First, thank you for following this restoration of the most domestic, non-imported import ever built in the United States. Everyone who played Gran Turismo 2 and Need for Speed knows exactly what this car is, and why it's cool. It's rife with challenges in the parts supply to do this, probably more so today with this "import" than it was to do it 20 years ago to a 60's or 70's muscle car. This one doesn't pose the same challenges due to its high production numbers as the Galant VR-4, but because they're so much fun to drive and modify, many used parts are now difficult to find.
If this video should serve any example to others restoring a project car, this is proof that there's a whole lot of work involved, and not all of it is related to operating tools. Your organizational skills are paramount to your ability to successfully re-assemble it again many months later. You need a lot of space just to do one car, and you may spend hundreds of hours in preparation just to start doing your body work.
You may hear at car auctions and car shows "This car has X hundred" or "X thousand of hours involved in its restoration", and this is precisely the kind of work they're talking about. Each month I collect all of my footage and compile it into cliff notes regarding the stage of progress that I'm in, and the last 3 GSX videos I produced were between 44-60 hours of labor on video. This isn't my day job. I am not a body shop. This is my hobby. I love doing this, and it's a privilege for me. But anyway we're about 150 hours deep so far in preparation just to get to a point where we can start fixing some of the body work.
I will not be fixing all of the body work myself. I'll be hiring people for parts of this that I can not do, and after I tear the whole [donkey] out of this thing, I get to put the subframes back on it and roll it out of here for that other work. I need to have my lift available to me to work on other projects after all.
My ad revenue pays my rent. Every single thing you see happen, every capability I have, every part of this restoration, and my ability to produce this content, I owe to Patreon. The names you see at the end of my video are the only reason why any of us even have this RU-vid channel. I put everything I make from RU-vid back into my production. This entire thing runs on gratitude. Those interested in contributing to making these videos better can add their name to that list at / jafromobile
7 окт 2024
