The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car designed to go fast and feel exciting to drive. People bring it up because it’s known for strong performance. In the podcast, it’s mentioned as something that’s fast.
The Toyota Camry is a regular everyday car, usually a sedan, meant for commuting and errands. People talk about it because it’s generally easy to live with. In the podcast, it’s just the car being referenced in the moment.
A pressure washer uses a high-pressure water jet to remove dirt and grime, and different nozzle tips change the spray pattern and intensity. Using the right nozzle helps the speaker knock off bugs and road film efficiently without using a “standard hose” approach.
The Volkswagen Beetle is a small car with a very recognizable, rounded shape. People often talk about it because it’s simple and easy to spot. The podcast mentions it while discussing how dirt and road damage can show up on cars.
All-terrain tires are made to handle both regular roads and rough trails. They usually have deeper, tougher tread so they grip better on dirt and loose surfaces.
Ground clearance is the distance between the lowest part of a vehicle and the road. More ground clearance helps prevent the undercarriage from scraping on rocks, ruts, or deep mud during off-road driving.
The Honda Element is a compact vehicle with a very roomy, practical interior. It’s known for being flexible and easy to use for hauling or carrying people. The podcast mentions it because it has all-wheel drive and can keep traction.
Momentum here just means keeping enough speed and energy so the car doesn’t get stuck. On dirt, that can be the difference between rolling through and bogging down.
Topic
Synchro Fest in Hollister Hills
They’re talking about an event called Synchro Fest at Hollister Hills. It’s part of the rally scene they attend and compare to other rallies.
Concept
spectator lot
A spectator lot is where people go to watch the event. It’s usually not the same place as where the cars and teams are actually driving.
Driving the course backwards is like doing the same track in the opposite direction. It’s harder because you have to relearn where to brake and how the turns feel.
Going uphill on dirt is tricky because the surface is loose and the car can slip more than on pavement. Small steering or gas changes can make a big difference.
Going downhill makes it easier to pick up speed, so you have to be more careful with braking and steering. The car can feel less predictable if the surface changes.
Concept
baddard bonus
“Bonus” here is used in a rally/storytelling sense to mean an extra perk of the route, like scenery or visibility rather than a timed competition element. The hosts connect it to the views and improved sight lines on the downhill.
Power-to-weight ratio is basically “how strong the car feels for how heavy it is.” A higher number usually means quicker acceleration and easier passing without working the car as hard.
The BMW 2002 is a classic BMW that many enthusiasts rally because it’s lightweight and mod-friendly. They’re talking about how people sometimes swap in a bigger engine for more punch, but that can turn into a costly project.
The Porsche 944 is a classic Porsche sports car. Here, they’re talking about how much engine power you need for rally driving—sometimes it’s more about keeping speed and momentum than chasing big horsepower.
The Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro is a Vanagon that’s set up to drive all four wheels, not just the front or rear. The host is talking about how that extra drivetrain makes the van much heavier, which changes how it drives.
The “Syncro” system is Volkswagen’s all-wheel-drive setup for the Vanagon. It helps the van grip better, but it also adds extra parts, which makes it heavier.
Term
Vasa Boxer
“Vasa Boxer” sounds like the host meant a boxer engine. A boxer engine has cylinders laid out flat, and in this Vanagon discussion they’re talking about which version it is (especially whether it’s water-cooled).
Term
water boxers
A “water boxer” is an engine where the cylinders sit in a flat, boxer layout, and it’s cooled with liquid coolant. The host is saying that after a certain point, these Vanagons used water-cooled boxer engines.
“Classic rally” is rally racing using older cars. The event rules usually require the car to be from a certain age range and be safe enough to compete.
“Rally eligible” means a car is allowed to compete in rally events. It has to meet the event’s rules, usually for safety and what kinds of modifications are permitted.
The Mazda Miata is a small, lightweight sports car that’s known for being fun and not too expensive. They’re saying you can often find a really good one for under $20,000, which makes it a practical choice for organized drives.
Term
first gen boxer
A “boxer” engine is an engine design where the moving parts go in opposite directions. They’re talking about an older generation of that kind of engine, as opposed to newer stuff.
The BMW 328i is a BMW 3 Series model. They’re mentioning it as another option that can be modified and made into a good choice for an organized drive without going all-in on an M3.
BMW E46 M3 is a specific older M3 generation. The speaker is basically saying it’s a great car for rally-style driving because it’s balanced and fun to drive hard.
Porsche 964 is a specific older generation of the 911. The speaker is saying it’s one of the best platforms for rally-style driving, especially when compared to a BMW M3.
The Porsche Boxster is a Porsche roadster. It’s a mid-engine car, and the speaker is basically saying the car they got wasn’t what they planned to park/photograph.
Mudflaps are the flaps behind the tires that help stop mud and debris from being thrown up. Rally-style cars often use them because they look tough and help keep things cleaner.
The Ford Kuga is an SUV, meaning it’s a higher-riding vehicle than a sedan. The podcast is talking about how it looks and feels, including the exhaust sound. It’s mentioned as a car that can be really enjoyable to drive.
An air dam is a front add-on that helps control airflow near the bottom of the car. It can make the car feel more stable at speed and also gives it a sportier look.
“Euro headlights” means headlight versions made to match European rules. They can look different from what you’d typically see on cars built for other markets, and here they’re mentioned as part of the car’s classic look.
“Euro bumpers” are bumpers made for cars sold under European specifications. They can have different shapes than bumpers from other regions, and the speaker is pointing them out as part of the car’s authentic style.
The Ferrari F355 is a high-end supercar made by Ferrari. It’s designed for very fast driving and has a mid-engine layout. The podcast mentions it because someone is saying they want one.
Power steering is what makes the steering wheel easier to turn. Without it, turning at slow speeds—like parking—takes a lot more effort, even if driving faster feels mostly normal.
The Toyota Corolla is a very common compact car, but people also build them for racing. Here, the host is talking about a special engine setup that would let it rev extremely high and feel more “race-like.”
“20 valve” means the engine has lots of valve openings for breathing in and out. More valves can help the engine breathe better when you rev it high, which is what the speaker wants for a racey Corolla build.
Term
GE
“GE” here is shorthand for a specific Toyota engine family people swap into Corollas. The idea is that this engine type is known for revving freely, which is why the speaker wants it.
An engine “swap” is when you replace a car’s original engine with a different one, usually to gain performance, reliability, or a specific driving feel. The speaker is discussing the idea of putting a BMW engine into a Corolla, then rejecting it in favor of a Toyota “GE” style high-rev build.
“Shorter gears” means the car’s gearing is set up so the engine turns faster for the same speed. That often makes the car feel quicker and helps a high-revving engine stay in the range where it makes power.
Flatbed support refers to towing a vehicle using a truck with a platform (flatbed) that carries the car instead of dragging it. It’s commonly used when a car can’t be safely driven or when the drivetrain/tow method could cause damage.
Highway patrol is police that focus on traffic on big roads. If they “visit,” it usually means they noticed something about how the car was driving or how fast it was going.
The Chevrolet Camaro is a long-running American muscle/pony car line known for its V8 options and strong aftermarket support. In this segment, it’s mentioned as being driven “a lot of miles” and still “going strong,” which highlights its durability and road-trip friendliness compared with more fragile exotics.
A “barn find” is a car that’s been sitting unused for a long time and then gets discovered. It can be cool because it might be original, but it usually needs work before it can be driven confidently.
A “parts car” is basically a second car you don’t plan to drive much—its job is to provide parts. Here, it’s used because the original car had rust, so they needed donor components.
A turbocharger is a device that helps the engine make more power by forcing extra air into it. If it fails, the car may need a replacement turbo and related parts to run right again.
The water cooling system is how the turbo stays from getting too hot. If you swap to a different turbo that needs water cooling, you often have to move the matching coolant lines and parts too.
Fuel pressure is basically how hard the car is pushing gas to the engine. If it’s not right, the engine can start sputtering or acting weird when you press the gas.
“Rabbit” is a Volkswagen model. “Mark one” means the first generation, and “Rabbit truck” sounds like a custom build where the car was converted into a pickup.
Lamborghini is a well-known supercar brand. Saying he’s a “Lamborghini master tech” is basically saying he’s an expert mechanic for that level of performance cars.
“Master” here seems to mean a very experienced mechanic. The podcast is pointing out that the person working on the cars is highly skilled. It’s not a specific car model—it’s about the technician.
The Pontiac Trans Sport is a minivan, which is a family-style vehicle built to carry people. The podcast mentions it because it was associated with a specific hood design in a story. It’s referenced as a vehicle someone was driving.
An oil pressure gauge tells you how strongly the engine oil is being pushed around. If the pressure drops too low, parts may not get enough lubrication.
The C-pillar is the vertical part of the car body behind the rear door. Some cars have trim pieces there that can pop loose if the clips or glue wear out.
BMW E36 is a 1990s BMW 3 Series. The point here is that older E36 cars can have interior trim that starts to loosen, because the plastic clips and adhesives wear out.
Alignment work adjusts how the wheels point relative to each other and the road. It’s typically done after tire replacement or suspension changes to improve tire wear and steering feel.
Windshield washer fluid is the spray that helps clean your windshield. If you don’t have it—or the sprayers are broken—you can’t wash off dirt, so it’s harder to see.
Term
docket
“Docket” here is used in a motorsport/organizing sense—like an event schedule or list of entries/activities—rather than its everyday meaning. The host is describing how the cars are “on the docket” for the rally.
The Mustang is a performance car made by Ford. People often talk about different Mustang generations and how they can be modified. In the podcast, it’s mentioned while discussing trippy mixes of different car styles.
A manual transmission is the kind of car where you choose the gears yourself. You use a clutch pedal and the shifter, instead of the car automatically picking gears.
The Mazda 3 is a popular compact car. People mention it because it’s one of the cars that can still be found with a manual (stick shift) in some markets/years.
The Jetta is a Volkswagen compact sedan. They’re mentioning it because it’s one of the cars people associate with being available with a manual (stick shift) in some years/markets.
The Golf is a Volkswagen compact hatchback. They’re talking about it because it’s one of the cars people used to associate with manual (stick shift) availability.
The Ford Mustang is a popular performance car. They’re mentioning it because it’s one of the cars people often associate with being able to get a manual (stick shift).
The Cadillac CT5 is a luxury sedan, meaning it’s built for comfort and a nicer driving experience. The podcast is talking about the higher-performance CT5-V version and whether it still comes with a manual transmission. It’s mentioned as part of a discussion about what Cadillac stopped offering.
The Cadillac CT4 is a luxury sedan, smaller than some other Cadillac models. The podcast is talking about the higher-performance CT4-V and whether it still comes with a manual transmission. It’s included in a list of performance models that may have stopped offering manuals.
The BMW M4 is a performance version of a BMW coupe. It’s designed to be faster and more exciting to drive than a regular model. The podcast mentions it as part of a group of similar BMW performance cars.
The BMW M2 is a sporty, high-performance BMW coupe. It’s made to feel quick and responsive, especially in tighter driving situations. The podcast mentions it along with other similar BMW performance cars.
The BMW Z4 is a small two-seat roadster, usually with a sporty feel. It’s meant for fun driving, including open-air driving depending on the version. The podcast includes it while talking about BMW performance models and manuals.
The Ford Bronco is an SUV built for rough roads and off-road driving. It’s meant to handle dirt, trails, and tougher terrain better than a typical car. The podcast mentions it as one of the SUVs being questioned.
The Honda Civic is a small car that’s made for everyday driving. People like it because it’s usually efficient and easy to maintain. The podcast mentions it while listing cars that are being questioned.
The Jeep Wrangler is an SUV made for off-road adventures. It’s built to handle rough terrain and is known for being tough. The podcast mentions it in a list of vehicles being discussed critically.
The Lotus Emira is a sports car made for driving enjoyment. It’s designed to feel light and responsive when you drive. The podcast mentions it while talking about which cars fit into the group they’re discussing.
The Hyundai Elantra is a compact car meant for everyday driving. It’s usually chosen for practicality and cost. The podcast mentions it as part of a list of cars being questioned.
The Subaru BRZ is a small sports car made to feel agile and fun. It’s designed more for driving enjoyment than for hauling or towing. The podcast brings it up while talking about popular sports-car choices.
The Toyota GR 86 is a small sports car meant to feel fun and responsive. It’s built for driving enjoyment rather than being a big, heavy cruiser. The podcast brings it up while talking about popular sports-car options.
The Toyota Tacoma is a pickup truck, meaning it has a bed for hauling things. It’s designed to be useful for everyday driving and also for rougher roads. The podcast mentions it while listing different popular vehicles.
The Porsche Cayenne is an SUV made by Porsche. It’s meant to be practical like a normal SUV, but still drive more like a performance car. The podcast mentions it because someone is thinking about replacing it with an electric vehicle.
Brake pads are the friction material that clamp to the brake rotors to slow the car down. In this segment, the hosts discuss “more aggressive” brake pads that create more dust in normal city driving, and they connect that dust behavior to driving style and speed.
Brake dust is the gritty powder that builds up on wheels when you brake. Some brake pads make more of it than others, and fast driving can help blow some of it off.
Topic
brake pad dust vs driving conditions
They’re talking about why brake dust shows up differently depending on how you drive. The idea is that city driving can make more dust than faster driving, and cleaning (or not cleaning) changes what you notice.
Temperature matters because brakes get hot while you drive. The hosts are suggesting that hotter or different driving conditions can change how the pads wear and how much dust they leave behind.
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K. G. Tsuchiya can you imagine like his I be inside his little white on gray
Toyota Camry Egasitl vehiculum there's no doubt Corvettes are fast but I'm
riding dirty right now the croc GT for the one only hashtag dawn patrol hashtag
senior citizen all right parts fired welcome to driving well awesome my
name is Warren I'm laying and a mark post rally withdrawals how are you guys
handling these these gloomy days kind of sucks and I'm actually really tired to
yeah I almost drove out to Ohio this morning and worked from there but that
meant that I needed to get ready earlier to get the kids in that car yeah the
golf was in the driveway and I'm like nope that's because drop off and then
just bail and then work from over there at the coffee shop yeah one hurdle like
that is tough to overcome Lane you said you're really tired and he kind of
sounded sad what's going on buddy I just I woke up at like four in the
morning this morning yeah standard issue yeah go on no it's not that's not
standard issue did your way to go almost 430 Warren come on no like 66
okay that's right 67 yeah like six dude but I will go at four and but
yeah definitely a rally withdrawals man it's a it's been tough man I want to get
out and drive you know I haven't washed a car yet I'm staring at right now I watched
it this morning I had an hour and a half gap and so I just like I got to do it if
I don't do it now I don't know what I'm gonna do it and watching a car is a
pain in the ass it takes so long like I didn't do a very good job it took me an
hour and a half yeah I just had a very solid once over because I had to get
those bugs off and I have like I have a pressure washer with different nozzles
you know so I can like regulate like pressure and there's like a car wash
one which is like significantly more powerful than a standard hose yeah you
know not crazy you know cleaning out grout and shit and I was like just
cleaning off all the bugs you know after like giving it a once over with soap
and there was one that was like really on there and I was like I gave it a
little nail and then I pressure washed it chip it just like had
it had whatever it hit it must have been a really hard beetle or something like
it probably cracked probably like beetle it was an insect yeah yeah but I mean
it was enough to enough that it got the pressure the water got under there and
lifted it up so it's like a three millimeter little circle so I now I got
a little touch up yeah you think you probably hit a rock then an insect on
top of the rock it's possible I like this I so I was a dummy and the last day
of the rally I took the dirt section which that was not dumb but I had two
windows and sundry open oh my gosh that's a terrible idea the minute you hit the
dirt I told Angela windows up and we just one more thing and ventilation system
on nice just suck it all research and did you have a car in front
of you I'm guessing at least someone in front of you and mark marks 911 in front
of it was super dusty and oh my god I could even see it for a side time we
need to yeah we'll hire a water truck to go up there and figured out that would
be beautiful to have a wire water truck like for us a couple laps I can we go
to a scientist sidebar here while we're talking about rock chips and beetles and
whatnot yeah all right did the dirt section of course I get home and I
notice that there's dirt like all inside the the outs the outside barrel of the
wheel so what you know by the spokes and stuff there's yeah just dirt a lake
caked in there the lip thank you mm-hmm and I go shoot that's gonna be all
caked in there and stuff and I touch it and it just this the driest silt and it
just falls off the wheel immediately so it stayed all the way until you got home
we're in scientist sidebar here I don't know what's going on it's a fine
refuge man slow I'm going slow obviously we went to lunch I'm driving
parking lot speeds I'm stopping it yeah it was not caked on whatsoever I had
took a video of it because it was all over the wheels yeah touch it and just
goes ah that's like you're breaking the surface tension of the water situation
right it just needs a little something and I think it's also a what were those
those like splatter paint art projects you do in school where it's spun spin
art spin art I think they spin our spin paint or whatever it's good put a
little paint on there and it's splatter out and you make the worst part ever
and you take it home you go I made a pretty good though yeah that'll be on
our next rally guys but anyways maybe it's like this centrifugal force is
holding it like creating this like weird bond to the wheel we're getting pretty
deep into scientists yeah I thought you were gonna go somewhere else with this
which really trips me out you lose one wheel weight it's a fucking disaster but
you have like all this mud and dirt on there and it seems fine
like how does that all balance out great question yeah so anyways we can get
into dirt and all that but that was one like little mystery sounds like you got
some dirt on some people turns out dirt hurts we could talk about we'll go
backwards it doesn't slow you down why don't they dirt I was I took Andrew and
it slowed me down too and there was 10 cows on the road but yeah first time we
were able to run the dirt uphill which is way better than downhill oh my god in
my opinion oh my god so much better the only car I had in front of me was Dieter
in his synchro van again and he was having the most fun he's chilling he
could just mob he has good brand new all-terrain he's got ground clearance he's
got all-wheel drive it is like he's in his element and if you keep momentum with
a van like that it's super fun so yeah I mean big you know rear engine archer
bandit even yeah probably the best road of the rally for him right I think so I
couldn't I wasn't trying very hard but he was long gone and he was having his own
he was having his own little synchro fast that's right oh yeah by the way I
always miss that event it's synchro fest in Hollister Hills it's like every time
I think we have a rally or something because I was doing something we have
yeah I always see the bands going home I'm like what the hell wait but you're
not allowed right yeah do you have to have a no I think you can go hang and
say what's up but you know you guys park in the parking lot and I actually
participate it's like spectator lot right yeah you're not in the fest so
yeah anyways those those fun gosh I don't even know where to start this is we've
done so many of these rallies and I always say it pretty awesome yeah good
one I think people had a really good time so yeah can we I mean since we're
talking about that section can I just like that was that was the first time
we've run it in reverse and obviously uphill and dirt amazing such good
control right like that was a beautiful thing and then my one of my favorite
roads was is the tarmac section on the other side turns out it's a really good
downhill to you know the baddard bonus of that is the views are unbelievable and
the your sight lines are better yeah yeah you can see downhill we're just a
kind of like you're you're looking down right so you can see the turn below a
little easier it feels like yeah it was gorgeous we stopped for a photo up and
Deeter was jumping over mounds of gravel and that's funny yeah because you're
normally looking up at the mountain yes so you don't see what yeah there's a
couple turns where you like turn and can look over to your left and be like oh
yeah we're like really high up here and in fact we've run that road in the
winter or like right late spring I should say or sorry early spring late
winter and it snows up there and we've had like patches of ice and stuff on the
shadowy shade zones there at the very top so oh yeah it's high and it's remote
and it's it's a really cool view so and being on cliff side rather than mountain
side gives you a little more vision as well that's true yeah yeah exactly it
was good man I don't know where you guys want to start it's just a it's just I
don't know dude I have some questions right there I think the questions are
going to help a lot with our kind of we can start there and there's a lot of
rally related questions then yeah there's a couple yeah I mean should we give
could we should we give a like a rundown of what we did hope what the rally was
or you know I was thinking yeah we can do that and also we can like we do with
Radwood we can talk about who won the awards which gives us at least a little
feel for a few of the cars that were on the rally obviously we can't cover them
all but yeah so camping will awesome rally our first time we've done a real
camping rally we've done camping will awesome up at Laguna Seca and some
other situations I think even like our Big Sur trips lane would be a camping
awesome opportunity but yeah so we were out there and we did kind of some
normal roads started out in Morro Bay with a pre-run down how we won Big Sur
into Caucos real nice nice spot Caucos huh yeah awesome the NorCal contingent that's
right that's right we had about 20 cars which is much stronger than usual and I
don't know what what made that so much better this time maybe because people
were like more invested in like camping and stuff and just making a bigger trip
out of it but yeah it was a big crew and I hate to say it probably the worst
drive I've ever had on that road how I went through Big Sur I'm sorry I knew it
I know I'm sorry I know Thursday I mean you think like Thursday midday right
Thursday we left Carmel at 130 and I don't know it's not a holiday weekend it's
not summer it's I don't know it just feels like that would be a pretty good
time to do it and man it was just a parade of rental cars every time they'd
pull over you get around them there's another one pulling out in front of you
I mean we literally probably got you know maybe 20 minutes of the whole hour
without some car going super slow and ruining it so yeah it wasn't it wasn't
ideal but we had a really good crew and then we got to stop at Willow Creek and
visit Phil's plaque which is which is great and then into Caucos and then
Art you came up from Santa Barbara you had how many cars we had 12 yeah and it
was the opposite experience it was awesome yeah it was like completely clear
and we had a really really good drive the entire way and one car what one
motorcycle not even car for about maybe two miles Harley rider of course and
all double yellow there was no place to pass and I just like I was making
myself as visible as possible without being too aggressive and like he
obviously knew we were there but he was not going to move so eventually you know
there was a spot and we all flew around him but outside of that it was
fantastic and we also went to one of Croc's old favorite roads Phil's roads
and we kind of hung out there for a little bit at that intersection and
chilled and took some pictures and it was really cool and then I did it at right
at the start of it so then we had like an amazing blast right after that and it
was totally clear and it was cool too because I'd say maybe about five of the
guys that were with me on this particular leg had never been on our
rallies did not know the roads like had never been on any of these roads so like
it was all a fresh experience so that was pretty fun and that's really fun and
the rest of the group had you know been on our rallies and possibly on a couple
of the roads but yeah it worked out really well and then yeah we cruising
okay because we got there about an hour and a half early to before or ahead of
dinner I should say yeah yeah great great turn out there Pacific the Pacific
motel really cool little spot in Cayucos they did it right so vintage
little vintage motel and just that alone like yeah just doing that drive and
then the dinner and stuff was so fun already we were kind of like ahead of
the game so to speak so that was super fun and then I did some familiar roads
we had a couple new roads and routes on the morning section and then some
familiar classics I mean we can talk about how we 58 because it's not exactly
a secret but maybe one of the best roads in California I would say like from
start to finish it has everything I mean high speed sweepers long straights
crazy twisty section awesome views desolate and no one's out there it is
just like amazing so and fresh pavement like yeah they just
sealed it or whatever super awesome so that was that was fun and then kind of
a regular spots along the way back into Parkfield can't really think Parkfield
the folks at the very end family and Parkfield in general for how much
they've welcomed our group there for gosh a decade now and we're kind of
working on this for 10 years it feels like to get to this point so really
really thankful for them and if you find yourself in the area definitely give
them a shout go have a burger something it's a great spot so that was our
home base and really just a great hang I mean man we had what 40 something
campers and then all the lodging sold out so there's a lodge and there's
another camp with glamping tents and bunk houses and people were having
fires and having a good old time a couple beers maybe a couple drinks yeah
couple a couple pops a little wine a couple bottles of wine wine they have
their own drug wine I didn't actually try it was it any good it was really good
that's great yeah I should have bought some there's always so much
stuff I plan to do like I'm like I'm gonna go around all the campsites I'm
gonna drive up to the the horse camp and see what that I know I never drove up
there I'm gonna play cornhole and I'm gonna have shoes that was gonna be way
too far to walk I know art didn't have shoes yeah so it's all good though it's
a lot of hanging by the pool a lot of hanging at camp with friends you don't
get to see much and you know a lot of good hangs I don't know this is
fantastic yeah I was drinking ranch waters the whole time yeah it was it was
did the variant family is so rad like the you know the family runs Parkfield
and v6 ranch and they made it like it was our home the whole time and like it
never didn't feel like our home like we felt there was never like oh you can't
do that you can't you know it was like yeah it was just our place like we like
it was so rad dude you know like a lot of times you go to these places and you
know we we've been and you know we've done this so many times with Radwood and
dwa and all these things where you rent these facilities and stuff and you go
you you know and everything's you know you're kind of sold these a bill of
goods in a way and then you get to the place and it's like oh by the way oh
you wanted to cars there you want to put cars you can't do that by the way we
see people drinking outside beers you know you do something about like the
police coming up to us and telling us stuff it's like yeah and this they were
just like so stoked to have us and everything was awesome yeah and it was
amazing dude they were amazing if you're listening to this right now you could
jump in your car and drive down there and go to the bluegrass festival which is
happening which is supposed to be awesome thousand people they get there and
all camping and hanging and there's like three stages or something it sounds
really cool so and little like little like scenes everywhere I guess with
people like yeah musicians we did our drivers meeting from is a stage and
people hang out there the main the main stage is but all these
little places that they can do it from so it's really yeah just awesome yeah
yeah I mean I really don't have anything else dad I mean ditto to all of it
yeah it was just it was kind of perfect food was great like all of it yeah yeah
it was really really good they know how to handle big crowds and cater to big
crowds well right and so they it's everything went really smoothly and
everything's so delicious there it's all as fresh as it gets right and all the
food is basically there it's a ranch so a working ranch yeah but yeah fantastic
stuff and yeah I was just really happy to interact with a lot of new faces to
that like I you know in a mix right like you want to hang out the homies to that
you know you don't get to spend as much time with these days but like it was
cool to hang out with new people and get their take on what we're up to and a
lot of conversations around like what they're gonna be doing on the next one
already and what are they gonna maybe buying something else or you know and
like it's like there's this like eagerness to get out there which is cool so
yeah yeah everybody too many people to thank and shout out but it was awesome
yep agreed I'm gonna do some questions and then we'll maybe trigger some more
memories I think we'll fill in the blanks yeah alright t3 nostalgia says this is
Deeter by the way what power-to-weight ratio is too little to have fun on a
rally you tell me Deeter how much that thing way I don't you know I don't know
I'm not sure especially synchro adds some you know what yours was no I could look
it up I do not I do check it out right now it's definitely not something that
I consider much cuz it's 93 horsepower or whatever so whatever weight it is is
too much with the momentum like I was saying like Deeter on a clean run on
that road with the right tires and you know he's I don't even know if he had
all-wheel-drive going maybe he didn't for fun for funsies but that is a fun car
I mean it's great sight lines and they handle pretty well for what they are and
I don't know that's that's fun but yeah power-to-weight ratio I was talking to
our buddy Ryan Ryan ready who has a 2002 has been on many rallies it's a 74 or
something and 75 I don't know but it's built it's ready for rallies it's all
dialed and Scott everything you need to have a good time and he was saying he's
like I think I'm ready for something with more power like I just don't want to
have to work at it so hard you know and if I'm making a pass like have to really
think about it and you know he I think it's just he's lived that life for a
while now and looking for something with a little more oomph he was talking about
you know putting a motor in his 2002 but we all know that that can turn into a
very slippery expensive slope and so maybe something different yeah that's
how I was with the 944 and I think this rally is like the least you need the
least power for this area that we do rallies I think Sierra's is the one that
really screened like we know elevation when you have a low horsepower car there
it's like it kind of makes you sad sometimes right yeah and you see people
struggling and not having a great time and yeah so I don't know if there's an
exact number here with this question because I think Dieter had a I think he
even had fun on paved roads in his car and I think that's like I think he had
fun on 58 you know yeah well yeah I mean it's all it's all relative to right like
I think it depends on what you're into right like some people want that
momentum experience some people want to be like blasting and like it's really I
can tell you now that I'm extremely happy with my power-to-weight ratio and
it's like pretty much exactly where I want to be I don't care to go any
faster my car has put down 234 at the wheels so that's like let's say 260 65
ish horsepower at the crank and it weighs right around 2,500 pounds like 2550
something like that but then with weight with some other gear in there it's like
basically right there it's like gives you a good breakdown right so that is a
really really awesome combination and it's plenty quick you're not keeping
anybody up and and you still need to play with some momentum right when you
have a faster car behind you and you still plan you want to be smooth all
that stuff so I was very happy with that so the Vanagon Syncro this is a 91 by
the way the Syncro system adds 330 pounds to a Vanagon according to Google
AI average is 4,000 pounds if you're dealing with campers but I'm seeing
numbers between 3940 to about 4100 depending on what how they're equipped
and I know as you know good Lord that's a heavy car and what was that in 95
horsepower is oh no he's a he's a Vasa Boxer he's got some well after after 85
they're all water boxers but yeah I don't know what he's got running in it but
yeah anyways they're heavy kind of really right let's say maybe yeah maybe I
don't know it's because it's South African model right so maybe it's got I
don't know I can't remember what motorys it has in there but yeah there's a lot
a lot of modifications guys do the other Volkswagen engines and stuff
so yeah that's the first time I've seen one of those in person a right hand
drive Vanagon and this is really nice it's got a lot of cool little bits and
stuff so yeah that was actually pretty brave of him to bring it out because it
was it was kind of immaculate well he was you know how he's very meticulous and
looking at the paint job and we were going over it when we're in Kayuko so
we had some time and these are the when I'm like I'm gonna do all this stuff it's
like I'm gonna talk to everybody about all their cars it's like I you know
really did that but this one I did and we're looking at all the stuff the paint
job took I think he said nine months in South Africa and they went windows out
all the stuff it's not perfect because he's like you know in South Africa which
I imagine is like someone saying you know it's like Tijuana but Tijuana has good
paint job so anyways nine months windows out all this stuff looks pretty damn
good like to you know it's a five footer 2500 bucks
wow yeah that's good well there you go I mean so if you spend five grand you're
gonna get a fucking concord level right right exactly so I mean that's a you
know South African conversion there so we only need to get the cars there so
it's 20000 dollars to get that's right South Africa never see it
again but it's worth it get it out there all that y'all see mine on those
fucking burnout donut videos that the South Africans have you seen those it's
like it's it makes like these Hoonigan burn yard things like look like you know
it puts them to shame it's like it's like sort of a Mad Max meets destruction
Derby meets like donut burn yard it they're insane it's like literally dudes
hanging out of the windshield like the windshield it's like fucking crazy fire
and and they're mostly E 30s almost all of them are E 30s Jesus it's a whole
thing that's where they all went Ben Roget says by the way Ben you're so awesome
for he was our support vehicle on the rally and it was great it worked out
really well I hope you had a good time I think you did he says for someone who's
never owned a classic car before what's the best starter rally eligible car
under 20000 dollars so he's talking classic rally classic rally
eligible so for the listeners that's 1999 and older
under twenty K I mean you know you 3036 and 336 m three
is yeah I was going to say the same thing can you get a 944 that's
worth taking on a rally for twenty grand anymore
is that I mean is there's nice ones for twenty grand but I mean it's just I don't
know I think it's not as but you don't get the power you don't get the power and
availability to parts and stuff maybe a little trickier than 36 and three
he doesn't seem like a Miata boy but that's certainly you get a really good a
fantastic Miata for under twenty you get like the nicest one in the world
yep and you could also do everything first gen boxer
I want to yeah I'm not too modern yeah I'm not super stoked on boxers on the
classic I totally get that they're eligible and that's fine but you know I
think we have enough I'll just say that they have enough boxers that come on
yeah it's definitely like a it's it's definitely like they they squeeze in
there but it's not yeah right it's not in in the spirit of the what we're doing
right yeah it's a very modern car that that bridges the two thousands quite
well so anyways that could work but I agree like you 36 m three or even
like a 328 I that was like done up you know like the best one
and for cheap and then you know but really 36 m three because it has
the the good breaks it has all the good stuff you got the stuff yeah and I mean
realistically fifteen grand will get you a car with high miles that's that's
great that's what that's maintained and is usable right so you know I can see
him in an E 36 m three convertible I like that idea can't you
dude winery to a wine like a bourbon tour car or whatever he does on the
weekend exactly I agree exactly
fid delighted says this is fiddle he says what do you think is a special sauce
that makes dwe rallies what they are versus other rallies or organized drives
I haven't been on other rallies so I don't know what they do but I've only
been on I've been a couple others other others yeah I I think I know
I know I haven't been on enough on you know I haven't been on every rally
obviously but I know I think I came up with what our secret sauce is or at least
I know what one of our secret sauces is okay it's that we always have dinner
together is that in that it's not the case elsewhere yeah oh yeah I think that
is very helpful and in fact I would like to do lunches together as much as
possible as well it's just hard to find places for lunch for and I think we
usually have lunches together too we try to we name the spots to
have lunch yeah usually and if we don't you know we'll be we'll say hey here's
the town here's this place and this place mostly you know usually or we'll
say there's these three places so usually but and in this case this rally was
amazing because we had lunch and breakfast together every day and we were
also stuck together and I think that really brought the group together and I
think that is what makes our rally special it's like and we do limit it
limit our rally by people because we want to have dinner together it's all
about how like it's all about that having dinner together and like keeping the
group tight and making it where everyone kind of like hangs out together and
meets together mingles and I don't think other rallies do that you know you like
and that doesn't make them bad or anything that's just like what our secret
sauce is you know there's these Texas like the big Texas Porsche one it's like
350 people they don't have dinner together you know there's like wow never
even thought of that yeah because to me that was like table stakes right it's
like a communal moving thing that you want it's a moving party and you want
to have those collective experiences and then it also keeps everybody honest
right like you know there's no bullshit like no one's dicking around doing
stupid shit that's kind of like you know because you're all hanging out and
you're you're going to see everybody again right so that's a big part of
that and that's a very good point though yeah we've talked to people that have
gone on some other rallies and I was like oh so and so was on that one and
they get they straight up said they said I never saw that person you know I
never saw them and they know that person you know their friends with that
was said person and they never saw them on the route they literally never saw
them on the rally yeah that's so weird like art like you're saying table six
like I know other rallies that don't stay in the same hotel they give you a town
and just say all right here's the town go stay wherever and we'll see you
tomorrow and that's so weird to me like why are you even going with that group
I mean you want to hang and I went on a rally and that was what they did they
just said here's the town get a hotel here yeah and I ended up in the hotel
and there was some people two there was two other people in that hotel whoa but
and so in the morning it was like like I ended up with two other people and we're
like hey I guess we'll go to the meetup spot and it was like a sick it was an
hour drive to the meetup spot but I was only with two other cars yeah because
that was the only other people stayed at the hotel I was at so there was no like
hang out at the hotel when we got back to the hotel everything that you've just
told me is exactly like Warren and I would have immediately nicks all of it
like that hour drive to the meetup spot at the start like that is just totally
not and it's and that's the other thing it's like I love we're we you know we've
really come to prioritize these like these hotel hangs these like these it's
like it's this community stuff right and I think that is what sets our our rally
apart yeah I agree yeah and and I think it also this is the other piece and it's
kind of tricky because we haven't there was some curation like especially and
we continues to be to a certain extent because we have to make decisions on
people and cars and how many how much space we have but like it's like naturally
the type of person that is that wants to participate in this type of activity you
know like that wants to be that's open minded with a bunch of different brands
that wants to drive great roads and talk harsh like you know just be a car geek
with a bunch of other people and it's like a certain type of person that does
that and it's a great kind of vibe right all overall and so naturally you're
gonna have you know like just just a good time right when you're surrounded by
good people who are like-minded to a certain extent but we're all out there
just trying to have a good time and enjoy our toys and all of that so and it
just keeps getting more and more refined right like not in terms of quality but
in terms of like the types of people naturally word of mouth like who they
bring along and all of that right so for the most part you know except for Ben
you know it's like 99% like really awesome people so it's like pretty dope yeah yeah
I think it's easy for people to come into like everyone's very welcoming you
know ever like we have these new people that come in and it's not like they're
not like shunned or they don't feel like they're like you know outcasts or
anything it's like very easily and they're very it's very easy for them to
integrate into the group right I should apologize to Ali because he had to bring
our substitute car that wasn't right for the classic but yeah he was being
shamed a little bit and he brought like the most capable car even if it wasn't
a classic rally like that thing is so dialed and just okay from well I drove
it on I drove it on downhill on Nasi Ferguson yeah talk about cheater yeah
yeah it's video game mode right like it's yeah I mean I drove I drove Rubens
which is even more dialed than Ali's right it's like more just iterating on
that car for a couple of years and it's like I felt unstoppable it's like it's
insane yeah Monterracer 3 says if you're to build another rally car what would it
go yeah I'm gonna go other brand and I'm gonna go boring because and it's just
the car that I've always said and it would be 46m3 because like from the
beginning I think a long time ago I said it was like 964 and e46 m3 were the
ultimate rally cars for like are what we do yeah it's that 240 40 46 so non
no sorry e36 oh 36 m3 it's that 240 horse and it's you know and and my car I
think fits in that area to 20 or 220 horse definitely and a little little
lighter yep but it's like that that kind of power to weight ratio it's just like
the perfect recipe yeah I was saying over like the weekend my cars it's just so
pure it's a very pure driving experience it's well balanced it's not too low it's
not yeah it's just like kind of checks all the boxes it's very yellow is the
most common color of those so it's kind of boring I think we have to look up the
numbers we always seem to have 25% of them on our rally and not every year
every time this has happened I'm like well we have to get a photo of them
together like on a cool road wouldn't that be cool like how often are they
together on a rally and like zero photos or maybe under the yellow sign that
we have welcoming people that would take like one minute to plan this or like no
and I was like oh I'm gonna park killer cars I had it all in my mind as we were
driving I'm like I'm gonna put Dave's speedster and then I want the olive
green long hood and on the other side I want I want the Corvette and then the
E9 and then I was like had it all going then it's gonna get like older and
cooler didn't do any of it just there's a Boxster there's a beeline fucking car
that's like a 2002 or whatever yeah I know I wanted to do like I know I want
to do like like really cool colored cars under the sign and then I had a
ranch water and I ended up like sitting around the fire or something you're
getting loose I think you're about as loose a goose I love it he
still kept his shoes on though yeah all right so if you're gonna build another
rally car you say 36 I mean I've been talking about this for a long time but
a Mercedes it'd be fun to make a an SL that's between an AMG like high
performance and their factory rally car R107 or R129 either either would be rat
but R107 for you know kind of that classic vibe but you know meaty
aggressive mudflaps the right seats the right wheels air dam by Kuga works killer
exhaust like just a good kind of rippa a bit of a rippa a bit of a rippa dude
well you know look up Michael Schumacher's R107 it was what you're
describing it is so badass dude it is is that my inspiration it's like a deep
metallic blue and it's got you know the the Euro headlights of course the
Euro bumpers and it's got you know the right at the stance everything is so
perfect it is it is like kind of the most yeah I think ever basically been
like my in my head I know this car and yeah that's a that's like an early AMG
car that's just a beefy a beefy rippa yeah that would be dope yeah I love it
damn I don't know man I've been thinking about this as you guys have been
talking and it's like like the one I mean there's two cars that are on my
radar that I keep talking about that I just can't afford so they're kind of
like the only thing that I want right now and it's I want an f355 or a nice
X4 RS I don't necessarily want to build like a dedicated f355 for a rally car
that's not what I want to do I would enjoy it but it's not what I want to do
nice X4 RS would absolutely be an awesome thing to do it would totally
work but that's you know that's sort of like dream lala land versus like
something realistic I'm trying to think of something realistic and what I've
built is like a very specific tool for this purpose and it's so good at it now
so like I'm still sort of in that mindset right now like yeah sweet like now I
can't wait to like really like get to put this thing to good use after like
having two rallies with tons of failures and issues now it was like I got to like
just enjoy it yeah but yeah good can I ask you a question about your car
should yeah did you get the power steering no power steering okay they
ran out of time Lane come on so they I got a call from the shop the day before
the rally and they're like I'm really sorry but we're just we're too busy we're
not gonna be able to squeeze it in and this is not something I put pressure on
them I just said hey can you guys do this a couple weeks out they scheduled me
in on Monday they thought they would have time but they got super slammed and I
said no worries at all dude like I literally do not need this there was
probably a point there where it's like if we start on this it's yeah it could go
wrong and or be longer than we think and then the seals on the skin rack you
know so like super bummed yeah so I I actually like it was not there wasn't a
single instance on the rally where I needed power steering I'll tell you
much because because I mean as I've talked about before like once you're
going about 20 25 miles an hour like it's completely imperceptible like you
can't tell at all like like seriously like and just it's just a round-town
bullshit you know parallel parking parking lots Costco run and make sure you
and we're making breakfast you know around something for somebody but you
know the thing is I actually had a bit of an epiphany because I bought all the
parts and shit and I'm just kind of like dude I really don't need the power
steering in this car like I'm just gonna deal with it around that goes to the
next owner yeah maybe I'll change my mind in the next couple of weeks as I
drive it around town again because it's now it's that's relegated to the box in
the corner but I need an answer for this I'm going to go a 86 Corolla with a
really hopped up 20 valve for a GE is what I would love to build for one of
these things how about with a BMW engine a little swampy swaps yeah yeah no
there's no BMW engine I want in there I want basically the most high strung for
a GE they made so like which is that 20 valve model which
sounds incredible and it revs like to 10 grand when it's hopped up so like just
basically more Revy shorter gears is what I want nice Justin Hall 52 says no
question but the swag from this past rally was exceptional thank you good job
Lane I totally forgot every time to give them a minute we all I mean everybody
deserves props but I was going to give Lane props for hand making these hats like
I don't realize that you were hand making them until I saw your videos like
holy shit and perfectly aligned every time and let's talk about the swag hats
were a very nice addition we usually just do shirts or similar I mean we've
done hats in the past but not like this specific super cool yeah there was the
camping awesome hat that everyone got and then we had a special edition hat
Lane double black diamond rally expert hats these are for people that have been
on 10 or more dwe rallies so we had a couple people in attendance for sure
that I think we had like seven or eight people in attendance crazy just these
crazy people that want to do these events over and over which I love those are
really cool and then shirts of course which were nice comfort colors my style
yeah and then I added a little yeah we did a little bull graphic on those just
a little you know bird chirp yeah and art got some local flavors with the
Shalub jerky yeah yeah we got Shalub jerky from it was actually a hit I was
stoked on it like people were yummy the whole time like they were saying it was
and we're you know there's a tons of flavors I just went with peppered which
was kind of like your you know yeah safest choice we also made coffee mugs
which are a huge hit and you know lane design basically was like the logo that
Lane designed on a 16 ounce like beefy camping mug ceramic and those were
really really well received and thanks to our sponsor Redstone for hooking us
up with some support to do the mugs and overall title sponsor of the rally which
is great yeah the bugs the bugs are around and like I think people are stoked
when they came in and saw that was a surprise and a light situation for sure
yeah you made the right call because we were talking about getting giving them
out in the meeting and then people would have them and not have them at the
breakfast and you know yeah I talked about it before because I was thinking
like dude it would be a rad photo up to right to have them all stacked up like
that next to the coffee like also for our partners and yeah then I saw a lot of
pictures of them pop up too which is great but yeah Redstone threw in also
will when we get to the awards there's a you know free set of tires and we have
some great content coming here very soon too that people will be able to check
out presented every this time and then Griot's garage also huge shout out great
partners of ours I've never used more glass cleaner in my life like dude I
know right I didn't get a bag so I luckily I had I had one and it was it
was actually the one that I brought with me like in my trunk as you probably
look at the if you see any pictures or video of me because I was multiple times
spraying the shit it was like the old one it was from last rally that said I
didn't get any of the hats I don't have any rally stickers and I didn't get a
t-shirt yeah I never used glass cleaner I never got any glass cleaner I got
some spicy jerky Kevin Malone brought some hot hatch hot sauce I didn't get
any of that either he did he is making he does have some more he's gonna give us
he said it's spicier than the last batch which is good good similar flavor profile
he said same profile but spicier I did not get any of that and then I do have
some shirts but I don't know if there's any Lard is here because we did leave
them out and then yeah well I but maybe I could just I don't know these days
that you know I can go race service style with like a double XL and there you
know it is comfort color so you can wear I'm like oversized you know like
the way they wash chains and then what else should we give up yeah I didn't
get any screwouts and I got stickers yeah and then and then we had beeline
along for the ride Ryan was helping some people not very many breakdowns which
is great like really really minimal for only had one flatbed used this time
right yeah I was gonna say it was for a failed new part which is very
frustrating a new fuel pump on a long hood 9-11 failed in a pretty bad spot I
mean remote wise far away from anything yeah but he was chilling and it all
worked out because someone else had a pump or what ended up being the thing
what ended up happening was Nick from beeline actually brought it to Mark's
girlfriend in Aptos and she was coming down that night for camping so she
brought it with her down to camping and then Ryan installed it in the parking
lot at Parkfield beautiful so yeah there you go yeah overall haggardy with the
flatbed support which is super awesome and didn't need much of it yeah I love
that I really genuinely you know I know it's a sponsor thing but seriously like
it does add peace of mind everywhere you are because you know that worst case
scenario backup and you know you can get anywhere you need to be it's like
all right I'll leave my car here and I'll go you know jump in another car or
something but yeah it was nice to see very very minimal mechanicals on this
one just you guys I'll go sorry did you guys have I guess you got go with the
questions you know all right man you just just think about where you're gonna
ask desperately seeking Suzuki Suzuki this is our last question everybody's
talking about their favorite road or a car from the rally but what was your
favorite meal or hangout session by the way oh thanks for putting on another
epic rally guys you guys really outdid yourselves man I was gonna say by the
way Alex gave me some jerky to share with you guys right before we left the
last day and it's in my car so thanks here here here our car is delicious his
friend made it and it's really good and super dry alligator alligator I think
it's beef kangaroo yeah let's be human human will say that all the hangs were
awesome all the hangs are amazing and I can't pick one over the other but by far
my favorite thing was that apple pie thing whatever that was holy shit is that
amazing it was like it wasn't a pie it was it was like a but it was an apple
though right like a turn over it was incredible I mean it might have been my
state of mind at the time by the way you didn't even know shoes on bro you're
fated you're fated that could have been just like a one of those little pies
that you get on the at freaking dollar the dollar ones or apple pie
just like I could have frozen some coffee mate and give it to ice cream you
know as I was I was eating it as I was walking over to the table and I said
like warm apple pie out loud and I had three I heard three laughs in the
background don't know who it was but I was stoked that someone acknowledged
it was pretty good was that was that like Michael Gideon that had the video it
was like point of view like metaglass is picking it up he's like whoa what is
this like I think I was talking with chef I hung with chef a lot on the rally
and you know he's a connoisseur and we were saying how good all the meals were
just in general like yeah everything's great we did clam chowder and K you go
this was great we did I had a pastrami sandwich and and at our lunch spot day
one pizza and how you cuz was awesome to pie this guy pizza excellent right I
heard the burger place was excellent then we did Finca and Passo and that
place was ridiculously good they had duck al pastor tacos all their meats
were insane super super good and then yeah Parkfield was amazing and then we
finished with bomb ass dank ass tacos in King City like dude and it was do the
yeah but that place is so rad I miss you there just you there one we were leaving
as you pulled in to arrive I know there was waves but yeah you were I was
actually a little worried about you I was like we're sorry I know but you made
it it's all good it was all good yeah I mean those the meals were unbelievable
so good I think that Finca lunch though was on the top tops yeah we ate along the
coast what's the first town that you come to when you're going down the coast
going down the little Cambria Cambria yeah Cambria there's like a little
church and stuff on the right there's like a beach little
deli right there had a really good sandwich with a deli right there sat
outside nice awesome I love a good deli sandoe yeah art anything stand up for
you other than the apple pie that was outstanding yeah yeah I mean everything
was great yeah I'm not think I can't think of any one spoon standout I mean I
was just happy to have some lengua tacos that are finishing I stole a little
piece from you and I'm yeah you didn't see it when you back was turning it was
so good that was really good yeah it's always funny when you go camping the
stuff you buy to like we're gonna we need to survive out there you know like
you're gonna just be you know dying for food I think the Peter B drew and Kevin
camp but two different bags of pork rinds that scene I love their little
scene there for a bit that's a great thing I was there the most the time and
like as the owner of the ranch came by and she was like best spot best spot no
way I said I'm tense because dude it was beautiful as green grass and shade
and just like right by the pool but not too close you know next to the sunken
shape or whatever that was yeah eyes Isaac from beeline was there they like
named him their apprentice or something no prospect a prospect that's right yes
yeah I was like dude I barely saw you he's like I was faded
I think he was stoked he just got to come for the fun part yeah yeah it's good
times all right so awards we do a thing called people's choice and now it's
called the dawn patrol award Lane smartly renamed it this time in honor of
our buddy croc GT4 Phil Basil and his spirit lives on in this award so people
are given the ability to vote for someone on the rally that might have helped
them out or help someone else out just has a good vibe good story good costume
in some cases yeah I think someone's like what is this a costume contest now
maybe just brings a good energy to the whole rally right exactly and so we
Lane tallies up the votes and we go in order of you know most votes down to
well how many awards we have we had it's three we had four right with three
no it's always three and then we give we give a we go we're not based on votes
right but it sometimes it helps that we if someone's like a tire yeah so in the
bottom was free detail from auto works detailing which is another sponsor of
the podcast and rally which we are stoked Kevin's now in the East Bay if
you're looking for a good detail and he's mobile but East Bay folks auto works
detailing check it out and that award went to John in honor and they drive a
very nice abergine 911 it's a pretty car 911 s 911 s and they were ripping they
might have gotten a little visit from the highway patrol at some point along the
road but that was just you know little correction but they always have a great
spirit like good vibes and they're they were smiling even after that so they
won that award next up was sure you guys the Texas Contingent oh right and
one on Grant that's right and they want to griot's griot's went to Greco and
Grant all the G's Texas from out here in Texas they want a big gift card from
Griot's and John Greco what can you say man what a guy and he brought
his homie out and he hadn't been part of our scene before hopefully at a good
time I think he did yeah the reason I was shoeless and you know and on cloud
nine because I was hanging out with him he was offering all sorts of great you
know tinctures and things including a phenomenal martini bar set up that he
brought out so that was really good with a blue cheese stuffed olives in Brian
not an oil but 11 thing about Grant that is worth of note of note I
should say is that he has been putting on motorcycle rallies through Mexico and
South America for years so like that's his world so he does the end so he was
really stoked on our scene and he was very complimentary actually but he's
been doing that forever so it's cool because we talked about like just
traveling through Mexico and different you know
cuisines and people and experiences throughout and so he's a very a very
well-rounded individual in that way that he's like you know he's very like
knowledgeable and knows roads and experiences and all that kind of thing
sweet yeah so those guys took it just for good vibes and coming out from Texas
and and ripping the Camaro a lot of miles now on that thing and it's
still going strong so always great to see John for sure and then we had our
organizers choice which these folks win a free rally and sometimes it has to do
with you know coming from far distances sometimes it has to do with bringing a
funky car and maybe scrambling to the finish line to get it ready and in this
case it was all those things so Brad and Chris from Phoenix brought a an early
starry on what year was that thing art do you know probably like an 84 something
that yeah it's just a flat flat body so not the white body a flatty and I guess
it had been you know story a little bit better than I do but barn find and then
kind of rehabbed and put together and time to make the rally and it performed
pretty damn well from what I could tell I mean it did all yeah so one
owner car the owner died the kid his son did not know what it was and just needed
it out of the off of the property basically because they were you know
liquidating everything and it was a very nice car like very intact you know all
original really straight no rust uncracked dash which is unbelievable for being
on the desert it's obviously very well taken care of really really clean car
wide over burgundy and yeah he was like thrashing for the last like three weeks
just like you would like basically fix stuff go test drive it break fix that
go test drive it break like just kept like the cycle up until literally they
left like I think two days before the rally because he has this one thing I
should mention is that he has a parts car that it was his original starry on
that is now relegated to the to being a parts car because he discovered a lot
of rust in the car and so he pulled the turbo because the turbo failed two days
before he was going to come out and he'd swapped turbos and it turns out that the
other car that he owned was like a slightly updated version and it had a
water cool turbo and so he needed to swap the entire water cooling system from
that onto the car and he did all that shit and yeah they drove out it did well
he said that he was having like a fuel pressure issue or something where it
was like under like quarter throttle like it would sputter but anything beyond
that he was happy and that's the type of stuff we're doing anyway so yeah he was
having a blast out there also big shout out to chef Malone who also put a motor
in and did all this work to get his truck ready his mark one rabbit truck and
fire it up the day before yeah rally and then so crazy ripped hard he had some
alignment issues but that was unrelated and unresolved oh and day one he's we
finished kind of early after lunch and he went to go get an alignment and pass
the Robles and they had an appointment everything I'm like that's awesome yeah
I could get it done and so they were doing that they couldn't really get it
right you know how that goes where it's like an already a modified car and
anyways they didn't they didn't figure it out so he drove the car back and into
the park field which is about a half an hour away and he's setting up camp and
we're all hanging out and he opens the passenger door and out falls a plastic
work order envelope with a work order and keys of another car from the shop that
they had left his car and it was a cop car so we were just laughing about that
for a while and finally he called him and he's Kevin explains the whole thing
and they're like he's like oh my god so the dude had to drive out from the tire
shop oh my god to get it and then drive back and but at least they found it I
mean that's man oh I didn't know that happened Kevin called you the guys like
oh man we were just starting to look for those keys oh man that's so I was gonna
say the Chris and Brad getting that award was pretty rad because those guys
both they were both like huge supporters of like early Radwood too absolutely and
like they both like I mean they both helped us at multiple Radwoods like
selling merch and you know working the gates and like I mean you know I think
I mean Brad probably worked at almost every Radwood like you know Boston and
Texas and every he would go to every show and then help I was just say Brad's wife Naomi
would come and dress up and work the merch booth no questions asked super
awesome help and yeah then Chris early supporter and he helped it a bunch of LA
ones and and Boston Vegas yep so and it's rad because Chris has
never been on a rally Brad has before but like for Chris to kind of see it and
be part of it I think he was just like beyond stoked so it was cool to have him
along for the ride yeah he's a great dude and he's also a very handy individual
he's like a you know Lamborghini master tech so yeah that's what he's doing and
so you know stuff develops out there like he's he's a very knowledgeable guy and
very very good dude he's definitely you know yeah he told me after the fact that
he's 100% building a classic rally eligible car now and he's like looking at a few
options he wants to go old school Honda because he's also a Honda head so we
nerd out on to shit all the time just by DM so we'll see what he gets was there a
Honda other than your engine on the rally no no actually no accurate no Honda yeah
it's weird how that happens well yeah that was super awesome that they got that and
then our grand prize winner which is a set of tires from bread of stein and the
admiration of your peers top vote getters was I don't even know how to
describe this whole situation they had it they were playing
they were cosplaying as like 70s porn directors right is that what porn
distribute he had a bunch of porn tapes he had to get across the Bible
belt like it was basically smoking the bandits attraction because they were
driving the Pontiac Trans Am with the fire chicken on the on the hood and very
much dressed the part like they were full on 70s you know cross between like
smoking the band at disco a little bit of hippie too in there
yeah what's god dang it what's the motorcycle movie with Dennis Hopper and
oh yeah easy rider easy rider yeah easy rider vibes in there but yeah I mean
what can you say they ran with the theme and really nailed it so they and
that's their Kevin's second win because John Greco and one for doing their
smoking the bandit kind of thing last time I was solicited for for a scene but
I didn't come to fruition yeah you got well they were going around like taking
like you know how when for modeling you have like a headshot with a Polaroid
and so they were capturing like it basically playing like okay like we're
gonna you're gonna you're basically in we need your info and your headshot is
yeah they were the reason I bring that up is that they were fully playing the
part for a while it was it was actually entertaining it's an yeah they were not
messing around is all in so there you go that's that's rally in a nutshell I
think we should also get some good content out of it our buddy Ronnie was
shooting some stuff for a little mini doc and then Dante was out there doing
some stuff and I forgot Paolo was covering it for Petrolicious so there
should be some more content coming and that'll help kind of raise the bar for
next time yeah how do you guys feel about your cars right now like anything
you want to update or change or upgrade or you guys happy with the way they are
pretty happy so two things I did not open the hood once the entire rally which
is oil check to you crazy bastard I have a great oil pressure gauge on those
BMWs it's so perfect the minute the second it gets to court low it comes on
and this car doesn't burn oil so it's been good the other thing I'll say the
car's falling apart Andrew was so my son Andrew cruise with us and Sarah came
out for the final night and he came with us on the final stage of the rally which
was really fun and he had a great time but the driver the passenger door that
whole panel that has it there's like two panels a panel on a panel that whole
thing is freaking loose now it wasn't his fault it's just like loose I know the
C pillar installation inside panel with the clips that's falling off the seat
needs to be redone you know it's just like old car stuff it's 36 stuff it is
I think it's like blue stuff I know it's basically like late 90s car stuff and
E36 is like really known for this so I don't really know what to do like other
than like modifying it to a point where you're just you know gluing stuff and
hoping it stays for a while there's not much else you can do I haven't looked I
mean I was wondering if they've made like updated clips or glues or or I mean
short of like going with like you know flat custom door panels yeah I mean
that there's there's one cuss company or whatever that makes a molded ABS plastic
panel that looks like it has all the seams and yeah but I don't want that
like that's just seems ridiculous so yeah I don't know it's just one of those
things how about you Lane how's your car my car is great I didn't open the engine
bonnet the engine back the tail the tail I didn't open it at all either yeah car
performed flawlessly it was it was really good and I did a drive the weekend
before as well all the way to LA all right that's right you just had a you
just had alignment work done and tires right so I did yeah I had front tires
put on yeah it was really good I didn't wash my windows at all either those
ranch waters hit hard folks I and I don't have windshield washer fluid so I
couldn't use my wipers so I couldn't really see anything the whole time what
it doesn't the sprayers don't work thing oh is that hard to fix or I don't know
I've never had them working so that could be easy that could just be inside
the yeah it could be it hope yeah I need to get that that's something I should
probably but but but I did do that stupid thing of leaving but my whole car is
filled with dust right now I'm looking right now like the back parcel cup like
the parcel with like the speakers on the back yeah it's like it is just like a
caked with us yeah it works dude or guy you always think I'm the worst fucking
projects I know dude he's gonna he's gonna come to town to do John's car
probably so maybe I could do a little two per one huh well too for deal yeah
yeah yeah but yeah it was great dude oh you know what I was gonna ask you guys I
was gonna ask you did you guys well I know you guys you know we asked like if
there was a good hang or whatever but did you have like a key moment or road or
anything on the rally was there like a one thing or I mean because it was like
a pretty magical rally yeah yeah was there like a one thing I mean I know like
I mean I could kick it off like I think I thought the sign over the road added so
much to like the whole look at the vibe but just having that is really key I'm
glad that worked out and when it was like day I think it was Saturday so it was
like then the second night we stayed there I rolled in from like doing
Nassi Ferguson everything and I think we rolled in pretty late because we did
that run it wasn't that late it was like five o'clock or something 430 but we
rolled in and it was and I like to my left was like Ryan in the RX 7 and his
buddy and they were like they gave like a shocker or something and then I looked
to the right and there aren't it was you Michael Gideon and there was like three
other dudes and you guys were all cheersing modellos oh it was it was like
straight like there was like these it was so rad it was like because we were
rolling slow into town and it was like these little vignettes dude I look over
and it's like coming back yeah it was straight up it was like a movie like the
kid like a movie and it was like it was the shocker over here that I looked to
the right you guys don't see me at all but it's like you guys are just in the
middle of cheersing modellos and then I look over here and it's like two people
like shaking hands or whatever like this you know it's like it was all these
little vignettes and the sign over the whole scene all the cars parked along
the road like just looked pretty sick and then the camp all the like it just like
that whole like it was that right there it like had nothing to do with like the
drought you know it was like it was that picture dude that whole like yeah it was
right it was kind of like it was like the opening scene to a movie you know you
could picture like slow ride playing or something totally yeah I had a
moment we were late to leave the first drivers meeting just we waited for a lot
of people to head out and then as we came to the first regroup it was myself
and drew in the Volvo and I think everyone had already been there for a
while so we just decided to keep pushing through so we pushed through the
regroup past the entire group and then I was leading and had that whole section
and then Highway 58 completely to myself like it was not another car I would say
in either direction for as long as I could go before I had to take a leak
that's when I finally pulled over I'm like just you know 45 minutes or a half
hour of just really exploring the studio space yeah which is fantastic and then
I get to wait and watch people blast by and then once my homies come by I jump
back in the car and race and catch them and have another hang and all the stuff
so I also love those really impromptu middle of nowhere hangs like we have
out there and where we just pull off the side of the road and it's just cool
that's just great and you have these little rolling cars and coffees and
that's like what it's all about that's it yeah I mean yeah there's a lot of them
and I think most of it has to do with getting empty shots or way empty shots
shots on empty roads that we are super into right and there's a lot of them on
this rally that's why they're on the rally and so I mean they're on the the
docket if you will and yeah like downhill 58 for me with no one in front of me was
like divine it's one of my favorite roads if not my favorite every time I
drive it I say it's my favorite I go back and forth because there's also some
Bay Area roads that I really really like but that was really fun and just the
crew also like you know being in the mix with like a different cars and seeing
them like for a second there was a section where I was leading most of the
time but then I would go behind kind of middle pack or whatever with it was 99
threes two 99 threes one of them is a 97 supercharged with like 295 fucking
our comps and that was I think supercharged I didn't know that and we were
mobbing and 99 three Targa Gideon his 3.2 liter swapped short at sorry I was
sure it was long hood I think it's a that's a 72 the olive car which is a
beauty and Paolo and his freaking 99 seven Carrera as so it was like it was
cheater cheater car because I was definitely using you know I was I was
using all the gears and all the red lines but it was fun and also just not
not necessarily just the you know driving the roads hauling ass is awesome
but also seeing the cars right like looking at the like I you know for half
of one day I got the stare out of 99 three ass and I was like this is a
beautiful ass to be staring at you know like it and doing and there's such
beautiful cars and just you know dynamically watching them and looking
back in the mirror and it's like oh looking like just that whole scene of
being like out there surrounded by like by these cars is always fascinating to
me I really like that experience and I think I've mentioned it before right
sometimes you get really trippy mixes like oh 67 Corvette and Fox body and
this and that and it's just like all this shit so right but yeah it's a too
many to list but I will say downhill 58 was probably the outstanding one and
then also what I don't care to name roads too much I'm still kind of cagey
about him but yeah the last section you know before we turn left into King
City but that road after the regroup I got to lead that and I was like in my
element just yeah and that was fun I think was having a difficult time out
there because I was like he saw me and I also I'm gonna throw this
out there because you guys are gonna laugh I put my gloves on and so he saw
me put he saw me putting my gloves on he's like but the reason I put my
gloves on is because it was chilly and I cracked the windows I drive with the
windows down and my hands my left hand in particular was super cold from the
start to that point and I was like fuck this so I put my gloves on and but it
was definitely a gloves-on drive all right let's move along here all right
trivia time it's trivia time I have a list here of every car offered in 2027 so
this is gonna be the cars coming with a manual transition transmission well I
was transitioning to a manual so how many models are offered in the US with
a manual in this day and age models of all all makes yep how many cars can you
buy Mazda 3 for sure Miata you have yeah 9 11's you just throw out a number
only 9 11 yet Jetta only 9 11 how crazy isn't the spider manual is that no
longer made no I don't think so no if the boxer doesn't exist anymore why would
you want a manual boxer guys come on come on and then I don't think golf is
the golf doesn't exist right like no there's no yeah it's Jetta Jetta I think
offers a manual and then there's probably a Toyota Corolla mustangs so I'm gonna
go with 11 Bob 11's my number 11 I'm gonna go higher because there's also
Honda there's I'm gonna go 20 whoa Lane definitely wins 23 day that's not
there's a little caveat here this is put out a little while ago and I think two
of these cars on the list may be canceled with a manual lanes on it then I
know Cadillac CT4 v and CT5 v I think they're no longer doing so I'll run
through the list really quick Acura and Tegra oh that's right yeah all these four
BMWs m2 m3 m4 z4 which are basically all the same manual right there the
Cadillacs so it's two that are questionable Ford Bronco Ford Mustang
Honda Civic Elantra Hyundai Jeep Wrangler Lotus Amira which I guess does
count Mazda 3 Mazda Miata Nissan the Z portion oh because I have that oh they
brought out the yeah they brought that that one back Subaru BRZ NWRX the GR
Corolla GR 86 Toyota Tacoma and you said it earlier the folks wagon Jetta Tacoma
interesting is that a popular I mean I don't know anything that's
crazy you can still get them but like is that something you want just a little
there all the economy models right it's like the stripper version so you can get
a manual still so they're out there they are out there I think you have to
special order it and all that stuff but yeah so 23 is the number pretty good
better than I would have thought you could have said 11 art yeah how many
makes is that one mmm that's a tough 11234 there's no Chevy
or yeah no Chevy no 14 14 makes and some of which have three or four cars on
the list yeah so yeah there you go Porsche not making a manual boxer is
pretty wild hold they don't even make a boxer right oh yeah that's the whole
thing they don't make a boxer that's why I'm pretty sure I don't think the
boxer is this right cool that's cool it's going electric right and then there
was but then it's not so I don't know what's going on I don't even think there
is there not I thought there wasn't a boxer this year or something I'm the
sad thing about me right now is that the only new Porsches I'm looking at our
EVs because we're looking at getting a McConn EV to replace our Cayenne so I'm
totally clueless you're out on it yeah I don't know but I will say one detail
that I forgot to mention this is fascinating so I got you know new
brake pads more aggressive they dust more around town than when you're driving
them hard mmm what the hell's that all about so yeah I look into this scientist
sidebar of temperature thing it's okay you know like it's something that's
my guess because dude like the week leading up to I mentioned I even I had
recorded with you guys you know a week before whatever we started and so I had
mentioned that they were super dusty around town and like they were way less
dusty after the rally and I didn't I didn't clean my wheels once so I was
really surprised yeah maybe that since your wheels are coated the high speeds
blows off the dust dude or maybe I just have to touch it gently as you said and
then I just send you that video now yeah that's I don't know I'm on the Porsche
site and they have 718 but then when you go to it says model currently
unavailable for configuration under all 718 Boxster came in spider everything
because I think they're totally yeah unavailable yeah because our ass was I
think 2025 was like our last one right I need to look yeah I don't think I don't
think the the 718 exists all right well that's a podcast thank you to
everybody who came on the rally and followed along on the old instagrams and
whatnot it was fun rally ever best rally ever until the next one see you next
time bye bye
About this episode
After a busy, tiring morning, the hosts jump into real-world car care—pressure washing bugs off paint and dealing with dirt that cakes into wheel barrels. They then zoom out to the “Camping While Awesome” rally/camping trip along California roads, including Big Sur and a tarmac favorite, plus how traction, momentum, and power-to-weight shape rally fun. Between shared meals, partner swag, and a few near-misses (like a fuel pump failure), the episode ties driving enjoyment to preparation and community.
