You Build The Car...It Builds You Back (Even If You Don't Realize It) - Project Car: Episode 1

and that really bothers me when someone's like oh it's just a car why do you like cars i'm just a car and i'm like no you don't understand the gifts that that stupid car has given me i want you to look at your project cars like something that can help you and not just a financial burden because it's not i didn't know a life that didn't suck was attainable i was wondering what is what do people do why how do these people who do cool things how do they get there it just seems like such a disconnect from where i am to where those people are everything about my life right now i owe to that freaking teal escalade it didn't do anything but provide me a canvas to figure myself out today we're gonna start something that i've been wanting to do for a couple years now where we just sit here and talk about things that matter things to move forward productive things mindset things that stem from a life around cars working on cars being a car guy and even way back then i felt like i've wanted to call a project car because when you have a project car you build it but whether you know it or not it builds you back because you have to force yourself to do things you don't want to do you learn stuff that you wouldn't have learned otherwise a lot of times without a necessity like me i learned pretty much everything i know now because i couldn't afford to pay someone else to do it i just had to figure it out i think a lot of you guys are the same way and then it starts that way but it becomes something that you strive to do because you just find out that you love learning and the way it feels when you hop in your car after you just busted your knuckles on it for a weekend maybe a couple friends helped you maybe they didn't but you get in that thing it's all tuned ready to go and you rip it for the first time and you you feel it in your ass you feel it in your toes that it is faster it's better it's stronger than what it was before you can physically feel that improvement you can see it you can hear it and it makes all of the pain the struggle the busted knuckles the ripped fingernails smashed fingers whatever it is it makes all that worth it why i don't know that's the age-old question because for me the first time my dad had a gt500 when uh i had my permit it was kind of like his post-divorce screw it i'm gonna get a car that i like to drive thing well the first time he let me drive that by myself i was like 17. obviously i flirted and oh my god that was the coolest thing i have ever felt just i don't know if you guys have ever felt this before but like the first time you drive something that's fast that has power it's almost like it pulls the blood out of your toes out of the front of your shins and you're just like it's like it's like an actual drug it's like doing drugs you just and you get out of the car and your knees are shaking you're like oh my god i want to do that again like that's how it was for me and ever since then i've been chasing that feeling that's where it all started i look at myself as a person what i was capable of how i viewed the world all of those things before my life with cars compared to now it is i can't even say night and day i am not the same person i am not the person that at that time back then i ever thought i could be if i'm being completely honest i didn't know a life that didn't suck was attainable because you kind of never witnessed that it's just everybody just kind of gets forced into this box they think they're supposed to be in because parents force it on you your teachers at school force it on you and you gotta go to college and have your 401k and get a job and get married and have a mortgage and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah it just sounds like hell is anyone happy i always wonder what is what do people do why how do these people who do cool things how do they get there it just seems like such a disconnect from where i am to where those people are like i thought you know famous people i don't know how that happened i thought maybe just they just got plucked you know oh randomly oh this guy yeah you you're gonna be famous i thought that's how it worked i think i tell most people think how it works and it's not and it wasn't until i started to blindly follow my desire to have a car fast enough to suck the blood out of my toes when i floored it that i started to inadvertently create a path to a life that didn't suck really me sitting down and talking about this to start this project was stemmed by this entire last month and i don't know if you can tell i'm covered in dirt i was just working on uncle rob and the entire month of april has just been one of those months where it seems like you you try everything you do everything nothing's going your way but you're like you know what screw it i can't quit i have to create my own momentum in the face of whatever it is that's just not letting me have any wins right now i gotta keep swinging i'm just going to keep swinging keep swinging well that's kind of what i've been doing and it's just been one of those months for everything i try ends up with me getting frickin kicked in the dick somehow it's just not happening it's not going the way i want it to i know you've all been there it's hard to deal with that especially when you think you're trying everything you can and it's just not coming back up well that's something i want to talk about too but before we get into that what pissed me off to the point where it just clicked in my head that i needed to sit down and do this was i was cutting some um metal for uncle rob with some air shears which were underpowered for what i was trying to do but they were cutting it and i thought it was the easiest way to do it so i just kept doing it we'll ended up slicing the crap out of both of my thumbs and today has already been one of those days already and when that happened i was just done i was like you know there was nobody in here but i was if the walls could talk they would tell you that i was uh audibly angry and i just thought i don't know when it clicked in my head i was thinking you know maybe that idea i've had to sit down and talk about this stuff needs to be put out and the world is just kicking me in the face until i get the point across that i need to sit down and do this and when i had that thought all the burden of getting done when i was supposed to get done for the day let's just lift it i'm like well that's that's it that's why i need to do this and i put it off for this long because back then i didn't really feel like i was qualified to talk about things because i felt like i had a lot more to learn i felt like i hadn't really done anything yet but put together a car when i didn't know how to but now i wish i had been doing it so i could have seen myself grow a little bit in more detail but we're gonna start doing that now because i feel that i have perspective and information and lessons inside me from the things i've been through that can help so many of you that if i don't put out there i am doing a disservice because a lot of what i've learned almost everything i've learned in my mindset and all that stuff is completely derived from information that other people have put out there expecting no return that information and that gift of being able to see the world for something that does not suck that torch will not stop with me i have to pass it to you guys because i know there are many of you out there who are doing things that you're not necessarily happy with and even if you are happy with it there's going to be facets of things that you're not happy with things that you wish could be better and no other car channel people are really doing anything like that like every successful person has a story of how they got where they are they have lessons to share whether they think they do or not they do and i don't see anybody in this space distilling that information and putting it back out in a language that people like us can understand and that's what we're gonna do here and it won't always be just me it'll be um other people too i'll sit down with other people and i've kind of already done this um a little bit if you haven't noticed like i sat down with uh norris marshall the owner founder of blueprint and i kind of got his story and talked to him a little bit um i kind of dug into it a little bit with brian neal and from lme that wasn't his own dedicated video but the tidbits are are in there and whether it be in person or zoom calls or something there are a lot of people out there who have information to share they want to share they want to tell their story they want to help other people do something that they love too i am going to bring that to you that's my mission because when i make videos that don't have any of that purpose inside yeah some of them are just fun entertainment and whatever like the yellow belly stuff it's entertaining but man making those videos over and over and over again people loved him but i was dying inside because i felt like i was putting out content that was not valuable beyond you know surface level entertainment and that's what this is going to fix the views for this stuff is going to be much lower probably at first than anything else i'm doing but i don't care because if it helps one person see things differently and go out in their life and change the way they see things change the way they do things for the better that's all that matters because it starts with one person we all live in this the same pond if you throw a rock in the pond the water goes up and down we're all living amongst other people's ripples somehow everything is tied together and i think there's too many people out there putting putting ripples in that pond don't do anything but up so me my friends you guys the ones who care we're gonna do something about that we're gonna make the car space different to not just be something people see as a hobby and that really bothers me when someone's like oh it's just a car why do you like cars i'm just a car and i'm like no you don't understand the gifts that that stupid car has given me the friendships the learning the it's an it's an avenue for self-development if you treat it like one it's a damn good one everything about my life right now i owe to that freaking teal escalade it didn't do anything but provide me a canvas to figure myself out and that's how i want you guys to look at your cars i want you to look at your project car is like something that can help you and not just a financial burden because it's not it's not people who view things that way it just it's like nails on a chalkboard to me when someone's you know girlfriend parents whatever they don't see their car as anything but something that money gets wasted on you just don't get it us car guys the ones who tinker with stuff make things faster at our core we are progress-oriented people progress fulfills us it satisfies us it's why we get up in the morning and for me that part of me was always there but i didn't realize it i didn't realize i could fuel that that desire and have it take over my life for the better if you take away one thing from this video i want you to walk out to your garage or your shop or your driveway whatever wherever your project car is whether it runs doesn't run if it's your freaking pickup truck that you put headers on if it's a vehicle that you care about that you've turned wrenches on i want you to look at that thing and put it in your head as a tool for you a tool to help you be better than you were the day before that's what i want your takeaway to be from this video maybe this would be like a once a week thing i don't know something like that pretty open-ended but it's something that we're going to keep doing regardless whether the views are up down sideways i don't care i know that this stuff is important i did not get over a thousand views a video until mid-august last year i was on the ground i could not get momentum to save my life i didn't know i didn't know what i was doing wrong but i just kept doing stuff and i thought you know kind of the same 10 people comment on my stuff every time i post it so to me i thought this thing stuck in my head it still does and i wanted to stick in your head too when applicable do it for the few not the many that's what this is here i don't care to appeal to every single person with these kind of videos because it's not for them not everybody has the mental capacity to understand what i'm saying but i know if you're still here and you're still watching this and there's any kind of ping and that antenna in your head you have it in you whether you know it or not you can take that from me if you feel like i'm talking to you it's because i am i've been you before and i feel like i'm in this position now because i can get more people out of that position that i came from i feel like that's a big reason why i've had a lot of opportunities that i've had and i'm gonna do something about it so let me know let me know what you're thinking let me know what you want to see uh what you want us to talk about who you want me to talk to what you want me to talk to about um anything like that if you want this to be a once a week thing twice a month i don't know should i make a separate channel for it maybe but i don't think i will because you know my channel is my life and if you don't want to see this on here then suck it don't click on it i feel much better after sitting down and saying this because this is something i owe to the world and it starts today we're doing something with this i feel it i guess we'll wrap it up with a shameless shirt plug if you've seen the stuff behind me yes those are for sale staplesworks.com you can get yourself a flag shirt like the one i'm wearing here also the good wrench style shirt we got hoodies uh those hoodies have the same graphic that is on this shirt right now um you can also click the random option on the website and save some money and you'll just get one random t-shirt in the size that you select it won't be a hoodie it'll be a t-shirt but you'll get it in the side that you want so just keep it fresh i don't know things like that i keep it light i don't want to shove it down your face all the time i feel weird about doing that i don't do any paid ads because i've never been approached by a place that i felt was genuine and applied to my life so i don't know i just don't want this channel to be surface level like basically all the other car content on youtube this is for real people like me like you if this video struck any kind of core with you if you found it interesting if it made you think send it to one of your friends because it could do something for them that you may not even realize i don't know talk about it the algorithm is not going to help me here because people aren't going to click on this stuff so if if you think that this is important help it grow let's do something with this we'll see you next time