Ah, there is nothing better than that new project car feeling Martin, don't you reckon?
Especially when you--it's completely sight unseen, at least for one of us.
I got us something so... mint.
There have been times when you have bought absolutely like, brilliant cars. Like the one we're in right now.
Thank You Martin, thank you mate.
But, there's also been some like, properly crap stuff.
Nah, today all you're gonna get-- I know when you're saying properly crap stuff you're referring to the Volkswagen Golf with no reverse
what I can tell you with this car is that every gear works and by gear--yes, it is manual, Martin.
Oh good.
You're gonna love it.
So I looked around long and hard to get this car,
Martin, and not only have I found the car that you and I have never worked on before
okay
and do not have any experience with, it was an absolute "bar-ghayne."
yeah but... there's diff....
"Bar-ghayne," Martin.
Quality bargain or call the police bargain?
No, no a quality bargain, mate.
Did you include the jump pack?
Yeah, jump pack's in the boot.
Tools?
And tools yeah. Why will we need tools?
We hopefully won't, is the short version.
Alright.
But you've seen this car right?
Have you seen this car in person yet?
I saw some incredible photos of it, proper high resolution.
Okay, so we're buying a sight unseen car. Again.
Yes.
Right. Yep.
Now mate because we do have a little bit of a drive to get there, I'm going to give you a
three question game where you get to ask three questions about this car.
I can only give you a yes or no answer.
Go!
Uh, probably the most important one: has it been crashed?
[silence over engine noise]
Let's try to just do three other questions. Let's just start again.
Let's go again from now. Okay. Three questions.
Does it move under its own power?
Just-- Ask me-- ask me other questions. Ask me questions about like--
Does it have a windscreen?
Yes it does!
Okay
One question down, two to go. That's a weird question.
Is the car stolen?
Ah, the car is not stolen, Martin, but it is the kind of car people like to steal.
Okay...
Is the car capable of producing smoke from its tires?
Ye--Yes.
Oh, no... Yes, it is. No, It is.
All these answers are just adding up to one very simple word which is nugget. I just... Again with the nuggets.
It has a windscreen, it's not stolen and it's capable of making smoke from a tire.
Okay... Oh, from *a* tire? Awesome.
It'll be so much fun.
Ah, do you hear that Martin?
What?
Ding-ding-ding
Hear that?
I hear a Mini with a VTEC....
No, Ding-ding!
What is it?
The bonus round! You've got two more questions. Martin. Two more questions! Alright.
Two more questions before we get there. Alright.
Would I be friends with the kind of person that would buy this car?
Nope.
Well, that's not good.
Uh, this is my final question isn't it?
Final question man, use it wisely.
Because all you know now is that it's got a windscreen, it can make smoke, and it's not stolen.
Is the model's name of the car-- does the model name of the car have numbers in it?
Yes, it does.
Aw, dude...
Yes, it does!
So, that means we've either got a Mercedes or a BMW...
or a Nissan... or a Mitsubishi... or a...
Citroen or an Audi...
Where are we going?
Dude I swear that is a rat's nest hey. There is so much wildlife it's crazy.
I just walked through the biggest spider web I've ever walked through in my life.
Where'd-- How do you find these places man?
Th-this is a magical place where...
Really?
...good cars are found. Yeah, really. What do you mean?
Ah, oh my god.
Why do you look surprised?
Why do you look surprised? This is awesome man. This is fantastic!
You can see it's got two doors right? You can see it's a sports car...
Can you see? Can you see? This just screams fast doesn't it?
Wha-what why why do you always have to buy the biggest piece of junk every time you go and buy a car?
It's not a big piece of junk, man. You're always like "oh, let's get a Subaru." I like Minis. This is a combination.
This is half Subaru, half a Mini... You put them together, you get this.
Let's look at your track record with buying Nissans.
What do you mean?
Every time you've buy a Nissan it's a piece of junk.
I've never bought a piece of junk Nissan.
What have you done?
Martin, what I've done...
Seriously, what have you done?
is bought the most incredible Nissan we've ever...
Woah, woah... You need to stop, dude. You actually need to stop.
I'm not going to stop man. This is...
I'm serious.
This is the Nissan life. It's in my veins.
Oh my god, that is the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life.
It's in my veins, Martin, I need to live the Nissan life and that is exactly what I'm doing.
Oh my god.
And look at the inside man!
Dude don't get in there! No, no stop!
Look at the inside! It's so good!
There's a spider on your back man.
On my back?
Oh
Is there really? Spiders aaaaagh...
Now it's in the frickin car, man.
Here it is mate.
350Z dreams.
I see at least 350 problems with this car.
First one: why is there no bonnet, no door, no wheels...
There's not even any brakes, man.
Yes, these are all good questions... So this was actually an unfinished project from a mate of mine who bought this a little while ago,
sold or got rid of some of the stuff, I don't know what, um, and we got the rest of it for a steal.
We would replace all this stuff anyway. It doesn't work.
The car doesn't work?
It will--Well, not that we know of.
But...
get another door, get some wheels, get the lights, get the bumpers, tune it up...
Get rid of the enormous spider that's now somewhere in there cuz of you?
There is an enormous spider in there somewhere, Martin,
but you got to say you're a little bit excited.
These are popular in Australia, they're huge in the States as well, and we've never done it--and you know what we're doing this time Martin? Naturally-aspirated mate.
It's what everyone's been asking for.
No turbos.
No turbos. How you feeling about that?
So big, heavy, rear-wheel drive only, not turbocharged...
You and your Nissans, man.
What?
You and your Nissans.
This is an awesome car, man.
I don't even... I can't even...
It's great and it hardly needs any work at all.
Are you ready to experience the sound of my people, the sound of the future,
the sound of a generation, the sound of performance, the sound of racing,
the sound of winning, the sound of the future? Are you ready for this?
Yep, go for it.
Yeah, sounds pretty good man. What a load of bullsh-. Doesn't sound like anything.
We need the jumper pack.
Sounds dead.
Where's the jumper pack?
It's making noises!
That's broken. It is actually broken. Yeah, but you know what? The car was a bargain mate.
You know why it was a bargain? Because someone knew it was busted and they sold it to you and said "Oh, check out my unfinished project..."
Oh, it's making noises!
No. No, there's something seriously wrong with it.
Yeah I know there's something, but that's the whole journey of it, Martin!
You're not gonna learn anything with a car that actually works...
No, I'll tell you what the journey is. You go on car sales and go you know what? I'm gonna just look for the cheapest thing I can absolutely find...
Yeah...
cuz that'll be a bargain.
This was the cheapest.
That won't take heaps of time to do up. That won't mean we spend the next three weeks trying to make it even move.
Oh, let's buy one with no brakes on the back. Oh does it come with wheels? Oh nah.
Hey dude, what'd you do with the bonnet when you had it? You know in this project that you've unfinished,
you were never going to finish it.
I'll tell you what happened. Someone bought this for cheap, sold all the stuff on it, made all their money back
and then you bought it for the same price they bought it.
I would put money on it, and it's a frickin nugget,
and it doesn't work.
Come on man. It's cool. You can push.
Yes!
We in?
Yeah man. Ooo.. tha... Sorry! Stop the... Sorry. It's alright.
Yes! Look at the space saver life.
What are we doing man? What are we doing?
I am-- I'm not-- I'm just not going in there. Not any closer than this.
It's actually pretty clean, isn't it?
Like in a dirty Nissan way.
Yeah, I guess so.
Still quite clean.
I just wanna know, Martin, where the spider is.
This is a Nissan 350Z, a member of the famed Z-car family.
It's powered by a VQ35DE six-cylinder, naturally-aspirated engine
and originally made around 160 kilowatts at the wheels.
But, with over 200,000 kilometers on the clock, the power our one makes is still a mystery.
The car was designed in California, and this model sold between 2002 and 2009.
And we managed to score the "Track Edition," which includes Brembo brakes and lightweight wheels.
Around the world, these are a popular choice for track cars and drifting,
and even though ours is missing some parts, and it does need some love,
our hope is to turn it into a capable, all-round car that can still be daily driven.
So there it is, that is our new 350Z project car and I've got to say I'm very excited to main a dirty, dero NIssan again.
We've never worked on this kind of platform before, which means we've got a great opportunity...
I just wanna stop you there.
There's a few obvious problems, the first one being it's clearly not a Daihatsu or a Subaru or anything all wheel drive.
It's-- Where's the turbo, man? There's no turbo. That's the other problem. More obviously there's no bonnet, no bar, no headlights, no inside...
Fixable, fixable, fixable...
it's on space savers and you still don't even-- you still don't know where that spider is.
Martin, I can't do anything about the spider,
but what I can say is this is what a bargain looks like.
Everybody's all like "how do you get a cheap car?" You buy the car that's broken, that no one else wants.
This looks like paying too much
Martin, this is-- this is...
is what's going on here.
a broken bargain, which is the best kind of bargain.
A broken Nissan, so common...
Now, some of you may be wondering why are we working on a dirty, dero broken Nissan?
Well, we're gonna be building this car inspired by "Need for Speed Payback." Now Need for Speed Payback is a huge, open world game
where you get in crazy cop chases, you can customize your car, modify it, make it look mad. You can run around and find derelict
cars, fix them up to stock then modify and make them fast and then race people and do crazy stuff in like a big, open world game.
So we're gonna make that car in-- in the game?
No we're-- Come on, man. We're-- We're making this car in the style of the game,
and then we're gonna drive this in the real world and try and do some of the stuff that happens in the game in our car.
We could save ourselves a lot of effort and just go make it in the game.
Okay. There it is. It's gonna be awesome...
Is it gonna be fast?
Ah, of course it's gonna be fast.
There it is, it's our new 350Z.
Ah, and uh next time, uh, we're gonna get modifying it, do all sorts of, uh, ridiculous things.
But first we gotta to fix it and um... it's gonna be fun...
Yeah dirty Nissans! That are broken!
Yay!
All right see you guys next time!