- I don't know if I would drive it.
I'd probably kill myself.
But like--
- I couldn't handle that.
- Someone in the right hands, you know,
I'd ride with them.
- It's not in the right hands,
that's a crazy guy.
- What is going on everyone.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I'm Gels from Fitment Industries
and today I'm here with...
- Sean from Fitment Industries.
- And we are back with another episode,
I guess you could say of reviewing YouTubers cars.
We've done this a little bit in the past
where we've taken some popular YouTubers out there,
taking a look at their fleet of vehicles
and kind of just like broke them down,
did some research into like what is all going on with them.
And we kinda just talked about them
and then for some reason gave them a rating,
but like they're all really high ratings
'cause they're like really kind of cool.
So it doesn't really matter what the rating is.
We just mostly wanna just kind of talk about them.
But anyway,
today we have someone that we haven't really talked about
much on the channel before.
I think we maybe covered one of his cars in like
the general scheme of things,
but that's Cleetus McFarland.
We're gonna be taking a look at some of his cars today.
I know he's got like, what?
Like hundreds of them.
- He's got a ton of cars. - Yeah.
- We're only gonna cover four here.
- Okay.
So we picked out some good ones though?
- Yeah. - Cool.
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But I'm gonna have Sean here introduce
the four cars for today
because I don't know much about them.
I'm not gonna lie.
I don't know much about these cars,
but Sean knows everything and anything
that there ever is to know about
pretty much anything automotive related.
So I'm gonna let him introduce our first car of the day.
- Yeah.
So first car's gonna be Project Neighbor.
Now, if you don't know what that is--
- Project Neighbor?
- Project Neighbor.
We'll get into that. - Okay.
- They bought it as a stock 2009 Crown Victoria
with intentions of letting their neighbor, Ed,
race it.
- Where do these guys live?
- Florida. - Okay, yeah.
- Yeah, Florida.
- Okay.
- And they wanted him to race the car
when the project were finish...
The product was...
Product.
(both giggle)
When the car was finished,
hence the name,
Project Neighbor.
The guy had later passed away.
They weren't very transparent about what happened.
- Sure.
- I know they talked about it at one point,
but I don't know the actual details,
but it's a bit sentimental to the team.
Anyway,
it's a 2009 Crown Victoria.
It is now 5.4 liter supercharged swapped from a 2007 GT500.
They also took that six speed trans
and put it in the car as well.
Now it's got a gen three VMP blower.
Makes about 900 wheel horsepower.
- Out of a 2009 Crown Vic?
- Correct. (Gels laughs)
They use it for drag racing,
it runs low elevens.
They drift it,
it's got a handbrake.
It does ridiculous burnouts.
- Wait, Crown Vics don't usually have a handbrake, do they?
- No, it does now.
- Okay. - It does now.
They do a lot of burnout contests with this thing.
As you can see they blow the tires off.
- Clickbait patrol? - Clickbait patrol.
They've also referred to this as burnout patrol.
They start fires with the tires.
It's crazy.
- I like the Mountain Dew logo on it.
- Mountain Dew.
- This picture is like,
everything is just destroyed.
- Yeah, it is ridiculous.
It's got four racing seats in it
with four sets of harnesses.
They give hell rides in these things.
They just go four deep drifting around.
It's pretty stock looking. - Okay.
- They just run it on either their drag set up or the--
- Yeah. - Police issue wheels.
- It's mostly just focused on making it a little safe
and then 900 horsepower with the GT500 setup.
- And just swing it everywhere.
(Gels laughing)
- That's awesome.
I like it.
At least they have fun.
That's the thing.
It's like, you know,
you see some people do this
and they're like, "All right, well we did it."
And then it's like--
- And then it goes away.
- Yeah, you gotta do something with it.
These guys are doing something with that thing.
That's really, really cool.
Cool, anything else about this thing?
- Nah, that's kinda it.
Just throw a bunch of power at it.
Send it.
- Hell yeah.
I like it.
- I like it.
- You ready to give it a rate?
- I feel like these are all gonna be high.
- Yeah, yeah.
More than likely. - Oh man.
'Cause these are really cool.
Yeah, I think I'm ready.
- It's funny.
'Cause it's like...
We'll go ahead and rate it first.
We're gonna rate it first.
Ready? - Yup.
- All right, three, two, one.
Eight. - Nine.
- Nine?
Just throwing out a nine?
- I mean it is pretty stock looking,
but oh my God,
900 horsepower manual Crown Vic.
(Gels laughs)
- It's really funny 'cause I feel like we're used to,
you know,
we're Fitment Industries,
we should be like taking a look at like the setup,
like the wheels and everything like that.
And then it's like,
this is just on like the stockers.
(Gels laughs)
It's more focused on just making something ridiculous
and I think that's really cool.
- Straight function only.
- Yeah.
- All right, what we got next?
Ooh.
Okay.
- Next up we have a '65 Galaxie.
- I like it,
and it's 12 valved.
- It's a 12 valve Cummins swapped.
And then they threw nitrous at it.
(Gels laughs) It's on air lift suspension.
Makes 550 wheel horsepower without the nitrous.
- Okay.
- And then 1,135 wheel torque.
It's got 20 inch homemade wheels.
- Wait, what?
- They kind of bought it like this.
It was already swapped.
It already had these wheels.
- How do you mean homemade wheels?
- They're like cut out on this like...
Some guy just CNC machine cut wheels
and they put them on it.
- Are they like forged or something?
- No, I think they're just kind of (beep).
- Grabbed like a piece of metal and?
- They can't get them balanced out.
It vibrates like a mother. - Oh God.
(Gels laughs)
- But it does nasty burnouts.
- I can see that.
It looks like a fricking steam engine coming down the road.
Jesus God.
And they drag race this thing on unbalanced wheels?
- Yeah.
- That are homemade in some dudes fricking garage.
What the hell?
I'm a sucker for like these Galaxies and stuff.
I think they look super good. - Yeah.
The double vertical headlights.
- Yeah.
Oh my God.
The gauges on the interior are fricking dope.
- Still a bench seat. - Yeah.
(Gels laughs)
Big old hood dump on it.
Oh my freaking Lord.
- Just dumping coal out of a stack doing burnouts.
- Dude, this thing's badass.
- It's super scary.
It's almost like something you'd see in a movie,
like a villain car.
- Yeah, no kidding.
And they did like the Cummins swap?
- No, they ended up buying it like this.
All they did I think was put air ride on it
and turned up the boost.
- Just dumped it.
- Throw some nitrous at it and send it.
- Took a diesel Ford Galaxie
and just dumped it on some air lift.
- Like tint super dark,
all over the windshield.
- Those wheels are sketching me out, bro.
- Yeah, same. - I don't know about that.
That's a little...
(Gels laughing)
- I think last I heard they were trying
to get other wheels for it,
but I don't think they really ever got to it.
I don't think--
- Well, if you guys need wheels,
we can hook you up.
- Yeah. - All right?
Cleetus,
if you need some wheels for this Galaxie,
which it looks like you desperately do,
just let us know.
Yeah, it definitely needs some different wheels.
But I like that it's on air.
I think that's really dope.
Obviously, it's a fricking Cummins swap Ford Galaxie,
four-door Ford Galaxie nonetheless.
- Yeah.
- I think it's pretty dope.
- It's super neat.
- You ready to rate it?
- Yeah.
- All right, let me see.
(Gels exhales loudly)
All right.
I got it.
- I got it. - All right.
Three, two, one.
Seven - Seven and a half.
- What'd you say?
Seven and a half. - Seven and a half?
So how come you went pretty low on that one?
- Just I really, really like the car,
but I know they kind of bought it already done.
- Sure.
- And then obviously the wheels.
(Gels laughs)
- It's sketching me out so bad.
It's like, "Oh yeah, my uncle made them.
He made some wheels for me.
Just took a grinder to it."
- I don't know what that's about.
(Gels laughing)
- All right, moving on here.
We got the car number three.
This aint a car.
- It's basically a car.
- Okay, let me have it.
- But it's not.
This is a...
I don't know what year it actually is.
Obviously 'cause it's a NASCAR chassis truck.
It's a craftsman NASCAR truck obviously.
They purchased the truck
already with an LS1 and the T56 six speed.
And then now it's got an LS7 built by Texas Speed.
This thing makes stupid power.
The truck makes 624 wheel horsepower naturally aspirated.
Now, with nitrous it gets upwards of 900 horsepower.
- They like their nos, man.
- They do. - Holy (beep)
- Tons of giggle gas, bro. (Gels laughs)
It runs mid tens.
It's a straight,
like genuine NASCAR chassis truck.
- Okay.
- I think it went through one race.
- Like was this like a NASCAR truck that they bought?
- They got it from some guy.
I don't think it was used a whole lot.
I believe it was used in one race.
- Oh, okay.
- And kinda retired it. - Okay.
- And then it just kinda went through some hands,
got LS1, T56 swapped.
- How do you just like wind up with something like this.
- I don't know.
I don't even know where you find something like this.
It's not street legal,
but as you can see,
they drove down the street and then got pulled over for it.
- Oh, that's awesome.
- Or did they make it street legal?
I don't remember.
I think they put lights in it.
- I don't know.
- I can't imagine I came with a title.
I don't think you can register it.
- Yeah, I got a NAStruck.
- But I know they put lights in it.
They put a taillight in it.
- Yeah, I see that.
So, I mean like in theory, yeah.
- I'm just a sucker for these like fourth generation,
regular cab,
short box,
Dale Earnhardt livery,
that Goodwrench stuff.
- Yeah, it is pretty dope, not gonna lie.
- It looks so cool.
- So Texas Speed built LS7 with nitrous.
- A 427 with spray in it.
- 900 horse power.
Jesus Lord. - Nasty.
I think it's still manual.
- Really? - I don't know.
I don't remember if they took it out or not,
but I'm pretty sure it's still manual.
- That'd be really interesting to know
because that'd be kind of (indistinct).
- Just like full tube chassis.
Just cool. - Yeah, that's awesome.
I mean the whole thing is like custom built like,
that is what it is.
- And giant intake manifold.
- It looks good.
I couldn't imagine like seeing that thing
like coming down the road and be like,
"What in the hell is that?"
- I would lose my mind.
- Hell yeah.
Cool.
Anything else on this guy?
- I mean, there is a lot,
but I think that's kind of about it.
It's your basic race car.
- Yeah, literally.
- Basic race truck.
- Are you ready to give it a rating?
- Yeah.
- The truck,
Fitment Industries,
Cleetus McFarland rating
on three, two, one.
Eight. - Nine and a half.
- What did you say? - Nine and a half.
- I thought you said ten and a half.
- You can't go that high. (Gels laughs)
It's these fourth gen trucks.
They just get me.
- Yeah, they're super cool. - Oh my God.
- All right, so we had four cars.
So this is the last one, right?
- This is the last one.
Where did the photos go?
- Here we go.
All right, so last one.
- Number four is gonna be Leroy.
Now, Leroy started life as a salvaged 2001 C5 Corvette.
- Okay.
- Had 32,000 miles on it,
not $32,000.
(Gels laughs)
It was 5,500 bucks,
but it came with zero body panels.
They were all chopped off.
There was no cage or anything on it when they bought it,
it was just the C5 Corvette with no body panels.
- Okay.
Like that's how it was salvaged?
Like did someone steal all the panels on it
at the salvage dump?
- I think it just got crashed
and then they chopped the back end off.
I believe it was rear ended and had some
like chassis damage on the back square.
- Oh my freaking Lord, dude.
What the hell?
(Gels laughs)
- It's rowdy.
- All right, all right.
What else we got here?
- Now, they call it Leroy
because there was a plaque in the doorsill.
- There was even a doorsill left of this thing?
- Yes, it's got like the side skirt
and then like the doorsill left on it
and they cut kinda everything around it.
And it said, "Built exclusively for Leroy N. Coker,
delivered on July 19th, 2001,
the last 2001 Corvette delivery."
(Gels laughs)
- I see it ended up well.
- Yeah.
I believe they apologized for (indistinct).
Shortly after that,
the car got some bolt-ons,
a cam,
they put an LSA blower on it from like a ZL1 or CTSV.
- Sure.
- And then it was swapped out for yet another Texas built...
Texas built...
Texas Speed built 427
and then they put two turbos on it, obviously.
- I can see that.
- With the famous like mounted upward--
- Freaking bull horns, yeah.
- The thing is nuts.
It's been through a bunch of different like
motors and builds,
but the basic formula for Cleetus is the same.
It's got two giant turbos sticking up out of the engine.
Last I checked,
it made like 1,050 wheel horsepower.
- I mean, like Corvettes are already known to be,
you know, have a good like power to weight.
And then you just take everything off of it
and you just have like an engine and some seats.
- And even with that exoskeleton--
- That is (beep) terrifying.
- It's still like 3000 pounds.
- Oh my Lord.
- And they actually hold...
I don't know if anybody beat it.
They may have by now,
this was a couple of years ago.
This car and Cleetus actually made the first,
I believe the only,
GM stick shift car in the sevens.
(Gels laughs)
- That's (beep) insane.
What the hell?
- Could you imagine doing sevens with no doors?
- No.
I couldn't imagine going more than like 50 miles an hour
in this thing,
it looks terrifying.
- Let alone...
- What the hell?
- Zero to 150 in seven seconds.
- Okay.
Did they shorten the wheel base on this thing?
- No, I don't think so.
- 'Cause it looks really tiny.
- I think that's just kinda how--
- It's just because there's nothing else--
- Corvettes look long with the back end
sticking off the back quite a bit.
- Okay.
- I think that's why it looks a little stubby.
- It's like the go-cart from hell.
What the hell?
- It's seriously.
It's all a bunch of custom fab stuff.
The exoskeleton stuff,
this kinda came to fruition when that was still pretty new.
So it was like,
this is pretty game-changing.
Giant turbos,
big power.
- Yeah.
I do remember seeing this thing like everywhere.
It comes around like every time they do like
a different rendition or something,
but like I see it pop up,
kinda floating around every now and again.
- And this is the car that really took his channel
kind of to that next level.
- I mean, I can see why.
I mean, this is some really cool stuff.
I love seeing people do this kind of stuff.
I mean, perhaps you man, but (beep).
- Scary.
- Yeah, terrifying.
- I don't even know if I'd wanna drive it.
- No?
You wouldn't drive that if you had the chance?
Would you ride in it?
- Would you? - Yeah, absolutely.
I would absolutely ride in that thing.
I don't know if I would drive it.
I'd probably kill myself,
but like I would ride in it.
- I couldn't handle that.
- With someone in the right hands,
you know, I'd ride with them.
- That's not the right hands.
That's a crazy guy.
He has a 900 horsepower Crown Vic,
a NASCAR truck.
- I mean, he's doing good.
- Yeah.
- All right, are you ready to rate?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- All right, on three.
One, two, three.
- 10. - 10.
Yeah, that was an easy one. - It's too cool.
- Especially if this is like the car
that like really kinda,
you know built,
or not built,
but like skyrocketed his channel and everything.
I think that's super cool.
That means a lot to a lot of people
and something for them to hold on to themselves.
- I think he's just kind of a home-built guy.
He doesn't have any form of (indistinct).
- And that's super awesome.
Yeah, that's super cool.
I absolutely love that.
All right.
Well, that is gonna wrap it up for another episode
of rating slash taking a look and talking about
YouTubers cars.
Super glad that we got to take a look at
some of the Cleetus' cars.
These things are absolutely insane
and wild and kind of really out there.
It's just a bunch of like cars
that shouldn't be as fast as they are and they are.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Thanks for putting this list together, Sean.
- Yeah, absolutely. - That was absolutely
a lot of good information in there.
And don't forget,
wheels, tires, suspension,
fitmentindustries.com.
And don't forget about the giveaway
we got going on right now with
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Other than that, I think that's it.
You got anything else?
- No, not at all.
- Thank you guys so much for watching.
We'll see you later.
Peace. - Peace.
Peas.
- No peas.
- Peas.
- Bees?
- Peas. - Oh.
- Bees?
- Bees and peas.
- Peas.
Bee peas. - All right, well.