we go out for a week or something like that.

For me, it's difficult because I have three little kids.

So like if I was single, I'd be let's go to Japan.

A all month the reality for me is that it?

I mean, it's hard for me to even go on vacation, with my own family for a week. So for me to realistically, go

do this guy suffer, especially because it's not, like, I can present it as, I guess. Yes, it would be like, who will

for the channel, but it, is it at all like needed.

No, we're doing fine. Going to Indiana to have an hour

away. You know what I mean?

So that needed it would just be like, a fun cool thing.

I think to do. But yeah, but now, as far as the

channel in general, I'm just very happy with where it's at.

Like, Gotten to the point where we just really like the projects. Like so I've never like you

know, they're like a lot of guys will go down the path of like collaborating with everybody. They can collaborate with and

trying to just get to the most subscribers in the world and that's all they care about is the views and the subscriber base, like, how many the numbers and all the stuff for me?

I'm just so happy with what we're doing that.

If I could just sign a contract right now with the universe, Just keep this going for a long time.

I would do that in a heartbeat. Like I don't care to get much

bigger. I like it.

I mean I think that's kind of also the appeal to the channel you know. So I know a lot of people go

down the path of supercars and I just bought one but that's not where it really where the channels going.

It's it's simply is this a cool car?

Yes. Does it have a cool story?

Yes. Five cool car.

Is this a car that we think is cool.

Yeah we think it's like my band The Vamps.

The least toolbar that's ever been made.

But that and we talked about this last week joke about it, but it's mostly true. It is the favorite car.

Yeah. Because they do have a liar,

right? Like I was watching, I watched

that whole like Sears, when you picked up the smile on your face, Alex was just like like out of all the kinds of boy.

Like yeah. Then I was like, yes guys, I'm

just so excited. Passenger.

So like, you know, with all my kids stuff, it's like if I'm like get a, I could take the whole baseball team to again.

Supercharged thousand horsepower 15-passenger van, it's like I'm so pumped about that you know through the kids are gonna be like to baseball practice again, man.

Like you guys would be killed? Yeah, yeah so yeah I'm content

with where we're at. I mean the only the only thing I

would do as far as like a growth I guess is that I've really enjoyed doing like some of the merch stuff.

Like we're we're get we're gonna start selling if you like, automotive, diesel, products, and stuff like that.

And I want to see if I can build like a cool car, merch store that survives without me, plugging it, just because they're cool. It's cool snow, just like

building a building the brand. Yeah, so lightly cultivation of

the brand. Yeah.

So that's kind of like more like aside little like, kind of project thing that doesn't really directly connected the channel. I mean, obviously it gets most,

the promote promotion on the channel but like I want to, you know, I had a meeting today. The new merch company that's

local and like there's so many cool cars shirts and like, you know, apparel type stuff that I want to kind of get into, but again, it's but as far as the channel, I just want to keep the same thing because it's actually what we enjoy to do.

Like, we haven't custom-tailored to channel around any trends, like around what would do good with the YouTube algorithm, you know and all those people something.

I mean I've known so many YouTubers that just focus so much on that. At and then they become unhappy

and it shows in the videos and the whole thing falls apart and it's like, I don't want this to ever fall apart, you know, and we have a very like, one of the things that's like best that that Alex is like really built. As he's built a very finely

tuned type of viewer, and they're all like very like, I feel like probably if there's one channel that mechanics actually subscribe to. It would be ours because they're

not pulling their hair out saying, you're doing that wrong.

This is this is big ass like I know you guys don't know what you're talking about because I would like that's not right.

So I yeah that's that's one of the things that really.

So it's like the viewership I think is something to be very.

Yeah, very proud of it Alex. You know, talked earlier about

how I was like this is the type of video I want because this is the type of viewer that I want and I won't like really move outside of that because that I'm going to start losing, you know, losing my we had like quality subscribers, like people letter.

So supportive like There's no drama in the comment section, we don't seek any of that. I mean, I've been pulled over

many times. I don't film any of it.

I don't care her for the like, any of that kind of stuff.

We just want to buy cool cars and have fun fixing them and that's it. I think look coming for somebody

like that watch is like a little YouTube channel.

I do YouTube channels like complete to me off.

Oh you know, I just bought this and then did this.

And then I got pulled over by this cop and then I, you know, I'm just like I don't care if any of that like I actually I should just like genuine genuine work and you guys are Anyone and and I and it shows and shows in the chosen in the production quality, it shows in the in the effort that you guys go and get to the other side of the country to pick up cars.

It show, it shows an in the work that you put in and it's a bit like mad props to both of you and then to Max as well, you know, for putting it all together and because it's a genuine, Sharon, and for me watching genuine content, it's just, it makes it worthwhile because because when you say, oh, you know, I did this just just feel like, you know, for a Fame, it kind of turns me off. If it, if that way, if that

makes sense. Because you wear, when you see,

we see genuine people that are you know we're doing this because we love cars and we think this is cool.

We think we think a 15-passenger vans.

Cool. Hell yeah.

You know like why the hell what is so?

So like it like from a viewer like from a who's watching who watches every one of your videos.

I have the bielski and the bell notification and all that happens, you know, just it's I get excited when I see one of your videos coming out and I'm like yes like another video for my girlfriend to yell at me for watching but it's a it's And it makes your people like I do. Scotty myself and the other guys

are come on. Come on the show.

With the liquid, they couldn't be on today, but like, we appreciate content, like yours because it's real and and and then we actually do a lot of a lot of work to make sure that it's also like very technically correct, correct.

Yeah. Like, for example, the like with

the supercharged Corvette and getting the Opti spark, just right. It's like it's a weird

technology that does. It's got some weird little

Phoenix if it's not like it's unlike any other, you know, distributor system and that we see normally.

And so we had to make sure that we knew exactly what we were talking about. Why it fails like what?

Like what are the manufacturing problems and one of the solutions and how it dresses it. So like I think we did we did a

lot of homework on the backside of time to make sure that we that we would have at the end of it.

Basically, we were a peace Park experts and whoever watched it was Opti Spark Yeah, and we got you can get and it's like no one is going to care if you're like, like double check to work like I never want to be wrong. Like so it's funny like

sometimes there's something that both of us like pretty.

We're like yeah we know the answer that question.

I'm like all right dude turn the camera off.

We got a double triple check. The research to find out that we

said is one thousand percent accurate in, you know, just I don't know just that's that's the kind of stuff that takes a long time, you know? No, the do.

But the nice thing about working with Alex is that because, because he's like, pretty much one of the only Automotive YouTubers, that was actually a seasoned journeyman.

Technician that like, he has all of that that experience working at a shop. And so that really makes it

makes it so much easier because all that's like right in there and he's like, and then so will bounce off each other but yeah, depending on Who's got what? Like, I worked at a diesel show.

He worked in a diesel shop. He did the Mercedes like I've

done. So like between the two of us,

we like pretty much have a lot of bases covered and so like yeah it makes it really good. Yeah.

It's I mean if we have to fill in the gaps every once in a while but you know that's about it and it shows like with the ABC Caillou did that was the CL Yasiel. 65 64 65 like like you

you were you know arms deep in that fluid and you will annual and you like it like this, I hate this car at this point but But but you showed your like, you know how good of a techie word because you like you like okay well it can't be there's a has to be their son and you worked it out and same thing with the the 156 cars that they you've do you like the one that you just you know, took the heads off, you know, kind of future proofed it and put it back together.

Like like you don't you don't see you don't see content like that. Like you, you don't see like

that specific detail of your, you know, the the bucket shims that, you know, the in their head that you're upgrading to the SLS ones or what have you like?

I wouldn't have Not like and and I told my brother about it because he's got a, he's got a C63 and I said said if you want to do anything to do with this got watch this video and just do that. Oh, you know, literally just

duplicate everything I did in that video and that engine will be solid like that is every single problem with those in a video and I'm going to actually copy it in another car that I just bought. Steam engine might be going to

California. Yeah, we're rescuing it from

California. Feels like

I've had like pretty much all the performance parts for before I even pick the car. Like, so the supercharger kit

and the headers The injectors and everything they're already waiting. Like they're going to be at the

shop before the car is at the shop.

So sick so sick such a cog like them to do.

I have to buy them at that engine.

I had a point where I like my spare room.

I my place was just like wheels and like like I think I'd like your body petals and then all sorts of stuff in there and like, like my girlfriend was there.

Like Matt, what are you? What are you?

What are you doing? I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

you know, I'm organizing stuff that like like why are they on the car? My because of the car's still

getting a few things ready for before I can go on and like they just couldn't fathom that but I could completely is that how you feel getting all parts really before that before the car even shows up. So are you do that?

You do that same kit that that I've got the name of the place Erp? That's it yet.

Yeah, those same one we put on that.

I was so impressed with that kit.

I mean, so good. It was really running 3.5 PSI of

boost pressure. So like nothing.

And it was making like 600 wheel horsepower.

The I mean, we drove it for 45 minutes and then you could touch the entire supercharger kit and it was still cold.

Like it wasn't even doing any work at all.

So I'm like, yes, I want. I want that on something, so,

yeah. And like, like the 156.

Like, I drove my brother's one last week like it's a, it's a glorious engine. Like, it's just the way that

light. The noise and the Kate just revs

and it and really characterful Engine with the supercharger on it, it's just going to like take it.

Take that to a whole nother level and I still think the same characteristics. It has you know it's not.

It's thing with the put a supercharger and it's not writing turbos where there might be lag or it'll change.

I mean this is just going to be more of what it is at all times.

Like so yeah it'll still rev just as fast and be just as cool and I don't know it. Better.

Sounds good plus supercharger whine.

Yes, although that kids doesn't really well.

We got to make we gotta figure out something.

Yeah none of the Alex has supercharged cars.

Make Super Treasure noises. Yeah, it's really weird but

we'll see them. So when I am working with

ProCharger on the ban-kit yeah we just got it and I'm like, listen I know this is gonna sound stupid but I'm like I want it to make noise. I want to know, I have a

supercharger because all my other ones you know the route Style of the ones that said you know replace the intake manifold are also quiet and all my cars. Like I want something that

whistles at idle and make some cool noises and I like alright, cool. We're going to do the gears kind

of the old way. We used to do it so it'll sound

yeah. Lower, I didn't know that.

Oh yeah. It's straight cut.

Your you lining sound like that. Like it.

Like it was. It was so quiet that sucks

because of the lighting engine. There's no engine in the

lightning right now. So, basically, the where we left

off with that was I put a bigger eaten supercharger on a stock engine, and it was literally a temporary engine.

Just because I signed a deal with eBay where the lightning had to go. It had to go all around the

country to 15 different car shows on their big semi-truck trailer. And it needed to just simply run

and drive. But when they called me and

offered me, the sponsorship, the lightning was just a frame.

No engine cab was off of it. So we had 30 days to get this

lightning to show quality conditions.

So I couldn't spend any time on building the engine, I just bought a used stock engine with a big tear blower and then we put it all together and it ran fine, but it wasn't making any boost at all. And that was the night before it

had to get on the semi truck to go to 15 shows.

We just got to spend the time, making it look good and detailing it. It's still ran and drove and

everything but it sounded great. Like that's not a great wedding

but we don't know if it has any supercharger whine because it would never something was going around the bypass valve and I was just letting all the air I think.

But well no one day with the engines have been stuck at the machine shop for months. Yeah.

And hopefully, we'll get that back soon.

That one's down one should make noise.

Those those old Eaton's. They made some pretty good

noise. So hopefully, yeah.

And then I just bought Other Supercharged V8 car that you guys will see in like two weeks and it makes a little bit of noise. Yeah, that one's says decent.

It's decent. Yeah.

Okay. So, like the, the engine for

the, for the, for the lining is that the numbers-matching engine that you took out the head, the head gasket issue or is that yeah, yeah, that's the one that's at the machine shop.

So it's going to be the stock block in the stock crank, but we're doing forged rods and pistons.

That's got stock heads, there's still valve job and haven't checked over and then it'll have headers.

The bigger supercharger bigger fuel injectors and stuff like that. So it'll be a pretty mild oh,

and different camps. I got some really nice chopping

cams so it's going to sound really cool like in that aspect but it'll be like a 500-horsepower 550.

Some like that car truck was hit with a like I'm D bad pickup truck. There's singing really lower

without the blower working, it just instantly, lift the tires up. So like it's all just gratuitous

You know, we used to say, here in the here, in Australia, with like Moe, lose and like, and like turbocharged Falcon Utes and stuff like that. I got no weight in the back and

they just go sideways in, like, just like that.

No business having like, more than 150 horsepower, and I'm not even going to use it really. As a, I'm not going to do

anything with it. Although we might part run

Parts. I didn't paint the bed.

I left the bed like a real pickup truck bed so we could run Parts. Again, you'd probably like that

among ourselves. We could or we could just leave

it so your show. Yeah.

And you do the whole like Fast and Furious thing with it.

Like have all the parts together like oh yeah I'm sure.

The McLaren by the time the van is supercharged in tune. I think we're not to do a

McLaren burst van video, but I'm going to present the video as if it's something that the general people out there, have always wanted finally bringing it to him.

It's like the it's like The Rumble in the Jungle Ali vs.

Foreman. It's the van verse McLaren.

I don't know I thought your van and this to them.

Can you can you please like take him to a drag strip and like rice them like I like honestly that way.

That would make for like, I mean, it's pointless content but it's amazing content. Like it's this instant nobody

would ask for something. They feel bad.

Obviously, but my Escalade, my wife's escalate weighs 600 pounds and when we write 1:47 in the quarter mile, which I think with a transitional do 1280. So like this, Vans gonna have an

awesome Trends in it and more power so it should run easily into the twelves. If you hundred dollar

driveshaft, I just wanted the exact because their cost I'm blocked. Those ones in those right like

that. Then I'd like an aluminium.

Yeah. Like an L.

Yeah. Those are the it's iron black

aluminum head. So the stage, the first

iteration of the band is going to have a totally stock engine, will just do the fuel system. The ProCharger on you, it'll be

on E85 and and the transmission and and we're just going to see where we're at. And then I think because I know

how horrible the machine shops are with stealing engines forever. I'm just going to buy another

engine. Yes.

And have it and build it. So, Then what?

So then once it's ready, we swap it in the van in two days and call it a day because if I take that motor out of the van and send it out its dead for three or six months.

Yeah, so yeah yeah. That's that's fair enough.

Well as mr. Zepeda, obviously being I'm

going to Japan in September. Anything that you would

recommend that I do before because like I'm kind of looking things. It seeing a thing as your you've

been there quite a fair bit. What would you?

What would you recommend for for a car?

Guy like me to kind of do Hope for a car guy.

Japanese people are very like they're usually I don't know if you've been there before but they're very very open except not at first. So if you can get past that

first little bit, learn some really bad Japanese like just learn it poorly and and and and then you use it and use it poorly and then they're like, oh first of all, you're an idiot and then second of all, like I don't feel so bad about that.

Like bringing out my English to like, help your like because my English is better than your Japanese and you've made a fool of yourself first. So no, I can respond in kind of

not have to worry. Like we everyone knows that the

biggest fool in the room is already so I don't need to worry about. Like if you take it yeah that's

the truth and then drink with them drink with Japanese people if you can't. Yeah.

Okay. So for car, guys, you know, the

sad thing about Japan has because their shotgun the Is so is so brutal and that the taxes are really, really bad.

It's actually quite Devoe and also a lot of the cars are hitting that 25 year. Mark, like the really good ones,

just Japan is just drying up of Enthusiast car.

So, you know, I used to be able to do when I was in high school in the 2000s. I used to be able to like just

on my way to work or on my way to school.

I would I would see like, you know, 10 15, 20, awesome cars that are like car-spotting worthy to take a photo of But now it's like I had to I actually drove around at night I had this awesome little cappuccino and I would just drive around and I feel like two or three hours and I you know maybe get five good spots were so like there's there's an it's very few and far between but you what you have to do is you have to find some tuning shops. So most of all the, all the good

cars are around tuning shop. So if you, if you can like look

I had to do, you know where you're going?

Yes, so we go, we're going into obviously flying into Tokyo, will is Narita to the same thing.

Yeah, we're doing that. We're doing all the work.

She doing all the, the motor museums and all going to, Honda and Toyota and stuff. And going, they're going to go

into a soccer. Going to Hiroshima.

Going to, I'm going to do a little rule stuff as well because I wanted to. Yeah, so we are like, really

looking forward to it, but yeah. All All those kind of, like, all

those kind of things. But if you got anything that

like tune shops, like, I don't know if I'm, if I jounin and like, and Tom's and stuff, allow people to go there.

But like, yeah, I mean, those are, those are the ones that like everybody knows about. So like, you know, like top

secret and like, you're all those ones are, I think, I think you'd have better luck. One of my favorite tune in shops

is in this place called Fukuoka where I went to high school and they, they are one of the, like, the top 2JZ to nurse.

But their rut like pretty much unknown and so they've done a lot of the R&D on early. So they were, you know I'm in

terms of like super, they were like you know one of the top shootout cars against, you know, June top-secret like all the big tuning houses like and this one is G just like, didn't didn't he didn't hit the that like the fame and then everybody else got so like and I could go there and I like hang out with him for probably, I don't know, three hours and you just like we just like swap stories and stuff and you know I interview him and so Oh, so, you like the, usually the bigger ones.

They don't have as much time for for like, like, Automotive tourism I guess. But but if you can find some of

the smaller ones, they have a little bit, they're a little bit like more relaxed. And hopefully, like if you, if

you speak cars like you kind of make that connection and and go from there. And they, you know, the cool

thing about Japan also is that they're all these tiny little, like, race tracks, just like like, Homebrew racetracks up in the mountains and we're like, the local guys will go and like, they know where it Isn't and all of them, like, one of them that's like, you know, maybe on their family's land and then just go up there and they shredded tires.

So, if you can find one of those and then you can like you said, you're going out to rural areas like that's usually where it is.

So, like, kind of trying to break into those and and see if you can tag along and want to one of those trips.

Yeah. That'd that'd be cool because I

couldn't because what we go into our metal gear on a different.

We were definitely going there, which would be cool.

But yeah, I'm going to take that on board and try.

Try, try to some of that data that be Awesome.

You know a lot of the the tutors are like it used to be like you know Street Racers and toga guys but now like all of that has just appeared in favor of drift racing.

So all the racing is drift racing.

Like all the street stuff is dressed up like all the modified cars are drift modified cars like you don't see any like you know really finely tuned time Attack cards which is where my heart's at like yeah. So you know I'm you know, kind

of it's like I feel a little like that that I'm Japanese car culture has lost quite a bit like in recent years with, you know, first of all, like, all the cars, you know, like a nice chassis car used to be, you know, like 1,500 bucks to get like a solid base. But now it's like the ten times

that because all of them have been either been wrecked by, you know, people drive them off the sides of mountains, but also like they all get bought up and exported.

So you know there's no domestic like Base anymore for it.

So it's really sad. Like imagine all like the

Mustangs like went away. I was like one of the, you know,

the Ford performance guys haven't been.

Yeah, thank you again. Yeah.

So I'll go my last mission for you guys and I'm Scott, he's got one more bit. My last question is, what is

your Holy Grail car to have on your channel?

But like a holy girl color? Is it the GN or is it the or is

it something else that you would like?

You know I'd love to this would be a Holy Grail card to have on the channel. I mean I I mean I don't know.

Yeah I mean the Jeep The Grand National was something.

I if you asked me that before the Grand National, I would have said the Grand National but there it's not to say that there aren't a whole bunch of other cool cars.

I wanna get on the Channel, I want pretty much every GM turbo V6 car from the 80s and 90s. So the typhoon and the Cyclone,

the 89 turbo TransAm. I would love to have all those

and then the I want to get a DeLorean and put a grant additional engine and then be like the only swap I think it would do consider it as Yeah, we're going on to glory in itself, is probably the yeah, yeah, I want to get something I want to involve has been a big fan of the Back to the Future movies. I'd love to have my own

DeLorean. I think that'd be fine.

But yeah, I mean, there's a million other cars I want to have. It's hard to, like, rank them

sometimes, you know? But honestly, like, I don't

think any of them are like none of them are expensive cars.

Yeah. No, that's the thing.

They're none of them are. It's just a matter of finding

one, a good version of One and one that hasn't I like interesting story cars. You know, whether it's like a

something to do with the family owning it for a long time, or it's been abandoned, you know, so yeah, there's a lot of weird cars, you know, I was just telling Peter, they made the like a GXP Grand Prix. He'll run passenger seat that

folds down like the front of it folds down and turns into table and and I'm like well that's cool and those aren't even like So yeah, there's a lot of, We, I Wouldn't Mind an Aztec and let's go through. Yeah, it's probably be like my

newer car that I kind of had my eyes on.

I think that's like the last of a lot of things for a Corvette, you know, obviously last front-engine last manual, transmission, ZL6 last supercharged.

See ghosts Six, most likely not on.

So I think that's a car. Yeah, I mean, they're just so

good. I think they look, they look so

good. It was the path.

I think it was the Pinnacle. Like, I like the CH, but I think

the C7 looks better. Well, the sea, the sea.

It's a different different. Almost not indifferent.

Yeah. But it's a radical departure

from what everything else was. Yeah, it's a whole different

ballpark that game like that car.

It's just I mean no manual. Dc2, you know dual-clutch

transmission only? Yeah.

Well then you get that, you get all the leg.

Instead of having like the, what is it new balance and jean shorts like old, guys, the point not now you got like the hype people who are like want like, you know, basically a Ferrari looking car at GM yeses or really honestly, not.

I'm like, they're bright. Like their big, you know.

Nicely option was like, you know, deep in them in the 100.

See they're all six-figure cars. Yeah.

Yeah. C7z though.

I mean you can get them now for fifty five thousand dollars and that is an insane amount of car for the money.

This is there's not a lot of cars that you could say, for that money that you could get like, that is a whole bunch of car for the money. I mean, I can't.

Yeah, I mean, they held up pretty well especially during the last crazy price hike. They, you know, but still, I

mean, to get into any, you can get a really nice one in the 60s, like with 15,000 miles, like, and perfect.

And it's like, wow. You cannot build a car that good

for that much money like that's crazy.

So yeah, I want to get one of those, I don't know what car I've always wanted what we just bought, I just bought so that I will see that in the middle of the month.

You'll like it. He meant you mentioned it during

this. Yeah.

That's that's a great little after after release into this when I when I edit it to be like, okay.

Any last question because I think that's what can keep you going for. So long is in America, you have

so many awesome options. You know, so many vehicles to

pick from because, you know, they produce so many of them, I could walk through our car yards here.

And, you know, there's nothing really worth of making a YouTube channel over at all compared to the options that you get and just how easily you can get yourself into a V8.

Yeah, yes. Yeah, I fully understand that

and I half of my every other summer.

I was in Italy for three months. Most of my family is in Italy.

So I would go to Italy. And I've come back and all my

friends would be like, oh, how many Ferraris and Lamborghinis, did you see, and like zero because the gases, you know, eleven dollars a gallon on basically, you know, and the and then they get taxed on the size of the engine and all this and all this stuff. So it's in on you.

Have to be very rich, he just to have like, a Mustang or something, you know? So like every time I would come

back to America being a car guy be like, oh, man, this is nice.

One of my cousin's, these my age, and he loves cars to.

So, when I, when he would come back here, people like I can't believe these are your normal cars.

Like, you know this, we if we have 90 horsepower, that's like good, so yeah. Only fortunate, like, for sure.

At the, we have a selection like none other.

That's for sure. Yeah, I was gonna say like, it's

going, I can relate to this, like, look, the cars that we are in like Scotty an iron and a few people had to come on, come on the podcast. Like like like which we try,

find like the coolest cars we were in what we can get right?

And and they're not super expensive cars and I like and the fact is like you can do that virtually all the time in America. You can be compiled heart that

there's like a there's like a cool Fox body for not much money. I will go by that.

Like you know, it's just like Like, we don't have that, we don't have like as much of a chance as you guys.

So that's actually pretty sick that you guys can just find cool cars. Like yeah, definitely,

definitely gonna take advantage, just buy them all gasp cars are probably V8, specifically, are probably around the decline around the way, not the way out. Yeah, buy them all.

Yeah instead. Yeah, I'll be I'll be selling my

Tesla soon for this new car that I bought and part of the I think I mentioned this The video we made but it's like we're living in this era right now that we might, well maybe some of us have realized it but this is the Pinnacle of gasoline and internal combustion like because it's going to be gone soon.

So like in the history books like a hundred years from now, they're going to look back at this little part of our you know of our history and be like that was the most there they ever did human beings could ever do with internal combustion with explosions inside of metal cylinders.

Yeah, that's it. And then it'll just be all

electric and there. And no money will be put at no

big-time money. Manufacturer money will be put

into into any of that, you know. And we're you know, I'm not

saying it's gone in like the next year.

But even if this, even if we're in the last 15 years, historically speaking, that's a small part of time.

And we're in the world where 707 horsepower hellcats are now eight years old and hellcats not even going to be made in 2024 anymore. So it's like we're seeing this

like the man. The big manufacturers are

pulling out and we And this is it, I mean, this is we have stock engine cars that can, you know, with the pulley and a tune and ET 5 or making 1,000 horsepower, it's like it doesn't get that much better, really? And already the R&D has dried

up. So like yeah, Rd.

And then like after the after that platform is done, then they'll stop selling the platform but already like all the R&D money is no longer an internal combustion.

So it's like, you know, like you the writing is definitely on the wall and I Think. Yeah.

So I'm going to be driving a very bad gas mileage.

Internal combustion as a daily, just because this is going to be the, I think this is the last era.

Yeah. That that is normal.

It will soon become Recreation only.

Yeah, with the electric car, you know, Revolution happening.

So, I don't think people realize that like, we were still buying hellcats and Mustangs and Camaros here and trashing them and modify that it's like, these are going to be like, Cherished pieces of gold? Yeah, you know like when we got

because I don't think that any any electric car will ever hit like that? That kind of like enthusiasts?

Yeah. It won't ever like resonate in

the heart of like, you know, your Enthusiast I've ever again.

Like it will always be, that's the sound of an engine.

That's the sound of a cam. And that's the like these things

and they won't ever Diminish in their potency.

So like as cars don't have that, they have to mimic.

Those sounds pretend those like those, they like the real ones are going to be still, those knows.

We're going to see that Marcin drastically reduced as the generations filter through, you know, I think like, I think we're at Peak combustion at the moment.

Like this is, this is, and as you were saying, people like the running of the world, it's theirs.

I mean days, like, shutting down internet, here's the thing.

We've seen electric cars, You know, climb up.

So quickly, are there any electric car tuner shops that have popped up now? There's none because there's

there's nothing you could even do these things and Tesla's proven it by coming out with a plaid there.

What I mean it's a nine runs out of 90 when the quarter mile on a 5,500 pounds to Dan. And so, that's the only thing

we'll see if it flops will see swaps of like, you know, a plaid type of drivetrain and student. Maybe an older cars like that,

but but the long gone are going to be the days of changing out the fuel injectors. Cause I'm doing this.

And I know that's like an old guy thing to say because when fuel injection became a thing. Yeah, we're never going to be

able to tune cars. Again, I have enough self

awareness, to realize that what I'm saying might sound old.

But like but knowing how electric cars work, it's like there are ready so good like and in powerful that it's like and they don't have any feeling, like I drive this, this really fast Castle around and I'm like, I'd rather drive a car.

This way, slower, you know, well, Like Scotty and I went to a classic Winter Classic Japan. It was a classic japanese car

show last year and and I've got a first gen MR2 and there was a, there was a anymore to like mine.

I was like, oh cool, you know? Aw Levin.

I woke up to it looks in the back and I'm sure it's got.

It was like, what the hell is electric converted?

Like it was, it was an electric inverted and it'd be it'd be faster. It would be quicker, it'll be,

you know, it'll do everything everything better than my own but I'm just like it just won't have that same feeling, you know. And and this When I drove that

C63 last week, like I drove for a whole week when I broke my brother was on his honeymoon and he's like, he's like, enjoy it.

Take it. I was getting horrible.

As you would say, gas mileage there, like it was miserable.

But every time I started the car and that high idle and and it was just, it was just ridiculous.

And and everyone we like, whoa, what the hell is that?

And I'd be scaring little children.

It was great. It was, it was awesome because I

thought, yeah, I felt like I was like this is, this is, this is this is sick. This is this gives me feeling.

This gives me. It gives you something that

Electric car doesn't have. And and I just did.

The thing is that you like, it's not a, it's not something you can put in a brochure, it's not something you can sell to people. It's not something you can put

in there. There's no, it's not a

quantitative number the, and so, like marketing departments can't use that. Like when you look at what like

you know, what specs are in a car?

It's like zero to 60 times. It's you know how what, what,

how many inches are your wheels? Like, that's like, like what are

the options inside of it? Like, All these things that have

zero Perry and actually, maybe even a - bearing on the feel, like the intangible feel of a car, like all those things are not what you know Mark, like what Sells Cars?

Yeah. So what like that?

We look at that. Sell the cars to us.

Are not what most people look at or think to look at when you're looking at a car. Well, I mean, it's the reason

why I like bold like, like the lost lost new car.

I bought like was a, it was a Ford Fiesta ST cuz like I love Kazakh mirror in a corner and Characterful, and it's got its got a 3-cylinder turbo engine and it's fun.

And it sounds great. And then I went and bought a

this. Sorry, I'm a Honda Honda n360,

which is 360 species and it's a slowest thing in the world but you get it's just you get that feeling in a car.

I don't care if it's zero to 60 in 45 years, it does that doesn't bother me. What, what I, what, I get

enjoyment out of is just like it just, it's fun and it's, and you get a wave everywhere you go. And, and you're not going to get

that without, you're not going to get that with an electric car. It's just not gonna happen.

Interesting case, study that we've already seen in the last 18 months. What is the Tesla plaid?

Like, when that, when that car came out on paper, it's the best car ever made. I mean, it's, it's the fastest,

It's a good-looking car. Every you know, blah, blah,

blah, blah blah, and then what happened?

Tesla's reduce the price of a new plan by thirty thousand dollars, because demand is not there.

What everybody are buying, the M5, the AMG, the CTSV, you know, all You know, we're on paper, the Tesla wax is those cars.

I mean, it's not even close but at the end of the day, I like my friend Rich rebuilds on YouTube. He's got a quite a few friends

that have bought plants and have sold them for.

You know, slower cars like our s7s and stuff like that because they have no feel that. It's like it just gets boring.

Yeah and so that it at first, I was excited about that like Revelation that I'm like, yes, like they didn't take over.

Do you know because I was scared like all these guys that just care about zero to 60 times and stuff like that are available.

I just want the fastest one. I don't care what it is.

They would have gotten the Tesla and it first I was happy that that didn't happen but now it makes me a little sad because these cars are going to take over completely.

And and then if there's no other new car Option, eventually there's not going to be any new cars for anyone to buy but those and I think that all that means is that the Enthusiast Community is just going to go there, it's going to tank.

Especially with the new generations because the old cars don't become cool again until they're kind of really old.

Yeah. So like they're just they going

to like kind of crap status for a while like the 80s Camaros and Mustangs after the 80s and then the 90s is early 2000s.

They were still these cheap piles of crap so the newer.

But people like the people that you may be in their 30s or 40s that had some money to buy a new pony car, a muscle car, they're not going to buy those. They're going to buy the latest

model but if there is no latest model, They're still not going to buy those old cars because they're not cool yet.

So then so they're just going to it's just going to skip their mind. They're going to find a new

hobby. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Like well Tom, I'm worried about

weird about that. But, well, I see I see it as a

teacher in high school because like, what I when I was in high school, it was like, it was like a Rite of Passage to get your license. And everybody had their first

car, parked at the front of the school and and and we got you two jobs cards. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, you know, the kids like

that. Don't even get their last name

of God. Like there's no point.

Like we just could just gonna be but I'm like I'm like what?

Like what? Is this doesn't, it doesn't make

sense to me. It was like what you did on your

16th birthday is you would go to the DMV and your gear.

Glad I don't know how like you guys, you can think you guys are a team maybe 18 by 18. Yeah, yeah.

So like on your birthday like oh my gosh.

Like you line up and you wait there.

You get there extra early. So it'll have like date.

It was issued was also your birthday.

I will have that. Like, I drove my illegal 1988

Trans Am on my 16th birthday without a driver's.

License to the DMV to get my driver's that's illegal and I drove out legally like that. That kind of stuff is.

Yes gonna go away. Yeah.

Yeah I think than 20% of 16 year, olds have their drivers license. Well, like, in some states.

I mean, obviously like the more rural States, we need a driver's license. Like yeah that's you know but

but like play. This is where it all.

Yeah. It's in the real driverless

technology. Yeah, it's just gonna get better

and better. Well, driving.

See was a chore. So then it becomes like

something people want to do. So, it's also like the cars

don't like, they don't encourage you to become a better driver, but become enthusiastic about driving, because it's an appliance, and there's no feel to it.

And so then why would you do? Yeah, what is that?

Another enthusiasts, like genre that has gone away.

I've never really thought about that, but that's something to think of. Well, I mean it's kind of like

how the CDs was the last. The last album.

Like like when you listen to music as an album that was you know about peace. Yeah.

And then another, my music is still obviously popular but then the way that yeah I mean I guess music is still not well but then you like music is getting shortened down.

A tick tock. Like so you like yeah.

I guess it's do people not play music anymore.

They do they see us? Oh yeah.

I guess it's all right. You know I still if I like it

out, if I like an elbow or like an artist, I'll go buy this CD which is, which is really weird because everyone's like you my city. So I'm like yeah.

Because I want to support the artist behind you actually see her, you know, but like even though it's going to be like everyone's like just just Spotify it like streaming.

Like why would you? Why would you, why would you do

that? That's just really weird.

Yeah, but yeah, I guess that's where that's where cars are going, which is which sucks it really does.

But we still have I think will be I think will be we got another 20 years I think. Yeah, not of new cars coming

out, but we got time. Yeah.

We got 20 years of Google. You know what, like a lot of the

aftermarket companies that supply, all of the parts that we use, like, those ones, like, you can't get them.

Like, you used to be able to re ring an engine like that was like, something you would do as a maintenance item.

And now, like, we can't get an engine rebuilt for life because they're all drying up all the machine.

There's no one will be shy. They're all old guys that want

to retire and no one wants either business.

I hear the story all the time. Yeah.

That like the three right there. Uh, so yeah, they're all old

guys that want to call at this point.

They're angry. Yeah, because no one, they are

offering a year or two of training included with the business and no young guy will take it.

Yeah. Like we have one of the best

track GM. Transmission, Builders local

here, this guy Chuck, he's super nice and he has been trying to sell this business and train a new guy.

For like three or four years now and he's like look he's like it all this in all this knowledge dies with me but he's like I can't do this for much longer. Yeah and no one will buy it.

So there goes one of the best GM.

Transmission builders in the country or the world.

Yeah. And all his being power is just

going to get wasted, you know, at this point.

So it's it's scary and sad, you know, we're having that issue.

He liked my first guy had a copyright.

All right, and I had to take it to some old guy to get it tuned, right? Because like no new guy now to

do it. Like, Like my mechanic set it up

and he's like, no, I got it running good but take it to take it to to I forgot his name but he's like he will get it running. Sweet.

So I took it there man the kind of brown butter and and like you know it's and but like he charged me an arm and a leg because nobody's doing any more and I had to drive legit to the other side of town to get it done.

And he's the only one in like the space of the 150 km from me that that do it. So yeah, yeah, I was just like

fire, no one does carbs anymore. Now I'm like it's diet it's a

dying art form. Warm and it and it sucks.

Because now, with this cake, I've got its got a cob and it's had a bit of copy issues, but we're getting on top of it.

But like, I don't have to drive it all the way to the other side of the world to get it to get it repaired, I want to be able to get it done, you know, and it just, it just, yeah.

Yes I'm yeah. My New Year's resolution is to

drive my gasoline cars as much as possible.

So I'm getting rid of the Tesla and I'm just kind of Joy.

I mean II like V's, I've been into him for a long long time but sadly Fondo de get back in there.

Well I come in this evening is a cool.

Yeah like they cool with like they're just not as cool, you know? I like that.

They just mother bleep right there.

Great daily Dreams. Yeah.

But I never would take the Tesla to a car show.

It's funny when they have Tesla car shows.

It's actually want to go to one just to see what in the world.

They're doing over there. Yeah, that's it.

Thank you guys for coming on the show today.

It's been a great short. Great talk.

It's feels like those two hours of just flown by.

Yeah, I'm just looked like, holy crap.

It's almost 11 o'clock our time. So Alex and Peter from The

District cards. Thank you guys so much for

coming on. Give you can you Allison Peter,

give you a shot of plug, where can people find you?

Where can they were? Can they buy your merch to give

the people really get three cars on every big social media platform. So YouTube's Facebook,

Instagram, Tic Tac Twitter and logistic cars.com If you guys

want to pick up a shirt or a foam Cannon, we get some awesome phone cannons. Comment and some other stuff but

yeah, that's it. Legit street cars everywhere.

We just released our first single on the website.

Oh yeah, there's one example. So we have a, I have a legit

streetcars to channel where we haven't posted a lot of videos out there, but it's mostly just random stuff that can't create an entire video. So, Peter and Max, literally

sang, the outro and now we have it for a free download.

So if you want to hear Max and Peter singing, It's so funny.

It's so ridiculous. Brianna was there alcohol

involved in this happening. It's like that's, that's fine.

This is, this is what happens when out like Alex is out of the shop. Yeah.

Maximum it was the second Channel and we don't have like a paid subscription to one of the, the music like where you get copyright free music or whatever.

And so that one there was no outro music and I said, Oh Max.

What if we just like, beatboxed it?

Like we just like took it listen to it, right away.

Just like repeated it just went like really, really, really like. And like, thousands of people

have downloaded the extra step so it's not like, they don't care. Do two things.

What I'm going to buy if I'm gonna because my phone kind of sucks compared to your one and I'm going to, I'm going to use it as my ringtone and then that's going to be - only it's a good one. Well, thanks for having us.

Thanks for saying, yes, thanks for coming on and it's been.

Alright. If you guys have come down to

Australia man will be happy to show you around and give you some cool past. That'll be email, that'll be.

That'll be really, really cool to to do so.

So Again, Alex and Peter, thank you so much.

Thank you Scotty for for jumping on as well and good and I'll see you guys next time. Take it easy.

Thank you, everyone.

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