- Hi.
After world war two BMW got the ban hammer
on producing cars and airplanes.
The company was able to live on by making
pots, pans and bicycles.
All things that don't require turn signals, strange.
Fast forward to 1952 and Beamer started car production
again, and came out with the BMW 501 luxury saloon.
This car was heavy, slow,
and expensive as hell for the time.
So the Mercedes-Benz 220 outtried and outperform the 501
in almost every way.
BMW was hurting, but was able to still stay alive.
Clearly enough (indistinct)
(fire explosion)
Flying through history, we come all the way into the
one series Beamers being produced in 2004.
This is the same year. Harry Potter in the prisoner
of ASCA band came out in the movies.
Harry, you're an idiot.
That's my impression of haggard,
if he found out Harry Potter bought a Beamer.
The 2008 BMW, 135.
I had an original MSRP of--
- Sorry I just think I'm too stupid
to understand this.
- - $39,100.
So you could have that,
or you could get 11,203 burrito Supreme
from what's left of this continual.
BMW drivers are known for not understanding
how to use the turn signal,
but can they build they car?
Today We sit down with an owner
and have a good old chat.
DRIVER TO--
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DRIVER
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(Harry breathing heavily)
I have a good entrance for BMW owner.
Ooh
I always wanted to do it.
Welcome back to the episode of DRIVER TO DRIVER.
(air whooshing)
Today we have very special guests as always.
Let's see
today we're here with snakes fans.
Come on snakey boy.
Jake Spence, Jake Spence.
- Ah
- How is it going men, how are you doing?
- Oh man. That's cool.
- You're in the spotlight now baby,
you're in the speed zone. (Jake claps)
- Alrighty.
You're ready to do this? - Okay. This is intense.
- Yeah.
- For Jake Spence.
- Camping is intense.
- Okay. When does it start?
(Jake and Harry laughing)
- All right. Jay, what other are we going to change.
We got the lights figured out.
What do you think of the chair?
- it's comfier than I thought.
- Thanks a pig died in it.
- No.
- I made that up.
I just found it. I don't--
It's just, don't forget wheels, tires and suspension.
@fitmeindustries.com
- That hurt you bad.
- No, it doesn't hurt.
My hand is--
- Are you okay?
That hurt your dainty little BMW fingers.
- No.
- Okay.
Let's not beat around the Bush.
How much did you pay for that clapped out,
stripped apart, luxury car forced to be put on the drag
strip by its abuse of honour.
- Ooh, about $17,000.
- How many miles are on that puppy When he bought it?
- 80 K
- 80 K in 17 grand?
- Yeah.
- Those are the things, I don't know.
They depreciated pretty hard,
but I feel like it still got ripped off.
- Yeah probably.
- And a little bit.
- Yeah.
- All right.
So you got a YouTube channel, right?
- Yeah.
- All right.
About your 750 horsepower BMW.
How do you feel about putting all that work into the car?
You know, doing ten second passes on the Drake strip
for your top video to be
how to clean your Pitts field headlights?
(Jake laughing)
- Oh my God. That's a good one.
I'll give you that.
- That's pretty good, am the host.
It is a little disappointing.
I mean, I loved the car, but apparently
I'm just better at showing how to do headlights.
- You good at cleaning headlights?
- Yeah.
- You have any tips?
- Don't use toothpaste.
- Who the beep is using the toothpaste on their--
They're for your teeth Jake.
- I know. But some people use
(Jake and Harry) toothpaste
- Not headlight paste.
- Yeah. Well,
- All right. Well.
Good advice.
So what was it about the one series that made you want it?
Was it the push didn't face
or the fact that you don't have to use a blinker anymore?
- They are pretty ugly cars.
- Yeah they are.
Yeah they look weird
- At least. That's what I thought when I was buying one.
I wanted a 335,
the 135 was just cheaper.
So I went that route.
- (Harry laughs) Oh okay.
- And, I'm glad I did now.
Now it looks better, I think.
- Yeah, you can Polish a turd.
- She's more than a polished turd.
- You think so?
All right.
That's enough I mean,
let's hear from our truly cool and loyal YouTube community.
By the way, you should subscribe.
Otherwise Jake said
he's going to cut more people off in traffic.
Make sure you subscribe.
There could be an accident.
You be careful.
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AUTOJAY asked, how is your reliability with the whole car
and how is the n54 motor treating you?
- Well my motor number two.
So, could be better but
if you buy one that's been taken care of,
you're a lot better off than if you just buy
the cheapest one you can find.
- I feel like that's you can say that about
any car across the board.
- Okay. Well, chances are if you buy one
it's going to break.
- Oh okay.
- I think you should probably just
be aware of that when you buy one.
- That sounds like a nice car.
Yeah. Super nice car when it's on the road and running.
- Ah How often is that?
- Not today.
- Even Clark wasn't as nice, All right.
He asks, what's it like owning
a turd bucket German mustang, and how much does he pay
his mechanic to work on that sauerkraut flavored nightmare?
- What's the question again?
- How much do you pay that mechanic to work
on this sauerkraut flavored nightmare
for your turd bucket German Mustang.
- I don't pay a mechanic.
Usually I just let it sit for awhile
until I have enough ambition to just fix it.
- (Harry laughs) Hell yeah.
Are parts expensive?
- Yeah.
- You'll have that.
- Usually.
- Maybe you should just get a Mustang?
- I thought about it.
- Did you?
- A newer one.
- Hmm
Frankie Z32 doesn't care If you drag grace at NAS.,
Have you tried anything besides drag racing
road courses may be fun with that amount of power.
LOL.
- Yeah.
- I've done road America, Auto cross,
I've also done straight line half mile stuff.
It's all fun.
It's set up to do everything.
- You've done a hundred Autocross
with a 750 horsepower?
- Before it was 750 horsepower.
- -Oh, that's--
- So like 450 horsepower.
- I mean, that's still pretty good numbers, but like,
it'd be a lot cooler to see a Autocross turn 750.
- I don't think it would work very well.
- But it'd be funny.
- Be a drift that.
- In the show hope you're I cleaning your headlights.
- Yeah. An autocross would clean line.
- Yeah. Foreign Shredder is curious
if you know about the third pedal and ass.
Is this auto and if it is what size tutu do you wear?
- Not auto.
She's a manual.
- She's a manual?
- She's a manual.
- All right.
- Had to.
- Snail.
- Oh my God.
- Got him.
- You got me.
- Brandon has an important question to ask.
How many tacos from baco tell
can you fit inside that thing?
- I think we should find out.
- You wanna actually do it?
- I mean we could try.
- All right. Do you have a gas tickle right now?
I stole that from crispy.
- Hmm 900.
- 900, that's a bold statement.
- I think--
- You can't just go around saying that
like now we gotta do it.
You got to buy 900 tacos
and we got to shove them in your car.
- If you buy them, I'll shove them in my car.
- No, No, No you can buy them.
- TrashBandit 24, well, he says,
does the "R" and BMW stand for reliable?
- Yes.
(Jake and Harry laughing)
- All right.
That's enough of our YouTube community.
They're getting a little, you can, they're a little.
Alright. Okay give it to me.
What do you all have done on that thing?
- Oh, man.
- Gotta have a lot of mula into that.
- A lot.
Single terrible conversion.
Basically, I've owned it for seven years
and have done everything under the sun
to try and get that 750 horsepower out of it.
Still on a stock engine though.
- So then you haven't done everything?
- Well, I replaced the stock engine
with another stock engine, so.
- What was the point of that?
- So I could drive it again.
- what if you got like a more,
like a better motor that you could throw in there,
but different engines on that.
- Will be like 10 grand.
- Well, I'm sure you got more than that into it now?
- (Jake and Harry laugh) Yeah but,
at the time I didn't have 10 grand, so.
- Alrighty.
So basically what you have does big turbo,
- Big turbo, big clutch.
- Big clutch?
- Six more injectors, 12 injectors,
85 straight pipe gutted it.
I mean.
- Ooh.
Is your left leg pretty strong now with the big clutch?
- Aah stronger than it was six years ago.
- Good.
I've been worrying about that left leg.
All right, what problems have you had with it?
- Oh God.
(Harry laughing)
Oh man.
- All sorts of them. Is good staff.
It's generally pretty reliable,
but I haven't put a whole lot of miles on it.
I put a lot into it to make it reliable for the most part.
- Like what?
- Hmm just done.
- What do you do to make
a reliable 750 horsepower one series BMW?
- Replace all the gaskets.
When the motors out new spark plugs, new injectors,
all those sorts of things.
Keep on top of the maintenance Walnut blasting,
you know, BMW stuff.
- What the beep is Walnut blasting?
Have you ever been hit with some walnuts?
- I have never been Walnut blasted
and it doesn't sound like I want to be.
- No. Yeah.
- Well you get blasted by nuts a lot?
- No. But my car does.
(Jake and Harry laughing)
- Oh God.
(Jake and Harry laughing)
Can we get out there.
- No. No. (Mark laughing)
- You're freaking me out.
I gotta unbutton my buttons
am getting too hot and it's getting weird.
- Oh Max you gotta cut that.
- Did you break my light?
Did you break my light?
- You broke the light.
- Who broke my light?
Let me fix it.
You broke my light.
When you came in here, did you knock over my desk?
- Are there gonna be props for me to wear?
- No.
- No and if I steal this?
- You can wear--
- Ooh I did.
- Car's quick, but his hands are quicker.
- BZZZZ
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- All right.
You wanna go to the speed zone,
then let's go to the speed zone.
Alrighty, do you have any advice
for someone looking to get a 135 I for some reason?
- Aah Buy one with maintenance records, for sure.
Don't buy the cheapest one You can find.
- You said one series is owned by old guys, right?
- Yes so technically I mean--
- Yeah. So they should all have their maintenance.
So they always, they love the paper stuff.
- Yep.
- So that's it just buy one that has paperwork done
when they got their oil changed.
That's the only advice you have?
- Hmm.
- You've owned the car for six beep years.
You got to have a little bit more advice than that.
- Yeah. Well, if it's leaking from everywhere,
probably shouldn't buy it.
- Oh that's a good point.
- If it's rattling from everywhere,
you probably shouldn't buy it.
If it's smoking from the tailpipe,
probably shouldn't buy it.
Otherwise, I think you should buy it.
- Okay. All right.
You heard it here first.
If the tailpipe smoking, you don't have to buy it.
And if the headlights are clean, get it
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Thanks for Jake coming onto the show.
We got a snake fancy boy here with the 750 horsepower BMW.
Thanks for coming on Jake.
- (Jake claps) Thanks for having me.
Yeah. Guess what?
Every person gets a gift
on season two. - Oh baby
- If you're on DRIVER TO DRIVER side.
- I'm exited for this.
- My drawer isn't what it used to be but,
it still has its presence.
- You really have a lot of desk left over.
- I'm kind of like Santa.
- All right, here we go.
Here, you can put those on.
- Oh wow.
- I don't think your car--
- Where do these go?
- In the car.
In the headlights.
- I know.
- Once you get them all shined up,
you can slap them in there and turn your blinkers on.
You know what to do?
- Hmm, tail light bulbs.
- Well, you put blinkers and tail lights too.
- Oh, that's right. You do.
- You wouldn't know, you know?
Hey you know anything about those?
Try taking a bite out of you.
- Ew.
- Let me take a bite out of one.
Hey, that was, that was my gift beep
- Ooh Baby.
- [Jake] That was my gift.
(table falls)
(upbeat music)
- All right, you wanna see the present?
We can unwrap it on my desk.
- Yeah. Maybe you can show me how to install it.
- Yeah. So all you have to do,
we'll do a blinker install featuring Dakota and Jake.
I'm kind of scared to open.
- Oh, nice dude.
- Hold up. Hold up.
It's okay. It's okay.
Dad's here, Dad's here.
There we go.
See that. See that.
You learned that building the 750 horsepower BMW.
- Yeah.
Yeah. This is, you just, you pop them right in.
- Okay.
- You just gotta put them in.
They plug and play.
- Plug and plug.
- Plug and play.
- All right.
- Yeah.
- Plug them in.
- Don't Walnut blast though, they'll break.
- These look pre Walnut blasts.
- Yeah.
- If you Walnut blast it'll break.
(laughing)