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About this episode
A lively discussion kicks off with the introduction of Bonspeed Streetwear, featuring merchandise inspired by automotive culture. The hosts dive into the exciting renovations at Willow Springs racetrack, highlighting its historical significance and new features. They also share amusing anecdotes about smart cars and off-road modifications, including a humorous story about bear encounters with a Porsche. The episode wraps up with insights on upcoming events like Barrett-Jackson and SEMA, emphasizing the community's passion for cars and motorsports.
Topics:
bonspeed streetwear
willow springs renovations
smart car modifications
bear encounters
barrett-jackson auction
sema 2023
off-road vehicles
car culture
Cars:
BMW M3
Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet Volt
Delorean DMC-12
Dodge Charger
Fiat Brava
Ford Expedition
Ford F-150
Ford Mustang
Volkswagen Golf
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On this episode #537:
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• Willow Springs Renewal Closer!
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You guys heard it, recording in progress.
This is shift and steer, and we're back.
And I just want to say one thing, which is, what is it, Aaron?
Could it be welcome to the party, pals?
There you go.
Yeah.
And please, I have an audio issue today.
I'm in an empty room, and apparently I'm
doing a lot of backing up, because there's
a beep that's driving me crazy.
So if you hear it, let's hope it doesn't drive you crazy.
Did you say audio or potty issue?
Oh, no, the potty's good.
OK.
We didn't know if you were to be running away, or what was it?
Wait, but we're doing the potty, right?
We're doing the potty.
This is the potty.
Welcome to the potty, pal.
Three men in the potty.
Hey, I'm going to hit it right here at the top of the show.
I want to invite everybody to go check out the new website, which
dropped over the weekend, and it is BonspeedStreetwear.com.
BonspeedStreetwear.com, it's not done yet.
We've got to have quite a bit of merchandise yet to put up,
but you can find t-shirts, hats, stickers,
and there's a lot more to come, a lot more.
So, folks, and just know that Brad, his mentor is Gene Simmons.
So you will see a little bit of everything.
But I know you're saying Gene Simmons because I was promoting it again.
Yeah, I've been promoting it online.
No, I know what you're saying, though.
Gene Simmons does a licensed kiss on every kiss to a paper.
There's just everything.
Yeah, it was funny because I remember
he sold to his house in Beverly Hills, was a museum of all of this stuff.
And it was on his reality show or whatever show he had or something like that,
or MTV Cribs.
And then he's like, ah, the taxes are killing me here.
I'm going to move to Vegas, move to this massive, beautiful, modern place in Vegas.
I think he was there for like one year and he's like, this place is hot.
And then he had to move again.
I think he moved back to California.
He's like, I can't take it.
It's so hot. That's funny.
If you're going to move to Nevada or Arizona, just do it for the winter.
Like you can't, by the way, for Gene Simmons, do you have enough money to
like get a condo in Malibu or something or a house in Malibu for the summers
and then have your museum house in Vegas?
Or at least rent a place in Vegas to make sure you like it
before you uproot everything and make it all change.
Exactly. That's why we went to Napa for a year and a half.
So I just got some stuff from from my buddies at Mighty Car Mods.
And this is my new favorite piece of merch.
A little goosey. It's a shit beer.
Yeah, not that I drink beer, but I thought that was for you, buddy.
So that's that's my new favorite piece of merch, Brad.
So you start making this shit and I might buy some stuff.
OK, man, I'll add a while.
I can't even hinge on that.
They came up with shit beer off to a beer shit.
You can have crap.
You can have crap. So crap beer, crap soda.
There we go. So hey, but but yeah, so you guys have been great.
You know, you went there and checked it out.
We're we're up and running.
Bond Speed Streetwear.
And if you do remember our old mail order catalog, Bonneville Speed and
Supply and the Bond Speed Apparel line, well, this is just even bigger
and better. And you know, go check it out.
You don't have to buy anything.
But I'd like you to.
So, you know, I mean, you know, that's why we do it, you guys.
We we make stuff so we can sell it.
But you know what?
Talking about making stuff, rebuilding stuff, doing all that kind of things.
Matt, you and I were talking about Willow Springs
and the rebirth of Willow Springs.
And they just put up a video and you said you checked it out, too.
I want you to talk a little bit about that.
Trying to try to get I know I know I was trying to extend that hoping.
You know, there was a video online that was God, it looks so impressive
when you see it and the way they painted it and resurfaced some of the areas
and like that, it looks pretty cool.
They did a drone shot of it.
But basically Willow Springs, they're moving forward on this investment.
I think October 11th is their like grand opening event.
There's you can buy tickets to it to track days, a bunch of things going on.
They repaved streets of Willow and they added some chicanes and stuff to it.
Give it a couple of different configurations.
And the track I think was one point six miles is now one point eight
miles, depending on how you configure it.
Like you there's a couple of different options and how to do it.
More runoffs.
It looks like the mint candies, like the green and white.
Yes, there you go.
That's a good way.
Yeah, it looks it looks like that.
They did the the the cart track and I did streets of Willow
and they still got more work to do.
But yeah, it it looks great.
There's history there with with Willow Springs.
So hopefully they'll continue with this.
It seems like their intention is to.
You know, obviously, they're not going to smash it down at this point and do,
you know, you know, turn it into a complex or something.
It really isn't a lot of ways.
Fantastic to see because we've been out there and we saw it was
starting to show its age pretty pretty heavily.
You know, you drive in on that road off the main highway
and it was kind of pothold and, you know, a lot of that gravelly
grunk and and then you got up to the to the main area there by the parking lot.
And, you know, it was really starting to show its age.
And it's good to see not only what you said, Matt, that they're not
going to turn it into a housing development or something like that,
but that it's but it's revived.
And it looks like they're going to make it even better.
And that that's really cool because, man, it's hard to find
racetracks around Los Angeles anymore.
Sure. And they're always so far away.
I was frequenting Thunder Hill and same thing.
It just it's just it's like and it's in Willows, which is in Willows.
But it's just way out in the middle of nowhere.
And like like you look at the mileage and you go, well, that's kind of anywhere
that you go. But boy, you take the road and you're just like, this is forever.
It just takes forever to get here.
They always seem to be so remote so nobody bugs them, you know,
but still it's a trek.
Well, I think it benefits from the fact that the Air Force base is right there.
And it's such a massive Air Force base that it's not going to be developed.
You know, it's, you know, I can't say never.
We've seen other. Right.
Well, like noise is always the issue.
Yeah. So and if you have an Air Force base there and there's jets
and stuff flying off, it's not as active as as LAX.
But you're like, damn, Jets, I can't hear my shift points.
Yeah. You know, that happened here in like Santa Monica,
like a bunch of people move near the Santa Monica airport.
And then people started using private jets.
And then people were moving in and going, get rid of the jets.
It's so loud. It's like, well, the airport was there first.
You know, dumbasses.
That happens with everything.
You know, how many drag strips I look at Orange County Raceway.
It was there and they they always put them on the outskirts.
But then everything encroaches around it.
And then it's, you know, and then people start complaining
about the noise and like the racetrack was there first.
There the the airport was there first.
And then I don't know.
And then you're waking the baby.
It even happens with the BMX tracks.
I mean, the Orange Y BMX track closed because they didn't like the noise
of the loudspeaker announcing the races and stuff like that.
And it's like, really, kids are you getting kids off the street
you know, and they're, you know, it's just come on.
Come on, people.
It seems funny for a BMX track because it's about his clients.
Yes. Kids battling.
You know, what are they supposed to go?
The next motto is coming up, guys, get in the gate.
You know, they're going to tell you what happens.
Headphones and like dial in to like 870 a.m.
Or you know, like, there you go.
Movie or whatever.
Yeah, anyway, Willis Springs looks great when I was in Monterey.
I had an opportunity to speak with one of the guys on the team
that's basically paying for it, a part of the private equity guys.
And they were like, yeah, I'm the one paying for it all.
And I was like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for doing that.
Thanks for spending your money on a nice racetrack.
But the oldest racetrack in the United States, I believe.
Oh, Willis Springs is.
Yeah, I never guess.
Wow, I would think it'd be on the west.
I mean, the east coast.
Yeah. So.
Well, that's he didn't say horse track.
He said racetrack.
Yes.
Or does it just look the oldest?
I think it's I have to get clarification on this.
I'm not saying it's necessarily the oldest track
ever in the United States.
I think it's the oldest track that still exists.
Oh, OK.
And that apparently clearly hasn't been refurbished.
That's like being the guy on the news that he's the oldest man in the world.
Excuse me. What was it? Oh, OK.
No, now it's Norma in in Virginia,
because Harry died just five minutes ago.
And Max's point and Max's point is he looks the oldest in the world.
When they redid the track, when they redid Willow
and when they go back and start shooting more like vintage movies,
now they're going to have to get their CGI budget
to make the track look older than it is.
Right. It's easier for the background image
because it's not like they planted trees or anything.
You know, at some point, if they build more garages
or do like some condo complexes, you know, for how to screw up all the movie
guys for, you know, for manufacturers or not just manufacturers,
they could do like like permanent garages or condos for like a thermal.
Like a thermal. Yeah.
But but that's more like for car collectors
and stuff, but Willow Springs being so close,
like why wouldn't like an Edmunds dot com like get a place there and
and and use it as as like a normal,
almost weekly facility where they can test
and and do overnight stays with or shift and stare.
Yeah, why don't we get one there? Yeah.
Yeah, I don't want to move out the Lancaster.
So. Oh, see, all of a sudden now you don't want to go.
You just want to be there as a guest.
Well, like what Tim Simmons said about Vegas, it's hot.
It's hot. Yeah.
And it's windy. It's windy.
Yeah. And it's way the hell out there.
I mean, there's nothing around there.
I mean, there's like an old you get off the freeway
and there's a couple of gas stations and a.
Oh, come on, there's Palmdale.
Yeah, there's nothing out there.
As I said.
Palmdale Lancaster.
And you know what else?
You said it's hot.
In the winter, it's cold.
They actually get there.
I mean, you know, what the hell?
You know, it's a desert.
It's just windy and cold and hot.
No, thanks.
Yeah, my my kids used to live out
there, Palmdale Lancaster area.
So we used to have to go out there
and pick them up and see them.
So and and and my ex-wife's parents
worked for Lockheed all their life.
So yeah, I'm a little familiar with that area.
Oh, yeah. And a little shout out to my buddy, T.C.
Spitfire Tony Crawford.
He he lives out there, too.
He was what was it him and Shifty
made a couple of hits back in the day.
So he he lives out there.
So whenever we drive by there lived out there
and oh, did he live out there?
Excuse me, not Gene Simmons.
Gene Winfield, two totally different people.
You know, so similar.
I don't really get to totally different people.
And when you got off of that exit,
if you turn left, you went to the track.
If you turned right, you went to Winfield.
And that was where his place was.
And he had his party out there once a year.
And we used to. Oh, I never got to go out there.
Never made it out there.
And he was out there, man.
Right. Yes, he was. Oh, wait, yeah.
That's where you that's where you get lots of lots of room
to have a place like Winfield or like a track or something like that.
Wild dog inspiration.
I see that Amazon is now starting.
They're going to be doing used cars and pre-owned certified cars.
They're doing test marketing right now in Los Angeles area.
And, you know, it's a big thing because, you know, they move
massive amounts of everything else.
So they have the eyeballs and you would just.
I don't know. I would feel really fine to use car.
But I I feel weird buying a used car on eBay, too.
You know, I know lots of people do it, but I like to see drive here.
You know, smell the car that I'm going to buy.
Yeah, that that that seems like a strange pairing right there.
Amazon used cars starting out that great because
their ad campaign here in Los Angeles, the billboards like that.
They have what I'm going to describe as looks like.
Do you remember the Ugo?
Oh, yeah, I actually saw an off road Ugo recently.
It was bad.
Well, this looks like a stretched Ugo and it's called I'm probably butchering it up.
It's a it's a Russian car.
It's called a lot or a lot.
Oh, yeah, I love those that it is.
It's like it's like a beefed up Ugo.
And they're using it on their ad campaign.
Now, how does that relate to anyone?
You know, they're looking at them going,
you know, maybe they just wanted something that was so non-descript
that it wouldn't be, well, I don't want to buy a Camaro.
I don't want to buy, you know, a ram truck.
But do people really look at a billboard?
They just think, OK, I want to buy a used car, not a used.
Yeah, that seems it seems strange.
And you know what, if you think about Amazon returns,
I would hate to see what I would hate to see what that yard looks like.
Yeah.
Can you imagine the guy at Coles when you go?
Hey, I got the car out front.
I'm returning it.
I want to, you know, here's here's my barcode.
Yeah, that's really going to change the parking lot of Whole Foods.
Let me tell you.
Yeah. And how do I get it out of that locker
that they have out front of Whole Foods, you know, to get my package in?
I honestly, I just think it was like a royalty free image.
It just must have been something.
Because Amazon can't afford 100 bucks to pay some struggling photographer
for his image of a ram 15 truck.
And the rest of the charge is more complicated than that.
I think it would be more complicated than that because.
Like if you're somebody like Ford, for example,
you you trademark the Mustang name, but then you you you trademark
the shape and likeness of that car.
So in the logos.
So it can't just be knocked off, not just the logo.
Yeah.
There's there's an issue there.
So if you did like if you put a Mustang up there and remove the logo,
doesn't completely clear you of trademark issues,
especially because you're doing it for commercial use.
You're advertising this business, they use car sales.
Why did they just use AI to come up with some six-fingered car?
Or you're right.
Just contact one of the manufacturers and say we're launching used cars.
Who's a part of their pilot program?
Is like a car max or like a ram trucks or Ford?
Yeah, yeah, it didn't want to use an image of your car play.
Yeah, but we're just right at prompt.
It says looks like a McCarrow.
What's funny is as we were talking, as you guys were talking,
I was asking that I was asking Grock, I said, I said,
create an image of a Mustang with a Ford F-150 front end
so that it's really nothing, right?
Yeah, it's a double whammy.
It didn't quite show me a picture of a horse with a truck.
Yeah, it didn't work.
It just looks like a Mustang.
Yeah, a horse with bigger teeth, right?
Yeah, right.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, no, give me a image of a car that doesn't exist.
Yeah, right.
Hold on. It'll bring up a DeLorean.
Bring up a you go.
No, but seriously, so I forget where I was, but I was somewhere
and I looked to the right and I see this little this little tan lifted.
You go, you know, it looked like it looked like a skinny old GTI or something.
And I'm like, oh, and had a had a had a little rack on top with a tire.
And I'm like, oh, look at that.
It's awesome.
So many somebody messed up a you go.
I'm surprised at those big tires that went anywhere.
They just say, I didn't know how to move itself with.
Yeah, it sounded like a jigsaw.
So maybe that's why there's a guy right across 12,000.
There's a guy right across the street that has
one of the I see it every morning when I pull in.
It's one of those little cars from Europe.
The little bitty ones that Mercedes made.
Oh, a smart car, a smart car, and it's raised up.
Oh, yeah, big off road tires on it.
And I'm like, really, you drive that thing.
It's got a brush guard on the front.
And and I was so crazy.
I was like, who did that?
How do you and so I did a search.
And, you know, there's actually a kit to do.
Yes, I almost bought it when I had my smart car.
It's bad ass that there's a little smart car off road for sale
up here, too, for like eight grand.
And I told me, I said, yeah, and I said, well, the kids
like four or five grand alone, and it's hell to put it on.
It's very difficult.
So it takes a lot of labor.
But yeah, yeah, there's six to eight thousand on average
for for for one that's already done.
Wow. It's awesome.
It's awesome.
It's a well-known story about Bob Bondret driving a Bravas smart car.
Oh, yeah. Like a modified, you know, Bravas did.
I don't know, like an expensive smart car.
Yeah. Yeah. And I remember those dad had one.
Pat or Bob Bondret was hauling ass to the track
in his little Bravas smart car and he got pulled over
by a cop in Arizona and I gave the guy his license
and the guy looks at it and says Bondret on it and he goes.
He's like Bob Bondret, Robert Bondret.
It's like that's your racing school.
He's like, that's me.
He looks at the car and he's like, what?
What is this?
And he's like, it's my Bravas smart car.
He gave him his license back and he's like, just go, just go.
Bob says, yeah, I bought the car that I shouldn't have been pulled over in.
Yeah. Well, I'm sure he was driving it like a race car.
So. Oh, yeah. Whatever.
So it wasn't the lifted one.
I don't know. The Bravas one, like if you Google it,
look at Bravas smart car.
It's it's it's nice.
It's a little much.
Yeah, it's got it's got some extra details.
Yeah. Yeah.
Dad had a dad had a toned down one.
I had Bravas on it.
So I'm guessing it was unless somebody put a sticker, a couple of stickers on it.
But it just had upgraded interior and suspension and different wheels.
It was all black, you know, you guys map Brad.
Did you see that one?
I never knew he had a smart car. No, I've never.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Because I think they used it in one of the chicken foot videos.
Oh, really?
They're all driving it or something.
Yeah.
So he had a Bravas smart car, like Bondron, I believe so.
Yeah. But I've seen some of the Bravas ones in there.
They're kind of tricked out and dad's wasn't that tricked out.
Yeah, they had one that was just like stiff for suspension, wheels, tires.
Exactly. Yeah.
And like you said, like an interior package.
Yeah, it was like buying a, you know,
and a BMW three series that had the M Sport package
as opposed to buying an M3, you know, it was the same kind of deal.
You know, if that makes sense to, you know,
yeah, people, people listening, people.
Let's let's take a quick break before we we have to.
I'm having so much fun.
Oh, sorry. All right.
I got to go. Yeah.
Yeah, let's do that because I got to go feed the smart car.
Let's do it right now.
OK. Hey, Sal. Hank, what's going on?
We haven't worked a case in years.
I just bought my car at Havana and it was so easy.
Too easy.
Think something's up.
You tell me, they got thousands of options.
Found a great car at a great price.
And it got delivered the next day.
It sounds like Carvana just makes it easy to buy your car, Hank.
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OK, we're back, I think.
OK, Aaron walked on it.
And so, you know, so this will probably be behind the commercial.
Well, I was beeping.
You didn't hear me beeping before I heard you.
You're back up.
I'm.
I not correlated, but what's what's up, Aaron, with with the bears?
Oh, it's car related.
Oh, it's car related.
I saw the Porsche, actually.
And I saw it surrounded by bears eating breakfast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So so so my buddy Nick was here when we moved down to Napa.
I packed up the last of the shop and he had a cargo van that was gutted.
And he's like, take my cargo van.
We'll just put all the rest of stuff in that.
So that's been in my house for like two and a half years.
So I emptied it and he took it away.
So we drove it away.
And on the way to the car, I just put the trash out real quick.
But, you know, we're getting rid of stuff.
So there was a pile of boxes and stuff in front of the trash can.
So I just laid the trash on top and I said, I'll put it all away when I get back.
Not even 20 minutes later, we get back.
We're talking out front, just past the trash can.
And a car drives up and beeps at us and goes, oh, bears.
I'm like, oh, yeah, go bears.
Yeah, bears, yeah, bears, go bears.
And then I see some bushes rustling and I go there in the neighbor's yard.
And so I start to walk back to my house and, yeah, no, they're in my yard.
Three babies and a mama and they got into that trash.
So so they had leftover chicken tikka masala and they had a leftover smoked salmon.
And now this stuff is, you know, expired.
So it's leftover, leftover, leftover.
And then they had a little bit of Mexican foods and guacamole that had browned, you know.
And and, yeah, they're having a ball.
And and and then mama stands up.
One paw on the on the fender of the Porsche stands up tall, looks around.
And then she I think left paw was on the Porsche.
So she dismounted to the left of that.
So I'm like, wait for that right paw to come up and just go.
And she was actually very courteous.
She she was on she was on the outside radius,
which means her non-retractable claws were above the fender.
And when she dismounted, she lifted her paw back towards her
and cleared the fender by a mile with her right paw as she moved on.
So she just left a little smudge where, you know, I think it was guacamole.
And and thankfully that the nose of that car
hood, fenders all the way up to the windshield and a pillars are all PPF.
So thank you to Porsche of Colorado Springs
for insisting on doing PPF, new PPF on the front of that,
because it may have saved some some at least a rough palm.
She probably had a PPF in your case. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
PPF. So thank you, bear proofing the the Porsche.
Yeah, I mean, mostly the car is fine
because you didn't try to screw around with the babies.
Yeah, mom would get passed and they are so huggable, man.
If you go to my Instagram, I posted just a little quickie,
but mostly just of her standing on the Porsche.
But yeah, those babies, I'm telling you, you it was so hard not to get out
because I was a Nick's car.
It was so hard not to get out of that car and just run up and give them a hug.
They are so cute and huggable.
Yeah, wouldn't have dug that a whole lot.
She would have, you know, no, no, no, no.
It was funny because you put that up and then that night I get home from work
and I turn on the TV and the news is on and they were like,
oh, in Lake Tahoe, the bears are out because there was some women
that rented an Airbnb place up there in Lake Tahoe
and they're having a bachelorette party.
So of course, food all out on the table and everything like this.
They're out in the living room and they they turn around
because they hear the door open and here comes a couple of bear cubs.
Like you said, these cute little bear cubs and they jumped on the table.
Man, they were like, you know, they go for it.
They're they're so it's so funny to watch them
and they've come through our yard.
Now, we don't see bears often during the day at our house.
One once in a while, we do.
But this mom and three cubs, she's been through a couple of times
during the day. I didn't expect her to be there.
Otherwise, I would have taken care of the trash like we always do.
We have a bear box and we haven't had the incidents in almost 20 years
since we've had the bear box.
But but they came through just happened to come through at that very
half hour window and and so unfortunately, they got into our trash.
But those babies are so cute and they have a very interesting behavior.
Like like you can tell like from their behavior, which one is which.
And oh, really?
And the third, the third, there's a third that he's always like behind.
He or she, I haven't gotten close enough to to to grasp.
But one of them is always behind and the other two will be up near mom.
And the third one's like climbing a tree or or, you know, checking something out.
Or he always will always walks across our porch while the other two go through the yard
and they go. No, not yet.
And no, but pretty, pretty, pretty cute.
And that one climbed the fence when the other two cross the street
and through the opening in the driveway.
And, you know, but it's really fun to see their behavior.
And mom is pretty chill, I got to say.
She looks around a lot, but she's not she's not aggressive video again.
And she she puts the pall right on the on the car.
And yeah. And yeah.
But by the way, when they get tall, they get tall.
So that's deceiving because because that porch is pretty low.
And she's unusually small.
Everybody's been comments have been, wow, you know, that's a huge bear.
I'm going, that's one of the smallest females we've seen.
In fact, I would say she's a third or maybe half the size
of most of the bears we see here, which are really big, not grizzly big,
but for us big. And and she's small.
She's tagged someone commented and said, yeah, she had a broken leg last year.
And and so that might have stunted her growth a little bit, you know, or whatever.
But she's definitely small.
I think she's young.
I don't know that she's an older bear.
She looks she looks very sprite.
But yeah, awful cute.
But yeah, for three babies, sometimes you see one, sometimes you see two.
But when you see three, you're like, oh, yeah, look at those.
Look at those.
It's so cute.
I'm still trying to figure out what's stunted my growth.
You have a broken leg.
I don't know.
You're like, I grew more.
Talking about bears, you know, what's coming up next month.
Bear Jackson.
There you go. There you go. You got it.
I don't know. That was a good guess.
I'm yeah, I barely got it.
Matt was sitting there befuddled and Aaron had it.
I barely think it was going to be that bad.
Bear Jackson.
If they ever do one in Tahoe, man, it'll be dialed in, you know,
fairly all middle aged bear Jackson fall auction is coming up.
All right. They've got a couple of good hot rods and muscle cars.
But as you'd expect at this this auction,
more modern day cars, there's a handful of supercars.
You'll find families and Rolls Royce.
You'll find a bunch of modern day.
You know, there's probably a half a dozen demon 170s there.
But with miles, without miles.
This is the Brad, is this the second year for the fall auction?
I think the third.
The third. The first one was coming out of pandemic and it was invite only.
Excuse me. And I went and it was really it was great auction,
but it was weird because they didn't have the big vendors area.
And everybody had to wear a mask.
And how much does that just pay? Exactly.
And and then they did.
And, you know, it's it's gotten really good, man.
Last year, it kicked it kicked ass.
It was big. It was really big.
I have a car consigned this year, actually, for the fall auction.
It's yeah, it's a Fox body Cobra.
I'm working feverishly to get it so I can run up on the block.
But it's got to make center caps for those wheels
if you're going to sell it.
Well, they don't have because I'm selling it.
No big deal.
You can just use some silver ducting.
OK, I don't really have a Fox body listed.
It's four days now.
I think it started at two or three days and now it's like you said,
it's gotten it's gotten bigger.
They, you know, and they and they do well.
And the cars went for good money last year.
There was a good it's different from Scottsdale.
It's where is it in Vegas, sir?
No, no, no, it's in Scottsdale.
Oh, it's in Scottsdale.
But I mean, it's different than the the January one in Scottsdale.
Oh, right, right.
White is huge, but it's darn near.
I mean, it was it was fun.
It was fun. You guys going?
No, yeah, no, I October is pretty booked for me.
Once once once we get into October,
my schedule starts to really get busy.
Mine is too.
But that's one of my things on that list of I got my credentials.
I'll be going over and checking it out.
So I'll give you guys a report, let you know.
And then I let's see.
Yeah, it's a busy October is busy this year.
And then right into SEMA.
Yeah, then right into SEMA.
I'll be at SEMA. I'm excited to go this year.
We're going to we're planning on bringing my son Finn.
Oh, really?
So yeah, so so Finn's going to join us this year, which, you know,
I think it'll kind of revive.
I took a year off just, you know, it was a little bit in transition
and just seemed a little awkward and I was just kind of burned out.
So I took a year off and to come back this year.
And with my son, I think we'll definitely kick the fire back on.
You know, I think it's good
because it's a lot of work for us.
I showed a vehicle last time and it just it just cooked me.
I mean, I was there for I was in Vegas for over two weeks.
People don't realize that when you have a car in the show, we all have.
I have to say one of us and it's a lot of work.
It's a lot more than just bringing your car there and parking it.
You know, you got to know, and I was late and I was scheduled on day one.
Yeah, I didn't stand all they load them in for four or five days.
So I had to stay all that extra time to load in my Jeep, which I drive every day.
So I towed the mini behind it, if you remember those stories.
But yeah, yeah, super fun.
So yeah, no no car this year and you guys bring anything this year?
I am. I'm bringing my legs and again, a good pair of tennis shoes.
So I had the truck.
I had the new truck there last year.
Yeah. Well, that's right.
You had it there last year.
I forgot some electric bikes in the back.
The 22 for lightning.
You're right.
That one was a little bit easier.
That was to showcase parts for with with real truck.
So we we did a bunch of bolt on parts.
I mean, I still rush to get some stuff done.
We we try to fit on a Brembo brake kit.
That's needed a few modifications, but you know, got it all done and it was great.
But yeah, thinking about it of all the cars that I brought out there,
I have done five.
Oh, wow.
Not including I think we brought one of Adam's
raised cars out just to display with like to Kiko shocks or something like that.
So we didn't like build the car for it.
We just brought it brought it out there.
So I've done three.
I've done the woody wagon.
I've done red voodoo, my rat rod and the Jeep.
And I think the woody wagon, we prepped a lot for it
because it was on display with the rub and all that red voodoo.
I think I just wiped it down like, like, like while we were waiting in line
and, you know, in the queue to get it in and oh, no, I take that back.
Yeah, we did.
We did a lot of work to it because I think one of the propellers
had fallen off the day before the radiator blew.
Yeah, that's right. Red voodoo.
I had to do a lot to red voodoo.
It's always funny when you're talking about a car.
One of the propellers fell off, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
But but the Jeep, literally, I told them, I said, hey, we just, you know,
we came back from Alaska this year.
We're like the Jeep.
The guy cracked windshield and, you know, it's like it's kind of beat.
But, you know, I guess I could wash it.
And I did.
I washed it in the parking lot after I brought it in.
I brought it in dirty.
I mean, because I drove it there too, and I brought it there dirty.
And I wanted to leave it dirty.
And the crew and security, they were like, no, no, no, man,
you got to clean it up.
I'm like, no, no, man, this is an expedition vehicle.
I just came back from an expedition and it's staying dirty.
And they're like, no, no, no, you got to clean it up.
So I literally just used some Maguire spray
detailer and wiped it down and then wiped down the smudges.
I left the wheel wells all caked.
I left it dirty.
So it's like on top, it's clean.
And then you look underneath, you're like, oh, yeah, there's some Alaska.
Is that the Dalton or Denali Highway?
Well, it's like gray.
So it's probably the dog Denali Highway.
I know I've done like six or seven cars over the years.
And it's like, I've done everything from driving it there
and cleaning it when it got there.
Yeah.
Having a transporter pull up and pick them up and take them, you know,
and the transporter is a lot easier.
That's a lot easier.
Yeah, yeah.
Raspberry to my trailer.
The other two I drove.
Last year, I had a transporter bring the truck out there.
And I drove it home.
Oh, there you go.
Oh, yeah, OK.
That makes sense because we talked about how, like for me,
I'm driving eight or 10 hours, so it's an extra long drive.
You've got a long drive.
Yeah, so it's a lot of bugs to pull off the next day.
Well, having the transporter bring it out there
made my life a little bit easier because I was able to send the car
there and because it was just like a new truck, the guys
that the team, a real truck, was able to unload it and stage it.
And then I just show up.
Perfect.
I showed up the night before, Monday night, instead of Tuesday morning.
And then I just went through it and we, you know, hooked up some some power
so you can demo some stuff on it.
And because the valve caps stem caps on, you know, it's electric truck.
But the 12 volt battery doesn't last very long.
And we put, like, power running boards and stuff.
So you open and close the door on those running boards.
It happened like four times and the battery was dead.
And we tried the C-tec battery tender, but not enough enough.
So C-tec was kind enough to, like, run over with the larger,
like, 25 amp chargers.
Oh, that's cool.
And those help, but usually you need, like, a little mini transformer thing.
It needs a lock inverter.
Yeah, you need a 25 amp one is big.
We spec'd it out before because we were going to demo a car audio system in the
mock line. And then when we got there, SEMA was like, you can, it's loud.
We don't have an outlet here.
It was kind of a weird mess, but we were prepared for it.
So we had that charger.
We just needed to get it out there.
And where they parked the truck, there was, because they had,
instead of, like, a sign with information about the truck,
real truck had, like, a kiosk with a touch screen.
So you can see the truck and then you can click on all the parts
that were featured on the truck, which meant every one of their featured
vehicles had an outlet underneath the vehicle.
So we just went up from underneath, hooked up the C-tec, big 25 amp
charger to the 12 volt battery.
And it just, it just powered the whole truck and go in and
you can use the power tonneau cover again and again and again without running,
without turning the car on, power running boards and all that stuff.
And good power because it's it's electric.
Like you could, I mean, you could have just turned it on and probably
left it there for the week.
It would have been fine, but we didn't, the truck was so new to me.
I didn't know how long like the main battery last or where I can
charge it and plug it in.
Like I just had too many questions about it.
So we just charged the 12 volt battery in the front.
Well, you know, Matt, too, that the fact that your bed comes up
and does the whole rock and roll thing, you know, exactly the dancing
bed, you know, that takes a lot of energy.
Yeah, right.
Well, that's because Matt has, you know, party in the back, man.
You know, that's right.
Party in the bed.
Isn't this in the front of party in the back?
So, oh, I just let it go that we're all coming with mullets this year to SEMA.
Yeah, I don't think so.
You got some time to grow it still, man.
So I have my mullet on top.
Your mullet on top.
And off the chin.
I got my mullet off the chin.
Yeah, you know, party in the front.
You know what?
If you think about it, what is a beard?
It's a mullet off the chin.
That's what it is.
There you go.
Yeah, you just just gone backwards.
So, yeah, we're still we're still rocking the mullet.
It's a chullet.
It's a chullet.
It's a chullet.
You guys got anything else to talk about today or should we wrap it up?
I think I want to talk about chullets.
Chullets, chullets.
Yeah, I think we're good.
OK. All right.
All right, everybody.
Well, you know, we will be back next week.
Aaron, that's a promise, not a threat.
Oh, I feel so threatened.
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I don't know.
It's the eyes.
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