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- So I'm Alex from Fitment Industries
and we are today here to talk to you about
the four different kinds of car builds.
Now, one disclaimer...don't get mad at us
because your style is not in the four types
or (mumbles) we're generalizing.
There's like 30,000 different types out there
so don't get mad
if we don't talk about your, like,
bosozoku style for three minutes
because you are one of the 12 people
in the Midwest that decided on putting
like, a seven inch rear bumper
on your Toyota Celica that's slammed on the ground
with a six-and-a-half inch exhaust tip.
We're just not...that's not what
we're focusing on today,
so I just need you to bear with me and please,
have fun in the comments, but be nice.
So the first type of build would be the function build,
and when we talk about functional,
we're saying that this is the kind of guy or gal
that ends up having a 2014 FRS
and ended up picking up some Konig Hypergrams
but he didn't pick up the 19 by 10-and-a-halfs
or like, 19 by 12 (mumbles) or anything like that,
he went with the 18 by eight-and-a-half plus 35
because that is a conservative,
proper fitment that's just nice and easy
and isn't going to give him a hard time.
Now, he could've went with some super-aggressive
Nitto NT05Rs or whatever it is that's out there
that's super aggressive or you know,
the Proxes or something like that, but he didn't.
He went with some nice, conservative,
maybe some 595, something else a little bit easier.
Maybe even the T1 Sports instead,
because he really wanted something
that was good across the board,
but also good on the pocketbook.
A lot of times, the function guys are probably
like 90% of the actual community.
They're the people that enjoy modifying their cars slightly,
but not to the extent to which it ruins it
for something outside of what they would use the car for.
So what I'm talking about is that this is the car
that they're likely driving every single day.
This is the car that they drive in the winter,
this is the car that they drive
with their wife or significant other.
Potentially even their family.
This is the car that people take to the grocery store
but also take to the car show the very next day.
These are the people that, at the end of the day,
just want something that's a little bit modified
so people know that it's for them,
but then at the end of the day,
they're still not ruining anything about the car
that could prohibit them from actually enjoying it
and if you know just as much as I do,
the more that you modify a car,
unfortunately, the less you're actually going to
be able to use it every single day.
You'll run into issues with modifications
and reliability and check engine lights
and everything in between,
unless you're a Volkswagen guy, in which case,
you have a check engine light
just for having a Volkswagen.
The biggest thing with the function people is just
the fact that they want just that...function.
A lot of times you'll see people within this category
spend a little bit more time playing around
with the sort of Autocross and HPDE events going into it.
Cause at the end of the day, with Autocross,
you can go into that with pretty much anything you want.
A lot of times, if you're playing around with some
moderate size wheels, tires and suspension,
something moderate, remember,
probably something along the Buttendz Flux Z
or something like that,
or maybe even your silvers versus going into like,
a KW Variant V3 kit which is $3,500.
These guys are really spending more time maybe occasionally
going to the Autocross or occasionally
going to the car shows but instead,
just want something that's fun for them.
Do you find yourself trailering your car everywhere?
Not to like, the track, but to a car show?
Do you find yourself maybe getting really, really upset
that there's a small chip in your
11 and-a-half inch rear barrel on your car?
Probably...maybe have a chance that you probably own
the second type of car type that we're talking about,
which would be the car show/Instagram build/anything that
has to do with actually just mostly
100% building a car for aesthetic purposes.
Today we're going to be talking to you about
(flustered exhale)
the complete opposite of a function build.
We're talking about the car show build.
Now, before we get started, don't get mad
when we talk about Instagram build or things like that
because at the end of the day,
everybody builds a car like that for attention,
now, regardless if they do it for social media,
for themselves or for car shows to win trophies.
They're all doing it with pretty much
the same fundamental reasons,
which is to do something different
so that other people can notice it,
and it's at the same time something that you appreciate.
Wow. That was really fast,
so you might have to rewind that and do it again
because I have to slow down when I'm talking
and I don't even have any Red Bull in my system.
The end of the day, this sort of system,
this sort of type of build is definitely
more focused toward those that really want to
showcase something different.
If you're the guy that has a Kirby roof liner
and you wanted everybody to know about it,
you're probably going to be telling people
at car shows to look at the roof liner.
Now, that has absolutely no functional point
besides the fact that it looks neat
and that's what this next type,
what this type of build is really about.
The car show, guys, is just one of those things where
I think people catch a lot of flack for it,
but at the end of the day,
a car is yours to do whatever you want.
Whether you decide to track it, race it or just look at it
or stare at it in the garage while it's broken
because it's a Datsun and you stared at it
for four years until you finally decide to sell it
and you cry, but you really don't,
because at the end of the day, it really wasn't
a reliable car to begin with.
You find yourself knowing that as long
as you're doing it for what you want to do,
it doesn't matter.
Car show guys and car show types of builds
are the kinds of people that ultimately want to
do something so that they can show it to
other people and they can also do something for themselves.
You see a lot of these guys
going into more extensive builds.
Things like multi-piece forged.
They go on air suspension.
They're looking at cars that may not have
a big ticket price tag on the top end,
but between the modifications and all the stuff
that you're putting on the car,
the car ends up being pretty extremely expensive.
The functionality of the car is not usually there,
because at the end of the day,
they're putting things on it that you normally
wouldn't put on it and you're making things fit
that normally just wouldn't fit. But at the end of the day,
these car shows and car show types of people
are essentially trying to express themselves
in a way that is well, you know...
what people want to see you as.
You have social media.
I mean social media is not who you are,
because on social media you can be this really fun
educational person that tries to talk about
wheels, tires and suspension,
but in real life you're just an asshole
that doesn't like Christmas and at the end of the day,
you don't get really excited about much
except for the fact that you have coffee in the morning
and you get to go to bed at 10:00 at night.
(inhales sharply and exhales)
The purpose of this type of build isn't for function.
It's for art
and maybe that's just too theatrical of a word,
but we would say it was for expressing ourselves.
One of the biggest things that people do these days
is a form of expressing themselves.
You can see it in the way that people wear
different types of clothing now, different shoes.
Different sort of watches and different sort of hairstyles
that essentially make you almost question
or raise an eyebrow to something
that you see that's different.
The car build style and the style of build,
building something for a car show is no different
and it's never really changed,
whether you had a Bel Air that was
filled to the max capacity with speakers in the '70s
or whether you're slamming a car on the ground,
the way that you've gone to express yourself
is sometimes more important than the function itself
but to show something about you that you wouldn't really
be able to express in the form of a function to begin with.
That's getting really, really deep,
so with that being said,
we're moving on to the third type,
which is a type that you probably definitely know about.
The third kind of car build is the one that you would
never actually tell the people because it's just really
frowned upon in today's day and age,
but at the end of the day,
if you're an adult and you're trying to think about
your pocketbook before you think about your hobbies,
you're probably in this field and we're talking about,
unfortunately, yet not unfortunately,
the bought guys.
The ones that buy their cars already built.
The ones that buy their cars
at the lowest depreciation amount
after all the modifications have been installed.
One week after SEMA so that they can get a killer deal
on a car that they do not have to lift a finger for.
Now, does this cause a bad rap with a lot of people?
Yes, because at the end of the day,
people like to showcase that
they work on their car but at the same time,
the people that work on their car
maybe at the same time could be pointing fingers
at the ones that build their cars for function
or build their cars for form or the guys that
just bought the cars built to begin with.
Is it something that's bad?
I guess it depends on the situation.
If you want to spend to buy a car and build it,
but then end up losing $50,000 for the sake of
telling other people that you
bought the car and built it yourself,
then maybe pride is worth that much to you,
but to a lot of other people it's definitely not.
You can see a lot of people going out and buying cars
from SEMA and other big trade shows.
A week after the show has essentially ended,
and at the end of the day,
they end up putting it on their Instagram
or they buy Instagram builds so that they can just have it
and now you have 500,000 followers on your Instagram
and things are right as rain.
A lot of times, one of the biggest pros of being
this type of car build is the fact that
monetarily and all money invested,
you're probably in the best spot
against all these other types of builds
because you're not wasting money, and at the end of the day,
even though people don't like to think about money
when they're talking about a hobby or even a passion,
it does come into effect depending on
how much money you're spending
and what cars you're buying.
A lot of people these days try to buy things
with basic modifications installed,
so that they can do the aesthetic stuff
and you kind of get a blend in between the two.
Depending on what you really want to do
or if you want to brag about it...I mean,
maybe you just don't care
and you buy your car built anyway
because at the end of the day,
you want to not spend money on ramen
and you'd rather actually
take your wife out for a nice dinner.
Maybe. Ramen is just bad.
The fourth and final type of car build
is the one that we all know.
We see it on Facebook probably once every five weeks.
His Instagram or her Instagram has like, 3,000 followers.
Like, they had a YouTube but they stopped making content.
We're talking about the person and the type of build
that just...never gets done.
It's the guy that's swapping an RV26 into a Datsun
with a Viper rear end and some sort of elongated chassis
or somebody's putting an electric motor
on top of a supercharger,
on top of a turbocharger for their Mazda Miata.
Or it's the person that decided to take a total
Maserati or Ferrari and decided
that they were gonna rip it off and lift it
and do all this different stuff,
and you never really know what's going on with the build,
but you do know every once in a while,
about once every three weeks,
they post a picture of the car in their garage
and one small thing that they've been doing
to work on the project and you smile
and you hope that they finish their project
but you know damn well that that project will never get done
because there's no potential way
for a project like that to ever get done.
Maybe one day. Maybe one day.
But probably not.
I'm sorry there, Evan,
I just don't think it's ever going to happen,
but at the same time,
every single time you post a car,
I just get really excited
and I hope one day I see it finished.
We all have that one person that we know
that's just always going to have that build in their garage
that will just never be done.
So which type of car build are you?
Obviously some have pros and some have cons
but nevertheless, we've probably fallen
into one of those four things.
If you think we missed a big one,
drop a comment below and let us know.
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I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
We'll see you later. Peace.
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