Comedian Reacts to Our Classic Truck Shop

All right, so this is our shop. So we do everything. We don't sub anything out. If I found a place like this, I'm gonna never start a comedy, dude. So this is a 7.3 Godzilla motor out of a truck? Yeah, so we do upholstery in-house. We do- Bench style? Bench style, yeah. Can I go in this or? Get in it, yeah. Uh-oh. So this is where things kind of begin. Come in here and you breathe deeply. This is where we do the body work. We build chassis for people. 7.3 liter Godzilla motor with a Whipple. Look at the tightness of- The gap there? Yeah, the gap. It's like a freaking toy factory in here. Let me take you around the block in this one, just for fun. Let's do it. Where do you put the diaper? All right, good. Hey, Jason, we've got Abbas with us. He is a comedian from Canada. He's got an event he's doing tonight here in Arizona, and we are privileged to have him stop by our facility. And he's a super geeked out car guy, loves cars. We're gonna go show him the shop. You can join with us and we're gonna go talk and get his impression on restomods and American hot rods and pickup trucks and stuff, so. Yeah, hell yeah. Are you guys paying me now or after? It's, we'll decide. Okay. Later, is that okay? Okay, perfect. Can I get my dollar sign bag, please? We'll give you a quick little tour of this facility. This is our engineering department. Yes, it is. So these guys make. No windows, I like it. No windows. Don't let them see the day. No sunlight for these. This is 3D printed. Yeah. Check it out. Stainless. Really? Yeah. You 3D print metal? Yeah, 3D print metal. Is this new? Have they been doing that? Last few years, yeah. That's crazy. They design a bunch of parts in here and do a bunch of fun. Got the AutoCAD going, huh? Yeah, yeah. This looks like your desk when you were an engineer? I mean. No, man, I just did program management for the most part. So I'd be hovering over the designer. Then I'd go to Chrysler, see if they liked it and be like, we need to add radius here. Manufacturing says they can't produce this, that whole thing, so. He did a little automotive engineering. He's the guy responsible for Dodges having the deaf fuel tanks. No, yeah, I was, hey. Don't quote that. Can we cut that, please? Yeah, please. Woo, here we go. Edit. I feel like Ice Cube, yeah. Or not even Ice Cube, Exhibit, right? Yeah. All right, so this is our shop. So we do everything. We don't sub anything out. You guys got leather people and everything. Yeah, so we do upholstery in-house. We do, we don't kill the cows, but someone else does and then we get the leather. Soon we will be. Yeah. Vertical integration. Yeah, vertical integration. But anyways, so we have all the upholsteries done here and we also sell like kits and stuff to other people, like DIY guys at home. They're like, can I buy a kit? And so we'll ship them out. To upholster their own stuff? No, we'll send it done. Really? Yeah, all done. Oh, just to actually drop them in and mount them. Yeah, we put it in a box and then they just install it. Ah, man. Dude, these are freaking, whoa. So they're all like very modern suspensions and newer engines that you just rebuild the old engine. No, no, those suck. So this is a 7.3 Godzilla motor. All new suspension. Everything we do here, 99.9% of the time has brand new frames, suspension, everything. Yeah. And usually 99% of the time, it's got a brand new like Coyote motor or something like that. Gotcha. It's just the body. That's the only original. Yeah, yeah. We take the skin off of it and that's it. We just want the look, but we don't want the functionality or drivability. Yes, yes, yeah. You want. So this will drive. You want ABS, you want power steering. You want. This will drive like a modern Mustang, like a hot rod truck. Okay, so it will, obviously it's the aerodynamics of what you see. Yeah, we're gonna hold it back. Right? Yeah. So, you know, you battle that, but as far as just like the drivability, the performance, the handling. Yes. It's real stiff. It's real tight. Yeah. Because it is a new car. Mostly, yeah. I bought this truck for two grand and so it's like a shop truck. Just, we're kind of taking our sweet time. Oh yeah? Oh, this is not for a customer. No, not for a customer. This is, you're gonna have a fat fender garage and big decals on the side of it. Yeah, big decals. Well, it used to be in California at the Burbank studios, the grip vehicle once upon a time, but. Just pay a kid to drive around town, plug your business. Look at this. Now, this is where you wanna pull up the promen, right here, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, God. Yeah, get one of those old timey honks and then like rev. Oh, God. They'll paint fat fender on there and then have somebody come and sand it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks as though it were painted on there 40 years ago. This is an old 68 GMC. There we go. And. Oh my God. And then this is what they look like when you get them all. And they are not that anymore. Not that anymore. Oh my God. LT1. Was it just running? We did have it running. Yeah. Yeah, we drove it. And we actually just did a video on it today. Oh my God. So this is not like Canada. You can actually have something sit in the field for decades. Without rusting over? Without rusting over. Now. Let me see what it looks like. So the paint just kind of peels off, but there's very little rust, like through rust. Gotcha, it's just UV damage pretty much. Yep, and so faded the paint down, it kind of weathered it. Little surface rust coming through, but he wanted it to look cool. Original wipers? One might think, but it feels like that way. Yeah? It looks real nice. You do all this stuff, and then you still have the original wiper motor. Yeah. But even the original wiper motor is not good enough for today. I mean, it's just like a solenoid going like, geek, geek, geek, geek, right? Yeah, exactly. It's the sound they're trying to avoid. Oh yeah. They're like, can you lose that? I'll give you a hundred grand for this. Can you get rid of this thing? Okay, and to be honest with you, you're probably. Everything handles all modern. Yeah, you're probably not driving this in the rain. This car? Yeah. Just because of crazy power to the rear? Yeah. Just because it's. But it's got all this traction control, all the electronics. No, no traction control. You can add that stuff. I didn't try the seat. It's worth it. Oh man. I'm on the wrong side. That's just like the airplane seat you rode in, right? Oh man. Yeah. You keep a manual roll down windows, huh? These are a lot of old retired heads. Who's the main customer? Look right there. That's all power windows. Oh, it's just the look. Heated seats, air conditioned. Oh my God. And then, this is actually how you get in and out. It's got backup cameras, forward cameras. Try to keep it original. Man, this is it right here. I would love. Do you have any old Broncos here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's show you. Let's see the old Broncos. Yeah, we'll show you. Let's see the OJ Special. No, not. This is, I like this even more. Yeah. Cabins are bench style. Bench style, yeah. Whoa! This is, y'all sell like a, this is, this is. Perfectly matched. Yep. And so we match it. And so they put their like car care product in here. So when you go to like a car show and you set your bag there, instead of like a. Duffel bag with all your rags and stuff in it, you got to match. These are all going car to show to car show. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're just on the road. They're driving them, but yeah, they're. Also, electronic windows as well. But they, they, they ask you to keep these upon request or you always keep these? So it just depends on the customer. There's no linkage connection to nothing. What if someone really puts some power into that? Is it just breaking the switch? Yeah, that's a switch. So, yep, switch. Oh, it's a switch. Got it. When you go, go, go down, it goes down. You go up, it goes up. Auto down. Wow, man. And you can really off-road this thing, huh? You can, full drive. Yeah. Oh yeah. Clearance is super high. This thing probably sounds amazing. It is amazing. 5.7 liter? 7.3. 7.3, geez Louise. You guys screw fuel economy, right? That's bad. What did this, is this, this is old body design? That's factory. This is for tools? Like a toolbox goes in there? Yeah, yeah, you put your tools in there, stuff. Yeah. You were kind of, if you had this truck, you were the working guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're out on the field. Not anymore. Stuff that wouldn't rattle at all. This thing already tired. Can you imagine having a bunch of screwdrivers in there? I think it would have to be like a toolbox that essentially fits exactly into that. Something in there so it doesn't rattle around. Maybe it's notched in that area so it doesn't even move. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So, I gotta ask, what is that, that suspension, what is that? Like that's a control arm? What is that? Yeah, it's a four link bars back there. Yep. Is that, that seems like it's a long travel. Is that, I've never seen something like that. No, not too much. It's pretty normal. Long travel, probably be another six inches or so, but the struggle with long travel, anything, is then it kind of will float more. It's a little softer. Oh, got it. And so, when you're driving it as a daily, you may not want that. It's got that Impala suspension, the cloud. Let's be honest, this may never see dirt. Yeah, I mean, it won't ever see dirt. And if it does, it's gonna go to car wash right away. Yeah, so, but he wants four wheel drive. He wants, you know, so, you know, and it's gonna be cool. Have you ever delivered a car and the person cried? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did actually, recently. Dude, I could just tell that you give this to somebody and this, they, do you sit down with like, they go, I want these colors, this. It's like a, it's like a man designing. It's like when your wife looks at like a color palette for the home and this, it's like the guy's version of that. It is, they come in and we pull out all the leather, they're picking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you bring it and. Yeah, so instead of building and designing a house, they're designing a truck. Yeah, I'm sorry, people, someone's gonna cry when they get this. They love it and they cry for various reasons. One. Because their dad had it or something. Their dad had it, it's really emotional. Or two, it costs so much money, they. Yeah, big regret, it's like, did your grandfather have this? No, it's just, I'm invested heavily in tech and it's dropping so much. I gotta sell my Bitcoin to pay for it. It is the struggle because it's, everything's so custom and every truck comes to the shop with a new set of problems. Yeah. And so as you work through them. It's a small team, right? 70 people. 70? Mm-hmm. Wow, they all went home, I guess, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, said you were coming and they were worried, so. Yeah, we're outta here. We don't want them making fun of our car. That's that D, yep. Yeah. I'm outta here. So this is where things kinda, like, begin. After they get torn down. Yeah. Then they come back here. Is this another panel you guys are doing? Yeah, another panel. Can I go in this or? Get in it, yep. Uh-oh. It's not F1, you sit off to the side. Ah-oo-ga. This is McLaren F1 style, right? Yeah, yeah. Woo! Oh my God, dude. If I found a place like this, I'm gonna never start a comedy, dude. This is amazing. It's like a frickin' toy factory in here. It is, it's a toy factory. This is some Willy Wonka-ish. You guys go, where are the Oompa Loompas? You see these welders work and it's like magic, the stuff they build. When they're sitting there at the table and you're going, this has gotta be some sort of witchcraft they're doing. But then they produce these parts that fit and they just make it from scratch. It's amazing. Everything is. Yeah, I mean, we're modifying a lot of stuff because the original stuff won't work with what we're doing, whether it's an engine or whatever it is, we're modifying, so. These wheels are just so you can move this thing around. Without having to buy them. But you can't do anything over like 10 miles an hour. No, no, no, they're strictly for just. Like forklift, high weight, pure rubber. What if you did a burnout on one of those for a Goonie Wheels commercial or something? Oh, this is a new one. No, no, no, this is an old Bronco. Yeah, but you took the whole front end off the new ones. No, it was designed into it. So this Bronco was lengthened to have four doors now. Yeah. And widened. Yeah. And then it's been stylized to kind of resemble a new one. But not, it's not a new one. This is, this is like when I pictured Wrestle Mods, this is what I picture happening. This actually has a Roadster Shop RS4 independent front and rear suspension on it. It was designed specifically for this Bronco. So somebody has made a drawing of this piece. Okay, this is what I'm thinking. And then look at the marks they have to make. And then some dude has to sit here and... That's better than the old days. The old days, they would just draw wieners on there. Yeah, exactly. I actually, I had to change the handbook and say, the handbook now says, please do not draw wieners on stuff. Oh yeah? Like, I'm not kidding. I'm not making that up. Oh, actually? Actually, it's a real story. That's hilarious. That's how you know it's all guys working on it, right? We got HR over here. I just come around, there's like wieners everywhere. I'm just like, and in people's cars. I'm like, they're drawing wieners. And I'm just like, stop, stop, stop drawing wieners. Now we got rid of that. Basically, we let some people go and that's how you get rid of it, so. It was one guy. But when they... It was one guy. A wiener tattoo on his arm. His name is actually... Remember? Oh yes. They asked you how many times, brother. What the... You know I'm talking about you. We begged you. I have a video now on YouTube. Yeah, exactly. Getting a lawyer as we speak. There's no proof that it was me that drew those wieners. All right, so this is a... Paint shop. You come in here and you breathe deeply. Yeah, exactly. There's no cancer in here. Hello, hello. So they are... This is where we do the body work. Yeah. Oh, this thing was rusted to... No. It was like barn kept or something. He found it. Yeah. Sent it to us and we're building. But check out, like, this is... Look at the tightness of it. The gap there? Yeah, the gap. Everything on this. They didn't fit like this in 1956. They didn't come out of the Ford factory that way? Wait, so you put... Is this in the door you fabricated yourself? No, this is an original door. Yeah. And then we have been making it perfect. So how do you tighten a gap on existing panels? Weld it. You weld new... So you open up the door and you add a half inch all along? You'll add like a... Maybe you're either grinding, re-welding, or maybe adding like a little tiny bar to it. Yeah. Like a thin bar and weld that on there. You're shaping it. Then shave it. Wow. But we sectioned a little over two inches out of the center here. All the way through this whole thing. We pancaked this. We took a big section out of this hood and pancaked the hood. Oh, just to give it a shape that you want. Oh, wow. And then we contoured and rebuilt the bed. Yeah. So was this door born in this body though? Yeah. This door and this body were born together? Yep. Gaps, obviously more of a coincidence over at 48. Yeah. And all this has been custom fit and design. They're still body working this stuff and getting it cleaned up. Finalizing all the fit. We're going to take this apart next week and go get it a primer. We'll put it together one more time, block it all out. And then it's going to be ready for paint. So how many times apart and together? Probably 20 times before we go to paint. What does this cost a man? What does this cost a man besides his marriage? Yeah, yeah. Like 20 times, you said? It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, 250. I'm pretty good at that. I'm autistic for this stuff. No, from right here? It's not. It's like 600. No, no. To this point, 250. You're right. Oh yeah, right now. You can have it today. This right here would scare me to death. Like where do we even start with this? Look at that whole thing. Where's your, I can tell you guys don't have a dedicated safety person. They'd be like, hey, where's your PPE? This is exposed. I need lockout, tagout. Sharp edge. Yeah, can we lockout, tagout this exposed corner, you guys? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need goggles, people. You're going to get tetanus just looking at that thing. Well, they're trying to fix it all up. Look at all the colors. There's like nine different trucks under there. Yeah. Honestly, this is a truck that we had to supply the guy because the one he dropped off was so rusty. I was just, no. It was garbage. And so I said, well, I got this other one out back. That's way better shape than you got. So he bought this one. So, you know, a couple of things to fix on it but it was 10 times better than what? Than the one that he set up. The one he set. All right, one more little area. Yes. Yeah, we have, we build chassis for people. And so they'll order up a chassis for their build. Yeah. We'll make it for them and ship it to them. So even if we're not like doing a build for them, we'll actually, so this- It's not just complete builds here. No. So if you had grandpa's truck in the garage and you thought, hey, someday I'm going to fill in the blank. Yeah. This might be the start. So they get this. That's the whole drive train. They supplied the engine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They actually sent us this engine and we made sure it fit and everything's good. We supply the chassis. This is for a 1953, 1956 Ford truck. They gave you with the, are you sourced the transmission and put the drive shaft and everything? They supplied this. This is, when it gets to this stuff, we just say, why don't you, we'll help you. Give us what you want. Direct you, you send it. Or they'll be like, I already got it. Yeah. I've had it for years and I want to use it. So then we use it. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say that name out loud. But Abbas someday, that's going to say, Abbas Wahab right there. Yeah. It's going to say. You got his thing. I didn't, I don't want to. I didn't know if it was like, yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to read his name and his address. Abbas Wahab, 1996 Dodge. Here's his phone number too. I want, I want. Dodge 1500 diesel. I think it'll be, yeah, exactly. No, by then it'll be a 2011. They used to, you used to see these on the road everywhere. Oh, here we go. These are old. These are metal ones? Yeah. Yeah, they are. They don't make them like that no more. So you'd be looking at these on a CAD screen and spinning them around and looking at all the specs and everything on them? When I started, so I finished school and from like 23, 24, 25, I was with that company. And when you start that company, they put you on urea ad blue. Cause there's a small tanks. It's like the training wheels. Okay. Of learning blow molding. Cause you're working with manufacturing and everything. So all the guys around me were on the fuel tanks. I was always on the urea. So you just had the little thing like that. And I still managed. I don't always think of gas. Yeah, ad blue. Y'all call it ad blue, right? Because that's what the customers call it. But you know, it's a urea tank. That's why F-150 is one of the best trucks. Cause they have been making them in America for so long. They have such a long list of lessons learned from failure modes. You could never imagine. From the best of the best in the country. So those cars are just engineered to. The quicker you fail, the more you learn, right? Well, but also they probably have a list of customer failures and thinking, Hey, the reason we designed it that way is because we know this is what customers have done. Yeah, it's a lesson learned. Thousands of times. Yes, exactly. They're like, this is going to go out in the field and we're going to see failures you cannot even prepare for right now. We're going to do our best to come up with how it could fail. But you'll see, they'll show us how it could fail. Customer reports, they just filled it up and it's making a funny noise. It's like, you filled it up with canola oil? Why? They call it biodiesel. Yeah, why? Yeah, yeah. But you put it in the ad blue tank. I saw it on TikTok. Well, I just figured it's all connected. I saw it on TikTok. It works together. This is like, this is super wheelbase. This is huge, huh? Yeah, it's a long wheelbase. Yeah, you got a carrier bearing. Is this like a 350 or like a? I don't know. This is long. Yeah, I don't know. I think I'd know, but I don't. I feel like you would. I feel like you do. You just want to play it cool. Like, I don't know. You know exactly what it is. A 1977 Ford F-150 long bed. Oh. And then he's actually getting a... He's getting a Whipple supercharger. So he's going to have... A Whipple supercharger? You don't know what that is? No. Oh. Sorry. How do I say that in... Right here. In Canadian talk. Canadian talk. Explain it to me in igloos, please. I know what a supercharger is. You know what a supercharger is? Yes. It's chain driven off the engine. Whipple's a brand. Whipple's just a brand. Oh, okay. All right. Whipple sounded to me like a freaking like... No, it's not a technology. It's a brand. Got it. So it's their Garrett for this? Yeah. Other than Garrett's a turbo. I know. I'm saying it's supercharged. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's the... There's the bolt. Look at that. So he's adding that. So he'll be 800 horsepower. So check this out. This is a... Long wheelbase. That's the easiest drift you've ever done in your life. This is a 7.3 liter Godzilla motor with a Whipple. Yeah. So you're probably 850, 900 horsepower. In an old pickup truck. There's nothing here less than 500 horsepower, is there? No, no, no, no. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. That one over there with the tiny little motor that we first talked about. Yeah. The school bus length. That's what it looks like. Yeah. So Jason, what truck is this? Will it be as long as like that dual cab up there? No, it'll be just a single cab long wheelbase. So usually it's two reasons. It's the truck that they've had forever. Yeah. That's one of the reasons. And the other reason is they don't know that a long bed is not as valuable as a short bed. They got a good deal on it. And then they... Then reality hits. Reality hits like, ah, I should have done a short bed. That happens. Or it was grandpa's truck. Or it was grandpa's truck or whatever. There's a lot of reasons. A lot of reasons. I was conceived and born in this truck. Yes, exactly. What? Fix it. That's bad. It's pretty fun. So the goal for them is to be able to say, take my sheet metal, put it on here, steel it down. Yep. And then they can take it from there. We'll take it from there. So this will be, see the springs and the shocks. So this will be one height. They can adjust it to a certain height. That one's got airbags under it. Got it. So then four wheel drive, airbags. Yeah. So we predominantly do- No coilovers? That's what this one has, is coilovers. But static height. So you can adjust them a little bit. Yeah. But then they're going to be there. That one, you're going to be able to adjust with the remote in the cab. Got it, yeah. Like that. Yeah, you have about, from zero to full up, you'll have about eight inches. Zero to hero. And on the fly, too. Like you're driving down the road, you can do it. That's a clip. Zero to hero. We got a clip. You'll have about eight inches. God bless you. Hey, but let me take you around the block in this one, just for fun. Let's do it. Okay, jump in. I think he's trying to make, he's going to be trying to make a point with this. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Let's go! Go down at the shift, man, you got to be brave. Played your instruments. Yeah. It's got cruise control. We did get cruise control in it. That's awesome. And that's by request? Yep. He plans to drive it, like the California. You could daily this thing, right? Hell yeah. Yep. Yep, you can daily it. That's just like a bed cover, because it's super high. Yeah, because the suspension, because it's lowered, the suspension came up, and then he, and then we got like, toolbox, you know how you can pull the toolbox out? Yep. So he's got that in there. I wonder if it's your, show me earlier, or what? This is not, this is just regular naturally aspirated, no supercharger, V8, yep. It's a LT1, like would be, like in the new Camaro. Yeah, okay, so, I don't know what liter this, a six liter, or like a five liter? A six, 6.2 liter. Give him a show. Yeah. Hey Preston, don't mind the burnout, please, okay? I hope it's okay for you. You got to give him a show. Where do you put the diaper? So where do you go next? You Phoenix, then what? To Ontario for a couple weeks. I'm in Chicago in March, March 6th. Where do people find, like if somebody's watching this, like I want to go watch. Oh, just check out my stuff. Yeah, where do they go? AbbasWahab.com. A-B-B-A-S-W-A-H-A-B. First, just check out my Instagram, see if you even like my stuff, and then if you do, go to my website, same name, or there's a link in my bio on Instagram, or TikTok, or YouTube, and all my tour dates are on there. Yeah, awesome. Go check him out, he's super funny. I've watched all of his automotive stuff, and hey, thanks for coming by. Hey, thanks for having me. This has been awesome. I appreciate it. Fat Fender Garage. Great meeting you. Very nice to meet you. This has been a blast. I know you got to get to your event and- Hey, prep. Right? Mind games, green room, prep for it. Yeah, I got to get in there. If we can get one of these out to drift a little bit, that'd be pretty fun. Nah, I don't want to do one of these. We actually built a drift truck. Yeah? It's gone now. And the guy took it home last week. Totaled it? Last week. No, no, he's beating the hell out of it. This is him. He's in the zone, huh? He's locked in. He's in the zone. Got that poor woman with him, too. She's just holding on. Congratulations on all the success you're having, too. Hey, man. Thank you all for bringing me out here. Showing me this operation. This is bad. Thanks for stopping by. We appreciate it. All right, like, subscribe. Yeah, exactly. All right? I'm supposed to say it, aren't I? You have to say it, yeah. All right, I had to say it. There's someone just out there, and their cousin. Yeah, I guess so. Wait, you say it for me. Like and subscribe, or else I don't know what they're gonna do. They're not gonna give you one of these $10,000 million trucks. All right. Peace, later. Peace.