Awesome, and then Main State Dylan always always reliable always willing to help out. I do my best
He's actually the reason why I'm here why I joined in the logging grid. Oh, really?
Yeah, so you guys like buddies before we bumped into each other at cars and coffee
Actually, he came to my cars and coffee with a mutual friend of ours
And yeah, we just kind of just started chatting from there
He brought good vibes and I saw that when I followed him. I saw that he was doing YouTube
Trying to do like automotive media stuff kind of in the same realm as me
And so I just reached out and we've been friends ever since nice. Okay. You like this guy
So speaking to YouTube so tell us about yourself Hamilton, you know, what do you do for a living and you know?
What are the projects you got going on so for a job? I manage a private car collection. I take care about 20 supercars
We have five Bentley's five Ferraris
Three Porsches two Aston Martins and a 4 GT and a couple other cars. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's like exotics. Yeah, okay
And you said you manage. What do you what do you mean by that?
So I am the logistic organizer detailer mechanic
Transporter whatever the cars need I handle damn. I'm like a big car babysitter pretty much. Wow. That's an awesome
Yeah, that's like the dream job for all car enthusiasts. Yeah, for sure
I feel like and I'll probably ask you about this later, but it's it's one of those jobs like you hear mechanics getting like
Tired over the years and by the time they're like 25 26 like they're done
But maybe when you're in an atmosphere like that, it's a little easier to stick around. Yeah
I work with one other dude. He's 88. He's been working on Bentley since they first came out and oh, he's the reason why I'm there
He's teaching me how to work on all the Bentley's because soon he's just gonna
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, it's he should have quit by now. Yeah, he loves that cheese. So he's like kind of your mentor
Yep. Oh, wow. Okay. So what kind of cars are you working on like you said bent these?
So I imagine just Bentley's or like other like European exotics
We mainly work on like we have three Bentley's in the shop right now
But we also work on our Ferrari Tester Rosa Aston Martin DB5
Ar1 Zagato, oh, oh, yeah, okay, so it's not just Bentley's and you said for GT too
So even like some domestics thrown into the mix. That's the only car. We don't touch. Oh
Which which year for GT oh five. Oh, okay. Oh seven. Sorry. So the one they brought it out
Yeah, like the anniversary one and it has the heritage edition
Livery on it as well. Oh cool. Yeah
Well, the the most recent one was anniversary because it was like what 50 years
I think what the one that came out that um, they raced in Le Mans again and it won again. Yeah
Yeah, but the old five when I don't think they raced in Le Mans
That was just kind of like a car. They came out with just a you know pay homage exactly other street legal
Yeah, okay, so that's interesting man. So what is your YouTube channel? Oh my YouTube channel is Hamilton dot pool and
Pretty much I film all my car builds right now. I'm doing a s14 drift build
That's what the channel channels mainly based off of is drifting been drifting since 2019
And I just wanted to show my progress throughout the years of driving
Okay, so what kind of car do you drift? You said it was a s13 240 sx. Yeah, that's 14. I just bought it about
Three months ago. I had a 350z before that, but I
Unfortunately, it was just too far gone. The chassis was just too twisted
So I pulled the motor out because it was my first motor rebuild and I'm putting it into the s14. Oh, okay
Yeah, so is it the red one? No, that's the there's like a kooky red one that comes to car shows
It's not that one, right? No, you're probably thinking our mutual friend size car. Yeah, like a mostly stock one with
You know just with kitted out. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So which one is yours? Mine's the white one back on the lift right now
Okay, I gotcha. All right, so that's built mainly for drifting. Yep. I actually never driven the car really only drifted
Yep, I when I bought it had no motor no transmission no front-end or anything
So I'm bringing it back up from nothing. Okay, so you're pretty much making this car a survivor pretty much
Okay, so tell us about drifting and let's go there because I feel like we haven't talked much about drifting on this podcast that
Pretty much at all. Yeah
So I used to own a 300zx twin turbo, okay, right which it has
Four-wheel steering right the high-cast four-wheel steering
So, I mean, I know a lot of people delete them and all that but for the most part
That's one Nissan most people don't associate with drifting. Yeah, right like the 350 z's that came later
are pretty popular to 240s and you know for a while I used to say like damn like the 240s are coming up pretty big
Value-wise in the last like five ten years and I feel like I attribute it to the drift seat, right because I mean
It's it's the baby 300zx. I mean clearly the number says it all
You know, it's not a three-liter 300 horsepower twin turbo
So I was like what why are these getting so much, you know money lately and I got I imagine right?
It's the drift seat. Yeah, right. It's been so popular lately like like I know what was it?
2000s was when
Tokyo drift came out, right and that I feel like for my generation at least changed the like the landscape of the drift scene because it wasn't that popular
You know back then at least in my group of friends, but it's I feel like it's having a resurgence now
That's so so go ahead and shed some light on drifting has been blowing up recently
Like it's getting massive now. We have not just the United States anymore
We have Ireland those are probably one of the best drifters out there now
They have kids around 12 years old getting into competitions now with the professional drivers and just to talk on that s13
Just the s chassis in general the suspension setup on that chassis is amazing. That's probably one the number one reasons
Why it's used the most from stock. Yeah. Oh, wow, okay
So what about the s14 because I feel like s14s are
You know, it's the 90s one right like it spend most of its generation in the 90s
And I feel like I see those more, you know every time I see an s13. It's pretty clapped out, right?
So like what about like which which of those two is better for drifting?
So, uh, that's a really tough question
answer I would say
a
Competition wise
I might get some heat for this but the s14 is probably the number one winning chassis out there right now, okay
S13 obviously those came to the States first. So that's what everyone could get their hands on first
That's 14 is a little bit more expensive to get into so that's why you see a lot more s13s, but
Set up for setup. I'd say they're
Pretty equal, but I feel like the s14 has a little bit better advantage compared to the s13
Okay, then maybe that explains why, you know, you see more kind of beat up s13s around
Because they were like the first ones that were a little bit more affordable
For people getting into the scene early on like maybe in the early 2000s after Tokyo drift
The s14s were still, you know, not a very old car and maybe a little bit more prohibitive to get into
Yeah, so maybe I don't know. Maybe there's something to that definitely
But the s13 market has blown up recently
I've had two buddies buy theirs for 13 grand apiece. Wow, okay
So tell us about the chassis you mentioned that like that's one of the key things to making a good drift car
So what is it? What do you look for in a in a vehicle's chassis when it comes to drifting?
One just first
Just make sure it's straight. You don't want to write of course
Uh, I'm still learning about the s chassis right now. I'm mainly in a BMW kid
I can't I sort of the e36 and the e46 then a z now s13 than an s14
Okay, so I'm still learning a lot more about them. So my knowledge isn't too big on the s chassis right now
I just know that they're a great car
I have a lot of buddies that drive them and they've done a lot with them so far
And there's a lot of aftermarket too like aftermarket support is
Massive for that car right and that's usually what's key in most like
Off-roading for example drift like in this case drifting anything that's like you're doing with the vehicle like that's
You can't just keep a stock car, right?
The only way it's going to be popular that particular model is if there's a ton of aftermarket support
So that makes sense. Well, I imagine like the rigidity of a of a chassis like, you know
It's got to have some kind of flex, right? It has to be able to like
Withstand all this aftermarket, you know, they can take a good beating right, right?
So
Yeah, it's it's interesting that when you look at a car and say oh what makes a good drift car because I would always ask people like
What why why does everyone use 350s?
You know now that car I'd say it's a great car to get into
It's very easy to drive and aftermarket support is there for it. You don't need much to get that car going
Mine was pretty much bone stock and I could do a full event of zero issues
I can keep up with everyone and everyone that has driven a z they all say the same thing
It's super easy to drive. Yeah and enough power too. I mean with a 350 z
It's plenty of power to drift
People get away with drifting with less power. So, you know, it's around 289 horsepower. It does the job
Yeah, right. We actually talked about the 350z on this podcast
Remember we did like a who am I?
And we were saying like because we were talking about cars that we think are gonna go up in value that no one really is talking about right now
Um, you know, everyone's talking about mark four Supras and nsx's and things like that
But we were like, okay
What's the next jdm car to go up in value that people are not really, you know talking much about and
The 350z we feel because of the drift scene, you know, because it needs usually layers to with the car like it can't just be
Oh, it has like it was very analog. Okay, but what was it? What made it special, right?
Like was its predecessor
Way worse or the car that
Pretty much came after it like never, you know, had the same character, right? It's usually something
Um, and I feel like the 350z like, you know, it was still lighter than the 370
It you know, the drift team the drift team the drift scene
Obviously helps it
But it also has that classic z design like that silhouette, you know
And and it it changed the the z like obviously it's way different than the z32, you know
So it has something unique about it and and then
Think about it the kids that grew up with those cars, you know, watching tokyo drift. Was it in tokyo drift?
I think it was yeah the dk's car. Yeah, exactly. So
Anything that has the the need for speed not need for speed the tokyo drift the um, yeah, what's the name of the movie?
Fast and the furious
Anything that was in fast and the furious all those cars have gone up in value, you know
So it has that too. So we'll see. I mean, I I think the 350, you know, nothing against the 370
But I feel like the 350 was the most analog version and still very modern and contemporary
It has all the creature comforts that like a z32 didn't have so the sweet spot
Yeah, also a lot of automotive youtubers a lot of big drifters that vlog all their stuff
When say adamel z he got into the 3pt scene
Prices went up. Really. Yeah. It was insane
Everyone wanted to copy its build. It was just super simple
But just raised the prices. Yeah, but we've been seeing a lot more that nowadays with these youtubers
They get car and then everyone else wants to copy them. Yeah
Yeah, you see the guy that just like does selfie style like videos like freestyle
Uh, he used to in the beginning now. He has a full a full production team. Yeah, okay makes sense then
All right. So tell us one last thing about drifting. Where do you go drifting?
Depends on where you're at. Is it like autocross like where do you go? So I go to apple valley spree speedway. Okay
But i'm originally from morgan. So we had multiple tracks up there. We had pathakers. We have spirit peaks raceway evergreen speedway
metford organ
Affinity circuit and then we have villain sports land as well
Okay, so there's a bunch of me if i'm wrong, but you're from organ, right? Yeah, okay morning raised
so
Follow-up question
What makes it what makes it special like i've never been drifting before so like what is it that gets people hooked?
I'll say this. There's nothing else like it. I always tell it to everyone and everyone i've given them a ride to
They're always scared at first
I say I tell them after the first corner
I'll all go away and every time it's right
Everyone's just hooked. There's no other feeling like it to be able to go that fast
Sideways and be able to control it. It's nothing else like it. Yeah, interesting. Have you ever been drifting? Tell me
I've ridden passenger
and of course over the years
Done donuts and stuff in cars that i've owned but i've never
been to like a proper track and actually tried to like go through the paces of
Learning all the dynamics of car control
You know that type of car control at least I see that's another thing just when I was first getting into it
I just go to events watch people get in cars and just watch them drive and to see their footwork
How their hand motions
It's something else to see. Yeah
And the guys who are good at it. I've noticed in videos. They're doing a lot less like steering inputs and stuff like that
They're not really wrestling the wheel so much, you know, once you get better
Okay, just something I've noticed. Yeah
So I want to move on to talk about a few things here at analog and grit. So dylan, uh, you've been at the shop a lot lately
So and so
Yeah, no, I've been here a lot. We've been busy. So uh, just been helping out as much as I can
So sunday grit this upcoming sunday. Yep, right and uh, I know that october fest was the uh next event for
For obviously october october 25th, which conflicts with radwood
So you're going to be bringing the geo storm to radwood. I will be yeah, I plan on it
Okay, uh might be the only one there
I likely will be because the only other so cow guy that I've met
Uh, he just got rid of his storm. So
Yeah, I'll probably be the only one there and I plan to drive it there and drive it back. So
Uh, yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Nice. And then the dash cam. I feel like is uh, is a must
Oh, yeah, it would be a good idea for me to put a dash cam. It's a good idea for any car
Doesn't matter, you know, it doesn't matter what you're doing. Cameras don't lie
Just to see people's reactions like you said at rancho santa fe
I got you more like a set up a gopro or something. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Okay
Because you said last time at rancho santa fe you got a bunch of people stopping and yeah, yeah
Oh, look at that geo metro
Yeah, no, it's funny people's reactions are good and the people who really nerd out over it. I could tell they're like
Real they're like seriously like car nerds, right if they can they can appreciate it
Past just like if they if their love for cars is past just like super cars and the cars that everybody else likes
Right, then they get it. Yeah
No, I mean, it's it's an obscure unique car. It's perfect for radwin
I love it. It has a beautiful side profile too. I wish our viewers could see
Pictures of it. Yeah, I photo shop some photos of it slammed on different wheels and yeah, it's a good looking little car
Yeah, I posted some of it already. I mean, I think it's so
It's so 90s like, you know
Econo box but with some flair
Totally, you know, because it's a coupe, right? And then it has some characteristics of like the camaro of its time and
Yeah, it's it's a cool car. I mean, obviously it's not, you know, a sports car
But it's technically a coupe with a manual. So
It's gonna be a sports car once I put the quail overs on it. There you go
You guys just wait
So, um, let's talk about marketplace then. So you have a few cars for sale right now. We do some cool ones
Go ahead. Yeah, we just picked up a
Um, uh, 1991 miata
Um, original owner or I'm sorry not not original owner, but they bought it when it was a year old
So they it's spent most of their life with them. It's more or less a one owner car
Uh 86,000 original miles and it's completely bone stock and unmodified. They've done nothing to it but maintenance
Um, it came with they ordered it with some like wood grain interior bits
That was like a dealer add-on
There were a few different kits available that you could pay for at the dealer
If you wanted to kind of spice up your miata a little back in the day
So all that's in good shape. Uh, it's clearly been very well taken care of
Okay, and the miata is a na 91. You said yeah 91 white na miata
Soft top
And uh, yeah, the ace it's nice. It feels
Like a brand new 1991 miata. Nice who people drift miatas. Yep, they do my buddies had a couple that dripped on
Yeah, we have a mutual friend that drives a miata, right? So I feel like
You know, miata is always the answer. So I imagine like even in the drift scene it it'll check that box too, right?
So that's that's funny. It just has a shorter wheelbase though, right?
Is that something that people run into or that like kind of conflict with at all?
Yeah, with the miata it's it's a tough car to drive. It's very snappy, but also slow at the same time
So you have to be very committed to drive that car
Interesting got to be able to toss it into corners a little harder. Yeah, I see carry your momentum
I'm trying to convince our buddy to start drifting his really. Okay
Yeah, I always thought it wasn't a drift car because it's a convertible, you know
I feel like convertibles aren't really they don't have that same rigidity, you know that stiffness
That I would think you'd expect to have on a on like a drift car. That's a coupe
But I mean, it's so light, you know, so it's you get it's tossable, right?
So what else the fun of the miata? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's uh, what do they say? It's a slow car. You can drive fast
Yeah, that's the best
It's the best car to learn how to drive in to learn how to drive drive like track or
You know, what have you right even a manual in general like I feel like that shifter. It's so easy. It's so notchy
It's so easy to learn. Yep. You know, I love the feel of those
So there's one more car on cars and bids right now. Yeah. Yeah, we have a car right now. That's uh live on cars and bids
It's a 2013 mercedes e 63 amg
and it's kind of a special car it's um
For those of you who know that generation number cities, you might know that there's a a facelift and a pre facelift and
You know, it's kind of in the eye of the beholder which one is preferred
But what makes ours interesting is it comes from the one year
2013
That you could get the twin turbo v8 in the pre facelift model after that it was all
Before that it was na
Um, then they switched to the twin turbo for one year with the pre facelift
And then from there it was all of the the newer generation of cars
And um, another thing that's interesting about it is the color. Uh, it's a designo color. So
Our mercedes nerds will know what designo is. It's kind of like, uh
I guess more of like a luxury trim package, but it's rare. It's always been rare in mercedes
You don't run into very many designos. I feel like I see him a lot on g wagons
Yeah, you might find them on more of like the bespoke mercedes
But to find a designo like e-class or s-class is is a little bit less common and they came with some cool features
In fact, my mom had one
Back in the day that had reclining rear seats that was only on the designo
but I digress the uh
The e 63 is a tremendous value and whoever picks that car up. They're getting
One hell of a car for what they're probably going to pay for it. I mean
P 30 performance package is another thing on that car and that brings the horsepower from 515 to 550
And it brings the torque from like 540
Ish all the way up to 590. So almost 600 foot pounds. Yeah, that's impressive. Yeah
My cousin owns one. Uh, forget what year, but I imagine it's somewhere in the
I mean, it's such a it'll be such a big difference if it was a 12, right? Because then it would be naturally aspirated
But I think his is the the bi turbo and he's like you need to go get one
You need he always tells me you need to buy one. Um, and uh, but i'm not a mercedes guy
So i'm always like nah like I'd rather own it now for a mayo or well
An e-class is an easy car to fall in love with like I always tell people like it doesn't matter who you are
Whether you're a car enthusiast or not if you end up daily driving a mercedes-benz e-class regardless of which generation it is
There's just something about them that just feels right like, uh
They handle predictably they might not be as sharp as like the competitive bmw, but they handle very predictably
They're comfortable. They're always generally reliable and well sorted
And they get a lot of the good mercedes features
Without being over complicated, right? So
They have all the creature comforts, but they don't have like
Dynamic ride control and all this other stuff that makes them a little more tedious to own
Yeah, I feel like the biggest appeal and correct me if i'm wrong is that it's a performance car
With the luxury
Comfort of a mercedes-benz, right? Like and it's a it's not just like
A coupe or and is this one the I know they didn't make coupes, right? Uh, not for the well actually technically
Yeah, they did make them for the e-class for a little bit, but there are few and far between
Yeah, most the majority are four door all of the
amgs or four door, right? So like an amg
Sedan that's an e-class which is not your entry level, you know c-class at the time
Like it's a luxury performance car. It's a muscle car in a tuxedo. Right is what it is. He's always he's always got the best metaphors
Yeah, yeah, I mean when you hear the rumble from that engine
And it just if you drive one of those and you turn the traction control off
It just wants to smoke the tires right off it like it truly it has that muscle car sound
It has that muscle car feel. I mean, it's a v8
ours with the p30 package has a limited slip diff so
It just it's very eager to get sideways and you know, if you're not careful
Maybe get yourself in a little bit of trouble
But uh, it's it's a car that you can cruise at at 80 and you won't hear a sound
So it's it's just a really good balance, right? You said you're a bmw guy. Yeah, so what do you think about?
Mercedes-benz is from like the 2010s
Love them love them me and my family growing up. We're a bmw and Mercedes. Okay. All right. So not just be okay
because I always like not sure when people at bmw guys
I feel like they could technically not like
Mercedes and vice versa. Oh, well, you know, I'll be the first to tell you that I'm not a bmw. Yeah, see like
But do you think that you leaned into bmw because it's kind of more
Towards like what you're trying to do as far as like track or drift racing. Yes
So I I look at bmw as more performance compared to Mercedes if I want a Mercedes. I want a nice s-class and
A nice smooth ride compared to bmw and even as a Mercedes guy like I agree with that sentiment
Like I think there's something there's something to that for sure
Yeah, yeah, I feel like cuz Ford and like Chevy and you know, there's always that competition
I feel like that's the european, you know competition or rivalry so to speak
But at the same time like I feel like car enthusiasts are starting to like, you know, everyone's appreciating european
You know luxury performance cars, you know, I mean anything cool. Yeah, I mean anything cool. How can you go wrong? So
Awesome. All right. So that's uh, gonna be ending soon
Yeah, it's gonna be ending on friday. Um, I don't know the exact time off the top of my head
But uh around noon give or take so
Tune in
So e 63 amg 2013 live on cars and bids right now live on cars and bids beautiful unit
Cool. It is so uh back to hamilton
So I wanted to ask you now more about like your experience as a car mechanic
Right or have you been doing it for a long time? I've been doing it for about when I say
Eight years now eight years. Yeah, okay. And you said you work on all types of exotics. How about like regular cars?
Yep, uh started started off with a e 36. That's how I learned. Okay. So you learned on and that was your e 36 bmw
You had okay. So I mean, I feel like one of the most
like intriguing topics whenever I talk to anyone who
You know works professionally as a mechanic
is
Which cars are the easiest and the worst to work on because my 300 zx, you know, one of its
You know, yeah, you already know
One of its, uh, you know issues is that engine bay. It's really tight
Right and I've always had that in the back of my mind if something was to go wrong
You know, how are we going to get to the e g r? How are we going to get to all the hoses even, you know?
so
I mean, I've owned it for like three
And a half years or so I would say maybe maybe around three years
And there was a few times where I sweated because you know, I was I was afraid they weren't going to be able to get to certain parts
um, so
Which in your experience is probably the hardest car to work on?
Hmm
the 36
I'd say if you're really not committed to it then the e 36 and e 46 will make or break you
Really? Yeah, I'm surprised to hear that actually what that what like, uh, well, what wouldn't be the s 52 would be the um
Like the non m version. So what is it that's challenging?
Just any old brittle part in that engine bay. I've had multiple people be like
Oh, yeah, it's super easy to work on which it actually is but then I've also had other people like, um, and this sucks
Trying to take out the transmission and the e 36. I will say that
That's what killed me
My buddy told me he was like I'd rather pull out the entire motor and transmission together
Then try to pull out just the transmission and try to put it back in
And I agree it. It's very tough to put back in so it's not a very fun clutch job. No
But also people that want to get into drifting
an e 36 chassis is amazing platform to get into and an e 46 is as well
but when it with the e 46 you get to drop the subframe and do
uh
subframe reinforcement
And it's kind of a tough job to do if you don't have the proper space to do it
Gotta be a fabricator. Yeah, or just know a buddy, right right in my case. I just knew a buddy
Yeah, okay. What would you say is the easiest cars to work on?
The z 350 z. Really? Yeah, I never had any issues with that car. It has a lot of space in the engine bay
Transmission is super easy to get out. Um
Rebuilding the motor super simple
Wow, never had any complications doing it and that's the v. What is it the v q 3 and a half liter? Yep v q 35 de
Okay, interesting. So what when I said what's like the hardest car?
I thought you were going to say like a a Bentley like a zore something like exotic like that
He said a three-series vmw
Uh
When it comes to the exotic cars, I want to say all of our bentley's are super easy super simple
Really? So why did they charge so much money? I'm sorry to interrupt but those are older cars, right?
Much older cars. So maybe they're like just inherently simpler. Well, hold on e 36
It's like 90s, right early mid 90s. So our bentley's are from the 50s. Oh
These are all really old stuff coach built. Oh
Okay from the 50s. Yeah, okay. That's different. Yeah, okay, but we also I work on
Our testarosa. Okay. All right. There you go. So that's still technically what late 80s 90s
Is ours is a 95 95? Okay. So
That's a that's a 12 cylinder. So, okay
Fun fact, it's you know why it's a testarosa
It'll test your patience
So testarosa in Italian means red head
Right, so the heads are painted red. So that's why it's testarosa. I see. Yeah, that fits
Yeah, so tell us about that. How difficult does it work on that thing?
It's not too bad. You would think it'd be worse
There is some mickey mouse stuff. You'll you will find in there with all Italian cars. Yeah
If I haven't had too much too many problems working on it, it was pretty simple. I will say
Now if
O-ring goes bad or a gas goes bad next to your cams, you're gonna have to pull the whole motor out just to do it because the
The way the cams are set up, they go all the way through and they have a gear that sits outside of it
Past the cover and you can't just take off the cover and replace it. You had to just drop everything and pull it all apart
Damn, okay, and then I did the speed sensor on that
That was kind of a problem
The way they have it set up it's
Right next to your oil pan and it's tucked up in a corner and you need a special tool to get it out
Oh, really? Yeah, you can't just take a regular range to get it out and this is just a like for the speedometer
Wow
I don't think that in most cases would be typically pretty easy. Yeah a lot of cars
Yeah, because you could like usually it's a cable, right?
And then like if you spin it if it's like sometimes it seizes or something like that
But this is like an actual sensor that that that goes to the car. I see
Interesting actually kept it with me. Oh, yeah the tool. No
The speed sensor is like a token. Yeah your achievement
Right. Yeah, I mean doesn't most ferrari's come with its own little toolkit usually
It does luggage toolkit and all that stuff. You're gonna need it. Yeah. Oh, yeah
Okay, that's cool. I mean, I feel like testarosa is like an iconic car at least in my generation
So to work on that that's that's pretty cool. I will say though if you're trying to figure out certain things
they're
What type of oil it takes or just simple
Mechanic issues the book will tell you so much, but the thing that you want to know will not have it
Yeah, dig through all the forums to find out for the oil. They'll tell you
Use the ferrari recommended oil. Okay. What is it? So I have a question for you
Do you think that's because ferrari has always kind of gone out of their way to be more exclusive?
And they kind of want to just
Have you just take it to the dealer? I would think so. Yes
Yeah, so they go out of their maybe they go out of their way a little bit to make your life harder if they want you to spend the money
Yeah, yeah
Interesting, you know, I always thought like ferrari was very traditional, you know, like they don't like when people modify their cars
They don't want you on social media, you know showing off a car and and putting a wrap on it and making it look like
You know or bling down and things like that because it takes away from you know
The essence of the brand right their brand image is so important to them
You know, they don't even like deliver cars to like famous car
Like youtubers to do drag races in because they don't want their car to lose
Right, unless they have a ferrari driver driving that car
Like they won't sign off on that car
Like for example, the new their latest vehicle that they just came out with they won't like just give it to anyone as a press car
like it's
Way difficult to get a ferrari right if you're a youtuber
I mean you you're a youtuber, you know like it's such like a interesting thing because lamborghini is not like that
Not at all, you know
So and you know they they're kind of I would say similar in a sense that they're both italian supercar companies
And it's just their brand image is so important to them. It's crazy, you know
It kind of works though because a lamborghini just feels like less exclusive to me
I mean
If you go to any supercar event, you're gonna see
10 lamborghini's for one ferrari
Without fail true. Yeah, I mean you did you did say you were pretty surprised how many ferraris are at car week
Oh, yeah, but that's car week
I feel like if you're gonna find them, that's the place. Yeah, that's how I met my boss was at car week
And that same day he bought a ferrari. Oh, wow like at one of the auctions. Yep. He bought a 488 piece of spider
Oh, wow a pista. Dang love driving that car. I think it's an absolute monster. Yeah
My buddy had a 488, but it wasn't a pista. Okay, and that was the first ferrari
I've ever like drove what you think and I mean it was just so like
it was
Vicious, you know like like you just like tap on the throttle
All the controls were on the steering wheel like it was weird to do the signals with your thumbs
Yeah, right like to to you know do a turn signal. So all that stuff you had to get used to in the beginning
Um, but I didn't drive it, you know, it was he was letting me borrow it
You know, he trusted me and I was like, I'm not gonna drive this thing hard. We just drove it around where he lived
Um, you know got in the freeway, but I remember like like it would roll back kind of like a manual
Like you know what I mean like even though it wasn't
Um, but yeah, you had to really like get used to that throttle. Oh, yeah response. It was it was different
You'll lose it quick if you don't
Yeah, so but it was cool. I mean, I feel like the 488 like I told him I was like
Looking back you probably should have got the 458 since it was naturally aspirated and people, you know, like going back to the
AMG E class like people I feel like are starting to gravitate towards more analog cars and naturally aspirated usually
Goes hand in hand with analog. Not always and the sound the sound
I mean the sound of the 458 big thing for a lot of people
Yeah, and at the time I'm speaking for Mercedes v8s when the
AMG
6.3 v8s came out. It was the highest horsepower naturally aspirated v8 for like five years
Yeah, um, and people remember that and as we kind of transition away from
v8s, it's they become more desirable for that reason
I'm glad you brought up the 458 because my boss also has one
He's a speciale nice and I actually did a youtube video. I never released it
But I did a comparison on which one would be a better daily driver
Hmm. That's a cool topic. Yeah
458
488 was better for a okay
And you know what now that you say that my buddy told me that's why he went with the 488
Because it was just a little bit more contemporary. So with the 488, you know, you have the electric lift in the front
Better sound deadening better stereo system
But if you want to have a nice weekend warrior, it's funny to say that with Ferrari, but
The 458 is the car to to have yeah
Yeah, no, I agree with you. Yeah, I think the 488 like I think of cars from like a market standpoint
You know, I yeah, it has the more creature comforts
But to me like it's not the one to have simply because it doesn't have that same sound like the 458, right?
So
All right, I wanted to ask you actually about
Reliability, okay, because I feel like you know with cars like I'm always defending. I'm a big alpha Romeo guy
I'm always defending alphas because people think like say, oh, they're so unreliable
You know, um, and it's like they're not any more unreliable than
A european exotic like or not exotic but like an outie from the the 90s or anything that has mickey mouse stuff
You know, they mean the british cars especially i'm always defending my
VQ i'm putting in my car everyone hates it but i'm always defending yeah
Is it like just simply because of the sound like I was hearing that yeah, that's all yeah
That's pretty much the crux of it. I say it burns oil
But it's like any other car you put an oil cooler on it put a proper exhaust on it perfectly fine
Right and you said it's super easy to work on right easy. So there you go. I mean people need to realize these things, right?
um
Because think about longevity you want something that's going to keep the car on the road and obviously you could always change the sound
Right, you could always figure that part out
um, but I wanted to ask you what is to you based on your experience the most
unreliable car brand or car in general to work on
hmm
That i've worked on so far. It's all been pretty reliable for me
uh
Uh, I'll say the most unreliable car that I haven't worked on probably a jeep
Really? Yeah
And that's just from you've seen him coming in and out of the shop
Yep, my buddy was a service advisor for them and he'd always tell me the horror stories
Which we're talking Wranglers or we're talking like four cylinder jeeps
Wagoneers
Like the new ones. Yeah, really the wagoneers are horrible
Okay, and this is what the hurricane engine
because they they had the 3.6 pentastar up until like the
One was they they kept it in the jl. I think in the current Wrangler
But I feel like um the wagoneers. I don't think have that same engine. I think they they've changed it
But what is it exactly that is it electric stuff? Like what's the issue? Yeah a lot of electric problems
he didn't go into
Too much detail on what's going on with them, but you I would always see one in this shop
Consistently you get to pull the entire
Body off the chassis to get to anything. It's horrible. Really. Yeah. Wow
You're not the first person. I've seen say that I've seen other things online
And I have a friend who is also a transmission tech at Chrysler
And he has said that their problem cars are the wagoneers
The hornet
Which is like shared with the alfa Romeo the tonale or the toenail as I call it
And um all of like the hybrid minivans like the pacificas in the cross countries. I love that minivan
It's a good bang for your buck. It's the minivan. I mean, it's the minivan. So I can't can't hold that against you. Yeah
Yeah, okay, so
electrical stuff transmissions
I always knew like four cylinder jeeps like the compass the patriot the the Cherokee
Those were all trash. Um really really bad cars. I mean, I would never recommend those but like the um
The six cylinder's like the the penistar the three six was way better than the 3.8
Then the four liter that was in the jeep wrangler like up until oh six
Those are all solid engines and you never really hear much about their transmissions
But I feel like wranglers are probably when people ask me like our jeeps good, you know
I always say just go to grand Cherokee or a wrangler, you know, like the wranglers are pretty bare bones
There's not that much electrical stuff going on
Which helps right because most of the stuff like you said wagon here. Do you know how much electronics that thing has?
Man, it's crazy. You know, it's like just too much going on with that car. Yeah
It's like more than like a like a navigator, you know, like they made the
The funny thing is is they don't even put jeep on that car the name
Like they just want it as the wagon here, right, you know, because it's like the luxury jeep
So all right interesting. So I got asked and if that's the most unreliable then what would be not the vq
Not the not the z. All right, not the 350z. What would be the most reliable car that you would recommend?
Oh, that recommend for what purpose daily driving. No, like for a car enthusiast car enthusiast
BMW 330i
G20
So that's an inline six and inline four. Oh, okay. What's the g20? What generation? That's the newest generation
Oh, that's actually what I daily drive. Really? Yeah, you work on your own car. Obviously. Yep
I have 106,000 miles on that car one drift event on that car and zero issues
Okay, and that's a current three series. Yep. Wow. Okay b48
Now people are gonna say like
Oh, the new three series has electric power steering and you know, it's not an ultimate driving machine anymore
What do you say to that that car is the ultimate driving machine
I can hit any back road and get the same feel when I had my e46
I drifted that and with the new g20. I took that to a track event and it felt the same
There's hardly any difference that car feels amazing. Yeah, I think it's more with feedback
Right, like you're not getting the same feedback. It's not that it's not going to be dynamic anymore
It's not gonna perform great. It's like people want that feedback from an analog car and
Time changes things evolve, right? So electric power steering is the next best thing
I will say just to kind of piggyback off what hamilton was saying is
I'm not really surprised that he said a modern BMW is one of the best ones to get in because
it is pretty impressive like
People will bag on modern cars and and how much they have going on in their difficulty
But ultimately after so many years of developing and building cars, they figure out how to just make them more reliable
like
for example, another good one kind of in the same avenue as a modern three series is the
five-cylinder outies like the the daza engine they call it in like the outie rs 3s
Those are incredibly good engines people are are tuning them to make
Insane power with bolt-ons and not even thinking about it. You know, so
uh
I've been kind of had an epiphany lately that maybe I want to give modern cars a little more credit
For a new supra that with the b58 zero issues
b58 motor is very reliable
You take a lot of power and that's uh, that's a straight six, right? Yeah
Yeah, I I've been saying this for the last year now
I feel like the manual supra the the current gen
Is going to be the next it's going to be a car to hold on to it's going to take a minute
Like I don't feel like they've fully depreciated yet
But if you can get a manual supra with the the b58 like like yeah, everyone's hating on it right now
You know, I think they stop production, right?
They keep saying they're stopping. I keep seeing another one come out. Yeah all up in the air
Yeah, I at the end of the day, they're not there's not that many out there
Right everyone bought the automatics in the first few years, right?
There was a 2020 to like 2023 then they announced the manual finally and now everyone's just buying the manuals
I think it's like 80 to 20 manuals to automatics because everyone who didn't buy one was waiting on a manual, right?
So now they're buying them up, but it's still like really low production. Like I think the mt
90 whatever it was called that that a model they only came out with like 500 of them
And it was like see you later gray
There's only a few colors that came out with like heart like ones like that like like, you know, usually
Special editions don't really do well and like in the after you know afterward down the road
But this one's a manual like that's I think they're gonna be the key thing
Have you driven the the manual supra? I have not yet. It's a it's a pretty decent shifter like it's that gearbox like
I remember driving it and just thinking like
It's not nachi like, you know, like a like a miata, let's say
Or but it also doesn't feel like your typical m3 like manual transmission either, you know, like it's um
I would say like
Somewhere I don't know if it's a zf or what I forget who makes it but um, it was it was solid
Okay, it wasn't like it didn't it didn't take from the car. You're not driving it and saying, you know what?
I wish I had the automatic, right? It adds to the car, right? At least to the analog experience
So I think that's all that was that was the most important thing that Toyota needed to do
Another thing in regards to the supra too is I heard a youtuber
Not too long ago say like you'd be hard-pressed to find a bad inline six
You know, and I think that's generally true
I mean even when it comes to like a a jaguar or you know, everybody thinks xj
xj wrangler with the inline four liter inline six like those are all good engines
Even like the companies that are known for
You know questionable reliability. Yeah can still make a pretty good inline six. Yeah
Yeah, because there's like less friction, right on a straight six balanced incredibly. Well, yeah
Oh another car. I will say for reliability a camry
I love I love camry. Well, that is the like whenever you want like when you said
For an enthusiast or a daily driver like I figured you'd say a camry if I said daily driver
That's what you would tell a camry would be what you would recommend to your friend
Who's like not into cars who wants your help like that's fair you tell them to buy a camry, you know or an accord maybe
Yeah, but they look great. They do. They're starting to get a little sporty, but
Yeah, don't they have doesn't a base model camry have like 230 horsepower. They make some jam now
Yeah, you can get like an xse and it looks super sporty. It don't has um, you know, those uh nice sporty wheels
A little spoiler quad exhaust. He always says team mobile managers drive the uh,
TRD the TRD version. Yeah, you know, that's his
metaphor for
um, so
Yeah, anyway, so okay, so couple uh, so a Toyota and a BMW for reliable. All right, so you work on old Bentley's
Let's go to the old cars. Okay, so
What's different about these cars like like obviously, you know, everyone, you know
Knows that they're as simpler or more simple craftsmanship craftsmanship. Okay, so elaborate on that the way they used to build them
So all we have all four Bentley's at our shop right now. They're all coach built. They have mahogany
Dashboards just the simplicity of how they were built back then
It was built for a mechanic to actually work on or just the owner to work on they gave you so
Many tools to get that car up and going
The manuals
They'll teach you how Lee teach you how to rebuild the motor on the side of the road
In service manual. Yeah, really. Yeah, like it doesn't say see your dealer. No
They'll tell you the bore and everything. Wow. So when I went to
Adjust the valves on the car. I just opened up the service manual and it told me right then and there
Without all the clearances. Yeah without the gap them to that's so cool. Yeah
What a time to be alive
Oh, and then you know greasing the chassis so all
Well, not all of them
But certain ones have a one-shot system a one-shot system is a little canister that sits in your engine compartment with oil in it
And it has a lever that runs to the under the dashboard before you drive the car
You're supposed to press it and it will shoot grease right to everything. Yeah, I remember
I remember seeing that on Jay Leno's garage. He has a few cars that have that feature
Yeah, because today you lubricate right different things like boots and things like that. So
I guess it had it like already built in right
interesting
Which if I had to guess
Has its advantages, right? Like you don't have to replace
Boots that have dried out grease inside them and stuff like that. It almost seems like it's
Maybe requires more service, but it's a lot more permanent. 100 would that be correct? Yes
Okay, cool. I mean
Yeah, if you can keep them going then i'm sure they have their advantages and they ride like a dream
It's like a big boat. I love working on those and driving those cars
I mean, that's what they were meant to be right? They were supposed to just be to ride around in comfort and
To spec them out our our mark 6 Bentley has a full picnic kit in the back has a bar in the dashboard
Shot glasses everything
And then the manuals the right hand shifter and right hand drive
Wait, what explain so it's like the the original gt-40 the shifter is on your right side along with the steering wheel
So it's not in the center
No way
What though so you're driving on the right because it's a british car
Let's say and then the transmission is on the right. So where's the door sill right next to it
Wow, so so you're not necessarily a little bit towards the middle. I would say not at all
All right. Well the transmission is in the middle, but it has
Oh, okay. Yeah linkages that go over and it's not like on the like three on the tree
It's actually on the floor on the floor. Yeah. Wow. That's interesting. It was more rare to see them in the center
Right. So which bentley's are these so we're talking about we have a
Bentley mark 6 which has the right hand drive and then our
Bentley r-type which is very special because that was owned by jackie o nazis
Which was married to jonah kennedy's wife
Oh, wow. Yeah, that's cool. And that car is fully original. So how he speculated out is how we see it today
That's cool. That's history right there. Yeah, I guess it kind of makes sense right in theory having the shifter on your right
I mean you're shifting with your right hand instead of your left in a right hand drive car because us
Americans are used to
Just shifting with your right hand because it's in the center on a left hand drive car. So maybe it is intuitive
Yeah, and then our automatics
You have three options
So with our Bentley s1, which is one of my favorites
You want to put it in drive? There's two three and four
If you just want to put it into it'll only give you two gears three three years for and then you have
Neutral and then reverse. There's no park. You just throw it in neutral and put the brake on. Oh, wow. Okay
So I wanted to kind of transition to what made you a car enthusiast
I usually ask this to everyone on this podcast
And you know, maybe talk about the cars you've you know, learn to drive as a kid or you know
What really made you gravitate towards cars in general?
So go ahead and tell us what what made you a car enthusiast? I'd say my dad
He had growing up. He had detail shops car transporting
so I was always around different types of cars and
He always just kept me around him just helping out throughout the shop
So that kind of gravitated me to that and then when just fast and furious came out that really did it for me
and then growing up learning how to drive cars I'd be
Sitting in
Porsches and
Bentley's and things like that just sitting on my dad's lap drive them and then
From there just kind of spiraled out of control. Yeah, the best way possible. Literally. Yeah
It's it's interesting a lot of people say they're dads
Yeah, right. I know you mentioned that where your dad's working on like old american cars, right corvette
Yeah, corvette 944 racing. So I spent a lot of time trackside as a kid
Yeah, my dad had an alfa romeo malano grown up and uh, I mean at the time
I didn't even know it was a cool car. I was like four or five years old
And now that's the car I own, you know, because he always that nostalgia kicks in
Once you get into like your you know, your late 20s and 30s
But um, yeah, that's cool. So what cars um, have you owned and let's say what car you currently own actually?
So I started with a 95 e 36 and then I had
91 s 13 I had a 2020 wrx. I had a 2021
Dodge 3,500 and I got a 2015 for that 350 and then
sold
Everything but the wrx the dodge blew up
And then I got the Ford and then got the e46
sold the wrx got the g20 and then
Sold the e46 got 350 z and just got rid of that and I have an s 14, which is a 1995
Wow, okay. So you have pretty
Eclectic. Yeah group of cars in the past. Yeah, right. So I will drive some
Sporty cars pickup trucks diesel 3500. I imagine right so I used to be a car transporter
Yeah, I figured that because you said your dad did that. Yeah, okay. I my friends were gonna kill me if I don't say it but
My very very first car that my parents just gave me to drive
2016 Chevy cruise
Which we still have to this was at the wagon manual. No, just a regular coupe
My buddy had a wagon cruise. It was around 2017. Whatever. Oh like the hatchback the rs hatchback. Yeah
With the manual. Yeah, he liked that thing. That was the first car he had when I first met him
But yeah, it's funny that like the cars you own
Usually say about, you know, who type of person you are, you know, they mean like
Will you like to grab it or will you gravitate towards?
But um, yeah, it's a pretty interesting group of cars man. Yeah, yes, and you're pretty young
So you've owned a lot of cars already 25 25 total. Oh, oh, I'm 25. Okay. Okay. So that was about like, I don't know
10 15 cars you just mentioned
Same buddy same. Yeah, cool. So, um, I appreciate you coming on the podcast, you know, um, I know, uh
I feel like whenever we get like a mechanic on the show like last time he had his buddy
Who's like a machinist
Join the show. I feel like you could always add some really good insight to our listeners because
You know, people tinker on cars car enthusiasts work on cars here and there
But like to actually full time be working on cars
Right after this, I'm going to work on the s14. Yeah, I have three more weeks to get that car done. Yeah
Okay, then I'm going up to Oregon and drifting for a full weekend
And that's three more weeks because of that drift
Like you're going up to Oregon. I see. Okay. That's the deadline. That is the deadline. Okay. So you're pressed for time
Yep, putting in long hours here at the analog and grit. Yeah, I really appreciate these guys. There's been a big help
Yeah, well another great perk of being a member here, right? You could take your car and put on the lift and work on it till
I mean, right the wee hours of the night. Exactly, you know, that's cool. So I was admired, you know
Mechanics like I was saying, you know when when you're able to work on cars
It's one thing to be a car enthusiast but like I feel like you need to somewhat have a basic knowledge of working on cars
Because car enthusiasts like old analog cars and usually, you know, things break, right? Like just this afternoon
I called Dylan. I'm like, hey, man. I don't know if I'm going to make it to the podcast
I'm sitting out of red light and I just hear my car like
Like it's like struggling and I'm like, I know like my alternate. I just had to rebuild
I put a new o2 sensor
And usually it's only when it's cold that it would do anything like that
Like you could like see like it's like almost I wanted to stall
But this was different. This was like it was just chugging
So just dies on me and then it you know turns over but it doesn't you know go on so I ended up pushing it
Fun little uh story two people got out of their car and actually helped me push the car
Parking lot, right? I put my hazards on cuz I was out of red light
And uh, anyway long story short. I go to chevron. I'm like, hey, man. Can I get some gas?
I just want to see if that's what it is because my gas gauge was between
Empty and full and I barely drive my alpharm. I drive it once
I don't know every three months
So I figured it had gas because it's between
You know pretty much half and uh, so it's like a quarter, right?
No, like it definitely was gas heat the triple a guy comes. Oh my bad chevron didn't want to give me their uh
They didn't had no canisters. Oh, yeah, so I couldn't even get gas. So I had to wait for triple a
He puts uh two gallons in there and I started up
Yeah, it's just crazy like
It's it's not that the car had a problem. It's just the gauge doesn't is an accurate
So it's a little stupid nuance things like that that you just got to be mindful of you know, so I put it topped up now
Yeah, I mean I put 10 gallons in it and the gauge clearly went over the full
Right, but it's one of those like velia gauges like Italian cars use where it's like kind of like this all the time
Like it's never like straight. It's just wiggling. Yeah, you know, so
Um, but yeah, now that it's full. I know if it goes to half I'm almost out, right? That's a good rule of thumb
Yeah, with our ferrari dino if he gets under a half a tank and you take a sharp turn it'll just
Oh, really?
Well, the gaseous shifts over. Yeah, they'll almost die on you. Oh my god. Oh, wow
Yeah, see like you're saying earlier with the uh, the ferrari with the speed sensor
Italians
They don't they make beautiful cars
They put so much energy and passion into the way the car looks and sounds like all the senses that you know are kind of
Superficial right the way it looks and sounds and feels
But when it comes to like
Working on the car later. They don't think things through. Oh, no, right? They put shit in weird spots
Right, like they don't think like oh, well, you know, if it was to break like someone's gonna have to reach this o-ring
But nope the o-ring is what like where you mentioned it, you know, I mean, it's just funny how they are
I will say that they give you goosebumps, right? Right. Isn't that the important part?
Right. Yeah, I guess it depends on who you ask
Depends on the ferrari. I'll say that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean even like german cars in general like
They they make really well engineered cars, you know, but they're not built for longevity
Like they used to be right, but the newer ones like I know you're talking about your BMW being excellent
And you kind of want to change the narrative on that which I appreciate, right? But like
There's so many like electronic components in a car today
Right that it's hard to keep a car a hundred percent reliable even toyotas
I got a Grand Highlander 2025 after driving it for 20 minutes all the sensors started going off on the car
I just took a 2025 Kia Telluride
Uh to utah and after 30 minutes lane departure blind spot monitor front collision all these lights started going off
Right and I was afraid like it was gonna say like I know most BMWs will say like
Like pull over and go to your see your dealer like it'll reduce power depending on what the issue is
Mind just says
It will just tell you drive to the dealership
Right and people see that and they freak out right on an older car an analog car
You're not gonna you're just gonna have to narrow down based on like process of elimination
And it's not going to be that serious
But the newer cars unfortunately, especially, you know, european cars because
Japanese cars for the longest time built cars for longevity at least I could say that for Toyota
Yeah, you know, um, maybe Honda
but like
Longevity as in like like you buy it you own it for 10 15 years
They don't care that you're gonna buy another one
They just know that you're gonna talk about toyotas to all your friends and family
And the next time you do buy a car it's going to be a toyota
You know where I feel like the german cars lost that a little bit
Yeah, especially after like, uh, I would say around 1995 before that they were built with no budget
Um and meant to be a sustainable long-lasting rebuildable car for life
Yeah, and I think my bad
I think the the key to that is what you said earlier the craftsmanship is lost
Right italian cars, for example, like lancia
They built cars with such great craftsmanship back in the day like the lancia full via
All those cars had such intricate details like little things even just a hood prop, right?
Like it was like, um, it was a mechanical hood prop like it wasn't just a stick like obviously the stick's been working for years now
Right, but like my point is is they just put a lot of effort into the craftsmanship
Where like even like the door way the doors slam things like that people talk about
But yeah 95 I think
Is a good like baseline of a year because after 95 we got
Real air conditioning like right they changed the was the r to r134 or whatever it was
ABS started coming in to play airbags
You started to see more modern features that we still use today, you know
But the build quality like why did that why did why did they start using sheet metal, you know
Instead of like real steel and like I don't know. I just think like
It's like this idea that oh, they're gonna end up wanting a new one in three years anyway
So we're gonna come out with a new body style. Why why make something to last 20 years
And then the most criminal offense of the loss and quality is Mercedes. They should have never
Messed with chrysler
Yeah, but think about it. It's all about money, right? Like that was a partnership that allowed them to
Gain a new audience and create volume cars
And that's usually where the problems happen like my alpha male Milano
They say is the last real alpha male because it was before fiat bought them out
Right and what is fiat gonna do? They're a volume seller, right? They make a lot of cars, obviously
They they go to Italy. They're everywhere, right? They're like the fiat 500 I was telling him the little Cinquecento
Was like the Volkswagen Beetle for Italy, you know, it took people everywhere
The fiat panda was four by four took everyone got, you know, everyone around in northern Italy where there was inclement weather
So like those cars will volume cars. So you you're not thinking about
You know building these cars to last a long time you're thinking and they just
Build as many as you can last just long enough
Yeah, and and nothing against those cars. They obviously that you still see them today, you know, they were built in a more simple time
But uh planned obsolescence is the term I use a lot. Yes
I know the gm guru Justin's mentioned that before in the past where like today we buy an iPhone
We intend to keep it maybe for two years
So apple is going to build it to just let the battery is only going to last two years
Exactly right and then the cost of a new battery for your phone
Is going to be way more than just getting a new one
You know, so I feel like it's kind of trickle down into the car industry as well
That's what my um my co-worker herb. That's what he always complains about because
Bentley is now owned by bmw
and he says
It's horrible. It's terrible. Yeah, this
Don't do it right anymore. They lost their craftsmanship. They don't keep any of the old parts around anymore. It's just gone downhill
right, isn't uh Rolls Royce
Volkswagen
Or I know Bugatti's Volkswagen owns a lot of car companies. Yeah, that was bmw that bought
Bentley
I think I know that they had their hands in Rolls Royce in the 2000s and early 2010s
I don't know about Bentley though either either way whoever owns it. It's not they're not their own like bespoke company
Exactly. Yeah, right. So I know Volkswagen is a conglomerate. Like I mean, that's not just lamborghini
They don't do Ducati like like Bugatti like they don't just make Volkswagen an Audi, you know, it's it's pretty insane how much they own
So you would think have you seen a Bugatti key before? No, it's a Volkswagen key, right?
It's a flip Volkswagen. It's something Doug DeMiro would like highlight on his reviews. Yeah, yeah
Yeah, so usually when that happens like the attention isn't as like focused on a brand, right?
It's kind of now diversified and diluted. So
Yeah, I mean, we'll see how the car industry kind of pivots with uh, you know
certain things because of tariffs and things like that, but
Um, I'm just hoping like you're a g20 bmw. I'm hoping they get more reliable, right?
Kind of it's it's a new generation with oldest technology
Like I've said in the past five years so much
Innovation has entered the car industry, you know safety usually like mainly around safety
You know like different monitors and sensors and dash cams and all these different radars that are now implemented
So I imagine there's going to be some quirks and and kinks to work out in the beginning
So hopefully that gets better with time. I don't like the way bmw is going with their body style though
Oh, well, she ain't got to tell me twice
That's a conversation for another podcast with the beaver. Uh, what is it the beaver grill? Yeah
It was a kidney grill now. It's now it's lungs. Yeah
5,000 pound m5 now. Yeah. Well all these
Technologies are going to just add weight. They're getting rid. I thought they were getting rid of the m line up
Really wouldn't surprise me for all electric
Oh, electric. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like the i m or whatever it's called or the i 4
I don't know
It's too much same thing with Mercedes the ecu and all that like
I
Kind of I like the eqs. I mean, but are they selling I see him on deal a lot. It's like crazy. My boss has three of them
Really? Yeah, he has your dad has three eqs. My boss. Your boss. Oh my three said pops
My boss has three eqs. He has the regular sedan. He has the suv and then he has the mybok suv
Yeah, I mean he probably bought him right when they came out and it was like the coolest looking blobby looking thing with like the
Full screen in the front or the passenger has their own screen. Like it was cool. Like they are posh too
Yeah, they just I got one from colorado to utah. I was such a smooth drive at zero issue
It was really nice compared to the tesla
Which I've been dealing with since they first came to organ. Yeah, no, I trust me
I imagine it's probably the smoothest most comfortable ride kind of like to sell us the still a Mercedes
Yeah, but yeah, it's still a Mercedes and it's electric and like I feel like all these electric cars in the last few years
Were all rushed to the market very true because they just needed to get these cars out there because they knew
You know, it was the new craze and then all of a sudden that craze stopped gone
Right and Mercedes kind of held out a little longer
So maybe that speaks to why those could be better cars than you might expect
Maybe maybe I could see the eqs taken over the tesla. Oh, yeah for sure over the comparable tesla
Definitely
So that does it for today's episode of the analog and grit podcast again, hamilton
Thank you for joining the show mainstay dylan like always
So until next week on the analog and grit podcast
About this episode
A deep dive into the world of drifting and automotive craftsmanship unfolds as Hamilton, a mechanic managing a private supercar collection, shares his journey from childhood car enthusiasm to building his own drift car. The episode explores the intricacies of working on exotic cars, the resurgence of drifting culture, and the unique characteristics of iconic models like the Nissan S-chassis. The conversation also touches on the evolution of automotive technology and craftsmanship, contrasting modern vehicles with classic builds, while offering insights into reliability and maintenance from a mechanic's perspective.
Analog & Grit member Hamilton Pool joins the show along with Mainstay Dylan. We discuss drifting cars; which Nissan’s are the best to drift? Hamilton manages a collection of exotic cars that he also works on as a mechanic. Find out which car brand Hamilton believes is the most unreliable and worst to work on. Ferrari’s, vintage Bentley’s and classic European cars, where has the craftsmanship gone? Dylan is taking his Storm to Radwood next month and my Alfa Romeo Spider left me stranded in the most embarrassing way.