- People love doin' things to their cars. If they didn't, I wouldn't
have a frickin' job. Sometimes people do really
bizarre things to their cars, and today we're going to
look at some of those trends. We've got fake rust, we've
got ironic license plates and make up for your car. Why do people do it, and
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some more weird car stuff. If you're a city slicker like me, you might not know about this funky trend, but if you're from the
South, like also me, you've probably witnessed these
oddly-stanced pickup trucks. I'm talking 'bout the Carolina squat. Yee-haw! Despite it being named
after the Carolinas, this truck trend actually originated from trophy trucks down in Baja. Turns out the real reason
that the rear is lowered and not the front is that it helps when you're flying over
them sandy dunes of Baja. This angle makes your
truck more likely to land on its rear tires and that's important when you're Baja blasting
because nose divin' while going a hundred
miles per hour is not good, but like a lot of these truck trends, most of the Carolina squat
trucks don't ever venture off the road at all and
just end up looking like they have broken suspension
driving down the road on the way to Baja Fresh,
and because of that, a lot of people like to hate
on these Carolina squatters, but as we'll soon learn
from the rest of this list, lots of car trends start as
something for motor sports that quickly devolves into
something more aesthetic, but who am I to judge? Can I get a #squattersrights? - [Narrator] Fake patina. - A nice patina can add a
lot of character to a car. Ask Nolan, he's a registered patina-phile, but the thing is you can't
just snap your fingers and have a beautiful
natural paint rust mix. That's up to mother
nature, but if you want a distressed look and don't
have time to let your car oxidize in a shed,
there is another option. You can always paint your car
to look like it has patina. In the age of endless
resto mods and dwindling classic car resources,
now you can make any car look like a bird has been pooping on it for the past 40 years. A nice oxidized finish
looks great on your uncle's old Dodge truck, so
why not a 2015 Hellcat? And if you don't have the cash to hire an artisan patina painter,
you can get vinyl wraps that come pre-rusted. I wonder what Nolan
thinks about patina wrap. (goofy music) - Look, I know we all here
at Donut, we're all about respecting all cars and all that. Every, every car is cool. That's our stance but I gotta, I gotta say it's one thing to like have
someone paint a fake patina. That does take some skill,
but to have a printed wrap to make it look old
don't sit right with me. I don't like that. Patina is earned, guys. That's what makes it cool is
that you had to find a car that had been sitting out somewhere for, in my case 70 years. - [Max] Sounds kind of elitist, dude. - It is a little elitist. I will say you're right, Max. - [Max] That's gatekeeping, Nolan. - No, it's not gatekeeping
though, 'cause at the end of the day it's just a rusty car. Back to you, James. - Race cars got big fat
letters on their tires. That's a fact, and you
can't argue with science. Look at this one, look at this one. Look at this one. Tire companies pay a lot of
money for that real estate, and now thanks to fancy
modern technologies that we have yet to understand
like paint, stencils, and stickers, your car can
have big old letters on it too. - [Narrator] Tire lettering. - This is a trend that's been
super popular in the last couple of years, but
really people have been painting letters on their
tires for decades, all right, and just like anything that
becomes really popular, people are inevitably going
to start hating on it. I mean, you should see my
DMs, but there are some seriously cool examples of
this trend in my opinion, like when Akira Nakai,
one of the coolest dudes on this big fat earth, spray
paints Idlers on the tires of the RWB cars he builds,
just because it looks cool. He made up a fricking tire company. That's awesome. All right, and sometimes looking cool is what it's all about. Just ask Zac Efron. - [Narrator] Truck nuts. - Speaking of looking cool,
nothing's cooler than putting realistic human genitalia on a truck. We did an entire episode of Wheelhouse on truck nuts a while back
and it made the trending page, which is insane to think
about because it was partially demonetized because
no one was just talking about bumper plums for 15 minutes. This is another trend that makes an embarrassing amount
of sense, all right. It plays right into that old adage that the bigger the truck, the
smaller your wa, your wiener and it's the next logical
modification after a lift kit, knobby tires, light bar,
Monster energy drink decal. Then what do you do? I don't know, where do you go from there? I don't know, let's put balls on my truck. Oh, that's a good idea. We all know the kind of person
who puts balls on their truck and here in the U.S.,
people love being identified as that kind of person. These plastic pecker pouches come in all colors and sizes up to
18 inches, 18 inch balls. They even make Cybertruck nuts now. Frigging Cybertruck's not even out yet. That's the kind of
innovation you can expect after 30 years of testicles
for trucks, all right. You want to know more about truck nuts? Check out the episode of
Wheelhouse that Nolan did. It's a really, really great. I'll put a link at the end of this video. If I own a truck and I
do plan on owning a truck within the next year, I would
have a big fiberglass butt on the tailgate and be
like the centaur of trucks. - [Narrator] You know that
peeing Calvin sticker? - You know that we couldn't do a list of the most bizarre car
trends without mentioning the fricking Calvin
peeing on stuff sticker. Don't like something? Let the world know by
putting an image of a child peeing on the logo for the
thing that you don't like. Which child should we use? I don't know. Maybe the one from the (farts) newspaper. Perfect. This one's been around since
the '90s and Calvin's peed on a lot of stuff since then. Are you a Ford guy? Don't worry. There's a Calvin peeing on
a Chevy sticker for you. You a Dodge guy? Don't worry. There's a Calvin peeing on
a Chevy sticker for you. Got some examples here of
some Calvin truck nuts. This one's good, I agree with this. It's Calvin peeing on COVID-19. I mean, I think we can all agree. Not huge COVID-19 fans. Oh, dang. This is like an alt Calvin. This one's not a great Calvin. It's like a bootleg, bootleg, Calvin, and he's peeing on his ex. Now. I don't know if that's saying, like, I don't like my ex, or me and
my ex still see each other from time to time, and
we like water sports. Oh, Calvin peeing on ISIS. Yeah, that, take that ISIS. Oh, and here we go. Calvin peeing on Bill Waterson's legacy. Now why would I say that? Bill Waterson has come out
and said that he never wanted to do any sort of merchandising and the Calvin peeing on
stuff kind of goes against the whole point of the
comics, which was like, understanding and childhood wonder. So one, these are all bootleg and built, basically plagiarism, and like
a lot of things on this list, you can go too far with this trend, okay. I've just been informed that
Nolan has another counterpoint. - All right, so yeah. Bill Waterson, great guy. You know who wasn't
thinking that same way? Jim Davis of Garfield fame. Jim Davis had a very cynical
approach to Garfield. He wanted to make as much merchandise, merchandise as possible. He wanted to cash in as hard as he could, which is why there's, there
was the Garfield cartoon. There's been Garfield movies,
all this kind of stuff. I don't know, man. We should, we should drink before these. - I love how Nolan's talking
trash about merchandise as he wears his own shirt. - [Narrator] Tacky trim. - Automotive designers
spend years going to college to learn how to tweak little
details in a car's design to make it cool, practical, and sleek. So why on this fat earth
would you go and buy a $12 fake plastic vent that does nothing and slap it on the side of your car? Look, I'm not here to
#modshame anybody, all right. There's plenty of cool things you can do to make your stockish-looking car your own but there's gotta be some rules or else we all live in chaos. Let's take a look at just what
the heck is going on here. Oh my God. Skulls, check. Is that, it's a skull bash
bar, skulls on the hood. The most offensive thing
to me is the scale of the World War II fender paint, because this thing is obviously, the guy wants it to look
aggressive but the mouth and the eyes on this Jeep
animal are very small and not intimidating at all. See what we got here. It's a Nissan Altima with,
I think those are canards. I actually love this one. No notes. That, that Metro's awesome. That's like a really cool Gambler car. Shouts to Tate and the rest
of the Gambler 500 crew. One of the best weekends of my life. The craziest part though is
that this is not just like, a fringe group of people doing this. They wouldn't make this
stuff if people didn't buy it and even major car
companies are now putting fake trim on their cars. Say what you want, nothing
speaks louder than dollars. You know what I mean? Now, Max threatened to
sue me over this one, but I said, screw it, it's
worth it if I can finally give these uppity West coast
elites a piece of my mind. - [Narrator] Tesla vanity plates. - Please don't sue me, Max. I'm running out of money. Driving an electric vehicle is fine. Doing your part to save the earth is cool. Ludicrous mode is fun. Getting a snarky vanity
license plate for your Tesla is not cool, and it's not funny. I know this because I'm a
retired professional comedian. Nothing makes people who
already don't like electric cars dislike electric cars
more than a license plate that says, why buy gas, got watt, LOL gas. We get it. Just be happy driving your
Tesla because there are a ton of people who can't
afford to drive one, and there's no reason to
rub it into their face. This is so ingrained in Tesla
culture that there are lists on Tesla forums with a
bunch of snarky punt, a bunch of snarky puns you can choose from to put on your vanity plate. I don't have a problem with Teslas. I like Teslas. I think they're good, but come on. Who decided that tech guys have
to think that they're funny? You're not funny. You're rich. This one, actually I do
like, it says panel gaps and that's like owning a flaw of your car. That is self-deprecating
and that is funny. - [Narrator] Car lashes. - Okay, okay, okay guys, I
got an idea, hear me out. Eyelashes for your headlights. I'll admit, I think
they're very pretty cute. There's really no reason
for it other than it's fun, and sometimes you want to give your car a little bit more personality. I mean, the front of
cars do look like faces and headlights are definitely the eyes. Wheels are the feet, tires are the shoes, exhaust is the anus, duh. What you might not know is
that it goes beyond eyelashes. You can get eyeliner for your headlights, which can shape then
to whatever expression you want your car to have. Angry, (growls) alluring,
all types of expressions. There's even little
eyebrow decals you can put on your headlights to make
your car look like that one actor with the big old eyebrows. A lot of people like to hate
on these and make fun of them but don't let people
tell you what you should or shouldn't do to your car, unless it is an unfunny pun on your Tesla. This next car trend is
a crontroversial one. - [Narrator] Extreme camber. - First, let's talk about
camber for a second. Negative camber means
the bottom of your wheel is farther out than the top, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, most cars, especially race cars, have negative camber because it helps with handling and drivability. Negative camber has also
been a pretty important part of stance culture because
it lets you fit wide wheels under your low car, and
you know I like big wheels on little cars but just like
pretty much everything else on this list, some people
like to take their camber to the extreme, sometimes
to the point where the car is barely even drivable. There's a whole subculture
in Japan called Oni-Camber, which literally means demon camber. It's been described as
an offshoot of bosozoku, which is all about vehicular absurdity and throwing function to the fricking curb along with your front splitter. I'm not going to lie,
this is a very silly thing to do to a car. Extreme camber will destroy
your tires way faster, and if you're not the
best at parallel parking you're probably going to bend your wheels, but I mean, it's not like they
have veiny human testicles dangling off of their
bumpers, so it could be worse. Now this is the reason that
we made this video, all right. This is the best. We didn't even know that these existed until a couple of weeks ago,
when we saw them at a car show. - [Narrator] Car show dolls. - If you've ever been
to a classic car show, you may have noticed that
some of the cars have like, these little dolls in overalls
with their arms crossed in front of their eyes, crying
against the grill of a car. Hey, you know what my car needs? A child crying on it. So what the (farts) is the
deal with these things? Turns out they have a
bunch of different names like crybaby dolls or punished dolls, but the most common and only
slightly less creepy name is timeout dolls, and these
creepsters were super popular in the crafting and quilting community before making their move to car shows. No one really knows why
they became so popular but some people think it was
a way for the whole family to get involved in the car scene. While Papa Bear was busy
waxing the old Bel Air, Mama Bear was sewing
together a matching doll for the car show display,
but timeout dolls are just the beginning of this weird trend. There's another style of
doll that's super popular in the low rider scene. These things aren't just in overalls. They're dressed like the
owners, like a miniature version of them, which makes them cool,
I guess, and not as creepy. Let me know in the comments
if you know someone that I can commission a
crybaby doll version of me. I'd love one. You ever think, dang, I
want to do some cool stuff, but I don't have the right hat? Boom, problem solved. Introducing the first
official Kentucky Cobra hat. Perfect for doing anything in. Perfect for doing stuff like this. (exploding) Perfect for climbing ladders. Perfect for shredding. Perfect for chilling on
the couch with your boo. She's in the bathroom. I've been waiting so long
for these to come out. We've been working on them for a while and I'm really really, really
stoked on how they turned out. High quality embroidery on the front. That's the new official
Kentucky Cobra logo. Donut hit in the back, also embroidered. Mesh back, I love the fit. It's my new favorite hat. I can't wait to see you guys wearing 'em. Post pictures on
Instagram, tag me in them. I will repost. (groovy music) That's how you're going
to look when you buy one. Now there's millions more car trends that we didn't cover on this one. Let me know down in the
comments which ones we missed. We'll, maybe we'll do a
second version of this video. If you want to learn about
manufacturer car trends check out this episode of Wheelhouse. Follow me on Instagram at jamespumphrey, follow donut at donutmedia. Love you. (upbeat music)
Jump to 11:20 to get to the Tesla thing (#4 on his list). I actually thought it was funny :)