No Sale! Car Wrecked During Auction, E85 Fuel Just $2.99 - Shift & Steer EP569
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Car
Jaguar Type Jaguar
The Jaguar F-Type is a modern sports car made by Jaguar. It’s built to be quick and fun to drive, especially when you’re taking corners. It gets mentioned in conversations about Jaguar’s classic racing cars because it continues that sports-car tradition.
Car
Porsche 914
The Porsche 914 is a classic sports car with the engine placed near the middle of the car. That design helps it feel balanced when you turn. People bring it up because it’s often described as enjoyable and easy to have fun in.
Car
Lancia B20
The Lancia B20 is an old-school Italian sports car. People like it because it was built with racing in mind, and it’s a well-known classic among collectors.
Term
short wheelbase
“Short wheelbase” means the car’s front-to-rear spacing is shorter. Shorter wheelbases often make cars feel more nimble when turning.
Concept
test cars
A “test car” is basically a car used to try things out—like new parts or settings—before they’re finalized. It can mean the car has special development history.
Term
brakes started to go out
When someone says the brakes “started to go out,” it means the car wasn’t stopping as it should. If the pedal feels soft or the car pulls to one side, it can mean the brakes aren’t working evenly.
Term
pulling hard to the left
If the car pulls to one side when you brake, it usually means one side is braking more than the other. That can be caused by a problem with a brake caliper or uneven brake wear.
Term
pedals getting pretty mushy
A “mushy” brake pedal usually means the brake hydraulics aren’t firm—commonly due to air in the brake lines, low brake fluid, or a failing master cylinder. It’s a warning sign because it can reduce braking power and increase stopping distance.
Term
two piece billet machined
They’re talking about a brake caliper made in two halves from a solid block of metal. If those halves aren’t clamped together tightly, the brake can develop a small gap and start acting wrong.
Term
four pot caliper
A four-pot caliper is a brake caliper with four small pistons that squeeze the brake pads against the rotor. That helps the braking force apply more evenly.
Term
bleeder valve
The bleeder valve is the little valve you open to push old fluid and air out of the brake system. Keeping it properly sealed matters for getting the brakes to feel firm and consistent.
Part
two piece caliper
Your brakes use a part called a caliper to squeeze the brake pads against the spinning brake disc. A “two-piece caliper” means that caliper is made from two main sections, so if bolts or parts come loose, it can separate and cause braking problems.
Term
pedal goes to the floor
If the brake pedal suddenly drops to the floor, it often means the brakes aren’t building pressure like they should. That can be caused by a leak or a brake component coming apart, so the pedal feels soft or useless.
Term
monoblock caliper
A monoblock caliper is one solid piece instead of two bolted halves. Because it’s stiffer, it’s less likely to move around when you brake hard.
Term
thread lock
Thread lock is a product you put on bolt threads so they don’t back out over time. It helps keep brake parts tight and correctly aligned.
Term
Allen head bolts
Allen head bolts are bolts you tighten with a hex key. On brakes, they hold important parts in place, so getting the right key and tightening them properly is important.
Term
safety wire
Safety wire is a little wire that ties down bolts so they can’t back out. People use it when they really don’t want a fastener to loosen while the car is moving.
Car
Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper is a small car. Here, when it hits a rock hard, the car’s electronics react by shutting things down to help protect the vehicle.
Term
immobilizer
An immobilizer is an anti-theft feature. It helps stop the car from starting unless it recognizes the right key, and in some situations it can also disable fuel after a crash.
Term
fuel cut-off
A fuel cut-off is an automatic shutdown of fuel delivery, typically triggered by sensors during a crash. The goal is to reduce the risk of fire or further engine operation when the vehicle is damaged.
Term
brake hopper
“Brake hopper” sounds like a nickname for a brake problem or a part that’s failing. The important part is that it was leaking brake fluid onto other cars, which can damage paint.
Term
brake fluid
Brake fluid is the special liquid that helps your brake pedal push the brakes. If it gets on paint or other surfaces, it can eat or stain them, so it should be cleaned quickly.
Brand
Ferrari
Ferrari is a famous sports-car brand. Here it’s mentioned just to illustrate that brake fluid can ruin paint on expensive cars too.
Brand
Cobra
“Cobra” is a well-known sports-car name. In this story, it’s mentioned because brake fluid can damage paint on cars like that.
Term
front disc
The “front disc” is the front brake rotor. Keeping that surface clean helps the brakes bite consistently and reduces the chance of annoying brake problems.
Term
bleed again
Bleeding the brakes means getting trapped air out of the brake lines. Air makes the brake pedal feel spongier, so bleeding helps the brakes work normally again.
Car
Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car made by Chevrolet. A “67 Corvette” refers to the 1967 model year, which is a classic version of the car. People talk about it because it’s well-known and often remembered as a fun, powerful car to drive.
Term
valve spring compression tool
This tool compresses the engine’s valve spring so you can remove or install the small parts that hold the valve in place. It’s needed for valve work because the spring is under a lot of force.
Part
piston ring
Piston rings are rings on the piston that help seal the engine so combustion gases don’t leak past. They also help manage oil in the cylinder.
Term
ring gapper
A ring gapper is used to check the small gap at the ends of piston rings. Getting that gap right helps the rings seal properly as the engine heats up.
Term
torque arm
A torque arm is basically a long lever that helps you apply a lot of twisting force. Here it’s mentioned as a tool to deal with a very tight wheel fastener.
Part
center lock
“Center lock” refers to a wheel design where the wheel is secured by a single central fastener rather than multiple lug nuts. It’s common on some performance cars and requires specific tools to remove or install the wheel safely.
Car
Mercedes-Benz SSK
The Mercedes-Benz SSK is an old Mercedes sports car from the 1920s. It used a supercharger, which helps it make strong power for its time. It’s often mentioned because it’s a famous example of early, high-performance engineering.
Term
under the hood
“Under the hood” means looking at the engine area. People check it to see if the car looks cared for or if parts look recently replaced.
Term
bone stock
“Bone stock” means the car is basically as it came from the factory, not modified. At an auction, that can be a good sign because it suggests fewer unknown changes.
Part
alternator
The alternator is what keeps the car’s battery charged while you drive. If it’s brand new compared to everything else, it usually means someone replaced that part recently.
Company
Napa
NAPA is a parts store/brand people use to buy replacement car parts. Saying it was “at Napa” implies the part was replaced using an aftermarket source.
Car
Chevrolet Chevelle
A 1969 Chevelle is a classic Chevrolet from the muscle-car era. Here, the point is that this one is a well-kept driver and still has a lot of original details, not a heavily restored show-car look.
Term
vinyl top
A vinyl top is a roof covering on some classic cars that’s made to look like vinyl/leather. In this story, the car doesn’t have that—its roof is painted the contrasting color instead, which the host says is rarer.
Term
two tone
“Two tone” means the car has two different paint colors, usually one on the top and a different one on the bottom. The host is saying this particular two-color setup was uncommon for that year.
Term
upper radiator hose
The upper radiator hose is the coolant hose that carries hot engine coolant from the engine toward the radiator. The host emphasizes that when it was replaced, the owner chose a GM radiator hose, which supports the car’s “period-correct/original” theme.
Term
GM radiator hose
This means the hose was replaced with one meant to match what GM originally used. The host is using it as evidence the car has been kept in a more original, correct way.
Term
factory original
“Factory original” means the car still has the original-style parts and look from when it was built. The host is saying this Chevelle’s interior and details weren’t replaced with cheap copies.
Term
E85
E85 is a type of fuel that’s mostly alcohol (ethanol) mixed with regular gasoline. Some cars and trucks are built to use it, but others aren’t, so it can cause problems if your vehicle isn’t meant for it.
Term
octane sensor
The octane sensor is a sensor that helps the car figure out what kind of gasoline you put in. It then adjusts the engine timing so the engine doesn’t knock and get damaged.
Term
flex fuel vehicle
A flex fuel vehicle is built to run on different fuel mixes, especially gasoline blended with ethanol. The car has sensors so it can adjust itself for the fuel you’re using.
Term
diesel fuel
Diesel fuel can come in different versions depending on how it’s regulated and taxed. The speaker is saying some diesel is intended for certain uses (like farm vehicles), and using the wrong one can cause trouble.
Car
3500 Dodge 3500
A 2008 Dodge 3500 is a heavy-duty truck that’s often used for towing. Here, it’s the truck the speaker bought to pull an Airstream trailer.
Term
run pretty lean
Running lean means the engine isn’t getting enough fuel. That can make it run hotter and can damage engine parts over time.
Term
air fuel mixture
Your engine needs the right balance of air and fuel. If there’s too much air compared to fuel, the engine can run too hot and be at risk.
Term
fuel lines
Fuel lines are the tubes that move fuel to the engine. Ethanol fuels can wear out some fuel-line materials faster than regular gasoline.
Term
knock sensors
Knock sensors help the engine detect harmful pinging/knocking. The computer then makes adjustments to keep combustion under control.
Term
octane ranging from 100 to 105
E85 can have a very high octane number (they mention 100 to 105). High octane sounds great, but it still has to match what the engine is designed to use.
Term
40% less efficient
E85 usually contains less usable energy per gallon than regular gasoline. So you often have to use more fuel to get similar results.
Term
manual transmission
A manual transmission is the kind of car where you use a clutch pedal and shift gears yourself. In a scary moment like a stuck gas pedal, the clutch can help you reduce how much power the engine sends to the wheels.
Term
throttle stuck
“Throttle stuck” means the gas pedal (or the mechanism behind it) won’t let the engine slow down. If that happens, drivers may need to shut the engine off or use the clutch to stop power from reaching the wheels.
Term
push in the clutch
In a manual car, pushing the clutch pedal disconnects the engine from the wheels. That can help if the car is still trying to move because the gas is stuck.
Term
carpet could have slid under the gas pedal
Sometimes a floor mat or carpet can move and get under the gas pedal. If it does, it can keep the gas pedal pressed even when you’re trying to stop.
Term
burnouts
A burnout is when the driver makes the tires spin without moving forward much. It usually happens when the tires lose grip.
Term
lock up the rear
“Locking up the rear” means the back tires stop rolling and start sliding. When that happens, the car can become hard to steer.
Term
power brakes
Power brakes help you stop with less pedal effort. If the engine isn’t running, that help can be gone, so braking can feel much weaker.
Company
Barrett Jackson
Barrett-Jackson is a well-known collector-car auction company. The hosts mention it to reference prior consulting and safety practices around moving cars during auction logistics.
Concept
white glove service
“White glove service” means extra careful, professional handling. Here it’s about reducing the chances of damage or accidents when cars are being moved around.
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Hey, we're here. All of us are
here. Hey, that's right. Yeah.
No more delays. Aaron's back.
Welcome to the party pals. This
is shifting. I stretch my neck
as far as it would go to be
here. Yeah. Hey, welcome back
Aaron. Yeah, thanks guys. So,
thanks for your patience with
me. So, wild, wild couple of
weeks. Man, it's uh it's been
crazy. It's um we're coming up
uh as we're recording this,
we're coming up to a holiday
weekend. Oh, we are. You know,
we've got uh a long weekend.
What do you guys got planned?
What do you got planned,
Aaron? I didn't even know it's
a holiday. I'm just I'm just
going as my friend says flat
out. Somebody told me yesterday
and I went, oh, is that
already? And they were like,
yeah, what are you doing?
Sometimes I'm like, yeah,
cleaning my warehouse. That
gives me extra days off to
clean my warehouse. Yeah. Well,
I'll watch the Indy 500. I'm
going to have the TV on. Yes,
definitely. Well, that's
especially lost. All the all
the drama around the Indy 500
right now because of the fact
that who grabbed the pole
position. And I mean, you know,
when a NASCAR driver gets the
pole position and it's a Dale
Earnhardt Jr. It's pretty
exciting. You heard that in
Alex blows up front. Terrible
accident with Alexander Rossi.
Oh, yeah, that was bad. But
they he's he's trying to make
it to the race. You know, he
was in the hospital and he was
awake and he's got a couple
small injuries from what I
understand finger and an ankle
or something. So he's he's seen
what he can do to get into the
race. And I mean, what can you
do like in a week if it's
broken, it's broken. But if it's
not, you're just like, you
know, just icing and doing
whatever you can to just bring
the swallow down. Get some.
Yeah, you know, you know, at
some point, like when you just
get that, like you pulled a
Goldberg move before your
wrestler, you just get the
cortisol shot and say, yeah,
yeah. And then you you you
attempt to wrestle and then,
you know, when you're done, you
have to have surgery because
you just do more damage because
you messed it all up. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, oh, I can't feel a
thing. I'll be fine. Yeah. But
then you you tore your
ligaments off your bone and
stuff. But Aaron's in the shop.
He's drinking a can of oil. It
seems. Oh, it says orange drink.
Non. What is that from from the
from pre war from the fifties?
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's probably
from the forties or fifties. I
thought I'd say Dextron on the
front. Dextron.
Dextros and rich. Wow.
Is that a preserve?
I don't know, guys. What do you
think? Is this bottle of water
still good? It's been sitting
around a while.
Wait, that's what came out of
my that's what came out of this
can. Well, actually, to be
honest with you, I drank this
and then I refilled it out of
my faucet. So it might have
plumbing issues. Yeah, out of
your human faucet. Yeah. No
plumbing issues anymore at my
house. I mean, it's no more
plumbing. Nice. Well, no, of
course not. You have four
bathtubs. So yeah.
Well, finally, we're all tiered
at Devils. One spills into the
next. I will say that we went
from the guest bathroom, just
got your images. The guest
bathroom was done first. Now
we're we just tore out the
master bath yesterday. And
so now I'm living out of the
guest bathroom and use the new
bathroom for the first time
today. And I I said, oh, I'm
in a I'm in a resort. And then
I looked out the window and I
realized I was still home.
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it. We are back. And you know,
I bet I bet you what do you
think you you think there's a
lot of wagering on the Indy 500
you guys? I bet there is. I bet
there is too.
That's right. It's cliche
Wednesday. I've been living under
Iraq all week. Yes.
So so we have the the as we
said, the holiday coming up. A
lot of people will be going out
doing a lot of car activities
and holiday. It's Memorial Day.
It's Memorial Day. It's
Barbecue Weekend. It is
Barbecue Weekend.
Barbecue car shows.
Guys like me cleaned in their
warehouse so they can make
another video and get going on
their car.
I've got to put this off, you
know, I've got to
work real slowly, you guys,
because people are already
asking me when I'm going to
start on the car. And I'm like,
well, I got to make some money
first. You know, I it's
expensive to work on these
cars. So I forgot about when I
started this whole thing, I
forgot about that. I thought,
oh, wait, to restore the car,
I've got to pay for it. I've
got to pay. That's why bad. I
could have told you that. And I
just forgot.
I mean, I just thought, heck,
I'll just start work. I mean, I
can start working on it. But
you know what the problem is?
What do you usually do when
you restore a car? What's the
very part? There you go. A
bunch of space, and then you
never put it back together.
Mine is already taken apart. So
see, that's the problem. It's
already taken apart.
And so I've just got to make
space to make take up more
space. So well, with those
memory issues, and maybe a
little harder to put back
together.
You know what? I actually was
looking at
bags of bolts, you know, when
you take it apart, zip lock
bags and write on it what
they're for. Oh, good.
Well, after that long, the
writing kind of faded.
And the tape fell off.
I'm like, oh, man.
Oh, man.
Well, there's ways to enhance
it. There's ways to enhance it
with AI.
No, no, actually, that there's
camera techniques because it
leaves a residue that you just
can't see it in this spectrum
with your eyes. But if you
change to infrared or some
other spectrum, sometimes you
can see it a lot better because
it leaves residue.
You're talking like an old fax
where you take a photocopy of
it and it's still there.
Now, Brad needs a CSI team.
Yeah, I need a CSI team.
You can put his car back together.
The other problem is it's like
the other problem is is like I
put some parts in a toolbox,
which that toolbox in another
garage. I got to find that.
I got it's just it's a puzzle.
But we'll get it done.
You know why you can see it
all on the Brad Fanshawe channel
on YouTube. There you go.
Go there and watch the first five
episodes that are already posted.
So.
So events, I want to hear from
both of you guys.
Aaron did his rally
and Brad went to the
Benedict Castle, Benedict Castle.
So, Aaron, we missed you the
past couple of weeks.
Tell us about the event.
Yeah, well, a little bit of rain.
It's D, you know, we
we got a little bit of rain,
but it wasn't a big deal.
It's just a sprinkling it more
rained overnight.
I just I always feel bad for
for the people that bring their
beautiful sometimes multi
million dollar cars to our event
and they get rained on.
But they also are the kind of
people that that just
I don't want to say they don't
care, but it's just part of it.
And they're troopers and they
just it's no big deal.
You know, we wipe them down and
keep going.
So remind us again,
the event, how far did you guys
go? What cars were involved?
How long did it take?
And the name of the event,
because I know we know it,
but everyone else does.
And then let's talk about break
calipers, but go ahead.
Napa Valley 750.
It's usually around May
and it's here in the Napa Valley.
It's 750 miles.
It's the name.
There's a lot of things.
750 liter wine.
I mean, there's a lot of relevant
things, but but that's it.
750 miles.
We do four days drive
all over different routes,
usually similar routes,
but but different different
varieties within those routes.
So so there's only so many places
and so we go, you know,
like we go to the Sonoma Coast
and we go out towards Davis
and we go, you know, and we eat
it all over our favorite places.
And it's it's beautiful.
And there's a different combination
of of routes in each day,
which is kind of a secret,
but they're they're beautifully done.
Kevin and Rick do the
route book and they just do such a
nice job. I know Kevin really,
really puts a lot of time into it.
And yeah, we've got cars 1972
and older kind of relevant sports
cars.
There's a few exceptions,
few continuation series for CSX
Cobras and like
K.R.'s D type Jaguar,
which is vintage.
It was race and has history.
It's old.
It just wasn't one of the original
D type race cars.
And of course, you know, my
my my Morgan is a continuation
series as is the Mini Cooper,
which technically works because
it's 1970, but it's all hot
rotted.
And so it falls under the every
man sports car, much like a
914 would.
But yeah, it's super fun.
We have a lot of Porsches and a lot
of Ferraris and then some other
mixes of British cars.
And and we had a Lancia B20,
beautiful Lancia B20.
But this year, this year,
we had a unicorn.
We had one of three or four
Lamal Prep 1961 Ferrari
short wheelbase Lusos.
I think the silver one raced in
Lamal that the history
on this one might be somewhere,
but not in front of me.
I believe this one was one of the
test cars or something for them
off.
Anyway, the gentleman and his wife
that drove it.
Amazing people.
Some of the nicest, most
gentlemanly European.
Folks I've ever met.
I mean, really, really cool
people.
And and someone was commenting
that someone on the street was
commenting when we were parked.
He's like, yeah, I see this thing
in Monterey from time to time.
And he goes, I saw it at the gym
and I saw it at Starbucks.
And he goes, I even saw it in the
parking lot of Costco.
He goes, I thought it was a 280Z
kit car or something.
I go, no, no, it's the real deal.
I mean, like this is this is a
this is a 17 mile drive,
you know, Frank Lloyd ride a state
kind of money.
You know, it's but the guy is
just awesome.
He's like screw it, man.
I spent my money.
I'm going to drive it.
But great people, all all of them,
very generous.
I do some art, including the
cover.
It gets auctioned for next year's
cover.
It's been pretty consistent over
the years and it was consistent
again this year.
I brought a couple other original
paintings and some prints.
We lost one of our.
We lost one of our folks
in the rally a few months ago.
So she's on the cover and we did
a tribute to her inside Susie.
And that was tough.
So I did some extra prints for
people that wanted those and
those got added as well.
But yeah, it was
tough and her her her husband
David rode with me one day in
the meeting.
That's that's a very special
honor to have him as as my
co-pilot.
That's the second time in seven
years.
So this is the seventh one we've
done.
Pretty pretty pretty awesome.
Hey Aaron, when they do that
map book and they develop the
route, when do they usually go
out?
Because I imagine they pre run
the route.
Yeah, all year.
What time of year do they do
that?
All year.
OK.
In fact, I get random messages
from Kevin and Rick on, hey, you
know, one of them is like, hey,
I'm going out this way today.
So I thought I would check out a
couple of routes, you know, and
I haven't been able to join them
because it's it's always pretty
spontaneous and I haven't been
available.
But but yeah, they're all
they're all routes we drive on
all the time.
So we just trying to find I mean
Kevin is so meticulous about
this that I think he looks at
what's going to be busy and not
busy at the time of day.
And then you have to figure out
how to get to the lunch place on
time and then how to get back to
the hotel because we start and
stop every day at the Harvest
Inn in St. Elena.
And and so instead of starting
in a new place every day and
carrying all your luggage with
you and some people bring two
cars, you know, it'd be difficult.
We always leave out of the
Harvest Inn.
So yeah, it's I would imagine
how complicated it is to plan
these routes and time and day
and traffic and all the other
stuff because we don't want to
hit any weather, any traffic or
any potholes.
But man, there are some good
roads around here.
I mean, that road out to the
coast on Tuesday, that was the
day it was a little wet.
But man, it just was so good.
We took the long coastal route
all the way from from from
Tam into Belenus and all the
way.
I mean, it's just just stunning,
just stunning.
So so you guys, you guys stay
at one hotel the whole time and
each day you just drive out to
a different route.
So now it's starting to make
sense.
Like how do you bring two cars?
You bring two cars, you leave
at the hotel, you pick the first
car for the day and like you and
Misha would take that car and
then it breaks and then you
bring it home and you then you
swap.
Tell us what happened to the
video.
Tell us what happened to the
midi Cooper.
We were in the mini on on on
day one, I think it was.
And yeah, and we're driving
behind that Ferrari and and my
brakes started to go out and
I'm like, it's pulling hard to
the left and the pedals getting
pretty mushy.
And I'm like, what is going on?
Like, this is a brand new build.
What's going on?
You know, there's nothing wrong
with this car, except it's
British and so so so I just
pulled over.
I just flashed them in front of
me and they're so cool.
That car in the car in front of
them stopped and we all pulled
over together and I'm like
creeping up on him like, oh my
god, I'm about to I'm literally
about to open the door and stick
my foot out like like that's
how like like that's where we
were at right and we're off the
side of the road were like two
blocks from a gas station that
we passed and it went that fast.
Like I passed the gas station
thinking, well, I mean, I can
pump it like it's OK.
Just says something's going on.
And then I was like, oh no, I've
got nothing.
So I pull over, I look under the
kite, I turn the steering wheel
out so I can look, you know, I
can see the inside of the wheel
and it's just it's literally
going just squirting under
pressure brake fluid and I'm
like, oh man, but I'm looking
at it and I'm going, well, it
didn't come out of the Kevlar
coated stainless lines.
Yeah, you know, it it seems to
be coming out of the two piece
billet machined, you know,
four pot caliper I've got on
there or whatever.
And and I'm looking at it and I
see a little bit of a gap.
So I look at the other one,
there's no gap.
And I'm like, son of a bitch,
the that the whole brake
piece that like the two piece
caliper unit was coming apart.
And so I I took I jacked it up,
jacked up your car, I jacked it
up, took the wheel off and
pulled off the caliper, took it
apart and we have the four
bolts holding it together.
We're completely like like
loose, like one of them was
backed off at an eighth of an
inch. And so it made just a
little gap where the bleeder
valve goes through to the other
side.
The o-ring was still intact.
So I just sandwiched it back
together, torqued it down as
best I could, smacked it on the
ground with an Allen key in it
and and put it back together,
bled it out, added some fluid
and back on the road we were
about 45 minutes.
I had to wait for some fluid
and and and I needed I
needed actually didn't have a
seven sixteenth socket
to to to pop the bleeder.
Everything I had was a different
size, so I couldn't even get
close to it.
But yeah, yeah, that's really
odd because I think you were
gone two weeks ago.
No, I mean, two weeks ago.
I brought it up and the
same exact thing happened to my
truck.
Oh, really?
The two piece caliper on my
truck.
I'm coming home from work
and I get off the freeway
and it's one of those, you know,
where you swoop around, you know,
and as I put on the brakes hard
to come into it, it
I literally I told Matt
I thought I hit an animal
because I heard this thunk and
it pulled hard to the right.
And when I got out and
looked at no dead animal,
no no person, nothing underneath
my truck.
So I start to drive, pedal goes
to the floor and
and I and
I got at home and
it had started to separate.
The bolts came out of the back
and what had happened in mine
was when I pushed on the brakes.
Mine were six caliper.
The three pistons shot out
and it's a spit the
the brake right out
and wed sideways like the brakes
were on.
And oh, my gosh.
And then it just destroyed it.
It just it just ate it.
Needless to say, I have all new
brakes on my truck now.
So this is
this is why we've always cautioned
the two piece caliper.
Why so many companies do a monoblock
caliper for that reason.
And when I saw your video
and I was thinking about it, I was
like, oh, at least you were able to
like tighten it down and get back on
the road.
It's like you could take it home.
You can use a little thread lock.
But I just kept thinking I would
probably take out those Allen head
bolts, get some good
A.R.P.s that are drilled for the
wires and wire it.
Exactly. And safety wire.
That's exactly why I'm right.
Exactly what I was thinking.
And I'm going to rebuild both of them
because the other one was seen pretty
tight. But when I called,
you know, of course, I called Jeremy
a jet motor. My Jeremy, what the hell,
man. He's like, we get those that
way, man. You know, we, I mean, we
check them, but you know, we get them.
I'm like, all right, well, that
happens every once in a while.
Don't worry. Oh, it does.
It does. It does.
But but then then two days later,
I'm taking Mr. Jenkins
and in the Mini Cooper and we're
driving through this Canyon road
and there's lots of rocks and erosion.
It's actually it can be pretty
sketchy after a good rain.
And, you know, I was following
the car, not really
closely, but closely enough that
when he maneuvered around a rock,
I didn't have time to react.
So give yourself a few extra
seconds to react.
And I hit about a baseball
sized rock and just
just just winged it off
my left front wheel.
But it hit us with such
it was so violent in that little
Mini Cooper that it
triggered the let me see if I can
get this right. It triggered
the the immobilizer
unit like like like there's
an immobilizer unit in this car
for impact, right?
And it shuts off the fuel and it
shuts off how I say it's a fuel cut
off. It's probably going to cut off.
Yeah. Well, it's it's a whole
little unit and it's
like a plunger in the top and it
pops out like a breaker and
it's for the immobilizer.
It's it's anyway
there's a name for it and I forget
what it is now.
But it hits so hard
that that it triggered that
and it just shut the car down,
killed the ignition, cut the fuel
and we just coasted to the side.
But we're going uphill on a blind
corner and I'm like, oh, my God,
like we're going to get hit.
There's no shoulder like we're out
in the middle of the road.
And so I look behind me.
There's no one behind me and I just
let gravity. I just let it roll back.
I don't know, maybe 100 feet.
I mean, it was substantially
into a little driveway that was
just off the side of the road.
And thankfully no one was coming.
And the same thing jumped out of
I reset the battery thinking
that maybe it was the immobilizer
because you have to hit the immobilizer.
And then I called Jeremy again
jet motor mini Jeremy's the best.
He takes the call and he and at the
same time we went the immobilizer
and he goes, yeah, dude, he goes, I
showed you where it was under the
hood. If you remember, I'm like,
that's right. He goes, you can hit a
pothole and trigger that stupid
thing. And I'm like, I forgot about
that. You did. He goes, I even put
a chrome ring around it so you could
find it. So I popped the hood.
There it is. Push it back down.
It goes click. We both jump for joy.
We hook everything back up, get in
the car and take off in time for
lunch.
Yeah. So I almost missed lunch twice.
Get a little flag on it when it pops
up, it like a spring, you know,
well, you know, because the car just
stops running.
But both of those things only
really affected you, which is
you kind of feel less bad about it.
But when you said the brake hopper
was going out, you were at the back
of the pack. If you were in the front
of the pack and you were getting
brake fluid on like the Ferrari
and the Cobra and they all
went and they're like wiping it off
the paint and it's like etched in.
It's just permanent there.
You know, I went through
the windshield, you know, right?
No, thankfully there's no one behind
me both times.
And I did. I noticed a bunch of spray
all over the side of the mini.
So I I I took water
on a on a rag and just wiped
it and doused it down
to get that brake fluid off because
yeah, the brake fluid eats everything
wiped it. You know, I had the wheel
off, so I wiped down the inside of
the wheel and wiped everything down.
I didn't have brake cleaner to clean
the the front disc.
But the same thing, I just wiped it
down with water as best I could.
And I never had brake problems.
The pedals a little bit lower,
like it's a little softer.
So I'll need to bleed again.
But for a side of the road bleed,
it I was really impressed.
Everything worked out like I drove
them work in one day and nothing
happened. It didn't break.
Knock on wood.
It actually ran fantastic.
And I ran solo rugged radios.
I got those headphones like they have
on the side by side with with with
the push button communicator.
I was solo that day, so I didn't get
to use a communicator.
But man, those those rugged radio
headsets are bad ass.
Like like like like they they
pocket the ears really nice.
So so they so they really
deaden the outside noise.
You can still hear like the
necessary things, but they aren't
noise canceling as much as their
noise muffling.
But but I could hear my stereo
through there.
I was talking on the phone a
couple times.
I could radio in with the other
guys like just with the push of a
button.
It was really, really a game
changer in that Morgan.
And I wasn't as fatigued at the
end of the day.
It's just the audible fatigue in
that car because it's so loud.
And the road noise from other
vehicles.
It really is an assault to the
senses and it really was was
deteriorating my experience in
that car.
And just that simple addition
really really made it great.
You know what's weird is just
the other day I was driving down
the road down the highway and I
was driving my OBS.
So I thought I put the windows
down and cruise and I'm going
down the freeway.
And I was like what in the hell
I can't stand this.
It's terrible.
It's so loud.
It's so noisy.
And and I thought to myself, I
thought, you know, I remember
cruising around when I was
younger in one of my muscle
cars or, you know, one of my
trucks or whatever and always
had the windows down.
And then it came to me.
I was like, wait a minute.
I know what it is.
There's six frickin lanes.
It's like, you know, there used
to be two lanes, right?
Now you've got six times the
noise and, you know, it makes
a huge difference.
You know, it does.
And truck tire noise.
Like I really noticed it for the
first time when I was driving
dad's his his his 67 Corvette.
Misha and I drove it back, you
know, other than the Morgan, I
don't really have a convertible
and I don't drive around in
convertibles.
And if I do, it's kind of local.
I hadn't done like a highway
trip like that and being on I5
with the top down, no AC.
So we had the top down and it
was it was trying to stay cool.
And every time a truck would
pass you, man, it was like it
was brutal.
And I didn't realize that if
you don't clear your ears, like
coming off the grade, like coming
down, you know, you know, in the
altitude, just that
ear pressure really changes the
way you you hear as we get
older, it really changes the way
we hear those sounds.
And some of them were so loud
and I clear my ears and they'd
go away, you know, but it's just
it's just that pitch.
Yeah, very, very strange.
But thank you, rugged radios.
They sponsored the rally last
year.
I'd like to thank real quick to
SeaTek.
They always sponsored the rally
Ferrari San Francisco, Visit
Napa Valley magazine stuff
sponsored us this year to
harvest in also to Springs
Winery.
And then and then we do the
rally for the St Helena Hospital
Foundation, which is really cool.
We donate quite a substantial
amount of money.
And then some of these folks on
top of that, everything goes
right to the charity.
On top of that, they donate
some serious money to these
guys.
It's pretty cool.
And then this year we started
the Napa Valley Napa Artisan
Legacy Project.
So so that's a that's a
charity now.
It's it's fully, I guess, Rick
got his number.
I figured they call it, but but
he got that number.
So so that's going to distribute
funds and that's also to support
the local craftsmen and
artisans and food growers and
winemakers and all the other
people that that live in this
Napa Valley.
It's it's pretty cool.
So thank you, everyone.
Yeah, that's great.
That's great.
Good.
Well, I'm glad it worked out.
I mean, eventful, but not
catastrophic, eventful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we only had one.
I think we only really had one
car, which was Mr. Jenkins
Porsche.
I think we only had one car that
ended up on the truck and was
kind of dead in the water.
And it was just it was some fuel
system problem that he had that
that we just couldn't fix.
And so he rode with me the next
day.
But other than that, nothing
catastrophic that I know of.
Yeah, everything went pretty
well.
Nothing we can't fix overnight.
Yeah, late night on a tarp, you
know, which is part of the great
fun.
Most of these folks get under
those cars and jump in and get
their hands dirty.
You know, it's it's it's so cool.
Everybody's everybody's really
into it.
It's a hammer and a pair of
pliers.
Yeah.
Well, we do have a chase vehicle
which has plenty of tools.
I happen to have a small tool
kit in the Mini Cooper enough to
get me started.
And then I needed and Sammer, of
course, a Sammer is the transport
and the and the chase truck.
And Sammer just had a couple
extra things that I needed like
fluid and that seven sixteenths
to pop the bleeder.
Other than that, you know, now I
know seven sixteenths and some
fluid, which if I had a little
more thought into my prep, I
probably would have done that.
I haven't gone over the mini
since jet motors built it out.
You know, usually I do that stuff
myself.
So so I would have everything
prepared.
But I haven't gone over the mini
to update that kit to everything
that's on the car that's serviceable.
So I this was a reminder that I
really need to do that.
I need to go through folks.
If you have a little tool kit,
make sure that all the tools in
the kit work on the car and the
ones that don't.
You don't necessarily have to
take them if weights a factor.
A motorcycle or a mini or the
Morgan, you know, don't carry
those extra tools for somebody
else carry the ones that you need
to make sure they're the right
ones.
So I don't need like on a thing
like that my valve spring
compression tool or or my piston
ring.
No, the ring gapper.
Yeah.
No, no, or or or that big giant
eight foot torque arm for your
center lock Porsche wheels.
You don't need to bring that up
for like like in the mini Cooper.
Yeah.
Because, you know, you never know
if someone breaks down the side
of the road and you go, hey, I
happen to have that breaker bar.
You know.
Yeah.
No.
Cool.
Well, that's always a good event.
You've been doing that a lot.
How many years you've been doing it?
Seven years.
Seven?
Yeah.
Seven years.
77 long years.
Almost through the towel in this
year because we just I mean
literally I'm moving like like
Misha's already up in Tahoe.
What the house we're staying in
was just temporary till May.
They let us stay there for another
week and a half because of the
rally.
But but literally I moved out of
it, picked up my trailer and
emptying out my trailer so I can
take the rest of stuff back to
Tahoe and yeah.
So literally right in the middle
of moving and everything else
going on.
It was the timing of the rally's
never ideal except for the weather.
I love the weather.
So going back to Tahoe,
when what what give it two weeks
and you'll be snowed in?
Yeah.
Right.
That's the problem.
Yeah.
Another month and we'll be I mean
they just snowed up there what
three weeks ago.
Yeah.
You're not moving back to Tahoe.
No, no, no.
We're getting a house ready.
I know I said this a year ago this
time but but Pesto our our Frenchie
hurt his neck and it literally put
us out all summer because we had to
sit with them 24 seven.
We couldn't let him move.
He was in his crate.
We couldn't let him jar himself
because he could have been paralyzed.
You know they get that that spine
injury.
So he had a spinal injury.
He didn't need surgery.
It ended up being not superficial
but but it was in his neck.
It was a pinched nerve.
So it had a lot of similar.
Yeah, it was scary things going on
with it.
It was very scary and it really just
it's we're still traumatized man.
We got I don't know.
I'm taking like three ramps up there.
Misha's already got two ramps up there.
Like we're like don't jump off that.
You know, don't jump off that brick.
You know, yeah, it's ridiculous.
Don't scratch.
You might tweak your neck.
You know, but so now we're doing it.
We're going up there and we're getting
the house on the market and hopefully
we'll have enough to to move into
something down here.
So we love it down here.
It's a little hot but it sure is pretty.
Hot.
Yeah.
Hot.
You know like California it's never hot.
Listen, I don't think you know what hot
it is.
I don't know what cold is.
So it's fine.
I know it's now 84 here.
But it's like 67 in Tahoe.
You know what I mean?
So like a hot day in Tahoe's in the 80s.
A hot day down here at like just barely hits 100.
Yeah.
So and it's in its humid down here like
right now in the shop it's 40%.
It was down to 22 last night.
But in Tahoe, I don't think it ever gets above 30.
You know, it's always dry.
Yeah, you get humidity up there.
That's for sure.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Well, shoot.
I mean, literally I can see the bay.
Like like if I go to the edge.
I mean, I'm in the hangar.
But if I go to the edge of the runway,
you can see the delta or the you can see the waterway.
And then and then there's just vineyards everywhere
and trees and grass.
And you know, there were definitely.
Don't walk out onto the runway.
You know, we've seen an issue with that recently.
And didn't end well for the guy.
Hey guys, we saw three otters.
We saw we saw three otters jumping
running across the runway not too long ago.
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Yeah, you know, guys, I figured out I lost it.
It took me only what what do we've been doing this 12 years?
It took me just 12 years or whatever it is we've been doing the show.
To the if I leave a good gap in there, it's easier to find when I'm editing.
Yeah, rather than, you know, because I used to go, well, I can just go,
okay, boom, and then cut it and splice it.
But then you can't find it.
So you live a nice yeah.
Yeah, that's how I do it too.
Yeah, works well.
Thank you guys for doing all the editing because I can't I can't speak to that experience.
You know how to edit though.
Oh, all right.
Brad, tell us about the Benedict Castle event.
It looked like a great event.
Everyone was there.
That was car show.
I went.
Thanks.
Brad went to a car show.
Now, when you had the fancy hat that said a cranky judge, it said judgmental.
And no, yeah.
So I've been going I haven't made everyone of the Benedict cast.
I always want to say Benedict Canyon because we're so used to that here in LA, you know.
And the Benedict Castle, I went to the very first one they ever had and then I've gone
to them sporadically.
Haven't made everyone and but this year they asked me to come out and be one of the judges.
And it's a concor.
It's the Benedict Canyon here.
I did it again.
Benedict Castle concor and it's a great show.
What's great about it?
First of all, the first time I went, I was blown away because there is this facility
they have it at.
It's in Riverside and this facility was built between 1922 and 1931 on acres of land.
And it is phenomenal because it's like a forest almost.
There's trees everywhere and all these groomed grassy hills that are rolling.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
I mean, you guys know you've been there.
We did a podcast out there one year and there is this castle built on it.
Well, the guy donated it to the county who now have donated it to Teen Challenge and
Teen Challenge helps youth that were addicted to drugs and they're helping them rehabilitate
and you learn how to work or learn how to work back into the community and things like that.
And it's completely free.
So things like this car show or what fund that.
And so it's a great event and on Saturday evening we had a gala, went to the dinner
and every year they have a real cool thing.
They have an artist draw off.
So they each get five minutes to draw a complete rendering and then they auction them off and
it's kind of a silent competition who gets the most for their drawing.
And so that was pretty cool.
Then they have a lot of things.
At the gala they raised $150,000 which is great because it cost $25,000 to put one person
through the program a year.
So that helped quite a number of people get going.
And then on Saturday, what's that?
I said just that event.
Oh yeah.
And then on Saturday they had the concor and it was great.
What I love about the show is that it's not just hot rods.
It's not just muscle cars.
It's not just great American classics or something like that.
It's everything.
Everything but motorcycles pretty much you see there.
And I mean they have everything from SSK Mercedes and V12 Cadillacs to wild gassers.
I'm sorry?
Yeah, they had a Goldwing there too.
Oh yeah, beautiful Goldwing.
Yeah, from the Nettercut collection.
It's really cool.
They have one whole area of nothing but exotics.
And do you know the blasphemy that Jay Leno has in his collection?
I went out on Saturday night with the guy who built that and I said,
so what do you build now?
He goes, oh well I just finished.
I brought it here.
And this guy had found a wrecked Bruce McLaren car and it was literally in pieces.
And he said a lot of the pieces had been gone because when it was destroyed,
you know the people, oh can I have a fender or can I have a this?
But he had about, he said about two-thirds of it.
And he built his own chassis to the specs and everything.
And then rebuilt the aluminum body and he brought it there and it was phenomenal.
It was awesome.
It had a spec race small block in it and it was really cool.
So there's really good selection.
Now the master, not master of ceremonies, but their grand marshal this year
was a guy you might have heard of him.
His name Pete Brock.
Have you ever heard of him, Matt?
Yeah, Pete was there.
Pete Brock was there.
And his wife Gail of course.
And got to talk to him a little bit.
We visited and he's such a nice guy.
In their program, he must have said it to me like three times.
Did you see that program?
And even Gail said, oh my gosh, the program.
In the program they did a timeline of his achievements and it took 10 pages.
And it's just page after page after page.
But it's so interesting to talk to him and see him.
So there were a lot of people.
I mean, our friend Mike Brewer had flown over.
Yeah, Mike Brewer was there.
He's been the master ceremonies every year.
And he was there again this year, flew in for that.
Bruce, I didn't see Bruce this year.
He wasn't this year.
Yeah, but Barry McGuire of course.
Mike Spagnulla.
What's that?
I said it wasn't the regular crew this year.
Yeah, no, I don't know.
I'm, Bruce must have something else going on because usually he is there.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of designers, top designers, a lot of top car builders.
And, you know, but judging guys, judging is, it's always one of those things because
everybody thinks their car should win, you know, and everybody.
And it's, I haven't judged in a while.
I've judged before, but I haven't judged in a while.
And I forgot what it's like because you walk up to a car and you're looking at it and the
owner comes walking up and he's, oh, you're a judge.
Oh, and as you said, Matt, they made us wear these ball caps that say judge on the side.
And then we're wearing a lanyard that says judge.
So you can't really just kind of walk up, judge the car and get out of there.
And then, and there was like, hey, Reinhold, nice to meet you.
Yeah.
Yeah, Judy.
Hit me, took me a second.
So you're sitting there and this guy walks up.
I'm not going to say what type of car it was, but it was just average.
Okay.
It was, it was, it was okay, but it wasn't a muscle car.
It wasn't rare.
It wasn't anything like that.
And this guy, you could tell he was very proud of it, but, and he's pointing everything out.
And I'm like, oh, wow.
Okay.
Yeah, that's really nice.
And he goes, do you want to see under the hood?
And I go, yeah, we do judge under the hood.
He opens the hood.
It is completely bone stock, nothing even touched and dirty as hell.
I mean, like it's been driven 200,000 miles.
And, and, and the only thing I see is a brand new shiny alternator, you know,
like he just got it at Napa, you know, and, because everything else is covered in grease
and dirt and the brand new Napa alternator.
And I'm like, okay, yeah, it's like so awkward.
I hate having to do that because you've got to judge it for what it is, you know, and you,
you got, you just ask him, you go, so is this dirt original?
Well, hey, I'll tell you about another car in a minute.
But you walk away and you're like, okay, I've got 10 points for under the hood.
What do I give him?
You know, do I give him a zero or I give him a one?
You know, you give him like a one because it's, it's a motor.
There's something there.
It's there.
The hood open.
It's complete.
But like I was teamed with two other judges and you know, I know muscle cars.
So there was a guy there that had a 69 Chevelle.
And it, it was not a show car.
It was a nice clean driver and we come walking up to it and it's brown with like a cream top,
not a vinyl top, a painted top.
Well, I knew right away I went, wow, this looks like that was the original color.
And two tone in 69, like 66, 7, 8, 9, really rare.
You could get two tone cars, but most people ordered a vinyl top if they went that way.
So it was pretty rare.
So I start chatting the guy up, turns out it was his grandpa's car and it's original.
And he said, and if you look, he goes, I've never restored this car.
And he opens the hood and when he replaced like the upper radiator hose,
he made sure he got a GM radiator hose.
Just like a Napa or something.
And I start looking and I go, you're, I mean, everything is original.
So it was used.
You know, the car was, you know, that old, but it was like the interior wasn't a repop interior.
It was a well-maintained cream, you know, interior that was somebody took good care of
and it was factory original.
And, you know, he was showing us all the original stuff and all the things that he had.
And so I had to explain to the other two judges because the one judge that was with me goes,
I'm not going to vote that very good.
I mean, it was dirty.
It was this.
It was, you know, it, you know, it was old.
It's not it.
And I go, no, you got to understand.
You got to appreciate this for what this is.
This car is a survivor.
It's never, it's never been blown apart and put back together.
And it was an original California car.
So it wasn't rusty.
It was, and it was, it was pretty cool.
And so, you know, that's why they pair three judges together.
If anybody ever, you know.
That's a good idea that you guys walk the field together.
Yeah.
And there was something that that same judge pointed out to me on a BMW that I wouldn't have known,
you know.
There you go.
And so, so it was pretty cool.
It was, it was, it was a fun experience.
The weather was great.
And they took real good care of us as judges and it was fun.
It was fun.
Nice.
Dave Merrick with me and Dave was a judge also.
And he also did a panel on the stage with Pete Brock, Chip Fuss, and gosh, who I'm trying
to remember who else was up there with him.
I'm forgetting who it was, but Stuart Reed, excuse me, and they did one about,
they talked about Pete's racing career and his design and they blended it all back in
because all of those guys are from Art Center.
So Art Center, you know, and, and that was interesting.
It was kind of interesting.
Had time to talk to Pete Brock and talked a little bit about how he became a designer
and his time at, you know, going to at 18, getting a job at GM Design and going in there
and realizing after like, I think it was a year or two that he said, I realized that
it's going to take me forever to move up the chain, the way this corporation is.
So he quit and went out to California to start racing.
You know, I mean, it's like, those were the days.
He's got such a cool history.
Yeah, that's pretty neat.
Wow, how fun.
You're out here on the West Coast.
The Benedict Castle Concourse is one to bring a car to or to just attend because
the who's who of the automotive world are there and it's, it's a lot of fun.
It's a lot of fun.
How can people support it outside the event?
I'm sorry?
How can people support the outreach program?
They can reach out to Benedict Castle Concourse and they do take donations and,
you know, the, that's one of the things too.
If you come as a spectator, they have this massive silent auction area of things like,
like for instance, if you're a Pete Brock fan, Gail, his wife, brought three of these packages
of like some original drawings and things like that of Pete's that you could,
and you could have walked away with some really cool memorabilia.
Wow.
Wow, that's really cool.
All right.
In fact, there was a, a billet, a machined billet aluminum motor plate from a,
from a Honda Indy car there that had the stamping numbers on it and everything.
And I went over, Dave and I went over and looked at it and like on mid-Saturday afternoon,
it was only bid up to like 200 bucks.
And, and Dave was like, man, if I didn't think I could just go into the race shop
and grab one of those, I'd bid on it.
Yeah.
Pretty cool event.
Pretty cool.
Well, two good events, two good fundraisers, good, good causes, good events.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Hey, I know we got a couple other things to talk about, but before we do, I wanted to ask you,
the other day I pulled into a gas station and the fuel was only 2.99 a gallon.
And it was a little surprised.
So I filled up and then I realized it was E85.
Is that going to be a problem for my, for my truck?
Yes.
If you do not have the octane sensor, then yes.
No, no, Matt, why do they do that?
Because it's not like diesel where it's a different color and it's a different size
nozzle and all that kind of stuff.
They just let me, they just let me put that in my, my truck and drive away.
What's the deal?
I'm being facetious, but how many people do you think have pulled in and done that?
Because I saw it and it's 2.99 a gallon.
And it's doesn't, there's no notification on there that says,
if you're not a flex fuel vehicle, do not use this a good harm your motor or anything like that.
You know, it's, you know, it's a little.
It's a good, it's a good point because there's a gas station right around the corner here
that I always go to.
And I just bought an old diesel truck, about a 2008 Dodge 3500 to tow the Airstream safely.
And I noticed they carry two types of diesel there.
And I had to go in and ask the guy, hey, which diesel do I use?
And he told me, he goes, don't use the other one because that's for,
you know, farm vehicles and things of that nature.
You know, I mean, it works, but you might get in trouble if you get caught.
I guess they don't.
It burns dirtier or something.
No, no, it has to do with taxes, I think too.
That I didn't know that they actually, that they color the diesel fuel.
So, because I guess the guys that drive big diesel semis, you know, use a different fuel
because it's taxed differently or something.
I didn't get the whole story, but it's very interesting.
So yeah, no signs, no nothing.
But like that E85 with prices going through the roof, I can see somebody who's like really,
they're going, it's right here.
Yeah, there's ethanol in our regular fuel.
Well, the air fuel mixture would be different and you'd run pretty lean without.
And it also eats lots of stuff in those motors.
The ethanol does eat fuel lines.
Probably less of an issue on modern cars, but yeah, the extra ethanol does eat fuel lines.
But dangerous for the engine because it would potentially cause it to run lean.
Like you'll have your knock sensors and stuff in the modern
cars and it'll try to adjust for some amount of octane.
But depending on the car and how new or how old it is, you know, definitely could have some issue.
Well, and it can be a misnomer too because E85 has an octane ranging from 100 to 105.
So that sounds like, oh my God, that's great.
That's like the racing fuel, you know.
And yeah, but E85 is cheaper because it's like 40% less efficient.
Right, right.
Yeah, exactly.
But at the same time, it's over 50% less nowadays.
And but the other thing is what's really confusing is because like if you've got one of those vehicles
that takes E85, you can still run regular in your truck, you know, your vehicle.
So it's like they can go both ways, but you can't.
So.
Well, Brad, you know, a lot of the population can go both ways nowadays.
But I get very confusing.
If you're in Thailand, there's no signs.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Or girl.
We're getting old boys.
Matt, you were you were saying that there was some news about Send Cut Send?
Yeah, I know we're kind of pressing for time here, but the company's Send Cut Send was you
might have seen the ads, you find them on Instagram and stuff.
But if you needed like parts machined or or a water jet cut, things like that.
Yeah, you can reach out to them, you can send them a CAD file or you can send them a template
and they'll do it for you and send it back.
And they started that business like in 2018, it hasn't been that long and it popped up on
our radar because the guy who built it was a car guy, right?
He was a software engineer, but he was a car guy.
And he was thinking about parts that he may need for cars as he was building stuff.
And then, you know, if you're kind of a, you know, if you're a shop or something and you
want to start selling some parts instead of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars
into machine equipment, you can go, oh, we're going to make, you know, shock mounts or something
like that, right?
And we just want to get a bunch of metal pieces made, get them laser cut or water jet cut.
We'll weld them up.
You can outsource it to these guys very quickly.
They get it done and they send it back.
Well, this company ended up doing hundreds of thousands of pieces, aerospace companies,
tech companies, they're making things like the giant racks that hold servers, you know,
for computer servers and giant server rooms.
It's a giant like rack mounted servers and stuff.
They started machining those things and they ended up doing almost, they grew to almost
$200 million a year in sales.
And they just went out and raised a bunch of venture capital money from Silicon Valley.
They raised it from the tech industry.
They didn't, you know, and they, they went to the tech industry and they're like,
they're like, don't sleep on manufacturing, man.
I know everyone's thinking AI AI, but think about manufacturing and how we can do a 10,
a turnkey operation.
So anyway, long story short, they raised $110 million in venture capital money at a $1
billion valuation.
So this guy turned his machine shop hobby into a $1 billion company.
And they wouldn't have got the investment.
They wouldn't have got the investment unless those investors also thought that this was
going to grow and, you know, they could cash out someday at a significant higher valuation.
There's three facilities.
I want to say Nevada or Reno, maybe they're in Reno, Texas.
And I forgot where the other one is.
They've got tens of thousands of square feet redundancy machines behind machines behind
machines.
And they've just kind of figured it out.
This guy's background in, in, in not just industrial, but in software, he figured out a way to go
how we can do this as sort of a mail order business, how we can create
an efficient assembly line to machine these parts.
You need one part or 500 parts like he's got to cover.
So congrats to those guys.
Took a crazy big time.
I would almost guarantee you that part of that proposal when he went to the venture capitalist
was that he probably told the VCs that, you know, there's all of these facilities being
put in for AI, that, you know, all the power facilities like that, and they need these racks
and like that, and they're getting them offshore, we can make them right here.
Because I mean, that way it all ties back to AI.
Like, Meta, Meta is planning some giant facility like in Louisiana or something like that.
And it's going to be a giant like server farm for AI.
And then you could bring in contractors and go, oh, right, well, now we need to buy all of these
racks or they can just talk to their, maybe one of their engineers or a GC and go, well,
we know what the racks are going to be.
We want them custom made.
Why don't we just have a company like that?
We'll design the CAD files.
We'll outsource it.
It'll be cheaper than layers of retail.
But so in an interview, he was like, I'm anti VC.
And one of the biggest, most famous venture capital firms is called Sequoia Capital.
I've been up to Silicon Valley with them back in the day, my internet days.
And he's like, no, no, no, I'm not going to come to you.
He's like, you need to come here.
And it was when the Sequoia Capital guy went to their Reno facility and walked around and he
explained the size and scope and the volume, then that's the guy when he went back.
And he was like, we need to invest in this company.
He explained it.
He explained it.
He explained, he explained.
Yeah.
I know there are sisters who are thinking it.
That proposal was all about a big rack.
It was.
But anybody working on startup companies or doing any kind of fundraising,
angel funding, friends and family funding or big VC rounds, there's so much money flowing to AI
and a couple of other industries, some pharmaceutical and stuff.
But for the guy to take something like this as just a machine manufacturing company
and to get a billion dollar valuation.
You're talking tech industry, AI valuation is such a huge feat.
Like this was such a big thing that I'd be more excited for this guy in this industry.
I've never met him before.
I've never used the service.
I just like his whole execution and how he made it happen.
It's awesome to hear about manufacturing in this day and age.
You know me.
I've been a big proponent of that here in America.
So good for them.
Send cut, send.
Send cut, send.
And they've been supporting the YouTube community for years.
So I've seen their name pop up for quite a few years.
I've noticed a big insurgents of support with a lot of these companies,
Grindheart and a lot of these companies I've been watching for years.
A surgeon or a surgeon?
Surgeon.
Surgeon.
Well, it takes the surgical precision.
Hey, we've got like a little less than five minutes.
And Matt brought something up while we were talking on our pre-show
about how all of the car auctions are getting wrecked.
And he says they're just wrecked.
So Matt, explain that.
Something's been going on.
There's been a couple of auctions.
One in Texas.
I don't want to throw Mannheim under the bus.
Maybe it was a Mannheim auction.
It was something like that.
Maybe it wasn't a retail auction.
It was like a wholesale auction, something like Mannheim.
I can't say for sure.
But then Meekam and Indy.
And at the Texas auction, they're moving one car off the block.
The other one's coming up onto the block and it smashes into the back.
Someone jumps out of the way because usually there's people standing in between the cars.
Every time you watch these auctions, you're looking at it going,
why are they pushing all these cars up on the auction block and pushing them off?
There is a reason why.
Because with that many cars and that quickly, every couple of minutes,
moving cars on and off and you not knowing anything about these cars,
the auction company not knowing anything about these cars,
it's very dangerous to do that.
So you fire up a car on an auction block and it starts to move.
Somebody wrecked this Mustang.
What was it, a Mach 1?
It was a Mach 1, yeah, like a 69 Mach 1, I think.
It was off the auction block.
Someone from Meekam, I think, was moving the car.
Had fired it up, said.
The story is something happened.
The throttle stuck, they said.
Throttle stuck or something.
But somebody heard the tire squeal and immediately lurched forward
and hit a pole holding up the building.
So nobody was hurt.
The thing is, the pole was between the two booths.
Yeah, one of them a massage booth.
It definitely could have been catastrophic for somebody.
But the car is squished in the front.
So I guess it just came off the auction block.
Somebody had purchased it, presumably didn't sign the papers
or even pay for it yet.
So it's probably not their issue.
But where does it go?
Is it like, does the owner who had it,
is his insurance covering it?
Probably Meekam's insurance is covering it.
And then the guy who bought the car, does he say, well, it's wrecked.
I still want it, but I don't want it for that price?
Or can I buy the carcass from the insurance company?
Or do I just back out?
I think he's just out, right?
He's just like, I don't want it anymore.
If you ever can sign a car with one of the big auctions,
one of the big things is that car does not go across the block
unless you have a copy of your insurance.
And even if you are a bidder or a seller,
you have to send your vehicle insurance to get your bidders passed.
And some of the reasons for this are because
they don't want someone who buys a car, goes and pays for it,
gets the keys, goes over, starts it up.
And let's say he pops the clutch and runs over,
unfortunately, runs someone over or hits another car.
They want to make sure everybody there is insured.
But in this case, Matt, as you said,
I think that would probably be the event insurance
because their representative was driving it.
Yeah. Excuse me.
And there was one really good observation from someone who was there
that actually took some photos of it happening.
And they said, it was a manual transmission.
And he goes, I know there's all about reactions,
but if the throttle stuck, why don't you just push in the clutch
or turn off the ignition?
You know?
But not everyone is that fast on the...
Pushing in the clutch would be pretty simple.
If you can push the brake, you can push the clutch, right?
Well, if I was moving a car around slowly indoors,
isn't your foot pretty much on the clutch anyway?
Yes, and on the brake. You're idling.
Well, the carpet could have slid under the gas pedal
and locked it in play. I mean, who knows?
There's some video of it as well.
And what it sounded like was, you're right, something happened.
Like you said, it could have been in a carpet or throttle stuck.
That's actually pretty common.
And the person driving the car, I think Panic then got on the brake,
but with the throttle, that's the tire squeal they hear.
They didn't hear like it.
I don't think it was doing burnouts inside.
Right. It was powerful.
I think he was trying to lock up the rear, right?
He was trying to lock up or lock up the front
and was doing its own little burnout.
You know, I'm sorry.
Yeah, lock up the, lock up the brakes mostly in the front.
And I think, but it hit the, hit the pole.
Yeah. Listen, scary.
Glad nobody got hurt.
But now we know why you're supposed to push these things around on and off the block.
I'm going to be very careful driving these things.
But then again, when you're pushing these cars,
if they've got power brakes and it's not running, you go to hit the brakes.
If you're going down the ramp on the other side,
you don't have a lot of braking power either.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but, but just risky.
A car was just risky.
You know, you know, that there's a lot, you know, there's a lot to be said.
I mean, I remember years ago when we were consulting for Barrett Jackson
and this all came up and we talked about it.
And that's when we suggested the white glove service,
you know, let's throw gloves on the guys.
Let's push them, you know, so that people, it's almost a benefit.
It's not a why are these guys pushing it?
It's like, oh, white gloves.
They're pushing the cars.
And people want to hear the cars.
They want to make sure they drive.
There's there's so many factors in this.
There's not an easy answer, you know.
And there's a few that get fired up and they get up on the stage
and they rev them a little bit.
But there's a little bit more of a, you know, clear, clear this stage for that.
Yeah, especially when they rev them.
Yeah.
I unfortunately, I feel like this, this is a little bit on on Meekum's insurance plan.
I think there's a, yeah, because there's definitely going to be a conversation.
You know, you've got three parties, the buyer, the seller and Meekum all going,
it wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
And and someone's looking at the car going, somebody's paying for it.
All right.
This car is smashed and someone's got to pay for that.
Let's look at the other side of this.
I think Meekum owns the car.
Yeah, yeah.
How many cars does Meekum move a year?
Like physically move?
Oh.
10,000, 20,000.
Maybe thousands.
Hundreds of thousands.
Yeah.
Thousands of cars, right?
How many times does this happen a year?
Very seldom.
And fortunately, no one was hurt just a car.
You know, yeah, we hate to see the car get wrecked because it looked like a damn nice Mustang.
But how many times does it happen?
Or is it how many times is it filmed on TikTok?
Right.
Well, the thing is, is there really even any concern about this?
It happens, you know, once in a while.
It happens.
Yeah.
Whatever circumstances, it happens.
I'd rather it happened out of Meekum or a Barrett Jackson than one of these little,
you know, one of these little wholesale auctions out in the desert somewhere because
who knows what their insurance is going to cover.
You know, and you're right, Meekum, Meekum can just sit there and go,
listen, we're going to talk to our insurance company, but we're going to get ahead of this.
You know, we're going to pay for the car.
We're going to buy the car so the seller still gets his money.
You know, the buyer doesn't have to buy the car.
We're going to take the car.
Our insurance is going to do it.
And then we'll, we'll figure it out from there because, I mean, let's face it,
this wasn't a $9 million car, right?
This is a $50,000 car.
But, you know, also there's some credibility and there's a level of hospitality and service on,
on Meekum.
What if it was a $9 million car that sold way under the money for like $5 million?
And they, and they said, OK, drive that in the hole and then we'll get in.
See that hole right there?
Aim for the one on the right.
Yeah, this negates the sale and the buy.
So we're just going to take it.
I'm very sorry.
We're going to.
Yeah.
Don't give anybody ideas.
All right, guys.
All right.
I guess we're going to have to wrap it up on that note.
Everybody, thanks for listening.
Matt, you got anything to mention?
No, we're all good for the day.
Aaron, anything about your new show in Vegas?
Oh, we're not supposed to mention that yet.
Aaron's song and dance show, Aaron Higar, the song and dance man.
I'm doing a burlesque show.
I'm doing a residency at the El Cid.
And now that I have band boots, I'm doing a burlesque show.
You getting tassels?
All right, everybody.
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About this episode
From Indy 500 crash talk to a long car-collection detour, the hosts then get practical about real-world breakdowns. They recap auction chaos—like a wrecked Mach 1 with a stuck throttle—and explain how insurance paperwork can keep a car from crossing the block. The most detailed thread is their Mini Cooper brake failure: mushy pedal, a two-piece caliper coming apart, roadside bleeding, and immobilizer fuel cut-off. They also pivot to a bargain fuel scare: “the fuel was only 2.99 a gallon… So I filled up and then I realized it was E85.”
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• Brad Fanshaw's Muscle Car Tech on YouTube @TheBradFanshaw Channel
• E85 is Just $2.99 gallon in California
• Car Wrecked at Auction - No Sale!
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