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Watkins Glen
A legendary race track in upstate New York that started out as races on actual public streets in the 1940s before moving to a dedicated, safe track. It is famous for hosting long-distance sports car races.
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IMSA
A major sports car racing organization in North America. They run races where different types of fast cars—some looking like spaceships and others looking like modified street cars—all race together on the track at the same time.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a famous two-door sports car made by the American company Ford. The "Dark Horse" is a special, high-performance version of this car designed to be driven fast on race tracks.
Car
Audi RS3 TCR
A race-only version of the Audi RS3 sedan built for touring car championships. It has a wide body kit and front-wheel drive instead of the standard road car's all-wheel-drive system.
Car
Cupra Leon TCR
A racing hatchback made by Cupra, a sporty European brand owned by Volkswagen. It is built specifically to compete in touring car races against other modified everyday cars.
Car
Honda Civic
The Honda Civic is a small, reliable passenger car made by the Japanese company Honda. It is available as a sedan or a hatchback and is widely used for everyday driving.
Car
Porsche Cayman
A smaller, two-seat sports car from Porsche. Because its engine is located in the middle of the car rather than the back, it handles corners incredibly well.
Car
1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI
A classic, sporty version of the original Volkswagen Rabbit hatchback from the 1980s. It is famous for proving that a small, practical, and affordable car could also be incredibly fun to drive.
Car
Volkswagen Gti
The Volkswagen Golf is a small hatchback car made by the German company Volkswagen. It is designed to be practical for daily use while still being fun to drive.
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Cupra Born
The Cupra Born is a small, fully electric hatchback car made by a European brand called Cupra. It runs entirely on battery power and is designed to look and feel sporty.
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Volkswagen Passat Wagon
A mid-sized station wagon made by Volkswagen, loved by car enthusiasts who want a comfortable European car with plenty of room in the back for gear.
Car
Volkswagen Passat Syncro (B3)
A rare, older Volkswagen station wagon from the early 1990s that featured an early type of four-wheel-drive system, making it great for driving in bad weather.
Car
2013 Honda Pilot
A large, boxy family SUV made by Honda that is known for being extremely reliable, spacious, and lasting for hundreds of thousands of miles.
Car
2013 Audi Q5
A luxury compact SUV made by Audi. While comfortable and stylish, models from this era are famous for burning through engine oil rapidly due to a design flaw in the engine's pistons.
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ABA swap
Taking a tough, reliable 2.0-liter engine from a 1990s Volkswagen and putting it into an older 1970s or 80s VW to give it more power and modern reliability.
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Cash for Clunkers
A 2009 government program that paid people to trade in their old, gas-guzzling cars for new ones. Dealerships had to pour a chemical into the old engines to ruin them permanently so they could never be driven again.
Car
Ford Bronco
The Ford Bronco is a utility vehicle made by Ford that is built for driving on rough, unpaved roads. Older versions from the 1970s were simple to fix, while the modern version is highly advanced with many computers and sensors.
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Right to Repair
A movement and set of laws that protect your right to fix your own car (or take it to any local shop you want) rather than being forced to go to an expensive dealership because the manufacturer locked the car's computer systems.
Car
Cadillac Ctsv
A luxury Cadillac sedan that has been fitted with a massive, supercharged Corvette V8 engine, making it incredibly fast and loud.
Car
Cadillac Escalade V
The Cadillac Escalade-V is a very large, expensive luxury SUV made by the American company Cadillac. It has an extremely powerful engine that allows it to accelerate much faster than a typical large vehicle.
Car
2001 Volkswagen Jetta Wagon
A station wagon version of the Volkswagen Jetta from the early 2000s. This particular one has been modified with a larger, famous 6-cylinder engine from a high-performance VW Golf R32.
Car
Volkswagen Bora
The Volkswagen Bora is a small four-door sedan made by the German company Volkswagen. In some countries, like the United States, this exact same car was sold under the name Jetta.
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Dodge Road Runner
The Road Runner is an older, powerful two-door car built in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s. It was designed to be a simple, fast, and affordable vehicle.
Car
Volkswagen Golf Rallye
A very rare, rally-inspired version of the 1980s Volkswagen Golf. It featured boxy, flared fenders, four-wheel drive, and a supercharged engine.
Car
Porsche 911 Turbo (996)
A high-performance version of the Porsche 911 from the early 2000s. It uses twin turbochargers and is famous for having an incredibly tough, race-proven engine.
Car
Dodge Charger
The Dodge Charger is a large car made by the American brand Dodge. It is known for having powerful engines and a sporty design.
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Speaker 1: Who everybody?
Speaker 2: What is up?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the People's Car Podcast. My name is Ryan Bialman.
It's sitting right next to.
Speaker 2: Me is dany Riccondo. What's up, dude?
Speaker 1: What is going on? So it is almost the fourth
of July.
Speaker 2: Yes, America two fifty.
Speaker 1: America two fifty. It's it's been a big deal across
the nation. Uh so, so many things have been happening.
Our even our kind of semi local city, Scranton is having some like FIFA events. Have you known that? Like
there's bands, I think like Hanson or something is playing the downtown and do you remember that band Tonic. Yes,
they're playing. But yeah, that's like kind of a thing
where they're trying to do these like FIFA events like across the a nation to get people you know, uh you know, check them out all the different cities and stuff.
But anyway, so being that is almost fourth and Father's Day just happened.
Speaker 3: There followed, They just literally just happened.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So happy Father's Day.
Speaker 2: Yes, happy follows it to you, and happy belated follows it to all the followers that are out there.
Speaker 1: That's right. What was really cool about this past weekend
was my wife actually surprised me, and I didn't know that she had contacted you, and uh, you know you and your wife and another friend of ours, Mike, and you know, Mike was actually on one of the first episodes we did with Somebody, yes, remember that. So she
got us, well, she got me tickets and we were all staying at the same place to go see some inso racing, Yes, at Watkins Glen, which I had never seen in person. I always watch twenty four Hours Rolex
the Rolex twenty four down in Florida, but I always watched it on TV and I've always wanted to go see it. So just last Sunday, she surprised me with
some tickets and then she said, oh, and by the way, you know, Danny and Erica are going, Mike's going, Demetrius going, all that stuff. So we all got this large farmhouse
that was in the middle of nowhere upstate New York. Yeah,
and it was you know, like eight minutes from the track basically, And we were there for many days and I went up Tuesday night. You guys came on up
Thursday Friday. Yeah, and we we saw a bunch of
races and that was a good time and I mean we talked about like America and stuff. You know, racing
fucking started.
Speaker 2: Here absolutely, And I didn't realize how old that track really was. Is originally nineteen fifty two it started, Yeah,
so it's been around forever.
Speaker 1: Didn't They say? It was like nineteen fifty two in
the town and then they moved it over to the official track of nineteen fifty six or something like that.
Speaker 2: It was even earlier as nineteen forty eight. I think
it was in town forty six or forty eight, so they would have been like a six mile course through the town. But then like there was spectacular crash that
a bunch of spectators got heard and killed. So that's
when they actually created the Watkins Glen Racetrack, and that's you know, over three miles long where it's at. It's incredible,
it really is. It's such a great track.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was a lot of fun. The track
is so awesome. So a little bit about the track.
You pay seventy five dollars for a parking pass, Yeah, and the parking pass gets you literally anywhere you want.
Speaker 2: To go, anywhere all over the track, any side you want to be on. If you want to be like
with the guys that are camping. Cool if you just
want to be in your you know, under a tree somewhere, it's fins. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean seventy five bucks may sound like a lot, but then you realize, like we got that like Wednesday, Yeah, because we had a Wednesday through Sunday. Literally can go anywhere.
And when you when you talk about infield, quote unquote infield, in my mind, I usually think of like an oval track, and infield's literally just in a circle at Watkins Gun.
It's not like that you go under the track two or three different times. There's elevation changes even within the
you know, inner circle. Yes, so it's just like all
over the place. And what I thought was so cool.
We've been a Pokano a bunch of times, but as far as going to this track, it's so cool when a big race is happening like that because there are literally almost no rules, right, Like they're just like, oh, you got your wristband, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They don't tell you where you need to stand because there's like six different grandstands. They don't tell you where
you have to sit. There's no assigned seating, there's no
and maybe it's different for when they actually have this smaller track version up there when they do NASCAR.
Speaker 3: Yeahfferent thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I mean there's you know, everybody's got crazy rigs up there can and everyone's got you know, their their little either electric bike or electric scooter or you know, friggin golf cart or whatever they bring up. And it's just, man, dude,
it made me want to get a whole rig. It's
so crazy crazy. We were staying out, you know, so
we were hanging out, but think of the times you could have especially I I'm sure some people that listen already have like a whole camping rig and everything else.
But once you get it's just like we are with Volkswagens, right, once you get into say camping, like you get a truck, you get a camper, and then you got to get your friends into it, and like you know, and then all of a sudden, your friends could do these things.
And especially if you're in a racing what's better. What's
a better way to go camping than sitting at a racetrack when cars are going one hundred and eighty miles per hour, Like buy you at you know, multiple times throughout the weekend. But it was just it was so cool,
I think compared to Pocono, because Pocono does have roles.
You can't eat certain things, you have to stay it with a certain spot. It's it's not as cool inside
or whatever. Not that I'm like bashing Pogon too much
because that's our local spot.
Speaker 3: It's a different setup.
Speaker 1: It's so it's so different and uh same thing for you.
Speaker 2: Go to like a drag race track. It's it's a
different amic setup. Like I've gone drag racing, like I've
gotten to see drag racing pily more than any other uh racing, motorsport racing and experiencing that road racing over a drag racing event. It cans out.
Speaker 3: I love drag racing. I love going to drag race.
Speaker 1: Event totally different.
Speaker 2: It's just incredible. It's such a great experience, especially for
like family, it's for everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit about the weekend as we were kind of in and out of the racetrack, you know, we're seeing some qualifying stuff and they were seeing some practice, and then we're seeing other races in general. Like they
had a dark Horse Mustang Challenge which was cool to watch.
When they got the Portia Cup two races, so the night before we watched they actually raced twice. We watched
them once and then we went into town and us and all of our families got some Thai food and my daughters met the owner of the one. I'm going
to butcher the name, but think it's Privy Privy and it's some kind of like cosmetics or something like that.
But this woman owns this race team, which also is women driven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a female driver driver.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they were just you know, talking to our daughters and stuff, and you know, it was just a cool, cool experience. So then of course my daughter's actually had
someone to cheer for. I think they got into it
as they can see her whipping around the track and dude, she was no joke.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think she.
Speaker 3: Plays eighth overall at the end of the race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she was, I mean, she was like keeping up with you know, some of the best. Someone you
could tell like she was back and forth and then she she started later in that and she she yeah, she ended up pretty good.
Speaker 2: But you even had a nice conversation in the restaurant as well, because there was so many race teams just eating side by side with us that like you had one driver you're talking to you about like his experience and how he came up and everything else from Brazil, yep.
And it's just incredible, like what these race car teams and drivers and how they actually get to the point that they're at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it is really wild how that town
gets taken over by race.
Speaker 3: Teams and they're everywhere.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere.
Speaker 2: You're getting ice cream, they're at the tie place, they're hanging on the streets, like just walking around.
Speaker 1: You don't know if you're standing or talking to a pro driver or you're definitely talking to someone that's on a team or an owner or something like that. But yeah,
it was quite an experience, man, I had a lot of fun it. I told my wife when we got back,
I'm like, next year, I need a fucking truck and I need a trailer, and yeah we need to we need to fucking we need to be staying there and going other too, because it's just so cool.
Speaker 2: You know. What's interesting is like when you said about
other countries and how like here you know you'll have like your top ten or top fifteenth placements and you get your points and everything and like, you know, your top three is like first, second, third is who's kind of pretty much won the race. Yeah, where other countries,
if you don't win, they don't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I was talking to a driver that was
from Brazil and they basically said in Brazil, I'm kind of summing up what this guy was saying. He was
what they call stock car. Basically our NASCAR, which we
used to call stock car and stuff, but our NASCAR over here, what they do is first place. If you
do not make first place, nobody gives a shit about you. You
are absolutely nothing. Second place means nothing to these guys.
And this is how this is what he was telling me. Yeah, yeah,
you don't. You don't get on a podium. If you're
coming third, you're absolutely nobody for your fourth or fifth, right, So it's it's like first or bust. Yeah, And I
thought that was pretty interesting. And this guy actually was
the youngest driver I'm forgetting his name right now. Sorry,
This guy was actually the youngest driver to come in first place as their stock car series.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even like fourteen months racing.
Speaker 1: When he originally started racing. He said he was thirteen thirteen. Yeah,
and he had. It was KRT racing and he was
driving himself around the country with a cart in the back of a van.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and he was.
Speaker 1: Driving right because his parents had to work. So he said, like,
no matter what it took, that kid was driving to races.
He was what he was racing no matter what. And
he he had the talent. He was very good. And uh,
I just think that's kind of a crazy story. So
then he someone saw him. They basically paid for him
to run stock car. He won the first race he
ever won in stock car. He came in first. Yeah,
and he was the youngest kid of all time at that time. So I mean, I think he said, I
think the guy is now thirty one or something, so that could have happened. I don't know, fifteen years ago,
who knows, you know, but yeah, just crazy. It's cool
that these people are just amongst everybody. And you know,
even where we when we were walking around the track, we were finding ourselves like you and I went to the bathroom the one time, and there's just like a driver that ran in after the because on Sunday it's a six hour endurance race. It's multi class. Yeah, six hours,
that's how like IMSE does some of these. You know,
there was prototype cars. There's also GT three type cars,
so they're all racing at the same time, which makes it really interesting. And it's endurance stuff. We're going to the back.
It doesn't say, you know, only drivers that don't walk through here. And all of a sudden, we see this
guy like literally with his helmet on, has the ice in the bag. Sou Yeah, he runs exactly, he runs in,
takes a business and runs out. I know he got
he's getting ready to go in a car or whatever.
But that's kind of the feel of the whole area, which I just found fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like it was so American, oh dude, one hundred percent. And like looking at like how many people
were there, the place is so vast that they said it was a sold out crowd, but there's so many grand stands, there's so much area to stand and not to mention the people that are hanging out their campers, Like it didn't feel like it was overly packed, even know there was a lot of people there.
Speaker 1: No, we got we got on the last turn right before the straightaway. Yeah, and we sat there at a
fantastic seat. We're all the way at the top corner
of the bleachers, and you know, we had chairs set up because it was like kind of standing room for you know, you could have I guess you could have like large cameras and all that kind of stuff there, but that's all automated now and like just literally attached to the side of the stands, right, So that's all goes back, all those fees go back to a control room and some guy just goes, oh, we're going to camera tooo now or whatever, you know what I mean.
But so yeah, it was just it was awesome. There
was one more thing I want to say about it.
Fuck I don't remember, but yeah, dude, oh yeah. So
the the prototype cars are so fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 2: They're so fast, man, So it's like crazy.
Speaker 1: There was some that are I believe their twin turbo just V six is. But then the V eight, the
guy that won Aiken it was his name, it was Cadillac, and I mean when that thing, yes, and when that thing rips by, you know, sound incredible. They sound incredible.
And then there was one, oh.
Speaker 3: The Austin Martin. That was the V twelve.
Speaker 1: It was the only one, and that thing's like sounds like eleven hundred or eleven thousand rpm.
Speaker 3: It's so crazy how loud that thing was.
Speaker 2: And it's unfortunate because he didn't finish because it was involved in one of the RECs. Yeah, and there was
a lot of wrecks. There was a lot of cautions,
a lot of traffic because you're navigating through like two different race fields.
Speaker 1: Right, Yep.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of slowdowns. But it was still
cool to see. Yeah, I mean the amount of money
that goes into racing like that. You had that saying like,
if you're a billionaire and if you want to become a millionaire really fast, that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's like it was like, no, you can.
You can become a millionaire if you're into racing. You
just have to start as a billionaire. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ridiculous, but uh yeah, Mike told me that it was cool to see. Like one of the race
teams had a sponsored NDP Racing Still there was another one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a whole TC So that's the thing too.
I forgot to talk about that. So you know, they
did have AUDI basically the it said r S three three.
It's an A three basic, but it's a wide body, it's a TCR kit and two not the RS three fire cylinder, so they run on the twos and they only run front wheel drive, which I did not understand that.
And also they have not the gt I but the Coupra.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I kind of was deflated about that. Like Volkswagen
really dropped the ball when it comes to motorsport racing because they were so heavily involved if you think about all their stuff they've done over the years, and then like with the TDI cup cars and everything else, and it's like, you guys can't even put out a gt I, You got to get a Coupra. Yeah, that's not we
don't even have them here.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it enough to really talk that much shit, but I do think it's kind of like weak where it's like, yeah, well we're running a Coupra, Like where's where's the GTI, where's the quote unquote golf a TCR?
Like what what happened there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You could, you don't know enough about it. Someone might
school me later on.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's some like BS stuff that has to do with like you know, upper echelons and management and.
Speaker 1: That maybe it's like a hamuligation thing that wasn't met at a certain time of years.
Speaker 2: Who knows, or yeah, right, some kind of regulations that like you have to have certain cars or some reasons or whatever the case is. So, but it was actually
Civics and the group was the type N.
Speaker 1: Yes and what else or was that it? Yeah, we
had the Hondas and it's so funny. You heard the
two leaders go by and they actually sounded fairly quiet, because they sound pretty good. That surprised me, actually, yeah, because.
Speaker 3: They sound so bad on the street when it's.
Speaker 1: On the street normal on the street, but when everything's like super loud, they didn't sound nearly as loud as a Honda going by.
Speaker 3: Oh, you definitely was doing Honda things.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, the Hondas will Honda. Yeah, and they were
hondaing all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: It's so funny to hear how raspy and loud that the Hondas were. And you know, of course, you can
close your eyes and you know the Honda is coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't think there was definitely another car that was part of that series.
Speaker 2: There was one of the Porsche nine to elevens.
Speaker 1: Oh, they had the Sorry no, I was just gonna say that it was the Caymans.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And I could not believe how loud the Caymans were, Like they just echoed through everything. It was just like
a like a horn almost they were.
Speaker 3: They actually sounded really well.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did.
Speaker 2: It's done a bad like. There were cool cars on
the track and that's what's designed for. I think it
actually was a Cayman not nine to eleven that was sponsored by ECS Tuning and Unitronic. Yeah, so it's cool
to see like these Volkswagen ish companies they're sponsoring these bigger race teams. Yep, and it's just like, I don't know,
it just it was like a cool feeling. You know.
APR years ago did a lot with tcrying and that kind of stop saying. I don't know if they still do.
I don't think they do that anymore. Maybe they still do,
but it was cool to see those companies still sponsoring.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. So that was our weekend. We had
a lot of fun. Thanks to my wife for doing that.
And uh, it was cool that you guys came out and we had a good time. So what else man?
Speaker 2: Not much else going on in my neck of the woods.
It's just been so busy with stuff, end of the year stuff for school for like my other half of my kid, and like we've just been just doing little things and trying to get ready for summer here, and like I haven't really had much time to do much of anything. And this sucks because I really trying to
push to get things done around the house and trying to get my pickup truck done still and I'm still like just slacking on that, and it's just I want to get it done. Because Mark wre Mannis is coming up, dude,
So it's so crazy. Like cold class just happened this
past weekend. Now Mannus is coming up up, and it's
like madness. Kind to me is like the middle of summer,
I dud so now it's like, fuck, it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Be middle of summer soon.
Speaker 2: And like a part of me is like I kind of like stress myself out, and then the part of me is like, you know what, don't rush things, don't stress out about things. And I'm kind of a mindset
of just wanting to purge stuff. And I've been talking
about this stuff here and there, but I'm probably definitely selling my eighty four rabbit GTI. I don't think I'm
ever gonna get a chance to work on it because I can't get stuff. I can't even like do little
things that I want to get done, like just basic stuff that's not really it doesn't take too long to a deal. And I'm not saying I'm not like complaining
about it because that lack of time. It's just you're
just living life and doing family stuff and everything, and like bottom line, that's always more important anyway. So that car,
it's got like the original bill sheet with it. It's
a silver g guy with the red interior, non sound roof.
Car does have a C factory equipped or dealer equip whatever I have. Shit, I have got really good interior
seats are really good. I've got a new old stock
dashed brand new in the box. I've got a brand
new fuel accumulator for it. I've got a bunch of
like random stuff like I have a new old stock door card in a box for it. I've got a
lot of cool things to put that car together. I've
got the snowflakes that are in decent shape that are actually on the pickup truck that go on to the GTI.
It still has like everything that came with on the eighty four. So it's got the one fifteen speedometer cluster.
It's got like the little filler piece in a front bumper that's black. Also with the bumper, it does have
a decent amount of RUSS. And that's why I've kind
of let it sit and hang out because I don't have time to really do to rush your pair on it.
But I've got like brand new rockets for it. I've
got new floors, new floors. I've got a new like
lowerer apron for it. It has a cracked windshield, but
I do have a windshield for it. I've just got
a lot of a lot of parts to go with that car. So I'm probably gonna trying to sell that
thing sooner and later. I'm probably gonna be around like
the thirty five hundred dollars mark for it because of it only has forty I forget if it's forty three or forty eight thousand. I think it's a four on
forty three thousand miles on that hard But it needs everything, Like it's not like a show car. It hasn't run
in years. It needs everything, So it's not for the
faint of heart. But if someone puts that car together
and does like a ground off restoration, the low mileage gc I like that you're talking, you know, fifteen to twenty k all day. Yeah, so I mean you might
have that into it also.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean you have the you're collecting, you're collecting the parts you've had, You've been collecting the parts, so you've kind of have like a horde of stuff to go with it. Yes, it would be if someone's
looking for a project for like a father son thing, or someone wants to put together their own GTI that you know, it's not out there already and they don't feel like spending all the money now as for a GTI, you know, like you said, fifteen grand, they don't have fifteen grand in their pocket to buy a nice GTI. Hey,
like here you go, start putting it together right now.
Speaker 2: And it probably wouldn't take much to get that car running.
The reason why I was parked and sat was a fuel pomp, I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So obviously it's been sitting for like fucking twenty years, so it would need everything gone through, you know, But it's a matter of just putting the time into it, which I don't have yo title for that, Yes, okay, so it has it has a title. It's not like
it doesn't have a title or nothing.
Speaker 3: It's just good.
Speaker 2: Like my pickup truck has kind of become the following some project. Yes, that the GTI was going to be, right,
So it's like, do I need enough following some project? No,
because I already have one, Yeah, at least not for now, right, right.
And the truck is like so much more special because of the story behind it and how he got it and my son and everything that's tied to it. Yeah,
And the GTI got before my son was born, right, So it's just a different mindset.
Speaker 1: Well, that's crazy. You've had that for a while.
Speaker 2: Seven years, Like it's gonna be seven years six. I've
had it for yeah, six years.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy. I still think of it like you
got like three years.
Speaker 2: Ago, right, because I got in twenty nineteen, and like I was really excited about when I got it, and then like then my son was born and things just went a different direction. And looking at that, like I
want to get rid of that. I'm gonna have my
silver Passat wagon.
Speaker 3: For sale soon.
Speaker 2: Also, also, it's got to finish putting that together and finish cleaning it up. But yeah, just trying to get
rid of stuff I don't need. I'm not going to
get to it'll give you more garage space because like right now, I've got the pickup truck, the GTI and the A two convertible in the garage and the truck is on the lift, so I can't even do like any other work because the truck is on the lift right now. Yeah, And it's like, this is stupid. I
have a garage with a small lift right that I can't use, so like I have to do stuff outside like on the gravel, like changing stuff and doing like swapping tires and wheels and stuff out. It's like, why
am I doing this in myself? Yeahands so dumb.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I've said this before a million times, Like I think one of the best things other than getting a car is selling one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when you finally actually like have it go, sometimes like that burden is just lifted.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you have a bunch of them, man, dude, like I get it. Just like you said, Sometimes you
get a little bit older and you really start realizing, like am I really gonna get to this? Because they
have three other things going on at the same time.
You like, and you have projects that you guys have done some and you like to finish them as well.
Speaker 2: Right because I feel like everything I have right now is an unfinished project. Right. Like my wife's car. I've
been talking about this thing for years. You have this
thing painted and get that finished up for her. And
like my B three sinker like wagons, the same thing.
I want to get that car finish up, so it's like where I want it to be. And if I
keep taking on more projects, yeah, I'm not gonna get any of this done. And it's it's funny Coud talking
about the GTI manty the GTI on Instagram. He's got
his eighty three Rabbit GTI for sale. It's also silver
GTI as well. It's a blue interior car though.
Speaker 1: I saw that today. Yeah, dude, very, this is awesome.
Speaker 3: Well built carr.
Speaker 2: He yet hydro head on it to C sixty eight cam like but suspension work done on it. It has
the arml snowflakes, but you know he would be willing to sell without it. He's asking twelve as is, or
like ten, probably without those snowflakes, which is reasonable. That's
a great car for someone I wants to just get into something ready to go and drive. But the downside
for like say us, he's in British Columbia on the complete opposite side of the country. Yeah, so if you're
not in the Pacific Northwest or California, it's probably not a good deal because how much I mean, how much would shipping BRITTI fuck that.
Speaker 3: To the East coast, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so nowadays, like I don't know, I think it's over two grand now just for a normal ship shipment. Yeah,
you know what I mean, Like you're probably paying twenty five hundred dollars just for a normal shipment because everything's still so crazy with diesel and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, prices are coming down a little bit, but still shipping wise, it's still slowly coming down. And they're not
going to drop those prices overnight.
Speaker 1: Exactly, they and they don't. You just you have to
wait it out a little bit. So, dude, So a
couple of things. So I think I said on the
last podcast that I did get rid of the tore to our friend Bill.
Speaker 2: Yes it is, so.
Speaker 1: He bought that. He's uh, he's gone, Yeah, it gone.
And so you know, it was just kind of I still have and I talked about this a few episodes ago, how I've been kind of sick and tired of my daily because it's nothing. It is literally nothing special, but
it is a car that has always been good to me, that has always gotten me from point A to point B.
So a couple of weeks ago, I'm meeting Crazy, I'm meeting the wife and the kids, and we're going out to a baseball game. And they are at basically like
this parking ride that's not too far away, and I'm on the highway going towards the parking ride for work. Yeah,
I'm coming from work. Get on the highway. I'm in
the Honda Pilot, which is the car that i've you know, this is the boring car that I was just talking about.
Twenty thirteen Honda Pilot, three hundred thousand miles. Tractor trailer
starts overpassing me on the left side, and just like any normal thing, it's a seventy mile per hour road, and I think I was literally doing like seventy maybe seventy three tops and all of a sudden, and this isn't Danny speaking, this is right.
Speaker 2: Not me not me.
Speaker 3: I had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1: Fucking deer comes flying out from the left side of the road, passes the truck. Now, the truck is like
a car and a half length in front of me, on the left side of me, and it's coming towards my car. All of a sudden, I just see it
cress the the right like wheel of the truck. I
didn't see it coming the whole time. I just see
it all of a sudden, right in front of the truck and then coming to me. I slammed on the brakes,
but there's also a tractor trailer behind me, so I wasn't gonna like completely get on it. It all happened
in like a second and a half. I slammed on
the brakes. I probably hit it still going about sixty five.
I fucking smashed this dear. I smashed it to the
point that it felt like I got into an accident.
Speaker 2: So it was like, you hit this deer, and it's like and then alsodden. I believe if I can.
Speaker 1: Fly so this deer. So I slam on the brakes.
The truck goes flying by. There's still no one after
the truck in the left hand lane. Except for the
deer that I'm going still sixty five. At that point,
I hit it so hard I took my foot off the brake and have started plying the gas again, just to see if the car can even you know, see what's going on. And I look to my left and
the deer is going as fast as I am because I hit it so hard. The deer's dragging on the ground,
basically going like it's just skidding across the ground going sixty bus. I just look over. It's fucking staring at me,
dragging by. Uh. So I pulled over when it was safe. Dude,
I get out of the car. I couldn't even the
airbag light comes on right, which it didn't go off, just cading, just the airbag light.
Speaker 3: Hey I'm here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, oh, I guess the air bags aren't gonna work.
Speaker 2: Or just smashes your face as you get back in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I get so. Also, the seatbelt is locked
in place, right, so I was thinking I might have to get my knife out and cut it open. But
I could get around and you know, pop it off.
But then I couldn't get it back out. It was
stuck stuck. So I look around you know, whole front
end smashed up, like not as bad as you would think.
It actually held up pretty well.
Speaker 2: It took it pretty good.
Speaker 1: It took it pretty good. So I get back in
the car, I drive to the parking ride. We we go,
oh yeah, and I say, I say to Steph or my wife gets there and I say, well, here's the car. Look,
I just fucking smashed the deer. She's like, oh my god,
I see Danny. So I'm like, wait, what a man. Now,
we're we're thirty five minutes away from the house already. Yes,
I just hit a deer. And we stop at the
parking ride with my smash vehicle, and my wife goes look across the road, which is where a gas station was, and there's fucking Danny. Dude, the deer whisper himself shows
up right as eye smashed the deer, so he just sees us on the other side of the road. He
comes around the corner just like, hey, guys, what's up, waving and I point to my car and your fucking jaw drop and I'm like, dude, I just wailed a deer on the fucking at sixty five miles per hour on the highway. So it's just an incredible amount of circumstances.
So I get in my wife's car, and you were actually going to the same game, which I didn't even know.
Speaker 3: We didn't know that we're going to the same game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is so funny. Yeah, which is like an
hour away from the house. So anyway, so we start
traveling together to go to the game. See the game.
It was all good. We come back and when I
get back to the Honda, it's basically sitting in a puddle of its own oil and cooling. So I was like,
oh fuck. So I'm like, maybe it's not even gonna start.
I don't know. So I get in and I told
my wife. I said, I'm fucking I'm just gonna drive home.
We see how far we get. Cranks right over, no problem,
fucking headlights even turn on, even though their face like.
Speaker 2: In where.
Speaker 1: Crossside. One's going one way, the other's going the other.
Nothing's going straight down the road. So so we're I
start driving all the way home. She has to drop
I forget what she had to do, go to the store or something. So she goes to the store and
I start. Now, this car has never in a millionaire's
ever gone above, Like the temp gage has always been exactly dead nuts where it shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I finally start getting closer to home and I see it start rising and I'm like, oh man, I'm like, you know what you gotta do. You gotta just get
me home, and I always yeah, So we get I get to a stop sign that was like finally with the final road before I get to the house. I
get to the stop sign and I'm basically starting to get engulfed in steam. Oh no, oh yeah, and it
just reeks coolant and everything else, and I don't know exactly where the the oil line is, but it's getting low and everything's just starting overheat and it's starting to get a little rougher. I finally get to the house
and as I stop out on the road, and I wanted to back it back in so because I knew this car was total and I knew like totaled in the fact that the insurance company's not going to pay another dime for three hundred thousand dollars fucking hont it from twenty thirteen like it was done. So as I'm
backing down, it's in a billow of my own smoke.
I can't even see going down the driveway. And I
back in, dude, and it literally when I backed into the driveway, it hit the absolute like red mark the temp gage and I just shut it off and I patted it and I was like, good fucking car, and it just did exactly what it had to do. So
Hans gone's gone. My so our buddy Chad, and he's
out Wyoming Valley Motors out near Well, I don't think it's called anymore. Whatever it's called, I don't even know it's.
So he's at an Audi dealership. I talked to him.
I said, dude, you have any do you have any cars available? Because what he usually does is if something
comes in and people don't want to pay for the repair bills anymore, like the car is getting a little bit older, he usually snipes out the ones that are in good shape, and it's basically like, hey, you know, say the car is worth to a dealership, I don't know six grand, but you have a four thousand dollars bill coming in. They might be like, we'll offer you
just three K to take it off your hands or something like that. So Chad, you usually snipes them out
and he did with a twenty thirteen out e Q five.
It's gonna need pistons. He's doing all this within the
next week. It's gonna need pistons, rings, the whole rings,
timing chain. He's doing it all. It's basically gonna be rebuilt.
It already has brand new brakes, new tires on it.
Like the thing is basically gonna be It's a exteriors in great shape. It's black on black, interior's mint. It
was like an older lady that just did all this work anyway, So that's what I'm getting for my daily.
Speaker 2: Had been a two liter turbo. Like you're gonna be
able to just have a little fun with it. It
will be a little more spirited driving with it, because like, not for nothing, the pilot was a box. It was
a box, a big box that got from point A to point B very But this is something that's gonna be like a little more fun as a daily driver.
Speaker 1: See, we drop you and I drive like quite a ways to work, and we do drive a lot. We
drive probably twenty to twenty five thousand miles just to working back over the year.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: So you know then that's not all the other stuff we do. Yeah, so yeah, I mean it's not it's
not the craziest fun thing, but at least it's it's something a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just started to tell that story, you know, the deer slayer kind of struck again. But just because
I was going to be near you and I didn't know, I think I had to smash the deer because I gotta do it every once in a while too. Oh.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, since you're going to be seeing me anyway, even though we didn't know we're gonna be seen.
Speaker 1: Each other, right, I had to fucking wail on one.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: So such a good time. Yeah, but not right. So anyway,
Oh man, I do have some missterbits.
Speaker 1: Here, okay, instant bits.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I saw this come across a little while back Scientific Rabbit. He is fitting an oil and plus airbox
kit for ABA swaps and Mark one for Mark one platform.
Oh okay, and I thought, I that's kind of cool because there really isn't anything like you just put an ABA throw that thing in there, slapping in and you're just wearning like a cone style filter or whatever. You know,
there's really no like set up for like an air box and that's kind of cool because they kind of give it, will give it like a more factory look.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. I mean usually you have a like
you said, like a cone style filter that's just bobbing up and down right rubbing the pain off your wheel. Well, yeah,
you know what I mean, which is exactly what happened to my last rabbit. And then Scott Norton he actually
he had somebody three D print a bracket so he could so it could help because it was kind of just, you know, just the end of it is just they're limp dick just flopping around against your wheel. Well and
after a while, yeah, you know, it does start rubbing some pain away.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's cool man.
Speaker 2: Raxels, So this company's been around forever kind of well went away, dude.
Speaker 1: I think when I think of Raxels, I think of one to eight turbos in like oh four snapping axles left and right, because a big turbos or something exactly, what are you gonna get more Raxels?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So they actually have a new ownership, but they they're back and they're gonna be there. It's the same exact
like a business model. You know, they're gonna be uh
committed to quality, So that's gonna be cool because that was like a little void that once they like we're gone, that's like, ah, man, like now we're gonna do you know.
So it's cool to see that come back. So if
you've got stuff that needs to rebuildy probably send it out to them. They might have stuff off the shelf
as well, ready to go. But it's cool to see
Raxless back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is cool.
Speaker 2: Also, uh, the AVF Imitational twenty twenty six photo book by Sam Dobbins More Than More is out, Yes, so that's really cool. It's really awesome to see the Heather's
car on the front of it, which is great. Such
a cool book. So definitely pick one of those up
because they're not gonna be around forever. They're not gonna
have a million you know printed, so once they're gone, you're gonna be gone.
Speaker 1: That whole coffee table thing is such a great idea, it really is.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I even remember going over to other friend's house that might be into something like that. Yeah,
you know, you sit down on the couch, you're just chilling.
It's literally one of the first things you.
Speaker 2: Do definitely just go for it.
Speaker 1: You grab it, you start looking through. Sometimes it's something
that like your buddy had that you didn't have, like a certain issue of or something, and then then be like, oh shit, look at this.
Speaker 2: You know, I have the second Coffee table Book, and I always like for guests to come over and stay over.
I always had that out like on a nightstand. So
like if they're like, you know, hanging out upstairs or whatever, and they're like, oh, you know, take a look at some pictures and you know, just flip through, right, Yeah, for sure, it's cool. So this thing came out for
sale Video motor Sports Mark one Gates Cluster nine K tag for twenty five hundred bucks. So Pat Motorsports has
it and it is like brand new, Like if you want some O G VW motorsport like wholesome goodness, yeah, sex here, it's fantastically Uh you got.
Speaker 1: A picture everything? Oh yeah, I want to see damn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fantastically. Listed on Instagram it was twentive hundred
bucks and yeah, sick. It's cool to still see like
stuff like that that's still brand new.
Speaker 3: Zero miles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's funny because there's stuff that comes out, and obviously it's not for everybody. The price tag is
going to like detract a lot of people. But if
you're trying to build something like the VI don't even more sport themed vehicle, that's that's the Yeah, you need that, you want that. Yeah, So looking back, we just had
Cold Classic always happened. There was this twentieth anniversary of
Cold Classic suck that we missed it, but we missed it for a good reason, being at the racetrack and being at Watkins Glens. Correct. Now we're gonna be going
into summer here. This is summer full swing. You got
Marko Madnis coming up. Yeah. Now, it's like this is
the middle of the summer and there's just so much going on anywhere you look, even like local get togethers.
There's local shows, local shows, a dealerships. There's just so
much going on. Yeah, not from nothing. It's been pretty good.
Speaker 1: Weather wise, Yeah, it has. We've been pretty good. You know,
it's crazy this year. I feel like, other than going
to Helen, we missed mark to May Day this year, which we you know, I never want to do. Yeah,
I mean I never want to miss it, not that I never want to go there, right, No, right, we missed could classic year? What else did we miss We
missed something? Oh I missed that. I want to go that.
We missed June Bug, we missed I wanted to go again?
Back to the that Father's Day Uh that Air Cold show out in Uh. Yeah. So it's just literally, dude,
this is like the weirdest year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stuff hasn't been lining up the past for I'm going.
Speaker 1: To be missing Mark one Madness this year, right, and because I'm going on vacation with my family. Is just
like that the week we could go, you know, we line up your your work schedule with your wife or whatever, and this is when we can go. It is what
it is, and it sucks because, like you said, Mark one Madness is for sure the kind of the marker of the middle of the year already, like it feels like it just started, but we're already halfway through exactly.
There's only there's only so many more left and god damn man, I need to get out to.
Speaker 2: Some seriously for both of us. Yeah, I do have
some American segment stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh do you really what? Let's see here? Oh ship dude,
that's not it. Dude, I don't even know where it's at. Uh,
all right, what's the Americans?
Speaker 2: All right? So I got a couple of things. Actually,
one I want to touch base on. This is gonna
get into a little conspiracy theory kind of stuff that's going on. So I don't want people have seen there's
been There was a huge fire that.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, I know where you're going.
Speaker 2: Went up in flames. It was a six hundred acre
fire near Wendel Idaho Ella Classic yard that Dave Freiberger had on a lot of his episodes in the show's they would go to the yard and get stuff and whatnot. Now,
this junk yard has been there for decades, decades, not like you know, a couple of years, fucking decades. Nine
of it gone, ninety of it burnt to the ground. Now,
these cars have been there for decades. They don't just
spontaneously combust. This is like the It's around a dozen
or not more fires in this last year alone for junk yards. Now, all of a sudden, out of know
where junkyards are just engulfing in flames and burning to the ground.
Speaker 1: I have heard this a few other times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and It's like for people that are trying to keep older cars on the road, classic cars, you try to a muscle car, build whatever in the case is like this is this is disheartening. This is like devastating,
devastating to a huge group of automotive enthusiasts.
Speaker 3: What are starting these fires? How these fires started?
Speaker 2: Because like, these vehicles haven't had fuel, gas, oil, nothing in them for decades. They're completely bone dry, and if
there's any fuel in there, it's been tarnished a long time ago. That stuff is just sitting about tank like right,
not fuel anymore, right, right, And it's yeah, I mean, so it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: So you're saying the conspiracy would be someone starting like almost like big motor starting to pay for.
Speaker 2: Government big motor, who knows because obviously, well, because you don't want these cars on the road, older vehicles in general.
Speaker 1: I just heard somebody, and I don't know who it was, I forget, somebody threw out some new like idea for new legislation. Some fucking moron was basically saying they don't
want any cars older than ten years old on the road.
Speaker 2: I saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, which is absolutely insane. First of all, go
fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Yes, Second of all, you
don't have say and what I own exactly, Like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I can do whatever the fuck I please. And for
somebody to come up with an idea like that and be like, you know, because of course it's always under the guise of it is quote unquote unsafe.
Speaker 2: Right, No, exactly, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: And the fact that things are so they just get exponentially more expensive. I mean literally, people can't afford Some
people cannot afford to fucking buy a car that is in ten or more years old.
Speaker 2: Your entry level car now is twenty four to twenty five grand. That's a base level vehicle base right, dude,
I think bull shit.
Speaker 1: I think we're around like forty grand or something like that.
That's your minimum your average car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, just insane. So it's like, what's happening here?
How dose junk yards go up in flames? It's kind
of like the castor clo I was just gonna say that, and like I remember, like it's the first thing.
Speaker 1: It reminds me we have cash for clunk absolutely because.
Speaker 2: Our friend Mike that we actually were just hanging out with this past weekend. He works at dealerships and he
had these cars come in and he said most of the cars would just seize right up instantly when they put that mixture into the motor. He said that the
four leader jeeves, no matter what it was, would run for fucking hours with this mixture, glass beats whatever in the side of the motor. And it makes sense why
they want these trucks and cars and whatever off the roads, because like these would never die. That's so crazy, and
like get a rod Away rock box. But like, if
you are the big three automakers, or if you're any kind of automaker, your competition is older cars. Your competition
are used cars.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh one hundred percent. And I mean, let's be serious.
There are all different kinds of lobbyists and stuff out there that are working for like big motor stuff. Yes,
And there's like they will fund this stuff, they will have ideas for ways to take these cars off the road.
It's crazy. It's basically it goes against everything that all
of us stand for. Yeah, because you know, you're.
Speaker 2: American of us to basically stand up to them and say go fuck themselves.
Speaker 1: But even like our you know, our German cars or whatever.
It doesn't matter, Like, you know, they're all older cars that we enjoy. They're cool because they are simple and
they are fun and they're not too complex and.
Speaker 2: Easy to work on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they stay under the radar. Really that's the
other thing now, Like they don't have cameras and it doesn't know exactly where you're going, you know, every every turn you take, every single day, and it's not being recorded somewhere or anything else. Dude, My my newest car
is going to be a fucking Audi from twenty thirteen. Yeah,
and that's that's my newest car.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's just still very it's it's got a creature covert you want, but it's not so new that like you're gonna be like, what the hell's happening?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because then you just find another one from around that era early two thousands to the teens.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is really like a daily car that doesn't have all the bullshit or the tracking devices or anything else. It's
crazy man.
Speaker 3: Black box stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so this is a tell tell Tall, this is a telling sign. The CEO of Ford Motor Company,
he comes out and they're talking about like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 2: You don't want people repairing your own vehicles. This is
like a reporter talking to him and he said, no, that's fine. It's not like warranty work thout. These are
very complicated cars that we don't think it's safe. So basically,
they don't want you to repair vehicles so they don't think it's safe. They said, I have no problem working
on a seventy three Bronco, but to work on a brand new Bronco, you need all sorts of specialty tools.
That's something that you know would put people's lives at risk.
What So, working on your own vehicle because it's newer, because you don't have the tools to work on it, you're gonna put people's lives at risk, or just allow the public to be able to work on your own shit.
Speaker 1: Again, it's everything always comes down to quote unquote your safety.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what they try to go to. They try
to go to safety because they want that fear of you know, it's not safe for you to do this, so let us handle it. Not for nothing, like I
wouldn't want to bring any of my shit to any shop or dealership to work on unless it's someone I trusted.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it really does have to be somebody you know and somebody you trust. Yeah, otherwise who knows what fucking
dropout is working on your shit that doesn't know a goddamn thing about anything. We have friends that have worked
at at dealerships and they always say, some of the people that they work with, Yeah, they would never want any of their loved ones driving a car that they just touched.
Speaker 2: Especially because like a lot of r SO, a lot of this new tech stuff that has come out. You
have a lot of like these new newer texts that are computer advanced, and that's what they know. They know
to plug this thing in and it tells you what's wrong with it, and they fix the problem. They can't
go in and actually like troubleshoot something because they don't even know how to. They don't know how to work
on a vehicle. They just know you plug it in,
this will tell you what's wrong with it. You get
this amount of hours build here, you go twenty hundred dollars earlier, there's your bill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So there is legislation right now that luckily has made it to the house floor. It's it's past all the
hurdles and it's the right to work legislation basically saying allowing people to work on their own vehicles, old or new, and trying to figure out navigate ways to work on stuff that has more advanced systems and more computer you know software. It's just there's a lot of things. Obviously
looking back on the John Deere scandal that happened, where like the John Deere trackers, you bought one, you're a farmer, it broke down the middle of your farm and you can't even repair because it was locked out, locked wouldn't tell you what was wrong with it, and that that was a huge lawsuit that actually the farmers like won.
So it's kind of that same round. But it's like
you look at these automakers and they don't want you to work on this stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've come such a far, such a long way, you know, like think about Henry Ford and what he tried to do and how he put out something that not only everyone could own, but everyone could work on it. He literally got like pamphlets on how
to do things, like people people knew how to work on their vehicles because they didn't have many options. And
then it becomes you know, kind of like the big business aside says, well, no, we want all that work.
I mean it really comes down to, like, you know, we have to take care of it. You're not allowed
to bring it in charge you whatever the hell we deem necessary, you know.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at like from that standpoint, you've got that, and then all of a sudden you have now warnings don't drink your washer fluid. Like that's how far we've come. Yeah,
it's bullshit, And it's like it's so ridiculous because not for nothing, people are not doing stuff as much as they did back then, yeah or even ten years ago.
Like people are so robotic now because they just by this random whatever vehicle, point A, point B, don't give a shit about any of it, like what it looks like, it's silver, gray, you know, white, and they don't work on anything. They just take it to wherever to get
the work done. And like there's no fun, there's no
it's it's just like doing a day to day off grind.
Speaker 1: Well that's what they want, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, and it's just it's infuriating. But I mean things have gotten
extremely complicated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I think they're doing it on purpose because
do you need. Yes, a lot of this stuff they don't.
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The problem is so many people will not take cars that are stripped down. They want they yes, they absolutely want.
The next thing.
Speaker 2: We look at the Cadillacts. So we're looking at Cadillacts
at the race.
Speaker 1: Actually there was a Cadillac booth with real Cadillact. Yeah,
not prototype the V cars so it had like Cadillac Escalade V and yeah, the CTSV and.
Speaker 3: The whole dashboard is a screen, dude.
Speaker 1: The dashboard goes across to the driver's side door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a screen. And it's like, it's so stupid.
You have laws about not being on your cell phone to drive. How the fuck do you drive one of these?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a literally command center cars, fully digital with no controls for like HVAC radio because it's all on a screen. What the hell is the difference between the
iPad and your lap or your phone or a screen in front of you. You're trying to figure out the
controls for that. You're gonna smash into someone because you
just running them out of light because you're trying to take your your heat set, your heated seat warm are off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. It's when I when I I saw
so the CTSV is an amazing vehicle.
Speaker 3: Gorgeous car.
Speaker 1: It's a gorgeous car. It's like one of the last
like of the you know, I kind of put it in the whole like RS four, like out of the R S four Like you know. It's a certain like
mid size kind of car, small to mid size, but has like a fucking wild engine. So it's it's still
an LS six point two supercharged engine. Yeah, and it
made it says on the on the paper right outside the vehicle six hundred and sixty eight horse power.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, a seven hundred horsepower, Like.
Speaker 2: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: That's insane. That's fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: But the huge takeaway, like you were saying, you open up the door, because they were letting people crawl in and sit and do whatever you want. Yeah, you open
up the door and the first thing you see is the biggest and longest screen you've ever seen in your life. Yeah,
it goes from one side of the car to the other.
It's it's fucking hideous.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 2: It's awful.
Speaker 1: Like, the seats are cool, the steering wheel, the everything is cool. About it, and then you see the like,
here's the problem with that? How is that not going
to age out?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: When you see like a beautiful gauge of say like an early Mercedes, like look at a goal wing or something, you know what I mean, And like you look at the bezels of the whole like that are in the dashboard and everything else, and then you see this ugly ass fucking screen. In ten years, that screen isn't going
to be whatever they move on to. Why can't we
just keep one little screen in the middle and keep your normal dials and everything else throughout the car? I
don't understand. I think I think most car enthusiasts would
like that, But maybe I don't know. Maybe they the
market's speaks and they all want the big, fucking stupid screens.
Speaker 2: I think sometimes they I think this is a harder percentury.
I don't even think it is a conspiracy. They push
the market in certain ways, and look at the ev push and everything, and obviously the consumer is gonna dictate what the market is, even if the manufacturers are trying to push a certain way.
Speaker 1: Because but I feel like people are saying that there's too much screen, right there's too much screen.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, you're still getting the screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, too bad, here's more screen. Yeah, you're
gonna get all of the screen. About the Silverado, they
just showed what the new Silverado is gonna look like.
It's pretty cool. I actually think they're going in a
decent interaction kind of.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But now, not only do you have the huge screen that's in front of you, and then there's an enormous center console screen. Now there's basically where the airbag deploys
on the passenger side, there's a whole other screen.
Speaker 3: So you're there peeled like with the airbag and a screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the screen's going right through your chest. But that
fucking thing it is able to play movies and videos in YouTube and all kinds of stuff in that screen.
Speaker 2: So it's like, that's not distracting, dude, What the fuck?
Speaker 1: It's so fucked up. How many people are gonna be
driving a new, brand new, fucking looking over dollars truck? Yeah,
and just watching like, I don't know, Gordon Rams, you cook a chicken or something in the passengers don't like, what right?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Do we forget that why we bought the vehicle is to drive.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is they could put more technology into like I don't know, anti fucking rust like something God so like your car will not rust out. But
it's no, it's so expensive, it'll go way too much.
I'll do all this. But like they put so much
money in the tech into the car, they're like, you don't.
Speaker 1: Even need, you don't need, and who's to say that's the thing. It's like they they are. They are on
the track of Oh, you didn't know you needed this exactly, and it's like, no, I don't want it. I think
that I think the theme of this podcast is go fuck yourself pretty much. You know.
Speaker 2: Like I drive an oh one Jetta. Like granted it's
a wagon, it's got three two, but it's a fucking Jetta.
It's a Bora but whatever. Yeah, like I don't want
any of that. No, I love my car. I don't
have a radio in it because radio is there, it doesn't work. I have a like JBL bass tube in
it or like you know, one of those soundbar whatever things, and it's like that's it. If I want to listen
to music, I'll play it. But it's like I really
don't even listen to music once in a while listen to you know something, but it just sounds so good and it just runs like incredible, Like for a daily driver, it's just an awesome car. Speaking of that, I saw
this thing on Instagram also that it's you need a manual car for medical reasons. So there's this ground baking
study that came out of to Haku University that reveals dry mainly transmission activity actively exercises the your brain region like give governing memory, so you're prefrontal cortex and your exclusive decision making, so like you're also you know, when you're bouncing your clutch gear, shifting throughout all that stuff, like your active active cognitive calculations turning like data commits
into like viral neurological workouts, So you're actually working out your brain because of the sequences of like manually shifting a vehicle.
Speaker 1: I totally understand that.
Speaker 2: And obviously you're you're working out too, like you're not just sitting there, like your legs are moving, like doing things something right instead of just kind of sin it.
So it's like saying that like having like this mental simulation is completely absent when driving automatic of course, so like it's an incentive to like have Viet vehicles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well what about even further though, when when every car now is literally gonna be you just type in where you go and you just go to sleeps You just fucking lay there and get on your phone because or you watch YouTube in the passenger side of a Silverado.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, I I just don't want this world.
Speaker 2: I know, man, I think a lot of people are like, are like, we don't want this.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want this. Yeah, I'm I'm so
sick and tired of hearing about fucking AI and everything else, and like, can't we just like, can't we just stop and be like, you know what we did pretty good? Yeah,
Like let's just hang out now.
Speaker 2: Right exactly, Just just let's get away from all that stuff, oh dude, speaking of AI. Oh and all right, so.
Speaker 1: We can't make this a four hour podc No, we.
Speaker 2: Can't, I'm but we have to. Like we haven't been
on for a while, so it's good to get all this out at once. If I'm calling all you guys out,
I don't care if another fucking show makes another AI flyer for the event. I'm gonna shut them on the
podcast because you're making these AI posters that don't even look like fuckingmolkswagons. It's like, oh cool, it was just
six lug bullpattern. You have an m Mark two or
whatever the fuck you have. It's like, come on, dude,
use real content. You've got so much stuff out there.
And this is like I've seen so many shows now that are using AI stuff, like for like their poster and like you know, showing when the show is coming up with whatever the case is. Why you've got so
many good photographers artists, It's like they're like they'll do stuff for little or nothing or nothing, Like you can just ask them for their work because they want, you know, to have a showcased or have someone do some work for you. It's like, come on, man, yeah, the AI
stuff is garbage when it comes to that. Yes, I could.
I understand where it could come in and handy on certain things, but like making flyers or posters or something for a show or anything for like you're you're trying to utilize something that's not it's not it's not there yet.
Maybe in five or ten years will be there when they put up, you know, thirty more in our area and we have water and no fucking electric. But anyway,
it's there. But it sucks.
Speaker 1: Well, it sucks because like that yeah yeah, yeah, for.
Speaker 3: Like Volkswagen posters and flyers and stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah. So you should see you should see
at work, Oh dude, all people do now, Like there's some people that are putting together all these these different charts and stuff to show you know, they're trying to Oh dude, it's so bad. Different charts to show you know,
where workload might be trending and all this stuff, and it is so it is so ai that it hurts your eyes when you look at it because there's so much information and people there's not a human going. I
can't even read. I don't even know what I'm looking at.
There's fucking charts and there's pictures and there's ever but you can tell it's all fake and the colors are brutal on your eyes, and like, you know, someone that really knows what they're doing, as far as like graphic design had nothing to do with it, because anyone can put something together now, So you see, you see this in meetings all the time, like super overdone AI stuff and people think it's really good. And you look at
everybody in the in the conference room when it comes up, and everyone's eyes starts straining. They're like, what the fuck
are we even looking at it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Man down a super long Yeah.
Speaker 2: PSA, don't use fake ship, use real content. That's all
I got on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I do have some questions and we can go over someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah you missed you guys, we haven't been on a little bit. Yeah. Nice to get some questions here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. So let's see here, Arctic Rabbit says,
what is one thing that you guys want to accomplish by the end of the show season?
Speaker 2: To have my truck go to a shell, Actually have my truck running and driving to a shell now, whether it be something that's coming up sooner or later, something at least to one.
Speaker 1: Of the shows, even if it's the last show of the season, just to get it out. Yes, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 2: That's for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: I want a huge diesel truck with an enormous trailer, and I want to be fucking camping all over, going to races, to do with volkswagons at all, No, I don't.
I want to just I want to just drive my cars.
Like you said about the purge, I have recently kind of purged over the last year, and I only have really like two Volkswagons. Yeah, other than my wife's Alice.
We only have Mark one in the Mark too, And so I just want to drive them as much as possible.
And I don't even necessarily. They're both in a good
place right now, So I just want to actually even if it's just going to the lake or going to get ice cream or whatever, right, you know what I mean, going for a drive, dude, I like going to the gym in my cars and you just you're driving early in the morning somewhere with something, and somebody walks out and they're like they look at it, like you're driving that love Like that's awesome, you know what I mean, Like they can't even comprehend that someone's just using it.
Speaker 2: I had the best reaction to my car at work now.
I work. You know, there's inmates there and there's like
the ones that are a blue collar outside of the fence, you know, more lenient. Yeah, older guy probably in his sixties.
He's a douchebag, but whatever. He's like one of these
pompas ergant guys that like fucking has too much money, got locked up from some like you know, multimillion dollar ceo bullshit. Though. Anyway, I passed behind my fucking Mark
four wagon and he goes, I think such a ship box and I heard him say it to like someone else that he's walking by, you know, I was like, thanks, man, I appreciate that, you know, fuck you, but thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Mark two Jettakoop says, you guys going
to come out to Pacific water Land in September.
Speaker 2: Dude, I would love to get out there, and like trying to get them to come out to an East Coast show as well. So it's kind of like, uh,
who can make it out to what side first? I
you know what, it's not, it's not out of the world of possibility, but like September is tough. It cuts
when school starts and everything, and it's like tough get away. Yeah,
but it would be cool just to go out there for a weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the funniest names. When I first read it,
I remember I say dub into fuck yes, and it's just a great name. Dub into Fox. What is your
most wholesome or car related memory or story. It's so
funny that that's your name.
Speaker 2: That's that's the question you had. That's great, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: The irony. I love going anywhere with like the family,
I think anytime as far you know, it sounds kind of like whatever. I'm sure Danny's gonna say the thing
about his son in the truck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably for me pick up the truck last year from Helen and bringing home and everything and like having my son like draw a picture of it like in school and stuff, and like talking about like that was the best part of the trip was to pick up the truck like that. That for me, it's like
I don't think I ad top that, and I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 1: I've had a couple experiences where I've bought uh cars from older people and when you when you talk to them as they might not want to totally let the car go that have had it for a while, but they know it's going to the right hands, and you can see like almost their release, like their emotional release when they finally like sign the papers or shake your hand or anything like that. I always think that's kind
of Uh, that's like an emotional event and maybe not so much for me, but almost like ensuring them that it's going to the.
Speaker 2: Right spot definitely.
Speaker 1: And then that goes both ways too, because there's a couple of cars that you see or that you've you've been around, you've you've owned for years and it kind of like hits you in the right time, or your kids or something or going like I don't want you to get rid of it, but they don't understand sometimes yeah, it's the time to get rid of it right, and you know, then they'll get you know, upset or you know, you see it going away and you're like, damn, like that car was good to me, or it brought my family around to certain events or we did you know, all these different things together. Yep, that's kind of like
what hits home for me personally. So what else we have?
Volkswagon Ears podcast says, do you guys have anything specific you eat, drink or do on podcasts recording days? That
is a crazy question. I've never that's kind of cool. Yeah,
it is cool, dude.
Speaker 2: We don't really eat drink or do anything less specific.
It's always just water. I think we just have like water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's always because we are, uh, we're always rushing to get in an episode somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like right now, our setup is an ideal, Like we don't have like a great you know, podcasting area yet a big month, buddy, Yeah, like once you start creating a studio, because you're gonna be working on that, like you said, next month and we have like a more dedicated area, maybe we'll do something a little different.
Maybe we'll have a little more drinks or something like that.
Speaker 1: We just have like nice candlelight dinners. Yeah, I can
get out there. Uh yeah, we don't have anything specific.
Usually we've just scarfed down something as fast as we can because we get home late and then we rush to each other's house, dude, to do something.
Speaker 2: We should just take a picture of the current set up and just put it out there like a story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. E Rod's spectrum says how
many volkswagens qualify as too many? I'll let Danny answer
this one.
Speaker 2: I think when like your friends are saying, wait, how many you have and they're like where do you keep them?
Speaker 3: Because like my y heart is very small.
Speaker 2: I have like a third of an acre, and I do have a decent amount of garage space. So like
there's three current in the garage and then I have that one garage on into the house. There's four cars
in garages, so like then you have the other cars you're outside, so you have like four cars in the driveway and there's one car in the back driveway and there's one car in the side of the garage. It's
covered under a tar. So there's a lot going on,
but like it kind of like hides it. Well, yeah
it does, you know what I mean, Like it doesn't look like I have ten cars, but I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when someone people are asking.
Speaker 1: And what is too many? Well, if you had to
put a number on it, honestly too many.
Speaker 2: Thinking about this now, like with more clarity, when you work on everything and something sits for too long, more than a couple of years that you haven't got to it, I think it's too many.
Speaker 1: But before that's open ended, no one could someone could do that as a thirty car. Just give me a
number five, Okay, I'd say I'd say four or five.
Speaker 2: Because like I think, yeah, like I have we have the Mark one convertible that's on the road and driving off, which is fine. The pickup truck is still getting worked on. Yeah,
I got the GC Marke GTI that have I never were driven a run, and they've got the Secret wagon that runs and drives. I've got the Deer Slayer still
on the Black Deer Slayer wagon that still runs and drives, just smashed up still, and they had the Silver Slayer buffsot wagon that one is in me going soon. And
then I have the R thirty two swapped jet of wagon.
So that's a lot of stuff going on. But we
also have the tog Q seven, We have sixty nine Mustang fast Back, and then I got to six and nine playing the road Runner. So like there is a
lot going on and I can't I just can't get to everything.
Speaker 3: I don't have much time to work on any of it.
Speaker 1: You don't even have enough time to enjoy it.
Speaker 2: That's exactly if they were running like the road.
Speaker 3: Runner right now.
Speaker 2: I've got some quirks I gotta fix with that, like the turn signal stock broke, and I got a new harness for that and it's like a you know switch and everything. I'm also getting like cutout issues and I
replaced pretty much everything I thought it would be. I
think it's an MSD box because like obviously it's old and I don't know what, you know, it's just something I have to address, and I have it and I haven't had time too, and it's like I just want to like address that's so I can drive the car more. Yeah,
so instead of just cutting out of me randomly, do you.
Speaker 1: Ever even want to, like because you can't address some stuff like that? Because this is how I get, like
even one of the cars that you like the most, like your road Runner, Like, do you ever want to just be like, you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna sell this too, dude.
Speaker 2: I've said this and like my wife's like, you're not selling that car. Yeah, that's her favorite car, hands down,
out of everything. Like we would sell everything in the
house before we sell the fucking crow Runner. That's crazy,
So that would that.
Speaker 1: In the sixth and I mustang, Ricky says, pineapple ever acceptable on pizza? I do jalapino garlic fetta, and pineapple
pizza is so good.
Speaker 3: I love pineapple on pizza.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: Here's my thing.
Speaker 3: I love pineapple and bacon together.
Speaker 1: So many people freak out about this fucking pineapple shit.
I don't know why, because people will put anything else on pizza, but the sweet, fantastic, sweet and salty goes on everything. I have no problems with pineapple and pizza.
I'll fucking eat it right in front of like the biggest pizza kind of see where there is. I think
it works and it sounds awesome. Garlic and feta is
fucking awesome. I like going sometimes those like crazy little
places that have all the little gourmet different kinds of you know, it's like goat cheese and hot honey and all that.
Speaker 2: I love that ship good stuff.
Speaker 1: But I also like just a good old plain cheese.
Speaker 2: Pizza or just like a pepperoni.
Speaker 1: Ricky also says any wheels that you guys specifically have never liked, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Do you know my answer to that?
Speaker 2: No, I might, Actually I might. I might.
Speaker 1: I might have forgotten the TSW wheels.
Speaker 2: Oh venoms. I knew that I had fairly recently not
liking those wheels.
Speaker 1: I think they're the ugliest wheels ever. That's yeah, whoever
made them should be shot. That's funny, terrible.
Speaker 2: Man, what would be Oh, you know what And this is probably gonna be like a like A I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, here we go.
I think I've grown to like them. Okay, I fucking
hated three spoke wheels. Okay, hated three spoke wheels anytime
I saw them, like in the nineties, I let those are a fucking hideous. I've hated three spoke wheels through
the two thousands, and like now I've come to appreciate them more. I still wouldn't necessarily own them for myself,
but I do like them on certain cars, where before I was like, there's no whel ever ever like something like that.
Speaker 1: I like, I like certain three spoke wheels.
Speaker 2: Chrome one's absolutely awful, gaudy, terrible for me, right, but like, I think they.
Speaker 3: Work certain cars.
Speaker 1: And I loved him in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never liked three smoke wheels.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, cool uh Lovan and Dubbin says, best place to take a pre two k Volkswagen when it's one hundred degrees out and it's the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: Dude, Like he isn't a great location because he's got a lot of great roads to drive around.
Speaker 1: Like, I think I'll never forget the last time we were there and we did a podcast in his in his then it was like one hundred and forty degrees inside his garage to where we had the podcast. Yeah,
can you remember how hot my R thirty two was getting because we were stuck in traveling dude?
Speaker 2: Yes, it was so hot.
Speaker 1: The car was saying like one eighteen outside because it was just radiating off the blacktop.
Speaker 2: Everyone speaking of which is going to be like that this week, like Wednesday, Thursday, this that what he's talking about Thursday is gonna melt.
Speaker 1: That's what he's That's literally what he's saying. Where the
fuck do you go? Where do you go with the
pre two K?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: I say, go near a lake.
Speaker 2: Anywhere that's not traffic's yeah, you gotta be most because he's in Jersey, so like if he's going to work or something like, you're going more where the traffic is anywhere is not traffic. Yeah, but it's fourth of July weekend.
There's be traffic everywhere, dude. Even coming home from work today,
I know it's getting caught a lot more traffic. Yeah,
I noticed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we live in that kind of area and we do. Yeah, dude, I don't know, Uh, come up
in the mountains, come here and just drive around and we'll go for a cruise. Yeah, dude, seriously, German bomber says,
oh dude, this is a oh, this is a great one.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, scrap daily or garage? Okay, A twelve valve golf rally, yep,
A sixteen valve turbo golf rally or an O seven K golf rally, all are in mint condition. You're gonna
so you got a twelve valve, a sixteen valve turbo or an O seven K you're gonna scrap daily or garage?
Oh seven k NA or turbo seven K doesn't say turbal, I would say na n A.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm scrapping that one. That one's getting scrapped.
The seven KNA I'm going to daily, the twelve valve, and then the garage queen obviously is going to be the sixteen B.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, awesome.
Speaker 1: It was so funny most of these dude. First of all,
German bombers always coming.
Speaker 2: In with oh yeah, he comes on swinging.
Speaker 1: They're always fantastic bangers. And the last like four we've
been right on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not I'm gonna I'm gonna scrap immediately the seven K because for.
Speaker 2: That car, it's just yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a no go for me. It's not the right
motor for that car. I don't know why. I can't
explain why. It just isn't. Maybe because it isn't period,
The twelve valve isn't special enough, which I would love a twelve valve Golf rally, like that is what I'd want to drive every day, and it's also fun. It's
also more reliable than a sixteen valve turbo. Absolutely, so
the sixteen valve turbo is gonna be like the show car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, Open Air Imports right now has a red Golf Rally sixteen valve g sixty with like fifteen thousands on.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what does that go for? Like eighty grand?
Speaker 2: No, I mean it's not reasonable, but I think it's like sixty four Okay.
Speaker 3: Landed here like in your driveway.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I thought that was like, that's so sick.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's sick.
Speaker 2: It's in it's fifty. It's like probably besides, like a
museum piece vehicle, right, it's gotta be one of the nicest ones out there.
Speaker 1: What else would you do? What else would you do
for sixty four grand? It's like you could have about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there is a nine ninety six right now for a yellow nine ninety six.
Speaker 1: That is automatic, no manual, hard top.
Speaker 2: It's got nine yeah, oh turrible ninety six for sale.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're clearly gone through the yellow one. Yeah,
it's like sixty four thousands rebuilt title sixty four four.
Speaker 2: Probably get that for fifty dude.
Speaker 1: It's so funny how like your numbers work in your head.
There has been sixty four. You probably get it for
FI because it's a rebuilt title car. I think it's
worth sixty four if it's rebuilt. I saw it looks
really nice.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is a nice car. I'll throw fifty
five at that.
Speaker 1: Everyone's saying, like, how beautiful it is. It does look nice,
but it has a rebuilt title. Yeah, so that's a
great driver car, one hundred per fucking drive it. That's
a that's a U car because it's yellow.
Speaker 2: I know, dude, I thought about this on the road Runner for that It's like, no way, dude, that'd.
Speaker 1: Be fucking crazy. Yeah awesome, Okay, what else do we
have here? Mk Fraser says goals for the rest of
the year. We kind of went over that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just got some more shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Fuffalo strong, fuffalo. Bucker eighty nine says god, I
miss domain dot com card domain do Yeah, dude, I remember cardial Yes what ear would you say? That got popular?
Speaker 2: Fuck?
Speaker 3: I'm free.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, oh one, okay, Yeah, I feel like I started noticing that like when I was towards the end of high school. Yeah, yeah, for sure, early
two thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. It's cool that that was even around a
lot of stuff like that. It's just so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh match just MMA Andrew, I think that's the
name here. It says why is the Volkswagen community stuck
in the chip tuning days of two thousand and one?
Speaker 2: You know what it is too, Yes, there's a part of the community that doesn't want to evolve into new technology.
Now there is new technology out there that's great for doing standalone racing, you know, custom off builds, But if you're just doing something that's like period of pure correct there's really no need for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You you try to keep it simple, you know, keep it simple, acronum kiss, keep a simple stupid. Yeah, And
a lot of our a lot of us invokes on the community.
Speaker 3: We're dumb.
Speaker 2: We're just dumb, so like we don't want to evolve and we want to keep that. Like you know, Chip,
that's an S and S days five that's burned for like my you know, yeah G sixty motor, like just plug and play. Yeah, not to have to worry about
like doing something new where it's like you know what it is. I think also new is scary. Yeah for
a lot of people that you know something, so you stay in your lane.
Speaker 1: That's just what you know, and that happens. That happens
with everything. That's like why so many people still listen
to the music they did like when they were in high school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just it is you don't you kind of you kind of find your little comfort zone and you stay there for the most part. That's why when
someone either builds something or makes something that's like extraordinary, it's like whoa, Because so many people get stuck in a certain spot and then someone comes out swinging and you're like, wow, you know exactly all right. So something
subtle says, do you guys have any hobbies that you do when you're sick and tired of your other hobbies?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean like we've we.
Speaker 1: Have talked about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have.
Speaker 1: I play instruments, I play I play music. I'm into music.
I love going to see live music. I like guns, ye,
same guns.
Speaker 2: Bare league softball for me, Fuck yeah, I play Wednesday night league berleg softball, you know, trying to relive and I want to score four touchdowns in a single game.
Speaker 3: Like al Bundy.
Speaker 2: But that's odd. That's what I got, you know. Coaching.
I love coaching Little league. I do that, you know,
in the spring. So those kind of like what going on.
And then beyond the lake too, just doing link stuff, fishing.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 1: I love being on the water. You're right, I do.
I do love being on the lake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so much fun.
Speaker 1: Frosty Beads says, have you ever done anything to your cars that you regretted besides selling them?
Speaker 2: This is a good question. A part of me kind
of goes back and forth with the syncral Wagon because I have the prototype pro charger kit that's on there.
And I think for the most part, like a lot of the bugs are kind of worked out of it. Yeah,
but a part of me is like, man, if I never did this, I would just have the light soong on that car rocking around and wouldn't have had a lot of little quirky issues I've had for the past few years with it because I know how reliable the Lhong was when I was on my sedan and I've just been rocking it with the n power to saved me, like you know, ten grand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Isn't that funny how that happens?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how about that? Even escalate into what it was?
It's like crazy, and it's it's cool that I did it, and it's cool that the car is what it is now because it's such a different car from like anything else.
But it's like a part of it. It was like,
I'd be cool if it was just like stock with a lightle on it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for sure. Do you ever look at that
car and you're like, I should just fucking throw a twelve valve?
Speaker 2: Never? Okay, never want honestly like love twelve valves. That's
like the mark for wagon is or it's obviously twenty four voalves of VR. Yeah, but like I would never
want a twelve valve. The single wagon, I think it's
like a cop out because of what it is. I
and it's because so many people have fucking hate G sixties.
I love G sixties. I love eight valves, and I
want it to stay in eight valve motor. I think
it's sick that it puts an eighth oul. It pushes
out two fifty horsepower.
Speaker 1: I like eight valves a lot. Yeah, I don't know
if I'd ever want to own a G sixty, but I don't. I think they're cool. I think the idea
of a G sixty it is cool. Yes, I think
it's crazy that Volkswagon was like, we're gonna super charge a four cylinder engine. Absolutely, and they did it, and
I think it was just kind of wild and yeah, it's cool. Yeah, And contrary to popular belief, I still
don't think you think that. I think like light psalms
are like, they're fun and they sound cool. I do
like them.
Speaker 2: I think you do like them. Befar not to be
in a car for twelve hours driving it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bother me. That bad Okay, lor Can Martin
Mark two says, what is your favorite Volkswagen color and why.
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 2: I think I blue probably, I think I've said this before.
Also that Montana Green of Love. It's such a great color.
It's crazy how much more than value now that color has gone over the years. That is probably like that.
That is one of my favorite colors. And looking back
also on like one of the Crado colors was the oh it's a it's dark Burundie parl.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, it's.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: The violet one it's yeah, but it's the more purple one.
Speaker 2: It's like a it's a it's an ice violet pearl metallic, it's a pearl effect. Yeah, yeah, so I.
Speaker 3: Effect.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny they had like Corodo's had like three different purples. Oh yes they did, Like can you
imagine that nowadays?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had like.
Speaker 1: But that there's like so it's so telling.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean Nugga yellow also for me is like one of my favorite as well.
Speaker 1: But even even yellow, they had different yellows, right, like different years it was different yellow. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The g sixties came with the nugget, but then the six was the jasmine. Yeah, right, So it's like, which
is super rare in the United States. There's only a
handful of Jasmin yell vr cars out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. It's it's so crazy that they they
did that, and they're like, oh, yeah, well, yes it's purple, but what about this shade of her?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And then they actually did it, and then they put the paint on the car sold it. Your cradle was pearl, yeah,
which I I love that color. I think it's fantastic. Yes,
all right, who else do we have? Hooky Day New
York says, car show egos are back in full force.
Didn't it feel different right after COVID?
Speaker 2: Oh that's an interesting topic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting take. I tend not to want
to hang out with assholes.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, like, uh, how do I say that?
Like it's like, yeah, the douchebags of the community, like you really don't like Gravitator, Like I don't know. I
think a lot of it too, is like a lot of those cars are like the newer marks.
Speaker 1: That's it's literally the first thing I thought, maybe that's not always fair.
Speaker 2: Not always fair. No, it's not it's not always true.
Speaker 1: It's definitely not true. All the time, I think. Yeah,
I mean when he said that, I immediately thought of like some Mark News Mark New. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a there's a car that runs around in town here. I know the kid, he's in high school.
He's got a Mark seven that he runs around with.
And it's not a bad car. It's it's got some
done that work don win stuff. But like he is
kind of a douchebag, and he kind of acts like a douchebag with the car, right, And it's like, dude, if you only knew, like like there's a lot more invokes by community and wokes on the world other than it's like pops and bangs around the lake. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that has a lot to do with getting older too.
Speaker 2: It does. And I've talked to him before, like he's
he had a Mark four before, and he's like asked me advice on certain things and stuff about the Mark four stuff. And I try to help him out, which
is cool, like he's you know, he's he's learning, he's trying, but it's like, dude, stop with the pops and bangs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not cool.
Speaker 1: Simply Diets says, where you been? So we're here here? Uh,
Uggy Booboo says top re emojis you're using right now, Top three emojis. Mind's always the gun mine, shoulder shrug.
I feel like you always have the at least when you talk to me, you always have the slap hand into face.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's always going to like the face palm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, shoulder shrug, face palm, mine's thumbs up.
Speaker 2: And oh what else would I have? Shoulder shrug, face palm.
That's pretty much it. Like, yeah, I use like the
rock on symbol a lot, like you know, not the shocker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my would probably be this smiley face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just basic smile face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we got one last one. Type seventeen
says best way to stay cool in your non AC Volkswagen Vent windows question Mark or TIMU personal AC gadgets question Mark.
Speaker 2: That's great. It's funny because like my Mark pol wagon
doesn't have a C hooked up. If I keep the
windows closed in the back but just the front one's open, I get a lot more airflow, like directed towards me, which is awesome. It feels great. Yea, you know, it's
it's interesting because you have a lot of these like fly by Night kits to put a c in your car and like run you know something that's maybe gonna cue you down.
Speaker 1: It's weird that he said that because I just recently looked up like one that you could just put on a desk. Yeah, that doesn't have to like I don't
really know how it works. Yeah, I don't know, but yeah,
and they're like these stupid cheap things are like seventy four dollars at like say wal Mart or something, and it's like this can't Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: You've got like a lot of the electric AC kits.
Now you can get to like say the hybrid vehicles run on or test laws or whatever that are relatively inexpensive, and if you're like pressed for space in your bay, run on his electric ac kits and you have the CONSENTI stor mounting underneath the car or whatever, like in the trunk area. Like I really thought about this kit
for my sinkral Wagon because I have plenty of space in the rear end section of this car, especially the hide stuff like in the trunk area and whatnot. I
thought about running on his electric AC kits just to clean get the bay clean, and not run like a standard style.
Speaker 1: Kit I'm I'm weird when it comes to AC, but also hating the heat. Yeah, so I I hate I
am not good with heat. I'm not good with anything
above like seventy five degree weather. I'm just not I
don't enjoy it. I some people love heat, I'm not
into it. I wish it was fifty all year round.
But I don't need AC. Yeah, it's totally fine. Like
some people say, oh yeah, but you know, like you don't live in this area. I I am totally cool
with all the windows being down, and it's as long as I get the breeze, as long as I get the airflow. I don't really care if it's hot air,
as long as the airflow is moving. Yeah, I'm like okay,
And i'd rather I feel like it's just fresher because it's like real air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that, and that's how I feel too.
I'll never complain about the heat because I hate the fucking cold. And at least I'd rather sweat and die
outside in the heat than like not be able to do shit outside because it's too cold. So like, I'm
okay with it, even though like if I don't have AC like Thursday, I might just take the Tour Act to work because Tori has a C and it's gonna one hundred degrees out and I don't want like my card overheat because of traffic or something like that. So yeah,
that's kind of all I have. All Just a quick
shout out all about all the works I just saw they had posted. They've got Corado turn signals, clear turn signals,
and stock are like really really nice and comparable to what this factory wants. Were nice because those are always
cracked and crados. That's all I got, dude.
Speaker 1: All right, man, Well that's all we got. That's all
the questions. Thanks everybody for listening, and that's it. We
will catch you next time.
Speaker 2: Peace. Where h
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