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- You know what I love Mount cruising semi-okay moonshine,
because at the end of the day,
it's just as bad as straight vodka.
And the ability to sleep past 8:00 AM only to wake up to the
smell of a pot of good old Joe,
as they would call it and Gatlinburg, Tennessee,
for the slam enough show. And to say,
I enjoyed myself would probably be an understatement and
Steve knocked the camera. We're going to keep moving.
Anyway, the cars at
the friends and the women empowering women in that show,
it was so very lovely and so very awesome.
And the cars were blocked. Chef's kiss.
Okay.
It was the small details that made these cars truly stand
out. And we're once again,
a reason that I truly love that show,
but every once in a while,
when I travel for the same kind of event,
the same cup of Joe,
the same beautiful outlook in some state that I'm not a part
of because Wisconsin has no mountains and the same
intentions,
the car quality just ends up being a little different.
So why? I'm Alex I said, I find Instagram it's day
We're gonna be talking a little bit about that profile pic
versus tagged pic syndrome going on. Okay.
The catfish policy enforcer, if you will.
Today we're going to be talking about just what happened to
building the cars the right way.
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And I'm not entirely sure why or what the intention is,
but I feel like every single time I step into somebody
else's car, it breaks Sergeant.
There's always been individuals that have
built cars the right way
and have built cars that not right way,
also called the roadway. But when I say wrong,
I don't mean like building their cars to be highly
expressive versions of themselves with very little intention
towards actually being fast like that,
that kind of wrong way, because it's not wrong.
When I say wrong. I mean,
completely blowing up the idea of attaching a bumper with
like bolts and screws.
And instead just using 3m tape and accepting it,
if it just blows off, because why doesn't matter.
That's usually the intention when we talk about things being
built, right or not.
Building cars the right way for people like you and
people like me are probably more so in relation to ensuring
things line up, right.
And then parts.
And that you're using the right tools that the install is
sturdy and we take our time.
But the process to ensure it gets done the right way.
And for the most part,
that's what people did for an incredibly long period of time
The early bursts of after-market modification had more
criticism. It had more testosterone.
It had the gates that tried to ensure that if you're going
to get any attention, it was because you actually earn it.
If you remember, the early days of car shows, it was brutal,
bro. It was very very aggressive
to get any sort of attention and shows were
quite frankly, the only way to show off your build.
And while magazines came up through the underground,
like that one song,
even then magazine companies were still incredibly critical
of showcasing any car that wasn't up to the quality
standards it was known for. And I mean, there was a ton,
I mean, there was Pride Up The Wazoo, there was ego.
Okay.
And there was some tough T U F F not the wheel competition.
And it was awesome, but it was also a little bit scary.
And for those that actually remember this part of the whole
car scene, it was actually pretty difficult.
But as soon as the two thousands early started,
and you had the old crest to the old sunrise,
you had the worldwide web come out and I've said it a
thousand times,
the internet and the TV really started a mess with people's
perceptions of what real life was versus perceived life.
The tagged photo thing that I keep mentioning. Okay.
And here's what I mean,
as the two thousands continue to grow and just like the car
clubs evolution during the time of the early two thousands,
there's a massive influx of new people jumping into the
scene, you know, use an old one liners like too soon junior.
And I'm trying to figure out what the hell NAS actually was.
It was like the most misinformed piece of information ever
to come out of the early two thousands and the infatuation
with Coronas as the new under-aged beer of choice.
But with that,
there was the introduction of new media channels.
Like the one, the only, the one thing,
like if I could have put the coat of back in the early two
thousands, I know he'd be on the show, pimp my ride, bro.
When I was a kid, I was so excited to watch that.
And nothing made me more excited than the thought of like
some charismatic man with baggy pants knocking on my door
one day to throw a fish tanks in my engine bay and TVs and
my wheel wells. I don't know why I wanted that,
but it was exciting. It was fun.
And I enjoyed it. It never happened.
You know, a boy can dream though.
And I did pimp my ride, the dub dub dub forums,
and the introduction of social media started to change a
little bit about how people thought quality builds were
supposed to be done instead of being judged in person and
sent home prying. Nowadays,
people could just like jump onto a website and view images
of those same bills that were posted by the owner. Now,
needless to say that started the spawn of the idea of what
we would call a profile pic versus a tag picture because it
started to allow people to adjust and filter and change how
their car was perceived versus in the past it was literally
you looked at it and it was either a pilot or it wasn't,
but then pimp my ride got in trouble,
turns out putting goldfish and headlights.
Isn't a good way to maintain a vehicles
reliability and still function as an actual vehicle,
turns out the whole show inherently was absolutely rigged
and there was very very little about it.
That was true. Thank you,
donut media for popping my dreams on the entire show.
Because when I wanted,
I got really sad and I got happy that I didn't have goldfish
on my headlights.
- So want piss grill headlights.
- I like it, looks nice.
And that was just the beginning,
shows are finally transitioning to like the digital
application processes edits were starting to happen,
where it was removing damage from cars and all the things of
like cat fishing with a car's actual well done design
and how it was built really started to
hit hard.
And you had shows like Gatlinburg and slammed enough
starting to really enforce that. But what happened?
I mean,
there's still some crazy well-built cars out there
in the world.
The automotive scene has thrived with the introduction of
the inter webs. So why does it seem like there's more,
maybe not so well done cars being built anymore
compared to times pass the thirties
pluses in here would probably rejoice because they remember
when they were bullied into oblivion.
And nowadays that just doesn't seem to happen as much.
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- So what happened to building cars the right way and people
being angry sometimes properly and improperly.
So, when they're built the wrong way, all right,
put on the lab coat because they're about to get scientific
in here without any use of numbers
and most of it being just what I think,
it's like my dad
always said, he'd say son, he'd actually say Mico,
but that was, he was speaking Spanish and I'll translate,
he'd say son, please stop taking apart your stereo.
Because if you do it again,
you're going to have enough on the side that I'm going to
have to throw it away and you're serious.
System's not gonna work anymore. And you know,
I love doing it because I love tearing things apart,
but I can never put it back together.
And then I broke the stereo really loved,
it was 200 bucks from best buy.
But one of the biggest issues of building cars the right way
is because of the sheer amount of time it takes to do it.
And the absolute opposite amount of time people want to
spend on it because of the world's attention span is now
equivalent to the size of an ant properly good builds,
evolve.
They change and sometimes take half a decade to really dial
in it's look, to get the right parts and pieces and finishes
that you want. And these days,
if a build isn't done in a five-part series on YouTube,
the audience just doesn't really want it.
They are onto the next craziest build that 1000% in no way
is functional for any particular use.
And audience wants that content fast.
So creators and builders tried to make it fast.
And when you combine those two,
you generally start to see people cut corners to meet
deadlines.
Whereas in the past, that pressure came from having the car
properly done versus now it's a book keeping people's
attention throughout the process.
And it's a changed dynamic that really started to get
introduced over the past probably 10 or so years,
but let's also be fair. You can have patients,
you can have the car and know what you need to do,
but the cost of getting those things done these days is
absolutely insane.
I don't know how people manage to even bring their cars into
shops these days because of how much fricking costs
think about it.
Have you gotten any work done recently at a body shop,
a paint shop or builder shop?
I'm not blaming those shops for increases in their prices.
Calm down, sat down on the keyboard.
I'm not angry about that,
but the actual process of building cars has gotten
incredibly more expensive because doing things the right way
often involves bringing in dare I say it all professional.
Alright. Now, during our 430
build both part one and part two of it,
the only reason we were even able to keep cost controllable
was because the amount of people that we knew that were
willing to help us out for like a fraction of the cost,
the scanning computers, getting new steering racks,
installations, etc.
Sometimes tens of thousands of dollars these days,
because car manufacturers don't let us modify things easy
anymore.
And cars were pretty much just Lego's in the past and you
it could be done at like any sort of auto body shop at a $50
labor rate.
Nowadays, you're paying like a buck 40 to get anything
special done that has to do with a welder.
Ask your friends about like a truly functional built
track car,
a show car, or a race car.
And they'll avoid the question of how much money they spent,
because if it was done in the past few years,
it is the definition of a pricey boy. It really,
really is building cars these days, it is a breezy hobby.
And when you think about how much it costs to do it right
versus how much you can save by kind of doing it right,
that risk reward spectrum,
the spectrum starts to show that maybe nobody would notice
if you use self-tappers versus new hardware for your trunk
carpet installation. I mean,
why would you spend 40 hours and a thousand bucks when no
one is really going to notice it,
unless you're really looking, right.
3M double-sided tape is like the MVP of
2026 to 2021.
And we justify a lot of those decisions as a temporary
solution that ultimately turns into a permanent solution for
our cars. We get 95% of the way there.
And that last 5% of going back through and actually getting
the right bolts,
the right parts and install those things the right way.
It just ends up never happening because it's good enough.
And the time commitment just isn't worth it anymore. I mean,
everybody saw it. It looks good.
Instagram. We got the likes, went to a show,
nobody notices the red and we're fine.
And a lot of these reasons are justifiable and I have done
them myself. There's no doubt.
We're all a bit guilty of bypassing the right way of
building a car because we get excited.
There's a deadline for video upload or shows cause us to
make some less than stellar decision-making.
But at the end of the day,
we're here to tell you to go back, to do it right.
Spend some time on the small stuff.
Even if no one will see it,
because that's the stuff that will make you fall properly in
love with your car,
Not that weird way.
And keep it running for more than three
months and 200 miles.
That's the stuff that's going to keep the rattles away.
It's going to be the stuff that keeps the quality of the car
up. And it's going to be the reason that the car resells for
properly good price or don't, I'm not,
your dad could be your daddy,
but Dakota keeps calling himself that,
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