Real Mechanic Breaks Down Inaccurate Movie Scenes

[@charlesdamien5849]

I'm proud of you guys for not including a single fast and the furious scene

[@UnorderlySkills]

Pin this shit

[@tspawn35]

They have videos dedicated to FF on their main channel there is no need to reuse them here.

[@sushibento3042]

They made it already

[@noneyabizz8337]

It's such trash, the human lifespan is too short to go over everything wrong with those films.

[@aftermathsample305]

That would've been 100% shop class

[@sptownsend999]

FUN FACT: Being a Farm Boy, Henry Ford actually designed the Model T engine _intentionally_ to run on various different kinds of fuel that might be found on a farm, such as gasoline, kerosene, even wood gas, and, yes, *corn alcohol.* You see, Henry recognized that since the Earth occupies a finite space, then contents in its oil deposits must be likewise finite. He was the first major proponent of corn alcohol, because of its renewable properties. The more you know!

[@rafaelcarmo5562]

Please pin this

[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

Being a car enthusiast, I was looking for this comment to see if I was gonna talk about it.

[@samuelsullivan1574]

I was going to say the same thing myself. My brother has a 28 T runabout. Great grandpa bough it new, grandpa kept it in the back of the garage, and built a bunch of shaker coils for it. Dad died young, and now Alex has it. We all learned to drive it as kids. We run it off coleman camp fuel and lead additive usually, but it will run off pretty much anything that will burn. I got a kick out of that scene. You'd probably get a lot of pinging running a T on straight moonshine, you would probably want to water the fuel down to about 100 proof or so, and retard the spark like... All of it. But yep. It would definitely run.

[@CalebMcCartyA.A.P]

Another fun fact, related to yours...The biggest financiers of Prohibition were Big Oil Companies, to force automakers to only run on petroleum products

[@leonardoalbuquerque9375]

AFAIK he went the other way around at some point because of religion and being pro prohibition

[@zzbk2]

nice to have sandro who’s the goofy guy and paul the bit more serious guy. It’s like opposite attraction, even balance.

[@Soxynos]

"perfectly balanced, as all thing should be"

[@hansosl]

I like Sandra He is real og LA brat

[@brixson7641]

paul used to be more serious but now he has more fun with the sessions and recording

[@instrumental]

Much better than the backstreet boy douchebag they still have for some reason

[@Badobrad]

Sandro is the man, Paul is the man.

[@dr_skipwith]

8:50 Seeing that Escort GT get crushed is the most painful thing I've seen all year.

[@bradhaines3142]

i did some quick math. that '6inch steel plate' would be around 3600 pounds. as heavy as the car itself, all hanging on the back of it. id be amazed of the front tires touched the ground

[@justin.gollnick]

So they can do burnout wheelies like Dom in fast 1😎 lol😆

[@Board.Dad.Woodworking]

It's actually just filled with ramen noodles

[@elpennywisefromouterspace]

yea but Jason's massive pecs balance that mofo out, added to the girl riding shotgun with the massive milk wagons

[@bandana_girl6507]

If it's only as heavy as the car itself, it won't lift the front tires. Plus, there's also two rotary canons on the front that'd help counterbalance more. Not to mention whatever ammunition you have for them.

[@bradhaines3142]

@@bandana_girl6507 yeah but all that weight is behind the trunk, putting center of gravity way back. sure i didnt account for the guns but those would be like 500 pounds max, MAYBE 1000 with ammo. they're not a solid block of steel like the tomb stone is. plus they're not on the opposite side of the wheels like the block is

[@cmcrisp42]

My dad actually rolled back the odometer on their MP truck when he was stationed in Hawaii by driving backwards goofing off. This was during the 60's though. His Master Sargent was not pleased when he checked it in and he went negative miles during his patrol.

[@felixchaus]

There are several cars that run the odometer backwards. But it's really slow and would take days on a speed where modern plastic gauges would survive

[@lilsammywasapunkrock]

My buddy had an 85 4 runner, which was totalled in a car accident. He out a ton of work into it, rebuilt engine ECT. So he purchased the car back, and got another one with a out 2k more miles. Just for fun, while we had the engine out, we tried running a drill on the soeedo cable, and it did lower it. We looked a zip tie to the drill handle, and took a break working on the car, and after 2 hours, it only dropped like 50 miles. Fyi, in my state, odometer is only recorded for the first 10 years.

[@antoniohagopian213]

​@@felixchausyou could try the electric drill one

[@felixchaus]

@@antoniohagopian213 Oh sorry, I edited my text. And yes I have tried the drill one and it didn't work. In few hours it took only less than few hundred miles and the gauge started to make a klicking sound even when running to the correct way. On a gauge that had a broken speedo I tried running the drill on full speed and the lack of bearings melted the plastic on the numbers axle.

[@TheKrausenKid]

Yeah it will only not work on newer cars.

[@Seb-Storm]

Fun fact: for the italian job I remember they had to purchase like 42 Mini Cooper due to the stunts destroying the cars

[@misseselise3864]

kinda impressive that it was only 42

[@Whateverpoopiepants]

The also destroyed that film. The original is so much bettter.

[@Seb-Storm]

Correction I had wrong by 10. They used 32

[@mattesku2356]

Also they had to make them into EVs to be allowed to drive them in the la underground. The first ev minis

[@Whateverpoopiepants]

@@Seb-Storm is the king of accurate information. Great work.

[@kevsecker3182]

Matilda, written by Roald Dahl was based in the uk and written at a time when running the odo back via drill was common practice in the uk. To be fair, all 3 elements in that scene were well known to happen back in the day…

[@TehSmokeyMan]

You know it's a good show when at the end you go all like "Aw, dude...C'mon, gimme like another ten minutes of this"😆

[@NatWhereYouAt]

In Australia it was common practice to cut a car in half if it was in an accident. You'd get rear ended and the smash repairs would cut your car in half and replace the back end with the back end of another car (same model obviously). They made this illegal in the early 00s maybe even late 90s. My first car (Gemini) was two cars in one. And it did split cleanly in half when I got into a minor accident

[@misseselise3864]

i work in collision repair and i’ve only ever seen a vehicle break in half three times. first time was a pickup that had a horribly rusted body so when it got rear ended, the bed just separated from the cab. other two times were sedans- one was a challenger that slammed into the back of a box truck while running from the cops & broke in half from the force. the other was a sedan (i don’t remember make/model) who was hit in the front left rear well after running a red light (also running from the cops). technically the car didn’t break in half but it catapulted the engine several hundred feet away. i’m sure you’ll be surprised to hear that everyone in these accidents survived- the guy in the sedan had a broken leg and the girl driving the challenger became a paraplegic but she’s lucky considering she slammed into a stationary box truck going over 100mph without a seatbelt on (there’s dashcam footage of the events leading up to the crash & the aftermath and you can hear the cops immediately call for an ambulance and said to have the coroner on standby bc he was sure she died. the state this all happened in requires a medical professional to confirm death before a coroner can be sent out, which is why the cop said to keep coroner on standby)

[@dylaroo24]

I saw a nascar split in half during my first in person nascar race, was pretty cool.

[@damp2269]

@@dylaroo24 how? that would mean the roll cage broke as well, no?

[@dylaroo24]

@@damp2269 it was so long ago, I can’t exactly remember how, I just remember seeing half a nascar being lifted on to the back of truck and taken off the track.

[@dylaroo24]

@@damp2269 The race was Pocono, sometime around 2007-8. The car was some kind of blue decal, I can remember the number or driver. I just remember seeing the car being driven away by truck, the crash happened on the back straight so I didn’t see the crash itself, only the car being taken away and seeing it pop out from around turn 3. I was at the finish line from my seat.

[@ohwhoaitzjoe]

Sandro, I love him but I didn’t realize how long it’s been since we saw Paul. His dead pan delivery is great haha - must be casual Fridays in the garage/studio lol this episode.

[@---l---]

Great to see them both!

[@jeremyweems4916]

Paul, Sandro, and Angelina are the dream team.

[@spoogtastic]

Everytime Sandro is on, I feel the urge to do something for the boys.

[@Iruparazzo]

he makes me want a 40 of Mickey's

[@jeremyweems4916]

Roll one up.

[@SuperchargedSupercharged]

Sandro makes this channel worth watching. Keep him on the show!

[@portugahbk]

Absolutely....for the boys:D

[@Furko08]

And that blonde guy makes it almost unwatchable. Great balance

[@blakemcelrath54]

Only here for Sandro 🤘 For tha Boyz

[@grominwithrob1339]

Sandro is my fave.

[@captaindowntown7851]

​@@Furko08 whos that

[@fuzzyturtlez8994]

@11:15 - The Coneheads thing actually makes sense. They're aliens. They're supposed to be a "smarter" life form. So referring to an alignment machine to it's parts (Hydraulic, Digital, Radiometer (which i'm guessing refers to the wireless transmission)) kind of ties things together. Then his response is spot on of course because even though he doesn't know what she's saying exactly he knows why he wasn't doing it. 10/10 movie. definitely recommend.

[@chrisseymour426]

I was going to say this. The Coneheads were aliens and didn't do (or say) things conventionally, which is what makes it a comedy. I still remember that scene where the husband and wife were talking in bed and the camera slowly panned out to show they were standing against a wall instead of laying in bed. Good stuff.

[@hotwelder21]

You have great sentence structure

[@jbroski84]

Thank you ..they definitely missed the comedy aspect of the movie👍

[@918_xDx]

Coneheads is a classic... I remember my little cousin blurting out "My dad buys that kind of gum! He keeps it in a drawer with moms hand massagers."

[@kalebgremmel1214]

I haven't been in many shops, but the shops I have seen that have alignment capabilities use light, not radio. Basically you put reflectors on the front wheels in front of the machine then turn the wheels back and forth and it will tell you all you need to know on the computer.

[@MagnusMercury]

To be fair, the coneheads are aliens so it makes sense she would say things oddly.

[@sundalangur3250]

That was my thought. He said "It's technically correct. It's just not how we would say it." Well she is an alien and look at how her father talks, so I think it's smart writing.

[@jonoel6638]

Agree!!!!!!

[@noneyabizz8337]

They need to watch the movie.

[@donaldbough3899]

I came to comment they needed to watch the movie for it to make sense.

[@MrYfrank14]

They are not aliens. They are from the south of France.

[@brianevans6819]

4:31 The spedometer thing absolutely "does" work on old cars with a spedometer cable. 😀 It does not reverse the mileage anywhere as fast as it shows in the clip. Newer cars under 30 years or so usually use a speed sensor in the transmission. It uses a sine wave, hall effect or optical signal to increase the odometer. You can't drive in reveres to lower the mileage because it doesn't know or care what direction you are moving.

[@Korni1991]

Yep, seen that on an Nissan Micra K11 driving backwards. Never thougt that could work but my Buddy showed me on his little red rocket^^

[@Wayne-n4z]

Easier to pull the odo and move the numbers (old cars) by hand . I never did this.

[@dwaynne_way]

It's always a great video when Sandro is on. Working with him would be such a blast.

[@edherdman9973]

"Are we doing this the right way or are we doing it for the boys?"

[@sda2911]

Such a great combo of humor and expertise

[@peltiereric6497]

That odometer trick absolutely does work but only on cars over a certain age because laws were passed to make Odometers tamper proof or at least not that easy to tamper with.

[@edherdman9973]

Not to mention you've got the VIN connected to the important pieces to keep the scoundrels honest.

[@matthewuzulis5016]

Ok, I have to argue about one point made during the cone head scene. "I think what she is saying does technically make sense, but is not phrased in a way anyone would ever say." your absolutely right and that is the point, she is an alien and thus not accustom to what people would actually talk like.

[@rdroodypoo]

I think a counter argument to this would be, based on how the movie portrayed the daughter, she would be the one least likely to have a more alien way of communicating. If that scene was her dad it would 100% make more sense. With the daughter spending her entire life on Earth her communication would/should match that of humans...as did everything else about her.

[@matthewuzulis5016]

@@rdroodypoo A good point, I would counter that though with normally she is trying to fit in, in these scene she is not wanting to be taken advantage of. She normally avoids conflicts but here where she is facing one and without being accustom to it defaults to what she has seen most, like her father. But to be fair I think I'm splitting hairs with my counter argument.

[@justajabronie]

Google ‘argue’ for me. You may have done the exact opposite, my friend. And I love that for you. #charliework

[@justajabronie]

@@rdroodypoonerd.

[@matthewuzulis5016]

@@justajabronie Nice name. fitting.

[@bandana_girl6507]

Fun fact: most foley (like the pounding on the steel) is less about being real about what the sound is and more about being what the audience is expecting. A 6-inch piece of steel isn't going to make much sound, but someone expected it, so a sound got put in

[@kryczech]

I'm surprised Marisa Tomei's scene about the tire tracks from My Cousin Vinny wasn't in it. Always love seeing Sandro.

[@1danny2k]

Love her

[@tsherwoodrzero]

They'd have to find a '55 Bel-Air with a factory 327 in it...IYKYK ;)

[@paulhare662]

"The defense is rowung"

[@chrisp4582]

​@@paulhare662 Thay wHer! But, thairs moa'rr! The two youts would agree as well.😂

[@WillNordstrom]

Best scene. And she is super nice to look at.

[@wartortilla2819]

The other detail about the Italian Job, those Minis were carrying a lot of weight with all those gold bars.

[@frallinger]

It is awesome to see how camera-comfortable your guest hosts have become.

[@salt-emoji]

I used to have a favorite, but everyone on the show is so good. Ms. A and Sandro are legends, but Paul is underrated imo

[@TokenBlack313]

"What part of this is supposed to be mechanical?" - Sandro (2023) Gold 🤣👌🏼

[@derGameplayDJ]

The cut-in-half Renault actually works. The guys from Top Gear tested it. With the fuel left in the lines and the filter, you can drive for a short while.

[@dougerrohmer]

But I would question Bond's ability to steer the car. The front wheels will turn, but the body won't track so the whole thing will crab. Or something. But then again, he is Bond, James Bond so it will probably work.

[@watsgoinonhere1]

@@dougerrohmer Cutting a car in half, adding a fuel system, and driving it exactly like how Bond does is something I've seen people do to smashed up old FWD cars. It's a little snakey but the back end rubs on the ground causing drag, which makes the "car" surprisingly controllable.

[@BigUriel]

@@dougerrohmer The fuel in the lines won't last a minute. You will also lose all brake pressure so lets hope you don't have to slow down before the fuel runs out.

[@dougerrohmer]

@@BigUriel He's Bond, James Bond. Q gave him a fountain pen with reserve fuel supply built in, and he'd just throw the baddies under the front wheels to stop.

[@brunoais]

@@BigUrielBrake pressure is not a problem because it's so light, and takes so much drag, it just stops easily.

[@TimnParks]

Sandro got a producer in trouble with that "What part of this is mechanical?" question. Someone absolutely looked at the person who added the clip and asked that again.

[@seanthiar]

4:50 I guess they mechanics forgot one thing - the time when the movie was playing. You can't turn a odometer backwards in a newer car, but that was a movie playing at a time where most cars were a 100% mechanic and no electronic. Lowering the mileage that way worked.

[@SylviusTheMad]

They tested that half-car thing from James Bond on Top Gear, as I recall. You can make the car work, but controlling it is basically impossible.

[@jeffduncan02]

Thanks for throwing in the Days of Thunder scene in for us old folks!

[@channell11]

The answer to the question of "Don't they hire people to tell them these things?" is that they do-but often directors and the people running the show disregard that advice if they're looking for a specific look, feel, or sound in the movie and they don't think most people will care.

[@foxisretrofitting4556]

I remember it was the year that I graduated high school early and I'm chilling over at a friends house. He puts in Lawless and I was so excited when the moonshine as emergency fuel scene came up. I was immediately like "put the alcohol in the tank!". Loved it. I also love Mad Max Fury Road. My mind always assumed it was alcohol and guzzlene they were spraying into the intake. I feel like Rick and Morty's Mad Max themed episode did it justice with the getting a mouthful from the flask and spraying it in the intake.

[@karadpal]

The odometer goes back if you spin the CORRECT wheel. In the beetle, they use the front left wheel to turn the odometer, if you lift the rear wheels and let they run in reverse, nothing happens, it you turn the front left wheel, you see the magic happening. So it just depends the car you're trying to do the trick and how you're trying.

[@zerg9523]

Quick UK car history lesson : A _”ringer”_ or a _”cut and shut”_ refers to a car that is made from two other cars… Usually two of the same model that have been in an accident, poorly re-welded and sold as a repaired car… absolutely illegal and lethal, but it happened. What happened in that James Bond movie happened regularly to ringed cars, often without needing an accident.

[@devonburkhalter9840]

The coneheads one is phrased in a way no one would ever say it because they're aliens. It's like the Jimmy Neutron "Sodium Chloride" bit.

[@donnasRock323]

Dude, its called salt #McSpankies

[@TheGreatChrisB]

All the scenes in The Italian Job are technically realistic because they actually did them, but they went through 32 cars because they didn't usually survive.

[@ToxicTerrance]

I mean, if they had to break 1 per shot, that means it's not possible to keep driving after these stunts. Unfortunately they're still in shop class

[@thermobollocks]

My only gripe on Matilda is that it takes place in the '70s or '80s, when engine computers weren't a thing, and mechanical odometer fraud was a huge dang deal. The movie itself came out in 1996 so that would've been well within the realm of possibility on used cars. Especially pre-OBDII.

[@ilovehappyemos]

Engine Masters did a test on oil pans and horsepower. While not a big jump, A good oil pan with kick-outs to reduce windage and a scraper to get oil off the crank will add power.

[@wharris123184]

9:00 Sandro’s reaction: Priceless 😂

[@bigbossbezos4760]

😂😂😂 “it’s levitating “ hahahahah

[@outrageous-alex]

The full quote "The customer is always right, in matters of taste."

[@jamessizemore7103]

That Italian job movie is also unrealistic because of how much weight the gold would actually be in the back of those cars, those minis would be struggling to get moving

[@ProtoV33MK1]

I remember doing the math in physics for a laugh, and one backpack of gold bars came out to something in the ballpark of 300lbs. Make that a trunk full, and you have no suspension left lol.

[@jackstakes]

Paul looks like that very big hearted mechanic you'll run into when your car breaks down right in the middle of the Texas/Louisiana heat and you got only 12 dollars in your pocket but he's gonna be happy to fix your car for free. ❤

[@GP-ur6if]

Haha, love the ending, that 6" steel plate would weigh around 4.5 tons. In fact I bet it would have the front end up in the air lol

[@iowafarmboy]

If it's about 3 ft tall, by 4 ft wide, it comes out to 1.46 tons at 6" thick. (Carbon steel being .2818 lb/in^3) Even then, still unmanageable.

[@reaganharder1480]

@@iowafarmboy Still probably pulling the nose off the ground given that the whole car weight was probably less than that before adding the shield. At the very least, that would be a handling nightmare...

[@GP-ur6if]

@@iowafarmboy should be more like 6' by 4' IMO, or 12 cubic feet. I checked and 1 cubic foot is 490lbs, so 6k or 3 tons, so yeah, off but just making a fun point

[@michag4337]

@@reaganharder1480 but you're not accounting for jason stethams (how ever it's spelt) massive balls. they're the offset. The question is where are you driving this, cause if it ain't a straight down steep af hill you're not moving.

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Thorough and engaging content! The blend of humor, technical review, and professional advice really makes this stand out. As a car enthusiast, it's fun to hear experts debunk or agree with the mechanics displayed in Hollywood movies.

[@Bad_Wolf_Media]

9:32 - I disagree about no damage on the Hummer H1. Unless they modified the hood from the military version (aside from noise reduction), the hood would be laying in pieces in the street after the first hit. Those things are light plastic or fiberglass, and they get torn up REALLY easily (ask me how I know). Aside from that, though, with the hits they showed? Yeah, she'll keep runnin' for ya.

[@Berm_Blaster]

How do you know?

[@jakeeyes3]

What the coneheads lady said made perfect sense. She named the easiest possible alignment to do: american so engineered to be simple, rack and pinion so easy toe adjustment, macpherson struts so no caster adjustment and an easy camber adjustment. Borgwarner however doesnt make radiometers and you dont use a radiometer for an alignment

[@petergerdes1094]

Wait is Sandro a vampire? He has fangs. Awesome! Explains how he knows so much about everything.

[@edherdman9973]

Including being French!

[@johngamer6255]

0:49 Old sprint cars used to have a bicycle tyre pump on the side that they'd pump up round the corners to pressurize the fuel tank to give it some more power

[@khanartist7987]

Dude I worked on Lawless back in 2011 I think as a lighting tech! So happy to see you guys break that scene down with the moonshine bc I always wondered about that. 🍻

[@sevilnatas]

the speedometer drill thing does work on older cars. Pre-80s has been my experience.

[@zero11010]

6:29 everything at this part us after the heist. Each car was carrying like 3,000 lbs of gold or whatever from the vault. So, each was about 3,000lbs give or take. Then they lost 200lbs. Then they added a 200lb driver, then 3,000lbs of loot. THEN the cars were flying around as 6,000lb minis. And, only one of those minis was an S. The others were base model mini coopers with normal aspiration.

[@nttntjno1797]

2:30 Yup, That 1983 Renault 11 had been modified with a small fuel tank tucked away in the engine compartment in order to shoot that particular "half car" scene.

[@GuillaumeH84]

1:45 For the 1/2 car it's a Renault 11 and the stuntman is Rémy Julienne, he's the one who created this stunt and he worked on 6 James Bond films, he was even the director on certain scenes. Disney even called on him to design an attraction at Walt Disney Studios Park, Action Motors! He has more than 1400 productions to his credit, so 400 films!

[@evanulven8249]

I think a better scene from Fury Road would have been when our Warboy is crawling up next to a pair of engines and effecting repairs while they're still running. Probably possible, but holy hell that would take a ballsy engineer.

[@insiainutorrt259]

Werent uncommon at all on early planes.... on some they had to as maintenance ....

[@klo1679]

Older cars used to be hot tuned, that is, it rolled into the shop, still running the mechanic would take the valve covers off, adjust the valves, put the covers back on, adjust the fuel in the carby, and fine tune the dizzy, add a dash of oil back in and slap the car on its arse as it drove back out. If all nux was doing for repairs was tying patches of hose over leaking lines, filling in cracks in the pan, and adjusting the belts I’d believe it. You can do a surprisingly large amount of repairs without stopping the engine.

[@rhouser1280]

Could set the mad max guy on the front of the 1/2 car blowing in fuel, it could be real! 😂

[@beveryofa2546]

With the clip from Coneheads the only part that I disagree with slightly is when they said, "no one talks like this" given that she's not from this planet and her character's parents also speak in a very similar way, her father multiple times in the movie uses the phrase "Ford Lincoln Mercury Sable" to describe his own car, so overdoing the vocabulary is almost baked in. Always great to see Chris Farley too lol.

[@stevedavis5704]

Now for a pet peeve of mine. People always say “The customer is always right “, but that’s just part of the quote. I was told the quote is “As for what the customer wants, the customer is always right.” That puts a whole different spin on the quote. The person who first told me that said that the job of the salesman was to help the customer understand what he needs not just what he wants.

[@GameFaceFail]

I've heard "The customer is always right, in matters of taste"

[@CyberGenesis1]

Same as the "Jack of all trades"

[@stevedavis5704]

@@CyberGenesis1 Isn’t that one “Jack of all trades, master of none “?

[@stevedavis5704]

@@GameFaceFail That works also.

[@0Rookie0]

@@stevedavis5704 "Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

The most unrealistic part of that whole updated Italian Job movie was the helicopter tail rotor slicing along the car door, and somehow remaining not only intact and attached to the heli (because it would have been torn to pieces and ripped right off), but still able to do it's job and keep the helicopter from torque spinning into the ground.

[@KnivesLegato]

the Coneheads clip wasn't supposed to sound like a human would say it. That's part of the schtick of them being aliens.

[@pet-purple-panda1634]

The Coneheads clip wasn't bad writing, its the point of ther joke. The whole point of the original skits was that they refer to everything by the literal definition of stuff like calling a potato a vessel for sustenance.

[@richardconnor2871]

I always liked getting the answer from both of the guests, this video didn't feel complete, and we missed out on more Sandro whenever it was Paul's turn XD

[@SXC101]

Really love this channel for it's accuracy 💯

[@Dtr146]

With the second clip. That's the beautiful thing about old movies. There was no CG. They rigged up that car to split in half when it got hit. I believe they moved the gas tank under the hood and had just enough gas to do a couple of takes

[@5hogg23]

I think that's nitro they're spitting into the intake in Mad Max, not gas. You would be able to feel a power difference. I rigged the cold start injector to a switch on an old racecar and when you flipped it, you would start to pull away from the other traffic.

[@RohonNag]

Does Nitro come in liquid form? I always though its a gas in a pressurized tank?

[@deadon4847]

@@RohonNag Yes, Top Fuel drag racers buy it by the barrel

[@45calGunslinger]

Raw benzene, nitromethane, kerosene, paint stripper... There's a bunch of dangerous stuff you can aerosol into your motor for more power when it's life or death!

[@ChristianStout]

I didnt know Danny Trejo ran an auto shop.

[@ILIK3HATERZ]

About fricken time you make another video! Sandro’s the man!

[@RobTheSquire]

Cut and shunts were cars that were made of two halves that were welded together and not well. They were around like nearly 30 years ago during my early childhood in the UK although I don't recall hearing about any cars breaking like the one in the bond film. The car might have ran for a short while in the film as I do remember on a tv show called Scrapheap Challenge where they did a challenge based around limited fuel run.

[@irishwristwatch2487]

Oh man, Scrapheap Challenge was a fantastic show, I used to love the wild challenges

[@Malcolm-l5b]

Re winding the odometer back with a hand drill, this works on old cars with purely mechanical systems.

[@MrCarlbrooks]

So the guy with blonde tips is wasted, are we just ignoring that?

[@TheRealStevenSeagals]

You must be new to the channel😂

[@ianfinrir8724]

He's a human Golden Retriever

[@aliakseilyshchytski223]

2:30 "the fuel part" is contained in decent volumes inside a carburator and some fuel in a line after a mechanical pump on engine head. Driving for 20 seconds without a fuel tank should work fine

[@aircraftnut15]

The first one is totally 💯 realistic I’ve actually don’t that with spray bottle (minus spitting the fuel with my mouth) the fuel pump died out n my dads truck and we needed to move it around the property to the garage and the easiest way was for me to sit in the front bumper and spray fuel into the carb It moved without a problem you just had to constantly spray the fuel in Edit I forgot to mention the truck was throttle body

[@45calGunslinger]

They could also be spitting something a bit more volatile in to boost combustion, like kerosene or nitromethane

[@guytypeperson]

"I think what she's saying does technically make sense, but is not phrased in a way that anyone would ever say..." Tell me you've never seen Coneheads without telling me you've never seen Coneheads. That is LITERALLY the point. lol

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

One of my favorite things about The Italian Job is that each of the minis has a slightly different engine sound dubbed, and IIRC the blue one sounds suspiciously subaru-like ;)

[@hughoreilly9526]

The Ford vs Ferrari was great advice and glad you included it.

[@KrustyBunion]

"Because I was outback finishing a beer" was hilarious. I need to watch that movie

[@davidkeetz]

great episode - I love how they pointed out the same thing that's always perplexed me, which is that these movies have enormous budgets and they spend so much time and money to the writers and the editors and all along the way, nobody can take 10 minutes to validate the "gearhead talk" and write something that makes sense.

[@Yewgonnaeetdat]

Love Donut Media. We need them and all their subscribers to keep us tow truck operators wealthy this holiday season. Keep buildin and keep breakin, we’ll be there for you guys Go fast, don’t die! Love ya! Happy Holidays!

[@Azmodon]

4:26 and for differentials... banana peels. One of my families funny quotes thanks to my dad: "Show me the law that says I can't stick banana peels in my rear end"

[@braddeicide]

Hold up. In Ferris Bueller's you say take the cable off the gearbox and wind it backwards to reverse the odometer... That's what they did in Matilda, and the experts said the sawdust thing was legit, yet you sent them to shop class! Injustice!

[@braddeicide]

Ah right, for the welded bumper comment. Might have been the case for old old cars?

[@Thundarr995]

Back in the early 90s, one of my uncles had a 70-something Toyota Corolla. It was really rustic, and it had plywood on the floor covering up some of the larger holes. One day, he let his sister borrow it. She drove over a speed bump, leaving the grocery store, and it literally bent in half. She called him from a pay phone to tell him what happened. I remember him saying, "Now,what happened? Does it still drive? Well, drive it back here then cuz I don't have free towing. About 15 minutes later, she came pulling in the driveway, and it was sagging in the middle like a sway back horse. I think the roof was the main thing preventing it from breaking completely in two. That's probably pretty common in the rust belt? I've never seen badly rusted out vehicles like that out here on the West Coast.

[@CarlosMedina82]

Wonderful episode guys. Sandro, as always, delivers the funnies. Sandro you're awesome 😊👍

[@mitchellparadise3801]

I think the writers of Coneheads probably do know what they’re talking about. That was kinda the whole bit of the movie. The Coneheads would call appliances by their function rather than name because they know the tech just not our names for it

[@Zerinsakech]

As a guy who works on Mini coopers from time to time, the R53 catalytic converters shown in that scene are %100 stock and yeah, these minis can lose so much weight. especially from seat, roof, sound deadening , exhaust, doors and glass. behind the scenes for this movie shared that the mini's in the tunnel scenes were converted to electric for pollution and ventilation reasons. so I can imagine they recycled the extra parts for the "chop shop" scene. I was happy to see the extra level of realism by using correct Props for the spare parts removed from these cars.

[@0Rookie0]

A foam prop of a Gallo 12 wouldn't have sufficed?

[@ut00bvor]

My grandfather had a white gas car, the would start with Ethyl, he put a tank in the glove box and ran piping laid across the manifold to heat the white gas and it terminated at the carb. He would start the car with regular gas and then, once warm, switch over to the white gas. Back then, Ethyl was 5 cents a gallon, white gas was 1 cent for 5 gallons. BTW white gas is now called Coleman fuel.

[@borshardsd]

Awesome video again boys! Love the guests! Pual and sandro are favorites

[@vicrattlehead8665]

Seriously analyzing a Danny devito scene is wild 😭

[@pinholau]

"I'm gonna damage that pocket.." 🤣🤣🤣

[@firegod555]

One of the few things that makes me smile is a new "Real Mechanic Stuff" video!

[@its.drew77]

"The customer is always right, in matters of taste." Is the full saying

[@MarylandFarmer.]

To change a millage reading on an older car takes a long time with a drill. I knew a guy that bought a replacement and wanted it to read the same, it took it 18 plus hours and it wasn't even that far off. He said he wouldn't have bothered if he had to do from scratch.

[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

On older car when I replace the odo because it's broken or unreadable, to match the milage it's much faster to move the numbers by hand either by going forward or if you lift the finger that moves the rolls you can roll it back or forward without influencing the next roll up.

[@norfolkngood8960]

I had one of those Renaults as my first car. It was a Renault 11 TXE Electronic from 1986. It had a digital dashboard, voice synth, sensors everywhere, electric everything and a very clever double din stereo with steering wheel controls. Only thing it didnt have was Aircon no surprise there. Back in the 80s chop shop cut and shuts were more common where scrapped cars were welded together as the rules on them were rubbish. So couldve been a ringer car and thats why it broke in half from a realism pov but that wpuldnt explain the fuel obvs If memory serves that scene was real they rigged that Renault 11 to drive cut in half on 2 wheels.

[@oncinaust5178]

If you are going to show a clip from a James Bond film show that part where a semi truck's frame breaks in half swivels up "for a wheelie" then swivels back down and the truck is fine. I think the movie was called License to Kill.

[@sundalangur3250]

I mean that's kind of the point of Coneheads, they're aliens that talk in a very technical way that sounds off to the normal person. Thus providing for much of laughter and hijinks that follows.

[@vleetv]

RIP the comment about the coneheads and alignment. Obviously James hasn't seen the movie, surprised he didn't ask why her head was weirdly shaped and bald.

[@andrewdobin]

These are my favorite reaction guests but Sandro should have his own series his humor and knowledge are so damn enjoyable!

[@SoulTouchMusic93]

mechanics: you can't glue the bumper on lotus: in a corner gluing the whole car on since the 90's

[@Goblet31]

How to fix green screen green edges on the masks. - Lumetri color, curves section - Hue vs Hue curve - pipet the skin color to get the skin tone node line - make another node a little to the right of the right most node - drag the second to right most node up and to the right a bit until the green edges are gone - do it all on an adjustment layer and do multiple lumetri color effects, one for each person in frame by the way, no disrespect, I just learnt how to do this like a week ago lol 🙂

[@baqcasanke]

Not even all that. Just better green screen lighting technique. Avoid backspill etc

[@south_carolina_man]

7:40 Most of Days of Thunder is an amalgamation of various true stories throughout NASCAR up to when it was written. Smokey Yunick and Junior Johnson were famous for practically rewriting the NASCAR rulebook every race. Some 'improvements' included crossing the fuel line multiple times under the seat to gain extra capacity, having a second fuel tank housed in the entire dashboard, buckshot in the rollbars to be released throughout the race to save weight, and building an entire Chevelle replica of your clearly illegal car just so that the template would be based off of your illegal car.

[@danielbarnes2910]

Im a simple man, I see Sandro i like the video and have a smile on my face !

[@arigundy4782]

"Imma damage that pocket" lmfao