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Hey everybody, this is Shift and Stere. Welcome to the party pals.

And hey man, we're ready to get going, get to it, because we've got a lot to talk about.

Barrett Jackson, the fall edition, was last weekend. I went over there.

And I got some stories about that. Some of the sales and some of what they had going on over there.

Really interesting. I think we've got some other fun stories to talk about.

Like why you might find knobs back in your car and why you might not find F1 unless you have an Apple device.

And some other stuff. So let's get rolling right here and I'm going to start off with a story.

As I said, I went over to Arizona for Barrett Jackson.

I had some personal reasons go over there too for my house that I'm trying to sell.

But I always, Matt, I've told you many times I rent a car.

Because why drive across desert in my car? Why throw the dogs in my car? Why put the miles in my car?

And some of these new trucks get amazing mileage.

I had an F150 that I rented and it's a hybrid.

I've rented one of these once before. Big, huge four-door, crew cab. It has tons of room.

Tons of room. I drive one daily, right?

Yeah, and my lightning.

I get in it and I look down at the, you know, the Tripodometer and it says my range.

And it says 822 mile range. I'm like 800.

It seems a lot.

That's way too much. But it was correct.

I drove all the way to Arizona without stopping for gas.

I got to my house out in Mesa.

I drove the next day to Barrett Jackson. I came home from Barrett Jackson,

which is all the way, you know, quite a ways, you know, to Scottsdale.

Then I went the next day to Barrett Jackson, came back from Barrett Jackson.

I ran to Home Depot. I did not fill that truck up until I left town on Tuesday morning.

Yeah.

Or excuse me, Monday night.

And when I filled it up, I made a point of looking at the odometer and it said I had 122 mile range.

I was like, man, I am impressed with this thing.

And it was smooth and nice and comfortable and did everything right.

Now, I will say I liked, I wish I would have looked at what model I had the first time I rented one

because I liked the interior a little bit better and the exterior.

This one that I have now has a little bit, well, too much chrome, too much, you know,

it's got running boards and stuff like that.

It's not really my style, but man, I got to say a lot for those things.

Well, they've got plenty of trim models that you can kind of find what you want now.

But, you know, it's a huge seller.

The EcoBoost Hybrid is a heck of a truck and you write the gas.

And when I filled it up, it was only $89 to fill it up.

When I did fill it up.

Oh, wait.

Arizona.

Yeah.

Like $3 a gallon.

That's why.

That was the other thing.

Come across the border and how does a gas station even make it in Blythe, California,

when the people that live there can drive on the other side of the river

and like save two bucks a gallon?

I'm sure everyone who lives there never fills up in Blythe.

You have to.

Yeah.

They've got to drive over to the true structure.

Yeah.

Truck stops on the other side.

Okay.

Now, should we talk about what's that?

They're counting on people forgetting or going, oh, I'm running out of gas.

I should stop at Blythe.

Because you always think stop at Blythe, stop at Blythe, right?

Right.

But now you should go a little further.

Yeah.

It's the people that aren't from California or Arizona that are coming from like, you

know, Texas or something.

Oh, there's more restaurants.

We'll stop over there.

And they don't realize that they just blew like $2 a gallon just by not stopping there.

Now, let's talk about the bad part of my rental car.

So, we're driving over there and it's Thursday night.

And we're about an hour outside of Phoenix.

Yeah.

And we stop at a truck stop.

I've got the dogs.

I know this truck stop that's got a dog park, so we stopped there.

And, you know, everybody does their business.

We get back in the truck and now it's dark and we get on the freeway.

And I literally get in the first lane of traffic and Charlotte goes, what is that?

What is that?

And I'm looking, I'm thinking there's a coyote running across the road.

I'm thinking there's a tire in the road, you know, something like that.

And I go, what?

I don't see what you mean.

And she goes, right there.

And I look.

I go, I don't see anything in the road.

And she goes, no, on the windshield.

And I look and I go, oh, man.

And she goes, is that on the inside or the outside?

I go, that's got to be on the outside.

And then I look, it moves.

And I go, that's on the inside.

And she goes, and I go, calm down.

I go, calm down because if you move too much, it might jump or it might run and then we'll

never find it.

Dude, this was the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life short of a tarantula.

I even had to look it up.

And I wanted to take a picture of it or even shine like my light on my phone on it.

But I was so afraid that if I did that, it would run or jump or whatever.

But I thought about it.

It had to be, you know, to the outside of the legs about four inches around.

But the body itself was huge.

And I've looked it up.

And the closest I can find, based on the color it was and what it was, a North American wolf spider.

But it came up out of the vent, out of the shark we got on the freeway.

And she saw it run just scurry on the inside of the windshield up out of the defroster vent.

And stopped right in her line of sight.

And I know more than got off the road, turned on my hazards and she was out the door.

I'm like, hey, hey, we're on a freeway.

It's busy.

Be careful.

She jumped in the back, sat in the back with the dogs.

And I had to scoot across the seat and all I had in the car, we had just at the truck stop thrown all the bags away, all the cups away.

And all I had was like two napkins.

So I'm like, I'm like, reach it up there.

Try that because all I could think is if I, you know how when you get to a spider or something, you're trying to get it.

And they go, boom, they scurry away really quick.

I was like, if this thing gets away in this truck, Charlotte's never going to, you know, get back in it.

You know, walk that last 100 miles.

And I got to be honest, this thing was so big and so nasty looking.

I was even, I wasn't freaking out because I didn't want to freak her out, but I was thinking, why don't the thing running up my leg or doing, you know.

So I got right up to it, smushed it on the windshield and but and it popped big time.

It was so big.

It went, it went like, you know, and it was crazy.

And then she was, you know, I go, okay, I got it and I'm cleaning the windshield off.

And she goes, what?

Oh my God, you know, and she's freaking out.

And then we're driving down the road and she goes all of a sudden she goes, what if there's more in there?

And I, and I, and I go, I go, I don't worry about it.

She goes, I've got open towed shoes.

What if they're underneath?

And so she's like sitting with her legs up on the sea.

And you know, and then the next day she made me turn all events on after she was out of the car and it was sitting out in front of the house and and just turn everything on.

And she goes, what happened?

And I go, oh my God, you wouldn't believe how many blew out.

I said, they were even bigger.

She's getting back.

I go, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

You know, but it was kind of freaky.

I mean, it was.

I wonder if it was in there or like when you guys stopped, did you like leave a door open for the doors or something?

No, no, no, the windows were shut.

It had to be in there when we got the truck.

And I said, I looked at the odometer, the truck only had 4000 miles on it.

I said, hell, that could have been in there from the factory.

You know, I mean, it could have been living down in that vent since the, since the factory.

Because think about it, you don't use the defroster vent in the, in the summertime and 5000 miles on a rental car gets put on pretty quick.

And, you know, so it, that thing could have been living down in there and all of a sudden decided to come out and see what's going on, you know.

And, oh yeah, well, okay.

Well, that's a disgusting story.

Yeah, a little excitement, you know.

I mean, I've seen big wolf spiders and stuff like that, but this thing was gigantic.

It was four inches across and, and no exaggeration on the four inch.

I mean, it was, it was really big.

But if it would have been a different scenario, we could have put a leash on it and, you know, taking it with the dogs.

Yeah, walked it with the dogs.

Yeah.

I looked it up to see.

And yeah, it doesn't, doesn't look, doesn't look very nice.

No, it's not friendly.

It's not a friendly spider.

It's not, you know, you could tell, you could tell Charlotte that if she looks it up on Wikipedia, it says they mostly live in solitude and, and hunt alone.

So as far as more of them in that truck, probably not.

There you go.

So he probably thought he had a, he or she thought it had a great place to live and, but then, but like I said, what did it eat?

There's nothing in the truck, you know, I mean, and then, and then I mentioned to Charlotte, well, I don't know.

They did say the last renters, they found the truck abandoned and never did find the people who rented it.

So maybe it ate the last person who rented the truck.

But anyways, Barrett Jackson.

Yeah.

Barrett Jackson.

So it was their fall auction and the, I've been going to this since the inaugural one, which was coming out of the pandemic.

They wanted to do a trial run in the fall to make sure everything was going to work because we were still masking up and everything like that.

And that one was really strange because you had to wear a mask.

It was invite only.

It was very much, there was hardly anybody there.

Let's put it that way.

Most of the bids were coming in through the phones and online and things like that.

But it's grown and excuse me, this year, when you get there, if you haven't ever been to the fall auction, the first thing you notice is,

there's not as many people walking around, which is actually kind of nice.

You can get anywhere really fast.

You can walk around.

On Friday, it was very, very low gate.

Mainly everyone there was bidders and consignors.

By Saturday, it was getting pretty full.

All the seating on the floor was full.

The Barrett Jackson, that muscle lounge, they call it, the muscle lounge that people pay to go up in was completely packed.

But you could still walk around and there was still a lot of room.

Most of their vendors were in that entrance area behind the Skybox and a few right beyond the feature car area.

Outside, not a whole lot, but they did do some really cool things such as, and I'm hoping they continue it into the January auction.

They have now, right next to where, you know where Craig always parks his coach there, Matt?

Yeah.

Outside, they did a huge outdoor lounge called the Collector's Lounge.

And it had big screen, like the big, huge screens.

And on one side of it, it entirely lined the staging lanes on the other side where they've never had anything before.

And then behind that was a, it was like a bar.

And I'm not talking about like one of these bars that were used to it, Barrett Jackson.

It was a wood bar with TV screens behind it showing the auction.

And then outside, they had a full, probably 20 foot by 25 foot screen and a big lounge area where you could kick back and watch it.

And it was really nice.

Because, you know, once in a while, you want to get outside.

The weather's so nice there.

And we did it a few times where we walked out, grabbed a couch, watched some of the auction, had a cocktail, and they also served food there.

And one of the greatest things about it is that our free drink bidder passes the card's work out there.

Oh yeah, that's good.

Yeah, because a lot of times you go to some of those outdoor bars, most of them, they're not bidder bars.

So you don't, you got to buy the drinks, which, I mean, who wants to buy a drink?

Come on, man, we're getting free ones.

That's all it's all about.

And that was nice.

Everything else was really cool.

But the prices were, they were doing well.

They did a total of 40 million plus in sales, and that is cars and memorabilia.

The memorabilia sale did about a million for the rest was all vehicles.

Yeah.

And one of the most notable ones was their top seller of the weekend, which was a 2006 Ford GT Heritage Edition paint job,

which went for $742,500.

We were standing there, and when it came up and the bidding started going crazy,

you know, we were all standing there kind of scratching our heads a little bit,

because, you know, we know the Heritage Edition GTs go for a lot, but that was a lot for that car.

Yeah.

Then they stopped and they told more about it.

It was from the Ford collection.

It had been in the Ford Museum.

Yeah.

It was serial number three.

It had, it had some heritage there, plus it was the Heritage paint job.

So that thing was really stout.

The other, they had another 2006 Ford GT that went for like $615,000.

They're getting good money.

Yeah, that's so high.

That's very high.

Yeah, they got good money for those cars.

I get the Heritage one.

That's a cool car.

It's got the Gulf livery on it.

That's the Heritage one that they did in that year coming from the Ford collection,

but that was a media car as well.

So I mean, it's not like it was put away and it's got five miles on it.

It's got like 84 or 8,500 miles on it.

And media miles.

We know what that means.

Yeah.

But you know, presumably Ford took good care of it, put it in the right place,

and it's a cool car to have.

Yeah.

And you know, it's cool.

Now, right behind that was a 2021 Ford GT.

Yeah.

Did you see this on all, they had it on all their literature.

They had it on their badges.

This was painted incredibly.

It had the big wing on it and it was a competition car.

So, yeah, we were all kind of standing up there in the skybox all laying our, you know,

ideas down for what it would go for because we've seen these cars go for 900 to a million.

And, but those were the street versions.

And this one is competition only.

And we were pretty much spot on the money.

We said 600,000 went for 605.

So, it shows that if you can't drive it on the street, you're going to lose about 400,000 bucks on your car.

Which is interesting because the competition cars would, if I recall this correctly, would usually get more.

Like, if you were buying a Gordon Murray T50 versus a T50, you know,

a Nicky Lauda edition, it would be a lot more.

That's a new car, so a different example.

But even like McLaren F1, there's the street cars.

But if you get one of them LM cars, I'm pretty sure those are for even more money.

They have to have some heritage though.

They have to have some kind of, you know, won this or competed in this.

I don't think this car really ever competed anywhere.

I think it was just a really cool show car, you know?

It's supposed to be just a track car like one of those special edition Ferraris, the XX ones, right?

Like the FXX.

You're like, hey, it's a track car.

We bring it out for you if you want.

Ferrari did.

They'll bring it out for you and whatever.

But this car that you're talking about, yeah, it's never been raised.

It's got basically no miles.

That's 46 miles on it, but they built 45 of these cars.

So I don't know.

I think down the road.

Oh, down the road, I think it'll go.

I think it's going to go up.

And I think if you're the owner of this car.

I'm not.

Which I understood.

You're not.

On one hand, you can be like, I'm going to preserve it 46 miles.

Or you do put a few miles on it.

You bring it out.

You promote the car.

Maybe you try to bring it out to some events from Monterey Car Week.

If you can get it out and accept it to the Goodwood Hill Climb.

That'd be a cool car to see up there.

Some events like that I think would be kind of interesting to bring that car.

I think somebody can have some real fun with that car.

Yeah.

It's, it was beautiful.

It looked fantastic.

Yeah, it's cool.

It's very cool.

Another car that we've talked about this on the show before.

There was a 68 Ford Mustang officially licensed 25th anniversary Eleanor limited edition.

Yeah.

And it hammered at 429,000.

And now this was one from the shop here in LA, the guy that builds the, the authentic,

you know, licensed Eleanors.

But I just,

Is this from Fusion?

Is it, is, is a company called Fusion?

I don't know the name of the company.

I know the guy.

We call him Eleanor Dave.

He's always up in the skybox.

But he builds all those and those cars, I just, I mean,

It says iconic concepts with a K iconic concepts is.

Yeah, I think that's a license by iconic concepts, but I don't know if they have the only license.

I want to say Fusion was a company out here that still does them.

They must have some sort of license because they talk about it and they make a good car.

And it was, it was tough to like get them made well and to perform well.

And I bring up Fusion because they sell a lot of those still.

And I'm pretty sure Ray at full throttle customs does all the tuning on every one of those cars.

Because they're, they're, they're, they're pretty close to where he is.

And I think every one of those cars goes to him and gets, gets the tuning done on it.

So they all are dialed in.

It's, it's just there, to me and I know it's, you know, it's just my opinion, but it just,

it just seems to me like they're belly buttons, you know, it's just, they're so, you know.

Well, the thing is, is there's been so much controversy about the license and then,

you know, and Shelby getting involved, I think a little bit.

And then the company out of Texas that started those things went out of business.

And, and then, you know, who's, who's allowed to do them, who's not allowed to do them.

And then the original family saying, you know, we have the rights to it.

And now that the dust has settled, the courts have decided no, it's, it's, it's a piece of film,

you know, history and it's not any particular trade.

So anybody can make them.

So having one officially licensed, I don't think moves the needle for me.

I think they're, they're cool cars, but, but there's so many other.

Inclusion is the only authorized in the world.

So.

Yeah.

So to say it was officially licensed could mean that it was built years ago when another

company had the license.

Yeah.

Right.

You know, so like you get, what's the unique performance or unique something out of Texas

that was building them?

Unique performance.

Yeah.

Right.

And Chip Foose was involved.

They were doing some Camaros and stuff.

Well, they had a license, but then they didn't have a license.

So if you bought one of the older ones, was it officially licensed and it still is, you

know, but now, now they can't make new ones.

That's all it is.

And the license was very expensive.

Anyway, my point is, is anyone could build one and it's fine.

I don't think there's a lot of clout and having officially licensed or not, especially

when that licensing fee was so expensive.

Yeah.

But there are other companies out there.

I want to say velocity out of Florida is building really nice must things.

Coyote engines.

They have a turnkey operation.

So they've been able to work out all the bugs and kinks and, you know, eliminating NVH

and good drivability and a comfortable ride.

And, you know, you can order one up from those guys and there's other companies as well.

And you can say I want a Shelby, I want a 69 or a 65, you know, there's plenty of companies

making those.

But what I'm getting at is the fact that it, there were some there this weekend that were

very, very nice cars.

They looked like Elinors, but there one was flat black.

One was gloss black.

They just don't bring the dollars like the charcoal gray ones.

It's kind of like the monies in the ones that look and it's like, yeah, people that pay

so much money just to have something that a lot of other people have, you know, that's

supposed to be the thing about hot rods, but I guess that's everybody has their own deal.

And if they've always wanted to own one of those and they just think it's the coolest

thing in the world, then they should own one.

I mean, this car is done nicely.

It's a well built car.

I mean, I like the diamond stitch on the interior and you're right.

It's got the good engines, got a coyote with ITBs on it, which is cool.

They did a great job on this car for sure.

The one thing I just never really liked on the Elinor cars was the hood and I don't know,

these guys seem to have done like a much smaller version of the hood, that big bump on the hood,

which is not really functional.

It's like it's a little bit of clearance, but they did kind of like a smaller version.

It looks like maybe that's the way it was, but I've seen some that were bigger for clearance.

I just never liked the weird bump on the hood because it's not functional.

It doesn't really do anything.

Most of the engines that go in these cars don't need that added clearance, so I never

really understood it, but this is a gorgeous car.

They did a nice job on this.

If you remember originally, it had velocity stacks and it probably needed that because

it had air cleaners on top of the velocities, so it was probably something needed.

Maybe they did reduce it down, Matt, because you're right, it does look smaller.

Doesn't it look a little bit lower?

Yeah, it does.

I think they just made it a little more subtle.

For me, that would be one of the more standout features, making it a little bit more subtle.

It was just enough room to clear some air filters.

I'm looking at their website right now.

Their Coyote has fuel injection velocity stacks, but they've just got little balls instead

of those big, huge oval air cleaners on it, so maybe they're able to reduce it down.

But yeah, no, they're doing a nice build.

Valve covers have 427 Illinois.

They're really detailing them out nicely.

You got to really want one for half a million bucks.

I got to ask you what was going on with Broncos.

There was two Broncos that got so much money, and it's hard to understand why.

Matt, one of them lot 1086, it was definitely because it was painted one of the best colors.

It was you.

It said you all over it.

Yeah, sure.

Lot 1086 was, that was the big dollar one, right?

Yeah, $440,000.

Okay, so interesting though, because Lot 1082 was a high dollar Bronco,

and presumably that sold just before.

So whoever, this was the lead-in to the bigger dollar one.

This was the white hard top.

It's got a coyote engine in it.

It looks nice.

It's got this great natural kind of leather finish to it on the interior, diamond stitch.

All the right pieces looks good.

Much better color combination than the next one.

But I don't know, $379,000 for this thing is, I mean, even a nice one,

it just seems like these are $250,000, and this one got a lot of money.

I think what it was was there weren't as many consigned as like in January.

So if people came there wanting to buy one, they were like, they just kept raising their hand.

Hey, yep.

Yeah, I want that one.

I want to take something home, you know?

And so that was Lot 1082.

It gets $379,000.

Some people in the room felt like they missed an opportunity.

So here comes Lot 1086 after it.

And it's this, I don't know, this purple, this kind of light cloud purple with like.

It was lavender.

It was.

Which is like, yeah, like a very light, like a lavender and white interior, white roll bar.

Like the interior, maybe it presents well in person, but you can't do anything with it.

You can't, you can't wear jeans.

You can't, you can't get in it.

You can't sit your dog in it.

It did not present any better in person to me.

And it didn't have, like it doesn't have the hard top.

It's got a soft top on it.

And I'm pretty sure the hard tops were more expensive and you know, it's got like a bit

of a stereo in it, but they just put like a sub box in the hatch in the back, like in

the tailgate in the back.

It wasn't like integrated in.

I don't know.

Like I'm sure it was well built and it was nice, but if this didn't have the lead in from

the other car, I don't, I don't know because this company vintage modern makes these things.

So you could go to vintage modern.

You can order one of these for $280,000, but I guess there's a little bit of a weight.

So somebody paid $440,000.

Like this is nuts.

It is nuts.

And it's funny you'd say that because we were sitting there.

I'm watching it on the big screen and when it pulled up, I went, look at this thing.

The colors, I said, I saw it outside and the color is to me is horrible.

The interior, like you said, is a dust magnet, but the next thing I said was, and look at

those speakers in the back seat.

They looked like they're still there from 1970.

Right?

Because they were in the door panels, they were round and they were black.

And it's like, usually you do a custom interior, you would at least make those go away by putting

them behind and perforating the door panel or something.

No, these were like, yeah, man, I got my Pioneer 6x9s.

Boom.

Just put them right there.

Yeah.

Or you build something real custom around it, like you do a really nice integrated system.

And this wasn't that.

But what do you expect for $440,000, Matt?

Come on.

And by the way, some dude bought this for $280,000 and flipped it for $440,000.

And they were just like, that was the best thing I ever did in my life.

We talked about that.

Yeah.

It's like whoever bought it, ordered it.

Maybe they drove it a couple of times and then, oh, let's take it to Barry Jackson.

And they probably thought, well, lose a little bit of money.

Woo-hoo.

Yeah.

Now, let's talk about some cars that we saw that were actually bargains.

I was pretty interested in this one because it was a blazer, like a 1984 blazer.

Yeah.

Hold on a sec.

Sorry.

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Yeah.

Sorry to cut you off.

We've got to get the housekeeping done.

No, we do.

Yeah.

You were talking about the blazer.

I believe it was an 84.

But it was built by a, I talked to the guy.

He was a hot rod shop and truck builder and stuff out of Colorado.

And he told me he had about 60,000 into the build.

And I have to say the paint on it was phenomenal.

I mean, it was really, really well done, really well cleared all the jams.

You open the hood and you look around the fenders, everything.

And he had build photos of it where he'd torn it down to metal.

Now.

OK.

What color was it?

It was gold and navy blue.

OK.

Now the, some of the things I noticed was just had an interior kit.

It was totally stock.

It was not, it had a four inch lift on it, but stock wheels and wheels and 33 inch tall tires, which I like.

Everything about that I like.

What I didn't like was they did all this stuff, making the body perfect, making all the rubber molding and everything like that nice.

But they put a new radiator in it, new stuff, but they put the stock motor back in.

And that was a, back then that was a smog motor 3072 barrel.

And I know the guy didn't even rebuild it because when I was talking to him, he goes,

and the motor's in really good shape.

It's got a tiny little tick in it.

Use a little oil.

And I'm thinking, you know, now, why he didn't put an LS motor in it?

I don't know because he had the motor out.

Gosh, he could put an LS motor in it and it would have grabbed way more money.

But underneath it was so perfect.

It was so, you know, it was a not frame off, but they redid everything, put a Bilstein lift kit on it and everything.

It was super nice.

It stalled out at 40 grand.

And we all agreed that if he would have put an LS motor in it, he probably would have got 70 because people liked it.

A lot of enthusiasm for it, but that motor just killed it.

And we talked about, man, you could buy that thing here, go home, put an LS motor in it, bring it back in January and kill with it.

You know, probably get a lot of money.

Do you think it was a cost savings thing or do you think he was just like, I want to keep it original matching numbers.

I think it was a cost savings thing.

I think he got so much money into the body at work and the rubbers and, you know, doing all that that it probably was getting a little too much.

And so unfortunately for him, it sounds like he lost a little bit of money, but somebody got a really nice truck that they put an LS motor in and be into it.

You couldn't build it for that much, you know.

Yeah.

And I thought about it for a second because, you know, I've got that one that I picked up and I was thinking, man, I'm going to be putting money into that thing.

Maybe I just buy this one and put a motor in it, you know, but I didn't.

Okay.

Another one that I saw that I quite honestly, I gave it a couple of beats and thought about raising my hand on it was there was a yellow 70 CUDA.

Okay.

Pro Street car that was done so fantastically.

It had a 582 competition hemi in it.

The interior was phenomenal.

You know, really nice leather interior.

This was a super high end.

It wasn't Pro Street.

It wasn't Pro Touring.

I see it.

I brought it up on the website.

Really, really well done.

Really well done.

I looked that car up top to bottom and thought, man, this thing's going to go for a ton of money.

It got up on the block and stalled out at 40,000 bucks.

Actually, it was 38 and just sat there and they were working it and working it.

I was like, okay, for 38, I'll buy this thing.

I was just getting ready to raise my hand and yeah, I thought about it and it just kept stalling and stalling.

I went, oh my God, this car is way too nice.

Then it went to 40 and I was still thinking about it and then all of a sudden everybody woke up and it ended up.

Does it say what the sales price is there?

Yeah, it does.

Around 70?

Yeah, 82.5.

Maybe that's with the Vig.

Yeah, that's probably with the Vig because all of a sudden everybody woke up because they started talking about the attributes and everything.

All of a sudden it went, you know.

Because the Blazer you're talking about, I think it said it sold for 49.

Yeah, that would include it.

With the Vig, with fees.

That Cuda was really nice.

Really nice car.

Yeah, I was just looking at it. It's cool.

I mean, you got to think about what you're going to do with it because it is pro street.

It's got like, whatever, like, quirky seats and it's not going to be the most comfortable ride out there.

But if you wanted to build a really high end car, you could go back in and I've helped a lot of customers change their pro street cars to pro touring where we put wider wheels up front.

Yeah, we put a, you know, a 15 in the back, but it's a 20 by 15.

And then you could change the seats out and stuff and be into it and have a really cool car for a lot less than building one, you know.

Well, that's the thing about it is like this car is so cool, you know, and it's just, it's just like a metal dash.

It looks like a race car, but, you know, but the gauges are in there and you're right.

And then maybe maybe, like you said, you swap out the seats and you make it a little bit more comfortable.

It's still going to be loud with no sound deadening and right and all that.

But, you know, but still kind of a cool piece.

It doesn't look like like it's got the cage and stuff in it, but it doesn't look like it's a it's a big mess where you couldn't get into the vehicle.

No, it was, it was more of a street car made to look like a race car.

You know, like you didn't have to climb over a sidebar.

Right.

You know, you know, like you can get into the, you can get, you know, good job with the roll cage going down the A pillars and through the dash and down low.

So that's the thing that that makes it kind of interesting is in there's a bar that goes along the rocker panel, but it doesn't have a giant

crossbar where you have to, you know, climb all over this thing to get into it.

So in that respect, you're right.

That thing's a cool piece.

The interior actually looks good.

It was well done.

And the paint was excellent on the car.

You know, you swap out some some seats in it and I mean, you could live with those racing seats or just this is not going to be very, very comfortable.

But, you know, you can put some decent seats in it and and probably drive it.

Yeah, it's cool piece.

Probably drive it.

Probably, probably drive it.

And, you know, I don't know how loud it is.

I don't know what it, you know, right.

It actually wasn't all that loud when it pulled up on stage.

It was, you know, it wasn't like a crazy, you know, you know, I didn't look, but it might have cutouts.

And that way you can, I think it had maybe it had cutouts on it.

I don't I can't see the full exhaust, but, you know, that's that's one way to, you know, make it a little quieter than make it a little louder when you wanted to.

But it has it has like a bullet style muffler.

It's like a race muffler on it.

But yeah, looks cool piece.

For sure.

That thing's cool.

The, you know, that's how Barry Jackson gets you, by the way, is you go there even in your head going, you know, I'm on this thing with blazers or, you know, I'm thinking about doing a truck or, you know, getting some ideas for the one that you have.

And then all of a sudden you weren't even thinking about it.

This this this pro street car comes up there and you're like, oh man, a couple of cocktails and a live auction.

That's how it works.

That's why the cocktails are free.

That's why the cocktails are free for sure.

The rest of it, you know, they had they had some exotics there.

They had had a real good selection of cars like they always do cars and trucks that a motorcycle that they sold for a tunnel to towers charity.

They brought in 495,000.

So, you know, I did a lot.

So let me ask you, I'm the fall auction has been happening for like a couple of years now like post COVID like like it's on the schedule.

This is a thing a couple of years now and they want to try to grow it to be a larger event.

But they didn't.

I think they did a good job and kind of understanding what it is not trying to make it like a five day thing, you know, or, you know, or seven days or 10 days or whatever the big Scottsdale auction is going.

What separates Barrett Jackson from the other auctions is it is an event, you know, when I say that, you know, like you said, vendor booths.

And there's there's fun stuff to do and you can walk around and see all the cars more.

It's not invitation only or just bitter only.

And I think I still believe Barrett Jackson needs to lean into that and to stand out from other auction events.

It's different than like when we go to Monterey, we're at Gooding or RM Sotheby's or or something that's just it's a high end auction, but it is it is an auction.

You can get a ticket to the preview.

You can watch.

You could see some of the cars, but it's like going to a cars and coffee event and then, you know, and then there's an auction, which you don't buy a ticket to.

You buy a bidder pass to.

So it's fun to see Barrett Jackson be able to be in the audience and see all that happen in real time.

I think it has the potential to grow.

I think the fall auction can can continue to to grow.

Yeah, I do too.

It's they did 40 million dollars.

But yeah, the landscape, the whole footprint of the whole thing, I think the weather was phenomenal.

It was like perfect, perfect weather and which is great.

However, the weekend before raining cats and dogs and, you know, would have been horrible if it would have been that weekend.

But, you know, so that that's unusual.

But but yeah, no, I think it's it's got a lot of potential to grow.

Now they're doing their new auction this year in Columbus, Ohio.

That one is going to be in June, I believe in Columbus.

So it'll be Scottsdale, Florida, Columbus.

And so that one beach and yeah, Florida.

So there's two, two Scottsdale auctions, the fall and the January auction.

Those are the big one coming up is going to be in January 17th through 25th Palm Beach, which has always been successful for them.

They've done a good event there.

That's the 16th through the 18th of April.

And then yeah, end of June 25th through 27th in Columbus.

They used to do the Vegas auction, but that was also in June.

And it was 115 degrees like getting from the parking lot to the building.

You're just like, oh my gosh, it's a lot.

So yeah, that'll be interesting Columbus.

But Columbus is going to yeah, it's June of next year starts in 2026.

And Columbus is really embracing them doing a lot for him.

So it should be interesting.

And that really is the first Midwest auction that Bear Jackson's ever done.

They've done East Coast.

They've done Florida.

But this one's right in the heart of the Midwest, the Great Lakes area.

It'll be really interesting to see how well it does because everybody's heard about Bear Jackson.

If they've never made it out to Scottsdale and go to one, I think they'll do really well.

I think a lot of people will go to that.

And Columbus has proven with good guys that it has the infrastructure to do a big event like that.

So Bear Jackson is back to four events a year, two Scottsdale's of Palm Beach and Columbus.

Yes.

Yeah, we'll see how that goes.

And then Dubai, of course, which is not announced yet.

I have not seen that.

I know.

I just made it up.

But there was there was there was like an RM in Dubai years ago.

They try to be like a big, like American thing.

And like Goldberg went out and they try to bring out a bunch of TVs, celebrities, car shows back when car shows were a thing.

Yeah.

But I don't I don't think that worked out very well because they didn't do it again.

Now they're selling they're going to sell Warner Brothers Discovery anyway.

So that'll yeah.

So you mentioned F1.

And I'm sure you guys have seen this in the news F1 fans that Apple TV made a pitch to to F1 to buy the broadcast rights.

And I believe it's starting in next year.

Apple TV will have full comprehensive coverage of F1 with all practice qualifying sprint sessions and Grand Prix available to Apple TV subscribers.

They're going to figure out exactly what they're going to broadcast, but they're going to get as much content as possible.

The whole thing is going to be amplified on Apple TV.

Of course, Apple News, Apple Maps, Apple Music, Apple Fitness Plus.

There's an Apple Sports app on the iPhone, which will also have live updates of every qualifying sprint race for Grand Prix across the whole season.

Real time leaderboards in the app, all kinds of stuff up there.

So they're all all in and you can even like on your on your iPhone with that app, it'll give you the live activities on your lock screen.

So it's part of it.

It's going to be a new widget that's going to be on the phone as well.

And if you have the F1 TV premium, that's going to be available through the Apple TV subscription.

So the F1 TV is going to roll up under Apple.

So Apple is going to be the only way you're getting F1.

And I imagine that's very, very expensive for Apple.

Very expensive, especially since the biggest part of it is that every race, no matter where it's held in the world, will be on North American time so that we don't have to get up at three in the morning to watch it live.

Is that true?

That's not the case, Matt.

You're looking at me like that's not the case.

I don't think that's the case.

It seems like it.

But I guess if it's live streaming and then it's it's banked, you know, like on Apple TV, you in theory could get up and watch it whenever you wanted.

Do you subscribe to Apple TV or have you ever?

I do.

I do have Apple TV.

Yeah.

I have I have like a whatever.

I just got one of their bundles because I have a bunch of like all the podcasts and everything that we do.

I have it on on iCloud.

I have everything backed up.

So I had to buy like a two terabyte, you know, a package and I whatever their process was, it was like a like an Apple one, whatever they call it bundle for like.

Wait a minute.

I pay for two terabytes and I don't get a free Apple.

Come on.

It's like 38 bucks a month for for the space.

And I somehow I get Apple TV and Apple music and, you know, so I do get a few of those things.

And now you're going to get F1 next year.

And now I'm going to get F1.

You're going to get F1.

Yeah, because I don't have normal cable.

I just have some streaming services.

So I don't think I watch ESPN.

So I wish I could get rid of my dish satellite.

I don't watch dish satellite at all, but my wife does.

And I've got some $200 a month, everything package.

And it's like, I don't need it, but she claims to need it.

And I tell her, you can watch it on, you know, all these other streamers, but it's not, you know, it's like the previous season.

I go, does it matter?

You know, it's like, yeah.

But I guess it does to her.

So, well, you had another, at the top of the show, we talked about something else.

And now we've got someone to bear Jackson.

I can't remember, but buttons, buttons, knobs, all those kind of things are starting to show up more in cars because people are just tired of getting in their car and making it, it looks like an iPad.

You know, it just, and they've also done some studies that show that not having something tactile that you can just go to and you can get muscle memory to for like hazard lights and for volume control and climate control can actually take some of your cognitive load,

meaning you're distracted, and it's equal to drinking alcohol or taking marijuana.

It's such a weird, like, just a weird kind of way to compare it to.

Yeah.

But the next time you get pulled over, just go, I was dealing with my touchscreen.

That's what it was.

I haven't been drinking on it.

It's funny that they compare that because in LA, so many people are smoking marijuana, probably drinking while they're driving anyway.

They're definitely smoking.

You know, they're definitely smoking.

Well, maybe they did the study there and it actually, because everybody was stoned, maybe they just thought it was the touchscreen.

It's something that's come up on CarCast many times.

I do with Alistair from Edmunds is the move toward buttons.

The car companies are, several of the car companies are going, you know, we definitely need, we're hearing you guys, people are complaining.

We don't want to start digging into menus to control the climate system or, you know, some of the radio functionality.

So they're moving toward buttons.

I had said recently that we drove the Lincoln Navigator and the Lincoln Navigator nice, but just kind of unnecessary where the mirrors, the control the outside mirrors, which is normally just on the door.

Right, just a button.

It's in a steering wheel control and it's on a, you know, and it's on the screen in front of you.

And I was like, it doesn't need to be there.

I get it.

It's like, it's cool because they can do it.

But I was just like, I'm just going to do the mirrors.

I come on, like, I don't need to dig through it.

You know, you don't want to have to swipe screens.

You don't have to do all that to get to climate control or to get to, you know, adjusting mirrors or, or anything like that.

Yeah.

I mean, beautiful SUV, but just, just indeed that.

You could just keep it in the door.

Nobody's complaining about it.

That's the thing is nobody's going, I get in the car and I adjust the mirrors.

I wish this was more complicated or just on my steering wheel controls.

Like nobody's complaining about the mirror controls in almost every car now.

So we didn't need to put it someplace.

Yeah.

And that's saying these buttons on this door so that I can adjust my mirrors is really a hassle.

No.

Right.

Like that's, that's what I'm getting at.

It's like we're using technology to try to make the driving experience better or more efficient or, you know, safer.

And by, this was just a, let's just see if we can do it.

We can do it.

So let's offer it.

You know, let's make it in the, you know, the Lincoln navigator black label.

And I was like, but nobody asked for it.

So you don't, you don't need it.

So right.

That's just my thought on that.

Well, you're going to start seeing more knobs and buttons and toggles and all that kind of stuff coming back.

And, you know, I think we're kind of coming around, around the mountain here for a good, a good show.

So I don't know if you guys have noticed, but Aaron wasn't here today.

Oh yeah.

Aaron wasn't here today.

I can't even laugh like him.

Aaron's Tahoe trying to leave and beat the snow.

He's grabbing his little car.

Trying to get off the mountain before he came out of there.

He was going to join us, but snow is coming in.

He's like, I got to get wheels up, man.

I got my summer tires on the little car and we got to go.

Otherwise we're going to be sliding down that mountain.

Who wants to live somewhere where it snows all the time?

And you get, not only do you get snowed in, but you've got to work.

You've got to work moving that snow.

I mean, I got some of those times he was.

Bulled over where had to get the snow off before the place collapsed.

And I mean, that's too much for me.

I don't want to have to dig my way out.

Well, hopefully he's driving safe and he's making it back.

We'll have him next week.

So next week, I think we're here.

We're doing the show and then the following week is going to be SEMA.

So we probably won't be in the studio.

I know I won't be in the studio.

Probably do something from Vegas.

Yeah, we'll figure out something, some SEMA coverage.

We'll get metaglasses and go play blackjack so we can get kicked out of the casino or something.

You've seen all these videos of guys trying to go into casinos and play with metaglasses on,

then they film the guys kicking them out.

He's been popping up all over my feed.

These guys, you sit there and the guys come up and they go,

sir, you're banned from playing card games in our casino.

And he goes, why?

You know why.

As he's looking at the guy filming him and they try and get them to just get...

I don't think it'd be cool if they did like the 60s where they took them in the back room

and busted their hands up or something.

They got it all on camera, but no, they don't do that anymore.

They don't do that anymore.

They don't get it on camera anymore.

Exactly.

All right, let's wrap it up.

It has no cameras.

What's that, Matt?

We're good.

Let's wrap it up.

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About this episode

Excitement fills the air as the hosts share their experiences from the recent Barrett-Jackson fall auction, discussing standout sales, including a 2006 Ford GT that fetched $742,500. They delve into the quirky aspects of rental cars, including a spider scare during a road trip, and explore the return of physical knobs in vehicles as a response to user frustrations with touchscreen controls. The episode also touches on Apple's acquisition of F1 broadcasting rights, promising comprehensive coverage for fans. Join the lively conversation filled with anecdotes and insights from the automotive world.

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