“I Need To Stop!” Hoovie’s Garage Breaks Silence on Getting Scammed, Losing Money, & Starting Over

and I have less than $1,000 in my bank account, literally.

Welcome to Hubby's Garage, the dumbest automobile channel in all of YouTube. Do you think then your viewers like seeing you in financial distress? Yes. To buy this thing, I didn't have to sell a couple of my cars. I think people love to think, "Wow, I'm not as dumb as this guy."

Like, "Okay, at least I'm not that stupid." You're not going to put it right. That's all the fuel. How many cars have you sold the pair taxes? I don't know. It's usually like six to 20 to sell the base tax to me. How bad it is.

Is literally every single penny just going into cars? I'm not that bright. What can I do next to make myself, you know, flail my arms?

“Look at me, I'm buying a Bugatti, you know, because that's what everybody was doing.”

And I thought I needed to chase that to continue to get the views to continue to get the growth. And the Bugatti was just dumb. I got myself a Bugatti Bayron, and then got myself in tax trouble. It's been 10 years, man. What do I have left to prove?

What do I need to accomplish? Why do I need to chase to his level of insanity? You're going to be a lot of worried. Yep. This is the pitiful woman at the turning point.

I'm just like, "I can't, I can't operate like this anymore." Who's garage the dumbest automotive channel in YouTube? Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Thank you. I am so surprised to be back. Well, we've been told you sell super cars to pay your taxes. Yeah, yeah, so I've saw all of Doug Miro's episodes and, yeah, bit of to Varsha's.

So, yes, I see why you wanted me to come so quickly to speak.

But let's talk about you guys for a second, because it's been three years since I've been here.

Yeah, unbelievable growth.

“Mr. Beast, Mr. Wonderful, the guy that spanked Marty Supreme, you know, is Timothy Chalame.”

The guy that spanked Chalame, you got him on the podcast. Even Mr. Luxemaxing, I watched all that. Like, I want to do the chin thing now, you know, get all, you know. You actually have a good chin. No, you have the chin, man.

No, no, no, you have the chin. Well, it can compare chin's later, but it's all so riveting. I feel like you all are young enough to like know what younger people want to know. We also have so much life experience and you just know things that you know the questions to ask. So it's like the perfect mix of like not some old blowhard, but also someone that's wise.

And I, it's, I usually don't miss. So thank you guys so much for your content. We got to know how many cars have you sold the pair taxes. It's every year, man. I don't know.

It's usually like six to 20 to sell the pair tax to me.

How bad it is. Last year was definitely the worst by a lot. It's because of a big mistake that I made over a Bugatti Veyron. And how big was that mistake? So I structured it as a lease.

It was a 14,570 dollar car payment. And in order to make the deal happen, I traded in my Lamborghini Cune Tosh. I had that car for four years. And I bought that along with the Diablo. It was the best car you'll ever made.

I paid $250,000 for both cars. Diablo VT Roadster and Cune Tosh is about with this guy paid for it about 10 years ago. And he just wanted to get rid of it quickly. Coincidentally, I think to pay taxes. So I wrote that check.

I sold the VT Roadster for 300. After spending some money fixing it. And I had a free Cune Tosh. So when I sold it, it was a zero. I sold it for 500 grand or whatever.

And with the lease, I couldn't just roll it in. The down payment has to go year to year, to year, to year. So I had to pay the full gain on the Cune Tosh. And then only ride off one year because I structured that they're on as a lease. And then my accountant said, hey, you owe $500,000 in taxes this year.

Along with other things. So that was that was 20, 20, 20, you know, March 15th, 20, 25 when he said that, you know. And so you know what's interesting, I believe for a long-term capital gains, I believe cars count as collectibles, right? And then there's a slight tax variation that you pay a little bit more being a car when

you make money on it. That's, yeah, it was so, because I had it over for years, so it was like a long-term capital gains, I think. So I was okay there. But it was just that I had zero money because I traded it all in and then had to pay the

gains on it. Even though now it's nice because I sold the Cune Tosh, I sold the bayron and then got the 300 SL going. But I did a collateral swap, so it's the same lease. So now I get that $100,000 every year now for the next four years.

How much did you buy the begotty for it? The begotty was like a $135, something like that, $1,350,000, because I thought I needed to be like, you know, keep it up with the Joneses, because everybody's on YouTube, like next leveling, what can I do next to make myself, you know, flail my arms, look at me

“I'm buying a begotty, you know, because that's what everybody was doing.”

And I thought I needed to chase that, to continue to get the views, to continue to get the growth. And the begotty was just dumb, it alienated by audience so much that was used to me buying

So I think it was cool 20 years ago that is now Dallas luck and I try and bring it back and sometimes succeed sometimes fail.

The begotty they run is it was never not cool, it was never down on this luck, it's it's

the begotty was like a reliable car for you. Well, no, but it's not something that's like a someone per se, okay, you can buy a Lotus a Spring V8 for 30, $40,000, but should you, yeah, you can buy a begotty for $1,300,000, here's what it's like, don't, that's not how I built my brand my audience and all that stuff and I kept going up and up as I became more successful in YouTube buying

these more higher stakes cars and it was the same return, if I buy a $5,000 car, if I buy a million dollar car, they both had the same potential in views, it made no sense from a financial standpoint other than just me wanting to flex and I didn't need to flex anymore. So you spent $1.35 million on this begotty, right? Yes, we were trading in the kuntash, so there's a little bit of horse trading negotiating there,

so it's a little complicated.

“And my head, it felt like that's what I paid for it.”

What'd you get out of it? So I traded more or less straight across, I got a $5,99 in there just to help with the down payment, but about a million and a half, because that's the goal wing is what I paid for it. So you said traded again, so you did well, yeah, I did fine.

And you made money on the content as well. I did make money on the content as, you know, a lot of the videos got over a million views, but it definitely worked, but the problem with it was I'd had it for 10 months. And the guy with it was buying it from me, very generous, he traded a lot of Bugatti's. And he wanted to inspect it naturally before he purchased it, so it got shipped up to Connecticut,

they inspected the car, it was leaking oil, it was leaking coolant, it was leaking transmission fluid. And they want another eight hours of diagnosis about $3,000 to look at the transmission, but I need to be re-sealed, probably staring down the barrel, the $200,000 repair bill on the car. And he still took it mercifully at the same price.

Did he try to negotiate the price with you?

“He knew that I was in bad shape, and like, either, it's I was trying to sell the car out, right?”

And I actually actually called back the dealer that it sold me the car and said, hey, I need out of this, like, I'll take it, I'll take a little hint and like, just, you know, what do you want it to, you just ghosted me? He didn't want it the car totally, just didn't even reply my text. And I even nice enough to say, like, hey, you know, probably not.

I do much inventory or some of their excuse or whatever, just ghosted me. So Ed Bowling was nice enough to actually set up this deal because he knew that my old dream car was the 300th cell going, and he also knew that his friend, and I even know the cult of a collector had just gotten one out of the state that didn't run. So it worked down, and the guy loves Vairons.

So he had, I think he has three or four Vairons in inventory right now. So how much does it cost to inspect a Bugatti $5,000 for a good one? How long does it take? About, yeah, $10 or something like that. Yeah.

Okay, well, that's like, what, nearly $1,000, that's like $500 an hour, isn't like a specialist, it's not just any mechanic. They have, yeah, it's at the Bugatti dealership, and they do have to peel off a lot of stuff to see. So back wheels have to come off to get all the underpoddy panels and everything off to

really look at the car. And honestly, I didn't know that it was leaking because all those underbody panels just catch all of it.

So then when they take it off and take it out, I never saw a drop on my garage floor, it was

always running great and then take it down, take a picture of that drip pan, and it's like a a collage, like an abstract art painting of fluids and yeah, not good. What I don't understand is how you didn't end up having the cash to pay your taxes because

“at the same point, you must be making some pretty good money on YouTube and is literally”

every single penny just going into cars? I'm not that bright, this is a problem. So I had a really bad year before that because I got carried away at the home renovation. I bought this old farmhouse in Kansas. And I wanted a few acres to be able to put up a steel building and it's zone agricultural.

And I wanted to be like, I saw a strad man in his videos in his house and how far below and you guys talked about it in depth with his podcast. I was like, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to be the smart guy and buy the house already and then it's going to be zone properly where I can put up a cheap agricultural kind of metal building and just finish it

out inside and not spend a whole lot. And then I decided, we're going to make the house a little bit and then I ended up basically doubling the square footage and it just snowballed into house property for $800,000. And then wrote checks for a million dollars in the home renovations and the building. The building actually about $420,000 dollars all in for a 6,000 square foot building, heated

air conditioned, insulated, these beautiful, but the house, I'd never done a home renovation

before and these people just, oh, I think they all got together for beers afterwards. All this subcontractor is not just laughing at ripping me off, it was, it was, it was, it was so bad. You think they saw the YouTube channel. I saw the begotty and they're like, oh, we could just charge whatever because this guy

has like 30 cars. I didn't. So he came out and I said, hey, I'm not want to spend more than $300,000 if it's around 300 grand. I'm just not going to do it.

It should be fine and it turned into $700,000 and then $200,000 in landscaping and things.

Well, it was the pond and different things like the concrete driveways and stuff and it's

no bald man.

“How did you not catch this when you were going in and like quoting this out?”

So it got, the stuff hit the fan about July, I was six months into it. The house is all torn apart, like most people find out and then so they were adding onto the house a new wing and we were actually taking the existing garage and making it into a master bedroom. So it was existing square footage.

We just need a little living room to connect it to where it made sense for the layout. And so that was the new addition and they were redoing a lot of the roof to make all the pitches and things work and it wasn't that much. You know, maybe covering 3,000 square feet of roof, but it's a little different because the house is sort of old and it's metal in the sides and vinyl on top and I got $100,000

bill for that. The contractor, there was somebody they'd work with a lot and it was somebody that I sort of knew friend of a friend or whatever and they didn't bid it out and I didn't know

because I wasn't paying attention.

Did you fight it all? Like, hey, how this get to be $100,000? It turned into a fight but it was kind of like he wanted to sit me down and show me how much everything cost and like how we only made 10 or 15 grand on it and it was like very offended.

“And so he may have been right but then a lot of times when people get really angry and”

offended usually then they're just trying to get you to go away and I was smoked anyway. What am I going to do? Like the job was done, I didn't get it quoted out beforehand. I thought that was the job of my contractor to do and like let me know and you just said you had a general contractor not a subcontractor, you had a contractor supposed to talk

with the subs and get bids to make sure that stuff gets done within the budget. And I wasn't paying attention and I didn't know, I hadn't done this before so he just called the roof guy that he knows and said, hey, we need to fix this roof here and he didn't tell your general contractor the budget though. Yeah.

That's what we talked about it.

But then what happened with him? Because that sounds like it's kind of his fault, like that's his purpose. You could go direct a sub, right, or you use a general contractor to make sure it gets done properly on the timeline and then also at an effective cost. The house is all torn apart and I get the roof bill in and I'm already at $300,000

in the inside of the house is studs. So what do I do? Like this guy's started, he's got to finish it, you know, it's a tail is oldest time. Like you guys are smart and you do real estate and all this stuff. But a lot of people are in these similar situations where this happens to them and I

thought, you know, I thought I was smart enough to avoid it and not get screwed. And you think with someone with a little bit of a public persona where you wouldn't do that. And I also think that this guy was a bit older and I don't think that he realized how much some things we're costing now as far as the changes with things.

So because it was sort of a friend of a friend again that had done some work for, I think my dad and the past, like a patio thing. So like I knew that he did good work and the quality work was great, but obviously things went way out of control now that you have your dream home was a worth it. I am just now getting used to not looking at something and thinking, I got screwed there.

I got screwed there. There was one chandelier in the master bedroom where a restoration hardware accidentally priced at $600 when it should have been $6,000. And I hit the buy button on it and I was like, is this thing actually going to show up and it did?

So that's the one great victory of the house in the master bedroom every night. I can look up at that chandelier and just go, "Hey, got 'em there." And that's about, that's about all I got otherwise I just looked at all this, "Oh my God, this about, just ruined me." So how many understand exactly what's going on then?

Because you couldn't afford your taxes so you had to sell a bunch of cars. But you're still buying cars, which you could argue are assets.

“I have to, so you have to, because that's the content, that's who he's garage.”

If I run out of things to talk about about existing cars, I buy another car. You have like 30 cars. Yeah, but you run out of things to do. And once again, YouTube has changed so much to where you can't just do a little bit. Like a check engine like comes on and you say, "Oh, that has an oxygen sensor code.

Let's go get a pizza." There has to be a lot happening in a video to compete with the level of content. The quality that's been raised in the last five years at YouTube, where it has to be a pretty significant event when you post and I'm sort of a twice a week, a weekly video type of thing.

So now for me to keep up, there has to be a lot. It can't just be the buy and everything's wrong and then fixing things and checking. Like it all sort of has to be roped in to where it's 30 minutes, a really compelling content now for it to compete with this new generation of stuff. So do you think then your viewers like seeing you and financial distress?

Yes. Yes. Bad is good and good is good. That's the wonderful thing about me is if I get a good car and it all works out fine. Video's not too exciting.

It's really excited about car. It's amazing. What a deal. That's stuff great. But then that's one video.

Where I get something really terrible, like most recently this loads of abbreviate. Where the seller didn't mention anything, what it was on bringing a trailer and then sold later in auction where the transmission is crunching and all these issues.

me having to go through and suffer through making this thing work again. I know that it's going to be compelling content. So really, I win either way. But how much of that is purely watching you and misery when something happens and the audience is just like enamored by that.

“I think people love to think, wow, I'm not as dumb as this guy.”

Like, okay, at least I'm not that stupid and so I just like playing into that, like I would do it again. Why would you buy this side unseen in auction due to get? Again, really this turned and then they like, okay, my problem's aren't so bad. I think that's a bit of that.

What's the most that you've lost on a car? Well, Doug was nice to end the video of my most recent one when he was on interviewing where I let a car go for apparently $40,000 short. So for recapping those, didn't see it. So Doug told a story about he really wanted this custom Cadillac elder rod that GM built

and I bought it from an auction for I think, 12 or 13,000 dollars and made all the custom stuff working in the door poppers. It was like shaved and channeled really cool, like an old school custom, old school custom hot rod, but modern Cadillac an elder rod, oh, from about 98, 99 or whatever. It is sold three times in the last 15 years, for around $13,000, $15,000.

It had no title because GM actually commissioned this car and it was custom and they didn't want people driving on public roads for liability reasons, so they sold on a bill sale, can't be driven on public roads. So I figured it's worth $13,000.

“A friend of mine who's a car dealer got this dream escalated.”

I've always wanted it's a unicorn to find one with very little miles and all this stuff.

I'm an escalated nut and he proposed to trade with a bunch of other cars and he valued it about the $13,000 that I bought before, had it into it. Made sense. Okay, get rid of it. It sold a bunch of times.

I had uncovered all this cool history about the car and made videos and things and made it all work and it was neat in that aspect. And then he put it on bring a trailer and sold it for $50,000. No, really. Exactly.

After the trade did nothing to it, took pictures put on bring a trailer, two total nut jobs bid it up to 50 grand and Doug was so mad at me because I'd mentioned maybe selling it on cars and bits and he really wanted to do a video on it. But the car is on a bill sale and I never thought it would bring that much money and this guy thought it was cool and really wanted it and I didn't have the money like I didn't

want to buy another car so trading made sense because it's like, okay, get rid of two to get one like it. Okay, this makes sense and turned out I had left $40,000 on the table.

But you never know because it was just from like 15 grand to 50, it was too complete.

What? Do you know what I'm just saying up? Was that just random chance? More than chance. Yes.

But you can't help but just get your guys. Just two guys is one of the car equally as bad. That's the fun part about these options. I'm like, I've worked for Barrett Jackson, Clutch car auction for six years now and you just don't know what the two people in a room have had a bit to drink with unlimited money.

You just see things that you never would think are possible and this has happened. They'd be on an online auction where this happened. So, but obviously I kick myself because of that. So do you think that's the market value of the car or was that a fluke that just two guys just had an e-go and it's like, well, I'm going to open this room over there.

Yes, we were in Hilldy or he'll want to sell it get bored in a couple of years and he'll sell for 15 grand again. Like it's, you know, it makes sense. Although really quick, now that it's the new year, a lot of people finally feel ready to start their own business.

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“But was that the most then that you've ever lost on a car?”

I'm trying to think that's the one that sticks in my head a lot recently but yeah, there's

never been ones that are more than 20-30 thousand dollars, I don't think.

So appreciation things, I try not to be that dumb.

Then technically your portfolio is literally just cars.

So when you have spare money, you buy a car and you hope even if it just stays the same, it's like a force savings account. But if it goes up in value, that's great because your investment have gains over time and it goes down. It's like okay, fine, usually it's maybe $5,000 a loss.

“And actually, financially, you're kind of doing the right thing for me, I think.”

Kind of. It's content. That's cool. Everything is content. Every car has an ROI to spend 50k on it.

You could probably make back a certain percentage of it. It's just not really cut. You know, like a lot of people would see this, oh, clear cut. He's doing a wrong thing. But in this case, I think that there's a little bit more nuance to what's going on.

It makes sense because if I put the money in stock market or whatever, there are different kind of investments, I don't make videos or content on that. So the car sit there and they're pretty stable in value relatively. And I have sponsors that are paying every video sponsored that pays $10 to $15,000 for me a video.

And then there's the ad cents and all that stuff. So it makes sense from that point. And yeah, if I lose 10 or 20% on the car, most of it, it spends at cars. So we're talking on a 50,000-lar car, 5 or 10 grand with most. So it makes sense if I get three to five videos out of it.

Then obviously it makes sense as a business. But it's still when you take out the YouTube business side of it, it's just a car collector just buying broken cars and screwing up on the surface, it looks a lot dumber, obviously. But you said before that you actually have an addiction buying cars, you said you had hoarding tendencies.

Yes, yes, because I was a car dealer before this. So I was so bad as a car dealer because I wanted to keep all the good stuff. It was like a drug dealer, like just doing a mountain of like, like 20 on 10, I just, you know, instead of selling it.

“And that's what I was doing instead of selling cars and making a money that way.”

So it made a lot more sense for the YouTube perspective. So when I closed up my car dealership and went into a totally different business and then started writing and doing videos on the side and that all blew up. But it was the same thing that I was doing before. So it wasn't that different.

I just started documenting it. And it turned out to be like a genre-defining thing that is the Mark on the World Hubey's Grage is the guy who bought the cheap exotic sort of car that was once cool. That's now really cheap and trying to bring it back. And now it's a very copying, tired formula at this point, but I'm still doing it 10 years

later because I don't know what else to do. But how serious is this as an addiction that you can't help but keep buying cars? Because you were talking recently about Barrett Jackson and how they'll pay you. It was so mean. They'll pay you to go and speak and narrate Barrett Jackson.

But then you just spend the money back on the auction. They're making more money off of you.

I never thought about it like that before until Doug laid it out in his podcast very

clear, which is so nice that he still cares so much about me to spend half of his podcast with you guys talking about me being an idiot, which is wonderful when my daddy cares. But yeah, I never thought about it that way. So when I got hired for Barrett Jackson six years ago, they had just made a transition on networks.

They had moved over to the FYI and the History Channel. And my TV show was briefly on the History Channel for one season before it transferred over to Motor Trend. I was known there and they hired me and they offered like what they wanted to bring in their own talent, like a lot of people on a new network, like we want to bring in

some of our own people. So new young people, oh, we know this guy from the show. Let's hire him. They offered me $500 a day to come do Barrett Jackson for the first time. Which?

And I'm going to show you the show with the show's best version of the show. The show's the best version of the show. The legendary show of the show is just on the website. This is the social media and over to you. That's the music for your ears.

“If you want to be a show, you can help us with the show.”

Start your show today for one of your own promo. I'll shut B5.8, let's recall it. Not a lot considering it for television and where I was at, you know, as far as social media. I mean, a lot of people would kill to make $500 a day obviously, but in that world it wasn't, it didn't make a lot of sense.

But I really wanted the experience I'd never done live television before.

So I said, yes, I think I asked for a little bit more, but then said yes when they kind of like just like, this is it, like the try or not. And I just dreamed of, this was my dream job. I wanted to be on TV. I didn't know YouTube is a thing. I'm a bit on the older side.

So I'm turning 40 this year. So I'm still sort of like in that old school like TV's cool and so my parents are like, oh, he does TV. He has a real job versus a YouTuber's not somebody that, that's actually working. They're just like putting a camera in their face and goofing up, you know. So I'm sort of on the edge of that generation of, of looking at it.

So I thought it was neat and I'd watch the speech channel coverage of it. The speech channel when I was a kid and Barrett Jackson was the first to do it in like 98 to go on there. And I was glued to it. I was fascinated by it. I begged my dad to go in person to the auction.

Barely. Jack wasn't. I was born six years old. Okay. I just dreamed of going.

“And it was the first time I had ever saw three hundred SL going in person.”

Thousands of people who cried and I was thinking, that was incredible event. I watched these guys on TV for ever, new how the show works, new how they talked, new how they kind of go back and forth, talking about the facts, doing their commentary and things. So to get the phone call to come do this job, I was so over the moon excited that that was that was the motivation and they'd know me before. So it wasn't like that let's give this junkie some money in the casino like Doug D'Miro said, you know, let's have this guy and give him like $2,000 credit the casino and watch him hang himself in the $200,000 in debt.

Like there was there was some legitimate connection there and it was definitely a dream job and it's evolved to where.

Now I'm up on the block for Super Saturday last week and we sold a goal link for $2.6 million when I was a kid that basically that same goal link sold for $200,000.

So it's really neat to be a part of it now. So they paid you say 15 or so a hundred dollars that first time you did it. That first time. And then how much did you spend at the auction? I didn't buy anything at the first couple of options.

I don't think it took a while for me to get comfortable because I was really focused on like doing this well. I've never done it done like TV before so right now like to have a podcast. I wasn't naturally good at this either because in YouTube you can screw up, you can jump cut, you can start over, you know, you can you kind of joke about a little bit where you sometimes mess up and say hey grandma's guys here, you know,

“I think like in YouTube you like you goof up and you can really cover it up very easily.”

You guys edit your podcast a little bit to me and I decided to ring two when somebody kind of just blanks out. But with bear Jackson is live. So my first time we're wearing masks is 2020. And you can't see my mouth. You can't see you speaking. And I take a deep breath right before I go in here. Okay, go. I take a steep inhale. The mask goes into my throat. I'm choking. This is my first time on live television. And I'm choking on a mask. And then that same day we're walking around a car. And I'm talking about what's cool about this car.

And then I forget my train of thought. And I blank for three, five seconds attorney and I come back on. And then the tech guys come out and they take my microphone and say what are you doing? Well, you dropped out for like five seconds. So we think there's something wrong with your microphones. We're going to check everything test everything. I didn't tell them because I couldn't see my mouth moving. They didn't know they thought it was just the microphone they dropped out that I just brain farted for five seconds in like completely lost by train of thought and just just like

stared at the camera burnt blank. So in that in that five or six years, I've come a long way and learned a lot. And it's made me better on YouTube as far as editing myself and things. So I can go a little longer and there's like a 30 second wall before where I'm like, okay, I forgot what I'm saying. What am I going to say next and then go from that and even with YouTube, starting out, I would print off a piece of paper about this long and read down the paper and you could see it in my early videos. We're all of a sudden like in my eye lines getting lower and lower and lower and lower is I'm reading and then I reached the end and then it jump cuts you know the next thing.

So I take the next thing on and sometimes the wind would catch it like a sail and like blow my camera over and just smash it, you know, so it's it's helped a lot.

“So do you identify more as a car owner or as someone who likes to fix problems?”

I'm a definitely a car owner collector enthusiast more passionate and the the the this is champagne taste on a beer budget.

It's always been like that for me where I've always wanted to have these cars, but I'm very happy with the crappy versions of them and just you know having I guess quantity over quality.

But it's definitely an addiction to where I feel like you know, I'm like okay, it was okay, I've been bought a car in a week like, but it's just, you know, let's see what's out there on marketplace and it definitely. Everything as well. What does it feel like when you buy a car like that when you had that inch and then you just buy something. It's a junkie, it's full of junk. But it's also it's always exciting and it's it's never ending well of content.

So I started doing this 10 years ago. Those cars that were brand new 10 years ago are now turning into told junk. Like it takes a shorter amount of time for modern cars to turn into junk with all the electronics, the hybrid stuff, the turbo stuff. And it's just not built as well to where all this stuff that it take 20 years old for a car to part and fall apart is now taking a five or 10 years. So it's this it's this endless well of especially.

Modern European stuff that just falls apart so quick and it's like and depreciates so hard.

That like, oh my god, this was this was a 200,000 hour car 10 years ago and now it's 10 and it barely moves like this is incredible that it just just that it's so exciting to me.

To figure out what's going on with it and and the process and like it just getting into why these things are are just falling apart and like it lets. Can we save this one like maybe we can bring it back maybe we can bring this one back and make it usable again and it works out most of the time, you know.

It is so I'm not a rich that's the other part where like I have the car wizard I have you know different things different people to use for different things I just sort of document it which is so much easier. And I you know I have some technical know how and a lot of experience to where like I understand what the problems are and I understand what the parts are understand how to do it, but I'm just not that hands on. And it's it I'm much better test at like breathing down the mechanics neck filming which is annoying for a lot of mechanics and talking about it and then understanding from a layman standpoint like how this works and explaining it in a way that they understand and the process and all that stuff.

If you're a wrench and doing the work like like to varnish it is so hard to not only do the work that's hard, but then have to document and stop and move the cameras and talk about it and everything and it just.

“It triples the time it takes to do something or more it just makes it so much more difficult and then you're also thinking about the the UTI aspect of it and the story aspect of it rather than fixing the car and that's why you know.”

Freddy is three years into his P1 because it's it's such a the scope of the project so insane but then also having a document it and then you know meaningfully move things along.

And at a budget it's it's very difficult. What's the easiest in the hardest car to work on? Well, um, I've just feel like my 2005 Cadillac Escalade is my daily driver in the Arizona and I have one in Kansas as well. It's just such a simple easy thing and it's the right amount of age where it has. Modern electronics to make it easy to diagnose, you know, unlike an old car where you're like trying to figure out the carburetor and the points and like different things.

It's like a check-in and you'll like come on replace the crank sensor the crank sensor takes you know it definitely take off but it takes an hour. It's all very straightforward, very easy. It was still engineered to a point where it's all very accessible.

And I go back to like 80s Mercedes D-sills. That was the first car I ever bought with my own money for 2500 bucks and it's just all mechanical. It's like Lego's for grownups.

And once again, they engineered the things to last forever and to be serviceable. So like an 85 Mercedes diesel, like everything's reachable, everything's easy.

“Like there's no like gotchas where you have to take a whole nose of the car off to reach, you know, to take a belt off like on a modern Audi or whatever.”

As far as the difficult ones, hard to imagine anything more difficult than a Bugatti. It comes down to I think dealer support and how much they're willing to let people access the software to fix and program these cars. And the modern cars, the new stuff where the dealers are keeping that all close to the best, where the right repair is a very important thing that people are talking about,

where dealers keep the software and the programming all that stuff to themselves and don't let the normal consumer be able to buy a module and program it.

So for example, like my Bentley kind of LGT, it's an Audi Volkswagen $50 airbag module. We tried a bunch of different ones. We couldn't get to work. We couldn't get to the program because Audi Volkswagen keeps it Bentley keeps the programming. $3,000 for the same part from Bentley just with different programming to work in the Bentley kind of LGT. And there's no work around there's nothing we could do to figure it out. And that's where I think it gets really annoying. It's the right to repair, pretty easily with the right now with McLaren's and stuff.

And Matt Armstrong recently, where Bugatti doesn't want to give up parts on cars and things and take it outside of their service base. So that was the other part of the Bugatti where I can't really fix it. Like some parts match up, but I can't really fix it myself with independence because they just don't want to share the intelligence of how to do it. So it's just about money. I think it's about money and then also also the control of it and they want the cars fixed to a certain spec and a certain degree in these high-performance cars.

And they don't want people like me cobbling in the together and keeping them going, especially, you know, the liability of building a car that goes 250 miles an hour. So, you know, like $60,000 for tires and the Bugatti later on. In the same, it's not, they need, they need a material cost on that. Not much, but it's just because of the mounting, there's only two machines in the world that can mount them to these tires and buildings talked about this a lot. And it's just, it's just, it's just because it's so scarce and they decided to make it a real specific to they run and they didn't make it, they just didn't make it easy.

“That's where the, the Sharon improved a lot where they made it a lot more serviceable in that aspect where there's not 12 different drain points to do an oil change where you have to take the car have a part to just do an oil change.”

That's why cost $15,000 on the payroll. So they, they learned a little bit, but they're still, they're just not independent mechanic friendly, but then even even forwards getting harder with that. Like, even, even mainstream manufacturers are figuring out like, hey, why do we give up the keys to the castle when we can just force people to come to the dealer to fix the cars? Just going to suck when they get old and cheap and kids are trying to keep them going. It's, it's going to be terrible. Are they making cars more or less reliable?

I would say less reliable and it's, it's all down to just the high strong force cylinder engines that they're putting in cars to get the most efficiency and more power. And they just don't care about the longevity of it. And then also trying to get out as few warranty repairs as possible and to make the initial warranty as far as the cost of regular maintenance as low as possible.

So they don't care to say it needs 15,000 mile oil changes. They don't care that the things are not bill well to last, they just want to make sure it lasts through the warranty and they're, and they're, and they're not really not caring about how easy this to work on, and they're that kind of stuff. So it's their motivation to just not do that anymore. Obviously for a lot of other reasons obviously they want people buying more cars. And what causes a car to lose so much value? Like you're talking about these cars that are like 200 grand that you can now get at like 30.

Why do certain cars lose so much?

“I think it's just the things are getting so dated so quickly when it comes to software on cars and things that”

the early infotainment cars like the original BMW I drive system is just so clunky and you get in it now and you're trying to go just just change the stereo from FM to satellite or your iPod or whatever. I'm getting old now so it's it's all mixed around so I'm saying like that. But it's it's so clunky and it evolves so quickly and even Tesla, you know, they they try and upgrade. It's nice to Tesla upgrades the cars like with my 2017 model X, they're able to update the cameras and everything

and make it to where normal FSD works in it so it's nice but most manufacturers don't care. The cars just they age so quickly because of the software and also because of how complicated they are and the serviceability costs are just just insane. Now if you're the one who your family and friends rely on to plan trips and vacations this could be the year you finally earn from it.

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“How many cars have you bought and sold in your life?”

I don't know what the car dealership it makes it complicated, but it's over a thousand. Yeah. But over a thousand cars. Oh yeah, yeah, easily. Yeah.

So you've probably sold like 900. Yeah. You've probably sold 500.000. I know. I've only five or five cars.

Man, that'd be something. But no, I tend to keep 20 or 30 at a time just with me. But before that, I had the car dealership. So I was turning a few hundred cars a year for years. So yeah, there's a lot of cars.

“Is it sometimes slightly, maybe like a negative thing in your life to be such a car fanatic?”

Because I have another friend that has a similar thing, a massive car purchasing addiction. And they just want to get the newest and nicest and best thing.

And it kind of puts you on a bit of a hamster wheel because nicer cars are always being made.

Old cars that are truly expensive consistently go up in value, especially as of late. And so it's just like, it's just like this thing that you're constantly chasing in life. And if you could want it just a little bit less, maybe that could add some piece to the life. I'm so grateful for people like your friends that buy the cars new and take that hit. So at least I'm not as dumb as that to like, constantly chase the new thing and need that and taking these massive depreciation hits.

But I have bought some new cars recently. Like the new Corvette 06, I bought that and sold it very quickly before they started appreciating. Like a sold for 50,000 sticker, new GT 500. I took that brand new, sold it for a little over. Tesla cyber truck. I was the first one of those to get those. I sold that for 10 or 15,000 dollars over sticker before they just completely blew.

So I like I knew like if I could get it and make videos and get out of it before they took a big hit.

But I've always been okay with losing money on fixing them and not on depreciation as much.

So that's where I've always operated at, I guess. So you love your addiction. Yeah, I don't, I don't see anything really honestly that wrong with it, especially now if I wasn't doing YouTube and before it was obviously a problem. The YouTube enabled it and that I'm very grateful, very grateful. So if a normal person did what you did, they would go bankrupt.

Right. That's I am a horrible influence.

And people tell me stories that come up to me, oh, I bought this car because of you. I'm so sorry.

“Yeah, I feel bad. Have you made money on all of the cars you've owned?”

No, I'm well, overall obviously I've made some money. Like generally speaking, if you were to collect the entire cost that you've spent buying a thousand cars and then the amount that you've gained selling a thousand and the current value of your car portfolio, if you will. I would say it's probably up about, I don't know, everybody looks like a hero during COVID, you know, where everything was going up in value. So like everything I bought and I think this is where a lot of YouTubers got in trouble, including me,

where it's just like you were unstoppable because every exotic you bought, you could own it for six months or a year

and it would gain 20-30% in value in that time, it just seemed like the party was never going to stop.

Of course it was going to at some point and I think a lot of people got caught in that. But overall, I think I'm pretty close to even or maybe a little ahead. What's the most you've ever made on a car? The Kuntage Deal for sure. You walked into $500,000.

Yeah, the car at the time probably each of them were worth about 200 to 250 and I bought that on the last day of 2020. So the timing was excellent for the rapid incredible depreciation or depreciation on the Kuntage. You're so used to saying depreciation. I know, I know. I have a value, you're like that doesn't compute.

Incredible depreciation on that car. SLSAMG, a great appreciation on that car. But then there's ones like the SLSAMG Clarence, sort of, you know, the previous generation. I own the car for from 2022 and just sold it a few months ago and sold it for what I paid for it. So like that, you think an SLSAMG Clarence would be something special and I bought it really well.

I thought it was only 2,000 miles on it, but they never moved. Why? Because I think that car's undervalued. It's just special. You never see them.

People. It's iconic. People think that the service costs in that car are astronomical. And if they take to the Mercedes dealer, they're right. So for example, Nick, the guy I sold it to is a friend of Doug DeMiro's.

He had the alternator fail when he drove it to Arizona for Arizona car week. And he needed it, fixed quickly. He took to the Mercedes dealer. They said, sure, that'll be $13,000. It's the same alternator on every other Mercedes.

It's not that hard to reach. There's this big SLR text of the dealer for no reason.

“So he takes it to an independent shop and I think it's fixed for under two grand.”

The brakes, yes, the brakes are $50,000. There's ceramic brakes. They're very expensive. They never wear out. I have a Porsche Panamera with ceramic brakes. 115,000 miles.

They're fine as long as you don't track the crap out of them. But mostly these SLRs are low mileage.

You never have to worry about the brakes.

So a lot of this stuff, it doesn't make any sense. So that's the negative perception. Also the fact that it's a slush box automatic. And not a guided manual, like a carer GT. That definitely, I think, held it back a little bit to the perception of that.

Like, kind of weird. And the looks have always been a little polarizing on that car. I think it's gorgeous. It looks like an SLK. That was the one thing I felt that held it back. Yes, they did that race car from a little one nose on it.

Right. And then they made the mistake of putting it on the SLK, which made it look even more ridiculous. I think that definitely hurt. So as someone who's owned a thousand cars.

“What is the recipe for making sure your car doesn't appreciate a ton?”

Oh, I mean, it's just buying one that's already depreciated. But it's no insinere for the most part because you're either going to pay the car payment

and the depreciation of that stuff or you're going to buy a cheap and basically have a car payment

in, at least something nice and expensive with the maintenance. I mean, everybody can buy a 20-year-old Toyota Camry and not lose money and just keep it going. But if you're getting something cool and interesting, it's one of the other. It's either maintenance or depreciation, just take your pick. But also, in terms of adding miles on it, Graham was saying,

you know, he bought his 4GT at how many miles? 755 miles. And he's horrified at making it go over 10,000 miles. Yeah, exactly. And apparently, as soon as you do that, you immediately lose a bunch of value.

Yeah, it's about 400 right now to probably what 350. No, it's going to go from 485, 475 down to probably 420. What kind of white with blue stripes? Okay. As red calipers.

We sold a yellow car, just turned to 10,000 miles for 440. So, the yellow is the rare color, that bear Jackson. It sells for less than the white. Yeah. Every color has their own little stripes.

Mm-hmm. So then what other tips and tricks aside from like breaking a certain mile number, do you have, oh, not lose a bunch of money? Well, I mean, it's just buying it at the flatest of the curve, which is usually, you know, 10 or 15 years in,

and it's something that was really cool and desirable. It's something that was magazine covers that everybody was talking about. And it's now 10 or 15 years old. That's the bottom of the curve, which is the 4GT. At one point, that was what five years ago.

Of course, there was a time where a 4GT was $150,000, so under a 7SRP, but as far as the flatest point,

Like maybe a 6 or 7 years ago now, right before 2020. Yeah. I remember like Stradman and I were looking at the same one that he bought in Hawaii. And I was like, I'm going to hit the button on that.

And then it was gone. I was like, I'll crap. And it ended up being James who bought it. You know, I got the SLS instead. And obviously, it would have been way better to go with the 4GT, but the SLS did fine. So I think there's a certain age mark where it's 10 to 15 years old.

Something that people thought were really cool. So you could take, for example, like, even not something expensive, like a, like a Mazda sweet Miata from 2005, where they put a turbo on a Miata from the factory, special body kit and all that stuff.

And they have been 10 to 15,000 our cars for a while now. There's no chance of that car ever to appreciate it. Because there's a little bit more limited production and run, and they haven't done it really ever again. So there's a lot of things like that where it's like, wow,

this is this is a cool car that they made during this time that you can seek out.

“So if you want to get a really cool car that ideally could appreciate,”

but hopefully also just stay flat, definitely not depreciate at 25,000,

100,000 and a million, what would that look like?

I don't play that game that much. As far as what wouldn't depreciate. So 25, I feel like some of these analogs, these blasts sort of manual cars that they still make that don't really make anymore. I think it's pretty safe to get something with the manual transmission.

A lot of core vets and some of the cooler moustangs and stuff, where there's around 25 grand right now, that would definitely work like a C506 might be tough to get around 25. That probably be a great one to get. 25 should be doable on that one still.

C60 wouldn't be able to do it. 50 grand, I feel like right now what I just got was the AMGGTS and it's a great car. Incredible car. So I don't feel sad about selling my $300,000 SLR

or my $200,000 SLS AMG. Because I got this, it's the same platform as the SLS. For 50 grand, for 500 horsepower, dual clutch is beautiful. It's stunning. Yeah, the doors don't go up all cool like my SLS and SLR,

but it's so amazing for 50 grand. And there's nothing that's going to be a $50,000 driving experience for less time.

“I feel like there's no way it'd be less than $50.”

Nobody's going to ever say that that basically AMG's purpose built super car

is going to be a $30,000,000 car. It's impossible. It's not going to happen. But then you go up to 75. No, it could be between 100 and 300.

100 or 300? I think, yeah, I could still, once again, the Gated Cars, a Gated Guiardo, a Gated R8, something that's still analog, that's still serviceable. That's not into that hybrid tech and all that stuff where I feel

like there's going to be a big rejection of that as they age. And you're seeing the trickle down of what once was, you know, the Hypercar Holy Trinity, the McLaren P1, the Porsche 90 Team Spider, and the Ferrari Lough Ferrari, getting down as the normal Porsche's now

are Pibrids. Then I live in Turbo's going to be hybrid now. The normal, the Ferrari's like the SF90, $700,000 car that's appreciated 300 grand in a couple of years. So all this hybrid tech that people are rejecting,

and then when they're 10 years old, it's, on a normal Ferrari, you've just been 100 grand on a battery replacement. People aren't going to reject that. And $100,000 on a battery?

It's $200,000. It's $200,000. $300,000 for a Ferrari, $200,000. That's the cost of the battery. They charge six figures for the battery.

It's the labor's still expensive, but they charge an unbelievable amount.

“Do you have to take it to like Ferrari or McLaren's fix it?”

Yes. If you can't take it to an independent who could tank her with it, and mess with the sales. It's not like a pre-assure, you know, all that's to where you can rebuild the sales,

or like the Tesla Roadster, where you can rebuild the sales and balance the back out, all that stuff. And they're upgraded as well. So they're going to be stuck with that.

So I feel like people are going to go back. I want the days where I can just change the oil and this thing and fix, you know, change spark plugs, and still go. I can still these last Audi RHs

that are still somewhat analog. They don't have to be manuals, but as far as just not that crazy level of technology to where it's still, you know, a normal independent dealer's tank.

It's can't tool can access it, and still keep it going reasonably. I think there'll be a bigger appreciation for those. How many cars have you regret it selling? You know, it's tough because I do regret a lot of it.

But unfortunately, I'm not wealthy enough, like Jaylon was garage, where I had outside income of something else, you know, doing the tie show for 23rd years or whatever, to where I can keep the things.

So if I want need to recycle and do fresh content, I have to, I have to sell. So I would love to keep the SLS, to lay SLR at the Koontosh. Oh, my god, that Koontosh.

I had the Koontosh for four years, which is a long time for me, because I loved it so much. And, you know, Doug DeMiro says this is a favorite car. I agree with him.

I had to like, okay, I done everything. I had done a video on that car in a year, and it's like it's sitting there.

It's half a million dollars.

Like I could put it into something. And have it a whole new way to content. So unfortunately, I have to move things along, even though, so I guess that doesn't make me quite a degenerate, like as, you know,

an addict as I thought, 'cause I know I need to keep the hamster on the wheels far as going with that. But your portfolio, your net worth,

It's not growing. I lost a lot. I lost half of my net worth. And just with some mistakes,

“financially, and things where the typical stuff”

for people to get this hubris,

like the party's never going to stop.

And you just personal decisions and different things where, obviously we talked about the home renovation and some other bad moves, business-wise,

and people take advantage of you in things. And yeah, I lost a million, man. Yeah, I did. What's your advice for people watching this to make sure they don't fall into the same issues?

Oh, it's, I think I, I think, I talked about, with me, it was trying to level up and do the next thing. So I had to do the big house. I had to do all the cool crazy things

that everybody else went on YouTube was doing. I never thought I'd be that the Hollywood guy that loses it all.

You know, so I didn't lose it all, obviously,

I'm still doing fine, but I made the stupid mistakes. For sure, do you own any stocks? No. I mean, a little, like, a mutual fund

that I haven't put any money in years

“and it's, I mean, it's less than $50,000.”

But it's grown, right? Less than 50 grand probably. But you watch it grow over time, right? I haven't actually looked at my, this mutual fund. Does it exist?

Is it, I think, of it? That's what got me. Stanly. And I think, like, I haven't, like, even opened up the envelopes

to see how much money is in it, when they send statements in a while. Yeah. I don't know what I'm thinking. We got to create an email.

Hovie needs help. No, well, don't do this. You do the shit. No, no, no. We did it for me, too.

We have a grand needs help. Oh, no. Because here's my idea. I was thinking how great it would be to create a bring a trailer

of hoopedies. Because I know, bring a trailer. They're, they're threshold is pretty high. Carson bids is like, you need cars. I want to see hoopedies.

I want to see cars that like, might not be running. I don't want to see my daddy. I don't want to compete with my daddy. I just don't think he loves that idea.

He's not doing hoopedies. Oh, you don't want to do hoopedies because nobody would disclose honestly how bad hoopedies are. But a lot of people don't know

they either, they lie either out of omission or ignorance or they're actually, it's malicious. That's when I buy a car, they, what's wrong with it?

They list the things that they know, but there's so much they don't know. So there's no, and a hoopedie thing, there's, there's a, that's a no one scenario. Because like, you don't really know.

how to dinner people lying when they're selling a car. They're all lying but like some of them are all on. I mean some of it's by ignorance. So they don't know that they're lying especially on our old 20-year-old loaders or something like that. So like when I bought this loaders at Bear Jackson, there's some things that are kind of shady. So on bringing a trailer he disclosed that the card didn't have a roof, which is kind of important. But with Bear Jackson when he put it up he didn't disclose it because

you're supposed to disclose things are wrong but not having a roof sort of ambiguous. And instead he he put a piece of lexan wrapped it really nice in a blanket and taped it up and then put this in the property room as roof. So it shows that it comes with a roof and he did crudely make a roof out of lexan. Like just cut it out. But there's nothing there's nothing to secure it. It's a piece of plastic. But like the one-two transmission crunch. When I posted the video, people are smart enough to go to

bring a trailer, find the old listing, find the guys handle and then just start blowing this guy up, tagging him, "Hey, you're shady, you're terrible, like how could you not disclose these things like you're a crook?" So I think the shop's not fine on that side. This is his social media and Uber IDAD's vision. And that's his music for dyno on. Videos of lexan vendors made Shopify

can't set to item-ish and hit bad. Start to dye and test not how to fill in an Europromenet. Of Shopify.de/recoated. I couldn't honestly believe that the guy didn't know that the transmission was screwed in this car. Basically it takes 15 or 20 minutes of driving for it to warm up and that one-two shift becomes a... So he didn't know, but he also didn't care enough to drive the car any kind of distance or

noted really get to know the car's issues. I know he didn't know. I could believe that it's possible, like let's say a dealership has a hundred cars. They're not going to be able to go and drive every single one for a couple of hours and figure out every single issue with the car. So they can't, like in a mechanic can inspect it. They don't have a crystal ball to look inside

“the transmission and know that the sinkroes are shot. You have to go drive the car, like really”

put some serious driving in it to really know a lot of these problems. So you can sort of the same time, like since the roof thing was kind of shady, I'm wondering how much he knew. And he said,

like in the start of video and bring a trailer, the airbag light goes off. It never goes off.

So it might be a combination of just not caring and a little bit of malice, but

inspected before they sell it or something, you know, very new. See, I like the guys and you,

“you could tell usually because they post them, bring a trailer and every little nick that I would”

never even notice and they mention it. And they put like a penny or a dime next to like this little

nick that's on the back kind of like on the under partner like it's a little scratch right there. Yes, or this little scratch, like people exist like this. But with dealers that really care and then they, you know, bring a trailer and others have really like preferred dealers with like they have an extra thing, you know, and Carson Bids has regular dealers that you know, but a lot of them just buy the car, the auction. And there is always a reason, especially on

something cool. Why did this person trade it into carmax? Why would somebody take a, like a 2010 million kind of GT and trade it into carmax? That's obviously there's something wrong. Like you could go take it on Facebook marketplace and sell it. You know, there's so many other options where you take the quick wholesale money. Some people are lazy and obviously they don't care. They're

that rich. But most of the time, if they're trading in a car, especially in this day and age,

“where people are kind of strapped financially, there is a reason. And then the cars get dumped in”

auction. And then there's, there's a multiple degrees of separation where the person who traded in knows what's wrong. But then the selling dealer doesn't know. And then it goes to auction. And that dealer doesn't know. So it filters through a couple of people and they just, you don't know until you buy the car and start driving it. So like I don't usually get mad at people when I'm get seriously scammed. There's somewhere I've gotten like a deservedly just blast the

people because they, I mean, it's obvious that they were being really shady. And I know sometimes when I bought the cars, they're like, oh, shit. Because I know it's going to be on YouTube and I'm going to be talking about it. And some of them are smart enough to like not even respond to me when they figure out that it's me because they don't, they don't want to get involved in that. But I've ever recouped anything from someone that you put on blast? No. So there was one time

that bring a trailer actually refunded all their buy fee to me. That was nice of a bring a trailer. It was on a Plymouth Superbird 1970. This guy had two superbirds. And this one was a hemmy superbird, very rare. But it was a shady one where it had been wrecked at some point. It was a partial

rebody and it had a modern hemmy and it was built for SEMA. It turns out the car was never

driveable. It was one of those cars that was built for SEMA and never worked. And so this guy had his driver of superbird and then he dumped this one. And this suspension was too low. It had a rake on it. So for the sale he jacked this suspension up. But then it didn't work. So it was like solid. So you drive it on the road. And like the wheels would leave the ground because there was no suspension. Long and long, long, long, long. Down down the road. You drove it five miles immediately overheated.

It did the car didn't work. The basically they had basically decorated the radiator. So the point where air wouldn't flow through it. And work. So this car never ever worked. And this guy, there's so many other things. The wiring was a mess. None of this stuff. And so when I won, I called him up and I said, hey, I want to drive this car home. It would be really close to over me to drive it back from Chicago wherever it was back to Kansas. He's like, man, I don't think you want to do that because

it's like the hemmy, the racing hemmy that's in it. It's pretty crazy and it only gets like five miles to the gallon. Like you'd be with a small tank, you'd be stopping for gas every 50 miles. You don't want to do that. Come on. Whatever. So the car shows up and it's such a disaster. It's like so many things that just aren't disclosed. It's so painfully obvious. But it's a seam a show car. So it looks beautiful. The photos, it looks beautiful. The components are beautiful. It's just all stuff

that was just dropped in, slapped together for a show car. And he completely, head in the sand, buried, broke all contact, didn't care. He just got to, he got to dump the car. Why did you have to? Why did you just buy it? $130,000. Couldn't you just show up? See the car and say, I'm not buying that. I wired it in the car of ship to me. So I now he already had the money. So ship to me. So he told you a story and then you believe the story that I buy my money. I believe

the disclosure on, on bring a trailer. She said, don't ship it because it's really hard to drive. Like it's like it's, it's a crazy racing and general stuff that gets back up. So I believe it was

“some of the money. And he shipped it to me. I think it's $115,000. That's what I'd be like for it. But”

did he get banned off bring trailers? He did get banned and then bring a trailer gave me back the $5,000 or fee. But he did not give me any money back. Why is your no repercussion for lying? I mean, what am I, if I, like, he's in another state, what am I going to do soon in the guy? Like it's, it's not, there's no point. What'd you do with the car? So I fixed it. So we fixed the cooling system. We fixed the suspension. We got everything working. We got the wiring sort of as much as we could.

We got either retune, redino the car to where it actually accelerated in a normal fashion all that stuff. And then at the same time, Hemi super birds blew up. There was a bear Jackson. There was one guy. He's 80 years old. And he bit up one to $500,000. And then he was so mad that he didn't buy the next one. He said, I'm buying the next one no matter what and let everybody know. And it got bit up to

super bird. Oh my god. Like, just one guy single handedly took this, to Hemi super bird market from

$200,000 to a million dollars. And then so obviously it's like, okay, time to sell mine. I took

it to the next auction. And I couldn't quite get it ready because the hubs were different. So I couldn't put the stock wheels back on it. And mine was a partial rebody. So I've been modified and all that stuff.

“So I think I sold it for $131,40 something like that. And hadn't spent that much fixing it.”

So I actually made a profit. But I also single handedly crashed the Hemi super bird market because then after that they didn't bring the money. And this guy happened to just die recently. He died like two years ago. And his family was selling this state and sold that Hemi super bird that you bought for a million bucks and it sold for like $300,000 dollars. Oh, so like this one guy single handedly. Like just blew up. It sounds crazy. It sounds like the car market could be

easily manipulated. Yeah. So what's to stop somebody? What's to stop me from listing my

Tesla Roadster? Have Jack, you know, bit thing up like $300,000. And then, you know, we

did Jack and I do a deal. But it shows that it sold for $300,000. And now all these cars are worth way more because not sold. It happens all the time. Not to bring not at Bear Jackson. Yeah. Where I work for it because Bear Jackson is a hundred percent no reserve auction. So you don't see much of the people like to say, oh, there's money laundering when something goes crazy. That's not the thing. The other options where there's a reserve. Then the people know what

the reserve is. So they'll they'll set on realistic reserve. And then they can bid it up to that comfort level. And then all reserve not met at $700,000 on the Tesla Roadster. Oh, what a shame. And then a couple months later the car pops up for sale. Oh, it's for sale for $600,000. But I saw I got bit up to seven. This is a deal I better buy. These people should have taken the money.

“Like, what a deal. And so obviously, there's some of that going on. Obviously, if you want to”

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So I talked about, my money problems are everything's fine. Things are behind me. I didn't bottom out. But there was a point where I'm driving a Bugatti Veyron and I have less than $1,000 in my bank account, literally. Literally. And I'm thinking, I have to get a car loan on something

“to pay my bills. That's how tight things got because every month I was putting away every dollar”

I had to pay back these taxes to get caught up because obviously I'd love to pay and be caught

up on April 15th. I wasn't able to pay any quarterlies that year before that because of the home renovations going so out of control instead of that money I was putting away to pay quarterlies it was going into the house. So that's where it got so like a 500 grand for 20,000, been 2025. So every time I had October, I had to pay it. So like I was giving myself no margin whatsoever and I had to pay it wrong at the same time. Does that make you technically the poorest Bugatti

owner on the hot land? Yes. I made that joke all the time. I was the world's poorest Bugatti or the world's poorest three or so goal-wing owner. So that's why I was like, okay, I need to get out of this Bugatti. And that was the thing. I was like, I made this deal in the Bugatti November of 2024. And then my tax thing hit like I got through the home renovations and thought,

“okay, I'm done. I'm good. And then like let's let's I'm used to spending all this money every month.”

Like I'm comfortably able to like spend a hundred grand a month. Let's let's continue this theme and keep let's just keep the party up. Like what did it hit? What did so I got the Bugatti there on and obviously then the tax thing popped up and I had no cushion because I had a 15,000 car payment. I had a $8,000 mortgage now and 20,000 year property taxes and 8,000 a month mortgage and all these other expenses that we're just like before that I had a reasonable mortgage

and all this disposable income to spend on cars and that's all I did and I just took my overhead to this in like ten next my overhead for the stupid it was so stupid how do you deal with the stress of that but not well yeah I had a it happened very recently where I had a bad week I had a really bad week with the three of us I'll go away I just come back from a trip and it was supposed to be kind of a recharge trip and it was with family and kids and with the kids you know you you're

“kind of you have to do things for the kids so it's not as relaxing in the plane of the pull it's”

fun to play with your kids and all that stuff but but you're not like chilling and reading a book and just watching the waves and all that stuff and then then there's all the flights back and the flights are really long ways back with two connections you know it's so you're you're exhausted from travel but you get home the wife wants to take down Christmas wide right away and I'm a dummy and right before Christmas I put my 300 cell going in my living room with the doors up and did an

unwrapping because it's just come to Kansas and all that stuff and I'm just so burned out from from just all the December because December is the busiest month for or the biggest month for a new ad rates on that stuff so I had to put up so much content there and all these sponsor obligations and then I took a week off which was really hard for me to do and I had so much things I need to do but then the car had to get out of the living room so we could take down the Christmas tree and all that stuff so

I just wasn't thinking I went and just pushed the car out with the doors up and and it caught my house and almost ripped the door off of this $2 million 300 cell going or it's just because I such I'm so tired and brain fogged and burned out these aren't the kind of mistakes that I'd normally make like I make stupid mistakes in YouTube and how I'll happen not stuff like that and it's just total brain fart brain fog just so stupid so stupid and then that same week I get home and I pick up

the kids after a really hard long work day and I'm so brain fogged and April had just left my wife for a trip and she took my laptop charger and I needed to get going on editing the other laptop charger was in the back shop and all that stuff so I went to get it I let the dog out and then

forgot I came back in and the dog ran around to catch me because he never goes to that side of the house

and I came inside I plugged him to my laptop I started going and I went all the dog went out the dog's not his normal spot he had come around and I saw on the cameras he came around to me it's very excited to see me daddy's outside comes the door right as I slam the door in his face I never saw it I never saw it but then he's on that side of the house right by the road and he wanders out in the road and gets hit he's killed he's killed

like the wolves got the coyotes got a goose over so I think he's going over there sniffing that

“dead goose or whatever what's left the goose he's not there I'm like oh crap I have to go out”

the car and find him and I go out and pull the end of the driveway this this thing that just let me worship me is oh my god all because like I've got to get editing I got it all this stuff I've got to go up got the kids it gives the food all that stuff and normally I'm such good and multitasking so good like like like and careful and like I felt like I lost half of my my brain function like I feel brain fog I feel this lower operation of my brain because I've been

just foot on the gas for so long this is going so hard and that was like obviously devastating just yeah the stating but then at the same time I'm just like this is reset I talked about it like I had set it before in a previous video like this this this reset's happening and I need to I need to take it easier and that was the whole point of selling the Bugatti and just trying to make things easier on myself rather than like I have to do this or I lose everything like I

didn't have a cushion and I just realized like okay we're resetting where this this this is this is the the pivotal moment the turning point of just like I can't I can't operate like this anymore and so I you're seeing the new me I mean this this is the so I did bear Jackson I like I couldn't stop so the dog unfortunately got hit and then I had to go the next few days and go do bear Jackson it was how do you keep it together I just had to do it so I did bear Jackson and you know so

and that's very grueling that's five days of television the last two days are 10 hours each so I'm doing 20 hours of live television in 34 hours or something like that because there's like a there's

“like a 14 hour break in between and you're 10 hours non stop television and you have to think”

something to say on every single car and the last day on Saturday the main announcer the main my main co host loses his voice and I have to kind of not I've almost quarterback the thing but let there's other guys that do a great job but a lot more work for me and no break for 10 hours so then like okay I need to reset so then like I get invitation to go speak in California and

it involves Google and AAA and some amazing opportunity me Google executives I never met before

and some things that was a really cool opportunity so I could I had to say yes to that but that meant home for two days on a plane again and then you text me up and say hey you got to come on this podcast especially after doing Doug Demiro I'm home three days I have to do it again this is this is the last of that whistle stop tour of of me sit like like Doug Demiro talked about it so well about about him being able to take his foot off the gas focus on family and just and how

“yes he did that so hard for so long but but you just can't forever and I I am at that point now”

where I've made some moves and made some steps and everything everything is good now I like in an immediate way I like I knew I'd get through all this stuff but I already know like things are things are so good and and everything's so amazing at home with my kids with with April

it's just so incredible to have like a new outlet for my YouTube as far as doing a second channel

with with my my wife April Rose who has a you know big meeting background we we met working at Barrett Jackson all that stuff so that like the pieces are there for this amazing wonderful life and it just requires me to not be as frantic and for me to simplify things at least 30% and it's so doable and I so this this is you're seeing the the page turn right now right so well we really appreciate you coming on the show I had no idea that it was in the middle of such a chaotic no I mean it's you know

I I really wanted to do it especially Doug like man like you know Doug you know he was talking about something else so that the other than me and it's like okay I got to find up some revenge Doug Demaro stories you know since he's decided to just really tell who he's story so I got one what's

the story I got one so my first time ever meeting Doug Demaro you know the Doug's a little

little off the wall and like a little unfiltered you know as far as like you know his takes especially when the cameras are off and like his he'll he'll he'll say his any things and like like almost like sign-feldian kind of observations with a little bit of that kind of stuff and so his behaviors somewhat that on YouTube but then in person joking around with his friends he's it's it's next level of observations like we're having dinner and he's like commenting on the

dinner and the weird things about the quirks and features of dinner and stuff so I had worked with him for I don't know six months or a year I'd followed him from jolopnic over to auto trader I begged him to hire me at auto trader and like cinema cold email and and he was kind enough to get me on to write with him auto trader at the time I hadn't really done many YouTube videos yet but we're six months or a year and and I'm in New York for something and I know he's in Philadelphia which is relatively

rental car I think like I was making fun of a Mercedes CLA rental car so to like what I do today rent something on tour or whatever and on tour you can make fun of someone else's car because you're running it versus like having to take a dealerships car and say nice things about all

stuff so we meet in Princeton New Jersey and I'm with my girlfriend at the time and the first thing

out of Doug's mouth he's like you know to gay men you are very handsome I had this gay friend that thinks you are the most attractive car youtuber on the planet and if you are single and interested in men he would date you in an instant are you single and interested in men my girlfriend is sitting

“right here like with me in like he knew that you were in their relationship yes I think this is”

open or to like like the size breaker with me or first meeting and then through the night you know it's like oh you know but just making little jokes about this game and thinking I'm so beautiful that he's friends with and just and little in you knew is there and things like like this is very odd like this is very strange and obviously we're having great car conversations all that stuff but he's so fixated on his gay friend that it finds me hot and then so then we get

and relieve and my girlfriend at the time I was really weird and it actually made her like uncomfortable he's like hello I'm sitting here I exist and like he he says two times that he mentioned it it was at least four five time where he like where he would circle back to it as a joke and I'm playing along I and maybe I exist on a little bit it was like oh you know it's like okay that's nice you know

but I don't remember exactly but for whatever reason that was my first encounter in person

with Doug Demiro and it's a working relationship where he's kind of my boss so it was a very odd it's very odd obviously we you know we're close and we get along and text all that stuff so when he started telling these stories about me I'm just like okay and I texted and I said I'm doing the revenge story like and I'm doing this and he's so they're I got it out so I got you back Doug she's he used to pretend to be a wealthy buyer he has a Ferrari chance before I knew him that's

before I knew him but yeah but he didn't have any cars and he's like in high school or college or whatever and pretend to be have every single rare for our allocation and talk about what it was like to own them and drive them and all that stuff that was before I knew him I was a fan of his from Jalopnic and loved his writing and wanted sort of emulate him because I was sort of doing similar things but at a cheaper level well back when he was doing like the car max range over

that really put him on the map you know I bought a range rover for less than a car max warranty and then tried to fix it so I was I was doing it on his vein for articles for writing and it wasn't doing videos at the time so he was on an encourage me to do YouTube videos along with my articles and that that was the that was the explosion point for me was was sort of writing Doug's coat tails with that and being encouraged by that because I was getting paid for the article

“and so I doing a video along with it made sense and that that's what gave me like the discipline”

to write two articles a week and then I would just do a video talking about whatever I said in the article like about my own cars or something else and that's how my YouTube channel started so I have Doug to thank for that but you did mention that you've made some changes that have immediately rewarded you with a higher quality of life what were those changes you did I sold some things to where I have a bit of a cushion and that that helped but it is just a

matter of like now I can I've gotten through all these obligations that I said that I was going to do like show up to this wonderful podcast which I would love to do anyway so but but then now I'm through with all these obligations I know like okay I've gotten myself through the home renovation through the taxes through the dump through all the dump stuff that I did I've gotten myself through all of it I've come out I've survived and now it's it's back to building up a workshop doing some

responsible things I don't need the is it's a help movie 12 at the gmail.com or something like that but I just I'm there's going to be a cushion there and then there's going to be an ability to say no there's not going to be me selling six brand deals in a month or eight brand deals to where I know I have to make eight videos and hustle to to do that and I don't need to say yes to every single travel opportunity and be on 20 flights in in 30 days which you guys are tough on that too

“I'm kind of matching with your podcast a lot of traveling and meeting with people that's what you”

have to do but man airlines are just so so sulking and that like I I think I had my first ever

thought I was having a heart attack but I think it was a nervous breakdown of the flight because I bought the glowing and I had a film crew to film this glowing thing and the flight was delayed and I was going to miss the film crew that I already paid for and missed this opportunity with the car all blown apart like in thousand pieces and the people the class center were waiting for me to get this car together in three days to where you go to a rally and because I'm stuck in this plane

because the catering didn't show up on this thing and it missed a connection or whatever and it's just like I don't need to I don't need to do that to myself so and then just just just slowing down also getting like lab work done and things and I think all the stress definitely lowered my

testosterone and that gives you the brain fog and all that stuff and like things are just

“harder and drooping and all that stuff so like I hadn't seen a doctor in years as far not just just”

did like get me checked out I'm healthy I'm reasonably fit but I like the brain fog and the tiredness of taking everything and then just making these stupid mistakes and and the impatience and it's just it's just just slowing down and I have all the pieces of an of a wonderful life and there's so much to appreciate there's compared to where I was you know

it just some everything's in place for things to be amazing and it's time to start enjoying it

and that that's just like a switch flip it out so we can start with the mentality no too like the mentality is the first thing to change that will actually make a real impact in your life and you know what that remind me of is I would find it difficult for me to find myself in that same position because I have so many people in my life that tell me no like if I'm going to do something that's like hey like I'm gonna exhaust myself my mom will be like don't burn the candle at

both ends or like Graham should I do this he's like no or I'll even say hey I'm gonna do this and Graham just says no don't do that he won't be like oh interesting why like people will just trade up tell me now jack got I mean I remember this you got to set when you wanted to walk a hundred miles or it was like walking from Vegas to LA and you were excited about it and I was like jack that's a that's a bad idea don't do that that's dumb why would you do that I shot it down I didn't

even give a word of encouragement not a simple like oh that's interesting why would you want to do nothing I guess what I did he did it I did it and I love it so like that was one of the things where I stuck to my guns yeah but a lot of the times like I do have people in my life where

“if I say something is like absolutely not and I think that helps and I don't know if you”

have people that you're receptive to some sort of criticism like if you have a best friend that's like hey I noticed you've been a little bit like why don't you go see a doctor why don't

you know I mean the the marrying April has been an amazing support system for all that and since

she comes from the this level of you know entertainment and maybe all that stuff and all the things that she's accomplished in her life she understands it gets it so that that helps a lot but I think a lot of it was also me just wanting to not decline as far as the views wanting to stay relevant wanting to continue to grow and it's been ten years man like what what what what what do I have left to prove what do I need to accomplish why do I need to to chase

diversion to his level of insanity or you try and keep up with Matt Armstrong it's rebuilding an exotic everything all week you know like what like like they they can continue to do that for as long as they want an adventure and you know of course they're exploding and doing incredible right now and it's it's their moment in the sun why why can't I just I can't I don't have to be that guy all the time forever it's just it's not necessary it's a chasing cloud and chasing all that I put

way too much focus on on basically staying relevant and and still having cloud it doesn't matter

so have you made this change already or is this like the last thing you're doing before making

“it's is it that's why I said this is sort of the last stop and then I've just decided that”

I'm going to limit myself and and and and and keep myself like focus on the videos like that are gonna make me happy and put out videos that I want to put out rather than ones like okay I have to get a video out because I have this sponsored for this this and this so the ones that I really like that been with me for a long time I'll stick with them the the ones that are a little edgy and like I don't and do I really want to say yes to that

yeah but and too many of those it's just the sheer quantity of it it's you know it's really hard really hard to turn that off I told myself the same thing so many times and I get a little better at it but then some opportunity comes up and I'm like well I can't say no to that I know and then I do it and then something else comes up that's equally as good I'm like well I can't say no to that and then another thing and then all of a sudden like well I would be dumb not to do these things

because what else am I going to do otherwise and then I just load up yeah but for YouTube for me with the car stuff because because there's other YouTubers that are doing so much more now and their content it's it's much longer it's not 10 or 15 minutes videos for for car YouTube it is 30 45 minute videos where you're doing so much in one video and it's I have to get these out for the sponsors I have to cut it off here before there's like a good payoff before like okay

we know everything that's wrong let's try and fix one thing or you know but that's but that you can negotiate it's not the placement it's I have to post six videos a month and so I have to get this video out and I can't delay it I can't like if I do so I have to like okay it's going to take a week for this part to come in I can't delay the video because I have the sponsor obligation so I have to get the video out even though it's like okay this isn't like in a special with cars

there's nothing I really really goes to plan and things can go sideways and it doesn't work out like you have a plan to do this today with this car and it doesn't go right but you want to persevere

when I post it needs to be and of it and people will tuning oh my god to varnish is posted video

“it's an update on his p1 it's not going to be him sitting and just pulling his thumb he's”

going to do something real and I need to do that but also it's just I also want to do something that I enjoy and if it's six sponsors or seven eight sponsors like then I'm like rack in my brain oh my god what I'm going to do what I'm going to do versus like the the creativity the organic like of just like letting opportunities present themselves and letting cool things but rather than rather than having to just create it or you know click bait or whatever just get people

tune in to watch me standing my garage flailing talking about like here's my collection and here's

everything that's broken this month and it's like I want it to be how it was before where it was

it was it was real but also I know I have to do more in the videos to do well so you're a player but I don't know but I don't know egal zauber word for lust for track

“make the whole thing like that and when they then work, he says catching that's right save like that”

star hold it there and now post news out for me the new one a book a book what is it that's not a love a guest make this on him just before he often won't run nor not tell her it's not tell her wouldn't it added level of like financial comfortability be of like used to you like an improvement to your life yeah it would and that's that's the other part where I need to do that and now that I've gotten all these big obstacles out of the way now I still have that level of

income and let's say I have it for two years let's say I'll have it for five years now is the time to make a plan and and be smart and just not feel stressed about that and living on the edge and there's so many channels that operate that way and that's how I mean you guys have interviewed Mr. Beast and he has no money in his account obviously he's a he's a billionaire on paper but he like he's happy to spend every dime that he makes next leveling is content that's how

he built up so fast and the Mr. Beastification of YouTube that's what everybody else had to do and I just felt like I needed to keep up and then at the same time I made some bad decisions financially that I thought you know I have another bucket and it just didn't work so so what's your plan then to get more financially comfortable well it's not too much stupid stuff for this starting point but

“I think it's just now I'm at the point where I can start putting away but here's the thing”

that it doesn't seem like you're making dumb decisions and the amount like everything that you've talked about seems smart it seems like the right choice on paper it's just something happened along the way that made it go sideways well no the the the leveling up of cars that that they run and that because you got to think when I had that they run and before it I had three Ferrari's three Lamborghinis SLR SLS at the same time I was I was carrying heavy on that and then rather than

sell them at the very beginning when things started to get weird I started financing and then I had four car loans or something that once and then did the lease which was wonderful but the goal wing was too soon it was my ultimate dream car but it became stressful because the timing of it I needed to get out of the bayron I couldn't find any buyer for the bayron but the goal wing was like my ultimate dream car so it was like at least I'm stretching to do

like the car that I've wanted my entire life but it didn't run and it needed $100,000 an work that I had to pay so that was that was the other final just like that done so it didn't you get really lucky though with the goal wing with values just going through the roof yes yes so when I sell that car that's the car where like it's my end all be all dream car and there everybody's like are you gonna keep that forever and I say I don't know like the kind of like

the kuntouch that was my more realistic dream car mind I grew up with that poster on the wall the Lamborghini kuntouch poster is actually my dad's poster from college and I thought you know man I got it again but then we're four years in I hadn't driven the car maybe three times in six months so what am I doing I don't need to I don't need to keep this I don't need it so I

feel like the goal wing there'll be all these amazing opportunities to do all the things I

have dreamed about with the goal wing Mercedes classic has been so incredible Mercedes brand itself as far as them being on board with a youtuber that's not 80 years old loving these cars and and you're getting into it and they see the value of that so they've invited me out

revival and then I can go afterwards and drive it you know dirt through the town river and pull

“up to the monococcusine all that stuff like the things I've dreamed of doing my entire life once I've”

done everything with that car will I keep it that's the thing I don't know I feel like I feel like they'll be a point where like okay I'll sell this and then have relief and just be and just be okay and content and content with like the photos and memories that I had the car I don't need to I don't need to hang onto it forever you could retire with that car at the rate the values are climbing what do you think you'd be able to sell it for well I almost ripped the door off and yeah it's

in the body shop right now that's the thing that that car this all for $2.6 million was really

really nice and we sold one that was a fresh restoration two years ago for three and a half non-alloyed body car this one at saffron ten years it got revived relatively easily with a paint job this thing would be really this thing already was pretty nice as it has been 40 years since it had a paint job it was a really nice restoration for a really nice car to be again with with a paint job and some bright work maybe 100 grand it would be a $2 million car

“easily maybe 2.2 it's numbers matching everything all that stuff so yeah I'm sitting it pretty good”

but and I could sell it right now and now make some money but I do think now that I have it I should do the I should experience the things with it now that I have it that wasn't the goal to I wanted to get out of the bayron and have some some comfort and some cushion things but

this is this deal worked and I'm going to I'm going to do it and join myself and be really happy

but also the the thought of having seven figures in my account sounds like really nice to just see on I have been so tempted there are these replicas of the 300 SL it's the Tony I forget the last name we're going to put it on screen yeah yeah these cars sell for about 250 they do my gosh it is a one it seems to me like a one to one of the thing I couldn't do it yeah well it's not the not the right engine they use a modern Mercedes and line six in it which made sense of the time

when they were building it and it's the same horsepower and stuff but no it's it's it's at the same I've driven enough the cars like it is a very how is it different well it's the drive train different it doesn't have that same direction injection 240 horsepower it's an inline six Mercedes from the 80s or 90s the engine that they use them and that's a great engine I've had it in

E320s and things like that but it's it's not it's not the same it there's there's an up modernization

to where it's not because it's just reliable though yeah but you know I mean that's the thing about that car it's the original supercar so people say the lamb eating here is the original supercar three are still going it was originally a race car and a guy named Max Hoffman is an American there's a told Mercedes like if you build this car it's certainly a model set the record in the signal milling me and all that stuff the unbeaten record until they shut it down the the

race because it was two dangerous if you build this car for production I would sell every single one you make in the US and he was right they they made the production car with the going doors even though that made no sense of practicality wise and you know every Hollywood ailister car cable Frank Sinatra like like this was the car like oh my god not only was it gorgeous but it was the fastest car in the world and and it still drives modern because this is a tubular chassis with

you know somewhat modern suspension you know it's it's probably fast because it's 240 horsepower but also very lightweight so it nothing drives like that car from that period nothing even close

“you have to go decades newer to get a driving experience like that as far as that the tubular”

chassis now tight it is and the transmission to be able to drive car from the 50s and just row the gears like it like your 4g t like you can't do that in old cars but that car you can't how much in value do you think you're gonna lose driving in a thousand miles that zero that's the thing I haven't done the paint job yet so I scraped the door and like a little strip the door off of damage and all that stuff I could have turned it into insurance and had a full repaint done

and the car had gone for six months or whatever and that would have made a lot more sense for me to do but then I'd be terrified to drive it couldn't you just to ppf in the entire car you could but the car already has because of 30 years of smooth has things has scratches has a few painted perfect sections and things so I can drive it anywhere get a few more scratches if you are rock chips all that stuff giggle laugh all the way mileage doesn't matter on that car

it's probably already turned over once nobody really cares like there's there's no like this three or so going only has 5,000 original miles because it's almost impossible no because it's only a 5-digit odometer so it really don't literally mention that in cars like there's very few where they say this thing's documented low mileage car that it's not a thing with antique cars because and also when they restore it full of nut and bolt they reset the odometers anyway

at least cars they put it back to zero so that's that's not a thing like with 4GTs and modern super cars and things where mileage is everything it's not the same with with these old stuff so since it has a little bit of batina already I can drive it I can do all these things with it and then when I'm done make it the night one of the nicest goings on the planet and then I can do the show circuit I can sell it do you think they're a good investment let's just say you

that but there's also is there enough people are age and younger that are going to appreciate a three or so going right now like I did the going rally and how's the youngest person there that was an owner by 30 years they're all the owners are much older and are they going to still appreciate that car there's some younger people coming in there's a lot of cool events like the Colorado brand and the California meal like in the you know thousand mile rallies that you

have to have a car that's that's pre 50 something 1950 something to participate in and it's it's a really neat thing that younger people getting more involved with and also younger people are

enjoying analog cars and things so there's going to be all three or so go wings always going to be an

icon but is it going to be it's not it's already old and it's not 10 million dollars unless it's a salary body so it's not like it's going to go that way and less obviously inflation you know about 10 million dollars cars is a a million dollar cars what it feels like you know now so I don't

“think so I think there's a lot smarter cars to buy in the modern era that like we've seen recently”

with with numbers on f40s and f50s and endos and things where it's kind of so crazy that that the smarter money would be in something a few decades newer obviously in the 80s or 90s but so it's not a voice of the worst place to park money so what do you think is a good buy right now is an investment I like I don't really think like Doug D'Miro and that kind of stuff where I saw he did some great ones and all that stuff I don't really think like that because I've

always just wanted to buy a car to to tell a story and not lose my butt on so it's not something

that I'm constantly thinking about like oh if I get this now like it'll be something that goes away I know that's that you leave eat live and that's all you think about and it's not I think about it like is this gonna tell a story and am I gonna lose my butt on it and I try not to do that but like for our 430 Scooteria seems to be one where it's the we're starting to see

“little blips of one sell for a lot more than the current $400 to $450 that like I think we're in the”

last few breaths of that the 360 challenged Riddale has already gone to a crazy level so the 430s are starting to follow like the 458 special y'all appearances and it's all that stuff already gone crazy so this is that that may be a little pocket there I think the early Gaiarda Superling Jarras very limited production they're also very harsh cars in their e-gears and now that you can do conversions and stuff maybe a little better but yeah the Gaited Gaiardos are definitely a thing

the R8 V10 Gaited cars are so comfortable and so good that that's something you'll never get again

so that that any any that those old analog Supercars are definitely safe at least for sure so how do you like the load of a spree that you just purchased well I have the lease and the spree right now so the the lease was easy because of the Toyota drive train to go through and sort of out the the the spree V8 we're gonna go and take it to the wizard inspection all this stuff

“but if I reached out to a couple of shops to try and find the trans through someone who would”

rebuild the transmission of things that sinkro and they haven't replied yet so this is one of those cars where the parts availability and the support is just that there's a lot of enthusiasts out there that are keeping them going there's definitely some parts but they're it's not like the I need to research a lot more and I'm sure the answers are there and to figure things out but right now it's a little scary because it's just not obvious to me because I haven't done anything with

yet the car drives amazing I mean twin turbo flat plane crank V8 350 horsepower they originally supposed to be 500 horsepower but they got the transmissions from no and they just couldn't take the power with obviously mines crunching so they're that's the weak point of them but and the looks are just insane they're insane and that's a car that's I got for $40,000 and the exact same car the the highest sell point I'm bringing trailer was one for 3,000 miles for 220 so obviously I'm

sitting pretty good and we talked about that guy getting speed just gaming mean a lot of stuff he bought it for $45 and then I got it for $40 and then he had to pay the fees so he lost $8,000 grand on the car so I like I know he lost money on top of that so I'm sitting in it very well if if it can get sorted out if I can get that transmission crunched go away if I can find a roof panel and fix all the other stuff up it would probably be a car that I make some money on but that's

obviously and if I don't I don't know yet so what car brands are consistently unreliable who it's it's weird because I don't think there's any brand that there's always one that the model that's that's an exception to the rule and everybody's kind of up and down right now you know Lotus obviously was was horrible for vulnerability and then they went with Toyota engines and completely changed their image so I'm trying to think of a brand that's just consistently bad you know there's all the

stuff with I guess Kona said right now with you know with with the serviceability and you James office's documented his journey and some other you know big YouTubers talking about the the toughness with that that's at the level of of money and car that I don't live in and understand

it's just a service cost they didn't make it very serviceable for things but it's not something it's gonna leave on the side of the road but you know every automaker has it's up and down so like right now Ford's doing pretty good and Chevy's doing terrible because they had those six two V8's they had engine problems and like every single GM 6.2 liter V8 right now is is just a ticking time pump from 2014 to now and they did a recall they extended the warranty

and changed the oil weights on us to try and fix it but it's just a bandate until they redesigned the engine so total junk right now whereas Ford was pretty good but then 10 years ago Ford had an incredibly defective engine with their main trucks the 5.4 liter V8 that had campasers and

things and those were blowing up 100,000 miles so it's always like it just they kind of trade

off and like oopsie of as far as mistakes but I guess BMW would be one where they consistently figure out a way to engineer something that just just is a hand grenade and when they saw that issue then they accidentally come up with another hand grenade and it's like it's such a but such a job where some brands like Toyota just consistently like not getting out of the park and they're so reliable but like Toyota's not else Toyota's blowing it has about a yeah Toyota's another one

this is new to me Toyota switched from the V8's and their trucks and big SUVs to twin turbo V6's

“and they had to recall every single one of them I think they replaced 100,000 engines”

wow and in these trucks because it's this new thing of going from an old school gas

guzzling V8 that pollutes to high-strong twin turbo 4 cylinder 6 cylinder all that stuff

putting it in these big trucks and then the new changing the totally changing everything and then this high-strong twin turbo V6 with with weak parts that are getting boosted now with with you know 1520 pounds of boost and they just they can't handle it and boom so now even Toyota's are not what they used to be no and a lot of them are hybrids the new like the new 4-runner or the blankroes are the new land cruiser is now based as a hybrid and it's you don't want an off-road

hybrid you know four-wheel drive vehicle like on the trail like it's just it's a way to do it it's just purely just to get the miles per down and higher a lot of it yeah because there were federal mandates to get the MPG higher and it's not just the US it's all over the world as far as building a product that meets these mandates for the European Union for other thing going electric

“and having these mandates for you have to be a certain MPG in certain electric and all that stuff”

so they're they're struggling with that and and also it's yeah it's just what consumers are wanting fuel efficiency and power and obviously smaller packaging it makes sense to have a smaller engine and cheaper to build I imagine in that sense but it's so complicated like I don't know if they're winning or not because obviously the prices on cars have just skyrocketed as well because it's one thing in the 80s you bought an old-smobile you know cutless for 10,000 bucks 8,000 bucks and it

lasted the 10 years throw it away whatever it rusted apart but now it's just $80,000 for you know an normal full-size truck and and they don't make it 100,000 miles it's insane so what car brand do you think is criminally underrated I feel like Cadillac is one that is just low-key crush ing it right now with their products as far as like the new electric stuff the Lyric they made actually something that's just beautiful normally electric cars are people buying them yeah

they're actually selling well really selling well very surprising you would not expect Cadillac to be losing like out selling so many other electric brands with with the Lyric and the Optique and then you know they made the Escalade EV out of that platform where the Hummer EV is already there and then this Chevy Silver Audi V Cadillac took that platform and actually made a really bougie SUV that's electric the people actually want and they're actually selling some of it and then

they're still making legitimate performance sedans too they can still get with manual transmission and all that stuff so they're catering to enthusiast more than BMW and Mercedes now offering you know twin turbo V8 manual transmission cars and people like out Cadillac old man brand which

they've been fighting for 30 years now and I feel like they've kindly made it finally made it

and also low key turn things around where you see reports were like okay Cadillac's having big growth each quarter it's interesting because we brought this up to Doug and we asked him who were even bungling cars from Cadillac, Buick, Buick, Buick, Buick, Buick that's much from Lincoln, Chrysler, like who wants a new car and they're like a cam going straight to the Accura dealership Accura sells decently well they sell new bikes they have a keybar why in Accura instead of

“anything else well here's the thing so Accura shares a platform with Cadillac the Lyric they have”

a Cadillac Honda whatever it's some sort of Honda like not a Odyssey or something like that but it's it's the same platform built in America along with the Chevy Blazer EV and the Cadillac Lyric

those that's basically the same car underneath so it's Cadillac I'm very smart and it's not just my buys because I have like an O5 Cadillac escalating all that stuff but that's like the baller car for that period you know so what about Buick Buick they messed up a big time like they they tried to do the revival with the Grand National and the 80's having that one cool

kind of Darth Vader car and then they never really built a car since then because they went front

we'll drive that platform and they never built something that catered to enthusiasts and now it's just like a budget brand but it's not because it's more expensive than Chevy so who's buying it but like I've literally never met someone who's like yeah I just got a new car Buick it's a value

“prospect where like they literally are selling a car for China or they wore I think they'd”

deposit because of the the tariffs and stuff they had like a luxurious looking pretty thing that was built in China for twenty something thousand dollars across over so people were buying that but Buick they definitely it was crazy that they dropped Pontiac but kept Buick it was because it sold well in China and and Buick was a big brand in China so they weren't gonna drop that band but but brand but Pontiac was was such a cool and enthusiastic again people like like the

Pontiac we were like we thought for hand-hams were cool when we were kids the g the g six even those are junkie car based on the coal ball the g six was cool you know that's that's where they they messed up so what car company are you extremely bearish on and you just think they're gonna fail I don't I don't think any of the things gonna fail globally but as far as pulling out of the United States Volvo they keep selling it and they keep changing hands to people that keep losing money

asked and martens another one where there's always seems to be some kind of billionaire that wants

to own a car company that that buys uh asked and martens and just wants to bail it out and and lose a bunch of money and then the next person buys it and loses a bunch of money Lamborghini was one of those brands where it just kept changing hands to people that were just losing their butts and finally got absorbed into full-taggingality and finally turned a profit but as to martens one of those brands where it just doesn't work in the U.S. it's too expensive

and the depreciation is just so extreme that they can't get rid of those cars. Mazzarotti is another one who's really tough because they were getting Ferrari derived engines and they were designed by Peninferina and now they don't get for our engines anymore because for our he's building an SUV and you know more you know consumer cars so they don't want to help Mazzarotti anymore as so that those could all I could I don't see them like disappearing but I see them like pulling

out of the U.S. this corrosion was the last big one I suppose which is recently but there's all those little startups. there's electric car startups obviously there's one that comes and goes all the time but is there any car company that you think just shouldn't exist trying to think I mean Mitsubishi right now makes no sense like why does it what is it I mean it doesn't make any sense

“because they have I think what two cars that people don't want as far as like the outlander”

that's the SUV that gets beaten in every segment as far as like people that like like Honda Toyota build this car for the same money and it's a much better product but it's for a Japanese

car and then they're mirage which I think they finally quit making it's a company that it's only

like why are they even trying to sell the U.S. it's kind of like Suzuki pulled out of the U.S. because they just like why keep trying like there's no point like our products don't resonate with an American audience we mostly build little cars for for countries that you know like need small cars to like because they're their world countries or whatever so they just don't have the product lineup that Americans need so why continue selling in the U.S. why keep trying if you want to get a car

with zero ongoing maintenance one hundred you get probably be Tesla's I guess would be really easy just keep going just like a like a used model three I feel like it'd be really easy to just this doesn't have the air suspension problems it doesn't have the weird door handles all that stuff so that that's probably one where it's pretty easy what do you think I would say Tesla yeah what do you think of people that drive Tesla's doesn't bother me at all I've had a lot of

had cyber truck about all this plan I have the model X now I don't I don't they're interesting

“things to me that's one technology I think you need a Tesla Roadster yeah in fact if you want to buy”

really yeah you know I'm a junkie but it's that one's too nice it's not the cheapest one it's not had any bad things happened I guess you've already fixed all the problem so what's the point right so but yeah the Roadster's definitely interesting it's it's it's I wouldn't mind buying a whoop do you want to try and bring it back for sure which car stereotypes are absolutely true I don't know if it's a brand stereotype but it definitely like the type I feel like at least in Kansas

the brodozer types as far as the lifted trucks and the squad of trucks that Muslim diesel makes one of where it is a definite like look at me kind of thing at the cost of safety and practicality it's definitely an individual that's that's not like obviously if they're willing to sacrifice like the stability and the ride of their car with a noisy tires and like a rough ride and having to climb out of with a ladder and all that stuff just for attention it's usually that type

of person is is is pretty a little rough to deal with at least in in my experience no one

cars yeah so bear Jackson six years now at bear Jackson we just had the the big Scottsdale so they

“do four auctions a year January is the biggest one they have almost 2,000 car selling no reserve”

that's the the only auction where all the cars are no reserve there's sometimes a few exceptions when something's worth millions of dollars they'll put a reserve on it but unlike any other auction in the country if it sells for a dollar if it sells for a million dollars you don't know so the the crazy part is it a normal Corvette so like a blue chip investor 63 Corvettes split window with the factory fuel injection three four hundred thousand dollars you take that car you rip out

all those guts you put in a modern LS you put in a roadster's top chassis you put in a beautiful modern custom interior all the modern conveniences to where it runs drive stops like a new car but looks like a 63 Corvette it is six 800 thousand dollars so now we're in live in a world where the customs the rest of mods bring more than these blue chip collectible of the of the exact

same car where 10 years ago you never would have imagined that a custom car would be anything usually

like people are building custom cars so they're taste and it's like oh they're LS swapping it last kind of gross but now it's it's a whole industry of these guys spending their entire year of their lives building one car to bring to bear Jackson where the detail is just off the charts and there's even been one this guy named Jeff Hayes work got he got a million dollars for a 63 Corvette custom nothing special it was a car that probably you know started life like the frame was

rusted and the engine was not numbers matching probably something he bought for like 2030 grand as a shell and built it into this thing that the components itself probably cost him you know 200 thousand dollars the most probably so the craftsmanship the hours he put into it unbelievable takes the sell and gets a million bucks and you just it's just unbelievable what people are paying for to have that old school retro look and experience but it doesn't drive like one and that's that's the

been the biggest trend change in the collecting car market as far as with bear Jackson how often

“is it the people try to sell stolen cars oh it's not not too much of that honestly at least”

at these collector auctions because they do a lot of due diligence and things and also on the on the collector cars they have experts that come in at least at bear Jackson and some of these things and there's there's an expert for mopars his name is Dave Weiss and he comes in and he'll look at say my himmy super bird wise hold it a few years ago and he'll check not just the vinn number and the engine number all that stuff but he's going to check all the hidden places and make sure

all the stuff lines up because you can vinn swap especially on the collector cars he just cut it off and put another one on you can do all these things and a lot of people will do this because you know like there's so many heavy super birds that exist so if you can find those crashed and the vinn no longer exist but then you take one and like swap the vinn's and things so there was shady stuff that went on years ago but now with these panel effects coming in that's one of the

great things about bear Jackson some of these other auctions there's a lot more due diligence as far as really getting into and expecting like he literally crawled in the trunk of my car I was looking up at the parcel shelf and making sure that that number matched what any super bird was and everything so it's very fascinating that sense to see that versus you know buying online and there's not that level of inspection usually so what's the chance right now that you're

driving a stolen car oh I mean pretty low at this point it's it's really sad for the older cars when you buy them and you hear the stories of somebody buying this car this fresh restored than they go and registered in different state and it comes back as stolen when they inspect and find a different vinn and then this person paid the money in the car's taken away and it's returned to this right-flowing or 30-40 years later but a lot of states have changed

and in Kansas was one of them where they now the states talk to each other so they'll do a vinn search when you register a car from out of state and they'll check to make sure it's not listed as stolen or anything's different in a bunch of different states so it's not as big of an issue as it used to be like I'm from Kansas City used to be a thing where you could get around and get some shady title stuff done and now it's all home I think that was still you were able to do it for

while but I think they finally close that stuff up what about the car you're driving right now oh so the turtle rentals so that yeah that's in the fun part because you could see that sounded too good of a deal like it's worried something to me even like when you said that you rented a Ferrari 488 for three days for $800 yeah with a like a newer account on turtle and it's like what

so I always look for stuff like that on turtle to do reviews on the second channel I would travel

because it makes sense to the you know I'd off the rental and also make a video and make money all that stuff so I did the look for the deals and a lot of times when you're you're new to turtle and you don't have any reviews yet you set it for a lower price to where you can get

“the rentals and the positive reviews and all that stuff and I feel like that's what this is so”

has a temporary tag on it that's expired now by two weeks and they told me at the beginning hey we don't have the title yet so we're still in the expired tag that sounds shady because

I accidentally registered one of my cars like on the day it expired and they just give you a

printout immediately like as soon as you pay they say here's a pdf that you could print out of your current registration and you're all your stuff there you go and then we'll mail it to you and it's usually a few days wow so sometimes you have a pdf printout like yeah I have the registration so the registered it so I have that it's in there they just haven't or they get no they bought it from the dealerships so I have the temporary or the dealer they bought it from

“from another state I think I don't I don't know what's going on it's yeah it's definitely weird”

I've done somewhere I get a turtle and it has like in California just the dealer played on the back and no registration so it's like the one guy was using his dealer inventory

on turtle until he sold it I think I hope it wasn't stolen but that's that's the thing with

rentals where yeah they can steal a car from a dealer lot or something like that and there were one of those one recently there was one that had 20 30 stolen cars so they was putting it on turtle and he was everything one of them was wrapped and just color changed with a wrap or something like that to where obviously like that's my car on turtle so they would they would modify it enough to where it didn't look obviously like a stolen car but obviously eventually they figured

out and and broke up on a huge theft ring there which is interesting because usually on the exotic cars they just take him down to Mexico and the cartel guys drive him around so as weird

“to somebody was actually keeping them in the US and renting them on turtle because that's more”

of the issue with exotic and stolen cars right now is I need my Bugatti my G63 my nice car shipped from this place to this place and you put it out on a dispatch to get picked up on this brokerage because all that central dispatch and the person that picks it up is a scammer takes it

holds it to Mexico the car never shows up at its destination and by the time you know something

wrong it's already gotten out of the country so that that's the huge issue right now as far as with Carthept is it isn't shipping and dealer selling a car to deliver to a customer and it disappears somewhere between there and it's up in Mexico and there's a you know a cartel member like posting on Instagram with the it when your world's voice calling it that you're supposed to get in Florida you know that that's that's a huge epidemic right now so I've seen on Facebook

these incredible deals on cars but then in the description you'll say I don't have a title but we'll do a bill of sale and I remember screen shotting is incredible Mercedes EQS and it was

“like fully loaded I think it was even like a 580 yeah and they wanted like 20 grand for the car”

yes and it was a sketchy guy who like was one of those face mask sort of things where you just see like this slits of the eyes and stuff like your skiing almost yeah newer account what's the scam in that like so you buy the car like how does anyone get around that with that one I feel like it's a car like the EQS was 110 thousand dollar car I bought one for $34,000 used to depreciate it it's just three or four years old the depreciation unreal so that the people that

got stuck owning those cars are so far upside down that they they they wanted to get stolen they they they purposely have it stolen either that or a lot of times they will sell the car for as much as they can get with no title and they're already screwed anyway so then you know then the cars gone it's it's it's rather than getting it repot and getting collected there then obviously they have the car stolen by some different means and they can they can

collect on insurance that way with with people that have gap insurance there was the old joke if you were a car dealer and somebody was way upside down so they would 10 or 20 grand more their cars worth it's that you know you're not gonna get hurt if you drive into a treat about 30 miles an hour and you aim for the front right of the car then it definitely totals it out and you get insurance and you have gap insurance that pays the negative equity and then you can get a new car

so that was one thing where you could advise that is that actually people do that yeah ton of that especially if it doesn't the flood one is the most common if there is if there is a flooded area all kind of cars get showed up and parked there so they can get flooded and collected insurance and get done and in Florida it is it is like a national past time to like where's the hurricane gonna hit let's park it on the street you know that that's that is a thing thousand percent

because I've seen photos of these like really nice cars just in the middle of like the water or something happens and I'm usually thinking oh man that's unfortunate so you're saying they're they're looking forward to these opportunities yeah whose street parks they're Ferrari on you know on the coast when a hurricane is coming like okay nobody does that just another one I've seen people of video some of these cars sports cars driving through like three feet of water yes

and I'm thinking oh man they must be stuck yes that could be insurance of like hey I don't realize how deep it is oh shit it's four feet and the floor is kind of ruined I drive out of this thing oh man yep if you have a Ferrari S F 90 that you paid $700 for and you

upside down you're gonna do it the most famous one is the Bugatti Bayeron that went to the lake

it's like the original viral video you remember seeing it where the guy said it was a seagull and then he just happened to be getting filmed by people going oh my god that's a Bugatti Bayeron and it just splashes into the ocean it's one of the most famous insurance frauds ever in this guy went to jail briefly for it because he then he he was just got a little tight on money and he

“just wanted to collect insurance on his Bugatti and happened to be in Florida I think that it was”

no it was Galveston Texas it was still Florida adjacent close enough and this guy just splashed it in there so it it is rampant it's also frustrating because insurance rates on cars are so high now and I I feel like there's there's a lot of fraud with that where that that's definitely a factor in in why insurance is is pretty expensive now if you wanted to completely obliterate your personal finances which cars would you buy? well I guess yeah every single new modern Ferrari and all that

stuff and he basically yeah going brand new hard with a new myboc or a new Rolls-Royce Con and this yeah any any of the McLaren's you know all the all the McLaren's ones that are just unbelievable appreciation asked in Martin's getting a $250,000 asked Martin S. UV and see it go down to like 80 and two years thousand dollars so it's crazy so do the wealthiest people then buy these asked in Martin's since they can stomach the depreciation or are the wealthiest

people just buying like the the colonns and like the ridiculously expensive cars like them are a

million dollar car even yeah they're either so rich they don't care or they're leasing them

“and I think that's where where you know that it's a certain level and obviously to sell cars”

they're overwhelming on the lease and even these manufacturers don't even realize how bad they're they're losing their butts on you know the residual value of the cars so they turn up and the lease returns with this massive depreciation you hope like someone who did a 120,000 dollar Mercedes EQS like we were talking about if they least it they were okay but if they bought it they were smoked they just totally smoked and it's so funny because

it's the same price as an S class and then this is the electric S class the normal S class goes down to about 60 these went down to 30 and you know that's the electric car it's it's crazy because it doesn't look like an S class that's not it just looks like a weird kind of pre-iss Mercedes mashup and the build quality isn't there that was the other thing about me owning this car there's $120,000 worth the same as a normal Mercedes S class which is the standard of the

world for build quality and I go and close the door the door panel is loose and wiggly and my car is still under warranty so I took it in the Mercedes dealer and said hey is this supposed to be right and they're like yeah unfortunately that's a characteristic of the EQS where your door handle is loose and makes crunchy noises okay that that's just that's not Mercedes quality and so that that was the other issue I feel like with the car we have some rapid fire questions okay so the first

answer that comes to mind let us know okay which car has the most smiles per gallon me auto what's the best car ever made three hundred so going that's the worst car ever made do you go what's the best daily driver two thousand five Cadillac escalator what is the most Republican car so two thousand five Cadillac escalator not really yeah four drafters probably yeah big big VH trucks and what's the most liberal car most liberal car the previous unlimited

money dream car I did it three hundred is still rolling that is truly it unlimited money and all be all dream cars always what again obviously I'd love to have a car and then sell it for you

know 10 million dollars but but there's nothing even more than the McLaren F1 McLaren F1 is incredible

machine I there's not something that I've dreamed to own I mean it's it's so difficult to own and operate that car the people that have it as far as the like two-text in the world that fly around and fix it with a computer for 30 years ago it's yeah you might be the only car you two were to ever say that that you you did it yeah I just the three in our cell going was that was that was it for me so I I've done it yeah would you quit YouTube for ten million dollars post yes yes you didn't even think about

“yes yep I think what I've achieved I'm proud of it I'm happy I understand the ones that have”

gone out on top and not had this decline you know or you know become irrelevant the Batman theme is always thought in my head you know where you you you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain and I've seen a little bit of that as I've gotten bigger and bought all the fancy cars and it was getting a little bougie and and fancier for my audience and seeing them not react well to it and like you and the end you want you want your content to resonate with your audience and and find it

interesting and I definitely alienated a lot of my core audience by by going back fancy and yeah I

and so you have this year to just do your best work like that would be a very freeing thing I would

“I would love to I would that would be I'd be okay what is your least favorite part about your job”

I'd unlike a lot of other YouTubers since I'm turning 40 this year I've worked a lot of other jobs I worked like real jobs before this I was literally flipping burgers I was teaching people how to flip burgers and opening Freddy's Fire and Rosencuster's Source I was in operations for fast food and that is so hard that is so much work working as a car dealer at a car salesman that is a constant grind you are constantly on you're constantly thinking about

you know sale making a sale following up with customers and all that stuff like there's there's every job is is hard so like yes YouTube is hard but compared to the things that I've done with my life before it's it's so much easier they're like the the kids that came up on TikTok and like at YouTube and had no job before that they they they don't understand like how hard the real world is for people and that's that's the other part where like I was when I realized I was alienating my audience

where like I'm complaining about the repair cost on something that's so ridiculous that they never

imagine to have when like oh whoa it's me I can't fix pipe you got you know where they're like I can't make written next month like this isn't entertaining to me this guy's upset about his Bugatti and his car payments and all this stuff because he's he's over over extended himself and like I'm barely making a paycheck to paycheck right now so I totally understand you know where my audience was coming from where where I was I was making some people mad at me what would you say is the

“secret to a good life the first the having that foundation of of a stable home and happy kids”

and not settling um that that's where like what I have now I appreciate so much I appreciate my wife and and my kids and that dog like oh man that dog's unbelievable amazing you know so like just just yes you want all these things you want all these shiny things and you see people on YouTube wanting like having all this stuff that you don't have and it's just it's frustrating but that you don't need a focus on it like that had finding the right person that works and not

settling for something less than that with with your personal life and and settling for you know a focusing on work and and all the other stuff that just doesn't matter versus having you know a stable happy home to come to them too and just just someone that that just loves you deeply and unconditionally and as many people as you can gather that in your camp like that is just so important

“so here we have a tier list of car youtuber oh why so we're trying to farm some drama here”

uh huh I want some harsh takes I want to see a couple people in that f tier yes so yeah nobody is

bold enough to go like this person sucks man okay so it be as for build he is amazing and you know

the adversity is going through with this cancer all that stuff I would put him right here he does a lot more JDM stuff for me so like like the kind of stuff that I'm not into but the builds it's similar to what I do as far as like this this hopeless thing that he's gone through and rebuilt and it's very interesting there cleatess I am not into the you know American street racing stuff is much and obviously incredible empire building there and don't fall a NASCAR quite as much so like

um but I love that he has like a character and a personality so I probably do this a little faster I'm gonna put him there just because like I love his personality as character the content just isn't where I'm at dd so I would put them probably uh uh put him up a day because I love that they actually use the cars and beat the heck out of them the confrontational stuff I'm not that into so yeah and when like when they get in my police car right with the cops and all that stuff like that like that's

sort of nothing but I just love the ownership experience of the stuff but the confrontational things like that kind of clickbait aspect of it it's it's good it's good stuff be as good right I mean I mean I mean it'll be a little harsh she's fine now it's be be harsh she is good yeah be harsh yeah James Pumfrey is no longer with donut when he left I'm putting donut down there because they got brought brought up by private equity and you could tell that these people are

just getting forced in like foot on the gas and really hard like I do and they brought in a whole new swath of people and it was like a casting hall for actors and there's something there was some great stuff back years ago before all this happened and private equity came in and properly ruined that channel there's still there's some bright spots I maybe that's a little harsh but I mean he's a maths I put him down I have no idea who this guy is who he's

that's dog that's dog Vargo I have no idea so he does this series I explain the same thing to Doug DeMiro but I think Doug had actually recognized him he's the guy that flipping cars until

half a million views that's great I mean I is great content there's you should look at there's other

“YouTubers that have done that before there's there's other one's that but obviously he's he's”

successful I see that he has the hair that the kids like you know that's a little bit that broccoli had set the definitely helps so that's that's gonna maybe you could bring back that haircut that the broccoli here's definitely fascinating I had I had the beaver do of 20 years ago so that pretty good I don't know who he is so should I put it in there so I just give him up okay so I don't know Ed Bullion Mr. Ed Bullion I'd put him up here well somewhere between these two I

would put Ed Bullion because you know he needs to he needs to do different things within wiki I feel like as far as and he knows this he knows that that to take been wiki to the next level he needs to chase those guests and a lot of big car guys and then things take a show on the road go to California doing things but what he's like me that also is content with his family life and what he has that he doesn't need to go to California and chase celebrities instead of a

satellite studio they're in a bunch of travel and stuff so he's very content with with where his life is and his stories are great and I just obviously he is not going to like the crazy I don't know so

“hey I haven't put anybody way up there yet me at this point my life I think in the last couple of years”

I've probably gone down to here maybe maybe cleatus I don't know I'll come on I think I think that I got away from myself a little bit and I I'd love to get myself back up to this place there was a period of time where I was on top of the world but I think I think right now I'm probably here in the living long enough to yourself become a villain I think so and I'm trying to work myself out of that and also not seeing myself as a total villain so she me she me is so consistent

so so consistent I'm not putting up here but he hasn't done anything insane huge and but a YouTuber specking out of 4GT new 4GT five years ago like a YouTuber being able to do that

that was so amazing but as far as like on top of the world right now Steve Hamilton I feel like you

know it's a tool to promote his business so it's not really a YouTuber's cool stuff that he sharing all this stuff and really enjoys the cars and all that stuff but but it feels like like I need to like do this to sell things I put him here I put him here Strad man Strad man still up there he's still like grinding super hard and the thing that he's accomplished lately as far as like rebuilding an F-12 Michael Jordan's F-12 be Jordan's F-12 in his garage and and all the

stuff like he is still killing it and his dad's truck all I stuff recently I I love it totally love it Supercar Blondy very commercial now a lot of people will a big team around it so it's not my doing this too slow I'm sorry I'm actually thinking about it yeah put him if I put her with me because yeah it's it's it's about the same Freddie obviously he needs to post a lot more he he's killing it if he could if he could get a couple of people that what with that email tell his

niche needs help 12 at gmail.com if he had someone help him manage the business and then someone help him where like to be consistent with the the wrenching and all that stuff he'd be up there so right now I put him here TJ Hunt is all tuner drifting stuff I don't I don't really like I it's all it's all interesting but it's just not in my world Parker I know Parker well you know Parker obviously had his things similar to me where I feel like you know like he had a little crisis

and he's dealt with it and he's come back and he's still really happy and positive and all that stuff so I put him there with me probably right now whistling diesel I want to put him up here but I also don't know if he's self aware enough to realize like the position that he is in I would love

like we talked you guys talked about this with dog how much it would be amazing for you guys to

go through and dissect him and really get into him and like if we know if this is a character this whistling diesel is a character like where he's this ego and it's provide it when all this stuff but

“is he in real life not but that's the mystery of it that's why so many people why I think a p-revealed”

anything either way and I don't think it would help him I think that he could be it feels like the success has gone to his head a little bit and it's been harder to watch versus a couple of years ago where like he's destroying a car and clearly doesn't care and it's so funny and just like he just clearly doesn't care about his audience or anything else and and obviously loves like making the trolls and the people even angry or at him and feeding into that hate and it was so good

but now like I feel like he's gotten to so big in his bridges that there might be a little bit of ego there but I could be totally wrong where's dog daddy I know well we this is the same tier list that we've used for previous videos and so like we just kind of oh so imagine he's a dad daddy

more focused for cars and bids and now he has people that he has to answer to and all that stuff

and put out more content do more videos that maybe he wouldn't do because the cars being sold on cars and bids so that ding same a little bit but obviously I mean it's so I still put him in a hey who would you say are the Mount Rushmore of car youtubers Mount Rushmore that paved the way

“the for the paved the way so it would be Doug Demiro obviously it would be Sob Kyle O4 I think”

okay so he's going around and doing little walk around videos with cars and all that stuff so he's Jalen was garage definitely as far as somebody having a collection and sharing it to that level that he does that dad is definitely a Mount Rushmore so and also legitimizing YouTube like Jalen was on this with his collection showing his car so he's not doing it obviously he had his TV show after that but and the fourth one hmm the fourth one who's been around forever the saw the

front man so strat I yeah I think strat man saw a mantra and quit and like he had a

“he made that whole super car thing he was the one that got that agony delivered and that was”

around breaking video on YouTube he did but I think strat man would be the fourth one because he was

the first guy to say like Lamborghini Garano at 20 years old that type of thing and that like a

kid stretching with his YouTube money to get into super car I feel like he's sort of like was the pioneer him and in vehicle versions both cars around the same time but I feel like strat man was the one that went from that to like they were on all that stuff during that period so he's he's probably the best known one to do it now that that's still around so that would be my four for sure

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