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How to Get Started on a Project Car (it鈥檚 easier than you think) - YouTube
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- If you're watching this channel,
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you probably like cars.
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(cars revving)
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And if you like cars
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you've probably dreamt
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about having one as a project.
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Well what's stopping you?
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Maybe you thought
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it was too expensive of hobby.
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Or maybe you thought
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you didn't have the skills
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necessary to have one.
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Or maybe you thought
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you weren't cool enough
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to join the club.
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Well, I'm here to you
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that none of that stuff is true.
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It doesn't have to be that expensive.
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It's really not that hard,
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and our threshold for what's cool
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is actually really very low.
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Today, I'm gonna you five reasons why you
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can and should have a project car.
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And once I've successfully convinced you
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I'm gonna give you my top
three picks for project cars.
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I'm Zack, and this is Money Pit.
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(thunder crashing)
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All right.
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So you guys might be wondering
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what makes me qualified
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to talk to you, aspiring
mechanics, about project cars.
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And I guess really my
qualification is just that I am
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about as afflicted as it can get.
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I have a project car problem, if you will.
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I don't think it's a problem,
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but everybody else does.
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About six months ago,
I moved to Ohio to LA
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to work at Donut.
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I sold all my cars in Ohio,
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and drove an RV to LA.
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I lived in it for about four months,
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and I now have four project cars,
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and an RV in the back yard.
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So I guess that's my qualification.
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I keep buying junk
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in various states,
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if running or not running.
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I think that's cool,
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and if you're kinda in the same boat
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and you have a project that isn't running,
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that you haven't been working on,
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I hope that you use this video
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as inspiration to get back into the garage
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and get working on it,
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and not be like my roommate Syrone
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who bought a perfectly good project car
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about three months ago,
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took up the only garage space with it.
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That broke.
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And hasn't touched it in three months.
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So don't be like Serone.
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Be like me.
Turn some wrenches.
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Okay, So cars can be scary and daunting
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and like super complex,
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especially these days.
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But, once you start to learn how
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to work on your project car,
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it sets you up very well
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to be able to work on any car.
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It's kinda like learning a language.
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You start to figure out how
to pick up on the trails
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and the breadcrumbs.
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Okay, you hear a sound.
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Now that you kinda know
how to work on your car
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you know where to go for that sound.
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You know how to find the source
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of the sound, and fix it.
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It doesn't only apply to cars.
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Say your washing machine breaks
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in your house.
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You can probably fix that now
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because you know how
mechanical stuff works.
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But be careful people
will catch wind of that,
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so all of the sudden you're fixing
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everybody's cars in the neighborhood.
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And they want you to do it for free.
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Charge them like half price,
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and then bam you're making money.
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That's a business plan.
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All right, so now that we got you
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all hyped up and confident thinking
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that you can fix anything in the world,
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sorry we gotta reel it back a little bit
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and be honest with ourselves,
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you're not always gonna be able
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to fix everything.
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It's inevitable that
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you get confused or you get stumped
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on a problem with a car.
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It happens to me all the time.
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But so what do you do when that happens?
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You turn to one of the
other biggest reasons
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for getting into cars,
which is the community.
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(music)
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It's your family.
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The family that you've been building.
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The family that speaks this language
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that you've been learning.
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It's like you and your friends
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dirty and tired in the garage
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at like two in the morning.
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You gotta this engine back into the car,
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but thing after thing after
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problem after issue is
stopping you, slowing you down,
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chipping away at your confidence.
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It happens.
I've been there.
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But through hard work
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and perseverance,
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you and your boys
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get that engine back in.
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You get the job done
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and you always do when it comes down
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to you and your friends working on stuff.
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You actually don't always get it done.
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That's a misdirection.
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Sometimes you're not gonna get it done.
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This language that
we've been talking about
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transcends whatever language you speak.
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I have had so many interactions
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with people from all
over the world about cars
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because we all kinda understand,
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even if we can't quite understand
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each other's language,
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we understand the car language,
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and that is so cool.
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- That was really good man.
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That was really good.
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- Thanks buddy.
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Okay so you kinda understand
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that there is this language now,
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and I think I've harped on the
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community thing hard enough.
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So now I think it's time
to start talking about
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the elephant in the room.
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Money.
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It's honestly probably what's
kept you out of this game
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thus far.
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But it's okay.
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We'll get through it.
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Let's talk about it.
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When you're getting into any hobby
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you're gonna end up spending some money
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and this is no different.
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I think a lot of people get hung up
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on wanting to have expensive tools,
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which yeah expensive tools are nice sure,
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but cheap tools will get the job done.
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And I've made a list of the tools
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that you need to get started.
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Here it is.
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The list starts with sockets and ratchets,
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like these.
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You're gonna want to buy metric sockets
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because pretty much all car stuff
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is metric these days.
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Though it does depend on
what you're working on.
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You need a set of screwdrivers.
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Just get yourself a big ole combo kit
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with flatheads and phillips,
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you'll pretty much be set.
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And you're also gonna need some pliers.
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Again, just a combo set of piers,
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get a little bit of everything,
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you'll be in good shape.
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You'll need a set of wrenches.
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Again, metric.
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And I recommend getting an
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adjustable wrench to.
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Get you a good combo set,
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and you'll be in good shape.
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And then you need
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a digital multi-meter
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to handle all the electrical
issues that you may have,
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and this.
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This is kind of a complicated tool
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but we'll learn how to use this later on.
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If you're working on cars that are OBD II,
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which means from 1996 or newer,
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you're gonna wanna have a code reader,
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a scanner,
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so you can see what your
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check engine light is on for,
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what's actually going on
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in the computer of your car,
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a indisposable tool.
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And of course you're gonna need
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a jack and jack stands
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so you can lift your car,
get it off the ground,
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and safely work under it.
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Speaking of safely,
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you also need some safety equipment.
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I like to go with the 1982 version
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of safety glasses to keep your eyes
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in perfect condition.
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You're also gonna need a hammer.
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This is one of the most indisposable tools
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in the garage.
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You bang stuff on, bang stuff off.
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You don't know.
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And then honestly I think
having a pry bar is nice
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so you can, you know, pry stuff off.
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But that's about it.
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That's not to bad.
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And I actually, I went
tot harborfrieght.com,
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who does not sponsor this what so ever,
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and I put all this stuff in a cart.
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You can do all this for
less than 400 bucks,
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which is not bad.
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- [Friend] And if you can't afford that
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just do what everyone else does.
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- Steal.
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- Steal one from your friends
one by one tool at a time.
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- And if you can't afford that,
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do what everyone else does
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and just borrow them from
a friend permanently.
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At the end of the day with a project car,
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the only thing that
matters is what you like.
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You get to build a
project car to your taste.
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For your own satisfaction,
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and to flex on other mother******s.
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Regardless of what aspect
of cars you think is cool,
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you can do that, there are no rules.
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I mean if you want it to be street legal,
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there are kind of some rules.
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But you know what I mean.
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So no matter what your thing is,
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what your into, you can use
your project car as a way
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to further express that.
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And honestly,
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its on of the coolest ways
you can express yourself
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that I can think of.
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We get to play with machines.
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These are varietable machines.
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Pretty much any car on the road can do
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like 100 miles an hour or more.
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And that, when you think about it,
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is crazy.
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You get to drive a machine
that can do 100 miles an hour.
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And there is no better
way to express yourself
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than by building and
driving something like that.
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Okay so, you get to learn
how to work on cars,
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you get to join a really cool community,
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you get to spend all your money and time
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in a really cool way,
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and you get to express yourself
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through the coolest medium I can think of.
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So what next?
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What next on this whole
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gear head journey that were talking about?
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Picking out a project.
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So let me give you my top
3 picks for a project,
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as of early 2020.
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Each pick is gonna be for a
different facit of motorsport.
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If you want to call it that.
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Okay so if drifting is your thing,
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if that's what your into.
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In my opinion you should pick up an E36.
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325i
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or 328i.
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Their abundant, their cheap,
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their pretty darn reliable,
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and they make enough
power to get you sliding.
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You really don't have to do much.
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If your a drift kinda person,
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get you an E36, like
the one in the garage.
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Come steal this one!
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Syrones not doing anything with it.
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So if off roadings your thing,
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I think my pick has to be a Jeep.
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Ideally a Wrangler,
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and ideally with a four liter inline six.
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Its got enough power to get you anywhere,
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but it can be hard to
come by those for cheap.
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So you go with a Wrangler
with a 4 cylinder,
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or you can also find Jeep Cherokees
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with that 4 liter inline
6 for really cheap.
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So I'd probably do that.
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And that brings me to my third pick,
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which I guess is actually my first pick,
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because I actually bought it.
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I bought a Miata!
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I've been itching do some
auto crossing and track dang,
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and hit all the beautiful
canyons out here in California.
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So what could be better to do that in,
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than a Mazda Miata.
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Their cheap, their reliable,
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their abundant, and most
importantly their good.
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It is a 1994 NA
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so its got the popups.
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James said I couldn't have
one without the popups.
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And It might not look like much right now,
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but I assure you this
thing is an absolute gem.
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A diamond in the ruff if you will.
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And throughout the life of this show,
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we are going to wrench on
every little part of this car.
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And I'll show you how it works,
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and how you install stuff,
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and what it does and
everything in between.
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Thanks a billion for watching.
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We're about to take a huge
journey with this car,
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so I hope you stick with us.
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Follow me on Instagram @zachjobe,
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