Monterey Car Week 2025 - DWA! Podcast Ep. #897

The Driving While Awesome podcast is recorded live to SD card at the Beeline Motor Club in Santa Cruz, California.

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Welcome to Driving While Awesome. My name is Warren. I'm Lane. And I'm Mark. We made it. We're back, back in action. It is hot, man. It's a beautiful time here in Santa Cruz. We have a quote, unquote Indian summer going on. It's really just summer because it's August still, but kids are in school and they're missing out on the best days of the year.

So wild. It is 80 degrees with an offshore breeze, crystal clear out there. I just drove west cliff. Oh, I'm going to do it on the way home. Stunning out there. Went to the beach last night, body surf for a few hours. Quite nice.

Hell yeah, bro. My eyes are dilated. So I was avoiding sun, but I'm going west up on the way home, dude.

Dilated pupils or pupils.

Dude, pupils and pupils.

Sick.

Yeah.

What do you, you got to get an upgrade on your contacts or what's going on?

I just, yeah, I just needed a little, uh,

You just want to dial in them?

Yeah, I just want to dial in them for fun. Sometimes I do that.

Typical Tuesday.

Uh, no, yeah.

I recommend it at night. Do it at night. The sky looks pretty epic.

Yeah. Oh, good call, dude.

No, yeah, I just needed to. Yeah, Mike, I need a new contacts and they won't allow me to buy new ones without getting an appointment.

So that's how they get you.

Yeah, that's how they are.

That's how they are.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

If they were free here and if you were in Mexico, you can walk up and get some, uh, steroids,

some fentanyl, and you can also get your eye drops all at once, you know, and your new prescription.

Yeah, hang. The same guy does all that.

Sure. Yeah. I mean, any pharmacy in Mexico is gnarly, dude. Like antibiotics, whatever you want.

I know, I know.

Just walk right up. Yeah.

We were, we were on the prednisone train when we were in Mexico, uh, for hangover cures.

I, uh, I just got a parking ticket downtown.

Oh, how long were you there?

I have a new theory. Can I talk about this?

Yeah, they're weight.

Yeah.

My theory is I'm no longer paying for parking on the app, park mobile.

I don't know what you guys use in your city.

Yeah, it's parking.

Yeah.

Uh, if it's under like half hour, I'm just going to risk it because it's not smart.

Really?

They're too quick with it. That bitch is gnarly.

Where were you downtown?

Catten Cloud.

Abbott Square, Catten Cloud.

And you were like just right parked right there on the street.

Yeah. See, I don't even,

I was on like the, the, what's even Cooper or whatever it is front, front.

Or I was on the main one.

Trader Joe's one.

Yep.

Front.

That's key.

See, that's key.

I think your theory works if you know the area.

Like certain places are patrolled less.

Like I know here in Santa Barbara, there's like some beaches that are like super

touristy.

Right, right.

I'm not going to the boardwalk.

Always there.

I'm not going to go to the boardwalk.

But then you go over, you go to each beach over here where locals go.

Yeah, bro.

I will admit.

I'll do, I'll do the half an hour thing.

If it's just the kids running around for a little bit.

And here's the theory.

Here's the theory.

Yeah, what's the theory?

Okay.

Let's say you get away with a year of $5, $7, $3, $4.

No, I got to.

Yeah, yeah.

And then you get one ticket for 50 bucks.

Yeah, you're fine.

But if, but if you get one ticket for 50 bucks every five times, you're fucked.

I think once I get a ticket, I'll change my theories.

So I'll adjust my, my things.

So I got a ticket also a month ago.

So how come you're not paying?

What's your deal?

Okay.

So this time I literally just forgot that you have to pay.

I was just like, oh, you know, kind of just like, I wasn't thinking about it.

And that's why I was like, oh, shit, ran to my car.

Of course, tickets are already there.

And you're in your Porsche.

Are you in your Porsche?

I'm in Porsche.

It stands out too.

They're looking at this guy.

I want to give them a ticket.

Last time I did pay and then it ran out.

I did it within 10 minutes of running out.

I re-upped it.

Then I go into my car and I had the ticket on it.

So in the 10 minutes?

So they got me on the 10 minutes.

Dang, they're like waiting.

They probably were.

That's insane.

Oh, so that's maybe that's where you're not to pay.

Yeah.

I don't know.

They don't know when it's going to end because it never started.

I wouldn't be surprised because I wouldn't be surprised if it's, you know,

these days they have an app that shows all of them.

Oh, they're about to expire.

Yeah.

I bet you just drive through and it has a map and it shows which ones are green,

which ones are red or something.

Oh, that's fucked up.

Dude, San Francisco is brutal.

Like you do not fuck around there.

Like they get you instantly.

It's because and I think they know they must have it all on the map.

I have that app too.

I forget what that one is.

I'm talking places that are awful name

places that are a little off the beaten path

and they still want you to do park mobile.

I just say I'm going to risk this one.

Parking is expensive these days too.

It's like seven bucks.

Went to the movies the other day with $6 in the parking garage.

Yeah.

And I think parking garage might be cheaper than like park mobile.

Used to be free folks.

This is what they took from us.

And also there's some theories like free parking encourages

like shopping and business business.

So it's like, I mean, that's, I don't think that's even a theory

that you could argue.

Well, there's other people that say you should be used to paying for parking.

No, not in the city.

I've heard that quite a lot.

It's a thing.

Yeah.

So like downtown here, we're like upper state street,

which you know, on Chicago, which is now just straight state street.

That whole area used to be like the spot downtown, like, you know,

20, 30 years ago and it's like slowly dying.

A lot of it has shifted towards the waterfront.

And they made all of the parking garages free for 75 minutes

and all street parking free for 75 minutes.

So like for that exact reason, like they're trying to revitalize that area.

And it's definitely working.

That is a big incentive, right?

Because, you know, over here, stuff ain't cheap.

So, you know, like, yeah, well, that's the whole thing, right?

Yeah.

Should be used to paying for parking.

I mean, it definitely discourages also even shopping in general

and encourages people to go on Amazon or whatever.

Yeah.

Like if it's like something you just need and you're like,

oh, I'm going to go downtown and get it.

You're like, well, wait, I had to spend $5 premium plus the premium.

Let me just say this.

We, you know, we rent venues for Radwood.

A lot of those venues control the spectator parking.

We don't have any control over that.

That's their property.

They make money on it, whatever.

But we do negotiate it down, right?

So for San Jose, it's usually $25 to park a PayPal park.

We got it done to 10.

Awesome.

It seemed pretty reasonable.

People are still complaining.

Quote unquote, people are used to paying for parking at events,

but we still got feedback that it was too expensive.

Yeah.

And the biggest, the most common complaint was that the parking was.

How could you expect us to pay for parking at this event?

How could you?

And it's like, we tried.

If we didn't say anything or try to negotiate that,

it would have been $25.

So yeah, we tried and I'm so sorry,

but that's just kind of the way it works these days.

People do realize that Radwood doesn't own the stadium, right?

I don't think they do because they also yelled at us for

certain security protocols that clearly we had no part in.

Some guys wanted to come into the show that had their motorcycle helmets,

which I didn't think of as being a no go, but that's kind of wild.

And, you know, once I thought about it,

it's like, that's a hell of a weapon.

If you wanted to bash someone's head with your motorcycle helmet,

you could do that pretty easily.

Anyways, they're not a lot of the stadium.

We have no control over that.

I had no idea that would be a thing,

but these guys basically were turned away.

They didn't want to leave their helmets on their bikes.

I get it.

I wrote them a very clear email like,

hey, that sucks.

I'm sorry that happened.

But just so you know, we had no, you know, that's all that.

Yeah, that's all that.

Yeah, it's like the venues.

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff like that.

So they were all good, frustrated at the moment.

I totally get it.

But that's the world we live in.

Speaking of the world we live in, Monterey Car Week

was just behind us.

Do you see any shenanigans?

Speaking of terrible parking situation,

nonstop.

But yeah, man, dude, I gotta say, I don't need a day or two

to recover from parking.

I need like a full week, dude.

I'm struggling.

Yeah, it's funny too.

It's definitely not a SEMA situation

where I leave SEMA and go, and I'm never going back.

No, definitely not.

And then like six months later, I'm like, yeah, you know,

SEMA could be a thing.

And then a month before it, you're like,

I probably should go to SEMA.

It's definitely not that.

But we were super busy this year.

It felt like after COVID, there was a lull in Car Week

and just participation.

I had heard that there was like hotels available this year,

not as many international travels

because of our current administration, et cetera, et cetera.

It didn't feel like that at all.

Dude, it was the busiest Car Week I've ever experienced.

That's kind of where I'm at.

Most traffic I've experienced.

Most things going on and...

Last year felt easy to get around, like compared, comparatively.

And I don't want to dwell on this,

but I know we have to cover it

because it's easy to look at something

that was disappointing or a shitty experience

and have that like, you know, tint the whole thing and that.

But this whole like fuel run, gold rush, influencer...

Influencer based thing.

Want to be billionaire situation that's going on is...

Or at least this year was horrible.

Did you see a lot like in person or just on Instagram?

So we were staying at the embassy suites, which is like...

Oh, yeah.

It's got a couple of things going against it.

A, it's like kind of central.

B, it has a huge parking lot that's connected to the chilies

that hosts a cars and coffee every month.

So it's known as just a big parking lot

that you can go and see cars and do all that.

There's no fence or gate or security around the hotel.

And it's on a busy intersection.

Really busy intersection.

So next to in and out, which we'll get to in a minute.

Oh, yeah.

It's next door basically.

So, I mean, Art and I were just marveling.

Like two in the morning, people revving off,

ripping down the street, cops pulling people over,

kids running through the parking lot with their phones.

By the way, all the kids look the same.

Just like broccoli hair, hoodie, like black pants and vans.

Like that's, that's the uniform.

And so we, I think we were more just like getting back

to the hotel at night.

It's, it's like a freaking borderline side show.

Like Art can attest.

We were just super annoyed.

Yeah, dude.

I mean, it was chaotic.

Yeah.

I mean, that's how I can describe it.

And the in and out parking lot was like basically a side show,

but instead of them doing donuts,

they were just doing their rev offs.

And it was like back and forth, back and forth.

And they took over the entire parking lot,

like just densely packed with people.

Dude, I think like people were claiming

there was like 3000 people there.

And dude, it was insane.

We drove by a couple of times and we could see it.

And so, you know, it's just, I gotta say, I mean,

personally, like it didn't ruin my car or anything.

It's just like, it's, it's a bit of a nuisance,

obviously, but then there's like the safety factor.

And then once, once something happens,

then that that's, you know, there are real consequences

for everybody.

Right.

And so, and as like people who are like purveyors

of car culture, like we want to be respectful

and we want to have a good time.

And this is what this is all about.

Right.

So like, I saw a question, somebody asked, like,

if there's a place to sort of like have that be

a destination for all of these kids.

But I don't think so, man.

It's just like, that's like the whole point.

Right.

It's like, it's just like walk up anywhere.

It's free.

It's like, you know, and it's like, so.

They don't want a destination either.

Like, that's like, well, that's what I was going to say

is that I looked into this, like as we were getting closer

to like, when I first got there, I'm like,

what is going on with all these people?

And, you know, there's, there's certain accounts.

I'm not going to give them any press right now,

but their whole thing is like takeovers, right?

They want to like take over the Golden Gate Bridge,

which they did on the way to car week,

going 15 miles an hour with their, their, you know,

3 million dollar hypercars and their drones

and their camera trucks and all this stuff.

And then they want to take over 17 mile drive

and they're parking like stance parking throughout

17 mile drive stop.

No one can get through people everywhere.

It's like you, like they're bragging.

Like we did it.

We took over.

So then the cops come, locals are pissed.

Everybody that's not really into car culture

or even like adjacent to it is really pissed.

And now you're basically ruins it for everyone else.

It's for everyone else.

It's, it's not quite Sideshow shit.

However, Sideshow, I give like a little more props to you

because they like probably wrench on their own cars.

They're actually like drifting and driving their cars.

These guys are literally just like trying

to get in the way intentionally.

And they're like seemingly like wealthy people.

This is a weird part.

I mean, that's the other piece.

These are young dudes that have extremely expensive cars.

Dude, there was like 18 year olds and like Pagani.

And, and Koenigseggs and Valkyries and like all of it.

Right.

And then you get down to the GT3 RS's

and the Mercia logos and all that stuff.

Those are peasant cars, but then there's like literally

a hundred of those cars driving around together,

ripping around GT3 crash.

Yeah.

Park car, that green one.

So there was a lot of that.

There was a mercy.

I don't know what happened to that mercy.

I crossed the street from Laguna.

We probably was leaving a lot and just blew it.

Like, yeah.

I mean, the thing with this also that's fascinating to me

is that it's kind of like a double-edged sword.

Right.

Because I love that there is so much interest

in the younger generations, like really interested in cars.

Right.

Like that's a good thing.

Like there's obviously like they're coming out on mask

and they're so stoked to see these things.

But like the way it's all happening is the problem.

Right.

That's why it's like, I was just managed.

Yeah.

Well, I was going to say that getting back to like that piece of it.

So we're talking at the tip of the spear is the Bugatti Chirons

and the Koenigseggs and this whole crew of fuel-run Gold Rush,

whatever you want to call it.

I don't even know what their whole aim is.

Exotics on Broadway.

It's horrible.

And that's just what they're up to.

They're coming to car week.

Now, then you get the second tier, which is the Porsches,

the Lamborghinis, the McLarens, all that stuff that's sort of like second tier.

And then below that, you have the Stanced.

Drift Missile.

Mercedes C-Class, the Nissan Ultima, the Infinities

that are basically just there to see the rest of it.

And they're in our hotel parking lot literally parading through the parking lot,

like parking illegally, blocking traffic,

all like to get views of the second and first tier cars.

And they're all with their cameras out.

Exactly.

They're phones.

They're full camera rigs, some of them.

Some of the camera rigs, but it's just phones for like TikTok or what have you.

Yeah.

And yes, I'm old, but I don't know how to stop it.

I'm not sure how to prevent it because anything that would prevent them from coming

or making it difficult would prevent us from having a good time.

And in the old days, it would be cool to see a Koenigsegg or two, a Carrera GT.

Don't even turn my head and that is.

And the fact that they're all in this crew and trying to do these things to uproot

like the regular car scene, it's horrible.

It's so annoying.

And so I think what's going to happen though is there's just,

and we hear it every year and it's like the locals hate it

and it's not getting better.

Yeah.

At one point, the locals are going to, it's going to end car week.

And then it's like a good cars and coffee.

It gets ruined by the five and then the other thing that's been happening is like,

I don't know if you guys remember like two or three years ago,

police presence was insane.

It wasn't that bad last this year.

And okay, this year was not that bad.

I don't think last year was not that bad.

Next year is going to be really bad.

Remember when they were bragging online?

It was like three years ago or two years ago.

They were bragging online how many tickets they gave out during car week.

It was that whole thing.

And that was, that was in response to the previous year.

A lot of like the rev offs and stuff like that happening.

That means next year is going to be off the hook.

And that means you're going to get pulled over

for not having a front license plate.

I'm going to get pulled over for not having a front license plate.

They're going to be checking my ride height or some bullshit.

Or you park slightly illegal.

You get a ticket immediately instead of like, it's car week.

No big deal, which used to be the case.

They were basically like,

Or you're going five over, you're going to get a ticket.

They would welcome all these people to town to boost economy and like have a good time.

And now it's this real negative feel.

I don't know if it's like an LA thing.

If it's just, I don't know.

I don't know how to put it.

I think it lives on the gram and the TikTok.

Yeah. It's mostly that.

Yeah. I think social media, you know, it's giving,

it's given that the, I guess, car week as a whole, right?

All of the, all of the happenings just so much more publicity

and it's so much easily accessible.

And so naturally, you know, that's going to draw a bigger group of people.

But I feel like, yeah, like, I mean, the first thing that is going to happen is that

a lot of, you know, there's the harassment, but also just way more control.

Like, you know, the situation there with embassy suites because it is an open parking lot,

but I can foresee them barricading all of it.

And then you have to, you know, show your key card to get into the lot and like all of it,

just more regulation, which causes more, you know, more.

And then I want to go meet up with you guys to like pick you up one day.

I can't even get in, dude.

And I have to like.

Yeah. But just stuff like that, you know, for us to come and go, it's hard.

Yeah.

I think it was concentrated in certain areas.

Luckily though, like it wasn't like, you know, everywhere.

And like, so that what that made for, you know, that's, that's happening over there.

We know we were going to get back to it because that's what we were staying.

That's true.

We were at the epicenter.

Yeah. So my impression is different.

Not if I didn't look at Instagram, I did not see any like shenanigans going on.

I heard a little bit from here and there, but it was more when I was at like

Cattrell's spot.

Yeah.

And that was the last day I was there.

But like before that, I had never gone downtown or anything.

And I was out by the track and I was out by quail.

I think you had a little like a shorter view of it too.

Art and I were going back and forth to the embassy multiple times and then like,

we went downtown for dinner Friday night.

No, I never went downtown.

I never went to Carmel by the seat.

And it was like full on like cruising, revving, like rolling coal,

revving your infinity, that whole thing.

And it was nonstop.

And I just know, I don't know how like the arrests and all that stuff,

like if they were actually doing illegal stuff, but it's the in and out thing was bad.

That was a full takeover of in and out where they had to basically get like multiple police units.

Dude, and then people were not moving.

No.

Some people just weren't moving.

And they're like, I saw some video guy really.

He's like, these people are just standing there.

Yeah.

I saw that too.

Like whatever.

But my, my thing is trying to get to like the core of this,

like where is this whole like the infatuation with this type of car culture.

And I think it's, so these kids are like, you know, 16, 17, 19, 20,

like that zone, maybe a little older, slightly, that are really into this thing.

And these are kids that have like basically, they don't know a world without YouTube.

They don't know a world without being an influencer could be your life.

Right?

Yeah, yeah.

And to have those people as your heroes, it's not race car drivers.

Dude, I heard an influencer was signing people's crocs from his car.

From his like Koenigsegg or something.

And he's like signing people's shirts and crocs at the, the in and out.

Was it Ollie?

Yeah, exactly.

Ollie was the one getting his shoes signed.

Yeah.

That's a perfect, that sums it up.

Right there.

Yeah.

That's in, you know, I, when did I hear this?

I just recently heard someone talking about this in the UK that in the UK,

there was like a survey done for kids in high school and like the number one

thing that kids want to be when they grow up is the YouTube personality.

And I don't blame them for wanting that because it is, it does look great on paper.

Like you get to do fun stuff all the time and make a lot of money.

And like doing what you're doing, doing cool stuff.

Like, yeah, that sounds great.

Right.

But like it's just like being a pro athlete.

You know, it's the 0.001% of them make money at all.

And then of that, like, you know, the top three are the ones that are really,

they all have a camera on their phone.

They all think they could do it.

Dude, they're taking content constantly.

It's like, and then they just think that they're going to be the one that,

that gets to the top of the pile, you know, and you got to start somewhere.

Right.

So just keep, you know, get all that footage and get all that content.

And they're walking around the lapel mics and like talking about cars.

I'm like, what is, everyone is now can be a personality on the news.

Or like, we used to have professionals that had like some training

or backgrounds and this stuff.

And now it's just, you can just start talking about it and maybe

it's a trip.

Yeah, I don't know.

I'm conflicted about it again, because like, I'm so happy to see that there's so much

interest from like the next generation.

And like, for a while, things were looking pretty bleak, right?

Like in the automotive space and like, what the hell is going to happen?

And like, so it's just like tapping into that, right?

It's like, how do we, it's almost like naturally, right?

Like any kid, right?

Any younger person, like as they're figuring it out, like at some point

they're going to like, they're going to be influenced by people.

And so it's like, I want to tap into that and be like, you know, like,

check all this other stuff out, right?

Like, like this perspective on it.

When I left the, yeah, when I left the quail, there was this guy,

he was like in the back of his like hatchback was open.

And he's like with his girlfriend.

And he has a big sign that says like, Rev, you're on YouTube.

I'm like, what is happening, dude?

Like, and just some dork, you know.

No, he sounds cool.

The, yeah, it's a, it's a tricky one, man.

Cause I'm with you, Art.

Like I, I don't think they're all the same, like level of car enthusiasts.

Some of, some people were taking pictures of your car and my car

in the parking lot as we walked by.

I actually saw a lot of that.

There was a lot of people like giving props.

Like I went down there in Nick's Z3 and people were like saying nice car.

Yeah.

And I was getting a lot of like, you know, thumbs up and like

flashing their brights from other kids and BMWs for my car driving by.

I was like, okay, there's, there's some level of like, we like cars, but

they're not just into the kind of zigzags and stuff.

Right.

But what is really like drawing them in, I think still is this, uh,

this, the tip of the spear.

We're going to call it.

Yeah.

And it's, it's, it's the superficialness of it all, right?

It's like, it's like, it's the most expensive, the flashy, it's like,

you know, all of that, right?

It's like the peacock gang and all that shit, right?

So yeah, it does feel like a little bit of a case.

Now it's just super public, right?

And there's, and there's, and just as you said, right, everybody has a

camera in their hands and like there's, there's a platform that easily,

that easily, you know, supports all of it.

And yeah, if you don't understand, you weren't there, dude.

I know.

And yeah, I just feel there was a time, my day back when car week,

you know, a long time ago, uh, car week was still a place that you

kind of needed to wear a blazer.

You were kind of like, you know, uh, it's a lot of champagne.

And, uh, you're definitely on the outskirts.

If you weren't, if you weren't wearing dressed up, you would, you'd be like

the weirdo.

And now this whole crew, they're not doing, they're not subscribing

to any of that.

It's all like sweatpants and crocs, like you're saying.

Yeah.

And like, uh, polyester pajama pants.

And, um, that's, that's the scene.

Which is, I don't know, I don't care about that stuff.

Like, because like people used to dress up in suits to fly as well.

And I'm definitely not doing that.

So, but, uh, and things change, but the whole, like, it's like

ruining it for everyone else is where I get annoyed.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Everything else is fine.

Like you want to like take photos, like if they want to record

like videos of Pagani's driving by and stuff, that's cool.

But like, don't, like, don't encourage them and don't do it.

Like, don't rev your car, red line and don't do burnout.

You know, like, like, pick your, pick, like, I know, and it's

happening, right?

It's all like, it's, it's both ways.

It's on both ends, right?

It's like, it's, we've all been in front of a crowd and in

some ways, yeah, it can be intimidating, but also it's

enjoyable to know that someone's like into whatever you

have to say or whatever you're doing, right?

Well, these guys, these guys get all of that attention.

I mean, the guy's signing fucking t-shirts or whatever.

Like that's like, it's, it goes both ways, right?

So they're feeding off of that and they're going to

continue to do that because they're so, it's like, they're

so ant on it.

And they bought those cars because they wanted to feed

their ego.

A lot of them, right?

These aren't like people.

I know.

And these guys aren't like going in cars.

These guys aren't driving by themselves in the

canyons and having fun.

That's a very good point.

Yeah.

So anyways, yeah, let's, let's switch gears here.

There was some fun.

Car, it was killer.

I had a overall very positive time, just very

exhausting.

I did too.

We had a lot of shit to do.

Yeah, my, my week really quick.

I'll just rattle it off and you guys can do the same.

But, uh, motorlux set up all day Tuesday till late ish, uh,

set up.

You did a really good job.

Thank you.

Set up all day Wednesday.

This is, uh, so Art and I are in charge of vehicle

curation, uh, placement, moving planes, dealing with

sponsors, dealing with food, uh, Lota and dealing

with all that stuff.

Mainly the cars, uh, where they need to go.

And that involves moving them after the owners have

dropped them off, stuff like that.

Party is, uh, five o'clock Wednesday till whatever time

loadouts, like a 10, 30, 11, uh, huge, huge parties

sold out, uh, over 4,000 people, uh, with like

vendors and stuff.

It was, it was packed.

And then Thursday driving will awesome.

Why would you skip so quickly over that?

I wanted to, uh, cover one thing that's crucial

for the audience.

So yeah, we take care of all the curation and placement

of the cars, which means we get a move and drive

a lot of interesting parts.

So, um, it would be nice to share some highlights.

Yes.

Let's do it.

What you got?

What, what, what did you get?

Okay, I moved, I moved a, a Nardone.

Do you know the Nardone?

Maybe she did.

Oh, the ugly 928.

How dare you.

Gorgeous 928.

That's that retro feature.

That's a grossest color.

It's like in a like green or something.

Bright green, uh, Gatorade green, uh, 928 retro futuristic

thing.

Yeah.

I don't hate it.

I feel like, uh, there's a lot of details that are

kind of cool.

Um, I'm, I would like that end a 928, uh, S4.

I absolutely hate it.

I think they ruined everything that's good

about a 928.

Like when you look at them next to each other too,

it's like they lost all.

They lost all the finesse that a 928 design has.

So you must not like the new McLaren, the F1 that

No, because I think that's just a, that's like a modern,

that's a full new build by the way.

It's not built on an old McLaren.

I know, but it has all those like,

when you use a car shell, that's exactly the same

and the doors don't match anything else.

And the front end is just a flat front end,

rather than having a nice sharp front end,

like a 928 has, they lost all the sharp details.

They, they, they made the headlights a weird shape.

The headlight buckets on the 928,

they made the rear fender arch all big and round.

It looks weird.

Like they ruined Anthony Lapine's original design.

And I'm mad.

I don't even like S, I like original 928 is better than S4s too.

Like, but, but, but GTS's are cool too.

And S4s are cool, but like they made it way worse than those.

And those are a car that was already very modern,

I think, in their design.

And they just changed it and made it worse,

but didn't make it necessarily that much more modern.

It's still the same body.

Yeah.

New McLaren F1, pretty rad.

Lane, so I feel like they, they sort of work,

they started at the GTS and then went into the modern,

sort of modernizing it.

Like based on what, if you look at it right,

because it doesn't have that,

because like the early cars have that sharp nose,

you say that the air dam drops back.

Whereas the GTS is more flat.

It has like a full like modern sort of.

It's still, it's not flat.

It still has an undercut, but less undercut.

You're right.

Right.

But they made it so flat that they squared off the headlight bucket.

It's like so weird.

Like weird shit, weird choices.

I don't know.

It doesn't, I don't know.

I see what you mean.

Like I feel like it's definitely working

with the same silhouette, right?

And like, I know the details.

The fender, the, the arches and stuff.

Like, ah.

I don't know.

I guess I didn't see it in that light,

in the lighting where that made the rear fender look weird.

It all felt pretty cohesive.

It's just like, it was like, I know it's a tough one though.

I agree with you.

You must like the alpha, totem alphas too.

Not for me.

Those are not for you.

Totem alpha.

Is that the one that we had there?

Yeah.

TTVs.

That's, that's, that was Jason Kameez's favorite car

at the show.

So bad.

He was, he was, I'm not kidding.

And I'll tell them in front of you guys.

I'm not making this up.

He got down on his knees and bowed to it as it was rolled in.

I told Lane that.

That one's a detail map.

That, that's like a throw all the fucking pep boys parts

at a car, kind of car.

For the listeners, these are the GTVs

that are made to look modern.

And, but they just look frumpy.

Nothing even upper gamble there.

Yeah, that one doesn't do anything.

So you move that.

How about you?

What was the highlight for you?

My highlight was moving an M1.

Yeah.

I did it.

I rolled in the, I didn't start the

F40.

We were not allowed to start or move that car.

I was, I did steer it and I was able to sit in it

as they pushed it.

But I got to say the M1 visibility is

significantly better, like all around, you know,

from a driver, from a driver's standpoint,

from that POV.

The M1's steering is extremely heavy at low speed.

That reminded me a lot of the NSX, my NA, my NA1.

At low speed, it was very, very heavy.

Because it is, you know, unassisted.

And then I'm sure when you really all ask,

it's probably fine, as well as the NSX.

But, but yeah, I mean, everything feels really nice,

like ergonomically, you know, like it's,

you can tell that it was, you know,

well designed for driving,

even though it started off as a Lamborghini,

which is interesting.

And the BMW did a really good job.

Everyone that I know that has driven one

says that they're, they're amazing to drive.

Like, sure, they're not super fast by modern standards,

but they're just so well-balanced.

That's so good.

I drove that one last year.

We had the white one in the hanger

that was part of the white cars,

a kind of Radwood display.

And I drove that one a little bit further,

and it just felt way more beefy,

like muscly than I was expecting.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah, like kind of an old, old school feel to it.

Like a little choppy and stuff, yeah.

And that motor is so killer.

And then I drove the one you drove as well.

And it's like an independent throttle body,

six cylinder, right?

It's basically an MN.

Yeah, so that's 38.

It's technically an M88,

but it's basically the same engine

that's in the E28M5.

Yeah, motor sport.

Yeah, engine like strapped to your back.

CIS?

Cool.

Must be.

Very cool.

I don't know actually.

Yeah, those were so undervalued for so long,

not anymore.

No, not anymore.

And they were like 80 grand for a while,

and it was like, wow, this is a cool car.

Now they are not 80 grand.

Yeah, and the one we drove was Roger Waters X car.

Is that?

Yeah, it was Roger Waters X car,

and it's really cool.

I don't know what color it is.

It's a very deep, maybe blue metallic,

but it's got a purple in it.

I'm sorry, not metallic, but it's got a blue

purplish hue to it.

It's very dark.

It looks black and not in direct sunlight.

And I like the interior of the car.

The other car, oh, sorry.

Oh, yeah.

Another one, similar color, a very dark, maybe blue.

We drove a one-on-one roof CTR,

quote unquote, yellowbird,

but it was a slant nose.

It was the only slant nose ever made.

And I got to drive it a little bit more.

You got to move it when it was ice cold

and it was unhappy.

Super unhappy.

But I mean, that one, yeah.

I mean, very cool car,

obviously historically very significant.

I wish I got a chance to drive it at speed

because obviously that thing is,

you know, it shines when you're pulling ass.

And it's a, yeah, it was interesting though,

like the clutch engagement was super high

and it really wanted a lot of revs to get going.

It was very, it was very race car,

you know, it doesn't look like it.

It looks like any other slant nose,

but you know, really cool car.

That was a standout.

It was, you know, we parked that next to the F40

there at the entrance to the hangar.

And speaking of which, the other roof that I moved

and drove a little bit more was the 993 base turbo R

in like a fiery red, super rad car.

That thing is like so tight.

Was it hardcore too or was it pretty like?

No, you could see like,

dailying that.

Yeah.

993s just feel way more modern too.

Then that slant nose, like,

that's going to feel like a modern car.

I would say a lot of 993s are almost a little soft

out of the box.

So I wonder if that one's a little more hardcore.

I would love to give her a go as they say,

but yeah.

And then micro machines.

We drove a Honda, what is that one?

A Z600?

Z600.

Yeah.

So that's the one with like the scuba mask rear window

and orange trippy little shifter,

trippy little car, period.

Art and I sat in it shoulder to shoulder

to see what it would be like to like actually drive the thing.

Pretty hilarious.

Rosie?

Yeah.

The tailpipe is like a pool cue.

It's like super tiny.

And then we drove, or I think Art drove the Opel Cadet,

Joe Polo's Opel, which is looking good out there.

I was very impressed by that little car.

It fired right up after sitting all day

after we moved it at the end of the day there.

And also I was impressed by the space.

You know, it's very spacious inside.

The front seats felt very similar to like a 2002.

You know, I was really surprised because it's probably,

I'd say like a three-quarter scale of a 2002 overall,

dimensionally, right?

And it's a two-door, but the front seats feel the same.

The rear is definitely tight, but you know, Joe fits in there fine.

We sat in it, cars and coffee.

Yeah, I sat in it.

I sat in it.

Morning Motors and it was good.

It was fine.

It's a cool little car.

And I think people appreciated that.

He was telling us how much more comfortable it is

than driving the Bug.

Oh yeah, I know, which is surprising.

Like you would think the Bug is sort of a universally,

I don't know, comfortable car.

But yeah, it's a neat example.

And then we had a bunch of other stuff

that we didn't have to move.

Like we had to push some things

and we had a top fuel dragster from like,

I don't know, 60s, 70s.

When was that?

Do you know when it was?

I don't know anything about them.

But it's one of those that have the engine

in front of the driver.

You straddle the transmission tunnel.

It is the gnarliest looking driving apparatus possible,

I think.

Like I don't know of any other vehicle.

How much steering do you have in those?

Like barely?

Quite a bit actually, because he was moving it.

And the whole thing, it's like one of those,

like the steering rack just kind of those flops.

Oh, it folds over.

It just flops left and right,

which is even probably more terrifying.

And it was a 200 mile an hour car.

Crazy.

200 with like, dude, the nitrous or the fuel

coming off the tail, tailpipes, you know,

the headers would destroy you.

I mean, the whole thing, yeah.

It is a absolute.

I would die instantly, dude.

I know.

He said that he takes it to shows obviously all the time

and really nice guy, super, super nice guy.

It's got a matching, I don't know if it's carbon.

The trailer is.

No, it's fiberglass.

Okay. It's the profile of the dragster and it's all painted.

So it's like, you slide the dragster in and it like,

you can see from the outside that what's in it.

Oh my God.

Super super cool.

You can believe almost, you know.

Exactly.

And it's like beautiful like tons of like period correct

graphics and all that stuff.

Yeah.

He was, it was super cool just to see that thing out.

But he said that he, all the shows,

they let him fire it up and he loves revving it up

and running.

They wouldn't let him do it at the airport.

I'm like, literally like fire trucks everywhere.

Jets full of fuel, like big Chevy, I imagine or what?

Sure.

No, it might have been Mopar base.

We had some Mopar stickers on his truck.

I really didn't look super close to me.

I got to say, you know, the highlight of my entire

motor looks vehicle moving experience was I got to move

a one of one 500, sorry, GT 500 Cobra Mustang convertible

in automatic.

What year?

Why is that?

I was 67, 67 and that's the guy was the most difficult

person to deal with at the show by far.

That's all I will say without going into the specific

one of one.

One of ones that he said, and he was very upset with

the initial placement and told me that he did not

like that.

And why would I put the most expensive Mustang in

the world where I did initially?

Oh, there are some options.

I talked to some options after said options

happened.

He came back and he drove his car out of the show

during the show.

No way.

Because he was right by the.

He left the show because he did not want his car

to be displayed without stanchions.

And while we have a seven million dollar

roof CTR yellowbirds, flat nose.

Yeah.

We have F40.

We have, you know, all this stuff in multiple

seven.

The auction house has all of their cars without

stanchions.

We're talking where you want Stan like fuck,

get the fuck out.

I mean, that's generally the thing.

What was the other car that had stanchions in the

whole motor luxe party was the Porsche 963 SP

that Penske brought specifically for the

Porsche display.

Oh, the brand new Lamont prototype, you know,

roadworthy car.

So that was a very like sensitive thing.

We had just so people don't step on the

splitters all day.

Yeah.

And we had a super low.

We kind of put it, I wanted it against the

backdrop so that we could only stanchion

part of it.

Because I wanted not to look just like

roped off completely.

I hate stanchions.

I know they're so bad, man.

Just suck.

And that car, that car doesn't photograph

very well unless it's like has a lot of

space to it too.

Because it's a big car with like it's just

I never saw it in person.

It's a tuckback cool car.

And I was going to say, I'm glad they

brought it.

Cool, but not, not, definitely not

pretty.

No, no, it's like.

Definitely not pretty.

The headlight treatment is so gnarly.

So the next to that car though, the

most thing that I talked about, I got

to, I moved the, there was like a 66

fastback that was like all shelved out.

And that was a manual, but a half

cage, like really nice like, like track

car.

I was really surprised by how light

the steering is because it did have

power steering.

And it was like, and it's got the

super thin steering wheel, you know,

and like, I can't imagine like

hauling ass at like, I was like,

there's like skinny super light.

I mean, it was bizarre.

Like I thought, you know, big that

you fired off to go rowdy, you know,

I'm like, this is going to be like a,

you know, just like you described

the M1, right?

I thought it was going to be like

this tight, like muscle car.

And that's like, it was a muscle

round, you know, but it's like

very, very soft.

And like, and I don't know if

that was, you know, this car in

particular, or if they all were

equipped with power steering.

I don't think they were because

I think people will tell you like

that's one of one with power

steering and a match in a center

console or whatever.

I don't know anything about those

cars.

They're cool to look at.

I think they're red, but yeah.

I want to give a shout out to

Matt Farah and Hannah for coming

with a Bentley Bentayga and his

Myers-Mex, thank you, a radial

engine on the tow trailer behind

it.

That was cool.

And then Stephen Kitchell

bringing his M3 Lightweight and

then Bill bringing his other and

Bill Broder and then a M3 GT to

kind of, what color is the GT?

The green, dark green.

Yeah, I've seen that one.

And it was cool.

There was a vendor there that

sort of last minute, I'm not

sure, but I was roped in to help

them set up and they make these

basically their carpet or rugs

meant just for cars to park on

and they have an LED strip

around the edge and at night,

dude, that looked killer.

I mean, I could see that being a

pretty cool addition to like not

a car show, but even like if you

had a cool garage or like a

dealership.

Yeah.

Pretty rad.

This is not an endorsement.

I don't even know.

I can't remember what it was

called, but I mean, I have a

picture of it, but we made an

executive decision and put on

those the M3s.

That's why he's bringing it up

because we put the M3s and the

M1 on there.

We're like, they offered us

four and we're like these cars

right here.

Yeah.

And then we did some motorcycles.

They have smaller ones too,

but man, it was rad.

It looked at night.

I mean, it looked really cool.

It looks very, very cool.

Yeah.

It's definitely something I

would consider.

Like if we have a night,

a curated night event,

I think it would be perfect,

you know, to have that inside

or, you know, whatever.

But I have to say though,

Lane, you mentioned the green

M3 GT.

They only made them in that

green.

That's what that green is

called.

GT green.

Green.

British racing green.

On the M3 GT.

I don't know.

Is there, I mean, maybe Lane,

you would know, is there like a

formula for like, you know,

just like no formula.

No.

British racing green is just,

it literally could be like

any shade of green.

Dark green.

It's just, no, but not always

dark too.

Like Aston Martin made

British racing green cars.

They were lighter, right?

Lighter and they were

metallic.

Yeah.

And then it doesn't have,

you know, it's like all

over the place.

Wacky.

Yeah.

Also shout out to Jason Camisa,

Derek Tam Scott for bringing

some cars and kind of

being the nucleus

for the Bruno Sacco display.

Which came out really well.

Nicholas Roche brought his SEC.

Had some other folks in there.

Give me a rally car.

Absolutely.

And that was fun.

No bacon wall this year.

So you didn't miss that.

Good.

I'm glad I didn't go.

There was a pretzel wall.

That's a fucking budget.

That's a,

talk about disappointments, dude.

How do you not dare to?

You expect a bacon wall

and you get a pretzel wall?

There was a espresso martini

dispenser.

Hey, I'm down.

I was down with that.

And then like really high in

chocolates next to that.

I was pretty happy about that.

And then really good sushi

in the speakeasy

in the back hanger.

And I kind of got lost

in there for a minute

and had dinner.

How you did?

It was so many other things.

I mean,

dude, these are the type of

events too where

I can speak for art here.

You have a thousand

conversations.

You can't like keep track

of which ones

or what and who

and where and when.

But that was our kind of kickoff.

So motor looks killed it.

And then next morning,

next morning,

DWA, which was so great.

Shout out to everyone that came.

We had like 50 people,

bunch of cars,

some folks we had never met

before,

some folks we know very well

and had an epic like drive down.

I mean, first the hang at

where we met up adjacent to that

in the parking lot down the way

was our friends

with Gold Rush fuel run,

whatever.

So we got to see all those guys

kind of funnel in.

And I think we left

just before they did

because then we ended up

seeing them drive past

with an epic spot in Big Sur.

We just a great crew

worked out super well

and then everyone,

the tour came through.

That was fun.

Went back into town,

went to Carmel

where they're having

that Italian car show

and that like,

I think it's the female.

The prancing ponies.

Prancing ponies.

Yeah.

Yeah, not as good

as last year.

I didn't see any cars

that really jumped out of me.

Your odd Lusso's.

So there's this one influencer,

like a female

that did this video

about Monterey Car Week.

And I think she might work

for the place you work for.

I had dinner with her on Friday.

The worst I've ever seen.

Like I was like,

die.

Just fucking die.

I thought it was great.

What's up losers?

And then it's like,

and then I went and saw

the prancing ponies.

They are so cool.

It's like, oh my God,

the worst fucking video

I've ever seen, dude.

It was pretty sweet.

I was like, get out of here.

I forgot that.

It was pretty nice actually.

There's so many of these things.

Yeah, I've got to say though,

real quick,

I apologize for not joining you

guys at the hang

before the drive down

because I was on site

at the fucking venue

till two in the morning

unloading all the cars.

And I tried my best to get

out there,

but like as part of this

as part of what I mentioned

at the top of the podcast,

like being just exhausted,

there were a lot of these work

all day.

Then mingle late at night

situation.

The other problem is it's all

four days a row.

And it's like, all right,

I guess got to get up at six

tomorrow.

And I had like terrible insomnia.

I was getting woken up

by stuff outside of the hotel.

I couldn't go back to bed.

You know, where you like

finally fall asleep at five

in the morning?

Well, you knew you had to

wake up early too,

which sucks.

It's like,

it's when that always

fucks your sleep up.

Exactly.

Just that.

And then you're drinking

and hanging out and sleep,

whatever.

Yeah.

So yeah, I tried.

Yeah, I tried to make it

for that,

but it ended up working out

for us though.

I met up when I got there.

I think I got there like at

nine oh five right after

you get to just left.

And it was, you know,

a couple of people like

being like folks showed up

and and so we just ended

up driving down and we got

a completely like clear gap

like just drive all the way

to meet you guys.

And we were driving

very fast or anything.

It's just like just like

a beautiful like

non-trafficking drive

and, you know, driving

and just really enjoying

the scenery.

I was telling the award

like I feel like every time

I'm driven through there,

I'm usually like mobbing,

you know,

and focused on performance.

Foggy or there's traffic.

Or stupid.

Yeah.

Or just packed

and you're super frustrated

with it.

A lot of times you're just

waiting for a gap

or kind of like annoying.

Yeah, totally.

This was just like

look at just totally

like taking in the scenery,

which I haven't done in a

long time.

And it was the weather was

perfect.

It was it's so stunning.

Like, I mean, we get,

I feel like desensitized,

right?

Because we grew up around it.

We've seen it so many

times, but like that's

what I was going to say.

It is insane.

I mean, it is definitely

one of the most beautiful

places in the world.

Yes.

We're talking about

shared clips.

Like because I mean,

the verticality

that you have right off

of the ocean

and in that area of the world

is pretty special.

Like, you know,

you don't have that

in most places where

you're like on the water

and then immediately

you're looking at huge

cliff faces

and just use beautiful

rolling hills.

And the water is really

pretty, too.

Basically bridges and all

the stuff.

Yeah, and the bridge.

And then also when

as you're driving

through there, right?

Like as car people,

you see all these epic cars

on the bridge

as you're cruising

through the whole steam

that is amazing.

It was killer weather, too.

Last year we were in a bit

of a fog, like wind zone

and the spot we have

going now,

which I think we'll try

to just keep going,

is so epic.

It's great for car viewing, too.

It looks great because

you can really see

you're on a turn.

Yeah.

Which makes for a nice

extended and slower kind of.

It's fantastic.

So that was great.

Joe Polo brought

two dudes from

maybe Arkansas or Alabama

or similar.

Like customers or something.

So they have a shop.

They're just they're friendly

and they happen to be in town.

I think so.

Joe was like, oh,

let's go to this thing.

I'll show you.

Yeah.

They had never been to

California, at least not

to that part of the world.

Yeah.

And certainly hadn't

experienced car week before.

They were like alone.

Really hooting and hollering?

No, I think they were just

like dumbfounded at how

is this real?

You know, like

that's kind of hanging

for a little bit.

And it's fun to show people

like that.

You know, yeah, this is

this is what you can do.

This is this is our scene here.

So we were while we were

hanging there, the tour drives

by, right?

All the Pebble Beach

Concord cars drive through

there, like in both directions.

We get them once on the way

down and then once when

they turn around.

I have to say my highlight

is not the car that you

would ever expect me to say.

I don't think

but the Bugatti type 57.

They were fucking mobbing.

Did you see them?

That's awesome.

The red and black one.

It was so cool.

Like they were fucking flying.

And you know,

it's a car that you would

never see really like hauling

out.

See, they're usually like

sitting on a platform

somewhere.

And this is not like a,

you know, like the type 35,

which is the blue race car

that everybody knows.

We're talking about being

like saloon.

Yeah.

And and they were flying.

It was really fun to see it.

That's cool.

A lot of cool cars.

And then yeah,

back in the Carmel.

So went to lunch,

had a good lunch with some

folks.

And then after that

had the press passes to

the Gooding auction,

which I really like every time

they've had an auction

in Pebble Beach,

it's just insane cars.

And I went with Todd

and Richard Chen

and we were cruising around

that whole scene.

Highlights there would be.

That's the one at Pebble Beach.

Yeah.

And they do the same build

out every year.

And it's really,

really high end,

super killer cars.

They had three California

Spider Ferraris,

which is insane.

They could even find buyers

for them.

Three guys that are willing.

Crazy dude.

It was dumb.

They had a six liter wide body

SEC AMG pre-merger car

that was really killer.

I think it was like a $600,000

estimate.

They had an EB110 Super Sport.

They had a Daytona Competition

NART car,

which I'm not really a Daytona

guy, but that's the one I am.

But in race trim they look good.

So good.

Exposed headlights,

you know,

all the stuff.

It was just,

and it was restored.

So it was like perfect.

All the graphics,

everything super nice.

Some some surprises.

There was a four door

Integra type R.

Oh, wow.

Interesting.

At Gooding.

There was a scruffy

West Folly of Vanagon.

Scruffy.

What?

That's what I said.

And it wasn't like a

synchro even or anything?

I don't even think it was a

synchro.

It was,

I'm going to look back

at what it sold for.

Very surprised to see a car

like that at Gooding.

I don't know.

It must have been someone else

who was

that's like some bottom

selling a car.

It's like a meekum thing.

Meekum, yeah.

Yeah.

It was very interesting

to see there.

Well, that's it.

It was supposed to go to Riso

and Steel,

but, you know,

it kind of got diverted

and ended up in

in the RN space.

That's like when people

saw the cars and beds.

People show up at Radwood

and they're like,

yeah, it's a 2007.

Like now,

about the guy with the 300

S.L. Goldway.

We yelled at it

because we didn't let them

break their heads.

Oh, yeah.

That was funny at Radwood LA.

That's what was funny.

Yeah.

Real quick on the on the

four door.

What do you think of

four door Integra

type R?

Here's like,

I don't think

the sedan Integra sedan

is not for me.

Do they have a wing?

Yeah.

It's white.

I think,

yeah,

I think they're so ugly, dude.

I feel like there's something

proportionally that doesn't

work for me.

And they have a following.

They're really weird to me

and I have no interest.

I'm with you.

I like going to that auction

too,

because they have a lot of old

like pre-war,

even like brass era stuff,

like Mercer race abouts

and things of that nature

that are cool to look up up

close.

They had a couple of barn friends

from 1917,

which were wild.

You just,

yeah,

kind of can't even believe

that people just,

that was just a car.

He knows massive things.

Volkswagen's like,

they had a beetle,

like a matching beetle

and bus,

which were really cool.

It was like mango green.

Oh, cool.

My favorite colors.

Great color.

So, yeah.

Mango green is,

yeah, yeah.

Gooding was rad.

I like gooding a lot

and they've got it all dialed

like,

they've got the little coffee

bar and the,

you know,

it's just a very

curated experience.

After that,

went over to the Mercedes Benz

tent,

that whole like dealer row

kind of thing

they have going on.

There's Lucid,

some weird ass SUV,

Dubai things,

the Japanese nostalgic car

thing there.

Was not there this year.

So they backed out late.

And the Mercedes Benz

had a thing

and then Mybok had a display

like a building,

a build out.

I went in there,

hate to say it,

but have to report

that Mybok is dead.

They've been taken over by the

Las Vegas,

Dubai,

Jersey Shore community.

That's what they're,

that's what they're.

Yeah.

They had an entire display

of the sunglasses,

the Mybok sunglasses

they make now

that are just

the douchiest things

you've ever seen.

Idiot, right?

Yeah.

They had one car

that was like even

worth looking at.

It was a,

you know,

their S class based thing.

A green two tone that they,

the green has like,

it was like a Pebble Beach edition

out of pink flaking

or something like that.

And it just looks like an S class,

you know,

and it's twice as much

as an S class.

However,

there was one car.

I'm going to pull it up because

Mercedes Benz had a

ride and drive there

that you could jump in their cars,

G wagons,

things of that nature.

But one car stood out

and that was,

I think it's the new GTS,

which is

I'll show you Lane

because I can show you easily.

But it's this thing.

It's a like AMG GT replacement

and it's a little bit smaller

and like

more taught

in its like details.

It's kind of bad ass.

Like that's a rad look.

It's way tighter, right?

Yeah.

And the front has all this flat.

And what is it called?

I believe it's GTS.

The AMG GTS.

And it's just their new,

the new AMG GTS.

New 9-11 competitor,

essentially.

Yeah, it's a new AMG GTS thing.

Yeah.

But it's very,

I don't know something about it.

It looked rad in this.

It's refined.

Thank you.

Good wheels.

It was in a,

it's like a gray,

simple gray color.

Yeah, they're doing,

they've kind of done

an iteration thing.

They're doing like what 9-11 does

or are they?

Getting tighter and kind of.

Yeah.

Little nuance.

I liked it.

Changes.

So that was kind of cool to see.

Yeah.

I've always liked them since day one.

Those are cool cars.

And then I mobbed out of there.

There was an AMG.

What's that one?

Is it a 177?

Is that one?

Oh.

The Sterling Moss?

No.

I'm sorry.

The AMG.

Aston Martin.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

The 777,

yeah, something like that.

Yeah.

Okay.

I think of it.

The super car that they made

like a hundred of

in the 2010 or 2005.

Oh, the old one.

Oh, yeah.

Aston Martin.

Wasn't it just called the one?

Am I tripping?

One, seven, seven.

No, the ones,

the Mercedes, right?

The Mercedes one,

that's the new.

I love it.

I can't remember.

No, it is one.

One spelled out hyphen 777.

One, seven.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

There's one of those in the

pine tree like dirt,

I always love seeing that.

That's a great part of car week

where you just see,

you know, insane cars.

Like at our embassy suites,

there was that Ferrari 777,

SP3 Daytona, something.

Oh, the SP3, yeah.

Well, that's nothing sick, dude.

That's like it's got an NAV 12.

No, I know.

It was just parked like.

You're just saying like.

Those are really interesting.

Yeah.

Really cool design on those.

I don't know, Lane,

how do you feel about those?

The rear is really trippy.

It's the one that's got like the

horizontal straights in the back.

It looks like an old Daytona race car.

Oh, yeah.

Those are cool with the big,

yeah, they look like the old,

old race cars.

Yeah, exactly.

They're really interesting.

Are they a one off or are they?

No, they're a production thing.

Yeah.

I don't know how many they made,

but they started making them

like two years ago, I think.

Oh, it's a separate thing.

It's not like a LaFerrari level thing.

It's because it's NA,

it's not a hybrid.

They're also, yeah, they almost seem

like a coach builder kind of car.

Yeah, definitely.

And then from there,

I don't know exactly who made it.

Had a seven miles from Pebble Beach

to Embassy Suites took 45 minutes.

Regrouped, Art was setting up

our paddock situation for Friday night.

Then we went to the Avance party

in Carmel Village, Carmel Valley.

Pit stop.

What's that?

Pit stop.

Pit stop for Avance.

Good pizza.

You should be an Avance member

if you're into a car,

especially in the Pacific Northwest.

That was fun.

Got to see some folks.

Then Lane showed up.

That's where I'm at.

Clark.

Yeah.

Saw Ali.

Saw some other folks.

We saw Bobby Reed.

Dude, Bobby Reed with the cars.

He didn't have any cars with him though.

Doug Demiro.

And then we saw Art's old Celica Altrack.

That's right.

Yeah.

Oh, and we met a couple of podcast listeners

as well.

I think it was Ben from a PDX.

He's been to a bunch of Radwoods.

And he has a, whatever,

he has like an R34 GTR.

Then he has a Lancer EVO wagon

that he's having restored in Japan right now.

Oh, was that the dude that was talking

to Austin there when we rolled up?

Yeah.

Well, before I get into the car thing real quick,

Lane and I think it was Ali also,

like set up at the best time possible.

It was like as we had been waiting in line

for 20 minutes.

Oh, yeah.

It's like, hey, what's up guys?

Dude, Steve was right in, dude.

We were right at the front.

Yeah.

I texted Lane though.

I'm like, we're at the front of the line.

Cruise over.

Dude, the pizza, the pizza was fantastic,

but I was surprised.

They were, normally they moved us pretty quickly,

like the wood fire, like the 20 minutes.

Yeah, they take like three minutes to cook, right?

They claimed one.

They told Adam one.

Yeah, they said that.

That wasn't happening.

But yeah, so we were,

we were, well, we were in the party

and I think we're actually eating our pizzas

and I saw a Daytona also long champ,

which I think is one of the cooler,

like, you know, 70s kind of cars out there.

Like I'm a big fan of the design.

They're like really boxy.

They look kind of like an SEC sort of,

but they're really clean, really minimalistic.

And I don't remember like if I've ever seen one in person.

And so I'm like, dude, let's go check this thing out.

Like Lane and I were walking our way over there,

or making our way over there

and I saw my old Celica Alltrack.

And I was 100% sure it was it

because it was sitting on the Delphins and Grawley wheels

that I put on it

and it had a freaking coastal range rally stick on it.

That's so fun.

And so we walk over to it

and there's this younger dude who apparently bought it

off of the collector that I sold it to.

It's this guy who's Dallas based

and I remember at the time he was collecting,

he was doing like a group B,

like sort of like homologated like collection, right?

He had a 2.3 16 valve, 2.5 Evo, the Evo 2,

but I remember meeting that guy at like a Radwater or something.

We met, we met him at a Luft at the University of New York.

Okay, there we go.

Yeah, I remember because we were in line with Farah.

We were trying to get some drinks

and the dude walked up and waited a talk over a bit.

And so, yeah, he, I guess collected a bunch of cars

and then just let him sit.

And this dude, Austin, who saw it,

like, I guess he helps with like some collection management

in Dallas, at least from what I understand.

And this car kept like sort of like,

like, sorry, he kept seeing this car as he was,

you know, around this collection.

And so he basically kept asking the guy

if he would sell it to him because he really liked them

and the guy sold it to him and he shipped it to Portland

and they drove it down from Portland

and after car week drove all the way back to Dallas

in the Selkow without incident, apparently.

So it was so random, dude, like super small world stuff.

Let's just see it there.

That's very cool.

I know, that's so funny.

They kept the sticker and everything.

I love that.

That's just, yeah, it's your old car, the one.

Yeah, it's pretty rad.

And he was like, yeah, I don't know anything about it.

Like, I don't even know what's on it or what it has.

And Art's like, you know, luck, you know, Art's like,

well, I brought on a trailer,

so it has all the info there.

And that's good.

You know, it's kind of nice.

Like, I bet he was super stoked.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's awesome.

I would have been stoked.

I mean, especially it's such a treasure trove

of information to like find the person that owned the car

and did all this cool show.

He just walked up to it.

That was my car.

That was history.

That's exactly who it is.

It's so funny.

Yeah, he was really surprised, as were we, you know,

like, it was kind of unbelievable.

Because, I mean, it is a cool car,

but like, not necessarily a car

that I would expect to see back in car week, you know.

Yeah, that's so cool.

It's definitely an interesting one.

And he said that he was getting tons of love everywhere,

which I'm glad to hear.

When we were walking to see this long champ,

which, by the way, is really fucking cool,

and it was a great color.

And I was like, oh, check out the all track.

And there was like kind of a little crowd

around the all track with the engine, the hood pop,

and they were all checking it out.

There's like six people.

So there was definitely, it was getting some love

as we saw it, you know, and then.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

And then after that, we went to a really fun dinner

in Carmel Valley with some friends, some peeps.

That was a good time.

Frank.

It was the perfect scene there for us.

Yeah.

That was fun.

And then very rustic all around.

And finally made it.

We were going to go back into downtown,

but we're social batteries, at least mine,

was like almost unempty.

So next morning, the quail, the quail.

So that was an early morning again.

Lane was first in line.

First one.

He's like running through the parking lot to Wally World.

Not angry or thirsty.

He's tying his new balances at the gate there.

He's pumping them up.

I imagine like big boats flopping off the side.

You know, it's very top-side.

But he was wearing loafers this good, dude.

Oh, dang.

I got there probably half an hour after him.

I was, after the traffic,

I was in Getting to Monterey the day before.

I was like, I'm getting there fucking when.

Like you an old man style on it.

I'm going full man style.

I was like, and I need to get my tickets that morning too.

Same.

So I was the first one at the church.

I'm pretty sure.

That was all really smooth.

It was all perfect, dude.

It was great.

And then R107 parked next to me,

like a really nice one, some dude.

And I kind of recognized the guy.

I don't know who he was, but really nice car.

And then we were in the quail.

Yeah.

Quail was quite nice, quite nice.

F50 had a huge presence.

I think it was 18.

Something like that.

F50 GT won Best in Show.

And then they had, it was nice to be able to look at a black,

a silver, and a red all there with different levels.

And yellow with some clear markers.

Some had the roof on, some had the roof off,

some had the cloth top.

You could like, it was like shopping for an F50.

Yeah.

And we didn't, I never knew that they didn't,

like the buckets of the headlights on the yellow ones

and silver ones were black.

And then their body color on the red cars.

So like, you know, three sixties kind of look like shit

when they're yellow because of the buckets.

So this, these look good in yellow because they,

they don't have a, and silver too.

Like it looks kind of weird.

I don't remember seeing that.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I have to say though, real quick, if,

if I would have all the money, like,

and the F50 GT hard top style was an option,

I would go that way.

It looks so much better.

Although, I know the less signification,

but it's so much cooler.

The hard top looks really good on the coupes too.

Like does the, when you have the hard top,

doesn't the F50 GT have like a 50 GT is more of a fast back.

It has like a group.

It's like a group scene kind of like.

It's a fast back looking thing.

But there was a black car with like the normal hard top.

That looked pretty fucking sick.

Pretty good.

Black, the best.

Black is so good.

Silver looks good too.

I mean, we can all agree red is stupid,

but no, it was, it was cool to see them all there.

They resale well though.

Okay.

Exactly.

Let's see.

Standouts from the OEM slash, you know,

tuner builds,

Singer had a weird car that didn't really work for Lane or I.

It was their,

their Carrera base car.

Base car with scoops and it was white wheels and just

creamy.

Didn't quite do it.

Yeah.

We also realized that we had one car too.

Yeah, weird.

They had parts displayed and Lane and I were like,

dude, can you buy like Singer front end?

Yeah, dude.

They had a whole bumper,

like bumper slash air dam unit.

And I was like, dude, that'd be rad.

If this was a piece they sell, I could see them selling.

Like we were, we threw out a number like 30K.

Yeah.

I could see people buying that thing.

Right.

I mean, definitely.

Just like people buy roof front end air dams and,

but this looks so good.

It's so refined.

Right.

It's like kind of the best.

It's like almost the best thing they've done.

The Singer has done is that,

is the accordion bumper treatment on those newer cars.

It's really good.

Yeah.

They figured that out for sure.

And the car that we don't talk about enough that we should,

when anyone asks us like your perfect one car solution,

I mean, I got to drive one, but the Koenigsegg,

is it the Gamera?

Gamera, Gamera.

So this is the four seater, huge doors that do their whole

like accordion or a scissor thing.

It's a four seater and I hear it's like a six foot,

five person can sit in the back.

We saw people that were like six foot plus,

like six four sitting in it last year, I remember.

So rad.

And it doesn't look, it's not like a two plus two,

like when you see the, remember the 911 prototypes

and stuff where they're like more four seaters

and you're like, yeah, that looks ridiculous.

Or you have a four seater 911

and the rear seats are completely unusable.

This is not that either.

And they have a like a cargo box on the top as just,

I guess, to show that you can do that.

So there's this, and I don't know if it's all wheel drive,

but there's a world in which that is the ultimate daily, you know?

For sure.

And I don't know anything about price.

Ultimate everything.

I mean, the fact that it's a four seater is so awesome.

So that's that.

Then Tuttle brought Myers-Manks,

competitor, the LFG, is that what it's called?

So it was in conjunction with Myers-Manks and it's LFG.

And it's based on a 997 full like race car basically,

like off-road race car that they had built several years ago,

but because of COVID, it never was really launched.

So they took those guts and put this Myers-Manks,

had this body designed to put over it.

It's pretty cool.

And it's full sequential transmission.

Like it's pretty wild.

Yeah.

And it, I don't know.

It seemed like a fucking blast.

And they're making it like a series where when you buy one,

they're basically like strongly encouraging you

to sign up for these like, these getaways, these events.

And Tuttle's kind of into that now.

That's their thing is like, they want you to like,

if you buy a car from them,

they want you to go on these drives with them,

these rallies, like these, these like, they call them like,

like they have one.

It's like the rally, I forget what it's called.

Anyways, it's like the rally that didn't happen

or something like that.

You know, and then they do ice racing events

and stuff like this.

Gotcha.

So that's cool.

I mean, it definitely stood out a lot of attention there.

Did you see the Gordon Murray car or was that?

Right as I left.

Okay.

Yeah.

I love that it exists.

I just, like I said in your post, I'm like, I want to,

I want to low downforce car, which would just mean like,

I don't want the wing and not the front lip.

Less aggressive front lip, but the front's not that aggressive.

But it still has that, that really flat front lip,

which I think underneath, like what we do or like,

you know, this is like talking about, you know,

if I'm going to buy one.

For sure.

And then I want more meat.

It can't quite have been a meat for what it is.

It did.

But I want more.

I want the original car look.

I know, but that would be like small breaks and stuff.

I think they did a pretty good job of emulating those wheels

and keeping a good amount of tire.

No, they did.

Because if you compare it to like all the other supercars,

it has a lot of tire.

It does.

And so if you like zoom into my pictures I took,

you can see it.

Totally.

And then the headlights, like you said,

like I would prefer because we're back to like

this retro futuristic thing where I think

the character of that car, the McLaren F1,

is that brow in the headlight and the light,

the bulbs or whatever the buckets.

But this thing, you can agree.

It looked pretty fucking cool.

It looked very cool.

And compared to the other, like the T50 next to it,

did you see the side-by-side shots with the T50?

It's like a normal T50.

It's like the fan, the rear is like,

it looks like it literally shits on the T50

and it like makes everyone, the bot one,

kind of like a loser that go on.

Dude, that's what I,

I wonder what's going to happen, right?

Are a bunch of people all those things going to be like,

I want that instead.

But this is like, they're only making five

and they're like 20 plus million dollars.

I was going to say this is like a whole different league of.

If I had the money, I would do it.

I think it's so freaking, it's so sick.

It's exactly what I wanted the T50 to be, right?

Like it's that.

It's taking that concept and modernizing it so well.

I'm curious to see what they do with the headlights

because as you know, I mean,

technically it doesn't need them, right?

Like because you can do an LED thing so much easier, but like,

well, it looked like they popped up or something.

I couldn't tell because they were, it was cut out.

They were cut out.

The outline.

I don't know if it was just like a placeholder

for where the headlights going to go,

but if it's a pop-up, that's even better.

So I was part of a conversation.

It was Philip Kadori comes up and he was basically like,

did you guys see, and he's like,

that basically like is a fuck you to all the customers

at the bottom.

And then, but it's literally like 10 X.

I know, but he, his thing, that's what we were saying.

We're like, yeah, but it's so expensive.

And he's like, if you're going to afford three million,

you can afford 20 million.

It doesn't matter.

He's like, all these people, you know, he's like,

they can all afford that if they can afford the other one.

But wasn't it also launching Gordon Murray's like,

essentially bespoke program?

It's like, hey, if you want something crazy,

come and talk to me.

You can build whatever you want.

Right.

Sultan the Brunei, holler at me.

That's the direction the whole company's going.

Which I think is the move.

Now they can, if they're that like can pivot to projects

like that, that's so rad.

That car is also a four three.

And the, the T 50 is only a three nine.

What do you mean?

3.9 liter, you know, it's a 4.3 liter.

It probably haul like this thing is like insane dude.

Yeah.

How was it dimensionally like, was it the same form factor?

Same year.

Yeah, but tighter.

And is it, was it manual to clutch or do we know that yet?

I don't know.

Yeah.

I'm curious.

Pass that.

There was very little to like jump out.

I mean, I had some stuff jump out to me.

Oh, let's, oh, oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I don't even, yeah, whatever.

This is insane.

This is totally insane.

There's a car.

I don't have anything I could look at right now.

So I can't.

I'm going to see if I can just see what the.

So one before Warren gets into this one,

but there was one of those like, you know, there's like,

I think they go to seam every year,

but these 300 SLs are 190 SL things.

Like it's like the modern Corvette things,

like when they do the old Corvette.

Yes.

But they're over the top with like, with like riveted,

like what was the steam punk styles?

Accessories, you would say.

It's terrible.

Okay.

Hold on a second.

Hold on.

I have very important information to share with you guys.

It's 4.3 liter of each welder,

12 brand and it is a six-speed manual.

Yes.

Yeah, I was hoping so because.

And it's center seat too.

Really.

I'm good about that.

Center seat.

So sick.

It's my everything.

And I enjoyed the sub dude like gold.

Same.

Beige tone.

So 300 SL want to be 300 SL want to be just horrible

interpretation of a 300 SL.

Parking sensors that like.

Pop out.

Parking sensors in the front bumper.

And then like the gas, the gas door area was like a bulge

on the side of the car.

For no reason.

Under the little eyebrows.

But like huge stereo that you could see through the back

glass, which is like why I don't know who this car is for

or why.

I mean, it's your Mansory type.

Yeah.

It was like low budget Mansory.

And then there was another one,

like one based on a C6 Corvette or whatever.

One of these like people, these companies that does that.

Like this was in the bespoke custom area.

And then there's, there was another one of those 300 SL

ripoffs where you're like, oh my gosh,

just based on a modern SL.

And it's like 20 feet wide.

And you know, you're a standard like gross,

like kind of when you see the C1 Corvette or C2 Corvettes

that are based on like a C6 chassis or whatever.

Yeah.

It's like that.

So bad.

Like the windshield, every, all the proportions are like,

what is happening?

You wanted to make a 300 SL look as big as a truck,

like you succeeded.

But the real crown jewels is the winner.

It's a company called, and I want every listener to look it up,

Decora, D-A-C-O-R-A.

The logo alone is like.

It's the most hideous car.

I'm going to send it to you right now.

It looks like a car out of the Simpsons.

Oh, is that the one that you sent me?

Hope you feel better.

Yes, that's it.

So it looks kind of like, what is that thing?

The Frickin' Corella de Vil weird purple car that we saw.

Oh, yeah.

Hispanic Suiza.

It's got those vibes, right?

It's like a Hispanic Suiza reboot

that was making the rounds last year that we had.

But even worse, probably.

Way worse.

Way, way, way, way, way worse.

It has a teak hood, basically,

like a wood hood with metal inlays.

And it was all the clear coat.

It was just popping off at all.

They couldn't get the door.

The driver's door wouldn't shut.

It's got awful hubcaps slash wheels.

I don't even know what is going on.

It's got.

We weren't ever there for them to close the door.

It was like, hilarious.

It was just sad and, and sad.

Don't know what it.

I don't know what it's based on.

I didn't want to talk to them and find out.

Even the way they write Decora,

like that font, the logo they use,

is just the most hideous thing I've ever seen.

It tells you everything you need to know.

I'm looking at the photo right now,

and this screams Chinese market to me.

Yeah, yeah, it might be,

but it's so polarizing in its design

that I can't think of anyone that would be like,

yep, I want that.

Imagine looking at these cars from like that era,

you know, 20s, 30s, like these beautiful things

and being like, you know,

we're going to make a modern interpretation.

This is it.

And also based on the styling

with no radiator or opening,

it's got to be electric.

I'm guessing.

So even the, it's even weirder.

Yeah.

Moving on, Ring Brothers debuted their interpretation

of an Aston Martin V8.

Yeah, like a DVS.

Which is very cool, almost a little,

it lost some of the detail that I like from that car.

Looks like a Mustang.

I kind of said it looked like a 240Z.

So like the doors, the window,

like if you look at the window sticker,

you know, the whole, the window from the side,

it looks like 240Z window,

like side window and rear window.

And then it has 240Z rear haunches as well.

If you look at the way the fender,

the door line hits the fender and goes up,

it looks so 240Z.

If you just lock off the front and rear,

and the front is very Mustang,

which they looked like Mustangs, right?

Yeah, I mean, all of it, I mean,

none of this is a bad thing, I think.

I mean, it's like.

No, and 240Zs are good looking.

I get it.

I totally see what you're talking about.

Yeah, like the quarter window right there.

And then that just.

I don't love those little scoop things.

On the rear window, like instead of a rear window.

Oh yeah, I see what you mean.

Like the streaks.

Yeah.

Um, very cool design.

I think, um, you know, I mean,

we've all agreed multiple times that we love,

like this, the V8, uh, the V8 Aston's,

right, of like the, what is it,

mid 70s into the late 80s.

Yeah, the 80s, yeah.

And that's what this is based off of,

right?

Like that sort of.

Yeah, this is like a base,

looks like a 72, I think,

on a pretty early car.

Yeah, early.

It's cool.

They've really stepped up their details,

like their carbon work and just, um,

and I overheard the really,

really nice in an interview and said that,

like the only piece was like the windshield

that was not bespoke.

Yeah.

All the trim is like crazy.

Like there's so much detail to it.

So.

And the, the thing,

they do really good work.

They do.

Like you can't say like.

It's styling.

It might not be for you,

but like the quality.

And it is a one of one.

Yeah.

This is like for one person.

Yep.

And they'll make more.

I'm sure if you came to them,

but that's got to be a million dollar car.

Easy.

Oh, yeah.

I think my favorite car spot,

I think that stood out to me,

at least right now.

I'm trying to find it.

Because I transferred it to my phone.

I did take a picture with my real camera.

While I was trying to park in Carmel,

we're heading to lunch.

I saw one of these,

the real V8s.

This must have been like an 85.

That like,

Oh, the top ones kind of.

Dude, how thick was that thing?

No, it was really clean.

It was like original.

Um, yeah, it was really nice.

That's awesome.

And they have such a presence.

I mean, I know they're like heavy

on the 67 Mustang vibes,

but just like improved.

You know,

No, they do have such a presence.

I drove one at MotorLux two years ago.

And the guy was like,

you got to like,

you basically have to drive it like a muscle car

because it's so, uh, just so raw.

And he's like,

pump the gas like two times,

start it up and fired up.

And then you like,

basically just full on beast of a car.

So it's such a cool,

I don't know.

I love those kinds of cars.

I was like, AMG does it really well.

Aston Martin has done it in the past.

Like these, these basic,

you know, full on muscle cars.

Aluisa Roof was nice enough

to join us on the podcast.

That was really nice.

Yeah.

That was cool.

She's so sweet.

Very, very nice.

I was trying to

egg her on a little bit

to talk trash about anything.

And she wasn't having it.

She's very well trained.

I know.

She's like people watching, right?

It's so weird, huh?

And she's like,

I just love this community.

I'm like,

I'm just supposed to say,

yeah, what's the hell's wrong with these people?

No, she was super nice.

Very lovely.

And they were debuting the Black Rodeo,

which was a customer car.

First car.

First production car.

And then the,

I think the real big piece of news

from all that was

Roof makes a fully compliant

air cooled engine.

Dude.

Yeah.

You could basically upgrade

to any freaking Porsche.

Yeah.

It's like 50 state.

Yeah.

Worldwide.

Insane.

What did she say?

650 horse.

I was going to say 600 horse.

There was supposed to be a motorlux,

but it got caught up in customs and delayed.

So that's what we didn't see it.

That's what it was supposed to be

in part of our 200 mile per hour class.

Yeah.

But yeah, I agree.

It's amazing.

I think that's what happens

when you have a blank check, right?

I think you're right.

Yeah.

I can only imagine what it would cost

to buy one of those motors.

Dude, how much did it cost

just to get it past all that stuff?

Emissions and all that stuff.

That's crazy, dude.

That's why a lot of these,

that's why like,

but got any wires weren't here,

or you know, Koenigsegg wasn't here forever

and all these cars, right?

Super rad.

So that was great.

Yeah.

Thanks to the roof family for coming on DWA.

It was awesome.

It was awesome hooking it up.

Call on media.

And then, yeah, so that was kind of my end.

I had to bail and go to our Radwood event

out at Bayonet and Blackhorse over in Marina.

Oh, I checked.

Did you check out the parking lot at all?

Well, yeah, very briefly.

There was that Strosek 911 at the shuttle stop.

Oh, okay.

Did you see that red one?

I did not.

Okay.

I took a picture of it.

Yeah.

So I didn't check out that parking lot.

I checked out the back one,

which is usually like the crazy one.

Yeah.

There's some good stuff in the motor

or Luxe parking lot too, by the way.

There was some pretty good stuff,

but at this one,

but it wasn't as good as previous years.

Okay.

It was like a lot of modern shit

where I feel like in previous years,

it was like some really good,

like there'd be

you know, Carrera GTs,

like, and older.

I didn't see like this was all like new.

I felt like a Gullwing,

you know,

parked amongst the Chevy Tahoe's.

There was good stuff.

Even in the lot that you and I parked in,

there was always good stuff there.

Good stuff, yeah.

I mean, you know,

yellow M3s and black.

Oh, of course.

Super sick.

Yeah.

And then I went,

so I had to leave early.

I had to go.

So I went to the inland

over Lorela's grade,

and when I came,

when I was going down the valley,

the Laguna Seca cars

ripped past me on the road.

So it was that IROC class.

Oh, when they were going to.

To the quail.

Dude, rad.

So I tried to catch on my phone

as I'm driving.

It didn't work at all.

But I was so rad

because they had a police escort

and they're ripping.

Yeah.

So it's like the loudest cars

coming down Carmo Valley road.

Such a cool group of cars

because it's like all the IROC cars,

which you think,

yeah, Camaros, Firebirds,

whatever.

It was, it's everything, right?

It's 9-11s.

It's Camaros,

it's Firebirds.

It's like that,

like what,

isn't it Trepit

or what's the one thing?

Yeah.

It's not in Trepit,

but it's like one of those,

like an Avenger,

a Dodge Avenger.

Right.

There's a Chrysler,

whatever it's called.

I love those.

But yeah,

it was such a rad group.

I feel like I did not do

it justice.

I like took a couple pictures

on my way out of those cars.

But I should have spent,

I was,

I was like determined to leave

at that point.

And I should have given myself

like 10 more minutes to take pictures.

It was also people walking

right there and made the

area really small.

So it was kind of hard.

It's really hard.

Yeah.

So then I drove over to Marina

and then we set up

the Radwood display

at the Patek event.

You mean Patek at Radwood?

Yeah.

And we had a great time.

We had about 60 cars,

some familiar faces,

DJ DP up on the ones and twos.

Had some really,

it was a great actual

sample of Radwood,

everything from drift stuff

to like,

you know,

lifted trucks and

Diablo's.

And then Busy Moto came through

at the last second

with a friend

that hadn't heard about it.

And we're like the 935.

Yeah.

I was like, yeah,

come on in.

So 935 is that Harlequin 993,

which was at the Evance event.

So that was cool.

And then Raddison's show

was Ed Bolian's

Victoria's Secret Diablo.

Instead of SV, a big

VS, dude.

Yeah, yeah.

In like Chrome.

A very cool car.

White Diablo with the,

yeah, big Chrome lettering.

It's pretty sick.

He was pumped.

I'm glad to see that

because you never know,

like he's pretty jaded

to the car world,

but he well deserved

and like super pumped.

And we got to drive the car

on stage,

which was fun.

We don't always get to do

that kind of stuff.

Did you drive it?

No, he did.

Oh, he did.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

But like just having to rip up

and like announce it,

it's kind of fun.

Yeah.

And then we were there until,

I don't know,

839 and then dinner downtown.

Yeah.

I will say that I was going to

say I like,

I came into the show

after you guys were already

set up and it was like

pretty much it was in full swing.

And you kind of have to walk,

you know, from the parking,

you park on the grass,

like get a golf shuttle

or whatever up the hill

and you walk in.

And the first thing you see

when you walk in was Radwood.

And it definitely had like,

it was definitely helped that,

it made that show.

And it actually had,

and it had a good look too,

because you guys,

the banners were everywhere,

like the big flags.

And then there was DJ DP up

on a stage,

playing music.

It definitely like was like,

it had,

it like your first impression

was really good.

That's good.

I'm glad to hear that.

That was what we were aiming for

because art had scouted out.

We had like,

originally when we were

presented,

it was like have everything

in front of the stage.

Yeah.

That was our zone.

And we're like,

okay.

But then clearly like,

everyone's walking up that hill.

Yeah.

What's his name?

Auto G-Lan.

His jeeps were there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And yeah, yeah.

It was,

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

It was good.

It was, yeah.

As Warren said,

I think it was a great sample

of like the Radwood era.

I was like really good quality

cars of all types.

And I wanted to say real quick

that they had bowling carts.

So I'm 99% sure,

forgive me if I'm mistaken,

but I'm 99% sure that

those cars,

the BS's,

or this particular idea,

he said they were in the

Victoria's Secret catalog

as like something you could order.

I think you're right.

And but they only made one

because it was,

it was extremely expensive.

At the time,

it was the most expensive

Lamborghini ever made.

And the intention was for them

to sell a few of these.

And I think they sold this one.

Yeah.

And it was in the catalog too.

Like he had pictures of the

catalog with like all the,

you know,

the Victoria's Secret angels on it

and all that stuff.

But yeah,

it was insanely rad.

Really cool car.

But there were some big standouts

like we had a super clean

Maserati Chambal

and a cool like dark metallic blue.

I love that thing.

It's so cool.

We had these,

this dude,

E30 Barrao on Instagram

he's got a pretty big following

because he has like

E30's like

full on,

full on show card out, right?

Like we're talking like

four light standard level treatment.

Yeah.

Like just with S54s

but like colored carbon fiber

cover,

you know,

just like it's a full on show car

style,

but like we're talking deep six

failure stuff for,

for just standard E30s,

you know,

so it was interesting to see that.

Like full on

rad mod, right?

Totally would have won that award

if we had that award at this event.

But the awards are handled.

There's an insane second gen MR2,

27,000 original miles.

Oh, Mindi, yeah.

Keol, yeah, whatever.

Very, very clean.

Like probably the nicest

Mark II I've seen ever.

That turbo car?

I think so.

I believe so.

Yeah.

Very nice.

Very, very nice.

Especially,

yeah,

and you know,

once you realize

it hasn't been painted

and it was just

impeccable.

Okay.

We're fine.

Wait.

What is it saying?

Okay.

We're good.

Limited space on SD card.

Let's wrap it up.

After that,

we went to dinner

and then Saturday,

I went to the cars and coffee

by Chili's

and then lemons.

I spent a combined

seven minutes at both.

Then I drove to Santa Cruz.

I went to a soccer

tournament all weekend.

Sharks went undefeated

to the championship

then lost four nothing

to a team

called Mexico.

That's my weekend.

That's all I got.

Yep.

I went to look in a second.

On Friday,

I went to the Jaguar event

at Steve Cattrell's

to answer the question on there.

The Jaguar is paper mache

and it has zero refinement

and it's definitely not a real car.

And I drove around

with some Japanese people

in Napa before

and I drove my car on

Sierra's point

or Sonoma Raceway.

And I drove a 296

and the start button

is haptic feedback

and I'm out

and I drove a urus

around a purple one

and it was embarrassing

and that is about it.

Anything on the start?

The last thing I'll say

is going back to the paddock

or Radwood at the paddock event

there is I was really happy

to see also

a very young contingent

a lot of very young kids

in our space

like super stoked

on the Radwood era stuff

kind of coming full circle

to where we started

a lot of the same types

with their cameras

and their gimbals

and just all over the Radwood era car

so that was rad

so

very rad

and shouts out to Karara Books

Larry Chen's new books

coming out

Karara will be

Radwood LA

can't wait

Ryan Zmallon

he's always nice dude

we'll finish

we'll do trivia next time

we gotta go

bye

we love you all

bye bye

bye

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