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and you just scroll and scroll and scroll. There's so much stuff. Brake calipers,
my man, tons of seats. Wow. Trans axles, complete engines, or at least almost complete engines.
Short blocks, long blocks, yeah. Yeah, glass. So there's a lot of stuff here. If you're just
a Porsche fan and you've got cars that you're either restoring or whatever, or if you're a shop
and you work on cars, this is funny. So we're looking at this 911 door handles and he's got
six of these spare door handles from original cars. Adam Corolla has a, I think it's a 67 Lamborghini
400 GT and it was taken apart years ago before they were worth anything and sat in a shop and
the shop never did anything on it. So we went a decade later and were like, we want everything back,
put it in a big trailer and we're going to bring it all back. And we did that. And by time, Adam
and one of his guys started picking through all of the parts, we realized stuff walked away.
Oh man. So we have a Lamborghini with no door handles. Oh gosh. And it's not like you can get,
you can't buy them. Oh sure. And here's the problem is if we had one door handle, I can scan it,
have it like a 3D print made, flipped, see if that'll work and then maybe have one made,
you know, just maybe have one machined or something like that. There's no door handles on it and we
don't have another one of those Lamborghinis anymore. If anybody has a Lamborghini 400 GT,
maybe even a 350 GT, but probably a 400 GT, if you have one or working on one or anything like that,
I'd love to borrow a door handle or at least a 3D file. You know, you got to take it off to get the
3D file because there's an arm on the inside and it's a 2D file. Yeah. If somebody has a 3D file,
that'd be great. If you don't, I'd love to borrow a door handle so I can scan it and send it back
to you. Well, if you're going to borrow one, borrow both of them and get a 3D model of both of them.
You don't have to flip anything because there's a pin on the other one that's not on the, you know,
you never know. It's Lamborghini. Maybe the right one's longer.
You're right. They may not be the same. You know what might happen? It's like one of them might
have like a door lock in it and the other one doesn't have a door lock in it. Exactly. Yeah.
But if you send me pictures of both and we know for sure because I have to go back and look, but
I'm sure there's plenty of options where I could see the pictures. But I don't recall them being
different. If there's any door lock, I think it was like separate in the door. But
and if you scan them and like flipped it, I think you can get it to work.
But a buddy of mine that's done 3D scanning and printing, I did it on my 95 Ford Lightning. We
know we did the side mirrors. We did door handles. We did a few pieces on it. Then we machined them
out of Billet and Sarah coated them. So I got all that done and it's really, really nice.
But he 3D printed, right? It was like, let's keep it less expensive. We'll do a 3D print
out of plastic. We'll put like whatever mechanism on that. When we did our door handle on the Ford,
it has like the push button and it had like a mechanism on the backside. So we were able to
transfer some of that over, but then we made our own button so it has a nice because on my truck,
it's a cast, just like a crappy like pop metal, rough feeling door handle, but with a plastic
button for your thumb. Right. And so we made a nice billet piece with a billet button that has
like a groove your thumb and it feels much nicer in your hand. The action is much smoother. And to
make that button slide in and out of the door handle into the door smooth. He 3D printed like
a sleeve that it slides through on the back end. So it doesn't wobble around anymore like the factory
one did. So it's really, really nice. You look at it and go, yeah, it doesn't look that much different
until you see them side by side. And then when you put your hand on it, you're like, oh man,
this feels so much nicer. The other one was like had a hard edge on the inside and it was like kind
of digs in your fingers. It's like a sharp edge. You know, you don't realize how important this
stuff is. Right. I mean, like, I think, I think these younger generations now are totally into
and and exploit the experience. Right. Like, like we just grew up and it just was what it was. But
now they're like, oh, have you ever stacked, you know, 14 egg shells and cracked them between your
hands? You know, have you ever, you know, oh, peeling the foam or peeling the, the clear, the
clear thing off your screen. You know, it's like, it's a whole process now. Right. Yeah. So I think
I think we're appreciating all these tactile things. And speaking of which yesterday, I brought
dad's 400 I Ferrari back to the warehouse and picked up his, his, his, his, his boxer, his BB
512 is 512 BBI. And, and, and the 400 has these two fan switches at the top of the center dash.
And even my Ferrari guys, like, I don't remember what those are for. You know, they have a fan
mark. I'm like, it's not the inside fans, because that's this knob. And so we're flicking the fan
switches. And I'm thinking, well, maybe they're, they're auxiliary fans in the front, but we don't
hear a fan come on. Can't figure it out. I got to just look at the manual, but I didn't. But my
point being is that the fan switch, they're these little paddle switches, right? And they have a,
just a, I think it's a two phase or three phase for off. So, so one, two, three. And,
and they just have the best feeling. Like, like, they're so smooth, like they're beautifully
greased. Yeah, really, really good tolerance in there. But, but they have a slide and a click.
And they're, but they're just buttery smooth. And I had my friends in the car with me, because I
needed another set of eyes for the boxer, because I don't want to catch on fire. He never know a
fuel line. And, and so I had an extra eyes with me and, and he restores airplanes and stuff.
And I said, check out the way these switches feel. And he clicked them back and forth. He goes,
yeah, that's, that's a nice switch. You know, it's like, it's like, it's like, you find the right
touch and tactile feel of something. And it has become exciting. You know what I mean? It's,
it's like, it's like, I got to say the 80s, Ferraris, at least dads, the 400 and the 512,
both have beautiful switches and knobs and, and, and, and the equipment on the steering column,
you know, like when you turn on the headlights, it doesn't, it doesn't just flap all over the place,
like a lot of cars do now. It's not chunky. It's just a thin, hard and steel stem. I mean,
they're hard. Like, like there's something to them when you grab them, they don't move
other than intentionally rotating or lifting up. But there's a level of precision that was in
those instruments that was really, really cool. And I got to say everything, yeah, everything there
feels very intentional and very tactile. And okay, it, it squeaks a little bit when you touch it.
Like if you touch the gauge cluster, it'll, it'll creak a little bit because it's, you know,
it's sleeved in leather. There's just leather oozing out of every orifice. But, um, yeah, it's,
it's just, I really enjoy those cars for their tactile feel. Of course, the gated, the gated
shifter, I mean, third gear, it squeezes and anyone who's driven something like this and
understands what I'm saying right now, it squeezes into third. It's like, first is, is a slam towards
you. Second is straight up the middle. And then you pull it down into third and you feel it squeeze
through and then engage on the edge of that gate. Man. I didn't know the shifter was like kind of in
this little pod. Yeah. Oh, it's perfect. Yeah. It's not, you just drop down and it's right there.
Yeah. The shifter, we're looking at the interior of the, of the Ferrari 512, like a BBI. And the,
the shifter isn't like in the center console. It's like attached to the side of the center console.
It's in between the seat and the center console. So, so it's right at the edge. It's right at the
edge of your, of your hip. I mean, it's almost like you're, you're drawing, you know, you're drawing
from the hip. Um, yeah, you just, you just drop off the steering wheel and you know, those steering
wheels have an angle to them. I don't know what that angle is, what's it, 30 degrees or something.
It's kind of a strange angle. So I tend to drive that car a little bit from the bottom of the
steering wheel. Yeah. So, so it's almost like just a flick of the hand. Yeah, you can see that here.
Actually, it's quite an extreme angle. Yeah, it is. It's not a 45 though. I'm curious what angle
that is if anybody knows. Um, but, uh, yeah, it's an interesting angle, but, but you, because you're,
because you're driving with your thumbs up and you want, that's definitely a steering wheel
that you want thumbs up, thumbs out. You don't want to curl your thumbs in there. That thing
will whip around on you. But, uh, you know, thumbs up and you just kind of flick your,
your fingers down and it guides your hand right to that shifter. But yeah, but that third gear
squeeze, it's like, it's literally if you pull, it's a squeeze and then an engagement and it's
just, oh man, it's orgasmic. It's just awesome. That's a cool car. It really is. Looking at it
again. So I just met up with a friend of mine a little while ago and he just recently bought
one of these and, uh, he, he, he lost a bunch of cars in the Palisades fire and he's been
slowly getting some new cars. Um, not necessarily the same ones, but, but he's been getting some
new cars and he got a 512. Oh, good for him. And he bought a Porsche 930. Oh, wow. Okay. Right.
Which is cool. Do you tear out the cars? Yeah. But now that I'm, I'm looking at this, like, this
is a, this is a funky, cool car. It's, it's underappreciated. Oh my God. I still think a really
undervalued car. I think so too. It's, it's, it's kind of grossly undervalued. I mean,
but I get it. I do get it. It's, it's a different experience. Like I would love to drive a Testerosa,
although a Testerosa might have some of the same mannerisms, but I would love to drive maybe a 550
or something, you know, that's a traditional front engine, 12 Colombo motor, right in the 550.
Um, in comparison to this, because this really does have a different balance. It has a different
handling. Um, the feedback through the steering wheel, because you don't have the weight over
the axle. Um, you know, it has a very different performance to it. And, uh, it's, it's, I think
it's a little more, it's brighter. It's a little more abrupt. It's a little brighter. Um, it, it,
I don't know, the rear squats hard, you know, and, and it's, well, when you, when you accelerate,
because you got the weight in the back, you know, it's just, it's just a different car,
but it feels, it feels like a weapon and it feels like your feet are laying over the front
axle. You just feel, you feel in and on the car rather than behind the hood. Like you do in a
lot of Ferraris. It's just, it's just cool. It's, it's undervalued. If you look at a 308,
it's 100 grand, right? Give or take. And then a 328, a little bit more, right? A little more
refined, 100 to 200 grand. And then these 512s are what? They're 200 to 400, maybe?
Yeah. Maybe, maybe around five. Yeah. Yeah. But they, they, they seem to be fluctuating
right? Okay. But then the 288 GTO jumps to what is now four million, five million dollars. It was
two and a half million for the longest time, but now they're five million. I don't get it.
Why isn't the 512 a million bucks, right? Like how come it isn't in the middle of a, you know,
somewhere between 328 and, and it's not closing the gap on the 288 GTO when this is a 12 cylinder
car, right? Yeah. Well, it's a flat 12. So it's a flat 12 rather than a V12. It is a very different
configuration. I know, but it's badass because when you look at it from the back, it's huge.
It really is. It's just big. Yeah. And when you open that clamshell and you see that,
that big old V12 back there, and it's just set in there beautifully. You got the,
would be a transaxle in that, right? So you got a transaxle in the back,
and then you got the exhaust just coming off the side, all shortened right out the back. I mean,
it's, it's, it's cool, man. But, but servicing is, is pretty ambitious. So that's a,
last night when, when, when I spoke to the guys, we have to have it serviced. It's in need of a
belt service. So we're getting that done, providing dad's okay with the estimate. But it's, it's an
engine out service just for a belt exchange. And because it's a flat belt, it's not just an oval
loop. It's, it's more of a, you know, right angle. And it's a lot of work. I think they can do a
partial engine out. He kept saying partial. But for the most part, it's, you're undoing everything
and pretty much taking the engine out. It's easier if you just take the engine out all together.
So, so we're going to check the water pump there because it's in, it's in the front location and,
and, and, and, well, I don't mean we, they, and the, you know, the fuel lines and just make sure
everything is where it should be. There was a fuel line conversion done a while back where you
use stainless lines and they braze them together. And that's not the way to do it. And something
that's, you know, concealed heat and close proximity to the headers and, you know, all that
stuff has a point of failure in that brazing. Anyway, so, so I want to make sure this stuff
is safe for dad. If he doesn't mind me spending a little of his well earned dollars for his own
safety. It's much appreciated. I mean, I bought the cars in his, in his collection. Right. So
you brought up a good point. So your dad's still busy as, as can be and doesn't have time to give
all the cars as much as, as attention as they require. You've sort of taken on that role since
you've moved out of Tahoe closer to most of the cars. But your dad needs to sort of pick and
choose and go, well, which cars are more important to me? Which ones are worth, you know, more than
just elbow grease? Like which ones require a bunch of money invested into them? And of all the cars
in the collection, his 512 is arguably the most special to him as a family, right? That is the
one that, you know, it may not be the most valuable car in the collection, but that's the one you'd
want in your living room spinning on a, you know, on a rotisserie going around in circles or not the
rotisserie, but spinning on like a display going, this is the car, right? This is, you know, everything
around us, you know, my career is largely based on the success of this song and this car. So it's
very much so. It's the one that you walk by that car and go, thank you, buddy. Thank you. Well,
I think not only does, does, does what you see publicly, you know, reinforce that, but the car
has 67,000 miles on it. I mean, dad drove that car and continues to drive that car. You know,
he can still get in and out of it. The clutch is pretty forgiving. It's a forgiving vehicle to use,
because he's, he'll be 79 this year, and he's very fit. So it's something he can continue to
drive. But the Daytona, which is, which is my personal favorite in there. I love the 512,
but that Daytona excites me. It really does. And that thing's got a heavy clutch and no
power steering. It's hard to steer. It's hard to drive. It's very demanding. It's got that mile-long
hood. You sit low in the car, so the hood is at your chest. And it's, it's, it's, it's a hard car
to drive. It really is. You have to be very attentive and patient. But, you know, like that
car, he can't drive as easily and it doesn't hold the same experience for him. You know, so a car
like that, you know, of course, I'm more interested in keeping that one as prime as all the others.
But, but that, that car has been, been driven less and less over the years. And, and so it's
taken a bit more work, expensive work, to get it to, to, to a place where it's safe to drive.
And that's kind of how everything is in the collection. Some of those, he let me replace
the tires on the 400 and they were cracked and dry and old because he doesn't think that way.
He doesn't think like you and I where, oh, you got to have all these tools and you got to have
all these cleaning products and you got to have the right cover and you got to have, you know,
everything serviced and all these tires are already three years old. We got to replace them
because you need to, you need the freshest tires and he doesn't think like that at all. He's, he's,
he's very conservative. He's, he's driving to the ground until it needs something and then fix it
as it needs to be fixed. He doesn't, I mean, I'm sure he does preventative maintenance. I'm not
going to speak for him on that, but, but it's like, you know, to, he's like, I don't, I don't,
we don't need to put tires in that right now because I'm not driving it. It's like, yeah,
but when you want to drive it, you will have to get tires and they're not easy to get, you know,
that those TX tires are, I want to say TRX, I'm all screwed up now, but, but those tires that
I'm told Michelin only makes them in batches and, and they're hard to get and they're very expensive
and they're really weird sizes. And so when you kind of have an opportunity to get them,
when they're kind of fresh and not back inventory, you know, you should. So I finally,
I finally sent him enough pictures that he went, okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, at least they're not super expensive compared to, you know, like when you're going,
Hey dad, we need tires on this car. We need engine out service on this car.
Let's do the tires this month. Maybe we'll do something later on.
I'm one of those people that like to just hit it, just hit one after the other,
just get them all up to par so that they're all ready. That's my goal. And he's like,
nah, nah, nah, slow down kiddo. Yeah. So, so at this place, I heard about some of the most
expensive tires I've heard of, which is on the Lamborghini LM002.
The truck. Yeah. The crazy SUV. He said to a tune of about 40 grand
for four tires. I've never heard of that. But does he have one of those?
No, dad doesn't, but there's one at the shop. Oh, okay. And when we were talking about tire
costs, he's like, oh, they get more than that. This is about the, the peak to the peak of what we
can do here. It seems like you could hire a company to make a tire for less money than that.
But that's what they are. I guess they're specially made because it's heavy and because it has certain
performance standards and weight standards and all these things. It's a very unique specialized
tire. I'm sure we're going to hear from some people, but that, that's just what I was told folks.
But it's, yeah, yeah. You know, I know on, on some of the race cars,
it, you know, when, when Adam started going out to Monterey, we were bringing cars out there,
you know, 15 plus years ago. If I remember correctly, it was a little bit more like it has
to be authentic and it has to be this. And, and now to get those cars out there and to run them
and to be safe with them, the rules of kind of, I don't know, maybe they just kind of softened
up a little bit, you know, because, you know, like taking the Porsche 935s out there, those guys
run hard. Bruce Kenapa and those guys, they won those things hard. And, you know, obviously not
running the original wheels, but even the original tire size and wheel size, that's,
that's gone. That's how you can't even get those tires really, you know, you can't get them.
So, and, and if you go to Kenapa, he's like, no, this is what we're running. Everybody's running
these. We're all running these 18s or whatever. We're not doing the staggered wheels. Like this
is what we're running. And that's just the way it is. And it's just become the acceptable solution
because you can't get the tires. Yeah. That's the problem with, with these old Ferraris,
there's a similar thing too, where I've had a couple people say, well, why don't you do these
tight wheels? Because they look almost the same. They're almost identical,
but they're this size and you can put a standard, you know, sport cup two
on there or you can put whatever you want on there and, and they're going to handle better.
They're going to feel better. They're going to drive better, you know, and, and I kind of started
to bring it up and he, he took a phone call or something. It just wasn't, it wasn't interested.
You know, but that's the way I think a lot of us think now. It's like, it's okay. You don't have
to be an absolute purist because you can still give the impression, but, but the drivability
and the safety and, and just the wear and tear availability, all that stuff counts these days.
And I would much rather put a contemporary set of wheels on there that has a better fitment,
looks very much like the originals, but maybe they look better because they just fill it out
a little better. But, but it's still a nod to, to, to the old styling, but it's a better compound.
It's a better rubber. It's a better tire. It's better performing. It's smoother. It's quieter.
Some of those old tires suck. They really do. They just, I mean, sure you're getting the,
the authentic vintage experience, but the way our roads are made is to changed and everything
about it has changed. And I don't know. I'd much rather have it be better driving than nostalgic.
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Okay. So a question about the, the 512, the, I can't drive 55 car. I don't know if this has
ever even come up with, in like, I, I know your dad has had some thoughts on to, with like,
just businesses and in things like that, like, you know, what would he sell? What would he keep in
the family and, you know, so the family's taken care of things like that. Would your dad ever
sell the 512? And you know what? I have no idea. Dad, dad, I would like to say
from my observation that dad is very financially driven.
Right. So in my head, I'm going, all right. So maybe in his lifetime, does he go,
let's take this thing to, to, to car week or something or, you know, or to even to Barrett
Jackson and go, we're going to, we're going to change the game on, on 512s. This car is going
to go for a million dollars. So would he take a million dollars for it? You know, maybe he already
thinks it's worth the million dollars because it's, it's his car. It's a special car, but listen,
I don't, I don't disagree with him. If these cars are trading a four or 500,000, he's got the most
famous 512 in the world. You know, people only, he's not proven wrong very often, right?
Listen, he hasn't gotten to where he is because of making a bunch of really bad financial
businesses. Exactly. He's usually pretty right when it comes to that kind of stuff, right? So
I don't disagree. I think it's easily a million dollar car. Yeah. But I don't know,
maybe he's just like, this car needs to stay in the family or this car needs to
have some sort of guarantee. Like it needs to be put into a museum and there's a proper contract
and donation going on and this car never gets sold off. And it's a part of a museum. And if a
museum ever goes bankrupt, it's somehow resort, it goes back to the family or something, something
along the lines of that. I don't know that he's thought that far ahead. You know, obviously
at his age, he's, he's taking a lot of steps to secure the estate and his legacy and things. But
we really haven't discussed it much. Dad doesn't like to talk about it. And he sure as hell doesn't
want to talk about his business or how he conducts it or any trusts or anything that he has in place.
I haven't a clue. I mean, literally, I haven't a clue. None of us do. He's very private with
that. And I've always grown up with him saying, you know, what's mine is mine. It's not yours.
You're not entitled to it. You know, I've earned it. It's my right. It's not yours. So don't even
put your head anywhere near that. And it's really true. And he was cruel about it in a couple
instances where he was misinformed and I was driving some things because I was asked to and
he was misinformed. So he got upset about it. But, but I learned very quickly, you know, I don't
take liberties with those cars, even though it's quote unquote my, my, my job, my task right now
look after them. I exercise them very conservatively. I don't, I don't rev them out. I don't run them hard.
I have a, I have two different loops I take that are relatively short enough to
calculatedly get the fluids all up to temperature and get everything warmed up. If it needs fuel,
I have this stop if I need to exercise it a little further because the tires are flat spot a little
bit. I go to this next section and basically having 37 right there, which is a long straight away
road that goes to the racetrack. My extension at its furthest point on an exercise is the racetrack
because I can, I can put race fuel in the car, top it off with some something that's going to sit,
you know, well, and then drive it back. I'll take it to my shop if I'm going to do a full
detail or take it to servicing, which is really close to my shop. It's five minutes away.
So it's easier to take it there, stage it because they work in the evenings. So then we can meet
in the evening right before dark or just to dusk and, and, and I can take the car in.
And I've done that a couple of times, which I just did. But other than that, they're not my cars,
and I take care of them as dad's property. And what he does with them is really, is really him,
you know, once in a while, he gets a little, a little amber and he, and he goes, you know,
big flame comes up and he goes, I want to sell this and we'll make some efforts and either it
does or it doesn't like the LaFerrari and he sold the Jaguar X key to the same gentleman that bought
the LaFerrari because he wanted a kind of a pair. He had mentioned the 512, but not in a serious way,
just knowing its value, but because they're so undervalued. He wanted to sell one of his other
cars recently. And they're so undervalued, they're, they're worthless. And, but he was having a lot
of trouble with it and it just left him stranded that one extra time, which was the vanquish.
And, and so he was thinking maybe getting rid of it, but they're, they're not worth anything.
And he was really disappointed. So it's not worth it for him. So he's very financially driven.
I don't know what I might end up with when he's gone. I don't want to think about it, but
as far as I know, nothing. So it may all get sold. He may sell it all, but I think as he's
able to drive something less or he doesn't have an interest in driving it anymore,
that's probably on the chopping block. How many cars do you think are in the collection?
You know, I haven't counted yet. 15, 18 to something, something around there. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Because I mean, every car, every car that he has is a special car and kind of has a story
or at least they had a moment during, during his life. It's a little, it's a little different
than the collecting for collecting sake. Yeah. He doesn't collect cars. He, he buys things that he,
he really likes. He's really after, he wants the experience and he holds onto them.
One of the only cars I saw come and go quickly, Lotus Elise, which he just, he got, he got hot
form one day and I found him a good one and, and it just sat. He drove it once or twice, you know.
But he had a little, a little smart car. I mean, why would someone like him buy a smart car?
He bought a smart car. He stuck a chicken foot sticker on it and did a bunch of silly stuff
in the chicken foot days and sold that car with some pretty good miles on it. He drove it up and
down the mountain and then he got a little Fiat 500 to Barth beat that thing to the ground, man,
just, you know, drove the crap out of it because he just wanted something small to run up and down
the mountain down to the studio and back. And yeah, so you just, you never know, but he keeps
stuff for a long time. Most everything he has in there is something that he was passionate about
and he's held onto. The Cobra is kind of newer because he had one when I was in high school.
He sold it because it was undrivable. It was 289 with a Paxton Blower from the factory. It's just,
he used to pick me up at the airport. I probably told the story before, but insane car, loved it,
never got to drive it myself because I was too young. And, and, and he's kind of been after it
off and on for years and he finally committed and we had Shelby make him one, you know, but
much like his old one, but nice and drivable and he loves that thing. So sometimes he revisits an idea
and, and it's really fun because he always kind of puts me out on a task and, and I have to act
quickly because, you know, get on the fire is hot kind of thing. Yeah, the iron's hot. I'm getting
all my things wrong. I'm sorry. But it's really fun to chase some of that stuff with him and for
him. He was hot for a little, a little sunbeam tiger for a while and I had it perfect and the
buyer was, or the seller was ready and then he changed his mind like a week later. I'm like,
oh, I'm so sorry, dude. He changed his mind. This is how I'm the guy, you know, like I'm on the deck.
That's happened a couple times. But yeah, you know, he just, I mean, we do that, right? But we
turn cars over like crazy because we want to experience and there's a huge list of cars I
still want to experience, including a Ferrari. I would still love to have my own Ferrari. I'm
really, I'm not really trying, but I'm really trying because I don't drive dad's cars like
their mind. So, so that experience is his and I'm preserving it. Yeah. I would really like to
own something of that era, a little 308 GT4 or even a little Ferrari Fiat Dino or something that I
relate to and just enjoy it and drive it the way I want to drive it and experience it the way I
want to experience it. I'm glad that you're looking after your dad's cars and he's asked you to do that
because I think it's important to have somebody that can answer questions about those cars when
the time comes or like you said, something comes up or he just wants to sell something or buy something
and go, can we trade this? Can we trade that? You will be able to answer quickly and go, and
well, you know, I was just in the garage. I looked at that car. That car is in good shape.
Absolutely. It's ready to move, right? Or I looked at this car and a couple little things I'd like
to do to it first and then, you know, just somebody who can answer the questions about it
because you kind of have to know and that's not always the case, you know, especially on cars
that need attention as a project car. I mean, Adam's had racing cars and, you know,
like something broke on the track or whatever and it kind of moved to the back of the line
and now years have gone by. I'm sure he knows more than I do, but I'm looking at that car going,
I don't even remember what needs to be done. Does it even have an engine block in it? Like,
did we take the engine out? Is it engine in it? Like, is it on it? Like, I don't even remember now.
I keep detailed lists and I have a whiteboard there with all the last, the latest, like the last
two or three steps of whatever it was. And yeah, I keep detailed lists. You need to. And sometimes
I'll just throw them in the car. I'll throw them on a sheet of paper on the seat, like address these
or here's the start sequence. You know, here's the tire pressure. You know, I keep notes on tire
pressure. You know, I mean, it's like, you have to keep those notes because that's what happens.
Time passes and next thing you know, something catastrophic happens because you forgot that
there was a bad fuel line or that there was a, you know, a tooth missing and second gear or whatever.
Yeah. The one thing that I do, if I'm working on a car and let's say it runs and I'm working on a car,
if it ever doesn't have any sort of fluid in it, I put that, I write it in tape and stick it on the
steering wheel. Right. So if it says no oil or no, no trans fluid, no rear fuel, like right on the
steering, I'll put, you know, blue tape on the steering wheel and go, no oil, right? Because
that way anybody who's going to sit in it goes, oh, don't, don't, don't touch this thing yet.
Somebody's doing something here. And if the steering wheel is really sticky in a spot,
look for that blue tape on the floor. Yeah, right. Look for that blue tape on the, on the floor.
Okay. Well, I'd say we could ask your dad these questions about the cars, but he's busy. He's,
yeah, he's busy or where I think you and I are both going to attend the show this weekend and
the last show of this leg of his residency in Vegas. So that's going to be fun.
Yeah. So that he's got what, a Thursday, Friday, Saturday show or is it Wednesday?
I think it's Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, the least of the
last shows. Yeah. We will be out there Saturday. And then he goes back in September for another
correct, like, like, what are these like 10 day residency does like six shows like that. Yeah.
And if it's six shows or nine shows, I'm not sure. I have to look in detail at the schedule, but
yeah, then he's doing some, some runs through the Midwest, back East, I think, and then
off to Europe in July. Yeah, he's, he's still doing it, man.
After all these years, if you follow him on, you know, like you guys listening, if you follow
Sammy on social media, he's done always talking about cars, but just interesting how leading up
to this residency again, I don't want to say like nervous is the right word, but he always
goes into it going, I know our first show is not going to be our best show. We've done this
for 60 years, but our first show is not going to be our best show. It was so good I hear.
It was the second show that he said started off a little rough.
But they go in, they rehearse, you know, he does a Wednesday show that he does Friday show,
he did a Saturday show. He said Saturday show was really good. He said that one was just off
the hook good. And so now in my head, I'm going, oh, well, maybe it's better we're going to Saturday
show because he's going to do another Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. I mean, they're all going to
be great. Well, the last show is always fun because that's that's when he usually has special
guests and a lot of exciting stuff goes on. And for sure, any of us going there and watching
the show probably won't really even notice the difference between what he considers a
less than ideal show and a good show, right? He'll just feel it a certain way or he'll just
hear like a subtle subtlety that we're all so excited and having a good time. Like it doesn't
really matter if if if something was even off a note here, a note there or somebody's playing
something a little, you know, like it doesn't matter. That's what live shows are about. It's
just like, you know, go to like any live sporting event. That's what it's about too. Right? Like
people even say to me, they go, would you go to a basketball game? I'm like, yeah,
I've gone to basketball games. I don't watch it on TV or anything like that. But live events are
fun to go to. Yeah, that they are. That there's just an energy and a spirit and it's it's it's
life. Live rocks. It rules. I don't care what it is. You go and see it live. It's it is the
experience. But I'm that way about sports, music, motor sports. Yeah, the whole experience. Like,
I mean, I don't watch sports. I've been to basketball games. I've been to football games. I've
always a delight. Do I continue to go? No, but I took the experience and I was wowed by it and
it was awesome. Yeah, you've been watching your neighbor's kid and their final game of the year
or whatever, you know, you go, you know, you go, you support the kid, you support your neighbor,
and you have a great time, you know, and you watch all the coach parents out there yelling
at each other. It's pretty fun, you know, but yeah, it's it's just good. So yeah, you can kind of do
no wrong. I mean, there's, of course, exceptions to that, but you can kind of do no wrong and and
whatever whatever upset dad, you know, whether it was a his voice, cracked or I think dad being
an athlete and a perfectionist and a professional, he wants to be the best he can be all the time.
And I think if he doesn't, if he doesn't perform to his max, if his knee is hurting him or if he's
his ankle gave out and so now he can't move around as much or his voice is a little dry because he
overworked at the night before and he just can't get there, you know, that's going to drive him nuts
and it's going to take a little while for him to get his head out of it, you know. But once he
starts having fun and something else magical happens, it kind of balances it out and he'll
move on. But I think anyone is like that with anything that they do, you know, I mean, I do
that with the painting. I was stuck on this new painting I'm doing, I had a spot that I just
overworked and finally I got a great big, actually a bigger brush than that. I just grabbed a great
big obnoxious brush and I just started working it with a big brush. It's like stop focusing in on
the details and just look at the big picture and it's really true. Sometimes you have to stop and
get out of your own head and nitpick the little details and just remember that we're all here to
have fun. We're all here to enjoy the show and let's just give it what you got left, you know.
Yeah. So it's good. It's good. All right. Well, look, my advice to you, your dad and everybody else,
stretch and hydrate. Yeah. Our sponsor. Yeah, right. Just stretch and hydrate.
I think we're gonna wrap things up for today. I have more stuff to talk about. The stuff you
sent me, the spark plug thing, I'd love to touch on that real quick if we can. Yeah, let's do it.
Yeah. Because you sent me a link to a really cool channel which I actually subscribed to because I
watched their wrenches comparison too. They're very methodical. They're really scientific about
it and this one was about spark plugs. Yeah, it was backup. So I sent you a video for a channel
called Tork Test Channel. That's right. Tork Test. And they did a big test on a bunch of spark plugs
and it wasn't necessarily about which spark plugs are better. It's about buying fake. So he bought
spark plugs. He bought NGK Rydium, I think Denso Rydium Champion Rydium plugs. He bought them from
different locations and it was very forthcoming on where he bought these from Rock Auto. These are
from eBay. These are from Amazon and he went through the differences. He literally got three boxes
of NGK spark plugs, Rydium spark plugs. Yeah, he spent like 500 bucks on all these spark plugs.
All the same part number from different vendors and went through the details of each plug from the
threads and the electrodes and the strap and the box and the colors and the fonts and going these
are all sold as the same thing. They are not the same and the ones he got on eBay were fake. The
went through them and tested the plugs to show the differences. And this is what's misleading was
not for him, but for the customer. What could be misleading is all the spark plugs worked as a
spark plug. It was just because if you're trying to scam somebody and the product doesn't work,
they're going to want to return it. But if the product works for 12,000 miles instead of 60,000
miles, then you start thinking your engine is bad or something's wrong or your spark is bad or
your ignition system and you go buy more plugs. But if what it turned out was is you got duped.
And thank you. That was a much better introduction to it. But how this trickled down to me and my
wife actually watched it out of the corner of her eye with me because we had just had the
conversation yesterday about cosmetics and some other things that she's purchased and even some
things that I purchased for her that were kind of suspicious. And she was saying, yeah, I was
reading something and a lot of the cosmetics on Amazon and eBay aren't the real deal. And I had
bought her something that she asked for for Christmas. And she said, yeah, it was a little
suspicious. Like the safety seal wasn't the same. In fact, I think it wasn't even there.
She said the packaging looked a little different. And, and, you know, of course she was she didn't
want to say, you got me a fake one. I'm like, oh, shit, you know, it's not like buying a fake
Louis Vuitton or Rolex or something from from a place where you know it's fake. Yeah, this is
this is places that we shop regularly, regularly. And, you know, you might go to Amazon immediately
or you might go to to eBay immediately and try to find one for a little better value maybe used
or returned. But I got to say, you know, I bought plenty of things on on both platforms that
that just haven't been right. And I didn't really consider it. And, and now that I look back on
some of them that I haven't had the right experience with, it really does a disservice to
the manufacturer of the real one, when it's not built to their standards and, and just doesn't
work as well. I mean, you know, we've seen counterfeit Apple products and AirPods and
headphones and yeah, certainly watches. Yeah, and certainly watches and they seem to work fine.
And you know, a watch is a pretty good example because I think the fake Rolexes and some of the
fake, you know, watches are getting so good that not only is it hard to tell the difference, but
their performance is pretty accurate. And, and it's, it's within a tolerance that none of us
would ever notice or recognize. But a lot of these other products like the spark plugs aren't,
and they can actually do more harm in the long run, because especially on a very sophisticated
high performance engine, or even a turbo four cylinder, which is high performance because
of the demand of that little four cylinder, not necessarily that's a high tech car, but
just the demand of that is very electronically driven. It can throw off a lot of readings and
therefore premature wear and other components and something as simple as a spark plug can really
have a large effect on the bigger picture and the longevity and your experience in the long run.
You saved three bucks on a set of spark plugs, but it's going to cost you 20 grand over the lifetime
of the car. Yeah, just because of those spark plugs. But where do you find a reliable product?
Because, because eBay used to be the standard. Now it's Amazon. And those are not only not
always trustworthy. So a place like rock auto or a trusted, you know, nap auto parts or Riley
auto parts, a place that you can go in once again, support your local business or chain and go in
there and buy it firsthand. And if you want to check it there and let them know with the new
information that you learned, let them know. Hey, look, there's only one electrode. There
should be two. I think you might have some fakes, you know, call them to the side of the counter,
maybe not in front of the rest of the lot. But, but, you know, keep that trust going and keep that
level of satisfaction going. Because yeah, it's a big problem and it's everywhere. It's with foods,
folks. I mean, we're talking food, you know, not only electronics, but in luxury items,
especially luxury. But food and beverage and little things that you might buy, paint brushes,
I mean, things that you glass wear, I mean, doesn't matter. There's counterfeits everywhere.
And your expectation and experience in those products is going to be compromised. So
yet, what you pay for, I mean, there's definitely some truth to that. Yeah.
And buy from the source itself. You know, if you're going to buy something, go to their
website. I know it takes a little longer sometimes, but go to their website, buy the real deal.
You know, I found fakes at antique stores. My mom collected this cool little artifact,
and me and I found the great value down in Garnerville one day, and we brought it home
and put it next to her other ones, which are authentic and antique. And we questioned whether
it was an addition that maybe they ran that we weren't as familiar with, that we were sitting
there trying to justify it. And the reality is they were probably knockoffs. They're really good
knockoffs and perfectly acceptable. In fact, they were vintage knockoffs. But yeah, they were a
similar product made by a different company, and that was very apparent when you had them side by
side. So yeah, it's everywhere. Even in an antique store. And I oftentimes go down the
hole on YouTube for some of these things. Like I like the testing. So this
YouTube channel, this Tork test channel, that's a good one. Another one that I'm going to give you
is Lake Speed Junior. He's the motor oil geek on YouTube. He's been on the car cast many times
in the past, and he's such a smart, smart guy when it comes to, certainly when it comes to
oil. And he does these really, really thorough testing and stuff and dyno testing and
can really kind of break down the specifics of what makes a good oil and what makes a bad oil.
His is a good channel as well. And he's got his company Speed Diagnostics that does oil testing.
So you're buying a car or you're something you pick up at like a pair of Jackson or whatever
auction or vintage race car, and then you kind of want to get the status of it. You can run that
car. You can take samples of that oil, send it in, and he will test it, come back and tell you
everything about it. That's going to tell you a lot. Sure, it does. It tells you a lot. I can't
even get into all the things that is in there because I don't want to speak for him. But he
can come back and explain it in a way that makes sense to you, going, this is what this means.
It's got debris and it's got metal shavings in it. It's got this, it's got that, or it's got heat.
It looked like it was heated too much. Like maybe there's an issue there. It's got coolant in it.
It's got gas in it. Yeah, coolant in it. Yeah, there's a lot to know. All that kind of stuff.
That's why you see on some of these TV shows, they pull the dipstick out. Not only do they look
at the quality of the oil, but they smell it. You can tell if a car has been sitting,
there's usually, it's fuel-y. You can tell if it hasn't been changed by its viscosity,
but also by its smell. It smells burnt. It smells nasty. You can smell if it has coolant in it. Coolant
makes it smell terrible and you'll see some foam on the cap. But there's all these telltale signs,
but to do it to that degree is just awesome. It's how beautiful and primitive. Oh, guess what?
You're going to need a head gasket soon because there's just a trace of coolant in there.
Yeah, interesting. Or you could have a wall that's starting to disintegrate.
Right. They come back and they go, I know this car has been sitting for a while. We've done a lot
of tests, but we're pretty sure there's vermin involved. Yeah, there's rat furan in the oil.
There's access to it somewhere. Yeah, that's funny. I went down to the parking
garage the other day and having driven my other truck in a while and when I drove up,
I saw something run. Oh, no. Something run. I think it was a mouse. It was a mouse. So I
immediately opened the hood and I was like, what kind of nest is in here? Check the glove box.
Yeah. Well, the first thing I check is the hood liner, but that truck doesn't have a hood
liner on it, but the hood liner is a perfect place to chew it up and right on the top of your
intake manifold is this nice fiberglass packing sort of nest. Yeah. It's like having cotton candy on
your nightstand. Yeah. Grab a chunk, stick it in your mouth, maybe under your pillow.
Oh, man. We're going to wrap things up now. So much to talk about.
All right, guys. We'll see you next week. Brad will be back next week. I'll see you on the weekend.
I'll see you Saturday. I don't see a flashing recording light in the corner. It's up there.
Okay. Just not on my side. Yeah, it's up there. Okay. All right, Matt. Thanks for listening,
everyone. Thanks, man. See you later.
About this episode
Magnus Walker is auctioning off a large collection of his Porsche cars and parts, sparking discussions about his motivations and the current Porsche market. The hosts dive into the tactile experience of classic Ferraris, especially the 512 BB, sharing personal stories about maintenance challenges and the emotional value of these cars. They also explore the risks of counterfeit automotive parts, focusing on spark plugs bought from online marketplaces, and stress the importance of buying genuine products. The episode blends car culture, collector insights, and practical advice for enthusiasts.