Very Vehicular Jan 1, 2026

Scotto Does a Solo Show, Answers Questions About His Projects, the Future and More

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Audi

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Rotary K truck

The Rotary K truck is a small truck made by Mazda that uses a special type of engine called a rotary engine. It's known for being lightweight and useful for various tasks.

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Rotary engine

A Rotary engine is a special kind of engine that spins instead of using pistons like most cars. It's smaller and lighter, which can make cars faster, but it can also be tricky to get working perfectly.

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sequential transmission

A sequential transmission is a special kind of gear system that lets you change gears one after another, like going from first to second. It's faster and easier to use, especially in racing cars.

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Ford Model A

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Toyota AE86

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Toyota Corolla

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ITBs (Individual Throttle Bodies)

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VR6 engine

The VR6 engine is a unique engine type that combines features of both V and inline engines. It's known for being powerful and compact, making it popular in various Volkswagen models.

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Hoonigan

Hoonigan is a company that makes videos and organizes events about cars, especially those that are modified for racing and drifting. They are well-known in the car community for their fun and exciting content.

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Formula One

Formula One is a type of car racing that features very fast cars and takes place on tracks around the world. It's popular and has a lot of fans.

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Pimp My Ride

Pimp My Ride was a TV show where people had their cars made to look really cool and unique. They added lots of fun features and designs.

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Barrett-Jackson

Barrett-Jackson is a company that sells special cars at auctions. People can buy classic and unique cars there, and it's a big deal in the car community.

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Toyota Prius

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Mitsubishi Evo X

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Mitsubishi Evo 9

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Mitsubishi Evo 8

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Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X is a high-performance car that was designed for racing and has a strong following among car lovers. It's known for being fast and having great handling, especially on rough roads.

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Fast and Furious

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Ford F150

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Ford Edge

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2J

The 2J is a type of engine made by Toyota that is known for being very powerful and reliable. It's often used in sports cars and is popular among car enthusiasts for modifications.

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1J

The 1J is another type of engine from Toyota, similar to the 2J but usually not as powerful. It's used in some of their sports cars and can also be modified for better performance.

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suspension

The suspension is what keeps the car stable and comfortable while driving. It helps the car handle bumps and turns better.

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Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is a special car race that takes place on city streets. It's different because regular people can join in and race their vintage cars.

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Mazda Miata

The Mazda Miata is a small sports car that is very popular for driving and racing. It's known for being fun to drive and easy to handle.

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Honda F6

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Ford F600

The Ford F600 is a tough truck that can carry heavy things. It's often used by businesses that need to transport large loads.

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Dodge B150

The Dodge B-150 is a big van that can carry a lot of stuff or people. It's useful for businesses or families who need extra space for transporting things or traveling together.

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Gymkhana

Gymkhana is a type of racing where drivers perform tricks and maneuvers around obstacles. It's like a fun driving challenge that shows off how well they can control their cars.

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Hoonicorn

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SEMA Fest

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Dodge Viper

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What's up everybody?

I hope you guys are all enjoying your holiday

and here is a little extra bonus.

I say bonus because this week

between Christmas and New Year's

is kind of the no man's land for content.

That's why a lot of people take off.

But we're a new channel

and it's like the giving season.

So I figured I'd give you guys an extra episode

but this one's gonna be different.

It's just gonna be me.

This is actually the kind of content

that I typically make for Patreon

which is one more reason

that maybe you should become a Patreon member.

This is also season one, a very vehicular.

And for season one, I saw it as eight episodes

and we're halfway through.

So this gives us sort of like a mile marker to stop.

Kind of enjoy it and run through

the first like almost thousand comments.

Actually, I think it's more than a thousand comments

that you guys have left on these first couple of videos

and try to answer some of them.

So anyway, let's get into it.

It's just me and you.

I'm gonna run through as many of these comments

that clipped as possible.

["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"]

All right, here we go.

And tonight's guest is all of you

who were nice enough to leave comments.

And I wanna start before I get into this.

I was overwhelmed by just the amount

of really just positive comments that were.

Just general like you guys were stoked

to have this podcast.

For me to be back making YouTube content,

I know a lot of people were really stoked

to just see a lot of the OG Hoonigan guys back together

and hanging out.

That was really the majority.

It was just like overwhelming support for what we're doing.

And I will tell you, it's great to see that.

It's kind of the thing that makes me wanna get up

and keep doing it.

Definitely motivates me to see all that.

And as you guys probably know,

I have always been in the comments.

Vinny used to call me the chief comment officer

instead of the chief creative officer at Hoonigan

cause I was the one 98% of the time replying

as Hoonigan when we were there.

I think it's important to be in community

and deal with all of that.

And it's also great cause I get a little bit of feedback

from what's working, what's not working.

And sometimes spawn some good ideas from it.

So anyway, here is just a bunch of random comments

that we pulled.

Some of them are questions.

Some of them are suggestions, different things.

And I'll start with this first one

cause I have heard a lot of this ever since buying a farm.

So very quickly, if you don't know,

I live in Long Beach, California

and I still live in Long Beach, California.

I love it here.

It's the closest thing I could get to Queens, New York in LA.

So yeah, it works for me.

But I also have always wanted to have land

and be far away from things and have some quiet.

And I bought an avocado farm

about almost three years ago now with my wife.

And it has been awesome.

One of the main reasons I bought it to begin with

was because I need a place to store all my cards.

But I also just wanted like something to get away.

I grew up in New York city

and I spent the last whatever 15.

So some odd years my life here in Los Angeles.

So I've only lived in major cities.

We found this really cool place.

It's about two hours away from where we live

or really not even.

And we get out there as much as we can.

A lot of people thought I retired,

which I get it like was put out to pasture.

But it was just a place that I was spending a lot of time

and most of, if you were seeing any content

or anything from me on Instagram,

it was probably me driving my Kubota tractors on the farm

cause it's a fun place.

So this question is, Scottos farm show when?

First off, I'm not Jeremy Clarkson.

I wish I was, but he's just way funnier than me

and just way more clever and a way better presenter.

And I absolutely love his farm show.

And so many of my friends are like,

you should make the same show.

And I think there's two reasons why I'm not gonna do that.

One, I like don't wanna just follow

and do the same thing that he did again.

You'll notice that's not really my style.

I don't think I could do it better than he can.

So why try?

And by the way, if you don't watch the Clarkson farm show

on Amazon, it's fantastic.

You definitely should.

The other one is, is like the farm for me is therapy

and it's my getaway.

And it's something that I just kind of enjoy by myself.

That's not saying I won't make an occasional episode here

and there about stuff that I do on the farm,

especially some stuff like I'm very excited.

I've learned how to do with tractors

and I wanna show that off,

but I don't think like an actual show is coming.

But yeah, maybe an episode or two.

The next one is Rotary K truck doesn't count.

Question mark.

Look, I get this.

So this was on every one of the episodes

that I've brought in a former Hoonigan,

I asked them what their top three cars were

that we ever built as a company at Hoonigan.

And that means not like personal projects

like my Audi or Torx Dallion or Boomhouser,

but projects we built as a group.

And everyone was throwing around all these different cars

in the end, the winning combination was like,

was Donk, Rolls and shit cars, which I think works.

Like that really makes sense.

There's a lot of cars that got left out

and some not even mentioned.

And one of them was the Rotary K truck.

And this is probably one of the coolest looking cars

we ever built, right?

We worked at Chimera, built a kit,

like put this really sick Rotary in it

that Vargas had built.

And it was super cool,

except it never really drove right.

It was kind of a pain in the ass.

It didn't like, it didn't steer well.

It was hard to drift.

It was so loud that even just moving it around the shop

was so obnoxious, like no one ever wanted to start it.

So I think we kind of built this thing

that felt a little bit like a trophy.

Like it looked really cool on the shelf.

It was really rad to roll out to different events.

It also didn't help that the transmission

was put in backwards.

It was like opposite from the way

that you would normally drive a sequential.

That made it difficult for people to drive.

I don't know, it just,

it was one of those things that just looked better

on YouTube than it did in real life.

That being said, I'd build another one.

I just don't think I would put in the sequential

or maybe as crazy of an engine.

Like I think something that just kind of did the job

and wasn't so obnoxious would have been better.

But hey, like, you know, as Vinny and I always say,

like it was a YouTube build.

It worked really well for YouTube.

Next up, will this be on Spotify as well?

Love this podcast, but I listen way more than watch.

Yeah, this is literally just me allowing this person

to do some housekeeping.

Yes, if you are watching this

and thinking I also want to listen to it,

it is available on Spotify, Apple podcasts,

as well as pretty much any other RSS feed

because it is an RSS feed.

So you should be able to find it anywhere.

I listen to it on overcast.

That's right, I listen to my own podcasts.

Not really, but next up,

Scotto is my ADHD spirit animal

when it comes to projects.

Yeah, I don't know if that's a good thing.

I've got like a whole show that I want to do

that I'm just going to title Does It Run?

And it's basically about how my ADHD led to me

owning 26 cars and how I have to change that.

But hey, you know, whatever you need to tell yourself.

Next one is I reckon there should be a YouTube

for over 40s.

I love the old forum day type builds

where you see the slow progression.

The bulk build content style is definitely more

for the younger fellas.

This is I think in response to like Vinny and I talking

about how YouTube really sort of changed the way

like we all build cars, why we build cars

and the content that works.

And I fully agree.

I dream of this idea of like imagine building a car

where you know, every week you just make a small progress.

Like it's like a slight bracket.

You know, you got this built.

And I mean, imagine like the Binky project,

but it actually came out more than once a year.

Like that would be a really cool build show to follow.

I don't know if it would do well.

I don't think like the Algo supports that.

But man, like I would certainly watch that

because I do agree that the current build shows

like there's just too much happening

and you don't learn enough.

That being said, there's other guys

who do really great build stuff.

But I just, the reason I clipped this comment

was more the like YouTube over 40.

Because there's definitely,

I'm realizing that as I get older,

there's like this different way I want to consume content

than maybe what's working today.

So I don't know, maybe we can build that.

Maybe we can just make forum build spec

or like, you know, build threads.

Remember that?

Remember like build threads.com, that was great.

Doing kind of build thread style builds.

Thing is it just takes forever to make them.

It's like it'll take you like two years

to get through that all and get it all done.

Next up, but the real question,

can we get a rail car update?

This was probably the most common comment

across all four videos I uploaded,

other than just general like, hey, it's cool

to see you back on YouTube.

Which I love because this is like an inside joke, right?

If you don't get this,

maybe you need to watch more old tuning and stuff.

But the joke was always at the end

and just as we were cutting off the camera,

I would jump in front of camera and say,

wait, wait, but first I want to talk about rail car.

I want to just, I realize that there's probably

an entire audience that has no idea what rail car is.

So quickly, rail car is a drag car that I was working on

that was a pre-war car built on a Model A chassis

with a Cadillac engine and I was building it,

Cadillac Flathead and like all the parts in it

are pre-19, really like 1945.

I was building it to go race in the Race of Gentlemen,

which is an event that happens a while in New Jersey.

And this was probably one of the things I got hazed

the most about with everybody at Hoonigan

because no one else understood it.

I loved it.

It was something I really super geeked out about.

And just a quick update is that I still own

all of the parts to build rail car.

Some of them are next to a shed.

Some of them are in boxes,

but I do plan on finishing it.

I just don't know if it'll still be rail car

or if I'm just gonna build like a cooled traditional hot rod

or speedster out of it.

Just cause I don't know if I'm ever gonna go race it anymore,

but it was, it's definitely something I want to finish.

But I don't think anyone really cares to see it finished.

I think it's just a good joke.

But anyway, I appreciate all of you who brought up

cause it's certainly a insider nod.

Next question is, man, watching the Vinnie and Ron video

and now this one, which was the hurt episode,

really makes me want to pursue these brand ideas I have.

I literally clipped this just to be like, do it, do it.

Like I get most inspired when I read about other people's

stories of making stuff and being successful.

I'm currently right now reading a bunch of books

from directors and screenwriters and movie producers

about them making their first movies or making the movies

that they never thought they were gonna be able to make

or that they never thought were gonna happen.

And then they did happen

and they became these huge successes.

Like yeah, if this is that moment

that you get inspired to go do it, like go do it, go do it.

Cause this is an amazing time to be able to launch a brand

cause it was a lot harder to do something

like that 25 years ago.

There's so many problems we have with social media

and content and just in general that I can talk about.

But the one great thing is, is it removed a gatekeeper

and it made it very easy for you

to go build something and get it out there.

Maybe not very easy, but a lot easier than it used to be.

At least you don't have to learn like Quark

or something like that to make a magazine.

Next up, needed YouTube series called Scottos Dream Factory

where Brian actually has people help him finish his projects.

I think this is a bigger concept

that's gonna roll into the does it run series,

which is me figuring out my 26 cars and 25,

I don't even remember anymore,

which is part of the problem and what to do with them all.

Cause there's a reality that I'm not completing.

Even if I completed one every year,

I would be like in my sixties, just thinking about that

by the time I finished them all.

So I think there's a need to sell some.

I think there is also a need to get other people to help me.

I think one of the problems most of my cars don't run

is cause I try to do everything myself.

I need to get over that hurdle.

So that's all coming in an upcoming show,

which will probably be one of the few non-podcast things

that I do on the channel,

which is sort of an ongoing series,

trying to figure out what to do with all 26 cars.

Speaking of that, the next question is,

really wanna see that eight six again.

So a lot of people have asked me about the eight six,

especially after I did the Drifter film with Sun Kang.

So the Drifter film with Sun Kang,

the main hero car is called Lola, which is an eight six

that transforms to just kind of two different variations

in the movie.

And a bunch of people were like, you know,

hey, that's cool.

You just made a movie and did a bunch of action

with a Corolla eight six,

but what are you gonna do with yours?

For those who don't know,

I bought an eight six in sort of the last few months.

I was working at Hoonigan and I started to swap

a VR six, 3.2 VR six into that.

So 3.2 24 valve VR running on ITBs.

The ITBs are actually behind me.

These are the ITBs right here.

And obviously they're not on the car.

So the car is not running yet,

but I am working on getting that done.

The goal is to have that finished by the time

the Drifter movie comes out in theaters.

So I can actually drive my eight six

to watch the movie I worked on in the theater.

Like that's a good goal.

It's a good deadline for me to go do it.

I don't know if it's still gonna be a Jim Conak car.

Hoonigan is still doing the Jim Conak grid series.

So maybe I'll go do that.

But I don't know.

I need to finish that car.

I lost interest in it, but like engine is built on it.

It needs wiring.

It needs me to finish up a few fabrication pieces,

but like it's actually,

I don't wanna say it's not that far away,

but it's closer than maybe it.

No, it's pretty far away.

Anyway, I'm gonna try to get that one done by Summer.

Don't hold me to it.

So next up, so this was actually,

this is one of many people who brought this up.

I think a lot of people were a little taken back

when I said that there was an error

when like cars weren't cool.

And a lot of people don't seem to remember that.

This one basically said, was there really a period

when being into cars wasn't considered cool?

Ouch, I'm a bigger nerd than I even knew.

Yeah, for me, look, cars I think go in and out.

There's always like these peak moments,

1950s peak moment, right?

Hot rodding, the greasers, like cars were super cool.

The drive-in movie theater,

and it may be the most peak moment

we ever had in automotive culture.

I think we're in a new peak right now.

I've said that on multiple pods.

It's just everything from the love of Formula One

to seeing it in fashion to, you know,

seeing it in music videos, like it's kind of everywhere.

And the last peak I remember was the hip-hop era.

Pimp My Ride, you know, overhauling, right?

Like this was just massive.

And basically Discovery Channel gave up discovering anything

and just was talking about cars, right?

And that's like how crazy it was.

Barrett Jackson, all of that was really going through the roof.

But then there's that period in between

because when I talk about Pimp My Ride

and all those shows, you're talking 2004.

By like 2008, especially when the recession hit,

everything slowed down really hard

and was that way until maybe around 2014, 2015.

Like when we launched Tune Again,

there were people asking us why we would launch a car brand

because it felt like kids didn't care about cars anymore.

And there were stats to back that up

because young adults, you know,

ages 17 to 20 were no longer getting their driver's license

by like a massive decline.

I forget what the percentage was,

but it was, you know, it was like 30% less

than, you know, we had seen five years earlier.

Like the kids just didn't think it was worth

growing up and getting a car and driving a car.

It just wasn't a thing.

Obviously, I still thought that the culture was there,

but it just, we still started a brand

and during those moments, but and we saw, you know,

and I'll say too, we saw an audience in video games.

We saw an audience like starting to watch YouTube,

obviously, like the early Jim Connors.

Like we knew there was an audience there,

but I think they were no longer something

that the previous automotive culture could reach.

They weren't watching the Discovery Channel shows.

They weren't showing up to the Barrett Jackson auctions.

They weren't walking into a dealership and buying new cars,

but like they were still somewhat there,

but in general just didn't seem as cool.

The Prius was the most driven car

out of cool people in California.

It was kind of a gross time.

Like I remember friends who were selling their sports cars

who like weren't really car guys.

They were like car adjacent

because they were driving Priuses

and like putting flat blacking Priuses

and putting them on wheels.

Like it was not, it was not a peak moment.

And it felt like everything was sort of going that way.

And then it turned around all because we started in again.

No, I just, I joke,

but there definitely was this like massive shift

that we started to see I think around like 2014 to 2016.

And then it really just kind of, I think,

ramped back up and like it was back in.

But that's like, I think standard ebb and flow

with stuff kind of goes in and out.

And I'll tell you the number one way to see that

is you could just look at people spending money

in automotive who aren't like endemic automotive brands.

Like you watch that money just disappear for a while

and then all of a sudden it comes back.

Like whenever clothing companies are doing stuff

in automotive or beverage companies

are doing stuff in automotive,

whatever it might be,

like when that starts to dry up,

it's because it's sort of out of cool for the moment.

So I don't know, a bunch of people debated me on this.

I lived it on the business end

and the business end is where you feel it the most

because that's when magazines die,

it's when people lose their jobs,

it's when the industry has a lull,

when products aren't selling,

you can see the financial impact of like

when it's not as cool.

And then when it's super cool,

the whole thing explodes and gets bigger.

The next question we have here is,

I do like the Mitsubishi Evo X fight me.

You know, I kind of felt bad for this.

We were talking in the first episode with Vinny and Ron

about how like the Evo 8 and the Evo 9

where this was like this fantastic car

and then it kind of ended and then the Evo X came out.

And this was actually said

because I was talking about buying a crashed Evo X

to make into a camera car

because I thought it would be the perfect camera car.

I think a lot of people took,

I don't know, the grievance with this one.

And what we were saying was the Evo 8 and the 8

and the 9 were such fantastic cars

and the Evo X or the Evo 10 was a step down from that.

I stand by that.

Like the Evo 9 is a better car than the 10

as a driver's car.

You know, I think the Evo 10 is a great car

if you need it to be more than a fantastic car to wheel.

Otherwise the 8 and the 9 are the winner.

Like it's just so much more raw.

It just works better.

Yeah, but that being said,

like I actually don't agree with Vinny and Ron.

Like I think for them the X is like or the 10

whatever you want to call it is out of consideration.

I, it's the long one.

I still think they're great.

It's, I would actually argue that it's the end

of the driver's error cars.

But you know, hey, it's Vinny's brand.

So I guess, you know, he gets to make up the rules,

but whatever.

Okay, next one is Monster Jam is like the automotive equivalent

of WWE.

I don't know if that's like,

I don't know if you're saying a bad thing there.

I mean, I remember watching like Monday Night Raw.

I wouldn't ever say I was a big wrestling fan,

but like man, it was really enjoyable.

As I said, which I think should be a quote from me

is like motor sports has an entertainment problem.

I'm happy to own that quote.

WWE does not.

Like they literally have entertainment in the name.

They're very good at that.

I think Monster Jam is really good at entertainment.

Obviously their entertainment is really aimed at probably

an eight or 10 year old kid.

Having brought my child to Monster Jam,

like that's who they're going after.

But if you watch Supercross,

which is another felled property,

like they're really good at entertaining.

Like they have the fireworks, the light show,

like just really cool setup.

And you know, it's all just done very well.

I think the rest of motor sports needs more

of an entertainment lens when it comes to telling stories

and just thinking about it that way.

I will always say this, but like, man,

motor sports, like you take yourself way too seriously.

It's the reason we started the Jim Conner film.

If you go and listen to any early interview with Ken,

he will straight up tell you,

we made Jim Conner because motor sports was boring.

That like motor sports just seemed way too dry

and it wasn't about having fun.

And I think there's a lot of series out there

that are still doing that.

I think there are new series out there

that are still striving to be accepted

by the old hat traditional thing that isn't working.

So even though they have the opportunity to be new and cool,

like they're too worried about like being old and traditional.

I don't think Monster Jam cares

about what anyone in motor sports thinks about them.

And that's kind of what makes it entertaining.

Is the actual like race events in Monster Jam real?

No, they're completely scripted.

I don't think that really matters.

I think like that's the missing the point piece,

but I think we could learn a lot from looking at that

and saying, how can we make this more entertaining?

How can we make more entry points for like normal people?

So yeah, I don't know if you meant that as a diss.

If you meant that as like, yeah,

Monster Jam is the WWE because WWE is sick

and people love wrestling, then yeah, I agree with you.

If not, like, I don't know.

Tell me what motor sports doing it right now

and I will blow holes in it.

Next, favorite build is easily Lord Frightening.

You know, I love this build.

I'm so happy we got to make it.

For those who don't remember this,

we built like a fast and furious homage.

This is the kind of a build that came out of me

being on marketplace at night.

I had found a short bed flareside F-150

similar to the, was it the racers edge delivery parts truck

in fast and furious one, the Paul Walker drives.

But the question was, was like,

what would their character build at the end of the movie?

Right, so like here, now he's gotten to experience a 2J.

Like what would that be?

So that was the whole idea.

Like let's put a Toyota straight six in it.

I actually don't remember if it was a 1J or 2J.

I think in the end, it might have actually been a 1J

or maybe a 1.5J, but that doesn't matter.

It was like, let's make this no longer Ford powered.

Let's not actually start with a real lightning.

And we didn't want to call it a lightning

because it wasn't.

So it got the name Lord Frightening,

which like to me is actually one of my favorite names.

We've ever named a car.

Like I would say there's shit car and shark cart.

And I loved Rolls Royce because it was Slay Poupon.

Slay Poupon was a fantastic name.

But Lord Frightening was a great name.

And you know, I think the only reason

that this vehicle didn't make it into anyone's list

is while we built a really cool engine for it,

we never sorted out the suspension.

So the suspension couldn't actually hold the power.

So there was like a ton of like axle wrap

whenever you tried to get on it.

So it was fun to drive in a straight line,

but it really wasn't that much fun to throw around.

But it's actually, while it may not be in my top three,

like it's definitely in a top eight.

I think top 10 is like too broad

and probably not top five.

So, but yeah, Lord Frightening was fantastic.

I wish that was, that's one of the vehicles

I wish we had finished through and built better,

but it was still badass looking.

It looked really good.

For we headed on TEs too, it was a good one.

Next question, Hoonigan inspired top gear adventures.

Where the fuck do I pay?

Look, we always wanted to make this style adventure show.

I think we touched on it with some things.

Carcane Abroad had elements of it.

Scum, the misadventures of Scumbug were there,

but it's become very clear to me

in the past couple of weeks

is since we released the first episode

that there is a real want to see everybody back together

and to go do something.

So I have definitely started working on some sort of plan.

Like what it is I'm not really sure about

when we can make it all happen,

but I have spoken to all the boys,

everybody's down to kind of go do a reunion show.

Where it lives, how we put it together.

I don't know.

You actually bring up an interesting thing

of like where do I pay for it?

I don't know if it's something that like lives on YouTube

or maybe it's something that we could put

like on a simple like streaming

that's like easy for everyone to go get to.

Not where you have to go download something

when you can just like buy it for a buck or something.

I don't know.

We have to figure that out

because obviously these things don't come free.

Someone's got to pay for it

and it's got to be worth everybody's time.

It used to be a lot easier

when everyone was on salary to go do this

versus saying, hey, we all have to give up a week

to get this done.

But everybody I think wants to do it timing feels right.

It's definitely going to be a road trip.

It's definitely going to involve ship boxes.

And it's definitely going to be something

that midway through everyone's going to wish

they didn't agree to.

So yeah, keep an eye out for it.

My guess is we'll probably try to do it in the summer.

We'll probably talk a lot about as it comes together,

especially on Patreon and things like that.

So let's see.

This one says,

I remember the first video of the Hoonigan Child Night Watch

was when you guys got shit car

and I started binge watching for like five weeks

and never missed an episode.

Yeah, I actually cut this one out because it's interesting.

We talked about shit car the other day

and I was thinking,

I don't know if we actually think about

how we've really talked as a group

of how important shit car was,

not just because of the car it was,

but it was this thing that like brought us all together

and like taught us how to make content around dumb shit.

And I think this is something that like we all began to miss.

And if you listen to the previous episodes,

I think you're going to get a kernel

of this from everybody.

But there was like something really special about shit car

and we were never able to recreate it

because we all had our own cars after that.

We all got our own stuff to build.

And you know, I've mentioned that before,

but you know, this was this moment

where all of us got to sort of have fun

working on something, ripping around, shredding something.

There was like no care in it.

We didn't care if you crashed it, right?

Which was this super rad sort of element to it.

And when it was happening,

I knew we needed a project car.

Like that was something in my head was like we need,

if we're going to make this channel work,

we need to get like a really cheap

and approachable project car.

And we got that.

And I don't think any of us knew how successful

it was going to be and how much people were going to connect

with it and how much like a brand identity it created

until it was happening.

But then I don't think it was until much later

until it was over.

And you know, we're like, man, this thing was so important

to something we built, but it was also this like weird memory

of a time that like didn't exist anymore.

And it was without question this thing that like,

we just realized was uncreatable.

Like we couldn't go do it again.

Like we tried to do other low buck builds

and like that thing just held a certain space.

So like, I get it, man.

It's a, it may be the thing that brought you to Hoonigan,

but it also was a thing that I think made Hoonigan

for us like work.

Like it was really exciting times with that car,

which is weird.

Cause whoever thought it $350 car would be that thing.

This question, where is the quantum synchro wagon content?

I just want to call that out cause people like Vinny

don't believe that people want to see quantum

synchro wagon stuff.

So there's at least one person.

That's it.

It'll be coming soon.

Maybe not, but maybe.

This was an interesting one.

I have a great idea.

Go get something oldest fuck and weird

and build a vintage race car

and come to the Pittsburgh vintage grand prix.

The PVGP is one of the only, if not the only,

publicly enterable race on city streets in the country.

I raced in a hill climb they did last year in my Miata

and have been going most years for the past 20.

It's a fucking great event.

So the reason I called this out is because

I looked into this when I was at zero to 60

and put it on a list of things we had to do.

And then I completely forgot about it.

And it made me think, you know what?

I think this would actually be a great event to go to.

So like, yeah, I would love to do this.

I forgot that this even existed.

I forgot that I had wanted to race it previously.

That's a great idea.

I may actually do that this year or next year.

Scotto, please for the love of God,

do an F6 Hondo build on your channel.

I've been waiting for that thing

since you first opted in a video.

No bullshit.

Also, where's the Mexican F?

Well, it's actually a 150.

That thing was just cool.

Yeah, so good news and bad news.

The good news is I do plan on building the F600.

The bad news is, is I think I have to sell the B150 to fund it.

You know, can't have everything in life,

but I do really want to build the F600.

So it should be coming.

The next Jomkana, surely it's got to be

Lea Block and the Hunicorn.

I agree with you.

I definitely think it would be cool

to see Lea Block in the next Jomkana.

That being said, I don't think it'll be in the Hunicorn.

I have talked to her about this

and I think she wants to do something different.

I think it's super important for her to pay for her own path

and kind of do it her way,

which means probably doing it in a new vehicle

or something of like her own imagination

instead of doing something that, you know,

has already been done before.

That being said, man, it would be really cool at some point

to see the Hunicorn rip like that again.

I got to watch her tear it up at the SEMA Fest

that was done in 23 and she ripped.

Like I was really impressed by her driving

considering she had never really wheeled that thing

in that type of manner.

Sure, she drove it straight and smoked a ton of people,

but, you know, sliding it the way she did.

I mean, actually she was out there with Travis Pastrana

and I think she showed up Travis at that event.

So it would be really cool to see it in the Hunicorn,

but I don't think you'll be seeing that next.

I think if you see something from Lea in a Jomkana fashion,

it will be something of her own design.

Next question or next comment, we need John Chase.

I totally agree.

I'm going to try to put John in for the next season.

John is super fun, super great to dig into.

I think John is one of those shows

where I have to really do my homework

and get a bunch of really good questions going with John

because otherwise John and I will just ramble

about absolute nuance, but I love John Chase.

He actually came to my house during the summer

and I hadn't seen him in almost two years

and we had just like the best night hanging out.

It was just me and him and it was like,

one of those like, it was like soul food.

This was really, really nice to have John back in my life.

So 100% bring John Chase out.

When it'll be great cause John and I can actually talk

about stuff that never made it onto YouTube,

which is like the power tour days,

which is stuff that we never made content about.

I have a bunch of footage from it,

but we never actually made anything about it.

Okay, next, just want to add Circle Jerks

was some of the best couple of videos.

I would have taken 20 less of this or that episodes

for a couple more Circle Jerks

and Circle Jerk rule book episodes.

I only bring this up because Circle Jerks

was the lowest performing thing we ever did.

I think it's because whenever we type the words Circle Jerk

into a title or a description,

we immediately got flagged by the algorithm

for obvious reasons and it just never delivered.

But there's actually a bigger story behind Circle Jerks,

which is there was a song that Circle Jerks,

the punk band made called Wild in the Streets.

And we used it for so much stuff in early Hoonigan days

that we actually discussed,

like maybe we should just buy a license from them

to be able to use it whenever.

Like if there was, like if we had ever done a TV show,

like a jackass show,

like that I think would have been our theme song.

Like that was just like, we love that song.

And I'm old punk rock kid, like absolutely love Circle Jerks.

So when we were making, when we came up with this idea

of like, hey, we want to make YouTube content.

We saw it very different than what we ended up making later on.

At first we saw it as like this,

actually when we first set out to make YouTube content,

we were kind of actually making

what you would now call shorts or reels.

We were making this like quick short form

under three minute type of stuff.

And the first concept that we ever had was Circle Jerks,

which if you never saw it,

it's definitely worth going back and watch,

but Will Rogi was in the first one.

I think I forget who he competed against.

Yeah, I don't know, it was either Gorilla, I forget now,

but anyway, it was either Chris, yeah, maybe whatever,

it doesn't matter, but the whole idea of the game

was that you had to basically drift in a circle

and you had to hit a bunch of like proximity points, right?

Like there was just cones

and you had to knock each one of them down

and you got like a arbitrary number of points.

Like the game didn't really matter, it was just kind of fun.

And we just, I think enjoyed making a show called Circle Jerks.

Yeah, that was like a great fun early no rules era

of Hoonigan that like, I really miss.

That was a good time.

And it's that name, that band just has so much history

for me in a way I think a lot of other people

don't even realize for Hoonigan.

Next one, maybe if Scotta was doing

the Fast and Furious films,

they could get back to when they were good.

Yeah, sure, that sounds great.

Go tell the boys, I'd love to jump in.

I'll be very honest, I think I can make

a really, really great Fast and Furious

with a really, really great action series.

I don't know if it would be as successful

as the current movies.

Like the current movies, they've jumped the shark,

but like man, did they pull in

a mainstream blockbuster audience.

So I would love to get this option.

In my opinion, I think the Fast and Furious films

are sort of like beyond the pale at this moment.

I think instead it's like,

hey, what's the next set of Fast and Furious?

Like what's the new Fast and Furious film

that's not called Fast and Furious?

Like I would really hope that my name

gets attached to that someday.

So, but anyway, thanks for the support on that one.

That would be great.

Next one, Mr. Scott, can I make a suggestion?

Can we get a series of published maps

or at least Google custom maps

of all the locations of filming?

I'm a big Google Earth nerd

and I'd love to visit those places

in a 3D map environment,

but also for the public just to see how wild

the world tour since Gymkhana 1 has been.

This is a great idea.

We actually talked about this idea

of like Gymkhana Tourism.

I did a piece for Hoonigan shortly after Ken passed

where I went up to San Francisco

and sort of re-walked all these locations

and just sort of kind of had this like

trip down memory lane.

I'll admit, man, it was kind of tough to do at the time,

but we walked through it all

and talked about how we put it all together.

It was actually quite enjoyable to do

while maybe being tough at the same time.

That's actually a cool idea.

Unfortunately, that's not like really my calling one.

Something maybe Hoonigan could do.

It would take a lot of work to put all of that together,

but that could certainly be like a rad thing.

I think that there's like a real,

I don't want to say business

because it's not about a money thing,

but I think there could be like a really fun thing

in doing Gymkhana tours, like to go and walk it.

I've jokingly said, we should just get a shuttle bus

and just offer it like once a year.

Like you could do it on like four or three day

and it's like, hey, four or three day,

we're doing a tour of Shamrock, Texas.

Like come meet us and we'll bring you through all the spots

and all the people who were involved who were available

can talk you through all the pieces.

Like I think that would actually be a lot of fun.

But for you, Google Earth nerds,

which by the way is like such a weird, interesting world.

Google Earth is something that didn't really come about

until we were already making,

or at least on the level it's at making Gymkhanas.

And in the early days, it wasn't something I used at all.

And now I do like 90% of my pre-scout is Google Earth.

Every location, almost every location in Australia,

I saw on Google Earth before I saw it in person.

Like that's how I kind of,

that's really how I build out like my request list

of like what we're gonna go see.

So it's great how good it is now.

So getting to see all of Scottos French cleats

in the background from the COVID Home Build series

is the ultimate bracket Brian build.

And honestly, one of the best improvements

I have made in my home workshop.

I love the French cleats.

I kind of wanna do some behind me here.

This was during a period of time

where I definitely enjoyed working on my garage

more than I enjoyed working on my cars.

Unfortunately, as you'll see,

like my cars I never really finished it,

but they work pretty great.

Yeah, French cleats.

I think I may still have a French cleat highlight reel

on my Instagram, you can go watch.

But French cleats are the best.

I, yeah, I need to get back to work on those.

Anyway, I really just clipped this one

because man, I kind of forgot about COVID Home Builds.

I forgot that a lot of you are already familiar

with this garage because of what was it?

Home Wrencher.

So it was the name of the show that we did

because we had no other choice.

Bring back a beer with, man, you know,

that show was a lot of work to make.

I didn't realize then like it was actually quite successful

because I didn't realize at that time

that like long form talk shows didn't do the same

kind of numbers that, you know, other shows did,

but man, that show took a ton.

I don't really drink that much anymore,

but I would certainly break that edge to, you know,

do a case of beer with some people on a pod in the future.

I think that could be fun.

Tony Angelo actually said to me at one point,

he's like, I don't really like a beer with

because it sucks to drink alone.

Because if you remember that show, it was interview,

but you only saw the person who was being interviewed

speaking, they were always by themselves.

You never saw the people off camera.

And when I did the one with Tony, Tony is like,

if I'm going to drink, you're going to drink.

And I was like, oh, that's like a different show.

And we joked that making a show called crankcase, right?

And the idea is that every episode

we would all crank through a case of beer.

So like three people sit around the table,

you put a case of beer out and you don't,

the podcast or the show doesn't end

until you finish the case of beer.

So like that could be a good one.

Again, I'm in like my mid 40s.

I don't do well with hangovers anymore,

but maybe we can do like one special of that.

That also sounds like a Patreon special.

So if I'm going to have a hangover for three days,

like someone's got to pay for it.

Okay, next, hold up.

Where can we get the merch?

The three, two, one action, action merch.

You know, I made a bunch of that just to give out

to people who work on the Jim Conner films.

For me, I don't even really know

what three, two, one action action is yet.

I say that because like, I needed a company

because I needed a company to do everything under.

I have a lot of other brand ideas

and a lot of other things I'm going to create

that are going to live way more in the merch space

and that kind of product space.

But I don't know, if enough people want

three, two, one action, action stuff, say below,

I'll get a bunch of stuff made

and we can put it out there.

I had a limited number of stuff,

like I think like 15 items that I released

and sold to people on the Patreon.

Again, another reason to be a member,

but I wasn't really sure if I was going to do

another run of it or if I was just going to keep it

stuff for like staff and crew that work on film sets.

Yeah, I don't know.

Like I said, I'm still kind of figuring out exactly

what three, two, one is.

I needed a business to run my business under.

That seemed like a great name.

Obviously, if you don't know the reference,

it's because I would always call three, two, one action,

action for all the Jim Conner films.

And that kind of became this thing

that got connected to me very heavily

because of the Amazon Jim Conner file series.

Yeah, and everyone says three, two, one action.

I just add an extra action and it has to do with timing

and the ability for Ken to hear it in the car.

So it was more of a confirmation thing.

And it just kind of stuck.

My buddy Jeremy Robinson says it.

So it was just, I don't know, it became this thing.

And at the time when I was like,

I need a name for a company, that was it.

Originally, and it may still be,

three, two, one action, action was going to be the book

that I had planned to write about my time with Ken Block.

And this was while he was still alive.

And it was supposed to be,

the full name was going to be three, two, one action, action.

My life in times on the Ken Block show.

Because it very much felt like we were living

in Ken's movie, right?

So that was essentially the Jim Conner stuff

and the early team stuff.

So that's where the name originally came from.

And it came then.

So anyway, yeah, maybe I'll make merch again.

If you want some, comment below.

All right, and this one, which is the,

yeah, this is the last comment we've got clipped,

which is perfect timing.

Because I will originally told myself

this thing should be about 45 minutes.

It says, one of my favorite things about this Jim Conner

was the in-car shots.

Travis looked terrified the entire time.

Yeah.

I don't know, it's something that I never thought about

in the previous films.

Ken had this very sort of stoic race car,

race car driver face in the films.

And in the first film we did with Travis,

he looked terrified, right?

I always, one of my favorite comments was

he entered the car as a driver and left as a passenger.

He looked terrified and we enjoyed it

and we thought it was funny, so we included it.

And I was really amazed how many of the comments

and the feedback was like,

there was so much about Travis's response.

And I think at first it was because it was so different

from what people had expected from Ken.

And then in the second film we did with Travis in Florida,

he didn't actually have as much facial emotion.

And I think it's because he felt more confident in the car.

Everything was a little more under control.

And this last one, I think it was actually a mix

of like terrified and also just looking really happy.

And yeah, I kind of love it.

And it was something that we really leaned into

in the edit, meaning like any time that Travis

was really naturally excited, like we didn't tell him,

we didn't script for him to act that way.

We didn't realize he was actually doing a lot

of what he was doing, including shouting

and like throwing his hands up in the air,

doing no-handed jumps and all that.

Like we didn't know any of that was happening

until we watched the footage afterwards.

It just brought this like whole different personal,

like, I don't know, it's hard for me to explain,

but like it brought like an emotion

to something that normally doesn't have an emotion.

And I think it's great, like for me,

I think it would be really weird to like film

another Gymkhana and have someone

not make facial expressions like it really added to it.

So anyway, guys, again, this was that added bonus.

And don't forget next Wednesday at 7 a.m.,

which is our schedule time.

We have another episode with a very special guest.

It's gonna be good.

And then we've got four more episodes

to wrap out this season.

And then we go right into another season.

There's not even like a week down.

We make seasons because I like calling things my seasons.

Doesn't really even matter to you guys.

It's just an easy way for us to organize stuff.

And again, thanks as always for you guys supporting this,

sharing it, all of that stuff.

Big special thanks to our partners,

Viper Industrial, Toyo Tires, Heatwave,

and of course, FCP Euro,

who helps keep all my cars running.

Thanks again, guys, for having faith in us

for making a cool show.

So for next season, we have a couple new ideas coming

that I'm really excited to share.

Unfortunately, I can never just do one thing.

I always have to do multiple things and complicate it.

I hope you don't mind

because this isn't gonna stop.

It's just the way I am.

For you guys asking about what else is coming on the channel,

I'm actually working on a nice, succinct,

I don't know, 10-minute episode

to explain all the things I'm gonna do,

but I'll give it to you real quickly.

It's mostly gonna be podcasts,

but I'm also gonna do some content on my builds,

and then I'm also gonna do some more in-depth storytelling

about things that I really care about,

and then I'm just gonna enjoy making films

and all of that.

I don't think there's gonna be any standard here

other than podcasts like that you can always depend on.

And if you're just listening to this on audio,

all that other stuff, you'll have to tune into YouTube for.

So anyway, guys, thanks again.

Check out the Patreon if you want more shows like this

because this is the kind of stuff you get there weekly.

Thank you very much, and see you later.

About this episode

Scotto takes a solo dive into listener questions and comments, reflecting on his projects, the future of his content, and the automotive community's support. He shares insights about his avocado farm, the challenges of various builds, and the evolution of car culture over the years. With humor and candidness, he discusses his past experiences at Hoonigan, the importance of community feedback, and his plans for upcoming projects, including potential new series and collaborations. The episode is a heartfelt celebration of the journey so far and a look ahead.

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Scotto goes solo in this special mini episode (yes, our “mini” is still 45 minutes) to thank all of you for listening and supporting VERY VEHICULAR since its launch less than a month ago. The response and sentiment has been awesome, so we wanted to give some love back to all of you! If you like this kind of bonus content, check out the Patreon (link below) where you can find bonus material from episodes, behind the scenes extras and more! Relax and kick back on your way into 2026 with this bonus episode, enjoy!

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