I found & rebuilt Toretto's Charger for SEMA 2019

pretty sure that the Chi you have is the Holy Grail [Music] [Applause] [Music] so over the years I've helped build a lot of cars and when I say help build them I've been apart of the Azon we're Max and it opens up doors and allows me to obtain stuff you know maybe a little bit easier than an American guy they here every other day they hear a new voice on the phone they gather we excited they think I'm someone special doorstop I mean and there you go you know over the years people have kind of gone Sam so you get parts and you help out at the end of builds but you built in yourself you can't build a car you know you're in England man you don't know nothing about the hot-rodding world or custom car building and you know when people say that it's true you know what it's hard to hear it but it's the truth you know you start thinking oh man I've built this car you know or I've been a part of a team that built this car and then you start sitting back and going actually what have I done I've helped out a lot with cherry gaining parts you know and saving money on the you know the down cost of the build and I've helped put parts in cars that I've owned and I've helped a snag list you know the SEMA crunch list I've helped with that too but I physically haven't built anything for the US or the UK so I got a phone call from one of my buddies who is a stunt driver on fast and furious life the best way to describe this without upsetting to many people it was designed for car people but wasn't designed by car people the company went bust fast and furious life went bust and I got a phone call saying there's a private auction coming out are you interested in buying any of the cars I can get you in I was like cool so I sold my 1960 Cadillac Coupe DeVille or like hot chocolate Detroit steel wheels on air like you're bad for any English guy to have sold that and I solved my 1970 Dodge Charger that was kind of minor my dad's and a little bit money in the bank and I went on this all online auction and I'm clicking away thinking I might have an opportunity to buy one of these cars you know they're like my iconic dream cars and there was a real Dennis McCarthy Dodge Charger I think we went for like 80,000 bucks so there you go my first dream car boom gone I've got no chance I tried buying some other cars is like he's little hi boo sir powered buggies that were really cool and they weren't crazy as well as everyone knows Paul Walker's green Mitsubishi Eclipse in the first movie and I'm looking at going not a school bus is electric powered wasn't designed to do 50 60 miles designed to do 10 miles an hour these hubcaps would spin to replicate the car was moving and the road which is projected on the floor by big projectors moved behind the car to make it like it was going fast I click on that 5,000 pound English click ten nine eight freakin what a car there is like one of the most iconic movie cars in like car history for my era or what you know and it's looks the part I mean the bodywork is phenomenal it's green it's called the stickers in the right place this car was a replica built especially for the fast and furious live production so carry on bidding then this other electric Dodge Charger comes up and I'm like it's 1970 Dodge Charger body like they're 20 grand just for a clean body like why not I'm bidding away I'm like fifty five hundred pound at seventy two thousand bucks do I want it what's going on I won two of the most iconic movie cars in the world at this point there was no documentation backing out it's just a share it's just a prop once again electric motors you pressed a button it went open its back wheels we're long smoke machines to hide all the the wheelie bar equipment but it's kind of cool so I didn't just buy two cars at the auction I bought a third vehicle after the auction have finished there's one vehicle that didn't get bid it was the Oshkosh dune truck used when they stole the D Tomaso Pantera off the train in the train heist it was basically a mock-up to look like the one in the movie once again it wasn't a film used vehicle it had Jeep Cherokee axles that are like six feet wide and the trucks ten feet wide had these big fiberglass wheels as spun and moved up and down to make it look like it was going over the dunes I had like a fifty thousand dollar hydraulic aluminum body that came off the back so it was designed to take a vehicle off but never designed to put vehicle on so I bought the dune truck and we turn up and somehow I've got to get free cars back to Portsmouth which is a good four hours away from where I live with one recovery truck and one lorry so I got the dune truck on like damn it where am I going to put the Eclipse so we load the Dodge Charger on it's too heavy the body won't lift it on so we put the Eclipse on it lifts it on we get the Eclipse on the back of the dune truck on the back of a lorry take it back to the UK so we're driving down there the highway or the motorway in England as we call it and I'm looking at the doing truck on the left downside with the Eclipse on the back and I'm like my life has just changed here this is like a turning point in my life my career my future if I died tomorrow is done I've you know I've done something pretty cool by buying stuff that I don't need with all the money that I do need but that's fine we're driving down the street and some guy messages me on facebook says hey I used to work for fast and furious live and I'm pretty sure that the car you have is the Holy Grail and I'm like what do you mean he says well I'm pretty sure there's a title showing that it was owned by Universal City Studios and I'm like no I don't think so I think I was probably the Dennis McCarthy build that sold for like 80 grand is that no no check your VIN so we pull over at the gas station and I start looking at the car I check the VIN number out and I start going further paperwork and I've got a copy of the title that says Universal City Studios when my VIN number black Dodge Charger and I mean does it get any more cool than a 1970 Dodge Charger that has been used on fast and furious life that was owned by Universal Studios then I find a receipt showing they went from Universal Studios to visual effects who's owned by Dennis McAfee then sold to fast and furious life so now I've got documentation proving that my car was a movie owned vehicle which is freaking awesome for me like life-changing you know which therefore gives me the idea of moving forward and making something special out of it this road-legal unusable because therefore I can apply for a total in England and I can drive this car on the road when I bought the car but I just bought was a shell it was cool it was like the most perfect Dodge Charger body that I could ever dream of owning Mopars over the years thanks to the movie franchise I've just gone up in the world there's no way of you been here for one on and on a normal workers pay you know and to own this car for peanuts and now owe me nothing I was kind of like in a good position and people all around the world were like man just put engine and in it stop being a jack come you're gonna ruin it and I'm like I don't know and then as a car guy you know when you can't do something it's like it's quite simple like it can or it can't be done and even if it can be done it can be done to a bad standard that's never gonna have any resale value my lovely ladies laid there and Ben she's like why you do it yourself so what do you mean you said why don't you build a car for SEMA with your sponsors and do something that no one's done I was like okay I'll do it I met this great guy who'll call from talk American and he's a big Mopar guy you know and he comes down to my shop and he's also talking me out of this he's like you're Jack cannot cut up this Mopar because you're gonna ruin your reputation as an American car guy in England they're gonna everyone's gonna think you're I was like well they're probably bright to be fair they are probably bang on the nail of what I'm thinking about doing I'm looking for a drivetrain now so I need something where I can get a see rails or I can do something like Dutch charges are a monocoque so they got the chassis rails built into the frame it's not saying you can take the body off this NASCAR was on eBay and I looked at it it's like an out flat ninety nine Khaled was NASCAR and I'm like before I even got the charger the guy at up 20 grand I was like that's cool on a NASCAR but I can't afford it I'm hard up you know I'm looking at a message guy that give 10 grand is it no he comes down 16 grand two weeks go by give you 10 grand it's like 14 grand doesn't know finally I gave 10 grand I got to pick it up and I'm like a 16 year old kid who's just got his first bicycle or whatever you know and I am being an absolute I'm driving this NASCAR round like it is a go-kart never in England you don't get the opportunity to drive like an idiot because there's no space to I'm driving it around my estate don't burnouts doing donuts on slicks in a NASCAR I'm like a kid in a candy store I'm looking at going well I hang on the rear ends like 20 grand the brakes are 20 grand people play 250 grand to build these cars when they're new like you ain't gonna get a bare frame to put underneath a car right so I'm thinking one I just put the gas car underneath the charger and you start looking into it anything I was just a fiberglass body we'll take the fiberglass body off turns out they're all steel right in there freakin heavy so you know someone spent quarter of a million dollars making this thing perform and go in a circle right turn left turn left turn left cool let's get a rip saw so I'm gonna trip someone cutting the body off like it's a hundred dollar junkie you know cutting the body off cut the body off take the body off his one piece I sold that they turned into a bar I'm left with the best ever suspension they learn heart front suspension it's got NASCAR emblems all over it it's got in a tank the race the year the date all scrubbed out that's how it works what can I do with this car to make it usable so then I start making an exoskeleton up for the Dodge Charger and I lift the body off cut all the floor out and by this point I've got a Dodge Charger which in my head the body was probably worth 20 grand now it's worth maybe a couple of grand just in parts of doors and fenders because I've messed it up to the point of no return I roll the NASCAR underneath and probably should have checked this before I did it but you know when you're excited about saying you just crack on and even where you got to make it happen so hurdles getting away it's not how were how you make a problem is how you get over it and put a NASCAR underneath drop it down roll cages in the way cool cut the roll cage out of the way drop it down still doesn't fit cut more on the roll cage out of the way drop it down calm I will bases out by seven inches you know the distance between the front on the rear well is 7 inches different I'm like oh my god what am I gonna do so I'm thinking of like moving the axle back or I ain't about moving the front suspension forward in the end I was like what hang on I can just cut it in the middle extend it seven inches extend the prop shaft brake lines all this kind of stuff your lines weld about together and what this guy would Adam who's a welder call him in he's like we're gonna do this we're gonna cut a chassis in half and we have a jig we don't have any expensive equipment laser lines or any of this stuff we're doing this old-school hotrod star we're learning as we go along and we cut it in half and he comes up this idea of welding small pieces of anger line and putting a piece of steel in right so that's our lane so that we know that both sides we have one bar on you have two we've painted a special color that we don't throw it away and we hang it up out of the way and we world like two little pieces angle bar and put this bar in so that's our link for the moment we then put that bar on the other side do exactly the same and cut the car completely in half so you can imagine how I'm feeling at this point I've a Dodge Charger that is not worth anything I've got a NASCAR that seemed probably 60 to 70 pieces that is not worth anything apart from all the parts and I'm like this is never ever in my life going back together like I've never gone this far before and now I've gone too far we cut another piece of steel that's 7 inches long and we put that in we brace it up we jig it all up world all together measure check everything and it's perfect like it's flawless like cool we're achieving something now then we start dropping the body down I start making these inner sales so that are so perfect that when you drop the Dodge Charger down it glides on the chassis rails of the NASCAR so that it's a perfect seam fit so even if you wanted to you couldn't grab hold of the car or move it in any direction it's a flawless fit we use the original firewall for the NASCAR everything in place and it gets the point well actually a starlet pretty cool now I've got these big Goodyear tires hanging out the front fenders the wheelbase looks amazing the wheels up inside the wheel arches just looks like something like Dave kindig would do you know that they're 27 and 1/2 inches tall if you start working out that's like a 22 inch rim with some like reuleaux pros on it you could go pro street with it you could put some bad bake 22s and make it look kind of Pro Street and I was like oh my god this is looking good I'm trying to get someone to build me a roll cage yeah I've never done a roll cage in my life but I don't want to send it somewhere and pay someone 2,500 bucks to make a roll cage I want to get someone to come to my shop bring a pipe bender like a man or I'll Bend a Bailey one bring me that and we'll do it together I want to learn this car is gonna be built by me and I'll have help along the way because I ain't no genius but I want to build it at my shop in my time with my hands and in a day from 6:00 in the morning till 6:00 at night we've filmed every part of it and we built this freakin bad ok drop it down take it up drop it down pick it up we dropped the body on I weld it all on I made there the trunk all look oh he to fit the original NASCAR chassis I had sponsors from all around the world I mean Cobra bucket seats in the UK and they phone me on like we hear you build and same pretty crazy I was like yeah well would you consider putting our seats in it I was like oh yeah everyone's heard about Cobra bucket seats I mean they're built well their race approved they must be doing something right to still be around then Shroff racing whoo Cobra sent me these like four inch wide NASCAR eight-point harnesses like over the top that it just works you start going through things everything just falls together you know Mickey Thompson iPhone was like well I need a tire I can drive across America and but I want him 27 and a half inches high I'm 12 inches wide I won by 15 like well we do this but they're 28 inches high but they're a little bit narrower and I was like but the problem is you can't really get cooler than Goodyear Eagle tires right when they're like free meal thick NASCAR tires you hit a stone or a nail you're gonna have a blowout especially on snow you can't drive in slicks so Mickey Thompson sent me these tires and I basically contacted the head of marketing and I said I want the logos from 1968 to 72 and they sent them to a company called tire stickers who made me up these NASCAR esque bright yellow logos which basically copy the fact of the NASCAR Eagle NASCAR tires but now I'm on tires that can actually get me across America you know and the whole thing is starting to come together I've got the right wheels on it I got an audio system in it like who puts okay I'd say who puts a audio system in a NASCAR this job I think I must be the only man in the world the person audio system in in NASCAR I met this guy who owns speed dog D AWG who make this custom bat gear shift balls right he said to me Sam if you ever want anything and you bring us up the CIMA just let me know something like well I've got Dominic Toretto's Dodge Charger I got it on Carl Edwards NASCAR chassis and Paul Walker's not with us anymore right so how can I do something in this car that is gonna be kind of cool so I contact him I said I got this idea of a shifter ball and I asked everyone and everyone says my idea was stupid so just gave me more ammunition to move forward my plan I send it to him I don't want to do one too fast free for Paul because for Paul Walker he's not with us anymore and that was a that's a big stepping stone like you know him being gone from the franchise for me and to fast because it's like too fast too furious so when you read it you got one too fast free foot pool but when you read it it says too fast for Paul because the Dodge Charger was always too for Paul I sent the logo back on like a sketch drawn on like a napkin in a restaurant I take a picture and send it to him he said that it's a cool what you gonna do with it I'm gonna take it to SEMA he's like cool let me contact Mopar and see if they'll endorse this is a one-off gearshift knob in the world Mopar endorsed it it's got its got charger written down the side of it and it just is mind-blowing like you sit in it and the cars calls heats cool you got this bright white shift knob with two lines with the logo on it and it's just amazing and then to be on a show Cody Walker who I did in Tucson the dashboard it was kind of quite emotional for me because I looked up to Paul Walker so much like even don't get to know the guy you don't know him you never meet him but for what he represented as a human being a nice guy someone that had a young family someone that did stuff for Chery kind of like hit home a lot for me I I think I'm a nice guy I help out charities he's a car guy he's in a movie that you idolize and for him to pass away at such a young age it really shows you how precious life is and I want to do something in this car kind of remembered him because the only reason I'm here today is because the love of the movies that he was in at the beginning so he had to do that shift knob is pretty cool the dream I built us call it now the NASS charger yeah NASCAR power dodge charger documented by Universal Studios raced by Carl Edwards I mean does it get cooler than a rogue going NASCAR we'd like to thank Avalon King for their continued support of the VIN Wicky YouTube channel obviously I've installed it onto my Porsche 993 which one of our app users is gonna win once we hit a million subscribers I've got it on the lp640 and it's performed flawlessly in both cases the cars are much easier to clean the finish looks a lot better and I've really been impressed with it so we're gonna do some more experimentation with the 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Keywords: Sam Hard, Hard Up Garage, Fast and Furious, Vin Diesel, Fast and Furious Live, SEMA, 2019, SEMA 2019, VINwiki, Car Stories, Dodge Charger, Wheelie, Paul Walker, For Paul, 2 Fast 2 Furious, car build, project, Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sponsors, Shell, prop, barn find, auction

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Length: 17min 44sec (1064 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 07 2019