Rich Benoit of Rich Rebuilds: Content Creator, Car Rebuilder and Tesla Fan

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Rich Benoit is a remarkably funny guy and he single-handedly turned junked Teslas into a seller's market. He creates content for a YouTube channel called Rich Rebuilds. This features his adventures rebuilding and repairing cars. His automotive saga took off in 2016. At the time Rich “needed” to own a Tesla, but Teslas were $100,000 new and $70,000 used. He was too cheap to buy one. Loved talking about his journey on this week's Remarkable People podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.6	I'm Guy Kawasaki.
0:52.8	I can't even do the intro without laughing because this episode is so funny.
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1:08.0	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is Remarkable People.
1:12.6	Today's episode's remarkable guest is Richard Benoit.
1:16.8	He is a remarkably funny guy, as you will soon hear.
1:22.4	He creates content for a YouTube channel called Rich Rebuilds.
1:26.8	This features his adventures rebuilding and repairing cars.
1:31.3	His automotive saga really took off in 2016.
1:35.3	At the time, Rich, quote unquote, needed to own a Tesla.
1:40.3	But Teslas were $100,000 new and $70,000 used.
1:45.0	He was too cheap to pay these prices.
1:48.0	So he found a Model S sitting in a field in New Jersey on a website that sold wrecked cars.
1:56.0	It was damaged by salt water, which is a terrible condition for any car, much less an electric one.
2:03.6	So what did he do? He bought it for $14,000 and planned to rebuild it in his garage.
2:10.6	Of course. His first step was to run a dehumidifier for three days.
2:16.6	At this point, let me tell you a small detail. He had no training in the His first step was to run a dehumidifier for three days.
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