rev it up and welcome to cars yeah show number 1121 I like to break a big
project we all want to see the final product but I like to break it into
small mini projects and it's kind of like kind of like eating an elephant you
know one bite at a time this is cars yeah where you'll enjoy
interviews with inspiring automotive enthusiasts
mark Greene is here to provide you with a fuel injection of automotive
inspiration so get in sit down buckle up and get ready for a wild ride here on
cars yeah
hello automotive enthusiasts I'm revved up and so excited to introduce today's
very special guest Tom Perez oh hey Tommy you buckled up and ready for a fun
ride yes sir buckled up and ready to roll all
right Tom Bravo is a Porsche enthusiast who enjoys wrenching on old cards as
much as he loves driving them his passion to share his enthusiasm spurred
him to launch a YouTube channel he calls aa garage time where he shares his car
restoration tips and tricks geared towards do-it-yourselfers Thomas
designed and manufactured a handful of car related products that support his
ongoing restoration addiction which include VW Porsche engine test Stan's
custom Porsche 356 toe boards and some rust repair parts after tackling a
Porsche 356 restoration he drove into a Porsche 911 and a garage time became a
weekly restoration vlog cars don't need to be a money pit if you're willing to
learn to do it yourself and as well as we all know the journey is often more
fun than the destination so Tommy I've told our listeners just a
little bit about you would you take a brief moment and share a little bit more
about your career your YouTube channel and a very obvious passion for working
and playing with cars yes thank you mark for the opportunity to be on your show
today and I'm very honored to share my passion with you and your audience
because at the end of the day I'm just an avid hobbyist working out of my home
garage you know restoring cars and I'm very fortunate I feel very lucky to be
doing it you know for whatever reason I just seem to be attracted to projects
you know cars that need lots of work and for me know that's the fun part that's
where I really enjoy the quest and the challenge and coming up with new methods
sometimes it's a new tool handmade tool or a clever method to restore apart this
is what I like to do I don't have access to a lot of the expensive specialized
equipment that some of the specialized shops have so for me I just want to
share my experience for the typical DIY er and along the way I've made a few
parts that I I sell to subsidize my car projects but in general they're there to
help the community and over the years have been quite successful building
engine tests and that allow guys to diagnose and
troubleshoot their engines outside the car plus they make a few Porsche parts
like you mentioned but recently I started a YouTube channel and that seems
to be gaining some steam before I share some secrets and how I'm restoring my
own 911 honest a shoestring budget and it's a lot of fun it's really there to
inspire other people that have the same sort of enthusiasm that I do and just to
get out and build something especially the younger crowd who seems to be sort
of losing things an interest of all things mechanical so so far it's been
it's been a really fun ride well I'm really happy with what you're doing and
that's why I love sharing your story because you're a bit of a watcher
preneur I guess in one way because this is a hobby for you but you're evolving
it into a business and I think the best part of what you're doing tom
these are giving back to people you're offering through YouTube a free service
basically to watch to viewers at least a way for them to do it themselves and
learn how to do it themselves and learn how to have some fun I enjoy watching
your vlog and going oh I never thought about that or things that I never
thought I could tackle you give me the sense that maybe I should tackle them
and give them a try so appreciate what you're doing and as we continue on your
journey I was like to start with a success quote or a mantra this is some
kind of saying that's been instrumental in your success it's a nice way to get
the inspirational tires turning here on cars yeah so Tom take the wheel yeah I
think for me you know on a daily basis as it relates to cars it's you know when
there's a will there's a way and it's only metal you know what that
means for me is I typically you know I don't encourage guys to just start
hacking into their classic car with torches and saws but you know to start
by making a plan and that's that's really where the will part of the mantra
comes in I like to break a big project we all want to see the final product but
I like to break it into small mini projects and it's kind of like kind of
like eating an elephant you know one bite at a time
oh yeah I do lots of realizing yeah because it's my projects like I said
earlier just are huge huge projects and if you don't break them down into small
pieces it becomes daunting but I do a lot of research I pick a better that
works for me if I'm really confident or sometimes devise my own plan
I always practice first before I start just cutting away I remember in the
beginning and I was restoring a Porsche 356 and I was I was just so afraid to
cut into it it had a lot of rust that needed to be repaired but as I would
work on small inconspicuous areas just one piece at a time I started to get
more and more confident and now I am ready just to dive right in and share my
story so you know you have to be safe and you have to think about the
unintended consequences when you're really cutting into a car like that but
as long as you have a will and you have a plan and you work the plan then
usually good things come out of it I sometimes find myself you know I
sometimes I'll just be dreaming about a difficult repair and I think about it so
often this is where the passion is I'll be dreaming about this stuff so when it
comes to the day to actually execute the plan I feel like I've already thought
about most of the things that could go wrong or could go right so I try to do a
lot of research and really get into it but it in the end of the day metal is
pretty forgiving and if it allows yourself to learn a new skill and have
fun doing it inspiring confidence as to you do best now you and I are Porsche
guys we both love Porsches as my listeners know I'm a big fan so I'd love
for you to share a story that instigated your personal passion for cars is there
a pivotal moment your life and you knew you were indeed a car guy yeah I think
so I mean for me it really starts at a pretty young age I mean I think I was
around eight or nine years old some of you and your listeners may remember the
Sears wish book that used to come around through the mail to catalogue it comes
in the mail around Christmas time but I remember breakfast as a kid and I would
circle one page had a go-kart on it and lo and behold one year under the
Christmas tree this thing showed up and I times member you know I was so excited
I remember driving that around in our backyard we had a large backyard as
quite spacious with a lot of dirt and before you know it I was
counter-steering opposite lock going around corners just having the best time
and shortly thereafter I also became interested in radio-controlled cars
around the same age and these cars were so technically advanced I mean even in
the 80s I really got into learning about how they work and why they work and how
to set them up for racing so I think before I was even able to drive or had a
driver's license I really had this passion for for cars and you mentioned
Porsche well to me my Porsche passion was really no
different than driving a go-kart I mean these are simple cars they're well built
with a purpose and that's just to have fun
absolutely the Sears Christmas catalog oh yeah
I remember getting those and circling all the things you hope the Santa would
bring you and leaving them conspicuously open around the house so quote-unquote
Santa might see them if you will but you are lucky guy to get a go-kart yeah
might my neighbor friends and I had to make a go-kart and I did not have a big
backyard so we were driving it up and down the street and of course and
knowing all the neighbors and probably driving it down the street into some
areas we shouldn't have been driving it but those go-karts quite fun so vertical
stills still saying sorry to the neighbours father who's Briggs and
Stratton engine we still love it's a lot more how our go-kart well what I want to
do now is take a look at some of the mini roads you've driven down Tom and
talk about a big challenge or a big failure maybe he was in launching this
YouTube maybe it's in trying to figure all this out I don't know but take us to
a point in time where you were challenged and tell us what that
experience taught you yeah the nice thing about you know my passion is it's
really for me mostly a hobby and I love all the technical challenges and I it's
always seen to find a way to persevere and for me I try to do so in a high
standard you know probably the biggest challenge for me is listening to the
naysayers there's people that say you know why is this taking so long or you
know I got my car painted for a couple hundred dollars you know what's your
problem and you know these are friends but they're not necessarily car friends
and they just don't seem to get it sometimes so sometimes I just have to
smile and say well you know this is going to be done when it's done and I'll
just keep working on it and and that's how I need to spend my time
I mean I'm socializing with people all over the world who are doing the same
thing and for me it's just a lot of fun you know it's kind of like I think golf
is a good analogy because it's no different than you know hitting that
little white ball with a stick and then saying well how come you haven't hit a
hole in one yet yeah you try hitting this ball with his
dick yeah it's a difficult in long-term challenge and I always use this cliche
where you know you have a sort of triangle where you have the corners are
labeled you know you can have it fast you can have it inexpensive and you can
have it high-quality and you can only pick two and for me my method is
certainly on the high quality side and but inexpensive so alternatively that
means it's not fast and sometimes it's difficult for my nan friends to get that
and that could be a challenge sometimes to get this project finished to the
finish line I want to do it my way and I want to do it at a high quality way so I
think that's really the summary of my challenge it's kind of like golf yeah
you spend your whole career and not hit a hole-in-one well it's interesting
because a lot of people these days there are ways to put yourself out there doing
vlogs doing blogs doing podcast I mean whatever it might be and then they meet
up with the naysayers as I call them people who are trying to tell them that
what they're doing is wrong or give their personal opinions which sometimes
are accurate sometimes maybe they're not and this is a good subject to maybe go a
little further on what is your opinion or what's your experience I should say
even better of dealing with people who are maybe I want say picking on you but
let's just use that term right now that well what you're doing is wrong you know
just take a drill shave and paint the car and be done with it
what what's a good way you found to positively interact with these folks
that are kind of picking on you a little bit cuz it's gonna happen when you put
yourself out there believe me it's gonna happen and to do it in a dignified way
are there any little tips and tricks you might offer yeah absolutely I mean I get
lots of you know feedback number one people will run reminds me of safety you
know sometimes I'm right now I'm in the phase of doing a lot of welding and I'm
pretty focused on the outcome and what the cars going to look like and how to
get this particular piece put in correctly but in some cases you know I
typically do a lot of TIG welding and I'll be wearing a glove on one hand but
not the other or it's not the right glove or you know so kind of like to be
the you know I call them the the Monday morning kind of racers they
like to be the ones who want to be the know at all so for the no at all I'd
like to interact with them and be part of the community but I also you know
hope to keep them sort of focused on what the product is supposed to be and I
and I do a lot of things in an unconventional way as I mentioned I
don't have big punch presses and things that the professional shops do so so the
way I do it is pretty different and I like to show the methods I use because
there's something that anyone can do at home in their own garage I used a lot of
hammers I've taken parts of mine to the beach and I've formed metal shapes for
the nose of my 911 for instance I formed some of that stuff at the beach and I'm
using the sand and I'm using just a lot of different methods that are pretty
unconventional and for the most part the response has been pretty positive but
some people just want to shake their heads and say well you should just write
a check for this and drive away into the sunset but for me I really like the
challenging aspects of how to get it done do the research and make it work
for myself yeah well I think for some of those folks they're missing the point of
what you're trying to do it's kind of like saying well why did you bother
driving to another state why don't you just fly it's a lot quicker it's like
well the drive is part of the journey the fun it's getting there not so much
the destination as I mentioned in your introduction so yeah that could be a
challenge so I always start when I deal with that with a thank you thank you for
your comments thank you for your email and sometimes just be as brief as that
because you know you're never gonna win the argument
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