Term
coolant
Coolant is the fluid that circulates through an engine to carry heat away and prevent overheating. The segment suggests they’re discussing what coolant is “right” for a particular setup, which matters because the wrong type or mixture can cause poor cooling or corrosion.
Term
check engine light
The check engine light is a warning light on the dashboard. If it’s on, the car is telling you something is wrong, and if it’s burned out you can miss the warning.
Part
O2 sensors
O2 sensors help the car figure out how much fuel it needs by reading the exhaust. If they’re bad, the car can run poorly and fail emissions tests.
Term
fuel pressure
Fuel pressure is how hard the car is pushing fuel to the engine. If it’s too low, the engine won’t get enough fuel to fire up.
Term
fuel pump
The fuel pump is like the car’s fuel “water pressure.” If it’s not working, the engine can’t get the fuel it needs to start, even if other systems seem fine.
Term
crank sensor
The crankshaft position sensor (crank sensor) tells the ECU the crank’s rotational position and speed. It’s critical for engine timing; if it fails, many cars will crank but not start.
Term
factory service manual
A factory service manual is the manufacturer’s official repair guide with procedures, specifications, and wiring/diagnostic information. Using it helps ensure correct steps—especially for jobs like crank sensor replacement where timing and alignment matter.
Term
timing belt cover
The timing belt cover is like a shield over the timing belt. You take it off so you can see and work on the belt and timing marks.
Term
dowel holes
Dowel holes are small precision holes used to line things up. The special tool pins go into them so the engine doesn’t move while you’re loosening bolts.
Company
O'Reilly's
O'Reilly's is an auto parts store. People use it to buy replacement parts quickly, especially when you need something the same day.
Company
Harbor Freight
Harbor Freight sells tools for less money than most stores. If you’re doing a repair at home, it’s a common place to grab the one special tool you need.
Term
ECU
The ECU is the car’s computer for the engine. It decides when to spark and inject fuel based on what sensors tell it.
Term
snow tires
Snow tires are tires made to work better in winter. They can feel different from regular tires, so they might affect noises you hear while driving.
Term
summer tires
Summer tires are made for warmer weather and don’t work the same way as winter tires. Swapping them can help tell whether the noise is caused by the tires or by something in the wheel.
Term
soft top
A soft top is the fabric roof on a convertible. It can be replaced or refreshed, and it usually comes with a matching frame that supports it.
Company
Centerforce
Centerforce makes performance clutch parts. People buy them when they want a clutch that can handle spirited driving better than the original.
Part
wide fender flares
Wide fender flares cover and protect the body while allowing wider tires and wheels. They’re often used for stance and clearance, especially on track-focused or heavily modified cars.
Term
vinyl top
A vinyl top is a cosmetic roof covering that was popular on many classic cars. It’s also a clue for identifying trim and body style, and it can hide rust or water intrusion issues if it’s been neglected.
Term
rear quarter panels
Rear quarter panels are the metal sections around the back wheels and rear sides. If they’re rusted or damaged, it can be a bigger job than it sounds.
Term
carb
A “carb” is the part that mixes fuel and air for the engine. On older cars it can need tuning or cleaning, especially if the car has been sitting.
Term
Rally II wheels
“Rally II” refers to a specific wheel design associated with Pontiac muscle cars. Wheel style is a common authenticity clue because certain wheel options were tied to particular trims and years.
Term
needs quarters needs floors needs rock
This is shorthand for major rust/bodywork areas: “quarters” (rear quarter panels), “floors” (floor pans), and “rock” (rockers—lower body panels). These are among the most expensive and labor-intensive rust repairs on classic cars.
Term
Firebird
Pontiac Firebird is another classic Pontiac model, and here it’s used as a comparison point for identification. The speaker says the headlight clue suggests it’s not a Firebird, reinforcing that the car is likely a GTO/Le Mans instead.
Company
Phoenix Corvette Center
This is the dealership name mentioned in the segment. It’s relevant because the seller is offering the car directly through that store, which can matter for how the listing is sourced and serviced.
Term
pop-up headlights
Pop-up headlights are headlamps that pivot upward from the front of the car when activated, rather than being fixed in place. This design feature is often used to identify specific models/years and is a recognizable styling cue.
Car
Honda Prelude
A Honda Prelude is a sporty Honda coupe. Here, they’re talking about a specific version of it—one with twin carburetors and front-wheel drive.
Concept
hybrid
A hybrid uses a gas engine and an electric motor together. It’s often more efficient, but some car fans worry it won’t feel as “pure” as a gas-only performance car.
Concept
daily driver
A daily driver is the car you use most days for normal driving. The host is saying this Prelude could work for that role even without being a super fast car.
Term
146,000 miles
Mileage tells you how much the car has been driven. 146,000 miles usually means it’s been used a lot, so you should expect some wear and maintenance needs.
Brand
Virgil Exner
Virgil Exner was a famous car designer. His styling helped define what certain Chrysler cars looked like during a specific era, and enthusiasts remember that “signature” look.
Concept
oem
OEM parts are the same type of parts the car originally used from the factory. The owner is saying that when they replaced things, they tried to keep it as close to original as possible.
Concept
original vin cowl tag intact
The VIN (vehicle identification number) is the car’s unique legal identifier. A “cowl tag” is a manufacturer label typically located on/near the cowl area that can include VIN and build information. Keeping these intact supports authenticity and helps verify the car’s history.
Concept
Darlington race
Darlington Raceway is a well-known NASCAR track. The speaker is talking about a NASCAR race that happened there.
Concept
Sebring
Sebring is a famous long-distance race—12 hours. Because different types of race cars compete at the same time, the final laps can be especially intense.
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One thousand cars sir you have a thousand cars I don't think I'd attempt to try this
stunt or we owe this horsepower to Uncle Sam's too big a car like I put my beer belly on
it you can't immediately tell somebody how many cars you have you'll really give those
up in a yuffy something to think about stay on the bar don't go off the bar with your Bronco
1980 Volvo horns what's right man's coolant he's like oh I thought I'd be small it's for a
small car and oh yeah but it's still an automatic transmission they're never gonna be light it's
definitely gonna have to crash starting off with Brad by another car that's the west
internet she knows this is Nigerian oil print I also wish you drove a tan Camry anyways
that's a very horrible podcast content very inside just love to be driven hard
look to a lot of topic how are you Brad Andrew I am wonderful just realizing that I don't have
my headphones turned on and I can hear you through the speaker oh okay there's no feedback
no I think it was fine I didn't hear anything excellent you even got me on the while he came
through your speakers so this was right what do you get going on out there anything because I
got nothing another week of nothing I've been really slacken with car stuff except for the
little cars but that is unfortunate to hear I've done some stuff a lot of stuff not nearly as much
as I would like to have done but also you can't really beat yourself up too bad because normally
we record on Thursday and today's Tuesday so you've only had four days since we last recorded
technically so I don't think that you could beat yourself up too bad about doing nothing for a week
because you can't I will fill in the hole how's that so I have okay sure I have done some things
I do not remember if I discussed it at all or not but did I talk about the Lancer on here
you didn't you didn't cover fixing it the other week after the podcast we're like oh I forgot
to talk about fixing that because it is kind of interesting it's been a bit of a battle so how'd
that get fast has been a bit of a battle so not my car I do not have a Lancer there's not I mean
I do have a Lancer I have a 78 Colt which is a Lancer but there's no like secret car here we're
not talking about this car belongs to Naomi's daughter's boyfriend Roberto I talked about his
Jetta on here before this is his Lancer that we get bought to replace the Jetta because the Jetta
never mind very long story anyway I thought and figured that buying a 2000 and to the full 405
things no for Lancer OZ rally with the 2.0 liter would be a very simple car a very reliable car
and one that we didn't have to worry about too much well about two weeks ago he started having
problems where it would start slowly I don't know if I talked about the whole thing with
emissions in the past before either but there's a whole thing before we couldn't get a sticker
no sticker a we couldn't get through emissions because the check engine light burned out yeah
and I don't think ever updated us that you did replace it the bulb yes I did replace the bulb
so it was just a lot of past yeah it was just a bulb they went through emissions there was no
problems everything is hunky dory ready to go so it did require but I bought the car they were
two boxes in the trunk of O2 sensors so I thought for sure there was going to be problem where it
was following O2 sensors and I looked up how much a catalytic converter was before even bought the
car and it was you know less than a hundred bucks online so I went into it knowing you would probably
need O2 sensors a cat which it did so we did that got the codes all cleared went to get a sticker
couldn't get a sticker because the bulb wouldn't light up they wouldn't even plug in the thing to
figure out what was going on anyway hold the cluster apart put a bulb in it the car is now
legally registered plated the whole nine yards so that's good but it no started the other day
after had started by doing a like slow crank in the morning and it acted almost like an
old carbureted car like if he gave a little gas it would eventually fire up which is probably not
ideal because it's not an old carbureted car so we gotta figure out why it's doing this
so you get on the road of what would cause this problem the easiest thing is you check for
you know fuel spark air it's car right go do one of those things uh there was fuel getting to it
but we weren't clear on the pressure and one of the things we thought was that because it was
starting slow in the morning maybe the fuel pump was starting to die and the fuel pump
finally just died so I looked up what a fuel pump cost they were like $35 I was like let's
put a fuel pump in it it is what it is there's no codes so I think we can really read so rather
than like take the car apart and like see if the fuel pump will work or how much pressure
are going out it was like the $35 we'll just buy a fuel pump so put a fuel pump in the car and the
car still no start okay interesting it did have spark it did have fuel the car should just start
oh what else could cause it who knows um there's only two sensors really that would stop the car
maybe three depending on how often who one temp sensor would be and Mitsubishi said no one for
having bad coolant temp sensors as we know from our past so I was like well the cam sensor and
coolant temp sensor are also really cheap and they're really high up on the engine let's do a cam
and coolant temp sensor because they're right there so like slap those in the car still no
started I'm like well this is frustrating now it's been a couple days and they have two cars
but have been sharing one car now on an engine spin down I'm like well the only thing left
is the crank sensor
order the crank sensor
had a waiting to go started looking up how to do the crank sensor which thank you Andrew for
finding me the factory service manual online that helped a lot um figured all that out
the crank sensor on these cars and I'm not all my cars are old I've never really had to deal with
cam and crank sensors before um I did a cam sensor on my old Audi a4 but that was simple
is it common Andrew for crank sensors to be buried up in behind the timing belt
yeah because it needs to have the shutter wheel on the crank it's broken right usually I thought it
was in the front they put it but I guess not not always so anyway it was behind the timing belt
which is obviously an incredibly fun place to have to get access to so the car was dead
not at my house so not in my garage with the nice functional new air conditioner
they don't live too far away so we considered pushing it or flat towing it and getting it down
here and but then it was gonna require the whole like car shuffle and pushing the car around the
backyard with the where it's not paved then it's like crushed stone it's paying to push cars around
it's just like and for some reason here in March it's over 100 degrees already
it's like 30 degrees over the temperature it's supposed to be which is incredibly frustrating
if it's 30 degrees over the temperature it's supposed to be come July and August we're going
to be in trouble so hopefully it doesn't that doesn't happen but it's already was already 103
degrees here on Friday and Saturday so on Sunday I was like you know what we'll get an early start
they have a little carport at their house we'll push under the carport get in the shade
and we'll start working on this thing so I fought with it for a bit you know get the wheel off got
the requires taking off the alternator belt the power steering belt the power steering bracket
the timing belt cover and obviously the crank pulley as well had to go get a special tool
for taking the crank pulley off because obviously when you turn the crank pulley the whole engine
spins which is fun of course Mitsubishi makes a special tool which you can't get but it seems that
most modern cars and again Andrew you have more experience of modern cars than I do they have
these little dowel holes on the crank pulley and usually whatever manufacturer special tool fits
in these dowels but they do make a tool that they sell at harbor freight of 30 bucks that's like an
adjustable width Y shaped tool with interchangeable different pin ends on the end in millimeter sizes
so you can fit this universal special tool to the crank pulley I've never dealt with this before I
thought it was a pretty slick little tool it does this basically does the same thing that
when I talked about doing the timing belt the 944 I had that like that lock key that went on the
flywheel so it's just on a front wheel drive car it's not as easy to access the flywheel as it is
a rear wheel drive car so it has this special tool that goes on there and then you set the pins
inside the pulley and then you you know put it so that when you're putting torque on the bolt
that tool is pushed up against something in this case we use the frame reel that's where it wound
up sitting and was able to break the crank pulley loose so and then use the job holder
pull the crank off and then had to figure out how to get in behind that timing belt without
taking the timing belt off because it's got a fairly fresh timing belt on it I did not want to get
into that process so get it all apart we're into it at that point for probably about two and a half
hours maybe and pull out the part from the box and it is incorrect so that was fun cool yeah
so I'm not sure I've never seen one set up this way when we unplugged the cam sensor
the cam sensor harness is up by the valve cover
yeah that's where it plugs into the main engine harness but when I had the timing cover off I
was looking and noticed that there was no wire harness going from the cam sensor up the timing
cover and then I realized that the wire harness from the main engine harness to the connector on
the cam sensor is built into the timing cover really yeah so when you when you when you pull
the timing cover off you unplug the crank sensor it's interesting I've never seen a timing cover
like this ever in my life so the cam sensor the crank sensor that I got which was supposed to be
for the correct car had a harness on it that went off the crank sensor and then was supposed to be
plugged in somewhere else but with a long like you know two and a half or three foot long harness
which would not work in this I thought about trying to use it and just like routing the
cable somewhere and plugging it into the main harness but that was quickly changed when I
realized that the connector was totally different as well so I was like well this is obviously the
wrong part so I don't know if maybe the listing is screwed up somewhere and because there's two
different two-liter Lancers maybe that one's for a 4G63 EVO Lancer and I have no maybe yeah I'm not
sure supposedly it was for this car but obviously it's not I also don't know because I've never been
inside a later 4G63 where the crank sensor is on that does it have a shutter wheel on that
same style or is it like an early 4G63 where it has the sensor on the back of the block
no I think they added a shutter wheel I don't remember that I mean it's more modern so it
makes sense um anyway probably had to do this right coil on plug versus the early cars that
word it is yeah so I'm trying rake by brain back to when I owned one in 2004 somehow 22 years ago
but um anyway so look at the part up online they do stock it locally at O'Reilly's we have a new
brand new O'Reilly's hub that's around the corner from us that has like every part in the world
which is excellent to have access to of course the online part that I bought was like $27 and
the one on O'Reilly's was $89 but case the race around the cars apart the parts in stock we're
gonna do it we're not waiting any longer we'll suffer through the actually a couple of dollars
so uh while I laid on the ground and contemplated life staring up at the ceiling uh Naomi very
kindly ran out and picked that part up uh at O'Reilly's and then also picked up lunch so that
was a uh a good middle of the project respite um wasn't at the park got it all put together
got it put in the car got the cold car put back together I think the whole start to finish process
was probably I don't know somewhere in the three three and a half hour range didn't seem too bad
considering everything I had to do if I take out the time waiting for parts or food probably about
three to three and a half hours of like actual work time which a lot of that also was trying to
figure out how to get the crank pulley off and then waiting for Naomi again kindly to go get
the the tool from Harbor Freight and all those little things but it all in all it wasn't too
bad of a job uh it would definitely be intimidating if you're not someone who wrenches a lot but it
was not too too terrible for a backyard hack like myself so get the whole car back together
get all the belts back on back in the car car still won't start
okay
then my brain is just thinking back and forth and thinking everything's been done and I disconnected
the fuel rail to see what fuel was and disconnected this and done this and possibly been trying to
crank the car a lot and I was like well there could be two things happening here now or at this
point the battery could be drained to a point where it's not spinning the motor fast enough to start
the car and also there could be air in the fuel system because everything's been cracked open
and I might just need to like be patient get some charge from this battery cycle the key a
bunch of times to try to get it to prime the fuel system a little bit more and thankfully with the
big jump back on there a few primes of the key the car fired right up and knock wood it's now
Tuesday afternoon and I haven't gotten the call that he's broken down on Monday or Tuesday
driving to and from work so all all is well in the world of the Lancer so good not the end of the
world but the frustrating thing to me is I don't have a fancy scan tool I just have like a code
reader and there are no codes so I couldn't go in there and like try to trigger things or see what
was and wasn't reading like if you have a fancy scan tool sometimes you can get in there and
crank the car and see if it's not seeing a signal from the crank sensor or something like that but
in this case I had to kind of fly a little bit blind because again there were no no codes had
shown at all which I also thought was strange but all this the part was failing that's why the
long crank for a few days then just one day just not working at all so in between there's all kinds
of other die eggs stuff that happened you know checking every fuse a thousand times and switching
relays from one to the other and all that stuff but I'm glad the crank sensor did it because at
that point there's not much left to change except for maybe the ECU so it is what it is but it's
good to go the weird thing was was that when I was testing for spark I was getting spark
and I would think if the crank sensor died I wouldn't be getting spark but I guess maybe what was
happening was it was not reading properly and it was just sparking whenever it felt like it
maybe it was not the correct spark I don't know but
we're good now car runs that has taken quite a few of my project car evenings the past few days
past week or so I should say so I haven't gotten much done on my own stuff but I can put a massive
thanks out to Mike from Italian Design and Racing he fixed up the gas tank in the stereo and I think
I said that last week but I have it back in my possession now so the plan was to get in this
weekend but we got a little derail with other stuff going on not blaming her personal answer and
other non-correlated things also going on this weekend so just got busy but that will
hopefully be painted either tonight or tomorrow and I can get it back in the car and this weekend
is kind of a loss because I'd be going to the Prescott forest rally so that will be Thursday
Sunday morning so if you're in the Crest area or the Phoenix area you want to check it out
Friday night there is a spectator stage so if you go to either the Prescott rally home page
has some info but I found it easier to find on Finley Subaru's website the information for
the actual special stage so it's a they've never had a spectator stage at the Prescott rally before
so this is or not in recent memory anyway so this should be a neat little addition to it
so and if you're up there look for me I'll be there somewhere I'll either be working nice
with some of the staff up there or I'll be riding triple zero car with Mike in the Lamborghini again
this year so we'll see up in the air a little bit plans wise that says weekend like as in that's
recording on Tuesday and on Thursday that's why you've only had four days to get progress done
it's why it feels like you haven't done anything Andrew it's only been four days
sure you're gonna have really plus you guys had a busy weekend you know getting fresh
maple syrup and whatnot so you couldn't uh could work on cars it's uh it was sugar weekend I guess
I didn't realize that was like all these years we never really went to New Hampshire during like
mud season sure end of the winter uh but that's mapleing season but apparently it was like a big
weekend because the temperatures were right the trees were running with sap and a bunch of local
it's just very common there's local sugar houses that uh a lot of them have like open houses they'll
just like hey come by watch us make sugar because they're gonna probably buy some maple syrup which
you're gonna buy expensive people's syrup from them so they'll uh it was actually less
buying direct than like buying the you know fancy maple syrup from some country store or
something well if you buy fancy maple syrup from the country store you have to pay the Canadian
maple syrup mafia their cut so no not if it's Vermont or New Hampshire I know this was maple
syrup right out of the boiler it's pretty amazing yeah I so I'm not like never I've never been that
big on like you know maple flavors like whatever but you just grow up in kind of the synthesized
stuff and then you know the real stuff and yeah it does taste a little better and then uh but it
turns out like that stuff's probably like blended and this stuff from like the local farm whoa like
like mind blown how good it tastes that's really really good like they gave like shooters to us
as they like walked in like try it like I'm gonna drink syrup are you drinking you're like I want
to drink more syrup yeah I could drink a bottle of this yeah well it's like going to an actual
beekeeper's like honey farm like having the actual like fresh bees wax and little tubes like direct
from like fresh fresh honey like it's amazing yeah oh yeah I'm surprised I'm surprised in your
40 question mark years of living in New England you've never been to a maple house before
especially you spent so much time skiing in New Hampshire I'm very surprised
probably because I was like turned off on maple stuff because it's like usually the
fake flavor it's not very good it's like yeah maybe um but yeah it's like it's pretty good
it's definitely worth yeah no it's it's really really good yeah so um yeah like your whole
week of New England stuff made me jealous about not being in New England because I was like yeah
spring into England is the best come to find out there's some places that will boil hot dogs
in the boiler as they're doing it I'm like that sounds pretty good too that sounds like the best
hot dog water I've ever heard of yeah maple flavored hot dog water which probably would just
taste like maple smoked bacon yeah it probably would that would probably be delicious and I am 100
percent in but anyway yeah it's very cool anyway total total aside I think I mean we're
driving the Volkswagen around going to these things and I started hearing a thumping noise
and it's either the snow tires are junk because they're five years old or it's gonna wheel bearing
that needs to be replaced but then I noticed like the noise is not there the last couple days I'm
like it's a little weird I don't think it was the road surface we were on it was just like a real
steady thump good news is that if it is wheel bearings it's not as we were real
yeah I assume I don't know I think the knuckles are aluminum on these cars I'm not sure I'll find out
when I switch the summer tires in a couple weeks if it doesn't go away then yeah run to a wheel
bearing I guess at least I don't think it's terribly terribly difficult in that car no at least
my dad invested in those chassis years so I can nail it down probably I forgot about those yeah
excellent all right what else you got going on Andrew you know play a game
should we play cray-crayed don't tell me yeah
yeah I think we should it's been entirely too long all right
we got a couple last week we had questions this week we have cray-crayed would tell me
yeah I've got a couple people put effort in
they might work they might not work it's tricky you know we're low effort podcasts people are
doing low effort cray is this posting that's a valid point we can't complain I guess all right
I'll go first uh because this one even though it's light on specs you'll probably get it maybe from
the description because it's it's decent so step to the legacy of blank with this stunning blank
convertible a classic crafted for the adventurer with an eye for elegance this meticulously refurbished
blank is not only a head turner but also embodies blank timeless charm and rugged capability finish
in a radiant alpine white the nantucket nomad blank excludes exudes sorry timeless blank heritage
with modern flair brand new tan soft top matching soft top frame complement the warm custom
cream interior complete with hand stitched dash and door panels custom wood steering wheel
bringing sophistication to every joining a fully serviced powerful engine heritage grill
LED lighting ensure this convertible is as capable as a stylish designed for both
regular adventurers and coastal escapes um let's see the new puma bonnet heritage grill alpine white
colored drenching and distinctive flair anything else uh let's see
well it's gonna be of good rich tires tow bar hitch
any guesses all right i know what it is you said too much i hate this guy up by the way did i he's
uh he's not my friend okay um yeah this his description just makes me want to punch him in
the face but this is obviously a defender 90 yes so yeah i mean was it the nantucket nomad
is that a model did i give it away i mean that gave it away a little bit that was just like
that's you described the person like he's a he's a nantucket nomad he was a nomadic lifestyle
where he he goes between his four multi-million dollar mansions um no it was the uh puma bonnet
that's like a cowl induction hood for a defender 90 okay see i yeah that's a nerd thing i wouldn't
know no it's not a nerd that's pretty neat it's a uh it's a remember it's a it's a it's an idiot
brain that remembers the stupidest things i used to work at that online car auction yeah so i
distinctly remember them coming through with a puma bonnet a bonnet also made it british
but a puma bonnet it's like am i not wrong it looks like kind of like a cowl induction hood
style for it's not bad it's like they're raised in the center yeah so this thing is uh this thing
is triple cream it looks pretty good actually oh listen they're not bad looking vehicles that hood
is dumb but they're not bad looking vehicles but for 75k uh like six wranglers it's really
disappointing that you put ebay led headlights in it yes it would look gorgeous with a set of just
normal actually uh vintage diodes does some nice led come on out here for barrett jackson and you'll
see all of the six figure cars the ebay headlights in them and it will just make you want gouge your
own headlights out it is um it is a manual um but yeah is it actually a modern one or is it an old
it's a 90 okay i never understood the value okay so it's imported yeah i never understood
the the value of those because i guess it's just a badge right it's just like a fancy handbag like
they're expensive because they are yeah because there are so many better vehicles out there for
$75,000 um they perform better or the same like how many first gen monteros could you buy for
$75,000 yeah this is a big time nantucket flex out here like it's a big time flex everywhere it's a
big time scott's tail flex like i see them here too but yeah first gen if you could if you imported
a first gen montero that was convertible way cooler way way cooler yeah well they call it jcop
yeah probably you knew it for sub $7,000 yeah but anyway anyway all right for me yours
first one yep let's see let's go with this one here
blank blank blank blank blank 32,000 miles 351 cleveland rebuilt just short five hard horsepower
new clutch and center force disc 10 inch wide front and 13 inch wide rear rims to match the
wide fender flares these are new gr4 magnesium wheels that i've owned for 30 years
we're caro seats in black interior gts dash clock with very misspelled
blah punk radio he says blah upon a radio new radio with three fans great color for a gts
initially sold in europe the flares are molded better than the factory versions these blank blank
are rarer first ones imported through blank dealers were 1288 this one is number 1749
believed to be the first blank built by blank
okay this butt hit it gives you one clue that was too long but well yeah
yeah i might not have caught it because i'm not as good as it's remembering carfax as you
i'm going for it's a mclaren fox body 351 cleveland
if there is a fox body would be a 302 you could shove a 351 in there i guess
big flares 351 it says 10 inch and 13 inch wide wheels
10 wide front 13 inch wide rear
they made a magnesium that he's owned for over 30 years
oh oh oh is this like a um
the rears are 13 by 15s and the fronts are
earth is this like a super performance uh cobra no not a super performance cobra
so gts dash clock gts
gts big giveaway oh oh oh oh um
it's a hennessey no it's not a hennessey vote brothers make sense no those are gts
what car also was called a gts gts is a trim package on these cars there is a base and a gts
they're a thord engine european cars oh pantera is bandera yes there yeah i guess you didn't
officially say hennessey viper so i will call that as a guess so you did get him your third guest so
you are good all right um this man does not know what he has or thinks he has more than he has
um it's a custom molded wide body 71 pantera um it does not come factory with the wide body
the wide body on the factory cars looked terrible but better than this and he's claiming it's the
first gts which is not true because i don't think they made a gts in 71 i think gts was 74
i would be curious to know you can shout out on the discord if you got that before i did so
and uh again what we'll do is we'll post them like a few days after the episode airs
yeah i'll have to remember to save these links yeah finish them up i just leave the tabs open
all right sir i'll give that one to you let's see it's only $135,000 if you want to buy it oh my gosh
all right this one this is a package deal it's two cars but we'll just have to guess the one
that's my kind of car my god deal yeah more car all right
numbers matching this car is finally going to get stored in garage it's a mid to late 1990s
um i bought the car in main after the second owner got it running car will need complete
restoration but it's unmolested true blank with all original parts we'll need trunk
pans rear quarter panels front fenders doors seem pretty good and vinyl top shows some bumps
underneath getting rust details so hard top black vinyl top 40 cubic inch motor four bell carb
warwick blue interior with blue yeah warwick blue exterior with blue interior highway headlights
power antenna rally two wheels uh that's about it i don't know if you can get it from that
you said this was early 90s it's been in stored in a garage since the mid late 90s oh okay i
apologize i thought you meant the car was that and then your specs made absolutely no sense whatsoever
all right a rally two is this Pontiac vinyl top is probably a Le Mans so it's probably a 71 Le Mans
or GTO so very close i'll give it 70 Le Mans or GTO 69 GTO okay yeah i i was i was even the right
body style at that point yeah i just i there's no way to get the exact year but yep that was
too many games what's the second car in the end see i wouldn't have uh i wouldn't have got it from
that but you're better at this than me the second one is excuse me 68 point a gt hard top
so guys someone both of these have this garage i like how it
starts starts off so promising but that's gonna be a nice garage find car and then it's like
needs quarters needs floors needs rock it's like okay the second car looks really good
running driving matching numbers four barrel april gold vinyl top april gold interior
his and her her shifter highway headlights power antenna original rally two wheels
runs excellent we'll need some mechanical bodywork to make perfect
yeah the highway headlights was also the other clue that made it not a not a firebird but i mean
a running driving gto and that other gto together 25 grand i shouldn't sound too bad
the one that's you'd prescribed to me is worth about three so oh yeah
yeah well the other ones really good pictures and yeah you're right yeah i'm looking at the
pictures now of it yeah it's absolutely worth three grand yeah just based on the description of
it having rust in the roof needing quarters and floors and trunk floors and rockers and whatever
else he said but even the running one he's about yeah no i listen if the running one's a nice car
then yeah no 20 is about right no he's about he needs to be about half price
yeah so real real nice ones are obviously worth a ton of money still you know you're still probably
probably somewhere in the low 30s i'd guess for a for a decent like cruise night level driver
but depending on options and obviously automatic kind of hurts them but i don't know i like that
body style of all for all the manufacturers buick poniek chevy olsenfield like that like 68 to 72
kind of body style is real nice cars a body i think they're called yeah stupid brain
dominating my boots all right ready this one's gonna be a while because even i didn't know this
was the thing so you're in trouble blank blank like indoor storage since 1998
1.8 liter twin carbureted engine not twin cam twin car twin carbureted engine
no rust arizona storage would anyone like to buy this car is complete and all original it's been
sitting in storage inside at our dealership since 1999 last started in 1999 it will probably
need the dual carburetors rebuilt and a fuel pump but it did run and drive fine when it was last
parked quotations in 1999 this blank has 146,629 original miles miles with a clean title these
models were part of the 83 to 87 second generation with a four speed automatic or five speed manual
this has the five speed it has factory power operated tinted glass moon roof with a sunshade
factory air condition brand new tires with no miles on them up about 20 years old if you're
interested you're welcome to stop in at our dealership phoenix corvette center and make an offer
this blank is a true survivor was one of the last second generation cars be produced before the
maker switch to the third generation so we're talking about a car built from 83 to 87 with a
1.8 liter twin carb engine so it's built from 83 to 87 and then parked in 1999 it was only like
20 years old if that 10 years old and yeah about 13 years old
1.8 liter dual carburetors 1.8 liter twin carb five speed manual
factory power moon roofs factory air conditioning it's at a corvette dealer but it's not a corvette
dealer but it's in their showroom it's at a corvette dealer but it's definitely not a corvette
that's the reason I said that because it matters in fact this picture of the front of the corvette
dealer that they show in the head has eight cars in it and exactly one corvette so I would not say
that they're a very prolific dealer of corvettes even though they're called corvette center
whoa and the one corvette has lambo doors so they're also suspect whoa
1.8 liter dual carb carb yeah I mean that's not a lot of info that's important to the car
but that was wild enough to me that I had to bring this up because I don't think I knew that that was a thing
you didn't know it then I definitely don't know it it's not it's not an obscure car though
I'll give a few more hints it is front wheel drive okay twin carb front wheel drive five speed manual
pop-up headlights two plus two coupe configuration
uh
all right is it it's Japanese it's not Japanese it is Japanese it is Japanese yeah
whoa okay yeah uh very very mainstream automaker it's uh
it's a Honda Prelude yeah after giving you all that info you did get it correct
yes it's an 87 Honda Prelude that was like you know you get an 87 Honda Prelude with twin carbs
that was a real shot in the dark I don't know why yeah I had no idea a twin car
Honda Prelude was a thing still in the east I feel like this like playing this game sometimes
you ever hear like remote viewing where like people try to like like see a place like spy on a place
without being there sure so like as you're trying to describe this I'm trying to like
just picture what it is and then yeah of course for some reason that came to me I don't know why I
said that but once you got Japanese and pop-up headlights and front wheel drive and I was like
it's a major a lot of yeah make sure you're out of yeah yeah that's probably why weird nonetheless
it's uh it's uh the Prelude has always been such a weird car and I mean that is the most respectful
way possible because they've always just put weird stuff in them and everybody's real mad
about the new Prelude that just came out but when you think about it it's weird it really kind of
fits the Prelude like Prelude has never been a standard car like it's always been something
weird and yeah the new one is only available as a hybrid currently which isn't what the enthusiast
wants but if you want to sell a personal coupe in 2026 and have people buy it you probably
get to make it attractive to non-enthusiasts who just want a small personal coupe right like
make it a hybrid why not I from what I've heard it's actually a fun car to drive
um it handles really well it's the same suspension as a the Civic S a Civic Type R
so it's a super fun car it's just not really fast and sometimes I think that
people forget that not every car needs to be real fast Prelude's never been real fast Prelude's
always just been a a cord platform car with a coupe body on it and that's kind of what the
new one is although the new one's a Civic platform because the core is so big now but
it's just the same formula right they take a they take their economy car platform and
put a two-door coupe body on it and call it a day so I I'm kind of a fan of the new Prelude if I
was looking for a simple daily driver and I had the budget for that kind of car I can't see why I
wouldn't buy one for a daily it's a perfectly accessible car and it's just like this old Prelude
I think so this car is cool though 146,000 miles so it's not like a a low mile cream buff it's got
some you know things intense and wear with nothing crazy they don't have a price unfortunately
just as make-off or but I put it around so anyway do you have any more
um I got one more maybe you'll get it it's kind of interesting because
I think I remember my mom say my grandfather actually had this car or car like this
okay and I think it's interesting it's more interesting than other cars of that era that are
more ubiquitous so um grandfather could have had one of any car ever made because he was around
from the beginning of cars until now yeah basically so uh all right selling this blank sedan came from
Virginia over $6,500 spent in the last five months making this a driver for sure um following his new
tires to end up just distributed a radiator exhaust transmission service more front seat
restored paying a 60% original 4% newly done very solid for one of these real clean frame and floors
325 v8 push button power flight trans
um this will probably give it away because there's not much else to it real cool thin forward look
blank I think it's a lot of attention
what was that real cool what real cool finned oh in word look look okay so there's not enough info
here at the end of the ad no okay go ahead sorry that's it take that you off oh that is the end
of the ad yeah okay um there's not enough info here to get an exact car okay but I'm gonna guess
it's a mopar product yes um and it's gonna be 57 to 59 yes but I'd be a complete and total shot
in the dark if I knew if it was a Chrysler a Dodge or Plymouth or a DeSoto so we'll just call it a
Plymouth Savoy
no dodge coordinate the D7 dodge coordinate okay yeah same same car
yeah the engine transmission gave it away and then obviously finned forward look is
forward look was the dodge thing I think at the time and finned era heavy before 1960 I don't know
one of these push button mopar cars I forgot which kind yeah they made the button for a few for a
few years or that was was that is that a square steering wheel on no let's go around the steering
wheel okay the square steering ones are cool that's what those cars were all designed by one guy called
named Virgil Exner yeah and he was all about deep excess and like extraneous of cars of the era he
Virgil Exner was Chrysler's version of Harley Earl who was GM's big you know jet age designer so
very cool stuff it's definitely uh I mean you can it's as good looking as a 57 Chevy or maybe a
little bit better looking yeah I think they're better looking they're way sleeker they're way
wider and longer it definitely looks like something they would use now in the background of the
all out tv show for flashbacks so there's a bunch of them in the all out tv show yeah one of my
favorite things about that show is all of the 50s cars in that show and they're all jet age stuff
so yeah I I'm a huge fan of anything Virgil Exner um super super cool each designer has like
sorry each manufacturer has like one period of designer that's like super iconic and like I said
GM had Harley Earl they had Virgil Exner there's the stuff that uh I was a Dic Teague did for AMC
in the late 60s and early 70s the AMX and the Javelin although look this is some some
designers had a real flair that worked for these companies at the time so those looks like it's
because Chrysler's one of my favorite single barrel carb and it says red ram on the valve
cover but the engine is gray but the air cleaner is red it's black on this one no okay anyway very
cool car I'm very into it and uh I would totally drive one but there's not much I wouldn't drive so
all right I got more for you all right I'm gonna wrap this wrap this segment up all right this is
a blank blank blank owned for 47 years $19,500 giving you the price because it doesn't actually
matter because the car is not worth that money is it worth more is it worth less that's for you to
decide but it is not worth $19,500 blank blank classic 47 years ownership description colon
this gem has been owned and preserved by me for 47 years clean title for decades this classic blank
was stored slash covered in my carport preserving the body and originality it was recently moved to
a gated outdoor storage facility vin and cowl tag intact matching numbers mechanically the
transmission and rear axle are original and matching numbers the original 350 cubic engine
has been replaced with a brand new 350 in sorry let me go back in he says the spelling here the
original 350 engine has been replaced with a brand new crate 350 installed in approximately 1990 so
brand new from 1980 40 years old to keep the car drivable and reliable all other components are
matching and when needed replacement parts installed are oem this blank classic is straight
bodied never in an accident and has a solid trunk has original cloth interior showing it is consistent
with its 51 years of age has original glass windows important and instrument panel the original hub
caps and beauty wings are included preserving the car's authentic look the windshield has been
replaced once the car was painted the original stock color the vinyl roof was restored original
style now showing age from the desert sun restoration i began restoring the engine bay
which is why the car is currently not running all oil and fuel are drained prior disassembling
the car ran i have video proof brand new parts not yet installed oem bosh or napa
water pump power steering pump new parts installed fuel pump distributor rotor gap
highlights straight body never next to it matching numbers rear axle and differential
transmission rear end original engine replaced brand new 350 crate engine 1990
original vin cowl tag intact yeah yeah photos from when it was stored and covered
other photos of current condition after outdoor storage paint and clear coat now
showing its age and the valentine with weathered from outdoor storage
documentation includes the vin sure build details provided in the car's authenticity
photos show the car's condition before and after outdoor storage highlighting its honest patina
a video of the car prior running prior to the engine work is also available for serious buyers
only the photos shown in the current condition are after fresh washing when you inspect the car
it may be dirty this is a collector quality blank with a rich history of extensive documentation
of over 1000 photos and videos of engine bay restoration this is a great restoration candidate
for collector he wants an original car history a pro builder or a rest of modest enthusiasts
message me if you like to see the running video additional photos or come inspect the car
price $21,500 if you like it on sale in quotes let's chat cash or cashiers check in person
so there wasn't a lot of info about the car but this guy's car this guy's description made me
bring it up to you because i have never in all of my seven or eight years of living here seen a
rustier car from arizona okay his honest patina i didn't care you don't get this one right i'm just
so mad about this car in general it's just gone his honest patina is actual rust like there's no
paint on the edge of the quarter over the taillight and there's a rust hole the entire rear window
channeled behind below the window on the cowl in the quarter bales rotted away like there's not
any interior left it's not torn or sun baked or cracked there's patch holes in the floor
i i don't know what this guy is thinking but um what car would have a final top a 350 an automatic
hubcaps and center gaps hubcaps and trim rings
uh rod near and dear to my heart your dad owned the same year
all right all right so it's like a 75 rs camaro okay and maybe dad was the rz 28 this is a 75lt
okay uh as a broken grille um pictures show it so rubber bumper car
three rubber bumper this is an aluminum bumper car oh right right right which they don't hate
these cars no i like the aluminum bumper car i think that when they're nice yeah yeah we took
the bumper in a little bit they have 74 and five still have that big back window sorry 75 is the
big back window 74 still has the small window so but this is the big back window but it's held in by
hopes and dreams because their rust is getting pretty aggressive and obviously when you said
it's been in outdoor storage recently recently is like in the past 10 years because the paint is gone
and then the pictures of it in his carport show nice paint so there's a very big change of what
these cars looked like over the past few years it's a disaster i can't imagine anybody paying
more than 1500 bucks for this thing well you know 19.5 or 21.5 depending on what part of the
ijuried so 47 years of ownership doesn't mean anything you can keep in good shape
sure it doesn't nope
here's what it is could have been a nice car but it's not and that's even run
it's a brand new engine 1990 so my guess is that the whoever owned this car is probably very elderly
based on the fact that they hold it 47 years used to be a carport and now it's outdoor storage
i mean they probably moved into like an assisted living facility or something so sad but unfortunately
it's not worth anywhere near his hope so this is the classic i'm gonna retire on that car someday
story right yeah yeah it's a bummer sad but sometimes if people could let's go with stuff earlier
or at least get to it or enjoy it like at least this thing sat in a carport right for
40 years and ever enjoyed it i mean it's not even driven it's someone so
but no no question at all it's been driven but i mean right he put the engine in 1990
so he was driving it then yeah no that wasn't 47 years ago so he's had it 47 years but 47 years
is what 1979 he's owned it since yeah so nonetheless i mean listen i owned cars that i haven't driven
in a very long time and i'm trying to not be a jerk about it but it is what it is i get it time
gets away from you on the next thing you know it's been 10 years and 20 years and
i bought that 80 Cressida four years ago last month yeah it's still sitting in my yard
but i'll get to it someday it is the check the check's the balances i need is doing craigslist
don't tell me it's gonna uh get a retire on that 80 Cressida absolutely all right uh
we'll get into the end here um that's all we have for Craig Craig right um that's it moving
on segment over real quick we'll cover a little bit of nascar and we'll get out of here uh because
it was a pretty darn good race uh they went to darlington race apparently it was not an official
throwback weekend just everybody's using it as a throwback weekend it's an alumni form yeah so
they changed the alumni weekend which is cool because yeah go ahead i watched the race after
struggling with the lancer all day yeah and my mood was immediately lifted by one boogie boogie
boogie let's go racing boys that's all it took yeah dw back in the booth even for the first stage
only was still it was really cool to have that yeah that's pretty good and um i don't even know who
was on the oh yeah so you had 2311 reddick and rubble on the bowl um boy poor poor bubba had one
bad pit stop and then just couldn't recover um it wasn't the pit stop that caused this problem it was
the impact when um hamlin got into the whoever hamlin got into and then they checked somebody
checked up hamlin got into him hamlin checked up and bubba got into the back of hamlin and bubba
hit the wall and it yeah okay and hamlin checked up bubba's alignment hamlin checked up into one of
the uh front uh legacy cars so i got another turn it was like yeah going super slow it was weird
like all of a sudden they were real real slow and hamlin was hard he was getting just yeah yeah he
was he was getting in is where this nonetheless or but he wasn't pitting i don't remember but
no he hit him it put his car into bubba's car bubba's car went into the wall
it bent his steering assembly in the front his car was not fast anymore so the the pitting one was um
reddick who taught a reddick hit uh who was that uh so bad at this but sure i think yeah you think
we'd watch the race or not but um what was this 43 drivers were terrible with names and is what it is
it was one of the um it was busher are those ones that one of the yeah so is he is he a
busher or priest yeah it was it wasn't keselowski was running really well actually yep i thought i
thought it was keselowski well it was keselowski's race to lose really for sure because reddick had
some troubles early on and then had to pit and they had to had no charging system uh early like the
first lap charging system went out they like cut them to shut off all the auxiliary systems
which shuts up which shuts off as cool suit cool suit ac all gone uh at one point they came into
the pits and put a bigger battery in uh and you're like man that's that's not good i don't know if
they're gonna finish this race and uh the guy won it which is yeah again which is what four out of
six so far the we're out of six which matches dale earnhardt and uh the lelliot for the first six
wow yeah pretty well that's some high praise that's some like some legendary status up there
i mean he had a rocket ship of a car like even sure the charging issue you'd he'd get out there
just start passing people uh blaney was doing well hosavar was doing well like the best chevy
chevys were struggling until the end there hosavar like made up like 10 spots on the last like after
that last caution um but yeah they're talking about and blaney was talking about the new package
with the higher horsepower and less downforce is uh it's working it's great it's making some great
racing yeah absolutely make really good racing sure give them more horsepower why not make them
drive the car and less downforce they got drivers got to drive the car and uh it seems like you know
hendrik and some other teams haven't quite figured it out and clearly the two teams and some
couple of the four teams had figured it out so yeah yeah it's been all toyota this year really
i mean they had the one ford win with the here in benix but it's been almost all
toyota yeah so it is a good it's a good season get back in the nascar the racing
is really really good um there's no more win and you're in the playoffs you gotta get the points
so having those points really matter is making people race for position
so far all season that they aren't really trying to like you know you could have had
renek win the first with deytona and then just chill right for most of the season just
keep it clean the wildest thing is is that he has about a hundred point lead over second place
and then the difference between second and sixteenth is the same spread between him and second place
yeah like he could just park it for the rest of the season and still make the playoffs yeah well
we'll see how it turns out after at the end in august when they pick the top 16 so it should
be interesting and then there's no more like i said there's no more knockout rounds at the end
so you know race till the end after the point it's basically a points reset which makes sense
and then you'll just have 16 16 guys race for the end so so far i'm excited um they've got
uh i don't even know what's coming up next bristol bristol sweet that's a great race so
bristol and then they're taking the week off for easter and then uh yeah should be good it's worth
watching uh how about sebring sebring was pretty cool 12 hours sebring i forgot about that i watched
last few hours um the last like two laps were pretty insane with the uh gt cars the gtd car not
pro okay it was a uh one of the two cars it was was the a o racing was one of them right
it's the pink car forget about it i don't even bad bad racing reporting podcasts because we just
forget we watch it enjoy it uh it was cool i'll probably have to go watch the highlights again
because it's a long race but the last lap had like the prototypes racing for the lead
and whipping through the slower classes as they're trying to race as those slower
classes are also trying to race for vision for position and uh it's another Porsche win it was
like the 20th overall win at sebring from Porsche which is pretty crazy Corvettes couldn't seem to
so that's unfortunate but that's a cool race i want to go back there someday
you looking it up um looks like it was the Ferrari and the Aston GTD so i don't know
which teams they were definitely the a o because a o is a Porsche no so yeah Aston is probably the
heart of racing heart of racing yeah and the Ferrari was a reesey or something probably um
but definitely worth it um yeah so there's a lot of good racing going on absolutely anything else
i think we'll we'll call it a day all right cool find us on instagram on off-topic podcasts
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as you're taking a drink i can find me on instagram at tsi ss 350 and i guess the reds is the same
occasionally in the scale out of cast occasionally yep all right but it that's mostly for my social
media lately yeah discord access to discord discord's fun and um i swear i swear i'll start to do
some uh hold me accountable to do some topics i gotta do it i just i've been busy but i have a
couple of been building up to have thought processes on all right to get there all right this week
was unfortunately it's quick because we're doing it early i have a uh a hard out time tonight and
i'm not around on thursday because of the rally so yeah we'll hear about the rally next week so
yeah all right cool keep our zandalogue and aim for roses
About this episode
A lively Auto Off Topic catch-up turns into a real-world wrenching saga: a 2000s Mitsubishi Lancer OZ rally that passed emissions after a bulb fix, then developed slow starts and finally a no-start. After swapping fuel pump, cam/crank-related sensors, and fighting a buried crank sensor behind the timing belt, the culprit ends up being the crank sensor—then it fires back up after priming. The hosts also play “cray-crayed” with wild car listings (including a twin-carb Honda Prelude) and wrap with NASCAR/Darlington and Sebring talk.
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This week Brad carries the podcast again with project car updates, and we play our favorite game Craig Craig Don't tell me. Brad once again proves his head is filled with lots of random car facts.
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