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519-Good News And Good God...What Is THAT?!?
519-Good News And Good God...What Is THAT?!?
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About this episode
Ian and Dave dive into a lively discussion about their recent garage projects, including Ian's installation of a loud Maserati horn on his Fiat. They share humorous anecdotes about car modifications and the quirks of automotive culture. The episode also touches on the SCCA's supportive stance towards a trans competitor at the Solo Nationals, highlighting a positive moment in the automotive community. With a fun license plate game and a recommendation for a unique album, this episode blends humor, car talk, and important social commentary.
Topics:
garage projects
car modifications
SCCA news
license plate game
album recommendation
Cars:
Acura ZDX
Alfa Romeo Milano
Audi SQ5
Chevrolet Malibu
Fiat 500
Holden Caprice
Honda Crosstour
Hyundai Accent
Plymouth Road Runner
Subaru R2
Toyota GR 86
Toyota Tacoma
Toyota Venza
Volkswagen Jetta
Volkswagen Passat
Volkswagen Rabbit
This week we share some good news from the SCCA Autocross community and are amazed by a wild 'Murican Mali-Mino. We love you!
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"...what I did is I got like a kind of like a classic roadrunner beep, beep horn that you can get on Amazon. And I..."
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Fiat 500
"...tagram or TikTok or whatever of like vintage Fiat 500, it sounds like that now. Right."
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Volkswagen Passat
"...ower, even. OK, because like a hard parked airbag Passat is technically lower than your car. It is."
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Volkswagen Jetta
"Low V-dub. Here we go. Oh, OK. Yes. So it is a Jetta and it is low. Oh, it's a Passat. Yeah."
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Toyota Venza
"...would do one of a few things. I would do a Toyota Venza. OK, yeah. Yeah. Yeah."
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Volkswagen Rabbit
"Yeah, but I did. I went down the rabbit hole of like what people typically kind of did wh..."
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Holden Caprice
"...re's an El Camino bed. Uh-huh. And the front is a Caprice, maybe Caprice or Malibu, I think, yeah, one of t..."
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Chevrolet Malibu
"...huh. And the front is a Caprice, maybe Caprice or Malibu, I think, yeah, one of the 70s era Caprice or Mal..."
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Toyota Tacoma
"Oh, my God. OK, so we've got a Toyota Tacoma. Mm hmm. We've got a Hyundai Accent."
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Hyundai Accent
"... got a Toyota Tacoma. Mm hmm. We've got a Hyundai Accent. Yes. With a R2-D2 head on top of it."
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Subaru R2
"...Ace is on the Hyundai Accent because that's where R2 would be in the X-Wing, would be right behind the..."
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Alfa Romeo Milano
"Yes, the Malamino. Yes, the Mint Milano, the Pepperidge Farm, Mint Milano. Yes. So Jacob ..."
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Ian.
Dave.
Ian, I have to tell you, I am very excited for what I am seeing in the Google Meet window
here, the audio conferencing meet.
Yep.
What do you see?
Well, I see you, but I see my body.
I see cardigan Ian.
Yeah.
Yes.
Natural habitat in a slouchy cardigan.
Yes.
He is reverted to his natural, disgraced college professor look.
Uh-huh.
Yep.
The one they can't fire because he has tenure.
Right.
Yep.
Yep.
That's exactly right.
Yes.
The only problem with this particular cardigan is that the moths haven't eaten any holes
in it yet.
So I got to look a little more disheveled, I think.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Give it another six months and this thing will be ready to go.
Properly broken in, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Well, I mean, for anybody who doesn't know, Ian and I, we haven't talked about this,
but I know that we were both very excited about some like 60 degree days in Colorado,
like a whole day of rain, which normally I'm not a fan of when there's consecutive days
of rain, but like a whole day of rain on Tuesday was awesome.
Oh, yeah.
I had my rubber boots on all day, had a nice plaid on, like I was ready for it.
Yep.
Yep.
I'm going to cosplay.
I'm going to do my Seattle cosplay.
I was just going to say, like, your cosplaying is a PNWer?
Yes.
Exactly.
Nice, man.
Nice.
Well, the cool weather has been welcome and because it has been hot working in the garage
for a while and I'm just very excited about more garage work.
I've done a bunch of garage stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We can definitely talk about that, but it's just been nicer working in the garage and
having that cooler weather for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that's a great place to start.
You want to start with a garage update?
Yeah.
I would because I finally had time to do a thing that I've wanted to do forever in that
you were so nice to do.
I was able to and I think I have a picture of it that I tried to text you, but because
you're an Android boy, it didn't come through to you.
You just got a random text for me that just said, beep, beep, motherfuckers or toot,
toot, motherfuckers.
Yeah.
Sounds like that.
I was very confused.
Yeah.
I was very confused for clarification, but I installed the Maserati horn that you got me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It looks a little bit different than this as far as the configuration goes.
I kind of optimized it, but yeah, like for scale, here you go.
Here's kind of like that, how the horn fits in behind the bumper with that.
So you can kind of see the Fiat headlight there.
That's awesome.
For scale.
I should have put a banana there, a banana for scale, but yeah, I've been able
to work on the Fiat, Ian.
I haven't been able to work on the Fiat, and I was able to install the horn that you so
nicely bought me, and it's loud as shit, buddy, it's like so loud.
I have not made a recording of how loud it is to show you, because I'm just going
to have to like drive out east or something where there's nobody around and then hit
it and hope I don't get airstriked or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So how are you going to navigate using, how do you see yourself using this horn?
So I am not a big horn user, you know, on the day to day.
I have, I think within the last two weeks, I've used mine once because somebody was like
legitimately coming over right at me in a lane, like just full on like, and, and thankfully,
you know, my, my sub par previous factory Fiat horn did stop them.
But now this will like make them see Jebus.
Yeah.
So I, you know, like, I don't, I'm not aggressive about horns that stop lights, you know,
and like also this day and age, you never know, like people are going to fucking fly off the
handle at you, you know, like you could get shot up out there.
So I don't know.
I kind of play it safe nowadays.
Yeah.
But that's, that's kind of like me and horns.
Now how I plan to use this one is like no more, no more frequent, but I absolutely
know it is going to be a hundred percent more effective.
Right.
Yeah.
And I told you the last time that we talked, you know that I've installed this.
It's just new for the listeners.
But the very first time I hit it, I heard it and then I didn't hear it because it blew
the fuse on the horn circuit because the Fiat factory horn is 10, it has a 10 amp
fuse.
This has a 30 amp motor in 30 amps.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
That's how you know it's, it's proper.
Uh-huh.
They were going to make it more efficient, but then it decided to drink some wine
instead.
It, it absolutely does fit into like the Italian, I don't know, like mindset
because I think about it as like, what's his name, Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter
Ascending.
Mm-hmm.
Like you're either whispering or you're screaming.
Well, yeah.
And they're like, the Italians, when they're talking to each other, they
really do live that stereotype of like every conversation sounds like an
argument.
They are always shouting.
And also I've driven in Italy and I can see absolutely why it's the land of
loud horns because everybody is going for every gap.
They are all sent out, going for every gap on the road.
So it's, it's warranted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did do an allegor carbon offset with this horn, Ian, that I've also
been very excited to do, but I just haven't had time.
Okay.
Did you just write sorry on your, on your car?
Right.
I just taped like $5 bills to it and people could just pluck one in traffic.
I installed a beep, beep horn that sounds like a vintage
Fiat and this I will have to get a recording and play it for you.
But I what I did is I got like a kind of like a classic
roadrunner beep, beep horn that you can get on Amazon.
And I stepped the voltage down from 12 volts to five volts
and wired it as like a second button on my center console, like near the cup holder.
And it's this tiny little red button and you can just hit it.
And it just goes, meep, meep.
Like that's so great.
Yeah. Yeah.
All the all the videos that you see like on Instagram or TikTok or
whatever of like vintage Fiat 500, it sounds like that now.
Right.
So I have like a door of a little beep, beep horn.
You need to go, meep, meep.
Like draw them in and then punch them in the face.
Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. But I I don't know.
I'm like, I'm excited.
I could just like, I don't know, for some reason, like
it just to me, it seems hilarious to like maybe start an autocross run
with a little beep, beep.
Yeah. And then finish it with the big horn.
Yeah. So I don't know.
It is quiet.
I would like to maybe quiet it down.
I might see if I can step it down to three volts.
But but yeah, it is it is adorable.
It is firmly in the like this fits the Fiat adorable territory.
Yes. That's great.
Yeah. So thank you very much for buying me the horn.
I'm so glad I was able to finally install it.
I truly appreciate it.
And is it Lemmy that runs the Maserati?
Yes. Yeah.
Lenny. OK, yes.
If he wants a recording of it, of like how it sounds installed
for him to like embed on like that products webpage,
I can make a short video and I know that you could get that to him for sure.
I can. Yeah, great.
So thank you, Ian.
Thank you because I've had time to work in the garage
and I've been having a lot of fun.
And as you can see from all the computer detris behind me,
I'm prepping for like the last potentially last autocross event of the season.
I think I have a fun camera layout thing figured out.
So sweet. Yeah.
Yeah, I think I learned a lot about like why stuff fell on its face
at the lemons race and kind of some of the the ways to get around it.
Like primarily it was like USB power saving stuff and bullshit like that.
So yeah. So there you go.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm back at it.
Nice. Yeah, I'm excited to see your your stream from that.
Thanks, man. Yeah, that'd be cool.
Yeah, I ordered a heart rate sensor,
so you're going to be able to see my heart rate during the run.
I love that so much.
It's so funny. Right.
Yeah, just my hummingbird heart freaking out.
Yeah. Can't see speed.
Heart rate, though. Yes.
What I what I want is is for both of us to wear a heart rate monitor.
Oh, right. Because you are such a horrible passenger.
Mine's going to be sky high.
Yeah, like yours is showing up.
Oh, no, it's actually just at the top of the frame.
It just never came down. Yeah.
So there you go.
Yeah, but lots of lots of rinse turned in and I've been kind of back in my happy place.
So very cool. Yeah, man.
Should we do some my eyes?
Yes, because we do have some.
We have a bunch, I think.
Yeah, I want you to go first.
OK, so I saw something the other week.
I think it was actually on the way up to your house.
Maybe something, something like that. OK.
I took a picture of it and I forgot to share it with you.
And then I remembered this week.
OK, I found a Volkswagen lower than mine.
Really? In motion, it was moving down the street.
It was moving under its own power, even.
OK, because like a hard parked airbag Passat
is technically lower than your car. It is.
Right. But this was moving.
It was just moving. OK. All right.
Low V-dub. Here we go.
Oh, OK. Yes. So it is a Jetta and it is low.
Oh, it's a Passat. Yeah.
It is a, I believe, bagged Passat.
Uh-huh. And it is in the low position.
And the license plate says, hopefully, low V-dub.
Yes. Yes.
I was going to use this as a license plate thing
and I was like, well, this is going to be very obvious.
I could say like maybe it was their like emotional state
on like a tour egg, you know, or they got it cheaply.
But yes, this is this is very appropriate.
And I mean, I'm here for it. Yeah.
Yeah. It the bagged VWC
and is something that I absolutely love.
I've done a bunch of research on B5 Passats
and what it would take to bag one.
Oh, really? Yes.
Would you ever bag your LS?
I don't think so.
I've never wanted to keep a vehicle stock
so bad in my entire life.
And they did offer air suspension on that from the factory.
I just didn't mine didn't come with it
because it's a base model. I'm a basic bitch.
But but like I
the bag Lexus is like the close second, in my opinion,
to like aesthetics of like bagged VWs, right?
Especially like the older GS's
like, yeah, and older LS's than mine,
like the previous generation.
I really like that.
I love how they look.
Yeah, they're so long.
You know, it looks great.
Yeah, right.
I mean, it's like a bagged like Lincoln Continental.
Like, yes, Lincoln Continental, right?
Like, nothing looks better than that.
Yes. Yeah.
If you if you had your choice of just like
this like air suspension bags on something
like if I just gave you like, I don't know,
twenty five grand right now
and was like, I need you to deliver me a bagged vehicle.
Right.
That you that you, Ian, would want to live with.
And you would it would just be the longest car
I could get with that money
and put air suspension in.
Really, even even street having to street park it and stuff.
Yeah, just they look so cool.
Oh, OK.
For twenty five K, though.
It probably be.
I think it would be German.
OK, I think if I could find like an an old
I think the trick would be like find like an old like seven series
or like an old
S class that has air suspension that's busted.
Yes. And they're trying to offload it
because the air suspension is so expensive.
And then you just rip that shit out.
Yes. Yes. Right.
But like an old generation seven series.
Yeah, like like these guys up here, right?
Yeah. Or even yeah.
Or even like one or two generations newer than that.
OK. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Like like this right here.
OK. Yeah. Like that.
Yeah. 38 chassis.
Anything free bangle but OK. OK.
I think would be great.
Yeah. If it's got a bangle.
Yeah. Yeah.
Bangle, no bags, no bangle bags.
Yeah, the bangle makes me dangle.
Is that what we're going to do before?
Nope. Nope. You're the first.
You're the first.
Oh, Ian. OK.
All right. And I think that like I think your
parallel parking skills are much better than mine.
I think you could parallel park just about anything.
And I think you could you would do well with the seven series.
I would probably as part of my budget also spring for a backup camera.
Yes. Yes.
To be fair. Sure.
I would probably do that.
Yeah. Of course. Why not? Yeah.
We're we're grown as adults.
We can do what we want.
Yeah. Yeah.
Put a backup camera in my car.
Yeah, exactly.
And no shame for having to street park a seven series.
Right. Yeah.
It would be hilarious to see like you air it out
and like the way that the curbs go down to like the gutters,
you would almost like high center it, but all along the drive shaft,
like the center line of the car.
You know, yeah.
So you'd have like a right to left teeter totter.
Yeah.
Nice. OK. Right on.
I like what about you?
What would you what would be your?
Like your twenty five thousand dollar
bags, car? Yeah.
I mean, would you have SUV?
No, you know what I would do?
I would do I would do one of a few things.
I would do a Toyota Venza.
OK, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Or a Honda Cross Tour. OK.
Or the Acura ZDX.
I just get weird with it. OK.
Yeah. Yeah.
I thought you I honestly thought you would maybe say like mini truck, you know.
Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah.
I found out my son in law had had a lowered mini truck.
Yeah. When he was a kid.
And that's pretty pretty rad.
Yeah, there's an RDX.
No, I want the ZDX.
I want the really gross, weird one.
Yeah. That's the Cross Tour. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. Right.
I saw I saw like it, I guess the last gen ZDX and it just looks it looks really bad.
Yeah. Yeah.
But I don't know. Yeah, I go kind of weird with it.
OK. Yeah.
But man, like bagged Passat's Passat.
Why I think B seven is what I was looking at.
B five is the Audi wagon.
Ian, I mean, like, look at that, Ian. Come on.
Right. Yeah.
I don't love those wheels that I like those wheels.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Yeah.
I think when you're in the VW community like that, when you have
when you have the Passat and you order the airbags,
BBS wheels just show up like wire masks. Yeah.
I also don't mind those five spokes.
No, I think like deep dish five spokes. Yeah.
Like, yeah, look really good as well.
And you're right. Yeah.
Like the these like multi spoke like kind of more modern wheels
just don't they don't sit well with me on something like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I think like the dish or like BBS is the is the way to go.
Yeah.
Something that is a horrible pain in the ass to clean.
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, but I did.
I went down the rabbit hole of like what people typically kind of did
when they bagged a Passat, a bunch of red at threads,
look, sprinkle a little VW vortex in there.
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. When we were troubleshooting the cabrio,
I happened across a VW vortex thread.
They told me to to use the search function.
Amazing.
The VW vortex answer is the search function.
Oh, I've been getting that a lot because I've been doing like a bunch
of Linux like hardware acceleration forums.
Boo. Yeah.
So you'll need a little more pedantic than VW owners on the Internet
or Linux people. That makes sense.
Specifically arch Linux users, I will say.
Oh, even worse. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, it's a masochistic distribution that I won't touch.
That's great.
Anyway, that's a joke for two people that listed the show.
Yeah. And we're both here.
Yeah. OK.
So what else you got besides low VW
because that's a good spot, man. I like that.
Well, it was clean too, man.
Yes. Right. Yeah.
Speaking of clean, I have another entry for Honda's we're here for.
Really?
And this one comes from friend of the show and very good friend of mine,
Katie, yes, was the narrator on our French film.
So many, so many years ago has been on the show.
Yes, her and her wife for sure.
Shout out to episode, whatever that was.
Like, Katie and Lauren. Yeah.
She I didn't I forgot that she told me this before and I forgot
her first car was a prelude.
Oh, OK.
And she saw one that has been gussied up a bit,
but it's the same generation as her prelude.
OK. That she had as she sent me a picture of it
and I put it in the in the folder.
Oh, yes, this is fantastic.
Yeah. So the two tone. Yes.
I love that. Oh, my God.
So it's like a white over black two tone on like a first gen prelude.
And oh, my God, it looks good.
Right.
I would take that over Toyota 86 any day.
Yeah. Yeah. 100 percent.
Yeah. That looks so cool.
I don't I don't care if the 86 is rear wheel drive.
That's the headlights go on.
Yeah, the headlights go up and it looks bad ass.
Those wheels are perfectly judged on there.
Yes. I mean, it looks so good.
Dude, yes, Honda's that we are here for.
Like, yeah, they're so like.
Honda is just such it is a fascinating thing.
Like, I've been thinking about it from time to time,
kind of how I was obsessing over the like the Toyota Mount Carmore.
Just like just how like you have to be such a such a pedantic
or like contrarian asshole as a car enthusiast
to just not even like like Honda's, you know, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
I think you can even be like front wheel drive is terrible
except for Honda's. Right.
Yes. Yes.
People that say like front wheel drive, wrong wheel drive or whatever.
Yeah, they like they still like some Honda's.
Yeah, yeah, because they're all great.
Yeah.
Hmm. I like that. That's really good.
Thank you for snagging that. Yeah. Thank you, Katie.
She showed me that and I guessed.
Oh, my God. Beautiful.
I like that. Nice. OK.
It looks like we got some other my listener, my eyes.
Oh, yeah. Oh, Ian. Oh, boy.
OK, so.
Picture this.
Put me to I'm a bag of dicks.
But yeah, let's say you and I want to.
We want to buy an older American car
and we've got some welders and paint and a bunch of free time
and some disposable income and like maybe access to like an old
like a GM junkyard or something like that.
And we just we just kind of go nuts for a while.
Like you and I and like our goal is we're going to like.
Take like we're going to take like patriotism
and just weird cars back and roll it all into one thing.
OK. OK.
Which generation of trans am are we getting close?
I want you to think a weirder, Ian.
And we we're making something that no one's ever seen before.
OK. OK.
Because our buddy Jacob saw the car that I think you and I
and maybe some methamphetamines would make it again.
Here we go.
Yeah, you know that we're listening
to a drum and bass remix of Lee Greenwood.
Oh, God bless America when we're making this car.
What the fuck am I looking at?
So it looks like let me give you a clear picture. Yeah.
It's an OK.
But so this is like four or three cars
because there's an El Camino bed.
Uh-huh. And the front is a Caprice, maybe Caprice or Malibu,
I think, yeah, one of the 70s era Caprice or Malibu.
Yeah, was the Malibu only two door?
Did they have a Malibu sedan because like was the Caprice,
the sedan and the Malibu, the coupe?
I think so, but I don't know about that.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, it looks like we're making Florida man Donny's
eye twitch right now.
He's not even listening to the show.
Yeah.
Um, well, what I can't figure out is so is this a.
A truck chassis that they've
like with two rear axles because there's six.
There's there's three axles in this car.
Yeah, we we're bearing the lead for the audio listeners.
This is a six wheeled vehicle with side exhausts.
Yeah. So is it is it a six wheeled chassis?
A three axle chassis that they've grafted this body onto?
Or did they just weld like a trailer
chassis to the back of a car and put the El Camino body on that?
Well, what would we have done if we had
methamphetamines, welders and free time?
Oh, I think it's probably a trailer
chassis that's welded to the Caprice, right?
Because you and I don't know how to make
a six wheeled vehicle other than that, right?
And then you can see the seam from here.
At one point, when you and I are trying to figure out how to make this,
we both have like really bad like whiteboard and bar napkin sketches, right?
Yeah, I just pushed the trailer like to like move it
to get a tool I dropped or something, yeah, or more methamphetamines.
And it butts up against the Caprice and you're like, hang on.
Throw it all out.
This is it.
Dave, you've done it again.
Don't move and you start like wrapping it with duct tape so it doesn't go anywhere.
Those are our tack welds.
This is the work of genius.
Yeah, so madness.
Yeah, I like how the roof has a spoiler at the back
and the spoilers kind of bent.
Yeah, somebody was standing in the bed and leaned on it.
Yeah, I love the stripes in the front.
I wonder if they know that, you know, do, you know,
according to like military vehicle code, their flag is backwards,
but that's OK. Right.
You're supposed to the the field of stars are supposed to go first.
Right, exactly.
As if you're carrying it into battle.
Yes, yes, with the pole, the wind blowing behind you
because you're very fast runner because of all the PTA you've done.
But that's OK.
Uh-huh. This is still amazing.
And it looks sketchy as shit.
Yeah, it does.
It does.
It very much does.
The the height of the rear wheels in there in the back, like to the arches
is that's a lot. That's a lot.
Well, and also they don't look like they're totally pointing
in the same direction.
No, they don't. Rear wheels.
There's very different camera on both of those.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh-huh.
This thing must be real fun when it starts raining.
There there are things that you see that, like.
I would skip past any safety concerns
and I just go straight to just being proud and impressed
when I see things like this.
Yeah, like, yeah, there's not a lot of things
that make me feel proud of my country these days.
When I see something like this,
yeah, who knows what the politics are of this individual?
Probably horrible.
But the car, but the car I'm here for.
Yeah, yeah, that is that's amazing.
I'm also impressed that I wonder it looks like
the fuel tank is actually in the back of the El Camino.
Like it's got a fuel door on it and it looks
like it is functional.
Maybe or they just painted it
and there's a cut out for the Caprice one on the other side.
It could be.
But I think everything I think American cars all had their.
Yes.
On the same fuel doors on the same side, right?
I think you're correct.
Yeah, what would you park that Caprice
like an eighty eight or something like seventy eight seventy seven
something like that. Yeah.
Yeah, Caprice.
Oh, yeah. Uh-huh.
Oh, I don't think I might think I might have nailed that.
Oh, I think that this is a little older.
Hmm. Yeah, you might be right.
I think maybe we we meet in the middle, Ian.
OK, let's go like an eighty two.
Oh, yeah, there it is. Yeah.
Right.
Oh, maybe it isn't a Caprice.
I think that the Caprice had like.
Yeah. Malibu sedan.
Oh, here it is.
Yeah, you were right. It was a Malibu. OK.
Nice. Nice work.
Thank you.
Yeah, I had a friend in high school that had a Malibu. Yeah. OK.
Um, yeah, you're right.
I think that they did.
Um, they did have the they do have a working fuel door on that side.
Yeah. So maybe it's just maybe it's an actual like.
What do you call it? The back half.
Of the of the truck.
Yeah, it could just grafted on to.
The Malibu. Yeah.
Like it's an El Camino axle.
I think you're right.
Yeah, it's like an outcome. It's a it's a Malamino.
An Elibu. Yes, an Elibu.
Yeah.
Congratulations. Absolutely.
Yeah, hats off.
Yeah, you're the DMV. Yes.
So year 82 model.
You're like, yes, yes.
All of them.
That's amazing.
General Motors Popery for 400, please, Alex.
Yeah. So there you go.
Over the differences of size,
because I think they're different size tires.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
It looks like they did get some consistency on the wheels, at least.
Yeah, I I don't know.
Yeah, I wish I did.
I it looks it looks like only four of three or four of the wheels
could be touching the ground at once.
This is like when you're in the restaurant, the table is wobbly.
This is happening with that car in real time.
Just constantly putting sugar packets underneath the wheels.
Yes.
Uh huh.
Yeah. So thank you very much,
Jacob, for sending that in.
That's an amazing, amazing spot.
Good job. Yeah, yeah.
I uh, oh, man.
Yeah, hats off.
You don't want to listen to John Philip Sousa.
Well, now you do.
OK, all right.
And then, yeah, I think I think I would like to use this
as a segue to get to like our main topic this evening because.
Well, when I see something like that vehicle, I'm proud.
OK, and the story that you sent me makes me proud as well.
Oh, right. Yeah.
That's the up at the top here, right?
Yes. Yes.
So, you know, it's been a real rough time in the news,
especially for people in the trans community.
But we saw something that came across like the other week
and we just kept forgetting to talk about it.
But there was basically like an incident with the SCCA
solo nationals where one of the competitors filed a complaint
about a trans woman being entered into her class.
And it was basically was one competitor
had this complaint about the trans woman being in the class.
Everybody else in the class was supportive of the trans woman being there.
And to their very much to their credit,
the SCCA board who reviewed
the complaint basically told the complaint
the complainer to go like fucking shit in their hat.
And and and said, don't worry about it.
And then the trans woman one and the woman who complained about it
ended up like 30 or like 28th or something like that.
And the great the really great thing about the story is
this all took place before solo nationals.
And then on the day when they showed up,
the whole rest of the class was out there with signs of support
for the trans woman who was who was competing.
So absolutely.
I think we make we on this show have in the past made fun of SCCA
for having some sticks firmly affixed up their bottoms
about many, many things. Correct.
But hats off to SCCA for kind of showing everyone how it's done.
Yes, exactly.
And I think that you had you snag this from Blue Sky.
J.G. Pasternak posted this.
We can put a link.
Yeah, so they also posted a protest report
and the SCCA's response.
And the SCCA's response was very
succinct because the person was complaining about biological males
and females and blah, blah, blah, right.
And the SCCA just simply said parallel ladies classes will be
provided for females who wish to enter them competitor.
Which was a quote from the regulations. Sorry.
Oh, OK, yes. Yes.
So that's a that's a quote from the regulations.
And then they then they address how
the the stance meets that regulation.
Yes, the competitor is female.
The SCCA stands firmly behind the competitor and their right to compete.
Yeah, the protest committee finds the protest to not be in good faith
and not well founded, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
And then it and then it says as such, it is the committee's opinion
that this protest violates the welcoming environment that the SCCA stands behind.
I mean, so like perfect, like you call out bad faith when you see it.
You say very simply the competitor is female and then you move on like.
Yeah, like a plus.
That's exactly how you're supposed to do it. Exactly.
Yes, it is a bad faith argument.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's I'm I'm very thankful.
And if there are people that
like this is one of those things where like if there are people that are upset
and leave the SCCA, good fucking riddance, man.
Yeah. Good riddance, you know.
I agree. Yeah.
Autocross is is something that I found so much enjoyment in.
And if I found out that the community that I was a part of
was supportive of somebody making a protest like that,
fuck right off. No way. No way, man.
Yeah. So yeah, hats off to them for sure.
Yeah. So thank you for pointing that out.
And yeah, thank you for reminding me because I almost forgot about it again.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Yeah, it's I'm very thankful that we have like some moments of good news
that we can share for sure. So absolutely.
Yeah. Right on.
Um, you have a license plate game for me.
I do. I do. OK.
Ian, I I did happen across.
This isn't in the game.
But remember last week when you gave me like the Mr.
Plates? Mm hmm. Pardon me.
I did find that I also have a Mr.
Bean plate. Oh, yeah.
That's not in this one, but I do have a Mr.
Bean plate. It's not the same car.
Nope. Different car. Oh, wow.
Interesting. Mm hmm. I know.
OK, so here we go.
Ian, this one is called.
I kind of did maybe an Ian title on this one.
This one is called.
I'm your daddy or father or whatever, I guess. OK.
OK. OK.
All right. Daddy, give it to me.
All right.
OK. So we've got.
Oh, my God.
OK, so we've got a Toyota Tacoma. Mm hmm.
We've got a Hyundai Accent.
Yes. With a R2-D2 head on top of it.
Then we've got a Audi SQ5.
So correct. Yes.
And the license plates are Rebelscom RBL SCM.
X X Wing Ace.
And Yoda, I am.
Mm hmm. OK.
X Wing Ace took me a while to decode because
that, yeah, it just that did not present itself to me.
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Now, have we we've talked before about my.
Relative antipathy towards the Star Wars universe, right?
Like, well, first of all, you're going to have to tell me what antipathy means.
Because I legitimately do not know.
Is this apathy?
No, no, because apathy implies that I don't care that much.
Antipathy means that I am actively annoyed by it.
OK. OK.
The like, I think the worst day of the year is God damn May the 4th.
If I have to hear another clever Star Wars pun.
I would I would like to light something on fire like I hate it.
Uh huh. It's it's more it's more tedious than April Fool's Day somehow.
Sure. Sure. I get that.
Mainly because like April Fool's Day,
like we're not bombarded with people sending us like think geek links anymore.
Right. You know, yeah. Right. Oh, my God. Right.
Yeah. Blossom in the past there, huh? Uh huh. Yeah.
So so yes, I'm glad you gave me the opportunity on September 24th
to complain about May the 4th.
Everybody's favorite fall activity.
See, here's how much May the 4th registers with me.
I didn't even think that I should save this for you until a May adjacent episode.
But I absolutely should have.
Yeah. No. And then and I think part of it is the like,
like Star I liked Star Wars growing up.
Sure. And everything that has happened since my childhood has been to
destroy and pummel that love into submission.
Right. Like the prequels. Right.
Yes. And then everybody deciding the whole world,
deciding that Star Wars is like the height of culture.
And like we have to, everyone has to love it.
And that anyway, play games.
So my childhood best friend was like forever goes like, so what's your,
you know, like what's your favorite movie besides Star Wars?
And I was like, oh, no, oh, sweetie, no, no, it's clerks.
Right. Right.
Not anymore, it's computer ascending now.
But we always joke in our house that like Jenny likes explosions.
And I like if two people are in a room talking for the whole movie,
that that's what I want. Right.
So you love the social network and she likes transformers.
Yes, that's those are extreme examples of both those genres.
But yes, she looks like the mummy.
That's her. That's kind of her.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Which is a great movie. I like that movie too.
Yeah. Yeah.
But I mean, we have two eyes in a pulse.
Of course, we like the movie.
But I like, you know, Casablanca.
Sure. Yes. Double indemnit.
Yes. Oh, my God. Yes.
Right. So it's a bull apart. Oh, my God.
OK. OK.
So I think I think I think I have this.
Sure.
So this is, I think, pretty straightforward.
I think X-Wing Ace is on the Hyundai Accent
because that's where R2 would be in the X-Wing,
would be right behind the driver.
And it's on the driver side, right behind the driver, which is just.
I like that they just threw out the idea of cemetery.
Like they were just like, you know what? No, fuck it.
Like, right. Yeah. Right.
So that's X-Wing Ace.
It would be really funny, though, if this I like,
I want to think that this is like a seven foot tall person
who just happened to have a Hyundai Accent and then.
Yes, decided to do the like the dorkiest version of the Gurney bubble.
Yes. Yes.
Uh-huh.
That makes me think of when I saw like
a great Dane in a similar sized vehicle
with his head sticking out of the sunroof.
That's so great. Yeah.
OK, so X-Wing Aces goes on the Hyundai Accent.
I think Yoda.
I am goes on the Tacoma.
OK, because it's a Toyota.
OK, that sort of thing.
That's a common Toyota pun. Sure.
And then that leaves Rubble scum on the on the Audi
SQ5, which is ironic because it's the it's the one that looks closest
to a stormtroopers helmet.
You're right, it does look like a stormtroopers helmet.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, yeah. Final answer. Lock it in.
OK, all right.
Well, I think what we need to do is we need to get two people on the phone
because they need to switch plates because I like your answer more than the real one.
Oh, no.
Yep. Rubble scum on the Toyota.
Yoda, I am on the Audi because the Audi is green.
But your answer is better.
Thank you. Yeah.
So I'm going to say that the game is wrong.
But you win.
Thank you.
Yeah. So our buddy Jacob sent in Rubble scum.
So, yes, that also sent us the Malam.
What? What did I call it?
The Malamino.
Yes, the Malamino.
Yes, the Mint Milano, the Pepperidge Farm, Mint Milano.
Yes. So Jacob sent in Rubble scum.
Ben sent in X-wing ace and Peter sent in Yoda.
I am. So thank you, Jacob, Ben and Peter.
OK. Yeah. Yeah.
I think I think your answer is right, Ian.
Game is game wrong.
I mean, obviously, it was wrong, but I appreciate that.
Yeah. Yeah.
I was I was wondering if it would be a slam dunk.
So, but well done.
Thank you. Yeah.
That was a fun one.
Plus it got me.
I was allowed to rant about Star Wars, which is.
Yeah. Yeah.
I I definitely fall in the apathy category.
Like, yeah, like I have not seen a star war for so long.
Like, yeah, so long.
Yeah. I think I saw two of the new ones
and then lost interest, I think.
I think the last one I legit saw was Clone Wars.
Like the third prequel.
Yeah, like I have not.
Watch one for a long time.
I mean, you have kids.
Like, you know, we saw,
but we saw before kids without kids.
I think we went
we went to the theater when they came back.
Yeah, I saw the first one of the reboots.
I don't remember now. OK.
That was kind of underwhelmed by them.
Yeah, but yeah.
Yeah, just don't.
Yeah, I don't know.
Sure. You know, again, nostalgia is a garbage emotion.
And there's part of me that agrees with that.
Yeah.
Dave, would you like an album of the week
as long as it's not an old album of the week that you're nostalgic for?
OK, this is a 15 year old album.
That makes you think about a better time in your life.
No, no.
So this one, I am blown away that I've never
I don't think I've recommended this one before on the show.
Yeah, it is hard to find on streaming.
OK, but it is one of my very favorite records that I own.
And it's like a go to for me.
OK, it is Real Life is No Cool by Lindström and Kristaval.
OK, it is like
so Lindström is this like Norwegian producer
that was like really, really hot like in the late 2000s, early 2010s.
OK, and it's like.
Spacey disco we sort of that's what Wikipedia says.
The genre is electronic dance and space disco space disco.
And this is a record that I bought at this tiny little record store
in Oklahoma City when it first came out.
And it was like a weird import only thing.
And I bought it on the strength of like the written
that this record store had great like handwritten notes.
I love it when they do that.
Like if you like blah, blah, blah, or yeah, like yeah, a sonic journey.
Yeah. Mm hmm. Uh huh.
And I bought it on the strength of that.
And I got it home and I put it on.
And it was like, what the fuck is this?
And it became one of my like very favorite
albums of like that era. OK, it's one of my go to like
if I'm walking through an airport or like I've listened to this
like walking through museums like if you ever walk through an art museum
with headphones on listening to music, it's a great thing to do.
But this is a perfect album for that.
Nice. OK. Yeah.
Well, if if I can't find like streaming links for it, I will put
I'm sure somebody has uploaded it to YouTube.
And so I will put some sketchy YouTube links up there.
Yeah, I'm sure he has a band.
Can I I'm sure the instrument has a bandcamp as well.
OK, I believe he's still active.
Gotcha. So this is his debut record is really great, too.
His debut record is called.
Where you go, I go to.
OK, in 2008.
It's nice. OK, this this record is so, so cool.
If you can find it, definitely check it out.
It's it's awesome.
Yeah, I'm going to I will find this.
Yeah, yes. Nice, Ian. OK.
Right on. Well, cool, man.
I think we did a car show. Oh, yeah, we did.
Dave, what should people do?
They should send us pictures of their cars for shows, your cars.
Twenty twenty five apex adjacent email dot com.
If you have a cool horn on your car, send us the sound of it because I want to hear it.
Yeah, right. Beep beep, my fuckers.
Yeah, let's see. What else?
Yeah, vanity plate seven two zero five one five one three nine one
or DM him over to Ian on Instagram
to get him in his hopper.
Oh, blue sky blue sky.
Yes, now that they know they've got the DMs.
OK, slide into our DMs like a weirdo.
If there's a good news automotive thing that you like,
send it to us because we want to share it with folks.
So yeah, if it's something that we've missed
because I have my head in the sand right now and yeah.
It's looking more and more inviting every day.
Right. Every day, every day.
Come on in. The sand's fine.
I mean, it's not it's not it's saying the sand is sand.
So, yeah, so do all those things for sure.
Yeah, listen to Lindstrom and Christabel.
Yes, I'm excited to listen to this one.
Everybody, thank you.
We love you. Goodbye.
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