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Hide and Seek
About this episode
A lively discussion kicks off with car show season in full swing, as the hosts share personal racing stories and humorous rental car experiences. Dave recounts a wild encounter with a driver who mistakenly drove across his lawn, leading to a game of hide and seek. The conversation shifts to the challenges of renting cars, including unexpected fees and quirky features. The episode wraps up with updates on Dave's project car, White Noise, and upcoming automotive events, blending humor and practical advice for car enthusiasts.
Topics:
car show season
racing stories
rental car experiences
unexpected fees
project car updates
hide and seek story
automotive events
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Chevrolet Nova
On this episode called Hide and Seek, Dave wakes up to a surprise across his lawn, car show season is kicking off, and we’ve got updates on the Nova! Plus, plenty more you won’t want to miss. Tune in now!
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America. You're listen Let's Talk Cars Radio on
WKQA Freedom Radio. I'm your host, Big Davy p hangout camera,
Chaos and AVB. Hey guys, it is a great Saturday
for a radio show. Hopefully it's a great day for
car showhere. You got that's right. It is car show season.
We have hit March, and believe it or not, in March, the car show start popping up. I see there's a
bunch of car meets and stuff, and the bunch of the parking lot stuff. Then at night is starting to
pop back up again. So the calendar is gonna load
up quick. It's gonna be a great car season. Hopefully,
if everything goes all right, we'll have a couple of our project cars rolling out and we'll be out at some of these shows.
Speaker 3: I don't know, we'll see. I did get a chance.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a little later on the show to take a look at White Noise, and I'll tell you some updates on that when we get to the end. But
I wanted to jump right into things and say, you guys know that I've said before. We were just talking
about it before we came on the air. Once a racer,
always a racer, right, So there is a router road that I take pretty often, and we were talking about literally talking about this right before I came in there.
And I'm just not a speeder anymore. I don't need tickets.
I don't, I don't, you know. And everybody's like, well,
what do you have muscle cars for? Or look, I
can go zero to sixty or I should say, maybe zero to forty five, maybe fifty five, stop to stop light and prove that a vehicle will get up and go that I'm driving, you know, without having to be crazy.
Speaker 3: On the road and do sting stuff.
Speaker 2: Cruise right right right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I take it for a good cruise.
Speaker 2: Just show the flex the muscle a little bit, let me know that you've got a little power behind thing.
I'm okay with doing all that. I'm not much for
going crazy or anything like that. But like I said,
once a racer, always a racer, there is a little bit still in the tank every once in a while.
And this certain section of road that I drive all the time, it turns, it's a straight lane and it's a turn lane, and everybody always tries to go in the turn lane and then go ahead and jump you at the light and cut you off.
Speaker 3: I drive it enough to know you're going to do that.
Speaker 2: I already know it. I know you're going to do it.
And it's funny because the particular vehicle that was involved in this last situation, uh, I handed him as you know what, last time he tried to jump me at the light.
Speaker 3: So I reckon.
Speaker 2: I see the same vehicles not the first time. No,
you drive this road regularly. You see the same vehicles regularly.
We live in the country, guys, So I see it and I already know what you're going to do. Like
I said, I know you're gonna try to cut me off.
Like I said, it's a straight lane, and it's one lane, it's a turn lane, and if they go through the stop light in the turn lane, they're supposed to turn as soon as they come on the other side of the stop light. What happens is they try to jump
you at the light, take off like a bat out of hell, and then cut you off and get in front of you. Well, like I said, people do it
so much. I already expected from you. I expected from
you so much. It's the racer side of me. I
have time to light. I know that it's exactly a
count of three, three seconds. You might as we'll say,
but it's probably a little bit less. But I know
a count of three and me counting at one, two, three.
The light's turning green for me. From the time I
see the red light, I'm going to cross traffic.
Speaker 3: I know it's exactly three.
Speaker 2: So if you pull alongside to me and I watch you keep inching forward and inching forward, I know you're gonna go ahead and try to snak me at the light.
I could probably let you go. I just don't have
it in me to let that happen when I know that you're in a turn lane, you're getting ready to be an idiot. So I go ahead, and you know
I've jumped this guy twice. I got the whole shot
on him twice. Vehicle you start, you're like, no, I said, still,
I don't inch for it. I don't do anything. I
just have it timed. I know it's counted three from
the time I see the red it's turning green. I
think I told Nathaniel, I don't even look up at green.
If they ever changed that light, I'm probably in trouble because I don't even look up for the green. I
literally know it's a count of three and it's turning green.
So I just in my head, I go one, two, and at the three, my foot's on the pedal and it's green. As I'm coming across the stop line, and
I'm going you know, I got the whole shot, and you're not catching me.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2: Unless you're driving something just radially insane, you're you're not catching me. So once again, same vehicle. So of course
you know I couldn't leave it alone. I had to
give him the flashers once I was you know, got him.
He finally gave up because he's steel. I'm not. He
went all the way down the turn lane, he didn't make his turn. He like where you should supposed to turn.
He stuck on the side of the quarter panel and ran me down for a while, but he could never get past me. Yeah, you know, like he could never
get past the quarter panel because my truck's got a little something something, so.
Speaker 3: He couldn't.
Speaker 2: He had some money in his in his in his pick him up truck, but it wasn't enough apparently because he never got around me. But yeah, so anyway, I'm
not don't ever do anything crazy on the roads. I'm
just saying once racer, always racer. The better of you
gets you sometimes. But like I said, I think it's
funny because it's just it's the same truck two times, probably within about four months sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: So now if we were in in the over of the trans am, I mean we would have walked that guy so bad that he would have like I wish he didn't try it. But my my truck's my daily
So like I said, it's just got a little little little something, but it ain't got you know it's not like anything else. So with that being said, I want
to jump into the funny topics for this week. One
of the things that I've talked to you guys about over and over and over again, I mean it pops up in the show. I've told you guys some of
the strangest runt of car stories. My run of car
stories are pretty outlandish. I'm not going to say this
one's outlandish. What once again, Dave has a run a
car story. So I decide to rent a car for
a trip we just took, and I didn't handle the reservations.
I let Dawn handle them because she's good with all that stuff. I don't need to be involved. He you look,
let your wife's handle all the stuff. You just show up.
They just tell you where to be at. So she
handled it all. Got a good rate on the car.
Speaker 3: She told me what the rate was.
Speaker 2: She's like, oh, I got this great rate on the car.
It's like, yeah, that is a good rate. So everything
seems great, right, So we fly in and we go to the airport and we go to get our runner car.
Everything seems to be fine. They find our reservation. I
don't think anything of it. Did you do it through
like a big yeah, yeah so companies, Yes, done through a big company. I'm not going to put the company
out there who it is, but the value brand so you could figure it out from there. And so anyway,
the price was like two hundred and eighteen dollars for the days we were going to have the car.
Speaker 3: That was like, that's a great rate. That's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, it's fair, it's fine. And the reason
why I chose to get run a car was because I knew there was some stops I wanted to make why we were on and I was like, if I do Lift or Uber, it's just too many lifts and Uber.
It made more sense to have a car, right, especially don't.
Speaker 3: Want to pull over for you.
Speaker 4: So it's like the thirty dollars to one place that you only want to stay for five minutes?
Speaker 2: Well no, I mean like twenty thirty.
Speaker 4: Twenty thirty minutes. Yeah, and it's like and then you
got to call another Uber wait for that another thirty dollars right exactly.
Speaker 3: So I was, yeah, it made sense to have a car.
Speaker 2: So we go and there's a reservation. The lady's like,
do you want the insurance I'm like, nope, my insurance takes care of runt a car. I don't need it.
I've gone through that a million times. If yours doesn't
look into it, most people does. And there's no reason
for you to take the exten insurance because your insurance will cover if anything happens to the car. I'm not
telling you what to do. This isn't professional advice. I'm
just telling you what I do. So they asked me
if I s waited. I was like, no, I don't
need it because I already know. So she tells me
the options of the three different types of cars I can have for the class we built, and I said, you know, I really don't care. It's just just to
have four wheels in the motor. I really don't even
care what you give me because I'm literally using it just to hop around. I don't even care what it
looks like.
Speaker 3: Ady B car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ad B car. I didn't really, no, no, no,
I thought it was gonna get something tiny. She originally
told me it was gonna be.
Speaker 3: Like a.
Speaker 2: Small Nissan or something, and it didn't end up being that, so it ended up being a bigger car. Well that's
what was in the parking spot. Let's put it that way.
They gave me a parking spot number. I went there
and what they told me was supposed to be the parking spot number was not there. So I just took
what was in my parking spot number, which was the next step up from what I know I paid for.
But I didn't care, and I'm like, whatever that's in the parking spot, that's what's there. You saying me in
a number, showed me the parking spot, so I get it.
I ended up getting a I ain't know, guys, I didn't even look. I know it made by Hondi, but
it's one of their Hondai Business class cars or whatever.
Speaker 3: First of all, I don't know how anybody drives it.
If you have one. Explained to me, it sounds.
Speaker 2: Like I'm playing nineteen eighty late eighties, early nineties Street Fighter.
Every time the car starts, it's like you start the car and it's like, you know, I mean, like every time the car starts, I feel like I'm getting ready to play like street Fighter. It's the strangest thing. It
was so annoy I'm like, why would you pick it?
And when you turn the car off, it makes the same noise too. I was like your door along. Like
the dash lights, it had a full dash all the way across and like when the long dashes in it, and like it does some weird pictures on the It just it has this weird picture on the screen when you started up and then it makes like this weird I anybody from the generation knows what I'm talking. You
ever played street Fighter on with sixty four. It has
like the weird music that plays like street Fighter every time it starts and every time it turns off.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is so weird.
Speaker 2: You take it wasn't it wasn't your favorite part of the car. No, it wasn't it.
Speaker 4: He has to take the key out and like blow on it and put it back in.
Speaker 2: So let me tell you the other annoying thing about the car that I didn't like.
Speaker 3: Okay, and there's the whole story to this.
Speaker 2: It had auto start and stop, which I hate, and you and you really felt like you can't turn it off.
Speaker 3: You could.
Speaker 2: I found the button for it, but everybody, it's violent in that car. It's like, so I've been in Chevy
trucks the habit and it's pretty normally you know, it doesn't like in that car, it was like, and then you know, I'm like, oh my goodness, Like the whole car shakes every time it turns on it turns off, so it's really violent. And I was like, I'm hid
anybody one drives on of these. Then I go to
step away. Okay, So the first time I experienced it,
I thought I did something wrong. I go to pull
out a parking spot. Yes, but no, no, I got to
pull out of a parking spot. I step on the
gas and the car doesn't go. I just tap the
gas and the car doesn't move right. I'm like, man,
don't tell me there's something wrong with this transmission, because like I hear the engine kind of go, but the car doesn't move. You have to press harder on the
gas because it has an auto park feature on it that locks the brake when the car is sitting there, you know, like if you're not moving, it locks the brake.
Speaker 3: When you hit the gas, it unhooks it and then the car goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, well let me tell you. Have you ever
been in like the left lane you're trying to go across traffic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you press too hard on the brake and you got auto break.
Speaker 2: So no, no, it's a hold. So I'm in I'm
getting ready to make a left across traffic, and you know it's it's a blinking light.
Speaker 3: So in floor I love.
Speaker 2: Just like in Vegas you can turn on red, left on red as long as it blinks whatever. So and
I love that feature. Okay, so I'm trying to turn left,
waiting for traffic. I blip the gas and the car
doesn't go anywhere. I'm like, oh crap, and I hit
it and all of a sudden it goes. But now
like the cars are closer than they were when I tried to go, and I'm like, oh I might get hit.
Speaker 3: So hate that feature.
Speaker 2: Didn't like it. I don't know how you any of
you guys drive with that feature. It's completely insane to me.
So I went and looked and found the buttons and turned all that stuff off. But I actually actually do
like the autoholder. Well, the problem is every time every
time you start the car, it resets again.
Speaker 4: Look, I like the auto hold feature, like when we're in a dry I used to have.
Speaker 2: And everything.
Speaker 5: It's really agree with the manual because you don't have to like hould the brake in automatic.
Speaker 2: Literally, you know, you just pull up and it's.
Speaker 5: Great because like it's sense of pressure, so you don't have to always like when you break, it doesn't always engage, but when you press hard enough to.
Speaker 2: Engage, this one engaged every time I stand like that.
Every time I came to a stop light and I stopped it, the light blinked and that came out. You
get a feather.
Speaker 3: It just feather.
Speaker 2: It no.
Speaker 4: That sure, and the like yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Hold on, it gets worse, right, that's just the problems with the car that would annoyed me. I told you,
good deal, right, two hundred and some dollars in the car is two hundred eighteen bucks. I'm like, that's that's
great for the days we're gonna have it. I mean,
so you hold on. So you think they hand me
the paper, They tell me they got the reservation. So
they hand me the little folder that has the number where the car is parked at and I grab I'm like, thank you very much, appreciate it, and I head to the car. Was there, well no, no, no, dude, So hold on.
I don't ever look at anything. I just grab it.
I throw it in the glove box. Like I normally
do want to get around a car. Don't think anything
of it until so one of the options they gave me was to get.
Speaker 3: A toll pass that you can put in the car.
Speaker 2: It was sixty nine dollars for as many days I'd be gone and all your tolls ring right, same look or giving my like sixty nine dollars I can go through sixty nine.
Speaker 3: Dollars worth the toy?
Speaker 2: Was I wrong? Boy? Was I wrong? So I said,
if I don't get the toll pass, what's the object? Like, well,
you can just pay cash. You just go to the
cash side and pay and pay for the tolls that you want paying cash. I'm like, okay, well I'll just
do that whatever.
Speaker 3: Easy breezy, easy breezy.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: First toll I.
Speaker 2: Come to is coins only there's nobody there, and I'm like, who's carrying around quarter systuff.
Speaker 3: In their pockets? Nowadays?
Speaker 2: You're doing that?
Speaker 4: Look one of the guys on the TV show, he's like, I don't have no I was.
Speaker 3: I was like, it was so hold on.
Speaker 2: So that's the first one I come to, and I'm like, okay, well this isn't working out.
Speaker 3: I'm like and I had to blow.
Speaker 2: The toll because it only took change only, and I didn't have any change. All I had was bills in
my pocket. And there's nobody there working.
Speaker 5: Right, I mean, I'm like, okay, it's like all right, well that.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know how this works, but no big deal.
Speaker 2: Well then I go down the road and it's like, okay, go to this side for auto, go to the this side for pay.
Speaker 3: So I go to the pay side and I come down Sorry, pay is temporarily closed. I'm like, all right, well,
there's two tolls.
Speaker 2: I should have put this pass out.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm like, I'm not really Once again, I'm not really sure how this works because I'm just blowing tolls in this car with this license plate. I don't
run a car.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I like, no, my car. I mean,
I know this is not going to work out for me.
Speaker 2: Right. I come to the third toll, I'm like, all right,
I'm ex sure I'm in the right lane. It has
four boots. Right, there's four boots there. I'm like, can't
possibly go wrong with four boots. I pull up nobody's
man in the boots and there's a sign up that currently can't take change all right, I'm like, the next ex is to exit, we get off. We really need
forgure out what we're gonna do. That's now three tolls.
I pay any of them. I don't have a toll pass.
There's no there's no officer that you like. No, no,
they're just closed with signs saying sorry, we're out of service. Basically,
so hold on, guys, I gotta take quick comercial break.
When I come back, I'll finish this story up. I'll
be right back.
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Now back to your host Dave Polach.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back. All right, So I was telling
you guys my story with the Runner car.
Speaker 2: I wasn't done with it. Yes, I'll continue. So if
you're following along. I've hit three tolls and I don't
have a toll pass right. So I get to the
next is my exit to get off. I'm like, okay, cool,
get off the exit. Guess what I gotta pay to
get off? You gotta pay to get off the change only.
I'm like, okay, I still don't have changed. Now I'm
at four. So I get to where I'm going. I
pull in the parking lot and I'm like, hand me the paperwork out of there. I said, we gotta figure
ot what we're gonna do. I was like, that's now
four tolls. Couldn't pay any him not by because I'm.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to. Didn't want to.
Speaker 2: They're either closed or the change only and then need the change only one say sorry, we're currently not accepting change.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what do right?
Speaker 2: So get the rent a car. There's no telephone number
that I can find on my paperwork. So now I'm
in the parking lot and I'm trying to on my phone with bad cell service, horrible, could not give my phone to can. I'm frustrated as can be, and I'm
flipping through it. I finally find a telephone number and
I call them. I'm on hold for like thirty three minutes.
While I'm on hold for thirty three minutes, I pulled a little piece of paperwork that's in the inside out, you know what I mean, and start kind of reading through it, and I go, wasn't this car like two hundred and eighteen dollars for?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is what Don tells me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, unk cheerfully, I'm like and she's like yeah.
She's all proud of herself. She's like, yeah, I got
a great deal. I'm like, I don't think so. I'm like,
it says four hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 3: She's like, what hand me that? So I handcher.
Speaker 2: There is all these fees that we were never told about, and they build me for two different types of insurance on the car, which I deny the insurance it's built on there as well. And then there's a destination fee
and airport fee, a tourist fee, all these fees and it's now four hundred and eighty dollars. I'm gonna need
a manager. I'm like, no, I'm still on hold, So
I wait on hold. Finally, after forty five minutes, someone
comes on the phone. Now I'm sitting in a parking
lot guys for forty five minutes in the car. I
get some and I start telling him like, here's I said, here's the problem. I'm gonna set a sign my toll
issue right this second. I said, I got this bill.
I said, this isn't what my reservation. I said, here's
my reservation number. Had it on this on email? Two
hundred eighteen dollars. Well, yeah, it says some fees will apply.
So I reading the very small print some feeds I saw, I said, I'm kind of.
Speaker 3: Used to that some fees apply.
Speaker 2: I was like, but two hundred eighteen dollars and my bill is four hundred and eighty dollars. What fees apply?
I'm like, what fees. I'm like, that's a whole lot
of fees. He's like, oh, well, I see here where
it says you denied the insurance, but they went ahead and build you for it anyway. Which then goes, do
you get paid commissions on every extra service you sell at the counter like they do with the with the airport?
All right?
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, do you get paid?
Speaker 2: Does somebody make a pro like the person who's behind the counter, make some type of bonus for everything, and so I'm sorry to think they do because I'm like, I told you no, and he build me out for all this weird stuff. You know, I den't it. So
I was like, let's go ahead and turn all that off.
He's like, oh yeah about that. I almost felt like
I was in the Office Space movie or the guys like talking about let's talk about the TPS reports because it was a tone that he had, and I thought.
Speaker 3: He was getting ready to ask me to work late.
So it was just literally that time can move down to the basement, right right, right.
Speaker 2: Right, stay, yeah, dude. The guy totally had that tone.
He's like, well, sir, you're gonna have to go back.
The only thing you can do is go back to where you got the car from and dispute that stuff with them. I'm forty five minutes away from the airport. Now,
I'm not going forty five minutes to another four holes right right, you're catching on going, you're catching on. So
I gotta go forty five minutes back in the other direction and go through four more tolls that I can't pay for, right and get I'm like, sir, I was like, that's not an option for me. I'm like, he's like, oh,
are you too far away? I'm like, yes, sir, I am.
I'm like forty five minutes away from the airport. I said,
don't you have another location? We should have another location somewhere.
Let me look for you. You can hear the type
and he's like and the guy literally goes ooh yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm like I love that. Oh what, yeah, it appears
that is the only location. I'm like, oh god, you
get this. It's I felt like I was in a
weird movie. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's like, okay, so what what do I do?
He's like, well, your only option is to drive back the airport. I's like, okay, we already discussed that. That's
not an option. I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that. And I was like, I was like,
what can we put on the toll thing?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we could do that, but you had to go back to the airport. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Right, Like, I'm like, so, I don't even know why you guys even answer the phone because you're at no way.
So I'm like, is there a direct telephone, you know, like number two the airport location.
Speaker 3: No, there's not. Now.
Speaker 2: I remember watching the lady talk on the phone when I was there at the so I know there is.
They're just not given to me anyway. I finally go,
we're just gonna do with this later, like at another time, I got to take the car back to the airport to this trip, so we'll just do with it.
Speaker 3: So I get there after the.
Speaker 2: Trip, Okay, after I dealing with all the stuff with the car by the way, I go to get the car guys, and it's got a huge scratch in it, and of course it says, you know you're responsible for any of this damage. So I'm outside the car with
my phone taking pictures of him. I'm like, we're not
talking like a scratch. We're talking like a scratch the
length of a body panel and a half down the car and it's gouged in, And I'm like, I don't really care because it's a rental car. I don't I
don't care.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to have four wheels and take them right to go. I don't care what it looks like.
Speaker 4: But I'm like, you should have told us about that before I took a picture.
Speaker 2: But I told the guy. I'm like, hey, just so
you know, I took pictures. This car's got a huge
scratch down the side of it. Oh yeah, there's cameras
and stuff. They'll catch all that, you know, like when
you're driving around the parking garage. And I'm like, yeah,
but my experience up to this point tells me you guys don't catch much. I was like, the fat the
tolls are closed and I can't pay him, and now I can't get the pass and you know that while you're trying to SI.
Speaker 3: I was like, you all knew me. I'm like, you
guys knew you had me.
Speaker 2: So we go to return the car and the lady comes over and she's like, how is your trip? I
was like, my trip was great, car not so much.
Let me just start started telling. She's like, and of
course I think they got their program for the same response, She's like, do you guys go to a training class?
Like She's like, well, the good news is is this booth right over here and you can talk to that guy about it. Like okay, I don't know where the
good news was. So I go and I go talk
to the guy and I'm like, hey, here's the problem.
He's like, well, I can activate the toll right this second.
It's going to be the sixty nine dollars or whatever.
I'm like, whatever, I don't care, just activate it. He's like,
but as far as all the extra fees, you're gonna have to let corporate take care of that.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, cool, not a problem. Just give me
the number who I need to contact. Kid you not ooh.
I'm like, this is the third person. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: There's a class they're talking. They're told to talk like that.
All I have is an email where you can send your complaint and then wait for them to get back to you.
Speaker 3: Right so we can tell you all know nothing.
Speaker 2: We've already rang your car credit card, I said. I said, well,
I said, you know, I feel kind of weird, I said, because I feel like there's no resolution to this and no way to get resolution.
Speaker 3: I said.
Speaker 2: But the good thing is is I put it on a card that loves me and lets me go ahead and just reverse charges all the time, I say, I said, I when I feel that I'm not getting anywhere, so I'm waiting. I'm giving them ample time to try to
figure it out. If it's anything over two hundred and
eighteen dollars plus the sixty nine dollars that I did approve to put the toll on there. Let me just say,
there's gonna be some reverse charges on that credit card, and I'll probably be banned from using that credit card that run a car company for the rest of my life.
Speaker 3: But I guess that's what happens against Don.
Speaker 2: Don would be well, technically, yeah, my wife would be, but my name was on it too.
Speaker 3: But I guess it's just I don't what is it?
Speaker 2: Guys? Every time I run a rent a card, there
is a problem every single time. I don't know what
it is. Maybe I'm cursed, you guys, tell me. I
think I'm doing the right thing. You know, people are
just losing paid back for all the rental cars we destroyed when I was a young man. I think that's
what's happening. I told you guys some of those stories.
I think that there is a payback on that, because yeah, there's there's probably a picture of me somewhere.
Speaker 3: You shoe.
Speaker 5: You shouldn't feel like someone's always looking around trying to up charge you.
Speaker 2: No, that's but that's what I feel like, right right.
It's exactly what I feel. I feel like there is
a when they can they will look. I understand some
fees may apply. I've seen that on so much payperwork.
When you're I'm thinking, you know, like twenty thirty dollars, Like when you go to check into a hotel and there's a resort fee or whatever. Right, there was resort fee,
airport fee, you there was all the I mean.
Speaker 5: There was just as much as my bill, right, and it's kind of a little more than just.
Speaker 2: The up fees were more than what the car car rental was. Okay, you're two hundred and two hundred and
sixty dollars. Two hundred and sixty two dollars I think
is what it was in up fees from the two hundred and eighteen for four hundred and eighty dollars. So your
up fees were more than the original rental. Something's wrong
with that picture, like way wrong. And of course I'm bitter,
Like every time I drive the car and it's spending on I'm like, yo, I was like, that's what I paid the upde for? Was he sung up tune every
single time? Now I will tell you guys, why I
was out. I did find a couple cool things while
we were in our travels. You guys know, it was
just my birthday, that's right. Thank you for all y'all
have wished me a happy birthday. Very much appreciate it.
But why I was on vacation, I found a nineteen seventy five because I was born in seventy five plate license plate to go in the mega garage to hang on the wall. And I thought that was an homen
the fact that you walk into a place and you find a Texas license plate from nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3: Five so on the shelf for sale. I had to
buy it bring home with me. So I did buy that.
I thought it was kind of cool. It was a
great trip, had a good time.
Speaker 2: Love anytime I could spend I tell you, guys, anytime I get to spend any time with my wife alone.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 2: Anytime I can spend time with my kids uninterrupted. It's
one of my favorite things to do. I don't forget
SEMA's gonna be coming up quick, boys, and I would back out and see him hanging out. So you guys
have to look for that. I told you, guys, we've
got tons of car shows booked for this year. I'm
trying to get everything lined up. Like I said, a
lot of requests are coming in. I'm trying. It's hard
to be multiple places all at once. If you guys
didn't see and you're in the Hampton Roads area, mark you guys' calendar. Seventeenth Street Automotive is doing a fundraiser
for the two police officers that passed away. So they're
going to do an event that is going to be I believe it's a thirteenth and fourteenth, which is what next weekend, right is what it is, So look at that it's posted up. Go to seventeenth Street, Sir, seventeenth
Street Automotive. Look it up for that for the times
and the dates. We're gonna try to get our butts
out there and show our support, so know that it's coming up. Also, don't forget you guys got Winterfest here
in the hamp Roads area coming around. First kick off
the car show here in March. That's gonna be a big
show and then you roll right into the dust off.
We will be out at the dust Off for the Virginia Chevy Lovers. So if you are anywhere in the
hamp Roads area or if you're not you just want to come on down and hang out with us. Let
us know we're gonna be out those events that's going to kick off the year for us. Then we're gonna
be rolling into some big events right after that. A
lot going on, a lot going on.
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You're automotive specialists. Now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back.
Speaker 2: So continuing on with the crazy stories, I got another one for you. If you thought the rent a car
story was something hum this one's probably just as weird.
So you guys know, one of my favorite games I used to like to play was hide and go seek when I was a kid. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 3: Hide and seek.
Speaker 2: You used to levet playing hide and seek, And then I used to play a card game called hide and seek too, where we used to play around in the neighborhood and you'd try to hide, and you know, your friends would drive around see they could find you, and you'd be parked like people's driveways or whatever and stuff like, I don't know, strange game. It was a different time.
It was the eighties, gas a chube. So I consider
myself pretty good at hide and seek. So this week
somebody decided they wanted to try to play hide and seek with me.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the layout. So I told you guys,
as you know, we live out.
Speaker 2: In the middle of nowhere. We live in the country,
and you can't really do anything out in the country without getting caught for the most part. So a couple
of nights ago, the alarm system on the house starts going off. Now I will let you guys know that
not the actual house itself, but the outside alarms, which has like a primer alarm to the property, started letting know there was somebody on the property. So that led
me to opening up my front door early in the wee hours of the morning, and I was told there's a car in my front yard. There's car in the
front yard. Well, I'm thinking car in the front yard.
We get cars that flip into the ditches, all kinds of stuff pretty often out here, so I'm thineable looking for a rec car. So I open up the front
door and I don't see any wreck car, and just as upstanding there going. We're in the world's the red car.
Here comes a car driving across my front yard. When
I mean my front yard. My front yard is a field,
but it's still I spend a lot of money and grass seed every year and it's manicured and looks good.
So to see a car coming across my front yard in the basically in the wee hours of the morning, middle of the night, take you for a loop.
Speaker 3: Took me for a little bit for a loop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I whistle with I have a very loud whistle I can do, and it hears me, and it slams on its brakes brought the time it hits right in front of where my front door lines up with the front yard. My front yard's two acres deep, by
the way, so it's you know, it's quite a bit of distance to drive across.
Speaker 3: Well, once it sees me, it takes off.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know this man is not going to just go ahead and go take off. After they drove
across my front yard, by the way, leaving ruts to my front yard. That's really what's irritating me. Even more so,
I run and jump and very quickly get the keys and I get in our car and I take off after it. So I take out of my driveway. I'm
gonna say I was probably heated, so I was going pretty quickly. But when I come around a bend, it's
a straight shot and there's no headlights or tail lights to be found anywhere in the straight shot. And I'm like,
come on, now, apparently you don't live out this way.
I was like, cause, as quickly as I was able to get in the car and get down the driveway, you might be having some distance on me, right, But I should see something. I used to see your your headlights,
your tail lights something. I see your tailights fading off
in the distance, and there's nothing. I'm like, I'm like this,
you know what. It's hidden somewhere. They're playing some hide
and seek. They pulled off somewhere, turn their lights off.
It's something. I'm like, Okay, I'm really good at this game.
So I went down and turned around and I turned my my lights off too, and I start driving through the country roads in the dark, and I came to where it comes to a split where they could have went three different directions, and I sat right and the split with my lights off. About two minutes later, what
do I see? I see head lights turn on and
it comes out of a side out of like a little side area.
Speaker 3: And I went found you and it come right at me.
Speaker 2: So I waited when it came after me, and saw and saw, I turned on my lights. It takes off
and they're probably going probably a little over one hundred try to get away from me. Well, once again, I
think we talked about this in the beginning the show.
Once a Racer, Always racer.
Speaker 3: Ain't losing me.
Speaker 2: Once they realized they couldn't ditch me, they decided to pull over, and I'm like, dude, I'm like, they rode out the window. And it ends up being a woman
who tells me that GPS told her to drive that way.
I said, GPS told you to drive across my front yard. Like,
even if GPS told you to drive across my front yard, wuldn't you realize at some point in time that I had.
First of all, you had to go through a small ditch where they came onto the property yet and probably scraped.
I haven't gone over there and really investigated too much because it's been raining, but I'm sure scrape the bottom of that car very bad. It was a Kamaro, by
the way, and so I'm sure it did some little bit of damage to the car to come through that ditch the way that it did. And then of course
it's out on the field driving across the field, which is probably not best for that car either, but I end catching. So I finally calmed myself down because I
was extremely upset, uh that. First of all, you woke
me up out of a sleep and you're driving across my yard. I guess if she said the farm road
and then she couldn't write so property, it goes down the side of our property. I think she went down
the farm road and then couldn't forgot how to turn around, so this decided to drive across whatever She came from the back of my property, down the side of my house, and then across my front yard. So yeah, like I said,
couldn't lose me. It's kind of hard to lose me.
And so I was like, I got your license plate.
If the damage is something more than what can be easily fixed, just no, you're gonna getting a telephone call on that. But you know, like, why don't just I
don't know, why don't people just own their actions, Like I don't get it, Like just over right right, just pull no, like they were in my front yard. Well yeah,
like when I whistled, you.
Speaker 5: Heard say they should have just pulled over it because you know, she could have ran to the ditch.
Speaker 2: It could have ended a lot worse by and hit the gas and take off across my front yard trying to go fast and think I'm not.
Speaker 3: Going to chase you. Come on now, like once again,
weird things happened to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened after the last house too.
We did so at the last house, at our old house, it was a rainstorm, and I think what happened was so our front of my house sat on a hill.
In the front of my house would would flood pretty good.
When I mean flood. If you went down to the
end of the street, you were window hithe and water when it rained really hard at the end of our street.
By the time I got to my house, you were probably mid door heith. But my house was on a hill,
so it never affected my house because everybody else was on flat land and I sat up on a hill so the water could never get up the hill.
Speaker 3: To the house.
Speaker 2: I think somebody tried to go through the water, and then once they got to a certain thing, they decided to kind of drive up onto my front lawn to stay out of the deep water.
Speaker 3: And then it was mushy.
Speaker 2: They got themselves stuck, and they stepped on the gas and rooster tailed across my front yard and dug my front yard up and not only but then threw mudd all over all My cars are in the driveway, So I probably should have a little bitterness from all that happening.
Speaker 3: To me back then, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And then if you guys remember when we first built this house, uh, the Amazon truck got stuck out, fell off the driveway. However, they did all the way down
the side and went into my yard and then instead of stopping, decided to just to mat it to the floor to the point where I hear it bounced off the red limitter with one tire off into my grass and just put about a sixteen inch deep rout the full two acres of my yard all the way down to it finally got itself out and they had to come out and fix that. So yeah, I'm still and
I had a lot and I just put a bunch of grass set in at that point time, and ye all don't know. I my grass seat quite a bit
out like a nice yard. I put a lot of
money and pride in my front yard. I put a
you know, effort into it. So yeah, probably drive. I
don't even like to drive my big tractor across my front yard because even though the tractor has turf tires on it, it leaves a little imprints right pretty see where I've driven, and sometimes it takes two or three weeks for that ground to come back up after driving the tractor across it. So I really try to stay
out the front yard. And you went the big tractor
because I just don't want the marks. Everybody's like, oh,
come up. I'm like sometimes they do. And then sometimes
I'm out there with a pitchfork, okay, you know, get in the grass and kind of pull them back on it, trying to pull some of that up. And yes, that
does work too. And just in case you guys didn't
know that, if you get ruts, you use a pitchfork.
You put it in where the rud as you pull on it, a lot of times you can pull the soil back up enough that within about a week or.
Speaker 3: So, it will go away. So if you never didn't know,
try it. It works. But yeah, so that was my weird.
Speaker 2: Story car on my front yard. I just said, I
I don't know, man, it We're only in the third month of the year and I've already had some weird things happening to me. I can only imagine how the
rest of this year is going to go. It's going
to be involved in cars. We'll see it five. But
at least you found them though. No, no, yeah, you're not.
You're not out here. You're not getting away from me.
It's too silent. It's out here. It's really really quiet.
Like I said, there's a lot of straight, flat roads.
If we don't see you on the road, we know you ran. I mean, like we just know he ran
from us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there is a lot of you know, places for people to exit and.
Speaker 2: Like we said, hit the three ways split down the road.
Speaker 5: Well, especially like if there's multiple cars then you know, because a little confusing which way they went it is.
Speaker 2: But well, the guy that knocked my mirror off and ran this was what two or three years ago, and he hit me going the opposite way. He was in
my lane, knocked the mirror off.
Speaker 1: He ran.
Speaker 2: I found him too. Like I said, I'm pretty good
at hide and seek. I ended up finding him. Now
he got he got a good distance because he took off, and I had to go down find a driveway to turn around, and to go back after him. By the
time I found a driveway turn around and it was a little ways down, so then I had a double time it back to get back to where I originally hit me and then try to.
Speaker 3: Go find him.
Speaker 2: I found him. I think he was shocked. I found
him too, But yeah, I'm not. I don't like my
cars messed with. I don't like my house messed with.
Probably like most of all the rest of you guys don't either. I know it's not just me, I'm sure,
but yeah, but I was sitting there and I was thinking about, you know, as all this stuff went down.
Now I'm up right, because I couldn't go back to sleep, so I was already up, and I started reading some of the stories and stuff. It was like, dude, there's
so much crazy stuff going on, you know, in the news with cars and Cameron and I were talking about before we came on the air, and stuff they're really starting to push ride share and car what's what do they call that?
Speaker 3: Car subscriptions. It's a new term for you if you
don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: We we like Netflix, right, and we like Paramount, and we like Prime and anything else you got a subscription service to you name it. I don't know. I'm just
thinking of the three that I can think that I have.
Now they want to do subscription service to cars. I'm
not I don't know if I'm down with this, but I can not against. Nathaniel gave me a very good
insight from his side of how he thought this was what could be applied right, how it could be applied, And I was like, you know what, I never thought about that. I was like, but that would make more sense.
I'm not much for somebody just having access to my car and be able to use my car. I just
I couldn't do. What's the there's one that's I came
with the name of it is Yeah, I couldn't do.
Speaker 3: True, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't. I know, people buy cars just used for that,
but my personal mar I can never let anybody in my personal car and just go drive it willy nilly and then park it when they're done with it.
Speaker 5: I just because they're not going to take care of it the way that you want to take care of it.
But if you know, it was like a rental car that you just you know, you want it, you know, just to kind of lint it out and then like I said, like my idea was basically if they you know, took the application and they did it with apartments, they had the apartment people basically share one car, you know, one one floor.
Speaker 2: I read reviews on some of the car and like people are like they did it for a while and then got out of it and stopped doing it because they're like, man, I keep on having to repair someone on the car. Every time it goes out, something comes
back broken. Now I know there's you get deposits and
stuff like that. Guys, So you guys, some of what
you think, could you let somebody have your car? I
don't think I could let somebody have my car and then use it and then park it and hope they didn't do anything wrong with it. The apartment idea one
hundred percent works if you had apartments, if you live in the city and the apartment owns four or five cars, and you can use them as a subscription service with an apartment. I think that is the is the key
in the future. I don't know if I'm wrong. Tell
me about it. You guys know where to find me.
Let me take a quick worse of break win. Come back,
we'll figure finish out the show.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So oh craziness of stories in
the show this this week. I have talked about in
the past that I'm not much for certain things electronic in cars. Okay, I like to take my car in
for service. I like somebody. There's reasons to take a
car and it gets somebody put their highs underneath the hood and take a look at things if something like a belt's going bad or a hose is going whatever.
Insurance the new service of online your updates, so you're over the air updates for cars and stuff they're starting to do where they just send you these new programs rather it changes the something in the performance of the car that they've developed. Run better doing that stuff like that.
I know it's new technology, but I think like I like I I'll tell you the reason why I don't, because there was I watched this whole We were talking about business models just a couple seconds ago before while we were on commercial break. There's a business model where
it sends you an update to your car and then you just drive your car and it's computerized oil change.
You know, there's nobody really there just does the oil change and automaticly builds you and all kinds of stuff.
And we talked about the automatic tire rotator that we've seen that we saw that at SEMA, where they can change the tires, but they can set it for automatic rotating them too, and now just takes away the eyeballs on your car. I like somebody having their eyes on
my car, like looking at things.
Speaker 3: Tell me.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm a car guy, so most of the time, I'm most likely going to fix my own stuff. But
I told you guys, time is money for me too, so sometimes I just let somebody fix it because I don't want to mess around with it. Right right now,
the camera needs four new tires, so and I knew it last time I was inspected. It's time for inspection again,
I know. And it's my wife's car. So I'm not
behind the wheel that car, I said. I told you guys,
I drive that car maybe a couple times a year.
But I happened to get behind the wheel a bit and I had the wheels turned. I look down and I went, oh, yeah,
we definitely need tires. And I said, well, you know,
she's like do I really. I'm like, well, yeah, I
told you that. Last time I got inspect they told
me they probably wouldn't make it around to the next inspection without needing a set of tires.
Speaker 3: I said, already did the brakes on it.
Speaker 2: I put brand new brake rotors and pads and stuff on it, what three months or four months ago, whatever, And I saw the tires starting to get close then now now they're whoops. So I just picked up a
set of tires. They're actually in the back of my
truck right this second need to go on.
Speaker 9: Ever's like why, They're like, why don't you just let somebody put tires on it? And I'm like, well, I could,
but the cost of letting somebody put the tires on it or me put the tires on it is about a six hundred dollars difference. So I was like, so
I just bought the tires out direct and I put them on because it's six h six hundred bucks, six of our dollars.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry the.
Speaker 2: Money did not weigh my time, you know, But uh, there's no whole no reason. I think I told you
guys that I think she hit a pothole or something.
Speaker 5: Like that.
Speaker 2: I think I got a bend in a wheel. It's
got it out of you know, out of round. Because
when I drive and I get to about fifty five, I kind of hear like a little noise, and I don't think it's a tire. I think it's a rim so.
I want to take over the rim shop and have them check about all that. When not the balance, it's
the round is the rim I think she. I think
she physically bent a rim so. And you can fix it.
You can put it on a machine and put it back and round. If somebody knows what they're doing correctly.
And there's a shop here that has good reviews here in town, I'm gonna send it over there.
Speaker 3: I can tell you this.
Speaker 2: If you can't get the wheels back in, it's getting a set of custom wheels on it, because I can't drive it with that noise. And like now that I
drive it a lot, I don't know how she drives it.
But you get to fifty five and you can hear, like you go down the freeway and you can literally hear there is a wheel. It's got a bend in
it somewhere, and it's annoying as can be. And the
only reason why I know is because that's the car we took to the airport. And I haven't drove the
car probably four or five months since then. So yeah, right, no,
can't do that. So now I don't blame it you
want to do with anywhere. Like I said, that's one
of those things of putting your eyes in the car, right like the cars do. For the oil change, it's
got to go to the dealership because it's for you old change for life.
Speaker 3: But I don't think they would have called that, see you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, because they just the process is so quick, and it's that car sends us over air updates all the time. To over the air updates are
are a good thing.
Speaker 4: I think they can develop it just a little bit more, you know, where like they could put I was telling you where they could put censors and like you know, do a test drive when it's coming out of production and then they know like, oh, well, this car is not supposed to make this vibration or it's not supposed to make they are.
Speaker 2: Making They are making those sensors right now for cars.
Speaker 3: There's another thing.
Speaker 4: That that I thought was cool with the over the air things that I think that they should do is let's say it does need an oil change, just should come up with the message and be like, pick your pick your oil change date on your calendar, you know, and you pick it. And I think it's drop the
car in the valet mode and they have one somebody from the service center come and drop off a rental car to you and pick.
Speaker 2: Up your Probably you could probably get a service like that started. It would be out of convenience. Just like
so there is people right now delivering gas. I told
you guys about that that that that was a startup business, like best startup business for twenty twenty four. It was
delivering gas to people. I would have never thought, But
there's people that don't like to fuel their car. They
rather have somebody bring away out gas and fuel their car up right there where it's parked. AT's just I
would have never thought. But this is a legitimate business.
And I'm like, why I said doing that for charging your car, like coming out charging your car for electric cars, But somebody's doing it with gasoline. I saw a whole
video on it. This guy goes around just imagine delivery service. Okay, well, yeah,
and then there's a little mark up on the fuel.
He's making a couple a couple of cents probably on the gallons of gas per gallon.
Speaker 5: That's why that's what I'm surprised that people actually pay for it. I mean, I get it for fleets, like
if you need to, like you know, have your flea all gassed up. You don't want to have everybody driving
the gas station and do all that. I mean understand that,
But as a personal level, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Trying thought about this right, and I almost agree with you.
But for people like me, I think this service would work for for uh Ryan Lawnmore's.
Speaker 3: Do you know how much I hate having to go gas for my war?
Speaker 2: If I can just dial it, if I just hit an app and a guy comes and fills my lawnmower up before I want to mow the grass. And I
know it sounds lazy, but you just got I do I have. I got a bunch of tanks in the ground.
I usually go fill them all up. So I usually
fill up almost fifty gallons total, and all those tanks I have and I keep them in the garage because that's I go through and I go through that pretty quickly.
Mo on the grass every guys got my mother grass like every three days out here. But so I burned
through that gas because I got a you know, a big commercial you know, mower.
Speaker 4: Technically you could already do that, you know, and kind of car related. You take the feel pump assembly in
a car that has the little floater piece in it, and then you put it inside of a gas jug, so you know exactly how much gas is in that gas drug at all time, and then you put a wireless receiver on it that then tells a company, Hey, this gas jug is getting low, we need to deliver more gas.
Speaker 2: Now, there's ways to do. I'm just saying, like maybe
maybe apparently works on car because the business I like said, was one of the startup business and it's working. But
I think there's, like I said, for people like me who have zero turns and stuff like that that live out in the country and hate going to have to drive in the country with all these gas cans, go gas regular. I think there's a business to be but
you'll pay like a ten to fifteen dollars markup for that.
I gotta go, I gotta go take a half hour of my time to go drive and go get fuel.
So you get more fuel. Though, huh, you can you
get more fuel the may Maybe I wouldn't use it that I think I might, though sometimes sometimes there's times I go out to go mow the grass, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, a go get gas, and I'm like, why did I let it get down? I got fifty gallons?
Speaker 2: Why did I get to let it get down.
Speaker 3: To five gallons?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And I'm just frustrating myself.
Speaker 2: And then you don't want to carry the cans around with you like all the time until it gets convenient to stop it. I don't know, I'm weird to just
mark it down as being weird, all right. I got
an up date for you guys before we get out here, because the show is going by really really quick. So
I got a bunch of guys letter to ask me what we made the decision on white noise, what was going on with it? If you guys don't know white
noise is, are sixty nine know that we're building. I
told you guys over in paint and bodies. So I
told you guys the color was white. That's why it's
called white noise. The body guy gave me a call.
I went down and got a chance to take a look at it. They're still physically I might even try
to use that word. It's not working for me today.
They are aggressively working on doing all the body work on it.
Speaker 3: Starting to look good.
Speaker 2: But you try to say viciously, like vigorously. It didn't
want to come out my mouth the first time. But
we did make a decision. We decided to go a
little different. Some of you guys will like it, some
of you guys won't. Once we got the door handles,
got all the light bezels and everything off it, you can start to see a little bit of pitying in it.
Because the car's old sixty nine. You didn't really notice
it because it's on the bottom side. So once you
got them off, you can see it on the bottom side more than you say anything else, which makes sense because all the water runs down the hangs on the bottom until it drips off. You sent all the money,
had the car look nice, might as well have nice new chrome on it.
Speaker 3: Well, I decided I.
Speaker 2: Don't want chrome. We decided we're going to go with
satin black handles, sat in black mirrors, And now I decide to go ahead and do satin black bumpers on it as well, So the car will be white and black.
Speaker 3: It'll all be themed.
Speaker 2: It'll come out and it'll look good. So that is
the update. Let you guys know, we did make that decision.
I got a couple other cool decisions that are coming up.
I'll let you guys know as I do it. But
I think I'm gonna do a couple of things in the engine bay to tie everything kind of in, So that would be the next thing I kind of play with.
But right this second, the body work's going okay. They
got a long way to go. The car was in
pretty good shape. They got it stripped down. I don't
see a whole lot of things made me go, oh my goodness. I didn't find any surprises that I was
you know that I thought I might find. So far
didn't find any surprises on it. I'm not finding any
big holes in the body work now that they've stripped the car down, which is good. I was pretty sure
the body was pretty straight when we got it. It
looked like it was pretty straight. I can see where
they did on the upper pillars. Yeah, if you guys
ever look at the Novus, there is a if you look heavily at them. They haven't been touched. You can
see where the upper pillar weld is and I know I got froggy in my throat, but somebody has gone in at some point time and did filler on that to get rid of that weld seemen. Because you used
to notice it right out of the factory. You notice
a little bit they are cleaning that up because that's where I do see some filled where somebody has tried to.
Speaker 3: Fix that in the past. But other than that, no
surprises on it. So we were good to go.
Speaker 2: Hopefully, if everything goes all right, like I said, we'll start rolling this thing around. Maybe sometime in April is
really what we're hoping for. I really didn't want to
put it out on the road until it was completely finished, but we may get it close and roll it out to at least one show where it maybe be close to being finished and it's with some other things still left to do. We'll see make my mind on it,
because I've got some bigger plans for it than I originally planned for the car that I think I'm gonna go ahead and spend the money. We're going to go
in that direction. But it's been unil add a whole
decision between three of us as we build this thing, and some input from you guys as well, what you guys thought we ought to do. So we'll keep on
if you guys got any ideas you think we ought to do it. Sixty nine Nova ss car tell us
what you guys see what we do. Like I said,
we're gonna go sett in black and white. There's still
some more things to do. You guys, tell us what
you think we ought to do to it as well.
Always up for your guys idea. On that note, I
think I'm gonna go ahead and get us out of here.
Like I said, don't forget. Got a bunch of shows
coming up. Start checking your calendars if you're in the
Hampton Roads area, if you guys are outside the area, look for anything we might be attending. We'd like to
say right the second we know that a good Guys show is as long as that continues to go this year, we may very well be out of that show and waiting to see how that works out. We know we're
definitely scheduled for Seema in Vegas, so you guys will be able to catch u out at Sema. You guys,
got anything before we get out here.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll see it's a good one. All right, Guys, it
is Saturday.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your Saturday. Do not forget to turn off the
TV and enjoy your Sunday. Hide your kids' cell phones,
fire up the grill, cook us some good food, play some board games with it.
Speaker 3: They'll love you, guys, for it, and it'll be memories forever.
We're out here, and we'll talk to you soon.
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