What You DIDN'T Know About Fast N' Loud's Richard Rawlings...

you know what time it is hell yeah i know what time it is i just got through watching the flintstones when you think about gas monkey garage what do you think classic cars miller lite and richard rawlings of course most of us already know richard rawlings specializes in selling cars but not in the way you would think his niche centers around refurbishing and flipping vintage vehicles including a classic 1930 cadillac a 1984 corvette with a coppery paint job a 1976 tequila van and two fire trucks and these aren't just collectors items they run too rowlings is advertised as the man with the eye for the deal the eye for the car the gift of gab and the ability to make it happen if you want to buy or sell a rare or old car rawlings is your guy i just want to make a lot of money on it definitely gotta have this i know dennis wants this he describes himself as a local guy building badass hot rods keep in mind that rawlings is more of a businessman than a racer it'll come up again later but how did he develop such a good eye for vintage valuable cars hello and welcome back to tuna no crust where we serve up fresh information on the hottest things in the car tv world if you're a fan of our channel you know we go full throttle on shows like street outlaws american chopper diesel brothers and so much more but today we're going to look at a man from a different show that'll also rev you up richard rawlings the host of discovery channel's once hit show fast and loud who is he how did he get his own show and why is he now worth 18 million dollars we'll also dive into his personal family secrets rawlings grew up in fort worth texas and was raised on auto shows he has been buying cars since he was 14. that's before most people in the united states can drive as if he had a natural affinity for fast loud vehicles rawlings worked as a policeman paramedic and firemen before turning 21. he also navigated the briskly paced world of printing and advertising with his own company lincoln press but would later sell that business to return to his passion for cars in 2002 rawlings opened his first custom car shop gas monkey garage in dallas texas the shop specializes in remodeling and reanimating old cars that other people would see as junk more specifically they focus on hot rods and muscle cars according to an interview from 2006 they make cars that number one you can drive and number two are just bad ass scare women and children the shop has shipped hot rods around the world ten years later the discovery channel approached rawlings to make a show that show is called fast and loud on fast and loud rawlings covers everything you could ever want to know about refurbished cars from acquiring rare vintage models to making them work again you can see where he gets them how he fixes them and how hard it can be to resell an older model the show officially ended in 2020 for obvious reasons as well as maybe some that were hidden beneath the surface and we'll get to that later by the way we aren't sponsored but if fast and loud was one of your favorite shows you can buy any piece of merchandise on gas monkey garage's website right now to be entered to win two hundred thousand dollars ever since fast and loud more and more opportunities have opened for rawlings for example he partnered with dodge to make car commercials between 2014 and 2016 rawlings set a school stage alight with rock show pyrotechnics played a policeman with an eight puppet partner possibly a reference to his garage and worked with david hasselhoff on muscle car beach rowlings also had a healthy relationship with nascar before 2020 mostly via sponsorship deals he is currently sponsoring a motorcycle race on the isle of man a small island between england and ireland generally speaking he likes sponsoring nascar monster trucks motorcyclists and even snowmobile teams because he usually doesn't have time to race himself to use rawling's own words sadly because i've spent so much time of my life working working working i haven't got the opportunity to have the seed time that i would like to have to be a driver or a rider or whatever so sponsorships allow me to be a part of it be in the mix and let the guys that are really really good at what they do do what they do but this doesn't mean he's never raced in may 2007 rawlings and his co-pilot dennis collins attempted to break the speed record for a cannonball run that is an unofficial race from one coast of america usually new york to the other usually california the reason that the rawlings collins record of 32 hours 51 minutes is contested was that the distance and time didn't quite match up people were betting on this race so the results mattered he also won the gumball 3000 and two bull run races rowling's also hit the racetrack in 2017 under a different guys it was the first time he had ever driven a pace car which is a type of race car that makes sure the track is clear for the competitors it also hurts the competitors so that there is not a huge gap between them during a designated caution period seeing as pace cars have flashing lights and go very fast it must have been nostalgic for the former fireman of course rawlings has a life outside of his garage he had a brief marriage with karen k graves in 1993 but it barely lasted a year his marriage with suzanne marie mergeley in 1990 lasted a lot longer but was still spotty with the divorce in 2009 a remarriage in 2015 and an announcement of another divorce on his twitter on march 11 2019. he is currently married to katarina diesen rawlings with plenty of photos of the couple on instagram rowlings has commented about how being happy at home leads to being happier at work so we wish the best for the relatively new couple it's a little unclear whether rawlings has kids or not and here's why while there haven't been any kids between rawlings and his wives he does or did have a stepson in 2019 rowling's stepson sinjin venegas handled social media work for gas monkey garage the remarriage probably invalidates any claim that venegas would have to be rawling's son and the social media arrangement may have dissolved with the new marriage we couldn't find any sources confirming or denying who runs the accounts today if you know please respond in the comments and leave a source why all the bad marriages rawlings may be hard to work with both on and off the set it does look really good let's take it for a ride well it looks really good we couldn't get it running oh so you couldn't get the motor that was in the trunk back in the front of the car and get it well how much money did you spend doing all this well you gave me 500. so i uh i spent 2 521 well what's the 21 bucks for the guys wanted taco so i got them tacos yeah he has a reputation as a rough boss so many people have left gas monkey garage over one thing or another that they started their own spin-off show also on discovery channel we all know he didn't do any work that's what we're talking about right there the way you guys look at it is they only rent money they're always behind they're bitching and complaining because it's hot we brought him a fan we brought him some ice that's where air conditioning came from in the first place so they're just getting started and so is the eyes boston loud has another related show garage rehab that fixes dying auto repair shops under rawling's watchful eye but note that he's not the only person on board interestingly while rawlings admits that fast and loud didn't proud he says that tv may have been too chaotic for him and that he felt like he had peaked on the network he is currently planning new projects for gas monkey garage and investing in the metaverse and nfts fast and loud may be gone but we can be sure that gas monkey garage will have something amazing waiting just around the corner rollings is extremely dedicated to his work in several of the episodes he mentions how a given car might set him back thousands of dollars to restore despite the potential losses he mentioned working on a bus from 87 because he could no one summarizes his workday quite like rawlings himself at the end of the day i get paid to drink beer and play with cars for a lot of men that's living the dream so that's the life of richard rawlings repaired and repainted into one slick video his life story paints the picture of a guy who lives for his passions possibly at the expense of interpersonal relationships what fact did you find the most surprising have you seen fast and loud the spin-offs are both are there any cars on gas monkey garage's website that make you go wow would you buy an nft based on one of gas monkey's cars and drive it around the metaverse let us know in the comments below and don't forget to like subscribe and ring that bell before driving off into the sunset we'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Sun May 08 2022