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This SUPRA Landed Me in JAIL! | F_cking Cars Podcast Ep. 6
This SUPRA Landed Me in JAIL! | F_cking Cars Podcast Ep. 6
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About this episode
A wild story unfolds as Ethan recounts his experience of being arrested over a no insurance ticket linked to his newly purchased 1990 Toyota Supra. The episode dives into the quirks of small-town police culture in Laramie, Wyoming, where Ethan's youthful indiscretions lead to an unexpected run-in with the law. With humor and nostalgia, he shares the chaotic moments that followed, including the dramatic scene when police showed up at his door. The conversation also touches on automotive projects, welding techniques, and the evolving landscape of the automotive repair industry.
Topics:
police encounters
toyota supra
college life
welding techniques
automotive projects
insurance issues
small town culture
car modifications
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Hey, f***ing cars, every day.
Every day.
Oh, I just thought of another police story.
Oh, nice.
When I was in Waiotech in Wyoming, I don't know if you know, Laramie, Wyoming, it's 27,000
people, but it's got two colleges.
It's got the University of Wyoming, and it's got Waiotech, Wyoming Technical Institute.
But it is the most police per capita in the United States.
They have five branches of police there.
So not only was Laramie one of the most, Marshfield, where I live, was the second.
Really?
Yeah.
No shit.
No shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think we have poor choices in places to live, apparently.
Yeah.
So I needed a, I had a Fiero project.
We can get into Fierro's another day.
That's another die-hard love of mine, but I had a Fiero that I was doing a bunch of
work to in the garage, and I was like, I need another car to drive while I'm out
here in Wyoming.
So I went to Denver one night with a friend, bought a Craigslist find, 1990 Toyota Supra.
It was N8, but they had to buy it at 300 wheel horsepower.
So it was like a manual, you know, dual overhead cam, six cylinder, I think it was 89, 89 Toyota
Supra.
So it's the third gen.
It's not the big fancy rounded out fourth gen that sell for $100,000 now.
But it was like precursor to that super fun car.
So I went to Denver on a Saturday night and I buy this Supra for, I don't know, $2,500
or something like that, something that you couldn't buy one for now.
But I buy it and it's Saturday night, the guy goes, hey, just leave the car.
I don't need the license plate, just leave it on there until you register it on Monday
so that way you don't get pulled over.
I'm like, okay, that makes sense.
Monday morning, I'm back in Laramie and I'm driving with some friends to go somewhere.
I don't know, grab breakfast or whatever.
I'm at a stoplight on Main Street with my turn signal on and a police car pulls up behind
me and I see him and I'm like, okay, whatever.
I'm not doing anything wrong.
I got a license plate on the car and you know what I mean, we're all wearing our
seatbelts.
We're at a stoplight stopped before he even saw me, my turn signal sign.
So I turn, I make it a block to the stop sign.
He follows me.
I'm like, okay, whatever.
Lights come on.
I'm like, really?
You know, what could he possibly want to pull me over for?
So I turn off the road because unlike most people, I get off the road when I'm pulled
over so I'm not disrupting traffic.
So I pull into a parking lot, he pulls up, gets out of the car, comes up to me
and he goes, you go to the tech and I'm, I couldn't lie to him because it's wearing a
wild tech jacket, like the Eagles right on my chest, right, right at the window where he
is.
And I'm like, I looked down at my jacket and I look up at him and I'm like, yeah, I
go to wild tech and he's like, I had a feeling.
I was like, all right.
And he's like licensed in registration and I was like, okay, I give him the title
that signed last night, you know, the DMVs aren't open, so I can't register it.
So I give him the title.
I just bought the car last night.
He takes my driver's license.
He comes back and he goes, I'm going to give you a ticket for no insurance.
Like, and this is before, this is before, you know, we had apps with our insurance
and stuff like that.
I mean, Wyoming, it must have been, but like, there wasn't like, you could log on
to Progressive on your app and get insurance like in five minutes.
You would have to call.
Yeah.
So I'm like, well, I bought it last night.
How am I supposed to get insurance at 10 o'clock at night?
You know, and it's, it's eight in the morning or nine in the morning now.
Like on a Sunday, there's no insurance company open.
And I said, isn't there like a 48 hour leniency period or anything?
And he goes, no.
So I get a ticket for no insurance.
He sends me on my way.
He tells me you better get this car registered on Monday.
And I'm like, yeah, I'm going to no problem.
So, you know, I'm 18, 19 in college in another state.
I forget to pay the ticket.
Oh, no.
Months later, I'm a home.
I come home on my lunch because we had a, at Wildtech, there was like the dorms
or, there was like the fancy dorms are right next to the campus.
There was like a couple of other dorms scattered through town, but my friends
and I rented a duplex with a two car garage on it or whatever.
And we could like throw a football to the dorms.
So we were right there.
It ended up always being the party house.
They were throwing caggers and all this stuff, or you could like walk.
You could walk across the field back to the dorms, but on lunch, I would come
home and I'd eat, you know, food in my, you know, sit at my house and eat
on the couch or whatever instead of sitting in the classroom and eat.
So I come home on lunch from chassis fabrication class and my girlfriend at
the time is visiting from Wisconsin and there's a knock on the door.
I'm like, I'm upstairs.
I'm not paying attention.
My roommate answers the door is two cops standing there.
They go, is Ethan here?
And he goes, oh yeah, sure.
He's right upstairs.
Let me get him for you.
I'm like, wow, what a good friend.
So he comes upstairs, knocks on my door.
He's like, hey, there's cops outside for us for you.
And I was like, and you told him I was here?
He's like, oh, I didn't think of that.
So I wander downstairs and I like go up and I'm like, what's up?
You know, and they go, Ethan Fenner.
And I go, yeah.
And they go, we got a warrant for your arrest.
They cuff me at the door.
My girlfriend starts screaming and I'm like, are you serious?
Two cops to come pick him up.
What are you getting for?
They're like, you didn't pay a ticket.
And she's like, what's the ticket for?
He's like, they're like no insurance.
They're like, you're arresting him for no, for not paying a car insurance ticket.
And so she's like, starts going off and getting all mad.
And then one of our friends, his last, his last name was literally he man.
And this guy had a full ride scholarship to University of Wyoming for a linebacker
for the football team.
But yeah, yeah, huge dude.
It's like they were like Kansas cattle farmers or something like that.
And this huge dude, he just comes up behind my girlfriend.
Who's not my wife, by the way.
And he like picks her up and just carries her in the house, closes the door
and then just stands against the door because he's like, you're going to
make things worse because she's like screaming at the cops or whatever.
So they take me back.
They put me in the car and then like two cop cars because they needed
two cops and two cop cars because I was such a, you know, wicked criminal
with my no insurance ticket and they take me to jail and process me and whatever.
And like, but I'm basically an outlaw because Laramie Wyoming
is where they had a butch Cassidy.
That's where he went to jail.
Butch Cassidy, the old like train robber.
So I'm like, yeah, I'm associated me, butch Cassidy, but I've been
the same jail cell, probably not, but they put me in like they put me in
holding cell.
They don't even turn the lights on for me and I'm in there for 45 minutes.
And then she, they're like, they put me in the holding cell.
They say, do you want a phone call?
I call my girlfriend and she's like, where are you?
What do I have to pay?
So I tell them or they give me the information she comes down,
pays them 400 bucks and then I was out.
So I was in jail for 45 minutes, totally worth it, I guess for them.
The bad news is she had paid for a tattoo for $400 for me like two days prior.
So it became a pretty expensive visit to her boyfriend for.
But oh, it's a suspect.
But so she bailed me out and she, yeah.
Oh, I think I've paid her back by now.
But the the whole thing that's crazy to me is I literally got pulled over
and went to jail.
Well, put a set aside my irresponsibility for not paying the ticket.
But I got pulled over and went to jail for driving a red Toyota Supra and nothing else.
Yes, and going to the tennis.
Yeah.
Well, I know some buddies of mine that went to Wild Tech
and they got arrested for street racing.
I think I got arrested because he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If we're like it's like some burglary thing that he was just like
his roommates or somebody he knew was doing it or something.
I don't know.
I know the cops out there were pretty nuts and I'd never even been out there.
Yeah, they were they were ruthless.
But I get it.
You got two colleges and like just a ton of hormone raging age kids
just running around town making a mess all the time.
Oh, yeah.
And they're not not only driving like loud stock cars
or driving loud fast cars and shit like that, too.
You know, fast cars.
Yeah, we were like pro charging Tacomas and stuff like those.
Remember those two wheel drive kind of raced Tacomas that were like lower
than the body kit on them there.
There was a special model.
I can't remember what it was called, but they were pretty sweet
and they were already like a OK fast car.
And then we were like throwing pro chargers on them
and they were a street racing them at night against everybody.
And that's like during the rise of L.S.
Motors, so everybody had like wicked trans Ames and superheroes.
And sure, it was a good time.
Back back before I never call it.
Right.
I just went to a local tech and North Central Technical College
for collision, pretty much.
But and it was it was in a collision shop.
It looked like this inside the shop.
I mean, not necessarily a lot of old cars,
but I think there were a couple older cars.
There was a must like a 60s month first gen Mustang.
There's some guy with the 50s Ford convertible,
but everything else like I had my many my my S 10 there.
There are a couple of the many trucks, a bunch of import stuff.
And everybody was like shaving everything.
Like there was nothing stock or collision happening.
It was all just like people bringing their project cars in
and we're going to learn on your project car.
That was kind of neat.
That's actually pretty cool.
It was only.
When I got out of college, I applied at like all the body shops
and stuff like that.
And I actually had the dealership
that I ended up getting a job at when I applied there.
They called me up and they went, why did you go out of state?
Why didn't you go to North Central Technical College?
It was like a bad thing that I didn't go to the local school.
Yeah, I mean, but they're even now, they don't.
I think they have a they don't have an auto body anything.
I don't think NTC has auto body at all.
I know they had a free class that you could.
I shouldn't say they don't have anything.
They had a free class that was in Wausai.
It wasn't even at the auto body center in Annago anymore.
They have like a makeshift shop.
I think you're out.
I don't really remember how that worked, but it was like a grant program
that kids could go because there was such a lack of technicians in the area
that they they could go to school for free.
But it was I don't know exactly what the what the schooling actually looked like itself.
Yeah, it's definitely a dying, dying skills.
Like the shops are getting emptier and emptier everywhere.
Yeah, there's actually a lot of more females
in our area coming into the collision world.
Anyways, there's a lot more than I've ever seen ever, ever, ever.
Yeah, I think.
I think there's there's openings and like I'm sure everybody's like happy
to have them at that point.
Like you just need people that want to show up and do the work, you know?
And well, I think there's a level of detail that some males don't have
and more and more than likely the females will have.
I mean, there's there's things my wife sees that
that sometimes I will not glaze over, but she'll see these things
before I see them kind of a thing, you know?
But yeah, I mean, everybody's got their own little skill set.
Depends on what it is, right?
My wife that often helped like over the years and still
on like a little bit of like paint work that I do
like with final prep and stuff like that, because like you'll scuff
into like all the edges and corners and tape everything off.
And then she'll come around and like tighten some of the tape up
and, you know, scuff in the edges a little bit better.
Like I don't know.
I don't know if she's like got a better eye or she's more patient.
She's just like, we're going to do this right.
You know what I mean?
Like, so it's always cool.
I just yeah, that's definitely the eye that that most shops need.
They think maybe all these shops need more females than.
Yeah, the heck with men.
Yeah, the heck.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, so you got seeing you work on your upper
or your control arms for your the front of your pre-runner truck.
Yeah, I have it.
What's going on?
I did a lot of 200, 205 amp Tegweld
slaying down the rip passes on these.
It feels like I've been doing these welds
and building these lower control arms for weeks.
But I really burnt them in.
There's like a lot of inner structure on them.
So you can't like you look at the outside
and they're kind of lackluster.
But there's a ton of inner structure
like inside the plate work that you don't see.
And it's like if I'm going to jump a 4600 pound truck,
it's got to have something really sturdy
that's going to take that beginning of the landing.
So they're super anchored down.
Quarter inch plate, three sixteenths wall square tubing.
And then so I've got that done.
And then yesterday, I did like an hour and a half
live stream of just me grinding, like just kind of.
I watch some of it. Watch all of it.
Good on you.
I don't expect anybody to watch anything.
But like, so I like was just grinding on it.
And I'm not really like grinding welds per se,
because they're just rip pass welds anyway.
So they're pretty flat.
But it just like getting everything dialed in and cleaned up.
So that way I can get the overlay plates on there.
I think I'm going to do triangle cutouts on the overlay plates
just because everybody does circles.
So I'm going to build like a jig to plasma cut triangles out.
You know what I mean by overlay plate? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So I'll lay that over all this.
Yeah, over all the seams to give it strength
and then weld all the little triangle windows open
and or will weld them closed.
So it's got even more weld than if I just welded a plate
on the outside of it on and then shock tabs,
which I might try to cut some shock tabs out today and get those.
I just got to set the height.
So there's clearance for the body of the coil over
to come under them from the eyelet.
And what kind of plasma cut do you have?
I bought just recently a yes, welder.
I think I got off of Amazon.
Yes, well, it's like a 50 amp plasma cutter.
It was like under one hundred and fifty dollars.
And I I know a guy that lives in Wisconsin
that is like the hardest on all equipment and cars.
And like he's just like super hard and stuff.
And he has a kind of an alarm keyboard.
Yes, welder, multi-processed thing.
It was like a plasma cutter, a welder,
Miggit Stig and stick tick and I had a plasma cutter in it.
And he's just been beating the crap out for like two years.
And it's been working fine.
So I was like, oh, maybe I'll try one of these out.
And so I picked up this little yes,
welder plasma cutter blows through quarter inch like butter.
Wow, crazy. Yeah.
Super lightweight like compact.
Does it have to hook air up to that one?
I hook it to my compressor.
The ones with the pumps are a little bit more money.
Not that not outrageous.
It's like buying a like a miller or a Lincoln or something.
But the only ones I've ever used were some.
I think they were all millers.
So I don't know if I don't really have a whole lot of plasma cutter
experiences aside from like some of the shops that I had that.
But you're not really cutting the sheet metal out with plasma cutter
very often, like ever.
So yeah, I want one.
But just a matter of having something to apply it to right away to.
Yeah, for me, like I I've been doing everything with like cut off,
you know, four and a half inch cut off wheel.
And so like when you start getting into like these these intricate shapes,
I can do it and I've been doing it forever.
But it's like, I think I just decided I'm like, you earned it.
Get a plasma cutter.
So I bought that.
And just as it's definitely speeding up a lot of my processes,
you got to like clean up a little slag on that quarter inch
because it's blowing through so much material.
But other than that, like I'm pretty pleased with it.
That's what I'm going to do my shock tabs and everything with.
I'll just blow them out with a with the plasma and then
quick clean them up with the grinder, drill holes in them and weld them on.
You ever dig into that sun cut, send it all.
I've looked at it, but I haven't had like
a real computer to like CAD everything.
No, that's not it.
Our minds wrapped around that because I got to dig into that, too.
I but I might have a workaround for that now.
Well, I mean, not a workaround for the CAD,
but there's a guy that I talked to here.
He's kind of over in Tampa area.
He's starting up a off-road fabrication business
and he just got a plasma table.
So I'm thinking about talking to him
of maybe once he gets it going and doing his stuff
because he's going to build long travel kits for raptors.
He's already done two, but he's just been doing them by hand in the garage.
But once he gets going, I might consider having him
cut out some plate work for me.
And then I mean, it's just two hours away or even if he shipped it to me,
it wouldn't be a big deal because it's such a short trip.
So, right.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, I was thinking about doing my
like this and be cool.
Yeah.
The CNC stuff is so nice these days
and the prices are coming down.
Well, if you can get like a 3D scanner
and then build it in whatever your program is
and then just send it off and have it printed
her shape, you know, like literally printed somewhere
like besides sheet metal or or even
just plastic 3D print parts, too.
I mean, I think you could get away with not having the printer
in the future, just having the scanner in the program,
sending it off and having it sent to you in the mail.
Great. I've seen like ring brothers had a bunch of stuff
that was 3D printed out of stainless on that car.
We were talking about earlier.
Yeah. Mm hmm.
Yeah, they were.
I think they last was that last Seema
that I thought all the cars that they brought,
they 3D printed all the keys out of stainless.
I thought I heard that's wild.
Just crazy kind of work.
Yeah, I haven't looked into the 3D printers.
Didn't I thought Fuller Moto
did a 3D printed rear wheel on a motorcycle.
I thought it was like a bed of babies
like metal babies and lasers would like, you know.
Oh, really? Melted all the side.
Yeah, it was and then you just pull it out.
Yeah, it looked pretty.
I thought that was Fuller Moto. I could be wrong.
That's super cool.
Yeah, I was wondering how they did that.
It's like this explode.
Huh.
I guess that's kind of how the resin 3D printers work.
They like start with a bed of liquid
and then they use a laser to cure it
and then they like slowly raise it up.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, I've seen metal.
I've seen metal printers that are just like
it looks like just a MIG welder.
They just run around and just keep adding and adding and adding.
It literally looks like a MIG welder.
So I don't know what it actually
what kind of metal you're going to end up with.
It's just going to be hard as a rock
and you're never going to be able to do anything with it.
But I don't know.
It's interesting stuff. The future is coming.
Yeah, do you know anything about those laser welders?
Like about what?
How brittle or how like how hard that weld is
if you can manipulate it like a TIG weld?
Um, I don't think because I think it uses
like whatever filler rod you want.
So I don't think it would be any more brittle.
Well, actually, I use the same filler.
My MIG welder is just a matter of the gas
and how it welds, I would imagine.
I'm not a metal artist.
I think yeah, if you're using the same gas
and you're I don't know what they even use for gas.
But I would imagine if you're using like 100% argon
and then the same like ER 70S, I don't think they use gas at all.
Oh, they don't use gas at all.
I don't think they use gas at all
because we had a laser, we had a laser abrasion cleaner.
So we're going to clean sheet metal with it.
And it was it worked OK to take the first layer off.
But if it was any deep like deep corrosion,
it was only cleaning the top layer
and it wasn't like removing physically removing the layer
and then cleaning underneath of it.
So it's not like sandblasting where it's hitting
and physically removing things.
It was just cleaning a linker.
You'd have to wire wire brush it or something
and then clean more.
So those the laser cleaners definitely have their place.
But it's not like a fix all.
It's not like a I'm going to do this instead of sandblasting
because there's some cars that just need to be sandblasted
to be cleaned properly.
Right.
Yeah, I the place I work at the the owner
was looking at a laser welder.
But he said that there was a there was some warnings about
like the laser will actually like burn you pretty good.
Obviously, so can a welder.
But but I guess like yeah, I mean, it would be no different
than like, you know, those UV curing lights
and stuff for for collision primers and stuff like that.
I mean, there's always going to be some of new technology.
I think I know there was a place in town that was looking
at getting laser welder and cleaner and they actually bought one.
And then they had some warning on it like about, I don't know
if it's like a, you know, like a California sticker
that it's going to cause cancer or whatever.
And so everybody was in an uproar about this
this laser thing that's like, man, I've used one.
It's like, I don't know.
It's just it's just different technology.
That's got a different warning on it.
You know, a welder can burn you and fuck you up pretty good too.
So what's the difference?
Yeah, I'm always getting myself with the TIG welder.
Yeah, I throw it on the mansion.
Yeah. Dammit.
They get they get you a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I think I'm going to work on this model in next week.
A little bit.
Buddy Joe's model A.
There's some finishing of the check rough metal
rough skin on top that I got to get, you know,
they have the opening on the top of the model A.
So you got a weld in a new roof and it's
we bought a Mustang roof, Mustang coupe roof, a new one instead
of hammering out a brand new flat sheet metal.
We just bought a Mustang rough.
You flip it backwards.
You can actually use the front the rear flange for the rear
window for the front flange on a model A and it kind
of fits the twenty twenty nine model that it kind of makes
the it fits the curve a little like it fits the front end
of the vehicle and like it looks really well.
You just got to adapt it.
I think it's less work than as long as the customer likes
to look, it's less work than, you know, making it all yourself.
So if we can speed any of those processes, I definitely want to get that done.
But you had to buy some side panels for the above the window
there are above the doors, some new ones.
So that kind of says back a little bit as far as waiting for
parts and stuff.
But I'm going to try and squeeze a little bit of time in on that thing.
Yeah, five window.
We chopped it four inches and he wants to keep it like
like, I think like early 60s style, like not super chopped
or maybe late fifties.
I can't remember.
It was like not super chopped, but, you know, definitely looks chopped
like late fifties hot rod and not kind of like head in it.
Yeah, classy, classy.
He wants to end up painting it and stuff.
But one piece at a time, one butt at a time, right?
I wouldn't be able to have one of those and not paint it like some crazy
at Big Daddy Roth style candy job, multiple panels.
Yeah, he's got a he's got a color in mind.
That's like a dark maroon metallic where at night
it's going to look really, really dark, almost black.
And then in the sun, you know, it definitely got some
it'll hit back, hit your eyes back for sure.
It's pretty sweet.
I like to think like that Mustang
with that Mustang rough skin, like that it's like kind of to me
like real hot riding, especially like back in the fifties and sixties,
they were like kind of building what they could with whatever they could find.
So like you can find a piece of sheet metal from another car
that fits the window, you know, brow line and stuff like that.
It's super cool.
Mm hmm.
Well, I've done it before on a different monolay.
It's the same same twenty eight twenty nine monolay that was chopped.
The chop was done by somebody else, but I was the hired to do the rough skin
and drip rails and all kinds of different stuff on it.
But that guy had bought in a junkyard one and he only had he he paid like,
I don't know, I can't remember what he paid for it.
But it was he we should have bought after a new aftermarket one.
And we would have been money ahead as far as like cleaning the
rust on the old one and stuff.
But, you know, you know, every day is a school day.
So yeah, definitely buying that new rough skin.
I mean, that thing is you think aftermarket after, you know,
the old aftermarket panels would be like some tinny thin shit.
Like this rough skin is if you hit it and it's like, Dung,
like it's a it's a it's got to be all of 18 games after it's stamped.
Nice.
Yeah, it's pretty nice.
I don't love doing anything under 20 gauge for stuff like that.
You know, it sucks, you know, you definitely want that's why, you know,
in the shaping world, they want it.
Usually people are trying to use if you have the ability to use 19 gauge
because it's like the sweet spot.
So we're stretching it out.
You're not get past the 20 gauge mark really on yet.
You know, I don't think it really wants to get to 20 gauge.
But if it happens, it happens, you know,
after a lot of squeezing.
Yeah, I got to give me some more 19 gauge.
I get it from a guy in central Minnesota
that gets it from a guy in Chicago.
So yeah, it's, you know, but I can't even I talk to the guys
in town here about getting sheet metal 19 gauge in there.
Like, yeah, we can get it.
And then they'll call me back 10 minutes later, like, I don't know
where people get that.
It's like, well, it doesn't just come out of nowhere.
You know, it's got to be coming out of a similar factory.
It's just a matter of having the button to click, you know,
to order it and get it to this.
I don't know.
I think it's going to cost him more money
just because it's got to come from Chicago or something like that.
I feel like you might be part of like a sheet metal smuggling ring
that you're just kind of inferring about right now.
It kind of is the sheet that the metal shaping world is pretty small.
So when you get into like then the need for 19 gauge,
it's even that that's pretty small crowd, you know, definitely small crowd.
Yeah, it seems like there's more demand for even numbers.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I had a lady from doing research, industrial research for for Bailey
industrial stop, just kind of touring around and seeing what I think
it was just like, what can I sell you kind of a thing or what can we sell
you kind of a thing, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
You know, if you want new things, something new or better in the shop.
I told her like, man, you need a for one, you need sweeps.
You know, they don't have sweeps like on their web.
They should just be you need a sweep to like what I don't know
if anybody knows what a sweep is.
It's like a radius gauge.
So I have small radius gauges right now.
But I need sweeps so you can do like a long radius, like a door
skin, rough skin, you know, three, four foot long.
There are just a couple of grand is like the entry level for some of the stuff.
And it's just like flat pieces of material.
Yeah, it's nuts.
So like you guys need you guys need those and you guys need a source for 19 gauge.
Like if you guys can sell these machines and set and I mean, some of them
that high end machine that they sell like 60 grand or something.
And you got to go to Chicago to get sheet metal to use that.
Like, I don't know.
They need to get a maybe a better source for the shapers that are buying
their stuff to to to have the sheet metal that is required to do such jobs.
Is that right? Hear me out.
You can't out the radius gauges and then you have send cut send cut you big sweeps.
I think you'd be more.
I think you'd be more.
Depends on what it really depends on the material they use, I think.
So I think it's just a matter of finding the right material
that doesn't mess up when it's cut out or I'm sure if it's a laser
cut or a water jet cut, it's not going to like warp or anything.
So I imagine it's just finding the right material and and having
the a big enough run for it to make sense for somebody.
Right.
But these big companies, I mean, have like bail, you can't tell me
Bailey Industrial can't make a set of sweeps for a thousand dollars.
Like they should be able to do that.
Yeah, they make plenty.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, you think they would eventually sell them and get their money back on
whatever whom I say.
I only got a few Bailey things here, so I can talk too much.
Right.
Well, guys, until next time, just keep fucking with cars.
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Every day, every damn day.
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It's pretty decent.
I'm getting a little hungry.
You love it.
Yeah, I know.
I definitely got to get some food in my belly.
Food in your belly.
I don't know.
I never have really good ideas.
It's always just like, hey, let's do it right now.
I don't know what I'm doing.
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