Full Custom Ian Roussel Visits His Origins At Victor's Show Room In Los Angeles 😎

I don't know [Music] is this on hi hello I'm gonna hold this official old school style hello and welcome to another very special edition here are the few close friends you got Dan you got Bob actually is this uh this is Jake I'm sorry Elwood's over there or is it Elwood and Jake I don't remember we gotta watch that movie again we're in a very very privileged location it's a secret spot somewhere in the Los Angeles getting a little helicopter action above you don't hear that at our house but uh we're in the San Fernando Valley it's gonna take a little time to talk about where it all started a special guy a lot of people from the TV show know Victor and I met in 1998 I was down the road in the valley Sun Valley specifically California and uh Victor came by and he's like what's all this weird stuff you know I was like well I build cars he's like I build cars too so it began we got some of the very first projects we worked on in this building here and I'm just gonna go down the line in the in time frame with a little story about each one so uh you'll see an evolution here because Victor's been a car guy his whole life right but when we started working together things started to get really weird in the best way so I'll introduce this car this green one is an Auburn kit car it's mostly fiberglass but it's super radically customized Victor was in progress with this one when we met and uh I actually had two fenders I don't remember if they were the fronts or the rears I had picked them up from a guy in his shop and he's like what are those fenders I'm building that car and I'm missing pieces also the windshield frame some people may remember back in 0405 I was making these cast aluminum windshield frames so I also work with that on this car This Hood is aluminum this was in another shop here in the valley and it wasn't really working so that's when Victor and I that was our very first project he's like I got this car it's fiberglass there's aluminum hood and it doesn't fit and it doesn't work so it's a very our first thing was very simple you know he's put in different Grille he's this is totally customized but uh he was like I love these windshields I was like yeah so it belongs on that car the windshields I was making were actually from the Auburn kit I got the fenders from so uh yeah this was my very first one see this one as a top that I created the other ones didn't have a top rail because this is pretty much the prototype for every cast aluminum frame that I reproduced one of my favorite things about this car is the dashboard look at the interior Victor is such a finisher he's such a guy that finishes things uh every last bit of it is is in direct contrast to the way that I make things which is just kind of slam it together prove the concept and move on and also the back of the car look at the way that this is sculpted it's much different than uh the Auburn kit you'll see you hear a lot of background noise because it's windy just like at home so right again this is your run-of-the-mill Auburn kit car boat tail Speedster but he's changed most of it which is awesome I'm not sure what sub frame in the front it has I'm not sure what's going on underneath I've never been under it but it's on air suspension and it's like a rock yeah and very Art Deco right so Art Deco yeah what is the name of this car I don't know what the name of this car is uh as I mentioned this was already pretty well along when I got involved with them in uh 1998. yeah it just says 36 Auburn on this most of its cars have names I will okay we're rolling again I got warm clothes so this was the first project that Victor and I collaborated on um you can see it's it's it's super exotic but the style that we've evolved into today you can directly see the contrast this is a pretty tame in comparison to what we got into the second car is this purple one it used to be black it's called the misfit this car was a four-door that he bought from Gene Winfield Winfield had this in his lot he's doing work to it he converted to a two-door like he does with so many uh mercuries and uh Victor made an arrangement with him and and got it from there it came to my shop so this would be about two thousand 23 years ago wow 23 years yeah or his Lot 23 years ago probably even earlier but I started working on it 23 years ago yeah it's been painted about 15 000 times because he does colors on cars like some ladies will do their fingernails um this is uh on the Mercury chassis it's got a uh front clip under it that's a Mustang 2 style I believe uh what I did on this car full air suspension C Notch the rear did the whole deal in the back did the bags on the front This Hood is motorized so it's got one of those kits again this is me in my first couple years in the shop uh experimenting so Victor brought this car with no engine and I got inside and I built one of those kits and modified it so This Hood comes up raises forward and tilts out nowadays I'm making all that type of stuff on my own but I was pretty proud of that and then he said I want some really wild ideas for The Grille and bumpers so he handed me a bunch of Cadillac parts and at the time just like the windshields I was doing a lot of cast aluminum stuff so these are modeled on a 53 Ford Grille Ford truck F1 um I I changed everything around in in the in the parameters of how they mount and these are cast aluminum that are Chrome plated and this is a Cadillac bumper and parts cut and fused and if you look at the weld seams on the back about 50 million pieces so that was quite a undertaking my first custom bumper is this one oh wow and I was it was powder coated for years and Victor finally stepped up and paid the guy to do the thing so it's pretty dramatic statement the only thing I might change on this now I mean it's a pretty like it's been called things like regarding the male anatomy hanging down here but the only thing I would change with this is maybe a chrome upper bar just to give it a little upper lip but I think it's a pretty powerful Arrangement very very heavy looking on the back of the car I did the back bumper also this rear decklid is motorized and comes out also that was my first try on that and then these are Cadillac parts too and you'll see it's seamless it's a one piece bumper most Cadillac stuff you'll see all bolts together but I changed just about everything around that we could shots sunk the tail lights into that and this license plate just pops off real easy if you're gonna show it but if you're gonna drive it you know no no car looks great with a license plate on it but again Victor's gig is like you know fit and finish so the interior is all plush look at the dashboard it's everything is cool about it super neat if you saw uh Faith Granger's movie um what the heck is it called the Name Escapes Me something about a deuce that's me it's a great anyway this car was in a movie in the opening credits yeah I got to drive this and I waved at the camera and I did a scene I'll post up the name of that movie hey it's a living I have my five minutes of fame on summer just in it for the money [Laughter] this is so cool again I love this steering wheel yeah it's actually a hubcap that he uh Victor's real crafty like that you know like me he looks at things differently so this is the center bullet on a hubcap and I like this car because it's very Mercury you know everything looks pretty old-fashioned got a little action going on with the center console that's modern but this car you know if you took away some of the digital stuff and the big stereo system this car could be rolling Van Nuys Boulevard back in the day not a hundred percent traditional but pretty old school uh this orange Merc ER had this when I met him uh it's got all the right stuff same thing it's sub-framed air suspension the whole deal I don't know a lot about the build because when I met Victor it looked like this he's always refining things but yeah one of my favorite things about this car I'll put the uh look up underneath the roof uh Victor's guy uh Lino you've seen him on some of the episodes of TV such a talented dude so look look up at the up at the roof all right wow so that's my uh cell phone light trying to trying to light it but I mean to be in this car and it's like so nice inside and again look at the classic steering wheel the whole thing with the grill I know my camera work is a little shaky guys term iconic Lead Sled like here we are this is very yeah very uh it's a radical custom but it's conservative to a point where it's just like whoa clean clean car there's a lot of cars we might do two building tour in this episode I don't know it depends on the edit but we're just we're just touching the surface here there's a lot more I was like I thought there's oh yeah is there more so this you would say is a classic lead slide this would be the poster child for Lead Sled yeah the 49 to 51 Mercury with the chopped top Etc yeah wowzers and there's a lot of other cars I'll get into next that use the badge Lead Sled of course but this link in Zephyr was when Victor and I actually fell in love and he was like you're the man you could do anything we're gonna go big enough of this uh hood and trunk and bumper action this was our first radical uh project together in that this was a rusted hunk of basically trash it was a four-door just a mess there was no bottom of the car so uh he bought it he had an acid dipped and the whole car came apart it was literally just a bunch of stuff on the upper two-thirds of it so we got a Lincoln he's a man of means he's just always yeah he's got people always looking so uh yeah if you put this next to a stock Zephyr people think that this is a fiberglass car because it looks a lot like Carly's uh car Aftershock and there's a iconic Zephyr one-off called the uh heck is it called my whole presentation is off today it's Saturday yes scrape that's the name of the car so this was definitely inspired by that car scrape but you'll see we have the Zephyr actual true Zephyr windshield that's been shot whereas the scrape has a more modern version of that and uh side by side I bet they're pretty close in proportions the fenders are much wider the body's sectioned and chopped the fenders are pushed out we took a a Lincoln Town Car change the wheelbase on the chassis and then the Lincoln Town Car is the platform that we we hung this body on it's got a Ford 5.0 racing engine bike Ben Alameda yeah I'm pretty sure that's Bob causlet like holy smokes and then I think the camera is picking it up I've not seen like that like that detail that's a lot of the low rider culture also that's so prominent in Victor's Heritage so so incredible he's always down for the artwork and the stripes so beautiful this has a lot of Silver Leaf that's a huge low rider element to still relieve the cars so so I was like the neat thing about this car is it lived in my shop upside down on this jig for almost a year because there was no underneath of the car everything is framed out in round tube I had to make the Rockers the fender surrounds everything all the door gaps I had to recreate the fender and I mean the hood and trunk openings so real Zephyr Grill and then another unique thing about my aluminum casting you'll notice these Fender spheres on a lot of cars but Victor's like nope we need something better I'll show you on this side Jamie you see this style fender spear with two Spears and Victor's like I want three Spears so we took that yeah drop the camera a little bit too that's a cast aluminum piece that we made we took two of those uh original Spears made a model of it in actual fiberglass and then took them to The Foundry and I was selling those for a while too the three speared Fender skirt wow wow yeah the fender skirt is something I never really funny story about the little back bumper uh the car went to the paint shop I made that bumper out of some 54 Bel Air Parts I think they are kind of identifiable unidentifiable now but one off piece and the body is Bodywork to fit that specifically goes to the paint shop and comes back without that bumper we're like where's the Chrome man like I don't know the Chrome was on the car when you took it to the paint shop like a year goes by and the guy at the paint shop is like Victor is this your piece oh my and he found it it was just one of those things you know it's put on the side and it's so little they didn't really it was on it doesn't look like anything it's like oh that's the piece of the puzzle that we're missing so yeah the car shot for quite a while with no back detail on it it's always a story behind a story so again let's let this is a Packard that Gene Winfield painted it's got the Winfield fade Jean uh collaborated with me on the layout of the chop and section of this car that's uh recorded in our TV show but Gene came over and spent a little bit of the afternoon laid out the lines with me he's like you're gonna want to do this with the windshield you're going to want to do this with the section in the body and then uh you know whatever else you do after that is up to you so I was like well I like your style man if when I'm done you'll paint it that would be really cool and he and Victor came to an agreement and there it is uh the grill on this is pretty far out as far as the headlights also I blew the little bubbles on the headlights These Are Buick Grill teeth with the Cadillac dagmars the Buick upper bar also this may get into Chrome someday but a lot of the stuff Victor and I have done is is like always a work in progress none of these are finished so just like with the misfit and the Beautiful Chrome Grille Imagine This The Merc eater eater The Merc eater is actually another Packard that his his friend Craig owns so it's not here in the building but these two were twins on uh my friend Don's lot and I talked them out of both because they weren't great looking cars to start with it does look like the Mercator ear like looking at it now if there were Merc eaters in the world this would be the murky or eater I want it to look like an angry alien yeah like it's coming to getcha and they've seen it here and this way you can really oh Winfield sign the dash too oh did he wear on this side or right in the middle but you can also see the level of detail in this interior also yes it's got the same gig going up on the ceiling all the special patterns in the seats green and brown go great together hold on every where see there has a lot of a lot of chingas a lot of stuff in his collection but I was going to talk about only a few things that was a long time ago collaboration we did these Tikis and uh I want to give a shout out to Doug Dorr I think your Tiki might be in Victor's house or in the other building but we have this cool one we had a little collaboration with pinstripers where it's like hey take a tiki and that's pinstripe Mike's venture he High build primered and sanded that thing to Perfection and it's dusty right now but it's like yeah candy coated Tiki dream that's pinstripe mics Doug doors we're hoping to find this is a lady I believe named cat that's her I don't know if she signed it I hope she did again this is uh 18 years ago I think so cool Arrangement yeah Victor had bought a couple truckloads of tikis for his Nursery to retell them and uh it's right here oh it's this is for the moon eyes Christmas party so yeah that's what that says yeah actually that's fine it's interesting but we're gonna have a pinstriper come in and collaborate on uh Jamie's hot rod project whenever that kicks off I'm excited I haven't even asked her yet but I can't wait to ask her I hope the answer is yes you don't have to see it it's amazing yeah while we're uh when we put this up feel free to chime in with any questions specifically about these things we're gonna close up here and get into the next building and try to show with my uh camera work it's a little shaky guys you guys do you look at this [Music] year so Victor's that guy right this is the engine cover look at that material I mean so cool he's probably got strobe legs under here that wraps up this building let's head over to the next the next is more like a it's like cold storage it's like a meat locker in there wait till you see how these cars are kept this is the real showroom everything's dusted off but we're going into the deep vault [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 21min 28sec (1288 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 26 2023