Car Accessories and Odd Finds
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Pontiac Aztek
The Pontiac Aztek is a unique SUV that was made for people who liked camping. It had some unusual features, like the ability to attach a tent to it, which made it stand out from other cars.
Brand
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce is a famous car brand that makes very expensive and luxurious cars. They are known for their high quality and special features.
Concept
toilets in cars
Some very fancy cars, like certain Rolls Royce models, have toilets built inside them. This is a luxury feature that makes the car even more comfortable for passengers.
Concept
matching accessories
Matching accessories are items like bags and umbrellas that look like the inside of your car. It was a trend where people liked to have their personal items match their car's style.
Car
Porsche Cayenne
The Porsche Cayenne is a fancy SUV that drives really well and has a lot of luxury features. It's made by Porsche, a brand famous for sports cars.
Term
car cover
A car cover is a protective blanket for your car. It keeps the car safe from dirt and bad weather when it's not being used.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Mustang is a popular sports car made by Ford. It's known for being fast and stylish, and many people love to drive it.
Term
zero point one five
Zero point one five is a measurement of how much alcohol is in your blood. It's a way to see if someone is too drunk to drive. If your level is this high, it means you're very impaired and shouldn't be driving.
Term
accessory
An accessory for a car is something extra you can add to make it better or look nicer. It could be things like a roof rack or special floor mats.
Term
gas scooter
A gas scooter is a small scooter that runs on gasoline instead of electricity. It's easy to ride and can be stored in the trunk of a car for quick trips.
Term
traction
Traction is how well a car's tires can hold onto the road. When it's icy, good traction helps prevent slipping and sliding.
Term
chains
Chains are metal loops that you can put on your car's tires to help them grip the road better when it's snowy or icy.
Car
Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish sports car that many people love to drive. It's known for being powerful and fun, and it's a car that represents American car culture. People often talk about it because it's exciting and has a long history of being a favorite among car fans.
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guys as well. Got a lot of cool stuff set
up for you guys out there, so stay posted. That
is what beginning of November is, when Sema starts November fourth. Second, second,
that's what it is. It's one of those days, I'll
tell you guys before we end up. We got a
little time, but all that stuff's going to run together.
Like I said, this gets to be our kind of our busy time.
Speaker 3: November fourth, November fourth, November seventh, and November seventh will be a open to public day because it's Friday, so it's open to the public. We'll be covering some of
that as well. But the Creepy Car Show version of
their show is on October eighteenth, from nine am till two thirty. They are doing pre registration, so make sure
you guys get registered on the seventy five to seven Auto Events web page. They have the link posted up
there on stuff like that.
Speaker 2: All right, a little house chemity, it's all taking care.
So I'm going to jump into this week's show. Hey,
last week, thanks for all the respons we got from people.
It was pretty cool. I guess. We talked about the
what if game. It was a fun game to play.
So this week, once again I ended up online and had some interesting conversations with some of our listeners and yeah, no, I thought, you know what I like When our listeners give me some ideas and stuff talk about on the show.
It changes up the pace a little bit then just covering your normal stories and stuff like that. This We've
talked about this particular subject in different variations throughout the years, but I never really dug into it really deeply. We
just talked about like, what was there out there or somebody who posts and I was like, oh, that's neat, and we talked about it, like maybe a little blurb this is weird accessories. Now we've talked about weird accessories.
They're coming cars. I'm not talking so much stuff that
like you've added. I'm talking about weird accessories that actually
came with cars, like it was already there. Okay, Now,
I guess some of the stuff could have been a dealer add on, but most of this stuff that we got talking this week with a lot of our listeners and they were posting things again and tell me, you know certain things I didn't know. There's a bunch of them.
I had no idea, and you just look at me strangely, and I was like, where's this going. There is some
very strange things that were on cars, that were added to cars over the years, that came with them as models that I would have never expected ever to be in a car.
Speaker 3: Some of the strang used to come with cars, met and this is just such a weird thing. Used to
come with CD players.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the CD players and cars, but now nowadays we just use your cell phones.
Speaker 3: But they used to add we have to go, but have you ever seen those I haven't seen that be used like in many many years.
Speaker 2: I think the last one, Towyter Alexis is. I think
that I think I looked up one time was the last car to have a CD player before they got rid of I think that was who was the last one? Officially?
Keep it and take it out? But this goes a
little stranger. Okay, So so it's funny. You gave me
a good segue. I think we talked about this years
ago when we were talking about weird things with cars, But this one I did know. So one of the listeners,
Ares that was playing along, submitted this one to me.
Did you know that there was cars that had record players in the record players? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yes, where would the record go on the record player?
But where would the record?
Speaker 4: Don't assuming sat in the back almost where the center console is, so you had to have.
Speaker 3: A back first, and that put the record on, like you like stop and like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But I can tell you that a picture that I saw, I already knew this one right. So many that, yeah,
so many questions. Do you make sure it doesn't bounce
off of the one I saw? The picture that I saw,
I want to. If I remember correctly, it was a
Chrysler unit made by Christler. I was out of the fifties,
and the picture that was in description, if I was looking at it right, it looked like it was kind of like where the glub box would be and it kind of came down and that's right where it was.
But then I started thinking about even then you'd have to like reach over and put the you know, like strange feature for car. And then I started thinking about it.
I'm like, okay, record player. Now, when I was a kid,
we get in trouble because we'd be dance around and we bumped the record player all the time and make the record go, we skip and stuff like that. I
can't imagine going down the road. I mean thinking about
first of all, cars in the fifties and is probably didn't have like the best.
Speaker 3: And it's not like you can just hit play either, like me, you're running back on You're not getting it back onto the right track. You skipped a part of
that song just a second ago. I mean, like it's
so many forward, so many, so many questions I have out here.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, I knew that that one existed because it had called conversation before about cars. But
I have so many questions about who thought that was a good idea? How that evening is now? Maybe if
it was like a luxury car or something like that, maybe I kind of would have kind of got it.
Maybe even that, I don't really get it. I don't
get it. No, I don't like because where do you
keep the records? Add then you know, like.
Speaker 4: They made different size records, so.
Speaker 2: We're always thinking, you're not You're thinking like you're thinking about forty five, which is you know, is the little ones?
You're thinking a big record, there's forty five's little tiny record. No,
I understand that, But what if it was it? What
if it was the big ones? I mean maybe I
don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: So many quick like what happens if it was interchangeable?
You could have used both sizes?
Speaker 2: I mean, oh you can. Well maybe because when I
was a kid, we had record players and they only replace a certain ones only played like you come out play something, Yeah you have to play with the right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I assume that forty five plays. I mean
I assume like a regular record player plays a forty five, right.
Speaker 2: It does? Forgot But not vice versas, right, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now they make it where like the little the needle part comes and.
Speaker 4: Slides out, so you wouldn't need to it always sits in the middle.
Speaker 2: No, but on the records, he's right, you know your brother's right. He is.
Speaker 3: Are you ever sat down and played a record player before he has? Because I have.
Speaker 2: We had a record player when you guys are younger. Congrats, alright,
ready I got a different one for you. Right, so
this is a little newer. There was a car that
had an expresso maker in it.
Speaker 4: Not that's interesting, it's a pretty good one. You think
that's well, think about it pulls an expression.
Speaker 3: Thinking steamed milk. How are you if I pull up
next to you and you got to hold one going to be baffled?
Speaker 4: You have an.
Speaker 3: Expresso maker in the car. But if I also look
over and you're literally one hand on the wheel and you're steaming milk like you're still.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they went that.
Speaker 4: It doesn't need milk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't even express what happened. I mean, granted
that you can't happen with it, but it's not like the best way to have it. Here's the thing about me.
The thing for me was a I didn't know a car had that in it, and the fact that it was twenty thirteen, which wasn't very long ago, is what I was thinking. Like when when I heard that and
somebody gave that up, like people were giving suggestions, I had to look at up car is it?
Speaker 3: It's a Fiat really it was a Fiat small as a Fiat Fia.
Speaker 2: On top of it was expressed it. Yes it did
it did. I had to go look it up. I
was like, I was like, you know that that was a gimmick at one time. Well, no, the gimmick would
have been the remember the b bug that had the flower holder on it. That was kind of more gimmicky.
This is just it's a little bit out there. I
don't know. I mean, you guys heard talking and I've
given I've actually given praise to this. But I remember
reading a bunch of articles I told you guys about the Pontiac Aztech and the Pontiac Aztech was originally known as the car with the tent, but they had had a pot right because it was made to be Like I've talked about this on the show before. I know
this comes up in conversation a couple of times since we've had a show in all the years we've had it, because to me, I still believe that it was a really good idea for somebody who wanted to have a maybe a weird ASTech was a weird suv, but but you wanted to have it as an all purpose It had all this camping stuff that was that was the true purpose of that vehicle. I don't think anybody ever
really a lot of people owned it. Just drove almost
about buying like a four wheel drive that you never used, right but.
Speaker 4: Like a jeep and just driving on the road buying this was.
Speaker 2: This had a full tent accessory to it. It had
a bunch of camping gear that went too. Like this
one thing was designed for the person who wanted a car that needed to drive. I wanted to take it
and go camping with it, and it had all the stuff to it. It was very unusual for its time.
It still kind of is. Obviously we're still talking about it.
But I got it, and I've mentioned that car several times throughout the years because it kind of was a marvel for what they were trying to do with it.
I don't think anybody ever truly used it for its full purpose except maybe if you live like if you lived in like Washington, Oregon something like that. I can
see Howeop probably would have used it for his full potential.
Not that it was the best car in the world, because let's just be honest, they weren't. Now, the transmissions
in them were just completely just issues, complete issues, but the idea of it. I serve two purposes. And I
don't know how, but when I saw I had it was a brochure. Somebody gave me a brochure for it,
and it just had all this crazy stuff that it was basically just a really small camper. Then instead of
being like an RV, it was had a tent on it instead that was like the designment. And then people
just start driving as everyday cars. And I used to
laugh because I was like, that's not really it's intent, but then it kind of became its intent. It was
very strange after it being introduced me when I was younger, as look at this thing, and then people were driving them every day, and I'm like, oh, that's not what that was really intended for. But I'm thinking maybe they
didn't sell as many as they thought for what it was intended for, and then that flipped over on it.
Speaker 4: So well, like I said, it's always like it's like when people drive jeeps. No, no, yeah, they you know,
they're just driving them just as a daily.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, I don't. I don't disagree with you.
There's a lot of cars that have strange, strange things, so I want to have to start looking at all of them, right, So look at this all right. I
don't want to mention this one. Yeah, this one's actually
pretty strange. There was two vehicles that had that too.
I meant to wait to I go to go to a commercial break for it. But you had cars that
had like parallel wheel assemblies. One of the ones that
was very strange one and I told you guys about it.
There was dog carriers on the outside of your car.
So there's cages, and you used to put your dog on the outside of your car on a cage out on the running boards. And I told you guys, and
one of the shows you talk about, I saw a you would think I saw an attachment. Years ago there
was an old advertisement where they had kids like little kid's seat for out on the running board. So they
used to sit on the ol running board, and I'm like, and we've talked about in the air before. I was like,
you would never get away with that. Now you never
get away with putting your dog outside on the running board.
Yeah no, Cad, think about what would happen to you.
But that was normal stuff, very very normal. What isn't
normal to me is going to be the next one I tell you about. But I gotta take quick commercial breaks.
So hold tight, let me take quick imercial break. I'll
come back. You're gonna want to hear this one. This
one's really strange. You're right back.
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Now back to your host Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So I had to actually look
it up. I know we'd like, I know, we talked
about I was trying to figure out in what year it was in decade, Yeah, what decade? What years was
with you're putting kids out on running boards? So it
was seventy four, So apparently there was no there's nothing official that people can say that this car was designed with that. They do have evidence though, and show that
people were creating their own thing, or maybe there was an aftermarket item available that was attached to the running board of cars which let the kids sit out on the running board and ride, which is crazy because as you look it up and I got to hear in front of me in nineteen thirty nine there's a photo of kids riding out on the running board that was discovered.
And then in nineteen sixty there was a baby carriage that's made to hang from the door that if you go look up, there's a picture of which says wasn't intended and I'm gonna air quote that it wasn't intended for babies to be hung outside the car. But that
was the sixties.
Speaker 3: Like I just want to know, like who's bright mind?
Like it's like, you know, you know, we don't know what we should put up on the outside.
Speaker 2: Of the car us to argue with each other. I
know we're safe, but.
Speaker 4: When you think about them just hanging the babies out the window, it's way better to have someone from.
Speaker 3: Like Daniel said, he is like, wow, did so many just side clips it? And my question was are you
gonna be more worried about the baby about the car?
I mean, like just a all right, do you think that's.
Speaker 2: A strange one? I told you I had another strange
one for you. What if I what is the strangest thing?
I mean ask, what's the strangest thing you can think as an accessory that a car would came with?
Speaker 4: Accessory?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and accessory that a car came with if you could just throw off the top of your head, don't take forever. What do you think camera? What's the strangest one?
A toaster? Mm? Okay, toasternate? What do you got?
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, like a grill or something like a grill you were there is something to cook some hot dogs along.
Speaker 2: I was going with this, but you give us a hint.
I will tell you just so you know that there is a car that came with a kettle, a tea kettle and a stove in star. We knew it was
something about about hitting something which I thought was strange.
Speaker 4: Yes, stove again not the strangest guy. So was it
an easy bake oven?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just says it came with a
kettle and a stove and a tea kettle. Yea. Did
the tea kettle like you have to like? Did it
lock in the place or was it just bouncing everybody like one of those like boast of so many questions, so many And I looked trying to look. I couldn't.
I couldn't find a picture of it. But how strange
that was something somebody.
Speaker 3: You know that that had to be in like, yeah, it lasted one year, It had to be like.
Speaker 2: Very well, I don't know Rolls Royce or something Rose Royce would make sense for a tea kettle. I could
see your tea all right. So since you said Rolls Royce,
what do you think is we still hadn't hit the tip of the iceberg of the strangest thing. Guess what
Rolls Royce had in them. I'm gonna give it you
because it takes forever. You guys are all get if
you guys haven't figured this out. This is strange. Rules
Royce at one point in time had toilets in them toilets, really toilets, toilets toilets to you still take a crap?
Pretty fancy, it's pretty fancy, pretty you have to think about this? Is somebody? Do you have to think about this?
How did you you just you just left the seat.
Speaker 3: Don't understand that, but like, were you in like the middle of a business meeting with somebody and you're like, one second, he's gonna take a crap and you pull your pants down they and still have the conversation with the guy next to you.
Speaker 2: Now, my mind even goes all the way to what happened.
That was a shared car you away probably share and he just took a crap. He gets out. The next
person gets serious, like you already knew what I was.
Speaker 4: Going up, and like like, oh, this is the year they did not have to four?
Speaker 5: You know not?
Speaker 4: You know you're a couple of miles from the next town.
You gotta go. You don't want to pull over. You're
gonna be late.
Speaker 2: I picked the kids up. Justify hold on, you are
sitting in the same Okay, you do not help your kids.
Let's help your kids. Say, is a far distance, right,
Let's say it's an hour and a half. Well ten
minutes into your trip you took the crap. That means
that you were still sitting on the crapper where.
Speaker 4: You just took a crap at apparently, no, no, no, you left half. No, you let the seat up, you
go right and then you know you think about it, right, like did they like was it a trash bag, get a pull out? Or was there like you know, it's
just hitting the pavement?
Speaker 2: You asked, Because I do have the answer for that.
I am so glad you asked. Apparently it was just
a feel bad you just really got ride behind him?
I mean, did you feel.
Speaker 3: Better for the mechanic kind of work on that car?
It was a game of is it dirt or is it to be fair?
Speaker 2: Though? Right?
Speaker 4: I mean if you're like riding behind a horse and carriage, the horse is doing it too.
Speaker 2: And the invention of mudflaps, just so you know.
Speaker 4: That's what you didn't know that that's the reason we got mudflats. You didn't know because it was.
Speaker 2: Did you know that? Yeah, you didn't know that's what
mudflaps were for. That was the invention of mudflaps.
Speaker 3: I did not know that was what what mud flaps were for. But at the same time, somebody, and it
wasn't mud efforts of planning and designing probably for a year, and said, I got a brilliant I have an idea for you add a hole.
Speaker 2: Just to be fair, Rolls Royce was not the only person that decided to put a crapper in the car. No,
Cadillac had one. It caught on, No, because yea like
apparently was before the Rolls Royce says, nineteen forty seven is when Cadillac had it, and it was in the fifties that the Rolls Royce had it. So, yeah, there
you go, Cameron, you're all caught up. Cameron was trying
to test how many times we can say the word crap on the air. Apparently we got it all in there.
He was testing that. All right, moving on, all right,
ready for another one. Do you know that it was popular?
Now this I could see this craze catching on today.
This is one that one of our female listeners give me, gave me, give me, gave me. And I didn't I
didn't know. I had to go look it up. But
it was very popular at one point in time to have matching accessories to go with your car. So they
made purses that matched the car that you drove, which I did not know that, and umbrellas that you had that matched your car. So what they were doing is
apparently are doing like special print on the interior, and then they would make a purse and an umbrella the same pattern as the interior of the car taken off nowadays totally taken off.
Speaker 3: And yeah, because I mean think about it. You come
home with a poor schechuttee three yard us, your wife is mad at you, and then you go, but I got you a purse to match it, and now she's happy.
Speaker 4: That's probably why they did it, because back in the day, the guy bought the car because he kind of wanted it, and you know, to help sell it to the miss a purse or something, you know, or umbrella.
Speaker 2: Look, and she didn't want just the purse. We threw
in the umbrella, not just a purse. But you can
give her an umbrella too, and you get home she'll be less mad about it. But it just tells you
how times have changed.
Speaker 4: But I do think like they got to get back to that because I do kind of miss like the small goodies that you get when you buy a car, like I didn't get no goodies.
Speaker 3: You'll get goodies you don't, but a lot of the goodies are already taken from you before it ever gets to you. Someone that dealerships just have stock rooms full.
Speaker 2: I've said this before. I've had this conversation about there
is still really cool things to come with cars. They
just don't get them out in the cars anything.
Speaker 3: You know that some of the cars and I won't This would be the last thing I say about it.
You know, some of the cars that you buy don't come with the goodies, and then the goodies are shipped to the corporate.
Speaker 2: Office and they're supposed to contact you to give you the good news, and it never happens. Well, I told
you guys. I had the conversation with you guys about
the floor mats. So when I bought the car and
it came with weather guard, which obviously everybody knows that's an upgrade feature. The car came with weather guard floor mats.
Where's the original it was? It was in the description
of everything the car is supposed to come with, right, listen to that. When I purchased a car. The car
goes through it's it's PDI and get given to me and it has no formats whatsoever in the car.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, they took the weather ones out too.
Speaker 2: They never install the weather ones in, nor did they leave the original you know, carpet ones that were in the car either. And I called and the guys like, oh, yeah,
I have them. And it was some outrage just inflated
price to get him. I was like, no, no, I already
paid for me. He's like, oh no, you had to
pay for him. Do you know how many people I know
that got ripped off on that right? And I was like, nope,
it is listed in the description. He says, no, sir,
we sell him, we don't give him. And I was like,
it's in a description. And I went back and I
brought in my complete description. I'm like, right there, and
it says rubber, whether tech or whatever it was, the floor mats and stuff like that, and like I said, I know, I'm getting a good set. They about six
hundred dollars nowadays and a complete set or whatever they are.
So I was like, no, no, he leaves. He came
back like twenty minutes later with the complete set, which tells you that they came with they came with the car, and they're just taking all this stuff. I had a
friend buy a really nice sports car and in a description it says it comes with a car cover for it, which is got the logo and all that kind of stuff.
The car wasn't with the car, and they try to sell him one, and I'm like, he came back without it, and he was like, oh, you know, they told me how to buy. I was like, it's in your description.
I just went through this. He went back, had a
conversation with him, and he came back with his car cover at no price because it was it came with.
Speaker 4: I Pops asked me, when I bought my car, did you get use that No.
Speaker 2: Because he was supposed to car you was supposed to come with some stuff.
Speaker 4: And even looked and he wasn't even on the paperwork either.
I' app sure they just stopped giving stuff away.
Speaker 2: But when you looked up his Mustang in the description of what the car comes with online, it was supposed to have a car cover with it, and it was supposed to have something something else. I can't wor with
the other thing, but was supposed to have a car cover and something else that says in the description online for his car, and like, you didn't get any of those.
He's like no, I'm like it's it wasn't on his paperwork, which is a printed up dealer sticker, but in the description of what the car comes with online it says.
Speaker 3: That that was the description you build a car online and stuff, and you know you picked that like special package where you're like the sports package or like the deluxe package, and it's like, oh, like, for example, if you go pick this one package on the brand new Chevy, it gives you.
Speaker 2: All the black emblems. However, you can go.
Speaker 3: Down and still select to add the black emblems. And
I'm like, you know what, I wonder if some people are selecting the black emblems double and they're getting charged for the black emblems because they selected that option but not realizing that it already.
Speaker 2: Came a part of this one package. You'd be surprised
what people get away with. And you'll be surprised what something.
I'm not saying all the dealerships do, but a lot of the dealerships get away with. If you just read
some of the fine prant and stuff it tells you a lot of stuff, and sometimes suck gets overlooked. Hey, guys,
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So we've been talking about weird
accessories for cars, things that we hadn't discussed for that listeners actually gave me some ideas and then how they go do some research on and figure it out. So
we're talking about times changing, right, and we know times have definitely changed. Obviously you've not putting people on the
outside of your car anymore and driving around with them.
I would love to see how that would go for you.
But here's one that's still I get it, but it still mystifies me. Anybody ever thought this was a good
idea Cars that came with minibars in them. It's a
great ideas. We should bring that back.
Speaker 4: Don't you agree?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no, you agree that you should
have a mini bar in your car? Why no? I
mean why not? I mean absolutely not? Makes it more fun?
I mean why not? I mean no, No, absolutely, not
like it was in the back. So I've seen pictures both.
I've seen where there's a mini bar in the back, and I get that if it's a luxury car, you had a driver, all that kind of stuff. Now, then
I would agree with Cameron. Sure, I guess that could
have some advantages to it. But I've seen somewhere it
was it was in the front, and I'm like, how like, who like? Who ever thought that was a great idea?
First of all, drinking and driving? Somebody look up, one
was drinking and driving. When did it become illegal? When
did they actually make that a law and become illegal?
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 3: The only reason why I would think it would be fun is like think about you know, you get stuck on the side of the road. Now you can have
a whole mini bar to yourself. You get the tire
back on the car. Now it's not even but.
Speaker 2: You're not supposed to drive, not Germany. I know you're
not driving the car. Now, you're pushing the car. I mean, okay,
So the answer turned from changing the tire to push in the car. What's the answer?
Speaker 4: So the answer was New York started it in nineteen ten.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ten, Do you I started that far back? Yeah,
I would even.
Speaker 4: Think, And then slowly but surely all the states followed.
So by by nineteen ten, it was nearly half the states prohibited it, and then by nineteen eighty eight it was nationwide outlawed.
Speaker 2: Okay, why I wonder what it were the last states?
That's that'd probably be the easier question asked. From nineteen
ten to nineteen eighty eight, it took seventy eight years for one, at least one of the states ago hold out.
I think we shouldn't drink and drive. That's crazy, though.
Speaker 4: It was even crazier is that in nineteen thirty six is when the breathalyzer came out, or it's called a Drunkel meter is what they named it.
Speaker 2: Wow, So twenty years between basically which we looked that up. Yeah, okay,
So what you're saying is it was basically twenty years of guessing person was drunk or not. And then I
guess my second question would be when in Virginia. What
year when Virginia be one of the first Yeah, you would think you probably probably not the case. I just
it just seems to me in today's modern age, did even think about having a mini bar in your vehicle and like just drive around? You got alcohol models just
like that now that you can't have like just so strange to me. Now, keep in mind, I wrote a
lot of limos when I was when I was younger, and they all had full bars in them. I get
that set up. But I'm just talking about it's your
every day car. You're drier out at a mini bar now.
I think I told you I had a friend who rigged up a drink dispenser in his car that when I was in high school that he could he and I guess when you're in high school, Oh that's pretty cool.
Like now as a as an adult, I go, oh, well, that probably wasn't as ingenius as we thought it was back then, just because everything that goes along with drinking and driving. Everybody knows, if you ever talked to me,
I'm not a big fan of it. I understand how
sometimes you're in situations or whatever and you didn't think clearly whatever. I get that. It's not what I'm talking about.
I'm just talking about when it's just a regular thought on your on your horizon to go ahead and do so.
I don't.
Speaker 4: So it's pretty interesting too because it was the nineteen thirty eight was the first time a blood alcohol content was set and it was zero point fifteen. It was
only in the two thousands we changed to zero point zero eight.
Speaker 2: Really wow, so a lot so even though.
Speaker 4: Even even though it was banned, you know, people were still doing it and getting away with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely happen.
Speaker 4: It's basically just how how smashed were you?
Speaker 2: How zero point one five used to be the limit? Yeah,
beers is to take to drink that before you reach.
Speaker 4: That zero point one five.
Speaker 6: Six eight.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Yeah, I got an know where were run for you? While you're looking that up. All right, You
guys probably don't remember, but I do. In the nineteen
eighties an accessory for the cars, there was a scooter available in the trunk. Yeah, scooter, scooter, a gas scooter.
What apparently just in case you broke down, he had a gas scooter or maybe it was just a weird novelty, but it was in a Honda, and Honda in the back of the trunk had a fold out mini scooter that you could ride. Yeah. In fact, uh, about three
years ago I was actually had a car show, and a guy had the car, the Honda, and the scooter both on display that it came in all restored. Now
that was pretty cool. How many people used the scooter?
I don't know. Why would you have a scooter just
in case you break down? Maybe? Okay?
Speaker 4: To answer your question about how many beers it would take anywhere from five four to six okay, depending on your weight.
Speaker 2: Why it's a lot about I knew it had to be quite a few to get up there. That's why
I was asking it. So, yeah, it was a scooter.
It was a scooter or car. Another weird item? Give give,
give you this one. This one threw me for a
little bit of loop. I never heard of this, never
knew that it existed. I know you're still stuck on scooter.
Let me move on. The scooter is a cool idea?
No way? A skateboard? No raight? Well yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: You just roll around if you're not in your car.
Speaker 2: All right? Ready for this one. This thing was called
the flame Out? Any idea what it was? The flame
Out was the actual official name for it. It was
a jet patterned scooter to.
Speaker 4: It any ideas something to do with flames coming out your exhaust.
Speaker 2: See that's what I thought. No, No, okay, the flame out?
Who was a vacuum assist ash tray that you when you smoked in your car and you ash in your car and you dropped your cigarette. But it sucked it
out of the ashtray, I guess, and ejected it out of the car, so it wasn't stuck in your ashtray.
And it was named the flame out. And how many
of those cars caught on fire? I don't think any
of them, I don't know. But what a weird I mean,
like talk about a weird gadget to have in your car.
That's definitely true. Think about it. If you flicked a
cigarette but out the window. Nowadays you get pulled over
for it, for littering or whatever, and I mean all the different kinds of things. But they actually had a
device that would suck it out, I think when I did do a little bit of research on this, so just so y'all know, I believe that it went into a canister located somewhere else in the car.
Speaker 4: Okay, is that what it did?
Speaker 2: I think that's what it did. Looking looking at what
I some of the once people gave me, I've never heard of some of these people, and it's great because I didn't even know they existed. So I tried to
go do a little bit of research on some of these things that people put up there to see. In
one of this I saw a setup and it looked like it's being sucked like into a canister, and it's held in the canister that you could empty somewhere else.
But it didn't show me where where the canister was in the car. It just showed me like the mock
up sketch of how it worked.
Speaker 4: Right, So that's still pretty interesting that it's pretty cool something different.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was a car that had an ice maker.
Speaker 3: In it, that would be cool. An ice maker that
would be you. That would be your favorite invention right there.
Speaker 2: Sounds sounds expensive, yeah, but that should buy it, you know, he would. If you guys don't know, did the ice
mixer come with the bar? No? I don't know, maybe not,
if you guys don't know. I don't like to drink
drinks without ice in it, so it's weird. I guess
one of my weird fetishes. I like ice in there.
Almost everything I drink. I even to some degree, will
drink ice and milk just so it's cold enough. I
don't and which people think is really gross and weird.
But it's so one of my weird things that I do.
Have you never seen them do it. It puts some
milk together.
Speaker 4: It's not I don't think I've ever been like, you know what, I wish my milk was just a lovely color.
Speaker 2: I have been, though I have been. I don't know.
I can't. I see. I have people friends that drink
warm soda and stuff. All my life. I've had friends
that just open up, it's on their counter. They just
pour themselves soda in a glass, drink warm. I've never
been able to do that. Everything has to be cold.
Speaker 3: Milk and ice together. I ain't gonna lass out there
with my head twisted.
Speaker 2: To be fair, hold on to be fair, just so we're fair. It's not like I sit there and wait
for them for the ice to melt in my milk because that it's weird. I won't drink I drink it.
I just want it colder, that's all. But you immediately
see it hit the ice and you're like, yeah, come on now, it's not that bad, all right. It's like
putting mayonnaise on here's one that I've actually seen that most people probably don't know exist. Did you okay, do
you know how you need traction in a car in the ice?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh, okay, you're talking about the chains. I know
you're gonna say change right, one change for actual personal vehicles.
Speaker 2: No, I've never seen automatic chains. But there was something
it's very similar to that. This is called liquid chain,
And what it was is it was a substance that had a dispenser that had a sprayer on it that you could activate that would spray this liquid substance on your tires and give you a traction. It was called
liquid change. I think actually we've talked about that too.
I think you and I, I think we were at Sema a couple of years ago. You and I actually
saw a car that had it, and we talked about what it was, and I was explaining to you.
Speaker 3: Basically like windshield white or sprayers basically, but you had a button.
Speaker 2: That very similar to it. Yeah, Wheels, I think you
were with me too when we saw it. We saw
a car that was restored and it had it, and I think you asked me like, what was that? And
I explained what it was. Only because I knew that
that existed. I was like, they also have I've never
seen one up to that point that they also have automated ones where if it knows that there's tractions to slick, it's like wheels like underneath the car and it spends the wheels and change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, change are just fading there and it just turns the wheels and throws the chains underneath the tire.
Speaker 4: Show design for that one, I've never I do know that they used to have railroad wheels under the cars and they used to lower them down and then you could drive your car on the rail They.
Speaker 2: Still have that, but it's not for just ever anybody regular Well yeah, it's actually that's yes, they do have that one. It's only for people who work on the railroads.
But it would be cool, and it probably wouldn't because wouldn't you don't have communication no when the train's coming.
So listen, get that not cool idea whatever. Here's like
here's a little bit of like off top.
Speaker 4: Whatever happened to the cars that could like you could like go in the water, the im Merciful cars.
Speaker 2: Cars just kind of they went out. They were out.
They were cool design. But they want there's there's there's
somebody remaking one right now, looks like a corvette.
Speaker 3: You realize right now we have a jeep owner comming on our thing right now, going my car.
Speaker 2: Goes in the river. I mean, come on now, they're
not the same. It's a little different. I don't know.
There's floats. There's definitely some weird accessories are out there
that a lot of people just don't even realize that they're out there. People, I said, listeners, give me all these
different ones. But uh yeah, look them up. If you
hear one of you that you like and you want to see a picture of it pop up on the internet, check it out on that note, guys, let me take another courcial break. We got one more segment be for you.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's another topic that is
kind of similar, but it's not it has to do with cars, of course. I mean, I guess it's similar
to that fashion as long.
Speaker 4: As it has to do with cars, as long as he has to do cars right.
Speaker 2: So we have talked many, many times about weird habits that people have, right when it comes to their cars, in their cars, outside of their cars, and stuff like that.
And somebody you've decided I got a hey Dave, and they're like, hey, Dave, here's some things that are habits.
You guys talk about people eating weird foods all the time.
Here's some other, yeah, car say, He's like, yeah, He's like, here's some other weird habits that people have in their cars. Now,
I don't think i've seen evidence. I've never seen it happen.
Just because I was a car business. You see a
lot of weird stuff in people's cars when you get sit down in their car, and I have gone, eh, just hoping maybe wasn't What do you think one of the weird habits that people have why they're in their cars?
And truly never I never thought about it, other than the fact that I have seen evidence of it, but not seeing it cameraon. I'll start with you something weird
people doing their cars hip, weird habits people have while they're in their cars while they're driving. They could be
in traffic or driving whatever it may be. This one's
strange to me. I don't know. Okay, all right, I'll
let you have a pass with than you got one, man, I'm strange. Weird habits, Yeah, weird habits.
Speaker 4: I mean like brushing your teeth.
Speaker 2: You've nailed it. Yeah, brushing your teeth, that was one
of I was like.
Speaker 4: Like, they got a coffee cup with the two brushing it.
Speaker 2: That's exactly how I pictured it when I when when somebody one of the listeners said to me, but I have seen evidence of it, I said, you know, I was in the car business forever. So some two pages
lying there, I've seen toothbrush like sitting in a zip block baggie like in someone's car, And I'm like, oh, that's kind of strange. I really hope they're not rushing
their teeth with that. And then this person goes they've
seen it many of times that they've seen people like sitting in traffic brushing their teeth. I know it's Grossen's like, oh, okay,
it gets weirder. Okay, let me let me just take
you a little bit further. It's in the same category.
But I would people flossing their teeth, like what I've seen that I've seen that you've seen floss in their teeth? Really, yeah,
I've seen people like floss their teeth in traffic. Yeah
you don't think that's gross, I mean I do. I
mean things flick fling out, and.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, but because then like some of the things that like people beat us doing in the car, Like.
Speaker 2: You're thinking about people picking their notes. I know you mean,
I mean, like you said.
Speaker 4: Eating right with camera.
Speaker 2: Cameras. You guys, so many weird things people could be
doing in their cars, which unfortunately, some strange things happen in people's cars. But I've never seen anybody flows their
tee in their car. I have seen the typical put
on makeup. I see makeup.
Speaker 4: I was too, but I was like, that's kind of like a.
Speaker 3: Put on makeup one and I ain't gonna laugh. Thought
about just tapping the back plump while the right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, right lipsticker. I saw a lady put
on makeup and watch her just rear end somebody and probably about forty five miles an hour. I was directly
behind her, and every time we came to a stop light, she had the mirror down and I could see her in the mirrorcause she has the mirror down the right time, and I could see her, and she steadily put on makeup.
We take off drive and she's driving run about forty five miles an hour, and I see her driving and putting on like it look like mass scare is what looked like to me. And the car fire broke up,
broke the brakes, and I was like, oh, she ain't stopping and never saw a pretty classes plow right the car right in from and just plow right. At least
at least she looked good when it happened. I don't
know if she looked good. I don't know. I don't,
I don't don't, but only half an face. So I
thought that was weird. Another weird one that people do.
And I probably I've never seen people actually change clothes in traffic, and I believe that one. I've never really
seen anybody change cloth. I've seen somebody like put on
a jacket. I've seen somebody try to take their jacket
off in traffic. I guess they're trying to hold the
wheel at their knees and try to like, you know, pull off their I've seen that, But I've never seen if somebody physically changed clothes. But I started thinking about this.
I was like, head to their second job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just wait to your part.
Speaker 2: You could do that. No, I mean I've changed clothes before.
Speaker 4: When when driving you change your pants, You've done your shirt.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've done pants.
Speaker 3: I have done shirt and multiple times. I mean, but yeah,
it's not No, I don't think I've done pants because I'm controlling the throttle, so I don't think I would do pants.
Speaker 2: You guys know, I can't speak because I've told you guys about driving naked, So I mean, like, I obviously have been there at some point.
Speaker 4: It's a little different than changing clothes during your driving.
Speaker 2: Though it is now, It's a little different. No. The
scary part is that the shirt has to go over top of your head right at one place. Why you
are completely blind at least for five seconds. I don't know
it's five seconds, but I get yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But yeah, somebody breaks in front of you, you're gonna be just like the other girl.
Speaker 2: I mean. Here's one that a listener sent to me,
because of course, once I started getting on this topic, I was like, Okay, I'm just curious who else has seen some weird stuff. And apparently it's a phenomenon. Something
happens in the head or the mine or something like that that people start cleaning out their glove boxes why they're sitting in traffic. I've done that. I'm a clean freak,
and I have done never done a while I'm in traffic, but apparently it is a very common thing. If I'm
heading to go clean the car, you know, so that's maybe that's a little bit different. It's a little different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm going to go clean the car, why not going to jump start on the trash and you're in traffic?
Speaker 2: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 4: I feel like you've done that too, I mean, like thinking about your center console, you grasp console.
Speaker 2: So we're not why I'm driving. No, absolutely, that's just
it's such a weird thing I have. I'll be the
first one to admit that I have opened up my center console looked inside of it while I'm driving, just because you're sitting there and stuff like. But usually it's
because I'm like, no, I've everyone wasn't there lately, you know what I mean? Like you know, I mean just
but I've never got technical clean it out.
Speaker 3: I've fully taken out like lottery tickets through seats and stuff and like just gone as I'm just the traffic lights certain and then like and like I'll have a bag usually sitting on the passenger seat. I'll just throw
it in the bag and everything and then the stuff I want to keep, I'll usually put in my door card and go, okay, don't touch the door card until I clean this, and then move it over to this and I'm like.
Speaker 2: I said, I've seen weird things. I mean, that seems
maybe strange to me. I've watched people, well, so we
have in our area. Guys, if you're not for the
hampt Rose are, you probably don't know. We got a
lot of bridges, a lot of tunnels, stuff like that, and you get stuck at them quite often. I have
been at the bridge and been stuck and watched the guy get out and I'm almost assuming because I know there's a car wash somewhere close to where that bridge is at got out literally in his truck and started like armorolling his tires and doing his tires while we were sitting there waiting for the bridge, and I'm like, that's dedicated. I was like, what a weird place to
polish up your car, but dedicated and fault him. I
was just like, okay, something, I want to be here for a little bit, you know. I mean, apparently some
people's minds just go really really fast and they got to keep themselves busy. So that's how I thought. Okay,
I kind of understand cleaning out the glove box because maybe a little ADHD kicks in. You do something I
don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: You though, he was thinking. He was like, I wonder
if he'll let me borrow that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I was not.
Speaker 3: I mean I've I've gotten I've been parked before at like waiting for something to open, like a bridge or a tunnel, and I've gotten out before and started cleaning some of my stuff too. Never you know, I've I've
rearranged the back seats before, I've moved stuff in the trunk, and I've always wondered too, Like you know that you're on a highway and people are just watching you, I'm just like, let him watch, I mean at least watcher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you ever this is something that somebody was talking about it I had to do with. I don't
think it's strange habits, but it does fall in somebody game.
They're like, have you ever been in traffic and you just look over and the guy next to you in traffic is just straight on just staring at you just, I mean just like full on, just eyes wide open.
Cameron's the guy I already know people. Yeah, I'm talking
just not because you're trying to mess with somebody, because you're just that's something you were doing in your card, like I guess when somebody gave me this one, I only think maybe you were just sitting there and but you just look over. Or the the other one was
you had anybody just strangely start just aggressively waving at you.
You're like hey, hey, and then they realize they don't know you. CAMRA's like yes, all of a sudden like this,
So it's a game for you.
Speaker 3: It's a game, though, I'm talking about so like I'm I'm the tighter person to wave at you randomly aggressively.
Speaker 2: You wrote down the window and then I turned back facing forward, like I have never waved at you, like you just rode down the window. You like, you're like hello,
I might see you doing that. I'm the type of
person to drive past you.
Speaker 3: And if I know that, you know you're gonna go past me again, I'll start making random faces.
Speaker 2: I'll just be like, yeah, but you're playful and that's just your.
Speaker 3: Or sometimes I'll make really mean mug faces to make them think, what did they do wrong?
Speaker 2: You didn't do? What is wrong with you? A lot
of things? Apparently apparently I don't have enough time for
camera tell me all things.
Speaker 4: This one was it sounds to me like an issue of too much time on his hands, too much energy.
Speaker 3: It's just funny, well driving past people and then they're wondering much wrong with you too?
Speaker 2: I mean this one was different. They're like, you were
somebody's aggressively just waving at you and like like they know you, And all a sudden they realized, like in the mid wave of waving at you, they're like, oh, which tells you that the person they thought dries the exact same car they really thought. And all of a
sudden they realized this mid aggressive wave it, oh, that's not They don't know to do with their hand and they don't know what They're just like uh, and they just like for like it wasn't even like you said, like it wasn't even happening. You guys are gonna call
me crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm even the type of person to go all right, So I saw four kids stickers on the back. I'm
gonna make them road down their window and make them think that they know me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like, how's the kids? You know? Yep?
And then we got a camera counselor at the end of the at the end of the conversation, I'm gonna be like, well, you have a good one. I know
clue who you are, but you don't even say that.
What happens they drive away? You know that guy's in
the car going who is what is that? In the
whole way home, they're trying to forget where they know you from because you're just like, how's the kids and the wife? And they're going to answer you back because
you know they don't everybody. Yeah, they're good. How's your wife?
And then you hit them with a hard one, I'm not married. She passed away last year. And then you
just try off. Yep, camera has a very dark sense
of you. And on that note, that's the end of
our show. Over this week you guys. Hope you guys
enjoyed the show. A lot of cool stuff we covered.
If you have someones we haven't heard of sharing with us, I always like to loop back around and talk about them.
It is Saturday. Enjoy your Saturday. Sunday is right around
the corner. As I always tell you, make sure you
take the cell phone away from the kids unplugged. Send
some time with your kids, play board, game, barbecue, whatever it's gonna take. Do something fun with them. They'll have
the memory of it, and so will you, and you'd be glad that you did. And that note, we're gonna ahead,
get out of here, enjoy your guys this weekend. Talk
to you all soon
About this episode
A lively discussion about bizarre car accessories and features that have appeared in vehicles over the years. From record players and espresso machines to built-in toilets in luxury cars, the hosts explore the strange and often impractical items that manufacturers once thought were good ideas. Listener contributions add to the fun, revealing oddities like cars with mini bars and even a vacuum-assisted ashtray. The episode is filled with humor and nostalgia, making it a fascinating dive into automotive history.
Original notes
This week we take a trip down memory lane to talk about some of the weirdest car accessories from back in the day and the strange things we’ve seen people do in their rides. You won’t want to miss this one on Let’s Talk Cars Radio.
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