JESSE'S JETTA: The Full Story

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] tells me something else that it triggers a memory yes actually that did happen right yeah he forgot all about it right well obviously as you know is red line when we first you know was learning about the movie I remember that I still actually have the script that you gave me through you I actually do I grab I have so much stuff from the movies it's unbelievable so we had connected and that first of what had nothing to do with my Jetta at first it was just a matter of supporting some of the vehicles that were actually in the film the hero cars bill the Integra was one of them and and then we started you know also getting product for this store you talk about the Integra bill Cole's and topos Integra the red and yellow Integra that had our body kit and wing on there right so we needed to make another cup we don't even need several copies I believe of that car and then also we outfitted a bunch of product for the store you know for the shop racers edge racers everybody it keeps asking is that a real shop is that a real shot yeah exactly I get that front bumpers everywhere stickers everywhere posters everywhere well well but you didn't know what's going on behind the scenes was is that I was upset that we weren't getting enough decal placement on the cars and that was a very unique relationship for Universal usually you have to pay to play exactly and I told them with your little shitty budget that you had which is like two million bucks for a car as I said you're not getting this picture made unless these people are doing any product or given to it cost right so when we did research as I said they asked me can you get part two so we should use all the parts of the sponsors it's gonna be a big blow job for the sponsors yeah and so I'm calling up everybody in anybody who gave us parts can you please loan us some more parts yeah yeah yeah we were happy to is actually a it was actually a great thing to be a part of to be honest with you but then later on in the picture and this is a good story about my car that as the film was developing I believe most of the cars were selected at the time but they were looking for one more car and they wanted the European car right so then I get a call from mr. Craig Lieberman asking that if my car was available and you probably don't remember this story but I remember it so well and I tell it so much I actually said no the first time you know and the reason why was is that I've done a lot of movies a lot of TV shows I know what happens to the cars you know and I know that overall they can get damaged and my car was in very good condition so I didn't want to you know rent it out at the time and then about two weeks later I got another phone call from you asking me again about using my Jetta which again I had said no you know it was very partial remember yep but the best part was is the third phone call that I got from you it's like you said called me up you said listen I know that you don't want your Jetta to be a part of it but we're having a lunch at Universal Studios in the in the back area all the actors and the director and Dave Marta was going to be there as well and you just said hey why don't you just bring your car down we just want to see the car come have lunch meet everybody and I said you know what the hell let's go ahead and do that so I brought my Jetta down and if you remember correctly it was right behind that famous restaurant where all the actors eat it's called the commissary that's right the commissary so we had all the cars there and I brought my Jetta there and out came Rob Cohen Paul Walker Vin Diesel everybody is that the day I had my super there that was a day you had just we had all well actually if we remember correctly I believe all the cars were there at that one time for the first time that we're actually going to be in the movie so I remember I had my car open displayed you know the engine and the trunk and the doors rope and you know everyone kind of came out to look at the cars and I remember hearing Rob Cohen looking at my jutting goes that's that's Jesse's Jetta and I'm like Jesse's Jetta and I'm like well yeah I didn't think much of it and then Dave martyr which was in charge of transportation my boss yeah your boss at the time exactly approached me and said listen we want this Jetta for the movie so well it's not available for rent and he had pulled me aside and he had made me up a pretty decent offer to use the car and at that point in time I had agreed to do the film he explained to you that the we were gonna build a stunt car and a third card or shoot it all up and all that that's kind of what sold it but I hate to say this but the amount of money that was paid to rent these cars know how much exactly I have the sheet exactly so I wasn't an idiot by any means and to find out what we were getting paid on a daily rate you know every day whether the car was working or not they also had ensured my car for the value which was close to about two hundred thousand that's about what we had in the car you know building these import cars because as you know when I built these cars it wasn't a matter of putting a body kitten wheels on if you did audio and video and engine suspension I'm Rey everything in this car so these $17,000 cars were not 17,000 a were a hundred to two hundred a grand when they're all said and done and even if it's a $17,000 car and there's thirty five or forty thousand dollars or parts at retail or $80,000 parts every day whatever it is even if the car only souls for forty forty fifty thousand dollars later on to reap to recreate the car right there's all the time in the labor exactly and that was the number that in you know and what David had said was is that they would insure the car for the full value if anything happened to it they would drive me a check so I said at that point in time the cars yours when you want it so within two days later the picture company was at my front door and the car was now in their wife your trailer the enclosed trailer a checkered floor everything there you know the whole deal loading it up and I lived not far from her urine lake for yeah we're very close and if you ever correctly that remember the one time we had all the fast and furious cars at my house oh yeah we did the photo shoot where I was at max power metal yeah and redline he shot from the same and that was I think was that well that was after the movie was out but it was funny it was after the movie after the movie had been enough yeah yeah I think you're right I thought I think it was after his out that's when they kind of got us all together but we literally had all the fast and furious cars at that point in time and I have hangers of that yeah and I do too as well I just found some from my friend Gabriel Tremblay fast and furious integra on Instagram he bought bill Cole's cards and well he did in Texas now when he got like 1,100 actual photographs no way and said you started posting oh my god how funny so you get the car and then we build two more replicas one one gets shot up and then actually I think it was more than that I think they've enlisted shows three three I think there were five cars total there were two cards that were set up for the shot up only one car did get shot up and then there was another car that was used in the racing that did not have the big brakes on there which we need to talk about that and clarify this whole brake issue and we got to squash this at some point in time but anyway so yeah we did several of those cars and and of course wings Wes we helped participate in building the cars the thing with the VIN list of I have is I know it's partially incomplete so I have a list from early on yep I don't think I have one of the full list but it shows three at the time but yes interesting as I showed eight supras yeah there were way more supers I think the word built more Super than any car I got a look but according that VIN list yes but the problem was that some of them never made it to the picture car warehouse because one was kind of cut up for a McRib car that's right one was a buck car that only went got a studio that was stored separately so there's no Milus or ballistic it I can get off tangent so yeah do we have these these Jettas and then of course if you've watched the movie you probably know this already when we're doing the interior shots don't know of Jesse's faced it's not even a Jetta right it's a Honda Civic McRib shell yep right and you can see the court of the rear windows it's not a Jetta and they put Sparco these fake spark OC cup seat covers on it stuff and then even the steering wheel cover too as well to make it look red stupid red and it was hideous because it had like the grips on it and everything it was pretty cheesy actually yeah but a lot of people think go back and watch the film to see that so then of course it comes to the big scene where we're starting the race and I'm up there doing my thing and then I'll get they get that close-up on the car on that right front wheel and we see a giant brake rotor yeah but no caliper and I still have to this day oh my god a hundred times a week why were there no brake calipers on the Jetta I am so sick of hearing that we all know the story but go ahead and tell it well bottom line is my Jetta absolutely had brake calipers in fact it was a custom-made Brembo kid on there it's a four piston caliper in the front no baby piston 14 anywhere 13-inch rotors but you had giant 19-inch wheels on the car when that was that was one of the first cars to have 19-inch wheels because back then we didn't have the proper tire sizes or the wheels weren't even made in that size so yes I did have 19 inch wheels on there and this is why we did that what happened was of course the replicas that we built we're not putting 13 inch big breaks right so they've got the factory ten-point whatever front desk yeah I'm not on that car and you got this little brake rotor in his giant wheel it looks stupid yeah so we took the trick that's been going back to the hot rod days at the 1960s many trucks used to do it in the 80s we have a fake rotor it's mostly because back in the days the cars had drum brakes in the rear right and it looks stupid so I would take these decorative things and put them on top of the drum and put the wheel yep and to kind of fill up that wheel gap of crap and oh my god the Internet's oh yeah it was the biggest mistake they ever made and the other part was is that the brakes were about 9 grand all said and done so to be able to spend the money on the brakes and all that it just did they didn't want to do it so that was their answer to it but yes the car had huge brakes front and rear all done by Brembo so I just want to squash that now and that way everyone knows because if you do actually see my car or not my car now but it did have brakes on it so it's a good story than anyways but still today that haunts me so we're filming this in June 2019 and just recently your hero one Jetta yeah which you had the autographs all over I think did Jesse signed it so what wing right if you remember correctly that we did that at the movie premiere right ok so that's when I had Chad sign it I had Paul sign it and then I had Rob Cohen sign it I didn't think I had Vin Diesel sign it but yeah those sort of three autographs from the movie premiere yeah I think most of us had our car sign there I know that was that night and then if you remember correctly I actually had the blower from the charger and I brought that and had Vin Diesel sign it at the premiere as well oh you had the plastic blower no mine was all aluminum I still have it I was at a prop it was actually used on the car but they took it off the uses as a prop in the in the press junket oh so I gave that so here's a good positive thing you open in for a good story so here's a funny story so we're hanging around after press jockey remember the press Concorde backlot Universe studio 600 so one of the girls that was working with the cars comes up to me says what you might go ahead and keep going says coz says hey listen do you mind steering this car and someone push you will pay you $60 to steer the car and that was the charger because as most people know that the charger you know really didn't have a motor right so it was just a prop on the top and I'm like okay sure no problem 60 bucks I'm not a freaking idiot I'll steer the car so I push it and then we they I drove it as they pushed me and then we wind it up in front of the clock where they fill in clock back to the future so as we got out of the car there was a nitrous bottle there and there was some other props there and I said listen instead of you know giving me the 60 bucks why don't you give me this nitrous bottle you know it was a big huge polished night just by I figured you know what I'll keep it put in my office make it look good because I can't do that I said okay fine no problem so that's where I saw the blower and I go how about that my Jetta was right there at the time just put it in your car put it in your car so I kept it but I remembered when we did the premiere I took it to the premiere and I've been diesel sign it and I still have it do you know what that would be worth today I have no idea 10 grand easy are you kidding me no there's this guy in Indiana selling the disc room the disa stick in the super specs oh yeah a picture coming up he's trying to get four grand for it are you kidding though you smoking criminal Mike hang on to that till he's done yeah no it's a big huge part heavy it's all real everything and all autographs and Vin Diesel people would want that for authenticity yeah hero one car is still running around yeah you know the one that didn't have the motor in it because we rented the motor from Chuck Nelson racing engines it was supposedly a 572 bored and stroked Hemi motor with this big old BDS blower car versus saying I always forget the specs ago they don't work yeah but that car is still running around and then of course they were using a variety of by the motors that were using for 40s yep we're just basically put them in the car and drive them around like that so those are fine but yeah that that prop the actual one that was actually intimacy on the hero one are signed by Vin Diesel yeah easily ten grand as a matter of fact I wouldn't be surprised if you got more than yeah yeah it just sits in my garage you put that up on eBay yeah you know it's it's very personal I can't say first of all I have to say one thing thank you so much for getting me involved in the film although I did fight it at first I'm very glad I was a part of it well I'm gonna tell you something I haven't told you directly but I just did a video and released it last week but we were going through the list of cars when I was sitting up in that room with Rob and a different meeting similar to the one that you had know how the cars were there I was up there with basically a grease board talking about what the car is in the hierarchy I really wanted an e36 I remember the BMW yes yeah six m3 and I think an Audi a4 showed up at that time I think it was a b5 a4 show it up at the time nice dark blue one wasn't very modified wasn't very impressive nice car but really wanted something like that but they wanted to see the car is just seeing pictures of cars and remember the internet sucked back into yeah yeah do we even have internet back then so really I mean you take a look at the pictures they were all 60 out of kilobytes and then there were just shitty pictures so trying to show that to Universal they just didn't want to be bothered they wanted it they call them the weekly show and tell yeah so every Friday we were doing that yeah and so when I said the e36 the e46 wasn't out yet the is to the is 300 was a now yeah there's a lot of cars that we could have looked at but it was about the budget - that's true - buy and build these cars they know they were gonna spend at least 30 grand to do a shitty cosmetic replica tires wheels yeah some interior and and the paint and that kind of stuff they were gonna spend a lot of money in these cars and you see in the list of how much we paid for some of these Jettas and civics it was laughable at that time oh yeah cheap it was amazing they're still relatively new yeah they really feel four or five years old it's a very expensive car but once it really was but yeah I was really happy to be a part of it so then let's talk about after the movie so we did the press junket we did the premiere I have pictures of you and I standing around the plotting table remember that we're looking at the blueprint ah me you me bill Cole my friend Aaron Keller I'm serious oh my god pictures of it it's posted on my Instagram no way and we're standing around the table and we're looking what cars are gonna go here what cars come before the actual premiere so we're doing that all morning setting up and then we go back to our respective hotels and now change and we walk the red carpet I got actor of us sitting in the theatre yep Nick Stuart the guy who had the Civic yeah the d-27 that's right oh my god I remember that man I got yeah and then wait in the first movie was it was draw rule that was in it - right so I was sitting we were a fourth row if I remember correctly we were very close and I was right next to him the whole time great guy but anyways I'm sorry go ahead just so full flashback oh yeah so and then of course we do the premiere that night yeah the food and hobnob what the actors RJ was there yeah RJ RJ a lot of us have changed our cars already yeah Versalles kind of pissed that he changed the Maximus so much god that pissed me off with those graphics by the way say you the second person Sean Morris just said in his interview that the graphics were hideous on the big bird the skyline and he couldn't wait to get him off well I just remember that when I was emailed the graphics of the cars because I had some pretty cool graphics on my car at the time I was just like oh my god really I mean to have the guy on the rocket and all that stuff or whatever you want to call that with the laser beam coming out I didn't get it and I remember I even called you about I'm like what the hell these graph that's doing on my car we need to get him off you know but at that time it was already decided all the cars are gonna have it but in my mind you know I had released a car to Universal and whatever this they were gonna do I was just going to go with the flow so the story with that goes like this I mean if you've looked at the European car magazine cover there's a great shot of the graphics the red and black that you had on the car yeah no match the interior theme and everything look good yeah so when they started doing these nuclear gladiators and these flying Trojans yeah so the story goes like this well since we knew that we were gonna have a lot of extras on set that the graphic trend at the time was to do stuff it was a tribal stuff for the waves or the splashes or the bubbles like that oh that's what was gonna be all the other cars on set so Universal had to do a couple things they had to come up with a whole new graphic scheme that served as a theme to be used for all of the cars that were in Dom's crew right then they also added racing numbers to all the cars to test you act that they were in Dom's crew that I forgot that my car was number twelve and so was Edwin's Integra was number twelve so there were two cars that were numbered D I've never noticed that interesting idea that you dig into once you really start yeah yeah yeah yeah so those graphics were definitely different and then the that people get like me as an owner of the cars from the first movie why would you sell the car yeah I would you change the graphics on the cars a good classic people don't understand what was going on in 2002-2003 when the movie came out the automotive forms you know Silvio dotnet and and Honda - techcom and all these other bathroom wall thing websites where basically people just write yes appear right everybody was just lambasting the cars yeah like this ugliest is gayest well it's true though they were it's terrible it's awful and then I used to say you know you said well yours later yeah but you watch that movie how many times 10 times 20 times come on exactly so it is what it was yep and so that's the reason I sold the car I mean I well do you remember when we had him sold on eBay Motors yep so another great story I think your car was almost 200 thousand right and my car was at I think I was second I don't know why the Jetta of all the other cars was about 140 150 the red Integra was at 60 the Eclipse was out a hundred grand and it was all fraudulent bids remember that the kid that was bidding on all the cars I had part of that I found qualified bids at over a hundred and sixty grand okay so I found qualified bits but yeah we had a lot of that we had a lot of that I had to go through a lot of bids to find a legit bit yeah a lot yep and then the cars didn't sell at that point in time but after the movie I was definitely ready to sell you know actually I was I really did not want the car anymore as you know owning a famous movie car it was quite difficult to own drive around everyone wanted you to take it to shows and events and things like that the biggest problem is is that when you were driving it I don't know how many people were trying to take pictures and I almost got killed three times you know because back then we didn't have smartphones with big screens you had flip phones with little things and people were trying to take pictures running me off the road and things like that but it really became a hassle for me it was I pulled up into a gas station up in Ladera where I lived and his kids sit in the back of this Ford Expedition the soccer-mom thing and had one of the TVs in the back and the kids could have been 810 years old huh what's an old guy like you doing driving a copy of a movie car right and I said yeah yeah yeah exactly a copy on the cars so I was ready to sell sure yeah I think it was I think we were all kind of ready to sell at that time because of the values of the movie and things like that but I think personally it was just time to release I had owned the car for about seven years you know at that time and you know I was ready to part my head down a lot what the car got the magazine covers yeah complan I set up to a couple exactly but the other thing was is that nobody knew the franchise was going to go to a second movie oh my god nobody knew that Paul would die No okay so maybe we said well you know what the car be worth today well nobody knew Paul was nobody knew Paul had not died yeah the cars would have gone up in a value and it's arguably what they would be worth or maybe gone down in value again it's right buddies guess yeah but the fact that Paul died brought the franchise back again to light there's a lot of people who were you know building a passion for the franchise over the years anyway bright really blew up win ball past yeah and he was an amazing guy he was an ambassador of the hobby right so he was incredible I mean he was genuinely just a great person did you get to be on set much I remember you were working here I was actually on set pretty much the whole film I mean cuz Wings West wanted me to have me there as far as part of placement or being there but I got another good story for you so if you remember the first day that we were filming okay so that was at the restaurant remember the first scene yeah okay so I remember arriving and the cars were all locked up in this back lot and I hadn't seen my car in about a month month and a half so I was walking over and I was looking at my car and I was just checking it all out and at the time I had been in the industry for quite a long time and I want to brag or anything but I don't know how to say this properly but I was very well known I've been in a lot of magazines throughout building all the wings west cars and things like that industry everybody knew you every wall at the same show videos DVDs things like that and so this guy came up to me and just started talk to me and I said hey you know I'm Scott and with links blast this is my car and we're chatting for a bet that maybe about 45 minutes to an hour you know and we were talking and summon one of the girl comes up and and and we were just kind of chatting and he says you know hey we need you on set - the person I was talking to I didn't know who this person was unfortunately didn't introduce myself and neither did he we just got into the passion of talking about cars so he turned to me and he goes hey well you know do you mind if we take a sure oh my gosh sure so I'm thinking that he wanted to take a picture with me at the time cuz again I'd been in a lot of magazines and it was pretty well known so we take the picture fifteen minutes later they started filming and it was Paul Walker I had no idea that I was so here I'm picky here picking Paul Walker water the picture with me you know cuz I was well no didn't all this stuff I mean I was signing autographs when go to the shows and things like dad no idea was Paul Walker man and it was so funny cuz then after the first break when they're cutting the scene I'm like oh my god I had no idea where you were and that's when we just bonded and became friends and everything but it goes to show how humble and down-to-earth it's amazing you know maybe he thought you were afraid to take a picture yep he was such an incredible guy I mean he was everything that everyone portrays him to be by any oh by all means you know switch gears and talk about one last thing when the jeddah got sold a lot of stories going around but I'm gonna let you tell the story about who got sold to and the evolution of that sale so I was doing a TV show called Titus if gig that I sent you up there for right all those cars are two movie Cars calm at the time and calling all my tutor buddies all and I always know Wings West out of ton of cars right so Titus was he is he's a famous comedian and he had his own TV show called Titus and he's more of a hotrod muscle guy well obviously the fast and furious you know became huge and wanted to do a fast and furious type of show that's when I got the call from you and then also Carson love from Hot Wheels at the time called me and so I went down the set and we talked about what kind of cars and I had brought like five or six cars for the for the TV show and actually I was in that show they decided to use me as an extra that's funny yeah so while I was there the Titus show is actually being filmed right behind the TV show Malcolm in the Middle and for those you don't know his you know Frankie Muniz so the next day I get a call from Zach Ward who played davon tide that Frankie was like floored by these cars and wanted to get one of these import cars so the next time I was there I met with Frankie and I had told Michael if you ever seen the movie The Fast and Furious and he goes yeah yeah well that's my favorite movie I watched all the time it's well I own the Jetta and and I'm selling my car it's like oh my god I got to come see it and this and that so him and his mother drove down to my house and I live in Lake Forest and took him for a test drive in the car and he's like sold I want the car I'm buying the car okay great you know nothing else happened about three months later I get a phone call from Frankie and and it's gonna be a 16th birthday and he calls me up and goes okay I'm gonna be 16 in a month and I want to buy your car you know I want you to deliver it to the set Frankie Muniz all the the TV shows like Entertainment Weekly and all those you know those celebrity type shows we're gonna be there and filming it and said okay great haven't heard from him next thing you know I get a call from his wealth management that you know he's ready to buy this car so I set everything up celica Frankie bring it down there and Frankie Muniz was act I was this first car was the fast and furious Jetta so he owned it probably is longer than I have you know and and kept it for quite a while as you know Frankie was was making some good money done very well for himself as an actor started getting into a lot of higher-end cars but still kept the Jetta always in his collection for his car it was his very first car didn't want to let it go you know and until he tried to sell it on barrett-jackson I don't know if you do see that when they try to sell it I saw tidbits of it but it's been so long ago honestly yeah it was a complete fail they didn't do a very good job market in the car it was they did it on a Wednesday and all the movie cars are always done on a Saturday I don't know why they didn't do it on the Saturday or was it I have no idea election five years ago ten years ago no I'd say about seven years ago or five or seven years ago it was at barrett-jackson or maybe even less than that we were out of the recession yep but Paul was still alive and the hall was alive at the time that weird period of time where I think we're at that time where were we at fast five fast six more than likely yeah I don't think fast six did all the great I got it look I don't have the data in front of me but it sold for very little money in fact it actually didn't sell um they they closed it as a sold but you know the car was never actually released it was at I think sixty or seventy thousand dollars and obviously he paid more and I can honestly say that was definitely one of the world's most expensive Jettas you know debt very well so he kept the car you know and then I guess now it's just turned hands again so I don't know how many homers have actually owned it so two or three to a consignment place for a while he was in Scottsdale in Arizona yeah Scott still they had it yep and consignment for somebody and then I guess yeah well to the chrome car guys and they actually picked it up at fuel fest yep so well at least they put it on trailer if you will fess maybe they had picked it up two days before who knows whatever yep but now the car is over in Germany they got a bunch of cars over there in the Eleanor Mustang one of the three hero Eleanor must so it's in Germany now it's in Germany it is gone Wow see that's the thing is when I was over in Sweden a lot of people outside of the country appreciate the cars in the movies far more than the Americans do because in America it's just that it doesn't have the same passion as the international fans and in a Latino market in particular freaking huge in the Latino market interesting but the people who have the money are these industrialists over in Europe yeah buying them and they got tons of money I know tons of my super is in the Netherlands Yeah right unbelievable the same guy he's got a charger he's got an s2000 he's got the hero one Eclipse which after Barris up that car yeah this guy bought it and it still up from Barris that's right bear has had that I was running around with that card he puts a button a wire loom on top yeah a bunch of gauges on top of it it was a that's right so as if the cars weren't racing enough in the movie yeah I mean he made it worse tenth level whole nother level but he was going down the shopping island Pep Boys I'll take two of those for those yeah those 302 put him in oh my god Fat Boys that's so funny remember when APC was back in big in the market back then you see all products are crap all price all Chinese stuff they jumped in with too fast too furious we'll talk about that here in a sec yeah yes all right we're back so with all the memories that just come flushing out as we have these discussions let's switch gears one more time let's talk about too fast too furious now we didn't know people like us didn't know we were nobodies when we worked worked on the movie essentially and we didn't know there was gonna be a sequel no clue we didn't even think the first one was going to be successful right the DVD is what I can't totally yeah and then they did a Superbowl commercial and that's the first I heard of it's now called the fast interfere something what yep well do you remember when we did long beach grand prix oh yeah yeah we remember that you had all the cars there and then remember what we snuck out on the track when they were oh my god turn seven oh yeah at the time and his security guys going there yeah no no okay because that was when we were promoting the film you had that huge boot sorry I don't mean to jump back the fast one but so many memories are triggering but sorry go go ahead yeah I still I don't like to tell that story because I was speeding on a public road I was yeah yeah right after the race that's when we did it yeah anyway so we pulled out of the ribbon all we have we pulled out yeah so all right fast forward so I'm all done I was doing DVD home theater promotion for Universal had hired me I was doing 80 yards the sound department hired me to go up to the studio and make sure they were doing stuff that they're supposed to capture like background conversations we're helping them with the lip-reading and all this other and use technical phrases on that do the sound recordings in the cars up at Agra Dulce Airport we took a bunch of the cars up there recorded those so this went on Tremont's international DVD marketing home theater marketing traveling with Paul to the shows with some of the code yeah so that went on for months and months and months and right and just when it was all said and done it was all done and then I did a tricked-out feature the DVD remember what the Playboy Playmate oh yeah yeah yep I'm all done I said okay well that was a nice gravy train paid for my swimming pool right right move on let's move on by that time I already had the skyline the Blackbird which I purchased and I make cars have you own g43 I'm on 40s now my lamb but the lamb bow was my favourites oh by the way I wanted a blue one the blue anyway you like the idea I think was sick I wish you still had it today yeah but still want a scar yeah alright so anyway so then I get a phone call from David martyr hey we're doing number two you ready unbelievable I said you're kidding now it's just no we're gonna do it didn't think that was gonna happen so I go up to the studio and I sit in a room with John Singleton the director he's sitting two seats down for me Ted David martyr sitting here Ted Moser sitting you're David murder remember bozo is a picture car captain for - yep and then I don't remember I was on the Melissa Kroll I'll get to her in a minute but were sitting around the room okay so we're starting here we're gonna do 2 fast 2 furious and it's not gonna have been diesel but we need to start to talk about things like the cars so here's what we've lined up for Paul we have a Dodge Neon SRT 4 oh my god and I'm riding in my seat really writhing just absolutely writhing and John Singleton leans down and he goes Craig you got something to say I said I'll wait my turn yeah exactly says Nuttall listen paying you a lot of money I don't want no booty ass in my movie if this is gonna be booty ass I need to know right now I said well in my humble opinion I think you're gonna alienate in a lot of Tunica robbers oh yeah and if that happens that's not gonna be good for the franchise and so this woman who has spent the last nine months of her life putting together this licensing deals with dodge which becomes relevant later on later on in are you telling me we should turn down this big investment from Dodge I said what I'm telling you is that you can't put lipstick on a pig right it's you're just gonna piss off people anyway David Moore to reach over grabs my arms like be careful what you're talking about and I didn't care I'm not in show exactly I minored me for my advice totally okay we appreciate your rights but no thank you all right go to their credit they change yeah now it'd have been a bit mistake so yeah so then we start picking the cars we go to the food chain and all that now we had to reuse a lot of the cars from - from the first movie second movie so we had to high civics yep where the 240sx is we had the supras we had s2000 we had Integra's so we had a we had a roster cards we had a lot of extra cards they were sitting up at an old warehouse up in Saugus California on San Fernando Road up there yep and I remember going to spec to him they were literally like one of those barn finds there was two inches of unbelievable that they were brown I couldn't even tell the colors of the cars imagine walking into there now and they were just trash because the last time they get off the trailer people think it's the last time they're ever gonna be on a dry and so they just drop the car it wasn't the case this wasn't the case yep so here we go so we're gonna reuse all these cars I just started I just found a reel of video about four hours long with me paid filming in the picture car warehouse mm-hmm of all the 2 fast 2 furious cars as we're building them hours of footage and so I just started publish that but what was interesting is as I looked at the footage and I remember this of course because I have the specs but I haven't done too much focus on too fast if yours and you started noting a lot of wings West products yeah on the cars you know so let's talk about some of those cars so the Civic's you guys give you your gave your kids for those yeah we actually got all five of the civics as they were built I think we built at least five yeah there was seven total according to yeah endless so five would have been actual folk right so you shipped me all five cars to wings west and we were told to and I forget the body kit that was on the car from the movie went over fenders kind of thing well know from the first movie I forget the kit that was on it it was like the fig Ville sidekick that's what it was and then we did our wide body kit on it on all five with the flares you know and then change out the wings and redid all five cars yeah and we painted them all different colors different colors I didn't have any saying that by the way they pay don't want dog poop Browns yes yep woman's brown I think one was pink one was cold one was orange yep and I think there might have been a red one too if I remember correctly maybe not I don't know how did you go so far back so we redid all five of those and then the NSX is the NSX is yep so there's nobody so let's talk about the story about the two fast affairs so hold on real quick so the first movie if you remember correctly they asked the industry for help okay guys like you know us at Wings West and things like that which we all participated in so after the movie became successful which again we didn't think it was going to be then they were starting to - then they had contacted us and asked us to pay to be in the movie do you remember this now yes I do no no I really remember that I don't talk about it much because but I will talk about it here but go on so that's oh my god how much do they want $100,000 plus 15% royalties to be able to use the Fast and Furious on our body kits and how do I say this properly you know we don't need to sell fast and furious body kits we don't need that we were a very pretty good-sized company so that's what I didn't read that I was quite hurt because you know we all helped participate to get the movie launch and then they're asking for money and then they're asking for royalties so at that time we bowed out right it was months later when you had called me and said listen you don't have to pay anything you know just help with product and we kind of went back into like the first film will be donated product and then we also did the end of sex so what happened was is there was a period where you and I didn't talk about it because I was going through the process with him I was still a better picture car warehouse and gundo started building cars there and it very soon realized that in order to build these cars that people were not going to get money I had several meetings with important people that said you don't understand how it works if you want stuff from Japan the Japanese companies it's HKS you know in the United States it's trust in Japan right trust sells to HK yes in each case is its own freaking company right okay so they're doing five or six million dollars a year in revenue or whatever the number was at that time whatever it was probably out there okay they're not gonna spend a hundred thousand dollars to make an eight a lot of money back then it's a lot of money a lot of money to make it HKS fast and furious turbo kid right one company did it and it was a nitrous company that I'm forget if it was nitrous I think was nitrous it was not just Express - they're the ones who actually bought into it yeah and I think that was a terrible mistake yeah and I don't know if they actually recouped any of the money from it - if they did I mean but the good news is if they didn't recoup the money they didn't put out fifteen fifteen percent right anyway be that as it may so modern image comes out modern image we're friends Rob you did all of our cars back all of our cars in Southern California - yeah with was with Rob so when we were doing the graphics in the cards do you have a decal provider gee somebody you know Craig yep Robin modern image so yeah it's this guy's out Viktor and it was a Viktor is Vic Vic yeah one other fellow I can't just bear Bellamy so bear with me they came out and lived in Florida they were that out there often in Florida doing decals on cars in our giant warehouse just and standing by standing by standing by yeah I've got to fix these cars so I told him I said look you are gonna have if you want the parts you're gonna have to give them something it's other you other ways you can just buy the parts right and they didn't want to buy them and they didn't want to buy so we'll you've given them power - were you charging them invoice where were you turn we actually comped the parts just like we did in one because we in exchange for exposure in the movie so before they wanted the money they wanted the royalties and then they wanted us to provide parts which is just we weren't going to give them parts and they give the decal exactly that was a big part of my job as walking the picture car warehouse every day if the cars came in from the set from the night before from second unit there from first unit they've been there back is looking to make sure all the decals on so I have a hole I still have the spreadsheets to this day of all the vendors for an hour and I'm going through and checking it off does it have it does it have it does it have an unbelievable yeah that was like babysitting stuff but yeah boarding stuff all right so we get the parts for the car so we got the NSX we've got the Honda Civic all the civics let me think what else you guys didn't do the kits I think vis was doing kids or verse 3 is or verses was doing 240sx ago yep they did all those kits and then what else do we have we got Integra is left over from the first movie right the ja rule car I think that was about it yeah cuz then we had get of course we had tsuki super which was a Veilside kid duckie from versus was making the replica kids let's see what else do we have in that movie of course the supras were all of vs. mm-hmm yeah pretty much a civics and in the NSX is what we did but that was other cars that were provided there was a red white there was a silver focus that had all wings West stuff I was at a PC cars Brian's got a bit of silver with the Stars and Stripes all over it I do remember that was that is it yes we're stuff that's that's correct so back in the day you know as far as what we did is marketing we always worked with our part nurse you know we would comp body kits and things like that and that's what really made Winx West such a huge success was being a part of so many project vehicles throughout the industry so whenever we had an opportunity to collaborate with our partners we did we took advantage of that and then I was always about the SEMA car count how many cars can you know God's SEMA we had 25 this year we want 35 next year we went 45 the next year one year 64 cars I had to do for SEMA and that was a year we actually got in trouble because we didn't actually have a booth at SEMA and so instead of buying a booth we would comp product to all the cars that were displayed in booths and they saw wings West everywhere and basically said that if you don't get a booth we're not going to allow any wings west cars in SEMA yeah I think politically I'm gonna keep my mouth shut you know but not very well handled but next year we got a booth let's just put it that way you know those of us on the industry know a lot about SEMA so yes anyway you know that conversations not exactly but then after that all those cars all these civics and everything the civics people started buying these cars in the open market right they just disappeared yeah I never I don't know what happened we all the civics so some of them went back to Universal for a while and then the cars would be used as you know when Dennis McCarthy took over for Tokyo Drift some of those cars got reused in different roles like the parking lot seen it so we'd filmed at Hawthorn walls but yeah be in Tokyo yeah and then they just disappeared so I don't know if Dennis sold him at auction or what but there was a period there around 2006 we car I started getting sold off for pennies on the dollar like the skyline jump car somebody had it and he couldn't get $24,000 on believable crazy unbelievable it wasn't a motor ex car but yeah I was 30 40 and there were also some cars that were actually on display Universal Studios so our yeah I know they didn't you do the argh 7 body kids where's that vs. no that wasn't our kid I know my car was actually on display over there one of the stunt cars was on display but then of course there's so many fasts and Ferris is now they've been changed out so many times you know but but the early movies seem to have the big impact because they were first off there were fewer cars that they focused on all the other cars and the other movies are transient they're in and out and one it's one sequence and the cars are in and they're out and that's it yep and then the Dodge Chargers I mean they're basically getting all the Dodge products are getting they're getting hand it from Dodge and there's nothing being done - it's not like they're aftermarket supercharged or turbocharged or nitrous systems though everything else is maybe an exhaust or some fake sound recordings but yeah nothing special now the added special know-how special so oh my god is a different thing so yeah so good old days man I'll tell you but I mean who would have thought that here we were going on what are they filming eight nine we're on nine right now nine he was set to go to ten never would have thought they even would have done - you know but nevertheless ten I didn't think they were get to three because after it's too fast too furious if you think that the first movie was cheesy the second one I think the first movie was still the best I think they're getting more and more it really is it's become so Hollywood now that's not even the explosions and they're flying out of buildings and cars and they're bringing in these super tiny you know what - it's it's gone so Hollywood it's really lost what it's about but you know the Fast and Furious really had a big an impact on the import market as far as being an industry concern if you remember correctly when that movie came out the import industry kind of took a little bit of a hit and the reason why was is that it really brought awareness to street racing and then also to modifications of the cars people were getting pulled over cars were getting impounded and things like that they were getting in tickets and stuff so our market kind of dropped a little bit you know from that movie it's as popular as it was it did affect a little bit of sales that's interesting to hear you say that because the sales when they talk to people from Scott Sparco and nos and all that sales and products went up by a thousands of percent right you know fifteen hundred percent for Greddy nos and all that kind of stuff but I agree with you and that I think there was a really bad focus and if you totally you probably weren't aware but I was giving a lot of interviews on radio and TV at Universal was setting them up for me and the conversation always went to illegal street-racing yeah well do you think is promotes illegal street-racing meant tell them look there were movies like this but going back many many years to Lane blacktop absolutely Rican graffiti so lacing has always been around always been around year-round just different cars in different times and just the only that changes the person driving the car yep so it's it's never going to go if you guys want to focus on illegal street racing remember that this movie is an action movie with some illegal street racing in it but every time there's an illegal street race and that kind of stuff there are negative consequences they show the cops are showing it up perhaps is showing up breaking it up they show the consequences so yeah we're gonna go out and try and drive a Honda Civic under a semi they're only gonna do it once because they're gonna be dead exactly so now we're gonna happen you do they know that we raised the semi-truck so the car can go underneath it I mean come on a lot of people don't yeah but they do now thanks yeah so sorry you know because you were there exactly but they're still doing that now you take a look at you you look go online and take a look at the shenanigans people are doing with two steps and the flags and all that they're filming themselves while they're doing street takeovers and all that with for a person way I just can't wrap my head around right so it's interesting that people want to go out and do that kind of stuff and then film themselves while they're actually committing a crime right it doesn't make sense to me just completely it's just an evolution of the illegal street racing stuff yeah right it's some people who want to go onto a reason why he does it it's never gonna go away never gonna go away no I mean I think street racing is always gonna be a part of our culture and everyone else's culture I mean as long as cars are you know as you know now cars have changed a lot since then sure you know the technology is my Islam 20 years may be exactly but the tuner market back then was unique it was the same thing every week we go to hot import night yeah same group of people modern at you yeah tell your tire tire my box spring locks all all of all the players yeah TSW wheels remember TSW wheels oh my god wires wires was huge what about the story McGuire's we should tell that story when we're at the hottest car of California the hottest car so do you remember that I remember being there at the old McGuire's building over here in Irvine right and I remember having my yellow Supra that's right and I think these were this is before fast and furious Austin fear I had only had that car like six months but what cars one do you remember what cars one there were two Awards there was the individual award and there was the corporate Award okay so I'm gonna guess that you won the corporate award I won corporate okay and you won individual I hottest card okay yes you did you HOT his car we'll both cars were hottest car California okay so this is again I can't believe you don't remember this you know what it's in my son I think it's in my spec sheet from what one is super that I was looking at a couple of months ago the list of all the wards at the one that's right but yeah hottest car is hottest it's hardest car of California and it was like I think it was like individual something like that mine was corporate but he who would have known that those two cars became the main picture cars for the Fast and Furious we both won that day that's right that's where we both won that day mm-hmm there's so many memories we can pie be on film here for hours upon hours of all the but the point I was trying was that you know the tuner market is different now totally different hot import nights the lights are on yeah and you know you travel the country there's still some pretty good JDM cars I said was just that one in and where was it Anaheim a year year and a half ago Wow in the hardcore GTR JDM guys are there you know how team hybrid is still running around today below hybrid believe and they still have some images and cars and some of the cars have a pretty damn good I didn't see too much rice there which is a change from the old days the Lamborghini doors oh my god that's a freaky need or it's gonna hate of that awesome good times and good memories thanks for tuning in this week next week we're gonna have John Lapid owner of the Eclipse that Bryan drove in the first movie so be sure to check that out I'll let you know when it's posted thanks again for watching everybody be safe [Music]

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Views: 263,635

Rating: 4.8749681 out of 5

Keywords: Jesse's Jetta, The Fast and the Furious, Fast and Furious Jetta, Chad Lindberg, Frankie Muniz, Craig Lieberman

Id: JR_l0v7-rx8

Length: 51min 19sec (3079 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 24 2019

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[u/IamaBlackKorean]

Well, I don't know how many of you guys are Fast and Furious nerds, but I just randomly caught this video on YouTube about Jesse's jetta, and the other cars from the movies. Really interesting, behind the screens stuff.