Yeah. So even a production Corvette, that was probably just like a brand new V8 Corvette,
because that would have been, you know, they came out with V8s in 55. So I'm assuming it was
probably a pretty hot V8 Corvette. And the view kind of is probably the only V8 in the whole
bunch there. And that's, depending on what the Ferrari had. I think some of the Ferraris were
running V8s back then. But I'm not really entirely a car guy to know. Me neither. I think I kind of,
I mean, digging into this, it's like, it almost makes me want a vinyl Ferrari or something.
Have a, make a Ferrari inspired car or something like that. It's really,
I've always wanted a Ferrari. I think we talked about that. But this stuff is really
making me nerd out about local car history stuff. It's really cool.
Yeah. I've always wanted to do like a 308 or something like that. I think that
if you slammed one and did some light tweaks to it, maybe put a reliable engine,
it'd be a really sweet car. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm all about having something that just,
I mean, the whole idea of Ferraris were just better handling,
really beautiful car. And that's, that's everything. They've been doing it a long time.
Have you, what was that movie? There was, it was about like Michael Schumacher and I think,
and then one other guy, and there were two F1 guys and they were battling it out. It was all
about the rivalry of the two guys. And the one got, the one was a German guy,
got in an accident, all burnt up. Oh, I'm not sure. Oh, well, in one of those,
I feel like I'm up there. Oh, it's Nikki Lauda. And I think Michael Schumacher,
I think Nikki Lauda at one point, he goes to drive for Ferrari and he gets in the Ferrari,
he does a bunch of laps in the track and he comes back and he said,
you know, this is wrong with the car and it oversteers and this and that. And they're
like, you can't say that. This is a Ferrari. He's like, it's doesn't change that it oversteers or
whatever. It's pretty funny movie. They're going to get canceled for doing a bad Italian accent.
Is it a bad Italian accent? Or is it a bad impression?
Uh, that's funny. What about Smokey and the Bandit? Do you ever get into that one?
Well, my parents did, they watched it a bunch just because it was, you know,
the show to watch. It's all right. It wasn't like Bert, I mean, Bert Reynolds is
Bert, I mean, he's Bert Reynolds. It's weird, dude. Never really got into the car too much.
I don't know. I'm not really a huge muscle car fan. I mean, I can appreciate them. I mean,
I've been working on them that whole life. And I think a lot of the car, the classic car industry is,
you know, obviously pushed by a lot of the muscle car stuff. I don't know. I just never,
some of this, especially like the Trans Am stuff never really hit for me.
Do you think that the muscle cars industry being so influential is really the cars? Or do
you think it's like the age of the people with the most money? So like all the guys now,
let's say the people now that are, that have the kind of money to spend on the car industry were
probably young and influenced by them, you know, by the cars that came out at the time. And that'd
be like the muscle cars. And then, you know, obviously they tell their kids, I'm a victim
to that, you know, do you think it's that? Or do you think that they were that
influential of a car just in general?
Well, I think, I think influence of the car at the time it came out. You know,
if there's a reason they're called muscle cars, the cars previous to them didn't have the power
they did. So it's like it's a generational thing combined with the cars coming out at that
time. So what I mean by generational is like, you have mercs that were built in the 90s by guys
that wanted them in their height when they were in high school. And they have like this 90s tweak
to them. Because that's when they were popular. That's when the guys in high school had them
had money. So by generational, I mean, like, they're going to the cars will always go through
phases depending on nostalgia. And when you got your license, the cars you remember back
then what you what inspired, you know, what what car that you really fell in love with.
And then there's also when those cars came out and how they just kicked ass as far as
the previous 10 years of cars and behind them, like they walked all over them. So you combine
those two together and boy, that's like some of the best automobiles you could say had ever
been made. I mean, then 10 years later, they're terrible. Right. Again, but I don't know.
That kind of makes me so it's it's weird.
Going makes me realize that, you know, like the there's the big boom of 90s Japanese cars.
And then if you think about how old we were, you know, those were pretty dude,
I seen a I seen a 90 CRX yesterday, like cherry. I'm like, dude, that's like 15 20, come on.
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
That's crazy.
My brother painted a CRX and had two friends of CRX is when I was probably, I don't know,
12, 13 years old. So I was around those a lot.
And they were pretty quirky, cool little cars. And he had an Integra and then like,
you know, I got into the 240 sx's. Thankfully, I got into rural drive stuff at least. But
yeah, it's amazing. They really use that have gone up and down on the 90s JDM stuff right now.
Kind of the muscle car of our era.
Yeah, I mean, there's even the muscle cars of our era. You could even consider like
the talent Eclipse, you know, like the all wheel drive turbo six speed versions. Those things were
freaking rocket ships, you know, for in the early 90s or mid 90s and stuff. Those things are
crazy fast with the stealth shit like that. Yeah, that was just obtainable fast cars,
I think, you know, yeah, I had a 90 you also buy a callus for
boo. I had a 91 talent TSI boost was turned up on it. When we worked together for a little while,
I got it in a trade deal. I traded a Kawasaki ZX7 that I did like a full frame off restoration.
I'm like started with a sandblasted frame and read it an old crash race but race bike.
And then I traded that bike for the talent plus the guy gave me, I don't know, 1500 bucks or something
like that. And that thing was pretty wicked talent TSI all wheel drive and had the boost turned up to
like 21 or something like that. It was pretty rowdy. It was a rocket ship in the snow because
it would just you just point it and shoot, you know what I mean, just slam throttle and
point they would have, they would pull you in that direction. But yeah,
got a funny story about that car. I, when the guy wanted to trade it to me, I hadn't,
I had recently had a kid. So I wasn't really riding the bike a lot just because he wanted to
be home. And I took the earth. So the guy, he wanted to bring the talent over for me to
see it. And I said, you know what, my wife goes to work, I don't know if it was seven or
eight or something like that. I said, bring it over before she goes to work. So she can take a
look at it and decide. And so he had pulled the car had given me keys to it. We're talking in the
garage. She comes walking out into Paris scrubs, getting ready for work. And I was like, Hey,
you want to check out the car? And she's like, Sure, I just got a little bit of time. I tossed
her the keys to it and they kind of gave me a funny look. And she hops in it manual backs
it out of the driveway onto the county road. And her tactic with cars is she doesn't want to be,
she doesn't want to choke a car off and just like, you know, the first time she drives it.
So she just mashed the throttle and dumped the clutch out of it. All wheel drive burnout
down the road hits second gear, squawks them in second goes tearing off. Both these dudes
are in my garage looking at me like, what just happened? And, and then, you know,
a couple of minutes goes by. And she comes rolling in, she gets out, shuts the car off,
tosses me the keys, she goes, it's fine up to you gets in her Pontiac Aztec and then leaves for work.
That's really good. That's really good.
And then I was like, well, I'm going to talk to her later. I'll get back to you.
Nice. But that one ended up like words.
They were confused at first because I was tossing my wife's keys to a manual.
Apparently girls can't drive stick. They talked about that story more than you did.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Then with that car, the reason I quit driving it, I was driving home.
It was probably shortly after we started working together. It's probably you don't remember it.
But I was driving home one day. Sure. 35 mile driver, whatever. And going down,
remember the name of that highway that from whatever to towards Mozane. And I was driving on
the road. 153? Yeah, 153. And the seal went out in the turbo. And it sucked all the oil
out of the engine and shoved it on the intake and seized the engine doing 70 miles an hour,
locked up all four tires. But holy shit. Yeah. So I got it towed home. I just kind of like
clutched in and put it in neutral and rolled into a cabinet making places parking lot. And
I called a friend and he showed up with a trailer towed at home. I put it up on Craigslist and
a guy picked it up the next day for, I don't know, 6, 800 bucks for a parts car.
I'm sure. I mean, even if you got a motor to just plop in it, you know, easy peasy to a certain
extent, you know, right? Yeah, transmission, all wheel drive, all the, I think maybe he had a
front wheel drive car and he wanted the all wheel drive set up. Sure. Yeah. So they were cool.
That'd be worth it. You know, if anybody's taking those cars and just take the front shafts
though, they'd be a crazy cool thing to do. Oh, make a real drive one. I'm sure. Yeah.
I don't know. Actually, I don't know how the diff would sound so much.
I don't know how those transmission, those trains actually should go.
They might not actually spin the rear. The front is open.
I don't know. Have to look into that. I've never actually seen it. Drift,
Talon, but actually there was, they do that with Evos. They drift Evos and like in Tokyo drift and
they're obviously pull the front shafts on those.
So it's got to be possible.
I've seen that. Oh, one more is going on. I've seen the, that Matt Fields,
C8 drift car that drift, the drift Corvette at the PRI this last December, whatever it was.
Holy cow dude. That thing is bananas. And then watching videos after he got it like dialed in and
rolling down the road. That thing is crazy. Can't imagine throwing an ass around with a motor in
it. You know, crazy. Yeah. Driving fear was in the winter. I got, I got a feel for how
the balance is very different. I'm doing that with the weight in the back.
You can call it, oh yeah. You can call it 50, 50 weight distribution, all you want.
It does not feel like it when that starts sliding.
That should be like a song title or something. Fiero in the winter.
All right. Let me grab the guitar. We'll get going on it.
That's a good one. I'm saying, that's what I'm saying. Like that's a good one to be a banger.
I'm always saying that at work. Somebody will say something and I'll go,
that's a country song right there.
Oh hell yeah. I like redoing lyrics to country songs. Like that's what they should have wrote,
you know, saying along to that and freaking my wife out. It's pretty good stuff.
Everybody likes doing that.
What's up with this, I want to say 57 behind you. I've seen that in the background of a lot of
pictures before. Yeah. So we did, it was a, I was in a car club with a guy and him and his wife,
they have since, I mean the car club guys had kind of split up for a while.
And after we started the business, they had this 57 that they wanted to do some stuff with.
Mainly it was, they had a motor that they wanted to put in it. It was just like a motor replacement
stuff. And I was basically had a guy come in, had farmed some of the stuff out the
mechanically, you know, we had the new motor that we were going to put in, found out the
new motor they brought for it was had the wrong bolt pattern. So we ended up opting
to rebuild it. A lot of it kind of just snowballed into, hey, while we're doing
this, let's do this, while we're doing this, let's do that. So we put new floor pan, front
floor pans in it, repainted the dash, repainted the engine bay, the engine is the same, is like
the teal color. So they kind of wanted to do some color matching stuff. The car actually has
a really, really, really cool history. It was originally bought on an Air Force base,
a military base. It still has a sticker on the front bumper. And they actually know the
name. I think his last name was Vernon or they named the car Vern after the guy that
drove it on the Air Force base and actually has aviation seatbelts in it as well. It's really,
really neat. That's cool. But we so the motors rebuilds, it's all it's ready to we're
basically waiting on interior guys to get the B pillar because it's a four door.
It's a 150 model. So it's actually a 57 with 55 side trim. So it's kind of quirky,
neat that way. But it's when you buy aftermarket stuff for it's not necessarily made specifically
for this model. So some of the interior stuff had to be sewn together. I have another local guy
that does some interior work and metal shaping actually do some of the work on the interior.
He's going to get the headliner in it. So we got to get the B pillar stuff put in,
wind lace, headliner, then the front, then the glass. And then we're going to sat and clear the
whole outside. I was kind of waiting for a kind of one or some of that stuff to be last. We're
going to pinstripe it sat and clear the outside just because so it has the cohesive
patina that sheen, whatever to it. It's definitely a cool car. It's just
waiting on the next guy because I'm not doing interior work. It's not anything I can do
efficiently. Right. It's got a really sweet patina to it. It looks always good as like a contrast
piece in your shop. Yeah, I mean, to me, some of the patina stuff, the patina on this is,
I don't necessarily know if it's, I don't think it's some of it's real, some of it's like kind
of blended into other stuff. But even some of these higher end cars or people are building,
they're leaving the outside patina and everything underneath being really nice and fresh. And that's
kind of the vibe this is going to have. So everything brand new and the interior,
it's all the teal and black interior. It's going to look really snazzy. And it'll actually
match the engine and everything under the hood too, which is really cool. So it's got its own
vibe. She's absolutely in love with this car. I think she's got a purse that matches it. And
sometimes she has her dog painted the same color. Like it's a poodle thing. So yeah,
she's very, very cool customers. Hmm. Now I'm wondering if I can start a dog painting business.
That's okay. Well, the groomer, you know, the grooming, it gets like,
they, I think they live in the city, the Fox Valley area, you know, so I think they can,
you can pretty much get whatever you want as far as grooming and stuff like that.
Yeah, I do think there's money in it, dude. That that's a one 15 that because I,
from the side pictures I've seen of the car, I just at a glance thought it was a 55,
but when I was talking to you and I see the front bumper, I'm like, that's 57. So that's why
I was kind of questioning when I said most community says that it's the front end and
then the fin, the peak fin on the back that throws everybody and I'm like, wait a minute,
this is a 57. I'm like, yeah, it's, it's a 57 all day. Just it's like leftovers. I don't know,
I literally think it's leftover stuff that GM had. We have all this stuff. What are we going to do with
it? You know, unless it was like a three year plan to try five stuff, like this is what we're
going to do to make it like cohesive kind of speaking tri-fives. We're to just know that
there's, oh, sorry. Speaking tri-fives, what is your, what would you say is the best year?
Wow, that's hard because I really like Gasser 55s. I really love slam tri-fives in every variety.
55. 55 and 56. I like that the 56 is like a little less common, it seems.
Yeah, for me, it would go 55, 56, 57. 57's like, I like them, but when I was growing up, it was
almost like everybody's like, you gotta have a Mustang or 57 Chevy. To me, it was almost like
too iconic. Yeah, to me, yeah. I can see that. That's kind of why I like the 56.
They've got the vibe, but just a slight difference. To me, the 56 is like the inspiration for the
Euro taillight craze in 2000. I'm not, I just don't like the taillights. They just,
they literally remind me of Euro taillights. I don't like them.
When I was doing the Tundra and I was getting all the fiberglass panels for it,
so it swapped it, it's an O2 and it swapped it to 2020 headlights, tail lights. And when I was
buying lights for the fiberglass kit, I'm like, I want to get something that looks good,
but I don't want to end up with something that is Euro taillights in 10 years. I would
literally say that to people. Like you saw it everywhere. It's so awful.
Yeah, you'll have that. That's, but that's what I think of 56 taillights, man. That's it.
Yeah, I guess it looks like Euro taillights.
Not for me. I mean, it's easy. You just put different taillights on it, right?
Easy peasy. Just,
just put some bullet Cadillac taillights on it. That fixes everything.
Yeah, and have them stick out so you're catching your knee with them and shit.
Oh, I was thinking French amines, so they were just like sticking out this far.
Yeah. See, even that French stuff, some of that stuff is like, it feel like is dated.
You know, something when you move your taillight in straight three inches, like who is,
what are you replicating when you did that? You know, that is, it's just something you
bought from Speedway. It looks like, you know, some of that stuff is really,
it looks worse than if you would have just left it stop to me.
I could agree with you.
It's just my opinion.
I would argue with you if it's anything Bill Hines did, then I'm okay with it.
Yeah, he was, he made some sexy taillights. That's for sure. Like he did some crazy stuff.
I BS with his grandson every once in a while on Instagram.
He's a cool dude. He's still got a bunch of his cars, still takes him to shows and stuff.
He's still, he's got a shop on the side of his house and yeah, he's still,
he's still got like the bat wing or the black shoebox with the big, the big tail fins and
stuff. And it's pretty sweet. I don't know. I love Bill Hines since the first time I
saw him on Monster Garage when they did that. I think they had Winfield, Bill Hines.
I'm trying to think of who else was on that, but they did that 55.
Chevy and they slammed.
No, I think it was, I think, I think it was pre 55. I think it was a 52,
three, somewhere or 40, 49 to 54 or somewhere in there. I can't remember exactly what it was,
because I think Jesse.
Yeah. And they, they like chopped and channeled and actually that was kind of a first
exposure to a lot of those terms for me as a kid watching Monster Garage.
Same exact thing. Yep. Even being exposed to who those guys were, it was
really, really eye-opening and it was cool that he brought in people of that caliber
in their fields, which I thought was really cool. But I mean, when they did that custom car,
they brought in all those heavy hitter custom car culture guys, man, those guys that,
that literally drew, they put together what custom cars were. And then even they did
a mini truck one and they had a bunch of, it was a little cheesy, but they had like
the biggest mini truck guys in the country come out and like help throw this truck
together. So it wasn't, it was cheesy show, but that he still brought in, I think he tried to make
it as cool as he could and still keep it a TV show that Discovery would put on TV, you know.
I imagine just as I've aged and realized that all these guys are just guys,
I imagine a lot of that was Jesse doing, meeting people that he always wanted to meet
and work with. I'm sure he was kind of doing that. He was geeking over it as much as we
were. Oh, why wouldn't you? That'd be my first angle. Right.
Self gratification. Right.
Yeah. I always think from Monster Garage. I don't know that one. And then I think of the Mustang
lawnmower. Yeah. I remember there was a golf ball, like a golf ball picker upper thing.
I don't, like, I don't even know if it worked. It was, there's some really dumb stuff.
So let's say right now, somebody came to you and said you had to build something really quirky
and dumb, but you wanted to bring in, like, some crazy builder to help you or do the work. Like,
who would you pick? I know who I'm picking. That's probably the same person you're
thinking of right now. Yeah, I don't know. I have a couple of people.
I like two guys that are like my right really high upgrade, at least as far as like what I'm
seeing on Instagram and stuff. I think we're both thinking the same guy. I'm trying to decide
if that's because of what I'm into right now and what I'm like building right now.
But I would say as far as somebody who I would want to absorb a lot from right now,
it's obviously Morgan Clark. Yeah, for sure. The guy seems like really, really humble,
but still really, really talented. And then it's that's for a lot of guys that I mean,
a lot of guys I followed trying to try and use the Instagram as more of an inspirational tool
than versus like, I mean, it is also advertising for the business. But for me, if I don't have
inspiration, the business is it's always like inspiration business. It's not necessarily
secondary, but without the inspiration of working on these cars and doing better every day.
When the business is just a result of that inspiration to me. I'm calling it Instagram from
now on. Does that make sense? What's that? I'm going to call it. Inspirogram? Inspigram.
Inspigram.
You know, on the line, on the line.
Yeah. So who are you thinking? Morgan Clark and who?
Rob Aida, man. Rob Aida. That guy makes some crazy stuff. He's doing a,
what is that future liner? And they're like totally restoring it back to what it was in the
late 30s. And have like a bubble windshield. The cars that guy makes, he's doing a Jaguar
that's chopped and then is totally restyled. I don't know what they have. They were doing a Vect,
a Corvette. I thought it was a, it was like a C2 and the 3D printed molds to reshape
some panels for the back. So it was like, instead of the back panel, you know,
what the tail lights coming off of it, it was like this, you know, it was even,
it was like more exaggerated. All the lines they were doing, like they were rebuilding all the panels,
but they were using molds from 3D printers. And then he's, he's got one of those figure
3D CNC metal shaping machines. So they're getting deep into that stuff. Like everything I see from
the guy is just like pure inspiration for where the direction I would love to go is just
doing the quirky, weird, like nerdy, nerdy, nerdy stuff.
Plus the Merc that he did, I don't know if you've ever seen, have you ever seen that Merc that he
did with the front skirts? I don't think so. You need to look up that Merc. It is absolutely a
life-changing car that I've seen from this guy. I would never thought that a 40s car could be
a 40s Ford Mercury, whatever it's a Ford could be at the level of
I don't even know. You're, I mean, you're like concourse, telegants sitting next to
some crazy expensive cars and this thing almost outshines them. It's bananas. The front
skirts steer with the tires as it turns. I mean, the bottom side is just as beautiful as the
side. It's got like just the, I mean, it's so over the top in every direction.
And I mean, he's got some crazy stories about that on Instagram. He flew out with the
taillight bezels somewhere and the airline lost his taillight bezels or lost his,
so he had to remake the taillight bezels and kind of like everything. There's always
bumps in the road, but watching him belt some stuff is, and he has a connection with the
Tucker family. I really love Tucker cars. Speaking of car movies, that's one that I never really
hear is the movie Tucker. That's like one of my favorite car movies. If you've never dug
into Tucker's, they had one at Iowa probably five or six years ago. They're very, very cool.
I think they only made four, they've made 49 or 48 or whatever, 50 of them, something like that,
to fulfill some government contract bull crap that they had going on. I can't remember exactly
what, but the car or Tucker is very, very good. If you've never seen it, it's a true story.
You got pushed out by the big three. Pretty cool. I mean, not cool, but it's a good movie.
I've never seen the movie. I do actually remember the, we were there the year of
Viola that was like the Tucker year where they had the big, had the Tucker in the middle of the tent
and all that. Was it in the tent or in the building? But yeah, I remember going and checking it out.
Well, it depends on when you were there because we were there, we camp, I think we camped there
that weekend or we camped there one night that weekend and we wanted to see it. We were
walking around it was after I was like six, I was probably seven or eight o'clock at night,
and everybody kind of walks in on the sweat meter area and stuff. And they don't
believe all those cars underneath the tent, especially that car. I think it was, they
valued it at like 1.2 or something like that at that time. So they were trying to look at the car
and there's a garage door open and then you can see the car in there. Like, oh, we're going to
go walk in there and the guy with a pistol comes walking out. He's like, what do you guys want?
Well, we just want to see the car. Like, don't get too close. You can look at it though.
Okay. But yeah, we got to talk to the owner of the, I think that in the next day or
something like that, he was a one of two owners of the car. So some of these cars that get
expensive get interesting because, you know, it's not like a museum will own part of it or,
you know, a couple of people will own it. That's weird stuff. Anyway, it's talkers though,
but watch that movie. It's really good. I think Jeff Bridges is in it.
Yeah, dude, it's a really good movie for sure. Everybody watch talker. We watched it in
Hikeschool. School Billy. I'll have to add it to the list. Iola and like car shows and swap meets,
because we actually, we would go to Iola really for the swap meet just because I just love walking
around and looking like at all the, all of that. And Iola fading away was one of the things that
pushed us to move out of Wisconsin because like that was one of our big events for the years.
We had to go to Iola and as it just every year got sadder and sadder and sadder, it just
kind of got to the point where a couple other things happened where like there's just nothing
keeping us here anymore. From a car builder standpoint, there is a couple of people that
show vehicles there. But I mean, you used to see, I remember seeing Chip Foos wasn't there,
but he had a car that he built there. Ring brothers used to be there. There's a shop that has a
little spot like a spot on the grounds there that they do like chops when the show was happening,
but it's not, not like it used to be there were builders that would bring cars and huge,
huge trailers and stuff. It used to be big, like, you know, a good guy's show was,
but now it's turned into a little more of a glamorized swap meet that has been, like you say,
has been fading. You can't, I think in the car corral, they used to have 600 spaces
and they're bragging that they sold out, but they decreased the number of spaces to 300.
So there's all kinds where they say that they're doing great. But at the same time,
when you walk around, it's really, some of it is exactly the same. Some of the corners of the
swap meet, you probably recognize people exactly the same, but then you walk in
some areas and there's a whole row gone and it's a blacktop road. And you go in some other areas
and there's no vendors in like a gigantic area. There's just a big, just, you know, just
field. So it's, it's weird. And you know, it's not as concentrated with car parts.
I don't know if you've ever, did you ever go to Jefferson when you were lived up here? I'm sure
you did. I didn't go to Jefferson. Nope. Never made that one. So Jefferson is actually,
as a, from a swap meet perspective, I heard that you have to have so much percentage of
automotive, automobilia, I guess you'd say, on your spot. The concentration of
car parts on the swap area spot is like probably five to 10x depending on the swap spot
from Jefferson versus Iowa. Iowa is like, almost a joke in comparison to some of the
swap spots at Jefferson, but then the swap at Jefferson is also smaller.
So it's, it's a, that was just my perspective anyways. There's definitely a lot more car parts
at Jefferson, but it's, it's just, it's not as big, not nearly the amount of money rolling around.
And the car show is not necessarily, I mean, the day we were there, I don't think there
were any show cars there. Yeah. But at Jefferson, do you ever get to hear, come get your famous
Iowa chicken dinner over the radio all day long?
Good stuff. Yeah, we always have a lot more food options there though now.
We always had to get the, the chocolate shakes or chocolate malts and then the cheese curds. So
then you fill your stomach full of dairy and walk around in the hot sun in July.
Yeah. Meat sweat the whole time. Good times.
Yeah. Last year, last year we had the health or we had, we hired some of the Boy Scouts to help us
haul out this auto sign. And that was, it was, we were like, we're going to hire somebody
I have to lift this. And then this kid is like sweating. He's like having a really hard time.
I'm like, oh, I'll help you out. He's like, no, no, no, I don't need any help.
Dude, like we didn't want to go yet. We're not even like, we're not, we weren't even down like one
swap below down a lane and he was dying already. We got a whole long ways to go here.
Hey, whatever. It's a good story. He's older.
Right.
Looks to be all signs.
Yeah. Yeah. So what are you doing this next week? You even put them upper control arms together
and you're taking a day off or what? Taking a day off from your fucking hot sun?
Being in the 100 degree weather.
Oh, if I take a day off, I'll still be working in the heat. So it doesn't really matter.
Do you have like a ace unit in your little garage there or some shit?
No. This is hot, bro. Just get used to it.
You can't, you can't figure it out, can you?
No, I was, I was sitting in the sun yesterday and it was like, I think it just creeped up
on 80 degrees and I was, I'm a little, you probably, I don't know if you can tell
or not. I'm sunburned and sweaty yesterday. 80 degrees and I'm dying. I mean, that's not normal.
It's just because it's been like very cold the last month.
Yeah. Just for context, I was texting Quentin this week and sent him a picture of the
thermometer inside my shop at work and it was over, it was at, it was like 100 degrees
and I think it was a 1pm, 2pm, something like that here. But work has a weird, not slow,
but this is the time of year where some of this stuff kind of tapers off business-wise,
like sales and I've been just taking care of a lot of things in the shop, organizing and
training people and doing some stuff like that. But I'm thinking, I talked to the owner
Friday about, so if we're slow, I've got a bunch of work to do on my truck that I've
been just not dedicating enough time to. So I'll just take a day or three off and
do a bunch of truck fabrication because I ordered some, I got some wheels coming for the truck
and I want to time it out. So I get the suspension, I want to take some videos of the truck.
I want to have everything ready. I want to jack it up in the air. I want to do the suspension,
do the wheels, do all the decals on the side of the truck so it like kind of goes up.
Like a kind of stock pre-runner looking thing and then comes down, bead locks, full livery,
you know what I mean? I just feel like it'll be a cooler transformation, especially for
YouTube videos. You can just have more visual impact. Plus, I got to get some videos of the
the droop changing with the new suspension because I'm going to be going from like
eight inches of travel to 18 inches of travel or whatever.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a lot. You don't like actually jump that thing?
I 100% want to actually jump that thing. I've been trying to spot places out.
We really wanted to jump our Bronco when we got it, but now I just kind of want to
fragilely hand it off to the next owner.
Yeah. I was surprised you still have that thing.
So nobody wants to buy anything. Second hand stuff, like if it's a couple year old car,
it seems like it's almost impossible to get rid of. Somebody would rather go buy a new one.
That's what I'm seeing. Not me. But yeah, I can see that.
I was there once. That's why I bought the thing brand new apparently.
What a mistake. My dad said the same thing. He only bought one new vehicle in his life,
and he said he regretted it the day he left the parking lot with it.
Yep. Yeah, we were going to trade it in and we're offered.
That was last year, so it would have been a two-year-old vehicle.
Well, it was still two years old, I guess. So it was a year and a half old vehicle,
and they were offered us trade-in value a little over half of what we paid for it.
Wow.
No, thank you. Yes.
Yeah. Unfortunately, they have most people really in a bind. It's the whole system.
Nobody knows how to maintain cars anymore, and they can't really afford to pay shops to maintain
a 10-year-old vehicle. So everybody gets locked into you just buy a car with a warranty,
and you buy a car with a warranty, and you buy a car with a warranty, because as soon as that
warranty's up, it's going to need a lot of work because they don't last.
Never, too, though. I'm in the industry and I'm guilty of it.
Yeah, I get it.
To a certain extent. I just want to drop it off. Your problem. I have enough car problems.
Here's fix my car problem.
Yeah. I'm very picky when I buy used cars because I buy stuff that I know is going to be
as little maintenance as possible. Parts are cheap and it's easy to work on.
So my wife doesn't always love buying cars with me because we're not buying them
because this one looks nicer. It's the comfiest I'm buying it. Which engine does this model
have? And how many quarts of oil does that have?
18 hours of research into this.
Oh, 18 hours is way more than that.
That's fine.
My wife wanted a minivan a long time ago and I found her instead of a minivan because she's
like, I need third. I want third row. What if our kid has a lot of friends or something,
right? Or he's on a baseball team, right? I'm thinking mom stuff.
And I'm like, you're right. What if we do need third row? So then I found her a 1996
three-quarter ton suburban with a 454 and a turbo 400 four-wheel drive.
My baby.
Easy to work on. Couldn't be safer because you're going to drive through anything you hit.
Quarts are everywhere. You've seen all kinds of benefits.
It was great. She absolutely loved driving it because you're in a tank and you could pull
a house. So then we got rid of the suburban. She wanted a minivan again.
And I bought her that Passat wagon we had talked about previously. But I had to get
a Passat wagon with a 1.8 in it because I'm like, if I'm going to get a Volkswagen,
I've got to get the most common, reliable, cheap part, easy to work on Volkswagen.
So we had that and that ran forever. And I sold it for the same. I paid for it.
I think after six years or something like that.
And then now I finally got her a van. And I've got to tell you,
on the drive home with the Toyota Sienna minivan, I started falling in love with
minivans because I was like, this is like driving my living room around.
Yeah, four recliners.
18 cup holders.
The guy from Tokyo Drift, Sung Kang, that plays Han. Hey, on Instagram all the time,
people are like in interviews. I'm like, so what's your favorite car,
RX seven? And he always goes, no, my Toyota Sienna minivan. He doesn't even have kids,
but he's got a Sienna minivan. And he's like, never stop talking about it.
It was one that's in Marshfield. I don't know if it's Toyota Sienna or if it's the Chrysler
one that kind of looks like a Toyota Sienna. I don't know, but it's like dumped on rims.
So I think it's on air ride and has a roof rack. Like it's got to look, it's fucking cool.
Yeah, I've seen some really sweet odyssey's done up because you can run a lot of the same parts from,
you know, like the tune of cars on them because Honda's pretty good at having crossover there.
You ever see those like early town and countries, they shared like the same V six is a stealth.
So people are putting stealth setups on and you can get the town and country in a stick
shift. So you could get like a tone of country and bolt all the stealth stuff on it. And it was
like kicking Kramerro's asses and stuff. There's stuff on like that on YouTube, like from a long
time ago, it's pretty crazy. There actually was a not a grand caravan. There was in the boxy
Dodge caravans. They were like a little stubbier version of it. They had a manual turbo four
cylinder, I believe it was factory said turbo on the side of it.
Yeah. So the V six, the same style had a V six in it, but they didn't have a turbo. But so people
are putting the stealth setup on that V six. So having a V six stick shift turbo town and country.
Fuck yeah. We were I never expected today's conversation to go to minivans,
but if I was going to buy a minivan, the brand is going to surprise you.
It's Toyota. But Toyota supercharged Privia manual all will drive minivan. Have you ever
seen the Privius? They had a supercharged minivan manual all will drive.
It's shaped like an egg.
I don't know, man. We're going minivan. I think I'm going astro. Oh, well, that's not me.
That's a man. That's a van.
Okay. Well, that's a van. Not a minivan. I guess the difference between a minivan and a van.
It's got to be front wheel drive or what? I think frame. Is it frame? That's the rule.
Oh, astro van. Oh, astro van. Listen.
I don't know. I think so.
When I was trying to start, I thought it'd be a cool like
when I was trying to stuff a big block in the back of my Fiero, I was going to do astro van
spindles because they had like set up for big axles and stuff like that.
Oh, okay. So whatever happens, you don't have a Fiero anymore?
No Fieros at the moment. I don't know. It's just it seems like it's hard to find a good one anymore
that somebody doesn't want muscle car money for. It's weird. One sold on Barrett Jackson for
a decent amount of money, but it had like eight miles on it. And ever since then the value of
Fieros have gone like way up. So I don't have a Fiero right now. And actually, I think the last
Fiero I bought, my wife keeps reminding me of this. I bought a Fiero, I think an Appleton,
you know, one of these parking lot deals. It was a 88 formula Fiero, which to me is the
peak of Fieros. It's a notchback, not the fastback, but it has the 88 GT has the 88 GT skirts
and the bumpers, but it's a notchback. It's got all the running gear, big brakes, offset wheels
different in the front and the rear. It's just it's got a Lotus design suspension in the front.
Super cool car for a Pontiac Fiero. So last one I bought was a 88 Fiero formula and
I had some weird stuff happen with that. Like with the first week I had it, I got hit pulling
out of my driveway by an Infinity Q or Q 56, which if you know what that is, that is a huge
vehicle and he hit me in my Fiero because he was doing like 60 on the snow in a 45 and I pulled out
to go around the corner. I was just going to go out of my driveway and then hit the next road,
which is not, you didn't even have to straighten out. You could just basically cut diagonal
across and his headlights were way down and I was like, Oh, it's snowing. The speed limits
45. He won't be doing that fast and he just came through and hit me. I felt like an air hockey
puck sliding across and then I hit me and I slid into a van on the intersection, our FedEx van.
But thankfully the Fiero is plastic. So when I hit the FedEx van, I didn't even dent it because
everything just went burp. But so the FedEx guy actually ended up just leaving like the cops came
and whatever. And then while I was dealing with that, I get a call from a police officer
who I had a lot of history with from when I was a teenager that might, I don't know,
that might be a story worth telling. But I get a call from a police officer and he's inquiring
about the Fiero I bought. And I'm like, what's up with this? And he goes, Well, can you tell us
where you met the person that you got this Fiero? And he started asking a bunch of questions.
And I'm like, What is going on? I have a title. It's clean. What do you mean? And he's like,
Yeah. I guess I was just trying to get some answers out of you. The guy's got a warrant out
for some stuff. And we're trying to find him. And this is the only connection we've found so far
is you bought a car from him. And I was like, Oh, I don't really want to be the kind of guy
that's like buying cars and then snitching on people. So I didn't really I just told him
I was like, I don't know, I met him some parking lot in Appleton, which is true.
But I wasn't I wasn't trying to not help the police, but I was more so, you know,
snitches get stitches or whatever. I don't know.
Kind of got to wash your hands slowly back into the bush on that one.
You know, right? Yeah. So that was interesting. I ended up just having to pay
like a not following signs ticket for that accident or accident. And that was it.
But whatever. I think there was split fault on that one. But if you get hit in a Fiero,
you're like basically since it's a space frame chassis, it's like a, you know, a Corvette where
it's got you've got you've got basically a monocoque around you. So you're like completely
surrounded in sheet metal. And you've got a roll cage of sorts around you. So when I got hit,
there wasn't like crunching, which is that that QX 56 hit me and I didn't have traction.
And I just went and I slid off of them and then I spun and I smacked into the side of a FedEx fan.
And then I just drove to work right after. But so I had a really nice,
yeah, same car. I drove right to work after the after getting hit by two or hitting two cars.
But my really nice formula, Fiero formula was only really nice for like the first week
I owned it. I think it might have been the second day I had it.
Certainly.
What do you do?
So what happened to the one you're going to put? Did you,
didn't you have one with a big block knocked up in it or no?
Yeah. So I cut everything off from the fire, the rear firewall instead of bulkhead.
We call it a bulkhead, the rear firewall back. I cut everything off and then I welded in.
I did square tubing lower and square tubing upper for the frame rails. And then I had the,
it was actually a big black Cadillac, a 429 Cadillac. Does that sound right? 429.
I think it was a 429 Cadillac I had mounted in there. And I can't remember what transmission
I had found that was supposed to, like maybe it was like a Toronato setup that I was going to bolt
into it. And then I was going to do astro van knuckles or spindles on it so I could have the
big brakes and that. And I already, that car was an 85 and I had taken an 88 suspension and
retrofitted into there. It took some frame modification, stuff like that. But I did that
and then I had 14 inch Brembo cross drilled rotors in it, 4 piston calipers. So I was driving around
in like this tiny Miata sized car that had 14 inch brake rotors in the front and all that.
It was on its way to be a serious car but I don't know, life just got in the way and when
I moved I think I finally, I think I sold all the good stuff off of it and then I
may have scrapped it. I don't know. I got one. I sold nobody. Nobody did anything with it. I sold the
motor separate, sold the front suspension, sold the brakes and just went through and sold everything,
all the body panels. I had a bunch of rare 1980s fear accessories like there was like the roof
scoops that went over the roof for and they were supposed to be for induction but really
they were just for cooling. I had really like, you'd have to be a real geek to know what it is but
there was, in Canada there was a company that was taking Pontiac Fieros in 1987 and they took 38 of
them and they rebodied them, did a whole new interior and they sold them as an Entera Viper
but they spelled Viper R-E instead of E-R because it was like French Canadian or something.
So this Entera Viper, or Vipre or whatever you want to call it, they were actually selling
these in Pontiac dealerships in 1987 and I had an upholstery out of one of them.
So between parting the car out and selling that upholstery set up and selling the roof
scoops and I had like a whole cast aluminum holly dress-up kit so it was like a air cleaner cover,
valve covers, intake, all sorts of stuff for it. I sold all that, holly ram air intake set up for it.
I don't know, I actually made out good on the Fiero sales but.
Viper, that Viper thing that's pretty cool looking car.
It's kind of like a pan, it's almost like a Pantera styled Fiero.
Yeah exactly, that's what I'm seeing. It's like a cross between a Fiero and a Pantera at a kid.
Right, the reason I ended up with that upholstery kit from one of 38 cars was because
I got in touch with the guy, so everybody's seen V8 Fieros with small block shavies in them.
Yeah, I went to when Claire was the guy that had one.
Yeah, back in, I think it was 1984 right away, there was this Polish dude out of Illinois and
he got a Fiero and he wanted to put a small block in it so he made his own kit to fit
small block in the back of a Pantera Fiero and he sold the kit and he took out ads in
Hot Rod Magazine back in 1984. Basically new cars and he was selling V8 kits for him already
back then and he made a business out of just that all the way until retirement
and I think that was like seven or eight years ago, maybe closer to ten.
I went down to his shop, he was also doing like rebodies and things like that and obviously
with the times they moved into putting LS motors in them and they were doing turbo LS motors and
all sorts of crazy stuff, but he had one of the Interas there and it was for a customer that he
had done some really high-end Fieros for where there were like chop top Fieros, V8, wide body,
like all custom stuff and this guy picked up this Intera for his wife and they put a
5.3 in the back of it. It was a full 90s fourth gen Trans Am upholstery in it so they had the
Trans Am dashboard seats, door cards, they fit everything up like factory in it and then had
a custom upholstered white and black. It was pretty sweet but I saw on the Fiero forums back
in the day if that doesn't date this that they were having some problems with a painter for it
and because I like working on cool stuff I just messaged or I commented on the on the forum and
then on the thread and then I also messaged a guy and he ended up calling me and I said hey I'll
I'll drive down to I think it was in Beloit I said I'll drive down to Beloit and I'll paint this
thing you know if you guys get everything prepped I'll come down and just spray it
and they wanted to try coat Lexus white on it so I went down and drove down for the day
remember me doing that he sent me pictures of that and stuff I think that was a while ago wasn't it
yeah here's yours is that we said I think it was it was like seven to ten years ago it was shortly
after we worked together I think yeah so I went and did that and it was super cool car I sprayed
it all in one day I just brought one friend to help me out but they had everything like prepped
and laid out and they had the whole shop plastic and everything when I got there I just like packed
some ham and cheese and drove four hours to his shop worked all day and then drove four hours home
and then uh so that was pretty cool and then when they were I did that I didn't get any money
for it but I got to hang out and then we used to go to a Fiero show in Wisconsin Dells every
year and this guy was kind of like the king of the Fiero show because he was V8 Archie he
was like this this figurehead of Fieros for the entire existence of Fieros and so we just go down
and we got to hang out with all the people and network so it was worth it and just for something
fun to do um and then the owner of the car ended up messaging me and saying like um
you know he thanked me a bunch for helping out because I guess the shop was kind of at a stand
still and they weren't really pushing forward with it at that point at least in the you
know how customers get they feel like everything is waiting on the shop when maybe the shop was
waiting on the customer but uh yep I think he had put the interior for sale on the forum and I
messaged him and I was like hey what what do I have how do I make this happen and he goes you
know what you painted the car for me you helped out he goes if he goes the guys in the shop
they're really talented but they're kind of they're not the cleanest and he's like I'm
getting this car for my wife he's like would you go down and detail the car for me he's like
you just go down and detail it I'll give you the upholstery I was uh okay so I went down I spent
like half a day cleaning the car I'll wipe it everything down because I worked in a detail shop
I mean I don't know some people make a big deal out of detailing and maybe they're a lot better
than I am but to me it was just washing the car but cleaning the inside out putting a coat of
wax on stuff armor all you know um so I did that and then I got this really sweet interior and I
I think I sold sold it for 500 bucks or something like that for just like a handful of pieces that
were different from the fiero pieces but um it was to a friend so I didn't try to maximize maximize
my money but uh that was a pretty cool and then while I was there working on that car
I was drove my fiero formula down there and the guy that owned the shop
he had his two employees go outside and they swapped all the body panels that were cracked
from my accident without telling me they just went outside and swapped all the panels on my car
with replacements while I was working in the shop and when he retired um he was talking about
retiring when I was there and I think that's maybe why things were moving slower in the shop
he was trying to wind down but uh he was talking about all the parts in the shop and he didn't
really know what to do with him I was like well I hate to see something happen and he's like
hey he's like I'm gonna have to give him away or try to find somebody he's like some of the guys
that run the car club don't you know have space and you know they've got enough stuff and
this and that and so I ended up volunteering to basically take 20 something years of fiero
parts off of his shelf so I went down to the car trailer and just loaded my car trailer I got he
gave me an 88 fiero gt chassis and then like a whole ton of parts so just more stuff to offload
when I moved that was kind of a parts order camaro parts dots and parts and fiero parts were all
filling my basement in my yard does that fiero
does that fiero v8 kit was that made to go on like that four cylinder
um this isn't like a four cylinder manual transmission is that what it was meant to bolt
on to they did have them for that was our visa later on so in 84 they only had a four cylinder
and then in 85 they came out with the gt and the gt had v6 and so there was a
they they recommended you put it on the get reg transmission I can't remember get reg was
like a big they were a they were a stronger transmission and so you could get a five speed
manual because I think they only had a four speed in 1984 and then they went to five speeds
you could get a v6 five speed option so I think that's mainly where people
went and they have the kits for the automatics and stuff too
or I'm just the guy that I worked with an old singer he had a he's bragging about having a v8
uh v8 fiero that his dad put together and it must have been one of those kits that your buddies uh
that that guy you're talking about had so it was just like it was pretty stock you know other than
it having a v8 and it was a four cylinder so we were like oh yeah you gotta you know you
got a v8 but I don't think you can really use it like I don't know how those four cylinder
transmissions stood up to that you know 150 horse that the v8 put in it you know
I think that the I think the four speeds might have actually been like
there were they were they were actually a notable company that made them whether I don't remember
if the one of them was a month's year maybe the four speeds were also would get ragged but they
were they actually had a decent um transmission on some of the four cylinder models mine was a
four cylinder with the good manual so my my original fiero sure I think I had eight
four no wonder you got a tattoo on your leg
fucking nerd uh well uh the so in wisconsin there's the del's run they call it it's a fiero
show and um there'd be like you'd go there and they're the one year the first year we went
there was 92 feros in the parking lot it's kind of cool so like it was just one of our rituals we
had iola we had the fiero show like that was just part of our yearly plans we did it like a ritual
every year we got a nice place at the chula vista resort you know where the show was and
they had cool stuff though they had like um factory gm race feros the one year
that like they pulled out of the museum to bring and stuff like that so it was it was neat
you never go to the del's car show like the auto motion i never went to auto motion because it was a
week we'd go to the fiero one and i it and auto motion was either the week before or the week
after so it was like a lot of money spending for a broke kid to go to both
so yeah but that auto motion show is kind of taking a slide down shit mountain if you ask me
it used to be in the nose our parking lot used to be the whole parking lot like the whole parking
lot and since uh Mount Olympus took it over it's a fraction of what it was it's like
what it used to be but they're trying to monetize every portion of it to from what i can
see it's it's like when we tried to leave the parking lot for the Mount Olympus it took us
it was like an hour and 15 minutes and i'm like i'm i can see the exit it's just the people that go
to Mount Olympus for the water park are also sharing the same infrastructure to leave this place
and it's it was just a nightmare i'm glad the truck we were driving at the time didn't overheat
because there were things that were overheating it was crazy i never want to go to that show again
would you take the heavy half there
we did once that was that was one and done there's there every year you go there it
seemed like it's gotten worse and worse used to be able to like stop traffic people do burnouts
like it was good time you know people i'm sure it got out of hand to a certain extent but a lot
of it was just like guys doing small burnout here and there whatever um i used to go down there
with the mini truck club i was a part of and that was pretty nuts too is yeah the one hotel
that we took over like pretty much took over and it was like all mini trucks all air ride mini
truck stuff is pretty cool but and that was like in its heyday and drive around when play with
your suspension stuff and in traffic is like a good time take you one hour to get up and down
the strip but that was cruising with all old cars now you go there and you're dealing with like
you know traffic normal traffic uh and you can't get anywhere it's just i don't know
who and what caught on but it's just ruined the whole thing
hmm
Wisconsin had a ton of good people down in a lot of accidents
yeah i think we're talking about that hill climb thing earlier at rib mountain i think it'd be really
cool to either i know the state park that that's on top of the rib mountain is probably not going
to entertain the idea of a race particularly but if can you like imagine an event where like the
most expensive cars in the whole area just cruise and park and rid on the top of rib mountain
and like have like a almost like a hill climb memorial show or something like that i think that
would be very very cool maybe like try and get ferrari like like that you know i don't know
how a guy would go about getting you know i obviously think there's there's not enough going to be enough
room to have to just weed out people and i think it would start small and probably not with ferrari
but it would still be cool that for the idea of it you know anybody that's got any sort of
automotive enthusiasts is going to be you know at least semi-interested if you could get people
that have a little more history on it and have maybe some information at the show as far as like
who was there and maybe like blow up some pictures of some of the cars you know i think that'd be
like really really really cool i kind of want to make a like blow up a picture of the ferrari
the guy had and just have on my wall it's really the pictures really neat you can get a pretty high
depth picture of it on wine i feel like the hill climb at um rib mountain would be pretty short
yeah i think it is that they had uh in some of the information i read today they had it was
interesting how they categorized who won it was a very it was like a hundred-point deal and they had
like uh i think you had to get through there are three three zones or something i can't remember
exactly how i thought i'd have to read it again which i will but um yeah it was interesting
how how they actually bracketed how they who who won and how they won and i'm sure that's just a
bunch of guys on the side of the hill thinking well we should probably do this and this and this
you know i don't know because every hill is different so how do you you know they had to
have a some sort of a recipe there right you've ever been to pike speak i mean even the
carol was in that ring of those same people that's very very interesting i mean that that
stretches there i mean there's people here coming from chicago it sounds like uh chicago and uh mawaki
but i mean carol shelby wasn't from chicago and mawaki um so i mean the the the list of cars
in the country had to have been really small this is from what i'm seeing you know as far as like
being a hill climb and and at the time you imagine in 57 seeing a ferrari or alfa romeo
Wisconsin you know a port yeah what the hell you know that that would be and then like being
that apparently there was a uh they had grandstands but they also had spectators in all the way up
the hill and people crash and they said they're at the crashes they were like 1500 to 2000 people
just standing around looking at it that's pretty crazy yeah it was wild yeah i never heard of that
the whole time i live there i i didn't either until i went up to the you know they have a little uh
they have a little spot on one of their signs that has a picture of the ferrari manza and the
race car driver um but and it's just a little blurb about it so i just a little google search
kind of pulls up quite a bit of stuff but i want to do your chat gpt deal and try and
see if we can dig up some more stuff on it it said the lions club ran it so i would imagine
if a guy got a hold of a lions club and potentially some people that have been in the lions club for a
long time they would at least have some specifics about it because they do have really good record
keeping at places like that usually yeah yeah i mentioned that'd be a big event for them too
well i can it had to have been right but in some of the art they briefly mentioned
different races so i don't know if they had more than one race or not i
i really it was hard to dig in any farther than that one specific race because it
like i said it kind of sounded like a shit show like people are just crashing and stuff like
like it was a one and done event hmm speaking hillclimes have you ever been to pike speak
well no sir have nots i've been it up but i've seen pictures of me one of the
all right yeah i lived in colorado for four years and i lived in wyoming for a year so i mean
been up in a bit um but that has to be a long long hillclime just driving up it takes a long time
like i'm so i imagine obviously racing is going to go fast but it's a lot of turns it's a lot
of elevation like i'm thinking about like when it was gravel and the carbureted engines and
just trying to get them to run good for both i mean it's yeah i mean it's see i was just thinking
about it last night man like it doesn't matter how much horsepower i mean it to a certain extent
yeah horsepower is going to help you but if you can't get the traction to the ground you're going
uphill like that's that's a whole like it's just a different level of racing the hillclime
in a car on a road but you're still going uphill you know so you have it's a lot of there's just
different things that you could think of interesting i watch some jim kind of files or whatever
and they were talking about yeah ken block doing it and even that turbo fuel injected you know like
top technology mustang the uh junicorn or whatever even that had a lot of hard times with
the altitude and that's you know i mean just think of how much stuff is regulating that car
and i'll think of people doing it back in like the 40s
yeah that's pretty crazy i did see i thought i seen a picture of this guy that with the
the ferrari manza that was on red mountain it looked like he raced that on pikes on pikes
peak as well i imagine if you have that kind of car to me that this is like
right you want to race car it's a good way to get rid of money
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A lively discussion about favorite car movies and personal automotive projects takes center stage. The hosts share their thoughts on classics like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' while debating the merits of the 'Fast and Furious' franchise. They reminisce about their own car builds, including a Fiero with a V8 conversion and a unique 57 Chevy project. The episode also dives into local car culture, including a historic hill climb event in Wisconsin, showcasing the blend of nostalgia and personal experiences in the automotive world.
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