B Squad Hotrod Jan 1, 2026

0333 - New Year Goals 2026

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Car

Chevrolet Camaro

The Chevrolet Camaro is a type of sports car that's known for being fast and fun to drive. It's popular among car enthusiasts and is often talked about because of its cool looks and powerful engine.

Part

clutch brake pedal assembly

The clutch brake pedal assembly is the part of a car that includes the pedals you press to change gears and slow down. It's important for driving a car with a manual transmission.

Term

body on frame car

A body on frame car is built with the car's body sitting on a strong frame underneath. This makes it sturdy and is often used for trucks and larger vehicles.

Term

power assist

Power assist makes it easier to steer your car. If it's not working, you'll have to use a lot more strength to turn the steering wheel, which can be hard, especially when parking or going slow.

Car

Ford F-250

The Ford F-250 is a tough truck that can carry heavy loads and tow trailers. It's built for people who need a strong vehicle for work or heavy-duty tasks.

Concept

body swap

A body swap is when you take the outer part of one car and put it on the frame of another car. This can help make an old car look good while using a newer car's parts for better performance.

Car

S-10

The Chevrolet S-10 is a small pickup truck that many people used for work and personal use. It's known for being easy to modify and customize.

Car

Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang is a famous car that's known for being sporty and powerful. It's been around for a long time and many people love it because it looks great and drives fast.

Term

The Mustang II front end is a type of suspension system from an older Ford Mustang model. It's often used in custom cars because it's easier to work with and helps improve how the car handles on the road.

Car

Chevrolet C10

The Chevrolet C10 is an older pickup truck that many people love for its tough build and classic look. It's often restored or customized, making it a popular choice for truck enthusiasts.

Car

Jeep CJ5

The Jeep CJ5 is an older model of Jeep that is designed for off-road driving. It's popular for its tough build and ability to handle rough terrains.

Part

carburetor

A carburetor is a part of the engine that helps mix air and fuel so the engine can run properly. If it gets clogged, the engine may not work well.

Car

Chevy 216

The Chevy 216 is a type of engine made by Chevrolet. It was used in many of their cars and trucks in the past and is known for being dependable.

Term

lead bearings

Lead bearings help parts in an engine move smoothly with less friction. They were used a lot in older cars but are less common now because of health and safety reasons.

Term

VIN number

A VIN number is like a social security number for cars. It's a unique code that helps identify a specific vehicle and can tell you important details about it.

Part

steering and suspension components

Steering and suspension components are the parts of a car that help it steer and ride smoothly. The steering system helps you turn the car, and the suspension system keeps the car stable and comfortable on the road.

Concept

project car

A project car is a car that someone buys to fix up or make better. It usually needs work, like repairs or upgrades, and can be a fun hobby for car lovers.

Part

valve cover gasket

The valve cover gasket is a part that helps keep oil inside the engine. If it gets old or damaged, oil can leak out, which is not good for the engine.

Part

spark plugs

Spark plugs help start your car's engine by creating a small spark that ignites the fuel. If the wrong type is used, it can cause problems with how the engine runs.

Car

Chevrolet Suburban

The Chevrolet Suburban is a large SUV that can carry many passengers and cargo. The 1954 version is one of the earlier models, known for its size and practicality.

Concept

project vehicle

A project vehicle is a car that someone plans to fix up or change a lot. People buy these cars to work on them as a hobby or to make them better.

Term

oil pressure

Oil pressure is the force of oil circulating in the engine. It's important because it helps keep the engine parts lubricated and running smoothly.

Car

Jeep Grand Cherokee

The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a type of SUV that is known for being tough and good for driving off-road. Models from the mid-90s are often considered reliable and safe for new drivers.

Car

Jeep Cherokee

The Jeep Cherokee is a smaller SUV that is also known for being very tough and reliable. It's a good option for someone who wants a car that can handle rough conditions.

Term

YJ

The YJ is a type of Jeep Wrangler made in the late 80s and early 90s. It's known for being simple and rugged, but it doesn't have as many fancy features as newer models.

Brand

Blue Oval

'Blue Oval' is a nickname for Ford, the car company. People who really like Ford cars often use this term to show their loyalty to the brand.

Term

inline six

An inline six is a type of engine that has six cylinders lined up in a row. This design helps the engine run smoothly and is often used in cars for better performance.

Term

bulletproof motor

A 'bulletproof motor' is a way of saying that an engine is very reliable and won't break down easily. It's known for lasting a long time without needing many repairs.

Car

Jeep YJ

The Jeep YJ is a type of Jeep Wrangler made between 1987 and 1995. It's built for tough terrain and is often used for off-roading.

Car

Mazda Miata

Mazda is a car company that makes different types of cars, including a small, fun sports car called the Miata. People like Mazdas because they are enjoyable to drive and often have a sporty feel.

Car

Volkswagen Rabbits

The Volkswagen Rabbit is a small car that's easy to drive and good on gas. It's popular because it's practical and has a lot of space inside for passengers and cargo.

Car

GMC C15

The GMC C15 is a classic truck similar to the Chevrolet C10, and it's known for being strong and reliable. People like it for its vintage style and the ability to customize it.

LIVE

A couple of quick things as we get started here.

First off is we are running a contest, maybe more of a game.

There's a prize, and the rest of it is something you just have to figure out.

That's what most of the game is.

The prize is pretty cool.

It has almost absolutely zero cash value, but we are going to see if we can number them.

Number two, we are going to do a facelift to B Squad.

So no major changes, but we're going to update the website, maybe make some changes to the logo,

kind of just refresh things here in 2026.

And of course, stickers are available.

We may even, with the website update, have a form on the website.

But as of now, just send an email with your mailing address to hosts,

h-o-s-t-s at bsquadhotrod.com, and we'll send you a sticker free of charge.

Okay, with that, let's start torturing Lefty.

All right, Lefty, it's that time of year again.

We got a big group assembled here.

Let's get this party started.

I want you to know as we start the show that I am here

under protest because you have done so much work on this show in general.

I have guilted him into this.

B Squad is, at its core, a roundtable discussion of the four of us who are admittedly rank amateurs

in the car world, trying to figure our way into hot rotting.

Four states.

Three time zones.

Two sets of brothers.

Once a week.

Of a meat and bolts of hot rot.

For a B Squad hot rod, this is Lefty.

This is Train.

This is Hollywood.

And this is Woodchuck.

Because A Squad has a TV show.

Legal disclaimer, if you try anything we talk about, that's your fault, not ours.

No, no, this is, I'm doing this out of respect for you.

Well, I appreciate it.

This is always a fun show.

So if you haven't guessed by the date, yes, for me.

And it's always a fun one to go back and listen to because I always listen to it.

If you haven't guessed, today's the first of January.

So for those of you on B Squad, that's New Year's Day.

Hooray.

Oh, you're going to edit this one fast.

And taking that out.

Oh, there may be some alleged questions about that.

That's fair.

Yeah, we got a fairly decent size group with us.

We may get one or two more joining us.

So go ahead and sound off.

This is Jim or May I have time here?

And Gail.

You've already heard from Lefty.

Train is present.

I think I'm on four.

Excellent.

Welcome to the party.

I'll call class.

So Train.

One of your several excuses for the past few years is no longer valid.

Yeah, well.

Like officially as of a couple of days ago.

Officially as of a couple of days ago, yes.

Are you going to tell us or do we have to out you?

El Capitan.

El Capitan, yes.

I have officially, yes, finally being promoted to captain in my fire department.

Awesome.

Congratulations.

And there's Matt rejoicing from the entire group.

Steve will splice in some crowd going wild here for the applause.

Because six of us clapping is only going to sound so.

I'm just giving work to future Steve.

That's what dang it, Lefty.

He'll either have to edit it out, add it or add in the applause or deal with not having done either.

That's going to be a tough choice.

You just heard what happened.

That's an A squad move there.

See how I wasn't specific.

This is the first year we had more than just Hollywood, Train, Lefty and myself doing goals.

And we've got a spreadsheet.

We got like semi-official here.

And you brought it with you?

It's up right now.

It's happening.

I hit duplicate.

So I've got one ready for this year too.

It's going to be awesome.

The important question is, what is this Hollywood of which you speak?

Hollywood is this guy that used to be on the podcast.

And I wish I was joking about that, but I think that may be the case at this point.

This podcast has always been a hobby for the four of us.

And now it's morphed into the all of us.

And he hasn't had time.

So we haven't heard from him in a while.

And we're all sad about that.

I think it's been over a year, hasn't it?

Life happens.

Yeah.

He's the guest host.

The permanent spot guest host?

Yes.

I think the last time we heard from him was something about a commercial for horse heat

or something like that.

It's been a while.

Yep.

I think it was the one where I said that he was living in a pickup truck ad.

No, that's it.

I knew there was a commercial involved.

Just before the baby was born, right?

Yes.

Yep.

That's, yeah.

So that's a year and a half.

But between raising horses, keeping, you know, what are they?

You got a couple, two, three cows and a newborn.

I can see where he might be a little busy.

Don't forget the buffalo.

Oh, sorry.

It's Buffalo, not cattle.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah.

Apparently roping buffaloes better practice and cheaper.

Or at least it was at that point.

Apparently he's living my dream life.

Got it.

Home on the range.

Oh, and there's been a proposal brought forth in honor of train's promotion.

I think for the rest of 2025, hate mill no longer goes to train,

but it will resume again in 2026.

It's sad because this is the first.

Happy new year, strength.

By the time you hear this, it's no longer valid.

And in all the regular love of catch 22s.

And he has, you know, almost a hundred hours left,

but nobody's going to know.

So it's going to be awesome.

Okay.

He's going to know.

No one's going to know.

Let's get started here.

Lefty.

Your goals were Camaro has to go.

Just fail.

Let's just go.

Okay.

Fail on the plane.

Yeah.

To be fair, almost immediately after that, we recorded that.

I took a promotion at work and yeah, have been.

I don't know that I've been gone any more or any less,

but I've been a hell of a lot more busier even in my off time.

Now, there's no fair, by the way, in this one way or another.

I didn't meet the goal.

Not trying to go around that.

So we can't diss him too bad unless we're also dissing Hollywood.

Because we just determined the real life has to take precedence.

Yep.

Well, real life has always taken precedence.

That's why we never meet the goddamn goals.

This hobby thing.

If someone wants to go ahead and make me into a professional podcaster,

I would be, you know, they don't necessarily have to be Joe Rogan numbers.

I wouldn't say no.

So what we're saying is, hey Daniel, pay us for this.

Oh, that'll work.

Okay.

Train, get front suspension in car.

How'd you do?

Ah, I'm 80% done.

80% done.

I say we give that a check mark with an asterisk, right?

Because if I, you know, if my thoughts are right on most of the goals,

I say we give it this one.

Did you use steroids?

I'm steroids.

Like, what kind of steroids are we talking here?

I'll take anything, but if we're giving you an asterisk,

we're going to do it the same way we did Barry Bones.

Yes, I was wondering if anybody was going to get Barry Bones.

Where was that going?

Yeah.

Yes.

I have been on steroids within the last week.

Okay.

Yes.

With an asterisk.

There you go.

See?

And no, those were not anabolic steroids, or at least I'm assuming.

No, they're not anabolic steroids.

Okay, did you rust encapsulate the interior?

No.

And I actually have it, but I decided not to, because I was busy trying to weld in a frame

to hold the clutch brake pedal, gas pedal assembly that I got.

Okay, car frames.

But that's not part of the frame.

No, no, I was framing in a box on the firewall to hold the pedal assembly.

You've got a body on frame car.

Yes.

So, rust encapsulate the frame was the...

No, rust encapsulate the interior was what I originally said.

Oh, the interior.

Okay, maybe I misheard.

Yes.

So, it's not a no, it's just it's been delayed.

Yeah, I mean, it's...

Well, it's a no.

It's a no.

Under lefty terms, it is an absolute no.

And it's a no because I decided that it would set me back if I had done it.

Well, I'm 80% on getting rid of the Camaro.

I just have to figure out how to physically get it on a trailer and keep the parts I want.

They're all disconnected pretty much.

I told you, man, tweakers, they work for the parts.

Yeah, but it's the parts I want.

Tweakers help me put the fucking project on the card when I got it.

So.

Well, what I'm saying is it's a no and I'm explaining why it's a no.

Does that make sense?

So, a maybe and a no.

That's 80% and a no is what it is.

Muddy, redo exhaust.

No, and I have a reason and that reason is I got really lazy and just never got around to it

because I didn't want to.

I did not have the desire.

The reason is I'm lazy.

Okay.

Well, you see, I can't drive the car because the power assist is out on it

and the power assist is right in the way of the exhaust.

I have a new power assist, but I'm too fat to get up in there

and take the bolts out from the inside.

So I haven't done it.

Fair.

That's my only reason.

It's a legit problem.

I get that.

All right.

The other one is, oh, I know you passed this one,

shop building on the backyard.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

Including a framed floor for half of it.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yeah.

I have the most wonderful wife in the world.

So I have concrete all the way across.

I didn't have to frame anything.

It is done.

It's done.

So no framed floor.

No, I'm just giving you a shit.

The concrete is pretty solid framing.

I think if you exceed the original specifications above and beyond.

The only one who doesn't get a buy on that is,

I think, Gail with not buying new projects.

If you exceed that, the original specification is failed.

There was an entire episode to determine if that was a project.

What?

More to come on that later.

Anyway.

Yeah, I highly doubt the arguing on that is done.

Done.

Oh, no, no.

Okay.

Coach Ever.

See, I tried for an A-Squad move called a teaser there.

Yeah, we're not that good.

You're the only one on A-Squad.

Lefty.

Sorry.

We suck.

We have a very bad definition of A-Squad.

But let me put it this way.

I'm on C-Shift.

Okay.

There you go.

That's why you got an asterisk on the one side.

That's why you got that.

I like it.

Okay.

Coach Ever.

F-250 completely finished driving every day.

So, he recently admitted no to that one.

And unfortunately, he's not here yet.

We were hoping he was going to be here, but he's not.

And 49 willies pick up have all running gear finished on it.

Hard on that, last I heard.

I don't know.

Okay.

We'll have to get a ruling on that one here from Coach Ever.

Hopefully we can do that before the end of the episode here.

All right.

Jim, body swap 55 on Buick, or 55 Buick on S-10 frame.

I can almost do that.

The answer to that is no.

Because with some checking and stuff on that, the 55 would have ended up looking like a monster

truck on that frame.

Would have been sitting way too high.

So, we're modifying.

That one's going to be done.

I now have trailing harness.

And now we're going to keep the original frame.

And in the long run, go with a Mustang 2 front end.

Man, when you said no, I was about to say, I feel so much better about my failed goals.

And then no.

So, is the frame complete?

Oh, the frame run is fine.

You could drive that around.

There's more to come on that later.

Let's just say that one is a no.

The important factor here is there has been no progress on the 55,

other than a decision to move in a different direction.

Oh, gotcha.

Okay.

I didn't know if there was work done on that.

Yeah, because much like the concrete floor, if you go in a different direction and still

get the thing done, then we can definitely give it to you.

Not any projects and do the C-10 instead.

That's, you're making us look bad, stop it.

Okay.

How does CJ5 rewired and made to run?

Yes, it is running.

I had video of it running.

It was self-mobile around the yard and then here recently, the carburetor plugged up.

So, through a series of things, I'm going to replace the carburetor,

but I do consider that one running now.

It is yard drivable only because it doesn't have plates.

If it generates a new issue after you've fixed it, I don't know that that's a, you know...

Yeah, I count that.

I count that one is done, the Buick is not.

That sounds fair to me.

One-on-one.

All right.

Next up on the list, we have Gail, get the 41 engine in the 40 consistently and

should be running consistently.

I think I forgot to put that word in there and happy with it.

So, are you happy with your engine in your 40, Gail?

I am.

It runs.

Or 16 still?

You can go out and turn the key.

What's that?

Is it a 416 or the 435?

216.

Sorry, 216.

216 or 235?

Oh yeah, it's a 40.

The Chevy is a 40.

I put a 41 motor in it, which is still a 216.

It's still a 216.

Dipping the dip.

The slung oil.

Yeah, the terrible oiling system, but yes.

That's the whole reason why I didn't even bother to look at redo in mind.

Well, yeah, you want yours to be everyday drivable when you're done.

They have like 15 cars.

So, everyday drivable is really just once every two weeks, maybe.

That's true.

I mean, but I really did strongly consider looking at it, but I'm like, okay, I'd have to

recast the lead bearings and do all the sorts of stuff that I'd have to spend a lot of money on.

We bought one that still had good bearings is what we get.

Yeah, we ended up with the deal of the century on that.

I'll be honest with you.

That's good.

And the guy who sold me the 41 motor was thrilled.

I sent him video of it running and driving and he was super happy.

Well, and nobody else wanted to deal with those bearings either.

He's putting modern running gear under his.

So, the only reason I'm still holding onto my block is because that's where the damn

VIN number is.

Look under the passenger side, where the seat meets.

I have that plate there, but they use the block.

They use the engine one in Texas.

Okay.

Yes.

So, once I get it running and it can drive on its own and I can go get it inspected for roadworthiness,

I can also have them at the same time ask for.

The VIN.

VIN.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, when I bonded the title, they had to use the block number.

Oh, okay.

That makes sense.

I forgot you did a bonded title on that thing.

Which is actually, it's been three years.

So, it's all.

So, your bond is going to be up here soon.

My bond is actually already up.

It was up as of this past September.

Oh, so you got the money back, right?

No, I got to go get it.

I haven't got it.

I'm just going to let, you know, $2,000 sit at the bonding agency for however long.

200 bucks.

Oh.

Oh, well, that's not bad.

Still.

That's steering and suspension components.

Steering and suspension components were way more than that.

Well, damn.

Okay.

I'll just take the 200 bucks then since you don't want it.

Honestly, I forgot it's over there.

I'm going to tell you the truth.

I forgot that it's over there.

Now, did you put up the actual money or did you just buy a bond in which case

you don't get the money back?

I think I bought a bond.

So, I think that's the case.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, because that's what I did for the Thunderbird.

You bought a bond?

Yeah.

You know, and it's some low percentage of what the actual bond is.

Yeah, the bond, I had to bond it for $3,000 or $4,000.

I think it was, I had to spend $200.

So, $3,000 or $4,000, sorry.

So, I don't think I'm going to get that money back really.

Okay.

Coming back.

Okay.

This one might take a while.

Gale's number two goal, don't get distracted and buy another project car.

I believe that turned into a discussion as to what constitutes a project car.

I did buy a car.

In my mind, it was not a project car.

It was a 2011 BMW.

It needed maintenance done to it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I'm sorry.

I don't know of any BMW that's not needing maintenance.

In that any BMW of any vintage could be considered a project car.

Because they all require maintenance.

Now, I'm throwing shade.

Go ahead, continue.

Well, no, no, I, my personal opinion is somebody had stopped doing maintenance

to it probably 30,000 miles ago.

I bought it, did the stuff it needed done to it, and have done nothing to it since then,

but drive it.

So, to me, that's not a project car.

No, I agree.

Yeah.

I think that's the conclusion that came to on the show too.

Yeah, it was.

I've slept since then, but I'm pretty sure that's what we decided.

I, I do want to, I was going to say.

I want to clarify one thing.

It's been an hour.

Go ahead, Kelly.

There was, there was a great deal of discussion about that.

And there was, Steve made the comment that it required some engine work.

I think I need to clarify that what it needed was a new valve cover casket.

The engine work was not like cracking the engine or doing anything else.

It just had a nasty oil leak.

So, to me, that, that does not a project car make.

No, okay.

Hand position sensors, Vamo sensors.

Tires, a spare key, new light bulbs, rear brakes, because they did the front brakes.

I replaced the spark plugs because somebody put copper plugs into a BMW.

Good heavens, why?

It just needed a bunch of maintenance, but runs great now.

Yeah.

What I was going to say was that Lefty and I argued for an hour trying to make that a project car,

and we reluctantly agreed that it wasn't.

It wasn't, yeah.

I think it really came down to these were not performance mods.

It was replacing like for like to make it drivable.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, I think, I think we hashed that out pretty well.

And it definitely got a really good shake on whether or not it was true or not.

And I stand behind that.

The eventual decision, yeah, the eventual decision was it was not a project car.

Okay.

So now I'm going to ratter out.

Wow, left that for the last minute.

Since this is allegedly the first of the year, the fact that tomorrow we are going

to Glen Rock to probably buy a suburban body, a 1954 suburban body for Gale,

that is going to go on the S10 frame instead, because it will look right on there.

And we are driving up there tomorrow to purchase this, to look at and probably purchase this vehicle.

On allegedly the second of January.

We were discussing what qualified as not get distracted and buy another project car this year.

So my thought is it's not the calendar year.

It is the year to year from doing this episode.

I'm going to agree with that.

I'm pretty sure we were late last year.

Well, that your purchasing is a part.

Oh, I like it.

Last year.

You have the project it goes on.

This is a part of the project.

Does it have a VIN number?

I guess that's why it's not a one.

Is it titled?

That's a good question.

I don't know the answer to that yet.

We know it has a VIN number.

The thing is a 54 is the only AD Chevy that has that perfect grill on it.

That's the best one you could possibly pick.

No, see, I don't know.

I would highly debate the perfect grill with you.

But that's not for that one.

Okay, for that truck.

There we go.

If we're going to stipulate here.

It's not staying anyway.

That would be a good episode just to stand alone right there.

It has fenders and a hood, but no grill.

I am uncertain if it has a title.

But I am very seriously considering putting a 42 dodge front end on it.

That would be beautiful.

Because I like the curved fenders.

I like the peaked curved fenders.

And the big flat dinner table fenders by the 50s that just don't do anything for me.

This is going to be a serious project if I decide to do this.

Even to waffle a little bit on my prior statement then.

I would say if it's titled, that's a project vehicle.

And if it's not titled, it's a part for your other project.

The new one is the Suburban will definitely be a project vehicle.

I have no poems about that.

It's all about timing.

It's just whether or not the timing works.

Since if I purchase it, I'm going to purchase it after the episode.

I think I'm in the clear.

I've always understood it to be the calendar year.

That was kind of the intent.

Well, I'm going to disagree with that now because that's what I do on this show.

And say it's always been when we did the episodes.

Because we set new goals when we do the episode.

Whether or not that's a calendar year or whatever.

Okay. So are we arguing we, Gail,

has decided to purchase this before the episode?

No, no.

Well, I haven't decided to.

I'm going to go look at it.

It's happening after the episode.

So it's not a project.

It's not part of last year's goals.

It's here.

Okay. I was arguing the same thing.

Essentially calendar year, right?

At midnight on the first.

That's it.

Well, yeah.

But to spill the beans, it's the 28th right now.

It is the 28th right now.

So the 29th won't count on that.

I say it's episode to episode.

Well, does it matter though?

Because technically she's going on the second.

So it doesn't matter either way.

She's in the clear.

Doing time warp because I think it's fine.

Oh, you're going the day after the episode drops.

I thought you're going tomorrow after recording.

Yeah. No, I'm going tomorrow after recording.

Yeah.

You're ruining my me helping you.

I'm trying.

The wobbly wobbly time you want me stuff is throwing me off here guys.

Everyone understands the magic of podcasting and how things drop on a certain day.

We didn't record live.

Thank God.

I will admit when I set the goal, I was thinking episode to episode.

Episode to episode I say is the correct way.

That's my vote.

Okay.

I'm willing to go with that.

Any other votes?

Yeah, or nay on that.

And we want to say that because I want to be difficult.

Okay.

That's my job, but I'm feeling on it.

So I'm stepping in.

It's fine.

So Daniel had a statement in the chat.

Apparently he doesn't have audio or something.

I don't know.

But for the record, we all for all the record,

we all know the real reason that Gail can do whatever we want.

And it'll be okay because we are scared of her.

He's not wrong.

And honestly, they're the two who really get shit done.

It's not like any of these goals are binding resolutions, guys.

We've failed most of them.

But I say Gail gets two points.

I was going to say, it's been mentioned I may be overly competitive.

I know how to do.

They'll get Gail, Gail, Gail.

Gail gets two points.

Okay.

All right.

I was not totally just tabulating all this while we were arguing

whether Gail had a project or not.

Wait, what about you?

What about yours?

Yeah, that's why I got distracted.

Okay.

I am the next one on the list.

The don't go nowhere.

Rolling with engine and transmission.

Fat chance.

Installed and started the engine and it goes on and it doesn't matter

because it didn't flip and move at all.

Every other car going to town rig.

I put the car that I thought was going to be the easiest on the lift in February.

And it hasn't moved.

It's still on the lift.

There has been some scope creep.

I think you found additional things that were problematic when you were working on it.

Yes.

It failed to have oil pressure.

So I've been trying to get the oil.

Is this the Toyota?

No.

This is the 350.

I've had it on the lift so far that somebody's actually come out with a YouTube video.

In the meantime, almost showing me how to do it.

It's not an awesome video, but the guy seems pretty cool.

I thought about reaching out to him and have him on the next one.

I don't know, make content.

That actually might be happening.

Funny, you should mention that because that was Sinbad's goal for the year.

Yeah, he didn't quite make it.

Yep.

So obviously, all my rigs being going to town rigs, that did not happen.

I also had a job change in the middle of the year.

So that makes a surprising amount of difference.

Yes.

Both my wife and I were looking at the possibility of being unemployed in the same week.

And that would also mean we would have had to move.

So that really upset us right in the middle of summertime.

So thankfully, we both are still employed and things are good.

That's good to hear.

Yeah, life happens.

I actually got a little bit of a step up in position.

It's a different position, but a little bit more responsibility and fun stuff like that.

My wife, not so much, but she's going along.

So that's good.

Yeah.

So long story short, I didn't get close to either one of those goals.

He did, however, buy another one.

Oh, yeah, the bus is now mine.

Oh, I meant the Jeep.

Yep.

I got the Jeep.

Technically, it's in my name, but it is my daughter's Jeep.

You failed Gail's goal twice.

I did.

That's why it wasn't one of mine.

And I do not have plans for another project, but if my wife keeps dropping projects in my lap,

then actually, no, I take that back.

I do have plans for another project.

You've got to finish something first.

Yeah.

My oldest, we may be looking for my oldest, probably getting her a grand Cherokee of the

same vintage like mid 90s-ish as her first car.

If you're going to go mid 90s, why not just get a Cherokee and get something indestructible?

I might look into that.

And if I can convince her of that, her initial thought was, I want mom's car.

And I said, I am not buying you a full length suburban.

Sorry.

No go on that one.

Yeah, fair enough.

Yeah.

She's also more of the girly girl and wants all the fancy bells and whistles.

She does wants, yeah.

All the shit that breaks.

Yeah.

A YJ was a little sparse for her.

And I said, well, that's fair, right?

It's a fairly sparse vehicle.

What I want to know about, though, is you are a very big Blue Oval family.

And yet you're planning to find both your daughter's jeeps to start.

Is this to get them to go back to Ford?

So that they run?

As a jeep owner and lover of jeeps.

It's just really surprising that you're buying, especially things like 90s vintage jeeps.

They're cheap and A, the YJs look like a jeep, which was my youngest's main concern.

It needed to be a jeep and look like a jeep.

Since when is anything jeep cheap?

Just empty every pocket.

Yeah.

Just expect every problem.

Actually, I'm sorry.

It's like saying that there's a BMW that doesn't require maintenance.

I'm sorry.

And I bring three.

Included as a first vehicle.

To be honest, one of my suggestions to Steve was with what she was looking for

was to find a grand chair key with the inline six with the four liter.

Because at that point, you've got a bulletproof motor.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good motor.

I can understand going with that one.

Yeah.

Yep.

And that's what the YJ has, too.

And I think that was also your suggestion for the youngest one, Jim.

With the four liter.

Four liters are just a bulletproof motor.

Yeah.

Stay the hell away from the 2.5.

No, I have one with a 2.5.

It's fine.

It's a gas mileage mobile.

I mean, if you don't want your children, if you don't want your children to ever speed.

That is true.

It is not edit.

Maybe go with a 2.5.

I use it to drive back and forth to class.

Yeah.

I did purposefully take all the ones with the swapped 350s in them out of my search results.

Good plan.

Especially for my youngest, that would be a problem.

No, it wouldn't be a problem very long if you made her buy the gas.

Gas prices are coming down out here, man.

That's true.

Yeah.

Fair point.

We filled up yesterday.

There was a year, say, 205 a gallon in Rock Springs.

That's nice.

Holy cow.

It's not anything that low.

But I've seen down to, I think, 280 in Arizona.

I filled up at 210 here yesterday.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Okay.

What about Daniel?

Did he have goals last year?

He did have goals last year.

68.

He did.

Daniel has joined us.

He's been here for a little bit.

But it turns out the Caribbean is not exactly the ideal place to join a podcast from.

We don't want to hear it.

That's an incredible way to not get any sympathy for what's wrong.

I mean, I'd feel bad, but I'm looking at the ocean right now.

So it's cool.

Yeah, I had goals.

I don't exactly remember what they were,

but I'm sure I didn't cheat on them like Gail to achieve that level.

Okay.

68, running highway speed reliably.

That it's doing.

Check.

Okay.

Even though it still needs to go to paint.

Well, the building has to get a concrete floor before I'm painting this thing in the building.

I'm just, that was an unexpected complication from a rather unexpected,

complicated last 12 months business wise.

Fair enough.

That was your other goal, concrete.

So I guess that did not happen.

No concrete, no insulation in the building.

The building's up.

It's fully wired.

It has electricity, but I lost a shit load of money last year.

So concrete got put on hold.

That's fair.

Concrete is not cheap.

Nope.

No, it's not, especially when you have a building not quite as big as Stevens.

If you were in any other business, I would say your solution wasn't much cheaper,

but I bet for you it was.

Yeah.

For the listeners, I just took a whole crap load of steel plate in and laid it on the floor in my

new building because I couldn't afford concrete.

And yeah, it is way cheaper than me.

For me, then concrete.

Oh, right.

It's like, doesn't everybody have a 12 foot wide by 43 feet long sheets of

half inch steel plate laying around?

If only.

Okay.

Next year.

They've got a stuff that I could get done with that kind of steel.

Are we going right into the, I come get some.

And another one hit vehicle while you're up here because you aren't Gale, so it's fine.

But are we on to the next year?

Very shortly.

We're finishing up with yours and Sinbad's goals, and then I will announce the winner.

Yep.

That's what happens when you're tired of the party, but I would feel bad,

but I was having ceviche and grub lobster.

I don't feel bad.

There you go.

Well, coach hasn't made it yet and Sinbad said he wasn't going to be here.

So speaking of Sinbad, do one video on YouTube, like the other caveats,

like it could have been 15 seconds and he would have been good.

He failed.

Sorry, Sinbad.

And complete powder coat on truck frame.

He also reported he failed on that one.

He fits right in here.

He needs to be on the show more often.

Yeah, suddenly I feel better.

Okay.

So I have a giant matrix of votes here, and we're going to keep this very simple.

Miscompetitive wins by one point.

I did it correctly.

Okay.

And in last place was the eternal optimist, me, who voted yes on everything.

Just statistically by the numbers, probably not your best bet.

Just going to go ahead and throw that out there.

Okay.

Very nice.

So train, I guess you got to get the trophy to Gail.

Okay.

Since it's failed to make the rounds.

I know.

So far.

There is actually a trophy, and I will send you a picture.

It's very inappropriate.

But I'll send you a trophy.

Congratulations.

Here's a picture of something train made.

I like it.

All right.

Daniel, since you were the one to ask, how about if you go first for next year?

Oh, absolutely.

I'm happy to.

And I even hedged my bets and sent it to Steve in case I couldn't get on.

Or I get lost because, you know, 50-50 yards at this moment.

But okay.

So my two for the year is to get my shop insulated with a car lift in it.

Of course, I have to have concrete to do that.

So concrete is part of that.

Good goal.

Okay.

You're adding on to the previous one.

Okay.

Sorry.

Don't we have a rule saying you can't have the same goal twice in a row?

Or is that?

Well, we've been doing the same goal for eight years.

Doesn't Steve had the same goal every year?

I know.

This is why you have that rule.

Well, this is so that he can't do the Mustang.

Anything with the Mustang this year?

Yeah, I believe there was a specific veto by majority on me doing the Mustang this year.

So we'll go with that.

Okay.

Then I guess the lift has to be a project because I don't believe that was in the matrix

from last year, correct?

Yeah, you go.

It was not.

I'm mostly just throwing shade at Steve.

You're good.

Oh, I'm all for that.

The only person I like talking trash to more than that is Lucky.

And by the way, gas is like a buck 83 in Kansas, y'all.

Nice.

All right.

So that's one.

And I did, I had paint on the 68 on my list or was it just have a reliably highway speed?

Just reliably highway speed.

Okay.

Paint on the 68 is number two.

Have it painted and probably sold.

Yeah.

That's not a bad, that's not a bad goal at all.

I think they're doable.

If I ever make enough money that I can afford concrete and insulation, it'll be great.

But this year's already better than the last.

So there you go.

That's good to hear.

Now I wanted to put this in the chat and for me, I think I'm going to add a personal goal

to my list, you know, not just automotive because, you know, we do such a great job of just focusing

on automotive stuff.

We do.

So for my personal goal is I'm going to make a trip out to Truck Lagoon to go see

all the cool wrecks of World War II.

Oh, damn.

I kind of want to go with you on that one.

Come get me.

Let's go.

We're going to have to do some training first, but let's go.

We actually have a spot for one more person.

We can make that happen, buddy.

That sounds like a diving trip.

That sounds like a ship that sank with a bunch of trucks on it.

Not just one.

It was essentially where we caught all the rest of the Japanese fleet and the latter part

of World War II and we sunk hundreds of ships all in this giant atoll area.

So it is like the wreck diving mecca of the world.

It is absolutely bucket list.

Yes.

My youngest son is all into any shipwreck.

We spend so much time watching YouTube videos on shipwrecks.

He can tell you every shipwreck that's mapped in the world.

I have to take him to something like this.

I think he's going to learn to screw up, right?

Yeah.

Let's take him to the shipwrecks over at Beaver Lake because we have multiple boats in there.

We can take him.

That'll be awesome.

But yeah, that's for me.

I want to dive it.

I got why I'm in Mexico other than some family time is I'm learning to scuba dive down to 300 feet deep.

Oh, damn.

Which is stupid deep.

So there you go.

That is my personal goal.

And if I get lost, I'm voting against Gale just out of general principle.

Let me put that in.

My matrix is too big.

It doesn't fit on one sheet.

When you hear her goals, you may regret that, but we'll kill it.

There are slightly more manageable goals this year.

Lightly manageable goals?

Like I think you had the most manageable out of everybody's.

Don't do anything for 12 months.

Project car.

I can't believe she pulled that one off.

Me neither.

Again, my earlier statement.

We're all too afraid of her to argue with her very much.

That's fair.

The episode you guys decided that my BMW was not a project car.

I wasn't on.

You guys figured that out all by yourselves.

And what was the end of the episode?

Ultimately, we're scared of you, so we're not going to disagree.

She did also replace an engine.

And to her credit, she took the lead on this one.

Heck yeah.

She didn't do that.

All right, Gale, since you won, you get to go next.

All right, goal number one, finish the 37,

which means put in the headliner, clean up the paint and clear coat it.

It doesn't need a lot, but I haven't done what little it needs in, you know,

five years or whatever it's been.

What are you going to do for the third week of January?

I was about to ask almost word for word.

No, I needed to warm up enough.

I can paint.

You get no sympathy.

I have no concrete.

Just saying.

And the second goal is to fix the door seals on the 40.

I am hung up on this.

It is not a big project, but I'm hung up on starting on it

because I'm afraid I'm going to screw it up somehow.

And so it's not a big project, but getting the 40 weathertight,

the door seals and the trunk seal instead of the 80-year-old semi-present

weatherstripping, I own it and I haven't put it in

because for some reason I'm afraid to start on it.

It's not, okay, knowing exactly what you're talking about,

I'm surprised that you were hesitant to start that

because that's not a hard thing to do at all.

So the guys who 40s doesn't run.

So the problem here, the problem here has nothing to do with the car.

Okay.

When I bought the car, the guy I bought it from said that it was 100% original.

It's not, it's close, but it does have the original interior,

including the badly watered mark kind of nasty door cards.

Yeah, yeah.

And et cetera.

Anyway, my sister is who hooked me up with the guy who was selling it

because she knew him.

So somewhere along the line, my mom got involved on the fact

that this is an all-original 40, only it's not an all-original 40.

So my mom is gotten in the, well, I shouldn't even be replacing the engine

because putting a 41 engine in a 40 means it's not original anymore.

Oh, please.

And so my mom, who could care less about cars,

for some reason got all up in the air on this needing to be an all-original car.

The fact that it was crashed a long before I got it and the

front passenger door and the front fender on the passenger side are not original.

There's some non-original electrical in it.

I've been over this car enough to know that it's not all original.

It's pretty close.

And so of all the things, I am hung up on not starting on this project

because my mom doesn't think I should.

Oh, are you again?

Yeah, we do want to know what my mom thinks.

Yeah.

I understand it's an electrical problem.

Okay, okay, but I get it.

I get it.

I mean, it's hard.

An all-original one of these cars, I can't say.

I mean, it's knowing how much they're worth and knowing like,

okay, you engine swap for a 40, but it's still the same size.

I mean, a 41, but still the same.

It's still technically the same.

That, to me, it's still an all-orig, I mean, it can't say it's all original,

but it's all original as it was when I got it.

Yeah.

So, well, I mean, they're, you know, if you want to go with

some of the really technical definitions of all original, there's companies out there

like Graveyard Cars that will tell you this bolt only came in a 1970.

Yeah.

You know, whatever.

And there is that level of all original in the world.

That that's not these cars.

I have never been and I can't get behind anyone who's ever gave a fuck.

Yeah.

Once I get the door seals, and the door seal is where I am hung up,

because I want to do the door seals,

then I'm going to do the door cards, then I'm going to do the headliner,

at which point all of those things are no longer original.

And that's where my mom is like, well, you need to leave it original.

And I don't know, I mean, I do know why I care.

She's my mom, but like literally she cares nothing about cars at all.

Other than for whatever reason, she got hung up on the spec that this one is all original.

So it's weird.

Yeah, I could I could understand.

But I honestly, the door cards, I don't care if it's all original,

those dough cards need to get swapped out with something a little more manageable,

because those dark cards trash, no matter why, even like when the car was 10 years old,

those car door cards had issues.

And now making it look original.

Sure, if you get really technical, wrap the new door card in the original cloth.

There's the options to on cars like that, there's the options to use,

you know, either new old stock material from the era, which does exist in some cases,

or reproduction level material for the originals.

Because obviously, even the most all original cars out there have some consumable items that

are where items that have been replaced.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can get mohair, because that's what those things were originally done in.

The seats, except for a tear in the front in the driver's seat,

the seats are the original camel hair, if I remember correctly.

Yeah, mohair, camel hair, whatever the color that was.

And my my additional argument to that is take off the old door cards, save them,

take off the original, save them.

If anybody ever wants to go back to all original, well, here's the original ones,

but we have replaced them with what we want, you know.

You do what you want with these.

Exactly.

But even, you know, rubber door seals, they can't be original at this age anyway,

unless the car has 4,000 miles on it.

Taking the rubber seals off of mine.

They're just like an inch thick, yeah.

Yeah, they were, yeah, I know.

All I'm imagining now is this has all the original oil from 1940.

Well, and the guy I bought it from is a very nice guy.

He probably believed it was more original than it is, because he's not a car guy.

He just thought it was a neat car and he drove it.

So he probably didn't didn't know the things that truly weren't original,

and he believed it was all original.

So yeah, it is what it is.

And honestly,

I have a psychological hang up on starting on this project.

It is not about it being a difficult project.

Okay, I could understand that.

And these cars were hand basically handcrafted,

because each fender was fitted to each one, right?

So no 40, like if you put my 40 next to your 40 granted, they're different models.

They're still not going to be the same.

So having an all original, no one will be ever be able to tell.

The other thing is by those little details, those little details, yes.

By making it a goal, she's actually committing to doing it.

That's true.

Yeah, I know.

I know how it's going to happen.

How competitive she is, winner.

I still believe it is definitely a goal that it's, yes, a goal.

It's a small goal.

You're the only one arguing it, Trent.

No, I am.

No, I'm not arguing the goal.

After hearing what's going on, I was curious as to why it was a goal.

Yeah, because it's a fairly small goal in the scheme of things, yes.

Exactly.

No, no, no.

Don't go against mama.

Sorry, mama's back on this.

No, if mama doesn't want to change, you leave it how it is.

That's how it works with mama.

All right, Jim, you get to go next.

Okay, so I have actually got a couple goals here.

Goal one is on the C10 to get all the body panels on straight sanded, stuff like that.

It may not get painted, but I want to have all the new body panels on in place,

all nine yards, straightened out.

So paint ready.

Paint ready.

Yeah, paint ready.

At least everything squared up, stuff like that.

The 55 Buick did get backburnered on, so I could work on the C10.

So it got lowered, got airbags, got new transmission in it, handles like a dream now.

But it's no longer patina.

It's up to rust problems.

So I've got new fenders for it and things like that to put in.

We've got the cab corners in, but there's still a bunch to do.

So it's not exactly a small goal, but it's not one that's going to be huge.

For the second goal, those that went to SEMA this year got to see the War Rig and the windshield

that is dying on it.

So my plan is to figure out and put in a glass windshield in it.

We are probably going to use the one out of the S10 that is going to be repurposed.

We're going to take the whole frame probably and put the whole frame up there on the War Rig.

That is a project.

Oh, it's a project.

There'll be lots of fabrication in that because, yeah, that truck was in a little worse shape

than I thought it was when you described it.

Oh, yeah.

It was a rollover.

That's why it's called the War Rig.

Which reminds me, that is the other thing I'll point out here, even though we are

a two-to-two search for background.

So for my birthday, a couple of weeks ago, my lovely wife got me next year's SEMA car.

What do you have next year's SEMA car?

Well, is this how they get around not buying a project?

I was going to say.

He wanted.

That was never the question.

This one's mine.

He said the wife bought it for me.

She bought it for me.

It's a 1999 Suburban.

Oh, I think Tray's got a point here.

What?

Kaylee bought a project car.

And actually, that's been a point of conversation here because he's like,

well, this one just needed maintenance.

It's not a project car.

I'm like, exactly what my BMW needed.

It's not a project car.

I'm going to go ahead and make the executive decision that we've already

determined that and moved on.

So you're good.

So this will be our next SEMA run car.

We did get it well under the amount that Angry Eyebrows was purchased for.

Excellent.

They only needed little things like door handles so you could actually get out.

Yeah.

You had the NASCAR exiting a Suburban would kind of suck.

Yeah, that one.

The driver's side window didn't roll all the way down either.

Oh, yeah, I've got it.

I have done it and that's when being 6'5 comes in handy.

But that's all been done and it is at this point completely derivable.

We've already got it that far.

So we're still even with the repairs we've done under the price of Angry Eyebrows.

Sorry.

Hitting that legendary $1,800 mark for the Bonsai run.

Yeah, when I even close to the $1,800.

So we are over the $1,000 mark.

Okay, yep.

So yeah, this year we also came up with the legendary category.

So for those of you gamers who like Halo, there's a legendary difficulty.

Legendary category for the B Squadron is $500 or less, which Jim and Gale did,

I think, several years in a row.

Just twice.

Couple times.

Yeah, I couldn't even keep under the $1,500 limit.

That's why it's $1,800.

And they did two cars combined.

A shopping trip to Walmart for you is like $1,500.

Hey, Walmart's like three days in a camping trip away from me.

Yeah, but you regularly drop $300, $400 in the gas station.

It's like, I might need a couple of energy drinks, comes back with the whole case.

I bought the refrigerated wall unit too.

Also, we're going to keep it cold.

So I'm putting forth the challenge early for the rest of you to find something for the bonsai run.

I've got a new plan, buddy. Me and you are tag teaming it.

I've already been told I'm not allowed to go this year because we're saving up for a cruise.

Oh, man.

I've got the van now.

The van is mine.

We can do this.

Okay, I'm just making it run.

Well, it runs.

It just needs the frame to stay together.

It needs to be held together by more than duct tape.

Okay, lefty, you're up.

What are you doing?

Oh, I'm up.

Oh, I don't know.

Have I made a goal in recent years?

I think I had one last year.

I guess I eventually got a shop.

Yeah, you eventually got a shop.

I didn't ever get the guns built, which I'm still miffed about.

Personal enrichment project.

What's that?

That's a personal growth project right there.

Get them dueling pistols done.

Dude, I want to do them so badly.

My problem is me on that one.

I want to go through and start with literal raw stock and cast it and do the whole nine yards.

Every time I go to learn the next step in this building process,

I find I don't have any of the right shit.

And or set something on fire.

Which is great.

Now, the setting of things on fire is just normal.

I'm going to have to agree with lefty on that one.

That's just normal.

That's just a part of the process.

That's learning curve.

The learning process of the casting, that's great.

So the guns have been, you know, whatever.

They're not going to be the goal this year.

I don't know where I'm going with this.

I'll find a SEMA run car as one of them.

What?

Nice.

Yeah, we'll try that one.

That means you're committed to going or just finding a car?

Honestly, if I can get the time off work, maybe I do, I do want to go.

My problem is that with the two week work schedule and the way the kid schedules line up,

I either get to go or I absolutely don't.

And that hasn't been lined out yet.

But I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't mind finding a hard mode project car.

A legendary mode, whatever Steve calls it.

Get myself a $500 SEMA runner and see what happens.

Yep.

That would be awesome.

And then see, I want to do a repeat on the freaking Camaro because I want it fucking gone.

Oh, you can repeat.

It's just Steve the guy.

The frame of the Camaro has to fucking go.

You can write that down as the project.

Hold on.

Let me retype this.

I was, I was there.

I'm surprised we didn't even look like do anything on it.

Dude, we were busy like every minute you were there.

If nothing else, just chasing around our, you know, pack of kids.

I know it was, it was fun.

But that's your right.

Like the few, the little few times we did go get to go out to your shop.

You basically showed me how to use the lathe and that was it.

Well, you'd never done that.

And it was never done that was fun.

I got my fidget toy on my desk right here.

Yeah.

So I mean the drive shafts out, all the exhaust stuff is out.

The engine mount bolts have all been broke loose and reset so that, you know,

nothing falls apart.

You're ready.

You just got to do it.

Yeah.

I just have to drop the transmission cross member or disconnect the transmission from

the engine, whichever I'm going to end up doing.

What I might, what I think I'm going to do is just pull the fucking engine out and

leave the front clip in.

And then once it's up on a trailer, rip the front and rear out with just jack stands

and take it to the recycling yard.

I mean, that's fair.

I think that's the plan now, especially now that I don't know when U-Haul started

renting out those flat deck toy hauler trailers.

That's only within the last year or so.

That, that was never anything when I worked there.

So it was certainly not a thing when I moved up here and could have really used one.

I know, right?

To be fair, the trailer that I used to move up here with the airplane was free

because I bought it in Arizona and then I sold it in Oregon for almost exactly what

I paid for it.

Nice work.

So I think I paid the titling fee, you know.

Yeah.

So no big deal there, but it was a huge pain in the ass to find one, you know,

purchase it, get it there.

Yeah, that was a, that was a tough couple of days for you.

I remember that.

Oh, it was, it was an adventure.

So anyways, those are going to be my goals.

Excellent.

Okay.

I even have an end quote for you.

There you go.

Because I want that fucking thing out of my yard.

I want the engine out so that I can get the Hudson over to where I can actually work on it.

That's, I want my damn nice car in front of me so I can do nice things to it.

And we're going to leave that joke right there.

Oh baby, I will do such nice things too.

You can go ahead and put a marker on that, clip it out, use it, whatever.

We're going to put it on a t-shirt.

Next year's SEMA shirts right there.

That's it.

I'll sponsor them.

I love it.

Oh, one of the many, you know, one of the, the hobbies and or skills I acquired during the

year is I cannot make custom t-shirts.

Really?

Yeah.

We're going to have to take you up on that because

you acquire this skill.

I needed, so in Australia, this time-ish last year, we wanted to make shirts for the two

crews that were there for the fire season.

And I ended up, you know, going through a local company and getting that done.

But they're really fucking expensive for shirts that are actually pretty cheap,

right?

As we all know.

Because I have to buy some here.

How they do the, you know, the large printing stuff is all sublimation print or film transfer

print.

Well, the fucking heat press for a sublimation print is cheap.

Like, and I found one in town for under a hundred bucks from a dude that was using them

to like press comic books or something.

He's like, so it's never run at more than 120 degrees and here's everything you need.

It's like, okay, cool.

So I got that, I found a company that'll do the film prints for next to nothing

and started making t-shirts for the crews.

So we make our own t-shirts for a helicopter and shit now.

It's great.

And for what it's worth, if you need it too, I can do that at the office.

Make the, make the transfers.

Oh, see, look at that.

We've got a little supply chain work in here.

Yeah.

So if we come up with a design.

I wear double extra fat.

Double extra fat.

So if we come up with a design that for with the quote of the episode,

I can, we can make some t-shirts and sublimate them on.

Yeah, I can make the sublimation screens.

Perfect.

Maybe that will be the new trophy.

Might be better.

You don't have some t-shirt?

It might actually get sent out.

Honestly, I have the trophy that's never got sent out.

And I got Nico's hubcaps like keep never getting sent out.

Yeah, I know, right?

You're going to send those as soon as you got home.

I remember.

I should have.

Train hates.

Oh, you finally got those?

Those hubcaps, those terraplane hubcaps.

Oh, I got those six months ago.

Awesome.

I've been, I've been scouring marketplace for those for years for.

I'm glad you finally got them.

They are not the correct year, but they are for matching hubcaps that say terraplane.

Yeah.

If you find a set of 38s, just, you know, don't hesitate to let me know.

Okay.

So train hates cars, horsepower and shipping.

It's shipping.

Yes.

All right.

Muddy, how about if you go next?

What are your goals for this year?

Okay.

First off, lefties are very bad influence.

Okay.

Usually, you know, you know that, you know, that tool bag that we discussed that either

the vine.

The veto.

Yeah.

They're so nice, aren't they?

It is amazing.

Ridiculously nice tool bags.

Yes.

You, sir, need something nice because that's, that's what you work out of.

Like, like, I, well, I was carrying a bag up every year.

So I was going through $100 bag a year.

That $500 bag doesn't even have a scratch on it yet.

So I'm happy with it.

And it's got a guarantee.

Yeah.

So my goal again, because lefties are bad influence.

First of all, I want to change all of my wrenches, all of my hand tools, every hand

tool in there out for a snap on, but with the caveat that I don't buy any of them new.

Just use stuff.

That makes it a challenge because I can just go to the place like lefty does.

Yeah.

I could just go to the snap on dealer and buy them, but where's the fun in that?

Yeah.

So I want to just keep scouring until I get them all new.

The problem seems to be the claw hammer because a new claw hammer is $120 through the snap

on dealer and the cheapest one I've found on eBay is 116.

So that's what I was going to say is there's going to be, you're going to run into

some really outside tools that you want, just that aren't the regular sets of things

where the resale price is as high or higher than new.

Right.

And if I have to, if it's that close, I'm going to, you know, I'm just, I'm going to buy it.

Just buy new.

Like the, I use the snap on short wrenches at work that they're mid size between the regular

and the stubbies.

Well, I need a 1316 for hydraulic lines.

The sets commonly go to three quarter.

So trying to buy that sucker on auctions or snapping up, if it should online.

No, they always end up selling for more than new.

So I had to just suck it up and go pay a brand new price for that wrench,

which cost as much as the entire set I bought before.

Right.

I have a good relationship with my snap on dealer now because he called me out to

look at his garage door and I got him out of it cheap.

So he'll take your returns with no questions asked.

Well, he did that anyway.

I mean, I'm bringing back stuff that I bought used in Detroit and handed them to him going,

this is broke and he didn't even ask questions.

He just, okay.

I'll take that.

If they're obviously broke, then he won't have any problem

getting snap onto warranty them for him.

Right.

It's the guy, you know, when you know, you've built a good relationship is when you can go

do a finish warranty.

Like the chrome's chipping on this.

I need a new one or the snap on the snap on logo has worn off the screwdriver here.

Oh, yeah.

I've done that twice.

They've replaced the shank only, you know, or just the handle.

Okay.

And the second one, and this is a nod to Sinbad.

I plan to start two YouTube channels this year.

One will be tool related and the other is just a little passion project.

So we'll see how that turns out because I've got almost all of this stuff to do.

The passion project one for Christmas, but the tool related one.

I have to go buy the stuff to do.

Yeah.

Okay.

So start two YouTube channels.

Right.

I thought about this.

I actually mentioned the first one in the group chat probably two years ago.

So I inherited all my grandpa's tools when he died and they were all like model A

wrenches and stuff like that.

And they're all rusted beyond belief.

And I had talked, and I've been watching a lot of tool repair channels where they,

you know, refurbish them back to really nice.

And I haven't seen anything that I don't think I could do.

So that's what I want to do with that is just get all this little tone out into a rescue

kind of thing.

Right.

Get all my grandfather's tools back to where I should display them if I wanted to.

That'd be cool.

So those are my goals.

Sweet.

All right.

Train.

I turn already.

Your turn already.

Oh man, I got your video game off.

Unless you want to make me go first.

I don't care.

Whatever you want to do.

Okay.

I'll give you some time to think.

I'll go first here.

Okay.

It has been put out there and I don't know that I can argue with it that the

Mustang is taken off the goals list due to failure to thrive.

I would probably, that would be the most accurate term for that.

Okay.

So goal number one is angry eyebrows drives to a car show in which it enters.

With its own motor?

With its own motor.

A powered one.

Yes, that would be the definition of own motor.

Well, I mean, he owns a motor that would fit in there.

I'm just curious.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I have doubts that he would put the Mustang motor in angry eyebrows.

So it might do it some good to run.

That's what we keep saying.

I have made that argument.

You could do all the break in in angry eyebrows and then as soon as the Mustang is done,

put a motor that's ready to hit a drag strip in it.

Your first run in the Mustang could be full power.

Just saying.

There is no downside to this at all.

Your shakedown could be at full power.

The brakes will be fine, they'll have to be dead on, you know.

There's no risk here.

I don't see anything wrong with this.

I don't either.

As long as I'm filming it not in it, I'm good with it.

You guys understand that I am no longer eligible for life insurance, right?

Were you ever?

Yeah, but it was about the foot.

They insure my ass.

What do you think you?

He's a type one diabetic who's had cancer.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, fair enough, fair enough.

Like I have one of the most dangerous jobs in the whole country.

I have one of the jobs in the whole country and they insure my ass.

You just.

Imagine all that power that he put into that motor in that Thunderbird.

And as soon as he starts it, it vibrates it so much.

All the rust falls off and it does that whole that whole scene from the end of the Blues Brothers

where the car just falls apart.

What I was thinking, that's exactly what I was thinking.

I don't see a problem with this plan mostly because angry eyebrows was supposed to disappear

after the first bonds I run and then again after the second.

I'm sorry, Steve, why do you have this car?

I don't write because I want to put an engine in it.

Because he put big stickers on the side and it's a rolling ad for this podcast.

Do you love it?

Is it really the passion project here?

I bought it because I fell in love with it.

With all the other stuff you got going on?

Yeah.

No, we've certainly had this discussion before and you're absolutely right.

I've still got it.

Yeah.

It's because you don't know how to sell anything.

You have ADHD.

That is not necessarily a problem.

Automotive dismantling and hoarding disorder.

We're just going to be in our microphones here, Gail, and I'll just go out of this discussion.

That's fair.

No, Gail isn't wrong.

It's not necessarily a bad thing.

But Steve, at some point you're going to run out of space.

You've already run out of bandwidth.

You are not wrong.

Well, there's a lot of things I would love to do with that car.

I would love to do some major bodywork to that car.

I don't know that that's going to happen.

I got some wild ideas for it, but that's probably not the car to do it on.

No, it's not.

It might be because if you put an engine in this car, great.

Go find 352 that it had originally.

Go find a half-assed, running 390, whatever fits the mounts that you already have.

Put it in.

Say you've put the engine in a car.

You've got it running.

It's great.

Then sell the damned thing.

Yeah, you could probably get back half of what you paid for it.

Give it to some other damn.

Give it away to some damn fool that has the same vision you do.

Oh, it could be a prize for one of the podcast giveaways or something.

There you go.

And I will admit, I have a hard time selling anything.

Ask Train.

He does.

I don't have a hard time giving anything away.

I will give away every damn thing I ever make.

Because that seems to be exactly what happens.

I'll make something cool.

I'll meet a person who thinks it's also cool and needs it, you know,

needs this in their life and fuck it's gone.

Now I have room for another thing.

It's a freeing experience.

It's true.

That's why I'm shutting up over here.

No, no.

Put Indian and angry eyebrows is a good project.

It is a good goal, especially if you can get it done this year.

And then get rid of it.

You've got a Jeep to get ready for your youngest daughter.

You've got another car to get ready for your oldest daughter.

You've got that Toyota to work on.

You've got a 350 that needs work.

You've got a Mustang that's got to get done before they go to prom.

Oh, no, no, no.

Oh, yeah.

I'm missing it.

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

Those are like guns.

Once they come into the collection, they stay forever.

You are talking about selling cars earlier in the episode.

That's in your goal for this year.

But, but that's a totally different thing.

And the reason is really simple.

Is Stevens car is tradition for angry eyebrows.

That truck goes away.

It gets replaced with a small block powered Miata.

And then I have a new project for my kid.

The truck was irrelevant.

It was a project to have time with my family.

The vessel doesn't matter for Steven.

It's a billboard.

He can never get rid of it.

It was the original bonsai run car.

I'm sorry.

Make more stickers.

And he keeps putting more on.

That's what holds it together, especially with Mustang motor.

That's a good idea, actually.

Giant Band-Aid.

I mean, I ain't casting stones over here.

I had to order another gun safe before I left for the Caribbean.

So I'm going to shut up now.

You just bragged and bragged and bragged.

I had to buy a gun safe this year too.

Well, a gun locker, actually.

It wasn't really a safe, but.

Well, I didn't know I had a problem until I got ready to leave

for two weeks for the Caribbean.

And it's like the only time that the Rednecks and Kansas

put all their guns away.

And I went, yeah, these don't fit no more.

I was taking stuff down to pieces

that I still couldn't get it all to fit.

I'm like, OK, I have a problem.

These are obviously going to have to go with me.

That'd be an exciting trip through customs.

Yeah, yeah.

If you're a new gun owner, don't do that.

Yeah, no.

So to try and get us back on track here, Steve,

what's your second goal?

OK, the second goal is the YJ gets painted.

Pink.

Wait, this is the one that's supposed to be pink?

Oh, yes.

This is another project you're going to be able to do.

What color is being painted?

Pink.

If I knew I would tell you, it's kind of up in the air.

The color is whichever one my youngest picks at the time

that it's time to pull the trigger on the paint gun.

That's that's pretty much how that's going to go down.

So what you need to do is follow Kevin Tates and say, hey,

come on out to Wyoming.

We're going to shoot the 50.

We're going to, you know, have a barbecue.

We're going to do some fun.

And can you help me escort the paint on this thing in one day?

Also, bring your cameras.

We'll make content.

I don't think you could do that.

I should do that.

What?

Why the hell can you do that?

You can.

He's got great content up about doing it.

Yeah, I love it.

But that was my question.

This isn't like you're going to tear it apart and paint it.

You're just going to mask it off down into a scuff and shoot.

Yeah.

So there, there's a limit myself to maybe taking the fenders

and the hood off because it's so easy on a YJ and the doors and the doors.

Yeah.

The doors are stupid easy.

That's probably what's going to happen.

I thought about painting the inside.

I don't know that we need to go that far.

I just got done with the paint there.

You know, I literally just left a paint project.

We just painted a sky crane.

And trust me, just do the outside.

And if you do anything with the inside Rhino line it.

That's fair.

Yeah.

Just run it.

Honestly, it's a YJ.

I like the Rhino liner in my second Jeep.

It was, it was a pretty nice setup.

Yeah.

On the inside, it's great.

Yeah.

Coach has got a CJ3 that he Rhino lined inside, outside the whole, the whole thing.

It turned out really well.

And it's, it's a four wheeling rig, but it, it doesn't look half bad.

Yeah.

My, the, the blue CJ7 that I had was Rhino lined on the inside and it was great because

you'd get back and just, I mean, it's a metal dash CJ.

You just wash the damn thing out and put them, we put a marine radio in it.

So the only electronics were, you know, good for water.

But yeah, don't, don't go down the rabbits hole of pulling the entire interior out to

try and paint the inside.

Yeah.

Trust me.

It is so much more work than you think it is.

That's fair.

That's been the biggest thing I've had to remember on this is this car is bought because

it's expected to be bouncing off of things that it should not be bouncing off of.

Because it's going to be a teenager's first car.

So get it up to snuff.

It's going to be Rhino on the outside.

Just, you know, bring it in.

Take the easy parts off.

Scuff and squirt like this is a week to week project.

Scuff and squirt it.

Yep.

Yeah.

No, I, I agree.

And I think these, these goals are much more achievable than the ones I had last year.

And that's, that's kind of the direction I went.

So it should be good.

Okay.

Train.

All right.

Let's see.

Goals.

My goals last year were get the suspension, different suspension on, which is a

piece of it, 80% done.

Mostly it's not done because I got the flu, but it's, it's very close to being done.

And then paint the, seal the interior basically.

I want to get the pedal assembly in dash and steering column in the coupe.

You want to be able to sit behind the wheel and make motor noises?

Yes.

I want my son to be able to sit behind the wheel and make motor noises.

Sure you do.

Okay.

I already have the steering column and I already have the mounts.

The dash has been primed.

So this all, it's doable.

So I got to figure out how to put this Camaro pedal assembly in the, in the car.

So yes, that's project one.

Okay.

Nice.

Two will be finish the rear suspension and get a drive shaft, which I don't know.

I think I'll have to order one.

I don't know if it's going to be a standard link to anything.

Just get a custom made.

That's why I say order one custom made.

There are two or three fab shops in Corpus that build those.

But here's the thing.

He hates horsepower, so he's not going fast.

It's not like it's got to be precise.

It doesn't have to be precise.

Exactly.

Well, you know, at that point, we, I've got a spare torque tube out of a 40 sitting right here.

It'll fit right in that car.

I have my torque tube still like, but I'm looking to go a little faster than that.

Okay.

I was going to say, I still have a Camaro independent rear suspension in my shop.

You can have all you got to do is come get it.

Yeah.

As much as you hate horsepower, I was going to make you a paper mache one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have a rear end.

I have the rear end already.

So that's not an issue.

I just got to get it in.

And I don't, I haven't looked at how hard that's going to be because I'm pretty

sure I can't use the original springs.

Why not?

Are the purges wrong?

Because you can just go over to a tractor supply and buy purges and weld them on.

I don't know.

That's what I'm saying.

I think the purges are different.

I don't know.

I have to do some research on it.

I don't.

I've been underneath gales and the stock springs will work.

Okay.

So you'll just have to get your right measurements and put it and weld in new

purges for the new rear end.

It's, that's, that one shouldn't be that bad because I, like I said, I've been under,

I've been under gales.

So I know what's there.

I do know that the, the Mustang two suspension lowers the front end two inches.

So, unless I want to rake on this thing, which wouldn't look bad at all.

It would look, go for it.

Rake, rake, rake, rake.

I have to, to lower the rear end two.

Okay.

So what I did on the, on the C10 and you might consider this idea, and if you want to talk

about it more offline, we can.

What I did is I reduced the number of springs in the leaf pack and then I bagged it in addition

to that.

So if I want to rake, I put eight, 10 pounds of pressure in it.

And if I wanted to sit low, I just let the pressure out.

Fair enough.

The other, the other frame I have, the S10 frame I have is bagged and it's done that way.

Okay.

Um, yeah, I'll have to look at it.

I figure, I figure it out.

Okay.

If you want to BS about it, let me know because I can go ahead and get pictures on gales too.

Okay.

Might, I might.

You've not had the drive shaft.

When you get ready to do the drive shaft, we can do a later episode when you're ready

for it.

I can actually walk you and the listeners through where to buy the component parts

for a standard drive shaft.

They're actually not hard at all to fabricate.

It really is quite balancing.

You can hillbilly balance it.

It's, it will be just fine for what you're doing.

There you go.

And the purges, like I said, the purges are attracted to fly and they're like $10 a piece.

It's definitely not cost inhibitor.

It's, like I said, it's doable.

It's just me getting in there to do it, right?

Do I have to take the body off the frame there for that rear?

To for those.

Okay.

No, no.

And on for the record, I've seen your pictures of your welding.

I know some of the viewers have it, but listeners have it.

It's bad.

But your welding is plenty good enough to weld that drive shaft.

It's way better than Steve's.

You're fine.

Wow.

That just shows it.

It isn't all about the equipment, is it, Steve?

Yeah, that's what his wife says.

I got nothing.

Okay.

And you got something.

You got a better CFO than I do.

That's fair.

Are you guys ready to vote?

Yes.

Okay.

Let's do this.

Lefty's SEMA car.

Yes.

Yeah, he'll buy one.

Yeah.

Yes.

No.

Google foo is high.

Yes.

That's a no.

He's Mr. Google.

I don't think he'll do it.

If he doesn't bring it to SEMA, that's my, that's the thing.

Oh, I didn't say he'd bring it to SEMA.

I said he'd buy a car.

Yeah.

But it's not a SEMA drive, Bonsai run car unless he brings it.

I don't know.

Somebody else could drive it.

Well, yeah, that's fine, but it's got to get there.

That's the thing to make it a SEMA car.

I agree with that.

And that's going to be the hard part of my goal is if I can get to SEMA to SEMA.

Because I don't even know what my schedule is going to look like.

Oh, so we're including it has to go to SEMA?

In that case, I vote no.

It's not a Bonsai car if it doesn't go on a Bonsai run.

I got faith in my brother.

Does this just help Steve with his not getting the bus done?

And then he drives the car for that?

I think that might be what happens.

That's what I've been functioning under for sure.

Okay.

Lefty's other goal.

Camaro has to fucking go.

Yes.

Oh, the Camaro's going to go this year one way or another.

Whether I keep the goddamn engine or not.

I'm the naysayer.

I say no.

I am only $560 spent into this car.

And it has a title.

I can get more than that for it tonight.

It's leaving this year.

If I have to sell it in the night,

if I have to sell it the night before our next show,

that goal is getting done.

Remember what your goals were.

Oh, Steve has no problem reminding me.

Okay.

Train, pedal assembly, dash and steering wheel.

Yes.

Yeah, I'll go yes.

Yes.

I like to set this up.

This feels...

No, you little asshole.

Hey, I will guess on everybody last year and you guys let me down.

All right.

Finish the suspension and get a driveshaft.

No, I think you'll get distracted again.

I probably will.

I think you'll find that the driveshaft is a long ways down the road.

Literally.

Damn.

I'll go yes.

Why not?

He's my brother.

He backed my play.

Yeah, I'm a hard yes on train.

He's going to get that done.

If I got a drive to fucking Texas and weld the bastard in.

I'm with you on that one.

He'll get that one done.

That one's not that tricky.

And I did get the stick shift in and amounted in the floor and all that stuff.

So it's optional.

Even if you buy the driveshaft, you'll get the rear end in.

Now you may not have brakes, but that wasn't part of the discussion.

No, that's not part of the discussion yet.

I still got to get...

All that amounted.

It will be after four months of thinking about it, but he'll get there.

All right.

So the question is, who needs brakes?

None of us ever use them anyway.

I ain't no joke.

I rode with you.

All right.

Gail, what was your vote?

He's been making consistent progress lately.

I'm going to vote yes.

Okay.

I'm voting yes on that one too.

I'm the only no on that one.

Okay.

Muddy's goals.

All hand tools are snap on.

I'm going yes because he's posting something every week about,

I found a tool for $4 and there's three snap on wrenches in it.

Valid point.

Very valid point.

Nothing he ever tells us before he goes and buys them, you know.

He could give us a heads up.

I can send you the link to the sale, but by then I've already bought it.

I know.

That's what I'm saying.

I just don't think he'll be able to, I just don't think he's going to be able to get all of them.

Is it going to make a dent?

Is it an all or nothing thing?

Well, it's his work tools, right?

Yeah.

I mean, it's the work tool bag.

I've seen your kit.

You'll be good.

I have a hundred percent faith in you, buddy.

Okay.

Now I don't know what it takes to do garage stores.

Like, well, what is the kit and tail?

All right.

He fits it all in a tool bag.

A hundred dollars a tool bag.

Well, yeah.

So I need a nice tool bag.

Three eighth wrench, half an inch wrench, seven, 16 inch, nine, 16 inch, five eighth

inch, two of each.

And I need a flat head screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, large flat head

screwdriver, pry bar, hammer, nail bar.

And I don't know if snap on makes a nail bar because I can't find it on their site.

Viscrips, linemen's pliers, needle nose pliers, and the big welding vise

strips, which they don't also make so that I can't do those.

So how far down this are you?

Are you already?

I'm starting fresh.

I'm not using any of the ones I've already bought.

This is a fresh start.

I'm saying no.

He's got this.

I'm going, yes.

You'll have it done before train gets done thinking about how he's going to

stop it.

Okay.

I'm going to go, yes.

And Gail was the only one I did not pick up on.

I voted no.

I don't think he can get everything.

Okay.

Goal number two, start two YouTube channels.

Well, he could finish that before he logs on to the episode next year.

So as long as he can remember the goal, he'll get that one.

I'm in agreement.

I'll say yes, he'll do them.

There may only be one episode of each, but he'll do them.

Yeah, I can agree with that.

He's pretty dedicated.

He shows up to the show more than I do.

You got a yes for me, buddy.

You're sponsoring this shit.

Buy me tools.

You'd have more time to shop for tools if I wasn't always calling you to ask,

how do I unscrew my garage door that just fell apart?

Okay, I'm going, yes.

I'm also going, yes.

All right.

I think that's our first all yeses, at least so far.

Again, we got two people missing.

We'll get their stuff later.

But I think you got a strong contender on that one, buddy.

All right, Jim, C10 body panels on straight, ready for paintz-ish.

I'm going, yes.

But I need to help with it.

So you have all the body panels?

Yes.

Oh, then yes.

Yeah.

I'm voting no because Gail has so much pent up frustration from not buying projects.

She's going to flood them with them.

Okay.

Lefty, you were the only one I didn't get.

I went, yes.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

And War Rig Glass windshield.

Okay.

Before people vote on this, I'm going to let you guys know that I have a ringer on this one.

You guys have met Travis, who has Atomic Annie.

He's going to come down and help me change over the windshield.

So I do have help on this one, but it's still something.

Yes.

And this is supposed to be like an apocalypse type car.

I mean, I don't remember what it is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's an apartment.

I would personally just cut the frame out and then rivet it in place with a bunch of

seat on the ground.

We're going to weld it instead of rivet it, but yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would vote yes, even before I knew that.

It's my aviation background that would want to see the big rivets.

Well, the current one has the big rivets.

Okay.

I mean, I just wanted to be honest with everybody that I do have help on this one

from someone who's done it before.

You know, he hasn't done windshields on.

Yes.

I mean, I vote yes, but honestly, I was really hoping you were just going to get some cut

machinery glass and put in there because I love that thing.

It's awesome.

It would not take too much just to replace it with flat glass.

There'd still be some work there, but.

And I'm not going to lie.

Had the flights kept getting screwed up as me and my kid were trying to get out of Vegas,

I would have taken that baby to Kansas just saying I might not have asked for permission.

And honestly, it doesn't look that bad.

I just bought a brand new pickup truck sent my guys to California in it and they wrecked it

and it looks worse than that truck.

So, you know, Daniel, you got a war rig next year.

No, the insurance owns that one, I'm sure.

I definitely am not under the cutoff price.

I'm going to tell you that.

Yeah, that's fair.

Okay.

Since Travis is coming, I'm definitely putting yes.

In fact, you were getting a yes beforehand, Jim.

I am voting yes, but I think that there is some possibility it will not go with what the existing

plan is, but we got to do something permanent on that.

Well, we didn't specify that had, you know, a plan had to go a certain way either.

Right.

Just that it be a windshield.

But I have an idea.

I've not physically seen this.

So I don't, I get an idea of what you're talking about, even with help.

I'm going to say no.

I mean, you'd have a better idea if you'd come to the Bonsai Run.

I don't.

Ow.

There's lots of reasons why I can't, but.

Not a promo captain, my captain.

Yeah.

And the big one is also he's six.

Bring him.

His birthday.

This is his birthday.

Same time.

Six is not too young to experience your first Vegas strip club, right?

My boy had a good time.

My wife would disagree.

Yeah, but she doesn't listen to the show.

So we're good.

No comment.

All right.

Gail's got finished.

That's 37 headliner and clear coat, which involves some.

I've learned not to vote against Gail.

So I'm voting yes.

Yes.

For Gail.

Yeah.

Okay.

If all of us vote yes, and she completes it all, I think that would be like a double

native.

So she wouldn't win next year.

Just saying.

All right.

No, I'm going to change.

I'm going to go no, no, just to screw the, screw the plan.

Are you really?

I'm thinking about it.

I am the hard nose.

Okay.

Someone did it.

Okay.

I'm voting yes.

Yes, of course, but I have control over it.

Don't have to vote on yours.

Well, I think that's unfair.

I think I should get to vote.

No, you automatically vote yes on your own.

No.

See, the problem with that is it happened that we set goals and then vote against ourselves.

Yep.

Who would have ever done that, Lefty?

I think Bradler did.

Sorry, Hollywood.

Yes.

I think several of us voted against ourselves.

And it was funny, but it was.

We decided that that made for bad podcasting.

Yeah.

There was an incentive not to get stuff done.

Okay.

Train, are you voting yes?

I'm going to vote yes.

No.

Yes.

No.

Okay.

So her second one was fix the seals on the 40.

Yes.

Now, only because mama said, mama said, mama said no.

So it's not going to happen.

All right.

I'm voting yes because if she doesn't fix the seals, it would kind of defeat the other

work she's doing.

So she's going to do the seals first.

So I think if she's making it a goal, it's going to happen and probably by February.

Probably more like May, but yeah.

Follow up question.

Jim, can I get her mother's phone number?

I have to sleep in the same room.

So I'm going to respectfully bow out.

Yeah.

I'm voting no for mom.

I think abstain is the same thing as a no vote in the end.

No, no, that's not what I meant.

I meant I'm not going to pass on other information.

As far as her two goals, I'm going to say yes, yes, because I built the

interior headliner support for the truck like three years ago.

And I would really like to get it off the top of my toolbox.

So I would encourage her to get that one done.

And as far as the seals go, they're really not that hard.

It's one of those that if all she's doing is the seals, that's not a problem.

The door cards and stuff may take a little longer,

but the seals she'll get done in the first three months.

Okay.

Next one's mine.

Angry Eyebrows drives to a car show and competes.

No, no, no, no, yes.

I figure by the time car show season comes around,

he's still going to be working on the F 350s, so.

Oh, you're going all wrong.

The scope creep has actually increased.

I found out that you have to take the turbocharger off to change to the glow plugs.

So since it's coming off anyway, I'm going to change the glow plugs,

but honestly, in the grand scheme of things, that's not a huge scope creep.

Honestly, the only way that he's going to get that motor in there is if

coach gets pissed off about seeing it sitting over in his area and puts a motor in it.

It's been over there.

No, it's in my shop.

Oh, in that case, no chance at all.

A motor may go in.

I'm just saying, I don't think it's going to happen before show season, so I'm a no.

Okay. Was that a no from you as well, Gail?

It was.

Okay. Paint on the Jeep.

I think that's a yes.

And invite Kevin to help.

That's why I think it's a yes.

That's not a requirement.

You might actually get the paint on the Jeep because your daughter will make that happen.

Yes, Jeep's getting painted.

Did you buy the bounce house paint booth yet?

No, but I do have all the things to make my own.

No, and you don't need absolutely not.

No, I don't.

That's going to be the saving grace.

I am right on the edge on this one for yes or no.

It's not a hard project.

Two weekends to get the level of paint done that you need.

Three weekends because you've never done it before.

But I know you.

Yeah, if it's a hard part right there.

And your scope creep and your overly perfectionist tendency.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

He's going to fucking kill this easy project.

Yes, that's why it's a no.

Is this going to be your first vote of no, Nick?

Yeah, it's a no.

The only no Nick voted for.

Okay, train.

That's absolutely hard no.

Without question.

I'd love to be proved wrong.

I would too.

I live with you.

Kevin and he decides to show up for the beer barbecue and guns and help you paint a project.

That I would be so thrilled.

Be the older reason it ever got done.

I'll admit I didn't actually think it was going to happen even when I voted yes.

There is an outside possibility too that I might drop in to big piney sometime over the summer.

In the process of taking a vehicle from Texas to Oregon.

So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

If it's halfway in the ready area, then I will help you paint the damn thing.

Nice.

I was thinking more if Kevin showed up that we would all probably find our way there to

accidentally help out a little bit.

All right, I did not hear Jim.

You're right.

I'm going to say yes, but I'm going to give you another suggestion.

Okay.

Whether you invite Kevin for beer, guns and paint, even if you got like when we put in your lift,

if you called and all your friends come do it, we could do it in a weekend.

Oh yeah.

Oh, that we could do.

Uh-huh.

So I'm going to offer that as another suggestion and put a caveat of yes if he gets help.

I don't think he will do it himself.

Okay.

Yes, if help.

All right.

And at the bottom of the list, only because you missed last year's show and that's how the

sheet was made, Daniel, get the shop insulated and lift in it.

Yes.

That still requires the concrete first?

Yes, ma'am.

Well, for the lift, yeah.

No, only because the left one for the concrete, I would vote yes.

Frankly, the concrete's the easiest part of it.

Oh yeah, it's just expensive.

It's just the most expensive part.

I'm actually going to vote no for the same reason.

Concrete's way expensive.

Well, with this closure, I already have all the rebar setting just outside the building to go in it.

And I already have all the-

Why would you have middle?

Why do you need rebar?

You got plate steel in there.

Did they just throw that in with the last plate steel order?

Almost, yeah.

But it's cheap if you buy it by the semi-load.

It's fine.

Okay.

You know, that was the thing I learned looking at t-shirts.

We were talking about that project.

They're one of those items that gets so stupid cheap when you can buy more of them.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Like 20 t-shirts cost about as much as two.

100 t-shirts cost about as much as four in the store.

Like it's just dumb how much cheaper they get.

Okay.

I did not hear Jim or Colt on that one.

What, the concrete?

Yeah.

Concrete and lift.

And it was actually lift and insulated again.

Yep.

Lift and insulated.

Yeah.

The concrete's a given.

It has to happen for the other two.

I'm going to say, I'll say yes.

Okay.

I'm going to ask what type of insulation you're planning for for it.

Fire resistant spray foam.

It's all I put in when I build it.

And in that case, yes.

Because if you were going to try to do it the way Steve did it,

there would be a hard job.

Ha ha ha.

If you're going to do it with spray, if you're going to do it spray in, sure.

Because the concrete's just a matter of a checkbook.

And the lifts are not hard to put in.

Cheap ass Steve could have been done in an afternoon if he'd taken my advice and

rented a man lift.

I had a man lift to do some of that.

It did not take an afternoon.

Mostly because of what Jim said.

It was not the easy way to do it, but it was the free way to do it.

No, it's not.

Because time has value, my friend.

That's fair.

But if I can keep the CFO happy on that count, I can buy expensive card parts.

Hey, I got to give him points on that one, you know.

Okay.

Paint the 68.

Now, in all fairness, it is completely sanded.

It is ready for just final prime, final block sand and paint.

I already have all the paint.

I already have all the materials.

I have absolutely everything for it.

It would already be painted if I had concrete on the floor.

I'm just not frigging doing it with a steel and dirt floor or steel and

compressed concrete screenings floor.

Just not.

Now, in all fairness, I painted a lot of crap in that building as I sent pictures.

But I'm going to say yes on that one.

If it's that close to being ready to paint, providing you get the concrete at a

relatively decent time, which it sounds like you're going to.

Yeah, you'll get the paint on it.

I'm going yes.

Same reason.

How, what quality paint job?

Five foot, 10 foot, 50 foot.

Oh, it'll be a solid 10 footer.

Yeah.

Then there's a little bit of a difference between one side of the truck and the other,

right?

But it's a kind of a rest-o-mod truck and the body lines are considerably

different from one side or the other.

But that's because me and the kid did the body work and, you know, did the patch

panels and all that.

So it's far from perfect, but it'll look pretty darn good.

Was it a single color?

It'll be a go in town rig.

Actually, single color base, the same original color.

Actually a color match to it on the exterior, not redoing the interior.

And then I'm going to do some shadow flames on the front, just faded shadow

flames.

Nothing difficult.

And you're in the Caribbean right now?

Hell, yes, I am.

I'm going to say no.

What did I vote for the shop again?

You voted yes for the shop.

Oh, damn.

Let's see if I voted no on the shop, then I pretty much have to vote no on the truck.

You can change your vote still.

That episode's not over.

No, I'll give you a yeses.

I just want to remind everybody that Daniel was whining earlier about how it was a really

bad year and he couldn't afford anything, but he's in the Caribbean looking at the ocean.

Well, the shop cost about a million bucks.

That doesn't mean I'm broke.

Yeah, I don't hold that.

Like, there's business and then there's pleasure.

Yeah, I'm in the Caribbean.

I'm not on my own island in the Caribbean, guys.

Yeah, he's got a whole chain.

Yeah, I had to go with the hotel, man.

OK, so, Lefty, the only one you voted no on was mine that I thought was the easier of

the two.

I'm sorry, Steve, there's no chance you don't you paint that thing without help.

So it's a no without help?

Well, I mean, I was.

I'm willing to just go no.

I mean, I won't.

I won't.

He does discriminate.

He doesn't discriminate.

Even if I go help you paint the damn thing, I told you I'd be thrilled to be wrong.

OK, I just want to make sure I've got it recorded correctly.

All right, since I went no on the shop, I got to go no on the paint as well.

So I voted no on the shop and I'm going to vote yes on the paint because I think he's

going to get frustrated as soon as it's done and they're going to paint it without having the shop

done.

Well, he could just he could lay a tarp down and then, you know, hang some stuff off the walls.

Yes, he could.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, the building is big enough and I have so much plastic I put down

for painting.

Yes, I absolutely could do it.

100.

You just want to floor in before you really try to because it's it's still dusty.

Yeah, and I do want it to look nice.

It's one of those deals.

The rest of the truck is so nice.

The value of the truck warrants a good paint job.

Not, you know, SEMA quality or anything.

But when I get done, it's not going to be peely.

There won't be a bunch of orange peel.

I mean, it's going to have quite a bit of gloss.

It'll it'll look really good.

I'm going to put a finish the liner in it after I get the paint done.

I mean, it's going to be a.

Truck, when I sell it, it'll be worth selling.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

And, you know, that body style, the CTNR, in my case, C15 is a hot, hot body, dude.

Oh, yeah, I'm just glad I decided to not make it a short bed

because that would have made things complicated.

Yeah, I like having mine as a long bed.

Yeah.

So yeah, I think they look better personally.

But then again, I hate standard transmission.

So, you know.

Well, we already know you have no taste.

You've proven that just now.

Hey, my my long bed at 150 was this five speed panel.

I love that truck.

All right.

Coach Ever and Sinbad aren't here.

We'll get their info later and get that updated.

The one thing we also had last year was a podcast goal of having 10 rigs on the bonsai run.

And while we set a record at five, it certainly didn't hit that 10.

I'm going to throw this out there this year.

We're going to add a YouTube channel to B Squad.

So, podcast and YouTube channel.

Episode one will be called Lefty's Failed Bed.

It'll be us bringing it to you.

I thought there was already one video up on the channel.

And it was the Humvee being driven really hard.

Yeah.

So, there's one short, which is the Humvee being bunny hopped in a ditch

and may or may have not broken suspension parts on that one.

And then we have one sort of video with an interview with Jack Carr

about some of the vehicles he had in his books.

I thought we had one on there about me starting my engine.

Not on the YouTube channel.

Oh, OK.

But we might.

Especially about December 23rd.

There we go.

All right.

Boats on that.

No.

I think you can do that one, actually.

I think you might get one episode up again,

because you're averaging about one a year.

Brutal.

It's true, though.

We talked about it for two years.

I said it was brutal.

OK.

I love you, Steve, but you don't have time for anything else.

It's hard enough to just keep up with the podcast and life.

You're not wrong.

I'm going to say no.

I'm part of this.

I'm going to say yes.

There he is.

I'm going to say yes.

They may all be shorts, but you'll get some content up there.

I was going to vote yes, because one additional video counts.

So, yeah.

Right.

And I sent him enough travel video for the Seamer run

that he could put up a short.

Yep.

We should have all sorts of good Seamer stuff coming up really soon.

All sorts of good 45 seconds of video.

That's about what it was, too.

It was the desert and this is passing state lines, that kind of thing.

Yep.

All right.

I think we are set.

I agree.

I think it's a good place to end it.

Okay.

Any additional thoughts for the New Year's from B Squad?

I think we said what we're going to say tonight.

But okay.

Yeah.

I didn't know if there's anything anybody wanted to add, plug, support, yell at.

No.

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Hey, Trinella.

I'm thinking about it.

That microphone's not turned around on that headset, is it?

I don't know.

Let me try.

I don't know if the answer is he accidentally twists the microphone off.

I know, right?

Oh, now we know what the problem is.

How's that?

It's still about the same.

All right.

Okay, you're coming in clear or so.

I think we should be able to pull this off.

Clear and low is better than nothing.

You do have to speak up a little.

No, I don't.

Oh, that was good for a half a second.

It was good for a half a second.

I think you just don't have enough bass in your voice right now.

Lidly in my mouth.

That's way better right there.

More information than we need.

How do you think I promoted?

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0333 - New Year Goals 2026

Chevrolet Camaro

clutch brake pedal assembly

body on frame car

power assist

Ford F-250

body swap

S-10

Ford Mustang

Mustang II front end

Chevrolet C10

Jeep CJ5

carburetor

Chevy 216

lead bearings

VIN number

steering and suspension components

project car

valve cover gasket

spark plugs

Chevrolet Suburban

project vehicle

oil pressure

Jeep Grand Cherokee

Jeep Cherokee

YJ

Blue Oval

inline six

bulletproof motor

Jeep YJ

Mazda Miata

Volkswagen Rabbits

GMC C15

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