well it wouldn't be seen the 2014 if we didn't get the chance to talk to Jay up
Lonnie about his beautiful Riddler award-winning 64 riviera a man this is a
this is a beautiful park congratulations on the daughter of the reward
thanks appreciate it I don't end and that the thing that I'm hearing on
social media in magazines
youtube autocross videos you are using this card you're beating the crap out of
it so
wow thank you thank you for doing that well you're welcome but it's me that's
having all the fun thing about it
so here's a story from last week last week
it's called three weeks ago man beers with one of my buddies
we're talking about how to promote the local racetrack yeah and I say you know
what if the racetracks willing to understand that we can actually put on a
show
yeah all drag race the gravy you have to do some fundraising at shirt
opportunities later first game shop and here i am drag racing thing and i gotta
tell you there's it's not just drunk driving if that's an issue
yeah so you can drive it to the grocery store I picked up my daughter from
school we went out for ice cream in it
whatever we did some cool stuff with the car yeah but then now we're actually
going to a level where you and I are both competitive so if we're going to
show up at the drag strip we don't embarrass ourselves and have a 14-second
are exactly right we proved that it had 800 horsepower to the tires on the dyno
yeah now we're going to go to the racetrack and as soon as my helmet went
on all of a sudden turned into a race car and I was probably not
yeah and it's just like Oh get out of it - should be shaken not because the car
scares me
for more because I was scared of hurting right now you're taking the RPMs to full
load you're doing 7000rpm shift and your true on shaking it down yeah are
swinging sideways
yeah and it in the first three passes we're trying to figure out what the car
would do
yep but at 80 miles an hour the rear tires still coming
and that's where I was just like yeah I don't know if I can take this i don't
know if i can put in a full day of drag race in this gap right after shave a
thousand pounds off the car and have a gas car but let's be real about this the
car is you know it's one of the most significant hot rod show the whole
industry
yeah it's a show car yeah it does it to evaluate this car that I got a whole
bunch of road rash on the lower quarter panels and then they probably need to
read it already right
digital evaluated overall because now we've actually proven something and
we've proven the car made history yet
first written record every drag races first regular car to end up on a set of
rollers first winter quarter of 300 miles on it yeah all those things are
given the car pedigree
that's how committed i was to bring that you can win that award
yeah can change the industry and in it and drive the car
yeah these cars of this caliber that have won this award
they sit in a room and you back it up you're not just a builder that sends a
car out and stays at home or says boy I'm tired I'm going to Hawaii you follow
through with the stuff you're the Builder you're the guy that's breaking
into it and here's the real deal man so appreciate that and I think I do bring a
lot to the table and I think we're talking this week like that's my biggest
attribute
what can I offer the front row
and I think I'm just a problem solver but you know that's all right here
that's what hot rodding just like it if you're going to quit because you got a
problem just get out of the industry
yeah there's too many moving parts there's too many components the county
much interchanging components for it to be easy and if you stress out over a car
that's unfinished you're in the wrong gate
I wrote a really cool article for one of the magazine's just recently because the
question was would it feel like to win
yep and everybody just expects me to talk about it like i had won the lottery
yet right all it's a life-changing altering moment
ya know because you have six years of your life and arguably for me have a
decent a sword for quality oh yeah so it's it's not a moment that i had
thought about
it's not like
wonder what its gonna be like the wind yeah I thought about what it would feel
like to win but I didn't know is the journey and how difficult it would be
the last year
yeah of me building a winning car I understood the complexity of of
competing against of complexity building a great farm this car took so much more
out of me you had hives for my ears to my ankles
yeah we did a started doing a cool little thing I got home from semen two
years ago and the guys you know in january maybe you guys which we should
do like a car club night because there is always asking is there something I
can do to help right
yeah you know what we'll get together monday is all by the pits up I'll buy
the beer and whoever shows up can help me with something on the car
yeah we'll figure it out and then it got kind of popular to the point where you
have 10 12 guys show up on Monday
got so popular the last year the bill that i would have two sets of guys show
up we would do a monday night part up wednesday night car club and on a big
picture thing what that does is create one more layer this deep of a story
this tall that wins you points and gives you that edge that it takes to win the
dollar in there a water
it all comes down to putting the work in whatever that former facet that that
manifests itself in but you've got to put the work in those up
all right ok enough warm and squishy crap all right let's always like don't
know I don't know
well know what do you think we're now I need a beer more than under right let's
talk a little more about the car
is that a stock windshield I'm just gonna have read off what you got is ok
so the windshield
yeah is a star-shaped windshield yeah we've cut the sides and right because
the a pillars are tapered in word yet and we cut 3 inches off the top
yet this quick little story again on the people thing like there's a quick little
story is it didn't try I'll try
yeah stock the last 71 New York riviera rear window planet nos nos you watch a
sport text me
yeah I send a picture of the car and a picture but up a drawing of the car
yeah like it's not a boat tail real
I'm like yeah he is he's like I haven't in the West one of my ya NOS window for
one was yeah
do the dew yeah come to terms gave me a really quick a deal on it he created it
up it survived the trip to Florida at my place
unbelievable ok that's across the entire North American continent the last one I
would you find that even if you were looking ever flew - oh yeah look I know
it's it's a good energy coming to get it is handcrafted yeah and built the
quarter panels handbill defenders yeah there's a good chunk of the door that
isn't hand-built its original the door jamb opening is somewhat original and
then from there the cars is a craft and piece of art
yeah but everybody is asking about the exhaust pipe down the winch about that
the skate but that what I could trick isn't that smelly in the car
let's talk about your induction system obviously that's clear about that yeah
you're turbos are in the back so turbos in the rear and the reason I did that is
because i wanted the car originally in my head was going to be a mid-engine car
get the motor is going to be behind me
yeah and then when i did the mathematical equation set a small-block
Chevy in there just for reference the driver's seat was going to be so close
to the windshield that you don't look like a complete group and you would have
all this space behind
head yeah and i just chose I said no other motors got to be in the front
i'll set it back as much as I can yeah I want that ass car filled on that super
long Gary column
yeah like you're in a mass card you're you're really here in the drivers
position right
uh-huh we stretched everything back for the driver that left me always thinking
what could I do that will be mechanical and interesting under the rear window
yeah so the panel comes off so throat or shows i actually need to be
turbo is exposed to eat super cool right but it dawned on me quite quickly that
well the sectors of respondents conservators and the more charges take
the air for the quarter panels process it compresses yet goes into a water to
air intercooler at the very back of the trunk at the back and now the pipe that
you see is boosted their coming back yeah which is also our second shift so
you can hear the blow-off valve 1
yeah through the pipe its will also your air charge gets the chance to cool even
more going into the induction so this function
absolutely yeah and what Rousey vs I've is how we managed to hit 13 and a half
with it
that's not the way it becomes unmanageable after that and you may not
do so well in out across if you constantly staring at the back . it
turned right down actually for this weekend that I can manage the car
through the autocross we've got it down to six pounds but
just kept me think about that as we can't control that allows us to be able
to prepare the car for certain events yeah well I turn it back up to have fun
Ellie I will yeah it was unbelievable caffeinated pouring through a second
year
yeah bang third year and just two days and tires and driving in the snow right
ya go so tools and equipment obviously you've got some nice tools and equipment
and you know you're no different than a lot of other shops
Jesse jeff green and have got to shrink your stretcher that's responsible for to
rid the rewards to eastwood is is kind of woman into the fabric of a lot of us
guides us
so what how does this would work for you and your shop
it's just tools that we use that we rely on to build a certain components of the
interesting thing about tools is no matter whether there are a hundred years
old or
a brand-new
it's still the mind and the ability to problem solve that allows you to use a
tool to a degree of its potential because i don't think any of us ever
used that she was drinking stretches to the potential
yeah I don't think that we ever use all our tools that potential right there is
an aspect of building cars that that we tap into unconscious
I started on a new project so
you know the story about how I got here and what was it like to win
all of this is part of the wind because it was so emotional
it was hard it's been hard to pay back all the people that helped me and I've
been going through kind of a weird depression
it's like I had all this energy
and this is going to get to achieve the goal but then once you're there you're
like oh man who seems to have a life
I don't have to have a life yeah does that even train yourself to that
yeah so it's a few months rose just couldn't find myself and it took until
about a month and a half ago where he had bought us to be hunted all know
I started cutting it up yeah i realized i am this is who I am
there we go and I collects yeah just like bringing out the tools and just
like working on that stuff yeah yeah I got to see the one unless I tried that
sprayable rubber coating yeah I'm used to it
yeah to protect the paint when I was drag race yes so awesome i love that so
i'll tell you what i like the vote of the most though he last year app is what
they call it yeah
so are you guys now it's fine it's on the name but here we are I like that i
was able to peel off when it was time to be able to yeah
easily yep yeah if you layer it up you gotta have six coats on there but it
does it comes off as a sheet
I did my wheel is expected to do i yeah man I'm gonna have to do some sort of
solvent to melt it yeah because you will you automatically think just like a
sticker
you can feel the sticker off you got that glue there you have you spent all
day trying
yeah yeah it's ok if you spent all day trying to fool around with that stuff -
yeah team off and it was really and see like yeah there was on the ground
yeah all the dirt and all the rubber from the tire stuck too and I was done
yeah i would suggest it to any drag race guy that's any drag race guy out there
that's the only way to protect it for panels and to keep from the job
clean and that stuff off what an accomplishment and and I'm looking
around I'm seeing crowds of people obviously the people that cannot stick
with his car
people 60 looking at this car i know u see this i know you hear people saying
how awesome the car is and stuff like that and i hope you're so proud of this
i'm proud of this for you
well before we say goodbye I is there anybody that you want to give a shout
out to send a special message of thank you today
you know it's the people that made it happen yeah
there's probably a hundred and fifteen guys yeah that did little jobs to really
big jobs that helped me get here
I don't need to name them specifically they know exactly what they are
yeah it's still come by the shop the beers and the big hugs and that
high fives
I just want everybody to know that it's attorney that it was about the vehicle
so well done my friend well done hands-on cars
jf Lamia
yeah