Episode #201 - 4-Year Anniversary Special

In a world with entirely too many shows about cars, this is another Pointless Automotive

Podcast.

How are you, sir?

Hey, Frank.

How are you doing today, man?

I'm good.

I don't know, boy, I don't know if I'm better or worse than I was roughly this day in

2021.

I'd like to think better, but I don't know.

How about you?

How are you doing?

So the past four years have been good to you?

Is that right?

Yeah, I think in that positive.

That's pretty good, right?

Yeah.

How about you?

I'd say lower back pain plus 10.

I'd say internal organ damage plus 30.

Yeah, no, a little more gray in the beard.

Yeah, no, not terribly bad the past four years to tell you the truth.

Good, good.

Yeah, I mean, like, yeah, you've had no other life events take place at all in the last

four plus years, but you know what we have been doing?

Smooth sailing.

Roughly, since roughly this date in November 2021.

I have zero fucking clue, man.

Tell me what we were doing four years ago.

Podcasting, big dog.

Oh, shit.

Oh, what are you celebrating with?

Just another PBR from the Volt.

Oh, OK.

Yeah, I'm having some heavily discounted cider from the local market.

Hey, I've heard that expiration dates are just a number, dude.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

There's, yeah, and we're bringing up the age of this podcast because, well, you're

named in the Epstein list, and so am I.

So we're probably this might be the times.

This might be the end.

Yeah, because of the whole age is only number thing.

No, we were the original Epstein Island boys, if you will.

Island boys.

That should stick.

That should probably stick.

Yeah, yeah.

There's got to be.

Oh, can I take us on to a quick non sequitur?

I don't think we have a choice.

Go ahead.

OK.

So I had this thought the other day where I was on some group text and somebody

was just like, oh, like, what if they made an Epstein movie, right?

Like, you know, like, obviously you have a main antagonist, Mr. Epstein himself, right?

And it's the horrors of, I suppose you can even make it a horror movie.

But I was thinking how wild would it be?

Because it's like, well, then who do you cast as Hefe Epstein?

And my thought was like, what if, have you ever seen, you've seen the movie

seven, right?

Of course.

Yeah.

Brad Morgan Freeman.

Yeah.

I took a fun story.

OK.

It's a sequitur.

A non sequitur.

Yeah.

I took a chick to see that movie in theaters in middle school.

I think it was an 8th grade.

Wow.

That was a bold move.

This is true.

Were you like, what's in the popcorn?

And you did the popcorn trick.

Yeah.

We got to the scene where the guy bangs the chick with the razor blade

dick thing.

Yeah.

We made out the whole time.

It was great.

Yeah.

Cool, bro.

True story, though.

True story.

Anyway, back to Epstein.

No, so what I was getting at is so in that movie, all the trailers

and everything, Kevin Spacey was not shown as being the bad guy.

It was like the unveil, the reveal, he tried to say, at the end where they

were, oh my God, you find out who the bad guy is.

And it's like, and it's Kevin Spacey.

What if they did that for the Epstein movie again with Kevin Spacey?

So you have like a Hollywood predator who's been blackballed returns to play the

ultimate rest of the world predator in Jeffrey Epstein.

And that's his return.

It'd be like, it'd be like a real life casting M Night Shyamalan plot twist.

Like, imagine the jaws that would drop if when like halfway through, because it's

like, you see emails, right?

Like, oh, there's these emails and it's correspondent.

And it's just like, whatever Gis Lane or whatever her name is, it's like, oh, yeah,

like she's the intermediary.

And then like halfway through the movie, it's unveiled who Jeff Epstein is.

And it's fucking Kevin Spacey playing.

That he would do that because I saw an article recently about how he's like

he's like singing in a nightclub.

He's singing in a nightclub like somewhere.

So I'm going to the nightclub.

That's what I'm saying.

Well, let's not have drinks after.

Yeah, fair.

But Bill Cosby, remember that time?

Yes.

But I love it.

It's Bill Cosby.

I think it cuts out at the end when he definitely did not hang himself.

And it's like, it's Lane Maxwell is above his cell with puppet springs

or puppet strings.

Look at us.

We're well spoken today.

And then she cuts the strings and just cackles in the screen fades.

So, you know what, let's just go direct this.

Let's go now. Yeah, definitely.

Yeah, it's like it's like a it's like a.

Yeah, it's kind of like a twist on the the ending of the Sopranos, right?

Or like it cuts to black and it piss off everybody.

Pissed everyone off.

Yeah, but, you know, another thing they can do for the ending, right?

Surprise.

You actually watched a fucking acclaimed series, though, by the way.

I never seen a second of that show.

I only know how it ends.

Oh, sorry. Sorry, guys.

Spoiler alert.

So, so, but here's the thing.

So to steal to steal something from another movie, how they can end it

is yes, right?

Like you have it end with him.

Quote unquote, hanging himself, quote unquote, in the cell, right?

But you ever seen the movie Clue?

Yes. Yes.

So in what they did on the board game, based on the board game

and it had I think Catherine O'Hara was in that it had

what's his face?

Frank Inferter from Curry, Tim Curry, Tim Curry was in it.

The demon from Legend.

I would have also accepted in it from Stephen King, exactly.

Pennywise and Mr.

Hamoka in Congo, of course, his greatest role.

Yeah. By the way, thank you for tuning into the movie hour.

He was in Home Alone as well.

Home Alone 2, my son watched that like an hour ago.

So in the movie Clue, when they released it in the movie theater,

they gave it like four or five alternate endings and each

random movie theater got a random ending.

Remember that?

Some people were like, oh, yeah, when it was like, you know, the

with the lead pipe in the smoking room or whatever, it's like how it ended.

It was, yeah, it was, you know, what's his face?

Mrs. Pennyweather or whatever their names are.

But you do that with the Kevin Spacey cast Epstein movie

where maybe one of them, one theater, he gets, he actually hangs himself.

The other one like like Krusty Bill Clinton sneaks in there, right?

And does this thing.

The other one like a Trump underling big balls or whatever goes in there

and doges into death.

I don't know, but like you have all these different,

all these are George Soros sneaks in there.

I see. Yeah, you go full.

You just go full conspiracy theory on a bunch of them, right?

Yeah, what one of you ought to be able to fixiates himself.

And it's actually an accident.

You know, and then one of them is a cuts to a scene.

It shows a bunch of airplane like plane tickets and a couple

how to fly, you know, whatever model planes.

And then September 11th on a calendar circled and it just cuts out.

Yeah, it's just like, wait a minute.

You just make it all these all these crazy.

Yeah, it ends up being a dream and he just wakes up and it's like.

Or somebody wakes up, right?

Like, I don't. Yeah, dude, he wakes he wakes up

when he's on the set of the fake moon landing.

No, it's too far. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. And no, the whole what happens is

you can you can cast someone

who's also hard up for money right now, right?

And oh, God, my brain just broke.

Turning the frogs gay.

What's his name? What's his face? Oh, Alex Jones.

I probably had you have you have it.

And where Alex Jones wakes up from like a fever dream in middle of the night

and and it was all the whole Epstein thing was just like an Alex Jones fever dream.

There's so many ways that you can go.

I love it. I don't think we should apologize.

This is this perfect exemplary of what we've been building up for the past four years.

It is. This is our manifest destiny, if you will.

It's our carpe dies nuts.

OK, another side.

I've been trying to feature car oriented video games or related video games

in the background shots of my YouTube channel. I saw it's a little blurry.

It's does that Star Fox will be an episode is Tokyo Extreme Racer for Sega Dreamcast.

Oh, clutch.

One of my favorite games.

Great studio. They just released a new game after a 20 year hiatus.

You just race.

I don't know what we're talking about.

Just race people on the highway.

You pull up, shine your high beams and go.

It's based on like the Tokyo, you know, the midnight club,

the highway racers of the 90s.

So cool, cool shout out.

But I'm going to feature a vintage video game racing video game in the back.

I'm into it. I need to I need to do something similar.

I need like a whiteboard behind me.

And I clean up my garage a fair bit, actually.

It looks pretty good.

All right. It's a little it's a little car light, if you will, but it is.

Yeah, I just I need to shove something back in there.

Quiet and yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, no, there's a getting shoved into paper shredder

somewhere or a redacting machine before they get released.

The anyways, this is all a long lead in to talk about

we've been doing this for four years, and I know we're right off of the heels.

It doesn't seem like we have.

Yeah, right.

It's it's right off the heels of our 200th episode.

So not to like go like full wax poetic and just make every episode

after 200 be us just like

flating ourselves for having done this for for as long as we've been doing.

But, you know, like we've done a you and I have done a bunch of different

automotive world bullshit over the last four years.

And, you know, last, you know, last week, we talked about

the various episodes and things that we've talked about

specifically on the podcast that we enjoyed.

But yeah, I know you wanted to talk more about just car world stuff

and shenanigans or achievements or whatever.

In our little circle for the last four years.

And shit, I got nothing better to talk about.

So. Oh, yeah, yeah.

So have at it.

So I make notes as you get no surprise in the past four years.

I make notes for every episode.

Me, too.

The first note said 20 minutes of random topic.

Epstein Island question mark, seven question mark.

Yeah, that would be amazingly ridiculous if I did that.

So if you guys are listening to this, the day at post, this is four years

in two days to the date our first podcast was released into the public.

The world immediately choked, gagged and died on it.

But we're happy about that.

So that long ago, it's really any anniversary, right?

And this is our fruit and flower anniversary or four year anniversary.

Who celebrates that?

No, but yeah, seriously, I'll say it's like

edible arrangement.

I was going to say, do you think it was made for the story of the edible

arrangement? So it was like fruit and flower.

There's got to be like, you got to go to one place to buy fruit.

You got to go to the other place to buy flowers.

Not anymore, my friend.

Yeah, exactly.

You don't have to go anywhere.

It comes right to you, unfortunately.

And it's neither good nor bad.

It's right in the middle.

So an anniversary is basically a celebration of, I don't know,

humans being able to tolerate each other for a fixed amount of time.

Bear that being said, that's kind of what I predicated

this whole episode on is to ask you, Frank, what are your some

of your personal favorite memories of this relationship

since we started this this podcast?

Boy, car related, not as sexual as you usually start off with.

Let's let's get fair.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's I say, I say, getting fired up there.

You know, got to warm them up, so to speak.

The boy, you know, it's it's tough

because there's so much there's some gray area.

And by that, I mean

there's a lot of stuff that like we, you know, we've you and I have done

directly in in in embedded into the podcast, right?

Like when we went out to and we talked about last week

when we went out to Carnegie and we did some offroading

bullshittery killer.

That was you know, that was and then we recorded a podcast there.

So that is like directly related to this.

But there's a bunch of like dumb cars that I've bought

not for the podcast, but just like

emboldened because of the bullshit that we discuss

and having someone to be like, look at this dumbass thing

that I'm bringing home because I'm I'm an idiot with no morals.

So I'm going to buy this car and bring it home and beyond.

And so kind of thinking more akin to that, right?

Because we talked a bunch of that other stuff like buying

the Ford Focus SVT, right, was directly related to the podcast.

But just like.

I don't know, I think just being more engaged

and involved in the local car community.

That's a good point.

Just, you know, partly for the Laws and partly

because it's something I enjoy, but partly because of like,

you know, of this podcast and just like, hey, like, like

when you and I went to morning motors and my car shit the bed.

But like going out and being part of the community

and seeing our DWA homies and other people.

Yeah, I think that's something I've done a lot more

over the last four years, certainly, than I would have done otherwise.

Yeah. And I think you nailed it.

Like the way we send cars to each other, we buy stupid cars.

It's really bad.

We're the really bad financial ruin race where we each keep trying

to like edge one another out, literally, figuratively,

to see who can buy the worst cars and the greater amount of cars.

Because like, honestly, the the Hyundai Genesis of this relationship,

Frank, you and I, is that we met because I was buying shit boxes from you,

right? That's that's literally where it started.

And it hasn't let up.

We've wanted it to let up.

Our best efforts, our good intention.

What is it? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Yeah, our road to financial success is paved with shit boxes.

It's just impossible to navigate.

Yeah. I feel like that's it.

That's where we started.

We still kind of feed off that energy.

You're like, oh, yeah, what did you buy?

And we fucking immediately face palm, but at the same time go,

God damn, that's cool, dude, right?

Like everything.

Do you. And what's funny is this, like, we're all we're always

in good. Yeah, you should buy that.

You should buy that pile of garbage or whatever.

The one where we both put our heads together, we're like,

yeah, we should not we should not buy this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Was a really good car and it's sold for it's sold for we could

we were going to combine forces on it and it's sold for.

You know, after 10 grand plus.

Yep. Yep.

What what we would have been in it for.

So just strengthens the lesson learned.

We're not in it for the money, man.

ABC or a B.

I don't always be closing on shit boxes.

A, B, C, O, S, B.

Yeah. Yeah.

That rolls off the tongue.

Yeah. So I think just.

I don't know, having.

And through this, not just the pod, but just being more involved

in the the local and and not local car world.

Oh.

Yeah. And then having having multiple people in this space

to bounce bad ideas off of rights.

Fortunately and unfortunately and bolded to me to to bring

some strays home that I normally wouldn't have like the

Vittara, which is I brought home and I was gone and

put three grand in my pocket for.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

So that's good.

Do you have anything anything more specific that was like super.

Yeah.

Which is which is one of the two that don't take notes.

Boy, I wonder.

How about you have something more specific, more?

I don't.

I don't have a lot of that.

I think I think we need to do more pod specific stuff because

that, like you said, the off-road adventure was a super

blast, right?

The rally car challenge also a super blast.

Like I like, yeah, right?

It's just I like the idea of us like setting parameters,

restricting ourselves and then trying to like compete

but compete kind of to do something crazy that most people

would be like, what is wrong with you guys?

And we still make it happen somewhat.

Have you pushed, I'm assuming you've pushed your focus

SVT into the Bay by this point?

No, it's just been it's been street parked.

I had up until very recently, I've had a lot of like work

busyness, but also for those playing along at home via

video, I got a new garage door.

Look at this animal.

And so I had to like work on some other shit.

That's why the sprint turbo is not in the garage right now.

And I bought this toolbox over there.

See this thing?

It was on sale.

Nice dude.

I'm going to go get that guy in there.

So I use this as an opportunity to clean up my

garage.

That's actually part of my project car progress,

if you will.

So no, it's just so unexciting to it was such

a pain in the junk to get that lower radiator was done

because it's just such a pain in the balls on that car.

And it's so unmotivating to drain all the coolant out

again and do it all on jack stands on the ground and

like, I honestly, I might just like find some cheek

be local shop that like broke.

And I just pay you an hour labor, whatever,

just to swap the put it in the air, swap this.

Like if it's 100 bucks, 150 bucks, like just be done

with it.

I might just do that, which is kind of the coward's way

out.

But to be fair, though, we're not scrutinizing budget

anymore.

So there's like, you know, you don't have to and I'm

over it, which sucks.

I think that car would have been properly.

I mean, sorting that rear end thing, I think.

Yeah, well, that's two.

I'm going to say, by the way, when you have it

on a lift, can you see what is like deeply

ruined in the rear end of this thing?

Because something's not right.

But back to the challenges.

I thought it was super fun how we like, we didn't

game plan it.

We didn't like have like an idea.

I had no idea what I was going to get.

I just started immediately searching.

I put in, I think I put in $3,500 and started

there and started searching random shipboxes.

But it's pretty cool how we arrived at two pretty

capable cars that at the end of the day platform.

Yeah.

Yeah, which is just absolutely wild.

And we almost got there, man.

We almost got there.

Yeah.

But if it all had worked out, if it all panned out,

I think they would have been comparable-ish on the rally.

And it would have been two cool cars.

They didn't stand out like, it wasn't like we showed up

with like a 1999 Chevy Malibu, right?

We showed up with enthusiast-focused machines,

which is super hard to do at that price point, you know?

Now, what if it was a Malibu SS?

Which I don't think was available in 99.

Not yet.

Nope.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was the gen after.

Yeah.

No, it was, God, just to like talk future and not past,

which is what we originally drummed this up as.

I know before we had talked about, you know,

like a camper van or something, like, I don't know.

Yeah.

There's some fun stuff to do.

I like the thought of like do another rally,

whether it's DWA or Breakfast Club,

which is a little less intense or whatever, you know,

that gambler, I don't know.

But like-

Decisively more intense.

I like the thought of like, yeah, $3,500 budget,

$3,500 budget again, but it has to be carburated

or it has to be, you know, pre-smog or it has to be-

VA.

Yeah, VA.

Yup, yup.

Or under four cylinders.

I don't know.

It's like something, yeah.

Can it be because of a misfire?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, you just like, yeah, I removed a piston.

Yeah.

I don't know, but like, I think, yeah,

there's a lot of fun and stuff like that is fun

and I have a good time doing it.

I think we need to complete that circle,

though I think we do need to get both our cars operational

and take them out and do like a little video.

We could do it for the pod.

Yeah, I agree.

That'd be killer.

That'd be kind of cool to do

because they do deserve to face off

as it was a challenge that was never completed.

I think we have to get them there.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think, I think no matter what,

I mean, like, what do you, what do you predict?

Like, I mean, yours is certainly faster.

Yeah.

Mine is certainly lighter.

Yup.

Then it's going to come down to what?

Like, mine probably got like a tighter chassis.

Yours is certainly more comfortable

unless you open up the exhaust with the button.

Mine was surprisingly aggressive in the canyons

with the handling mods I did though.

It turned out pretty good.

Yeah.

It's hard to say.

We'd probably look at the intangibles

and all that fun stuff.

But yeah, it's kind of just, I don't know, man.

It's, they need, there needs to be a closure

if you will to that relationship.

Yeah.

No, I think you're right.

And I just wonder, yeah, what's, you know,

it just, we could put it to the vote.

You know what would be fun?

I don't know.

My car might be a little bit too rough

around the edges, cosmetically, to auction.

Although I could probably grease the skids

with my former employer enough to be like,

hey, this is going to be silly.

Like, throw me a bone and like, yeah,

this car is going to sell for four grand.

But like, let's have fun.

Right.

And how fun would it be if like,

if we were able to like put it together

where they both closed on the same day

and we have like a live, no reserve auction party

should just see what they do, right?

Like maybe, you know,

that could be the competition that like,

you don't think we cannibalize each other's potential buyers

because they're too cheap shit boxes.

No, no, not at all.

Certainly it would be like, I think,

I don't think there's any cross-shopping

between a faded bright orange Ford Focus

and a, you know, an all-wheel drive

turbocharged wagon in gray.

Like I don't, I don't know.

I don't think those are the same buyer.

Blue, by the way, it's Barron's blue.

Thank you very much.

Oh, well, fine.

No, it'd be interesting.

Even if they don't run at the same time,

we could also do a competition

to see who like had the biggest profit margin

and that's taken in the rally build,

what we spent to get it ready for the rally.

Oh, you will definitely win that.

Your car is worth more than my car.

I don't get that under all circumstances.

Yeah, but I had to put more stuff afterwards, right?

I had to buy the rebuilt power steering pump

and all that kind of stuff.

Who knows, my car might not have a rear subframe in it.

It might have been like replaced with pasta or something.

It could be.

I got some hot water on it when we drove down there.

That's what happened.

Yeah.

It was cool in it.

Yeah.

You al dente the rear end.

Yeah.

Well, have you seen them?

You know, like the, the, the, it was a meme

for like an hour and a half of like the,

using like, like dry Robin noodles.

Yeah.

For body work.

Yeah.

Like a cabinet or a quarter panel

or, you know, a sucking chest wound.

I don't know.

Ooh.

But, yeah.

We'll do that to the suspension and send it.

God damn.

Yeah.

But I like that idea.

The next, the next, the next mystery challenge,

like three cylinders only.

Or, or yeah.

Yeah.

That is good.

Multiple carburetor only.

You bring up a good point because like in a cheap car

challenge, it shouldn't be just to how well,

whatever it did.

If it's a rally or any kind of road rally

or whatever we're doing.

That's the, that's one phase, right?

The performance of the vehicle.

The second phase can be like, we could get it looked at,

like rated, like cosmetically, like a mini concourse.

They're all going to suck,

but just see who gets more points.

And then the last can be value who made the most profit

or who lost the least amount of money,

I guess is the right way to say it.

Yeah.

Like if we, when I unship box mine,

like what would we do?

Should we take it to like take it down to a morning

motors or take it to some kind of show,

park them next to each other and just have like one of those,

almost like a suggestion box.

Exactly.

And people could be like,

like which car is better?

Or which is cooler?

What would you rather own with no qualifiers?

No, like just.

Ooh, that's a general.

Yeah.

Population vote.

I like that.

I like that a lot.

Popular vote.

Yeah.

Right on the hood with a Sharpie,

with those like tally marks.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I like that one a lot.

We could even do it online.

We could put it on our Instagram

and see what people say.

Yeah.

Chadwick's pole.

Yeah.

That'd be good.

Yeah.

Why is it leaking?

The three three inches of unrefined

satisfaction of unrefined pole,

poleage.

If it takes you more than four hours to

complete this pole,

consult a physician.

Consult the shell gas station I bought

the boner pills from.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Oh, you're not supposed to sound the Rhino 5000

pills.

But no, the there's,

there's a lot more that we can do and

like, you know,

going going back to stuff that we've

done over the last four years, like,

what about more?

Like, have you done anything like

you've you've had your YouTube channel

longer than the last four years, but

like, what have you done there?

That's like, that's less directly

tied to the pod, but like,

have you had you've had some fun

with that over the last four years?

What's your favorite tidbit out of the

your little little

sounds demeaning.

I don't mean it that way, but you're

you're talking about my podcast.

Are you teaching?

Yeah.

Back to the pole.

No.

No, though, you're you're

Yeah, it's it's it's grown

a decent amount over the past four

years.

Just really fun projects I've had

through there.

Like, obviously, like the Asuzu

Trooper was a really fun project.

You don't ever see one of those

getting restored and that came out

really, really too nice.

I do miss having a trooper in my

life because Frank, at the end of

the day, nothing was so rough when

I got it.

Like, just poured oil

everywhere.

It didn't run right.

And when I was done with it,

actually looked pretty decent.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, you saw it, right?

Yeah, I shot it.

Yeah.

Yeah, it came out really,

really fucking surprisingly good

cosmetically and ran well.

And it was like one of those

car or one of those trucks

where I could just fucking

I'm taking the troopers that I

go out there, pop the key in it

and just drive away.

What year is it?

I bet you if I just Google,

I bet if I Google it was a trooper

two.

Yep, it's one of the first photos

like I'm going to say if I so many

of my project cars are like that,

you know, I did that the other

day for fun.

1988 is through trooper two.

And yep, on the right is the

very first October 19th, 2023.

You will not believe me if I told

you how I found this video.

And like somebody it's yeah,

it's an article about it.

There's a lot of stuff to

you know how that goes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So such influencers and whatnot.

I know, right?

We're big.

Yeah, they scrolled.

Oh, yeah, then the cars and bids

auction comes up.

Yeah, just a lot of that's a fun

thing.

God, that had 26,000 views at auction.

Oh, the beauty is massive.

Hey, first off best photos ever of

a vehicle with the dirt bikes

jumping in the background a cool

like the rarity of that trooper

in that condition.

Just I don't know.

Everything came together for that

shooting, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that was that was a big one.

I'm trying to think what else I do.

I kind of slowed for life events

and stuff.

Yeah, I've had this for years, but

you know, ups and downs.

But I had some pretty good stuff

go through.

I can't even remember top of my

head.

A lot of fun stuff.

I had that G20T, which was

pretty cool.

Also auction that one out.

I had an accurate TSX with

ungodly high mileage that

looked like a 60,000 mile

vehicle.

Yeah, that thing was

absolutely wild.

So just cool stuff coming

through the garage, man.

I'm probably forgetting 30

vehicles.

Yeah.

The Bonneville.

The Bonneville was a blast.

Yeah.

Shelby Daytona

Turbo Z.

Yep.

That went through.

Yeah.

My cars and bids auction page

is pretty pretty much my

resume, right?

It's like exactly the kind of

stupid stuff I meander with.

Meander around town with.

Yeah.

And despite the sweatshirt

I'm wearing today simply

because it's cold.

No, we are not sponsored by

my former employer cars and

bids.

The opposite.

Former employees.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yes.

The place that shit came to me.

And although, hey,

we'll happily get back on the

payroll.

If you want to sponsor this

shit, let's go.

Yeah.

And if you turn this down

I'll burn this sweatshirt

in effigy.

But.

On film.

Yes.

Exactly.

On film.

Yeah.

I mean,

shit to that end, right?

That was something I've done in

the last four years in the car

world, both got hired by and

fired by.

Wow.

Jammed it all in there.

The full experience.

Yeah.

And honestly,

no, no, no, no regerts

made a lot of really good

friends.

People I'm still tight with

people of the same,

still in communication,

both that aren't there

anymore and that are still

there.

You know,

all the,

you know,

Doug and all the,

all the homies are included.

So.

And it is interesting like,

you know,

when I met so many people in,

on the West coast in the car

community and just like car

community at large.

Mm hmm.

That,

yeah,

like that's,

that's a big part of this is,

you know,

just the car community.

And we've got a,

you know,

an absolutely micro community.

What do you call those like

where you have like a little

like,

not biodome,

that was that

overrated movie.

If I'm being honest,

I know people.

It's not that good.

I haven't seen it since I was,

in my teens,

I'm assuming it doesn't hold up.

I don't think it's aged

any better now.

No, no,

but there's like the tiny

little like micro ecosystem

things that you have in like

a,

like a snow globe.

Like a biosphere.

Biosphere.

Yes.

Yeah.

You know,

that's like the size of

our

podcast

community.

But I do think that is like the

fun part of all of this is,

you know,

the cars are all really just a

thinly veiled excuse

for like-minded people to get

together and chill.

And I think this podcast is

just doubling down on that.

Whether it be listeners,

full-time,

you know,

somebody who served every

episode or someone who,

this is the first episode they've

heard,

you know,

this little tiny micro biosphere

of a car community that,

that,

you know,

we've cultivated it's not the

right term,

but that people have tolerated

and not found this pure poison,

which is hard to do.

Right.

Yeah.

I don't know.

That was all concluded, but.

No, it's a good point, man.

And it's like,

you know,

I think our approach to like

talking about cars is pretty,

pretty unique.

Actually, it's super unique

because we're the only ones

that do what we do

because it's us.

But, you know,

the interest we have in cars,

the kind of things we talk

about the way we obviously

in intellectual manners,

branch off of topics,

like purely intellectual.

Pure, yeah.

Yeah.

Highest of brow.

Exactly.

Pinky out premium bullshit.

But I think,

I think that's kind of cool

and I think it's,

it's refreshing.

Like it's kind of fun,

but the,

some of the things we do talk

about,

we do put spotlights on things

that usually don't deserve them,

A and B.

Brightness.

You need a tattoo.

The quad form.

Yes.

But you know what I'm saying?

Like it's just,

it's just,

it's fun doing this shit.

I mean,

because we,

we honestly in a vacuum

would still talk about this

away from the public eye,

away from any kind of like

platform.

We still generally care

about the things.

It's not a,

it's not an act if you,

you know,

you know us to any capacity,

you know,

Frank and myself both are

literally in love with the

cars we,

we traffic in.

And it's,

it's painful.

It's,

it's probably very unhealthy,

but it's,

it's something that we are.

And what's funny,

and maybe this is

why part of the unique

poisoned state

that we both happen to be in.

Which is even cars that like

I come across and I have

because,

because of the Laws.

Like the Christ or crossfire for

instance.

I bought that car,

not thinking it was going to be

great.

By the end of it

Do I think it's great?

No.

Do I think it's actually pretty good for what it is?

Absolutely.

Like, yeah, like, and I miss, like, I'm kind of a sudden,

I would make a, I would make a terrible,

I don't know, David Davis or any like,

well-known, like grumpy car reviewer,

which are some of the best ones.

Yeah, I don't, I can find fault with cars and all that,

but at the end of the day, it's just like,

I find endearing shit with even terrible cars

to the point where like, I want my PT Cruiser turbo.

Ooh, maybe that's it.

What if, what if, no, hold on, hear me out, hear me out.

I know what you're gonna say.

No, no, you don't.

What if we, for the next challenge of whatever,

for whatever the task will be,

it has to be, well, kind of.

I was gonna say, it has to be like,

like within our own little car podcast universe meme.

So it has to be like quad four powered

or it has to be designed by Brian Nesbit

or it has to be, it has to be like a,

like a GMJ body car.

You know, you know, you like your Skyhawk turbo,

anything GEO, right?

God damn.

A DB seven.

No, like it has to be, like if it's a thing,

if it's like something that's like meme heavy

in this stupid little podcast of ours after 200 episodes,

then it's allowed under the umbrella.

I don't know.

Cause yeah, how rad would it be if you,

you had a, you know, an old Achiva SDX

and I roll up with a PT Cruiser convertible manual

turbo wood panel conversion.

Yeah, absolutely.

Brian Nesbit signature on the,

on the freaking passenger side airbag cover.

On your shaft.

Yeah, tattooed onto my neck with a heart.

He held the marker with his mouth.

His, yeah, like his kiss mark.

Was it a quadriplegic?

Why is he holding it with his mouth?

Why not?

That's, that's how we designed it actually.

Dude, first off, dude, if I,

if I stubble upon anything with a quad four to manual,

I would already own it.

So that's no challenge there.

I still got to get some quad four in my life.

Agreed.

That's kind of, I like that dude in our,

in our little, a little microcosm of APA podcast vehicles.

In the flavor of.

Intramine.

I love it.

Yeah, I love it, dude.

Over four years we've built, we've built a,

we've built a mind state.

I don't know how to, what have we done?

Yeah.

What have we done?

Like a, yeah, like some kind of,

yeah, I don't know, like.

It's basically four years of brain rot.

If you, if you.

Yeah, I was just about to say, like,

if, if six, seven was a,

Oh God.

Was a vibe.

I don't know.

I was going to go, I was going to go skibbity nesbit.

Skibbity, skibbity nesbit, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that's a stick.

Bright nesbit is just actually,

like that's what he's been doing since.

He's just making like Italian brain rot,

like Fortnite memes or whatever.

Oh my God.

I don't know.

I, I get a little, like,

I get a little bit of this from my son

who, who turns nine imminently.

And yeah, there's some of the, the six, seven,

and the, he's like,

he's like asking Alexa to play like Italian brain rot rap.

And I'm like, God, God.

And I don't even, like, what's happening?

I'm so, I'm so goddamn old.

Yeah, you are dude.

You're an ancient speaking of aging.

Oh.

Should we, should we, should we do the quiz thing?

I guess.

Am I on the, am I on the hot seat?

You are on the hot seat.

I have an ad.

I don't think I've read to you.

Okay.

In my opinion, it's not super high on the difficulty level,

but I will let you decide that for me.

Did you try to get me with a skyhawk last, last time?

I did try to sky your hawk.

A couple weeks ago, yeah.

And,

Yeah, blame you.

This is a, this is a horse of a different color,

but I will, I will let you explain

to the good people playing along at home

what the hell is going on.

And, and, and I will pull it on up.

Hey, four years later guys,

you should know the drill.

This is our automotive print ad quiz game show,

which is going to change names eventually, right?

Like Frank always counters, counters when we say

automotive print ad quiz game with aptly named

or yet to be named,

we're never going to change it guys.

Four years in this, there's nothing going to change

around here.

Episode 300, you don't know.

Oh, wait, no.

This is Sparta.

This is an automotive print ad

from the 80s, 90s, mid 2000s,

usually featured in a magazine

right before the Boner ad pages.

Frank's going to read the ad omitting anything

that clearly gives it away.

I get three guesses to figure out

what he's talking about.

I can use a lifeline after each one.

It never works.

He never helps me out.

He's actually my arch nemesis when we play this game

and that's okay.

We make up after.

So 10 minutes on the board.

Frank, roll that beautiful bean footage.

Oh, boy.

Okay, let me paint a picture here.

This one's short on words.

It's a one page advertisement.

Okay.

The top, boy, 85% is an image of the vehicle.

You don't even see the full thing.

You see like, I don't know, 80% of it.

Okay.

It's in what looks like a circus ring.

There's like lights and it's on dirt

and it's playing tug of war with a,

I can't tell if it's supposed to be one individual

but like in like four frames.

Like pulling it or if it's four

seemingly identical appearing individuals

playing tug of war with it, bald headed,

white guy with a goat tee

and silver pants and it's silver painted torso and arms.

It's an odd thing.

And that's it.

Just like under the lights, under the big top perhaps

playing tug of war with the vehicle.

Either way, like a vehicle that can't pull one man

nor four man is pretty sad.

But I'm interested.

Yeah, well, they're struggling.

So it seems like they're losing.

I hope.

Above it, it says the new blank in pretty small writing

and then below it, it says priced from 32,000 045

or with four-wheel drive 33,000 445.

So you gotta pay an extra $1,400 for that four-wheel drive

or WD and then we've got a splash of type copy.

Introducing the remarkably powerful new blank.

Stronger than the average beast.

Thanks to a mighty 220 horsepower V6 with blank.

I'm blanking that out.

I might give it to you a hint in a bit.

So 220 horsepower V6 with blank

an impressive 222 pound feet of torque

available full-time four-wheel drive,

asterisk asterisk, 3500 pounds of towing capacity.

After all, who couldn't use a little more pole?

The new blank, not just another SUV.

It's like no other vehicle on earth.

Then at the bottom, it says MSRP includes

destination charge, price includes taxes

and license $220 roof rack and other options

are available.

Front-wheel drive also available.

See your blank dealer for a required digital equipment.

Blank, a division of blank.

Blank reminds you to wear your seat belt,

secure children in the rear seat

and obey all speed limits.

For more information, go to our website

or you can call us at 1-800-872-539.

I think that's a six.

I knew that number.

I know, that's why you gotta read it.

Cause I know, I know, I know, you know,

and you know, I know, you know.

That's it.

That's what I got for you, dog.

What the fuck?

So 220 to the SUV.

The strength of four men.

Give or take.

V6, all-wheel drive option

also could be had in front-wheel drive.

So we're not talking about a real truck here.

Man, 220 V6.

220 pound feet of torque.

Not jumping up.

Oh, was it 200 horsepower or 220?

220 horsepower, 222 pound feet of torque.

Not jumping up the page, definitely not truck base.

This is more of a crossover kind of thing.

The fact there's a website and the price point.

Early 2000s, yep.

Oh yeah, the price was,

that's what I originally thought.

I'm like, this is 80s and 90s.

This is a fucking luxury.

Big dog.

Vehicle, yeah, 30 something thousand then, oof.

Okay, fuck.

No displacement,

because displacement usually helps us with the engines.

V6 configuration.

Front-wheel drive, could be a wheel drive.

Truck-y-ish, but it's like a crossover SUV.

I'm trying to think what's a front-wheel drive V6.

I mean, that could be a lot, right?

Could be.

Hmm, hmm, hmm.

Could it be a Saturn?

It reads like a domestic.

Because of the circus.

Yep, well documented that circuses only exist

in the United States, we know that.

This is true.

Common knowledge.

That horsepower, that 220 is pretty beefy for a V6.

I mean, that's standard for early 2000s.

Fuck, let's just take a stab.

Let's go, this is a

2000 and two Saturn view.

Oh, okay.

Final answer.

This is not a 2002 Saturn view.

Okay.

I feel like low to mid-30s would be a pretty optioned

out Saturn view.

I was almost leaning towards the red line price.

Yeah.

But you get the 3.5 Honda V6.

I will give you the biggest hint in here,

which is what I blanked out before, okay?

Which is stronger than the average beast

thanks to a mighty 220 horsepower V6 with VVTi,

an impressive 220 horsepower,

or sorry, 220 pound feet of torque.

Okay.

It comes equipped with VVTi.

VVTi, so the other thing is too,

I kind of, I looked into this too much.

You said not of this world, I think,

in the ad at one point, so I thought Saturn,

not of this world, come on.

Yeah, yep, yep, yep.

Cool, VVTi, Toyota products.

Potentially Psyon, but I can't remember anything Psyon

that would even, they stuck a V6 into an XB.

Okay, that'd be kind of cool.

So V6, the CRV, I don't think had a V6

during this period, I don't know.

Also famously not a Toyota.

The VVTi?

The CRV.

I'm sorry, the RAV4.

Sorry, did they have a V6 RAV4?

They might have, I'm trying to think.

Oh, at some point in time they did.

I think I know what this could be.

This is gonna be, let me just go through the list.

Let me mentally lay it out before I blow my second wad.

CRV, we got Highlander,

thinking of Unibody Toyota offerings.

Sequoia's too big, also a body on frame,

that's definitely a truck

that wouldn't come in front with a drive.

CRV or Highlander's all matte.

God damn it, Bobby.

Damn it, Bobby.

Let's go 2004 Toyota Highlander.

It is not.

A 2004 Toyota Highlander.

Okay.

Quality guess.

What other hint can I give you?

I need some meat and potatoes with this.

I'll give you, I will read you something

that I've already said before.

Wonderful, thank you for digging deep on my third guess.

Which is,

weight limits, other details.

Blank, a division of blank motor sales.

Does that help you?

So.

I can give you the tagline for the manufacturer.

Could it be Scion?

I don't, but I just don't know.

Unless I'm missing an off brand of Toyota

in this period, it's definitely not Lexus.

Or is it?

That's not a big hint, Frank.

That was a horrible hint on my last guess.

Front wheel drive, all wheel drive option.

VVTI, so it's Toyota or Scion.

220 horsepower V6, VVTI.

Don't think Scion ever made anything

that wasn't a four cylinder.

They'd never made a V6, right?

But a offshoot of, it can't be Lexus.

Lexus wouldn't have been introducing themselves

like an offshoot of Toyota at the time.

No, to be clear, that was in the fine print below.

Oh.

So that part there, that was part of the fine print.

That was not a key thing.

That was part, along with the MSRP includes destination

charge, price includes charge, call 1-800,

see your blank dealer, additional equipment.

Wear your seatbelt, don't beat your children.

What was the exact wording of that statement again?

It's an offshoot, or what did you say exactly?

It is.

Copyright, the year, blank.

A division of blank motor sales,

United States Incorporated.

Blank reminds you to wear your seatbelt,

secure your children and rear seat,

and occupy all speed.

Loss for more information, visit our website,

www.blank.com or call 1-800-USA-BLANK.

It could be something with a Toyota motors,

maybe how I'm interpreting your hint, I don't know.

I'll just read that.

A division of Toyota motor sales, United States.

Right.

A division.

And then the entire top type copy,

because it's so small.

Introducing the remarkably powerful new blank,

stronger than the average beast,

thanks to a mighty 220 horsepower V6 with VVTi,

an impressive 222 pound-feet of torque,

available full-time four-wheel drive,

3,500 pounds of tow capacity.

After all, who couldn't use a little more pull?

The new blank, it's not just another SUV,

it's like no other vehicle on earth.

And then blank, and then it has the tagline

of the manufacturer.

I don't think we get there this week, man.

I'll give you the tagline of the manufacturer.

Blank, the relentless pursuit of perfection.

Nope, nope, not doing it for you, okay.

Nope, nope.

So still, front wheel drive.

I don't think this is a truck.

VVTi's clearly Toyota, but we're not talking about Toyota.

The relentless pursuit of perfection.

Yeah, but why, if it is Lexus,

why would it read like that?

I don't know.

It's an all-new, it's an all-new whatever.

They're trying to say the all-new front wheel driver,

all-wheel drive, 220 horsepower, V6 powered VVTi,

whatever with 3,500 tow capacity is an SUV

that can be used for good things.

This does not read like a Lexus ad.

Let's be 100% sure on that.

Is this the first original bubble butt

that came with silver metallic tinted windows?

Is this the original RX and this would be,

oh boy, oh, I wanna say O3 or O4.

Oh, let's say O4.

O3, O3, 2003 Lexus, RX.

And it would be a 300?

RX 300.

You're gonna get half credit here.

Oh yeah?

You're gonna get half credit because the O4,

O3, O4, RX is the second generation.

Okay.

RX.

So this is the 1998 Lexus RX 300.

It read more modern than that one.

Lexus usually isn't either.

Yeah, and that's-

Go had a cassette deck in it, I'm sure.

Let me send you a 100% it did.

I don't think you can option the first gen

maybe at the end run without a cassette deck.

I think it was just, that was just part of the deal.

I'm gonna send you-

The original bubble butt.

The original?

You had, you described the car correctly.

Does not read Lexus.

But the year is the second gen was,

O3 or O4 was the first gen, the first year of the second gen.

Oh yeah.

Was it an RX 330 or the 400H?

But yes, this is the original.

Often years got the right one.

Yep, that's it.

Yep, yep, a bubble butt.

But they almost always had that silver kind of metallic-

Especially the early ones.

You have this, and then you have the,

pretty much the original offering

of the quote unquote, Altezza taillights.

Right.

Those came with, although those were more of a,

I believe the early, the first couple of years,

it was like a red, it wasn't a chrome inner light

with a clear lens.

It was like a red.

Dude, that leads, that reads nothing like a Lexus ad.

I know you don't expect circus freaks

to be playing tug of war with us.

No, no, I wanted wine glasses.

I wanted more about the client performance.

You see, I thought giving away the VVTI was too much

because in my head, I was just like,

SUV V6 VVTI in this era, like that's kind of,

I mean, the first gen Highlander was right there,

but that was a little bit more power.

That was the 3.3 liter Toyota,

I don't, I can't think of a Toyota

because the RAV4 didn't get it until the third gen.

I want to say a Saturn Redline close spec wise

to those numbers too.

Could be, because I thought the Redline was a 3.5.

Or it was, but the horsepower ratings.

Yeah.

Oh yeah, you're right.

But it didn't say the displacement.

It was just 220 horsepower of VVTI,

but I didn't give you VVTI till.

Yeah, which actually kind of,

it threw me off a little bit.

And it's cool.

We got there.

Yes, yes, we fingered it out.

Relentless, you don't, oh man.

You see, I would have thought you would have had

the relentless pursuit of perfection tattooed

on the tab or something.

I was so out of thinking about Lexus for this one.

Sure.

Did not, I mean, they changed their tune.

I mean, that's definitely a far cry

removed from early Lexus, right?

With the LS and their early offerings.

And now it's even more about like customer service,

is that still their tagline?

The relentless pursuit of perfection?

It does sound familiar.

I think Lexus did.

I think it's the only one they've had.

They say that, yeah.

Right, yeah.

Truckuary.

Trucktoberfest.

Would you call that a slogan?

Yeah, yeah.

They're jingle, balls.

Yeah, Lexus.

I think it's still the same.

Oh, the pursuit of perfection

is what I launched with in 89.

And then apparently 90 to 99,

it was the relentless pursuit of perfection.

And then I guess maybe there wasn't one,

but then it became experience amazing.

And now I guess it's standard of amazing.

That boring.

Never heard that, but okay.

No, I want my perfection to be relentless in pursuit.

I mean, that was a stumble fest.

It definitely didn't read like Lexus,

but we got there, man.

I did appreciate it.

We'll do an unenthusiastic make it rain.

Yeah, go for it.

Nice.

The show, what you should do

is you should just load it with one CVS receipt.

So it just keeps shooting out

in one unbroken stream for like 35 minutes.

And now I shoot my webs.

Yeah, very similar.

Yeah, just an absolute unbroken stream.

It really smells like poor strippers in here right now.

I don't know why.

Impoverished adult workers.

Body odor too.

Speaking of body odor and under compensated sex workers,

have you been sex workers or dancers?

So the GeoTracker,

I think we were talking about it last time a little bit

and just my man,

this, that whole speedometer thing

with the gauge cluster eating it has been,

it's just a goddamn nightmare, man.

So I had to...

So first off, these vehicles,

if you start getting into the weeds of the stuff,

there are two different engines,

eight valve, 16 valve,

the oil wheel drive, front wheel drive,

and they changed gauge clusters, instrumentation,

the electrical hookups,

no less than eight times over the run of this vehicle.

So when you buy a replacement gauge cluster folks,

look on the back and count all the pins

because the connectors will look the same,

but do not fit.

So...

Fun.

Trying to find one of these for the eight valve,

two wheel drive from 95 is really impossible.

So I was able to finally source one

and that's the kind of research that's really hard, right?

Cause eBay motors, I love it, you love it.

We've got a record of saying this.

It's not without its pitfalls.

It's not without its lack of,

or it's users lack of effort.

Like a lot of these junk arts aren't here to answer

like 20 questions or really like,

yeah, it's on a shelf in the back

and it's been sitting there for eight months.

You know, I don't know, man.

Dude, I looked at one online

and this is like the biggest,

this is what I'm talking about.

You know how these 90s cars had like printed circuit boards,

the little paper sheets that kind of go over?

So where the actual plugs go, this one had it cut out.

Like they forcibly removed the plug

by cutting out around it

and the connectors weren't there.

So I'm like, I asked the guy, I'm like, hey, what's going,

is that like an optical illusion?

Both the plugs look like, you know,

and he's like, no, they're there.

They're just tucked out of the way.

I'm like, tucked.

I'd like to see.

You kind of can't, but okay.

I'll send you a photo later.

And I'm like, okay.

And I, I propped him the next day

after he of course didn't send the photo.

I'm like, Hey, what's going on?

He's like, yeah, it looks like

someone took a razor blade around it.

I'm like, well, that will never work.

Yeah. You might as well throw that into a garbage can.

Yeah. And, but to tell you the truth,

it was rated the lip of where it goes in easily.

If I didn't zoom in on the photos

could have purchased it, right?

And it was like in mint condition.

He's like, yeah. Oh yeah.

That's definitely an issue.

I'm like, that's a big issue, dude.

It's still for sale, by the way.

He didn't take it down.

But someone's going to buy that without knowing.

And I just, you know, that sucks.

And that's like kind of a little rant there.

But when you're like doing your online buying

for these things, a lot of these,

like especially these junkards

are just trying to get rid of this inventory

that's sitting on a shelf and you got to look guys.

You got to, if you have questions, don't just buy it

because there's a lot of these used parts.

There's no return policy and they're not cheap.

It's like a hundred and something bucks.

And you could just have another paperweight.

You know, I have learned

and I've never actually utilized it,

but eBay has like made it,

and this is not me plugging eBay,

but there's a lot more buyer protections now

where even if like in all of the fine print

and everything in the auction, it's like, you know,

do not accept returns.

Like no matter what, like, like, you know,

go take a dick publicly if you try,

want to return this, like, yep.

How would, no matter how aggressive they are,

if you, you can just simply open up a return through eBay

and just click like item not as described

and they have to take it back.

Yep.

And even if the person's like, no, kick rocks,

I'm not sending you like a label,

then you keep it and eBay will send you the money back.

So if the next guy buys this cluster,

so long as it's within 30 days,

so if the next guy buys a cluster

from Captain Idiot here who's keeping that auction up

and they actually open the box within 30 days

and realize that it's not gonna work,

that they can get the money back, which is nice.

It's still unfortunately a pain in the dick

to even, because you're buying that part

because there's not many available.

Yeah, no, it still sucks.

You're waiting to complete your project

and then you get the part that's clearly damaged, right?

It's just, it's a bad experience,

but you gotta, it's due diligence

when you're looking at a part like that,

you have to understand that.

And then plus shipping, right?

eBay is like a week to two weeks sometimes,

depending on where it's coming from.

You could be like waiting all this time

for something to show up that's clearly damaged.

But when I saw that dude, I was just like, no, God damn way.

And I asked, I specifically was like,

hey, it looks like it's been cut out.

No, it's tucked in there.

I'm like, how about you just look at the photo

and get back to me, you know?

So that was unfortunate.

But I got the new gauge cluster, everything like that.

I knew, it's pedometer cables.

So hopefully we're good to go there.

I do, before I wanna install it,

I do wanna find a odometer specialist

that can set the mileage correctly.

Yep, cause I'm a big advocate of that.

I think it detracts if it's off.

So that's the next big thing.

I'm assuming the cluster you got is over miles.

Yeah, over miles.

So I wanna like roll it back,

which is always a little easier conversation to have.

Right.

Versus like me trying to like be shady

and be like, hey, put it at like 10,000.

I got the old cluster for comparison and everything.

And I have all the car facts

so I can document everything

while I'm setting it to a certain number.

But the fact is like it's, it gets pretty dicey.

We know how it is with clusters.

Yeah, it's clusterfuck if you will.

It's a fucking seriously clusterfuck-y.

But yeah, man, how about you?

Any time for wrenching?

Any of your...

Not...

Vehicles progressing?

You know, I...

I put a new battery in the Suburban.

No one cares.

What I did do was...

So if you remember, you tuned in last week.

Tuning back.

Our local heroes.

I had drug home and other stray.

In the form of a 1989 Volvo 740 Turbo sedan.

Very nice.

I might have a buyer for it already.

Damn, dude.

Kind of by accident.

So what I've done since then is like, yeah, I bought it

but I hadn't taken possession of it or anything.

So I put a battery in it.

I drove it.

I let it just idle up to temp

and then I just took it to get smocked.

Didn't really drive it, just whatever.

It didn't just pass.

It...

You could have just like lived huffing the exhaust.

Like that's how clean it was.

It blew unrealistic numbers out of the tailpipe.

That's how good this thing runs.

It purified the local air.

It did, yeah, like everything.

Like carbon zero measured.

One or two parts per million at like 15 and 25.

Knox one part at 15 miles an hour, three at 25.

And I think average is like 70 and 90

and max is 300 each or whatever.

And it was like single digits on everything.

It was just absolutely perfect.

Great.

So this morning we're recording on a Sunday

which we don't normally do but we are today.

I don't know.

It's easy when the 49ers play on a Sunday

or on a Monday night.

That's not that I'm wed to their schedule.

But the, by the way, when we get off our ass

and have a Patreon, maybe we'll have to talk sports.

Oh.

You can talk about, I don't know.

You're Bruins fan, right?

Yeah.

And the unstoppable Patriots.

10 game winning streak.

Oh yeah.

You Mr. Drake May over here.

You getting a Drake May tat?

Already got it.

You may.

That'll be the reveal.

Exactly, yeah.

Yeah, full butt cheeks spread tattoo reveal

if you pay to the Patreon that doesn't exist yet.

You can always see his ears on my butt cheeks

until you spread it and then his whole face is in there.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, it's like an absolutely like the most grotesque mad

magazine.

Actually just figuring mad.

Yeah.

I knew where you were going.

Magazine fold in.

Fold out.

Got a bit of both.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

God.

Anyways, I was just thinking like

if you tuck things back like you could add to like an arm

like throwing a pair of footballs or something.

Anyways, hello Bill.

Exactly, yeah, yeah.

Would you draft me?

I draft me hard.

Exactly, I draft me so fucking hard.

OK, Drake May aside.

OK, so today it's a Sunday.

Drake May, I don't know.

I haven't looked.

I don't know how he's performed.

He won.

Again, he got that row, baby.

Yeah, boy too.

The nobody cares about the Patriots.

The I went to the Sundays on Solano local car,

cars and coffee here if if you're here in the Bay Area

and or homies with the Vault Auto Club gang

and something they put on.

So Solano in Albin Solano Avenue, I think wrote.

Story checks out Boulevard.

In in Albany at Signal Coffee.

Third Sunday of every month.

Anyways, I took the $1,000 Volvo out there.

I can't really driven it like this is an excuse to go drive it

and drove great.

No complaints.

The dome light like wiggles half falls down occasionally.

You can like push it back up.

Don't care.

Sunroof works.

Windows work.

The right signal.

One of the front or rear is a little intermittent.

Oh, otherwise great.

AC is not blowing cold.

Don't care.

Drove it there.

On my way out was like just talking with I think it was Joe,

who's one of the founders there at Vault.

And you know, I basically had mentioned like I don't need this car.

I actively need to get rid of it.

I basically just saved it from the wrecker.

You know, I'm in it.

You know, 1,300 bucks, 1,500 bucks, depending on the math

between $1,000 for the car registration,

paid to get a smog, a battery, right?

Somewhere between 1,300 and 1,500,

depending on who's asking.

And the IRS, it's 13.

Yeah.

Anyway, some guy was just like 740.

Like you're looking to get rid of a car.

What is it?

I was like, you know, 740 turbo.

He's like, I have a 740 turbo 24 hour

lemon's car.

He's like, I didn't think I'd be in the Volvo's.

I'm now into Volvo's.

I was like, the car's here.

I want to look at it.

He's like, absolutely.

So we went, like I just tossed in the keys.

I was like, let's go.

So we drove it around the block.

He's like, yeah, I live like two blocks away from here.

I just walked down on a whim.

And he's like texting one of his lemon's guys.

He's like, yeah, he's like, we started talking

and I thought like this would be a good bonus parts

car for our lemon's car.

He's like, this car's too nice.

Like I can't, I can't chop this car up.

I was like, I know that's why I bought it.

So we discuss it and he's like texting.

He's like, yeah, I was like, I'm not a huge rush to sell it.

I don't even have the title yet.

I've registered in my name like three days ago.

So like, you know, I was just going to do something

with it once the title arrives in like four weeks.

But if you want to buy it before that and just do

a paperless title transfer, like, you know,

I was going to put it up for like $3,200

and let people beat me up to like 2,500.

But if you wanted it to grand and I just walk away

after less than a week, maybe he's like,

I might be calling you this afternoon.

So we exchanged my numbers, haven't heard back from him.

I'll probably, you know, I told him,

yeah, let's talk this week.

And yeah, if I can make whatever 500, 600, $700.

Oh yeah.

No effort and keep the car on the road.

You saved it.

Yeah, that's the big thing.

Right.

Well, I saved it until all of a sudden like

the motor pops on the lemon's car

and then maybe it's unsaved.

But yeah, well, still, it lives on.

Yeah, not exactly turning wrenches,

but that's progress, I suppose.

I like it, man.

Cool. Well, on that note, I say we sign off four years, guys.

We couldn't have done it without you.

I mean, it could have, but it'd be less fun.

Yeah, it literally all five of you were well appreciated.

But seriously, it's been a blast.

We look forward to at least four years more

of this bullshit and dodging sponsorship.

People are running at us, just truckloads of money

being offered to be dumped in our front yards.

We turn it down, we're not sell-outs, basically,

is what I'm trying to tell you.

Yeah, yeah, we're not doing reads for, God,

what are it, like Nord VPN?

Oh yeah.

What are all the ones you always hear?

Not that I'm against it, per se.

No, we could do it.

If we're gonna sell out. Better help.

Yeah, if we're gonna sell out,

it's gonna be like shady shit

that we talked about, like gas station boner pills.

Yeah, gas station boner pills.

God, some like weird, like gold recycling scheme

or some like, are NFT still a thing?

Some like really shady.

There'll be a thing again.

Belarusian NFT.

Yeah, this guy went right after Belarus.

But anyway, we do.

Coming at you Belarus.

Out of all the Eastern European countries,

this guy and his Belarus.

We do appreciate everything, guys.

Again, I honestly think we wouldn't have done it

without you guys.

We appreciate the feedback, the following,

the conversations, whatever, watching YouTube.

We're almost to 100 subscribers on YouTube,

which is pretty wild for a podcast.

But we appreciate it, guys, APA podcast.

Follow us on our Instagram posts.

We'll put something up there.

We need to put something about our rally cars.

We'll think of something like that

we talked about earlier.

But check us out there on YouTube.

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We appreciate that.

I can be followed at Auto Obscure Garage.

Tracker content, Volvo content is coming out right now.

So check that out for your rescues,

restorations reviews, whatever the hell I do.

Frank, where can the good people

follow your social medias?

First off, don't.

But maybe actually do.

That's going to be-

Please.

It's a land of contrast.

Yeah, no, the photographer's garage,

mostly on Instagram, a little bit on the YouTube.

Other places, not really, but mostly just do that.

And I did two quick closing thoughts.

One, first off, I looked real quick

while you were closing out

because I can view all of our listens,

like what countries they've come from.

We just lost Belarus, goddammit.

No, I'm looking, we've never had a listen from Belarus.

And to be fair, some of these might not have actually

be listens from those countries.

They might be some weird aberration

from a VPN listener somewhere.

They're using NordVPN.

Yeah, exactly.

And you can too if you sign up with our promo code.

Yeah, promo code Foreskin.

No.

Promo code Quad4.

Yeah, Quad4Skin.

We have three listens from Oman.

We've got one Trinidad and Tobago.

Ooh, which one?

Both, yeah.

Same with Bosnia and Herzgovina.

We got one from there.

Bukini Faso, if you're Bukit Burkina.

That would be Africa for my non-geography friends.

On here, the state of Palestine, comma, the state of.

So big news there.

We've got Jordan, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Senegal.

We got some heavy hitters in Kazakhstan, is nice.

So yeah, the other last bit, I just wanted to drop real quick

before we go deeply over time and we're done.

Crazy is goodbye.

No, if you have crazy, terrible, absurd car stories, right?

Something you did in your soared past in international waters.

You know, you you you jump the Grand Canyon

in your homebrew rocket car and live to tell the tale

and nobody knows whatever.

I want us to collect a bunch of these.

And we'll read them.

We'll we'll read them at the end of the pod at the end of the pod.

I'd like it to be be a new thing.

So we're going to collect them for a while.

So we won't start reading them immediately.

But just for now, until we have a better solution

as we discussed last week, just send us a send us a note

on on Instagram.

That's at APA podcast.

And yeah, tell us some miserable things that you should.

We can keep it anonymous, too.

We're in fact, we will keep this anonymous.

For a yeah, yeah, this should be this should be fun.

Yes, exactly. Yeah.

So just to piggyback off of that,

don't just keep your past sorted.

Keep sortedness in the current, friends.

Well, with that, keep it alive, baby.

As always, we'll catch in like a week.

Love you. Bye. That's it. Later, Oman.

Oh, man.

Episode #201 - 4-Year Anniversary Special

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