Gadgetory

I'm not scared I've got a healthy concern you know I'm not so old that I have a death wish but I'm not going to back away from trying to do it with the record being 155 what I have to do is beat 155 but what I want to do is to hit 170 miles an hour that means that I have at a minimum not only broken the record for a street electric car I've also potentially broken the legendary record for that body of Mustang ever that puts you in the world of at least in your own mind as a record holder make no bones about it this was a gamble and is a gambler I hate to say this reference because it's in business so many people make jokes about if you build it they will come in this kind of a case you got to prove it and they will come I'd always tinkered on anything with a motor like lawn mowers mini bikes when I was a little bitty kid I just grew up in an environment where if you weren't rich and spoiled you basically had to work on your own cars and learn to use tools and I just always loved you know fixing things and make things work and go faster trying to outrun my friends down the back side of the river you know there were some kids whose dads were professional mechanics they had a little bit of an edge on some of us but frankly I tried to make up for it by being a little bit crazier than any other guy so I'd hold the pedal down a little bit longer before I got to the hardcore but then stand on the brakes a little bit more so it's just it was just seeped into my whole childhood you know I didn't have much of a choice I was just surrounded by it I had a vision and a passion and sometimes that just doesn't make sense sometimes it's not always the easiest path to walk sometimes not the most affordable path of the easiest way to make money how do you explain something when it gets in your head and it won't get out of your head and it has to be done I'm watching a company like Tesla cause a disruption in the automotive industry I see a niche market in that disruption that appeals to everything in my whole life and I've been blessed enough to have a shot at bootstrapping to get going at it man that's it that's the American dream in a nutshell and that's what we've got going on here this is the bloodshed which is the birthplace of the zombie to-to-to that's the first high performance Eevee converted supercar muscle car that we've been working on the zombie coming down ready to hunt its prey it into the brains of Ferraris Lamborghinis Maseratis anything that sounds like a pasta dish from Italy this car is the most exciting thing I've ever driven in my we have one point two megawatts potential of our battery pack that could give us 1,500 horsepower if we dialed it in right and had the motors the drivetrain that could handle them it is literally like crack cocaine this car does 0-60 in two point four seconds it's right there with the Bugatti the only thing that's quicker right now is the Porsche 918 Spyder I mean that's that's insane and I'm doing in the 68 full body full interior all glass Mustang come on when I step on that pedal instantly each motor is fed over 2,000 amps at 185 to 200 bulbs of power so that's over 4,000 amps of energy at like 380 volts hitting that drivetrain instantaneously with the electric car everything is immediate the highest torque is at zero our pins and so you get that immediate thrust back into the sea it's an experience that until you feel it you really don't understand it I believe there's a disruption I believe there's a niche market wide open I want to name it and claim it I started researching high performance electric and that's when I stumbled across a car called the White Zombie the more I started looking into that car more fascinated I got with the fact that this was something done to a 72 dots the power and the numbers and performance that car was put down will just that were almost unimaginable and so I wrote John Waylan an email and outlined this whole vision for vintage muscle cars was going to be this beautiful marriage of sick electric performance beautiful iconic cars vintage cars it was the it was the dream you know that ultimately led to John throwing the Y zombie on a trailer took a road trip to Austin and got really excited about what we were doing with the car we just had to get that car up running we got it ready got it running took it to San Antonio drag track John punched it card jerked front wheels a foot in the air the fans in the audience were just freaked out because no one even understood this was an electric car that was like in I guess November you ready no it's gonna shake you okay go ahead so giving it what I'm doing is a little bit controversial you know some people don't like the idea of taking a muscle car or vintage muscle car desecrating it I convert it to electric but you know here in Austin it keep it weird if you think's fair game his famous man up from out of town and this guy at a construction site says you know a man sometimes this car here comes by on Fridays and it's all electric I just happened to see them like there it is it's getting to be you're quite a celebrity right now zombi the motor is all electric really that is amazing and some of the guys in the club probably get sick of hearing me it's not even a race 3,000 amps it is zero to sixty two point four second battery cut $35,000 at car shows I end up doing this over and over and over for hours on end which I love it I mean I love it cuz it's all about marketing I make no bones about it this was a gamble and is a gamble my wife's been very patient you know she hasn't handed me saying where's the orders where's your orders I keep telling her I'm not worrying about orders right now I'm not even focused on orders right now I'm focused on proving this car is insane this technology's not cheap and the cars are not cheap so by necessity I knew that I had limited the section on the market to the guys that go to the big auctions and write checks for six-figure deals I wanted the guy that likes that guilty pleasure of having the car that nobody else has and frankly Tesla's aren't rare anymore I was reading about the Texas mile it's kind of new to me this will be the first time I've ever done it it is a one-mile strip where it's private property as there's no speed limit and twice a year they open it for registration where you can bring your car of any kind down there you don't race other people you race your own top speed so it's all about setting top speeds when I found out somebody else had gone to this event with an all-electric car and tried to see how fast it can go I had to go I mean I had to with the record being 155 what I have to do is beat 155 but what I want to do is to hit 170 miles an hour I wouldn't be lying to you if I didn't tell you that's part of the 170 magic number right I like that legend that there that the 67 Mustang once kissed 170 miles an hour at the hands of the legendary Carroll Shelby and so that's a good goal to shoot for to get to that goal net number we have a lot of work ahead of us and if we're going to focus on building a brand you know we got to really prove it is it horrible like I'm not gonna like it that's pretty bad it's not as irritating as a vacuum pump there goes the silent but deadly yeah yeah just keep saying just for the mile I have moments where I think about it and I get all excited like a kid at Christmas you know I'm gonna see cars that you only see in magazines cars that run over 250 60 70 miles an hour on gas I'm not really not if the one thing that worries me is there a ton a mix of the car that's I'm I'm worried that that could stop us from getting to our goal since you guys were here last we have lowered this car at least this much that makes all the world a difference the lower you get it closer to the ground the better off you are all right I'm not a big wing lover in general for just for looks and aesthetics but what we'll do is we'll get high pressure above it and low pressure below it which causes to push down as opposed if you turn it over and you'll be like an airplane you get lift so we're getting reverse lift pushing the car down the problem is wind resistance when you hit that wind it has to go somewhere over under through and so the wing helps with the back the chin spoiler the lowering of the car the changing the tires all that helps a lot with the front we're going to pop the back of the hood and let air out of the engine bay area that'll also help a lot and that's what we're doing I mean I'm not living in a bubble of idealism to think that a 1968 fastback Mustang was ever intended to go well over 120 miles an hour I'm not going to go out there and do everything I've got and go forth the first run and get killed trying to do that I'm going to work my way up until every time I feel unsafe that I'm gonna come back and change something I know this team I know what it's capable of I know what the power systems are capable of and I know it can be done and we will do it the Texas mile is a pretty rare event it's a two mile runway and you get to go as fast as you can as fast as you can go period no rules in one mile excited man excited we've done everything we need to do this morning we install the new driveshaft at six o'clock in the morning as you can see I've gone over the car taped seams things that might catch air under them and blow hard and so now I think that's time you'll get in line mmm be careful no no this week some happened you have to remarry uglier than me uglier than me our card unity one five four point nine one four point nine miles an hour regardless 154 he almost broke Patrick's record he's go what are you looking at right there 110 okay one fucking second damn miniscule tenth of a second is so how do you feel about the 171 it's gonna be tough I don't I'm gonna keep making changes and see I just don't know but I've still got what's left I met 185 volts I will go to 200 I might even because my car number is 2 to 2 I'm gonna take it to 222 volts it's just motors but I couldn't be any happier with the performance of the batteries the motors the controllers the cooling system is working man it's all coming together see I need 15 more miles an hour I got squeezed out 15 miles an hour let me get busy dude it performed wonderfully so as I got off of it I knew I knew that it was gonna be a better run it felt stronger from the second I pushed the pedal I just need to squeeze out for more and then all the naysayers I'll be saying a prayer but lord I don't ask for much I only asked for four or little miles an hour awesome I love ya Carroll Shelby would be proud man all right hi dudes come on man give it to me baby all I can say is yes damn it feels good man awesome where's my wife don't I get a hug I'm not hugging this video in here it's all courage nothing new detect tech support engineering project management no that is just my courage it's a whole thing I'm actually just shocked I mean I can't even believe I'm holding this dick again I mean if this doesn't sell the vision of ultra high performance vintage cars that are all electric what will but this isn't the ultimate muscle in a muscle car what is this is awesome this is electric miss of the future I felt like a kid again I mean right now I'm 50 coming on 54 years old and then I tell you if you didn't see my body you'd swear to God you were talking Mitch remember 17 years old with this Impala superstore racing on the back side of the river against anybody and everybody we put it up or shut up I'm telling you this is awesome everybody should do something like this in their lives it makes you yelling Oh