Budget Street Cred (Season Finale)

Welcome to another episode of mighty car mods proudly backed by just car insurance, not just another episode of mighty car mods, but I'm the mighty ending for the

season

4

finale

. Now, no one knows exactly how to get it, but everyone wants it . In this massive final episode, we're going to conduct a social experiment, buy a car that no one thinks has

street

cred

, and then convert it on an absolute

budget

to see if we can make people think it's awesome despite the car. It sucks well so first step Moog has to go buy a car now I'm out again buddy and I know exactly what I'm going to buy them so I looked their way with our new car and I wouldn't do it.

Tell me what it is, but he said he got an absolute bargain, so yeah, I hope we have something cool we can work on. Moog. I like to buy cars in the dark, which never ends well. I just like the mood. Don't ask questions and just hope the car is magically perfectly fine. This is the guy who bought a Jeep, bought a G, didn't loan it, bought it and drove it. What are we going to do with that? It's a Volkswagen. I know. So many cars have been made for pedestrians, which is why it's the perfect car for our

street

cred

episode.

Did you pay? Did you pay a lot of money? Because you could get a lot of covered parking. Your newspaper. Look, these are usually between four and five. thousand dollars depending on the condition this one here has red Joe until May of next year and it cost $1,000 I know what you're thinking how did you do that but the story gets better Marty these wheels have new tires I already sold them in advance for $200 this car in total so far it's cost us $800 you have airbags power everything works it's been repaired that's working it works totally everything is there everything you need and it's a Volkswagen which means it's incredible, it's very slow and it's terribly ugly but yeah, it's perfect, everything is like the air conditioning is called, the brakes work, it has been serviced recently, it is like it needs cleaning of course, but it is absolutely perfect, do you want to go to the driver's seat yourself?

You're gonna love it man, that's good Wow yeah man that's pretty good, that's not Dr. Bai or anything fancy but it's pretty obvious it's a Volkswagen brand, that's what they do, they drive good , at best, well, you know what it does, you know it has advantages compared to other cars of similar vintage, it feels like solid, yes, planted. just stop, it's cool and comfortable looking, there's air conditioning, there's airbags on both sides, you know, when they dropped me off at my house, I didn't even look at it because I knew it was $1,000 for a perfect car.

It was advertised for fifteen hundred dollars but they really needed to sell it. I'm like a thousand dollars, take it out, yeah, just a few thousand dollars and everything works, everything perfect, yeah, we just have to work on it. There is no reverse, that's the only thing, there is no reverse if there is no pocket, the other foot, one, two, three, four and five, work, you go in that direction, if we want to go like that, we can't park it, no you can get rid of it. screw it hmm we can't do anything did you buy a piece?

Where are you going? No, it's dirty and it smells sweet. This is a brand three Volkswagen Golf and you're probably thinking that it doesn't look like it has much street cred. at all and you would be right with uninspiring performance and conservative styling, it doesn't attract attention at all. We did an anonymous online poll and after getting hundreds of votes it came back with a street cred score of just three point two out of ten. Our mission is to try to transform the car and increase its street cred value so that the modified car community actually thinks it's cool with a total

budget

of $1,500 and they've already spent $800 on the car, we have $700 left for modifications, okay, the first thing we're going to do is get rid of all the paint on the car, but we want to see what method is the best to remove said paint from the Gulf, so we're going to try a few different methods and see what works and see. what doesn't work will get very dirty and ridiculous, removing the paint will be a big job so we have some volunteers from the Mighty Car Mods forum, it starts and runs south and runs fine, does everything it does, everything it doesn't Doesn't it do everything you need a car to do?

What don't you need in a car? Cute pubic hair is one of them, the other is backwards, oh yeah, how often do I count the total time you're on? in your car how much percentage of time to use in reverse less than 1% they are heavy they are usually built like tanks which some people think is a good thing except I think when you are trying to go fast that is not a good thing and the problem with marty's argument is that he was dating an expensive and heavy euro at one time they can look bad with a little work Martin and our goal here is some street cred, that's what we want, what is street cred, who knows that it is indefinable and something liquid that changes and moves in time as culture and people mutate throughout their lives.

I don't know what it is, but our goal is to just get this cheap car for fifteen hundred dollars and actually show up at a meeting. and make people turn around and say, "wow, that looks great, but when you only have fifteen hundred dollars to spend and we've already spent more than half of it on the car, you can't afford to add things to the car." , so what we're doing is removing things, even with a group of us wearing blinders, it's taking a lot of time, so we'll use paint stripper on the hood and see if that's an easier way to get rid of the paint. double use of gloves for safety, paint strip art because of what you do when you're on a first date I was going to avoid a joke like that.

I thought maybe we'd get over that one. okay anyway so your double glove because these things are evil paint strippers the worst that will happen even like your normal gloves that you would use as exam gloves the guy eats it right up and then thanks for a type of paint who earns his living on a pole It seems like Martin is doing nothing, but soon he starts sizzling like bacon. It's definitely an easy way to do it, so we decided to take the car out and do the rest outside. Well, we just been gardening. Inside it sounds pretty bad, although we just realized we have some paint left and it actually seems to be the most effective way to get rid of a lot of paint quickly, especially on these curved parts that would have been really hard to continue. , so we just sanded it a little bit with some very gritty sandpaper so the paint stripper has some channels to sink into and then we removed all the paint, that's the plan.

We're back at the Mighty Car Mods headquarters, aka Marty's mom's driveway, we've now managed to get rid of most of the paper, there's still a little more work to do before we move on to the next month of stage, that's right, I've never done it. a back to bare metal to make it look crazy a repaint yeah while we take it off so we don't have a break we won't paint it we're doing something else man we're doing something special that's never been done in the history of the galactic automotive engineering, but I'll tell you in a second what we're going to do.

First of all, we're just going to finish cleaning up the paint that the stripper didn't eat, so we're going to do that and then we do our crazy design work, this is it, most of the plane is gone and we've gone through the galvanized, so it's time to go to the shops, some shops, not a place where you can buy beer, what we need. Japanese beer, we need German beer and we need Australian beer and look at that Martin, that's what we're painting our car with beetroot, that would be that we would be painting the paint buddy, that would be.

I'll show you what. we're going to do we're going to get Australian beer we're going to get Japanese beer and we're going to get German beer and we're going to paint our car with it German beer we have German beer we have American beer beer we have Australian beer and we have Japanese beer and we're going to use it to paint our car mixed the salt from the supermarket we need that Martin and we need a lot of it the smart old man cooking sauce salt and beer this is how we are going to find our car with rock salt, we think it is like this: do you prefer that to R&B salt?

Oh yeah, I like my rock salt hard, it's sea salt and vegetable

season

ing, look at all the goodness, look at the nutrients, why can I? t I get some beef salt, it's not a good time to be back in the driveway, so in our quest for street cred and to get attention, we need an interesting paint job on the car, so we'll explore a totally different way of coloring a car and we're going to let it rust now, this is a culture that's pretty common in some car scenes right now that came out of the rat rod scene, people are rusting their civic habits, rusting their different cars, but the most important thing is It's a popular thing to do with Volkswagens, but we want to see what kind of countries water produces the best rust, so we're going to put beer in the car, mix it with salt and let it rust, and we will do it in a multicultural style.

We'll use US beer, we'll use proper gdm German beer, we'll use some jd/mba and we'll use some hand brewed BB which is a very brutal beer to mix it with. salt and we'll also compare the rust, but each of these beers is created on a different panel with our own special preparation of liquid that's already been through a human, so Marty, I think we have to start with the driver's side and I. I feel a little German beer because we need to wrap this in the German spirit because that's where the driver is conditional German and imported from Germany, that's what the governor we'll get, man, so I'll take it off.

It may take me a little time Martin to tell us all a story Martin here we go he's going to be an amazing man Crazy rust crazy German The power of the Japanese engine is incredible it's like a fuel attitude Japanese rust Rudy yes this is amazing, can't wait to see What the Japanese rice comes out slightly foamy, it's very foamy now Martin V, baby, yeah, it has to go in the back of the car, doesn't it now, passengers Martin Patton York and Budweiser? Because this is what all the people in the US like in this whole look, yeah. that's true here I have another baby can which is lucky I'm going to do there we go Oh Martin not only that this is the pen this is the panel that we are what this is the panel that we hit it on and we We're done seeing where it says some quality rust, next up, Martin, and it feels wrong to do it.

We have to put salt in the car to eat the paint. Purposely putting salt on something to oxidize it. It just goes against everything. Believe in mine, but throw it in there next week, that'll destroy a car in eight shifts, just try it, it's not a good guy, oh, it's pretty, I'm not going to touch that panel, I'm not going to touch it, I will touch it , this is good. Marty, it's like a whole painting, God, so it's $15 for the beer. You can't believe there are two murders here from a custom dollar so learned, but five minutes ago we finished pouring the beer into this car, it's already starting to run, you can see.

It changes color right in front of your eyes, particularly once we put the salt on it, you can see it on the camera, but it has gone from a very, very silvery color. You can see it starting to tan, particularly in the parts where we applied more paint. there's less paintless galvanizing, less coatings like that, but interestingly, there's one beer in particular that's leading the way and it's on this side, obviously, the human juices by far, probably all the acidic, vegetarian foods that come out of it. , but this is Budweiser. and VB Budweiser and VB and VB are tearing it up, so it's been five days since we stripped the paint off the Gulf and covered it in beer and salt and this is what it looks like now, the cars built up an incredible amount of rust in less than a month. more than seven days, the various beers from around the world have eaten away at the metal and left us with this beautiful brown rust that we don't seem to care about, although we do care, for maximum street cred, so the kids on the internet They told us that on the real street. credibility we need more low stance and more stance so let's get it right we just failed the shoe test hugely so it's time to play a little golf and get it down so we just got this package. 100% German quality coilovers, that's what the box is anyway, now people often talk about how cheap our coilovers are that you can get abroad, like feces and different brands like that, they have nothing to compare with the Germans.

These here, this is a complete set of height. adjustable threaded shock absorbers these were and 37 pounds now one Australian dollar, that's $210 for a set of four adjustable threaded shock absorbers now, on top of that you only have 20pounds to ship them here, they are new from Europe, I mean, I have them, I don't have them. I don't know how they can do that because it's a quarter of the price you pay for some Taiwanese. There is nothing in the box. Oh, I didn't get it right, no, it's all or a lot smaller than I thought, so there's a component if we divide the total price by four, that actual unit is about $40, that's $40 and that's going to throw you a little bit golf to the butt, it will be crazy, the first step is to lift the car, take off the wheels and remove the original suspension, as you can see by my use of multiple grips, I only have an 18 thousand wrench.

I have never encountered 80ml bolts on a Japanese car before, as always when you are doing these be very careful. They don't damage the paint, just sometimes they can slide and cause a lot of damage with the lower strut bolts undone, the top of the strut can be removed and the whole thing can be removed from the car. The original struck top is bolted to the new coil. and tighten the center nut now, when you're doing suspension, a lot of times people have problems with not being able to tighten these nuts, you can't actually grab the shock shaft because you'll ruin it. your rule is the seal, so you have to do it another way.

One thing you can do is go and buy a spark plug socket if you can grow the right size, in our case it's 21 millimeters and it's perfect, and whatever you can. What you need to do is put that over the nut, then run the Allen wrench through it and then with a wrench you can remove the nut that way, the hub screws into the bottom of the coil and everything tightens down. We have some steel wheels for $80 each, but they have a huge offset and we're not sure if they will fit under the guards. The wheels fit, but the guards will need some work and we still need to adjust the suspension.

The rear suspension is even. easier with just a few bolts holding everything together, it's a good idea to put the nuts and washers in the order you took them off so you don't forget how to put it back together, we can't seem to find a way to get the new shocks Unless we separate them, there is no easy way to get rid of them, alpha leader Sam, it's good, yes, the shocks have various adjustments depending on the model you get. Ours are the most basic, adjustable in height and get harder the lower you go. Well, they have collars that you can raise and lower using a C-wrench that comes with them, by rolling the spring seat up, the ride height increases with it for maximum street cred.

You want to make sure it's nearly impossible to drive with our suspension sorted. Time to get some cosmetic modifications, but first we need a test drive which was going fine until this happened, so the sticker barrage is still pretty massive. People put lots and lots of different decals on all the panels of their car, which is probably a bit expensive. and we're trying to do it on a budget, so we have this weird manga comic. I have no idea what it is or what's going on in it, weird people, orbs, robots and stuff, so we're just going to cut the pages.

Take this out and then stick them all over the front panel and it will look crazy. Decoupage is practiced by seniors around the world in nursing homes. It is the art of decorating an object by gluing paper cutouts. It was first seen in the East. Siberian tomb art and then came to China in the 12th century from China to Germany and then to Sydney Australia. Now we're using pages from a Japanese manga comic to add some JDM street cred to our goal - the comic costs 10 dollars and we've only used 10% of the pages, so this panel has literally only cost us a dollar plus the glue.

The car used to be white and this white does not match the rust color which means we are not getting the maximum. Street cred points, so we gotta make it black. We only have a few cans of spray paint so we're going to try repainting with the cheap full repaint. $7.00 50 we're adding a street art inspired design factor. license plate area using a can of Brunswick Green spray paint left over from building the zombie car, we are spraying it thick for extra paint runs. This is the most popular thing to do in Germany right now to get that extra street cred.

When we travel on the Autobahn, the next thing on our list is the roof, which is a way to stop being seen. Some half-full cans of green copper and matte black spray. The Don's have a full effect. I think we just need to make the hood look like it has been stored under a tree for ten years in 24 hours see yes we are painting the hood in the colors of the German flag to show the true Gulf heritage what better than to put On a car covered in rust and rust protection, it is very important. Do not let your car rust more and it is already rusty.

Well, people might think you don't care. Someone told us that you have to take the hood off after painting it, so we did. All the kids are doing it these days, man. I got a sticker torn off, something mate, I'm not really doing it because I want to, although Martin, you have. I'm only doing it because that's what the internet told me to do. Our car has come a long way, but there are still a few things left to figure out, we seriously need some camber for the wheels and more decals are needed for maximum street cred.

Next, we will glue our plastic on the fenders, that's what they are called. I don't know my As for the fenders all I know is there's $30 for four of them shipped from Poland that's really cheap and actually like they were custom made on the bumper on the skirts and they said yes , some heat helps the flares take the right shape and lots of Sikaflex sticks them to the car now you can use double sided tape if you don't want to commit to Sikaflex we will commit to having them there for the rest of the natural life of the car , so this year's guard role is also known as a delinquent. refurbishment tool if you're from the United States, awesome, basically this sticks to the hub of the car and then goes against the edge of the guard and rolls, it's awesome, you have big wheels, you can edge the guards and if you watch episode 2 of the original season, you'll see how not to do it with hammers or if you don't have one of these, but this is much better, I'll show you how to do it, the protective roller sticks to the hub and pushes back the panel if you're like us and don't have paint that ruin, you can go hard now that the wheels can't rub the metal, we can install our plastic flares to get more clearance and then add some negative camber to complete the adjustment, so these coilovers do not come with any camber adjustment, since what they do come with are oval holes in these lower mounts so you can get the bushing out as far as you can, which gives you just a little bit. a little more camber if your cart isn't just for hard parking, you'll probably want to have it done at an alignment shop; otherwise, pull out a buddy or the bottom of the bushing as far as possible and then tighten the bolts we're giving our rear guards. same treatment to get us more clearance then the flares can be stuck on oh man it's going to get in your pants gotta kick you you know so this wouldn't be a crazy custom euro ride without adding some decals on custom euros so the first thing we do What we've done is we've made a country sticker, now you've probably seen them on a lot of cars, they say CH for Switzerland or Deutsch or whatever so we've made our own country sticker MCM, now the other decal that is very popular on Volkswagens and other European cars are Nurburgring stickers, which is a famous track that is in Germany, you would have seen it in all your PlayStation games, but it is actually not that relevant to us, so we've made our own version of the Nurburgring and that's the Royal.

National Park, we scanned this here on Google Maps, it has an umlaut in oh just to show how much we love Germany and that's on the back of the car just to show how amazing and Australian we are with our crazy German car. Ask him what we've done Martin Laser, we've done the civic, we've done the zombie car and now we've done that. No, no, no, I'm out of words like this, just look at it, while this lobby focuses on Japanese philosophy. about the acceptance of imperfection and flawed beauty is a concept used by artists when nature is implicit in the transient nature of their work it is hard to believe that this is the same car we bought just a couple of weeks ago over time the The car's appearance will continue to change and morph depending on the weather, but what we need to do now is take it to people and see if we've really increased its street cred.

Volkswagen takes the car home, but we'll see anyway, so here we go. On the way to Euro Fest we should be there in about 10 minutes and hopefully it will be a very, very crazy day. I hope you like the car. So we're at Euro 2012 and this is Andrew. EuroFest. Fantastic at the festival. What are you talking about? about it's not today it's not today the euro festival it's a JDM yard where all the Hondas gather I thought we were at the euro festival not in the wrong place wrong place oh okay we're at the wrong meeting I'll check and see when will the euro festival be it was last weekend oh really so we are in the wrong place amazing what are we going to see today?

So there are no euros here, there are no euros here today, so there are a lot of high quality Hondas, a lot of B Series, a lot of K Series. they let you bring a euro here you have a Honda engine I guess so, okay, I wasn't kidding , like it was some kind of strange nightmare, there were Hondas everywhere, we managed to attend one of the most important Honda meetings in the country in a Volkswagen, yes, this is uncomfortable, well, at least we are getting attention, that's why it is about. We were directed to a parking spot away from the Honda and away from the people.

Nobody cared about golf. We failed, but then something interesting started happening. We hid from the car so no one would do it. It wasn't ours. More and more people began to watch golf. Soon there were more people around the Gulf than the other cars. Was it possible that little golf had resonated with people? His human qualities. of imperfections it's flawed beauty it's panels painted with urine and beer we decided to pretend we didn't even know who the owner of the car was the elaborate I hate it now it looks sexy yes yes where is your owner yes, yes, see if the photos are of any use ?

We had to be the crowd favorite, unfortunately a rusty gold seems to be the crowd favorite because the crowd the more they rule, they talk and a rusty gulf seems to be their favorite. German cars can rust, but not Japanese ones, in our words, yes, that's right. okay, so yeah, I know, I love it, I hate it in a word, I love it, look, I think if you bought it for five thousand dollars and wheels and you lowered it and actually spent money to rust it out, you probably owe it to me. I have six seven thousand dollars.

Yes, and it's also disappointing that it's getting more attention than your GTR. Yes, it's disappointing. Yes, it's obviously street cred here and he looks angry. This can't be from Honda. It's been getting a lot of attention. This rusty Volkswagen. I want to know if it's ten street cred, what would you give that part seven to seven or what about you, man? You're an egg, yeah, you like this, okay, we're okay, sure, Kurt, the Gulf of ten, what are you? I can seven, seven, friend, how about a point of interest? How much would you give your own car street cred out of ten attention grabbers why don't you see this every day?

So I think the first thing is for people like all of these to escape. with driving a car that looks like this, okay? That's because I'll show you on this side too that we have something that I personally haven't seen before either, it's a kind of manga decoupage. Have you seen anything similar? Incredible opinions. His sticky bomb in the Magwell. It's like a Japanese comic. That's what I said. You can see that they can take the hood and do the different raw layers, but it has taken time. There is one group in ten. This street cred getting part nine is definitely amazing and over the top enough.

I say in terms of attention, probably yes, ten out of ten because today all the photographers will be taking photos of this car. Yes, it had to be you, well, what do you do? Do you mean we have to ask it? Why would you say that? Because you guys are just pushing it. They know a lot of people on the Nurburgring decals. We know someone actually tracked the rural National Park and that's cool. I want that sticker it's cool. so did you do this? This is my caramel candy. This is also this one. Really, but it's very tactile.

You just want to touch it and you definitely want to take a photo of it.Would you believe me if I told you that? It's Marty and I behind the camera, we built that whole car for $1600 with Reggio through May of next year, including purchasing the 600 cars, that's right, does that change your opinion on our street cred score? We started with a street cred score of 3.2 and are now getting scores of 8, 9, and even 10 out of 10, all for a total construction cost of around fifteen hundred dollars and a couple weekends hanging out with friends. in the driveway I'd rather lose. by a mile because I built my own car and then I win by an inch because someone else built it for me.

Your car is your story, so don't let someone else write the book you write.