I Went Too Fast

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5:11 "one of the tech inspectors noted that it was the same color as the dirt, and suggested we add some color, so we added something that was the same color as the sky"

[boostbanause]

3:56 had to go back because I couldn‘t believe my eyes. As a german seeing a „Nett hier, aber waren Sie schonmal in Baden Württemberg?“ (Translates to: „It‘s nice here, but have you been to Baden Württemberg yet?“) Sticker on the fin took me out. It‘s quite a big internet meme here in Germany and I don‘t know how, but somehow we at one point decided to plaster these stickers all around Germany at first, and then the whole world. Feels like a fever dream to see it on there.

[conorg]

Oh, he used the red stuff. Future Matt is going to hate this guy.

[silaswolfsberger]

Thank you so much for putting the sticker of the German region Baden-Württemberg I live in on the fin. It translates to "Nice here, but have you been to Baden-Württemberg", and we place it all over the world!

[benaresq]

That tiny dust cloud was amazing, I can guarantee that some higher budget teams are going to be paying close attention to your car in the near future.

[Labergemusic]

The contrast between you admitting you didn't even tighten a bolt, and going 150mph in a car you built is both familiar to me and funny.

[ErikPelyukhno]

14:52 I’m really glad they were understanding and still gave you the license, they can tell you’re serious about this project and just couldn’t get the speedometer working in time

[alejandrooceguera]

Foreshadow matt is my favorite recurring gag on YouTube

[darmichar]

"...while I'm pretty sure I torqued the bolts, I didn't see any thread locker on them. I actually might not have torqued them down." I think you may be my long lost brother. All hail the algorithm.

[Cozzma]

The dust cloud comparison shot between the two cars looked really nice.

[James]

@4:10 the red loctite combined with the phrase "removed in the near future" hit me real close to home. Get the torch out...

[hrothgar]

But is it the fastest car with a ham sandwich embedded in it?

[RonCovell]

A big congratulations, Matt. I'm so glad to see your huge effort on building the car start to pay dividends.

[HeinousinAppearance]

Ah yes, the perfect balance of "I can't do basic maintenance" but also "My garage car goes 200mph." I'm sure it'll be fine.

Bless the ham.

[peterscott]

Kudos Matt.
I noted from the rear facing camera that the dust wake looked very small but I figured it was most likely the camera distorting things, but no, the comparison clip was drastic. Excellent job.
Overall (4 Runner aside) a really good debut run with the body.
I look forward to seeing the results from running on half the engine.

[namenamename]

Using the Smart car as a "shunter" in your yard is actually pretty cool. You could say it's... Smart

I'll see myself out

[jefffrasca]

Kiwi Steve is a super nice guy. He wandered up to our pit in 2015 at the first Ranchero's first [24 hours of lemons] race and saw a bunch of millenial idiots scratching our heads over "how do carburetor work". He spent the rest of the evening walking us through carb troubleshooting and tuning. And it ran better when it got fuel (we were on a mechanical fuel pump, and when replaced it with an electric pump out of a Civic the next day, the car was able to go up the hills at Sears Point. He helped us get a "class win" at our first race...). Anyway, shout out to Kiwi Steve indeed. What a legend. I'm glad he's still hanging around the SoCal grassroots motorsports scene.

[Argosh]

Well, I did warn you at the time about that ham sandwich... Like... Dear god... If it's leaking already you are well into fermentation.
It might be illegal to move that car across statelines because it's technically an unlicensed alcoholic beverage container.

[brianb-p]

I'm impressed how well the camera system blends the two images together, given that the blend line is right down the middle of the view forward.

[Speakerator]

That big yellow 'Baden-Wurttemberg' sticker really made me laugh. Sometimes I love my countrymen :D