Our 100th Episode!

[Pause]100th episode.

Here we go.

Everything's good.

[Pause]Hey and welcome back to the right hand drive guys podcast.

The podcast for guys who like right hand drives.

I'm Bobby.

This is Aaron.

Yo yo.

And this is our 100th episode.

[Pause]100.

100 triple digits.

We did it.

We made it.

I called my mom right before this.

I told her I am to rate up about it.

Nice.

Yeah.

She told me in break a leg.

I hung up on her.

[LAUGHTER]But, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

But, yeah, we're pretty excited.

Obviously, 100 episodes for us is a big deal.

We've been doing this for about 17 months.

And 100 episodes felt like pretty much impossible at first.

We didn't even think about 100 episodes.

Yeah, yeah.

It seemed like that milestone that was so far out.

And it's just one of those things.

We kept our head down, kept them coming.

Yeah, kept them coming.

And the number just kept going up.

Yeah, for sure.

And we started this podcast really as a way to stay connectedto our passion, which of course is right hand drive cars.

And where we currently live, which is central main,there is none of that.

There's absolutely none.

Yeah, it's pretty, pretty dire up here.

Yeah.

And so, of course, we still try to attend whatevermeets are available.

But that really wasn't really scratching our itch,you could say, for the involvement in the communitythat we fell in love with years and years ago.

And so this was a great way to stay connected,whether it be through you guys reaching out to usand us kind of connecting you to where you need to be,or meeting new industry people through interviews,or just gaining new knowledge by doing the researchfor the podcast.

So we figured, OK, 100th episode.

Like, what do you even do?

What are you going to do on the 100th episode?

That's such a big deal for you guys.

People ask me multiple times.

And I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

I really don't.

Yeah, I don't either.

Another episode of that.

Another episode.

Yeah.

Some more topics.

And so here we are, 100th episode.

And what we're going to do is let you guys in on a little bitmore about us.

As we were reviewing all the past 99 episodes,we kind of realized we never even introducedourselves beyond Am Bobby.

This is Aaron.

Yeah, yo.

And that's it.

That's about it.

And so we're like, how can we help connect with our listenersand let them in on just a little bit more about ourselvesso that, well, they know who they're listening to, right?

Right.

And so let's do it.

What we're going to do is we're just going to kind of talka little bit more about ourselves.

And then we're going to go through some of those past 99episodes.

See which ones were our favorites.

See which ones we feel like you're sleeping on.

And then at the end, kind of do a little Q&Abetween each other.

And at the end of this episode, hopefully,you really understand who Bobby and Aaron are.

And then we'll get on to episode 101.

I can, man.

Wow.

OK.

So to start it off, like I said, my name is Bobby.

I am 39 years old.

I am from central Maine.

And I actually was born in Miami, Florida.

My mom, my rest of my family was from Maine.

I've pretty much been here ever since besides whenI was in the military.

And I actually got to go to Coloradowhen I was in the military and participate in the carscene there.

I had right-hand drive civics.

This is back in 2007.

I had right-hand drive civics.

I had EVO 9 MRs, two of them.

A plethora of different cars that I could be involved in,different parts of that community out there in Denver,Colorado Springs, all of that.

And so that was really awesome because I reallygot to see how it could be.

Coming from Maine, being one of the few import car guys,we do got some muscle out here.

We got some a lot of classics.

But imports, it was very slim.

So showing up in Colorado was like a culture shock.

That's why I had to buy three cars.

Because I was just so like, ugh.

And so I really got to experience what the real carscene was like.

And then shortly after that, I moved to Nashvillefor actually what was my second time this guy here.

Had a different right-hand drive civic typeare at that point.

And also an EG turbo EG SIR patch, right-hand drive.

So that was really cool.

And if you've listened to the past storiesand you know that we met just driving on the highwayto a burgers and cream me and to right-hand drive cars,the only two right-hand drive cars at the meet.

Right, right.

And we pull up next to each other.

And so this is how we met.

Quite the coincidence.

Yeah, it really was quite the coincidence back then.

And this was back in 2009-ish.

And so that was quite a while ago.

That was 14, 15 years ago.

And since I've just really been working on developingmy career and I've had multiple other cars,right-hand drive Honda's R35 GTRs.

Quite a few other cars.

And then today, now I'm kind of settled where I'm atand my quest for the vehicles and kind of have my--I don't know-- my perfect little listthat I'll be happy with.

And that's where I'm headed as far as cars.

I got a family.

I got two daughters, a business, and which this guy is a major part of.

And yeah, I mean, I'm just another car guy doing my daily hustleso that I can enjoy my passion on the side, right?

Which I do like is a lot of us.

Right, right.

Doing what we got to do every day so that we can do what we wantto do when we get out, so to speak.

So that's me.

My name's Bobby Roso.

And this is Aaron Baird.

Yep, that's me.

I am 36, just turned 36.

Happy birthday, by the way.

[MUSIC PLAYING]Yes, yesterday, yesterday, the minute-- no, the day beforeyesterday, he turned 36.

Yep.

You're all this out.

So I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

I lived there for all my life until around seven years ago.

Come on, shout out, Annie.

Come on, don't generalize.

Don't.

All right, all right.

Group in Annie.

Oh, yeah.

LA, lower Annie.

Represent.

If you know, you know.

Yeah, grew up there, lived there all my life, moved up to Maineabout seven years ago.

And yeah, before that, before I moved up here,I held a job at pretty much a Honda dealership for a while.

As a mechanic, I started out in detail,worked my way up from detail to the express loop.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, yeah, I worked that.

So climbed that ladder to speak.

From there, I worked at a Nissan dealership,because I was always a fan of Nissan's.

Kind of always had.

I've never really had many Honda's.

Worked at Nissan for a while.

Kind of--So you know all about the dealership life?

Yeah, yeah.

I know all about the dealership life.

And that's kind of where I learned how to work on cars.

That's where I collected all my snap-on tools that noware chilling and don't get as much use.

But yeah, from there, I moved on.

I painted houses for a while.

And kind of the car thing was always kind of like on the back burner,I guess, for a little bit.

But you did some motorcycle stuff anyway?

Yeah, yeah.

And then while the cars were on the back burner,I picked up motorcycles, did some road racing,and had a lot of fun with that for a few years until then I came up to Maine.

And once I was up here, I was kind of in a place where I could get back into cars per se.

Because as you grow older, there was a saying with motorcycles, with age comes the cage.

As you get older, you tend to get into cars and do things like that.

But for me, it was just coming back to it.

So I got back into cars and pretty much from there.

Yeah, I mean, we started this podcast and that's really been all the car stuff.

Beyond that, I have two pretty cool dogs, a girlfriend that's pretty sweet.

And I mean, I'm a simple dude.

Beyond that, you know what I mean?

Yeah, nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with that at all.

So yeah, I mean, that's us right there in the short.

We're just two car guys that wanted to stay connected in a place that is hard to connect.

Yeah, 100% and I think this podcast has definitely helped with some cool interactions throughout the episodes for sure.

Yeah, absolutely.

And so speaking of the episodes, right, we've had 99 of them.

And you know, a lot of things you count to 99 and it doesn't seem like a lot.

You know, 99 bucks ain't shit.

I'm telling you that right now.

Like it is not.

But 99 episodes, it was podcast.

Yeah, that feels like a lot, you know what I mean?

And it really has been.

And so when we talk about the old episodes, right, like I know that I've really enjoyed having the guests.

The guests have been cool because they bring, you know, third layer of knowledge, so to speak, to the podcast.

Like, you know, we've obviously had our experiences and we have our knowledge through those experiences, but someone else had a different path.

And that's what I really enjoy about having the guests, you know, is that different past, whether it was, you know, Trevor King kind of giving us the insights on being an exporter in Japan.

You know, that was really cool or, you know, heart sought came on and he really kind of let us know,why is this super world so weird?

You know, like any kind of get brought light to that, you know what I mean?

It really kind of helped me understand like why is a left hand drive super worth 25% more than a right hand drive?

Right.

Because they're weird.

But, but you know, and then of course, you know, elbow and in June from Kido House, a guy that has lines upon lines just to get hiscars that he's designed his die cast cars.

Yeah, yeah, that was a good one.

Yeah, really was.

And to, on speaking on him, did you see the DGK collab when it came out?

No, I didn't end up getting to see it.

Was it cool?

Yeah, it was cool.

Yeah.

And so, right, getting the exclusive, you know, kind of heads up on the DGK collab way back in May.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, and then dude, even having, you know, quote unquote, regular guys, like Jerome and

Kenden come on the podcast guys, just like us, but have their individual story. They, they don't

own some big company, they work hard at whatever they do, but they're just as interesting, you know,as a guy like, you know, whoever we've had Mickey and Dready, you know, or Android, I guess,his name, but you get it. It's been really cool to talk to both sides of the fence when it comes

to these people. Right, right. Because I mean, at the end of the day, we, we all love the same thing

and have the same passion for the same thing. Yeah. Just maybe a different experience that gives us

different wisdom and knowledge based on it, you know. So, all right. So, what do you think? Like,

out of all these episodes, all 99 of them, right? What do you, would you say? What do you think

people are currently sleeping on? That includes you listening that thinks you're not sleeping on it,

but you haven't listened to this episode then you probably are. Dude, I mean, honestly, I think any

of the Japan trip episodes are slept on for sure. Especially if you're going there. If you're

planning a trip there, we kind of, you know, we, we tell everyone where we went, how to get there,what experience we had. We kind of laid it all out as, you know, somewhat of a loose guide, I

guess you could say or, you know, you could definitely use it for some inspiration for your own trips.

Yeah. And in some sense, we were recording them in Japan. Yeah. Audio might be a little funny.

Yeah. For sure. Yeah. But, you know, and so we're recording these things in Japan. Everything's fresh.

We're not really forgetting anything because we just did it. And so, yeah, I agree. I mean, if you

have the opportunity, why wouldn't you just listen to these? And of course, there's a bunch of other

resources. We already listened into this podcast. So check it out. Yeah. So I'd agree with you, those

Japan episodes, you know, for sure, check them out. I personally think that you're sleeping on

the garage inspiration and build out episode. That episode really lays out how to

build out a garage. If you've watched our YouTube videos, scene pictures, you can see that our garage

looks pretty cool, right? That's what we're told all the time. And so in the garage inspiration and

build out episode five, we really kind of laid it out about, you know, what we got in here, how wedid it and all of those things. So I would definitely say you're sleeping on that one. So if you had

to pick a favorite episode this, I know I didn't run it by you before, but I'm throwing it in there.

What's your favorite episode? Well, I know definitely the most fun one

sounds crazy was the Tokyo Auto Salon episode that we recorded inside the hall. Yeah. That

was just like such a headache. Man, it was, but it was an experience in itself. Yes, it was.

And it was cool to just be in that environment, you know, at Tokyo Auto Salon, you know, right theretucked away on this little side side hit there, you know, tucked away for sure. Yeah. And

to record an episode. I mean, it was pretty cool. And I agree. It was fun. That was a fun, fun one.

It was, I mean, I would say the Auto Salon one, that's not mine, but and because it was like a headache.

You know, you're there's just a lot of people. Yeah, there's a ton of people and you're trying to

find a place where they're not going to run into you, bother you, knock over your camera, whatever itmay be. Yeah, it turns out all that happened. Yeah. And we're like, Oh, okay, this spot's perfect.

There's nobody. It's on the side of the, this wall in between the booze were good. Yeah.

Man, like, yeah, people were walking by stepping over us, knocking the camera over multiple times.

Like it was very stressful. I forgot what booth it was, but I guess that was like their, like

partition that we had the phone leaned up on. And at one point, it was like rocking because they

were bouncing off of all this. I don't know. It's what it seemed like, but we got it done. Yeah, we did

it. It was so fun. And yeah, we, we've done episodes, you know, live from these different places,

like Tokyo Auto Salon and and import a lion. You know, and these things have been cool experiences

regardless of the hiccups. I don't know, man, I've really enjoyed a lot of our episodes.

And, but I feel like, you know, when you say like the most fun, that made me be like, yeah,I know I guess you're right. I've enjoyed the hot or not episodes because it's kind of more of a

game. Right. And I enjoy like the game thing, you know, the game part of it, like where you're being

quiz and you got to give an answer and rapid fire. And so I've kind of enjoyed those hot or not

episodes. And maybe that's a hint that we need to play a few more type of games. I don't know,

you know, maybe with a guest. Yeah, yeah. And we're like the hosts and, you know, they're playing. So

but, you know, I've enjoyed every episode that we've done. It's really been quite cool. And again,

especially the interviews that has been a blast for sure. Yeah, that's been cool. Lincoln up with

some people that actually like have a bit of knowledge and just that different knowledge. Yeah, and a lot

of times you're like, Oh, shoot, I didn't know that. Okay, cool. Noted. So, okay, that that completes

our reminiscence of the old episodes. And now we're on to the questions. Okay. Now these are

questions that neither of us know the other one is going to ask. And we decided we're, you know,

whatever discussing and interviewing with these other people. Why are we not, why don't we do that

to each other? And then this also helps you understand who we are anyways. So, okay, you ready? I'll go

first because I have one more than you. So it seems like it makes sense. Okay, sure. All right. So,

why the imports, dude? I know your dad was a stangman. And I know you've had one. So why not stay

in your lane? I don't know. I mean, you're right. I have had, I did have a Fox body Mustang. And hey,

they're cool, whatever in their own sense. But for whatever reason, it's probably because my dad

isn't to it. I just want to be a little bit different. Oh, so you would be considered a rebel? I guess so,

you know, we're we're into the same things, but different, I guess you could say, like, but likethe same because you've had a Mustang. You're right, right, right. But different because I don't have one

now. Which you still has his. Would you say that you and your dad were just the tiniest bit closer

when you were rocking a Mustang or what? You guys get talking about Dale Earnhardt and stuff a lot

better. I don't know because even then when I had it, I, you know, I still had, I don't know, that JDM

I guess you could say it wasn't his style. It was like, you know, he's like, why are you doing with

that thing? Yeah. Okay. It wasn't necessarily his style. So he was just like, yeah, what the hell are you

doing? Yeah. Okay. It was what it is. But I mean, I don't know. I just liked the, I was always

into Nissan's and that was just my thing. Yeah. It was just always a need not that I have hate or,

you know, anything like that towards Mustangs. Camaro is probably a little bit, but like,

is what it is. He is not a Camaro guy. No, that's that's the, that was the only rule in the house. No

Camaro. No, no, no, Chevy's. No Chevy's. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. No bow ties over there. That's crazy. Hey,

is what it is, you know, that's living in the South. Yeah. What do you go? All right. I'm excited for

my first question. All right. All right. So you talked about family. How do you go about incorporating

your family in with your passion for cars? How do you? Is this like a fast and the furious joke?

Are you trolling me right now? What would Dom say? Seriously? Yeah. I mean, that is hard because

a lot of garage time is when my children are in bed because I can't do garage time and justignore them. Right. So a lot of times the schedule doesn't work. So what I'll do is, you know, if I can

get some a long garage time with one of them, then I'll bring them over. Have me, of course, you

know, help me help me do some little stuff. Right. Right. The other day, one of my daughters came over,

we moved the cars out. She cleaned up the whole garage. She's like the type that loves to

organize and like have things in their own place. So she came over and, you know, help me clean the

garage. But I'll bring them to cars and coffee or, you know, any event that we can drive to within,

you know, whatever an hour, you know, after that, they start crabbing, you know, getting mad. But,

you know, otherwise like my oldest, who is 12, she enjoys coming and she knows the differentcar makes and models and that type of stuff. So she's bent to Japan with me. She has bent to R's

meeting. Right. She's been R's meeting more than I have. Yeah. She's been to R's meeting more than

you have. But that's, you know, what it is, you know, you're not, you don't like GTRs. But yeah, I mean,

I try to integrate them as much as I can. One being like, you know, they're kind of still a little

younger, but be being their females and like, they like the cars, but like, they're not in love withthe cars. You know what I'm saying? So it's been cool though. I think they understand that I have

a passion that I love and they can see that. And I think that to me is a lot more important than

me just wanting them to be in the cars. Right. They don't got to be in the cars. But if they can see

that I have a true passion that I love beyond like what makes me money, then they're going tounderstand that it's okay and good for them to have the same thing. Right. You know, that's a good

lesson to teach. Right. And you know, just because you got to work all the time on this other

thing doesn't mean you got to give up like the actual thing. Right. The dream per se, right? Yeah. So

yeah, that's pretty much how I do it. Just try to bring them along, make them clean my stuff,

that type of thing. Yeah. All right. Cool. So yeah, I know like you're in the middle of, I don't know if

this is the world premiere of this. Maybe I shouldn't say it, but I guess you're swapping an SR20 into

this pig behind us. Yeah. Yeah. So what's the next car? The next car. That's tough because it's one of

those things where I'm kind of like an opportunist, I guess, when it comes to cars, like if something'sthe right price, I'll jump on it. Oh, he's an opportunist. Type thing. But in a perfect world,

I would definitely like an R34 GTT sedan. That would be cool. Something to keep a little more

stock per se, you know, make sure that AC works. Keep the interior a little bit more plush.

You know, a driver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like a comfortable driver. Right. Right. Just because

the R32, once I put the SR in it, it might lose a little bit of drivability, I guess you could say,it might be a little bit louder or it might be a friggin full blown race car. Yeah. I mean,

and just the older cars, they're not, they're not a solid. You know, you hit a bump and it rattles.

Like the R34s are way more refined and better drivers in that sense. Kind of like with what Ken

and was saying. Right. Right. So it is what it is. It's the next generation of cars. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. So, I mean, I would love an R34 sedan with the RB25 turbo, basically stock.

I'd be fine with it. Dude, and just drive it and enjoy it. Slam down some friggin through the

spoke sky. Yeah. Of course. Right. Right. Definitely do some, yeah. Definitely some wheels.

Probably do, probably try to find a set of RA3 DTs, which are like a GTR specificadvenant three spoke. That would be cool. But, you know, nothing crazy, not too low.

Yeah. Something you can drive. And then yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll have this thing for when I want to

be flashy and drive like a dummy, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I get that. That's cool. Okay. So

next one's a Ford or GTT. I hope so. I mean, that one's that one's the highest. That was the highest

on the list. Yeah. Manifest it through this episode. I'm manifesting it right now. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Hopefully by 200 by 200. Yeah. Okay. That's a good. We're gonna go back another like 16 months. That's

not too far. I'm gonna get to work. Yeah. All right. So speaking again to work. Okay. Where do you see your

car collection in the next five years? I know you have your list and you're well on your way.

Where do you see it in the next five years? You know, I thought I knew. I really did. I thought I

knew like what exactly I wanted, which was 32, 33, 34 S15, EK9 CT, CTR, all in white. Yeah. I thought,

you know, I'm like, and it's not. I mean, I still want the EK9 and the S15. The 32 has started to

kind of drop off from my radar a little bit. Yeah. Because I mean, don't get me wrong. It's the original.

It's Godzilla. It's the raw, unrefined first version of these cars. Right. Like it has its place. But

does it have its place in my garage? I don't know because you know, anywhere from 30 to 60 pretty much,

you can find one of these. Yeah. And when I look at these other cars that I want, 30 to 60 can get me

60 can get me the S15 and the EK9 easy. Yeah. You know, both in white. And so I don't know. I'm not saying

I never get one. I'm just saying that has fallen way down. And more recently, I've been thinking about,

you know, my past and having evos and STIs and like kind of trying to bring a few of those backto in a sense like full circle. Like, you know, the EK9 was really my thing. And then the evos and STIs

were really my thing. And then all of a sudden, like the Nissan's like just attacked me mentally. And

that was crazy. I've been a slave. Seriously. I was like, what's this guy doing? Yeah. I've been a

slave. What's this type of guy doing with a GTR? Exactly. Yeah. And so now I understand it's because I was

not really, I didn't have anyone around me that was into Nissan's really. They were into Honda's

and evos. And so that's what I was into because that was the influence that I had. And so now, you

know, thinking about him, like, yeah, I would like to kind of make that full circle. And you were just

looking at evo 7's and they're super attractive. Let me tell you, evo 7's are super attractive right now.

Yeah. And so, you know, it's just a thing. It's kind of ever evolving. But I definitely am happy with

my 33 and 34. But I got to add a few of these other ones. And this could change, this could change next week,

next month, next year. But I definitely want to add a few of those other four cylinder all will drive

turbo cars. Yeah. To it, you know, and just see where it goes from there, I guess. That's where it's at.

Sounds pretty good. I mean, it is your collection in that sense, right? It doesn't have to be

the 32, 33, 34, the triple threat. Yeah, yeah. I mean, out and realistically, like when I build

these cars and like where my thought process is going is like, I don't want maybe, you know, a drag carand a circuit car. And, you know, I don't need, that's not me. It never has been like, I have pretty

minimal track time. I'm not searching out track time. If I have the opportunity, as you've seen,

like I'll do it cool. But I'm not building track cars. I'm building well-rounded cars that I can

enjoy on the street. And then if I do get invited to that track day, I'm not a slug. And that's it.

I don't need to win the track day. That's not my goal. Winning track days. Right. Yeah, not exactly.

You know what I'm saying. I'm not trying to win the track. There are those dudes. Yes. And so

that's the thing. I want to be able to drive on the track, have a great time, have my car perform,

drive off the track and drive at home. Like that's what I'd like to do. So,

yeah. And I mean, if, if so, why have a 32, 33, 34 before getting some of these other things?

Yeah. Because they're all going to be like close to the same car. Right.

Minus, of course, a few things, you know. Yeah. From the 32 to the 34, it's like,

yeah, gets a little redundant. Unless you do unique builds on each of them. And then,

yeah, kind of makes sense. But other than that, it's just like, yeah, kind of gets a little redundant.

Yeah. Absolutely. Makes sense. All right. So for you, how has being in main changed your life

when it comes to cars, parentheses, good or bad? Yeah. I mean, so

it's different for sure. It's way different because when I was first into cars, it was from, you know,

'07, like right as I graduated high school, it was 2007. It was back in the forum days where

you could hop on a forum. And that's where I met like the group of car dudes that I hung out with.

And that's where I found out about all the meats that I'd pull up to. Like all that. It was all

in the forums. And like, there would also be all the discussions on the forums and all the banter

and all that. And then now that we've kind of got an older, it's just changed because, well,

one, there aren't any forums anymore. Sure, there's like Facebook groups and stuff like that. But

it's just, I don't know, adulting takes a lot of time. Yeah. And that's one of the things about,

you know, being a kid per se, you know, in my 20s, I had a lot more free time. And that's where

I had the time to do all that type of stuff. So up here, you know, it's just like I,

I'm lucky to get enough time to work on the car and kind of keep it going. And, you know, I can

enjoy it by driving it and commuting to work or whatever it might be. I'm not necessarily

searching out car meets and things like that to go to. If I'm invited, I'll put it on the calendar

if the car's running. I'll go see it. Yeah, if the car's running, I'll go. It's been a struggle

issue. I've invited him to cars and coffee every single month. And the car just, it hasn't agreed

so far yet, dude. It's been tough. Yeah. So it's just changed in that way. But I mean, it's also

probably a large part I have changed in that way, where I'm not seeking out community, I guess,as much in that sense, you know, so I mean, I think it's good though whenever we do go out, it's always,it's always cool people. It's always good vibes. We're the center of attention because we're

pulling up into skylines and there's nothing even close to it. We'll be on that. I mean, I think I could

pull up in the fit and still like, yeah, I think it's like, you know, good vibes and it's not notanyone causing any trouble. There's no drama. It seems like, you know, there's a bad egg ever once in a

while, but like, but I mean, I think it's more, yeah, that I have changed, I guess, a lot more thanthe scene has changed. Yeah. But dude, the scene up here is vastly different. Just buying parts and

finding used parts alone in Northern New England, I guess you could say is just a pain because like,you're either, you know, having to drive a few hours south, a few hours even, you know, west intoCanada for some parts. I've seen pop up. I'm like, oh, that seems like a good deal, but like, oh, wow,

wait, that's Canada. That's another country. So yeah, it's just that's that's definitely a tough thing

is finding, finding the spare parts and just cool stuff that you might run across if you live in amore of a metropolitan area where there's way more people and way more, way more stuff like that floatingaround on marketplace. I guess you could say like, yeah, I mean, dude, squirks the marketplace,

marketplace master, like down south, dude, he's talked about all the deals he's came across.

800 pair of wheels, he got off market place. Seriously, all for steals and like, I can't find a steal

up here for nothing. No, yeah, yeah, that's for sure. So yeah, I get what you're saying. It's not

necessarily the location as much as it is time and like, not necessarily maturity, but changes of life.

Yeah, and also the scene up here, it's heavily like Volkswagen, like, hero and not necessarily thescene I would be into it like back in the day. I was definitely more into the Japanese cars and

that was what was popular down south. You know, it was, I mean, obviously there was Volkswagen's stuff

around, but the meats and stuff I was going to it was heavily. Yeah, there was more of them. So the

meats were not mixed. Our meats are all mixed because we couldn't even have just like a JDM or

the you could probably have a Euro meat, but not like a JDM meat. Right. Yeah, no, it is hard and

we're so spread out. You know, we just went to this meat last week and we had to drive an hour and

a half each way for it to be probably 30 cars and not that impressive, but we were still participatingand that's our goal is to at least participate if we can. Yeah, enemy people try here. I mean, it is

yeah, they're trying. Yeah, they're trying. But our median income is also lower. It's a lot different

economically. So yeah, what do you got? All right. So who or what are your biggest influences when it

comes to modifying your cars? That's one of my questions for you. That's one of my questions for you,

man. Oh, man. Oh, Paul Walker. Paul Walker, Brian O'Connor. Oh, Brian Earl Spillner,

dog. Oh, wow. Sounds like a serial killer name. Yeah, I mean, it is. So what are my biggest influences?

Man, that's like, that's hard because of course it's like, oh, you know, like these guys, right? These

JDM icons, you know, like of course, I got the laundry list of JDM icons, you know, butI mean, I would say my biggest influence isn't like certain people. It's the style of car, right? Like,

I haven't ever been one to be a follower to single people, you know, idolize single people,right? Like I definitely have the utmost respect for a lot of people, but I don't necessarily,

like maybe I look up to them, but not really. I look up to whole groups of things, you know,

and so for me, you know, I look up to styles of cars. And so that's why especially these days,

most of my cars will kind of be the same style. Like not, I don't call it, I wouldn't call it OEM

Plus, but like, like the quiet, balanced, clean, like vehicles, right? And so my, subtle,

and the sense, yeah, yeah, and so my biggest inspiration are the people who build those cars,you know, like whatever, you know, like a built by legends car, I look up to those cars, so to speak,or, you know, a Mugen Bill Civic, I look up to a Mugen Bill Civic, you know, like it's just notspecific people, which is like, it's always really been that way. Even when I was a kid, like, who's

your idol, like, I don't know, I like Sesame Street, they're all dope. The crew, the whole crew is dope.

You know, like, I had big bird, it's all good, you know, so and that's kind of the same thing today.

I just have a hard time, like really looking up to a single person instead of like a group of peoplewho do something, you know, so sorry if that didn't answer your question, but like, what inspired LMGT4s on both 33 and the 34? What got you on that one? I mean, I mean, they're sick wheels.

Sick, dude, they're sick, but they're the wheel, the OEM, they're the wheel that is of course from thebest wheel maker in the world, but also is tied in to Nissan, you know, and my wheels havenine times out of 10 always been a race wheel, regardless, and they've always been pretty muchTE37s, you know, and so this is the like ultimate TE37 even though that's not what it is, but it's

still that style of wheel, and then you add like the collaboration with Nismo on it, and like,I just don't see what else I would even put on there. Right. I just, I don't like sorry, and

people can think I'm lame for that, but I personally love that, and that's what I would, I do thatwith a 32, and I feel just as great about it, you know, because that is, but I lie, I mean, I would dolike LMGT 2s on a 32, like that's a, it's a different thing, and, and that is like it, right? Like,

I would do that, but I wouldn't put whatever other, I don't know the names of any other wheels.

All right. So besides the United States, Australia, and Japan, where do you think JDM cars are really

thriving right now? Besides the big three. Well, it's big three. It was here. US,

Australia, Japan, Ireland. You think Ireland's spot? Ireland is sick, dude. Like,

or maybe I watched too many juice box videos. I don't know. Call it what it is, dude, but they have

like some sick cars over there. If you're into like the low drift style, like, dude, it's insane.

Like some of their, some of their meets and events and stuff over there, you would, you wouldsecond guess yourself. Like, if that's the way you are. Yeah, right. If you didn't see the goofy

European tags on all the cars, like you would think it's in Japan. Like it's pretty insane. And like,

if you're into A86's, they're, they're huge over there. Like there's, I don't know how many

retired drift car A86's that have ended up in Ireland. I thought you meant like they made bigger versions

of the A86 over there. That's an A86, but it's like the size and excursion. Yeah, A86 XL, dude, that's

sick. Cool. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Keep going. Yeah, but Ireland is, it's huge and that's, I mean,

to my knowledge, that's the only place I really saw it. There's other Asian countries as well.

Like, I believe Malaysia has a pretty, yeah, that's what I was thinking. Malaysia. Yeah, they got a

decent size seen. But I mean, that's so close to, yeah, it's easy. Ireland's kind of far. Yeah,

it is far. I mean, it's, yeah, it's, it's not close. That's for sure. I mean, they definitely

got to get on a boat, right? Yeah. That's for damn sure. Okay, cool. So I got it. It's, it's Ireland.

Yeah. That's my answer, at least. If someone else knows anything better than

Allah. All right. Do you think any JDM cars that are made in the 2020s will achieve the legendary

status that the ones did from the 80s and 90s? I think we're seeing most models that Japan is

beyond, like, special editions, right? And some of the smaller case stuff, I guess. Yeah, yeah, of

course. But when it comes to the big auto manufacturers and like these cars that they put out over

the past five years, they're, it's cross. Like they, we have them over here, beside some special

editions, right? Right. Like what I don't remember the, the name of the, or well, for example, the GR

years. We don't have that. We do. Right. So that I could see being something that's in demand here.

They, it's not there. I mean, in 2050 or 49, if we can even have ice cars out here. Right,

if we can even import new ice cars, then I think it would be those special editions. You know,

like there's a Mugen F L 5 that was super limited over in Japan. Wow. Something like that. You know,

these type of things. But we've got most everything. And we're seeing the end of the, when Japan was

holding back models for themselves. We're seeing the end of that with like what we were talking about.

The, you know, the DC 5 and Tiger Type R, the Evo 7, right? Like the Bug I STI, you know, these,

what I can't remember which one that is. But these cars are coming to an end because it, after 2010,

everything has mostly been shared, cross continent. So yeah, I think there's some special editions.

But I don't think that there's that many full card. It will not be like it has been these past 15

years. It won't be like it's just not, you know, so yes and no. Yes, some special editions. But

not anything near like it is today. And I think you'll see like a, a real, a real kind of drop in the

amount of importers and stuff after a certain year because that inventory is going to shrink. They're

already scalping everything out of Japan that they can. They'll go to some of these other countries

that got them and try to offer higher prices and get them over here. But after that, they're,

there's just not going to be anything that's not worth, you know, getting a marketplace and buyingleft hand drive. Yeah, that's true. So to speak. So that's just my opinion. You know, hit me up if you

got another one I'd love to hear it. I might be missing something. Yeah, I mean, I really don't know

of anything. And like I think the cars that are being produced now might be special because there's

some of the last of right internal combustion engines. If that's how it goes down, which I hope to

God, it doesn't. Yeah, I think everybody listening could agree. Hopefully it definitely doesn't. Yeah.

All right. So you've had some of your right hand drive cars. Spit us real quick. What's your best

memory of your right hand drive cars? Like what's the best memory you have of that? Of all of,

or I guess, just give me good one good one that you're like, that was cool.

Well, for my 180 and the R32, I mean, I don't know if it was the best memory, but it's definitely themost memorable thing that's happened in each of those. And that is picking them up out of state and

driving them both home with no plates. Wow. Okay. Just wow. This is statute of limitations.

Statue of limitation might be very stupid thing to do. No one try this.

But that's one of the things I kind of remember most out of each of them is like my 180. I had to go

to the middle of nowhere. Alabama and trade this guy. My S13 coupe that had an RB 20 in it. I traded

them straight up for a 180 SX with an SR with bigger turbo and fun stuff. Drift car pretty much.

And I drove that back down Alabama highways for three hours or so and finally made it back home.

And then my R32, I picked up a new jersey and yeah, drove it all the way home. George Washington

Bridge, all that like big time. And I mean, I would like to have done it differently a little bit,

but it's one of those things where you gotta do what you gotta do. You know, if that's what you

have to do to get your quote unquote dream car home, then no one's gonna stop you unless, you know,they're a cop and unless they do stuff like impound your car. But but beyond that, my 180 SX,

I did do a lot of drifting in that. And that was very cool because

that was a blast at the time. Tennessee Drift was just starting and they had the fairgrounds

down in South Nashville. They had had the fairgrounds like once a month. They'd rented out and we do

kind of like a kidney being shaped in the infield. And it was fun. It was like second, third gear.

Like pretty basic, but it was like all these dudes that were just starting out drifting kind ofdoing that. And we all kind of learned with each other and you know, like drifting a 180 SX,

you know, back in 2009, I think it was. I mean, that was just really cool for me. Because it was,

you know, my quote dream car at the time, I didn't even think it was acquirable, but then I got it,and then I was still doing the same things in it that I would my 240s and stuff. That was that was

fun. That was very exciting going to car meets and yeah, all that dude, all the stuff. That was just

good time. Oh yeah, the right hand drive cars are fun. What's up? What you got for me?

So what's your take on the team who AE86? I'm sure everyone's seen this by now. Like

what's your take on that thing? Do you think it's going to go anywhere? Do you think they're going to

do any other models? I don't know. I honestly didn't see a price. I don't know what the price is.

I think the price is a factor. If it's China price, like like real team who price?

I want to say it was eight to 10K, but you had to order 10 of them or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I personally don't know what an AE86 goes for right now. I mean,

I assume it's more than that. I think it's cool for guys that want to get into drifting and

have access to what you would need to make that drift car. I'm not sure entirely what it all

comes with. I just saw a picture of it on a stand and like, oh, we all saw the fish.

Yeah. I mean, I think I don't know, man. I mean, I think it's cool and I think it's shitty.

You know, I think it's cool because it gives you an opportunity to have a fresh drift car,right? Because these obviously aren't tidalable or anything like that. I don't know what the

legality is of it. Can they do the AE86 because of its age? Like what's the deal?

Right. How is a not copyright infringement or something or whatever it may be. And so,

I think it's cool for the fact that you can actually get the old car clean and straightfor drifting. I think it's lame because I think Toyota put a lot of work and effort into it.

And if they're not doing it correctly, then you're just ripping them off like every other rip off partthat we've seen come down the chain. But that's stuff though because Toyota is not reproducing them.

Right. You know what I mean? And same with like some of these part manufacturers, it's kind of a

weird line in the sand where it's like, what is it? The replica, like, is it okay because there's not

any more of them around or like you can't buy them new anymore and it's hard. It's yeah, no, I agree.

It is. You say it's a replica obviously, but it's tough. Yeah, it is tough. So it's like,

it's not for me. I mean, if they come out with an R34 GTR, I'm going to be pissed. That's what I was

going to do. That was my next question. Do you think like what do you think that would look like?

Do you think the internet would be in a bigger upper or in there would be dudes placing orders forour thoughts? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And if so, okay. Maybe Vince Wapen GT. Why?

Why? I'm serious. Why? I wonder why they did the A86 and something like the 34

is such a, I feel like more people would buy it or something. I mean, there has to be some something.

I mean, if you know about this, please, we've been talking about this for two weeks and we got nofreaking clue what the hell is going on or how they can do this. So, you know, if it's just they're

being sleaze balls, yeah, figures. But if they have a right to do this somehow, like, let us know. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, my turn. Yeah. You know, this question might be a little personal. I, and by

notes, you're in your suit today, your, your, your ass suit. And so do you have an only fans for the

people? No, that was a question. Link in the comments. Go ahead. Is this your last one?

Where was I really the question? Yeah, see it right here. Do you have OF?

Should I? Yeah, I don't know, man. They want to see you pull this motor and shit.

Anyone see James oil in that bitch? Easy, easy. My mom listens to this. Oh, shit. Sorry. Uh, go ahead.

All right. So dream build for your R34. What is it? No, nothing is of object. What, what's your dream

building? Um, again, you know, a trend like what, you know, I don't say I was ever into big horse

power. Like I never have had crazy horse power. I think them, the most was that 35 GTR, whatever

even was that was, but it was ridiculous, especially with ball tires. That thing was sick. But yeah, I

mean, you know, I've never been like super high horse power guy. I, especially when I was in

Honda's was more into handling and NA, ITB, you know what I'm saying? So when it comes to the 34 GTR,

it wouldn't be like a huge single turbo with, you know, this crazy amount of power, right? Like

some of these guys got 1000 plus out of their 34. Like I would be extremely happy with 600, 650.

Like HKS 2.8, I would love to go with the biggest twins that I could. I would keep it twins if I could

have obtained that number. But I want like the response and the balance over just the, the flat

footed like, you know, put you back in your seat roller coaster style. Geez, like that's not,

I don't know. That doesn't like really turn me on. It's more like like I said, like my dream build

would be the build where I can take it out on the streets. It's drivable. It's fun. I can

waste you on the highway. Yeah. And then if I get the call to go win the track day, I can go,

maybe not win the track day, but at least enjoy the track day and not have any real limitations onthe car. Yeah. But also keep it on on the track. You know, and so exact specs. I don't know, 6, 650

biggest twins HKS 2.8 figure out the rest type thing. 2.8. Yeah. Not the new 3.0. Too much. I mean,

if it made sense, you know, if the, if I needed it to spool the turbos, sure. But if not like,

two rates, definitely. Yeah, keep that like a little bit, you know, yeah, that would make more sense.

And then of course, you know, otherwise I would take a few different arrow parts. I'd love like

Z-tune hoods out of my brown, but like a V-spec two hood would be cool. And some other little

body stuff. And of course, I'd just keep the LMGT fours throw on the 35 brembo's. Yeah.

Simple man when it kind of comes to that stuff, like I want it to function and look good and itdoesn't meet a bunch of the extra, you know, which is, it's cool. You know, I'm cool with that.

You putting tens in the trunk? If, you know, if we could like figure out how to get tens in the trunk

and have it off, balance the weight ratio for the motor, I do it. I do it. Like, some tens, you know,

yeah, for sure. Custom box. Yeah, let's do it. So okay, my last question is, who's your biggest

influence in the industry? Hmm, who? I mean, I don't like, like, just like you, I don't know

necessarily like who it might be. But definitely the early 2000s era, I guess is my business era.

Yeah, I can see that. The whole era is in my influence. I guess it's the way they were doing it.

The style, right, the dedication during that time. Yeah. Everything was kind of not new, but newer.

So it was exciting. Everybody is putting like, they're all things hadn't been done yet. Right,

right. But yeah, definitely that whole era and like the drift scene in that era in Japan and

just the style of cars and, you know, the style of driving and just all that is my biggest influence.

I'd imagine. You don't say as I look back at his 32 and it looks like a drift car out of the

early 2000s. Yeah, I mean, I like, I'm into that. Yeah. And I, that's what I've always kind of been

into. And yeah, I mean, some of the parts that I select and some of the things that I pick for the car,

I pick them because it takes me back to that time where, you know, the first time that I sawsomething like that, you know, like the first time I saw, you know, a really sick S13 with aSylvia front and all that on it, it had a set of these advanced, super advent, S A 3 R's.

And ever since then, I was like, oh, dude, that's those were sick. Those were sick and that, you know,

just always stuck with me. And then, you know, 20 years later, I have them. So yeah, that is cool,

though. That's cool that, you know, you were touched by a certain era and that really stuck with you

in the sense of like that was the best era instead of just, oh, this one's the best, the next one'sthe best, like that. And I think a lot of people listening probably have that same sentiment of, you

know, the early 2000s, whether, yeah, no matter what it was that you were into, whether it was thecar shows or the drifting or the circuit, like those were really, really influential times, youknow, in the industry's history, you know, so probably a lot of people hang on to that. And that's why

you see so many little things from that era worth a lot more. Yeah. Because they were also putting in

the passion and the pride and a lot of things that are manufacturing that were even just to thelittle trinkets, the watches and all the different stuff that they don't even do now, but it was justso new and exciting back then. I agree. Yeah. I mean, even then, like, even go further, like, I'm

into Ford or Skylines because Ken Nemura was always my favorite to watch. Wow. Wow. Okay. Ken, we're

looking for a sponsorship of Gaze. He's got the shop thing on here. He's got the yours thing on.

He's mentioning you on the. Yeah. So I mean, sure, it's not, doesn't have the blitz

livery. It's not even in R34, but seeing him drive that car and, you know, his style and all that and

seeing that he had a four door since then, I was like, yeah. Yeah. Shout out the monkey man. So, I mean,

that inspired me to this day until, you know, I bought my latest car, which is a four door R32.

Yeah. I mean, he was, I think he was probably influential. I mean, yeah, he's definitely, I was never

drifter, but I knew exactly who he was and what he drove like, dude, that he was the, like, not the only,but he was the one with the 34 Ford or the only one really with a 34 even out there and it's afour door and he's just sliding it around and like being goofy. Yeah. And, you know, doing all the,

like, hosting and stuff with option, seeing him on the, even though I don't know a word, he's saying.

Yeah. Just a way he's saying it. The way he's moving and like, yeah, he's the man. Yeah. I agree.

So he's probably a big one. Just a big influence. Shout out to the monkey man. So, yeah, I mean,

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