Going Fast and Fixing Things
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
An entertaining and inspirational memoir by the world’s most popular DIY expert and car aficionado, revealing how Rich Benoit went from buying a left-for-dead Tesla to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
People are fascinated by Tesla: the cars, the stock price, and especially its headline-grabbing CEO. Rich Benoit was the first YouTuber to pull back the curtain on the cult-like business model that is the Tesla company, and he’s personally battled its consumer-unfriendly business practices. In Going Fast and Fixing Things, Rich provides readers with behind-the-scenes access not only to his Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel but to his off-camera life as well. Throughout his life, Rich has almost always been the proverbial “only Black guy in the room,” but despite the fact that online car culture—especially electric vehicle fandom—skews overwhelmingly white, he has become the most popular car rebuilding guy on the internet. His voice on the page is funny and intimate and a little goofy—just like his video persona—but always tempered by a passion for the right to repair and a clear determination to create success for himself as well as for his fans. Going Fast and Fixing Things also includes tips to help readers fix, drive, and buy their own cars, along with advice on how to defy the disposable-is-better consumerist ethos that saturates our current culture.
Customer Reviews
RICHARD!
I have followed Rich’s journey on YouTube even back in the Tesla days. While I am not into EVs and have no intention in buying one.
I saw his videos, identified a car guy doing something no one else was doing and was immediately interested. It was strange because Rick followed me on instagram out of the blue before I discovered his channel.
The content was interesting and it was fun to watch the content evolve and now, like so many others, I am a fan. Listening to this audiobook allowed me to understand just how similar we are from childhood, to life experiences, and being the unconventional car guy in a world dominated by white and asian dudes.
As funny as it sounds, I am a bit younger than Rich and look up to him because he made the leap and is living the way he wants to live. At least for now. I am a lifelong car guy, I DIY everything, not just car care, and live my life as an unusual, highly intelligent black man in a world where I am often the only person who looks like me in the building and often also the smartest and most high skilled as well.
It’s not a point of pride. I don’t need recognition, but It is great to know that someone that I follow lives a similar reality.
Great job on this RichiB. This was much more interesting and insightful than I thought it would be. We are much more alike than I ever thought could be possible. Keep up the good work! ~ Uncle Roli.