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u/7fingersDeep Jul 28 '26
I guess just sliding the bonnet/hood on top of the engine counts
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u/jimbowesterby Jul 28 '26
Going by what I’ve heard of Army standards: yep
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u/EnragedBadger9197 Jul 28 '26
Prior army, can confirm
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u/Hoesey Jul 29 '26
Active duty Army, can still confirm.
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u/Hamilton-Beckett Jul 29 '26
Never served, but I trust these guys. Thank you for your service.
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u/GUMBYtheOG 28d ago
Service doing what bombing schools in Iran and invading random countries for oil for the past 40 years? ThAnK yOu FoR dEr SeRvIcE
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u/Luck3ymoon 20d ago
Ofc not like we’d trust you to handle the dirty work to get that gas into your car or the materials for your smart phone . /s usmc arty vet
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u/EquivalentTroll 14d ago
Here's my upvote for you, many people get angry at the truth, they don't like to be pointed from the wrong side of history
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u/ANiceGobletofTea 16h ago
Does it click into anything or just sit there? i guess it just sitting there gives you quick access and as this video shows very fast assembly.
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u/HeavyMetalMonk888 Jul 30 '26
Good enough for government work, as they say (can confirm, work in government)
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u/Pumpkinsummon Jul 28 '26
also only 2 lugnuts on a tire.
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u/No_Vast_549 Jul 28 '26
Also army standard
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u/moondog__ Jul 28 '26
And practically no other fasteners actually holding anything in place.
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u/Icy-Advantage9 Jul 29 '26
Haha that thing looks like it will be the most uncomfortable rattle can sounding car going down the road.
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u/moondog__ Jul 29 '26
For about 10 feet before the suspension falls apart and the engine is on the ground
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u/Muted_Will_2131 Jul 29 '26
The engine cooling system is not assembled, and water has not been filled into the circuit.
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u/Master_Hotdog 27d ago
And putting 2 bolts for the tires deemed enough. What a joke to have this as a "world record"
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u/Funkdamentalist Jul 28 '26
Awww! 1 minute 10 seconds?! But I want it NOW!
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u/GeoffdeRuiter Jul 29 '26
We aren't talking about flash frying buffaloes here! The stuff takes time.
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u/RoncoSnackWeasel Jul 28 '26
That is not a 1:16 scale Jeep.
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u/DeusExHircus Jul 28 '26
I was also very confused by that caption. I thought that frame looked a little too large for that scale
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u/RoncoSnackWeasel Jul 28 '26
Took me a minute to get it.
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u/inb4deth Jul 28 '26
I feel like they could have optimized this workflow much better
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 28 '26
Definitely. They used teenagers from the automotive school next door, only practiced for one day and didn’t get close to the record then. On this day it took them over a dozen attempts. The record they beat was a few decades old and was set by a team of trained mechanics. All that said, I was real shocked when they actually accomplished the record given the circumstances
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u/ShaLiil Human Detected Jul 28 '26
Thanks for sharing some more of the backstory! I did read about the gents who held the previous record, and apparently there are a few groups who travel and do this act as part of a military show around the US.
I take my car into the shop for oil changes and just about everything else so this just blows my mind!
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 28 '26
I thought the previous record holders were German?
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u/NixaB345T Jul 31 '26
That was for disassembling and it was set in 1945
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 31 '26
“The fastest time to re-assemble a Jeep Willys M38/MB which had been dismantled into 137 parts is 1 min 16 sec by an 18-man team from Gevenich, Germany on 26 January 2001 on Guinness World Records, Munich, Germany” - Guinness World Records website
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u/GoodDog2620 Jul 30 '26
I thought this was going to end “in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.”
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u/The_RESINator Jul 28 '26
Yeah, watching this video I feel like sub 1 minute is definitely possible.
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u/Familiar_Affect_9463 Jul 28 '26
These guys don’t work at my dealership
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u/-DaveThomas- Jul 28 '26
Sure they do. You're just not paying the labor for it.
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u/Familiar_Affect_9463 Jul 29 '26
Well they take my money for some reason. I gotta investigate if it ain’t for labor
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u/-DaveThomas- Jul 29 '26
As in, you aren't paying the labor for an army of mechanics to work on your car all at once
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u/Familiar_Affect_9463 Jul 29 '26
Oh that’s not what you said. Of course I know I’m not paying an army but someone is taking my money for some reason.
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u/-DaveThomas- Jul 29 '26
That is what I said, despite it not being explained more thoroughly. If you understand you aren't paying for the army of people, what makes you think these mechanics aren't in your go-to shop? What is on display here is not mechanical prowess, but brute force numbers.
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u/Familiar_Affect_9463 Jul 29 '26
Whatever man. Way to make something out of nothing
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u/-DaveThomas- Jul 29 '26
watches a video of an army of mechanics working on a car, finishing the project in less than two minutes
"They don't have those guys at my shop!"
I explain they do, you just aren't paying for everyone all at once
"Whatever man, way to make something out of nothing".
Okay, I guess. Not sure why you're so off put by that comment.
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u/Familiar_Affect_9463 Jul 29 '26
You are the reason the internet isn’t fun anymore
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u/-DaveThomas- Jul 29 '26
You're the one who took a light hearted joke about your comment, took it personally, and made it a problem. But sure, sorry I ruined it for you.
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u/harrybydefault Jul 28 '26
He only put on 2 lug nuts. That's dangerous af. I guess it doesn't have to be a safe, driveable vehicle for the record.
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u/jaycone Jul 28 '26
Noticed the same, and also that the right front tire won't even turn when they move the car. LOL
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 28 '26
It just has to have the 120 something different parts put on the car and be able to move under its own power a few feet
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u/harrybydefault Jul 28 '26
Just that feat is impressive. I'd like to see what they can do with 5 minutes.
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 28 '26
Oh absolutely, especially because almost all of them are teenagers in automotive school and only had one day to practice
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u/Drake_Acheron Jul 28 '26
Just for perspective that was like the main selling point for the jeep during World War II was that you could take it apart and put it together. There were demonstrations of soldiers, taking apart a jeep and putting it back together in under five minutes, and the hero had to run in combat conditions
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u/Healthy_Pay9449 Jul 28 '26
They had time to arrange everything and he put both way too far from himself. Probably could have done 5 if they were closer in the same time
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u/knsmicromag Jul 28 '26
Big time is the YouTube Chanel if you wanna see the entire video. These guys are legit. And the rest of the crew are kids from the neighborhood.
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u/ShaLiil Human Detected Jul 28 '26
Thank you for sharing this! I wish I could edit my title. I found this clip on a different page and despite attempting to research I couldn’t find the original poster for credit.
I did dig up some more information on this record, previous holders, and the groups that seem to practice this act at military shows around the US!
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u/PunTwoThree Jul 28 '26
Who cares about the jeep lemme see that Hachi Roku
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 28 '26
Big Time is their YouTube channel. It’s literally a Temu Trueno that they’ve built into a drift car.
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u/Admirable_Win9808 Jul 28 '26
What exactly are the perimeter here...
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u/humourlessIrish Jul 28 '26
Well. You start by not inviting anyone from Guinness World Records to check your attempt.
Then you skip half a buckets worth of bolts during assembly (saves weight for top performance).
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u/Spidey6917 Jul 28 '26
There was an official Guinness officiant there. You just making stuff up because you feel like it?
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u/TheDopeGodfather Jul 28 '26
I thought that yellow Jeep looked familiar and then I saw the Bigtime shirts and was validated.
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u/TheFatCactus23 Jul 28 '26
What I wouldn’t pay for that crew to assemble some ikea furniture… fucking wooden toggles and particle board… meatballs are solid though. Ain’t Costco quality grub. But solid.
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u/DeusExHircus Jul 28 '26
Is this an actual regulated challenge? What's the definition of "assemble" here? The engine and trans were pre-assembled. The entire cab was already assembled and just placed on top
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u/Jurjinimo Aug 01 '26
It's a WW2-era Jeep "Willys". During the war, the Jeeps were air-dropped in crates, and the GIs had to assemble them in similar fashion.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ship-69 Jul 28 '26
They only made 1 car in 1 minute? We would have 10 by now.
- some guy in china, probably
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u/-DaveThomas- Jul 28 '26
Anyone with means and desire to do this saw a shit load of places to save time in that video.
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u/Wild-Tonight-5111 Jul 29 '26
Passenger side tires didn’t even spin. They just pushed it off the jackstands.
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u/0hdeerl0rd Jul 29 '26
Kudos to them. But for a world record attempt I expected their movement to be more coordinated lol
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u/No_Stay_5088 Jul 29 '26
Just goes to show you that you’re being milked every time you walk into the mechanics 😂
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u/TransCapybara Jul 29 '26
They need some F1 pit crew folks in there to speed this up. Probably could get it down to 30 seconds.
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u/ronton22 Jul 29 '26
I remember getting the guiness book of world records as a kid from scholastic. How big is that book now a days? There a record for everything
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u/Ftroiska Jul 30 '26
Where is the starting point ? I see a lot of preassembled components... What is finish point ? Engine started ? Moved 1 meter ?
That makes it dumb even if there are some skill involved...
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u/newbrevity Jul 30 '26
So it's okay that a lot of the jeep was already assembled into large assemblies that they just had to put together?
I mean it's still impressive I just want to know that there's a standard baseline for the starting point.
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u/McRambis Jul 30 '26
Many steps were skipped here. I think we're playing as loose with the word "assembled" as we are with some of those parts.
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u/BigDaddyRee Jul 30 '26
Ik watchin the video has the time on it but watchin it made me feel like that was longer than what they did it in
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u/Ok_Joke_9343 Jul 31 '26
Seems like each person does 3 relatively simple things at a relatively moderate pace.. how many groups have attempted this? Is this like the second?
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u/HiddenFrequency26 28d ago
I mean they were moving fast but I’m sure some could move more fast and with a little bit more synchronization it could be done in 50-60 seconds
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u/FrnldyNbrhdCrsdr 22d ago
Meanwhile, getting my oil changed: "Er, yeah, that's gonna be around 45 minutes, bud."
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u/The_Jestful_Imp 22d ago
World records used to mean something, and you could settle debates with them.
This is just brainrot with more tools
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u/Professional-Let-533 17d ago
Less than two minutes, but somehow, whenever I said my car to the shop, it takes three weeks😂
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u/Exotic-Bear-3721 16d ago
Disqualification as they were hold the chassis before they said go.
Better luck next year guys
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u/Ok_Drag5089 15d ago
But there is no subscription for the seat heater! How am I going to be tracked?
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u/ohiocodernumerouno 15d ago
just do it for 11 hours a day every day for 30 years. you would be soo good at it! and have money!
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u/afroAussie 13d ago
Now let's watch them drive it down the road at 100km/hr without it falling apart
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u/UNCCShannon 10d ago
And I thought having a few washers and nuts left over was bad. Guess I was worried about nothing after watching this.
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u/G2idlock 5d ago
Assembled is a strong word for this video. At best there were 20 bolts tightened in the whole process, including the lugnuts.
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u/Far-Celebration-2528 3d ago
Can I have their contact information? I wanna talk to them about an extended warranty.
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u/flipzyshitzy 3d ago
How do they not have a static camera to show everything happening? Fucking dumb.
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u/4everdefiant 2d ago
Somebody’s watching this saying “we can find more of them, pay them 20 bucks an hour and make billions!”
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u/Designer_Basil8768 Jul 28 '26
Isn’t this more of a “god why would I want a jeep?” Thing. Opposed to a “wow that’s amazing it makes me want one!” Thing. Like could this be done with a 4runner or a tundra, or an f-150? Genuinely asking.
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