New Year, New Us - DWA! Podcast Ep. #917

Where am I? And where are you?

Can you imagine his head being inside his little head?

Egocidal vehiculum.

There's no doubt. Correts are fast.

What about the people that put their fingers over the license plate?

Keiichi Tuchiya.

Those cars have such a cute little face, you know?

It's like a little salamander or something, you know?

I'm riding dirty right now.

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Welcome to Driving Well Awesome.

My name is Warren.

I'm Lane.

And I'm Mark.

And let us be the first to wish you a happy new year.

Very first.

You guys had any embarrassing moments on your checkbook?

Yes.

You have?

Immediately.

Your checkbook?

Who was it?

What happened?

I think is what he's getting at.

So I want to write a date down.

06, I wrote.

Yeah.

January 1st, 06.

I feel like I never write the date.

Yeah, you're not a paper guy.

Do you know how to write?

You know how to write.

I am not a paper.

I have like, I always.

Oh, you do have paper notes.

But yeah, I don't write like I don't write the date, dude.

I know forms or anything.

It was the last time you filled out a form.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, this was a license or something.

Yeah, this is for a kids camp thing, one day camp,

and immediately 01, 06.

I'll deal with my kids.

This is true.

Yeah, Lane hasn't bought a summer camp since 2001.

Yeah, it doesn't feel that different here in 2026.

No, 2026 is lamb, dude.

Is it already lamb?

It's lamb.

It's played out, dude.

It is played out.

What are we predicting for 2026?

Things are going to be pretty lamb, guys.

Yeah, it doesn't on a, unlike a grand global scale,

it doesn't seem to be starting out great.

But hey, man, speak for yourself.

I've had some killer fortune cookie predictions.

All right, so what do you got?

Now we went to Panda Express over the weekend with the kid.

Oh, very, very best Chinese food.

It's like our authentic.

It's like our go-to fast food on the road with kids and they love it.

And so yeah, love it.

It's all sugar.

Yeah, I had, oh, no, you're not supposed.

I'm not supposed to say it, right?

If you don't, if you share it, it doesn't come true.

I learned it early on.

No, I think you're supposed to say in bed at the end.

Oh, okay.

Interesting.

Well, that's true.

So what do you got?

You're going to be very sore in bed.

I will be meeting a great friend.

No, I'm just kidding.

In bed.

Making new friends in bed.

Yeah, exactly.

Okay, you're not going to share it.

So let me ask you this then.

On my typical Chinese food spots that I go to here in town.

By the way, I love Chinese food.

I just want to throw that out there.

If anyone wants to get a, especially the ex-wife's Chinese food.

If anyone wants to get a succulent Chinese meal with me anytime,

I have it once a week at least.

All right, so that the fortune is one thing.

The other side is learn Chinese.

Oh, yeah, it's like the most absurd words you would never use.

Last time I got gooseberry.

Whoa, learn Chinese gooseberry.

When have you ever said gooseberry?

Like I don't even know what a gooseberry is.

I know what it looks like, but I don't know if I've ever eaten one

or had it in any meal.

It's like it's like a very very tiny watermelon.

Like that's that's like it has that sort of pattern on it.

So how about like learn Chinese bathroom or train station or or I lost.

Thank you.

Exactly.

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

That might be a good one to learn.

You've been happy new year.

You know, we're a gooseberry.

Oh, dude.

Hey Fat Choi.

Have you guys, I went on a drive the other day.

Have you guys been on a drive yet?

No, no, my car will melt in the rain lane.

Don't you know that?

Oh, it does.

Made of sugar dude.

It's rain.

I thought dirt don't hurt.

What does it?

Does he have a saying for rain?

Wet don't rain.

Rain makes you rain makes you crash into park trucks with news

reporters in the car with rain.

Lots of pain.

Dang with rain.

Lots of pain.

Okay.

And that's on a fortune cookie also.

Yeah, you guys went on a you and Nick went on a little rain.

Just Nick and I went on a little Sunday morning rain romp super

early in the morning.

Sleepy head one.

Yeah, a little cat and cloud at six thirty in the morning and

then go for a drive.

Wow.

Dude, right off the bat, like monsoon level storm.

Which is a great idea as we're driving up past UCSC and like

we're talking like rivers flowing like through the road with

like clumps of dirt and tree branches.

Yeah, that's what happens in heavy rain.

So you're playing the like Frogger, you know, you're playing

Frogger the whole way up and then had a good run and luckily

like the little cut one of the cut through is the cut through

we took that takes you to the other good road wasn't there

was no like big come around to turn and tree down or anything

like that.

But it was it was a fun drive and it wasn't actually wasn't

that eventful.

The event most eventful part of it was driving home on highway

one straight up just fucking standing two inches of water.

The whole like all over the place like massive huge like like

like on the turns just like fighting the steering wheel the

whole time going the speed limit, especially in that car like

like no sketchy dude super sketchy.

Yeah.

I was glad I had new tires on my truck because I had to drive

17 to San Jose back to back days and it was just been dumping

here and the tires felt amazing.

So that's a nice like confidence inspiring right like totally

I just think about it the whole time as you hit these like

channels of water that are across the road.

Yeah, I had to drive over the hill at night in a pretty bad

rainstorm the other day.

We went to see stranger things in the theaters and my wife's

tires are the original tires and the car has like forty three

thousand forty four thousand miles on it.

So I was a little like I was a little sketched out actually,

but the car performed.

Yeah, it helps all wheel drive and really heavy right.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, dude, I am.

So I did not go on a fun drive in my E thirty, but I did take it

up to actually know I'm lying.

Guess I did.

I did break away one little section, but I remembered, but I

drove up to the bay area.

Unfortunately, I didn't see you guys.

So I kept quiet.

I didn't reach out because it was like I had very specific

plans to visit folks and you know see the yeah sure did not

include us.

I was visiting folks and didn't include you fuckers.

So I went up to the San Mateo area and then on the way back

down, dude, it was like full on.

It was New Year's Eve.

I drove down on New Year's Eve to get back down here for New

Year's party with the wife and the other kid because I only

took one kid to invite and conquer and it was one of the

most uncomfortable experiences I've had driving in a very long

time and this other time was driving in the snow.

And so I was in the E thirty and I was very happy just as you

said to have good tires.

The Vredestine Vredestine sprint pluses that I have are

they're they're killer in the wet like they're really, really

good.

That wasn't as much of a problem as was the wind gusts in

addition to the standing water on the freeway and very little

visibility because all this fucking spray right.

So dude, the car was being blown around all over the place.

Like I basically was like white knuckling from like Paso all the

way to Santa Barbara.

Like just the entire way down, dude, and we're going.

We're still going like what's happening?

You're going like 80 miles an hour.

No, definitely not.

Break a break a record.

I mean, you got to show people.

What's up?

I mean, I show them.

He has to be Google.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm going to cut some time here guys.

It says two hours.

I mean, I was trying to get some temp into the tires.

You know, yeah, you got like you're probably doing the, you

got the F one started F one weave. Yeah, dude, but yeah, that being

said, though, yeah, that section could be sketchy without rain, like

just the wind, right?

And so yeah, and I didn't tell Amelia, who's my soon to be 10 year old

who was sitting in the passenger seat and she's like, you know, like

she's noticed it.

She's like, oh my gosh, like I can feel the wind on the car and I was

like, yep, it's very windy and I was like uncomfortable dude.

I'm like, dude, like any moment we're going to be blown into one of

these fucking ditches.

So like, but yeah, it was it was gnarly.

But yeah, the tires were so good in the wet dude, like just cutting,

like they're standing water, like just cut right through it.

Like no hydroplaning is just, you know, when you're, when it's wet and

you're being blown around and you can't see like it's.

Yeah, it's pretty gnarly, but dude, you're basically art in

center to imagine normal people.

Normal people would have died three times.

Not even they go one hand, one hand on the wheel and Nissan Sentra

don't even care.

Ultimately blue past me like nothing.

Yeah, with half of the bumper hanging off like on bald, like like

mismatched lion hearts or whatever.

Triangle triangles on one corner dude.

I did think about that though because I see, you know, especially,

I mean, I guess in the Bay Area have people are more aware of

weather, but here like it's it's sunny most like almost year round

really, right?

It's you have like a season of a few weeks that you have a lot of rain

and then for the most part it's pretty dry and like I'll look

around at people's tires and there are so many old shitty like

or ball tires around because people are totally clueless.

Right?

It's not something that they take into account and like, I guess

if you're just driving around town, it's fine, but like any of

those cars that I was thinking about like, you know, like on,

on the freeway that day would have immediately like crashed.

Like there's no way we were driving.

Totally.

We were in that like torrential rain and on the Los Gatos,

Los Gatos and I was with Andrew is just him and I in the truck

and I told him I look at these cars that we're passing right now.

Look at their tires.

There's, you know, it's just complete standing water.

You know, I'm like, that's the only thing touching the ground is

that part of the car.

Yeah.

He's like, oh yeah, totally.

So I'm like, that's why you want good tires.

You know, you can't just do this shit with Ling Long's man.

I told him that.

Did the the you now you the more you know song came on after you

told him that.

Yeah.

It was that little rainbow in the sky.

It's kind of like a shooting star.

Yeah.

Exactly.

That being said, there are a lot of crashes on the freeway here.

I bet it's probably because of that.

Like, I mean, the 101 was shut down like every single time because

of massive accidents.

Like every time it rained heavily here in the last couple of weeks,

it was shut down in both directions because of people blowing it.

So I wouldn't be surprised if it's that, you know, just you guys also

have you guys also have left turn left lane off ramps, which is the

craziest thing.

This is true.

We do have a lot of off ramps.

I really like Highway 17 is just, yeah, there's accidents every

single day and it's just a matter of how bad, but also like the

landslides and trees falling is another thing that is not the

fault of the tires, but that happens a lot.

Yep.

Questions time.

You ready?

First of the of the new year and the first question of 2026

comes from Oh Fuchs 9 11 New Year's resolutions.

Anyone anyone anyone I've never done them.

Anyone have any I would be surprised if Wayne all of a sudden

became a new year's resolution guy.

Yeah, I don't have any nothing.

Okay.

Sorry.

Wait, you know what?

I did have had something or something I wanted to do more over

something, but I forget it.

So it's not very good news or news resolution.

It's already.

It's already out.

It's already dead dude.

Dang dude.

Chris 16 V Rocco says what cars are unfairly maligned due to brand

stigma or country of origin, but are actually really good cars.

This is a tricky one.

I actually thought about that.

I saw this earlier in the day and I was thinking about this

question.

I couldn't really come up with a decent answer.

You guys got anything I do just off the top of my head here.

I haven't driven one, but people that I trust that have driven

them say that Kia stingers are really good driving cars and

they're actually pretty well made, which is understandable.

I can, I can see that being the case, but again, Kia and then

kind of first attempt at like a front engine rear wheel drive

performance car.

That's straight up like I have zero interest in owning one

because of that.

Right.

Like it's a spec series in the future or something, but not

necessarily something I'd want to own as my like fun like maybe

they're cheap dude dude to be a great rental car.

Yeah.

If that if there was a line of those at the rental counter like

that is an awesome option.

They don't make them anymore.

No.

Yeah.

I mean the twenty grand will buy you a good one with some

miles on it.

It looks like I'm just the twenty one twenty five thirty is like

babyed for sure.

But yeah, the kid this young I call a kid a young man that

worked for me at my last job.

He bought one as a use just like his car and he's not like a

real car guy, but he was like kind of wanting something kind of

neat.

And he came with that.

I'm like, I respect your, you know, I was like, that's a cool

like a very outside the box choice dude.

It's kind of cool.

Yeah.

Performance car that is hopefully reliable.

I don't really know.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I want to say a French brand, but I don't have enough experience

to say like, oh no, they're really great.

People swear that like old citrons aren't that complicated and

hard to deal with once you like figure them out.

But I don't have enough experience.

It's once you figure them out.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that's like, if you have all the parts and you're

not scared to work on them.

Yeah.

I think it's, it's not, I mean, not that they're unreliable.

It's just that they're complex and like that's, it's, you have to

have like a person that knows what they're doing.

Right.

Like it's, they don't, they're not, they're not normal cars.

Right.

They're, they're very different.

Like the way they operate everything, like design wise, the way

they function and how they're put together.

So like you have to know someone who knows what they're doing.

And even as a person who's mechanically inclined, like you're

going into starting from scratch basically, right?

Like, it's just everything's backwards.

Yeah.

Just like, I don't know.

Like how are the breaks?

Like, you know, how's that tied into the whole hydraulic system?

Like, can you just remove a caliper?

Like, I don't even know.

Like all of that is going to have to start from scratch.

Right.

Like just, yeah.

So yeah, it's, it's interesting.

But I think the other one would be, I don't know if you guys feel

this way.

Again, another car that I haven't driven, but like, I feel like

the Nissan Z is kind of like affected by this, the new one.

It's like, it's supposed to be like a great car.

It's not like the best in the segment, but it's, it's just like,

it's kind of like the Nissan stigma maybe is there where it's

not getting a lot of love, but yeah.

Yeah.

It's also priced really high.

There's a lot of things going against that car dude.

Yeah.

But I think on the, on that note, I think like every Nissan gets a

bad rap in today's cars and they're not like a horrible car,

right?

Especially if you look back at like those, the nineties maximas

are awesome cars and there's definitely some cool cars, but

now it's like Nissan equals like crazy driver that you don't

want to park next to.

So like the reputation of that brand is horrible, but they do

have some like decent product.

I don't think the products like they horrible.

They're very long lasting cars and they used to have really

good product.

Yeah.

But now like all these songs have like a tainted, you know,

I feel like there's another one.

Oh, I was just going to say, I was thinking of, of one that

I have no experience with at all, but they seem to just

survive and be around forever is like those old ladders, like

just the most basic eastern block.

Yeah.

The little sqv things, all of them, like the lot of those little

all the fiat based ones, like the little box three box.

Yeah.

Those are cool.

But are those like, are you think those are like unfairly judged

or like, I mean, they're so poorly built.

They're so probably built, but they just seem to be like so common

and keep going.

Like I've never been a really shitty bug.

Exactly.

It's like a Volkswagen Beetle that people love Beatles.

And it's like built way worse.

Doesn't look as cool.

Like the doors don't close right.

Yeah.

Right.

There's like air coming through the firewall and stuff.

Yeah.

And that was one of the things, but like VW pride of themselves

and was like the air tightness of those cars and how.

Yeah.

Definitely way better car, but yeah, I don't know.

It's just one of those things that like, I think if you see

one, you're like, Oh my God, what a joke.

But then again, someone might be driving it in their little village

in Russia for 60 years and it just keeps going and going.

You know, I don't know.

I think for me, like a Corvette could be the best car in the world,

but I don't want to be a Corvette guy.

So if we're, you know, we're, we're answering this question.

It's like, I don't think like the new CA we had one for a little bit.

Yeah.

It was a, it was an all right car.

Definitely had things I didn't like about it, but I would never like,

I think we talked about it at the time.

We're like, I would never want to own one.

I would never want to be that guy.

Well, that's that image.

Yeah.

Incredible.

Yeah.

For sure.

Like in terms of like the value proposition is massive, right?

Like the performance, the handling, all of it, but, and then also aesthetically,

it looks exotic, especially if to the uninitiated, right?

Not necessarily our style, but yeah, cool looking.

I feel like, I mean, I kind of feel the same way about Mustang link

is like, I actually like feel like I would, I drove a GT through 50 and I've

driven the, the five O's and the new ones.

They're great cars, but I don't necessarily want to have that.

Like it's like an image thing, right?

Like the other day I sat in a WS six trans am like, yeah, cool car.

And the interior is chincy and all that very early nineties GM, but like, or

whatever, maybe late nineties in that case, but just it's, it's like the,

the, it's not for me.

I feel like a certain there's an association with, with that type of

vehicle that, you know, your mullet guy, like, you know, the, all that.

And it's like, sure, like it's trashy.

I don't care.

Like I don't mind anyone else doing it or driving the cars and owning them.

And that's great.

It's just not me.

So I totally agree.

Cause I don't think like Mustang.

I don't think, I think a Mustang is a pretty good looking car really.

Like if you just look at it on its own and I think they,

they definitely have tons of power and they, you know, drive pretty well and

everything. They're fun.

Their muscle cars, like in today, like everything should be awesome.

But then you're like, oh, then I'm the guy that goes to the gas station.

And I'm like, like the guy in the, I'm the same as whatever, you know,

I'm Mustang guy dude.

I'm the guy at morning motors in the back with like the Mustangs guys.

Speaking of New Year's resolutions, maybe this is it.

Lane becomes Mustang guy.

It's a Pontiac.

Dude.

Can I, I'll throw one more thing in real quick.

I'm curious to hear what you guys think.

I just saw that there's like Mitsubishi is trying to like make a comeback and

they're starting with the, bringing back the Montero nameplate.

And it's all camoed up and stuff.

And like, it looks like it could be interesting and good, but,

but like by default though, like because Mitsubishi has been like so shitty,

like I feel like who's going to make that leap, right?

And actually like jump into a Mitsubishi.

It would have to be so dope dude.

I mean, all they have to do is just make it retro style,

like the new Land Cruiser in some ways, like, but they won't.

It'll be some like, you know, unibody crossover thing.

I'm looking at it right now, like the renderings and stuff for the 2828.

I mean, with their lease showing, like it looks like a, it looks like a new

retailer, right? Or, you know, it looks, yeah.

And it, yeah, it's very like, or a Lexus or something like that.

Looks good.

It looks fine, but it's not like it neat, like a Montero.

There's no roots, right?

It feels like they should go.

Yeah.

And if you are going to go Montero, if you're going to go to those roots,

like Warren said, it's like bring it back to like the off roadie looking.

Yeah.

Like make it the most, make it like a defender Bronco,

or with like a defender or something like that.

Yeah.

That's what you'd want to do.

Yeah.

I agree.

Our Chen says, it's time to drive your families and relatives back to the

airport. Choose a rad era car for the job.

Must have a plush comfortable ride.

I'll go.

You got a lot of luggage, you know, you're gonna have to need a lot of

space to put stuff in.

Radwood era.

I'm going 1992 Oldsmobile custom cruiser.

That is the last of the big body, rear wheel drive wagons, bench seats,

luggage space for days, buttoned leather interior.

That's what we're going with.

No velour.

I want everyone to wear, I want everyone to wear full length rain coats or

trench coats.

Like you wouldn't like a John Hughes movie.

Yeah.

Like Chicago.

Yeah.

It's like, who even owns those things?

Has anyone in California ever owned a full length rain coat?

Art probably has.

You probably have some dapper ass fucking Burberry something.

Damn.

What are you rocking?

That's exactly what I have.

Cause you have scarfs.

So I got to start with you.

A scarf guy.

You probably have something.

Yeah.

Or is it a quarter, three quarter length?

What are you rocking?

I got a full and three quarter dog, you know, but it's not for California.

Whether it's, it's when you go to, you know, your spot in Telluride or Aspen,

you know, you got to play the part, which I don't know.

Is it, do you really have a full length?

I used to and not anymore.

Is it, is it wool?

Was it wool or was it repellent?

No, it's like the, I don't have it anymore.

I don't even know what happened.

Actually, you know, it might be in a bin in the garage, but it's like the,

it's like the wax style kind of like, you know, like that style.

Yeah.

I guess it's like more rain coat, more rain coat, not, not a snow like cold

weather.

Okay.

And then you got to have a part on the side, big hair with wire glasses.

What else?

What am I forgetting here?

Oh, oh, sweater vest of some kind.

Way too many sweaters and layers to even make sense.

A turtleneck with a sweater vest and then a jacket and then the rain coat.

But these aren't fancy cause these are all from like Kmart.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Sears, Sears catalog, JC penny, but you're in the Oldsmobile custom cruiser.

One hand on the wheel, a lot of slop tape deck, no power green LED.

You're climbing highway 17, just miserable.

Exactly.

So there you go.

That's what I got.

Okay.

That sounds like you, you're having a real moment, dude.

Yeah.

The vibe, right?

And I have Kenny logins on the stereo.

If you guys have to ask.

Yeah.

That's a good one, dude.

My first thought is just like a Audi A8 or a 750 IL or something like that.

Oh, nice.

Or no, actually, those aren't even Radwood.

Right?

Yeah.

A 750 is like late, but maybe like a, maybe then it would be, yeah.

What about Audi A8?

Audi V8 would be, Audi V8 would be cool.

Audi V8 is a good one.

But I actually want to go some Bentley, but I don't know any models like Arnaud or something.

Turbo R would be the choice, but those are going to ride a little rougher.

Turbo R is a little too rough.

I want a little more pop pop.

You want to go Rolls Royce then.

You're going Rolls.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

You can go Silver Seraf.

Last of that big body Rolls.

Yeah.

That'd be nice.

I like that.

Any of the Japanese like taxi stuff.

Dude.

Why not?

I went there for a century.

Century's good, but I think you need more luggage space.

This is America.

Okay.

Yes.

We're wearing full length trench coats here.

What are we looking at?

What's the cubic inches on that thing of the rear trunk?

Custom cruiser compared to a century?

Yeah.

But you got those fabric suitcases that are bigger than a child and you know,

they've got like flowers.

We're throwing it way back.

I mean, how sick would it be to do that with a roof rack?

Century with a.

Oh, okay.

What about a trunk rack?

Luggage rack on the truck.

I don't know.

I'm boring dude.

My mind went straight to Lexus LX 450, which is your Land Cruiser FJ 80.

I feel like that would be great.

Just super cozy, huge trunk area on the back.

You can stack all the luggage in there.

You have a roof rack on top of that if needed.

Cozy.

Did they make them in the 90s?

Not the best ride.

All right.

I'm going to say that right now.

Yeah, there's not a smooth ride.

95 or 96 the first year.

Lexus version.

Yeah, you could get that.

That Land Cruiser based thing.

But yeah, that's not a smooth riding car.

Is it because body on frame, all jiggly?

That's a truck.

That's what we call a truck.

But it's the Lexus though.

It's got the softer suspension.

Although the custom cruiser is pretty much the same thing.

Yeah, exactly.

It's body on frame, right?

Yeah, it is.

No, it's definitely body on frame.

But I do remember years ago I looked at the difference.

No, I'm saying the country cruiser is also body on frame.

Did you call it a country cruiser?

I don't feel like that.

Warrant's car is going to ride so much better for some reason.

I'm surprised that you went specifically for the old version

and not the.

What is it?

The Caprice, not the Caprice.

What's the other one that we always have come to our shows?

Let's see what you get.

Is the oldest most expensive?

Come on art.

Like new dude.

See if art can do it.

Oh my gosh.

It's like right there.

It's the wood panel.

Do it.

The side.

Don't help him Lane Roadmaster.

No.

Yes.

You a roadmaster.

Yeah, but same car, right?

Just old.

Yeah.

Olds might be there.

They're all killing it.

They're all very similar.

It's a shame that Cadillac never made a version of this wagon.

It would have been really cool.

I recently watched like an old motor motor week thing and it was

one of these cars.

It was like the smaller version of the wagon in the 80s like the

American, you know the Chrysler wagons and they had the three

different versions kind of thing.

Dude, the price difference is like three hundred dollars between

each model.

Yeah.

And then the fancy one and you're like why we're like how do

they ever think this is a good idea dude?

It's like Toyota Lexus is a big makes sense.

It's a big jump, right?

They just had their markets that they kept making cars for

and there's like they're going to sell.

There's dealers that sell Buick's.

We just sell Buick's and it's all we know to sell and then

there's the Pontiac guy and then Pontiac.

It's crazy and it makes the perfect sense why they all got,

you know, consolidated and got rid of all this stuff.

But yeah, it's wild.

I still don't understand GMC and Chevy.

Yeah, I know.

It doesn't make sense.

I mean Cadillac making the similar car would make sense.

Yeah, I think Cadillac too.

But right now we have GMC, Chevy and Caddy all making the same

product.

Same basic product.

Yeah, I know.

I don't got it either.

It's a weird one.

It's a strange situation.

Art, do you have any other thoughts on your Land Cruiser

choice?

It is a little jiggly, but it's got I just I want to be driving

that thing.

I feel it's cool.

It's a nice place to be.

I'm trying to think of the luggage thing is a thing.

And so, you know, there's the Range Rover equivalents and all

that, but I don't want to go there.

I'm kind of scanned everything and I think it might be my final

answer.

Okay, done.

Bobby Reid with the cars says our 32 year old son is going to

Tokyo with his girlfriend in February for a vacation.

Can each of you give me one non car activity or restaurant to

recommend to him?

Let's see non car activity.

I think team labs art and I both went to team labs.

It's a really awesome interactive kind of museum experience.

The one I went to is called borderless.

And I think you will need reservations for sure.

So I would recommend that.

Don Quixote mega store.

It's a given.

You'll probably find one depending where you stay, but they

call them donkey like a mega donkey.

And these, this is just like a insane multi storied chachki

store with not just chachkes, but crazy.

Do we know 33 year old son?

Is he, is he been on the rallies?

Yeah.

Yeah, I believe so.

He drove his three series is 335.

Yeah.

And then he's also been with his dad and like the 944.

Yeah.

Okay.

So he's been on like three or hours.

Okay.

Yeah.

So one recommendation because it would make for a killer date

night.

It's also one of my favorite places in Tokyo is go to the New

York bar in the Park Hyatt.

It's on the 50th floor or something like that.

You have a 360 degree view of Tokyo go for dinner.

It could be spendy.

So that's one thing to consider.

But I mean, I would consider it like one of the date nights

there, you know, budget 250, like for both of you guys, 300

with drinks and stuff, but you can have a really, really,

really awesome dinner, especially right now.

Like it's, I don't know if it's a mission start restaurant,

but I mean, phenomenal food, epic views and the venue itself is

super rad.

It's a jazz bar basically.

So they have live jazz every evening and it's like black

marble inside.

It's really, really cool and it's not car related at all.

They have really good whiskey.

If he's into that and it is where they shot lost in translation,

which they just restored it or remodeled it sweet.

Yeah, I would just say like find a cool name.

Just find a random neighborhood and take a walk dude.

Just like which neighborhood it does.

I don't think it matters.

I've been to like there's so many cool neighborhoods in Japan.

It's like, give them one idea cause that's pretty hard to just

be like pick a neighborhood.

I think you probably have something that you, you like.

I mean, like set a guy as cool dude and like,

I think that's like off the beaten, like not a lot of people go

there.

So just walk around set a guy and just go to like plan to like

spend a late morning afternoon, grab some coffee,

grab some food, you know, walk around, visit some little shops.

Like, but I, but I think there's just so many,

like you could almost choose like almost any neighborhood and

have fun just kind of like doing that kind of roam around.

Like I do it on like photo walks almost and you end up seeing

a lot of stuff you wouldn't normally see.

And then for food hit up like a one of the Hibachi like steak

houses.

Those are, those are always kind of fun under the little,

you know, they're usually like down a flight of stairs and

they have six tables and you cook the little,

the steak on your, on your little Hibachi and yeah,

those are always kind of fun.

I like it.

SF production Gabe says you can either go all in on a 100%

vegan lifestyle or lose your ability to own or drive

enthusiast cars for the rest of your life.

Vegan.

What are you choosing?

Also, Crips or Bloods?

I look better in blue.

So for sure Crips on my end, but my favorite color is red and

I know how to do the hand thing.

Oh, I do do.

I do.

So I gotta, I gotta be a blood.

Your favorite color is red.

Yeah.

I can't take a picture of you in one red.

By the way, I don't like it as a as an accent,

but it is like my favorite color as like just a genuine.

Okay.

By the way, if you didn't, if even if I didn't know Gabe asked

this, I would absolutely knows Gabe from this question.

I know this is very good.

Vegan for sure.

No question.

Vegan.

So vegetarian all day long.

So easy.

Vegan is so rough dude.

No more cheese.

No more butter.

Dude.

No more leather.

No more good bread.

Dude.

No drive.

You can't even drive an enthusiast car for you.

Like it's own or drive.

Like you're basically just it's basically like you're not a

car person anymore.

I mean, I guess, I guess I'm gonna be a vegan dude.

Can I be really wealthy and like have the best chefs like at

my disposal?

Yes.

They're terrible.

Actually, I enjoy.

It's one of my.

Is it a guilty pleasure?

I don't know if it's a guilty pleasure.

I enjoy folks trying the vegan option wherever.

Like you.

Let's say we go to a party.

There's a vegan pizza.

I will always try it.

There's a vegan pastry.

I would always try it because I want to see what they pull

off.

You know you also park next to the shopping cart return.

Yeah.

I'm saying free bro.

No.

This is a horrible reality and anyone who's vegan.

I'm sorry.

I'm saying this, but it's just seems like torture.

I think it's it's also a challenge.

It's like you know to see too much.

I would say fuck cars forever.

Wow.

Dude.

Food is more important than cars.

Dude.

I go vegan.

I find I'd find a way.

I think that it's it's definitely getting that stuff's getting

better.

But yeah, it's still your peanut burgers and your fucking.

I mean.

Hard.

I'm having a hard.

I'm having a really hard time with this one, but there's no way

possible burgers pretty solid.

They're so gross and so bad for you.

Can't do it, but I'm going to be a Crip.

All right.

Well, based on color alone.

I definitely am more a blue guy and across the board.

I like blue on cars.

I would like to wear more blue.

So I don't have a choice.

Yeah.

And I'm more.

Is there a blood?

It was a blood.

It was a blood artist.

I'm deaf.

I like some Snoop dog even though he's been controversial recently

with some shit, but.

And I also like a G Perico.

Wait, Snoop dogs being controversial.

I don't know about those.

No, I'm serious.

Well, I mean controversial if you're left leaning because he's,

you know, that doing things doing things even like big bear.

I ran in space says if there were a rule that you needed to swap

the motor from the recipient car into the donor car, what would

result in the worst, the best or just the most bizarre outcomes?

For instance, what Japanese car should art stuff as old E 30

motor into?

Would a rotary Camaro be fun or perhaps an S 52 powered Toyota

Soror?

These are good questions.

We've had this question many times and maybe not quite close to this.

Close to this rotary Land Cruiser would be a horrible thing or rotary

F 350.

Well, we're saying like swap.

So like think of a car like an RX 7 that gets a big LS V8 in it.

Where does that motor then go into the Camaro?

Like that would be so ridiculous.

Maybe not actually.

I don't know.

You could be like some crazy.

Yeah, I'll do RX 7 and F 350 dude.

Geez.

This is like to make the worst one.

Oh, but there's also the best, the best.

So yeah, it would be so ridiculous 20.

So you're putting.

I mean, you have to look at what the case series comes out of, right?

Like transverse right away.

M 20 is pretty wild.

S 2000 and Hummer H1 worst.

So you're putting an H1 engine into an S 2000.

Yeah.

Diesel into an S 2000 and that's putting the S 2000 anemic ass engine

into a fucking Hummer.

Who the hell is putting a fucking diesel engine into an S 2000?

Exactly dude.

I don't know what's happening right now.

What's realistic though?

Like or is it just great?

No, I think that's a good saying.

What is the worst and what's the best?

That's the worst.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, you can go.

Yeah, go with a what is that 6.75 liter Bentley turbo engine

into a Suzuki Swift GTI, which would take off half of the interior

plus the engine bay and then you put that 1.3 liter into a Bentley

like you go for ridiculous to hang dude, but I'm thinking of like

something realistic, right?

Like just as you said, the Camaro version and like people are.

I mean, one thing that I have seen is in them.

I know you guys have to.

They've people put Viper motors into S 2000.

So putting that F 20 into an S into a Viper would be insane.

That's that would be awesome.

I guess turbo charged like like that would be pretty crazy.

I'm very go-kart ask right like just rev the shit out of it and

just have this gigantic flat car with tons of grip.

The rotary was mentioned there.

Yeah, it's all like 2JZ swaps and so like if you were going to put

what is a common 2JZ recipient?

They'll put them in like Z's like to like S 30's like the oh right.

Like the 240Z.

So then you would get that motor and put it in a super, which is not bad.

I mean, you could put like that's not too bad.

Triple Mccuny's high compression or maybe even go with that and do

a overhead cam setup that's being built now.

What's like the, yeah, like some of these vintage SUVs will have,

you know, like a, imagine like a vintage Bronco, like a first gen Bronco.

Well, I don't even know what was in those straight six and then

throwing that back in the new Chevy truck.

It's like an old crappy 1960s straight six with, you know,

100 horsepower and then you have here the new Bronco because all those

like any Bronco build seems like it has an LS or a coyote in it.

Pretty much going for it.

So did you guys see along those lines?

I mean, do you watch the car? Wow, like the drag races and stuff?

You know car well familiar, but I don't I don't watch them.

I mean, they're pretty entertaining, but they just did one where it was a new

new Toyota GR 86 or whatever.

GR yeah, 86 I guess verse a twin turbo turbo Supra.

So mark for yeah, okay, and the dude is like zero like quarter mile

the the GR the one like every time.

Whoa, so it just I put it's like putting things into perspective, right?

You're like, oh, like everyone talks about how slow the new Toyota, you know,

those little GRs are and stuff like that.

And then the Supra is like God, right?

I mean, it is part of the tuning is what makes that thing so crazy.

But yeah, like every every they did it two or three times or as best two out

of three or something and it smoked it both times and then on poles from like

highway. It was the Supra had it on a couple of those tests.

Okay, like but but it wasn't like crazy close, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's

surprising though. Yeah, you wouldn't think that but it's like you watch it

like and they do they'll do a lot of those like they did like we're like oh

those are fast cars right and then you see it or it's like a lot of they'll do

modded cars and the modded cars just won't put the power down.

Yeah, like it's smug by something very normal. Yeah, I remember when they did.

I think it was a top cure or car. Well years ago they did a MR to turbo versus

the MR spider at the time, right? Oh, just stock stock stock stock stock stock.

Yeah, and the MR to turbo is faster and yeah, there's a few of those where they

went back and forth with. I think that it was that concept though like at the

time like 350 Z versus yet whatever. I don't know if it was a 240 or 280 ZX or

whatever and so like they kind of compared those. That was a fun one.

That's cool. Oh yeah, speaking of the new Z. They also did the it was like the

new Z verse. It was all that kind of like John that cars and the Z was like

super slow.

That's is it automatic only? No, even though on paper it looked good.

You got a manual. The Z the only the the Nismo is automatic only, but they're

changing that and like that's what everyone said. Everyone's saying like the Nismo one was

the good one was awesome, but they hated that it was that was auto and

everyone that drove it like like Camisa and Farah and a bunch of people know

they're like, yeah, like this with a manual would be an awesome car and

the argument at the time was that the buy whoever's buying a Nismo product is

all about the performance and less about the engagement, which ended up being

the exact opposite.

They're all about the track times and all that stuff and that when they were

basically they kind of like they banked on that being the popular one and

unfortunately it didn't work out like that. It was definitely the opposite.

It's like people wanted the manual because it's the enthusiast like sort of like

niche product and so they're hoping now that they're going to sell well, but

it's going to be interesting to see the MR to MR to spiders or I'm sorry at the

MR to turbo such an interesting car. It's it's a shame they didn't they just

didn't do very well in the period. I think they were not quite competitive

enough and I don't really know what their Achilles heel is like reliability wise.

No, they're not. They're not reliable. Pretty good. Yeah, they're great. Yeah,

they're awesome cars. I think the main thing is just access right. So because

it's of the layout and you know that that's hard to get in and out is what

you're saying just to work on the engine like that's yeah, yeah, but it's outside

of that. It's just labor times right overall like yeah, that's right. It's

like a car. Imagine like a built by legends MR to turbo. Yeah, they're

they're very cool. Yeah, I've driven a turbo before and an NA one and they drive

great. They're obviously bit engine cars and I think you know, like a lot of mid

engine cars, they have a stigma with like the whole Snap Overseer bullshit, but

it's really about people not knowing what they're doing and blowing it, especially

when you're dealing with turbo lag in a mid engine car, which is tricky. So you have

to be aware of that. Great looking cars. I would yeah, built by legends. If you're

listening make MR to turbos. Alright, I think it's that time. What do you think?

Yeah, real quick, a couple updates before we jump in. So I did two things to my E

30 during the break. One of them I don't remember if I had mentioned this before.

It's been a while. Maybe I did initially, but the the tack on my gauge cluster

hasn't worked since the swap. And so we thought maybe it had to do with the gauge

cluster itself because of like, you know, the the circuit traces and like the

soldering over year over the years kind of cracks and stuff. Mine worked before

the swap, but I did swap the gauges and stuff. And maybe we thought that in that

process, I maybe mess with, you know, I cracked the solder and stuff and it wasn't

actually, you know, delivering the juice to the tack. And so I got a whole, a brand

new, not brand new, but a rebuilt cluster from a very reputable source, all brand

new gears internally retraced, like, you know, super like dialed, like it basically

as fresh as a as an E 30 clusters you can get. Unfortunately, very expensive, brand

new SI, you know, SI board with like new batteries, all of it, LED lights. I finally

got around to installing it, nothing. So I went through the motions, you know, it's

not super involving, but it's sensitive stuff. You're dealing with pulling off

little panels and clips and screws that shit that break and tab. So I was very, very

careful and managed to keep everything intact, not damage anything. So I disassembled

it again. And I'm like, what the hell's going on? And so I, I, I swapped the SI

board from the original one again, and then I swapped it back out. I plugged it back

in nothing. And so I decided to make a post on the Facebook group that exists for

E 30 or K swapped E 30s, which is great. And that is what I use Facebook almost

exclusively now, except for some Facebook marketplace searches. And immediately within

15 minutes, a guy responded, he's like, did you connect the black wire from the

K power industries harness to the main harness? There is a black wire that comes

off of it that connects to this particular plug that goes to the back of the gauge

cluster. And I'm like, uh, well, I didn't perform the swap. Uh, and the, the shop

that did it went, you know, basically and followed the directions that were provided

and, uh, and I'll double check. So, you know, to, to, to, uh, uh, be lines credit,

they followed the exact instructions that they were handed. I went over that exact

same document and there's nothing about this wire to the tack and I'm like, what

the fuck's going on? So, um, I asked him, like, where is it? And he's like, well,

it's this and there's this pin. And then I went and did some more research and I

found the fucking wire. There's a black wire that's just dangling off. It's not

like it's not in any plug and it comes off of the K power industries jumper

harness that then gets plugged into a little plug that is zip tied. So you

drop, you have to remove the, the, the whole, um, glove box, you drop it off,

you remove it and then you pull the panel off. There's these covers that like,

you know, block all the wiring and shit and these see you up there. So it's like

tucked in there. I find the plug. Um, I'm like, all right, I have everything

disassembled. I have the cluster, half a disassembled. Everything's like off the

car, but I'm like, I'm in the garage. It's like 12, 30 a.m. I'm here. I have to

fire this fucking thing up and see if it works in the garage of the middle

night. Um, I plug the wire in, fired up works immediately. Wow. So, so wait, do

you, you had your original cluster figured out and you bought a new cluster? Yes.

So you have two clusters now. Yes.

Well, you could fix it. At least it worked, right? Yeah. You're already in

the mindset that you had to buy a new one. This is like classes. This is swap shit,

right? Like when you're doing this kind of stuff and the, the shady thing is that

I, I, I'm annoyed because, you know, I went, not only did I spend a bunch of

money on this stuff, but I spent a ton of time on it and like, you know, having

to do all this bullshit and it is something that should be in the instructions.

It's so simple. It's like, it's literally a wire that's right there that they

provide on their harness and there's this plug that you have to connect to

basically, you know, it goes from the jumper harness on the Cape, our industries

jumper harness to the main harness under the dash and yeah, it was missing in

the instructions. So, um, but I'm still not awesome. Did you, did you then reach

out to Cape ours and be like, no, I haven't. I want to, I will. I mean, I'll

mention it. Like it's definitely something they need to update their

instructions because like, I mean, how are you supposed to know that? Like, uh,

no, yeah, it's crazy. So anyways, I'm happy that I have a functional tack

finally. It's like, I've been using the, the Honda out of Cape pro app, which is,

I had my phone on, on a, on a mount and it's cool. Like I mentioned it before,

it's like, you can choose the S 2000 gauge cluster, which is what I was using

and, or the tack rather, but, but yeah, so huge went on that. It's all back

together, buttoned up and I went and test drove it and drove it around a bit

and then that was fun. Other update real quick. Um, there is a mount on the exhaust

that is hard mounted to the transmission subframe based on this custom exhaust

that they made. And that was the only way they could really make it work. Um,

and it was really bothering me because it was so damn busy the way that it

transferred, you know, the like vibration to the cab or the cabin rather.

And, um, why I had the car, um, when I was up there in San Mateo, I stopped

by our buddy, um, Andrew's shop in San Carlos and he, he's like, yeah, let's

throw it on the rack and see what we can do. And so we made a better version of

it that has rubber now, like basically to dampen, um, some vibration between

the, the body and the exhaust. Nice. And, um, it's massive. Like it's, it's crazy.

How it's like a game changer amount of like different. So different. And, um,

I remember, uh, one of the, one of the rallies, I don't know if it was the

first one or the second or the most recent one, um, Matt hushy pushy sat in

the passenger seat and when we got out of the car, uh, he's like, dude, like I

still feel like I'm vibrating, like I'm buzzing because of like all the vibration

under the car. Um, and now like, you know, with this setup, which is not a

permanent fix, it's like we're going to, I need to go to an exhaust shop and

basically have a make a permanent version of what we put together. Um, but

it's like, it's, it's unbelievable how much of a difference it made. Like it

from an NVH standpoint, like it's way more tolerable and like it also changed

the sound of the exhaust a little bit because I feel like it's damping, you

know, like the, the vibration. So the resonance is something happened there.

So it's still a little tinny and all that, but it's like, it's better. Um,

so that's just somewhere refined experience, right? Exactly. And that,

and that's where I'm out with this car, you know, now, now it's all just

refining, refining, you know, like, you know, a bunch of little details there.

Um, and I think, oh, one update real quick too before we jump into questions.

I, uh, I also learned that, um, that the transmission

has an issue where not, not, not, not this specific one, the one that's in my

car, but the get track 260, the way that the, the way that the bearings are in

this transmission, um, the four cylinder at lower RPM between like

1500 and like 2,500. Um, it, it, it's unbalanced, right? It's like balanced

in a way that it actually like vibrates and makes this weird whirring sound

through the transmission and it sounds like it's like a bad input shaft bearing

and I noticed that and I, I brought it up to, to, I think it was to Nick and Nick

said, yeah, do we got to go like metric mechanic at this point, like basically

and redo the whole tranny and I'm like, oh really? I'm like, fuck, well that,

like, I don't know, that sucks. But I went and did some more research on,

on, on this, um, uh, Facebook group and they said, yeah, it's like,

basically it's, it's, it's something you can't fix. Like it's, it has to do with

the four cylinder being attached to this transmission that was attached to a very

smooth balanced inline six and that didn't, it doesn't make that noise.

It doesn't resonate like that. And so with the four cylinder at a very

specific RPM, the whole transmission just basically sounds like it's rattling

apart. It sounds so shitty and the solution is S 2000 transmission.

So, um, that's the next iteration of this speaking of refinement, right? So

be cool. Six feet. Do it in like one of the best shifters in the world.

Like those, like those got to be expensive. Um, yes. And it's also,

it had, I just had a new drive shaft put in here that's reinforced. That's

like all this. So, so now we're going down that path. It's like,

now we're dealing with a whole other iteration of this, uh, the drive

train, you know, basically having to be redone. So that's going to be the next

thing that I'll do to this car. Um, and unfortunately it's, it's a must. Like,

I mean, if I want to like enjoy the car without it having, you know, this gnarly

ass like noise and I was talking to Camisa about it cause why I chatted with him

about doing a video, um, and talking about like sort of this Rad mod concept

and having it be like a Radwood era, like themed, like sort of like, um, show

and cause he's doing a whole new series that hasn't been released yet, but where

it could fit. And basically this gets up, it gets compared to like a E30 M3

Sport Evo. And so like it's kind of like a, it's like a, um, kind of like a

build your car versus buy the thing, you know, and so, you know, 250 grand

versus whatever this is, uh, and, and, you know, and, and, and having that

experience and, and comparing them. And, uh, I told them like, I, I don't want to

hand the keys over to him right now because he's, he's so fucking sensitive

with like, with shit like this and this would drive him insane. Like he probably

will just like step out of the car, the trans, the transmission. Yeah. Cause it's

so noisy and gross. Like I'll, I'll send you, I don't know if I can capture it on

the phone, but like what basically every time you come to a stop, it's like,

it's like, we got to have, we got to, we have to both drive it, even if it's

just like around the block, dude, cause I feel like it'll give us a good sense of

like everything. Well that, I think it'll be a before after compared to, but just

or if you drive it and want to enjoy it and keep it up there for a few days,

whatever, just keep that in mind. It's like, that's something that is annoying.

Yes. It sounds shitty, but you know, I think what I'm getting at is that it's

probably you're making a little bit of a molehill out of a, what am I trying to

say, Lane?

Am I making a bag out of the sows ear or was that you got two birds in one

hand and no, I don't know. Anyways, I want to drive it. I want to come down a

mountain. You're saying is that it's like it's probably not that big of a deal,

but like making it a bigger deal than it is. Well, no, I think you're incredibly

sensitive to it, which is, which makes sense, but I think that if someone like

myself were to drive it, I go, that's not so bad. Like you're like, it's like a

race car. Yeah, yeah, it's like these are not refined things that need to be

although, but I think he does want it to be a refined thing. No, I want to be

like a stock car. I encourage you to go down that road. If you want to and which

I'm glad to hear you're want to invest in it and like make it right, which is

killer, but what I'm saying is that I think I can overlook. Yeah. Well, I

appreciate that man makes me feel better. You know, it makes me more willing to

get over them keys, but I think I'd be really critical of it and I try to

talk shit about it till the end of my life probably lanes a different story. I

will give that. Yeah. And it also has to do like the shifter is, you know, as you

know, these 30 get track 260s, like they're kind of shitty, like they're kind of

whatever. It's sort of nine 15 ish, like where you have to, you know, it's floppy.

Yeah. You have to be like, and this is a fresh, like all of it is fresh, right?

Like, I mean, I had him rebuild all the bush. I mean, all of the bushings are

fresh. It's like, then it has a Z three short shifter in it and it's still kind

of like meh. It's like, it's basically like an okay nine 15, you know, where

an okay nine 15 is yes, you have to know how to drive it in and you have to

basically be patient with it. And it's like, when you go first, second, third,

you put it into third. It doesn't just slot in and want to go there naturally.

Right. So like, like, I know how to drive it and it's all that, but it's not

like a pleasant experience. And that's what I'm going for. Right. It's like,

that's where we're talking about this refinement shit. Like I'm working on

getting there because I'm building a very specific experience with this car.

And like we're almost there. Unfortunately, this is going to be a hefty one,

but and it is, it is something that's already been done, which is helpful,

but unfortunately, not a ton of people. So I'll have to lean heavily on like a

couple guys on this fucking. Yeah, yeah, Facebook open the whole time. Yeah.

Well, that's cool. I like before we get into whatever the trivia. I do want to

recommend two things real quick. I want to recommend the red flags podcast with

David Colhart, ranking F one world champions. Oh, cool. Which is kind of

cool. He does like a break. They do a bracket style. This is those guys that

they did the podcast with Gunther Steiner. Okay. I don't know if you've seen

that like the I watched on YouTube, but yeah, it's like, it's cool. It's just

if you're missing up one to it's kind of fun little watch. David Colhart is a

very it's funny how by the end I'm like, dude, David Colhart hates short people.

Oh, really? He literally he mentions like like the short man complex like ten

times. He mentions like how short Alonzo is ten times. He mentions Prost and

how Prost had an advantage over everyone he raced against because back then they

didn't change. Basically he's saying they didn't do now like weight is calculated

your weight. Yeah, but he's like doing he was raising against Mansell. He had a

six, ten second advanced six tenths of a second advantage over him per lap. So

he's like it's a complex that he has because he's because he had to live

through it because he's a big dude and he's like I could never get to that

weight. He's like and I was ten kg lower than I am now and now I'm at my healthy

weight, right? He's like, you know, so he's very like it's always talking about

these guys that are too short and and that was like why Prost didn't go as far

as like he would have was because of with him with his rankings because he like

docked him mostly raced in the era where basically he had an advantage because

he said like a Mansell was 20 kg heavier, which is like and he says it's

three tenths of a second per 10 kgs. So anyways, that was a that was a fun

listen or watch and then Lawrence Beretto from F1, you know, Lawrence Beretto.

He has a new like series and I think only the first ones come out so far and it

is available on YouTube, but it's through F1 and it's off the grid and the first

one was with Oscar Piastri and it's in Monaco and then kind of like just like

long form interview. That's pretty good. Okay, so like like like beyond the grid,

but yeah, but like in person driving around as McLaren talking, okay, you know

through the streets of Monaco, hiking up to the top, the overlook, more like yeah

more like yeah, more yeah, interesting hanging out. Oh sweet. Yeah, yeah, check

those out. Check both those out. I have another recommendation. Join the

Patreon for Driving Will Awesome if you would like to be part of our next rally,

which is gosh, going up for sale here by the next podcast, I think. So yeah,

Driving Will Awesome on Patreon. Yeah, and the rally is May 1st through

3rd, but I have a hard time with this because when I'm like talking about it,

it's like we're actually kind of starting, you know, like our last few rallies,

we kind of like start them a little bit on the 31st, but I guess the official

rally date is the 1st. So yes, Friday the 1st, but we'll do a little rally to

the rally on Thursday. Yes. So yeah, patreon.com slash driving will awesome.

Check it out. All right. It's trivia time. Talked earlier about the Oldsmobile

Custom Cruiser, large full size station wagon, which just doesn't exist anymore.

However, these were put to pasture because of two cars that came after it.

That kind of stole its thunder. One was a minivan and one was a midsize SUV.

Can you name them? Oh, the Chrysler Country or whatever. What do you mean?

Yeah, so we're talking Oldsmobile here, not Chrysler, and what cars superseded

this wagon? Basically, they killed the wagon in favor of two new models.

I thought I thought you were just talking about like the general automotive

world and the minivan being Chrysler. You know, that's what I thought.

And Chrysler Oldsmobile Oldsmobile specifically. Okay, so they killed

off the wagon and replaced it with X model in the Oldsmobile lineup and

minivan and a midsize SUV. This is a 1991. It's an Oldsmobile silhouette,

maybe. Yes. Is that what it's called? Silhouette. And then that's the minivan

and then the SUV. Who fucking bravado? Dude, between you guys, Oldsmobile

experts over here. We're dialed, dude. We also know what 1991 silhouette

and bravado. What awful names to silhouette. They produced over a 21 year

run of the custom Cruiser. 451,000 were built. We don't see them very often

anymore. I don't think they really survived around here. They were never sold

here really. I'm pretty proud of my Oldsmobile knowledge. Recently,

someone mentioned like, oh, there was this Oldsmobile down the street for me

and it's like that wedgie, but it's like nineties. But I'm like, is it an

allero? Yeah, an allero. I'm like she see wedgie. That's opposite. I was like

I think. Am I am I right in the cattle? The sorry the Oldsmobile silhouette

was. I think it was the one in get short. Get shorty where he says it's a

Cadillac of minivans. Oh, that right where he like remember. What's his name?

I'm a little short, dude. Danny DeVito. I haven't seen that movie on VHS at

Blockbuster. So because he like opens the door slides open. He's like it's a

Cadillac of minivans. That's right. I think I think it was a silhouette. Yeah,

I think that's about as close as you could get dude real quick. That reminds

me your comment about VHS and movies. I was talking about my 10 year old about

how cool it was on a Friday evening because it was Friday. This was this

past Friday when it was raining to go to the movie store and and effectively,

you know, check out a movie like you do at the library because we do that at

the library still and so explaining to her that process of like getting

excited, going to the store, going up and down the aisles, finding the movie

and then finding out that it's not in stock and being super pissed. No,

no, but going to the return rack and saying did it come back and they

that did nice. Did he grab that or and then all of it the whole process

this right and then on the way home like we. I'm sorry on the way home that

day we were coming home from somewhere and it was raining and the whole

conversation started because I saw a pizza delivery guy with this sign on

the roof and I was telling her how like Friday night pizza delivery movie is

like as cool as it got for us right like and and she was just like really good

well. It was also an event. It was just an event in itself. Sometimes you leave

without a movie because you're like couldn't decide, but you were there for

an hour. You got frozen yogurt next door. It was like a whole thing or you

would get one. What we would do a lot. You get like one new release and then

you get the three for one all right older movies and you're like you kind

of gamble you like you do like one. You think you'd like maybe like you kind

of gamble with a couple of those and because maybe you start one of them and

it sucks. You have no way I really know it. Well, you also get one that you've

seen 50 times just to be safe. Exactly. You got to get rad or you know never

ending story or whatever. Yeah, you get that little safety net one. Yeah, I

was and you'd see people in your class there. You'd see people you know you'd

like my buddy Chris worked there at blockbuster on 41st and that was a big

that was a big deal is like seeing him and as a has a job in high school and

how about this? We should we throw a little quote on we someone should

make a very accurate blockbuster or video store simulator where you walk

your avatar through the aisles and you have to look for the title that you

want to watch. Sounds horrible. One title one row is HBO Max one rows

Netflix, but you got to find it and maybe just by random it's checked out or

no one rewound it. So you got to like when you hit play, it's like sorry. You

got to rewind. All right, we're getting to end the weeds. This is kind of like

that. The camera was talking about on the one where you have to send the

this is just like instead of scrolling on a crappy interface on Netflix, you're

like walking down. You're walking down this cool little video store and there's

some weird posters on the wall and like some nerdy guy putting, you know,

licorice back on the shelf and arts and I remember I remember like seeing

some like hot chick or that you like never talked to or whatever. You're like,

oh, do that girl's here. Like I'm like, you know, it's like, oh, you see your own

the aisle over there. Yeah, yeah, you mean any other dad was the one right there

kind of near your house lane and that little strip mall next to the dog wash

place. Oh yeah, that was the video video. It was video video. So yeah, video

videos. So I remember going there and I was one of the guys who cut up my

blockbuster card and and they would if you cut up your blockbuster card, oh

yeah, they would thumb tack it to this wall and they would give you a free

movie rental and a membership like because they wanted your so I was I was

like fuck the corporation, your warrants friend over there. Oh yeah, I like

video video is rad. It had a little back entrance and they also had a big

foreign section, which I was super into. So yeah, can each one East Cliff

video shout out East Cliff video killer. Yeah East Coast was cool. That's my

spot very. We had a section at East Cliff. Yeah, we had three just in this

like little midtown neighborhood. It's crazy like next. There was one next

to whatever the store that just got demolished and then there was and then

there was blockbuster and then there was the one next to where Whole Foods is

now as well. We used to walk the video store hill both ways to school and

tell you what. Alright, that's by guys.

2026. See you next time later. Bye bye.

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