Good Ol' Scotty

 It seems Scotty Kilmer is always threatening to leave YouTube, but then I'll see something from him and decide he's just putting up click-bait.  I recently wrote an article about him, but deleting it thinking my audience really isn't into fixing cars.  Some of you might change the oil or tinker around with cars, but Scotty gives information in regard to most anything having to do with cars.

A perfect example of this is when I took our car to the dealership for an oil change and they wanted to charge me $160 to clean my air conditioner.  I watched one of Scotty's videos and found out that an $8 can of Lysol every six months does the same thing.  Scotty hates car dealerships and apart from changing the oil, I don't want them to do anything else.  Often finding a good shade tree mechanic is the best way to go, but honest mechanics are getting harder to find.

Scotty has videos on most any subject if one has the tools and the time to work a car oneself.  But even diagnosing issues are difficult at best.  Even if one doesn't work on one's own cars, he's still pretty informative while still being pretty entertaining.  

About Scotty himself, he recently moved to Rhode Island, but his son lives in Tennessee, where he seems to be a lot of the time.  Scotty has a Ph.D in engineering and moved to Houston to become a race car mechanic.  Then he had his own show on the CBS affiliate there.  His father owned a shop, and that is where he began to work on cars.  The last I checked, he has amassed over a billion views on YouTube which has made his the most watched channel in some 12 years of doing it.

The last I checked his net worth is about $12M.  He says he is frugal and hates to spend money, but he likes fine dining and leaves generous tips.  Other than this, his lifestyle is pretty simple preferring to drive and own older Toyotas with his wife owning a Lexus he found for $3000.  But the fact is that Scotty knows a lot about cars and about the auto industry.

I had a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix that I thought we'd keep forever, but was totaled in 2015.  I decided to check out some YouTube channels when shopping for a car and literally stumbled on his channel.  He sold me on Toyotas and I have since leased two and bought my third, that I am thinking will be our last car.  

So kudos to Scotty if he is retiring and taking down his channel, because I've learned so much from him.  The old guys that know cars including classics are slowly fading away.  I thought about getting into classic cars but they are so expensive to own.  The problem now is that so few can work on them and some classic cars now are just nice looking bricks because parts can't be found for them.  And when parts can be found they become too expensive to repair.  I'm a classic too smoking my pipe.  We old guys ate getting more rare.

However, I compare my life to no one, when I'm at my best.  At my worst, I do.  Everyone serves a purpose.  I'll smoke my pipe and enjoy my life.  Today it is my Peterson System pipe with some Yorktown.  I try to be my best, but there are times I'm not.  But I try to use my Spirituality to be as balanced as I can, but I'm still human and not perfect.  I'm far from peefection.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave