These US automotive YouTubers had 24 hours to modify each other's cheap sports cars

Three popular American automotive YouTubers were given just 24 hours to mod each other’s cheap sports cars.

The challenge? Make a 700 mile trip from Wichita, Kansas, to Galveston, Texas, on the kind of budget you’d get from a cancelled flight credit.

To make the journey a little more ‘enjoyable,’ they modified each other’s cars overnight – some upgrades more helpful than others.

What started as a low-cost road trip quickly turned into a chaotic overnight makeover of epic proportions.

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They had one night to transform these bargain-bin sports cars

Freddy ‘Tavarish’ Hernandez, Ed Bolian, and Tyler Hoover (aka Hoovie) were challenged to turn each other’s barely roadworthy cars into dream machines with nothing but time, duct tape, and blind optimism.

The challenge came from Car Trek, the VINwiki-affiliated YouTube series that regularly throws the trio into absurd automotive situations.

Freddy took Tyler’s tired Mercedes SLK230 and gave it the full ‘SLR McLaren Hoover Special’ treatment. 

That meant a massive nose cone, side gills, a fake intake system, and a fully deleted muffler.

It looked unhinged and sounded worse – exactly as intended.

Tyler transformed Ed’s humble Audi TT into a budget Bugatti. 

He replicated the iconic Veyron color scheme, slapped on some faux badging, and even painted the iconic baseball-glove-style leather seats bright red.

Ed, not to be outdone, gave Freddy’s Supra a Fast & Furious glow-up. 

He wrapped it in Fast & Furious 1 orange, mounted a plywood wing the size of a dining table, and added a fire extinguisher spray-painted blue to resemble a NOS tank.

Freddy’s face was also decaled on both doors, as a final farewell to subtlety.

Each build had at least one useful upgrade: Tyler got a working transmission, Ed got new headlights, and Freddy… got louder.

When they unveiled the cheap sports cars to each other, even they couldn’t believe how ridiculous things had gotten. But the mission was clear: chaos over competence.

Whilst barrelling down the freeway en route to Texas, Ed summed up the success of the challenge, saying his newly modified creation is ‘better than a real Bugatti.’

The cheap sports cars ended in a dirt track battle

Let’s be clear – none of these so-called ‘dream cars’ had any business near a dirt track. Naturally, though, that’s exactly where they ended up.

Just when they thought the chaos was over, the challenge escalated.

The US automotive YouTubers next task? Take their hacked-together ‘supercars’ and go dirt track racing in Oklahoma.

It went exactly how you’d expect.

Tyler’s SLK caught fire. Freddy’s plywood wing nearly lifted off. Ed’s TT overheated halfway through the laps.

Still, all three pressed on, skidding, rattling, and sliding their way around the track.

Then came the twist: they weren’t just racing each other. A 14-year-old local dirt track racer joined in… and lapped them. Twice.

The defeat was instant, but the energy never dipped. The cheap sports cars were disasters, the race was chaos, but somehow it all worked.

“These are the most glorious cars we have ever built on Car Trek,” Tyler said.

They were short on mufflers, prestige, and resale value, but these ‘Franken-cars’ delivered on character, chaos, and a whole lot of laughs.

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