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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Bring a Trailer podcast.
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My name is Alex Porter, coming to you from the Bring a Trailer headquarters in San Francisco,
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joined once again by Randy Nonenburg.
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Hey, what's going on?
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And in the studio, again, one of our favorites, back.
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I'm doing well, Alex.
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So today, we're going to talk about some results on the site, some cars that are interesting
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to us, and we're going to go through some questions of the week, which are always fun
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in the community loves, and we'll answer some of those ourselves and maybe highlight some
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of the community responses as well.
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But before we do that, any car updates back?
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You've done some stuff, right?
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Do you have 9-11 related news or nothing?
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Nothing 9-11 related.
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It's been sitting on the lift in the office above Randy's Golf for a while.
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But the Mercedes wagon did a 2000 mile road trip.
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We drove all the way up to Lassen Volcanic and then did a big loop up there, then came
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back and did admirably by first time in like 10 years driving an altitude on a naturally
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aspirated car, which was not so reassuring.
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Tell people what the car is.
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E350 wagon 2014, so it's new to you, new to me, certainly not new, had 100,000 miles
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on it, but it was fantastic, was on the site, but I didn't obviously buy it on the site.
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Whoever bought it ended up traded into a dealer.
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It ended up over here in the Bay Area.
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I didn't know that piece of its history.
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I didn't know that.
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It had been sold by 600 Veloce, actually.
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It still has the remnants of the state.
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Anthony's figures are on everything.
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I was looking at a GLI Jetta.
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That's what I think I want to talk about.
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You're like, you see who bought that?
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Every car will eventually go through, like every car will eventually go through BAT.
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Every car will eventually go through New York.
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North Salem, New York.
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It was a local enthusiast dealership in, let's say, San Bruno, and when I walked in
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the door, someone who was helping me asked the owner of the place there, are there any
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issues with the car?
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Because I had asked them, is there anything that you know you want to tell me about?
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And the guy said, no, no, no, it was on Bring a Trailer, 1600 Veloce sold it.
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It needs to go on the carpet.
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100 K miles in New York state car?
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So that's sort of terrifying for a guy in California, Beck?
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I just had the rear crash bar taken up because that are a hitch put in that has a crash bar
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And the guy who installed it asked me if I wanted to have it.
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I looked down and I'm like, I don't want that piece of rust.
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I don't know what a crash bar is.
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Is that something a modern car has?
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I don't need the A to the platform.
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Pulled out the crash bar.
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It's the only way you can get a hitch in that car, I guess.
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Was it everything you'd hoped you'd wanted one of those cars for a long time?
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Yeah, I've been doing a lot of researching.
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I really just wanted a third row.
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That's all I've been wanting this entire time.
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But now you also want turbos or a suit.
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Is that the last car?
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Is that the last car to have a third row like that?
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Like rear-facing, right?
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Technically, the Model S technically.
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Oh, dude, don't break it.
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You just, you asked.
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I walked into that one, stepped into that one.
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But let's say a bit.
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This is where I need the producer.
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Is this the last Benz 2014 with a rear-facing seat?
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But the interior, it's sort of modernized.
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It doesn't look the same.
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But what I really wanted was a rear-facing bench.
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I would have loved an AMG, but they stopped doing both of those in the 12s
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because apparently the spare wheel was too large underneath the rear seats.
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So my thought is I'm going to have this until kids can't have a rear bench anymore
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and then also opt for an AMG Wag.
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But now, does this change your tune not whether you want an NA motor?
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You think the 6-2 has got enough grunt that it wouldn't matter at altitude?
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I haven't driven it, but I would have imagined so.
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I would hope so, for sure.
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But that was the thing was that we had our, we have a base golf,
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but it's a turbo 1.7 or 1.8 or whatever it is.
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Oh, that'll smoke the Benz wagon.
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But it'd be not altitude.
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It was surprising how different it was.
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I have not really experienced that.
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You're an aviation guy.
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You know, density at altitude.
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That's the killer, right?
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Did you have aerodynamic problems?
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Did you have a roof box on?
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A lot of roof box on.
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Oh, dude, you're stacking it up against you.
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Animals, kids, all the gear.
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That little wheezy Benz motor is like, come on, man.
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7,000 feet and a roof box.
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So that and now going through the experience of prepping a car for sale.
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So that's trying to wager.
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A car or which car?
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We're keeping that a secret.
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Is that going to be a tears?
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Is that going to be low check?
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No, he might be in California car.
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He has a white California German car.
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It's a white California, all California German car.
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It could be no reserve on the side.
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That and maybe hopefully.
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Tell people what it is.
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Drum up some enthusiasm now.
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It's a 2004 BMW E46 ZHP 6 speed with the Alcantara interior,
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which I know sounds like a really sort of annoying detail to bring up,
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but I find it kind of odd that there's a four door car that was made back then
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that had an Alcantara interior.
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Yeah, that was cool.
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That was a cool car when that came out.
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That's a cool car now.
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So BMW when that car came out and all of us were like trying to get our hands
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on them and drive them and see what they were like.
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So I'm burning up all the profit I might even not make on prepping the car for sale.
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So I got cleaning backs of wheels.
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Somebody was talking about removing wheels to clean the inside of the wheel.
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That's the way I did that was it has had all the wheels refinished.
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That's really got them cleaned.
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And then some paperwork on the front bumper did just got the text today that the I went
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to Randy's interior guy and got the headliner done.
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So next up is I got to put the Alcantara steering wheel back on because the first thing
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you pulled it, I pulled it off because it was deteriorating for that.
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So I sent it off to get recovered.
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So the buy of the month is going.
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I'm spending all the money so you don't have to.
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So that we'll go back on and then I get some other interior trim pieces.
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I got to replace because my kids broke them just getting in and out of the car.
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You told me when I bought my E46, I was like so worried about buying something
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that was too nice and you said just do it and just destroy.
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So all those plastic bits are getting to get replaced.
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Then I got to get a detailed photograph.
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I'm going to not I've decided not photograph it myself.
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I purposely just realized that I just don't have the time for it.
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And I kind of want to experience the aspect of hiring someone,
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which I've never done before 100%.
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So having someone else, I haven't decided who it's going to be yet.
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There's I've got a few great options here in the Bay Area.
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But do you want to be the pro photographer that shoots Beck's car
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and Beck gets to judge your photos standing behind them?
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He's like, I wouldn't do that.
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You've shot how many cars and you know the whole Rolodex of photographers.
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You are a very kind individual, but still man, if I was taking pictures
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and then Beck was going to look at them, I'd be terrified.
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I was thinking about how I needed to print out the shot list
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so that I could stand like over their shoulder and check it off.
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So look good though.
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Carl, we'll look good.
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I'm excited for that.
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Well, you're shooting for October sometimes at your plan.
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I was probably early October killer.
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How many miles on that car?
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What do we call that?
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Mid mileage these days on an E46, it could be.
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It's kind of middle mileage.
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It's a clean car though.
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It's the right amount of mileage that everything's had to have been done.
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That's where you want to get it.
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That's where you want to go.
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Before it all needs to be done again.
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Randy, any car news for you?
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Who's, is that Huff's NK downstairs?
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We've got an NK on display in the office.
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It's got nice looking stance and nice wheels.
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It's got a Huff look to it.
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Yeah, that's the red stripe car.
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That car ran the Monterey Historix back when it was called that.
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Back in the nineties, I believe.
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He has a picture of that car in the corkscrew.
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Oh, I didn't know that.
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It has no roll bar now.
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It sort of streets back now.
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You don't run it at Monterey.
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Drive it in off the paddock.
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No, just sort of a little hot rod NK amongst our podcast guest and neighbor Jim Huff's NK collection.
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I don't have as cool of stuff to talk about as Beck.
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Not too many crazy car stories lately.
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Just sort of driving around in my old stuff and keeping it running and keeping the tires around.
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If I can, got to get the Chrysler back on the road.
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Sitting for a little bit.
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There's always something sitting that's like nagging, you know?
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There's a few of them that are running.
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I'd love to celebrate that, but there's always one or two that are sort of a thorn.
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I was driving the 912 around a lot back as you may have seen and it's finally leaking now.
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Randy was like, how do you have a Porsche?
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A cool Porsche that doesn't leak and I was so proud of it.
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And now it's leaking quite badly in my garage.
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I just noticed it the other day and I think, but I think it's the gearbox, not the motor,
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but still, I got to figure that out.
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I was like, God, this car is so reliable.
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I could just use this all the time and it's already, if there's a problem.
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It's not a problem.
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Just keep filling it back up.
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No, on a four cylinder Porsche engine.
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But when I was driving it quite a bit, I don't know if I told you this back, I was losing
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the brakes and I was like, I wonder if this thing's like the pedals just going softer
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and softer and out of the floor.
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I was like, I wonder if there's no brake fluid in this thing.
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So I pulled over the reservoir.
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It was totally empty.
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They did a little at the Chevron station, bought a bottle of brake fluid, filled it up, pumped
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it up, came back to life.
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I haven't done anything.
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Who knows what the bubbles in the lines are like.
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You're just driving it around.
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Per the instruction manual.
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Have you ever lost brakes before?
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There's some stories about that.
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Anyway, I've driven old cars for a long time as just my regular car all through school,
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age, high school, college, after.
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What's the gnarliest?
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I mean, knock on wood.
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I'm driving home today.
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I hope the brakes are going to be fine.
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But yeah, the gnarliest, I was driving to high school in a 66 Mustang fastback.
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I love that car red.
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Want to be, shall be, clone.
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And there's a line at a four-way stop right outside the high school.
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And there's probably three cars in each direction.
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It's like 10 minutes before school starts, right?
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There's kind of a queue.
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And I'm coming up this deal up to the line in front of me and I hit the brakes.
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And there was nothing.
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And I was like, oh, okay.
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So you dodge the people in front of you and make a run the stop sign right-hand turn.
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I mean, obviously that could be terrible.
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You downshift and you get it into first however you must.
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And I remember that very distinctly because I went right around that corner and was hoping
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there was going to be no bicyclists or whatever.
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And I parked it right there and then I pumped it and I got some pressure back enough to
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pull it in the parking lot and go to class.
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But coming in at, you know, 45 in a 35 zone, there was nothing.
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Anyway, so that experience I remember, I also had a 75 cruiser before that.
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75 was the last year of all four-wheel drum brakes on a cruiser.
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They got disc brakes in the front in 76, which I never had in that truck.
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And it had a 327 Corvette engine in it.
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So it would go, but it wouldn't stop.
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And I thought it was normal that all cruisers needed two pumps on the brakes to stop you.
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Like, that's how you break that truck.
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You'd hit once on an initial and then go.
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So it was always a double, but that's just what you needed to do.
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And I don't know if my dad's going to be thrilled that I share this story.
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But I came ripping into the driveway.
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We had an L-shaped driveway and a two-car garage back when old houses had garages that slid.
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Only one could be open at a time because the big heavy doors went left-right.
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So I was the impetus for getting a new garage door that went up
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because I came ripping in like a little too hot into our own driveway, which is not long.
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I mean, it's two cars long and pulled in like I was going to park in front of the driveway,
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but I didn't double pump fast enough and I hit the garage door,
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which there's not a lot of excuses like it.
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I was just like, it jumped out in front of me.
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I ran the truck into the house and I kind of, I didn't totally like waste it,
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but I got like a pump and a half and I needed two.
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And so the front bumper on an FJ-40 is like a battering ram, right?
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And it kind of knocked the garage off its track and whatever else and kind of cracked the wood door.
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And I was like, so I got to explain that one to my dad.
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So have I ever lost brakes?
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Anyway, I got a couple stories.
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Thankfully, no humans were in front of the vehicles and I kind of did damage control the best that I could
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and didn't cause anything too badly, but we got a new garage door out of it.
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Great. It's a win for the family.
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How about you, Beck? Have you lost brakes?
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I have. In my 2002 TII, I was shepherding my now wife, then girlfriend and her cousin and her fiance on a tour of San Francisco.
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Four people in the 2002. All four of us in the TII.
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This is the worst time.
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I never had an audience in the moment.
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I had to explain it to some people, but I never had like a person in the car. Wow.
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I was fully loaded and I had a little route that I would do whenever I was showing off the city to people.
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And we were in pack heights, which if you don't know, Pacific Heights, you can tell by the name of it.
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It's a big giant hill and looking over the marina and I was at the top of I was like on Broadway, like passing Octavia.
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This is like where they filmed bullet.
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And I'm going sort of laterally along the hillside, like not up or down.
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And I'm about to turn right down going down the hill.
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And as I'm approaching the stop sign, I press the brake pedal and it becomes ever so slightly soft.
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I'm like, that's just not how it was the last time. That doesn't feel right.
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I looked down the hill. I thought probably would be fine.
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But I thought I'll give it one more street.
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So I went straight one more block and like the percentage drop in pressure dropped like noticeably in brake pedal.
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It went like halfway down without anything happening.
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And so then I realized no more.
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Don't take a right.
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Bottom hinge pedals.
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Bottom hinge pedals.
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And it was kind of mushing at the top.
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I still had pressure, but it was like not feeling comfortable, you know, discs in the front, drums in the rear.
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So it's a pretty decent bike.
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So reservoir is empty and you blew out some seals and there's nothing in it.
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Yeah. So it's basically, I think what happened was later, the O-ring on the master cylinder basically had failed and food was leaking to the backside.
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And so I went another block, another block, but it's starting to get the point where like the pedals, after two, three blocks, pedals on the floor.
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Nice. And you're at the top of a hill still sort of.
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So I very strategically like knowing like the topography from there to the Richmond district just drove the entire way home with just the handbrake.
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And just made it all the way through down California.
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Did you tell this to anyone in the car or you were silent? Did you stomp that whole thing?
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I told them that something wasn't working very well.
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And we need to, we should just go home.
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Something that remains nameless.
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And as I know from my youthful experiences, people love riding in an old car. They feel really safe to begin with.
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Some do, some don't.
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No, I was, I'm joking.
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Why are we in this?
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They liked the first initial experience of getting in the car.
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And then after a few blocks and the smell of the gasoline, they were like, this is sort of done.
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I don't know if you've driven around the backseat of an O2, but yeah, you're kind of camping out in there.
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So we got back all the way to my dad's house, parked there, got into my then girlfriend's 2003 Toyota Corolla and continued the rest of the tour.
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With fully functioning brakes.
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That's like a near incident scenario.
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If you had turned right, I mean, you're in first gear, you press it, going down pack heights and like nothing happened.
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I can't even imagine, dude.
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I mean, that's, that is like the bullet chase scene where he goes around the corner and the hubcaps fly off the car.
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And all of those streets are so sketchy because it's four-way stop.
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So if you blow one of the intersections, like it's like T-bone city.
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I'm very glad that ended up so well.
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Right down onto Lombard, six lanes of traffic.
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You didn't have a garage door to slow you down the rest of the way.
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Actually, this is good cautionary tale.
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I felt the brake pedal getting soft on the 9-12 and I just kind of kept driving it.
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So I was 42 years old.
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That's what he said.
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I was like, man, have you ever just done that?
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No, I've lost brakes tons of times.
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But like Randy, usually on my, I mean, I used to work on crappy old Volkswagen.
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So like, there were lots of cars that were just normal.
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I've also clutches too.
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Like there's lots of clutches.
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Because that's a slow.
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So it was like pretty flat.
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Certainly nothing like four people.
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I would be scared about stopping an O2 on those hills with fully functional brakes.
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With good brakes and four people.
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I'd have my hand on the brake.
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I loved going like from a standing start on a hill, going up just demonstrating dominance
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of just how good I could get the going.
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On a very early date, date with my wife, I was at my S2000 and I was racing back then.
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I was so cocky and we were going the opposite direction of you up to visit arrow up towards
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the top of pack heights from down in the marina.
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And I was like, God, none of these people would be able to do this in a stick.
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And I'm, you know, I'm hill starting without using the e-brake or anything, right?
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And then of course, next intersection, I stall it.
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First time I've probably ever stalled the car, right?
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That's what hubris gets you.
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With my then girlfriend, now wife.
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Was it started with watch this?
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And that car has the, you know, the push starters.
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It's kind of a whole ordeal anyway.
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Speaking of comfort, no brakes, Randy.
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I've been considering and pondering back.
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I want to apologize to you ahead of time for hot rod talk.
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I've been considering what level of hot rod you need to do a lot of driving.
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You and I were just talking about Route 66.
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How much brakes does one need to do 2000 miles in a hot rod?
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I don't care about the no AC, but like a long drive.
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I've got a lot of cars that won't do 2000 miles.
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Man, there's a lot of hot rods that are out there that you see for sale that are like
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11, five that are like 80, 800.
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And they're really pretty ratty, but they run it and drive in air quotes.
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So I mean, you could did kind of depends on your level of wanting to repair it on the fly.
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You're, I mean, how wonderful you want it to be.
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Do you want it to be a 32 Ford or do you want it to be a 29 Olds?
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You know what I mean?
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Like you can, you can scrape your way into some interesting stuff.
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Hydraulic brakes, I think are a minimum.
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I don't think I would want to do 2000 miles with cables.
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That's probably true.
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Unless you want to, that's bear cat.
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What kind of breaks do you have?
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That stuff was so good.
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Did you see that back?
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Oh, that was white glove.
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So anyway, this is not a hot rod, but did you see this car?
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We've been talking about 39 Ford coupes.
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It's got faux patina paint, which I don't love, but it's only at eight grand right now.
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Just a three-speed.
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No, but I think I'd put a Columbia rear end in it.
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I think Columbia, this has hydraulic brakes, but I think you could drive this far.
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You and I have been talking about 30 years.
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Did you call them spats?
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So that's like a Jag turn.
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That's what I called on XK 120.
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Do you call it that on an American car?
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I thought that was a generic term.
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I thought it was generic.
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Is that a U.S. term or like what British people call spats?
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What do you call a fairing or just a wheel fairing?
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No, I call it spats on a jet.
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I don't know what I would even call it on a Ford.
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What would you call it?
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I think that's probably right.
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Oh, they, I'm sure they're removable.
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Oh, they definitely are.
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Let's see what we call them.
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What did we call them in the listing?
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Skirts is the right name.
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That's what those are called.
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On like a lead sled or something.
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On an American car.
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That's the American term.
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Spats is the Brit term.
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So that's, I think that car is super cool.
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I mean, we were talking about 40 coupes.
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39 is remarkably the same.
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But you know, I love that big swan neck shifter instead of that on the tree.
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It's got that big long floor shifter, which I love.
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All of it is great.
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Favorite page of the Haynes manual was always the American English to UK English conversion.
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Is that uniform in all of them?
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Or is that specific to the type of vehicle?
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I had to boot to trunk.
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That's what you're talking about.
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And what I would imagine.
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Wings instead of vendors.
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That would be one of them, right?
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What are some other ones?
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Do you have it pulled up?
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That's a tasty customer.
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A 54 custom deluxe club coupe with a modern V8 in it.
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But a gold paint job.
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That looks pretty strong.
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I'm not opposed to that one.
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And then we just launched a 50 Merc convertible that I'm digging into.
20:55
Is that the one that has a big motor on it?
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No, but they're claiming it was in the grease movie in 78.
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But the grease movie in 78 was in the race and it was flamed.
21:05
It had flames on it.
21:05
So it's a scene making model.
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I don't know if the flames were removed.
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We don't claim it's that car.
21:09
We don't claim it's that car because it may not be that car, but it was just in the movie.
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But I'm trying to figure out which car.
21:15
Anyway, I started diving into.
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Oh, look, they took it in front of the Pixar.
21:18
The photos in front of Pixar.
21:19
Anyway, awesome car.
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Regardless of what it was in or where it was in.
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But yeah, the movie claim is interesting on that one.
21:26
I think that's worth digging into.
21:27
Anyway, these types of cars, there's stuff out there, man.
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15 to 27 grand with flatheads in them and good looking.
21:36
And you could go drive at 2000 miles.
21:38
You may need to be patient.
21:39
No, no overdrive or a banjo rear or whatever.
21:42
Just go drive it around.
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If it'll do 70, I'm fine.
21:44
The cord will do 70.
21:45
So like, you know, I grew up in FJ 60 recently that topped out at 63 miles an hour.
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So I hadn't driven a slow freeway car in a while.
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I'm trying to think of.
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Didn't you see the Cortina?
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The Cortina buzzes, but you can rip that up to 80 if you need to.
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And then you feel, I mean, it'll, you wouldn't do it for 2000 miles, but you can do it for
22:04
But I was in a car where, yeah, you couldn't, you couldn't get to 70.
22:09
And that's just a, I mean, that's like probably a lot of these cars, right?
22:12
Like you're just like, okay, this is a 55 car.
22:14
And then feeling what that's like in modern traffic is tricky.
22:17
You're like noticeably staying where I guess.
22:20
And you're breaking early.
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Well, you've, yeah.
22:23
I mean, different cars would handle that differently, but just from a power and velocity standpoint,
22:27
you're like, okay, there's a semi in the slow lane up here, like what I'm going to do.
22:31
There's a lot of like thought cycles of, okay, all these people are merging, but I'm not
22:35
fast enough to go in the number two lane.
22:37
So what am I going to do?
22:38
So anyway, that you think about that stuff, but it's all manageable.
22:41
I mean, there's most Cooke's driving around in a modern EV or whatever going 85.
22:47
And you just got to figure out how to, how to slot in here or there.
22:50
So anyway, I think it's manageable, dude.
22:52
I think you should go drive 2000 miles.
22:54
I think it's an excuse to get off the interstate one and two, there's like a, the thing that's
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appealing to me a lot right now, this is after Auburn and driving the court.
23:02
It's just that to your point, Randy, there's a mentality you sink into when you drive a
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I could use some relaxation in my life, right?
23:08
Like, you know, shift at 2000 RPM.
23:10
You're not in a hurry.
23:11
Your arms out the window, because there's no air conditioning in the cord.
23:14
When it gets hot, you crank out the front windscreens, all those little things that
23:17
are kind of dead to a modern, even somebody who drives a car from the 60s and 70s.
23:22
Like there's a, you know, you're putting your brain back in a space that people don't
23:25
have to do very often.
23:26
I had to do that a little bit in my car, McGeah, back in the day, which was real slow.
23:29
You make a good point of almost the joy of driving a car that is pre-interstate is that
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it incentivizes you to drive not on the interstate.
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Where are we going?
23:40
Where are we going from here?
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I can't stop thinking about it.
23:43
Go drive to Kotadi.
23:45
Like, where, where are you?
23:46
I mean, like, think about those, all those rallies you and I have done where it's mainly
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stays off the interstate and you could get across.
23:52
I mean, there's people who go across.
23:53
You got some dream of going and driving like, say you had a rod parked outside with a two
23:57
speed rear end and all that stuff you're talking about, like, where are you going?
24:00
I'd want to get to SoCal first, drive around SoCal, but I'd want to go like, you can drive
24:05
down the 33, right, which is parallel to the five, but it's two lane and through the
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oil wells and stuff.
24:11
You want to see pinnacles?
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Hanford, all that stuff.
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Like my dad was a deputy TA in Hanford in Kings County in the seventies.
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So do that kind of stuff.
24:20
And I was watching David Fryburger and he went and drove on the old road.
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I can't remember the name of it, but it was the highway that would have taken you from
24:26
the San Fernando Valley to El Mirage back in the day.
24:29
And a lot of the old gas stations and restaurants are still there.
24:33
Some of them are open, some of them aren't, but these old stone buildings from the
24:37
twenties with like S.O. signs out in front.
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And like, let's go get one of those.
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I know, but like, let's do that drive.
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And you can do that all the way to, probably to Arizona is what I want to do.
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Go to Kingman and all those places.
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OK, I like all of this.
24:53
39, 39 Ford would be good.
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We need some old cars to go do it.
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That has no appeal to you right back.
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That's too old for you.
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I'm sure there be enjoyable elements for it.
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What's the oldest car you've driven?
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Yeah, that's a good answer.
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Yeah, that's a good answer.
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What's your answer on that?
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A cord, cord is 36.
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It's the oldest I've driven.
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That's like two generations before me.
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Yeah, I've only driven a few fifties cars.
25:24
I mean, I drove Randy's car a little bit, but that car feels a lot more.
25:26
That car is like pretty drivable.
25:29
The Chrysler, the 300.
25:31
My dad had a 31 Lowboy Roadster.
25:34
So that's your oldest.
25:35
That's I think that's the oldest I've ever ridden.
25:37
I would love to try to drive a T, right?
25:40
Like something with non-conventional controls.
25:42
That'd be fun for sure.
25:43
I think that would be interesting.
25:45
I want to talk about site results, but I also want to hit you guys with questions of the week.
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Where should we go?
25:48
Let's hit a few site results, because there's been really good ones.
25:51
Hit like the top three crazy 904 we talked about last time.
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And I got to say it, you know, 2.375 on that car, loved that car.
25:58
Million US dollars just for the audience, so they know what 2.375 means.
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Yes, it's that crazy, crazy amount.
26:05
Beat out the 910 by a factor of two.
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My desire for a 904 is 10X, 10.
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100 percent, 100 percent.
26:15
It's my it's maybe my favorite Porsche.
26:17
It's I just love them so much.
26:19
I have no chance of fitting in one.
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So yeah, you're done.
26:24
Some of them you can pop the roof off of, right?
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Yeah, there's some open top ones.
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Magnum, Magnum PI stuff.
26:30
Yeah, that's tough.
26:31
You don't look cool when your head's sticking out of the top of the car.
26:33
I think you do, but it's crazy dangerous, though, right?
26:36
You probably would have fit in the Carrera GTE that was part of that same
26:40
collection from Cereo and Brode Scholars.
26:43
That car did almost two million.
26:46
And then the other one, I think we talked about this last time already,
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but that Tatra in Europe.
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Yeah, 302,000 euros.
26:54
Big Germany sale, our biggest.
26:58
No, no, no, we had the crazy BMW 507.
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But most expensive Tatra I've ever even heard of, probably, right?
27:06
Strong lead photo choice going with the rear look,
27:09
which is there's only a few cars out there where the rear cells.
27:12
Rear three-quarter is lead is best angle.
27:16
That's interesting.
27:17
Incredible on that.
27:18
Any other highlights, Beck, that you want to hit anything from Wycliffe?
27:21
Wycliffe has been kind of on a tear.
27:23
Well, you had speaking of hot rods.
27:24
You had maybe my favorite hot rod we've ever had,
27:26
which was a great Wycliffe result.
27:28
Roland was helping people what Wycliffe is for people who don't know.
27:31
Wycliffe is a level of service where we will handle as much as possible
27:34
that we can do internally here.
27:36
So we're going to be sending you out a photographer.
27:38
We're going to do some enhanced marketing and an individual will have
27:41
phone availability and hold your hand throughout the entire process.
27:44
But you retain the car.
27:45
There's no commission.
27:47
It's just a flat listing fee, just like everything else on BAT.
27:49
So we had a hot rod that Roland listed for a customer.
27:53
There's a Model A Wade Coop was its name that Alex almost quit his job
27:58
so that he could do the white, the white super chopped hot rod that we put on the site.
28:03
32 rails, five window body.
28:08
392 stroke to 460 cubic inches with eight Strombergs.
28:12
Rockcrusher. That was what?
28:13
That was a hundred grand car.
28:14
Hundred grand sold.
28:15
Ninety eight, five kind of a bargain, I think.
28:18
Other than that, I mean, we had a bar.
28:21
I mean, that that build is incredible.
28:24
We've had some great sort of late model heavy hitters, LFA, GT3RS for a 92
28:30
Dakar that's sold as well, but probably the ones that was most exciting.
28:34
We had a string of 300 cells.
28:36
Two Goldwings and a Roadster.
28:39
And we did two out of three of those sold.
28:41
So that was a great little run there.
28:43
That for whatever reason, I mean, 300 cells of all the 50s cars.
28:46
That's the one that is sustaining really, really well.
28:49
So I'm glad that they came through White Glove.
28:51
They saved a ton of dough by not going through a broker.
28:55
And for those listeners who don't know, Beck is in charge of our White Cliff Department too.
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That's why we're asking him to describe it.
29:04
It's been a big year for you guys.
29:07
Our sale rate is insane now.
29:08
We're going to be at 95.
29:11
95 percent of them sell.
29:12
80 percent well above average.
29:14
95 for this past month, 91 for last month.
29:18
I didn't think we were being too hard on reserves, but I don't know.
29:21
I'm thinking that we've got a little base level of sort of standard of presentation
29:26
that makes sure that the cars are our biggest goal is that honestly,
29:29
that you as a seller don't have to do a lot of work while your cars lie.
29:33
Because we get it that you're alternatively handed over with the keys to someone else.
29:36
And so we want to make sure that the presentation is as thorough as possible.
29:40
And then additionally, I think the big one is going to be advising the sellers
29:44
while their auction is live.
29:45
I think so much of the stress just comes from,
29:47
how do I respond to these questions?
29:49
And if you're just new to social media in general,
29:51
which a lot of our customers are,
29:53
having someone in-house who's done this thousands of times who can say,
29:57
let's say it this way or let's not say that could just help protect you.
30:00
I think a lot of the time.
30:01
So yeah, it's been interesting.
30:04
A lot of the numbers are up, but the main one that's really surprising is sale rate.
30:11
Couldn't agree more on what a good job you guys do coaching folks through.
30:15
That's a honest to God plug for white glove service.
30:18
One thing I want to hit before we dive into questions of the week is,
30:22
I don't know if you guys saw this,
30:23
we had a little post go up this morning because three of our top sellers just
30:26
crested the 2000 listing mark.
30:29
Did we high five them?
30:30
So Anthony Sarah, 600 Veloce, I should say,
30:33
because it's a whole team.
30:35
Shout out to Diane and everybody else.
30:36
And then also 911R, Matt Crandall, Josh, Amy.
30:39
And then also Rob Dietz, Wob.
30:41
Two of them have crested 2000 and Rob's just about to hit it.
30:44
So we put up a little post, we asked them a bunch of questions.
30:46
There's some cool stuff in there.
30:48
And we really like all three of those sellers.
30:50
And they've been around BAT for a long time.
30:52
They've been early champions of the site.
30:54
So another three people who really know how to do it.
30:56
Well, who are eating white gloves of lunch, right?
30:59
I love this emblem though.
31:02
Who made this economy?
31:05
Yeah, that is cool.
31:07
Anyway, a couple of people put some hard work into that.
31:09
Shout out to Ben, our colleague, Ben, too,
31:11
who asked all the questions and worked on that.
31:14
Folks should check it out.
31:15
All three of those folks know how to do it,
31:17
almost as well as back.
31:18
All right, you guys ready for me to hit you
31:20
with a few questions of the week?
31:21
I've got some good ones for you.
31:23
These are actually apropos of a lot of the topics
31:26
that we've been discussing here.
31:27
So let me start with this one, Randy.
31:28
We're talking about hot rods on road trips.
31:31
Favorite road trip stop.
31:33
So people are talking about wall drug
31:35
and all these kinds of places.
31:37
Easy answer for me.
31:38
The thing came up to the top of my head.
31:40
That's like where I always stop when I can.
31:43
Cochrane Road and Morgan Hill.
31:44
Those are all over the country now, man.
31:46
You have a lot more flexibility.
31:47
That used to be, oh, yeah, they're in Idaho for sure.
31:50
But I mean, my sisters used to go on this trip
31:52
to Southern California.
31:54
And that was the only place you could get it.
31:55
And they'd come back with like legend and stories
31:57
about like, I stopped it in and out.
31:59
And I was like, we're in North Carolina.
32:01
We don't have that.
32:01
And then in high school, we got it.
32:03
And now it's all over the place.
32:05
First of all, for some framing,
32:06
these questions were already asked on the website
32:08
to the entire community,
32:09
but we're circling back and hitting with our answers.
32:13
I wanted to get your guys' perspective
32:14
on questions of the week.
32:15
I kind of combed through and found some ones I like.
32:18
We've done this a couple of times in the past,
32:20
but I like to hit you guys with these things too.
32:23
You're going to jump in there.
32:24
You jump in by me some time.
32:25
I'm thinking of my favorite book.
32:26
Yeah, you need to think.
32:27
I have a vamp a little bit.
32:28
A great one that I've always enjoyed
32:30
and I kind of probably put too much on sort of a pedestal
32:33
because I was there with my dad was the Hotel Nevada
32:37
It's on Highway 15.
32:39
Which I always call Eli, but you corrected me.
32:42
Ely like completely.
32:43
That's what they say.
32:44
I've driven across country well over a dozen times
32:47
and did it once or twice with my father.
32:50
And we took the Highway 50,
32:52
which is the loneliest road in the U.S., as it's called.
32:55
And the Hotel Nevada, every room is sort of named
33:00
after a pre-Interstate era entertainer
33:04
who would have driven through Ely on their way to Vegas.
33:09
And so they would have stayed there
33:09
and probably performed there or maybe something like that.
33:11
And so a lot of them are named after all those people.
33:14
And then down in the basement is the gambling area
33:17
where there's slot machines and the lobby floor.
33:19
But all the tables are downstairs.
33:21
And when you check in at the Hotel Nevada,
33:23
this is 15 years ago.
33:24
So I don't know if that's the case.
33:25
You'd get two tokens.
33:27
One was for a free margarita.
33:28
And one was for bet one, get one free.
33:32
So if you bet a dollar, they'll match you with an extra dollar.
33:35
So my dad and I would go to the bar.
33:38
We get our free margarita,
33:39
which comes out of a slushy machine,
33:41
into a plastic cup that's about one-third the size
33:44
of what you're thinking I'm describing.
33:45
And then we walked downstairs and went to the card table.
33:48
And my dad killed it at Blackjack.
33:51
We're not like card people at all.
33:53
But he earned enough to basically pay for our rooms.
33:56
And then he continued to talk about how proud he was of himself
34:04
Man, that's a great one.
34:05
I mean, part of what excites me about that,
34:08
and this whole thing is we were just talking about Route 66.
34:10
So like, you know, stone dinosaurs, old things.
34:13
Kingman, again, has like these old saloons.
34:16
Some of them have a hotel with a few rooms above them, right?
34:19
And some of them are restored.
34:20
Some of them are pretty crusty still.
34:23
I love that kind of stuff.
34:24
Highway 50 is fantastic.
34:24
It's got a lot of twisty bits that is what I would think Route 66 looks like.
34:29
Very similar topography, but a lot of like old gas stations
34:33
with the signage out front and vintage stuff and all.
34:35
But I've never done Route 66, so someday though.
34:39
So I'm going to say I love like historic markers next to roads.
34:44
So there's a drive that I've done numerous times,
34:47
which I love, which is from Salmon, Idaho, directly north into Montana.
34:53
You can drive into Missoula that way over a big pass.
34:57
And Idaho and Montana both do like proper sized signage on the side of the road.
35:04
And it's broadside.
35:06
You can't see it if you're driving by.
35:07
You got to stop to read it because it's parallel to the pavement.
35:11
So you can't like try to read it as you zoom by.
35:13
You won't be able to read it.
35:14
And you can't see it like a billboard from miles away.
35:16
So it forces you to pull off and look at these.
35:18
And these are at big scenic view areas.
35:21
This is where Lewis and Clark floated the river.
35:25
I mean, all this like major Americana history stuff.
35:28
I love all that sort of stuff.
35:30
So anytime I get that, California has good ones.
35:32
They tend to have one on like a stone.
35:34
Oh, you're talking about like flat historical monuments.
35:37
Oh, God, I didn't want to ask.
35:39
Those are my roadside.
35:41
I'm always the dork that wants to pull over and be like,
35:44
what happened here 300 years ago?
35:46
Or whatever's going on or what's that mountain called or whatever.
35:49
So I love any rural route, particularly when it's a little bit,
35:54
like you're not going to that often pull off like interstate 80
35:58
to see one of those.
35:59
But when you're on a two lane mountain road,
36:02
like it's got something interesting to say.
36:03
And I love the big, these ones in Idaho in particular,
36:07
all over Idaho are these huge,
36:10
it must be like a four by eight sheet of plywood size, right?
36:13
And it's just got this like saga of what happens here, right?
36:17
And it's just super cool.
36:18
And it'll tell you about the river,
36:19
it'll tell you about the mountains,
36:20
or it'll tell you about the tribe that used to be there.
36:23
It'll tell you about whatever happened in that accident,
36:26
you know, like in the Avalanche of 1780.
36:30
This is where they all ate each other.
36:32
It's totally a total daughter party north.
36:35
So anyway, I love that sort of stuff and count me anywhere.
36:39
Like in Arizona, I remember driving past those
36:41
and I'm just, I'm keen to give the overheating car a break
36:46
and pull over at one of those and chill out
36:48
and pull something out of the cooler and read and check it out.
36:52
It also means you're not in a rush,
36:53
like which is another nice thing like,
36:55
so I drove across Highway 51 time
36:57
and there were those markers all the way across
36:59
and I was by myself.
37:00
No one else would indulge.
37:01
Nobody else will do it.
37:02
I stopped at everyone.
37:03
And what it turns out was it was a stagecoach route.
37:05
So this was like, there was a stage house here
37:08
and sometimes there'd be the little foundation.
37:09
It's like in 1857, everyone died, like whatever, you know?
37:13
And I loved every single one of them.
37:15
Sometimes it's like that mountain 20 miles away from here
37:18
had this mine at it.
37:20
So you're not even close to it,
37:21
but they want the driver to stop it.
37:22
You remember Elkhart Lake?
37:24
Like all the signs and the turns and the thing in town.
37:27
This saloon is where these guys sat out
37:30
and drew up the plans for road America or whatever.
37:34
So this was the old turn nine.
37:36
Like that's my favorite stuff on any,
37:38
like tripping across that sense is really cool.
37:40
My dad, when I was a kid, had a book
37:42
that had every California historical monument marker
37:47
This was from the 80s.
37:48
And there are thousands of them.
37:49
And some of them are remote, but a lot of them weren't.
37:52
And we used to carry that because we were in the car a lot
37:54
and we'd try to stop at ones that were interesting,
37:56
train stuff and anything that was interesting.
37:59
I always loved how a lot of those rural towns
38:01
also would have the initials for the town
38:04
in like white stone on a mountain in the background.
38:08
Like the high school kids put up.
38:10
Like some sort of like town project at some point.
38:13
And that you can see from far away.
38:15
And it's like nowhere even near the town
38:16
because it has to be that far away.
38:18
That's also the western version of that
38:20
because that'd be on a water tower anywhere.
38:23
In the mountains, you scribe it in the stone in Utah and west.
38:28
It is the natural version of the water.
38:30
It's a water tower.
38:30
You don't need a water tower, but you've got your reservoir
38:32
higher than your town.
38:34
But in Indiana, you can't do that.
38:37
That was always something novel about traveling to Texas
38:39
and stuff is seeing water towers.
38:41
We never have water towers out here.
38:42
So seeing that is always fun.
38:44
I would actually love, Randy, we were talking about
38:46
I would love to travel more around the Midwest too
38:49
because I love the little town with one little block
38:52
of Main Street, a water tower, one little diner,
38:56
Those are some of my favorite towns.
38:58
The American version of the little rolling countryside
39:01
French town with one chapel.
39:03
That's out here too, dude.
39:04
That's out here too.
39:04
I mean, that's all over the place.
39:05
You just got to go look.
39:06
I mean, there's none of those in the Bay Area.
39:08
There's, I mean, or LA basin, but it all used to be that.
39:13
Yeah, that's right.
39:14
So you can go hunting for it a little bit.
39:16
We talked about brake disasters.
39:19
So here's another appropriate one.
39:20
I have a good one for this one.
39:22
Best oil change disaster story.
39:24
Have you guys ever had an oil change disaster?
39:26
I saw this question on the site and had to think a little bit.
39:30
Oil change disaster.
39:31
So I am a merit badge instructor for automotive maintenance
39:37
And so I would have my scouts,
39:39
like the oldest ones who wanted to do it,
39:41
they could sign up for it.
39:42
They'd come into my house and we would do basically a full day.
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So the first half of the day is just instruction.
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Later half the day, we learned how to jack up the car,
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take off the wheels, and they'd change my oil.
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And it was a great process.
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There was definitely a, we had a father who,
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he might actually be listening right now.
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He volunteered his mini Cooper that he had just bought.
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And I think as we lifted up,
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we realized there was a decent amount of rust on the other side
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that he may not have known about.
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So that was sort of like a discovery as part of that oil change.
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But it was always super fun and interesting.
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And I think the best part was these,
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you know, city kids who they would always bring up the car
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that they had driven their end and be,
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and ask like, can you point out the things
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that you've been talking about on this car?
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And it would be like a Camry hybrid.
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I'm like, I don't know where these things are.
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So it was always tough.
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Like we couldn't always relate it to what was really sort of
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meaningful to them in their day to day,
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but they just loved learning about the stuff.
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So I think doing oil changes on 9-11s
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is also kind of always a little bit of a stressor.
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Filling them up and then also the gauge.
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And is it hot or is it cold?
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Or how do you measure it?
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Oh man, I didn't like that.
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And where you take the oil filter off,
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there's a little shelf and it's just going to spew down.
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I did one of those.
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What a terrible design.
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Another tough one with that is you realize halfway through,
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it's pouring out that your container is nowhere near large enough
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for the amount of oil it's coming out.
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Oh yeah, there's so much oil.
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So yeah, that as well.
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I don't know if I have a good, yours is going to be great.
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I was going to say, I mean, I think overfilling,
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Like losing track and overfilling and being like,
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oh, now I got to dump all this good oil out.
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There's no way to get it out.
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I think that was probably about as bad as it's got to be.
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The beautiful amber colored oil.
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Okay, so mine's related to that.
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I was a young mechanic.
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I was probably 19 or 20.
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And I'm pretty sure,
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I was trying to rack my brain about the car.
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I'm pretty sure it was an E24 635.
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But it was, if you've ever done an oil change on an M30,
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that's why I'm pretty sure they're in a canister.
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So it's an oil canister that fits inside a big metal can.
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And a big long cartridge filter, and there's a big long bolt
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that runs through the middle of the whole thing to hold it on.
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And getting that thing in all the way.
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It's just a terrible design, right?
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And I was a young enough mechanic and I had put it all back together
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and I lubed up the ring.
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You have to replace the ring on the canister.
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And I poured all the new oil in.
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And I was starting it still up on the rack to get it running.
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And I had somehow cross-threaded the canister wasn't seated.
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And so my boss comes running out of his office,
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what are you doing?
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And I look underneath and all the brand new amber oil.
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And if you've ever spilled a fluid,
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it looks like way more when it's on them.
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Those cars take five or six quarts.
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It was all on them.
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Luckily, I didn't grenade the motor or anything.
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He'll never work in this garage again.
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Because you know, you started out and you run it for like 30 seconds
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and then you check it, right?
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To give it a little bit of heat.
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That's like, I was going through all the procedures
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I'd been taught in auto shop.
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Not realizing the car was pumping all the oil out
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onto the floor underneath.
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Because I don't know, you don't instinctively look at that.
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And nowadays, it's more complicated
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because there's things underneath the car.
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You always have to take off the tray
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before you can get to the thing.
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But anyway, pretty horrifying.
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I can still remember.
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I can still see it all in my head.
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Had you sop all that up?
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Was that like 80 rolls of brawny?
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Or was that like kitty litter?
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We didn't use kitty litter.
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So yeah, I probably use paper towels.
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Mainly the main thing we use were those blue shop rats.
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Mission linen would bring in a new, you know,
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100,000 of them every week.
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So probably stopping up with those forever.
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And then you feel so bad, you know,
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because it was 30 bucks of oil.
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But that was a lot when I was a 19 year old.
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You got to put another 30 bucks worth of oil
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and do it all again.
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Anyway, I never made that mistake again.
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Little Castro GTX on the floor.
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We had the big, huge distribution machine
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Put that in a lot of 3.2, 9-11s, man.
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That stuff's not cheap anymore.
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That was cheap back then.
43:39
Let me hit you guys with one more
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because there was a good one that I was saving.
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It's the most recent one and it's really good.
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What is the car that is better with an automatic?
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I actually had a really hard time with this one.
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I didn't read the answers.
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I wish I had because I'd have something good for you.
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I came up with a couple of good ones.
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What if it doesn't even offer a manual?
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That's disqualified.
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It has to be offered with both and you choose auto?
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No, I think because a lot of people are like,
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oh, manual swap that.
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That's the only thing wrong with it, right?
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Sorry, I did a voice there.
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The one that after I thought about it for a long time
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and it again goes back to my mechanic days,
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I think the 928 is better with an automatic.
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It's a big Mercedes.
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I know that's controversial,
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but it's like a big Mercedes-esque car
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and you don't actually really want to shift with that car.
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Who makes the auto in a 928 auto?
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Is that like a German, like a ZF?
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I'm sure it's a ZF product.
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They're not psychopaths like the Ferrari 412
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and put a GM automatic.
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No, I don't think so.
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Although the early ones are a three-speed,
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the Ferraris had a GM.
44:41
It was a freaking turbo hydro, wasn't it?
44:44
I'm almost positive.
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But like big cruiser cars like that are what I think of, right?
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Probably again, a lot of people would tell me I'm crazy,
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but like, does the 500E really need the 124-500E of six-speed?
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Do they even have it?
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You'd have to swap it.
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Yeah, I'm not swapping that.
45:02
Trying to think of something offered with a stick,
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but you'd rather take the auto.
45:05
Would you want your 300B with that weird French manual transmission?
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Yeah, but that's, man, that's a pretty deep cut.
45:15
I mean, a push-button auto is incredible.
45:18
It's not half the reason you buy the car, but...
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This push-button is so cool.
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Man, I'm flailing a little bit.
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I'm going to pull up the story on the site
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and see what everybody else said.
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There's good answers in there.
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Bex, did anything come to your mind off the top of your head?
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Because both of you guys are like me,
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like I daily drive a manual transmission.
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I love driving a manual transmission,
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but I also don't want to be one of those guys who's like...
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That's the only possible solution.
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I mean, I'm like big trucks.
45:43
Like I'm good with auto at this point, right?
45:46
And I love swapping V8s into FJ60s,
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and I did that with a stick.
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And nowadays, I'd actually probably do an auto.
45:51
Oh, that's interesting.
45:54
So like truck stuff, I'm totally good with auto.
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So that's basically what I was going to play off of.
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I can't think of a certain model
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where the auto is somehow intrinsically better than...
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I mean, actually, I kind of like driving Sport-o-S.
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In general, anything that you're going to like drive
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up to the mountains can be so much better with an automatic,
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only because inevitably you will be stuck in traffic.
46:21
And I have been in my XTERRA, which is an automatic,
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behind my buddy who was in his WRX STI, which was a manual.
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And we got stuck into like two hours of traffic
46:31
trying to get to Tahoe.
46:32
And when we finally got to our destination, he couldn't walk.
46:35
Like he was genuinely limping and was like struggling.
46:40
I was perfectly comfortable and enjoying myself.
46:42
So that's one of those where...
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Did that have to do with his coilovers and his full race buckets?
46:48
Or did that have to do with his clutch pedal?
46:50
It was only his left leg that was struggling.
46:54
I can't think of the exact model.
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That would be the differentiator there.
46:58
But I have heard that some people do love the Sport-o-matic.
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I've had people try to convince me.
47:02
It's kind of hard to drive.
47:03
But you still have to shift that one.
47:05
That's what's interesting about that one.
47:06
Automatic stick shift.
47:07
Yeah, auto stick is the Volkswagen version,
47:09
which is a three-speed.
47:10
It's a four-speed in the Porsche.
47:11
I've had people try to argue over the phone.
47:13
My guillo is an auto stick originally.
47:14
Their reserve should be higher because it's Sport-o-matic.
47:17
So we've heard arguments like that before.
47:20
So one of the things, Randy,
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a lot of people kind of agreed with you in the post bench seat.
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Although you could have a three on the tree and still have a bench seat,
47:27
but a lot of people were like,
47:28
one of the nice things about automatic is you get a nice big bench.
47:31
You can slide all the way across.
47:33
Somebody mentioned first generation Broncos,
47:35
like trucks in general.
47:37
One of the funny ones was U-Haul.
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Like you don't want to shift your U-Haul truck.
47:42
And then Beck, a lot of the discussion turned towards,
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what about all these modern, really good automatics,
47:47
like PDKs and stuff where people would say they're better?
47:50
Well, that's why the GT3 RSs are always just PDK
47:54
because they want the latest technology.
47:56
That's what they're arguing,
47:57
is that it's faster and better on the track anyway.
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Anyway, I thought that was an interesting thought experiment.
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It gets people thinking.
48:04
I was thinking and struggling a little bit.
48:06
There's a few interesting options out there.
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Well, thanks for doing that.
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Any other parting shots at the end here?
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I'm just surfing the BAT app.
48:17
You're not mapping Route 66 right now?
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I will be doing that later.
48:20
I heard a rumor it's 100-year anniversary of Route 66 next year.
48:25
Wondering which town we need to go have a little
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brusky in along the route.
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Somewhere with a screen door on the front of it.
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Slamming shut in the dust.
48:36
You want it to creak when it opens, all that.
48:38
Somebody to walk in with spurs on or what are you talking about?
48:41
How western are we going?
48:42
There's one gal in the back grilled up burgers.
48:44
The AT Alumni Rally that ends at one of those towns?
48:48
Hey, dude, if you have ideas for that, I want to hear them.
48:50
Only cars older than 1965.
48:53
A cable print sounds pretty interesting.
48:57
No, no, no, no, no.
48:58
But you mentioned, was that serious where you said Howard Zedd,
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the drum brake only rally?
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He didn't do it, I don't think.
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But I think he may have aspired to do it.
49:08
Or maybe he did it.
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Because what do you, I mean, you can easily do that with a year, right?
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I mean, when were the first?
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Was Porsche the first?
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No, they were late.
49:19
Who was first disc brakes?
49:22
Jack was first disc brakes.
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But not till the E-Type, like 61?
49:27
Late, late, late, because they had them on C-Type.
49:29
So the late 150s had them.
49:30
So you just, all you do is cut it off at 1940 or something.
49:33
And it's automatically a drum brake rally.
49:35
I mean, 356s are drums all the way to 63.
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And I mean, you're Chrysler's drums.
49:41
I mean, there's like a lot of interesting cars.
49:43
You can drive cool cars back then.
49:46
Willwood, the logo for the event is a Willwood with like a slash through it.
49:51
No upgrade allowed.
49:52
Could you get a drum brake 289 Mustang four speed or did that all the 289?
49:57
Of course, any non-GT.
49:59
Any only disc brakes were a GT option.
50:02
So that's interesting.
50:02
Any non-GT 65 Mustang.
50:05
It was like a big deal that the Shelby's had the GT brakes, right?
50:08
Because that was like brand new.
50:10
But I mean, dude, a 64-Vet is four-wheel drum.
50:17
So drum brake rally is a very good time.
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That's a great name too.
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I have been thinking about it ever since Randy said that it's sick.
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Thanks for doing this.
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And thanks to all of you for listening.
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Please feel free, as always, to send feedback to podcast at bringitrailer.com.
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And we will catch you next time.