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Forward. Well, dude, today we're here
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in Valencia, Spain, at the
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Eurocw headquarters because we came to see where
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all the magic happens, where
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all the events you saw in the
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last video are organized. And well, let's take
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advantage because here they have all their
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cars and a workshop in the back where they
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maintain them, prepare them and everything for the
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events. First of all, we went in and
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they have an office that, for me, is a
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dream. Look at everything, the whole stand here, they
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have ideas. They are distributors of
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Yandas Trom. Later they'll tell me if I
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pronounced it right or wrong, but there are
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several here that I'd like to take. Look,
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this one's for the E46, no, this one's for the E46,
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this one's for the E30. Well, I could
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find a match for each of these
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sets of wheels. Obviously, here they have
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all the merchandise that they always have
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available at all events, and here
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they have all the stock. We'll see if we can get
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any. As
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we already have some information about the same event, and well,
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the office is right back here. So now
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we're going to move on because here,
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all the events are organized from beginning to end. Let's
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see if they're there.
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Forward. What's up, guys? What's
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wrong, Martin? How's it going? Everything is
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great.
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Everything is calm.
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Everything is calm.
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Well, we've been talking for a while,
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but now we're going officially, and
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well, here's the office, so
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everything happens here, right?
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Seven people, we are here working,
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four partners and three employees.
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Okay, tell me, how many years ago
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did you start this? Because we know
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we were talking yesterday and a couple of days have passed,
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right? First event 2016.
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2016 was a long time ago. I was the first one who
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came in 2019, about 6 years ago, and
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well, now we can say
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we had already uploaded one, we were a company,
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we had already uploaded one, of
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course. Yes, yes, yes. The first one
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your mother told me was that in the square where they
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live there is nothing. Amazing, amazing. So
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from there to what we experienced the other day and
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well, from here on out, right? So there's
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no limit. There is
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no limit. Well,
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forget it. Forget it. But hey, as
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you can see, they have a whole team here,
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so it's pretty awesome. I congratulate you on
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everything you've achieved, but well, let's get down to business
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. We're going to check out a couple
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of cars we're keen on.
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The design they created, a collaboration with
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MGTS EuroCrew, which we were signing
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there with autographs, was
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spectacular. I had never done an
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autograph signing before, so it was a good
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experience. I'm carrying around like a ton of stuff,
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you know? How nice. Of
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course. He tells me, "Keep it,
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keep it." No way.
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[Music]
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Well, and here we are in the
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workshop part. You can see all the
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guys' projects, because before they started
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organizing EuroCrew, they
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started with any enthusiast with
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their personal project and started
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taking it to events until they said,
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"Hey, man, let's restart something
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ourselves." So now we're going to talk
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a little bit about each of you, and then I'm going to ask you
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some questions to
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understand how being a car enthusiast works in
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Spain. Chumen,
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how are you, Martin? We met several years ago. Today
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we're back here. I know this is
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your weakness because you like
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bass and I like it a lot. Yes, the truth is we were
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there watching it and I said to
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Mary, I'm ready for something like that, right?
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But anyway, tell me a little bit.
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There are some of these in Argentina.
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There are some in Argentina, but not many. There's a 1.8
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turbo, there's a BR6, VR6, 3.2 L, 4-wheel drive.
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This one is a 1.8.
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It's a 1.8, front-wheel drive engine.
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Front-wheel drive.
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Well, and this is the year '99, you told me?
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99, yes, from the year 99. Basically, I
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bought this car when it was already somewhat
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advanced. It had the V6 bumper,
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which is like $1,000. I had
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pneumatic suppression since it costs about $2,000,
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so I already had that saved up. I don't
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know if it came in this color, but the
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truth is that it's very well painted.
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Inside of doors, everything. Only when
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you opened the hood could I see that it was the
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original black,
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huh? No, it was blue.
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Blue. Dark blue. It
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was dark blue.
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Of course, because you can see it under the hood.
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Boki woki.
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He knew I wanted it yellow and I
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liked it a lot. I knew what tires I wanted.
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I have a different color than yours. This
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is a Vegas Yellow Audi TT or R8 of the
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modern kind. The other option was Imola
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Yellow, but it's a bit more muted
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than the ones used on the S3 and S4 that
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came out around this time.
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Of course, of course, that's why it has air suspension and
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tires. I have two games, I have some here.
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That's what I was going to say. You have two games,
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depending on which side you want, you have
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one profile or the other. Here I have some
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Speed ​​Mistral wheels which I think are very
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beautiful because they were the first
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three-piece wheels I had on my Seat
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Cordoba, so they come with a history.
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And then on the other side I have some
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16-inch BBSRS wheels upgraded to 18 inches. That
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classic European style can't go wrong
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with any bag;
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I think it's the perfect wheel
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for this car.
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And you have very thin tires.
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What's it like driving the car?
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Yes, it's really good. She handles it well.
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Yes, I have the same one in the front and back. It has
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215 35 in 925 and in 975. Look, if I
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have to give them something in their favor, I mean,
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many things in their favor, but something I
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loved about here are the streets. The
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streets are very good, the
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roads are very good and the
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speed bumps, which I don't know what you call them
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here, are very smooth, they're not tac tac. Over there
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we have some that look square,
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they're this tall and this wide,
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so you can't get through them with any
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low car, but here it's kind of smooth, right? I
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love it. What I notice is that
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Spaniards don't brake for anyone
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unless you have a car; only those of us with
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low cars brake.
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Clear.
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And then nothing, I have
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a carbon fiber spoiler on the back.
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This one is very, very nice.
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Yes, a small detail, huh? Dual
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exhaust outlet, I only had one with this
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bee grille behind it and the
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small license plate recess, because the
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bumper is American, we already
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talked about it.
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Yes. You like European things,
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we like American things? Well,
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this American one in particular
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is good because
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Americans usually have bigger umbrellas
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and are uglier. Can we open
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the trunk here? What do you have? A cover
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back there? Yes, I have a tire.
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A spare tire.
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Yes, just in case, since I was traveling to
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Madrid, right? Because the compressor system
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is very neat. I always wanted to do
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something like this, but I never had the... I'm going
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to throw it
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away. If I start talking about cars, my inner
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Argentinian comes out. I start with the
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iron, the tires. that Neuma and
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then I realized that maybe we don't
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all speak the same way, but oh well, right?
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How nice, how neat, man. They have
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good upholsterers here. All of this has been
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reupholstered;
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they have good upholsterers. I was telling you there
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that there were two stands at the event that were
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dedicated to upholstery and I was
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very surprised and I would love to
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find someone like that in Buenos Aires
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to give me a hand to do the
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interior of my cars because they are
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all really neat, very beautiful. I
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love the pneumatic system like this
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. Tell me a little about the
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air conditioning system because I see that you have it
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very neat.
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Yes, in the end I wanted to make it
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flashy. So I'm using two
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compressors for the sake of symmetry,
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everything in Alcantara, hardlines for the
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pipes and nothing, the boiler is brushed
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to make it look nicer.
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The cage is all buulonada to the chassis,
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right? Or it's welded.
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Chorus, there is, there is a plate welded and
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then screwed on.
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Sure, as a backup so
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the girl doesn't steal you away otherwise. Correct. Then
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I have a false bottom made of
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wood and Alcantara so I can carry
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a briefcase, a cat, and it won't be
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visible.
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Ah, very good. No, no, no. The interior
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of this car is great. Let's
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move to the front. One of the
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questions I want to ask is about roll cages
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because I see many street cars with
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roll cages. This is something many will argue with,
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but for me, it can't be done in Argentina,
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man. The entire interior, the entire
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interior. Well, everything is made
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here in Alcantara with
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yellow stitching, the floor mats too. I
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love it, I love the yellow stitching
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like the car's paintwork. It's delicious.
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Yes, this was done for me by a guy who had
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a stand there at Eurocrew, the guy from
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Curso. This one, I did this just in case,
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because I'm dying to make a
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surcharge seat. That's where I
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had doubts, I don't know, I don't really know
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what to do, whether to make the interiors
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of the seats in this tone. He
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left it for me so you could see it
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and tell me, and I'm not
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sure what I'll do. I
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like it a lot. Maybe this car
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is a bit too modern for this style, more like an
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80s car perhaps. Sure, maybe
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this would look spectacular on a Golf MK1 or MK2
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. Sure, but this
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year, this '99 car, which although it's older
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is more modern,
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yes, it's incredible because it's over 25
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years old and you see it and it really catches your
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eye. Then I bring the seats, some
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Recaro PO Position seats with
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matching yellow seatbelts. Did you
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put these seats on because you like them or
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because they're street legal?
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Uh, both.
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Both. I mean, they're
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beautiful seats, but I know they're very
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limited by the issue of whether
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or not they can be approved. Yes, well, they can be
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approved because you don't have
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seats in the back.
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Ah, so the homologation of the seats
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goes hand in hand with eliminating the
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rear seats and since I sit in the back, well, apart from the fact that
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the rear seats of the TT are useless, it suited me
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well. I see you there checking the
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paint. Okay, it's
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not that one of my questions was,
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well, I was already talking about it because I also saw
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that the Megane is
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completely repainted and this car doesn't have the
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original paint, but it's very well done, all
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the interior doors and everything, so I really
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enjoyed the work of assembling and
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disassembling everything to try and make it
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perfect. And then inside I
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also have the steering wheel, which is a
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modern Audi one, made of carbon fiber, that
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's nice, huh? And the seams and the airbag.
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Can I get on? Yes of course. Yes, the car,
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the car is finished. The car. I
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finished it 3 years ago and now I just
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enjoy it. I think this is very
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important and people don't realize that there
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comes a time when the car is
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finished and you have to stand still.
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In other words, you don't have to touch anything else
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because in the end they just make changes for the sake of
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making changes and the car runs worse.
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In other words, if your car has reached its peak, enjoy
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it, enjoy
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the car, that's what it's for in the end. And if
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not, then you sell it and move on.
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Well, it was more or less quick. One year.
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Ah, you really went all out,
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as we would say. One.
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What do you think of the steering wheel?
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We're going to have a problem. It has just
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created a very strong need in me, not
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only the steering wheel,
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but the whole car itself. This is the inside
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, love, get in because you're going to want
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one. They're delicious.
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I know people who put the
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dashboard of a TT in their Golf.
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To golf. Look.
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Golf 7 steering wheel, they also put a lot of emphasis
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on the Golf. No, it's delicious.
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It's a nice touch for opening and closing the
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refrigerator. It's like, I don't know, it's a car
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that I think was
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very well designed back in the day and it's very, very well made,
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right? No, everything. The selector, short,
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five-speed gearbox, look. And well, for the
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year. It's really good, actually. I
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congratulate you very much. Well, here we are with
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Paco, man. Thanks again for everything.
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Uh, another member of the CRU,
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from Euroc. Now let's look at your Lexus
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IS2, which I know you have a bit of a thing about
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Lexus, right? You have a strong fanaticism there
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. You came with an
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S300 Ford Cross, which is a station wagon, the one I
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have outside.
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What, you have a GTR rim on that, what do
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you have? The one who came with us.
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That's Infinity. Okay, that's the Infinity GTR rim.
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Very nice, indeed. But anyway, let's
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talk about this now. So, tell us
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a little bit about the car and what you've
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been doing to it.
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Look, I've had this car since
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2011, many years. I've been a fan of
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Gran Turismo since I was little, because the
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Toyota Alteza was in it and I don't know why, but when I was little it caught my
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attention because of the
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taillights or something, I don't know.
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But anyway, in 2011 I was able to
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buy it and since then I've been
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doing things to it, not much, but I have
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all the original TRD add-ons,
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the Alteza front grille. First I
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fitted it with a KW coilover suspension.
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Years later I switched to air suspension.
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When you came last time, you had
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the KW suspension. It was during the pandemic that I
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installed the pneumatic suspension,
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around 2020.
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And are you happy?
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I'm happy. It gives you the advantage of
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being able to have the car low or high for
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the times when you need it,
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and for taking a trip and such. In the end
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you're comfortable because you can load the
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car.
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Before, if I went on a trip and filled the
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tank, I always drove with the car very
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low, so I enjoyed it a lot, it
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was much more uncomfortable. If it's not a
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car meant for racing, it's comfortable. It
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also depends on the brands and such,
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but well, it's comfortable.
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I am totally in favor of pneumatics.
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It's like you said, I mean, to go out on
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the street and then you arrive at some
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event, you arrive at your house or whatever, you
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iron. It's beautiful. It goes down
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a lot, it goes up quite a bit too because it
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goes up a lot, it goes up a lot.
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Yes, you have it set up so that the
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tire literally goes inside the
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fender.
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The car's body rests on
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the turrets, on the trapezoid at the top
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back. It can be made to go lower, I
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think, but
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yes, but it's good, yes, because it's a
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little lower, forward and kind of
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leaning forward. It's very nice.
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This one came with brakes on all four wheels.
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Yes. Original. Yes, yes, yes. And it's the same
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size for the front and rear discs. 296
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I think it's something
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but it has a drum brake for the
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handbrake. Sure, very 90s.
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Yes. Uh, just like BMWs.
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The painting is original. That really caught my
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attention because I've never seen this
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color on a Lexus. You
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usually see
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money, right? Grayed out, isn't it?
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Like a little champagne.
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Yes, champagne. Yes. More elegant colors
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for a gentleman from
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Claro. No, it's not there. Originally, if you
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look at it in its original form, it's a gentleman's car
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.
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Sure, sure. And the interior is all
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original too, pore.
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The interior is unique
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because it has a light color.
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Original manual gearbox as well. It's very
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nice
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inside, it's original because in the end
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I like it that way.
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No, no, no. Permission. Uh, I'm going to go up for
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a bit. I greatly appreciate an
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original interior in good condition. I
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like basic modifications, like
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a steering wheel, maybe, but I already had
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an interior like that, an original steering wheel
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but from a bigger model, right? How
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did you put a 3D body kit? But this one
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flying like this with three beams is
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super cute and it doesn't look immaculate.
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Even the smell reminds you of the 90s.
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What year is this?
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From 2002. 2002. Oh, well,
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but this car started being made in
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'99. Okay. I
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mean, it's from 2002, but
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from the late 90s, one of the last
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cars that are still real cars, so to
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speak.
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Fifth gearbox,
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six of sexes,
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although it's not noticeable. Fifth and sixth are the
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same thing, right? It's very nice. I also love the spoiler
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. Yes, the elon is
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also originally from the same source.
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Clear. And here we have the very famous
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lights, which here they call
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Lexus lights, which are the rear lights in a
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transparent format with the light itself,
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already with the color. I think this started with the
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tuning movement of the
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2000s, it was like the beginning,
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but as far as I know, we thought it was
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from Spain, but it wasn't. In other words, judging by what we've seen, it's happening
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all over the world. It happens all over
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the world for the same reason, with
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different names, but it's curious. Very
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pretty. Do you have an escape?
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Uh, yes. Ah,
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uh, yes, yes, it has the exhaust. I have the
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whole line, but I don't have it on
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because otherwise it's unbearable to drive, and I
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only have the end part on. It makes a
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little noise, but it's soft.
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Sure, I can ask to see the engine
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because yes, we'll open it.
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It's an engine that's rare to see because it's
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an inline, 2L
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naturally aspirated engine. It's really crazy, it's
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very rarely seen.
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Rare to see. It's similar to a
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BMW 2000, a BMW 36, a 46, which are
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inline six-cylinder engines.
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Clear. I saw that these engines in the
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UK, for example, of which there are many, are
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modified, they add turbochargers and compressors
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and I don't know what else and they run. It's not a 1 JZ, but
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no, but little brother.
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Of course, the little brother. The issue is that the
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turbocharger struggles more with displacement.
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I have an E30, 6 cylinders, 2L, I
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put a very large turbo on it and it only starts to boost at around
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5500 rpm.
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That must be complicated.
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Yes, yes, yes. I carry it,
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but hey, when it hits, it hits hard.
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I have a turret bar in front and
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behind. It's very noticeable. Yes, it makes the car
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strong. It
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needs to be certified, right? No, that's not it.
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Ah,
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it's strange, but it's one of the few things you
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can install and it doesn't need to be
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approved. One good one, dude.
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Yes, these turbocharged cars
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can produce 250-300 horsepower, and it's a car that
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's light compared to
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modern cars today, and on top of that, it's
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very manageable, I mean, it's, I don't
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know, it transmits very well. If it's a
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back action. That car really knows what you're going through
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, huh? I don't know, I think the chassis is nice. I'm
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not going to tell you it's the best,
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but it's a very good chassis. I'm
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tempted by one of these;
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they appear in Argentina from time to time. They're not
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cheap cars, especially nowadays, which is
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good, I imagine they must
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be going up in price here too with all the
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drifting craze. We saw
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many at the event; 5000 you can
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find one that isn't too bad, even though they
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ask for very bad prices. Yes, but there are some here
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for 9 or 10, but of course, for
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910 they are either very well cared for or have
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some expensive modification.
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Sure, yes, yes. And yes, at least here you can
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choose one.
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Yes of course. Yes,
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less so. One more. There must be three of them
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listed in the whole country, so it's
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limited, but it's a very nice car. So
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yes, it is different. I like it,
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partly because I've liked it since I was little, and partly
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because it's hard to see. Now there are more.
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When I had it in 2011, I would go to some
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gatherings, things like that, and there weren't any
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others. So, I don't know, it's like I was saying,
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"Damn, that's so cool, you know? There's no other
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like mine, and now they
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come to Euroc events and stuff, and I
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like to see them because there aren't that many, I mean
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, maybe two or three at some
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event,
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and there were two of them making a racket.
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Oh, yeah. They're the ones revving.
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Sol, you could hear it from far away.
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That one has a V8 engine from a Lexus GS
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430,
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not a street version. Oh, yeah, because it's from Lexus,
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from the same Lexus brand. And it can be
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homologated. What's up with that? All good.
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Now then. Another member of the Crew
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who has a third-generation Mazda Miata MX5,
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this NC. It does
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n't exist in Argentina. It's crazy to see
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something like that. It
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doesn't exist, it does n't exist, it doesn't exist. We don't have the NB B
00:16:28
either, the NA from the pop-ups, I haven't seen
00:16:30
another one, only pop-ups, it's the only one, so it's
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really nice to see it, and I see it's
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built, it has quite a few things, so
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tell me a little bit about the car.
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It has some Little things. The truth is, I'd
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always been blown away by the Miata.
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I loved the NC when it first came out
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. Then they did a facelift on the
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C2, then another facelift on the C3. I was
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even more blown away and said, "Wow,
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I want one." And I wanted it with
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a slightly special combination because I
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wanted the latest facelift, which is from
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2014 onwards, if I'm not mistaken,
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and I wanted it with the hardtop and the
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2000, uh,
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2000 engine,
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140 horsepower, no,
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167, I think.
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Ah, 167 was already quite a bit more. And
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this, I mean, it's not a hardtop, this is a
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kick-up, it stores here, it folds up
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, it doesn't pop out. No, it's
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electric. It stores electric. Ah, beautiful. You don't have that
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canvas top that rattles anymore.
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This is much more comfortable.
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Yes, because Miatas with hardtops are very nice.
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But the hardtop seems to me,
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and finally... So, the Miata is a
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convertible, right?
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Yes. You know, it has a lot of a
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Rim-like appearance, or like, the headlights look kind of like that,
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and I can't really make it out,
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especially with the wider fenders here.
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The design of this one is really good
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. It coincides with when they did the
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RX-8 restyling. The RX-8 R3 was from the same period
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and has a lot in common. In fact,
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mechanically it also has a lot
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in common. Mechanically, the suspension, for example.
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Yes, exactly. Yes, the whole suspension system
00:17:47
. We have a counter-rotating piston. That's where we go down a
00:17:50
different path, you see?
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Exa, there's a serious flaw there.
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Right. Yes. The bumper is original from the
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restyling. The lip. Exactly. This
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part here is the lip that's sold in the
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United States.
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It's the OM from there, the standard one. Oh,
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really, it lowers it a lot. Uh,
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the rest is added, basically. Uh,
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then I've added a few things here,
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but I have them covered because the car
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is currently being modified. Homologation
00:18:10
here in Spain, and you have to disguise
00:18:13
certain things. What a topic. No, let's talk.
00:18:15
It's a topic. In fact, that's why it's
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a bit higher. It has an exhaust.
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It has a stock exhaust, and you
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basically have to adhere to many aspects of
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what the law requires to pass the
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process. Perfect. Wheels, brakes, you've done it
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on all four wheels. Yes, that's right. Uh, the
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wheels are SSR SP1s, Japanese, and
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well, I took them off, we restored them, and I even
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painted them in the same three-layer paint
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as the car. I was going to say,
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the color combination of
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the wheel face with the bodywork is spectacular.
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In fact, I had asked
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one of the guys earlier if you had painted
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the car to match, and he said, "But no,
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it's the original paint."
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Right. Beautiful, a bright white, and well, the
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three-piece wheel with the programmed EQ
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doesn't fail. But well, what are the brakes
00:18:54
, four or six pistons?
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Uh, four. Yes, it's a racing kit.
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Also, they had I had to get one
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custom-made because the wheels are three-
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piece, and the center is a little
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smaller, so a large kit wouldn't fit.
00:19:05
They had to use the four-piece caliper
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with a slightly smaller disc,
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but it fits perfectly, pretty snug,
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especially on the other
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wheels, the 18-inch ones, which are the ones I
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have hanging around.
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Okay. And in the back, I put on the disc, well, the
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whole rear brake setup from a
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big RX8. Okay. The spoiler
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is plastic.
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No, it's good plastic, but it's not an
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original Mazda part. It's an accessory from the
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United States, like you said, the
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front lip. It's really good. All plastic,
00:19:29
and well, a little bit of downforce. You
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can adjust it from here.
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Yes, I wanted some
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unusual brackets, so I had them custom-made.
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I had them custom-made?
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Yes, I ordered them laser-cut,
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sandblasted them, and
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painted and lacquered them, and that's it.
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And in the back, you also have a lip that
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matches the front one, right?
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That's it. It's not the original bumper. You
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added it yourself.
00:19:48
Exactly. Yes. Nothing, it's just a
00:19:49
simple diffuser, for aesthetics, it's not
00:19:51
functional at all, but it makes the whole car look a bit more
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cohesive.
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Okay. The interior is all original, it
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opens.
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Yes. You put a Monster can in the
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middle.
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It's a kind of sock that someone
00:20:01
gave us. The interior is
00:20:03
original, actually. Look,
00:20:04
the roof could open.
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Yes. Oh, well.
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[Music]
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Hey, super fast, huh? Last time
00:20:10
we did this to a Z4 that someone
00:20:12
lent us. It took like 10 minutes to lower
00:20:14
the roof. We started doing it at a
00:20:16
traffic light and we didn't make it. Come on, you remember I
00:20:19
interrupted you, you started
00:20:20
lowering it and I said, "No, no, no, no." And I
00:20:21
stopped it and it just stayed there and it was worse than the
00:20:23
things I do.
00:20:24
I'm a very impatient person and I do
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n't like to hold up traffic. Back again
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. You brought this car from
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Germany because of the combination you wanted
00:20:30
for the interior, exterior, and everything.
00:20:31
It was impossible to find one for sale in Spain
00:20:33
. In fact,
00:20:34
I waited for over a year and a half and
00:20:36
none came up with this configuration, so
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Paco and I went to Germany, we bought it
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there, and brought it over.
00:20:41
Okay. And to get it registered in
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Spain, I mean, to get the paperwork done, was that difficult
00:20:45
or not? Exactly. It's not difficult, it's a
00:20:47
bit tricky, but in the end you have to
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follow the instructions, do a few
00:20:51
things, wait, and pay. It doesn't have that
00:20:53
many taxes,
00:20:55
well, quite a few, because you have to pay the
00:20:56
transfer tax,
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which is what you pay for taking possession
00:21:00
of the car, and then you have to pay the
00:21:01
registration tax plus an ITV (vehicle inspection)
00:21:03
that the car has to have done to
00:21:05
certify that it can be driven. I'm going to
00:21:07
lie to you, but I'd say around
00:21:10
20-25% all in all, more or less
00:21:13
something like that. It's not that bad, it's not a small amount
00:21:15
either, I mean, it adds up. You have to I took it into
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consideration because you wanted something
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very specific and it was worth paying for
00:21:22
because otherwise, well, you could have
00:21:23
reupholstered the interior, but you wanted
00:21:25
something original from the factory. Uh,
00:21:26
yeah, plus this edition came
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with a significant difference as
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standard.
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Oh, and it did
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come with other somewhat
00:21:33
special things that differentiate it quite a bit
00:21:35
from the others, and I was really excited about it.
00:21:37
Well, the truth is, the car is
00:21:39
amazing, so I'm going to ask you
00:21:41
a couple more questions later, man.
00:21:43
Thanks again to everyone for
00:21:45
having us. Here we have the last of the
00:21:47
projects we're going to show today, although I
00:21:48
know everyone has their
00:21:50
other projects because while they're
00:21:52
modifying one and getting it certified, they become something
00:21:54
else. And well, you told me you have
00:21:55
several that I'm going to ask you about later,
00:21:57
but well, tell me a little about this
00:21:58
Megane, which is rare to see here.
00:22:00
Yes. Well, let's see, in this market there have
00:22:02
been quite a few Meganes, but
00:22:04
very few modified ones,
00:22:05
because there's the
00:22:07
convertible, I mean, the Just like the Miata we
00:22:09
saw earlier, the roof pops off, folds down,
00:22:11
and stores in the trunk—it looks
00:22:13
spectacular. Compare them,
00:22:14
this one's a boat, it's beautiful. You have
00:22:16
back seats, which this one doesn't.
00:22:18
The roof is glass. The
00:22:19
whole roof is glass. Yes. You can
00:22:21
see everything. This one too. You can
00:22:22
see everything. Yes. The thing is, it
00:22:23
has like a tarp. I tinted it
00:22:26
because in the end, driving it was a bit... It
00:22:28
burns your head, it fries your brain,
00:22:30
we'd say. Oh, right. I mean, it's super cool
00:22:32
from the inside out, only from the
00:22:34
outside in it's what
00:22:35
burns your brain, if you don't drive like
00:22:37
that, you have to drive with the AC blasting,
00:22:39
right? It's very nice. I see you put
00:22:42
modified rims on it. Another
00:22:44
completely repainted car. How do they
00:22:46
repaint all the cars? It's not very
00:22:47
common to see it there. Wrapping is more common.
00:22:50
Yes. Well, really, here the difference between
00:22:52
actually painting a car and
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wrapping it completely, uh, isn't that big
00:22:58
Difference. In fact, I'd say it's
00:23:00
more expensive to vinyl wrap it than to paint it. You do
00:23:02
n't say. No, no, I can't believe what you
00:23:04
're telling me, because the truth is,
00:23:05
painting a car isn't
00:23:07
cheap in Argentina, and vinyl wrapping it
00:23:10
is much more economical. Obviously, you
00:23:12
have to redo it every 5 years,
00:23:15
if you've taken good care of it, but not
00:23:18
really, I mean, they're
00:23:20
different techniques. Vinyl wrapping is
00:23:22
really cool, you can take more risks because
00:23:24
in the end, your original color is always underneath
00:23:26
. Right. I agree with that, and the time, because
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how long did it take you to paint this car
00:23:30
from scratch? Well,
00:23:32
I did it myself, and
00:23:34
my friend and boss at the time helped me. It
00:23:36
took us almost 5 months to do it.
00:23:38
I mean, that's not a short time compared to
00:23:41
two weeks to vinyl wrap a car.
00:23:42
Normally, if you start a
00:23:44
job, you finish it right away without
00:23:47
taking anything else. An easy week of
00:23:49
work to prepare and paint.
00:23:50
Oh, to prepare and paint. Well,
00:23:51
Pretty fast, but well, no, it
00:23:53
really gives it a different look. You told me about
00:23:55
this Maserati color.
00:23:56
Very nice, very good. It's
00:23:57
called Bordeaux. Pontecho.
00:23:59
Okay, and rims. What size are these?
00:24:01
They're 19s, 19x10 in the back, 19x8.5 in the front.
00:24:04
Rims don't need to be certified because
00:24:06
we saw that certification here is something for everything. I
00:24:08
mean, everything has to be certified except
00:24:09
rims.
00:24:10
The rims themselves don't need to be
00:24:11
certified. I mean, you
00:24:13
really have to certify the tire. Well,
00:24:16
I think you guys call the tire a
00:24:17
rim.
00:24:18
Tire, right? Rim, metal,
00:24:19
tire, rubber. We call it
00:24:22
rubber, rubber, tire. Tire is
00:24:24
more technical. Yes, the tire does need to be
00:24:26
certified if it's not equivalent, and
00:24:28
then what you certify is the width
00:24:30
. The width, of course, in the back I see that it's
00:24:32
quite a bit wider than the
00:24:34
original.
00:24:35
It's much wider. I don't know
00:24:37
exactly how much because I
00:24:39
put the rim on myself. that I wanted to put on.
00:24:41
Right. I mean, you see it that way. Give it a
00:24:42
little more, a little bit. Done, it's done.
00:24:44
Perfect.
00:24:45
Correct. I put on the wheel I wanted to
00:24:46
put on, the smallest adapter I could find
00:24:48
because this car
00:24:49
is originally a 400. Okay.
00:24:50
It takes adapters to 5x112, but in the end,
00:24:53
when I did it, what was most available back
00:24:55
then was Group B and
00:24:58
Group B wheels. So I chose the wheels I
00:24:59
liked, which weren't these, I
00:25:01
mounted them with the thinnest adapter I
00:25:03
had, which was 2 cm, and from there I made
00:25:06
that wheel.
00:25:07
It's perfect. You know I do the
00:25:09
same thing there, but I use 4x100 a lot.
00:25:11
In fact, I converted all my cars to
00:25:13
Quentro in sim racing because those are the wheels
00:25:14
that are most readily available, and to put something
00:25:17
like aftermarket, let's say, some
00:25:19
specific model that isn't original,
00:25:22
4x100 is the most common in Argentina.
00:25:24
Here it's complicated, but especially the
00:25:26
measurements, 4x100 There's very little of that. Either you do
00:25:29
something custom, and this car, since
00:25:31
I did it, I don't know, I've had
00:25:33
like six different sets.
00:25:35
Oh, well, you're like me, you like
00:25:36
rims. But listen,
00:25:39
I love reupholstering the interior of this car,
00:25:41
and having it look good and
00:25:43
neat is fantastic. So let's
00:25:45
take a look over there because listen to
00:25:47
this. Look at this interior.
00:25:49
First, the center console, all the same
00:25:51
color as the body, which he was actually
00:25:53
telling me was the color test. He
00:25:55
painted the whole interior and then said, "Hey,
00:25:57
I like the color." "We're going to paint the
00:25:58
exterior of the car the same." But look at
00:26:00
the whole seat, all the reupholstered door panels
00:26:02
. It really is beautiful,
00:26:04
very neat.
00:26:06
They have incredible,
00:26:08
impeccable interiors because they dedicate much more
00:26:09
time to this, because they can't
00:26:11
dedicate as much time to an engine, or
00:26:13
turbocharging, or modifying it. Maybe you don't
00:26:14
pay attention to it because you're more focused on
00:26:17
the engine, you know? And here there are so many
00:26:19
restrictions that I completely agree with
00:26:20
your opinion. Also,
00:26:22
based on what I see in the
00:26:25
cars you guys have, what I saw at
00:26:26
the event, there were several exhibitors
00:26:28
who specialize in reupholstering interiors, and
00:26:30
the interiors I saw in several projects
00:26:32
at the event, I feel like it's something that's
00:26:34
very common here, and there are people who must
00:26:36
do it quite well because the
00:26:38
cars are so well done. I'd love to
00:26:40
find someone in Buenos Aires, like I
00:26:41
said, who can do this work
00:26:43
on one of my projects. I always get
00:26:45
criticized for not paying attention to the interiors
00:26:46
. It's true that... Ultimately,
00:26:49
these cars, and especially all the ones you
00:26:51
've seen here today, are all somewhat governed
00:26:52
by the Estance style, which is
00:26:54
where we come from, where
00:26:57
Euroc's origins lie. So, that's more or
00:26:59
less what all
00:27:01
these cars were geared towards.
00:27:02
Now, if you go
00:27:04
and ask Xavi, for example, he
00:27:05
probably wouldn't place much importance on the
00:27:07
interior, right? He builds the car for the track,
00:27:09
he builds it to race, and while there are
00:27:11
people who build them specifically for racing,
00:27:13
the cars we're seeing
00:27:15
today... well, maybe I also come from a background of
00:27:17
racing and building
00:27:19
cars for racing, making them look good, but with
00:27:21
more performance modifications,
00:27:23
brakes, wheels, engine—we
00:27:25
have much more freedom in that aspect.
00:27:27
Interior, do you have to homologate anything, or is that the
00:27:30
initial requirement? Well, if you install
00:27:32
racing seats, yes. Yes, if
00:27:34
we install bucket seats, like what
00:27:35
Yaume did, for
00:27:36
example, in the TT, then we would have to figure out how to get
00:27:38
the roll cage approved. Like the
00:27:40
seats. Okay. But if you reupholster the entire
00:27:42
interior of what I've done, for
00:27:44
example, there's nothing that...
00:27:45
Ah, great.
00:27:46
Right. Yes. Bucket seats or things that
00:27:48
compromise safety.
00:27:49
A CU seatbelt,
00:27:51
for example, that would have to be certified.
00:27:53
Even so, I think that even with the
00:27:55
harness certified, you still have to wear your
00:27:56
regular seatbelt. Ah, okay. I like that
00:27:59
because if you're going to use the car on the
00:28:00
street, the harness is weird. It's horrible
00:28:02
to put on. So I always wear the harness
00:28:04
and that's it.
00:28:05
Well, maybe I also come from a lot of
00:28:07
racing and building the
00:28:09
car for racing, making it look good, but
00:28:12
more performance modifications,
00:28:14
brakes, rims, engine, we
00:28:16
have much more freedom in that aspect.
00:28:18
Interior, does anything have to be certified or that's the
00:28:21
principle? Well, let's see, if you put in
00:28:23
racing seats, yes. Yes, if
00:28:24
we put in bucket seats, I
00:28:25
mean, what Yaume has done, for
00:28:27
example, in the TT, that would definitely have to be certified. A
00:28:28
cage like the
00:28:30
seats.
00:28:31
Okay. But if you reupholster the entire
00:28:32
interior of what
00:28:33
I've done, for
00:28:34
example, there's nothing that...
00:28:35
Ah, great.
00:28:36
Correct. Yes. Bucket seats or things that
00:28:38
compromise safety.
00:28:40
A CU seatbelt,
00:28:41
for example, that would have to be certified.
00:28:43
Even so, I think that even with the
00:28:45
harness certified, you still have to wear your
00:28:47
regular seatbelt. Ah, okay. I like that
00:28:49
because if you're going to use the car on the
00:28:50
street, the harness
00:28:52
is horrible to put on. So I
00:28:54
always wear the harness
00:28:55
and that's it. Well, and finally, we're going to show the
00:28:57
Xiaomi S15, which he brought from Japan,
00:29:00
England, and
00:29:01
Belgium.
00:29:02
From Belgium, that's what it was. It was around there.
00:29:03
In the end, it comes from Japan.
00:29:05
Everything comes from the same place. Japan, they
00:29:06
only have
00:29:07
right-hand drive. S15, where do
00:29:09
you think it comes from?
00:29:10
I've heard you were going to take it to
00:29:11
Argentina. No,
00:29:12
I'm going to take it. I'll
00:29:13
pay for it in installments. That makes me a
00:29:14
little... Pedal. I'll throw you some
00:29:16
checks. The Mona Lisa. The monkey.
00:29:17
Yes, yes, yes. And we'll paint it blue with everything.
00:29:20
And you'll turbocharge it? Of course. And I'll turbocharge it because, well,
00:29:22
tell us a bit about the car, how did
00:29:23
you get it here? How long? I
00:29:26
'd wanted one for a long time. I
00:29:28
lived there in England in 2017, but back
00:29:30
then I didn't have the money to
00:29:31
afford it. Back then, a car
00:29:33
like this cost 6,000 pounds.
00:29:36
And 6,000 pounds. These
00:29:37
used to cost 6,000 pounds. They're
00:29:39
not worth any more now. 6,000. It's a long way
00:29:41
from that. Well, he keeps looking, he keeps looking, he
00:29:43
keeps looking. And the truth is,
00:29:44
I was looking for a naturally aspirated model
00:29:47
because all the turbocharged ones I saw had a
00:29:49
bucket seat for the driver, a stock seat for the
00:29:51
passenger. So they were going to be
00:29:53
pretty beat up, and I wanted it to
00:29:54
be in the best possible condition.
00:29:56
So I knew that being naturally aspirated,
00:29:58
logically, there wouldn't be I'd
00:29:59
skidded with it, it wouldn't be too badly
00:30:00
damaged.
00:30:01
Of course, there was less risk of it having been beaten up or messed with
00:30:06
and all that. In the end, I wanted this car
00:30:07
for myself, it's like the one that has to
00:30:09
stay with me. So when I do whatever I
00:30:10
want to do, I'll do it right. Yes, this is
00:30:11
like my car,
00:30:12
this is your final project. This is it.
00:30:15
The truth is, it's in very good condition.
00:30:17
The paint is all more or less original.
00:30:19
I mean, it's like I did coming from
00:30:21
Belgium.
00:30:22
Ah, this little stone. Oh, well, maybe the
00:30:25
paint is original, I mean, maybe there's
00:30:26
a repainted panel.
00:30:27
Yes, I'm talking, but anyway.
00:30:28
No, the headlights are new, they're really
00:30:30
cool.
00:30:31
It's a model, a BL model. I have the
00:30:33
original ones too, which are really cool
00:30:34
because they have the little detail of poor
00:30:35
Silvia. Ah, right. These are more tuned,
00:30:37
the others are more original, and the
00:30:39
interior is all original too.
00:30:40
All original. The car inside is, I
00:30:42
mean, we don't have, we don't have, there's
00:30:45
nothing. Well, it has a
00:30:46
sporty steering wheel. You put the
00:30:47
Nardi steering wheel on it
00:30:48
. It did n't come with it.
00:30:49
Oh, it came with the...
00:30:50
No, I... well, I bought a
00:30:51
spoiler for the car, but one of the things that
00:30:53
impresses me about the car is the condition of the
00:30:54
back seats. He
00:30:56
wants to change the Nardi steering wheel, you
00:30:57
can buy it for him. He wants to change it.
00:30:59
Why? What are you going to put on it?
00:31:01
The original one from here. Oh, well
00:31:03
, look, look at the back interior, it
00:31:05
seems like they didn't use it.
00:31:07
Yes, no, the truth is the interior is
00:31:08
spectacular with all the
00:31:09
original seats, it doesn't have anything,
00:31:11
nothing, everything is very good. In the end, the car
00:31:12
came practically like this, it came with
00:31:14
a lot of suspension parts that I'm going to
00:31:15
change. It has a front
00:31:17
bumper, side skirts, and a rear bumper.
00:31:20
Oh, okay. So, it has a kit.
00:31:22
But, is that all it is or did they add it? They added it
00:31:24
. They added it
00:31:25
in Belgium or Japan.
00:31:27
I think it came from Japan. Like this. Yes, I have the
00:31:30
import photos somewhere,
00:31:32
right? It's spectacular. The holy lights, I think it
00:31:34
comes with them.
00:31:36
I bought the original one.
00:31:38
It's an original that has the third
00:31:39
brake light, which is like a triangle.
00:31:41
Yeah, it's the coolest. Real racing.
00:31:44
I want to change the taillights. I
00:31:46
want to put on, well, I don't know if all-
00:31:48
white ones or what
00:31:49
kind of Alesa ones there are for this. You don't
00:31:51
say.
00:31:52
Oh, yeah. I like it.
00:31:53
Either white or white and red. I don't really
00:31:55
like this one. I think the orange
00:31:57
makes the car look a bit old and what do I know. I
00:31:59
mean, it doesn't look bad, but there's always
00:32:02
something to improve. What a shame they
00:32:04
made, I mean, this already came with the
00:32:05
car, eight little holes in the bowl.
00:32:07
Yeah. Oh well, there'll have to be welding and
00:32:10
nothing can be done about the car. I'm going to
00:32:12
do the whole thing. I don't know if it will stay
00:32:14
white or if it will be another color. You're
00:32:15
going to change the color. It
00:32:16
probably
00:32:17
isn't that nice in this color.
00:32:19
White is very nice, what happens is that there
00:32:21
are a lot of that white 15 and it has the
00:32:23
roof, I mean, without Roof. Spectacular,
00:32:25
it holds up without a roof. But look at the
00:32:27
paint, it has a pearl.
00:32:28
What do you call a roof?
00:32:30
Sunroof.
00:32:31
Sun. Sunroof. Yes. I mean, without a sunroof.
00:32:33
Spectacular. How I hate them.
00:32:35
Yes,
00:32:36
everything. There isn't one that doesn't
00:32:37
lose. Well, this one is a
00:32:39
newer car, but like from the '80s, '90s, everything's been done to it
00:32:41
.
00:32:42
It's curious because the Audi CT couldn't
00:32:45
come with a roof because of how bulky it is.
00:32:48
Ah. Well, it's a sports car,
00:32:50
really. The roof is for cruising around, since it's
00:32:52
a convertible, huh?
00:32:56
The fingers, well, that's it, change the interior,
00:32:58
probably a turbo engine or change the
00:33:00
engine. And a naturally
00:33:01
aspirated SR20,
00:33:03
I think 160 horsepower or 160.
00:33:06
Yes, I've seen people who put a turbo in it and they
00:33:08
hold up pretty well. Around
00:33:10
250 that they get out of it.
00:33:13
Correct. Yes, yes, that's an option.
00:33:14
Not bad at all for a street car.
00:33:17
Besides, it's easy to put on the papers.
00:33:19
Anyway, The SR20 came turbocharged, right? You see
00:33:21
how I'm learning little by little. When
00:33:24
I build a car,
00:33:25
the plan is to get it naturally aspirated once I can register it,
00:33:26
because it's a
00:33:28
very fuel-efficient car. When I brought it
00:33:31
from Belgium, it got 700-750 km on a
00:33:33
tank.
00:33:34
So, I want to make it look nice and use it, and
00:33:36
yes, for now, use it for a while and then get
00:33:37
serious about it. I want to do a complete overhaul.
00:33:40
Undercarriage, control arms, everything new,
00:33:43
water-wash the undercarriage, everything.
00:33:45
Of course, make it spectacular and then maybe
00:33:46
start having fun later on.
00:33:48
After all, if it's the final project, you have
00:33:50
time. Right, man. And because everything looks easier from the outside
00:33:52
. We in Argentina say,
00:33:54
"This is Spanish, you can import
00:33:56
anything." "How easy it is." It's not
00:33:58
as easy as it looks, not that easy.
00:34:00
The reality is that all these cars,
00:34:02
like the Skylines,
00:34:03
can only be registered through a change of
00:34:05
residence.
00:34:06
If it's your car and you're moving to another country, you
00:34:08
can take whatever you have with you, however you want
00:34:09
, because in the end it's your car and you
00:34:11
have to let yourself take it.
00:34:12
Just like in Argentina,
00:34:13
there you have to
00:34:15
live abroad for two years and you have to
00:34:17
have the car for six months before you
00:34:18
return. So
00:34:19
, here it's something similar.
00:34:20
Well,
00:34:21
everything that's registered in
00:34:23
Spain, which isn't a
00:34:25
change of residence, is a change of
00:34:27
residence. There are a lot of changes of
00:34:28
residence, yes, especially for Skylands,
00:34:29
some RX7s, but mostly Skylands are
00:34:31
changes of residence. And well, in the
00:34:33
end, we're going to talk about things the
00:34:35
right way and we're not going to pull any tricks, like we all
00:34:37
know, where you find someone
00:34:39
who studied abroad and say, "Hey, I'll
00:34:40
buy you a car, bring it over."
00:34:42
No, in the end, you have What to expect.
00:34:44
Before it was 25 years, now it's 30. That's what
00:34:46
happened with the United States.
00:34:48
All these cars, I mean, the price of
00:34:50
these cars has been set by the
00:34:52
United States, which is very competitive. There are millions of them and
00:34:54
everyone wants one. Of course,
00:34:55
in the United States, until they
00:34:57
were 25 years old, which they are now, they
00:34:59
could be imported, and people started
00:35:01
to
00:35:03
raise the price two or four years ago because the expiration
00:35:05
date was approaching. People had money, they bought them, they
00:35:08
kept them for two or two years. Well, now
00:35:09
you're going to do that, and eventually, the
00:35:11
next time we come, we'll take a
00:35:12
look around.
00:35:14
But anyway, here we're going to finish by
00:35:16
presenting all the
00:35:17
guys' cars. Now what I want to do,
00:35:19
because it always seems like the grass is
00:35:21
greener on the other side, is
00:35:23
talk about the things that can be a little
00:35:24
more difficult here, things that we in
00:35:26
Argentina or other parts of
00:35:27
Latin America take for granted, and we
00:35:29
have no idea of ​​the difficulties they
00:35:31
have here in Spain. Now I'm going to ask
00:35:33
the guys a couple of questions
00:35:34
because I always There are things that
00:35:36
every car enthusiast struggles with, and it's no
00:35:38
different here. So, let's ask you a
00:35:39
couple of questions about how things work
00:35:41
here. Tell me, I've seen a lot of cars with
00:35:43
roll cages. How can you get them approved
00:35:45
here? Well, the truth is, getting a roll
00:35:46
cage approved if it's a four-point cage
00:35:48
isn't difficult. You have to disable the
00:35:50
rear seats, and that makes it pretty
00:35:52
easy. And the seats, well, they have to
00:35:54
be approved. Recaro has a list
00:35:56
of seats that are approved for certain
00:35:58
cars, and the two-point seats in the Audi are
00:36:00
approved. It's not that easy, you know? But it's okay.
00:36:03
In fact,
00:36:04
you have to pay for everything. You pay. Okay,
00:36:05
Paco, listen, because here most
00:36:07
cars have their
00:36:09
original engines. How do you put a different engine in
00:36:11
a car? Well, it's complicated here. The
00:36:13
most important thing is that the engine isn't
00:36:15
newer than the car. That means
00:36:17
if an engine is from '96 and the car is
00:36:19
from 2000, no, it's not approved. For
00:36:21
track use, you can do... Whatever you want,
00:36:22
but it hasn't been homologated. I
00:36:23
mean, from the year the car was manufactured
00:36:25
onward.
00:36:26
And it's also important that it's from the same
00:36:27
brand, yes,
00:36:28
the same brand that manufactures the
00:36:30
vehicle. So, you could put
00:36:32
a V8 or a six-cylinder from a 2JZ in this one.
00:36:35
We're talking.
00:36:36
Toyota Lexus.
00:36:37
Excellent. So, it's not that easy,
00:36:39
but you have to find a way around it. How
00:36:41
did you get the brakes homologated?
00:36:42
Because I know it's not that simple either.
00:36:44
Exactly. Homologating the brakes is part
00:36:46
of the entire homologation project you have to complete
00:36:48
for the whole car.
00:36:49
The only thing it adds to this process
00:36:52
is that you also have to take the car to
00:36:54
an independent laboratory for a brake test
00:36:55
. In this
00:36:56
test, they install sensors and basically
00:36:58
make sure the car brakes
00:37:00
sufficiently to be safe according to the
00:37:02
law, and then they can include all of this in the
00:37:05
overall car homologation project
00:37:06
. Amazing. And can you put in any type
00:37:08
of brakes, or does it have to be something
00:37:09
specific like bucket brakes, which have
00:37:11
a list of approved options?
00:37:13
Regarding brakes. In principle, it
00:37:15
can be Any type of brake.
00:37:16
Perfect. We're not limited to the
00:37:18
vehicle brand or anything. A little
00:37:19
better. It's
00:37:20
a bit of a shame about the scientist's process,
00:37:23
but oh well, you can't have everything, so it's
00:37:25
not that easy. And another thing, you
00:37:26
were saying that with the spoiler you can't
00:37:28
stick out, and well, that can't be.
00:37:30
Among all the things that have to be
00:37:32
done to the car to make it legal and
00:37:34
homologated, there's the issue of
00:37:35
it not having sharp edges, that is, it ca
00:37:36
n't have a point that, if it
00:37:39
hits a pedestrian, could cause serious
00:37:40
injury. So, it has to meet a certain
00:37:42
radius and thickness. And for that reason,
00:37:44
for example, the
00:37:45
side blades of the spoiler have to be
00:37:46
thick, or the supports
00:37:48
often have to be shimed with a
00:37:50
rubber like this to meet a
00:37:52
specific thickness.
00:37:53
Basically, to avoid cutting anyone in the
00:37:55
process. Okay, it's for safety,
00:37:56
but what a pain! Well, let's hear
00:37:59
something, because I'm well known for
00:38:01
turbocharging stock engines, and that's not done here.
00:38:04
Maybe. No,
00:38:05
no. That's right. Look,
00:38:07
the whole turbocharging thing is really complicated here
00:38:09
, especially with
00:38:11
naturally aspirated engines. If you want to
00:38:13
turbocharge them, it's almost impossible, practically
00:38:16
impossible. Then there's the catch:
00:38:18
if you take a naturally aspirated car
00:38:20
and swap the engine into a
00:38:22
turbocharged one, then it would be
00:38:23
allowed, but you can't do it to a naturally aspirated engine
00:38:26
. I
00:38:28
mean, turbocharging
00:38:29
stock street engines doesn't exist here. Only
00:38:31
for the track.
00:38:32
Only for the track.
00:38:33
And you know that very well with the
00:38:35
turbocharged B18, right?
00:38:36
Correct. Your plans changed, but yeah. So it's
00:38:38
not that easy, man. So, as you can
00:38:41
see, while there are many things here that
00:38:42
are perhaps simpler—you can
00:38:44
bring in more accessories or have many
00:38:46
more things available—there are other things
00:38:48
that are very complicated and that we
00:38:50
take for granted, like turbocharging,
00:38:52
resprucing anything, or, I don't know,
00:38:54
modifying suspensions and exhausts without
00:38:56
thinking twice. Here it really is a
00:38:59
process, but Well, I really
00:39:01
wanted to share this
00:39:02
information with you all because I've
00:39:03
learned so much on this trip and
00:39:05
previous ones, so I've been really
00:39:07
enjoying it. I hope you
00:39:09
enjoyed the visit to EuroCrew, to the
00:39:12
EuroCrew headquarters with all the
00:39:13
guys. I had a great time
00:39:15
. I hope to go back soon, and that it doesn't take
00:39:16
six years like last time, but
00:39:18
who knows? So, that's
00:39:20
all for this video.
00:39:22
Thanks so much for watching, and see you
00:39:23
next time.
00:39:27
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    The most convenient way is to use the UDL Client program, which supports converting video to MP3 format. In some cases, MP3 can also be downloaded through the UDL Helper extension.

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    This feature is available in the UDL Helper extension. Make sure that "Show the video snapshot button" is checked in the settings. A camera icon should appear in the lower right corner of the player to the left of the "Settings" icon. When you click on it, the current frame from the video will be saved to your computer in JPEG format.

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    For this purpose you need VLC-player, which can be downloaded for free from the official website https://www.videolan.org/vlc/.

    How to play streaming video through VLC player:

    • in video formats, hover your mouse over "Streaming Video**";
    • right-click on "Copy link";
    • open VLC-player;
    • select Media - Open Network Stream - Network in the menu;
    • paste the copied link into the input field;
    • click "Play".

    To download streaming video via VLC player, you need to convert it:

    • copy the video address (URL);
    • select "Open Network Stream" in the "Media" item of VLC player and paste the link to the video into the input field;
    • click on the arrow on the "Play" button and select "Convert" in the list;
    • select "Video - H.264 + MP3 (MP4)" in the "Profile" line;
    • click the "Browse" button to select a folder to save the converted video and click the "Start" button;
    • conversion speed depends on the resolution and duration of the video.

    Warning: this download method no longer works with most YouTube videos.

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    It costs nothing. Our services are absolutely free for all users. There are no PRO subscriptions, no restrictions on the number or maximum length of downloaded videos.