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3k points
10 days ago
it looks like a vehicular Daddy Long Legs
515 points
10 days ago
That's the problem. It has a deeply unsettling resemblance to a spider.
70 points
10 days ago
The origin of the term Spider/Spyder for a sporty drop top coupe was from Spider-Phaetons, which were carriages that had enormous fuck-off wheels like these and a cloth top.
28 points
10 days ago
Yeah, it was creeping me out with the giant spider vibes.
46 points
10 days ago
Oddly terrifying
25 points
10 days ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought so
this triggered some sort of primal fear in me
8.9k points
10 days ago
Cruisin' down the street in my 6' 4"s...
1.5k points
10 days ago
Jockin the widows, sowin field with a hoe.
605 points
10 days ago
Went to the barn to get some hay, crazy kids in there smokin a jay
410 points
10 days ago
A coach pulls up who can it be? A horse-drawn carriage rolling on stone paving..
310 points
10 days ago
He threw down the reins as they started to neigh,
266 points
10 days ago
It's all about making that fireplace
312 points
10 days ago
Cuz the boyz n tha field are working hard
303 points
10 days ago
Stop talking that shit and well plow your yard.
305 points
10 days ago
Knowing nothing in life but to be legit, don't hex me wench I ain't said shit.
125 points
10 days ago
holy shit the beat dropped in my head after this. Fucking wonderful.
54 points
10 days ago
Ya come talkin that trash, they'll burn your farm
6 points
9 days ago
Knowing nothing in life but to be a hick, don’t sass me boy, wooden 14 spoke Amish buggy’s up on da whip
226 points
10 days ago
Feelin' high as hell, flyin' through Palmdale, skatin' on Amish rims
150 points
10 days ago
This man just confused eazy e and afroman
92 points
10 days ago
It’s the only 2 black people he knows
24 points
10 days ago
Wait, Afroman's black?!
43 points
10 days ago
Jockin the bitches. Slapin tha hoes!
14 points
10 days ago
*britches
1.8k points
10 days ago
How the hell do you open the car doors?
648 points
9 days ago
You don't. The rear wheels don't turn, and they prevent the front doors from opening. They had to climb in the window. This was done by Whistling Diesel on YouTube.
210 points
9 days ago
Thankfully somebody said it. My immediate thought was “this is some Whistlin Diesel type shit.” But did feel like looking it up.
18 points
9 days ago
Same here lol. Just ctrl-f to see if someone else had confirmed it.
12 points
9 days ago
Huh... never heard of him. Guess I'll just check it out real qui..aaaaand he's driving it upside down.
579 points
10 days ago
Turn the front wheel
146 points
10 days ago
Big brain move
17 points
10 days ago
Big wheel move
4 points
9 days ago
Wait until they flip the whole thing upside down and then ask again. How he buckled in upside down alone must have been a struggle.
4.1k points
10 days ago
Is that the model "why"?
588 points
10 days ago
With optional 4 farthing drive.
151 points
10 days ago
73 points
10 days ago
The why was actually to test if the car could be driven upside down. Needed huge wheels to do that.
17 points
10 days ago
Seems like it’d actually be a lot more stable upside down
29 points
9 days ago
Teslas are so ridiculously bottom heavy because of the batteries that they're like one of those kids toys that can't fall over. So it's almost impossible to roll one without it landing right side up.
10 points
9 days ago
There's some video of roll tests out there. It's pretty funny looking. Like those self righting boat hulls.
6 points
9 days ago
1.1k points
10 days ago
Amish Tesla.
228 points
10 days ago
Same YouTuber put Amish style buggy wheels on a hellcat. Traction was an issue.
61 points
10 days ago*
Its the same YouTuber that did this one, it’s Whistlindiesel
86 points
10 days ago
That's what they said
25 points
10 days ago
Guessing they read same as some. Lol
3.4k points
10 days ago
I want to see them drive it upside down.
2.4k points
10 days ago*
https://youtu.be/Qq5Q1qKW-1g [edit] skip to 10:43 if you want to see it drive upside down.
215 points
10 days ago
How is this guy able to destroy all these things that cost a lot of money?
318 points
10 days ago
YouTube revenue
264 points
10 days ago
Clearly, he also flips cars for a living.
Unironically though, he probably is rich in other aspects.
79 points
10 days ago
He and or his family appear to have lots of land
119 points
10 days ago
Having a lot of land in Indiana does not equate to being rich. Source: family has a lot of land in Indiana.
36 points
9 days ago
Ehhh it’s still capital. As a rural American resident there are many people who are land rich, cash poor. It’s better than being just poor because you could sell some land and get by but it is interesting if you live in a city. It be hard to imagine how a dude can own 200 acres and live in a trailer.
11 points
10 days ago
He just bought the land you see in that video but his family has a farm he used to film on I believe
23 points
10 days ago
And merchandise and sponsors. I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that automotive related content on YouTube is extremely attractive to advertisers because people into cars tend to have money
8 points
9 days ago
As a person into cars even those of us that don’t have a ton of money tend to funnel our spare money back into them.
19 points
10 days ago
"Like and subscribe money"
14 points
10 days ago
Its Whistlin Diesel, he can just afford it i guess xD
1.1k points
10 days ago
The first thing I thought was, this is some WhistlinDiesel shit right here.
Glad to see I was correct
196 points
10 days ago
I love that channel.
Every video gets more intense than the last
252 points
10 days ago
That's kind of the problem with being internet famous. You have to 1-up yourself constantly or you fall off the map.
But oh boy do I love silly shit like this!
283 points
10 days ago
I see a lot of hate for him because he's kind of an idiot, but he does the reviews we want to see.
I don't give a shit if your Porsche has heated cupholders and how well they work after you use them one time on a car fresh out of the factory, which is what 99% of car reviews online are.
I care how my door looks after slamming it 1000 times. And he's the only one slamming Hilux doors 1000 times, or kicking the shit out of dashboards, or testing a Ferrari in gravel, or if a Tesla can drive upside down.
It's unique and fun and good content.
158 points
10 days ago
My only criticism of him really is that he has a very “fuck you for liking things I don’t like” attitude while also being kinda sensitive to criticism. I think he’s an awesome creator and seems like a good human being, I just detect some hypocrisy.
62 points
10 days ago
I thought that was part of the bit.
34 points
10 days ago
Definitely is. His Jeep and Ford Ranger videos are prime examples. His videos are good shittin’ content
76 points
10 days ago
I think he knows how to play with the "haters" to get even more attention than ever before. Dude's a marketing genius.
25 points
10 days ago
100% That, he carefully farms haters to boost his channel and generate massive buzz and engagement. Marketing genius as you said.
7 points
9 days ago
Yup, he took a break from wrecking cars to wreck some $1000 pair of sneakers.
He knows his audience.
57 points
10 days ago
As a relative poor with very practical tastes, there's something really satisfying about watching someone buy some needlessly expensive thing and just absolutely disrespect the hell out of it. The Ferrari video killed me.
Also buying and destroying all of those squatted trucks counts as an act of national charity imo.
8 points
10 days ago
Hilux
his hilux episodes legit rival the top gear hilux episode and once again the hilux proved tried and true. highlight for me was the Toyota pickup taking on moab with a blown radiator.
Ferrari
can't find the video, but one of my favorites was seeing an f40 and f50 driven hard without any disregard for the multi million dollar cars. while he wasn't driving a Ferrari halo car, he drove his Ferrari in a similar manner
Tesla can drive upside down
kids love those RC cars that can drive both regular and upside down. at some point in your life, you learn it'd be pretty hard to drive a combustion car upside down. wd took his experience with ridic wheels and threw them on an electric car and proved albeit shortly that it could be driven upside down. younger me enjoyed seeing that.
8 points
10 days ago
I quit watching a long time ago. There's this thing that happens to youtube people who make tons of money. They go from watching someone do something neat to watching rich people do rich people ahit. Cody would never have destroyed perfectly good shit 10 years ago. Now, he's spending hundreds of thousands to wreck something perfectly fine for internet views.
I was their audience then I become not their audience.
15 points
10 days ago
I discovers him from the case were his neighbor was stealing his shit and he trapped him on camera. That’s some backwoods CSI shit if I’ve ever seen it.
17 points
10 days ago
Same!
125 points
10 days ago
What's the point of purposely wrecking it at the end?
258 points
10 days ago
Oh man, don't watch the rest of his videos
109 points
10 days ago*
Just... how? How the fuck can he afford this?
He's very successful on YouTube, I'll admit - 5mil subs, videos averaging like 6mil views or so... but 6mil views pays like $20k-90k depending on different factors. You'd be an incredible outlier to be all the way at that $90k, too.
Meanwhile, the cars he wrecks are like $150k-500k. He flew a fucking helicopter in his shop and destroyed it. The dude doesn't even do sponsor segments, where is this money coming from?
107 points
10 days ago
Sponsorships (don’t remember him having them though), merch, and a higher CPM than you’d expect probably, plus a backlog that is still getting views.
53 points
10 days ago
He also posts on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Facebook has a really good CPM (once you get over a certain amount of views)
69 points
10 days ago
He definitely has sponsors.
He usually manages to make more than 1 video per car, so with his g wagon he’s made like 4 videos already.
I guess once you start adding up ad revenue, payments from sponsors and merch sales it starts making a lot more financial sense.
16 points
10 days ago
I could be just having weird luck, but I clicked through three of his videos and couldn't find a single sponsor segment. I'm sure somebody out there is sponsoring him, but it's definitely a lot more lowkey than a channel like e.g. LTT
33 points
10 days ago
In the video this is from he has a segment about the wheel/fabrication company that made the wheels.
14 points
10 days ago
The first video posted had a fitment industries sponsored segment in it lol
5 points
10 days ago
He also explains in one of his videos how it was more cost-effective for him to completely destroy vehicles rather than to sell them afterward. The profit, according to him in the video, from millions of views greatly outweighs that of selling what's left. The destruction is part of the appeal of getting views, be that of people interested in the content, people interested in the destruction of things they don't like, people that want to see if he actually destroyed something they like - it doesn't matter what the purpose of the viewer. In the end, a view is a view and he's making money off of it.
8 points
10 days ago
100%. Wrecking stuff is what they do.
75 points
10 days ago
So they can get out
17 points
10 days ago
I did the double nose sniff laugh reading this
74 points
10 days ago
Everything is disposable with the proper funding.
38 points
10 days ago
Department of defense has entered the chat
15 points
10 days ago
If you wreck it at the beginning the rest of the video will be too hard to make.
18 points
10 days ago
Its too dangerous to be left alive
14 points
10 days ago
He wrecks EVERYTHING. He has(had) a mint condition AMG G-wagon that he dropped through a house, ran through trees and scraped along the railing of a track. It's kinda his thing.
3 points
10 days ago
Content
4 points
10 days ago
you watched, it didn't you
25 points
10 days ago
that was like interdimensional cable channel
65 points
10 days ago
I don't give a shit about destroying the tesla, you buy it you do what you want. But dragging the boot across public roads was bullshit.
31 points
10 days ago
Driving it around the public was kinda shit to. That thing was dangerous AF. No way could it stop with any sort of reliability
30 points
10 days ago
Wtf did I just watch??
4 points
10 days ago
if you sort by popular on his YouTube channel, he drove a hellcat (700-800 hp challenger) on similar wheels, he drove a hilux up moab's steep incline, and drove a g wagon like he has arab money among other things.
15 points
10 days ago
That’s was hard to watch but also fucking hilarious.
“Want some chips”?
“Dude, that’s cat food”
22 points
10 days ago
They do
958 points
10 days ago
How would you get into that car?!
498 points
10 days ago
They obviously built the car around the driver
55 points
10 days ago
How would you get out of that car?!
82 points
10 days ago
This video is from a Cars prequel. That's how car people were born.
9 points
10 days ago
That's the neat part, you dont!
43 points
10 days ago
Ride up to it on a penny-farthing them jump into the open door.
10 points
10 days ago
I imagine with a ride like that, there would be a crowd of ladies willing to lift you into it.
67 points
10 days ago
Tis a fine barn, but tis no pool, English
17 points
10 days ago
Doeth!
116 points
10 days ago
Show me it braking.
Because I'm guessing it skis right through whatever it's braking to avoid
69 points
10 days ago
I’m surprised no one has mentioned cornering either. If you turn the wheels more than say 15deg they will hit the body.
64 points
10 days ago
In his video you see him doing like a 10 point turn just to turn left on a street
13 points
10 days ago
It also can't be good for the suspension. All that leverage.
6 points
9 days ago
Wait till you see what happens at the end of the video
609 points
10 days ago
Youtube WhistlinDiesel. He just uploaded this the other day.
127 points
10 days ago
oh shit it's the same dude with the boatin monster truck?
149 points
10 days ago
And the guy that bought a plane to fly without a license
And the guy that drops exotic cars from wreckers
And the guy who generally doesn't give a fuck what people say because he's got fuck you money
It's entertaining at least lol
60 points
10 days ago
And the guy who tried to fly a full-size helicopter inside his garage, while remote controlling it from only a few feet away.
28 points
10 days ago
I thought you must be kidding.
8 points
9 days ago
This guy makes some real solid gold content.
14 points
10 days ago
And flew a helicopter (remotely) in his shop, straight into the ceiling and walls.
12 points
10 days ago
It’s entertaining at least lol
This. Him doing the Ferrari video and accidentally showing it’s a beast on non road terrain was great
My favorite video is probably the g-wagon in sand dunes.
38 points
10 days ago
As soon as I saw it, I was like " I bet that's whistling diesel."
201 points
10 days ago
It's all fun and games until you hit a pot hole.
79 points
10 days ago
Or meet a sharp turn too fast
51 points
10 days ago
Or need to brake suddenly.
39 points
10 days ago
Or get out of the car
6 points
10 days ago
I really wanted to see the braking distance on those wheels.
16 points
10 days ago
Why would a pot hole be a problem?
20 points
10 days ago
Because with a rubber tire the energy of the impact is dispersed over time and over a large area. For something like this it can easily break the rim or overstress whichever stick is currently handling the load.
25 points
10 days ago
Yeah but huge diameter wheels will laugh at holes and bumps, negating that
13 points
10 days ago
they send it down a hill at the end
258 points
10 days ago
"with big ass wheels for tyres"? There are no tires there only wheels.
120 points
10 days ago
A car with big ass wheels for wheels
22 points
10 days ago
My useless knowledge bank comes into play. These do have tires or else they would come apart. The tires are metal bands that go around the outside. They are heated and then shrunk on the wheel, giving the wheel rigidity and strength, and a durable wear surface.
Skip to 11:15 in this video to see how a modern wheelwright installs metal tires. The whole video is pretty interesting to show how he gets the diameter right, but I know a lot of redditors likely aren’t interested in getting that nerdy about wagon wheels.
The process is the same for the extra large 20 mule team borax wagon wheels, just upscaled: https://youtu.be/0HMIxRN4d4c
Edit: I watched the gif again and realized the tires might be solid rubber. Don’t worry, Engel has a video of that process: https://youtu.be/2WCnXKMPBqM
5 points
10 days ago
The extra bonus fact here is that trains also have tyres.
The traditional way of building a train wheel has the standard inner hub and spokes, with an outer tyre as most common car/truck/bike wheels do, only instead of an inflatable rubber wheel, they use a shaped steel one that is rather harder to remove and mount (generally requiring a lot of heat to allow the steel to expand, and a big press to push them on).
22 points
10 days ago
Isn't this the one they drove upside down? Edit, it is https://youtube.com/shorts/TffjPTYfqkk?feature=share
18 points
10 days ago
I won't tell anyone that I've won the lottery, but there will be signs...
14 points
10 days ago
"Teslas have such a low center of gravity, they're almost impossible to flip."
This guy: "Hold my beer"
84 points
10 days ago
I want to see this thing wreck so bad!
138 points
10 days ago
Wrecks it in the last minute of the video
59 points
10 days ago
That's a dude with to much money.
81 points
10 days ago
Nah that's how he makes his money
33 points
10 days ago
He's what happens when you are rich as hell but still live paycheck to paycheck.
50 points
10 days ago
Go watch the vid, they send it down a hill and the wheels collapse
whistlindiesel on YouTube
16 points
10 days ago
they send it down a hill and the wheels collapse
Now who could have predicted that?!
8 points
10 days ago
If the over/under was 10 minutes I'd take the under.
22 points
10 days ago
Is this for real? Lol, i would freak out if this drove towards me.
21 points
10 days ago
You'd just have to duck and you'd be fine.
6 points
10 days ago
He drives it over a Ferrari in the full vid
11 points
10 days ago
I'm getting some Red Green vibes from this
28 points
10 days ago
The year is 2054, the Amish people has finally recognized cars as alternatives to horses
21 points
10 days ago
This looks like some horrible cryptid from SCP...
7 points
10 days ago
I imagine the bearings on those wheels going out in about 50 miles
12 points
10 days ago
They pushed it down a hill unmanned and it wrecked so I don’t think bearings are their main problem rn
7 points
10 days ago
These people might be the same ones who did a Hellcat with buggy wheels too
37 points
10 days ago
12 points
10 days ago
I still don't understand how he affords all the shit he does, lol
27 points
10 days ago
Getting 5 million views per video + sponsorships + merch and other social media revenue, also most of his vehicles are bought used
5 points
10 days ago
It doesn't have big ass wheels for tires it has big ass wheels for wheels.
5 points
10 days ago
Amish Paradise plays
17 points
10 days ago
Those are wheels without tires….
10 points
10 days ago
Actually, they DO have a strip of rubber on the perimeter
41 points
10 days ago
People have too much money
3 points
10 days ago
Those poor wheel bearings!
3 points
10 days ago
Looks like some Amish gear heads figured out a loophole.
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