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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Bring a Trailer podcast.
Alex Porter here in San Francisco headquarters for the company joined once
again by Randy Nondenberg.
Hey, buddy.
Hey, what's going down?
I'm happy to be here with you.
I'm so excited to be here with you.
We've got your little Arizona tan wearing off yet in the California sniffles are
here in case you can't hear that.
My voice, I think that may be via Las Vegas.
There was a few late nights with cigars in Arizona.
We need to download about all of that.
We drove an interesting car to Las Vegas.
We did some interesting stuff in Arizona.
Is that a secret?
Are there secrets being had or are you licensed to talk about that car?
I'm going to talk about it vaguely.
I feel like photos were taken.
I've been talking about it downstairs.
By the police.
Other photos.
But you mean the strobe lights that happened?
Yes, you were in the car for that.
No, we need to download about all that stuff and apologies for not dropping
an episode last week.
That's the first time we've done that in a long time.
But again, we were all in car week and we're going to talk about that today.
But before we do that, something interesting happened on the website
related to Cadillacs, Randy, and we should probably talk about that.
I don't want to make light of it, but it's kind of foolish if we don't address it.
So we had this whole big A.I. deal happen.
Yeah, absolutely.
No, happy to talk about it.
We've been talking about it as a team, obviously a whole lot.
And it's a phenomenon we've seen before and caught it many a time.
But we had AI photos make it through the team and make it onto the website.
And naturally, there was a discussion about it and we had to go investigate
and figure out what was going on with the seller and with our process.
But it just shined a light on the fact that obviously AI is such a big
narrative out there and people are playing with all these A.I.
manipulation tools for video, for photo, for who knows what and paperwork.
You know, who knows what comments, all kinds of stuff.
Anything could be for anything.
Yeah, you guys have said you think people are like typing
things in and having AI, you know, I don't know, extended.
How long till a CEO runs a company?
But maybe they already are.
Well, they are not this one.
Thankfully, I can only speak for this one.
But no, a super interesting scenario.
And it's now sort of famous on the website.
This late 90s Cadillac that the seller.
The interesting scenario is, first of all, it was a real car.
And we ran a car fax and it passed and the guy owned the car.
We verified that we did everything we usually verify.
But he, for whatever reason, wanted a different backdrop in the photos.
And when he did that, it super messed up the car from the floor mats,
which have now become somewhat famous because they copied the driveway pattern
into the car and floor mats.
And then the shifter was wonky on the column.
The taillights were goofy.
It put like generic wheels on it, like a starter kit car in a video game.
Some weird stuff, not a total surprise that it's on a somewhat random Cadillac sedan
painted in metallic champagne.
It's like the perfect car for that to be manipulated.
Anyway, we own the mistake for letting it get through the system.
And certainly we have a couple of cool things that we've already had in process.
And naturally, something like this sneaks up at a time when you're doing that.
New software is available to help scan for manipulated photos.
And obviously training of the team to watch out for this sort of latest wave
of methods people are using.
And also we don't explicitly, like when somebody walks in the door,
we don't have like an AI conversation with everybody.
So this shines a light process wise on the fact that you actually have to be like, OK,
so ground rules here, whether it's they check a box or they agree to terms,
or we have a conversation or whatever it is.
Because as far as we can tell, part of the seller's point of view was like,
well, I didn't really know it was an issue, right?
Which when it shows up on the website, like it's an issue for everyone.
And we get this oftentimes, right, with people submitting something and saying,
well, I didn't I didn't realize it was an issue if it's titled in someone else's
name or I didn't realize it's an issue that I white it out that letter of the
VIN and blah, blah, blah, right.
I mean, we've seen so many crazy things.
I can't find the VIN.
I didn't know there was a problem.
Yeah. Why would that be a problem?
Yeah. So anyway, crazy stuff happens.
More crazy stuff will happen, probably quite a bit crazier than this.
With the comment stream, the community management team saw what happened.
And the car was obviously withdrawn.
But another thing I think is interesting is we all made the decision
that leaving it on the site is the right thing to do to show it.
Hundred percent. And to not hide from it.
I have a sneaking suspicion that many other auctions that we know
probably would have deleted that from the Internet as fast as they could.
Right. Which doesn't work on the Internet.
It makes the narrative even worse.
Whatever it is trying to pretend like it didn't happen.
Right. Right.
Which is not what we're after, right?
So we left comments and left it up there and it lives on.
And I mean, the photos are somewhat comical, but somebody just scrolling by
who's into other types of cars probably would have never noticed.
But once you open them, you're like, oh, interesting, right?
Yeah. So anyway, lots of lessons there.
But I think it's an interesting conversation and it's an interesting
question around buying site unseen, right?
Our site and some others obviously have put momentum towards
transparency and way more photos and increased confidence about buying
a car that's far away from you and being able to trust in that.
And that was the dialogue we had with a lot of our users and commenters
as they're like, oh, well, this car has a what if they all do, right?
Like the sky is falling narratives.
And I don't think most people would do that, but you never know
how tastes shift and how technology shifts moving forward.
Maybe in a year or two years, 10 years from now, people will be like,
of course, you AI all your photos on everything you do in life,
like everything from your holiday card to your family album
to your Instagram to your everything.
I mean, it may just be almost assumed, which is somewhat terrifying to me.
I don't like that at all.
We always like when the photos are super honest, even if they're not
the photo album of the year sort of light dancing off the car
in the perfect environment.
They are more, you know, you're like, OK, that that actually looks
like that color of paint and oh, look at the chips and imperfections are there.
And that actually makes it more real.
So anyway, that's what I prefer when I'm looking at a car
that I would consider buying from far away.
But it's always a balance.
You know, some of these sellers do terrifically well
because their photo skills and color adjusting skills are so refined.
They're like super pros and they inspire excitement about cars in that way.
So we're always walking that balance.
But I do think it's fair to say that, yeah, AI doctored photos are not allowed
on BET and we stop them anytime we've seen them.
And this isn't the first time they've been submitted.
It's just the first time that it's snuck through.
So yeah, so we're figuring out how to minimize that risk going forward.
But I think it's going to be interesting for a lot of different sites
on the internet selling cars.
I mean, this is a problem for the whole industry that we're at.
Yeah, this is very real.
I mean, certainly a topic will be a problem.
We'll see. I mean, it kind of depends on how people handle it.
But I mean, in a marketplace where there's no commenting
and there's like minimal human oversight, right?
Like we have humans on it for the whole process
and helping you put together your listing
and guiding you through the process and available all the time.
But you can imagine sites that aren't like that.
I mean, it's probably just riddled with this sort of stuff
and it never really gets caught, right?
So the good news and kind of why we designed it the way we did.
And so many have now followed with commenting
is just because stuff gets totalist, which is great.
Because, I mean, we're the first to admit that we're fallible
when I catch everything all the time.
But we're responsive to the community.
This sent me down a spiral.
Yeah, I know, it sent you down an emotional spiral.
And many people on staff are like, oh, my gosh, like this is horrific.
And I mean, it is to some degree, but, you know,
you got to learn your lesson and figure out.
I actually would say the silver lining is it is human error.
And it was a wake up call for a lot of people, myself included.
And it really lets you start thinking about process changes
and things that you want to tweak.
And I mean, we had the listing off the site within a day.
And so in a lot of ways, even though people say our credibility
is impacted by this in a negative way,
I think it allows us to really grow and learn
and change how we do things to adapt for this.
This is the new reality.
People are certainly newly educated on the Cadillac,
shifters and taillight design.
I learned something about center caps.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, and we have staff that are into those.
But obviously, things get routed this way and the other.
I mean, you kind of take a step back and think about it's always fascinating to me.
People ask all the time, right?
Like, OK, well, are people going and looking at that Ferrari 308 seven states away
and, you know, putting a magnet to it or driving it or doing a compression test
or doing whatever.
And so figuring out how we can maintain and elevate even further that trust level.
I actually think they'll probably be some AI tools
that actually help with some things, whether they facilitate the discussion
or surface research or surface individual cars or who knows what.
So but the human element of it and getting eyeballs on things.
As you know, everybody always asks, like, should I go look at it if I can?
And then the answer is, absolutely, of course, you should just a fascinating topic
and something I think we'll probably revisit on the podcast again,
whether it comes up elsewhere in the car world, right?
I mean, if you ask me about AI and car stuff, remember some of those photos
that came out that are like a mongrel blend of two different models.
Oh, yeah, those photos sometimes are fascinating.
I can go down a rabbit hole.
I mean, my my buddy sent me those all the time.
There's like a whole contingent of kind of art, car, adjacent people
who are interested almost entirely in theoretical rendering vehicles.
It's like a whole subculture, you know, sometimes I'm like, that's amazing.
Looking sometimes like, is that real?
And this has been going on, not AI, like in the Photoshop,
whatever, digital creative space for a long time.
Yeah. And honestly, if somebody was a real ace with Photoshop or whatever,
they could have done stuff like this for years and years.
But it's just the proliferation.
I mean, you can submit photos for a car you don't own.
I mean, we face this kind of stuff all the time.
That's why we scrutinize things behind the scenes.
Yeah, absolutely.
But a lot of people think, oh, you know, is it just going through on a computer?
Or does this just like go on the website and nobody eyeballs it?
And it's not.
And that's the good news and the bad news.
Because because the great news is, is that there's humans overseeing things,
but the bad news is humans are fallible.
Yes.
So you do almost 250,000 cars and one of these goes through and then people say,
well, all 250,000 must have been AI.
I know, I know.
So hilarious, right?
I know, I know.
And you take your punches and that's fine and that can be earned.
But yeah, the most important thing is just to be responsible and stand up
and take ownership and that rolls uphill to me and figuring out what to do
with that going forward in the right way and transpire away is what we do.
And it's our ethos.
So anyway, that thing will live on the site.
People can go and tell us how terrible it is.
Yeah, Jalopnik can dictate the rules of the road and tell us how that works.
And good for them.
And we'll move on to some other listings, but worth talking about.
And we're obviously happy to field questions on that sort of stuff.
And we'll see where it goes.
I just thought it was important to acknowledge it to say something about it
and how much internally we've been doing some soul searching,
which is I think maybe the most important lesson you can learn from that.
But I mean, people are like, hey, let's be crazy about why don't you guys make
merch and why don't you do all this sort of stuff?
And some of that seems funny.
And some of that just seems like making light of it is also a way that I think
the rest of the industry is going to deflect when right when they super screw up, right?
No, you got to own it.
You got to own it.
I think so, right?
And so they're like, oh, why don't you make the floor mats and why don't you make t-shirts?
And I think, I mean, being funny is interesting.
And, you know, maybe that's one approach.
But I just think that you more hold it up as a learning lesson because it's
a pretty serious deal.
Like if stuff.
Oh, it's very serious.
Imagine if that had gone all the way and somebody.
Or not even that.
I just mean, like if 75% of the cars online are.
Oh, yeah, right?
Like it's like a serious topic, right?
So there's some considerations to be made.
I mean, we're not curing cancer.
Nobody died in the Cadillac listing.
Thankfully, we can just kind of take a step back and be like, what do you learn
and how do you change things going forward?
And it's a business practice and a process thing.
But anyway, maybe I'm a killjoy.
Maybe somebody needs me to lighten up.
But I'm like, I don't need to go sell floor mats at the Cadillac.
You know, I kind of feel like that would be us coming off pretty insecure and like,
haha, don't look at the process mistake.
Like, look how funny this is, right?
And I think a lot of random internet sort of slop is like that.
And you could make it into a comedy show to distract.
But I'd rather just deal with it and learn from it and move forward.
Yes, learn a lesson.
And don't do it again and figure it out.
I've made so many mistakes over the years.
Early on, as you know, very well, we'd make a editing mistake, a typo or whatever.
And people would always tell us how terrible we are.
And it always took it so personally.
But which I'm trying to get better at.
I have 10 years in, Randy.
I'm not better at that.
But it did alter how we did things.
So almost everything we've built organically here has been like, OK,
there's a mistake we made.
How can we learn from that lesson?
And I don't think there should be any different than that.
But yes, mistakes all through the years, right?
Starting with me, numero uno, you know, making mistakes straight out of the gate
and learning from it and changing.
And yeah, I always say, P.A.T. is the product of so many small improvements,
you know, thousands of small improvements over the time.
And this will be one of them.
But did you see the dude that jumped in and said, we've finally jumped the shark?
Oh, this was this is the yeah, OK.
Because I was first accused of that in 08, like right when the website went on
and I didn't know what it meant.
I had to like go Internet search it, you know.
And I've always wanted to make a T-shirt that says that or has a BMW jump.
BMW jump the shark.
And then there's like 2008, 2012, 2014, 2001 every six months.
Randy is accused of this every six months personally, which I think is.
You always stand in front of the firing squad, though, man, I appreciate it.
But yeah, that goofball phrase like came back out on this listing.
I was like, OK, I've been here before.
I've seen this movie before, you know, the comment rage.
But no, we just met him where they are and having an honest conversation.
I'm sure somebody will bring it up at some BAT event or whatever.
And I'm totally fine with that.
Yeah, I'll use that to segue to Arizona where people weren't really talking about it.
But I thought they might be.
But we spent the week in Arizona and it was just a delight.
We were at auction week last year as well.
You kind of kamikaze in and out both years.
You did that again this year.
But I had a couple of days last year and had a car to drive around and stuff.
This year I was like Ubers and 24 hours on the ground, totally.
But some great folks we got to see.
Oh, my God, first of all, shout out to 9-11-R Matt and Amy Crandall,
who hosted us at their facility in Scottsdale.
But we had a gathering of BAT local partners and it was so I actually
like want to do some shout outs to some people here in a minute.
But what a great party.
What a great gathering.
Yeah, some people came just for that event and some people were there for
auctions or, you know, seeing people or going to different things.
They've launched a concor the week before.
They're trying to kind of make it a car week or something.
But it was a car day or is it a car night for me?
I did a couple more.
You did a couple more days.
You went to see some of the circuses under the desk.
Oh, heck yeah, I did.
But you were so jealous that you didn't get to go to Barrett.
I actually was very jealous.
I think going to those things just to observe.
It's like a fascinating slice of life, a slice of Americana.
And there's some fun cars moving around.
The tattoo parlor at Barrett is as big as our office.
It's got unbelievable.
Oh, man.
I thought we were talking about getting B.A.T.
Tats.
We were talking about getting B.A.T.
Tats at Barrett Jackson.
Oh, gosh, yeah.
Well, do what you got to do, man.
I don't know how many, you know, Coors, Tallboys you were down.
I had zero, unfortunately.
I didn't have a turkey leg either, but I did go get a corn dog.
And it was 18 inches long.
Oh, I think it was 14 dollars.
It was. It was $40 for a corn dog and waffle fries.
Where do they make their dough?
How do they make their dough?
That's totally it.
Is it on buyer fees?
No, it's on food and beer.
There were like six Rolex boutiques.
And like I talked to one gal who she's like, we are the number one buyer
and seller of Rolexes for the NBA and NFL teams in Arizona.
Just like iced out gold Rolexes.
And I'm like, this is at the Barrett Jackson tent.
I love it. I love everything about it.
So anyway, what a crazy scene.
I went through the catalog.
I picked out a couple of faves from a couple of the auctions that were going on.
But I mean, how many people came up to us and are like, oh, my gosh,
the cars that are going through beauty are what I follow.
Totally. More than the 10.
Last year we walked through Barrett and it was all kind of resto mods
up in the primo spots.
And this year it was a totally different vibe.
It was like super cars and modern Ferraris and McLaren's and stuff.
So that was interesting.
I just want to give a couple of shout outs.
I have some questions for you.
And also just wanted to shout out a bunch of our local partners who were there.
Again, Matt and Amy Crandall, 911 who hosted us, Matt, a former podcast guest,
Colin Comer, their podcast guest, Carl Thompson was a podcast guest
and his partner, Jill, their great compass collective, a local partner,
Adam, more and Steve Kittroll from More Imports podcast guests.
High fives for them.
Dude, so many. I just hadn't realized as Adam from Adam's Polish
has been on the podcast. Have you interviewed him?
I have not. Oh, he should be here.
Yeah, he should be here.
OK, so that's a potential.
Our guy, Adam from Vintique, formerly AJL 1988.
Yeah. Also there.
Shout out to him. I know he's a pod listener.
So a lot of interesting folks.
It was like the All Star game.
It was like walking onto the floor at the All Star game.
Yeah. And they were all just shooting around, you know what I mean?
Talking to each other.
They were talking to each other, which I loved.
And I know that was something those guys wanted to do, right?
Like connect with each other and talk about it.
Sometimes I worry those is like a bunch of competition,
but I think they really feel like they're part of the same industry.
And there's there's camaraderie and there's so many geographies.
And I'm sure there's some overlap for some clients or whatever.
But thankfully, those businesses are booming and people
absolutely love the service of, you know,
dropping their car with one of these trusted
presenters or consigners or however they structure it.
And they listed on BT and those cars tend to do very well
based both on reputation and quality of car and prep and all that sort of stuff.
So anyway, obviously, all these guys' businesses are booming.
I'm sort of jealous.
I kind of want to have a local partner business.
You said you're like, eventually, we're all going to end up as local partners.
That's like late stage online auction,
is everybody ends up a local partner for BAT because it's actually what you want to be.
Yes. So anyway, it's really, it's really pretty funny.
I've been thinking about that a lot since you said that.
Until then, dude, until then, we'll build the system that's the best.
No, we'll keep grinding away behind the scenes.
Carl and Jill Thompson, that reminds me.
Shout out. We've got our event coming up in Palm Springs,
which sadly, you're not going to make it to it, but a bunch of us are.
And we're really excited about that.
Do you see how many comments are on the posting?
I know, and you guys are pumped and hanging out in Palm Springs,
but it's not snowing in the mountains where I'm supposed to go.
So lately, I've had a slight
glimmer of a aim the car south and stuff north buddy.
See what happens. So anyway, I don't want to over promise,
but I would love to be able to make that event.
I'm gutted that I wouldn't be able to hang in Palm Springs with you.
You're like the number one Palm Springs fan.
And love it. I know you do.
But I was surprised by how much excitement.
I mean, like, apparently I'm not alone.
A lot of people are excited to get out there.
Yeah, people jump out there, whether they're from SoCal and LA
or they're coming in from other places.
So anyway, that should be a killer event for us kind of coming out of the gates.
Exciting. I'm very excited about it.
Any other easy thoughts or anything else you want to share?
No, I just think it's interesting.
You know, people are tracking results out of me come kissing me.
People are tracking results out of Arizona.
People are buying cars.
People are moving stuff around.
They sure are.
I, as you know, have limited faith in the full transparency
of what goes on at 10 auctions.
So a lot of cars pushed across the block.
Well, just a lot of things you're like, who was bidding on that?
So I don't know.
I trust results that happen on our site because we know
how the transaction works and the viability of the transaction and the bidders.
But good news is that things are flying through BAT too at the same time, right?
Some of that stuff that happened right at the end of December
was absolutely crazy.
And even into Jan, like it jumped up to 800 auctions on BAT really rapidly.
So people are always asking, oh, this is the barometer
for the collector car market, blah, blah, blah.
Is there anything you like less than the word barometer
as it's applied to the car industry?
Oh gosh, we need a little more analysis.
Is it a bellwether?
Can we have some more analysis?
Oh gosh, yeah, there's a lot of experts.
But what matters is your bid number on a particular day.
And what's it worth to buyers?
So anyway, I'd like just watching stuff that's coming through
and my watch list on BAT and seeing the goodness that is transacting 24-7.
Do you miss out on any good rods at Kissimmee?
No, I didn't pay as close attention this year.
Do you know what they have with Shelby's?
You know what I mean?
The 65-6 Shelby's just like you are.
And I mean, Meekam Kissimmee is an operation.
And everybody's like, oh, God, I'll go with these yellow Ferraris and stuff.
And I couldn't care less about that whole collection.
You didn't want the yellow-brown 612 scavenger?
Hard pass.
I mean, and sorry, speechless.
And but then they're like not talking about these.
You know, amazing.
GT40's going through and...
Oh, GT40 Street?
There were three?
Yes.
There's Mark III.
Yes, one or two of them.
And then like four or maybe even more actual 65 Shelby's.
How are the results on those really big?
Yeah, they're all getting expensive, man.
I wish they were cheap.
Shout out Comer.
I was filming.
He's frothing.
He's off-scoped.
He's like, get them more expensive.
I'm like, come on, dude.
Get them less expensive so that we can go rip around.
One sold for pretty cheap because it was like a flared-out race car,
which is with tube frame.
Oh, yeah.
You showed me that one.
It was full, rubbing his race.
Kind of a monster.
Full, rubbing his race.
I was not pro.
Highly modified.
Eleanor, I sure think you're swell, Eleanor.
Totally.
So anyway, that thing was cheaper, but man, they're expensive cars.
But yeah, two black with gold stripe hurts.
Cars went through and I have a soft spot for those
after watching James Gardner and his movies
driving around Europe and one of those.
So anyhow.
Oh, I told you I watched that documentary one
about Formula One safety crisis last night.
I need to watch this.
Where did you watch it?
It's on Tubi.
It's on Tubi.
I'm telling you, Tubi's the jam.
You're like Mr. Tubi.
Totally.
And guess what?
Can we say this podcast is sponsored by Tubi?
They should send us some dough.
It's free, though.
They don't have any dough.
Just tell them.
It immediately funneled me into Grand Prix.
And so I started watching.
And I was just like, see, it's the best.
It knows.
And I hadn't watched it in a long time.
I'm thinking about it for one of our movie pods.
I know you just watched it in the UK.
And man, it is good.
I forgot how good it is.
And it's really good.
And the whole Honda subplot.
Dude, right away.
It's your favorite thing.
RA272s.
Oh my god.
So anyhow.
But he drives as daily as it shall be in that.
And that car allegedly exists still, I think, still in Europe.
Somebody knows it's that one.
Yes.
Wow.
Which is pretty rad.
Yes. That's extremely rad.
Oh, man.
So anyway, yeah.
That's what was going on in Zona.
And here we are at the end of Jan.
Let's talk about our own website.
Would you like to do that?
There's some positive things.
I would.
You talked about big cars.
I guess I could lead off with on Jan 19th.
Oh.
Our buddies over at Silver Arrow sold a 918 Porsche for $3.2 million,
an F12 TDF Tour de France for $1.8, and a Senna GT-R for $1.2.
That was all on one day.
Like that, if you told me a couple of years ago, that was all going to,
I mean, that's wild.
Isn't that nuts?
I almost kind of glossed over it too.
I mean, like I noticed a couple of those, but we were working on other things.
And I was like, kind of reflecting on it today.
I was like, that's crazy.
Yeah.
And they had a Miura that bid almost $2 million on the same day.
Didn't sell, but.
Wild.
He was just going for the, you know, the four horsemen on one day.
Totally.
Just to like totally knock the cover off the ball.
100%.
But he did that.
You mentioned that he also did that right at the end of the year too.
The two weeks before, he did the same thing.
Yeah.
I mean, go get them, right?
I mean, obviously, it's a super efficient way to do it.
You know, with a capped fee on $2 million cars, it's like.
100%.
It's like a nothing fee.
Compared to the fees we saw flying around in Arizona.
It's the way to go.
It's always made me really happy that that's the way the dynamics work.
So bring them over.
Bring them on over.
Roller old bones on over.
Roller old bones on over.
The more expensive the car is, the less the fee is percentage wise.
So rock and roll, like sell that stuff.
Produce the corpse.
So yeah.
And I mean, they represent those cars super nicely.
You do an amazing job.
They just get some crazy stuff.
They sure do.
Do you see the Cessna bird dog?
Another airplane?
I know you're in the airplanes.
Let's pull that one up because I need a quick review.
I believe it to technically be a warbird, even though it's a Cessna and it looks
kind of like standard.
Oh, yeah.
It looks like a little trainer, like camera.
It is, but they used them for artillery observation.
So like you'd be 85 grand for that.
You can take it to show.
This is like, you know, in the car world, there's like cars that you buy that get
you into events.
GT350s are a great example.
Like that gets you into pretty serious historic racing.
It gets you into pretty serious.
This is like buying a bug-eye sprite with race history.
That's mean to this guy, but not totally wrong.
I come on.
Look at this.
Well, because it's like corrugated.
But a P51 Mustang is like 3 million.
But you can get this into the same event that it's 150 Gs.
That's what I'm saying.
This is like the sneak in.
This is the MCA.
It's a Sebrings.
This is the MCA that it has history.
That's right.
Right.
That's right.
And then they're like, yeah, you're in.
We'll wave you on in past all the like.
It's the guy in the oval window beetle at that historic.
Gonna be like, totally, totally.
And I love that.
I actually think it's really, really sick and I would love to fly it.
And what's amazing is like 185 grand.
Be like, oh, it's such a bargain.
But like you think cars are expensive.
Warbirds are so expensive.
Sure.
You want to fly around in a Spitfire or a Mustang or a Corsair.
That's like, I'm down with that.
Oh my God.
I'm super down with that.
Yeah.
But anyways, I love seeing that.
He had really cool photos.
I'm looking at the body tag.
I like that the plane is called a bird dog.
That makes me pretty happy.
But it's a Cessna aircraft company in Wichita, Kansas.
You knew that they were Wichita.
Of course.
I didn't know.
I had to get a piece for my wing on my Cessna 170.
This is actually a modified 170, which is an airplane I used to have.
Dude, no wonder you're pumped.
Yeah.
Super cool.
Has an Eisenhower step.
Anything that has an Eisenhower step is rad.
Tell me what the heck that even means.
Well, a lot of generals and stuff would fly around in the back of these.
It's for spotting, for observation.
But you could also use it for like light liaison duties.
Like a general needs to go from one base to another one pretty close.
You can throw him in the back seat.
And of course, he's an elderly gentleman.
He needs an extra little step to help get it.
So it's got the Eisenhower step.
It's kind of like a rumble seat 32 with a little rubber pad.
It's what you would call the step.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Correct.
Sorry.
I just got to associate it all back to cars because you're going deep on.
I know.
I'll stop.
I just know stuff that I just don't understand.
I don't know what Eisenhower's apparently flying around in these.
So that's great.
Yeah, totally.
Anyway, Killer, that was a nutty listing that, of course,
you bring up for the podcast audience.
Of course I do.
Because they can't get enough airplane fog.
Well, Hacienda Hotel, we talked about last time we sat here.
That one still makes me smile.
That car sold?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I forget.
Yeah, yeah.
I forgot.
91, I think.
It was live.
It was live when we talked about it.
It sold for 90 something, I think.
Are we going to talk about the car that sold right before we landed in Zona,
which was the white Lambo?
Oh, we must.
That, like, broke.
9-11, I just put out an email blast for that.
Press release.
980K for a 5,000 QV.
Anyway, has the whole world gone insane?
Probably.
But those cars are nuts, so.
Are you pro Koon Talk?
Oh, totally.
Okay, interesting.
Of course you are.
Do I need to drive one around?
And most people have no business driving one of those around,
myself probably included.
But are they awesome?
I mean, can I sit and watch on repeat the open to cannonball run?
Oh, of course.
By ripping through the gears?
Of course I can.
So anyway, I love them.
I loved when we were at the bridge, and they had a smattering of, like,
a bunch of them, and you could compare those wheels.
Oh, I love that.
Interior wing, no-wing, all the different eras.
Yeah, I will admit.
All the different non-anniversary eras.
I still struggle with a little of all the different eras.
I don't even know it.
There's flares, low roof.
There's flares with no-wing, flares with wing.
I like the Periscopos, the early plain, simple one.
One of those went through.
Does anybody still have the one with the...
Remember when they did the U.S. bumpers that stuck up on the front?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Those exist.
We sold one with those, not that long ago.
I think we did have one.
The front wing was not a rift.
I presume most people rift those off.
Front wings, yeah.
So anyway, obviously, there's experts on that model.
Front wing, good call.
Yes, we did.
We had one of those, too.
I'm stoked on those cars.
I think they're cool.
That's kind of one of those where you're stoked for other people on those cars.
Lived by Karius.
Well, not even really.
You're just like, I don't need that car at all.
But the fact that you're pumped on it, it's your dream car,
and you had the high fidelity by Alpine poster on your wall, and all that stuff.
Good. Go.
I was a 9.59 guy, so I was just like that car's maniacal.
But I love them.
And some of the subtle ones and interesting ones,
the Monaco GP one with the lights on top, that was the pace car or whatever.
There's great ones that are out there.
I mean, it blows me away that the non-carscopio is going to get a million bucks.
But I guess that's the world we're living in.
I know.
I wonder if those eclipse the early cars.
The early cars were always the valuable ones.
But these are the ones that were on the poster, right?
It's the 80s cars.
Totally.
Yeah.
Wing.
All wing.
Was the white one winged?
Yeah.
It was red interior.
He had wing.
Yeah.
I'm actually a no wing on that car guy.
Yeah.
I feel the same.
So.
I thought I even maybe have heard that the wing is decoration only, essentially.
I think that's right.
When they're parked and broken, it's a very decorative.
Which is the natural state.
Totally.
Are you kidding?
So, but it looks good on a black one.
On a black one.
No, it's wing.
In the beginning of it.
It's wing.
It's wing.
It's wing.
Okay.
Yeah.
That was amazing.
Congrats to wherever that car went.
Which part north, northeast, south, which part of Miami did that car go to?
I actually, it's going to a different hemisphere, according to Matt.
Oh, really?
Uh-huh.
Interesting buyer.
Okay.
I would guess there are direct flights from Miami.
I also wanted to mention another NSXR.
You saw that car?
We all of a sudden, those are coming out of the world.
We had one and for a long time.
Yes.
But I was also paying attention to the Subaru 22B.
Oh, yes.
Which was listed by the same and they sold on a.
Full 1600 Voloche.
After offer this morning.
I saw that.
Boom, boom.
200 and.
I like that car.
Three something for the NSX.
Loved both of those wonderful cars.
What do you got queued up?
Well, I was going to talk one more result first.
Okay.
Before we really go deep on Honda S800s, which I need to do with you, Scott.
Okay, okay.
The teaser is that we wrote, I mean, you wrote in it too.
In an R34 Skyline, we drove around a little bit and we had that green one cell.
Basically the day the boys and I got up to Vegas and everyone was very happy to see the
value on that car.
We had the green nurse back cell for 445 or something like that.
But you and I got to drive around in one of those a little bit.
And I always been interested in those cars, but never really had experienced one.
And man, I spent five hours in the backseat of that on the way to Vegas.
And now I'm like super pro.
It's a really interesting car.
You seemed like you liked it too.
I did.
You were laughing your head off because I was asking a lot of naive questions about it
just to kind of be so great.
Having fun.
We were ripping through the gears, going around Phoenix at night in this car.
And I was riding in the left seat, which in that car is the passenger seat.
And yeah, I mean, you guys were saying that car gets like more reaction on the road and
stopped at Gastic.
Couldn't go five minutes without a trucker honking or somebody freaking out.
It was pretty crazy.
Is that right?
Yes.
I mean, you guys have some cars that get noticed, you know, so that's pretty crazy
that that one stands out that much.
I guess it's Fast and Furious or is it other?
I don't know.
It was like a lot of dudes in the 28 to 37 bracket and we're a gas station stuff.
It's like jaw on the floor and like almost quietly whispering, can I take a picture of it?
I mean, I've never actually experienced anything like it.
They go into full like drooling.
Totally.
Brain dead.
A lot of the cars.
They're just looking at it like, oh, yes.
Wow.
Like time stops.
Yes.
When these people see that car, which is so funny because honestly, I mean,
that age demo on most of the goofy stuff I drive is like, don't care.
Totally.
So I've experienced a lot of interesting gas station moments, but it's either like
nice yellow Porsche douchebag or it's what is that?
Because I'm driving something that nobody cares about.
Or it's like, those are sweet.
I love those, but it's never like this awe that I saw people have, which was fascinating.
That's a new kind of gas station encounter.
That's cool.
It was really cool.
I wonder if you also get that in Lambo.
Or do people think that that's like trite and they're just kind of like, here's a Lambo.
I don't know.
That's a great question.
Or if it's you and I also drive cars where people are like, I loved those when I was a
kid. That was my first car.
That's like a kind of 50s car or like in a Beetle or something like that.
When I was in your Falcon that one time, a lot of like, I love Falcon.
Even non-car people being like, oh, I remember those.
But this was something.
My car to GTI, 16 valve, same thing.
Men, women, whoever, but they're not 25 years old.
25 year olds do not care.
But it would also be a non-car.
Absolutely zero about that car.
They just think it's an old piece of junk.
But yeah, people in their 40s and 50s are like, I had that car.
Yeah, of course.
My best friend had that car and we did whatever.
It's a funny thing, I think, that the R34 reaches down into the young ranks just because
because what is it, a 99 or a 2000?
It's like a 99 or 2000 something.
But then it reaches people that were stoked on that car when they were seven years old.
Yes, correct.
Right.
So anyway, I think it's pretty cool.
I had fun driving around seeing the systems on the dash.
Oh my God, it's so rad.
And just, yeah, how the transmission sounded and the seats I thought were super interesting.
I did too.
I thought it was a pretty substantial feeling car like the trunk and the wing and the body.
I mean, it was big.
We packed so much baggage into it too.
Three dudes in like full travel suitcases.
Trunks filled with cash, bags full of cash, leaving Vegas in an R34.
What could go wrong?
I bought Zach when we stopped in Kingman.
I bought a dream catcher, like a $9 dream catcher and hung it on the roof.
And I was like, would Randy like hate this or would he find this funny?
And Howard didn't even notice it that about like an hour and he's like, what's that?
So great.
That's your favorite, man, driving through the Southwest roads and with bros and in a crazy
car.
It's the best.
It's all I want to do in life.
Like I don't care about any other car activities other than driving through the
desert with bros and an interesting car.
There you go.
And you did it.
You were living it.
I was living it.
And you come back with a little cough and a little sore throat and tired eyes.
And that's part of the deal.
I asked Zach if he wanted to go to dinner tonight.
We're like four days removed from our training.
He's like, I'm still recovering.
He's like, I'm good.
I'm going to be good for two weeks.
Totally.
Totally.
So anyway, I'm proud of you guys.
Love that.
Super fun for him to roll up.
And I didn't have to order another Uber.
And I could get driven around an R34 with no underglow.
Underglow delete.
No, no underglow.
They had a Ferrari store at the Bellagio that was selling a lot of like clothing.
I'm surprised it's not at the win.
It's at the Bellagio.
I used to go to the win when it first opened.
And there was a Ferrari dealership like cars in there.
And it's now been replaced.
Last time I was there by a McLaren dealership.
But like they built it into the building.
It was part of the design of it.
But no, this was like a clothing store.
But they did have like helmets.
Zach and I were talking about walking in there.
And I was like, what if we walked in and was like, we both own a Ferrari?
And he's like, the first question would be like, what kind?
And I'd say 308.
And they'd be like, what's that?
I've never heard of it.
All Formula One.
Modern cars.
Sure, we've never heard of it.
Totally.
We don't believe that to be a real Ferrari.
It was that program.
Oh, man.
We had fun.
You said there's something else you wanted to bring up.
Oh, there's plenty to bring up.
This is going to drop on closing day of S800 Coupe.
And I want S800 Coupe so bad.
I've wanted a Coupe for so long.
You're kind of anti-Coupe on those, though, right?
I'm OK with the Coupe.
But I think I'm in.
It's a little bit hunchback of Notre Dame.
Yeah, they're a little weirdo, right?
Tell people what the car we're talking about.
It is a Honda S800.
So the last of the original Honda sports.
Oh, man.
See what the hubs on it looks so good.
I'd love telling you to talk.
And then I pull up a photo.
And then no one on the podcast.
They can't see it.
But all they do is hear you like gas.
I know.
Psy, when I turn the camera over.
This happens every episode.
Because I enjoy finding listings for cars, as it turns out.
Black Red.
That's probably a Black Red S600 Roadster,
if I had to guess, that you are showing me.
That is correct.
Yeah.
And they want all the dough.
And it's in Europe, but left-hand drive.
So original Honda sports car.
It's not only that.
It's the original Honda car.
There's actually, we don't have one listed.
And I don't know if I've ever seen one for sale.
But there was an S.
The very first ones are S500.
500 in the earlys.
Yes.
Roadster only.
Yep, yep.
And the 500s and 600s have that weird independent rear end,
where the swing arms have chain drives in them.
Really interesting.
Little motorcycle engines, roller main bearings.
The Coupe came out with the 600.
But the last ones are 800.
So 800 cc.
Still 10,000 RPM motorcycle engine.
Four craters.
Solid rear axle.
That looks like a little 490.
But the 800s have a solid rear end,
which makes them a little simpler.
And leaf sprung.
Leaf sprung.
Still four speeds.
But they have those great looking wheels.
And I do really like the Coupes.
I'm such a Coupe guy.
Man, I want one of these really bad.
I've wanted one for so long.
I think you're going to end up with one of those eventually.
I don't know how or when it's going to happen,
or what the color or spec is going to be.
But one of these cars is going to follow you home.
Yes.
The last 800 Coupe we had was 2022.
So they just do not come up very often.
That's pretty wild to think about, right?
Like sometimes you miss a car.
And you're like, the next one of these is not coming for five years.
Yes, correct.
But that leads you to making bad decisions, maybe.
You're like urgency.
It's urgent for me to buy it.
That's only light rust.
Yeah.
Well, it's urgent for me to buy a sports car
when I already have two sports cars that don't run.
Correct.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, that's right.
Perfect logic.
That's right.
I've been selling and I need to do more of that,
not more purchasing.
I love that you've been doing that.
This one is calling me.
Anyway, the one on the site is super cool.
And people can go take a look at it.
It's like an anthracite color.
I think it was restored in the UK?
Ireland.
Came out of Ireland, which is fascinating.
It's right in the drives.
They did make these on left-hand drive,
but this one is right-hand drive.
I think I sent you the listing,
or I was teasing you about the listing
like a month ago or something.
And then as it tends to be, it shows up on BET.
Oh, here's another car.
You and I were talking rods.
We saw a rod at Crandles that's,
the listing is being worked on right now.
It's about to be live.
The Vic Edelbrock.
You're not going to talk about that car, are you?
Is that car going to be live when this airs?
I think so.
I love that.
That car is so good.
Yeah, we got to check that car out up close.
You and I be-lined to that car.
And I was stoked on that car when it was in Monterey.
Interestingly, it's sold in Monterey,
but it's sold maybe kind of soft.
I don't know, but whoever owns it now wants to turn it on BET.
But it's Vic Edelbrock Jr.'s car.
This is not the Crandles.
32 Ford Roadster, full-fendered.
Full-fendered car, but it has the same lettering,
Edelbrock lettering as his dad's car had.
I was actually just reading the Rod Mavericks.
What's the book called?
They made a hardback.
I've had that on my bedside table.
My dad keeps asking me to bring it.
Oh, sorry, dude.
Because I heard of my house for a while.
Chuck wants to hear that.
I haven't.
The photo doesn't matter.
We had to pull up what the real name is.
But anyway, in the write-up about Vic Edelbrock Jr.,
it's just a classic pick.
He's got one leg up on the front tire of his Deuce Roadster Fenderless.
And it shows his little hand stenciled name in that
bubble letter, Edelbrock stuff, before that was their actual logo.
It's called Hot Rod Mavericks.
That's what it's called.
It's really good.
And it goes person by person.
It's person by person.
Vic Senor is one of the original.
He's somewhat original.
But there's some early dudes.
Oh, yes.
They have war time.
That the lady and her husband that ran the speed shop.
Totally.
I love all that stuff.
So I've been making it through and I'm mostly up to modern time.
But he built the original car in about 48, didn't he?
I mean, it's late 40s, I think.
Stuff is early.
Yeah.
Stuff is really early.
The first SCTA guys and all that out at Maroc.
And all the...
It's my zone.
It's all your zone.
Imagine taking a cool car with your bros and driving to El Mirage.
That's what they were doing.
So anyway, I love that it's going through BET.
But I had some thoughts.
I'm like, man, is this the one?
Because I'm looking for a...
You're really turning into a full-fendered guy.
Don't say that.
You are.
You say that as an insult.
No.
My dad is also like...
It's not that he doesn't love high buck.
I'm okay full-fender.
I'm okay no-fender.
I'm just...
It's all got to be...
I don't want to build a rod.
I certainly don't want to spec like a new rod at all.
I want like an old, preferably built 50s, early 60s,
a couple original time tags.
That's what you want.
Love and a kind of scrappy and manual transmission
and whatever other...
You're agnostic on the other stuff.
But fenders, none.
Honestly, I'm crazier than you in that.
I'm like Coop, Roadster, I'll be open to all sorts of things.
You also...
Then I veer into like a 40 Ford and then I veer back.
So anyway, I'm all over the place.
But seeing that and just seeing that car pull in,
and I was like, dang, that's a really nicely done car.
I know. It's so good looking.
Even though it's a Brookville and it's newer.
You even liked the low boy that was a period build that we had.
And low boys are tough for me because you can barely fit in those.
Yeah, your knees are up around the steering wheel.
My dad had one that wasn't super, super low, but it was pretty low.
Anyway, I like those cars, but people ought to watch out.
I'm sure we'll put Edelbrock in the title.
Of course.
So we've been searched by that.
But we have amazing rods that just show up on BET, which is so rad.
I always wanted that.
I loved going and looking at the Corral at the Good Guys show as a kid.
And my dad took me to the Oakland Roadster show a bunch of times when I was a little kid.
And there's an awesome show this freaking weekend in two days.
Grand National Roadster Show is this weekend.
Man, we've missed that too many years.
I know.
Well, I'm kind of debating how to get down there.
So anyway, Super Bowl Sunday is interesting.
It's on Saturday.
If you give me Super Bowl or you give me GNRS,
it's like the easiest question I've ever heard of my life.
For sure.
Like, look at the Super Bowl.
Man, my dad's coming over here.
This weekend, he's going to be like, get down there.
Yeah, totally.
He's 100% what he's going to say.
But yeah, anybody with any wonderful rods out there that wants to ring me,
I'm taking that call.
Yeah.
We have some other people on staff, including this guy over here who feel the same way.
We've manifested that to a certain extent.
There are great rods.
We've had some really good ones.
A couple of ones that I kind of have regrets about not.
I mean, obviously, there's so many junky, custom 30s and 40s cars out there that are
called hot rods, but there are some that are just so good.
And you go read a book like that, Hot Rod, Mavericks Hardback,
and you're just like, I want every car in this photograph.
There's like 12 of them, and I like want any of them.
Where are they today?
When we went down and had Bruce Meyer on the pod,
and you interviewed him, and we went down to his shop,
and he gave you his five deuces book and monographed it and everything for you.
And every picture of that is also pretty inspiring.
I mean, he's got the best stuff.
Absolutely.
I haven't actually paid through that book because he signed it for my dad,
and I gave it to my dad.
I haven't paid through that one, so I actually need to.
Yes.
Well, he trotted out my perfect car down there, that rolling bones three-window.
I know, you like the rolling bone stuff.
I can't handle that those go for like 300 grand or whatever.
I know, but that one was so good.
And that's kind of my dream is like Bruce drove that to Canada and back,
and that's what I want to be able to do with one of these.
I don't want to drive it to a show, and then it barely runs, and it's too uncoverable.
I want to like a couple thousand miles in one of these.
I love that.
Yeah.
Anyway, so we'll see where that ends up going.
I'm glad you brought that car up.
Anything else that fires you up?
I can click on my watch list.
I think I talked about most of the things.
I mean, some of this stuff, you're going to be like, Alex, stop.
Why?
What are you watching?
I mean, another car that we saw at Matt Crennell's when we were there,
which is live right now, the Orange Pearl NSX, fixed headlight NSX with the orange interior.
Is it orange interior or like a beige interior?
It's orange, orange, orange.
And it has kind of some miles on it, 60,000 miles.
And I really, really like their car.
I don't even like fixed headlight cars that much, but I'm watching that thing.
Yeah.
But we also have a fixed roof C5 Corvette.
I kind of would really like to have something that I could take to the track that-
That's a cool car.
Yeah, I was a yellow like this.
No, it's my perfect back.
It's a really plain, like, pewter champagne.
And as non-polished wheels, and it doesn't have the streak down the side,
it's like the basest of base model Corvettes you could have got that year.
I would really like that.
Oh, one other thing I'll mention that was really exciting and unfortunately didn't sell,
but the Swede Savage, all-American racing, like, Eagle, like-
Anything with AR, DNA, like rockets up the list.
AR, Chrysler, Eagle, and Swede Savage all combined into one.
Give it to me.
I think that's pretty strong.
Yeah, that car was really, really good.
I could go on like this forever, but I'll stop.
There's a Chrysler 300 on the site, which I always-
I saw that red.
Yeah, sometimes.
That's another car where you got to kind of wait around.
They're not selling that much.
C300s.
You mean 55s, right?
Yes.
I think the Ford GT Static Display Vehicle is fascinating to see this.
One-to-one, it was used at Auto Show debuts or in the Ford Design Studio.
Somebody's got it over 100 grand for the drivetrain-less non-real car.
Did you see the price on the Wood Ford GT also?
Freaking crazy.
Yeah, a one-to-one scale Wooden model of a Ford GT.
Yes, crazy.
And that was some dough, wasn't it?
I forget what.
I'm, like, scared to say this without verifying,
but I thought it was 100 grand.
I think you might be right.
Yeah.
Oh, no, sorry, $151,000.
So a car you can get for four?
Can you get them in the threes anymore?
Maybe for one with, like, a lot of miles of mods or something.
So call that almost half of an actual car.
But is it one-to-one?
I don't know.
Maybe they mean it's grand.
It's a pretty crazy item.
It's a known rarity, Alex.
Find another one, Randy.
Make another one out of a different wood, and you can also be one-of-one.
This one is the finest mahogany.
Sure, sure it is.
We also sold a Fox hatchback LX 5.0 modded for 80,000 US dollars.
Oh, yes.
That's right.
Did you see that car?
There's a notch, right?
No, it's a hatch LX.
I don't know.
I didn't see that.
But it's coyote and, like, crazy modded, blah, blah, blah.
And people are paying up for that.
That's crazy.
823 comments on the wooden 4GT.
I love that.
It's good stuff, man.
I'm glad to sit here and laugh with you.
I love that.
Anyway, gotta laugh, man.
Gotta enjoy this stuff.
The other 32 Highboy Roadster that I sat in at.
With the Nailhead?
With the Nailhead sold.
That sold for 85G.
So I was on my watch.
That is a...
Sorry, I just keep going.
I call them Pajarros, but I know it's a Pajero.
There's an Evolution Mitsubishi.
Oh, you love those.
I love them.
Sold for 30K automatic.
Take the automatic all day for the discount.
I think that thing's rad.
But the automatic in the Nailhead juice, you'd have to change.
Correct.
That is correct.
We've had a few aspadas, those turn my head a little bit.
The Silver one, that's got to be the record price we've ever sold a Spada for, don't you think?
200 plus.
And then a little thing sneaked through like a Ford Escort RS Cosworth,
blue, uncompromotive, white wheels that are unbelievable.
And then...
The Spada yesterday was 235.
But the one we sold before that was 228.
Wow, is there an aspada madness happening?
There's a frenzy.
Yes.
There's an aspada frenzy.
There was also a 32,000 mile 82 Audi coupe two-wheel drive that sold for 30,000 US.
That's insane.
We sold a Lada Niva, which is a car I actually kind of like.
We sold an X Doris Day Benz sedan that had been in LA forever, which I thought was awesome.
And you're following all the best stuff on this Doris Day.
I follow stuff.
I follow so much of it.
I love typing Doris Day into the VAT search bar.
That makes me really happy.
Oh, this is kind of a...
She had it for a long time.
This is kind of a Nannenberg spec, too.
It is.
I thought about it except for its big bumper.
I know.
So it's kind of like...
And you also watch Short Wheelbanks, right?
I'm either one at this point.
I just want one with ski racks and I want to drive her out of ski town with some kind of villain.
The body color hubs and stuff, it's really solid.
I want hub caps.
I really like that car.
You could fix the bumper program.
Man, this is a good car.
It's a lot of work.
I did that on the BMW.
Euro bumper swaps are a pain in the neck.
Look, it's got all the original plates and booklets.
This is a good car.
Anyway, that was a very good car and somebody grabbed it.
What did you go skiing in?
Oh, I took Doris Days 450 SEL.
Right?
Yeah.
I've actually been shopping vintage period ski racks that would go on top of the Benz.
Oh my God, of course you have.
Like in the gutter.
Yes.
You can get the US ones or you can get the Euro ones and then throw your skis on the roof of that car.
Those are the ones that almost look like they're made out of cheapo aluminum from aluminum.
Yes, totally.
Out of a window frame or like a screen.
But they're chromed a lot.
They totally look like they're a window screen.
They look like they're about to collapse.
The problem is the rubber inside them that goes around your skis is like 50 years old.
And everything, it's just like the whole thing is out of a brick.
But you've got to have those.
You've got to have skis on the roof.
Of course.
There's a Bond movie where the villains drive a fintail with skis on the roof.
And when I had my Benz that I drove daily, I always want my 230S.
I always wanted to have skis on the roof of that car.
So anyway, it will be mine.
You will have a Honda, a little S800 Coupe, and I will have skis on a Benz in a ski town
while everybody's driving their escalades around.
I'm going to roll around in an old chain.
Chains on the back.
My dad's going to be like, you have regressed.
Oh, he's totally.
You have regressed so far.
He's going to be judgment.
But we're going to have some fun.
Awesome, dude.
Well, thanks for doing this.
That's always a pleasure, dude.
Go to Palm Springs.
Have everybody show up in Palm Springs.
It's happening.
It is happening.
Maybe, I don't know, I'll see if I can meet you there.
Thanks for having me on.
Oh, no, it's always a pleasure, man.
Thanks for joining.
And thanks to all of you for listening, and we will catch you next time.
About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds as hosts Alex Porter and Randy Nondenberg recap their recent adventures in Scottsdale, including a humorous incident involving AI-generated photos of a Cadillac that slipped through their vetting process. They delve into the implications of AI in the automotive marketplace and the importance of transparency. The episode also highlights their experiences at car week events, notable cars spotted, and a variety of interesting listings on Bring a Trailer, including a Honda S800 Coupe and a Vic Edelbrock Roadster. The camaraderie and excitement of the automotive community shine through.
This week, Alex and Randy begin with a frank look at the Deville Debacle of the weekend before last and have a discussion about how we handle major issues and mistakes as a company. On a lighter note, they move on to a recap of the fun had in Arizona for Auction Week and a followup in Vegas, debate the value proposition of a $40 corndog at the veritable circus of a live tentpole auction, and give shout-outs to several of the BaT valued Local Partners who were in Scottsdale with us.
Next up, our excitement for the upcoming BaT Meet-Up in Palm Springs; James Garner's black/gold Hertz GT350; auction fees on high-dollar cars; the Eisenhower step; blowing minds in an R34 Skyline while driving through the desert with bros; an ode to early Hondas; the perfect '32 Ford spec; the Super Bowl vs GNRS, an easy choice if ever there was one; and finally, nerding out on Pajeros, Ladas, and 1970s ski racks.
