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About this episode
The hosts dive into a wide-ranging chat covering the NHRA drag racing season, including new drivers and team changes, plus the rising popularity and challenges of the IHRA organization. They explore the surprising variety of cars built on the Foxbody platform, revealing lesser-known models like the Lincoln Continental and Ford Granada. A detailed discussion on the new Mustang Dark Horse SC highlights its pricing and performance compared to the GT500 and GTD models. The episode also touches on rising fuel and material costs, 3D printing innovations for classic car parts, and a lively recount of a recent Disneyland trip. Plus, Brad promotes his 'Save the Chevelle' restoration series on YouTube and upcoming automotive art events.
Topics:
nhra drag racing
ihra organization changes
foxbody platform cars
mustang dark horse sc
car pricing and performance
fuel and material cost increases
3d printing for car restoration
classic car restoration
automotive art events
disneyland visit
Cars:
Chevrolet Chevelle
Dodge Challenger
Ford Capri
Ford Granada
Ford LTD II
Ford Mustang
Ford Probe
Ford Thunderbird
Mercury Marquis
Mini John Cooper Works GP
Plymouth Cuda
Shelby GT500
Volkswagen Golf
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Uh-oh. I think a couple of weeks ago, I had to dig in hard at the shop.
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and I open the fridge and I'm like, oh, there's one of those strawberry mango red bowls or something
of like, like one of the real little ones, you know, the little skinny ones, not the tall
skinny ones, the little skinny ones. So I don't know. Same thing. I put it in like a kicker,
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and I still have no problem at night. Like I was asleep. But I don't know why. I'm just
so tired at the end of every day. I get up early and I'm just...
I was going to say because you probably get up early. Yeah.
You know, I sleep pretty good at night, but I do wake up a lot, but I do sleep pretty well.
I sleep pretty well during the day, too. I mean, a lot of guys your age, they have that.
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things. Yeah, right. It's like stop moving around. What's going on in the car world?
I want to do a quick promo here for my Save the Chevelle on YouTube. Go to my YouTube channel.
It's at Bradfanshaugh3281. I know I've got to change that, but it's Bradfanshaugh3281 is my
channel. It's just what they gave me and I never changed it. Last for your social?
Yes. And if you take my letters and you take them by where they fall in the alphabet,
that's the rest of my stuff. Yeah. The next episode is going to be sponsored by LifeLock.
You say that. Protect your credit report. You say that, but my Chevelle was stored so long ago
that people didn't think. Do you guys remember how they would say, oh, put your social security
number on it because that was like a safe thing because you're the only one with that number?
Do you remember those days? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I'm pulling out parts. I'm pulling parts
out of the garage for my Chevelle and I'm sanding on them as I'm pulling them out because I had
written in a paint pen my social security number on all the parts. Oh, wow. You know, nowadays,
you wouldn't worry about somebody stealing the part. You'd worry about the number they'd get
off of that part. That's right. Yeah. So I literally was sitting there. I had some acetone
and I was like going and taking it off every part. I had it written on A-arms and on sway bars
and it was like, oh my God, what am I thinking? Yeah. There wasn't a lot of hacking back then.
No. It wasn't. Identity theft. Identity theft was literally like stealing your wallet and stuff.
Exactly. Stealing your license. Yeah. You know what it was back then? It was writing a bad check.
Right the bad check. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, save the Chevelle video we're working on it,
but there's a cool easy watch one minute promo. I don't know if you guys have watched it yet,
but it's just a quick promo, giving little highlights of what you're going to see. It's fun
and we drag it out of the dust where it's been stored since 1980. Well, it's actually been
stored in that garage since 1984, but the car's been stored since 80. And we show a few highlights
of loading it and heading back. And the complete video, the six hour long mini series will be coming
soon. Well, Brad likes to put them away clean. Fresh painted and clean, right? They put it away
after a paint job in 79. That thing has so much dirt on it. I think the dirt protected it because
when I... Hey, it's a thing. It's a thing as long as we disturb the dirt. There's one part of the
video I had put the camera up and I went, yes, we're finally done with getting it on the trailer
now we're ready to go. And I clapped my hands. I had my gloves on and it was just dust everywhere.
The sparkly kind. Yeah, like the beginning of the alien movie. All the good stuff you want to breathe in.
Yeah, all the asbestos. Hey, the first big NHRA national was this weekend. They began the 75th
year of NHRA drag racing. And do you guys remember? It doesn't seem like it has been 25 years,
because I can remember when they were celebrating 50th anniversary of the NHRA drag racing series.
It's like, God, 25 years really did go fast. It really screamed. Remember when they were doing
the 50th anniversary of Hot Rod Magazine, 50th anniversary of NHRA, everything kind of fell
because everything started at kind of the same time. Yeah. And wow, it was fast. But this year,
it's been a bang up year because everybody's topsy-turvy, different teams, different drivers.
You've got Tony Stewart has his wife come back and the team he owns, she's driving for.
And what happens in off season? He gets hired to drive for another team. So he's competing against
his own team and his own wife. It's funny. So Leo's driving for Tony Stewart racing and he
joined Elite Motorsports. Now, they've collabed on tech and all kinds of stuff. So he's on the
team Elite with Erica Enders and I think Jags, right? Because Jags is with Elite.
Yeah. So they're a part of that team as well. So yeah. Now, he is competing against his team,
but I guess he competes against Matt Hagen because Matt is on the Tony Stewart team,
right? And he drives funny cars. It's interesting. Also, I spoke to Alexis DeGiorria recently on
CarCast and she joined John Force Racing. So it's the first time ever in John Force Racing history
that a force member of the family is not racing and she's the first female outside of the family
to ever join John Force Racing. But I didn't know this is when I spoke to her, she said,
she and John go back when she got her license or drag racing license. John Force is the one
who signed it. He signed up on the license. So I didn't know they had that much history, but she's.
And Erin, since you weren't here last night, I'll tell you, we have a direct quote from
John Force, what he told her when he signed his license. You know what it was? What? He looked
at her and he said, may the force be with you. I think Brad gave us that one last week. I gave
it last week and I said, Erin would be so disappointed that he wasn't here to hear it.
So we had to bring it back. It's the all repeat show, folks. Yeah. She made it to the semifinals
and got runner up this week. So she made a great, strong appearance.
Ron Kapps was the number one qualifier. I didn't see the final. He went out second round. But
Maddie Gordon, she went three rounds and took out some. She did not have easy rounds.
And when I was watching it, she drove hard. She drove really, really.
If you listen to CarCast, you got to tune into her or just online, just watch her post-race
interview. And she's like a mini John Force. Yeah. Talk about somebody so excited. She's
going to be so great for the sport and she's just going a mile a minute and can't barely
focus on her words. Just so excited. It's her first race in top fuel in that car.
She's like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know what happened.
And she won some races. She was winning rounds and she's like, it was just insane.
So what a great addition to drag racing. Yeah, that's great. Drag racing needs it.
There were some tense moments and some surprising things such as Proc, who was such a strong player,
left force and excuse me, had his, okay, no, wait a minute. It was him and his dad. And I'm
trying to remember, did they have their own team or were they with force? I think they were with
force and they went with another team and no go, no bueno. They did not make qualifying and,
which was a big surprise. And then Greg Anderson, six time pro stock champion,
almost didn't make it. His son made a debut, made it in and his dad hadn't even made it yet.
But his dad in the last round of qualifying actually made it and got, he was in the bottom,
but he got in there and everybody was like, what? What's going on here? But they had a
sellout crowd down there. I think changing their dates made sense for them because
by making it the first race of the year, there are a lot of people vacationing,
a lot of people that are retired that are down there for the winter and they want to go to the
races, man. Yeah, so they were Florida, then they go to Phoenix and then they come here in
April, which I think is weather wise because we were getting a little rain when they were starting
here, so I think they fixed that with the schedule change. Now, aside from NHRA, there's
this other organization called the IHRA. Yes. And if you have heard about the IHRA,
they've been coming on strong. The guy who owns the IHRA, who bought it, he's a friend of Elon
Musk's and he owns a big contracting company that does something in the electrical world,
and IHRA is going crazy. They've been buying tracks, race series, they do drag racing,
power boat racing, stock car racing, tractor pulling, snowmobiles, concert promotion. I mean,
they're all over the place, but they've been buying big tracks all over for both stock car
and for drag racing, and our buddy Scott Woody Woodruff was the chief operating officer over
there till last week. Yeah, he was a long time member of the JEGS team, and then he was at IHRA.
Hey, Aaron, if you ever get a text that just says one word, it means you're done. What would that be?
Goodbye, fired. Well, Woody said his, he showed it. It just said the previous text with his boss was
something about the hockey game, and then the next day there was one word, fired. Oh, fired.
Okay, I guess I don't have to come to work on Monday, do I? Yeah, I would probably get,
I probably have follow-up questions. Like, what are we talking about here? And your second text is,
oh, you know. Yeah, right. Why didn't he be like, oh, yeah, right. See you Monday. I haven't spoken
to Woody yet, but, and I don't really know what happened. I'd love to get his story on it, but
seems suss, as the kids would say. There is a lot of talk in the industry. It's suss.
That's all you have to do now. If you don't know, you just take a word and you just abbreviate it.
That's, you know, in the drag world, there's a lot of things out there. There was also,
their vice president of advertising sales was also fired, and they've been having a huge change
over there. I mean, hiring people, firing people, hiring people, firing people, and they, apparently,
many of them have said that it's just craziness. It's just, you know, they're trying to do so much,
so fast, and you know, who knows. But it's not just Woody, obviously, because there's been a lot
of people that have come and gone there, and we'll see what happens. I mean, come on. They're
doing so many different series, so many different types of activities, and buying so many properties
like that, it's got to be crazy. I mean, just managing that. I mean, there's enough to manage
drag racing race series, let alone you're also acquiring all these properties and having to
go in and figure those out. You're acquiring race series in other, you know, areas. It's a big job,
big job. Yeah, and to be clear with Woody, I like Woody. I'm good friends with Woody. I've known
him for a long time. He knows a hell of a lot about drag racing and the inner workings of it,
the business side of it, the politics of it, ticket sales, how to, you know, like, I would see he would
be a great addition to an organization like that. So there must have just been some sort of creative,
you know, headbunting or sort of disagreement on how to grow this or what direction to take it in.
I have heard, and this is, I'm not saying this, I don't want to get sued or anything. I have just,
I have heard from several sources, and a lot of it's on the internet also, so it's not just me
saying it, but the president is very difficult to get along with, apparently. Of IHRA? Yes.
Or you just meant of the country. Any of them. Any of them. All of them. If they're a president,
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Matt. I have a question for you. I'm Matt. Go ahead. Matt, how many different cars
were on the Foxbody platform, and can you name them? Oh. I mean, it's one platform, so I mean,
there was the Mustang, there was the Mercury. Mercury, what? The one. Yeah, the Mercury.
Whenever they did that ASC, McLaren kind of coach built version of the Mustang was a two-seater
convertible. But that's still a Mustang. Yeah, it's still a Mustang. Then there's all the spin-offs
of the Mustangs like Selene and stuff like that. But I don't know if there is, so there is...
What about the Thunderbird?
Yeah, I don't know. It looks so much smaller. It was a Foxbody.
I guess it does have, yeah, and then what's the station wagon that has like Fox platform
suspension bits on it? Well, are you thinking of the Fairmont?
Maybe it is the Fairmont, yeah. Well, I was surprised at how many. I knew that the Thunderbird
was a Ford probe Mustang. That was after the probe was after. But Proby. But I was surprised
when I saw this on Jalopnik. How many were? We had the Thunderbird. We had the Ford Fairmont
was a Foxbody platform. The Mercury Zephyr, which is the Mercury version of the Fairmont.
Then we had the Mercury Capri. Oh, the Capri, yeah. We had the Mercury Tuger XR7.
Okay, yeah. I know that car. Now, here's one that threw me for a loop. The Ford Granada. I did
not realize that was a Foxbody platform. Really? I wouldn't have guessed that either. Now,
this one will really throw you for a loop. Are you ready for this?
The night, the early 1980s, Lincoln Continental. Really? 80 and 82 were on the same. They,
and when you look at it, you go, yeah, I could see a Ford Thunderbird there. It was a real
short version of the Lincoln Continental. Yeah. And in 1982, you could get it for the first time ever
with a five-liter V8. Yeah, yeah. The Ford LTD.
The Mercury Marquee. The Lincoln Mark 7. I never realized that car was a Foxbody platform.
Yeah, I remember that car. Those were great cars. I like them.
Yeah, well, that's why. Which one of the things that this article mentioned was
what great cars that can use a lot of the Mustang changeover parts,
motor performance parts, suspension parts, wheels. I mean, there's a lot of stuff there that people
have never, you know what? I'm going to say something. And before I read this article,
I actually was looking on the auto trader at Granada's. Okay. And I was like, my dad had one.
He got one like, I think maybe 1980, 82, something like that as a company car. And I remember taking
that thing out. It had the five-liter Mustang motor in it, and it ripped, man. It was a fast
little car. It was a brown two-door. And I remember that thing would burn rubber, and I never told him
that. And I found one out in the Inland Empire. They wanted 10 grand for it, but it only had
39,000 miles on it, and it looked pretty nice. And I was like, can you imagine putting some
some Mustang cast wheels on that thing with some wide tires all the way around like the GTs came
with, you know? And just give it a little bit of suspension. It'd probably be a fun little driver
for cheap. For cheap. Or maybe you really go crazy and you put a full chassis under the thing,
and what's the motor I'm thinking of, Matt? The Coyote engine. Coyote engine. I knew it wasn't
a wolf motor. It was the wolf. It's a Coyote. Yeah, you could put a Roadster Shop chassis
underneath it. Yeah, a Coyote. And then also I'd have $100,000 for Granada. Yeah. You know,
like an 85? Is that the one you're looking at? The real square one. Yeah, it looks like a Mercedes.
Yeah, it kind of does. Every photo I'm looking at, I'm going, no, that's a Mercedes. Let me put
on my glasses. Well, it's a little different. Here's a fun fact. The Ford Granada was first
debuted in Europe as a sedan in Europe and sold very, very well. I mean, it totally looks like a
little Mercedes. That's the European one. That's the European one. Oh, no wonder it does. Oh,
yeah, look at the European plate. Yeah, the European lights and everything on it.
I know it does. It looks just like one. Wow, what a trip. But no, I didn't realize how many cars were
on that platform until I read this. And it was pretty interesting. Especially when you look at
cars like the Lincoln Mark 7 and the Lincoln Continental. I mean, those are cars that you
were like, huh, Fox, buddy, they just don't even have the same family, you know. And speaking of
Mustangs and stuff like that, Matt, should we take a quick break and then when we come back,
you can tell us all about the dark horse? Yes. Yes, let's do that. I got some thoughts on this.
You're talking about that one? No, that's a Fairmont. Oh, that's a Fairmont? That's a Fairmont.
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Yes, so the Mustang world. The Dark Horse. The Dark Horse. So the Dark Horse,
but the Dark Horse SC is the supercharged version with the racing bits on it that is meant to
replace the Shelby GT500. What does the SC stand for? Supercharged. I know, but it's supercharged.
What's the SC stand for? It stands for Sus. Sus. There we go. Sus car. Sus car.
Pricing has come out on this car. Now, keep in mind, when the GT500 came out, the very basic
starting price was like 80-something thousand bucks. And for under 90,000, you can get one.
I think Edmunds bought theirs for like 87,000 or 90,000 dollars, right?
But the Dark Horse supercharged, the SC, the base price is 105,485.
That's for when fully loaded? No. And then it goes from there. So the GTD, they're a super car.
They're like, hey, listen, you can get the track pack, which has the carbon ceramic
brakes from the GTD. It has the Michelin Pilot Cup Sport 2R tires. But now this jumps to 141,985.
Oh, geez. Wow. And Ford is going, I know, but nothing else with this much power has like carbon
ceramic brakes and whatever. And they're not done there. There is a track pack special edition.
It'll be a one-year model only. It has a very specific solar red upholstery,
carbon fiber appearance package, and it'll be $172,965. Wait, carbon fiber appearance package,
so it's not carbon fiber? It doesn't just appear as carbon fiber. It's just you can see the carbon.
$173,000 now for the Mustang. Now, one, I thought the SC would be a little bit cheaper than the GT500
because they didn't have the licensing fee to pay to Shelby, right? So they're like, hey,
let's do away with that. We can be more profitable. They can be more profitable.
Yeah, right. And then the GTD, right? So here's the problem with this is the Mustang platform
starts at like $34,000 for an EcoBoost turbo four-cylinder and now up to $173,000 for a fully
loaded track pack special edition. But that's all just sort of bolt-on parts, right? And obviously
calibration and tuning, the DCC transmission and all that stuff. The GTD is a little more unique,
so they start with a body in white, but then it's all carbon fiber body. It's got active
arrow and cantilever suspension and ride height, adjustability, and there's nothing really Mustang
left on it other than some of the interior pieces. But the Dark Horse SC and the GTD have
essentially the same engine. So they're both going to come out close to that 815 horsepower range.
So it kind of fits in the middle of the Dark Horse and the GTD, but not power-wise, right? So
the problem here is in the Ford Racing catalog, you can get the Ford Supercharger,
the big Whipple Supercharger kit. I don't know if it's 3-liter, it adds more power,
whatever. On a stock Coyote engine, it makes 810 horsepower. That's warranty 93 octane, whatever.
But on a modified engine, with better internals, you can get 1,000 horsepower out of it on pump
gas. So this is where I think Ford kind of screwed up, is they launched the GTD with the
crate engine, basically their GT500 crate engine with 815 horsepower, and then they have the SC,
which basically has the same engine. If they knew they were doing the SC, and you're going to ask
$400,000 plus for the GTD, the GTD should have come with the Whipple Supercharger on it,
and it should have been 1,000 horsepower and the crazy multi-matic suspension and all the carbon
fiber body and the active arrow and all those bits and pieces. So when they came out with the SC,
it said, hey, this thing's going to be $105,000 to $175,000, and it fits in that sweet spot of about
800, 815 horsepower, then it wouldn't creep up on the GTD so much. You'd have a 500 horsepower Dark
Horse, the 480 horsepower GT, 500 horsepower Dark Horse, 815 horsepower Dark Horse SC, and then you'd
have 1,000 horsepower GTD, but instead you have an 815 horsepower car and an 815 horsepower car,
that they didn't officially say what the SC horsepower numbers are, but it has to be at
least as much as the Supercharged Coyote, and it can't be really more than the GTD.
So I think they're going to do a version of the GTD with the Whipple Supercharger,
but then what does it do to everyone who's already taken delivery of one that doesn't
have the Whipple? Do you get it for free or is there an upcharge package?
It's like click away.
Yeah, no, they're going to sell them a second one.
Yeah, I know. The GTDs are selling well, if I understand that correctly, from what I've seen
so far, because it's a cool car. Now, it's based off of that Mustang Unibody, that platform,
so it does come in a little heavy. It's 5,000 pounds, but it has a trans-axle,
and it's much better balanced. So yes, you would like a lighter car, but they've done everything
they could. The Supercharged Accompensate. Because it has the Supercharger on, but it needs the
bigger Whipple Supercharger. So I'm not sure how Ford's going to sort of address this. Now,
this isn't the first time they've been there when the new version of the Mustang Cobra came out,
the 99-01. It was the naturally aspirated 4-valve. It didn't have the Supercharger yet,
and I think it was supposed to be like 3L-5 horsepower, and a bunch of those cars got released,
and they were significantly underpowered. And I think there was a lawsuit, and Ford had to recall
the cars and offer a tune or something on it to get some of that horsepower back, but it scarred
them for a while on that car. Because now, anybody goes, hey, I've got a 99 Cobra for sale, people
go, that's not the good one. Of all the Cobras, that's the one you want the least. I mean, you can
obviously modify it. You can do good stuff with it, but it's the least desirable car.
Now, you don't want the GTD to be that. This is the car they were selling for $400,000. You don't
want to go, oh, I don't want the GTD because the first version didn't have the big Supercharger,
then the second version, which they charge us more money for, has the big Supercharger,
but they didn't tell us about it. So now the collectability is going to be ruined.
It just seems like all of this needed a little more forethought on behalf of Ford.
Do you remember the good old days when you could buy it?
Well, we went around back then, Brad. Well, we've read about it in magazines.
I've seen it on TV. About how you could buy a Shelby, and it would be fully outfitted,
ready to go to the racetrack, and it'd be what, maybe $5,000, and then five decades later,
it'd be worth $500,000. Now you buy them for $500,000, and in five decades,
there won't even be fuel to run them on. Right, right. Now, can I electrify this?
It's funny you mentioned that because now more than ever, you know,
everyone who makes fun of my electric Ford truck, I don't know, rolling around LA,
gas is eight bucks a gallon at one gas station, and it's over five bucks.
$6.99, quite a few gas stations. Gas stations, and I just plug my truck in,
and I pay the same rate over here at my car. Not for long.
Yeah.
Enjoy it while you can. I've been wanting to get my big truck back on the road,
like I was talking about, and then I said to Cheryl last night, I couldn't afford to drive it now,
because that thing at $5 a gallon was $250 to fill up, and I'd go through that in a week,
and it's like, man, I'm going to go, they're saying little cars are already selling. People
react so fast, you know? I mean, but it is so true. We saw gas catapult over $100 a barrel.
Gas goes up $0.50 a gallon one night, $0.50 a gallon the next night, $0.50 a gallon the next
night. Then it dropped back down to like $85. Gas is right where it was. It doesn't go down.
That's the problem, man. It's delayed to come back down always.
Yeah, and I always love it when it goes up like that, because it's like, still the same fuel in
the tank, still the same fuel over at the refinery. It's just there going, well, yeah, but you're
right, and it's not just gas. There's so many products that like we had this whole thing was
in the news, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, right? I'm even standing at a liquor store,
and somebody goes, I saw a customer come in, and he goes, this used to be cheaper just like a couple
of months ago. What's going on with the tariffs? And the guy's like, yeah, it's got to be tariffs,
and I'm looking at it. I'm like, that's an American whiskey. There's no tariffs on that,
like what's going on? It's just like, there's a little bit of, I don't want to say price gouging,
but there's capitalizing on the news. Yeah, but I've got it. Let me put the manufacturer's spin
on this. They might be getting their bottles from out of the country or their caps from out of the
country, because just like my wheels, I've had people say, why did your wheels get more expensive?
And I say, you've got to understand, aluminum has gone up tremendously, that first of all.
But secondarily, one of the things I never even anticipated, we use so many polishing pads,
and so many polishing rouge bricks, you would not believe. They just like disappear. It's like
you're changing them all the time. All of those come from India, and it's like quadruple. The cost
of polishing a wheel has quadrupled because of just the price of polishing rouge and the
little spinning discs. And it's just crazy. And I mean, every wheel, and look, what you said,
30 bucks, now it's 90. What you said even a couple months ago was, you make your wheels here,
but companies that were making them overseas are now coming here and going, we're going to make
them here, which now drives up your cost because your suppliers, all of your suppliers going,
hey, Brad, we were giving you a good deal because you were our biggest buyer. But now we've got
three other companies, they all want the same aluminum stock or whatever. And so now the demand
is going up and we're charging more for it. Well, I'm having some remodeling done at my house,
and I cannot believe how much the building materials have gone up. Oh gosh. Well, fuel cost
drives the cost of everything up because it has to be transported. Yes. And that's the stuff that
doesn't come down. Fuel costs might go back down, but the cost of printing new labels and printing
new boxes and bags and all the stuff with the price adjustment on them, if it's not just a tag,
the cost of marking things back down, nobody wants to invest in. So they just leave them where
they're at. So the cost of living just went up hugely because of the cost of fuel because
everything is transported. Yeah. It's terrible. And I don't even understand why the price of fuel
went up. What's going on in the world? Is something happening? It's all AI. I don't watch the news.
It's all news. It's all AI. It's all price gouging it. I don't watch the news.
I had a neighbor that got divorced and they sold their house and when I had my garage sale,
his sister happened to stop by and I said, hey, I said, how are they doing? And she goes, well,
you know, they got divorced. Yeah, I heard that. And she goes, well, he went back to Beirut. He
says, I mean, how would you like to, I mean, because God, Israel's hammer in Beirut. Yeah. Yeah.
It's an ugly thing. What else is going on, Matty? Anything? No, there's not a single thing,
not a single thing going on. Everything is everywhere. Stop. Everything is done. Everything
is over. That's not true. That's not, don't say that I run my Chevelle done. Well, he started
my Chevelle. The Mini Cooper is running great and it gets like, I don't know, 38, 40 miles per gallon.
So I'm good. Yeah, maybe I'll put an electric motor in my Chevelle. Okay. I mean, okay.
I'm going to get all kinds of emails on there. Oh, where'd he go? That's sacrilege. Can't even say
that. I feel great. I'm running on sunshine. Hey, you guys, I've got an electric bike and I've
got a BMX bike. So I'm good. I can, I can pedal to work. Yeah. Yeah. You should see me bringing
those wheels back from the factory with your electric bike on my bike and with your radio
flyer wagon behind you. Hey, just take note to the guys in India because they stack up wheels. Oh my
God, that's not real. And then you look at the photos from the 60s, you're like, wow, okay.
No, it's, it's, they're amazing. They talk about if there's a will, there's a way. Oh, man. Definitely
do it. There's no safety protocols on that one. No, no. You know, you know what's really strange
though in the whole scheme of things? We prepare for the show every week and do we?
I do. You guys didn't show up and laugh. Boy, the crickets are getting loud, aren't they?
Hey, you know what? I just, I just thought of something. This will be coming out Friday,
but if you're in the LA area on Saturday, March 14th, come by the Lions Museum from 4pm to 9pm
for the Lions Automotive Art and Design Experience. Got a lot of great artists there.
They're going to be debuting lots of neat work that you can buy. There's going to be a silent
auction and a live auction. And it's going to be really great. Dave Merrick's going to be there.
Mike Desmond, Tom Fritz. Gosh, I'm trying to think of all the people. Kenny Youngblood. I mean,
some great artists. Going down the road. And we commissioned Mike Desmond to do the artwork
for this show. And it's really cool. It's really cool. The poster will be available as well as the
original piece of art will be auctioned off in the live auction. And it's 30 by 40, I believe,
is what the original oil painting size is. Feet? It's huge. Yeah, billboard. Mike does.
He's got some art that I've seen of his that is like six foot tall by four foot wide. Huge,
huge format stuff. In fact, the one that you see behind me on the wall every week on the show,
that Chevelle up there, that's a Mike Desmond original. But most of his stuff now, that was
real early stuff, is very dark and sinister and cool and like his art for the poster. I'll put
this up on the shift and steer page so you can see it. It is an American Eagle. And how can you
describe combining an American Eagle with a fuel altered? But the claws come out and hold the front
drop axle and the motors there. It's really cool. You got to see it. You got to see it to believe it.
Are the proceeds from the auction going to the artist? Are they going to the museum? They're
going to help save the Chevelle. And so I wish. Yes, the artists retain 90% of everything. The
rest goes to help the museum. And it's museums and non-profit does a lot for kids and educating
kids about the automotive world. So it's great. 35 bucks to get in, but there is food served.
And there is a cash bar so you can drink, eat, and buy. Cool. Sounds like a cool event. It's
going to be a real cool event. And plus you get to look around the museum. The museums kick ass.
I really want to go there. I keep forgetting. Every time we just came back from Disneyland,
which is why I was not at the last attendance of the last show. Apologies. But yeah, every time
we go down there, it's just for something specific. And then we race home. How was Disneyland since
they've lowered the prices? Was it a lot busier? Actually, we bought a package. So yes, the price
was really low. 500 bucks for a three day park hopper per person. Oh, I've heard of that one.
Yeah. So we got in on that. Which people like you can afford those $500 tickets?
Let me tell you. Otherwise, it would have been a couple thousand dollars and no, thank you.
It's crazy. I don't know how families do it. Yeah. Well, they take out loans and stuff and put it
all in a credit card. I mean, it's been a thing for a long time. That is a family vacation.
And speaking of that, that's my friend Lucas from Australia. He brought his wife and two daughters
all the way from Australia for the Disney experience. He spent a little time in Vegas.
They did some stuff in LA before and after. So we met with them there because we've been planning
that trip with them for well, since well before COVID. I'd say since maybe 2017 or 2018. We've
been planning that trip. So we finally did it together and it was really, really, really cool.
I hadn't done all the Star Wars stuff over there. No, you haven't? It's pretty cool. Wow. I had no
expectation, but wow. And you know, right now as an artist, I'm always have little, I always have
little focuses and I'm really focusing on color and triads and things in color theory. And so
Disney at night, I was really, we spent two days at Disney and Disney at night is just spectacular.
And I don't mean, I don't mean the street show, which is amazing too, but just the way everything's
lit, but that's not worse. Everything at Disney is just, it's silhouetted, it's positioned, it's
perfect. And of course, you know, you go, it's so, it's just so designed, right? Like it's so epic
design where you come out of something small into a big landscape of wow. And then you get to see it
in a whole new light at night. And so with all the colors and the power of LEDs, it's so dramatic.
And I was, I took a bunch of pictures and just loved it. Anyway, a great trip. My feet hate me,
my back hated me, but I was willing to take it on. I remember back in the 90s, early 2000s,
Charlotte and I would get an annual pass every year. And we would just go out sometimes, you know,
just to kill some time. And it was great. But then the annual passes got so ridiculous. I mean,
it used to be like 500, 600 bucks a person a year, but you could, you know, when you put it out over
how many times you visited, it really made sense. But now it's 1300, 1500 or something. Yeah, something
like that. Yeah. Well, our friend works there. He's one of the executives. So he met us out on
the park for a quick hello. And it was really nice to see him. And yeah, it was fun. Those prices are
really sus. Is that suspect? Is that suspect? Yes. No, I'm saying with Disney, it's sustenance.
They really, yeah. So, all right, I think we can wrap it up with that Disney talk.
We should do a special edition of shift and steer right there from, you know,
what we should do is we should go do that ride up at Universal Studios. The new Fast and Furious
where the cars drift and it's a roller coaster that drifts. They went there afterwards. I'm
going to have to ask them if they did that, how those rides were. The girls aren't quite driving
age. The older one is barely, but the younger one isn't. So they were really into the driving
rides. So I have to see if they did that. Yeah, it just opened. So I wonder if they did it. Yeah,
they would have been there three days ago, I think. It's about when it opened. Wow. Yeah,
let's check that out. Did you remember going when you were real little to Disneyland and you got to
drive those gas powered cars or any amusement park back then? But the ones that were the best
were the ones that weren't held on the tracks. Like at Disneyland, you could go kind of side to side.
It made you feel like you're a little more driving, you know? You just had that rail down the center
or whatever and it was pretty cool. There was one in Phoenix called Legend City
and they had this really cool one where you drove and it felt so great, man. It was like,
go into a go-kart track when you're... Yeah, go-kart tracks were good for you. I remember one with
the track though. The Disney one with the track in the middle. You know what's weird? Autotopia.
Autotopia, that's right. You know what's weird is that I was walking around Disney and I have some
memory stuff. It's like injury memory stuff and I was trying to remember my childhood at Disney
and I couldn't remember one example and I'm like, I know we must have come here. My parents must,
my mom probably, must have taken me or someone must have taken me to Disney but I can only remember
being there as an adult. I cannot remember being there as a kid so I have to ask my mom,
did we ever go to Disney when I was a kid? I don't remember going at all. I have zero memories.
Did you ever go as a kid, man? Yes, I went to Disneyland young but when I lived in Florida,
I remembered Disney World more. I never went until I was 15. I know there's a story that my mom
has told because my wife thought was really cute that I guess as a little kid, and I think I
mentioned this on the show years ago, that as a little kid I was concerned about Snow White being
down in the wishing well and so I know I must have been there as a little kid but I don't know if I
was there in between until I was maybe an older teenager. When I remember I was like 12 because
we drove like these little boats on the water and my brother and I got kicked off for for splashing
everyone like taking the boat. So we got kicked off, they came out the boats, we had to sit in
the front of their little like bad person boat and there's like a little restaurant that like
overlooks the lake and my parents were like sitting on the edge against the glass you know like so
you know if we were on the boats we can see them sitting in this like glass bubble of a restaurant
and so we're out there we're on the boats and then a few minutes later they see us sitting
at a pouting sitting in the front of the boat because we got kicked off and they're like of
course they're like it's exactly what I expected. So productive around their ribs. There was a post
the other day on online that I ran across and it was Disney past and there was a thing about
there used to be a cafe out there by what's now Thunder Mountain. It used to be some mine ride
but it was a cafe it was called when everything was branded out there when everything you know
you had the Carnation restaurant. Oh right yeah. Well it was the Frito Bandito Mexican cafe
and it had the Frito lettering you know and and I'm like when I was there like when I was 15
I remember that was still there that was still there it was uh yeah cool. Yeah I think I remember
something in like with Carnation on it back in the day. Oh yeah they had the Carnation restaurant
and they had the everything AT&T had the the the ride that I always that one ride that used to be
where they had a tube outside and you'd see the cars come in the people and as it turned
they had it in a way that it looked like the car turned into this tube and then they
got made small and you were going into like you know this it was like going to see inside a body
or something like that all the things that human body and I used to think whoa dude.
Honey I shrunk the kids. Those people so small you know. Did they have a Honey I Shrunk the Kids
theme? Was that Disney? I don't know. I don't know who did that. Interesting wow. They had a
flubber. Flubber. Well I gotta say that the rides there were amazing as always. It wasn't
very crowded it was just before the Food and Wine Festival which I think started now.
It was really decent. We didn't even get a fast pass because because we really didn't need it.
I mean I think the longest the longest wait we had was for Monsters Inc on the second day
at like five o'clock and I think we waited 30 maybe 35 minutes. I mean it was it was like
awesome. Most of the rides we walked back in we just walked almost right on them. Great time of
year and that would have been March I think second and third is when we went so that was just
a wonderful time. It wasn't too hot a little warm in the afternoon but only for a couple hours.
There was a nice breeze and it was just awesome but yeah just spectacular. Any other food I gotta
say that the food was pretty good. California Adventure they have that whole I'm gonna get this
wrong but San Fransocchio I think it's called San Fransocchio. It's like a fusion Bay Area Asian
really good food over there. Of course it's Bay Asian but yeah yeah yeah it was like
anyway it was good but yeah it was it was good. It was a it was a great experience. Really enjoyed
it. Yeah cool. All right enough Disney talk. We'll wrap it up with that. Everybody make sure that
you check out BondSpeedStreetwear.com. Go buy some t-shirts hats whatever you want there it'll
help me get my chivelle done I'm sure. I'm gonna pay for my chivelle so you gotta help me with that
please. And Aaron do you want to talk about your big venture? Uh well dad's we're we're heading to
Vegas and on the 21st but dad's residency I think starts this weekend right? Yeah it starts
tonight I think. Tonight Wednesday? Yeah they got a Wednesday night show then it skips to
Friday. They do Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. I didn't realize that but yeah it has begun so
because that was my little secret the last time we went when they played there we went on Wednesday
night because everybody's a little bit more laid back they're not all stressed out because
it's not a Friday or Saturday and it was so cool there were some celebrity friends backstage and
stuff like that but it was real laid back it wasn't like everybody was going crazy. Yeah it's
opening night well I wish we were there for opening night that that's always a big deal.
I know dad gets pretty stressed out but yeah new set new show new new new footage it looks like it's
gonna be really really really good I know dad's really been working hard the band's been working
hard and and he's really excited to see everybody likes it so go check it out. We're gonna be out
there for the last show of this residency so they're just gonna phone that one in they're like
I hope they're not worn out by then. I mean it's gonna throw it all out of the floor there. Yeah
anybody wants to come up here and sing do whatever you want and is it true that they're singing all
the hits of men at work? Didn't they didn't they didn't men at work also do illegal alien?
I don't know. I don't know. And there's a song about like I'm an illegal alien. That's just Genesis.
No it wasn't. Yeah yeah. We'll look that one up. All right. Hey Alexa.
Bill Collins even sings with a Spanish accent. All right everybody we'll be back next week and
that's a promise not a threat thanks for listening to Shift and Steer.
No it changes it goes from a technician tool and they're like all right we're done with this vehicle
and then somebody goes can we use it as a test drive vehicle that way we don't have to take
something new or buy a car and we'll just use this for test drives right and now now that it's
designated as a test drive vehicle every you know every salesperson is going listen I know the rules
here the rule is everything is for sale right because that's just sort of the mantra a dealer
would have right everything's for sale you know don't ever tell a customer no you know be be smart
everything's for sale and they go well we have this demo vehicle now not knowing the history of it
because it's got a new designation demo vehicle and they're like here you go and then somebody's
going where's the window sticker and they're like I don't know I don't have a window sticker on it
it was a demo that's what's weird nobody ever looked in the glove box nobody looked in the glove
box yeah come on right and you just look in there when you're prepping it for the customer you'd
look and see what's in there you know well here again this is how it gets overlooked is it goes to
like the PDI department right they're gonna they're gonna dealer prep now it's already been a demo
vehicle so they're not doing a lot of PDI on it so like oh it's sold so now send it to the guys
in the back lot have them wash it check everything fill the tires whatever you know and then bring
it back they weren't doing a full PDI they weren't pulling off plastic and checking like you know
things in the glove compartment and the salesman was just like is the car ready I need to deliver
to a customer so why even look in the in the I would see now you're going back like you could
open the glove compartment well the books are in there the keys are in there like whatever yeah and
then and even if the guy's cleaning the car and getting it ready saw a window sticker in there
they're probably thinking oh they're out of the loop they're out of the loop yeah it didn't like
unfold it and read the little fine print that says do not sell this is a and if they did they went
hey man not my job yeah they're like I don't know what this is yeah all right so I I guess just
it could just be overlooked again and again by by just no real checks and balances it's it's pretty
amazing when you think about it but but there's stories of cars that were imported in the 80s
back in the cocaine cowboy days that got dealer prep got delivered to somebody and and all of a
sudden they were doing something they find kilos of coke stuff you know in the in the quarter panel
or something like that and you know I it's that's a win-win something new to Lotus I just paid for
my car it's full of drugs you said this part never been driven in the snow I found bags of it all
stashed everywhere exactly hey um as we ramp this show up I want to tell everybody that I'm doing this
um series of videos on YouTube you might have seen it if you follow me on social media and
the uh it's it's uh saving the chivelle it's about going to get my chivelle bringing it back
and then after that we'll go into the restoration but the very first video is up it's only a minute
long so it's easy watch it's uh I stopped along the way coming bringing it home I stopped at
some interesting places old abandoned gas station an old drive-in that's abandoned really cool motel
and you know check those out and then we're going to start getting in there's going to be a feature
video that's going to be longer coming up that will be the entire trip digging it out dusting
it off getting it loaded and bringing it back so I'm on YouTube you can of course just always
search brad fancia but if you want to look it straight up it's at brad fancia 3281 on YouTube
that's my channel and uh go there subscribe hit the subscribe button and follow the first video I
put it up last night and uh this morning for me other people might be like god you only have
like 200 views but I was like kind of stoked that I because usually I get like 10 views or
30 views or something like that so but anyways uh and don't forget if you want a free bond
speed streetwear sticker uh we are sending them out but you've got to you got to hit me up on
social and DM me with your name address and your email uh you know because the reason we're giving
you a free sticker so that we get your email and can pepper you with uh you know promotion about
buying bond speed streetwear so anyways yeah pretty cool we just sent one out I had a guy from
Scotland want one and I said probably gonna cost me three bucks to mail him the sticker but what the
heck you know okay what about you man what are you doing getting ready for the beach ground print
now that's coming up in April so it's gonna be it's gonna be a little ways out which is also I
guess winter nationals are gonna be coming up around then too NHRA so you know we've been talking
to some of the drag racers on on car cast we had Ron Capson Maggie Gordon Alexis DeGiorgio was on
last week uh she's with John Force Racing now she's heard that you know there's there's not a force
family member racing this year they're they're all on the families and other things in business and
and she's the first female on the team who's not a force member so you know what they do
and they onboard each of those new members don't you what they say no no Aaron would love this joke
may the force be with you I'm sure that's okay we're done for the day
all right everybody we'll be back next week air it'll probably be here and that's a promise
not a threat thanks for listening to shift and steer did put a new a new lcd screened
that the memory chip and the gauge holds the miles so I didn't touch that I just changed the
screen and it turned out that at 100 108 thousand miles which was only 4000 miles more than it had
in 2011 so I probably put most of those miles on it or at least half of them getting it here
and uh and man that thing is clean underneath there's no additional rust other than like that
side step and a couple little corrosion areas I mean it's I'm blown away I mean we were looking
at the bushings and I'm just like this thing is really clean I mean it came from Colorado
but yeah I mean I uh so to get the rear brakes you have to pull uh you have to take a cap off the
center uh look like a hub you know and and and it pulls the whole axle it's connected to the cap
it's great uh you you undo a a um a a a a a little washer at least you have to you know flatten out
on the corner and you take out a couple of those and a couple little nuts and then uh you wrangle
that whole disconnected caliper and you wrangle that whole thing off be careful the seals we were
able to keep the seal and the bearings I just repacked the bearings just to service everything
put new rotors on new pads put it all back together and man the thing you know set set
the brakes you got to set the brakes a little bit it does not have abs by the way and and yeah yeah
drives you got a hundred thousand miles more before you got to do that again yeah exactly yeah I I
don't think that they may have been the original rotors I mean I've I've I've done rotors I've I've
got the original rotors on my Jeep and I'm at almost 65,000 miles and they're they're fine so
um so sometimes you can get that out of the rotors but the pads have definitely been replaced
and in fact the pads were too uh too tall so so the rotor had carved away and left a left a step
on there which had had some pulsing in it when you brake so most of that pulsing is gone
but I suspect they might have done it to the front pads too so when I replace those then
then I should have a pretty smooth braking experience but yeah cool it's good yeah really
exciting it wasn't as hard as I thought I had I had to order a 52 millimeter socket which is huge
but and a few other little things I had to order that were specialty but other than that it really
wasn't that difficult you know packing bearings and stuff is just messy but yeah but yeah everything
was clean all the fluids look good they didn't smell bad there were no wear spots and the bearings
or the axles it looked good it's good it was fun you mentioned that what I remember the first time
I did the brakes on my on my big suburban my my Yukon you know the 2500 series and everything's
bigger oh yeah I had to go buy some big sockets because I'm like I don't have anything that big
right now I do now I do heavy those brakes were heavy and we had to look up a couple torque
specs because everything's a newton meters you know so so I had to I had to do some conversions
and yeah we got all the torque specs and you know you talk about the 3d printing and like that
right after we spoke about that on the show last week I ran across a place online it was through
somebody that that we follow each other and he he's redoing a uh it was either a CUDA or a
Challenger but it had it had a radio delete you know back when you wanted to lighten the cars up
so you got heater delete radio delete and he could not find a delete panel anywhere and uh
you know they're real specific they kind of depressed into the radio area that was punched
yeah and clips and and he was able to find this company that would make them but what they also
make are um like you know a lot of these older muscle cars older Ferraris a lot of this the vents
right the little vent doors that turn oh yeah and pivot they're making all that kind of stuff
and they'll help you out and I I checked them out it's called I print 3d company and they're on
instagram I print 3d and it's I print number three then the letter D calm uh but uh our company excuse
me um and uh check them out because it looks like they'll do whatever pretty much whatever you need
and that's so cool and there's enough information they can probably get dimensions they don't have
to 3d scan it yeah do all that so yeah yeah I'm telling man 3d printing I'm I'm I was looking at
some the other day and I really because thanks to AI you know we talked about that before but
thanks to AI you know I can I can get some help and and getting files built and and yeah our
wireframes and stuff that used to be so hard now you can use AI yeah it it's so cool they're so
user-friendly and I mean what what uh game changer uh what what what a game changer just
I mean not only for making silly little toys and silly things but but a lot of stuff we can't get
anymore and and it was and it's the plastic anyway and just you know you have to do everything in
PLA you know you can you can but a company like that probably does resin printing which is super
high resolution and they have to cure it and it's really hard it's better than factory you know
well I think really really good tech I think I like Matt when he was doing his Mustang and you
had those vents done and yeah when you did that it was like it was like witchcraft you know and
now that's like you could do them at home with a AI wireframe and a and a and a home 3d printer you
know it's yeah amazing pretty cool or like if I'm doing the Chevelle and I wanted to do some custom
emblems you know I I could uh you know make that stuff in a 3d printer you know all the stuff that
used to when I did the the purple Ford truck that I built I had a jewelry company make me custom
emblems they cost me freaking much money I mean I had like I think I had 1800 bucks into the emblems
and I'm and I'm thinking now you just do those on a 3d printer and airbrush the colors you want
and everything and you'd be done you know and yeah well they well they have electroplating for
plastics and 3d prints now too that's super easy yeah that electric I mean that plastic chrome and
yeah yeah yeah very very cool well we've been on forever guys we should start wrapping it up but
um the uh you guys got anything uh you got a birth you had a birthday did you have a good
birthday uh rained all day I always have good birthdays it's just another day and I I feel
a day older today believe me I really do I feel a day older but yeah it rained all day we just went
to Hillsburg and decided to call it quits well I don't want you to get jealous because I'm going
to tell you Friday's my birthday and what I'm going to do on my birthday Charlotte asked me um
she's getting a few people together Mike and Sue and stuff and and she goes so where do you want
to go on Friday I go I can't go anywhere on Friday and she goes what do you mean I go did you
forget what Saturday is and she goes the defter Brad's birthday and I said I said no the party
continues no I said um I said we're having a garage sale there's a community garage sale
where this realtor did this really cool thing where um you sign up for it he prints maps and
people come from all over and there's a lot of people doing it in the area
and they give you the signs to put in your yard they even delivered to my house yesterday put it
on the front door a bag and inside the bag was price tags they they had um magic markers in there
to write stuff on and little colored dots to put on stuff and and then the morning of the uh
of the garage sale they're delivering it said they're going to deliver a dozen donuts and a
and a jug of that Starbucks coffee so that we have coffee and donuts and the people who come
to visit our Starbucks or I mean our garage sale do so we're going to celebrate my birthday on Sunday
instead but I am hoping if if you want if you're in the tustin area come by because
I'm giving shit away I I'm literally I'm it's 25 50 cents nothing over a dollar
hardly I'm literally I want I want it gone so that I can clear out this warehouse and my shop
at home guys um hey everybody please go subscribe to Brad Fanshawe um is it Brad or Bradley Fanshawe
no I don't even know on YouTube and it's called content and podcast Bradley Fanshawe content
and contest content and podcast gotta get it said um because I am gonna be producing a video putting
it up and then like I said every step of the way on this car I'm gonna be putting stuff up but you
should also go there because you can see our podcast and you can go there and you can see
other weird stuff that I've put up about the outlawed Van Halen skateboard and stuff like that so
but Matt what do you got going on man I got nothing come on you do nothing you do too
just close that a hundred million dollar round of financing I wish I wish we did if you guys
haven't caught up on car casting a while we uh you know we had Ron Capps on a little while ago as
we head into drag racing season Alexis DeGiorgio was just on uh this week so you can check that out
lots of good stuff fun stuff oh and the Edmunds Top Rated Awards so if you're shopping for a car you
you want some recommendations we did a podcast all about their big annual award thing that's a
huge undertaking by the way all the amount of work they do the videos they produce the content
they write it's such a big thing it takes them months and months to do so um yeah you haven't
seen it you said you didn't know about and you you pulled it off man you you came out I did
the podcast is there and we've been taking all of the podcast episodes and putting them up on
YouTube on the carcast YouTube channel oh good I'm glad you're doing that too well well dad's
got his residence residency starting in uh in March now so uh yeah I think that I don't know that
I would imagine there's still some tickets available maybe go check it out yeah party no no
it's March and April isn't it no it's just in March it's about 10 days and then they're back again
in September yeah yeah so I think Matt we're gonna see you there on the 21st and uh yeah gonna be
super fun and then thanks again to Dwayne at PPG and my buddy Colby at Muffler Tech uh for for
helping me out on the defender and uh yeah life is good yeah cool cool all right everybody
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