Holiday Gift Exchange 2025 - DWA! Podcast Ep. #915
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Car
Toyota Super Turbo
The Toyota Super Turbo is a special, faster version of the Corolla that has extra power from a turbocharger and better parts for handling.
Car
Ford Thunderbird SC
The Ford Thunderbird SC is a special version of the classic Thunderbird car, usually with sportier looks and better parts.
Car
Ford Thunderbird (first generation)
The Thunderbird is a famous car made by Ford in the 1950s. It was a big, stylish coupe that many people still love today.
Concept
Electric Vehicle (EV)
An electric vehicle is a car that runs on electricity instead of gasoline. It has batteries and motors, so it doesn't need gas to drive.
Car
Mustang
The Mustang is a well‑known sports car made by Ford that has been around since the 1960s.
Term
ATC
ATC is a safety feature that helps your car stay on the road when it starts to slip, like in rain or snow. It automatically reduces power or brakes wheels that are spinning too fast.
Concept
ATV
An ATV is a little off‑road bike with four wheels that can go over rocks, mud, and other rough ground. It’s often used for recreation or work in places cars can’t reach.
Car
Ferrari F40
The Ferrari F40 is a very fast, high‑performance car made by the Italian company Ferrari. It was built in the late 1980s and is known for its speed, special design, and being a collector’s item.
Car
The 996
The 996 is a version of the Porsche 911 that was made from 1997 to 2004. It had a new engine layout and lighter body, which made it feel different from earlier 911 cars.
Term
Louvre glass
Louvre glass is a special kind of window that has horizontal slats. It lets air in but keeps the view out, so it looks fancy and stays cool.
Part
wide body
A wide body means the car has been changed to be wider, usually with bigger wheels and a more aerodynamic shape. It helps the car stay stable at high speeds.
Car
Porsche 935
The Porsche 935 is a very fast racing car made by Porsche in the 1970s. It was built to win races and has a powerful engine.
Car
Ford GT40
The Ford GT40 is a famous race car from the 1960s, known for its speed and success in big endurance races like Le Mans. It was built by Ford to beat European rivals.
Part
metal bumper
A bumper is a metal piece on the front or back of a car that helps keep it from getting damaged when it bumps into something.
Car
Chevy Laguna 1975 NASCAR
Chevy Laguna is a small car made by Chevrolet in the 1970s. It was used in NASCAR races, which are big stock car competitions.
Company
DWA
DWA makes parts that people can add to their cars to make them look cooler or drive better. They’re a well-known name in the car modification world.
Company
Radwood
Radwood makes a special kind of paste that can fill cracks or holes in wood parts inside cars, helping them look new again.
Car
Monte Carlo
The Monte Carlo is a two‑door car that was made by Chevrolet in the 1970s and 1980s. It looked sporty and was liked by many people.
Term
quad tail lights
Quad tail lights mean the car has four separate lights at the back, two on each side. It’s a design that was popular in older cars.
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Welcome to driving while awesome. My name is Warren. I'm Lane. And I'm art. And I'm Mary Christmas to you all. And a happy new year. And I know things are isn't not quite yet. This episode comes out on Christmas. This is true. And then you've got the next one coming up on New Year's. Yeah, I never mind. Scratch that. Well, you can say happy New Year this early though. I mean, I got quite a few happy New Year's this week. Oh, yeah. I think so. Well, I think it's more for people who won't be seeing you or talking to you.
Until the New Year, you know, so you can say that like, you know, a month ago and be like, happy New Year. Yeah, but, but, you know, it doesn't matter. And theory, we don't know if we're going to see anybody anytime, right.
So every conversation is happy New Year. Sure.
Live every conversation like it's your last. That's a lot of conversation news.
Live every conversation like it's New Year's. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. New year or New Year's New Year. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. We did this last year. Totally.
It's confusing. Yeah. My dog is born on New Year's Eve. Remi turns three.
Damn. Damn girl. Are you probably have a bigger party for Remi?
Well, we have a Michelin star chef coming over. We have a whole, you know, should, should bang. I was going to say no, not a shabang. We got a.
But the Michelin star chef is actually only for pet food. Right.
Right. Like he doesn't know how to make human food. No, so we invite all the dogs and the parents just kind of all the dog parents just stand around eating corn nuts or whatever you know.
Just my favorite kids book is Go Dog Go. I know. Which ends in a dog party. So I mean, isn't it like you're.
Didn't you say that that was like the book that inspired you to be a car person or definitely helped? Yeah, you've got like a little
ground pre racers. Yeah, rushing to the party. It's kind of nice. Yeah. It is a cool one. Nice thing. That's always a go to if you have to go to a little kid party, you know, gift gift. Yeah.
Or even like usually it's just adults, but you know, the first birthday party can drop them with the go. Go book PD Eastman.
I forget which book it was. We went to. I don't know. Someone came to our party. And like our one of my daughters first birthday's.
And we got like three of the same book that we had already had. You know, it was one of those like good night moon or something.
Yeah, good night moon. I'm like, I still have my copy and the one like, you know, like they really should have only made five.
And you just shuffle them around friend groups and how fun is it finding that little mouse though? Pretty fun. Yeah, yeah, pretty good.
It's good. I don't like the part of where as well, though, as well, though, I don't like the part about eating mush.
Oh, I've never liked that. Yeah, but mush. I can see it is like, what's it called?
You know, or or cream a week. Cream a week. And I dig a good cream a week and a good old. I do too.
But I think they just had a real branding problem with mush calling a mush. Yeah. Yeah.
In fact, there's a billboard of hand painted billboard on a set of a brick building in San Francisco. And it's like really faded. And it says like carnation.
Much mush. Oh, they actually it was actually brand. There was branding. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, there's also mash, which is all other thing, right? You've got your bangers and mash.
But we like much sounds just a little less appetizing. You think? No, no, no, totally different thing. I know. But it is a different thing. But it was thank you.
Match, match, you talk about a ghost ad Warren, right?
It's like where you have where they in San Francisco, you have a lot of those, right? Like we're in a lot of old towns where you have tall buildings, one gets demoed.
And it has covered like an ad for 100 years. And then it exposes it. Yeah, super. It's like off market as a bunch of those downtown. That's cool. I like that kind of stuff.
There's also a Radwood era one that keeps popping up. And like every 10 years or whatever.
It's a Toyota Super Turbo ad. And back in that when that ad came out, the ads were painted.
It wasn't just like a rolled up, you know, whatever glued on billboard. And so every time they rip off, you know,
like the billboard all the way back down to the, rotten to the core.
I'm just kidding. It's it back to the core. They exposed that Toyota Super ad. And everyone's like, oh my God, look at his rad and all this.
And it's, it's a whole celebration. There's also another one downtown San Francisco, along that sort of elevated 80 corridor.
And it is a must stand. No, sorry. Ford Thunderbird SC and same thing. It's pretty sick. It's like,
I think it might have been when it was like a motor train car the year or some shit.
But yeah, there's that's another modern version of the ghost had, I guess.
That'd be a car that Ford could bring back. What the Thunderbird?
Yeah. And it probably would be a stupid crossover or something.
I mean, it was kind of dumb last time, right?
Then yeah, but that one was, I mean, that wasn't bad for a retro remake.
That last Thunderbird. No, I think it was cool. Yeah, it was actually pretty rad.
They kind of nailed it. I mean, performance wise, of course it was, it was nothing.
But the elements and everything, it was like, I don't know how you could have done it.
If you're trying to go for that early, first gen Thunderbird, I'm not sure how you could have done it much differently.
But I like the name. That's what I'm saying Thunderbird. It's better than mush.
Yeah. I think it's maybe there maybe it's on hold for another EV once EVs come back again.
But our start to so be like the more the mock E they probably had something in mind.
And then, you know, the market did not. Yeah, luxury mock E.
Yeah, they're good.
What do you think?
Sure. Yes.
I think the Thunderbird has always been a two door. It's like an executive coop though or convertible.
So it had to be that kind of like the Mustang.
And now they make a Ford or electric vehicle Mustang.
Gotcha. Gotcha.
Sure. Yeah, it's always been a sports car. Now that I go for it.
It's a two door convertible. Never mind.
Yeah, they don't hear the rules. No, there's no rules.
It's a fishy eclipse. You know, it's another one.
Well, you know, there maybe there's an opportunity here for shooting break.
Kind of like Dodge Magnum style, like sort of that, you know, like that size, but big two door, no mad hybrid kind of thing.
Yeah, that could be epic.
Hey, time will tell just the outdoor and all this spaghetti at all the walls. We'll see what happens.
This is totally not related, but I'm just looking at lanes.
We're in Lane's garage currently Lane and I are artists remote, but
you have a rad powered bike. I just saw a store they went bankrupt yesterday.
Oh, shit.
They sell so many freaking bikes.
It said they owe 70 million dollars.
They're in debt. 70 million.
They sell them all to loss or they just advertising.
They probably just won't who knows.
Like, but literally every kid at my daughter's school rolls up in one hundred percent.
Those are so popular here too.
I think it was probably like the COVID, you know, went crazy and they scaled too big.
They scaled.
Yeah, made too many bikes or too many factories or whatever.
And that's right.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Tattered.
And so yeah, rat.
And it was funny when we were, you know, starting Radwood and all this stuff,
and I saw this one of these bikes that Laguna say again.
I'm like, oh, shit.
We need these like to travel with.
Yeah.
At the shows.
This would be perfect as a long time ago.
Yeah.
And yeah, but then Rogue brewing went out of business.
They had just opened a new tap room.
They're like super popular beer.
Yeah.
And they folded.
How about this one?
They opened a tap room, hired a bunch of people and closed three months later.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
How do you, I don't even get it.
It's like the cereal store downtown.
Oh, that spot.
I think it was a forever cursed.
Yeah.
In those situations, so I think what it is, I think it's going to turn around.
We're going to open a store.
Yeah.
We're going to open this thing.
This will be what takes us, you know, turns everything around and like quickly realize
that no, it's even worse than before.
Fold.
That's when it, yeah.
It's got to turn into an escape room, you know.
It doesn't matter where it is.
It's just an escape room.
Yeah.
Or maybe a thrift store.
Maybe a place.
A maker's market.
Huh?
Let's just turn it into a maker's market.
A little, little bit of everything.
We're half the stuff is made in Japan and China.
Sancers is so heavy on thrift stores currently.
There's like, I think every 20-year-old, 25-year-old business, like person was just like
a business person.
I think we have four new entrepreneurs.
I don't even know.
Yeah.
There's a maker's fair next to me with you.
That's for a thrift shopping.
I did do some of that very recently.
For some things.
Oh, nice.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's a vintage shop here in town that it's all curated so it's, you know, expensive.
But they have really cool shit.
And I went looking for motorsport hats specifically as potential presence and or for myself.
But they only had one that could have worked.
But it was a little bit, a bit of a stretch.
What are those?
I forget what they're called.
They're the early 80s trike Honda's, you know, whatever that model is.
They're like super dangerous.
No, no, no, like the little dirt bikes.
They're three wheels.
It's like a quad, but it has three wheels.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, they had a name.
They're on the tip of my tongue.
But you know what I'm talking about.
Of course.
Yeah.
And it was, it was pretty cool.
It was like, the dude was like, it was like a guy all geared up drifting.
And it had like a rainbow kind of like a sort of trail following him, but which was cool.
But it was just a little to beat up.
Like the front structure wouldn't hold.
And it was like, it was a trucker hat.
And it was kind of floppy.
And like, ah, like, yeah, that's cool.
But unfortunately, a little too far gone, I think.
You know, maybe yeah, yeah, you figured out a way to make this car board behind it or something.
But you have to be a special kind of hipster where that is pretty special.
The ATC sounds about right.
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah, ATC.
ATV four wheel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They had a Craig in one a while ago.
And I walked by.
It was on the in the window there.
And I was walking by with the kids.
I was grabbing a donut or something.
Like, I'll come back to that.
And I came back two days later.
And it was gone.
It was sick.
It was.
I don't know.
Remember how the Craig and had like a very interesting font.
The early 80s one that had like the streaks through it.
It's this is old school.
We're talking very regional auto part store.
I don't think they were national.
Yeah.
I think Craig is national.
Was it.
Yeah.
At least I thought so.
I don't know.
Could be wrong.
Yeah.
No, they were.
They had like race series and stuff.
I'm pretty sure.
Well, it's a, you know, a Riley bottom, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And there was grand auto supply before that.
And Craig and bought grand auto supply.
I think.
Wow.
Now we are getting regional.
Yep.
Well, in the spirit of Christmas here, we're going to do a little gift exchange.
Yes, sir.
We're going to keep this episode a little brief because I know everyone has to run around
and open presents themselves.
Is there a listening to this?
So how do we do so much time in the day?
That's right.
Yeah.
I want to take up all your present opening time.
Yeah.
You got to go play with your new remote control cars.
So we each got each other a present.
Yes.
Now I think we had a $50 limit.
We did.
Oh, it was $50.
Damn it.
I messed up again.
I did $100 last year and I did it again this year.
It's all good.
Yeah.
I think that was on air.
I definitely was.
Okay.
I wrote it down too.
Because my mind grapes.
Because I was like, oh, I already got you guys stuff.
Yeah.
Or maybe I was off air.
But like I was, I said, I already got you guys stuff.
And you're like, all right.
Well, it's a limit.
Yeah, we're very specific.
Okay.
50 got it.
All right.
Well, you guys, you guys did all that.
You need to find some shit in my help.
So this is my, my, my, I'll contribute it in additional 50 bucks.
Wait, wait.
Did you spend $100 on each present for us?
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, I bought.
So it was $100 limit for each of you guys.
Yes.
I didn't buy you one present.
You'll see in a second.
But all right.
I'll find something in the garage to give each of you a sticker or one of those hats.
Yeah.
I'll take one of those hats.
Well, I, I bought you guys the same thing.
Oh, nice.
And Lane got the same present for me.
All right.
You did that last year, too.
I feel like it's good because then I can give Lane the present right now.
Yeah.
You can open it and you'll see art what you're going to get.
Oh, yeah.
So you're, you're just like really all about efficiency and time.
Remember, I'm not good at giving gifts.
Yeah.
Lane likes giving gifts.
I try.
And usually it's a fail.
But we'll see how this one goes.
That's why I got you guys stuff because like three months in advance.
I start seeing stuff and I'm like, oh, that would be good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I used to play us in literally.
It's like, if you know, you find something in advance and it's there, boom, right?
Lock it in.
Yeah.
And I feel like I always try it.
Like if we're looking at theory of gift giving, it's like, I know how I am to shop for them
like very difficult.
But I think there's always stuff that like you would never buy for yourself.
And it's some stupid little charge key or something and you're like, oh, that'd be kind of cool.
But like I would never spend that money on that stupid little thing.
Yeah.
And the stuff that I like to give where it's, you know, like it's hard to, it's in a way.
It's hard to justify spending money on this thing, but it's kind of a cool thing to have.
Or some, you know, yeah.
I'm the same way with toys.
Like I don't want to buy myself toys.
But if you bought me a cool little toy, whether it'd be like, I don't know, whatever said a little drone or something.
You're not a fucking dork, dude.
I would never buy myself a little drone or a remote control helicopter.
But if Lane bought me one, I'd be kind of stuck for sure.
Or even a hot wheel or something like, I'm not buying myself those.
But like if someone gives me a little like car, I'm stoked on it.
And I have them all in my desk, you know, see exactly.
So why don't I give Lane your gift?
Let's go.
Let's go.
Both gifts.
And you can start.
All right.
I am going to, I'm going to put down the mic then.
Yeah.
Okay.
So Lane has a very expensive gift bag that he's opening.
Ooh.
This was a good Amazon.
What?
How dare you?
First of all, this was a purchase.
So open.
Let's see.
Do the book first.
It's a book.
This is the definitive rally map.
This is a big bro.
This is the map that I've used to formulate DWA rally routes since day one.
Benchmark maps, California Road and Recreation Atlas.
And this is Benchmark out of Santa Barbara, California.
Oh, yeah.
SB represents that.
You know what I'm saying?
And the thing I like about this map is it's really beautifully done compared to your average
bullshit AAA map or do you mark these things up, dude?
You can do whatever you want on this yours.
Do you do it though?
Do you mark them up?
No, but I'll put little post it.
It's like little mini post it's on some stuff.
And it's got dirt roads, folks.
Top of railings, climate, et cetera, et cetera.
Oh, this is cool, dude.
It even has like little like museums, other attractions.
It's really well done.
And it's a great one to just have in the car, because as you know, we travel.
And we're in places that our phones don't always work.
And you end up looking at squiggly lines.
And this will tell you if it's dirt or not, or if it's, you know, worth actually trying out.
And dude, it's like, it's like big.
I don't know, 16 by 12 or something.
Yeah, big map.
Nice.
So now you have it forever.
Sick, dude.
Stoked.
Thank you.
I did have a thought of like marking up the maps with all the routes we've done,
but I didn't know how to do it properly without looking kind of chancy.
So maybe something to think about.
Yeah.
All right.
And then I go through this.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm opening up a small jewelry box.
Okay.
And it says ice star on it.
Now long before the administration we're currently dealing with ruined the term ice,
driving well awesome has been using ice as a pretty iced out term of endearment.
Yeah.
And so this ice star.
And it's a black box jewelry box in with gold foil.
Hold it up for art so you can see.
All right.
It's very nice.
Yeah, very nice.
Very nice.
It's like fancy.
Shiny lettering for something.
Oh, dude.
It's very Christmas.
It's a watch.
Dude.
Dude, it's the watch of my dream.
Merry Christmas.
You are the ice star.
The ice star.
It's called ice star.
Dude, this thing is kind of fly, dude.
Whoa.
Holy shit.
Merry Christmas.
Like a baby, right?
It's like something that baby would have worn in the early 90s.
Dude, it has like fucking hand done.
Hand done engraving like a low rider.
And that's not all.
Keep going in the box.
Is there more stuff in the box?
Just as a little something.
It came with diamond earrings, dude.
It came with two studs, two diamond studs.
It's just a small gift to go along with your gift.
Because you're going to need it to match your watch or something.
Dude, as a token of our appreciation,
we can include a small gift with your purchase.
Yeah.
That is so fly.
The Cubix Cercornia.
It can't be.
It's like fake Cubix.
Dude, this watch is so baller.
It's like star.
It's huge too.
So it's a star as ice.
Ice star is 90 China.
You're going to have to do some modifications of the band
to get it to fit the bracelet.
Yeah, it's easy.
You just have to link so.
I know.
Hopefully it doesn't fall apart.
It was expensive.
Very expensive.
Sure.
I mean, it's gold, dude.
$50 limit for all that.
And he got diamonds.
I was like, dude, that book's probably $50 bucks, dude.
That thing's pretty full of room.
Yeah.
This thing's sick, though, dude.
Yeah.
So I expect to see that on a rally or similar.
Dude, definitely wearing this to like a rally.
Or just we're casually to a car's and coffee.
Or to exactly and then don't tell anybody.
And they'll obviously see it.
How could you not see it?
This is like I was having a had lunch the other day.
It was some guy.
This some dude was at the same table.
And he had this watch on and it was one of these.
It was like not this gnarly, but it was very gaudy.
Yeah.
And you're like, that could be a $10 watch or a $1 million watch.
Right?
It's like, it's like.
And that's what they want you to do.
Yeah.
So America's that's a billionaire's watch, dude.
And you got that little satin pillow.
I mean, you see art.
You need a kooji sweater to wear that, though.
That's that kind of a right.
Actually, I could see laying in that sweater.
Oh, man.
Dude.
No, I know what I do.
Now you got to go to those thrift stores.
All right.
I'll give or you want to give one now?
Art or one or I'll give Warren his.
All right.
Sounds good.
You have the fruity bag.
The first bag.
The fruity bag.
Yep.
It's a staple at the top.
Got some pink.
It's nice.
I'm putting on my craze.
And he's opening it.
I just would one staple right there.
So you just get to pull it out.
And.
Ooh.
Is that soap?
I don't think it's so concrete.
Dude, you mind out of concrete?
Yeah, dude.
This is a hand-sized Ferrari F40 in concrete.
Yeah.
It's like a desk ornament, dude.
Slash paper with it.
That's sick.
Dude, this is a Ferrari F40 hand-poured concrete.
Is it meant to be painted?
No, it's not.
I think it's meant to just be like, dude, this is rad.
I'll definitely put that on my.
I dig it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's from desk for sure.
I mean, that might be even a mantle piece, don't.
Yeah.
It's like, it's mellow, dude.
It's not all colored and stuff.
Mellow grinds.
It's from theaters.
He addressed studios.
I can get away with this.
I can't put it in.
It won't even see it's on the mantle, dude.
Exactly.
I love it.
It's like, if you know you know, right, people that walk by,
they'll be like, oh, sick F40.
Yeah, exactly.
That's sweet.
So it's from this company, Piedra Studios and they make like a few others.
They don't have a lot.
But they also do custom ones that are like 300 or something like that.
You can tell them what car to do or something.
It has to be.
You can't have, like, the wing is.
There's no gap.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
It has to be certain.
And this one.
So I did, I bought one from one of my brothers, like a 996.
Oh, sweet.
This one's like the most detailed.
Did you, did you crash it though?
Did you like beat it up?
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
The 996 is like a bar of soap.
It's just like more silhouette.
Right.
Right.
Where this one has a lot more detail.
I think because you need it with the F40 maybe or something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Dude, they've got the, like, the Louvre glass.
But it has all the vents and stuff.
Yeah.
It even has the wheels on this one.
They're like half wheels.
So it's like flat.
It's flat, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Dude, that's cool.
Thank you.
So to be clear, I got you guys both the same thing, but you didn't get art the same thing.
No, I did not.
Oh, okay.
Do you want me to open arts?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's just do that.
Open arts for him.
Okay.
Art, this is for you.
Let's do it.
So I didn't realize at the time that I had a theme going.
My theme is concrete.
All right.
Because of, and the, that's the reason I bought you this art.
Because I know you're, you're all about concrete mining.
Concrete manual.
Yeah.
Concrete manual.
Other bound department.
Department of the interior bureau of reclamation.
Concrete manual book.
Leather bound book.
What does it say on the back?
Has some stuff on the back.
Maybe there's something.
I don't know.
Has a lot of services.
Okay.
As the nation's principal conservation agency.
The department of the interior has been.
You want me to read this?
Yeah.
No, that's fine.
What?
It's a, it's a stash book.
Nice little stash box.
I like it.
And it's the concrete manual.
Excellent.
Now, is this going to fly in your wife's office?
No, there'll be a my office right here next to my lamp.
Pretty sweet.
Yeah.
But I actually will stash some things in there that I don't.
There you go.
My kid's getting into so.
That's what I'm saying, dude.
That's what's reading the concrete manual.
It's almost so weird at this point in time.
Maybe.
What's there?
It's almost so strange that you'd be like, what the hell is a concrete manual?
No, I mean, I was thinking about, I was like, shit, maybe this is all the concrete types,
right?
Am I about to learn some shit?
That's right.
Pretty sweet when I saw, like I was like, oh, that's kind of whatever little stash book.
And then I saw that it was concrete manual.
I was like, that is art.
I mean, I'm a concrete enthusiast.
Very cool.
You know, art like so.
And I do, yeah, I actually genuinely have been thinking about a little stash box.
Because I have to go to the garage to get my stash.
Yeah.
Which is on my taste box.
There you go.
Yeah, and it has like a magnet closure, so it stays closed.
Nice.
Very cool.
All right.
So I'm going to start with a whammer jammer because it's, I have the first thing here.
So I have three things for Wham and one thing for Lane.
They're all, you know, they all add up the same amount, but we're going to start off with.
Yes, let's say that.
I like it.
Yeah.
I'm just a rally vintage rally map measure.
Whoa.
So that, so that little thing basically it has a little wheel on the bottom.
And it, and you basically trace the path.
And you can get distances.
And you can just put, it has different.
I don't know if you can tell.
Like scales.
So you just match the scale and then you just like trace the, the.
Basically your path and you add it up.
But, you know, obviously, you would use it on a map.
You would roll this on.
Exactly.
So I don't know if you could see there's a wheel on the bottom.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then you just match the scale based on the gauge.
And you, and then you know how, you know, your distances between, you know, different waypoints.
But I just love the packaging.
This is original from like the early eighties.
And like you can see it's got like a, it's like a 935 racing a wide body 914.
That's so cool.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I love it.
So such a weird interest.
I've never seen anything like me either.
Yeah.
I saw this as like, Holy shit.
Like I'm giving this to somebody.
And yeah.
And this is, you know, I've been going to this spot now for a couple of years now.
But there's two different places that are like, sort of like these consignment vintage shops.
And they have really cool shit always.
So we're starting off with the rally map measure.
That's an actual word.
You're going to have to definitely postpix pictures of that because that's such a weird thing.
I don't think anybody's seen.
I'm sorry.
I'm a little distracted.
Lane just put on his gold watch.
Oh, hell yeah.
Is he icing up icing up the garage over there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's ice.
Why to look.
I like it on him actually.
It kind of works.
All right.
We're working our way to the grand finale here for you.
But this is that.
So this one.
Let me pull it out of its sleeve.
Pull on.
How about the 10th edition, 1964 hot rod racers comic book.
Wow.
And it has drag racing.
And let me put my mic down.
You said the ads are also super rad because they're from the 60s.
Also, there's a pirate.
So cool kid ads.
But check this out.
It has.
Waiting.
So art.
This comic book also has this little villain on the top with like a one eye.
Night driving.
It's just all about night driving.
Dude, they got to go race.
Dude, this is the togey.
Oh.
But yeah, it's so rad.
Like the drawings are really cool.
The ads are awesome.
And the cars themselves are sort of like derivative of like GT 40s and Mustangs.
But yeah, it's an actual comic book.
Night hot rod racers from 1964.
Nice one.
And unfortunately, it's not flawless.
Otherwise, I'm sure it'd be worth a lot of money.
But, you know, it's a.
Have you guys seen that ad patina guy?
You know, he sells like the, he just sells like a vintage Rolex ad or like a Porsche ad.
You know how much he sells those things for?
Ten bucks.
Yeah, it's a good thing.
Right.
Cause I see the like 170 per or more.
Yeah.
That's weird.
And you're like, I could just buy like a magazine.
Well, you'll see people on eBay sell like a one ad out of like a motor trend from like 1990.
And they want like three bucks.
Yeah, three bucks.
You know, that's what I would think.
How's that a business?
And then I saw him selling the stuff.
And it was like 170 bucks, 225 bucks with not framed.
Not frame.
No.
Wow.
Well, we got to go through all those old national graphics.
Those Rolex ads.
Well, I guess yeah, that's it.
Someone's already done that.
We're great.
So basically that magazine right there are, it's probably worth like two grand, dude.
Dude, if it was minty.
So yours is interesting.
No, he just cut out the pages.
Lane's is interesting.
And we'll talk about value in a second because I have a feeling that they undervalued what I got you.
And you'll see in a second.
This one had Warren's name written all over it.
And I found this one at a different shop.
And Warren loves metal bumper.
All my stress.
Yeah, you got three things, dude.
And so this is a Benny Parsons Chevy Laguna metal bumper.
1975, I think, NASCAR.
Yeah.
And this is original from the period and it's complete.
It's a model.
So we're talking AMT is the brand.
So this is like your American Tommy, if you will.
Hobby model.
It has all the stickers for the livery on it in there.
And yeah, it's super rad.
So I had to get that for you.
And I know you like these metal bumper NASCAR.
Dude, what is the livery?
It almost looks like hooters, but it's not.
I can't tell.
No, oh, the livery.
It's Kings row.
Kings row.
It says on the hood.
Okay.
Cool.
I like it.
I have a couple of models that I've collected over the years from DWA kind of stuff.
Radwood stuff.
And that'll go right with it.
Are you going to build it?
Probably not.
Okay.
Well, never been great at those.
I didn't like news.
Give me a father, a father set project.
A little.
That's true.
I almost don't want to ruin that one though.
I could just get a new something.
Yeah, but you have the box regardless.
Like that is true.
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty rather like the body and white.
Like they just threw up.
They were in a bag.
I know.
The body and whites are actually.
Then the stickers are super sick.
Like, check out the livery.
So cool.
That I love that type typeface.
Every call that.
It's like old school sign painting.
Yeah, we're all this.
And the sheriff's on it.
But yeah, and it has the man.
The little instructions on it.
Like super tarnished and like, you know, like a vintage looking.
But all the instructions.
Pretty cool, dude.
All right.
So that's a.
Benny Parsons.
I think it's a 75 or 74 of the Chevy Laguna, which.
Yeah, it's really ugly.
It's not good.
Dude, I actually really like those cars.
They remind me of like a 7172 Monte Carlo 2 door, which is pretty sick too, but.
They just have to be like a mask card to look.
They were like sort of an anti these cars because they were so smog laden like in California.
And like mentally maybe, but they have like quad tail lights.
I think they're pretty dope.
I think they're just really back cars to as cars.
Yeah.
They're.
Right.
So.
Lane.
Yes.
I found this.
And I had never seen this brand before.
And I did some research.
And I got you a grew in precision vintage watch.
Have you heard of this brand?
Oh, dude.
That's pretty rad.
I have one.
I grew and say American company.
Yeah.
17 jewels.
Like pretty legit.
And I think the case is gold.
And the band is gross.
But I mean, I think like throwing like a brown leather strap on this would be really nice.
It works.
It needs to be cleaned.
And it needs maybe a little servicing.
But this was the first James Bond watch before the these Rolex Submariner became a thing
and you know the Omega.
This was the number the first one like ever.
So.
So weird.
So I have that.
And look this up.
I'm sorry.
I have that watch.
No way.
That was my grandfather's watch.
I just had the band that elastic band.
Yeah.
Fixed.
So I could wear it.
Um, he worked for, well, now it was now mobile one.
But he were a standard oil.
And he got that as a gift for being a long-term employee.
Oh, sweet.
It's a 23 jewel grew in.
And I just got it like going again.
And I own it.
It's almost identical, which is really strange that you got laying that gift like.
That's so funny.
It's really weird.
Yeah.
I think sick.
That's cool.
The old America.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously I can't really do it here, but you pop the, the back of it up.
And, you know, it's like pretty legit.
You know, it's a manual wine movement.
And like it looks really nice.
You know, it's a cool little thing to, you know, check out.
I think with a good cleaning and throwing like a leather, maybe a brown leather strap on it,
would look pretty sick.
It's small.
It's a 33 and a half mill face on it or dial.
Um, but, you know, I told you guys the price point that I was working with here.
And this one was 90 bucks.
And I went, like looked it up.
And I'm like, dude, they're all like 500 plus.
And depending on the, there's, there's so many different variations.
They're variants of it.
So like, um, I don't know.
I think they maybe didn't know what they had or they thought it was broken, but like, I wound
it up.
And it was that time.
You were at a physical thrift store, right?
No, this is, this is the spot that I'm talking about.
This is like, um, it's like a, it's sort of like a consignment, uh, like vintage shop.
So each, each section of the store has its own little, like, person store front kind of thing.
You know, like people curate their own things and sell them in there.
Um, so yeah, it was cool.
I mean, that sounds like a good place to, probably a good place to get a deal, right?
Because your market size is like, like if someone's selling it on eBay or something,
you have such a broad, a huge market.
Right.
We're selling it.
It might also be like that too.
You know, that's right.
And all this stuff is, is from the, there's, there's a few of these here in town.
And, you know, I always like, we'll check the prices on things.
Like the Chevy Laguna thing was like, you know, I, I think it was about $20 cheaper in the store than I found on eBay.
Uh, you know, all of these things.
But, but yeah, the groom was an interesting one because I think, you know, how much effort does it take to search this stuff?
You know, like it's, it's pretty straightforward.
Yeah.
People just get like, you know, they go to a state sales and just kind of like, all right, that, that, and that, throw that in there.
You know, maybe I don't know how they do this.
Um, there it is.
It's so weird.
I was literally looking at those watches last night.
Really?
Because I was trying to find another band for it.
They're hard to find.
Yeah, that's really, it's kind of, I'm kind of tripped out on it.
Like of all the watches you bought.
Like, can't wait to wear it next to the world.
Oh, do you guys can do a little so weird.
It's so weird.
Yeah.
Then I'll have this with you.
I'll have this on my right.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
We can do, yeah.
Very strange.
So there you go.
Man, small, this is the universe, Warren.
Uh, small, small world.
Well, I think that you cost me the grue and that would have been more the universe.
But like, yeah, I'm just, yeah, very strange.
And this is the exact same one with the date on it too.
Like this.
Yeah, but mine's a 23 jewel.
And it's auto.
Oh, it's on.
Yeah, this one's manual.
Super similar.
Like, I mean, if all the watches in the world, you could have picked.
I'm like, really weirded out.
I wonder what year that, what year is that thing already?
It seems like it's from the mid 60s, based on like the quick list research I did.
But yeah, the years will later, maybe.
I think it's earlier and it's smaller, which is why I don't wear it much.
I only wear it like a smaller than that.
It's really small.
So it's, I don't know.
My grandfather was a big dude.
And he wore it all the time.
So it had that elastic metal.
Yeah.
I mean, back then, I mean, all the watches had pretty small faces.
I mean, it was kind of the, yeah, it was like classy, right?
To have like a.
Yep.
I mean, this, I mean, considering like James Bond wore it in Doctor No or whatever,
like, even with a tiny little face like that.
Yeah.
But yeah, I couldn't figure out exactly like the model name or anything.
It just grew in precision, vintage watches would kept popping up.
And you know, just the.
That's cool, then.
Yeah.
And there's some that are way more valuable.
But I really don't know what's what here.
So like, but I think it just needs, you know, you'll see it when you,
it just needs a good cleaning.
But cool.
Well, there you go, man.
Those are the.
Nice.
It's awesome.
Happy birthday.
Merry Christmas.
Well, that's kind of it for this episode.
I don't want to trivial question for you.
One, if you, if you'll allow me.
All right.
If that's all right, let me see if I can pull it up here.
Stand by.
And the spirit of Christmas.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
What was the first Christmas movie ever made?
Whoa.
Christmas movie ever made.
Whoa.
Now, obviously, Christmas has been around a long time.
I don't know exactly why that became a national holiday.
But Christmas movies seem like a newer thing,
at least now and today's culture.
It's like there's five Christmas movies every week coming out.
Day, dude.
So when was the first?
And what was the first?
Well, was it animated?
It's my first question.
Was it Miracle on whatever?
31st, 34th Street or whatever?
No, it was not.
And was it animated?
Nope.
OK, because I was going to go root off the red nose reindeer
or something.
I know.
That's what I think of it as like 30s, 40s
would have been like the Miracle, you know, like that one.
By the way, that was an Oscar one, right?
Yeah, Oscar winning movie.
Probably 30s, right?
I think so.
Maybe early 40s.
The first color movie was Wizard of Oz,
and that was like 36 or something, 33.
Yeah, Technicolor.
Yeah.
Shoot, dude, I have no idea.
I was going to go with an animation.
That's what I thought.
This is sort of a technicality.
But think of it as soon as movies could happen,
there was a Christmas movie.
1898, Santa Claus.
A silent 76 second British film.
I mean, short.
Yeah, it's there.
Not bad.
I mean, yeah.
One minute, 16 seconds, Santa appears,
Phil's stockings, then disappears up the chimney
as children wake to find gifts.
Director, director.
George Albert Smith, 1898.
Dude, there's probably a lot of work
to make that thing back then.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, definitely.
I mean, it's like as old movie as it gets, yeah.
They have a full set and everything.
It's not just like classic Santa with the big robe
and beard.
And they did it like a play.
It's like on a stage or something.
Yeah, totally.
They didn't know what they were doing.
Yeah.
Not to idiots.
They're like, yeah.
Yeah, it's like, oh, so there's no music?
Cool.
Seriously.
Well, actually, no.
Yeah, I don't know what they did initially, right?
Because I mean, the old train robbery
or whatever, which was the first movie ever,
didn't that have audio?
I thought it had a soundtrack.
Not the...
Yes, I don't know what a movie means
because is it just moving pictures?
Yeah, the horse, like that classic horse doing this?
Yeah.
Yeah, but what classifies like a movie?
That's what I'm saying.
Now, I think the definition probably has changed.
This is just under two minutes and it's a movie.
Yeah.
Because you probably went to a theater
or some place to see that thing.
How else would you see it?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Like, what would you watch?
You'd have to watch on a big screen.
Projected.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And they would probably have like maybe 20 of those
or 50, you know, whatever, a bunch of short films,
right?
Yeah.
Swap the film and sit there.
Or they put it all in the same way.
And it's all yellow and white.
And it's all yellow and white.
No, I don't know.
Yeah.
Stupid, isn't it?
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Merry Christmas.
All right.
That's it.
We'll see you next time.
That's it, Nothal.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
About this episode
A festive gift exchange kicks off the holiday spirit as the hosts share their unique presents with each other. From a hand-poured concrete Ferrari F40 to a vintage rally map measure, the gifts reflect their personalities and interests. The conversation flows from nostalgic childhood memories to the quirks of holiday shopping, all while discussing the significance of thoughtful gifts. The episode wraps up with a fun trivia question about the first Christmas movie ever made, adding a light-hearted touch to the holiday theme.
Driving While Awesome
Lane Skelton, Warren Madsen, Art Cervantes
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