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Wish List Rides
About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds as the hosts share their dream car wish lists, sparked by the hypothetical scenario of winning a jackpot. Each host reveals their top picks, ranging from classic muscle cars to exotic supercars, while debating the practicality of owning such vehicles. The conversation shifts to the challenges of car ownership, including maintenance costs and insurance, and the nostalgia of car shows and magazines. The episode also touches on the decline of in-depth automotive knowledge among consumers and the impact of modern media on car culture.
Topics:
dream cars
muscle cars
supercars
car ownership costs
car shows
automotive knowledge
media impact on car culture
Cars:
Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Chevrolet Nova
Dodge Challenger
Ford Mustang
Porsche 911
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p hanging out with camera, Chaos and EBB. It is
a great day for a radio show. Hopefully your guys,
bather is holding not where you guys are at? And
you guys came out to a car show this weekending with today or tomorrow? But if not, hey, you got
you hang out with us, got some things to talk about.
You ready for it? Ready? I'm ready? How about you?
Are you ready?
Speaker 3: I'm ready as I can be.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm over here, messing with his computer. We'd
give me two seconds. I'll be ready. He's not a
bay attention to me.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So I kind of had an interesting one. I told
you guys. I go along with a lot of different forums,
talk about a lot of different things. All depends on
exactly what's going on in the week, what people decide they want to talk about. But I'll listen and then
i'll tag in and and give my opinion. So one
of the things I saw this week, and it's based on an article. I think that somebody referenced the article
to me. It was similar, but it was you know,
we talked about this. So if you had analyst money,
I guess, right, right, So what if you casino and you won one of the big jackpots? Okay, be nice, right,
be great? Right, Let's just say that you won I
don't know, let's say three million dollars at the casino.
Speaker 4: Okay, so really you want like one point three after taxes like it, it's.
Speaker 2: Probably gonna be like one point seven. But yeah, alright.
So and you decide you were use that money to buy a car. Okay, what car would you buy?
Speaker 4: I buy a pluck throwut cars more just muscle cars.
Speaker 2: So you wouldn't drive just one.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think I'd be that guy that gets like one of the hyper supercars just because I had one point three to kind of throw away.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what would you then cycle that into?
Speaker 4: What do you mean, like what kind of cars i'd buy or cycle like?
Speaker 2: What do you mean you said you'd buy more than one car?
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I buy a bunch of muscle cars, probably some imports, you know, more like thirty forty thousand dollars cars, maybe sixty thousand oard cars, and then you know, either build them up or restored and not have pibly like would you buy probably, well, if I have one point three after taxes, I'd probably spend six seven hundred thousand on cars and then keep the rest for property tax taxes and all that and upgrade that need be.
Speaker 2: Okay, seven cars? What are the cars?
Speaker 4: So probably a Camaro SS I'd probably get like you mm hmm, well, probably a seventy one something like that. Yeah,
it's like seventy one or seven. Okay, you know, the
like ninety six version, I believe you like ninety six ninety seven. Uh, and then maybe like you know, and
Paula just a bunch of like just you know, the skyline maybe because you just because you can like a R thirty two and then you know a couple other ones.
Speaker 2: What about you? I, I mean, I would go down
the rabbit hole. I wanted to, like, you know, Okay,
So I got I got to talking about this, and I was like, huh, I think I've always wanted a Coontagh. Okay,
So if it was just money just to spend, right, right, So you just get one car as much as I like your idea, because I kind of felt as I was talking about this when we having this conversation, as much as I I almost my idea is almost the same as your idea, right, Okay, So I just.
Speaker 4: Think about it when you need a kuntas right, the property tax on it alone, you just spent one point three and then you're you know, I don't know what the provay tax on that bad way is, but you know you're probably paying when I come. You know, it
depends you have, you know, property tax where you're at, right, you know you're probably paying an extra you know, four or five grand each year just to own that.
Speaker 2: I've always wanted one, like you guys know, I've talked about this. I always want one and that was my
biggest like rub with it, you guys hate it. That's
why I like replica cars because for what I want to do with one, I'd want to drive it, and I'd want to enjoy it, and i'd want to play with it. But I know what they call.
Speaker 4: You have the money, why would you get a replica you might as well get the authentic thing.
Speaker 2: Because because I like money and I don't know, and because I don't like to wait money. Okay, right, So
with the thought process of wasting money okay, the and knowing what I plan on doing with it, what I would want to do with it. Does that make sense?
So I would have a very hard probably time doing it to a real Coontash. Does that make sense? Yeah,
it's like because I know I know myself. Look, you
guys heard the stories enough that you listen to the show.
I like to wheel a car and I like to have fun with it. And you know, when you drive
them hard, things break, you tear things up, and you gotta be able to fix them. It's not like you're
gonna go run right out and fix a Coontash.
Speaker 4: It's just knocking to you're gonna be sourcing parts, probably spend a lot of money on those parts.
Speaker 2: That's the reason why replica cars I like them for that particular. I mean that it's a really bad Coontash
rep they call replica. It's not red. They're just a
kick car that kind of looks resembles it. It's nothing
like it I'm talking about. There are some real replicas
out there, and that's probably the reason why I want to own the replica. I would love to own a
real Coontash. If money was just no object all the time,
then yeah. But I know, so let's just read an article.
Guy's got two of them, really authentic or authentic, and he's got him in his house. It's a display their art.
Speaker 4: See, that's what I would do too. I think that's
really cool when people hang hold on, when they hang like f ones.
Speaker 2: In the in the kitchen, and you know, you got to know, I showed you.
Speaker 4: I think that's really cool.
Speaker 2: So you know, the theater that told me, he's like, man, I love to have an F one car like just hanging in my living room and stuff like that. And
I said, that's pretty cool. I wanted So I looked
and I found him one. It was twenty three It
was twenty three thousand dollars. I mean, you get a
professional to hang it, you know, you strip it all out.
It's just a chassis, but it's still it's a really cool art piece. Found I found. I found one. The
guy wanted twenty three grand for it. It didn't run,
and I asked what was wrong with it because we didn't really care. But the engine was all there and
it didn't look cool putting it up on a wall, you know, I mean all you it. It didn't have
a good paint job on it anymore. And I told him.
I was like, look, I said, we can go ahead and just have it wrapped and make great art. And
you know that's just what it would be. But it's
you know, it's like I said, it's one of those deals.
The fact that this guy had two coontashes, both his art and his house. I was just like, okay, got
money here that well, you're falling. I mean like right,
I mean I'd have to liquid everything I owned to be able to probably pull that off, to have cars his art, to coontash his art. But I mean I
could do it. I just wouldn't be able to have
anything else probably, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Even the movie The Tower Heist where he has the gold Ferrari sitting in his house. Correct like that I
think is cool.
Speaker 2: Too, you know. So I have a friend that I
know and he lived in Chicago and his dad had a a Porsche GT, one of the older versions. The
it's it called the slant nose. You guys, I'm not
a big Porsche guy, but you got I'm sure every you know what we're talking. It's like a slant nose Porsche,
like a nine to eleven maybe with the slant nose.
And he had his art. That's like he had it.
They had it parked like a pool table room, and it was there his art. Now they had a way
to get it, you know, it can come in and out of the building if they want to. But the
car just sat there, and I thought that, I mean, I thought that was bathering. That was years and years
and years ago, you know, I mean, I just I was like.
Speaker 3: That's that's one point three million on cars. If you
won what you would sell like.
Speaker 4: Three million, but you got like after taxes you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have like one point I'm buying my horse, I'm buying my Porsche GT three r s because that's one of my dream cars that you guys hear me talk about that all the time, talking about it. I'm probably buying
a six to nine Challenger Monte Carlo and I'm dropping it down to the floor.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So what is it with you and Monte Carlo's lower like like you talk about I think Mono like what like the eighties hour the seventies style.
Speaker 3: Probably the seventies style, okay, yeah, I'm probably the seventy style, and I would I would drop it down, you know, and putting like an old school datings?
Speaker 2: Are you putting on a newer style wheel?
Speaker 3: Just lower newer style wheels, you know, like probably existing because we can make this.
Speaker 2: Dream happen for you.
Speaker 5: I see old low riders all the time, Like all the time I see old low riders are like old Monty Carlos that are the prices aren't horrible on him and we got i mean like eleven grand and they got pretty decent pages on.
Speaker 3: Why vibes like ice cube vibes, you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah, you know I want.
Speaker 2: It lower down on the doesn't know it would be in the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 2: Not the money, Carl Camino.
Speaker 3: Maybe Okaya comina my fault.
Speaker 5: Two different.
Speaker 2: I was like two totally different cars here he said money.
I think he's thinking, because you saw the money, Carlo S. S.
El Camino, that's that's what you think. That's the reason
why I set them two together. And yeah, so it's
on the back and it's S. S. Money Carl on
the front. That's what is that? Guys?
Speaker 1: What you was?
Speaker 2: That? Was that eighty six eighty seven? I want to
say this is when they did that. I want to
say that was eighty six racing. Maybe a little newer,
somebody correct me wrong, but I think that's when they did that. The S. S money Carlo el Camino. I
think that was like an eighty six or seven month because it wasn't that like towards the that was the Iraq years, you know, like cameo, I rock years right in there or something like that. Yeah, so I am, yeah,
I knew you're gonna be looking it up. I don't know,
like I said, if I had the money.
Speaker 4: Nine to sixty and it was fifty nine to sixty nineteen sixty and then sixty four to ninety eighty seven.
Speaker 2: He's he's thinking like that. I know what he's looking.
He's not thinking the old one. He's seeking like the
eighty seven one. I know he is because I I
can different almost like what was your buddies they had.
They had the money Carlo. That was the s S
Monty Carlo for a while. So it's that flairing body
and then the bag. Yeah okay, yeaheah. But he had
the newer version he had like two no he no, you guys had a friend who had like an eighty seven money Carlo for a while.
Speaker 3: Like an eighty sixty.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, he's guys got like the SS treatment done to it. I knew what you were talking about
when you said it. I was like, all right, they're
not They would be fire.
Speaker 3: I mean they would drop it down to the floor, maybe put it on some bags, you know, hit the button just literally.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what he's got. The weird like sometimes
your taste like in cars like mystifies me. He comes
out of nowhere with something like there was like you were, you wouldn't know what R thirty two. For the longest time,
I wanted R thirty two.
Speaker 3: I want to also, I want to import in R thirty four because it justs he gets all his ideas from g T A.
Speaker 2: Is that what is that where he's getting them all?
Is it everything that you play in GTA And you're like, I want one of these for real?
Speaker 3: Maybe I mean, but sometimes I just see like the girl.
Speaker 2: Will come wins. Yeah, I remember out the window, Like
I mean, if I didn't buy, if I didn't like buy like a supercar, like a coup talk something like that, then yeah, I would break it apart and buy like seven or eight different cars because then you have the food just right right. Well yeah, I mean, but because
especially like but then I gotta get permission to make the garage even bigger.
Speaker 4: Well, no, you just use that money.
Speaker 2: You already have money, you buy you just buy another.
You guys are married, yet you don't realize just because you have the money doesn't mean you just get actually by.
Speaker 3: A hideaway garage.
Speaker 4: You buy a garage just like right up the street that nobody knows about. And that's collection he.
Speaker 2: Met the hideway girl. You guys haven't seen the garages
on the ground that lifts up and see the elevator talking what you're talking about. You guys haven't seen that.
Go look it up. It's actually pretty cool. I've been
admiring it for like fifteen years. When my first time
I said, it's very cool.
Speaker 4: Very it's right below your actual garage and Alexandy park it and then you have like an underground Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I No, you don't put an elevator because you don't want people knowing about it.
Speaker 2: The only guy has the gravel driveway and the gravels glued to the top of the to the top of the lid and yeah, yeah, it lifts up with the gravel and he pulls in so it looks like it's a gravel driveway.
Speaker 4: Definitely got some money to do that. Well, look put.
Speaker 5: Some stor.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 2: If money was endless for you guys, what would you guys by? Like I said, I mean, I would like
I said, as much as I'd love to have it.
And here's another car I like to have too. I
like to have the Vector too, the Vector twos, I thought, Okay, like I that was one of the cars I grew up on was a kid, I don't know what the price tag is on and there's not a lot of those running around anymore. Like they I don't think they
made a whole lot of anyway. I think they made
very limited, limited limited production of those I've only seen.
I think I think I told you guys, I think I've only seen like two in real life, So I don't I don't think they made a lot. I think
it probably had a lesser run than Dorian ever had.
But they're a cool car, and I had one on my wall when I was a kid, so I just think it's kind of cool. I think it's what the
Vector two w D I think is what it's actually called, as one of the models they had. But if you've
never seen one, go look at most of you guys know what I'm talk about. It's pretty cool looking car.
But yeah, how many they make, Cameron, so you look it up? How many Vector two's did they make? Do do? Dude?
I'm curious. I want to say less than around fifty? Yeah,
fifty cars, that's it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Vector supercar. Yeah, they're they're ninety eighties and nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: Like I said, they were a cool car. I like
to have the what the Dodge Banshee I think is it was called that?
Speaker 6: Was there?
Speaker 2: A little supercar thing that they made for the movie.
Speaker 4: I also think the three thousand is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yes, here's the thing. I went mine old
three thousand, mister v GT. And I know everybody wants
the the all wheel drive model because it's you know, obviously, But if I want it, I want to play with it, like I want to be able to like drift it and have some fun with it. And if you have
four wheel drive model, you you know, you know you're not are the all wheel drivers? Just say but all
we will drive model. You're not doing that. But something
point he's not bad on those and soup up the motor on those things and making them stupid crazy is not really hard either, but you got to do a lot of work. Don't make it dependable. I had a
friend that messed around with Mischion Bishi for years and he had at five. It's not bad, they're not bad.
The price points aren't bad. But he had a really
nasty mission Bishi Eclipse. It was just insane. He did
a lot of motor work to it.
Speaker 4: That's when back in the day when he did like a supercar for not really that.
Speaker 2: Much, well it was a lot of money then.
Speaker 4: Now yeah, yeah, but it's not like now we're like, you know, they're charging you know, one hundred and thirty two hundred thousand for you to look it up a hypercars if.
Speaker 3: Also have three million. I'm buying a Ferrari to fifty
GT because from you're from Zieler.
Speaker 2: Like I said, what would you guys do? Endless money?
Well cars, you bob, I'm curious. Send me some messages,
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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. Did you miss us? We're back?
That's right, So I got the next one for you?
Speaker 4: Ready, I'm ready? What you got?
Speaker 2: All right? You and I were talking about this off
the air, and then I went and did my little magic and looked online and looked to see what a little magic one saw. Everybody was talking about it stuff,
and it does make sense. So Nathaniel, I were talking
about when you buy a car nowadays, So I guess, do people really do their research?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 2: When you guys go to buy a car, are you guys researching that car? Statistics show that people don't. They're
not researching any cars anymore. When I happen to that
is they're not, you know, they just they just go to the dealership and they just show up and they see a car they like, and they drive it and they like it. Before you know what, they're making a
deal on it. It's go back twenty years, probably a
little bit longer. That even more is when people really
used to do complete research on the car before they went and bought it.
Speaker 4: Like what you think he had a better way of you know, customizing the car to your liking. Everything was
you know, checkbox this checkbox that I.
Speaker 2: Won't say it was a better way of customers. And
I understand what you're trying say. I'm trying to find
a better way to communicate that you had options, okay, and the options didn't come like they do now, so you could essentially build a car ground up one piece of a time. I want to add this, I want this,
I don't want that. I want roll up windows, I
want power windows. Even before power windows probably came around
as normal, and we talked about that before, like you could add all this stuff. Now, if you want this
one feature, you got to buy nineteen other things to come with it in that package. You may not want
all that stuff. Like. So the question that got posed
to me was do people really think about engines in their cars? And that's what Nathaniel right Arcole came out about.
Speaker 4: How come meanies are saying that consumers don't really care about engines anymore or you know, internal combustions.
Speaker 2: Right, And I said, I think they do, but I think they only do when they have a problem. Right.
So I think the only time that people I've told you that before, just cars in general. I think people
really truly think about everything on a car. And I'm
gonna talking about your car, guys that eat, sleep, and breathe it like we do, right, I'm talking about the average person who has a car. I don't think they
think about engine displacement size or any you know what transmissions in that they don't do any of that research.
What I mean by that is does that car have a good history of that transmission? Does that car have
a good history with that motor. They don't realize that
they may have something they didn't really want until it's too late. They own it, they've had a problem, and
then when they jump online they find out that that particular car has a really bad history with the transmission, has really bad history with the motor. It has all
these problems. If you go to consumer report, which people
used to do all the time. I literally remember when
I was younger, but I remember the circle of conversations and more probably with my parents it's friends, where they would talk about consumer report, talking about this particular car, like they got this report on it, here's the things and stuff like that. Uh, you don't hear that anymore,
Like you just don't hear I don't. I don't hear
anybody talking about well, consumer but I think it says this about a car.
Speaker 4: But I think that's from you know, the manufacturer's doing of not advertising you know part it right. I don't
think they're leaning into it as much as they did back then. You know, back then, you know you had
car magazines that you know, noted every little part they gave you. You know, the scrige in people reading magazines
like right exactly, but you know they don't have the overview that you know you had probably back then of it as well as you know, like we were talking about during commercial break, how you know back in the day, you could select boxes. You could get the base trim
and still right, and you could get the basic option where now it's packaged into.
Speaker 2: And what he means by that is you could buy the base car, but you could put the best motor they had available in it. You can't do that now,
Like that's not now. It's like you have to buy
the high end one to get the best motor versus having I got the base model, but I want the nicest motor that you have, and you compare those together, and that was an option that's not really an option.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I was reading, like, you know, you could get the better enginey for like one thousand and three thousand dollars more, but nowadays you're spending you know, seven to twenty k on the better performance car of all that other crap, right, all the other stuff that you probably don't need, but you have to have it to get what you're looking for, right, Like, So I think it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of like you can't buy like the base Mustang and get the best motor they have available in it unless you buy the GT model with everything in right right or a handbrake makes sense.
Speaker 4: So I think they put theirselves in that conundrum of where people aren't really viewing it that way because they don't have the option to really get to the knit and grill.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like, so I can remember one of the biggest conversations we had back in when I was very heavily in the car business. Certain models have problems. Everybody knows.
I mean, it's a lot of you car guys. You
guys know, but the average customer has no idea what they're driving. Like, they don't know, did I buy a
vehicle that has, you know, a really bad motoring it or it has a really bad transmission. They have no
clue until they have the problem. And then I'm like, oh,
you're driving a what Oh please tell me he doesn't have insert this motor model here, And they're like, oh, I don't know, I have no idea, And then of course you look and you're like, you do have it, and it's the motor has a problem. Like if you
had a three seven on a Dodge is a three seven they had the oil that has the oiling container problem.
Every single one of them where the oil filter, cooler housing and all that kind of stuff came apart. Every
single one did it. They still do it to this date,
you know what I mean, most people have no clue.
But it's like a fourteen hundred dollars fix if you do it right, you know. I mean, they're like and
people are just they had back moving into our parents generation, they knew all that stuff, like they did all that research and knew the history of what cars had those certain issues. And I remember it being just normal talk
around the table. And it wasn't just at our house
because I grew up in a car house, but I could go to my friend's house up the street and his parents weren't car people. But I can remember as
the adults sat around the table when they had conversations, they talked about like particular vehicles there if they're thinking about buying a new car, and they're like oh, well, yeah, we want to get this one, but we definitely don't want this. And you know, I mean I knew because
the information was out there and it was handed down to it was now. I laughed because cameras over there
shaking a sad about people not read magazines, because Cameron grew up at the tail end of when I still read magazines.
Speaker 4: Hundreds of magazines I had.
Speaker 2: I'm a car guy, and they.
Speaker 4: Before such an internet was so easy.
Speaker 2: I had tons and tons of magazines when they were smaller than I ask it. I literally I had all
the different ones, you name it. I had it, from
hot rod stuff to just regular car information stuff. I
was but I'm a car guy and I read that stuff, and there was always in the bathroom tell them.
Speaker 3: But I feel like that was like you know, like the thing on the diron table too, or on the living room table.
Speaker 4: And that's part of the thing though. Back you know,
like you know, you didn't phones were you know, the Internet wasn't really accessible to the point where like you know, you know, people are using all the time.
Speaker 2: Because you guys grew up just as the smartphone came right, so you know, of course, you know why you're there.
You know, you're reading a magazine whatever. Now I I
read everything, like so I do. I still have magazines,
guys on my phone, just so you know, but their magazines are on my phone, like I.
Speaker 4: Read way too, because a lot of people aren't reading.
And then I do.
Speaker 2: I still like you see me every week usually you'll find me and I'm reading some article somewhere off of but with what's left. But some of the best ones
are gone there.
Speaker 4: Right that they're still in depth as much as they were before.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Now it's the I call them quick reads,
like right, so quick summary is yeah. I look at
a magazine and I could read all different articles and it was great. You know, usually two or three page
write ups on a car. Now it's like quarter of
a page, half a page, little blurbs about cars. And
that's It's not what it used to be. And maybe
people I think focus. I don't think we stay as
focus we used to. We're so into our phones and stuff.
I don't think people's attention span is held like it used to be. And if you think I'm kidding, if
you take a look, you guys know the new shorts, that's a new thing. So TV shows are now going
to be like they're a little fifteen minutes shorts. That's it.
I don't like just shorts. They're gonna do that because
they say people's attention span on it is shorter. So
if we can't get through a half hour sitcom anymore, or an hour long was the mini mini movie, cicons whatever you're going, I don't what they call it, but and we gotta go to fifteen minutes. You think somebody
really is gonna sit down and read a magazine cover to cover like I used to do. I probably And
here's the thing. So I was just traveling and I
was going through the and I saw a car magazine.
I almost grabbed it, and I was just like, I'm gonna buy this and I'm not gonna read it. I'm
still gonna play it. I know, I'm gona mess around
on my phone because I was I was like, what a four hour flight or whatever it was, and I was like, I know, I'm not gonna read that magazine.
And I thought I would, but I talked myself out of buying it because I was like, well, I probably could just read it up the stuff on my phone, you know what I mean? And so I do believe
that that error has gone away. But like I remember,
like the car magazines you can build your own go karts in the back and stuff like that, like all the pieces and stuff like that. That air is coming
gone and kids will never know that. My kids came
at the tail end of that. How about that.
Speaker 3: I remember a magazine they used to have a section for the kids where it was like you do like a little maze hunt where you do like a little coloring, and then you could send it in and they would to send Yeah, so I was the car one.
Speaker 4: Of the car magazines, if the car show, but you know they used to there was a car show we used to watch where you know, they would actually take a car, tear it all down and build it with you know, high performance parts. And then they during the
commercials or they're you know, the little screen ads, they would show you the parts that you could buy and where to get them.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: No, they that show is no longer on anymore. I
can't rerun name, but yeah, I try to look it.
I couldn't find it. It's I can't rename. But you
guys watch with them when you guys are smaller, and I can't remember what the show, But yeah, they basically it was. It was the longest infomercial ever. It was
like they were working on the car, but it was basically just a big, one, big.
Speaker 4: Car ad, you know, and the girl comes on and you know, she's describing the car. Were the shop at
I can't remember that show. No, that wasn't Roadkilled was
on Motor Trend. Well wrote, well, it wasn't, but they play.
I think it went over to Motor Trend later on.
It wasn't an original on more Trend because more Trend TV wasn't around back then when you guys were when you guys watching that stuff with me.
Speaker 2: Was it T and T maybe or something like that.
They had it on on Saturdays or Sundays, Guys, remind me which one it was. It was way was one
of those channels that did the car stuff in the morning and you watched all of it, and they used to sit down and watch all of it with me.
And then usually by that time after came with lunchtime, and then we switched over to playing car games on video right, playing video game car games.
Speaker 4: But I feel like that's why, you know, people aren't really interested anymore because we've kind of gotten away with really deep diving and giving the information out, and we've kind of packaged everything up so you don't have to really know what you're looking.
Speaker 2: It's amazing to me how many people don't know, like twenty years back history of what vehicles have had problems, and they keep on having the same problem. When you
say to somebody, they're like, oh, I never knew that, And I'm like, we're I'm to me, I'm like, where have you been for twenty years? Like we For instance,
you guys do know I'm a Chevy guy through and I love my Chevy trucks. I tell you, guys, but
I know I can tell you if you own a Chevy truck, you're gonna put a transmission one why you own it? And he there's people like have never heard that?
They're like really, I'm like, yes, yes, If you own a Chevy truck, you're putting a transmission. If you own
a Ford truck, you're putting a transmission. If you own
a Dodge truck, guess what you're putting a transmission. For
some cars, it depends on the years.
Speaker 4: Like you know, they tell you, they tell you to stay away from these years because you know, they haven't fixed the problems almost like you know, we're going.
Speaker 2: Well, they do, but they just make it's the same problem.
They just make it worse a.
Speaker 4: Lot, right, or they fix it like you know, Like example is like the three fifty you know, had a really bad oil consumption and the I think what the VQ is where I think the comes in, you know, two thousand and three fives and then they came out with the HR model that kind of fixed it.
Speaker 2: Well. So I'll give you an example. If you had
a four hundred, If you had three fifty four hundred transmission essentially kind of basically the same thing. Then you
had the seven hundred, seven hundred R. So seven hundred
R and an L and four L sixty are exactly basically the same transmission. There's a couple of different slight differences,
but they're essentially the same transmission. Then you had the
four L sixty E and the four L sixty eve was you got rid of the cable on it, so then it became electronics. Everything was adjusted. If you guys
remember the seven hundred and the four L sixty everything was cable driven. If you didn't adjust the cable correctly,
it burnt the transmission up. You can take a brand
new transmission and burn a brand new transmission up. But
a lot of people don't even know the history of those transmissions and how bad they really were. I gotta
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Speaker 2: So before we took commercial break, we were talking about all the okay, so the old car shows, and we were talking about how they're I think that's what led people into caring maybe a little bit more about like what they were pursuing, what they were buying, have been more informed on what they were buying. And we were
trying to remember some of the name of the shows that they watched with me when you were younger. We
figured it out why we're on commercial breaks. So the
one that the big one that Nathaniel and camer we're talking about was Power Nation. So if you guys remember
Power Nation, and it was I felt like for me it was a very large information uh infomercial because but I get it, because they would like, we're gonna these are the parts. They lay all the parts on the
table and they tell you what it was. And what
they did and what the benefit of having, and then they would show and put it. They would take you
all the way through putting it on the car, but they take you through.
Speaker 4: Right, it wasn't It wasn't a glamor right.
Speaker 2: Right, right?
Speaker 3: It was, So they kind of that, and they would show you parts as well, but then go, we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Use this because of this. You know another one in
which I think is basically the same show, and I think it just changed names. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong,
but you had a hot Rod TV because I think that had Joe Elmore Elmore in it too. I think
I think he was in that show too, Okay, but I think it was kind of the same show. And
then things changed around. I was telling them one of
the ones we used to watch all the time, I liked a garage squad, and then I liked it. So
I realized that they only did cars like an Illinois. Like.
I could never figet why they were always like as they're driving headed to the customer's house, they were always in cornfields. And then I did some research and I
was like, like every place they go was like an Illinois.
Maybe they went to Indiana, but they were right in that area, and they stayed in just in that general area, and I don't know why they didn't traveling for maybe budget costs for the show or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: And I think those shows were good because they're not They weren't glamorized like you said. They were more information show.
Speaker 2: They were they kind of walked you through some things.
I mean, I can tell you that there's some shows I watched I feel like I learned nothing because they just gloss over the repair real quick and they didn't really show it. And there was ones that kind of
looked a little bit more time to kind of take you none of them. It's not like watching YouTube nowadays.
The best thing about YouTube to be really honest with you for me is and I'm not a big YouTube person to be honest with you guys. I know there's
a lot of you guys out there that are. But
if I'm trying to figure out something I want to do to a car, especially like in the hot rotting world and muscle cars and stuff like that, somebody's already probably done it and filmed it and put it on YouTube.
Speaker 4: And I want to show all the struggles that you went through, so I know I'm not the only one going through this struggle.
Speaker 2: When I do find a YouTube video, I do kind of go through it really really quick to see if it's going to walk me through some of the stuff, or if it's a guy that does more talking than then he does showing, and that's annoying. It's gives me
more stuff that doesn't But a lot of guys have gotten better with that over the years. They literally walk
you through, you know, bit by bit right, and even if they miss something, you can kind of figure that stuff out. But that's what I That's why I like
YouTube because I go to it and I don't I'm not going to it for like, uh, your regular everyday car repair. But when I'm like working on like something
and I want to customize something, I'm like, Okay, I know I want to take the stock gas tank and I want to visual yeah, I'm like, okay, I know I want to put a bigger fuel pump system, and then I need to have bigger lines and okay, what's the route. Do I just buy it or has somebody
taken this and modified it. I go on YouTube and
I look and I'm like, oh, look, someone's already done exactly what I was seeing about doing Okay, what was what were the struggles he ran into trying to make that happen. That's what's great about it. We didn't have that,
you know, twenty years ago.
Speaker 4: Right, they dropped it in. They show the struggles or
I always.
Speaker 2: Hey when I watch and now we're buttoning it up, and I'm like, right, it's not that easy. I'm like, no, no,
you're not. Like I know, there's like nine hours off
camera of you guys struggling with that thing. You didn't
show me. You used to drive me nuts, But especially
when I was generally interested in what they were doing, I was like, Oh, this is gonna be cool. And
they have it on the table and they talk about it, and then like two minutes later, it's in the car and they're like just tightening up the last ball, and I'm like, come on, now. Now, there's a show and
I won't say the name of it that does a lot of that now and I can't watch it, but I do like one of the guys that I'll you guys be probably figured it out. I like one of
the guys that's in the show because he's been in a bunch of other shows working on cars, but now he's on the show with a different host, and uh, they spend more time just kind of messing around. And
I think that show has now probably been canceled since you know all that most of all the car shows are done.
Speaker 4: You know, I think for you know, people that don't really care about the deep dive of it, but for those that are really interested into the build.
Speaker 2: And I say and I say that, So there's a lot of people who watch car shows as background I call it background noise. It's on and they kind of
glance up a little bit and the car and they're messing with their phone. They're like, oh, yeah, let's kind
of have a neat car. And then there's guys who like,
look at watch it like I do, and I'm dissecting and going, man, I like the mod they did. How
did they accomplish that? And then they don't tell me,
and I'm frustrated. And then I find myself online going like,
is there is this car online somewhere where it shows this car closer and there's a video or something like that.
I figure how they how they accomplish that?
Speaker 4: Because you see yourself doing that particular mod or whatever.
Speaker 2: Road. So I'm uh somewhat interested in under under the
hood body panels where you know, you decorative to cover up the motor and stuff like that, and I would really like to teach myself how to do that more, but I haven't found enough information out there for me to feel comfortable for me to go buy the tools and put them in my garage to have a roller and a metal shrinker and all the different things that you I mean, there's some people out here don't do it and probably know a lot more than I do, but I'm just kind of starting to dabble and look to see what's out there to have. But you know,
like they got the metal hammer and stuff like that, Like I want mind owning some of that stuff, but no one's ever taught me that, and I don't. I
don't know it, nor have I ever watched anybody to a full extent do it live in front of me to understand everything that goes into that. I like the
outcome when I see it, and I realized for me to achieve that, I'll probably have to pay somebody to do that for me. But I do have some interest
in doing myself. So you know, I told you guys,
you've got a Chevy pickup truck. They're gonna be doing
next as soon as white Noise comes out. And there's
some customs stuff that needs to be done to to bring that truck to the stands and stuff I want, So they probably change the wheel wales and stuff like that, so custom wheel weels need to be made and all that kind of stuff. I have the interest in wanting
to do that myself, but I don't own any of that equipment. I don't own any of those tools, and
I don't know anybody that owns an English wheel or anything like right, I don't know those and it's not worth I know we're going to find I know who I know who in the industry in our area that it probably has that stuff. But at that point in time,
you're gonna pay him to do it. I don't know.
But I do have interest in kind of maybe knowing how to do that. But then I start thinking about it,
I really want to take up a section of my garage to have to house all those tools to be able to do that, And usually the answer for me is in the boys to tell you is no, I don't like clutter. I don't do very well with clutter
in my garage.
Speaker 4: Especially, you're only going to use it like one.
Speaker 2: That could build a wing that was just dedicated to doing that, so it didn't clutter my garage because I'm just weird like that. I don't They'll tell you, I
don't like things laying all over my benches for long periods of time, stuff like that. I just I like
a nice, clean work environment in a garage and it drives me nuts. So that's probably reasonhy.
Speaker 4: I always what you always do is get a little extension, put it on the back, and then just cut a hole of the wall.
Speaker 2: And I have a little wall cut through the custom wall and you know the nice wood.
Speaker 4: Well, you can't be a beggar Innes.
Speaker 2: Apparently you can be. And if I didn't tell you guys,
I kind of already got the green light to add an extension of the garage. But that's just so uh,
tractors and stuff going to that extension. And if I
have a project car I can't get to right this second, it could be squeezed into that back portion of the garage and sit there underneath the cover and it would be you know, mass a cover.
Speaker 4: We're talking about a whole another.
Speaker 2: You know, like maybe maybe we need a storage room, you know, where we just store all our partner's not helping me, buddy, Like I already like envisioned doing all those things and having all those things. But you know
I have I do have a wife that you know, you can.
Speaker 4: Only parts room and a little coverall.
Speaker 2: If they're gonna get me in trouble and Don's gonna like just want to fry me for sure, I know it's covering. Karon's over there, shake his head going up,
or like we know, like we talked about, you just get it. You know, you get a side garage, you know,
you just you know, we got enough room to put another garage out there. I just don't think I want
to put it if I want to do anything. Honestly,
when we built the megagage, and the megarage is big, it's a big space. I originally I think I told
you guys, was gonna put like another probably like sixty feet onto the gird originally, and I talked myself out of doing it because I was afraid that it would look too big and too gaudy out here in the property with the house and everything like that. But now
I own everything. I really should have did it, Yeah,
because something that retail space is used up for storage, or we could fit quite a few cars in the megagarage the way they park and stuff like that, and still work on things and stuff like that. The problem
with it is is, as you guys know and listen to me talk, I like to drag things home. It's
like lost animals, except for me. It's with cars. I
see cars and I go, well, no one's touching that, and it really needs to go home with me. The
problem with this, I don't first forgive this. I don't
like things in my driveway. If I never told you
guys that I hate vehicles in my driveway, I don't want anybody know really what I'm up to or what I got sitting around that I'm getting ready to work on.
I don't like the look. Even though we're I'm big
pieces of property. You know, you still do have neighbors
that they really want to look down your driveway or look over from their propit. They can see it. And
I don't like things laying around on my drive I just never like that look. I didn't like it when
I had a smaller house, we had the four car garage beyond the house. The one thing I like about
that house was is you couldn't see anything we were working on because the garage was behind the house and the driveway went up past the house and round to the back to the garage, so no one ever knew that when Nathaniel had his car completely blown into a million pieces, nobody knew it was back there, all torn apart what he was working on because it was hidden in the street. And I like that option. Here we're big,
open pieces of property and nobody's right on top of each other. But I still just don't like having cars
torn apart in nice drop a car off and let it sit there without having to move. So my thought
process is with putting the extension on the garage, which, like I said, my wife's pretty much already green light of that, thanks Don. But that's going to be so
like I said, well, you know, we got big tractors and stuff that we need a house, and I want to put the tractors back there, And like I said, I think realistically I might be able to squeeze two project cars back in there if I if I needed to.
Parts room would make a big is going to be for.
Speaker 3: The sled, so we can we can get.
Speaker 2: So and we do have a regular garage connect to the house, but that's supposed to be for my wife's car.
But in all fairness, my wife had me build a very large Christmas sleigh, Santa Sleigh. It's as big as
a car, and it takes up one of the car spots in the regular garage for right this second. So
at some point in time when we build the extension.
The way I got away with kind of getting away with building extension was, you know, I could take the sleigh out and put it in the extension garage and then you could have your full garage back again. So
but look, I didn't ask if somebody asked me to build it, but I refuse to house it in my garage.
That tells you how much I if you guys can't figuret how much I don't like clutter and the garage.
I won't let the sleigh sit in my in the mega garage because it is as big as a car, and yeah, I don't want to stare at it. I
like a clean garage. So the deal was it had
to go in the other garage, so it takes up one car spot in the other ground you see it, Yeah, you won't have to see it. If so, hopefully we'll
get done. I'm not gonna build anything really big. I
think I'm probably over going to go probably twenty foot out more. I think that'd be enough for what I
need to do. And I'm gonna put a little pad
on the front, so if I did want to park something, they could be on the pad in front of that ground.
It'll be back behind it. You would never see it
because it's out there on the backside of the garage.
So that's the plan. Somebody was asking me about what
was going on with Megarach, could we talk about before?
So yeah, think that's gonnaen up happening. You just gotta
get it all done. I gotta take another commercial break. Guys.
When we come back, I got just a little bit more for you, one more segment. Hold time, right back.
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Speaker 2: All right, So I'm gonna pose you guys to question because it was given to me. Here's some of you
probably aren't gonna like this, but it comes up by some videos that were sent to me, and I'm just curious.
So we know there's a lot of crazy stuff going on out in the news. And you guys know I'm
not a big political person. Even in my political least,
I don't really carry into this show. Just don't like
doing it. I know people have tried to bait me
into doing it for years and I just refuse to do it. But it brings up an interesting question. Lately.
If you've been watching the news, you see there's a lot of different protests going on, and some people call them peaceful protests, some people call them non peaceful protests.
I'm not going to debate that with you. What I
am going to debate with you is the whole issue of blocking roads. Okay, where people are blocking off the road.
And I know you guys have seen it. You have
to be sleeping on anything the rock if you haven't seen it's been not the first time it's happened, It's been going on for years, and you're getting the situation where people are getting run over. I have had tons
of videos people have sent to me and they're like, what do you think about the situation? What would you do?
How would you have handled it? Would you've handled it different?
And like I said, I'm not easily baited into these conversations, but I think it does open up a little little conversation piece. Right. So I saw one the other day
that was sent to me and the person sitting there and they start beating on the car and then here's what you sound like, is the window busting as soon as the window bust, the guy takes off and he hits some people. I don't think I didn't hear boy
I'm killing anybody, But obviously you could see he hit some people. He probably ran over a leg or two. Whatever.
I mean, you know, not saying that, not justifying it.
I'm just saying I keep giving these videos sent to me, and it keeps happy, and I see people. I saw
another one where a lady jumped out in front of car and she's got her hand in the car and she's walking with a car, and before you know it, the car kind of bumped her and she went flying this way and he took off, kept on going, and people are like, oh, I cannot believe that guy hit him.
And I'm looking at it, going, Okay, I understand where you' come from, but I can't believe you were dumb enough to stand out in front of a car that was moving that you made stop, and then you decided to do harmed that person's property and thought that there'd be no repercussion for so and how did we get to that point? How do we get the point where
you think there's no repercussion now? So I started thinking
about it, and what brought it up a conversation a little bit more in detail was what if you were heading home from a car show and you're driving one of your prize possessions and you get caught up in that and these people start beating on your prize possession.
What do you think the reactions. I know what my
reaction would be. You're not gonna like it, but I
can tell you what my reaction would be, so I get what people are coming from. I saw the one
that somebody sent me, a guy named a Chad. He
sent me a video and then I ended up seeing it on the news too after he sent me. But
it was a woman trying to get to work and they blocked it and she's literally trying to like I won't say she's negotiating with him. She just explains, like
to get to work right, and then you and giving her a hard time and stuff like that, and she was just trying to get to work and the frustration.
I felt her frustration in the video as I watched it, and I think I got a little bit longer pro portion of it than what I saw in the news, so it's more the full detailed of it and nowhere do I ever see that she's out of hand. She's
just she's like, I got to get to work. This
is ridiculous. You know, Look, you have all the right
in the world to do what you're what you're doing, but like traffic needs to move on. When did we
just believe it was okay to jump out on the freeway or jump out in front of roads and stop cars And never think, first of all, if I'm driving fifty five miles an hour down the freeway and you jump out in front of me to try to stop me in some fashion or protest or whatever, there's probably a good chance I'm not getting my car stopped enough to keep from hitting you. Right, But let's just say
that I was lucky enough to get my car stopped and then you start beating on my car. What is
I'm posing the question, you guys, is what is the appropriate reaction? Yeah? What what is the What's what's the
approper reaction?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's a little touchy subject.
Speaker 2: I think it's very toughy sug we want to talk about.
Speaker 4: It depends on the circumstances of you know, if it's a open road that hasn't been blocked off and we're talking about road, right, and someone you know is intervening with you, and you're trying to you know, obviously you can't sometimes back up and go a different way back trying to take whatever right. So I think that you know,
at a certain point, you know, I get they're trying to push their message, but you almost have to let them through so they can get I mean, honestly, you're you're in an unauthorized area.
Speaker 2: So I'll set it up for you a little bit easier because it is. Look, I debated if we were
going to talk about this. To be really honest with you,
I truly debated if I was going to talk about it, because, like I said, I feel like people try to bait me into these conversations. Sometimes it can be taken different ways. Right,
But you're driving down a road. Let's just say you're
going down pick whatever road it is in your neighborhood, and I'm just saying it's a regor road that takes you buy coals, or takes you by the mall or whatever it is in your town that's popular, and it takes you and you're just driving and before you know it, twenty people step off the sidewalk in front of right before you get to them, and they block the road with signs and stuff like that, right and you are forced to come to a stop. Why you're forced to
stop they start to get wrapped because they're beating on the hood of your car and all the stuff that I've seen in these videos. And I'm not saying this
happens every single time, but most of the videos have have sent this is the reaction, like I said, to the point where they're now punching the cars, they're busting out windows. What do you do next? What is the
appropriate I think reaction.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, if they're already punching on the car and they're beating your car up, I think that, you know, a small nudge isn't hurtfle But I don't think that you should you know full.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying right, I'm not saying what I'm saying right.
Speaker 4: I don't think fluorin is a good answer, because I think you're doing more harm than good. But I think that,
you know, sometimes you do kind of kind of punch your way through, you know, but you can do it in a way.
Speaker 2: They start beating on your car harder.
Speaker 4: I mean, regardless of what position you take, they're just gonna be on your car if you if you stay still or you know, slowly roll it and.
Speaker 2: You know you want to make sure that break its out of the way. But so it's very hard for
me to make a decision on this guy. So I'll
be honest with like I said, I mean, you're much toy.
Speaker 4: If you want to take the most safest way you know, and you know it's unfortunate and then you know you just gotta kind of get out of your car and start walking.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the most safest, you know way to do it. Let me, I'll give you a better scenario.
Because camera steaem very quiet. I think it's funny's over.
They're just kind of like, I don't know, because it is.
It is a very touch subject for people, and I get it. I've loaned you the trans Am, right, you
have my Transam in your possession. You know how much
I love that car? Yeah, numbercent. You know it's got
a very expensive pain job on it that nowadays, it probably cost you forty thousand dollars to have that car paint it. You get stuck, they start beating on the
transam while you have my pride possession and your possession driving it right, you know, just simple ring smacking against the body panel of cars enough to do what? Yeah, damage,
paint damage right, absolutely scratch. What happens what? Like I said,
I mean the appropriate reaction.
Speaker 4: It depends on the circumstances. I mean, regardless of cars
are going to get beat on, whether you you know, you're not fixing that right, like you're not fixing you know, car insurance may or may not cover it. I can
tell you're gonna argue with them, guarantee. We've already been
on this where you know how this on your car You had a custom pain jump and they didn't want to pay for anything. So I mean, like I said,
circumstances apply and stuff. But regardless, the car is probably
going already get beat up on. Now it's up to
you how you know far that damage goes. I think
that you know depend you know, depending on where you're at and what's going on and stuff. I think a
small nudge does doesn't do any wrong. I mean, you're
already gonna have the car kind of damaged, but you don't want it vandalized. So you know, if you can
you know, slow walk the car just kind of through, give people the you know, the room to get out of the way, just so you can get to your destination.
If it's blocked on, you know, unintentionally, I mean intentionally blocked.
I think that's the best way to do it. But
I mean, if you can afford just let your car sit there and you don't want to have any problems, probably just you know, get out and start walking. But right,
I'm got to say that.
Speaker 2: I need to say that, guys.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, but regardless of what route you go down, you're gonna have some damage to the car. Now, if
they're not beating on your car, I think that you probably shouldn't be punching through the you know, the crowd, even at a slow crawl. You know, if they're not
doing any damage, probably the best bet is to stay.
Speaker 2: I won't get it. I'm gonna be irritated, but you
probably won't invoke a reaction from me if i'm I'm gonna be irritated that you got me blocked off and I'm stuck, right, and then I got to figure out how we're gonna get unstuck. And you hope the police
come and solve that. But if they haven't in the cars,
you're not gonna leave. I'm you're not leaving your car.
If it was my trans Amd, it was the Nova, if it was anything, I mean, even if it was my truck, I'm not leaving my vehicle. I can tell
you I'm not because already I I already have an assumption of what's gonna probably happen my vehicle. And if
I say number one, okay, so that's not happening, And if there's no result for me to get out of it and the police don't assist or whatever, you can only sit there for so long. You're not gonna sit
there for hours while you try to deliver whatever message you're trying to deliver. Right, not things, I.
Speaker 4: Got it, But I do think that's probably the best result, is if they're not beating up on a car, because once you try to push your way through, then you incentivize for the to do, you know, what they want to do. So it's kind of, you know, your best
bet is kind of sit still if nothing's going wrong, But if it is, then you kind of want to get out of there for your own safety and for your property sake.
Speaker 2: So do you think there's money being made if we like to invent water cannons and go in the back of pickup trucks like you see these big, huge, crowd clearing water canyons. Did you have on your own personal You're.
Speaker 3: Definitely getting some backlash on that water canyons. Look if
it's if it's a trans am, I'm probably.
Speaker 4: Well to get in the days though, to come through and actually.
Speaker 2: Have people on the highway.
Speaker 3: I'm getting off on the exit and then just going down the road and trying to get on the other exit.
But I was about to say, if you're stuck and it gets to the point where you're hitting the vehicle I with the Florida governor.
Speaker 4: I mean, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I totally.
Speaker 3: I won't say it on the air, but it's just like if it got to the I understand you're trying to get a message across, but no message gets across.
Speaker 2: It if you want to and you want to get your message out. I'm not saying that's not the case.
I'm saying when you start destroying things that belong to me and my property, or you're hindering me and my right away, that's where you I don't I guess I don't know where the line is, guys of what's right and wrong. I know what's wrong is that you're blocking
me that I don't I know one is wrong.
Speaker 4: I think you should always choose peace unless otherwise everything I've had sent to me that that's happening, there is none of that to be hppy.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, like you stepped out the road, you're blocking a major road. You're not looking, as far as I'm concerned
for peace at that point in time, you're looking for agitation.
You're you're you're going to find exactly what you're looking for. Me,
then you remember that not everybody is out there to do harm. No, no, I'm not saying that, And they
do make.
Speaker 3: Something other than the message or not. I totally understand
it trying to get the message out. But you're pushing
something else to the rather than the message when you start tapping vehicles and causing harm and then also putting them in the position of they don't know what's going to happen next.
Speaker 2: So, like I said, I knew it was a touchy subject, but I had to ask because I don't like to.
I've never tried to dodge anything when people are asking me the question, and they they're like, I asked you this question, you didn't answer on the air, or so like that. I'm not dodging it. I know it's a
touchy subject for people, and just just from the smalls, Like I said, just a small conversations I had before I brought this the air with talk with people within certain forms and stuff. It was all over the map
on people's reaction to it. Kind of curious what your
guys are. If you guys have an opinion, send it
to a texted, emailed whatever. Just curious. I don't know
if it's my prime possession. It's a fine line for
you guys. I'm not gonna lie on that note. I
gotta go ahead and get out of here. You guys
enjoy your Saturday. Hope you guys are enjoying the car show.
Hope you guys enjoyed the show. Sunday is right around
the corner, and make sure you unplug, spend some time with your kids, fire at the barbecue, playboard game with him, do something, even watching old car movies. What we've been
doing is tests. I've been given old movies, and they
been giving me movies to watch. It's been kind of fun.
To do, so try that and see if you guys like that. We'll talk to you guys next week. We're
out of here.
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