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New Year, New Gears!
About this episode
Kicking off the new year, the hosts share their excitement about automotive projects and new gear. They discuss the success of their annual Christmas charity and delve into personal updates, including the acquisition of a 1969 Nova SS named 'White Noise'. The conversation highlights the importance of dash cams for safety and the challenges of sourcing auto parts as stores close nationwide. With a mix of humor and practical advice, the episode is packed with insights for car enthusiasts looking to start the year right.
Topics:
dash cams
project cars
1969 nova ss
auto parts sourcing
charity events
automotive trends
tool organization
The new year is here, and we’ve got big plans ahead! On today’s show, we talk about what’s in store for the year, a special Christmas gift that Dave received, and a mysterious new addition to the family called White Noise; what could it be? Tune in to Let’s Talk Cars Radio to find out and kick off the year with us!
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America.
Speaker 3: You're listen Let's Talk Cars Radio on WKQA Freedom Radio.
I'm your host, Big DAVP hanging out with Cameron Chaos navb. Hey,
so we're back. Hope you guys enjoyed some of the
rerun shows. We gave you guys some during the holidays,
because as you guys were, we're trying to enjoy our holidays as well. With that being said, hopefully you're having
a great New year already, even though it just kicked off and we're gonna have I think it's gonna be an awesome year.
Speaker 2: This year, we got some really cool stuff to share with you guys.
Speaker 4: Get a good fortune cookie.
Speaker 3: I did get a good fortune cookie. I got a
great fortune cookie. Tell me it's gonna be an awesome year.
But besides that, you guys know, so because of the way that everything panned out with the Christmas charity, by the way, was a huge success, I sent you guys out a message thanks for everything all the listeners do and all our sponsors do to make that charity happen that we do every single year, Like I said, eleventh year doing it, which has been amazing. It's been that long
and it was great, and then of course, you know, we jumped right into you know, our own Christmas, and then New Year's was right after that. So it has
been just really really busy for us. That's the reason
why we gave you guys the recap shows. But instead
of this year, we didn't really talk a whole lot about the Christmas as far as you know, what you can buy which you can't buy. We kind of covered
a couple of things we thought were cool and stuff.
But as you guys know, I talk all the time about one of the things I think everybody should have in their car, but I have used a low grade system up to this point for when I need to do it. So finally, because of a present that I received,
I now have a official nice dash cams dash cam system that goes in the truck. So I got this right.
So Mangal which is actually pretty cool system. Looking up
you guys do the research on it. Really great. No,
they did not send it to us free. It was
bought for me as a gift, and it's pretty cool system.
It's a front and rear system set up.
Speaker 4: Try it out. We'll let you guys know how it goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is made for directly for my pickup truck.
It's made to go in places just being a bunch of things. And when I say low grade, mine was
the one I had hooked up was where it went off my old my cell phone the current selhone I have, and then ran and recorded and stuff through an app.
And it weren't just I mean, it worked fine, but you only had one view, you know what I mean.
So you only had the view that was set at and you can only see certain things. This is completely different.
It's gonna be a great system. I'm excited and Lex.
Speaker 2: I've been telling you guys, for a while, the best thing you can do to.
Speaker 3: Protect yourself is to put a dash cam system in your vehicle for accidents when you get pulled over, whatever it may be, incidents on the road, road rage.
Speaker 2: I mean, all the reasons why I believe.
Speaker 3: And I here's the thing, so you I know, I do a lot of drive and I tell you guys all the time, I in the last year have had an experience probably in every single one of those situations, which is just mind boggling to me. But I had
been pulled over which I didn't agree with. We talked
about that. I had a road ridge situation where I
had somebody be stupid. And I've told you guys, be
real careful, like with your road rage. I mean, I
hope none of the listeners really you guys get that easily affected. But when you have somebody that approaches you,
do whatever you need to protect yourself. I'm going to
tell you, like as much as I told you guys when that happened to be in the story, the last thing you want to do is approach my vehicle. If
you're just stupid enough to approach my vehicle, what happens next to you is what happens next to you, and I'll just leave it at that. But I mean, there's
people out there are pretty nuts. I'm not crazy, but
I'm definitely gonna protect myself. So if you're dumb enough
to reach out try and grab my door handle, there's a good chance that you know I'm gonna have to call the paramedics for you.
Speaker 4: So, uh say it's singing, dude, you stay in.
Speaker 2: You're right saying your car. Look, there's nothing.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I think things get that crazy where I need to exit my vehicle and approach someone's vehicle.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand that method. You don't know anything
about that driver. I'm you're going to go approach his vehicle.
I just don't.
Speaker 5: I don't get one person only do it to me and a Dodge Challenger, and he learned his lessons, So I mean it. I mean, get back to your vehicle,
don't mess with me. I won't mess with you.
Speaker 2: It's it's really you just don't know who you're approaching.
Speaker 3: So I just don't understand the mentality of approaching a complete stranger like I just I don't really get that understanding.
And I've never, like I said, I don't, I've never been in a car where someone's made me so angry I felt like I needed to get out of them car and go approach their vehicle.
Speaker 5: The cool thing with this one is now you'll be able to when anything happens, You'll be able to just hit one button. It'll record it front and rear, so
you'll be able to get like about I think five minutes of what led up to that incident before it.
Another cool thing is it'll also connect to Wi Fi networks correct that you tell it, so you can actually tell it like you know how Cox has those mobile hot.
Speaker 2: Spots around it absolutely yep.
Speaker 5: You can tell it to connect to those so when you park your vehicle, it'll give you real time alerts and.
Speaker 3: Its Yeah, so I was reading, So this system is pretty cool. Has got a wite system, So if your
car gets knocked into or somebody hits or so like that, there's good chance because of the way that it covers that you're going to see who it was.
Speaker 2: It it's your vehicle and that's going to see the face.
It's gonna be a really good feature to have.
Speaker 3: Like I said, you all can believe me or not, I've given you guys some of the best advice when it comes to making sure you put a dahcam system and make sure you put a tracking system on the car that records it has its own separate recording system.
Those two things I think are really important to have in a car. Especially it's important to have those if
you have teenage drivers. I've explained to you guys, I
had them with them when they were younger in teenage.
One of the best things I think I ever had set up on the cars.
Speaker 2: So just a little rant.
Speaker 5: You know, we haven't had a rant, so we're going to start off the twenty twenty five year before a rant.
Here we go, you know, so he has Dave has talked so much about how many parts that he has received and had to ship back and receive and ship.
So I buy this man some parts. I did some research.
You well you did too. He's just you purchased some
parts and I purchased some parts together, and we got some more bad am partis yeah, we open up the parts for two days before Christmas and find out that there's a crack in the lens. So he's not the
only one that goes through it. Apparently I do, and
now I have to reach out to a company again.
Already did, but yeah.
Speaker 4: It happens person. Now, look, as long as we return,
it should be perfect.
Speaker 2: Retire. So they were like, hey, you're going to notice something.
Speaker 3: We gave it you anyway for Christmas, but you're going to notice something as soon as you open it up.
Speaker 2: And it took me a second. I had to catch
it in the right light. But there, Yeah, it's it's
a lens and it's it's kind of it's.
Speaker 4: Not it's it's not a crack. Yeah, it doesn't look
like so much scratch.
Speaker 3: It looks like it's a stress crack, like an impurity that came out of them or whatever. It's what I
thought to But I would never put it on the car because it will stand out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 4: Like if you're looking well, you probably won't notice it, but with one well, I mean you will can be pointed out right. But the thing is like when it
was a brand new one, you kind of wanted to be brand new as well.
Speaker 2: You know, you paid for brand new. Why would you
take something that's not that's not perfect, you know what I mean. It's not like they're used. There used to
be a different story. No, And I agree, and I
agree with you.
Speaker 3: I like you guys, know, so I like things to be That's probably the reason why the bad am was taking so long to put back together. I like everything
like I've taken it apart and put it back together and it didn't look right. And I've taken singing with
heart and I'm like, okay, that's almost what I want it, but it's not really what I envisioned in the car comes back apart again. So I can tell you right now,
if you give me an imperfection and a lens and I put it on there and I know it's there, it's it's going to.
Speaker 5: Draw almost as if you have Who's c D.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's I don't think I don't think it's that. It's just it's not you want these
to being perfect, right, right, You've got all the time and everything. No, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: So that was so that was one of the the cool gifts I got. So I you know, I'm excited
to put in it, like for the fact that it is actually made for my truck and it's supposed to conceal really well and stuff. I think it'll be kind
of it's going to be family time because we're gonna do right because we're gonna stall it so it'll give us time to install it. So another cool thing I
got for Christmas that I've been wanting is I got all the socket organizers, so you guys know that. And
I've talked about the show. It drives me nuts that
sockets walk way out of my garage. I will never
figure it out. I know it's not me. I just
know that people borrow things, they never seem to come back the full way they're supposed to, and I'm always like, where what am I?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: I mean when you're looking at sockets and you see the rack there and you see one missing and people didn't put them back in the right order, It's then you got to sit there and play around and go, okay, which one of my missing? Why won't have to do
that anymore? I got soccer organizers and I'll have the
numbers listed. I've been wanting them for a little while.
I was funny because I was going to buy a set for myself right for Christmas and I didn't, and I've been talking about doing it for a year, and it's the set I got for Christmas, actual SUCCEECS set I was looking at.
Speaker 2: So, so you try them out? So I did, so
I took them out of the box.
Speaker 3: I'm out of the garage, spend a little me time out in the garage, and I put him in there.
I only have one real issue that I've come across.
I haven't figured out how much salve. I own a
lot of sockets, more than probably one man should own, and the way that I lay it out, it doesn't lay out exactly how I want to, so I had to kind of shift it and turn it in a different direction.
Speaker 2: I just got to figure out what works for me the best.
Speaker 3: Because the one I got holds all the way up to like thirty six millimeters socket, so it's a very large wreck. And then the way you had to put
you into a only fits in the drawer one way, which is unfortunate but it is.
Speaker 2: But I started getting me organized. I'm going to already
tell you the snap.
Speaker 3: You guys gonna love me because as I put all my sockets in there, and I had a lot of duplicate socket sets.
Speaker 2: I've been having them for years.
Speaker 3: I see some of the stuff that I would like to have that it has sizes that I don't have in that particular size, like depths or whatever. And now
I'm gonna have these empty holes, and I'm like, I can't do empty holes because they OCD kicks in and so the racks are just I'm just gonna pull the racks out and go, here's what I have fill the rest of the holes to.
Speaker 2: Make it right.
Speaker 4: So how do they fit? The magnetic works well, so
we got also.
Speaker 2: So it's also if you guys haven't checked them out, definitely go check them out. They're great.
Speaker 3: The magnetic seem pretty strong. Is very strong on the
back of it. I do like it.
Speaker 2: The only thing I will say that I critigue how the sockets fit. So that's where I'm gonna critique a
little bit.
Speaker 3: I do like it, but in some of the sockets there's a little play in the hole. I thought it
fit just a little bit firmer. It doesn't really bother me.
It still holds in there. They're not flopping around anywhere.
Speaker 5: Can you not get some styrofoam or rubber inserts?
Speaker 3: Here's what I learned, So I did a little research inside.
You're absolutely right so I was curious why there's a little bit play. They are made directly with their tools,
with their tools and snap on is some sizes are exact and some of them are just a little bit thinnered wall on some things. And that's what the difference is.
It doesn't bother me a bit. It's definitely organized the
box a lot.
Speaker 4: More butts fit pretty well though.
Speaker 3: Right it does so, But what it made me do was is I took all of my ratchets out of that I had in the drawer, and I actually relocated them in their own door because I used to have my sockets and my ratchets all one drawer, right, And I decided, now I'm just gonna have all the sockets in one drawer and I'm gonna move I'm gonna move the ratchets over into a different drawer. But it did
allow me to take all my extensions and put them in the same drawer, So it cleaned me up a lot.
And now looking at it, I think I want to do the same thing with the wrenches.
Speaker 2: Uh there.
Speaker 3: If you guys seen the company widget, I think they're all over Ti TikTok right this second, and they get they sell a bunch of that stuff too. But they
got the wrench holders. I think I want to give
them a shot and see if I like them. They
stand your wrenches up on end. It gives you a
lot or room. Like I said, you see that. You've
had to see it if you're looking right. The TikTok
videos are everywhere.
Speaker 4: Well, now you know what extras you have, and we can kind of move that into a roller box when we kind of want to work on things.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a full roller box because I have I have all the So I have like well four duplicates of certain sockets like and they're all snap on it.
And it's just because like I found a good deal on it, or I bought this and it came with this free or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I have like over I.
Speaker 3: Have one through nineteen millimeters sockets in deep like three times, and then I have one through nineteen in shell like three times. You know, I just I have it, and
I have specially so I have like what eight point and then I have like the twelve points set up and.
Speaker 4: We'll send all your organizers the data.
Speaker 2: So I have I just I have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: But as I've told you, guys, I have a tool addiction.
I've had it for years. I'm one of those guys.
If I don't own the next time, I if I and I had to bar from somebody, I will never borrow it again. I usually own it the next time
because I just it's the way I worked out. So
it's great to have the organizer. I'm like I said,
I'm really really excited about some of the stuff I got.
I can't wait to put some of the parts in the car. I can't wait to fill up the rest
of these holes in the socket tray because I don't like holes. So, like I said, my snap On guy's
gonna love me. And if you guys wonder like you'll retire,
why do you still buy a snap On? I'm a
snap On guy. I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 2: Guys right now.
Speaker 3: I do have other stuff in my box other than snap On, but I still buy probably eighty percent still snap On.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I did buy hold On. I did buy my Impact
socket set a couple of years ago. Another one, a
very large set that goes I think it goes all the way up. I want to say, there's like a
forty four in there or something like that.
Speaker 2: It's a big set.
Speaker 3: I didn't buy that snap On, but my snap On guy did sell it to me. And the reason why
is because I did a little research and I came across a set that had really good reviews on it came with a lifetime warranty, and it was like a quarter of the price if I would have had to buy all of those, because I go from like eight in my impacts all the way up to those big ones.
And I bought and I bought them in metric and standard so and it was the price was awesome and they like said lifetime warranty on it. And my buddy
had already had him for a year and he was like, dude, I'm gonna swear by these. And he's a snap on
guy like I am too. He loves a snap on tools.
So once he gave it signed off on, I've had him.
Like I said, I've had him for a year. I
have absolutely no issues. And I'm not easy on my tools.
I look, I'm gonna hit the gun and let it bump up, pop up, up up up, you know. I
mean if I break something loose, so I break a socket sometimes.
Speaker 2: I uh.
Speaker 5: When Nate showed me this stuff and everything. I was thinking.
I was like, man, it would be funny if they made one of the racks that was just all tens and we bought you all ten millimeters and gave you like a rack of ten of them.
Speaker 2: Ten. Got news for you.
Speaker 3: Check that ratchet you still got at your house, because I think it has a ten hanging on it.
Speaker 2: I do have How did you know how to ratch?
Speaker 3: Because you show it to me one day when I was at the house. You're like, look what I found
that ratchet you're looking for. I'm like, how did that
end up at your house? Just yeah, it's probably got
a ten hanging on does either a ten or thirteen or fifteen?
Speaker 2: It's one of the two. And I know, guys, I gotta.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist.
Now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back. All right, so I'll take away
the suspense. I told you guys, I'm gonna have to
back up a little. It's a very small flashback.
Speaker 2: But all shows back.
Speaker 3: I told you guys that a there was two different things going on. One I have had a little bit
of a desire to buy a new muscle car, something brand new, so I had been following. I told you
guys that after doing some research and things, I really want the new twenty twenty five Mustang. But if they
come out with it, which they say they're going to, they just can't give me a release date. I want
the Boss for twenty nine. So that didn't happen. There's
no release date. Just pre warn you, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to set you guys up, make you think I bought it.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't buy it. But within that story,
if you guys, go back and listen, I was talking about Rember. I was talking about a car that I
was following online. If anybody remembers and follows along, you
remember that it was a sixty nine Nova SS car that I told you the guy had posted and I'd been watching it had been online for a little while, and so during Christmas time, I saw he reduced the price.
It's still more than I wanted to pay for it, but I saw he reduce the price, and I was just like, I was like, I just don't.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't really want to pay it. So
I just been watching it and stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, I will let you guys know that a wee or now the problem orders of that sixty nine Nova ss uh. It's already been named, just as you guys know.
We have the bad Am and it's a playoff from the word trans am to bad am. We've named the car.
The car will be white when it's done. It's to
be painted, but we're gonna name it White Noise. It's
gonna be the name of the car. So if you
don't know what white Noise is, that's basically when back in the day when the TV's used to go up at twelve o'clock, that's when you know the TV used to go to pH and that was it, you know what I mean. So I just think it's kind of cool.
It goes with the theme of the car. Very excited
about having the car. So give you guys a little
bit history on the car because I had been watching it.
Speaker 2: For a while.
Speaker 3: The guy had it up for sale for a while and I just kind of been falling along. I made
some communications with the guy in the car. It's already
got a built motor in the car. It already had
started all the bodywork on the car, but it needed to have the body work finished and have it paint.
It in tears complete in the car, it runs, it drives.
It did a stupid crazy burnout today that I was pretty impressed with. It does have a bunch of paper
it comes to the car has a going back almost thirty years where the receipts of everything that's been done to the car. The car was being built into at
one point time being built into a drag car. It
has seen the strip. It does have some time slips.
I'm not going to tell you guys what those are.
But it's a fast little car. We're just gonna put
it back as a street car. So pretty cool there.
There will be a lot of things. We're gonna cover
some things throughout the course of the year. I'm kind
of hoping that if everything goes timeline and wise. Now
I'm not cheating on the trans Am, even though I feel like we are. But you uh, with some of
the delays and parts and stuff like that, and it's as critical as I've been with putting that car back because there's, like I said, there is a lot of emotional connection to the trans Aam for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 3: In the problems we run in with getting the right things and making exactly what I have has delayed it.
I could look, guys, I could slap the bad am together realistically, probably in a weekend, and make it run and real drive.
Speaker 2: To a car show. It's that complete at this point
in time.
Speaker 5: I just that's what we want to do.
Speaker 2: I just it's just not what.
Speaker 3: I want to do. I refuse to do it. The
engine's built, we got the built transmission for it. It's
the whole front ends back on the car. Other than
there's a sheet metal portions, the car is pretty much ready to go. Other than the break issue you guys
know we've been having with it. I've been in communication
with them, just so you guys know, I think we got it sorted out. We're gonna find out once that's done,
she is ready to essentially put her back together. The
one was only a couple of other things that I want to do to the bad Am that I haven't. I
think I'm going to probably put a linked rear end in it, just because the horsepower is so crazy for that car that I just I think we're gonna need to do that. I know the stocker end's not gonna
hold up in the car now. I could drive it
for a little while as long as I babied it and stuff like that. But if any of you all
know me, listen is a show or you guys seen in the events I go to.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in baby and anything. Cars are made
to be driven, and if.
Speaker 3: You build a really whoop butt car that has some good horsepower to it, it's made to be driven, which is how we came upon buying the sixty nine Nova.
Sixty nine Nova has already been a car that somebody has built to have some fun with and drive it.
I'm just telling you the car does get up and go, It moves. It did come with a Dino sheet on it.
I can't tell you how old the Dino sheet is, but the car is pushing about six fifty the last time it was Dino, and it was a little while ago.
Speaker 2: That's quite a bit of horsepower for that car. It's
a fun it's a it's a fun little car. Like
I said, And here's the thing.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make it as a really nice car, uh to a certain degree. I'm only gonna put so much
money into this car, obviously, because you know it's the radio show and we build this stuff and go through the stuff for you guys anyway, but we're gonna make it nice. If you guys see what those things are
going for nowadays, the prices are crazy on it. I'm
nowhere near that price point yet, even with putting the pain job on it, I won't be near that price point, which is what makes the car attractive to us, because it means that we can give you guys good content.
We have something we can talk about and we can move out to the next project right after that.
Speaker 2: So without being tied up crazy.
Speaker 3: And I'd be people's idea crazy money is different than my idea.
Speaker 2: We're kind of building our collection.
Speaker 5: You know, like we've always talked about, like, Okay, we wanted an Ova in the collection is Anne Nerva. That's
what we've talked about, you know, So it's like why not, I mean perfect timing basically to pull the trigger.
Speaker 2: Just it was.
Speaker 3: It was the right time, it was, it was for what it is for me. It was the right car,
right price. We've all discussed about, you know, we all
kind of like Novas. I told you guys, there's one
in the family right now, but it's not complete and I don't think we'll ever have access to that car to do what we want to do with it. So
I kind of wanted another one. So that's how we
came about it. I am excited about it.
Speaker 2: I think it's a perfect name for the car. It's
gonna be cool.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of different things we're going to do with it, and we'll cover with you guys. The
car is already sitting on a set of drag slicks, which is great. I will post some pictures up to
it once I get to the point where I want to post some pictures. I want to have a little
bit stuff done to it before I really put the pictures up, and I know people are gonna hit me up there go, Hey, we just want to see the raw pictures. If you guys electively agree that you want
to see the raw pictures, maybe I'll put some up before we start digging into it.
Speaker 2: But neils to say. It's a pretty cool little car.
It's going to make a great toy.
Speaker 3: I would say this will be more of a toy than a like trans aam is a little bit more of a collector. That's kind of a toy that's made
to be driven. This car is gonna be something that
if we have a little bit more fun than we probably should have with a car, it won't irritate me as much because it's meant to be driven like that.
That's what the car was purposely built for. But no,
it's it's pretty cool. We're pretty excited about it. Like
I said, I got a chance for a very short period of time to play around with a little bit.
I haven't really Basically, we literally bought it, like what, two days before Christmas.
Speaker 2: You can't keep your hands off of it, and no idea because it's sad. I haven't really touched it. I
bought two days of Christmas and I haven't really touched the car. We bought it.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, weren't you off of work one day and went and stopped by just to take a video of it starting car.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I don't work.
Speaker 3: I'm retired, so number one, so there is no really, there is really no work other than the radio show.
Speaker 2: So that's you know, and this isn't work.
Speaker 3: It's fun, but no, it's it's it's it's one of those things where I had so I took car and had the car towed, so I hadn't really played with it.
And I could have went and played with it a bunch.
I just had other things to do. Is holiday season,
and like I said, we know we're going to get to it and whatnot. I'll still be there, So I
still be there. So today I got a chance to
just best. I had just a little free time. And
of course, you know, it fired at clicked it on, turn it on at fire right ups, which is great when you purchase something and you don't have any issues when you know, just turn the key and boom it fires.
One less issue, Yeah, one less issue had to try to trace out. So I decided to the first time
really stab the gas on the car and let me just say it was impressive. It was impressive enough where
people went that's pretty impressive. And it wasn't just me
saying that. It definitely has got a little something something
underneath the hood. I have a build sheet that came
with it, but I don't, like I said, so, this is thirty years worth of receipts and stuff on the car.
So I can't tell you because it where what stage is at? So is that originally? Is that still what
was done to it? I know the motor was gone
through I say recently, not real recently, but it was gone through recently. So I believe the current build I
have for it is is what it is.
Speaker 2: And it was it was. It was a cool little
car that they built.
Speaker 3: They definitely were trying to get some power out of it, and they I think the full plan for that car was to be a full drag car and it just never got to that full point, right, But which makes for a really cool project car. Just just a rowdy
street car. Agree what it makes, And that's that's kind
of what we were looking for. I wanted something that
was rally we play around on the street with without a menace on the streets, right, without going to jail or you know what I mean, or attracting all the wrong attention, I guess. So yeah, look look for it.
Like I said, we'll start posting some things about it.
We'll talk about the car a little bit more as progress goes. To tell you, I've already met with a
I don't know bodywork, guys.
Speaker 2: I don't do paint work. As just I told you guys,
it's not my thing.
Speaker 3: I've already met with a couple of body guys to talk about doing the work on it so we can get the project moving pretty quickly. It looks like we
have something that's going to work out on that. If
it all pans out, the car will be in paint and body and probably be out before the season really starts for us. So I'm hoping to have it out
to some of the shows if everything goes all right, so you guys can actually see it up close and personal.
So definitely start marking your calendar. There is a bunch
of different shows this year, you guys know, we hit what fifty two different events last year. I'm sure it
will be that busy of a season again this year, and expect to see at some point see the car start showing up at events, and hopefully, if everything goes all right, the bad Am will be finished. Probably I'm
thinking at this point time, realistically, I think the trans Am is probably gonna be done about halfway through the season, so you should start seeing that start showing up at it.
And you guys, forget we still got a CE ten sitting and everybody's like, well, I thought you're gonna do the CE ten. To answer the questions for you get span, Yes,
we plan on doing the Chevy truck. I couldn't pass
up the opportunity on this vehicle. I had been watching it.
I told you, guys, if you like say, if you go back and listen to the show as I briefly talked about this car. So when the opportunity came for
us to own it, I just didn't want to pass up on it. I've looked at a couple of different
sixty nine novas. I could have got one, to be
honest with you, it's a couple of states away. It
was already painted, but it wasn't. It needed to have
the wheels changed. It didn't have disc brakes on it
yet or anything like that, so it was just a lot of stuff. I was like, okay, so do I
trade paint for a car that has just the mild motor in it?
Speaker 2: And it's cards at.
Speaker 4: That point, right to trying to make something that's yours.
Speaker 2: Right, So right, it was kind of at that point.
Speaker 4: So because the pain's kind of decided for you at that point, you're not.
Speaker 3: I found too, and both the ones I found were complete cars already had nice paint jobs, and they weren't the color I wanted. So I'm like, all, already know
I want to paint it because it's not the color I want. Interior was you know, kind of they weren't meant,
but they were nice interiors in the car.
Speaker 2: The interier on this one is all complete. It's there.
It's not meant to my standards, but it will be and when I get done with it. So and you
can do that.
Speaker 4: For not a whole lot of money, right, Like the last thing you kind of.
Speaker 3: Have in the big in the in the big thing on one of those cars, as you guys don't want to build project car stuff is it's the motor and it's a drive line, it's the breaks. You know, you
got a whole lot of go and not enough whoe.
Usually it's this one's got both already, which is great.
Someone's already did the work line print. It's already got
a nice set of drag sicks on it.
Speaker 2: It sits.
Speaker 3: I don't want to change the stance to it a little bit. I think I want to get just a
little lower stance on the car to make it look a little bit more aggressive. But those are all things
that are easy to achieve. It'll get a tub kit
and that's just scar.
Speaker 4: As it sits right now. It reminds me of the
It Wasn't an a Nova And in the Tokyo drift scene where they're running through houses.
Speaker 2: That's a Chevelle. It's like, yeah, so so, but it
is kind of look like it's like an in primer.
It's got a little bit of pain on it, just like was I think was some of his was primary.
Speaker 3: It kind of looks like that right this second, So yeah, it does that was I think that was a sixty nine.
Speaker 2: Well maybe tell me guys if I'm wrong, but I thought that was a sixty night. Just watched a movie
the other day.
Speaker 5: They had the car seen in the garage, and the whole movie was about the car. Literally it just showed
the car in the first and I was just.
Speaker 2: Made you want to watch the movie.
Speaker 5: I was so happy at the end when they finished it.
Speaker 2: It is all right, guys.
Speaker 3: So like I said, look forward to it like, I'm excited because tell like I kind of wanted this car.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 3: I'm happy and now we're just going to make it something that's cool that you guys are gonna enjoy as well.
You guys, hold that thought. I gotta take another quick commercial,
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You're automotive specialist. Now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's we've talked about in
the past. But so I learned a little something, as
I told you guys.
Speaker 3: So the white noise, the new nov is gonna need paint right, and so they're with trying to find I don't.
I've told you guys, I don't have a paint body guy.
I just never really, It's been so so many years since I need to have paint and body done. So
you know a lot that I just don't have one.
I want to say I'm retainer. I guess that's specially
un standing. I used to have one to stand by
shoes all the time. Anytime I bought anything I need
to paint, I just sent it right to the guy you knocked out. I got the car back pretty quickly.
I'd do that in years, so I haven't had one, so a little eye opening, because like everything else, prices have change drastically. I remember when I used to get
a car painted. It didn't cost you a whole lot
of money. I know the difference between a good paying
job and a bad paying job, and I know the dollar value versus. So I don't you all are going
to send me all the weird messages. You probably just
save yourself the time because I know what a twenty thousand dollars paint job looks like. I got one on
a car. I know what that cost, so I know
what a fifty thousand dollars pain job looks like on a car. So there's different levels. I don't think anybody
who's going to drive anything on a regular basis and needs a fifty thousand dollars pint job. I don't think
aybody's going to drive anything as a driver. Technically he's
a twenty thousand dollars paint job. But it's interesting as
I start reaching out to people I know in the industry that I don't use them regularly, but everybody knows everybody, and started kind of getting idea of what it's going to take to paint this car, and I'm like, man, the prices have really changed over the years. And then
I started thinking about it. So I started going back
and I was like, we've had the conversation a little bit about general automotive repair, right, So I told you guys, if you guys went to your due diligence after the conversation, we had episodes ago that the new national average supposed to be like two hundred and sixteen dollars an hour for general automotive repair, and people are slowly starting to move up that. And if you don't believe me, like
I told you guys last time, go take a look.
It is moving that direction. I've seen a lot of
different seminars and stuff like that where that is the general conversation about general motive repair.
Speaker 2: And I started going, I remember when, and I was like, I can't be wrong.
Speaker 3: I remember when I really kind of started getting heavily into cars, and I really started kind of wanting to knew I wanted to be involved in.
Speaker 2: Cars as a career somehow, and I was like, I swear, so I went back and looked the boys. I talked
about a little bit off air and stuff like that, but I did. So, what do you think when I
first got involved in cars? What do you think the
general labor rate hour was on cars?
Speaker 5: Five dollars an hour?
Speaker 2: Now, how old do you think I am?
Speaker 4: Right, leta'st do above minimum wage?
Speaker 2: I've got I guess probably like twenty five thirty bucks.
It's so Uh if you went to a regular garage, right, just a probably a.
Speaker 3: Mom and pop joint, seven dollars an hour. No, it
was I remember paying thirty nine to forty four dollars an hour.
Speaker 4: It makes sense.
Speaker 3: Okay, It's about what it was when I started kind of heavily getting more into it myself and realize, okay, this is maybe a career path I want to take.
Speaker 2: Uh, we were at fifty nine dollars an hour. It
was fifty nine dollars an hour. That's what I was charging.
Speaker 3: The standard customer was fifty nine dollars an hour. Everybody's like,
oh yeah, yeah, Well, believe it or not. That was
back in the nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 6: That was right.
Speaker 2: That was that was the general price right about then, and you could still find five people that would do it.
Speaker 4: And you were using hand tools years ago. You would
think things would have gotten cheaper, right, But no, opposite the tool we don't have. Things have gotten easier and
more expense.
Speaker 2: We don't have some of the trick stuff that's out there now, but we had I'll snap on back, Yes we had.
Speaker 4: I wanted to say, you know, some things were, you know, more hand done than say they were.
Speaker 3: You don't have the trick electric tools and stuff like we have now. Everything was kind of big and bulky.
Things have gotten smaller. You can fit in things like
I still have it was. I still have my original
Impact from way back then.
Speaker 2: I have it. It's a snap on Impact. I still
have it. It still works thousand. It's not my go
to anymore.
Speaker 3: I would say probably if I was going to use on a regular basis, I probably would send it out to go get rebuilt again.
Speaker 2: It's been rebuilt to license three one that I've used before. No,
that's that's my metal one. That's it. It's I think
it's in a green I think it has a green cover on. Yeah, one of them I have two of
my ones got a green cover on I one it's got a red cover on it. But they're my originals.
Those those are from I think I got my first one and somewhere in the eighties and it snap on air ratchet. And then I had the second one I purchased,
which I think I bought that in an early nineties on.
I have and I still have them. Like I said,
they still work. I mean, they'll do the job.
Speaker 3: But like I said, if I knew I was going to, if I was going to be doing that on a daily basis, I probably would send the big one out to get rebuilt. Now everything I have is electric, and
I do have. I have a thunder gun, which is
what from somewhere in the twenty fifteen error, so I have one of those. I've purchased us just so I
had it. And I have a new style air ratchet
that I think is from twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen something like that I use.
Speaker 2: But I do. I go to my electric stuff pretty much.
I got everything electric.
Speaker 3: I got air electric impacts and ratchets and all that kind of stuff, and one one I don't have that one to purchase.
Speaker 4: Everything's turned from pneumatic to electric.
Speaker 3: Well it is, and electric's gotten so much better with you know, the tot stuff torque and what brushless systems and stuff like that, brush and brushless. Right, So then
I don't explain you guys with the differences, but I have it. One thing I do want to get that
I don't have is I use somebody's on a project I was working on, and I'm glad he had it.
But he has the long extended Milwaukee ratchet. So the
ratchet's long necked and it goes down deeper and first time a short neck I did like it.
Speaker 2: I don't own it yet. I probably will eventually own it.
But like I said, with that being said, as.
Speaker 3: I kind of started, you know, going back and research something like, I was like, all right, so if automotive general repairs have gone up so much difference in price, that's the reason why paint prices.
Speaker 2: I mean, trust me, you know I had a couple different has.
Speaker 4: The Mai car had the materials costs as much as labor.
Speaker 3: So I remember, and I can tell you so I had a lot of cars painted over over the years, okay, and some of the cars I had painted as some of the deals. I would buy the paint or buy
all the everything I needed, and I would just give it to a friend of mine. Note that would paint cars.
That's like he worked at one of the paint body shops.
He had access to the garage on the weekends and he would just paint stuff. He's like, you buy the materials,
I'll paint the car and sex amount of dollars.
Speaker 4: Do you think it's easier now to make up your own paint booth and do it yourself, and maybe a little easier than what it was, you know, a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I think paint laser.
Speaker 3: I think somebody's gonna correct me on this because I'm I'm not a painter guys, and I'm not a body guy.
But looking at some of the stuff I've read on paints and stuff like that, I think that some of the paint lays a lot nicer and lays a little easier.
It's it's a little easier to spray. There's more forgiveness.
I think with some of the song and the guns that are gotten better. Yeah, they have absolutely got better,
So I think a lot of that plays into it.
But I can remember buying they used to selling kits.
You guys do bodywork. You guys remember it was like
one forty nine for a complete like Clear kit and everything like that, everything you needed in it. And then
you used to buy, like you're not touching that now for really good Clear and stuff like that. You by
the time you buy all the materials you probably need to do a car. Somebody's gonna correct me. But looking
at what I do, I don't get the discounts, probably like some of you guys do, because you guys buying bulk.
I think the last one I bought, I was like one thousand dollars for Clear from nine to one thousand bucks.
Speaker 2: And is I n one car?
Speaker 3: Or is that like one car? That's all you're getting
out of it. You might have just a little bit
left over, but you're definitely right right. So then paint.
So I looked at paint. As you guys know, blue
which is our our C ten pickup truck. Is it's
going to go back to blue. But taking a look
at the blue I want to put on it, that paints three grand just for me to buy the paint.
I mean, so I know I'm gonna be into that, And that's probably the reason why I've stall a little bit on that project because I know for it to have the bodywork that I know the truck needs, which is not a lot, but it's got the typical Chevy problems, cap.
Speaker 2: Corners and stuff.
Speaker 3: I can start seeing a little, I know they're going to need to be fixed, and then just saying a little dents and dings are on it over the years needs to be taken out before it's painted, and it's going to go such a majestic kind of blue color.
It's a deep blue that everything's going to be right on that for the for it to look right. So
knowing that, I think I'll probably be fifteen grand probably into having that vehicle paint it, and I just not that I'm against spending. I just don't want to spend
that right this second everbody goes, well, then why'd you go buy another car?
Speaker 2: Once again?
Speaker 3: I went and bought it because I really wanted this car and I had been watching this car, and like I said, the opportunity came available for us to have it, and I jumped on the opportunity to have it. So
I'm not trying to put things out of order. As
far as the repairs, little Blue will eventually go and start getting You gotta remember Blue runs, it cries, you can drive. I could drive that truck from here to
Texas and it would take me theretan.
Speaker 2: It just it just needs some good maintenance on it, and he needs a good paining job on it. The interior.
Speaker 3: When we had it there last time we had it, we redid the interior. But the interior is ready to
be redone again. And it's just mainly from city more than.
Speaker 2: It is anything.
Speaker 5: I say.
Speaker 3: It could use a good fresh breeze and it probably right right right so, but it's a it's a runner and driver. When the guy called me and said do
you want the truck back, I went and grabbed it.
It fire right up and I drove it from his house back here to the to the farm and it's truck.
It drove beautifully, and it's still got plenty of power.
It's got the five to seven and it gets up and moves still. But if you guys, remember why I
told you a story that we put a brand new block in that truck right before we sold it from GM.
Speaker 2: I did a GM block.
Speaker 3: I wanted true GM on it, part in it instead of buying just like a Jasper block or whatever.
Speaker 2: I bought a GM block. We put it in and
put it back together and it runs great.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I can go right out there or fire right up, and I know that truck tech me anywhere I want to go, which is great. It's just
eventually we'll get to it. I'm hoping that at some
point into and within day I can make a couple of different decisions where I want to go with it, because I like, get the truck out to go to paint too. Why would everything else paint it? Even if
it just gets painted and it goes in the garage and sits until I get around doing everything else. At
least I know everything's painted and it's ready for us to work on, so we can bounce from project project.
I just have to decide if I want to spend that money. But like I said, little eye opener on
some of the expenses and how things have moved up.
But I guess I should expect it because, like I said, general motives moved up so much. Like I said, if
we get to the point it's to sixteen an hour labor like they're trying to push to it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a cheaper. It's mind boggling to
me that that's the case.
Speaker 3: So you guys, stick that feather in your hat and think about that for a little while. I'll take quick
commercial breakwinking back. We're gonna finish it out for you, guys.
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Now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, so quick man, this show is going by really really fast, which is good. Here is one of
the things. So we've been talking a little bit about
auto parts, right and how hard.
Speaker 2: It is to get auto parts.
Speaker 1: We know, so.
Speaker 2: I kind of thought it was coming, and maybe not in the way that it is.
Speaker 3: So if you guys have been paying attention, you see that Advanced Autoparts is closing a bunch of stores. I
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Speaker 2: Stuff like that. But still that's a lot of stores.
There's a lot of people, and.
Speaker 3: The auto parts world is changing. I've been telling you
guys that it is hard to get auto parts. We
are waiting a lot longer than you normally have to get Auto parts. Like I said, every time I try
to order something to work on one of our project cars here, it just seems to be like the biggest hassle to get side.
Speaker 5: I got parts on back border right now, right eight weeks, right after you ordered it already exactly.
Speaker 2: So like I said, it's just it's I really thought.
Speaker 3: Okay, so if you all didn't know what most of you guys do, so like car Quest and Vance Auto decided to do work together. I already always thought it'd
be car Quests that kind of went away because car Quest is maybe it's a little bit more popular in other places, but out here it's a little bit more of a niche. I get great service when I buy
parts to them. I know the people that work there.
I love going in there because I like doing business with people I know. But if you've gave me the
choice between the two, I would have thought it would have been them. If you guys have one in your area,
we had them out here. We had twin B Auto
for longest time.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Twin BE Auto was a really cool store as far as I was concerned as a hot rodder, because I could go into it and they had hot rod parts, were on the shelf. They just were old school kind
of auto parts store. But I mean they had like
heads and they had.
Speaker 4: A different niche, right like Karquest, I always felt like was more like industrial like for I always.
Speaker 2: I always thought NAPU was because.
Speaker 4: I mean they're pretty close, right, we're like auto the fans Auto is kind of for more like you know, your everyday guy that want kind of you know, get his parts. That's kind of always how I thought about it.
Speaker 2: It was okay, so I'll take you a little bit.
If you guys may still have these in your area.
Speaker 3: Uh, they folded up around here about the same time Twin B start disappearing away from here. But western Western
auto parks I think they're still in the West maybe, but they had ventured this way out and there was some here, and they had really good customer service. Like
I could go in there and you could sit and talk people, buy from people. I tell you that that's
not that one shot bab g on a right, perfect example.
If you guys have a bat Gan about you, they especialize in just European car parks and Japanese car parks, right, So, but you can go in there. It's like one of
those places you can go in there and talk with them and you have that that you know that if you go in there enough, you get to kind of know the people behind the counter because they're a little bit of a like.
Speaker 2: I would say Twin B was more like that.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, Twin B was kind of like you'd hang out and you sat in the stool and you kind of talked and you got your parts and you know, everybody was kind of gearheading there.
Speaker 2: That was that more of that feeling. To give you
an idea, so you guys would know some of you guys who live in our area will remember where the Veterinarian Clinic is over there on Wishtuck Rod where it meets Independence, right thereby the Red Lobster. That was the
Twin B. Yeah, that was the Twin B back in
the day.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then Western Auto that was out here. Uh.
Speaker 3: The one that was closest I used to go to all the time for me when I was a military is out there was out there in Portsmouth.
Speaker 2: Off of I can't remember nave the street, but I could.
Speaker 3: Drive myself there and it was out there for longest time.
But I used to drive out there get I was looking for us. So I think we had the conversational
a while back, like Pep Boys. Like Pep Boys. It's
in this area, I know Pep Boys. So they've closed
the Pep Boys Auto parts section here the auto garage is still open, but the auto port section is closed. Yeah,
it's empty, and they just had the garage portion open, which is just I remember their commercials, but you can sell everything. So they had bikes, go carts, they had
car parts, you name it.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, I always saw Pep Boys is kind of like your Walmart of like of advanced autos because they had like more than just like your car parts.
Like you said, they had the go car.
Speaker 2: Bought two bikes from them when I was a kid.
Did Yeah, I did. I literally I bought two bikes
from one.
Speaker 4: Another one AutoZone. You know, it's kind of like advance auto.
Speaker 2: So it is one of the things I used to like about Pep Boys was, and I'll tell you was for the longest time Pep Boys had a high performance aisle and it was uh Somebody's So they had uh edil Brock heads that edel Brock intakes, they had, I want to say, they had they had like all the A A ARP stuff, the studs they I mean, they had a what you I can't count any times I got in a pickle building something that I went there and I'm like, I can't believe they have this.
Speaker 5: I liked where it was their promotion. Man, it was
like you buy twenty five or five purchases over twenty five dollars your six purchase, they gave you.
Speaker 3: A promotions if you're going a whole nother direction. Do
you remember what the pep boys boy guy's names were think about it, Bob, No, No, they used to have these characters. They had cartoon characters that represented pet boys
and stuff. You would think, No, MANI moo and Jack,
I believe this was actually what their and Jack they said a song too, Yeah.
Speaker 2: They had a song too.
Speaker 3: But those The biggest problem I think, honestly in the autumn automotive parts world, as far as I'm concerned, and me might feel different, is the the people buying from people kind of situation. Like I always had the same
people I dealt with, and I knew the people and stuff.
Speaker 4: I agree that, and a lot of people behind the counters didn't even know what they were working on. And
you'd be like, hey, you know this is going to work for the build, or hey you got this in stock, and they just kind of look at it like you know what. I put one of those together before. I'll
tell you what it reminded me of. If you guys
remember Home Depot when they first came out there used here's people on every eye eye.
Speaker 3: There was a professional expert on every eye for your grills right that way, and I that was one of the things that cracked me to shopping at Home Depot.
The automotive experience used to be that way. The guy
behind the counter knew everything.
Speaker 2: I want you to sell me, right well, I don't need you to sell me, but I do if I'm buying like this, I don't want guy, you already know what you're going in there looking for.
Speaker 4: But not everybody though, right Like now, everybody does a comparison to that. Right, you have four products in there,
you're gonna pick up the one that might be the most serious.
Speaker 3: But if I went in there and I need this, most of the time, the guy knew what he was staring at. Right Nowadays it's like what make model that
come off of? And I'm like, you're right, right, right,
you know, and I'm just look, I'm not I'm not saying your job's easy, because I know it's not. The
auto automotive parts world is not easy. But when I'm
trying to put wincher wipers on my truck and you asked me if it's two wheel drive or four wheel drive, I'm confused. And some of you, but some of them
have different winter wipers. Nope, nope, nope, Like it's the
same body. You do not need to say a four
wheel drive, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Nope. When you ask that, yeah, you know,
they don't know nothing. I go, so, uh, I'm looking
to see if you got a torque converter for it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it automatic or standard? I'm like, what
do you think? Right? Those those puzzling questions, they're puzzling
the guy, except that one guy.
Speaker 5: He was like, all right, you ain't gonna find the boat here, but.
Speaker 2: Still forgot that. I was so amazed when we walked.
Speaker 3: If you guys didn't catch that episode, we went to four different part stores and I went to so you guys know, NAP Auto Parts were heavily involved with them great sponsors. Uh, with the BDG group and everything like that.
They didn't have it, neither did any of the other ones insert name here. But the one guy was like,
I'm gonna tell you something that you're not gonna believe.
And we talked about this on one of our episodes. He's, you,
guys may not have a tailor's out by you, but Taylor's is a uh, it's like a starware store and it's a it's a traditional hardware store, not like a home depots. Yeah, it's kind of like an ACE. So
he's like, you're gonna find it there. I'll guarantee it.
And I told you, guys in the episode, Cameron and I go to it and they had a whole automotive section and the bulls and it was labeled automotive and they had like everything they had just the strangest things they did have. They had Torqum Burger bulls, they had
they just had. It was mind bodiling were pouring out.
Speaker 4: That's the stuff that.
Speaker 2: They got. This bull. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: I do feel like that's what keeps those type of business businesses and business because you know, those small little parts that you can't.
Speaker 2: Get agree with you.
Speaker 3: But I would have never went to a hardware store looking for automotive bolts. That none of the automotive story is.
Speaker 5: An automotive guy, I would have never said, let me go to a hardware store and try to look for a boat.
Speaker 3: But now now, now I I have two times now gone to the hardware store and found what I needed.
And I'm not talking like it was a close match or whatever I'm talking about. I went and it is
exactly the bolt that I'm looking for. And I was like,
or you can get untapped gym, or you get or you can get it better, right, because the bolt might be a better grade than what.
Speaker 2: Would have came. It was a great automotive bowl grade eight.
Speaker 3: I was just like, mogo, boss, if you can't tell, I'm still my like we were walking into a bolt, right, And I used to have a really nice bowl.
Speaker 2: Ben. I don't do anymore. I just don't. I don't
mess around enough to justify having one hanging on my wall on my own personal garage. It makes no sense to.
Speaker 3: It's but I guess I do have a drawer that I keep well, actually now it's a cabinet that I have all my bolts. I do have separated and I
get luckier once in a while because I will tear down the motor and if the bolt's good, they'll tell you they think I'm crazy. But if I tear something
down the bolt's good, it gets cleaned up and gets dropped in a jar. It's on something I think I
may work on again. Not just weird stuff, but stuff
I'm like, okay, this is repurpose and I put it in there. And how many times have we gone into
one of my jars and found what we need is one of my jars? And I'm not a weird collect
like mind. Stuff has to be categorized. It goes in
a jar and it's I know what it is so I can get to it again. It's not like I
don't have to go flicking through a box like I got a bite. It's got a box that is just
box full of bolts. It's the craziest thing.
Speaker 2: It works.
Speaker 3: So, like I said, automotive world is getting crazy. The
part world I can understand. With people now closing stores,
I don't think it's going to be the end of it.
I think you're going to have seeing more of it as time comes on. I hope I'm wrong, but it's
starting to get frustrating for people who like me, who will enjoy building cars and try and just find stuff just right down to the right bolts.
Speaker 5: We will now have to wait for our part.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be forced to wait. It's gonna be a wait,
So hang on tight and then more comes out and let you guys know. Hey, guys, it is the other show.
I can't believe we went by that fast. It's been
a great show. I hope you guys are having a
great start to your new year. Like I said, we
got a bunch of cool stuff. I'm excited about the
white noise.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I'll start posting this stuff on it as we g a little bit further, and you guys can follow along.
Speaker 2: On that note, we're gonna go ahead, get out of here.
Enjoy your Saturday.
Speaker 3: Sunday is right around the corner, and make sure you unplug the phones, turn off the TV, spend some time with your kids, play board game, fire up the grill whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I know it's a little cold out there, but hey, I'm still firing on my grill and the cold. You
guys got anything before we get.
Speaker 4: Out of here, Enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year's Hi guys, roder see you guys next week.
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