- There are so many different ways to modify your car.
It is so fun. We call it modifying,
really it's just making cars
unreliable and so cool us...
And so the question was, pretty much anyone else
that knows you need to match your belt to your shoes,
by the way you do same thing with the watch,
it's a protip it does well when you're going to weddings,
just trying to help you out. Okay.
I've seen the way we dress sometimes.
Anyways, from the twenties and thirties
of what your Boulevard taken the surge
of the movies like fast and the furious,
the automotive community has and always wanted
to make things less reliable, all right.
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Like we're, that's just what we do.
Okay. I'm Alex, @ALEX.FI Instagram.
And today we're gonna be talking about
doing a thing to our cars we probably shouldn't do.
A process that by in large
is one of the biggest financial mistakes and wastes
we can make as young adults.
It'd probably make our parents cry just a little bit,
when they find out how much a wing costs,
then you realize that they don't really do much,
but hey, all right.
They say buying a house is a bad idea too right now.
Anyway, so I mean, in terms it's a potato potato,
a passion that makes us get all sunburned and ended up
with trophies that we never end up like flaunting.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be talking
about you wanting to modify your car.
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(car engine roaring)
And if you're just jumping into this video,
hello, if you wouldn't mind,
feel free to hit the red button
that doesn't actually do anything anymore,
but it's still makes me really happy.
And of course, if you're looking for aftermarket wheels,
tires, or suspension, be sure to hit us up over
www.fitmentindustries.com.
If you're looking for anything for your newly acquired car
that you plan on making less reliable or not in all honesty,
that's what we're all here for.
We're really just here to make bad decisions.
Mostly with our cars.
The history of modifying your car can go all the way back
to the first cars that were ever capable
of even being driven on the rope.
You had things like horse cart designers
that would create Taylor Made bodies
that would then plop them right on top of existing bodies
and body chassies and wall up.
You had your own unique bespoke Taylor Made. All right,
custom car in the twenties back when horse carriages
were still kind of like the way that you got around.
All because people didn't want the stock bull, all right.
No one wants to be stocked baby.
It didn't matter if it was a hundred years ago or yesterday
we want fender failures that don't line up,
steering wheels that shake and a big motor,
that's going to throw you into a tree.
Let's go.
The car community saw explosive growth
especially after World War II
I can't imagine why not even a little site. Yes, we can.
Okay, after World War II,
there was a boom and domestic income.
There's a strong economic structure and a bunch of people
wanting to relax, have a decent job,
pop out a kid or two and have a hobby.
Something about literally having a World War
tends to calm people down to just wanting to enjoy life.
During that same time, the American dream was thriving.
All right, Just thriving in terms of how everybody
was smiling, it was good,
it was a little bit like follow without the actual news.
House, two kids, dogs, and a Pontiac streamliner
was what you were aiming for after world war II. Okay.
On top of that,
the disposable income caused some individuals
to start tinkering around with the insight of those cars
and what made them go fast.
You had to remember back then one in six Americans
in the fifties, either work directly or indirectly
in the automotive industry.
It was what you did.
And because of that near connection
to almost everyone in the United States,
you pretty much had people always around cars.
You had the interstate highway system created.
You have suburbanization.
I'm pretty sure that's the song
by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
You had NASCAR get founded.
You had drag racing get started.
Ella Brock was finally starting to kick.
Holly introduced their first forward barrel, Carver Raider.
All right, Boulevard was lit
and it was doing extremely well, decades pass
and no matter what impacted the overall
state of money and world stuff with the cars,
USA were always just there to just mess with stuff.
It didn't matter what happened.
Gas prices, skyrocketed.
People just cruised instead of drag race.
Once the sparks started with tinkering a car,
it just never seemed to end. All right.
People like you and people like me,
we just have a tendency to do that forever and ever
and then we look at somebody else's car and we're like,
I want one of those.
The literally be like the fast and the furious films.
You can just go on and on and on about it
until eventually at the end you're like, what?
what am I actually watching?
I thought this was a racing movie
and now they're jumping off cliffs with cars.
It doesn't make any sense. All right,
when you jump into the eighties,
more countries started to truly play
in the world of modification.
Take it all the way over to Japan for instance. Okay,
that was still booming as Well,
it started in the seventies most notably,
but it definitely grew in eighties.
The international modification was booming.
You had Datsuns, Ark sevens, Nissans, Mitsubishis,
and every other car manufacturer that was doing
just about the same as the Burley folks
around the world at Hollywood. Okay.
They were just doing it in a little bit
of a different fashion.
You had countries like Japan
that had different restrictions on their vehicles.
Instead of it being 17 catalytic converters on their Belair,
it was the size of the car and the motor that was in the car
that impacted people buying it
because it had a ton of taxes on that.
This pivoted the modification community in a different way,
where instead of talking about B8ES
or burp replacement for displacement,
it was two liters in a small compact car with a little turbo
snail on the top of it. Okay.
Within a culture that is generally focused
around being polite, quiet, and usually conservative.
Being able to modify a car with a bunch of dazzled pieces,
loud exhaust, and a crazy paint job.
All of a sudden was a pretty fun way for a lot of people
to express themselves. It was a pretty damn good idea.
But while the Japanese was working through
their modification, teenage phase, we'll call it,
it wasn't until the mid eighties that it truly began
to explode within Japan.
You had magazines starting to launch like option,
which was a cartooning style magazine
that started to share the previously known
underground style community of cars in Japan,
which previously it was more underground is a little bit
more rambunctious, rebellious people didn't like him.
The editor in chief of that magazine was that also
introduced the Tokyo Auto Salon in 1983.
Sure. You had initial D and other animators
and things like that that did have
some sort of automotive thing in it.
But in 1995 is when Japan truly started to level up again
with car modifications because Japan used to have
really strict regulation that came
to the importation of foreign auto parts.
It's finally lifted in the mid nineties
due to the U S of America.
Put a lot of pressure on Japan to try and get them
to relax that import tax.
And it worked applying pressure
through O E and O E plus manufacturers
It ultimately caused quite an access of parts that were
previously illegal to Japanese residents that really enjoyed
modifying their car to become legal.
The most recent times a modification of since
continued to be supported
by people like you and people like me
through the use of poor financial decisions,
movies the Yell Monica, all right,
best scene of the movie.
Just saying that now.
(car engine roaring)
(yelling)
- Monica...
- And YouTube videos that make it seem okay
to spend too much money
on the wheels, tires and suspension, which is us.
All right. It looks really cool.
Plus we love it.
They are pieces of metal fit them into shoes.com,
but we are not here to talk about
the history of modifying your car. Okay.
You want that? Some of that go read a magazine,
go read option or something. I don't know. Okay.
We're not doing that.
We're here to talk about you wanting to modify your car.
So you want to do that.
Well, don't set down your 10 millimeter
and grab your favorite secondary 10 millimeter
because you'll inevitably lose it
because we're about to talk about what it's like
to make a perfectly the okay vehicle on okay.
Not correct English, do not care.
If you're looking to modify your car,
there's two major things you'll need to know ahead of time,
especially if this is your first time
jumping into modifying a car. Okay?
Congratulations on joining the cult. I mean community,
it's a ton of fun and you really enjoy it.
And you're going to meet a lot of people
that are going to be really awesome.
And they're going to become your best friends
they're going to become family.
You can grill out with them.
You're going to tell them all your secrets
is going to be a good time.
You realize you spend way too much time with them.
And next thing you know,
you're going to have this really cool group
and you're going to hang out all the time.
You're going to be proud
of the way that your street looks
when you have grill. All right.
Number two,
there are very few times that you'll ever make a car
more reliable, more, better, more well invested
when you modify anything on a car.
I'm just saying it now. Just disclaimer.
I can't say it without just, its just, it happens.
Okay. It's not a bad thing, but damn. Okay.
Do we suck at financial decisions,
especially with modifying our car?
Maybe it's just me.
Modding your car can start with something
as simple as your headlights or full swap
in your Arc Seven.
Ellis swap the world is what people will say
and it makes people angry. Anything really counts though.
This opens up nearly every vehicle on the road
to having aftermarket companies that sell stuff to you.
When I say pretty much everyone, I mean, everyone.
You've got things for Maximas, for Smalltime,
for S 2000 to Odysseus, to Smalltime,
Lantras, Civics and Tegras, and everything in between
a lot of times in the past is very tailored
to very few vehicles
because the internet didn't really exist
but now you can do it with pretty much anything.
And if this is your first time,
you probably jumped into the first parts
you can probably find on the internet, mostly.
That's all we all have that initial awkward phase,
When we modify a car, don't lie,
We all did it. All right.
It's usually headlights, it's either headlights
or as the Chrome tail lights, depending on how old you are.
Some tips with modifying your car
is to always start with research.
Find the brand you want to buy before you buy the part.
That means if you're looking for new headlights
with a black lens, versus like the bunkie orange ones
that you probably have right now,
don't just type in the year,
make and model of your car, and then headlights.
Go find brands that sell the product and read and view
on what people like versus what people don't like
and try to use the forums
of what other people have done already.
Let them make the mistakes so that you don't have to.
It's kind of like being the younger brother
in a relationship.
You just never really get in trouble.
Cause you just watch them screw up.
By going slow with new parts you've never installed before
and doing your research beforehand,
the odds of you messing up is actually pretty low
compared to when you just guess,
and you randomly decide to shoot from the hip,
which does happen sometimes because we just get excited.
When things like that don't happen,
they usually end up sitting on Jack stands.
I mean your car because it just happens for seasons
and seasons at a time because we don't do our research,
and usually we end up brushing the project
because we accidentally blew up the motor.
I feel like this is just like a intervention of things that
I've done myself. Okay.
Final move is if you're going to modify your cars to do it
and have fun, do it for you, make it slap.
All right, throw it on some baller wheels.
Make some people angry, have fun, join a community.
Get some cool headlights. I don't know what you guys has.
Buy some decent parts, have some fun, blow up your mope.
Don't blow up your motor. Don't be a dick at car shows.
Take it to an autocross to see what it can do
and never build this to the point
that you're scared to drive it
and finally show them up.
You want to show it off, have some fun.
That's the whole point of modifying your car.
It opens you up to communities.
It opens you up to building something new.
It opens you up to learning
outside of school and things like that.
I mean, it is by all technical purposes, a blast.
So show us your car.
What do you have done to your car?
Let us know in the comment section below
and if you look at, for after market wheels,
tires or suspension,
be sure to hit us up over www.fitbitindustries.com.
I keep looking this way
because there is a Miata with Vinyl wrap
that has glitter on it,
and I just don't know how I feel about it, right.
But I love Miata, so I'm going to check it out.
We'll see you later.