- Hey guys, what's going on?
It's Alex from Fitment Industries.
I'm here with
- The "Dirt Monkey" Stan Genadek.
- That's
We're here with somebody different.
(Stan laughs)
This is different for our channel.
So, we've done ten questions with Stan's people,
we've done ten questions with like trucks guys,
and now we're doing ten questions
for a lifted Dodge Challenger guy.
- [Stan] That's right.
- [Alex] It's a very specific market.
- [Stan] It is, there's like two of us.
- [Alex] Yeah, and ya know together you guys
can get together, you can maybe form a club and --
- We hold hands and sing Kumbaya in the evening
[Alex Laughs]
- And talk about our feelings and we invite anybody
to be the third member of our group,
it's open door policy.
- So, we're here asking ten questions for here
for Dirt Monkey garage if you guys didn't know he's
gotta YouTube channel out there,
it's about 250,000 followers?
- [Stan] Right around there, yeah.
- [Alex] Does truck stuff, car stuff, and occasionally runs
things over with lawn mowers,
it's actually a pretty fun time to watch the channel
so if you guys haven't go check him out.
Let's get into the questions
for our lifted Dodge Challenger owner.
What is that noise?
Alright, so we're here with ten questions
for lifted Dodge Challenger. Right?
- I'm ready when you are.
- You ready to go?
- Yeah
- So tell me about your car.
- Alright, so, I was actually at a salvage title shop
they just sell salvage cars, and I was there to buy a car
for my daughter and I saw this little Dodge Challenger
way in the back and it was crying, it was
windows were smashed out of it,
and it was just covered in sap
and it was, it was totaled out--
- [Alex] Sure.
- [Stan] due to hail.
I mean, but the hail was localized from the body line up.
There was really no hail damage from the body line
on the door to the car, down.
- Okay.
- Yeah, and so on a whim, I bought it.
(laughs)
- Then, I drove it home and the first thing my wife looks
at me, she goes, "not another one,
not another one," and I'm like, "no honey this
is gonna be awesome, trust me."
(laughs)
- And she's like, "do the math, we've got four kids
and that car has two doors,
there's somethin' wrong with you,"
and I'm like, "just, just have a little faith in me,"
and I had no clue to what I was gonna do.
I'll tell you guys right now, I was just like,
"What am I gonna do?"
- I don't know what I'm gonna do.
What did I just get myself into?
And, so that's where the whole story starts.
- That's cool. So do you-- tell us a little bit
about your history with cars.
Do you have a history with cars
or trucks or anything like that?
- I just love 'em. I just freakin' love cars.
I love the equipment. I love tools.
I don't love wrenchin' on 'em.
I've wrenched on 'em my whole life
so do ya wanna watch me crawl underneath
the car and wrench on it, I kind of grew outta that
back when I was like fourteen.
(laughs)
- But I still love 'em in general.
- Sure. Sure. Cool.
So the real question is,
is why did you lift a Challenger?
- Okay, so--
(laughs)
- It starts with, "how do I fix the hail," right?
So, I brought it to seven different body shops
and not a single one of 'em would touch it.
I'm like, "just bond with it, I don't care what it
looks like, just come on, somebody work with me."
And there like, "no, the only way to fix it right,
is to literally take from the body line up
and cut the whole top of the car off.
And I was sittin' in a rain storm,
and I was lookin' at the car,
and I realized that the more that it rained on the car
the less you could see the hail damage all over.
Now this isn't little hail, this is Texas size hail, right?
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Stan] And I'm like, all of a sudden, like realized
texture covers texture.
- Umhmmm.
- I'm gonna rhino line the top of the car.
(laughs)
- So, so, I, and when I brought it to the shop,
they laughed at me like that.
And I'm, "Dude, please just rhino line this car for me."
(laughs)
- And the guys was like, "fine, alright I'll do it."
I had to actually work with him on it
cause he didn't wanna do it.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Stan] So, we rhino line the top of the car
and it looked awesome.
I mean, I was just like, "Whoa! This looks better
than I ever imagined it was going to look."
But then, I wanted to really create the allusion
that it wasn't hailed on at all.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Stan] So I popped the hood off,
and I replaced it with a different hood and painted that,
so now, you can't tell.
Because when you look at it,
your eye is drawn to all these different textures,
but they go together.
- Yeah
So, it's kinda like a black on black,
but the blacks are different enough
that it actually works.
So then, I'm lookin' at it goin', "Awe, that looks
really mean and aggressive," and I don't wanna
do anything normal 'cause I don't like to do
anything normal that's why I have a YouTube channel, right?
- Umhmmm. Yep.
- So I'm like, "Well, I wanna lift the truck,
I wanna lift it.
I wanna put a three inch lift in the back,
I wanna jack some truck tires into the back,
and I wanna really make this car stand out,
So I put it, so I kept the front the same,
jacked up the back and just gave
it this real aggressive rant.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- And then I just put regular tires on the front,
just kind of you know, go back, throw back
to the old school days.
- Yeah.
- And I just, I had a blast, because I didn't care.
I mean I bought it as a salvaged title,
you can't ruin a salvaged title car,
- That's true.
- [Stan] You can only have fun with it.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Stan] And if you accidentally make it better
(clap)
- [Stan] You're miles ahead.
(laughs)
- That's awesome, so,
I mean not a lot of people have done it.
And that's mostly lower, you know,
people usually throw the big wheels on it,
they usually go with coilovers or air, stuff like that.
So, how has the perception been
for the car both online and in person?
Have you gotten any reactions from it so far?
- Oh, good and bad.
- Good, and bad.
- The worse reaction is it's six cylinder, right?
- Umhmm, yeah.
- And, so everybody's just like, "ricer," and all this.
And I'm like, "I don't care,
I'm not gonna take you for a ride
if you don't like my car," right?
I'm here just to have fun.
But when it boils down to it, people see it in person,
- it's a completely different perception,
because there like, "That's really cool,"
but when you see it online, and you can
get to be your little keyboard warrior.
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
- That little troll behind the scene.
- "Oh, that's so ugly, that's so ugly"
so it's like, you know what,
I don't give a rip either way.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm just here to have fun.
- I think it's to do something different with the car
that you essentially like,
you started it from pretty much zero.
So, wherever you go is somewhere,
but you're not taking like a brand new car,
and in people's eyes destroying it.
You're taking a car that was already
deemed destroyed by somebody else and saying,
"now, I'm gonna have some fun with this,"
- Because there's still something that you can do.
- And it's the weirdest part of this
is it's still completely drivable.
- [Alex] Okay.
- I mean, and I say that, weird,
because when you jack 'em up
and you modify it and that point,
no, no, this car's my daily driver.
- That's super cool.
- Yeah. - So you lifted a Challenger,
- Yep.
- So, why didn't you just go buy and truck and lift a truck?
- [Stan] Because that's been done.
(laughs)
- Everybody does that.
- That's true, I mean, it's interesting you know,
when I had, I had a Datsun back in the day
and we had a hood scoop out of the hood.
And we actually CAD designed this hood,
to give it like a real aggressive like
Mad Max inspired seventies style.
That's what we did it for.
And I remember there was so many people
when I was taking, putting the picture up
of what it was gonna look like,
they gave me hell.
They were like, that's gonna look so bad,
it's gonna look terrible, there's no way
it's gonna match with anything
and then we designed it, we painted it, powder coated it,
we put it on the 355, it stuck out of the hood,
and when we got done it looked awesome.
- I bet it was awesome.
- So, you always have those people,
you know and I think like, one of my favorite styles
of cars is Mad Max inspired cars.
When people can take a rat rodder, even like a seventies car
and turn it into, a Mad Max themed car with the big tires,
big wheels, it's sturdy, it's wide, it's aggressive,
it looks like somebody legitimately
threw it together in the dessert.
I think that's just like, the coolest thing,
- I'm with ya.
- you could do.
I just think it's, it's absolutely awesome.
- So I got a question for the he viewers now
in the comments down below
let me know, what's the next car and what should I do to it?
Because I really wanna do something new,
I'm here at Custom Offsets with you guys
because we're modifying the jeep
[Alex] Yeah.
- [Stan] for me, but I wanna know what the next build is
because I am literally looking for something crazy to do.
- [Alex] To do something different.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Absolutely.
So tell, I mean obviously you got a YouTube channel
so what do you spend most of your time doing
on the You tube Channel?
- Everything that I possibly can.
- Give us, like what's your favorite video
that you can do for your Youtube channel?
- Oh, my gosh, so if you first go into my channel
you're gonna see me mowing a lawn mower
because why not see if you can mow a lawn mower,
but I'll stand in the middle.
(laughs)
[Stan] I've got videos where I'm demolishing buildings.
I've got videos where I'm testing tools,
running heavy equipment, doing car rebuilds.
I'm just a typical guy that does really atypical stuff.
- That's cool.
- And have a lot of fun doin' it.
- So in terms of atypical stuff, right?
We took a Challenger,
- Umhmm - You lifted it.
- Yep. - You rhino lined the top half.
- Yep. - So in terms of
things outside the norm,
I'd say you've accomplished that.
But there are other things in the car community,
that are outside the norm right now,
I would say and especially in like, our demographic.
Most of the people that watch our stuff, right,
they're into this, you know they're into like
the stance slammed down on the ground,
they've got the slanty wheels.
What's your take on people that do that to their cars?
- Dude, if you like it, don't care what anybody else does,
absolutely go for it.
And you know what, no matter, it could be beautiful
and you're still gonna have people hate you
because you accomplished something
they weren't able to do.
- Sure
- Maybe financially they couldn't pull it off.
Or more importantly visionary.
- Yeah - They couldn't pull it off.
- And if you pulled it off, freakin' phenomenal.
I mean, I see cars all the time,
and I'm like, that's not for me, but it's still cool.
- I'm lookin' at these things around me, and I'm like,
(laughs)
- That's really cool, this morning,
I was on my belly crawling underneath this car,
looking at it going, how did they get it so low?
(laughs)
How did they get everything to-- I don't want the car
but I was appreciating what it took to do it.
- That's cool.
- So, just, just go do it man. - That's cool.
So with that being said,
what would you say is your dream car?
- I don't, I, my next one, whatever, you guys tell me to do.
- Whatever it would be?
- I love every car out there.
Like, I love 'em all.
I don't care, I don't get emotionally attached to it
because it's the journey and not the destination
so I love the challenge of trying to figure out,
and I would buy and bust it up.
Like the jeep that I brought in here,
it's got a log for a back bumper.
(laughs)
- Right? And now, it's got a log for a front bumper
(laughs)
thanks to you guys.
Find something and go, what am I gonna create?
- [Alex] That's cool.
That's cool, and I think like, you know in terms
of the community we've gotten so specific on what we deem
is cool or not cool and there's times where we make
videos for people, and we talk about how,
you know, sometimes some of the guys don't like
ya know, the stance scene, and then people get mad
that we talk about, that, "we don't like the stance scene"
or, "we do like the stance scene
but what about the function scene?"
And there's so many different things that are
in the automotive community that I think sometimes
we'll get a little bit to tunnel visioned.
That like, there's multiple things you can
do within the same culture
even though they don't result in the same thing.
But they're all doing it for the same purpose,
which is like the adventure and the experience
to go and create something yourself.
And I think, sometimes, it's nice for you people
to be reminded of that, just like I need
to be reminded of that sometimes.
Because, you know, you get like that, right?
The Internet's all about telling other people
what they should do and think and sometimes it's fun
to just do something for yourself,
like with the Dodge Challenger.
- So even though I had a YouTube Channel
- Yeah
- I don't watch YouTube videos because I don't
want it to skew that vision.
- Sure - Right?
So, if I'm gonna give these guys anything,
any words of advice, just go build your dream.
Whatever your car is build you dream, irregardless,
actually irregardless isn't a real word
so you can go ahead and nick me on that.
Regardless, of whether it fits somebody else's or not
just build whatever you wanna build,
make it however you want it to look.
- And that's our tenth question, which is,
"What would you want to tell the viewers?"
Which you pretty much guessed already out of my head,
so we go all ten questions.
So, that was pretty easy.
- Awesome - That wasn't too bad.
- Thanks Alex
- So we wanted to do this to just kind
of show you guys a little bit of a different market.
A little bit of a different group of people
that still love cars.
It's a little bit different around here,
but if you guys didn't know,
we build all sorts of stuff around here,
trucks and cars, lifted, lowered everything in between.
So, when we get to meet cool people,
like people that wanna lift a Dodge Challenger and throw
some you know, bed liner on the top,
I think that's just the tightest thing.
And I think it's cool to get people out there to see that,
so, if you guys wanna see more about his car adventure
and all the things that he is doing and all the things
he's blowing up.
You can check out Dirt Monkey.
Right?
- On YouTube
- Stan "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
- Well that's awesome guys,
don't forget to subscribe if you're interested
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Fitmentindustries.com if you need
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we don't have many suspension pieces that go up.
But if he comes back we're probably gonna have
to get some of that.
But, I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
- God bless you guys,
I'm Stan Genadek the Dirt Monkey, go get 'em, man.
- Alright we'll see ya.
- Peace. - Peace.