Shift and Steer Oct 10, 2025

Brad's Mercedes Money Pit, Aaron Rubbing a Ferrari, EV's Too Quiet - Shift & Steer EP359

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Concept

Corvette Museum sinkhole

The Corvette Museum sinkhole was a big hole that opened up at a museum dedicated to Corvettes, a famous type of sports car. Some cars fell into the hole, and the museum decided to keep it as part of their display to show what happened.

Car

Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish sports car that many people love. It's famous for being a symbol of American muscle cars and has been around for a long time. The Corvette Museum had a big problem when a sinkhole opened up and damaged some of the cars inside.

Car

Toyota Prius

The Toyota Prius is a car that uses both gasoline and electricity to run, making it very good on gas. It's known for being environmentally friendly.

Car

Porsche Turbo

The Porsche Turbo is a faster version of Porsche cars that uses a turbocharger to boost engine power, making it more exciting to drive.

Part

three-speed automatic

A three-speed automatic is a type of car transmission that changes gears by itself, making it easier to drive because you don't have to shift manually.

Car

Ferrari 400

The Ferrari 400 is a luxury sports car made by Ferrari, famous for being comfortable and powerful. It's designed for long drives and has a strong V12 engine.

Concept

vintage certification program

A vintage certification program checks if a classic car is genuine and meets certain quality standards. It helps prove the car's history and can make it more valuable.

Term

luxury touring car

A luxury touring car is a type of car made for comfortable long trips. It has nice features and a smooth ride, making it enjoyable to drive for many hours.

Term

12-cylinder

A 12-cylinder engine has twelve small engines inside it, which helps the car go really fast and run smoothly. It's usually found in fancy and powerful cars.

Term

engine rebuild

An engine rebuild is when you take apart an engine to fix it and put it back together. It can be very expensive, especially for engines with many parts.

Term

self-leveling suspension

Self-leveling suspension helps keep a car level when it has extra weight in the back. It adjusts automatically so the car doesn't sag or tip to one side.

Car

Buick Grand National

The Buick Grand National is a powerful car from the 1980s that is famous for its speed and cool black design. Many people love it because it has a strong engine and is considered a classic. It's often talked about by car fans who appreciate older cars.

Brand

Ferrari

Ferrari is a famous car brand from Italy that makes very fast and expensive sports cars. They are known for their bright red cars and success in racing.

Car

Ferrari 308 GT4

The Ferrari 308 GT4 is a sports car made by Ferrari in the 1970s. It has a unique design and is known for being fun to drive.

Car

Ferrari 275

The Ferrari 275 is a classic car from the 1960s known for its stylish look and strong engine. It's a favorite among car collectors.

Car

Ferrari 430

The Ferrari 430 is a fast sports car made in the mid-2000s. It's known for being powerful and fun to drive.

Car

Peugeot 308S

The Peugeot 308 is a small car that is known for being comfortable and good-looking. It's popular in Europe and is designed to be easy to drive and efficient. People talk about it because it has modern features that make it enjoyable to use.

Part

tires

Tires are the rubber parts that make contact with the road. If they are old or worn out, they can make the car harder to control and unsafe to drive.

Company

Michelin

Michelin is a company that makes tires for cars. They are known for making high-quality tires that help cars grip the road better.

Company

Pirelli

Pirelli is another tire company that makes tires for cars, especially for racing and high-performance vehicles. They are known for their good grip and handling.

Term

flat spotting

Flat spotting happens when a tire sits in one position for too long, causing it to become flat on that spot. This can make the car feel bumpy or hard to steer when you drive it again.

Car

289 Cobra

The 289 Cobra is a classic sports car that was made in the 1960s. It is known for being very fast and light, with a powerful engine. The number '289' refers to the size of the engine.

Term

throttle

The throttle is what you press with your foot to make the car go faster. Letting off the throttle means you're easing off the gas pedal, which can change how the car feels while driving.

Term

donuts

Doing donuts means spinning the car in circles, which makes the back tires skid. It's a fun way to show off driving skills but can wear out tires quickly.

Term

burnouts

A burnout is when you make the tires spin while the car is not moving, which creates smoke and shows off the car's power. It's fun but can damage the tires.

Part

vacuum lines

Vacuum lines are small tubes that help parts of the car work by using air pressure from the engine. If they get old or damaged, it can cause problems with how the car runs.

Term

ABS

ABS means Anti-lock Braking System. It's a feature in cars that helps prevent the wheels from stopping completely when you brake hard, so you can still steer the car safely.

Term

numbers matching

If a car is 'numbers matching', it means that the main parts of the car are the same ones that were originally installed when it was made. This can make the car more valuable to collectors.

Car

Mercedes-Benz SL

The Mercedes-Benz SL is a fancy convertible car that looks great and drives really well. It's known for being luxurious and has a long history, with some older models being very special and valuable. People often talk about it because of its stylish design and performance.

Car

Chevy Equinox EV

The Chevy Equinox EV is a version of the Equinox that runs on electricity instead of gasoline, making it more environmentally friendly.

Car

Chevrolet Equinox EV

The Chevrolet Equinox EV is an electric version of the Equinox, which is a compact SUV. It's designed to run on electricity instead of gasoline, making it more environmentally friendly.

Term

tax credit

A tax credit reduces the amount of tax you have to pay. For electric cars, it means you can get money back from the government when you buy one, making it cheaper.

Car

Kia Soul

The Kia Soul is a small car that has a fun, boxy shape and a lot of space inside. It's popular because it's different from other cars and is easy to drive. It's being retired because people are looking for different types of cars now.

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This is Belize.

Yeah, it's recording in progress

because this is the Shift and Steer podcast.

And I want to just say welcome to the party pals.

And hey, we're all here today.

We are ones in Tahoe, ones in Venice area,

or Marina del Rey area, I guess.

And Brad's in Morocco.

And yeah, I'm in Morocco today.

Yeah, no.

So, man, we've all been busy.

I had weird things going on.

One of us was cutting paint.

One of us was watching them cut mud.

And that was cutting the rug.

We went out, we were walking the dogs.

And it's common to see just like a helicopter floating

above us, the ghetto bird is up there.

And you're like, hey, what's happening?

And when they sit in one spot, I was like,

something is going on over there.

Something's happening.

Just like a little north of us.

And I was like, well, you know,

I'm going to go for a run later today.

So maybe I'll go and see what's going on.

And I ran over and I saw the wonderful little pothole.

Pothole, a little bit bigger than a pothole.

Oh, my gosh.

This is the giant sinkhole on Venice Boulevard.

And I got a little bit of video of it,

so if you guys are watching it.

So yeah, Venice splits into two down by the beach.

One's northbound, one's southbound.

And I'm sorry, one's east.

Yeah, one's westbound, one's eastbound.

And yeah, that's the sinkhole that's

taken up two lanes.

It's basically from sidewalk to sidewalk.

It just fell to the earth.

And I was thinking of like, didn't the Corvette Museum

have like a big sinkhole?

Oh, yeah.

Cars fell in it.

And then they ended up like turning it into part of the exhibit.

And I kept thinking of, do you remember

when in what was the Stallone movie in the future?

Oh, man, I can't think of it now.

Demolition Man, when he's first chasing Wesley Snipes

and he goes to the museum to get the guns.

And part of the display is they're like,

here's a display of what LA used to look like.

And you're on the glass floor and you look down.

And it's like cars are smashed and stuff's on fire.

It's like a total wasteland.

It looks like just like an apocalypse.

And I'm like, this is what's happening.

This is going to be the display in the future of Demolition

Man.

We're just going to show parts of Venice.

And I was thinking of the Corvette Museum

probably looks like that.

I know they roped it off instead

of doing like a glass floor because it was huge.

Right.

But if they'd done the glass floor, it would be Demolition Man.

It would be that scene in Demolition Man.

Well, if you see Wesley Snipes wearing big shoulder pads

and stuff, you might want to reconsider where you're living.

You know, about that's most of the residents

that live around there.

About about two years ago, Wesley Snipes,

maybe three years ago, he was here in the marina

and he was just sitting outside a sushi restaurant

waiting for his takeout order.

And and it's funny, though, because he was like dressed

like Gilligan.

He had like a little like the hat.

He had like a bucket hat on like the bucket hat.

It was white.

He was wearing like a light blue shirt.

And and I was thinking about it.

And I was like, obviously, you guys know I'm a Miami Vice

fan and he played a character.

So many people got to start in Miami Vice, right?

Like there was so many cameos back.

They had Bruce Willis, Kramer from Seinfeld.

Dad didn't get his start.

Yeah, Julia, Julia Roberts.

Yeah, his role there.

Like, no, you should stop.

You should stop.

There was so many there.

And Wesley Snipes played.

I think his name was.

I knew he was on there.

Yeah, is he had a character named Slick.

So I just thought it would be funny

because of all the things he's done.

I went over and I was like, hey, this is Slick.

So it's like, you know, I'm, you know, I'm mad.

I'm a big fan.

I go, I loved you as slick in Miami Vice.

And he said, he goes, oh, my God, you're going way back.

And I was like, yeah.

And then and then he asked me some questions.

We chatted for a few minutes and stuff.

And actually, I because I he said, what do you do?

And I said, you know, we do car stuff, we do podcasts.

And he gave he gave he gave a great answer.

I said, are you a car guy?

And he said, no, but I do appreciate them as art.

Well, that was a great answer,

which I get it because a lot of people are like, I like, you know,

you know, certain Ferrari or something looks this way.

But without knowing anything about cars,

I thought that was a very good answer.

Yeah, yeah, it was definitely.

And then he got in his Prius.

I don't know what he got in.

I don't know what he got in, but.

Maybe it was this same sushi restaurant

that I vented about a couple of episodes ago

about the guy that rolled up in his Porsche turbo.

Oh, yeah, he parked in the handicapped spot, got out of that one.

Yeah, got out of that.

Got out of his of his Porsche turbo with his jumpsuit on

with his speakerphone in his hand, playing Everlast on speakerphone.

I'm like, why do you need theme music?

What are you like?

What's this? This isn't family guy, right?

Like he's not Peter Griffin.

He's this fat white guy

jumpsuit with his theme music, walking to the restaurant.

You know who you are. You know who you are.

When we when we had the watch company up and going

and we were doing so many trade shows all over the world,

Rick and I had a theme song we played every morning

when we left the hotel to get us motivated.

Yeah, yeah, we're going to go there and kick ass.

We had a plan on the.

What was your song?

What was your theme song?

It was We Are The World.

No, it was from the Mission Impossible soundtrack.

It was God, I'm trying to think of who played it.

But it was good.

It got us hyped up.

I just can't remember it now because I'm old now.

I can't remember back decades ago, man.

I can't remember anything anymore.

It's just think if you could walk in every time you walked in

the front door at SEMA and all of a sudden there

your theme music played, you know, you're like, I mean, Brad,

it kind of happens.

And I know for you, but it does kind of.

Yeah, yeah, it does in my head.

It does in my head. I hear it. I hear it, man.

So it sounds like the funeral march.

So it's.

Venice is falling into the core of the earth.

That's the story.

Venice is falling in the all of LA.

I mean, I read this thing not that long ago where they said

the average sewer pipe and water pipe is over

a hundred years old.

How do you deal with that kind of infrastructure?

And and they're and it's so pretty impressive, though.

That's that it's lasted that long.

Yeah, but talk to the people who their water didn't work anymore

or their front lawn disintegrates into a big hole.

You know, now they're not like Florida, where the entire neighborhood.

Yeah, I don't doubt.

And in Florida, they look down and go, hello.

And they hear, hi, I went all off.

Yeah, all right.

And a new electric car that you can't get in the states pops out.

You're like, yeah, there you go.

Remember that when we were kids and they told you, oh,

if you drilled all the way straight through the earth, you'd be in China.

I don't think that works out.

Now it's a wormhole in Florida where they where they illegally transport car.

Yeah, they use the boring machine that Elon Musk's machine.

So he can get us so he could drive Tesla straight through the earth, right?

Now it's the three eye

spaceship that's coming next month that's a wormhole.

Speaking of boring tunnels, are they still doing that in Vegas?

What are they doing it from the airport to like?

Yeah, they just did another one.

Yeah, they just opened up one from when I think something like that.

I heard it's, I guess you don't hear a lot about it,

but I think they are still doing it.

Are they are they doing it from the airport now?

I wonder, I don't know.

We'll have to find out.

We'll find out when we find out, you know, all my YouTube's just full of,

you know, Vegas, it's a ghost town.

Vegas is what happened to Vegas.

Vegas just, you know, it just got expensive.

It was just like, I know they overpriced everything.

That was about two years ago.

Yeah. When Brad paid a hundred dollars for a beer.

Yeah. No, I paid what?

80 bucks at that one that went to the Barrett Jackson party.

And, and as I was waiting for everybody to get there,

I went into the bar.

This is in the middle of the afternoon.

This is not at night.

It was like five, 36 o'clock.

It's daytime prices.

Yeah. And I say, I say, yeah, I have a Jack and Coke.

And she goes, $86.

And I go, I go, no, I'm by myself.

I thought she got my bill mixed up with somebody.

She goes, no, it's $86.

And I said, I don't want it.

And Brad's collected to notice the white line

that she laid down in front of me.

Yeah, exactly.

Even that's not 86 bucks.

But I went, I went, I don't want it for $86.

And she goes, I know it's ridiculous, isn't it?

And I go, that's like really crazy.

And then I took a couple of drinks for a hand and it back to her.

You know, I got about 30 bucks for it.

Don't want this. Here you go.

It's a back out. Just want a mouthwash.

No, that was just.

But you know what the real turning point was

when they all started charging for parking?

Remember that.

Yes.

I mean, wait a minute.

Resort fees every day.

It's just it's stupid.

It's, yeah.

It's too bad.

Days and times of, you know what, you know what?

Times have changed.

They have.

Remember back in the good old days?

Yeah.

With lollipops and soda fountains.

But that's why Seema's moving, you know, they're.

What?

Yeah, in two years, Seema's no longer going to be in Vegas.

You guys heard that?

No.

I didn't get that.

They're moving to San Diego.

We're coming.

Are you?

You're joking, right?

I am joking.

Yeah, he's joking.

I was going to say they're too committed to move out.

Yeah, I don't think San Diego would be big enough.

They wouldn't have enough hotels, you know?

They're going to merge with Comic-Con, right?

Yeah, they're going to merge with Comic-Con.

It's going to be Seema-Con.

So they're going to have music and Comic-Con.

So, hey.

So while Venice was falling into the earth,

Aaron was filling different kind of scratches and cracks

in a 400-eye.

Now, I got to say, I knew your dad had that 400-eye,

and it looked like it really needed that bad from your video.

But I always liked the 400-eyes,

and I almost bought one several times.

But the problem what kept me from buying one

is that it was that car that you could buy inexpensively,

yet it just didn't know if it was going to even

hold its value at that, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And all the expense you would have put into it over the years.

Drew, you know, I'm guessing, but I think they were about 40

or 50 new and 84, right?

Does that sound about right?

Yeah, I think so, yeah.

Yeah, and for a long time, they were worth about 20,

and now they're back up over 100, I think.

So dad's is a 1984 400-eye injection.

It's an automatic, which has a three-speed automatic.

I swear it has overdrive because it's

running at a high RPM at 70 miles per hour right now,

and that doesn't seem right.

So I think the vacuum assist for the actuator is goofy.

But it's a wonderful touring car, 63,000 miles.

Engine was just rebuilt, and dad said, drive it.

So Ferrari asked us to do a little event.

Dad was flying at DeCabo that day.

So he said, just take the 400 and clean it up a little bit

and take it over there and have fun.

We're doing stuff with Ferrari at San Francisco.

They have a vintage restoration, not a vintage restoration.

A vintage certification program that they're working with now,

and so we did a little promotion with that with a vintage Ferrari.

But yeah, it really is a nice driver.

I mean, it's a luxury touring car,

and it's got really thick plush seats.

It's really smooth.

It's really not fast, like it gets up and goes,

but it's not fast.

But it is a front engine 12-cylinder.

And like you were saying, Brad, they've been pretty affordable to buy,

but it is the scenario of they are not affordable to own.

That's right.

That engine rebuild was the price of a lot of new cars.

They're very expensive.

That 12-cylinder is really a complicated motor.

It has AC, power steering, power brakes, power assist, everything,

power windows, power mirrors.

There's a lot of vacuum lines and little stainless steel lines

that run all over.

I mean, you open that hood and it's gorgeous,

but you look at it and you're like, whoa, that's a lot of stuff.

I just found out they have a very interesting suspension

that's much like Mercedes.

They have two sets of shocks and the other set of shocks.

I don't know what's inside of them, if it's just oil.

But they're like self-leveling.

They're self-levelers.

So if you put a lot of weight in the back of the car,

it'll give resistance against that weight

and kind of keep the car planted.

But when you're driving it, it's very soft.

It's very compliant.

But it's a nice car.

But it hadn't been paint corrected.

It hadn't been buffed to any degree

that I know of, Dad said, since 1984.

So I went to town.

I only had a day, it turned out really, really well.

Thank you.

I used all Rupes products.

I used their new green pads, which I had a bunch of.

I used my new cordless Rupes, which I bought.

I kind of lost my contacts there.

And I've been just wanting them so bad.

So I just bit the bullet.

They're expensive, but man, those new machines

are buttery, smooth, and the batteries.

I only went through both batteries the whole day of buffing.

They lasted a long time because I wasn't full speed.

The paint's very soft.

It didn't, we were discussing this before the show.

It didn't smell like lacquer.

It really didn't have a lot of smell.

The compound was kind of overwhelming that I was using.

But it didn't smell like urethane.

It didn't smell like enamel.

I'm curious what it was, because as we know

it probably would have been lacquer.

But Dad said that he thinks Claudio Zampoli repainted it

because it was impounded in 84.

So he didn't get it till kind of middle of 85.

And it was sitting outside for a year and a half.

So he thinks he remembers Claudio painting it.

So I'm curious what Claudio used back then.

It doesn't have a clear coat.

The pads came out black real fast.

But the paint was really forgiving,

really easy to work with.

I used a medium compound, because it was really scratched.

Not too badly oxidized, because it's always lived indoors.

But really, really love kisses.

Those single-stage paints that they used back then

were so great.

I mean, you can buff them back.

Maybe it's lead.

Should I?

Yeah, there you go.

I used their new Pure Series compound.

I used the Advance, which probably

wasn't the right compound for the details out there.

It's too oily and greasy.

It absorbed way too much of what was coming off the car.

And I lost control of my pads pretty fast.

I went through three pads.

And I left some marks on the car,

because I only had those three pads.

I couldn't blow them out.

I couldn't clean them.

My smock is filthy, because I kept

trying to run them out on my smock.

I think they carried a lot of the exfoliated skin,

as Larry likes to say, off that paint.

But boy, it glassed out.

I didn't have to wax it afterwards.

That's kind of the point of the Pure System.

For two of them, you don't have to wax them.

They leave a finish.

But that finish was it wasn't the right combination.

But the pads were really nice.

I didn't have to use a two or three-pad system.

I just use one pad.

And like you see, if you check out my Instagram,

where I posted it, it is gorgeous.

I mean, it is gorgeous.

It looks brand new.

But I have a big question.

I saw the antenna mount on the rear window

and the cradle on the interior,

but there was no handset.

What the hell is the handset, man?

When I put it back at the house,

I knew I remembered seeing the phone somewhere on a shelf.

Sure enough, it was on the shelf right in front of it.

So the cord had come apart.

So all the paper, because it's the little wires wrapped

in paper, the sprout paper, and then the rubber.

So the rubber had just deteriorated, perished.

So I went ahead and cut it.

Because there's no plugs, so you can't replace it.

You'd have to open the phone and disconnect it there.

So I just cut it.

And I put it back in the car.

And the antenna I put in the glove box,

because it does stick up pretty high.

It's a pigtail.

So it's got a little pigtail that goes on.

The hard one.

Yeah, it's got about two inches.

And then it's got about another two inches of pigtail curl.

And then it's got about six or seven inches.

So if you lay it down, it doesn't lay flat.

If you put it forward, it doesn't lay flat.

And it is kind of pigtail looking.

So I just put it.

Very 80s.

But you know, it's a Radwood candidate, for sure.

Yeah, my Grand National had that exact same phone.

It was back then, most of them, like in mine,

you'd open the center council, and it was in there.

And it was like.

Someone on Instagram recognized it.

And they did, I believe they said the model number.

Like, oh, that's a PX400 or something.

But it is the old Motorola.

And even the base, if you hit power on the base,

it goes, uh, it still has the dial tone and everything.

I was like, yeah.

Mine had the slide mount and the trunk,

where it was a battery pack.

You would take the hand, you'd unplug the handset from the car,

go and take it off the slide mount, slide them together,

and you could carry that little briefcase.

I remember that.

I think dad had that too.

Yeah.

Oh, how funny.

Ridiculous, because it was like,

I'm going to say the size of like a,

it was probably 12 inches by six or seven inches.

I was going to say it was about the size of an ammo box.

Yes, exactly.

The size of an ammo box.

And it had a big antenna coming out of it.

And I remember one time, Charlotte was so mad at me,

we were in Palm Springs and I was expecting a call

and I had to carry that thing with me.

And she goes, why are you carrying

that obnoxious phone with you?

You know, everybody's looking at you.

Like this is the nuclear football.

I'm supposed to carry this at all times,

like the price of it.

Like I have to have this thing handcuffed to my arm.

But honey, he says loudly, when I get the call.

Yes, that's right.

I've got to stay in touch with my brokers.

But lastly, real quick on a little event.

So Ferrari took us on a little rally

and it was only vintage Ferraris.

There was a beautiful white GT4, a 308 GT4.

My friend Rick had his beautiful 275 in yellow

and fly yellow.

There was a 430, I think was the most contemporary car.

A couple of 308s and I think there was one other car.

Anyway, but we had a police escort.

We had a private CHP, you know, three guys on bikes

and then a gentleman in a car following us up.

And I was lead because I had a manual from Ferrari with me.

And I got to say it was a little stressful

because these guys are just buzzing you so close

at high speed, stopping abruptly.

Now it's like I'm trying to keep an eye on them

and give them a little room here and there.

And they would always wave like things, you know.

And but man, they were stopping traffic

and we were running lights with them

and it was about an hour and a half drive

all the way to the Harvested in St. Helena.

But it was a nice drive, it was fun.

But yeah, it was weird having a police escort.

You gotta have the police escort

because if you sit in traffic,

all those cars were overheat.

Yes, definitely.

You need to keep the air flowing through those.

The 400 did really, really well

because I had a lot of traffic on the way back.

And it never got hot.

It like just creeped a little above running temperature

and that was it.

I was really impressed that car after all these years

still very, very reliable, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, tires on that thing are perished.

I mean, the handling was definitely affected

because the tires, they're about done

and they're that old kind of Z tread,

you know, the little Z tread on those old Michelin's.

But the tread's almost gone

and they were dry rotted in the middle.

I'm like, dad, we got it.

Michelin's?

Why wouldn't they be Pirelli?

I think they ran two different tires.

They ran a Michelin set with the little.

What are you doing driving that car

out there on those tires?

Well, I didn't realize that till I got to Ferrari

because I did the police escort.

Yeah, but it's one of those tires

then the old alloy rim gets destroyed.

Then, oh, then.

Well, we weren't going fast.

In fact, we went under the speed limit most of the way.

So we were doing under 60 most all the time.

In fact, much slower than that

because we went through little back roads and such.

You've heard my trailer tire stories.

They did all of those tires blow up.

I know, I'm terrified of those tires.

So I'm looking into getting new ones.

But I hear Michelin only makes them

every couple of years or every few years

and there's actually a wait list to get them.

So I have to check with Koker

because I think Koker tires has the license

to make those or something

and see if we can get another set.

I don't care as long as they're newer.

Yes, as long as they're newer.

Yeah, because the car,

it's not like the car gets driven all the time.

So it's one of those things where

if they're not perfect or the car doesn't handle

that great with them or whatever,

it's just, you know, it's the look and the feel.

And it wasn't a hot day

so they didn't go up in temperature too much.

The car's a little heavy,

but we were really taking it easy.

Yeah.

I thought like Emmanuel might be able

to get the tires for you through the day.

Emmanuel is in marketing.

So whenever I asked him questions,

he was like, uh...

Yeah, there's gotta be somebody at the dealer

that deals with the vintage stuff.

Of course.

Or Bruce Canapa probably knows where to get them

if he doesn't have.

We have plenty of friends.

But you know, Michelin's,

I have to say in my experience

of all the tires that sit,

Michelin sit pretty well,

especially the sport cuts here.

They age gracefully?

They age gracefully.

They really do.

Like they don't flat spot as quickly.

Like if you have a car sit a little bit,

they do well.

The little 289 cober that dad has,

I took that out

because it hadn't been driven in about five months.

And it flat spotted so bad

that I almost turned around.

It was like the steering wheel

was just jerking me left and right

whenever you'd let off the throttle.

So I just kind of stayed easy on the throttle

until it took about 20 minutes

for those things to level out.

So I drove it to my mom's house and back

just to try to get those tires

up to temperature a little bit.

And then it was...

You gotta do a lot of donuts and burnouts

that you gotta soften the tires.

It was the front tires.

Oh, then you gotta really slide that thing around.

So I gotta push it through the corner a little hard, huh?

Yeah, you definitely gotta weave back and forth,

heat up those tires.

I know this is kind of superficial

Platinum First World stuff,

but dad's car sit a lot when he's on tour

or now that he's living out of town.

And it's important to keep these things moving.

So I'm really excited but stressed out

about having that job now to kind of look after them

and exercise them.

I have a little root that I take

and top them off with fuel

and then let them cool down, put the cover back on.

They definitely do need to be driven.

I'm wielding that right now with that Mercedes.

Every time I turn around, it's like,

oh yeah, and this needs to be replaced too

because it's actually something out.

Yeah, I got it over at a guy's shop

and he's going through it front to back.

And it's like you said, lines, rubber lines

that have gotten old and vacuum lines.

Like you said, vacuum lines.

Vacuum lines are the worst.

And those cars, the breakies, the ABS

have all kinds of vacuum lines on them and it's like.

And then the actuators have little rubber diaphragms

and seals in them.

And when those go bad, then you got to yank that out

and rebuild that and that's just getting harder.

And the guy said to me, he goes,

he goes, now I can get the actual hoses from Germany

so they have the right code on them

or we can get the exact same thing without the code.

I go, get the exact same thing.

It's not a numbers matching car.

Not a 300 SL going.

Either way, I wouldn't be looking forward to the invoice.

You're going to get for that.

Well, I did get 400 when they put the engine back in

that they didn't recharge the AC

and dad wants to daily drive it still

when he comes back into town.

So. What one?

In the 400. On the 400 I.

Oh, on the 400.

A detail.

So I'm going to recharge the AC.

I actually have the stuff in my Jeep.

To take down on Saturday.

And we have to put our 12 in it.

You know, we could go with the, with the, with the

modern one with the propane,

but my buddy had a whole tank of R12

and that's what the system is built for.

And we don't want to mess around with an old Ferrari.

So we're going to put our 12 back in it.

You know, but yeah.

If you got it.

Everybody has that left.

Keep it original.

Yeah, he's got two propane size tanks full.

And he's had it all those years.

That stuff for a little tiny can is like 70 bucks.

So I know it's it's worth it's weight in gold now.

Man, it really is.

Little cans are.

God, I remember we used to go down and buy them and.

Yeah.

Takes I think four to fill the ever system.

We should take a break guys.

And then we can come back and get the show started.

Hey, we're going to take a break.

We'll be right back.

Hey, we're back and while while Matt was watching him fill holes

and Aaron was watching him fill the paint on that 400.

I while he was filling the paint on the 400.

I this just real briefly because it's not really automotive related.

But I don't know if you guys saw I had a big film crew at my office on.

Yeah, what was that about?

So Brad's got an only fans account.

Yes, I just started it.

And it's me.

It's a holy fans.

They go, holy.

No, it's Vision Street where we've talked about it that, you know,

it's now been licensed off and it's owned by a big brand company

that owns all kinds of, you know, they own Reebok and they own all kinds of stuff.

Like we talked about last week.

Yeah, companies.

And here in the States, they haven't done a lot with it.

However, in China of all places, it has exploded.

And they are really and one of the reasons is guy named Dan

who super nice guy that I've met.

And Dan was in charge of the skateboarding at the Olympics.

And he is the one who's in charge of Vision Street wears,

you know, license, their license in it in China.

And it's really cool because they have brought back so much of the imagery,

the apparel, they're doing a really nice job.

He brought me some swag and all he looks really great.

It's packaged really nice.

They've even taken a lot of our old actual hang tags that we used to do

because we used to do a lot of really cool hang tags that were a sticker on one side

and graphics on the other.

And they have the bang those

and they're redoing the shoes and the apparel and the and the skateboards.

They're not doing, but they have done really good to

grab a bunch of those off of eBay and like that.

And they're they're using them.

And so anyways, believe it or not,

Vision Street wear was started 50 years ago next year.

And if you remember that old, wow.

Well, just to set the record straight.

I was five was founded 10 years before I ever became part of it.

So it was excuse me, five years, five years before.

So I was 45 years ago, man.

And so 50th anniversary is coming up.

And so he brought a whole entire film crew over and they're shooting a documentary on Vision.

They're interviewing a lot of the skaters.

They're interviewing, you know, like my old my old person who did all of our

product placement, you know, the guy who was in charge of our shoe design

and getting everybody's stories.

And we they were here for practically the whole day.

And we talked about skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX.

We talked about cars.

We talked about how Brad and I were the car guys.

And and that, you know, just all the great stories.

And really cool.

Let's hope it helps, you know, elevate the company again.

Yeah, they're making a comeback, a documentary story.

It's interesting to talk to these guys from China, because one of the reasons

Vision Streetwear has taken off so big because they never had it back in the day

because things didn't get imported back then.

Things still really don't get imported to China that much.

But because they're making it there, the reason it's growing, they said,

is because it has this American heritage.

Yeah, in that, you know, you know, we here and we sell the politics and everything,

but the average person, the kids and the young adults, they still want to emulate

America, still want the culture.

Yeah, I think that's real common, especially, you know, countries like that too.

Japan's that way too.

Japan has such a heavy nostalgic hot rod scene.

Oh, yeah.

Water cycle scene and just a 50 scene in general, amongst other things.

But, you know, it's really, it's fun because if you go over there,

I'm told, it's been a long time since I've been there, but I'm told that they're

really into it, like it's awkwardly uncomfortable how into it they are.

Like they're really into it.

Telling about Japan or China?

Japan.

Oh, when I've gone to the Moon Eyes show over there, oh my God, you are

right there, it's weird, you know, and then when Rick and I have gone

to China numerous times, well, Rick is so tall, you know, we'd be on the subways

and literally people would be standing there with their mouths open, going,

do they have just looking up at him, you know, do they have signs on him and stuff?

Yeah. Well, you know what's funny is Rick used to always in the summertime,

he would bleach his hair blonde.

I mean, like Billy Idol blonde, almost white.

And here's this tall guy and he had a cut real spiky and stuff.

And we were in China and I turn around because I heard some commotion behind us.

People were standing with their backs to his back, taking photos with him.

It's like they didn't walk around and go,

can I get my photo with you or something like that?

They they would just stand behind him and they had their hands

like, like, look how tall he is, you know, and it was just hilarious.

That's funny. That's sweet.

That's that.

Hey, so getting a little bit of automotive news,

did you guys hear that the Chevy Equinox EV is being recalled?

Of all reasons, it's too damn quiet.

Too damn quiet.

And roll your window down.

Yeah. They said they're recalling.

It's quiet on the outside.

But that's not it.

They said they're recalling 23,700 Equinox EVs.

And they said it was because the pedestrian alert system was malfunctioning

and people couldn't tell if the car was slowing down or speeding up.

You know, you've heard these cars where they go,

yeah, well, the car was slowing down and it was going like it like it was coming

towards you and it was fucking people, screwing people.

No, the car was like, hey, hey, hey.

Come here.

Well, it was like she was like, it was like it was throwing them off.

They see the car.

I think it's slowing down, but it sounds like it's speeding up, you know?

And so anyways, that's funny.

It's but you've got to you got to say cars have kind of come full circle

when Chevy has to recall it for being too too quiet.

It's kind of like it was a ninja mode or something.

Yeah, it was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to sneak up on this guy.

No, it's PSST mode, mode.

Yeah, right?

But I mean, I remember getting in trouble for having my car too loud.

Not too loud, you know?

I mean, what's that like people can't hear anymore?

I mean, we had on about three shows back, we talked about some guy who had

his car in track mode and got right, got his car hauled away because it was.

Yeah, I mean, but these cars.

It's weird.

There's some of them that, you know, with the little bells and the little ding,

ding, ding, ding, ding, and, you know, it's like, what's the most obnoxious one?

You guys have heard?

I don't know, but but but dad's dad's Audi.

I was just going to say Audi beeps so much at you.

You get in that car, it's beeping for everything.

Oh, yeah, beep, beep.

And that's not outside the car.

But like for you, for going forward, going for reverse, getting too close to

this, getting too close to the front, too close to the sides.

It's like too much.

So it's so much.

It's so much beeping.

It's just so much.

Even Misha's newer Defender had all that stuff and it drove me nuts.

I hated the noises that car made.

It's like something was always interfering with your experience.

It really well, have you ever thought that maybe those

Audis are cursing in German and those are being.

It sounded pretty cool when it was when it was starting up and moving.

It had a very Tron-esque.

Yeah, Tron-esque.

Yeah, yeah, it sounded neat.

It sounded neat.

Well, I guess I guess you can get recalled for being too stealthy.

It's a thing now.

It's a thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, what is Elon's new New Tesla is going to sound like?

Misha brought those up this morning.

They're making some cheap Tesla.

Yeah, he says to me at breakfast,

oh, wow, Elon Musk is going to make a affordable Tesla.

And I went, what?

Why do you care?

Like, when do you start?

Like, why is that news, honey?

I didn't get into the details, but maybe you have it.

But I saw it like it's the only car I think that you can buy now with

manual mirrors and there's no power mirrors.

What? You have to roll the windows by hand, too?

It's got less features, less range, it's slower.

It's it's it's got more like stripped down interiors.

Like, it better be cheaper to use car.

It's like ridiculous.

It's like it's like you.

OK, no radio.

OK, that was sketchy on a Tesla anyway, you know.

But no rear seat screens, no ambient lighting.

There's even one that they say that you can get the rear seats deleted.

It's basically the bag.

It's basically just the tubs.

They're not upholstered in any way.

So I guess the thing would be, now, would you like seats with your car, sir?

I mean, is this like, yeah, is this the lightweight drag race version?

Exactly. It sounds like the old drag

with radio delete, heater, delete, manual windows, manual windows.

The front and the rear wheels are different.

I think what happened was he started that burger restaurant and he started

looking at, you know, happy or not happy meals, but, you know, discount meals.

You know, like, oh, well, that one didn't come with fries,

but we can give it to you for a buck 99.

That one comes with fry scraps.

They're all about half the size.

They're all broken.

You know, it's it's a it's a quick move, probably to offset us losing

the $7,500 tax credit going, yes.

You know, Tesla going, oh, I don't want to cover that $7,500 tax credit.

And I don't want to, you know, like some of the other other car companies

are he goes, but if I stripped this car down, knock five grand off the price

and then when people are shopping, they're they're going to see that, like,

it's got a lower base price than competitors, you know,

but, you know, before incentives and yeah, it comes with free 3D print files.

You can 3D print the things that you're missing.

Yeah, but but I mean, those cars,

when you're in them, feel stripped down as it is, you know, it's just so basic.

Yeah, yeah, well, they're very minimalist.

Yes, I have a list.

I've only driven a dad's wife, Kari has one.

I've only driven it once, but I've driven in it twice.

And rather than that, I have had zero, zero interest.

I moved it once because it was turned around.

And so I moved it in the driveway recently and you get in that thing.

And I'm just like, I don't get it.

Like I recently I got to admit I've recently considered buying one

because with gasoline threatening to go to $10, $12 a gallon next year because

they got rid of all the refineries and now we had another one burned down.

Yeah, the one right down the street from us down in El Segundo.

They said that they said that accounts for 20% of the fuel in the state.

This month, Valero is closing their plant down because of the state.

That's the other 20%.

And then Chevron, I think, is closing theirs down next year, which is I mean,

how can you lose one in El Segundo that caught fire?

They were able to put it out and nobody was hurt.

I don't know that's going to affect production too much.

But that's the big, but still 40% of our gas

because they made it so limiting that the state government made it so hard

for them that they just said, this is not worth it.

We can't make any money here.

Because they wouldn't let California be in California again.

Just what the fuck California dumbasses.

Yeah, they're staying with this because

and then the state realized that they were, excuse me,

not to go down this political rant, but like we've been saying for a long time,

California hates cars like they do a politician hates cars.

They want to get you out of your car.

They want you to ride some crappy bus or something.

They just hate cars.

And now all through LA, all the parking meters that cost a dollar minimum,

it's going up to $1.50.

Right. Now, if you think about the revenue on just parking meters,

not the parking tickets that you get at every meter all the time,

but just the parking meters is going up to $1.50.

Like and Gavin Newsom wants to charge you now for the mileage you drive.

You want to do a mileage?

I heard something about that.

He's like they're just doing everything they can to get people out of their cars.

And now they're bombing holes in the streets so you can only use sidewalks.

Now they're they're saying a freak accident.

Down the street.

And this is exactly why

the Kia Soul is being retired because the hamsters said that if they can't

drive the way they want, man, they're going to ride off into the sunset.

Yeah.

Do you remember those ads?

I mean, they were.

I think that's the GIA ad, isn't it?

Yeah, that's the GIA.

Yeah.

Look, a cookie, a pet, those hamster ads.

When they came out, I was like, what the hell?

They got hamsters driving their cars for it and all of a sudden it blew up.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, that's right.

They were all like, you know, hip hopped out and, you know,

they were like the cool hamsters.

But the Kia Soul, they sold

1.5 million of those cars in the US, but they're going to retire it.

it's our hamsters not cool anymore.

Is that why hamsters are not cool?

They're not. It's all capoeira now.

Oh, those are guinea pigs.

Sorry.

It's all about guinea pigs now.

It's all about guinea pigs.

Meerkats.

Oh, meerkats are special.

Meerkats are special.

I got to say, I like meerkats.

My my dog always sits up like a meerkat.

Yeah, we're tentatively going to Africa next year.

And I'm really excited because I want to see some meerkats.

I mean, the rest of wildlife.

Yeah, awesome. OK.

You don't want to get in a canoe and get chased by an elephant.

I want to see some meerkats now.

I want to see some meerkats.

You can go see them at the LA Zoo.

I never appreciate those when I was a kid.

The African exhibit at the LA Zoo, it's right there, man.

You know, they have meerkats at the LA Zoo and they are fantastic.

Yeah, but, you know, they're behind glass.

These will be out in the wild.

You know, I might have a pocket of peanuts.

I don't know.

Please don't feed the wildlife.

I didn't feed them.

They just happen to get into my pocket

because they're smart.

They're mean. I don't know what's going on over there.

Something weird is happening in your pants.

There's a meerkat in your pants.

Meerkat in his pants.

Is that the meerkat in your pants?

No, the Kia Soul is dead.

They're not meerkats.

They're hamsters. They have left the building.

They're done.

Let's wind this one up with you guys had to have heard about.

I don't even know what what this police officer was thinking when he pulled

over the Waymo driverless car, has he never seen a Waymo driverless car?

Apparently, no.

He had moved in from Jersey and relocated.

And Bruno, California, and

they were doing like a big DUI enforcement, right?

So the traffic was backed up.

We've all come up to a checkpoint and,

you know, you've just robbed a bank.

You got to turn the other way.

And no, I guess the Waymo saw traffic.

So it made an illegal U-turn.

So the cop chased it down.

Yeah, he's a guy.

You make a U-turn before a DUI stop.

Yeah, they chase you down.

Yeah, that's called avoidance.

And so they pulled it over.

It pulled over, but it had made it and it said the cop walked up alongside and

discovered we discovered things.

Got the thing on the top.

It's got stickers all over it, say Waymo.

And he discovered it was driverless.

No, and then a voice came over said,

officer, I had only one drink at lunch today.

I just filled up.

Well, I'm very sorry.

Yeah, but it's like a watch count.

It's it's kind of like, you know, you say there's no driver.

There's no hands.

Do you have no clue?

I it's come on, dude.

But you put an APB out for the guy.

Someone ran out of this car.

But what's really interesting about the whole thing is that apparently

they can't cite Waymo.

They can't cite.

There's no driver to cite.

And there's no way to cite this.

So they just let it go without.

Well, so they somebody somebody gets on the speaker and they're like,

how can I help you?

And you're like, we're pulling you over for a legal U-turn.

They're like, I'm sorry.

Yeah, that's it.

That's a good issue.

A moving violation ticket.

I broke my foot.

What if I had a passenger when he tried to take it?

The passenger. Exactly.

Backseat. I saw you.

You moved into the backseat.

Says they couldn't issue a moving violation ticket because current law requires a driver

to be cited, our citation books don't even have a box for a robot.

Yeah, it's so I guess you wear a silver helmet.

And if you get pulled over you, you just go, I am a driverless car.

And they won't be able to, you know, everybody's going to get those

tattoos on the side of their head of the little yellow and black things.

Like that means you legally change your name to Mr. Robot.

Yeah.

I had you jumping in the backseat and be like, I wasn't me driving.

It was it was driverless.

Four hundred driverless.

Right.

So kind of.

Everybody's going to get Waymo stickers put on their car.

You're thinking.

All right, guys.

Hey, we're going to 3D print something that looks like the Waymo radar bar on the

top and we'll sell them with the stickers.

Exactly. Get away with everything, you know.

I'm up with that.

They'll be able to drive their car with like a joystick from the backseat.

And they'll just, you know, yeah, yeah.

Or you can Mr. Bean it from the roof.

All right, guys.

Anything else today?

No, I got to go paint.

Anything else tomorrow?

I don't think so.

I got to go paint tomorrow, too.

All right, Matt.

All right. Good luck with your whole.

Thank you.

And Brad, yeah.

Go into some good luck with.

Oh, good luck with Bon Speed Streetwear dot com.

There you go.

Hey, I had a customer the other day call me and or not call me, but message

me and say they they were surprised.

They ordered on a Saturday, got their order on a Monday.

And they're they love the quality.

They love the silk screen, everything.

And I was like, God, that's so much better here than, hey, this wasn't what I wanted.

You know, and it was good.

But anyways, enough about that.

We will be back next week.

That's a promise, not a threat.

See you.

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Brad shares his adventures in Morocco while discussing a massive sinkhole in Venice, California, and the humorous implications of urban decay. The crew reminisces about celebrity encounters, including a fun chat with Wesley Snipes, and dives into the challenges of maintaining classic cars like a Ferrari 400i. They also touch on the quirks of electric vehicles, including a recall for being too quiet, and the absurdities of modern automotive life, such as a driverless car getting pulled over. The episode is filled with laughter, nostalgia, and insightful car care tips.

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