Episode #195 - Budget Rally Challenge Post Mortem

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Was that a burp or what the hell was that, dude?

It was.

Yeah, it was a weird noise.

Yeah, it was not good for anything.

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Frank Achadwick with you again.

As always, how's it going, guys?

Hi.

Frank, how are you doing, man?

It's been a little bit.

I'm good.

It's been a little bit.

Things have happened since we have last talked, and we have not talked since the last recording

of the pod.

So this is organic, I suppose, organic, orgasmic car convo.

So this will be good.

And so, I mean, yeah, what have you been up to, sir?

Yeah, no, a few things.

The big thing I want to focus on has been a really cool event, the Sierra Rally, thrown

by the wonderful folks at DWA.

I'm wearing the shirt if you're watching at home.

Right.

Following along.

Yeah, absolutely.

So DWA Rally, Sierra 2025.

I think it's the fifth Sierra Rally they've hosted.

And we had, what made it extra special for us is we had our cheap car challenge

going on, our $3,500 budget, which I'm sure you got an update for us.

Again, I have an update about what may or may not have happened in my $3,500 car during

this epic rally.

So let's recap that action because I think there's some good stuff there.

I think the whole story of our cars is also good stuff in itself.

So yeah, and I am, I'm very interested to hear what happened on the rally because

I wasn't there.

You were sorely missed.

And that was by design.

Well, not by design, but this was a known thing.

That was going to be part of the deal was I was deeply over double booked and overextended.

And so I was not going to be able to make it on the rally physically.

I was there emotionally, spiritually, metaphysically perhaps.

But so I was not there.

And so the whole thing was stay the course, get the focus SVT ready to rock.

That's right.

Send it in the the care or or or miscare of a driver to be named later.

And so last we left our heroes, the Axel had decided due to my poor, not torquing down

of bolts for the cap on the carrier bearing on the passenger side, Axel.

To be fair, you have you have a very aggressive finger titan.

So I mean, it's not like it was dangling off.

I mean, you put some you put some fingertip torque on some, some, some fingertip Angadungas

and unfortunately, I should have put it at 20 foot-pounds, which I did not.

I remember I went back and I even went back and sure enough, that's what it was.

So got it all back together, drove it, seemed great, hustled it down a road, cool.

Let me tackle this lower radiator hose.

I had purchased one when I was back under there doing the Axel.

I noticed like, yeah, man, like, yes, the thermostat housing shows signs of age and

that it's leaking from a couple of spots, of course, but really the worst off was by

far this lower radiator hose, which is like a like a like a Y shaped pain in the junk.

So weird.

One goes to the lower radiator.

One then goes to a like an upper upper goes up to like the top of almost like you would

expect the top of the radiator, but it's like it's like a small crossover pipe that goes

along the upper tie bar.

Got it.

And so it's a smaller outlet.

It's like maybe three quarter of an inch.

If this this is all one piece to all one piece.

So it's a molded.

It's got a molded T section in it.

And then that skinny piece that goes up has a an integrated like mylar metallic looking

heat shield.

Oh, wow.

Into it.

Damn.

Then the lower section, the other lower section.

So the other leg of the Y goes into this extreme pain in the ass between the AC compressor

and the power steering pump.

Okay.

Yeah.

And so it goes in between there with a pinch, a pinch clamp.

Okay.

So it was a motherfucker changing it out.

So I got it.

I got the ax all back together.

Great.

This was on literally we're talking guys.

Just so you know.

So your car broke down four days before the rally.

Yes.

So now we're talking Thursday night.

Okay.

Sorry.

Tuesday night before the rally and realistically Thursday early, early, early morning would

been the absolute soonest because I was hitting the road to drive down the Southern California

noon on Thursday.

And then there's like the half unofficial start Thursday evening.

But like real, real start Friday morning, but I was going to be gone for all that.

So I had to have this thing sorted and, and in the hands of a capable or incapable driver

to, you know, Thursday morning at, you know, 11am the absolute latest.

So put it in, it's like 1030 at night on Tuesday.

I got a swapped out extreme pain in the junk.

It was like two and a half hours just to do this lower radiator hose.

Not fun.

All of it just like pure frustration the entire time.

Get it, get it all swapped out, put together.

I didn't think there was ever going to have a chance of getting the hose clamp on there

because I was going to have to reuse that pinch clamp because I couldn't, there's no

access anywhere to even remotely get like a, like a screw type hose clamp on it.

Yeah, dude, that thing was assembled with the engine out of the car.

I guarantee it.

For the fact.

Yeah.

And I could have pulled the AC compressor or the power steering pump and I desperately

did not want to do that.

Yep.

So got all together, right?

Yell that a scream that it got it back together, got the coolant topped up, right?

So then Wednesday morning rolls around, right?

I take it, I take it for a, what I did was, so here's the thing.

I also budget in mind for all of this, right?

Because I was right up against the budget.

It was within whatever, 60 bucks or less than that, more than that.

It was like $151, but then I had to buy some coolant.

And I was worried about, because I don't know how much

MTF I lost out of the transmission because it towed from fricking Santa Cruz

with the axle not seated.

Yep.

And when the tow truck picked it up, I watched it dump a whole bunch of transmission fluid.

So I decided to get sneaky, right?

Because I looked, I was like, OK, this thing's like 2.2

Quartz capacity, 20 bucks for a quart of MTF from the local place on the street.

And I might need two of those, right?

Because I might have lost more than a quart.

And so, OK, so I have to mentally budget $40, so get two of them, right?

And I still hadn't done the oil change yet, which I was going to do.

And so I was like, you know what?

What if I and so that would the oil change, you know, oils,

you know, for a five gallon jug is, you know, 30, 34 bucks.

Mm hmm.

And I got a rock auto got a motocraft filter for six bucks.

Oh, yeah. Right.

Proper motocraft filters.

So I was like, OK, if I do the math, I'm sitting at like, you know,

I'm going to be like $90 just to do the engine oil change

and potentially top up this.

Transmission with no time on the clock.

Like, yeah, up against it, because I have to like work in shit.

I've got to get done, right?

This is not the only thing I need to accomplish

before I disappear on midday the next day.

So I'm under 24 hours at this point.

So I have this idea.

I'm like, hey, right down the street for me is like.

Drive through oil change place.

And I know they do free top ups.

Mm hmm.

On your size.

Hey, man, if can I come through and bring my own oil filter?

And then you guys do the oil change.

Here's the thing.

Axel, blah, blah, blah.

Can you top up my I know you got to free top up.

Will you just top off my manual transmission?

Sure, buddy. Yeah, that's fine.

We'll put the same thing that we put in your engine

in your transmission.

But yeah, I said, hey, this is what it takes.

It takes seventy five ninety.

Like, like this is like, oh, yeah, we have it.

It's it's blah, blah, blah.

It's not an exotic fluid.

OK, sure enough, I drive it.

I died at two thousand RPM in second year.

I just it's like two blocks from my house.

Limp it in there. Sure, shit.

He's like, oh, yeah, it took a little bit over a court

and that transmission free dollars.

They charge me no money for it.

Oh, that's awesome.

The oil change with like, they're like synthetic,

you know, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp.

With my filter was like 70.

It was like 70 bucks out the door.

So it saved me like fifteen dollars.

Hell, yeah, right up against the budget

because I was like, OK, like.

So I did that, got it topped up

and then I went and took it on a rip.

I ripped it up and down my local twisty road.

It's great, right?

And I got back and I was driving it back up.

I remembered, oh, shit, AC, AC is up, low and cold,

because there's a pigtail that connects to that AC compressor.

And I disconnected it because it didn't work.

I didn't want to fuck it up.

Right. Getting this pain in the ass.

I was like, oh, shit, I got to reconnect it.

Get back to the house and a park it and I'm cool.

I smell cool smell.

Yeah. So I go back to go plug, plug the singing, right?

And I was just like, well, maybe it's just like,

you know, air in the system, it's belching, whatever.

I go to reconnect it and there's coolant.

Oh, shit, right where I did this house.

I was like, oh, shit, did I like not get that hose clamp on or whatever?

And I'm looking and I'm like, no, all of that stuff's great.

It's not leaking from any of the connecting points.

And I look and where on this fucking gates replacement hose,

fifty one dollar and whatever sent her

that molded junction.

And I noticed it had some like it looked like

almost like you're almost like casting flash like on this.

Yeah, yeah, where there's like it's kind of like kind of peely layers

in the middle of it and didn't think of the thing of it.

And it's leaking from that.

God, so it is a defect within this molded junction.

It's just like weeping coolant out of it

to enough to where it's like drips on the ground.

That's significant. Yeah.

Well, I can't.

You cannot run a rally in that.

It's just it's no way, let alone me

handing the keys to somebody and saying like, have fun with it.

With that thing on boil and temp near boil.

That thing was bleed out the entire time.

Yeah, or just it would just fail.

Yep, it would just fail catastrophically

and you just 100 percent dump.

So shit. OK, well.

And at this point, I'm like, fuck, man,

I've got to get work done today, believe it or not.

And I like, I still had to drive out to

Nevada to do a photo shoot and come back.

And I'm like, shit, can I conceivably get this done?

I was like, if I was like the only way I would have time

is if I one of the several people that I've reached out to

tell me, like, yes, I definitely will drive it

and I will swap out the part.

Like I would have to like say, like, yeah, you can drive the car.

You have to change this part out because I don't have the time.

That would have been the only way to do it.

And then I couldn't I could not find a replacement hose.

So I bought it from like the local monument car park.

They're like, oh, shit, that sucks.

Like, man, we're sorry. Yeah.

Bring it back. We'll swap it out.

They can't get when they're like, hey,

I can't get one period.

Like this was the only one from our wholesale suppliers.

I can't get another one.

Rock Auto shows that they have a few.

I don't know how quickly you can get one from Rock Auto.

I'm like, not same day.

So I called around and called around and called around.

And no, this is your peril before we even got to the round.

Like this is the brand new fucking leading up to the rally

in the parts failure and which happened in motors failure.

It happens.

But it's just like leaking out of the center of the hose.

A brand new one.

A brand new hose.

Fifty something dollars.

The only one I can find was I called Napa Auto parts.

And they're like, oh, that one is, you know,

NLA, we can't get it.

But I do show we do have one that should work.

I'm like, all right, what's the part number?

And it was like whatever it was, it was like continental part number.

And like, well, it doesn't have that heat shield thing.

And the junction was like a hardened plastic.

But like the shape was not quite right.

Yeah.

And it listed for like just the ZX five, not the SVT.

OK. And I'm like, and it was like 17 dollars

instead of like, or no, sorry, sorry, sorry, it was 70 dollars.

Oh, it was like 70 to whatever.

And they would have been they would have been able to

like transfer it from another store.

So it would have been there like nine a.m. the next day.

And it might not have been the right.

It was right.

With no time left on the clock.

And so it's just it was it was going to be an impossibility.

So ultimately that was it.

I ordered the part on Rock Auto, the gates part, the one I have,

it is no longer, they do no longer make it,

but they have it on closeout on on on Rock Auto for 17 dollars instead of 51.

But I decided to, you know, fool, fool me once, shame on me.

Yeah, fool me twice.

So I just swiped. They had it.

They had a I think AC Delco had one, which is the enemy, but whatever.

So got the AC Delco part for my Ford.

It arrived on Wednesday.

I haven't touched it.

But both I officially, against best efforts,

I'm collecting a DNF, my friend.

Yeah, yeah, dude, it's it's such a bummer

because I know I knew after I found out you weren't going

to find out your car wasn't going to make it either.

It was super sad and ran good, too.

Yeah.

To be honest, our trip down to Santa Cruz

was pretty good for most of that trip until it wasn't until it wasn't.

But I will say I definitely didn't celebrate day one of the rally

because I knew something could happen at any given time.

And it showed itself on.

Was it day two?

Was it day two or day three?

Spill the beans because I you as as I know, like we haven't talked

and I haven't talked to anyone who's been on the rally.

So all I've seen was

various Instagram posts of like people hanging out in parking lots.

Like I assume nobody got kidnapped by ICE.

I'm assuming

various mechanical breakdowns, but I'm assuming nothing too catastrophic.

Like no change.

So parking lots.

But so yeah, first off, the rally itself.

Getting up there, I went up there.

Thursday night, I got caught in some work, which happens as it is

in the adult.

So, you know, got my shit together.

I was working on the car up until I know that morning

motors was like four days before the rally.

I my car was on a jackstand that night before we went there.

After that, I did do some small stuff.

So I still had all my work to do.

I did it all within a week and a half period.

But for that period, I was good to go.

The car was driving really good.

So no issues, weather interesting, rain, thunder, lightning

on the way up there.

It's a little bit of a drive.

It's a little over two hours.

Thunder.

But, you know, all will drive in the rain.

Not an issue, right?

So tires.

Yeah, fresh tires, good windshield wipers.

Everything was working great.

I got up there Thursday night, kind of hung out a small hang.

Woke up the next morning downpour during the driver's meeting.

We're all in like this gazebo, just fucking coming to a torrential rain.

So we're all gathered in there.

There were like 100 person, 100 people in attendance, 80 something cars.

So it was a huge turn out.

That's a big turn out.

Yeah, dude, I'll hit some of my highlight cars in a second here.

But good, good turnout.

So usual suspects, some new people, some different cars.

It was cool.

It was a cool scene.

Start off in the rain, man.

Immediately we hit this dilapidated, horrible road.

It was like it was like washboard asphalt and it just rattled everyone's car.

So it was a tough start, man.

It cleared up a little bit and got good.

But day one was tough.

It was tough.

The car performed great.

At one point it was on like a single lane road and a minivan was flying the other way

and I had to dip a tire and I swear to God, I dragged the oil pan

because it was like so radical how bad the pavement was.

But there were a lot of that, a lot of roughed up cars that first day.

No, no catastrophic failures.

Everything was showing good.

Day two was a killer day, though.

I hung out like where was the and started to jump in.

But where where was the destination day one?

Like where did you?

Yep, day one was the dam that they went to the previous time.

Oh, damn, right.

So it's like a little lake there and there's a little dam you can park on.

So that was kind of the destination.

The first day is always a little lighter compared to the second day.

Second day is like you drive like two hours away.

Day two was my favorite by far.

It's the one with that mountain pass with the little

yes, idyllic lake at the top.

Yeah, it was at the mosquito lake.

You go like, yeah, I think that's like like Alpine or something

and then the mosquito lake, absolute way at the end of Highway four.

So good.

We did it backwards this time, though.

So the speedy section was downhill.

OK, I ran.

So I keep in mind the Volvo V 50.

Again, the car I took T five or will drive.

This is the first time I pushed the car.

I have driven it to get tires on it and I've driven it down to

Santa Cruz. That's it.

I haven't pushed the car.

So I'm still day one.

I was learning the car day to what do I do?

I run with the fast kids.

So there was like a runner with.

Yeah, so Amavir was there with his R 53 Supercharged Mini Cooper,

which is always always really, really quick.

His brother had the newest, spiciest Cayman.

I think there isn't a GT four Cayman.

It's a or is there today?

They didn't make it. There's a GT four.

There's a GT four.

That's what he had. Is it the yellow one?

No, we had a silver one.

But no, that car's yellow Carrera T.

That's close. Yeah, that car is insane.

He said he swapped it.

That he said that Cayman or the Cayman.

The Boxster, same thing, was four seconds

like a lap quicker at I think it was Willow Springs.

I want to say he was quoting.

He's like, it's so stupid.

I could put the roof down any time

and I could smoke anything on a track.

Wait, I'm sorry. He said Boxster or Cayman?

Boxster, sorry. OK.

So then a box. Is it a boxer spider?

I can't remember.

Yeah, because there's a Cayman GT four.

Not a spark. Yeah, the Cayman GT four.

This is a Boxster. God damn.

Yeah, because he had the he had the car.

It was something special.

I can't remember. It's a very fast.

It's got to be the spider.

It's a GTS or a spider.

Yeah, dude, stupid, fast.

Anyway, Corvette Z06.

What else is in our group?

An EVO nine M.R. was running with us.

So it was like the fast group, right?

So I'm I'm like third place.

They're set in the pace and we're going down this mountain

like insanely second, third gear, technical, like hard,

like late braking, everything like that.

The car, dude, my and I didn't even talk about

how I've modified this car on the pod yet.

Sure. But I did do an elevate rear sway bar

and that star bar.

And I know we kind of mentioned some of the stuff in passing,

but it's so good, dude.

It's it's like you believe her.

It shocked me.

It literally shocked me how good, good tires, everything else.

I was pushing hard.

Like that's the fast kid group.

And I was right there the whole time.

I didn't lag behind and they were like,

it's so weird to look back and see a $3,500 Volvo

in your rear view chewing on your bumper.

So we get to the stop at the bottom there.

And it's like a good it was like a good 45 minute rip.

Straight down my brakes just fucking smoke coming off of them.

They were like, yeah, because it's not a lightweight car.

I'm on a downhill section like that.

Yeah, it's not like with a mini, which is like, but the same way.

The brakes are so and everybody kept commenting.

They're like, how do your brakes fill your wheels so perfectly?

Because remember the bigger brakes on the wagon

on the all wheel drive version?

It is crazy.

There's no like you can't see the end of the rotors.

It's that those big and they were working, dude.

They actually and I didn't touch the brakes budget.

You know, we played by the rules, right?

So I never touched my I mean, obviously inspected them,

but so good, dude.

Imagine if I put like quality pads, rotors and fluid in there

like I wouldn't need to upgrade them.

You don't need to upgrade those fucking brakes.

But dude, everybody was like, you were flogging the shit out of that Volvo.

They're like, we had no idea what the fuck that thing was doing.

But the rear end, dude, so predictable with that huge

the sway bar in the back, just letting waiting to that rear end comes around

and being able to put in like that's how I would settle the car.

Like late break it a little bit.

So in the strut tower bar, really sure it up the turn in,

which was kind of loose before, dude, it's it's not look.

It's not a sports car.

Steering is still a little, a little like ambitiously not sporty.

And like if you can get it first, but then there's that little

like mid 2000s kind of lag input lag.

But, dude, once I got comfortable with the car, it's fast.

It's a fast fucking car in the canyons and downhill,

which it's probably should be its weakness. Right. Fuck it. Send it.

You know, that thing makes two hundred and thirty six pound feet

of torque at fifteen hundred RPM.

Hell, yeah.

Every corner exit with all wheel drive and full torque.

It's different. It's like five cylinder noises.

Yeah, dude, five cylinder noises.

Open exhaust.

The mid supercharged mini Cooper I took the last time was kind of

the same deal where the supercharger would crawl out of the corners.

But I'm like before I'm pose like pre apex on the gas a little bit

because the old wheel drive, it made it so capable.

Like even if something had like 200 more horsepower,

just the ability to get on it and then torque being right there.

But anyway, day two, fucking killer, car is killer.

Then we're going up the biggest pass where it's like nine thousand

ninety one hundred square feet. Sure.

No reason at all.

Fucking smoke cloud, like the biggest, like James Bond fucking

down to lose the bad guy's smoke cloud, right?

Except a guy following me in his 36 didn't think it was very impressive.

Good guy.

And then obviously I'm a viewer was in front of me at that point.

So we all pull over on this like little narrow thing.

And I didn't want to drive it fast because I knew it was going to.

I was losing all my coolant.

It was so much fucking.

It was so much, dude.

So we get on the side of the road.

This sucks because there's a lot of coolant hoses with these engines, right?

So I'm like, don't be a do not be a turbo feed.

You know, weird suicide pipe that you have to take the intake off or something.

Well, so the first thing I do is it looks like it's down low on the on the left side.

So I'm like, so an empty, empty of coolant, just that little short drive.

That's how quick it comes out when a coolant systems pressurized and it has

like a when you're on it going up a mountain at nine thousand feet,

that coolant comes out quick.

So we get up like, yeah, I took a wheel off and everything.

And I'm looking under there.

I'm like, ah, it's just soaked.

Everything's dripping.

So we dumped some water bottles and they're still in the pressure and heat to see

it coming out of one of the heater core hoses.

Now, much like the design of your fucking coolant hose sucks.

This heater core hoses is the stupidest thing.

Instead of having a hose that runs from like the block to the heater core.

They have this like stupid thing that clips on to the firewall

and it has two plastic joints.

Okay.

What does plastic do with heat cycles?

It just becomes fucking crushable brittle.

Just dude.

It's great.

So the hose, it just broke off plastic again.

You know how it comes off like a little like basically a little docking.

Yeah, kind of bigger though, right?

Like a like a solid pipe section.

It just broke clearly, clearly right there.

And then spraying out under pressure.

So I muscled all that out of there and we put in a 17 millimeter socket.

So one of the guys is like the guy with the 36 is like, this is

if I get a flat, this is the only socket I have for my lug nuts.

Sure.

So we might have to like drain some coal in again.

But we put that in there and then it works just like heavily restricted

because it pinching through that stupid little.

Who gives a shit about running?

No, it doesn't matter.

You see, right?

Yeah.

So but it fit perfect, dude.

It's like super tight because that's the thing.

You put anything small in there.

It's going to blow around it or push it out.

So then I'm like, fuck, I looked through my stuff.

I'm like, I left all my clamps.

I don't know why I didn't grab clamps.

So yeah, the hose is pretty tight.

And then John Jesse always has like random shit.

So he comes here with like two different types of clamps.

One's probably from like a 70s Volkswagen.

The other one's from a fucking, I don't know, a Bentley from the 80s.

And so we get that back to you.

It looks like shit.

Hey, whatever works, it gets up the mountain didn't leak.

So I got us back.

I went to Napa, got a plastic replacement, which wasn't the right size.

So I built it up with electrical tape on the inside, clamped it down really hard.

And that held for like two hours of driving the next day until I had to do it again.

Oh, it's so yeah.

Pain in the dick, dude.

But anyway, the car was still fine.

So not no mechanical failure at all.

It's just the plastic pieces.

So was it?

But it was just on the firewall.

So it was easy to it was easy to get to and easy to work with.

Yeah, I had to take the inlet for the turbo off the intake pipe,

which crosses over the engine on the five cylinder.

So once you do that, you got to remember, though,

the shittiest fucking thing is on the back of the engine.

So you're leaning over this turbo five cylinder that's been on fucking.

You've totally been beating on it all weekend for hours, dude.

God, they get warm.

But good, dude, that motor.

I have so much respect for that motor.

It's a good motor.

The way it makes power, the way I'm at one hundred and eighty eight

thousand miles down this car and a plastic piece gave up.

It's like, but no transmission, perfect engine, perfect handling, perfect

comfy. Yeah, dude, that's such a cheater.

That's such like it's like when I bought it for a speaker.

Well, I'm going to say, but what I'm saying is like I saw,

was it Justin had the Super Seven? Yeah, the catering in the rain.

The first that's what I mean.

Day one, he's in a catering in your and that listening to that's a life.

Ipanema or whatever on your stereo, my friend.

Yeah, but you know, he's not worried about random parts failing

or like a seat that my airbag might eject from his use of random parts failing.

It's got a Ford Duratech in it.

I didn't even I DNF with that same fucking motor in my car.

True, true.

He probably set up a motor's fault.

He had a different coin hose set up in his I heard and probably

like torqued the bolts down and had an actual

actually got it working prior than like the week before the route.

But to be fair, you don't shake down your two thousand hour car

until you go to the rally.

There could have been like a head gasket, like fixed kit board in there.

I could have been who knows, right?

But no, finished the rally car was cool.

It looked the part.

It sounded the part.

It actually looked cool.

And some of the photos to see it with like the prancing

Steve, that's like a prancing moose.

And it's enough to make it spicy.

But no, good car.

Some do what a great showing of other cars.

First and foremost, someone was hooning a DeLorean.

I saw that, dude.

So I followed him at one point.

Incredibly fast, leaned like the best thing ever, dude, in the corners.

But we were in the Galant on the original suspension.

Not that dramatically.

Let's not.

I don't even think there's that much suspension travel in a DeLorean,

but true, the X frame.

Cool. That was super cool to see.

So dope.

My favorite car.

This guy was his name, Nick, I think, from Mantica.

So he's not too far out there.

You go out there, Tika.

Yeah. So he had the original Ford probe GT turbo.

Oh, yes, I've met him.

He had, I think.

I think Jason Kamisa did a video about, like, I don't know,

the current gen dark horse Mustang or some shit.

And I think that probe was in the video being like,

this was supposed to replace the Mustang.

And it's like that Ford probe.

Yeah, it's like wheels, right?

It's like gold.

He's yeah, it's got Porsche Boxster brakes.

He printed the intake manifold and the turbo manifold.

He's redoing everything himself.

It's so good, dude.

It's so we were talking for a long time.

Like, yeah, these are the kind of stupid cars I play with.

These mods are fucking sick, though.

So dope.

So yeah, he had like full Ricardo buckets in there,

a custom interior.

It's like a cool ass car.

So that was probably my favorite like car that you especially

when you never see on a rally.

I'm like, what the Ford probe GT?

And then he opens the hood.

I'm like, good Lord.

Yeah, who are you?

It's so cool.

Yeah, that's a sick car.

But dude, so many good cars there.

Trying to think just, you know, a lot of Porsches,

of course, a lot of E 30s.

Arts E 30 had some issues the first day.

So they got that straight.

Nothing's pretty cool, man.

It's just a it's a good idea.

Yeah, I I'm in support of it.

I think it's cool.

He tipped me off about the interior.

I talked to him the day before the rally

because he saw me like posting about my woes

and just making sure I wasn't kind of like ended

and at all by the fork in a light socket or something

because I couldn't rally.

And yeah, because he got the shit.

What's it?

I want to say tech art.

That's not the right term.

Whatever the fancy interior he put in it was.

Oh, the M. What is it?

M. Technic. M. Technic.

Yeah, it looked really dope.

And it was going to be like,

this is a surprise for the rally.

Like people won't know it's coming.

So good. I think it's cool.

I'm full support of it.

But guess what?

It's a swap and it's like an ambitious swap.

So it's perpetually going to have some teething

pains.

The motor is always going to be strong.

The transmission is going to hold up.

It's just like all the ancillary shit.

So it happens.

But it sounds like it got resolved and and and unlike me

with my stock car, I know he didn't.

So so many good cars.

The wagon also served as an awesome

like dinner taxi for everybody.

Oh, perfect.

Throw people in the wagon, right?

Yep.

So killer.

It was a killer time, man.

Like I that's second day.

Those are some of my favorite roads, man.

And I know you remember just absolutely scenic,

but just like the pavements really good.

It's not choppy because it's like kind of touristy up there.

So the the pavement is fucking awesome.

But I mean, last time we were up there, it was quiet.

Like there were people around and it wasn't.

It wasn't like tons of bikes and tons of this and that.

And it's like a whole part of the country that like it's

touristy, but like people.

It's pretty unknown.

Yeah, it's an adventure to get up there

because that's like two hours from Sonor.

So it's a hike to get there.

Yeah.

And then, of course, I break down at the peak

two hours away from home base, right?

So well, it's all downhill.

Just roll from there.

You're good.

That I literally was like 100 feet from cresting.

So at the most amount of stress right there.

But no, it's that section out of any rally.

I think that's my probably favorite stretch of road.

Yeah, sick.

It was so good, dude.

Dude, we caught air three times, like full air.

And I don't know.

I didn't know if he 50s could fly,

but they come down to earth pretty fast.

I'll tell you that much.

But no, all of us, I mean, watching the cars hop,

like literally four tire hop.

And then there was one sketch one

where I caught too much air mid corner.

And it was like, oh boy, I did the touch pavement

before this corner stops.

Right.

Jesus, take the week.

I was going I was going 11 tenths at one point.

I'm not going to lie.

Yeah, you had to push a wagon a little harder.

But no, well, you feel you feel safe in a Volvo, right?

I didn't feel safe at all.

You can, you know, it's got side airbags

and stuff like that, you know?

It's no it's no.

I think it does probe or something.

They probably all been stripped out right after it was wrecked

like four times or all the all the wiring hacked out of it

and put back together.

It's like, no, it's good.

The pretensioner and like the rear seat

goes off instead of yours.

So bad, dude.

Yeah, it's all wired backwards.

No, that car is good.

And it came out looking pretty good to us.

Pretty impressed.

I could nurse some of it back to to decent shape.

But yeah, well, I'm sad I didn't get to go.

I'm sad the car didn't get to go.

I wanted to, you know, so I didn't I did the Natty Daddy want

and then and then I bought hard Mountain Dew last time.

So I don't know what like dog shit quality,

like most terribly processed, awful alcohol beverages

to bring for next time.

I would have done it this time, but like, I don't I don't know.

Like, like whatever Smirnoff ice is now like something bad.

It can't be.

No, it was a great time, man.

Like it's I think I like, like I said, that day two is everything, man.

I think everything else is awesome.

But that day, that day two is just like this culmination.

It's the big day.

You go hard on day two, right?

Day, day Friday, that Friday is always like getting the mood,

you know, start to work it out.

Good parking lot hang and then Saturday is all business.

It's the longest day and then Sunday is a half day, right?

So yeah, car made at home.

I've been driving it.

It's it's right, dude.

It's honestly like it's a car I kind of want to keep.

I'm not I'm not even trying to be funny.

Well, that's what we're going to say.

Like that's going to be my next plan.

Like, are you going to hang on to it a little bit?

Are you going to do more?

Are you going to turn it and burn it?

Like, what are you going to get rid of something else

to justify keeping it?

Like, what's your plan right now?

I have too much to get rid of.

I do need to shoot a review of it.

We'll probably we'll probably sell it is the plan.

I took it to work and I took a bunch of the leadership team

want me to to lunch and I'm like, we're going in my fucking

shipbox wagon and everybody's like, dude, this thing's really fucking good.

And we were just ripping these back road corners.

Oh, yeah.

It's it's so good.

And then when you don't drive like an idiot, which is hard to do

with the exhaust open, it's so good to you.

It's so safe.

It's so spacious like adults sit in the back.

The fucking cargo space is huge.

It's all wheel drive.

It's like the list of pros for this con and everything's easy to fix.

These this period of Volvo, it's it's so easy to work on.

But anyway, my fix for that coin thing when I got it back is I just got

copper like hose joints, like piping joints.

I just cut three inch sections, hose clamps, tight fit.

It'll last forever.

Yeah, like that should have been they shouldn't achieve plastic.

It's you shouldn't have plastic in your cooling system at all.

Looking at you, BMW.

Oh my god, dude, the entire cooling systems plastic.

Yeah, they would have put a plastic water pump in there

if they could have plastic heat exchanger.

Yeah, that little copper like section with hose clamps.

Invincible now. Yeah.

Oh, in the other way, there's there's obviously a feed line and a return line.

When I went to just pull the hose off the fucking return line,

the one under it for the heater core, the fucking thing shattered.

Turned to dust.

I have to hose came off and just what like pieces everywhere.

I'm like, oh, so you know, God damn.

Fantastic killer, killer.

What what what like what car one like the popular vote?

Was it the DeLorean DeLorean?

Yeah, just by nature.

Just by nature of was it a five speed or an auto manual?

And he had like a cam and some mods.

Oh, so it actually fucking motored.

Yeah, dude, it was like sick.

But yeah, I like suspension a little more tightening up there.

But just to see some of those cars flex.

It's such a dog shit.

Fucking wild, though, dude, it's just

but to see it DeLorean being properly hooned.

Love it. Yeah, never seen that before.

Yeah, I think it'll be either him or or or hustling a catering in the rain.

I feel like you get you get points there.

So the worst thing is that thing was like filling up like a bathtub

during the driver's meeting like the safety meeting like drilling holes in it

to like drain apparently they don't have any floor drains,

which is a wild design.

Well, I mean, I get it in a car that like you drive in the rain.

You don't. That's not a car.

Anyone it drives in the rain.

Frank, it rains like 80 percent of the time there.

Right. And that's why I argue it.

That's why they don't they don't plan for anything.

A British car is not built ever with any sort of practicality in mind,

even when it's meant to be practical.

It's like a bus or it they they are barely built.

They're kind of just slapped together in a shed, of course.

Right. Roy.

Roy, then that's that's it, man.

Good rally, successful rally survived.

The funniest thing is, man, I've ever posted that picture

when I had my I don't know if you saw it on on Instagram,

but I have the passenger tire off and I have my head in the wheel.

Well, cars clearly on the side of the road on a jack

tire off and I'm looking around under there and he wrote official

winner of the APA podcast.

Twenty. Yes, I did see that.

It's like, fuck my proudest moment.

Yes. But yeah, no, it still went.

It still drove and I finished the things.

I think officially at that point, I won once I once I got her home.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you did.

You did. You did.

I spent another $13 on a plastic section and clamp.

So my budget went down to three dollars and 80 cents. Nice.

So yeah.

No, I didn't buy the copper till I got home.

So that was after fair.

Now our budgets, we can go crazy with our budgets.

You know, we can actually man oil changes

and the things you put off in the name of saving a penny.

Right. Yeah.

I can actually swap out now the upper hose

and this thermostat housing.

There's really I can cure whatever this weird mystery wobble

in the rear suspension is that'd be good.

That'd be a good thing to tackle.

Make it safe. Well, cool.

Yeah. And I think, you know, just to kind of cap

the budget rally car talk,

which first off, we're going to have to do some other sort of challenge

for something like this for the next rally,

which is the first weekend of May, I believe.

Jesus, I don't know if I have the van with the whip of car to get on.

Well, who knows?

Like, what can our Jesus?

Should it be like you have to buy something and not fucking touch it?

Should it be?

No, DNF.

It shouldn't be should we lower the budget?

Should it be only?

It's a classic rally, so it should only be like pre-1980 or like,

I don't know, like we'll have to make up some other or we don't

or we just do some other thing, like, hey, let's buy some off-roader

things and go off-roading or.

I don't know what I've decided, I think.

I think what I want to do with the I almost called it an escort

with the focus.

Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, and I'm used to picking up escort mail.

Cheap ones. Yeah.

But what I decided to do with my my budget escort

is I think I would like to do like an HBDE with it.

Do a track day with it.

Dude, once it's sorted, you got to definitely sort it

because that's a lot of money to just watch the coolant on the track

and ruin everybody's day.

Like, like, yeah, exactly.

Like make it so it's not going to ruin everyone's day.

Oh, yeah.

Sort out the rear suspension, wiggle, finish up the cooling system.

And then that way I can at least like enjoy the sticky tires

I put on it and like some of the fruits of my labor.

And then I can and I think because I've never done

I've never done an HBDE.

So I'd like to do it.

I have the helmet.

You can't see it's behind me somewhere.

Yeah.

And yeah, I'd like to do that.

And then and then I then I have a baseline to figure out, like,

do I want something like this?

Do I want something more aggressive?

Do we want something dumber?

Do I feel comfortable taking something like the S 2000

on on a on a track day, right?

And maybe do Sonoma or Laguna.

So and then at that point, sell it.

So I think that's I think that's my my train of thought.

I know there's a couple, both Sonoma and Laguna

in November, I think, which is nice far, assuming weather holds out.

I don't want my I don't think I want my first day to be a wet a wet day.

Hot hatch in the wet.

That might be fun. Yeah.

So and then and then move it on, you know, and see if I can at least break even.

Oh, yeah, I need to review that thing.

I need to drive.

I think it's been a while since I've driven it.

I need to give me the keys to the V 50.

Yeah, we need to drive the canyons.

You know, maybe that's what we should do.

We should like make content and and and toss the keys to one another.

We'll do our best.

Hold on.

Should we do it?

You like I can say like I'm Thomas.

Oh, I'm chibes.

There we go.

But it would be you're doing a throttle house.

That was yeah, yeah, we'd have to do we'd have to do something similar.

Yeah. So yeah, yeah, that was a that was not a good change.

That was nor was it a good Thomas.

You would have to do it.

You were more of a regular Canadian, dude, right?

He's trying right then.

I'm James like, like wildly cocky need.

And it's like like hammer drunk.

Hot soccer, hooligan.

Toss me.

Toss me the fucking case.

You see that focus?

You fucking melt like totally, totally out to lunch.

Yes.

So we should we should continue this awful impression

and just and just do that.

Yeah. Yeah.

That'll that'll be good.

And then maybe we'll get picked up for a top gear replacement or whatever.

Crackin.

OK, that's good.

That was good rally, man.

But yeah, should we do a quiz?

Wait, are you quizzing me this time?

I'm quizzing you fuck this time.

Don't forget the last time I pitched you a soft ball.

So yeah, I think I think you're going to be my I think I am.

I have I had to I had like.

Unrealistically hard to the point where they say in the other one,

they say the model year in it.

And I was just going to let it roll because I was because

that was like the only actionable hint.

This other one is not that one.

This is a different one.

I think it's easier.

You tell the people what we're doing and I'm going to pull it up.

Hey, everyone, welcome back to our automotive print ad quiz game show.

Hi, guys.

This is a this is a fun little game where we read a magazine advertisement

from the 80s, 90s to mid 2000s featuring an automobile.

I don't think I had to say that spot, but we did.

So Frank's going to read the ad.

He's going to omit anything that clearly gives the vehicle away.

I have three guesses to figure out what the hell is Yammer and on about.

Usually it's a vehicle that I've usually used a vehicle.

And well, sometimes.

And then sometimes it's in this market.

I think we've had that happen a couple of times or it's like kilometers.

No, no, no, we're going to send it or that was.

What was in rupees that one time?

But anyway, I was in dinners at Gold the Bloons.

But anyway, get through the ad.

I got three guesses, 10 minutes on the clock.

Every time I fail, I can ask for a hint.

Yell at your your TV screens, yell at your wind screens, yell at your

whatever screens, your kids.

It's a funny take it out.

Yeah, he said, definitely catch yourself a domestic.

It's worth it.

It always is. Let's fucking go.

Roll that beautiful bean footage.

OK, so this one is a.

It's a two pager and here it's one of the ones where like I'm looking at it digitally.

So when I click on it to be able to actually read it, it's deep, deeply pixely.

So if I if there's a little stumbleage here, just roll with the punches.

Yeah, it is a two pager on the left hand side.

You see, gosh, a slightly more country

Bert Reynolds analog.

OK, and he's sitting in the bed

of a pickup truck with one leg hanging out of it.

And he's just he's got like a smirk and under it.

It says one heck of a hunk of a truck now at your blank dealer.

And then on the right side, it has now on the bottom half of it,

it's got our same hunk hanging out of the passenger or sorry,

the driver's window with one hand on the wheel of the one like maximum

elbow out, and he's like looking at the camera.

And then it says some some words, a pitch and some tech specs.

And so this is what we've got.

Let me zoom into the pixels here.

One heck of a hunk of a four by four on demand four wheel drive shift from

two wheel drive to four wheel drive high at the flick of a stick

without stopping to lock the front hubs.

Not in Toyota highest minimum ground clearance

of any compact higher than Toyota Chevy S 10 Ford Ranger.

New wide clearance, torsion bar independent front suspension

for a smooth level ride unlike any other compact truck before.

Tightest turning circle for maneuvering in tight spots runs rings inside

Chevy S 10 Ford Ranger Toyota.

Friend stabilizer bar wide rear track for a solid stance,

not a wide stance.

That was what Senator Craig, I think it was in the bathroom saw at the airport.

Wide radial tires, standard to 1575 are 15

everything you could want in a compact truck,

automatic transmission with lock up torque converter for extra efficiency.

Don't want to power steering with tilt column for extra five room.

Sunroof standard on ST and optional on XE.

Step bumper and lots more available options.

It then has specs like wheelbase and overall length

and payload, which apparently is I think it's as fourteen hundred pounds.

This is where the pixels get really, really sketchy.

What else do we have?

One heck of a saver.

Only five thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars for the blank MPG standard.

So the basic bitch model, big value, little money.

Economy is a dirt is a tradition at blank and has been for 50 years.

That heritage continues this year with quality, advanced technology

and standard equipment like radial tires on most models for reduced rolling friction.

Every blank trunk truck gives you a solid value for your money

with extra features at no extra cost.

Prices start at just five thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars.

That's less in Toyota, Ford or Chevy.

Yes, cheap. But look what you get.

Five speed overdrive transmission, power front ventilated disc brakes,

transistorized ignition for strong starts and maintenance,

maintenance free battery, brake load sensing valve.

I'm assuming that's a prop valve.

Whatever sounds maybe blow through ventilation with a side window defoggers

by limometer blank is one heck of a hunk of a truck.

Now it's your blank dealer.

That's what we got, my friend.

OK, is it a truck?

It's a heck of a hunk of a truck is what it is.

So it's a it sounds like a miniscule truck to me.

Minimum maximum ground clearance or whatever the fucking statement was.

They can drive circles inside of S 10 Ranger and Toyota.

Also, some of their vehicles didn't have radial tires.

So I'm assuming some of the phrasing in this

like puts me in, I'm thinking real early 80s land.

So you mean, you mean the description of the guy who looks

shockingly like Bert Reynolds alone wasn't a hint that could swig

a lot of directions, my friend.

It's coming back. And how?

But speaking about catching a domestic was OK.

There's this period rules were different.

Right. Let's be honest.

So the biggest hint I had was Toyota is out, Ford is out.

I think it mentioned GM is out.

So Chevy S 10 specifically.

So yeah, so I'm thinking small trucks already off the rip.

Then it names like the three go to small trucks.

Is this in a Suzu?

Probably not, because at that time they shared with GM.

So what if the Suzu Joe is the hunk?

You could you could say that.

So it's like that it went to that.

And I thought like Mitsubishi Dodge, because it didn't mention Dodge.

But this is before I think this is before the D 50.

So we're if we're in the early 80s anyway, so that rules that out.

So I'm down to the the other one is Nissan.

So it's either Nissan or Suzu.

OK.

I don't think did a Suzu have the pop at this point?

I don't know if it was still called the pop, though,

because that was the shared with the love, which was replaced by the S 10.

So they might have had the they weren't Andre yet.

You're definitely missing at least one player.

For small trucks.

That's not shared with any of those.

It could be Volkswagen, too.

Volkswagen did have a little pickup truck.

It's not what I was getting at.

But I named another one.

You did name a different one.

Yeah.

It sounds Japanese the way the ads written.

I don't think it's the Volkswagen truck in this ad at all.

I don't think it would be the hunk of a truck.

I don't think that comes across as completely German.

I mean, maybe, I don't know.

I don't know, man.

I think it's I'm not sure on the Suzu front right now.

Now I'm starting to doubt that.

I was starting to lean that way.

You're still you're still missing a player.

And I'm not saying this player is.

Who my ad is, but like I just assumed GM, because they said Chevy S 10.

Dodge.

I guess then it's Ford.

Did they not say Ford in the ad?

No, they did. They said Ford Ranger.

OK, yeah, it was Ford Ranger.

I guess 10 Toyota were the ones that they they bitch slapped to the ground.

Again, back to the theme, apparently, of this one, which is DV, right?

What am I missing?

How could I be missing something else?

Hmm.

I've missed many of these many times.

A big player. There's a big player dog.

How am I missing this?

Big player dog, trucks.

I'm not even saying. Oh, Mazda.

Yeah, well, that's Ford Ranger.

So I assume if they named the like not.

And not if you're talking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're not to be 2,200, 2,300 land yet.

Yeah, be 1,800. Yeah.

Be those Mazda pickups are kind of cool.

They're sick. Yeah, yeah.

I like the bees, too, because I'm like, I do like the early Rangers,

which is bees on it.

Yeah.

Check under your seats.

Everyone gets bees.

Thanks, Oprah.

I think it's Japanese.

I think that leaves me with process of a limit.

This is the second week in a row that I or the second quiz in a row

where I had these process elimination, I think,

where you named a bunch of automakers.

Nissan. So this wouldn't have been hard body.

Because it's bigger.

What was their little little guy called?

It was something dumb.

It was like what you would call it.

Something.

I mean, it was just called the.

Yeah, many people call them the pickup.

Yeah, but Nissan had an equal even in this ad.

They just said Toyota.

Yeah, it was like Ford Ranger Chevy S10 and Toyota.

What the fuck was it called?

Nissan had the.

It's not like it.

It's like something like it not adventure truck or.

Is it sport Nissan sport?

It was something that like reminded me of like a kid's nickname

is like good job sport.

You know, it was the squirt.

Is it the sport?

I don't know. Let's try it.

Let's go.

Nineteen eighty two Nissan sport.

Vehicle.

Sport vehicular.

This is the nineteen eighty three.

One heck of a hunk of a truck now at your Datsun dealer.

Oh, Datsun, we are driven Nissan.

So it's it's it is right during that period across.

Because 1983, right?

Because eighty eighty one eighty two eighty three was like the crossover.

Eighty two eighty three was hard where it would be like Nissan by Datsun.

Got it.

And they got rid of the Datsun number.

Naming convention at that time.

And it was just and I'm going to send you a link to the ad.

It was just the truck.

Oh, but they did have the the sport truck.

That's sort of thinking the little guy stood for sport truck.

OK, click on this ad.

Sorry, click on the link I sent you.

There's two pages.

So there's one where like the guy sitting next to the two-wheel drive

truck and then you click the next ad.

And it's you see you see you see the one heck of a hunk of a truck.

The guys with his leg hanging over the.

Interesting.

So but like, I guess in in.

And so it says Nissan huge against on the back tailgate and then Datsun in the corner.

Two point four liter.

All right.

So the two four.

Yeah, but if you click on if you click on like the second picture.

Oh, OK. Got you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the ad I was reading where it's the four-wheel drive with the white wheels.

Oh, that's four by four on the door, like really dope graphics.

But isn't that the sports one?

Because they had like the sports bar and also that one was a it looked identical,

except I think they were all black and it said ST on the side of four by four.

And I think you've got like maybe KC lights on the top or something like that.

Dude, that thing's killer.

But it was the it was the Datsun 720.

Yep. This.

And then it became the I think in 80.

I think 85 was the last year than 86.

It turned into the hard body.

OK, with that old nap.

You know, I was picturing I was picturing a black one, too.

I should ask you the color.

Damn it. Yeah.

But I mean, what?

You would have got it in like 0.5 guesses.

Yeah, just Nissan truck, huh?

That's interesting.

The new killer looking.

They're so sick.

I've always really wanted one of these trucks.

And it's just kind of never came to fruition.

I had a friend who had a two-wheel drive super basic one.

Yeah, just white with a blue vinyl interior.

And I tried to teach me how to learn how to drive a stick on it.

And I did poorly.

But those are like the perfect vehicles,

because first gear is always super, super short.

Yep. And just it's carbureted.

And it's just like.

Dude, I love I love the hard bodies, but you can't get a bench sheet in them.

They had two bucket seats.

That's like could could get the hard bodies in a two-wheel drive.

Yeah. No, all of them, even the four by fours.

Oh, man.

So I felt like the basic bitch models you can get one.

No, I was bummed.

I don't think they ever did.

Everyone I've ever seen for sale anyway.

And that's what kind of kept me away, even though they're cool as shit.

I love how the hard bodies look, dude.

Yeah, these are cool, too.

Yeah, these are really cool.

Who doesn't?

Rad, well, congratulations, sir.

Process of elimination again.

Bank that one.

And I mean, I've done nothing.

I I got the part, as I mentioned, for the

and this is in the world of PCP.

Yeah, because we kind of already we already did our project.

Yeah, like I had the sorts.

I'm definitely out of sorts.

Do you have any do you have anything you want to throw into the hopper here

before we close out?

We literally skipped over everything I did to that Volvo.

But you know what? It's done.

I just I guess high level.

I did basic maintenance, you know, like the, you know, spark plugs.

All five engine, air filter, oil change.

I did like stupid stuff like that, right?

Like, yeah, I replaced it.

I did talk about, though, remember that brake booster system?

That was a big thing to replace.

And then I did do a little bit trying to bring the paint back,

which came back pretty good.

Yeah, I was pretty happy with that.

Yeah. So it was just that kind of stuff, you know,

sway bars and strut tower bar with a big installs for handling.

And I'll tell you what, man, I'm cool after doing the rally.

I think I made the right choice by skipping some maintenance items

and putting in performance mods because I think the value

that made to make the car interesting and fun

outweighed like the potential risk it would have brought, you know,

not doing the maintenance.

Yeah, I guess it's a balance.

Yeah, I guess it's an easy call to make once you've returned

and shit didn't explode. Right.

Right. Like if you were like, you know, whatever,

the timing belt's fine and it's like ate itself like day two.

Yeah, I would have done. Yeah. Time belt for sure.

Like I skipped like stupid stuff like trans fluid and stuff,

which I'll do later.

But yeah, dude, just that first like time pushing it that second day,

I was like, yep, worth every handling mods, worth every fucking dude.

And I dumped maybe what?

Three hundred and something dollars in handling mods

and it transformed the car.

So every penny worth it.

Well, tire tires are sort of a handling mod.

No, you're right.

100 percent.

They already had the Eibach lowering springs,

which drastically changed that car.

Yeah. Plus the plus the sick exhaust cut out.

Oh, it's was that a party favorite?

Did you roll that thing?

Did you roll into the driver's meeting?

It was too loud.

It was way too loud.

I barely because it has like an aftermarket muffler.

So it already has a kind of cool tone to it.

I would just if I was going to keep it,

I'd probably take it off for weight reduction,

just remove that section and put a straight pipe in.

But yeah, it's kind of fun.

And five cylinder wide over kind of silly.

Yeah, it's good. Hell yeah.

All right. Well, let's let's let's let's close it down.

Let's go home.

And thank you all for putting up with us yet again.

We are like we're going to blink and we're going to be at 200 episodes here.

So if you've listened to all 200, I'm deeply apologetic

and you should strongly consider re-evaluating most things about your life.

And we'll see you for the next 200.

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How about you, sir? Where can people stalk you digitally?

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I never finish at the auto obscure garage on YouTube.

Check it out.

I'm just collecting a nearly finished projects at this point.

So that's pretty fun. Yeah.

And then we should we should figure out what sort of like party

or do we sacrifice a goat or like, what do we do for our 200th episode?

All of that, for sure.

Do we do we get in like a do we get like a mystery

some sort of mystery guest on?

Do we do like an eight hour marathon episode where

we try intravenous drugs for the first time?

I don't know if you have suggestions, let us know.

Yeah. And and I lied.

It would not be for the first time.

Yeah, let us know.

And until then, I guess a few just in.

Yeah, take care, guys.

We'll catch you on the next one.

Peace.

Episode #195 - Budget Rally Challenge Post Mortem

Hyundai Santa Cruz

Volvo V50

Porsche Carrera T

Porsche Boxster

Porsche Cayman

Chevrolet Spark

Chevrolet Corvette

Delorean DMC-12

Ford Probe

Ford Mustang

BMW E30

Honda S2000

Ford Ranger

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