I Built An Off Road Shop Car In 2 Days!

A Day at the Freedom Factory: A Journey with Matt and Team

We recently had the opportunity to spend a day at the Freedom Factory, where we got to see firsthand how car paint jobs are prepared for competition. The day was filled with excitement and adventure as we worked on a tribute car to the greatest race car in the world. As we began our journey, we were greeted by strong winds of 20 miles per hour, which made for a challenging prepping process. Despite this, our team remained enthusiastic and determined to complete the job.

One of the most impressive aspects of working at the Freedom Factory was seeing the attention to detail that goes into each car paint job. We started by laying down a base coat of marginal paint and then moved on to apply safety yellow paint. The results were nothing short of stunning, with our quality control team checking every inch of the car to ensure perfection. As we worked, we also had to deal with a minor setback when Matt made a mistake while applying a masking material, causing some paint to come off prematurely.

To make up for the mistake, we re-applied the masking material and continued on with our work. Despite this hiccup, the end result was well worth it – the car looked like a million bucks, with its new safety yellow coat gleaming in the sunlight. We also added a few extra touches, including nitrous lights to give the car an extra boost of speed.

As we stood back to admire our handiwork, we couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. The car was truly a tribute to the greatest race cars in the world, with its sleek design and precision paint job. We also took some time to inspect the exhaust system, making sure everything was in working order before putting the car on the road.

But our day at the Freedom Factory wasn't all work and no play. We had a special guest visit us – TomTom, the host of a popular off-road racing show. Tom was giving up his ride, a race car, to take part in a fun-filled day with our team. We were thrilled to have him join us and even took him for a spin around the shop's indoor track.

As we drove through the dunes, we couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and freedom. The sun was shining, the wind was blowing, and our hearts were racing – just like the cars themselves. Tom proved himself to be an natural behind the wheel, taking our trusty ride on a wild adventure through the sand.

As the day came to a close, we reflected on all that had transpired. It had been a truly unforgettable experience, filled with laughter, excitement, and some good old-fashioned fun in the sun. We may not have won any awards for perfecting the art of car paint jobs, but we certainly learned a thing or two about teamwork, determination, and having a good time.

Tom's visit to our shop had also brought up some exciting news – he would be working full-time at the Freedom Factory, taking his expertise and passion to new heights. We couldn't wait to see what the future held for Tom and the team at the Freedom Factory.

As we headed back into the shop, we couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude for the experience we had just shared. From the wind-swept paint job to the thrilling off-road adventure, it had been a truly unforgettable day with Matt and his team at the Freedom Factory.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyeah good morning it has been a productive day so far why is that Caitlyn we just flew in to Salt Lake and it's not even 7:30 so a couple of days ago I was at the freedom 500 in a Crown Vic and I wrecked it and I feel really bad about it yesterday morning I walked into work and I said I want a Crown Vic so we bought one off Facebook Marketplace we jumped on a plane this morning we're going to go get it the plan is to have Johnny Boy pick us up here at the airport we got to go to the auto part store and get a battery cuz it has a dead battery yes we about a quality product then we are going to drive up to the town of Roy you guys remember Roy after that we're going to head home and see what happens for to Roy please I am buying a Crown Vic solely for the purpose of building a replica of the car that I crashed at the freedom 500 pre crash do you guys think that's a good idea great idea I like it can we race oh yeah it is a tribute can we race it oh yeah this is not the greatest Crown Vic in the world it's just a tribute okay Johnny I need you to weigh in on this well I don't know what's going on actually so so Johnny boy watches me from a distance and he just shakes his head and he just looks on in disappointment no good morning good morning are you going to swap it out here or you going to bring it back um we should bring it back we'll bring it back so here's a rule you command deed my van so here's something you may not be as non-pilots if you threaten somebody with aviator glasses you get to drive their car where are we going let me I see it my good oh we are going to be able the security one we are going to be able to intimidate Johnny Boy's excited now does it have lights look yeah it does oh my goodness my question is do you have enough money to bail me out this is a complete Game Changer I know understand why you came clear up here oh my goodness a solar array oh it's a solar array definitely not lights it's okay it looks like lights so this is Mike's car and he's selling it I don't know what he thinking because this is going to be an icon of Matt's off-road recovery in just a few short days oh yeah got the extension I need your knife Colin yes please don't break it how did the oil look good okay my good my good or your good well it was full and it was a light brown okay sometimes when Johnny boy says oil looks good it looks like chocolate syrup all right thank you good sir no thank you for coming up we're going to put it to good use okay we'll be watching we're excited okay go easy now why did that go how do you suppose I would get this thing to do a good power break I don't know I I would have thought what you did would have done it feels like it's missing a cylinder might be we might have to work on this that one's not dead that didn't do anything yep that didn't do anything did it okay so we need those two coils go in there tell them what we need I'm hoping it's coil packs Johnny says these are famous for bad coils I don't know anything about them so changing the coil didn't change anything besides the coil so we're thinking we might have a a bad fuel injector or a stuck fuel injector so we're just going to send it but we're going to send it with two bottles of this we're going to give it a double dose you're really going to pour two of these in yeah we're going to shock the system you're shocking it right now it's probably nothing hey there's Allen hey how's it going good good good to see you how think's going it's going great we got all sorts of stuff going on I heard that there's some uh car soccer going on today somewhere everything's all set up in the back for that so I I'm I'm not completely up to speed what's going on here I respect it that's what's going on I said I could drive the broozer you guys trust him with this I haven't been able to destroy it either's days so that thing sways so bad that is terrifying oh my gosh proud of you man you let it eat that's some good stuff right there usually people are a little scared of it you you said uhuh well I got something kind of like this and that help want front window that was awesome dude way oh I was not uh not anticipating this but they've been using it for things like it is one of the competitor cars and now they're putting cameras on it so we might be uh we might be involved in something for the record I am completely and totally against this Johnny Boy talked me into it he says that he will pay for any damages no no no no no that's on record get him CES you got to obey rule one what's r one uhoh that was some good back and forth I think I got you guys with a few pies let me get you let me get you there we go that's fourth ship right there hey hey hey I you I get out of there dude I got soak okay you're on your own I'm on my own you're I got to take off that thing going to make it home yeah I think so you should be good you should probably get about 100 miles of gallon since you're only running two cylinders oh yeah it's it's it's like an EV so hey thanks yeah thank you man that blast yeah that was a lot of fun do it again yeah heck yeah thanks for coming out all right there's a bunch of great guys back there but we do have to get home and we have what someone might consider not exactly reliable transportation we are here at Johnny Boy compound and we're going to see if we can get these injectors working because I want to do a real burnout oh my goodness we haven't pulled that one yet the coil dude look at that Gap that is way bigger monstrous I was sad for so long and now it's running good it was just Spark It's never spark plugs no oh the difference really you have no idea just think that things you could have done in that game yes we probably would have ruined the car oh goodness what are your neighbors like uh be nice oh I need those those are my aviators well sounds like you're good to go W wasn't quite a Tesla but well was right you feel like you're in the freedom 500 wrong driveway dad we've got a bunch of road to burn up and uh we've got a good car to do it finally well it's been a pleasure we should do it again sometime not too soon so we were driving and all of a sudden this warning light came on it's flashing and I think it means we have tire trouble oh now it's solid what does that mean oh man well we will let you know what happens we might stop and check the tires real quick give them a good old kick oh this does not look open at all no it's not open that's the that's our offender right there that one feels like our offender I think we're good to go all right let's let's let's just go let go so we made it back to Hurricane no problems this car is a beast I think it's going to make a great uh tribute car to the best car in the world so we are going to drop Caitlyn off and then we're going home and we will see you tomorrow look at this we just turn these lights off how was that it needed new tires anyways wo oh yeah those those ones are so cracked for aide you check that box does burn out Jake jump in woo we're going to be patrolling the neighborhood it's security what we're doing is we're looking for unsecure locations and then we're going to do our thing yeah I love the solar panel on the roof it looks like lights yeah we got reports of a car doing a burnout we better go check it out well you remember what happened with the Subaru right yes it's not a race car after the free 500 every Crown vix a race car yeah it actually it actually quarters really good it's so good fortune going to read my fortune right here I should probably stop to read it there's always time to try a new path in life all right time to try new oh my gosh what do you think you guys are such children oh that's satisfying check that out look better already oh yeah so we got to we got to hit this with some sandpaper for the wrap but let's see what the pressure washer does oh man there goes a resale Val Val you trying to heat up the sticker so it comes off better I can get this metal hot it would come off better that's a $200 paint job right there it's starting to get a little windy out here I'm having Deja Vu from uh the freedom Factory the other week yeah we had like 20 m per hour winds while trying to prep car paint it okay I'm sure some of you guys are pro tapers just bear with us we're not done yet this might look a little funky you're a pro dude you've done this I've done this in the win at the freedom Factory yeah that's right I've never done this before you're doing great thanks all right it's time to get this car painted ready yeah it yeah start right we got our base coat of margl laid down and now we're going to be doing our safety yellow because Safety First always and forever look how good that looks don't Ki any dust up all right we've got our quality paint job on and the next step is to get all the the masking off of here and we're going to be letting it dry while we're doing that and then we're going to wrap the hood and we're going to put some stickers on this and then we'll take you to that point Caitlyn what are you doing did we have a boo boo over here yeah Matt made a mistake so I'm trying to fix it yeah some of the paint came off with the thing we put it on when the paint was still too wet and we're going to do it again so even though this car is a tribute to the greatest race car in the world um it does have some different sponsor on it because we're not in Florida anymore what are you slapping on there we've got our nitrous light all of the race cars out there had that so when you used your nitrous the light would come on so everybody knew that you were cheating you okay with that I like that let's stand back here this is the true thing oh that looks beautiful okay one that looks beautiful what do you think Ed yeah that look great so we're going to lift this up and we're going to look at the exhaust to see if we want to mess with it right now I want to mess with it so that's what we're doing right now all right that's one go again five grand I like it we're going to back this thing out and get a look at it in the sun all right it's a new day we are in the race car and we are just driving around now before you think this is just all foolishness and we should be spending our time fixing the bomi you're right we should be spending our time fixing a bomi but also we needed a shop vehicle we have not had a stop vehicle had a Subaru for a while but that thing fell to pieces like overnight everything went wrong with it all at once and now we're going to go see what tomtom's up to yo what's this this is this belongs to Trent Campbell from that car bus Network yeah yeah all right as you can see there is lots of incredible stuff going on here in TomTom shop and that leads us to the next bit of exciting news Tom take it away that is I'm going to be working here fulltime which means you're not going to see me so much anymore at mats Offroad but you can check out my channel right here don't worry I'll be stopping in there all the time to check on these guys or get some steel or take some nuts and bolts or E my pvj a launch check on Sally all right they get the point you're going to be around I'm not too far away so you'll be seeing plenty of me and as a going away present I'm giving you a ride in a race car let's do it what do you think Tom I like it this is my first time in it I spent a lot of time in police cars though first time in the front seat of a police car all right I really really want to R this around the road illegally but since that's against the law I'm not going to do it we're going to have to find an off-road course for this old girl I think I know just the place Mexico all right here go oh not the exhaust not the exhaust it's doing pretty good okay just like the buff we're going to give him one stuck and then he's got to send it oh he made it up on the top but it's a Razor's EDS we're dropping back in oh man that's a steep one yeah oh was so smooth this is true if you want to learn how to ride the sand dunes that's the guy to teach you right there and don't bring your two wheel drive cars out here okay let's head out of here down through the dunes go out through the Green Gate okay wo all right we just got to air up and then back to the shop this is the coolest thing ever that was awesome oh thanks for watching look at this broken broken gun gun broken broken brokenyeah good morning it has been a productive day so far why is that Caitlyn we just flew in to Salt Lake and it's not even 7:30 so a couple of days ago I was at the freedom 500 in a Crown Vic and I wrecked it and I feel really bad about it yesterday morning I walked into work and I said I want a Crown Vic so we bought one off Facebook Marketplace we jumped on a plane this morning we're going to go get it the plan is to have Johnny Boy pick us up here at the airport we got to go to the auto part store and get a battery cuz it has a dead battery yes we about a quality product then we are going to drive up to the town of Roy you guys remember Roy after that we're going to head home and see what happens for to Roy please I am buying a Crown Vic solely for the purpose of building a replica of the car that I crashed at the freedom 500 pre crash do you guys think that's a good idea great idea I like it can we race oh yeah it is a tribute can we race it oh yeah this is not the greatest Crown Vic in the world it's just a tribute okay Johnny I need you to weigh in on this well I don't know what's going on actually so so Johnny boy watches me from a distance and he just shakes his head and he just looks on in disappointment no good morning good morning are you going to swap it out here or you going to bring it back um we should bring it back we'll bring it back so here's a rule you command deed my van so here's something you may not be as non-pilots if you threaten somebody with aviator glasses you get to drive their car where are we going let me I see it my good oh we are going to be able the security one we are going to be able to intimidate Johnny Boy's excited now does it have lights look yeah it does oh my goodness my question is do you have enough money to bail me out this is a complete Game Changer I know understand why you came clear up here oh my goodness a solar array oh it's a solar array definitely not lights it's okay it looks like lights so this is Mike's car and he's selling it I don't know what he thinking because this is going to be an icon of Matt's off-road recovery in just a few short days oh yeah got the extension I need your knife Colin yes please don't break it how did the oil look good okay my good my good or your good well it was full and it was a light brown okay sometimes when Johnny boy says oil looks good it looks like chocolate syrup all right thank you good sir no thank you for coming up we're going to put it to good use okay we'll be watching we're excited okay go easy now why did that go how do you suppose I would get this thing to do a good power break I don't know I I would have thought what you did would have done it feels like it's missing a cylinder might be we might have to work on this that one's not dead that didn't do anything yep that didn't do anything did it okay so we need those two coils go in there tell them what we need I'm hoping it's coil packs Johnny says these are famous for bad coils I don't know anything about them so changing the coil didn't change anything besides the coil so we're thinking we might have a a bad fuel injector or a stuck fuel injector so we're just going to send it but we're going to send it with two bottles of this we're going to give it a double dose you're really going to pour two of these in yeah we're going to shock the system you're shocking it right now it's probably nothing hey there's Allen hey how's it going good good good to see you how think's going it's going great we got all sorts of stuff going on I heard that there's some uh car soccer going on today somewhere everything's all set up in the back for that so I I'm I'm not completely up to speed what's going on here I respect it that's what's going on I said I could drive the broozer you guys trust him with this I haven't been able to destroy it either's days so that thing sways so bad that is terrifying oh my gosh proud of you man you let it eat that's some good stuff right there usually people are a little scared of it you you said uhuh well I got something kind of like this and that help want front window that was awesome dude way oh I was not uh not anticipating this but they've been using it for things like it is one of the competitor cars and now they're putting cameras on it so we might be uh we might be involved in something for the record I am completely and totally against this Johnny Boy talked me into it he says that he will pay for any damages no no no no no that's on record get him CES you got to obey rule one what's r one uhoh that was some good back and forth I think I got you guys with a few pies let me get you let me get you there we go that's fourth ship right there hey hey hey I you I get out of there dude I got soak okay you're on your own I'm on my own you're I got to take off that thing going to make it home yeah I think so you should be good you should probably get about 100 miles of gallon since you're only running two cylinders oh yeah it's it's it's like an EV so hey thanks yeah thank you man that blast yeah that was a lot of fun do it again yeah heck yeah thanks for coming out all right there's a bunch of great guys back there but we do have to get home and we have what someone might consider not exactly reliable transportation we are here at Johnny Boy compound and we're going to see if we can get these injectors working because I want to do a real burnout oh my goodness we haven't pulled that one yet the coil dude look at that Gap that is way bigger monstrous I was sad for so long and now it's running good it was just Spark It's never spark plugs no oh the difference really you have no idea just think that things you could have done in that game yes we probably would have ruined the car oh goodness what are your neighbors like uh be nice oh I need those those are my aviators well sounds like you're good to go W wasn't quite a Tesla but well was right you feel like you're in the freedom 500 wrong driveway dad we've got a bunch of road to burn up and uh we've got a good car to do it finally well it's been a pleasure we should do it again sometime not too soon so we were driving and all of a sudden this warning light came on it's flashing and I think it means we have tire trouble oh now it's solid what does that mean oh man well we will let you know what happens we might stop and check the tires real quick give them a good old kick oh this does not look open at all no it's not open that's the that's our offender right there that one feels like our offender I think we're good to go all right let's let's let's just go let go so we made it back to Hurricane no problems this car is a beast I think it's going to make a great uh tribute car to the best car in the world so we are going to drop Caitlyn off and then we're going home and we will see you tomorrow look at this we just turn these lights off how was that it needed new tires anyways wo oh yeah those those ones are so cracked for aide you check that box does burn out Jake jump in woo we're going to be patrolling the neighborhood it's security what we're doing is we're looking for unsecure locations and then we're going to do our thing yeah I love the solar panel on the roof it looks like lights yeah we got reports of a car doing a burnout we better go check it out well you remember what happened with the Subaru right yes it's not a race car after the free 500 every Crown vix a race car yeah it actually it actually quarters really good it's so good fortune going to read my fortune right here I should probably stop to read it there's always time to try a new path in life all right time to try new oh my gosh what do you think you guys are such children oh that's satisfying check that out look better already oh yeah so we got to we got to hit this with some sandpaper for the wrap but let's see what the pressure washer does oh man there goes a resale Val Val you trying to heat up the sticker so it comes off better I can get this metal hot it would come off better that's a $200 paint job right there it's starting to get a little windy out here I'm having Deja Vu from uh the freedom Factory the other week yeah we had like 20 m per hour winds while trying to prep car paint it okay I'm sure some of you guys are pro tapers just bear with us we're not done yet this might look a little funky you're a pro dude you've done this I've done this in the win at the freedom Factory yeah that's right I've never done this before you're doing great thanks all right it's time to get this car painted ready yeah it yeah start right we got our base coat of margl laid down and now we're going to be doing our safety yellow because Safety First always and forever look how good that looks don't Ki any dust up all right we've got our quality paint job on and the next step is to get all the the masking off of here and we're going to be letting it dry while we're doing that and then we're going to wrap the hood and we're going to put some stickers on this and then we'll take you to that point Caitlyn what are you doing did we have a boo boo over here yeah Matt made a mistake so I'm trying to fix it yeah some of the paint came off with the thing we put it on when the paint was still too wet and we're going to do it again so even though this car is a tribute to the greatest race car in the world um it does have some different sponsor on it because we're not in Florida anymore what are you slapping on there we've got our nitrous light all of the race cars out there had that so when you used your nitrous the light would come on so everybody knew that you were cheating you okay with that I like that let's stand back here this is the true thing oh that looks beautiful okay one that looks beautiful what do you think Ed yeah that look great so we're going to lift this up and we're going to look at the exhaust to see if we want to mess with it right now I want to mess with it so that's what we're doing right now all right that's one go again five grand I like it we're going to back this thing out and get a look at it in the sun all right it's a new day we are in the race car and we are just driving around now before you think this is just all foolishness and we should be spending our time fixing the bomi you're right we should be spending our time fixing a bomi but also we needed a shop vehicle we have not had a stop vehicle had a Subaru for a while but that thing fell to pieces like overnight everything went wrong with it all at once and now we're going to go see what tomtom's up to yo what's this this is this belongs to Trent Campbell from that car bus Network yeah yeah all right as you can see there is lots of incredible stuff going on here in TomTom shop and that leads us to the next bit of exciting news Tom take it away that is I'm going to be working here fulltime which means you're not going to see me so much anymore at mats Offroad but you can check out my channel right here don't worry I'll be stopping in there all the time to check on these guys or get some steel or take some nuts and bolts or E my pvj a launch check on Sally all right they get the point you're going to be around I'm not too far away so you'll be seeing plenty of me and as a going away present I'm giving you a ride in a race car let's do it what do you think Tom I like it this is my first time in it I spent a lot of time in police cars though first time in the front seat of a police car all right I really really want to R this around the road illegally but since that's against the law I'm not going to do it we're going to have to find an off-road course for this old girl I think I know just the place Mexico all right here go oh not the exhaust not the exhaust it's doing pretty good okay just like the buff we're going to give him one stuck and then he's got to send it oh he made it up on the top but it's a Razor's EDS we're dropping back in oh man that's a steep one yeah oh was so smooth this is true if you want to learn how to ride the sand dunes that's the guy to teach you right there and don't bring your two wheel drive cars out here okay let's head out of here down through the dunes go out through the Green Gate okay wo all right we just got to air up and then back to the shop this is the coolest thing ever that was awesome oh thanks for watching look at this broken broken gun gun broken broken broken\n"