How My Dream Car Made Me A Welder
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The story of how I accidentally became a welder. I really had no plan to become one, but it happened thanks to my dream car and cocky young attitude.
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I became a welder after I paid a fraud to weld some panels on a 69 mustang I had when I was younger. His social media was full of stolen content from other welders. He laid down the worst welds i have ever seen to this day. I decided to never trust anyone to work on my car and I purchased a mig welder at harbor freight and decided to learn to weld myself. I learned flux then moved on to mig then tig. Now I have my own fab shop where I make $120 per hour. All because someone wanted to rob me of $80.
To a tee the same thing happened to me. Cheers man🤟
I can't tell you how much I relate to your story. From the 19-year old mindset, to my dream car (FD RX-7), to becoming an Auto Technician, and now learning how to TIG weld. I can't thank you enough for your content.
Well Justin....your detour allowed me the time to amass the tools and just enough to try and follow along on a build. Funny how when I first started watching you it was to learn fabrication, and I still always come back here to look at how you actually assemble your joints and sequence your bends AFTER I see an interesting idea to try...lol I am stoked to see you make something gnarly dude.
yup. same sorta story here. haven't made the big leagues yet lol
high school, taking automotive & welding. dad is a welder. i dont really like welding all day. friend takes me out to the drag strip one night. we race our 16sec and slower cars. damn i was hooked. decided to go to ford asset thru the community college. worked at a ford dealer. wet myself on every mustang and the couple ford gt's that came thru. of course, i went and bought an old 1995 mustang. replaced basically every part under & in the car. years later, still working on cars lol its shiny luster is dull, but it pays the bills. i still have that car, but never drive it. like most guys, family takes the front burner.
Funny how the love for a car a bike or a truck can provide you with a destiny to get you places in life you would’ve never dreamed of! Looking forward for more Viper content! Way cool plates by the way😎
Inspiring story. Congratulations on your success.
Ya know thankyou for telling ya story, and doing so in a way not being cocky or jaded... You can tell ya worked hard and earned it, makes us hard working people dream with a little more hope...
I love Vipers and I've liked your channel for a long time now. Thanks for sharing the story.
Tig welding for me has helped me build a car that I'd dreamed of owning when I found out they existed, An SR20det converted R32 sedan. Not quite as expensive but If I couldn't tig weld well enough to be in the job I'm currently in I couldn't have done the fabrication on it let alone paid someone to do it. But it's such a sick feeling to see people getting hyped on the work you've done on their car too.
Happy for you bud. I try to tell the younger generation to learn everything you can.
My Father(step father) cramped as much as he could in my head and always told me the same thing and to never stop learning... growing up he always said " never stop learning and you'll never be broke"... well I now understand what he means!
You are one of my favorite people on earth, brother!
Such a cool story - thank you. I hope this inspires a bunch of people of any age to chase their dream, whatever it is.
I have been watching you for a good bit now. You have helped me make tremendous strides in my fabrication knowledge. I often say now is the perfect time to try and learn something because the information is all on the internet! You are what I am talking about! It is the whole reason why I started my channel. Spreading knowledge! The knowledge that can be obtained through one video on youtube is incredible. You have more than proven its affect not by through me alone but everybody else commenting and taking your classes. Thank you for making the videos that you do and all you have done for the welding community!
I too loved the viper as a teenager. Sadly there aren't going to be too many in Australia
It all comes full circle. Very cool story 👍🏼
Lol i remeber you beginning videos and remember the fabrication you did and that is mainly what got me hooked on your channel... now i try not to miss and episode. By the way.. your the one who got me going on TIG! Thanks for that lol
Thank you for your story bro. It was a pretty awesome one. I’m glad to see that you are where you are now proof that perseverance and hard work dedication pay off in the end. Keep up the good work.
I found you for bending metal and making roll cages..... How long ago was that!!
8 years ago.
Same here, that one video where he made a roll cage for the evo (I think?) is the one that brought me here... been watching ever since. It was a long video but I watched every second of it.
Great back story Justin! Congrats on all your successes and very best wishes and prayers for countless more! 👍👍👊👊🥃🥃🥃
Automotive performance fabrication is exactly what I want to do and seeing this video is making me pretty excited to see some new content
I had the poster and built the roadster model and the gts model when I was a kid. Just an awesome car, and a great story!
Justin uve inspired all of us An so have so manny others in seeing their dreams become reality God Bless u always 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I dig your story man. I got into welding in my 2nd year of high school. Learned on an older but nice ESAB machine. Now I've been running my own trailer repair and heavy equipment service company for the past few years and I love it! Feels crazy to make money doing what I love. Your experience of the 1st time you struck an arc was similar to mine. I want to eventually either build or get a shop for larger stuff during the rainy season.
Are you only welding or doing mechanical repairs too?
@@grzegorz16100 mostly welding but I wrench for about 30% of it.
That's Great!!! You go man.
great story thank you for sharing, you car is gorgeous.
Mine is similar and everyone wants way to much to weld so I do it myself now. My dream car is also a viper and then a SVJ Lamborghini. And one day I will have my dream car lol.
love it!!! makes the channel more relatable and identifiable with me and im sure other folks...keep rock'n it
Great story Justin. More young people need to get into the trades and actually make somethings, I was a machinist then got into computers, also got my dream car a 2018 Challenger R/T
Mostly did rivets on the vipers, but damn I welded a lot of suspension brackets on the v10 and diesel dodge 4x4's
Personally, I found your channel because the automotive fab work is specifically what I want to do as well. I don't really have much interest in welding/fabrication outside of cars and I really like seeing what could've been had I picked up welding instead of machining.
Hahaah man what a awsome story. I am on a really similar way of how it went when I could finally buy my dream car (03 350z) and still have it and not planning of selling it anytime.
Had a big smile on my face during the whole video 🙌🏻🙌🏻😁
I'm a simple man, I see a viper, I like the video... been my dream car since I was 10.
This is awesome brother!
Thank you for the motivation 💯
What a awesome story! Just shows hard work pays off!!
Love the story. Funny how are career path change.
Justin, and here I thought you were born with a CK in your hand........cheers my friend, Paul down in Orlando
We all went through that 19 year old mindset. I was a local mechanic at 19 who got fired (found out many years later that my old Man got me fired as he wanted better for me than being greasy all the time) so in looking for work I took a job in the mail room at Western Union (it was 1982 so you took what you could get) and then a job in the computer room opened up that required lifting 70lb boxes of paper so I got the job, spent lunchtime reading the manuals and 'sucked up" all the knowledge I could ) and spent the last 41 years in IT. It interested me, just as welding did to you, If your job is interesting to you, you'll take more pride in it and learn to excel and do better with it. I mean, if your job was cleaning toilets you will move on to another job in a couple of weeks.
Good dad
Thank you for sharing your inspiring story.
Hey, realize this is off-topic, but dyou have any advice for bending 1.5in 1/8in wall aluminium tubing with a manual bender? I need to use a sway bar to lever the tubing out of the bender after, and I found that the aluminium tubing springs back once it's removed (assuming that's why it's so tight to remove). Trying to do a 90, and it turns out about 85 degrees even though in the bender it is bang on 90. Definitely using the right dies.
Thank you
What do you think of Laser Welding?
That was great!
That was a bloody good vid mate
Collab with SuperfastMatt incoming?
My dream car made me a body filler technician 😅
I learned welding in high school shop. They don’t teach kids useful stuff today.
my dream car made me a paraplegic
early barracudas lose stability at high speed
minor repeated crashes, then one major smashup and life is suddenly very different
Viper is palways ethe ranswer
man you are the real american, a person who pursues his dreams by hard working. Its a pity to see the new generation of americans resorting to government money just like communists.
I started following for the automotive fabrication stuff you started. Thats my life and i grew up in Vegas so we had a commonality. Please go back. Even if its a project you do a video on every couple or once a week. I.loved the roll cage and know the current owner by the design you did. I was looking forward to the mini as i was in Vegascat the height of the minitruck craze and was with one of the clubs. Hope you keep going with it.
Your next Business should be motivational speaking. Let's go weld....
All hail the algorithm.
My car made me a welder when i dropped the spanner on the battery
or whatever the case is.
Who wasn't young and dumb?
Your story is almost verbatim on my current situation. Always wanted to weld and am I to performance cars and I’m currently a garbage truck mechanic. My job is basically “do whatever you gotta to get that truck on route” and we all weld but have a primary welder who’s really skilled. I basically went up to him and said I wanna learn show me your ways and have been doing it since. Not all the time but when I can get it in plus on my own stuff. I jumped on the first hood tig welder deal i could find and since then have been watching your channel religiously. That and I tell me wife I want a car, she says no right as I’m pulling in the driveway with it lol. I always knew I wanted to weld and whether that shapes my future or is just a great tool to help me with my car hobby I’m fine with cause I couldn’t be happier with it 🤙
Slow nick
If I could have been introduced to TIG back when I was a kid, I would have fab'd all kinds of chassis design and parts . As it was, I was a mechanic with my dad and heli arc was extremely expensive . And those guys were referred to as gods of welding . They seemed to be able to name their own price like a doctor . So it was pretty much off limits . Unless you were to go to a school to learn . But I really never made the time . Although I understood suspension dynamics and fab'd a couple K frames and other suspension parts from rec tube and such, I didn't put complete trust in the wire feed concept for strength though . Now with the cost being where it is, and the instruction as it is now, if I was a kid now the sky would be the limit ... Oh yeah I'm 67 now, and have been learning TIG for the last year and a half and love it . I've learned a lot from you and Jody Collier, along with a few others . :)
Never to late to chase your dreams.
Who knows, maybe you find your dream car in rusted through condition to weld together
That's awesome. I learned welding so that I could do the work myself and do it the way I want it. Focusing on Tig SS and aluminum it's literally saved me thousands of dollars.
of course its a chrysler, probably needed to be a welder to weld the frame back together(Watching the video that is in fact the case)
In 2005, I saw the Super Bowl commercial for a C6 Corvette and now because I’m going to welding school, I decided to treat myself to one. Hopefully I don’t suck at it.
never underestimate being the most-skilled man in the room. 👍
Well, I got into welding because of an olt ('69) Volkswagen Van doing MIG/MAG. This kinda lit a fire for welding. Car was sold, went to university, did other things and a million years later i found a place where a few friends and I had our DIY garage. And an old MIG/MAG machine. For me cars became a target for welding practice because of love for welding. At some point i got into TIG because it's more demanding and more fun. Now I'm an electronics designer, freelancer and do talks about welding and watch a lot of YT welding channels like this one here to learn more.
your own Vin Wiki moment! haha. nice car!
No lie... about a year ago I reached out to tell my story because it made no sense here. They said "sure," but I had no time to get there to tell the story. It makes sense here now, but I'd still love to go there and tell another.
My love of aviation taught me to weld. And paint, and machine, and composites, and wiring, and.....
I grew up in FL with a decent car modding scene but also broke i followed some similar steps. Now living in CA and their draconian auto laws I see it not only impacting fun, but also crushing the future engineers, fabricators, and designers.
So many of us grew up just wanting to do some cool stuff to our cars and that DIY ethic ends up leading down a road that can not only help us, but lead to becoming more productive members of society. I'm just a hobbiest in the air force as a cop, but plenty of other guys that work at Lockheed, Prat n Wit, Raytheon, NASA, SpaceX etc started with "air intake make car go fast Unga bunga" if there isn't a decent outlet to peak the interest of the youth it's hard to have tangible motivation to get to engineering and fabrication.
Your content is amazing and inspiring, well my story is I got ripped off once when I sent my car in for a turbo conversion and it was a mess, went out and bought a Tig welder and started learning how to Tig weld it took me a long time to weld decently, and that’s I became a welder and fabricator 🎉
#1 Good to see you got your dream car / goal. She's sweet!
At 15 I use to see a guy with a 70's Trans-am at school ...Always wanted after that a newer Trans-am / Camaro I worked at local condo pools Cleaning them And testing the Ph Cleaning the grounds on summer break Had a paper route with 362 customers ( 4 trips out of the house to deliver) Done snow shoveling in the winter months
- At 16 I saved up about $5,000 Someone offered a 1986 K-Car for $600 ...Nope A rusty mustang...Nope
I found a 1983 Trans-am with a V8 T-tops Everything worked $800 But had signs of rust (Canadian winters/salt) -- In trade school we had welding class Autobody/Mech Made a deal with the Autobody shop teacher That come in on sat for 4 hours to grind, And make patch welds Painted the car 8 weeks later myself ( Hunter Green met /w-Gold BBS rims) And yes I had a few runs But become a pro at wet sanding and polishing lol Had the car 11 years And sold it
The project now is a 2005 Blazer 2dr 4x4 that has quite the amount of upgrades And converted to a camper in the back ..My welding is not that great And its been years and years ..( 1 Body mount has a hole behind it at the floor ) Need to replace the rocker panel And lower 1/4 And want to angle iron weld a roof rack ...If i pass this I will also install a rear swing arm where the ZR-2's have a spare tire And add on a gas can .........Going to buy a cheap 110a welder And play around with different sticks And try to hone in on sweet spot welds before i start
I got my USCG Captains License and started a tour company.... same deal... passion for fishing, water, binkinis, boats, binkinis, ...did I mention bikinis? ... and picked up welding on the side for trailers and pontoons.
I'm looking for suggestions for a quality welding helmet. The one I have now (Chicago Electric) is too dark even on it's lowest setting when trying to do any MIG work, although it's OK for TIG. Anyone care to provide a little input on a particular make and model? Not looking for the Viper RT10 of helmets (unless it happens to be under $300 or so), but I'd like something better than the Yugo I've got.
You see basically the same story over and over again. You have an interest and you need skills to manage it.
Same for me. I bought a race car that was way worse than the seller said. I got some books, tips from my father and a will that was hard to break. I rebuilt the engine, welded up the body and modified the suspension. It looked ugly and was still one of the slowest cars on the track. You cant take a daily driver to a F1 race and expect to win. I built another car that was a little faster and raced it in the divison it was built for. A constant lack of money and too expensive parts led me to build anti roll bars, drive shafts, suspensions etc for 20 years. I have National, Nordic and European champions amongst my clients, so obviously I was better at making car parts than racing.
Today I'm relearning to weld since I started building a few motorcycles for myself. Welding has always been (and still is) a mystery for me. Milling, turning, designing..... not a problem, but I will never be a really good welder.
I've been a salt-belt auto tech for 22 years now, and I can definitely say that you wouldn't have afforded your dream car if you hadn't switched majors. Small town shops here are still charging $85/hr, and I barely get a quarter of that for pay. Justin - if you ever need an electrical guy (whiz, allegedly), please hit me up. Wisco sucks.
So i learned to weld for one reason. I like mini trucks, custom cars, and go karts. First thing i learned to weld on was a 96 chopped and body dropped ford ranger v6 2wd with a cusom 4 link setup bagged with drag blocks and train horns ahh i miss the late 90's. Simple step 1 cut roof off daily driver. Step 2 figure out how to put it back at 5in lower at age 16 with less than 200$ in my pocket.
Pennysaver got a used lincoln mig 140 off a drug addict for 120$ and air gas rental for C25 .025 wire and tips. And showing pictures of the project to smith a guy that owned a local metal supplier he help me get a few off cuts of the right Guages of steel and metal working tools he helped a lot with fab stuff still good friend's to this day im 38 now lol. But a few mini truck mags and iron works mag had a few basic rules to MIG welding. With small pointers from my grandpa when i visited him up north and i got it down pretty good. 18mo later i was winning trophies at car shows and setting the freeway on fire dragging sold 8x8x8in blocks of magnesium on my frame rails.
I had 4in drop front I-beams. With rear mounted bags using 3 cam plates and 4 push rods the rear was a triangle 4 link setup with the bags on the lower links. The train horns are real K5LA with a 1.5in dump valve a custom plate replaced my A/C with a semi engine driven air compressor feeding 2 custom tanks i made from 3/16 wall 4in steel pipe with 2 stacked 1/4in plate welded to the ends with 2 passes fyi the tanks replaced the factory frame rails from the cab back.
Stacked on top with 3/16 plate welded to the outside and 2in wide strips on the inside where needed this heal the entire rear suspension and all the loads never had a hickup even at 130psi.
2 tanks directly feed the horns 2 tanks feed the smc valves for my bags a valve between them and the supply line lte me isolate the suspension if i had any leaks but was never a problem the sheer output from the compressor made the tanks almost not needed.
I was raised around gear heads , had Uncle's that drag raced My Dad had some cool cars and trucks , I had always wanted a Chevy Nova ,but I got into drugs around 15 years old none the less when I was 23 I purchased a 1972 Nova SS from my Mom who originally bought the car for my older brother, she was paying on the car and he went and bought a 1983 Chrysler k car , so she said she was going to sell it , i ended up getting it for what she owed on it $1,000 , i always planned on building it up but being poor and partying a lot wasn't a good match. Lol but I still managed to put a bigger cam in it as well as a better intake and a 650 Holly, the local police seemed to single me out every time I went to town , fortunately I never spent the night in jail for anything, God surly was watching out for me , I still have my Nova , but getting married and having kids it's been sitting for a long time , I have slowly been accumulating parts for an engine build and interior parts . I learned to weld in my early 20's and have been wrenching most of my life . I'm in my early 50's now and really want to get back to working on my Nova , I have a lot of projects going on but do what I can when I can .
I most enjoy seeing your videos in which you perform skilled work. My enjoyment in viewing talking videos is less. I recently enjoyed two of your videos involving great tig welding and great design work and sheet metal fabrication. IMO technical topics are your strong suit. Charismatic blah blah blah blah you should not attempt.
Thats awesome how that all worked out. If your ever in houston tx We'd love to have you out to our shop if only for a few minutes. We have 2 newer machines(early 2000's) but other than that everything in our fab shop is from the 80's to 20's. And we still use most everything. Just saying if you want a blast from the past press break or sheer hell everything else its a pretty cool place to visit.
Similar story here i had been working various jobs from 16-22 ish with no real direction
I had a little money in my pocket and was browsing eBay and I seen a car for sale and I had to have it better yet I recognised the speed camera in the background of the pictures
So I knocked on every door on the street found the owner and struck a deal and I was the proud owner of a rust bucket
And basically broke because of it
So after releasing how expensive it was to get fixed I thought hmmmm this isn't a bad racket and started applying for jobs as an apprentice 12 years later I run my own shop and still have a rust bucket 😅
I can totally relate to the title of this video.
Not throwing shade, bc I know sometimes when you’re surprised you just don’t know how to act but…. I’d have been a bit more excited to get that call 😂
You said “Texas” and I thought “Calvo motorsports” is about to come up.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeshhh
I like the story and enjoy the dreamcar
Wait. So the mighty max and the laser cut body bagged waatts link car are back in the books?!
So what ever happend to the car you were building? The last video of it was the tubing being fabricated. We never got to see the creation. What happened?
That part when you said you're a welder and you grew up in a broken home... I started laughing and thought, aren't we all? I think it's a prerequisite. Anyway, keep chasing those dreams!
I whet fromNA not me an then my dad left me an i hand nothing.
One week end fixing old WV bugs, the next noting.
exact same with me and my GTR.
I love this style of content almost as much as the OG fabrication content
That was a great story. A great success story
it's very cool when dreams come true, and it's very sad when there are no more dreams. I live in Russia, and I have a similar life
My dream car made me a panel beater car painter 🤣🤣
What, you mean that hard work and dedication leads to greatness? I thought there was an app for that. . . .
Bro performance motorsports fab is exactly what I want to get into. Bring on the new content!!
You seem quite cynical.
My dream welder made me a car
🙂👍
Thanks for sharing more about you. I for one find that I will watch the channels that I like the person behind them. Sure I'm looking for a variety of different content, but the ones I watch the most are the people I like. I'm looking forward to more fabrication since that was drew me here in the first place. Don't get me wrong as I do like the welding content and want to learn more and get better at it. Molten metal is very cool, but is one part of the equation to the end item. And my dream car is actually I car I had in my youth, a 1969 AMC Javelin with many modifications. It was rusting out and I had an AMX to merge it with, but was seriously committed to kart racing and ended up selling both cars. Still racing karts too!
Awesome story mate!
I became a welder to get into Being heavy equipment operator.. all prosseses great welder, still not driving heavy equipment. I figured what equipment owner wouldn't want a all prosseses welder fabricator/ mechanic. The chanc just never come about yet.
Good story, I'm glad you came this route. Your videos are awesome tutorials.
I actually bought 0the prime tig welder after your box opening. I had just seen Jodi's box opening, but your video sealed the deal. Keep them coming...
I really enjoy hearing stuff like this, I had a job at Danbury Competition Engines back in the early 80's, I was there for 4 years, Little did I know how much I learned from Joe Lapine. That 35 yrs later I still call him my Boss and call him 1 a month or so to thank him how much I learned from him! And I met him by accident when he was eating lunch at a shop I stopped by at to locate some parts.
Now that is how one tells a true, inspirational story 👍👍😎👍👍
I can relate some what. Started welding school right after
HS because I like cars. And in my mind cars and welding go together. So now I'm a 24yo mobile welder with a trailer and a small company that is starting to take flight