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That's where somebody sends me in a letter, asked me a question, and I try to get to the bottom of it. So we're gonna jump right into it.

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Speaker 3: Good feeling great, good, good, good good.

Speaker 2: So you guys ready for the first topic. I'm ready,

always ready, let me go.

Speaker 3: So if you guys listen to a couple episodes ago, and we talked about a couple different times, we've been telling you about the whole Honda Nissan merge, and of course you got Mission Bishi thrown in there, and then Renaults thrown in there too, because they're all kinds of products and divisions that have been bought. So one of

the questions that was given to me this week was like, so, what would be Honda's interest in doing it? And you know,

Nathaniel and I we agree on some of it. We

disagree a little bit on and I'll say it's disagreement.

We just had probably different views on it. I did

a little research. I start looking at it looks like

Honda's real interest in doing this merger deal not only does it bail out Nissan, okay, but it's because they lack something that they need from Nissan. And then of

course everybody's like, oh, what what could they possibly lacking?

Honda forever has been trying to break into the truck market, I mean, and everybody goes, well, they got the ridge line.

I'm like, well, that's not really I mean it's a truck, but I wouldn't really, I mean, I wouldn't drive that thing off road anywhere or do anything with it.

Speaker 2: But Nis mail too.

Speaker 3: But Nissan already has a truck division that works. I'm

not saying it's the best selling truck division, but it's a truck division that's already developed and already works. So

imagine taking the truck division, maybe swapping more Honda parts into it, at least the motors, which you know, Honda's seen to last forever. Transmissions tend to be a little

week sometimes in certain models. But if you could take

the best of the technology and swap it over into a Nissan truck U, now you have a truck division that you didn't have. That's a stable truck division. So

I kind of get that, and I understand how that all kinds of comes together. I don't think anybody really

has any interest in the Misubishi side of it. They

definitely wouldn't have any interested in the Renault side of it.

Maybe that sells better than here no way, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4: I mean, And honestly, I would have thought they were probably taken the racing team portion of it. Told me that, Yeah,

because like I mean, GTRs, they're not like really has a great racing team. They do they do with their Honda,

Honda the Performance or something like that. Imagine them taking

the GTR, the Nissan GTR and kind of doing their I mean, would people call it Alamo.

Speaker 3: But here's the thing, all right, so pull that thought for a second. How first of all, how many GTRs

you see running around? That's why I said it's really rare.

It's it's not that it's rare, you just don't see a lot running around. And then of course, you know,

I had a friend that you had to be certified to work on a GTR, so he had to go like all his school and stuff, and then if you know, if one came in, he was like the only person that could work on it. So there's a lot of

stuff that was like Now, other car companies have done that in the past. I think I told you guys

the story. It was Cadillac, I believe. So Cadillac was

trying to do the strap on the hoods or whatever you couldn't pop the hood on the car, and he broke the strap.

Speaker 2: You know, it's supposedly what warranty And.

Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody stuff there wasn't. It's just the people try

to if you guys look and I'm sure your state has it, but it's the big huge letter that you had the right to choose who works on your car.

Speaker 2: Stuff like that.

Speaker 3: Well, a lot of that came more about in that big huge flyer letter that people printed all the garages.

It's on the wall because they're being told all the things that dealerships. They'll be like, oh, you can't let

anybody work on your car. If anybody else works in

your car, avoids that warranty. And I'm like like, no, no,

it doesn't like what a silly thing to say. But

they tried. And the reason why I was the big

push right, So you had to push to try to Everything always went back to the dealer. And in our

grandparents day and age, a lot of people took their car back to the dealership and just let them do the work. They just that's who did all their work.

I remember my dad used to take his even we the technician when he bought a cat. My dad went

through a Cadillac's phase and he went through the Cadillact when he it went back to the Cadillac and had that worked on it. So now my generation were not

really the only thing in my car ever went back to the dealership for really is if it needed some type of warranty work or whatever like that. Now everybody says, well,

don't you take your Toylet over Toyota and Let. I'm like, yeah,

because it came with a bunch of free oil changes when I bought it, and so of course I use those.

Speaker 2: If you bought it from there, it should probably is best to take it there. So if you have any

proms or they mess anything up, maybe I mean, I'm I'm always a.

Speaker 3: Uh, your local auto garage guy. You guys know that

we talked about the reason why we were partnering up with an app Auto group. So because I just like,

I like dealing with family owned garages and knowing those people and building those relationships. I've always liked that. That's

just me, maybe because I grew up with, you know, my parents being in an automotive business and having aut of garages and their customers having the same customers. So

maybe it's just embreedded to me, But I get it when it comes to manufacturing the side of cars and stuff like that, I I don't think it's the end of us seeing dealerships go away. I told you guys

once before, I really thought, and there seems to be a little bit of rumbling around this now, that I thought that Jeep would do better if a Jeep was a standalone business away from Dodge. If you just made

Jeep more like a beautique type of dealership that's small, just focused on selling Jeeps. I think that, and then

you educate those people on Jeeps, just jeeps, I think they would sell more.

Speaker 2: I just and I think you could do. I don't

know if there's enough Jeep lovers. I think there is.

I really do believe there is. But I think you

could do better.

Speaker 3: You don't need a huge dealership, a big Dodge dealership.

Then you have, you know, twenty Jeeps over here in the corners. You're trying to sell the Dodge dealership if

you had ten Jeeps on the lot. And I think

it's a good take, and you train the people about them.

Speaker 2: I think it's good thinking for back then to have different dealerships hold different vehicles. I think we're kind of

past that time of you know, you kind of need everything kind of in the same room. So people can

come back care So hold on.

Speaker 4: I do kind of agree with Nate where I think it should kind of be like a shopping mall of everything.

Speaker 2: Now because I want to go ten miles to the jeep store. And you know there.

Speaker 3: Was too, I know there was. There was, so there

was a business model I want to I can't remember.

I don't think you guys might have just been bored.

And I went to this seminar and stuff and it was automotive related, but they were They were kind of pitching the whole idea where you sell every manufacturer underneath one roof and one building where somebody wants to come and it's all the top models obviously, and they don't have a whole bunch from there.

Speaker 2: They have maybe.

Speaker 3: Almost like when I told you when when I was at Toyota and we had just then the seeing the van was popping and we had the three, the ce L E and the x L E. We had them

out front and they were for test drides and then you said you want to buy it, and we got you your cars, and like we had a bunch of them sitting around. You could do that, and they were

pitching that idea. But I think where that maybe came

into problem was is getting all the manufacturers to be okay with it all being underneath one roof. You know,

I don't want to be I don't want to be underneath the same roof with Chevy right there and haunted your competitors.

Speaker 2: But you know, maybe you know the ones that you do, you know, team up with I don't like, I think okay.

So I mean it's nice if you go in there and you want to see it all the different.

Speaker 3: Jeep and Dodge, you know, being sold together. I just

think that you jeep gets lost at a Dodge dealership.

I just I believe they get lost. If you took

the time and you train somebody on everything that's great about a Jeep, and those salesmen know everything in and out, like like what home depot was when they first opened, and the guy was on the aisle and knew everything about what his aisle was. Okay, So if you have

somebody whose training knows everything about a Jeep and can answer every single question, and it's truly in love with Jeep himself, you'll sell more of them because he's passionate about what he's sells.

Speaker 1: Right.

Speaker 2: But as you know, those that want a car already know if they want a Jeep or not. So it's

not like you know, like those are walking into a jeep store or are there to buy a Jeep and nothing else. I'm gonna disagree with you, and I'm going

to tell you why.

Speaker 3: Because I had people at Toyota that came in who thought they were toilet people, but they didn't know anything about Toyota, and they weren't totally sold on the Toyota.

Speaker 2: But they're not getting load on the idea. But you're

talking about getting like a Highlander or something in that realm, right.

Speaker 3: Like I had guys that came in looking at a camera, right, And like I said, I worked at Toyd a very short period of time for the holidays. I told you guys,

But I had a guy looking at the camera before I knew it. He was leaving it in a Forerunner

because he thought he wanted a camera. That's not Jeep, though,

But but you went from a car to an suv, right, But Jeep is Like I was very versed in the fore Run. I knew a lot about the camera, but

I liked the fore Runner, so I was versed in the fore Runner. So it's very easy for me to

talk that vehicle up because I knew a lot about that vehicle, and I sold a lot more of those vehicles i sold anything else because I knew a lot.

Now I read up on all the different vehicles. I

like the Camera too. I thought the Camera was a

great car, but I just liked the fore Run. I

thought the former was cool, and I learned a lot of stuff about it. So it was easy to anything

you're passionate about, it's easy to talk about. I just

think if you do a butique style that it would do.

Speaker 4: I do kind of agree with you though, because like I do remember that one dealership when we were a kid, and like there was that one dealership that had all of the jeeps lined up down the boulevard and what.

Speaker 3: They went for is it that's all.

Speaker 5: For?

Speaker 2: Well, they now probably carry more.

Speaker 4: I think they still got like maybe twenty on the lot, but yeah, they used to have lined jeeps. Another dealership

that we're not affiliated with, but Motor World. Motor World

does have like we were talking about, every single manufacture, but they're split up in like the store circuit.

Speaker 3: City building, which you guys don't remember. Probably the Circuit

City is Circus City was like a large radio check.

But there was a Circus City building. It's over there

by your barbecue place that you like Mission Barbecue, that building this next door, that big, huge building that was Circuit.

Speaker 2: City back in the day.

Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about. If you don't, just

play along with me and pretend that you do. But

they had what was called I think it was actually called the Autumn Hall, and they had every different type of manufacturer underneath underneath a roof there. But I think

they were doing like I think they got away with it because they were doing like like certified used.

Speaker 4: That's how they got They wanted to dealership next to Town Center because they had such a big building next to uh next to where Apex is now.

Speaker 2: They had such a the old Circus City building. Barbecue right, Yeah,

that was that's what I was on. I'm pretty sure

you used to be a Lexus. It's been a couple

of different things now and nobody can very big.

Speaker 3: They should put there a jeep story.

Speaker 2: That would be too big. You need to do it small,

super like Jeeves are super niche. I will say I

will say that what they did good is when they came out with the hard top, four doors. I thought

that was a very clean look for a jeep, something different.

Agree with you.

Speaker 3: I've never been a huge jeep guy, but have one.

I want one probably from like the like the eighties, look cheap with the hard top.

Speaker 2: And open it up. I know, I know it's a

I forget what the type model is, but you know it's all it's all solid. The four doors you're talking about,

the newer ones, I think those look better than say just the traditional online that with the blown head gasket and brand for it, because they can really compare to like different history fees where jeeves are very niche.

Speaker 3: Well, it's you could do the same thing like in Toyota.

Right when TOYOTOA came out with what was the the FJ Cruiser, that was a very niche vehicle, Like you, you didn't see a whole lot of.

Speaker 2: Them running around and people had them.

Speaker 3: Our neighbor across the street had one when you guys were younger, he had a blue one. But you know

what I mean, that was like the vehicles Like I always thought it was kind of a hard cell because.

Speaker 2: It was just you really have to want one of those, you know, to have. Have you seen.

Speaker 4: I think it's Jeep that makes it. Have you seen

where you're the It's like a truck slash jeep window window, back window comes out, but then the whole back.

Speaker 3: I'm I think that's pretty cool. It is, like I said,

I just think, like I said, there there's been rumblings.

I read just read an article recently about you know, Stilantis and Dodge and Ram and all that kind of stuff and maybe where RAM needs to kind of go do their own little thing as Ram, you know, even though with Dodge Rams all together, but you could do that way because they believe there's not a lot of life left and Dodge and I'm like.

Speaker 2: Really, there's a lot of life left and Ram, well, don Ram is kind of out of there. I mean, well,

that's their trucks. That's just there. That's just there. How

many Rams you see driving around?

Speaker 3: You see there's pet once again there you're very hard guys.

But when I read that that's the reason why they get the Ram is a Dodge. You take the Dodge

out of it when nobody wants to Ram. But yeah,

but like I said, I just I it was one of those things where when I read that article, I went I could kind of see Dodge going away, and everybody's like, there's no way, and I'm like, let's remember Ozmobile gone, Pontiac gone, Let's there's never don't ever say there's no.

Speaker 2: Way, right because they were big producers too and they but don't you think that Dodgers carry them this far without them? I don't see them lasting as long as

they did.

Speaker 4: Guys, Why don't you guys just keep beating like the Bush got You know, we got fans that.

Speaker 2: Are dodged number right.

Speaker 3: My Dodge fans probably see the writing on the wall too where they go, eh, you know what I mean, Like Dodge got lost at some point in my personal opinion.

You send me an email, text whatever. Disagree with me,

but I believe that Dodge got lost about almost ten years ago.

Speaker 2: They just got a little lost. Well, they just bought

a bunch of companies up and they're just throwing their engines and everything. Well, that's why it's not that they

did that.

Speaker 3: They just came ahead a lot of designs, just like so Ford got smart, say saying they got Ford. Now

I know I got all of Ford fans, and I'm not beating up on you guys, But Ford got smart and stopped making a bunch of different cars. They were like,

twenty seven different cars you're making. They're like, look, we're

gonna like focus on like six or seven of them.

Speaker 2: That's all focus now.

Speaker 3: I think I think they have I think they have nine models. Told me I think sey Poole correct me

out and I look it up. But they got smart.

They're like, let's stop making all these cars and people don't want. Let's just make the ones that we know

that are selling. And that's helped them regret.

Speaker 2: And we'll bring it back if they want it so much.

Speaker 3: Once again, I'll remind you the Dart guys. People, they

tried to redo the Dart and didn't sell. You should

have put the Dart on something cool and they probably would have sold a lot more. But instead you put

it on like a neon like kind of car and then try to call it a Dart and nobody wanted it.

Speaker 2: So I hate when they take a name from an order car and then it doesn't look at anything like the older cars. Is kind of like you're trying to

rebrand something.

Speaker 3: Absolutely you don't like the Maverick Man and for that's another one that doesn't make any sense to me. If

you guys disagree with me, you know where to hit me up at sending an email, send me a text, let me know how you disagree and we can discuss it.

And that note, Guys, I got to take quick course of break. When it come back, we got some more

for you.

Speaker 2: Hold type, I'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive specialist.

Now back to your host Dave Polach.

Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's another interesting I always

say flashback, but maybe it's not a flashback.

Speaker 3: Could be if you guys remember that we talked about one of the things I hate about cars, which is I'm not a wiring guy. I hate wiring. If I

don't mind working on engines, I don't mind working on anything else.

Speaker 2: One thing.

Speaker 3: I just don't like, you don't want to work on any electrical No, no Corvette electric anything like that.

Speaker 2: You know, I do remember that, Yes, I do.

Speaker 3: So when we had the Corvette, it was a wiring nightmare and I dug through all of it, and I can do it.

Speaker 2: I can get through it. I don't know, you know,

everything is about wiring.

Speaker 3: A lot of times I got to look things up and then sometimes just fiddle my way through it. I

think I told you I had a truck that I owned like four times, and the four times I owned it, it always needed some.

Speaker 2: Type of wiring work done to it.

Speaker 3: Like the first time I owned it, just the wire to the starter and stuff was bad and.

Speaker 2: Easy, that's you know, that's easy fixed stuff.

Speaker 3: So I put new you know, fix that, and the truck ran and I drove the truck for a while, and then I sold it. And somehow the guy I

sold to get something caught on fire, and I think I told you guys, that melt the whole wiring harness going into the truck. So back then, wiring harness is

very expensive. So I went to like a Dvance Auto

or whatever it was at the time.

Speaker 2: I think it was advance, so it might have been a Western auto.

Speaker 3: And I bought a bunch of rolls of wire and I made my own wireharts. I got all the different

colors they had, and I made my own wire and harness, and I labeled what so I know what was what.

Speaker 2: And I put it in a big.

Speaker 3: Huge loom, and I made my own wire and harms for it. And now it took me quite a few

weekends to do it, but I rewired the whole everything that burned because it burnt so bad. It burned the

wires all the way up into the gage cluster and set of the truck. I literally had to go through

wire everything. But I got it up and it ran.

Speaker 2: And ran great. At the court of the price not.

Speaker 3: Even a quarter, but not even closed because like they they wanted, like the computer and the wire that goes then they you know, you had to have that. So

a lot I did. It was I just opened the

box up and just stuff Harry soddered stuff, and just made it it all work. The truck ran fine. I

drove that truck for like another six months and I sold it again. And then that guy had it and

he was wiring something up with a stair. He had

a big stereo system or something and it ended up burning something up and it was.

Speaker 2: Wiring late it.

Speaker 3: So I ended up having to rewire that stuff. And

that was stuff that went up underneath the dash again.

Speaker 2: You know.

Speaker 3: It was just so I'm not I'm not really big unwiring, but if I guess I could change old dogs can learn Nutra tricks. We we talked about, like it's been

a little while back. I was show any guys that

I went to one of the auto shows and it's like, you know, electronic and car and all that kind of stuff.

Electronic show showing new technology. And one of the things

they did is they laid the wire and basically fiber wire, and if a car had a short, they were able to light the wire up, and if the wire didn't light up, you knew that was the wire that had the short. And I just thought that that was, I mean,

really cool. For as much as I've had to trace

out i mean, bad wires, it seems like I've done it a lot, and it's just a nightmare when you're going through like one hundred million wires trying to figure out what wire.

Speaker 2: Is shorted out.

Speaker 3: But the fact they're able to plug into it and then whatever what wire didn't light up, you knew that was the wire that had the short and I was just I was like, well, that's.

Speaker 2: I think that change the game a little bit.

Speaker 4: I mean, especially knowing how wire works, you know, I think that one show us where the wire's broken up.

But then they'll also allow us to come out with newer technologies. That's where we're at now, be able to

kind of plug into the system and detect where the break is. I mean, we are able to do that

kind of now with like tones and stuff, but I feel like this is going to help out.

Speaker 2: Just a little bit more where it's the first going to be used for Internet purposes. They said that cars

right now are going to use about gigabyte, and they suspect that it's going to use about ten gigabytes in the next couple of years two years or so, like twenty seven ten gigabyte stuff.

Speaker 4: But I also do feel like, you know, with technology coming into the cars more, we're gonna need a quicker way to update these systems. And that's going to be

something that's going to update those systems very quickly, you know, connected to Wi Fi. It doesn't have to go through

copper wires able to.

Speaker 2: Yeah, go through everything good, there's always bad, right, So it's like you know, fiberwires thing right, well, I mean not just the next thing, but like you know, the fire wires are so fragile. You know when they break,

well then you know, now someone has to go in and cut it up. I mean you kind of you're

kind of trading one even for the next, right, and you know it's easier. You're going to have a slicer

for cars.

Speaker 3: Yes, you'll you'll know, you'll know exactly what wire is bad instantly though, if you like, say, if you go like what I saw in the demonstration, if you can light it up, you know, and actually track it down tracking like this one doesn't like you know, it's a lot more time. It's just a lot of time of

not having a chase things through, which is great. And

I understand the technology side of it. So we need

a better way to almost like your house, you know, the better wire you have, like you know co xs cable versus happening, better way to send.

Speaker 2: Dat way to make a smaller right right, right, we have a bunch of wires.

Speaker 3: Now, absolutely, technology is crazy rampant cars. I'm not saying

that everything I see is going to be a home run, because trust me, we see a lot in the course of years, Like every year. By the time we get

to the end of the year, I'm amazed on just how many new things I've seen that and then you don't ever hear anything about it.

Speaker 2: And you're kind of waiting for it to get implemented into you know, everyday life.

Speaker 3: It is like, you know, I told you guys about the different transmissions we saw years ago, and they didn't implement them right away. Now now we're talking, it's over

ten years ago. Easily over ten years ago when I

first saw the nine speed transmission and that was in Dodge and now it's just in every day transmission. But

they wasn't in cars yet, and everybody was like I remember being at this whole presentation and everybody just being mystified by just how much electronics and stuff went into it.

And they're like, looking at it now, they simplify and some of that stuff from the original design we saw to what you have now. But it is the same thing.

I mean, it is that transmission.

Speaker 2: It's just maybe a little less parts, you know, making them more accessible for mechanics.

Speaker 3: It is, like I said, I think I told you the other transmission, we saw stores that made it into cars.

I told you it was a small box and it's supposed to do everything just inside a small box. And

I haven't seen that implementing cars yet, but it worked when we.

Speaker 2: Saw it, Like, I can only imagine how much small things make that work and how much you know, how you know what's the failure rate on something like that?

Speaker 3: Who knows? Just well, here's the thing CVT transmission right, junk.

I don't goes praise for a while either, Like all this first gave us things.

Speaker 2: In slice spreads, it's gonna be awesome. They're junk.

Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what they put it in. It's basically

it's forklift technology put in a car. You do not

see forklifts go down the road at sixty five seventy miles an hour. Forkliffs drive at like five miles an hour.

I mean, it's just what they do. Great at those

let's keep.

Speaker 2: Exactly centrifical clutches, all.

Speaker 4: Right, Well, I mean talking about technology. You know, I

was just telling you guys before we came on the show about how is.

Speaker 2: It Keia and Hondi.

Speaker 4: They both just came out with their fingerprint readers, you know, and stuff like that.

Speaker 3: Fiber they're gonna need fiber for some of that. I mean,

you're not gonna want to run.

Speaker 2: A technology for a second.

Speaker 3: And we were talking roughly about it. If you guys

haven't seen, they're talking about, you know, opening your car with a fingerprint now and stuff like that. Like, hey,

it's great. Like I said, I I like technology and

certain levels. I just think that, as I said when

we were before we ever came on the show, I was like, great, now the fingerprints, Big brother is going to access that. They're gonna have everybody's fingerprints. And were like,

well they already have all your fingerprints on fine. I'm like,

well they don't though, unless unless because they'll be unsolved crimes now solved by unlocking your car.

Speaker 2: Right unless they do like an Apple approach right where Apple you know, stores all your information on your device, say like your fingerprint is on the car, or like say they take it. Like when you do bluetooth right

and you catch your bluetooth and you can you know, delete the bluetooth. Well, if you can delete your fingerprint

from the car. Well, then there's probably no issue with

that because it's all stored in your car, you know, and it's not you know, you're hoping that's not being broadcast.

Speaker 4: You know, you just said something very interesting though, because like I was just talking to give about it. I

was just saying, you know, like they're going to probably use the fingerprint for more stuff. You know, they're going

to probably use it for Apple wall or Samsung wall.

Speaker 2: Way, you know, you're.

Speaker 4: Gonna have to have a way to be able to authenticate yourself that it is you driving that vehicle instead of always right like, yeah, it's not.

Speaker 2: It doesn't really take that hard because your phone's you know, a couple of years ago, was reading your fingerprint, So I mean it doesn't you know now we move to face ID, but you know it's not. It's not a

lot of technology that takets a fingerprint. As long as

you keep it into the cars, you know, mainframe, and he doesn't let it broadcast, Well, then it's good for everybody.

Speaker 3: Imagine instead of holding it on the car, what if your cell phone, just like how it does now, it holds this fingerprint on your and then shares that information.

Speaker 2: You're going to find problems. I'm telling you.

Speaker 3: You mentioned bluetooth, right, You're gonna find problems. I'm gonnaell

you why you're gonna find problems because when Bluetooth first came.

Speaker 2: Out, everybody was hacking it.

Speaker 3: I mean I had a neighbor who like to be a little loud, and then I figured out that the radio they are using all the time was Bluetooth. So

what I used to do was I would record a message you know you can do it, You've done it message, and then I would set it to their Bluetooth, and I kindly tell them I'm not kindly, but I would you know, probably what I said.

Speaker 2: I asked them kindly to be quiet, turned down nicely.

Speaker 3: But now it's.

Speaker 2: Really hard to do, Like you can't just pass.

Speaker 3: Back there? What you didn't have that problem back then,

so and I did it just like weren't you dry you were Remember when we were driving. We were on

a road trip and we were bluetoothing to the car behind.

Speaker 4: Us, Yeah, to the car behind us. And then another

thing that I used to run into, I don't really run to it. And more I still have the piece

was the FM transmitter. So when you don't have Bluetooth

in the car. You can turn Bluetooth on and it sent.

Speaker 3: It to your radio. It basically creates a radio station

in your car. Well, other people have it. So if

you drive past people where you're at a stop light and you're on the channel that they're on, sonybody to hear their music, their phone calls and stuff, and you're also able to talk back to them.

Speaker 2: So I remember the first time that that happened to me.

Speaker 3: I pulled up to a light and I didn't realize that that's what it was, was doing that, But all of a sudden, their telephone call was broadcast over my speakers in my car, and.

Speaker 2: I'm like, hello, I heard.

Speaker 3: I'd like they're like, who's this in the call basically just transferred to me as you call me. I'm like,

wait a minute, you entered my car.

Speaker 2: And it's like, yeah, the FM transmitter comes over.

Speaker 4: But sometimes if you have the same exact device, they'll just think it's that device and hop right.

Speaker 3: Over to it, you know. And it's funny because you

and you're just looking at them and you're talking to the person. You're like, yeah, I'm staring at your person.

You're talking to you this car, but you connected sooner or later, you guys would never know the luxury or maybe not the luxury up. So we when I lived

out the middle of nowhere, out in the desert, we had to have the FM extender, right, So you had to put it in your car, which brought it extended the distance of your radio station. So we were in

the middle of nowhere, and the closest radio stations to us was far into Arizona. So with that I would

pick up radio stations out of Phoenix and that was like four hour drive from Phoenix, but it worked. You

guys have never understand having to use one of those.

Speaker 2: I mean, I've been around you know. As funny is that.

I just remember as you were the old cars, you could actually extend the antennas they already just had really in general.

Speaker 3: Transand's got a power intent on it.

Speaker 2: So yeah, it does. I don't think we're not even

how that problem anymore. He just meant, I know where

it got to go. Course breaks soon, but he just

mentioned something.

Speaker 4: When's the last time you guys saw in a big intend off of a truck and it hits the the.

Speaker 2: Two days ago and it wasn't a truck.

Speaker 3: I was behind a Ford Focus with a super semi truck magnetic whip antennis ticking off the top of it.

It was tat and it went and it was smacky in the trees and stuff that we're hanging over the road.

Is was going and I'm like, does this guy not realize he's just like a wooden tree.

Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3: Huge, one of the ones that like the big coil on the bottom of it and then it goes up.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 3: And I was just like, the antennant looked like it was like five times a size of the vehicle.

Speaker 5: Was.

Speaker 2: I mean, it's I'm exaggerating, but it just looked really crazy.

Speaker 3: That was on if you were that guy with that antenna.

I just know I was driving behind the other day.

And then no, guys, I gotta take another quick count of break.

Speaker 2: When we come back.

Speaker 3: I got some things in the news you're gonna want to talk about. There is something we talked about before

and it's coming back and we'll see how it goes.

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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back. All right, So I told you

I had some topics have come back around and people have asked some questions, and we got that we'd do a pretty good job covering most of them. But here's

another one that I swear right before the holidays we were talking about it. But it's back in the news again.

You all remember the conversation about smart windshields, right, Yes, I did see the articles. Yeah, so did you see

the article coming out? So here is the thing now

they want to go even second. So if you don't

know what a smart windshield was, there's been a couple of different designs of them. The one I like the

most is the one that tracks things when you're driving on the windshield and it shows it. So if you're

driving at night and there's a deer off in the field, it can tell you there's a deer off in the field, and then it puts a box around it, just like your cell phone does when you try to take a picture and it boxes people. It does the same thing,

and it shows movement and it can tell you if that thing objects moving towards you. That was just one

of the features, had a lot of other features. The

other one that is now that's really becoming popular is you guys, remember heads up display, Like when they did first it heads up display.

Speaker 2: Everybody was like, Oh, that's really cool. I can see

my sphinometer in my window, and I really wish they took that further than they are.

Speaker 3: They right, so they are, so now it is hologram.

So what they want to do is in the smart windshields set up, they want to do a hologram which then displays in the window. So if you combine those

two and you do hologram along with the smart window, and the smart window actually has electronics running through the screen itself, the wind screen, the windshield, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2: I think they're calling it more than like for placement, not for actually displaying.

Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, it's the one I saw Like your Apple play all that kind of stuff is at the bottom of the wind show almost like like would be like if you're on a computer screen and all your little icons are at the bottom. It's kind of like

that's all.

Speaker 2: Just wait until that breaks.

Speaker 4: Well, gosh, insurance is going to love you your premium distracted driving, right, I'm.

Speaker 3: Like, here, we are trying to get rid of distracted driving, and now we're gonna put like a little icon boxes up in the window.

Speaker 2: If you are going to the whole complaint is that you're looking away. So now you're not looking away, you're

looking through it maybe especially if you have like the uh you ever seeing like technologically they do like like like they have opacity sometimes like transparent, so you're kind of like looking through it, yea yea yea yeah yeah yeah, not opacity. But I know what you're talking about. Ye No,

it's no, it's basically they can look through it's transparent, right, isn't what it is? You know? Like, yeah, the intensity

of a background.

Speaker 3: Talking about I thought there was different. We're I don't know,

I know what you're talking about though, but it.

Speaker 2: Cameras like hold up, look up what word you guys are looking for? Work with videos all that? But no,

but I get it. I just I'm all for new

technology that makes things safer.

Speaker 3: I really believe the smart window that I saw, and it's got to be five years when I first saw it was a great idea because not only does it, like I said, track all objects, but if there's cars moving around, it was tracking the cars. It was tell

like I think on one of those displays, it showed me exactly how fast that was car was coming. If

a car was coming from a side street. It locked

all that car from the side street as it was moving towards you, and it could tell you was, hey, is that thing like by the speed?

Speaker 2: Is it getting ready? Is it gonna slow down?

Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

Speaker 2: And all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3: So I liked that fact of it, right, I thought that that was really cool. Like I said, you start

at It's one of those things, right, we like technology and twe technology gets to be too much and they we're like they went too far with it, and I just wonder if that's gonna be the case with that.

I'll take some of the things that they've they've invented and they're gonna put into that, and I'm I'm good with that.

Speaker 2: But I'm looking forward to third party vendors seeing like what they dis like come out with you like we usually like when like companies like manufacturers do you know, like you know, big rollouts or you know, like say like entertainment systems or right, it's only there, you know, their os, only their apps that they allow. It'd be

nice to see it would be nice to see like a third party like bring out some tech like you know, like create their own like app if they want to like like if you want to like have like you know, navigation show up and the you know on one side, well, you know, maybe someone made a program so you can do them right, so as invisu you can kind of like modify which exactly just to a good good thing.

Speaker 4: Though when he said, like, you know, cars are are kind of always trying to use their own os, like what Ford sinc.

Speaker 2: You know, or a lot of stuff. I think.

Speaker 4: Apple was and we haven't seen it transferring over. I mean,

you got Apple car Play, You're going to have Google.

I really feel like they want for them.

Speaker 2: I don't. Apple doesn't want to get charged for the

Look at the idea of Apple car Pa. You will

charge for it. You won't get charged for like the os.

Speaker 4: Like what I'm talking about is I think we're going to start seeing like cars won't come with Ford Sync anymore, Chevy Link anymore.

Speaker 2: It's gonna come with Apple. The problem is the fact

that Chevy it's so outdated. That's the problem is that

when they they make something, they might do it updates for a year and then they forget the whole system because they came out with something else. You know, if

you allow third party to update it and modify within people can probably get a lot more use case than there, they said, having to buy third party attachments to you know, get better Bluetooth and better you know, do you not be irustrated?

Speaker 3: I get when Chevy Link doesn't work right and I gotta pull over to the side of the road, turn my truck off, disconnect my phone, reconnect my phone, turn my vehicle back on to get it to work. And

I'm like, I was just trying to go someplace and listen to some music. It's just so glitchy, and I

think we'll get past that. And look, look, and I'm

not banging on Chevy's door, because I'm sure other people have.

It's it's probably all, but it's just I drive a Chevy truck and it does it to me a lot.

And it's like, I'm like, come on.

Speaker 2: And the issue is that the only fix they give you is we'll just buy the same old, crappy technology.

It's already in it. And it's like, no, I want

something newer. You know, we're ten years from now. You know,

we should have had a choice to upgrade.

Speaker 3: Okay, the Chevy stereo, right, everybody knows if you got a Chevy truck, and I think it's in the Yukon's all all that kinds of stuff. The screen stop, the

touch screen stoff's working. It's been doing it for a

for a while now, and they still haven't fixed that.

They just keep on putting them in there and letting it be just a messed up design. And I was

frustrated because you all know how well I talk about taking care of my truck, and I still had all the plastics on everything, and mine still went bad. I'm like,

I'm gonna take really good care of it, and that's what.

Speaker 2: Maybe what do you think the plastic now helped? I

think the worst thing is when you take care of something so well and you and you don't mistreat it and it still braced on you, and then you kind of have to argue with the company like I'm not a mistreat of my equipment. I don't you know, neglate.

Speaker 3: It once again. I'm a Chevy guy, right. And now

my truck it's started to do where everybody else had the problem, and the paint's starting to peel in one little section and you go online and everybody complains about it, but I'm like, Chevy knew about it, but they've done.

Speaker 2: Nothing to fix the problem. Right.

Speaker 3: The guy had a video and I did know. I

took care about There was a video the other day where the guy was grabbing like a sheet of paint and just peeling it off the vehicle because it just and never heared right.

Speaker 2: And I'm like, like, bad primer.

Speaker 3: It's something I don't know what it is, but like, oh my god, I hadn't. I made an appointment to

have mine fixed, and then the guy had a cancel the appointment on me. But I was gonna take a boy

chop and have fix. I'm still going to because it's

just driving me nuts.

Speaker 2: But it's even worse when you run out of the warranty and then it happens.

Speaker 3: Well, I got paint protection on my truck, right, so I bought this big, huge, You know, I don't buy a bunch of that ad on stuff.

Speaker 2: I just don't believe in it.

Speaker 3: But I did buy the paint protection on my truck, and come to find out it doesn't cover that.

Speaker 2: I'm like, how, I'm like, ahead, how you bought like the advanced one?

Speaker 3: I did it, and it clearly doesn't There's nothing listen to that takes care of that. It takes care of

like acid ring. It takes care of like if a

bird poops on your vehicle, we can make an acid ring.

You can't get that out vehicle or whatever it is.

It covers all that different kind of stuff. It covers scratches,

but it don't cover the paint starts peeling off of it.

And I like a nice vehicle and nice clean people.

One thing's about bothering of my truck, and everybody's like, why have don't you fixed that yet?

Speaker 2: And it's because there's a couple things I want to do.

I was looking at some land.

Speaker 3: We were out looking at land and I went into a very deep hole with my truck and that front plastic that's on the on the front wopper folded up underneath and it has not restored itself back to where it goes. So I looked it's it's like two hundred

dollars for that piece. I'm had to rip it off

and put another piece on it.

Speaker 2: But it's like, it's a truck. I understand.

Speaker 3: Everybody's like, man, you must have been a really deep hole.

I was, But still it's a truck, you think start thinking about. I was like, why why didn't you anticipate

the fact that this is going to fold up and stuff like it's going to touch things, and.

Speaker 2: They make it plastic.

Speaker 3: Well, no, because if they would have made it metal, then it probably would have just destroyed. They made a

fiberglass would have cracked in a million pieces. But you

would think they would have made it out of a different abs plastic sole in a place, you know, something where it would just you know, fold and then you know, right take off.

Speaker 2: No, it bent.

Speaker 3: It bent over down there, and it's stuck in a little crank and it's every time I see the truck, it drives me. That's it was like, and I'm like, look,

there's a couple of other things I want to do. Like

so I finally bought the leveling kit for my truck.

I star was driving around and I my truck still got what I believe to be low miles on it.

Speaker 2: It's just I think it just hit eighty thousand miles.

It was not bad for twenty fourteen.

Speaker 3: Right, And I finally got around to buying the leveling could after all these years. I'm like, I mean, I'll

put it on his driving The trucks got a little bit raked to it. That's when I put the wheels on.

I really noticed it, and everybody convinced me how to put it on.

Speaker 2: I had it.

Speaker 3: It was sitting right there to put on the truck, and I was putting shocks on the truck while I was I was like, all right, the trucks eight thousand miles is putting those such shocks all the way around while we're here. And then I never put this. I

didn't put it because everybody convinced me I to put They're like, oh, it's kind of when you put it on and then you try to pull a trailer or something like that, the truck rides kind of weird. And

so then I started getting paranoid about putting on, like, well, I don't want to change the ride when I'm pulling the trailer, so I guess my truck's just going to be stuck without the rake.

Speaker 2: But I had originally was like, okay, i'll buy the plastic piece.

Speaker 3: When I put the leveling kit on it, I put all put the leveling kit and I never got the plastic quid, but the shocks did get on it. So

it's like I'm like, man, I didn't do anything. I

was like, I didn't have the things I wanted to do, you know what I mean. So it's just funny how

that that comes around. But somebody says that to me.

I mean, your truck's dirty. I've never seen your truck

this storay. I was like, well, I was looking at

a piece of property and was really muddy and I had to go take a look at it. I was

on a different peede now, the one that did damage a different piece of property, and I was looking. I

was like, I was going through holes and I was like, and then I had to run over to the yard.

I was like, over the junk yard and there they were swamped out.

Speaker 2: Mouddy.

Speaker 3: I was like, so those two places are looking at my truck. Looks like I went through a mud bog

in it, because you know, it just it just doesn't like your truck's always clean. I'm like, I'm sorry, I

didn't have time to stop and spray my truck off before I stopped to see you guys.

Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like make me feel bad.

Speaker 3: I mean like I didn't have time to stop and I have a car wash for I got here. I mean,

it is a truck for God's sake, So it doesn't know what kind of happened.

Speaker 2: But I don't know. You guys, tell me what you

guys think.

Speaker 3: Like I said, I'm always I'm full of all kinds of things, but one thing I'm not full of is time.

Speaker 2: I gotta take commercial break.

Speaker 3: So let me take quick commercial breakway come back, we'll finish this out. Got some updates for you're gonna want

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back.

Speaker 3: So I told you I had some things, uh that came up I want to talk about you guys know if you ever listened to the show, Hey Dave, So, Hey Dave is where people send me letters and ask me questions and we try to answer it. So we'll

get jumped into it the very first Hey Dave, and I know we've covered this before and we talked about it in different ways and stuff. So one of the

questions that somebody asked me is, I guess he's maybe say.

Speaker 2: When to fix and repair?

Speaker 3: So when you cut your losses with a car, like when you decide to fix it, and when do you just cut your losses and go Okay, I just need to get a different car. I know, I when it's

half the car back. I swear we've covered this before,

we talked about it different and different aspects and stuff.

It's to me, it's very very simple to make this decision.

It is a really easy decision. Number One of the

first thing is miles how many miles are on the car.

Second is how many miles does that car note to usually last. Go online and take a look and see

how long does this car typically last. Now you'll get

different opinions on how long cars last. Like I'll tell

you a Toyota. I've seen a lot of Toyots are

three hundred, one hundred thousand. But people took good care

of them, you know what I mean. They didn't beat

up on them, and they went that long. That's the

reason why when we need a new car in the family, I bought on the camera because I just know she could put three hundred thousand miles on it. Because we

take very good care of our vehicles, and I would had to buy a vehicle for a while now. But

when we buy one before his three hundred thousand miles, maybe who knows. But if I didn't want to, I

don't have to write right. But again, again, three hundred

thousand miles. You probably replaced every part of that, but

you hadn't. The Honda, perfect example, you put two hundred

thousand miles on a Honda. You haven't replaced every single

part on that Honda. Like you said earlier, the only

thing you really had to replaced with the transmission right right right now, ebody goes well, I had to put plugs in it, I had to put wires, and I'm like, that's maintenance.

Speaker 2: A new valve cover probably okay, right, I mean, I mean, but you did all the working maintenance better than maintenance, right, That's what I mean by one.

Speaker 3: I'm talking about major breakdowns on a car. You don't

experience a lot of those on a Honda. I consider

cover gas working on maintenance, plugs, maintenance, wires, maintenance, even sometimes distrib I kind of sometimes kind of throw that in a lot of time.

Speaker 2: Time belt. It's in your book, tells you when to

do it. It is, it is, it is. But at

the same time, you can still put that under the category of you know, it broke and it needs to be faked. But that's not you know it it's not broke.

You okay, well it would could. It's it's only maintenance

when it hasn't broken yet and you do it. But

when it does break, when then you did replace.

Speaker 3: Here's the interference. You're throwing the car away anyway. For

the most part, it's the interference mother time belt.

Speaker 2: You know you can categorize it any way you want.

But you know, when I say, like a three hundred thousand miles, you did change everything to make that last.

Speaker 3: The block, didn't do pistons, didn't do rings.

Speaker 2: I mean most you are doing the block right, but most like most times, like you're not doing the block the ring. Like if you're reviewing engine, you're getting a

new car.

Speaker 3: You do maintenance all like. And that's all part of

the meetings. If you take a look inside your owners man,

you know it tells you when to change all that stuff.

I'm way ahead of the game, you know me, I do believe.

Speaker 2: But we just threw a very fancy title of maintenance on it when it broke and it needs me fixed, and that's how we keep it down.

Speaker 3: The maintained it probably wouldn't have broke. I'm just saying

it wouldn't have broke. You most people who have a

broken timing belt is they went way past the manufacturers recommend it time to change it. That's when it breaks.

Speaker 2: That's that's what happens.

Speaker 3: Plugs start following stuff like that, you're way past when the manufacturer told you.

Speaker 2: Put a But all that does add up this part of that part but here's the thing.

Speaker 3: It's not a big huge expense if you break it up like you did the plugs now with the wires, and then next year you did the timing belt. Next year,

it's a little thing. It's those are little things versus

complete breakdowns. So hold on, just stay with me. Just

like me. If I if I go to do another

time belt or anything like, I've probably reached the age of my car where now I probably have to start asking the same question what is worth repairing? What is

It's not me asking this question, thankfully, you know, but but you don't ever do the time belt on your car.

I did time belt, water to pump it, all that at the same time. I remember think the mark, So

all that got done on your car. There's people who

just tried to do the timing belt and they want to do the water pump. I'm like, God, I can

tell you, if you can tell you in the automotive world, I wouldn't touch your car if you told me if you weren't doing the time belt with the tensure and the water pump. I really didn't want touch the car

because I knew something was going to happen, and somehow I already had to take that stuff off to get to it. Why don't we just do everything while I'm there?

You pay me labor one time, So I just I never wanted to really go in and do it.

Speaker 2: That's why they say it.

Speaker 3: In sense with that being said, is if you break it down, you truly really want to break it down, and when is the fix and when is the let go?

It is very easy. It's based on the mileage. Maybe

the upcoming breakdown or the upcoming maintenance may need to be done before, how much you did before the other one is the money value, right, So I always tell everybody to go, okay, how long do you plan on keeping this car? And sometimes people know exactly how long?

I playing somethingy like, well I don't know. Okay, Well

let me break it down for you. If you have

a six thousand dollars pair, let's say a transmission at six grand, I'm like, you need to keep the car for two years.

Speaker 2: And they're like, well was the figure. I'm like, well,

two hundred and fifty dollars a month, which is a really cheap car payment times two years is six thousand dollars. Okay,

it is do the math.

Speaker 3: So I'm like, he's like, wait, how's that coming to me?

It is, so if you do it, if you and then you got your money's worth out of that repair, right, because you're planning to keep the car for another two years.

I'm like, for every less time and two years you plan on keeping that car, Well to duct that money and then divide it by how many the last months it is, and then the part that car payment gets.

If you get to the point where it's you could own a new car for what that money would be broken down, then he buys probably don't need to go buy another new car. I mean that just makes more

sense at two point fifty It makes sense over the course of two years. But you also get the point

at seven hundred and fifty dollars a month because you divide that money over the course two years, you need to go get another car.

Speaker 2: Right, Well, you also have to cont take and the account you know how much that car is worth two right, Like you know it might be cheap to fix it, but it might be just you know, the equivalent of what the cars are worth. I get people all the time,

they're like, well, you know how much the repair brand?

You know, stuff like that.

Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know that for repair, probably in that car is like four thousand dollars. I'm like, and

I think your car is only worth like fifty eight right, you know.

Speaker 2: What I mean?

Speaker 3: So I'm like, probably not the best idea to repair it.

If you got to do four thousand dollars with prepares, your car's only worth fifty eight hundred dollars, I don't see the value.

Speaker 2: In doing that. You might as well just part ways

with that.

Speaker 3: And I'm like, but keep in mind, if you're gonna part ways, you are going to get a new car, right, or slightly use new car.

Speaker 2: Right.

Speaker 3: You're not trying to get online and buy somebody else's problem that they haven't done all the maintenance. Because you

are back in the same boat. You're gonna buy something

else that somebody hasn't done the main street. Did you

put four thousand dollars in a car that's worth maybe seven thousand dollars?

Speaker 2: You pat, you have the same thing. I feel. It's

what people forget to when they buy used cars or cars off the marketplaces, that you know they're selling it because they repairs of the minimum right exactly? You put

tires on it? Yet, Well, yeah, you just need to

the maintenance. You need to do tires.

Speaker 3: I tell people that all the time, and they look at me like I got three heads. I'm like, look,

I'm just trying to give you the best advice. I'm like,

if you go buy a car off a marketplace and you're looking at a five thousand dollars car because five thousand dollars once you had to spend, you're not buying a five thousand dollars car. You need to buy a

thirty seven hundred dollars car because you would need the rest of that money to do all repairs that they didn't do on it, to bring.

Speaker 2: It up to maintenance.

Speaker 3: And they're like, well, I'll find, I'll find when somebody took care of it. They're getting ready to it because they

didn't take care of it. For the most part, I'm

not saying that always the case. Ninety percent of the time,

I'm gonna say that's probably the case. They're partying ways

with it and getting something new because they're tired of doing all the repairs on it and now it needs a big one and they don't want to pay for it.

They're not going to tell you that they are bad snogg there is absolutely so just keep sometimes find good you can. You need to bounce the cost by how

long you plan on keeping it, and two hundred fifty dollars is a pretty fair estimate per month to break down and then do that by how long you plan on keeping the car. And as long as you can

keep it at about two hundred freet dollars a month, it's the cheapest car payment you had. Just know you

need to keep run the car for those two years, right, and then it's not get whatever you want.

Speaker 2: With that being said, though, like you know at two hundred and fifty, you know who wants to pay a two hundred and fifty payment on a you know, nineteen ninety, Ok, But like that's what you like you had to past nineteen ninety. It's all about like old cars. So like

when you're doing like who we are, when you're doing so much maintenance on a car and it's cost you two hundred forty a month, I can.

Speaker 3: Go tell you you can go pick up a two thousand and one, two thousand and two camera right this second.

You'll probably put sixteen seventeen hundred dollars into it on maintenance and stuff like that if the car only has one hundred and seventy thousand miles on it, you know you're gonna run to three hundred thousand miles. Probably not

gonna have any problems as long as you catch up on the maintenance on it. So it's a good investment.

But you got to know you want to keep that car long enough to make it worth the investment that purchase a car and the main shod do on it.

Just keep that mind. Like I said, I think two

hundred fifty dollars a month. If you break up whatever

your pair is, buy that is usually a pretty wise investment as long as you know you know your car bebut anybody else I love a car and tear up.

It's a good investment. So, like I said, if you disagree,

you know where to disagree with me at send it to me, an email, send any text. We'll talk about it.

One last thing before we get out here, because the show is running, running by quick, which was another one of those Hey daves. You guys talked about the Nova

Congratulations is what they said. Now they're like, what is

the plan? Well, the plan is, as I told you guys,

we need to go ahead and have the car paint.

The car runs, it drives pretty quick, gets something goes, but it needs pain on it. I will give you

update on everybody's like And you also didn't host pictures of it yet, and I said, I really didn't want to post pictures until we start it moving forward with it.

I told you guys, I might start posting some pictures at some points so you guys can see it. Just

know it's sixty nine Nova SS car and that we plan on doing a lot of big things to it.

With that being said, I did secure painter for the car.

The car is going to be going into paint here probably by next week, and it's still gonna start getting the paint worked one on and the body worked on it that we want. The body isn't really bad, but

it just needs some things touch up that I want done before it gets paint. Hopefully everything goes all right.

Fingers crossed. We should see the car out of paint

by the end of March, which would be awesome, and then I could probably start posting some pictures of it.

I may sneak some pictures in it if I can as the work's being done, so you guys can see it a lot of people have wanted to see the car.

It's just another one of the projects. Another update, talk

with a painter about Blue. You guys know this. Blues

are Chevy truck. We plan on doing kind of a

pro street kind of look to it or something. They

are probably going to do all the work bodywork on that truck as well, as soon as they're done with the novas, so the planet is put the nova in and as soon as nova's back, go ahead and throw Blue in there as well and let them get jumped on Blue. So we have both the projects going trans am.

I like to get into that with you guys, but it'll take a little bit longer. I've lost my patience.

I'm probably gonna rip everything off that we put on, throw it in a box and buy it from somebody else because it's been too long. We've been dealing with

this since March. We've had no resolution and communications have

pretty much broken down. And that's all I'm gonna leave it.

And that note, guys, I gotta get out of here.

I don't want to rush, but I will miss you guys until next week. Hope you guys enjoy your Saturday

Sundays right around the corner. Make sure you unplug, spend

some time with your kids, playboard game with them. With

the love for you, guys, got anyth before we get out of here? Injury a weekend, Have a good one, Hi, guys,

We'll talk to you soon

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