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Back to the Future: Classic Cars Reimagined
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About this episode
Exploring the nostalgia of classic cars, this episode dives into the idea of reimagining beloved automotive icons. The hosts discuss the challenges of modernizing classic designs while maintaining their essence, debating the merits of reviving names like the Dodge Dart and Honda Prelude. They share personal stories about their own car experiences, from modifications to mishaps, and reflect on the lack of dedicated spaces for car enthusiasts to gather today. The conversation highlights the importance of preserving automotive history while adapting to contemporary tastes.
Topics:
classic car modifications
nostalgia in automotive design
reviving classic car names
personal car stories
challenges of modernizing classics
community spaces for car enthusiasts
iconic car discussions
car culture evolution
Cars:
Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet Chevelle
Chevrolet Malibu
Dodge Charger
Dodge Ram
Honda Prelude
Mitsubishi Eclipse
Renault Wind
Toyota Corolla
This week we talk about what it would be like if automakers brought back classic cars with modern tech. Plus, the Nova’s back in the mega garage, but not without a few bumps in the road. All that and more on this week’s episode!
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Dodge Charger
"... you heaving and seeing. But did you guys see the charger that they did and they someone cut it and took th..."
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Honda Prelude
"... what brought us up was we were talking about the prelude. It looks nothing like a prelude. If you were a H..."
Car
Chevrolet Malibu
"... about this, I started thinking about a car Chevy Malibu. In the sixties and seventies, it was a muscle we..."
Car
Chevrolet Chevelle
"...venties I look at a Charvel if I when I look at a Chevelle, or I look at a Malibu of because they were kind ..."
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Mitsubishi Eclipse
"...rly two thousands what it was for the Mischigan c Eclipse and they did this whole it was it was genius beca..."
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Chevrolet Camaro
"...so I know it existed, got molds to the sixty nine Camaro. I don't know how he did it, what his contacts we..."
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Toyota Corolla
"...ght they're cool. He's like, man, I had any seven corollas like on a cool car? You know, I think they're sti..."
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Renault Wind
"... right out of the military. Their hangout was the wind Dixie parking lot. But their town was small, but ..."
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Dodge Ram
"...d an old h I think that it was the he had a power ram, an old power ram that they were driving. It was ..."
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America. You listen Let's Talk Cars Radio on
WKQA Freedom Radio. I'm your host, Big DAVP, Hangout, Camra,
Chaos and AVB. It is a great day for a
radio show, hopefully in your guys area. Is a great
day for car show. Has always say you guys are
getting out, showing them and enjoying yourself. So White Noise
has been home for a week already. I soun I'm
pretty happy with everything on the car. There's some little
things I know that we're gonna need to do to make it what I want. So I'm running into some
some issues. I told you guys that we had We're
going to do simple things to the car and then and then and then take it out and start doing things.
I decided that I want to go ahead and tub the vehicle. I think I told you guys about last week.
I thought I had a pretty set up that that was going to happen. I'm having some issues with to
be honest with you, is the money side of things.
It's got to make a dollars and CeNSE for me when I do work the cars, and right this second, it doesn't make dollars or it doesn't make the sense either.
I know what I want to have involved and spent into that, and it's more than what I think is.
Here's the thing I like, I told you guys, there's certain things that I'm good at when it comes to cars and stuff. I've never back halfed a car. I
haven't had to. Usually I've either had it done or
I assist it with some I've never done it myself, so it's not something I want to take on. Like
I told told you guys, I'm not really equipped to do it. You know, I have welders. You know I
got a big tig. I get you know, all that
stuff like that, But as far as having all the metal stuff, I'm just not equipped to do it.
Speaker 3: So, man, at the moment, it's looking like that might be the way we.
Speaker 2: Go, right, You're right, You're absolutely right. It I don't know.
It's the look that I want to achieve with the car is they're going to require. I had a conversation
about it this week, and for me to get the car the stance I want lower down I was gonna do.
I want to do many tubs for me to I think to get the bigger tire on it that I want, I probably had to go full tub, which then is just more money, which isn't a big deal, but right the second of the money just doesn't line up for me to do it. I got to figure out a
way to make all that happen and make it make sense to me, because we're gonna get to the point now that you know, I'll be by the time I get done with it, like all of us run into is I'll be over the value of what really I think the car's worth by time I do everything I wanted to do to it, and then I you know, then it's I don't know that defeated the purpose of us doing so I'll let you guys know how that works out. I know a couple people reached out to
me and said, hey, so what are you doing? You know,
where are you guys going with it next? And uh,
I was kind of beyonest with you. I was hoping
to have it out of the garage this week and already headed off for that work to be done. And
that hadn't happened. It's still sitting in the garage right
where I dumped it off the tow truck basically, So yeah, it's that's where it's at. So I don't know, we'll
see what does happened. It's cars, man, one day, I
got to love to hate them. I'm telling you what
I said.
Speaker 4: One day at a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one day at a time. So I just, uh,
like I said, I wanted to stall. I just want
to keep the progress going. And and I had some
plans this week, uh to get back to bad Am because I says, the parts are sitting in the box and I just need to make sure they fit and that works and we can get that rolling. So I
just don't want anything to stall. So I'll keep you
guys advised. I know. I told you guys I wanted
care to post some pictures up, but I haven't had the opportunity to take some good pictures of the car I have it. Why it was work was being done,
but I want to get some good final pictures for you guys as well. So as soon as I get
that squared away, I'll get the pictureups. You guys see
what we have going up this week. I want to
jump into some some things we got talking around the table.
It was interesting enough that what okay, there's a lot of us that have I guess what Nathaniel called it, beloved cars, right, yeah, cars that you believe are.
Speaker 3: Iconic, fit the moment the title. Well yeah, okay, when
you when you picture it, you picture that car, Okay, explain right, So, like I'm talking about, like, so we were talking about how, you know, when these companies come out with brand new cars and they kind of slab on an older bag, an old name on it, just to kind of you know, get sales moving and stuff.
I don't really agree with that approach. I think that
you know, some cars, you know, I get like reworking it, you know, bringing it up to date. But I think
there's a problem when it comes to a whole new car design and they just kind of throw an old badge on it to say that, you know, so for them to continue that lineage down.
Speaker 2: Did you guys see the it's out there looking up you heaving and seeing. But did you guys see the
charger that they did and they someone cut it and took the back door off it and shorten it made a two door.
Speaker 3: Like, Yes, I seen that.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was cool. I don't know why Dodge didn't
do that, Like I get it, but we put that name on a four door car, you know, I mean, And it's worked out probably very well for Dodge, I'm sure, but I would have liked them to make, you know, sports coop model of it like that one that's made. Okay,
another miss I think truly for Dodge was dark. I
always thought, I know, Dart was never I don't think Dart was ever designed to be cool, Okay, I don't think that was their intention when they built the Dart.
Originally it was more to be like as it.
Speaker 3: Was a cool commuter car, right, I mean, And I feel like that's what it was back in the day.
Was like we were really trying to you know, they really want to sell those cars, so they wanted back right right as I'm saying, so they wanted to make, you know, for you to have a commuter car and still be in that price range. They kind of want.
I think they did want to make it somewhat of a cool.
Speaker 2: Car to be cool, though, like which I mean, I think I think though, okay, all right, how about I don't think they meant for the Vega to be cool.
I think the Vega was built to be was meant to be a commuter car. Although then people started souping
them up and change the engines in them and all that kind of stuff, you know, so then it kind of became cool. I think the Dart kind of fell
into that, although didn't they did what Dodge made what a four to forty Dart on their own, which then in its own right, became cool. But I don't think
that was the intention. My stepmom had one when I
was a young kid. Hers was not the cool version.
Hers was the commuter version. But I always thought that
Dart was a cool car when it was hot rotted.
I just thought it was kind of a neat car, and I still think it when I see him out of car shows and they're done right. I'm like, huh,
that's that's a cool car. Now skip forward, dodged through
the Dart name on. I don't know what that thing was,
that that abomination of whatever it was they made. I mean,
they threw the name on that car and it didn't do well and only sold it for a couple of years, and they were like, we're doing this perfect example of yeah that didn't work, and I get what you talking about.
So what brought us up was we were talking about the prelude. It looks nothing like a prelude. If you
were a Honda prelude guy, if you grew up in late eighties, early.
Speaker 3: Nineties, I maybe you squinched, you squinched your eyes. Maybe
you can kind of see it. You can see it,
but yeah, it just doesn't follow kind of the lineage, the history of what the car was. And when you know,
going back to what you were talking about, was you know, I think they were trying to make I think truly they every car they produced back in the day, they were trying to have some cool factor to it. Because
we talked about a couple of shows ago, is that you had the choice of putting the big block in modifying it to which you really wanted to be. So
it could have been the really cool, bad looking car that you wanted to be if you had the money to spend. But nowadays, you know, they sell it as
a one whole unit, right, so they're not really worried about it and looking at them that cool that cool factor.
Speaker 4: So when you guys were talking about this, I started thinking about a car Chevy Malibu. In the sixties and seventies,
it was a muscle wee, like damn, the real read drive vehicle. But now you go look at a hive,
they don't look anywhere.
Speaker 5: I know, sixties seventies I look at a Charvel if I when I look at a Chevelle, or I look at a Malibu of because they were kind of laying yachts a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't think the intention was for that car to be what it turned into over time, where people hot rotted them. Maybe I'm wrong. I just don't think that
was Now. I'm not talking about like, don't get me wrong,
like everybody's gonna Golle was always a hot rod. If
you got like the stripped down like commuter looking one, it's almost like it's like saying a Pontiac Tempests. I
don't think the Pontiac Tempest was designed really to be a cool car, but if you see people hot rot at them and because it was something different, and then you go, oh, that's kind of cool, like I said, that happens. I think that.
Speaker 4: Another one is the Michiban Eclipse.
Speaker 2: Okay, that used to be.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, difference right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an suv are buddy Kyle, all right, my buddy Kyle. And I can't remember when I said. It's
the GST they made or whatever they had. The commercial
was on what is that early two thousands what it was for the Mischigan c Eclipse and they did this whole it was it was genius because I still remember obviously at worked. But I think that, uh when that
new eclipse came out, and I can't remember what the I want to say, it's right in that year. I
want to say it's like maybe GS five. Maybe it's
two thousand and five eclipse that came out. Uh uh,
now's a different body style. It was the newer body style,
like so try two thousand and five, that's the older body style that commercial was playing and I remember everybody going, man, I really want one of those. I mean I really
want those.
Speaker 3: And so you're talking about the one that wasn't fast and furious.
Speaker 2: No, that's a different body I was the one body style after that. It's let me see.
Speaker 3: That's the that's two and five version. I prefer the
nineties version.
Speaker 2: But okay, so it's kind of like that. Yeah, it's
it's like the one the other two thousand Yeah, the one up top. Okay, so there was there, yeah, like
two thousand and five probably, so there was. They did
this so I can't remember the exact commercial hot laid out, but they showed that car and it was cool. And
you know, if that was what you were into. Now,
if you're an old and bustled car guy, you're a Ford Mustang guy, Kamaro guy, stuff like that, you probably don't find the Eclipse. Yeah, more like the silver one
down the bottom. But they ran that commercial and I
remember a lot of people going, man, I really want one of those. And Kyle was one of those guys.
So uh, Kyle though, had Mischi Eclipse dreams and he had Chevy Cavalier budget. So and that was reality. Because
we're all young we're like just you know, we're trying to get everything other. I mean, like you remember at
that point, Tom, you guys were young. I remember, you
guys are still young kids, and you know, my idea and dreams of having anything cool had went way out the window. And I never drove a mini van. But
you know, my my muscle card days had come to a stop for a little while, and then it became dad with a GMC Jimmy. You know, but it was
it was it was being a parent with an s u V. But so but I remember Kyle goes down
and he's like I know in his mind because he shows me the car and I'm like, oh, it's cool.
He ended up getting the Clips, but he got the budget model, like the it didn't have all the cool stuff.
I think it came with a turbo. I think if
you got the really cool one, his didn't have that.
He had the little motor, you know what I mean. Like,
but it was still cool, he d I mean, I want to say, you put two hundred thousand miles of that car before you really I never thought of mission.
I never thought mission Bishi eclips could go that long.
But that was just the reality and what it was.
But you go back and you go, okay. So if
you were that guy and the mision mission eclips and stuff like that, that was your car. Like okay. So
back when I was younger, beginning when I went to the military, the three thousand GT. Cool car, the Dodge Stealth,
same car. I remember people wanting that car, like everybody
like want it. And there was one kid in high
school who had one brand new. His parents bought him
band new off the showroom floor and it was cool.
I mean, it was just you know, and I still think looking at it, I still think the three thousand GT is a cool car. I think you could bring that.
I think you can bring that car back and keep it. So,
like I said when we were on before we came on the air, we were talking about could you go and grab like all the iconic cool cars. Now, keep
in mind, iconically cool is different for everybody. For everybody,
like Nathaniel and I do not agree on certain iconically cool cars. There's a lot of cars him and I
do agree on, but there's a lot that we don't.
Cameron and I have a completely different conversation other than Nathaniel, what we think is iconically cool. He tends to gravitate
a little bit towards some of the older stuff like I do. Nathaniel likes old in a mix of new
stuff kind of. And when I say new, I mean
it's still old, but it's the newer generation of stuff.
I think the Eclipse is cool if it's done right.
Maybe because I'm a fast and furious guy. Okay, before
you all send me all the craziness, I understand how carlitically.
It's like saying politically, but carlitically, Uh, that movie was completely wrong on every aspect of terms. They used all
kinds stuff. I get it, but no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, car movies and became action movie.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, when you're doing a car out of an airplane. Now,
for a guy who's a car guy who loves cars, snon and built and remembers every single movie based on the car, I can't remember the character, the actor, or the name of the movie or anything like that, but I can tell you what car was in whatever scene, and I go, but I don't remember what the movie is, and then I have to literally what I like about AI. Nowadays,
I can actually type that stuff in and it usually will tell me what the movie was. Even though I
can't remeber the name of the movie or the actor, I can just remember the car and what it did in the movie. And a lot of times you can
punch that. If you haven't used AI in that fashion,
it works and it'll tell you what movie it came out of it. I'm like, oh, that's what it was,
So that's cool thing. But from a car guy's perspective,
I one hundred percent get everybody has a little something different as far as the way they like. I think
that the general idea of bringing things back could work, but it depends on how you go about it. But
I have to go about taking a commercial, so you have to hold on until I tell you how I think it will work. I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. Your automotive specialist.
Now back to your host Day Pull launch.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back. So we were talking before the
first segment, could you essentially bring the beloved cars back?
And so, if I didn't make myself clear, how we kind of came up with this idea or where the idea of manifested from when I'm talking about beloved cars, like so as Nathaniel I talked about, could you take everything that somebody potentially thought was cool. I mean, it
doesn't matter what it is. It'd be kind of probably hard.
You'd have to almost do it.
Speaker 3: It'd be the limited run.
Speaker 2: It'd be limited like, it'd be limited production, and then you move on to the next thing.
Speaker 3: And if it took off, then you try to like mass produce you know, your own shells, but you had to take like old shells. Just do the underbellies right,
all new, maybe update a little bit of interior, but still keep it authentic, right, and then you do it like a limit like maybe twenty five fifty.
Speaker 2: I really think that there could be a car company that could do that. You'd have to get the okay
to get the molds for the bodies. So I was
telling a thing of the guy. And I think I've
talked about this on the show before. There was a
guy that was here locally that somehow or the story went, and you know stories or stories, car stories, but I mean I physically saw the car, so I know it existed, got molds to the sixty nine Camaro. I don't know
how he did it, what his contacts were, how they all pulled off, But I saw the car okay in I think I told him than probably maybe a little over sixty percent completion. I saw the car. It was
ready for it to be painted, to start putting paint on it, but it had been pre assembled to kind of take a look at what, you know what it looked like. It was a sixty nine Camaro. And this
supposedly the story behind it was this guy somehow got the molds to this or mold I don't I'm sure there's many of them. I don't know how it is,
but he got and he was working on the licensing deal to resell nineteen sixty nine Camaros in current like configure ate like a new cust some frame underneath it and the body set down and it'd be updated interior and stuff like that. But it would still looked like it,
and he My understanding was he was getting new it would be new ven numbers, so it'd actually be a ven numbered car, and it'd be a new ven number and it would show up as nineteen like if you brought it up, it was gonna cover like nineteen sixty nine, two thousand. I came out with what year that was,
but I want to say that was like two thousand and eight when that was going on, two thousand and eight, sixty nine Camaro, You know what I mean. But like
I said, I know it wasn't complete folklore story because I saw the car. The car was being worked on
at the same place that had did our trans am originally before we ran it. All the problems with pain
on it, and not that they did anything wrong. I think.
I told you guys, the car got a huge scratch in it right after the first body work was done on it and just killed the whole project for me.
I had to regroup for a little while. Bec it
was extremely upset. Barbecue, but the car, yeah, killed a barbecue.
But the car, the six nine Camaro, I got delivered to his shop and I got to see it, and you could see where they made the changes and stuff like that, and then they kind of they had some drawings of what they were going to do and how it was going to work out. And I thought it
was a really great idea. But then it just stopped.
I never heard another thing about that project. I don't
know what happened. I don't know if it maybe just
didn't happen and come to come to fruition funding or anything like that. Now I've heard about people getting molds
to cars, okay, and I know there's a lot of stuff that goes with it, but I mean, we've all heard about this. If you guys follow a lot of
different car forms stuff like that, there are molds out there running around to certain bodies that people have acquired over the years to make or maybe they've made their own modes molds like I just saw just like two weeks ago. Guya is selling and I don't know how
that's going to work out for him, but he has the molds to acontash to the actual dimensions kuutashe Laborghinia.
I know we talked about that car a lot because it's like a car. That's probably how I ended up
finding that that little form thing. But he took a
picture of it, and he's got the mold, and I guess what they did is they'd made a mold off her original body. So but this isn't that wasn't the
case of this from my understanding, what's this guy had real Chevy molds. Don't know how way that worked out.
I guess I understand know how that works, but he did, and I thought it was cool idea. So when Nathaniel
I start talking about this, could you essentially start a car company and you remake the oldies? But the goodies
there is right this second if you go look supposedly I've only seen pictures. I don't know. You know, you
can generate anything you want online. But there is somebody
who has somehow either recreate or something, has the most of the sixty seven Mustang and they're remaking sixty seven Mustang bodies and they're coming out of like China or something like. I don't there's some company who obviously wouldn't
care about the restrictions of whatever, you know, whatever it may be, that are making them, and somebody somebody picture and there's like five or six of them already pre they're in a in a crate and they've pre created and people plan on remaking that musting and they're supposed to there supposed to be a company that's going to be doing that here in the States off of those bodies.
Cool ideas. So could you essentially start a car company
that you specialize in Okay, for these months, we're gonna build this, and you could pre order one in these months this.
Speaker 3: Year do a different car. I don't know if we honestly,
or maybe like every three years you have a different lineup of cars.
Speaker 2: Okay, but.
Speaker 3: Well you can't have too many cars in production, right.
Speaker 2: They probably do, maybe do like five cars, five different cars a year, right of whatever it is. You could
dofferent something from sports compact class, whatever it is. I
don't know how that works or you know, I mean, like I don't understand. This is just theory, and DONU
understand the logistics of how we'd put all this together.
But I could see I know a lot of people, Man, I wish I would have had one of those, And it's sometimes it's cars that I wouldn't go in any one of those. Like there's there's people who love below
old toyotas, like the old Selica stuff, like that, you know, I mean like the old ones and people like I had a guy the other day, man I wish I had, and I I kind of agree. I thought they're cool.
He's like, man, I had any seven corollas like on a cool car? You know, I think they're still We
will drive back then He's like, I'd love to take one of those and modernize it and make it cool again, like the old body and stuff like that. And I
know a lot of you guys go, that's not my company it it doesn't have to be your cup of tea, pick whatever card is you have in your head and make that the premise of this story and go, eh, I can see how that could work, right, Because if there's one of me who finds a car that's a quirky car that you know, it's like, yeah, I can I like to remake one of those. You have a
car too that I'm think's quirky, and you're gonna have a car that I'm like, why that? Because it's what
you want. So if you could do that, I can
see how there could be something like that. Now, the
problem with it is everybody wants to electrify them and we're not doing that. Let me tell you how let
me tell you how much electrifying is not uh as much as what you guys thought. It was. Explain to
me why for the last what month and a half they've been talking about all the like the renter car companies offloading their electric fleet and replacing them back of gasoline cars.
Speaker 3: Right in the regulations. I'm gonna wait it just uh.
Speaker 2: I think we jumped, we leaved, we looked, I don't you know, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: I think I think a lot of it has to do with is that they were being subsidized. So everybody
was kind of jumping on the bandwagon to be subsidized.
And then when they's subsidiy right, and once the sub subsidize goes away, well then you know the it outweighs the benefit of it.
Speaker 2: It does. And like so h Cameron to point out,
He's like, well, you guys heard that. You know, Tesla
has the Tesla Diner, And I went I think I was like, what's a Tesla Diner? Now? I didn't know
that's what they were going to call it. I two
years ago, three years ago, we were talking about on the air about Tesla was talking about building these charging stations that we're going to have, like almost kind of like if you guys don't want to like a wah wah or a Bucky's and other people like a set up like that. But they were designed to it gave
you something to kind of do, grab by, to eat whatever, keep you busy why the car was charging, so you didn't really realize that that time went by why it was charging, right, But they didn't have a name for it.
Apparently the name is Tesla Diner. I think it's a
cool idea. Yeah, they just came to occupied. It's almost
like going to Wa Wall and ordering your sub and you wait for them to make your sub. Like I said,
you don't know who the wa Wall is, look it up.
If you don't know what BUCkies is, look it up.
Speaker 3: But when I think it brings it back to like some of the old days too, like where stopping goes were a big thing. He had small little towns where
you little.
Speaker 2: Five and five diners and stuff like that. Right, I
told you guys, I love old diners. I if I
see one, I feel like I got to stop at one.
I just in Cameron cameras like, yeah, he loves them.
I do. I like mom and pop old style diners. Now.
I told you about the weird experience that we had when you were just in Jersey. Uh, at the one
that everybody there seemed like they really hate it where they worked at and so it kind of killed the place like that. It was it was It was cool because,
like I said, it was one of those old, you know, stainless steel diners. Like I said, look them up. You
don't know what I'm talking about. Uh, you haul them
in on a trailer and you just kind of set them up and where you want them at and they're big, but they're pre made. I think those are the coolest
I've seen them all across America. I've I've had a
luxury of traveling across America many times, and every time I see one, I don't know what it is, I feel like I got to stop. Even if I'm not hungry,
I feel like I got to stop.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it was cool when they do like the old coke styles and when they were still running the theme syrup right right right right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll find it with me. I don't know, you'll
find some of the diners still. If you find an
old diner that still makes their products with the syrup and stuff like that. I've been two of them, uh,
within the last ten years that do it. And I
told you guys when we were in Florida, Uh, we came across an old diner. Was I think it was
open like a ninety I think I have to look it up. I want to say it was like forty
three or something like that, and they were still in operation.
And it was the best food ever. I mean, like
maybe I always say that and I'm like, was that really hungry that dude? But I don't think I was
really hungry. It was just cool.
Speaker 3: It was both nostalgia.
Speaker 2: Stalgia was way cool of it. It's like how we
got game Mars and Norfolk.
Speaker 4: I mean when they kind of I mean they kind of have gone to like but they kind of do still try to keep their old.
Speaker 2: If you're in Norfolk, are you want to go to Domars if you're in Norfolk? I mean, it's still cool.
It's still they old, like the old, you know, bring bring back kind of vibe to it.
Speaker 3: When eybody was, you know, roller blade into your cars, they weren't rollerblading and that would definitely be that they were they were.
Speaker 2: They were skates, but they weren't.
Speaker 3: On rollers, you know what I was going. But it
was more than just sonic. I mean I think In
and Out did it back in the day.
Speaker 2: I think, Uh, I don't know if I don't think In and Out ever did No, No, I can tell you.
But they were, they were. They were the car hops
like like they were popular. So there's one little trail
it's still in operation, guys, but it's completely changed from when I was a kid. There is one in Boulder City, Nevada,
is the A and W Roopier. It is still there.
But when I was a kid, it was still fifty styles, you know, I mean for the n W Rooper. It
was very nostalgic, very cool. I still want to get
up that way. I try to stop in just because
I ate there a lot when I was a kid, and it was still the old style one. Now they've
changed it and it's been modernized and kind of sad that it has been for me, but I still remember it when it was old. You remember, it wasn't sonic,
but it was something else, and it was There was one that was here in Virginia Beach that I took you guys to, and I can't remember what it was, but I think it turned into a sonic. Maybe it
was still an old it was. I can't remember I
took you guys, but I try to remember what road it was on. But you're remembering that one too. And
they were on roller states that I took you to, and I can't remember. I want to say it turned
into a sonic, but I A and W was one of the ones I went to when I was a kid. So,
like I said, I think nostalgic is great. I think
you can bring back some of the old cars and be a great business. I think it would work out.
Tell us what you guys think. You guys got any
great old car stories? Any good like old diners? You
guys want to curious? I want to hear about it.
I got to take another quick corcial Breakwake, come back, we got more for you. Hold type, I'm right back.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, all right, so we're talking about nostalgic stuff before we went to commercial break. It's funny because one
of the things that we're talking about, you know, diners and going to the diners and stuff, and how hot rods and diners and all that used to kind of cole Mingle Commingle. One of the things I one hundred
percent miss was talking about Commercial Break is the drive in theaters. I I love to drive in. I don't
think I ever truly fully watched a movie start to begin, you know, from start to end at a drive in theater, but just the whole nostalgic vibe of driving. I can
tell you the last one I went to was in Vegas, out just outside Vegas. It was up on the hill
as you head up towards Mount Charleston on the right hand side, and I believe now that is a Walmart parking lot, which is just like the country song. So
which is sad? He makes a face.
Speaker 3: It is sad.
Speaker 2: It is that that was the last one I could look.
I was young man. I didn't always do the right
things about to say. I can remember packing people in
the trunk because you used to pay for how many people as you paid by the car load, and then they start charging you by the person, So then we would hide people in the trunk. I put five people
in the trunk, carver off the trunk.
Speaker 3: No, no, they don't ever know.
Speaker 2: They started to at one point, but it lasts very short I remember them checking trunks. I can remember growing.
Speaker 3: Up in the in the days of you know, packing people in the trunk and just try to sneak yourself in.
Speaker 2: We did that, you know, no, like I said, it was so what did you you guys did for? What
did you guys go to you to put people in the trunk the guard in place? Yeah, that's I do.
That's you know, it's called botanical I knew that's what I as soon as you said, I want the only place I know that does that, And it was that.
It was that place. Sorry, botanical gardens they want great kids.
But no, uh, we used to do it at the movie theater all the time. It was funny because so
here's the thing, like now as an adult, I think about it, and I think about hiding people in the trunk to get in the into the driving. Right. Did
they ever realize every time you saw a trunk pop up, you know why it was popping up? But nobody ever
said anything like you're like, if you're opening the trunk of the drive, it's because you're getting people out of it.
I mean like yeah, And then I don't think I mean I didn't write next to other people and they see you getting people out of the trunk.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and someone parts right next to you and they're doing the same thing. But I think, like you know,
it depends on the type of person, right Like some people know and don't care, and other people are just you know, full of power and want to you know, execute power.
Speaker 2: Domina. Look, I'd be the first one to tell you
that there's so many situations in my life where I know that that person was a hall monitor at school and should not have like got the position in life they have. Now.
Speaker 3: I just Karen's point on me because I was a hallmwner.
But I love that guy.
Speaker 2: People. I said, there's certain people you know that were
the hall monitor that should have never got power.
Speaker 3: I was that cool home monster was like, yeah, let's just slide, keep on walking, all right.
Speaker 2: I' gonna lie. In fifth grade, I was to you
know why I was the.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you why this because you got a class early. People come up to you and always chew
with you when you're in the hallways that anybody you you were that guy like you, you know, you let things slide. You basically controlled what was going on.
Speaker 2: You would think that's the reason why. That's those two
of the reasons why I want to be a home mowner.
I knew everybody right, you're the home mownor I got a class early. I also got out at lunchtime early
to go eat my lunch. I go down and grab
my lunch before everybody because I got to get a head start on eating so you could be back out of the lunch room, so you could be out monitoring the hall. Last but at least fifth grade, just so
you know, I was the hall monitor for the girl's bathroom.
That's right. They put us right outside of you, and
you had to let the girls in and out at like two at a time, three at a time. You
couldn't let anymore go.
Speaker 3: We just say bathrooms though, because they were usually right next to each other.
Speaker 2: Ours were there on ours was around the hallway. So
there was a hallway went down this way the girl's bathroom, and then you went around the corner and boys bathroom said there on the other hallway going up, and you had to stand there and your job was to make sure that they didn't put too many girls in the bathroom.
So guess what, you got to talk to every single girl there was. That was my interest. I was like, yep,
I'll be one absolutely where do I sign me up?
Sign me up? And that was that was my interest.
I had no interest in telling people anything to do, right.
All I wanted to do was stand at the girl's bathroom and talk to me like and I remember that.
It was a long time ago, but that was like that was my main motivation for it. I'm like, run
in the hall, didn't care, you know, doing things you weren't supposed to do. I don't care, no hall passed,
didn't care the girls bathroom and talk with tricks. I
just made friends with the security guards. I mean that friends. Yeah,
that was your guys time. You guys didn't have to
deal with it like we had it. But like I said,
I mean it's just that that's another nostalblished thing. Like
I can remember another thing. Roller skating rink was huge.
There's a country song about to every roller skating rink I ever went to. There was a black trans am
at it. I mean there just was. I mean like
there's somebody was you know.
Speaker 3: The roller skate rink was pretty somewhat popular when they were growing up outs, Yeah, but they weren't really car hangouts when we were not growing up, but they were hangouts one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Like you went to the roll skating rink and people had souped up muscle cars whatever, and they were parked of the roller skate rink. Why probably because that's where
all the teen girls went to. You know, during my time,
everybody when I kind of went to the roller skating rink in a certain age group. You got a certain
age group and it stopped. But there was that certain
age from like people turning fifteen to sixteen, road skating rink was still it. And then once you're sixteen you
really start driving and going place, you realized roll skate rink was the place to go. There was that little
period and they'd probably be about fifteen or sixteen different hot rods hanging out in the parking lot talking. I mean,
and I guess it really depends on what your town was.
Because I was I had to go to a town for business one time. I was still pretty young, right
out of the military. Their hangout was the wind Dixie
parking lot. But their town was small, but there was
probably about thirty or forty cars in the wind Dixie parking lot. Guys pickup trucks sitting in the back bed
drinking beer like you would in any Gregor once again country song, and that was their hang out, you know what I mean. And then there was a it was
another time I did a lot of talent was in a lot of different towns when I was a young man, because I told you guys that did cases and stuff like that as an investigator, Tasty Freeze was in a lot of the small towns, and Tasty Freeze was still the hangout, which was still kind of like the car hop set up so that everybody hung out that. So
it was just I miss a lot of that. I
missed that nostalgic side of all all things. That's the
reason why I think bringing back old cars would work, the bringing back some places for people hang out. There's
I don't think there's really any place for kids really to hang out anymore. I think that's kind of I.
Speaker 3: Had totally I agree with me, Like I.
Speaker 2: Know that there's a big there's a big problem in our area where uh that you have a.
Speaker 3: People what are you messing around like takeovers and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take okay, not the takeovers where the pop ups. Okay,
so you guys have pop ups, and that's where just people text each other and like hey, that's where we're at.
And that's where cars end up meeting, which is cool because I've stopped and with having radio showing this car related, I stopped. And cars are and some are good, some
are horrible.
Speaker 3: But I think the pop ups are a thing now because there isn't really any designated area for people to go.
Speaker 2: There is, and here's the thing. So I have no
problem with the pop up if everything is going to plan.
The problem is there's always those one or two guys that ruin it, and then before you know, there's police everywhere.
And me at this age, I'm not trying to like deal with the police in my hot rod, you know what I mean? Like mine know, my stuff's.
Speaker 3: Legit, right, But you get tied up in that type of stuff.
Speaker 2: You get tied up in that stuff because they want to.
Speaker 3: Make a marker at everybody.
Speaker 2: Which just happened to me, and I'm like, oh, I know, we got report. You know, here's my thing. There's good
and bad when it comes to the blue right. We
all know how this works.
Speaker 3: We support and let's just say it's per people. It's
not even just the blue itself. It's just there's good people,
there's bad people that make good choices and bad choices.
Speaker 2: For this story to make sense, it does. I'm an adult.
I'm not out there doing dumb stuff. I stopped in
solely because a we have a radio show that is all round cars. I see a huge group of cars.
I'm curious to see what's in there, so I'll roll in and before I know it's, something stupid happens and I'm going to mix. And now you know, I'm sitting
on the side of the road getting the riot act and I want to I'm sorry, guys, I'm still pretty mild manner. But once you start messing with me, they'll
tell you there is something that lives deep downside of me from being younger, that still lives there that if you push my buttons, it comes to light very quickly.
And one of them is uh being chastised for something I didn't do on the side of the road by somebody who's just power drunk, hungry and dry me nuts.
And I'm like, I didn't tell the three idiots or whatever to go with smoke their tires out in the street or whatever. I didn't. You know, most of us.
By the way, a lot of times when you go to some of these pop ups or these small night car meets and stuff like that, most of the guys that are out there, I say, at least half are my age, right, because we can afford the nice cars that are out there.
Speaker 3: We're just trying to We're just trying to enjoy the moment.
Speaker 2: You're just out for the night, you know, stuff like that.
So now you get to the point where you can't engage because you're afraid of what's gonna happen. I don't know.
Like that's why I say, if we had more places for people to sit, they're still going to do it.
It's been going on for the history of it. I
go back to when I was a kid before I drove, and I was watching people pull out in the street and smoke the tires stuff like that. It's it's gonna happen.
But you don't have to villainize everybody and treat everybody like they're a criminal just because it's.
Speaker 3: Like you know, the back of the day when you had like a bunch of drag strips too. Now like
the removal drag strips, so like you know, that's one lass hangout for the race.
Speaker 2: You Know on the street said, if you don't have it, where do you race? There's so much stuff that goes
into the history of our culture and our sport, and we've covered a lot of it so far on the show You Know Today, it's.
Speaker 3: You take all avenues away and then people have to find other ways to one hundred place to get the you know, the drenal.
Speaker 2: One of the things I like to do on a Saturday night, honest with You is is getting an old car, a new core whatever it is, and just bounce from the different parking lots throughout town. And I know where
they're at, and some a lot of you guys know too.
If you're in this area, if you have if you're in your house, you know the area. And they kind
of do. But that's the reason why they keep moving
to locations because they're kind of trying to keep the heat away so they can sit and they can enjoy.
It's really annoying.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: The last one I went to and I won't say where I was at, but I went to one and we were sitting there. I pulled in. I want to
see what kind of cars? Some really nice cars, Uh,
mixed crowd close to my age, little less than me, way less to me in age and stuff like that.
But it was a mixed bag of tricks of cars, right.
But there was a police We watched police office. They
pulled in, blacked out, and they parked basically did a four corner on the around us. I've been there where
we're at, and I'm just like, really like no area, which just kind of sitting checking out his cars. Was
nothing crazy going on there really was.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's the potential for it to happen, but I think we escalate the situation right by doing that.
And once again it comes back to being nostalgic. There
really is any places for them to go hang out anymore, so they're picking parking lots.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just think there needs to be a mix between the two. I can be wrong. If you disagree with me,
send it to me. If you agree with me, send.
Speaker 3: It to me too.
Speaker 2: We can talk about it and may take another quick course of break. When I come back, we'll finish off
the show. I'm bred back.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's something that I told you, guys.
I play around a lot of forums and talk to a lot of people with different subjects. How we get
most of the content to talk about the shows because it's what everybody's talking about currently. And the last second
we were talking about, you know, as far as no nostalgic and no places to go and stuff like that.
That was a topic this last week. That's why it's
on my brain. So people have always I have like
the craziest car stories, right Like, you know, you talk to any car guy, don't have to be a car guy, and they can tell you a strange story or a crazy car story whatever. You know. My buddy Kurt, you know,
he's been on the show livery transmission. You know, he's
got funny ones. One of the ones that he told
me that stuck with me is when the windshow wipers and stuff stopped working. He was on a trip and
the windows started to frost up, and they're trying to figure out a way to defrost's window and I don't even know they decided Kurt side to say they but whoever was with and I think it was his cousin was within the time Kurt jumps up on the fret.
He had an old h I think that it was the he had a power ram, an old power ram that they were driving. It was for their hunting truck
and they were going up hunting and he jumps up on the hood of the vehicle and he starts peeing on the windshield of fall off the windheld because the didn't have anything else warm, right, and it was working.
And is he's standing on the windshield and on the hood, peeing on the windshield the vehicle on side. There are
only people on the road by the way. Really, you
didn't see anybody else. So it's not like it's weird.
It is weird, give me wrong. It was weird, but
it was working. It was the only thing that like,
they tried to scrape nothing, so that was their their their, They're fixed for it. Right here comes a highway trooper
comes around the bend as he's standing on the hood of this thing peeing on the windshield. He didn't do it.
I think he probably was so shocked himself and thought it was funny that like what do you do? You
just kind of right and just keep on driving, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 3: Don't really want to stop for that hole one of those rooms.
Speaker 2: So it's like an Oprah moment. That is not my job,
but it's funny. Like and I've told you guys, tons
of them over the years. You know, I can think about
I told you about a girl I knew when I was in high school and called me the middle night and said she was having a problem with the breaks.
We take the car for a ride and I was playing around, being dumb, and I ended up throwing the car on the side. It had come upot a ditch,
laid the car on the side and slid down this dirt road on its side. Uh. Now I got a
little more than problems, right, I had a little more problems than probably what they came to me for. But
we managed to patch it up get it back to her house, and we did. We passed it up and
her dad didn't notice when he went to work, so he didn't notice thattur so it was possible tonight. Nor
you took it all right.
Speaker 3: Right, Like so I only looked at one side of it, right, He.
Speaker 2: Was like, it's it's one of those things, funny stories.
I'm not justifying by any mean, you know, but they are.
They make for great That.
Speaker 3: One story I told you about. You know, We're at
a party and we watched someone play bumper cars all the way down the neighborhoods nuts.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, freaked own. Left a party I guess they
went to. This was years ago, and there's a good
chance that they probably either they were distracted or they had too much to drink. We're not sure which one,
but we'll go with the ladder. We're going. Yeah, they
played ping pong down the road off of cars as they left.
Speaker 3: Every neighbor's car. I mean, like ten to fifteen cars
just got a really good whack, right.
Speaker 4: But I wonder if they made it home.
Speaker 2: It's one of those It's one of those car stories, you know. I mean, like I told you I took
that road trip. I was I twenty one years old
and I took a road trip. I told you, guys
in the winter time, and I stopped for like seventeen different major traffic accidents in a snowstorm because like they just kept on happening in front of me, and I felt obligated to stop. And I'm not talking like little
f there are big accidents. I mean, like we all
had no business being on that mountain. We were going
up over the mountain. There was no business beyond that mountain,
but we were snow came in. It was quick, we
were already there. I told you, My buddy Roger was
with me. We are literally the snow is coming down
so heavy on the windshield of the car. Guys that
you couldn't move it quick enough with the wind show wipers that we had to roll the windows down, and he is hanging out the driver's window. I'm hanging out
the driver of the passenger window, and we're looking for any landmarkers as we're driving, to make sure we're not going to drive off the road because the road got so covered with snow. Every once in a while you
could see like the yellow line. So I'm like, uh,
you're on it. No, you're off, You're off, you know
what I mean. And we drove and then we drove
like that. I'm not talking like for like five miles.
I want to say for like one hundred miles. We
drove like that because the snowstorm was just so bad.
But those collective stories of what makes things issue when it comes to cars, like I, you know, I love those stories, the fact that I experienced that and that kind of stuff happened, breaking down in the desert and having to hike and hitch hiking, which you probably really probably shouldn't do nowadays. It was a little different world.
But we hitchhiked. I broke down the desert. I don't
know if I ever told you guys a story, but I broke down, and then I was in the middle of nowhere. I mean, I'm in the desert. I was
between Vegas and uh going up towards Mesquite, and that's that's a long stretch. So it was either hike all
the way back int Vegas, which was too far, or just start walking in the direction of where I was going and my thumb out and this family picks me up.
There wasn't a whole lot of room, but they made it work, and we got in their car and we made it probably like seven miles down the road and their car broke down, and I'm like, what's the chances of that happen?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: You feel awkward because you feel like you caused that, right.
Speaker 2: But then like I you know what I felt awkward was well, I was like I got my stuff, and then I just started.
Speaker 3: Talking like well, I was like, look, I was already I was already in this predicament.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep on going.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's seven miles up the road, you know, one person putting their thumb out, it's four.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like, I guess I'm just gonna start you feel weird. I guess I was just gonna start walking.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: TIM really need to get to where I'm going. I
had to get to work, like I was like trying to, like I needed my job and I didn't want to lose my job, and I was just trying to do everything I could to get to work, you know what I mean. Like, and I want to say, that's one
hundred and thirty six miles was where we were going, and like I still a while, I needed to go buy my car. I'm never gonna believe you. My car
broke down, and the second car got and also broke down, like sure it did. Yeah, okay, Well.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny. Back in the day, is that
like that was a recommendation. Why did you just hit hitchhike?
Nowadays nobody, nobody's recommended to that.
Speaker 4: Nobody's fucking up the hitch.
Speaker 2: How many times I had it. I broke down on
that stretch of road a bunch of different times. And
I don't think I ever broke down in my actual car.
I think always broke down in a car I was borrowing from somebody. It was like I borrowed the car
and it would break down, like I broke down. Well,
that ended up being my car for a little bit, very short return. But it was a rabbit and that
broke down, and then pickup truck and that broke down.
It was like everything I was like, it just kept everything kept breaking down. And that trust me, it's like
one hundred and seventeen degrees outside in the shade on that stretch of road, so it's always an overheat issue.
I mean, it's just it was brutal on a car.
I mean like you go down that road and cars are broken down everywhere on that stretch road for the long time, and there was nothing. You left Vegas and
there was nothing other than I don't think the casino was there yet, but there was any reservation that sold gas.
That was awfu little offering. But then you had to
go off and go up this long dirt road to get up to that, you know what I mean. So
I was like, okay, but I think that was that was it between that there was nothing and I said, I broke down. That's how I found out that. I
told you guys the story that a vehicle will run on ever Clear. It doesn't run good, but it does
run on Everclear. It runs like junk. But it got
me to the gas. The gas gage stuck. I don't know,
like I thought I had enough gasan I would have never attempted that trip without enough gas. That's all I
can remember from that story was it's not like I would have gotten the car and went, let me see if I can make it, like like I like to do now, like everybody jokes about, like, man, you really like to you like to let that light stand? I
think it's funny to play everybody hates getting the car with how long has that been on? And I'm like
a little while, and I just think it's funny. I
don't I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know why find what's the longest you've had your gas light to stay on?
Speaker 2: For the camera? When we bought the camera, I got
sixty eight miles. From my understanding that I probably shouldn't
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: The days, like how many days.
Speaker 3: You had trumping back out of.
Speaker 2: The property and it comes on and I know it's a good drive back out to a gas station and go, well, I hope we make it. That happens quite a bit
out because I'm out, you know, Gods, I live out in the country, and you know, I'm like, I don't know, I get I don't. I don't. I'm not going to
say I get distracted or maybe not any pain. I
just don't care, and I'll send it pops on. And
I'm halfway to the property. Halfway to the property, there's
no gas stations. That's it. There's just there's nothing. And
it's still what another fifteen miles or so, So it's fifteen miles to get here, and like, you know, another fifteen miles out and you know, trucks don't get great gas miles. So it is rolling the dice for sure,
But I do it. But no, I I on that
trip between there, I we were having a party and I had a trunk full alcohol and the car out of gas, and I think it probably had enough maybe stoolen the bob of a tank. That is probably what
made it work. I don't know. I've never went back
and tested the theory. But the only thing I think
of is I took a clear and I poured the tank in the car fired. It spluttered and ran like crap,
but it ran and it got me to that gas station.
Gas station I'm telling telling you about. It was on
the end of your reservation and it got me there.
Speaker 4: Something sucks more than running out of gas in your phone, dying so you can't find.
Speaker 2: A gas station. Nothing sucks worse than being young, broke
and having to pour a bottle of a clear that you planned on drinking into the gas tank for your car.
Nothing sucks worse than that.
Speaker 3: Just just spent your last dollar on it, literally.
Speaker 2: Holding it, going do I drink it?
Speaker 3: Well? You know, I.
Speaker 2: Was like, there was not one for my homies. It
was one for me, Like seriously, it was. It was, yeah,
I did, But I remember holding because I wasn't you know.
I mean, I was like I was a very young man, and like boring a bottle of a clear into a car just seemed like unholy. It's complete. I was just
like in the canow right right, it was like thoughts the whole way, like I said. And to this day,
I still don't know if it would run completely off of it or if it because it still had a little bit of fuel in the tanke and it mixed enough to make it run. Like I said, it ran
like crack and chair ran nana really want to do.
Somebody told me that because carb rated car, that's why it ran. If they said. If it was fuel injected
nowadays it probably wouldn't work, but carb rate. So hey,
if you're ever in a pickle, I know that works.
I don't know if the contents of the how much alcohol is in ever clear has changed over the years, but it worked for me. You can give a shot.
And I know, guys, it's the end of our show.
We gotta go ahead and get out here. I can't
believe it went by that quick. Hope you guys enjoyed
the show. Hopefully you guys are enjoying your Saturday. Get
out to a car show, have some fun, spend some time doing some things. We got a bunch of stuff
coming up. You guys know. We're headed to Sema. We
also have the Porsche Clubs show. Key guys on the
probably next week. Started telling you what's going on with that.
Got some plans. Come out and see us out here
in the hamp Roads area. Enjoy your Sunday. It is
right around the corner. Make sure you unplug, spend some
time with your kids, play a board game with them, fire the barbecue, whatever you gotta do. Hide your cell
phones in the cushion, but spend some time with them.
They'll love you for it, I guarantee, and they'll talk about it for years, all the time you spent with them.
You guys, got anything before we get out here, Enjoy your weekend one. All right, guys, we're out here and
we'll talk to you soon
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