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Rainey, from Custom Offsets and uh...
Jap-ser?
- Right, I'm Jasper from Fitment Industries.
- So today what we're gonna talk about
is automotive regrets you've had in your life.
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If you have not caught anything in the first
45 seconds of this video we are talking about
our automotive regrets.
Stuff that we did that we don't wanna tell people
that we regret in our lifetime.
I have...
9-ish years
Jasper has 2
- No.
- and Rainey has 37.
- I got 5! - Wow.
- He's damn near 40.
- Yeah I know, it's a rough time.
So he probably has quite a few things.
So we're gonna go right down the beginning.
We're gonna talk about what our biggest, single most,
automotive regret ever, ever was.
So I'm going to start off with passing the torch to Jasper.
Jasper, what was your single most, biggest, largest,
automotive regret so far?
- I think overall, it's honestly going static,
because it's led to other problems.
This is another regret, so I bought an M-3 bumper...
- Down the rabbit hole we go.
- I bought an M3 bumper, I was like...
(smacks hand)
I'm so cool. I buy M3 bumpers, I don't care,
and for an E36 they're like $100.
And, I like, didn't realize for any E36's,
the crash bar comes with the bumper when it comes off.
So I was like, pfft, damn I'm even saving weight,
like this thing is so heavy.
I didn't put the crash bar back on.
I had a lip and I had a splitter under that.
All self-tapper on.
And then, actually, it was self-tapper
- This is past tense, had.
- The splitter was...
- I had a splitter.
- self-tapped only through...
Right.
(laughing)
that's what I'm getting to.
The splitter was only two on each side
and then just the rods in the middle were holding it up.
So, you know, going home from Cars and Coffee,
Just ee-ee, skirtin'.
You know, da da da da da...
And then just like, it was so low,
because already it didn't have the crash bar
so it just sat lower.
And it wasn't supported by anything.
And it's like tst-tst-tst-tst-tst,
BOOF!
And like...
(laughing)
I was like, oh!
I was like, so confused.
I look behind me.
The bumper is flying over the car behind me.
It went... so the splitter caught
like, I hit a bridge, like I was on a bridge,
and I hit the bottom,
and the whole, caught.
The splitter was that strong
where it ripped off the whole bumper
and it just like
FOO!
Soared from under my car.
And like, yeah...
- So that's your biggest regret?
- Well, I think what I'm trying to say
is from going static I've had a lot of problems.
Right?
I cracked my oil pan,
my frame is just nonexist...
Well, it's existent, it's flat.
It's really flat.
Rubbed a lot.
Cracked my fenders a couple, two, three times.
Well, actually once I really...
But besides that, as much as I love it,
at the same time it's still a regret.
But I don't think I would go back.
- [Alex] And do it again?
- Right.
I think I would do it the same way.
- What do you think, Rainey,
what's your biggest automotive regret?
Single-handedly?
- Ohhhh
- So Rainey's owned like 12 cars.
- 40 cars.
- The last three years, yeah.
- Okay, a lot of cars.
- I've owned over a hundred.
- Are you a licensed dealer?
- Yup.
(laughing)
- Some don't have titles.
- Yeah, that's totally legal.
- I think my biggest one was selling my truck
from high school.
I had a '76 C10, built Motobilt trans.
I ended up cracking the frame on it,
like two months before I sold it.
- [Alex] Cracked the frame.
How do you crack the frame?
- [Rainey] No idea.
- [Jasper] You jump it?
- [Rainey] No.
- [Alex] Take it off any sweet jumps?
- [Jasper] Have you ever jumped it before?
- [Rainey] Uh, no, we almost rolled it though.
So, I mean that coulda definitely be part of it.
- [Jasper] So, two-wheeler?
Like, Dubai shift?
- It was one of those like...
I'm not...
I'm not gonna like...
- Sorry.
- Mom don't watch this.
Whipping some, on the road in Oshkosh,
and sent it into a little bit of a ditch.
- Oh.
- She went like this:
(tongue clicking)
Right up against a culvert, so...
- Oh mama.
C'mon let's hear about your piles of, then.
C'mon, keep going.
- I had a Mercedes in high school.
- You did.
- An Audi.
- Any other big automotive regrets with your truck?
Just besides selling it?
- Selling was the big one.
The truck was one of those where it was like,
oh that's really cool but it's not like,
don't put wood in the bed.
I was just like, put wood in the bed,
put stuff in the bed, use the truck.
But then you like, at the end of the day,
you could spray it down, wash it up real nice,
take it to a car meet or whatever.
- [Jasper] Right.
- [Rainey] Out on the town.
- [Jasper] But was it like the ugliest, like, car there?
- Well, it was big, cool, loud.
But it was cool, it was like my favorite truck.
The first vehicle I went out and
like, bought-bought,
like thousands of dollars bought.
And then I got rid of it.
And looking back I'm like,
that was the one vehicle I should've never sold.
- Sure.
- But another one would've been like,
the Lexus was like,
on air, worked, worked great,
and like you said, fenders.
And then, especially when you ride static,
fenders, rears, cracked numerous wheels.
- [Jasper] Well, okay, to be fair,
I saw that car before you owned it,
and it was, when it was on air...
- [Rainey] It was bad.
- [Jasper] and those fenders, so trashed.
Like the only thing you could've done
was wide-body that car.
Like, that was not fixable.
- That's why I did.
- Alright, so I would say,
probably my biggest automotive regret
would be the amount of...
unnecessary effort
I put into my first car, my Datsun that I had.
As I continued to work on it more and more,
I thought the answer to it was spending more money on it.
And then, as I spent more money I drove it less.
And I drove it less, which means when I drove it
I was more careful with it,
which means I had a tendency to almost break it more.
I went super custom with a lot of stuff or tried to,
and as a result it just got worse and worse and worse.
When I had it and it was
haggled together when I first bought it,
it ran perfectly.
And then the more stuff I tried to fix,
the more went wrong with it.
So like, it went through motors,
it went through all sorts of stuff.
Like I changed the gauges out
and then the gauges would go out.
I had like the Intellitronix gauges,
and then those always fried,
and then I'd fix them and they'd fry again.
I like, molded them into the center console...
- [Jasper] OOH!
- And made them look super nice.
And then they would just stop working halfway through.
Blew out trans, put a T56 in it,
but then didn't really want to break that either.
So then what ended up happening is
I think I finally dialed in the motor.
I finally dialed in the driving experience
to like a point that I could enjoy it.
And then, I took out all the amenities I possibly could,
which means I never wanted to drive it,
because it was loud, obnoxious, everything made noise.
There was no radio, no AC, no anything.
And I thought to myself,
what could I do that would
really just put the nail in the coffin?
And then I decided to put over fenders on it.
And my thought process was that
it was gonna make it the way that I wanted it to.
Now this was before I worked here,
so I didn't know a whole lot about
like, air, and like, excessive amounts of drop,
to like really dial in everything to make it look good.
And I ruined it.
Because what ended up happening
is that I shaved the rear bumper.
I had a 240Z front bumper on it,
it was a 280Z.
But then the side skirts were actually
from like an MSA Type 2 body kit.
So what ended up happening is
when it was repainted for the third time,
they molded the side skirts onto the car,
and then with the Brinkworth fender flares,
they didn't match up correctly
with the new lines, the bottom of the side skirts.
So then when we actually got it made,
and it got molded on,
you couldn't actually flow the overfenders
through the side skirt and then back up
to the rear fender.
So it had to get cut and then put on top of the side skirt.
And then the side skirt went across.
And then the overfender in the rear had to sit
over it to cover the wider wheels,
'cause we went with wider wheels,
and then it arched through the back.
So without the side skirt it would've looked,
I think, pretty decent,
but then because the side skirts were still stuck on,
it kind of put the nail in the coffin and I saw it.
And I was like, it's nice from one angle,
but to me it was pretty much dead.
And then I never drove it.
And ultimately I fell out of love with the car
that I fallen in love with so much.
So like, I think my biggest automotive regret,
to circle back to the Datsun,
was probably trying to do too much.
Like I did too much to the car.
My favorite thing about that car
was that it wasn't the young kids that loved it,
it was like the 30, 40-year-old crowd
that would stop me at the gas station,
or the grocery store,
and be like, "I had one of those in high school.
"I raced Camaros with that with my
"girlfriend, now wife."
Like those were always the coolest stories.
I loved taking it out to drive it.
I hated all in the end.
And I think that had a lot to do with what I did to the car.
Because it was my first car.
So I kept making mistakes, I kept doing things wrong.
And so I pretty much had to press the reset button,
sold it, and I still regret selling it,
but at the same time I don't,
because I know all the problems that came with that car.
- My car like is, for people who don't know,
my car is like my first car.
So it's like, it's the one car I've built
for five years.
And I wasn't a car person
even when I first got the car.
And then I became one.
I guess I'm scared to come to that point
where I am like, what am I gonna do now?
- Yeah, it's a tough thing that
I think a lot of car people face.
That fine line between enjoying something
and then going too far.
'Cause once you go too far with the car
a lot of times you can't go back.
And that's where you reach two kinds of people:
You reach the people that never sell the car,
like the car that they love,
and they just keep working on it,
and then they just keep that car forever.
And then you have the people that car hop all the time,
because they prefer to car hop versus
stick a ton of money into a car
and then waste time and waste effort,
versus just enjoying new things.
But regardless on which one you are,
I think it just comes down to
kind of accepting which one you are.
- It seems like there's a small
percentage of the happy medium.
Who are building their car,
but it's not all at once.
You know, it's just a very progressive.
Which, some of builds I see,
that are like, some of my most appreciated personally.
Because it's like, seeing that they really took the detail
into just taking a whole year into their interior
and stuff like that.
- But that's just it too,
the current scene is all about like,
you bought the car in March
you better be finished by September,
otherwise you're a chump.
And it's like, that ruins a lot of it,
because so many people do it with these
external pressures instead of doing it yourself.
- It becomes half...
- Well yeah.
I think that's when you get to the older crowd too.
The older crowd slows down
and they enjoy their car a lot more.
And that's why you don't see them change as much,
because they're comfortable with doing
wheels, tires, suspension one year,
and then next year dialing in their body panels and paint,
and then the next year going into the interior.
Next thing you know you have a seven, eight year build.
But it's what they want
and then you find that happy medium.
I think when you rush into something,
I think that's when you find
most of your regrets with what you do with your car.
- It's a life lesson.
- There you go.
Anything else?
Is that it?
- I think that's pretty, pretty it.
- So share your biggest regret
in the comments section below.
Whether it was selling a car,
modifying it to the point
that you couldn't drive it anymore,
or anywhere in between.
We want to hear it and we'll respond to all of them.
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- I'm a be that plug.
- Alright, go ahead.
- Because I've been doing it every video,
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- And we're doing it to help out
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So we're gonna donate some money to some kitties...
- I always forget.
- and some puppies and stuff like that.
We're going to have a ping-pong tournament
to decide who's winning the free set of wheels.
- Better not be Mario.
- Yeah, I'm gonna kick his...
Rainey, you have anything?
- No, that's it.
- Jasper?
- I think I'm good.
- Alright, we'll see you guys later.
- [Jasper & Alex] Peace.