Shift and Steer Apr 3, 2026

Aaron Wants an Old Mercedes, Matt Wants a Maurader, Brad Drops Ep1 of Saving the Chevelle - Shift & Steer Episode 562

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Car

Chevrolet Chevelle

The Chevrolet Chevelle is a classic muscle car from Chevrolet. People often restore them or modify them because they’re popular with car enthusiasts. In the podcast, it’s being mentioned as the focus of a project or episode.

Concept

April Fool's

April Fool’s is when people play harmless pranks on each other. Here, the “boss coming over” was actually a joke.

Concept

hot rod

A “hot rod” is a modified car—typically older—built for a more aggressive look and performance than stock. In this context, it’s referenced as the type of car that was stolen and “thrashed,” implying it had been customized and driven hard.

Part

disc

The disc is the metal rotor that spins with your wheel. When you brake, pads squeeze it to slow the car down.

Part

calipers

The caliper is the clamp that squeezes the brake pads onto the spinning disc. Better calipers can help the brakes feel stronger and stay consistent.

Concept

car insurance

They’re talking about how much car insurance costs and why it can go up or down. Your price depends on things like how risky the area is and how often claims happen.

Term

auto insurance

Car insurance costs can change depending on where you live. If your area has more crashes—like from snow and ice—insurance usually costs more.

Part

rear end

“Rear end” usually means the drivetrain hardware at the back of the car—basically what sends power to the rear wheels. If they’re loading it up, they may be taking it out to work on it or swap it.

Car

Genesis G 90

The Genesis G90 is a high-end luxury sedan from Genesis. It has features that make the back seat more comfortable, like a mode meant for when a driver is taking you around.

Concept

paper plates

Paper plates are temporary plates you get when a car is brand new. It usually means the car was just bought or recently registered.

Part

clear starts going away

Cars have a clear protective layer on top of the paint. If that layer starts peeling or wearing off on the edges, the paint underneath gets damaged faster and the car can start rusting.

Part

quarter panels

Quarter panels are the metal panels near the wheels. They’re a common rust spot because they get hit by dirt and water from the road.

Term

AC

AC is air conditioning. They want the car to be comfortable enough to drive with passengers, not just a show car.

Concept

LS conversion

An LS conversion means putting a GM LS V8 into a different car. People like it because the engine is modern, parts are common, and the swap is well-documented.

Part

roll cage

A roll cage is a strong metal frame inside the car that helps protect you if the car flips or crashes hard. It’s common on cars that see track use.

Concept

leaking oil

Leaking oil means oil is coming out of the engine area, usually from worn seals or gaskets. It can be small, but if it’s significant you can lose oil and damage the engine.

Concept

burning oil

Burning oil means the engine is using oil as it runs, so you have to add more oil more often. If it gets bad, it can hurt the engine.

Term

diesel

Diesel engines work differently than gas engines. They usually make strong pulling power, but they can feel slower when you want quick acceleration.

Company

Bring a Trailer

Bring a Trailer is a website where car enthusiasts buy and sell cars through auctions. The speaker is using a past BaT listing to show what an LS-swapped Mercedes might be worth.

Concept

body roll

Body roll is when the car tilts or leans in a corner. Softer suspension setups usually make it lean more.

Term

door panels

Door panels are the inside trim on the door. If they’re off, you can see and clean the hidden areas where water can get trapped.

Term

mold

Mold is a fungus that grows when things stay wet. In a car, it can start in damp spots and can be hard to get rid of if you don’t dry and clean the area well.

Term

shop vac

A shop vac is a stronger vacuum than a regular one. It can handle wet messes too, so it’s useful for cleaning up moisture and grime.

Term

Most of them were sticks

“Sticks” is slang for manual transmissions. The speaker is contrasting the limited edition’s automatic setup against the more common manual Defenders of that time.

Concept

salvage title

A salvage title means the car was once considered a total loss by an insurance company. Even after repairs, it usually makes the car harder to sell for top money.

Term

3D printed

3D printing in automotive restoration is often used to recreate discontinued trim clips, small brackets, or missing interior/exterior pieces. The key considerations are material choice, fitment, UV/heat resistance, and whether the part is structural or purely cosmetic.

Term

fitment

Fitment just means “does it fit right?” They’re checking if the parts line up properly on the car and don’t require a lot of extra work to make them match.

Term

3D printing

3D printing is a way to make a real object from a computer design. You can use it to create custom parts or test ideas without waiting on a machine shop.

Term

CAD

CAD is computer software for drawing a part accurately before you make it. If you want to 3D print something, CAD is usually the starting step.

Part

sun visor

A sun visor is the panel above you that you flip down to block glare. This part is about the little clips and covers that keep it attached and looking clean.

Concept

plastic degradation from petroleum-based products

Some plastics don’t like certain car fluids. If oil or similar petroleum-based products touch the wrong plastic, it can break down and turn into something weak or sticky, causing parts to fail.

LIVE

Every team, every topic, everywhere, this is Belize.

Everybody, welcome to Shift and Steer.

Wait, did I say welcome, everybody?

I meant welcome to the party pals.

That was kind of like my minor little thing, a little faux pas there.

You know, I screwed up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I let everybody down.

Sorry, sorry.

We want to announce that...

Are you Canadian? Are you sure you're not Canadian?

Why say that?

Can you say sorry?

Sorry? Sorry?

Sorry, yeah.

You know, people wear sorries.

I was just going to announce that my video is blowing up YouTube.

Episode number one of Saving the Chevelle,

which we're going to talk about in a minute, just...

I mean, in less than 24 hours, over a million hits.

I mean, okay.

It's amazing. It's amazing.

Over a million retractions.

Oh, and I do want to mention that today is April 1st.

So we're recording on April 1st.

I almost fell for a couple already. I forgot.

I'm like, what?

I heard one on the radio that I was like, God, if I could pull that one on Charlotte, it'd be so awesome.

She'd be so upset, though.

What it was was a guy said that he called his wife and he said, honey,

my boss wants to come over for dinner tonight.

Can you clean the house?

And she got the house.

He came home and he said he did this last year.

That's why it was...

And he said he got home and she went, where's your boss?

And he went, oh, April Fool's.

And he goes, she was not happy.

I canceled my nails and my hair and my Medicare.

Yeah, but the house is clean.

Yeah.

All right. Hey, before we...

I did see one, by the way, with Andy Leach posted already.

It was the first thing I woke up this morning and I looked online and Andy Leach was like,

our car, you know, a hot rod was stolen. It was thrashed.

And it took me a second and I was like, oh no.

And I was like, wait a minute.

Yeah.

Don't fall for it, Matt.

Yep, I'm not going to fall for it. I'm not going to get duped today.

Everybody was doing that same one. I saw Andy's and I was like, wow, somebody stole that thing?

And then I realized, wait a minute.

There's some funny ones.

There's some brands and some companies that do some...

Did you see Will Woods?

That they have new brakes available that they've revolutionized.

They're now putting the brake on the disc and the calipers are steel.

And then they've got one out.

They've got several of them. They've got one that they have new energy drink, Will Wood energy drink.

And it's brake fluid flavor.

So they've got all kinds of them.

That's funny.

Little poisonous.

Well, I was going to ask chat GPT to shave my head and remove my beard and say, what do you think?

Should have done it, man.

Yeah.

With like a face tattoo over here or something.

All the way you should have done.

You've not even shaved your head.

You should have just shaved your beard and had like some tattoo coming across here and go, well, that's always been there.

I just don't shave my beard before.

That's the part.

An extra set of teeth on my chin.

What do you think I have a beard?

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Now you know all about that.

I got an email and they're renewing my car insurance and then I looked at the price.

Right?

And I was like, oh, this must be an April Fool's joke because it's in the four figures for six months of insurance.

I'm like, what is this?

Sanity, what is this?

Like, what is going on?

Just one car or just your truck?

One car.

Your new truck or your old truck?

The new truck. It's like 1150 bucks for six months.

It's gotten so ridiculous, man.

I'm telling you, don't get me started.

It's crazy because you call them and you go, why is it so expensive?

And they say, because there's so many uninsured motorists in California, they get in accidents.

They're like, that's not my problem.

That's your problem.

We have to pay for that.

And they don't do anything to them.

So, you know, you got to pay for it.

I hate to tell you this, Matt, but I just got my new bill and mine dropped in half, went down 50%.

Well, I don't have that senior discount yet.

Hey, that's a good one.

Well, I won't mention that.

I did drop a car off my policy.

Yeah, that's probably how you did it.

You did less cars.

I have less cars.

So, no, it has gotten ridiculous.

Why are we seeing your dog's butt?

Sorry.

He was pawing at me.

I put him on the desk and he ate his treat without even asking.

Yeah.

But Carl Scherz has gotten it.

Yeah, it's crazy.

We've all seen it.

We've all seen it go crazy and it's not getting any better.

It's getting worse.

No, it's so bad.

At least we're saving money on fuel.

Yeah.

Yeah, right?

Because we're not driving.

Our Tahoe insurance, all our cars are registered in Tahoe.

Tahoe is so much cheaper than Sonoma.

Yeah, of course, yeah.

For car insurance or is it backwards?

Well, at least it was just telling me because our health insurance came in

and it was, oh, that's right.

Health insurance is cheap in Tahoe and expensive down here,

but auto insurance is cheaper down here and more expensive in Tahoe.

It was backwards.

Because of the snow.

Like significantly.

I don't know.

I have no idea.

Maybe because it's on a mountain and there's cliffs and weather.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

They probably have more accidents because of snow and ice.

And so they charge you more.

But I mean, I mean, it's significantly more,

but health insurance down here is like three or four times more.

It's insane.

So yeah, it all depends on where you live too.

It sucks.

I got to tell you though, it's, you know, I see it like the house in Arizona

when I register one of the cars over there,

the plates are so much cheaper.

I mean, I told you guys that I took the Tahoe in and registered it.

And they go, and they go, okay, it's $76.

And I go, okay.

And or excuse me, the guy goes, did you want to do it for two years?

Cause you can pay for two years over here.

And I go, oh yeah, let's do that.

And I go, but how much is it?

And he goes, it's $76.

It's going to go up, you know, and I was like, you are paying for two years.

I couldn't pay him fast enough because over here,

the same thing for one year was $326.

I mean, it's just like, huh?

But don't show your cards.

Don't let them know you're from California.

Yeah.

You know, you should go 76.

Man, it just seems like it keeps going up and up.

I don't know.

I'm on a fixed income, you know.

And then Brad pulls out his change purse.

Yes.

I pay him in coin, but not pennies.

Pennies got canceled.

Hey, I mentioned it at the top of the show.

I know you guys know all about it, but I want everyone else to know that we, I,

I should say we, like I got a big team or something.

There's no way in this.

We, I did it again.

I finished editing episode number one of the save the Chevelle on my YouTube channel.

It's a brand new series.

Instead of putting up one big long thing that people don't stick with,

I'm breaking it into episodes.

So the first episode is the chase and the hunt.

And it's actually driving over there.

I tell the story of the car.

And then when I get there, digging it out of the dusty garage,

getting going through some of the boxes, loading it up and getting the rear end and

some of the parts loaded up in the truck.

And it's a, it's an easy 15 minute watch.

Have fun.

See some cool stuff that I pull out of the garage and check it out.

It's on my YouTube channel, which is Brad Fanshawe 3281.

That's the name of the channel.

Or you can just search saving the Chevelle and you know, go there, find it.

I would sure appreciate a subscribe and leave some comments.

You know, that really helps.

People have been leaving some nice comments that they're enjoying it.

So I can't wait till the second episode.

But I know you guys have, you know, you guys both loved it.

You guys, you just couldn't get to it fast enough.

I subscribed.

I know you did.

I subscribed.

Yeah, I'm subscribed.

Well, thank you.

I'm subscribed.

No, it's fine.

I will get to it.

Yes.

You know, let me know seriously because, you know, one of the problems,

one of the hardest things with producing something like this, and you know,

Aaron, you've done lots of them, is that you're so close to it.

You're in the box.

You don't want to go too far down the, you know, down the rabbit hole.

And I think I was right on the edge.

I was right on the edge, but I backed up.

And, you know, right about the time I'm in the car and I'm droning on about the car

and everything, that's when we get there and it's fun.

But I did make sure there was lots of visuals, lots of great historic photos, old photos

with the car, things like that to make it really interesting.

And so go check it out on YouTube.

It's my new YouTube channel, like I said, subscribe and don't forget whatever I'm wearing

in the video, except for that Bear Jackson hat, you can buy on my website at bondspeedstreetwear.com.

And sure appreciate it.

Episode is coming soon.

We'll definitely check it out.

We've been, we've been driving fool lately.

Everyone's going to check it out except for Aaron's friend.

Oh, Colby.

Yeah, Colby.

Colby.

I heard back from that episode.

Colby's my friend that despises Chevelle's and especially when Brad talks about it a lot.

He listens to the show every episode.

And he's like, is Brad talking about that damn Chevelle again?

I haven't even talked about it that much.

He's pretty sensitive.

He is very sensitive.

We talked about it the week you were out just to double down.

Chevelle just to double down on it.

But he seems passionate about not hearing about the Chevelle for some reason.

But that's all right.

About the Chevelle?

Colby doesn't like the Chevelle?

Yeah.

You know what is crazy?

And you guys both can relate to this is that when we're trying to promote something, like

let's say when Aaron was going on his big trip to Alaska and everything like that and

you wanted people to follow along and people don't realize how many times you have to mention

it, how many times you have to post about it.

They think, well, you just put it up once or mention it because they heard it.

But it's, I put up the same post twice with a link on my Instagram that shows the, you

know, the little card, the promotion card for it.

And then I put it up a second time and all different kinds of, oh, this is cool.

You know, you really do have to get it out there.

And it's hard.

So sorry if you don't like it.

I try explaining that to advertisers all the time.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

And you know, it's weird.

I mean, you almost just, you almost just can't get these algorithms to work at all.

Someone commented on a post that I did nine years ago about someone calling me late at night

drunk or sorry, texting me late at night drunk and just like rambling on about stuff.

And I'm like, why drunk people have to text me at night?

And I was upset because it was disruptive.

And it just showed up after nine years and people were commenting on it for like two

weeks and it got, it got four times as many, you know, likes and comments.

And it was a post from nine years ago.

So yeah, it's stuff is just, it's ridiculous.

And of course dad's fake posts are just blowing up the internet.

And I'm so sick.

Is everything okay?

Is everything okay in your family?

Is your dad's, it's like, what, how, how can you believe it's amazing how many people

believe this stuff?

Like it's so obvious and yet people don't want to believe that they're getting the inside,

you know, look at things.

And yeah, well, a very good example.

David Fryberger was just recently saying that, you know, he's doing great with his shows

and excuse me, getting lots of views, lots of subscribers.

But he said now what's getting him is fake, fake subscribers.

They're really the algorithm will read them as he's buying subscribers.

But what it is, is it's robots.

And he said now the robots are commenting in their real generic comments.

And he goes, I don't know how to fight it because he goes, I don't want them to shut me down

after I've built this huge thing that people enjoy and I'm, you know, actually have it working.

So there's always something you never know, you know, it's not like you just put up a video

and you, you talk about it and then you put up the next video and you talk about it.

You have to manage the back end just like any business.

And it's a business that's very hard to control.

So make sure you support people when they're on YouTube.

If you like their content, support them with likes and with comments because it's.

Yeah, Colby, go watch the Chevelle video.

Yeah, Colby subscribe, man.

It's not all going to be Chevelle's.

We might do a Beaumont sometime, which is the Canadian version.

Colby said something like I am the biggest non celebrity you talk about on the show.

We've already done like 15 minutes just on Colby.

Exactly.

I'm sorry.

My dog is being so needy.

Great filler.

Knock it off.

Yeah.

I do love that you listen to the show.

Yes, we do too.

Oh, I got to, I got to bring this up.

So I had one comment that was about the, about everybody was real positive.

Man, love it.

Can't wait for the next episode.

And then one guy goes, Oh my God, I'm watching your video and it, and you just drawn on about

every detail and this and that.

And all I wanted to see was the car and I didn't even get to see it fully in the whole entire

video because it was in that garage.

He goes into all this detail and he goes, and he goes, I, I, I don't like watching videos

like this.

And I'm like, well, you just described the entire video.

So you sat there and watched it.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for watching.

Yeah.

It was hilarious.

Maybe that was AI.

Yeah.

That was probably a bot.

All right.

It was Matt.

He was using an assumed name.

Yeah.

It was me.

Yeah.

It was Kobe.

The last week it was just Matt and I, Matt was in his motorized recliner chair.

I was unloading the trucks and I was.

Yeah.

Aaron, you.

So fun.

What we talked about was the trip to Vegas and we, we took a Genesis G 90, the sedan.

It's like, it's like the Genesis version of an S class.

And the, the back has the chauffeur mode.

So the front passenger seat moves forward and the back seat, it leans back and it has a foot

rest that comes up and it has a massage and it's just like.

Oh man.

And, and Tammy and I both swapped.

I was like, I'm going to sit in the back for a few minutes and take a little power nap

while you drive.

And then, and then she's just watching all the March Madness games.

So she sat in the back and watch the games feet up, dogs on her lap, like massage seat

on.

And it's pretty nice.

And what I brought up was, I mean, it's not an inexpensive car.

It's like 105,000, but that's got to be like 30,000 less than an S class.

Or, or significantly less than a seven series BMW.

It's like Genesis, man.

They just keep Genesis Kia Hyundai.

They, they keep making moves that are what getting the other manufacturers on alert.

I'm so glad that you mentioned S class Mercedes because there was something I wanted to mention

on this show, tell you guys about and I, I would have forgot.

So I'm driving home the other night.

I leave the shop.

I'm driving home.

I pull up to where I get on the freeway and a guy pulls up next to me in a brand new S

class Mercedes.

Yeah.

Didn't even have plates.

It still had paper plates on it.

That's how new it was.

Yeah.

Well, he's a drug dealer.

Yeah.

It was wrapped to look like it was rusty and old.

Oh, perfect.

I love it.

It was so hilarious.

He had like 22 inch black wheels and then it was, it was like my truck looks like when

the clear starts going away on all of the high edges.

It was rusty and gross down in the quarter panels.

And I mean, this thing, they did a great job because you had to look at it two or three

times.

You went, what the hell?

What?

And then you, then you realize, oh crap.

That's a wrap to make it look that way.

That's awesome.

I love it.

You know, there, I was looking at summer city.

So, so we're going to buy a little four door, four seater, just a little, you know, shit

box car that we can go on trips.

Cause I, Misha's mom is here from the Czech Republic and I had to rent, I had to rent

a car.

So I rented a little Jeep.

Join in the Brad club.

Yeah.

So I'm like, you know what?

This is ridiculous.

I'll just take, I'll take like five grand and I'll buy a little used car, you know, just

high mileage, just, just something that that we'll use when we take my mom around or just

need that extra seat.

So I'm going down the rabbit hole and it's just hell, the five grand's turning into,

you know, whatever, but, um, but there are so many old Mercedes and they're, they're

like Chevy converted, you know, the V eight in them and, yeah, and they're lowered like

from the sixties and seventies and I'm going, man, I'd rather do that as long as it has

AC cause you know, I'm taking passengers as long as it has AC, uh, yeah, it's like,

I want to do that and there's some really cool conversions.

One has an LS of course, that's more expensive and it, and it's like early seventies.

So it had AC, but, uh, but that one's a little more, but, but, but some of these early Rashadi's

out there.

Oh, you're talking about the, I call them boxy round cause they're a box, but everything's

kind of rounded on them.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Those make great V eight convert conversion.

But there was one that it showed it on Sonoma raceway.

I think it has an LS conversion and, uh, and it's got, you know, full harnesses and

a roll cage in it and the guys skirting around a Sonoma raceway and I'm like, Oh, that's

bad ass.

And most of those seventies era sedans had great, great leather interiors.

Oh yeah.

They come patina'd like one of those old couches, you know, cause they had really thick, good

leather in them.

Yeah.

They kind of crack and get supple and yeah, but, but, but, but we were looking at the

little GLA, you know, the, the, like little crossovers and, um, a Range Rover revoke.

And I was, I was telling you guys before the show, the Porsche McCons, which I don't want

to buy again, but they're, they're down to like 11, $12,000 for a Porsche McCon with

some miles on it.

But I'm actually, Kobe's given me hell.

He's like, dude, you're not 70 yet, but Volvo makes some bad ass cars.

I mean, I mean, not only the old safaris and stuff, like those are notoriously cool, but,

uh, but, but like, like the, uh, what was it, the, the, the XC, XC 60, P8 hybrid, right?

Like, like, like, like they're in the, you know, 10, 10, 12 thousands for some miles.

But, uh, those things have 400 plus horsepower, like, I know they're a hybrid, electric rear,

you know, a front wheel drive, they're turbocharged and supercharged, um, but they're cheap.

They get 80, uh, 50 to 60, 70, 80 miles per gallon and they have freaking 500 pounds of

torque and 400 and something horsepower.

I mean, hello, it's a Volvo.

I'll say yes to that.

Uh, I'm actually driving a Volvo wagon right now.

We got the Volvo style.

Yeah, I'm driving a Volvo 60 wagon.

So I, I, oh, you have a 60 right now.

Yeah.

I do.

That's a brand new.

Yeah.

So they're, they're awesome, huh?

Yeah.

I, I, I like it.

I like it a lot.

So I was also doing what you're doing.

I was like, well, what if I just want to get like an older, nice sedan, maybe a large

sedan, uncomfortable and, uh, but I wasn't really looking for like a project, you know,

like you might end up with a project if you're getting into 70s cars and LS swaps.

Totally.

That's the air work and is a tune, right?

And I was just, I went down the rabbit hole of Lexus LS, you know, big Lexus there.

You know, I'm sure there's a few issues here and there, but overall they've always built

a really good car.

There's some people that are doing hundreds of thousands of miles on those cars.

Yeah.

If it's not burning oil and it's not leaking oil, there's a, there's an older couple in

my parking garage.

If it's not burning oil or leaking oil, is it running?

Is there oil in it?

Well, what I'm saying is if it's not burning oil or leaking oil, there's no oil in it.

So you should check.

This couple has one and they drive it every day.

I see them in it and untouched stock, like no tinted windows or any of that stuff.

And their, their headlights are a little yellowed out, but aside from that, it's pretty nice.

It's kind of like that Lexus LS, like goldish kind of color that, you know, like all those

big LSs that seem that way for some reason, that kind of sand.

Yeah.

Like those cars usually impeccably maintained, you know, they have, they have great miles

on them, like the right kind of miles, you know, so everything's lubricated and warmed

up.

They're not like to the grocery store two blocks away.

And it's like one owner, man, if not two owners, someone leased it the first couple

years and then someone bought it, used and just drove it until they got another one,

you know, I'm also looking at little, that the Volkswagen has to be four door.

So I'm looking at the little GTIs, you know, that the four door GTI said the two leaders,

because those are pretty peppy and you can, and you can mod those to 340 horsepower all

day long.

And then, and then the little Audi A3 e-trons are pretty cool as another hybrid, but there's

no performance in any of that other stuff.

And I'm like, A3 is still small, even with, it's going to be tight in a maxi.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And that's the thing.

So, so I'm, I'm loving the Volvo, but I still like those Range Rover Evokes, but I know

they're just garbage and Colby gives me hell about that too.

And I'm over BMW.

That's pretty small too, though, like the Evokes.

Yeah, exactly.

I liked it.

I drove them when they came out and they were, they're, they're fun.

They were nice to drive, but they're, it's small for what you're talking about using

the vehicle for, like specifically having people in the backseat.

Colby has a used Panamera.

It's an older one.

It's got really high miles, but it's executive.

So it has that beautiful, they're four-seaters, you know, Porsche.

But, you know, I don't want to go down the road of a high mileage Porsche, because that

can get very expensive, very fast.

And it's a four-wheel drive one too, but, but that's a nice option, because whoever's

in the back is going to be really comfortable.

They're practically pound seats, you know.

I know you guys don't like it, but I was looking at like 03, 04, Mercury, Marauder.

Hey, man, I don't like that.

Don't settle right with that.

I don't mind that you look at those crappy cars.

So it's straight up looks like the cop car, but it has the Mustang Cobra engine in it.

And it's the Impala SS for Ford guys.

Yes.

But, but there's a community around it and there's, you know, support for it.

And it's, you mean the former policeman that that community?

Yeah.

But now what's happened is, is like some of the YouTubers have caught on to, you know,

like movies, movies, movies garage and a couple of the other guys.

Yeah.

I got one of these Marauder.

So I was like, yeah, I know.

That's why everybody on Facebook just went up $25,000 for it.

Yeah.

This 300D that you were looking at, you know, those, those, you know, I had the little for

years you've seen the photos of my 300C that I had, which was the two door sport coupe

that I had all shaved and lowered.

They're great little cars.

But the reason people put V8s in them, well, the D was a little different.

The 300D had a.

That's a diesel.

That thing's a pig.

Yeah.

But like mine, it was slower than snot.

I, there were many times I would be turning right onto a street.

I'd see cars coming.

I go, OK, and I'd been in Charlotte's 560 SEC and, and I get in this one and I turn

it and I go, oh my God, I'm not going fast enough.

You know, the cars right on your bumper, you know, it's like it looks good, but it was

super slow.

I, I would love to have had an LS in it.

And Brad's talking about Aaron, I texted you about this was a bring a trailer

listing from years ago, but somebody took a perfectly nice like stock looking Mercedes

91 Mercedes put a 5.3 liter little LS engine in it and sold it six years ago,

seven years ago, bring a trailer for 8,300 bucks.

But, but it looked great.

Like it came out great.

Like it looks, it looks all stock.

It looks super, you know, clean and, you know, decent seats and, you know, all the

interior pieces are all pretty much there.

They had to do their own little gauge cluster, which came out nice.

I don't know about the shifter.

They use this weird sort of gated automatic shifter thing.

It was just kind of dumb.

But, but overall, you know, cool, nice car.

Pretty, pretty clean.

There's some good stuff out there, man.

I just, I wish I could go old school because there's so many cool, old cars out there.

You know, even some old Jaguars that have been converted or somebody's done

something interesting to something, you know, yeah, yeah, I'm sending you guys

some listings, fun stuff.

But I'm discovering all kinds of things I didn't know about.

There's a Mercedes G class with like six or seven hundred horsepower.

I mean, it's a big SUV.

I don't want it, but I mean, there's all kinds of stuff I didn't know about,

which is really kind of fun.

But as you can see, the prices are creeping up.

But I sent you that Amazon, the 64 Amazon.

It's a total little rally build.

And it's so cool.

Oh, yeah, the Volvo Amazon.

Yeah. And there's the 65 Mercedes 300.

That has, I believe, an LS in it.

Oh, no, the 7250 has the Chevy V8 in it.

But yeah, there's just some really cool old sleds in here.

I said, you got a 74, 240 D that's on air ride.

And yeah, it's got the tobacco interior in it.

It's gorgeous, right?

Like that is so cool.

You know, OK, but now that it's on air ride, it's interesting

because the problem with the older cars, like some of them are just so rough,

so heavy and worse if you're in the back.

You're in the back here.

And it's worse if you lower them.

So yeah, somebody gets in and not knowing you're just picking them up

from the airport or something like what's happening?

Why is this thing so rough?

Like it's well, some of the Mercedes aren't rough.

They're they're so soft that they just body roll through corners.

Well, that's better. Oh my God, are we going to make it?

Oh, how funny.

Speaking of speaking of old vehicles, maybe it was Brad's inspiration,

but I hadn't been downstairs to the other parking spot

and grabbed my 95 lightning in a while.

And, you know, it was getting pretty covered in dust.

And and I've got some parts that I need to put on it

just to kind of make it run a little bit better.

I have the engine swap that I haven't got around to yet.

But but Holly sent me some good pieces.

They sent me a new distributor and an MSD box

and some spark plugs and some wires just to just redo it.

I know it's still sort of I'm sure there's some blow by

or some leaking on the on the heads or something

because it's got the supercharger that makes no boost.

So there's all that air going.

It's going somewhere, right?

It's just blowing past the valves or something.

I don't know where it's going.

But I I went down there and I, you know,

I, there's no place to to plug anything in down there.

So I take my new truck, which is electric.

And oftentimes I'll just put it down there

and run a C tech charger off the power outlet

of my electric truck.

And I could leave the truck on and park it and plug it in

and and lock it, right?

So I can and it's a plus it's in a parking garage that's secure.

So I can leave my electric truck down there

for two or three days if I'm driving a press car

if I wanted to and just have it charge the battery.

So it was, I usually just do it overnight,

grab my little C tech charger, leave the truck down there

overnight, all locked up in the lock garage.

And it conditions the battery and whatever does everything.

So I don't let the battery really drain that much,

but truck fired up.

Seemed fine.

I went, I washed it and it's funny

because as I drove it out, it's covered in dust as I wash it

and start driving it down the street.

Brad, it's got the nice wheels on it that you made.

And as I was driving at home and it was clean,

already like three people, a guy,

somebody pulls up next to me, oh, that's a lightning.

I always wanted those, those things are cool.

Another guy like at a gas station is like,

that's a cool truck, man.

Thank you.

At a gas station.

Yes.

I went to a gas station.

You went to finance first, then he went to the pump.

I was like, I'm not going to drive much.

I just put $20 in it.

So I got like 1.1 gallons.

I don't know what it was, but whatever 20 bucks buys you

these days, yeah, just something about that truck.

20 bucks to buy you a Snickers and a simple water.

Yeah, pretty much.

You don't even get gas.

It costs that much.

Well, at least it's not a diesel.

It was fun to take that truck out and stretch its legs

a little bit and then bring it back.

So yeah, it was good.

Cool.

Too cool.

I'm glad you watched it.

Yeah, I did.

I watched it.

I got a lot of dusty cars right now

because all we do is drive and it's raining right now.

You know, here's the thing is,

because I went in at the other day like a week or so ago

and the seats had like a little bit of white stuff.

I was like, oh, it's growing like a little bit of mold

or something.

And I realized where I park it is an undercarriage.

It's an underground garage and it's next to the cement wall

and it's dark and it's cold.

And I was like, that's, or it's dark

and it's just kind of damp,

even with the windows up and everything.

Because on that truck, I was replacing the windows,

the side mirrors, and so the door panels aren't in it.

So there's no like felt or anything

to try to keep out some of the motion.

I just realized it's dark down there,

which is a breeding ground for mold.

And it was all kind of monstrous.

Yeah, I mean, I just grabbed the shop vac,

you know, just the wet drive back again,

which you can just plug into the electric truck

and just use anywhere you want.

So there is the image of that.

So I just went to my storage unit,

grabbed the shop vac and some cleaners and some gloves

and then just hit it all with the vac

and that got most of it.

But then I just scrubbed everything

within the interior.

Do you need for that?

Very seriously, one of those moisture bags.

You know that?

Yeah.

I was just gonna say, Matt,

I order so many of those things and like down here,

everything's green and lush and beautiful,

but I keep all these little silly bags I get

and I put them in all kinds of things

because I find that my metal pens

have like this little rust on them.

Charlotte does that for some, whenever she gets something

and it has one of those bags,

she throws them in a Ziploc and then uses them

and they're great, but they make the big ones

that are the size of a little pillow for the cars, yeah.

I have probably four or five in all the cars,

especially like the Defender,

that's a little less secure, you know?

And I've got a bunch in the Jeep

and I just keep the ones with a little indicator on them.

So when they turn pink, you put them in the microwave

and they dry out and then they turn blue

and then you put them back in.

Cars too when they're stored.

Worth it, yeah.

Yeah, totally, totally.

I just never really thought about it that much

because I just never really had cars like that

with interior and stuff in storage, but.

They really help, Matt.

Yeah, I gotta put some in there,

I gotta figure that out.

Live by the water.

I got it cleaned up.

You live by the water, especially, yeah.

Yeah, you live by the water.

It will just throw your car.

Is it?

So, Aaron, you got your truck approved.

Yes, so the reason I did the question.

Well, let's wait a minute.

Let's hear about that when we come back tomorrow.

Yeah, thank you.

I missed last week's show because I was at the inspector

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We're gonna hear about it when we come back.

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All right, Aaron.

It was right on the tip of your tongue,

and I had to stop you.

Yeah, so sorry, I'm so excited.

Yeah, so it needed rear brakes, which we did.

Kobe and I did those at his shop,

because he has a lift, I don't have a lift yet.

And then I had to fix just a little leak.

You know, the transmission cooler,

one of the lines had split,

and so I repaired it, but I junctioned it.

So it was just dribbling a little tiny bit out of there.

And then, oh, the blinkers were slow.

I think it was just a low battery,

because they've never been slow again.

I thought that was very strange.

Yeah, so I went back and it passed.

So I ran to the DMV and got a plate.

So it is fully registered, plated, and on the road.

It's been off the road since 2011.

So really, really excited to get an original NAS Defender

D90 limited edition, last 300 ever made,

number 78, back on the road.

And Misha drives it every day.

She's just delighted.

She loves that thing.

She ordered her license plate

that's a strange spelling of Willow,

because it's Willow Green, so she named it Willow.

And yeah, so those of you that are unknown to these,

the NAS North America spec,

they were the last of their kind in 1997, 300 produced.

Like I said, this number 78, they came in Willow Green

with some nice bells and whistles and options,

but they came as an automatic with air conditioning,

which was pretty unique for those defenders.

Most of them were sticks.

You could special order them as an automatic,

which my mom actually did, I think in 95.

But yeah, it's a neat spec and they're insanely valuable.

It's a very desirable spec to those that like it

because of all the bells and whistles,

they can be a little overstated, but they're very cool.

And yeah, we brought it back from the dead.

It does have a salvage title.

I couldn't fight that.

It came from a tow yard

and that's just the way California likes to put it.

So we're stuck with that,

but I don't think it'll hurt the value

because there are no accidents in its history.

It just came through a tow yard because it was donated.

But yeah, yay.

Cool.

That's great that you finally got it.

I know it was quite the ordeal,

but it could have gone the other way for you.

It's been a year and a month.

A year and one month.

Long journey.

Did the drip rail 3D printed little things come in?

Does it work?

Yeah, so I sanded them and I painted them

and I stuck them on there and it's pouring rain,

so I wanted to go outside and check and see how they work.

I would say, I want to find you even more.

I thought you were like standing there

where the hoe is just to make sure.

I wanted to, but we've been so short of time

with Misha's family here that we just go, go, go, go, go,

and I haven't been able to do it yet.

Yeah, okay.

But I'll find out today.

But they fit?

Did they fit well at work?

They fit flawlessly.

I have to say, there was no trimming.

I sanded them only because I wanted to paint them white

and now they offer them in white

because it has a white roof.

But the NAS defenders tend to be a little bit different

in every way from all your standard additions.

So I thought, well, maybe something's gonna be different.

But so far, it was an easier fitment

because there was less glue and sealant

all around on the roof line and they seem to line up

as they are supposed to.

And I think they're gonna divert everything

the way they're supposed to.

And yeah, it'll be great.

Yeah, well, what they did was they diverted the rainwater

along the front edge of the gutter

to a place where it's just gonna leak somewhere else.

So that's basically all that.

But at least when Misha opens the door to get in and out,

it won't go all over, right?

Yeah.

Aaron?

Yeah.

Huh?

When Misha gets in and out,

at least the water's not on her anymore, right?

Yeah, so what was happening, I did a video

About this episode

The guys kick off with April Fools banter, YouTube/algorithm talk, and a quick sponsor plug, then dive into real enthusiast updates. Brad unveils “Saving the Chevelle” Episode 1 (chase/hunt and garage digging) and discusses how promotion and engagement work online. The conversation shifts to shopping for a practical “people hauler” and debating old-car conversions—especially Aaron’s growing Mercedes/LS-swap rabbit hole, plus Matt’s interest in Volvos and even a Marauder detour. Later, Aaron celebrates getting a rare NAS Defender D90 back on the road and explores 3D-printed fixes, while they also swap stories about insurance costs, storage mold, and a quick drive in Brad’s dusty Lightning. They end with Hyundai’s new Boulder on-frame 4x4 concept and what it might become.

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