MY GARAGE UPDATE! New Cars and What's GOING-STAYING?

What's going? What's staying? And what's with the cars here at the SHME Museum that you haven't seen before, like the Bussink Speed Legend and the Tesla Model 3 Performance? We've got a lot to run through. In fact, at the moment, there are some of the SHME-mobiles in the United States, there are cars all over the place, plenty that are not here right at the moment, but it's also looking quite full. So what's the future going to look like with lots of new things on the horizon, some Ferraris that have been announced, something coming very, very, very, very, very soon, perhaps even the next upload that you don't know about yet, and plenty more. There are a few things here at the SHME Museum itself I'd like to tell you about, but having been on the road a lot recently, I think we need an update. I think we need to run through the collection, run through the cars, figure out what's what. Hi guys, I'm SHME, hello, and welcome back to the channel, where today we need to work out what's happening next. It is hard to believe that I got the keys to this place, to the SHME Museum, in its original state, remember, completely different from what you see now, almost exactly to the day three years ago. That time has flown by, and of course, originally, we had our gazebos over at the back there, that's where we were working from before we did all of these building works, to make the space, to have all of the colour, to do the floor, to have the lifts in, and we recently had a bit of swap around. So some of the cars, particularly the Ferraris that were on this side, are now over on this side, and maybe due to a small technical oversight, that's been a touch more complicated to work out than it probably should have been, but I'll explain that a little bit later on. But of course, with I think about four or five of my collection currently absent, and obviously a fairly full garage, we need to work out a little bit more of what the future is going to look like. Of course, from a person point of view, we now have our amazing office space, and I've actually got some new projects and exciting things in the background that I want to reveal all about in the not very distant future, and I think you're going to understand quite a few of the things that have been going on. Something really exciting, the team has grown a lot, but today I want to talk about what are we going to say farewell to, which of the cars are going to be leaving. It's been three years here, some of course have been present throughout the entire time that we've had this museum, throughout the entire time that this has been growing, but some that have come, some that will go, some changes are always going to be afoot. The first of the cars that's kind of popped up out of nowhere, the Bussink GT Speed Legend. Now, if you're not familiar with these, let me explain a little bit. I drove one for the first time in Abu Dhabi a year and a half ago, after the Gumball 3000 in the Middle East, and actually drove one very recently at the Hockenheimring during the Dürr Group Day, where I actually drove one of the GTR versions for the parade lap. Now, there are eight of them in total, three of the GTRs, this is the only right-hand drive one, and the idea was to go and take it for a drive, make a video, enjoy the open barchetta style experience in the car that basically does away with the roof and has in its place a speed bow, which is kind of like a halo on a Formula One car, but there's been a technical hitch. The technical hitch is that this car isn't something I can insure under my regular car insurance policy, but nor can the policy that covers this car add me to it, and it's something I often don't really talk about, but insurance from one country to another is incredibly complicated, and here in the United Kingdom especially so, because in most cases you need to insure the specific person to drive the specific car, and of course all the usual criteria and things. So at this moment in time, I'm unable to take this for a drive. Maybe we can sort that out and at some point I can take it for a drive, if you see me driving it at some point you'll know we managed, but right now it's kind of just got to sit there looking pretty in temporary storage, we could say. It's been out at the Chelsley-Walsh event with Gumball 3000. I don't know if it's going to be on the rally later in the year, but unfortunately right now it's just kind of looking pretty parked up here. We can move it around, but taking it out on the road is a bit of a no-go. Talking events, next up is to hit the road with the Zenvo to Supercar Madness. I'm going to be heading to Circuit Zolder in Belgium on Saturday the 6th of July. The event is Saturday and Sunday, there are going to be tons of things going on. Supercars, hypercars, action out on track, classic cars, loads in the paddocks, you name it, and having been at the Brussels Auto Show with the Ford GT and at Supercar Madness last year, I can't wait to get out there with the TSRS. You'll be able to come and take a closer look at this, get up close with it and take a look around, and there's going to be so much more to see as well, so I'll pop the link down below. I'm going to be there on Saturday the 6th of July and I can't wait to see you guys with the Zenvo out in Belgium. The next car that you might be wondering about, why is it here at the Shemuseum, is the Tesla Model 3 Performance. Now this car is from Tesla, they've lent it to me to take out, get a little feel behind the wheel. I've not actually driven it yet at this point, but I am intrigued because it's been a while since I drove a Tesla. It's actually probably been longer than even I've had the keys to this place, that's quite terrifying, and of course back then I didn't have my own fast charger like we do with the Ceatec Chargestorm Connected 2, which by the way we've actually just recently reinstalled. So after doing the full Dura furniture workshop corner, we obviously had had to take it down, and little bone to pick with the original installer because the cable that ran from here to the circuit board was nowhere nearly strong enough for the amount of that this thing can draw. But luckily we didn't have any issues, we've now done it all correctly, even managed to find some schmee cerulean blue electric charging cables, which are obviously wrapped around the wheel that we did at whoops. It's all looking beautiful, there is actually a new model coming soon, maybe we'll upgrade it, but obviously as you can see we are plugged in, the Tesla is charging, and hopefully at some point I can give some more feedback, because I know if you're a petrol head, electric cars, oh don't go near them, horrible horrible, but in reality for many different environments, whether it's commuting, whether it's driving to cities, whether it's just short easygoing journeys, there are major benefits, and having experienced the pros and the cons of the regular car charging infrastructure, I guess Tesla superchargers are always the big topic of conversation, so maybe we'll have a run out with this soon to get a little bit more of a feel for what it's actually like living with something like that now in 2024. Moving to the cars that are here let's say temporarily, and the cars that are off-site, although I quickly want to mention that the Focus RS has just gone through 10,000 miles. Now I know for a Mark 3 RS 10,000 miles on its own is not a lot, but out of the 50 heritage editions I can't believe more than maybe two, perhaps three, have probably done 10,000 miles, so there's something kind of cool about that. Of course we've had it for six years, it's very much daily driver duties, so the Tesla is of course here temporarily, a couple of weeks, the TVR from DUB Customs, the T350 that's been here for, I'm going to say over two years, is very soon to be heading back to DUB's base, they've got a new building that they've just put together that's going to be stored at their location in the not too distant future. Coming past this lot though, the car that's tucked away and kind of hidden behind the Puro Sangue right, is my friend Richard from Challenge the Roads Lamborghini Murcielago SV. Now this has very much been in hibernation, it's been here to just admire, to enjoy, my first ever video was with one of these in this colour, but living on the Kuberth tyre cushions, just taking it easy basically, that might hang around for a bit longer, we will take it out for a drive at some point soon, and believe me I can't wait to get behind the wheel. Then over on this side the only temporary edition is of course the Bossink GT Speed Legend, which I'm not entirely sure, maybe it's a couple of weeks, maybe it's a bit longer, so there are four cars here that aren't mine, so if I wanted to clear some space we could open up four spots, but there are five current cars absent, then there's what's coming in the next upload, and then there's a Ferrari that's about to arrive as well, so we could clear out four but we would be adding seven, and this is of course maths that isn't mathing, but of the cars that aren't here, the Ford GT and the Mustang Dark Horse are out in Colorado, and I'm aware from our road trip in Texas heading north up to Hoovy's Garage, we didn't really finish everything, we didn't really finish much of what's going on with the cars, so we're about to head back out to bring you more updates with those, plenty more going on, lots of cool collections and things to go and see, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime of course, we came back over here for the Hockenheimring and for Mille Miglia with the SLS Black Series. Now post-Mille, the SLS needs a few things looked over, so it's currently at Topaz Detailing getting a bit more PPF refreshed at the front of it, then after that it's going to be going over to Avant Garde where Steve, who did all of the mechanical work on it before, is going to be giving it a full check over, service, maintenance run basically, because it needs a good look over. It's had a hard outing let's say, then tucked over here the fourth car, or at least what we have of it here I should say, is my 914, the Porsche that's up at Yorkshire Car Restoration, where we've kind of kept the interior trim parts, you could say where the car might live in future, these need to be re-trimmed, but obviously the car was completely banana'd, bent and twisted in every direction, the guys have been putting it on the jig, straightening it out, that's taken the last couple of months, we will have an update again with it soon. The fifth car that's missing right now, I've actually missed another one, the fifth car that's missing right now is the MSRT Transit Custom, the pink van, exciting things coming for the future, you might know there's a new generation of Transit, a new generation of MSRT Transit Custom, you could probably put two and two together, we shall get to that in the near future as well, and there is another team car that's about to arrive also, that isn't here right at the second, that I want to tell you about as well, so yeah, simple maths, it's actually four more cars we need to work out how to squeeze in here, and maybe, maybe something's gonna have to move on to make some space. Up here it is all change, there are a lot of projects happening at the moment, a lot of very exciting things, but a lot of things that mean we need more desk space, more people around, lots of things going on, so as you can see the first room that was the media office has become a temporary desk station because we're kind of going to swap that to here, the main office, and we're going to swap the main office to the room at the end, which has been the collectibles room with all of my swatches on display, so I haven't yet come up with the plan for what I'm going to do with all of this, we'll figure that out, but there is room in here to have the desks, we've done the kind of layouts and worked out the plan for that, but what that means is that everything is kind of shuffling, and there's furniture everywhere, there's all sorts of temporary setups, and there's a lot that I'm going to need to tell you guys very soon about how we're going to do it all, but this is going to become more of a, almost in a strange way, a kind of traditional office, a typical office, the kind of office you expect, but obviously an office with a very cool view, which if you're doing anything to do with cars is always really quite exciting, in fact it's still, you know what, a very, very much a case of being a pinch moment every time looking out here, especially as the garage is quite full at the moment, just like seeing all of the cars and looking around and being like, how, this is ridiculous, it's absolutely ridiculous, really, really cool environment to be motivated, to work hard, and to push on with different things, like I say, that I can share with you very soon. It goes without saying that it's really quite convenient having the kitchen and the bathrooms up and running, that was basically the last big building my dream garage update, and that's kind of changed things a lot. We had facilities outside, but to have them all here, game changer. When it comes to the halo bay, you might remember if we wind back, one of the ideas with this space was that it would effectively be home to the newest car to join the collection, or a temporary visitor. The downside of that is when you're upstairs in the offices, you obviously can't see it. Now we did consider putting in some kind of glass floor, but what you don't think about is that the floor of the mezzanine is actually kind of chunky, and not the easiest given the layouts and stuff like that anyway, so what's ended up happening is that the F1 show car basically lives here, which has a double benefit, because number one, if we're using the projectors up here to project onto the ESG switchable glass, which gives you this amazing view, like a 200 inch screen, it's pretty cool to watch F1 over the top of the F1 car, but also when you have a taller car here, it obviously comes up a little bit more and slightly impedes on the bottom of the projector, so it's kind of a double win, and it works quite nicely having it done that way, so that's basically living there, which I think just looks super cool anyway. Things like the table football and other stuff all around has kind of found its home. In the lounge, there's one thing that we are still kind of work in progress with, which is to go between the Valencia home theater seating, a coffee table of sorts, and I did get a coffee table glass, which means you can probably tell I've got an idea, and something's in the works. Something very engine themed, I wonder if you can guess what engine block I might go for to make a coffee table here at this museum, what it could be based on, but generally just the books and memorabilia and stuff on display has been accumulating and growing and just expanding, and even like random things, without showing you in too much detail, in here are actually the x-rays that I had when I cracked three vertebrae about 15 years ago, which for some reason I still have, I need to find a home for, because in a weird way that's kind of cool, although I wouldn't recommend it. Don't break your back if you don't need to, it's not a good thing to do. So yes, we've kind of settled in really, haven't we? Things are now finding their home, finding their ways, doing what you want, what you like, and obviously it's summer, it's not boiling hot, we're in the United Kingdom, but having the AC that SB Air Conditioning installed has been a game changer as well to the office space and the livability of using this museum. Let's talk about the existing cars. Of the ones that are away, the Ford GT, obviously never going anywhere. Dark Horse, I'm not going to keep it forever, but it's certainly got quite a few more legs to stretch in it. SLS Black Series, again another keeper. The MSRT Transit, well there's going to be a new one at some point, so we'll obviously get to that. The 914, don't know what the long-term plan is, we need to get up and running and enjoy it at some classic car events first. Then of the cars that are here, 675LT. Hard to believe this, by the way, next week needs to go for a service. Eight years old. How is that an eight-year-old car? Totally crazy. GT Black Series, we've still got a whole lot more miles to do with this. 32, 33,000 and counting at the moment. Again, actually needs another service. GT500, I'm a bit unsure about the GT500. We do need to talk Mustang GTD at some point, which obviously shares some things with this, but this is a car that has so many personal memories, and even if I don't drive it all that much, I mean I literally just had it serviced after 200 and something miles since the service a year ago. It still feels special. We drove Gumball with it in the US, we drove Wearschmied USA across the country, coast to coast, it's done so much else. The two Astons, similar story, very personal cars. Those are the two actually that need a drive. Both of those have been sitting parked for just over two months and they need a run. The 1M, we've got more modifications planned with the 1M. The Clio is also kind of just, it sits there. It's got an expired MOT, I never drive it, doesn't do anything, so it just sits up top. Clio V6, I love, but again, what are we going to do with it next? I don't know, some kind of tour with all of these. And the Amira. The Amira is the one I don't know how to explain because I do actually really enjoy driving this, but my commute, if you can call it a commute, is literally a handful of miles, so even if I commuted every single day to and from in one car in the whole year, and I don't drive every day because I'm traveling a lot, it would do less than 2,000 miles, so my daily isn't really a daily, it doesn't kind of work like that. On the Ferrari side then, the Puro Sangue is obviously almost brand new, the 296 is still almost brand new, that's got about 4,000 miles, that's coming up to 2,000 miles. SF90 is going to stick around until at least the XX is here because having the two together is going to be really cool, just to drive them basically back to back. On which topic, let me explain the, I'm going to call it problem, and why they never lived on this side of the garage. So these are hybrids, right? They need to be plugged into the Ferrari specific chargers, so you have to use the car, the one that comes with it, it's the only option for it because it can't read anything else. The problem with that is that I thought you'd plug that into the wall and then you would plug an extension onto this, the same cables that you use for charging an EV, but the cars don't see it, the cars never see it, so I had to figure out how to firstly get these plug sockets wired up because the plugs along this wall have only recently been installed and weren't powered until very recently, and I didn't want to daisy chain the daylights out of these, so I had to get a 13 amp single one gang extension to make sure that's kind of safe and sound to do. Zenvo, obviously this thing is now two years old, I cannot believe I've owned this for two years already. I don't necessarily think it's going to be forever from a financial point of view, it's a massive, massive, massive commitment, but certainly still enjoying it and I've actually got some pretty cool plans with it. I'm just looking at the handprints on the roof over the coming months, so obviously taking out Supercar Madness and then a big tour with it later in the year, Supercar Owners Circle, and you know how much fun that is. Unfortunately it does clash with a certain big rally that I like to do every other year, but we're in the off year so that's kind of okay, so I'm not going to be on Gumball 3000, I'm going to be taking that to Supercar Owners Circle. Focus RS, obviously the daily. I don't know if it's forever forever, but we're six years in, love it. I love the fact that it's obscure, unknown, people don't really know what it's all about, and that kind of gives an extra fun because if somebody does recognize it, they come up to it and they're like, no way, that is a heritage that someone's driving, because as I think I said recently, of all of those, it's like nine of them that are still registered on the road of the 50 cars, which is absurd, like nobody uses them, they're either stored on zero miles or they've left the country because there were only 50 of them, they were all here in the United Kingdom, but I believe that cars are for driving, as you know, that's what we do, and we'll have a full update again at the end of the year with all of the mileages of every single car, but it kind of leads us back to the question of what's staying, well that's kind of easy, lots of them, what's going, what is going to go, is it going to be just like plucking something out of a hat, is it going to be just kind of the cars that are a little bit older, I don't really know, because the future involves a Roma Spyder, a car that we're about to get, a car that you don't know about as the team car yet, a new van, a SF90 XX, and I can think of at least two, maybe three, four more, yeah, it's a strange problem to have, but there'll definitely be some swapping around that needs to be done here. When we talk about space here, right, we've got the halo space and we've got kind of one space next to the stairs, then we've got the seven lifts, the Bempack Autostackers, so 14 on the lifts, two in those areas, along this side we kind of have the five, I'm going to say like spanned out beautified spots, and the one behind, so another six, and then the two daily bays, so it's basically 24 spaces in total, but what we've been playing a little bit with recently is that at the back of the garage here you can kind of stagger one car diagonally, and then at this end you can basically do the same effectively here, and it actually doesn't take away anything, so you can fit 26 cars in here comfortably with only having to move one to get another one out, like the cars that are on the top of the lifts, so 26 spaces, and even if we add everything that I've mentioned so far in and take away everything that's going to not be here, there's a good amount of room, there's still a good amount of room for the future, so maybe we should see some other friends hypercars visiting, I think that would be kind of fun, I think that would be some nice additions and good things to add in the meantime. When it comes to this corner, this is the corner that I'm still trying to work out what the future will look like, because obviously there are different ideas, we could even enclose this and make it like a room, we could even make it a mezzanine, remember originally I couldn't put the mezzanine here because of the height to the rafters, so we used that as the storage space, but obviously this is the area that at the moment is kind of for chill out, the stock cars, all of the lego, the arcade machines, we've got the seating area, but I don't entirely know what the future is going to become. Now, when I said there was a little bit of an oversight with the charging of the Ferraris, there is actually a much better solution to that, which would of course be to hard wire something and effectively have a charging block back here, which could then be used for all of the Seatech chargers and everything of the cars on this side, so that's something to toy with, but then if I want to change this layout in the future and if I've got to put something on the floor, I'm a little bit more committed to it, so that's something I'm still trying to work out for this area of the garage, but obviously this is really just, I want to say kind of refinements at this stage because everything's so much how I ever imagined it, you know, the view from here looking around, it's so ridiculous, but a complete dream and you know exactly what I had been thinking when all of this started originally, so here we are now with this just absolutely epic display, layout, environment, space, still a few more boxes and things to tidy up and we've actually still got quite a bit of stuff in the storage room to tidy up as well, but we're going to keep that off camera because it's looking pretty messy right now, but in any case it's cool to have like more of a plan of where it's all going or more of a like settled in feeling for where it's all gone up to this point when we've been building everything here at the shmuseum. One thing that I don't think I've shown you yet at all is what's in these, so I'm going to get these boxes out and come and bring them over, probably being a little precarious with this, I showed you the top box but I never showed you on a video what's recently arrived from ferrari and it's one of the things that ferrari do really well with customers and just giving you a feeling of being involved in the brand is giving you lots of goodies and gifts and things throughout the journey, so these connect to the sf90 xx, just to show you what's in here given we have had a quick look at this before, this is the wave form of the sf90 xx that they gave us at the original customer viewing, so they presented us with those and remember that's before you've actually seen the actual car so kind of cool to have that, they've then recently sent out this follow-up package which is quite cool, I have the xx stradale coming soon and inside here, even the packaging is cool right, look at that, is a particularly lovely metal sculpture of the xx with the branding on the underside and what I like about this is because you have to remember that means they thought about this before it was public, is that this actually fits in there as an ornament to keep on display and I just love that attention to detail, I mean these are little trinkets right, these are small things that don't have necessarily huge value as an item but they certainly have huge value in terms of how you feel about the car, about the brand, about the products and the excitement for what's due and that's probably only, I think it should be later this year, I don't have an exact delivery time frame but I think maybe if we're talking October-November that's not going to be too far off, so yeah that's really quite exciting. In terms of the original questions, what's staying and what's going, well the what's staying is much easier to answer right, obviously the temporary cars will all swap around and whatnot, what's going to go? I don't really know, I feel like it would only be logical that something goes and with a lot of other things happening as well, like I said a lot of things that need some investment right now, it wouldn't be the worst idea to offload a car or two, maybe it would be quite fun to like auction a car off, something like that, these kind of things to toy with and to play with but still each and every day coming in here is like a dream, it's an absolutely crazy place to see all of the cars and I really quite like as well right now having the three Ferraris in a line there because that's like childhood dream stuff, I mean obviously the Zembo, the Ford GT, all of these things are absolutely like straight out of the dreams but I don't know, there's something about having a little collection of Ferraris that kind of gets me excited at the moment, I enjoy what they do and I think the team at Marinello are creating some amazing cars, do some very exciting stuff and I've got some very crazy specs for future cars that I'm going to need to share with you at some point soon as well, especially the SF90XX and I think when you see that there's going to be a moment of really? But we'll see what you think when the time comes, for the time being I guess that's been a bit of a garage update, a bit of an update of what's going on here, obviously lots of things in the works for the near future, heading down to Supercar Madness with the Zembo so make sure to get over there if you're in Belgium or nearby, come down to Circuit Zolder on Saturday the 6th of July, we've got a very cool new edition coming up next, a very cool new edition so I'm looking forward to sharing that with you and then of course back to the United States, more from Colorado, we're talking Shelby American, Pike's Peak, the Mustang with the Ford GT and plenty more also, but for today I think that is all, thank you very much for watching guys, I hope you've enjoyed this kind of informal update on what's going on at the Shemuseum, what's going on with the Shemimobiles and what's happening next with everything Shemime 150, that's it for now though, thank you very much for watching and I will see you again very soon, cheers!