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I am Tyler's younger brother, and am the one you see shooting the Barret in the video. We had a lot of fun making the video. Little bit of clarification first. Contrary to what the youtube commenters seem to think, we did not ruin a perfectly good slicktop. The driver's side had extensive damage from a wreck, and we had used it as a parts car. 99% of the usable parts had been salvaged from it. It wasn't good for much other than scrap metal. In reference to the blue Z that is pictured in the intro of the video, we still currently have it. My brother had spent a lot of time on it, and it was looking pretty good by the end of his graduation from the Air Force Academy (probably whenever you saw it Woody). Unfortunately over the course of the next 5 years, from moving several times across the country, being involved in a minor hit and run, and being vandalized when he lived in Spokane, the overall cosmetic shape of the car deteriorated. With his deployment schedule, he was left with little time to address it. However he always told me whenever he had the chance he wanted to fix it up again. Unfortunately, I am currently a college student and do not have the time or the means to fix it back to how it should be. Rather than sit and further deteriorate in my parents driveway, I know he would want someone to drive and enjoy it. I am waiting for one of his Air Force buddies to get back from a year long deployment as he has expressed interest in the Z, but if not I will likely be listing the car on here. Little side story TT.net might get a kick out of. Whenever Tyler was at the Air Force Academy, every saturday morning there would be room inspections called SAMI's. These inspections were very thorough. The inspectors went around with white gloves on looking in the oddest places for dirt. If there was so much as a wrinkle in your sheets it wasn't going to go well. The cadets were allowed to have one singular personal item on their desk during these inspections. Most cadets chose a picture of the family, girlfriend, or another keepsake. But not Tyler. He had a wings west front bumper on his desk; he didn't have anywhere else to store it so it became his "personal item".
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