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- Hey, my name is Reggie Watts.

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I'm from "The Late Late Show."

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I'm here to talk about my
first car with Jalopnik.

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My first car was a Renault 18i.

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I wanna say like an '84 or an '83 18i.

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It was super rad.

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I drove it pretty crazily.

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I thought I was Mario Andretti,

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and I used to definitely
pull like power slides

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and stuff with the e-brake
and do all kinds of tricks.

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And once I actually parked the car,

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it was sick.

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It was like out of a movie,

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like I parked the car with the hand brake,

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meaning I just like, I dipped in,

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and just like hit right
up against the curb,

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like really nice soft touch.

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Couldn't believe it.

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My friends were like, "Whoa!"

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And I was just really into driving.

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After the engine blew up, that was it.

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I wanted to fix it,

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but it would've been an
entire engine rebuild,

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so I just didn't have a car for a while.

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Kind of sucked.

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But the idea of it is wonderful,

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and I, it definitely someday,

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you know, like in the future,

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maybe I'll find a Renault 18i
and restore it or something,

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but I'm pretty sure it
didn't drive that well

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compared to modern cars.

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Yeah, so I guess like the memory of it

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and what it represents,

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all the times that I had,

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and all of that, that's cool,

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but I don't think I would
want to like have it

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as a daily driver or anything like that.

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