#DrivewayGoals - VINWiki's Record Breaking Cars

I'm doing the opposite obviously just to walk around I'm doing this because as I hinted at in the garage to turn my hair over three months and like I'm exhausted most days are six to eight hours mostly zig zagging it but is there one thing which says that the hardest part of Canada the hardest part is building the team like finding other crazy enough people to help you not only as co-drivers but as scouts as people to witness it as people to help you build the car and do all the things that you've got to do like it took about twenty nine people different things to make our record happen and so you know it was all very worth it but it's also you don't gain that much from it like you can't say that my youtube channel has anything really to do with cannibal we have some cannibals stories because it's kind of stuff that I liked chokes but it's really not like just about that so you don't get famous or you do it because it's like the way you see yourself with respect to cars an experience okay I like cars that have terrible history tons of paint work a lot of miles so that you aren't working so you can just try don't worry about it you know why it's such a good mentality because otherwise you're just taking it anyway right yeah I said that with the clarity at the beginning of the desert like the first knock that happens will be the best so because you know at that point I was gonna let it go and we've been pretty lucky with it but I just earned that way cuz I otherwise I freaked out like I'm the kind of guy lick cars you know uber you're gonna give them Intel says yes next

I am mad about 20 hours and 28 minutes which is mad because as I hinted at in the garage to walk around I'm doing the opposite obviously. I just turn my hair over three months and like I'm exhausted most days are six to eight hours mostly zig zagging it but is there one thing which says that the hardest part of Canada the hardest part is building the team like finding other crazy enough people to help you not only as co-drivers but as scouts as people to witness it as people to help you build the car and do all the things that you've got to do. Like it took about twenty nine people different things to make our record happen and so you know it was all very worth it but it's also you don't gain that much from it like you can't say that my youtube channel has anything really to do with cannibal we have some cannibals stories because it's kind of stuff that I liked chokes but it's really not like just about that so you don't get famous or you do it because it's like the way you see yourself with respect to cars an experience okay. I like cars that have terrible history tons of paint work a lot of miles so that you aren't working so you can just try don't worry about it you know why it's such a good mentality because otherwise you're just taking it anyway right yeah I said that with the clarity at the beginning of the desert like the first knock that happens will be the best. So because you know at that point I was gonna let it go and we've been pretty lucky with it but I just earned that way cuz I otherwise I freaked out like I'm the kind of guy lick cars you know uber you're gonna give them Intel says yes next.

Let's finally get into this thing how many miles on the clock 35 you're doing well and we already touched on the fact that the 360 challenge to them is kind of one of your dream cars like myself but you went with this because it's just a better and easier car. It's just so much easier to use in fact you need to drive it that's really. I was tempted particularly like really some of you may have thought that I was just being really ungracious they're like yeah cool noisemaker do you know why because on this trip so many people offer me great opportunity not just to like I'm so I am massively grateful for this but I thought if I turn it down I'm gonna regret it's so much like I knew I would leave here be like it does come with one caveat oh yeah the rear tires are pretty bald sure. Thank You Man you can use the rest of them but it's six - okay so yeah like I'm six five and this is one of those few cars that you know I can actually sit in pretty comfortably and you've got the racing seats in your 360 so like the extra Headroom and everything. I find the car to be just extremely comfortable and kind of the perfect complement to the Mersey absolutely because Lambos I mean I'm surprised you fit in the I don't but Clarkson said once that he's my height six five out he said I can fit in any car that I want to show good point so I like the exactly if I have to do this but I really want to do it I will do it I didn't see that with the clarity at the beginning of the desert like the first knock that happens will be the best.

I am mad about 20 hours and 28 minutes which is mad because as I hinted at in the garage to walk around I'm doing the opposite obviously. I just turn my hair over three months and like I'm exhausted most days are six to eight hours mostly zig zagging it but is there one thing which says that the hardest part of Canada the hardest part is building the team like finding other crazy enough people to help you not only as co-drivers but as scouts as people to witness it as people to help you build the car and do all the things that you've got to do. Like it took about twenty nine people different things to make our record happen and so you know it was all very worth it but it's also you don't gain that much from it like you can't say that my youtube channel has anything really to do with cannibal we have some cannibals stories because it's kind of stuff that I liked chokes but it's really not like just about that so you don't get famous or you do it because it's like the way you see yourself with respect to cars an experience okay. I like cars that have terrible history tons of paint work a lot of miles so that you aren't working so you can just try don't worry about it you know why it's such a good mentality because otherwise you're just taking it anyway right yeah I said that with the clarity at the beginning of the desert like the first knock that happens will be the best. So because you know at that point I was gonna let it go and we've been pretty lucky with it but I just earned that way cuz I otherwise I freaked out like I'm the kind of guy lick cars you know uber you're gonna give them Intel says yes next.

I am mad about 20 hours and 28 minutes which is mad because as I hinted at in the garage to walk around I'm doing the opposite obviously.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello one and all welcome to scene through glass welcome to another youtuber themed episode of driveway goals today you find me in Atlanta Georgia where I've come to meet up with Edie from VIN Wicky so let's go find out what cars he has on in his driveway hey guys I'm a boolean from VIN Wicky welcome to my home and welcome to my garage come on in and I'll show you some of the cars so this is my favorite parts of 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago lp640 it's one of 28 that they brought to the US with a manual gearbox it's actually the fifth lp640 that I've owned I just think that in terms of everything that's cool about historic and significant supercars and everything that's great about the usability of modern supercars this kind of fits right at this peak and so I love the car I Drive it most of all it's got about 43,000 miles on it and it was actually originally black and I had sold another manual lp640 that was free vo Telesto gray and I just I felt like I needed to get another one and I found one but I hate black cars dude I hate cleaning cars and so this is a color that Lamborghini didn't build any cars for the US for it's called Verde Draca or dragon green and it was actually the color that they used in the press car those right hands ride for Top Gear that was an eager carpet always identical expect manual car delivery to the UK best I understand there's five manual where they drive both cars in the world so super cool but my favorite car by far big and extreme and loud with a big howl 8012 goes plenty fast but it's comfortable enough to drive so I bought in Phoenix drove it home and continued to drive it as much as I possibly can next to it we've got a 1995 Porsche 993 it's kind of modeled after a Carrera RS real career RS in the u.s. there'd be a $500,000 car but it's got the bumpers and the rockers in the wing and things like that just a great visceral air-cooled 911 I bought about a year ago drove it a good bid had a lot of fun with it handed it around to some other youtubers to drive and we're actually gonna give it away when our channel hits a million subscribers so we've had a lot of fun with it put a lot of fun miles on it at the moment it lost a shift bushing so it's a little tough but we'll get there maybe the most significant car in the garage is this this is the 2004 Mercedes CL 55 AMG that in 2013 along with Dave Black and Dan long I set the world record for the Cannonball Run so we drove from New York to Los Angeles in 28 hours 50 minutes my car's got two additional 22 gallon fuel tanks so it's got about 67 gallons total it will do about 850 miles on a tank so we did it on three stops it's got three radar detectors two laser jammers and ambulance traffic light changer for GPS systems multiple tracking devices gauges for all the auxilary stuff harnesses and wiring for iPads and tablets and phones and all that and it's a lot of fun so I don't drive it all that much anymore it actually got a ton of miles on it's got about a hundred and thirty-seven thousand I just had to get all the emissions checked of my birthday's next week you're in Georgia so we have to do that with an obd test next to it is a 2002 mercedes s 55 when I set the Cannonball record I learned that there were other people that kind of did this in different ways and so one of them was a guy named John for Cara and he organizes an event called the 2904 and that's kind of like the 24 Hours of LeMans like cheap car endurance racing meets Cannonball Run and so he had kind of a set of rules where you had to drive across the country for a dollar a mile and I said well that sounds like a ton of fun I'd love to sign up and so they did an extra run they thought they weren't gonna do it anymore but in 2015 we did that and we won that in this far it's a 12 owner to accident salvage title s55 and had some frame damage the airbags were deployed and it was in terrible terrible shape but the way that you can kind of work the rules you can spend extra money on things that are safety related so we got to fix the suspension and new brakes new tires and put it all back together with the help of a very helpful mechanic and so we had a lot of fun with that we did it in thirty two hours five minutes which is the record for a competitive event from New York to LA so well of having that around but it has one giant gas tank about 75 gallons and so it actually can't be registered in the u.s. anywhere anymore but you know maybe we'll figure out a way at some point in 1985 Brumos Audi in Jacksonville Florida built 12 outta 4,000 s Pont roads to kind of commemorate cannonball and Brock Yates and brought Kate's hand sign all of the deck lids he was the founder of the cannonball Baker see The Shining see Memorial Trophy - and personal hero of mine obviously passed away in 2016 I had the distinct honor of writing his obituary for Jalopnik but I got to meet him before he died and I had spoken to him when I was 18 years old and asked him about the idea of being an automotive journalist or doing doing cannonball one day in a modern context and obviously he said it couldn't be done any faster but I told him one day I would unfortunately he had very advanced Alzheimer's at the time that he died and so even at the time in 2013 when I set the record he was kind of beyond being able to remember it but I got to go visit him sit with him watch a football game and he's definitely very very much missed but this far is number one out of 12 and I found it in a garage in Michigan it had been there for 19 years non-running had an overheating problem and then last year in the c2c Express me Alex Roy and Arnie Toman raced it across the country not quickly mind you we went through about ten gallons of coolant and probably about half that much oil but we made it in 37 hours and change and had an awful lot of fun I'm gonna interrupt you I shouldn't usually Jones driveway guys I don't interrupt this section but just in case people watching don't know what the Cannonball is sure Musa give us a brief history yes so the cannonball Baker's sea to shining sea Memorial Trophy - is what the 1981 Cannonball Run movie starring Burt Reynolds Dom DeLuise the Rat Pack and Farrah Fawcett was actually based on and it was a real cross-country race generally from the red ball garage in Manhattan to the Portofino in Redondo Beach California and so it doesn't really exist in its normal form anymore the final running was 40 years ago in 1979 and so we just did another cross-country drive to kind of celebrate that anniversary I drove an old piece of junk Lexus and we did five hours but it's just one of those great American road trip manifestations of this westward whole idea that we just kind of drive as far and as fast as we can and so I was motivated by a missed hearing about how it kind of goes beyond the Nurburgring times in the 0 to 60 and a quarter mile racing and everything that we've kind of gotten used to in consuming automotive journalism products but it was a way to kind of brand yourself as a car enthusiast and a big problem to solve because it's not just about building a car and going fast you've got to deal with traffic whether construction accidents all these kind of things that could easily derail your drive but help somehow you make it across we'll get into a little bit more zealously I'm doing kind of the opposite and a very slow bus or let me stop interrupting you please continue so at this point this car barely works but I love having it around it's one of those cool things to see in the garage and obviously in the US we have the distinct privilege of having inexpensive real estate big garages and the chances to really drive our cars wherever we want pretty much whenever we want so you can actually daily try a Lamborghini and so I loved all of them in their own little ways and I also got another Mercedes s65 AMG that I liked a lot just to take out and drive but most of the time you know I'm not having to take more than one person somewhere it'll be in the Lamborghini or in this about three or four months ago I bought this 2009 Ferrari f430 Scuderia and it is regio Silverstone / red interior I absolutely love red interiors on cars especially over gray one of my first and favorite Ferrari memories was watching the 1997 550 Maranello world speed record car which Richard Hammond owns kind of a tribute car to a wsr 550 Maranello man those were Grigio titanio over Bordeaux with a factory roll cage and the local owner of Ferrari in Atlanta actually has the one that set that record who's the fastest hundred miles fastest hundred kilometers and most miles driven in an hour and it's like 197 miles in an hour with a stop and a tire change so they actually welded tube steel along the rocker so they could slam a jack under it get it in the air and do a quick tire change it was all done at a Nardo so I love that and you know for me like you I love the challenge to dolly I think it's the most beautiful car that maybe Ferraris ever made and that would be contestant with you know pontoon fender testarossa's a lot of very very pretty cars but to me this is just better in enough ways to justify buying that one step evolution the gearbox is infinitely better the interior is way better it makes a good bit more power and it's just a lot more reliable and usable so I've already put about eight thousand miles on this car since I bought it four months ago we did a rally from Nashville to Las Vegas and bagged that was about six thousand miles and so I absolutely loved it I can actually sit up straight in it which is an interesting novelty and something I certainly appreciate and it's been a great car well there we go a full tour of the well it's not really a driveway it was more the garage wasn't it but there is a driveway anyway any we've ever seen the Avena wiki channel will know the EDD has an insanely cool studio where he films the stories that appear on the channel what you may not realize is that studio is actually above us right now above all of his cars and I'm about to head up there right now and tell some stories for the channel so if you've never seen it before I'll put a link below you can make sure subscribed and stay tuned for some stds stories and then yes after that we're gonna be hitting the road in one eye it's pretty obvious well it's probably in the title is it in the title no I don't know but anyway we're gonna be hitting the road we're one of EDS cars and it was yeah I mean you should all know if you've watched this channel for use you don't know which car we're taking out come on people it was only ever gonna be a Ferrari people sometimes notice like oh he likes Porsches now what makes you a proper car guy of course we are starting that up so you can hear it but also to get the air conditioning on because it's yeah I'm still in the South which is why I look like I should have failed tennis player today but this is like as light as my clothing goes so yeah anyway so let's rock and roll because yes I'm obsessed with this car and I want to talk more about it but we have to also talk about the channel you how you became a youtuber and say so you didn't really expect to happen so over yeah let's hit the road and then we'll have a bit of a chat sounds great go for it how did it all begin because it wasn't apt to stop right okay yeah so we still have an app called then wiki it's us only for now but it's kind of like a vehicle history reporting platform kind of like in us we have Carfax and Auto Check and the idea was if we could crowdsource that we would discover information about cars that you would never know beforehand so like when I bought this car I found out that it was like a fab speed demo car that had all of their headers and exhaust and everything on it previously it doesn't have it on it now okay just you say it would've been a little weird to be like why is that exactly so those kind of things you'd normally never know because it doesn't usually get attached to the VIN but people can post to any bar by the banner by the license plate and it just becomes this kind of living breathing database of cars so it's actually now the largest public facing automotive database that exists Wow that's incredible and you know how many I should have uses oh cause you have we've got about two hundred and twenty five thousand users and it's got about a hundred and sixty-five million cars but the best thing is that one of our best features is that you can build a list of cars so there's a list of all the cars that I've owned so if you ever want to see what happened to one of your old cars then you get to just click on it look and see if anybody's posted to it you can follow up and stuff what's that awesome so like I found out that my first Guyardo got exported to Hong Kong and that one of my 360s got crashed and one of my Mercy's got crashed and to see people modify I'm in like we had a guy early on that put in his Aventador and found out that it had been like crashed by a transporter into a truck and it also been caught on fire by a valet revving it in South Beach and so he's like this is crazy immediately is like trying best so how did it go from that to YouTube well when you start a small business you know you set up your social media accounts and so we had a Facebook account and an Instagram account of the Twitter account and we put a couple like explainer videos and like what Ben wiki is on YouTube not to gain an audience just for hosting right I decided right well what we could do is say like Ben wiki the app is kind of about like the story of the car so what if we created an arena for people to capture their best car stories and so that's what we asked you is what's the craziest thing that ever happened in a car for you and I had kind of packaged a lot of my best car stories from the exotic car rental company that I had and the dealership where I worked and things like that so for a book that I've written okay so I kind of had them ready so you just had a bunch of friends come over this is a great place I think you would epoxy yeah you never have to ask me for permission and approach this girl you know anytime I get into a special Friday I think that little special but I just my heart okay so now it's Ali distracted I thought well I just got a bunch of Pizza beer and invited a bunch of friends over to the pin wiki warehouse and said we're gonna tell our best bar stories today and that's where it started amazing and before we come back to this cogs at this mall I want to talk about this car that cannonball very quickly so you obviously had the backlog what was it 20 28 hours 50 minutes which is mad because as I hinted at in the garage to walk around I'm doing the opposite obviously la turn my hair over three months and like I'm exhausted most days are six to eight hours I mostly like zig zagging it but is there one thing which says that the hardest part of Canada the hardest part is building the team like finding other crazy enough people to help you not only as co-drivers but as scouts as people to witness it as people to help you build the car and do all the things that you've got to do like it took about twenty nine people different things to make our record happen and so you know it was all very worth it but it's also you don't gain that much from it like you can't say that my youtube channel has anything really to do with cannibal we have some cannibals stories because it's kind of stuff that I liked chokes but it's really not like just about that so you don't get famous or you do it because it's like the way you see yourself with respect to cars an experience okay I like cars that have terrible history tons of paint work a lot of miles so that you aren't working so you can just try don't worry about it you know why it's such a good mentality because otherwise you're just taking it anyway right yeah I said that with the clarity at the beginning of the desert like the first knock that happens will be the best so because you know at that point I was gonna let it go and we've been pretty lucky with it but I just earned that way cuz I otherwise I freaked out like I'm the kind of guy lick cars you know uber you're gonna give them Intel says yes next let's finally get into this thing how many miles on the clock 35 you're doing well and we already touched on the fact that the 360 challenge to them is kind of one of your dream cars like myself but you went with this because it's just a better and easier car turn if it is yes it's just so much easier to use in fact you need to drive it that's really I was tempted particularly like really some of you may have thought that I was just being really ungracious they're like yeah cool noisemaker do you know why because on this trip so many people offer me great opportunity not just to like I'm so I am massively grateful for this but I thought if I turn it down I'm gonna regret it's so much like I knew I would leave here be like it does come with one caveat oh yeah the rear tires are pretty bald sure Thank You Man you can use the rest of them but it's six - okay so yeah like I'm six five and this is one of those few cars that you know I can actually sit in pretty comfortably and you've got the racing seats in your 360 so like the extra Headroom and everything I find the car to be just extremely comfortable and kind of the perfect complement to the Mersey absolutely because Lambos I mean I'm surprised you fit in the I don't but Clarkson said once that he's my height six five out he said I can fit in any car that I want to show good point so I like the exactly if I have to do this but I really want to do it I will do it I didn't see that's coming from me today recently I actually had an argument with you know Chris Harrison so I appeared on a podcast with him episode of a couple of months ago now I mean he was going at me saying how could you prefer the chance to dolly over the Scuderia like it's just so much better as a car in every single way but that's a bit like the 4a 8 and the 4 5 8 yes because the point a is a better car in every way but I still personally want to a 4 5 8 right and so I important I understand your decision but up for me it's still like this is great well thank you so much so say I didn't expect to be driving your cap today but it's been amazing so yeah Cheers not an absolute pleasure well any day where you get to drive a 430 scuderia it's a good day but it's especially a good day when you get to hang out with Edie and hear all of his stories I hope you guys have enjoyed it I thought it was super super interesting and I really enjoyed filming the chats for his channel as I said earlier if you haven't subscribed to it go check it out it's it's definitely a cool way to hear cool car stories but anyway if you've enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up make sure or subscribe to STG for plenty of videos to come double flame I just wish the leg baby\n"