Episode #203 - Bull-ish Market List 2026

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

Howdy, everybody.

Welcome back to another Pointless Automotive Podcast, deep, not really, shallowly, into the

200s.

Yes.

Episode count that is.

Thanks for joining us.

Frank, how are you doing this evening?

I'm good.

I am in my garage, which I normally am.

I have a new addition, not car, but check this out.

Check this shit out.

For those along listening, that's our real deal foosball table.

Nice.

We told the nine-year-old that for his birthday that we can get him a foosball table.

It's a real deal tornado, which if you're up on your foosball, that's the brand you get.

So I got it used on Marketplace.

It's super clean.

It was like two grand new.

I got it for 500 bucks.

Hell yeah, dude.

Let's go.

Yeah.

Very nice.

Maybe we can do like a, when we get really down the rabbit hole and develop this thing

and we're doing like Twitch streams and shit, maybe you and I can play foos and

Twitch stream and talk shit about golf or something.

I'm absolutely horrible at it.

We'll tune you up.

We'll tune you up, dog.

Yeah, I can't go anywhere but up from where I am.

I'm good.

How are you?

My background.

I'm doing well, man.

Background today is doing historical video games, car related video games.

You kind of can't beat this, the original OG Gran Turismo for PS Uno.

That'll be adorning my background with classic games.

What a game.

That game's responsible for how many car addictions, especially folks of our age.

Well, I mean, just think like massively impactful game.

My thought is this, like nobody are, I mean, not nobody, but almost nobody

are, is really into like importing European Fords and things like that.

Like stuff from Europe that we never got.

Yep.

And just for that game, that's exactly how the JDM scene would be in the United States

today.

It'd be like, oh, some weird car that we never got, like whatever, don't care.

But for video games of that era and Gran Turismo is absolutely the standard bearer for games

that made JDM cars interesting and desirable and this like, this forbidden fruit.

It's exactly.

Right.

Except for a Toyota Viz, which is super fun and cool, but it's just the Yaris

at the end of the day.

Come on, dog.

You're not getting in the Viz Cup.

Viz RS, baby.

Yeah.

No, you're right.

That's the Viz, baby.

But yeah, it's a good intro, man.

Good fun games.

Funny games.

It's all funny games.

Funny games.

Until we take a look at the bull market.

So you hit me up about this idea because God, it felt like a couple years ago, right?

Had to be.

Yeah.

Years ago, right?

We looked at the Hagerty Bull Market report had to be like 24, maybe 23 or 24.

Yeah.

I mean, mostly me does any semblance of homework for our own damn podcast.

I can, let me, I can quickly scroll down, but it's been a while.

I mean, it's, I think we skipped it's been two years since we talked about it.

So yeah, this, they just put out literally just like what, a day ago, all day days.

Yeah.

I think they pushed a video today.

Yeah.

So I did catch the beginning of the video.

They have a list and what we did last time was kind of parallel their list, which

is a well researched looking at enthusiast cars gaining value or potential to gain value.

Probably will gain value.

Let's be honest, most of these cars, they have a pretty good list.

And then our parallel is the budget store version, which we're really good at, Frank.

We're really good at emulation, like affordable emulation of the real deal.

And I presented, I think I came up with a pretty solid list and it's not just like,

you know, here's a Corvette and you're like, just get a cobalt.

I try to find, and that's not a bad, that's not a bad analog with a supercharged cobalt

or turbocharged, but just try to find something that's kind of like relative and find some

key points where they kind of match up and you can kind of get the logic sometimes.

I don't know.

So the order I went in is the video order.

So I don't know if yours is offset by that, but they started out with a pretty

heavy hitting car, a Porsche Carrera GT.

Oh, you know what's funny is because like I have, I didn't have an opportunity to

watch the video yet.

I watched the intro.

Is that is that is that catch pole?

Who's doing it?

Who's who's the who's the host?

It's what's his name?

British fella and Henry catch pole.

I don't know.

It might be. Yeah, I don't know.

I was going to watch it and I saw like there was a human form.

I was like, I'm the presenter.

And that's as far as I made it.

Like I did not make it.

And I looked at the I did read the article and the article ends with that car.

So the article went in in a widely different way.

I wonder if it's inverse.

But yeah, I mean, we can start there, start off with the big guns.

What do you I mean?

I guess before we talk about the budget version thing and we got 11 cars

to go through, so we're not going to spend 20 minutes on each car.

But like, are you a career GT guy?

I mean, if one was given to me, sure, my own money, probably, probably not.

Yeah, I don't I don't think I I don't think I go for that

because I think they're going, what are they trafficking?

Like, I would assume like one and a half million ballpark.

Oh, I think they're, um, are they that?

I don't know. Let's let's consult the bull, the bull, the bull run in my head.

I think they're like, I think they're one point five.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

One and a half.

Let's see.

This is in Drup, Drup, Drup.

Yeah, yeah, about that one and one and a half.

OK. Yeah.

Unless you're like super number one condition is sure, which are like a special

things, things you and I relate to really well.

Oh, absolutely.

Number one condition, hypercars.

Really easy. Let's talk about it.

It's a rear mid-engine car.

It's a real road drive.

Nice, fun, revvy engine.

Top down, right?

Screaming out on the air.

You're out in the air.

I have a car that hits every one of those things I just said.

Is it also a Porsche product?

No. Oh, interesting.

OK, it's it's it's a third gen Toyota MR2.

Yeah. Yeah.

And yeah, so a couple of things.

It does actually hit all those things I spoke about.

It does. It is mid-engine.

We will drive high revving top down.

It is high revving.

It could have been.

Yeah, I know they should have put a TZZ in it for what it is.

For what it is.

It's like what is the red line on a seven?

Seven. Yeah, whatever, dude, whatever.

TZZ, I don't care.

Fraction, we're talking like not even a drop of water in the ocean.

Fraction of the price comparison here.

But the thing is these have been down like insanely low,

like for a very long time.

And just now, I feel like they've been up like the last years.

The past couple of years they've started to.

So that's bull market, right?

Like a car that's projected to go up.

I don't see these going down.

And I think you can find pretty clean ones still

because they weren't ravaged.

Yeah, like the SW20 turbos or even the MR2s before that, the AW11.

I think these are pretty sound investments.

If you want to get a nice, clean one, lower mileage one.

But it does offer a lot of fun stuff for a Toyota badge product, right?

Yeah, I mean, they're they're they're good.

They're they're light, a lot of them.

What's weird is like that might have the weirdest transmission.

Toyota ever put in a car, at least a North American product,

because it's it's like it's like an SMG transmission.

It's just a simple auto like there's a manual, right?

There's the. Yeah, you get the manual, right?

But they also the the automatic wasn't an auto.

It was an automated manual.

Like really weird, which I think I can't think of another

Toyota we got in North America with like an automated manual,

SMG style transmission, other than what fucking LFA?

Right, it's an LFA, essentially.

Yeah, no, it's it's an interesting it's interesting choice.

Interest. I like those cars.

I for me, though, I've always felt they're they're a little overpriced.

You think so? I think so.

Because I don't think a good one, a good one is what, 15?

No, no, I think that under 10 under 10 under 10.

Yeah, absolutely.

I guess the good thing on those is and to your point, you said a lot of them.

They don't have a lot of miles on them and they were modified.

They're not modified. They weren't.

Yeah, they were like.

Because at the time, right, we're talking early 2000s.

Yeah, mid 2000s.

You wanted the hot car.

You got an S 2000.

You got a Boxster.

You got a whatever, right?

You didn't necessarily buy the M R two.

And so you maybe ended like a lot of those cars ended up in, you know,

oh, I just retired for my accounting job.

I'm going to get an M R two.

And it says it's these 3,000 miles a year and it's well maintained.

And now you can buy it with 80,000 miles on it.

And it's in great shape.

Yeah, for like eight grand.

It's it's wild than that.

I've been looking at these bad boys for a while.

You get a rough one for six, dude.

No joke, like a running and driving driver's car for six grand.

So I think they're not kill or deal.

We don't want to talk about M R two all day.

But seriously, I think this is a slept on car.

Yeah, I agree.

And I went a different.

I just took the obvious answer on this one,

which is at early nine, eight, six, you get an early nine, eight, six.

And you're going to silver box, the interior, the ship box,

one that I had basically, maybe less shitty.

But you can get you can get you can get a good one for under 10 pretty easily.

Yeah. Yeah.

And as long as it's fairly healthy, you know, the early ones don't have

less power, but you don't have the IMS issue.

That's why the ninety eight to ninety nine's demand a premium.

The IMS issue isn't it?

I mean, they kind of what's funny is they kind of don't command a premium

because I've been seeing it.

I've been seeing it.

Oh, it's it's got the smaller engine.

It makes less.

It's only two hundred and whatever, two hundred and five horsepower, two hundred

and two. Yeah.

IMS, it's a known thing that now, man.

Like you look in like a ninety ninety nine is priced above like a two thousand

one or two thousand two. Yeah.

It's wild. Get a good one for under 10 and just tell people.

You know what?

That actually would be really funny is just like deep adjit and just tell

everyone it's a career GT, you know, put like a little like like

dollar store hydraulic spoiler on the back and that's the only difference.

Really, it is.

Yeah, it's the same.

So interesting.

OK, well, why don't we do this?

So we don't like step on each other's dick as far as the orders.

That sucks.

What's your unless you're into that sort of thing?

Like what is yeah, what do you have next on the on the list?

And I will serve up my answer to it.

Whatever our 33 GTR.

So this one was this one's interesting because it's that's like

not an easy car to just dollar store replace.

No, talk about Gran Turismo, too.

Right. Right.

Yeah, like what I don't know.

I guess I don't want to ask this silly question.

What do you think about an R33?

Like they're cool, like they're they're very cool.

I think they're aren't they mechanically very similar to an R34

like versus a 32 like based on engineering.

And I think they're closer to 34 than they are a 32.

I lean towards the 32 myself.

I mean, the 34 is the poster child, right?

Like the one we love.

But I think I kind of like the 32 a little more is just like a

if I was going to motorsport it. Sure.

I think if you're going to, yeah, if you're going to build a race car,

you go 32.

I think if you want like the kind of fly on to the radar like

even more, if you know, you know, addition, you go 33.

Yep, I agree.

And I think.

God, it 30 really hard, pretty though.

Really, really hard.

Oh, no.

Thirty fours are like the so the video game.

Booster child car.

Yep.

But as far as like the dollar store version of a 33.

Yeah, I can see.

We're talking like a 60, 70,000 car, right?

I think I 30 threes are trafficking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so like.

I almost have to I'm going to go with it and it's not.

I don't love this comparison, but I'm going to I'm going to say

an ST 185, some of the all track.

Yeah, I was not.

Those are still they're hard to get cheap.

Yeah, they're not super cheap for a good one.

A good one is going to run you 20.

Mm hmm.

For a decent one.

I don't think that's overpriced.

I'm not saying that's overpriced.

Not at all.

I think and it's like not as like techno techno techno

whiz kid, but like for me in my mind, as cool and as

fast as an R 33 is compared to modern stuff, it's really not that fast.

No, not really.

And so you have the reason you have an R 33 is yes, because it's all wheel drive

and manual and turbocharged, but also because it very much is like a 90s

Japanese product.

Yeah.

And so the cheapest way to get that, I think is.

Either.

And honestly, now that I'm thinking about it a little bit more.

Maybe maybe something like an Evo three or maybe Evo four.

So because now you're going to be right hand drive, you get the all wheel

drive and the turbo and stuff like that.

And the right hand drive actually scares off a lot of people.

So if you get one with some miles, it's not like collector grade.

Right.

You can get one or you can even get the all track GT four as it would be

for for for JDM, you stay right hand drive and you just get that car.

You can get one or you like or even like a GC eight.

Impressive.

Yeah, absolutely.

Any of those you can get a good one for 15 or less.

I think you nailed it on your rethink.

I put Evo eight or nine because it gets you pretty damn close with

the drivetrain wizardry.

You've got the AWC and yaw control and all that fun stuff.

Power, very fucking similar in an eight and nine.

Let's be brutally honest.

Yeah.

Right.

Getting, getting pretty damn close all wheel drive.

If you really want to go more budget and turn up the boost, you

could get like a DSM or something.

Right.

But I think I think an Evo gets you there.

I think an Evo eight or nine.

Yeah.

And I think the reason I said four is because it's also right hand drive

JDM and they're cheaper because getting a USDM eight or nine is

actually going to run you more money.

Um, now I would rather have an eight or nine.

Don't get me wrong.

I think they're like mid twenties though.

So it's still, still a huge budget.

Yeah.

Like I think I think you get pretty good, pretty good four for under 20, I think.

So I would, if it came down to which car do I prefer?

I think I prefer the Evo fours and fives, which are very similar.

Look into my opinion to the R 33.

I think I'd rather have an Evo four or five.

Interesting.

I love how they've always been my favorite cars.

No, they're really cool.

Yeah.

They're like, they like, so like to me, Evo one through three, we're

a lot VR four owners, right?

We've owned many of these are just an evolution of that.

It's like the same, the engine is the same.

It's the same six bolt.

It has the turbo on the same side.

Four and five are kind of different to me.

The body kits are more extreme and then obviously six and seven, eight, nine

kind of all kind of grouped together, even though it's how me

Mackinen, wait, wait, wait, wait, you said what you said?

What was after five?

Six, seven, eight, nine.

Don't, don't.

Six, seven, six, seven, sorry.

Sorry.

No, other than eight year old.

So yeah, I mean, nine year old, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Um, I am too.

I'm an nine year old boy father.

Now he actually despises it so much.

He like, he makes jokes about it.

I'm like, he is the counterculture, but, uh, no, I think, I, I think

the four and fives are like my favorite.

Oh, they look so good, dude.

Um, but yeah, yeah.

For the classy fives are like classy, but with so over the top.

Yeah, I love it.

Um, I like the stupidity.

Um, no, I say Evo is the replacement for that R 33 and you're,

that's a very capable car.

Yeah.

And the other option is if you want to go like really dollar store,

you just go like bug eye, but yeah, I was going to say that DSM too.

I think can get you there.

Um, yeah, yeah.

All right.

What else we got?

But what else are we cooking with?

This one's a little weirder.

Second gen Dodge Charger.

Mm hmm.

They, they've kind of been a little pricey for a bit, to be honest.

They didn't just spike.

Um, yeah, I mean, they spiked in the early 2000s and then they've

calmed down, um, and then they hop back up along with everything during COVID.

Sure, but I think they're a good, ultimately, I think they're a pretty

good buy, but you're talking to Mopar guy over here.

Like, right, but also the, the price variance for second gen

chargers is all over the map, dude.

And you can have mostly original, you know, need some love, maybe like low 20s.

Uh, mostly, I mean, that's gotta be like, needs a lot of like

cosmetically challenged, gutted, interior, um, but you can go,

you can go to the fucking moon and back, dude.

Like a fully restored, like great condition, original body.

Yeah.

Well, one of the six figures stupid.

Yeah.

It's stupid real fast.

I'm kind of, I think, let me shoot my shot first here.

Cause you're definitely Mopar guy.

Shoot your shot.

So you're going to have a good one.

What I came to the table with is a Plymouth Duster 340.

Yeah.

And honestly, that's kind of, that's kind of in my mind.

And I, I'm a duster guy.

I'm a duster and demon guy.

Like I love dusters.

Yeah.

Um, 340 is a killer motor.

Mm hmm.

Um, I mean, it was like the big block killer of its era.

Absolutely.

I think it's the most, the most impressive small block of the

entire muscle car era.

So are you saying I did okay there?

Mopar daddy killed it.

Yeah.

That's, that's really good.

Because I, because, you know, a 340 duster, they still pull

some money, right?

Yeah, but not even close to charge your money, dude.

You can get like, I've seen runners and drivers

that are decent for like 20.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can.

Nice.

Tina.

Yeah.

Um, it's a hell of a car.

It's, it's, yeah, it's a lot smaller.

It's a lot more, it was, I mean, it was the compact of its day.

And why I think it's a pretty good analog to the charger is,

you know, the 68 to 70 charger was ultimately a much sexier

bodied version of a, a cornet.

Yeah.

Right.

Which is what the first gen was.

The first gen was you took a dodge cornet.

You put a different grill on it.

You made a fastback out of it for NASCAR purposes.

Mm hmm.

And voila, right?

Now you've got your, your special GT car thing.

In this generation, 68 to 70 Coke bottle styling, that classic,

I mean, it really kind of set the stage for just like a really

sexy, intermediate was, was the size class.

And that's what the duster was.

Hey, let's get, let's take the dart and the valiant and let's just

make a roundier sexier version of it.

Like we did with the charger on the B body platform.

And let's take our A body, the compact and we'll, we'll make a

sexier version.

And so they look great.

The duster.

Yeah.

They look fantastic.

You can get those high impact colors, you know, go mango or

sassy grass green or any of those absolutely diabolically named.

So good though.

Mopar colors of its era.

So yeah, that's a really good one.

Um, I was, I was on the fence between that or simply just like a

Corvette or Belvedere of, of the same era, which was, that was

what the, the charger was based off of.

It was also what the, um, road runner and super B were based off

of, they were just a lower spec shit.

And so you can just get, just get a Corvette with a three

18 in it or, or, or even a fucking slant six and mob it around.

If you're in it for just the look and if you want the muscle car

thing, you get a, they get a 440 out of a motor home.

World's here.

I mean, yeah, like, yeah, these are so easy to just toss

engines in no small gap here in California.

Yeah.

World is your oyster.

Do whatever you want.

So buy something rot free.

If it's got patina, great.

Go with it.

We might as well do the, the next one here.

Um, I don't have, I didn't think this one to you through, uh, Lincoln

Continental Mark three.

Um, yes, I don't think about this car or car.

They're, they're on the details are what I love.

I love the hand craftsmanship.

Um, I, I think that is definitely mostly lost today.

Some interiors try to get there, but exteriors.

No, no way.

They're not designed the same way.

Right.

Um, no, they can't, they can't be literally would lose so much money.

Um, what do you have for a budget store version of this, this car,

which is very pricey, by the way, if you find a fully restored or

original in good condition, Lincoln, Mark, three, good Lord.

These are, these are fetching some cash.

Yeah.

I mean, they were, um, to borrow a phrase from Cadillac, chief

competitor of theirs at the time.

It was this was a quote unquote standard of the world type car where

I mean, this was like no expense spared.

This was a very expensive product to make.

It was a very expensive product to buy.

And I would say it was probably that high watermark for Lincoln as a brand.

Definitely.

And so what I would, what I think is similar in ethos and size and

presence in command, even of the same era is like a late fifties imperial.

Okay.

Enormous land yacht.

Absolutely land yacht.

Sedans are cheapest, but you can get a, you can get a two door, like a crown.

And this was, this was.

So you had Chrysler and then you had Imperial.

It was its own brand technically.

Um, it wasn't a Chrysler Imperial, just an Imperial and they're super overlooked.

Not a huge per, um, they were wildly expensive.

Um, and I mean, you can get a really dope one for like 14, 15, little patina.

The world, the nicest one on the globe of like a 50, like a 56 Imperial,

which is still pretty roundy, 57, they got more gaudy with more

fins and stuff like that, which if we're into a great, but more akin to

this classy roundier, get a 56 Imperial, 55 or 56 Imperial, not expensive.

The nicest one ever on the planet is 25.

Um, that's, that's what I'm going with.

What are you, what are you thinking?

You thinking, dude, I was, I know it's not really your wheelhouse.

Cadillacs, really where you got to go.

Uh, do you do something stupid, like a, a Fleetwood or an El Dorado?

Or do you just, uh, I think for the price, if you're trying to

like chip the price down, you kind of get like, just maybe just a

Coupe Deville, that's a little rough around the edges.

Yeah, it's, that's a tough one.

Um, just the preservation, right?

Like how many of these cars are left in the condition, you know,

that the, the folks are really looking for for these Mark threes.

These are just, these are cars that were never really driven too much

in most cases because they did rot away if they were exposed.

So, I mean, it's just, yeah, there's not a lot of competition for that one.

That's, that's when I would have to bow out of finding a dollar store

variant of, uh, that's one though.

I think it was a pretty easy one Corvette C six, zero six.

Is it, is it a car you own that you're replacing?

You could, I think the quickest and easiest replacement for the, the C

six, zero six is a C five, zero six, to be brutally honest.

I think you're taking a small step backwards in performance.

Cause those, those, especially after 2002, and then went to the

four hundred and five horsepower or whatever the hell it was, uh, good

enough to put a badge on the front of the car, stating the horsepower.

Um, and the price they can be had at, I know they're not 15 K anymore.

They're you low twenties, like 25 or less, you can get a C five, zero

six, like most Corvettes will have low mileage, barely driven to like car shows

shined more than it was, you know, serviced for oil changes.

Um, but I think that's pretty fucking good.

Um, I think it is pretty good.

And yeah, it isn't a seven liter rip snorting V eight, but it's a good

little power plant, man.

Yeah, a little little, but yeah, well displacement compared to the seven

leader, I mean, it's kind of, kind of small.

Yeah.

I mean, it's funny cause I had, I had two schools of thought on this.

One is, is I was just going to say the bait, just a base, like a 98.

Okay.

The five, right?

Um, the three, 320, something like that right around there.

Yes.

Yeah.

Right in that ballpark, I think so.

And like good number, I mean, the comparison is, is obvious, right?

They're both fucking Corvettes.

But if you wanted to do something not Corvette, you wanted to go a

little, a little, a little different.

Um, what about an 05 or 06 GTO?

Oh, maybe, right?

Maybe still an LS and get a manual, a lot heavier, a lot heavier.

Um, but you know, same kind of ethos.

I think those are kind of a good buy.

It's hard to find a good one.

Like they got pretty well modified and, and yeah, because they were dirt

cheap for a while.

Yeah.

And so finding a good one might be tough, but like, what's the

nicest one of those 28?

Maybe.

Yeah.

So, uh, okay.

Yeah.

I think you can get a little bit of that.

Let's see what you did there.

Not bad.

Yeah.

I like that.

What else is on this here list, sir?

Uh, we have a truck, a Chevy 454 SS.

Now we've talked about this truck a few times and boy, these

used to, these used to be just kicking around, right?

For kicking around cash.

It used to be any time you, you, if you just would search one on

Craigslist, it'd be one, you could find one.

Yeah, it might be rough.

It might, might, you know, it might have a whole, it might have

a huge Raiders shield on the tailgate or something like that.

There might be like five cigarette burns in the red

velour, but you know, it, it goes, comes with the territory.

They're angry people and the bed comes with it.

Yeah.

This was, uh, the artist.

Oh, nice.

So, uh, I struggled with this one because it really was just

kind of a muscle truck, to be honest.

That's what they were going for there.

Um, trailblazer SS.

And then I put question mark sob nine seven with that same motor.

Yeah.

I think those are kind of big engines.

Those are smaller.

No, they are like, if it's the ethos, I just think.

I know it's not a pickup.

I know, I know it's not a pickup.

It would be, they're kind of like finding an unruined one,

especially those trailblazer SS is like, dude, I know every.

I cannot think of the last time I saw one that wasn't absolutely

slammed and had the world's like lumpiest cabinet.

But when you see a stock one, you're just like, when they're fucking cool.

I don't know if I have, they're out there, they're out there.

They're in some like 80 year old dude's garage with like 20,000 miles

right now.

Yeah.

And God, what's that thing worth though?

So I, that's what I'm saying.

I had, I don't wildly disagree.

But I'm going Dakota RT, baby.

OK, I was thinking that original Ford Lightning.

Boy, those are hard to find.

I mean, both of these are hard to find because Dakota RTS were pretty,

pretty beat up, but they made a lot more of them.

They did.

And they made them from what, like 96 to like, oh, three, I think.

Yeah, you take that.

I'm going to take my, I'm going to take my Dakota sport

with the convertible roof.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, I will say that nothing like that.

You could you could get a Dakota sport with the five two

and a five speed, which is pretty sick.

What was the big motor Dodger's thrown in five nines, right?

That was the five.

Yeah, the five nine.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just the Mopar 360 with with with better marketing.

Yeah, they're cool.

I like it's kind of like the original Durango RTS, right?

Stuff, the bigger motor.

And it's the same.

Yeah, it's the same motor, same thing.

It's the exact same powertrain.

Cool, cool truck, actually.

Find one of those stock.

Good luck.

You see, now I had a friend who had to go to RTS.

That goes back.

I think that one pairs well with a trailblazer SS for a competition.

Yeah, I think that's a cool like we get those and we can't find them.

The trailblazer SS is so it's it's really the ballsyest of that era.

Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, yeah, Durango RT, though, pretty cool.

Yeah, yeah, moving right along.

This one's fun BMW E 60 M five.

And the money is obviously in the manual.

Yeah.

Fuck, these were cheap for so long.

These were stop sign cars to stay away from.

If you even thought about like doing a doing a craigslist search back in the day

or early marketplace,

you would you would hear every one morning you that feed 10 is unreliable.

Don't press the M button.

All the do not press.

You do not want 500 horsepower, son, kill you.

These things are incredibly cool.

I've always thought they were cool.

I thought they were a softer body versus like the E 39 or like really.

Yeah. Yeah, it's food.

What do you think? What do you do?

What do you do to undercut because they are pricey?

A manual, low mileage, clean one is pretty pricey.

Yeah, they're cool.

I've driven.

I've actually I've driven an SMG car and I've driven a manual,

but like just like around for a photo shoot in an enclosed space,

like I'm not like in anger, which is a shame.

But one thing, one car, the analog that comes along the dollar store replacement

of this, which is what I've got a bunch of see time in,

is the God, I want to say it was like oh, six to 2011, I think ish

Audi S6 with the yeah, with the 5.2 V10.

There you go.

There's one I sold on cars and bids several years ago.

It was a car donation car and I drove it.

I drove it down to San Diego for Doug to review and then drove it back.

And so I had a thousand miles in that car and certainly softer.

Right, more GT, German V 10,

questionable reliability, questionable reliability.

It's a risk and that is always enjoyable.

Automatic, which, you know, yeah, you can get and less motor sport to eat

than an SMG, as much people give that transmission shit.

Yeah.

So a little softer, a little, a little,

but like honestly, probably more reliable, which is not saying much.

And you can get like a good one for 10, 12, they are free

because they're only good the moment you purchase it.

And then they're not good.

God, yeah, dude, you have to replace anything.

God, if that gearbox goes game over.

Game over, man.

I think it's the ZF.

God, a six-speed.

Is it a ZF?

I'm pretty sure it's a ZF.

Wow.

OK, never mind.

Transmission won't go ZF.

No, it'll go.

It's still going to fail.

But not before the other electronics, you know, your suspension leveling system

and all that stuff will fail.

Yeah, carbon clean this and that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What are you thinking?

What's your door for?

I kept it BMW and I was like, wow, the previous M5.

And then I'm like, no, E39 and Pfizer astronomical now.

They're not 15,000 car cars anymore.

Go 545, 550.

I with a manual E39 or I went back.

I went E39 back.

Yeah, so you can get your you can get your manual.

You can get a V8, which is V10s are not super plentiful.

We're not getting vipers here.

I think the 540 I kind of get you there.

It's a bigger car.

It's substantial E39.

I think E39s have aged well, too.

They don't look bad.

Yeah, super well built.

Yeah, and you can find a clean one for Jesus for not a lot of money.

Those 540 is for only Jesus.

It will only cost you Jesus.

Well, that's that can.

Let Jesus take the wheel.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 540 I but maybe not.

Don't want to take care of your oil leaks, though, because he doesn't give a shit

about your oil leaks.

But no, 540 I think is a good turning my crankcase oil in the wine.

Keeps turning my crank.

I thought you're.

Well, it really turns my crank.

Jesus, Son of the Lord.

Oh, God. OK, moving along.

This one was interesting.

The second generation Dodge Ram charger popped up on the list.

Boy, these are neat.

They're neat, but it's funny because it's already it's already the dollar store

variant of its competitors, right?

Because it's cheaper than the Blazer and it's cheaper than the Bronco.

Right.

That's what I put.

I put this is the dollar store version of the K5 Blazer and original.

Yes, that's that's what it is.

It is its own it's it is its own dollar store version.

I as much of a Mopar guy as I am, I never like these trucks.

I kind of like to my grandfather had one back in the 80s.

So, yeah, it was a super cool.

What a mean looking truck, though.

It is it is boxy.

It's chunky.

It's a substantial.

It's a slab of Americana.

I kind of like these things.

And then but then like, what do I do that can be cheaper?

So I'm thinking, well, I'm going to lean heavily on smaller things and then

something like lesser known, like I think an Asuzu Trooper works in this case

because it's a boxy off-roader rugged truck, very utilitarian.

And then I thought, like, well, of course, you can't overlook the S10 Blazer.

You can't overlook the Bronco.

Yeah, which are smaller boxy or off-road.

Bronco 2 is like such an analog because

both both cars had that like quarter glass that kind of went up on the roof

a tiny bit. Absolutely.

And, dude, look at Bronco 2 prices right now.

They're insanely cheap.

Yeah. Yeah, they're wildly cheap.

I think they're cool, too.

But they're cool. Yeah, come on, dude, roll over test.

We all know that was an inside fucking game, dude.

Yeah. Until it isn't.

That's an outside the window game.

Nobody likes moose.

Meese, meese.

Meese. Yeah, don't test me, moose.

I'll test you right back.

But no, I was thinking, it's funny because you were saying smaller.

I was thinking going even smaller and with like a like a hard kick.

OK, yeah.

Top sidekicks are to top samurais, but they're pretty spendy for what they are.

They are sidekicks are cheaper and you can get the hard like a hard top two door

sidekick for pocket change in a handy.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

You'll end up with some sort of communicable disease, but that's the price

you pay for shopping at the dollar store of the automotive world.

And yeah, like those are cool.

But yeah, it is funny, but we both have the same

kind of like this already is.

Yeah, it's the dollar version.

Yeah, but we got two more cars left real quick.

Mark three GTI, the VR six variant, especially was called out again.

Pretty affordable car for me.

This one was one of the harder ones.

Really?

Because the Mark three GTI is already kind of

Mark three Mark Mark three definitely pricier than Mark four is the.

Yeah, Mark four is a cheaper.

So my thought was just like

just a Mark three Jetta, like a GLX with a VR six, because you have to you buy

that car not because it's a GTI, but because it's got the VR six.

Right. That's why you buy it.

And so.

I think I think that's the out.

I think as you find you find a Jetta, it's the same car, but cheaper

and a little longer and got a trunk.

So I would I followed your track like we're thinking

on the same wavelengths here.

I went with Jetta GLI.

So you can get a VR six with some of those.

Most of them came with the one point eight turbo.

Yeah, I thought they were all.

Yeah, no, you can get a VR six or GLX.

But I'm talking the I'm talking the generation after you're talking about.

Right. The Mark four.

Yeah, so the I love those ones that works too.

Or I, you know, you can get a Mark four with a VR six very easily.

And those are the cheapest of cheap.

I think I think the Mark fours are like at the bottom.

Maybe Mark five, some Mark fives are cheaper.

But I like I actually like the 20th anniversary edition with the Rikara seats.

I know I know it's a multi spoke.

Yeah, I think those are the blue.

I think those are great.

I think those are great cars.

And those are like six grand for the cleanest one.

Yeah, lower blue, right?

You can get a real good color.

Yeah, it's funny that those 20th anniversary ones, though,

with low with like reasonably low miles, actually pull money.

They never do. It's always one hundred and eighty eight.

Yeah, but every time the place you get the one with one hundred and eighty

thousand miles and and someone gave birth in the backseat and so you get a discount.

Yeah, and those were cars can get chewed up pretty easy.

But man, what a good looking car.

I like how those Mark fours look.

I think those are still cheaper.

If you're going to undercut a Mark three, I think you can go with Mark four.

And you get you get a lot of the

you get a lot of the same, right?

To be honest, a lot of the same experience, more, more melty.

Probably higher build quality, honestly, for the interior.

Yeah, yeah, probably less exciting dynamically.

A little softer, a little more like a little chunkier, yeah.

Chunky or chunkier boy.

She chonk. What's the last one, dog?

The last one. This is the challenging one.

NB Miata. God.

I put a really bad NB Miata.

Yeah, I said you can't undercut this one.

The NBs have been a deal, especially with the NAs jumping up, pop up headlight tax.

And now they're starting to get recognized.

NBs are starting to go up a little bit.

Dynamically, the NB has more chassis as a as a someone that's as a recovering Miata

addict, the NB does have better chassis dynamics from the factory just because the

bracing, they did a lot more reinforcement, a little heavier, but not much.

NAs are fucking infinitely cool, though.

But the NB has always been cheaper.

NB has always been the cheapest way to get into a Miata.

Yeah.

And now they're starting to get recognized.

And I think that's a fair call out.

You got to remember, too, of course,

I'm not talking about like the Mazda speech, which were NBs their last two years.

But NBs are great.

You have you, you don't have an option.

You always get the one eight.

You always have the full, the full boil hundred and forty horsepower experience.

Right. Right.

It's a good car.

I do have one alternative for this.

So oh, Jesus, Saturn, Sky.

OK.

Pontiac solstice.

But non-GXP or red.

Yeah, got to be a base model.

Yep.

Because if you get the red liner GXP, you're going over interior worse.

Reliability.

Worse. Styling.

It's up to you.

I'm not going to make that decision for you.

Worse.

Maybe, I don't know.

I feel like driving dynamics.

Probably worse.

I mean, I've driven one.

It was fine, but it was on dinosaurically old tires.

So I didn't like push it really hard.

They're fine.

And they're cheap.

Like those cars are cheap, cheap.

Like God, NBB.

I can still go buy a good drive at NB Miata for six five, six grand, though.

You can like that's like a good one.

That's a that's a good, good solstice.

I mean, here's the thing.

An NB is so cheap already.

Yeah, like we're really like I'm nipping at the margins here.

Because that's what I'm saying.

Oh, it's 15 percent cheaper.

OK, so it's like eight hundred dollars cheaper, like tight.

I'm saying you can't undercut them there.

I think I think they're kind of, but like you won't get rewarded for it.

No, no, yeah, you're going to suffer more than your

dollar fifty you put away after price shopping.

But I think I think the NB Miata is such a good buy right now.

I think I still got to love NAs.

Clearly, I've owned one NB to my three NAs, right?

Like that's that speaks.

But NAs are so expensive for like one with all the panels matching.

And it's still like reliable and well kept clean title.

They've cooled down a little bit.

But like, no, but they're still waiting.

I used to buy him for two to three grand, dude.

Not any more.

Yeah.

Yeah, right now for a five thousand dollar NB Miata.

Right. You don't want it. I don't want it.

No, nobody wants it.

That's the list, my friend.

I think

I think we lined up pretty good, man, for no like no pre-gaming or anything.

Yeah. Yeah.

We made it work.

Who speaking of game?

Hmm. Are you are you ready?

I'd like to play a game.

Oh, shit. OK.

Why don't you?

This is our automotive print ad quiz game show, guys.

And we're going to segue right from the bull market to a little game we play.

Frank's going to read a magazine printed advertisement from the period of the

80s, 90s to mid 2000s.

He's going to admit anything that gives it away.

I have three guesses to figure out what car he's not doing a good job describing.

Whenever I fail, I get to ask for help.

A little lifeline action.

Doubt, I'm going to get any help.

He is really a jerk when this game starts.

I don't know where it comes from, Frank.

I've been wanting to talk to you about this, but you become a real asshole.

So we're going to start 10 minutes on the clock to save you guys from hearing me

say, um, five thousand times, Frank, roll that beautiful bean footage.

Oh, boy. OK.

So in our ad, it is a one page ad.

I desire it. And here's the thing.

It's festive, right?

December. It might be a December to remember.

We're going to find out.

But all I know is that this is a a Christmas themed ad.

It may or may not be a car that we've done before.

I don't know. I don't.

I feel like maybe we have the inability to read the list that Chadwick made.

I have not done the research here, and I figured it doesn't matter

because it's just so Christmassy and in the spirit of the holiday season

that we're going to read it anyways.

Let's do it. And yeah.

So one page and let's face it.

We're kind of like we've kind of done almost all the cars,

two hundred something episodes and all of the cars.

So.

One page at top half script, bottom half.

Oh, we have the vehicle in question.

It's going up like, I don't know, a 15 degree grade.

The wheels are spinning snow on the ground.

And underneath it, it says, oh, oh, oh.

We have we have Santa Claus himself behind the wheel.

I see it looks like at least three elves.

They look Italian, but they're elves.

They're in the back seat and then in behind them in the cargo area.

You can see there's a bag and it says reindeer food.

And they're they're they're hauling they're hauling the reindeer food.

OK, and the elves.

The rest of it goes as this.

When a man is discerning, a Saint Nick gives his personal seal of approval

to a car, you know, it must be something to say, ho, ho, ho about.

Santa's a man with tough requirements.

That's why he chose the blank.

The sleigh is fine for Christmas Eve, but for the rest of the year,

he needs something more practical.

He needs a car roomy enough to carry feed for all his reindeer,

yet economical and dependable enough to pull through treacherous roadways.

If the blank can fit needs as demanding as Santa's, just think how easily it can

accommodate you if room is what you want.

Stretch out no small four wheel drive wagon can match its roominess.

The roofline is higher than any other small wagon.

For more headroom.

And there's a panoramic rear window for more visibility.

Five people can fit comfortably with lots of space for gear in the carpeted cargo area.

And if you want more luggage space, just fall down the rear seat backs to get

fifty nine point eight cubic feet of space.

If economy is what you want, blanks fuel efficient one point five liter

single overhead cam engine delivers the best fuel economy fuel economy

of any four wheel drive wagon.

Forty one estimated highway, thirty one estimated miles per gallon EPA.

If you want a tough, dependable car, look no further.

The blank four wheel drive wagon can pull you through almost any road condition

from the North Pole to Main Street.

And it switches from four wheel drive,

sorry, it switches from front wheel drive to four wheel drive on command.

New for blank is a conventional two wheel drive wagon that has all the features

Santa wants in his four wheel drive, but it's for people who don't have to go to

the North Pole.

It's the blank four wheel drive wagon for you, just that Santa.

And then it's got a little seal and it's like a stamp.

It's approved by Santa and it's got his face.

And this is the blank four wheel drive wagon, the official car of Santa Claus.

Sir.

Are you are you in the spirit?

Are you are you?

Is this does this get does this jingle your bells?

What does this do, sir?

So at first I was like, I was like, how does he know there's reindeer food?

How can he?

Because usually wagons are pretty chopped roof of their affairs.

Oh, I'm like, how can you see?

Yeah, how can you see the food?

And then I'm like, what is it like some big glass canopy?

And then when you started saying displacement, one point five liters,

I'm like, he is really talking, he's stretching the term wagon right here.

So then two things come to mind.

There is a Toyota product and a Honda product that pop into my mind.

And they're little teeny motors, wagons.

I think it's the I'm going to go with the

the one point five Honda Rena one five.

And they're wagon van car, the four by four.

But I forget what year because I think that engine displacement changed.

So let's see if I get the year is important on this one.

Let's go 1985.

Honda, four by four wagon van.

Finally, is there a more model name?

Where's the four by four wagon van?

What?

Wagon van or wagon van?

I can't. I don't know, but is it like based off of a?

It's a civic.

It's a civic based.

Civic wagon van.

Yeah. Yeah. Nineteen.

What I say, eighty five, eighty five, one point five liters, single overhead cam.

Final answer. Santa Claus does not approve

of the 1985 Honda Civic wagon van.

It is not the Honda Civic wagon wagon van.

OK, interesting.

It is. I'll give you this.

It is a it is a Japanese product.

OK.

Was there any mention of I didn't hear anything about weird doors or anything like that.

So no, it said what did it say about the glass canopy?

Hold on.

The roof line is higher than any other small wagon for more headroom.

And there's a panoramic rear window for more visibility.

Five people can sit comfortably.

Lots of space for gear, like on our reindeer food, apparently.

Hmm.

Japanese.

Sea.

This is interesting.

Now in the panoramic roof, I guess I don't was that an option?

It was not roof.

Panoramic rear glass, rear glass.

OK, I don't even know.

He's got a you can see out the back.

It's all yeah, it's it's all glass.

It's glass. It is clear.

Is it the one I'm thinking of?

Is it the competitor like the direct fucking competitor to what I just said?

I don't know. If so, let's go for it.

I remember these very very glassy canopies, very green housey.

The Toyota Tercel four wheel drive also 1985.

Let's go for it.

Santa Claus.

Does approve.

This is the 1984.

OK, sell four by four wagon.

Got it with the one point.

I'm going to copy this.

Send it one point to save one point five liter.

These were carbureted and I believe they were good for sixty three horsepower.

It was very bad.

I own one very briefly

and it ran like garbage when I got it because I got it for free.

And it ran like garbage when I was done with it.

But better garbage.

I sold it to somebody.

They got it they got it impounded.

I got a lean notice later.

Let me see this beautiful.

I love these things. Yeah, they are.

They are I guess

it does have a little more glass, but it's very much the same.

But see the right.

You see that right?

That's sick reindeer.

Yeah, you can. You can see it. Wow.

So I was pretty close to my first guess.

All right, man.

I mean, yeah, that was chief competitor.

Yeah, that was kind of the only two

because I do believe that was the was at the D 15, I think.

So they switched right in the Honda.

They did switch to a one six with the later ones because I've seen cars with that

motor that's the following generation with the real the RT, the real time four

wheel drive, yes, which is different.

I don't think.

Were those a selectable four wheel drive?

I don't know.

I think it was an I think it was it's automatically selectable based on

conditions. Yeah. Yeah.

So it was a front I think it was front wheel drive.

Oddly. Yeah.

And then the rear wheel will kick in on slippage.

Kind of like the old remember the old Camry's where you could select it to that

had the front wheel track.

Yeah, those are those are these ones.

These ones were just like a like a more traditional selectable four wheel drive.

They just they took the rear diff out of like the SR5 Corolla's of the era

and slapped it in the back and then ran a drive shaft through it.

And then on the five speed manuals, you had a grainy gear, like a sixth gear.

But instead of like a overdrive, right, a crawl gear.

Yeah, those are really thick.

That's how mine was. It was it was sick.

It was a friend, parents, and they parked it for 10 years and they're like,

make it go away. So I did.

I paid my younger brother like $20 to chase a business out of it.

Those things are pretty rough, right?

Like everyone I've seen is pretty rough condition.

Yeah.

The bodies took to rest very, very quickly.

Interiors early 80s.

Yeah, got smashed up pretty quick, too.

Yeah, those are cool.

I like both of those cars to take the truth.

And you know what? Very similar looking cars, too.

I feel like question I I think we maybe we've done

not this ad, but this car before maybe it was like early days.

Yeah, that's a look it back up.

I don't know. Or we did the Honda one. Who knows?

I'm pretty sure we've done.

I think we've done both, but oh, whatever.

Sweet. Maybe just did in my sleep.

Anyways, good ad, dude.

Speaking of things we do in our sleep, we'll make it rain.

Probably. Yeah, let's see that.

Let's see if again. Oh, Jesus Christ, the battery is dead.

Oh, no. Oh, no. We can't have good things, guys.

I'm sorry. No, no, we can't.

We have to do it like analog.

This came from good. Well, yeah, just whip them out.

Yes. How weird.

Speaking of dollar store.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, man. I just feel like I was that last one out like it.

Boy, that is why you watch on YouTube.

That reminds me of prison.

So, yeah, um, boy, not that that.

Sorry, guys, that you know, we're not as spry and young as we used to be.

You gotta. Yeah, this is true.

You got to get that last drop out of the ketchup.

That's right.

Yeah. This is this way.

We have to take longer breaks between podcast sessions.

Amen

Okay, well on that horrific nightmarish note

Talk about not being able to finish have you been working on any projects lately, so I have man

I've actually I wish I had way more time, but I kind of texted you the other night

I'm I've been chasing on this Volvo v50. We're talking about the project a budget rally car

this fucking airbag this SRS light and

Yeah, I thought originally that it was like a no-brainer that it was because the fucking seat was cut out the passenger seat

No, come on, dude captain obvious. It's gonna be something easier than that

Driver so I get I finally pull the code and these things are fickle

SRS stuff for Volvos is complicated even like this 2005 right? It's way more complicated

You should have the special scan tool to see exactly what the fault is because a regular scan tool will just say

SRS error or whatever

Drivers seatbelt tension is what it came back and I'm like, oh cool

I guess they have a pretensioner that goes bad and or two things happen in an accident

It pre fires it's a little explosive device and you have to replace the unit or

Over time the sensor dies and gets low voltage and just won't function and that kicks back a fault, right?

So it's a game, right?

It's the game to find one online that hasn't been subjected to an accident

Which like nine out of ten junkyard vehicles have experienced an accident, right?

So they're all over the place you get like from fifty to a hundred bucks. I'd say on average

Sometimes cheaper sometimes more you get what you get and there's no way to test it until you hook it up, right?

Like they they're not gonna tell you like they're they're like the vehicle didn't run

Dude, I can't tell you if there was a warning light for the SRS. Yeah, just anyway

I buy one I finally get it in so I get the unit the fucking seat belt won't pull out of

The new okay, well, you know what happens you you know what causes that but what's that the pretensioner deploying?

or

Volvo has a special like locking thing that detects the exact angle the seat belt is being held that

Which is insane tech for 2005

So you bolt it in place and once the unit is at the exact angle

I was like, okay, it's bolted you can pull it out. I'm like what the dude

I was doing I was pulling Excalibur out of the fucking stone and that thing wouldn't move

So I get it mounted or pull it out. I'm like, yes

I'm happy because I was like I gotta return this one. I gotta get another one

And then someone I went to buy another one

I'm like, could you just test the seat belt and the guys like oh my god

It worked in the car, but it doesn't work now and I'm like ah light bulb came on wouldn't grab the one

I purchased it works plugged it in did everything and then the code still there right because it's a hard code

You cannot you gotta it's in the ECU actually it'll hold the memory

You have to use the Volvo. I bought a little Volvo old scan tool, which is fucking epic

They used to be like everywhere and now you can't find them anymore sure everybody loves these cars has one right

Hooked it up cleared the code started up a couple of drive cycles has not come back my friend

And that's a huge thing it wasn't an airbag, but still it was part of the SR system

And people yeah, you get the SR if you have a safety inspection or anything like that it can kick back

But now we have a car with no safety

Warning lights at all fucking go hell. Yeah, dude

Like those are those are some of the car things that can drive you baddy

Like I could have went to Volvo paid like 200 300 dollars and reset the code and have it come right back on because that's what happened

I was resetting the code before I replaced the part and the second

I powered the car on the light would come back. Yep, which means it's like still very much in the system

And it's still triggering the fault so yeah

These things can trip you up man

Like if you don't have the scan tool or things like that or the where would all to try to track down a used part

And play that game. I hate stuff like that Frank

I like I like working on cars to me

That's not working on cars chasing that kind of stuff where you're just waiting for something to ship on eBay for two weeks

And then and yeah, it's not horrible. You don't know if it's a good part or not, right?

And the car and not then like do you try throw another part at it or do you do you go back to the drawing board?

It sucks. Yeah, and the car runs perfectly

It's the only thing is you could take a price bath because of a light like that

All kinds of horrible things. I don't like that kind of stuff, but we got through it fine like after months

So killer. So that's my PCP. That was very positive

Project car progress for me. Yeah, I've got I've got I have

Some Volvo PCP of my own. Oh, what you got man. She go the 240. Yeah, 740 740. Sorry big sold it

Yeah, and

Yeah, I was funny is so I took it out. I took I don't know a few dozen

Fancy photos of it. I put it up on

Instagram

Right before I put it on marketplace, right? And I'm like, hey

Before I go put it on marketplace for like thirty two hundred bucks to get beat down to like twenty five hundred bucks. Sure

I'm in the car like 1500. Yeah, nothing. Yeah, it thousand for the car was like a hundred and thirty to register it

It's like about a hundred and fifty to get a smog. I bought a battery

So, I mean probably less than fifteen hundred bucks, but not that far from that

If I get two grand keep it on the road and hell, yeah, get it get it to somebody who cares about it great perfect

So I put it on mark on did before I put it on marketplace

I'm like, hey, I'm gonna put this thing on marketplace soon if somebody wants it in the community locally

Perfect, like I'd like to get twenty five hundred bucks for it. Somebody somebody hit me up

40 minutes later

Homie reaches out to me who I actually sold years ago

I sold him a very low like a 27,000 mile 740 turbo. Oh, wow that came through car donation

I sold it on cars and bids it popped for like 13 grand. Wow. It was a good sale. Good mileage. Yeah, good mileage good sale

Imperfect car, but nice. It was gold over

Black vinyl and cloth like a hounds tooth pattern. It was like it was cool for cool car automatic synapse. Okay

So he hit me up. He's like, dude, I'm super interested

Okay, so I was like I let me just do like a walk around video and I'll shoot you a link to it

So I made this like 25 minute video driving in

Looking around it. Like this is this is where it was hit in the back before the salvaged and bop-bop-bop

Senator tommy's just like, okay, sick. He's like if you'll take two grand cash, I'll be there on on Saturday

God damn. I'm like done. Cool. Yeah, I'll take whatever like

At this point. I just want I want to it runs so damn. Well, it shouldn't go to the junkyard

I bought a hundred percent only to save from that and make

Beer money. Yeah, exactly and so that that's it

So that's that's what happened. So he came in on we ended meeting up on Sunday

He came Sunday morning. He's like, I don't need to drive it. Nothing. Here's two grand cash. Like I saw your video

It I trust you, right? I bought the other car from me before like you're not gonna screw me like sick. Okay, cool

There's a good or a minute transaction

We started it up

We poked around it like real quick and he's like seriously like you don't have to show me anything like

Here's shut up and take my money like all right, cool. We talked about it for a minute sent him down the road and

Then today so this is Monday next day. He text me he's he's like

Bro, I'm so happy with this car. This thing runs so good. I'm like, I'm telling you dawg. Thank God. It's so fucking good

I was like, it's it's fabulous. I'm glad you like it

Like I just I'm trying to keep I'm trying to keep the the car gods on my side

Yeah, and doing something like this helps that like just

Helping someone in the community

Being a matchmaker because otherwise I was gonna helping the charity out that I bought it and I get rewarded with a few hundred bucks for my

For my efforts. So for that it's it's worth it. Everybody wins. Everybody wins. And so

Yeah, he's just like, oh, yeah, like and I asked him. I was like, hey, how's the gold one going?

He's like, oh, we've got 45,000 miles on it. We've been driving it. It's been great

It's been perfect. Oh, yeah, dude, and he put they pulled up in a 740

wagon with all these mods five speed

He's like, oh, yeah, like we're we're turning into a full drift a full drift missile like next week. Damn boy. Yeah, let's go

It's awesome. Yeah, really happy with the outcome

You know, could I have made a few hundred dollars more if I ran on a marketplace? Probably yeah, but it found it found the right home

Yeah, I found the right home. I'm it's

You know, it helps someone in the community

It's it's a good car kept it out of the junkyard. So

Hell yeah, dude

Good job winning

That's what I'm all right. Let's shut this bad boy down. Yeah. Yeah, we probably should

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