[0:00] This thing stuck here. This thing's a
[0:02] refund. The Range Rover's a refund.
[0:04] There's the losses. All in $45,000 in
[0:08] money if you count the refunds and then
[0:10] the losses on the Lincolns.
[0:11] It's a
[0:12] It's It's a tough day.
[0:18] >> [laughter]
[0:19] >> Welcome to Hoovie's Garage, the dumbest
[0:21] automotive channel in all of YouTube.
[0:22] And I tried to sell eight of my cars to
[0:24] fund my dream car or now nightmare car
[0:27] rebuild. It's a bottomless pit, my 300SL
[0:29] Gullwing. And uh selling those eight
[0:31] cars or trying to was a total disaster.
[0:33] Well, I say that two of them went well,
[0:35] three were expectedly terrible, [music]
[0:37] and three were a complete and total
[0:39] disaster. Two I had to give the money
[0:41] back on, refund, and one I can't sell.
[0:44] Two people have flaked out at this
[0:45] point. [music] It's probably never going
[0:47] to sell. So, it is pretty frustrating,
[0:49] but let's start with the ones that went
[0:51] well. The first one being the Breaking
[0:53] Bad Cadillac, which this one was
[0:55] actually a disaster for me YouTube
[0:56] views-wise. This is from the last
[0:58] episode of Breaking Bad where Bryan
[1:00] Cranston's character engineers a machine
[1:02] gun in the trunk to mow down his enemies
[1:04] in one epic climax. And this is actually
[1:07] the car. It wasn't damaged in filming.
[1:08] That was all CGI and tricks. And this is
[1:10] the actual one that he drove in the last
[1:12] episode of the film. It sold in a pop
[1:14] auction for over $20,000 a few years
[1:16] ago. And then the Mob Museum raffled it
[1:18] off, and the winner sold it at
[1:19] Barrett-Jackson. And I bought it for
[1:21] only $8,800. I knew it was a great deal
[1:23] at the time, but unfortunately it was
[1:25] probably my worst video views-wise in a
[1:27] couple of years, which is fine, but it
[1:29] didn't inspire me to really do more for
[1:31] this car, make it a feature in any other
[1:33] videos. So, it kind of sat there. Even
[1:35] though it broke a lot, it actually broke
[1:37] down on us three times. Three trips to
[1:39] the Car Wizards, and I spent $2,800 on
[1:41] it plus eight or $900 to ship it back to
[1:43] Kansas from Arizona. But the good news
[1:45] is when I sold it on Cars & Bids No
[1:47] Reserve, it brought $16,500.
[1:50] And it's going to a museum, which is
[1:52] really cool. This place in Texas has all
[1:54] kinds of movie and TV cars, Batmobiles,
[1:56] Knight Rider, you name it. So, it's the
[1:58] perfect place for it, and they paid
[1:59] $16,500
[2:01] for it. So, even after the shipping and
[2:02] the fixing, I made like $4,500 on the
[2:05] thing. So, you could definitely call
[2:07] that a win, a rare win for me. Now, the
[2:10] absolute home run was my 2004 Maybach
[2:13] 62, which I had for 4 years, but I
[2:16] hadn't driven very much in the past
[2:17] year. I bought it at Barrett-Jackson for
[2:19] $44,000 with fees. Probably over the
[2:21] years spent around $5,000 maintaining
[2:23] it. No big failures. Not bad for 4 years
[2:26] of owning a Maybach 62 that was $400,000
[2:29] new, and it was one of my most
[2:30] successful YouTube cars ever. Multiple
[2:32] videos over a million views, one I think
[2:34] over 2 million views. So, I was really
[2:36] happy with the car. It could have sold
[2:38] for free, and I would have been happy
[2:39] with the ownership experience and what
[2:41] it did for me and my channel. But, it
[2:43] actually sold on Cars and Bids for
[2:45] around $53,000.
[2:47] So, once again, I made another four or
[2:49] five thousand dollar profit on that car,
[2:51] and it sold to a really cool guy in New
[2:53] York City who planned his entire summer
[2:55] around the car, things that he was going
[2:57] to do with it. So, pretty cool there.
[2:59] So, two big successes. I am very much
[3:01] going to miss that car, but I do have
[3:04] this 1998 S500 that I can fix up now
[3:06] with the money. A new alternator was
[3:08] just put in. Stock wheels come in
[3:10] because these aren't the right AMG
[3:12] wheels. They're from a newer S-Class.
[3:13] They just don't look right. And I also
[3:15] have the S350 diesel that I've actually
[3:18] been daily driving. 180,000 mi, even
[3:21] though it needs a new turbo and some
[3:22] shocks, it's still driving fine as is.
[3:25] And the cool massaging seats, the
[3:27] freezing hot air conditioning, I'm
[3:29] driving this thing a lot in the summer.
[3:30] And that was the problem with the
[3:31] Maybach in the first place. It's
[3:33] engineered off the 140 chassis, which
[3:34] you go buy those for a fraction of the
[3:36] price. And then Mercedes redesigned the
[3:38] S-Class. This came out a few years
[3:40] later, and it looked more modern, more
[3:42] beautiful than the Maybach, and it was a
[3:44] fraction of the price. This would have
[3:45] been 60, 70,000 dollars compared to
[3:47] $400,000,
[3:49] and that's why the Maybach was a total
[3:51] failure from Mercedes. Now they're back
[3:53] as just existing S-Classes badged up and
[3:55] that's probably what it's going to be
[3:56] like forever. So the Maybach 62 is a
[3:58] really special thing, but I totally get
[4:00] why it was a failure and I'm not missing
[4:02] it that much because I am well stocked
[4:04] in S-Classes otherwise. There's also the
[4:06] Mercedes 6.9 that's in Georgia getting
[4:08] fixed at DC Motorworks. So I have three
[4:11] to replace it with. I'm doing okay.
[4:13] Since I've been daily in this S350, the
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[5:54] the cars because I sold some
[5:56] >> [music]
[5:56] >> for some big big losses, but it's
[5:59] actually worse than that. So now it's
[6:00] time to talk about the losers going from
[6:02] the least loserest to the dumbest
[6:03] losers. And usually I expect to lose
[6:06] some money on these cars, especially
[6:07] going through fixing all of them. I
[6:09] don't make wise decisions like Euro
[6:10] Asian Bob where I let him have this
[6:12] Ferrari 348 for I think $45,000 for 5
[6:15] years ago. So
[6:17] yeah, I could own that car and I don't.
[6:19] Instead I had the 100,000 mile one that
[6:21] I sold even though I love that car. So
[6:24] let's start with the smallest loser and
[6:25] that's actually the 1923 Packard. And I
[6:28] am really happy with this because I
[6:29] bought it for $10,000 and it is an
[6:32] original paint survivor car that didn't
[6:34] run. It wasn't too crazy to get it
[6:36] running, but we did have a small wiring
[6:38] fire shortly after that because dummy
[6:40] wired up the battery wrong. It's a
[6:41] positive ground car and I put in the
[6:43] battery the wrong way and it caused some
[6:45] melted wires. Not a big deal, but
[6:47] $10,000 to buy it, $1,000 to ship it
[6:49] here, $1,800 in repairs, and it sold for
[6:53] $11,000. So I lost $1,800 on this car,
[6:57] but I got to own a 100-year-old original
[6:59] survivor Packard, get it running on the
[7:01] channel, the videos did well enough, and
[7:03] really enjoy this thing for the year
[7:04] that I owned it. So losing $1,800, not a
[7:07] big deal. The losses, they go up from
[7:10] there. So the pair Lincolns, I knew I
[7:12] was going to lose a lot of money on both
[7:14] Lincolns. Starting with the 1991 Lincoln
[7:17] Town Car. That really was April's car,
[7:18] but I egged it on and we went too far.
[7:21] We got definitely got carried away with
[7:23] the bidding on that one. With the fees
[7:24] we paid $16,400
[7:26] for a 40,000 mile silver rose a Lincoln
[7:29] Town Car, which they can bring that, but
[7:31] this one will have been sitting for a
[7:33] while and it needed a lot of work. The
[7:34] selling dealer did a lot to wake it up,
[7:36] but as you start driving a car more
[7:37] things break to the tune of this one
[7:39] around $2,000. The air conditioning,
[7:41] windows, a lot of little stuff that
[7:43] needed to come back in action. And
[7:45] unfortunately, we spent $1,200 shipping
[7:47] it here as well. So, we are close to
[7:49] $20,000 into this thing. And uh there
[7:52] were some issues that popped up. The
[7:53] thing is, if you want big money for a
[7:55] car, you have to make it perfect. It's
[7:57] either perfect or it's cheap. Another
[7:59] dealer's going to buy it and fix it and
[8:00] flip it for more. And that's what
[8:01] happened with this one. It had the
[8:02] airbag light on. Also, mice got into it
[8:05] and chewed a hole in the seat that I
[8:06] didn't fix. So, it was expected to bring
[8:08] less, and it sold for $11,546.
[8:12] We lost $8,000 on that one. $8,000.
[8:16] That that's That's a big hit,
[8:18] unfortunately. I wasn't expecting that
[8:20] much, but it does make sense considering
[8:22] I didn't have the car as nice as it was
[8:24] when I bought it, unfortunately. Now, I
[8:27] said I was going to do this in order,
[8:27] but there were two Lincolns. They were
[8:28] kind of close. The Lincoln Blackwood was
[8:30] also another expected loss because I
[8:31] bought that one not knowing it had
[8:34] failing head gaskets. Bought it at
[8:35] Barrett-Jackson for $11,000, I think
[8:38] with fees. Then $800 to ship it home,
[8:40] and then a whopping $4,500 in repairs to
[8:43] do the heads on that car, unfortunately.
[8:45] And the bidding? Well, $10,854.
[8:49] So, basically $11,000, close to what I
[8:52] paid for it, but I had to do all of
[8:53] those repairs. So, if I didn't have to
[8:55] do massive massive repairs to it, it
[8:58] would have been okay, but obviously,
[9:00] that's a big loss. Although, it still
[9:02] had issues. It still had the ABS light
[9:03] due to the module that I couldn't find,
[9:05] and a few other little things. So,
[9:07] that's why it didn't bring huge retail
[9:09] money. A dealer bought it thinking he
[9:11] could flip it. Actually, the same guy
[9:12] who bought the '91 Town Car. Father son
[9:14] flew out, drove it back to Atlanta, no
[9:16] problems. And that one I lost $5,446.
[9:20] But, it was a successful sale, just huge
[9:23] losses between the two. Unfortunately,
[9:25] though, it gets worse. It gets way way
[9:28] worse because I had to refund two people
[9:30] their money on my cars, and one
[9:34] it it it's totally unsellable. So,
[9:36] earlier, Magic Mike was here looking at
[9:39] this Range Rover that I sold for $10,000
[9:42] and then it started leaking everywhere.
[9:45] Double the trouble right here and
[9:47] Magical the Mike right here. How's it
[9:49] going?
[9:50] >> I'm not feeling so magical after this
[9:52] Range Rover.
[9:53] >> There's no winning on this thing. So,
[9:55] this one I sold on Cars & Bids $10,000.
[9:59] I got the money.
[10:00] >> Mhm.
[10:01] >> That's me making a $3,000 profit on a
[10:03] car, which never happens.
[10:05] >> I mean only
[10:05] >> rarely happens. I was very pleased with
[10:08] myself and then I walk out to it uh and
[10:11] the shipper's coming to get it the next
[10:13] day and there's just an explosion of
[10:15] coolant on the ground and it is
[10:16] splooging out
[10:18] the fender. Like right here. So, I
[10:20] assumed like okay, expansion tank cuz
[10:22] that's right here, but
[10:23] >> That's what I thought.
[10:25] >> It's it's dry. There There's nothing
[10:27] dripping around here.
[10:29] So, unfortunately, open up the door.
[10:33] >> We had to find out the hard way.
[10:35] >> It is decided the heater core to let
[10:38] loose. So, that is coolant inside of the
[10:41] cabin.
[10:43] It has busted, but that's not all.
[10:46] I I I'm glad I caught it before it went
[10:48] out. Imagine it went to this guy in Utah
[10:50] and then he finds all this. I would look
[10:51] like the biggest POS in the world, but
[10:54] while we had it in the air looking for
[10:55] the leak, uh we couldn't help but notice
[10:57] it the oil cooler line has been changed
[10:58] in the oil cooler, but it's still it's
[11:01] still drippy.
[11:03] And it's it's so We thought it was just
[11:05] from the residual mess when that thing
[11:06] kind of exploded, but it just keeps
[11:09] >> It keeps accumulating around the
[11:11] radiator right here, but it's not coming
[11:13] from our oil cooler. Both the lines got
[11:15] replaced, new oil cooler. It's dry up
[11:18] top. It's only wet on the bottom.
[11:20] >> And it only drips when the car is off.
[11:23] So, when it's running,
[11:25] we'll let it sit here and run for an
[11:26] hour. It'll never leave a drip on the
[11:27] ground. Then we park it and that's why
[11:29] we assumed it was just residual mess
[11:31] that was hard to clean out without
[11:32] taking out the radiator or whatever, but
[11:34] at this point, it's
[11:36] Is it a bad Is it a bad line that brand
[11:38] new something like that? So, once again,
[11:41] weird, but then Michael's like, "Nope,
[11:44] that's That's not it." So,
[11:46] I can't believe this, but
[11:49] the rear main is
[11:51] a little drippy,
[11:53] which maybe was a little bit of seepage
[11:55] before normal little car stuff doesn't
[11:57] matter. And then this transmission,
[11:58] which was done 6 months ago,
[12:00] it's it's leaking from the pan again.
[12:03] So, that one See, that one's leaking.
[12:04] Kind of a drip. The rear main, I guess,
[12:06] would leave a drip every once in a
[12:07] while but
[12:08] >> Yeah.
[12:08] >> I can't I can't send it out this way.
[12:11] So,
[12:12] I've had to refund money on this one.
[12:14] And guess what? Selling it to J&J Auto
[12:16] Wrecking for $3,000.
[12:18] So, instead of 10, I get three, which is
[12:20] what I paid for it. Then I spent
[12:22] $1,000 shipping it here, and then $2,000
[12:25] fixing it up, and then sell it for three
[12:27] to get just parted out to salvage yard
[12:29] because it's it's absolute junk. So,
[12:31] anyway, the good news is
[12:34] we got we figured this all out before it
[12:36] went out to Utah cuz basically I would
[12:38] have had to give the guy a full refund
[12:39] and just let him keep the car, but even
[12:40] at that point, like
[12:42] I The concern is like are the head
[12:44] gaskets starting to go? Like all this
[12:46] stuff, it's just
[12:47] >> It's extremely inconvenient and it's all
[12:49] at the same time. We fix I thought I
[12:52] fixed one and then another one shows up
[12:53] that's completely unrelated.
[12:55] >> It's kind of
[12:56] It's Yeah, something's not right. So,
[12:58] another one like a perfectly
[12:59] good-looking beautiful car
[13:01] that just just being parked here
[13:04] mechanically totaled itself because this
[13:06] stuff wasn't leaking before when I drove
[13:08] it back from the Wizards and parked it
[13:09] months ago, it just
[13:11] It just started going.
[13:13] >> Ever since I touched it.
[13:15] >> [laughter]
[13:16] >> Oh, are we blaming you?
[13:17] Well you
[13:18] >> That's what it feels like.
[13:19] >> You haven't touched this one yet. So,
[13:20] this is from my last video with the LR3,
[13:23] and I wanted to top off the transmission
[13:24] fluid to see if it would shift cuz it's
[13:26] flaring and and slipping right now. And
[13:28] I saw there was a seal for life
[13:30] transmission. Everybody screamed, "It's
[13:31] not seal for life. You can fill it from
[13:32] the side." And so,
[13:34] you're right in the comments, you can
[13:35] fill it from the side. But now we have
[13:36] it up in the air. Look at this wonderful
[13:38] mess here. I mean,
[13:40] this is everything. This is this is this
[13:42] is leaking everything. It's more Ran
[13:46] Land Rover. It's more Land Rover
[13:48] struggles. It's got me feeling like I'm
[13:51] maybe not as magical as I once thought I
[13:52] was, but this one
[13:54] >> You haven't touched it, so
[13:55] >> [laughter]
[13:56] >> I can't curse it if I haven't touched
[13:58] it.
[13:58] >> I mean, valve covers, timing chain
[14:00] cover,
[14:01] front diff, rear main, and then the
[14:03] transmission obviously is just a total
[14:05] mess. And yeah, there is a fill hole on
[14:07] the side, but this is in the way. This
[14:10] is This is in the way. They make it so
[14:12] hard.
[14:13] And also, it has either a timing chain
[14:16] or a cam phaser rattle, so that's going
[14:18] to let go any moment on the engine.
[14:19] That's going to be done. So, this thing
[14:21] is mechanically totaled. But, we are
[14:23] going to put fluid in the transmission
[14:24] cuz you all are so mad that I didn't try
[14:25] it because apparently this is the best
[14:27] Land Rover ever. And we're going to see
[14:29] if it actually fixes the transmission
[14:31] even though it has 200,000 mi. So,
[14:33] uh Is there enough out of the way?
[14:35] >> Yeah, we got enough out of the way. I
[14:36] got my little hydraulic pump with me.
[14:38] We'll We'll see what we can do.
[14:39] >> Okay. Is it in?
[14:40] >> We're in.
[14:52] >> Use this at your job at night, too.
[14:55] >> [laughter]
[14:57] >> I've had a little bit of practice. I
[14:59] think we'll
[15:00] I think we'll be able to bring breathe
[15:01] some life back into this transmission.
[15:03] >> You think so?
[15:05] >> A quart and a half low is pretty low.
[15:08] >> Fix a Land Rover for once.
[15:11] >> Maybe.
[15:12] >> You know, the previous owner actually
[15:13] reached out to me when he saw the video
[15:15] on this and said, "Yeah, I trade dumped
[15:17] it because of the transmission and the
[15:19] timing chain noise." He bought it, it
[15:20] was still running warm and quiet.
[15:22] Somebody had warmed it up before he
[15:23] bought it.
[15:24] >> Yeah.
[15:24] >> And then the uh radiator exploded on his
[15:27] wife the first day she was driving it.
[15:30] And left her stranded. So, he had a very
[15:32] bad ownership experience, but
[15:35] let's see.
[15:36] No slip there.
[15:39] Big Oh, man.
[15:40] >> That one's got a little bit of a slip
[15:41] there.
[15:45] >> There's a flare.
[15:47] I guess it's improved.
[15:49] >> It shifts, but it's not very smooth.
[15:52] >> No.
[15:55] So, it makes it drivable now, but that
[15:57] was a very hard one-two shift. There's
[15:59] definitely some damage in there.
[16:00] >> Yeah.
[16:01] >> Now, we'll give it one more try. Maybe
[16:03] it's circulated a bit.
[16:05] I've never attempted to floor this thing
[16:07] before.
[16:08] >> [laughter]
[16:09] >> So, why not now?
[16:17] I like that.
[16:18] >> Wow.
[16:23] That's
[16:25] way better than what I would have
[16:26] thought it was going to be.
[16:27] >> that was good.
[16:29] >> [laughter]
[16:29] >> Okay.
[16:30] >> I said one more.
[16:31] >> One more. I'm just going to do a normal
[16:33] pull here. I think because it was in
[16:35] here, first shift, transmission command
[16:37] selected is forcing it into second here.
[16:46] Yeah, there's still a little bit of a
[16:48] when it shifts, just a little but but
[16:50] >> It's definitely drivable, though.
[16:52] >> Yeah, someone could actually get maybe a
[16:54] few weeks out of this.
[16:56] >> [laughter]
[16:58] >> But, I think I'm going to make a decree,
[17:00] Michael.
[17:01] No more Land Rovers.
[17:03] >> Please, no more Land Rovers.
[17:04] >> I I
[17:05] after all the years of abuse and all the
[17:07] many that I've owned,
[17:08] I think
[17:10] I I think this is it for me. I I
[17:12] honestly think that I've gone through
[17:13] every single Land Rover that I've ever
[17:15] wanted to own or experience.
[17:17] And they've all been [laughter]
[17:18] horrible.
[17:20] And I I think this is it.
[17:22] >> I I think you'd be making a good
[17:24] decision.
[17:27] I just don't know if I believe you cuz
[17:28] I've got a feeling there's going to be
[17:29] something that shows up for the right
[17:31] price.
[17:31] >> But what is What is a worse brand?
[17:35] I I honestly I cannot think of one where
[17:38] they just hold up so terribly.
[17:42] >> Land Rover's up there for [music] me.
[17:43] Top three least desirable.
[17:46] >> Yep.
[17:48] So there you go.
[17:50] Hoopties. But now it'll drive smooth to
[17:52] the junkyard at least.
[17:54] >> [laughter]
[17:54] >> Assuming that the timing chain or the
[17:55] camshafts don't explode. So thank you
[17:57] for that.
[17:58] >> Absolutely. Happy to help wherever I
[18:00] can.
[18:00] >> So here they sit on death row. Three
[18:02] generations of Range Rovers from the
[18:04] '90s, from the 2000s and 2010s. All
[18:07] mechanically totaled. This is my buddy
[18:09] Rob's. We did a video on this one on
[18:10] April's Garage. It has a bad head
[18:12] gasket. It's going to get dumped at the
[18:13] auction. But this one, yeah, going to
[18:15] the junkyard. And this one going to
[18:17] Eurasian Bob's junkyard. But it just
[18:19] keeps getting worse. It'd be fun to put
[18:20] a brick on the gas pedal and just let
[18:21] them ghost ride out into the corn field
[18:23] forever to never see them again. But the
[18:24] farmers would probably get mad when they
[18:26] hit a Range Rover out there when they're
[18:27] harvesting. But I also had to refund
[18:29] someone on a Porsche as well. Porsche
[18:31] Panamera 4S that was fine when I sold
[18:33] it, but then it started having all kinds
[18:35] of problems. And the car ninja can't fix
[18:37] it.
[18:37] >> Johnny, it's Are you saying a little
[18:39] prayer here?
[18:40] >> Uh he's going to need more than that.
[18:42] >> What happened? Cuz I put 3,000 mi on
[18:45] this car over the better part of a year.
[18:47] It It was never stalling. It was never
[18:48] conking out. It had issues that we
[18:50] fixed, but why 5 years after I sell it
[18:53] does it just all of a sudden
[18:54] just
[18:57] >> Hey.
[18:58] If it doesn't happen, it would not be
[18:59] you.
[19:00] >> I guess so. But I mean this is
[19:02] This is happening uh a lot.
[19:04] Unfortunately, this is sort of a theme
[19:06] on this uh sales video, but this is one
[19:08] I didn't expect. It was a friend of a
[19:09] friend who bought this thing.
[19:11] I
[19:11] I had a lot of confidence in this car.
[19:13] So,
[19:13] >> Me, too.
[19:14] >> So, what is causing it? Obviously, you
[19:17] don't know cuz you can't figure it out,
[19:18] but what do you think's happening?
[19:20] >> Well, there is a communication between
[19:22] all the modules. We thought that there
[19:24] is the gateway. We got the used one,
[19:26] installed it, programmed it. Same issue.
[19:29] >> Okay.
[19:30] >> So,
[19:33] obviously, I don't know if you want to
[19:34] go deep. I mean, we have to got the
[19:35] whole interior, trace every single wire.
[19:38] Only problem is it's not staying
[19:39] consistent or pretty much broken all the
[19:42] time, so we'll know.
[19:44] Cuz every time you cycle the key,
[19:46] >> it just resets.
[19:47] >> If it would just stay stalled out, if it
[19:49] would break and then stay broken, you
[19:51] could figure it out.
[19:52] >> Yeah, well, absolutely, yeah.
[19:53] >> But, otherwise, it's just
[19:55] Nope.
[19:56] >> Yes.
[19:57] >> Nope.
[19:57] >> Nope.
[19:58] >> Nope. Nope. Times, I don't miles and
[20:01] miles of wires, and you've tested
[20:02] everything,
[20:04] and it's just
[20:05] it
[20:06] >> Yeah.
[20:07] >> It's an unfixable car.
[20:10] >> It could, like I say, it just has to
[20:11] stay broken.
[20:12] >> Right.
[20:13] >> Otherwise, it's going to be a guessing
[20:14] game on computers and all that, so I
[20:16] don't want to do that.
[20:17] >> It's Yeah, fire the parts cannon at it,
[20:19] which is dumb because Porsche parts are
[20:21] expensive. Drive it until it actually
[20:24] breaks, breaks, but it's really
[20:25] dangerous to drive it because it just
[20:26] stalls out on the highway, stalls out in
[20:28] random places, and like it's it's a
[20:29] dangerous thing to do. Or
[20:32] junk it. And
[20:34] >> [laughter]
[20:34] >> like this is such a nice car. I can't
[20:36] believe I'm doing this, but
[20:37] >> great. I mean, not too long ago we fixed
[20:39] the
[20:40] variable timing.
[20:40] >> Right. Right. So, that is what is
[20:42] happening. Johnny, we're punting it. I
[20:46] gave the guys money back, which was
[20:48] $13,000 what I sold it for.
[20:50] And J&J Auto Wrecking, which is an
[20:51] outfit that specializes in, you know,
[20:53] especially exotic
[20:55] salvage, they're giving me
[20:57] quite a bit of money for it. Still not
[20:59] quite $13,000, but a lot because it does
[21:01] have carbon ceramic brakes.
[21:03] >> Nice.
[21:04] >> Those are worth, you know, six or $7,000
[21:05] on their own.
[21:07] >> And yeah, the wheels are nice. The
[21:09] engine itself for five, the PDK
[21:10] transmission itself for five, and then
[21:12] all the little trim pieces, the bumpers,
[21:14] the headlights, everything's so nice
[21:15] that they might make you know, they'll
[21:17] be 50,000 as
[21:19] >> Yeah, this one is brand new.
[21:20] >> The headlights are super nice. So,
[21:22] by the end of it they'll have like
[21:24] maybe 50 grand in sales from the thing.
[21:26] Obviously they're taking apart and sell
[21:27] there's a lot of work with that, but by
[21:29] giving me
[21:30] I think it's going to be around $8,000,
[21:32] they're obviously in the green. So, it
[21:34] it's insane cuz we have sent cars to J&J
[21:37] before. They have an amazing inventory.
[21:38] I know like the the BMW Alpina was one,
[21:40] the 760 is another. There there's
[21:43] there's plenty of them gone what car
[21:44] trek cars to the Maserati and the Audi
[21:46] S8.
[21:47] >> Maybach.
[21:47] >> Their selection Yeah, the Maybach, the
[21:49] Range Rover. There's so much great
[21:50] selection there. Uh they're the
[21:52] specialist for it, but
[21:54] I never imagined this one, 116,000
[21:57] mi on it.
[21:57] >> an idea. You should open your own
[21:59] salvage yard.
[22:00] >> I I
[22:01] >> [laughter]
[22:02] >> I'd break everything taking it apart.
[22:03] You want to do it?
[22:04] >> Sure, why not?
[22:06] >> I just can't believe this one, 116,000
[22:09] mi.
[22:10] It's done. It
[22:13] it's
[22:13] >> It's going to bug me.
[22:15] >> It's going to keep you up at night?
[22:16] >> Mhm. Yeah, cuz I want to know what
[22:18] happened.
[22:18] >> Well, the thing is like J&J, I've sent
[22:20] them cars before
[22:22] and he gets them and he I want to fix
[22:23] this one, I'm going to fix this one. And
[22:24] then he fires the parts cannon and then
[22:26] regrets it. So, hopefully they've
[22:28] learned their lesson there, but
[22:30] I can't imagine it
[22:31] it's not something stupid like a crank
[22:33] sensor, it's not something it's not like
[22:35] like a a voltage regulator.
[22:37] >> or the main DME
[22:40] could be shorted.
[22:41] >> So, you could replace that like
[22:43] computer.
[22:44] >> clone it for cheap. That's I would not
[22:46] do the the brand new one, but if you can
[22:48] find someone to clone it.
[22:49] >> If you bought it from the Porsche dealer
[22:51] and spent
[22:52] >> a couple of three
[22:53] >> thousand dollars and then it doesn't fix
[22:55] it.
[22:55] >> Oh yeah. No. No.
[22:57] >> [sighs]
[22:57] >> I can't
[22:59] I can't believe it. It's
[23:01] it's so weird cuz it was fine for me and
[23:04] then 5 days after selling it. But I I
[23:06] can't like kick this to someone else.
[23:08] So, I could take this to the Hooptie
[23:10] auction. It runs and drives. Nobody
[23:12] would know the problem. It may not stall
[23:14] on the dealer until they sell it or
[23:16] something. But then it's going to be
[23:17] someone else's problem. They're going to
[23:19] be in the same boat. I can't I can't
[23:21] kick the can down the road, which also I
[23:22] can't do this every single time either
[23:24] where I'm diving on all the grenades and
[23:26] taking all the hits cuz obviously I
[23:27] would go bankrupt. But in this case I
[23:30] feel like I feel like I have to.
[23:33] But it's so sad, Johnny. This thing is
[23:35] so nice.
[23:36] >> It is.
[23:38] >> [sighs]
[23:40] >> Man.
[23:41] >> You going to say my last goodbye?
[23:43] >> It's crazy. But
[23:45] even crazier this this is not the only
[23:47] Porsche that's just been
[23:50] Anyway, selling things has been very
[23:51] challenging lately.
[23:53] Okay, I'm going to keep this camera
[23:54] rolling the whole time to see if it
[23:56] conks out because it's something that
[23:58] never happened to me. It just happened
[23:59] to
[24:00] the next owner about a week after he
[24:02] bought it and it happened to CarNinja a
[24:03] few times.
[24:05] But
[24:06] we'll see.
[24:08] It's probably going to behave perfectly
[24:09] with me.
[24:11] >> [music]
[24:17] [music]
[24:27] [music]
[24:33] >> Nothing.
[24:35] It's fine.
[24:37] Of course, I would love for it to go on
[24:39] camera and show what it's doing, but
[24:41] it's not going to do it.
[24:45] Well, that's certainly weird. Usually
[24:46] it's the opposite where I have all the
[24:48] misery, experience all the bad stuff,
[24:50] fix all of it, and then the next owner
[24:51] has all the joy of my misery basically.
[24:54] But in this instance, it's totally
[24:56] behaving for me. The CarNinja, it was
[24:58] breaking on him, the next guy who bought
[24:59] it, it was breaking on him. So, I did
[25:02] refund the money. I own this Porsche
[25:03] again for a little bit, although I did
[25:06] just sell it to J&J Auto Wrecking for
[25:07] $8,000. So, thanks to J&J Auto Wrecking
[25:10] for buying this thing. And no, I'm not
[25:12] selling this one to J&J Auto Wrecking,
[25:14] but it has been impossible to sell. So,
[25:17] it's had two rounds on Cars and Bids,
[25:19] and both times the buyer has flaked
[25:21] because this is an 88,000-mi Porsche
[25:24] 911. And I got scammed on this one. They
[25:27] told me the engine was fine, they put
[25:28] 200 mi on it, changed the oil. It seemed
[25:30] like it didn't have the famous cylinder
[25:31] scoring, but when it showed up, it
[25:33] completely smoked out the entire
[25:35] driveway, the garage. The thing has
[25:37] really bad cylinder scoring. So, the
[25:38] engine needs to be rebuilt. You can see
[25:40] the paint is bad, but also needs a
[25:42] suspension gone through, it needs the
[25:43] brakes gone through. The interior is
[25:45] actually pretty nice, and the
[25:46] transmission and the clutch are good,
[25:47] but the ignition is sort of falling
[25:48] apart, there's no air conditioning. So,
[25:50] it basically needs a whole restoration.
[25:52] This is the first 997 probably that
[25:53] needs a full restoration. And I put it
[25:56] on Cars and Bids, no reserve, whatever
[25:59] it brings, it brings. I knew I was going
[26:00] to lose my butt. And the first time it
[26:01] got bid up to $18,500, which
[26:05] that's a lot of money, obviously, but if
[26:06] you're attacking this in your garage,
[26:08] let's say you reuse the heads, you're
[26:09] using a machine shop to realign the
[26:11] cylinders, and you're doing most of it
[26:12] yourself, it does kind of make sense
[26:14] because the crazy Porsche market,
[26:16] Porsche people are totally nuts. They're
[26:17] paying 70, 80,000 dollars for cars just
[26:20] like this in nice condition. It's not a
[26:22] turbo, it's not a 4S, it's not anything
[26:23] special, it's just crazy what Porsche
[26:25] people are paying for the older analog
[26:27] cars, and it makes no sense to me. But,
[26:30] the first bidder, I don't even think he
[26:32] read the description. I think he saw,
[26:33] "Oh, cheap Porsche, hit the button." And
[26:35] then started reading and realized, "Oh,
[26:37] no, I'm not buying it." So, he was the
[26:39] high bidder, he got banned from Cars and
[26:40] Bids, and they relisted it. I never
[26:42] heard from the guy at all. And the
[26:44] second time it got bid up to $20,500,
[26:47] $2,000 more, which was great. And the
[26:50] bidder actually called me, he was
[26:51] excited to buy it. He was planning to
[26:53] swap the engine with something else,
[26:55] maybe an LS, maybe an Audi Volkswagen
[26:57] engine like a 2.7 turbo or something,
[26:59] which would have been really cool. But
[27:00] then the next day he called me and said,
[27:02] "Hey, I didn't think I was going to win
[27:04] with my bid, and I didn't tell my wife
[27:07] about it, and my wife said, it's either
[27:09] her or the car. Basically, if you buy
[27:11] this car, we're getting divorced." I
[27:13] don't know if it's true, but I heard
[27:14] that line a lot in my decade in the car
[27:15] business where somebody shakes your
[27:16] hand, makes a commitment, and then wants
[27:17] an excuse and uses their wife as an
[27:19] excuse, but it could be true. He could
[27:21] have not consulted his wife on a major
[27:22] purchase and got in trouble. So, he
[27:24] said, "I can't buy it either." So, Car
[27:27] and Bids is currently looking for one of
[27:29] the under bidders. I'm willing to go
[27:30] way, way down to whatever, whatever's
[27:32] close to the previous bids to get this
[27:34] thing sold. But, if they can't find
[27:36] somebody, they have to relist it again.
[27:39] Yeah, again, a third time. And that has
[27:41] never happened to me, ever. I've had to
[27:43] relist them once sometimes, like when a
[27:46] viewer wants to help me and they think
[27:47] they're helping me by bidding and not
[27:49] thinking that they would actually be the
[27:50] high bidder and then they freak out and
[27:51] they'll buy it. That's happened a few
[27:53] times, but it's never happened twice,
[27:56] and it's never been kind of the same
[27:57] reason. Even though the second time
[27:58] around, I listed this thing as project
[28:01] in the heading to where it wouldn't
[28:02] catch people who didn't know what they
[28:04] were getting into if they weren't going
[28:05] to read the description before bidding,
[28:07] which is just totally not. So,
[28:09] this thing's stuck here. This thing's a
[28:12] refund. The Range Rover's the refund.
[28:14] There's the losses. All in, that's like
[28:17] $45,000 in money if the refunds and then
[28:20] the losses on the Lincolns.
[28:22] It's a
[28:23] It's it's a tough day. But, what would
[28:25] be almost impossible to lose money on is
[28:28] this, because I am giving it away on
[28:29] fanathom.com. [music] They sponsored the
[28:31] channel, and this 1992 454 SS sport
[28:35] truck, I am giving away by [music] a
[28:37] keychain or a mug and it enters you for
[28:39] a chance to win this incredible sport
[28:41] truck. [music] It is so cool. It's been
[28:43] redone, hot rodded. This wood cover, you
[28:45] could cover it up if you don't like it,
[28:47] but it's hand done, intricate, and
[28:49] beautiful. Same goes for the inside, a
[28:51] bed liner, and more of this hand done
[28:53] woodwork in [music] here, which if you
[28:55] wanted it all stealth black, you could
[28:57] go back really easily, but I just
[28:58] couldn't do it because it's like
[28:59] artwork. The bumper has been flushed
[29:01] [music] out, the dual exhaust, the
[29:03] aftermarket wheels, and a really, really
[29:05] nice interior with [music] bucket seats,
[29:07] along with a 454 cubic inch V8 that
[29:10] looks like it's been upgraded. And
[29:11] actually, the transmission, I thought it
[29:13] needed to be rebuilt, it [music] didn't.
[29:14] It was the throttle position sensor that
[29:16] was not uh hooked up properly, and that
[29:18] was stopping it from going into [music]
[29:19] overdrive. So, I got lucky there, along
[29:22] with a bunch of other fixes, including
[29:23] new air conditioning, all that stuff.
[29:25] This thing is good [music] to go. And
[29:26] once again, I'm giving it away to one of
[29:28] you. All you have to do is go to
[29:29] fanthome.com/hubbysgarage,
[29:31] buy a keychain or a mug, and it enters
[29:32] you for a chance to win this incredible
[29:34] truck. So, you [music] don't want to
[29:36] miss it. Just a few weeks left, and as
[29:38] always, thank you so much for watching.