CarMiZa When Will It Be Done?
August 2020 originally purchased
1,662 days ago
1,640 hours of work
1,600 hours planning research etc
0.98 hours per day since purchased…
First 12 months, spent 216 hours (low). 0.56 hours per day.
In past 12 months, 464 hours of work, or 1.27 hours per day.
In past 3 months, 210 hours, avg 2.3 hours per day.
Dynamat, 2.5 layers on every surface
Trunk 70% done.
What remains?
Another 500 hours in trunk.
300 hours fenders estimated.
Interior refresh 350 hours.
Dashboard / speakers 350 hours.
Total time remaining another 1,500 hours.
Paint and exterior. 300 hours.
Mechanical. 200 hours.
2,000 hours remain before CarMiZa will be ‘finished’.
1.4 years if working 3 hours daily.
Decemeber 2026 for sound portion of build finished.
Transcript
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hey how's it going welcome back to the
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channel and to Cara uh this is going to
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be a very short but a I think a really
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important video for all the um diard
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Misa followers out there and again I
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appreciate everyone's support and
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watching the channel I often get asked
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when will this thing be done uh by
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people in the car audio Community or
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even you know friends of mine and things
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like that and I never really gave it
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that deep of a consideration I'm just
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working as as good as I possibly can on
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everything and have the mentality when
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the last scw goes in it is done that's
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it and never really set specific goals
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or timelines or things like that and I
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recently over the last couple of days
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started to think about it and I ran some
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numbers and it was kind of alarming um
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but there's a silver lining we'll get to
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that in just a second so I want to share
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with you guys some of the current stats
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here regarding the build thus far I
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originally purchased the car in August
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of 2020 uh which is 4 and 1/2 years ago
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and to be exact
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6,662 days in that amount of time thus
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far I've worked on the car about 1640
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hours that is hands in the car touching
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the car working on it I probably have at
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least that again in planning research
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coming up with you know the the
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different things that I'm going to do
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but I'm just counting the actual time in
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the car um here are some other
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interesting
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statistics so that basically has me over
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the entire course of the build thus far
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averaging 98 hours uh per day since I
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purchased the car which is not good uh
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in the first 12 months that I had the
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car I spent 216 hours working on it um
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probably and that's a low number very
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low probably because I thought well it's
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not going to be that bad most of it is
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there it's intact and I can just kind of
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clean it up and I'll be good to go a
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little that I know the deeper I dug into
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it the more stuff I found that I wanted
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to
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redo so in that first 12 months I was
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only averaging 056 hours per day in the
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last 12 months I have done 464 hours of
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work in the car which puts me at about
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1.27 hours per day so an improvement
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from when I first started in the last 3
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months it's been 210 hours and that is
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an average of 2.3 hours per day uh
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obviously I've got a full-time job I've
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got a house to take care of wife family
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kids all that kind of stuff so even 2.3
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hours per day on average and I've got
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other cars too is I think a decent
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amount of time thus far I also went
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through and um considered the things
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that I've done thus far on the car which
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includes these are just the big items a
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full
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disassembly uh I purchased the parts car
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and harvested the entire inside and
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wiring the the um interior and the
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wiring out of that car I redid All of
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the OEM wiring in this car in Misa I did
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the Dynamat which um two and a half
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layers on every surface of the car I did
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the woer baffles the quar inch plate
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steel which my son-in-law James welded
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into the fenders um so those are done
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and I started working on the fender
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fabrication I don't think I've shown
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much of that but I've got quite a bit of
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that it's pretty much for the most part
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going to be a assembling it and doing
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some other things but I've got that all
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kind of mapped out um and obviously with
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the trunk uh you've seen in the last
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several videos 37 of them so far just on
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the trunk uh I consider this to be about
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65 to 70% done uh the trunk itself so
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what is remaining on the build here's
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what I've got these are my estimates and
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in the past I've grossly underestimated
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so I really took time to try to lay this
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out and look get my to-do lists and try
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to get an idea as to what I have left in
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the trunk again it's been about a th
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hours I just hit so far building
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everything that you've seen uh I
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estimate another 500 hours of work to
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get the trunk complete the fenders I'm
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estimating 300 hours of work there um
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ideally I'm going to have those
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motorized open there's there's still
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quite a bit of work to do there uh on
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the interior refresh which includes
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running all the audio wires there's
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going to be some audio related things
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like the the grills for the kick panels
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I'm going to redo the laser pointer that
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Earl had which points to your ear that's
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not a big deal that's just a little
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thing uh but the interior refresh
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includes all of the audio uh
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refurbishing all of the leather for the
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car uh new
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headliner um ab and C pillar material
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it's just the the thing is going to look
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like a brand new car when I'm done um
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that I'm estimating about 350 hours and
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to do the dashboard I'm still on the
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fence how I'm going to finish that off
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uh but I'm going to estimate about 350
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hours on there so all total time
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remaining on the I'm calling it The
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Sound portion of the build is another,
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1500 hours so I'm basically just over
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the halfway point uh good news for you
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guys because there's going to be a lot
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more videos coming so um additionally
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beyond the audio portion I have paint
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and exterior which is going to be I'm
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guessing about 300 hours and then
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mechanical
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um the motor and trans again are very
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very low mileage it's got really good
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bones but there's a lot of mechanical
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things I'll do which is about 200 hours
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so all total I've got about 2,000 hours
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before this thing I can say it is
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finished okay now looking at that and
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kind of estimating to say okay
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forecasting this what does this look
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like just on the sound portion alone
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again 1500 hours if I maintain my
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current pace of an hour per day
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basically um that would be four years a
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little over four years I'm not going to
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wait four years to get this thing done
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guys I I am patient but it's been four
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and a half years and I want to be able
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to sit in this put a CD and listen to it
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that's the goal here um now what's
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interesting that is at 1 hour a day if I
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work two hours a day I get it done in
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two years if I work two and a half hours
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a day I get it done in 1.7 years and if
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I can get to 3 hours a day I'm down to
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1.4 years I'm going to realistically
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estimate I can do to I'll commit to 2
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and 1/2 hours per day um which is about
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75 hours a month again on top of Life as
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a as a whole which puts the sound
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portion of the build completed in
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December of
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2026 okay um now until the car is
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complete again I've got about 500 more
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hours that's going to put me at July
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2027 so still a long way to go but I
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again My Buddy Joe always reminds me of
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what I've done thus far and I think that
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there's a lot in the rearview mirror but
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I still have a lot to do now in order to
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be able to accomplish this goal I admit
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and realize there are two main things
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that must take place number one stay
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true to my time estimates if I say the
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trunk's going to take 500 hours I've got
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to be able to get it done in 500 hours I
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also need to dedicate you know and
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really step up and make sure I commit
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myself to two and a half hours per day
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I've done that I've done that pace I've
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had months where I hit 100 hours but um
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sometimes that's when I took a station
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and spent five days straight out here
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but I need to find that time I need to
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every day I look at it and say okay
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instead of wasting a half an hour
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surfing on Facebook that's another 30
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minutes in the car that's what I need to
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do and really dig deep to be able to get
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this thing finished um so again making
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sure that I commit to averaging two and
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a half hours a day I may even have some
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other people help with various aspects
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of this for example I know a guy who
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does gold plating uh I may um hire him
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to do the gold plating on everything I
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was initially planning on doing
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everything myself uh but uh with a kit
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and all of that but we'll see how that
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goes um some things that I won't do also
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I will not rush or become unpre I'm not
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going to cut Corners I'm not going to
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sacrifice my design or skimp out and say
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well I just don't have time I'm going to
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press forward and get it done uh I I
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want to stay true to my core beliefs and
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philosophical um kind of Northstar with
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this where I really want doing
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everything I possibly can to the highest
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possible caliber of quality so that when
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I'm done I don't want to say well later
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I'll redo that there is no redo because
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this is all I got right I'm pouring
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everything I've got into the build um
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and in closing I have dreamed of having
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the sound just the sound that I heard in
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this car 30 years ago for the past 30
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years so if it takes me another two and
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a half you know whatever let's call it
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two years uh to be able to get the sound
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up and maybe another two and a half
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years to get to the point where the
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whole thing is done and it's just a
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matter of washing it driving it around
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the country and letting you guys hear it
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I'm okay with that all right so if
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anyone has any questions or anything let
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me know and in closing too I truly
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appreciate all of the I get so much
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positive feedback from you guys that is
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very inspiring and helps really keep me
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moving uh to keep motivated on the build
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you know it's it's difficult to be a
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thousand hours into something and say
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I'm not even 75% done and I still have
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so much more to go but your inspiration
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your comments your feedback really does
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help guys and I appreciate it so all
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right that's going to be it for this
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video short and sweet and I'll see you
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in the next one thanks again take care
