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Okay I'm gonna be driving this Ute here momentarily. Oh dude. I'm a child. Yeah I'm a little kid in a candy store right now I Wanna come stay here? This is awesome I Really want to buy this I Ever own one just like this? Travis What are the percentage chances that you would sell this to me realistically? I mean how many zeros? Come on now.

Fair market value I Will clarify: find another left-hand drive from Legally titled in all 50 What do you think this is worth? How could you put that wrong? I know I know that's that's the tough part, right? We both have a huge ton of miles on it, but that means I drive it and um I would drive a 210 conversion. no service engine lights? No nothing. Uh. registered entitled as a 2009 Holden Newton Legal in all 50 states.

What kind of power does it make this 23? Dyno Just simple. Uh Dudley little Cam and just a happy truck I Woke up this morning knowing that I might drive a left-hand Drive Ute for the first time but I didn't know that I'd be checking out one of the largest Holden collections in the entire country and one of the coolest car backyards in the world with a burnout pad and a race track in a backyard. Look at this. my Australian viewers.

look what we have here in Indiana Oh dude, are you kidding me right now I was funny Arnie was like you know he's big into like Holdens and I'm just like why aren't you announce friends yeah I'm like he's got a Caprice Holy moly this is wild dude. These have to be ridiculously low mileage. Yeah, so what do we got here? The orange one on top when Holden cease to exist in 2017. we made sure we got a 2017.

this is my wife's 2017 orange Commodore and it has 7 000 miles on it. Nice. She got hit in it and the insurance company was like oh you know we'll probably write you off whatever else it used to say last V8 but since she didn't let that go back to the insurance, it's a Holden but she held on to it. That is hilarious.

So completely repaired you can never tell but uh, 7 000 miles below it is a two or 2016 jungle green. They only made 78 of them and that is the 78th one that came into the United States It has 20 000 miles on it but uh what? Transmissions are we are we talking about All right? So are we going. Both of these are automatics. The GXP is a manual and it's 24 000 miles.

Wow! and they only made 1800 Gxps but red with us with the six speed six two manual, 24 000 miles. Uh, the numbers are low but I have no idea what they are. That's a 2008 Commodore and it is the loudest car on Earth So it's uh, just got to the fleet just because a friend of mine had it and kind of was led a straight on a LS you know, kind of Dodge Elite and didn't do it well and I picked it up and and my buddy Adam Valentine brought it home. so it's uh, it's it.

Just got hit back here two days ago. Do you have the keys for it? Yeah, I mean you mentioned the whole thing so it's ridiculous when you mentioned something like that that you got it started. We got to hear it because my Caprice is very loud. Foreign.
That's loud. It is definitely loud. My Caprice Rivals this though for sure because mine's got that really choppy cam but this is pretty loud. That's a factory color that is a 100.

Oh, it's gorgeous. Sometimes when you look at it it's blue. Sometimes when you look at it's purple and it is a 2008 stealth blue. There's probably 10 of them in the United States Geez, hey, look at this.

It's the exhaust just like on the Caprice the solo exhaust with the adjustable little trombone deal over there. The J-pipe I do have a 2012 Chevy Caprice Ppv which would match this collection perfectly. Uh, but I drove the E55 wagon down here I didn't I didn't know I didn't know I was going to be seeing all of this I think the Australian car world is okay with the E55 station wagon I'm a big van guy so this is yeah. this is right up my alley.

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So check it out and with that let's go check out Travis's ambulance. So uh Jared Pink, Save this with a massive fuel injection problem that we had Holly Came on board and it's uh has Holley EFI now and it's a 502 cubic inch big block with A gear vendors transmission, four wheel disc brakes Hill wigs, sway bars, Bilstein shocks and it's the world's fastest ambulance. The world's fastest ambulance that is Wild Fires right up and it runs like a brand new car. That's perfect.

Whoa dude, look at this backup camera. Perfect view of my 55 so it's autographed by all the competitors of the 1979. Cannonball Run Wow dude, this is like a piece of Automotive History it's Super Rad and then the glove box is autographed by Brock Yates Hal Needham and Pam Yates Brock and Howell were the original drivers. Pam was the original patient and the only person we're missing is the original doctor.
he's still alive, his name's Lyle Royer and he's in Los Angeles So yep, it's coming up. look at this. Yeah, Ed and I just did the southern Classic in it. It's uh, it's ready to go again.

Also when people do Cannonball runs and they're stuck in these cars and it's six foot seven. but he was able to relax because he slept on the gurney on the way home. Very cool man. Well yeah so it all fits in that.

oh look at these heaters and the and the radar detectors and the multiple cameras and the analog stuff and the digital stuff. Worst driving position ever but super fun is your yeah like this the whole time. and it only has lap belts so it's got the Boa constrictor lap belt. it's like every bumper you get Tighter and Tighter and Tighter Check this out.

they are putting this V8 engine in in this little truck. What is this truck? It was built by a gentleman that used to own a place called Toy Makers and it's not the Toy Makers that's on TV or whatever and he would build Shaquille O'Neal's Vehicles when he played for the Orlando Magic So it had a bumper problem and a couple things but it is a Toyota about an 80 485 SR5 extra cab with a Ferrari conversion and it's not a truckster Rosa this is a he hand built this thing. Fun fact: uh my Grandma had a neon green tracker. well it was one of the first cars I'd ever driven legally with a license real underglow and we had to have them shortened because the tracker was too long and we had to take him to a neon.

Are you kidding me? Just sit yes and it always a whopping 82 000 miles. Okay so uh Travis is a burnout pad Rob Have you ever done a burnout on this pad actually I have um what kind of vehicle? the twin turbo Pontiac GTO Nice! This is a really cool property. I'm not gonna lie Travis has the ultimate backyard Yeah for The Car Guy this is this is all his too right? Yes! I could picture this paved for like you know a donut pad I think I would pave this be a lot easier to sweep up rubber than to cut all this grass. They have the yard of bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway This is the foot of bricks and a literal burnout pad.

and I Don't think that these are Travis's properties. these are neighbors. Just imagine you buy that house and they literally put a burnout pad right here. This is a very nice walk.

Jared Have you ever done a burnout on this burnout pad? I Have I see your truck? Yeah I picked up something special. You've got experience with these. You should tell me what you think of it. Okay LS Car Mercedes What could this be Okay Where is this thing? What do we got? Is it wrecked? Something that's wrecked? Hey I see door handles popped out.

We got a Tesla oh 18 100 D with ludicrous mode dual motor. all the bells and whistles okay I'm like do these go together Rich rebuild style. This thing is quite wrecked. What is the plan? It is very wrecked.

So the story behind it was someone bought this roughly in 2018 to rebuild it. Shortly after getting it, he was unfortunately diagnosed with prostate cancer. actually overcame it which is not a common thing, but realized he didn't want junk in his life that his kitchen would have to deal with. so he's been trying to get rid of it.
Couldn't get anyone to come pick it up. parts yards didn't want it. A friend Robert from aging Wheels went out, looked at it said I can't figure out how to load this Jared do you want it and I didn't know what I was going to do with it but you know what are you gonna do with it I had thought about I have a 66 Chrysler New Yorker I needed the engine from it I'm like I'll do a motor swap that but then I picked up another big block. so I don't have to tear that apart anymore.

It is destroyed Beyond rebuilding this chassis. There's two options I might buy a flood shell and swap everything over or harvest it for parts. I've never had a single EV and suddenly I have two. How much does something like this cost? Uh, it was 3.99 Get out He was please come get it.

He wouldn't take anything for it. He said we were doing him a huge favor. The problem was like air suspension was completely collapsed. it was sitting on the battery.

So I spent 300 on six by sixes if we come around to the back of the trailer. Yeah, the wood is worth you spent more on wood than a Tesla Yeah wow and a whole. they had a bunch of just soap on it. the rain washed that off, but we jacked it up with the winch and we just slid it on onto the trailer and it worked absolutely perfectly.

So right now most likely I'll be repurposing the battery, actually breaking it down and taking the modules and installing those into the battery pack. For a car that is literally why Tesla exists the Ev1 Oh the Ev1 Wait, what do you mean Hey, Jared are you telling me you have an Ev1? I have a much rarer version of the Ev1 and S10 pickup they made 1100 EV ones that made 462 of these S10s I had like a mini heart attack for Ev1 and then like another heart attack for the S10 electric. No way. it's the full Ev1 drivetrain.

same motor inverters, everything it is. It's front wheel drive it is. I've been one of those I've only seen one in real life. The guy still like does the car show circuit in Chicago by my house.

it's so cool. It is awesome but they have lead acid battery cells at like 1400 pounds and you get 33 miles away. you can't get them anymore like the lead acid Tech doesn't exist. so if I were to rebuild it would legitimately be about 22 000 to rebuild that battery pack for 30 miles of range.

So but you have a 300 mile battery pack. Yep for 3.99 All right, we're gonna try to probably repackage that, but keep all everything else about it stock because it's 7 600 miles. an almost perfect condition needs some reconditioning but I modify and everything apart I have rare trucks I've torn apart and upgraded and people have gotten upset about and this is like the first car. I stop and say this is too historically significant yeah to destroy.
So right this injured it seems a little questionable. yeah and that's why I Gotta check out the questionable garage. So the state of Indiana was selling DNR trucks for 3 500 bucks so he bought three of them and it's now a Mr plow truck. Hey uh Travis So do you by any chance plow with this thing? my driveway nice since I was a disc jockey for 24 years, 26 years.

I would get home at three in the morning from the clubs from DJing all night. but all of my neighbors had real jobs so I would sneak out plow their driveways real quick so they can get out and then I got caught. Then they called me the snowplow ferry. So I'm just I don't know I Have a question though.

like the burnout pad is literally right uh, in front or in back of those houses. Yeah my neighbors. yeah and what's how? how are they? So what they do is they have signs from zero to ten and if you do a good burnout, they'll walk out of their door and give you a 10. you suck.

They'll give you a five. Did you buy those houses and like specifically choose and plant who is going to live there And it's basically Jared and a bunch of other cool car guys and all of this was junk property. Nobody wanted it. You can see these broke down greenhouses back.

Oh yeah, all of this was broke down greenhouses. so I spent two years on that thing and cleaned up all the property and turned it into a park for all of my car guys to come and have fun. Well I can't wait for the uh, Backyard 400? Are you doing it? Yeah, when is it? So this should be? It's a fall classic so it'll be in October I Mean if there's room, there's room that's gonna be awesome. Wait, hold on.

So what's what's the prize if you win? So last year we realized what could we give away and I'm 50 years old. The raddest car in the 80s was a convertible Z24 Cavalier Naturally 2.8 but it had that that nasty two point out right out of the gate. So we went and found a blue 1989 Z24 convertible and gave it away to the winner of our go-kart race. And you know, champagne.

Kiss the bricks the whole thing. We got one coming up this year and we found a white. no look at those Wheels That's it. Yes! Z24 Yes, if you win the Backyard 400 I could own this.

you're gonna go home with a all I have to do is beat you guys in Go-karting Go on. Go Karting! At least like three or four times in my life. Oh my Gosh! I Will be back. So this is the track.

This is the track in literally his backyard. He has a go-kart track, multiple buildings with car collections. all of this stuff. Look at him.

This is Rono's hands up in the air. This is it guys. This is the dream. I mean Arnie was like you need to be friends with Alex Not only do you have Holden's he has a Caprice dude.
he's into everything you're in. we're only four hours away. Yeah, that's probably a good thing. they have to look like that.

Okay, we got a Ford Taurus Ford truck, Porsche 928 the Indy cart class NASCAR SR5 Toyota and then another Porsche 928 I like this one. Yeah, that could be yours. Oh my gosh, Six and a half horse 212 breaks. Win this contest.

It's not speed I'm a child. Yeah, I'm a little kid in a candy store right now. What was the name of the snowplow truck license plate that was the plow Mr plow Mr Dump Mr duck. You're so predictable.

Boom it's not father his side father on the back Of course This is hilarious. This is the best place in the world for Car Guys It really is I Want to come stay here. This is awesome. Feel like I'm in my Caprice yeah it should.

Yeah this is. this is awesome so it's comfortable, yeah and it's strange and you have this same dash for your Caprice too. So you what use your capris. it's an 11.

so yeah, same all this. Yeah this does this. Do the rev matching on the transmission. Uh don't know.

Okay because the Caprice is really weird. If you're just normally driving it, you'll never know. Does this have like a sport mode or anything? Oh yeah on mine. if you flip it really quick.

no it's not doing it. it'll re it'll it'll match. Yeah there it is. it loves a REV match.

Oh this is nice man. So real world. you are in one of the only legal left-hand Drive Holden's in the United States That did start life. They all started life in Australia but right this started Life as a car in Australia Drove for a while a husband and wife got a little bit of a fight and she put it in the creek and uh I bought it, put it in the container, shipped it over and used another 2009 Pontiac G8 GT for parts and there's one less 2009 Pontiac G8 GT In the world it is registered legal and it's not registered as a four-door sedan.

It is registered as a two-door truck holding Ute. That is awesome. I Don't understand. Like why why didn't we get these? We were supposed to.

Yeah, we had the El Caminos back in the day they did all right. Sure, why not? We were supposed to get them in 2010 and in 2009 50 Cent rolled it out at the New York Auto Show You know, clap and they rolled this out as the 2009 Pontiac G8 ST which was a street trip. but then they killed Pontiac in 10. Yeah and we didn't get the truck.

so I thought they were the coolest thing on God's green earth. Then you got this. Uh, here it is. Can I go? uh.

wide open throttle? Yeah. Pound on. Oh, is that an early this is and do you feel it? Kind of Step out a little bit because there's nothing back there. but it'll it'll It'll straighten itself up.

Okay, so my Caprice did 460 but this feels faster. It's probably less the weight. Yeah, because you've got two back doors. which this doesn't anymore.
All that is is a hard lit tonneau cover in the back priest. I think it's 4 200 ish. Yep, and so you have a heavy back window. Yeah, full back doors? This just says two doors.

What do you think of ways you know? we're probably only about 400 to 600 pounds lighter than you? Well then yeah, I'd rather have four or 500 less pounds than than 20 horsepower. Yeah, you know this is awesome dude. and the Trans is so good. It's got caddy V brakes on it so they make a conversion for the G8 to put the caddy B break on it.

it'll It'll surge you through a stoplight. Yeah, it's got a little little cam in it left, but it'll It corrects itself. Yeah, so it is as long as your Caprice but it's four inches longer than the G8. So I mean first experience.

Is it weird? Does it or does it feel like the Caprice Yeah, no. I mean I Feel like I Generally feel like I'm in the Caprice except you can tell there's like kind of this wall right here. Sure, you know you don't. You don't have that feeling where you're in this big gigantic car.

So because you're not looking back there, it almost feels like you're in a two-door sports car. Like a two-seater You know, like obviously it's a two-seater Yeah, and you drive this all the time. I Mean you look at those stuff in the mop. Pockets There's small box stores and foreign.

This thing rips. it's so crazy and it sounds so good. it's perfect. Like it's not even really like now.

it's just a normal car. Like not. So that's why we didn't Everybody's like oh, you need a torque converter because that's what gives you the serger or the lunge. But if you get a torque converter in this, you kind of mess with this style driving.

I Understand Yeah? I I've had a few big stall converter cars, sure, and if you're not beating on them, they're kind of a little boring because they're mushy. You know it's wow, You know? Yeah. I Agree. I Like having a tighter stall converter like my CTS-V has the stock Cam and the stock stalling I like it I mean it's got plenty of power from the oh you have the Maroon one yeah I Was in love with that car when uh Tyler had it and I was like ah man, such a red car.

That's my daily horrible fuel mileage. What do you get on this horrible fuel? We were really worried about it. We wouldn't drive more. So it's true.

that's true. Well thank you. That was awesome. You wanna try the Burnout Man I mean do I want to try the burnout man? All right, foreign.

So are you coming back? Yeah, What's that? How did I do why dogs respond? You were amazing All right I do Dave Portnoy you know type rating so you know it sounds pretty hard. Okay I'll take it. This is like this is burnout. Review One burnout, you know how it go.

I Remember put it in. she was like man or she back up. She'd sit there be like oh my God Well thanks thank you thank you I appreciate that I Just did a burnout in someone's backyard and then it was judged by the neighbor. What? where? What is going on right now? Pine tree is great.
three I like it from the neighbor so that's got a misfire. Got a misfire. Uh I have the door for it. Somebody blew the door I have always liked these These are really cool and this is this is for sale.

Yeah, okay, could be yours. All right I don't know I don't know I got a lot of projects going on but I do like it. I like the colors 2006. yep 129 000 miles and a misfire I mean like how how bad it'll start right up? Yeah Audition: We just diagnosed this thing really quick I give you some guesses you've probably seen I'll give you some guesses, probably seen it already I'm pretty.

uh, what do you think versus these? well hang on, don't tell, don't tell Travis it's a bad engine. it's a bad engine. needs a new motor Travis what is it? injector spark plug. The lifters are really bad on these like and they can take out like a bunch of stuff.

all right. So this could actually be a really in-depth misfire. Foreign I Heard that oh yeah, this thing is missing bad. Oh my gosh, my eyes are burning just from walking back there.

This thing is super rich, All right. She's got a nice little Shake that's for sure. It's running so rich though. it's super rich.

all right. What's the what's the price tag on this today or this afternoon? Nah I gotta think about it. Oh this runs so bad Buddy price and I'll throw this door in because Eight thousand bucks Jeep SRT Guys Buddy Price: 8 000 bucks Clean Title: 129 000 miles I'm assuming clean title directly. Very clean title with a door.

Is that a good deal? I Haven't looked at the market on these things in a long time. It looks like it needs tires. Hmm. All right.

but I have a stack of paperwork for the original owner that big. Okay, we'll let you look at it before you venture back here. Let me let me think about it. Negotiate: Eight thousand.

Come on. help me out. What would you do in this situation for if you wanted this car? If you wanted it, If someone said eight grand, what would your next offer be? He wants eight? Yeah. Oh I Pray him nine What? He just got you into the Indy 500 I had this isn't what I Hear about your negotiating skills with some gratuity included.

Did he have super fun this much? I Had a ton of fun and I'm coming back I've lost my voice I'm having so much fun. Sorry we didn't go on track, but that's just. uh. Third time's a charm.

Well you know what? We get to use the track here in the fall. I Get to go home with a Chevy Cavalier I think so that's they're calling some people out. All right. Well, we're gonna see what's gonna happen here.

So Celebrity Machines.com if you guys want a custom license plate I'm going home with these two today. Travis here makes them and sells them. So check it out! I'll leave the link down below and we might have to do a legit street cars Place Why wouldn't we and uh, cool, do something charitable. Yeah, give away some stuff and uh, you can make the world a better place with a 6 by 12 piece of aluminum.
That is right! So thank you guys so much for watching! I Hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Share the video subscribe if you're new. Thank you! Travis I Appreciate it, appreciate your friendship of course seeing you soon.

That's right with Go-karts Go-karts have a great day guys! Foreign.

By Alex

11 thoughts on “I tried buying the rarest holden ute in the country from the coolest car guy! insane backyard!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Justa Bloke says:

    A good investment as those cars are going to worth hundreds of thousands each into the future.
    A SLR 5000 or A9X Holden Torana would top off the collection.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wolf_Audio_n_Performance says:

    I would love to pick your brain sometime or get together sometime I actually live in hammond indiana I used to deliver for FedEx in Hebron indiana I am pretty sure I met that guy at a gas station right off I65 he was driving a green holden not sure if that is spelled right he told me at the time he had the only yute in the states being left hand converted at the time I met him very nice guy he was pretty surprised I knew about either cars I am actually from Shelbyville indiana which is 25 miles SE of indianapolis

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars firechickenracin says:

    I want a ute so badly but cant find one!

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars sparky says:

    Travis understands branding

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris3 says:

    If I had the money, I would import one in a heartbeat, such cool cars

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nugget's Automotive says:

    I talk a lot of shit for his method of conversion, but gotta respect the drive and the hustle. He's brought a whole community together from across the country. Knows his stuff, knows what he likes, and he seems like a really chill guy. I will absolutely be at the outback show next year.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wk Jeeping says:

    That's a killer deal even needing repaired!

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars JadonTheCarGuy_66 S. says:

    BUY THE JEEP!!!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jason Swift says:

    Mate it an import so its not a legal LHD or titled in 50 states.
    That purple colour is NOT stealth Blue.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars wjanes11 says:

    Buy that jeep!!!!!!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Handyman Brian says:

    mr. plow / mr. dump / the sodfather…..is living MY dream

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