DrivingLine

1. How did you get started on YouTube and how did you get into car content?

I started doing paintball gun videos when I was in middle school. Me and my friends were into making funny YouTube videos on our laptops. I got into watching paintball channels and realized I wanted to do that, too. Then, when I was 16 in high school, I got my first car and started to tinker and learn about working on them from forums.

2. Were you always into cars?

Yes! As a kid living in San Diego, I was obsessed with cars. There's a large exotic car scene here, and I would go to exotic car dealerships nearby once a week with my dad and friends from elementary school.

3. What was your first car?

My first car was a BMW E90 328i with the sport package. I did very light modifications to it, basic performance upgrades: exhaust, intake, plasti-dip wheels, nightshade taillights. Just doing what I could with a small budget. My friend, Calvin, had a BRZ at the time and I thought it was so cool that it was manual.

4. Do you have any technical or mechanical training?

No. One thing that I prefaced every video with was that I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to just try it and document it. And of course, I did a million things wrong. And the internet is the first place to tell you that you did it wrong- even if you did it right, you did it wrong. In someone's eyes there’s always something wrong.

5. What’s your biggest mistake or learning experience?

There's not one thing in particular. There are plenty of things I’ve done wrong from installations to buying certain parts that were knockoff parts. I bought a rep kit, not knowing what a rep kit was at the time, and unfortunately the video went viral. Did like a million views and two days, and I was like the most hated person on the internet for buying a rep car.