CHASING PERFECTION - How An Abandoned Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 Became My Dream Car

If you ask most people what their perfect car is, they will probably answer with the fastest and most desirable exotic car they can imagine, but if you ask me, all those people completely missed the point, don't get me wrong, I'm a great I'm a fan of fast and attractive cars, but I think the only way you can truly call a car perfect is through im

perfection

. It's those experiences, both good and bad, that take you to the right place at the right time or the car can really show you what it's like. I can only describe how hard it was to try this idea.

I decided to find and restore my

dream

car, a 1999 Mitsubishi

3000gt

VR, which I found basically

abandoned

in a garage for almost two years, but that didn't matter because I knew that with a little effort, I think we will get it to Get it running like new again and with the help of my best friend, that's exactly what we did and our first ride would be the Dustball Rally, an almost 3,000 mile epic ride of a lifetime, what were we going for? Thinking I slept on the hardest HIDA bed I've ever had with a fireplace going, I sat on my face all night and it was the best night's sleep I've ever had.

I got my wake up call, it was the recycling that threw away the glass in the morning. and it was amazing because I didn't have to listen to my phone ringing the doorbell like it was perfect. I'm ready and we're golden, okay, it's the first day of the dust ball, we're already underway and if you guys are. New to the whole experience of being Jarrod, this is now kind of an annual thing we started last year, we took Jarrett's F and the Dust Bowl rally is basically a big world scavenger hunt to look at the best roads in the country , the best unknown roads to drive and What we are doing now is looking for these things called tricks.

Last year we were the stunt champions, so the winner of the championship game, the ik rally trophy, is car number 90 92. Loras, you basically mix up your trivia about the surroundings and what. that we see on our trip and we have to decipher codes, we have to answer questions and it's really a lot of fun and we have to keep our eyes open and we can see a lot of the local history and that kind of thing, so one of the first one is actually a farcical trick which says we are not in Georgia but you are still welcome here, how do you pronounce the total of the village visited for the first time and when did this happen?

I don't know what that means, so we're going to have to be okay, so while some of the tricks were easy to get, they weren't that easy to get, so we drove around for quite a while until we stumbled upon our answer, no. without first having some problems with the car, fortunately it was not our car. so we get to the first trick, the answer is actually back there, but I don't want to give too much away, one of the other dust collectors, the 996 turbo, has some kind of leak that's leaked all over the floor and now Jared and I Let's look underneath and see what's wrong with it because this is what the dust ball is all about.

You see everyone is here and everyone is trying to help and we need to check it out together and we'll see if I can diagnose this Porsche before I have to get a tow truck or something so let's look underneath it's very very very wet so I see where it comes from. I think it's probably the clutch, the clutch hydraulic line would be gone. plastic or it would probably be German we have a light touching someone has a flashlight not a lighter no no definitely not a lighter okay the lighter may be appropriate - yes I think we are going to come from top to bottom is there any access? panel or something, I thought this was German

perfection

, which happened, but once you exhausted all the problems, after letting our friend solve his German perfection, the road

became

good, really good, so we got to a point difficult enough to go where.

The roads are just amazing, there are some bumps on the road but if you look ahead it's just amazing and what really surprises me is how well this car handles. I mean, it's been through a lot, the brakes make little noise for this car. That's rubbish, he teases me a lot, but seriously, this came. I really missed it that the star did this right after not racing for basically five years. We build it. What a day, yes, a day and a half, they pay me. medium and now it's doing this the oil pressure is good the radiator temperature is good we have good alcohol pressure it's making good power it sounds good that blah I felt I didn't think I'd like it but it's awesome and the handling is not bad It's really not wrong or something that is 20 years old is not the most reliable, is not known for its reliability and weighs around 3,800 pounds plus 2 larger gentlemen plus some supplies, we are probably pushing the scale that is at 4500 pounds somewhere.

Out there, but this car doesn't have any problems and the fact that right now we have confirmation that some of the other rally attendees have had some problems, they've had some breakdowns and they were much newer cars that we're talking about . Three thousand dollar supercars and us with our basically 20 year old Mitsubishi that was

abandoned

, there was no problem other than that tire problem before, so we had to stop and take a look at this amazing view, this is a hanging canal here in Colorado and it's just spectacular now the camera just makes everything flat but the view here is just spectacular the next day it was Jerry's turn to drive but I think he took a wrong turn somewhere because we went from Colorado to Switzerland after almost 400 miles of secondary roads. driving and me screaming Jared, don't break my car, the rally organizers had a little surprise for us, oh, I said little, I meant huge guys, we are on sacred ground, this is the Bonneville Salt Flats, this is where they have been made records,

dream

s have been made. manufactured and the cars have been broken, but my car is not broken and I am very happy because this car has not missed a beat, it has not had any mechanical problems, it has not even had a leak and it has simply taken everything I want to say .

You can see the abuse we've given it and I'm going to be a little clean. In fact, all of this comes off right away because it's all ceramic coated, so just one wash and it will look like new. This car has surprised me so much that it is a Perfect, perfect rally car, there are some things that need attention, definitely, axles and things like that, but this car is what I fell in love with and it is just great, it's the beginning of the third day . I am the driver and the wall, the car is actually the car. very good, but cosmetically it is a little worse for wear, check it looks like it went through a snowdrift, this is all salt, we are trying to find a car wash, but all the car washes are here, there are things like this and I don't want my wing to be ripped off, so I think we'll probably send it away.

What would you do? Freddie. Wow, you've hit the jackpot. How do you feel? We're at a car wash. I know where it's getting overloaded. that looks a lot better, we got all the salt out of the wheel wells and this car won't be as rusty or as prone to rust as before, but all we did was basically take a pressure washer and wash everything and look how The brilliant thing is that the ceramic layer is doing a very good job and all the water is just hitting it so when we are on the road this will just come off, the only thing I forgot is the fact that I have a paper. plate and I accidentally wash it so it will have to dry and hopefully it won't come off and hopefully they won't get us pulled over so today is a little different day now that we are on a highway through Nevada and there are a lot of sleepers longs it's not too technical like yesterday's mountain race, but this is actually the path that Koenigsegg took there a march Horace I think it wasn't agera r s more than one to one and they went two hundred and eighty miles per hour we're not going to go like that fast so we're not going over the speed limit but this is just one of those roads it works everything looks like a Windows screensaver it's crazy what really surprised me about this car is the fact that it handles these things so well that I mean , during this whole journey you have had new cars that just broke down, they have mechanical failures, just the body panels falling off with this 20 year old miss Abby, she has all the pressures, temperatures, all that is fine and handles wonderfully even with that mismatched tire.

It's just amazing, what I like is that you can really feel the rotation of the rear because even though the steering is doing its job it lets it rotate but it's a little unsettling at first if you don't get used to it and you can just throw the car into the corner and if you're revved up, it really rewards you, listen, this is crazy, it's just crazy, good car, good car, after spending the day setting no land speed records on the loneliest road in America , we decided to show the VR for party piece, it is the four-wheel steering torque mode.

I don't know a store well in the movie, but there it is, you love it, let's not enter anyone here when it doesn't a few hours later, after everything is working in our system, we drove through countless small towns before reach the largest of them. The whole day four started out as the most intense yet, with technical sections, fast sweepers and incredible scenery, but then we ran into a big problem, so there's a little problem because I was just offered some pepperoni sticks and my partner He shook himself and said no and you have forgotten your roots.

My friend, we bought five pounds of this stuff. He will get more pepper. Well, I'm still full from last year's five pounds of pepperoni sticks I have. I haven't made it yet, okay, these are these are mine, it's no longer good for me, more so for me with such good roads. I had to let them see what it was like from my perspective, but that required a bit of a wardrobe change. I'm Freddie. What are you wearing? This is my influencer outfit. It's a well. This is how I make YouTube content. So you don't look so fabulous.

Don't know. One day, someday, I will wear your natural hair. Alright. A lot of rustling of keys away from Jared, actually, he's been very kind to give me the keys on his day because he said this road is too good to miss. Oh, he's definitely getting some light in these hills. Oh, these brakes are so good. It really is like a roller coaster here now. One of the rules about dust ball is that you have to stay between Mayo and mustard. The air conditioning went out again, so Mayo has white lines. Mustard are yellow lines and generally May. means white lines up to the lanes and you can go between lanes, however mustard you definitely don't want to cross because if you go off the mustard then you go into the lettuce and then you get some ketchup so we definitely don't want any. ketchup, it's hot in here.

I guess I think the air conditioning system is not happy. Another benefit of where we are now is that we have completed all of our tricks. Oh yeah, we just did the last trick, so there we go. the race to win it all now I know there are a lot of other teams that probably have all the tricks, but we're pretty specific and how we respond so maybe just maybe we'll win this. No no. I really care because as far as I'm concerned this was a win like we already won with this tomorrow because it will be the first

3000gt

to finish in a major dustball event, yes with this.

The second to last day will probably be one of the most epic roads we will ride and we have seen a lot of epic roads on this trip and I can't say enough about the dust ball. say enough about this car I can't say enough about all the companies and people that helped us get to this point, Jarrod, above all, I want to say he has simply been the best because without him I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be. doing. This is very good, thank you very much and I hope this carbon does well, yes, but it has exceeded my expectations so much, it's your car, it's my car, finally it's my car, okay, so day five and we're on our way to San Francisco.

There was an option to take a detour route, which is an off-road route practically yes, this is very bad, my exhaust scratches a little, this is a very twisty road, but it is also twisty in the up and down sections, there are a lot of potholes , it's a beautiful sight, I mean, just take a look at that, but this low ground clearance, but this little ground clearance, this sports car with low ground clearance really doesn't do much in the way of absorbing these bumps, even on the maximum comfort mode. everything in temperatures and pressures is fine, we are not losing anything yet and we still have like 30 miles left of this, it will take all day, we are still mostly exhausted for now, but it's worth it, it's 100% worth it.

If they give you the option, you take the path, still a little rough, but the scenery has improved a lot. Look at it like the Pacific Ocean and we're on a highwayof desolate mountain. Spectacular, this is like the story of the Rings. It's so beautiful and I'm happy to be here with friends and the car made it and hasn't been affected too much by all these bumps on this particular road, it really is the ride of a lifetime. where we belong, like people, there is a local that came to me and said: "hey, what are you guys doing here?" You take it and he says: Did you ask anyone about these roads?

It's like it doesn't matter. This is where we're going. Day five took full advantage of my comfort zone. I was so preoccupied with the car doing it that I forgot why I was doing this in the first place, which was to gain perspective and overcome what we thought would be impossible when I realized that, in Ultimately, it didn't matter if the car and that all our new brothers and sisters would help us in the rally. My car showed me that it really wasn't out of its comfort zone and like a sign from heaven, the roads cleared up and we experienced something absolutely spectacular. we're here 2,000 miles 2,700 miles plus this thing we just built in about a day has done it, man, I mean, this was such a trip, oh, it was crazy because not only was the car fixed and dusted .

There were 700 miles to the start, but the fantastic people who helped put it back together were a big deal, so at this point I don't think I've ever enjoyed a car as much as I have. I've never enjoyed a car I've owned so much and I'm so glad I get to meet new friends and spend time with old ones and see new roads and find new paths, that's actually the motto of Dustbowl and I. I'm sorry if this comment is a bit emotional for me, and since this fog is gathering, we actually have to get to our hotel, but this is the end point of the concentration of dust balls and it's a bit bittersweet because that means I'm not going to spend any more days driving with my friend Jared, give me that, so Jared, you're the MVP of this, like you've helped a lot, not just driving this hunk. of rusty metal but you started it and you put in the hours and the hard work and I can't, I can't thank you enough.

I was happy to do it, filling up the car, spending more time with good friends. Roads gained a whole new appreciation for a car I had always completely dismissed and I fell in love with your car and understand why you wanted it back and most importantly, you didn't break it. I didn't write. you didn't break it and you made it and that's the most important thing, but it's a good car, it's a very very good car, this thing is amazing, you'll see it more on my channel because it definitely needs some work after this Drive. I am incredibly honored by all of you who support my channel.

I am incredibly honored by the companies that want to support my channel. Thanks to Peak Auto Tempest and all the other companies that help me. I've worked with us to finish this car in a small amount of time, but yeah, I think that'll be it, so until next time, this is me for money, you guys have new cars like these, not really. I don't need much work at all and I've put over two thousand miles on it after working on it for a day, you guys need to tighten up, come on, yeah, you guys need to tighten up every day, every day.