RADwood Amelia, A New Season of F1, and Another Trip to Japan - DWA! Podcast Ep. #926
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RADwood Amelia, A New Season of F1, and Another Trip to Japan - DWA! Podcast Ep. #926
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Car
Ford Ranger
Car
Porsche 928
The Porsche 928 is a sporty and comfortable car made by Porsche. It has its engine in the front but the gears and wheels are connected in a special way to help it drive smoothly.
Car
Porsche 944
Term
speedster
A speedster is a type of car that looks sporty and cool, usually with a low roof and an open top, making it fun to drive fast.
Car
Porsche 968
Company
TechArt
TechArt is a company that makes Porsche cars look cooler and go faster by adding special parts and custom wheels.
Car
BMW E30
The BMW E30 is an older model of a small sporty car made by BMW. People like it because it drives nicely and is fun to own.
Concept
Radwood
Radwood is a fun car event where people show off cars mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. It's free to go and has a cool, relaxed atmosphere.
Part
axle
An axle is a part of the car that helps the wheels turn and holds up the car's weight. Sometimes axles can break or make noises if they get worn out.
Concept
importing car parts from Japan
Sometimes people buy car parts from Japan because they are hard to find elsewhere. But it can cost a lot and take a long time to get them shipped.
Car
Z Car
The Nissan Z car is a fun sports car that many people like to drive and change to make it faster or look cooler.
Car
Ford Gt
Car
BMW E39
Car
Nissan R32
Car
Honda S2000
Car
BMW E46 M3
The BMW E46 M3 is a sporty car made by BMW in the early 2000s. People like it because it drives really well and has a strong engine.
Car
Audi S4
The Audi S4 is a faster and sportier version of a regular Audi car, made to be fun to drive.
Car
Volkswagen Gti
Car
BMW M5
Car
Mazda MX-5 / Miata
The Mazda Miata is a small, fun sports car that is easy to drive and popular among car lovers. The 1990 version is one of the earliest models and is known for being reliable and enjoyable.
Car
Crx Si
The Honda CRX Si is a small, fun car from 1988 that is easy to drive and good on gas. People like it because it’s light and handles well.
Car
Chevrolet Monte Carlo
The Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS from 1985 is a sportier version of a regular car that looks cooler and drives better.
Term
NASCAR livery
NASCAR livery means the special paint and stickers that race cars have in NASCAR to show their sponsors and team colors.
Term
T-tops
T-tops are parts of a car's roof that you can take off to let fresh air in, kind of like a convertible but with a bar in the middle.
Concept
LS swap
An LS swap means putting a powerful V8 engine from General Motors into a different car, like a Mazda Miata, to make it much faster and stronger.
Car
G-Class G Wagon
Car
Buick GNX
Car
Dodge Omni
Car
Chevrolet Camaro
Car
Venturi 400 Trophy
The Venturi 400 Trophy is a fast French car from the 1990s that looks a bit like a Ferrari race car. It has a powerful V6 engine with two turbochargers and was made for both racing and driving on the street.
Car
Ferrari F40
Term
roll cage
A roll cage is a strong metal frame inside a race car that helps keep people safe if the car flips over or crashes. It makes the car stronger and protects the driver.
Part
twin turbo V6
A twin turbo V6 is a type of engine with six cylinders and two turbochargers. The turbos help the engine make more power and make the car faster.
Term
PRV V6 engine
The PRV V6 engine is a six-cylinder engine made by three car companies: Peugeot, Renault, and Volvo. It was used in many cars, including the DeLorean.
Term
head gasket
The head gasket is like a seal inside the engine that keeps important fluids separate and makes sure the engine works properly. If it breaks, the engine can overheat or stop working right.
Term
carbon Kevlar body
The car's body is made from special materials that are very light and strong, helping the car go faster and be tougher.
Term
fully independent front rear suspension
Each wheel on the car can move on its own, which helps the car drive smoothly and handle better.
Term
tubular chassis
The car's frame is made from metal tubes, making it strong but light, which helps the car perform better.
Concept
street legalize
Making a race car safe and legal enough so you can drive it on regular streets.
Term
twin turbo lag
Twin turbo lag means the car takes a moment to get extra power from its turbochargers when you press the gas.
Concept
Group B rally
Group B rally was a type of car racing in the 1980s where cars were very fast and powerful, making the races exciting but also risky.
Company
YAKO
YAKO is a company from France that makes oil products for cars and sometimes supports racing teams.
Car
Volkswagen Bus
Car
Pontiac Gto
Car
Ford Mustang
Car
Porsche 356
The Porsche 356 is an old sports car made by Porsche. It's small and light, and it was the first car Porsche ever made for people to buy.
Car
Jaguar Etype
Car
Morgan Aero Max
Car
Morgan Aero
Concept
cars and coffee
Cars and Coffee is a fun event where people bring their cars to meet others and talk about cars while having coffee. It's a casual way to see many different cars.
Car
Ferrari 412
Car
Lamborghini Mira
Car
Ferrari F12 Tdf
Car
Ferrari F12
Term
zero miles
Zero miles means the car has hardly been driven at all. This usually makes the car more valuable because it is almost like new.
Car
Porsche 959
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Welcome to Driving While Awesome.
My name is Warren.
I'm Lane.
And I'm Art.
And we have returned.
We are back.
Well, Art and I went to Florida.
Lane went to a track day,
and there's all sorts of things going on.
Lots. Good old Florida.
I'd like to start the podcast by letting everyone know
that I saw an armadillo in the wild.
Oh, that's cool.
It's pretty cool.
Well, let me just tell everybody that I don't know
if I've ever seen Warren more excited in my life.
I've known one at least 10 years now,
and it's like, I think this is probably...
He left the car running, jumped out,
like, and tried to take a picture of it,
but it ran into the wilderness.
Try to snap a cap.
Well, first, so to set the stage,
it's daybreak, early morning,
and we are driving onto a golf course in Florida
through like some thicket, some swampy thicket.
And I see this little critter scurry about.
It looked like a squirrel at first.
Then I saw the tail.
I go, oh, no, it's a possum.
That's interesting.
Nope, armadillo out there doing things.
I didn't realize they were in Florida at all.
It was totally off my radar.
In fact, I kind of didn't even...
I wouldn't have thought to see them in Texas either,
but that's like a thing in Texas, armadillos.
Yeah.
And I think they're kind of spreading.
And then later on, I had a conversation with somebody,
and I can't remember who it was.
And they were saying they're kind of a pest a little bit
because they don't really have any predators.
They're hard to get.
They ball up into a little armored dillo.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah, that's where the word armor comes from.
Are they friendly?
Or are they kind of like pissed off?
Are they like raccoons?
They get all pissed?
No, I think they're friendly,
and they're more like skittish is what I've gathered.
And then Art has seen one before in Argentina,
or where you're from.
It was in Patagonia, yeah.
And it was not the smooth armadillo that we have here.
It was a hairy armadillo.
Oh, gross.
That's great.
Which was interesting.
Yeah, I know it's cute.
Yeah, they're cute as well.
Any cars named after armadillos?
Am I forgetting anything?
Oh, that would be...
That's probably good, huh?
Like a truck or something like that.
Yeah.
Maybe like a...
If they came out with some sort of like bank van
that you armored car, it's the armadillo.
Yeah, that'd be good.
But I feel like it has to be relatively small, right?
It's almost like I'm picturing the size of a ranger or something.
It's because it's like...
But it's also very heavy-duty and reinforced.
Absolutely.
Well, I did look up their range today.
Actually, I was telling my son the story,
and then I was like, I don't even know where they're at.
Let's check this out.
So we're looking at the map, and yes,
Texas, the South Florida for sure.
So this wasn't like an escaped pet.
But it said that the potential range showed California,
where we go.
Which, man, if I saw an armadillo out here,
I don't know if I'm kicking it or if I'm, you know,
taking it home.
One of the...
One of those, too.
That's crazy.
But that's like...
That's all I can do.
Fight or flight, huh?
Love or shove?
Yeah.
What about that?
Yeah.
I believe I've seen one before in Texas.
Let's hear it.
Where?
I don't remember.
Nice.
Making stories up.
No, I swear.
I remember just being like armadillo.
What the fuck?
Like, I just like, I don't...
Well, last time we were in Texas, our colleague, Cam,
who's a jovial fellow.
We were having a few oat sodas there at the bar,
and it was a funny little event.
It was called a...
What the hell was it?
So it was like tiki and country,
like line dancing kind of event.
What the fuck did they call it?
It had some clever name.
And in the corner was a tattoo artist doing real basic tattoos,
like shit that Rick Deacon would get, you know,
like on his armpit or something.
You're like, what the fuck is that?
But tiny little tattoos, but real, real tattoos for like 60 bucks,
50 bucks.
And he went and got an armadillo on his, like the top of his thigh.
Camden?
Yeah.
Like above his like shorts lines.
He has like pull his shorts up to see it, but it's like,
yeah, a freaking armadillo for Radwood Austin.
Oh, this is when we were there when I was there?
Yeah.
Because yeah, I was there.
Dude, don't you remember?
I didn't realize what he got.
I remember he was like gonna get a tattoo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He got a little armadillo and it's funny when I was telling him,
I think, dude, I saw an armadillo.
I was kind of telling a lot of people.
It's kind of a little embarrassing, but I was excited about it.
And he's like, oh yeah, I have an armadillo tattoo.
And I was like, oh dude, I was there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I remember this.
So, you know, that's what happens in Florida armadillos.
Pretty cool, dude.
I've seen no gators.
Never.
I haven't seen any.
Well, I've seen a caiman in the rainforest.
I don't know if that's on Florida, but I've never seen an alligator
driving around Florida.
In the wild.
I mean, I've been to Amelia four times.
And I've been, you know, like we did Fort Lauderdale in Miami and stuff.
Yeah.
Have you guys seen a wild gator?
I feel like they're, are they down in Miami and stuff?
They're not.
I haven't seen them like in like in town, but I've seen them in the
Everglades, like all over town, like driving by or anything, but not like,
yeah, not like there's one crossing the street right there.
Like, but like in while you're getting your coffee or whatever,
but like driving on the highway, like in like in the general Everglades area,
like I've seen them like on the side, like where it dips down and you have
like sort of like swampy stuff and they're just kind of like sunbathing.
And then I also did a fan boat thing where we went into the,
I guess into the Everglades, right?
And you go among all the reeds there and they were all over the place.
Wow.
That was like us seeking them out more, you know, not so much like just out.
Pretty, pretty terrifying creatures, right?
You know, you don't want to get near one of those things.
Yeah.
Almost as terrifying as the gnarly weather that happens there and constant
humidity and shifting thunderstorms and extreme heat.
How about the humans that live there?
Yeah, you didn't get to the humans.
Yeah.
The humidity was really intense this year.
I don't remember this, but we were like just driving around at dusk and it's,
it's like Santa Cruz where it's foggy, but like when you,
when you wipe the fog, like through wipers, it like turns to water and like goes away.
You know, like drips down the windshield and like disappears for a little bit
until it like builds up.
This is just a constant like greasy moisture.
I mean, art was there and I had to like keep putting the windshield wipers on
like basically all the time as we were driving around because it's just steamy swamp dog.
Geez.
I know.
Anyways, that's Florida for you.
Have you guys watched Florida, man?
No show.
No, no, where it's like the reenactments of like crazy Florida man activities.
Oh, that makes sense.
I know Florida man as a thing like, you know, it's pretty.
It's pretty good.
Yeah.
It's like and it is like real actors playing the roles.
So it's like dramatizations of like actual incidents.
Exactly.
And then it inter interspersed with the real person interviewed.
And it is, yeah, it's pretty wild stories, dude.
Oh man.
Like this, the first, the first one is just this guy talking about how he took a hike
out and just started swimming with the gators and his leg got bit off or no, his arm.
And then he was just laying out there for three days.
And then he, he like had a come to Jesus moment and he just loves it out there.
He just loves it out there.
Yeah.
It is a lifestyle for sure.
You know, it's funny is Nick B line Nick is from Florida, but it doesn't seem like a
Florida guy at all.
You know, yeah, you're right.
He like missed, he didn't get like a bit by the Florida Florida bug snake Florida
man.
Hey, a lot of bugs out there too.
Yeah.
Fortunately not, not that many.
I do have some bug bites on my legs, but not as many as I feared it's still cold
enough.
I think maybe that's why, but yeah, we, so anyways, Radwood at Amelia, our fourth
Radwood there and the best one yet.
It was, we were able to spread out on the whole fairway and tee boxes and expanded
into some, some more areas was all our show on that side.
And it was also during the concor, the same day as the concor, which helps crowd and
the vibes, immaculate vibes, I think they say.
But dude, really good show and great, like variety, some really interesting, unique
cars we've never seen before to like great display, like transaxle.
I think how many transaxle cars do we have?
You said 15 or something?
No, we had, we had 13 in the royalty carry display and we had an additional eight in
the standard display lot.
So yeah, and they were all really nice.
Like there were very interesting colors and like to like liveried up in like race trim,
but I think there were SCCA cars, not like turbo cup cars, great wheels, good, good setups.
And yeah, the 928 club was there officially.
I think because it was like the 928 guys and they had some really nice ones, including
one that was immac, like absolutely immaculate pristine, almost like a copper, like a coral,
copper metallic color that was, had just one at, was it a Renworks or what is that one
called?
Works reunion.
Works reunion.
And it won, yeah, I won its class, a super nice car.
Those are, I really enjoy seeing like 944 cabs.
I know they get hate on like, you know, the rally back road kind of angle, but as far as
to like just cruise around in, especially if live in Florida, that's such a very unique
cool car.
Yeah.
Never seen.
Yeah.
It's a cool car for sure in terms of like cool factor and all that, but they are flimsy and
all that.
So they're rattledy and stuff like that for performance driving, but like in terms of
just like a cool car top down, they actually kind of look cool with the top up too, because
they have a little bit of a speedster kind of vibe.
Yeah.
The 944 and S2 cabs and also the 968s.
Cause you gain that trunk, you gain that trunk line, right?
Yeah.
I can't remember if I sent it to warn or to lane because I meant to send it.
Did I send you lane though?
It was like a almost like a, not ice pool, like a sky blue metallic with like a almost
like a dove interior 944 S2 cab.
Did I send that to you?
I don't think so, but I did see pictures of that car pop up.
Yeah, dude.
It was such a cool color combination.
It was like great stance on tech art wheels with like sort of like mall laser backdrop.
Floor mats for photos and it was right hand drive.
It was a, and Warren said that he met a guy who worked at a Porsche dealership at the
Porsche dealership that that car was sold at.
And he's pretty confident that that's the car that he sold in period, right?
Yeah.
A British dude walked up to me and was like, is that your car?
Cause I was kind of sitting next to it.
And I was like, oh no, but I know the guy and he's like, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah.
This car was at our dealership in England and cause I'm like, yeah, how many of those?
I mean, it has to be like a one of, I mean, right hand drive that color.
Yeah.
944 cab.
Dude, England, how many of those they sell like right in that color too?
That's cool.
I know it was very, very good looking car.
I had like the later front end.
I don't know if the cabs just came with that front end, but it has like S two.
No S two.
They all have that front end.
Yeah.
They all did right.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was, that was a really cool.
I agree though.
The cab that that is a good.
That is kind of a cool look the cabs have with the top up or down.
Yeah.
Cause you get that little trunk.
Yeah.
And then it's kind of neat.
It is cool.
And that would actually be a really awesome Santa Cruz car.
Yeah.
Just in the same vein as like an E 30 cab or something, right?
Like, okay.
It's not going to be the most like amazing capable car on the back roads.
It's kind of like lose itself over railroad crossings and whatnot.
But sure.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a fun little fun cruiser for sure.
Like good, even like just a casual little sporty drive, you know,
up to about six and a half to seven tenths, which I mean plenty fine.
It's that's perfect for this.
No, they're very cool, but Santa Barbara car, even art.
Sorry.
I didn't mean to leave you out.
Santa Barbara car.
Even Santa Barbara.
I agree.
The from a from a like a hundred yard view or whatever I am at,
like a 10,000 foot stare or whatever.
The show looked pretty cool, dude.
It looked like a I mean it looked like it had a I mean like a Casey
Parkins Perkins Parkins.
Casey Parkins said, you know, he told art art and I he's like,
I hope you guys sold Radwood for a billion dollars because this
thing is amazing.
I don't think he's ever been to one.
Oh, funny.
Yeah.
It's so funny to think there's people that have only been to Radwood,
Amelia, which of course there are only.
Yeah.
There's plenty of those people because it is so far from a lot of
our other shows, but yeah, it is so different from most of our
shows on a golf course and it's also like free to attend.
It's always been free to attend on the Radwood side,
which just lends to a different feeling.
And anyways, yeah, it was good.
I mean, it is a good venue though for us because we do have a good
way to split up like our standard display and royalty because we
can do a lot of curation there because you have elevation and
you also have the tee boxes, which we utilize for that purpose
to highlight cars.
So yeah, and it's got really cool trees on either side.
So it kind of frames the space in a really cool way.
So it's definitely very photogenic and it's a very interesting
like sort of ambiance.
So I do enjoy it and it does create for something that is,
it's a good looking show and it has cool, cool vibe.
Even though it's not like a full scale event, we had like around
240 cars on display at this event.
So it's pretty good, you know, which is pretty good.
You know, normally we have around 400 average on our,
at our events.
So it's, you know, roughly half the size of our events on average,
but it's a, yeah, it's a good experience.
And yeah, mingled with quite a few people.
I saw the owner of my skyline, the guy that bought my skyline off
me came up to me while I was talking to Casey.
And he's like, I was like, Oh, like, you know,
I told him like so many people like hit me up when they saw the
car in the bull market.
And he was just saying his experience was really great.
Like Hagerty was super nice and like they were very accommodating
and like did all this amazing stuff and were great to work with
and all this for that shoot.
But then he's like, yeah, but then at the end of that,
the car got kind of like, you know, railed on for a while.
And one, the left axle, I had to replace the right front axle.
I don't know if you guys remember, but the left front axle went
out or started to click or something and started to make noise.
So, and I'm like, Oh, did, did you have a waiver where you
basically like they, they can't replace before it was the deal.
And he's like, well, no, he's like, I don't care about that.
Like ultimately I loaned it.
I'm happy with that, but I need to replace it.
And I can't find a front left axle.
So I'm like, yeah, don't worry about it.
I got you like the place in Arizona that I got mine from actually stock them.
And he's like, no way.
He was like blown away because he was looking in Japan trying to import one
for like $3,000.
And so this place in Arizona stocks a bunch of like skyline stuff,
including like Z car stuff, you know, all that.
And but he was like kind of giving me like just, just because I know him
and he's like a cool dude.
He was like sort of giving me a hard time about like selling my car
with a bum axle, like just half joking.
And then when he walked away, Casey was like kind of worked up about it.
He's like, what the fuck?
Like, I just came up to you to complain about it.
Crazy deal on.
And like, he's like, dude, if you would have done it to me,
I would have slapped him or something.
And I think he was a few beers deep.
So it was kind of funny.
And I'm like, don't worry about it.
A guy know this guy.
He's not talking shit, you know, but we ended up, I talked to him for a bit.
I hung out with him and a few of the guys that he was there with,
I can't remember their names, but, but yeah.
So finally got connected with him.
And then yeah, just as we were cruising around like,
I think several, you know, podcast listeners and a few other people that
you would know that I can't remember their names.
So I'm not going to embarrass myself, but if I saw you and said, what's up?
Thank you.
I apologize.
But yeah, good show.
Do you want to go through the award winners real quick?
Yeah, let's do it.
Wait, so it was a, I have a question.
It was a, you got, it was definitely a higher end show, right?
You guys did a more of a curate curation process.
Correct?
Yeah.
We did more of a curation process and also it was half royalty, half standard.
So with 230 cars, 240 ish, it was half and half.
So usually for people who haven't been to Radwood, we do like 300 standard
and a hundred royalty, something like that.
Okay.
Maybe a little bit more standard, maybe a little bit more royalty, but thereabouts.
Oh, actually one other detail.
We did soft launch a new concept that we do want to mention.
Yeah.
We've been kind of coy about it, but yeah, it's, it's something that we're, we're,
we needed to do this in order to be able to lock down the trademark and to build
out the branding for it because you have to do something with a name before you
can trademark it, but we're starting to celebrate now vehicles of 2000 to 2010
celebrate good times.
And we're calling it millennia.
So the millennia class.
So we're doing kind of a curated display of these for this year at Radwood events.
Obviously it's a separate thing.
It's not rad, you know, eighties and nineties is rad, but this is something
we're calling millennia, but as everyone, at least in our audience knows, you know,
these cars are now becoming very collectible and being sought after because
it's a generational thing, right?
Same as all the other areas have happened.
So, so we curated a group of cars.
I did have a Ford GT and spiker C eight and sort of lined up and that the owner
flaked on us on that.
Unfortunately, but we had good replacements.
We had a 997 GT two, which is, you know, right up there in terms of like icon of
this particular era, paint to sample orange 997.1 turbo manual, which we just
talked about being, you know, like a very great collectible car that checks a
lot of boxes, right?
And the point ones were the Metzger engine cars before they switched to point two,
which is the newer style.
And then E 55 AMG next to an E 39 M five.
You got to get the super sedans in there.
I was seeking out a wagon.
I spent like a month looking for a wagon.
Unfortunately, sedans all we got, but it works with that E 39.
And then we had a 575 manual Ferrari in like a deep blue metallic, like a royal
blue metallic with a blue leather dash and like a tan interior.
It worked really well.
It was actually a very nautical kind of vibes.
Of course manual.
I don't know if I mentioned that.
So that was our millennia display to sort of get things going, you know, down the
line, we'll continue to curate that display and incorporated into the show.
But, you know, it doesn't have to be high end.
I was trying to get an STI.
I actually reached out to several people in region and unfortunately none of them
came through.
I wanted a nine, nine, six GT three in the mix.
Yeah, I was going to say nine, nine, six turbo or GT three would be dope.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And like R 32 Ferrari 4 30.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Even challenged for dolly.
Really.
I mean, that's right there too.
That wasn't it.
I mean, you know that one.
Yeah.
Good.
But that was only of that.
That time for it wasn't not of the nineties, right?
Because the nineties.
Yes.
360 mode in 99, but but the challenge didn't come out till the 2000.
So to your point, that's all curated.
This isn't going to be a like a show that turns into like bring any,
you know, a 2009 Tahoe, like or a Tacoma, like a two, oh nine,
to be the good shit Tacoma.
Like we want the icons only and yeah RS for group.
Yeah.
S 2000 RS for exactly.
It doesn't have to be super valuable.
It's just like enthusiast focused and and we'll continue to do that.
Eventually this will evolve into sort of like, you know, E 46 M threes.
Totally.
Yep.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
It's fun too because it's, we were always very focused like on our eighties and nineties
thing.
And let's we're pretty serious about it.
But now we get to, you know, be a little more.
You get to let cool shit in from, from the next gen, which, which we were all,
which we also like those are cars we also yearned for when we were like in
college, right?
It was because that was the new shit when we were in college and we were like, God,
we, I wish like I always, I wanted a E 46 M three or I wanted an S four or
whatever, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No doubt.
And there's one.
I had them.
I was, I was going to text it to you, but I was hot after or hot and heavy after
an E 46 M three Z C P.
So it's like the closest we got to a light or to a, what do you call it?
CSL, but it's in that.
I forgot what it's called.
It's like that purpley metallic blue.
Maybe it's Montreal blue, slick top, of course, and cloth interior, super nice car.
And it was down to the wire.
Basically he was doing a full suspension restoration on it and he couldn't get it
done, but like that would have been a perfect car to put in there, right?
So like stuff like that.
But yeah, I also wanted JDM.
I was trying to get some Evo nines in there, you know, things like that, that
are all check the boxes there.
So even like there, I was borderline considering moving.
We had a 99 F 150 lightning that was really nice.
It was a black one and it was like all done with period mods, you know, like the
smoked headlights and tail lights that they would have done in the period and all
that.
And you know, a lot of suspension work, but cause those started in 99 and then
ended, I think in 2004, right?
Like that body style.
So it's more of a 2000s truck.
Like I was considering moving over there, but I didn't cause it wasn't 99.
But yeah, I think it's going to be fun to like curate these and then we can throw
race cars in there and a mix of everything, right?
Like super cars and good enthusiasts.
I mean, everything down to like, yeah.
A GTI to a Carrera GT, right?
Like exactly.
Yeah.
You got Carrera GTs dude.
2004, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It starts to really like expand and then you can do some theme shows and some,
you know, it's not going to ever be a Radwood experience where people are coming
dressed up because it's not that era, right?
Like it's not trying to do that.
It's, it's more like the technical aspects.
What is the dress up of the 2000s too?
It's like, it's so, it's like you, the only thing you could dress.
It would be like you dress up like a girl would be tramp stamp,
backless shirts and Britney Spears kind of like, and then Ed Hardy, maybe,
but this is all the douchey of shit.
It's not even cool.
Like, like no one actually, and then you dress like backstreet boys or something,
but like normal people just wore like normal shit, right?
Like you could, and it's all. Yeah.
Yeah.
Like everyone else is kind of like, yeah.
Like no one, you were crazy.
Unless you were a fucking douche.
You kind of.
Ginko jeans.
I mean, those are the same thing.
Maybe in some parts of the world.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not a Radwood.
Ginko jeans is more 90s than 2000s.
It depends where you lived.
Like Lane said, if you're in in Cleveland, Ohio, where they take a little,
take a little time to do stuff.
But that said, I do have an idea of like celebrating this, like in more of a
party atmosphere, like where we can have like a thematic like party, right?
Where it's like 15 of whatever, right?
And then you have like a sort of a DJ set, multi-story kind of thing and
curators and something like that where it's more of like a mini motor lux
instead of like having 500 cars.
Exactly.
So it's a different kind of concept and I feel like that works well for
this.
A lot of like blues and silvers and whites.
I picture like, I picture the Backstreet Boys album cover, whatever that
was, you know that.
I don't even know.
Well, we had a deck that we presented for all this and we found all blue
cars and it's the same blue as like, you know, the R32 GTI blue and the
like Skyline blue and M5.
There was a GTI that color.
Exactly.
E39 M5 in that color, like it all, they just stuck to that.
It's very, very common.
But anyway, so yeah, millennia was at Radwood and that was off like on the
furthest end as you entered the concor, you would have seen it from there.
So and then you got into the royalty section, which was on the T-boxes,
which was really cool.
It's elevated too.
So you can see down the whole fairway on the show and then royalty like
spilled into the the fairway and then we have our people going to call it
millennial wood.
I hope not.
I hope not.
I bet they will.
It's just millennia.
No more would.
You can call whatever you want, Lane.
Millennia would tiered so we did do junior judging at this event, which is
cool and I want to continue that.
We just need, you know, it takes a team right to execute because we're busy
running around doing stuff and we can't break away.
Like initially I've done that a couple of times, like when we've incorporated
it like at the LA show and I'll like start it off and like kind of show the
cars and walk with the folks and then I walk away.
But we had a solid team executing it for us here, which worked really well.
All I did was just tell them what cars they were and then they handled it from
there.
And I'll tell you the cars that I chose first just so that just so you can get
an idea of like kind of where I was because it was, you know, I don't, I'm
very like cognizant of the fact that if you choose a really colorful car with a
bunch of stuff on it, like kids love that kind of shit, right?
So if it's a race car, like it's probably going to win by default.
So like I was trying to pick like a good, well-balanced grouping of cars that the
kids could like enjoy, but also I interacted with the owners first, right?
So like I want to see what the personalities of the owners are like,
are they even kid friendly, right?
You know, like, and so it's a combination of all that before I chose them.
So the first car I chose was a 1990 Miata, right?
Bright red, super, super clean car owned by two retired, sorry, high school
teachers.
So they were super stoked.
They were, they were amped on it and they also brought out.
This is where it was a little biased, but the car was really basic.
So this works out.
They had like period toys, right?
Like some Tyco shit and like some puzzles and you know, sorry, things like
that, like kind of placed all over the car.
So I thought that could be fun.
Bright yellow Evo five and the couple was dressed like matching Mitsubishi,
like Tommy Mackinen kind of shit, like all like yellow and red.
So that worked out and they were, they were like stoked to work with kids
technically not a one owner car, but this guy inherited an original completely
stock 1988 CRX SI and red from his mom.
And now he owns it and brings it out to our shows.
He's been there every year.
As a matter of fact, the image that we had leading up to the show of him with
the Grand Wagoneer same owner.
So it's him with his wife.
So he's been to our show a few times, but he's brought this car out.
I think three times now.
And then the last one was a 1985 Monte Carlo SS, which was the, you know,
basically like the performance kind of grand nationally and grand national
ESC sort of like Monte Carlo, although these were not turbocharged, but this
these obviously they were like in that tide livery during the NASCAR, you know,
when this era was running, they had the NASCAR livery.
So a pretty cool car at T tops, all that and the couple were dressed like,
like total like B boy B girls.
They were so rad looking that picture.
All the gold and everything and they won.
Yeah.
That picture is that picture is rad.
They look.
They look killer in front of that thing.
I know they were really on the whole time and then yeah,
we'll just fast forward to rat a stress because they were part of it.
It came down to them, the B boy couple and then versus our fricking champions,
the undisputed heavyweight champions of the world are silver surfer.
Silver surfer.
I was just calling them power couple because they're,
they're just like exude radness and their, their outfits.
Everyone, anyone who's probably seen our, you know, Radwood content.
Anyone that's been to a Radwood pretty much.
They have been all over and so it came down to,
and it was pretty close.
The first like round of applause was so close and I'm like, shit.
And then we did it again.
It was like just edged out and I, I wanted to give it to the B boy couple
because like they haven't won before, but they had also just won the junior judging.
So I'm like, at least they won something and yeah.
And but it was, I mean, there was what it was like they, the other guys,
it was super close, but they got a lot of love and, and yeah, dude,
the thing that the couple were talking about, they did win.
They go and find like real period.
Correct.
Like clothing, a vintage clothing of the era.
And it's usually like Versace or Gucci or like shit like that.
And like they go head to toe.
So it's like really high quality stuff too.
On top of that, it's not like some dude buying like a, you know,
some solo cup graphics from Amazon.
Like it's like the worst.
Yeah.
Like they do it really well.
And that's, that's what he was wearing.
He was wearing head to toe Versace and she was another designer from the
era, but she found a brand new dress that was new old stock.
Yeah.
That was new old stock with the tag.
She said she removed the tag before going to the show.
So she's got the hair.
It's a real hair.
It's like the hair biggest hair you've ever seen and the glasses and down to like
all the accessories and come in matching.
They won like five times at least, right?
I think you're right.
Probably.
And by the, they travel and they each bring their own cars, dude.
Yes.
Both have M sixes.
It's insane.
Like where, where do they live?
They live in Ohio.
Near, yeah, near Cleveland and they drove to Florida.
They've been to SoCal, NorCal, Detroit, Amelia.
I don't know if they've been to Texas and they've won like almost every show
been to and that is not, we don't pick this.
This is audience applause.
That does it.
So it's so rad, dude.
Yeah.
So cool.
Oh, by the way, I was going to, I was going to make a comment before about the,
the kids judging Miata is still never won a Radwood Trophy.
We'll just, so we'll just put that up there once again.
I like it.
That's good stat.
That's a good knowledge.
Land didn't wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Didn't we give rad mod to the monster truck Miata last year at Amelia Lane?
Lane drops a hell no.
By the way, just for, well, we should give some background.
This is an inside baseball award.
Lane says that that at Radwood Miata is never worthy enough of winning an award
because there's always rather shit, but I think we do that one or maybe or hell
now, dude.
I got to look back at my notes, but I feel like we've also seen,
like LS swap Miata's or something, and I feel like that's been in the running,
but hasn't won.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Cause I'm yada with an LS is so cool.
Well, not just the LS, but if it was like fully, cause we have that rad mod
award, which is new for like the last few years, but in the past, you're right.
Like it would still even that.
But anyways, like I'm just, I'm just, I'm just saying it.
Okay.
What if it was an arrow deck LS swap, blah, blah, blah, blah.
There's always going to be something router.
Yeah.
Oh, all right.
So we're going down the list here.
We got a little sidetrack there.
Accessory Suzuki Kvan.
This was a Suzuki carry, right?
Carry, I think.
Yeah.
Like just like a Honda Vamos or, you know, any of these sandbars, like little
tiny Kvan, any of these sandbars sort of graphics going, you know, like they did
like the cool sort of neon graphics package on it.
And then they had, I don't know.
Was it a dyno in the back?
What was it in the back?
I actually didn't get a good look at it.
It had a bike, shoes, and a matching skateboard, all with the like neon
graphics, the car.
I think the thing was just pure Radwood.
Super cool.
Dude, I sent a picture to Lane, but it's a Piranha.
Wait, you sent me a picture?
Yeah.
It was a, it was a chromoly like frame with like the magic wheels.
I don't know.
I've never heard that.
And then it was nice.
They sent their kid up who was probably 12 or something to accept the award.
And he was very excited and was telling us all about how he, they basically
like, yeah, found all this stuff and built it up to come to Radwood.
And so that was fun.
That's a good one.
Rad mod award.
So that's modified award went.
So it's between two, one was a GNX El Camino, which in theory would win for
sure.
It got so much attention.
It looked great black.
So that was not originally an El Camino.
That's a, that's like a, yes, it was an El Camino.
They put a GNX front end on.
Oh, okay.
So that, yeah, I didn't know if that was like a one off.
I thought it was like a legit thing.
So, so it turns out it's like a shop that is building these to sell or built
this one to sell.
So, you know, it's always tough with, this is also just for podcast listeners.
We don't like broadcast this as information, but when somebody brings a car
that is built for sale, like for example, like we had some G wagon guy that is
building G wagons to sell.
They're like actively on sale and they're built this way to be like, yeah.
It's like giving singer an award or something.
Right.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So it's one thing if like a dealership comes that they're also like just super
stuck in the eighties and nineties and they have like a great like collection
inventory, inventory, but when you're building a car like this to then be sold,
it just, it's hard to give that an award versus somebody who like loves a car
and has been, you know, caring for it and, you know, excited to come to Radwood,
all that stuff.
So Rad mod went to art.
So Rad mod went to, oh, the freaking cabbie that it was a two Volkswagen
cab relays welded together like ask to ask, but so it's like basically you have
two front ends right where the where the B pillar is and full interiors on both
sides dashboard, you know the seats backed up to each other.
So if you were sitting in one side, you would be back to back with the other
person.
So was there no bed at all?
No bed.
No bed at all.
And it went like both cars had full dash steering wheels, shifters, stereo, but
you're back to back with the seats and it's a cabbie.
So it's all open, just the B pillar.
Do you have two engines?
That's the thing.
He said only one.
Only one, but it looked at the ride height.
It looked like it both had engines or maybe they'll like maybe only one had it
connected to axles and stuff, but it was pretty wild.
The guy had a bunch of weird cars.
He had this other snow plow thing and anyways, so that one Radis mod hard to
also, well, we also should say that I can't, I was trying to look at them closely.
I don't know if they're Dayton's or Roadster wheels, but they were like period
wire spoke, like, like low rider wheels and it also had like really cool splash
graphics, almost like, I don't know what it's called, but you know when like you're
at the fair and there's like that spinning disc and you drop the like the latex
paint on it.
What was that called?
Whatever that's called, like that sort of stuff on the side.
And yeah, so it was, it was really well done, but yeah, that was, that was a hard
one to beat, although we had some really heavy hitters and yeah, the GNX was the
something that was built by someone. Yeah, couldn't bring ourselves to do it,
you know, a dealership selling a car. We have import lane would have loved import
was a nine six four cup car from Europe that raced in the Porsche cup and it
had a fat turbo livery on the white one, right? Yeah, the white one. It was so sick.
I mean, it was like more nice, like personal favorite car there really.
I mean it was so rad, like the car that we'd want to take home kind of thing, you
know, and it was right next to a nine five nine to car rally tribute that was built
from a nine six four. So it was like, you know, it was cool, but definitely more
rad mod award potential than, you know, because it was not a real nine five nine.
It was so well done though. Like that is very well done. You could not tell dude.
I thought, yeah, that looks so even told that it had a nine five nine motor and like
built to the exact specs. So, you know, no one can really tell, right?
Like if you were driving it, it'd feel like a nine five nine. Yeah.
The cup car had been raced all throughout its life and then they had the graphics
reproduced by like an artist that does this and they don't know the artist that
made that livery in period was the same guy that invented the Rothmans livery for
all Porsche products, right? So, so like the nine six twos and nine five sixes that
you see out there that are Rothmans livery cars. He made that same livery for that
car in period. But so what the lady was saying is that she had, she had to find
him to reproduce the livery to make it for that car because it was all fucked up.
You know, like it had been like all worn out and stuff. So she found him to make it
again so that they can put it on that fat turbine, which is super cool. Yeah.
And it's a very weird livery. It's very busy and but very Radwood looks like, you
know, it's cool. So that one Radist import Radist domestic went to the racer, the car,
the race car wedge shall be made like 15 can am race cars that were Dodge Omni
powered and it's just other V sixes. Oh, it was a V six. Yeah. No, I'll get, I'll
get one of these stats, right? One of these days. And it's just like a full
like wedge fiberglass body over a tube frame race car. What is it called? It's
Shelby can am if you type in Shelby can am and it's about a half an inch off the
ground and there's not many left. I think he said this one was also never been
taken apart. So I'm guessing it's never been crash, but very cool, very unique
American race car that we've never seen one before. A couple cars here at this
show. We'd never seen in person. So it's always interesting, but that was one of
them. And then we had it's like from 1990. Yeah. Yeah. Early 90s. Yeah. It looks
like I asked him if it had like it looks like almost like a ground effect car,
you know, like from the early, like from the early 80s. There's a motor week
video, a retro review on it. I'm really red. Check it out. I wonder if it's that
car. It's a blue and white. I don't know what color that one is. Time warp. This
is a car that I would expect to see in Florida and Chevy Cavalier Z 24 lanes
favorite car blue over gray cloth automatic and the funniest part. I didn't
we didn't talk about this art, but when he accepted the award, he was like, I
just, we went to the dealership to get a car when I was in high school or
something. And I was bought a basic Cavalier, but I just always lusted after
that one in the showroom, the Z 24, which I could never have. It was way too nice
and an amazing car. And I finally got one, you know, two years ago. Yeah. And
it was like, so he got a just base Cavalier when he was a kid and then that
that Cavalier poster on his wall was of the Z 24 dude. Anyways, it was like
pretty much perfect original paint, like as good as you could get. Dreams are
made of or dreams are made of like the justification for higher education. Yeah.
That's right. It's a Cavalier and like a Dodge Omni and you know, like on the,
you know, on any of these, even like road and track had him and shit. Remember
at the back, you had like the black out lens covers that you could buy for
pretty much any car, but like he had that front and rear and it had the name of
that. It's probably like style auto or something like that. Or GTO used to be
a brand that would do that to you. Tio's and yeah, so he had that, but yeah,
it was really, really clean. Hey, it's like I always say dream small kids dream
small. You'll have a happy. You'll have a really happy life. I almost said that
and as he was accepting the ward, it's like, well, you really set the bar. Yeah.
Don't I don't want. I don't want a Camaro. Hell no. I can't. I'm not going to
dream that big Corvette. How dare you? First of all, how dare you Z 24. So that
one that and now we're on to truck truck scout. Yeah, really nice scout and you
said that we've never had a scout at Radwood and I don't think that's true. I
think we've had several. I don't think I don't remember have ever seen none.
That nice. That's for damn sure. What is that scout 1980 scout international
scout. They made them in the eight. I guess they did. It's the last of it's a
very light. They look all the same, but that's a very last of them. Yeah, this
one was super, super clean. It was like, I mean, as close as you can get to like
an iconist kind of thing without spending millions of dollars. I always think
of a seventies or six, you know, seventies cars, sixties, fifties or whatever.
It was not a lot of trucks at the show, actually, and there was that f 150
lightning, the second gen, you know, the rounded one black, black on black, but
it was, it looks, you know, as closer to a driver quality, the scout was like
perfect. And the guy said he's on like 30 scouts or something.
You don't have cool graphics. I imagine those eighties ones too. Yeah, it was
like a kind of ice blue with with graphics. Yeah, it was a tartan and
tart like blue and white and green tartan interior with a really nice, like
multi-piece wooden steering wheel that was like had like brass rivets and stuff.
It was, yeah, whole interior was super nice and he was actually really cool about
it too. He let so many people in and out of it. Like he had the door open like
almost the, almost the entire time and people were climbing in and out of it
just like no big deal. And the thing was like impeccable. So that was also
commendable. You know, the fact that he was like that cool about the car, not
being like keep your children away from it. He's more like get your children
in here and close the door. I'm going to drive away with them. Yeah, it looks
like 1980 was the last year. Yeah, that was probably that was last year
then last of it. And then this brings us to Radiston show. Yes, it does went
to which I love how much publicity this thing is getting. By the way, like it's
popping up a lot right now and I think we did our job. Yeah, it's a
1992 Venturi 400 trophy, which we've probably talked about a couple of times
in the past in here. Mostly Lane just saying how they're really shitty, but
but they are like a little French F 40 kind of thing. So they're a race car.
They did make some street versions. The race cars are really easy to convert
to street use because they're essentially the same, you know, like they're not
very far off, but except the race cars have, you know, like a roll cage and
like very minimal interior and shit. But but yeah, it's effectively like think
of like carbon Kevlar kit car that was made in France replicating kind of an
F 40. It's a little bit smaller than an F 40 though. So it's like scaled down
a little bit, not quite three quarter size, but just a smidge. Yeah. And
you know, twin turbo V six. It's the PRV. It's that, you know, that what is it
Pujo Renault Volvo V six that was used in everything. Was that in the DeLorean
also? Yeah, that was used in a DeLorean and we had a DeLorean really horrible
and lame, worthless like approach there, right? Whereas like these guys actually
like souped it up. They try to use it to its full potential head gaskets are
yeah known for just popping head gaskets. If you look at it wrong. So this
thing's 400 is a little over 400 horsepower, carbon Kevlar body, you know,
fully independent front rear suspension, tubular chassis. And they did have a
small like sort of central monocoque section, but the rest of the back when
you see it, when you open up the bonnet, if you will, it's like there's barely
anything to the car. And they do they did. I said they made 15 street versions,
but there's you can, you can street legalize these. I got to drive it on the
street, which is pretty rad with no license plate. And this is like the classic
like pebble thing, you know, when you're like during the car week or sort of
Amelia Island, you see a lot of that kind of stuff, right? Where you can just
drive race cars in the street. No one harasses you. So I was really stoked to
be able to pull that off. I just drove it to like, not very far, you know,
how to drive. Well, I mean, I didn't get to really push it because it was
in Valais. Yeah, but I mean, how did I mean, you still, but I, I love the seating
position and visibility. It's very similar to an F 40, like sitting like, you
know, what you see around you. And you also have, I'd say that a surprisingly
like really light steering. I didn't check if it has power steering, but the
steering, because I guess the car's so light up front, you know, and like it
maybe that's why, but like I might the steering, the steering of my E 30, even
with 150 pounds removed off of the front and it bled and all the shit that I've
done to it, like it's still heavier than this. And so yeah, that felt nice. The
clutch is actually the engagement is really nice. It's a very progressive. It's
very easy to modulate, not super crazy race car shit. It is twin turbo laggy and
it was, and it does not like to run cold. So like Camisa posted a video of like
me, like when I pulled it across the street and I had it shut off for like
five minutes, fired it back up and it's like, you know, it like, you know, spits
and coughs and like it's just, it's definitely, once it's warm, it ran
beautifully. It idled perfectly. I sat in traffic. Everything came on nicely.
Temperatures were look, look good. So it's actually like a very usable car really.
But in this case, you know, like it is a super stripped down version and you're
in like, I think it was like a pole position or something. Well, how many
influencers were around you? Oh dude. Yeah. That was the thing. Like every,
every time I drove it was a freaking scene and like the first time when I got
asked their car, so they asked for a car on up from our side, if we can pull
something. And so I knew that one was available and also like for Keith, like
it would be easy, right? Like he didn't have to deal with having to retrieve the
car after the show. So like he would be down and he's like, Oh, absolutely,
please take it. You know, so as I was crossing the street to get over there,
like it was a freaking crowd and of course they stopped directly in front of
you, like filming. And so I just keep like rally style, like, you know, group B
rally, like you just keep going, you know, cause otherwise like you're going to
sit there. So I just kept like driving and then like little by little, they
start to like disperse, but it was quite the scene. But yeah, this was a YAKO
liveried car. So why a CCO and more and I looked it up because, you know, naturally
like a lot of these Euro sponsored cars, we have no idea before you say that
Lane, have you ever heard of YAKO? Never. We hadn't either, right? What is it?
Yeah, it's a French oil company that has an active business still today.
Yeah, selling and market oil. I've never heard. Crazy. Yeah. And it's a lot of it
is motorsport centric too. Like they do like a lot of motorsporty kind of oil.
So it's not even just like you're running the mill stuff. So, so this car was at
the quail, right? This exact car, like because I remember, I think I took a
picture of this car before. I don't know. Looking your archives because I believe
I believe I photographed this car. I feel like I'd seen it, but then I couldn't
place it either. I did do. I was trying to find history on it because Keith
doesn't, he's still working on compiling data on the car, like just like all the
background on it. And I couldn't find results for it. And as a matter of fact,
I couldn't find any results for anything in the series. Like it wasn't very well
documented because then these cars were built for a series called the Venturi
Gentleman Drivers. That's great. It was like very, very imaginative. But so yeah,
it was a series that ran across Europe on all of the major tracks. And it was
like inspired by the Porsche cup, which, you know, used 9 11's, but was way more
expensive to get into. So these guys are like, well, we can, we can start this
other series. And it ran for, I think four seasons that actually did run for longer
than I thought, but I can't find any data on results or anything. So Keith claims
that it was a solid mid pack car from what I, from what I gathered, that seems to
be the case. I think a podium twice. But, but yeah, the cars were all a spec, you
know, it was a spec series. They're all the same. So it was all drivers really kind
of making a difference. But that, that is the Radwood portion of it. We also went
to the Concord. We also went to broader auctions. We saw so much stuff. I'm
trying to think of it just like stand out kind of like bullet points here art. If
you have any, anything that really pops out at you. It's just, yeah, Dario
Franckini was the honoree. So every year they pick one person to show like their
career in the cars that they drove throughout time. They had an interesting
like McLaren Indy car with some cool arrow. What else? They, at the Amelia, it's
a little unique like compared to Pebble Beach where they do two best in shows,
one's a Concord of Sport and one is like a classic Concord vehicle. So in this
case, it was a Duesenberg and McLaren like can Amcar that won the two awards,
which is always kind of cool. I kind of like that because it's hard to judge.
Like you can't judge a fricking period race car versus some deli hay or something,
you know? Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. Nice to have that option. So that's the way they do it.
It was a very nice day. Warm weather. Then the next day. Yeah. The next day was the
cars and caffeine. They call it cars and coffee that they, I think they've just been
always had this as part of the Amelia weekend. And so it's a much cheaper ticket
and it's 500 cars and it's on the same property as the big show. They've moved it.
So the Concord Saturday cars and coffee Sunday, Art and I helped run that on our
part of the property. And it's funny. This is like professional cars and coffee.
Like if you're, if you're going to Capitola cars and coffee here or morning motors,
you're just in the minor leagues. You're not doing the full build out with, if you
have a Volkswagen bus, you got to have a surfboard, the picnic setup, the camping
gear, the barbecue, the chairs, all the stuff. If you've got a Corvette, you're
going to need a little timeout doll that has, you know, is kind of leaning against the
bumper and there's a plaque that says everything about the whole car and you got
name tags on with your buddies because you're in the Corvette club. Oh, do we see
our first Radwood timeout doll? That was at the car. So that was that was that Radwood ish.
That was at Radwood at the Suzuki sidekick at it. Yeah. What is that? We've been saying
we're going to do it for years, but we've finally made it boys. And then, you know,
like every Pontiac GTO has the plaque with all their stats and then like a tiger on
the steering wheel and the people are wearing matching clothes and like this is a
generational cars and coffee. This is the 31st Amelia Island. So 31 years of this culture,
breeding and, you know, getting stronger Florida man. But for the most part is a good
variety. There was everything from like the new, you know, brand new Morgan arrow, not
brand new, but, you know, modern and then all the way to like the classics, hot rods
and stuff like that. Some really cool customs, all the fun stuff, cars, all fun stuff. Yeah.
It's always great dealing with that crowd too, right? Because one, I'm being sarcastic
for the first thing I'll say, because they're very particular about placement. Like they
don't want to be next to other people that are not the same as them, right? So you're
going to put that forward next to my Chevy or that foreign job next to my whatever. Like
they, like they were very particular about that. They want to be next to their crew. And
then the opposite thing is that they're so like their whole purpose of being there is
to, is to talk to you about their car, right? Like it's just they're there. They got their
chair, they got their, they want to make it like a little presentation. Like this is our
TED talk, like welcome, right? Let's get into it. Odd, right? Because they don't explore.
They're just like sitting there with their car. Dude. So this was also a kick in the
nuts is that Art and I had to be up super early every morning. And then Sunday was the
time change. So it's an extra hour of darkness. So we're parking hundreds of cars in the dark
and these guys literally lane pull up there in half an hour early. So we get there. There's
already a Mustang waiting. Of course there was and they're like, yeah, you know, we just
wanted to, we know how this goes, you know, the first line and we're like, yeah, good,
good. So we park them. They immediately just get their chairs out and sit down. It is pitch
black. It's six 15 in the morning. It is dark as dark as it gets and they are in their chairs.
Just here we are. Good to go. Let's let's do this. And that they stayed there the whole
time. Like I don't know if they ever left here. Pretty cool. Sweet. Awesome. How about
and speak? I thought you really mentioned the headlights blinding us because they put
also these LED lights in their vintage cars and they were just coming right at us pitch
black. Like you couldn't see anything. You see that projector in the three fifty six
headlight I sent you lane. Oh yeah. That should be illegal, dude, illegal. Like it was
like an HID projector. You got to be like that. You got to be like the shopping cart
police, dude. You know on Instagram. Yeah, you got to put the magnet on be like illegal
there. They radioed ahead saying it's a Porsche three fifty six here. I'd send it down
and then the lights. I'm like, well, he got that wrong. This isn't a three fifty six.
Nope. It was. Yeah. That was that was heavy duty. But yeah, you'd have like there's
some cool cars out for sure though. There's good Volkswagen's e-type Jags. Cool. You know,
long, Morgan Aero Max, Morgan Aero Max, which I thought was very cool to see in person.
Yeah, there's there's neat builds for sure. And but man, professional. It was also funny.
We were working with the same crew that's been doing this for 10, 20 years and old timers.
Nice, nice guys. But they were really shocked that we could do this without flat. They flag
every single car where they're supposed to be like we just did them and like if they
made like we did a row like I put a cone on one one side of the fairway and one on the
other and that's going to be the row, right? And then I walk it off and you do another row
and then as they come in, you just park them in straight. They would flag put flags on
each car where each car needed to be perfectly measured on stuff and they couldn't believe
it and it worked perfect. It was all fine. And they're like, oh, wow. Yeah, thanks so
much. This is great. We usually have to flag every single car. They do they do every corner
of the car. Yeah. Whoa. But yeah. And also we don't know. That's the thing is that we've
gotten we become experts at this because we have to improvise based on whatever arrives,
right? Like and in this particular scenario, especially when you're dealing with a cars
and coffee situation, this these cars are going to arrive randomly. And so, you know,
you don't know if you're going to get a truck or if you're going to get a freaking Austin
Healy, right? So like if you're doing that, now you have weird gaps between the cars,
right? Because one's way bigger than the other one and all that. So like you have to really
kind of space them out as they come. And so, but yeah, it looked good. Yeah, we the powers
that be complimented us on that side of things and it all it all it all, you know, worked
out well. I did want to go back real quick to the concor the day before when we walked
through because I saw a car that I didn't even know existed. And it's one of my favorite.
I think, you know, and it's it's a well known. It's known to be sorry. One of the most beautiful
car cars ever made, which is Ferrari 412 P. If you look that up, you know, you'll see
you'll recognize it. It's the one that raced against the four GT forties in period and
it's like super curvaceous, extremely low car and it's got the really cool little canards
on either side, kind of like cat fishy looking face. But there was a yellow one and I did
not know that they made a yellow one and this is the only one they ever made and it was a
stunning car to look at in person and obviously has a lot of presence, like just that body
in the chat or on our text thread. Yeah, such a cool car. And then it was yellow with bronze
wheels. So such a great look and it did win its class, I think, but that was a standout
for me. And then of course, naturally, you know, there's everything you can imagine
there. But the other car that I was obsessed with was an amethyst purple or amethyst pearl
nine, six, four RS with amethyst to gray gradient inserts on the recurrent pole positions
and, you know, it's just so clean. You know, it's like it's like it's the car that I want.
You know, of course, that's that was a big and it did win its own class. I don't know
what I can't remember what the class was called, but it won against, you know, courage ETS
and a bunch of other stuff. So they appreciated it, but it was just that beautiful. It's
like, you know, purpley burgundy kind of color. There was a 944 turbo race car that was, I
think it's just tube frame laying, you know, wide body. Yeah. Really cool. I'll send it
to you also, but just one of those cars that you don't see very often around and feature
all to see what it looks like because there's like different. It was a 924 probably or wait
was it? It's a 944. I'm reading it. No, I have a shot of it. It's a nine four nine
four four and the race number is forty four because most of our nine twenty four. Oh,
it's a nine forty four turbo GTR. Oh, that's cool dude. Yeah, very cool, very cool. But
you know, like full one piece fiberglass front end. Yeah, it loses a little bit of its portion
as because when you look inside, it's like there's no gauges, right? It's gone. But speaking
of which, we were at the broader auction and they had the nine six eight RS. What are they
calling it? Turbo RS? Turbo S? Yeah, nine six eight. Turbo RS, the black one. So one of
whatever. And this one is like in as race condition needs work and I don't know what it
ended up selling for, but it was going to be over a million dollars for a nine six eight.
Yeah, we didn't hear what it sold for, huh? And that's actually one too. And when you
looked at it, it's very much a nine six eight. It was just that they did all the bits and
pieces that they could figure out to do to it. Yeah. So it's basically like a nine six
eight cup car that they've just, you know, made it as good as they could. And this is
a black car with like underwhelming livery and it definitely wasn't super nice. It wasn't
had like work to do. Like the antenna was like missing and just like stuff like that.
You're like, man, didn't even didn't do much, but you know, it's all a numbers game and
I have a number for you. Okay. So it did not reach its one million dollar estimate.
That does not surprise me. Yeah. Seven seventy five. Did it sell for that? Or did it just
get bid to that? It says final price sold. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So that makes
more sense. I mean, it's still, yeah, because you said it wasn't that clean, right? It's
like now and the livery wasn't iconic at all. It was just black with these like tic-tac
bubbles on it and it just didn't do any black. Doesn't do anything for a race. Feels like
that, that, that silver one, that turbo would be way, would be worth more. The Zermatt
silver one. Yeah. That's how far I don't know, but that feels like it would be that looked
like a nice car. Like more usable too and just prettier, you know, like more of a collector,
collector grade kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. And that's yeah. That was a beauty. Yeah.
It's going to take too long to search that. I was going to try to find the, what the result
of that was, but there were some world records though at at. Well, let's get into trivia,
shall we? Oh, wait, did you guys watch the race? Yeah, we did. We got to, there was a,
so after cars and coffee ended, we loaded out and got everything packed up and ready
to go. We took off and we had time to watch the race. So we were stoked because also Art
and I didn't get spoiled, which was a miracle. Can you imagine being at a fucking concor
and? Oh my God, not. Yeah, I know. And they're qualifying. Max, Max for soften fucking crash
on his opening lap. Yeah. What are you thinking? Is this a, I mean, Mercedes looks good. Yeah,
but I just, what do you guys think about this whole rule set change and everything? I mean,
it's like kind of weird, right? That first, it's confusing, but I think it's rad. I mean,
I read a stat that the first race of the season has historically had like something like
between 45 and 50 passes and this one had over 140. I know, but was it, is it real? I mean,
it's kind of like just because it's all about the, I know, but it's all the, it's just the
battery charging thing, right? It's a strategy of how to use it, right? Yeah, but it's just
the battery charging. It's all like kind of, it's just when you're charging your battery
and when you're not. So when you select to use it and then not, but it feels like that
stuff's all going to even out, right? Everyone's going to learn how to use that and stuff.
And it's just kind of, yeah, it's just another skill, right? Just as like Max said, he's
like, yeah, like that doesn't, he's like, I don't really care about the rules at all.
It's just more like figuring out how to maximize what we have and then the best man figures
it out, right? A couple of the cars are doing some weird stuff like Max's accident was definitely
not his fault, right? And then a couple of the other things were like a couple of the
other ones, like Piazzteries. I don't think it was his.
Piazzteries was a hundred percent a surge problem. Yeah. It was like the car just power
it once and exactly and Max's the, the, the motor like locked up or something. Yeah. It
was like some weird stuff happening for sure. Like with the car problems, right? Like they're
still figuring it out. I mean both from not, not just drivers, but also the engineers are
still figuring these cars out. I think the cars look great. Yeah, I do too. They look
smaller and tidier on the track. Like we were noticing like just there's more room to,
to maneuver and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But that was a couple laps. It was super exciting.
It was fun to watch. It was really fun to watch. Yeah. That was like, whoa, this is awesome.
Like he can just go and pass them again. Like that used to be, oh, he's done gone. Like the
move is over. Let's move on to the next thing. And it's like, whoa, it did make for a lot
of like screaming and yelling. The second half was boring. You know, what did you guys,
did you guys, so actually hold on, let me step back. Warren and I, we played it on my
laptop because we couldn't hook up to the TV and I just like, I have my, the Apple TV app,
you know, and so we just played it, whatever. And I just clicked on the race. We were excited
to watch it. But when I'm pretty sure that when we looked at it, he was sitting right next to me,
right? Warren was. There was no Sky Sports option. It was just, it was the other. I don't
think there is. I think we'd lost Brundle. Check this out. Yeah, I went. I looked at it. I
know to hold on. No, no, we did it. Okay. So yesterday I went because I saw some replays
that were Sky Sports and I'm like, what the fuck? Like we didn't see any of this and
there's a Sky Sports race recap, like full race recap or replay on the app now. So like
they don't the broadcast in the US is the US version, but then after the fact, they add
the Euro one on the app. So can you watch it live though? But can you watch it live?
Like you used to be able to switch between the two. We weren't able to. I tried, but
maybe I don't know if like it's some sort of rights thing where they can't. You can't
watch the Sky Sports one live in the US, but then you can watch it after the fact. That's
a bummer though. Cause dude, it's a total bummer because it kind of sucked dude. Like there
was a lot of weird shit. I do not like Alex. I do not like Alex Jakes. No, I do not like
his commentary. I know there's the commentary and also the way that they're shooting it.
Like they're not they're focused solely on the front and there's all this stuff happening
in the mid pack that they don't show you and like and so there's a lot of activity that
we missed also at the start of the race. I saw this after the fact on the Sky Sports
thing that somehow popped up where at the start of the race, I can't even remember who
it was, but they stalled. It might have been Kimi or someone and then Gasly almost slammed
into him and like went around him like might have at Holkenberg. I think it was Holkenberg
and might have at Holkenberg. Yeah, it was like a very exciting shot of like basically
like coming up on someone, moving over someone stopped in the middle of the road, going around
them, like missing them by a hair. You know, how was that start? By the way, the Ferrari
student, that was exactly what they said was going to happen with the small turbos. I
was insane. That was pretty exciting. I mean, I was, yeah, it was cool. Like you said,
first half was exciting. It felt like Ferrari bungled some strategy. Of course we could
have done better, right? Yeah, they're Ferrari and Ferrari, but like overall, I mean, it's
pretty fun to see Mercedes Ferrari at the top. The other guys need to like catch up and
and figure it out. Yeah, it was, it was an entertaining race. Like 20 laps or like,
all right, we know what's going to happen here. It could be like a Braun GP thing. I
think it could be like that Braun year where, you know, Mercedes like has it these first
like six, seven races, six and then everyone figures it out and then everyone kind of
figures it out. And you know, as Mercedes like these other, the thing I'm trying to figure
out is like, there's four, three or four team or four or five teams that have Mercedes
engines. Why are they not? Where is their power or what's happening with them? Yeah,
yeah, I think, I think it's the battery stuff and they're yet like McLaren. I know is yelling
at Mercedes and they're kind of like they're, you know, what's the same is saying like Mercedes
is like hiding stuff from us and this is not right kind of course because, you know,
as a supplier, they need to be transparent basically. Yeah, right? Yeah, no doubt that
that that the other Mercedes are the most powerful car on the track right now. Yeah,
but yeah, I think it's yeah, it's going to be an interesting season and it's exciting.
I think it's shaking things up and like it's kind of, you know, it's going to make it
for like because both everybody's learning, right? So as it all evolves, like it's it's
going to make for some interesting racing. Yeah, like all of the different details are
trippy though. So Warren, I figured it out. I went and researched it because we couldn't
figure out what the SM was. Remember? Oh yeah. So there's straight mode. That's the arrow
just the arrow. Yeah. So remember the arrow would go like when they were going straight,
the arrow just opens up. It looks crazy. Oh, one of those flaps open. Yeah, and then
there's like homosexual mode. So well, no, it's like it's whatever the other it's breaking
mode or something or but that BM. No, it's not. What is it? Is it shit? What is it on?
Is it's break or curve or something mode? But the other one is when you're decelerating,
you know, or unique that makes sense. I was. I think we finally came up with speed management
which we had all sorts of stuff because all the arrows up top now. It's not, you know,
dude, cornering mode. So cornering mode gives you the arrow, which makes sense, right?
Because it wasn't just under breaking. I think they were like, yeah, like sharp turns. So
yeah. So cornering mode is when you get the full arrow. They're calling that cornering
unlimited mode. Well, the other thing with that is that they do have control. So it's
within a certain it's like DRS where like they're actually in a specific, you know,
place on the track. That was a joke, but we'll get it later. Went over my head, but
cornering unlimited mode, cornering unlimited mode.
All right. Oh, I got you and your acronyms for having a good time.
Yes, good over boost to over boost is trippy. Next up is what China? What's the next race?
Yeah, I think so. Something like that China Shanghai and you got a little hang at B line
for the race lane. Yeah, it was fun. Nice. And then you went to a track day. Yeah, I
just, I just stopped by a little velocity. Like I liked your photos. Those are great.
Oh, thanks. I looked empty out there, but good. Yeah. Super like a bunch of cool cars
like good diversity of new shit and old stuff. And yeah, it was good. We went to lunch last
week. You and I went to lunch with our boy Rick and Ryan Terry. So Ricky, he invited
us out there. So we should all go to velocity. Let's go. Yeah, I know. Let's do us. Let's
do velocity, dude. I want to go to velocities. And then you're headed to Japan tomorrow.
Going Japan tomorrow. God dang. How's that? How's that shaping up? Are you meeting with
anyone other than like Clark and the team over there? Do you have anyone else that's
going? Simon's going. Yeah, dude. Why is he going? What the hell is he going to? Who else
is going? John Absmeyer is going to be there, who was on in the GT four RS on our rally.
The black one. Yeah, it was for Toyota. He's over there a lot, right? Yeah, he lives
over there like two to three weeks a month. Yeah. And so he'll be there and he'll be
he's going on the type seven, like McGarregawa thing. Yeah, yeah, nice. Yeah, there's going
to be quite a few people there. I talked to Mark Arsenal. He's going to be there. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, a lot of people. I talked to his work. He's going to be there. Patrick
long. Obviously he'll be there. I talked to him, you know, like all these people,
you know, how long are you going for? Not that long. Actually, I mean, I'll be there
for five days, but I'm gone for six. I guess, you know, it's like I'm I get back on Tuesday,
but I lose a day. Yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Kellen. Kellen said that he's in Taiwan right now
and yeah, like he's considering going over there. I mean, he should do it's like easy
mode there, right? And he also has no kids, especially time changing stuff. That's like
the hardest battle. Yeah, he won't. You won't have to deal with that if he's already there.
Yeah. So here's the mode for him, dude. He should definitely go get all easy mode on
it. Come on, brother. Hit it up. Come on, dude. Let's go. Have that'll be fun. Yeah.
Oh shoot. We have five questions. Let me see. Whoa, dude. We actually got questions.
I don't know if we want to do this or we're going to save these. I can just they're not
they're not related to the Amelia per se and we had so much to talk about. So thank you
for the questions, guys. We will answer them next week trivia time.
It's trivia time. I just wanted to mention a few of these trends we're seeing in the
auction world. I had a chance to sit briefly with. So if you ever use Haggerty's
valuation tools, there's a whole team that does that. Our friend John is like a savant
with these data sets and it's fun to talk to him because like that's who provides all this
feedback and they do like the bull market list and all these things. And we're just trying
to make sense of it because every auction, it seems like the last three auctions have
been like record setting world record, you know, stuff. So this year for auctions looks
like it's going to be very big. In fact, the broad arrow auction at Amelia sold a black
Enzo. I think art probably saw it and Lane, did you see how much it sold for 450 miles
black? Oh, I heard something about this, but I didn't see the exact number. Yeah. So this
year at RetroMobile, one with 178 miles red sold for 9.8 million. In Arizona, one with
740 miles sold for 9.3. Geez. This one's black, which is a very rare color. I can't
remember 450 miles broad arrow, 15 million dollars. What the fuck? I thought they were
like, I was thinking there were five. I know. And I was like, I thought that was crazy.
Kissimmee Meekum auctions sold two. One was 3,700 miles, was 11 million. And then the
yellow Enzo, this is this year sold for 17.8 million. And that was the one that was the
outlier because it's part of some prominent collection, right? Dude, these are automatic
cars, right? This is crazy, dude. Like I thought these would, that makes sense that that Carrera
GT went for like five something then, five seven or whatever. That's the next thing is,
so Carrera GT, right? We know these cars pretty well. And I'm just going to mention the
broad arrow auction set the record 6.7 million dollars. But the other cars that were sold
this year sold for how much? Come here, ballpark guests. Carrera GTs? Yeah. What is a Carrera
GT transacting for this year? On average. Yeah. I thought they were like in the like
1.9 or something. 1.8. That's where I was at. That's where I would have been at 3. 3 plus.
So but judging by this, they should be, they should be Enzo money, dude. Really? Or more?
Like, right? They're a manual, dude. Manual V10. They just made more of them, but 3. 085
3.1 3.3 were the last three sales this year. So Miami, Amelia, Arizona, and then this was
2X. So 6,715 thousand dollars for a Carrera GT. The one that struck me the most was, well,
there's two. There's the 951 sale ugly like Robin's like blue. I know, which is another
paint to sample the situation, right? You're like numbers one of one. Lamborghini, Lamborghini
Mira P 400 SV. Oh, I heard this. I don't know the number on this one. Yeah. Okay. Good.
All right. This will be a good one. Where's a Mira? This is a Mira 72 P 400 SV. It's in
a nice dark blue. And I'm trying to see if there's anything else interesting about it. 18,000
18,300 miles from new. So it's a lot. That's a lot.
But who cares about miles on an old car like that? I mean, it's been redone, of course. Yeah,
so 1972 Mira, what does it sell for? And again, let me let me ask you this. What do you think
a Mira costs? Like last year, what a Mira would have cost 1.5?
1.5. I would say more like five. Okay. Wow. Five. Because they've been they've been on
the up. They've been like that for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. The nicest ones, right? They've
kind of done that. All right. So what's your guess? Damn, I'm so clueless. I'm going to say
like eight. And then and the the car GT was 6.2 6.7. Alright, I'm going to go 6767 on the
mirror. That's a good guess. $6.6 million for a Mira. What are most recent? Do you have any
recent sales on that situation? Oh, actually, I don't. I'm sorry. It said that there was a
white 68 Lamborghini Mira at this same sale. I didn't see this car sold for 2.1. So there's
a non SV. There was a white brown arrow one. Yeah. Oh, dang, where were these cars? I wonder
I think they were tucked on the other side of the building. We just didn't get over there.
Oh, remember we saw it through the window and we're like, Oh, yeah, there's a whole other side
by the waterfront there. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to see a white mirror. That's awesome. And then
the other crazy one is 2017 Ferrari F12 TDF, which I think this one I know and it's unbelievable,
which that in my mind should be like $250,000, like depreciated from 2017. You know what I
mean? But I think it was like, you know, zero miles, one of one color, blah, blah, blah.
$4,185,000. And then here's the kicker of them all. 1988 Porsche 959 Sport in white with
graphics sold for $5,505,000. So the lesson is just keep your fucking cars?
The lesson is, I think people are freaked the fuck out with the way the world is right now.
And if you have the means, you want to hold something like physical that you can look at
and have and not have to worry about like the market or bitcoins. Dude, but they also talk
about the market crashing for cars, dude. Like what? Well, that's not happening this year.
Well, not there, right? Maybe it's just these. It's when you're talking about billionaires
moving money around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. That's your market look at
Amelia and just the beginning of 2026. It's off to the races. So all these cars were like
world records. The cars that the Mika auction were ton, ton of records. It's crazy. And
we're talking about the, you know, 00.1, 0.001% of the market. It's also the same like
2000 people buying all these cars, but too. Yeah, you're probably right or whatever. You know,
it's like same people buying all the new cars that are all, you know, three million dollars
plus. It's like it's just assets, right? And then it's sad too, right? This, you know,
these ends with 400 miles. Like what is this? You're just rolling it into a trailer. You're
taking it to the other climate controlled. Pretty rad that I saw one ice racing and
that's why I said those last week. Those are very expensive cars now and they're not
all going to be worth 15 million. Don't get me wrong, but hey, but it's worth at least
five million. Tide has risen. Yeah. All right. I think that's podcast. We'll have more for
you next week and sorry about the questions, but we will get those next episode. See you
later. Okay. Bye. Bye.
About this episode
The hosts share their recent adventures including a trip to Florida where they encountered wildlife like armadillos and discussed the unique environment and culture there. They also cover highlights from Radwood Amelia, praising the expanded venue and diverse car displays, especially the impressive collection of Porsche transaxle models and 944 cabrios. The conversation touches on the rarity and charm of these cars, including a notable right-hand-drive 944 S2 cab with a unique color and provenance. Alongside car talk, they reflect on Florida's weather, wildlife, and local quirks, blending automotive enthusiasm with travel stories.
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carbon Kevlar body
cars and coffee
fully independent front rear suspension
Group B rally
head gasket
importing car parts from Japan
LS swap
NASCAR livery
PRV V6 engine
Audi S4
BMW 3 Series
BMW 5 Series
BMW M3
BMW M5
Buick GNX
Buick Grand National
Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet Corvette
Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Dodge Omni
Ferrari 412
Ferrari F12 Berlinetta
Ferrari F12tdf
Ferrari F40
Ford F-150 Lightning
Ford GT
Ford Mustang
Ford Ranger
Honda CRX
Honda S2000
Hyundai Santa Cruz
Jaguar E-Type
Jeep Grand Wagoneer
Lamborghini Miura
Mazda MX-5 / Miata
Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG
Mercedes-Benz G-Class
Morgan Aero 8
Morgan AeroMax
Nissan Skyline
Nissan Z
Pontiac GTO
Porsche 356
Porsche 928
Porsche 944
Porsche 959
Porsche 968
Porsche Carrera GT
Venturi 400 Trophy
Volkswagen Bus
Volkswagen Golf
Driving While Awesome
Lane Skelton, Warren Madsen, Art Cervantes
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