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We had the perfect beginning and now it's the end Emily just just that's it
thanks for joining us on a Wednesday thanks for joining us on a Wednesday and
we have something new an atmospheric river yeah that has been happening I
hope nobody got flooded out my god it's been so wet put on your high waters
pants yeah get out your wellies oh but rain boots can be so cute latex rubber
ones yeah get where are your rubbers yeah where your rubbers where your rubbers
when you go out in the rain I hope you had a really cute outfit a rain outfit
that you got to wear me both of us you and anybody else out there I'm talking
to the audience yeah yeah if you have a cute rain outfit you know send us a pic
yeah at car crash we're just we're just taking it as inspiration yeah now we'll
share it we'll share in the stories you know yeah we'll definitely share in
stories we love cute rain it's been yeah it's been thanks fucking wet and you
know what I've never had a van that doesn't leak that's true like who like
there's so many people out there I know that with third gen Chevy's that just know
about like making a left hand turn and just water pouring in on you oh my god
it's so refreshing I bet you see a little cold splash while you're driving
yes in this astro actually I had to do the floor I used to be able to see the
ground that kind of shocks me it's so new I know you don't have to do the floor
in an 88 very often yeah I can see the highway it's not in a field you know at
a farm it was like this guy he had all these 50s Hemi cars and then he just had
this astro University of Louisville mail truck 37,000 miles yeah and I got into
a yeah I got into a bidding war with somebody and got it all the way up to
$600 but it was a factory five-speed whoa and that was why I was going because I
was starting to acquire the parts to convert my automatic astro at a 91 and
my boss's dad was like hey I saw this astro in a in the auction that I'm going
to and it looks like five-speed you want to go I was like yeah and I like wanted
it but I couldn't afford it so he bought it for me and it paid him back oh that's
sweet yeah sounds like a nice friend yeah yeah it took me too long and he was
like just pay me listen the grace period is over yeah I was like just pay me yeah
I was like no problem I mean just look I was employed by them so what do you say
to that they're they're cool they're super cool and I still have it so you've
been getting real wet sounds like oh my gosh not that bad but it's pretty wet
out there I don't know yeah how you've been doing well I spend most of my time
indoors yeah so I'm okay I haven't even been wearing a rain jacket there's parts
of the five that I was like I think they're gonna have to put down sandbags
because it's like gonna wash this hillside away oh crazy yeah I haven't
been venturing out much my neighborhood I've heard a little bit about land
slides oh yeah they're risky business out here risky business yeah it happens
they're bad so well what's your deal well my deal is I wanted to let everybody
know that we have something new and exciting and that is that we record on
Wednesdays now oh my god so when we say happy Wednesdays it's actually Wednesday
Wednesday it's just Wednesday a week before we were gonna like both say
Wednesday it's gonna be super super obnoxious radio moment like so that when
you hear us it's a happy Wednesday nice we did it yeah magic magic moment yep
it's a magic moment so yeah it's been really wet I I'm out driving and I
primarily you know I'm driving for my work and this is the first time on the
way in because I go in at like 5 30 yeah very early you're an early bird and so
this is the first time I've probably ever had to use the high speed on my
Econoline's wiper switch it's too fast there's no intermittent wipers so you
have to run it on low and then be like okay and turn it back off and then most
rain and why I don't do that is because on high if there's not a ton of water
pouring in it'll wipe the windshield dry and then start squeaking yeah and the
last thing I want to do is build up a bunch of friction and burn up my wiper
motor I think it's original oh boy he doesn't want a lot of work so yeah
that's like I don't want to wear it out I'm like can't believe it still works
shock that it and the blower motor still going strong nice I don't think I've
replaced the blower motor built for tough yeah with Chevy parts
that's true I talked to one of my co-workers today I was like how did
you get here you I was ahead of you and then you pulled into the parking lot in
front of me it goes yeah I know it's funny how that worked out anyway the
the morning race to work very very wet like had to dodge had to dodge some of
those like you know those lakes that grow out of the street yeah cuz I don't
want to I don't want to lose it I'd be driving the Astro but we're doing the
motor swap on the Astro right now it's been also has been so wet that we're
missing yeah we're out of business this would have been a good day but we need
to be in here we're recording for you all yeah so I mean no guilt don't feel
guilty about that yeah we just feel good that we love you yeah we want we want to
do this so anyway yeah we are missing out on I've tried to imagine myself like
do I like put on my swimsuit and just get out there and get it cuz it's like I
need to cut the exhaust off cuz it's not gonna unbolt I think and then do a
couple of bell housing bolts and we can pull the motor you gotta get on that
ground but it's like it's wet and I'm like I think I'm gonna have to lay in
the wetness yeah you are we'll put a bunch of cardboard down that's I guess
that's where we're at cuz it's not letting up so well I try to think about it
like think back to like Kentucky and just some of the like fans Scott and I got
into just a really good Kentucky argument over some van and working on it in
the winter time like we went to the junkyard I think in the data winner and
pulled the transmission and wound up mad at each other now I couldn't tell you
why but wound up mad at each other for a while over it it was some real redneck
shit we were up to yeah it was good I missed that romantically I enjoy that
so when I when I'm like it's nasty out I'm like you've done this shit before but
you do get a little older and you're like it always makes a good story and
it's street cred it's heavy street cred you know what I was thinking about the
other day was when we did that axle bearing should we tell the story in the
public cuz it's pretty good yeah yeah and we didn't unfortunately I didn't
think to record any of it I mean it was it was pretty stressful yeah but in
hindsight it was awesome like we slam dunked it yeah yeah for sure we did it
we did a great job yeah should we start from the where we broke down I was
so yeah yeah that was pretty stressful event like I don't want to mess up
roses van you know obviously and also I already had like I think she has a
obviously some kind of custom shifter situation and I pretty sure when we were
going around a curve that I accidentally slammed it into reverse I feel like it
did something I did something that wasn't right I think I was trying to go up a
hill or down a hill and I was supposed to downshift but instead it I went to
river anyway some bad happened did yes I don't know I'm surprised you don't I
was asleep no you were up front I think it was anyway I think you're just like
pulled up pulled up or something I don't remember anyway that's just a little
prelude to me breaking down or us breaking down and it wasn't because I
was driving it was something that was gonna happen it started it seemed like
it was a flat tire almost it was weird it was yeah what it was like it was a
noise and I feel like I heard the bearing and I just could not believe I
just did that bearing yeah like months before I'd already done it and the
original was like split down the center and that one was 50 years old and then
I put in this national and months later it's broken again I mean it was bogged
down by a lot of weight we were loaded yeah Beverly hillbillies loaded it was
Beverly hillbillies and of course a 9-inch Ford will do the job we had
already sliced the sidewall of the tire yeah with the wheel opening and there
was a piece of glass in that tire I found yeah when I finally got a new tire
which took me like five months oh yeah to afford the tire oh my god drive that
fair tire so shameful yeah so so we break down so it feels yeah it kind of
yeah like the brakes are on and roses like pull over right now yeah it was not
I keep going like no it wasn't at all there's no radio to turn up and then how
long did it take we're in between Primeville and Calamity that is this
big stretch of there's a bad stretch road and there's nothing in between and we
waited for probably several hours for the tow truck driver I'm saying that in
parentheses tow truck driver and it was a gentleman and his pickup truck in a
flatbed like a flatbed trailer but he was so cool do you remember his name no
well he was a really nice and we talked about his car stripped in Portland I
remember that about oh yeah he had his car stripped yeah so he towed us up the
road because we the bearing I think was available in Klamath but there was
nothing there for us that was back where we came from no I think the bearing
wasn't in Klamath it was because we were closest closest maybe yeah maybe it was
Klamath was really close but they couldn't get the bearing till Monday like
yeah but if we made it up to like lapine lapine yeah the Napa there had the
bearing in stock yeah but they they closed at like four and the guy picked
up because it was on a Sunday yeah yeah we're broken down they said they said
they said no tow trucks so they sent a truck and a trailer in winter time too
yeah another it was like fall wasn't it no it was winter because when we 31st we
stayed in November first oh yeah it was but it was cold it was because when we
stayed in Klamath it was like 39 different 35 degrees what was not a
different time no okay so we have to get towed up to this town where the Napa is
Napa's gonna be close now we gotta get another hotel and money is dwindling so
it sucks but we have a lot of tools but I left a couple things behind I didn't
bring the stuff to do this but like I had enough stuff but I don't have a
battery angle grinder and that would be really necessary we determined after
some messing around on the side of the road we determined that the axle bearing
did blow up yeah and I was shocked absolutely shocked so that it had made
the drum drag you know when the you know it forced the drum into some others
place because now this axles moving the axles got the studs the drum slides on
to the studs right so now the drum is out of round with the shoes and the shoes
have a lot of movement so it's like wasn't super damaging to the brakes or
anything but we've got to get a hotel and then like alright how are we gonna do
this in the morning that was our mission god we walked around that town and asked
people to press the bearing on for it the Napa was easy yeah we got the
cool he knew exactly what it was for he's like oh yeah so eight and three
quarter four no problem and gets us the bearing and then we like try to go to
two shops and see if they'll press it and everybody's like next week okay yeah
you wouldn't just we're on the road you couldn't just help the one guy was like
it was Monday and the guy was like maybe Friday yeah I was like now kind of like
acting like he was doing us a favor yeah to it was I mean it was it was messed up
but I'm not gonna say they're wrong no I mean people get busy and they didn't
have to give a service yeah they work for pay whatever you know yeah I mean we
would have paid obviously but you know I don't know how long it took to press a
bearing but yeah I personally I think if I were like encountered somebody that was
traveling and needed a hand I'd be like yeah we got you yeah I think I think so
too but I don't know I would too but yeah I wasn't we're not in their shoes
but what was cool is that the town is so small that we were in and we were in the
hug we could just walk everywhere we were walking with the axel we're at this
hotel they had a gravel part of their parking lot over by a McDonald's and we
parked in a way that if they looked out they couldn't see that the wheel was off
and then we after facing the road after we pulled the axle we jammed the wheel
back up in the wheel opening and had a jack stand and like just looked like it
was parked yep slick so then we walk off with the axle and everybody's staring at
us in the town because we're walking around with this axle we're getting the
point like I have my angle grinder but it's you know it's courted and so we're
like looking for somewhere to plug it in in town yep and there was a building
that I was like let's just do it there who cares like they pull up tell them
what we're doing they'll probably be like hell yeah I was too scared of
trespassing though I was like no I wasn't I wasn't sweating it but so eventually
we went down to the hardware store we got an extension I think we needed an
extension cord did we whatever okay we got a sledgehammer we got a eight pound
sledgehammer because I would didn't want not have enough mass I didn't want to
get a small like four or five I got the eight pound with the long handle yep we
got a good chisel and then we got an extension cord I think and oh a piece of
pipe we got the galvanized pipe galvanized and a pipe cap that would fit over
the length of the axle so we could drive the bearing on yep genius that was
where we really lucked out because it fit good yeah it was like kind of a
perfect yeah we couldn't risk tearing up the bearing it was $50 a bearing yeah
and we were just sort of we'd been down there for a week over what we were
supposed to be so we were we needed to go home yeah we were pretty poor we had
good fortune and we were still good fortune yeah but we had like buy a new
front tire before we left because it got sliced up by the wheel opening yep it's
a little problem we were having with the fan so yeah we finally just like all
right fuck it you know they're gonna kick us out of the hotel we're gonna have
to leave one way or the other so we throw the cord out the window and I very
quickly cut the bearing off the axle with the cord out the hotel room window it
was awesome very quickly and we did think about cutting it in the bathtub yeah
we did our first thought we did think about that and then yeah then we just
kind of cracked the window open through the cord out the window yeah made it
happen and yeah it popped off I'm sure I had to tap it with a chisel I'm pretty
sure I had a little it took a little took yeah maybe two hits yeah and then
yeah we just we were like all right we're good now we're good this is the easy
part you know the pipe and whacking it on that was no big deal and then it went
back in it was beautiful from that moment on it was they were stressful
until we finally just cut the thing out the hotel room window well I was a
little bit stressed out because I had to hold the pipe and then you were whacking
it with a sledgehammer and I thought my hands were I thought I was gonna die I
trusted you though I mean I trusted you yeah well hey I didn't hit you yeah you
didn't hit me not even once and dang thing went back on we freaking went home
yep we made it I mean we were like okay what's the odds we break another bearing
if you just can't just got to be zero yeah but that was that was some pretty
hardcore you know road killing yeah that was probably my most extreme breakdown
that is my most extreme break that was one of the most I was gonna say
mechanically involved but the time that Andy and I dropped the transmission and
took the side cover off to look inside yeah that's pretty that was pretty bananas
and then the time at Joe at Chucks I dropped the oil pan and re-torque the
mains and the rods and then used a torch to weld a crack in the headers whoa so
that was pretty involved but the axle bearing was that was pretty serious that
was a thick cut of spicy meat no hot sauce needed none that was it was pretty
spicy and the people in the hotel really talked us up yeah they were nice
huh they eventually figured out what we were doing didn't they I don't know oh
okay we got the hell out of there was nice yeah felt like a million bucks when
we finally left I know whoo God made it how we lived in lapine they don't want
us there how long did it take us do you think from wake up to finish I don't know
I think we left by three okay I think I think we got up at like seven or eight
maybe earlier because we started early we got out of that place I think by three
o'clock we wanted to be at Napa when they opened yeah yeah that's when I
text all cuz doll was like you know I was like hey look we might be in a tight
spot here yeah yeah that was a good one that was a thick cut was a deep cut but
you know the tow truck driver said he'd been up here he said he was from
Medford he was awesome dude and he said that he'd gone to like a takedown or
takeover or whatever I think he went to the Sunday the door the the red door car
meat every Sunday that's down by where the montage used to be okay it's under
the Morrison bridge okay well yeah so something happened to his car and he
like cut his convertible top to steal his seats and then his car just got
stripped down yeah and he said that he tried to report it and then the police
like it was somebody that had seen him at the car show oh and that he was like
knew that he was gonna hit him for being at that so I was he doing something he
was doing something illegal at the car show then yeah I mean I think my aspect
of it was yeah huh I don't know what yeah they're allowed to be down there but
a lot of times they'll be that doesn't change the fact doughnuts in the middle
of the road was he maybe doing that I don't know okay didn't he say there was
like it was there a donut like contest or donut burnout box or something like
that it would be the middle of like an intersection yeah they're doing that I
don't know I can't remember yeah remember well I think they remembered him yeah and
so anyway he couldn't report it and then he like brought a trailer to get it and
then left with that and then parked the trailer somewhere overnight I think and
then it got stripped even further oh the trailer and the car got stolen I can't
remember I think that was the deal we were some hard knocks for him it was brutal
it really was and it was too bad but he had also recovered from that so but you
know it just makes me think of like all of these stripped down cars I see around
work and stuff it's like you can just they'll have like the driver's door off
of them or like yeah and then the windshield smashed and then there's like
a there's a Camaro with no front bumper no driver's window no sail window wow
the poor Camaro just total junk like a third gen like a 80s no no it's a new one
oh yeah it's like a Transformers Bumblebee damn yeah just total junkers well
that doesn't make me sad I guess as an 80s one yeah sorry sorry all you new
Camaro owners maybe that was rude yeah yeah Volkswagen there's a BMW maybe
nobody's safe no nobody safe safe out there just total junkers speaking of
junkers I've been reading about cash for clunkers before we get deep into this I
want to go back to 2008 to the housing crash it just started this whole
downside of the US economy and then 2009 wow thanks for bringing it up I was
feeling so good today now you remember the time when you lost your mansion God
every time I go to the store I want to cry now you want to remind me of 2008
oh god it really happened really really gonna take us drag us drag us down here well it's
gonna get worse because in 2009 the automotive industry began to crash in April 30th of 2009
Chrysler filed for bankruptcy GM Chrysler well yeah a month later GM followed suit and they
also filed for bankruptcy and then Ford is just hemorrhaging money all over the place
on your face on your shoes in the hallway daddy yeah how'd they do how they did they
do they survive or how's the story go do we still have these car companies today we'll never know
money I didn't make it oh
ouch Saturn didn't make it
pouring out for Saturn not Saturn well the government gave them an 80 billion dollar bail
out Saturn yes just Saturn just Saturn and you know why they earned it because they loved
yeah they loved those little get-together gatherings for Saturn owners that they had
I was trying to remember what that was almost blue water out her nose I was trying to think
of it's like earlier it's like minutes ago I was like was it Saturn day
for Saturn day so the car market was still not going wonderful not going well because
people didn't have money no it was horrible the opposite of wonderful it was horrible still even
it's gotten better since even after the 80 billion well I'm not here to talk about the today not now
today yes okay it's too painful to talk about today so shortly after the bail out the government
came up with a plan to stimulate the sale of new cars and cut down on emissions oh wow a cool car
plan I want to hear it yeah okay well it was a three million dollar plan it was called the car
allowance rebate system or cash for clunkers we all probably remember this program I remember
just thinking that it was probably that it was kind of stupid and I had some other thoughts but
I'll talk about them later I just wanted to let you all know there's trigger warnings I'm we're
going to talk about seed engines I'm sorry that I just kind of fell off I'm just so stunned
I've never really gotten over it trade in your gas guzzling clunker for a new fuel efficient car
we loved those gas guzzlers well and here were the 79 mercury marauder which one I think that's
the car from uncle buck the 79 oh I think so yeah that one didn't qualify that was the it wasn't a
thing I would think of what's really funny is it didn't qualify what were what were the
qualifications like it had to be a car that was 25 years or newer so only to 1984 wow so that car
did not qualify even though if it was the biggest gas guzzling car in the us it had to be drivable
and had to get 18 miles per gallon or less and then if you bought a 22 mile per gallon car you'd
get $3,500 if you bought a 28 mile per gallon car you'd get $4,500 and you could not buy a car
that was over $45,000 but and it had to be a new car how do you take an 84 Buick gas guzzler that's
a member of your family and sell it it's just sell its life for $3,500 and a new car towards a piece
of new car payment towards some other car designed after that time that probably looks
like trash I can't believe that people would take their 84 Buick gas guzzler that's like a member
of their family and sell it out for $3,500 like taking a member of your family to the slaughter
house yep and processing it and people did it they did it so easily they did it by the hundreds
of thousands and it's gonna this is where the story gets graphic oh you who have little faith
that car could have saved their lives later some other time they break down they need it they've
got it they've got it it's paid for yeah no not in 35 hundred dollars what happened
we're gonna follow one Ford f-150 through the process it's a loaded four door Ford f-150
XLT with a 5.4 liter v8 can you see the twinkle in my eye from the tears starting
it gets worse it gets worse a mechanic on a mechanic forum said if every vehicle came with
that motor i'd be out of business so it had a reputation as having a really good engine
i just want to say that's probably the 5.4 like the mod motor i'm assuming that's what they're
talking about very popular 5.4 yeah yeah it was a 5.4 yeah yeah i think that's the mod motor
that's the modular v8 well what year what year truck this one was a actually i don't have the
year written down on that one oh my god i'm sorry i don't know why i didn't okay because it's not the
year isn't as important as to what's going to happen to this port truck as they drain the oil
replace the oil plug now they use a solution of 40 sodium silicate and 60 water oh my god replace
the oil with that make it stop they start the engine no they gun it no they keep it idling at
2000 rpm in six minutes or so the engine begins to falter i'm melting you apply more throttle keep
it at 2000 the engine shakes rattles and get what they're doing here people they're making it eat
silicate some of you the grind concrete for a living you're you know you're getting a silicate
in your lungs and it's damaging your lungs what's silicate uh it's a it's like a hard rock you know
it's basically a mineral you know it's like sand yeah it's a ceramic yep and it's not good for your
body it's not good for your engine and it gets hot inside your rings the cylinders also can't be
compressed nope so all this is in the engine it shakes it rattles it's like yeah it's like dropping
sandpaper in your motor yes shakes it rattles it dies and then the truck sits for an hour as
the solution hardens oh my god it's glue i heard it was kind of like a glass like yeah that it was
yeah it's a ceramic yeah yeah and then the truck goes to the junkyard junkyard doesn't need any
f-150 parts so the truck is crushed that's it this was out of a haggardy article of a guy that
went and followed this truck and he said when the truck died that he was like it hit me a lot harder
than i thought it would i mean it is it's it's actually painful to hear about yeah it's pretty
it is really graphic the first time i read it i was like oh my god well i mean it's that really
stupid feeling of taking a working machine and breaking it yeah i mean lots of hot riders lots
of hot riders go through this but they get a good result right yeah you know that's what
fey said to me once he said you know it's the hot rudder's dilemma accept the past or install a
complicated future that's pretty good yeah that's pretty good i told it back to him once and he goes
i said that i was like yeah that's even better i wrote it on the shop door that is disturbing
it's graphic it's saddening so somebody in our van club alex used to constantly go off about the v8s
and about like oh you're not gonna you can't find the parts for these anymore you can't find them in
the yards and i was like dude you're wacky they're all over the yards but yeah lately like i'm like
no alex is right yeah well wait till you hear the rest of the story i mean but i'm gonna be like
this is part of the reason why okay go ahead yeah so the car recyclers had 180 days to part out the
clunkers minus the engine which is the most valuable part so a lot of the junk yards didn't
they're like are we are gonna get rid of fenders for a forward aerostar probably not you know they
just taken up room in their yard so most of the cars got crushed and then some proponents of the
program complained about the parts why let them sell the parts if it just helps more clunkers stay on
the road hey i guess why let some poor single mom buy a cheap part at a junkyard so her car can stay
on the road that's what that really means well i think that i think this is the i see this opposite
i think it's like when people are like where is my straight pride it's like well it's the other
you know 330 days of the year yeah yeah we lost some good ones for sure but like that was a one-time
thing i mean it was a hard hit don't get me wrong but like you know the clunkers get many other days
and for everybody that's you know driving around town with like i mean it's part of why i have to
do the astro is smoking right yeah there's people driving like expeditions that are smoking as bad
as the astro was like i've seen new cars ish and i'm like i'm shocked yeah they must have bought it
new and then went and idled in the drive through for like every day thereafter and just washed their
cylinders out and they're just smoking so bad so you know the clunker rides again but they're
not nearly as cool think about how many like oldsmobile custom cruisers and like delta 88s and
LTDs and malibus we lost yeah and like big caprices like 70s caprices yeah they're real
they're harder to find than you'd think oh maybe the caprice would be easier well they didn't go out
in this program because the program only lasted from july 1st to august 24th because they ran out
of money because so many people got into the program in total 677,081 cars were destroyed
running cars it's so stupid so i picked out a couple of the outstanding ones because it's
pretty like i watched some videos where they went through you can get all this information on the
government website you can get all a print out maybe of every i found one where it was a print
out you it was a pdf of all of the cars that got crushed but it's huge because it's 677,000
give me some good ones well i'm gonna give you some here we go all right give me some good ones
fine i will here give me some good ones okay well you know i guess drum roll please
car number one a 1992 gmc typhoon taint never heard of it no that's a sick ass truck
me either okay you'd have heard of it it's like a turbocharged s15 yeah i'd never heard of it
they made less than 5000 yeah crafty b had one and sold it i remember that i think that's where i
found it oh i've seen a few people with them they're sick yeah i'd never even heard of it
but uh clinton eastwood and bob seager had because they it was their daily driver did you say clit
never think of them the same maybe i did say clit eastwood what's your problem
what's your point man
in 1991 this typhoon you're still on the typhoon yeah i've got more to say about it oh my god the
typhoon went toe to toe with a Ferrari 0 to 16 5.3 seconds what about the Ferrari was it like
way down the road or i don't know i don't care this truck had a turbocharged 4.3 liter v6 i think
it looks like a blacked out lowered blazer what did i say i said it was a turbocharged s15
well i was just giving a little bit of a oh a visual i thought you didn't i thought you
didn't believe me no i did oh okay i was just giving you keep going you said you said it looks
like a blacked out blazer yeah because it is a blazer looking it's got a shell on the back
it's not a truck
you're looking at me like you're gonna kill me what's happening well it's a s15
i gotta make me google it all right i mean am i just like remembering it wrong
yeah it's a truck it looks like a blazer whoa wow okay that's sick right so can you believe that
somebody somebody scrapped when they jumped it for $3,500 or maybe $4,500 we don't know what they
turned it in for i gotta look up what the truck version was oh it's the cyclone syclo any
yeah well this is a typhoon okay sorry my my bad storm my yeah exactly exactly i got my meteorology
wrong yeah jeez sorry i'm well i'm not a seasoned storm chaser like you but the cyclone is the one
i knew that crafty b had one for a bit i think and sold it but yeah the cyclones are sick so i
didn't really know about the typhoon i would be more in the typhoon camp it's why i like the
truck because it looks like a s10 blazer to me yeah yeah it's cool and the typhoon is really cool
yeah what would you would you agree with what if i say it looks like a blacked out
lowered two-door blazer and then it has a molded yeah it does have a yeah it has a body kit yeah
it's cool it's like the rockers and the two spoilers yeah they're sick flared fender i think
there's a white and a black one of each i think that's okay yeah because i saw some white ones i
was like oh did people paint them white i think there's in the cyclone and the typhoon i think
yeah anyway badass poor typhoon got its engine turned a glass wow next up we have a 1980 the
heartbreak continues it does this one is a real weird one 1980 tbr tasman 280i convertible it looks
as if a Ferrari and a fiero made love is that a good thing sounds like a pantera yeah it's kind of
looking okay yeah yeah it has a bunch of Ford parts suspension still sounds like a pantera steering
and gearbox from Ford Cortina is it mid-engine and i don't know okay i'm not sure okay fine you're
off the hook it kind of look like a car that would have a mid-engine sounds like it if i even
understand what a mid-engine is really sounds like i mean it would be behind you i mean that's
the fiero is what behind engines behind you i thought that was a rear engine if it was behind
you no it's mid like it's still to be a mid-engine it's behind you is there a rear engine sure there's
pushers volks wagons it's in the trunk so those are further than behind you they're behind behind
you well they're at the trunk a mid-engine is like the front of the engine is behind oh you're like
sitting on it yeah okay all right well i've always been a little bit confused by where a mid-engine
was so thank you for it's basically like having a firewall behind your front seats okay yeah all
right well now that makes sense to me i had rear lamp clusters from a capri and a 2.8
liter cologne v6 engine oh and the rear v6 was a hot item yeah what was that was it that was supposed
to be in in the Mustang i think was one of the options and they couldn't get enough and so they
put straight sixes in the first year of the 5.0 oh because they couldn't get enough you could get a
i think a 250 straight six in the first year of the five-liter Mustang because i think because i
think they couldn't get the cologne yeah okay so they lied about it yeah so yeah yeah interesting
and last but not least it had a rear differential and brakes from the Jaguar XJS
interesting yeah so there was that car okay and then we got a 92 BMW 850i gone at this point right
now would be worth a hundred thousand dollars going going gone so this car looks like it's like kind of
fun sporty front end subtle fender flares and it's got a stamp to it and pop up headlights it's a two
bam that's out of here all right the craziest one though is the 19 you're out of here you're
out of here you're dead you're dead in the water flat go on next guy oh god this one's really bad
tell me this one is really bad it's a 1989 20th anniversary Pontiac Transam it was the pace car
omg for the indy 500 i believe they made 1500 of them they were all white with tan interiors
and the really special thing about this car is it has the buick turbo 3.8 liter oh v6 which is what
was in the grand nationals oh my goodness it would go zero to 60 in under five seconds oh my goodness
and 13 second quarter miles i can't believe somebody scrapped that somebody fucking got rid of it
omg do you think it was like maybe it had a knock or something and they so they took it in i hope
they drove the balls off that like they just couldn't afford to how could you not okay if you could
afford to buy a car that's worth up to 45 000 dollars how could you maybe their grandma bought
it for them i guess it's just like maybe you couldn't maybe you could afford a car payment
you think or you could afford it but you can't afford all the money you're you're pretending
like there's logic in any of this i i just i want to think there is because it's so horrific
what happened is so horrific i think it's a classic story of when two fools met
what's that classic story i just think it's too it's pretty self-explanatory no two fools
met it's a dumb idea and it's dumb people bringing in their cars to get crushed okay i get it that's
funny that's pretty funny how about that i got it okay i got a quick list here of some other notable
cars that were crushed 1985 audi quattro and this is this is a sick little hatchback rally car it's
the ubiquitous rally car oh my god yeah somebody fucking crushed that a bunch of mustangs a bunch
of kameros over 1000 jaguars i guess i can live with that which ones over 1000 jaguars no the
mustangs and the kameros ouch the kameros you think some of those guys just went on to lift
the trucks i didn't get too much into the truck thing this was all for cars oh and you could turn
trucks in like clearly that f150 was turned in but i don't remember what the there was a rebate
for buying a newer like passenger van or like some kind of working vehicle but i didn't really
important to me okay
2000 old auroras i don't even know what that is but there was 2000 don't even worry about it
327 supras that's pretty sad that's also pretty i know i was like fey would 327 be so bummed yeah
327 was the body count on that 61 fieros a little bit sad yeah yeah they're kind of cool and then
569 in the firebird transam oh my oh that's too many 1500 crown vicks that is a bummer but also
you know here i can see a crown vic from five miles away i okay kind of love them kind of would
like to never see one again okay fine 5000 mercedes 4000 bmw's yeah fuck them some Porsche
928s s4 and 944s and then some amc eagles no i don't know how many i didn't get the pot amc
eagle i know we love you amc we will pour it all out for you we love you did you pour some out for
your amc eagles didn't even pour it out brandy rug today can't do that the average mileage for
turned in vehicle was 160 155 miles so they were up there i don't know the astros got a roller
cam so like it goes to 400 000 these cars had a lot of love to give still they had a lot of love
to give still so here is the most the 10 most turned in putting your dog down i know it's terrible
yeah but when it's not when your dog's still got life yes not like because it has it's at the vet
and it's they said he's gonna die this car had to be running yeah and i think it had to be running
for like a year i think you had to have proof of registration for a year or something i think i can't
remember i don't know if i might have made that up you bought this car to scrap it yeah okay so
number one was a ford explorer four-wheel drive ford f150 two-wheel drive was second uh jeep grand
cherokee four-wheel drive third ford explorer two-wheel drive fourth dodge caravan coming into five
grand caravan jeep cherokee four-wheel drive six some use some classics number seven is a
chevy blazer four-wheel drive i'm surprised there's so many four-wheel drives eight chevy c1500 pickup
two-wheel drive nine is a ford f150 with four-wheel drive and ten was a ford win star they all just
got a little more precious yeah a lot of fords in that i feel like if there's more fords than
anything gone but not forgotten so the new vehicle the new vehicles were wait what's the
new ad what gone but that's the new ad gone but not forgotten ford win star it's a new ad for 2025
it's a good one and then they have like a sign for cash for clunkers oh my god i thought you were
just gonna say like a memorial like where it's like fogged around the fans like a good shot of
its cornering like from the commercials you know like you know the crests i mean that's a lot cooler
than what i love in memory of win star yeah okay i wish i would have said that i wish i would have
said that we pretend that i said that yeah so here's what's funny you're gonna think it's funny
when you hear what was the most bought number one twitter corolla number two honda civic
number three twitter camry number four finally ford focus number five hondae and londra
number six nissan versa number seven twitter prius number eight honda accord number nine honda fit
and ten ford escape two-wheel drive i think it was i think it was international that didn't want to
let them film the movie gung ho in their plant i think it was international because the owner was like
we don't feel comfortable like things weren't going good in detroit for american car makers yeah
and they were like sorry we don't want to film a movie about a japanese car company taking in and
doing well i don't think it'll help things right now and that's exactly what happened like sounds
yeah number one were toyota honda and what was it what was next twitter honda twitter okay finally
super again in there at all fourth was ford focus no okay hocus-focus yep a lot of toyotas a lot of
hondas and then ford was the only us car that made in the top ten even though the sales were
quote-unquote robust so basically there was a lot of waste and most cars were not parted out or
recycled what i read very american they made a used car shortage it's like that simpson's where
they're like the newest trend throwing away food exactly newest trend throwing away your perfectly
car cars have become like disposable cameras you just buy it drive it till it the wheels
literally fall off and just go buy another one they fall off at the down the street where they're
stripped sorry yeah though they do they fall off or did they get stripped so as far as the
environment goes it was 0.4 percent less emissions so not good no not good at all the american
economic journal claimed that 60 percent of consumers claiming subsidies would have probably
purchased a new car anyway one of the questions i had was will it create a demand for destroyed
for the destroyed cars like the ones that got the ones that were kind of more rare the Mustang
probably never gonna break through nobody's ever gonna destroy as many as you want there's
something that's gonna take off yeah there's more out there yeah yeah so i don't know i'm one of the
videos one guy was like uh of course when i you know i finally found a truck that i really want
and then he went in he couldn't find one he couldn't find one and it was like an older one
and then he did his video on cash for clunkers he was like oh that one there was like this many
and there was a whole lot of them that were crushed and he was kind of like uh that's maybe
partly why it's so hard to find i mean there's only like 600 kameros and transams or sorry fire
birds or ta so mine was hard to find but probably not because of that but mine was in that year it
was 89 so mine could have gone crushed could have been a clunker there could have been glass
putting its engine it could have been killed i'll have to look at that list sometime so this is
according to hagerty in many respects cars played a successful role in preserving the american
automotive industry it did give the economy in general and the auto industry in particular
a shot in the arm at a critical time and statistically it did raise the average few
mileage of the american fleet but did it take clunkers off the road in a word no
i mean i think that was the whole point right was that the automakers were having a hard time
and so the american people bailed them out by the government being like listen we'll give everybody
a little extra money to go buy one of your thingies yeah you sell one of your thingies yeah a thingie
like yeah you can't get people to buy shit well we know what would change at $3,500 yeah people jumped
yeah they did one rule of economics is that people respond to stimulus they respond to incentives
it's what i'm meant to say people respond to incentives yeah it's true and they did and not
all those people were gear heads maybe some of them were yeah i mean it's it's yeah it's grandma or
it's like somebody getting like maybe getting a car for their kid or whatever it's the 20th
anniversary chance i'm though i'm like who how did that even happen there's probably i want to know
that story there's probably more people that are less interested in their car design than there are
people who don't like music hmm you know like you meet somebody it's like i don't i don't really
listen to music you know like what planet are you from but like i'm sure there's people that are like
don't think about their car at all yeah something other than it rolls yeah no that's true that's
totally true but you don't get a 20th anniversary pace car for you don't that doesn't happen no you
yeah that wasn't an accident that somebody got that car on purpose but anyway it's a real
damn mess i'll tell you that it's a damn mess and that's my story on cash for it's real damn mess
and um you know i think it's just to shame what they did you know piling all those cars up you
done been piled up you done been piled up
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About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds around the impact of the Cash for Clunkers program, which aimed to stimulate the economy during the 2008 financial crisis by incentivizing the trade-in of older, less fuel-efficient vehicles. The hosts share personal anecdotes about clunkers and breakdowns, while lamenting the loss of iconic cars like the Pontiac Trans Am and GMC Typhoon that were crushed under the program. They explore the irony of destroying functional vehicles and the environmental implications, all while maintaining a humorous and nostalgic tone.
