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How are you?

I'm good, nobody's broken in the garage, Prasley's not here.

It's a nice quiet day in Texas man, it's awesome.

You've been talking about getting the podcast studio in order, you've got the couch in there,

you can see the memorabilia, but I've got to ask, there's a turbo sitting on the table

behind you.

There's two of them actually.

What were the turbos from?

Those were from the charger, the twin turbos, and those had to be upgraded to larger turbos,

so since we had to take those off, because they were obsolete size-wise, they're just

sitting in there.

Okay, but they're worn out, and so is the supercharger sitting over there, and I just

got to figure out what I can slap these things on.

Because all those, you started working on that car pretty early, so none of those have

hardly any miles on them.

The supercharger, maybe a few more than the turbos, but the turbos, you guys built it,

tested it, and upgraded the turbos immediately, so you got some brand new turbos sitting there.

That's pretty cool, man.

I like the aesthetic of them.

If you look at the blades inside, they're all customized.

Yeah.

Okay.

Again, it's not a bad thing to have extra parts that you can't wait to draw on a vehicle.

Right, but then you walk into your office every day, and you stare at them, and you go,

man, I got to do something with these turbos, and it turns into a $200,000 project.

You're sitting there, and you're going, oh, I got $5,000 worth of turbos, $8,000 certain

turbos sitting in front of me, and now I'm going to have to spend $200,000 to put them

in something.

I mean, that's-

Supercharger, right?

I mean, be wonderful.

Hey, I'm not, I'm extremely lucky for my situation, right?

But I mean, I've got a, even a 170 crate motor sitting over there, and it's like, throw it

on that.

Well, the Supercharger that's already on that's bigger, right?

But it's like, now I'm trying to figure out if I can put it on the 2500 and the 392 crate

motor.

Okay.

So, what happens is, is often times you'll get like an offer from a company, like for

example, the dealer in Arizona, right?

Great dealer, I'm familiar with them, Chapman, because when I grew up in Arizona, I knew them.

Something comes along, you guys end up chatting, or it goes through the agent, and you go,

yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm down, let's do, let's do a commercial.

I'll fly out, we'll do some commercials, but somewhere in that conversation, the payment

turns into something like a crate engine, or something along those lines, and then you

come back and you go, I got this amazing crate engine, now I got to build something around

this engine.

So, what, like in that example with Chapman, was the plan from the beginning to get an

engine because you had an idea for a build, or did it just work out?

No, you just went out there and like, here's my fee, you know, and then you're like, how

else do that?

No question.

And, you know, to back up, that's why agents don't like to deal with me in the car world.

Right?

Like what's Barry's kind of it?

The pulley kit?

He gets a pulley kit.

He gets 10% of whatever the engine is.

But I'm not in existence to worry about what they care about, right?

So I mean, they work for me at the end of the day.

So no, I didn't have a specific plan because once you look at what that motor is, it has

to be really fricking special plan to use to actually put miles on that thing and take

it out of the crate because it looks so beautiful in there.

But you know, fortunately, the partnership, I don't want to ever say collaboration, but

the partnership between myself and DSR has provided us with, you know, a DSR 1200 for

the Coronet and a DSR 1200 for the M715 project.

So I've got two of those beautiful motors already going into two builds.

And like I said, I'm trying to find stuff here that I could throw superchargers and

turbos on, but, you know, I don't think I'll be doing it to the willies anytime soon.

And I hear that you could put that supercharger on an LS motor, but, you know, what am I going

to put a stack on the Trans-Am?

I mean, you know, so.

Right.

Well, the Trans-Am, the Trans-Am is, is that an LS7?

Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't need it, man.

It really doesn't need it.

But I mean, what a novelty, but, you know, you look at the, at the stack on that thing

and it's already protruding higher than it should, you know, the alignments off.

And so you kid me, that supercharger would be ridiculous.

Yeah.

Now, if it was a 671 sticking out of there, it might look kind of different.

You know, so, so we mentioned Brad Fanshawe a minute ago.

Brad is my co-host on Shift and Scare.

And he has, I think it's a 67 Chevelle.

Now, it was in his storage facility in Arizona and he went and it's a project.

It's like the body's on a body dolly and he's got the frame separate in the rear end.

And but the, the story behind that is that was his very first car when he was

like 16, 17, his, his dad is like, do you know, do you want to buy a car?

I got a line on the car.

It's a couple of years used.

You know, we got to go to another town and, and, you know, and he was thinking it

was going to be his dad's idea was like something cheap, safe, small, four cylinder,

whatever. And he's like, it's a 67 Chevelle.

And he's like, oh, that's awesome.

He's like, not just that.

He goes, it's a 396 big block Chevelle.

And, and I think he said he bought it for like 400 bucks or 480 bucks or something

like that back in the day.

And Brad's had it ever since.

So, and Brad, you know, keep in mind that like Brad's was a hotroader in the 80s.

He was the president of Boyd Cottington garage.

And so when the before the pro touring movement, which all now we just call

rest a mod or whatever, there was the sort of the pro street, which is almost

like the drag race car for the street, right?

Big, big tubs in the backs, pizza cutters in the front, skinny tires in the front.

And right, like the lawman, certainly like the lawman.

So he was talking about on that car doing, I don't know if he was going to do

a supercharger or just do like a high ram intake with the like the bug catcher

coming out of the hood, the big three hole bug catcher coming out of the hood.

And he said, one of the things he wanted to modify on the car was just even

though it was going to be sort of pro street and tubbed was to make it a little

bit more drivable, have, you know, vintage air AC system in it, have it fuel

injected, you know, it'll fire up and run.

And what I was telling him, because you just mentioned that type of supercharger

is that that roots type supercharger, a lot of the cars didn't really run that

well, because it makes boost in the engine, the twin screw superchargers

that you're talking about on your Hellcats and stuff, it makes most of the

boost in the supercharger housing and then it compresses into the engine.

So you can run a twin screw, like the modern day stuff that whipples

superchargers and all that on a 10, 10 and a half, 11 to one compression

engine, the roots type supercharger that the old school one, because it makes

boost in the engine, and I'm just simplifying it, you need a very low

compression, which means it runs terrible, you know, if you're seven and a half,

eight and a half to one compression, it's got no real low end power, right?

And it's just, you know, and it's, so it's really just kind of on the top

end, but I was explaining to him was a couple of years back, I went to

Nelson Racing Engines, I went to Tom Nelson's place and he had one of those

there and I was like, how do you get this thing to work?

And he said sort of two things, is one, he said, that three hole bug catcher,

he read does them completely, so it's got the three holes, but it actually,

the outside ones are fake and it uses a single throttle body in the middle.

And that changes his ability to tune it, it's much more refined.

He can really tune the fuel injection around that.

But what we've seen recently as well is that the past SEMA show, maybe past

two SEMA shows, is companies like, I think Eaton is doing it, Whipple

may be doing it, they're taking that, the modern twin screw technology and

putting it in an old school roots type blower housing.

So it has the benefits of a Whipple, but it has the look of the old school

supercharger and you can stack your carburetor or your EFI on top of it.

And what's the sound difference?

What's the what?

The sound difference?

You know, it depends.

That's where the nostalgic comes in.

Yeah, it does.

So it depends on how the gears are cut in the supercharger, but you will

still have that intake noise.

So that's the other part of an engine we often overlook is like when you take

your stock car with the air box and the air baffles in it and you switch it out

to like just a just a conical filter, just an open element filter or a cold

air kit, whatever you want to call it.

You often hear that intake noise, not just the exhaust noise.

So the intake noise in theory would still be there.

If you're standing next to the car and that thing is sticking out of the

hood and it's flopping open, you know, like a drag race car.

Yeah, you very much still get that that noise.

I mean, I would imagine side by side.

There's a few small differences, but you know, you have reliability comparatively

friggin worth it.

As long as it still had that that reminiscent note of the original.

Yeah, that I could be fantastic.

But you're right.

You you you still get that old old school look, have that blower come through the

hood, you can put whatever sort of air cleaner, bug catcher, whatever you want

to call it on that thing and have an engine that's more reliable, easier to

drive around the street, fully fuel injected.

Like it's a it's a pretty cool idea.

Now I I know Tom Nelson has figured it out and you'd have to spend a pretty

penny over there to get, you know, one of his engines.

But I would say now that these modern superchargers are coming out, there's

ways to to make this happen with a with a good tuner.

You you can.

Oh, I would have no problem.

You know, and then you can run you can run like a nine and a half to one to

maybe even up to 11, you know, to one compression.

And maybe I should put it on the on the Cobra.

Well, you know, a while back we talked about.

I don't know what project you were thinking at the time or just sort of brainstorming.

But you were like, I I'm thinking about a car with the old school supercharger

look like blower through the hood.

Or in that it's already be done.

Yeah. Yeah.

So there's some modern technology.

Honestly, some of these superchargers like I've just come out in the past few years.

I think Edelbrock had one maybe still does that uses like eating TVS internal screws.

I thought Whipple had one that came out like this past year or so.

I'd have to look them up.

But and listen, the guys you work with Mario and everybody, they all have

relationships with Whipple, you know, so much and Mario, I'm sure they would know.

Mario would probably be a good guy to build that engine

because he's so up to speed on the tuning of those things and just go.

This is what we're building.

I need you to like build and dyno test a crate engine, you know, with this type of

like you need to build this thing for it.

I'm sure he's already done the R&D for all of them.

Everything that's out right now, he works with Whipple.

I'm sure I mean, he's he's so far ahead of the curve right now.

He'd be great to have on the show just just for the knowledge of that.

So so Brad was thinking about that for as well.

So he brought he he dragged the car back, you know, from from Arizona,

the typical like debacle, you would think like it went pretty smoothly

because we make fun of every time he drives to Arizona with a trailer.

He comes back with a flat tire on his trailer.

So I don't know why like every time he's always pulled over, getting flat

tire, but this time it worked out and he had a couple of friends out there

that helped them like load things up and carry things.

And and and he came back.

He's like, I wasn't expecting the workout because, you know, they had

the rear end of the vehicle out of the vehicle, but it's it's a it's a built

rear end, you know, so it's not, you know, you need a couple of guys to lift it.

So I think I think for Christmas, we need to get him a couple run flats.

He would definitely do for the trailer for sure.

So this time he went out, he he rented like a U-Haul has like a toy trailer.

Like it was a good size toy trailer with with a with a gate that folded down.

And yeah, it worked out pretty good.

Just, you know, just strapped it down everywhere.

It's just an open trailer, right?

Yeah.

But just going the extra mile and just strapping it down instead of four straps.

I think it was used like six or eight straps just to make sure everything gets

saved, man, to gets gets tied down.

So all right.

So last week, we also talked a little bit about Bio Pro Plus, our friends at

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It's great for, you know, guys over 40, if you want to get lean or you want to get

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You just want to get a little bit extra before maybe you even consider jump

into prescription stuff, which is fine.

That's what these guys are doing.

Again, I'm about a month and a half or so into it.

And I still feel good doing the workouts.

I, you know, I lifting better, lifting stronger.

You know, I was I was doing that before.

I kind of hit a plateau.

I was getting sore.

I just kind of feel like I wasn't progressing.

And I just wanted to find something to push me over the edge.

So you've you you on it about a week or so now, right?

So you're just, yeah, just getting used to it.

Yeah, I mean, it, yeah, it's, yes, a hundred percent.

It's just, what I found is that the disgusting taste that I had, well,

but everyone's going to have initially, just kind of goes away.

It goes away.

Yeah.

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You don't like eat or drink or whatever for the first 10 minutes.

But then that's it.

You know about your specific.

Yeah, nine minutes, nine minutes.

You're right.

The reason why I think they do that is, is because it's more memorable.

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Okay.

So you have a cat.

I don't have a cat, but I grew up with cats.

So we had cats growing up, but now we have two little dogs.

You've seen them.

They would, they're the ones that would be eating on your property.

Yeah, like most everything.

But I found this new treat for chubs, which is our cat, right?

And Wanda started giving it to him mistakenly every morning.

And so now he wakes us up every morning for this.

For the tree.

So I'd goo.

It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen, but I'm not a cat.

So I really don't know.

I like to call it liquid baloney.

Okay.

Yeah.

You can't get any grosser than that.

It comes in like a tube that's about this long.

Really like a, like a, uh, those little popsicle things back in the day.

Yeah.

That you get it.

And you just, you just like squeeze it out.

And this cat literally it's like a dog in a faucet when he's trying to,

you know, get his first drink in a month.

Yeah.

He's out of this thing.

I've never seen an animal that's so driven by this mysterious,

I don't know what it is, man.

I'm just saying all you cat people need to go out and get it.

If you want your cat to do something, this stuff's gross.

Yeah.

Interesting.

But I'm not surprised Wanda has found that.

Okay.

So the, the, the bring a trailer listing.

Actually, let's take a quick break and then let's talk about the bring a trailer listing.

We'll be right back.

All right.

Here we are.

We're back, um, the bring a trailer listing, the portion that you put up, uh, thanks to

everybody that participated and watched and commented and bid and it was fun to do.

What's your take on it?

Overall, your first bring a trailer listing.

We worked on it together.

Satisfied?

Happy with it?

Well, I mean, let's, let's be perfectly honest.

Um, as I said, back in the day, I'm a Barrett Jackson guy.

I've never sold in a car.

I've done a couple of personal sales, but I've never done anything other auction wise

other than Barrett Jackson.

And when, when bring a trailer first came out and I've said this, I was very skeptical about it,

right? And I never thought that I would take part in it.

And then I started watching it over the past year or two years.

And then we've had, you know, representatives bring a trailer on the podcast.

And I, I wanted to be as objective as humanly possible.

And you, as a bring a trailer alumni, uh, have given me nothing but positive feedback

about your experiences.

And I've got to say, man, I was absolutely blown away by the experience.

First and foremost, you know, unless you're, uh, um,

you know, the top 0.1%, you don't get your due time that you feel as though

you deserve on a car, on an auction block, you get 30 seconds to three minutes, right?

And to compare that, and then you look at, look at commission, right?

Right. Visibility, great.

You got the television, you're assured that great bidders are going to be there.

But bring a trailer is so much different in every aspect.

And I think the one thing that, that I didn't, I don't want to say surprised me,

but I appreciate more than anything is the one thing that kind of drew me to it was the comment

section. Yeah.

Right. And, and I'm not talking about the good comments, the bad comment.

I'm talking about the people are fully enthralled and they're involved in these auctions.

And I learned a lot about my car by the comments people would throw out,

because these guys are Porsche experts.

I am by far not a, I am not a Porsche expert by any stretch.

I am comparatively, uh, compared to the beginning of this process, but

I learned a lot and, and, you know, yeah, there's going to be snarky dudes on there

making comments every once in a while, but I mean, they get kind of weeded out.

Right. Yeah, they do.

And it's, it's, it's a really fun experience.

I, I'm, I'm an, I'm a control freak, quite obviously.

Anybody who knows me knows that about me.

So this, I had no control over.

Not only did what was I not responding to people.

I had you doing it, right?

Yeah. Yeah.

I couldn't have done this without you.

First and foremost, right?

It was my pleasure, but thank you.

That forms great, but you're a pro and you've done it many a time.

And I went headlong into it, fully trusting you and your ability to

portray the car as it should have been portrayed.

Thank you.

You did a hell of a job.

Bring a trailer, did a hell of a job.

A celebrity's car.

At the end of the day, the celebrity's not going to drive the car if the car is not worthy

of what it is, right?

The, the, the, the laurels are on the car, not the owner.

And that's the purity of bring a trailer.

Yeah.

I believe, right?

Now you can see a celebrity's car go on there, but if it's a piece of shit,

then people aren't going to pay for the name.

They're not.

I had a great experience.

I really did.

It's terrifying as we spoke off air, prepping a car to be transferred to somebody else because

the clock's like taken between now and the time that I have to hand this thing over.

And I want it as perfect as possible.

Yeah.

You know, I don't want any, Jesus Christ, the day, the day the auction stopped,

I still had orders of a couple little trim pieces that I was going to not replace, but

mount because I had found that they were missing in the rear in, you know, in the back seat,

seat belt cover, something like that.

Something that people would go, Oh, well, you know, this guy just paid money for the car.

I don't care.

And let him do it.

You know, for me, I don't work like that.

So it was a great experience.

It really was.

Did I get what I wanted for the car?

Sure.

I mean, truthfully, you never know if there's two people that want to fight for it, then,

you know, you're going to get more than you normally would.

But I think it was a great experience.

I, you know, you always, we had a minimum.

We had a reserve on it.

Yeah, I knew the reserve was very.

It was a more than fair reserve.

It was more than fair, you know.

And I mean, the, the, the bids kept coming up, going up.

And it was, it was a great experience.

I'm very appreciative of the guy who, who purchased it because, you know, the guy's

guy, I think he, I don't know what year it is exactly, maybe a 78 or a, I don't know what

years the 930s were, but he just bought a 930 off of bring a trailer.

And he's got a couple other courses.

And as you said, the guys probably got over a hundred cars.

And I truly believe that this is a great home for this vehicle.

And it's someone who will appreciate it a little bit more than I did,

because they'll, they'll give more time to it.

He's, he's got the, he's got the new, I'm sorry, not the new.

He's got, I think an original portion, nine, five, nine, Rothman's portion to car.

And this guy's coming to my garage.

So he's, you know, um, yeah.

So he's got, uh, I don't know if he has it or he's looking to buy it at the Amelia,

but something's coming up on that car that he was texting me about.

So, um, I, so I will say this, I, I thought it was, it was a fun auction and it was a

cool car. So, and it's going to go to a really, really good home in talking with the guy that

bought it, the couple that bought it, they're really going to have fun with it and enjoy it.

And, and thank you for the kind words about the auction.

I will say this is yes, your attention to detail.

I'll, we'll call it that was, was, was perfect for this auction.

You were super attentive.

You provided all of the photos, the videos that we needed, the things to make the auction

successful, which isn't normally the case.

You really have to, you know, have a good car, a clean car.

You got to get photos underneath the car.

And when it is a celebrity car, you have to be in a video to present your story,

tell your story, why you got it, why you're selling it.

It's like walking on the football field with the name on the back of your jersey, right?

This will forever be Goldberg's, you know, nine, nine, 11 turbo.

And I hold myself in extremely high standards and everything that represents me should be

held in the same high standards.

That's just how I work.

Unfortunately, not a lot of people on the planet are like that anymore.

But there are a shitload of car guys that are still like that.

A majority of us are.

And that's why this whole click of the car guys is such a fun deal because

everybody can express themselves in, in their own way.

And everyone has levels of, of OCD and it's very comical to watch it.

And I'm honest to God, I probably spent a hundred hours under that car.

Easy.

The last, you know, three or four weeks, just attention to detail, you know.

And I'm telling you, I did things that he'll never see.

And it doesn't bother me because I know that I did it.

And so there's my, there's my gratification, my satisfaction, right?

True.

His, his impression of the car means a lot to me.

But at the end of the day, if I hold it to my standards, everyone else will be happy.

Yeah.

I, we were talking about this before is I get a little of anxiety when I sell something,

a car, a car parts, gym equipment, like whatever I've just got that I'm selling.

Because I want the person to be happy with what they're buying.

You know, I'm not just looking for the five star review.

Like I, I, I don't mind the follow up and somebody going, Hey, by the way,

I put the stuff together or I drove the car and it's fantastic.

You know, great job.

It's everything that you said.

I want you to like it.

I would rather you just follow up with me and go.

I like it.

Or follow up.

Like I sold something and somebody said, you know, you know, I'm missing a part.

It's not on you.

But if you have it, let me know.

If not, I'll just reach out to the manufacturer, see if I can get something done.

That's the nature of buying something used.

And I went through back dug through boxes.

All the stuff found what they were looking for.

I'm like, no problem.

Here you go.

As a matter of fact, you're right around the corner.

I'll just drop it off.

And, and to be fair, when I got there, that guy said, also I found something

that wasn't included in the purchase.

So I'm giving it back to you.

Right.

And I said, well, thank you.

Thank you for doing that.

I appreciate that.

So I, I appreciate that.

That level of respect in a transaction like that is not always the case.

It's more the case when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars for a car.

But if you're selling, you know, $200 piece of, you know, car parts,

gym equipment or whatever, I respect that as well.

So the auction went well.

I'm glad everybody participated.

You did a great job on supplying all the materials and selling a really cool car.

And I think the number was right.

It's exactly kind of where we hope we had a, we had a high number and a low number of,

you know, we needed to be.

And I think we're just exactly where it was.

So I'm happy with it.

And I'm, in this particular case, I'm, I'm happy with the way it went down because

I've sat there with, with other people, you know, and we're looking at the auction.

And it's the timer is getting reset.

Like it's, you know, the auction has ended and resets the timer every, every two minutes.

So you can't, you can't beat the timer.

It's not like old school eBay where you're sitting there and like three, two, one,

hit the buy button, whoever gets it gets it.

It resets.

So you can't like pull the rug out from somebody.

And yeah, you know, so I've been there with other sellers where I was selling something

and we're looking at the reserve.

We're, we're not quite at the reserve.

And then we're having this conversation either on the phone or tax going,

I don't know if it's going to make it.

What do you want to do?

Should we lift the reserve?

It's going to sell or is it not going to sell?

And if it doesn't sell, what does that mean?

Are you sort of ruining the market for your car for a little while?

And like, like with any auction, it's like, you bring something to Barrett Jackson.

Now Barrett Jackson is mostly no reserve now, but if you bring something to, like,

MECOM and it's a reserve and it doesn't sell, you, you're kind of taking that thing off the

market for a year unless there's some negotiation to be had.

So this particular auction, it, it, it climbed, it climbed very quickly on the first day,

not, not necessarily to the reserve, but it climbed, it climbed quickly.

But then it, it got to a number, it got to a sellable number,

you know, hours before the auction ended.

So there was just sort of this sigh of relief going, it's going to sell,

we met the reserve, we're good to go.

Now we'd like to see it go a little more, you know, like we had a low number.

We would have been okay with the low number.

We wouldn't have been doing cartwheels about it, but we were okay with that number.

And then, you know, if we get a few people to rally, you know, I, I took some phone calls,

got some emails, responded to people, had a good couple of good conversations,

which I always enjoy, by the way, because people are going,

ah, I'm thinking about this car and this is what I had.

And you just, it ends up being a 30 minute conversation just about cars and the person.

And I like it, it's fun.

So it was nice to get, to be honest with you, to get to the reserve number

before, you know, a few hours before.

And then if you get a few extra bids, it's a little bit of icing on the cake.

So it was, it was good.

So we didn't have to pull our hair out.

Well, for me, yeah, but, you know, in all honesty, I didn't,

we thought the timing of the end of the auction was a little different.

So we got two hours from us and I'm happy for that because I would have probably

sat there for two hours freaking out.

In, in all truth, I did not.

I saw the, the, the one good bid in the beginning.

Yeah.

I didn't watch it.

Wanda would come in and ask me daily, how is it?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Because I put myself through that.

Out of sight, out of mind, man.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not stressed in my life.

I had, I had confidence, but, you know, you always worry about it.

But yeah, I just, it was a different.

I, I, I mean, obviously I was watching it because I was, I was looking at the comments

and being able to respond and add to the comments.

So, but yes, like when we go to, you know, when we go to Barrett, you sold your cars at Barrett,

once the cars loaded up on the truck and they're, they're on their way to Barrett, like

we don't think about it until you're on the auction block going, this is my car, you should

buy it.

And then three minutes later, two and a half minutes later, you're up in the skybox and

we're having a drink because it's done.

It's over.

There's nothing you can do about it.

It's done, you know.

So anyway, it's just kind of a, kind of interesting.

All right.

One last thing I just want to talk about before we, we wrap up today.

Um, you were talking about BMX bikes.

You have a BMX bike and, and there's a story behind the bike, but this is interesting because

this has come up several times.

Oh, in the past several months, because again, I just coincidence, Brad Fanshawe was like

the president or the vice president or something of the AMA back in the day.

Like he was the BMX guy.

He was a collector and he just curated a BMX exhibit at like a museum in Nebraska,

where he's originally from.

Now, this is kind of interesting is one of the biggest collectors that we know is Steve

Strope from Pure Vision Design.

Steve Strope has a huge collection of, of bikes that he's restored and he's meticulous about it.

So when Brad and, because Brad and Steve have worked together on many times, Brad's made

bond speed wheels for, for a lot of the Steve Strope cars over the years.

And they go back.

So when I was talking to Steve at SEMA and I was like, you're a BMX guy too.

And I know you've got bikes there.

I've been by your shop years ago and there was a few bikes and he's like, yeah, the collection's

huge and it made sense.

So when, when Brad was curating this museum and borrowing bikes, a lot of the stuff that's

on display is Strope's collection, right?

So in our car world of, of, of friends, Brad and Steve Strope are both huge BMX guys.

So, and I know you've, you've,

But again, what I said, if I, if that BMX bike wasn't here, if I didn't have that be,

that BMX bike started everything behind me, everything, that, everything, that, that was,

that was my car as a kid, right?

So, so this is your childhood bike.

This is my childhood bike.

I had back.

And this is the first thing you were modifying and fixing and tooling on as a mode of transportation,

right?

So, and then I approached you and I'm like, I got this project and I don't know what to do

because like a car, what do you restore?

What don't you restore?

What do you keep original?

What do you, do you not refinish?

So I, I can blow this thing apart in a matter of an hour, right?

So I need to have Strope or Fanshawe on this show next week.

Give him me some fricking direction so I don't ruin it, please.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, we should have Brad on it.

I'm sure he'll love to do it.

I'm going to be doing a podcast with him in a little bit right after this.

So I'll, I'll mention it to him as well.

So all you guys girls with your BMX bikes and you want to know what to do with them,

tune in next week.

So here's the thing is, is it kind of like die it off for a while and now the collectability

is coming up and there's, I forgot the name of the event, but there's a, there's a BMX bike,

like track and event that goes on out here.

It's like, it's like the Monterey car week, right?

Of, of, or the, you know, I don't have an auction, so I don't want to say it's the

Barry Jackson event, but it's like in Temecula and, and they have the course out there.

And they, because of the age group of some of the vintage bikes, they do, they do a,

let's just say they do an older race group and ambulance is waiting for the finisher.

Brad, Brad went out there and he, he went out this past year and he didn't race and he went

out the year before and he did race and the old school stuff, the old school gear, he was out there

and I just remember when we came back, we did the podcast, he's like, wow, my knees,

my knees were not prepared, were not prepared for that.

But he had a great time doing it and all the guys, he knows all the names, Bob Harlow and all

the names from back in the day, these are the guys were building bikes and racing bikes and

running teams and he's, he's doing, he's doing stuff with all of those guys. He might even be

doing a BMX podcast, like a seasonal podcast right now, bringing back, interviewing those guys.

Oh, that doesn't surprise me. That's cool. I mean, it's sickly, everything else, right?

You know, for me, my introduction to the Oakley brand, if people, you'll remember this, but for

younger people, Oakley started off making handle grips for BMX bikes before they got into

the sunglasses and everything, the clothing brand, the apparel line, the monster that they are now.

We had Oakley grips on our bikes. Right? And then when my younger brother came into our lives,

there was an era of, like a scooter, you know, like a, like a push scooter, not the,

not like the Uber scooters or the Lyme scooters that are automated. Like

it was, you know, steel frame, it had a board on it and it had like bicycle handlebars

and stuff on it. But that was the new thing to like do tricks on and spin them around and jump

stuff and all kinds of stuff with it with the scooter. So we had a couple of those as well.

And you kind of modify it the same way. You can get it with pegs or whatever. And you can,

I forgot the device was, you know what I'm talking about? It's this collar that goes around the neck

that allows you to, when you pull your brake, it pulls the collar up and then pulls the bottom,

but it has a bearing in the middle. So you can spin your handlebars all the way around

or the scooter, you can spin it all the way around and the, the brake cables don't bind, right? It,

it's, it's the brake cables attached to the top of this collar and the bottom of this collar,

and there's a bearing in the middle, right? Yeah. So I remember, I remember that. I remember like,

as a kid, like buying it and installing it and putting it on and doing the cables and

spinning it around and doing all that stuff on the, on the door to it, man.

Yeah. And it's going to be a hell of a lot easier than any other project that I've been doing in

the last six. Yeah. Now I've got e-bikes, which I like riding, you know, I ride it like a normal

bike when I'm just trying to like get some exercise in and I don't want to go for run because my

knees hurt. I do run a lot, but I can't do it all the time like I used to. So I, I'll ride out on,

you know, I'll pedal the 65 pound bike out. And then on the way back, if I need to hit the motor

and like Tammy and I will go, we'll, we'll go for a long bike ride. And then on the way back,

we'll like, we'll stop and eat some lunch. And then, and then I just ride it like a motorcycle

for the last couple of miles home. Like you'll bike 10 miles out and, you know, maybe like

six miles back. And then you're like, okay, we're going to stop and get a beer and a burger. And

then I'm like, and then I'm just going to sit on this bike and I'm going to use electric scooter.

Right. And it makes it kind of fun. But the biggest difference is

those BMX bikes and even just like the 10 speeds and all the road bikes, like we have one of those

as well, it was this, these e-bikes are 65 pounds. You know, so when I brought one of the Ford

e-bikes to SEMA when I brought my electric truck, right? It was a theme, electric truck, electric

e-bike. It's a Ford bike, Ford licensed bike. But afterward, because we hadn't mounted up in the

bed of the truck. And then I'm like, yeah, it looked cool at SEMA. It was up there and it was

all mounted. But I was like, what a pain in the ass. The bike is, is heavy. It's awkward. You're

trying to pick it up. So after that, I reached out to Yakima, I believe, and they make the bike

rack that goes into the trailer hitch of the truck. And the first time I did it, it was a little

nerdy. So it holds two bikes, but the bikes are 65, 68 pounds each. So it's almost 140 pounds.

And it's just in the hitch outlet. Now, obviously that could hold weight, but when you're seeing it

in your, in your mirror and it's kind of bouncing around and you're like, God, I hope these damn

things hold. So it's fine. I just wasn't used to it. The first time I did it, I put the bikes in there.

It's a beefy rack, but I needed like a real rack built for e-bikes now to move those things around.

So anyway, going back to the BMX bike, weighs nothing. It's tiny. You look at it and you go,

how the hell did I ever fit on this as a kid? It was just like, it's, it's a, it's crazy to see

some of that stuff now and, and think like, this is what I used to live on for years as a, as a kid.

You know, all right.

A lot of memories, man. That's cool.

Yeah. It's, it's cool that you still have that. You know, you still have that, that original bike.

I don't know where any of my stuff went, but that's all right.

My brothers who still lived in Tulsa had the bike and I'd say

six years ago, he reached out and, and got it delivered to me. So for him, I'll be forever

indebted. It's, it's really your cool piece of my job.

Yeah. So then you had to like put it in storage for a while while you were building the garage,

like everything else. And then. Oh yeah. Yeah. It was with cars. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Well, now it's

good. Now you're going to get it set up. So I'm going to take it down and do a little work on it.

I'm not riding it. I can tell you that.

It's going to be fun. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, I'm going to do it just like a car.

Yeah. All right. So I'll reach out to Brad. Maybe we'll get him on next week.

We'll talk a little bit of BMX shop and I'm sure he'll have a great time.

Have him tell us about a Chevelle too, because he's having a good time with that.

He's, he's, he did this thing that, like we do it once he got it all loaded up and, and

onto the trailer. Right. And that process was two days of just like going through storage and

digging stuff up. Then he's got a six hour, seven hour drive home to start thinking about the project.

Right. You're just like alone in the car and you're going, well, you know, I saw this and I saw that

and now I'm remembering it and how I did it back in the day and, you know, what color it should be

and, and just like all this stuff. So now I like to pick his brain. Like what are you going to do?

So the one thing I brought up to him that he didn't think about was he's like, yeah,

I'm just going to do it old school, load of the ground, coilovers. And I said,

look, I, when, when you were doing these cars back in the day, the issue was driveability.

Like they're uncomfortable. They're loud. They're bumpy. There's no air in them,

but you're going to do air. You're going to do fuel injection. I said, where we've gone

with the technology of air ride, like ride tech, ride, air ride suspension. I said,

don't discount that for the type of car you're trying to build.

That's a really good option because you can get it low. You can put it on the ground when you

want to, but when you want to drive it around, think of all the crazy super cars we've driven,

the press cars and stuff. Without that front end, like axle lift on the front,

like they're so crazy to try to drive speed bumps and driveways and parking lots and,

you know, especially in LA, all the roads are terrible. I said, if you do an air ride,

I did a racing event. I did the Spectre 341 challenge in the mountains,

and they, they gave me a couple of different cars to try. And I was like, they gave me

a Gen 2 Camaro with an LS7 in it and an air ride suspension. The difference is, is now, like,

it's got tunable shocks. It's got good suspension. It's got SLA, you know, like, and, and the airbag

is basically the spring in that regard, but they tune the shocks around it. So the car

can definitely raise or lower and, and, and now you don't have to think about it. There's presets

and there's ride height adjusters so you can get in the vehicle and it'll automatically go to its

driving ride height and then you can hit a preset and it'll go down to its sitting ride height or

like driveway, like speed bump ride height, like it's all kind of preset. You don't have to dial

in each corner separately. Like it's so much better now that, that it might be what he needs to do.

Even if he, what he could do is, if he wanted to, he could just do the front and go, listen,

I just need to raise the front to get in and out, right? And then in the back could be like a four

length with the coil overs. I don't know how much drag racing he's going to do, but, you know,

but that's the look you want. So anyway, some thoughts there, but yeah, I'm down for that air

ride. I'm down for air ride. Yeah, I need a chance. All right, buddy, what's what else is

going on? What's on your list for the week? I saw you driving the Cobra. Oh yeah. Oh God,

that car is so much fun. You know, and that's the next thing we got to drop the rear end or the

yeah, the rear carriage out of that thing. And it'll be good. That's the one thing that we really

didn't dive into. You know, the Jag rear end was kind of, or Jag rear suspension, the whole

carriage was a little overwhelming to me, but now it'll be fun. I think it's six to eight bolts.

We'll drop that damn thing out, put it on a table, but I pull the gears out, put these 456

gears in there and put a wheelie bar on the damn car and the freaking go out and light some tires

up. But I drove it. I put probably a hundred miles on it over the weekend. Yeah. And now you

got a little bit of a break in the weather to get some nice weather. You can go out there and

yeah, it's been one in the car. The car is, you know, so far so good, man. So it's good,

right? So you're starting to dial it in the suspension a little bit. The carb, is it good

or does it need a little more tuning on the car? It's great for right now. Like I said, we changed

the MSD box out that that helped us out a little bit. We changed the rev limiter to

8,000. Yeah. The buzzer keeps coming on. So throttle doesn't stick, gauges work,

like as you're shaking it all down, everything's good. It's like butter. It's really surprising.

And, you know, the more miles I put on it, the better the thing breaks in and it's really

feeling like it's hugging the road. Well, it's, I mean, it's steering, it's cornering and it's

it's idling better than it ever has. Yeah. The things that we did to it, I'm ecstatic about

the decisions we made. I'm getting nothing but great feedback from people seeing the car. And

I mean, if you want to drive around and have people freaking stare at you, you know,

be 275 driving a short wheel based over with the NASCAR motor in it. But it, yeah, I'm really,

really happy with what we did. It's never finished. I got to do some interior work on it, but

it's wonderful, man. It's doing everything that I've wanted it to do and it's become the car that

I've always wanted it to be because I'm not intimidated by taking it out now because it's

safer. It's not safe, but it's safer. So, you know, I'm very happy with where it is. Awesome.

All right. Well, I hear a fire alarm going off in the building, so I'm going to go ahead and

wrap things up. Not that I'm worried about a firearm, just you could probably hear it and

it's going to get annoying. So, all right, guys, thanks so much for listening. We'll be back next

week. And until then, keep the air and the spare and the bag and the wheel. Boom.

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