The Unexpected Downside of Winning a Lamborghini

Welcome to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network, where Bama Brown and the Big Puma bring you captivating stories, hilarious anecdotes, and intriguing trivia. In this episode, Bama and Puma dive into the fascinating tale of Michael Maha, the lucky winner of a Lamborghini used in a Shakira music video. But as Michael soon discovers, owning a supercar isn't all it's cracked up to be. From the exorbitant maintenance costs to the fuel-guzzling nature of the beast, Bama and Puma explore the real-life challenges of owning such a luxury vehicle.

Bama also shares his personal experience with high-end cars, recounting the time he owned a sleek black Ferrari, reminiscent of the iconic Magnum PI car. Listen as he navigates the ups and downs of Ferrari ownership, including a memorable encounter with a $500 fuel pump replacement that would cost a small fortune today.

But that's not all! The episode takes a nostalgic turn as Bama reveals behind-the-scenes trivia from the hit TV show Miami Vice, including the story of how Enzo Ferrari himself ensured the show's authenticity by replacing a fake Daytona with a real Testarossa.

Join us for a rollercoaster ride of laughter, nostalgia, and automotive insights, all wrapped up in Bama's signature storytelling style. Whether you're a car enthusiast or just love a good story, this episode has something for everyone. Tune in to The Bama Brown Experience and enjoy the ride!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right, we're gonna mark this story. I saw the
story under the be careful what you wish for a
guy named Michael Maha. Believe I'm pronouncing that right. He
registered to win a Laborghini that Shakira used for one
of her videos. Now still maybe one of my favorite
Super Bowl halftime Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. It was basically

(00:51):
a pole dance on during the halftime, but hey, I
was all about it anyway. She shot this video out
there in LA and they use this especially designed Laborghini
and and Michael won the car. You could enter and
win the Laborghini after they were done with the video,
and he won it. But he said the cost of

(01:12):
upkeep fuel and everything to repair any kind of maintenance
it needs on a Laborghini. Well, he's just a guy.
He's like, man, you he can't afford a Laborghini like.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
That, and even afford an oil change on.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
W I mean, if anybody's wearing a lab coat that's
working on your car, your car is.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Coat and gloves like they're about to get tell you
to turning cough.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Just he drove it for about a month and he
had to fill it up at least three times a
week because, if you know, it got like gallons to
the mile on my mouths of the gallon and he said,
the rear end had a huge wabble. Okay, I did
that one just for okay, Yeah, I made it creepy.
What about it? Go ahead complain, uh and get it

(01:57):
fro an end of linement. No, I keep going, how
many you want me to do it? I had Lamborghini
for lunch over there, cousin Louis. I got a I
got none of them are funny, but I got a
bunch of them. Somebody said, you got a lot of jokes,
just you got any funny ones?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I got a whole roll with THATX of them. Yeah,
turned through.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Them anyway, But I had uh when I was young.
I was twenty five. I actually had a little success
in business, monkey business, but I was still business. And
I bought a Ferrari. I always wanted a Ferrari like
Magnum p I and I bought one, except that was black.
I wanted this black one there and uh, and so

(02:41):
I drove it for two years. It was black, and
then they polished the Ferrari wheels. His buddy of mine,
he knew you. I had a detailed cars though. Anyway,
I love that car. But the fuel pump went out,
and I'll never forget. I had to take it down
to the Ferrari neither and the guy had a lab
coat on, was sitting in looking game, going now this
is forty years ago, probably, I would say, yeah, forty

(03:02):
years ago. So it was an eighty two Ferrari, and
the guy it was five hundred dollars for a fuel pump.
Now this would be today's price three thousand, you know
for a pump.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, at least five six times that nowadays.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
But I love that car. And then I had paid
forty thousand for it, which was a lot of money
for a car, and and I loved it. I had
it two years and this guy calls me, uh, and
he said, the guy bought it from I bought it
pre owned. It was a guy. It was in estate sale.
And the man it owned it never even drove it. It
was he had a guy that drove all his cars

(03:41):
for him, you know. And this guy goes, uh, yeah,
this guy was super nice. And he goes, you want
to sell your Ferrari And I said, no, not really man.
He goes, he goes, you gave me forty for it.
I go, yeah, he goes, I'll give you forty seven
right now, seven grand. I never made money on a
car in my life, you know. And so I went,
you meet me down at First National Bank and we'll

(04:02):
do this deal. And so I got down there. I
got I was gonna get a cab home, you know.
He drove me home. But I got down there and
there was about a dozen Ferraris like Testosis and by
then the three twenty eight had come out, which was
an updated three o eight like a magnum p I car,
that's what we always called it. But uh, and so
they're all there's like ten of them sitting there. And

(04:24):
I got out of the car, you know, and he's
got my check ready and I give him the keys
and I go, what's going on? And he goes Inzo
Ferrari died last night, and he said, all ten of
these I just bought and they're going to Japan. Everyone.
He was getting ready to have them shipped over to
the shipyard there in Houston. This was in Houston, and
he said, they're going to go and load them in
the containers. And he said, I've sold all these to

(04:46):
the investors in Japan. And I said, you give me
forty seven. What did you get for my car? He
goes fifty seven, And so he was making bank, baby,
but he but he also when the test Rosa came out,
he sold the spot in line. He would put a

(05:07):
deposit down for a test Rosa like ten thousand dollars,
and then when it came in, he would sell that
spot in line. You know, he'd get his ten grand
plus another ten or fifteen on top of that. It
never took delivery of the car, just so the person
and he did a bunch of them like that, And
I said, dude, you can't lose in a deal like that.

(05:27):
He goes, you ever heard of a sterling? Yeah, he said,
I ordered four sterlings and then it came out and
road and track, worst car ever made. He said, I
didn't even go get the deposits. I just let it,
let him go. But he told me some trivia though
about Testa Rosa's I didn't know. He said, Enzo Ferrari,
when Miami Vice came on and became like the most

(05:49):
famous show in America, that black what they call the
Daytona was a kit car. It wasn't a real Ferrari
and it it drove him crazy, jove Enzo crazy. And
so after two seasons he contacted the network and he said,
I'm going to give y'all a Testerosa to replace that Daytona,

(06:13):
but I want that Daytona destroyed that kit car. That
just it, you know, it just ted him off. And
so they had a scene if you can, I don't know,
you can look at this, look it up, Google it
where the they're buying a rocket launcher from this guy
that's selling weapons and the uh you know, you had

(06:35):
tubs there he was. He was like, you only have
Jamaican accents. Only accent he had. So he does this
Jamaican accent like he's a buyer and he goes the
date on these rockets. This scene could be old and
you know, Sonny's standing there and that Daytona's out there,
and the guy kicks the box open, pulls out a rocket,
puts it in there and shoots it at that Daytona

(06:56):
and blows the Daytona up on screen. That's that was
a real explosion on screen to blow that Daytona up.
And then the next following week they have the you know,
they've seized a Testa Rosa white Testa Rosa And that
was a little behind the scenes trivia on Miami Weiser
with a Ferrari.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's funny, you know, It's it's full circle because when
you originally told me about the Shakira Lambo, I thought
you were gonna say it was just like a Mazda
Mr two that they converted something. The guy was getting
ripped off because he thought he was getting a real
Lambo and now just you know, just kit car shells.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Seen a lot of those. You know that the Ferrari
Versus Ford Versus Ferrari movie, there was several of those
cars they used, but they they call them super Performance
and that ninety nine percent of the g T forty
parts will fit. The original parts will fit these cars.
They're made in I think either South Africa or maybe

(07:57):
Australia anywhere. But you could still buy those cars. There
are like two hundred and something thousand versus a real
GT forties like to Meion or something. You know, there's
a few less.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Huge it's a huge discount to only pay a quarter
of a million dollars.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Right, but it's it's identical. Friend of mine drove on
and then he's driven. Originally he's driven the A said,
you can't tell the difference. And even as the bubble
and the roof because GT forty stands for forty inches
and he said, has a bubble in the roof for
the crashing only because it's that confining and that tight.
So here we are talking about cars. I promise people
I wouldn't do that. But at least it's stuff you

(08:33):
didn't never know about.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Carskia in here as well.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
So right, I would like to point out I was
talking about Segurra's ass on my show, so you know,
little something for everybody here except women. All right, So
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