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- Chrysler makes cars for old people,
but that's about it,
but Chrysler also has some secret identities, ooh.
They also sell vehicles under Dodge, Jeep and Ram.
If you didn't know that, you probably live
under a PT Cruiser, hmm.
In the 1970's, Chrysler wasn't doing so hot,
and uh, bankruptcy you know,
stuff like that going on,
and they were saved by a
1.5 billion dollar loan
from the U.S. government,
and it was able to survive somehow.
Sounds like a lot of work to keep
a company alive just so it could end up
making a (bleep) PT Cruiser, I don't know.
The Crossfire also, what the (bleep) was that?
What are you, what was that thing?
The PT Cruiser unfortunately
came out onto the scene in 2001.
That's the same year Shrek came out.
Get out my swamp!
If the PT Cruiser was in Shrek,
it'd be Donkey 'cause it's,
however, they did try to sneak into
the Cool Kids Club.
The PT Cruiser GT came with a
2.4 liter turbo charged engine.
Yes, so same one that's in the SRT4 Neon.
Lipstick on a pig.
The PT GT had an MSRP
of up to $29,000.
Me, an intellectual, would rather get
8,309 Tripleupas from TB Cruiser.
Yeah, that's a thing I just found out too, I don't know.
The PT GT is ugly, but it still has some balls.
Today, we sit down with an owner and have
a good old chat.
Driver To Driver.
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Don't forget, wheels, tires, suspension,
Fitment Industries!
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- All right.
- Today we're here with Sean Cheeseburger
from Branded McTitle.
- Yup.
- Let's not beat around the bush,
how much you pay for that PT loser?
- [Sean] $3,800.
(tapping on clipboard)
- See, like $3,800 aint that much for a car,
but like, for a PT Cruiser, it's a lot of money.
- Is it, I thought it was pretty reasonable.
- Like I'm be real with you like,
why the (bleep) did you buy that thing?
Why would you use money at all
to get something like that?
What the (bleep) were you thinking?
- I'm really into sleeper stuff.
- Then take a nap.
- I sold one of my Volvo Station Wagons.
- That sounds cool, Wagoon Gang.
- Yeah, I wanted an SRT4,
'cause they're just easy to modify,
you can make good power for cheap.
- But what about the Volvo?
- I had like four,
at the same time.
- That sounds expensive.
- It's like, one had to go, and then I replaced it
with another car anyway, anyway.
- Okay, sorry.
I wanted an SRT4, but they were all taxed.
They were super expensive for the time.
They were like seven grand,
and then you get made fun of for having a Neon.
- So you thought a PT Cruiser would be better?
- Yeah.
- Brother.
- I mean if you're going there,
you might as well go there.
- So what do you like about the Neon
more than you like, about,
or like, what do you like more about the Neon than, no.
What do you like more about the PT Cruiser
than you like the Neon?
- Obviously it looks worse,
but it's more.
- It's ugly.
- [Sean] I mean I haul my mini bike around it.
You take the back seat out,
you basically have a truck slash mini van.
- [Dakota] You take the back seat out,
you basically have a van.
- Yeah. - That's why you
bought a PT Cruiser?
That is actually the most like,
logical response I could think of for that.
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Okay, so how long have you had it?
- Oh god, I bought it in like 2014.
I've had it a while. - Using big math,
that's six (bleep) years.
- That's the longest I've ever had a car.
- Six years, so not only did you buy a mistake,
but then you kept the mistake.
- Well I-- - That's okay,
my mom did the same thing.
- Yup.
Why have you kept it so long?
- It's went through a couple phases.
It was stock for a while,
and then I went E85,
and then I broke it.
- We'll get into that though.
What's your favorite thing
and least favorite thing about your PT loser?
- My favorite thing is it's hilarious.
- Hmm.
- Is it not? - I haven't laughed at it.
The video of you doing a burn out
was kind of funny though.
- You smiled, you smiled.
- Yeah, it made me giggle.
Okay what's your least favorite thing?
Favorite thing, hilarious,
least favorite thing.
- Probably that it's a PT.
(laughs)
- One contradiction eating another.
- Yeah. All right, that's enough,
I mean, let's hear it from our
extremely cool and loyal YouTube community.
- Oh god.
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- Benjamin Ramic asks,
how embarrassing is it when your neighbor
see's you installing a cold air intake
on this poo poo cruiser?
- Didn't put a cold air intake on it.
I modified the factory air box
because I didn't want to be that guy.
- What did you do with the factory air box?
- Put a K&N filter in it,
and drilled out the bottom.
(chuckles)
- We're you embarrassed in front
of your neighbors, doing that?
- Yes. - Okay, all right.
Devlin Taylor is thinking about
getting one and asks,
do Neon SRT4 performance mods
carry over to the GT Cruiser?
- Yes, literally identical.
The only difference,
the intake manifold
and the thermostat housing.
- Okay. - And the trans
is a little different,
but you don't get the third gear issues.
- Is yours an automatic or manual?
- Manual. - I heard those are
super hard to find.
- They kind of are.
- And I heard if you
blow out the manual transmission,
you're pretty much (bleep).
Real expensive to replace,
or it's hard to find them.
- I wouldn't know, I guess.
- Well don't do that then.
Shrappy is very curious and says,
what's it like rolling around
in a rolling nut sack?
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- It's an odd way to put it.
Uh, I don't know, it's comfortable.
People don't, it goes onto the radar pretty well.
- Yeah, nobody's gonna be looking at it,
that's for sure.
A lot of people actually won't even race you,
you roll up next to them, and like, two step,
and they just like, hmm.
- I would race a PT Cruiser, it'd be funny.
- Yeah.
- So people won't race,
are you trying to race like, other grandma's,
or what are you doing?
You're just revving at other PT Cruisers,
'cause they're no, probably not gonna race you.
- It's usually Mustangs,
I like to mess around with Mustangs.
- That's a weird flex, all right.
Adam Gaber asks,
what are your wheel specs?
- Like, caps lock on, weird.
- A lot of question marks.
- [Sean] I think it was 18,
eight and a half plus 35.
- [Dakota] Okay. - I don't remember,
it was a while ago.
- What kind of wheels are they?
- XXRs, 531s.
I made up for it with the Nitto's though, NT05s.
- It is really just doing whatever you can
to make this car just.
- Contradictions. - Everyone hate it.
- Yeah.
- BackFireJames has a good one,
and he asks, what are some unusual quirks
about your turbo charged bathtub.
- It's really hard to work on.
The nose kind of comes in,
and you can't work in front of it,
inside of it sucks.
- Okay, that's a quirky, what else?
- Take the back seat out,
you got a lot of room,
I think that's a pretty neat quirk.
- Well that, that's kinda quirky.
- The PT Cruiser CD case, it is pretty quirky.
- Show it off, I wanna see it.
What the (bleep) is that?
(laughs) - It's a CD case.
- Put that away, what the (bleep).
Collectable. - Yeah.
- All right Streavel7 lost something and asks,
did you find a Life Alert necklace
in the glove box after you bought it?
- No, I did not.
- Nigel Peace asks,
how's it feel to drive Da Baby's face,
or sorry, Da Baby's head around town?
- I don't know, it feels pretty good.
- You like Da Baby's head?
- I like it.
- You like how he looks? - Yes.
- On a scale of one to Ron Weasley,
how would you rate Da Baby?
- Probably eight tenths of Ron Weasley.
- Okay.
All right, so what do you all
have done to that thing?
- Oh god, what's on the list, I almost forget.
- Basic, just list the basic.
You hungry?
We can take a break, go get a snack.
- You wanna? - Yeah.
- Where we goin? - Taco Bell.
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- Pretty basic SRT4 stuff.
I mean, you got your big injectors,
E85 down pipe,
kind of it.
- You're not (bleep) around in this thing.
- Yeah I mean, tried to max out the stock turbo,
it worked.
- So she scoot?
- It scoots all right,
it does mid low, 13 second quarter miles,
on 205 Tiger Paws spinning along the way.
- That aint too shabby.
- I could probably dip into a 12, with a tire.
- Really? - Being really abusive.
- PT Cruiser in the 12s all right.
So how much money would you say you have
total into this thing?
- I think I actually just did the math
on this recently,
with everything to this date,
with the rebuild and stuff, about $8,000.
- So you should have just
bought the (bleep) Neon.
- Yeah.
I think I still saved a little money.
- Or maybe could just went with a different car.
Like, what if you just didn't get an SRT4?
I had a lot of good experiences in that car,
I'm glad I did it.
- Okay, well that's good you don't regret it.
Speaking of having good experiences in it,
what are all the issues you've had with it?
(heart beating)
- A few, I mean obviously, clutch stuff.
I bought a N2MB WOT Box, it's a WOT shifting.
That's very fun, very addicting,
and also makes you go through clutches, slipping.
- Many transmissions.
- And there was this whole ordeal
where I wanted a six puck clutch,
but the company that I bought it from,
it was a spec clutch,
I wanted a lightweight fly wheel
that I bought from a different company,
but their bolt pattern
for the pressure plate is different,
so now I gotta go back to a stock dual mass fly wheel
to use my use my six puck, so that got weird.
- So a lot of issues with the clutch.
- Well, it's kind of a one off transmission
for the thing, so it's kind of weird.
- That's why I was saying, they're expensive.
- Ring line failure.
- Oh.
- Two pistons were cracked,
there was a score on the block.
- (bleep)
- So that was fun, it's my fault probably you know,
big injector, E85 off the shelf tune.
- You were trying to make a bathtub into a shower.
- Yeah, wait.
What?
- So currently she don't run and drive?
- Currently it does not run and drive.
- So now it's even more useless
than it was off the market.
- Yeah, it literally just
takes up space in my garage.
- I feel like that's what it did anyways.
All right, what's the community like,
are they old?
Do you guys have like, meets at the retirement home?
- It's a really weird demographic actually.
You got, you got people like me,
who modify 'em because it's a sleeper.
- There's like, a lot of people that are like that?
- Probably a quarter of the scene does that.
- Okay, okay.
- The other quarter's probably like,
young lady's first cars.
(laughs)
You know what I mean?
- Okay. - It's kind of weird.
- Young lady's first cars,
people that have beards,
and then old people. - Old people, like flames,
they got the visor.
- I always see flames,
why do I always see flames on PT Cruisers?
- I don't know, I guess.
- Between that and the (bleep) wood grain,
wood grain's kinda dope, but.
- I tried to get wood grain,
I wanted the vinyl like,
from all part's like 800 bucks.
- Vinyl, get real wood.
- Well, what?
- Get real wood. - I don't think
that's a thing.
- Just make it happen captain.
Go get real wood.
- You can't, what and like, cut it up myself?
- Self taper it in the I don't know,
just do what you gotta do.
You're the one with the PT Cruiser.
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you ever wish you owned a different car?
- No, I have a lot of good experiences with the car.
I met a lot of people,
I made a lot of people laugh,
I made a lot of people angry.
- Who'd you meet?
- (bleep) It was just kind of when
I was starting to get in the car scene.
- I mean it probably made a lot of people laugh.
- Yeah.
- So you're happy you put
eight grand into a PT Cruiser?
- Yeah, all said and done.
- It's not all said and done, it's not done.
It's still in the garage.
- You're right, I'm sorry.
- You gotta fix it, take me for a ride in it,
and I'll make a video about that.
- I'm gonna fix it, and I'm gonna
take it to the strip,
and I'll race your ST.
- Woo!
Bet.
Even if I lost,
I still don't own a PT Cruiser.
- I mean you have an ST, it's kind of the same thing.
- No, not really the same thing.
- Five door, four cylinder, turbo.
- Don't compare it.
- Manual.
- No.
- The only thing I don't have is the Recaro's.
- I don't even have Recaro's.
- Same car.
- I took 'em out. - Same thing.
- They're not the same thing.
- They're literally the same thing.
- One looks like a dog turd,
and one looks like, just a car.
- A microwaved dog turd.
- Yeah.
I'm not driving around with Da Baby's face,
so you're driving around with Da Baby's face.
You're pissing me off!
What if I say you get someone
looking to own a PT GT?
I mean don't get one,
or maybe just go get a Focus ST?
- If you're looking for a cheaper alternative
to an SRT4 and you want a sleeper, get it.
Otherwise, probably not worth it.
(chuckles)
Unless you're specifically into that sleeper thing.
- I'm telling you, if you're into sleep,
just take a nap.
- Okay.
- That all wraps up,
thanks to Sean Mcdouble Cheeseburger for coming in,
and talking about his thing.
Don't forget, wheels, tires, suspension,
Fitment Industries dot.
- Com.
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- That's the plug.
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- You didn't even talk about Branded Title,
that's kind of rude.
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Your jacket's very noisy.
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- My car runs.
- Barely, you don't drive it.
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