Car Opinions, Squatted Trucks, Supercars, Marketplace, Jimmy Dale | Bogetti Solo EP12

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I don't like when they hear my drinking has a lid that makes like all kinds of noise and it goes

like something like that into the cat.

I don't know.

I haven't heard it.

I haven't listened to it back.

So I don't really know.

But we are going live again.

As you guys know, we do this weekly just to have some fun.

Talk about cars.

There's things in the news and I always forget to write them down.

And then I come at you ill-equipped.

But welcome back to the podcast live on TikTok.

I know it's kind of an odd spot to put it.

But it goes live on TikTok and then over to Bogey Studios on YouTube.

And we have a lot of fun.

You know, we just kind of bullshit about cars a little bit.

Is that a car in the background?

It is.

There's multiple cars in the background.

I have CTSV here, Camaro here, Camaro there.

Over there, I got a K car that was painted like the mystery machine that

got dropped from a helicopter doing a burnout.

I got another CTSV on the wall over there.

If you didn't know, I'm in my office, not in the podcast studio.

I should put some more graphics to try to like entice people in because

you got to stop people on the scroll when they're scrolling on TikTok

and a live pops up.

You got to be able to stop them and hook them, like maybe say something crazy,

like squatted trucks are actually really cool and we shouldn't make fun of them.

We should all really respect them because they're pushing the boundaries

of what a ball joint can handle.

So we should all have a little bit more respect for them.

Those, you know, the front axles may be binding, but that doesn't mean

that they're not cool.

Yes, half of a lift kit is cheaper.

So it has actually negatively damaged, you know, the lift companies.

They're not selling quite as many lifts as they used to or not making

as much off of them because they're only selling half of a lift.

We just take the front axles out.

What? That defeats the whole purpose.

I thought the point of a lift was to have.

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Four wheel drive.

So you're telling me this is crazy.

This is news to me, but I've never been around a squatted truck.

I've never owned one or enjoyed one.

I imagine most people that own them also don't enjoy them or own them,

but they have possession of them and possession is close.

I assume they don't own them.

I assume they're either in someone else's name.

They're actively there's actively a repo out on them.

The bank still owns 80 percent of it with potentially

I don't know, 15 to 20 percent interest rates.

I would assume somewhere around there for a squatted truck.

Maybe I'm stereotyping or generalizing,

but I think it's safe to assume that if you have a squatted truck,

there is someone actively seeking you out

to repossess the vehicle from you

or maybe maybe even there's an active warrant out for you.

I don't know.

I'm just trying to put myself in the in the in the shoes

of a squatted truck owner.

You know, like what happened in your life?

Who mentally or verbally abused you to a wet to a point

where you thought that it was a good idea to actually lower

the rear of your vehicle and raise the front of it in such a way

that you basically make it unusable, you know,

and I've lowered some cars.

I've made cars pretty unusable, but I'm not quite that level of

like I didn't I wasn't dropped on my head at any point.

I was not, you know, left in a hot car

for a few minutes at a time.

You know what I mean?

Like I don't I don't know what that is like.

I can't figure out how to get myself to think like that owner.

You know what I mean?

But I try.

I definitely try.

This shirt is the wrong shirt for this.

I need a black shirt so I can see the the the text a little bit better.

I noticed all new trucks.

I compared them to my old school like why you miss.

What?

It's funny because all trucks, which I genuinely really dislike,

they all come reverse squatted and it really frustrates me

because they come like the the nose of them is pointed down.

I don't understand this.

How how come new trucks cannot just come level?

Why does the leveling kit need to be an after like an afterthought?

Why do they need to be created later on?

Why do why do you need to purchase them?

And then like if you buy a new GMC that's like this,

you can't even do anything because once you do level them,

you need new upper arms because the arms ride on the bump stops.

If you don't, it's so freaking annoying.

But if it's aerodynamics, why not just lower the back to, you know,

like just so close, you know, just make it level.

It looks so terrible when you tell it does level.

I mean, a little bit, depending on how heavy you tell,

I've never had I've never told enough to where my 2,500

would squat in the back really.

I mean, for the most part, it just kind of sits sits as it sits.

Then you lose all ground clearance.

But you just have it in the back.

You already don't have that much ground clearance

because it's it's in the back.

And especially if you have like a dodge where it's a straight axle in the front,

you already don't have much ground clearance.

You're not fixing that unless you get like a taller sidewall tire.

You're already kind of, yeah, I'm not towing that heavy.

I only tow an aluminum trailer with a 3,500 pound car on it.

So I'm not exactly pushing it to its limits here.

What transmission? OK, we're already getting deep rail.

That's a fun question.

8 HP, T H 400 or Samsonus Dog Box T 56.

Well, the 8 HP is probably the hardest one to choose

because you can't just throw an 8 HP in

and it'll be controlled by any ECU you got.

Like it's not going to be controlled by your

it's not going to be controlled by like a holly right off the gate.

It's not going to be controlled by like a fuel tech or a mo tech,

maybe a mo tech, but it's going to require a huge level of work.

So the other two you can just put in and it'll be pretty simple.

But yeah, I mean, that's a whole different conversation.

You know, like the two, the turbo 400 and

T 56 are pretty interchangeable without like massive ECU adjustments.

But doing an 8 HP from everything I've seen seems like a more

more complex issue and topic to take on

that you probably have to be a little bit more prepared for.

I personally am probably out on that

because they're not good enough for what I'd be trying to do.

I talked about this on the last one, you fall into this like spiral

where you start thinking about what car you're going to build.

And then you piece it together in your head and then you're like, OK,

well, what's the purpose?

Then once you figure out that the purpose isn't a fun street car,

you're like, OK, well, I guess I'll build it into a drag car.

And then it becomes like a whole different animal.

So my thought would be turbo 400,

but I live in a pretty one lane mind where I only think about drag racing.

If you want to take this and go drive the canyons with it, then.

I guess you'd probably want an 8 HP or a dog box T 56.

I mean, you could probably just get away with a regular T 56.

I don't know if you need to ball out on a on a billet cased baller deal.

But like probably just do a regular synchronized T 56.

If that's your goal, unless you're going to make like, I don't know,

fifteen thousand or fifteen hundred to two thousand horsepower.

You probably don't need any dog box, dog engagement.

And the dog box is just about the engagement of the teeth without a synchronizer.

So basically they clunk and they're loud

and they they whine a little bit.

You want them, I like synchronizers if you don't need dog engagement personally.

But I'm not exactly a hundred percent the right guy to talk to about this,

even though I've messed with my fair share of stick shift drag racing.

Only drag racing S 2000 put a four hundred in that thing, put a four hundred in that thing.

A hundred and ninety mile an hour Honda motor.

Thirteen. Just put a yeah.

So I get a lot of requests to join the live.

And I'm very apprehensive on people I don't know joining the live.

Obviously anything can happen.

So yeah, that's my one worry about that.

I'm not a no prep guy, so I never really go to warn the woods or things like that

or plan to participate in them as as cool as they are and as much as I like that they exist.

I'm not the best spectator.

So going there unless I was like helping with a team would probably not be super ideal for me.

I'd like to go and either help with someone or something along the lines of

like something along those lines, not just sit around and watch as as fun as that is for many people.

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So the other day I was trying to sell.

Let's let's bring up a story here.

The other day I was trying to sell a vehicle on Facebook marketplace.

Am I the asshole? Help me out here. Am I the asshole?

So I'll have to pull up my message.

He actually left the group because he was so angry.

So he messaged me about a vehicle I have for sale.

And he said firm on price, question mark, question mark, question mark.

And then I didn't get back to him right away and he sent an LMK.

Let me know. I go, I got, I got some room on the price.

And he goes, what's your firm price, question mark, question mark?

Like I have it listed with a price, $4,500.

And I said, and then he said, I hate sending offers because

my intent is not to low ball.

So I'd rather ask what your bottom price and go from there.

He's basically trying to provoke me to negotiate with myself.

Like I'm not going to sit here and negotiate with myself.

Give me an offer. I said, I'm an adult.

You won't offend me.

And he said, $2,500 right after he said he's not trying to low ball,

which whatever, I don't care. You can low ball.

I didn't answer right away.

He sent me a thumbs up and then he sent me back again within an hour.

GLWS, good luck with the sale.

And then I replied at $3,800.

He said, clean title.

I said, yep, said, what's your bottom price?

I said, I just told you I'm not going to negotiate with myself, man.

And then he said, so you don't have a firm price then.

Good luck with the sale, though.

And then left the group, blocked me, basically.

You can't just keep telling me, what's your price?

What's your price?

Like at some point, you just have to make offers.

Like you can't just keep saying, what's your lowest price?

Because I'm not just going to sit here and keep low balling myself.

Oh, no, no, like I'm not.

I'm not just going to sit here and say, I'll go cheaper.

I'll go cheaper. I'll go cheaper.

Yeah, I looked and he's from South Florida.

So I cannot expect anything different.

All South Florida people, if you've ever been to South Florida,

looked at a car, thought about buying a car in South Florida,

talked to salesmen in South Florida, it's all the same.

Don't buy shit in South Florida.

It's just like it's just a mess, you know?

You told him your price.

Some people just don't have common sense.

Yeah, I tried. I don't feel like I'm the asshole.

He just kept asking what my price is.

It's listed at a price.

I even went down.

I wasn't going to go any lower without being, you know.

You know what I mean?

It's literally just trying to get somebody to negotiate with themselves.

Why would anybody do that?

Do you want to build a race car?

OK, bye.

I do like building race cars.

Facebook Marketplace is horrible.

I was thinking about that the other day.

It's both horrible for the buyer and the seller at the same time,

which is crazy.

What else is horrible for both people on either side?

You know, like neither person has a good experience.

Look, I got to like do this so I can see the text better.

Sorry if this is frustrating podcast viewing.

Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine trying to negotiate with somebody that comes over to like fix your air conditioning.

How does that work?

You show up to fix the AC and then somebody's like, hey, will you, you know, will you help me out here?

Can you go any lower on the AC?

Trying to get Jimmy Dale to join in.

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2.4 liter stock block or 2JZ or 5.3.

That's a big broad options.

Coyote.

I know it wasn't on the list, but Coyote's pretty great.

You want 10K, I got 2K.

I talked to Kyle at Boosted Boys pretty frequently.

I was at his new house not long ago picking something up.

He borrowed my turbo front housing to test on his car and then he wanted to see

if he was having a housing cover issue, I guess, before he bought a new one.

So he borrowed mine because we run the same turbo on my Camaro that he runs on his 240.

It's the same precision 86-85 next-gen baller badass unit.

That thing is super powerful.

I mean, I'm fine to get a low ball.

You can message me $5 on a car I have listed for 10 grand.

I don't care.

I'm an adult.

If that's how you want to start it, it's a pretty hostile way to start a conversation.

But low ball away, I don't care.

Go low ball everyone on Facebook Marketplace.

If the thing's been sitting there a long time, maybe a reasonable offer will open the door

better and actually get a response, but low ball away.

I'm an adult.

I'm a grown man.

You can hit me with any price.

You're not going to offend me so much that I'm not going to answer.

It's part of the fun.

I mean, my friends joke about low balling all the time on Facebook Marketplace.

I got a buddy that literally will just low ball people on boats just constantly because

that boat person may be really, really motivated.

I'll get with you next week when I have all the money.

Let me know.

I don't know what that's about.

I have a few things for sale at all times, but hit me up.

How do you feel about 350 Z's?

I think 350 Z's are the best Nissan ever made potentially.

The convertible ones are pretty heinous and they should basically be a war crime,

but by and large, 350 Z's are pretty great, especially because they came from a time

when most car brands were building some pretty lackluster vehicles,

but the 350 Z chassis, as far as like a drift or fun car,

I feel like it's a good bang for your buck.

Maybe not.

I mean, I'm seeing a 2008 one here sold for 15 grand.

That seems pretty steep for a 350 Z, honestly,

because they sound like a trumpet coming out of a Home Depot bathroom,

like in the toilet, basically,

but they are generally pretty good cars with a lot of modability

and they also have a good amount of performance bang for your buck, I guess.

And from what I've seen, they're pretty tough.

If you drift them, they can take a beating.

The motors can take abuse.

The chassis can take abuse.

They can get hit with some nitrous and not completely fail.

Yeah, I mean, VQ sounds worse than all four cylinders ever.

I don't think there's a four cylinder that sounds worse than a VQ.

It's such a shame.

I don't know what it is about V6's,

but for the most part, if there's no turbos attached, they all sound horrible.

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Yes, your 11th gen Civic is cool, especially being an SI.

11th gen Civic.

Let me see what these look like.

What color is it?

They look best in white.

My grandpa was a Honda guy.

The end of his life, a lot of people may not know this.

I mean, no one would because I never talk about it,

but my grandpa worked for GM for a long time.

He was just an assembly line guy and he bought like a blazer from them in the 90s

and it failed on him or in the 80s or 90s or something like that.

He bought a blazer and it failed on him and it kept breaking.

Transmissions kept going out, things kept going wrong.

So he tried to get it lemon-lawed and GM would not lemon-law it

after he had bought hundreds of GM cars before that.

And from that day on, my grandpa decided he was never buying another GM vehicle.

He bought some Chrysler's after that.

My grandma had a PT Cruiser at one point growing up.

I think it was a wood grain one.

And then he had a bunch of Hondas.

He had CRVs.

He had all kinds of different things like that,

but he just would never buy another GM.

So it's crazy to think GM burned him so badly that he just disavowed them.

He just said, you know what?

Great.

Thank you GM.

I'll never buy another one.

And his sons or my uncle and my dad, two of his sons,

were GM guys their whole lives after that.

They still carried it on even though he had disavowed them.

I was always a GM guy as well from my dad.

We had Tahoe's growing up.

He had a GMC truck for work.

He had multiple older GMC trucks and Chevy trucks throughout my whole childhood.

But it's just how much money did GM lose by not lemon-lawing that one vehicle?

He probably bought, I don't know, 15 Hondas in that time.

Like in the rest of his life after Chevy disav...

Burned him that badly.

Sad.

You know?

It's sad.

15 Hondas.

He was deep into the Hondas.

I learned to drive and took my driver's test in a CR-V.

That car was so easy and nice to drive.

I loved that thing.

It was a...

What generation CR-V was that?

Let's see.

The new Mazda lineup looks pretty awesome too.

I think it was a third gen CR-V?

Yeah, it was.

It was probably an 07?

No, it would have been...

I don't know.

It would have been an 08 maybe?

CR-V?

Great daily.

I loved where the shifter was.

It didn't have a stock-style shifter.

It had what would normally be on the center console, but it wasn't.

It had an open center console and it was up on the dash.

I really enjoyed where they put that thing.

It just made it really pleasant to drive.

CR-V, third gen interior.

It just...

Yeah, I don't know.

I would daily one of those things for sure.

Yeah, where they put the shifter on that thing.

It felt so out of place, but it was so ergonomic at the same time that it just...

I don't know.

It just kind of warmed my heart.

It just hit just right.

Plenty spacious.

I used to drive that thing all the time because the way that...

I spent multiple summers living with my grandfather while he had this CR-V.

So, every morning at like 5 a.m., he would wake up and he would wake me up

and he would be like, all right, we got to go run our errands because he had a hot dog wagon.

So we would have to go get ice for the hot dog wagon.

Then we'd have to go get buns.

Then we'd have to go stop at a deli to get a couple things.

We would have to run around in this CR-V and it held everything.

This thing, it was the lifeblood of this hot dog wagon.

Wouldn't have survived without this little CR-V.

That's funny. This one has no headrest that they're showing.

It's like it was from a movie scene or something.

It did not have nice interior.

It was clothed seats. Everything was plastic.

Nothing was really great to touch.

But, man, that thing was... I was a big fan.

I wonder what a CR-V costs these days, a third gen CR-V.

What can you get one of those for?

I'm not seeing many on the internet, so that's a worry.

I searched cars and bids and did not see many that generation.

Which, to me, makes me feel like maybe they weren't that long lasting.

Where do you guys like to shop for cars?

I like to go not a paid ad, but auto tempest.

They seem to have a really good interface and everything.

Get me up on here. I'd love to drive your Type R.

You know what I say? If it's not a Type R, it is not a tight car.

Marketplace, auto trader.

But sometimes I'm just trying to look up a car just to know what the price point is.

I'm not really shopping for that car,

but I want to know where they're selling for at this time.

2010 CR-V. Let's see.

We'll go with a 2010 as our jumping off point.

Dang, $5,900 bucks for 121,000 miles.

That thing held its value pretty well, honestly.

That should be like a $1,000 car, right?

Yeah, DM me on here and I'll remember to reach back out.

Who's a good boy?

I have two doggies, but they're good girls.

They're women.

2025 Civic HPD Sport ain't that bad.

I am not up on my current Honda game as much as I would like to be.

Civic used cars are not $1,000 anymore.

I know they're not, but they should be.

That should be a $1,000 car, right?

Am I crazy? The world broke in 20...

I don't think it was 2020. I think it was like 2018,

where the world broke and $1,000 cars don't exist anymore.

It's probably Obama's fault somehow.

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What does HPD stand for?

High performance driving?

Is that what HPD stands for?

Are you sad about the loss of Vandemire as well?

I love Vandemire.

I've raced there many a times.

Thankfully, I've gotten to spend a good amount of time at that track.

I've been very lucky in my life.

High performance development, that's what it's for.

I've gotten very lucky in my life to have gone to a lot of really cool tracks

and raced at a lot of tracks that are no longer here.

Houston Motorsports Park, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Atlanta, something like that.

I've gotten to race there.

I've gotten to race at Palm Beach International Raceway that is no longer with us.

I've gotten to race at...

There was another one on my list of tracks that are no longer here

that I've gotten to race at.

I can't remember the other one.

Honda Performance Development, okay, okay.

That sounds about right.

Yeah, I've also gotten great vehicles for $1,000.

We used to do demolition drag racing

back in the early days of Cleatison cars

and we would go buy cheap cars.

I bought $1,000 new edge Mustang I got for $1,000.

I got a really nice Saturn SC1.

No, it was a Saturn SC2.

It was a real Saturn car before they became Chevy's with a different branding on them.

I've gotten a Honda Civic that was actually previously totaled.

This one, that was actually really sad.

I got this green Honda Civic that had a side impact damage on it.

It was from an 80 plus year old woman.

She couldn't afford a new car,

but she couldn't afford to really replace that car either.

That car was really only worth,

I think we paid $700 or $800 for it.

It was just sad because that was her only vehicle.

She wasn't going to be able to buy another car with that amount of money,

but this car was totaled.

It was taped over the windows and all this stuff.

It made me sad because the car was still usable and drivable,

but at the same time it wasn't worth anything more.

I don't know. She couldn't drive anymore.

It wasn't even her fault. She got T-boned.

I ended up with a clean green Honda Civic.

It was not a hatchback though.

It was just a notchback.

Do they call them notchbacks?

X, DX, something. Yeah, something like that.

It definitely wasn't just like your...

If it was a hatchback, I probably would have tried to fix it.

That's always my problem.

Buying a cheap beater is I like them too much.

I don't want to get rid of them.

I enjoy them a little bit too much.

But seeing old, in quotes, Civics always makes me want one.

Seeing a 90 Civic in good shape is awesome.

I always go to cars and vids for this kind of stuff,

but there's been a few.

This 91 Civic SI hatchback, $12,000,

but it's pristine, unmodified condition.

The seats are perfect.

That would be an awesome daily driver.

The problem is it is a legitimate death trap in today's society.

Now, in the 90s, it wasn't quite as bad.

But currently, that thing is a death trap,

mostly because the average car weight now is so heavy

that you can't really...

If you get into an accident in a 91 Honda Civic,

in the 90s, you're probably okay.

But currently, you're probably not,

because every car is now 5,000 to 8,000 pounds.

Am I crazy for thinking that?

Let me see.

What has the average car weight changed over time

from 70s to now?

Because I would totally daily something like that.

In 1970, the average new car weight was 4,000 pounds.

Now, in the 2020s, it's 4,300 pounds.

Interesting.

In the 70s, it was 4,000 pounds.

In the 80s, it was 32,000 to 3,400 pounds.

And then, from there, it went up a couple hundred pounds every year.

And then now, the best-selling Tesla on the market is 4,400 pounds.

But I feel like that's still...

Maybe we need to say median weight, not average,

because some offset that pretty bad.

That's still about the same.

Maybe my emotions are getting to me here,

but I just feel that all these new cars are heavier than they used to be,

which makes me more apprehensive to drive something not as heavy,

which then, in turn, makes me...

Yeah, but they're also all loaded with so much tech that they offset.

So it's steel versus aluminum.

But they're loaded with so much tech that it basically offsets it.

And especially when you talk about electric vehicles,

the EVs now weigh so much.

If we talk about the F-150 Lightning, for instance,

it's like 6,000 to 9,000 pounds for the F-150 Lightning,

the Rivian R1-T, and the Hummer.

And they also are super fast.

So you kind of end up in this pretty terrifying boat of people driving tanks

that weigh an insane amount.

The new Volvo trucks are 7,000.

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2017 Explorer 5K 2000 Explorer 3500.

Yeah, I mean that's a great example of bloat.

They need to go on Ozympic.

But the problem is,

you get into this self-fulfilling thing.

Let's see if we can get Jimmy in here.

You go into this self-fulfilling thing,

even when I was a kid,

when I was first getting my license,

my mom was so afraid of,

she's terrified of the roads.

She just wanted me to get a Hummer H1.

That's all she wanted.

That's the safest car.

I don't know if she looked up any safety things.

This was in 2014-13.

Maybe it was 2012 or 13.

She didn't look up anything.

Just like that car, big, equal, safe.

And it probably was relatively safe.

It's probably likely to flip, ironically.

It flipped my first car.

Probably easy to flip,

relatively, but also basically just a large Tahoe,

a bit of a behemoth.

And that was all she wanted me.

She wanted all of us, all of her four children,

in Hummer H1s.

I did not want the gas bill of owning a Hummer H1,

but that was what she wanted.

It never ended up happening,

but still to this day,

she'd probably want me in a Hummer H1.

She hates that I drag race.

Driving a 90's Camaro, probably not the best either.

Really, production H1 is still the only production vehicle

to climb a vertical event.

To climb vertical.

So, the Hummer H1,

and then the Hummer H2 came out.

And that she really wanted all of us to get.

She was deep into the H2 world.

It was like, get one of these,

because those were, that was probably more what I was thinking,

the H2.

She really wanted all of us in an H2.

We actually test drove an H2 at one point,

but it was so expensive, it just did not make any sense.

Yeah, the H1 and H2 both sucked on gas.

The H2 was actually really interesting,

because when that first came out,

that was the first time I ever experienced public shame.

Not personally, but it was the first time in my life

I ever witnessed the shame that a community

could push towards an individual if you get what I mean.

So, yeah, the H1 wasn't the H2.

I was mixing those up.

She wanted an H2, not an H1.

She was an Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The H2 was the first time I ever witnessed public shame.

My teachers, I grew up in New York, Long Island.

It was a decently wealthy area.

And the teachers didn't live there,

but the parents that lived there,

a lot of them were very wealthy.

They hated H2s.

They absolutely, if you showed up with an H2,

you were like personally destroying the environment.

You yourself were a personal attack on the environment.

And I don't know if this came because that car came out

around the same time as the Prius was really ramping up,

and also at the same time that Al Gore was running

for president and trying to do all this environmental stuff.

And it was just like a battle between George Bush not caring

and Al Gore being this hero to the environment.

So the teachers were clearly on the side of the environment.

So if you even liked the H2,

you were a horrible person.

You were pro-war.

You were anti-environment.

You hated poor people.

And when it came out, I was in, I don't know,

second or third grade.

I could feel this.

I could feel the energy from the educators

that were pushing this narrative of

this was so bad and so, so horrible to the environments

and to the world and everything.

It was so crazy that that happened.

And I think I was just the right time,

right place for me to see it all,

and I was absolutely hilarious thinking back on this

because it was like a group of, I don't know,

like most of my teachers were late 30s or 40s

single childless women.

And now I understand what was really going on.

But in the time, I just did not get it at all.

But they sure were cool.

They sure were cool.

I probably wouldn't want one today.

I think that they just don't look that attractive.

The H3 was kind of cool.

And the H3T, I think that actually had a decent look to it.

I think that even looked a little kind of cooler

in some way to the Camaro,

I mean to the Tahoe at the time.

Again, kind of the same chassis.

Some of them had the inline six cylinder, which was sad.

But the ones with the V8,

cool besides the interior was just horrendous.

GM, at one point, I don't know what year it was,

but GM completely forgot how to make a decent interior.

I think it was right after they financially collapsed,

but they just completely could not figure it out.

And from then on, it took them probably another 20 years

before they could somewhat make a decent interior.

I don't know if it was the plastic that they were using

or something, but like it just...

If you know, you know, they rattle, they crack,

they fall apart, the plastic is like horrible to touch.

It melt in the sun.

Yeah, the C6 interior too, like that's their pinnacle.

Look at their best of the best that they had to offer at the time was the C6.

And the interior makes you think that somebody's trying to trick you

into thinking this was a real C6.

You're like, wait, is this a real car

or is this a pre-production just to show what it looks like car?

This is how they made it.

Even the ZR1, it's like, is this hydro-dipped carbon fiber?

This is the cheesiest thing I've ever seen.

This is like something that a concept brand would do just for the photos.

And the Hummer H3, I think, is the pinnacle of that.

That interior is just not it at all.

Yeah, C6 with the same interior as the Cobalt.

Ugh, C5 had better interior, I think.

Oh wow, thank you. That's a fun...

Why is it so quick?

I appreciate that.

Can I like comments? Is that a thing?

I don't think I can. Sorry.

Can't like any comments.

Let's see the C6 interior.

I like having my laptop here, but I need to figure out something behind me maybe

so I can pull up pictures.

C6 interior.

Ah, man.

The infotainment was so bad.

Even like my 2012 CTS-V has so many things to be desired on it,

like there's...

If you don't look at the...

If you don't pop up the screen, because the screen kind of goes up and down,

it's fine.

But once you pop it up, it dates itself so badly

that you're just like, whoa, when is this from?

Even when people try to add carbon fiber to the C6s,

I think that actually looks worse.

I think that that trend should end.

A lot of these cars, modern-ish,

or cars from the early 2000s, like C6 generation,

you guys, we need to stop putting carbon fiber in it

because that does not look attractive.

It does not sit well.

It does not...

It's out of place.

That's the problem. It is out of place.

I've seen some of these carbon fiber companies

that will offer full-dash inserts for a 96...

1500 Silverado.

And it's like, what are we doing here?

Why are we going to add carbon fiber to a 96...

Silverado?

Is James your brother?

I have a brother named James, James Bogetti.

He lives in New York.

He's a boat guy, but James Tall is not my brother.

My brother, James, he is a boat captain.

He has his 100-ton boat license.

He's done a ton of back-and-forths

from New York to Florida,

transporting boats and stuff like that.

But no, not James Tall.

Is interior the most important part of the car?

So I've heard Adam L. Z. talk about this,

and he's talked about how much time you spend in your interior,

so you should really make sure that you get that dialed.

And especially when you're talking about like a 90s JDM car,

where there's so much that could be changed and tweaked

to make it really suit you, like your current usage of it.

But on like a C6, there's not much you can do.

Is it really as important as they make it,

or do you really not touch anything in the interior personally?

Personally, I don't see any...

I don't know, I just don't touch the interior that much.

I just need the AC pointing at me.

It could be like a Tesla minimalist interior,

and I'm kind of okay with that.

I don't really need a whole lot going on.

The IC7 dash is pretty tight.

That's kind of how my Camaro is.

It's as basic as can be.

I've got a few buttons, starter button and switch,

and that's it, I don't need much.

I want less.

The best drag cars have even less stuff,

and it's all automatic through the ECU.

Yeah, hunting through the screen isn't fun,

but it's like right there.

Yeah, the Christmas tree of AEM gauges,

it's got to stop.

It's not needed anymore, especially now with smart gauges,

and like I think TurboSmart just came out with like one gauge

to rule them all, where it's like one circle pod gauge,

and you don't need anything else.

I didn't really look much into that TurboSmart gauge.

But it looked pretty nice.

Haltech pod is great, yeah.

The Haltech pod is awesome if you have a Haltech.

Kind of like I have one, so it makes it really simple.

But yeah, the E-Boost 3 gauge from TurboSmart is really clean,

and you can scroll through the menus and it's a gauge size.

It's not like excessive because in my CTS-V, the V2,

I have a...

Shoot, what is it?

It's a huge ass gauge, and they discontinued them.

I keep it behind the seat because I can just plug it into the OBD2

and it'll tell me IETs, water temps, cooling temps,

all these like things to an exact number,

but I am not putting that thing anywhere because it's so freaking big.

Yeah, this thing is pretty nice.

You can change your boost parameters and settings on the fly with it.

E-Boost 3, I'd like to play with one.

I don't really have a car that I need it in, but...

Yeah, I mean, if the pod does everything,

I don't know, it's not really needed.

If you're not really clicking through things much,

you can get away with it.

A lot of people just want to set and forget type of car anyways

and then roll from there.

It's not really a super huge need to constantly be looking at the screen.

Like I could get away with in my race car two gauge pods

and I'd be fine.

Hey, it's Jimmie Dale.

Let's see if we can request him.

Let's see.

Invitation sent.

Okay, so I told Jimmie he should come on the live and be part of this.

Let's see.

Co-host moved here during multi live camera.

Hello?

Yeah, look, he's on here.

I don't see my face.

Yeah, I don't know what happened. Let me see.

Oh.

Got it.

Dang.

Oh, zooming in on myself.

I don't know how to make it bigger. There we go.

Expand.

Hey, I'm on it. I'm on the live.

Big TikTok guy out here now.

Mr53 himself.

I had to download TikTok just to do this.

I've been trying to get you to use it more because it's a, you know,

it's a little bit more throw away, I would say, than some other apps.

You know, you can kind of just like send it on some content

without as much of a polished or worry.

Yeah, just it's wing, wingable friendly or something.

You can wing it as much as you want.

Yeah, it's like if Instagram was cool.

Dude, I remember when Instagram was cool back in my day.

So cool.

I used to use so many filters.

Same here. Big overfilter guy.

They forced you to, I feel like.

I think they just tricked you into using it.

I think we just didn't ever have access to filters.

So then you took a photo and you could filter it and you were like,

look at me black and white, super contrast, sun mode.

I mean, every, all the photos look the same.

I have Holly reaching out to me talking about,

you need to make your, you need to make your Instagram

a professional account.

I'm over here thinking like, I still got pictures of weed.

What are you talking about?

This is the same.

This is the same Instagram I've had my whole life.

Yeah, you might want to go through there and clean it up a little.

Apparently, yeah, apparently I'm going to have to do that now

that we're going to be a social media influencer guy.

I mean, I think whether you knew it or not,

you're a social media guy.

I know, but, man.

Sometimes it sneaks up on people though.

Like imagine somebody that one day is famous

and they weren't famous before and now they're famous.

Like think about what they got on the internet

that they're probably like, oh shit, I didn't prepare for this.

Ain't never lied.

All of them dating profiles.

Wish I could delete those.

Drinder and whatnot.

Damn, getting intense over there.

It's the Florida way, you know.

That's the Florida way.

Yeah, unfortunately, I think half the state,

it's probably like the Austin, Texas way too though, right?

Or Dallas?

Oh, for sure.

Yeah, yeah, it's definitely the Austin, Texas way.

Yeah.

The Austin, Texas way is just you just see someone

and you just bang immediately in the streets.

Hey, it's Raj.

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