120. The Pile Up EP8: Feature From the Black Lagoon

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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, you got features.

Neat features.

Super duper features.

Things that we just like that kind of tickle us.

No, they really tickle us.

I have no response to being tickled.

I personally don't have any...

Any part that I don't think any of my features are tickling.

Okay. For me, I feel like sometimes

I see something a designer has done that sort of touches me

in my chest-heart

area and just kind of makes me go like, eee!

Really? I do feel like the picnic set that we talked about

that led to the first center console, that tickles me,

but a lot of these other features are interesting.

Yeah. For those that don't know, there was a car show

in 1956. He was 56

and it was the first all-women's design team led by GM

and one of the innovations was a picnic

basket in the center console. I can't remember what kind of car. Anyway, that's where that comes

from. Yeah. It was Harley Earl's

crew and they were, what were they called?

They were called the damsels of design, but they hated that name.

Yeah. So it made me think of when I was at Jean's memorial and

Linda Vaughn, Ms. Hearst was like, Jean was a womanizer,

he was a woman organizer.

Oh my God. Well, that's kind of awesome.

It kind of made me think of that because Earl was trying to do good, but it was like

they hated it. Well, it was the PR

team that dubbed them the damsels of design because it would get more

attraction in the news cycle

and they thought it would reach out to women. It got us because I like

the idea of the picnic set in the car and it led to the center console, which every car

has in its interior now. You would not purchase a car and be like

oh, thank God, it has no center console. I think you'd be

wondering where it went. You'd be super bummed. Right? Yeah. And I would say the name of the woman designer,

but I can't remember and honestly we have an episode shelf

that we went into in detail and I'll release it. I do think

that one tickles me, but I would say the supercharger is titillating.

Oh, yeah, it is. It's invigorating. I would say invigorating over titillating.

For the engine. Actually both. Yeah, for the engine. Yeah.

And that's, you know, I like this one because it's old. It goes back

because people maybe don't think about how

old the supercharger is, but this is for the 35

to 36 Auburn Speedster.

So, you know, designed by Gordon Birig,

you know, Cord Auburn, Duesenberg, some of the greats.

I think he did the 810, which is so popular,

but it's a 4.6 liter straight 8 that was

supercharged, made a 150 horse at

4000 RPM to give you an idea. Well, that's just scary. Yeah.

35. That seems scary for 35. And they had a badge

on the dash that said 100 miles an hour

and only 143 of these were made. And in a previous episode,

I think I talked about Faye Butler making these wooden, because

these were wooden body cars. And he had made going 100 miles an hour

in wood. He had made these cars. A soapbox derby. Yeah, pretty much.

I mean, they're heavy wood, but he had made, I think, like a dozen

of these bodies. I think he'd make four at a time and he'd done it several times.

Very cool. He does wonderful things.

Yeah, I'd be interesting to ask him how many he's made. I wonder how many he's built

outside of those early years making them. But yeah,

150 horse at 4000 RPM, 232 foot

pounds of torque. Wow. Yeah, that's interesting. So

almost not quite double, but a good increase.

And that was at 2800 RPM. So, I mean, it's very

torquey down low. The supercharger was four PSI.

It was standard on the Speedster and enabled it to go over

100 and it had a factory dash plaque to certify that.

143 made that year. Wow. How many people were racing those? Were they racing

a lot? I would imagine so. Yeah. That was probably the fastest car

at the time, I'm guessing. The Duesenberg J was the fastest

production car going from, I believe, the 30s until the

60s. Oh, okay. Nothing went faster

as a production car than the Duesenberg J until, I think, until the 60s.

Oh, wow. So, it held that record for 30 years. Wow.

That's nuts. Yeah, they're beautiful cars. Huge long wheel base, they ride

great. You know, like, Faze Pierce has like five or six inch pistons.

I think they had both at that time. It was a big piston. Yeah.

I mean, if you think like a CD is like four and three quarters of an inch.

Oh, we're talking circumference. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, the Pierce, some of the Pierce's have a six inch piston. Wow. That is

big. Holy cow. Yeah. So, they're these like, semi-truck.

Yeah, they're huge displacement six cylinder engines and he would rave just about how

he's like, nothing drives like him. He's like, you get them to 100 and it's just so smooth.

Like being on a cloud. He talked about passing Jay Leno on

405 in one, I think, or maybe it was a 101. Did Jay Honk?

I don't think so. He was a customer of his, so, you know,

but he might have seen Jay and not the other way around. Who knows? It was like in the show

and Faze was like, I'm going to go take this for a drive and he's like, I might not come back.

Yeah. He just raved about it. He loved them.

I mean, he drove. Drive it down to Mexico, just live the rest of his life

on the beach with this crazy car. Well, I think that he and Phyllis drove Cross Country

in the 19, he had a 1910 Pierce that he's

never finished. You know, he's still working on it, but they had borrowed

one from a customer in the 80s that was like, I think, a 12 or a 15 and he and

Phyllis drove all the way out here and back. Wow.

What a fun trip. From Massachusetts. Could you imagine how amazing that trip was?

It was wild. All the people that you would meet because people would be freaking out about it.

It was wild. Like the coffee mugs and stuff had this Mack truck nose, like a 20s

Mack truck nose and he's like, I'd made five of those and he's like, right before I

left, a guy called looking for one and I had one more. And he's like, so the guy came

over and paid me and that helped us really get through the trip. Wow. That's so cool.

Yep. Yep. They butler genius. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Anyway,

yeah, that connects us to the boat tail speedster in real life in a way. What do you want to go with next?

You fire off one. I really like the gas adjusting valve

or called the GAV and this is from, you know what? I forgot

to say the time period. It's like 30s, right? Okay. Yeah.

On a Model A. Yeah. So the Model A is

28, 29 and 30, 31. Okay. So somewhere in that time period.

And what the GAV did was it controlled the fuel to the carb.

So if you pull it out all the way, it will choke the car. And then

if you do it to clockwise, there's less fuel and

counterclockwise, there's more fuel.

Yeah. Basically, I guess instead of having

some kind of a vacuum signal, you know, you're just doing it mechanically and you're just

replacing it as the engine. It's definitely splitting off the choke versus

the primary and power systems that we later come to. Yeah.

But it's pretty interesting. Now, the way that we came across that is

that we had a bone stock Model A in the shop one time and you just don't see them

that often. It was a four banger flathead and so Keith got

out some old books and we were looking up how to run it and how to adjust it. And like his dad was

pretty up on the know-ins about it. And then Bill that hung around, Bill

and his friend Ross had been collectors of Model A's and that was how they met.

And then they both got into 68 and

69 Torinos. And that's all they liked after that, like they switched from

Model A's. So yeah, we got this bone stock Model A and that's how I

learned about these adjustments. And I do not think about the people that are connected

to these things, but that takes me off in tangents. It does take you away from it.

Out into the desert just out on a horse into the sunlight

sunset. Well, Bill was so obsessed with the Torinos.

It has a feature I meant to look up for this episode and I didn't, but Bill

had a goatee, like a goat and he just like, he had been a Ford employee at the truck plant

for a long time and it was like, got paid way too much and

sounded like he took it pretty easy when he told me stories about it. But

he was like

69 Torino, you know, this package

is your only option clock.

Like, oh, I went for this

Torino because I needed to know what the fuck time it is. But imagine

now we all carry a phone. We know what time it is. Right.

But like back then you're relying on your wristwatch or your car. Yeah, you never knew what time it is

if you didn't have those two things. Well, yeah, that's, that's how you're navigating your day.

Like I love Glen Gary, Glen Ross, when they like call

and they're like, you'll be able to reach me at this number from this time to this time. And I'm like, oh my God, I forgot

about that. I forgot like calling people and being like, hey, I'm leaving

but where I'm going, you might be able to get me at this phone. Yep.

Just anyway. Olden days. Wasn't there another feature that you were going to tell me about

in the Model A? Okay. So on the Model A, it does have a timing adjustment

and then the GAV is in the dash. The timing is on the column. So you

adjust the timing as you drive, as you do the GAV.

You know, you can change your fuel demand. And so then you can change

your timing. And it's like a ball detent. So it's like every click is four degrees

of timing. So you do your own advance while you're driving.

It's so cool. It's really cool. The replacement for that is

vacuum advance and mechanical like centrifugal weights that

as you spin the engine faster, since it's connected to the camshaft,

it spins faster. The weights go out and pull more advance on it or cause

more advance on the plate. And that's how you would get it after that.

That's the miracle solution that got us all the way

to coilover plug. It's really cool. I like that one a lot.

Next up, we have 67 Camaro Smoker window.

Now, is that a wing window in the back? Yeah, it's a wing window at the front

of the door. And so the very first Camaros all have it after that.

They don't. So that's how you know it's a first year Camaro if you're looking at cars.

When people are obnoxious pricks and they know something

and you're just like, oh my God, how did you know that? What was the thing?

That's first-gen Camaros. Wing window. That wing window is the very first year

and then it disappears. But we were a big time smoking country.

Everything had an ashtray. Everything had a cigarette lighter.

There was a smoking section in restaurants.

Or the whole restaurant was smoking. Bars were smoking all over

the place. Hotel rooms were smoking. Factories. Oh yeah.

Oh boy. Everything had

a stainless ashtrays that you could take out and dump them out.

I do miss vintage. There's so many cool ashtrays out there.

I got some from an estate sale. It was like a grab a bag and fill it up kind of thing.

And the guy had some 50's Ford stuff. So it's like the end of an arm rest

type. I was building them into a console that I was working on for the

time being but I let that fall off by the wayside but I still have the

They're cool. They look like

the overview of like a football shape. Oh interesting.

That was not what I was picturing. Keeping with smoking the 39 Ford

Deluxe had a back smokers window. Yeah. You crank it

a little bit and it rolls backwards first then drops down in the door.

Or in this it was in the back of the car in the Deluxe. And Alison's

custom we had a 39 Deluxe and I noticed that

when you crank the window that was the first thing it opened enough

that you could just put your cigarette out. And then as you cranked it back further it

dipped down into the quarter and that is so cool. Yeah. There are vent windows

Yeah. There are some vent windows in cars that just have a hand crank

where you don't have to touch your vent window like a

like some kind of Neanderthal. Yeah.

A vent window. No you just crank it. Yeah. Wow. I bet it's so smooth.

Well yeah your pinky's out in the air. Yeah. You know like cranking it

around. Yeah. Very delicately with your pointer finger and your thumb.

Just very delicately. Yeah. Exactly.

That's how I always do it. A sophisticated

driver. Yep. Automobile enthusiast. Car buff.

Moving away from smoking we have the first gen vet

that had the filler neck in the tail light. Yeah. That's a really popular

one for custom cars to steal it off of and use the light and the hinge.

Where I first saw it was that we used it in a 48

old that Brad Starks rod and custom. So you've come across it firsthand.

Yeah. Very cool. Now the C10 there's a very popular machine

one for the C10. So I've seen this installed

like the square body. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm just picturing that. Interesting. Yeah. So next up

is something that I was actually surprised by because I thought this was a vintage

design. But it turns out that in 2002

when Rolls Royce introduced the Phantom

they had that was the first umbrella in the door that they did.

Yeah. Okay. I like the umbrella in the door. Yeah. Oh I think it's great. I love it. I think that's trick and it's probably got a

really cool like wine cork type seal. It's like

probably looks super elegant. Oh yeah. It's very elegant. I just thought I was surprised

I thought it was something from the 60s or 50s that they just kept. Yeah. I could see that being

a lot older but that's very clever. Yeah. And then they quickly added it to all their cars.

But I could see it being a problem that like they need to give

you the umbrella that is of the specified length. Oh yeah. It comes with the umbrella.

The incorrect length umbrella. You wouldn't be able to get your fingers down in there to get it out.

No you wouldn't. Can you imagine that? Like Mr. Burns is like trying to fish

out his umbrella. It's parallel to the to the ground. Oh.

Yeah. So it goes inside the door parallel. Yeah I know. Yeah. Okay.

I thought you were thinking it was perpendicular. Well either way I assume it's angled

so the umbrella wants to fall in and stay in is my assumption. Oh okay maybe it looks

straight to me. Because then you're using the power of gravity. Right. Yeah

because you don't want it come flying out. I think they have a little closing door.

A spring loaded bottom maybe. Maybe. Like the radiator cap

like you push the cap on and twist it. Is that too much for rich people? Is that too much to ask

for you to do to turn your hand in a twisting motion you rich

prick. Yeah the umbrella I think

to replace it one article I read was like 1360 or something.

It was really expensive. But I don't know if you could. To replace the umbrella or the tube. Yeah

the umbrella. Oh because I heard umbrella tubes pretty expensive too.

Yeah they are. You don't want to know. Since I had to ask I can't afford it.

That's true. What's really interesting is that

was not the first car to have an umbrella in the door.

The first car was a 1990 Nissan Pulsar

1990 Nissan Pulsar. How do you

say that? Probably Pulsar. Pulsar. 1990

Nissan Pulsar GTIR and it was a rally car

and they only made 7500 of them. Wow. Yeah isn't that badass

I'm just thinking that they're thinking they're going to be out in the rain

changing a tire or something it might be nice to have an umbrella. I'm going to jump right in

here and say post recording that the reason why you would be

changing a tire in the rain

is because these were rally cars. Little bit of class

little bit of sass. Nissan really knows how to do it. Back to the

program. That's so class. Yeah that's so it's isn't it. For Hyundai

Nissan. Nissan. Yeah in 1990. Very

very practical. Yeah so move over Rolls Royce. Very practical. You have competition.

Like listen you're only going to get an AM radio however

we will store your umbrella for you. Yeah. Well they only made

7500 so they might have FM radios.

It wasn't 1990 they probably had a CD player. No way.

Do you think they make cars

like do you think they make limited edition of cars that like don't have any features?

Well in vans for sure. Oh okay. I mean they do. They'll sell you

a bare bones. My astro doesn't even have radio in it.

Like somebody took it out or it just didn't come with one. Well I mean

radio delete was much more common in the 60s and 70s. Oh okay so it has

I've never noticed. Like a second gen van had a metal plate that you could snap in and that was the radio delete

panel. Like they had a cutout for it and then you just covered it up if you didn't order

the radio. Oh they made you. Yeah

put it in yourself. You had to put it in yourself. No I just mean like we painted

the guy's hand so I had to snap back in. Okay. It's like had a little spring on

the back that fit in the hole. That's cool. It looked good. Yeah.

It dressed it up. So if you're not going to have a radio delete

I guess you should make it look good. Well yeah Ford had all kinds of the mid Ford

had all these like the middle of the dashes like a glove box and there's

like a flat panel. There's a radio in it. I've got one where there's a radio in it

in a speaker. Right. And then there's one with a radio speaker in a little glove box.

But these are things that people can choose. These are

features that people can choose when you buy the car. But if this they release

7500 of these they had

would a car company release a special edition without

having it have all the bells and whistles. Who knows. That's just my argument

I had a CD player. That's all I'm saying. When you buy a car and you do get to pick and choose

it is a lot of heart rather than you walking on the show floor

and they say we have this one this one's optioned up a little bit.

Right. So you could get weird. I mean that's where weird cars come from. That's why sometimes people are like

oh my god look at the original build sheet. Look what they ordered. Right. And people would get weird

things like heavy duty rear end and then like skip everything else. Right. Just the one

thing. Yeah. What's this person thinking.

Bastard. So you'll be like that was only 25 more dollars

and you couldn't buy it and it's like you know. Well

2500 at that time was probably a lot of money. I said 25 dollars and I still meant the same

thing but it was 25. Yeah. All right. Well sometimes 25 like doors

on an early Chevy were $50 for a set. So you could get no side doors

from Chevy and Dodge. They would just come without

doors. Yeah you get a no door. Oh okay. Ford was the only one that didn't

do the no door. What would be the applications of those. Well if you're a plumber

or you're your carpet shop what do you need side doors for.

I guess you don't. I mean plumbers is like in those

small vans it's maybe worse but for carpet for sure you're just

loading tubes. So Goodwill had a whole fleet of no doors

in St. Louis. Really. Yeah.

All right. I believe you. Well some people just didn't

want to spend. I mean think about that. It's like. You're just working and you're

this is you need to have your business expensive expenses

expensive low. Well you know it's like those companies concerned about the

bottom line where you know rather than like giving employees a raise or whatever

they give them a pizza every once in a while. Yeah. Oh yeah. The old pizza party.

Listen we couldn't get doors for the vans but here's a pizza. Here's

one pizza just split between 25 people deal with it. So

moving on in the 80s the Mazda 626 had

an oscillating heater vents. What does that mean. Isn't that cool.

It's like you know when you have an oscillating fan and it moves back and forth so the heater

vents would move back and forth. I like that. Oh I think it's so cool because

imagine you're driving sometimes you're driving and you're like oh my god my hands are so

hot but the rest of the car hasn't gotten. Okay I submit you're right. Yeah see

you're totally right. Totally awesome. Later it was used in the Lexus LS430

and it started where. In the 80s Mazda 626

and then it went to a Lexus. I think Mazda and Lexus are they close together.

That's what I mean it's usually things go in GM they go from Cadillac down.

Yeah. Well it's funny that it's like it went from a

626 to a Lexus. This is not an American car company. No exactly

that's why I mentioned. Yeah I just I really love that one.

Next up 1956 Chrysler offered a highway

high-fived record player. High-five did I say it? High-five record player.

High-five? High-five record player and then around the same time

Phillips offered an auto

mignon record player. I might have not typed that right.

It's like filet mignon auto mignon.

Chrysler it came with the car. Okay so that is

really cool. All right I have a little Chrysler edition

okay let's hear it. Since you did 56 you said?

Yes. All right I've got 59. Okay. Okay so here's my notes on the

59. The 59 Chrysler has push buttons everywhere. It's got a push

button radio mirror matic to get glare out of your eyes and this means like

on that car the mirror the rear view mirror is on the dash not

up above. Oh yeah okay I saw that yeah. It has a

sensor like you know you probably know this as like your lever on your mirror.

Like when people are behind you at night and you get that glare and you flip it up and you're like oh I can

still see the same thing. But it's dark. It's that and it's

got this ring around the bottom of the mirror that I guess senses it. It had a dark

it darked out on its own. It darked it.

So it has power windows and here's the other thing it has. It's got

an auto beam changer so it politely dims your headlights when another

car is approaching. Whoa what. This is

it's got a little meter on the top of the dash

right above the gauge cluster. Is this alien technology? I know.

What's happening? I know and then of course the torque flight transmission has push buttons.

Like everybody knows that. They're like yeah Chrysler we get it push buttons. Power window control

power seats. This one has the tilting outward

seats also. Oh I was going to say swivel seats because that was my next feature. Yeah

dual front swivel seats and a push button actuated heater air conditioner unit. Now

I've been in one of these so I know some of these buttons. Oh have you know. And there are a lot of buttons.

Did you press the buttons? A little bit. Because it's got cruise control.

Well I had to get it in gear. Oh okay because you drove it. Yeah. You actually drove it.

But yeah power seats, door locks and windows. 59.

Mind you. Yeah 59. That's what I have. And I'm still like my astros

manual everything. Yeah you do love a manual situation.

I do like this. You like to put your pinky up when you roll your window down. I like it but

I guess my driver's one's pretty worn out now so.

Time for a change. Well it's like all you can buy is the one

with the power window motor. Oh no you're going to have to get a power

window. What are you going to do? I guess I'm going to pull some wires through the

door opening. That's the thing is when you didn't have it then you miss out on the

sweet little factory grommet that keeps your wires from getting pinched in the

door opening. Oh I don't know about that but I've not really been

inside. I've had to replace a window regulator before in a Honda but.

Yeah I mean it's not a big factory so. The fuse

panel already has a spot you can plug into to power the anyway.

It is nice one time I was with Coop and like he kind of inspired me to get

some he'd just put power windows in the flying eagle and I was like that does kick

ass. They are nice they're so nice. Yeah like he rolled my window down.

Yeah. Sometimes when you're super hot like

driving in George super hot and I just wish

I mean the. George's are 75 Chevy. The rollers

are yeah yeah George is a 75 Chevy band sorry for those of

you that don't know but the rollers look so cool like obviously they

are stock but if you could figure out a way to have the button if you could

figure out a way to do some kind of hidden

automatic windows that would rule because

you can't like lay across the seat and try to roll up

window rollers that are super like hard to roll

up when you're driving down the freeway at 50 miles an hour. Yeah I love when I almost

wreck doing that. Yeah I can and I don't have the wingspan to even try like

I can't. I can reach but it is painful. Yeah

should we move on to the next one. What's your next one. The next one isn't a car but this is

an aftermarket thing that you can add to a car.

It's a rim blow steering wheel and it had a rubber back

so it could be squeezed anywhere on the rim to blow the horn.

Rim blow. Okay.

Yeah anyway I don't know if I like that or not.

It got discontinued probably because it was maybe a little

people probably hit it too often. Yeah okay I'm going to go with

Brewster. Brewster in the teens like 1917

and through like I don't know like 24 or 26 did

a retreating clear vision windshield and the idea was to make windshield pillars

as thin as possible without giving up strength but these windshields instead of being lean

back towards you were leaned forward. Oh interesting. They have a weird

look and like the Brewsters also have a pretty freaky look where the whole roof is

it's the other way everything's lean backwards. Okay what year was this again.

1917 through 26 or so. Oh okay so this is we're going way back.

Yeah but it's a weird look it's really strange the windshield is like leaned out

but it has super thin posts. They weren't thinking about aerodynamics.

Well they're trying to get rid of a blind spot. Yeah. So it kind of looks like a tractor or a combine

you know combine you're looking the windshields tilted forward. Oh yeah they do have that.

Well I thought that was a weird one. Also

in 34 Citroen did the first front drive model

which was the traction Avant which was like an executive car.

Ooh fancy. Yeah they were fancy cars so I think Citroen is the

first front wheel drive. I think I read that somewhere too. Yeah it's 34.

So you heard it here folks. Yeah. You heard the news wrong. Yeah I don't know.

Yeah I don't know how they surely some of those earlier things

Oh somebody already tried it basically. Yeah

But this might mean production is what that might mean. Yeah

You've got some Citroen stuff. In 1955

Citroen how do you say it. I think it's Citroen.

Citroen I think it is Citroen actually you're right. In 1955 Citroen

introduced the DS hydro pneumatic suspension

Now this is what Gene stole for the reactor.

Oh did he make he made it on his own. Yeah he

well he like the reactor I think the pan is sort of

partially Citroen. Oh it's partly

It's the system it's the hydraulic system but he turned it on its side

to do it. Oh crazy. Yeah he changed it but yeah he started with the Citroen

Yeah it's really intense not really intense it's just

really innovative. It really is. I watched part of a video that was for

like people learning how to work on them so I didn't watch it that far

because I just needed to know a little bit of the information but basically

it is a liquid and a gas and

cannot be compressed and gas can and so it is nitrogen

and then it's something called LHM that's

Citroen they make

which is a liquid hydraulic mineral and they're separated

by a rubber diaphragm. They're in these like

bubble type things and the nitrogen is on the top and

the liquid is on the bottom as the car goes over bumps

and the nitrogen is compressed and then the liquid doesn't compress

but as there's less as there's more space from that gas

being compressed it pumps in the liquid

so it keeps it I didn't totally

understand fully like how it kept

it straight but a lot of people say including Jay Leno says

it's the most comfortable car to drive. Yeah it sounds like it basically reduces

the open space in which the gas has to occupy

but the gas can be compressed so it's like a pillow. Yes that

is actually I think what I wrote down. Well then you

conveyed it exactly the way it is. As the gas volume decreases liquid increases

I made it a lot simpler in my notes. What was really cool about that

is it made it really easy to change a tire in that

you could raise it all the way up and then it came with a jack stand

and you would put the jack stand where the tire was that you wanted to change

and then you would lower it down and the tire would be off the ground

and then you would change it. And also something that was cool is that

if you blew a tire and you didn't have a spare you could drive on

three wheels and it would stay straight because you would just pull that one

up. Wow. Yeah it's pretty it was really innovative. That's bananas.

And it lasted until 2017

and it continued because of cost complexity and reliability. That's shocking.

Yeah. 55 to 17. Well I think it was

I think it was based off of a forties. It was prototyped in the forties.

Yeah. Yeah I think it's one of the most innovative things

like Sit Around does some crazy stuff.

Gene used it to great effect in the reactor. So I'll speak to its quality myself

because it was like he used it like hydraulics. Yeah because it is kind of

like it's the OG hydraulics. Yeah. It's hydraulics and hydrogen working together

and also France had it as their like national car

because it saved their president Charles de Gaulle

who I know I'm saying that wrong from an assassination attempt

in 62 and it was hit by over 140 bullets

and because the ride was so smooth and was stable enough even though all the tires

blew out they were able to get away. It's pretty remarkable. Yeah

It's pretty insane. Sure he loved that. I'm going to go back a few years you were at

55 and I'm going to go back towards like 46 and

I was in an advertising book from the fifties where I saw this one

and Crosley was bragging about their 59 pound engine

the Cobra. Oh wow that's so light.

Which it's an acronym or it's you know a representation

of the word copper embraced so they're pulling

out and oh and then also a cobra is fighting

is a quick and it's a quick striking. It's a quick striking animal.

Yeah it's a real you know and it's very poisonous too

I think it's kill you. Is it the king of the jungle? I wouldn't say it's the king

of the jungle maybe. That's the chimpanzee. Obviously

so the I had to dig deeper into this because I was

like 59 pounds I don't I can't see how this

moves something at 59 pounds so it's very small

obviously right and what the deal is

it's a method in which the cylinder block and the sorry that's

like a Wikipedia thing I pasted it sorry it's

the way that the cylinder though and the block in the head were built up from a number of

pressed steel parts that were secured in a fixture then braised together at

controlled temperature. Working with Taylor through World War II Crosley developed a

number of prototype engines for the US military using this process which resulted

in a contract for lightweight power plant for field use

it was this inline four-cylinder engine that was adapted to the Crosley Civilian

passenger car for 46 with a bore and a stroke

of two and a half inches by two and a quarter so it's not square that's when they're both

a dead match but close so two and a half inch piston you think about like

Pierce Arrow with their six cylinder with six inch cylinder and this is two and a half.

It's tiny. It's like a Jaguar one. The displacement

is 44 cubic inches. Oh my gosh is it a lawnmower?

It's a little baby. It's a four cylinder engine though. Little baby Jesus.

But it could develop 26 and a half horse and that says it weighed

133 pounds. I don't know if some of this is mixed up information because again they

bragged about their 59 pound engine and so it worked or

it didn't work but I think what they're trying to say is

they developed 26 and a half horsepower and made 133 foot pounds

of torque that doesn't make sense either but I don't know it says

and weighed just 133 pounds where did that crap come from? I must have copied a bad note.

You heard it here first folks. Yeah where we get the news wrong.

The cylinder block and the head were constructed as a single unit

which bolted to a cast-lunam crankcase with five main bearings. No head gasket

because head gaskets are so heavy they just took that out.

Well it was the compromise. They didn't want it to fail.

And then the sheet metal assembly was pretty stable and rigid. So that's cool.

It's a little suitcase motor. It's your spy suitcase motor.

Just take it on the plane with you. Oh my god.

I love that idea. Yeah you're just like

pulling it out whenever you need a motor for a car.

I mean it did show a picture of a higher up at Crossley holding the engine.

Did it power like a car? Yeah. It's a tiny little car.

It's very flat sided, rounded. It almost looks like a Richard

scary drawing. I wonder what the MPG was on that.

Good question. I don't know. I don't have that answer

to give you. Alright well we'll just have to wonder.

If somebody finds that out can you write us DM

at carcrush.

We want to know. The 70s Dodge Charger

had hidden headlights and they're in the grill. They're not like pop up

headlights. They're actually just in the grill and then a panel opens to reveal the headlights

and it closes to you know hide them. Is it vacuum?

You know what? I didn't get into that. I bet it's electric.

You think so? I don't know. I kind of bet it's vacuum.

I bet it's vacuum for a long time. No I know. Mine has vacuum. No you don't.

It sure does. Hey if anybody knows the answer to that why don't you DM

at carcrush? Yeah you mopar freaks. Yeah

jeez. Are you that much of a freak if you don't know if it's electric

or vacuum though? I don't know. Alright moving on.

The Tucker 1948 Cyclops it had a third

eye. Well it wasn't called a Cyclops. People called it a Cyclops

because the company didn't call it a Cyclops.

I mean that would have been some sick marketing.

Kids everywhere that love comic books would have definitely loved it.

Like if they did it in the vein of like Burger King like get the Cyclops.

It had a little character the way with it.

Well it was called the Cyclops because it had. Yeah if Burger King was running

like a Homer's Odyssey type toy package you know.

Is there a Burger King in 1948 though? Totally.

You heard it here folks. Maybe Burger Queen.

So do you want to know why it was called the Cyclops? Yeah I don't want to know everything.

Tell me the whole. I'm about to tell you all of it. So it had a third

eye.

Would that make it a triclops? It had a third.

It had a center light which you know

had a third eye. And it swiveled with the steering wheel

whichever direction you were going it would light that path.

Yeah. Which is really cool. The snowflakes in Detroit were like

the car need to see film. No it was that many states have

a two headlight wall.

They had a two headlight law. Yeah when Quad headlights became a thing in

58 and 59 for a little bit there. Some places

weren't allowed to sell them so they had to make single headlight versions. Yeah. So that's what

happened there. And in 1987 the Honda Prelude had

four wheel steering and this was sold in Japanese markets only

although Rose says they were sold here too. I thought they were. So we'll never know.

Yeah I don't know. Anybody if you want tell me.

The AMR Car Crush. Yeah it's basically it made it

from the Prelude to Monster Trucks and that's all you need to know.

In 1988 the Olds Cutlass Supreme had a head up

display which that meant the info in digital form

was displayed on the windshield so you didn't have to put your head down.

That technology came from fighter jets.

We also looked at a Buick where it was a reverse printed

cluster. Oh wait I forgot that we didn't write that down. And the dash had

what we're talking about now so. Yeah let's go. That's sort of what the point of writing it down is.

Yeah.

So it was a reverse printed gauge cluster

and then a mirror that was angled and then it had a knob off to the right

and you could roll that with your thumb to change the angle of the

angle of your cluster so that if you sat

at a different height like and basically what this speaks to is how complicated

it was for them to come up with a tilt steering column because this is all

pre-tilt. Right yeah until it's important to be able to see your dash.

Yeah it makes a big difference. Yeah. It helps people of all sizes.

Yeah. But Buick that's pretty neat. That is really neat. Yeah I like that.

They're reverse speedometers. I like that a lot. Yeah it's kind of cool.

My last one is not a car like factory

feature but is a aftermarket feature and this is the one that I need

and it is this was

I know which one you're doing. Would you agree that I need it?

It would be highly beneficial.

Yeah it would make my life so easy. In 1930

Brooks Walker made a car with a fifth

tire and that's the spare. It was parallel to the trunk

it drops down pulls the back wheels off the ground and pivots

the car out of or into parking spaces.

Isn't that amazing? This is not a singular idea.

This has been popular more than one time in history and

well he's the one that had a patent for it. Yeah I think I just saw it on

something more recent. Oh okay. So you're saying I might be able

to get one? It takes up all of

your trunk space apparently. It's surprising that it's not.

Been used. I mean we get by without it but

people learn how to actually parallel park. It's pretty good.

I have a parallel park resistance disease. I cannot

it's bad. People it's bad. Sometimes I nail it. Sometimes I do nail it and I feel good but

yeah. Anyway it said in one of the commercials that was for it

it said even the worst driver can make the garage without

a dent. Oh I've got a good one on the

76 Pacer. Okay let's hear it. I was going through

the style and Dick Teague was talking about

his sketch of the Pacer so he was flying

with the owner of the company or no sorry the president of AMC Gerald Meyers

and what he said was what Teague said was

it came from a grubby doodle of four wheel football that was half glass with a roll

bar in the middle. Wait what?

Yeah the 76

Pacer has so much glass the door glass can't roll down all the way.

Oh really? Yeah.

It goes so high that there's not enough door below it to the rocker

to roll the window all the way down. Oh because it's such a the ratio

is so how far does it go down? Incorrect yeah

so it's like when Billy slammed his A100 the wheel comes up higher in the body

and so he was like I'm losing window. Well at that point can you just get

cut some cut out. I guess you can't because then they won't roll up all the way.

You're going to have to have a fixed section and a seam again. Well then it won't roll all the way up either.

How far down will it roll? I don't know.

Oh Emily if you're listening can you DM Matt Carcrush

and tell us. Yeah the sketch was done on an airline

barf bag when he was flying with president Gerald Meyers. Oh well that's where you do.

Meyers liked it and approved it to go ahead. How do you like that?

Wow I like it. I guess he's like I got an idea for a small

car what do you think? 54 Chevy had power window and seat

controls on the Bel Air and the 210 and power brakes and steering

on the power glide tier. So that's

that's fancy. Yeah I don't want to say that's particularly early

but that's pretty up there on like a really

sort of I don't want to say working class car it's a middle

car but to have those power accessories. And then the 55 Teeberg

same thing as in this advertising book and they're bragging about their trigger

torque that it says their safety and power like this to whizz out of traffic

snarls and to pass ahead when it's called for. It responds to your driving

demands with split second agility. I was

like are they talking about down shifting? Like and then I try to look

up trigger torque and I think they're really just talking about the engine. I mean it has

automatic transmission and I'm assuming they're talking about when you put it all

the way to the floor it shifts down a gear that it responds. Oh yeah

because it shifts down so it can go faster. I mean it's just a Y block. I think they're just bragging about the

292 but the Teeberg is really special.

Oh I love a Teeberg. I want you to think about this like the 55 Teeberg

the Thunderbird

the statement in this book this advertising book says the Thunderbird proved more suited

to the American market than the Corvette with sales of 16

155 versus

674 Corvettes in 1955. Oh wow.

16,000 Teebergs and less than a thousand Corvettes.

Dang. And it remained the only two seat convertible

Teeberg until the 11th gen was unveiled in O2

and it had four way powered seats

button interior door handles. Other unique features were a telescoping

steering wheel and I saw a video of this so it's like you it had a

cylinder in the middle of the steering column that you twisted

and then you could pull the steering column in or out and then twist it again and lock it in place. Oh okay cool

Yeah it's kind of interesting and it had a tack

special feature. Now going further back than that I did want to do

I do want to say real quick I'm going to interject I love every

year of the Thunderbird even the new even when they did

those new ones. So in the advertising it shows the woman in the ad

looking at it and little hearts coming off of her going to the Teebird because the Teebird

wasn't supposed to be a sports car to compete with the Corvette

or European sports cars it's known as like a personal luxury car

but it was advertised towards women. Yeah and I think

they did so effectively. Oh yeah. I love the Teebird I think it's pretty amazing.

I have a friend that has one. No you don't. And she's a girl. No you don't.

I do listen

I have a few friends out there.

The thing that I had that I was going to add as a feature that I thought was interesting

because of the way that we think of features and doodads is like

I'm going to say like roof and door glass

because in 1916 90% of

cars in America were open-bodied. Oh right yeah they didn't have any.

And then Ford as they were becoming more popular because

that you know the section in the book it says like bringing the family in out of the cult

like in like a 20's oldsmobile the heat is a little

duct that's on the exhaust manifold and just pipes that it just

comes back to the car into the cab. That was the only heat you had. From the exhaust

manifold? Yeah. Oh wait not the exhaust.

The exhaust coming up into the car? Not the exhaust but it's the heat off the manifold

just has a sheet metal duct and the driving forward

just helps move a little bit of air. Right because they wouldn't have a fan.

Ford had the best prices on closed-body cars for a while but then Hudson

came through with the Essex and at first it was just

like it was just $300 more than a touring car. That sounds like a

lot for back then though. Yeah I mean it's a chunk but like okay so the car. Is that like a house?

I don't know but the prices of the cars go

they're like started like I think $17.95 for the Essex or maybe

$14.95 for the Essex closed-body car. Then the next year came down

to $12.95 then it went to like $1,100 and then it makes its point

to where it's like you can get the closed-body Essex for like $7.95

Wow.

Yeah. So all sorts of people were getting them. Well yeah and it's like not a very

good looking car but it's okay. It's just super square and it's just

the roof is modular. It's not like they just made it in big sections and it was just

cheaper to build and that was the goal. Like build a car. It doesn't look that bad to me.

Like it's clunky for sure but if you were like we need a car

that we can go drive in the rain. Yeah. If you lived in Oregon

you mean? Exactly. Like oh we're going to town. You know like we need.

We can only go to town when it's sunny. Yeah. Exactly. I mean back then I guess you

put on your old coat and good luck. Yeah. But then you'd get all sorts of water inside

the car. I guess there's not a lot of electrical in the car so.

Probably still not good though. Not insulated on the ends the way that we

think of it. Right. Was there bare wood on the insides?

Cars were composites so they were built of wood but typically there's interior fabric

tacked over it so it has an interior. Okay but the fabric could probably get wet.

Oh yeah. So then the wood could get wet and then the wood could rot and it would just be a mess.

It could get like mohair seats and stuff. Just a mess. Yeah.

Kind of neat. It sounds like a mess but yeah that is neat. To think about like

cause the you know the 55 T-Bird had a fiberglass lift off top.

Oh didn't know that. There was a fabric version like a fold down but you could do

you could get one with the lift off top. Now which one would you pick? I would pick the

I don't know. Which one would you pick? In the case of the T-Bird

even the later one came with the solid lift off top but it does

imply that you have friends to help you lift the top off. That's exactly and now that I have no friends.

The T-Bird is pretty small. I just

don't like a cloth fold down top cause eventually they rip or they leak. Yeah.

So it's like the fiberglass lift off top is cool but again you need to have a butler or something to

Right. And I don't think T-Bird owners are.

Have butlers? No. Yeah you'd need a friend. But it would be nice

like sometimes you don't want a cloth top cause that'd be hard. I guess you could make a rope like a weighted

system. Oh yeah you could totally do that but you would need

friends to make that system. Maybe not. You maybe could make that system on your own.

Yeah I think that's fairly reasonable. Yeah I like your weighted

rope system. Yeah that'd be the move. With like a pulley.

Yeah custom strap. And then you just attach

to a big rock on the other side. Yep perfect. Love it.

Well now should we move on to our listener. We got a lot of

listener. They're not questions cause obviously

we didn't. We got write-ins. Yes exactly that's what we called write-ins and then we got one call

in even. Yeah we got write-ins. So we're excited to share these with you.

I'm not. Do you?

Well Rose hates that we're sharing this with you but I'm excited to share

it with you. Do you want me to start then since you don't like it. Yeah I'm just looking for my info so you should get going.

Okay all right. What we asked was what design feature

do you love about your car. And this one comes from Claire

and she says my CRV has a table for a floor in the back

so the floor of the CRV pulls out and it's a table and that is a badass feature.

I've seen that it's really cool. Yeah you can just go ahead and have dinner.

You gotta put your picnic in your center console

and you have the dinner that you've always wanted. Yeah I've seen one of those in the shop and somebody was like

does it have the table? It's pretty neat. This next one comes from

Left Lane Van Club and let's see. Okay I have a

2006 Nissan X-Trail which she learned recently wasn't

released in the US so don't think you can get one. There's a little compartment

with two sliding doors in the console

below the stereo and heat controls. It has a little shelf that swings down

and it fits a pop can. If you're running the AC and put it in there

it's supposed to chill the beverage. That is like

wow. Yeah Delica did

that with their super fancy vans. They had like a cooler option and the cooler

was cooled by the AC. Like how cute is that? I love it.

Yeah. I love it so much. So

Tanner reached out and said I wanted to tell you about one of my favorite things

and one of my all-time favorite cars, my 73 Olds 98 Regency

Tiffany & Company anniversary edition. Oh fancy

look at Tanner. Gas cap behind the license plate,

cigarette lighters in the rear door ash trays, right? That's good.

Antenna in the windshield and a 455 rocket.

Best of all because it was in collaboration with Tiffany & Company

it had a gold Tiffany & Company clock in the dash and gold piping accents

on the upholstery. Wow. I loved everything about that car

seating for 13 and Drenston luxury rolling up at 19 feet

and 11 inches long. As we always say should have never sold it

maybe I'll find another one day. I doubt it. Good luck Tanner. We hope you do though.

So obscure. Yeah. How fun though. What a gentleman.

I know. Do you think you wear a suit and like driving gloves? Yeah like

a Searsucker suit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and like black driving gloves.

Yeah. I'm gonna picture that.

Next up we have Melissa and

the hidden compartment under the basket in my console

in my S10 is Rad. So she has a place to put her drugs.

Oh. Which is awesome. Good job Melissa. Okay.

And now we have

one from Dave and he loves the split grill on his

67 Barracuda. Okay. Yeah that's hot. That's a hot look.

That's a real hot look. I'm with that. Next up we have

Gina. Hey

Gina you requested some

Collins about fun or cute things

about cars that we have and

I have a 1980 trans

and in the glove box is a little

trunk button. So you push the little red button

and my trunk pops open. Which is super cute

and handy. Also another

cute something about that car is

you fill the gas from the back

and it has a little

hatch that opens that matches the light

the tail lights on the car. So

super cute. Love my car.

Holler out to all those trans and babies out there.

Talk to you later car crush.

Hey Gina.

Wow okay I do like the trunk button in the dash. Yeah the trunk button is awesome.

Also I wonder if it deters from theft in your trunk.

Well that is like a big one. Cause it's kind of secret. If you think about cars going from having the hood latch

accessible all the time to being hidden inside the car. Yeah.

Can you just imagine driving around on anybody can just get all up in your engine bay.

Yeah that's what yeah it's horrible. So violating.

Yeah. Just come along and steal your coil wire.

No you're not. Then you're being

accosted in a mall parking lot late at night. You know what I like is on

Chevy Vans they have a trouble light that has a reel on it.

So like 90 Chevy Vans you can like it's got a switch and it's powered

by your battery so you get out there and you can unroll this thing and you've got

a limited distance but you've got about two feet to have this

trouble light around your engine and it has a little reel

and you crank it back up like the extra wire. Oh.

You've never seen this you look totally surprised. I do I am.

What is it again? It's like a trouble light built into your

system so you don't have to like clip it on the battery or anything. It's already

there it's got a switch so if you go out to check your oil in the middle of the night you're not in the dark

but like it's not stuck in one place it's got cord but it's

pulled up so you can pull it out and have this trouble light

and then you can reel it back up it's got a little hand crank. Oh okay that's cool

that's cute. It's a little aftermarket thing. Not aftermarket. Oh sorry

from which car? It's Chevy Vans. Oh okay

and some trucks. Some trucks. I went somewhere

for a second. That's okay. Now I'm back. I get it.

Well I wanted to talk about where her filler neck is. It sounds cool.

So tell me about it again. So it is in the

back. It's not behind the license plate? It's super

rad. We just looked it up. It is basically

it looks like the tail lights go all the way across because in the very

middle of the tail lights is where the filler door is.

So yeah Gina that's a real hot. Transom's pretty cool. We've got the tail

end of these cars pulled up and they're pretty tough. Yeah they're sexy. They're real sexy.

It's definitely a badass car. Is that everybody that we had?

That is. I don't know if that was all the right ends because I only got one of them.

The rest came to you so I'm not there. Yeah we had four. I went through my list.

If you're gatekeeping them you know there's nothing I can do about it.

Yeah because I'm an asshole. I think another good one is like

the judge where the tachometer is out on the hood.

I like a tach that's not in the cab.

Wait what is it? Like on the judge if you want to look it up

pull the pictures up on the computer but the tach is out on the hood.

Oh yeah okay yeah. I guess that's so you don't have to put your

head down too much right when you're trying to push it. It's a good spot.

I think it's cool. I think it's neat that the accessories make their way out.

Staying in that same zone is like the shaker hood.

I think that's like it'd be interesting

to try and see who. I really like a shaker hood. Yeah I think those

I don't know who does them first. I don't know where it comes out first. I didn't look that up.

I thought I would but I didn't but I think that's a neat accessory.

I think the trans-am louvers and the fender are a good one.

I definitely have seen a lot of those put into vans. Oh yeah the shark

Yeah so occasionally seeing people get the trans-am side markers on a van

Sharkgills that's what I call them. Okay sorry. They're totally flush fit

but I also like the Bowville side markers because they came on the Bowville vans

but they also came on the like 68 to 72

I think trucks. A lot of vanners run those Bowville side markers.

So that's another feature. It's a certain

trim level in the vans. It's not quite a it's not quite a

doodad. Okay. But it is a trim level feature that people love to

steal and I think that means like people will talk about 59 Cadillacs

getting their tail light vans stolen all the time. Oh yeah no they're stolen.

You know by things that are like very popular factory items

by asshole thieves. That sucks. Don't steal stuff off

classic cars people. Come on. I think they're talking about when they were new. I think that the way

the story was told to me like if people had one if people

bought 59's. Like the other companies were stealing them. No kids. Yeah

that's rude. Well those kids were rude. I think it's excusable

I think it's I think it's mischief.

Well okay well we can agree to disagree on that one.

Next episode we are going to start compiling the best and the worst

Odd Rods. Odd Rods. Yeah like

the bathtub car where you sit on a toilet

don't laugh I worked on that turlet for 20 years.

Wait I thought next episode so that we got two episodes coming up.

One we're doing the best ones and then one after that we're doing the worst

ones right? Am I correct? Maybe yeah. Okay.

If it really goes down that way. Okay. I mean it's gonna be hard to not talk about some

of the worst ones but we'll see. Well here's the thing

people why don't you DM at Car Crush

C-A-R-K-R-U-S-H and yeah tell us what you think.

We're talking about Odd Rods like the telephone booth tee or Ed Ross

or Captain Peppy's Zephyr and Motorcycle Repair or the Surfight

or Dan Wood's Ice Truck or Dan Wood's

Pizza Wagon or Dan Wood's Beer Truck or

you know some of the bearish stuff I can't name them right off

on the bearish ones. The Pink Panther. Yeah the Pink Panther

which I think is Dan Wood's also or no it's not but whatever.

We'll know by the time we get there. Yeah. Like Super Van

George Bear's Super Van. That's an Odd Rod for sure. So

yeah but wait what is Odd Rod? Well it's like a hot rod but it's where

the bodies are weird like the Mysterion or the Max Tyrion

or the Beatnik Bandit. Oh okay alright I thought it was something you just made

up. I thought you were just being silly. No it's a whole category.

I'm not that clever. What's your

purpose in life? So write us in

and tell us what up. What do you think? Whatever good or bad. We'll save it for the right

episode. Okay there was one thing I wanted to mention really quick because I was sort of

a surprise by this. Is that

in 2018 the government mandated that every car every new car

had to have a rear backup camera. Which has led to

a total douchebag of the guy that owns the building across from us at the shop

backed up within inches of my van so I backed like three feet up

and then he moved again and I had to go out and I was like what are you doing

and I was like it's 58 years old why do you need to he's like

I'm sorry did I hurt you and I was like why do you need to park three inches

away from my 58 year old van. Yeah that's right

I have pictures of this guy doing this to so many other people I'm like this guy

is obsessed with his backup camera and seeing how close he can get to your car

yeah that's rude and it's like how do you get out if there's

you great question yeah I got up early this morning I was watching this super annoying

Instagram page where this guy just makes stuff that it rage baits

people and one of them is like this jug of blue fluid so when he backs

up and touches someone's car it pushes the fluid in a tube all the way up to a

cup hanging on his rear view mirror it's really funny but like I was

like that that's what this guy needs this guy with the backup camera he

does need that he's obsessed with it. Yeah it's

funny does he ever does he still do it since you've said something to him?

Yeah not to me. Okay about other people. But yeah I've got pictures

because I'm like this guy is ridiculous. Yeah it's just I mean it's almost funny but it's sort of like

but isn't he blocking people into space into their spaces

pretty much yeah. Yeah it sucks when you get blocked in

first of all I'm not a good parallel parker we've already established that

but anyway it's just scary. I mean in some places you just want to hit another car.

Yeah but I don't want cars up bumpers.

I had a little incident with that Audi that cost me a lot of money

because everything was too close so anyway. Yeah well

that's my crime people. Yeah well people don't park too close. Yeah it's rude.

I mean that's why you gotta leave yourself enough at the front when you can.

I mean I know I gripe about people that I'm like they could have parked another six inches up and we'd get in this spot

but I can't blame anybody for leaving

the room to get out because like it is ridiculous. Yeah it's hard.

I don't think that with a backup camera you should be like I'm gonna laser back up onto the front of this person's car.

No. I don't think that's a good idea. It's so weird. If it's an old car don't do that.

No it's delicate. Don't do that.

On that note

yeah I mean that's sorry that we're going out on a sour note.

Doodad installment one

we'll come back to doodads again because there are so many more doodads. Yeah it was hard to pick.

It really was. Yeah I don't know it wasn't I just

shock on it. Oh okay well it was hard for me to pick. Just all kinds of stuff.

So I think we'll come back because you could almost do a whole episode

on Cadillac doodads. Oh I'm sure yeah. What was your favorite one

that we discussed? I mean the Citroen's pretty amazing.

That was gonna be that was my favorite one. But close body cars kind of keeps jumping

out in my mind because to think that 90% of all cars were open

bodied. Right yeah. I mean again what it mentioned

was that after that open body cars were seen as the

toys of the rich and famous. Open body ones? Oh okay

because they would just be floutin about in there. It's like when somebody

Which I think that sentiment remains is why that stands out to me. Yeah. Because there was like

a guy like I didn't let a guy into traffic that day because he was in his convertible Mercedes

and it's like you'll get to skip everybody else and then cut me off

and then I was like I should have let him in. Yeah why didn't you?

Just people not paying attention

to where they're going. Oh he wasn't paying attention. He was trying to you know cut the line later.

Oh okay. Come on dude. Yeah sometimes people are dicks.

And then sometimes you just let him in because you're a nice person.

Well who said that? I'm trying to imply that

but I guess not huh. Yeah the Citroen. Selfish driver.

Was my favorite too. I don't know if it like my part

is that suspension because that's fascinating to me and the tire.

Being able to change the tire easily. I think because I've seen it in real life

because it was on the reactor. Yeah. Now what was it on the reactor for the

suspension or something else? Yeah it was real something. He could jack it way up

or slam it down to the ground and they used it to great extent when

it was in Batman. That's interesting. He had it sideways though. Yeah you can see

the ramps when it's lifted way up. You can see how they're he turned it.

I don't get that. I don't get it. I don't get how that worked.

You have to straw me a diaper. No I'll just have to get out the reactor book.

Oh okay. Yeah. Yeah I can't picture in my mind but you know again I'm not

a mechanic so maybe that's part of the problem.

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