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Today on Cool Cars with Chris, we're asking a big question. What makes a car brand cool?
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Is it the heritage racing, the design, the sound, or the story behind the badge?
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However you define it, this episode breaks down the cool factor that makes certain cars
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unforgettable. Courage joins me once again for an amazing episode. Let's go.
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Okay, welcome back. I got Courage back. Man, he is a hot commodity, man. He is like the number one
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podcast co-host for Cool Cars with Chris. Welcome back, Courage.
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Hey, Chris. Thanks for having me as usual. Man, this is great. So I love cool cars. I kind of
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love all kinds of cars. You love cars, and I think particularly cool cars. But you brought the question
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of what kind of defines a cool car? Well, I guess a cool car brand. Would you say like a brand of
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the car? Because some cars are car companies, but then some car companies have other companies
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that kind of take that car and make it something kind of different, but still cool.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think it was really what I kind of thought about when I thought about this question
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was like what makes the overall brand, what makes us gravitate as say a car enthusiast to
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certain brands and maybe away from certain brands as well? And I think that it's interesting
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because there's somewhat of a clear answer I feel like of if you saw it on TV or whatever,
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or in a movie, it tends to kind of boost the reputation of certain cars.
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The Back to the Future DeLorean is probably one of the most famous cars,
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Kent, the Firebird, things like that. But for an actual...
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Why one of those, dude? I wanted one of those. I saw one night rider back in the day.
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I wanted one of those cars. I know what those things were. I didn't care. I thought
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it was super cool. And they're actually people that have restored those cars to make them look
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like the kit car with all the bells and whistles. I've seen one in person actually too. Oh really?
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Oh really? They have one out and plug a potential sponsor for you, the Marconi Auto Museum
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in Tustin. They have a working talking with even the light strip in the front
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kit car out there, which I don't know if it was used in the movie or it might be a replica,
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probably a replica. I'm sure a lot of them are replicas these days. And I think with AI and AI
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voices and different things and all that, you probably can literally build your own kit like
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system where it can talk to you and it can do all the things and do everything just like it did in
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the show and the movie and all that kind of stuff. I remember when I was at Universal Studios in
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Hollywood, I was a kid and they had the kit car on display waited in line to go sit in the car
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and he'd ask the car like one question. And everybody kept asking the same questions
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because you kept hearing it through loudspeakers. It would like come in the voice and say whatever
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the question, the answer to the question was like, how fast do I go? Or, you know, things like that,
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like generic questions. I forget a question I asked, but it was probably like another generic
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question like all the kids were asking before and stuff. But it was so much fun to just be
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there and just like get to like sit in the thing and all that kind of stuff. But I love that
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show as a kid growing up, man. Yeah. But no, I mean, I think we have standout cars maybe
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for that reason of just they built this character and his persona around it. But I think for an
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overall brand to be a car, like a car enthusiast brand, there's different elements to kind of make
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that. And so I thought it'd be cool to kind of talk through it and kind of get, you know,
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get your opinion on it and share some thoughts that I've been thinking about on it.
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Okay. So when you say brands, would it have to be like certain the brand itself makes certain
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kind of cool cars or does the car brand have this kind of like cool, like, I don't know, maybe
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this kind of like stigma that if you're associated with that brand or you're, you're wearing their gear
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or their t-shirt from that company's brand, you're considered like it's cool, you know?
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You're going to get respect. Yeah. I mean, I think you're definitely, I think I'm
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definitely on the latter side of it because yeah, that, that individual is where I'm kind
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of thinking because just to go back is, you know, I, and I don't personally know this about like,
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say Audi, BMW, you know, those companies, but like there was a point where like Audi's and,
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you know, like some earlier BMWs and things like they weren't really like considered cool cars,
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like, you know, in the 80s, like, you know, kind of a time when they were feeling things
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out, you know? Well, like, especially with Audi, until like the R8 came out, I mean, what
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cool car did they really have? Yeah. I mean, they, they definitely, people did kind of like their,
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their RS sedans, like they had the RS2s and, you know, the RS, I think the RS3 came around
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that time. So they had some like S and RS models that at that point had kind of gotten some steam,
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you know, the R8 was definitely a jump off point, I feel like to your point for Audi to really kind
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of have like a flagship halo car. Right. It was like, what is this car company come from? Where
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have you been on my lights, this car company? You know, seriously, like,
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And then you realize like they've been around forever, but, you know, you had like the Audi
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5000 that like, you know, people like that car now, but like back then, like nobody, nobody
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really care, like they drove it because they had to have a car. They, they weren't really
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choosing that as like their enthusiast car per se. Well, kind of like, also I'm thinking in that
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realm, I'm thinking like, I guess Cadillac too, probably maybe or, I mean, they got some cool cars
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too, but I think when I think of Cadillac, I just think of like grandma, grandpa car,
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you know, the CTS, the CTS, not even the V model, the CTS, I think is, is what changed
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Cadillac? Yeah. Is that when they got that chiseled front nose on the Cadillacs, where it became like
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a, like a, like a sledge, almost like a hatchet? That's where I say there's an error and honestly,
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they've always kind of had that little bit of a, you know, kind of design, you know, kind of lead
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that they go with, but I always say that like, you know, designers at Cadillac's best friend
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are rulers in sharp edges, because that just like, whatever you can find, it's like a sharp edge,
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whether it's a ruler or like a 90 degree angle, something like that's, that's what they love to
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kind of incorporate into their designs. But yeah, I think that's when they kind of lean into maybe a
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more modern, but like sharp edge design with the CTS and just kind of built off of that. I mean,
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the older Cadillacs though did have kind of that element of sharp edge, like those El Dorados and
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you know, some of those like kind of older classic Cadillacs, they were crying that you
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wouldn't want to be hit by because you wouldn't walk away from that. You big and heavy and sharp and
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yeah. Well, same thing with Mercedes too. I think a lot of older Mercedes cars, I always think I'm kind
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of being like, I don't know, Graham, but I'm talking like cars from like the 70s, early 80s,
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Mercedes, those ones that were like, just kind of big, like the movie, The Hangover,
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whatever car, those are Mercedes, they drove in the movie, but I forget, I don't
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know my Mercedes, but something like that. I think that was a Pagoda maybe. Well, I think
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those cars, I mean, they're cool, but I don't think them as being like these slick, sleek, like,
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you know, sports car-ish. I guess maybe my thing is that
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does it have to be a sports car to be a cool car? No, and that's why I thought this was an
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interesting question because like for example, and I actually missed I was going to bring this
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up earlier, but Volkswagen for example is one that I go kind of to in terms of like
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the Volkswagen Golf, the GTI and all those now, we know the Golf R and all of those even,
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people love just like the regular Golf. Those cars in the 80s were totally different cars
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than what they were now, but there was a point where like, again, a hot hatch you'd think
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was what we call those a lot of times is not necessarily like a cool car or a sports car,
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to somebody that's not into cars. People usually aren't really picking out like a
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station wagon or a hot hatch out of say next to like a two-door sports car unless they
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know about the brand. And I think Volkswagen is one of those where like the hot hatch, they
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really forged and built that sort of, that realm of cars where now like, I mean, again,
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GTIs, Golf Rs, cars like that are sought after cars now, but 80s, Volkswagen's and
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things like that, they were just kind of just cars that people had, like you probably had a
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family member. Yeah, they drove around and I think for me what makes it kind of a cool car
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brand, I think it's kind of sums it up and I think about it is if this car company,
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whatever they do, whether it is in any kind of racing, let's just say, if they have a race
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version, they take a car that they make and they put it in a race, whether it's a rally race
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or if it's some kind of like GT race, of course, and you know, Le Mans and a lot of stuff, but
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any kind of racing, if they get into racing, if they take their production vehicle, whatever
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it is, if it's a car, I can go buy at the dealership and they have like a race
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version of that car out there. And it does well, they're decently well.
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Or it can be Baja, like the Raptor, Ford Raptor, that kind of stuff, like anything like that,
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anything where they take, because that shows like, that's kind of cool because
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it's always pretty cool to where like, if you were a racer and you were actually racing
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in any race, and you have this car and you're with this company and they built
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the car, they built the engine, they built all the components, well, mostly most of the
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components, but they built the car that is actually being used in the race and you win
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with that vehicle. What's the saying go, win on Sunday, buy on Monday or something like that.
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So that's why I think what makes a car company cool is if they have got a car that has been
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used in races, has won, you see it in the races, they had a whole race division.
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And when it comes to like wearing like gear and swag, like Ferrari gear, I've got a Ferrari
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t-shirt from Italy from the Ferrari place. It doesn't want to fit me anymore, but I still have it.
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But it's from Italy. And this is Ferrari on it, you know, and that's kind of cool. I think
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it's a cool vibe to have a car that is used in races or a company used in races. It's
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a whole like swag or about, that's what it means for me, for a cool company, a cool car
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company. If you had like a bell or like a celebration sound effect right now, it would be
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like the time to use it. Oh, I didn't even think in the system, dude. I didn't even think about that,
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you know? But your spot, that's, I think you're spot on 100% because I think that that's really
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been the defining factor is, yeah, like that, yeah, like you said, race on Sunday, you know,
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sell on Monday, like that, you know, the American companies kind of leaned into that at a
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certain point and really saw some traction around that. But yeah, like, I mean,
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if you had these like, you know, race versions, rally was like a huge thing. Like, you know,
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you had these rally cars like Audi that had like the Audi caught. Well, I think of the Hyundai,
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the Hyundai had a car they used in the rally races. I don't know what model it was. And so Ford
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Focus had a car, they used the rally races and Subaru, of course, with the ST with the
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that was a, that's a big one too. Because I mean, Subaru's, I mean, even now, like,
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I mean, things that aren't like the performance Subaru's that aren't like an STI or a WRX
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are literally just like cars. There's not like, there's not much special. I love it. I love it.
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I love a Subaru legacy though. I'm not gonna lie. Like the older like Subaru legacies,
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there was a generation of those, I think in the like late 90s where like,
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or just like sought after cars, like in for, and they're just regular cars, but
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they just had a design about them that everybody loved.
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But the all wheel drive system, I think was what kind of thing.
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And the all wheel drive, that was a huge factor too.
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Popular in like Northern, Northern America, Minnesota in like any place north, north of the
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close to the border of Canada, the superiors are like hot sellers. They are super hot.
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Everybody buys my own. So every mom, it seems like a Subaru thing or whatever. But I remember
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when the Mitch Beachy EVO, EVO, the evolution came out. And that was a big thing with the
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rally races. I think it was the EVO two. I think it was a race or that EVO three was
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for sale in the States here. And my dad had the regular Lancer and in the dealership, they had the
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EVO three on display. I wasn't sitting the thing and they'll check it out and that kind of stuff
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and all that. But that is like, that's, that is to want to just like the, like a regular Lancer
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versus like an EVO is like one of the most like just the weirdest like kind of side by side
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comparison ever. Like because yeah, like on the surface, they kind of look the same.
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But I mean, the regular Lancer is just like as we're almost as regular car as it gets type
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scenario. But, oh yeah. But the EVO is like, you know, is just one of the craziest things that you
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can, you can get in terms of just how they're all wheel drive system work. They were so ahead
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of the time on that. It's a turbo little two, two liter turbo car. I think it had close to 300
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horsepower, I think represent for the two liter turbos, man. Yeah. That thing was nuts. And
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I wonder what you can pick them up for today. That's a good question. Like I think it came out
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at no three or four. And then I think sometime around the mid 2000s, they totally like change
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it to this like it where it looked more like a sedan. It kind of got bigger and kind of longer
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and longer than those. Those are fine too. I see them now and then like the later. Yeah.
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The later gen evos, I do kind of like those, you know, sad that we don't have them anymore.
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But Mitsubishi is on some form of life support at this point.
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I don't even see, I don't know if dealerships are anymore, if they're going to exist.
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Like I have no idea. I have not even seen nothing about from Mitsubishi in like forever.
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So I don't even know if they're around. Do you see a, what do they call them? The
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eclipse cross or cross eclipse, something like that. I saw one of those recently
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from not having seen him like in a long time. But other than that, like any new Mitsubishi cars,
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I just like either I don't pay attention to them or they're just not really out there.
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Yeah. Well, like I said, they used to be super, super hot. I thought Mitsubishi was super cool
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dude because I love the Mitsubishi eclipse. I wanted one so bad and especially the turbo
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version because I got a ride with a crazy guy I had, old friend of mine,
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and he worked the dealership. So he got himself one and I think his parents own the dealership
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or something. Some kind of tie like that. I forget. Anyways, he had the turbo version.
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And this guy drove like a freaking maniac. And it was the turbo eclipse and it was so fast.
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It was crazy fast. But the guy was a maniac behind the wheel. So he got something.
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It's like a crazy driver. Plus he got that much power, that thing. It was whipping.
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It was fast. And you got a little drive. I'm assuming too.
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He just had the, just a two wheel drive for a version because out here, out here in Southern
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California, you didn't see a lot of the all wheel drive because I went to the dealership
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looking at them. And the guy told me, he says, we don't sell a lot of them out here because we
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will live in Minnesota or places like that that need the all wheel drive. So I said,
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Oh, that kind of makes sense. So, and that was during a time, like we're talking like mid 90s
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when the front wheel drive, like hatch, like sport coupe cars were all the rage.
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How to prelude the Honda Civics, Acura Integra, the Eclipse, what else was there?
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Well, they can think of right now, but I'm sure there was another company's kind of got in that.
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Of course, Ford came in with their Ford Focus a little bit later and that's kind
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of like kind of jumped into the game. And then obviously the VW is like all of the,
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you know, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So those were around too. So it was kind of like this whole
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like, like, I guess world around, I guess, you know, just before Fast and Furious came out,
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where it was the whole import like four wheel drive import tuner world kind of evolved around
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Honda. You can get them, you know, you can get them for cheap and cheapish and yeah. Well,
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back then I know that like a middle range Acura Integra with a stick shift would probably run
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you somewhere around maybe 20 grand at the top, top end, maybe, maybe 22, maybe for,
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for a middle road Acura Integra. I'm not talking the VTEC. I think the VTEC was a little higher,
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maybe the 22, 23 range. I looked, trust me, I looked into these. That's how I know this.
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So inflation you're, yeah. Inflation you're probably like, that's probably like a 39, 40
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grand-ish. Yeah. I mean, what does the new Integra go for now? It's a four door sedan.
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Oh, yeah. Talk about like, you know, max it out in play. Yeah. I mean, that's,
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that's like a 60 grand car now. Well, that's the top, if you get the top end version.
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Yeah. If you get a type S, yeah, like that's six. Yeah, the, the, I actually, yeah, I mean,
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I could definitely look that up too, but they're, they're probably a little, they're probably
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like around mid 30s or something like that. I would say for like in like the sort of base
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Integra's. Yeah. I think most of those mid-sized like kind of, I don't know if you'd call it a compact
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a car sedan or we could be mid, would be extended mid-sized sedan or a comp? No, probably mid-sized,
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right? No, I'd say they still kind of fall in the, in the compact because, because the, the,
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the Elantra is in the same realm and they consider that a compact sedan and
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Okay. And above the Elantra, it's the Sonata, right? It's the Sonata. Yeah. So that's mid,
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that's what they consider mid-sized a lot of times. Gotcha. Gotcha. So as far as cool car
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brands go, of course you got the obvious. You got the Ferrari, you got the Lamborghini,
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you got the Porsche, you got the, you know, BMW, AMG, Mercedes. I mean, those are obvious.
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You know, then of course you got the American ones like Ford Chevy.
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But I mean, there's so many, there's so many cool car brands. I think that
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I think they're all kind of cool. It's kind of a weird cop out, but I think kind of,
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I think if they all, listen, if they all can go racing, if they all have a racing
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version of their car, they've been racing, they've had this heritage,
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then I think they're all kind of cool brands. What do you say?
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When I, I mean, I, I just really am glad that you like, I mean this, you,
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you can definitely coin that your podcast is answering, answering some really great
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questions. Cause I mean, I think you've hit the nail on the head with that. And
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the reason I think that I was kind of leaning towards that too and selfishly,
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you know, in that realm is that, you know, obviously, you know, we've talked
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about, I drive a Hyundai Elantra in, and I, you know, I'm really proud of that car.
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I love that car. I think it is a, you know, it's, it's a really great performer for what it is. And
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even kind of punches a little bit above its weight class in some situations.
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But to me, Hyundai as a brand up until probably, you know, the mid, when they came out with
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the Veloster in, if you would have said Hyundai to me, it wasn't considered a cool brand.
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Well, they did do some racing though. So I, I, I did the cool brand category.
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That's, yeah, that's interesting. Cause I, yeah, they're pre kind of in division,
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right? Because now like, I mean, they're racing division, they have, they do,
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they're killing it in like the TCR leagues. You know, the, what they call it, the
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manufacturers can construct ability, or I forgot what they call that league, but
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you know, where they're racing a lot against, you know, almost sort of like a GT
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three-ish class car situation, but not quite. They're really killing it in a lot of those racing
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leagues. And now like I do, you know, I do consider it a cool brand because of that. But to your point,
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you know, having known that they had that past and kind of some racing too with some of their,
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their other like kind of rally situations. Yeah. I mean, I think that it, you know,
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a movie helps with like maybe a specific car becoming sort of this cult classic and,
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and that people gravitate to, but it, I think it doesn't get serious. Like you said, until they really,
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where the manufacturer puts their money, where their mouth is, and really starts to put something
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out there and creates like this race version. So like you said about the movies though,
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cause I think movies really puts cars on the map as kind of that cool car that everybody
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kind of like wants. I remember, I remember, um, walking out of the movie gone in 60
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seconds with, and that Mustang at the end of the movie. Yes. Elinor. Yes. Elinor,
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the Mustang. It was a 67 GT 500, I believe. Something like that. Something like that.
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And everybody wanted either that or a car that looked like that or Mustang looked like that.
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And I did too. I was the same, I was the same boat. I was like, holy crap. I think,
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I think also when that movie came out, we didn't have a lot of cool like
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racing. There was some car older stuff, like bullet. If you've ever seen the movie bullet,
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it's completely boring movie until you see the, I literally have only seen like the car chasing.
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Me neither. That's all. My dad, I heard it's a horrible movie. It's like totally like
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a lot of like boring talking, like dialogue throughout the entire movie until, until
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you get to the race scene at the very end. So, um, but that's kind of a cool car.
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The Mustangs have been a lot of movies and, and they've, they've kind of, especially with,
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like I said, with the God in 60 seconds and bullet and things like that.
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Mustangs are very popular. It's kind of, it kind of puts them on the map.
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It's kind of a cool car. Not only that, you see them in television shows too and stuff,
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like the convertible Mustangs and things like that.
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I think it would be a cool thing to do though. And, and there's probably reasons
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why this hasn't been done yet. But Jim Farley, again, call out, it would be the
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coolest thing to have like a special edition, like God in 60 seconds,
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Eleanor version of like a newer Mustang. Right. They did do a bullet a few years,
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a bunch of different models of the bull. Yeah. They've had bullet Mustangs.
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Yeah. Right. Right. Which, which is kind of funny because the movie is crap and
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it has one scene and it's kind of like that. But yeah, but I don't know.
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Like, you know, God in 60 seconds was a car movie. Like, you know, to,
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I feel like leaning into that would, I mean, obviously it would be like a super one off
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kind of deal. But, but the movie, the movie buffs don't really think it was that great of
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a movie. Tell you the truth. They don't. Yeah. I told, I did the total tangent side note,
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but my wife tells me all the time that like I'm, I'm like just like, I'm, I'm a bad movie guy.
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Like all of my favorite movies, all of my favorite movies are movies that like other people consider
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bad. Like if you ask me if I've seen any of like movies that I should be watching,
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like I'd probably tell you, I haven't. Well, there are those people that like,
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like all those Oscar winners that are like the fluffy movies no one's heard of, you know,
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the windspits picture. Like what movie was that? Never heard of it, you know? And like,
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I mean, there are people that like that are super is being in podcast. You have talked to a lot of
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these people that are super, super into movies. They'll tell you like the, they'll tell you the
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sound guy's name on some obscure movie. You're like, what's, you know, like, what are you
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talking like? What are you watching? You know, like, like, I don't watch. He held that mic
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was just, it was just like all the directors, all the moves from director made, all this stuff that
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go way deep into the different, like the script writing and all this nonsense. I don't have a good
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time. Popcorn ready. Let's go. Let's do this. You know, the only, the only person you really got
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to do that for is like, say maybe like a Tarantino or like a Scorsese or like, you know,
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kind of that level. But like, yeah, when, when it's like really beyond that, like a lot, like,
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I mean, I get respect for maybe that, like, you know, that person's work, it's their
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thing. I mean, you're in the cars. You're in the cars. They're in the movies, you know,
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like as hardcore, you're in the cars. They're hardcore in the movies. And I just want to have
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like the middle ground, man. I love cars and I want to, I love movies. Can we all just get along?
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You know, I like that a lot. You know, we can just enjoy it all, you know, and I think
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movies really does play a big part for these cool cars. Like, like a Fast and Furious,
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it brought back the Mark 4 Super. I think it was a time the movie came out. I think it
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was discontinued. The Mark 4 Super, I believe it was. And so they brought it back in the movie and
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2JZ and all that stuff. And everybody wanted one of those after, after the movie. Of course,
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like the movies, you know, you see a car like that and a movie like, Oh, I want one of those cars
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and they make it look so easy. Just put the parts together. It's like, Oh my gosh,
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I get all the parts online and boom, I can put it together back here. The big deal.
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Yeah, you don't know that there's other factors that play against you when you're
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starting to do that. I watched some, I watched some, there's a couple of videos on Instagram
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on Reels where these guys were saying like, what people think it is like working on cars.
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It shows these clips from Fast and Furious where just like putting an oil thing,
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the wrenching on the car, putting the fenders on, they're putting a wing on the back.
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Oh, like matter of like five seconds, right? They put all the whole montage, the car together.
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And it shows this guy like dropping like his, this is just a bolt. Dropping his wrench down,
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down the back of the, you know, he's trying to like change the oil and he's got oil around
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himself. Right? When you said that, I was like, yeah, like, you know, show the guy like dropping
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this 10 bill, 10 millimeter wrench. I bought a bag of those. I bought a bag of 10 millimeters.
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I don't know where they're at, but I bought a whole back. Like I had, I have like one, right?
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So I bought a whole bag of them on Amazon or whatever. But I do it like, like cool cars,
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man. And I think all cars can be cool. Like all brands can be cool. You know,
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we think about like clothing brands and things like that. There's some clothing brands
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because it was cool, cooling brand or whatever. But, you know, to me, it's like, is it comfortable?
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Yeah. Okay. Cool. I like it or whatever. Yeah. But I don't buy things for tags. I don't think I'd
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buy cars for tags really either. I know some people will do like they will, they will, you
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know, turn their nose up to a Hyundai and go straight to BMW. Yeah. That's a good point too.
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Yeah. To be totally honest too, is that, you know, I think that with that, you know, with, yeah,
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we have our cool brands that we kind of gravitate to. But I think that, yeah, like, you know,
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if you're a true car enthusiast, you don't really shut the door on, you know,
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on other brands. Like, yeah, you might have your ones you gravitate to,
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but, you know, when you get into that point of shutting the door on it because it's like,
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you know, this brand does it way better than this. And like this brand has no business
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being cool. Like I think that's when it just gets, you know, it gets a little ridiculous.
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Same thing with like clothes and things. Like, you know, I had somebody a long time ago kind of
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scoff at me because I, because I guess there was, I don't know if it's Louis Vuitton or something
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like that. They had made a shoe that looked a lot like the Vans like slip on shoes. Oh, really?
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And I, yeah, and I asked them, you know, I was like, oh, those Vans, I asked because
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they had like a cool design, everything like, where'd you get the Vans from? And he looked
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at me with like the word, the probably one of the worst scowls that I've ever gotten is like,
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those, those are Louis Vuitton or like whatever it was, literally just walked away.
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You know, it's funny. You just never know. I mean, if you travel a lot, travel in other
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countries or travel like around, you know, you see people wearing like all kinds of different
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things and I don't judge anybody for what they wear, you know, or what they choose to wear,
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choose to buy. And the same thing with cars too. I really don't judge anybody
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for what car they decided buy or drive or not drive, you know, their choice is their choice.
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You can drive whatever they want. They just don't complain to me if whatever you bought
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kept falling apart. But I'm not going to tell you like I told you so either. I'm not the kind of
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person to, you know, make fun of people or, or bash their decisions. And we all make mistakes.
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You know, we've all, we've all bought things we regret, you know, or whether it's a car brand
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or clothing or whatever. Well, you know, we all have our regrets and live and learn, you know, it's
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just, you know, I mean, I think there's a reason why people pick what they pick, you know, there's,
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there's a big, yeah, there's a big reason behind that, you know, and, and just to be, you know,
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give you a plug, Chris, like, you know, like I was telling you before, I think the whole concept
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of cool cars are Chris and, and, you know, reviewing, you know, getting a chance to hear
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people's car stories, you're giving people a chance to really kind of identify why they
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felt why they feel like a car that they're owned and that they modify even as special.
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You know, I, I just want to give you a plug on that because, you know, I think that people can
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sometimes even when they quote unquote, even have a cool car, they can feel like they don't have
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that opportunity to really share why it was special to them. And I feel like it's a cool
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concept to be able to give people that chance to do that. So just to, just a plug for you on
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that. I appreciate that. That's kind of the whole, whole premise of the show. I mean,
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it's cars. Yeah. But I think at the end of the day, we're all people and us people
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choose certain vehicles or lean to certain like car brands or styles or whatever it is.
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You know, it gets car brands here is that because we like it for some cool reason, maybe,
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maybe your uncle owned one or maybe your dad owned one or maybe your brother owned one
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or a friend owned one. And a lot of stories like that where I knew people that owned
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the 300ZX is that I'm talking the older ones. I'm talking the 80s edition. The 80s.
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The Z31s. My sister had one, two of my friends had them, and my sister owned one. How ironic
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and they're all the same color. Kind of funny how that was. And it's funny you brought that up,
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but that's that's one of the biggest reasons I brought my 300Z. I had a Z32, but that was
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the reason I bought mine was because of not even a real friend. It was a schoolmate,
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like her dad owned a 300ZX and she would pick, she would get picked up from school in it.
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And it was silver, what silver wheels. And I just thought that was the sleekest design ever.
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And that was the reason why I chose that as my first like real car. And yeah, no,
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I think you're spot on with that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, cool cars with Chris,
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cool people, cool cars. Let's go, man. Let's let's fire it up and see what happens, you
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know, and, and drive something that makes you happy. You the listener that's driving,
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whatever you're driving right now, whatever makes you happy with fires you up,
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but gets you inspired about cars. What makes you turn the key and ignition and go.
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And I think another point someone said years ago, I heard about this with
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cool cars in generally speaking is that if you don't turn around and look back at your car
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when you park it, it's not a cool car, you know, but I do that. I tend to do that.
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You know, turn around and look, especially when I had my Z, I would all,
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I would turn around to take a picture of the thing, you know, when I park it or whatever.
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So, but courage, this has been so much fun. Once again, thank you once again for stopping
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by today, man. I really, really appreciate this. Thanks for having me, Chris.
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All right. And you listening, don't forget to head on over to coolcarswithchris.com.
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All the cool things are right over there. And I will see you on the very next one.
