The World’s Rarest Cars

It probably won’t surprise you that some of the rarest cars in the world are also some of the most expensive cars in the world – but there are a few exceptions.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Go behind the wheel, under the hood and beyond with
car Stuff from how Stuff Works dot Com. Hi, and
welcome to Car Stuff. I'm Scott, I'm Ben. We are
joined with our super producer Ramsey Junt and I might
as well go public with it. Scott, I think I

(00:23):
may have mentioned it on the air earlier in a
previous episode, but I'm not sure. I you and I
talked about this outside the studio. I'm starting to look
around for a new car. Oh, yeah, that's right, that's right.
How's the search going? It's it's it's going pretty well.
I am. You know, the sweet spot, as you've always

(00:45):
told me for for buying a car that is quote
unquote new to me, is about two or three years. Yeah,
that's right. That's a that's a smart place to look.
I guess that sweet spot if rEFInd it, most of
the depreciation is already happy for a new car, and
the prices down to an affordable rate. It's usually still
below a hundred thousand miles. Uh typically hopefully it is

(01:07):
you've got relatively you know, um, a big market to
choose from with that type of uh, you know that
criteria in mind, I guess, so I with the best
of intentions. Uh, did something that may have stirred the
pot a little bit on the internet. I went onto,
I went on to some social media and I said,
I'm going to start looking for a new car, right,

(01:29):
no timeline, nothing, uh, no specific commitment. And I asked
people what they like about the cars they have right
or if there were any specific makes or models that
they would recommend avoiding. And uh, I bet you've got

(01:49):
a huge variety of responses, right yep. Which it's me
that would just you know, confuse me more than anything.
I think, Um, I don't know. How do you how
do you find that this is working out for you
so far? I mean, you do you think it has
is confused? You already think that it is helping to
refine your your decisions, like your innarrow your search. Yeah,
well we're we're very much in the early days, right.

(02:13):
And what I am finding is that the same thing
about every sort of piece of advice still holds true,
and that that is the following. People love giving advice
that they don't have to take, you know, universal And

(02:36):
a lot of my a lot of my buddies who
are car guys, are very specific in their offers. One
guy told me for U two thousand straight cash, straight scratch,

(02:57):
I could get an RV camper okay uh? Or you
also tried to pitch me on a dump truck and
he said it's a it's a good condition except for
the driver's seat. Now, who is trying to sell you
a dump truck as a daily driver? Your your bread
and butter wagon, right right, and getting to work and

(03:19):
home from work. So some you're gonna drive a dump
truck or an RV. I don't. I don't think so.
But you know what that's that's someone who knows your interests,
your likes, right, because you like narvy, you always like Narvy.
You live in a van. Bring Back was actually one
of the first people who responded and asked me about
I think Glenn checked me on this, but I'm pretty

(03:40):
sure Glenn asked me about a Winnebago. And yeah, if
you want, towards an end of this episode, I can
I can pull some of this stuff up and read
you the recommendation. Oh sure, Yeah, Let's see. Let's see
what some of your friends have have come across for you.
See if there are true good friends or if they're
just kind of feed you a line, see if you'll
do it, you know, like I'm like, this could almost

(04:01):
be like a like a fun thing for people, like
let's see if we can get Ben to buy a
sports car, or let's see can get a truck or
whatever it is, right, And I would you know, honestly,
I would love I would love a decent truck for sure.
But the thing that came up in in my search
and a little bit when people were talking about what

(04:23):
sort of car to buy is the idea of affordability
and its correlation to commonality. So remember when we did
some episodes on the World's most stolen cars, In the
World's most common cars, they think there's still Honda Civics, right,

(04:45):
I think that's still the case. Yeah, uh, And Honda
Civics are workhorses, and you I, I don't know if
it's the same where in your neck of the Global Woods,
friends and neighbors. But Scott and Ramsey and I can't
walk more than about we can't drive. We can't walk

(05:07):
more than five yards, we can't drive more than two
miles without seeing at least three Honda Civics. So that's
probably true, yeah, or handa chords or whatever that happens
to be even four f one pickup trucks are big
down here in the South, and they make a lot
of four f one and and you know their tops
on truck of course for many many years, decades running.

(05:27):
Uh so we see a lot of those around. But yeah,
those are the ones that end up being stolen the
most because they are the ones that are most well,
I guess, the most valuable for their parts. So they're stolen,
stripped and then sold as parts, you know, individual parts
to people that want those parts for more money than
you know, the car itself is worth as a whole.
So that's the three that's the reasoning behind that. And

(05:47):
you're right about you know, something is not quite as common.
You know, something's a little more sought after, a little
bit more rare. It's it tends to be a little
bit more valuable, but that's not always the case. And
we'll we'll talk about, um, you know, what what it
means to be a real, a true rare car in
just a minute. But I wanted to share with you
one thing before we get started, and I think we've
already got off to a different start here. Not that

(06:10):
not our topic, as we always do right, But um,
I had something that had come across my desktop, you know,
I think it was about a week ago, and I
just didn't get a chance to read it on air.
Um So it's a it's a couple of weeks old
now at this point, but it is a significant milestone
for a manufacturer that I think we need to talk about.
And this would go to the category of definitely not

(06:31):
rare at this point. This is this is something that's
the opposite of rare as a matter of fact, Honda,
Honda Motor Company or Honda, you know, Honda, I guess
Motorcycles really has produced it's one hundred million super Cub. Now,
the Supercub is if you're not familiar with it, because
a lot of people here in the United States might
not be, Um, it is a moped, really so, and

(06:54):
it always has been a moped. And if you look
at the picture of you know, a nineteen fifty eight
Honda Supercub and a you know, two thousand seventeen super
Cub here in this in this uh article here, I've
got a picture of them side by side, and they
look like the same bike. Still, I mean, that's pretty
remarkable for you know, this being that many years on,

(07:15):
but I mean this is incredible. I mean they introduced
this thing back in what nineteen fifty eight, I said,
And you know the company was founded in nineteen six
so it was pretty young company at the time. And
I think they said in this article that it was
again this comes from car and Driver, I should say.
So if anybody wants to look at it, follow along.
Um they were just starting to make their first you know,

(07:37):
tentative runs at the Isle of Man tit back then. Uh,
they were also starting to, um really get serious about
making this an alternate form of transportation for the people
in Japan because um, like I think it was a
ten years prior to that, Vespa and Lambretta scooters were
um really really popular. Of course those are the Italian
marks and uh, you know they had a unique distinct

(07:59):
body style that UM had, you know, like the knee
shield and all that. Well, this one has a knee shield.
It's a lot smaller than you'll find on a Vespa,
but it's a little bit more of an upright bike,
more of a bicycle looking thing. Everybody can picture what
I guess classic moped looks like, and that's similar to
what this looks like. But the thing is they added
larger wheels and um so to increased stability. And uh.

(08:23):
They also had something that was really unique at the time.
Instead of going with a two cycle engine like the
Lambrettas and the um Vespas, they went with a four
stroke engine. And that was like it's it's uh, I
take in the pro box for a lot of people,
you know, because the two you know, two cycles, he
had to mix the oil with all the time, and
it was just kind of messy and smelly, and and
these were it was just a better engine. It was

(08:45):
a bulletproof engine, as they said. It did come to
the United States eventually, you know, not not long after that,
but they had to sell it as something called the
Honda fifty because uh, Piper had already used the super
Cup name for the airplane that it was building at
the time. And I think a lot of people can
remember the Piper super Cup. They might even still make that,
I don't know. Um, But anyways, this one hundred million
marker here is a big deal. I mean, when you

(09:06):
think about it, uh, you know, a run over that
many decades, you know, that's a lot of vehicles. But
I'll tell you numbers in just a minute. That should
astound you. Really, It should have down anybody really for production.
Um but we've talked about, you know, the most common
cars that you know here in the United States, Um,
you know Volkswagen. I think we talked about Volkswagen Beetles. Right.
They made twenty one and a half million of those,

(09:27):
um over, you know, and I don't remember how long
that run was. It was a long long time. And
of course you know the model TS they made fifteen
million of those, all right, So and well, yeah, what's
the other thing? The the original mini design remember the
original mini be for BMW, the good one, the version yeah,
the yeah, the original good one, the really tiny one, right,
we like all minis, but yeah, the the the actual

(09:49):
mini one. Yeah. They only made five point four million
of those, and I say only that's a huge number, right,
but this is one hundred million of these scooters, and
so just even And here's where gets leaven more interesting,
I think, I think. Anyways, all right, you know they
started in nineteen fifty building the So that's a long
long ramp up, right, But it turns out they weren't
making as many back then of course, because they you know, well,

(10:11):
they're more popular now, you know, population density, it's it's
it's even more important now that they've build more so, uh,
you know, it's confusing way to say that, but the
production has ramped up considerably, right, So you gotta remember that, Um,
they only built their twenty million Super cub in nineteen two,
So that means that they've built eighty million of those

(10:32):
bikes in the past twenty five years. Eighty million and
twenty five years out of that one hundred million. And
then if you want to go even more than that,
forty million of those eighty million were built since two
thousand nine. That's just eight years ago. So this is uh,
this is a definite hard curve for production, absolutely, And
I kind of ran the numbers through a little bit

(10:53):
of a filter here to figure out how many this
means really, And if you average all this out, so
eight years, forty million bikes, right, that averages about five
million per year. That means that every single day this
factory has averaged in production of about thirteen thousand, six
hundred Honda Cubs. Holy smoke, it's amazing, isn't it. Yeah,

(11:14):
Like fourteen thousand a day. Why don't we have any
that's if they're cranking out seven days a week and yeah,
three and sixty five days a year for the last
forty years or whatever it is. Yeah, But what that's
the question that a lot of people are going to have, Like,
if there are a hundred million, right, and if production
is ramping up and has been ramping up over the years,

(11:36):
especially recent years especially, right, why don't we see more
of these in the US? And they haven't. Honda hasn't
sold the super Cup, I believe in the in the
States for some time. No, no, not for many years.
They haven't sold it here. Um, but you know, they
had a small run that came over here for a while, um,

(11:56):
and they were you know, they're popular, of course, But
but worldwide we see mopeds and small motorcycles as transportation
for entire families. Sometimes you would you have a moped
as your daily driver? No, because the area that we
live in is just far too um congested. If it
was a little bit more open, I would. Now. I
know that you know, these are great for areas that

(12:18):
are congested, but typically they're congested with other similar traffic.
There's a lot of people on mopeds, a lot of
people into cycles, but when you mix the type of
traffic that we have here in Atlanta with a moped,
it doesn't really work out so well. Right, And if
I'm correct, you cannot drive a moped on the Interstate,
That's right, yeah, because there's a a CC limit to

(12:41):
the engine size that restricts you from writing something like
that there. Now, I think there's some bigger bikes that
are considered I don't know if they consider still are
consider mopeds or not, but they have motorcycle like speeds,
but they're still called I think they're called scooters, not mopeds,
and maybe that's the difference. There's some big scooters. They
can do it, but I don't think I would trust
it a little lot nine ten inch wheels on the

(13:03):
on the highway. It just doesn't seem like I gotta
be honest with you, Scott. Usually in Atlanta, if I
see someone in a scooter or moped cola, which will
I assume that they have ah, for lack of a
better term, I assume they have like real transport as also,

(13:27):
I I assume that they have a car in their garage,
you know, just because in just because Atlanta has such
sprawl and we're so reliant on very high speed transit passageways,
whether that's um, you know, a three lane on either

(13:49):
side road, or whether that's an interstate. I don't see
a scooter being a viable thing here, but I understand
especially in very densely populated cities where every single vehicle
is probably going to be able to go about fifteen
miles an hour, regardless of capability. Yeah, Jim Wise, I

(14:13):
can see his scooter working really well. Well. There are
also a lot of hills here in Atlanta, so you know,
the entire city is built. You know, of course it's
it's not mountainous, but close to it. It's it's hilly,
and you know, you get behind the moped that's you know,
traveling at twenty and then it slows down to fifteen
or even ten going up a hill, you know, dependent
on the year. So you have to wonder, Scott, you
gotta wonder, do we know if anyone has purchased the

(14:37):
one hundred million car or a cub rather, I don't know.
I would think that Honda would, would you know, store
that away somewhere, you know, like put it in a factory,
not a factory in a museum. The factory museum or whatever,
you know, display it somewhere there on the grounds. Maybe
you're being very Indiana Jones about this. Well, it belongs
in a museum, I guess I am. But you know,

(14:59):
it seems like that really pull those out of production
and and label it. I mean, maybe it could be
a giveaway to somebody or something, you know, as a
as a prize or something like that. I don't retirement,
uh present you watch. Oh that'd be nice, wouldn't it. Yeah,
that would be super cool probably, But it wouldn't be
valuable though. I wonder. I mean, because here's here's a
situation where you know, they've got a hundred million of them,

(15:22):
and they all basically look the same. I mean, look
at the old ones and the new ones. They're pretty close.
I mean you can tell the new versus old, but
it's really minor. New ones have to rear view mirrors. Yes,
that's there's a little bit more than that, but but
but not much really. I mean, you can tell it's
an antique. But I think this is a case then
maybe where because there's so many, I just don't think

(15:44):
that the value of this particular product is going to
be very high. Um. I know, that. You know, there
might be some sought after specific models from specific years,
but um, I just don't think that one hundred million
of them out there, they're ever going to be a
rare find. Oh I'm so glad you said that that
room finds me. Today's episode is about the world's rarest cars,

(16:05):
and we'll get to it after a word from our
sponsor and we're back. Scott, I have to I have
to give you a solid apology there. I think that's
the first time that we got to a commercial break
without touching on the the episode that we were supposed

(16:28):
to do. You may be right, man, I think I
think maybe we got close last time. But but you know,
we often throw in a couple of little extra what
do you I would call the Easter eggs? Would you
not that on East You're not having to find them,
not having to hunt for them. We we have a
lot of stuff going on. Bonus. Yeah, there we go.
It's a bonus for our listeners. I think I hope
they see it that way. Yeah, right into our complaint

(16:49):
department if you disagree. That's Jonathan dot Strickland how Stuff
Works dot com and request your free super cub from
him as compensation. I wonder how long we're gonna be
able to get away with this. He uh, he is.
He is out there twenty four hours a day, seven

(17:11):
days a week, waiting to hear your complaints. And we
cannot thank him enough for the work he does as
car stuffs, complate department, tireless. It's gonna be tis servant alright,
So we have um so we know that there is
an embarrassment of riches in the automotive world now. And

(17:35):
obviously not all cars are created equally. Not all cars
are going to be as commonplace, right, and some are
very hard to find. Uh. And I think that this
list has to include cars now, there's gonna be those
those cars that have gone extinct. Of course, those we
can include, because it has to be a car that

(17:56):
is around, that can be you could transfer, hands, can
be sold. Because the one the list that we're going
by today, by the way, is from a place called
Sheer Comfort Blog. And it's a it's a good list,
it really is. It's a um it's a list of
the rarest cars. And not all these cars as you'll
find our um rare and that you know, maybe they
weren't the only ones produced. And we'll talk about that

(18:18):
when we get to because there are a few caveats
for certain model years and uh um option packages, I
guess for yeah, there's some fine, yeah, a little bit,
a little bit, but but all of these cars that
we have on our list today will be, um, you know,
valuable in some way. They're not extinct. As we said,
you know, there has to be at least one existing
in the world for it to count on this list.

(18:38):
And um, I think the list is a good list.
It covers one hundred years of automotive history. It's from
nineteen o five, that's our earliest vehicle, all the way
up through two thousand and five. So you know, ponder
that for just a moment and think what what could
be so valuable, so rare from two thousand five that
might warrant a list on a place on this list,

(18:58):
and bone us points if you happen to predict one
of the vehicles, no cheating, but if you can, if
you can predict one, I would love to hear it.
And of course, whenever we have a list like this,
there are going to be things that Scott and I
feel like should have already should have also been included.

(19:22):
You know, uh so number ten. So let's just start
off with the beautiful nineteen fifty seven Jaguar x K
S S. Yeah, that's right. Now. These were sold for
about five thousand dollars in UH in the nineteen fifties,
and if I went I would have head did this,
uh this this price comparison, So nineteen seven, if they

(19:45):
were five thousand dollars at the time, that equates to
only about forty five thousand dollars in seen. I say
only because that's a relatively little price for what we're
looking at here. Um, this is a car. There were
only sixteen of these cars every are built, so that
that that's why it gets on this list. That's why
it's number ten on this list. And the idea behind

(20:06):
them was that this was going to be UM made
from the D type Jaguars that were that they couldn't
sell the unsold D types. They took twenty nine unsold
D types in the nineteen fifties and they were going
to create them, or you know, build them into these
road going sports cars. And that's exactly what they did.
And it was pretty easy to modify a D type

(20:27):
into a Type UM into an x K S s.
I should say it took about three days for the
factory to do the process to make over. And there's
not a lot of these around because they were supposed
to have they're supposed to be twenty nine. They had
a fire at the factory that destroyed the ones that
were remaining. So the sixteen that made it out of
the factory are the only surviving cars. Uh. The other

(20:48):
what they'd be thirteen that were left behind that we're
destroyed in this fire. Uh So anyways, it's a it's
a rare vehicle. Of course. Now you know, someone who
owned one of these that we have seen an auction
recently is um Stephen Stephen Queen. You know, of course
he had a lot of different vehicles that drove a
lot of different cars, uh and motorcycles, and you know
a lot of those were very valuable, not only because
of you know who owned them, but because of the rarity.

(21:10):
And he had, you know, one of these UM x
KSS vehicles and it's sold for about thirty million dollars
last time I was an auction, So hefty price tag
on that one. But it's a great car. It's got
a three point four leader racing engine with about two
fifty horsepower. Um, of course, Um, you know it has
incredible sleek looks. I mean it's just a typical British

(21:32):
racing car really, I mean that's what it is. It's
for the road, a street racing car for the road. Really. Yeah. Yeah.
And the every time I hear these sorts of list,
I always started kicking myself, you know, because I well,
neither of us were out buying cars in nineteen fifty seven. Now,

(21:53):
but can you imagine, you know, just putting the equivalent
of forty dollars at the time into this car. You
could have just parked it and taking it out on
the weekends, done the scheduled maintenance and then boom you'd
be sitting on thirty million dollars. Yeah. I know, it's huge,
isn't it. Now there's a couple of cars later in

(22:14):
this list that we're going to talk about that uh.
You know it came down to, you know, putting a
check mark in the right box on the factory options, uh,
to to make it more valuable. But who knew at
the time. I mean it just ends up that, you know,
only a few people did it for a certain year,
and that's what makes it super valuable. So when we
get to those, we'll let you know. But another one
that's that's a rarity is the nineteen forty eight to

(22:37):
nineteen fifty Aston Martin two Leaders Sports dB one. So
the dB one the first of its kind, and it
was named after Sir David Brown was the uh, the
owner of a tractor manufacturing company who purchased Aston Martin
in nineteen forty seven. So just after he made the
purchase he was the owner of the company. They named
a vehicle after him, the dB and and dB one

(23:00):
stands for David Brown. UM. Of course this there were
very few of these built as well, only fifteen that
ever came from the factory. Um. The car was only
manufacturer for about two years from nine fifties. We said,
and uh, you know these fifteen cars. Of course, you know,
there's very few of them around and they don't often
come up at auction, They don't often trade hands. In fact,

(23:22):
the one that recently I think there was one recently
that did come up for auction. Uh, it was sold
in really poor condition. It wasn't in good shape. So
in in poor condition, these things are worth about a
hundred and twenty thousand u S dollars at this point.
Uh So again, if you ever see it, as to
Martin d v one, pay special attention because you're seeing
something unique. It's probably the one time. Honestly, it's probably

(23:44):
the one time you'll see it. Probably, Yeah, I mean,
unless you have unless it's at your local museum that
you go too often, you know, and you'll see the
same one again. But you have to see more than
one of these in your lifetime. I don't know. I
mean maybe that's rare. Maybe someone has two or three
of them, who knows, you know how you know, people
can do that with cars, They find one mark that
they really like and then they have you know, two
of the remaining five or you know, whatever the case

(24:06):
may be. So we find that with with Tucker cars alone.
Now they're only fifty one Tucker vehicles built, and I
think a couple of those have been destroyed, so you know,
even more rare to to see them now. But we see,
you know, when we go to museums, we see a
couple on display, or you know, an engine display where
they have six engines. Things like that. People tend to

(24:27):
tend to collect or to gather as many bits of
of you know Tucker memorabilia that they can you know,
whether it's the his drafting board or you know, the
door from the barn where he worked or whatever it was.
Remember these are all true stories. By the way, in
the Automotive Museum up there in Hershey, Pennsylvania, you will
see the barn door that Tucker used. Yeah, yeah, you

(24:52):
have the A C. A Museum I think it is. Yeah, alright,
number eight on our list. Let's move on here. Talbot
Lago T Grand Sport, which is a very unusual looking car.
So there were only twelve of these manufactured, right, and

(25:13):
it's one of the most powerful cars in the world
because it has a four point five leader six cylinder engine,
right and uh top speed miles an hour. It won
the Laman in oh And one other thing that I
think we need to mention about this car's history before

(25:35):
we move on to talk about the price of this thing,
because it is expensive. Um, we should say that that
that this company was bought by Simco in night and
so the Grand Sports rarity is only amplified because it
was one of the last cars that was produced by
that company. So, uh, you know what we should also say.
One other thing is that Simco was then later bought

(25:55):
by Chryslo Europe in nine seventies, so, you know, pushing
it even further down the line that you know, this
thing is never going to be reproduced again. Um, this
rare car. So it's what twelve manufacturer, I think we
said an estimated two point five million dollars for this car. Now,
when you look at it, it's a beautiful car, but
I don't know if it's two point five million beautiful again,
but how can you sign dollars to you know, the

(26:17):
way car? It's pretty, I mean, it's a nice looking
vehicle at least one of the photo here is that
we're looking at. You know, I don't know what the
other eleven look like. And being in the market for
a new car, you know, keeping options open. Yeah, I understand,
you know, I mean it's it is gorgeous, but you know,
I really always have a hard time with this ben like,
is that what makes this one worth two point five million?

(26:37):
And you know the one that we just looked at previously,
what makes that one only worth you know, hundred and
twenty thousand dollars in poor shape and it's probably worth
a million in good shape or whatever. Supply and demand.
My friend, I guess, so I'm yes, supply demands. So
this one with only twelve versus the other one that
only had fifteen, right, well, what do you think about
numbers seven on our list? Which is the one, uh
Plymouth Hemi Kuda convertible okay, not convertible is what makes

(27:02):
this one unique. It's not that it's anything dramatically different
from anything that they were producing in but someone checked
the convertible box on this one and it's a Hemi Kuda,
so that makes it even more valuable. Now, only eleven
of these were built, right, so it's pretty rare. And
this is a muscle car. There aren't many bells and whistles, no,
I mean, and a Hemi powered Kuda is always a

(27:22):
desirable vehicle. But again the fact that it's a convertible
is what makes this one unique, with this one different.
So these will occasionally come up in at auction. You know,
they trade hands regularly, I would say, And I don't
know about that often, but you'll see them here and there.
And when they do come up for auction, people know
they know to go there and kind of stake it
out and see which one it is. And they know

(27:43):
who's owned it before, so you know the whole history
of the vehicle. UM. In January, one of these went
for one point three two million dollars at a Barrett
Jackson Scottsdale auction. However, later, just just one year later,
at the meek Him auction, a different Kuda was sold
for an even higher amount. If there was an eight

(28:04):
minute bidding war on this vehicle, and it went for
three point two million dollars. Three point two million, Pretty crazy,
that's pretty crazy. Yeah, well yeah, I mean that's that's
really high. I mean, I thought when we were when
we first started this show, you know a while back,
what nine years ago or something like that, now, we

(28:24):
were seeing some incredible prices for muscle cars on these
these auction circuits, and they were still in the you know,
two or fifty thousand dollar range, you know, maybe maybe
a little bit more even. I mean, we're getting up
into three point two million dollars for a HEMI Kuda convertible.
That's a lot of cash for something like that. UM,
I don't know, I mean, is it is it one

(28:45):
that's so dramatically different from everything else that you have
to have it? I mean, I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know where to file this one away too.
I mean, it's not a supercar. It's not like it's
not like there were no other hemipowered Kuda's built. It's
just as an there's only eleven Couda convertibles that were
built that year, and that's what makes it valuable. So again,
someone checked the box. The six dollar option or whatever

(29:07):
it was, made it, you know, a thousand times ten
thousand times more valuable, whatever that is, which also makes
me wonder, you know, if you're if you're buying a
new car, should you just go for a weird trim package?
Should you just as symbol this compilation of your own

(29:27):
very specific options and upgrades, and then later learn that
you're one of twelve people who did so that's a
smart move, you know. I think that for a while,
when you could uh order it, when you can still
order a new Dodge Viper, you could order all kinds
of different custom paint and appearance packages, and I think
I'm not entirely sure, but I think it would tell

(29:49):
you how many people have ordered the same thing that
you have, and you could change it in some way
to make it unique. And uh, and I would be
willing to bet that someone's going to have, you know,
a one of a kind Dodge Viper from a certain
year that someday is gonna be worth a lot of
money because of that, because they selected stuff that, uh,
I mean, maybe no one else wanted. Maybe that was it.
If everybody wants it, it's not going to be as valuable.

(30:12):
Now here's one that probably a lot of people would
have wanted. I'm very excited about this, Are you really alright?
It's the oldest one? So what so what is this one?
This is our earliest entry. I guess the nineteen o
five rules Royce h P fifteen hp standing for horsepower horsepower. Yeah.
And when you look at this vehicle, it's a big vehicle, right,

(30:33):
big open top um what we call it. It's like
a carriage, I guess almost you know, like the horse's carriage.
Look right. Yeah, it's a salab body style, two doors.
It's very very old vehicle. And quite frankly, this is
a museum piece. Oh yeah, absolutely, And then there make

(30:56):
no bones about it. Uh. It's the second oldest surviving
rolls Royce in the world. And in addition, it's one
of the rarest cars that Rules Royce ever made. Yeah,
there were six of these built total, and currently only
one exists. There's only one around today. So this one

(31:16):
of the course extremely valuable. Uh. Top speed is only
somewhere around thirty nine miles per hour on this vehicle.
I mean we're laughing at it. But it's a beautiful car.
It's nice. I mean I like it. It's it's green,
it's it's an unusual look. Of course, you don't see
this type of vehicle anywhere today except in a museum.
As you said, Ben, Um, it's rare to see something

(31:37):
like this even at you know, some of the top
end auto shows that we see not auto shows but
maybe um auctions, auctions and even um you know, like
the kind of events where people all pull no parking
lot and you know, show off. This one wouldn't be Uh,
this one is probably a car that tours. Yeah, there's
a little more pebble beach, I think. Yeah, you're a
local car show. Yeah, you know what, that's probably the

(31:58):
better way to say it is that you would be
you'd be more apt to see something like this at
a concourse event, and you would be at you know,
the cars and caffeine that we see sometimes. Uh So
they really don't have a price tag on this vehicle.
I mean, it's a super rare vintage car. But they
have a praised you know, they do this offen. They
praise it for insurance, recovery costs, if everything and if
anything were ever happened to it. And the the estimated

(32:20):
value of this Rolls Royce is about thirty five million
dollars thirty five million unbelievable, but again one of a
kind right now, and one of only six ever built.
I wonder, I wonder what happened to those six? What's
the story with the other five? You know, is there
just some guy who has the other five one? I
feel like, I mean not this isn't the case every time,

(32:42):
but it seems like they have pretty good records of
what happens, like you know, or what happened like maybe
you know, this one's gone through two World wars, so
maybe you know it was a war casualty. Maybe it
was lost during the bombing raid or something like that.
A lot of times that you'll find that will happen,
especially with some of the European marks that were around,
you know, around around that time. Uh, just unfortunate side effect. Um,

(33:04):
along with many others. Uh, number five on our list.
This one you like? Yes? Maybe yes, maybe you know
well I do, But is this the body style that
you like? I mean, we're talking about a Packard Packard
Panther Daytona roadster. Yeah, this is uh, this is a
beautiful little machine. Uh. It's a two seater and only

(33:27):
four were ever built. It was originally called the Gray
Wolf two, but Packard thought it was best to go
with the name Panther because they wanted to commemorate the
Packard racer who was active from three to oh four.
And the design of it like a concept car thing.

(33:48):
I'm really interested in the body of the vehicle as well,
and I'm glad you brought this up. It is entirely
made of fiberglass to one piece fiberglas spotty. Pretty strange,
but I guess you know, if you if you go
along with what what what Chevrolet was doing with the
Corvette at the time, fiberglass was starting to become an

(34:08):
option for automakers and they were kind of playing around
with what they could do with it. And to make
this this vehicle fiberglass, it's it's pretty astounding. Comparing you know,
considering what you know, the history of Packard, you know,
because they were always a big, solid metal vehicle, you know,
really sturdy. I mean not to say that this one
isn't sturdy, but um, it's just something completely out of

(34:28):
the ordinary for Packard. Really, there was so much experimentation
with automobiles, right, and in material science, yeah, and and
even just design and conceptual stuff. In the nineteen fifties
there was this real I don't want to ding uh
the seventeen automotive market, but in the in the fifties, man,

(34:53):
there was this real golden age of manufacturers going, yeah,
let's try it, let's you know what, you know what,
just put a put some more chrome, put a put
a dome on it. Who needs who needs an orthodox hood,
gigantic gigantic fins, and you know, lots of chrome accents
on the side and all that, and a big white walls.

(35:14):
So the got this one's got giant white walls of course, um,
lots of chrome and you know, um those protruding front bumpers.
It's just it's a neat looking vehicle. So if you
get a chance to look up the Packard panther Daytona roadster,
and this one had a straight eight engine and had
a two speed transmission, which I thought was a little
bit unusual. But an automatic two speed. Um. You know,

(35:35):
I don't know why that's strange to me. I would
think that, you know, three speed was kind of like
the starting point for something like this. UM in that era,
I should say, maybe. Um, But it had a two
D and twelve horse power, had two h twelve horse
power and a top speed of one hundred and thirty
one miles. So it was no slouch. I mean, it
was a was a quick car. I bet that lightweight
body helped out quite a bit. Here's one of my questions.

(35:56):
This is a concept car, right, So yeah, it is okay,
So this is a concept car that won the lottery
of ideation and became it became like technically with a
boatload of caveats of production cars sort of four So
I guess I mean, is that enough? Though, well, I

(36:20):
mean it's not it's not like the race car numbers
right now. But did it come off the assembly line?
That is true? And so so that that stands for
some of that That proves something I guess is that
you know it wasn't just built in some design studio somewhere.
It u did sell. If you're if you're listening to
this and you're thinking Scott Been super producer Ramsey, I'm

(36:42):
in how much how much Cheddar? Is this gonna? How
much Cheddar do I need to grate for for one
of the four of these? For one of these four
about eight d dollars was the last price that was
seen at auction, So it's it's pretty expensive. But again,
have one of four that exists, that's pretty good. And
what price can you put on history? That's right? Yeah,

(37:02):
But I mean we'll be back after word from our sponsor.
With the rest of our list. We have returned, and
now we are in uh uh, We're in the era
where I'm kicking myself again. I wasn't buying cars in

(37:23):
nineteen sixty seven, in nineteen seventy specifically, uh, And I'll
be honest with you, they've got some regrets. I think
I was born too late. Maybe, Yeah, because the nineteen
sixty seven and nineteen seventy Dodge Cornet specific specific type.

(37:45):
Yeah yeah, the rt HEMI convertible, those are the valuable ones.
And what makes them valuable? You would think, well, okay,
the Cornet is not particularly valuable on its own. It
was not not an uncommon vehicle. They built a lot
of them. But again, because this is the rt HEMI
version with the convertible option, that's what makes it viable.
They only built two of these in nineteen sixty seven

(38:07):
and two of them in nineteen seventy. So that's it. So,
you know, when these things come up for auction, people
take notice. Again, Now it has to be, you know,
a factory original has to be the ones from the factory.
But again, these are the ones that people watch and
kind of track, and they know the history of it.
They know who's owned it before, they know all the
history behind it, they know everything about it. So when
it's coming up for auction, people get excited about it. Now,
this one isn't quite as valuable as some of the

(38:30):
other cars. I mean, it's start of the Jaguar. It's
not the Aston Martin, but it's it's not in a
million dollar range. No, No, it's uh, well, shall we
tell everyone? Sure? It's we're looking at around a hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. The last time it's the last
few times it was in an auction. And the thing

(38:52):
is that in this case, similar to the Kuda, in
this case it is entirely due to the rarity of
the vehicle, and and that's what makes you stick out.
It's sort of a diamond in the rough of the
entire production line of four nets. Yeah, which is odd
because again it's just a trim package that somebody is

(39:14):
not a trim package, but an option that somebody selected
you in nineteen sixty seven, nineteen seventy only only uh,
you know, four people total check those boxes, and and
that's what made it valuable. That's what made it stand
out from all of the other production coronets that were
happening at the time. Of course, you know the heavy
option that's big. Of course that was that was a
popular nth of the time. This one, by the way,
the nineteen seventy model anyways, is a lot more powerful

(39:38):
with four horse power for that for that engine, pretty strong,
So that's a it's a performer as well. Um, but
again just one of those things that you know, it's
it's kind of an oddball vehicle on this list, but
it's still has a place on the list because it
is a rare vehicle. But it's not a supercar. It's
not you know, made from some manufacturer with a long
storied history that U you know, well, I guess you know,

(40:00):
Chrysler has a great history. It's just it doesn't have
the history maybe that I heard the richness of history
that like Morgan or Jaguar or Aston Martin or any
of those other brands have. Um, just a different one.
That's just different history. But um, it's strange. I mean,
it's just an odd ball on the list. I think
that's that's probably the best way that that and the
other one, the Hemikuda converted. I find that those two

(40:22):
were kind of a strange fit. Now the next one
is a concept car, So this one I can kind
of see this one being on the list again. A
concept car from nine. It's the Oldsmobile eight and of
course it was made by General Motors and you know
General fenoms Oldsmobile. Oldsmobile is still around. We would have
to do a story on Oldsmobile. His have we done.

(40:42):
I don't think we have. Well, I know we've included
the history in other podcasts we've done, but but we've
never done an Oldsmobile history series. Let's do it, because
you know, I drove a bunch of those I know
you did, Yeah, which ones were that? It was the
Achieva yeh? Yeah. And is that is that a rare car? Well,

(41:03):
it probably is now. I would be very surprised if
someone found it. Now, you know, I felt like you
know how the military service members will have the uh,
this is my rifle. There are others like it, but
this is mine. It was It was my very first car,
was an Achieva. Yeah, and I got a tangle with
the school bus to ever tell you that, yes, you did,

(41:24):
that's that's the car. That was the car. So it's uh.
While Achieva's in general may not be rare, nor if
we're being candidslarly particularly spectacular, Uh, in my case, this
is a very rare car. I would be very surprised
if someone managed to dig it up after what I did.

(41:46):
I was, I was, I was just a garbage driver man. Well,
you know what, I would wonder the last time that
I've seen an achieve on the road. It has been
a while. And I bet there's a some burn town
where everybody's not everybody, but a lot of people see
somebody who commutes in one or something, you know, and
it's like, oh, I see that every day. I think
they're still a daily driver. There have to be maybe,

(42:07):
I think for most of those cars, you know where
they produced, you know, a hundred thousand, five hundred thousand,
whatever it is. I think there's still have to be
plenty of examples out there. It's just you know, we
don't see them where we are and our little you know,
our little bubble, our area here. Now we're a family show,
so I'm not gonna go too deep into this story,
but I think everybody's first car is this huge milestone.

(42:30):
And I got in my first car chase in that car.
This is unrelated to the school bus incident. Car chase. Yeah,
man with a bully. He was in like twelfth grade.
I was thinking police chase. No, yeah, a bully. Um,
keep it short and check me if this is two

(42:53):
leude for a family show. But let's see, I'm trying
to think of the best way to say it. So
this guy, I was a bully, and I was the
first kid out of our friend group who was able
to drive right. And I had I had my neighborhood buddies,
you know, all my my childhood high school friends. We

(43:16):
would take my car to school back from school, you know.
And one day this guy who was just in retrospect Scott.
The nicest thing I can say is, I guess he
was trying to figure out who he thought he was.
And yeah, and he had a he was having a

(43:40):
senior party, graduation party kind of thing in his house,
and so he thought it would be a good idea
to uh go in the buff, to go naked and
hold a sign about his party over his jump as
people were getting out of cool. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So

(44:02):
there was this one gas station. There was this one
gas station where everybody went after school, right down the street.
So we go down the street and this guy was
This guy had a jeep and uh, here's how brilliant
he was. He left his clothes in the jeep that
was just parked and this is open air, you know. Yeah,
and you have his zipped up or anything. And so

(44:24):
we stole his clothes and drove by, you know, or
like hockey given the finger. And so then he runs
back into the jeep and so we were in this
car chase. You're being chased by a nude guy in
a jeep. Yeah, and thank god no one got hurt.
Oh my God, what a story. This is like a
variation on the old swimming hole story, you know, like

(44:45):
where people are are swimming, you know, naked. They're in
the buff there and they've got the clothes that they've
thrown off the side and someone nabs the clothes kind
of laughs at them. Right, but this is right in
the middle of town. I have no regrets. He was
not a cool dude. And as he was as he
was chased, seen us. If they got it was a
jeep because you know, you can't you can't do the
corners very well on a jeep at high speed. And

(45:09):
so we went into this really rickety hilly uh neighborhood
to try to lose the guy. And he he was
very committed to, you know, trying to find us, and
so we were like throwing his clothes out the car
at him. Anyway, I've gotten very derailed. Okay, one last

(45:31):
thing on this though, I need to know it's a
relatively small town, right. Was there hell to pay later
for you? Yeah? Okay, yeah, there was. All right. Well
that's that's all I needed to know, all right, So
back to our list, back to that was a good story,
back to our show. Actually, what we're supposed to be.
I think we were talking about the Oldsmobile, say GM

(45:52):
concept car, and again, this is one of those concept
cars that made it into that kind of semi production
gray area, right, because there were four built in the
nineteen as we said, only one of these exists today. Yeah.
It was a pet project of Harley Earl, whom you
will remember long time listeners from our early episodes right earlier. Yeah,

(46:14):
we've talked about Harley Earl many times and we've seen
so whose work in person. Oh, yeah, we have. We
went to the uh oh, I forgot the name of
that museum or not the museum, but it's the High
Museum of Art here in Atlanta, I can't remember the
name of it. It was like cars designed, the Art
of the Design or something like that Art of the
Car or something like that. Beautiful exhibit and and Harley
Earl's products were on display there. Um this one, however,

(46:37):
was not there. It's again one of a kind. It
was a concept vehicle that sort of made it into production.
As we said, there were four built, which is kind
of strange that, but they did come from the factory
and that's what makes it um Well, that that alone
makes it kind of a rarity. I mean, it didn't
happen all that often. Uh, you said it was from
Harley Earl had a five point three Leader Super eight
E eight v AT engine that had two and fifty horsepower,

(47:00):
which is pretty cool. Now. It's a two door roadster
style car and h one went up for auction in
two thousand five, and only one, Yeah, the only one.
This is the only one, I should say, yeah, one,
the one went up for sale. It's a gold colored vehicle.
If you want to look up some photos of it.
But two thousand five, this one sold for three point
three million dollars. Three point three million, get your hands

(47:22):
on one of a kind Harley Earl pet project makes
you makes you think maybe you should go with the coronet. Honestly,
maybe was that it was like a hundred twenty thousand right, Yeah, everybody,
I think everybody was expecting this, uh where everyone was
expecting a Ferrari to show up at some point on

(47:43):
the list, and that is number two in our list,
the six Ferrari F fifty g T. Yeah, this is
a car that was actually going to compete um in
a road racing series. It was supposed to compete in
the something called the BPR Global GT Series and unfortunately,
um this project was canceled because they have the rivals

(48:04):
in that series they're supposed to race against, like Porsche Mercedes,
and the rivals kind of up their game and this
car became inferior or I guess obsolete. They said, you know,
we just can't, we can't do this. We can't compete
with this vehicle against what they've done, so we're gonna
have to change our game, you know, in the middle here.
But they did make three of these. They made three
of them, ever, one was supposed to be just a

(48:25):
prototype and two were to be sold. That's right, Scott,
there are three and the stats are pretty good. The
specs a solid yeah, really solid. Yeah. Four point seven
leader V twelve engines. So we're talking seven fifty b
hp uh two point nine seconds for zero to sixty
two point nine seconds and that was in that's twenty

(48:46):
one years ago. Can you believe that? Twenty one years ago?
Two point nine seconds. We're seeing stuff like that from
McLaren now, you know, with it with their cars. But
that's right now in seen and I know that there
were other racing cars that could do that back down.
I get that, you know something that we're probably even faster.
I'm sure you know there had to be Formula one
cars or something that we're doing that. But this is
a car that was meant to be sold to the public,

(49:07):
and you know at least two of them. Anyways, the
prototype that was the one that I'm sure the factory
probably was hanging onto that one, I would guess. I mean,
it doesn't stay here in the article. But the price
on this thing in two point nine million dollars, which
is uh. They say it's pretty reasonable considering they're only
three in the world, but two point nine come on,
that's still a lot of money. It's a beautiful car, though,

(49:27):
I mean, take a look at Ferrari F fifty g
T and and tell us what you think, because it's
it's beautiful. But that's not the number one vehicle on
our list. May we have a drum rule, please, Ladies
and gentlemen, Scott and I would like to introduce you
to number one on our list, the two thousand five
My Box Excelero. Yeah, this is a definitely a unique vehicle.

(49:50):
It's a one of a kind vehicle that was built
by the factory of course, you know these are these
are oftentimes extremely luxurious vehicles, very very luxurious. Now this one,
and we'll just let the cat out of the bag
in this one right up front. This car from the
factory was very very expensive. Eight million dollars is what
this thing costs brand new, and that was back in

(50:11):
two thousand five. Now this is the newest vehicle on
our list, so at two thousand five. So again we've
covered a hundred years in this in this list, from
nineteen five to two thousand five. But again eight million
dollars out of the factory. Now, the one car that
they built, you might think, well, why would they build
this one? Is it, you know, like a show piece
for somebody? What kind of is It was built as
a one of a kind supercar for a place, a

(50:31):
place called full our company should say called Folda, which
is a German tire company. And in two thousand five
it was again I don't know how this happened, but
it became available for the public to purchase. So this
car is available and it's as I guess, the my
Bok factory in Germany. However, it has not sold as
of right now. I think that right now, Um, this

(50:52):
car is still available. You can still buy it if
you wanted to, And someone has tried in the past,
right soon tried to buy this one, but it didn't
quite have the money that they thought they had, right So, Uh,
the rapper, well, okay, I wouldn't call him a rapper,
let's call m a producer. Birdman and also known as
Baby Williams tried to purchase the vehicle back in two

(51:16):
thousand and eleven but couldn't didn't have the cash up front.
So it's still the property of the European automaker. And
at this point, if you're sitting around going what do
I do with this eight million dollars, it's it's crowded
up my house. Uh this this might be an avenue

(51:37):
you you could pursue because you can buy it. You
can literally buy it today. Uh. The Excelero one of
a kind, amazing specs, really amazing. Now it's a heavy car,
yeah it's it's almost three tons. Yeah, it's two point
nine tons of ways, if you want to be specific
about it at weighs five thousand, eight hundred and sixty

(51:58):
three pounds, which is a giant vehicle. But it does
have a V twelve twin turbo engine that has about
seven hundred horse power and uh, oh my gosh, top
speed two hundred and eighteen miles per hour. Now, looking
at the car, you wouldn't sleep, sure, but I wouldn't
guess that's a two eighteen mile per hour car right there. No,
it doesn't look like it looks it looks heavy. It

(52:20):
does look heavy. And the thing is it goes from
zero to sixty two in just four point four seconds.
So four point four seconds is quick. It's not lightning
quick like a like a supercar fast or a motorcycle fast.
You're still gonna get waxed if you're racing that Ferrari.
I guess yeah, you're right. If you're raising that one Ferrari,
that'd be quite a matchup, wouldn't it. A couple of

(52:40):
ultra rear cars on the on the highway, like just
doing a little street racing. I'd love to see that
at a red light. Yeah, what would the value of
that that race be? That would be uh, let's see
two point nine for the Ferrari and then eight for
this an eleven million dollar race, that's what that would be.
But but can you imagine moving nearly three tons to
sixty miles per hour and four point four seconds. That's

(53:01):
pretty strong. That's a that's a that's a powerful vehicle.
And take a look at the photos of this one,
because you know, again it's out there. There's there's studio
shots of it. I don't know if you can find
any production photos of it or not. I haven't even looked,
but um, I think it's kind of neat looking. It's
not it's not uh that much different from their great
big luxury vehicles, only that this is the sports car
version of it. Really, two things though, before we close

(53:24):
today's episode. First, I gotta say with this list, uh,
they included very interesting vehicles, but the world is so
full of one of the kind vehicles and extremely rare vehicles,
you've gotta wonder what else would be on this list. Yeah,

(53:44):
you know, Ben, You're right. I mean there's a lot
of cars out there where there's only one built, And
you know, I was thinking of, uh, um, you know
some other cars where there were a few built but
only a couple remains, you know, like where there's there's
you know, the Steinway Mercedes. That was one. You remember Steinway,
the piano manufacturer that built a body for the Stadis
and um, you know cars like that that I can
see where those are valuable. But I mean, okay, here's

(54:06):
the last one. Maybe is something that I wasn't expecting
is that you know, there's only one of these built,
and that's why it's so expensive. That's I understand. You
know that there's a lot put into this one too.
It's not just that it's just the only one of
its kind, um, but you think that there could be
some other way to kind of separate this list out
to you know, there there were a hundred of these
cars made and only three, uh you know, survived the fire,

(54:28):
and you know only one exists today. That seems to
be even more rare than the one where they just
built one and it's been kind of under factory wraps
for a while. Right, that's a really good I don't
know how to put that. I mean, I'm really struggling
with how to how to how a car can be
called rare or classified as rare or more rare than
another car. And I guess maybe that comes down to
dollar amounts, like on our list here, I mean, because

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we're talking about an eight million dollar factory car, but
it was only built there's only one built. Um, other
cars on the list were more valuable, but there were
more of them built. I don't it's it's just really
tough to put all this together in your head, like
what what makes it the most valuable? I know they're they're, um,
some surprising examples missing from this list, but they only
had ten spots. And we hear that all the time
when we do shows. I can't believe he didn't mention this.

(55:12):
But um, you know there are other lists that have
different vehicles on them, so you'll find those with you know,
like the ZL one Camaro, you know that that type
of thing. Again, someone just checked the right box in
that year, that production year and made it that much
more valuable. And how many one of the kind cars
are locked away in Jay Leno's cave of wonders. Yeah,
he's probably got a lot of them, right, I mean,
it's probably got a ton of those. He's got a

(55:33):
steam he has a steam powered cary he knows how
to operate runs. Probably has more than one, I would guess.
I mean, you know, different types of steam powered vehicles,
but he probably has one that's his favorite or one
that you know is more valuable as daily driver. Yeah,
exactly as daily driver. So here's the second thing. Okay,
is the second thing, because I'm really in a corner
here with this. This list has confounded me for a

(55:55):
couple of days now. But we'll work on it later.
We'll sort this out. Maybe maybe have a follow up
discussion or something. Yeah, and we want your help, friends
and neighbors, ladies and gentlemen. All right, sorry I interrupted
your your second thing. Oh yes, yes, because we set
it up at the top of the show and I

(56:15):
talked about looking for a new car. Uh, some of
the responses I got, so Glenn Glenn Beck asked if
I was still looking for a Winnebago. Does Glenn have
a Winnebago for sale? I wonder. I think he. I
think Glenn's just it sounds very specific, you know, Yeah,
I think he. I think he just knows how much

(56:38):
I want one. I love the idea of one. Yeah, so,
I replied. After eight years of heated debate, Scott finally
talked me off that ledge. Also maybe uh so then
people are recommending Honda. I uh, they said it was
it was a boring car, but reliable. It seems to

(56:59):
be the consensus. And then I told you about the
guy I wanted to sell me a dump truck, and
what was it? A dump truck? And then the other
one was another RV right yeah, yeah yeah? And uh
also he has a lead on a low mileage Caddy
from two thousand five. We had somebody who said they

(57:19):
love their RAV four, which I don't know if that's
for me. I understand that people like him. Yeah, well,
I came off as though I hate them. I don't
hate them. I just don't think it's just not for
you in my style. Um. And then some people were
saying to stay away from Nissan and four cylinder Chevies. Yeah,

(57:41):
and specifically because they said four cylinder Chevies, I had
had to chime in and say, all right, pump your brakes, buddy.
Why well, I'm not driving a four cylinder. But I
can't have people all over the inner being disrespectful to Chevies.

(58:04):
I'm kidding. I understand your Chevy guy. Uh well, but
will they continue? I don't think. I don't know, man, Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. It'll be interesting to
see what you end up with. I mean, you're getting
some getting some advice from people I've never heard anything
bad about well, you know, I should say never, but um,
I don't know what's going on with, you know, people
hating on Nissan. I'm not sure what that's all about.
But uh, and four cylinder chevys. It seems like there's

(58:25):
plenty of decent four cylinder Chevys. But maybe I'm wrong,
Maybe maybe I need to investigate this further. People are
going back and forth on Jeep too. It's right jeeps.
And uh, of course somebody told me to just buy
an A three and uh a nowdy, and I was not,
that's not gonna happen, not having it. Huh yeah, yeah yeah, um,

(58:48):
and you know one of our other of course, several
people chimed in and said, just just bite the bullet,
get a four de f oneif eventually everyone will drive
on at the It seems that way, doesn't it. It
really does. There's a lot of them around here. The
roadways of tomorrow are going to be exclusively Honda Civics,

(59:12):
Honda Chords, definitely Nissan Leaf. You gotta throw the Nissan
Leaf in there, throw it in the le Well, there's
a ton of them on the road here. I think
he didn't mean one time we did this and I'll
we I know we need to wrap up we long today.
But um, it seems that one time I found a
list of state cars, you know, like you have a
state bird, to state song and state whatever your state tree. Um,

(59:33):
someone said, someone created this list of state cars and
it was done by the number of new car registrations
in the state and the like the most predominant type
of vehicle that was sold in that state. And I
believe that for Georgia, I think it was the Nissan Leaf.
I think it was. Yeah, I can't remember every state obviously,
you know, with with what that was, but what the
vehicle was, But Nissan Leaf I think was the most

(59:55):
registered vehicle at least for that year. And this is
going back to a couple of years. That's a rising Well,
I don't know, man, I mean I've I've been paying
attention to how many niece on leaves I've seen on
the road since then, and there are are a ton
of them. It seems like you can't sit at a
stoplight without having you know, one or two around you.
So there's a ton of them here. So I'm wondering
then if maybe maybe I'm not seeing them because I'm

(01:00:16):
not looking for them. It's kind of you know, there's
a there's a lot of psychology behind the cars that
stick out to us on the road when we're driving.
And this is easily proven in the case of any
of your friends buying a car, like if you if
you buy for instance, Um, one of our coworkers bought
a Honda Fit recently and he is continually baffled and

(01:00:38):
amazed and astonished by how many Honda Fits he sees
on the road and he didn't see them prior to that. No,
of course not. I mean, yeah, it's like when I
see another Money Carlos on the road, I think we're
best friends. I'm like, wave into people. This is that
better mine hoff thing? Is that right? Oh yeah, yeah yeah,
it's called yeah beta mine huff. That's where if you
get something stuck in your head, or you you've recently

(01:00:59):
purchased some thing, you then see more of that around
you were. Um, you focus on those more than you
had in the past, because it's just to something that
was that would pass you by and you would even
notice it, given us to give it a second thought
even but like you have a song stuck in your
head and then you hear it later on the radio. Right,
are you psychic or did you just notice it because

(01:01:20):
you were already thinking about you know, and before we
delve into the psychology of how people notice cars. Uh, Scott,
you and I have to get on the road. We
both have some road trips ahead of us this weekend,
and we'd love to hear from you. What do you
think should be on this list of the world's rarest cars? Uh?

(01:01:43):
Do you just gonna take a shot in the dark here? Man?
Do you happen to own one of the cars on
the list? I've got a lot of people are gonna
claim to have, you know, a rare car. It's gonna
be like a Honda Civic. But mine has silver wheels,
ten spoke. You know, no one else has that? Um,
so you know about that? Said well with the sun roof.
Was that one you were telling me about earlier, the

(01:02:05):
where they just put crystals all over? Oh? That was
the Chrysler three. Yeah, the Sowarski crystals or whatever it
was on every bit of trim and the door handles,
the window, surrounds, the grill everywhere. I haven't seen that
car again, so I'm wondering if it was not a
state vehicle, but pretty unusual. Yeah, so on a personally
know folks, please don't do that to your car. But

(01:02:27):
it's your car, you know what I mean. I feel
like some I feel like some dad talking to his
kids about tattoos to each his own, right, yeah, yeah,
but while you're under my roof, all right, we gotta
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