300,000 Crystals Glued onto this $4.5M Aston Martin Valkyrie!

Well, just like that, we're back, baby. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel and welcome back to the vlog. Now, today we're gonna head down to the Batcave and we're gonna get the Lamborghini Murcielago and we're gonna go see Supercar Ron. Now, Ron has a crazy car collection. He has a warehouse north of here, but he has one car, an Aston Martin Valkyrie Roadster. We're talking four and a half million dollars. There's 85 in the world, the only one here in the state of Utah, but there's another caveat about this car that makes it a little bit different. I don't wanna get caught saying too much. Let's just say it's not quite factory specification. Yeah, I think that sums it up. Now, my car collection right now is a little bit worse for the wear. The Koenigsegg is gone and both events doors, the Roadster and the Coupe, are both gone. All three cars are down at Barry Jackson. Both events doors are definitely coming back, but the Koenigsegg, it's... I don't, I don't, I, don't worry about it. The garage is very, very empty right now and the echo of no cars in here, hello, whoa, whoa, whoa! We gotta sort that out. I don't wanna leave you guys on a cliffhanger quite like that. The Koenigsegg has not been sold. Doesn't mean it's not gonna be sold here momentarily. I do not think the car's coming back to Utah, which is kinda sorta sad. I don't think so. I think that's kinda all she wrote. Now, we're gonna go see Supercar Ron's Aston Martin Valkyrie, and I'm trying to figure out how to describe it without fully describing it. Couple word definition, what do you got? Couple word? Well, one word, two word, I don't know, you know. Okay, if it's one word, it's a diva. It is definitely a diva. Bling, you know. Bling bling, bling bling, bling bling, swag, swag. That's how you do it. Finally, we have determined how you describe swag, this Aston Martin Valkyrie. I don't know if swag lines up with that. No? Well, it kinda does. What? 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Huevos Revuelto, that'd be sick. Now, it just dawned on me, my favorite cowgirl, Miss Sophia, how are you planning on driving the Mercy in the boots? Not to worry, I brought shoes. You brought shoes? I thought about it. Oh, you got prepared! I put them in the front. Oh, why am I doubting you? I should never be doubting you. So, Sophia's gonna be driving the Mercy home because, eh, you know, we might be riding along in a badat, no, I don't wanna say, I don't wanna say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's nothing less I would expect right now. There's no way! Tacey, what? Did you pay him? Do you pay him, Ronnie? No, we arm wrestle every day, bro. Oh, wow, okay. Should I be filming this? I think I might've just, I might've witnessed a car accident. We've been trying to figure out how to describe you guys and the cars that you drive, and we asked Chad GPT. Oh, no. We asked Chad GPT, describe the owner of a bedazzled Aston Martin Valkyrie. It is to hide your insecurities. It says to hide my insecurities? I didn't even do it, though. Exactly. So I think it's Tacey's insecurities. That's what we can't figure out. It's somebody's insecurities. Did you ever see it in Pebble? I saw it, I saw it at night. I haven't seen it during the day, and at night is insane. It's not cheaply done, like Crystal Ninja, like individually placed 300, 300,000. Let's go, let's go see the car. Let's go see the car. And I wanna hear all the details of it. Bro, you got a problem. Does your wife know about this? Does Supercar Rhonda know about this? No, actually she doesn't actually know some of the vehicles that are in this garage right now, but this is my insecure Aston Martin Valkyrie. This is insane. You're right. I'm looking at the camera screen right now. I'm looking at it with my eyes. It's not the same. It's literally not the same. Oh my gosh. When you zoom in ever so slightly, you see that, guys? Look at this, Tacey. Have you ever seen this before? It like sparkles, and then it dims down. That's crazy. It's so hard to capture. Look on the screen. I zoom in. You see this? That's so sick. Until we get it out in the sun. Oh, I bet. It's just like, bling, you know? Do that again. It makes that noise every time. It actually does. We've added sound to it as it enters the sun. Adrian Newey, his team at Aston Martin Red Bull, they spent thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hours to save weight, and you guys are like, ah, forget about it. Let's bedazzle it. A little bling bling. The way you look tells the world how you perform, okay? Yes, yes. Amen. No, amen. Amen, brother. Amen. That's exactly. That is a quote. We should write that on the wall. To be completely candid, though, we were a little concerned when we took it to the Aston Martin house. Are they gonna kick us out of like the Aston Martin world? Are they gonna be like, be gone, you know? They embraced it, dude. They were like, this is wild. We can't believe you did this. At the end of the day, it's to have fun, right? Isn't that like the main goal, have fun? No, it's to express your insecurities. Exactly. Yes, have fun. And express your insecurities. This is like a 10 minute start up procedure, Ken. Have you stretched yet? Just getting into the car. You gotta stretch the hands and whatnot. Actually, that's pretty seamless. Put your feet on the bottom cushion of the seat and just slide all the way down in. And it's on. Start up procedure. This will actually take way longer than. Oh, okay, nevermind. Okay, I thought we were in the moment right now. Kind of in the moment, but it's the Valkyries moment, so it takes longer. Okay, yes, this is the Valkyries moment. This is not my moment. She's a bit of a diva. That's how Sophia described her. So you gotta wait until this temperature light comes on. I've turned the car on, I've woken it up, and you'll hear in just, okay, so the temperature just came on, 19 degrees Celsius. If anybody can tell me what that means, I don't actually know. Yeah, so what is that in Fahrenheit? Yeah, where's our Canadian from? 68. It's like 70. And this is start up process number two. Okay. Hit it again. Did you hear that? Yes, sir, fuel pumps. Fuel pumps, that kind of stuff. Now I'm gonna put my foot on the brake and it does the starter, then the motor. Dude, that's so sick. What in the world? This car sounds absolutely crazy. I've never heard anything quite like it. Oh my goodness. Ice, ice baby. Of course, when this thing hits the sun, put on your sunnies. I wish you were here to see this. The camera is not doing this any justice whatsoever. Oh my, oh my. What in the world? That is so crazy cool. Now somehow, someway, there's something around here. Okay, pops right on up. Not my first time in a Valkyrie. Do I just step on the seat? Yeah, put your butt here. Okay. Okay, butt in. Literally crawling into the spaceship. Pull it down. All right, close the roof on the Valkyrie. Hold on, hold on, hold it a little harder. Close it down a little harder. This? Pull it down, yeah. There you go, that's okay. That's all right. We're gonna have you put this on. Yes, sir. It's very loud in here. You gotta talk pretty loud. They said, hey, wear these so you don't get hearing damage. Okay, yes. You'll tell when we start ripping how loud this thing is. Okay, insane. You guys can hear me at all? I'm screaming at the top of my lungs, like, hey. I can't hear you. I've never, you know, I've never done flying like this in the rest of my experience. This makes my body start feeling like I'm singing. I can short shift at 11. You can't not short shift in this car. It's like you're just calibrated differently. Right, right, right, right. In a sweet home, all the contractors, they just never know what is gonna show up. So somehow I gotta get out of this thing if I put the harness disconnected. Oh, I gotta take the headset off. Dude, it's so loud in here. What's the method? It's my favorite part of the entire process. There's no right way to do it, dude. What are we talking about? There's no right way. I can sit on this, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, I don't know how you get out of this car. Okay, and out. All right, that wasn't bad. Hey, hey, hey, cut that, cut that. What are we talking about? Okay, so now I'm gonna close this. Like that. Dude, the aero on this car is just unbelievable. Oh my goodness, yes sir, yes sir. Wow, look at that, look at that. You're making this look way too easy. Well, I've done it, I've done it a couple hundred times. Okay, okay. So it gets easier the more you do it. Every single time, no, for sure. You kind of adapt your muscles and your ligaments and your tendons to it, right? Yeah, yeah. Dude, what did you think though? It's insane. I lost my voice. My voice is so raspy now. Like it's so loud. The violent nature of the single clutch. I love the single clutch. Like people hate on the event or a single clutch, but it's so violent and visceral. It's so good. And the way this thing is just fighting for traction the whole time, what an absolute riot. For you to lose your voice, that means something. You know what I mean? Well, I'm also getting old right now and this whole YouTube game, I don't know, I might be finished here soon. You might just hang it up. I might just hang it up. But what's so amazing is experiences like this don't want me to hang it up because these cars are just so wild. It is just glistening. Oh my goodness. Dude, Crystal Ninja. Are you kidding me? How many crystals? 300,000. 300,000? 300,000 crystals. Wow. And they did it one by one. 300,000 crystals. Laid by hand. What's the weight on this thing? Do you know what the crystals are? They said 35 pounds is what it added. So not a lot. That's actually not bad. Not terrible. Now, this car is all about weight savings. It's probably not awesome being on it either though. Seeing this car maneuver around is crazy. It's road legal. You got the reverse light, you got the third brake light as well. The Valk is headed down to the back gate. It's so crazy to see all the different aero. You can see the side camera right there popping into first too. I never imagined in a million years an Aston Martin Valkyrie would be at my house, let alone bedazzled. So Fiat's just the champ getting that thing right on in the car elevator. Oh my, oh my. And of course here on the camera, look at all the bedazzled crystals. That is so slick. Ooh, baby. I have been wanting to see what this would look like. It is not disappointing. Oh my goodness. The Batmobile has landed in Batman's lair. Yeah, couple more. Casey, couple more, couple more. Whoa! The amount of heat coming off that is crazy. I love the high pitch of that thing. Let's see it, Casey. Let's see. Oh, what? I've got this down. Are you kidding me? If you would have seen me get out, you would have been laughing. There are very few people on the face of planet Earth that have driven an Aston Martin Valkyrie as much as this guy. He's probably driven it more than some of the test engineers even. I actually think. Yeah, I talked to Aston and they said, besides the test drivers, you might have the most miles on a Valkyrie. You probably know more about this car than almost anybody. Well, didn't you drive this to Wendover and go gambling one night or something? I drove it four hours in one night. To Bottery, that's all taste is about. To Bottery, yes. For some reason, Ron tossed me 3,000 bucks, said take the Valkyrie, go to Wendover, let me know what you win. Put it on red, baby. Yeah, put it on red. Well, Ron, I appreciate you. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I can't wait to see what you do next. I can't wait to see what taste does next. Who knows? That's the hardest thing. We're gonna do a wide body kit on it, right? Yes, yes, yes. Boy, you gotta hack the fenders a little bit. Dude, give me the Sawzall, I got some upstairs. So, get the Sawzall, it's right up there. Get the air compressor, let's hack right now. That's the hardest part. When you leave, that's what taste and I will do tonight. We'll call Nate. Nate will come on over and we'll do it. Do you know how worried I was though when taste was like, I'm gonna do something to your car for car week. And I'm like, nothing permanent, don't put any holes in the car. Well, taste and I summoned him and sure enough, right on cue. You brought your backpack with all your tools. What's broken? We're wide bodying it. No, we're cutting it up. We're slicing and dicing. Which one? The Valkyrie. What do you mean, want one? We can go to Joanne's and get some sparkles. Joanne, yes, let's go to Joanne's and sparkle it up. I said, Nate's on his way. Famous Valkyrie. Slice and dice, baby. Slice and dice. One of the coolest parts about this car, it's a roadster. There's only 85 roadsters, 150 coupes, but with a roadster, you get two doors and you get a steering wheel. You get a steering wheel with the coupe too. You actually, you have to pay extra with the coupe to get the steering wheel. Oh, okay, this is like a free, yes, yes, yes. A free accessory. Very generous on the roadster to get it for free. Talk about details. We did bedazzle the steering wheel. You had to. I keep cutting off your head, by the way. That's okay. This is Tase's face. Now you guys know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. Dude, the sound of that is so satisfying. That's how it should be. You think about the amount of engineering and time that went just into that feel. Right. When you press it once, you can feel like the vibrations. I wish you guys could hit one of the paddles on an Aston Martin Valkyrie. That is so satisfying. It's like ASMR goodness. Yes, yes. ASMR goodness with Tasey Anderson. Yes. There's just something about the Star Wars waterfall with the Valkyrie that just works so well. I love seeing this thing in motion. All those crystals just glistening. The aerodynamics on this car, there's nothing quite like it. Unbelievable piece of kit from Aston Martin. Oh my goodness. I gotta turn off the lights real quick. Garage off right there. All the different colors here on the color wheel. You can see as we go around the ROYGBIV. I think the purple or the pink, that is so slick. This car is really a spaceship. There's nothing quite like it. I have it on the dimmest setting. If we go all the way bright, what in the world? Look at that. That is so cool. I feel like we're in some kind of sci-fi film watching this thing come up. Holy smokies. It's such an insane kit. Tase and Ron did such a great job with this thing. I've never seen any car quite like this. Sun is about to set here in the beautiful state of Utah. The weather right now is crazy. Look at the alpenglow there on the mountains. I mean, look at the sky. It almost looks surreal with the Valkyrie. What in the world? Utah is popping off today. That sky is ridiculous. Nate's going for a little joy ride. We'll see you on the other side, Naderade. My neighbors must be so confused seeing this thing. We've had a lot of crazy cars. I don't think we've had anything quite like this. You can hear all the rocks as well in that carbon fiber. Ooh, doggy. All right, let's roll. This combination right here is pretty hilarious. You got the truck with the rock lights right there, as you do. A little sea mobility here in the neighborhood. I say this in the best way possible. It kind of sounds like an RC car. And once again, that's in the nicest way possible. It's such a unique idle sound. Could you imagine sounding like that? It's kind of a strange night here in Utah. This thing looks sick as well. We got all the spaceships out. That's it. Oh, my gosh. Look at that thing take off. Top speed, 220 miles an hour. I just realized I got to make a reservation for us. We're going to Roadhouse, boys. Firm to the wait list. Texas Roadhouse with a slice of Aston Martin Valkyrie. We're trying to keep up. So crushing it. It's so crazy to see all the other cars on the road and then to see this thing, $4.5 million with a license plate. Now, you can kind of see those bedazzled sparkle ever so slightly. Just the fact that Corollas and Valkyries share the road together, right? It's another SEMA build here in Utah. Like, I've not seen a SEMA build in Utah. What is going on, Utah? Look how this thing glows in the dark at night, though. Dude, this thing with the lights on it, oh, my gosh. Nate, how was it? Dude, taste with the playlist. Couldn't have picked a better song. The playlist? You mean the NAB12 playlist? I couldn't hear it. Were you guys listening to Miley Cyrus? I was playing Fred again. Harlem in the USA? Next time, next time. Nate loves the sound system in the Valkyrie. You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. There is a beautiful sight in front of us. But I would argue Texas Roadhouse in Santa Yta might be a little more beautiful. There we go. So there's the key. Oh, interesting. It's actually really basic. So there's not even, like, any branding or anything. I just assumed you took the steering wheel. Oh, no, no, yeah. You can take the key. And then the key has, it's like this carbon fiber weave type leather. And then it has Valkyrie on here. And then just put it in there. Just like that. Come on, Tasty. Little spin class in the rain. Ron does have winter tires for this thing. I don't know if we're going to see it. I can also see that the windows need to be defrosted. This thing is road legal. We're just doing circles around the Valkyrie. Wow, driving this thing in the rain? Defroster. Well, we'll see how she goes. Another day in the Valk. Give me a second. No, you're good. You're kind of getting a little bit of a rooster tail. That makes it sound slightly better. Rear wheel drive, 1,200 horsepower. Maybe not the most perfect conditions. But wow, it looks so cool in the light. That is just the craziest, craziest thing. I can't decide if I like it better at night or during the day. But we have officially survived the rain apocalypse. And the Valkyrie goes back into the Batcave. How was it? Many things. It's fake. You're in a video game. Also really overstimulating. It's a lot. All the sounds, the headset. You can still hear the car and then talking. It's so interesting. It's really cool, though. All sorts of goodies. Wait, you didn't make this yourself. It was just there. This was at Target. What is going on in Utah? I don't know. I dazzle everything. That's hilarious. I think most people that wear that are swinging around a pole. Nate, this is a family. All right, and on that bombshell, Nate, ending the video early. Today's video is over. Oh, that's a cool speck. What? Why did my voice squeak so bad right there? I'm not even, never mind. Never mind. Cut that out of the vlog. Why do I squeak all the time? Squeaky voice. The squeaky man, lovely. And the short shift man. Let's short shift again. You know what? Let's just keep short shifting. Every single time I get you guys on camera, I film at your neckline. So I'm going to try to stand back so I can capture the magnitude and the height. For some reason, every time someone comes around, it's like, you guys are tall. I don't know if we look short on camera or something. Because you're not short. No, you're literally not short. You're over six feet tall, right? Ah, yeah. I mean, with the right shoes on, yes. With these sexy shoes on. Six, five, six, six. Yes, yes, exactly. OK, three, two, one. That's fine, that's fine. Did we get it? Wrong look, I don't know. I hesitated to look at this. It's just so silly. The timing, I wanted to be just right. I counted down too slow. Oh, OK, yeah. And so it was late. And I was like, oh. That's it. Did we get it? That was the most stupid. That was our worst one. I hit my finger on the diffuser or something. I'm going to send you guys to the boys. I heard something back there. That was me. How'd that one look, though? Oh, dude, it's so good. Right on the boom. Click and boom, baby. Oh, that's good. Money. Covered in sparkles. Go get them. We got a twin. We got a sparkle. That's crazy. That is so crazy.