Real Mechanic Breaks Down Inaccurate Movie Scenes

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  • @charlesdamien5849
    @charlesdamien5849 ปีที่แล้ว +3253

    I'm proud of you guys for not including a single fast and the furious scene

    • @UnorderlySkills
      @UnorderlySkills ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Pin this shit

    • @tspawn35
      @tspawn35 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      They have videos dedicated to FF on their main channel there is no need to reuse them here.

    • @sushibento3042
      @sushibento3042 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      They made it already

    • @noneyabizz8337
      @noneyabizz8337 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      It's such trash, the human lifespan is too short to go over everything wrong with those films.

    • @aftermathsample305
      @aftermathsample305 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That would've been 100% shop class

  • @sptownsend999
    @sptownsend999 ปีที่แล้ว +931

    FUN FACT: Being a Farm Boy, Henry Ford actually designed the Model T engine _intentionally_ to run on various different kinds of fuel that might be found on a farm, such as gasoline, kerosene, even wood gas, and, yes, *corn alcohol.* You see, Henry recognized that since the Earth occupies a finite space, then contents in its oil deposits must be likewise finite. He was the first major proponent of corn alcohol, because of its renewable properties. The more you know!

    • @rafaelcarmo5562
      @rafaelcarmo5562 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Please pin this

    • @youtube-handle-are-a-joke
      @youtube-handle-are-a-joke ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Being a car enthusiast, I was looking for this comment to see if I was gonna talk about it.

    • @samuelsullivan1574
      @samuelsullivan1574 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I was going to say the same thing myself. My brother has a 28 T runabout. Great grandpa bough it new, grandpa kept it in the back of the garage, and built a bunch of shaker coils for it. Dad died young, and now Alex has it. We all learned to drive it as kids. We run it off coleman camp fuel and lead additive usually, but it will run off pretty much anything that will burn.
      I got a kick out of that scene.
      You'd probably get a lot of pinging running a T on straight moonshine, you would probably want to water the fuel down to about 100 proof or so, and retard the spark like... All of it. But yep. It would definitely run.

    • @CalebMcCartyA.A.P
      @CalebMcCartyA.A.P ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Another fun fact, related to yours...The biggest financiers of Prohibition were Big Oil Companies, to force automakers to only run on petroleum products

    • @leonardoalbuquerque9375
      @leonardoalbuquerque9375 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      AFAIK he went the other way around at some point because of religion and being pro prohibition

  • @zzbk2
    @zzbk2 ปีที่แล้ว +1065

    nice to have sandro who’s the goofy guy and paul the bit more serious guy. It’s like opposite attraction, even balance.

    • @Soxynos
      @Soxynos ปีที่แล้ว +20

      "perfectly balanced, as all thing should be"

    • @hansosl
      @hansosl ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I like Sandra He is real og LA brat

    • @brixson7641
      @brixson7641 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      paul used to be more serious but now he has more fun with the sessions and recording

    • @instrumental
      @instrumental ปีที่แล้ว

      Much better than the backstreet boy douchebag they still have for some reason

    • @Badobrad
      @Badobrad ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sandro is the man, Paul is the man.

  • @kevsecker3182
    @kevsecker3182 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Matilda, written by Roald Dahl was based in the uk and written at a time when running the odo back via drill was common practice in the uk. To be fair, all 3 elements in that scene were well known to happen back in the day…

  • @bradhaines3142
    @bradhaines3142 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    i did some quick math. that '6inch steel plate' would be around 3600 pounds. as heavy as the car itself, all hanging on the back of it. id be amazed of the front tires touched the ground

    • @justin.gollnick
      @justin.gollnick ปีที่แล้ว +46

      So they can do burnout wheelies like Dom in fast 1😎 lol😆

    • @ThePigAndFig
      @ThePigAndFig ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It's actually just filled with ramen noodles

    • @elpennywisefromouterspace
      @elpennywisefromouterspace ปีที่แล้ว +62

      yea but Jason's massive pecs balance that mofo out, added to the girl riding shotgun with the massive milk wagons

    • @bandana_girl6507
      @bandana_girl6507 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If it's only as heavy as the car itself, it won't lift the front tires. Plus, there's also two rotary canons on the front that'd help counterbalance more. Not to mention whatever ammunition you have for them.

    • @bradhaines3142
      @bradhaines3142 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@bandana_girl6507 yeah but all that weight is behind the trunk, putting center of gravity way back. sure i didnt account for the guns but those would be like 500 pounds max, MAYBE 1000 with ammo. they're not a solid block of steel like the tomb stone is. plus they're not on the opposite side of the wheels like the block is

  • @NatWhereYouAt
    @NatWhereYouAt ปีที่แล้ว +74

    In Australia it was common practice to cut a car in half if it was in an accident. You'd get rear ended and the smash repairs would cut your car in half and replace the back end with the back end of another car (same model obviously). They made this illegal in the early 00s maybe even late 90s. My first car (Gemini) was two cars in one. And it did split cleanly in half when I got into a minor accident

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i work in collision repair and i’ve only ever seen a vehicle break in half three times. first time was a pickup that had a horribly rusted body so when it got rear ended, the bed just separated from the cab. other two times were sedans- one was a challenger that slammed into the back of a box truck while running from the cops & broke in half from the force. the other was a sedan (i don’t remember make/model) who was hit in the front left rear well after running a red light (also running from the cops). technically the car didn’t break in half but it catapulted the engine several hundred feet away. i’m sure you’ll be surprised to hear that everyone in these accidents survived- the guy in the sedan had a broken leg and the girl driving the challenger became a paraplegic but she’s lucky considering she slammed into a stationary box truck going over 100mph without a seatbelt on (there’s dashcam footage of the events leading up to the crash & the aftermath and you can hear the cops immediately call for an ambulance and said to have the coroner on standby bc he was sure she died. the state this all happened in requires a medical professional to confirm death before a coroner can be sent out, which is why the cop said to keep coroner on standby)

    • @dylaroo24
      @dylaroo24 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw a nascar split in half during my first in person nascar race, was pretty cool.

    • @damp2269
      @damp2269 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dylaroo24 how? that would mean the roll cage broke as well, no?

    • @dylaroo24
      @dylaroo24 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@damp2269 it was so long ago, I can’t exactly remember how, I just remember seeing half a nascar being lifted on to the back of truck and taken off the track.

    • @dylaroo24
      @dylaroo24 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@damp2269 The race was Pocono, sometime around 2007-8. The car was some kind of blue decal, I can remember the number or driver. I just remember seeing the car being driven away by truck, the crash happened on the back straight so I didn’t see the crash itself, only the car being taken away and seeing it pop out from around turn 3. I was at the finish line from my seat.

  • @cmcrisp42
    @cmcrisp42 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    My dad actually rolled back the odometer on their MP truck when he was stationed in Hawaii by driving backwards goofing off. This was during the 60's though. His Master Sargent was not pleased when he checked it in and he went negative miles during his patrol.

    • @felixchaus
      @felixchaus ปีที่แล้ว +10

      There are several cars that run the odometer backwards.
      But it's really slow and would take days on a speed where modern plastic gauges would survive

    • @lilsammywasapunkrock
      @lilsammywasapunkrock ปีที่แล้ว +8

      My buddy had an 85 4 runner, which was totalled in a car accident. He out a ton of work into it, rebuilt engine ECT. So he purchased the car back, and got another one with a out 2k more miles. Just for fun, while we had the engine out, we tried running a drill on the soeedo cable, and it did lower it.
      We looked a zip tie to the drill handle, and took a break working on the car, and after 2 hours, it only dropped like 50 miles. Fyi, in my state, odometer is only recorded for the first 10 years.

    • @antoniohagopian213
      @antoniohagopian213 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@felixchausyou could try the electric drill one

    • @felixchaus
      @felixchaus ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antoniohagopian213 Oh sorry, I edited my text.
      And yes I have tried the drill one and it didn't work.
      In few hours it took only less than few hundred miles and the gauge started to make a klicking sound even when running to the correct way.
      On a gauge that had a broken speedo I tried running the drill on full speed and the lack of bearings melted the plastic on the numbers axle.

    • @TheKrausenKid
      @TheKrausenKid ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it will only not work on newer cars.

  • @Seb-Storm
    @Seb-Storm ปีที่แล้ว +238

    Fun fact: for the italian job I remember they had to purchase like 42 Mini Cooper due to the stunts destroying the cars

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      kinda impressive that it was only 42

    • @Whateverpoopiepants
      @Whateverpoopiepants ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The also destroyed that film.
      The original is so much bettter.

    • @Seb-Storm
      @Seb-Storm ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Correction I had wrong by 10. They used 32

    • @mattesku2356
      @mattesku2356 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Also they had to make them into EVs to be allowed to drive them in the la underground. The first ev minis

    • @Whateverpoopiepants
      @Whateverpoopiepants ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Seb-Storm is the king of accurate information. Great work.

  • @ohwhoaitzjoe
    @ohwhoaitzjoe ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Sandro, I love him but I didn’t realize how long it’s been since we saw Paul. His dead pan delivery is great haha - must be casual Fridays in the garage/studio lol this episode.

    • @---l---
      @---l--- ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Great to see them both!

    • @jeremyweems4916
      @jeremyweems4916 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Paul, Sandro, and Angelina are the dream team.

  • @dr_skipwith
    @dr_skipwith ปีที่แล้ว +4

    8:50 Seeing that Escort GT get crushed is the most painful thing I've seen all year.

  • @TehSmokeyMan
    @TehSmokeyMan ปีที่แล้ว +104

    You know it's a good show when at the end you go all like "Aw, dude...C'mon, gimme like another ten minutes of this"😆

  • @peltiereric6497
    @peltiereric6497 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    That odometer trick absolutely does work but only on cars over a certain age because laws were passed to make Odometers tamper proof or at least not that easy to tamper with.

    • @edherdman9973
      @edherdman9973 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not to mention you've got the VIN connected to the important pieces to keep the scoundrels honest.

  • @matthewuzulis5016
    @matthewuzulis5016 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Ok, I have to argue about one point made during the cone head scene. "I think what she is saying does technically make sense, but is not phrased in a way anyone would ever say." your absolutely right and that is the point, she is an alien and thus not accustom to what people would actually talk like.

    • @rdroodypoo
      @rdroodypoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think a counter argument to this would be, based on how the movie portrayed the daughter, she would be the one least likely to have a more alien way of communicating. If that scene was her dad it would 100% make more sense. With the daughter spending her entire life on Earth her communication would/should match that of humans...as did everything else about her.

    • @matthewuzulis5016
      @matthewuzulis5016 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rdroodypoo A good point, I would counter that though with normally she is trying to fit in, in these scene she is not wanting to be taken advantage of. She normally avoids conflicts but here where she is facing one and without being accustom to it defaults to what she has seen most, like her father.
      But to be fair I think I'm splitting hairs with my counter argument.

    • @justajabronie
      @justajabronie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Google ‘argue’ for me. You may have done the exact opposite, my friend. And I love that for you. #charliework

    • @justajabronie
      @justajabronie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rdroodypoonerd.

    • @matthewuzulis5016
      @matthewuzulis5016 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@justajabronie Nice name. fitting.

  • @spoogtastic
    @spoogtastic ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Everytime Sandro is on, I feel the urge to do something for the boys.

    • @Iruparazzo
      @Iruparazzo ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he makes me want a 40 of Mickey's

    • @jeremyweems4916
      @jeremyweems4916 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Roll one up.

  • @SuperchargedSupercharged
    @SuperchargedSupercharged ปีที่แล้ว +150

    Sandro makes this channel worth watching. Keep him on the show!

    • @portugahbk
      @portugahbk ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Absolutely....for the boys:D

    • @Furko08
      @Furko08 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And that blonde guy makes it almost unwatchable. Great balance

    • @blakemcelrath54
      @blakemcelrath54 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only here for Sandro 🤘 For tha Boyz

    • @grominwithrob1339
      @grominwithrob1339 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sandro is my fave.

    • @captaindowntown7851
      @captaindowntown7851 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@Furko08 whos that

  • @brianevans6819
    @brianevans6819 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    4:31 The spedometer thing absolutely "does" work on old cars with a spedometer cable. 😀 It does not reverse the mileage anywhere as fast as it shows in the clip. Newer cars under 30 years or so usually use a speed sensor in the transmission. It uses a sine wave, hall effect or optical signal to increase the odometer. You can't drive in reveres to lower the mileage because it doesn't know or care what direction you are moving.

    • @Korni1991
      @Korni1991 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, seen that on an Nissan Micra K11 driving backwards. Never thougt that could work but my Buddy showed me on his little red rocket^^

    • @Wayne-n4z
      @Wayne-n4z 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Easier to pull the odo and move the numbers (old cars) by hand . I never did this.

  • @dwaynne_way
    @dwaynne_way ปีที่แล้ว +124

    It's always a great video when Sandro is on. Working with him would be such a blast.

    • @edherdman9973
      @edherdman9973 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Are we doing this the right way or are we doing it for the boys?"

    • @sda2911
      @sda2911 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Such a great combo of humor and expertise

  • @bandana_girl6507
    @bandana_girl6507 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Fun fact: most foley (like the pounding on the steel) is less about being real about what the sound is and more about being what the audience is expecting. A 6-inch piece of steel isn't going to make much sound, but someone expected it, so a sound got put in

  • @MagnusMercury
    @MagnusMercury ปีที่แล้ว +383

    To be fair, the coneheads are aliens so it makes sense she would say things oddly.

    • @sundalangur3250
      @sundalangur3250 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      That was my thought. He said "It's technically correct. It's just not how we would say it." Well she is an alien and look at how her father talks, so I think it's smart writing.

    • @jonoel6638
      @jonoel6638 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Agree!!!!!!

    • @noneyabizz8337
      @noneyabizz8337 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      They need to watch the movie.

    • @donaldbough3899
      @donaldbough3899 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I came to comment they needed to watch the movie for it to make sense.

    • @MrYfrank14
      @MrYfrank14 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are not aliens.
      They are from the south of France.

  • @kryczech
    @kryczech ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I'm surprised Marisa Tomei's scene about the tire tracks from My Cousin Vinny wasn't in it. Always love seeing Sandro.

    • @1danny2k
      @1danny2k ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love her

    • @tsherwoodrzero
      @tsherwoodrzero ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They'd have to find a '55 Bel-Air with a factory 327 in it...IYKYK ;)

    • @paulhare662
      @paulhare662 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "The defense is rowung"

    • @chrisp4582
      @chrisp4582 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@paulhare662 Thay wHer! But, thairs moa'rr! The two youts would agree as well.😂

    • @WillNordstrom
      @WillNordstrom หลายเดือนก่อน

      Best scene. And she is super nice to look at.

  • @fuzzyturtlez8994
    @fuzzyturtlez8994 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    @11:15 - The Coneheads thing actually makes sense. They're aliens. They're supposed to be a "smarter" life form. So referring to an alignment machine to it's parts (Hydraulic, Digital, Radiometer (which i'm guessing refers to the wireless transmission)) kind of ties things together. Then his response is spot on of course because even though he doesn't know what she's saying exactly he knows why he wasn't doing it. 10/10 movie. definitely recommend.

    • @chrisseymour426
      @chrisseymour426 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I was going to say this. The Coneheads were aliens and didn't do (or say) things conventionally, which is what makes it a comedy. I still remember that scene where the husband and wife were talking in bed and the camera slowly panned out to show they were standing against a wall instead of laying in bed. Good stuff.

    • @hotwelder21
      @hotwelder21 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You have great sentence structure

    • @jbroski84
      @jbroski84 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you ..they definitely missed the comedy aspect of the movie👍

    • @918_xDx
      @918_xDx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Coneheads is a classic... I remember my little cousin blurting out "My dad buys that kind of gum! He keeps it in a drawer with moms hand massagers."

    • @kalebgremmel1214
      @kalebgremmel1214 ปีที่แล้ว

      I haven't been in many shops, but the shops I have seen that have alignment capabilities use light, not radio. Basically you put reflectors on the front wheels in front of the machine then turn the wheels back and forth and it will tell you all you need to know on the computer.

  • @wartortilla2819
    @wartortilla2819 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The other detail about the Italian Job, those Minis were carrying a lot of weight with all those gold bars.

  • @derGameplayDJ
    @derGameplayDJ ปีที่แล้ว +42

    The cut-in-half Renault actually works. The guys from Top Gear tested it. With the fuel left in the lines and the filter, you can drive for a short while.

    • @dougerrohmer
      @dougerrohmer ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But I would question Bond's ability to steer the car. The front wheels will turn, but the body won't track so the whole thing will crab. Or something. But then again, he is Bond, James Bond so it will probably work.

    • @watsgoinonhere1
      @watsgoinonhere1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@dougerrohmer Cutting a car in half, adding a fuel system, and driving it exactly like how Bond does is something I've seen people do to smashed up old FWD cars. It's a little snakey but the back end rubs on the ground causing drag, which makes the "car" surprisingly controllable.

    • @BigUriel
      @BigUriel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dougerrohmer The fuel in the lines won't last a minute.
      You will also lose all brake pressure so lets hope you don't have to slow down before the fuel runs out.

    • @dougerrohmer
      @dougerrohmer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BigUriel He's Bond, James Bond. Q gave him a fountain pen with reserve fuel supply built in, and he'd just throw the baddies under the front wheels to stop.

    • @brunoais
      @brunoais 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@BigUrielBrake pressure is not a problem because it's so light, and takes so much drag, it just stops easily.

  • @seanthiar
    @seanthiar 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    4:50 I guess they mechanics forgot one thing - the time when the movie was playing. You can't turn a odometer backwards in a newer car, but that was a movie playing at a time where most cars were a 100% mechanic and no electronic. Lowering the mileage that way worked.

  • @salt-emoji
    @salt-emoji ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I used to have a favorite, but everyone on the show is so good. Ms. A and Sandro are legends, but Paul is underrated imo

  • @channell11
    @channell11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The answer to the question of "Don't they hire people to tell them these things?" is that they do-but often directors and the people running the show disregard that advice if they're looking for a specific look, feel, or sound in the movie and they don't think most people will care.

  • @SylviusTheMad
    @SylviusTheMad ปีที่แล้ว +18

    They tested that half-car thing from James Bond on Top Gear, as I recall. You can make the car work, but controlling it is basically impossible.

  • @foxisretrofitting4556
    @foxisretrofitting4556 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember it was the year that I graduated high school early and I'm chilling over at a friends house. He puts in Lawless and I was so excited when the moonshine as emergency fuel scene came up. I was immediately like "put the alcohol in the tank!". Loved it. I also love Mad Max Fury Road. My mind always assumed it was alcohol and guzzlene they were spraying into the intake. I feel like Rick and Morty's Mad Max themed episode did it justice with the getting a mouthful from the flask and spraying it in the intake.

  • @TimnParks
    @TimnParks ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Sandro got a producer in trouble with that "What part of this is mechanical?" question. Someone absolutely looked at the person who added the clip and asked that again.

  • @karadpal
    @karadpal ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The odometer goes back if you spin the CORRECT wheel. In the beetle, they use the front left wheel to turn the odometer, if you lift the rear wheels and let they run in reverse, nothing happens, it you turn the front left wheel, you see the magic happening. So it just depends the car you're trying to do the trick and how you're trying.

  • @frallinger
    @frallinger ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It is awesome to see how camera-comfortable your guest hosts have become.

  • @jeffduncan02
    @jeffduncan02 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for throwing in the Days of Thunder scene in for us old folks!

  • @TokenBlack313
    @TokenBlack313 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "What part of this is supposed to be mechanical?" - Sandro (2023) Gold 🤣👌🏼

  • @zerg9523
    @zerg9523 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Quick UK car history lesson : A _”ringer”_ or a _”cut and shut”_ refers to a car that is made from two other cars… Usually two of the same model that have been in an accident, poorly re-welded and sold as a repaired car… absolutely illegal and lethal, but it happened.
    What happened in that James Bond movie happened regularly to ringed cars, often without needing an accident.

  • @thermobollocks
    @thermobollocks ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My only gripe on Matilda is that it takes place in the '70s or '80s, when engine computers weren't a thing, and mechanical odometer fraud was a huge dang deal. The movie itself came out in 1996 so that would've been well within the realm of possibility on used cars. Especially pre-OBDII.

  • @ilovehappyemos
    @ilovehappyemos ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Engine Masters did a test on oil pans and horsepower. While not a big jump, A good oil pan with kick-outs to reduce windage and a scraper to get oil off the crank will add power.

  • @devonburkhalter9840
    @devonburkhalter9840 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The coneheads one is phrased in a way no one would ever say it because they're aliens. It's like the Jimmy Neutron "Sodium Chloride" bit.

    • @donnasRock323
      @donnasRock323 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Dude, its called salt #McSpankies

  • @outrageous-alex
    @outrageous-alex 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The full quote "The customer is always right, in matters of taste."

  • @aliakseilyshchytski223
    @aliakseilyshchytski223 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    2:30 "the fuel part" is contained in decent volumes inside a carburator and some fuel in a line after a mechanical pump on engine head. Driving for 20 seconds without a fuel tank should work fine

  • @jakeeyes3
    @jakeeyes3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What the coneheads lady said made perfect sense. She named the easiest possible alignment to do: american so engineered to be simple, rack and pinion so easy toe adjustment, macpherson struts so no caster adjustment and an easy camber adjustment. Borgwarner however doesnt make radiometers and you dont use a radiometer for an alignment

  • @jamessizemore7103
    @jamessizemore7103 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    That Italian job movie is also unrealistic because of how much weight the gold would actually be in the back of those cars, those minis would be struggling to get moving

    • @ProtoV33MK1
      @ProtoV33MK1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I remember doing the math in physics for a laugh, and one backpack of gold bars came out to something in the ballpark of 300lbs. Make that a trunk full, and you have no suspension left lol.

  • @wharris123184
    @wharris123184 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    9:00 Sandro’s reaction: Priceless 😂

    • @bigbossbezos4760
      @bigbossbezos4760 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂 “it’s levitating “ hahahahah

  • @GP-ur6if
    @GP-ur6if ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Haha, love the ending, that 6" steel plate would weigh around 4.5 tons. In fact I bet it would have the front end up in the air lol

    • @iowafarmboy
      @iowafarmboy ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If it's about 3 ft tall, by 4 ft wide, it comes out to 1.46 tons at 6" thick. (Carbon steel being .2818 lb/in^3)
      Even then, still unmanageable.

    • @reaganharder1480
      @reaganharder1480 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@iowafarmboy Still probably pulling the nose off the ground given that the whole car weight was probably less than that before adding the shield. At the very least, that would be a handling nightmare...

    • @GP-ur6if
      @GP-ur6if ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iowafarmboy should be more like 6' by 4' IMO, or 12 cubic feet. I checked and 1 cubic foot is 490lbs, so 6k or 3 tons, so yeah, off but just making a fun point

    • @michag4337
      @michag4337 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@reaganharder1480 but you're not accounting for jason stethams (how ever it's spelt) massive balls. they're the offset. The question is where are you driving this, cause if it ain't a straight down steep af hill you're not moving.

  • @beveryofa2546
    @beveryofa2546 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    With the clip from Coneheads the only part that I disagree with slightly is when they said, "no one talks like this" given that she's not from this planet and her character's parents also speak in a very similar way, her father multiple times in the movie uses the phrase "Ford Lincoln Mercury Sable" to describe his own car, so overdoing the vocabulary is almost baked in. Always great to see Chris Farley too lol.

  • @sevilnatas
    @sevilnatas ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the speedometer drill thing does work on older cars. Pre-80s has been my experience.

  • @4RILDIGITAL
    @4RILDIGITAL ปีที่แล้ว

    Thorough and engaging content! The blend of humor, technical review, and professional advice really makes this stand out. As a car enthusiast, it's fun to hear experts debunk or agree with the mechanics displayed in Hollywood movies.

  • @khanartist7987
    @khanartist7987 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dude I worked on Lawless back in 2011 I think as a lighting tech! So happy to see you guys break that scene down with the moonshine bc I always wondered about that. 🍻

  • @Zerinsakech
    @Zerinsakech ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a guy who works on Mini coopers from time to time, the R53 catalytic converters shown in that scene are %100 stock and yeah, these minis can lose so much weight. especially from seat, roof, sound deadening , exhaust, doors and glass.
    behind the scenes for this movie shared that the mini's in the tunnel scenes were converted to electric for pollution and ventilation reasons. so I can imagine they recycled the extra parts for the "chop shop" scene. I was happy to see the extra level of realism by using correct Props for the spare parts removed from these cars.

    • @0Rookie0
      @0Rookie0 ปีที่แล้ว

      A foam prop of a Gallo 12 wouldn't have sufficed?

  • @jackstakes
    @jackstakes ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Paul looks like that very big hearted mechanic you'll run into when your car breaks down right in the middle of the Texas/Louisiana heat and you got only 12 dollars in your pocket but he's gonna be happy to fix your car for free. ❤

  • @johngamer6255
    @johngamer6255 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:49
    Old sprint cars used to have a bicycle tyre pump on the side that they'd pump up round the corners to pressurize the fuel tank to give it some more power

  • @GuillaumeH84
    @GuillaumeH84 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:45
    For the 1/2 car it's a Renault 11 and the stuntman is Rémy Julienne, he's the one who created this stunt and he worked on 6 James Bond films, he was even the director on certain scenes.
    Disney even called on him to design an attraction at Walt Disney Studios Park, Action Motors! He has more than 1400 productions to his credit, so 400 films!

  • @DavidStruveDesigns
    @DavidStruveDesigns 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The most unrealistic part of that whole updated Italian Job movie was the helicopter tail rotor slicing along the car door, and somehow remaining not only intact and attached to the heli (because it would have been torn to pieces and ripped right off), but still able to do it's job and keep the helicopter from torque spinning into the ground.

  • @evanulven8249
    @evanulven8249 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think a better scene from Fury Road would have been when our Warboy is crawling up next to a pair of engines and effecting repairs while they're still running. Probably possible, but holy hell that would take a ballsy engineer.

    • @insiainutorrt259
      @insiainutorrt259 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Werent uncommon at all on early planes.... on some they had to as maintenance ....

    • @klo1679
      @klo1679 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Older cars used to be hot tuned, that is, it rolled into the shop, still running the mechanic would take the valve covers off, adjust the valves, put the covers back on, adjust the fuel in the carby, and fine tune the dizzy, add a dash of oil back in and slap the car on its arse as it drove back out.
      If all nux was doing for repairs was tying patches of hose over leaking lines, filling in cracks in the pan, and adjusting the belts I’d believe it. You can do a surprisingly large amount of repairs without stopping the engine.

  • @nttntjno1797
    @nttntjno1797 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:30 Yup, That 1983 Renault 11 had been modified with a small fuel tank tucked away in the engine compartment in order to shoot that particular "half car" scene.

  • @KnivesLegato
    @KnivesLegato ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the Coneheads clip wasn't supposed to sound like a human would say it. That's part of the schtick of them being aliens.

  • @petergerdes1094
    @petergerdes1094 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wait is Sandro a vampire? He has fangs. Awesome! Explains how he knows so much about everything.

  • @Dtr146
    @Dtr146 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    With the second clip. That's the beautiful thing about old movies. There was no CG. They rigged up that car to split in half when it got hit. I believe they moved the gas tank under the hood and had just enough gas to do a couple of takes

  • @Malcolm-l5b
    @Malcolm-l5b ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Re winding the odometer back with a hand drill, this works on old cars with purely mechanical systems.

  • @Bad_Wolf_Media
    @Bad_Wolf_Media ปีที่แล้ว +8

    9:32 - I disagree about no damage on the Hummer H1. Unless they modified the hood from the military version (aside from noise reduction), the hood would be laying in pieces in the street after the first hit. Those things are light plastic or fiberglass, and they get torn up REALLY easily (ask me how I know).
    Aside from that, though, with the hits they showed? Yeah, she'll keep runnin' for ya.

  • @ChristianStout
    @ChristianStout 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I didnt know Danny Trejo ran an auto shop.

  • @zero11010
    @zero11010 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:29 everything at this part us after the heist. Each car was carrying like 3,000 lbs of gold or whatever from the vault.
    So, each was about 3,000lbs give or take. Then they lost 200lbs. Then they added a 200lb driver, then 3,000lbs of loot. THEN the cars were flying around as 6,000lb minis.
    And, only one of those minis was an S. The others were base model mini coopers with normal aspiration.

  • @pet-purple-panda1634
    @pet-purple-panda1634 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Coneheads clip wasn't bad writing, its the point of ther joke. The whole point of the original skits was that they refer to everything by the literal definition of stuff like calling a potato a vessel for sustenance.

  • @rhouser1280
    @rhouser1280 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Could set the mad max guy on the front of the 1/2 car blowing in fuel, it could be real! 😂

  • @guytypeperson
    @guytypeperson ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "I think what she's saying does technically make sense, but is not phrased in a way that anyone would ever say..." Tell me you've never seen Coneheads without telling me you've never seen Coneheads. That is LITERALLY the point. lol

  • @stevedavis5704
    @stevedavis5704 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Now for a pet peeve of mine. People always say “The customer is always right “, but that’s just part of the quote. I was told the quote is “As for what the customer wants, the customer is always right.” That puts a whole different spin on the quote. The person who first told me that said that the job of the salesman was to help the customer understand what he needs not just what he wants.

    • @GameFaceFail
      @GameFaceFail ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've heard "The customer is always right, in matters of taste"

    • @CyberGenesis1
      @CyberGenesis1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same as the "Jack of all trades"

    • @stevedavis5704
      @stevedavis5704 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CyberGenesis1 Isn’t that one “Jack of all trades, master of none “?

    • @stevedavis5704
      @stevedavis5704 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GameFaceFail That works also.

    • @0Rookie0
      @0Rookie0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevedavis5704 "Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."

  • @mitchellparadise3801
    @mitchellparadise3801 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think the writers of Coneheads probably do know what they’re talking about. That was kinda the whole bit of the movie. The Coneheads would call appliances by their function rather than name because they know the tech just not our names for it

  • @TheGreatChrisB
    @TheGreatChrisB ปีที่แล้ว +34

    All the scenes in The Italian Job are technically realistic because they actually did them, but they went through 32 cars because they didn't usually survive.

    • @ToxicTerrance
      @ToxicTerrance 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I mean, if they had to break 1 per shot, that means it's not possible to keep driving after these stunts. Unfortunately they're still in shop class

  • @5hogg23
    @5hogg23 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I think that's nitro they're spitting into the intake in Mad Max, not gas. You would be able to feel a power difference. I rigged the cold start injector to a switch on an old racecar and when you flipped it, you would start to pull away from the other traffic.

    • @RohonNag
      @RohonNag ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Does Nitro come in liquid form? I always though its a gas in a pressurized tank?

    • @deadon4847
      @deadon4847 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RohonNag Yes, Top Fuel drag racers buy it by the barrel

    • @45calGunslinger
      @45calGunslinger ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Raw benzene, nitromethane, kerosene, paint stripper... There's a bunch of dangerous stuff you can aerosol into your motor for more power when it's life or death!

  • @RobTheSquire
    @RobTheSquire ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Cut and shunts were cars that were made of two halves that were welded together and not well. They were around like nearly 30 years ago during my early childhood in the UK although I don't recall hearing about any cars breaking like the one in the bond film. The car might have ran for a short while in the film as I do remember on a tv show called Scrapheap Challenge where they did a challenge based around limited fuel run.

    • @irishwristwatch2487
      @irishwristwatch2487 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh man, Scrapheap Challenge was a fantastic show, I used to love the wild challenges

  • @norfolkngood8960
    @norfolkngood8960 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had one of those Renaults as my first car. It was a Renault 11 TXE Electronic from 1986. It had a digital dashboard, voice synth, sensors everywhere, electric everything and a very clever double din stereo with steering wheel controls.
    Only thing it didnt have was Aircon no surprise there.
    Back in the 80s chop shop cut and shuts were more common where scrapped cars were welded together as the rules on them were rubbish. So couldve been a ringer car and thats why it broke in half from a realism pov but that wpuldnt explain the fuel obvs
    If memory serves that scene was real they rigged that Renault 11 to drive cut in half on 2 wheels.

  • @richardconnor2871
    @richardconnor2871 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I always liked getting the answer from both of the guests, this video didn't feel complete, and we missed out on more Sandro whenever it was Paul's turn XD

  • @Bloodbound89
    @Bloodbound89 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so in the matilda clip hje says that the odometer reversing doesnt work and a few clips after it he says it is completely possible and even explains how ... strange :D

  • @MrCarlbrooks
    @MrCarlbrooks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So the guy with blonde tips is wasted, are we just ignoring that?

    • @TheRealStevenSeagals
      @TheRealStevenSeagals 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You must be new to the channel😂

    • @ianfinrir8724
      @ianfinrir8724 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's a human Golden Retriever

  • @braddeicide
    @braddeicide 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hold up. In Ferris Bueller's you say take the cable off the gearbox and wind it backwards to reverse the odometer... That's what they did in Matilda, and the experts said the sawdust thing was legit, yet you sent them to shop class! Injustice!

    • @braddeicide
      @braddeicide 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah right, for the welded bumper comment. Might have been the case for old old cars?

  • @Mark-vn7et
    @Mark-vn7et ปีที่แล้ว +3

    12:20 how is this realistic and yet that’s exactly what Danny de Vito is doing in the scene from Mathilda, how is one “shop class” and the other realistic.

  • @Thundarr995
    @Thundarr995 ปีที่แล้ว

    Back in the early 90s, one of my uncles had a 70-something Toyota Corolla. It was really rustic, and it had plywood on the floor covering up some of the larger holes. One day, he let his sister borrow it. She drove over a speed bump, leaving the grocery store, and it literally bent in half. She called him from a pay phone to tell him what happened. I remember him saying, "Now,what happened? Does it still drive? Well, drive it back here then cuz I don't have free towing. About 15 minutes later, she came pulling in the driveway, and it was sagging in the middle like a sway back horse. I think the roof was the main thing preventing it from breaking completely in two. That's probably pretty common in the rust belt? I've never seen badly rusted out vehicles like that out here on the West Coast.

  • @aircraftnut15
    @aircraftnut15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The first one is totally 💯 realistic I’ve actually don’t that with spray bottle (minus spitting the fuel with my mouth) the fuel pump died out n my dads truck and we needed to move it around the property to the garage and the easiest way was for me to sit in the front bumper and spray fuel into the carb
    It moved without a problem you just had to constantly spray the fuel in
    Edit I forgot to mention the truck was throttle body

    • @45calGunslinger
      @45calGunslinger ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They could also be spitting something a bit more volatile in to boost combustion, like kerosene or nitromethane

  • @SXC101
    @SXC101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really love this channel for it's accuracy 💯

  • @TrashHeapCustodian
    @TrashHeapCustodian ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of my favorite things about The Italian Job is that each of the minis has a slightly different engine sound dubbed, and IIRC the blue one sounds suspiciously subaru-like ;)

  • @vleetv
    @vleetv ปีที่แล้ว +2

    RIP the comment about the coneheads and alignment. Obviously James hasn't seen the movie, surprised he didn't ask why her head was weirdly shaped and bald.

  • @its.drew77
    @its.drew77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "The customer is always right, in matters of taste." Is the full saying

  • @ut00bvor
    @ut00bvor ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandfather had a white gas car, the would start with Ethyl, he put a tank in the glove box and ran piping laid across the manifold to heat the white gas and it terminated at the carb.
    He would start the car with regular gas and then, once warm, switch over to the white gas.
    Back then, Ethyl was 5 cents a gallon, white gas was 1 cent for 5 gallons.
    BTW white gas is now called Coleman fuel.

  • @atlooney1992
    @atlooney1992 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There's a shady used car dealer where I live that has been known to do the sawdust trick.

  • @Threesixtyci
    @Threesixtyci 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    0:32 sure... lets just forget the scene where Furyocia is beating sand out of the Air Cleaner... and the truck has two non filtered butterfly scoop super chargers sticking out of the hood.....

  • @ILIK3HATERZ
    @ILIK3HATERZ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    About fricken time you make another video! Sandro’s the man!

  • @vicrattlehead8665
    @vicrattlehead8665 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seriously analyzing a Danny devito scene is wild 😭

  • @davidkeetz
    @davidkeetz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great episode - I love how they pointed out the same thing that's always perplexed me, which is that these movies have enormous budgets and they spend so much time and money to the writers and the editors and all along the way, nobody can take 10 minutes to validate the "gearhead talk" and write something that makes sense.

  • @pinholau
    @pinholau ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I'm gonna damage that pocket.." 🤣🤣🤣

  • @oncinaust5178
    @oncinaust5178 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you are going to show a clip from a James Bond film show that part where a semi truck's frame breaks in half swivels up "for a wheelie" then swivels back down and the truck is fine. I think the movie was called License to Kill.

  • @hughoreilly9526
    @hughoreilly9526 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Ford vs Ferrari was great advice and glad you included it.

  • @arigundy4782
    @arigundy4782 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Imma damage that pocket" lmfao

  • @KrustyBunion
    @KrustyBunion ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Because I was outback finishing a beer" was hilarious. I need to watch that movie

  • @MarylandFarmer.
    @MarylandFarmer. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To change a millage reading on an older car takes a long time with a drill. I knew a guy that bought a replacement and wanted it to read the same, it took it 18 plus hours and it wasn't even that far off. He said he wouldn't have bothered if he had to do from scratch.

    • @youtube-handle-are-a-joke
      @youtube-handle-are-a-joke ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On older car when I replace the odo because it's broken or unreadable, to match the milage it's much faster to move the numbers by hand either by going forward or if you lift the finger that moves the rolls you can roll it back or forward without influencing the next roll up.

  • @brunoais
    @brunoais 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How is this one at 12:00 fine about old cars spinning odometer backwards but this one about doing that exact same thing to an old car at 4:15 (mentioned at 4:33).
    So it works or does it not work?

  • @bubba966
    @bubba966 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've seen a car (Jetta II) that was in a wreck that was cut in half like the Renault in the Bond movie. Though it got cut in 2 by sliding sideways and hitting an elevated fire hydrant that cut the bottom of the car then it hit a phone pole that split it the rest of the way into 2 pieces. But it certainly wasn't driving anymore after being split in 2.

    • @GrandDawggy
      @GrandDawggy ปีที่แล้ว

      When I was I kid I saw a wrecked car, something small (perhaps a Peugeot 106) that was cut in half by a crash with a tractor (longways) but it wasn't a clean cut and one side appeared to be completely missing.
      I think it killed the driver because I didn't see them and the farmer was injured sitting at roadside.
      It really made me appreciate how dangerous being on the road is especially around farming vehicles.

  • @SilvaDreams
    @SilvaDreams ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The odometer trick does work on older cars, modern ones don't allow it though.

  • @Azmodon
    @Azmodon ปีที่แล้ว

    4:26 and for differentials... banana peels. One of my families funny quotes thanks to my dad: "Show me the law that says I can't stick banana peels in my rear end"

  • @Yewgonnaeetdat
    @Yewgonnaeetdat ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love Donut Media. We need them and all their subscribers to keep us tow truck operators wealthy this holiday season.
    Keep buildin and keep breakin, we’ll be there for you guys
    Go fast, don’t die! Love ya! Happy Holidays!

  • @Goblet31
    @Goblet31 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How to fix green screen green edges on the masks.
    - Lumetri color, curves section
    - Hue vs Hue curve
    - pipet the skin color to get the skin tone node line
    - make another node a little to the right of the right most node
    - drag the second to right most node up and to the right a bit until the green edges are gone
    - do it all on an adjustment layer and do multiple lumetri color effects, one for each person in frame
    by the way, no disrespect, I just learnt how to do this like a week ago lol 🙂

    • @baqcasanke
      @baqcasanke ปีที่แล้ว

      Not even all that. Just better green screen lighting technique. Avoid backspill etc

  • @arikuusela6716
    @arikuusela6716 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    12:58 The foley guys F'd up. Sounds more like a bass drum.