Shift and Steer Feb 5, 2026

ICE Racing Multi-Million $ Cars, GNRS Highlights - Shift & Steer EP 554

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blown injected Hemi

A blown injected Hemi is a powerful type of engine that uses a supercharger to boost its performance. It's known for being very fast and is often found in race cars.

Car

Dodge A100

The Dodge A100 is a small van made by Dodge in the 1960s. It was popular for businesses and could be customized in many ways.

Concept

gasser

A gasser is a kind of race car from the 1960s that is built to go really fast. They are often made lighter and have powerful engines.

Concept

tube chassis

A tube chassis is a frame made of metal tubes that supports the car's body and components. It's strong and light, making it great for racing cars.

Term

funny car

Funny cars are special racing cars that look different from regular cars. They are built to go really fast in drag races and have unique designs with big spoilers.

Term

wheelie bars

Wheelie bars are metal bars at the back of racing cars that stop the car from tipping over when it goes really fast. They keep the car stable during a race.

Term

flake paint

Flake paint is special car paint that has tiny shiny bits in it, making the car look sparkly and unique. It's often used to make cars look more attractive.

Concept

full restoration

Full restoration means fixing up a car so that it looks and works like it did when it was brand new. This can involve a lot of work to make sure everything is perfect.

Term

blown motor

A blown motor means the engine has been upgraded to make it faster and more powerful, usually by adding special equipment that forces more air into the engine.

Concept

AMBR

AMBR is an award for the best-looking roadster at a big car show. It's a way to celebrate really cool and beautifully made cars.

Concept

Al Slonaker Award

The Al Slonaker Award is a special prize given to cars that show great skill in their design and build quality. It's usually won by classic or custom cars.

Car

Volkswagen Karmann Ghia

The Volkswagen Karmann Ghia is a stylish car from the 1950s that looks like a sports car but is built on the same parts as the popular Beetle. The 1955 version is known for its special design.

Company

Type One Restoration

Type One Restoration is a shop that fixes up old cars to make them look and run like new again. They pay a lot of attention to how well the car is built.

Term

horsepower

Horsepower tells you how powerful an engine is. The higher the horsepower, the faster the car can go.

Concept

SEMA

SEMA is a big car show where companies show off parts and accessories for cars. It's important for people in the car industry to meet and see new products.

Car

Volkswagen Thing

The Volkswagen Thing is a quirky car from the 1970s that looks like a small military vehicle. It has a simple design and can be used in different ways, like taking off the doors and roof.

Term

30-inch tires

30-inch tires are big tires that are often used on trucks and off-road vehicles. They help the vehicle drive better on rough surfaces like dirt or rocks.

Term

Haltech

Haltech makes special computer systems that help control how a car's engine runs, especially in modified or racing cars.

Car

Porsche 911

The Porsche 911 is a famous sports car that has been around for a long time. It's known for its unique shape and great performance on the road.

Concept

Subaru swap

A Subaru swap is when you take out the engine from a car and put in a Subaru engine instead. People do this to improve performance or reliability.

Concept

dune buggy

A dune buggy is a fun, small vehicle made for driving on sandy or rough surfaces like beaches. They usually have big tires and are great for off-roading.

Term

off-roading

Off-roading means driving on surfaces that aren't paved, like dirt or sand. It's a fun way to explore nature with vehicles made for rough conditions.

Car

Jaguar XK-E

The Jaguar XK-E, or E-Type, is a classic British sports car from the 1960s. It's famous for its sleek design and is considered one of the most beautiful cars ever made.

Car

Talbot Lago

Talbot Lago is a vintage car brand from France that made stylish and fast cars in the 1930s. They are rare and often seen in classic car shows.

Car

Ferrari 750 Monza

The Ferrari 750 Monza is a famous race car from the 1950s. It's known for being fast and lightweight, making it great for racing.

Car

The Lancia Stratos is a famous sports car known for its unique shape and powerful engine. It was designed for racing on rough roads and became very successful in competitions during the 1970s. Many people admire it for its cool look and racing history.

Car

Jaguar XJ220

The Jaguar XJ220 is a super-fast sports car from the 1990s. It's famous for its speed and stylish look.

Car

Mclaren F1

The McLaren F1 GTR is a special racing version of the McLaren F1 car. It's famous for being very fast and winning races.

Car

Bugatti Type 59

The Bugatti Type 59 is an old racing car that was made in the 1930s. It's famous for its unique look and is very valuable because of its history and performance.

Car

Bugatti Type

The Bugatti Type 251 is an old racing car that was made in the 1950s and is known for being very well-designed and fast. Even though it didn't become as famous as some other Bugatti cars, it's still important in the history of racing. People talk about it because of its unique features and the story behind it.

Car

Ferrari Dino

The Ferrari Dino 206S is a vintage sports car from Ferrari, famous for its sleek design and powerful engine. It's a collector's item and represents a significant part of Ferrari's history.

Car

Ferrari 250

The Ferrari 250 GT short wheelbase is a famous classic car from Ferrari, known for its speed and stylish design. It's a favorite among collectors and car enthusiasts.

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I got to check my levels. Brad's in my ears.

Brad's seeming hot.

I got to tell you, you know, I started out today with a rock star.

And I wouldn't got a bottle of water. I wouldn't got a bottle of water.

But I put some energy stuff in it, you know, because I mean, I need my energy level up.

I've been doing my Tai Chi exercises.

Old man stuff. Nice. Old man stuff. Nice.

You know, I'm doing the Tai Chi. You know what though? I got to admit,

I think you guys know that I broke both my elbows, racing BMX way back.

And I was doing this Tai Chi exercise where you're supposed to take your arms.

You make a, you make a moon and you start with your palms up.

And as you come around, you turn your arms and then you go down.

It's just one of the moves.

And my one elbow locked up and it hasn't locked up in years.

And I'm like, ah, damn it. I guess that one's not going to work for me.

So I can't go to the moon with my Tai Chi, but hey, I'm just,

I'm trying to add something in other than just lifting weights and walking.

I need a little Tai Chi because it, so I'm like doing, I'm in my zone.

I got my, I got, I got some, some nice calming music going on the TV.

I'm up in my, in my den the other night and I'm doing my Tai Chi.

And all of a sudden that year, Charlotte go, Brad, the dog needs to be let out.

Hey, do you not, why aren't you responding?

And I'm like, um, I'm trying to be in a, in a calming moment.

I let him out last time and I'm like, oh man.

Broke. Yeah, that's not working. That's not working.

Oh my God. That's what noise canceling headphones are for.

Yeah. But then, then, then I get the, come to the door, open it and be standing there with

their hands on our hips going, you know, with their face.

Haven't you ever noticed the noise is in quotes, noise canceling.

Pretty soon it's going to be Sacky Pants, Brad doing Tai Chi.

That's right. I'm going to be all ripped. I'm going to be, oh yeah.

And then I'm going to go into like doing like Kung Fu moves and like Elvis.

Brad's built like Bruce Lee.

I'm a person.

I'm definitely not lean. I'll never be lean.

And I could be, I could weigh 150 pounds and I wouldn't be lean.

I just, not my bill. Me, me either. Me either.

Bradley underscore Fanshawe. What's going on in the car world?

Grand National Roadster show happened last weekend.

What used to be the Oakland Roadster show when it was in Northern California

until it moved down to SoCal and it was always the Grand National,

but the Grand National Roadster show is now it's, it's new name.

It was off the hook. You guys, it was great.

First of all, I think weather helped. We had fantastic California weather.

There were so many people that I saw out there that flew out on delayed flights

from the East Coast or the Midwest or South and they were all complaining

that yeah, I was supposed to be here yesterday, but my flight was delayed, you know,

a lot of them flying through Texas had a lot of problems.

Yeah.

But they were so happy when they got here and it wasn't nothing degrees.

It was, you know, 80 degrees sunny and beautiful.

And it was one of those picture perfect winter California days and you saw it in the gate.

Excuse me. There were so many people, but not only that,

it was a great Grand National Roadster show.

There were so many nice cars there in every category, a lot of great vendors.

And let's talk about a few of them.

I hope you guys looked some of these up.

Might as well talk right off the top.

The Grand National Roadster show winner, the AMBR, America's Most Beautiful Roadster.

It was a pretty tight category this year.

There were some incredible contenders, but Dave Merrick and I were walking through the show with our buddy,

Scotty Ross.

And Scotty was there?

Yeah.

Scotty flew down.

Scotty Ross.

And we're hanging out with him and we saw this car and we all thought, wow, that's a really clean car.

But we were worried because most of the cars were very contemporary, very, you know, had all of the,

I'm going to say, accoutrements of a late model hot rod that usually has been winning the Roadster show.

And this one was a little bit more 50s, 60s.

I didn't have an elaborate display.

It was just on white carpeting.

It's funny you mentioned that.

That was the one thing I didn't mean to interrupt, but we talked last year about Cal Customs winning an award and going,

you should have seen the display.

It must have been hundreds of thousands of dollars.

These guys showed up with like a white shag carpet and nothing else.

And it was great.

It was.

And sometimes the display can take away from the car if you do too much, you know.

Cal Auto, theirs really added to it because it told a story, but sometimes they do too trick a display and it takes away from it.

But you do get judged by the display.

I don't know if you still do.

You used to.

But anyways, it won.

It was built by Squeege's Customs out of Chandler, Arizona.

And it took the cup and it was well deserved.

It was a nice presentation.

It was a great car.

Look it up.

It was like a baby blue, like a powder blue with white accents.

But that wasn't all for Squeege's.

Squeege's had come with a couple cars for their booth.

And these were the type of cars that started showing up online from the minute they were pulling them out of the trailer because they were eyeball droppers.

I mean, I said, I told the guys at Squeege's that I said, your two cars made me smile, made me grin because they were so cool.

It was the kind of cars that they're not going to be like cruising on American cruise or anything like that because these things, both of them had blown injected himmys.

Both of them had slicks on the back, but they were reminiscent of old 60s era hot rod race cars.

The first was a 33 sedan and it was done in a, it was a little bit of a flip flop, heavy, heavy metal flake, kind of a purplish fuchsia that was just incredible.

With the yellow Lexan windows and up front on that 33, they had the contoured Lexan grill that was yellow and you looked through it and you saw the blown injected hemi in there that was all polished.

It was just, you know, unbelievable.

And the paint was great.

It just all worked so well.

The interior was all like a race car.

It was all just Paul or excuse me, brushed aluminum and then you move over to the truck and it was a, I think a 61, I believe, but it was a 61 Dodge a 100.

They called it the double a 100 because it was like a double a gasser mounted mid chassis right behind the rear window was a polished blown injected hemi.

And the chassis was all tube chassis had big slicks chrome plated wheelie bars, really cool, like funny car, you know, spoiler on the back.

And I'm talking old 60s era funny car was too little spoilers.

The kite, it had the perfect stance.

It had paint like there's just unbelievable panel paint.

And did you guys get to see photos of either of these?

I'm looking at them right now.

I'm looking on their Instagram account squeegees customs with a K and you can see there's a couple pictures and there's some videos.

When you see the pictures or when you see the videos, you see a lot of that that the flake and stuff in the paint.

Yeah, two cool things.

I admit, like, these cars are gorgeous.

The craftsmanship, none of them are really my style personally, but you can see how well they did really like a brown Audi instead, right?

The wagon.

Well, this is all like, like, you know, custom culture kind of stuff.

I dig it.

Again, it's not my cup of tea.

In, you know, it sounded so wicked, you know, it was that.

You know, just.

Yeah.

It looks like that that that fuchsia was parked right next to the.

They were in the same booth.

They're great looking.

And I see the light blue on the winner.

Yeah, there's there's there's good stuff.

I saw that Jimmy shine one.

He won something too, huh?

Yeah, I don't know.

There's so many awards.

Sometimes you don't know what they win.

But yes, he won with one of his entries.

It's like the perfect mossy green.

It's just stunning.

And what a nice backstory too.

What are the big awards?

AMBR, right?

America's Most Beautiful Roadster.

The Al Slonaker Award, which we'll talk about in a minute.

The AMBR, America's Most Beautiful Roadster.

Then they have all these category rewards, you know, awards like, you know, best pickup truck, best celebrity.

Just like just like a bond touch award or something.

Yeah.

Bruce Meyer does an award, which we'll talk about that car right now.

He gave his 200 mile an hour award, which is, you know, his, his Bruce Meyer 200 mile an hour award.

And it went to a really cool car.

I took pictures of it's on my Instagram.

It was a full restoration of the.

Of the Beach Boys cover car off their album, Lil Deuce.

Oh, wow.

And somebody did a fantastic job.

The car looked great with its blown motor and its unique headlights and everything like that.

And it was, it was really, really cool.

And Bruce awarded that to those guys.

But there's a lot of really cool award.

There's like squeegees one with that truck.

They won like some triple award, which I don't even know what it was, but it looked really cool.

It was really cool trophy and stuff.

The awards, that's one of the things, man, that always kills me when I go to a show is when you got to wait around for the awards and all you want to do is blow it up and go, you know.

And the awards out there last till like way into the night.

I know one year we had, we had a 33 out there that Mark Solani and I had out there and we were like, we're probably not going to win anything anyway.

Why don't we just leave?

And then we ended up staying and won something.

And it was like, it was like, yeah, was it worth it?

You know, after you've been there all week, because you load in on Wednesday and then you're, you know, cleaning on Thursday and then the shows Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then, you know, eight o'clock at night on Sunday, you're ready to go.

So, but, but hey, it's worth it.

It is worth it because you, you win an award.

Yeah, I had a prior engagement.

I couldn't get out there for that.

But I like going out to the show and going to all the different buildings and just kind of walking through and seeing all the crazy stuff because you do get a good mix of cars.

And it is fun to see.

Oh yeah, they get the Sweet Palace, which is all the patina cars and all the, you know, older hot rods.

But, you know, like, again, like this style of car that we're talking about, that one AMBR, not necessarily my style, but it is fun to go back and see those cars.

Like you can take that award winner and you could have said that was from 1985.

I would have been like, yeah, that was totally on point, you know, but bringing that back.

No, 1985, it would have looked totally, those cars looked horrible.

I remember a lot of shaved door handles and stripes from coming from Boyd's back in the, in the day.

The one, the Al Slonaker Award, which is a very prestigious award and it's on craftsmanship, on quality, on style and design.

And it has almost always exclusively been won by a hot rod or a mid 60s car.

And this year was won by a 1955 car.

But it kind of blew everybody away because it was a 1955 VW Karman gear.

But if you look it up, the Al Slonaker Award VW Karman gear, you will see this is unlike any Karman gear you've ever seen.

Still looking for it.

I can't find the Karman gear.

It was built by a shop by type one restoration.

Is it green?

It's kind of a greeny sand color.

Yeah.

And oh my gosh, the quality of the build was tremendous.

And the motor, the interior, the stance, everything about it was really, really cool.

They did a fantastic job with this.

I say building it like a hot rod, but I just mean in the style of the build quality and a lot of machined parts and things like that, that you don't usually see on one of those cars.

It was awesome.

It was awesome looking at it now.

Dennis, I think it's great.

300 horsepower.

Yeah, that thing's gnarly.

It's going to scoot.

And outdoors, the one thing about the Roadster show down here is that on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they allow people to enter their cars, not in the show itself, but bring it in and park between the buildings and park outside.

And man, there was a great selection of cars out there.

It was a real variety and a ton of them.

I mean, just because of the weather, it really, they had a great show of the outdoor cars too, which is always fun and the vendors and all that kind of stuff.

So it was great.

We had a great time walking around, checking everything out, saw a lot of people.

We drank a beer at the beer stand.

OK, we drank too.

I'm clicking through the pictures of that car, McGee up.

They did a nice job.

It's crazy, isn't it?

Yeah, really nice.

Real tasteful, but well conceived and well designed and well built.

Yeah, it's probably still slow.

Not with 300 horsepower.

It's a one speed.

It's crazy to think we have cars today that are coming off the showroom floor with a thousand plus horsepower.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, but yeah, that's a cool car.

It was very cool.

So there was a lot of great cars out there.

There was just so much to, you know, you were wrenching your neck this way, wrenching your neck that way.

And then people coming up.

Now, on Friday, the Hot Rod Industry Alliance and SEMA had asked me to moderate a guest panel again this year.

And we had a great panel.

We did a, in Building 9, we had a real nice thing.

They set up some bleachers.

We got our tables.

And we had Chip Foos, Jimmy Shine, Dave Merrick, Bogey.

OK, now wait a minute.

Bogey Latiner.

I know.

I always thought it was Lightner.

I did too.

And we had that conversation.

I'll come back to that.

All these years.

It's Rick Love from Vintage Air.

And so I said to Bogey, I said, Bogey, I always say Lightner.

And she goes, so does everybody.

She goes, but it's Latiner.

Oh my gosh.

And I go, OK, so I'm like doing announcements, getting people in the seats and stuff.

And I go, and today we've got...

And Bogey Lightner, I go, oh, and she gives me a big grin.

And I go, and so by the end, after I messed it up like three times, she goes, just call me Bogey.

And I go, OK.

So when I introduced her to the crowd, when we started, I said, and Bogey, who has one name,

just like Cher, I said, you know, it was, but we had fun.

We, we talked about how these people all got careers in the hot rod and custom car industry

and the paths they took were all different.

You know, because like Bogey, she was a certified BMW mechanic and kind of came around through there.

And I had to stress that just because almost all of us had been on a TV show,

that had nothing to do with it.

It was, that came after, you know.

And we had a really good, we had a packed, you know, bleachers.

People stuck around and it went really well.

So hopefully that'll be an annual thing and they'll ask me back again.

What did you guys talk about?

Well, I always try and keep everybody involved and keep it moving.

So we talked about, first, how did they get started in the automotive industry?

Then we all talked about how that happened.

You know, like Chip talked about how his dad was a custom car builder.

And then Dave talked about how he had always loved cars but could draw.

And so he, you know, went to art center and found out about that.

And then like Rick Love, his was really interesting.

He was a hot rodder and he worked for one of the magazines and he went to vintage air just to,

to talk to him about air conditioning for one of his cars and maybe do some things for an article.

And he ended up working there.

And, and then Jimmy runs the company.

Yeah, now he's the president. Yeah.

And Jimmy Shine talked about how when he got out of jail,

a stint in prison that he had learned how to make metal license plates and he was able to.

No, Jimmy talked about how he was kind of on the wrong track and really, you know,

barely getting by and he talked about how he wanted to do that.

And he'd built some stuff and had his willies pick up that he built and things like that.

And that he went and interviewed with Pete Shaporis and told a real funny story about how he worked.

He goes, it was 100 degrees out in Pomona and he showed up with a long sleeve shirt on because he had heard

Pete didn't like, didn't like tattoos.

And, and, and he said he was sitting there and he thought he'd gotten through the whole thing.

And, and Pete goes, so let me ask you something.

He goes, yeah, he goes, this is about your noggin.

And he goes, what do you mean my noggin?

And he goes, well, why the hell you out here?

It's 110 degrees out and you're wearing a long sleeve shirt.

And he said, well, sir, I have sleeved tattoos and I was told you weren't really fond of tattoos.

And he said, Pete said, roll up your sleeves.

Let me look at him.

And he goes, no, what's this one mean?

What's that one mean?

And he goes, we have this kind of stage and they rolled up his sleeve and he had his US Marine Corps one.

And he goes, I got one.

He goes, I just don't like them.

But if you like them and there's nothing on there about, you know, anything offensive, he goes, yeah, whatever, you know.

And so, you know, so we had stories like that.

Then we talked about, you know, ideas on how you can get in.

And then I also brought up and had everybody talk about how these are the famous names of the hot rod industry.

But that doesn't mean there's not other things.

Every single one of these guys are supported by a group of individuals that that do everything.

You know, David Honda had all the people, you know, Chip has his whole group of guys, Jimmy has his group of guys.

Yeah.

And that there's all different levels you can get into.

You can get started at and you don't have to own your own shop.

You don't have to have it to eat.

That's kind of what I wanted to stress because you put a group up there like that and people think, well, yeah, it's easy for them because they're Chip Foose or they're Jimmy.

They had to get there.

Yeah, but people forget that, you know, that look at your dad.

People come up probably, well, yeah, you're a big rock.

Yeah, he had to struggle to it one time.

You know, back in the 30s when he started, he had to.

30s.

Speaking of which, we've been going through the archives.

I'm finding some cool stuff.

I found a bunch of Matt Anthony.

Oh, I remember that stuff.

Yeah.

I grabbed a couple of those.

We found some cassettes.

We found a box full of cassettes.

Like it's good stuff.

Yeah, cassettes.

Hey, do you guys ever...

It's like a mini reel to reel.

Do you know what a reel to reel is?

No, it's those things you put in a printer.

Yeah, a cassette.

You know what?

We should take a quick break and then we'll come back and talk about something.

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You're so witty, Brad.

I know.

Hey, so if you guys ever looked at the VW thing, we were talking about the Carmen Gibb,

and if you ever looked at the thing and thought, I could do something with that.

Make it all military and cool.

So I'm driving down the street the other day.

Actually, I'm going to admit, I was walking.

I know nobody walks in LA, but I'm in Orange County.

I was, I took my truck over to get it smogged and I was walking back from the shop where I dropped it off at.

And I'm standing at the light and you have a whole different perspective when you're standing at the light

or versus sitting in your car at a light.

And this VW thing pulls up and I look over and I go, that thing looks good.

And it was raised just enough, had maybe 30-inch tires on it, some aluminum wheels.

It was painted army green.

And instead of the big convertible top, it had a bimini top.

And the, it just looked great now.

It also didn't go, when it pulled away.

It didn't sound like a VW.

So I don't know if it had a different exhaust or you said there's a conversion, Aaron?

Oh, yeah.

People put Subaru motors.

Subaru motors.

Yeah.

What, a V6 or a 4 or what?

No, a flat 4.

A flat 4?

Yeah.

A Subaru is a flat 4.

I don't want to say it's a similar configuration, but it's a pretty badass upgrade.

Do they change the whole transaxle and everything?

Yeah.

Yeah, you got to change everything.

I mean, I'm assuming you have to run a Haltech and a wiring harness and all kinds of fancy

stuff, because they're fuel injected.

But yeah, the Subaru motors, there's a 550-Spider replica in SoCal for sale right now with

a Subi motor.

Oh, no, wait.

Sorry.

That's a different one.

That has a 911 motor in it.

But there was one with a Subaru motor in it.

And they did a video of it.

And it sounds so good.

They really did.

Yeah, this one was...

It sounds good.

I thought Factory 5 was doing some car that they were supposed to do the Subaru motor with.

I don't know if they ended up doing the Subaru motor, but they were going to do a...

Great little motor.

One of their kick cars was going to be based off of the Subaru swap.

Yeah.

I think I know that car you're talking about.

That would be cool with a Subaru motor.

And I pulled a full errand.

Yeah, I got back.

I went, all right, I'm going to check it out.

And I found a VW thing for $6,500.

Yeah.

And then I found a bunch more.

And they seemed to average about $17,000 to $20,000 for a really nice one that you just buy and drive.

Wow.

They're getting up there.

Yeah.

And like about $6,500 for a trashy one.

And I thought maybe some listener called me and go, hey, I got this one beside my house.

And maybe if you integrated it into the show and did a video so I could see it being built

and stuff like that, they'd just send it my way right after the trailer.

I remember Jimmy Kimmel has one that's converted to electric.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

That's a great one.

I think he's got like a 74...

Yeah.

A 74 Volkswagen thing that he did, did some kind of conversion to electric.

But I remember him doing that quite a while ago.

Well, see, now you have me so intrigued with the Subaru Swap so that you've got a cool motor, more horsepower.

Yeah.

I remember back in the 80s, you used to be able to get those things really cheap.

I know.

I thought about doing one, a slammed one.

Have you ever seen one that's slammed on skinnier tires and they look really cool?

It's the Myers Manics type of...

Or Myers Manx, excuse me.

Hey, I wasn't going to correct you.

I was going to look it up.

Dune buggy.

I've seen those drop down and slammed also and they look really wicked.

But when I saw this one the other day, just slightly lifted with the bigger tires, I thought,

how fun would that be, man?

You could go take it on a beach that's open for driving or you could just take it off

roading or you could just drive it around on a nice day.

Yeah, totally.

You could fill it with water.

I wonder if Vintage Air makes an air conditioning system for that, that if you have the other

motor you could put...

They have it for everything.

They can make a universal kit.

You can do it for anything.

Well, I know...

Have you guys seen the really high-end, late model sandbuggies and like that, that they

run the air through the tube frame?

Yeah, they have crazy stuff.

And the vents come right out of the tubes and it's pretty cool.

It's pretty cool.

Yeah, that would be a really cool project to do.

It would be a lot of fun, but it's a dream.

It's a wish.

It's like we all...

All us car guys have those.

You see a 250GTO Ferrari rolling down the road and you think, God, I should buy one of those.

I could hot rod it and put a Subaru motor in it.

Got one of those right there.

Yeah, yeah, a Ferrari XK-E.

I mean, a Jaguar.

Hey, it could have a Ferrari motor.

It could be a Ferrari XK.

A Ferrari V-Type.

So there was another event that you guys didn't...

I asked you to go to.

I told you I'd charter a jet.

We would go, but you guys were like, I'm busy.

I don't have any time.

Yeah, working on my thing.

I said, no, no, I'll pay for everything.

I'll pay for...

We'll have to split a room because there are three grand a night.

But no, it was something...

Actually, Matt called me and he said, no, the last time I had to share a bed with Aaron.

It was just embarrassing.

He goes, he ate beans the night before and it was just horrible.

It was horrible.

Brad's had three too many energy drinks today.

No, the Sunmaritz Ice Race and Concordialagon in Sunmaritz, Switzerland.

It's on the southern side of the Alps.

And if you look it up online, there is post after post after post on Instagram videos.

Now, I have been fortunate enough to go to this once.

When I was doing business for my watch company over in Switzerland one year back in the early 2000s,

I had heard about this event and so I took a day trip over and it was much quieter.

And what I mean by it hadn't become the known event.

And I compare it very much to motor week up in, you know, car week up in Monterey.

If I go back to the first time I went there in the early 2000s, it was car guys and it was the shows and it was this.

And now it's like every influencer is there, every tourist is there and it doesn't make it worse.

It just makes it more crowded and it makes it more expensive because, you know, there's so many more bodies there.

But Sunmaritz is awesome.

You have never seen anything as exciting as this because I'll tell you about some of the cars that were racing.

These aren't just statics sitting on a beautifully manicured lawn because, of course, it's in the Alps in January.

But where else do you see a Talbot Lago teardrop actually racing and getting sideways on the ice?

Right.

Or a Ferrari 750 Monza.

You know, now Alancia Stratos, yeah, you might see that somewhere but it's usually moving along.

Matt, how about a Jaguar XJ220?

I love those.

I know you do.

There's a picture on their Instagram and they've got not just a McLaren F1, it's a McLaren F1 GTR.

Yes.

I mean, we are talking about the cars and guys, you can tell these people have immense wealth because like one of them...

Well, that car is like 30 million.

I know.

And they're out there driving the Bugatti Type 59, driving it on ice.

But you know what's so cool about it is the fact that they're actually using them.

They're not just sitting, coming in trailers and sitting in the same place all weekend.

But think about it.

It's just getting wet.

It's not like taking it on a dirt track where everything's getting dirty and scuffed up and messed up.

They go out and they do hot laps and they do some where they go out together.

But there was a Ferrari Dino, a 206S.

And if you scan through the photos, some dude took this perfect Ferrari 206 and he wrapped it in all of the event posters from previous years.

And it looked really cool.

There was a Ferrari 250 GT short wheelbase out there, a 908 Porsche, several Lamborghini Mirra SVs.

Yeah, I saw a picture of the Mirras.

I mean, it's just like, you know, it was crazy.

You know what else I noticed that was really interesting was some cars that I've seen sell at like gooding over the years or at RM.

That were former like show cars from like GM or Pontiac or something like that.

Some of these really cool winged cars from like the 50s or 60s, like a Stratus and stuff.

They showed up and they were driving them on the ice.

So those must have gone to Europe or somebody flew them over and it's so cool.

The one thing I remember and I was so happy to see they still do is so they've got the ice kind of has a snowpack on it.

So it throws up these rooster tails and things like that.

But over where the spectator area is, it is pure ice.

It's blue ice on the lake and you and they have it cleared and they have little cocktail tables and bars and things set up on the ice.

And if you order something to drink, the waiters and waitresses are all on ice skates and they skate over with their tray and they don't just like skate over.

They're like doing pirouettes and tricks and things like that.

And it's so cool.

It's just it's one of those events that you could go to for like 150 bucks, stand behind the rope, watch it all happen.

But if you want to be a participant and I don't even mean bring a car participant, it's it is pricey like rooms that are three grand a night.

The after parties like $10,000 a ticket.

But it's spectacular.

It's but it's it's a really, really cool event.

It's on my bucket list to go again.

Well, it should be.

I don't know.

You're going to get the 10 grand.

I'm not sure what I was going to the after party.

I don't know what kind of party I'd have to go to for it to justify a $10,000 ticket if that's the cost.

But it sounds like a fun event.

There's a lot of billionaires there, OK, and tech billionaires and people like that.

And I'm just, you know, there was this one woman there in her 50 GT Ferrari.

Pardon me.

You're just a dollar air.

Exactly.

I'm a hundred air, man.

But the it's I couldn't even afford to dress right.

Did you see how everybody's dressed in these?

You're talking about the the waiters on on on skates.

The waiters are wearing tuxedos with with tails and stuff.

They're wearing like full on like full like they're they're doing like a I don't know,

like a Philharmonic concert or something.

Exactly.

And then they have the, you know, our angels will they have the Swiss, you know,

version of the Blue Angels doing shows above in the sky.

And and then they have like the the Red Bull trick helicopter come in and do there's

something going on everywhere.

And and then at night it becomes this like over the top, you know, very bourgeois,

you know, parties and get togethers and things like that.

And it's but but like there was one guy that I found online when I was looking

everything up the other night that all he was doing was was going through what

people were wearing.

And he was going, OK, so this guy right here, if you see he has a a Zinnia blah,

blah, blah, blah, he's going through everything and he goes, OK, so if we add

everything up, his outfit's probably about 10 or 12 grand, you know, and then

he's going to I'm like before the watch, before the watch.

Yeah, that's before the watch.

That adds another 250,000.

It was just crazy.

It was just remarkable.

But but no, if if you're into something like that and and you can afford the price

of admission, go for it.

And even if you can't, it's worth going and watching it happen because you will

not find anything like this.

Most Concorde delegates in the world are held on summery days or late spring

days where you have you might find some fall ones, but it's out of the grass.

And this one is just remarkable.

It's it's a it's a whole different experience, excuse me, still from the

champagne, you know, but it I'm glad I got to go.

And I didn't even know I just some locals told me about it.

And I was like, oh, I'll go check it out.

And it was a really cool thing with the cars racing on the ice.

And and then they do a parade through town and everything.

And and you know, and summer it's is the most it's known anyways as the most

expensive ski resort in the world.

You know, it's so it's already you're starting at a real high bar.

And that's not they have ice polo there.

They have all kinds of different events there.

It's pretty crazy.

I bet the horses ate that ice.

You know, yeah, it's called slippery.

They have spiked shoes.

I saw some drifting events and they were literally at 90 degrees going down the

street. Yeah.

Like they come out of the corner and they're fully sideways.

Just it's going straight down the straightaway.

I totally sideways.

Yeah, I think the new Jag was out there at that event.

And maybe that's what they were doing it because there's images of the new

the new like really long.

The the all electric long thousand horsepower thing.

And it still had like the camouflage wrap on it.

And it was drifting in the ice.

Crazy.

It's it's a good life if you can live it, I guess.

Right. Yeah.

I was going to fly my my 2001 Yukon XL over there.

And but they said that because it was leaking too much oil, I wouldn't be

allowed to go on the ice.

They'd see everywhere you go because it was just a stream of oil in the ice.

They said, they said, what is with this black ice?

Exactly black ice.

And they said, no, you make black ice and be too slippery.

Oh, Brad.

Plus, plus the plane to get it over there with.

Oh, that's the other thing in the mornings and in the evenings.

There's a portion of the lake that's open so you can land your helicopter and

your jet.

And it's, you know, so that you can just land right there and you don't have to

worry about driving in from an airport or anything.

I don't know about landing a jet on a lake.

You know, they do it on a frozen lake has to be pretty frozen, doesn't it?

Pretty frozen to race all those cars on it.

Can you imagine if there was a crack in the ice and all those multimillion

dollar cars went through the ice?

It's a thing.

Well, you know, that's actually a good point because if you've ever watched ice

road truckers or any of those shows, they have to pace themselves and they can

only go a certain speed because their weight actually pushes the ice.

So it creates like this wave in the ice.

Yeah, it creates a ripple.

And if they don't time that right, it could be catastrophic.

Ruffles have those too.

Yeah.

So you'd wonder if you land a jet or a plane, if it would create that ripple

because of the speed.

Yeah, interesting.

And the weight and the 65 million dollar price tag.

You're right.

That's why I'm not going to land my jet there next year.

Damn it.

Yeah, I don't know.

I'm going to go to Zurich and helicopter in from there over the Alps.

What if they stud those tires?

Yeah.

What else you guys got going on?

Nothing.

Nothing I care to discuss at the moment.

Can you see the frustration on my face?

Are you getting ready for the Long Beach Grand Prix?

No.

Well, Long Beach Grand Prix, but before that, is it before that?

No, I'm trying to pick out the dates.

So NHRA.

Yeah, they moved all their dates around.

So used to happen.

They moved the dates around.

So I think it's coming beginning of April.

They swapped with Arizona because, you know, we were getting rain during the

promoted drag race and they wanted to not do that.

So, but in the meantime, if you guys pop back over to CarCast podcast, we had

Ron Capps and his new driver, Maddie Gordon.

She's a 21 year old top fuel driver now.

They were on the show this past week.

We've got Alexis DeGioria.

She's coming on in a couple of weeks and she's making the move to

John Force Racing because the girls retired.

So Alexis DeGioria is actually the only female racer on that team and the

first non-family membered woman to join John Force Racing.

Man, I knew they moved it, Matt, but they moved it clear to April 9th through

the 12th for Pomona.

Yeah.

So that's, yeah, that's a big move.

It's a big move.

Yeah.

So, and then when is Phoenix?

Grand Prix of Long Beach is going to be April.

Same weekend.

17 through 19.

That's the same weekend.

Isn't it?

I just say April.

No, you said 8th and 9th.

Did I?

My memory is not that long.

Pomona is 9th through the 12th.

So it's the weekend before.

Weekend before, yeah.

So we've got big motorsports weekend coming up in April.

Weekend coming up in April.

Lots of fun stuff going on in April.

And they start the new class of, what was I going to say?

At NHRA, the new VW thing class starts this year, I think.

That'd be good.

Don't knock it.

Someone's probably done it.

Also, I think, am I remembering this correctly?

The Grand Prix of Long Beach was the newest event that was purchased by

Penske.

Correct.

Oh, okay.

You are correct, sir.

And they got a new president, new race director, all kinds of stuff happening.

So Jim McCallion, who's been running the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach for as long

as I can remember, he's taking on the new role of at Penske Entertainment.

There's a lot of big changes.

A lot of big changes.

And you know Jim Law?

Jim, he was...

Not well, I know who he is.

He was from Formula D and then he went on to be the head of PRI.

Yeah, he was there, so now he's taking over Jim McCallion's role at Grand Prix of Long

Beach.

And then McCallion's going to Penske.

So yeah, a little bit of a change up there.

Yeah, a little bit of a change.

You know, things are moving.

Things are moving.

The president of PRIs, he was the general manager that went to Long Beach and the president

of PRI went over to be the head of the IndyCar Museum, of the Indy Race Track Museum.

Oh.

Yeah, so...

Yeah, that's cool.

I don't know who's running PRI right now, but...

I don't know.

It's just kind of running around on its own.

That was really fun when we all went to Long Beach.

Oh yeah.

That was a long time ago, wasn't it?

I know.

It was a really...

Actually, Matt, I think, did you launch there?

Across the street?

We were doing something in that little bar?

No, so that was years ago, and we were launching Adam Carolla's beer.

Oh, that's right.

It was Adam's beer.

Yeah, Adam had a beer.

He had his wine business, and that was the beer there.

That's right.

Whatever happened to that?

I think it got lost in a divorce.

Oh, yeah, we won't...

Yeah, what is understood need not be discussed.

I just started.

I pretty much killed Matt.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, that worked out great.

That was so fun.

That worked out great.

Yeah.

All right, let's wrap it up for today.

We will have a lot to talk about next week because Matt has got huge things happening

this week.

Aaron, Aaron is headed down to pick up his VW thing, and Matt's got a VW thing, and I'm

going to get one, and we're going to have a build-off.

We're going to do the thing off.

I will let you know how my vehicle inspection goes for the state of California on our little

defender.

I'm pretty nervous about that.

As soon as you said state of California.

State of California.

Exactly.

Which I don't...

I'll hope just drops.

For those that didn't hear the pre-show discussion, it came back with a salvage title, which I'm

really, really, really upset about.

It's a very special, rare, and limited vehicle.

It's never been an accident.

Didn't deserve it just because it went through a tow yard.

Not cool.

So, FU California and all your stupid ass rules for...

Why did it take so long for you to get the title on that thing?

Oh, that's a whole other thing.

Because you've had that forever.

Yeah.

Almost a year.

Yeah.

Because I was trying to avoid a salvage title.

So, I was going through all these different ways of getting a title from...

Because it's been out of the system for 20 years.

And I thought, oh, this will be easy.

But because it was donated and it went through a company and it got tax exempt and then it

went through the tow company.

We ended up having to lien sale it, which wouldn't have given it a salvage title.

We lien sailed it through the business.

And yeah, I did all the paperwork and I thought we're in the clear.

Even the guy at the DMV was like, this is clean, man.

This is good.

And then it came back salvage.

And I went, what?

What?

Yeah.

That's weird.

Yeah.

Well, good luck with that.

That's one of those things that nobody wants to have to deal with.

So, let alone California DMV.

Yeah.

Well, the DMV has been great.

I have to say my experience there has been great.

It's a little Sonoma office.

Everybody was really cool in their car people.

But yeah, it's all the background stuff that's really a bummer.

And thankfully that car is immaculately preserved in every hose, every line.

But if something is dry and is cracked or if a bushing is bad or, I don't know,

are they going to say rust?

There's no rust on the frame, but are they going to say rust?

I had a transmission line blow out.

So there's oil everywhere.

I've been cleaning it, trying to get it all up.

But are they going to say, well, it's oily.

Are they going to take an explanation or are they just going to go, nope?

I mean, literally, if you have a torn bushing or something in your AR,

like they will, it's no.

And then you get no enough times and it's not back on the road, period.

So I have a little LCD screen coming from a gentleman so I can put that in

because the LCD isn't working, but the mileage is kept in the memory.

So that's good.

It's just the screen.

But hopefully that's it.

Everything else.

You can't even have a crack or a significant chip in the windshield

that has a crack going through starting.

You can't even have that.

So thankfully not.

Because there's nothing like knowing right away that it's a salvage vehicle

like a chip in the windshield.

Because that's not, that's never happened to any car anywhere.

Well, I think it's an opportunity for them to say, no, we don't want this junkyard.

They call it a safety concern.

Yeah.

And it's like, it's just weird because I've seen some real shit on the roads out here.

I know, I know, right?

Well, the stuff that's, I mean, I think the worst I ever saw was I saw a dude

running down the 55 South and he almost took up two lanes

because you could see his front tires.

He had so much dog leg like that thing had been and straightened.

And I mean, it was a pickup truck and it was literally going down.

And he was using, he was over the line.

He was so, it was so ridiculous.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's gnarly.

Well, dotting eyes and crossing T's.

So fingers crossed Tuesday, 10 o'clock.

You'll find out on the next edition of shift and steer.

Yes, you will.

Hey, we'll be back.

That's a promise, not a threat.

See you everybody.

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