Name: Why John Hennessy Created the Venom F5 Supercar with Over 1,000 Horsepower
Uploaded: 2023-05-05T17:07:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why John Hennessy Created the Venom F5 Supercar with Over 1,000 Horsepower' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why John Hennessy Created the Venom F5 Supercar with Over 1,000 Horsepower' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-05. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
That fucking vehicle that you have built is the most ridiculous thing I've ever
been inside in my life.
I can't believe how fast it is.
Well, we only did a speed limit today, right?
Yes, but we got there very quickly.
We got there very quickly, yes.
1,817 horsepower and 3,000 pounds, so you got some power to weight ratio to
work with there.
That's like 700 more horsepower than a Tesla Plaid.
Yeah, it's like taking a McLaren 765LT and adding 1,000 horsepower to it.
It's something nobody needs, but we've sold 36 of those, the Venom F5.
What happened to you in your life that you needed to make these preposterous
cars?
Well, you know.
Like, what is going on?
Yeah, there it is.
That's the Venom F5.
How did you get to be this guy?
How did this start out where you're making these 1,800 horsepower cars?
It's probably kind of like the pool hall deal when we were younger.
I didn't have a good relationship with my old man.
He was a car guy, but we didn't get along.
And I don't know, maybe 60 years later, you know, I'm 60 now.
I've got, you know, I still feel like I got a little chip on my shoulder or
something to prove.
Maybe a little bit less now, but for sure.
Isn't it interesting that you would never want that for your son?
No.
But boy, is that a great motivating factor for success.
For sure, for sure, yeah.
I grew up in kind of an abusive situation and neglect.
And, you know, now all of a sudden I've got all this motivation or I've had all
this motivation for the last, you know, 40 years of my business career.
So it's been good.
It's funny because you would never want that for your children.
No, I mean.
It's amazing how well it's worked out for people like you or for me.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I don't think everybody out there that has some level of
success has not necessarily been abused and motivated by negativity.
But I can definitely see with our five kids, with the nurture mainly from my
wife, Hope, they're going to turn out just fine and there'll be plenty
successful.
But, you know, that's just, I don't know your story, but that's my road, how I
got here.
I think it can lead you to be very ambitious and very successful, but it can
also just fuck your life up.
Oh, sure.
And you can be very ambitious and very successful and also be, like, happy.
Like, that's possible, too.
That's possible, too.
Yeah.
You don't have to have a tortured childhood.
For sure.
No, I'm very, very blessed.
I mean, you know, to have an opportunity to build toys for people, you know,
whether it's a, you know, a 700,000, 800,000 horsepower pickup truck or a Venom
F5.
You know, we were talking earlier about first world problems, right?
Yeah.
Something nobody really needs.
Nobody needs to go to a comedy show or MMA, but they do it for entertainment.
I tell people all the time we're more, are those stars up there?
Yeah, they fly.
Am I wearing a Rolls Royce?
There's a shooting star.
After the Ric Flair gummy bear, they're going to really start flying.
Yeah.
Yeah, so, no, I feel very blessed.
And we're definitely, you know, people come to us because they want to
entertain themselves with their vehicles.
That's a great way of looking at it, too, because that's really what those kind
of cars are.
Like, when I try to describe my love of old muscle cars for people, because,
you know, they kind of are not super reliable.
Yeah.
They're not so great at handling.
Sure.
And, you know, so I turn them, I get them done into resto mods.
Yeah.
But still, they're, but when I drive them, the experience is entertaining.
It's like a ride.
Like, I'm not just in a Corolla.
I'm not just in some quiet Subaru.
Sure.
I'm in a ride.
But does it take, like, when you drive your Land Cruiser, you drive, you know,
one of your older cars, does it take you back to that time either when you had
that car, you aspired to have that car, you knew the guy or the girl that had
that car kind of growing up, and you wanted it back then, but you didn't know
how you were going to get it?
Oh, yeah, for sure, with my Chevelle, definitely, because my Chevelle, I have a
1970s black with the white stripes, the tuxedo Chevelle, and when I was a kid,
what's that?
You got the cowl induction in the hood?
Yeah.
Yeah, LS6.
Well, it actually is a 454 under the hood, and Colvin, Casey Colvin's Colvin.
Yeah, yeah, I know Casey, sure.
He's the man.
Big Viper guy, yeah.
Fucking love that dude.
Yeah.
He hooked up the cowl so that it, when you, the ignition goes just like that.
Yeah, those vacuum hoses get old and crack, and, yeah.
It's, when I was a kid, when I was about 16 years old, one of my friends picked
me up.
His friend had a 1970 Chevelle, and we were going somewhere, and I just
remember getting in the backseat of the car going,
how is it possible that this kid owns this car?
Yeah.
This is crazy.
Yeah.
It was the best-looking car I'd ever seen in my life.