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I'll drive down the street and someone will roll down the window and go, is that the Tupac living in the LA car
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And the conversation starts from there. What makes this car unique is he passed right after they used it and nobody ever put it back on the street
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I remember the first time I was ever in a hydraulic car. I was hooked. I would do anything to get it
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So when Lloyd found the car for sale two years ago, he couldn't wait to buy it and drive it home
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But the current owner suggested he towed it. I said, man, anything that starts has wheels on it, you don't even need brakes
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I can drive it, no problem. He's like, no, I wouldn't recommend it. So he towed it to my house
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I paid the guy the money. He dropped it off the trailer. The car started, ran, everything sounded perfect
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As soon as he leads, I tell my friends, hey, jump in, let's go for a ride. We make it about a mile
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Everything's season. The engine turns off. I hear all this noise in my transmission
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The planetary gears completely explode. Ironically, when the 61 Impala was featured in Tupac's video
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It wasn't a true low rider. The production team had just made it look low by loading it with sandbags
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But Lloyd wanted his car to be the ultimate LA ride. So he swapped out the engine and transmission
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and fitted the car with some top-end hydraulics. I added all the gold Chevrolet pieces, the gold wings
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the purple halo headlights to give it that Los Angeles Lakers flavor. I went over to this performance shop
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I really wanted to add a new heart to it because it originally had the 283 V8 and no matter what I did to it I wasn getting the power that I wanted and I bought this blueprint 350 I got a 350 turbo transmission the upgraded power steering the champions aluminum radiator were low riders and we like to go slow and low But every once in a while when I need to get over in traffic I give it some gas and I can
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feel the power. It's a lot better than that 283. Those are my favorite wheels, 13-inch gold Dayton's
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I had the chips custom made. Usually Dayton comes with red lettering
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I had this one done in yellow to match the car. I had the custom console made and I had the steering wheel dipped in gold
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I added the purple cabin lights in the trunk, the cabin, on the tips of the antenna
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just to kind of continue that Laker vibe all the way through. And this is my hydraulic system
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These are the motors, these are the tanks, and inside here is the gear
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If you're ever gonna do any low riding and want to hop, you want a massage your gear and an ad-X to the front
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And these are the slowdowns. Both of these control the speed it with your car drops
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This is where all the powers at right here. at right here. To be able to say it was a Tupac car, obviously I love Tupac, but to me it being
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a 1961, bright yellow, convertible, gold, everything, that's what makes it special to me. It's
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hard not to notice. I took it to the next level because that's just how I wanted it. I don't
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ever want to just have average. If I'm going to have it, I want to have the best of the best
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or at least be up there with the best. When I pull up to a light, there's a bunch of kids
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and they're into low riders and they say hit the switch, I'll bounce it right there, you I'm all cheering and laughing
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I love that part of it