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Who's on My Policy?
About this episode
Navigating the complexities of car insurance takes center stage as Dave shares personal experiences and listener stories about unexpected premium hikes and mysterious policy changes. The discussion dives into how insurance companies can add drivers without consent, leading to significant premium increases. The episode also touches on the challenges of importing cars, the quirks of car porters, and the joys of finding unique vehicles abroad. With a mix of humor and practical advice, this episode offers insights into the often frustrating world of automotive insurance and ownership.
Topics:
car insurance issues
premium increases
importing cars
car porters
unique vehicles abroad
insurance loopholes
personal anecdotes
On today’s show, we talk about a surprising story about an insurance policy adding someone without the driver’s knowledge and the hoops they now have to jump through to fix it. Plus, we discuss the importance of double-checking your new car purchase to ensure you’re getting everything you paid for, even the floor mats! And, as always there’s so much more. Tune in to Let’s Talk Cars Radio for the latest in car news and tips!
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Hey guys, welcome back. Hope you guys enjoyed the recap
show last week. So if you guys didn't know, there's
a lot of people who do. But I'm just putting
out there. I have some surgery, so there was just
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It's going to be a long process before I get completely healthy again. But as you can see, I'm able
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I had to have some pretty important surgery and I came.
Speaker 2: Through it all right, obviously, so it's good.
Speaker 3: But yeah, a lot of people reached out and wished me well and that it's very humbly and very much appreciate it. So it's all I'm gonna talk about that,
but we're gonna move out. So we got a great
show for you guys this week. It obviously these Christmas
Times sneak it up on it's very quick. We got
to know how important that is to everybody. And every
year we have our Christmas show. So hey, guess what
this is it? So I want to jump into some
things pretty quickly. You guys know, and we talk on
this show quite a bit, right, you guys know my my love hate with car insurance.
Speaker 2: I just it's such We've.
Speaker 3: Talked about it in so many different fashions and so many different ways. I got a new one for you.
So somebody sent me this story. It was actually interesting.
So imagine if you have car insurance right on your car, and all of a sudden, you know you, which is happening to everybody, So everybody's don't blast me with emails, Yet all of a sudden, your premium jumps out of crazy.
So I haven't gotten more letters this year about people's premiums jumping. People having their car insurance canceled also, and
they just their company's just not going to cover them anymore.
You know, you really jack them up, so right, they are just dumping people left and right.
Speaker 2: So let's step aside from that for a second.
Speaker 3: Imagine that you get a little letter in your premiums up and you're like what it is? And when you
call in a driver has been added to your policy that you don't even know about.
Speaker 2: You have like, you have no clue how happen.
Speaker 3: So I have some theories how this happens, right, And I'll tell you a story that happened to be so.
I know back in the days, insurance companies would make just surprise telephone calls the house. And let's say you
had somebody staying with you or something like that, and they answered your telephone and they asked for you, and they're like, well, he's not here right now, They're like mask who I'm speaking to, and you have a house guest, raise your policy. They can do that.
Speaker 2: Ye. So here's the thing. A lot of people don't
realize it when you're like a mom or dad. It's
just the at least they can do it. It's on there.
Speaker 3: If you have somebody underneath your roof that has access to your car, they have the right to change the policy.
Speaker 4: But how do they how do they know who it is?
Per se though? Like when is the vision your little brother?
The answer, They're just going to put someone on the policy even though he.
Speaker 3: Can't your little brother. Most likely your policy probably could
very well be jacked up. And the reason why is
now you have a minor that has access to your car keys and how many times? How many times we
see a right where miner steers a car out of the driveway. True, so that's how.
Speaker 4: They don't know his age though, so they're just kind of like, you know, improvising.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, But that's how there's that's how there's that little like roundabout loophole, the pel wh just kind of goes around. It's crazy that works because so
I had a situation where I had some people need to stay with me for a little while, and they were trying to jack up my car insurance because I had more bodies under eath my roof that technically had. Now,
I didn't let them drive any of my cars, but they had access to my cars, you know. And what
they mean access is well, do you lock your keys up in a safe at night? And of course my
answer is like, well no, of course I don't write, so you put your key on the counter like everybody else does, or you have a hook. These are questions
they legit let me ask me. And I'm like, well, yeah,
well yeah, They're like, right, so they have access to your car.
Speaker 4: Do you lock your pantry up at night?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I'm like, I was like, yes, they had access to my food, you know what I mean. It's like and
they're eating it all anyway, but that's not the point.
Speaker 5: But no, it's that probably didn't help you, so.
Speaker 2: They don't you space, Okay, got it?
Speaker 3: So they you won't take your car, but they can legitimately do that. So that's that's why I heard this story.
Speaker 2: It was sent to me.
Speaker 3: I was like, maybe that's how they for some reason they called the house and realized it was another body in the house at some point in time, and they raise the rate. But here's the thing they from what
I understand from this story is they had like a set person in mind or whatever, and maybe they didn't have a good driving record. It raised their premium like
three hundred and twenty dollars a month more.
Speaker 2: I mean, like that's a.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get them on my right, right, and then couldn't get them off the policy, like just all yep, could it prove that they don't live with you?
Speaker 2: Kind of like.
Speaker 4: Response, I was like, take a video of a empty house, right, that's I'm like, here's me, here's nobody else here, here's that.
Speaker 2: So uh, it's just it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I hate the fact, and I use the word very strongly.
I hate the fact that they have that much power.
But insurance companies do. And like I say, you hear
about people right now being canceled, like people that live in flood zones and stuff that are now like areas that got taken out. They can't get car insurance back
on the next car because they're like, Nope, no, this probably happened again at some point in time, and we don't want the risk because look like if you guys haven't paying attention. You guys know, I'm a big huge
I was by there today actually co part. You know,
they got over flood of cars. So the co part
out here and on the other side up by Richmond. Out here,
it's flooded. I was. I was by there today and
it's fits full of cars. I mean, it's got tons
and tons. I meanybody wants to weather flood cars, you
know what I mean. So they got tons of them, came
out the floor. They gotta do something with them, you know.
And the ones that come out North Carolina, gotta do something with them.
Speaker 4: But long they said the worst.
Speaker 2: There's some good deals. Heay.
Speaker 3: That Testuosa is still sitting. I'm waiting for it to
go up for a flock car. It's a flood car.
But I don't care. Like I've had this car, everybody's like,
what are you gonna do with it? I was like,
I like to have it. I'm gonna take the Ferrari
motor out of it anyway, I don't care. I'm gonna
throw the Frai motor away. It's probably already it's probably
no good.
Speaker 2: I want to l s it.
Speaker 3: I just want the body, right, I just want to twin turbo ls it and just be a cool you're going to strip it. I mean, when you get a
fluck car, you have to plan. Don't remember the flood
van that we did, do you guys remember the van that was a flood van.
Speaker 2: So we well, I.
Speaker 4: Was just the viewers. You know, it's morning. It goes
into a car. I mean you're stripping the car page,
you're private placing the seeds. Maybe you know what the
dashboard got destroyed?
Speaker 3: You're right, we so we did. I started them, I
told you so. The boys learned how to work on
cars because I used to buy a lot of cars and I would flip them. I just I enjoyed it.
I find working on cars relaxing. Some people don't, I do.
And I was buying cars, and they learned how to work on things. And I bought a Toyta Sea in
a van that was a flood car, and I put the boys work. I was like, strip every bit of
interior out it, take the carpet out, take the seeds out, take everything out of this thing. And I pulled everything
out and I let everything dry out. And then once
I got everything dried out, I had to pull.
Speaker 2: The computers, opened up the computers. The computers had water
in them.
Speaker 3: I got two computers for it, put it back in the car, fire right up, and I think I had it about four months driving around. Never had a problem
with it. Before I sold it. I didn't a lot
of the people. I told them, Hey, this is what happened.
It was a flood car. I went through it.
Speaker 4: So why I was listed for so cheat?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I sold it for nothing. It was it was
I think that thing was a two at the time.
It was like a twenty twelve see in a van, and I think I rolled it out the door for like sixty six hundred dollars, which was nowhere close to what it was worth. But to be honest, I think
I had realistically like two grand in the car.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 3: That's all I had in it. It's a flood car.
And like I said, I rode around for a while and never had any issues with it. And the people
who bought it for me, I know, never had any issues because they came about another vehicle from me about a year later. They actually called me and asked me
if I had anything else laying around, and I.
Speaker 4: You definitely could salvage them. It just tastes a little
bit of effort and you know, some grease.
Speaker 2: Right. It's so it's it's it can be done for
me if I bought.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I look at the flood cars a lot when I when I at co part and some of the other auctions, And the reason why I do it is because the particular Ferrari. I want to get
a Ferrari that I can just bang on and enjoy it.
I kind of want to lower it. I want to
kind of be able to drift it whatever. I just
want to have fun with it. So I'm not really
I don't care if it has a Ferrari motor in it.
I want to throw a whoop butt fricking you know, then you're driving a Ferrari. I just want to look, right,
I just want to look and I can. There's feeling
that it's gonna be faster. Number one, it will be
a lot faster. Yeah, with that setup, So the car
will be probably twice as quick. But you can even
do like a you could do a V eight Volkswagon aluminum block and it's going to be what five hundred pounds with turbos on it, like very you could do something like that, but and you'd have very I don't know if you guys seen that set up, but if not, there's a bunch of YouTube channels out there. Go look
at the V eight aluminum my campra. I think it
comes out of one of the maybe one of the jetters or something like that, and you can do it twin turbos and it makes like, I don't know, six hundred and fifty seven hundred horsepower and the motor weighs nothing.
I mean, it's actually pretty cool setup.
Speaker 2: Go take a look.
Speaker 3: I was just watching because I doing.
Speaker 2: Something like this.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a go car at that point.
Speaker 3: So I've been watching this Testrosa and I've been watching a three h eight uh GTB I think is what it is. I've been watching that too. That they're both
love cars and I don't have to, like, I don't have to have anything.
Speaker 2: I was telling them. At the end of the day,
there's a guy that's got a car I'm kind of interested in.
Speaker 3: It's in our local area, and he wants about three thousand dollars more than I'm willing to pay for the car.
But I know it's the holidays, and I was like, I think gonna shoot HIMU three thousand dollars lesson he's led it to go.
Speaker 2: I think I'm just gonna go ahead and buy it.
I don't know if he will.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you what it is because I don't wantybody to trying to steal the deal from me. But
it's in my local area. It's pretty cool car and
it just needs a paint job. Really, everything else has
got a nice new motor in it, interior is all there, AND's a car that I would like to own. So
I think over the holidays, I'm gonna just shoot him, and I mean it never hurts. I take cash over
to him and buy the car. And it's just to
be another car we have sitting around here at the at the Mega garage, which would be cool. And all
I do is just get somebody I notice, squirt it and put a paint job on it, and it'd be another collection to the to the fleet.
Speaker 2: So I we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: And don't you all get started with what's going on with the bad Am because every time we talk about buying, somebody's like, but.
Speaker 2: What's going on with the bad Am?
Speaker 4: Parts?
Speaker 2: Wait on?
Speaker 3: Parts still trying to get parts for it. But we're
getting closer. We are getting closer. I actually managed to
box box up the bad parts. I just got to
ship them out and see if I can get the right ones in.
Speaker 5: So I just got mad at a part support. Yeah,
because they waited until I ordered the parts and then updated their their thing to go current lead time for the side.
Speaker 2: He did say that before, so I run into that all the time. It drives me nuts.
Speaker 3: I a lot of times when I go to buy parts for things, will ask how long until you know when's this coming in? And stuff like that. It's getting
real bad in the industry right this second. They'll sell
it to me. And we're not talking about cheap parts.
So I'm talking about I about a seven thousand dollars part about a month ago. I was supposed to have
it in three days. Three days turned into a month
and a half, and they already got my money because you had to prepay for it. Now, I probably could
have ran my credit card back whatever and got them to give me a refund stuff like that, but they're the only person that has it the part. I still need
the part.
Speaker 2: Nothing changes. I still have to have the part, but
they got me, you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean, And I'm like, I would have preferred to just be honest with me right up front and just tell me.
Speaker 2: Then I asked how long until I can have it?
Because this sets me back.
Speaker 3: And this is what happens every time we try to work on our project cars because I know that part supply is getting rough.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of friends own parts.
Speaker 4: You can on something else with that money while you're waiting that month.
Speaker 2: That has well.
Speaker 3: It's like, so you guys know that we have old Blue, which is our Chevy truck that we're waiting. We're trying
to get trans him done before we work on it and stuff. But I may have a body guy lined
up so that truck may move jump forward and have work done on it quicker than what I thought, because if.
Speaker 2: You have don't get paint and body regularly.
Speaker 3: You guys know that it's very hard to get into this place and find somebody to do it for a good deal. It's even harder than when you find a
good deal and get find somebody connection knock it out.
Nathanna knows this car just sat for what three weeks at the body shop getting worked one on it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like three weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I thought it was about three weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, it is what it is. Weight line.
Speaker 5: Yes, you guys heard that right. His twenty twenty four
must ain't already went to fund so.
Speaker 3: He don't like to talk about this. I'll tell it
very quickly. He was coming out here to help me
with something and there was a truck who couldn't drive in front of them, flicked rocks up and put two small chips besides the point their chips, and it's paint chops.
So he's called insurance company and sent over the body shop to have the paint down to bare metal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's and it's just is. It is what
it is, and you hate it. And that's what's scares me.
Speaker 3: Everybody asked me about driving, you know, the bad Ad.
Once we get the bad Am together, Like man, I you know, you just got a trailer this thing everywhere.
I'm like, no, this car is built to be driven.
I'm gonna drive it. They're like, yeah, but what about
like rock chips stuff like that. I'm like, well, I'm
gonna do my best not to get them, but that can't stop me from driving the car like.
Speaker 4: It was too bad. It wasn't bare metal, but the
point of being bare metal has been there.
Speaker 2: They were deep, they were deep deep.
Speaker 3: So it's it's one of those situations guys, and I get it. And so this is where insurance comes into
right loop back around to finish it off the segment.
Those little things aren't helping like the insurance industry. But
I always go, that's why I have insurance. I have
insurance for this reason. Why when I call you with
the claim, does it like go like a big huge stain on my record against me?
Speaker 2: Because I had to make a cal there's two.
Speaker 4: Different Well, okay, there's like cosmetic damage which doesn't go on your doesn't stain your record, and then there.
Speaker 3: Can still give some cause how many claims you have still gives your costs? I don't know.
Speaker 4: If I don't know if it desert doesn't it does it's still claim claims the claim because I claimed it under you know, cosmetic and stuff.
Speaker 2: But it goes on your record.
Speaker 4: But it's not like it's not impact like you're not I'm not going to raise your rais because of it. Yeah,
because I'm you know, it's kind of the insurance.
Speaker 3: But they could have when you could maybe when your policy and they gets raised it.
Speaker 4: But I was thinking, you know, I'm not recommend anybody to do it, but I was thinking. I was like,
you know, if you could, you know, if you if you have like a little bit of damage every year, you could totally get like a cosmetic damage every year, just kind of like touching.
Speaker 2: Your car a lie on the back of the camera.
Speaker 3: The camera got hit three times since we've had it, all in the back bumper, right, I had to fix it two times the last time it got and you can barely even tell, but I know it's there because I'm.
Speaker 2: A car guy. I haven't fixed it this last time.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm gonna fix it and someone's gonna tap it in a parking lot again.
Speaker 2: I'm just not doing it.
Speaker 3: So if you look in your car guy, you'll.
Speaker 2: You'll notice it.
Speaker 3: If you're not really looking for you don't really notice it.
Speaker 2: But I like be I'm a car guy.
Speaker 3: I know it's there. And my wife was like, are
we fixing it? I'm like, I'm not fixing this time.
I fixed it two times before, I'm not fixing it this time. And sure enough, I've never claimed insurance. I
just take it to my body guy. I let him
take care of it and be done with it. So
your insurance policies make sure your premiums aren't going u because it's getting kind of crazy out there. You guys
gonna comment on us, let us know, send it over to us and we'll review it. I gotta take quick
commercial break. When I come back, I guys more for you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive specialist.
Now back to your host Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's another one for you.
Speaker 3: That's uh this this, this story makes sense to me because I can figure out how this could happen and it's it's not a laughing matter, but it kind of makes me laugh because, uh, if you guys don't know, I have a pretty extensive license plate collection. I collect
different old license plates and stuff, and I got them hanging all over the wall. There's some here in the studio,
and there's tons out in the Mega garage. But so,
do you guys hear the story about the lady with the Enterprise license plate?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you guys haven't followed this, there's a lady who has a license plate that she got that has the whole the whole number to the Enterprise for Star Trek, and she's had it.
Speaker 2: For a while. Well, now they sell vanby plates that
have that whole number on it.
Speaker 3: Just what is the n NC seventeen something like that, right, I wasn't a big Star Trek and a couple numbers numbers, but anyway, you get the idea.
Speaker 2: And so she keeps on getting all their tickets because it's her plate number.
Speaker 3: And they had the Vanity plate on their car, just being cool because they're Enterprise fans. But it keeps clocking
her plate as their vanity plates. And she has like
over seventy thousand dollars in fines and all kinds of stuff, and she can't get out from underneath it. And it's
like they don't want to believe it or not her right exactly. And I started I was like, I was like, man,
that'll be off. I mean, I've seen some crazy stuff.
I told you guys about people getting tickets that don't belong to them, and I ran into that myself. I
think I told you guys, so I got a bunch of tickets. I actually had a side step to license
plate story I had. I was military at the time,
and I had the police come to arrest me to exedite me to Illinois, and I'm like, and if you ever mess with the military police, they don't mess around.
Like there's just there's no you guys, because they want you to pay yours you guys, right, you guys know I kind of I very much have a comical uh uh persona to me. You know, I find the humor
and everything, so and there's just ones you just can't really joke around with, right. So they come to get
me and they're like, you know, turn around, put your hands.
Speaker 2: Be on your back, Joe.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but well I got called up to my command's office and I'm like that, you know, you know that's never good in the military. I'm like, man, what
am I getting called up. Therefore, I can't think of
anything I could have done. And I get up there
and uh, and they're waiting for me, and they turned me around. They put handcuffs on me, and I'm like, uh,
what's going on. They're like, well, you have an extradition
order back to Illinois.
Speaker 2: And I'm like.
Speaker 6: For what.
Speaker 3: And they're like all these fines, they're all these parking tickets, like just hundreds of parking tickets. And I'm like, I
I don't have parking tickets.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know they're not mine. They're like, well,
you gotta figure out. I'm like no.
Speaker 3: I was like, look, I'm not trying to be argumentative.
I was like, but you better drag me, right, you're getting ready to drag me. Put me on a plane,
send me to you know, back, you know, to Illinois to go fight something that I have no idea what you're talking about. I was like, can we at least like,
can we try to call? So they end up taking
me down to the office what is I can't remember what the name of the military the big military police offices or something like that.
Speaker 2: There's a name for it, the detention center, right, So they take me and they did. They were cool.
Speaker 3: They start making some telephone calls and it didn't It took a little bit to get to the bottom of it, but we got to the bottom of it. There was
a car that was in my family. Okay, if you
guys know, I'm a junior and my dad has the same name as I do. And there was a car
that was in our family that my dad did not have possession of, but I guess the car technically still was titled to him. And it got parked and it
kept on getting like tickets, like I don't know, once a day. I don't know why. They just didn't come
toe it right, but just kept but it. She kept
on getting tickets and tickets, and I think because the car was being moved, I think would move and they'd come back and get another ticket. And it stacked up
some serious tickets on it for some good cash. And
they wanted their money. I don't know, I don't miss
collect Yeah, they're they're there to collect them. They want.
Speaker 2: They wanted their money.
Speaker 3: But they somehow they thought the car belonged to me because at the same name. And I'm like, look, I'm
a junior. I'm like, is it for. Is this for
you know, Dave Pilots. Is it a senior? Is there
a junior connected? Like I was like, I can tell
you I know the car you're speaking of, and I've never owned that car. I was like, now you felt
bad because I was like, I know who does own it?
Speaker 2: You know, that's them out. I'm like, oh, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to go to be put on a plane and ship back down, although I probably could have got a little vacation out of it, but it's been a really bad vacation.
Speaker 2: I was staying in a holiday in that night or anything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So, but they got the bottom and find out it was so it was for that car and the course down know, and they didn't feel bad. It's not like
they're like, oh sorry, you know. I mean, they, like
I said, they don't mess around. They're pretty direct with you,
like you're just a criminal, you know what i mean.
Speaker 2: Like on the side of the road.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like no, I'm like seriously like I and like I said, and it was for our l Camino. Really, yeah,
it was for our l Camino And it stacked some tickets UB on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said, and they wanted their money. So what'd
you call them?
Speaker 4: Be like, hey, they're looking for you.
Speaker 3: No, I went back back doing my job that day.
I was like, this is not like, this isn't my issue, Like this isn't my problem. I'm already mad that I
had to get pulled out, dragged out of my command, take it in a paddy wagon to go to the main office on base and all kind of like I was already mad. I was like, but it's still going
to a bunch of you fallo in that thing where everybody has an excuse. You're like, man, I swear I
didn't do it.
Speaker 2: I'm not one of them, not one of those people. Seriously,
it was like one of those situations like everybody says they're in a sit you know.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, really, I really don't know what you guys are talking about, because it's not like they have they didn't have the car. They just all they knew
is I was wanted and they need to ship me back to answer these charges. That's all they cared about.
And of course it probably was the highlight of their day, you know what I mean. They're like, get this exactly,
so you run, so I can understand how that works with license plates and how hard it is to get the system to really believe you, because once things start getting tagged in the system and things start getting attached, it is hard to get anybody to listen to.
Speaker 4: You, and it's ramped through like different organizations.
Speaker 3: You're still going to send me back on that. But
what happened was is it didn't have Junior connected to it.
And that's the only thing that saved me.
Speaker 2: The kindn't prove that it was right there.
Speaker 3: I'm like, any, I was like, but that's like saying the last name Smith, right, and they're like, oh.
Speaker 2: You're a Smith. I guess you'll do, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like one of those one of those things really and so you know, and you're trying to be cool, but you are frustrated because you know, it's one of those situation where you know you absolutely are innocent and nobody's right you can't.
Speaker 4: If you can't prove it immediately, then you're getting dragged off to wherever they want to bring you.
Speaker 2: And that, like I said, that was the only thing that saved me.
Speaker 3: I was like, look, just see if this has got junior connected to it, I said, because if if it doesn't have look at my I'm like, you are gonna hal I'm telling you, and I know you don't really believe me, but I'm telling you're getting ready to hold the wrong guy off. I was like, and I'm getting
ready to get paid, like for real, for real, because you know, at that point in time, I was already like, Okay, how does this turn into a cash opportunity for me?
So I'm being injustly arrested for something that one percent doesn't have anything to do with me. I'm gonna have
to be pulled out of my state, put on an airplane.
I'm gonna go sit in a cell over the weekend because you know they're not gonna get to you next week.
I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna get paid. Like I mean,
I'm like, you know you cause you're young. I was
like eighteen years old, and I'm like, let me.
Speaker 2: Figure this'n make you paid right right? Yeah? Cause you're mad,
like I said, but you're trying.
Speaker 3: It's the military police, so you're really trying to hold your composure, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So you're trying to be it's cool, but I know.
Speaker 3: I'm like, and they're, like I said, Their attitude was like, yeah, everybody says there, and so I'm like, no, like literally, let's just let's talk this through for you. Almost like
feel like you're please hear me. Hear me out for
a second. I'm being serious with you. But so a
license plate. Now take the story in advance forward. So
she's getting all these tickets on a license plate. It
isn't heard as the anti plate. There's this new thing
that I was looking to. People are like, this is
a great idea. You got to pay tolls and all
that kind of stuff, right, and everything electronic. Now they're like,
let me just go get because there's those companies where you can have plates made now and you have anything you want in any set of numbers, whatever, and they'll make you a plate. You could just have that plate made,
put it on your car, and that's what the toll is picking up, and you're just running through tolls all day long, you know, human license plate on it and they would never know if they ran your license plate, it'd run back.
Speaker 2: Is that being a ballot plate?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it won't bring up the car. That's the
only time you get caught as they started running it because.
Speaker 5: That was like your car exactly.
Speaker 3: Let's just say you're smart you decide to put it on your Impala because you know what you saw it on an Impolla is.
Speaker 2: In traffic. You see the plate, you just do.
Speaker 5: It's play a criminal charge right there.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's gotta be a huge fellow, I would imagine. Yeah,
that's fine. Documents you name and all kinds of stuff
like So I want. I don't like the color of
any of our plates here in this state, except for the antique plate.
Speaker 2: I do like it because it's black and white.
Speaker 3: Because it's black and white, I think it'll look good on the on the transamp. So what I'm thinking about
doing is there's this company. Now, if you guys haven't
seen them, they wrap your license plate.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that?
Speaker 3: They put a wrap on it, And I'm told technically you can still do that.
Speaker 2: It's legal. So I'm just.
Speaker 3: Gonna get irregular because you can't get antique. You can't
get a vanity antique tag.
Speaker 2: They don't. It's either antique tag or antiag.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna get a vanity tag made for the car and then just have it wrapped in the antique colors because it still legally a real plate. It just
will be in the right colors that look better on the car.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Well, I like to do is go ahead and do it silver and with the numbers red.
Speaker 3: But I think that'll stand up too much, becuse when I do it a color that already exists black and white probably won't be that big of a deal as well as I put my stickers on it.
Speaker 4: I think though, you can't defame.
Speaker 6: Do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm really not.
Speaker 5: I mean I think they're going to their word on the license well.
Speaker 2: The day and all that kind of stuff. I don't
think falls in the gray area.
Speaker 5: Lock the word with this. Like a lot of people
are riding around with the those little license plate holder things or like frame. You've seen the flippers and they
what are the flippers?
Speaker 2: You put in a.
Speaker 3: Different plate and you hit a button into your car and it changes the plate so when you get ready to go, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I've seen that, But people are doing the ones with like if you didn't know, you can get pulled over for having certain brackets covers the.
Speaker 3: Absolutely state name. I got pulled over. I got I
got So if you don't, I don't know what your guys state does. But if you have like a frame
holder and it blocks any portion of like the plate, they technically can pull you over for it because it is blocking a portion of the plate, which I think is I'm like, I got pulled over and it was a dealer the metal dealer plate around it that came with the car. And the guy pulled me over. He's like, oh,
your plate's being black. I was like, it's been on
the car for like four years to me that way, Well, you know story, I don't got a commercial break, do you guys?
Speaker 2: Remember we got pulled over.
Speaker 3: And they put the wrong license plates on my vehiclemember we got pulled by a state tape on the freeway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on the freeway with the boys in my truck.
Speaker 5: Wrong tags.
Speaker 3: So I'm driving on the freeway. Troop pulls me over
and he's like, you know why I pulled Jordan Date and I was like, I have no clue.
Speaker 2: He's like, step out.
Speaker 3: I step out and I go to the back and they got the wrong tags on my I just I never noticed they put the tags on it for me.
And then we go up front and he's like, let me show you up front. The tag was on upside down. Remember,
I was like, how does that even happen?
Speaker 5: I just now that was when he never noticed. He like, sir,
your back poates have both the same months.
Speaker 3: Right and month on the back the wrong tag month and month on the back date and date on the front.
The front tag was upside down. I was like, I
just bought the truck. I just didn't they put the
tags on. I never noticed.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what card porter did this?
Speaker 3: Like, I mean, he must have been really high when he put the plates on his video. I'm like, because
it was, and he's first I received State trooper actual chuckle.
He's like, you some of this stuff you just can't make up. I was like, obviously wasn't.
Speaker 2: So yeah, what don't me?
Speaker 3: So you guys guys say tag issues and stuff like that.
I want to suggest doing what these people are trying to do. But this interesting story that got sent to me,
and I know, let me take another quick comercial break when.
Speaker 2: I come back. We just talked about carports. I got
a carports story for you guys might want to hear.
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Speaker 2: Hice. Welcome back. So in the last segment kind of
touched the very end.
Speaker 3: We were talking about car porters and you know how they do obviously weird mistakes and stuff. Well, if you
guys don't know, and I've never really told this story, I told a little bit of one portion story.
Speaker 2: I was a car porter for a while, so.
Speaker 3: I somehow weaseled my way in to be a car porter.
If you don't know what car porter is, it's a guy takes care of all those seconds he puts the license plates out of They move cars around the lot.
They may move cars from dealership to dealership whatever.
Speaker 2: I got the job.
Speaker 3: I was sixteen and a half when I got the job, which was incredible to me that I got the job because I could never thought they'd ever get me insured at that age to be able to move around, because at the point in time I was moving around, you know, thirty forty thousand dollars cars.
Speaker 2: At the dealership.
Speaker 5: That's why I couldn't move around.
Speaker 3: Cholas, I said, you know, because I was I was young, and I was like, I don't know how they got insurance to ever cover me. Well, I think I told
you guys once before. So I worked at one of
the dealerships. I car porter job twice. By the way,
one of the dealerships I worked at, we had to move cars from dealership to dealership.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they I never figured out why.
Speaker 3: They just didn't. The truck didn't deliver the cars at
the other dealership, but the car would drop off mission bishies at our a lot. And we were four lot
and we owned a mission Bishy lot. So the mission
Bishies get dropped off at our lot and then we'd have to move with the mission bishies from the fore lock the mission Bishy lot across town check out.
Speaker 2: For taxes taxed.
Speaker 3: We did very little things like we didn't we just opened the trunk, make sure that the mats were in there, all that kind of stuff, like make sure that a lot of things like and you guys heard me to talk about the matt story. If anybody ever tells you
that you need to pay extra for the mats because they don't come with it, I'm gonna say that probably ninety nine point nine percent that's a lie.
Speaker 2: What happens is is the.
Speaker 3: Car dealerships take the mats out of the car when they come new, and then try to sell you the mats as an extra. The mats came with the car.
And I can tell you this still happens because when I bought the new camera, when the car got delivered to me after it came out of the PDI uh, it didn't have the mats in it.
Speaker 4: And you had dead asked me that. When I bought
my car too, he said, you got mats in your car.
Speaker 2: I did because I know they pulled that trick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he was like, these mounts and they gave me a mat.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So when I bought the camera, it didn't have matt and I'm like, hey, so I go back inside. I'm like,
where's the floor mats. He goes, Oh, don't come with
flor mats. You have to buy those. I was like, no, sir,
I said, the car comes with floor mats. And he's like, no, no, no.
I was like, it comes with floor mats. And you
wanted to argue with me, Well, I'm a little smarter than.
Speaker 4: Maybe not the version you're trying to give me.
Speaker 3: No, no, like, I'm a little smarter than the average bear.
But if you guys ever look at the cell the cell list and it's done right, it may not be listed with floor mats on it, but there'll be a code.
Speaker 2: It's like, you paid eighteen.
Speaker 3: Hundred dollars for this code that's on there, and it may not list everything, but let's just say that came that gave you upgraded AC and stuff like that. Is
with inside that a c updragrading package, stuff like that.
Maybe the floor mats.
Speaker 2: You just have to notice. Go online and look what
comes with that.
Speaker 4: Pack with a car organizer.
Speaker 3: They wanted like four hundred dollars something stupid for the mats for that car. And I'm like, it comes with
it now, I said, not only does it come with the floor mats, it comes with a big trunk mat too, that says Toyota and it goes in the trunk. He's like, no, sir,
you buy those extra. So I went, I stepped outside
so I didn't lose my TEMP, and I went, I pulled the codes and I came back in and I went, this is the car I bought. Here's the code I
paid for it. It's on my bill of laden. I'm like,
it came with mats. You guys took them out. I said, well,
you guys took the car back there for wash up and clean up. You all took all my stuff out.
I guarantee it. I said, I want every bit of it.
I said, oh, by the way, it also says they're supposed to have like a special Toyota bag and all kinds of it wasn't in the car.
Speaker 2: Let me get a like goodie bag. They take it.
Speaker 3: So they take the car around and I you know me, I'm nosy. I walk around in the pile of the dealership.
There is a pile of floor mats and all the perky little bags and cool little things.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they come in cars. Sometimes they come with hats,
all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: It's a pile they got just they're putting them in a corner, like taking everything and then selling you the stuff.
I'm like, you know, the hats are going on the shelf and they're selling them in the parts department, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, it's just it happens. Unfortunately, guys, that happened.
Speaker 5: So that's why I.
Speaker 3: And being a porter, I kind of already knew that we always had to check to make sure things there, Like they weren't doing it back then, Like they ate my shirt the car before transfer.
Speaker 5: Brand new car. I'm asking for a non PDI car.
It was rolling off the truck and I'm special things sometimes that come in the car and they don't put it on.
Speaker 2: They hang out like cards like welcome to the family car.
Speaker 3: You make me. It's the simplest thing, but it does happen.
So EX said, we had to transfer them over to the other dealership. And what brings us up is I
keep on hearing like these porter stories and stuff like that where people are running wild with people's cars, or they've got technician need to take of a test drive and they're you know, they're crashing people's cars and stuff, which I've happens a lot. And I started thinking about it.
I was like, I think I guys told you guys we were one of those guys. Like so, like, I
don't think I ever wanted my car whatever want my car porter anywhere. We had to move the cars, like
I said, one dealership to the other. Sometimes we had
nine to twelve cars we didn't move. So they would
get that we had a bunch of porters. They get
us all together and we'd move them over as a group.
What turned into a race. We would race those cars.
They're brand new cars and we would race those and I'm not suggesting to do this is certain stories I told you guys. They never told Maybe there's some reason
why I haven't told you guys, but poor stuff came up this week and I remember, and I'm like, we would when I mean we raced, I mean we raced.
Speaker 5: I can.
Speaker 3: Probably on one hand, maybe onto two, can count how many times I use a sidewalk to pass somebody because we're kids, and I start thinking about I'm like, they were letting us kids drive these expensive cars and we were driving. I'm like, like they were junkyard cars, you
know what I mean, like with no care in the world.
When we see him every day, they kind of feel that way, Like when I mean on a sidewalk, can you come up to like a light and lights getting ready turned green? You put two tires up on the
sidewalk and squeeze by them and get in front of them because you're racing. And I'm like, and then you
start thinking about it. Now as an adult, I think
about it and go. And we were selling those cars, right,
so that now when I hear these stories about people driving cars and dealerships, and I started thinking, I was like, oh, we did some really awful things with some cars back then.
Like I can tell you when the five zero Mustang was big, it was every reason you needed to move that car. And I mean as a port it was
every reason you need to move that car. And where
I was working at, I won't say what where I was at, but where I was working at had a huge mountain road behind us. I mean literally it was
a windy road. And we would take the new fib
ole Mustangs and just wring them out on that road.
And that was before drifting was a popular thing. But
we were steadily ringing those things out and they're new, I mean, and we put them right back in place, wipe all the wax them down whacks. They put them
back out there for sale. But you had access to
everything and nobody. And I was like, who, Who's I
know why they hired us because we were cheap labor.
I think I got paid two thirty seven an hour in here, right, But they hired us, all us young kids, and I mean young kids, And I'm like, this was this is a even then I kind of thought this was a really bad idea for.
Speaker 2: Them to hire us, Like so move forward.
Speaker 3: I think I told you guys, I ended up being a porter at an auction site out of Chicago, and I had access to really expensive cars. I drove more
Ferraris and Lamborghinis i drove in my life. At that
auction site. They dealt in high end cars. But I
think I told you guys they stored a lot of cars in these Plaine warehouses far from where the auction was actually happening. So we were running cars back out
of this warehouse and park them, and we had to come down an old abandoned runway area to come back down to where the actual auction was being held at right, So and we were you guys are drifting into the auction.
You're you're in at that point in time, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Laborghinis moving them, and we're driving them like we're on a racetrack, and no, like you could.
Speaker 2: I think I told you guys a little bit on the stories.
Speaker 3: There's no way you couldn't hear it because it was a good distance from building the building.
Speaker 2: And I'm not just me like I said, I'm not justifying this.
Speaker 3: I'm ringing them out like you have to hear the exhaust as I'm coming back down through the Gears show.
Well there's you know, by the time you get to the auction, you're still sick teen cars deep, right, there's still sixteen cars that you need to go through the auction.
Speaker 2: Zero then a line of sixteen.
Speaker 3: But as soon as they sell, we run them back out and park about there and we grabbed whatever's the next in line.
Speaker 2: But we dealt with a lot of high end cars.
There was a lot of Lamborghinis, there was.
Speaker 3: Ferraris, and I say that because that was just the two real popular cars back then.
Speaker 2: But there was a lot of Corvettes.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, Like they were probably letting you guys do that just so attract attention to that.
Speaker 3: No, there's no way to I can tell you right, I can tell you right now, if they if they ever would have really caught one of us, you probably would have been fired instantly. But once again, we were
all like kids, right, Like they hired all these kids.
I'm like, you were putting kids behind the wheel. Two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars car. You know, that is
like all of our walls, right, It's been on every wall that you know that that you know that we have just you know, since we were kids and you're letting them drive, what do you think is going to happen?
I mean, because you know, back then, Corvette was a real big staple, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, like they have a Corvette.
Speaker 3: It was a sign of you know, you had actually some extra bucks because they were expensive back then, and they're nice, and you know you're hit like a buck forty bucks, you know, buck thirty going down, you know this this run in a Corvette like it's nothing, you know what I mean, like and just enjoying yourself. And
of course I drove stick and most of the people I were kids, they didn't drive stick yet, so I was driving everything stick, which most sports cars are what stick?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you got the really nice one, so I always got to drive, and so I started like so arguing there. Yeah, as I see these stories come out
about people like you know, oh this happened, and they took my car for test driving, they crashed. Like I
just saw one where the.
Speaker 3: Guy had a hell Cat and he's doing like a one forty five on the freeway ras another car and I'm like, holy cow, im like and then I I said it click.
Speaker 2: I'm like I saw.
Speaker 5: One what was that guy once I saw one where it was a TikTok video. The guy was explaining this story,
car dealership called him to come pick his vehicle up.
Manager brought him in to sign all like the paperwork for the repairs and was like, hey, my tech needs to go take it.
Speaker 2: Out for I think it's one of the ones somebody sent me.
Speaker 5: And before the dealership knew, the guy received an alert from his car saying that it was in a crowd.
Did you see the one was like you might want to call your tech.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, yeah, he was like you.
Speaker 5: Might want to call your tech And he was like why And as he said why, the phone was ringing and it was are you okay? He was Tech was like,
I crossed the vehicle just to be fair, Just so you guys know, to be fair.
Speaker 3: I even when I when I worked at the dealership and I was always in the car business, I never took a customer's car and did anything crazy with it, honest engine just never never did it, like I just because I didn't want anybody to do.
Speaker 2: That to to well. I was in my car new
cars and cars.
Speaker 5: I was asking, well, his car was at the body shop.
I'm like, your car move yet you have value mode on your car?
Speaker 4: Do you have does have ballet mode? But it doesn't
restrat speed or the record though, doesn't course, Nope, it literally is literally just you know, a key. It doesn't
really prevent them from doing anything.
Speaker 3: Right, So just so you know, next time we drop a car off, Now that I put the fear of God in you. Yeah, unfortunately there was some bad things done.
Don't do it knock and down' It just a good storytelling the air, you guys will tell you when we were back, I got some more for you.
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Speaker 3: So I want to jump into something else that came up in conversation. And it's funny because if you guys
been following the news, I guess it kind of falls a little bit into some things are going on. So
we know there's going to be a lot of different import export changes and tariffs and all that different stuff.
And I'm not a big political person, so I don't get all those, but it got us to think and starting to ask a question. So, if you've ever dealt
with and I have, unfortunately, because it's a big pain in the butt trying to import parts from other countries and stuff, and it's it's a little bit of a hassle, okay, just to your.
Speaker 5: Fee sometimes in the pot, right, So it's not easy.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I've you know, I think I told you guys one time we were I found a part that I was looking for, but only place I can find it was Japan, and then the only way to get it was order like fifty at a time. So really, yeah,
I only needed one, but it was just so and I had to do what I need to do to get what I needed. Uh So I went and you know,
we we make sacrifices. But I learned a little bit
about importing stuff then and then I start thinking about it, and Nathanae and I were talking about it before the show that today, and I really think that. Okay, So
I spend a lot of time going to a lot of different countries. I've seen a lot of cool cars.
I see a lot of cool cars that they don't care about. They're in disrepair and they just do not care.
And if I had it here, people would be like, oh man, that's you know, that's really cool car and stuff.
I mean we're talking Porsches, Ferraris, you name it. You
saw countries, they just don't care about them. If you
go to Dubai, obviously they say the Lamborghinis lay around like you.
Speaker 2: Know, like Toyota cameras. Do you know what I mean?
So that people just don't.
Speaker 3: Care about I This is my book, Why can't we change some of the import stuff where we as long as we are individuals not corporations like that, can't import one car year with all without all the craziness that goes with it.
Speaker 4: You know, if you find a way to bring it to you.
Speaker 2: Over do it right, you've got to do it all, but that you make it happen, I don't you know if you put the time and effort to find it.
Speaker 3: You think about people like they're chopping the cars in half because then now they're considered parts and they get them here and then put back together. And by the way,
if you ever watched the videos where it's the other way around where people want American cars over innother countries, and you see the way that they take them apart and put them in these containers, then think what you.
Speaker 5: The engine out, all tires out, and they can't have axles in it.
Speaker 3: I don't think, I think look it up, but I think some some of it. I think you just have
to just chop it in half.
Speaker 5: And I remember when I was looking at doing a skyline because I thought about importing the skyline, perfect example, instead of cutting it in half. Because you know that's
one way. But they also talked about if you took
the engine out, the tires off, and you had to take that the axles out, so it wasn't a rolling.
Speaker 2: Back considered a further than that. Let me so.
Speaker 3: But I just don't, you know, as a private citizen, I think that we should change something where we just have the right to move one car here, like maybe it's one car every two years. I don't know what
it is, but you know, something that makes sense because you know I was telling I was like, you know, when I was you know, overseas and stuff like that, I ran across a lot of cool cars. Like I said,
they were just people there in disrepair and they're just sitting and I'm like, I could buy that and for probably next to nothing, if I could just find a way to get it back, it would be a really cool car to have here in America. That you know,
if I try to buy in America, it could probably be one hundred thousand dollars or more.
Speaker 4: You know, no matter if you do it yourself or someone else do, you're still paying that import tax. I
think if you did all the work, the labor yourself, you know, you flew over there, you picked up whatever you want to pick up you.
Speaker 3: Made the rangers have put it in a container whatever it may be, out of thing. If you just took
care of it, you should have the right. Even And
here's the thing, I'm like, even if there is services like, I should be able to use the service if I want to choose it without it being such craziest. I'm
not a corporation, you know what I mean. I'm not
I'm probably not trying. I know people are gonna say
we everybodys gonna try to do it for resale. I
have no interest in resale. I just want access of cars.
When I was in certain country, like I said, you know, I even saw really cool old American muscle cars in disrepair in other countries that they just had obviously no interest in fixing them.
Speaker 2: But if you.
Speaker 3: Brought like a true s that's camaro here, that's worth a bunch of money, and you probably there could buy for a couple thousand dollars because they just don't care, you know, I mean, they're just like, oh, it's been sitting here on the side of my house forever.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Like and I run into them.
Speaker 3: When the boys and I did some traveling, we ran and I took some pictures, so you go. We ran
in some pretty cool cars that were in disrepair that were just sitting around. We're like, man, if we only
we just take it with us.
Speaker 5: Because they just you could take run like that either.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, a lot of the ones we saw, and I saw some rusty ones. I think I took pictures
the ones that were up in the mountain side, remember that I found that would people like to have here, but they were getting pretty far a ground there up in the mountain side is the moisture and stuff.
Speaker 2: But I showed you guys.
Speaker 3: If you guys look and you go back, there's a picture of a Laborghani kit car that we found just in the middle of one of the islands that it was in disrepair.
Speaker 2: Not that anybody wants laborghiniy kit cart.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people that do, because when I posted, everybody asked me, where's this car sitting? Like, I got
more messages about that car because people like to buy them.
I'm like, well, you know, you can't probably spend a little bit of money to get get it over here.
And I don't know if it does a kit car count as a real car or you know what I mean, you know, can you move one of those?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but everybody really wanted to know where that car was at.
Speaker 3: And when I told him it was at the base of volcano, everybody thought I was kidding until show him the pictures where it was. We've literally found it sitting
at the base of a volcano. It wasn't active volcano,
but I mean it still could be at some point in time. The Acti volcano just I wasn't erupting at
that point time, but that's where it was. And I
spotted I think I told you guys the story. I
spotted the car from far far away. I knew what
it was. I saw like a little Dolly yell. I went, man,
that looks like a laborghine to get there. So I
talked to the guy and got a chance to talk to the owner in that one, and he did work on someone's boat and it was a trade, so he took the cars trade for work that he did on someone's boats. How had been sitting there for years, Like,
I don't know what I'm going to do with it.
He's like I thought I was going to do something with it. He's like, you want to take it with you.
He's like, I'll sell it to you for giv He's cool.
Speaker 2: Guys, just an old guy.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know what I mean, He's like, he's like, yeah.
I was like, I don't think it's going to fit my luggage. And you know, I don't know how, you know,
how do I make that work? But I mean, but
it was, it was there and it was complete the car.
I mean, it was a complete car. I had a motor,
had everything in it. But you know, what are you
gonna do? How are you gonna get it back?
Speaker 2: And it wasn't one of the the real crappy ones.
Speaker 3: It was actually one that was at one point time you could tell it had some some time energy put into it, right.
Speaker 2: And I run into a lot of stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So the GT forty kit card that I like, that Nathanael I talk about all the time, real popular overseas and you'll find them running around. You'll find a lot
of old Ferraris and cool cars like that just sitting in dis disrepair, you know the countries. You stumble across them.
And to me, being a car, maybe it's just because I'm a car, I'm like, man, check this out.
Speaker 2: This is so cool. Look how all this car has
been sitting, you know what I mean? And they don't.
Speaker 4: Care like I think it's the cool thing. You started
seeing the dust pile up a car looking up some of the information.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, you can take a shell and import it in, but they regulate against tires, break suspensions, basically like everything that makes the car, you know, But the shell you can import in. When it comes to the engine, yes,
you do have to fill out a form for the engine. However,
if you use one word and say it's a replacement engine, so there's yeah, there's loopholes around it looking like the replacement engine, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It goes through.
Speaker 5: Some some other regulations rather than if you say it's the engine for the cost.
Speaker 2: And I get on something.
Speaker 3: So I think I told you guys when I was in Germany, a lot of young sailors in military guys Army two and stuff like that. They had a lot
of nice portions that I mean, like here would cost a lot of money, and you got guys my age drive around these really nice probably told because they're really cheap there and they had them. Now, they all had
big hopes and dreams. I'm sure when they first got
involved shipping that car home to America.
Speaker 4: Right after their term.
Speaker 2: It's not that easy.
Speaker 3: Because the way they're built there is different than American standards, and they have to have more safety devices and stuff done, and it has to have they don't have the right reinforcements in them. Now there's companies that will do that
for you, but it's costly. It was costly back then.
I'm sure it's really costly now. That's the reason why
people ended up with them, because they had just changed hands.
They're like, okay, I'm leaving Germany. I'm gonna sell it
and I paid nothing for it, so I'm gonna just sell it for nothing nothing.
Speaker 2: And they changed hands a lot.
Speaker 3: But when I'm telling you, I mean they were really nice carreras and stuff like that whale Tail nine to eleven's, you name. I mean, just cool cars. Every I mean,
I think everybody drove a Mercedes. I mean at least
and of course they had Mercedes tricked out with nice wheels and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But there was a lot of guys who.
Speaker 3: Had the muscle cars and you know, and and stuff like that that they bought there. But they were never
like going to move them back to the States because I want to say, like just if I think I looked at it just the Porsche updates was almost like seven grand import taxes. Ye, well, no, I think at
that point, as long as you do them and they can pass.
Speaker 2: I think that because military.
Speaker 3: I think I told you guys military, if you don't know, you're not military, they'll move one car for you a year from overseas. So you could probably move one over
as long as it could pass all the inspection stuff, and maybe you could slide it through. I don't know,
but I probably wouldn't try it, because this just isn't worth the trouble get in trouble for it. But you know,
like my uncle he moved like a Mercedes like every year or whatever because he was in Germany for so long.
And then of course he brought the States and sold it because they were nothing there for the money he bought it for there for already sell it here was a big difference at the time, so he was capitalizing on that. No, it makes sense regularly, So I said,
I just I wish that, and I agree with Nithane because we were talking about it. I think we should
find a way to change that where we can bring one car, because man, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm going to Dubai like I'm just going as many things have been sent to me over the years, all these just exotics laying around brigattis and stuff that nobody cares about. And they're still they're just dusty. But they're
sitting in audi parking garages about.
Speaker 4: Say, imagine all the sand in nothing there?
Speaker 3: But once okay, so once again I don't care like I'm maybe I'm just unrealist.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I like the body cell on some of these cars.
I don't care if if the motor works, I'm gonna junk it and put something in it that's cool, it's fast, and if it blows up, it doesn't cost me a whole lot of money to fix it. I just like
the body soylum I don't care. Called me an on,
purist or whatever you may be, but is what it is?
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And then no, guys, I can't believe it's already know the show is gone by quick. I hope that you
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Enjoy you a weekend.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, we're out of here. We'll talk to
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