Sam is like that friend, who calls and says "you'll never believe this, but..". And then you don't believe him until you do and then...your mind is blown..lol dudes rad
yeah. I had a friend who called me and the gang many years ago saying; "You'll never believe this, but thing called bitcoin is gonna be huge, wanna split a 100 dollars investment?" -Nope we all replied knowing he allways had crazy ideas that panned out to nothing... Fast forward 5 years later and the dude was a +5 millionaire... now he has a penthouse in the capital and alot of dough invested in realestate while the ret of us are payslaves... Dang it! lol
“This is my dream car, I showed up ready to pay $10,000 for it. I had a whole plan to restore it and make it into a sick race car” *2 minutes later* “Someone offered me 10k how could I say no!” This man needs an assistant
That was by far the worst car interview I have ever seen. It was literally the ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD and he sold it for a few thousand dollars......pathetic
I hope it was a cash deal because if he paid for tow trucks, donuts and beers for 5 years and then taxes on top of that, you would have a few bucks but not enough to make it worth it.
yeh 50 or 100 grand maybe, but just stick to the plan! You just told us how rare the wheels and tyres and everything is, plus how much to make one out of a mould, then finish and paint it, and THEN do a chassis etc. Only thing i can think of is he realised how much it needed to steer/power/drive etc, and the cost is cheaper and easier to just make another one, and keep the original one original. Now the biggest challenge is getting the mould made by a guy who already paid you and left haha
Gabriel from The Furious Garage just picked up the Ford lightning original truck from F&F , thing was put back on fords lot as a demo car, story was lost and the guy found it. Check out Craig Liebermans video
The best is how the Time Machine schematics for converting a DeLorean was essentially created from people repeatedly sneaking onto the theme park backlot and photographing and measuring things / documenting off the B or C car that was left out in the sun and rain like it was scrap.
Great story I actually worked on those cars. Those were made by company I worked for in California in city of Oxnard. Worked for the company "TransFX" owner is Allen Pike. Good company many movie props and worked with government in aerospace making planes and raydomes. Made many of those cars including all of the cast making them for premiers and Disneyland parades around the world. Many hours went into that car well also my blood sweat but no tears lol. I have the mold of those prototype one of one Goodyear tires. Those where made for non rolling stationary movie cars.
There is an amazing Lightning McQueen replica at my local junkyard built using a stingray corvette. My young kids use it as a navigation point for sure! It sits up on a shipping crate off the highway 👍🏽
I have to say, "Cars" is one of my favorite films. It was one of the few films where I got most of the jokes first time through. To find Lighting in the wild, that's cool. I hope the guy comes through with a casting.
@@aronANDtanner yep, that’s the one, the interior was mint and I took it all lol. Best comeup at the yard in awhile. Really wanted to save the car tho!
was a jdm ae86 for 900$ in australia about 15 years ago. Mate of mine not interested in toyotas told me about it. Prick told me the wrong place though. By the time i'd found right place it was gone. :(
Whoa, put in 5 years of work to get these guys to sell him the car, was prepared to spend 10K on it and when he finally gets it he sells it for that much or maybe 5k more?? I feel like there's a piece of the story missing here... Was looking forward to seeing this as a working car, but I don't think that's ever going to happen when everyone just keeps flipping the shell for more money.
I was so disappointed when he mentioned flipping it , I’m not against flipping but the way he built the story up like it was his dream car and then sells it the first week he had lost all the character of the story..
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY tells a car story quite like the bloke from Segensworth. Merry Christmas to the legend and his family! Thanks for all the great content this year from you and Ciro. #HardUpForLife❗🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
“It’s was 10-15 grand, I can’t remember” When you know that Ed goes over these stories with them, you see these things as so weird. Like was that part of making the story better? You forgot how much you badass dream car was sold for?
Well, what if he got 15 grand but only claimed 10 on his taxes? I might be a bit forgetful, too. 😁 Sounds like he's from the UK, and their taxes make you bend over and say thank you...
The older I get, the harder I laugh at that movie! Its just an all around, perfect movie!! I remember it coming out, and it was one of the only movies that my kid brother, me, and my dad could watch and laugh at together. That movie aged like fine wine, I like to watch it every once and awhile, and catch the jokes that went over my head as a little kid. The technical adviser must have been a GOAT
@@theenzoferrari458 have you met the mouses lawyers? They dont even have to be able to win, they will just bury you in debt responding to filings till you cry uncle.
@@theenzoferrari458 except disney and nintendo both are known to go after people for the smallest, most miniscule things. they have so much money they know they can go after the little guy and drag it out in court long enough that the person goes broke and agrees to "settle" it out of court. They do it out of "principle", which you would THINK that would end up being a PR nightmare and damage thier brands, not help it. You know, going out and suing your fans into obliviation for no reason. But they still continue to basically be too big to fail. Whether its disney going after local daycares in a small town, or nintendo going after rom sites over games that havent been made in 30 years, the original devs being defunt long ago and nintedno not actually having any intellectual rights to said games in the 1st place. They got the cash and legal team to be able to go around and bully everyone for no reason.
*_Disney is strict about that stuff. I use to work for Disney freelancing back in the early '90s making 4 x 8 feet custom 3D Billboards for all the movie premiers in California. I had an unlimited budget. I could request as many 4' x 8' posters as I needed plus I'd purchase all the tools I needed to make my masterpieces. When I was finished with each poster they would always request that I'd return any unused posters. All the tools I'd purchased I could keep but the unused 4' x 8' posters I had to return._*
@@radicalrick9587 "Though shall not steal" And that my friend, despite all the GOOD I KNOW I do in this life... Will be the seemingly little thing that leaves me standing at the pearly gates thinking... "...BUT?!"
Yep. Every studio protects their IPs. The stories Ive heard of sobbing men having to take a hammer to the molds for some character or creature or prop that they literally just spent the last 2 months making I could not count on all my fingers and toes. A company super would come out and watch them collect every mold, scrap piece, reference, everything, take it out to the dumpsters and destroy it so no one could get sued for stealing intellectual property. Then go through the meeting hall and collect the super secret sauce files and such. Of course some things did fall through some cracks here and there, but they mostly ended up destroyed. But, I mean, this is the shop that made the pieces, and the people that make that kind of stuff all day. A few cases of WED clay, some 'publicly available references', a shit ton of fiberglass and silicone, and boom! A self made part they cant complain about 😉😅 But yeah, to that other commenter, you do not steal from the duck-chau....or you get sent to mouseschwitz.... And having said that, I will never be allowed to work for Disney again.....😐
doing a full NASCAR treatment on a lightning McQueen shell with some bespoke wheels is the sickest thing I can imagine. that's where I thought this was going, but nah. he sold it so it will never been seen again :(
Sally* Bonnie Hunt was the voice actress for the movie. She doesn't own the restaurant though. The owner of the restaurant, Dawn Welch, is who the character Sally is based off of.
Justa note. My wife and l went to see "Cars" in a small theatre in Navasota Texas, in the opening scenes of the movie there is a convertable 1963 Dodge Dart. I exclaimed loudly, "that's my car", my wife shushed me loudly. Some of the audience in the theatre laughed loudly.
CADILLAC #43 PETTY BLUE AND A SUPERBIRD FIN ON CAMPER...WOW...CRAZY KEWL...I saw a Cadillac Camper similar here in Calif years ago...nicely done...painted a light chocolate brown...and sat right too...no overloaded tail dragged either...good job by somebody...but this blue one...wow....pizzaz...!!!
There's a house I pass on my way to work and I gotta believe it's someone who owns a car dealership because they've always got at least 10 cars in front of it. I can't remember if it's still there, but for at least quite a while, one of the cars was a drivable Lightning McQueen tribute car (pretty sure it was a wrap, but no eyes on the windshield for obvious reasons). Currently there's both an Aventador and a Huracan and a Hummer H3 with color shifting paint, but McQueen might still be behind some of the others.
3:14 "it doesn't matter what it cost, money is irrelevant, it's about feeling the love that everyone there is feeling, that's what owning a car or a custom car that you built is about"
Best VinWiki by far. Not some rich men crying about how they couldn't get their $300,000 cars, or how they took a loss by selling a Ferrari for $200k; just a young dude that loves cars and really wanted a prop for what it stood for. Also, that Cadillac camper is absolutely sick.
Dude had a son, but said was never more excited about anything when he finally bought the Lightning McQueen car. I was cool until he sold it. He should’ve had the buyer pay for a fiberglass mold, and get it in his hands before letting it go.
I am sure a lot of car museums would have liked to get there hands on it. Selling it to the first guy to offer you some money seems a bit silly, maybe giving it a clean and putting it to auction would have been better.
Would have loved to see it go through VCA or whatever to get registered as a kit-car here in the UK. Imagine the look on a kids face as they're in town doing th e shopping and lightning McQueen drives past with an actual v8 burble, They would lose their shit. Shame it'll never happen now.
The easier, and possibly the better way would be to get a 3D scan. I've seen it on other YT videos. With that you could make actual moving parts in place of the static ones, all kinds of stuff. Imagine having a large enough 3D printer to print the entire body.
They probably wouldn't even need to do the entire body, just make molds in sections for the fenders, roof, hood/trunk, and bumpers. Easier to assemble over whatever chassis gets used, more practical to handle the molds/parts, and it'd be easier to repair. But even BETTER thing about a 3D scan, is that he could then scale the car down so the fenderwells fit a more "normal" wheel and tire package while keeping the proportions correct. It sounds like it's quite large overall anyway, so it probably wouldn't be that small after being scaled down from 25" wheels to 20" or so.
Caterpillar tractor in Peoria, Il has a scanner that big. They used to have to call my friend who owned a pattern and mold shop to build developmental parts for them on a chance that they may go to production someday. But Cat is saving a lot of money now by drawning up in the computer and printing it in their own buildings.
Good to see a fellow brit on here (and another being VinWiki (not me!)) 👍🏻 good story Sam, best of luck with everything! (that McQueen shell is Kachow! 😅) Merry Christmas...
You should have kept it a secret. You had no legal right to own or sell a car that should have been destroyed. Hopefully, the Disney/Pixar legal team does not see this video or they can sue you for the sale proceeds that you received for the car ...you did not legally purchase it as the vendor had no legal right to own it. You can also be compelled to disclose to whom you sold the car....and then that guy can also turn around and sue you.
This is cool. I remember in the US at State Farm HQ where I worked they had tie in with Disney and had the static car displays of Mater, McQueen and I think Doc Hudson. I hope they werent crushed.
@@Daniel-dl3tf Disney will find out. Can't do anything to the own who was supposed to destroy it but, they could chase the one who has it know and challenge legal ownership.
@@pibblesracing We all know what these Corporations can be like. They get wind, don't like it and they'll be after information. Which may cause the new owner legal problems. Of course, if the found it and the plack was no longer on it, then...
This guy is so passionate!! I haven’t watched this channel in a year or so because I felt the stories got so flat and uninteresting, but this was a really good one.
Incredible!!!!! My local junkyard here in Humboldt county California has a 1992 Corvette on the roof of their office painted up like lightning McQueen... I'm not jealous of much in this world, but I'm jealous of you owning that car
I live 20 minutes from the celebrity car museum in Branson. They have a killer mater....but lightning McQueen was a 3000gt that only kinda sorta looked right. My son lost his mind when he was like 5 and gets to walk right up to them
Nobody caught the sad part of that story the sad part is it was all made in and produced in London or somewhere over there in Western Europe that is where most of our movies are being made now days
Truer words have never been spoken! “Everything‘s for sale “so long as you are willing to pay the right price. The shame though, my man did not race it in an attempt to win the piston cup.
Donuts, .. I am working on getting a 76 Capri from a man here, it's in his barn. It is ful race chassis, caged, widebody kit, cosworth v6, built to race new and never driven on the street or raced, painted white and never stickered or painted in any racing stripes. It is literrally a brand new unused 76 purpose built 0 mile race car. And I want it to race nostalgia racing in SCCA. He also has another rare car that is museum quality. All this is in a riding mower junkyard.
There is a junk yard down the road from me in Calaveras County that has one of the Lightning McQueen cars so they weren't all crushed... I have pictures of my son next to it he loved it
Such a great story! I've seen people take ordinary cars and apply decals for their favorite movie cars. But I've never seen a real movie car. I've seen copies of movie cars, some of them I had a hand in building, but nothing like your find! I hope you get your fiberglass body shell and build a driving Lightning McQueen! It's a big dream, but with enough ambition it is possible! Go for it!
This is the best VinWiki by FAAAAAR. I love this guys passion and I’m glad he is the one who is the gate keeper of that Lightning McQueen 1/X, his passion for the movie and his persistence earned him that right - and it’s hard these days to pass up a 14500 profit when you have a kid and a family to take care of. That’s what real men do, gentlemen.
How is it passion when he turned around and sold the dream car he’s been trying to get for the past 5 years? Lol. Can’t be a gatekeeper if he doesn’t even own the car
Intersting thing about the engine sounds for Lightning they are mostly taken from an associate's 426 SC Stroker Charger (UHP) and I believe My Supercharged 426 Stroker SuperBee (ABL2FLY) at startup. So glad I worked with API Karl, HRS Dave, Graig, Jerry, Mike good times. Echo Hard! "Doc"
I think the best barn find would be a Chrysler Turbine car. I know there's only two remaining out there because all the other 48 were crushed, but I like to dream that maybe, somehow, one got away...
Actually that's 2 remaining that WORK, 9 remain out of the 55 cars built in the 60's. VINWiki has an interview with Steve Lehto about them here: th-cam.com/video/ZuGvx3WYg1k/w-d-xo.html
I can't help but think that body was worth a whole lot more than $750.00 to $15k. Maybe I'm way off, but I think somebody got a smokin deal, TWICE! Cheers 🍻🎅🎄.
Sam is like that friend, who calls and says "you'll never believe this, but..". And then you don't believe him until you do and then...your mind is blown..lol dudes rad
yeah. I had a friend who called me and the gang many years ago saying; "You'll never believe this, but thing called bitcoin is gonna be huge, wanna split a 100 dollars investment?"
-Nope we all replied knowing he allways had crazy ideas that panned out to nothing...
Fast forward 5 years later and the dude was a +5 millionaire... now he has a penthouse in the capital and alot of dough invested in realestate while the ret of us are payslaves...
Dang it! lol
“This is my dream car, I showed up ready to pay $10,000 for it. I had a whole plan to restore it and make it into a sick race car”
*2 minutes later*
“Someone offered me 10k how could I say no!”
This man needs an assistant
Yeah same I was like 'wtf' im crushed I wanted to see McQueen live...
That was by far the worst car interview I have ever seen. It was literally the ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD and he sold it for a few thousand dollars......pathetic
I hope it was a cash deal because if he paid for tow trucks, donuts and beers for 5 years and then taxes on top of that, you would have a few bucks but not enough to make it worth it.
@@txtallywhacker lmao have you seen some of the NFT bro interviews? This is by no means the worst
yeh 50 or 100 grand maybe, but just stick to the plan! You just told us how rare the wheels and tyres and everything is, plus how much to make one out of a mould, then finish and paint it, and THEN do a chassis etc. Only thing i can think of is he realised how much it needed to steer/power/drive etc, and the cost is cheaper and easier to just make another one, and keep the original one original. Now the biggest challenge is getting the mould made by a guy who already paid you and left haha
Imagine how many other movie cars are hidden in plain sight just waiting to be shown to the world.
Gabriel from The Furious Garage just picked up the Ford lightning original truck from F&F , thing was put back on fords lot as a demo car, story was lost and the guy found it. Check out Craig Liebermans video
Not so many lol
@@Count.Zer0 More than you think I bet.
You should look up "jurassic world rv restoration" on youtube. That was such a cool series.
The best is how the Time Machine schematics for converting a DeLorean was essentially created from people repeatedly sneaking onto the theme park backlot and photographing and measuring things / documenting off the B or C car that was left out in the sun and rain like it was scrap.
Great story I actually worked on those cars. Those were made by company I worked for in California in city of Oxnard. Worked for the company "TransFX" owner is Allen Pike. Good company many movie props and worked with government in aerospace making planes and raydomes. Made many of those cars including all of the cast making them for premiers and Disneyland parades around the world. Many hours went into that car well also my blood sweat but no tears lol. I have the mold of those prototype one of one Goodyear tires. Those where made for non rolling stationary movie cars.
Oh wow really that’s so cool I’m from Oxnard and I’ve seen that building before
@@jacobasuncion3132 yes still there.
@@e7l5i that’s awesome man
that Cadillac is both horrendus and very tastefully done at the same time
That was Caddy's motto in the 50's!
Reminds me of the toppola Saab campers. I love it
That paint job makes it.
its tastefully horrendous
That's a '77 DeVille, not a '76. The '76's were WAY larger.
There is an amazing Lightning McQueen replica at my local junkyard built using a stingray corvette. My young kids use it as a navigation point for sure! It sits up on a shipping crate off the highway 👍🏽
We've got one in a neighboring city done with a mid 90s Camaro. They've also did Mater and Doc.
Odd question do you happen to live in Northern California around eureka?
@@uscarspotting another odd question, how exactly do you grill cheese
@@uscarspotting lol I thought of that same car off the 101 going into Arcata
@@mjf1517 I was up there last year and I was like damn i wonder if that's the car from norcal
09:30 Come, is this how the story ends?
Got the car after a huge struggle, sold it for a promise.... and that is it? Frustration level 100!
Sold it for a promise, and a 3000% markup. I’m sure he sleeps OK at night.
Yeah, i was disappointed too. Just another flipper story.
@@modelcitizen1977 for $10k . Lol not very much money today and thats not getting him anywhere
@@modelcitizen1977 I wouldn't sleep well knowing I maybe could have sold it for millions if it's as rare and special as he claims.
The dude he did the deal with was probably working for the mouse.
I have to say, "Cars" is one of my favorite films. It was one of the few films where I got most of the jokes first time through.
To find Lighting in the wild, that's cool. I hope the guy comes through with a casting.
I once found a 1995 Supra SE JZA80 in a pull parts junkyard in GA. Best junkyard find of my lifetime!!
Saw that car the night it went up, it was a white auto wasn't it?
@@aronANDtanner yep, that’s the one, the interior was mint and I took it all lol. Best comeup at the yard in awhile. Really wanted to save the car tho!
was a jdm ae86 for 900$ in australia about 15 years ago. Mate of mine not interested in toyotas told me about it. Prick told me the wrong place though. By the time i'd found right place it was gone. :(
Oh man I could imagine how much that would be worth
I would have bought the whole car 1 bolt at a time if thats what it took
Whoa, put in 5 years of work to get these guys to sell him the car, was prepared to spend 10K on it and when he finally gets it he sells it for that much or maybe 5k more?? I feel like there's a piece of the story missing here... Was looking forward to seeing this as a working car, but I don't think that's ever going to happen when everyone just keeps flipping the shell for more money.
It was probably Mickey mouse that blackmailed him.. err I mean bought it from him
Yeah exactly Disney got the car back and crushed it, no way we're ever seeing this car again.
I was so disappointed when he mentioned flipping it , I’m not against flipping but the way he built the story up like it was his dream car and then sells it the first week he had lost all the character of the story..
Seems like a dirtbag deal
Why don't you make the mold before selling it? Makes no sense.
What a brilliant story and what a find in a UK scrapyard...this guys excitement is clear to see!
For sure, I hate to bust Price William up but the most famous Nascar body in the world is a midnight black car with a #3 on it.
Great Story Sam! Hope you have a great Christmas Legend - Rabbit 😎
You too you legend !!!!
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY tells a car story quite like the bloke from Segensworth. Merry Christmas to the legend and his family! Thanks for all the great content this year from you and Ciro. #HardUpForLife❗🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
LEGEND.
Why isn’t your TH-cam account certified? Probably should get that done
You know it's a real friend when they comment and that friend comment back.
“It’s was 10-15 grand, I can’t remember”
When you know that Ed goes over these stories with them, you see these things as so weird. Like was that part of making the story better? You forgot how much you badass dream car was sold for?
Well, what if he got 15 grand but only claimed 10 on his taxes? I might be a bit forgetful, too. 😁
Sounds like he's from the UK, and their taxes make you bend over and say thank you...
Yeah he knows exactly every detail of the story besides what he sold it for.
Disney non disclosure agreement do this to people.
Who gives a shit
@@johnpryor3254 Yeah im thinking he sold.it.back to Disney also, No fcking way we ever see this car again...
The older I get, the harder I laugh at that movie! Its just an all around, perfect movie!! I remember it coming out, and it was one of the only movies that my kid brother, me, and my dad could watch and laugh at together.
That movie aged like fine wine, I like to watch it every once and awhile, and catch the jokes that went over my head as a little kid. The technical adviser must have been a GOAT
I just watched it the other day an I heard a car saying "PLAY FREEBIRD" 🤣🤣🤣
"I won the Piston cup"
*Spits out his drink*
"He did what in his cup?"
Cooool .
He did what in his cup!?🤣
Always great to hear a story that someone has a true passion about.
yeah,he was so passionate about it he sold it next minute
You are a car guy. This a universal reaction to getting your dream car.
Next update.......I'm being sued by Disney for owning a movie prop.
The mouse is not pleased..........
He “sold” it 😉
They can't do that. It's illegal to sue for ownership.
@@theenzoferrari458 have you met the mouses lawyers? They dont even have to be able to win, they will just bury you in debt responding to filings till you cry uncle.
@@theenzoferrari458 except disney and nintendo both are known to go after people for the smallest, most miniscule things. they have so much money they know they can go after the little guy and drag it out in court long enough that the person goes broke and agrees to "settle" it out of court.
They do it out of "principle", which you would THINK that would end up being a PR nightmare and damage thier brands, not help it. You know, going out and suing your fans into obliviation for no reason. But they still continue to basically be too big to fail.
Whether its disney going after local daycares in a small town, or nintendo going after rom sites over games that havent been made in 30 years, the original devs being defunt long ago and nintedno not actually having any intellectual rights to said games in the 1st place. They got the cash and legal team to be able to go around and bully everyone for no reason.
*_Disney is strict about that stuff. I use to work for Disney freelancing back in the early '90s making 4 x 8 feet custom 3D Billboards for all the movie premiers in California. I had an unlimited budget. I could request as many 4' x 8' posters as I needed plus I'd purchase all the tools I needed to make my masterpieces. When I was finished with each poster they would always request that I'd return any unused posters. All the tools I'd purchased I could keep but the unused 4' x 8' posters I had to return._*
I'd like to think I would have still kept 2 of each poster in strict secrecy and hope you did.
@@SubUrbanSF *Nope, I do my best to obey my heavenly father. And that would be a big no no in his book.*
@@radicalrick9587
"Though shall not steal"
And that my friend, despite all the GOOD I KNOW I do in this life... Will be the seemingly little thing that leaves me standing at the pearly gates thinking...
"...BUT?!"
Yep. Every studio protects their IPs. The stories Ive heard of sobbing men having to take a hammer to the molds for some character or creature or prop that they literally just spent the last 2 months making I could not count on all my fingers and toes. A company super would come out and watch them collect every mold, scrap piece, reference, everything, take it out to the dumpsters and destroy it so no one could get sued for stealing intellectual property. Then go through the meeting hall and collect the super secret sauce files and such. Of course some things did fall through some cracks here and there, but they mostly ended up destroyed. But, I mean, this is the shop that made the pieces, and the people that make that kind of stuff all day. A few cases of WED clay, some 'publicly available references', a shit ton of fiberglass and silicone, and boom! A self made part they cant complain about 😉😅
But yeah, to that other commenter, you do not steal from the duck-chau....or you get sent to mouseschwitz....
And having said that, I will never be allowed to work for Disney again.....😐
It looks exactly like the Lightning McQueen they drive around Cars Land at California Adventure, what a cool find.
doing a full NASCAR treatment on a lightning McQueen shell with some bespoke wheels is the sickest thing I can imagine. that's where I thought this was going, but nah. he sold it so it will never been seen again :(
I ate at the cafe that Cars was inspired by in Oklahoma - the voice actor for *Sally owns it and still runs it to this day!
Sally* Bonnie Hunt was the voice actress for the movie. She doesn't own the restaurant though. The owner of the restaurant, Dawn Welch, is who the character Sally is based off of.
I had no clue it was inspired by a Cafe in Oklahoma. Iv lived here all my life. Do you know what town?
I drove through Hooker, Oklahoma and there is a Hooker Inn
Sorry for any misunderstanding or misinformation!
@@bigbands9825 Rock Cafe, Stroud, Oklahoma
Justa note. My wife and l went to see "Cars" in a small theatre in Navasota Texas, in the opening scenes of the movie there is a convertable 1963 Dodge Dart. I exclaimed loudly, "that's my car", my wife shushed me loudly. Some of the audience in the theatre laughed loudly.
Pretty cool! Can’t wait to see what Sam builds next!
CADILLAC #43 PETTY BLUE AND A SUPERBIRD FIN ON CAMPER...WOW...CRAZY KEWL...I saw a Cadillac Camper similar here in Calif years ago...nicely done...painted a light chocolate brown...and sat right too...no overloaded tail dragged either...good job by somebody...but this blue one...wow....pizzaz...!!!
Im not a huge fan if the movies but that is an incredible shell. Well done!
Me neither. Wall-e was a better movie than some cars movie with talking cars. Lmao.
Love the dedication. Every few months going there with coffee and donuts. Now that's some smart business tactics.
There's a house I pass on my way to work and I gotta believe it's someone who owns a car dealership because they've always got at least 10 cars in front of it. I can't remember if it's still there, but for at least quite a while, one of the cars was a drivable Lightning McQueen tribute car (pretty sure it was a wrap, but no eyes on the windshield for obvious reasons). Currently there's both an Aventador and a Huracan and a Hummer H3 with color shifting paint, but McQueen might still be behind some of the others.
They had a fully operational McQueen at Disney MGM studios that was doing shows in 2015.
Wow, a level headed, down to earth, REAL person, on VinWiki... never thought it would happen...
3:14 "it doesn't matter what it cost, money is irrelevant, it's about feeling the love that everyone there is feeling, that's what owning a car or a custom car that you built is about"
I totally recognize the car even though I never saw the movie.
A fantastic story.
The title shouldve said "how to trigger & make a 90s baby cry"
I like this cat. Last story and this one too. As long as rabbit ain't peddling sleaze I really enjoy all of your guests
Best VinWiki by far. Not some rich men crying about how they couldn't get their $300,000 cars, or how they took a loss by selling a Ferrari for $200k; just a young dude that loves cars and really wanted a prop for what it stood for.
Also, that Cadillac camper is absolutely sick.
Dude had a son, but said was never more excited about anything when he finally bought the Lightning McQueen car. I was cool until he sold it. He should’ve had the buyer pay for a fiberglass mold, and get it in his hands before letting it go.
I am sure a lot of car museums would have liked to get there hands on it. Selling it to the first guy to offer you some money seems a bit silly, maybe giving it a clean and putting it to auction would have been better.
He is a very genuine person
I hope things get better for him and hopefully in the future he can afford whatever he wants
Mid 70 Chevy pick ups would fall apart right on the highway. They were so rusty.
Would have loved to see it go through VCA or whatever to get registered as a kit-car here in the UK.
Imagine the look on a kids face as they're in town doing th e shopping and lightning McQueen drives past with an actual v8 burble, They would lose their shit. Shame it'll never happen now.
Important point that he makes about the power of sugar (read doughnuts). I would never believe that sugar has more power than beer, but it does.
Sams enthusiasm is infectious.
Two absolute legends, you and the seller that asked for a few quid for Christmas.
What a wholesome story!
The easier, and possibly the better way would be to get a 3D scan. I've seen it on other YT videos. With that you could make actual moving parts in place of the static ones, all kinds of stuff. Imagine having a large enough 3D printer to print the entire body.
Exactly what I was thinking and then have a copy milled out. Plenty of companies out there with large mills capable of milling the entire body.
They probably wouldn't even need to do the entire body, just make molds in sections for the fenders, roof, hood/trunk, and bumpers. Easier to assemble over whatever chassis gets used, more practical to handle the molds/parts, and it'd be easier to repair.
But even BETTER thing about a 3D scan, is that he could then scale the car down so the fenderwells fit a more "normal" wheel and tire package while keeping the proportions correct. It sounds like it's quite large overall anyway, so it probably wouldn't be that small after being scaled down from 25" wheels to 20" or so.
Caterpillar tractor in Peoria, Il has a scanner that big. They used to have to call my friend who owned a pattern and mold shop to build developmental parts for them on a chance that they may go to production someday. But Cat is saving a lot of money now by drawning up in the computer and printing it in their own buildings.
Great story, awesome. Seeing lighting McQueen on that roll back gives great perspective. Awesome.
sold his dream fr $15k....dont sound like much of a dream to me
Only a life-size TARDIS would have me more excited
Great story and your excitement is infectious!
That is exactly how I got my dream car kept talking to the old feller
Love that the world mows about my little secret!
Just watch out for that cease and desist from Disney 😅
Mows?
@@siggy6044 it may just make me TH-cam famous lol
Good to see a fellow brit on here (and another being VinWiki (not me!)) 👍🏻 good story Sam, best of luck with everything! (that McQueen shell is Kachow! 😅) Merry Christmas...
You should have kept it a secret.
You had no legal right to own or sell a car that should have been destroyed.
Hopefully, the Disney/Pixar legal team does not see this video or they can sue you for the sale proceeds that you received for the car ...you did not legally purchase it as the vendor had no legal right to own it.
You can also be compelled to disclose to whom you sold the car....and then that guy can also turn around and sue you.
Pixar and Disney lawyers are entering the chat....
The pic at 2:50 is awesome. Great story, Thanks!
I think that was made at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton NJ
I'll admit. I'm jealous. These things shouldn't be destroyed. It's kinda nice seeing childhood things become semi-reality.
This is cool. I remember in the US at State Farm HQ where I worked they had tie in with Disney and had the static car displays of Mater, McQueen and I think Doc Hudson. I hope they werent crushed.
This is one of those stories that you don't share on the internet
why not... keeping this secret would have been even stupider...
@@Daniel-dl3tf Disney will find out. Can't do anything to the own who was supposed to destroy it but, they could chase the one who has it know and challenge legal ownership.
@@jo_clarke1960 he doesn't own it anymore. And "oops - I can't find the paperwork from the sale"
@@pibblesracing We all know what these Corporations can be like. They get wind, don't like it and they'll be after information. Which may cause the new owner legal problems. Of course, if the found it and the plack was no longer on it, then...
This is the best story I’ve ever heard
In before Pixar repossession Just like dominoes did to Samcrac.
Sam still has the pizza car.
Sam absolutely still has that car.
Don Scott is a legend in Nostalgia Super Stock Drag racing in the UK, really great guy
This guy is so passionate!! I haven’t watched this channel in a year or so because I felt the stories got so flat and uninteresting, but this was a really good one.
Incredible!!!!! My local junkyard here in Humboldt county California has a 1992 Corvette on the roof of their office painted up like lightning McQueen... I'm not jealous of much in this world, but I'm jealous of you owning that car
Hopefully the "I sold it" is just an excuse to keep Disney at bay.
I live 20 minutes from the celebrity car museum in Branson. They have a killer mater....but lightning McQueen was a 3000gt that only kinda sorta looked right. My son lost his mind when he was like 5 and gets to walk right up to them
My Buddy Ron made the CNC that was used to machine that body. I even have pictures of it being machined 😁
Any chance he still has a copy of the file he used to mill it?
Nobody caught the sad part of that story the sad part is it was all made in and produced in London or somewhere over there in Western Europe that is where most of our movies are being made now days
Another epic Sam story. Keet them coming!
Truer words have never been spoken! “Everything‘s for sale “so long as you are willing to pay the right price. The shame though, my man did not race it in an attempt to win the piston cup.
Donuts, .. I am working on getting a 76 Capri from a man here, it's in his barn. It is ful race chassis, caged, widebody kit, cosworth v6, built to race new and never driven on the street or raced, painted white and never stickered or painted in any racing stripes. It is literrally a brand new unused 76 purpose built 0 mile race car. And I want it to race nostalgia racing in SCCA. He also has another rare car that is museum quality. All this is in a riding mower junkyard.
There is a junk yard down the road from me in Calaveras County that has one of the Lightning McQueen cars so they weren't all crushed... I have pictures of my son next to it he loved it
Its sad that when big numbers get involved the story goes from "it's not for sale" to.. "ok, take it." Not everything has a price.
Don drag races the bird, nicest bloke you could meet 👍🏻
AAAAnd incoming lawsuit from Disney / Pixar..... Though I love both cars!
Mate of mine has that exact mcqueen now local to me from this video. Im currenrly making the reae spoiler mounts for it 🤟 incredibly car.
The Mazda RX7 looks very similar to the lightening McQueen, I did some decals for a friend on his. Looked brilliant, have a great Christmas…phil
Lighting is great, but LOVE the caddy!
Now that's AWESOME!
Thanks for sharing!
Such a great story! I've seen people take ordinary cars and apply decals for their favorite movie cars. But I've never seen a real movie car. I've seen copies of movie cars, some of them I had a hand in building, but nothing like your find! I hope you get your fiberglass body shell and build a driving Lightning McQueen! It's a big dream, but with enough ambition it is possible! Go for it!
2 seconds in and I know this is going to be good.
Love this guy
Just finished watching, was not disappointed!
Sam is an awesome guy, I'm lucky to call him my buddy 👍
Talk about being saved from the scrapyard. This is incredible.
So I put $5,000 in his pocket ($3,000) in his pocket. $8,000 grand in his car.
Sounds like my type of deal…
This is the best VinWiki by FAAAAAR. I love this guys passion and I’m glad he is the one who is the gate keeper of that Lightning McQueen 1/X, his passion for the movie and his persistence earned him that right - and it’s hard these days to pass up a 14500 profit when you have a kid and a family to take care of. That’s what real men do, gentlemen.
Thanks matey :)
How is it passion when he turned around and sold the dream car he’s been trying to get for the past 5 years? Lol. Can’t be a gatekeeper if he doesn’t even own the car
Guy that bought the car...Whoever you are DO THE RIGHT THING, DONT LET HIM DOWN!! WE ARE WATCHING AND WATCHING...
Disney bought the car.
Intersting thing about the engine sounds for Lightning they are mostly taken from an associate's 426 SC Stroker Charger (UHP) and I believe My Supercharged 426 Stroker SuperBee (ABL2FLY) at startup. So glad I worked with API Karl, HRS Dave, Graig, Jerry, Mike good times. Echo Hard! "Doc"
Did the Cadillac still have the bumper?? That's an achievement in itself
I'm surprised Disney hasn't come after him with their lawyers.
Yet lol
What an absolutely amazing story!
Was so disappointed that you sold it
dang i was really hoping to look forward to a proper build with that body. kinda like genius garage did with the lykan prop car. maybe some day.
I like the Cadillac better than the lightning car.
Sweet Jesus will someone educate this man on what NASCAR is !?!?
"and I'm the only man in the world aside from disney that owns one" *INSTANT cease and desist* lol
I think the best barn find would be a Chrysler Turbine car. I know there's only two remaining out there because all the other 48 were crushed, but I like to dream that maybe, somehow, one got away...
Actually that's 2 remaining that WORK, 9 remain out of the 55 cars built in the 60's. VINWiki has an interview with Steve Lehto about them here: th-cam.com/video/ZuGvx3WYg1k/w-d-xo.html
My man better get his glass fiber mold or we taking Lightning McQueen back.
only problem is its NOT a NASCAR car never was never will be
Nobody: big, wide, and low.
My step-dad: sounds like my ex wife.
his cadillac is not a 76 :) this body came in 77
True!
I can't help but think that body was worth a whole lot more than $750.00 to $15k. Maybe I'm way off, but I think somebody got a smokin deal, TWICE!
Cheers 🍻🎅🎄.
This man needs his lightning McQueen car
Dude, my son would absolutely freak! Can’t wait to let him see this video.
Update: he saw it and was insanely jealous.
super envious of that Caddy ngl
The car means that much to him and he doesn’t remember if he sold for 15k or 10k?