Brad shares a detailed story about retrieving his 1967 Chevelle from a dusty Arizona garage after 20 years, highlighting the challenges of loading it onto trailers and the importance of having helpful friends. The episode also touches on Aaron's Defender work and a Porsche for sale, with casual banter about weather, birthdays, and motorsports betting via FanDuel. Brad's experience with different trailers, winching techniques, and moving heavy parts like a 12-bolt rear end adds a hands-on, relatable angle for car restoration enthusiasts.
"You know what? I need a lot of parts for that Chevelle. So then we give cards to one of the big mail or..."
The Chevrolet Chevelle is an old, cool car that people like to fix up and drive because it looks nice and goes fast. Sometimes it needs lots of parts to keep it working well.
The Chevrolet Chevelle is a classic mid-sized muscle car from the 1960s and 70s, prized for its performance and style. The need for many parts suggests ongoing restoration work, reflecting its status as a collectible vehicle among enthusiasts.
"...following motorsports, whether it's Formula One, NASCAR, or the big race weekends."
Formula One is a type of car racing with very fast cars that race on special tracks all over the world.
Formula One is the highest class of international single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the FIA, featuring the fastest and most technologically advanced cars in motorsports.
A haul trailer is like a big flat truck that carries cars from one place to another, especially if the car can't be driven.
A haul trailer is a trailer designed to transport vehicles safely over long distances. It is commonly used to move cars that are not driven on the road or to transport project or collector cars.
"I made a trip to Arizona, went over to one of my storage garages over there because I've got all kinds of stuff over there. I got my building and then storage garages."
A storage garage is like a special parking spot where people keep their cars or stuff safe and out of bad weather.
A storage garage is a dedicated space used to keep vehicles or other belongings safe and protected from the elements. Enthusiasts often use storage garages to preserve classic or project cars.
"And so I, so I, I see this, what they call a toy hauler. It's brand new that you all never had these before."
A toy hauler is a trailer that lets you carry fun vehicles like dirt bikes or small cars and also has space to live or sleep in.
A toy hauler is a type of trailer designed to transport recreational vehicles like ATVs, motorcycles, or small cars, often featuring a rear loading ramp and living quarters.
""Or Morgan three wheeler. Yeah. There you go. It's really well thought out.""
The Morgan Three Wheeler is a small vehicle with three wheels made by a company called Morgan. It looks old-fashioned and is light, giving a fun and different way to drive.
The Morgan Three Wheeler is a unique three-wheeled vehicle produced by Morgan Motor Company, known for its retro styling and lightweight design. It combines motorcycle and car elements, offering a distinctive driving experience.
"...ve got a middle ramp that you can use. Or Morgan three wheeler. Yeah."
A three-wheeler is a small vehicle that has three wheels instead of four. The Morgan three-wheeler is a fun and unusual car that feels a bit like a motorcycle but is easier to drive.
The Morgan three-wheeler is a retro-styled vehicle with two front wheels and one rear wheel, combining motorcycle-like agility with car-like stability. It's often discussed for its unique design and driving experience, appealing to enthusiasts looking for something different.
"...got to go back over and get the car frame and the Mustang body. I'll probably haul, haul it the same way a..."
The Ford Mustang is a popular car that looks cool and goes fast. People like to fix them up and make them their own because they have a classic style. That's why someone might be talking about getting parts like the frame and body.
The Ford Mustang is an iconic American muscle car known for its sporty design and performance since its debut in the 1960s. It has a strong enthusiast following and is often restored or modified, which is likely why the podcast mentions getting the car frame and body. The Mustang represents a key piece of automotive culture and history.
"but my 12 bolt rear end was the very last thing when I put everything in that garage years ago."
The 12 bolt rear end is a strong part at the back of some cars that helps send power to the wheels. It's built to handle a lot of force, so it's good for fast or powerful cars.
A 12 bolt rear end refers to a type of heavy-duty differential housing used in the rear axle of a vehicle, known for its strength and durability. It is commonly found in performance and muscle cars, providing better handling and power delivery to the rear wheels.
"But the tailgate on that truck's a lot taller on that GMC Sierra than I remembered."
The GMC Sierra is a big truck that people use for carrying stuff or driving around. It's a popular kind of pickup truck that many people like.
The GMC Sierra is a full-size pickup truck known for its capability and comfort. It is a popular model in the American truck market, often used for both work and personal transportation.
"No, I had a spare El Camino door that I'd pulled off a car in a parts yard years ago when I was doing my El Camino and thought I was going to need it."
The El Camino is a type of car that looks like a regular car in the front but has a truck bed in the back to carry things. It’s like a mix between a car and a truck.
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by Chevrolet, combining the features of a car and a pickup truck. It has a car-like front and cabin with a pickup-style cargo bed.
"It's got a little rust hole in the driver's side floor pan, but now you can get those patch panels."
The floor pan is the metal part underneath where you put your feet inside the car. It can get rusty or damaged over time.
The floor pan is the large sheet metal section that forms the bottom of a car's passenger compartment. It is often vulnerable to rust and damage, especially in older vehicles.
"It's got a little rust hole in the driver's side floor pan, but now you can get those patch panels."
Patch panels are pieces of metal that you can add to a car to fix parts that have rust or holes. They help make the car strong and look good again.
Patch panels are replacement metal panels used to repair rusted or damaged sections of a car's body. They are welded or bonded onto the existing structure to restore strength and appearance.
"The, the rear, the bottom of the rear quarters where those Chevelle's always rusted out. When I painted it... So we're going to go in, replace the lower rear quarters because the quarters are good and they don't have any Bondo in them or anything."
Rear quarter panels are the parts of the car's body near the back wheels. These parts can get rusty or damaged, especially on older cars.
Rear quarter panels are the sections of a car's body located behind the rear doors and around the rear wheels. They are common areas for rust damage, especially on older cars like the Chevrolet Chevelle.
"It got fixed then, but you know, it got, it got Bondo and, you know, stuff like that."
Bondo is a special putty used to fill holes or dents on cars so they look smooth again before painting.
Bondo is a brand of body filler used to repair dents, rust holes, and other imperfections on car bodies. It is a polyester resin that hardens and can be sanded smooth before painting.
""So other than that, and the front fenders are literally NOS from the parts counter, never, never been on a car. They're actually inside the car and I had bought them when you could still buy those at the parts counter...""
NOS means new old stock, which are original car parts made a long time ago but never used. People like them because they fit perfectly and keep the car original.
NOS stands for New Old Stock, referring to original parts that were manufactured long ago but have never been used or installed on a vehicle. These parts are often highly valued for restorations because they maintain originality.
The trans is the part that helps the car change gears so it can go faster or slower.
Short for transmission, the trans is the system in a car that transmits power from the engine to the wheels, allowing the car to change speeds and move efficiently.
"I mean, the bearings that, you know, everything's probably got to be replaced anyway because it sat well."
Bearings help parts inside the engine move easily without rubbing too much. If a car sits for a long time, these can get worn out and might need to be changed.
Bearings are components that allow parts of the engine or machinery to move smoothly by reducing friction between moving parts. Over time, especially if a vehicle sits unused, bearings can degrade and may need replacement to ensure proper function.
""...how much torque it turns to spin the crank and then, because I mean, you know, unless like, are you worried about the crank or worried about like the piston rings kind of like sticking to the walls.""
The crank is a part inside the engine that turns when the engine runs. It helps move the car by turning the wheels.
The crank, or crankshaft, is a key engine component that converts the up-and-down motion of the pistons into rotational motion to drive the vehicle's wheels. Measuring the torque needed to turn the crank can indicate engine condition.
""And then the transmission is a two speed power glide with all steel clutch hubs. I put in it steel shaft, a 4500 stall converter...""
Clutch hubs are parts inside the transmission that help change gears. Steel ones are stronger and last longer, especially in powerful cars.
Steel clutch hubs are components inside the transmission that engage and disengage the gears. Using steel hubs increases durability and strength, which is important in high-performance or racing transmissions to handle increased torque.
""I put in it steel shaft, a 4500 stall converter and I mean, and it's a full manual valve body...""
A stall converter is a part that connects the engine to the transmission. A 4500 stall means the engine can spin up to 4500 RPM before the car starts moving, helping race cars launch faster.
A 4500 stall converter is a type of torque converter with a stall speed around 4500 RPM. It allows the engine to rev higher before the car starts moving, which is beneficial in drag racing for quicker launches.
"...le of cars for us to drive and he gave me an old Camaro that it was, you know, was set up to be a race c..."
The Chevrolet Camaro is a fast and sporty car that many people like to race or drive for fun. It's been around a long time and is known for being strong and exciting to drive.
The Chevrolet Camaro is another classic American muscle car, often compared to the Mustang, known for its powerful engines and sporty handling. The mention of an old Camaro set up for racing highlights its performance heritage and popularity among car enthusiasts who enjoy track or drag racing.
"You know, a lot of guys go, oh, no, man, I'm going to stick with the carburetor on my old most car. Yeah. Well, then if you don't drive it for a while and you go to get it, then you're going to be dealing with all the stuff you deal with on a carburetor."
A carburetor is like a part that mixes gas and air so the car can run. If it gets dirty or old, the car might not run well.
A carburetor is a device in older cars that mixes air and fuel for the engine. It can cause issues like running too rich or too lean if not maintained properly.
""And, and you know, Brad, when you drive it up and down to Big Bear or maybe like Tahoe, you know, you want EFI. Yeah, so it'll adjust.""
EFI means the car uses a computer to control how much fuel goes into the engine, so it runs better and smoother in different places and weather.
EFI stands for Electronic Fuel Injection, a system that automatically adjusts the fuel delivery to the engine for better performance and efficiency under different conditions.
""Yeah, no, I was just going to say, I'm going to put vintage air in it. I'm going to make it comfortable.""
Vintage Air makes air conditioning systems that you can add to old cars to keep them cool and comfortable.
Vintage Air is a company specializing in aftermarket air conditioning systems designed for classic cars to improve comfort while maintaining vintage aesthetics.
A barn find is a car that was hidden away and forgotten for many years, often in a barn, and is usually in original condition without much fixing up.
A barn find refers to a vehicle that has been discovered after being stored and forgotten for a long period, often in a barn or similar storage, typically in original or unrestored condition.
"And he goes, it's a 67 SS 396 Chevelle. And I was like, huh, you know, I was like, yeah, let's go look at it."
The Chevelle SS 396 is a fast and strong car made by Chevrolet in 1967. It has a big engine that made it popular for racing and driving fast.
The Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 is a classic American muscle car from the 1960s, known for its powerful 396 cubic inch V8 engine and sporty design. The 'SS' stands for Super Sport, indicating a high-performance variant.
"And it was absolutely bone stock hubcaps on it. You know, everything about it was bone stock."
When someone says a car is 'bone stock', it means the car is all original and hasn't been changed or fixed up with new parts.
The term 'bone stock' refers to a vehicle that is completely original, with no modifications or aftermarket parts. It means the car is in the same condition as it was when it left the factory.
"So Ford is saying a bunch of the Mach E owners don't necessarily use the frunk. They've got the back. It's a hash, the back seat. You throw stuff in groceries, sports equipment, kids. Not that you should put your kids in the frunk, but why not? You know what it is. You know, so they're saying we can lower the price of the vehicle a little bit if we don't include like the frunk, like the full line."
A frunk is a storage space in the front of some cars, especially electric ones, where you can put things because there is no engine there.
A frunk is a front trunk, an additional storage compartment located where the engine would traditionally be in a front-engine vehicle. Electric vehicles often have frunks because they lack a conventional engine.
"So Ford is saying a bunch of the Mach E owners don't necessarily use the frunk. They've got the back."
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is an electric SUV that has extra storage space in the front called a frunk, plus the usual trunk in the back.
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is an all-electric SUV introduced by Ford as part of their electric vehicle lineup. It features a front trunk (frunk) in addition to the traditional rear cargo area.
""No, our our air stream has a heat pump. Yeah, but what one of the reports was saying is that this heat pump might be in the general area of the frunk right now.""
A heat pump helps keep the car warm or cool by moving heat around instead of using a lot of battery power. This helps the car drive farther when it's cold outside.
A heat pump is a device used in some electric vehicles to efficiently heat or cool the cabin by transferring heat rather than generating it through resistive heating. It improves energy efficiency and extends driving range in cold weather.
""...because in the frunk, there is a coolant reservoir. Right. And there's no radiator, you know, for the water cooled heat pump.""
The coolant reservoir is a container that holds special liquid to keep parts of the car from getting too hot or too cold.
The coolant reservoir holds extra coolant fluid that circulates through the vehicle's cooling system to regulate temperature. In electric vehicles, it can be part of the thermal management system for components like heat pumps.
""Right. And there's no radiator, you know, for the water cooled heat pump.""
A radiator is a part that helps cool the car by moving heat from the engine or other parts into the air.
A radiator is a heat exchanger used to cool the engine or other components by dissipating heat into the air. In the context of a water-cooled heat pump, it would help manage temperature but may be absent in some designs.
"...'re talking about making a Lincoln version of the Bronco. Oh, I haven't heard that."
The Ford Bronco is a tough car that can drive on rough roads and trails. People are talking about making a fancier version of it with more comfort and luxury.
The Ford Bronco is a rugged SUV with a strong off-road reputation, recently revived with modern updates. The discussion about a Lincoln version suggests plans for a more luxurious, upscale variant, reflecting the trend of combining off-road capability with premium features.
"...'re a high end, you know, to compete against the G wagon and things like that is what they're saying. And..."
The G-Class is a fancy and tough SUV that looks like a box and can drive anywhere, even on rough roads. Many people want to make cars like it because it's very popular and special.
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, often called the G-Wagon, is a luxury off-road SUV known for its boxy design, strong performance, and high-end features. It is a benchmark in the luxury SUV market, which is why competitors aim to challenge its dominance.
"...things like that is what they're saying. And the Range Rover. And you know what, Lincoln's never been good at..."
The Range Rover is a fancy and comfortable SUV that can also drive on rough paths. It's one of the best at mixing luxury with toughness, which some other brands find hard to do.
The Range Rover is a luxury SUV known for combining off-road ability with high-end comfort and technology. The comment about Lincoln's struggles implies that while Range Rover excels in this segment, some competitors have difficulty matching its quality and reputation.
""The Blackwood. Yeah, the Blackwood, yeah. And it just they've tried this a couple of times.""
The Blackwood was a fancy truck made by Lincoln that looked nice and had luxury features but didn't sell well and was only made for a short time.
The Lincoln Blackwood was a luxury pickup truck produced in 2002. It combined the utility of a pickup with upscale features and styling, but it was not commercially successful and was discontinued after one model year.
"... And he he's redoing a it was either a CUDA or a Challenger, but it had it had a radio delete, you know, bac..."
The Dodge Challenger is a strong and stylish car that looks like older muscle cars. Sometimes people take out parts like the radio when fixing or changing the car to make it special or lighter.
The Dodge Challenger is a muscle car known for its retro styling and powerful engine options. The mention of a radio delete hints at a restoration or modification project, common among enthusiasts who customize these cars for performance or authenticity.
"...ach other. And he he's redoing a it was either a CUDA or a Challenger, but it had it had a radio delet..."
The Plymouth Cuda is a fast and sporty old car that many people like to work on and race. Sometimes they remove things like the radio to make it lighter or more focused on driving.
The Plymouth Cuda is a high-performance muscle car variant of the Barracuda, famous for its powerful engines and aggressive styling. The reference to a radio delete indicates a restoration or race-prep detail, common in classic muscle car projects.
"...e, but I am hoping if you want, if you're in the Tuscan area, come by because I'm giving shit away. I'm ..."
The TVR Tuscan is a special, fast car from England that is light and fun to drive. It's not very common, so people who like unique cars really like it.
The TVR Tuscan is a British sports car known for its lightweight design and powerful engines, offering an engaging driving experience. Its rarity and unique styling make it a favorite among niche enthusiasts, which might explain the casual giveaway event mentioned.
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That's all right.
One of them always sits right next to me when we do the podcast
and just curls up there.
But Tammy's sitting down on the balcony.
So now they're out there sunning themselves.
So you have dogs love the sun.
Dogs love the sun.
Yeah.
Sorry, sorry.
I mentioned the sun.
Sorry, rest of the country.
You know, when it's sunny and warm, it's got, you know,
you know what is weird though?
It's very strange that it's like 85 degrees and sunny out
and I'm in here in a sweatshirt and freezing in my office
because it's these tilt up buildings.
I've complained about them before.
They're cold in the mornings and warm in the afternoons.
Yeah, I almost put my heater on again
because it's kind of chilly here.
But it could be worse.
We could be back on the East Coast or something
and it could just be cold all day.
Never get warm.
Don't even rub it in.
They're going to go through something terrible over there
and I don't want to rub it in.
Well, yesterday was my birthday
and we decided to go out to Healdsburg
and just have an afternoon of it.
And it poured rain so hard
that we literally after an hour were like, you know what?
We're soaking wet.
We had the dog.
It's just everything was water was running down the street.
I mean, it was like it was bad.
And we're just like now.
Brad's got a birthday week.
You guys are birthday.
Yeah.
Birthday buddies this week.
Happy birthday, Aaron.
Again.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Your birthday is the day this is going to air.
Correct.
On Friday.
Yeah.
27th.
And yeah.
Yeah.
You know what?
I need a lot of parts for that Chevelle.
So then we give cards to one of the big mail order companies
or something.
That'd be great.
Or companies just want to donate.
There we go, man.
I want to wait.
I want to hear about that.
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Man, I was just thinking that.
I mean, all of that information, I was just thinking the same thing.
What are the odds?
I wonder if FanDuel had odds on whether I'd make it back
to California with my car trailer without having to change a tire.
How many axles did you have?
What was the percentage of whoops, baby?
Hold on, I got to pick up my dog.
So you made it back.
You got the car on your new haul trailer.
For those of you that don't know,
I made a trip to Arizona, went over to one of my storage garages over there
because I've got all kinds of stuff over there.
I got my building and then storage garages.
I went to one of my storage garages where my 67 Chevelle is stored
and dove into that dust pile.
I mean, I'm literally, when you are looking at a garage in Arizona
that has been sitting for probably 20 years,
I mean, it's dirtier than I would get.
It was horrible, man.
Dirt's okay as long as you don't have critters.
Do you remember?
No, there were no critters, which was good.
Good.
And it's dry.
Good.
But do you remember Pigpin on, you know, on like, you know,
on Charlie Brown?
How he always gets a cloud of dust around him.
That is literally what I'm walking around.
And one time we got the car up on the trailer and we're filming it.
And I went back and looked at it when I went like this.
Yeah.
My gloves were just clouds of dirt, you know.
But I mean, I've got a whole story I'll tell it all.
And I'm producing a video.
I did film everything.
The trip over, getting it out, getting it on the trailer,
getting it back here to California and then offloading it
with the forklift here.
But the very first thing I want to say is,
man, you can't do this stuff without friends.
And my buddies, they came to my aid.
And when we needed, you know, I, you always have,
okay, we're going to, the very first thing was you all.
So I had one trailer that I was going to rent that it,
it's like seven by 12.
And, and I thought, and it had a ramp, a short little ramp.
And, and I thought, okay, I can jack it up,
get it to where it's not too much of an angle and roll that,
because it's on a body dolly, roll that body right up in there,
tie it down.
The body is exactly six feet wide.
And I thought, okay, that'll give me a foot.
I can tie it down to where it won't move.
I'll be good.
I go over last Thursday morning to pick it up.
And yes, the dimensions are correct.
But the loading gate is not that wide.
Oh no.
They have supports that come in and it's only five feet wide
at the loading gate.
Oh no.
So I'm like, oh, now what do I do?
What do I do?
And so I, so I, I see this, what they call a toy hauler.
It's brand new that you all never had these before.
It's an all aluminum trailer.
It's a flatbed, but it has just a ton.
I've never seen so many D-rings on a trailer.
They have them outside of the trailer on like the, on like the
tongue, they have them on the support braces, but all across
flat and there's some little pockets that have chains that
pull out for securing too.
So I mean, this was really, really a great thing.
The other thing it has is three ramps.
So if it's an ATV that you're loading that's not a real wide,
you know, like a car, you've got a middle ramp that you can use.
Or Morgan three wheeler.
Yeah.
There you go.
It's really well thought out.
Now the downside for me was that the ramps aren't solid or excuse
me, they were solid, but they were the, the trailer, because
it's made for guys to take their dune buggies out or their ATVs,
it sits pretty high.
So the ramps were pretty steep.
And the other thing was they pull out, they're pull out ramps.
When they click in place, the lip is about two inches.
Yeah.
You need like race ramps or something.
Yeah.
You know, so, so those were problems.
So we got over there, we're kind of evaluating things and I'm with
my, my guys that came over to help and I said, guys, I don't think
we're going to be able to get this up there.
And they're like, yeah, I don't think so.
And so we're trying to think of what to do.
And I said, you know what, I'll call a rollback tow truck.
Oh yeah.
I'll winch it up and then I'll back the trailer underneath and they
can tilt it and we'll just, you know, like put it right down.
Yeah.
You know, people forget about that, Brad.
I'm glad you brought that up.
That is a, that is such a great solution.
If you have AAA or something.
Yeah.
That is, that is such a great solution to get a vehicle onto a flatbed
truck or a trailer.
Like, like put that, put that at the top of your notes on a safe note in
your phone, call AAA and have them ramp truck it and then load it onto
your vehicle.
Yeah.
It would have worked.
It would have worked great.
Oh no.
Found a better solution.
My one friend, my one friend that was there goes, let me make a call.
He goes over and he goes, okay, we got it.
And I go, what?
And he goes, my nephew's coming over.
His nephew had one of those beautiful tilt back car trailers.
And I mean, this thing was like 24 foot long electric winch.
It tilted the battery.
This thing was fully outfitted.
I've seen nice trailers, but this was one of the nicest.
I've seen the battery boxes up on the tongue had solar panels on them so
that when it's sitting, it's charging.
Oh, it's like trickle, trickle charging.
Yeah.
That's my future.
Yeah.
And so anyways, he got there and we were able to, he winched the car up.
We, you know, we had to muscle a little bit, keep it straight.
And once we got it up on his trailer, then it was just back in the two together.
We rolled it across, tied it all down in a way we went.
So, so it was great.
I mean, it's great to have friends, you know, that, that, that have friends or
have relatives or, and that's what you need.
And this kind of stuff.
I would have been, I still would have been there going.
I'm going to get this body that's on its side.
You know, yeah, our helicopter.
But, but no, it worked out great.
Thanks to my buddies, you know, Steve and Danny and, and the other Steve,
we had two Steve's and those guys were awesome.
But, but I started out headed over there.
It was also great because since I rented this toy hauler trailer in Arizona,
I didn't have to rent the empty trailer here and drive it all the way to Arizona
to turn around, which was a little weird about the other trailer.
They don't rent them one way, I guess.
So that other trailer I looked at is only local.
So I would have had to rent it here, drive it empty and then turn around,
come back and so the toy hauler, I recommend it.
Look at it for what if you're hauling, hauling other stuff.
I've still got to go back over and get the car frame and the Mustang body.
I'll probably haul, haul it the same way again.
I think it might be a really cool way.
But no, no big issues.
I love to say.
It's good.
A lot of work.
We, you'll see in the video that had to move a lot of parts to get the body out.
And because the stuff had been sitting there for so long,
all the cardboard boxes were just, you'd go to pick them up and they would just disintegrate.
So I had to go to Costco and buy a bunch of those plastic bins,
transfer everything before I could even move it.
And then, you know, I don't know if you guys saw the video,
but my 12 bolt rear end was the very last thing when I put everything in that garage years ago.
That I put away because I put it, it still had the chain on it,
where I used an engine voice to put it in there, get it out of the truck and put it in there.
And I had to move it before I could do anything.
And I didn't have the engine voice till the following day when I was going to move the motor.
So I just had to, I had to deadlift that thing and get it in the back of the truck.
And I did film it to prove it.
But yeah, it's, man, I, you know what, the next, that night I was laying in bed and I thought,
am I having a heart attack?
Hey, I just had like a muscle that I hadn't used in a long time in my chest.
Oh no.
A chest muscle.
Brad had that thing on the back of his shoulders like in Rocky 4 when he was in Russia
and the snow at that log on his back.
But he had the 12 bolt rear end up there.
I will say that.
Walk through the desert with that thing.
Thanks to what I learned in school about, you know, being able to pivot things and using leverage.
And it made it a lot easier, you know, but.
Always lift with your back.
What?
Lift with your back, not your legs.
Yes, exactly.
Yes.
And, but.
Is that right?
Wait, is that right?
Lift with your legs.
I'm pretty sure it's the one with your back.
Lift with your noggin.
Yeah.
But the tailgate on that truck's a lot taller on that GMC Sierra than I remembered.
That's why when you're doing lifts, you lift them all the way to your chin.
Not your, not your nipples.
All the way to your chin.
Well, Braddy, you sincerely sound pretty excited and charged.
I am.
I'm excited now that it's back.
It's, I was dry.
It's one of those when you're driving home, you're thinking of what you're going to do to it.
Yeah.
And you're like, how much is this going to cost me?
Yeah.
So when you pulled, when you pulled everything out and you saw the body finally, like without
covered in boxes and dust and covers and whatever else in the parts.
What, what's the condition of its car?
Is that what you remembered?
Is it, is it good?
I know you mentioned there's some Ross and he's a floor and stuff, but like what, what's
the, what were your thoughts when you saw it finally out in the sunlight and.
I had one.
Disappointment to be able to walk around.
Okay.
One disappointment.
It wasn't fully built.
No, I had a spare El Camino door that I'd pulled off a car in a parts yard years ago when
I was doing my El Camino and thought I was going to need it.
And it had fallen against the door of the Chevelle and kind of went down it.
Now it's not a big dent.
I mean, remember those cars are made out of heavy steel, you know, and.
Yeah, but it put a little line down it and I was kind of like a bummer, you know, because
the car was perfectly straight.
It's, it's got a, as you said, Matt, it's got a little rust hole in the driver's side floor
pan, but now you can get those patch panels.
That's no big deal.
The, the rear, the bottom of the rear quarters where those Chevelle's always rusted out.
When I painted it, gosh, I'm going to say that car was painted and I believe 78 or 79.
It, it got fixed then, but you know, it got, it got Bondo and, you know, stuff like that.
So we're going to go in, replace the lower rear quarters because the quarters are good
and they don't have any Bondo in them or anything.
A couple of little dings is all.
So other than that, and the front fenders are literally NOS from the parts counter, never,
never been on a car.
They're actually inside the car and I had bought them when you could still buy those at the parts
counter because my front one had a dent in it and I was like, I might as well buy two at the same time.
So I bought those.
The hood is perfectly cherry.
It's bare metal and it's perfect.
The, the grill is all good.
All the window glass is great in it.
It's good.
I mean, maybe, maybe the windshield get polished, but it doesn't have any chips in it.
And it's, so I mean, you know what's amazing after sitting in there all these years, the headliner is absolutely perfect.
I mean, I just don't touch it.
I went, you know, I cringed and I touched it.
I thought it was going to go, my finger go right through it and it actually moved and I went, what?
Wow.
Is it vinyl?
Is it perforated or is it?
It's one of those perforated, you know, factory.
It's cool.
It's black velour.
No, it's.
You're going to sit in that car with the windows up and you're going to sneeze and that thing's going to go.
Good.
It looked like somebody threw a bag of flour all over you.
But it's like the motor and the trans.
The motor and the trans.
I hate that I got to take them apart because they are both fresh rebuilds in 1980 and never got fired or used.
But, you know what that means?
I mean, the bearings that, you know, everything's probably got to be replaced anyway because it sat well.
This is what I would probably do with that would be, I would probably, before I would do anything, I would.
Sorry.
You would do that?
My dog.
If you're going to take it apart, if you're going to take it apart anyway, I would.
I would maybe just try to oil it and turn it.
But at a minimum, like you go, listen, if you want to do something, change the valve springs because some are compressed and some aren't and they've been sitting there forever.
So if you change the valve springs and then oil the engine and start turning it over just, you know, obviously get a drill in there and pump the oil through.
Right.
And then as you turn it over a few times and it starts to kind of break loose, if you put a gauge on it to test how much pressure it takes to turn it over.
You know, like just how much, how much torque it turns to spin the crank and then, because I mean, you know, unless like, are you worried about the crank or worried about like the piston rings kind of like sticking to the walls.
You worry about the piston rings sticking, but the advantages of being stored in Arizona, such a dry climate that you're not going to get a lot of rust or anything because the moisture is not, you know.
It's all taped up, you know, with with rag stuffed in it and taped and and I had put a gerbil wheel on the front crank and I and I trained the rats to come in and run on that and keep the motor going.
You know, so it's got about 30,000 miles on it.
Rap miles.
It's a rap.
It's a rap motor.
If I mean, if you if you oiled it and turned it over a few times and then eventually got it started and then again went back and did your leak down test and crush and test and see how much, you know, how much torque it takes to spin the crank and stuff like that.
It might be fun.
No, it might be fine.
I'm hoping it would be.
It'd be awesome if it is.
I mean, that's kind of what I'm thinking, too.
You know, even the valve springs were probably fine, but that's a pretty easy swap.
You know, like with the engine out of the car and the valve covers come right off like and, you know, it's not like it's that complicated.
Plus it's big blocks.
Everything's bigger.
Everything's bigger.
Everything's bigger.
And then the transmission is a two speed power glide with all steel clutch hubs.
I put in it steel shaft, a 4500 stall converter and I mean, and it's a full manual valve body, you know, because it's only a two speed.
So you got to downshift it and upshift it and it's it's pretty cool.
It's pretty cool tranny.
So but I agree with you on the motor, but on the transmission, I don't even know.
I don't, you know, because I didn't rebuild it.
I had a guy who was a specialist in that.
And, you know, I'd have to I'd have to ask somebody that knows a lot more about transmissions than me.
What needs to be checked?
Oh, look at that little dog.
Sorry, folks, I put Pestos on my desk and what's that painting behind or what's on your screensaver there?
Oh, I was listening to some AI techno yesterday when I was painting.
And that was that was the thumbnail.
And I thought it was pretty cool.
It is pretty cool.
So I put it on my computer.
But yeah, so the so the motor and the trans are fresh.
And, you know, I'm I'm not going to go crazy with this car.
It's, you know, I want to ask you.
You were you were saying on the drive home, you were thinking about what to do with this car now that you've got eyes on it.
So what's what's the plan?
OK, the plan is stock frame, but I'm going to probably notch the rear of the frame so that I can put a 12 on the back.
Do a small mini tub and so I can put some big tires under the rear.
Yeah, but not giant, giant tires.
And then I'm going to up front run skinnies.
But suspension wise, I'm thinking, you know, coilovers all the way around tubular arms.
You know, kind of a pro touring type suspension so that it handles and you don't get the body roll some big.
So you're going to run like a sway bar.
You're not going to do like a sway bar stuff like that.
Yeah, which on a drag car, you normally wouldn't do that, but it's not a drag car.
It's a street car, you know.
And when you say skinnies, you're going to do like like you're going to go small, like three and a half four inch.
I already have the wheels designed that I'm going to machine for it.
They they're.
Yeah, I think I mentioned it once before.
I am replicating motor wheel flies, which were the big that all the hot shots and pro stock had them in the 70s.
And they're really cool, but they were magnesium.
So you can't run them on the street.
They would snap.
There have been some guys over the years that ran them on street cars and they snapped, but I'm going to replicate those.
And I even have the center cap design already.
And I'm going to run, I'm going to run 19 by fives on the front.
And there's a Michelin tire that they put on the BMW electric cars.
They because they put a 19 by five all the way around on those on the I threes.
Yeah.
And I'm going to use that tire up front and you're going to get great gas mileage.
Yeah, there you go.
And but so what's going to be the back?
You said a 12 inch wide, but you mean rear end wise or what?
No, the rear rear wheel.
Oh, I'm thinking about like a 325 or a 315 something, you know, like that.
It's not going to be crazy.
It's just going to be a nice big tire in a 19.
I'll probably do a 20 in the back.
Yeah, I'll do a 19.
So a little, a little bit staggered, a little.
Yeah.
Who am I thinking of?
Who's the hot rod beller that it's maybe Alan Johnson?
Does he do the big Bobby Allaway?
And Bobby Allaway does it too, right?
Allaway does like.
But and I'm going to slam this car.
I'm going to make sure the exhaust is all tucked up in.
Yeah.
And and everything's going to be up above the sight line, but it's going to, you know,
like all you shorty headers, I'll sacrifice a little bit of horsepower, but keep the exhaust
all sucked up in so I can get the car real low.
And and I'm going to interior wise, it's going to be a little bit different than most people
because this car came from the factory with a bench seat, which was very unusual for an SS.
So I'm going to do a bench seat, but I'm going to notch it, you know, like a, you know,
a bench seat with a shifter, you'd get a notch in the center of the seat.
Yeah.
And I'm going to put the shifter on the floor and and, you know, but I'm going to, you know,
rip holster it in something that's reminiscent of what the car had, but probably a nicer
leather or something.
Pleasure.
You know, it'd be cool, Brad.
I'm sure it's been done, but I just had it in my head is to re foam that bench seat.
So it has to go.
I want to do that.
Scoop it out.
That would be so cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rather than sitting on it, you're sitting with it.
Yeah.
You're sitting in it that way.
Yeah.
That's bolster.
That'd be cool, man.
And then I'm going to put a boom box in the back seat for the stereo.
There's some pretty good boom boxes.
Yeah.
Have you thought about using air ride suspension instead of just the coil overs?
You know, I haven't.
I may or may not.
I haven't even thought about that.
So here's things.
Like when you want to, when you want to slam that car and I obviously you're underneath,
it's all going to be as flat as can be.
And you could probably even put some panels on it if you really want to clean it up and
make it look good.
But I'm with you.
It's like back when the pro touring thing, the pro stock thing was, was, you know, in
the 80s, there were some cool cars.
You think of the cover of hot rod magazines, popular hot rod and all those things.
You would even see some cars that were like just airbags like in the front and because
they had the four link and they wanted to hook up and up.
But where it's gone over the years is the airbag technology's gotten good, but also
the suspension surrounding that airbag technology.
Yeah.
You can still use fully adjustable shocks, right?
And with that bag technology, you can use SLA suspension in the front.
You can do, you know, four links and things like that in the back.
Like you can do the suspension you want and, and it doesn't need to turn it into a monster
truck.
You're talking about airbagging, you know, a matter of two to three inches, right?
So you can get it down like you could park it on the ground at a show or you can drive
it.
And then like when you do want to load it into a trailer, you can, you can get it up that
extra like intershow.
The only reason why I bring this up is because in my head, I always sort of grew up going
airbag cars don't handle.
Yeah.
That was kind of right.
Right.
Right.
And then years ago, if you guys remember, I did that, that Spectre three one four challenge
that race in the middle of Nevada through the mountains is 22 turns, no guard rails.
It's five point something miles.
And when I went out there, Amir Rosenbaum, who owned Spectre, had a couple of cars for
us to drive and he gave me an old Camaro that it was, you know, was set up to be a race
car, you know, cage in it, racing seats and, and good suspension, big bear brakes on it
and stuff.
And I one of the cars, yeah, it had air ride on it.
And I was like, dude, I'm surprised.
I was like, I can't believe this is on air.
We didn't change it.
We didn't adjust it.
We didn't do anything.
Like we just, we just kind of left it in a, you know, in a state he had the shocks tuned
for it.
And that thing was a, that thing was cool, man.
That thing.
Wow.
One of the coolest things that they've done since the early days of airbags is, is the
key on where when you turn the key on, it goes to drive height.
And when the key is off, it goes to park height.
Right.
Yeah.
Like you said, if you're at a show, it goes to and, you know, goes to a stand, so you
can do presets like this is carship.
And then so there's, there's, there's levels on it, right?
Like even like the back of my truck has a, it looks like the servo and it has the two
like dog bone, you know, arms on it.
And when you load up stuff in the back of the truck, it moves the ride height sensor.
Right.
And on the dash of my truck, it tells you how much weight you've put in it, right?
So it's got, it's got a scale in the back of the truck.
But also so many cars today use it because they have self-leveling headlights, right?
As well.
Right.
Yeah.
So anyway, I'm just saying before you say no on the airbags, because the airbag, that
one of the things that I've run into with, you know, especially driving all of the really
amazing like super cars and stuff out there is the ones that don't have the front nose
lift is like, oh, you're so nervous about it.
No kid going on an ankle.
And it's just like, and I was just kind of thinking about it for like, for this type
of car and how you're going to use it, I wouldn't I wouldn't discount it when you when
you look into like ride tech, which is I think owned by Fox now, right, the technology on
the shocks, the quality of the bags, the different size air tanks and stuff like you can tuck
it underneath.
It's all pretty quiet now.
It's it's not a bad way to go because you're right, you got some really good points there
because see, when I used air ride, it was when I built the Thunderbird and it was just
it was kind of, you know, it was coming in, it was really, you know, a lot more being
done, but they didn't have you had to do everything manually.
You had to literally do right and left and, you know, sometimes if you didn't get it just
right, the car sat a little cock-eyed and the compressor was noisy and there was a lot
of and if you did it the wrong way, it rode hard and and but yeah, the technology has
come tremendously and it might be a might be a good thing on that car when you're when
you're doing the suspension and designing it around the system.
First of all, because the airbags are all much smaller and stuff now, if you absolutely
hated it, you pull them off, you put coilovers on the bulls right in, right now you have
the airlines in the bag and, you know, in the compressor and the tank you ditch, but
the compressors also now because we're getting more creative where you mount them that, you
know, between sound deadening and building a box for it, whatever, you can you can really
kind of hide the sound for it.
The tank you can show off like in the trunk or like in between your tubs or whatever or
hide it underneath the car and when you're building the suspension, if you plan for the
ride height adjusters, the sensors, then it's easy to program.
Like, you know, once you're dialed in, you have your presets and yeah, anyway, it might
get you what you want and be a little bit more livable.
You don't have to go in your head going, hey, there's a cool event, but I got to get out
of the garage and it's the pain in the ass and there's speed bumps in the parking lot
and I got to go around them and, you know, like you start to get into that, but no, definitely.
And I'm going to really think it through and like the motor, I'm going to go EFI.
I, you know, the oh, yeah, absolutely.
You know, a lot of guys go, oh, no, man, I'm going to stick with the carburetor on my
old most car. Yeah. Well, then if you don't drive it for a while and you go to get it,
then you're going to be dealing with all the stuff you deal with on a carburetor.
It runs rich, runs fat, it runs this, you know, and if I, you know, I think it'd be
a much better way to go and you can, you know, nowadays, you can get them where they mount
up there and then you can hide them with an air cleaner, you know, you can you can totally
hide them, you can make them look vintage.
And I know I mentioned this, I think I mentioned this to you before, is like
Tom Nelson, Nelson racing engines.
Sometimes guys go to him and they go, I want the big roots type blower.
I want the three hole bug catcher on it.
And I want to go all.
Three hole bug catcher.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, the scoop.
You know what I'm talking about, right?
Yeah. And.
And you would always go, that's a tough engine to build.
It's never going to run right.
It's meant to go wide open.
The roots type supercharger needs lower compression because it builds boost
in the engine, not in the blower or less, right?
And so he's sort of reinvented this.
And obviously other engine builders can do it.
But the modern version of those types of blowers like Whipple makes it.
And I think maybe Edelbrock or somebody else is making for it, but it looks
like a roots type blower, but it's, but it's essentially a twin screw.
So if you have like a 10 to one or 11 to one compression motor, you can
still run this on there.
You don't need seven and a half, eight and a half to one.
So you get better low end drive ability.
And then what he has done when I was visiting him, maybe it was a couple of
years ago, he had one of the engines there and it has the three holes in the scoop.
And he goes, but inside it's a single throttle body.
Only the one hole works.
The other two are sort of fake.
Now he can control the air much better.
Right.
And that that's coming in.
And because when you start to get into like multiple throttle bodies, the
tuning becomes a really big issue, solve the issue by going, I, I just
run it into one big throttle body and I tune around that.
So, so the three holes, it still gets air in there, but they're basically fake.
And so he's, he's still built them.
People go to him and say, I want that look of that.
And he goes, I can do it and I can make it run like an idle and drive around.
You know, so anyway, that's the advantage of EFI now, right?
It's like, it's so robust, you know, depending on the versions you go.
It is.
There's so many great options.
And, and you know, Brad, when you drive it up and down to Big Bear or maybe like
Tahoe, you know, you want EFI.
Yeah, so it'll adjust.
And when I drive it over to, you know, Phoenix in the summertime.
Yeah, yeah, but no, I was just going to say, I'm going to put
vintage air in it.
I'm going to make it comfortable.
Yeah, so you use it.
Yeah, I want to be able to drive it.
But when I put my foot in it, you know, he's the tires, you know, so.
Yeah, I'm with you though.
Like I put sound deadening in there.
I put air conditioning in there.
I would make it comfortable because you want to be able to enjoy driving it.
It just can't be.
Well, I want my wife when I say, oh, let's take the Chevelle.
She goes, OK, I don't want her to go, I don't want anything hot.
It's no easy.
Yeah, let me wear a different shirt because it's going to stick to the seat.
And, you know, and you can do.
I mean, now there's somebody good electric cutouts for the exhaust.
If you want it, if you want that loud version, but if you.
So when when Ford had.
Their boss 302 that came out, maybe it's 15 years now, 10, 15 years.
So it it came with little cutouts.
I remember that exhaust.
But but instead of instead of, you know, two and a half inch
exhaust all the way through with full cutouts, it still went through the cats.
But the cutout was just like a little like like two inch pipe
with a plate on it that you can remove the plate.
So it was a cutout and did change the sound, but not making it
like an open header car, you know.
So nowadays you can do things with the cutouts and the size of the piping to go.
I want to get some I want an electric cutout and I want to change the volume.
But I don't want it to, you know, like I want to be able to control the sound a little bit.
You know, like you can, you know, you can do that stuff.
We couldn't do really 30 years ago.
I want to work with somebody that will help me make it sound like it's a Tesla,
you know, I mean.
Hey, speaking of silent vehicles, my buddy got hit on his electric
motorcycle in December.
A lady pulled right in front of him.
Loud pipes save lives.
Well, that there's something to say for that because he's like, you know what?
I had too many close calls and people said, I I didn't hear you like
like I didn't hear your bike.
You know, I kind of got a glimpse, but I wasn't sure.
And I was listening to kind of like they needed both senses.
They needed visual and audio and they didn't get the audio.
Interesting.
So turn, turn it up, Brad.
Turn it up.
Oh, yeah.
All right. What do you say?
Do you want to do you want to take a break?
I was just going to say, let's take a break when we come back.
I'll tell you about unloading the Chevelle.
And then we'll talk about a couple other things that are going on.
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Hey, um, so my camera, there we go, my camera is doing something weird.
The, so I got it back and, you know, now I'm, now I'm by myself, I'm here at my shop
and I'm like, OK, got to get it off with the, with the forklift.
And I had these visions of just being able to do it, but I'm not going to do it.
I'm just scooping up the car and, and then all of a sudden I went, oh, crap.
It doesn't have a frame under it.
So I got to be real careful.
So I'm going to crush the floor and, and, and then I had the long forks on the,
on the forklift, um, but, you know, then you start measuring everything.
The car, as I told you, is six feet wide and the forks are five feet wide.
So now I'm like, of course, man.
So luckily, again, back to the toy haul trailer, it's got these really interesting
fender covers that are made to drive over for the dune buggies and stuff like that.
So I was able to get the body dolly to straddle that and get, and it has a side
rail for tie downs.
That's about six inches tall, a tubular side rail.
So I was able to literally push the car dolly right up against that and
get, get the forks as far under as I could.
And then I'm looking around going, what do I do?
Now, what do I do?
And I looked and I don't know if you guys know what I'm talking about.
But when I had my enclosed car trailer, I had these ramps that I made.
You start out with like a four foot piece of one inch, you know, lumber.
And then you, then you start cutting other pieces and you make a step ramp so
that when you put it up to the door, you know, you can get a low car.
Like, like Michael's hot rod was always a problem putting it in the trailer.
And yeah, but it works better when you have tires, not when you're on casters.
Little tiny casters, but in this case, I turned them upside down, placed them
on the ends of the forks, strapped them to them and it extended out my forks
because they were thick.
I mean, at this point, those things are six inch thick and and got it under.
And then when I slowly brought them up, it wedged.
Locked them in place.
OK. And it worked.
And now I'm thinking, all right, I got to think smart here.
And, you know, because the first thought is, OK, I'll pick it up.
I'll back it off.
And and I went, wait a minute, all I got to do is pick it up five inches
enough for the caster wheel to go over the fender and drive the trailer
out from underneath it.
See, that way I'm not moving around and waiting for the body.
Yeah, jerking the. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I picked it up.
My neighbor walked out and I said, hey, could you just watch?
Make sure that caster wheel doesn't, you know, catch on anything.
And and I already had the truck running.
I mean, I was ready and raised it up real slow.
Zoomed that thing out, got back in and lowered it down real slow.
And everything was a success and nothing got smashed and it was all good.
So once it was on the ground, it was easy.
I just rolled it back in the warehouse and.
And, you know, all good.
So now it's just a matter of the next thing.
I've had so many people reach out to me online and, you know, thanks
for all the great comments and everything.
But they they're all like, OK, so when you can have it done,
you know, I'm like, well, well, well, well, like I said,
everybody's got to go to bond speed streetwear.com and buy a t-shirt
so that I can get this.
I saw that in the post.
Because the more you're looking at it going,
this is going to be a bigger project than I thought.
I got to sell some more t-shirts.
I got to sell a lot of t-shirts, man.
I saw a lot of t-shirts.
But the the thing is, is that, well, that's what my wife said.
She goes, if you can fund it with t-shirt sales, then you can do it.
So I was like, oh, really?
And she laughed as she walked away.
Yeah, like that's going to happen.
She's like, hey, Charlotte, can I use those old photos that we did
that one time?
Can I put those on a t-shirt?
She's like, she's like in the middle of doing a two bathroom remodel.
I'm like, wait a minute.
Now, and all I want to do is a car, you know, that makes a car.
We're never going to use more toilet paper.
But but anyways, where was I at?
So the the next thing is literally I'm going to do a purge on my warehouse.
I've got probably a hundred billet wheels back there.
Maybe not that. Maybe. Oh, my gosh.
That are either singles or test fits or two wheels or whatever.
And I'm going to I'm going to get rid of all those.
My shipping crates that you guys have seen those massive shipping crates.
I used to ship to Europe for the watch shows.
I don't need that stuff anymore.
So it's time for it to go so I can make room to build car, you know, build a car in there.
So that's all going to get redone.
I'm going to get rid of some of my racking that takes up so much room.
And get and then once that's done, then I can go to the next stage and start.
Because what like I told one guy, I really want to start with the chassis.
So I got to get that back from Arizona first and get it all sandblasted
and check it for any, you know, rust or anything like that.
But, you know, cracks, yeah, cracks, anything like that.
And then and then start on all that and figure out what I want to do.
And, you know, just start going from there.
Cool. I'm excited.
Project. It's nice to have it back in the warehouse.
It's nice to have it here.
And, you know, it's it's kind of amazing to think that that car was a runner
when I took it apart and, you know, it's just in a million pieces.
And, you know, but it's going to be nicer than it ever was.
So if you don't mind to just remind people real quick.
That car, how long you've had that car and the history with that?
It's a barn find in my barn.
No, no, no, you bought that car.
I bought that car when I was 15 years old.
I sold my YZ80 motorcycle and paper route money.
My dad came home one day.
He goes, you got your learner's permit.
You're going to want to get a car.
And I go, I go, yeah, I sure am.
You know, and he said, well, Buddymine's got a car for sale over in Iowa.
You want to go look at it?
And I and I go, yeah, sure.
I'm thinking it's going to be a valiant or something like that.
You know, and he goes, you know, I go, what is it?
And he goes, it's a 67 SS 396 Chevelle.
And I was like, huh, you know, I was like, yeah, let's go look at it.
And I have pictures of that car sitting in the guy's driveway.
And it was absolutely bone stock hubcaps on it.
You know, everything about it was bone stock.
And I got it and it, you know, it was 625 bucks.
I paid for it. And now you're going to spend 60,000.
Exactly. Exactly. Just on parts, just on parts.
I've already spent way more than 625 just getting at home.
What do you mean?
The the thing is, is that I, you know, you you have lots of time
when you're driving across the desert, as you know, Aaron or Matt,
you know, you got lots of time to think.
And I was, I cannot remember how that car got home from Iowa.
I know I didn't drive it.
I honestly cannot remember.
I don't know if my dad went back over with a friend or what and drove it back or what.
But I can't remember how I got home.
But I do remember in high school, it was one of the fastest cars around.
And I always had a set of nine inch slicks on rally wheels in the trunk, you know,
and we do some. Wow.
I'm sure your dad loved that.
And I used to I used to have guys that would show up at my high school
and from other schools or even older guys.
Hey, you want to run? I'm like, I'm at school, but I did.
Like, you're like, yeah, so give me a minute.
Geez. But I remember my dad, whatever,
once while on a Sunday or something, you go, hey, can I take you Chevelle
to the grocery store? And I'd go, yeah, sure.
Yeah. And my parents lived on a hill.
You'd drive down to the bottom of the hill.
And then there was this long street that went down and you'd look down the hill
and you'd see that street.
And I every single time you'd hear the car get down to the bottom of the hill
and then you'd hear it at the stoplight.
And I look down, there's my orange Chevelle going.
You know, my dad.
Down to the grocery store, man.
Great memories. Great memories.
So that's a really special car, Brad.
Yeah. So I'm going to get it all done.
I'm going to sell it at Bear Jackson.
Are you going to keep it?
Are you going to keep it orange? Are you going to bring it back?
I have had people ask me, I'm putting it.
I said, no, when I painted that car, that is a 74 Vega orange.
When I painted that car orange in probably 78 or 79 when I painted it,
you should have seen people's eyeballs because every car back then was red,
turquoise, white.
And if you had a really bad ass car, it was black lacquer, you know.
And to paint a car orange was like everybody was like, what?
But they all loved it.
Everybody loved it and everybody knew that orange Chevelle, you know.
So it was pretty cool.
So yes, I'm going to put it back to orange and I'm going to use the same
flat orange, a non-metallic orange, because I think it's just perfect for the car.
And but I am going to do some new things like narrow the bumpers and suck them
into the body, you know, so they're not sticking out.
So that looks a little, you know, one of those subtleties that.
Yeah, yeah.
Kind of don't know what looks different, but it looks different, you know.
And that's always a good look when things are nice and clean.
Everything's tight, you know.
And I am going to pick up something that was very popular in 1977, 78,
which is square headlights, you know, converting over.
Remember when that was a trend?
You look in the old man and like about that era because the new cars
came out with square headlights.
There were so many putting on their Harleys and trucks and everything.
Yeah, where headlights?
I'd be like, can you imagine if I pulled in and had this car and it had square
headlights like, what's this guy thinking?
But anyways, you know what?
It doesn't have you guys and never will is a frunk.
And it's very likely that your new Mustang Mach E may not have a frunk either.
Do you know about that, Matt?
Yeah, it's kind of a weird thing.
So Ford is saying a bunch of the Mach E owners don't necessarily use the frunk.
They've got the back.
It's a hash, the back seat.
You throw stuff in groceries, sports equipment, kids.
Not that you should put your kids in the frunk, but why not?
You know what it is.
You know, so they're saying we can lower the price of the vehicle a little bit
if we don't include like the frunk, like the full line.
Where am I going to put my dog?
And on your lap, like every else, everyone else.
And so they lower the price of the vehicle a couple of hundred bucks.
But if you want the frunk, it's a four hundred and ninety five dollar option.
So it's a weird kind of math equation here, because I think they lower the price
like two hundred bucks, but the front cost five hundred bucks.
So I got to be honest, I mean, for sure.
I guess every little every little thing you can try to do to lower the price of a car.
That one of the things that I did in my research of this that I did see was they're coming.
They're adding a heat pump to that car.
And I don't I didn't go deep enough on it to know what a heat pump even does for that car.
But so. Yeah.
The issue is if so battery.
So yeah, not not all EVs have temperature regulation of the batteries.
So when they're frozen, they charge very slowly.
It's really tough to get a charge.
They don't have as much range when they're cold.
So and you can damage the battery. Yeah.
So the the temperature regulation on batteries is kind of an issue.
I honestly, off the top of my head, I don't know which EVs have it, which ones don't have it.
But some of them are sophisticated temperature management, control,
water cooled, you know, or heated or warm.
They run like a coolant through it.
They can bring up the temperature or lower the temperature.
But all of that adds cost and sophistication.
So if you're I think it's going to end up being the norm,
they're going to figure out over time how to make it much more cost efficient.
And it's it's going to be more about warming the battery
to an operating temperature than it would be to cooling the battery.
I think I wrote the big deal is my house that heat pump for years.
I mean, you know, it's not a new thing, right?
No, our our air stream has a heat pump.
Yeah, but what one of the reports was saying is that this heat pump
might be in the general area of the frunk right now.
And they're saying they're having to redo the frunk and that if you get a frunk,
it could be half to two thirds the size of what it used to be.
So yeah, and it wasn't that big.
And my truck must have some sort of temperature regulations
because in the frunk, there is a coolant reservoir.
Right. And there's no radiator, you know, for the water cooled heat pump.
Yeah. So there we have some kind of there's some sort of coolant reservoir
in there, if I recall correctly, I guess for the battery.
Yeah, yeah.
But I was going to be like anything else.
Everything else you'd cool with oil, right?
Like differentials and stuff like that.
So the other the other big news coming out of Ford Camp
that I say is a big N.O.
Please don't do it is they're talking about making a Lincoln version of the Bronco.
Oh, I haven't heard that.
Yes, it just came out and that they're a high end, you know,
to compete against the G wagon and things like that is what they're saying.
And the Range Rover.
And you know what, Lincoln's never been good at that.
I mean, do you remember that that pickup truck they did?
The luxury. Oh, God, yeah, yeah.
The Blackwood. Yeah, the Blackwood, yeah.
And it just they've tried this a couple of times.
It never works.
And unless they have some remarkable plans,
I don't know, the buyer of a Lincoln
is a lot different than a Bronco buyer.
They really it is.
I what they're what they're talking about doing here is I think it would be
rebodied quite a bit because again, already on the Bronco,
it's got like kind of the modular, you know, body like pieces come off of it,
doors and fenders and stuff.
Very cool.
If you if you rebodied it,
then they're going after something like a defender, right?
Yes, exactly.
Going, hey, you know, we're going to do a higher end version of it
and, you know, up our game on the interior,
but have the off road suspension.
I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't call it.
But but they're talking like a base price of seventy five thousand and up.
So yeah, it's going to have to be. Yeah.
Yeah, it's got to be up there.
Now. I was thinking of something.
Maybe I shouldn't do my Chevelle.
Maybe I should just buy like an old Porsche,
you know, turbo Porsche we've got one for you.
Better top, top, hurry up.
Better get going. It might be cheaper.
It might be cheaper.
Just a quick shout out.
My co-host on car cast Goldberg,
he he's selling his Porsche.
He he he bought it years ago as mostly his wife wanted us.
But now that they're on the ranch, she doesn't drive it much.
And he doesn't really fit in.
I was just going to say this even in the car.
So I mean, he's got some videos, but he doesn't quite fit.
So anyway, it's a pretty cool.
It's a ninety two Porsche turbo, not eleven turbo.
It's black on black.
It's very much this style.
It's got a couple of cool modifications to it.
It's got twin plug heads.
It's got a larger intercooler, a little bit larger turbo coilovers.
A group in Atlanta did an audio system on it.
It's got like Alpine and MbCourt stuff on it.
So it's a little old school, but good quality stuff.
Back when MbCourt was like, yeah, there's some exhaust.
I forgot exactly what what exhaust is on it.
That's forty three thousand miles.
Wow, it runs like a champ.
Yeah, that's new. Yeah.
I mean, he he's so sort of fanatical about it.
He got it up on the lift and just scrubbed and cleaned and scrubbed
and cleaned every little thing underneath transaxle.
Like, you know, the transmission underneath the engine.
Everything is just it's why was it dirty?
I, you know, I.
Drove it a couple of times and and and, you know,
and it got moved a few times from California to here.
And it was just sitting around dirty.
It was that kind of dirty.
You know, like you're sitting around dirty, Brad.
Yeah, not like that. Yeah.
You know, it was.
When he had it here in California, right, he had his house
and then on the property was the big garage with the gym and all the, you know,
it's all it's right. You've seen if you Google it, you'll see.
It's like sitting in the gym dirty.
No, it wasn't. It was always at the house.
It was in the garage at the house.
So you can always just sort of like, you know, get to it and take it out occasionally.
But anyway, it's a cool car.
It's on Brigham Trailer.
Just search for Goldberg's Porsche.
You'll see it. The auction ends Saturday.
So we've got, you know, tomorrow after this.
Yeah, it's going to be a day.
So Saturday, February 28th,
I believe at 2 p.m. Pacific time is the end date.
But yeah, well, we'll be watching.
I got it saved on Brigham Trailer right now.
So hey, back to the bell for just a minute.
I had a lot of messages.
This is probably one of my when are you going to wash it?
You know, and first of all,
I kind of like the, you know, the patina thing.
It's all dirty. It's all.
But one of the real reasons I didn't just run it over to the quarter car wash
and give it a good rinse before I brought it back was because inside is a bunch of parts,
you know, it's full of parts.
And you've got to remember like the trunk, the.
The the the rubber around the trunk lid.
It's been shut so long in the heat that it's literally a pancake.
OK, so it's not going to seal anything.
And around the windows, they never sealed that great when they were new.
And the whole front end where your heater core and where the steering box
and everything goes through the firewall, which are big holes, you know, they're all open.
So that's the real reason I've got to empty it all out.
Then I'll back it out in behind my building and rinse it off and give it a good bath.
But and that'll make a whole nother video.
So he needs to do a video like your defender, Aaron.
I'll show instead of showing where the I'll show where the water leaks
in the windows and where it leaks out the bottom where the rustles are.
So well, well, on on on Saturday, Goldberg will be getting a check
and I'll be getting my little my little rain
to verters that I ordered from England.
So so when it rains again next year,
because I got to say yesterday we we took it out of my birthday.
Just got soaked and I wish they would have come the day before.
But the day before I actually did I service the brakes,
put new rotors on the rear, service the axles, the bearings.
Did all that at my friend Colby's shop at Muffler Tech
and we made we made some roof bar supports because I took off the basket
and I'm and we made a new
footstep because one of the side steps are rusted on the driver's side.
So so so we cut some new tube for that.
And you know, I was looking at the hood and I was driving the whole way there
in the hood. There's no paint on it.
There's no clear on it. It's not metal.
It's just it's just grungy.
So I was thinking of the gentleman we had on
a year or so ago that did the touch up paint.
I was thinking of him and I was going through my
my my contacts and I'm like, oh, wait, Dwayne.
Dwayne works at PPG and he listened to the show.
So shout out to Dwayne and and his crew.
And so I messaged Dwayne and said, hey, can you guys do a color match?
Because I was, you know, we raised the hood and right there is the color code.
And and and he asked me a couple of questions, responded.
And and and they ship me they ship me some base coat, clear coat.
So thank you. Oh, nice.
And all the boys there and Dwayne for not only being a listener,
but but but but but helping a brother out.
So so Brad, when you're ready to repaint that, that.
Yeah, yeah, man, it was about to get a hold away.
I literally found when I was going through all the stuff,
the label that I cut off the can when we painted the car.
Back in it's a paint code.
I've got even paint on it, you know, like you do on part of the label.
So yeah, well, well, well, well, here's the thing.
And obviously, we don't have to go into great detail.
But yeah, California has waterborne paint now.
So that would match my existing paint in a very not so desirable way.
And I'm not prepared to paint waterborne stuff.
So taking it to a body shop here in California, getting it all done.
So so so so I'm looking forward to being able to match that paint
as it should be and in a controlled and safe environment that's friendly
and and and get it get it to be where it should
and not have to drive up the top of Nevada.
Yeah, you know, how was it?
I was just curious, how was it doing that rear end?
Because you said you did the inspection
and you needed to change the brakes of the rear end to kind of come out.
But we thought about it as, you know, it's not a bad time
to freshen up everything back there anyway.
Exactly. Yeah, I didn't need to, man.
All the bushings on the sway bar, like everything.
I am blown away.
That car last drove to my knowledge in 2011.
I did fix the speedo.
I did put a new a new LCD screen that the memory chip and the gauge
holds the mile, so I didn't touch that.
I just changed the screen and it turned out
that at a hundred and a hundred and eight thousand miles,
which was only four thousand miles more than it had in 2011.
So I probably put most of those miles on it or at least half of them
are getting it here and and man, that thing is clean underneath.
There's no additional rust other than like that side step
and a couple of little corrosion areas.
I mean, it's I'm blown away.
I mean, we were looking at the bushings and I'm just like,
this thing is really clean.
I mean, it came from Colorado.
But yeah, I mean, so to get the rear brakes,
you have to pull you have to take a cap off the center
like a hub, you know, and and and it pulls the whole axle.
It's connected to the cap.
It's great.
You want to do a
little washer, at least you have to flatten out on the corner
and you take out a couple of those and a couple of little nuts.
And then you wrangle that whole disconnected caliper
and you wrangle that whole thing off.
Be careful the seals.
We were able to keep the seal and the bearings.
I just repacked the bearings just to service everything.
Put new rotors on new pads, put it all back together.
And man, the thing, you know, set set the brakes.
You got to set the brakes a little bit.
It does not have ABS, by the way.
And and yeah, yeah, it drives drive.
You got 100,000 miles more before you got to do that again.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
I don't think that they may have been the original rotors.
I mean, I've done rotors.
I've got the original rotors on my Jeep and I'm at almost 65,000 miles
and they're they're fine.
So so sometimes you can get that out of the rotors,
but the pads have definitely been replaced.
And in fact, the pads were too too tall.
So so the rotor had carved away and left and left a step on there,
which had had some pulsing in it when you break.
So most of that pulsing is gone.
But I suspect they might have done it to the front pads, too.
So when I replace those, then then I should have a pretty smooth breaking experience.
But yeah, well, it's good.
Yeah, really exciting.
It wasn't as hard as I thought.
I had to I had to order a 52 millimeter socket, which is huge.
But and a few other little things I had to order that were specialty.
But other than that, it really wasn't that difficult.
You know, packing bearings and stuff is just messy.
But yeah, but yeah, everything was clean.
All the fluids look good.
They didn't smell bad.
There were no wear spots in the bearings or the axles.
It looked good.
It's going to be funny.
You mentioned that when I remember the first time I did the brakes
on my on my big suburban, my my Yukon, you know, the 2,500 series
and everything's bigger. Oh, yeah.
I had to go buy some big sockets because I'm like, I don't have anything that big.
You know, it's like now I do.
Now I do heavy.
Those brakes were heavy.
And we had to look up a couple of Torx specs because everything's a newton meters,
you know, so so I had to I had to do some conversions.
And yeah, we got all the Torx specs and you know, you talk about the 3D printing
and like that right after we spoke about that on the show last week,
I ran across a place online.
It was through somebody that that we follow each other.
And he he's redoing a it was either a CUDA or a Challenger, but it had it had a
radio delete, you know, back when you wanted to lighten the cars up.
So you got heater, delete, radio, delete.
And he could not find a delete panel anywhere.
And, you know, they're real specific.
They kind of depressed into the radio area that was punched.
Yeah, and clips and and he was able to find this company that would make them.
But what they also make are like, you know, a lot of these older
muscle cars, older Ferraris, a lot of this, the vents, right?
The little vent doors that turn.
Oh, yeah, thing and pivot.
They're making all that kind of stuff and they'll help you out.
And I checked them out.
It's called I print 3D company.
And they're on Instagram.
I print 3D and it's I print number three, then the letter D calm.
But our company, excuse me.
And check them out because it looks like they'll do whatever pretty much
whatever you need. And that's so cool.
And there's enough information they can probably get dimensions.
They don't have to 3D scan it.
Yeah, all that.
So yeah, yeah, I'm kind of 3D printing.
I'm I was looking at some the other day and I really because thanks to AI,
you know, we talked about that before, but thanks to AI, you know,
I can I can get some help and and getting files built and and and wire frames
and stuff that used to be so hard.
Now you can use AI.
Yeah, it's so cool.
They're so user friendly.
And I mean, what what game changer?
What what what a game changer?
Just I mean, not only for making silly little toys and silly things,
but but a lot of stuff we can't get any more.
And and it was and it's the plastic anyway.
And just, you know, you have to do everything in PLA, you know, you can
but a company like that probably does resin printing, which is super high
resolution and they have to cure it.
And it's really hard.
It's better than factory, you know.
Well, I think really good tech.
I think I like Matt when he was doing his Mustang and you had those vents done
and when you did that, it was like it was like witchcraft, you know.
And now that's like you could do them at home with a AI wire frame
and a and a and a home 3D printer, you know, it's amazing.
Pretty cool. Or like if I'm doing the Chevelle and I wanted to do some custom
emblems, you know, I could, you know, make that stuff in a 3D printer,
you know, all the stuff that used to when I did the the purple Ford truck
that I built, I had a jewelry company make me custom emblems.
They cost me freaking much money.
I mean, I had like, I think I had 1,800 bucks into the emblems.
And I'm and I'm thinking now you just do those on a 3D printer
and airbrush the colors you want and everything and you'd be done, you know.
And yeah, well, they have electroplating for plastics and 3D prints now, too.
That's super easy.
That electric or that plastic chrome and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very, very cool.
Well, we've been on forever, guys.
We should finally start wrapping it up.
But the you guys got anything you got a birth.
You had a birthday.
Did you have a good birthday?
That rained all day.
I always have good birthdays.
It's just another day.
And I feel a day older today.
Believe me, I really do.
I feel a day older.
But yeah, it rained all day.
And we just went to Hillsburg and decided to call it quits.
Well, I don't want you to get jealous because I'm going to tell you
Friday is my birthday and what I'm going to do on my birthday.
Charlotte asked me.
She's getting a few people together, Mike and Sue and stuff.
And and she goes, so where do you want to go on Friday?
And I go, I can't go anywhere on Friday.
And she goes, what do you mean?
I go, did you forget what Saturday is?
And she goes, the defter Brad's birthday.
And I said, I said, no, the party continues.
No, I said, I said, we're having a garage sale.
There's a community garage sale where this realtor did this really cool thing
where you sign up for it, he prints maps and people come from all over.
And there's a lot of people doing it in the area and they give you the signs
to put in your yard.
They even delivered to my house yesterday, put it on the front door, a bag.
And inside the bag was price tags.
They they had markers in there to write stuff on and little colored dots
to put on stuff and and then the morning of the of the garage sale,
they're delivering it said they're going to deliver a dozen donuts
and a and a jug of that Starbucks coffee so that we have coffee and donuts
and the people who come to visit our Starbucks are I mean, our garage sale do.
So we're going to celebrate my birthday on Sunday.
Instead, that's a good service, but I am hoping if you want,
if you're in the Tuscan area, come by because I'm giving shit away.
I'm literally I'm it's 25, 50 cents, nothing over a dollar hardly.
I'm literally I want it gone so that I can clear out this warehouse
and my shop at home, guys.
Hey, everybody, please go subscribe to Brad Fanshawe.
Is it Brad or Bradley Fanshawe?
No, I don't even know on YouTube and it's called content and podcasts.
Bradley Fanshawe content and contests, content and podcasts.
God, I can't even say it because I am going to be producing a video, putting it up.
And then, like I said, every step of the way on this car,
I'm going to be putting stuff up.
But you should also go there because you can see our podcasts
and you can go there and you can see other weird stuff that I've put up
about the outlawed Van Halen skateboard and stuff like that.
So but, Matt, what do you got going on, man?
I got nothing. Come on. You do to nothing.
You do to close that 100 million dollar round of financing.
I wish I wish we did.
If you guys haven't caught up on car cast in a while, we, you know,
we had Ron Capps on a little while ago as we head into drag racing season.
Alexis DeGioria was just on this week.
So you can check that out.
Lots of good stuff, fun stuff.
Oh, and the Edmunds Top Rated Awards.
So if you're shopping for a car, you you want some recommendations.
We did a podcast all about their big annual award thing.
That's a huge undertaking, by the way.
All the amount of work they do, the videos they produce, the content they write.
It's such a big thing.
It takes them months and months to do.
So, yeah, you haven't seen it.
You said you didn't even get to vote and you pulled it off, man.
You came out of it.
The podcast is there, and we've been taking all of the podcast episodes
and putting it up on YouTube, on the car cast YouTube channel.
Oh, good. I'm glad you're doing that, too.
Well, well, Dad's got his residency starting in March now.
So I think that I don't know that I would imagine there's still some tickets available.
Maybe. March and April, isn't it?
No, it's just in March.
It's about 10 days, and then they're back again in September.
Yeah, yeah.
So I think, Matt, we're going to see you there on the 21st.
And yeah, going to be super fun.
And then thanks again to Dwayne at PPG and my buddy Colby at Muffler Tech
for helping me out on the Defender.
And yeah, life is good.
Yeah, cool. All right, everybody.
Hey, thanks for listening and watching and being fans of the show.
Shift and stare. We'll be back next week.
That's a promise, not a threat.
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