Building Dreams: From Backyard Shop to Custom Car Innovators NVT Rod & Custom Ep22

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Music.

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Welcome back to Dub Life Diaries. Today's episode is not just about custom cars.

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This one's about grit, it's about family, and it's about building something real from the ground up.

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They've turned a backyard shop into a full-blown movement. They've restored

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cars that carry legacies.

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They've raised kids named Lincoln, Shelby, and Catalina, and even built a parade

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float named, and I like this one, Bodie McBoatface.

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And I love all the energy and attention that this Bodie McBoatface is getting.

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The reason why it's important, well, because it's built on a VW chassis.

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But this story isn't just about horsepower and happy endings.

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It's also about health scares, about mental breakdowns, about losing everything

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and choosing to fight just like they're sitting there together.

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Now, she's a former lab tech turned into a custom car queen He's a driver turned

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builder with a Mustang size heart together.

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They run NVT, Rod and Custom, and they're raising the next generation of creators along the way.

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Please welcome to the podcast, Justin and Claudia Still.

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All right, guys, excited for this one. Back to you.

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I got a big family, bunch of kids. I got five kids.

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So when I got in touch with you guys, I started digging around the Facebook

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page and stuff a little bit. And I'm like, man, this is going to be a fun episode.

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Bunch of kids and you guys have all kinds of stuff going on and a ton of energy

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around what you're doing.

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So, Claudia, I want to start with you. Take me back to the high school shop class.

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Tell me, did you expect that that would change your life? No, no, no, no.

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I was not expecting that I would still be doing things with cars a gazillion years later.

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Did not. I thought it was just going to be an easy A. That's it.

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I grew up working on cars. My dad's an 18-wheeler mechanic.

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Thought, okay, it'll be easy. And from From that, it turned into an internship

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at Toyota at 16, and that's where I met Justin.

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That's the end. That's pretty much where it went downhill. Yeah.

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And Justin, your take was pretty early with cars, yeah? 13?

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Yes. When I was 13, my dad and I picked up a Project 66 Mustang that I've learned

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everything on. Do you still have the car? He still has it.

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Yes. He still has it. I'll never get rid of that car.

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It's Lincoln's. It's Lincoln's. It's Lincoln's or Shelby's. Whoever fights for

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it, whoever gets a purse, I guess. They both fight over it now.

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Now, you guys met, right, in a pretty awesome way.

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Tell me about how you guys met and, you know, give me the story, the backstory there.

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Well, we both went to the same school at different times, but we,

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through the auto shop class, we both did internships at dealerships and it happened to be Toyota.

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He started as a service advisor and I went in as a mechanic apprentice and so super cool yeah.

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Yeah kind of traded roles there on that one yeah instead

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of her being inside I was inside yeah I've done a service role like that way

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back in the day for I believe it was a Honda dealership service rider I believe

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is what it was yeah I mean man I had fun with that job it was all right You've

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got to be the middleman between the customer and the mechanic.

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Well, there's something special about that, though. I feel like the person that

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can communicate those repairs and communicate that outcome, it's a special somebody, right?

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That's what helped home me with my customer skills on starting this business. Yeah.

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A lot of my guys that worked with me say, hey, why do you talk so much to these customers?

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Why are you doing things like this is how you have to treat a customer?

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You treat them as a friend because that's what they end up becoming.

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Again, a communications and a sales trainer as a professional,

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you know, it's what I do full time.

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There's magic in that for sure. You know, to be able to, I guess,

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just communicate with somebody and allow them to understand the dealership's point of view.

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And what's happening. And then you being the middleman to have to understand

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their point of view and almost explain that to the dealership or the guys out

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in the shop, you know, or in this case, your wife that was out in the shop.

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Yeah. That's absolutely awesome. When did you guys start to really,

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you know, realize that this was, you know, possibly going to be a lifelong relationship?

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Probably just after a few months, I decided. How about you, Claudia?

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She's still trying to make up her mind. Yeah, absolutely.

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Perhaps he, how he tricked me into this.

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Hey, we were just talking about his communication abilities.

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So that's true. Justin's a closer.

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Now, Justin, you were a driver before you became a car builder,

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right? Tell me, tell me about that.

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Well, it probably started from a little bit of influence from her father being

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a truck driver and truck mechanic.

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And he mentioned to me, Hey, go to hotshot make x amount of money it's fairly

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simple job for what it is and started doing that for almost 10 years and i loved

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it it was a paid vacation because i did so many long hauls i've gotten to travel

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all over the u.s see everything and get paid to see everything.

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So that was a great occupation. I loved it.

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I've learned so much, got to see so much different cultures that are all in

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the U.S. that I've had to go meet and deal with. Some sketchy places, some great places.

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Yeah, I bet. And he would pin all the places where all the car graves were.

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All the cool cars. And he still has the pins. On my phone. I'm saving my map.

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It's like, okay, this car is here. This car is here.

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Dude, what a cool opportunity to be able to do that.

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You know you got you know somebody looking for a certain something you go back through spins,

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yes oh yeah that's what i saved him for that way i could i'm like hey you need

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this car i know where it's at let's go get it he knows where they're rust free

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he knows where not to get them out there's a lot of good ones in wyoming yeah

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well i'm not going back to wyoming anytime so.

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A lot of a lot of good ones in colorado too

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i spent about 12 years out there and

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you know the lack of moisture in the air you know there's

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really gosh man there the cars are so dry

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there there's really i mean there's some rust but not not

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like here in the south where i'm at and maybe not down where you got here at

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yeah we got the same temperatures y'all have yeah we get rust buckets here you

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know some of them are too far gone to even do anything with oh yeah there's

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many times where i've gone to rifle colorado on the other side of the rockies

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and there's cars just Laying around abandoned.

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Everybody says they're too far gone. Like, that is a perfect project car.

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Yeah, you're like, far gone. I could take a pressure off that thing and clean it up.

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It is. Hit it with a soft right pad and some CLR. It'll look brand new.

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Yeah, we pressure wash these cars down here. They fall apart. Yes.

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But what he calls far gone is different from, like, normal people far gone. Okay. All right.

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Because his far gone can look like Swiss cheese and cheese.

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And he still will sell. I'll fix it. Yeah, he'll say, oh, I can fix it.

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Okay, okay. There's nothing that's in it.

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There's no matter. That's probably where when I say something's far gone,

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it's coming from not somebody that has a lot of experience with body work or

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anything like that. All right.

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If it just looks too far gone, man, I'm going to call it, you know,

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or if it has structural issues.

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I pulled an old Model A truck cab out of the mud thinking it was stuck in the mud.

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The bottom foot of that vehicle is missing so i'm

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like well it's just metal it's a free truck i rebuilt it all couldn't tell

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the difference yeah yeah i was like that's swiss cheese there's nothing left

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it can still sound there's still half the vehicle there and claudia you were

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juggling exxon and the shop right tell me just talk talk to me a little bit

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about those that that time so So Justin was pretty smart.

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He found himself a sugar mama that could help him out and fund his choice.

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And so he was able to retire, per se, from driving and go and build his cars.

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Well, I got tired of buying cars because they get expensive.

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And I said, no, thank you. And he had to start his own, fitting other people's cars.

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Because I was juggling his stuff plus working shift work with Edson.

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Right. And then at the same time, raising some kids in between.

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Yes, we'll get to that. So I was like, uh-uh.

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Yeah, she cut me off. So yeah, he always says that I cut him off and I'm like, no.

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She cut me off so I had to start my own business to fund my own toys.

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And now I have no time to work on my own toys.

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Now you have your own business and where are all the toys?

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They're still there. They're in the boneyard. All right. Waiting.

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Just waiting their turn to be billed. Yes. Okay. Well, that's coming eventually for sure. I hope so.

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Let's talk about this VW bus. Give me some of the details of it.

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You say it's the original family?

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Yes. They still have the original sales brochures, the original paper license

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plates, the temporary plates from when it was purchased.

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1969. It's a camper bus, and they paid $3,914 for it.

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Now add a couple zeros to the end of it. Yeah, for sure.

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But they drove it back and forth from Houston area.

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They'd go to Galveston quite a bit for their little vacation,

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this short, quick vacation. They were only an hour away from the beach.

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And their big trips, they would go all the way up to Minnesota several times in that vehicle.

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It still has the Minnesota State Park sticker from 1970 on the windshield.

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Now is this is this still owned by

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that family or is it your bus now the granddaughter

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of the original owners is in possession well we're

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in possession but she's the owner of it right now and she wants to

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keep it but she financially just can't keep it she doesn't have anywhere to

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park it and she can't drive a standard man and it's a nice bus huh oh yeah so

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when we pulled it out of the barn we actually had to dig out some of the floor

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of the barn to get it out because the dirt had raised up so much over the decades,

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it wouldn't clear the top of the door.

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So once we finally drug it out in there and gave it a good bath,

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this thing's got tons of life in it.

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Underneath it, considering how it's closed as a gulf as it was on a crushed

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oyster shell floor, rust free.

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A couple spots of surface rust here and there for rock chips and debris over the decades.

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But very, very clean. Just as good as the outside of the vehicle.

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And is this bus listed anywhere for sale? or is this something where people

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just have to get in touch with you guys?

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They can get in touch with us, but it's also been on Facebook Marketplace for

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quite a while now in the Houston area, and I believe we have listed in the Austin area also.

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Man, something I've noticed even in the last, I'd say, six months is just the

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market is super soft right now.

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Yes, very much so. We took it to Mecham Auctions here in Houston a couple months back.

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Every vehicle there went for hardly nothing, but the Volkswagens,

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they were going for less than what they were worth, even on a bad day.

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This one only made it up to $8,000. I can't let this thing go for that price. Yeah.

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Like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'd go sell one of my kids to buy it for eight grand. Yes.

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That's like, that's a, that's a steal. But yeah, I, I see that right now in

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the, in the market. And for a buyer or somebody looking to make some moves,

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you know, it's a great thing. A lot of time.

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Yeah. But for those of us that have, you know, that are holding,

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it's not. It's terrible.

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Flexionates all the time. It'll get back up there again. Oh,

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yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. Right now is a good time to buy, though.

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Yes. Are you guys comfortable with sharing what you're asking for?

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Because I'm sure this will be reaching a lot of listeners.

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Yeah. I think $20,000 is fair for it. Okay. And it's a six. That's the good

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value price of here in the Texas area.

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California, it's worth almost double. But here in the Texas area,

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$20,000 is about what they go for. And we think that's a fair price.

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Yeah, I think so too. Where else are you going to find something well-documented

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like this that's still, I'd say, 90% original?

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Single and original owner.

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Yes. Yeah. With all the original documents. You're not going to find that anywhere

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else. No. You're paid for the history and the story of it with it.

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And the bus is worth that by itself, I think.

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Oh, yes, definitely. Yeah. Well, good stuff. Custer is not looking to make a

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lot of money off of the owner of it.

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She just wants it to go to a home that's actually going to use it.

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She doesn't want it to get parked somewhere like it did the last 30 years.

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Yeah. Well, you guys are in a good spot. I think this will ring some people.

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You may even hear from some folks.

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It's not getting its worth just sitting here at the shop with a cover over it.

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And in the Texas marketplace, you know, it's like you depend on Facebook to

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have other people see this.

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It's not like, you know, eBay or auto trader, where if you're going in and looking

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for VW buses, it's going to pull up no matter what location and preferences.

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And all of these things are kind of filtering plus whatever

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you know the the powers to

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be at facebook if they want to put that in front of somebody they will most

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of the time from what i've seen they they really don't unless you want to pay

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it's crazy yes yes yes and we've listed vehicles before on ebay you don't always

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get what you're wanting for so we're on this one we're like Well,

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we're not rushing to sell it.

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We don't have to go that route because we've sold vehicles, one vehicle to Japan.

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We sold another vehicle to Australia on eBay.

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Nice. This one, the customer's like, well, we'll just sit on it until somebody buys it.

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Yeah. I mean, good. And should. I like that. Hold. Hold.

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All right. Let's touch on the kids. So you've got Lincoln, you've got Shelby,

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and you've got Catalina. Did I say those names right?

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Yeah. Yes. So what's it been like raising these kids around,

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you know, a garage style environment?

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I mean, I can see some of the videos and pictures and it looks,

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it looks hella fun, but I want to hear from your side of it.

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It's fun, but always stressful and hectic.

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If we have a shiny vehicle in the shop and the kids come in there,

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especially like right now, Catalina, she's got a wrench and she's heading towards

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going, nope, nope, nope, stop what you're doing. don't touch that,

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Or Shelby, he's at the point now, when we go to car shows or even other cars

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in the shop, he'll go up and try to climb. Oh, these aren't our cars.

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This one over here can climb in.

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Not this one. But they want to wrench on all of these cars.

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He's desensitized, right? Oh, it's close to Lincoln.

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He's the oldest. He's 10. And we go to car shows or you see an old car.

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Everybody's like, oh, that's cool. Look at that. He's like, eh.

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See the same Renee. So he is desensitized. Lincoln is very desensitized on cool

00:16:57.052 --> 00:16:58.352
custom vehicles, unfortunately.

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Shelby expects you to let him get in the line. I mean, he's it's Shelby.

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And every time we go somewhere, like if I'm going test drive,

00:17:07.232 --> 00:17:09.672
let me go in. I'm like, all right, hop in. Let's go on test drive.

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You can actually see to your left, the little Formula V race car with number four on it.

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Yes, that's him in there as soon as little red one.

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As soon as that vehicle showed up on the trailer he's instantly i want in i

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want in we're like all right buddy hop on in the customer was having fun with

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it he enjoyed it let's talk about lincoln uh has his own art gallery right he

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does he's been featured the creativity show which is a great place for him and he's,

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also been the news i started him off very young learning him how to paint it

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was just like a hobby of me with him, teaching him techniques and different stuff.

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And later I found out that there's little kid markets. And so we're like, oh, we should try that.

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You know, you're getting into painting and we're very much avid readers.

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So we're teaching him that there's beauty in imperfections and he didn't have

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to be critiquing himself so hard with his artwork.

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So he started There's a company called Lincoln's Beautiful Oops from a book

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that's called Beautiful Oops. And they're my beautiful oopses.

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So he's been very...

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Very good finding creative ways showcase his

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new talent and still incorporating he's

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obsessed with cats so like most of his paintings will have cats

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in them and from that he's actually

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become collector like people like

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collect his artwork markets every year

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and from that he started getting into 3d

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printing but so he invested his

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own money and he bought himself a 3d printer learned it

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and then invested again and bought himself like

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a big boy 3d printer and so from that now

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he's helping his dad build parts he's

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learning how to design and like a little knob gonna

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be 3d printed for an ac on a 50 58 porsche

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oh cool man look at that amazing behind us is some of his art gallery yeah i

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was gonna ask yep this is his artwork in that some of the stuff that he works

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on we've displayed he's also working on a few car paintings right now these are this morning.

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So of course some of his customers oh cool the 57 bel air yeah and then he's

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got another one that is a station wagon that he's also working on so these are his rough drafts,

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and then you'll start perfecting it layer by layer those are actually the customers

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of Glows gave us their tickets for the Hotline Tour of Texas that we were on.

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They said, hey, we want Lincoln to be there. So they gave us the tickets.

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So in return, he's painting their cars for them. Yeah. Surprise. Surprise.

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I'm going to switch gears for a second on you. And Claudia, I want to touch on your health.

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I know you had mentioned that you had some issues with your health.

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When your health collapsed and everything started to unravel,

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what gave you the motivation to keep things going? How'd you keep things going?

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Going over those questions, I was like, oh my god it's therapy all over again

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and it's bittersweet because today's actually the one year anniversary of the

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chemical exposure that I had to my hands from Edson it was very delimitating

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to my hands and it created so many health issues like,

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No matter what, like what kept me going was as I have three little babies that

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are still dependent on me.

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I have a husband that's still dependent on me. Like no matter what I'm going

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through, there's people that need me.

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So that's my main motivation. That's what drives me still now to get better

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and to lead by example for them.

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So she's one tough mom. And usually they are, man. If they can have a bunch

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of kids and they show us, they show us up. No problem.

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I get a boo-boo on my finger and I cry. That's right. I was just going to say,

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I get sick and I end up in bed all day. I'm like, honey, I need tissues.

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My wife, she's not like that. She don't complain about much and doesn't ask

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much. And she's mama bear. That's, you know, yeah.

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Moms are tough. They're a whole another, another breed.

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So how are you now? it's still an ongoing thing and it's it's pain every day

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but now i'm having to find better ways to,

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creatively source what i want to do so lincoln is a great helper and he's teaching

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shelby how to do the same and catalina's also like they're getting better at

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helping me with things around here.

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So, and just being able to ask for help, I think is,

00:22:06.694 --> 00:22:11.314
one of the biggest things because I tend to not ask for it.

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Yeah. And that's probably part of your DNA, how you're wired.

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You know, some people can ask for help, no problem.

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Others feel, you know, I hate asking for help. I'd rather do it myself.

00:22:23.854 --> 00:22:31.054
It's not, it's not a matter of opinion or limiting beliefs or anything like that.

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It's truly, it's how you're wired. And again, I teach personality profiles in

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part of what I do professionally.

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And it's a very real thing, you know, to, to understand that some people make

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decisions based on how they're wired, not based on what their wants are.

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So yeah. Yeah. So Justin to shift gears, you know, and again,

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I'll, I'll preface this with, you know, most people aren't openly willing to talk about this.

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So I really appreciate that you are, because mental health is a very serious thing.

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Being committed to a mental health facility is probably not something that's

00:23:11.154 --> 00:23:14.254
easy or that is going to be easy for you to talk about.

00:23:14.414 --> 00:23:18.334
But talk to us a little bit about that. I'm sure there might even be listeners

00:23:18.334 --> 00:23:20.774
that would benefit from this. What was your turning point?

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Honestly, what really kind of caught me on to realizing that,

00:23:25.434 --> 00:23:29.794
hey, I'm the problem here, but I think I can fix all this.

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I went to, when it was, I was going somewhere bad at that time.

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It wasn't going to end well. Like, hey, you know what, this movie's out.

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I want to go see this movie first.

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So I went and saw Ferrari, about Mr. Ferrari and how he started and saw how his life went.

00:23:47.554 --> 00:23:50.794
That helped a lot. That was the first time it helped a lot, just seeing how

00:23:50.794 --> 00:23:53.854
he started his business from nothing and everything he dealt with starting that

00:23:53.854 --> 00:23:57.594
business and what turned him into. He was just focused on work,

00:23:57.674 --> 00:24:02.454
didn't care about anything else, became a narcissist, just ended up being a terrible person.

00:24:02.994 --> 00:24:05.974
And I started seeing that, hey, that's what I'm starting to become.

00:24:06.874 --> 00:24:12.874
So when I saw that, that was the first stage, I believe, to realizing, hey, I've got a problem.

00:24:13.454 --> 00:24:18.594
And then after that, finally listening to Claudia, as I shouldn't have done

00:24:18.594 --> 00:24:21.354
to begin with, like every husband listens to your wife.

00:24:21.994 --> 00:24:27.474
Wait, let's back up a sec. Every successful husband, every successful husband.

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Because the ones that don't listen, they're not successful. Right.

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Listen to your wife. Don't waste your time. I got into a bad spot again,

00:24:39.394 --> 00:24:42.934
wasn't happy with the way things were going in life, overwhelmed with the beginning

00:24:42.934 --> 00:24:44.934
of the business, just how busy I've gotten.

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And it has just engulfed my life and I wasn't happy anymore,

00:24:48.654 --> 00:24:50.894
even though the business was doing great.

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And she had me, she was going to force me to be committed if I wouldn't willingly do it.

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And she said, hey, either go to this place or we're going to drag you to this

00:25:02.154 --> 00:25:04.974
place. So I said, fine, let's go. I'm going to do this.

00:25:05.174 --> 00:25:11.574
Wasn't thrilled about it. But going to this mental hospital for a week was a

00:25:11.574 --> 00:25:12.774
life-changing experience.

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Realized I have an addiction. I need to kick that addiction out because when

00:25:18.474 --> 00:25:22.734
I first went to there, it was mainly alcohol addicts there.

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And they did several AA meetings and I attended them just to see what's going on.

00:25:27.414 --> 00:25:29.994
Sure. And basically, as they started speaking about this stuff,

00:25:30.094 --> 00:25:35.334
I realized, hey, I can replace alcohol with cars because cars took over my life.

00:25:35.434 --> 00:25:36.934
I didn't care about my family. Nothing.

00:25:37.374 --> 00:25:40.274
Just cars, cars, cars. I didn't think that's a bad addiction.

00:25:40.514 --> 00:25:43.074
But after seeing that there with the alcohol, like, hold on.

00:25:43.574 --> 00:25:46.334
I'm doing the same thing they're doing, but without, with cars.

00:25:46.874 --> 00:25:48.114
Wow. What an observation.

00:25:48.834 --> 00:25:53.674
Yes. Wow. I mean, that's. And while I was there, I'm not a big reader.

00:25:53.714 --> 00:25:55.114
I don't read much. I like to look at pictures.

00:25:55.414 --> 00:25:58.454
The typical guy stuff. Yeah. Can't sit there long enough.

00:26:00.034 --> 00:26:04.854
I thought he gave me a book to read called The Game of Life and How to Play It.

00:26:05.677 --> 00:26:10.417
And it was written by a woman, I believe, in the 40s, wasn't it? Or the 30s?

00:26:10.937 --> 00:26:14.037
And it still applies perfectly to things today.

00:26:14.917 --> 00:26:17.977
Reading that book changed my outlook on quite a few things in life.

00:26:17.977 --> 00:26:22.697
I recommend anybody, even if you're not having struggles, read that book.

00:26:22.897 --> 00:26:26.597
It is a great book. It will change your outlook on life for the greater degree,

00:26:26.657 --> 00:26:28.217
like just positivity on everything.

00:26:29.537 --> 00:26:32.877
And I still struggle time to time, but that's whenever I do struggle.

00:26:32.877 --> 00:26:35.737
Well, she's here to knock me in the back of the head and get me back where I need to be.

00:26:36.677 --> 00:26:41.377
What did therapy help you guys understand about yourselves and about each other

00:26:41.377 --> 00:26:43.717
to get to where you're at today?

00:26:44.157 --> 00:26:48.697
Since it was, you know, you say what you got to say, you can't interrupt each other.

00:26:49.497 --> 00:26:54.317
So her saying things that she felt about me that I was doing or how she feels

00:26:54.317 --> 00:26:58.837
about things opened my mind up quite a bit because these are things I wasn't

00:26:58.837 --> 00:27:03.217
seeing or thinking. because then she thinks she's a woman. She's wired different than I am.

00:27:03.997 --> 00:27:08.577
Stuff that was brought out like, oh, I didn't realize I was doing this.

00:27:08.717 --> 00:27:13.237
I didn't realize I was causing this problem or didn't realize she's hiding so

00:27:13.237 --> 00:27:16.537
much because she doesn't want to know that she's in pain or that she needs help.

00:27:17.497 --> 00:27:21.017
For me, that's what helped a lot in therapy. Plania?

00:27:21.237 --> 00:27:25.477
And I think for me, it's still a struggle now to just be able to say,

00:27:25.597 --> 00:27:28.017
hey, I need help with this.

00:27:28.497 --> 00:27:33.677
And yeah, it's something that I, you can't be mad at him.

00:27:33.897 --> 00:27:36.997
It's have expectations that are not said.

00:27:37.437 --> 00:27:41.617
We think that we're like, Hey, we're living the same household.

00:27:41.817 --> 00:27:42.797
You don't see everything.

00:27:43.097 --> 00:27:47.017
Like you want me to tell you what, what I need help with.

00:27:47.077 --> 00:27:51.457
Like if I have to tell you what to help me with, like that's making another

00:27:51.457 --> 00:27:54.397
task for me. Just pick something, pick anything.

00:27:55.137 --> 00:27:59.477
But being upset about that and realizing, Hey, like it's not a mind reader.

00:28:00.877 --> 00:28:06.277
And still working on the trust, working on the communication and realizing, hey,

00:28:06.537 --> 00:28:10.617
those kids are watching and however y'all are doing with each other,

00:28:10.817 --> 00:28:15.117
they are watching and that's how they're going to be with the relationships

00:28:15.117 --> 00:28:16.357
they are going to expect.

00:28:17.389 --> 00:28:20.629
To be the norm. Becoming a positive influence. Yeah.

00:28:21.449 --> 00:28:26.069
When they get married or whatever, they end up doing it further on the life of a couple.

00:28:26.289 --> 00:28:33.189
I learned that myself in my own life was that the actions that I participated

00:28:33.189 --> 00:28:37.069
in meant more than any words I ever said to my kids.

00:28:37.309 --> 00:28:42.269
What they saw from me and my behavior was what they became, not what I told

00:28:42.269 --> 00:28:44.489
them was what it was supposed to be.

00:28:44.749 --> 00:28:47.829
So I learned, you know, I've been with my wife 25 years.

00:28:47.989 --> 00:28:52.429
I learned probably the second or third year in, like, damn, I'm going to have

00:28:52.429 --> 00:29:00.329
to change everything and be this and not talk about this.

00:29:00.909 --> 00:29:04.849
That's where I guess that term actions speak louder than words.

00:29:04.929 --> 00:29:06.469
I think that's where it probably is rooted.

00:29:06.969 --> 00:29:11.449
But yeah, tons of adversity, lost a job, lost your insurance,

00:29:11.449 --> 00:29:15.709
you have health issues, but, you know, you, you, you kept building and kept

00:29:15.709 --> 00:29:20.849
supporting the dream or that's got to come from some, you know, internal inspiration.

00:29:20.849 --> 00:29:28.729
Is there something that anchors you to, to, to beside your kids that keeps you pushing?

00:29:28.989 --> 00:29:35.189
Well, as a kid, I would play with my Legos and my Hot Wheels and my Rector sets.

00:29:35.729 --> 00:29:39.749
And that was my dream. Hey, when I'm older, I want my own shop to work on classic

00:29:39.749 --> 00:29:40.909
cars and custom vehicles.

00:29:41.509 --> 00:29:46.069
I was always told you can't do that. You have to wait to retire and then you can play with all that.

00:29:46.209 --> 00:29:48.309
And I've been determined since then

00:29:48.309 --> 00:29:52.729
to do that. It took me longer than I expected, but I finally got there.

00:29:53.515 --> 00:29:58.515
But that's what pushes me to do this. That and someone's got to keep these old cars going.

00:29:59.795 --> 00:30:04.015
And I guess while I'm here on this earth, someone has to keep these old beaters on the road.

00:30:04.715 --> 00:30:08.155
And hopefully my kids will follow. And at least one of my kids hopefully will

00:30:08.155 --> 00:30:08.875
follow in our footsteps.

00:30:09.495 --> 00:30:13.835
Yeah. Out of five, I've got one interested. The other one's not.

00:30:14.675 --> 00:30:20.895
And again, it's not what I say thing. It's, it's, you know, I got one kid that

00:30:20.895 --> 00:30:26.795
doesn't mind sweating, bleeding, busting his knuckles up, laying on the ground

00:30:26.795 --> 00:30:27.835
and getting under the car.

00:30:28.015 --> 00:30:32.135
He comes with me when we, you know, when we do work on, on, on some of these

00:30:32.135 --> 00:30:38.055
cars, sometimes he'll come with and, you know, be engaged and be learning the other ones.

00:30:38.615 --> 00:30:40.775
Nah, I'm good, dad. I'm good.

00:30:42.555 --> 00:30:46.715
Is that your second one? Yeah. I hear it. It's okay. Huh? Yeah.

00:30:46.915 --> 00:30:48.815
Oh, that's. What? Shelby.

00:30:49.095 --> 00:30:50.995
That's the first. Yes. It's identical.

00:30:51.455 --> 00:30:55.995
Those, those second kids, the ones that. It's my second boy. I do have a daughter.

00:30:56.335 --> 00:31:00.775
My daughter is my first, but it is my second boy. So it's actually the third,

00:31:01.015 --> 00:31:04.295
but my daughter, not interested at all.

00:31:04.555 --> 00:31:11.415
Like not even a tiny bit. You know, I do all these rides and shows and stuff down here.

00:31:11.655 --> 00:31:14.395
We've got all this energy and stuff. I, I,

00:31:14.575 --> 00:31:17.595
she rarely even wants to participate, but you know,

00:31:17.595 --> 00:31:20.295
it's cool man it's you know i'm again i'm not

00:31:20.295 --> 00:31:23.055
gonna be upset with them because they don't want to come hang

00:31:23.055 --> 00:31:26.055
out with dad and his old cars you can't force them

00:31:26.055 --> 00:31:29.575
if you try to force them into it they're just gonna hate it even more exactly

00:31:29.575 --> 00:31:37.335
i feel that all right so i want to talk about boaty mcboatface i know this was

00:31:37.335 --> 00:31:43.015
part of the intro but you guys took a what i see is a like an older ski Nautique

00:31:43.015 --> 00:31:44.535
or some type of a ski boat,

00:31:44.675 --> 00:31:51.715
but a free boat on Facebook marketplace and you mounted it on top of a VW.

00:31:52.295 --> 00:31:57.095
Man, give me the details. I want to hear about this thing. Where did the inspiration

00:31:57.095 --> 00:31:59.235
come from and how did this thing come together?

00:31:59.475 --> 00:32:03.955
Well, what started all the idea of that is prior a year before to that,

00:32:04.175 --> 00:32:08.775
if you look to your right, there is Van Gogh, the art of us.

00:32:08.775 --> 00:32:13.955
And he invited us to the Houston Art Car Parade after we worked on his band.

00:32:14.715 --> 00:32:18.695
And once we were there, the kids had a blast. Lincoln absolutely loved it.

00:32:18.915 --> 00:32:22.835
So fast forward to this past year now.

00:32:23.455 --> 00:32:25.415
We're like, hey, let's build something. What are we going to do?

00:32:25.495 --> 00:32:27.395
Let's build something for the show. This is going to be fun.

00:32:27.995 --> 00:32:30.575
Well, we have all these Volkswagen chassis. We've got motors.

00:32:30.695 --> 00:32:32.615
We have everything laying around to do the mechanical aspect.

00:32:32.735 --> 00:32:35.855
But what body are we going to put on top of this thing? It's going to be something crazy.

00:32:36.715 --> 00:32:40.355
And I don't know why. But ever since I was a kid, I wanted to have a driving boat.

00:32:40.515 --> 00:32:45.975
I do remember in high school, a major Texas car show, which was Texas Heat Wave at the time.

00:32:46.355 --> 00:32:48.695
There was a boat that won the burnout contest.

00:32:49.861 --> 00:32:52.781
So I'm like, hey, I've always wanted to do that. That looked amazing.

00:32:54.301 --> 00:32:58.021
And so that's how the two, that's how the idea of it came up together.

00:32:58.661 --> 00:33:01.321
I watched some of the news. And of course, Lank is an artist.

00:33:02.481 --> 00:33:07.101
I built it. He decorated it, designed it and everything. Yeah, I saw that.

00:33:07.281 --> 00:33:12.561
I watched that on a couple of the news video things I saw on your guys' Facebook.

00:33:13.281 --> 00:33:18.221
Such a cool thing. So that is part of parades and local stuff now?

00:33:18.221 --> 00:33:20.121
Now, is that the shop truck now?

00:33:21.141 --> 00:33:24.301
Basically, yes. We're working on making it street legal. That's the next project.

00:33:24.781 --> 00:33:27.321
That's why we chose that chassis. We have a title for that chassis.

00:33:27.741 --> 00:33:31.141
Okay. So what's the difference when it fibered the last boat body and the fibered

00:33:31.141 --> 00:33:32.061
the last noon buggy body?

00:33:32.901 --> 00:33:34.981
She should be able to get it registered. It shouldn't be an issue.

00:33:35.821 --> 00:33:39.521
Right. As long as they can read the man. It's built on it.

00:33:40.001 --> 00:33:44.801
Yeah. Crazy, man. Yeah. It's so bad. I didn't have to stretch the frame out any.

00:33:45.221 --> 00:33:49.381
The pans on that chassis were rotten. And so I basically built a tubular chassis

00:33:49.381 --> 00:33:52.541
out of it, the same shape as the Volkswagen pans, just wider.

00:33:53.761 --> 00:33:58.041
And no, I couldn't find any instructions how to mount a boat to a Volkswagen chassis.

00:33:59.101 --> 00:34:02.401
After I started cutting and cutting away little by little, basically the whole

00:34:02.401 --> 00:34:03.501
floor of the boat was gone.

00:34:03.621 --> 00:34:07.561
And I just had to make tabs to bolt the body down to it, which wasn't too bad.

00:34:07.861 --> 00:34:10.081
The hard part was cutting all that god-awful fiberglass.

00:34:11.181 --> 00:34:16.321
That was terrible. I bet. Turning a boat into a car. Yeah, and it took us,

00:34:16.361 --> 00:34:17.921
what, two weeks to do it? Two or three weeks?

00:34:18.541 --> 00:34:24.281
A little bit longer. Okay. It was less than a month. What is the model of the

00:34:24.281 --> 00:34:26.781
boat, just for the listeners so they can envision this?

00:34:27.001 --> 00:34:32.561
Boat itself, you know, it's an 81 or it was an 83, I can't recall, Ski Nauti. It was.

00:34:33.021 --> 00:34:36.161
It was a Ski Nauti. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so it was a Ski Nauti.

00:34:36.281 --> 00:34:39.761
It looked great, but it was just completely rotten. But, you know,

00:34:39.781 --> 00:34:44.381
that's sitting on the ground now with that 80s, early 90s colors vibe,

00:34:44.561 --> 00:34:49.021
bright and vibrant glitter flake and black lights all over.

00:34:49.181 --> 00:34:52.381
At night, it's a different beast. It is a rave boat at night.

00:34:53.441 --> 00:34:57.861
It is cool. I haven't heard that name in a few years. Yeah.

00:34:59.161 --> 00:35:04.701
It's pretty cool. Yeah, it is. I saw the videos and it's what's even cooler

00:35:04.701 --> 00:35:05.781
is the kids are involved.

00:35:06.321 --> 00:35:09.881
Yes. That's the main reason doing it. Lincoln really wants nothing to do with

00:35:09.881 --> 00:35:13.421
hands-on in the shop. He doesn't like to get out there and get dirty, to get hot.

00:35:13.941 --> 00:35:17.661
This got him into the shop, but it was fun seeing him, his cousins,

00:35:17.941 --> 00:35:21.921
even Shelby and Catalina out there in the shop having something here. Touch it. Paint it.

00:35:22.521 --> 00:35:25.741
You're not going to scratch it. You're not going to mess up a paint job. Get your fingers dirty.

00:35:26.653 --> 00:35:29.593
So there's handprints and everything buried in all that paint for all the kids.

00:35:30.013 --> 00:35:34.273
Runs all over it. But they did it. They had fun doing it.

00:35:34.833 --> 00:35:41.513
Yeah. Going to the shows and him explaining to people what he's done and the

00:35:41.513 --> 00:35:43.933
techniques. He's so technical on things.

00:35:44.093 --> 00:35:51.213
And it's just amazing seeing him, his confidence just skyrocket with all of these things.

00:35:51.233 --> 00:35:54.713
And I can't imagine like such a cool childhood.

00:35:55.173 --> 00:35:59.253
I didn't get this. I got to work on 18 others. Like, yeah, I don't think he

00:35:59.253 --> 00:36:00.733
realizes how cool his life is.

00:36:01.113 --> 00:36:05.693
Yeah, he does. He will. He was grateful for you. Yeah, he probably will.

00:36:05.873 --> 00:36:09.513
If he doesn't now, he will one day for sure.

00:36:09.953 --> 00:36:12.913
I also didn't I didn't come from that background either.

00:36:13.633 --> 00:36:16.673
Zero mechanical stuff going on. If my dad needed something done,

00:36:16.693 --> 00:36:21.473
he had to pay for it. That's not our my dad does antiques and fine jewelry.

00:36:22.793 --> 00:36:25.733
So you know he's a a master craft of

00:36:25.733 --> 00:36:28.513
a of a different you know different thing other than

00:36:28.513 --> 00:36:32.633
cars you know he's always been you know drive a car for two years get a new

00:36:32.633 --> 00:36:37.793
one i don't want to have any problems uh you know if you drive an old volkswagen

00:36:37.793 --> 00:36:42.253
you know you have to be okay with problems because you're gonna face them yes

00:36:42.253 --> 00:36:46.853
that's oil leaks especially oil leaks uh yeah Yeah,

00:36:47.533 --> 00:36:49.393
if you still have oil.

00:36:49.973 --> 00:36:54.933
Yes. If it's not leaking oil, it doesn't have oil. That's exactly what I'm saying.

00:36:55.973 --> 00:37:01.213
So you guys, the shop's growing. From our previous conversation in the notes,

00:37:01.213 --> 00:37:03.313
you guys have some new apprentices.

00:37:03.593 --> 00:37:07.933
You're launching a body shop. You have the upholstery center, right?

00:37:08.093 --> 00:37:13.413
Tell me, what's the big dream for NVT at this point?

00:37:13.573 --> 00:37:20.173
Building our legacy. we're trying to showcase what we have acquired our skills

00:37:20.173 --> 00:37:22.033
that we have acquired and now,

00:37:22.927 --> 00:37:28.607
Passing them on to the next generation so that all these old cars will continue being on the road.

00:37:29.027 --> 00:37:34.847
That's the ultimate goal. And for us, for our children to grow up all around

00:37:34.847 --> 00:37:42.327
this and realize, like, if you take care of the old things, like, they will last.

00:37:42.707 --> 00:37:48.327
You don't have to get a brand new plastic disposable car. Not saying that there's

00:37:48.327 --> 00:37:53.287
something wrong with it, but these cars, they're not the past.

00:37:53.307 --> 00:37:57.987
And being able to be part of it and bring it back to life is just one of the

00:37:57.987 --> 00:38:00.907
cool things that I think we can leave our kids with.

00:38:01.187 --> 00:38:05.307
And another thing she says is, let's give Gas Monkey a run for their money.

00:38:05.907 --> 00:38:08.307
Hey. She wants to be bigger. Oh, yeah.

00:38:09.047 --> 00:38:12.307
Yeah. Well, that's the dream. The dream is to scale.

00:38:13.387 --> 00:38:18.527
You guys are hiring people. you have people in roles and that's how you do it.

00:38:19.207 --> 00:38:25.667
I teach that on a professional level, how to scale in-home service companies.

00:38:26.327 --> 00:38:32.047
And a lot of times what I detect and what I see with a lot of owners is that

00:38:32.047 --> 00:38:33.207
they are in their own way.

00:38:33.787 --> 00:38:40.727
They have to delegate some of the tasks and find people that can handle those tasks.

00:38:40.827 --> 00:38:45.427
And that's what really truly makes the difference in a lot of shops that can

00:38:45.427 --> 00:38:50.287
grow and scale versus ones that can't. It's their ability to hire talent.

00:38:51.187 --> 00:38:54.547
So, you know, good stuff. Some of the issues I'm having, because I've never

00:38:54.547 --> 00:38:56.227
dreamed of having employees.

00:38:56.487 --> 00:39:00.387
Right. So now that I have apprentices that have a little bit of knowledge on

00:39:00.387 --> 00:39:05.067
how to work on vehicles, I'm having to learn, hey, wait, I don't have to do this.

00:39:05.387 --> 00:39:08.287
Let's let them do it. Let me let them learn and we'll work together.

00:39:08.507 --> 00:39:11.647
Yeah. I can work on this. I'm having to learn how to be a boss.

00:39:11.947 --> 00:39:15.367
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. Get a few leadership books, you know,

00:39:15.527 --> 00:39:21.807
and just know that if somebody ever doesn't work out, it's your fault, not theirs.

00:39:25.887 --> 00:39:29.707
I think that's probably spoken from the most leadership advantage possible.

00:39:29.947 --> 00:39:33.307
You know, there's a lot of self-reflection in leadership.

00:39:33.547 --> 00:39:38.487
There's a lot of, you know, it's not really about me. It's about them.

00:39:39.227 --> 00:39:43.587
And to grow a business You really have to be able to get out of your own way

00:39:43.587 --> 00:39:46.927
So nice to hear I want my employees to,

00:39:47.368 --> 00:39:49.728
To make as much money, if not as close, as much money as I make.

00:39:49.868 --> 00:39:54.468
I want them to be successful out of this and make a lifelong career. Right.

00:39:54.908 --> 00:39:57.068
I don't want them to have to worry about feeding their families.

00:39:57.088 --> 00:39:59.768
I don't want them to have to worry about going to find another job. Yeah.

00:40:00.468 --> 00:40:03.488
I want them to be happy because if they're happy, then the business is doing

00:40:03.488 --> 00:40:07.568
good. That's right. If they're happy, your customers are happy. Yes.

00:40:08.328 --> 00:40:12.708
Because they're usually the ones that are dealing with the bulk of the customer.

00:40:13.408 --> 00:40:18.068
Outside of beginning negotiation, pricing, and payment.

00:40:18.468 --> 00:40:22.848
Outside of that, there's this beautiful opportunity to create lifelong relationships.

00:40:23.488 --> 00:40:28.208
And yeah, what a great thing. Awesome, man. Sounds like the legacy is important

00:40:28.208 --> 00:40:31.208
to you both. And it sounds like you're headed in the right direction.

00:40:31.548 --> 00:40:34.888
All right. I got some fun, some fast, quick answers.

00:40:35.228 --> 00:40:40.408
You can both answer these or you don't have to. You can pass or whatever makes you comfortable.

00:40:40.828 --> 00:40:42.788
But let's get into them. You guys ready?

00:40:43.248 --> 00:40:48.968
Yes. Let's do it. All right. What's the worst tool injury that you've ever had? Concussion.

00:40:49.388 --> 00:40:53.568
Yeah. I'm trying to think of which concussion. He has gotten so many concussions. I don't remember.

00:40:54.768 --> 00:40:57.668
That's the problem. I didn't do anything though.

00:40:58.348 --> 00:41:04.428
I didn't do anything. My cousin Dakota that works with me, he is the cause of most of my concussions.

00:41:05.168 --> 00:41:09.968
Anytime we're working together, I have like, hold on, wait, is everything clear of my head? Are we okay?

00:41:10.768 --> 00:41:14.188
Because either the worst one was either it wasn't a tool, but it was vehicle

00:41:14.188 --> 00:41:18.828
related pushing a truck chassis steering column while shaft still attached he

00:41:18.828 --> 00:41:22.228
turns the wheel this comes around, hits me in the head done.

00:41:24.871 --> 00:41:28.311
And then the other one, he knocked a Volkswagen doghouse off of a shelf right

00:41:28.311 --> 00:41:30.311
on top of my head. Did this hit you?

00:41:31.111 --> 00:41:34.591
No, but it took me to the ground. I bet. It's a weird noises.

00:41:36.631 --> 00:41:40.131
Yeah, I'm one of those guys, too. I take a lot of shots to the head for some reason.

00:41:41.131 --> 00:41:44.611
You know, I don't really have an explanation for it. I swear I know how to put

00:41:44.611 --> 00:41:46.371
my hands up. I know how to guard myself.

00:41:46.551 --> 00:41:52.451
It's just when I'm in that moment, I just, I forget that. Pow! Yeah.

00:41:53.691 --> 00:41:56.791
All right, Claudia, how about you? Worst tool injury? I mean,

00:41:56.871 --> 00:41:59.131
I think only the hazard is from my hands.

00:41:59.491 --> 00:42:02.331
That was from meds on. But other than that, I don't.

00:42:02.851 --> 00:42:06.791
She's very cautious. I'm very cautious. She's not a goofy guy mechanic.

00:42:07.211 --> 00:42:12.131
Okay, yeah. Well, I've busted all my fingers up. I've slipped off things,

00:42:12.371 --> 00:42:14.251
slammed my knuckles into the bottom of stuff.

00:42:14.571 --> 00:42:18.351
I got stitches everywhere. Yeah, I'm not that careful.

00:42:19.011 --> 00:42:21.851
Yeah. You'll deal with the pain later. Just get it fixed. Yeah,

00:42:22.031 --> 00:42:23.811
it's good that you are, though. It's good that you are.

00:42:23.931 --> 00:42:27.311
Maybe they weren't injuries to me. I didn't see them as injuries. I was like, oh, okay.

00:42:29.671 --> 00:42:36.531
I'm covered in bruises, but I'm like, eh, okay. Most overrated VW of all time? Super Beetles.

00:42:37.451 --> 00:42:39.171
Super Beetles. Yes. All right.

00:42:40.171 --> 00:42:44.631
Normal Volkswagen people don't really like Super Beetles, but the Super Beetle

00:42:44.631 --> 00:42:47.831
community, they think they're the greatest vehicles on the planet.

00:42:48.591 --> 00:42:49.751
I wish they were never invented.

00:42:51.511 --> 00:42:55.631
They're not fun to work on. You told us how you feel, and that's all right. Right?

00:42:55.871 --> 00:42:59.571
As you see all the beetles on the background, you're like, hmm.

00:42:59.771 --> 00:43:02.671
But there's not a super beetle in there, though. No, wait, there's the yellow super beetle.

00:43:04.351 --> 00:43:08.271
I've never had a super beetle. They've always all been standard. Keep it that way.

00:43:08.551 --> 00:43:13.991
Yeah, and I don't dislike them, but that's the first time. I dislike working on them.

00:43:14.171 --> 00:43:17.831
First time I've heard a super beetle as most overrated. i honestly

00:43:17.831 --> 00:43:23.551
volkswagens are supposed to be cheap fun beginners disposable cars but they're

00:43:23.551 --> 00:43:28.891
not anymore no no full-blown five ten years ago they're dirt cheap now they're

00:43:28.891 --> 00:43:33.211
they cost much as a camaro or a mustang all right so while we're on this ying

00:43:33.211 --> 00:43:36.251
to the yang how about one car that you'd never touch again,

00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:40.660
You can't say Super Beetle. Okay.

00:43:42.060 --> 00:43:45.580
I'm just kidding, man. You can't. Car that'll never touch again.

00:43:46.860 --> 00:43:52.020
It's gonna have to be possibly another Formula V.

00:43:53.520 --> 00:43:56.060
Yes. Well, first of all, you might not find one. I hope not.

00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:59.320
Well, I know they're in Florida. They still have classes for them there.

00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:03.900
But a Formula V is not user-friendly to work on. To work on anything on that

00:44:03.900 --> 00:44:05.500
engine, you have to separate the chassis.

00:44:06.060 --> 00:44:09.540
And it's a nightmare. I don't want to do that again. Okay.

00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:16.080
Claudia, I got one for you. The most badass woman in automotive history.

00:44:16.600 --> 00:44:18.780
Jessie Combs, like badass woman.

00:44:19.300 --> 00:44:24.340
Just, she went through so many injuries. She went through so many things and

00:44:24.340 --> 00:44:27.420
never let her, it never limited her.

00:44:27.700 --> 00:44:33.420
Like she kept going. And I've always said that I want to die doing what I love.

00:44:33.740 --> 00:44:36.580
And she went out like doing what she loves.

00:44:36.580 --> 00:44:39.520
And she's and i know she

00:44:39.520 --> 00:44:42.840
had trailblazers before for me she was

00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.560
my inspiration so and she even broke her

00:44:45.560 --> 00:44:48.560
back doing some off-road event in a jeep i believe

00:44:48.560 --> 00:44:51.360
and she still she healed got back

00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:56.180
to working on cars and building hot rods and she went out in a blaze of glory

00:44:56.180 --> 00:45:01.700
on salt flats breaking records yeah i've seen those old salt flats you know

00:45:01.700 --> 00:45:07.340
speed runs yes yeah i used to like watching them because we have a 33 Ford that

00:45:07.340 --> 00:45:10.440
I'm wanting to build eventually into a salt flat car.

00:45:11.020 --> 00:45:15.720
Oh, cool. Big salt flat disc wheels. Yes. Those are cool.

00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:21.740
What's on the playlist if you have a shop soundtracked?

00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.680
What type of music you guys listening to there? On the mood of the shop,

00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:29.180
honestly, if you're trying to just get everything to flow and just kind of chill

00:45:29.180 --> 00:45:32.100
and be calm, hippie sabotage.

00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:37.060
But if you're trying to get everybody pumped up, I'm an 80s kid and grew up

00:45:37.060 --> 00:45:39.060
listening to all the alternative rocks.

00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:43.720
So Linkin Park, Porn, Limp Bizkit, even though so many people hate Limp Bizkit.

00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:46.680
Hey, man, Fred Durst is cool.

00:45:47.180 --> 00:45:50.360
Yes. Yeah, I like all that. Same as you.

00:45:50.940 --> 00:45:53.380
I'm an 80s kid too. I was born in 77.

00:45:54.120 --> 00:46:00.940
Okay. Yeah, I was right that age all through 80s and 90s, that type of music

00:46:00.940 --> 00:46:02.980
to make a big impact on me.

00:46:03.380 --> 00:46:07.620
Hip-hop was huge in my world too especially oh yeah we still have some of that

00:46:07.620 --> 00:46:12.580
in the shop we even had a hip-hop customer in the shop cool who dj manny fresh.

00:46:13.520 --> 00:46:17.480
Right about now, you are listening to the incredible drum patterns of DJ Manning. What's that?

00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:23.620
Oh, cool. Yeah, Fresh. Subaru Swap and his 58 Porsche replica.

00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:29.580
Oh, sweet, dude. Oh, yeah. We have three other of his vehicles lined up to come

00:46:29.580 --> 00:46:32.180
into the shop soon. I like Manny Fresh.

00:46:32.540 --> 00:46:36.820
He's a great guy to work with, too. Yeah, that's cool, man. He was quite the

00:46:36.820 --> 00:46:39.360
producer all through the cash money era.

00:46:39.820 --> 00:46:44.720
Yes, still is. Yeah, yeah, man. That's so cool. to even hear that name,

00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:46.400
Manny Fresh. That's awesome.

00:46:47.200 --> 00:46:49.320
Well, you have to play some Manny Fresh then.

00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:53.560
It's kind of working on his car. That's what's in my head. If no one else wants

00:46:53.560 --> 00:46:55.620
to listen to it, like fine, it's in my head. I'm listening to it.

00:46:56.980 --> 00:47:01.980
All right. So guys, shout the shop out for me. Tell me how listeners can follow

00:47:01.980 --> 00:47:03.700
you guys. How can they support you?

00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.520
How can they visit NVT, Rod and Custom?

00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.860
So I hired on my friend.

00:47:09.500 --> 00:47:15.060
She's our marketing guru. She's helping me out. We have a website now live.

00:47:17.260 --> 00:47:20.820
So nvtrodandcustom.com. Yep.

00:47:21.220 --> 00:47:27.020
I stayed up really late trying to work on it as well. Well, this morning.

00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:34.080
Also, Facebook, the verified one, because we're still trying to merge pages at nvtrodandcustom.

00:47:34.740 --> 00:47:43.140
TikTok, Dakota, his cousin, makes really amazing videos. is nbtrods, Instagram, nbtrods.

00:47:43.220 --> 00:47:48.620
Like, we're trying to have more exposure for the cars. And yeah,

00:47:48.680 --> 00:47:51.460
if anybody wants to sponsor the shop,

00:47:52.509 --> 00:47:55.869
Add more bays. We need at least three more bays now.

00:47:56.849 --> 00:48:00.869
Sweet, man. I'm happy to hear this. You got customers like Manny Fresh.

00:48:01.509 --> 00:48:05.389
That's so cool. That's so cool. Yeah. I like this.

00:48:05.449 --> 00:48:11.009
My sister is in a business in Denver, in Colorado, and she gets to run into

00:48:11.009 --> 00:48:13.809
some celebrities every now and then as well.

00:48:14.989 --> 00:48:20.209
Every now and then, I'll get a picture of somebody and be like, man, that's cool.

00:48:20.389 --> 00:48:24.389
I'm not a hater at all. I just think it's cool. No, but I just kind of wish

00:48:24.389 --> 00:48:25.909
I was there sometimes, you know.

00:48:26.529 --> 00:48:31.169
Yeah, my favorite celebrity customer so far is the late Jason David Frank, the Green Power Ranger.

00:48:31.829 --> 00:48:34.709
We worked on his 2002 Porsche 911.

00:48:35.449 --> 00:48:39.589
Wow. It was fun working with him and with that car. I bet.

00:48:40.129 --> 00:48:46.789
If somebody listening to this episode is maybe thinking about starting their own shop,

00:48:47.609 --> 00:48:53.569
What would be your 60 seconds of advice that you would give a couple,

00:48:53.889 --> 00:48:57.169
whether it's, you know, a new relationship, an old relationship,

00:48:57.169 --> 00:49:01.189
somebody that's retired or somebody that's young that might be thinking about,

00:49:01.409 --> 00:49:04.029
you know, I'd love to have my own custom shop one day.

00:49:04.349 --> 00:49:07.349
Justin, just like you had that dream one day.

00:49:07.569 --> 00:49:11.329
Give me your 60 seconds of advice to that person. First thing comes to mind

00:49:11.329 --> 00:49:12.489
is what's the Henry Ford saying?

00:49:13.369 --> 00:49:16.069
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

00:49:16.069 --> 00:49:19.729
Like, I tell that to my apprentices because that's what they like to say.

00:49:19.889 --> 00:49:22.449
One of them likes to say, I don't know how to do that.

00:49:23.069 --> 00:49:26.329
Okay, but can you figure it out? Like, if you have the mentality of,

00:49:26.429 --> 00:49:27.349
like, I can figure it out.

00:49:27.509 --> 00:49:31.189
Like, I can do it. I'm going to do it. Then you're going to do it.

00:49:32.289 --> 00:49:34.789
And it's going to be tough. You're going to have to risk it all.

00:49:35.049 --> 00:49:38.789
But if you're good at what you do and you have a passion for it, it'll work out.

00:49:39.729 --> 00:49:42.529
But you're going to have to take some scary risks to do this.

00:49:42.949 --> 00:49:44.729
You're going to have to risk it all and gamble it all.

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But it is well worth the risk I couldn't go back any other way I see no other way of life now,

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Good. I love when that happens too. I love when owners of businesses get a level

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of success around them where they can start to focus on the things that they

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want to do instead of the things that they have to do.

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I feel like, you know, I've even had somebody recently on the podcast that made

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a comment that I thought was true.

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And it was about how, you know, work is just work when it's work.

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When you're working in your passion and all of that, you know,

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it's not. You can't even consider it work. It's just the day.

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But yeah, no, cool, man. Any final thoughts from you guys from the Volkswagen

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community? Oh, my Super Beetles.

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At least not the curved windshield Super Beetles, the 73 or 74 I believe.

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Too difficult to work on the wiring harnesses or nightmares.

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But most people will get rid of them because they say they're too rusty they're

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not too rusty you can buy every panel you need for a volkswagen don't

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scrap it fix it it is fixable

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and parts for volkswagens are very cheap and affordable for

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the most part don't scrap it fix it

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that was my takeaway yes i like that that was

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my takeaway claudia how about you no for me

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it's figure it out try

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and keep trying and don't give up and

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you have to be resourceful what works for other one person is not going to work

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for another and that's okay because everyone brings different different ideas

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different skill set to it but to me is don't give up keep trying keep trying

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trying trying trying and.

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If you can help others along the way, if you can empower others,

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that's only going to, like, come back to you in other ways.

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Like, so, for me, it's empowering other women.

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It's showcasing that, hey, even though we're very few, the few that are there,

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like, have such an impact.

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So, I appreciate a lot of women in the Volkswagen community.

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A lot of my customers are women Volkswagen owners. Yeah. And it's almost close to 50-50.

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So there's a lot of women out there that are sometimes even afraid to work on

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their own stuff. Like she's saying, just try it.

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If you can't fix it, bring it to us. We'll help you out.

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I'm going to agree with you with that woman's statement, Justin,

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because I'd say it's probably 50-50 here as well.

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It's pretty accurate. Lots of women in the Volkswagen community.

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Something cool about what I noticed with you guys is something that I see a

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lot in the trades as well.

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When a woman is an HVAC technician and is running calls and coming to your house,

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there's this level of confidence and trust that is immediately deployed with that person.

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That a regular young, you know, stud technician that's a male won't see that kind of.

00:53:04.269 --> 00:53:08.589
You're going to question him. Yeah. So I see in the trades, it's very similar

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to the Volkswagen community where, you know, women are almost kind of celebrated

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when they're a part of it in trades.

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And I kind of noticed that with the Volkswagen community as well.

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