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A lively discussion on car culture kicks off with the hosts sharing their experiences of singing in the car and the quirks that come with it. They delve into the importance of music during drives and how it enhances the driving experience. The conversation shifts to auto theft trends, exploring whether there's truly an increase or if heightened awareness is the cause. The episode also touches on car insurance rates, tariffs affecting car repairs, and the ongoing projects of the hosts, including updates on their vehicles and plans for future builds.
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singing in the car
auto theft trends
car insurance rates
tariffs on car parts
vehicle projects
music during drives
car repair costs
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's kind of funny. So I kind of
wanted to jump into something. And if I tell you, guys,
all the time, things come to life at this table a lot of times in between commercial breaks and stuff, and then it happens to do something that we're getting ready to talk about. So I'm curious how many of
you all sing along in the car all the time all the time, like to yourself for out loud, out loud, I mean the car is different out loud.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that the driver next to me understands what I'm singing and starts singing.
Speaker 2: Along with I unfortunately know the answer for Cameron because I've literally watched Cameron start singing out loud in the car and then I watch Cameron turn in the window just so weirdly and start singing to the people next to them through his window right like like they're gonna start singing, like starts to start. Has anybody ever started
singing along with you all the time? Yes?
Speaker 4: Really, because sometimes that you'll be singing the song and they'll be listening to the same song in the car because they're on the same.
Speaker 2: Looks on the same station. Yeah, of course. Of course.
Speaker 4: I'm a type of person that has fun, you know, so I'm always trying to.
Speaker 2: Live the party. But your idea of fun is like
sometimes you're having a blast, but the person that's next to you, it's very awkward. For it's just awkward.
Speaker 4: I'm not singing, and I'm in the passion. See I'm
usually when we're flying by people, I'm usually making faces at them, like just random faces at people.
Speaker 2: Do you sing along in the car?
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, in the car, I do yeah, like out loud, or you say yeah something yeah, kind of out loud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the car when you're or with other people in the car.
Speaker 5: Okay, with people too, well, we're talking about during commercial break though. Is basically about like just singing in random
times and random places. But I mean car is a
little different. I mean, you know, you listen to radio wise.
I mean, that's just kind of normal.
Speaker 2: That I have a jipbox.
Speaker 4: I was just telling you guys, I have a jipbox that praise in my head twenty four to seven. If
I don't like the song, I just change it. I
put in my little quarter, I pray.
Speaker 2: My number, little chord. Change a song, I mean, one
of the worst. Because if you guys, I like music
a lot, it's one of the things I enjoy. Keeps
you kom. I have over five thousand songs saved in
my playlist, which I think is quite a bit, and it keeps on growing all the time. I can. I
think right this second, it said I have like four hundred and fifty hours or something like that of continuous playtime, which that's quite a bit. That's quite a bit. Not
that I think I could ever get to the po playlist.
I mean, you know, in one city, that's never gonna happen.
But you know, I mean, it's it's nice to have that many songs. I never realized. And here's a weird thing,
like do you ever realize that you know the worst almost every song? Like when I'm gonna say what you
believe are the words.
Speaker 4: Of this, And I think, I'm like, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I can remember.
Speaker 2: The full song I haven't listened to in years. I mean,
I find I find like this the ten that played in a row. I'm on a drive. I know the
words all those, like I said, or I believe I know the words, like I may alter a word here and there. But it's funny because you ultrasongs enjoy alterrain songs.
I told you guys before. When you come into traffic
and you're sitting like in traffic and I just I don't know. I think everybody does it. You look over
at other people with their car just to and I see something straight. There was a guy that was playing
the air drums and singing along like he was a one man band, like nobody could see him inside his to see you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know when you feel in the song you're just playing your air drums or you know you got a good guitar solo gup coming.
Speaker 2: No, just man, you don't do that.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, I'm on the air like this. I'm like,
so I get into a song when it plays and stuff, But you would. I mean, this guy had he as
far as he's concerned. He had real drums in front
of him, he had his air guitar, he had it all.
He was a one man band. While we were sitting
in traffic, and I wanted to record him, but I didn't want it to be weird. Yeah, I was like
because no, I was like, no one's gonna believe this guy.
I mean, And and he didn't look like the type.
Speaker 2: Of guy that would be doing that. That would be doing that.
I mean, he looked like the type of guy you find sitting at a desk, like behind a computer, entering like data in.
Speaker 5: That's a solitude. Right there, driving to work, that's a solitude.
Speaker 2: That's a solitude.
Speaker 4: I'm like the type of person that would like turn the music up just a little bit so the person next to me ken hear it. Just you know, I
think that they're enjoying the song so much, just like me.
I'm like, sure, I'll turn.
Speaker 2: It up just a little So I probably i've dim dimmed down. I probably have come off of that little
bit when I was younger, they know, because I had a lot of stereo equipment in my vehicles and I like to listen to music at very loud rates. In fact,
you know, I wanted everybody to hear me around, which I'm not saying it's a great thing. I still like
loud music. You know. One of the coolest things I
just got is for the Mega Garage. It's a plaque
and it says my neighbors listen to great music, whether they like it or not. And I think it's a
great plaque, not that I want to annoy my neighbors.
And then we live far enough apart, but you everything echoes out here, So if the radio is on out in the Mega Garage, there's probably a pretty good chance that four or five properties away, you probably came up likely said that you have a good playlist. No, no,
I've never had.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: I know that my neighbors are there's, like I said, everything echoes. So it's not like we're on top of
each other because we're on big pieces of land, but everything echoes, so you can hear. And I have a
pretty nice stereo setup inside the Megarage that I haven't expanded on, but I have the pieces to expand. Nuns
maybe would make it even louder, but I jam out and like when I'm out there working on a car and stuff like that. I really enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: One of the things I do do is when it starts to get late, I won't really mess with anybody too much with my stereo. Do ten turned down or
I'll put I have your pieces and I'll put my ear pieces and listen to No we can hear, right, because I'm so respectful. But if it's during the daylight
or hours, Yeah, if you're somewhere close to the mega garage, there's a good chance you're listening to good music and you just didn't know you had.
Speaker 5: You still has a great sound system. They haven't put
it in for two years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that guy right there. Yeah, I have Cameron,
So I wonder if we I wonder we all pitched in for two years in a row. Actually, I think
and bought Cameron stuff for his car to upgrade his stereo system. And he has speakers, he's got an amp,
he's got some a couple different things, and he's yet to install it. In fact, by the time he gets
right to installed, you'll probably be in the next car he euns right.
Speaker 4: That's kind of like right, So that's kind of They probably all filled out now is probably because I've held out for too long now. So it's like, do I
just go buy a project car and then put a really nice surround system in the project car?
Speaker 2: You know us a bunch of work and then stereo in it.
Speaker 5: Like I told you before, the speakers designed a different a certain size for each car, so you like the odds that you get in the same size speakers are probably a very.
Speaker 4: Slam project car that unless you get the same cars, and I mean, or buy a bracket or take it over to sound Rave and have them do some magic for me.
Speaker 2: I mean, you do remember I told you one of the I know, I think we talked about this on the ready before. One of the coolest stereos that like
I had in a car was something that I pieced together by a bunch of pieces that I had, and two of it was very large intercom horns. And I
I want to say, I'm pretty sure I think when I told you got a story too, and that's the same way. I'm pretty sure that the two horns I
had were from some type of PA system or something like that. They were, they were large. Why built them
all into a box? I built the horns into the box,
and then I had eight six's that I put in the and then I had two tens as well that I put and I built, and it was just a long box that went in the trunk of my car.
It's quite a bit. It was very, very obnoxiously loud,
but in a good way. Like the only thing that
I think probably now being older and realizing that, you know, it's not always about just how the PA horns were something really intense. In fact, I had to put those.
If you guys remember, if you guys go back in the eighties, we used to have dials where we could dial up and down. I had the PA speakers on
a dial so I could dial them up, down and down because certain songs were more pitchy than others.
Speaker 5: And but I think there's supposed to be a really good balance between the vocal and just you know, bass and tremble.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't like when not good enough voice.
You know what I liked about what I built that was is you could vocally, you could hear everything very very clearly. Now, the horns, like I said, they were
not they were not car horns, and they were given to me and they were metal, so which made me believe that they probably are right. They're school, they came
from something like they came from some time, but they but they worked and they did with it. I mean
you could hear it and it was clear they were hooked to an amp. Maybe that made the difference. But
if I turned the bass down and turn those up, you could hear the vocal vocals very clearly from really far away, like almost like if you're out of a ball field and somebody was like talking on a pa across the ball field, you can hear it well.
Speaker 4: I've seen that one video where it was like the car driving underneath the tunnel and then right when the back of the car passes, you can hear the song just clear as day. And he had speakers all in
the back of his I think it was a Chevy Barawazer or something like that.
Speaker 2: I have. I have two friends that are into stereos,
still heavily into it, and they have speakers mounted on the outside underneath the car so they can play sound outside the car and it's very clear. Now I've seen
ones people try to do it and it sounds really horrible.
That's what they have a nice setup and you can actually hear it. It's all about the it's balanced, and
they have them built into like I want to say, like a custom box they built that goes up ndneath the car, but the speaker is on the outside and it plays clear and it's it sounds very good. And
then I went to Mark some five seven events. I
went to his winter that's the Yeah Winterfest car show, and there was two or three cars that were set up where they had speakers that you could hear everything.
I mean, like across the whole parking lot. You could
hear the sound like like like it was a rock concert going on. But then when I got to the
car realized our speakers are amounted for that purpose. I
was like, well, that's kind of cool. I was like,
cause I I at first to tell you how clear it was, guys. So I was sitting next to a
real DJ who was DJing the Big Gooch car show and had his speakers set up, and I thought the music I was hearing was coming out of his speakers, but he had turned his down because the people across the parking lot were so loud and so clear. But
I thought those were coming out of the speakers that I was sitting next to because they were DJing. So yeah,
that was pretty crazy. Yeah, so it was. It was clear,
and I remember I told you guys, I was heavily and you know, I went all the way up to doing four fifteen's in a vehicle. I had three thousand watts,
which probably not a lot nowadays, but back then, three thousand watts in a car was quite a bit, and it was extremely obnoxious to.
Speaker 6: The point where he has like one amp nowadays, ye know, well mine was, Yeah, mine was one three one thousand Wilde amps separately PPI amps, if you guys remember PPI.
Speaker 2: And I can get back to the back of the days.
But my neighbors several times called the police on me for rallying everything on their walls in their house. So
because it was really to learn well, yeah right, I wasn't trying to I liked music. I wasn't trying to
be annoying. It wasn't like I was going out of
my way to like aggravate my neighbors. I would just
be tuning. I was adding speakers to it all the
time because I was so album in my driveway, working on my car, listening to my stereo AD and speakers dialing things in and not really keeping in the fact that you know, not everybody wanted to listen to my music.
Probably know what I mean.
Speaker 4: How boring it would be without music and driving. Okay, dude,
it would be you would never want to drive, so you never want to d So I have a rule.
Speaker 2: I like you. I've told you guys. I love road trips,
love to drive long businesses. I have no problem. I'll
drive cross country. Wouldn't bother me. I love it. But
one of my rules for cross country trips or any long trip that's four or five, six, seven hours whatever is uh. I had to be able to listen to
my music at whatever volume I want to listen to that without anybody complaining. Now it's not I don't. I
don't go crazy loud anymore. My wife would disagree with you,
disagree with me, but it's not crazy loud. But I
have to have good music. I have to have that
long playlist of all kinds so it just and it's not all the same music. By the way, it goes
to different it goes you name, it goes everything. And
I had to have the right amount of snacks. I
had to have plenty of coffee, in the vehicle and plenty of like juices and or and I always pack, like if you guys wonder how I do it, I pack a cooler I keep behind the seat, and it's got SODA's and it's got waters, and it's got juice and it hasn't helped him a bit. And then I
keep coffee and thermosis so it stays warm the whole time for my trip. That way, I don't have to
really go look for anything. And I do that kind
of on purpose. It's kind of your easiest way for me.
And as long as I can do that, I'll drive forever.
It doesn't bother me to drive. But if you remove
one of those items away from me driving, I tend to be a little bit of cranky.
Speaker 4: Then if you're driving with him, don't ask to use the restroom. You'll get to the restroom. Bathroom one hundred
and fifty. Okay, no, we're almost to the restaurant. Later.
Speaker 2: If it's an eight hour trip, it's an eight hour drive, you may be good to get a bathroom break out of me. It depends on how much I need gas.
So usually if I stop for gas, that's your time to go to the bathroom. I don't like to stop
unless it's purposeful to stop for another reason. I don't
like just bombo.
Speaker 4: If he does stop for gas, you have till the gas pump clicks to be back into the car.
Speaker 2: Right the rules, man, The things I've learned.
Speaker 5: So, the first car radio came out in nineteen thirty.
It cost one hundred and thirty dollars and it was about twenty five percent of the car loss of a car.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy. How thanks music, if you really love
the music? How things have changed? Well, radio hasn't changed.
Music hasn't changed. And well we we proved that we
got a radio show. So let me take quick course
of break. When I come back, I got bore for you, guys.
Hold tight, I'm right back.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist.
Now back to your host, Dave polach.
Speaker 2: Hey as welcome back. So here was a little something
that with some stories that started popping up, I saw people start talking about in the forum. I told you guys,
I love going on in the forums because it generates conversation for the show with which people are talking about and what's going on and some things I find really interesting, some things I don't. I weigh in on some things
we talk about on the show, some things we don't.
But one of the biggest things that's going on right this second in conversation is is auto theft. People keep
on talking about auto theft and the right as an auto theft, and they're hearing more and more. And I
guess this is my thought process in it. I can't
truly believe that there's an increase in auto theft. I
know people say, what but there is. I wonder if
it's the same auto theft. But because technology keeps us
more connected and more informed as groups, maybe we learn right.
I think we hear about it more. I think maybe
same same amount, But now it's in our day life with like you know, next door neighbor pages and stuff like that where people talk about it and you get to hear about so Facebook group. Here's the one thing
that always mystifies me. Now I understand that the normal
like rifling through cars kind of thing, I don't. I mean,
that's been going on since I was a kid, I don't.
But now they're breaking windows. Okay, I got I got
you on that. But we invite some of that to ourselves.
I know you guys do want to hear. But how many cars, Well,
you guys don't like when I was in the car business business on the regular, So people leave changed in the open where you can see it in their car, right, They leave things of value right out in the open where you can see it.
Speaker 5: And they're parked on the side of the house, right, you know what I mean, like on the corner of the house.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Stuff that just invites people to come rifle through your car.
And then on top of that, most people don't even lock their car. They just they don't lock their door.
And they're like, so they get in their car and they're like, someone's been in my car. I'm like, did
you lock it? Oh? No, I don't know if I
did or not. Okay, Well, right, and you've probably had.
I don't know what seems like insignificant to you, which is like five dollars in change laying there, But that's not insignificant to somebody who just rifled through seven or eight cars, right, didn't find nothing. Right, They're like, I'm
taking that five dollars. You know. People and I used
to get off the camera all the time. He was
one of the worst about it, leaving in his computer for school, in his in his car, and I'm like, I'm like, how many times stuff like you want people to say? How many times did I now I've gotten better?
But how many times did I go I don't know where my keys are, I don't know where my Oh they're in the ignition, right. And then I was like, oh,
and my laptop's laying on the passage your floor, and I'm like, yeah, right, that's what that still happens. That
that hasn't stopped happening. So I think, like I said,
I don't think behavior has changed a whole lot. I
believe that connectivity with people talking on these neighborhood pages and stuff like that, people are like, oh, yeah, me too, or did it you know what I mean? I think
it was already going on when you get into larger car theft Okay, do I believe that that has changed one because technology has changed and people have had to keep up with it. Like uh, I think we've talked
about some of the videos that are out there circle around where people have the car decoders and they can go into code and get the car to start and they drive away with your car. Well, and the tools
are more just versatile.
Speaker 5: They get you can get a lot of them on eBay or Amazon that you know, help you pick a lox or you know, they get that.
Speaker 2: You know that electronic toggler now too, which basically gets the code for it and it will start the car.
If you know what you're doing. You have to have
a little knowledge. But ifrom I understand there's not a
whole lot of knowledge to make something like that work, you don't have to be a brain.
Speaker 5: It just makes it a little bit easier for people that want to do it to actually take a native on it.
Speaker 4: Well, we also got these videos on TikTok where it's like, I guess it's not really showing them how to do it, but it is, you know, it's like how to right there on that it's just like a normal tech person, you know, trying to show how they're doing their job, you know, But thieves are watching that and going, oh, this is easy.
Speaker 2: There is some stuff out there. It's basically like a
how to. Well there is. I told you, guys, if
you never saw the the original gone in sixty seconds.
If you didn't know, I've talked about this before. There's
there's two that was the original, and then there's one you guys. I'm gonna say you guys know you guys
know that movie you do of people. We know that
there's a there was one before that, Yeah, and that was how To before how To right, it is the how to if you haven't seen it, it is kind of the how I mean. It shows the little box
he made that started the ignition back of the day, and I had one of those. I made one and
it works like it was very simple to make for his personal car, okay, right, so I could steal cars.
But it did work. I mean I basically I saw
that movie, saw what they had did and was like, well that seems pretty simple, and then it did work.
So with very little things I needed to purchase from back then with radio shack, but it did work.
Speaker 5: Well, like we know, right, anybody that really wants to are going to find a way. It is more preventive measures.
Speaker 2: Well, I told you about the girl who I met at a college party and took my keys because she thought it was funny. And I need to be at
work in the morning. I think I believe I told
the story in there, maybe have it. And I had
to cut all the ignition wires to my car because I needed to be at work. I needed my job,
I had bills I had to pay, and I finally had to make a decision after like two and a half hours looking for my keys and it was time to go to work. I had to go to my
what was fairly new car to me at that point in time. I had to pull the plastic off and
cut the ignition and I think I told you guys, it's like thirteen wires and made that car start. Well,
I used that little box that I had made that would start that car. Right, Okay, Now that wasn't I
told you I had to go back and sold all those wires. You get one of the girl goes hah,
I took your keys, ha ha ha. Yeah, it wasn't
all that funny because I just just storyed, like my brand new car and so I get to start it. Yeah,
he CAUs that is how huh. The bus wasn't an option, No,
not where we were No, no a bike. I was
aut of college and where I worked at was like an hour and a half drive away from there. That
we weren't taking a bus, you know, which was happening.
So yeah, and I wasn't riding a bike etherre no, So yeah, I had to make a decision. I did it.
But I learned very quickly that hot wiring not maybe see my car, but other cars was fairly simple to do.
Like I said, I didn't realize mine had to have all thirteen wires connected to make everything work on on.
Speaker 4: But you know what I would have learned from that, Maybe I need to get a second key from my car.
Speaker 2: I had one, do you Yeah, it was at home.
Obviously it was at home and you know now and a half and then you know, in the other direction.
So they didn't do me any good. I mean it's
I mean, how many everybody goes what do you don't?
This is funny. I gotta laugh because most people, well
don't you have a spare key? Right, because I left
the house with the key that's locked in the car and the spare one in my pocket because everybody leaves with both of their keys all the time, or as I've been told, they're like, where's your spare key at now?
And I'm like, in the console of my truck? No
good there. So I finally went and got it out
of my truck and put it someplace safe.
Speaker 7: But.
Speaker 2: For like two years. I don't even know how. I
think what happened is I loan camera in my truck and then you parked it and I came and got it later with my spare key, and then I just dropped the key in the console and sat in there for like two years, which it didn't mean no good if I ever got locked out of my where's my spare key a truck? And why? Because I've had to
use it. But it makes sense for me to have
it because you've actually called me and I drove over and used it, So I don't have a spare one of yours yet it's just sitting there. He's probably afraid
they'll drive off with it. I'm not scared about that,
but uh, and I have I have well, I have a spare key to my wife's car, has spare key to my mom's car, like I have the spirit that way, if somebody gets locked out, someone has a key and has a way to get to you. But the stealing
of cars is based on the spare key theory, right.
They're basically on the computer they're making. It's nice.
Speaker 5: The new cars allow you to unlock and lock your car from an app. So it does, but you always
have your spare key on you. You can't start the car,
but I mean, if you need to get into it, used it in years.
Speaker 2: But the Chevy truck has that. I have the app somewhere.
I think I've actually buried the app, and I might even delete the app. But I can lock and unlock
and start my truck from my cell phone. I think
I've only used it like twice, maybe three times. I've
used that that hops, but it's there if need be.
If need be, I mean, I probably reinstall the app and then remember what my password was and all the stuff that would make me mad, and I'd probably just be like, I'm not doing this and just but because I know how I am. But the technology goes into
the big thing.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: The second is and I've already ran into it. Uh,
when I was still steadily in the car in the car field was swapping events. So oh yeah, we we.
It came about it's smart, I get it. And so
I had the police out of at our shop one time and I had a VIN number on the dash.
The VIN number on the door was different and then didn't in the VIN number it was inside the hood was different. So and it was like, oh, well it's
a it's a it's a rebuild And no it was.
It was stolen. It wasn't. It wasn't rebuild.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 2: It was definitely stolen. But here's the thing. A lot
of times people and I when I was in the repul business was a big thing to do. People would
get go get another win VIN plate and they would just glue the VN plate on top of the other VIND plate. Really, that's what they would do. Yeah, you know,
I've had the one when they come to look at the car, it's not the car they're looking for because you can't take it at visits the right then.
Speaker 4: Right, I've had the one to a million chants happened to me where I was at Pembroke Mall and I went to go hit my clicker and it worked for my car and the car right next to me. Really, yep,
I've had it happen to me.
Speaker 2: Some weird things when it comes to cars. I mean,
you know that goes and sits in the wrong car.
Hey that I don't know how that happened. I told
you that was not my fault. I've told you if
I told you the store there was scared bluff. So
joke Cameron for years, four years, I have joke Cameron about him getting in the wrong car, sitting down in the wrong car at the mall. The worst part is
someone was there, right, there was someone in the car.
Happened when he sat down in the car.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I've got in the cars and cars hold there and I can't joke Cameron anymore. I cannot joke him. Did
you do the same thing? I borrowed a car from
a friend, Okay, it was not the car that I'm used to using, and I went to go get some groceries.
I went to the grocery store and got the groceries.
I came out, I put all the groceries away in the carr hold on, I hit the clicker. I didn't
like look at the car. I just hit the clicker,
I grabbed the back door. I loaded all my groceries
on the grocery car into the car. I sat down
in the car. I just got ready to put the
key in the ignition and I looked and there was groceries on the passenger seat. And I looked over and
I went and I'm thinking, I was like, I don't.
I don't remember coming over to the passenger side and put it in the groceries on the passenger side. And
I'm sitting there questioning myself. I'm like, dude, looking around,
come to the passenger side and put still in the car.
I was in the car, I was sitting in the driver's seat, and I'm like, I don't. And then I
looked at it and realized it was nothing that I would have bought. And I went this seam and I
got out of the car. I stepped back and I
looked at the car and it's the car I was driving.
It's the same colors, the same car, same year. And
I'm like, on the world, get back in. And then
I turned to my left and I realized, one row over on the very end parking spot is the car that I drove, which is the exact same car. I went,
there is no way, and I hit the clicker and that car's lights flash. That was across the way. I
was like, but it was in the very end parking spot, just one row over. And I was like, oh my goodness.
So I'm I bring the I had to go get the grocery cart. I bring the grocery cart back over.
I load all my groceries back over and put it back in the grocery bag. And just as I'm rolling away,
this lady, who's very nice by the way, comes out and she's like, what are you doing. I was like,
I was like, I was asking myself the same thing.
Speaker 3: She goes, You know, I sat and I watched you open the back door of my car, and I watched you start putting groceries, and I went, what's this crazy white boy doing.
Speaker 2: She was so funny.
Speaker 3: I was just like, I assure you, I'm not trying to see it. She goes, no, dear, I watched you,
and I was laughing to death. She goes, I realized
when I looked out and saw both the same cars, I knew that you had the wrong car. She goes,
but it was funny to watch when I I can never joke you again.
Speaker 4: When I clicked the beeper for that one car and flights went off, I ain't gonna lie, I thought, popped in my head. Well should I go try the key
to see if it works? Because it was one of
those wireless keys, you know. I was like, would I
know it unlocks the car? Would it start the car?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you don't do it. Here's the thing. After
that happened to me, I sat down in the right car to got all the groceries, and I sat and I went, man, I can never joke camera to get because I would have never had a million years ever thought that happened to me. But once again, it wasn't
a car differens your cameras. It was his own car.
This is a car I wasn't used to driving.
Speaker 4: Nate came to pick me up and I and I went into somebody else's car.
Speaker 2: Anyway, guys, let me take another cuick, of course, or break.
When we come back. We got some more for you. Guys.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So I got a letter you
guys know that hey days save and it was covering something that's you know, I think we've talked about a little bit. It was talking about the increase in all right,
so I'm not political, so I'll just have to work my way around this. I was talking about tariffs. So
it's like, so terrorists, and how's that going to affect us people who work on cars or people who are buying cars? And is that really is it really going
to be as bad as they say? Yeah, yes, and
yes and no. So the short answer basically this was
car repair. They're like, how's that gonna affect car repair?
It's gonna affect some car repair. And the reason, I mean,
you got to kind of expect it. So we're already
seeing an increase in parts. We have for a couple
of years we didn't have tariffs. Yeah you know what
I mean, we weren't in messing with that. We saw
the increase in car park prices going up. So now
with tariff's going on, and if any of those parts that you need come from any other countries, which a lot of them do, believe it or not, we get a lot of car parts. And everybody's like, oh that China, China,
No it's not. We get a lot of car parts
actually from Canada. And Mexico. That's where a lot of
our car parts are made from. A lot of people
are like, oh, they come from all these other countries.
I'm like, closer than you think. A lot of them
come from places you're not even thinking about. They're thinking,
you know, every time people thinks tariffs, they're thinking Japan, China, Vietnam and all the different things. Like No, I'm like
a lot of these car parts we get from Mexico, right.
Speaker 5: But they're all it's all encompassed in different ways. So
like it might be manufactured you know in say Canada or Mexico, but some parts might come from China, Japan.
Speaker 2: Very well, I'm just saying the big picture of it all as well.
Speaker 5: Right Well, I mean that's where you're like, you know, I look at the small pictures sometimes because those is what kind of increased. Like I just saw I was
stopping online for a part instead. And now some of
the websites that sell parts are going to implement a tear off packs, so basically, like you know, the tear is going to be basically.
Speaker 2: Put onto the consumer. Wise, that's basically what that says is,
I'm gonna go ahead make up my prices as they go along and make you pray. That's what that's said.
I mean, you might as well just call it what it is, right, But yeah, you're gonna you're gonna see it.
So one of the things that nobody has really thought about is how this plays out. And I'm talking about
you know, car us, car guys that look at all this stuff. I'm sure we think about it, but I'm
talking about the general public. Uh, it isn't messing around
with cars and right, they're not trying to build cars or whatever. They don't think about that, but it is
there is. There's trickle a trickle down. Okay. Do I
think eventually it will level itself out, Sure, one hundred percent.
I believe it will. But there's gonna be some growing
pains on that. Like I said, we already saw car
parts jump almost forty three percent in the last three years.
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: Everybody's like, oh, no, it hasn't. Yeah, it is. I
do breaks regularly. I'm on my cars, and I can
tell you this is what I paid for brake pads and rotors three years ago in the same vehicle, for breake pads. Roaders is why I paid now and it's
about forty three percent different. So it's a real thing
that's really happening. But here's where people aren't really thinking
about how the trickle down effect really works. So your
car insurance is going to go up. They're like, well,
how does.
Speaker 5: Tear wig I think, which I think is a load of bs.
Speaker 2: But you know, okay, tell me why.
Speaker 5: Well, because at the end of the day, right thing, I mean, I get, I get things an get more expensive.
But and my point of view is that the same amount of car crashes are probably going to occur or get less, and they're still going to regardless of what's going on in the world. They're always looking for a
way to increase your insurance.
Speaker 2: But okay, I don't disagree with you all know I hate surance. Oh God, we go on forever talking about
car insurance.
Speaker 3: I hate.
Speaker 5: It's a very good it's a very good it's a very good thing to hide behind. I'd say that, okay,
if you need a reason, it's a really good reasoning to increase.
Speaker 2: But it makes sense. Here's the reason why. So him
and I we agree on a lot of stuff. With
some things, he doesn't see the full pitchure. I think
on things. If car parts go up, right, then the
repair crash car costs more, it says, the risk is more to the insurance company because it costs more to repair the car. Therefore the car insurance price has to go.
Speaker 5: Now with that said, though, you know, let's go back five years when you know things were all nice inject dangerous right exactly so, and everything nice right, and everything was just nice and dandy, and you know it's always you know, you're always looking for a reason the Jacob prices there.
Speaker 2: Is so, I mean, like it's very good. And we
looked it up and car insurance had went up like by just a terrible amount in like ten years. Like
the increase was like stupid amount crazy, And I now, has it personally hit me all that much? No, it hasn't.
Maybe because I'm not running around with a bunch of tickets.
Maybe because well I don't know, we got quite a few cars that are insured and then they're not cheap cars.
But my insurance hasn't really gone off the rails too much.
But I know people whose insurance has gone completely sideways.
Speaker 5: Even with the tickets though, right, like say you got like speeding tickets or you know, a bad you know, laning fracture, and you know you raise rate fracture, infraction, fracture, it's a fraction, you know, you know I'm talking about.
But you know, even then they still raise your rates if you didn't even get into a car accident.
Speaker 2: It's just if you did well. I said, this guy
proves that he is not a responsible driver, so we're gonna go ahead and hit him with some more money.
Speaker 5: Right, And there's no real like you know, good bases or claws that you know, tells you how much or why it raised so much.
Speaker 2: There was a breakdown on car insurance. I think we
covered it years ago. We went through kind of a
breakdown a car assurances. I mean, it's a little bit
of a crack on a lot of the way that they figure out the pricing on a lot of things.
There's a whole lot of people making money versus covering you know, the cover rights. Like there's just it's a
money grab. And that's once again, that's the thing where
I think we talked about and we just talked about this last week. I was like, I'm not very much
for government overreach, but somebody there should be like an FM department Department of Insurance or something like that regulates some of the costs because I feel like we do get gouge and there's you you have to have car insurance, so you just stuck getting, you know, molled through the cold.
Speaker 4: From twenty fifteen to twenty twenty five, there was a ninety three percent increase of insurance. What used to cost
five hundred dollars now cost nine hundred and two dollars and seventy nine cents. And twenty twenty four now look
at report er point seventy nine percent annual inflation rate now since last year to twenty twenty four or yeah, you know last year of twenty yeah current yeah, six percent increase of car premiums.
Speaker 2: Okay, But why was the purpose? What was there reasoning
for it? Because everybody wants money?
Speaker 5: I mean, look up, look up car crashes, because I think the numbers have wind down when.
Speaker 2: The years has increased over the course of ten years, like you know, was in say twenty fourteen, how many annual car crashes was there across the across La America?
And then how many is there now in twenty twenty four?
Like you agree with you know, pay to you know, play played up? What is it?
Speaker 5: What they call it to play? Pay to play? You
agree with that? Right and stuff? Now I understand the
concept behind it. And some people are like, well, you know,
everybody pays for insurance and race shall go down, but they don't.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 5: It's just a it's a very good what if thought?
Speaker 2: He said, what if it's a it's a it's a it's a made up.
Speaker 5: It's basically a way, at least how I feel.
Speaker 2: It's just a way.
Speaker 5: It's a way for right, it's a way to get everybody on board.
Speaker 2: And then you know, they still can jack rate up.
Like I said, I don't like okay, so I don't like anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So car crashes themselves have increased, Okay, how many cars from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty three, because that's the only only data that we have right now, you know, because they do it like every couple of years. It
was a twenty five percent increase over the decades, so only twenty five percent car three percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so twenty five percent increase in car crashes, but a ninety percent increase ninety increase in fees. Yep. And
then it's almost like food prices going up. That don't
make sense.
Speaker 4: If you take the statistics from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four, there was a two percent decrease in twenty twenty two of car depths and then a three point six percent decrease in twenty twenty three and a four point four decrease so about eleven percent decrease within the last three years of car depths. So that's a
good thing, all right.
Speaker 2: So cars I believe are getting safer. I've told you guys, right,
cars were little more fender benders, right, right, more fender benders.
But I still don't like the increase of cost of insurance over the increase of accidents, Like the numbers don't even line up, which then doesn't make sense, which tells you exactly what we are. In course.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're you're really forced to go get insurance because then you either have to pay a big fee every year to not have it and then cover your own car.
Speaker 2: So they do it almost like they do houses though, because they're like, okay, so your house taxes and stuff go up every year because the value the house goes up.
So if the value the house goes up, then your your homeowners insurance goes up because the house is worth more.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like a fictitious thing, right because it's like going off to your point of you know, all your you know, you know, you about this house for cheaper.
Speaker 2: Now it's more expensive.
Speaker 5: But guess what, Proberty taxes are more expensive too, So now I'm paying more out of pocket on property taxes.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, so it's like, did I really win? That's
what happens as seniors. Unfortunately, they get to the point
where the house is paid off, but they end up paying more in taxes than they would have on the mortgage originally, so it didn't work out in their best interests.
They're like, Okay, I'm paying more taxes on the house now, were all these years I've owned it than I was paying on the original mortgage? So did I win or
I lose? I Actually I thought I was going to
pay the house off and be clean and clear, but I actually pay out more now than that I was making, and it never lines up. I got friends that are older.
They tell me about it all the time. Not say
I'm getting old yet, but my friends that are getting up there constantly remind me that it cost some way too much to live in their house. I think the
lower people welcome to life. It's amazing, isn't that. I
had a conversation over the weekend and I said, look, I think you should get to a certain age. I
don't care what state you live in, but I believe you should get to a certain age where you stop paying taxes on something at a certain age because you've already paid all the taxes. I think you should pay
to own something, to pay taxes to own it. Again,
I already own it. I pay taxes when I bought it.
Now I got to take pay taxes on it to have it. I think at a certain age you should
get it. And now with people don't have to pay
car tax, I want to pay to that at a certain age. I just think that's what we should move
by seniors. You can disagree with me. I could be wrong.
I don't know. Send me an email tell me how
wrong you think or how right you think I am.
On that note, guys, I gotta take another quick commercial break.
When we come back, I got some more for you.
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Speaker 2: Guys, welcome back. So I like I'm begetting a lot
of Hey Daves that are kind of representative of what we're going to talk about. One of this is it
goes back to I think we were talking about it last week and somebody asked me how the uh, the cleaning of the headliner and all that kind of stuff worked out. So, uh, just so you know that it
did work. It has not come back. And I did
use as I told you guys. I used the chemical
guys uh fast stained remover and it took the line up.
That's good. So I told you I've used it before
and I was pretty sure that it was going to keep it out. I sprayed, tried a little bit, I
did the whole thing and it took everything out. Any
update on that. The brake like I came in good, Yeah,
quicker than was supposed to. Remember, I told you guys
it was gonna be a little while, but it did come in. So now I just got to pop it
in there. But before it rains again. Well here's the thing.
I haven't seen it rain the other day. I got
stuck in the rain the other day and I put my hand up there and I didn't feel any wetness, you know what I mean. Like after I clean out
put in my hand, I was like, oh man, it's rain and I got stuck in the rain in the truck.
So I put my hand up there and it wasn't wet.
So I'm just wondering if if it has to be heavy rain has to only catch it from like a certain angle, right. I don't know, but if you guys
didn't follow along, or maybe it just had a soaked into the padding, No, because I'll be I put my hand, I'll be able to feel it instantly, because, like I said, the holes right there, like when you take that out, you're looking right at the like kind of like the juke foaming in inside there, right, So it's right there.
So yeah, should we will feel it instantly. If you
guys didn't follow along with the show, we'd go the my Chevy truck start to get a leak in it, and it's coming for the third break light, and it was like national backo order for him, and they were gonna be waiting a long time. I was thirty four
that were ordered at my local dealership there waiting to come in. But I got it. So I just gotta
pop it in there, gotta take two seconds. It really
be pretty easy. Yeah, Yeah, it just pops right out.
It just came with a new gasket in the light and everything comes as a whole kit, so it is an update. Did it come with adhesive? You by that
yourself was no adhesive in the thing, So I got something in the roadge. I'm not really worried about it.
But another update for you guys. Somebody something message asked
me what was going on? Just put some group on
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is in paint. It's not fully paint, but it's some
of us been painted h and it's starting to look good.
So hopefully you guys will I'll give Cameron if somebody's like, man, he said, you're gonna post pictures of it. You guys
still have to post pictures of it. Well, because I
went to the body shop a couple of different times, guys for you to go take a look at it, and I took some pictures. But I realized that, like
I wanted to have a good representation, and when when they got the car and a million pieces and there's you know, sandy disc laying all around all over it like this, that it is not a really good and I know they're working on it. I don't care, Like,
don't say it that way. It's just not a good
representation of the hoods upside down right right of things like that. But I do have some of the picture.
I'll give camera the pictures and have post the pictures so you guys see what's going on. I'm hoping we're
supposed to have the car ready for this weekend. I don't.
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not it's not going to make it. We thought it
was going to make it this show, but it's it's not.
And I think, be honest with you guys, since it doesn't make it to this show, I think I'm gonna go ahead and push forward and just take care of all the little things I wanted to before we put it out for the first show, because something we can do right here in the Mega Garage. We can puts
it there when it's done, and we can clip the last bit of trim and produce some things. I did
find a original very cool SS front badging for it.
I cold you the one in the fronts a little faded.
I didn't like it. I did found a original one
that goes on it. It is like brand new was
still in the GM bag. It's old new stock. I
still have not found the back trim panel in metal.
I found another one that was not too far from me.
It's probably about three hour drive. Send the guy message.
He had to apply back yet, so maybe he won't.
But so right, it's pretty usual for Marketplace or any of those things. People postings for sale and they never answer.
You guys know how it works. So we're starting to
get things round up on it and everything I thought I had the break problem for the bad am solved.
We are now two weeks into it and I have not seen the parts come. So I guess that's going
to take another conference call to sit and find out what is going on with that, because it's just all these delays. So for the people keep on sending me
messages and if they asked, hey, what's going on with this, what's going on with that? Working progress? It's all work
in progress. Somebody did say a message and said, what's
going on with Blue? If you guys don't know, Blues
are Chevy truck project. We hadn't started on Blues. We
thought we were going to be on it already this time of year. We hadn't started on it yet because
we weren't planning on buying the Nova, and the Nova just kind of fell in our lap the right deal and Blue was going to get started. So trans amis
was be done like four months ago. Part so trans out.
Everything's just gonna want to take something else apart. I
was like, okay, I don't want to take something else apart, and I have two cars blown apart and a million pieces right the second. I didn't want to have a
third one, and to be honest with you, I would like to stay married, so I'm not trying to And like I said, we got the magroageul reason has. It
doesn't affect the property, the house or anything like that.
Everything stays in there away from the house. But there
was a rule put in place. Yeah, there was a
rule though we weren't allowed to have so many taken apart at a time. Even though it doesn't affect anything,
and they all can go to the garage, you'll never see it. It was just a deal I made and
I wasn't like. Hence the reason why Nathaniel and I
kind of have like a side project that's going on that we don't own yet, but we keep on looking and talking about it. A couple of them. There's a
couple of cars we know we want to build, and two have come available that were the right price, the right package, the right deal. And I didn't pull the
trigger on them because I couldn't justify bringing another car home.
And I knew instantly that I would go, Okay, it needs this, this, this, and this, and I would probably send it to the places that could do that, to the stuff that I don't and then we'd have another car in pieces.
Speaker 5: A decent Corvette Chevelle, a two forty. If there's a
couple of yeah, there's a couple of projects that you know we're looking.
Speaker 2: We want to build. We like to build a couple
of retro vets. We will get into that sometime this
year and I'll kind of walk you guys through how that works. I do believe that maybe by the end
of the year we may have one in the stable. Nathaniel,
I talked about it for a while. When I talk
about building these things, these are going to be one hundred percent beat on driver cars. I mean, they're gonna
look nice for they saying, but they're gonna be meant to be driven, driven hard. You know some of the
stuff we have. Yes, we have big horsepower and some
of the cars that we're building, but we got a lot of my time in the car, so it's not we're going to beat on them like those are a toy, right.
We bought the Nova, the Noble kind of get played with a little bit, but not nearly as much what we plan on doing for the retro bets. We want
a cool retro look to them, but we're definitely going to build them to be able to drive and have probably extend intended steering. Extended steering systems kind of put
me and put like a drift steering system in them so you can really get on it and the car has good handling. That's the plan. With him and I
keep looking we're talking back and forth off the era obviously other you guys. I'm just kind of letting you
guys know what we got planned. I believe that's going
to happen. I think we got some color combos because
I think we want to own two of them. We
want to do flip flop colors to them.
Speaker 5: Fifteen car garage and we fill on filling it out right.
Speaker 2: We've fly on putting all the cars and the megarad.
We built big for a reason to hold a lot of cars. But this is something Nathaniel and I've talked
about for years, and I think we're probably going to pull the trigger at some point on it. I just
we just need to get some of our stuff back together so we can justify taking on something else. So
hopefully that clarifies it for you guys. Like I said,
you guys keep on sending me letters. I keep on
trying to answer some of this stuff and get back to you guys. Some things I don't answer on the air,
don't take it personally. A lot of times I'll send
you guys a personal message to answer, or you'll see me in one of our forums. You guys see us
on our page or something like that, and I'll answer it.
It's just something just their easy answers versus dragging him into the show. That pretty much said, guys, that's going
to rout out the show. This show went pretty quick
for this week. I told you, guys, do not forget.
If you're listening to the show right now, you still have plenty of time to get out to a Lancetown and hang out there for the dust off. A lot
of good charity work going on out there. There's a
lot of shows that are planned throughout the course of the year. Like I told you guys, we have been
putting our calendar together. I know May tenth we are
going to be with Rolling with the Knights. We just
signed on to be a trophy sponsor for that, so go look that up if you're the hamp Roads area as well. We will be out there doing some presenting,
some trophies and stuff. We went out there a couple
of years, a great event they throw out there. It's
another great thing for charity. So we are signed to
that one. So put that on a calendar. May tenth,
Rolling with the Knights Ramon puts on a really great show out there with all his friends and staff and everything.
Out there is a good, good event, something a little different out the Beaten Path that had a great turnout last couple of years. So definitely get that you guys. Calendar.
And like I said, if you guys missed it last week, you had a Mustang Club of Tidewater. They did their show.
I heard they had a pretty decent try. I know
it was kind of cold, and not any people came out as that were planning to come out, but they had a pretty good turnout. Unfortunately, we guys we could
make it out there because we were booked for something else.
I tried everything I could. I just could not make everything.
So I do apologize for not making out there. If
you guys made out there to get a chance to see us, just wasn't in the cards for us. So,
like I said, keep watching your calendar. I keep on
telling me the stuff that we're going to be do you not forget once again, we guys for the everybody's lists all the way across the country and across the world.
We will be out SEMA. We're already signed up to
go ahead and do SEAM this year, so we'll be in Vegas. You guys meet up with us out there.
We've had some people done in the past. It's been
a good time, good time to go out and party and have a good time. Vegas is a great place
for entertaining. So on that note, you guys have anything
I'm forgetting, No, I think you covered everything. Think you
covered everything. Have a great weekend. Yeah, have a great
day and come to the show and see us. All right, guys,
that is gonna run out the show. It is Saturday, Someday,
as I always tell you, guys, is right on the corner.
Make sure that you guys unplug, turn off the TV unless maybe watching NASCAR race. Maybe you don't. It's gonna
be Easter weekend, so you're gonna spend some time with you your kids far up the grill. Put something on it,
hide their cell phones, play some board games with them, all that good stuff. Anything you can do you make memories.
They'll love you for it. On that No, guys, we're
gonnahead and get out of here. We will talk to
you guys next week and we'll see you soon.
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