Restoration Trends & Parking Lot Problems
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Concept
restomots
A restomod is an old car that gets restored, but with newer upgrades inside. The goal is to keep the classic style while making it drive and feel more modern.
Car
Toyota Celica
The Toyota Celica is a sporty Toyota from past decades. The hosts are saying people like it as a candidate for restoration projects that keep the old appearance but add newer upgrades.
Car
Toyota Tacoma
The Toyota Tacoma is a popular pickup truck. The hosts are saying that older Tacomas can still be worth a lot of money, which is why people want to buy them for restoration projects.
Term
blue Book value
“Blue Book value” refers to a widely used market valuation guide that estimates what a vehicle is worth based on factors like condition, mileage, and local demand. The host is contrasting that guide’s estimate with the higher price they actually got.
Car
Acura Integra
The Acura Integra is a compact car made by Acura. It’s known for being fun to drive compared with many regular cars. In the podcast, it’s brought up as one of the cars someone might choose instead of another option.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a sports car made by Ford. It’s known for being a fun car to drive and for having many different versions across the years. People often mention it because it’s a common, well-known choice for car buyers.
Car
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is Porsche’s famous sports car, known for being a classic, recognizable shape. Here, the speaker talks about an older 911 they found abandoned and tried to get.
Concept
abandoned
When a car is “abandoned,” it usually means nobody is using it and it’s just left sitting somewhere. That can create legal problems and may lead to towing or other actions.
Concept
tow truck
A tow truck is what you use to pull a car that can’t be driven or needs to be moved. In this story, the speaker is describing how they could have had the car taken away, but they weren’t sure it was legal.
Term
filed for title
“Filing for title” means doing the paperwork that proves you own a car. Without the right title, a project car can be hard to legally keep or sell.
Term
hubs
The hubs are the parts that hold the wheel to the car. If they’re rusted, it can mean more than surface rust and could require major cleaning or replacement.
Term
rust
Rust is corrosion of metal, and on a parked car it can spread from exposed areas into structural points over time. The speaker specifically mentions rust on “hubs and everything,” which suggests the car may have significant metal corrosion that affects safety and restoration cost.
Term
flat
A “flat” tire means it’s gone low on air. If a car sat for a long time, the tires can go flat and may need new tires or careful checking.
Term
ground effect
Ground effect is about how a car’s shape can use the air under it to help it stick to the road. It can also make the car look more aggressive because the bodywork is designed to sit and flow closer to the ground.
Car
BMW
BMW is a German car brand. In this conversation, they’re talking about older BMWs that people modify with newer parts to make them feel more modern.
Car
BMW 2 Bmws
The BMW 2 Series is a smaller luxury car from BMW. It’s meant to be more about driving feel than a large family sedan. The podcast mentions it in the context of BMW history and model generations.
Concept
putting all modern stuff into them
That phrase means someone takes an older car and upgrades it with newer technology. The goal is usually to make the old car easier to live with or more fun to drive.
Term
hood slip click forward and then folded up
They’re describing a special way the hood opens—more like a folding/hinged action than just lifting straight up. They’re pointing to that detail as part of what made the car stand out.
Term
dash grafted
“Dash grafted” means the dashboard was adapted or swapped so it fits the older car. It’s basically custom work to make the interior match and work properly.
Term
fiberglass work
Fiberglass work refers to shaping and reinforcing parts using fiberglass cloth and resin, often for body panels, interior pieces, or custom fitment. Here, the speaker says the builder was doing fiberglass work to finish the dash area and make it fit the older BMW.
Term
front end
“Front end” means the front part of the car, including the crash structure and suspension mounting areas. Cutting it off and rebuilding it is a big repair job after serious damage.
Term
tubed
“Tubed” sounds like they used metal tubing to rebuild or strengthen the car’s front structure. It’s a fabrication step to make the repaired area solid again.
Term
custom break calibers
They’re talking about custom brake calipers. Those are the parts that clamp the brake pads onto the rotors to slow the car down.
Car
Corvettees
They’re discussing a Corvette, which is a Chevrolet sports car. They’re talking about doing a retro-style Corvette—more like an older classic look and feel.
Topic
retro vet
They mean a “retro” Corvette project. Basically, they want a Corvette that feels like an older one in style and character.
Term
Mega garage
They’re calling their big workshop/storage area the “Mega garage.” It’s just where their project cars and parts are kept.
Term
tub work
“Tub work” usually refers to fabrication or repair work on the car’s tub/body structure (the main body shell). In restoration contexts, it can mean metalwork to restore the shape, strength, and mounting points after damage.
Concept
prices are going up
The hosts connect restoration/modding demand to market pricing, saying prices are “jumped crazy” and “going up” on these cars. That’s a common enthusiast-market dynamic: when more people want the same desirable models for retro builds, supply stays limited and prices rise.
Concept
building a retro stuff to it
They’re describing the trend of modifying or restoring cars to a “retro” theme—aiming for a classic look or vibe while often using newer parts. In this segment, that demand is linked to rising prices for certain older cars.
Term
lowered
“Lowered” means the car sits lower than stock. That can look cool, but it also makes it easier to hit the ground or damage the car when you drive over bumps or ramps.
Term
deck lid
The deck lid is the hinged outer panel that covers the rear trunk area on many cars. In this segment, the speaker describes driving onto a vehicle’s deck lid, which can bend or crush it because it’s designed to be supported when closed, not as a ramp.
Term
suspension kind of giveaway
That phrase means the car’s suspension reacted hard, like it suddenly compressed. It usually happens when you hit something uneven or the car bottoms out.
Term
lifted
“Lifted” means the truck sits higher off the ground than stock. The host is saying there’s a difference between a mild lift and a very extreme lift, and that the extreme setup can cause more problems.
Term
check engine
The “check engine” light is a warning that the car’s computer found a problem. In this case, the host says it seemed to be a misfire, which can happen when the engine isn’t burning fuel correctly.
Term
missfire
A misfire means part of the engine isn’t firing correctly, so it doesn’t burn fuel as it should. That can make the engine run rough and can turn on the check engine light.
Term
moisture
Moisture is just water in the air or on parts. The speaker is wondering if damp conditions that morning could have caused the engine to misfire.
Term
lift kit
A lift kit is a set of parts that raises a truck or SUV higher off the ground. People do it for looks or clearance, but it can also change how the vehicle handles. In this story, the lift is part of why the truck is getting attention in parking lots.
Car
Ford Bronco
The Ford Bronco is an SUV designed for off-road driving. It often sits higher than many regular cars, and some owners add lift kits to make it even taller. In the conversation, they’re talking about how that changes the look and off-road ability.
Term
seat belt
Your seat belt is what keeps you from flying forward in a crash. Cars often beep or ding if you’re not buckled so you remember to fasten it.
Term
Engine light
The engine light is a warning on your dashboard that something in the engine or emissions system needs attention. It doesn’t always mean the car is about to break, but you should get it checked.
Term
pop a tire
“Pop a tire” means the tire suddenly fails and loses air fast. Your car may warn you with a dashboard message or sound if it detects the pressure problem.
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Speaker 3: Right into it. How you guys doing so far?
Speaker 1: So good?
Speaker 3: Already for all the news I am.
Speaker 2: You know, I got a little bit of mixed news this week, and I got some stories people have actually sent it in and shared with us and some things.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna jump right into it.
Speaker 2: You know, I told you guys who had many conversations, even Seema two years ago.
Speaker 3: Two years ago is kind of old is new again?
Speaker 2: Remember that conversation is But yeah, we had it and we saw a lot of it when we were at Seema.
A lot of uh retro mods. I guess like older
cars where they now fit them with new technology. And
we saw a lot of that, but it was two years ago at the show. We saw a lot of that. Well,
there was an article that actually went out this week that I was reading. It asked the same question, does
everybody believe that, uh, you know, the old feeling.
Speaker 3: Is starting to work its way back around? And it's funny.
Uh I don't. I wish I come of the guy's name,
but he did.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: There was a there was a gentleman that was commenting on everything that I was following, because, like I said, like I get in these conversations online, they start off with a big question, there's like an article, and then everybody starts comming after that and it turns into like a week longer comments, so you know, and I fall along and I'll comment every once in a while here, and there are a lot of times I just few what everybody else has to say, and uh, he did a little bit of research background on it, and it shows there is a competing like trend out there right now that's going on with old and believe it or not, the cars that people are trying to gather up right
this second to do a lot of that with I don't know if they.
Speaker 3: Were surprising to me, but some of them were.
Speaker 2: So if you had a guess what, just give me three or five of the top cars that people are gobbling up from the eighties, early eighties to late eighties that they are now trying to get a hold of and they want to do like restaurmots. They want to
give it all new technology, but you know it still had that old look to it. If you could what
cars you think that it would be, it's sports cars by the way, you know, it's everything is pretty much a sports car set up.
Speaker 3: What would you what would you think would be the number one? And I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: I'd probably say, like this, I don't even know if this is an eighties car, but like the Selica is probably the seventies. Eighties, yeah, right of Selica would probably
be my first choice.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if the eighties car. Oh, that's right,
because you're too fair.
Speaker 5: They didn't. They did make a two thousand.
Speaker 3: I would think Seca.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 3: He's like, is there a truck in there? There is?
Speaker 2: There's there is, but it's not at the top list.
I just picked the grab the ones that are at the top. The ones are at the top.
Speaker 3: Like I said, ta coma is what I would think.
Speaker 2: But no, so here's funny thing here and I were just having a conversation about to coma. If you guys,
if you're not a truck person, like or even a toyt a person, you would probably be shocked.
Speaker 3: At what old school Tacoma is. The money that they bring,
like they still they do hold really good value real money.
I mean, like I I remember getting an argument.
Speaker 2: I had a toylet Tacoma, and I told everybody that I was gonna sell it, and they're like, oh, You're probably not gonna get much for it, And I said, I'm gona get a lot of money for it. I
got nine grand for that truck. Nine thousand dollars for
a truck. Everybody told me, I'd probably you'll be lucky
to get like, you know, thirty five hundred bucks for it. Nope,
I got nine grand for it. Now, it was clean
when we were wrong. I took very good care of
my vehicles. You guys know we've watched the show long enough.
I am a clean freak. I am a maintenance freak.
I like detail things underneath the hood and keep everything looking good. So it looked very nice. But I got
over premium money. The blue Book value on the truck
I think got high.
Speaker 3: At that time.
Speaker 2: It was only like close to six grand, but I got nine for it because it was something somebody wants.
The people love these trucks, and I just haven't had one that they wanted.
Speaker 4: I think like maybe an Integra, maybe an Integra or maybe like a make a Ford Mustang like the that would be the easy, easy one.
Speaker 5: But yeah, you want is a Porsche. Everybody likes the
old Porsche. They like, you know, soup and back up
or I think it wasn't really cool modernized personally. I mean,
I think a four kind gives me like a ghost rider feels get into it.
Speaker 4: I don't know why taking like an old nine to night.
I mean you guys all know you guys. I think
you take like an old nine to eleven Porsche and you not, you low rock.
Speaker 3: So I'm will give you one of them that up in the Cali build mood. You know I'll give you.
Speaker 2: I'll will give you one of them. It's not and
it's not any particular model. People are gobbling up the
poor is it from the eighties and early nineties and you.
Speaker 5: Can get a really good deal.
Speaker 3: You can't, you really can't.
Speaker 2: You can get them, but they are gobble up and they're doing the modern stuff to them. They're putting you know,
GPS everything in it and you know, customizing the dash for holding everything.
Speaker 3: But they're doing it in early that's what they're trying to buy is So that's why I look.
Speaker 4: No, it's like anything out of that era, perfect time for me to buy ant.
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, I mean, like I think I told you.
Speaker 2: I can't say I'm a Porsche guy. Now I do
like Porsches. There's was it the three fifty six.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of the ones. I like, somebody's
gonna cract fer. Yeah, so I do.
Speaker 2: But I almost bought an old nine to eleven, I mean like old old, and I can't I want to say it was early seventies. It was old, and I
can't remember the year. But I think I told this
story once on the air before, and if I haven't, it would be your first time hearing it. I had
a friend that was a manager at an apartment complex and the car had been abandoned abasically. It was it was,
you know, older nine to eleven had just sat there and sat there, and you know, I had to ask questions about it a couple of different times.
Speaker 3: Not that I think that I really was a Porsche guy.
I just appreciated it for what it was. It's a
nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's cool, you know, I like to kind of have it, and he's like, man, I think it's been abandoned.
Speaker 3: You know, I figured it out.
Speaker 2: And so I went through all first, letting him talk with his bosses about me trying to acquire it off the property. They're okay with it, and so I started
going through all the different like stages of trying to legally.
I kind of just picked the car up a tow truck and just nobody would ever know it'd been there forever.
I probably could have told it then filed for time, but I didn't know any of that stuff back then, and I didn't want to do it that way because you know, I didn't think that was really legal. I mean,
I guess it probably would have been because they wanted off their property. So I probably could have towed it
and then sat on it and filed for title, not knowing what I know now. But somebody ended up getting
involved with it somewhere, putting their little fingers, and I think they realized, probably what I realized, was it had value right and it was complete right it was.
Speaker 3: It was a complete car. It was not tore up.
Speaker 2: It was just you know, all the hubs and everything, everything was rust on from sitting The wheels looked bad.
All the tires are flat on it. It was dusty
and dirty from just sitting there. But I was looking.
You know, you've been with cars. I was looking right
through all that, and I'm like, this would be kind of cool. Like I said, not that I wanted a
Porsche or had any desire, Like I was like, you know what I'm gonna own one day, I'm gonna owe me a Porsche. I was never that guy. I had
a lot of friends that were that guy. Mine wasn't that.
Mine was the Vector two. Just so you know, just
just were all clear. I had a picture of the
Vector two on my wall. That was what I was
gonna and I had the Kontash, but I didn't think I'd never be able afford it because it was prett expensive back then. But Vector two was like the car
I wanted to have back in the day, I had to.
Speaker 3: Take quite.
Speaker 2: If you've never seen one, like I said, I think I said before, I think I've only in my lifetime been around two real ones and my whole life, and both of them were roped off, like they didn't want to near it, like you could crawl around it.
Speaker 3: And look at it, and uh, that's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's for all the countashes I've seen in my life, different Lamborghinis, all the different Ferraris and stuff like that, to only come across two in the wild in my lifetime, and both, like se We're at car shows and they didn't watch you anywhere near it.
Speaker 3: I get it. Their cool cars. You never see one,
go look it up.
Speaker 2: And they were just there, way way, way above their time as far as I was concerned back then.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was gonna. I was gonna own a Porsche.
Speaker 2: And like I said, I think somebody got involved and realized it had value and wanted it as much as probably I did once I started. You know, but you
see me do it aw thousand times. I look at something,
I start pissing it together. What's gonna take? What I
think it's gonna And then before I know it's something I didn't think about wanting to know, and I'm excited about.
Speaker 4: Owning it and kind of see them like taking those eighties and nineties, like the you know, the nine eight or what is it then ninety six four or something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know more STI I did you take.
Speaker 4: One of those like eighties and build it all up with like the lower down.
Speaker 3: Another one I was, I was a nine to twenty eight fan.
Speaker 2: I liked it, and I want to say it's the eighty seven somebody like I said some of the time.
I think it' nineteen eighty sven was nine twenty eight.
I liked it. You know, first of all, risky business car.
I think that was I think that was a nine twenty eight too. I don't think it was an S model.
Maybe it was, but it didn't have the either or it was the wrong year. But you know, the eighty seven,
I think is one that had the further ground effect.
Body kind of came on. It looked a lot more sporty,
and I really liked it. Had a chance to buy
one of those. The year before you guys were born,
there was one that was sitting behind a car dealership that was going out of business, and it had been sitting there for a long time. I saw the car for
years and years and years, and I finally went talk to the guy. Was financially to the point where I
knew I could probably, you know, pick it up, but he gave me some ridiculous price.
Speaker 3: And and I knew the.
Speaker 2: Car had been sitting there for a while, and I knew enough to know about cars. Ago, I'm gonna chase
problems on is this thing is set? It is a Porsche.
It was technology was advanced for that car at that time.
It so many buttons in it and stuff like that, and I'm like, this is just gonna be.
Speaker 3: A nightmare for me.
Speaker 5: I'm never gonna be able to get it, be no word for me to find you.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's it's one of those situations I had a chance. So that was two times I had a porch.
But yes, Porsches on the list. Any idea another car?
Speaker 5: And if you I'm going on a BMW But that's just because I'm a BMW guy. But I'm probably pretty
sure M three isn't on the list at all. Maybe
probably not you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the number of those number two car port following.
Speaker 2: BMW's all old BMW's and they're even even they're going back into the seventies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're grabbing them and they're putting all modern stuff into them. But like M three's and stuff.
Speaker 2: Like that, like all any anything that's old, BMW is new right now.
Speaker 3: It is the new news. I will say.
Speaker 5: The only thing I did like about the BMW is that it always feels like they're always trying to progress ahead, and there's always something new following the models.
Speaker 2: It I can see, like, Okay, so I was looking at it, there was like a I don't remember when the M three started. It's another thing I BMW porsches.
I just didn't fall him enough to know what the years and stuff like that. But there was a guy
at one of the car shows I went to, and he had one of the older ones and it had the hood slip click forward and then folded up on it on the BMW, and I thought it was an older M three, but he had it what looked to be starting. He wasn't done with the pride, but I
respect it for what it was probably like two thousand and four, two thousand and five. Internals in it okay, nice,
like it had the dash grafted and he wasn't done when he had fiberglass work he was doing. He was
grafting the dash to fit into that car, and he'd already moved like he already had the seats. He didn't
have the carpet kit down yet, but he already the seats in it, right, and he was you see, he was moving everything from a newer transition in it. And
I was like, now this is cool. I'm like, this
is actually pretty neat. I was like, once again, you
know me not a BMW guy. You and I've argue
about all the time. It's just not it's not my
cupany I know it's yours. You like him, But that's
cool like that, I would actually dig and drive around something like that.
Speaker 4: Thought was which almost like that one guy. I watched
this guy on TikTok he'd does what's new? I think
his name is pb x vert. But his friend, his
friend crashed a M three or BMW and instead of him like letting it go to the junk yard, he bought it from the.
Speaker 3: Insurance video click on watching something. He rebuilt the whole BMW.
Speaker 2: He basically cut the front end off of front twomly he tubed the.
Speaker 3: Whole front end.
Speaker 4: He did like custom break calibers, collotted roads like he like, and he went to all the machine shops and like custom built.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's pretty cool. That's all right.
Speaker 2: So the last one that's in the top three, you nailed it. It is It is the Corvettees. They're going
back and grabbing the old court which is. It's funny
because six I told you guys we kind of want to do a retro vet. We've been talking about it.
We just need to get our other projects done and either way before we acquire something else. And no, please
don't send me all. I know they're gonna be like yeah,
uh huh, bad am. White Noise where they been at, Yeah,
is back here in the Mega garage. Thank god it
is there. But it's time for to its next stage.
White Noise.
Speaker 3: We are.
Speaker 2: We're on the bubble on it waiting. It's in the
race shop having tub work done. I told you guys
done and yeah we're patiently waiting ourselves.
Speaker 3: We're way or on the deadline for it to come back.
And it's not because of us garages full of parts, all kinds of stuff for it.
Speaker 2: There was boxes of parts to go in white noise, which, by the way, I told you guys, we were never going to buy any more stuff for it. High we
bought a bunch of stuff for it.
Speaker 3: But you know what, here's what happened. It took so
long for the car to get done. Then I just
kept on seeing things I wanted for it, and I just started buying parts.
Speaker 2: We have stuff we need to put in it. Yeah,
so Nathaniel and I and Camera. I thinks on board too.
We we have an itch to scratch with building a retrovet.
We just don't know what's going to be yet, but we know we want to build. I think we really
want to buy Bill two, but we'll figure that out at some point time. We do twins.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's the top three. And I can
see how it's cool, like.
Speaker 2: If they do it like some of the ideas we had as well, like because you and I bounced a lot of ideas about by doing it, I get it.
I can understand how those three would be cool to gather up another one. Guys, keep your eye on the
price is jumped crazy, and by the way, the price is really jumped on these cars.
Speaker 3: The prices are going up on them.
Speaker 5: You're telling me because.
Speaker 3: People are probably because people are gathering up. Ferrari was
in there.
Speaker 2: The O like the three O eights uh, and stuff like that are starting to jump up in price.
Speaker 3: That's another one.
Speaker 2: People want to buy and do retro stuff to it, which is alsfull I talked about I like to do too.
So hey, at least I'm keeping up with the trends.
I had no guys, I gotta jump out of here and take a commercial break. When we come back, we
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Speaker 3: Hey guys, welcome back.
Speaker 2: So I told you I got some interesting news, some interesting stories sent to me So here's here's one that somebody sent to me. Now, you guys will all agree
that parking lots can be confusing for some people.
Speaker 4: Maybe, is that the nicest way to put it? No, no, no, no,
It's not confusing for me. Might be confusing for some
delivery drivers, but ain't.
Speaker 3: Confusing for me.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just gonna put that on the record. Parking
lots ain't confusing for me.
Speaker 5: Confusing in what way?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Like, like, what's confusing about it? You're talking about like
people going in the wrong way they should be going the right way? Or are you talking about that just
crossing parking spots.
Speaker 2: Like they can't seem how to put their vehicle in a parking spot. Right now, I will admit that I
am one of those people that you may think that can't figure out how to park.
Speaker 3: Not the case. And I'm gonna tell you why. Trucks
just too long. Truck's too long, so.
Speaker 2: I physically have to take up two parking spots.
Speaker 3: I mean not necessarily, but I do. Depends on who
built the parking lot. Right, So for me.
Speaker 2: To park my truck and for me not to be hanging out in the drive lane, that you need to drive by. I had to pull forward to the point
where a foot in the half of my bumper hangs into the next parking spot.
Speaker 3: Now, if you're a small car, you can pull in and park.
Speaker 2: You probably be maybe an advertised car and pull and park won't be an issue. That might irritate some people,
and they think I don't know how to park. I
don't have a choice, Guys, my truck. If I park
with my bumper against the line and a lot of parking spots, I'm so long that I hang out into the drive lane because the drivelnes are so narrow.
Speaker 3: Now, so when people.
Speaker 2: Come by, you can get a car past me, but you're not gonna You're not going. Two cars aren't passing
right pass me because my bed hangs out into the thing.
That's the only way to fix. Everybody goes, well, why
don't you Why don't you go park out in the middle of nowhere? Why why should I? Why don't I
have to be any different than anybody else?
Speaker 3: Like I, you know, to be fair?
Speaker 5: I had people say that to me, like, literally, I'm a stick out there too?
Speaker 3: Right to be fair? It doesn't right exactly, I must
stick out regardless. I mean, I guess I'm now further out.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not an issue, but you still would have to swing around my truck.
Speaker 3: And to be honest with you, there is a reason why.
Speaker 2: Don't I feel more comfortable with my truck being around cars then I do further out and you're not paying attention.
You're trying to leave the parking lot, and don't realize my truck hangs out. At least with it in a
group of cars, you can realize just how much it.
Speaker 5: Well, you're already being careful considering all the other view you know.
Speaker 2: So a lot of times, even if I back my truck in, uh, something has to hang into the next parking spot. And so, and I've been considerate. So I
have a trailer hitch that's not including the trailers. I
have a trailer hitch that's you know, on my truck.
So when I put the receiver in, the receiver sticks.
Speaker 3: Out another foot foot in a couple of inches. But
you do take the receiver out. I do a lot
of times. If I realize you see me do it.
Speaker 2: If I realize I back in, I'm like, man, someone's gonna pound that right through the radio because it's happened to me, by the way, So I grabbed the receiver.
Speaker 3: A lot of times I'll take it and throw it in the back bed, which is it's.
Speaker 2: Extra work for me because I have a lock on mine, so I have to take the lock off and then slide it out and throw it in there. And I
do that to be considerate, because I have actually came out up the grocery store and went to go walk around the back my truck to put some of the back bed, and somebody has my receiver shoved in the front of their radiator, and I'm like, okay, why there was no car there.
Speaker 3: When I backed in, so they had to pull.
Speaker 2: And they don't even I don't know how they didn't hear themselves like smash into that.
Speaker 3: They did. They did well, I think they did.
Speaker 4: I think it was just another day's problem after they got the grocery.
Speaker 3: I mean they they didn't back up or anything. They
just slept there.
Speaker 4: Another day's problem. How I mean, I'll walk home at
that point. That's another day problem with your yeah, with
your grocery rights city bus.
Speaker 2: So that's why I asked, like, you know, that's at the beginning of it. Somebody sent me his story about
a woman in a lifted truck that apparently had parking lot issues as well. It drove over a guy's Lamborghini
and her gosh, defense was, well, your car sits slow and I didn't see it. Apparently the only thing that
stopped her from driving completely over the whole thing is.
Speaker 3: The axle got hung up on it as she was going over it.
Speaker 5: Well, it means to her vehicle had to be jacked up aside, here it is. It's checked up for me,
just no better. Right, Well, if you complain about his
low and you're you know, you can complain about your car telling you.
Speaker 2: The story, I don't know if I ever told you.
I don't know if you guys were doing it. We
talked about it, like when the show first started. I
backed up onto a vehicle twice in my lifetime. Actually, well,
I had a lifted truck back in the day that was lifted up and there was a guy that was being so I was coming down a downhill out of a parking lot that you come down and the roads down below, so you've come down. If you guys are
watching on the platform where you can actually see me, like a TV show, you can see what I'm doing with my hands.
Speaker 3: If not, you just have visualized through the radio.
Speaker 2: But it's a downhill slope that comes out to a road, and I was on the down waiting for traffic. Why
realize that my bumper was hanging just a little bit out into the passing traffic lane. So I'm like, you know,
and I see more tracks coming out. Okay, I'm not
going to make it across. I need to move myself,
so on my bump right, yeah, nope, still, yep, should stay still. I felt what felt like the smallest little
pebble because my truck was big.
Speaker 3: I was like, ah, and I knew what it was.
I'm like, yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 2: The guy had a lowered car behind me, if ever correctly was a Cadillac.
Speaker 3: It was a lower older Cadillac.
Speaker 2: It was lowered, and I had the right and I drove and like he was a speed bump right on up onto his hood. So that was problem number one. Okay,
Second time I drove onto the deck lid of a vehicle and never found the owner.
Speaker 3: I waited, I did everything I could to find the owner.
Speaker 2: I was young, I guess maybe now being older, I could think of a better way to try to maybe find the guy A note like I didn't you know what?
Speaker 7: To be honest with you, Yeah.
Speaker 3: How didn't you even think about it? I was like
I was in my early twenty No, seriously, I was in my early twenty I no, I did.
Speaker 2: I went to the main grocery store that I was at and had them page and no one came. And
I went to the small little stores next to it, and nobody drove that vehicle.
Speaker 5: All right, to be okay, okay, at least you did something more than nothing.
Speaker 3: I didn't just drive away.
Speaker 2: But I once again, he was lowered and I didn't see him, and I was saane truck. That was when
I was like, I gotta get rid of this truck because I backed out of a parking spot and he was almost like me, same problem. He was a longer vehicle.
He had a big deckland I want to say that was like a Lincoln or something that was big. But
he was lowered because that was that's what we did in the twenties. Every we lowered everything. If we didn't
jack it up, we lowered everything. And I drove right
onto his deck lid with the truck to the point when I stop, I got out and I was firmly playing it with a tire in the back of his trunk lid like on his vehicle.
Speaker 3: I was just like, ooh, and it was crushed.
Speaker 2: So then of course, as I pull up now, I roll my windows down because and you know what, to be fair, I probably really didn't even hear anything, because I'm sure I had the radio on when I so I didn't hear it.
Speaker 3: I just kind of felt it.
Speaker 2: So I wore my windows and I pull off and all I hear is and I hear a suspension kind of giveaway as I come off of it. And like
I said, I went to all stores did not find No.
I didn't leave it no, because I didn't think about it. Like,
you know what's kind of funny you say that I didn't even thought about it to that.
Speaker 3: To the stage, he said that.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I could easily left him know, and I didn't.
Speaker 3: I did tell the manager. Now, as I said, at
the main grocery store, I said, somebody comes looking for it, this is my name, this is how to get hold of me. He's like, I have never heard of work
so much cloud, I have so much. I feel like
I have closure. This has been bothering you guys forever.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you're that guy, I am so sorry.
Speaker 4: I know I did.
Speaker 2: I can't because well, here's the thing. I went in
and said something to the manager. I'm like, hey, I
just backed over a car out here in the parking lot.
Can you make an announcement thinking that they were in that store? So I'm already committed at that point in time,
right if the guy did go to the store, would have been like, hey, well the guy. You know, he
was driving this jacked up truck and internet and stuff like that. I was like, it's my never you know,
but I never heard a word nothing.
Speaker 3: Different of them. He's sweating bullets. I want every store.
Here's the reason why. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Because I could barely afford the insurance on the truck as it was at that time.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. So I was just like, ah,
this is I can tell.
Speaker 5: I can imagine you like going to every store and then you know them doing their little presentation and you're like, yes, nobody's here, next guy, nobody's here. I'm going I'm gonna
get away with this.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like that, but there was a sigh of relief.
Every time went to the store and the guy was there.
Speaker 2: I was like, and of course you feel weird because you're like, you go into like a place I don't remember, like it seems like it was yesterday. This had to
me because I've been like, can I get your attention for a second, you know? And then so now I've
seen movies after that where where the guys going to the.
Speaker 3: Bank, everybody's attention. I don't want cowedies.
Speaker 2: They slide their wallets and the two Sugarity guards slide their guns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm talking about. I think
I just robbed a bank, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But I think every time I think about that, they got clicks into my head. But yeah, so apparently she
had the same problem. Mind is she ran over Lamborghini.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna lie, be fair.
Speaker 3: I know how it happens twice in that movie.
Speaker 5: By the way, Yeah the gun, I think it's going in style. Some of you all talking about whether older
gentlemen rob the bank. Maybe that's the movie you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I know it's another one. It is older general just
doing it. We need to go, we need to go.
Speaker 4: A little bit later they do it again, like they walk in like to do something else, and like the bank with security guard recognizing gets on the ground.
Speaker 3: The old guy yeah, slides and gun over and he's like, no, the kid. But I'm very similar as how I felt
that situation.
Speaker 5: But I will say I've had the pleasure of driving a couple of jacked up cars, trucks, jeeps, whatever. I'm
not a big fan. I'm not gonna lie. Okay, now,
I get you know you can make it better. But
some of this I don't know. I'm not a big
fan of, you know, toppling.
Speaker 2: And I see you've been in anything really nice yet though, Like trucks are nice, but the suspensions are.
Speaker 5: Right if you and I know you can get better suspension tighter, you can. I don't know. I just haven't
been swayed into. I had snifty trucks I had. I
told you guys, I did forge for a while and I had to lift it for it. I actually I
had two lifted Fords, and I think there's a difference between lifted though and then like super lifted.
Speaker 2: So might had money in them I had at that time.
I mean, so my my my f one fifty at that time probably which was real money. Had over ten
thousand dollars in suspension. That was that was real money
back then.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, but I'm talking about like hear, what
can you see it for my guys in the fifty? Yeah,
you know, I don't wan to show you.
Speaker 4: Guy.
Speaker 3: Now, there's a reason. I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 2: Because I did Fords for a while, guys, and I did nothing but work on my Fords. I always found that,
like I said, when car guys, I'm good. You can
drive whatever you want when it comes to hot rods stuff like that. But four trucks, I did nothing but
work on my Ford trucks, trying to keep nice. But
I have found out, and you've heard me say on the show before, if you buy a four truck and beat the snot out of it, they just go down the road at service vehicles whatever. I don't know how
it is, but if you try to like keep it clean and pristine, it just wants to fall down around your yours. And I could never figure out why. It's
just my experience. I had two of them, had the
same problem. I switched to Chevyes and I always had
the same problems with Chevy. Now my shavs have issues.
I had an issue last Saturday. I was driving check engine,
like came on. It's just indicated a missfire. Couldn't figure
out why because it had plugs and stuff put in it last year. I don't know if it was just
the it was kind of misty in the morning, so like that I got a little moisture.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'm gonna take care of it.
Speaker 2: And then by then halfway through the day the light turn off never came back on and I had a had issue. I never felt the missfire, by the way,
it just gave me an indication missfire.
Speaker 3: So but what was your What was your lift?
Speaker 5: Kid though, because like like I said, I don't have a problem with lifted, it's more about the extreme lifted trust like you know when they go aggressive.
Speaker 10: The one that I had on the F one fifty, I think it was Fox Shots, I mean it was it was I had Fox It was fucked.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It had a.
Speaker 2: Had a modified front end on it. I bought it
this way, you had a matter modified front end. But
I remember all the shocks and everything on it, which was big on the west coast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you don't know like lift kit like he did two inch eight inches.
Speaker 3: Uh no, that was a.
Speaker 2: Five and a half hid which basically like a six inch slift kit that was on that truck, So it sat up kind of high and stuff. Now, my Bronco
that I had had a smaller lift kit and that was just done more by. It was a cheaper version
of it, like maybe three or four thousand dollars back then, probably into that one. But even then that was a
lot of that was considered amount of money. I saw
that truck truck. I told you guys, I owned that
in my bronco three times, sold it three different times, three and people bought it back, resold it because people couldn't keep up with the promises and make payments. So yeah,
if you're in parking lot and you're driving a lift a truck, you might want to look twice.
Speaker 3: It's happened to me. Happened to Laborghini owner. Sorry about his.
Speaker 2: Luck, but uh yeah, parking lots they can be dangerous and that No, guys, let me take quick MORTI of breakwain.
Speaker 3: Come back. I got some more for you. Hold type.
I'm right back.
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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back. So I told you had some
strange news for you. Guys.
Speaker 2: Do you remember was it last episode or two episodes ago?
We were talking about weird car products that just seemed to be a little strange. I think one of thee
was the it's gonna smell like gasoline air filter.
Speaker 3: That was one of the ones. I got a stranger
one for you more than that, I think.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you could create something strange, just drop the top of your head, don't take a lot of time.
Give me one strange car product that you could invent right this second. Okay, I'll let you go first. One
strange car product you can invent right this strange.
Speaker 3: I would never buy this in a hundred years. The
fart catcher. I mean you said strange. I would, I would,
I would just go right out. Doesn't do that.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think already has that feature. Maybe it really I
kid you nice? Look it up. Why. I don't know
why I thought of it, Like, I have no idea what.
I couldn't even think about it. You can't think of anything, no, no, no, no, no,
on the spot spot a strange car item?
Speaker 4: Would I just take all your thoughts, all your thoughts.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. It's like, you know, you
kind of cool is if you could like I don't know, I mean this is a little weird, okay, right, But if you took like the outside environment smell. But you
know sometimes that you go through like a you know, like a forest, you're like, oh, that's muscle good. Or
you can go it being or yeah, you capture it and enhance it. Now, it'd be terrible when you're going
over the overpast here. Maybe maybe you have ai dictate
what good smells are.
Speaker 3: I don't know, plays it okay? So I would agree
with you because I've told you guys.
Speaker 2: And if if it exists, somebody please tell me the smell of the desert after it rains, particularly Las Vegas desert when it rains in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If it's the mixture of the desert and the rain on the ass you know, on asphalt, like on streets.
Speaker 3: That mixed smell.
Speaker 2: Takes me right back to my childhood. If I could
get that smell.
Speaker 3: What are you laughing at? Why are you laughing at me?
Speaker 2: If I could take that smell and bottle up making a candle. I'd own those candles all the time.
Speaker 5: Now would you would you call that scent?
Speaker 2: I don't know, utter depression, I don't know, Like I got it.
Speaker 3: It's Vegas. It's gonna have to have a weird name
because it's you know, it's big.
Speaker 2: But look, it's just it's a smell that takes me back to my childhood. I also like the smell of
fresh cut grass. I've yet to see that be a
sect available.
Speaker 5: Damp tumble weeds.
Speaker 3: Damp tumble weeds. So tumble weeds are usually when nobody
is there. Look those movies in the cartoons, they always
you know, when.
Speaker 2: I was, when I was a kid in Vegas, is not grown as big as it is now. It was
a lot smaller than tumbleweeds still blew across the road like that. I mean, I know you'll find that, like
big tumble weeds stores are coming.
Speaker 3: They would be huge. They blow, they blow across the street.
Speaker 4: You guys, I have liked salons by do you guys like have salons for your bar where the doors like those.
Speaker 5: Aren't carl bars called taverns.
Speaker 3: Sales.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not that old, but things have definitely. Vegas
has changed from when when I lived there. I mean
it's it's drastically changed. Like Wayne Newton's house. She was
in the middle of nowhere and now like it's just kind of encompassed in Vegas. Everybody's like Wayne Newton, who's
at I know, good for him, Good for.
Speaker 3: Him, it was it was a big deal. I don't know.
That's the guy that did get off back to strange things.
Somebody I find this strange. I don't know. You might
find it cool.
Speaker 2: His decide is a good idea to make grass floor mats for your car.
Speaker 3: Grass floor mats. Ye, grass floor.
Speaker 5: That's a great idea.
Speaker 3: What do you really are you just messing with me.
You're messing with a bad idea.
Speaker 5: And here's and I'll tell you why, right who who ice cleaned their floor mats?
Speaker 3: Anybody? I hate? Now we're in a day.
Speaker 5: Of time where we make rubber floor mats whereber is bad for the planet.
Speaker 3: Right, right? Am? I? Right?
Speaker 4: Am?
Speaker 2: I right?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get it right.
Speaker 5: So what better than a natural shoe cleaner, grass grass car mets. Get your get your today for your job.
Speaker 3: Twenty nine nine. Mister sale man, all right, I need
to know. Is the dirt artificial dirt or.
Speaker 5: Now now when it gets dirty, don't even worry about it.
You just lay it out, you just mow it for the weekend. You just mow right over it.
Speaker 4: That was my second question. Is it real dirt or
artificial dirt. If it's real dirt, does it grow, It's
gonna be artificial. I believe from what I see is
it's artificial. I mean, if you, I guess you could
find a way to harvest like some type of wheat grass that grows right thin that you could just.
Speaker 3: Throw, That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 4: A matt.
Speaker 3: I mean you could probably that's this look.
Speaker 5: But now that I explained it like that, you guys are more on board.
Speaker 3: I can tell you kind of sold me on it a little bit. You did. Look, I thought it a
strange idea. I'm like, this is so strange, who would
do that? But I can see G people to get it. Yes,
I can see G people putting in their vehicles.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen like every single electric car owner that owns it for all the wrong reasons have one.
Speaker 4: I've seen people take artificial turf and wrap their car in it. So I mean the mats don't surprise me. Okay,
I see not a bad idea in grass before.
Speaker 3: So I mean, okay, I got I got another strange one for you. Okay, so apparently that we need.
Speaker 2: Let me set me this one. They're like, Dave, You're
never gonna believe this one. You guys are just talking
about this. So, uh, this is one of those Hey daves. Hey,
they've had David, Hey Daves in a while. If you
believe that working on cars just isn't enough, where are we going?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do you open up a garage cars working on what does it smell like?
Speaker 3: Oil? Yep? I mean cars? Yeah, tires? And we need
a clone for that. Apparently, No, we don't. Apparently we
do know.
Speaker 2: They are developing a clone that smells like you work on cars. Yes, yes, I didn't believe you had to
look like somebody's messingund looked it up.
Speaker 5: What's that smell like?
Speaker 3: What's that you coming home? Failure? Part didn't fit a.
Speaker 5: Little bit of grease, a little bit of gasoline, a little bit of sweat.
Speaker 3: Look, guys, I love wrenching on cars. Don't what you're wrong?
A couple?
Speaker 2: But the last thing I want to be reminded of why I'm out for the night. Is no, not that
the part that didn't fit, the frustration all of it.
Speaker 3: I don't need to be runted all that.
Speaker 2: I can open up the garage right the second out out there at the mega garage and look at a bunch of issues it didn't go right.
Speaker 3: I can look how much ones that did go right.
But but for the text.
Speaker 5: That are just you know, had that long week ahead of them, and you know, don't want to get away.
You don't want to get away with just doing the little as possible clone and you wipe a little bit of grease on it and you smell like you just did a full day's work.
Speaker 3: So you know those places right that, I can see how this can work.
Speaker 4: You know those places that have like those policies where it's like, hey, you gotta you gotta stay fresh, you gotta have like.
Speaker 3: Cologne, and you know the things. Well, now they can
just say I am wearing cologne right here.
Speaker 8: I have.
Speaker 3: For this product. What I only thought of one used
for this product, and how this could be a good thing.
You found a use for it? I did, I just didn't. Nope.
He helped me put it in a piece. I was like, no,
I can see, honey, I was workingly. How was that
at the bar with the guys look smelly? I was
in the garage working on the car all night.
Speaker 5: It's an out card.
Speaker 3: You don't want to work. You just spray it out.
Think about it. It works. You don't smell like the
bar no more. You guys think this is actually good.
I just myself.
Speaker 5: It's a great business move.
Speaker 3: Do I support it? Yeah, somebody's gonna it's times you
can buy because it's funny. Like, maybe it's not. I
take it back. It's not as silly as I thought
it was. All right, last one before I go to
a commercial break, dude, it's about silly as you thought it was. Now this.
Speaker 2: And maybe this works, okay. Do you get in a
car it makes a noise. You're so used to hear
the noise you don't even pay attention anymore. I do
with the seatbelt thing, like, because I have a habit.
I get in a vehicle and I can put it in gear and I start to move, and then I grab my seatbelt and click it.
Speaker 3: But I don't even hear the noise. Apparently my cars
make the noise, and I don't even hear it. Everybody
reminds me of the car makes no noise. I just
don't hear it. Maybe I've heard it so long I
don't hear it. I don't know what it is. I
have a noise like that.
Speaker 4: I don't want to take away your thunder, but my noise is just like that. But you know, like when
you don't do the seat belt and it makes like that ding ding ding.
Speaker 3: Apparently I have two of those. And I was so oblivious, oblivious, oblivious.
Speaker 4: He always that word forever until I was sitting at a traffic light and it went off and I just heard the very faint second one.
Speaker 3: But like, you're not going to tailor me.
Speaker 2: For yoush, He always.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I have to so I know what you're talking about, because like I'll forget, I'll forget about the main one, and I'll the second, small little one will draw my attention back to.
Speaker 3: The main one, because I'll hear the second one. Here's
what's yours.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing they're talking about, possibly in certain cars, changing the noises to things that you would that you like.
It still has to make a noise, because my law has to, I guess. But changing it to sounds like
birds chirping or things like that.
Speaker 3: Bad idea. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm with this one, like I just something, but no, I don't hear mine because I'm so used to it that I just don't.
Speaker 4: There might be on the right track, though, maybe instead of it being pleasant noises what happened, we still will leave it with the different noises where you know, if it's a seatbelt, it's just a nice noise that comes up, it's like, hey, you left your seatbelt.
Speaker 3: But if it's a check.
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Speaker 2: On that note, I don't want to take another commercial break. Hey,
if you think change the noises are a good idea, let me know somebody a message.
Speaker 3: I think that one.
Speaker 2: I think they probably need to leave more there. But
somebody's talking about that will make them interesting noises. No,
I don't think I'll get a board.
Speaker 3: Out of that, but you might. Let me know. Let
me take a verse of break. I'll be right back guys,
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So I'm gonna start this last
segment with I told you so. I like I told
you so.
Speaker 3: I told you so.
Speaker 2: We've talked about it many times on the show. And
what am I talking about? The new sensors that they've
talked about putting into cars. We were just talking about it,
I don't like six or seven episodisodes ago, about some of the technology that we have seen it starting to roll out.
Speaker 3: Well, article came out this week. Somebody sent me the article.
Thanks for sending it to me, Tim.
Speaker 2: It covers patents now being put in place where they're going to put in cameras and those sensors I was telling you about the can like breathalyzer sensors.
Speaker 3: That can smell and determine, and cameras.
Speaker 2: What the cameras will do, they say, is they'll actually take a series overtime of video of your face and then AI will look at the way that you look when you're I guess happy or sad, or look like you're inebriated, all those things, and you'll compile it and the car will put a profile together for you and then decide if it wants to start or not, if it thinks you should behind the wheel rather you be too tired to drive, or you look like you've had alcohol or whatever.
Speaker 3: Now that was only one side of it. But I
told you so.
Speaker 2: I told you how I thought that this is not a good idea and not just so I can be clear.
I saw the people who were talking about this, and I was following this story because it got sent to me, and then I coached, I clicked on it, and I start reading everybody.
Speaker 3: What everybody thought about it, all their messages.
Speaker 2: And if I saw one more person like tag in with a drunk driving.
Speaker 3: Story or whatever or what you know.
Speaker 2: People are tagging mad and all that kind of stuff, and I get it, I'm gonna I want to cut that part out of the equation instead of aside. I
don't think that cars should be making the decision for us, regardless if it would be good for our health or bad for our health.
Speaker 3: I think it should. I just don't think that that
should be done. And here's the reason why.
Speaker 2: Just like I told you guys, how I thought this was a really horrible idea. And everybody's like, well, if
you're not drinking and driving, or you're not, if you didn't get tired, or maybe you took a prescription pill and got tired right behind the wheel, this car would save everybody.
Speaker 3: Maybe everybody would just be late.
Speaker 4: I just don't think it should it should make decision.
I think it should give advice, but I just don't think.
Speaker 3: It should make the decision.
Speaker 4: Maybe in that direction, if it detects it, maybe it should pop up a message, just like when you're driving down the road and the passenger tries to go try to hit the GPS map, and it pops up that message and goes, hey a passenger to be the only one that doesn't, and you go, I'm the passenger. Now,
maybe a message like that that goes, I'm not drunk or I am driving.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, no, I'm gonna tell you, and I've told I think I've talked about this on the air.
Speaker 2: I have been in first gen operations of these type of cars already they're add ons, and I've seen them start to become real popular lately and starting to pop up.
Speaker 3: I didn't see a whole lot of them, but in the last.
Speaker 2: Two years I've been in a couple people's cars that have it because they own government vehicles or they own a fleet car, and I've rode a passenger in the car, and.
Speaker 5: I think it makes complete sense for that, Okay, for governmental purposes, you know, where the company's kind of liable and they got to make sure that, you know, because they're already kind of doing that with dash cams.
Speaker 3: Okay, they are to a certainty.
Speaker 2: But here's here's where I separate from that, because there is a separation for me. I told you a buddy
of mine had a problem with this car and say he may compay my car by and let you take a look at it, you know, at the house.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, stop by. So he brought it in.
He's like, hey, it's acting kind of funny. I don't
know if I.
Speaker 2: Should take it to the shop and stuff like that. Well,
his is actually owned by his company. They supply the
car to him, but they're in a different state, you know.
I mean, he just he works for a company, works in different states. So you want me take a look.
So I took a look at the car. I get
in it and I started to drive, and it starts talking to me. It is a live person talking to
me from what from what I could tell, that was a live person. And I asked him, I SAYDS that live.
He's like, I believe it is, and it was a voice record. The first thing I told me was, sir,
please put on your seatbelt. I was still in my
drive Now, my driveway's long, but I was still in my driveway. So I was just messed around the car
trying to see it and stuff like that. That was
the first message I got, and I was like, is that a recording or is that someone live?
Speaker 3: So I did.
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize that the camera was there. First
of all, I didn't realize that it had a voice.
And it has a voice, it can hear you and stuff and popular and so I kind of looked at him.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, okay, so clicked a seatbelt on, I drove.
Speaker 2: I got to the end of the driveway and I was at the end of the driveway and checking your light was on. So I picked my phone up and
put like you see me do a thousand times. I
put the year make a model into my phone and stuff because I have an app that's almost like a like a scanner, so I was putting it in. I
was just doing my preliminary and it came back on said sir, please put your cell phone down while driving.
Now I was, yes, I was behind the wheel, but I was still on my properties in my driveway, and I was like, huh, Now I told your story. I
was in another vehicle and this happened to me before, but this is the first one I had where I was like, I think that was someone live that is paid to monitor those vehicles.
Speaker 3: That just is almost like it feels like a call center, but they just.
Speaker 5: Their job is monitor the right and it would.
Speaker 2: It And I was just like, ah, So I had mixed feelings already about that. I think we talked about
on the air episodes ago I about my mixed feelings on those systems of I feel it's a little invasion of privacy whatever, but I guess it's not really your car, so maybe it isn't because the car is being well.
Speaker 5: That's kind I was going with, right, but it makes sense for flea vehicles, I think for personal though, I think that's kind of a cross the line for the fact that one they're making a decision for you.
Speaker 3: They're trying to do legislation on this right now as we speak, are they. Yes.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, look, if you want to buy it, if it to add on, like you said, so you know, I mean, you have the option to take it out put it back in. I'm assuming not.
Speaker 2: It'll be So the one the one I saw is it's built into the console of the car, so it is actually built in so you will.
Speaker 3: I think you would not take it and take it out.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be more for kids safety is how they're going to push it first, and then it's going to turn into a household.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you why I think you're wrong.
Speaker 2: So I did a little research and I read on some of the some stuff for the patents and stuff that are even put through in the verbiage guys for the patent was exactly what I said when I first talked about this a while back, and.
Speaker 3: The why I said, I think I don't want this.
I understand. I don't want people driving drunk. I don't
want all that, you know.
Speaker 2: I look, I'm all for whatever we do to keep bad things from happening. I said a long time ago
when I first saw the technology being developed, that the overreach is what I'm worried about.
Speaker 3: And here we are.
Speaker 2: So in the verbiage of the patents, it talks about taking this data in supplying it to our government rather be police station stuff like that live as it happens.
Speaker 3: So if the card detects.
Speaker 2: That you may be ineberate or whatever like that, it would have the ability to call the police department and.
Speaker 3: Give your location of where you're at. That's what I
was worried about. And everybody goes, well, that's a great idea,
that's great. No, I don't even if it was preventing things.
And I understand why people say it's great.
Speaker 2: The overreach, it's just the beginning of exactly what I was worried about from the get go, guys, is you're going to take all my personal information and you're going to have to be supplying it to people, out to people, rather be the government whatever stuff like that. My habits,
whatever it may be, that's my personal stuff. Rather my
habits are good or bad.
Speaker 5: Right should be your choice to be forced to walk austral line.
Speaker 2: Once again, because I want to be clear, I am not promoting to that people should be out there just doing craziest things in cars and it's their right to do it.
Speaker 3: That's not what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about we go down a slippery slope every time technology is a good you guys.
Speaker 3: For me is a double edged sword to me on technology.
I like some of it, some of it I don't.
Speaker 2: I dislike it, I don't approve of I think this fall is right in that gray area for that reason.
Speaker 3: So you're going to it's going to record me.
Speaker 2: It's going to watch my movements, record it, and then AI is going to make a determination make a profile for me.
Speaker 3: Then it's going to take.
Speaker 2: My profile and share my profile with our government, local facilities, whatever it is, and then be able to alert them on certain things about me as well. I can also
control your speed, which we talked about before. All the
things that I was worried about, or all the patents are now starting to go through, and it's in the verbis of how this is a great idea. We should
move the legislation forward on this because here's all things we could do. We could a sply you with all
the information on that driver for you guys, police department.
What so I buy a car that's going to stitch on me? I mean, I mean that funny in a way,
but because I know this isn't a funny manner, but I'm literally I'm going to buy a car that's going to tell on me in every single way possible, speeding, whatever it may be, you name it.
Speaker 3: It's just now gonna tell me no, no, what No?
The answer is no, I reject. I mean, would you
agree no?
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I think there's better ways to do certain things. I just don't think that that's the way.
I didn't think that we could put technology into two things.
But I don't think we should be just sharing information.
I have been the biggest advocate for years. I'm not
affiliated with them. I don't have a sponsorship through them,
but you guys have heard me praise them. I love
Life three sixty. I think it's a great program when
you have kids that are driving. If you've never looked
into it, I highly suggest that you do. We used
it when the kids were younger. I still use it.
Speaker 2: They have it on their system. I can tell you
where they're at. Not that I'm they're adults. I'm not
tracking them. But man, let me tell you how many
times something bad has happened with us in this family, where somebody's broke down, somebody got in a car, access like that, and that system did exactly what it was supposed to do and made it made me feel at ease to the degree I know what happened, I know where to find them, I know how to get to them.
Speaker 3: It parks marks where.
Speaker 2: The car's at, where it had its accident, tells me everything I think it's a great system. Like I said,
I once to get I am not sponsored by them, but I love that system still do. I just think
it's a great system to have. You know, Don's got
it on her car. I can tell you every where
she's at if she ever has a problem, Hey, the car's doing something funny. I can look see where she's
at stuff like because if you ever ask your wife, where are you, I don't know. I don't have to
have that conversation. I just hit the button tells you
where she's in, and I can drive right to her.
Great system. Like I said, you don't have it, look
into it. But this is something a little different, guys.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it's just too
early for me. I'm looking at it wrong. You guys,
tell me, send me the message, but yeah, this is for me. I don't know. I'm just gonna tell you
that's how I feel about it. And I know, guys,
this show's gone by really really quick.
Speaker 2: Hope you guys enjoyed the show. We need to go
ahead and get out of here. Enjoy your Saturday. Hey,
Sunday is right around the corner. As I tell you
all the time, make sure you unplug. Spend some time
with your kids. Unplug, hide their cell phones from playboard game,
fire at the barbecue, whatever it is. But make memories
and wrench in the garage with them, teaching us some things.
And then no, we're right here and we'll talk to you guys soon
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Retro-mods and restomods are getting a lot of attention, with hosts pointing to car-show tech swaps, older Toyota value, and even how “Blue Book value” can miss what buyers will pay. The conversation then shifts to real-world ownership headaches—abandoned Porsches, complex Porsche aero/tech, and custom BMW builds—before turning into a long parking-lot safety debate involving long trucks, hitch receivers, and lowered cars. The episode also touches on warranty rules and connected-car driver monitoring, plus some strange accessory hypotheticals.
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Join us as Dave and the crew talk about the latest trends in automotive restoration! We are breaking down which classic models from the 80s and 90s are being gobbled up for modern resto-mod builds. Plus, we share a few parking lot mishaps including the wild story of a lifted truck that didn't quite see the Lamborghini in its path. You wont want to miss this on Let’s Talk Cars Radio!
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