They’re talking about how, back in the day, race coverage wasn’t always live. Commentators would record the video and then add their commentary afterward.
The Hyundai Santa Cruz is a vehicle that mixes an SUV with a small truck bed. It’s meant to carry gear while still feeling like a regular everyday car. The podcast mention sounds like it came up as something people notice in their local area.
Wheelbase is the distance between the front and rear wheels. Shorter wheelbase usually makes the car turn and react faster, but it can also feel less steady, which is why the host describes it as scary.
“Two-liter” means the engine is about 2.0 liters in size. Engines around this size often spin up quickly, so they can feel responsive and sound great—exactly what the host is reacting to.
Weber is a brand of carburetor used on some classic cars. It helps mix fuel and air, and that can change how quickly the engine responds when you press the gas.
The Porsche 356 is an older Porsche that the hosts mention as the predecessor to the early 911. They’re using it to explain why the 911 felt so much more advanced at the time.
“Short stroke” means the engine’s pistons move a shorter distance each cycle. That design often lets the engine spin up faster, which can make it feel more lively and exciting at higher revs.
A spec series is a racing class where the rules limit how different the cars can be. That helps keep the competition closer, so driving and tuning matter more than having the “best” parts.
The Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman is a huge, high-end limousine from the early 1960s. People use cars like this for official parades because they’re comfortable, very formal, and easy for dignitaries to ride in.
This is a Volkswagen Beetle with the roof removed. It’s a classic “old-school” car vibe, and the convertible version is even more about cruising in the open air.
The Volkswagen Caddy is a small van made for carrying people or gear. It’s practical and easy to use for everyday trips. People sometimes like it because it can be set up for hobbies and travel.
The Volkswagen Bus is a classic van with a lot of space inside. It’s known for its unique shape and for being great for trips. The podcast mention suggests they were talking about a specific version with a special roof setup.
Fuchs usually means a specific classic wheel style that looks very “Porsche-ish.” People choose them because they make an older car look more authentic and stylish.
Concept
surfboard on the seat
They’re picturing using the car for surfing—like having a surfboard right in the car. It’s about matching the car to your real hobby and routine.
Car
Fiat Jolly
The Fiat Jolly is a quirky, rare Italian open-air vehicle with a very beach/surf vibe. They’re using it as an example of a fun, laid-back look.
An engine swap means putting a different engine into the car instead of the original one. It’s a big project because you often have to change more than just the engine itself.
The Miata is a small two-seat convertible made by Mazda. It’s built to be light and easy to drive, so it’s fun even at everyday speeds. People like it because it focuses on driving feel rather than luxury.
They’re talking about Toyota Land Cruisers. These are tough, off-road-capable SUVs, and the point is that older ones can still be great for everyday use.
Rolls-Royce is one of the most expensive luxury car brands. In the discussion, it’s the high-end comparison point for where Alpina’s new concept would be priced and positioned.
A concept car is a prototype made to show what a future car could look like. The hosts are saying some of the styling works better as an idea than as something you’d actually buy.
Side skirts are the pieces that run along the bottom edge of a car near the doors. They can help the car look lower and can also affect airflow under the vehicle.
The rear bumper is the part at the back of the car meant to protect it in small crashes. The hosts are saying this concept’s rear looks unfinished or unusually styled without a normal bumper.
The Mercedes SL is a Mercedes model line that’s usually about comfortable, stylish driving—often as a roadster or grand touring car. Here it’s being suggested as a nicer, more relaxed option in a set of three cars.
All-wheel drive sends power to all four tires, which usually helps the car grip the road better. The point here is to have one car that’s easier to drive in tricky conditions and one that feels more “classic” and playful.
Rear-wheel drive powers the back wheels, which tends to feel more like a classic sports car. In this conversation, it’s part of the idea of having one car that’s different from the other in how it drives.
Term
VFR
“VFR” is being used like a shorthand, but the clip doesn’t make it clear what the speaker means by it. It could be a model/layout reference, but there isn’t enough context here to define it confidently.
Term
MR
“MR” usually means the engine is placed near the middle of the car and the power goes to the rear wheels. That layout often changes how the car feels in corners, and the speaker is saying it can be swapped into their rear-wheel-drive category.
The Toyota Tundra is a large pickup truck. It’s made for carrying things and towing, but you can also drive it like a normal vehicle. People often mention it when they’re talking about trucks that look good and feel solid.
The Honda NSX is a sports car made by Honda. It’s designed to be fast and fun to drive, but also comfortable enough for normal use. People mention it because it has a distinctive look and a reputation as a real performance car.
The Porsche 944 is a classic Porsche from the 1980s. It’s a sports car that many enthusiasts like because it feels balanced and can be a more attainable way into “classic Porsche” than a 911.
The Porsche 928 is a classic Porsche grand tourer—more about long-distance cruising than tight track driving. It’s known for having a V8 and a more “luxury GT” vibe than a 911.
In car culture, “stance” refers to how a car sits—its ride height, wheel position, and overall visual proportions. Changes like lowering, wheel swaps, or alignment tweaks can make the stance look more aggressive or more “right,” which is why the host ties it to how often they look back at the car after modifications.
Term
look back factor
“Look back factor” is just a fun way to say some car mods make you want to look at your car again after you park. It’s about how the changes affect how you feel when you see it.
The Porsche 911 is Porsche’s most famous sports car. It’s known for its distinctive shape and (in classic versions) an engine mounted at the back, which helps it feel special and recognizable.
Porsche 930 is the name enthusiasts use for the early 911 Turbo. It’s the classic, wide-bodied Turbo look that many people consider one of the most desirable early 911s.
Car
Volkswagen GTI
The Volkswagen GTI is a sporty Golf that’s popular with car people. Here, they’re talking about a custom look they did to it—removing the bumpers to make it look lighter and more aggressive.
The Volkswagen Rabbit is a compact Volkswagen from earlier decades. Here, they’re saying they put GTI-style lettering on it, which is basically a cosmetic mod to make it look like a different version.
Term
double windshield wipers
“Double windshield wipers” means there are extra wipers on the windshield, usually for a custom look. It’s the kind of mod that can be either practical or just for style, depending on the setup.
Straight piping means removing the muffler parts so the exhaust is louder and more direct. The host is saying they tried it and didn’t like the result.
Pioneer makes electronics, and they’re especially known for car stereo equipment. The host is saying they had a Pioneer stereo setup with flashy graphics that didn’t match the car.
Term
bazooka in the trunk
A “bazooka” here means a small subwoofer box you put in the trunk to make bass. The host is saying they added one, but it didn’t really match the car’s original look.
“Era correct” means something looks like it belongs on the car from the time it was built. The host is saying their stereo didn’t really match the car’s original era.
MP3s are a common way of storing music files on a device. The host is saying they wanted their car stereo to play MP3 music, which was part of why they upgraded the system.
A card reader is a slot that lets a car stereo play music from a memory card. The host is saying they wanted that feature so they could use MP3 music in the car.
A shifter rebuild means taking the shifter apart and fixing or replacing worn parts. In this case, they did it because the car was vibrating the shifter and they wanted it to shift smoothly again.
A guibo is a flexible coupling that connects parts of the drivetrain. If it’s not in good shape, it can cause vibration and make the car feel rough or make the shifter feel weird.
Single-stage paint is a type of paint job where the color and shine come from one layer. Buffing it can change the look a lot, so it can affect how well new paint blends with older paint.
“Buff it out” means polishing the paint surface with an abrasive compound/polish to remove oxidation, light scratches, and surface imperfections. In the context here, buffing before repainting helps the new paint blend because the surface finish affects how paint lays down and reflects light.
They’re talking about dark plastic trim pieces on the outside of the car. Those parts create visual contrast and can make small paint issues less noticeable.
“Panel to panel” means the car’s body panels look like they’re all one matching painted surface. If a car has more trim and plastic sections, paint differences between panels stand out less.
“Curbed” means the wheel got scraped against the curb. That can make the wheels look bad, and fixing it usually involves taking the tires off to refinish the rims.
“Forged” means the wheel is made by squeezing metal into shape under pressure. People like forged wheels because they’re usually stronger and can be lighter than cheaper cast wheels.
A wheel refinisher is a shop that fixes and redoes the finish on wheels. It’s the kind of place you send wheels to when you want them to look new again.
A touchless cleaning system washes using high-pressure water and cleaner, not brushes. It’s meant to clean without physically rubbing the wheel and causing scratches.
Term
conveyor system
A conveyor system means the car or wheel is moved through the wash automatically. That helps keep the cleaning steps consistent from one vehicle to the next.
The headliner is the material on the inside of the car’s roof. If it’s being redone, it usually means the shop has to take parts down to get to what’s underneath.
A trim panel is a cover piece that finishes the look of the car and hides how parts are attached. If it comes loose, it’s often because the clips or fasteners aren’t holding anymore.
The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is a special, track-ready version of the 911. It’s designed to feel sharp and planted at speed, with extra aerodynamic parts to help it stick to the road.
The Jaguar E-Type is an older sports car that’s famous for its looks. It was built to be exciting to drive and it became an icon. People still talk about it because it’s instantly recognizable and has a classic reputation.
Air ride means the suspension uses air to change how high or low the truck/car sits. It’s popular on custom builds because you can make it look low and still drive.
The Dodge Ram is a pickup truck made by Dodge. It’s meant for carrying and towing, but you can also drive it like a normal vehicle. The podcast mention suggests they were talking about a specific Ram model they saw or drove.
Term
Baja style
“Baja style” is an off-road desert look. It usually means the truck is styled like it could handle rough terrain, even if it’s mostly a show build.
Term
buoyed wheels
I’m not fully sure what “buoyed wheels” means here—this looks like it may be a mis-heard wheel term. If you can share the surrounding audio or a cleaner transcript, I can pin down the exact wheel type.
The BMW 3 Series is a smaller luxury car that’s meant to drive well. It’s comfortable for daily use, but it’s also designed to feel sporty. People often talk about it because it’s a popular car to modify and work on.
The Chevrolet Camaro is a famous American muscle car. They’re using a 1969 Camaro as an example to show that a really good paint job can cost a lot because the car has to be prepped and repaired thoroughly first.
Blocking and sanding are bodywork steps used to smooth a car’s panels before paint. The goal is to remove surface imperfections and create an even surface so the primer and paint can lay down correctly.
After the color paint goes on, shops may sand it lightly and then buff it to make it smooth and glossy. This is part of the finishing work that separates a good paint job from a mediocre one.
A Porsche 914 is an older Porsche sports car. Here it’s mentioned because a previous paint job didn’t hold up, so the car is back in primer—an example of why good paint work is expensive and has to be done right.
Primer is the base coat applied before the final paint color. It helps the paint stick and protects the metal, and here it’s mentioned because the earlier paint failed and the car had to be prepped again.
Bubbling around seams means the paint starts to lift and form bubbles, usually where panels meet. It’s a sign the paint job didn’t prep or seal things well, so it won’t last.
Original paint means the paint that came on the car from the factory. People value it because it’s more “authentic,” and repaints can sometimes look or age differently.
“Waterborne” paint uses water as the main carrier instead of harsher solvents. It can be harder for some shops to work with, which is why certain paint booths and setups matter.
Corner balancing is when a shop adjusts the suspension so each wheel supports the car’s weight in a planned way. The goal is more predictable handling, especially in turns.
Using a “quarter tank of gas” standardizes vehicle weight for comparisons because fuel mass changes as you drive. Even small fuel differences can noticeably affect measured curb weight and lap-time comparisons.
A lightweight battery is an aftermarket or alternative battery designed to reduce mass compared with a stock battery. Less battery weight can help overall vehicle weight and can slightly improve responsiveness, especially on cars where weight distribution and unsprung/rotational mass matter.
BBS makes wheels, and “basket weave” is just the look of the wheel’s spoke pattern. Here it matters because the speaker is comparing wheel weights—lighter wheels can make the car feel more responsive.
T-37s are a particular style/model of wheel (from BBS) that’s lighter than many factory wheels. Lighter wheels can help the car respond faster because there’s less weight to move.
A stainless exhaust is made from corrosion-resistant metal. Here it’s mentioned because the speaker thinks the exhaust setup is heavy or light, and that affects how the car feels.
Term
four to one
“Four to one” describes how the exhaust pipes come together—four paths merge into one. It can change how the engine breathes and can affect power and sound.
The BMW E30 M3 is an older BMW performance model that’s famous for feeling very “connected” to the driver. Here it’s used as a reference point to show how changing weight can make a car feel quicker and more responsive.
Power-to-weight is basically how strong the car is compared to how heavy it is. If the car is lighter (or has more power), it tends to feel quicker and more eager to change speed.
Unsprung weight is the stuff on the wheels and suspension that the springs don’t support. If that weight is lower, the car can absorb bumps more smoothly and keep the tires planted better.
Spring rate is how stiff the suspension springs are. Stiffer springs can make the car feel more controlled, but they can also make bumps feel harsher if the rest of the suspension isn’t set up well.
A rear seat delete means taking the back seats out of the car. People do it to save weight and make the car more track-focused, but you lose rear-seat comfort.
VIN is the car’s unique identification number. If someone says the VIN is “washed,” they usually mean the car’s identity/history has been messed with to hide where it came from.
The Honda Civic is a very common compact car. They mention it because they’re guessing which Honda model gets stolen the most, and they’re comparing it to other popular Hondas and Toyotas.
The Honda CR-V is a very common Honda SUV. They bring it up because they’re talking about which Honda model gets stolen the most, and they’re comparing it to other popular Hondas and Toyotas.
The Toyota Prius is a hybrid model that the hosts expect might be highly stolen, but they say it ranks third among the cars they’re discussing. The point here is how theft rankings don’t always match what people assume based on popularity.
“Parting them out” means taking the car apart and selling the good parts separately. Instead of selling the whole car, thieves can make money by selling individual components.
Here, “cat” means the catalytic converter. It’s a part under the car that can be stolen for scrap value, because it contains valuable materials.
Term
remote
They’re talking about a remote-style way to unlock and start the car. The idea is that if thieves can use that access quickly, it’s easier for them to steal the car than if they had to break in the old-fashioned way.
The Hyundai Elantra is a common compact car. In this episode, they’re saying it was stolen a lot—so much that it ranked #1 for thefts in 2025—and they think it’s because thieves can get in and start it more easily than other cars.
Term
AI car theft
They’re talking about car theft that uses newer technology—like tools that help thieves work faster or more effectively. The discussion is about whether that kind of theft is common in South Korea or not.
They’re describing a situation where a thief can get the car started without the key—just by using a simple tool. That usually means the car’s security system is easier to bypass than it should be.
A privacy cover is a panel that hides your trunk cargo from people outside the car. If thieves can’t easily see what’s inside, they’re less likely to break in.
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gray Toyota Camry Egasitl vehiculum there's no doubt Corvettes are fast
I'm riding dirty right now the croc GT for the one only hashtag dawn patrol
hashtag senior citizen all right parts fired oh I'm good he's good folks welcome
to driving awesome my name is Warren I'm Lane and I'm art we might get a real
episode here for you folks we'll see I'm actually recording hey but it was I
didn't all right job of editing it there was a couple little there was a couple
spots but it was pretty solid yeah it was I mean if you wouldn't have
mentioned it I bet like most people wouldn't even noticed like yeah I mean
not that you're obviously you missing is one thing but in terms of like the
edit itself no no for sure yeah how long did that take you to edit it out it's
like an hour and a half or two hours or something but that's why I was gonna add
my parts it was like it was so it would have been so gnarly it would have it
would have been so awkward and it would have taken think about like how long it
just took to take out long my parts and your reactions to my parts and I still
left there was like 23 parts where I left in your reactions on accident
yep like barely and but to and then to record my parts and have them and then
to time them correctly and put them in the spots so it would have been so
insane dude it would have taken me like six out eight hours to do that dude so
here's here's like I don't know if this is still the case maybe for some sports
but so in in the 80s and 90s up until the 80s and 90s I should say because this
goes you know it's well into the 60s motorsports commentators didn't always
go to the race so they would rotate after the fact right so they would do like
they would get like the feed and then they would they would record it and then
they would get they would add it so like just like I always think of like Murray
Walker because he talks about it in his autobiography and like you know he's so
enthusiastic right and it sounds so authentic like he's right there yeah a
lot of the recordings that we see are here now those are all done remote like
you know sometimes live and sometimes post right so yeah it's just fascinating
there's it in sports like the Lakers have a Korean broadcast and they're in the
basement watching TV and recording it live but they're not actually they're
in this they're in the building they're upstairs they don't they don't have a seat
for them like they actually watch the game which is so silly and then the
Giants recently they're legendary broadcasters Krueger and Kipe Krueger was
diagnosed with Parkinson's or something in a wheelchair now he voices all good
and everything's fine just mobility is a problem and so he doesn't travel for
road games he watches from a studio and is live during the game and then his
partner does travel and is at the game on the road so they're broadcasting the
same game one is back in San Francisco the other one is wherever they're playing
very interesting yeah and I don't they don't step over each other very often so
they're very professional obviously but yeah it's a bummer he used to be able to
travel he had a guide dog like a like just a mobility dog golden retriever
that would kind of like cruise with him and make sure he was good and he had a
cane and then it like quickly degraded into full wheelchair so 20 game winner
20 game winner no hitter through no hitter to great great picture anyhow
what was I gonna say about baseball oh congratulations to Andrew's little league
team I know everyone's been wondering they're in the championship on Wednesday
tomorrow night so by the time you hear this we'll know what happened what team
is he on he's on the Marlins which is very weird for I don't know just seems
weird to be a little league team the Marlins yeah modern but they're
undefeated so I think they're gonna have a problem and so what's the deal so is
that like a regional championship like West Coast like how big is that Santa Cruz
little league and then each city has their own little league and they go to
what's called the tournament tournament of champions so from there we would play
like the best Aptos team the best San Lorenzo Valley team live oak etc and then
from there if you win that I think you would go on to a state version and then
from there you would go on to like the little league world series which is like
the big big thing but I don't know if they do it for Andrew's age I think
that's for majors which is one step one step he's minors right is it still cut
minors it's not it's triple a but yeah exactly he's in minors so once they're
like in sixth the grade they can be in majors and or you could play up to but
majors that pony it used to be but it's all different now it's kind of too bad
but anyways well update everyone next week I've been coaching to which has
been fun and the kids are like 10 you know 11 and they're just about to the
age or I'm like I don't really want to be up there batting against these
pitchers like they're that good super they so throw so hard like 65 at 10
years old it's crazy nice please please don't hit me speaking of which so about
a month ago I went I don't know if I told you this but a bunch of the
kindergarten dads from my kids school we all went to the batting cages here I
think I might have told you I guess we're talking about the Milpas taco spot
but it was a lot of fun and I did way better than I expected I actually like
you know we were like kind of working our way up and I was like man I still
have this somehow in there but it was it was so fun and of course I was a little
sore the next day because you're like you know there's certain things you're
using there that you haven't used in a long time but it went I think we were
doing the 65 and then there was an 85 and we tried it and I managed to get a
couple hits but that was a little too much for sure yeah this is I know we're
going way into baseball talk here but there's a new pitching machine that is
a projected pitcher on us on like a black screen so it looks like he's on a
mound and he's pitching and then the ball comes out of a hole right where the
projection throws on the screen okay so it's super ultra realistic like it's a
picture warming up wind up throw and the ball shoots out of this freaking black
hole at 100 can it change like if he throws sidearm or something it's crazy I
forget if you could pick like a like a different picture we could like Tim
lindsay come or like you know like our what's his name an old submarine kind
of rower yeah old Johnny McGillicuddy and he like puts his leg way up over his
head first yeah and yeah it's awesome we got some questions here should jump
right in oh you know what I did want to mention before we jump in the questions
I I drove a really cool 911 the other day I drove it I drove a 65 911 to the
ship 400th like around the 400th car made to the shortest wheelbases shortest of
wheelbases so scary dude so scary man oh my god I was so scared I
was just like oh my god how do you how does anyone drive this car it was so
scary um no but it was it's crazy that car brought a lot of joy to my face dude
I was there's kind of it's kind of crazy how different those cars can be like I
drove over to be line in my 911 and then I drove that thing and I was like
smiling the whole time I was driving it it was pretty awesome did you like so
you think it influenced your smile smile fluenced because you knew it was an
early car no like no it wasn't at all it was just like that particular car I
think it was I mean it was a two-liter those two leaders are just super cool
they're like they rev really quick and that two-liter it sounds amazing dude
webers on it they come with soul exes I think and then this one to head webers
besides that totally stock and it's a fully restored car but and actually
pretty quick but totally stock and just light handled so good had the big old
stock steering wheel felt so good dude big wood steering wheel nice just such a
fun it's kind of crazy when you drive that thing to think it's like 1965 to
handle so well right and it's quick sounds amazing and yeah it was just it
was awesome dude and they rev so good they just the throttle response is so
killer pretty pretty awesome cars and like yeah it's crazy that they're that
old and you can just rip them you know like they just they feel like you you
just yeah they feel like any other than like mine you know you just want to like
rip on them and right yeah those are I mean it's I mean you think back then
like that was a very exotic car you know like in in the 60s and that's why it
was you know I think like it I mean not that's not that that's not the
definitive reason but it's a major reason why I think like Steve McQueen
decided to choose that car as like the car that he drove to Lamar and like it
was like it was a very very like crazy car at the time right like super high
performance and also just as you're saying like like if you look at the power
numbers compared to the displacement and also just the fact that the engines back
there and all that stuff is like the 9-11 the early 9-11 in particular was a
major leap from the 356 so yeah that's that's really cool but yeah I'm a huge
fan as I know we talk about it a lot but like that the short stroke motors are
so cool like there's just they sound very different and and yeah just that
that fizziness right like they have that like sort of like revviness that's
really cool all the fizz dude and I was like if it made me think if I was like
doing vintage racing or something that would be dude that would definitely be
up there dude and I could picture like sliding that thing around and revving
the shit out of it be amazing that's so what is it that it's the two 9-11 two
liter cup right or what is it called the one in Europe yeah I don't know what
it's called but I and I think the 65 is fit into that older class of racing and
they they can kind of dominate that series yeah that's cool well there is a
bunch of older cars but there is a spec series I mean it's rich guy shit but I
think so yeah it's like it's a fuck I can't find it but they have a counter
count yeah but just for people out there it's like 9-11 two liter or 2.0 cup or
something like that and it's these cars but they're you know set up for racing
and they sound incredible and they look so fun and lively like yeah it's you know
the cars move around a lot and they look a lot of fun to try for sure yeah let's
get to some questions here if you ever want to ask us a question Instagram
usually Tuesdays holler at your boys the real John Webb says you've been voted
in as the mayor of Santa Cruz you and your dignitaries or homies are
obligated to ride an open top car and wave to the good people what's your
right of choice parade car my boys my homies I got two answers for this okay
I think they're they're politically polycharged as you might say oh am I in
Santa Cruz or am I in Santa Barbara I'm in Santa Cruz your Santa Cruz because
that changes my answer just I know right so my initial thought is a Mercedes
600 Pullman Landelay I think they call Landelakes that's the open top big big
Mercedes Benz from the early 60s just the big dog very cool but pretty kind of
serious yeah very serious especially for that little too serious too serious so
then I was thinking what the the new Emperor of Japan was rolling around in
which was the new century they made like just for him a century convertible oh
damn and it's probably a hybrid so you know you're gonna appeal to the masses
here is like you're not gonna get a lot of shit but I think the real answer is
some sort of you know Woody's on the wharf ask situation but go ahead I'll
take your answer I'm gonna be I'll just be in a VW bug dude
it's gotta be an early it's gotta be an early early cat you know you bug a bug
convertible dude Santa Cruz how much how much more Santa Cruz can you get well
you might go more surf mobile like you know a big Cadillac fifties caddy like
a caddy but then it would be you'd want to go like full like cut off roof not
even a convertible like just cut off you know like the like from what's it
called rock you mean animal chin yeah yeah okay what about a 21
window 23 window with the rollback roof but over the bus is it
technically a convertible but now that is that that's very Santa that would be
awesome up in it too all right art take it away yeah that was a hundred percent
my answer I was gonna go early bug the early cat convertibles rather as early
as can be two-tone paint like California style right with like the maybe even
some fuchs on there like that's sort of how I envision it and one of the seats
will be taken up by a surfboard to so you got it you got to commit to that
I see yeah for some reason I keep picturing yellow and white like a
cream yellow and white but I don't know that's very specific so if it was out
down here fiat Jolly it's like so not presidential or like imposing at all but
my mind so you know they've talked about this a bit recently how I've just been
kind of in this weird mental and financial place where it's like all of the
cars that I want to own are now like too expensive like I can't like literally
like so like I have no desire to own anything that I can actually afford so
I've been looking around like what can I buy us like in the 40 to 50k range that
would be super rad and fiat Jolly's are 40 to 50 grand they're so expensive
like but they're so cool and I'm like man that would be the perfect car to
like go down to the beach with the kids and like go to like lunch there's
probably like 50 cars under 25 grand that you would be stoked to have for a
what's between 40 and 50 guys which one can I be on Jolly that list of cars
that are under 25 grand that'd be stoked to I'm just saying they're not going to
be your like forever car well like that even exists for you but but I feel like
I've experienced them all over any there's like it's just a scratch yeah I mean
even FDRX 7 that 25 grand gets you a total clunker now that requires
everything so like there's just I don't know what's out there I've had all the
I've had all the all the other shit about a first-gen Elise
yeah it's too similar to my car very different from your car it is a mid
engine a super super lightweight very lightweight yeah a very end top comes
off but you also have to replace the Ford canter whatever motor is in there
the Rover piece of shit so you have to do a swap also so now I have a swapped
Elise so it's like it's like an ethos too similar like I have to the other car has
to be that might even be a question about this actually and sorry I think there
is I think also you could you could get back on to Miata Island no zero
interest in a Miata a really nice na no interest at all me howling around in
Santa Barbara nope a toodle no more like in yet for a toodle car for me in Santa
Barbara would be a jolly or 356 would be very nice but also super expensive the
other thing that you you never think about because you're blinders on and
I'm trying to help you here is vintage utility and to utility what is that
that's your Land Rovers of the era Land Cruisers the trucks maybe like a how
about an early like a serious to Defender that could be cool just around
town are those 25 that beanie you're wearing right now like this beanie I
can that beard I mean I can go to the coffee shop and just right they pay you
to drink coffee park right out front maybe the old retriever in the passenger
seat oh my God dog is my co-pilot I would absolutely rock that bumper stick
alright or any we're on to something here okay we're there okay we'll work
on it even Shaw says thoughts on the new alpina concept for those that didn't
see it that village as they released a new alpina brand and concept which is
going to live between BMW and Rolls Royce is their concept yeah entire new
brand I I think I have Stockholm syndrome because I'm like oh it's not that
bad and no it's it's the biggest grills I've ever seen it's like I know it's
like how big is that car by the way it's like it's massive when you fit in my
garage dude no I'll say this I think actually I love the profile I like the
rear I do not like the front it's still it's like too beaky it's like it looks
like a fucking eagle or something it's like yeah there's no there's no rounded
edges either it's very yeah I'm struggling with but but the rest of it is
cool it reminds me of like whatever the last generation s-classes like you know
like that sort of smooth shape not quite fast-backy but yeah I think it's cool
I just I think it's cool and it's subtle in a lot of ways that I'm glad to see
but there's some elements that are I think a concept car II like there's no
rear bumper really and there's the side skirts are like so low and weird but I
don't think it looks great other than a concept but overall I think it's like
okay and but just not like less worthy I just think it's so whatever
yeah it's so BMW right it's like yeah what do you think about this new brand
concept that they're gonna be peddling it's like they're the Lexus of BMW yeah
it makes sense yeah and it will slot in somewhere between you know BMW at 150
grand and then a Rolls Royce at 350 or whatever they are something that zone I
guess did BMW need this do you need that I mean I guess we're that's where
Alpina sits anyways right before yeah exactly there is they just bought
Alpina and they're branding it as their own right well it's also more bespoke
stuff right it's not necessarily like I'm gonna get an eight series and then
Alpina fight it's like this is architecturely underneath sure it's
gonna share whatever but externally it's a different car right yeah yeah exactly
so anyways I think it's it's kind of a thumbs up but not we're not jumping up
and down with our thumbs definitely not yeah it's a subtle stick that head nod
from rubber we're sitting on our thumbs it's a rubber redford head nod you
know absolutely oh by the way was I the only person in the world that thought
that that was the the actor I'm spacing on his name right now that was in the
hangover Zach Alfinakis doesn't it look like Zach Alfinakis I always thought
it was him who's from the 70s nothing's been around forever I know not always but
I mean I initially I did and then eventually I figured it out but I was
like to that is totally Zach I thought it was like kind of like a retro vintage
filter on on nice that's that production gave us a very serious question oh damn
are any of you guys still rocking a sick ringtone I'm on harp I've been on
harp for ten years probably six years that is that's mine I mean I sold
ringtones my job for a long time and it was ridiculous totally ridiculous yeah
dude yeah it's most go on vibrate I can't feel it though I need a funny to
hear it well it is it is funny though that that used to be a whole thing and
it still can be but we have zero you know we make zero effort like the other
thing that I know is the thing and I've used it like once or twice but I don't
I think what a long time ago I've been so stoked on this as your alarm can be a
song oh there you go from Apple music or anything you download so it could you
know this is how we do it could be your wake up do it it can be fuck you I won't
do what you tell me that's kind of cool it's pretty cool man yeah I used to wake
up to a we're in high school a vivid memory like waking up to 104.3 maybe the
rock station K rock right and it would always be black hole son it would freak
me out when I wake up to that song I was like a creepy creepy way to wake up I
was also thinking that the the song you pick is gonna be ruined because it's
the thing that's waking you up you're like three little birds by Bob Marley
fuck this song yeah but yeah it's still still something in fact we have a
follow-up question it's not not really but Ben roger's asking what have y'all
been listening to oh yeah not what you're listening to but what a y'all
so that we only can answer with country music then is that how that works yeah
exactly good luck art yeah well I'm cooked or chopped or what is your
chop down chop dunk yeah well well I'm not a chop dunk I think in this case
because I'm a friend of ours posted a video with massive attack in the
background like as you know whatever it was and I'm like dude I got to go listen
to mezzanine and so I listen to mezzanine for the last couple of days it was
awesome not exclusively but I listened to the album a few times but what an
awesome album that's good Lane we listen to know you just said this
tips I mean I think I said this last time but you saying the three whatever
you just said three something or reminded me that I will I watch I listen to one
of the latest rewatchables and they did there's something about Mary and I was
thinking about the scene where he's like the seven minute abs and he's like you
can't and he was talking about what are five minute abs now you can't have five
but that's like three little bears in the tree you know whatever that old scene
great scene with Harlan Harlan Williams right yeah yeah great scene stand up
comedian oh yeah he's hilarious so yeah I listen I listen to that rewatchables
with there's something while Mary those pretty good that's great that's
fantastic I'm still enjoying the lonely island podcast with Seth Myers if you
haven't if you're into the SNL era like early 2000s mid 2000s give that a
listen that's all I can say Bobby you're actually let me just skip back here
did those dad with more scrutiny from locals over Monterey car week over the
past few years if forced to relocate where would you hold car week 2.0 this is
a great question I I read this earlier and I was kind of thinking the first
place I came to mind was Paso Robles which is so funny because it's it would be
just destroyed so small compared to the spread out area of the peninsula Monterey
but it's equal distance from the Bay Area and LA area metro yeah which is that
kind of a cool angle there's great you know some good roads but it's way too
small and it would just be completely overrun and horrible it's kind of good
though like a task at arrow is supposed to be the capital of California to oh so
it was originally oh really yeah okay oh interesting yeah yeah cuz a task at
arrow is the center the like the exact center I guess right yeah well north
fork the exact center I think you're oh it is up and down north and south yeah
that would be yeah that would have been cool but they have the the big yeah they
have the the fairgrounds right there that's not a bad answer Warren I mean
you need like a really nice golf course they don't have a like an amazing golf
course well they have all the wineries though they do have the wineries and
those those could work out pretty well I think some big open spaces to do stuff
like that which yeah sensorio is super cool the airport yeah motor looks at the
passable's airport it's something something right at the water park
exactly and then the fairgrounds like you said and then downtown do some stuff
passable's could hold a half of a size of a car week maybe a quarter car week I
kind of like it I do think it needs to be northern California ish like I don't
think so Cal has the same vibes it's something about being up north is is
nice a little more mellow yeah race track nearby is pretty key that's kind of
what do you think it's Sonoma or something it's it's not great I mean it
doesn't have to be in California there's that angle as well but everything else
is kind of depressing like Arizona would be sad what about like aspen or
something that that would probably work well to know that would be tough they
can't aspen couldn't accommodate that many people it'd be so good I guess park
city park city handles the festival which isn't apparently cancelled but I'm
thinking similar sized towns but it's closer to Salt Lake Sonoma's Sonoma's an
angle I mean cuz you got Napa and some vibes their vibes there yeah there's
plenty of eyes where I live but it's it's a little too condensed I think it's
a little it gets tight it's even worse than Monterey what they're dealing with
right yeah one yeah very tricky yeah it's all these places are hard cuz there's
like one way and when we out like it's for you know kind of yeah I mean imagine
approaching Monterey right now from scratch if this doesn't didn't exist and
saying hey we're gonna sucks half a million all at once once a year you
know like fuck you guys it was perfect when it was literally the races the
historic races and public beach and you had a couple little things in addition
I mean going back 20 years you could look at the schedules and it's it's
laughable you know and now it's it's just the amount of people that come to be
part of it all and there's just more and more stuff happening yeah so I don't
know the racetrack piece is important you're right yeah that's a big one you
could maybe do it like a seabring style like at an airport or something you
know oh I see yeah oh I think we say seabring itself like no you don't want
to go there it's a fucking no no March yeah I think the racetrack is tough
because once you if you are committed to having a racetrack like a proper
racetrack then there's only dude so many places I got this palm springs thermal
is your racetrack palm springs isn't bad that would work right that's not bad
especially you couldn't do it in August obviously right but you have a lot more
flexibility with weather actually so like it could be later you know just to
like fall into into all winter really right how far is thermal from palm
springs though it's kind of far right no it's like it's from Palm Springs it's
probably at least an hour half hour oh dang that far right I thought it was a
look at look it up I could be wrong but it's that whole zone the whole valley is
like but springs is at the top thermal is kind of more towards the bottom if I
remember but area could be cool because it is like sprawling to 30 miles at 30
miles away 30 miles yeah that could work yeah so if you have golf courses
everywhere great weather a bunch of little towns a bunch of cool little downtown a lot of
a lot of tourism built into the area right yeah hotels and restaurants a lot of restaurants a
lot of hotels a lot of resorts yeah yeah and then thermal would be your your track that doesn't
host outside events really I know they can't you can't really race on it but you know but
you can't have a 10,000 people come there and watch racing either yeah it's a tricky one yeah
you would have to extend it way out right like you would have to then start incorporating
I mean I don't know what the next closest track is because you would probably have to go way the
hell up to like where's it where's chuck walla isn't it somewhere out there yeah that's
somewhere out there but then yeah so now you're building infrastructure and you know you can
do the whole thing I mean basically thermalize it if you will right and make it nice
but yeah in in reality I'd say the majority of people going to Monterey for car week do not
go to Laguna Seca yeah I mean that's a smaller percentage than people might think
but that's sort of what established Monterey as being the destination it is for cars so
I guess Sonoma could work though they're but that whole area there's enough little cool
cool towns around there too and yeah like he'll there isn't and you have Sonoma probably all
yeah all those towns could kind of sprout up you have all these little yeah different everybody
gets involved right yeah as I open instagram to look at the questions again avance has a post
that's Monterey car week on the cheap
hey no your audience dude they got us bad rabbit habit says what is the ideal three car quiver
not the specific cars but categories mine is current classic current classic sports car
classic wafty boy and modern sports car lots of overlap in scrolling marketplace thinking about
if I were to switch it up so so no I had a key doesn't I guess the modern sports car I guess
they all could be dailies if you were in a pinch but oh modern sports car because he has a BRZ
so that's probably the daily you know he has a Tesla as is daily but like I so I the way I see
this question is more just like your fun toys hence the quiver versus okay and then because that
that opens up that spot right because otherwise if you have to take up a some sort of SUV or
utilitarian thing in there yeah so different experiences that you want within that three car
hardcore sports car total wafty cruiser and then you're all around GT
because that's kind of what I mean the rabbit for him would be
more hardcore yeah lightweight minimal noisy and then he's got the Mercedes which
I wouldn't go with the wagon I would go with an SL or something a coupe and then you'd go with
like a GT like kind of like my my m3 really which is just sort of a good all-rounder you're like
your 911 lane you can kind of do it all a little more comfort you know
yeah I my mind goes to like configurations and if I'm going to have like two sporty cars I would
want one to be all-wheel drive and then one rear-wheel drive whether a VFR or MR is kind of
interchangeable and then having something as you're describing a little something a little
wafty more like I would err more on like the I just keep thinking of like
my sec right like something like that like a big fun cool coupe that has a presence also that's
and more vintage I would definitely go more into that world yeah I like that
Lane yeah I think I don't know it's hard so we're just going fun stuff then
yeah yeah I think ideally I would love like a wafty I still would love like a wafty
like an sec you know a two-door convertible or coupe like a hardtop or coupe or convertible
like a Mercedes or something like that and then I think like the 911 like something like mine
and then it's something older like a 60s car 60 sports car something like that I like it
Bobby Reed with the car says what's the one car you've owned that had the highest
walk away and turn back for one more look factor
it's hard yeah it's hard the lookers what was my looker probably my tundra
dude hell yeah sexy sexy boy the autographs dude the autographs all over it sexy boy
the marshmallow bumper pretty sick pretty nice slowly melting away
huh well I mean because I don't I mean it was as enthusiast all all of our cars do that to us
right but yeah is there one that really stood out above all
I mean what about you know nothing comes to mind well it depends like because color is a thing and
so like sunlight sunlight and color ocean blue metallic oh gosh so that that's something
yeah my 993 it's definitely a pretty car and I really liked that NSX too NSX had
definitely some of that I mean but all of them I mean like even even my cellic all track like
that thing was so rad like I had the stance dialed the big mud flaps and the wheels and like it's all
like stood out in the crowd yeah a little dopamine hit look back yep the dopamine
mighty mighty max mighty max well specifically like you make sure that the plant is still growing
out of the fender so good look back I saw a plant growing out of the fender the other day and I
couldn't get a couldn't cap a snap I was driving and I was at a stoplight and I was like oh damn and
then turn green a lot next time I went by it it was gone yeah it was a Volvo though
godspeed to right red 944 it's good look look back car yeah red 928 pretty good look back
you know I'm imagining sort of like a graph right now and it's like when you get your car when you
first get it and then like and then how long you have it and then when you when you change
something right so you put new wheels on it or you change the stance or you know and so then
like that look back factor like increases again the frequency and then it kind of drops off again
as you get like accustomed to it yeah I mean dude I still look back at my car all the time
especially these days in like modern you know when our cars are all pretty old and
you know they're not you're usually not around like cars so you know when I park my 911 on the
street it's like I walk away from it even though it's black so it's not the best color for you
know standing out but it's like around these huge cars and and it has a whale tail and stuff and it
kind of you know I always look back and I'm like oh that's kind of cool that's great you know
let's give it a look back look back at the 930 I'd like to know exactly what Bobby
what Bobby's answer would be he's got so many cars and yeah throughout the years I'm sure he is
yeah Colin Bobby yeah we want to hear about that desperately seeking Suzuki last question
what's the most cringe worthy car mod you made in your youth I think we've answered this many times
but now I can't really remember
oh I think like running no bumpers on my GTI was so stupid just to make it look like
lightweight and racy and it just looked terrible like two big gaping holes in the back
oh yeah yeah everything it's not that bad dude I found a picture I put like GTI
in like some like stupid lettering on the back of my rabbit that had a GTI engine
nice that's pretty pretty lame
bright white ultra white headlights and my GTI was also today I would not do what about
did you ever do the double windshield wipers with the little spins on them you know top
ideally like a bright color like maybe like a bright yellow or bright pink
I did a grand steering wheel dude oh that's awful dang I wouldn't own up to that lane
that's that's a bridge too far
I mean I definitely have done exhaust elites which were not great it's probably one of those
things like straight piping stuff I feel like there's a better answer for this that I'm not
thinking of but I don't know oh actually I do have one okay so infamously
my my car zero my first car not
I probably mentioned this at some point but I sold that car and with those proceeds I put a
stereo system in my 71 2002 at circuit city and nice it was not an error correct or appropriate
at all in any way it was like you know basically like your shitty remember the one that had the
dolphin graphics and stuff like those are those are expensive I did that in my 928 too well I
told you I literally put that money into a sound system like whatever way but I was like
900 dollars maybe or something I can't remember I was so amped and like oh pun intended
there and we got I put four speakers in it and I got a little bazooka in the trunk and I had the
frickin the pioneer with the graphics but so not appropriate for that car at all right like
looking back now but at the time of you know being 16 or 17 or wherever I was like it was the coolest
thing ever but that's kind of lame in some ways yeah they weren't they weren't making era correct
stuff back then either they were just like because you wanted like I remember I've got it because I
wanted like the little card reader things I could play mp3's or whatever oh yeah yeah
and they they weren't making stuff that looked old right it was all like high tech looking
and you're also trying to like modern as a kid you're trying to like get all the cool modern
shit and this is the only car I have so I'm going to put it in there right and like yeah because in
theory I could have put a sweet like becker in there and it would have been way better but yeah
but yeah that's that it's kind of like I don't know it's not it's not a good answer though because
it's not like embarrassing like in period it was cool like all my friends like it too right and it
was yeah but it just but it wasn't like it didn't fit the car yeah could you hook up your ipod to
to yours and then it could show like your songs and stuff on it I can't remember that's the one I had
and this was the man in 2001 so or 2000 no no maybe 2000 2000 oh this is earlier yeah
mine was like 2005 or something yeah the stereos are tough though because we didn't have the ability
to stay period correct like you right the choices were basically like go ultra modern and then
bigger speakers bigger yep like everything so you didn't have like yeah the ability to actually
do it by the way how cool was the the circuit city stereo wall oh I loved it we had friends
around there yeah we had a couple friends that were working at circuit city so go there all the
time and uh yeah you were living the dream art because that actually um that comes up now pretty
often on instagram is like the kids have no idea what life was like back in 2000 or whatever it was
90 yeah it was like 99 or 98 or something and that was it dolphins dude I was rocking the dolphins
yeah I mean so I was inspired by I don't know if you guys you probably met Miguel
years ago but he was an old buddy of mine who we still we kept we've kept in touch by instagram I
haven't seen him in years but his older brother had a convertible sn 95 like and he was a little
older than us and he got that stereo and I was like oh dude I want to be as cool as you know his
picture dude he's rocking out these he's got the cool shit over there and and I spent all my money
on that I sold the regal and I put all the money into the stereo system in the 2002 this is this
is in Santa Barbara and you're a little kid growing up in Santa Barbara yeah when I was a child in
Montecito yeah exactly okay I got a project car update the m3 is at beeline currently getting some
exhaust work done and then my shifter rebuilt because it's been kind of the linkage is slightly
dragging on the Guibo and so it would vibrate the shifter inside the car oh which I kind of
noticed for a while but then they found that was what was going on I'm like oh sweet so that's
getting rebuilt and hopefully get all tight and nice shifted great but that was an issue
and then the big drum roll is I talked to nick about getting the bumpers repainted
a while back and he's like oh I can do that super cheap and I was like great and it turns out the
quote was super affordable so nice getting the bumpers respray the side mirrors and the mirrors
hell yeah dude that's huge so I'm actually going right after this podcast to go take a look at some
spray samples to make sure we're on the same page I'm sure it'll be fine but and the bumpers
the bumpers have been painted before so one tip that's single stage to car yellow one I highly
recommend you buff it out before you do that because it changes a lot so like if you buff that car
it's going to change it like significantly so I don't know like unless you just keep it as is and
then you match it to whatever it is now but yeah ever do get a polished it's going to change
I don't have time to buff it before I go over there today but I'll take a look at it we'll see
the bumpers have been painted before but it has not been buffed recently right so basically
you'll match to whatever you have now so just you're going to you're locked in I mean I can I
can bring my little pad and some wax and no I will say the the good thing about that car is
it's very broken up by black plastics and things like it's not like a modern
yeah it's not like panel to panel right that's that's a good point so we'll see I'm going to go
check it out but that's exciting because the bumpers for those that don't don't know the car
are a bunch of marks and cracking paint and stuff but also yeah be lines new paint guys kind of
like a wizard too yeah that's awesome but yeah from previous owners none of my doing but even the
side skirt on the passenger side had like a scrape along the bottom edge I don't even know how they
did it it's like a perfect scrape along the profile of that you know iconic oh yeah three side skirt
and I always wanted to just touch it up but it's so long and it would look kind of weird anyway so
I just like I forget it but yeah so that's good it'll be a nice nice little makeover so to speak
that's actually a huge I mean I feel like that's like the one thing that is like
makes the car look a little scruffy but like it's actually a pretty straight clean I mean it's a one
owner car right before you bought it yeah from same family yeah the only thing is the wheels are also
curbed which previous owner and I've been looking for a set of wheels to put because it's such a
pain in the ass right like I don't have a lift so if I'm gonna take the wheels off the car and go
get them refinished they have to get them the tires off be I have to find a place that's gonna
take them and do them that takes a while you know so I was looking for a set of like the other style
of 95 m3 wheels which are the motorsport wheels with the oh DS ones yeah and they're
hard to find I was I had one there's one on craigslist and they want $2,000 because they've been
refinished that's the world we live in now I know I was like damn god damn yeah wait what are the
DS ones the more like crab claw ones or the more like they have a flat center dish with like
twin spokes all around but it also says motorsport on the center cap like around around it rather
in the middle I should say I like my wheels my wheels are cool they're forged and they have the
motorsport you know on them they're made those same wheels in the later m3s with none of the
motorsport graphic on it which I think look kind of bland so I like my wheels they're fine but I
like the DS ones too so anyhow there's just like when you start to like make a project car nicer
and nicer everything starts to stand out it's like any you know just like anything yeah well I mean
you can also get a set of t-37s war no I cannot white t-37s slam it and it slammed all that
stretched on some lion hearts the cheapest BMW wheels and have them sit there in the garage
on those while they get refinished and I never drive the car with said wheels yeah I mean I'm
sure you have enough jack stands worn you could also just put it on jack stands in your garage
for a little bit I guess I could you could also have like be alone take them off and just send
them to a wheel refinisher I know but then that sits on their rack for the whole time I mean it's
probably like three day turnaround dude that's not a bad call yeah yeah I would be shocked if it was
that quick but yeah they literally I saw them they had a wheel where you finished the other day and
it was like a couple days yeah and then does the wheel shop take the tires off well they could take
the tires off they have a touchless tire machine like a really banky one just floats in the air
and no one even touches it it's called touchless I don't know it's like supposedly like the good one
that you know whatever no they actually put it through like a conveyor system where it sprays
like rainbow foam on it and then the high pressure wash it and then that's what they do those touchless
car washers are great but uh someone was telling me they're like a million dollars to install oh wow
so you like it takes 10 years how's that return investment yeah it's like literally 10 years and
by then the things worn out and you probably need parts and well but maybe it's a lot bigger seriously
seriously though Lane that's like that's a really good idea I mean you're already getting some
paint work done get those things refinished it's pretty yeah I mean when they're painting it and
everything it's like well you're in there dude yeah take that seat out to give it to the guy
dude the guy how's your head seriously headliner's done dude I know but it was a Kevin's
guy yeah so Kevin's guy came through it's all good holding up well pretty good yep one of the
sea pillars oh right trim panel fell off but yeah you know it's old car stuff besides the
fucking doors are falling oh it just the clips fell off or something yeah I just gotta go push it
back in do epoxy that bitch it'll you'll never need to go back in there again I know right
seriously anyways that's my project carpet the other thing is I went to Gary's rods and
restorations open house on Saturday which was cool um it's so funny it's just like going
they have their their people they have their their like everyone there is just this is what we like
we want uh lunch with burgers we want the Beach Boys playing we want a lot of chairs we need a lot
of chairs yeah yeah yeah um and it's just that is it and we're gonna get there early and we're
gonna stay late and it's just locked in it's kind of comforting it's like going to an old diner
or something we're like yeah this this does still exist you know how many people were there
or how much it was a big turnout they had this huge it's an industrial part of Watsonville and so
they had this place across the street that was open for parking the lot was completely full
some new cars too I mean there was like you know a gt3 rs and that's that pale yellow car that came
to our morning motors it's like a little greenish yellow oh chris for ellis's car maybe that owns
the gym the sanikers the gym next to whole foods yeah that yeah it was either that car or
those a very similar one and then um bunch of their previous customer cars they do really
amazing work I mean they're they're the best in sanikers county for sure and probably put
some up there in like the bay area or northern california for really great work and the thing
that's interesting is that they're taking on way more um like imports uh porches specifically so
they had three Porsche projects in the works somewhere you know tasteful ish more of like the
hot rod singer type thing going on and then they had um uh Ferrari in the shop like a 330 gts they've
done mirrors recently e-types uh land cruisers stuff like that and then of course like traditional
hot rod stuff is their bread and butter crazy builds I mean it's cool to look around and see what
they're doing because it's all like air ride and insane motors and great paint um really high quality
paint so anyways I was there for a half an hour did like two laps and they had this rad dodge uh
dodge ram 50 that was um I was gonna post it on instagram like as its own thing I just haven't
got around to it but I'll send you guys some pics it's so cool like whoever owns it I mean like
low rider style or like or no no it's like um kind of Baja Baja style it's got cool um buoyed wheels
on it too it's just a rad rad truck geez yeah sounds horrible dude no you would think that right
but like they did it very like it has buoyed wheels on it dude I know it's it's a blue plate
truck with like everything's perfect the chrome is perfect they did like the right mods and it's a
freaking dodge ram 50 so uh mighty max early one like an 82 or something I mean it's interesting
to hear how they're branching out um I mean because there is a need and there's and they have the
skills right they do really really high in work so like they're like sure we'll take on this new
market I mean it's like I'm sure they've been doing it for a while though a long time yeah they've
been doing some stuff like that mirrors and stuff then like an e36 m3 back when I was like
doing part stuff way back and it was an $18,000 paint job they were telling me and I just was like
what those cars weren't even worth that much that's wow so somebody loved it but um they they took
they expanded into the next shop and it's like they're kind of clean room area it's it's really
impressive so it's cool to see it where are they like off a walker over there or yeah exactly okay
yeah and they've been there for a long time nope I've been there uh dude so uh who was it um the
guy from the the east bay he's in oakland um he does like Corvette shit he's got that z28 the
brown one you know what I'm talking about he's been a Radwood a bunch they do they do a lot of
paint work okay yeah yeah yeah he's always on instagram talking about the 70,000 or eight
thousand so yeah that's what he was talking about yeah I was going to bring that up because like
he's like yeah like yeah here's like for example whatever it was like a 69 Camaro that had
like a restoration at some point and you know this is what you know basically a $20,000 paint
job looks like right it's like just getting you by basically like it's in yeah like right now he's
like yeah you need between 50 and 60 to actually get something like quality and and done right and
then if you want concord level stuff it's it goes beyond that so hundred yeah so gnarly yeah well
materials are like a around like basic materials now are in that like 10 range that's crazy man
yeah that's that's where people yeah you just can't even wrap your head around it it's and then the
labor is insane dude the hours you have to put in just blocking and sanding for sure I mean you
know and then you look at look at stripping and then you look at like getting all the I mean I've
been watching the beeline guys going out these nine eleven's they're restoring and nine twelve's
it's like kind of crazy how much time they're putting into like I mean just the body restoration
right the blocking and sanding and and the welding and all this kind of stuff like even before they
throw primer on and then and then it's like you know the paints easy part always but but the the
paint material cost is like is a lot too and then the paint color sanding and
buffing and all the stuff after that yeah and the tearing apart the car and putting the trim back
on and all that stuff is part of like painting a car too right so like it's it's not just like
painting a car it's like the reassembly and disassembly too it's like kind of crazy and
I know people like in our friend group that have gotten paint jobs in the last 510 years and
they're like not lasting cheap paint jobs I mean yeah it pops dude yeah my brother had that my
brother had a car painted and it all popped and that's why his car is primed you know which is
914 that was the one that's sitting on the rack at beeline right now like in primer
because he had that painted and all the paint just popped you know it all started popping off the
off the you know the bubbling around seams and stuff everywhere and and yeah that's that's even
more annoying but yeah that's why original paint is so valuable you know like if you if you can get
pull that off like or find a car that is in good shape it's like that's that's it's so valuable
yeah especially now like because I mean when we were growing up like yeah it was always the labor
right because the prep is so fucking gnarly but like paint wasn't that expensive and there were a
lot of options and you know you could pin the obviously you know but the restrictions now right
with like a lot of the chemicals and stuff also like made it more difficult but yeah so the good
thing with like beeline has going for him and and gary's is santa cruz county you could use the good
stuff oh really oh because it's not very populated probably right that's why yeah it's one of the
few counties that you can use the good paint you don't have to use the waterborne stuff
interesting dude yeah that's why it's hard to find yeah paint paint booths and stuff and
you know they're just you can't get new ones I think they're trying to like basically your
grandfather did but after that they're not giving you new paint paint booths tj is ice yeah yeah so
like um so like um places like jonathan ward um and I think singer and stuff like jonathan war will
send his cars to like I think it's like arizona or something to have them painted
because they can still do it because they can paint them with the good paint yeah
yeah that's important I mean that's uh and just doing it right yeah it's expensive so
anyways cool to see that shop um doing well and yeah they're still still at it awesome
it's good um I have one detail to add here I made a story post I weighed my car this weekend
oh I saw a little something there yeah I uh I you know I I guessed based on how much we took off
and you know the car had been corner balanced before and you know but I've made a lot of changes
since so I was guessing right around 2550 and it came in at 2520 with a with a quarter tank of gas
so you know obviously that fluctuates you know 80 pounds or whatever dude like a battery dude
half a battery under my head have you thought about going lightweight battery yeah a couple
dollars maybe uh well pack only and you take it with you solar panel driven what the fuck battery
period battery period yeah so I actually I'm pretty happy with it but yeah it's interesting
because you start to add it all up right like the you obviously get quite a bit of a weight savings
from the engine itself right because it's you know the m20's an iron block six cylinder this is an
all aluminum four cylinder with more modern materials uh and then also like my brakes are
bigger but they're a lighter you know they're all aluminum versus cast iron and and wheels are light
wheels are light so the wheels um this is a fun fact um my wheels with tires as they sit right
now the t-37s with 215 50 15s weigh four pounds lighter than the stock 14 and 14 by six and a half
basket weave bbs is that we're on there so I because I quit the tire because I have the spare
with a 195 60 14 and I weigh them and yeah it's they're four pounds lighter than even the stock
wheels which are small which is great so and then all of that adds up yeah the exhaust is super heavy
because you have these huge mufflers in the middle on the e30s and so this one's all stainless you
know four to one into you know all the bullshit that I put in there did you know do you know what
the motor differences weight wise 80 pounds 80 pounds yeah so that's that's a big chunk of it
definitely yeah so what is like an 80 pound chunk I'm guessing a stock e30 m3 weighs 27 and
change am I correct yes it's like yeah it's like 2800 depending on you know options but
yeah so this is yeah it's a pretty significant difference I mean it's evident I mean you guys
drive it you'll see it's just everything is way more immediate right like the because yeah of
course there's power to weight which in this case it's like you know 10 pounds per horsepower or so
which is great it's a really awesome ratio but on top of that it's the way that it impacts the whole
driving experience right like the steering is super immediate the car feels super agile the
braking is very you know is way more immediate also and and and then also the way that it you
know it's stiff it's it's got specky 30 spring rates but like it rides really well because
like it's not having to dampen so much fucking unsprung weight and weight in general right so
like right only in the really gnarly stuff like the one road like you know like leaving park field
you know when we went northbound to the regroup like that section of road before the rough road
sign like that was I was laughing it was like I was like bucking around like crazy but yeah
but otherwise yeah I mean it's fine and it actually it writes really well and it's very composed
so yeah I'm stoked on that I thought that was a really a good a good target for me was right
around that I wanted it to be around 2550 25600 max yeah that's killer that's also I mean not much
else you can do I mean other than like well lame shit like rear seat delete or carbon fiber panels
and all that plastic hood realistically like the the cool thing about it is that I wanted it to be
this way with a full interior which I have like I haven't deleted a single thing out of the interior
it doesn't have a scene it doesn't have power steering I'm kind of thinking when I was on the
rally I was like I'm done power steering bucket and now being around town again I'm like man
you know what I think I do need the power steering so just try you could always
I doubt you would go back but like it feels like you would want it yeah I think so yeah
ready for some trivia let's go it's trivia time folks here we go the data is out
San Francisco has reported their most stolen list isn't it funny that people actually still steal
cars I don't know why that just doesn't really yeah it feels weird where we live I don't know what
the numbers are but I don't know anyone yeah I don't know anyone stealing cars well that has their
cars stolen I guess that's the lot of people do you steal cars no man I don't there was the thing
that was going around with the stolen cars for sale on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace
where it's like a Pagani with the keys in some guy's hand and it's like you know 100 grand no
questions asked right now Vin is washed and all this stuff like what is happening have you seen
those yeah I have you on Facebook marketplace there's a bunch of them yeah yeah it's like a
Amazon Amazon truck with packages six grand right now what the hell if you know you know
what I say anyhow these aren't Amazon trucks but I'm asking you what are the most stolen car makes
in San Francisco makes I would think it would be like the most common cars like Honda Toyota
and
Honda Toyota
Nissan you're you're right you're right on now the previous record holder was the
Hyundai well that's what I was which had that yeah they had that issue but now they've dropped to
third so Honda number 12019 percent of the cars are Hondas next up Toyota and then
Hyundai and of that what model most stolen I mean I would say Civic no oh oh probably oh Honda
so CRV that's what I would have said no not CRV oh I mean it's not a cord a cord that's where my
mind went but I was thinking it's too obvious I just think they don't make as many I would think
CRV is their most popular car right yeah I mean by statistics too you would think the Prius would
be really high and it's ranks third out of all the cars so there you go it doesn't say whether
the cars are new or not you know it's just any generation of a cord right so yeah 2005
accords right if you see them but yeah so the numbers are in 2025
was total where's the total total
okay so it says after rising to the most stolen car model two years ago Hyundai
thefts plummeted and overall the stolen vehicles plunged
combined so in 2025 416 Hondas were stolen which is crazy in 333 Toyotas is that insane
daily daily car a day damn but that's just yeah wow yeah what do they do with these cars
do you think they're parting them out or they're just doing shit with them like they're I think
they're on those marketplace ads for a thousand dollars come get it a lot of them are found too
right I think they are parted out they end up in like some weird junkyard in Oakland and they just
poof all the stuff gets parted yeah I mean realistically like I can see some instances
I mean if they're still doing the cat thing that's probably easier to steal the car than
trying to saw it off and make a bunch of noise like that could I think yeah you just get in it and go
pretty like risk reward though on this thing I mean you go to jail for a long time
so that the Hyundai Hyundai Elantra still ranked as the most stolen vehicle across the country in
2025 with 21,732 thefts for that the Hyundai Elantra in 2025 yeah 21,000 number one so
that's a certain I think it's because the that model they could hack using the headlights or
something wasn't it like yeah unlock it and start the car like they didn't even need to do anything
just like you know you had a remote essentially so said that San Francisco as a whole plummeted
from 6,700 cars in 2023 to 3,000 in 2025 so still as bad as you might think
I'm trying to figure out so that the Hyundai thing like I just looked this up right now according to
AI car theft in South Korea is exceptionally rare so like there's 4.7 incidents per 100,000
people on average you know but like the whole country like apparently at 345
cases a year something so like I think this has a lot to do with why Hyundai has so little security
right like it's not even something they considered and then yeah see these cars that didn't do that
research or made an assumption there and now they're because Honda had a similar problem when they
in like a lot of their cars like where you can literally start in with a screwdriver right like
because there's no car theft in Japan so they're just like what people want to steal cars and then
also a lot of Japanese cars especially like Civics and you know kind of not necessarily high-end like
you know Lexus and stuff but like the hatchbacks normally have that privacy cover you know that
cargo cover yeah the Japanese cars didn't have them because they didn't feel the need to hide
shit in your trunk like it was like in here you obviously people will break in for that so
I remember that being a thing when we're like you know in college going to junkyards and like
seeking out you know cargo covers and like learning about the Japanese market actually
like seeking them out because they were like a kind of feature or a cool thing that they didn't get
yeah I could see that well that's it and that's all man all right well enjoy yourselves
it's a celebration oh yeah and it's Andrew's 10th birthday today happy birthday Andrew
I know you're listening he won the championship or he's first place or whatever
yeah we were backed about yeah and it's here first anniversary was in the hospital waiting
for Andrew to come along so wow dude that's how that goes and then we leave for our camping trip
Lane's favorite annual camping trip four days without a phone what do you think oh my god
oh and sleeping on the floor that's hellscape sweet hellscape dude when's the last time
your bachelor party and you left early and I left early so I couldn't handle it oh no
your high score on Instagram will never be beaten dude don't worry
all right that's podcast
About this episode
Early 911s get the spotlight: the hosts describe a 1965 car’s intimidating, short-wheelbase feel and quick-revving two-liter character, then dig into what makes them special—Weber carburetors, sharp throttle response, and that high-rev “fizziness.” The conversation widens into vintage-racing vibes, two-liter cup/spec ideas, and even “look back” stories from other cars. Later, they pivot to practical ownership topics like paint prep, wheel refinishing, and car-theft realities.
