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A car is ne'er just a car. It’s not conscionable 4 tires, an engine, and a wide of wires and metallic powered by state and batteries. It’s freedom, allowing those down the steering instrumentality to thrust wherever, whenever. It brings much-needed convenience to mundane life. For those who trust connected their car to get them to their jobs and back, it’s a livelihood. For gearheads, lowriders, and kustom kulture enthusiasts, the car is an identity. And for T-Pain, his car — specifically, his 1994 Honda Accord — is simply a valued awesome of friendship. “This car is beauteous peculiar to me,” helium tells HollywoodLife when discussing his caller concern with eBay Motors and the peculiar Renew Your Ride pop-up coming to Atlanta this Memorial Day weekend.
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“One of my squad members, Rob Robinson, helium owns a store called Auto Extremes,” explains T-Pain. “It was the 2nd store I went to erstwhile I bought my archetypal car successful Atlanta. I went to a store close adjacent to his, and they benignant of denied maine work conscionable due to the fact that they didn’t consciousness similar doing it. They didn’t cognize who I was. They didn’t care. Then I went to Rob’s shop, helium did it close away.”
“Rob owned the Honda earlier I did,” T-Pain tells HL. Right aft helium did that work to my car, we instantly became friends, and past I became co-owner of the store and did a clump of worldly together. And then, I bought the Honda from him. So, it benignant of marks the opening of a friendship, you cognize what I mean? It’s a truly peculiar car to me, and I don’t amusement it to a batch of people. I don’t instrumentality it to car shows. I don’t bash a batch of gallivanting with it. I conscionable benignant of similar — this is maine and Rob’s car.”
This isn’t conscionable a 30-year-old car sitting successful his garage. “Once I got it, I started doing each kinds of brainsick worldly to it,” helium explains. “When I got it, the aerial thrust suspension was controlled by a Nintendo controller. It was conscionable a batch going on. So I changed a batch of stuff, and the wheels were specially made for that car. Those are one-off wheels. That’s the lone acceptable of those wheels successful the world. So I instrumentality attraction of the car.
“The full car is molded into 1 piece,” helium adds. “None of the bumpers travel off. It’s conscionable a really, truly specially-made car. And it’s called the Bel-Cord due to the fact that we took a Honda Accord and modeled it aft a 56 Bel Air. It’s a chill ass car. So to person that beryllium a portion of our friendship, I don’t truly fto radical interaction it. I don’t fto radical successful it. I don’t fto radical thrust successful it. I damn sure don’t fto anybody drive it. So I’m conscionable precise protective of that car. My Ferrari? Yeah, you tin basal connected the apical of it. Go thrust it. The Rolls Royce coming in? Anybody tin instrumentality that, whatever. The Accord? Don’t f**king interaction it.”
The Bel-Cord doesn’t conscionable look similar a dream. It inactive runs similar one, which is impressive, considering it’s a thirty-year-old car. “Yo, eBay Motors has travel done with existent parts for this car,” T-Pain tells HL. “Let maine archer you, god-damn, it is hard to find parts for this car. And eBay Motors really came done with parts that fit.”
(Courtesy of eBay Motors)
T-Pain’s struggles with maintaining his beloved Bel-Cord is wherefore helium teamed up with eBay Motors for the Renew Your Ride run implicit Memorial Day Weekend. With proviso chains inactive recovering aft COVID and automakers prioritizing profitable cars implicit system models, the car marketplace is wild. When idiosyncratic is fortunate capable to find a utilized car for sale, they’re often arsenic costly arsenic a caller car. So, it’s becoming much economical to repair the car you person than to bargain a caller one.
That’s wherever T-Pain and eBay Motors travel in. Atlanta-area drivers tin sojourn eBay.com/RenewYourRide to pre-register for consultations implicit Memorial Day play (May 27-29.) Each assignment offers the attendees the accidental to bid up to $200 successful escaped parts backed by eBay Guaranteed Fit.
“Not lone bash they fit,” T-Pain tells HollywoodLife, “you cognize that they acceptable earlier you adjacent get the damn portion due to the fact that they person this small cheque people that tells you it’s a Guaranteed Fit. So you tin look astatine a portion arsenic agelong arsenic you enactment successful your marque and model, your assemblage type, and your engine. You look astatine the part, and you’ll spot the cheque people that it fits.”
“Regardless of if you’re a car feline and you cognize everything that’s going on, oregon you’re conscionable idiosyncratic that’s trying to support your car alive, you tin really cognize what you’re getting,” adds the Masked Singer winner.
T-Pain was in symptom when trying to get car parts from 1 of eBay Motors’ competitors. “When I was trying to enactment connected my E46, and I virtually got 3 sets of the incorrect brakes. I got the incorrect interruption calibers, 3 sets of them, and they’re inactive sitting successful my store close present due to the fact that there’s nary return. And I had nary thought that they weren’t going to fit. Terrible idea, don’t bash that! Should person gone to eBay Motors.”
Now, eBay Motors is bringing it to Atlanta. The Renew Your Ride lawsuit is “making definite that everybody’s alert of this due to the fact that radical request this each the time,” says T-Pain. “I can’t archer you however galore YouTube videos I’ve gone through, and you know, you get to a portion successful the video and you’re like, ‘where the hellhole bash I get that portion from? What is that?’ You request a 1-inch hose for something, and what is it? Who sells that? And you tin ever spell get a hose and chopped it. But erstwhile you find a spot that really has the nonstop size gauge and the magnitude and each that, and you spot that cheque mark, and it’s like, ‘cool.'”
“Memorial Day weekend, it’s going to beryllium thing peculiar for radical to spot that they tin really get parts for their car, nary substance however aged it is, you’re going to find thing that you need,” helium adds. “And this is aft they had to beryllium it to maine with the Honda Accord, truthful it’s not conscionable thing they already had going. And I was like, look, ‘I’m not going to beforehand this happening if it doesn’t work. I’m not going to enactment this retired determination until y’all beryllium to maine that I tin get worldly for this Honda Accord.’ And man, I mean, we worked it out.”
To beryllium to T-Pain that eBay Motors is legit, the tract had the unit from Donut – the automobile-centered YouTube Channel with implicit 7.6 cardinal subs – upgrade parts of the Bel-Cord. “First of all, those dudes are ace nice,” says T-Pain. “They are virtually the archetypal radical extracurricular of maine and my store that has ever touched that car. Nobody’s ever seen the interior of that car. I astir apt let, successful the clip that I’ve had this car, there’s probably, extracurricular of me, been 4 radical successful it. Only 4 radical person ever adjacent ridden successful the car. Now, to person the Donut boys travel done and amusement them the intel, to amusement them the existent interior workings and the wiring and each that worldly that, that’s caller to maine due to the fact that I’m utilized to moving connected my ain stuff.”
(Courtesy of eBay Motors)
“I’m utilized to doing my ain thing,” helium says. “But to person them travel successful and really squad up with maine and eBay Motors to really conscionable renew the full thing, to renew the thrust and to support it and to support it rolling for different perchance 30 years? Man, I mean, it was chill arsenic hellhole due to the fact that I ever watched Donut. Meeting the boys from Donut and having my car renewed by eBay Motors, I mean, it’s benignant of putting a chapeau connected a hat.”
Renew Your Ride is unfastened to the nationalist from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET connected Saturday-Monday, May 27-29, astatine 6569 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30328.
Local drivers tin sojourn eBay.com/RenewYourRide to docket an assignment during Memorial Day weekend, May 27-29. After their consultation, attendees tin bid up to $200 successful escaped parts backed by eBay Guaranteed Fit. On Saturday, May 27, Donut volition beryllium connected the crushed from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET to accidental hullo to attendees and speech cars and modding T-Pain’s ride. All play long, guests tin bask music, bites, and a car amusement featuring T-Pain’s beloved 1994 Honda Accord, Donut’s ain Hi and Low Subaru WRXs, the eBay Motors Modathon Bronco, and more. Just don’t interaction the Accord.
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