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Lamborghini Cuntosh
The Lamborghini Countach is a famous fast sports car made in Italy a long time ago. It looks very sharp and cool and has a strong engine that makes it go very fast.
Part
suspension
Suspension is the part of a car that helps it stay smooth and steady when you drive over bumps or turns. It makes the ride comfortable and keeps the car safe on the road.
Car
Aston Martin Valhalla
The Aston Martin Valhalla is a very fast and fancy car that uses both gas and electricity to go. It looks amazing and has new technology to make it drive better. People like it because it’s a glimpse of future supercars.
Car
Seagulls
A seagull is a type of bird, so in this case, it’s probably about a bird shown in a video or movie, not a car. They might be talking about how long the bird appears on screen.
Car
Aston Martin Valhalla
The McLaren Valhalla is a very fast and special car made by McLaren. It uses both a gasoline engine and electric motors to go really fast and handle well, making it exciting to drive.
Car
Ferrari Testarossa
The Ferrari Testarosa is a famous sports car made by Ferrari. It has its engine placed in the middle and is known for its unique look and strong engine.
Car
BMW M3
The BMW M3 is a fast and sporty car made by BMW. It's like a regular car but much stronger and better for driving quickly. People talk about it because it feels like a fancy sports car but you can still use it every day.
Car
Revuelto
The Revuelto is a very fast and fancy car made by Lamborghini. It uses both gas and electricity to go super fast. People talk about it because it’s cheaper than some other super fancy cars but still really powerful.
Car
Chevrolet Corvette
The Corvette ZR1 is a very fast sports car made by Chevrolet. It has a strong engine that makes it go really fast and is built for racing and fast driving.
Term
tri-motor hybrid system
A tri-motor hybrid means the car has three electric motors plus a regular engine. This helps the car go faster and use less gas by sharing the work between the motors and engine.
Part
six kilowatt hour battery pack
The battery pack is like a big rechargeable battery that gives power to the electric parts of the car. Six kilowatt hours means it can store a certain amount of electricity to help the car run.
Car
Mclaren 720S
The McLaren 720S is a very fast and fancy sports car that is designed to be really good at driving and going fast. People think it's one of the best supercars ever made.
Car
Porsche 918 Spyder
The Porsche 918 Spyder is a special kind of fast car that uses both a gas engine and electric power to go really fast while being more efficient. It's a very advanced and rare sports car.
Car
Mercedes-Benz AMG One
The Mercedes-AMG One is a very special and fast car that uses racing technology from Formula 1 to go super fast on regular roads. It has a powerful engine and electric motors working together.
Car
Aston Martin Valkyrie
The Aston Martin Valkyrie is a very fast and special car made with help from a Formula 1 team. It uses a powerful engine and electric parts to go really fast and is very rare.
Term
press car
A press car is a car that companies give to reporters so they can try it out and tell others what it's like.
Term
Aston racing green
Aston racing green is a special dark green color that Aston Martin cars sometimes have. It's a famous color for British race cars.
Part
aluminum front and rear subframes
These are parts at the front and back of the car that hold important pieces like wheels and engine parts, made from light metal to keep the car lighter.
Part
carbon tub
A carbon tub is a strong but light part of the car's frame made from special carbon materials to keep the car safe and fast.
Concept
Formula 1
Formula 1 is a top-level car racing series where the fastest and most advanced race cars compete. The technology used there helps make better sports cars.
Concept
carbon manufacturing
Carbon manufacturing means making parts of the car out of a special strong and light material called carbon fiber. This helps the car be lighter and faster.
Concept
Navarra circuit
The Navarra circuit is a race track in Spain where cars can be tested by driving fast and turning around corners.
Term
Michelin star
A Michelin star is like a gold star for restaurants, showing they have really great food. Three stars means the restaurant is one of the best in the world.
Concept
beauty shots
Beauty shots are pretty pictures of cars taken to show off how nice they look. They are used in magazines or ads to make the car look its best.
Car
Aston Martin Vanquish
The Aston Martin Vanquish is a fancy, fast car that looks very stylish and has a strong engine. A famous designer helped make it look modern and beautiful. People talk about it because it’s both powerful and classy.
Car
Honda S2000
The Honda S2000 is a sporty car that many people like because it goes fast and handles well. Fans of this car often race it and talk about how it drives.
Part
deployant clasp
A deployant clasp is a special buckle on a watch band that opens and closes so you can put the watch on or take it off easily. It keeps the watch safe on your wrist and feels smooth when you wear it.
Term
red line
The red line is the highest speed your car's engine can safely run. Going past it can hurt the engine, so it's important to watch it.
Term
Blackstone test
The Blackstone test checks your car's used oil to see if there are tiny bits of metal or dirt that could mean your engine is having problems. It helps you catch issues before they get worse.
Term
wear metals
Wear metals are small bits of metal in your engine oil that show how much your engine parts are rubbing and wearing down. Checking them helps you know if your engine is healthy.
Term
0W-40
0W-40 is a type of engine oil that stays thin when cold so it flows easily, but stays thick enough when hot to protect the engine.
Car
Ferrari 328
The Ferrari 328 is an old but cool sports car made in the 1980s. It has a strong engine and many people like to drive or collect it.
Car
Land Rover Range Rover
The Range Rover is a big, fancy SUV that can drive on rough roads but is also very comfortable inside. New ones have really good sound systems that make music sound amazing. People like it because it works well anywhere and feels nice.
Car
Chevrolet El Camino
The El Camino is a car that also works like a small truck because it has a bed in the back to carry things. It looks like a car in front but can help with work like a truck. People like it because it’s different and useful.
Car
Chrysler Voyager
The Chrysler Voyager is a big family car with lots of space inside. The first versions looked kind of boxy but were good for carrying people and stuff. Many families used it because it was useful and easy to drive.
Car
Aston Martin Lagonda
The Aston Martin Lagonda is a fancy and unusual car that looks very different from normal cars. It was made a long time ago and had new technology for its time. People remember it because it looks special and rare.
Car
Jeep Wrangler
The Jeep Wrangler is a tough car that can drive on very rough roads and trails. People like to use it for outdoor activities like hunting because it can handle dirt and rocks easily. It also has cool features like doors you can take off.
Car
Dodge Charger
The Dodge Charger is a big car that looks sporty and can go very fast. It has special lights on the back that make it look like a muscle car. Many people like it because it’s both comfortable and powerful.
Car
Ford Taurus
The Ford Taurus is a family car that looks smooth and not boxy like older cars. It’s shaped kind of like a tadpole, which means it’s round and easy to drive. Many people liked it because it was dependable and comfortable.
Car
Hyundai Ioniq 5
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is a new electric car that looks a bit square but still moves smoothly through the air. It’s made to be roomy inside and uses electricity instead of gas. People talk about it because it’s different and modern.
Car
G-Class G Wagon
The G-Class is a fancy SUV that looks square and can drive on rough roads easily. It’s popular because it’s both comfortable and tough. People compare it to other strong off-road cars.
Car
Lamborghini Lm002
The Lamborghini LM 002 is a special SUV that can drive off-road but has a very strong engine like a sports car. It looks tough and is very rare. People talk about it because it’s different from most SUVs.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a famous fast car from America that looks cool and drives well. Some companies make new versions that look like old Mustangs but work better. People love it because it’s fun to drive and looks great.
Car
Ford Mustang GTD
The Mustang GTD is a special and very fast version of the Ford Mustang. It costs a lot of money because it has the best parts and is made in small numbers. People talk about it because it’s one of the most powerful Mustangs.
Car
Porsche 944
The Porsche 944 is an old sports car that drives really well, especially if you put new tires on it. It’s fun to drive and was built to be fast and easy to handle. People like it because it’s a good way to own a Porsche without spending too much.
Car
BMW M6
The BMW M6 is a fast and fancy car that’s fun to drive on twisty roads. It’s made to be both comfortable and sporty. People like it because it’s strong and handles well.
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I have a new color of the notice Canyon. It is incredibly exciting
I got a shocking bill for the first part of my Lamborghini Cuntosh assembly
We talk about how pretty the Aston Martin Valhalla looks and Zach learns something about his own suspension
It's the smoking tire podcast. Let's go
Remember when hip-hop was adorable and it was just like we come down to the show and we like to dance
Let's see you go
And then you know everything evolves with respect to the fact that everything comes from somewhere
Of course fuck. I hate 80s couplet hip-hop. Yeah, I don't like listening to it
But I don't care how iconic it is. It just wasn't our time before us
I bet a lot of you will say that about the kind of hip-hop. I do like listening to it
Yeah, I feel that way about early punk the Ramones. I don't want to listen to it ever
Yeah, I get it. They were important sure, but it was just it's too gentle for me. Yeah, it's the same as a
For me like the pacing of movies that were made before about 1980
Oh, yeah, you know what it like? Yeah, you know that the when the editing was like it was much slower
Every every thing was like way slowed down
And less but yeah less some there was like less background filler noise. There was less like sort of
Background anything again, you know, and and I'm sure it's like that's directly what led to our shortened attention span today
You know, but was the technology allowed them to add more elements. Yeah, they added more elements and we were like, yeah
But you know people tell these movies great, you know, it was made in 1962 or whatever and I'm like boy, you know
The only time I ever went no I went to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, you know for the movie thing I went twice
Sarah took me to see Friday, which was great. Yeah love that movie to my core
But when I first moved here, I went with just some friends from work and they were showing some James Dean film film
Yeah, had no cars and was like him at a fishing village trying to fuck some chick
I fell asleep like sitting up. It was just oh my I took a phone call and left for a while
Like it was it was exactly what you described. Yeah, you just you can't your body and brain can't make it through the pacing
Yeah, long shots of seagulls meaning
Duration of the shot of the seagull was quite lengthy. Yeah, I mean there was there were fewer shots held for much longer
But I'm not talking about
You know one or so that's a different talent. It's just like well
They do that now with slow mo on drive to survive
Uh-huh, it's all slow mo because you get more content per shot right and then you can just put someone's VO over it
Yeah, I've only I've only watched the first episode because I was traveling
I I watched I watched TV when I'm on the elliptical machine at home
So I'll probably watch episode two today, but I just it was I got home pretty late last night
It was 21 hours to get home from Spain, which is a fucking long time even in the even in like, you know
As luxurious of circumstances that one could expect they got they got you on that business Cliz nas Air France even their
regional
Wait regional Europe flights like suck. Those are the small shittiest
Smallest shittiest seats possible smallest overhead bins possible when you're traveling with a pelican your status is
Crucial when you're going in a fucking European flight a regional. I guess they're not regional. They're international
But they're all like little embrayers. You know, yeah, the tiny planes and if you got like 40 minutes
Yeah, if you got to get a backpack, sometimes they're not man
It sounds like two hours dude when I was this one was through Charles de Gaulle
So to Bill bow was an hour and 40 minutes from there. That's not bad
Bro when we did when I did the the Porsche ones in Seville and I was going through Amsterdam
Those regionals were three and a half hours each way in the same. They did not upgrade
To an a320 for that it was still that a lot of times the plane
It's it's either two seats on either side or one seat in two seats and they're fairly narrow
But in I've never been a yeah, they've it's two seats to even in business class. It's the same seats in the front
They just don't put somebody in the other one
That's how it works and it's to to but they only will sell one of them for business class
Or if it's sometimes if it's an Airbus, they'll still leave it 3-3, but they won't sell the middle
That one actually balance sucks. I'd rather have to to and they saw one for a long flight. That's it's like it's still like mad small
anyway
drove the Valhalla and can't talk about it for like
20 days told March 30th. I can't talk about it. I can talk about how it looks. It's not a
That's if that's the only photo. I mean, that's the only photo I put on Instagram because I'm good in Syria
But uh, it's a Aston Martin's, you know mid-engine. I guess it depends, you know, now it's time
With sort of inflation this and this car fits sort of in between
the Ferrari
Testarosa and the sort of the F80 like it's like more expensive than a revuelto
But less expensive than a Koenigsegg or a Pagani
And I can't talk about how it drives, but we can look at it
And I can tell you how it looks I can give you some facts and figures. It's a it's a
1064 horsepower, which is actually like kind of the same as the Corvette ZR1
But it has a it has a tri-motor hybrid system with a four-liter
V8 twin-turbo that's the same not the same
similar architecture to the AMG GT's from before remember the flat plane. Yeah
Now it's in the back. Obviously hot V
mated to a six kilowatt hour battery pack
the 2e 2e motors in the front and then a motor generator in the in the gearbox and
It's
I mean look at it. You can you you know, it's not it's it
It actually I think okay, so I think there's in terms of how it looks because we can talk about that the chief
Design engineer of this car did 720s, which is makes a lot of sense makes a lot of sense, right?
and also
It's bad enough that on itself says a lot of promising things because the seven series McLaren is like the best supercar of all time
Dynamically speaking and so the rear the rear half of the car sort of at the B pillar in back is very 720s looking
Especially sort of from the side
The front to me looks like somewhere between coning zig
That bit right behind the wheel is very coning zig to me. Yeah, and the door is very coning zig to me
Although the door opens up as a butterfly. It doesn't have coning zig
You know this almost looks the very front looks like 918 a little bit to somewhere to me
Yeah, between 918 and AMG one. I think yeah, that's true. Maybe yeah, they didn't really like when I said AMG one
They're like you mean like Valkyrie and I was like, hmm
This is all I am give the headlights to me look like AMG one headlights
But in my opinion
It is very pretty it in person is a very pretty car. I saw it in I
Saw it in the green like the typical like the Aston Martin racing green fucking right
Jethro was driving a blue one. That was really nice like an electric blue. I drove a
a white one
Which would look amazing in person?
Although I had to take the thumbnail car with the with thumbnail with the green one
So the center center cards gonna have the pop green one. Yeah, obviously
Now I told them I had to explain to them that as pretty as this white car is they should not have white press cars
Nobody nobody wants a white press now. I said, but I said this is a great color though. It's really deep, you know pearl
They had a they had one there that was the Aston racing green but with a tan interior
Now we're talking. Yeah, now now I'm in that's class now and now I'm on board so it's a very look I
Anything I say about this car is for like
1500 people
You know, that's the sad truth like most people. I'm never gonna drive one again. I was pretty much told that
Like there aren't going to be press cars after this
So like I'm never gonna drive one again and most people are not gonna be able to afford it
It's a seven-foot your car where any of the facts and figures or technology
Things that will that you think will trickle down into other Aston's that might be slightly more approachable to people
Well, I mean, yes
So this is this is the cars completely made of carbon, you know, it's aluminum front and rear subframes
But but the carbon is made by Aston's in-house
carbon manufacturing thing and it's like a machine made carbon tub which is apparently
New and novel and it creates far more consistency from car to car
They
I've never had enough experience. I've never been able to drive seven
McLaren's back to back to back to back. I assume the guy from the 750 from 720 program
Learned some lessons and said what if we could make carbon tubs more consistently, you know, and then they went down that road
So I only really drove the one car. I didn't drive four different
Cars so I couldn't tell you and David Tuig said was that was that would said to us a million times that there's a whole bunch of
Different small things that could be so different from one car to another right and they could drive slightly different as a result of that
So but but the point is their carbon manufacturing which is, you know, paired with their Formula one teams
experience and engineers
Creates more consistent
Manufacturing of this car. Well, and if it's if it's all done by machines
I wonder if they can then you know make these tubs for cheaper and they'll basically try to crack into McLaren's market
Yeah, instead of you know being known for front engine cars basically across their entire model line
They can go. Hey, let's have a three hundred thousand dollar. Yeah, whatever they want to call it something starts with a V
Let me look it
What does it have that's I mean what I well, no, I'm trying to think what can I write talk about without having to talk about
How the thing changes how it drives, you know what I mean? That's actually kind of tough. Yeah
I
Think
Let's shit man, you know, I'm gonna find a lot of pleading the fifth. No, I'm just gonna keep I'm gonna end up digging myself a goddamn hole
If I if I do this I'll move on but but it is very pretty and you know as always Spain
I'll tell you what as a wine destination
It's it was where where you drink Rioja. This was in Rio in Rioja the Navarra circuit really cool track actually
Great track for testing lots of lots of wide open space to make the car move around
safely
And I got to hang out with Jethro
For for two days, which was great. It was a very heavy seat time experience heavy seat. I got I drove the car for like
Seven hours. Wow. Yeah, I drove the car like a lot and
So so I there's there's when we can talk about it. It will be quite thorough
And as always when I make videos on a press launch even though I drove the car a lot
Like there's still stuff you just like to think of later like the video the video is cool
The video will be cool. I got a lot of coverage. I got a road drive. I got a walk around
Because the dean says go do the walk around so but there's a lot to this
There are a lot of details to point out in the walk around
And we've got you know proper track driving as well. So
Like it'll be a cool video, but even still on the flight homes. Ah damn
I could have put it into this context, you know what I mean, right, right?
It's hard with your when you're by yourself and doing videos like you can't you got to get it all out like then
It's that George Costanza when he's you know, he didn't think of the comeback and then he's like, that's what I should
Happened all the time. Yeah, it happens with every single video we ever make. That's why that's why that's why you watch the video
Oh, and good. Well, vo. Yes, but also like that's why you should also listen to podcast because a lot of times the podcast
We have time to like download and process and like put it into a greater context
Whereas you can't do it because you're thinking about like, you know, are the five cameras speeding like does this driving look cool?
Does this like did I get this thing? Like how much time do I have left?
You know as the radio gone off like just stuff that's like
adds to the
Sort of pressure of trying to
Do a video, you know, you know in essentially real time, you know
You're trying to capture it as you you self yourself are doing it for the very first time like folks taking a quick break
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but Rioja
if you want to talk about a good combination of
Very beautiful classic villages incredibly interesting modernist architecture
Great tasting wine that doesn't cost very much Rioja is not an expensive
It can be but really doesn't have to be the shit we were drinking like at dinner
I was taking pictures of it in like Vivino to maybe to remember it later, bro
This shit's like twenty six dollars a bottle delicious nice from the from the source and and delicious
I almost got tried to get a box shipped home
But it was expensive to ship and it is a possible to buy it in America, so I'll just do that okay
How much is it in America 26?
Okay, so that's like yeah, I wasn't local price. No the local pricing was also very cheap
It was not expensive at all to to to drink it there
But the ship the shipping was more than the wine literally it cost more to to ship a case than to buy a case
So just buy it here. Mm-hmm, but if as a sort of a cool
Gearhead destination, you know, it's like 120 kilometers from San Sebastian
So you can do San Sebastian hit the roads track day at Navara
Do some wine tasting you could have a fucking
Grand old time in that area. I mean that is has been selling us on
Well the the axe so so I learned
Me Jethro and this dude Jake from Top Gear safe for him. Oh, yeah, I
Couldn't tell because they go both go back and forth
I forgot to ask one of them was writing for Top Gear one of them was doing Evo
But because they I close you both. Yeah, I couldn't tell who was doing it for what so it was just the three of us
So like that hotel that we said I posted the Frank Gary's one like that's not the press launch hotel
The press launch hotel is in San Sebastian. Oh
And they have a different entirely different program like they have all this amazing
Curated like food like we ate at the hotel restaurant, which was still like great
Like it was you know, I was fabulous at this this really cool Frank Gary winery hotel
But they're like in San Sebastian at a Nobu getting like super Michelin dined and they had a
Like an omakasa table set up at the track
No chef for us and they were like, oh, we thought you three would like just rather have more track time
I'm like, oh my god, you guys are oh, so you were on like a pre pre wave for video for extra time for video
Because they brought like film crews. They had like, okay, you know, they had a whole thing
So and they were like, yeah, we just thought like that you would rather have and I was like you are correct
Absolutely, right. Yeah, every bit of that is correct
and
So they have a they have a whole other thing, but they're gonna be like
Dined they have like a like a three Michelin star chef
Cooking for them at the racetrack. I think they did that for vantage
They had a guy and he was smoking meat with a real fire and you know, the lunch was delicious
and
Running around and filming the car and stuff
Yeah, run over eat for ten minutes
Just like shove things in my face and then run back out and get beauty shots if you're a writer. Hell, yeah, I
Remember I I give them shit all the time only because I'm jealous
They're cuz they just like driving they're like their hands are crossed
What do you think and my hands are like charging tightening switch switching batteries like looking at a script and they're just like
Hmm, but some have to crank out their article like on the way home sure
But the day is a little more leisurely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's that's very much my experience as well
It's like, you know running keep running around and getting beauty shots
Oh, someone said baby Aston spending too much money on their road cars and that's why their F1 cars having problems
Yeah, sorry on the on the well, dude, so on the flight there
You know, I saw a store a new story
It was like Aston lays off like 200 people and then on the way home
I read the story of like Aston's race cars fucking up and I was like, oh man
Like I feel really bad for them and like here's you know a bunch of important people
From Aston including, you know, Merrick Reichman who designed this car and the modern vanquish and a bunch of the current Aston's
He's their head designer lovely man
Very interesting bunch of their head PR people and you know, we're all talking about this the Valhalla because we're excited about that
but no and no it's like so
How's business?
Well, we're hoping because I'll just say we hope that this you know helps our bottom line or something
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait for the whatever it is 21 22 days for I can I can actually tell you how it drives because there's a lot to talk
About yeah, we'll definitely talk about that. I guess their Honda engine mounts are causing so much vibration in the race car
That it's unsafe to drive beyond 20 laps like aren't S2000 owners be like dude. We've been telling you this shit
I sell 43 AMG owners. This is what you can experience. Yeah. Yeah, that's a bummer
I'm sure I'm sure someone will sort that out
Can I show you something cool? Sure?
Wes from notice dropped off. Hey
Someone asked about this today very
the frozen berry Canyon
prototype
in the flesh is here it has
It has guilt hands it has guilt which means gold guilt hands and
Indices and they worked
They had to make you got you've no idea how many prototype dials they had to make
This is such a difficult because if we weren't gonna do it if it wasn't like
exact yeah, and
the key to it being exact is to go from a
very muted
Move color in dim light to a very
Smoothie like color in bright Sun. This is very just like the car sparkly protein shake smoothie
Right because it's underneath a light right now, right?
But if you bring it into the shade it should get much more muted
Yeah, definitely and so that's what the actual car does and so it needs to it needs to do the thing the actual car does and actually
I think it does
So I'm really excited about I think it looks rad. I'm gonna wear this on vacations act
I think I'm gonna
It's waterproof and everything right? Oh, yeah, and look and also this is this is the only one
This is the only one of the entire Canyon range that comes with the new the all-new notice
Deployant clasp they've redesigned their clasp
And it actually has a much smoother
wrist feel that
Just kind of the portion that touches the bottom of your wrist has a nice smoothness to it and
And they've re done something with the micro adjust. I don't know exactly what but cool
It's not I'd be wearing it right now, but it just came and so I have to take like a couple links out of it
It red lines at three which is a little low for diesel. It's a diesel Porsche. Yeah
That's cool. Oh, I haven't thought about that if I should just have them extend that the red line and nine
To well my car goes to 82. Oh, yeah, I was gonna say gg3's go to nine. So yeah
That's a good note. Is do they always have it at three is that like just a standard thing all of them went to three watches
Yeah, all of them went to all the other notices. Yeah, okay
but I
Think this is fucking super super rad. It's really fun. It was it's it's not
It's not gonna be for everybody obviously the regular cars were everybody
But a few people have been like man, can you come out with one that I can get for my girl?
this is it and
If you're the kind of guy who can fucking rock a pink item with confidence, you're gonna be all over this. This is great
So super excited
I will have an on sale date
soon
Unless maybe we move the red line and I don't know how much what it would take to do that
If I can do that without having to require starting all over
That would be fun actually that's a good note, but it's gonna be a lot designer. No big deal
Well, so that's the last one
I mean, we got to make it we got to make it more interesting and then we're gonna move on to that all new design, right?
Well, I think and if you move to like 82, yeah
That or like 820 like that would be pretty cool
Cuz then it also helps the marketing material and it's attached to the red line of the car and but a bit of it
Exactly. Yeah
As a consultant, yeah, 10,000 speaking of the pink car
I got the Blackstone report back just to be you know, cuz I'm a little I'm
Overconfident about not overconfident overly cautious about the engine
Not that I'm worried about it, but like you want to know you got a you got a you got a fucking big money engine and get your boss checked
Prevent it what is it a dollar of prevention is fucking worth a pound of cure with a pound of cure whatever it is
That's a prevention. That's a very much a pound of cure
So anyway, especially when the guy who built it's 3,000 miles away, right? So every time I get an oil change
Which is every 2,500 miles for me now. I do get the the Blackstone test. The good news is
Absolutely mother fucking ace. Nice. In fact, it's it's lower than a lot of the universal averages across the board
And the summary says I lower what is lower all of these things these metals that they look for in the oil sample
And and just stuff that you really you know there in here
We have metals and here we have like fuel coolant water blah blah blah and all kinds of shit
You don't want in your oil. So it basically says
The universal averages show typical wear levels for Porsche four-liter engines
The wear metals are within normal range of those averages given this is a built 4.5
The engine may not always wear like the averages in that case trends over known in similar intervals will best help gauge
How the engine is faring as it stands the viscosity measured in the right range for 0w 40
There's no sign of fuel coolant or excess dirt contamination in solubles are low thanks to good oil filtration
We good. Yeah, great. No problem. So there's like there's
Very very small to you know, whatever it says the acceptable threshold is for basically anything
It's like well below that so that's good. I
Service this car, I mean if you had a standard car you would probably not service it as much as I have but
You know I service it for me that 2,500 miles is once a year
So it's it's more about you know every every February it goes to BBI and then we
Get the sample so one of these you're above the universal average. I think
Not that I'm always looking for problems. There was one where I was on. Yeah, there was one where I was over, but I think
Borr yeah boron was slightly over I
Feel like I'm reading a car's cholesterol. It's like Brian. You know literally that's like it is like you're reading your cholesterol
Yeah, I don't know what it's not over like that much. It's a little bit. This is the good fat
So I don't know or boron's the good fat. It's actually okay
There was something there was one or two that were over in the
break-in oil but
Demand said that was normal because those are the materials of the cylinder liners that they're using now and
Some of it is like supposed to come off in the break-in oil
And they said as long as like the test number two and test number three show
It drastically reducing to like basically zero then it's fine. I think I think your car has osteoporosis though
Cuz calcium is low. Yeah
Never looked at one of these like there's so many different things that they test for which is cool
I have them. I have like three. I guess this would be my
Fourth maybe since I've had the car, but it's good to have I think yeah
Yeah, it's 45 dollars. Yeah, it's if you're a great ounce of prevention
Yeah, if you're already doing a no like if you're already doing an oil change like just fucking do that like why this is just the baseline
You don't there they have a if you go to their website
They have so many tests. I couldn't possibly tell you what any of them do
But this is just the standard baseline cheap test and it tells you a lot
Nice, that's pretty cool. And you get a you get a a summary from a an analyst as well
Not just like raw numbers. So it's really good value speaking of raw numbers
You don't have to read it out loud, but take a look at the first this is the first
Bill from from for the Coontosh, right? So you sent me this but I had no comparison. Yeah
for like
It says labor it says the breakdown in the on the second page
I'm a comparison to previous work. Oh, yeah, so so
So this is the estimate to I won't say the numbers, but well listen
You know Donnie's ego
Was his downfall but also also it benefited me in some ways because he liked being on camera
He liked being on camera. And so he undercharged me. Sure. Yeah, you you brought him business
Yeah, we have plenty of partnerships that have worked out that way
Yeah, I get a deal from office out of sports
I'm sure sometimes because I keep saying that and they go they see my face
We'll tap some keys. Yeah
But what's amazing about this is I'm not gonna say the number of the bill but the number of line items is quite small
It's not many things not many things, but it's not many hours either
That's also true
And and yet to the price quite strong
Yeah, it's expensive. It's it's it's
it's expensive and
And it doesn't seem on the bill like
It's it's that much progress for that much money. That's what I'm saying compared to where I was before because for people listening
I'm holding a two-page document. Yeah, and the front page is a breakdown
It's got someone's address and all that stuff
So you flip the page to the itemized list of to-dos. Yeah. Yeah, so just just this could be on a business card
The list is short. So I'm gonna read I'm gonna read the the things that are to be done people in the comments
You should write guess what you think this should this will cost
Received car organized parts disassemble clean and rebuild right rear wheel hub
Organize and pack shocks ship to be built ship to be rebuilt organized suspension parts
pre-installed gas tanks and organized parts or final install
Disassemble clean and rebuild left rear wheel hub and yeah, so I
It doesn't seem like much when you say that but a lot a lot is is
The the sentence just let me just say that the sentence organize and inventory parts
Organized suspension parts for final install like
He received and a disassembled car of unknown for sure and had to and had to inventory everything was there
I you know what I mean, so like I I
But it's big the question is really like
Because you're you're you're putting together you're putting back together a car that you know how to put back together and that is is mostly there
The the engine gearbox and everything are you're complete, you know ready to go in and in theory
All the suspension and stuff is there and and although the shocks had to be sent out and the wheel hubs had to be cleaned
I knew that actually
Actually even more than that. I'm surprised the shocks were there. I didn't know they were there at all
So I was fully prepared for the shocks to be missing and have to buy new shocks, so I'm glad I don't
Anyway I
Don't envy the person that has to go what's here to an entire disassembled car so like
Whatever that expertise costs, you know is not it's it's paid out in brain power
It's not paid out in hours, right? You know they know they know they can look at the whole floor of parts
Yeah, we're missing this is this is this is the guy who turns the screw half a fucking turn and charges five grand and they go
Oh, yeah, and he goes I learned 30 years to figure out which screw to turn half right, you know
That's where we're at with this is it's 246 toothpicks
Missing these things. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah, exactly. And so so I'm hoping
that once we pivot to
What the fuck is here to parts just go together on to the car
Then maybe it'll be less pain more efficient. Maybe like the question is am I gonna get?
Four of these bills am I going to get 12 of these bills like how like what percentage of work?
Would you say that is?
Where we are to car complete where we are to a car. What's the status bar like is that a that five percent?
Is it ten is it 20? You know like give I do I do need
Like cuz I see what's been done. That's that is in a sense. That is status if that was five percent
That's five percent. I'm 20 fucked. I'm so fucked if that's if that's five percent. Yeah, if it's my guess is
It's 15
percent
Okay
Because they're putting together new parts. Yeah, everything they're putting together is new everything the wheel hub
Other than rebuilding a wheel hub. There's everything that's going on is a new part. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, they don't have to like put together like a half rebuilt car. You know what I mean?
Like they're putting together like all new shit
I hope I hope I hope but I need like if if it's
Yeah, so far the guesses in chat have ranged from $1,500 to
$27,000 for what we just listed. Yeah, so
It's all over listen, but if you listen to this show and you think I'm you think I'm shook by a
$1,500 bill for a Lamborghini. No, no, no, come on guys
You know what it takes?
You'd also be more panicked if it was 27. Oh, it was yeah, that was $27,000
We'd be we have a fucking that's past panic. I'd have an actual problem. I'd be like, oh shit
Like I got to sell something. Yeah, you know, that's yeah. No, this isn't that but like it's five percent
That's five percent. We have a problem. Yeah. Yeah, I'm hoping not
Expertise cost money
And and and also like
Uh
Franco's European sports cars is a very small shop. There are only four indoor
Workspaces there period. Wow. So like it's not like Donnie's place in the middle. Nowhere, but it's big
Donnie could have 25 cars inside and he could work on one at a time and the other one can and the rest could just be there
This dude if your car is inside, it's getting his it's getting attention. It's that shit's going he he wants this car done and
You know next so I don't anticipate much dawdling
Which is like doesn't have a bunch of cars parked waiting to go. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, no
I mean, there's like a few cars outside
But the place is is very small like he can only have four cars inside being worked on it
I feel like that's a good way as a shop to keep things moving
You know because if you have too much storage area
You can just take in too many clients with you know like this to-do list gets too big. Yeah, have they found any missing parts yet?
Um there they said I didn't speak to Damien yet. I spoke to his
The the person who does his billing just to say okay, you know received and I'll send in a check but
But I said was you know was there anything missing and she said there were a couple of things that were missing
But it wasn't anything that we had to call you over so I assume we're talking about
Bolts or little fucking bullshit and not
You know, yeah fucking the intake manifold, you know or something
Obviously the intake manifolds on the engine, but you know what I'm saying like nothing nothing major yet, so
Anyway, why that is helped me mend something on my car sort of mend what happened
I mean nothing actually broke
But I picked him up from here last night before we're gonna go to dinner and we and we basically have the same suspension setup and we
And he and I drive down this, you know this road to Jefferson
Which is like the a very bumpy section this area and he just like he says you don't have to live like this
And he's been telling me for months like to you know adjust my damper my rebound and compression
Yeah, because he did it on his car and it transformed it and he goes after dinner
We're gonna fix this and so after dinner we were in my garage and we like put the car in little blocks
And we just like you know click the things and we went for a drive on the same road and and I go this is better
It's nice. I've had this adjustment. I've just been like
I don't know stupid and stubborn and shy about it. So funny, but he's like I think we can do we can do more
Yeah, and he's that loves to research it and go real deep on things. So he's sending me like
Rally suspension specs and calculators and things but this was just like let's start in first grade for you
Zach and just click click click click click click. That's awesome. Yeah
So it is better um the
So I I saw Jethro in
In in Spain and he was like he was like are you getting one of those
Trailers from from Brian James. I said I are he's like is it one of like the aerodynamic ones and I was like, yeah, and he was like
You know in England we tow those with like a golf estate
He's like they're literally meant for being towed by small cars. Yeah, we talked about this
They have like smaller wheels and shit and smaller everything
Intending to be on a on a small SUV or like a crossover or something. He was like I can't believe anyone thinks you need a
Superduty for one, but did you tell him to give him a mountain question? Yeah, okay, and he's like it doesn't matter. Yeah, okay
Whatever so crossover. Yeah, no like fucking like kind kind. Yeah
Hmm
But I thought I thought it was funny that he was like are you fucking nuts?
It's like why not that we were considering but he's like why would anyone think that for one of those you would need a huge truck?
That's crazy, but you know it be be careful asking that question because you'll get all the rest
I'm tired of hearing about it. I don't care
Do you want to talk about Leno's they'll return and they'll go to questions a few of them
Ah
Leno's law is back
They've it's been resurrected
But it'll probably still be called fucking Leno's law, but according to Haggerty
SB California SB 1392
brings back
Leno's law and and and and approves improves
Shot I when when Zach said this morning. Hey, did you hear the Leno's law is back on the table?
I said, yeah, but I bet they made it like shittier because that's what things that's how things usually go here
That's how they usually go. Yeah, someone compromised to make it shittier, but actually it seems like
the new version is actually better so
the the
the new the old bill
required you
To effectively be a car collector and prove it and prove it weird
Yeah prove that you are ensuring this thing as a collector vehicle
That that you have this, you know that you are a car collector and that it's been assigned a special
Historical vehicle plate which are usually assigned only to special vehicles, right the new one
Apparently it changes the definition of collector vehicle
So it actually says it reduces it to a sort of a binary. Is it your daily driver car or not?
And then what was the other thing wait and and then so you don't need
You don't need it to get the historic plate anymore, right? So you really and California
Defines a collector vehicle as quote one owned by a collector used primarily in shows parades
Charitable function historical exhibitions and not used primarily for transportation
The new one deletes the term quote by a collector
Removing the need for the owner of an older car to prove that they were a collector
Basically, you don't have to be a collector. You just have to have a car. That's not your daily and is of the age
That this law
intends to exempt you from smog, right so
You're allowed to use the car as a car, right? It's just not your daily, which is essentially the same
Requirement you would need to get like Hagerty or any other companies agreed value insurance. Yeah
And it also it also adds the phrase it gets rid of the phrase for display maintenance and preservation
right so before
Kind of going with that collector thing you were only allowed to drive the car around if it was going to a show on display
Yeah, going to maintenance or like driving it for the car's preservation
Yeah, like getting the oil going well now they go well you can drive the car around you can't drive it every day
Yeah, so that this seems really good a rare bit of common sense. Yeah while so I I mean look
I was supporting it before
Because you know better than nothing
But now I support it more
and I mean in reality it would be I think I
Do think it's it would be fine if they just fucking
Exempted if you had them if it was a mileage requirement or they had
Exemptions they shouldn't have to do the the not your daily driver thing
I think if you want a daily car if you want to keep a car running of that age
It's in good condition and drive it every day. You should that's me you should be able to but well with a mileage requirement then
maybe
You know, but if it's if it's if you have a car that's of
1992 and it's very difficult to get to pass if I wanted to daily drive my
Ferrari 328 for instance, I think I should have been able to and not pass not have a small requirement
I think that's a slippery slope though because
You could have I don't know pick up trucks
You can have just a lot of cars from 92 that belch out a lot of emission stuff
Yeah, and if there's no mileage requirement people go
I drive it 30 miles a day you might drive one mile a day for your daily, but someone drives 30 and yeah, you know
I just think there's there's there's not a lot of cars of that age really being day
It's a very small percentage of actual cars
I think of a certain class of car
Yeah, that's true, but I think if you look out on the highway at you mean
There's older cars all over the place from the 90s especially because they're fairly reliable. Yeah, but well not
It's not really most usually if you get to the 90s you can they'll pass smoke
It's like stuff in the 80s that like really is iffy on smog
Or performance cars really and I also I and yeah now
It's like I also wonder about the cost of enforcing that versus blah blah. I granted my default is
Cleaner air right that's that is my default even at the own my own expense, but like I don't know I think I
do think a a
Either mileage related or somehow tax offset
Small exemption for cars of that era that are just blanket cars it would be okay, but like sure we'll take I'll take whatever
I think they didn't mileage is like, you know 2000 a year yeah average mile
You know average driver goes 12,000 miles a year. Yeah, all right
You can drive your Ferrari 2000 miles per year. Yeah, and it would be easy enough to like send in photo of the odometer
Or you have to get a verified. Yeah, you know authorized place. Yeah, so
Yeah, like instead of getting you go to the smog station
But it like instead of getting a smog they just verify your odometer
Statement sticker and you go about your fucking day. Yeah, that's okay
You know you pay whatever smog whatever it costs to get a smog you pay that but you just get a verification of your thing
That'd be very simple. That would be simple. Yeah
Because that's connected to the DMV system already if you get smog like you don't have to do anything
It just goes to the DMV so like they could have another tab
Yeah, and just yeah, I don't know because them computers are kind of old-looking
They are but I think they're all connected. There could be a way to do this. Let's go to the people
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Right send preludes. Oh got a new job. It is moving to southern Germany. Wow
Congratulations in your opinion
Would you rather experience the Alps by driving through them in an economy car going the speed limit or use public
Transportation and be able to focus on the scenery
I'd rather drive my own car sitting in the back of anything and I mean like second row or behind
Yeah, I'll get sick like I will get carsick and on a bus or something that many twists
I'd rather just drive stop take a risk
Alpine trains. Oh, yeah, Alpine trains are fucking dope like
the if you there's so many good Alpine trains like I
Driving the Alps in your own in your own car. Even if it's a sucky economy car is still amazing
It's it's still awesome
but then like drive to somewhere in Switzerland and
Get and take a train through the Alps like that's the shit. So do both. Yes, agree
Congratulations, though
Southern Germany is dude fucking Munich Octoberfest love it Gran Turismo licensed to hill driver's test
With a thousand horsepower deemed useless for the streets. What is a wattage number for stereo systems that make it too powerful?
I have no idea high. I
Feel like
Well, don't doesn't the Range Rover like new ones they come with like a 1900 watt stereo and it sounds awesome
Yeah, it's got all it's got 19 speakers. It's got so many speakers
It's got so much power
But like remember when we talked about the car stereo guy that had won all the Academy Awards for sound design and had
had designed the best sounding car stereo I've ever heard and had six speakers and
And and no any and we introduced him to Scott at BMW who won the notice Canyon
the teal in the
Blood donation thing to be the match thing and he works for BMW and man did this guy
school us on
The customer wants all those speakers the customer wants all that wattage the customer doesn't really know
What amazing sound is they kind of have to be told
only certain special audio files and
audio files could really tell and and
There's no money in including a value for money
Car stereo like ever. There's no money in less is better. Uh-huh. That's the thing if you say my my car has four
Speakers only six speakers, but it's done by Academy Award winning blah, blah, blah
There are so many plebs out there ago. I have 19
Yeah, you guys thought the same house in the same fancy neighborhood whatever and 19 speaker guy
Most people are gonna think he has more stuff. Yeah, that's the better thing. Yeah, that sucks. Yeah. Yeah
Oh, I forgot. I just remember I have to write something down. So sorry pause because
It's almost like the opposite of you could have you know a paint I guess art so subjective
I say you could have you know a painting by a famous artist, but the painting could look very simple like one color
It's like a square like a Rothko and Rothko's just like a color, right?
You know one but it's worth 80 million dollars or something like that and then you have a great portrait that was 400
Yeah, this is a yeah, it's the opposite. There is a unique world. Yeah
Carbon monocoque and ball torture
So should be carbon monocoque and mono ball torch, you know, right? When there's a character limit. Oh, maybe
Every Brooklyn cool guy I talked to is starting to show interest in cars two weird ones
they all love are the El Camino and
diesel
123 Mercedes
Predictions for the urban gentrifier statement cars in the coming years
TLDR, what are the American spirits cigarettes of cars? What's the PBR of cars? I mean I
Don't think the El Camino or one two three is
Being being shown love by the Brooklyn hipster class is a new thing at all
I know multiple like young cool
Interesting artsy people that like El Camino's and diesel Mercedes. I don't think that's like a new thing
I think the diesel Mercedes was first
I think that was after they got after Volvo's
Then the diesel showed up diesel Mercedes
I think Lady Gaga bought an El Camino like during her eBay carbine phase and that probably helped a little bit
I look she did she also had a diesel Mercedes
She had a seed a CD a coupe those are dope
But like yeah, I mean water
Urban gentrifier statement cars. That's pretty funny. Um, what are they gonna be driving in Brooklyn next Previous?
Maybe
You know of Chrysler Voyager the early ones. Oh, wow. Yeah, your heart is fuck
Yeah, that's the whole thing but that's what that car I just saw some article in Esquire today
That was like JFK core is hot first. What is that?
But that's not by the way, that's not JFK
President it's JFJFK juniors style because I guess some movie just came out about his
Yeah, whatever
Bless you. I don't know what style is speaking of movies on the plane home from Spain
I watched the the running man the new running man with Glenn Powell. Did you see it? No, not bad
I didn't love the ending but but overall a great great way to spend two hours on a plane
the movie cars
the cars they use in the film are
Worth mentioning because they're fucking hilarious
almost every car in the movie is either a
C4 Corvette or an Aston Martin Lagonda Wow, like I don't know they must have built about a dozen
Aston Martin Lagondas for this movie, but it was a very I
Don't know how nobody like brought this up to me before
There's a bunch of like kind of like it was a couple 80 shit boxes. There's a very clear Alpine
placement the this this Alpine is in there
I think they put that in there because a they they paid for it
But B they wanted a car that was like a modern car that a that a normal person would drive
But it's but they wanted but not a car or a brand that most Americans would recognize
This is an I rock but that's an I rock but with like a weird
They basically back to the future to do a bunch of like I rocks Corvettes and like if you think about what the cars look like
I'm back to the future to how it was just like 80s is cars was cladding and shit. They pretty much like did that
Wrangler though the yeah, the the bet the run the hunters drove
like SUVs and stuff and the and everyone else drove like these sort of like
fictionalized version of like 80s cars, but do there's in the city where like the
Where the sort of wealthier people live
It's like all Aston Martin Lagondas and I was like that's a fun detail actually
Why aren't they showing?
First of all, I don't know this website existed, but it's internet movie card data. Oh, yeah, you've never you never seen it before
No, oh, yeah, that is a thing. There we go. Where's the Aston Martin Lagondas? There's so many of them
Second top yeah top left maybe yeah, there's one. Okay, finally there's finally one Wow
Yeah, but they put like a charger tail light on it. Yeah
It's but so in the in the areas of the city that are like a little wealthier
There's like these S Martin Lagondas rolling around maybe I'll watch that on the flight to Miami. Yeah
This is a good plane movie. Okay, not like a huge Glenn Hall fan. I'm not either
It's I his face angers me for some reason, you know, I mean
Not as much as I'll tell you it's like Aaron Eckert, but without the acting
Yeah, you know who's you know, I was his face angers me on the way to Spain. I watched fucking
No, the Nuremberg the was it called Nuremberg, I believe it's the one you just watched the trials for fun
It's one with Russell Crowe about the Nuremberg Nuremberg Charles Nuremberg
Yeah, okay, Rami Malek is in it his facial expressions really bother me
Oh, he's he does weird who does these weird things with his mouth
I want where it was that his character or is that it just what the problem is it's he's playing a person
That is a real person in history, but it's not a famous person
It's not it's just a person from history that got it
So like maybe he fucking studied this person and that's exactly how this person
Talked but like I've never heard seen or heard of this person before so I get you if he's he didn't need to do that
It's not like playing Stephen Hawking. You know what I mean. Yeah, we you know, we I don't know who the fuck this guy
He's good man. He was in this movie. I watched The Amateur with Lawrence Fishburn. I think it's like a
Born like Jason Bourne type thing, but Rami Malek such a good actor. It definitely elevated
I know he's a good actor, but his face bothers me
Also added to the TST reading list now great book non-politics. I regret almost everything by Keith McNally
He's the dude. He's a restaurateur
That owns like Balthazar pastis like like crushes it in the New York restaurant scene
But had a stroke tried to commit suicide had like three divorces
fucked up relationships with his kids like and
And writes about it in incredibly honest and and funny and
Sad and interesting way and I read the entire like what was it called?
I regret almost everything by Keith McNally read it in one flight
I fucking carry this thing all the way to Spain and I finished it half way through my trip so
Back to the shit
Re-education through snap liftoff oversteer that's great
With 200 to 250 K in the pocket
Would you go for a new zr1 or a used seven series from the Claren use seven if I could get into a 750
For 250 yeah all day. Yeah extended warranty
Zr1's I'm in at a hundred next year
Because they will make too many
Okay
Bald bearded and beautiful. I have a 718 gts
What mods would you do while making it usable as a daily is doing the gear set of worth it on its own?
Would love the shorter gears just scared of the price
If that well you should the price a lot. It's like 20 20 grand plus
Yeah, but if you're keeping the car for a long time, it will really change it
It won't affect your reliability won't affect your ability to use it as a daily
It would only make the car better
They wouldn't even they'd never even know with your warranty like and you'd probably get back and I know it's dangerous
You'd probably get back at least 50% of that mod on the on resale
Yeah, because people everyone knows it's awesome and it's a great thing to do
But the initial price is really high. Yeah, if you pair that mod with a clean DME report on the back end
You're right. I bet you get half of it back
Um
That's so you tell your partner. It's really just 10. It's not 20
Yeah, and then while you're I mean while you're at it if you're gonna leave the engine stock
You know, you can do the the standard triple threat of the IPD plenum the lightweight flywheel and the
Catback exhaust and and you can have a pretty good time with that. That's that's a fun one
Bring back the crotch vent says
Current trending car design is boxy with the Santa Fe tell your eye grand ear defender, etc
In the past after all the car cars were boxy. We got blobby catfish era like the Taurus
I would call the Taurus more like tadpole than catfish. What do you call it catfish?
No, it was very it was just like rounded stone
Everything was like a rock that had been in the river for a thousand years rock. Yeah, the Chrysler
Concord I would say that was more catfish. Yeah, big mouth sharper rear big mouth round mouth
Do you think we'll follow the same and bring back the blob jets?
I think fashion shows that it always goes in cycles. I think clothes move quicker
But I think we will people get bored of the blocky thing eventually we'll go back to like super aerodynamic
Yeah, justification for blob fish
Although I think they figured out that you know the the tail of the car is so important to how slippery it is
So they might have to keep a sharp ridge back there. Yeah, I yeah, I think I
Don't know actually how aerodynamic the blob fish cars were
I mean they they probably like looked like they were at the time and they did have wind tunnels and they were testing aerodynamics, but like
Were those as aerodynamic as cars ever got and then we backed away from that from for styling purposes or are our quote boxy cars?
Like an Ioniq 5 is boxy, but like pretty aerodynamic. Well, let's see. So a 96 Taurus had a
coefficient of drag of
0.3 oh, oh, that's pretty down from 0.32 of the of the predecessor and then but amazingly the 86 Taurus
Or sorry 85 Taurus had a better coefficient of drag than 9-elevens at the time. Well, yeah, you're talking about a G body
So an 86 Taurus was 0.32
So, you know in nine years they switched from blocks to blobs and it only improved by nine percent
Yeah, what is an Hyundai Ioniq 5?
I'm gonna
Because the cars that this person mentioned are like big big
Unified is point two eighty. Yeah, so like it's just cuz something looks round does not make it aerodynamic at all
So so I think you know in the search for ever more
Aerodynamic designs we may get more sort of swept tail cam back type things, but I'm not sure we're going back to the blobfish front ends
We'll see interesting though. I mean dude
If I'm totally honest my tycon isn't not blobfish
The front end of my tycon is medium blob. Well, I've got blob now
But with you know like you're there's some those vertical elements next to the headlights
Yeah, that's a little bit of aggression and sure you are just full blob. Oh, yeah, yeah
I had fun me and Larry Gisela
Stage rallied one of those blobfish Tauruses on an undeveloped spring island in
1997 when we first got licenses nice it was a good time
I warped the rotors on my friend Eric Jacobi's
Parents car a couple of times so did he but that was a fast car back then man
Yeah, that's a 16 year old and we're like what yeah
Ah
HOA surveillance van has a GT4 with buckets just moved to Florida
I missed the Canyon drives. I had while living in Utah. No fucking shit
Beginning to search for a next fun car. That's more suitable for my situation
Ie driving five to seven hours for a quarterly trip to the mountains is a
991.1 GT3 with 18 ways worth the 30k premium over the 981 GT4
No, no, no, it is not it won't change the rotor on no
Any other exciting car suggestions under 135,000 dollars that won't depreciate rapidly and fit my use case
Oh, yeah, dude. You got a budget. Let's fucking go to AMG GTs, whichever a GTC
sound because in my opinion Florida's very boring
So I want something that sounds good when I started up
It's exciting off the line sounds rad also looks cool
And then if you go to the twisties five hours away, it'll also shine there. I'd go something like that sure or a
Very lightly used
Carreratee with like that flat six kit
That's true done. So then you could go to like the Cape Canaveral the runway shit. Yeah, you could do that. You could do
I
Mean core I do Corvette zero six slightly slightly used the fucking maybe not even at this point
Slightly used Corvette zero six would be perfect for that task
Any I mean any really any number you don't need to go if you have a GT4 you don't need to go to an old
A 10 12 year old GT3 to get an upgrade you can get a
GTS like one of the turbo cars like it's like in 2019
GTS with a stick it would rip and it would be very comfortable to drive. Yeah on Florida roads every day
I think they need to think about what do they want in a car experience now that the landscape has changed
Yeah, and then go from there, you know, yeah
I mean and and quarterly trips to the canyons is great too
But like in between all that, you know, you want something that's like that you want in Florida, right?
Which is you know, what's gonna ride good? It's got to have good power because people drive fast as fuck on the highway there
And that comfort you're looking for but there's a you're I think you've
Instinctively discounted a lot of amazing 9-elevens that aren't the GT3 because you're seeing that GT3
Badge as being the upgrade from what you have, but I think there's other cars that'll work better
Mm-hmm
Donnie's tire swing says we share a lot at my shop next door to a trip. Oh wait, hang on a minute
Sorry. Oh
Sorry that I appreciate you, but that is not a question that should have made it through my bad
Sorry Jaguar bus says should Aston Martin build something like an LM002 or G wagon
No, and I'll tell you why because I like that Aston Martin is not a military
Contractor or trying to be one. I don't think they are anyway both the G wagon and the LM002 were our exist basically
like because of military
That's not to say that like all military everywhere shouldn't have vehicles or something
But I don't I don't think militaries need an Aston Martin
I
Miss when AI just meant to shop in Westchester. That's a fucking awesome username
Very much appreciated and shout out to AI design in Tuckahoe, New York
Okay, it's currently running a set of continental extreme contact sports that have 20 20 date codes, but under 1500 miles on them
Continental says on their website replace tires at 10 years old most of their sources say six years
Car doesn't get driven much, but obviously when it does it's spirited they look new
They've been stored in a climate-controlled garage, but I understand rubber still ages should I be shopping for new rubber now?
Look, I mean I
Don't want to say it's
If you if the car's really been stored indoors
Climate-controlled and you touch the rubber and it feels like it's got some give to it
It's like you can feel when rubber gets really hard, you know
It's somewhere between ten years is really for like I
Don't know if it also depends where you live if it's is it warm are you driving in the rain?
You're driving the cold are you driving in the sun if you're driving in the sun and it's warm
And you're not pushing the limits of handling or anything like that
It's probably fine to go a little closer to the ten-year mark if you're really you said it's spirited
But if it you're going out and it's cold or it's wet
Then maybe you want to get a little closer to that five six-year mark. I know I don't want you to spend money unnecessarily
And if the car has been stored indoors and the rubber feels okay
You're probably be fine and it won't go beat from good to zero in a day
It'll it'll gradually get harder and crappier because if the car lived outside
Especially in a place with high UV index so Cal Arizona, whatever those tires are gonna age much more quickly
The way you know our skin would yeah, so that's something to consider too
But if you like Seattle where it's moist and it's cloudy and it's stored inside
It'll probably last longer and look if you get a chance like when you're driving this car when you find somewhere that's safe
Test it do a fuck do a panic stop do a full ABS stop do a full like you know launch or a heart really hard
Acceleration and low gear like and you can see like is is this tire getting traction or is it not right?
You know and you you'll you'll know
But the fact that you're thinking about it is good keep thinking about it, you know observe and report
Um
All right, even Flowmaster
You both driven some high-dollar
Resto mods. Well, what would the first and or most important upgrades be if one was to DIY their own
Let's say with a 944 for example
Suspend suspension I think
And I'm getting you know tires of course, but I think
High-dollar suspension can transform how a car feels
More than almost anything
So that's where I would go. I mean here's the thing high-dollar Resto mod is
Different from a DIY project
Because a Resto mod communicates a point of view of the person building it the person building it says
at least someone in my opinion who's doing it with passion like a singer or a gunther or a
Revology or a you know people that are doing this high at a high level
They go, okay, I
Like the aesthetic of the of the original car and the spirit of the original car
Here's how I would re for lack of a better word re-imagine that car today
and
It's usually the completeness of package and the and the quality of the assembly of those parts like if you look at a
For instance a revology Mustang and I say that because I'm looking at them in my shop every day because we've managed their marketing fleet
if you look at it like from 20 feet away just looks like a
68 Mustang with a nice paint job and
I go, oh, you know, it's a it's got a brand new Mustang GT and then you go, okay
It's 350,000. Oh my god, and then I go go close the door
And it's it's like a brand new Mercedes not like a night and you go, oh so like if you were you you essentially
can't DIY that I mean you can if you're like a
Rod everybody like everyone with everyone else if the question is just like how do I upgrade my old car?
The first way to do it if you it's not glamorous
But it's like put it as close to factory perfect as you can
Because like a lot of the time like that's like if you get a 94 for like alright
You get coilovers, but like what if you don't do all the bush eggs and all the other stuff like that's how you make it
Like with my Ferrari 328. I
Mean I got to give Donnie fucking credit when he did everything he did it felt like I had a rest o-mob
And all he did was put it back to how it was supposed to be
You know so your car might have 30 years of who knows what the fuck done to it or not done to it
And it might not be performing anywhere near its potential. It's true
So like that's where I'd start and then when that's not enough
And you go okay now I need more, but like you'd be shocked how well that 944 would handle with all-new rubber
Rebuilt or brand-new Bilstein shocks
You know and and new tires and and the thing would probably handle awesome. Remember that fucking dude
I'm sorry. I forgot his name
But when we were up in the canyons in like an m6 or something and this dude was like mobbing his 320 by 8 or 308 like
He was pushing like serious speeds in the corners, and I was like wow
Let's just just put back to stocks. Oh, yeah, these were fucking Ferraris when they were new
Yeah, but all the rubber between where like, you know that the tub
And the unibody or whatever meets the suspension. Yeah, that has give it's not letting the suspension do what it's supposed to do with
Along the geometry the engineers designed it to do so that's a good point
Trans mounts and you know all that kind of stuff and then even like
Weather stripping like the way the doors will close and seal like that shit's kind of expensive
Yes, but it's not hard to like put on so like you you can do some of it is some of it could be but like you could you could DIY it
Yeah
Yeah
You had me at hell lotus like I like that
How does a normal person go about finding a quality transporter at a good price
Well, look you can we do that stuff at WCCS
So you can fucking email me or send me a DM and I can just do it for you if you want to do that
I mean everyone else like
Cheap fast, you know good right so
most people do not understand what it costs to
To to get a reputable
Legal insured
Transporter to ship a car. It's the same as storage
Most people on the outside think that the service I provide should probably be worth about should probably cost about half of what it actually costs and
That's just based on like vibes same thing for shipping
Like you see the sketchiest every time people I
Quote them price and they all handle it myself
Nine times out of ten the truck that shows up that they've booked is far
Sketchier and lower quality than what I would have booked only maybe once was it above what I would have booked and even then I
Suspect if I had told them about the more expensive option, which I didn't do that. They probably would have just done it through me
but like
There's no such thing as cheap
I mean you're gonna get garbage like you're gonna get well
I mean some of the problems that I've encountered we used to ship cars for like TV stuff is the truck will break down
Four states away, and they have to send a different truck or the driver's communication skills are terrible. Yeah, the driver
Falls asleep for I mean there's there's some there's mechanical problems driver problems communication problems weather problems insurance
Damage problems when loading or unloading the car. Yeah, I mean that can happen at any price point due to negligence
But like what you're paying for is to minimize how many of those issues will arise so yeah talking to other people in your car
Community, that's probably a good way to start
Fine, you know go to car show or just DM people and say who do you use?
You know if you're with this guy's moving a car from Texas, but wherever you live
Well, if you see your big brand-name trucks reliable and horseless carriage and stuff there they're gonna be premium
But you know for for a reason yeah people move
Bugatti's in the reliant trucks. Yeah every year to Monterey. Yeah, yeah all the time and and and so like
Car like in a best-case scenario
Carshipping sucks like it's tough like even even with a with a very reputable company like drivers will
Communicate poorly their English won't be great like they'll give you a window and then show up on the very very edge of it
You know like the cable guy or whatever
We I can minimize that using a higher-end transporter can minimize that and certainly if something gets damaged
Which can happen at any level
The way that that is followed up with and handled it would be much better
Given a higher quality transporters. So I have a I have a baseline that I'll work with I have
The regular tier which is good and then I have a great and the great is probably 30% more expensive
But if the car is valuable enough or the customer is that obsessive about it, then then we'll do it
But but that's it's man. It's if you need me. I'll help you. It doesn't need to be to or from WCCS
We can do it, but it's um it's
If you shop by price you fucking are getting what you're getting for sure the
In in seriousness the more I've paid for a higher-end company the better service
I've received but it's usually a lot more money than people think it's gonna be which sort of sucks
I have to run. I'm sorry, but we are for the live audience. We're double-headering today. We're back at 4 p.m.
Pacific with Magnus. He's fucking unloading his collection. Yeah, clearing out the goods as it were
Wants to hawk that shit on our show and I said, you know what Magnus? That's okay. You can you can come hawk your shit on our show
As long as you allow me to hawk my shit on your show. He doesn't have a show. That's okay
So we'll talk to Magnus later this afternoon
and for those of you on the other end of this program that aren't listening live that'll be next are on Thursday and
Thanks everybody. Thanks for our patrons. We'll save your questions. We've got we got we got questions
We'll get to them. Don't worry save them for next show
but I have this is my only business day in Los Angeles for
Two weeks this past week and this this next week and even some of the following week
So like I have a lot of business to do today, including two podcasts. So I'll see you next time
I will have dates for the frozen berry
Notice Canyon release pretty soon. We'll see if we can get that red line set to where my car is
That's pretty cool. I like Zach's idea there and
We appreciate y'all. Thanks very much. See you later
About this episode
The podcast dives into a variety of automotive topics including a detailed update on assembling a Lamborghini Countach, impressions of the Aston Martin Valhalla's design and technology, and insights into suspension tuning. The hosts share personal experiences with travel, discuss the evolution of hip-hop and film pacing, and explore the challenges and innovations in carbon fiber manufacturing for supercars. The episode blends car culture with candid conversations about driving, technology, and lifestyle, offering a mix of technical details and entertaining anecdotes.
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aluminum front and rear subframes
Aston racing green
beauty shots
Blackstone test
carbon manufacturing
carbon tub
deployant clasp
Formula 1
Michelin star
Aston Martin Lagonda
Aston Martin Valhalla
Aston Martin Valkyrie
Aston Martin Vanquish
BMW M3
BMW M6
Byd Seagull
Chevrolet Corvette
Chevrolet El Camino
Chrysler Voyager
Dodge Charger
Ferrari 328
Ferrari Testarossa
Ford Mustang
Ford Mustang GTD
Ford Taurus
Honda S2000
Hyundai Ioniq 5
Jeep Wrangler
Lamborghini Countach
Lamborghini LM 002
Lamborghini Revuelto
Land Rover Range Rover
McLaren 720S
Mercedes-Benz AMG One
Mercedes-Benz G-Class
Porsche 918 Spyder
Porsche 944
Original notes
Matt Farah got a scary estimate for his Countach project; a new smog law in CA might be a good thing; an oil test comes back positive; Zack Klapman learns how to adjust something; and we answer Patreon questions including:
- How much stereo is too much?
- Which car will hipsters gentrify next?
- ZR1 or used McLaren ?
- Are new gears worth it?
- The right sports car for a flatter landscape is...
- Will "blob" cars ever return?
- Does Aston Martin need a G-Wagen?
- Are my tires really too old?
- Can you DIY a Singer-style restomod?
- How do I find a trustworthy car shipper?
- And more!
Recorded March 6, 2026
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