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Choppin It Up With Jesse Iwuji - EP.64
Choppin It Up With Jesse Iwuji - EP.64
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About this episode
Jesse Iwuji joins the Right Hand Drive Guys to share thrilling car stories and experiences that shaped their automotive journeys. From first-time rides in drift cars to wild encounters with law enforcement during street racing, the hosts recount pivotal moments that highlight the excitement and chaos of car culture. The episode dives into personal anecdotes, including the challenges of owning modified vehicles and the camaraderie found in the automotive community. Jesse's engaging storytelling brings a nostalgic and humorous vibe to the discussion, making it relatable for anyone who has ever been passionate about cars.
Topics:
drifting experiences
street racing encounters
car modifications
first right-hand drive car
police interactions
automotive community
memorable car stories
In this episode we interview Jesse Iwuji about his career in NASCAR and how he ended up getting his Nissan Skyline GTR. We also chat about how young enthusiasts can work their way to a GTR of their own.
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Hey and welcome back to the right hand drive guys podcast the show for guys who leg right hand drives as alwaysI'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah, y'all and this is episode 63
Yeah, I'm pretty pretty excited for episode 63. I have quite a bit of my own
Car stories, you know, you could say yeah, I'm sure you do too. Oh, yeah plenty of them and
You know story telling and kind of experiencing other people's lives through story is always like a great timeLike I feel like I'm like the most engaged when somebody's like telling a story that obviously I'm interested in right nowSo we figured we kind of just kind of do the same and and throw out you know three or four of our ownLittle stories that involve our our car livesDude sounds good. Let's get into it. Yeah, I'm gonna let you go first. You're gonna have the first one. Oh
OkaySorry, I know I threw that rate on your life like this wasn't planned like soWell for my first storyIt's kind of a quick one. Okay, but it's one of those I guess you could say core memories I have yeah that
I don't knowI'll always kind of remember and it was the first time I rode in a drift car. Whoa on a track on a track
correct, so I think it was like 2000Either like 2007 early 2008I had a buddy that lived in St. Louis and at the time I rode BMX so did he so I know through that
But he was also into the 240 scene and you know drifted and did all that soPretty much he said that there was a track day going on andI was like sweet. I'll check that out because I knew what drifting was I didn't have I didn't have a 240 or anything at the time
But I was definitely interested, you know, I was still in the cars and still like IKnow I was still super into it. I was just more into you know bikes and BMX at the time
Yeah, yeah, that's more what you could afford right like that was that was the level before carsYeah, I know that was the interest that was affordable with those ages right right all throughout high school and stuffThat was the thing and then you know right as I graduated high schoolYou know it started going more towards cars. So anyway
Yeah, we were up for the weekend. We went to this track day and
Yeah, just pretty much watch people drifting at GatewayGateway speedway. No, what is it Gateway Motorsports Park? That's what it is. I think it's in St. Louis
It's like an ask our track. They haven't in field. That's pretty sick
And I think to this dayFormula D has an event there, but they didn't at the timebutYeah, so we were checking out the eventWatching everyone drive and I was like, dude, this is sick likeYeah, just seeing everything and likeSt. Louis is pretty close to Chicago and Chicago always had like a pretty decent scene and
There was always sick cars coming down from Chicago to these eventsBut you're like the origin people and people are later to found out to be likeThe guys from Togay factory. Mm-hmm
They were out driving andOne of those dudes was like one of the first guys to give me a ride long. Oh, that's sweet and it was
It was in a 240 like S 13 coupe and it had like this crazy livery on it had an origin body kit likeIt's pretty sweet. Yeah, yeah for sure and it was SR and it sounded crazy, dude
Like just super loud like you know how that S4Yeah, you can you can you can you can picture the sound you know it isso yeah, I mean I hopped in the car through on a helmet andYeah, I mean that track is super fast. I was like top of third year dude
slams the sidewaysGo through this chicane slams it back the other way and just rip and dude like justWide open tire smoke like just ohYeah, and it was just like holy shit, dude. Yeah, it's like chaos, but harmony
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you like yeah, and he just killed itAnd then just like locked in on the sweeper and just likeJust nailed it right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was just like the most perfect thing and I was like wow
That was crazy. That was like the first time I was ever like in a drift car on a track and
Like really getting that full experience and ever since then dude. It's always been like
Trift oriented. Yeah, yeah, pretty much it was always that that was always picking my interest
Yeah, no doubt that pivotal moment, you know, yeah, that's pretty sweet getting that feeling was just likeNo, no, yeah, yeah, it's crazy especially during those, you know years and in the late teens, you know early 20sThose type of experiences that come along like definitely can shape, you know the next the rest of your life, you know for suresoYeah, a lot of a lot of my stories are more about me like getting in trouble
Because I mean I've I've gotten I've gotten in a decent amount ofTroubling cars for sure. I mean I've had yeah, I got I got too much so
I'll try to make mine like somewhat quick. Maybe I can get through more of them, but yeah
So when I lived in Tennessee, this was probably20002006Yeah, 2006So I lived in Tennessee. I lived with
My childhood best friend's mom she had moved down there. I lived with her and
soHim and I growing up together he went into the military. I was doing college and
So he bought an EVO 8 it was an O3 EVO 8 the first model year in the USIt was yeah, it was sick. It had low mileage. It was black. It was it was a sweet car
andsoHe was super it was Randy shout out RandyHe was super awesome about it and this dude would let meUse this car like it was mine while he's you know at a base somewhere or potentially overseas. He's like
Just use it like it yours. I want somebody to enjoy it and I'm like
OkayYeah, yeah, and like I I modified it for him and you know ITook care of it the best to my knowledge at that point in my car career, right? You know, I was I was young that was so wild. Yeah
soWe're I was in Tennessee. I was I think we said it was Gallatin pike, right? Yeah, so I stop at this place is
Displaced dodges chicken and and this is like a four lane. It's a four lane highway. Yeah
And so I stop at dodges chicken. I'm gassing up and there's a dude in a Mustang of course and
He's chirping me chirping me chirping me and very common in that area. Yeah super super common in that area
Yeah, if you must think guys. I know they're from around there. Yeah, so I was in their territory
You could say it was pretty much like you know, I shouldn't have been out there, you know, butYeah, so anyways, he's chirping me. He's chirping me
There's another dude with me one of our brandy and eyes mutual friends and he's like dude just race himAnd I'm like dude. I don't want to like race this guy like what right and dudes like what come on listen to your buddy
Raisin so I'm like all right, you know, whatever like 20 roll. Let's get it, you know, we do the 20 roll and we are ripping like
For sure like rip way too fast, you know, rip and yeah and we in a sheriff not like the local copBut a sheriff comes on coming and it's four lanes, but there's no median right and so he comes and he whipsos on dudeThis this experience is the craziest police interaction that I've ever had in the sense of he did the 180 dude likeDid the 180 dude, you know pulls us over I was in front of the Mustang of courseYou know, I was I was gapping him, you know and so the Mustang pulls behind me. I pull over right yeah
The cop comes up and does the sideways screeching thing with the car dude. I
Bullshit you not that's what I'm saying. This was the craziest thing. He does the
Like sideways and stops and then swings open his door dude draws his gun dudeYes, dude cuz I mean in mind you we're definitely doing over a hundred. Yeah, right so in that area
I'm sure it's like a 35 maybe 40 because it's the four lane, but yeah, butDude so he draws his gun and puts it over the door thing like and I'm likeOh my gosh like, you know, I'm like originally obviously from Maine like very low-key here like definitely none of that stuffHe draws the gun and he's like, you know ordering me to put my hands outside of the car with with the drop the keys outside of the carOpen the door get out put your hands on the hood. I'm like, oh my gosh, dude like what did we do?
No, so you know once dude realizes that we're just a bunch of idiotsYou know and he does the same thing to the Mustang dudeBut because I was in the front and the Mustang couldn't have left to get around me or him reallyHe was focused on me first, butAnd then of course he asked us both the stories and I think the Mustang guy probablyLike was acting like I was like harassing him and he was trying to get away from me or something and I was just likeYeah, no, he asked me if I wanted to race and we
I'm sure the cop was like all right you guys are idiots, you know, but I got a super heftyHonestly gets you a long way a lot of times. Yeah, I mean
Yeah, yeah, you still might get a ticket, but it might be a little lessHe didn't arrest me and you know I was going I was criminal speeding for sure and he didn't arrest me although I thought I was dyingDude I was I seriously thought I was like I would be thinking I'm dying too if a cop passes me sidewaysYes hops out with theYes, did he slide over the hood?
No, no, he was kind of like heavy set like so I don't know if he's like trying to show his authorityBut yeah, that's my first Tennessee car storyYeah, yeah, they give a rowdy out there dude. I don't
Yeah, luckily for me the police likeHaven't had too many run-ins with him like while I'm doing stuff. I haven't had that many. Wow good for you
Other than like speeding likeSureLike but nothing terrible. I mean I got like a reckless driving once, but it was because I was like I was in a completely bone stock
91 240 sx automatic car was meant just picked it up and like I don't knowI would do this goofy thing where I would just floor it down this straight section of highway just to likeTop it out and likeYou know what I mean? Yeah, of course
So I was doing that one night and got caught and you got reckless for that you got reckless for thatBut it was like I was doing10 or something they call wow and that thing was shaking dude smokingPart of you can doWell dude, it was an automaticSo it didn't have like the speed limiter at 115 or whateverSo you popped in and over driving you do. Yes
That was like that was pretty cool. We like kind of goofy though, right? Yeah, just kind of
Right kind of a point was like what the yeah, but dude. I mean
But if you get a reckless driving ticket you have to go get booked and everything like you get mug shot takenfingerprint and all that likeI didn't realize that at the time. I just thought I had like this what year was that
Probably yeah, like 20082000 years becauseMy next story is about my oh no, I got driving to endanger driving to endanger holy cow. Yeah, so yeah like so
I would know what does that mean. Yeah, well, let's just say
people inWell, so I was in this evil again, right and this time I ran deep my buddy was with me. So it was like all good right, right?
But so we like over in goodlifts world. There's a
KOA likeopposite side of goodness well then then like rivergate andI'm like oh dude. This is a fucking evil dude rally
Yeah, probably super stupid, but now mind you mind youIntensey and so KOA is yeah, yeah KOA is fully year-round mostly so there's a super like a really long dirt roadAnd then like all these little offshoot like kind of like half circle comes back into the road things where the camping area is all rightSo I'm like hitting those like off off of it and just like sideways through those hammering back up the main road sideways
And so it's dry as shit and so all of that dust is literallyPluming in the air dude. Yeah, of course of course. There's a cop coming down
What is it? I can't remember that opposite pike whatever side that is on yeah, but he's coming down there and he sees
All the dust in the air over the KOA and he's like what the hell so he just sits on the side of the roadAnd of course, well, you know, he like let's me do it when I'm done. I come back up the car is brown
Literally, it's brownAnd there's just a trail of shit behind me and he just flips the lights on like yeah, of course he didYeah, and I just stop and dude. Yeah
Driving to in danger was because there was people thereLike in campers and stuff so I was in danger and yeah, so that was another big TennesseeTennessee ticket that I got yeahSo I mean yeah, I've gotten I got a lot ofTickets and tennis Tennessee. I was wiling out. I'm not gonna lie. That's crazy
Like I did too much. Yeah, they were too busy with you. They didn't give me yeah, I would say
I mean, I can go into the next one or you should go ahead holy cow you got another one with policeYeah, this this one was this one was pretty bad soAnd I hope some of the guys that were involved in this actually are listening butsoMe and like three other guystwo STIs andS2000 and I'm in this evo and it was after the bridge, you know one night like yeah, you know we hit the bridgeWe we do that whole thing and then everybody goes and takes runs, you know, and so yeah, we hit um I 40
And our thing was you know, yeah, okay listen this was a long time ago. I just want to say before I even say this
Like I was like 2021 22 likeNot yeah, like I would not do these things todayThat whole area was way less populated back then than it is nowAnd there was a lot of car dudes in Tennessee and we all are in Nashville and we all did like the same we all did that, you knowSo but so we go on I 44 wide and you know, we're doing a 20 kick and like but I 40's 65 yeah, so we have to back traffic up for
Oh long ways in order to get our 20 kick and so we just slowly slow traffic down four wide and then once weHave you know the solid space in front of us we do the 20 kick. Yeah, so but that's solid space, you know, we're racing
You know, so anywaysDude we get it down to the 20 kick dudeBant bantWooDude right behind me was a undercover cop dude. It couldn't have been more crazy that
The car directly behind me is an undercover dude and I'm like dude noSo you know, I'm not evading right because he's right behind meThe two sdi's do drop hammering bounce dude and it's only him so he can only get who pulls over if somebody leaves like they're goneRight, right so me and the s2000 pullover and oh my god dude dude same type of dealHe didn't skid sideways in shit, but he got out dude drew his weaponHad us get out of the car dude on the hood on the trunk
Dude the whole thingSo then once he clears us that we don't have weapons and that we're really just idiotsHe one one by one because there'sMe and another guy in my car him and another guy in his car one by one dude this took hours one by oneHe interrogates us puts us in the back of his vehicleYou know go through the whole thing trying it and me like being 20buddies. Yes. Well, of course he want to know who the sdi's right, but we definitely weren't playing that but
I'm like no dude listenMy car it's messed up. We were slowing down to listen for the noise. There was a noise
And we were trying to write there's always somethingHe's like do shut the hellOn i40 right 1130 at night. Yes, exactly
So he gave us legit street racing ticketsStreet racing tickets like I had neverI had not even known that that was really a thing and he gave us legit street racing tickets that were not justifyingIt was a summons to court like no yeah no get out jail free noYou know, and it was a 800 and something dollar fine dudeOh, yeah like in the second time dude you lose your license and you have to spend time in the slammaIn the slamma dude out the second time you get a street racing ticket. Yeah
So don't play in Nashville on that's pretty crazy like because I mean back then I was around a group of friends thatLike we would go out street racing. We never really
Brand into that many problems. I mean yeah, I mean neither until the undercover was chilling cow
Any way to for us he like knew dude. He waited for the second honk. Yes, dude. I was like
Yeah, but so that's that's my third that's my last Tennessee storyI mean I have a couple more but like I don't want to play it out too hard you know on uh, you knowDavis, a county you feel meDude, I know that was heavy take a drink dude. Okay. What's your next one?
My next oneinvolves getting my first right hand drive caruhMy 180 sx I had back in the dayPretty pretty cool story because that car was like kind of illegalYeah, it honest like it was yeah friggin then swap chassis swap dude, but yeah swapped soPretty much like this car came up for trade on the local forum 10 speed, rightCame up for sale and he said he's looking for trades and I'm like
Huh, I got this RB 20 s 13 coupe with a silver front end body kit. It looks pretty cool
I'm gonna offer him a trade on this 180 sx because the 180 sx has likeI don't know. It's like a
Drift's car spec for that time. I guess it had like a bolt-in roll cage. It had like stripped interior
A bucket seat with the halo like crazy. Yeah early early day drift day. Yeah, but it had an SR 20 with a 2871 R
That was supposedly built and like had all these upgrades and whatnotumBut yeah, I was like whatever. This is sick. I'm gonna take my shot and see if it he'll trade me
He'll trade me dude. That'll be insane. Yeah, so I hit him up and like he's in Alabama like couple hours away and
Yeah, and we pretty much just hawk and figure out the deal andYeah, I'm like I can come down tomorrow night and drive my car. I can we can do the trade
You driving that unpack. Yeah, dude right
These cars are always driving back, right? I don't know why but whatever you don't have to have a trailer. So anyways like
I'd end up getting one of my friends and we go down to Alabama, but it's not like any part of AlabamaI've ever really been to it's likeYou go south a little bit then you get off the interstate and then you go down this highway down another highway and it's just likeThe sticks in Alabama. I don't know where I am. I'm to this day. I don't even remember where it was to be honest
But it was somewhere in northern Alabama. Yeah, so like we believe that my house around 5 p.m. And
gets dark pretty quick and we get there probably eight thirty at night andCheck out the car and he checks out mineEverything seems to check out right to your sign my slips. Yeah, pretty much. Only thing was um
I forgot why we didn't but I wanted to keep my wheels and he wanted to keep his soI don't think I had my wheel key or a jack or somethingSomething along these lines because this kid lived in an apartment complex. He had no garage
Just car was just sitting out like yeah, it full likeYou know 180 sx full body kit like just crazy looking car. Well, that's yeah. Yeah
So anyway, we hop in the car and I didn't even test drive it beforeDriving itDriving home. We just you know took each other's word. Yeah, it was one of those. Yeah, I love those transactions
It was just one of those things we did he like kind of talks so much it kind of side tracked me from you know my planHe knew what he was doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanted to drive the car. Obviously before I drove it back through the night a few hours back home
But I didn'tBut it did it work outSo yeah, I mean we hop in the car we go toGo to a Walmart pick up some things because I was like the only thing that was open in the townShe didn't oil change right there in theYeah, you have filled a rope with some oil some some 2050 yeahSome rotella got some rotella for the ride over just a caseBut we got gas and everything and we pretty much just got on the road back home and like
Like I said, we're just going down these highways and likeWe're in the middle of nowhere. Nothing is around nothing's open and
I'm just in this unknown car right hand driveStraight byYou know the bill but we're going through these small towns and there's cops everywhere like just you knowThere's one at every likeEvery time you enter town it seemed like there was a cop and I'm like holy cow man likeWhich ones coming out?
Sweat in the whole time backBut you know we eventually made it back to the interstate and everything was cool and you knowWent up the interstate half an hour and I was getting off my exit andEverything was still cool and I'm like man. This is crazy. I can't believe I got this car and then
As I'm driving I look at my review mirror and I see like I don't knowI don't know about you, but I can always kind of pick out cars that I know and like my review and I saw what I thoughtLook like pop-up headlights. I was like is this an S 13 behind me like no way. It's like
One or two a.m. Right now
There's no way there's another S 13 behind meAnd dude, so I slow down a little bitGets closer and he ends upBeing an S 13. It's pretty sick and it's this dude that
I've seen the car around like once or twice, but I never met the guy or anything and back then it was a small community with those carsSo like everyone kind of knew each other. Yeah, but yeah, no, I was this guy was like hey
Is that 180 sx? It was for sale on 10 speed?
Like just random dude right? Yeah, and he's like
Sweet, can I check it out like I'm like sureSo we pull into this gas station and that ended up being this new Tony that like I still know to this dayYeah, I think he might still have that same exact car from way back there isn't that crazyBut yeah, I mean it was kind of crazy, but I ended up making it home andYou know nothing was too sketchy on the car for for a couple weeks, but yeahyou love like being able to likeMake it back after that like yeah for sure. I know that feeling
Especially after like you know, it just being like the first time in a right-end drive carIt kind of being sketchy back then because the car was a 98 I believe so it was only10 years old. Yeah, well and
I mean, that's not super old like that you knowumSo okay, so my story moves from Tennessee over to ColoradoI was stationed at four carcinan Colorado for a couple yearsback in like 0809Like 070809 soumOut there I felt like there's a very big all-wheel drive like oh yeah, I see that yeah a lot of STI's a lot of evos
I feel like that's called me wrong military bases too. Yeah, I think so 35 are evos for sure
Uh, and it's almost like the dealerships around there got more allocations for evos and STI's because there wasJust so many and so yeah, that's where that was a thing. Yeah, I think so and so we
um my wife and I both got evo 9MRs. I got a
Gunmetal gray she got a wicked white and sick. Yeah, they were both used with super low miles and
We each got one and yeah, that was awesome. We put um just like full bolt-ons on hers
But mineWe went ethanol with it like 85cams fp red turboYou know all the bolt-ons whatever like yeah, it was440 horsepower. Yeah, yeah to the wheels it was all four. Yeah, and that's no jokes where and
So I worked at a shop called under pressure power and performance in Colorado SpringsAnd so we did all the work there in tunit and whatnot andSo we would do a lot of different stuff there and one and of course it's right outside the military base literally rightSo you know you get all kinds of people want to do stuff and we had a dude pull up and uh a donk a it was like uhI don't know what I can't I can't recall but it was a donk right and probably a box Chevy right something like that
Yeah, yeah, for sure in his gas tank was like leaking or something like that and so we were swapping out gas tank andYou know military housing all around anduh, you know, I had my EVO on the 85 whatever but Colorado does get pretty cold and if you knowAbout ethanol when it's cold. It's it's like thicker so therefore if you don't warm up the car and get you know that fuel to kind of thin out
Then it overloads and it's bad bad juju. So um
I had been parked out front of the shop for hours and then the guy with the dog needed to ride homeIt was like two miles down the road like yeah, whateverInstead of taking like the shop van. I was like yeah, I'll bring you around this. He's like he's like oh your little cracker jack toy
And I was likeYeah, I was like you show himYeah, and I didn't know how to take it but I was like all right like he's like so I've never really been in these little four cylinder thingsIs this thing actually get up and go and you know, I knew better but I was likeLittle cracker jack toy like this because this thing would spin all four like all four off the railYeah, it especially cold tires right like it would just spin off for and just shoot flames like I love that carUntil I'm like yeah, I'll show you what this thing has right didn't you know, we we were
500 feet from the shop we were taking this turn out of the shop and I'm like I can't even waitRight, you know, I'm likeDude the old friggin coolant shower on the windshieldAnd dude, yeah, I blew a hole in the front end of the block like so big the whole yeah so bigYeah, pretty much like and so at first I'm like oh maybe I blew a radiator hose orOr right, yeah, or maybe it was I'm sure it was just the head gasket
In my head at that time rightNo hell no, I as soon as I opened the hood I was likeThrough a rod right through the side of it dudeWe're close enough to the dudes house so that he can walk now right you knowBut yeah, I should have but he's like oh man, I'm sorryI didn't mean to make you blow your motorDude all right listen like I'm out of here dudeCuz like you know, it's no secret. You're not like killing it in the military
But you're making enough to right do what you want right?
It wasn't making enough to repair that motor that's for sure. So yeah, that's rough
So she got a new car back then like yeah, that's pricey. Yeah exactly
That's a block and everything yeah, so I had to do it all myself because I wasn'tWe tried to get it under like my little extended warranty thing but then they're betterYeah, they're like dude that ain't rightBut yeah, that's my my blowing motor story you got one more do I I don't know if not I got another one butAh, yeah, I got one okay run it soYeah drifting right mm-hmm street drifting
Used to be a good time. Oh, yeah, it was one of those things where like
Every time you went out someone in your groupWas gonna do something silly. Yeah, of course dude like
And it was always just you knowNot everyone would and not everyone would every time but it was always someone dude that would hop a curbyou knowRun off the road like whatever it might be ohBut yeah, the one time it was meWe were at this one spot. It was like it's not necessarily a park, but it's kind of like a
I don't even know how to describe it. It's like a little cut-through road, but it closes at night
Right before it closes. There's like no traffic going through there. So it's like
These two little turns that are an ice and fun to hit so we'd go through there and kind of hit those turns once or twiceAnd be on our way. Well one of the nights uh
Well one of the times I went through thereMy throttle head hung wide open wow throttle hang dude andInstead of like flicking the car back the other way I had straight towards this curb. Oh wow dude launched it right
Luckily it was one of those likeSure, yeah, you know banked kind of curves it went like the straight up like sidewalkSo I got lucky I but yeah still launched my car the guy that was in my passenger seatWacked his head like off the ceiling from like dude it was pretty crazy. Yeah, the long travels on there
Yeah, I felt like I did yeah, and I was like holy cow dude. What just happened. So I got the throttle on hung and
drove my car pretty much right outsideOf the park because we saw the security coming we're like okay, we can't be around here anymoreSo let's get out of here. So I'd limp the car back to the road. It was leaking oil everywhere. It was
It was a medic it hit the oil pan it cracked the upper oil panWow, you really gave it to her. Yeah, the oil pan had bottomed out and like the sway bar head like hit the yeah
It was insane. It was a lot of uh
while the crunchiness up front butNothing they couldn't be replaced so that was all goodBut it was a pain in the ass for a few days. I haven't fixed all the oil leaks in like oh yeah
Yeah, just get it back to where it was and like yeah because you're not claiming that or something rightYou gotta do it. Yeah, no way
I'm gonna claim that but didn't get in trouble so that was sick. That is good
So I got my last story is I'll match your curb storyWith that same with that same EVO 9MR prior to the motor blowing the winter beforeYou know in Colorado Springs we would get likeYou know generally like three or four inches and then it would melt away same day next dayYou know that type of thingBut this one time we got like six and a half inches or something and no one was out and of course, you knowThat's when the boys like to play yeah
So yeah, so me and the boys went to play and umWe were on base because there was definitely there was one MP, you know, whatever he nobody's doing nothingSo we were kind of just like you know drifting around those roads just scooting around and umWe were looking for big parking lots and the swimming pool had like a big parking lotBut I couldn't rememberWhat the layout of it was right like in the way that the snow was sitting on no one had driven in this like you knowIt's not loud that no one had driven this so I'm like dude. I got a clear shot
So dude I I come into that I come into that parking lot sidewaysSuper fast cuz so good because I think that I'm about to slide all the way across this parking lotDude and then cut hammer out of it right because it was like a in and outSo I thought I'm coming dudeSo and I'm you know me and my homies we're having funSo I'm trying to show him like what's up, right right right dude. We hit this curb
So hard dudeIt like seriously so hard noMy buddy's head smashed off the side of the windowSo hard. I've never heard a noise like that and I broke both passengers side rims the stock evo 8 rims
Both of them broke in like fell so the car couldn't even move after that because IThis spokes would like yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's a heavy hit. Yeah, so it it been everything
Been everything like the whole passenger side suspension had to get replaced plus the wheels obviouslyThe front rotor was fucked up from the wheels breaking like dudeCan you imagine dude? I'm coming into this parking lot dude. I'm fucking Ken blocking it dude
I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was badBut luckily I was able to claim that on my insurance because it you know again that car was pretty new and like I wasn'tGonna be replacing on this I would do that today. I would replace all that no problem
But back then especially living on base no garageIt was the base garage, but I wasn't using that like that, you know, soYeah, I mean huge mistake. I have never ever drifted into a parking lot without driving through it first
The sense then yeah, that's one of my biggest fears up here in the in the winter time anytimeI see those big wide open lots of yeah, what's in there? What's really hiding under there? Yeah, my buddy won't ride move me in a car anymore
I'm like hey, dude, let's take a ride he's like hell no dude last time ended up with a station can push and dudeI'm like fair enough. I mean do you blame him? No
So yeah, man that those were just a few stories of ours just about you know our kind of come up throughoutI'm obviously a trouble maker this guy is obviously just making good memories, but whatever tried yeah, it's something yeahBut yeah, this this was episode 63 we definitely appreciate you listeningAs always hit us up DM us you got any questions you need help importing a car you want no our opinion on somethingIt's at rhd g us check out the merch
We're starting to list some use parts on our website as well and you can see that at rhd gus.com
But for episode 63 I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. See ya peace
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