May 31, 2023 • 30 mins
Joining us for this episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk featuring David Donahue, son of legendary racer Mark Donahue! Discover David's journey from the Bridgestone Supercar Series to his time with the IndyCar Series and Craftsman Truck Series, as well as his experience working at Porsche Cars North America and his anticipation for the 2023 Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
We also briefly discuss the engineering that makes the Porsche 918 what it is and the PDK transmission. David shares how the feedback from the chassis, steering, and brakes was so communicative compared to other cars he had driven.
In our feature segment, we'll explore auto history - from George Wyman's transcontinental trip, the Buick Motor Company, and the GM Technical Center to the Team Lotus Formula One debut, and the 20 millionth Volkswagen Beetle. Don't miss this high-octane conversation with the talented David Donahue!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another in wheel time podcast, a 30 minute
mini version of the in wheeltime car show that airs live
every Saturday morning 8 to 11am Central.
It is the in wheel time cartalk show coming up.
We're going to talk to a prettyfamous guy about the upcoming
(00:21):
Pike's Peak Hill Climb And I'mnot gonna I'm not going to do
anything other than just teaseit with that.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think that that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We also have coming up Conrad's this week in auto
history, along with some of thestories making automotive news
headlines Howdy, along with Mikeout of this world.
Mars King, conrad along.
We need more Jeff Zekin.
I don't know what that was.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad youcould join us today.
So let's just get right to ourguest.
His name is David Donahue andyou may recognize his last name,
(00:50):
david.
It's great to have you with usthis morning and thank you very
much for joining us.
Well, thanks for having me on.
Yeah, so, um, you're into thehill climb When, when?
well, let's get a littlebackground.
Yeah, i think that you'rerelated to somebody that most of
us older guys know about.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, my dad was marked on a huge Roger Penske's
first driver winner, the Indy500 and Many other championships
, trans and can am, so on and soforth.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So you, you, you have had racing in your blood since
birth.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yes and no.
My back died popped away when Iwas eight and of course my mom
swore up and down to Never goracing.
So how that ended.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, we see that and you have been a Pretty
proactive in races Well for thelast many years.
Give us a little background.
I understand that you were inthe Bridgestone supercar series
for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, that was really one of the first places I
Started racing professionally.
I did some show them stockraces in the firehawk series
before that and Then that thiswas all in the early 90s, so I'm
dating myself as an old guy.
Yeah, welcome to our world.
Yeah, the and that kind ofrolled into.
(02:22):
I had some support from BMW andthat rolled into BMW North
America semi-factory effort withthe M3 in MCGT competition and
Then I Ended up because I was, iwon the supercar championship
with Bridgestone firestone.
I wanted to kind of keep meunder their wing and out Al
(02:43):
Spire like me I guess andintroduced me to Bruce McCall
and And Roger and and I'm a newRoger.
But they wanted me to do someindie lights races and start
pursuing that.
Unfortunately, is around thesame time the big split happened
between Carton, irl, yep, sothings kind of went haywire
there.
But it opened the door for meto do some stuff with PacWest,
(03:09):
the IndyCar team.
They were starting a supertouring team, so that opened the
door for me to establish arelationship with Chrysler Dodge
, with the Stratus super touringand won a championship.
And that that got kind ofshelved, when you know, as as as
it always happens to racersespecially.
(03:31):
It seems to happen to me.
The whole program got cannedbecause Chrysler and Mercedes
merged, or Mercedes boughtChrysler, however you want to
look at it, and the.
The mental state of Mercedeswas race cars are rear wheel
drive.
Of course the Stratus wasn't,so the, the it was retroactively
(03:53):
canned, the whole program.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
This all sounds very familiar.
It's just like the broadcastingindustry that I've been a part
of radio is being canned.
Yeah, all of that sort of stuff.
So you're not by yourself, justin a different genre.
That's all you also.
You also raced in the Craftsmantruck series for a while.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
There are always like one off races, just a handful
of races.
After the Viper in 98, 99,2000,.
I was working with a NASCARteam and did some truck races
and some that.
What then was Bush races Right,the truck races went better
than the Bush races And it wasshort lived.
So and that's when I startedracing for Brumos and Porsche
(04:37):
was 2002 and 2003.
Actually, 2003,.
I was testing in 2002 for the,the new DP category, and then,
you know, after winning Le Mansin 98 and then winning the Rolex
24 in 2009, which was a sort ofa crowning achievement, i guess
, with Brumos being their lastoverall victory at the Rolex 24.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And so obviously very impressive past.
Where are you?
Where have you come from up totoday?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I just said well, no, no no, no, but I think today
you're, you're, i'm 2006 untiltoday.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Where are you?
How did you get to 2006, totoday, as a ways?
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I 2009.
I mean, I stopped racing fulltime in 2012.
I won the Rolex again in 13.
And it's a couple one off races.
And then I was working forPorsche cars North America for
four years with I was the 918spider climate relationship
manager.
Then that position went away asall the cars were sold and the
(05:49):
customers were pretty happy atthat point And I did some work
locally.
And then I worked for a companyin in Rhode Island, But all
along since 2017, I was stillworking for a Porsche cars North
America I met the folks atPorsche Colorado Springs And Joe
(06:13):
Brenner and some of hispatriots asked me if I wanted to
do the Pecs Peak hill climbwith them.
Of course, I always heard aboutPecs Peak.
I never really watched it oranything.
I just said yes And then I sawsome video And then you said no,
I was wondering what the helldid I just do Exactly?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You've had some pretty good success at Pecs Peak
with first in class, a coupleof second in class.
So it's not like you just wentand enjoyed the day.
You went and won.
You know I went.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I've won twice, although last year the
visibility was so poor the timewas bad.
It's weird that a wind feelslike a DNF, but with so much
effort, i mean we're there allmonth.
I leave on Tuesday for a racetowards the end of the month of
June.
So, yeah, i did a lot ofpreparation that first year on
the simulator So that I knewwhere the corners went.
(07:10):
If you ever watch a run, it'ssort of dizzying knowing, not
knowing what corner you're in,because so many of them look the
same.
You do a 25 mile an hourhairpin to the right, and the
road just goes up to the leftaround the corner And no trees,
no, nothing.
So all you see is sky.
And the same thing happens forthe last year Left turns, the
(07:32):
left hand hairpins.
So it was really important tounderstand the sequence of the
corners.
There's 156 corners.
It's 12 and a half miles long,the start line's at 9,500 feet
or 9,300 feet, with the finishline at 14,000 feet.
So hair is really thin.
In fact, in 2018, the carwouldn't even start.
(07:54):
It was a GT3R race car,normally aspirated.
It wouldn't even start withouthaving the engine management
system adjusted And even afterwe got it started, we couldn't
get to get off of idle without acouple more sending the ECU
back to Porsche car Porsche.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Motors.
And what?
what class are you in now?
What car are you driving upthere for the competition this
year?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I'm doing time attack one.
I've done that every year, butone did run a car in open once.
Just, we thought we thoughtthere was an opportunity in open
at one point with a car.
It was a 1300 horsepower GT3R.
Um, it didn't work out the waywe wanted to.
after four engines, we just ranit, which we ended up taking an
(08:44):
engine out of the pre-owned lotat the dealership.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Now there's a story.
You don't hear every day.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We hear you run out of engines.
It was an expensive year, uh,but TA, uh, ta one is basically
modified street cars.
Um, we're starting with areally good base car, the GT2 RS
club sport Porsche.
So it's basically the streetPorsche turned into a race car
by the factory.
Uh, and then we do significantother modifications for
(09:17):
aerodynamics and power.
So we, it's not um, I mean,it's big power for some people,
not huge power for you folks inTexas We're making um 800 wheel
horsepower.
Um, i know I'm doing work withHennessy, so the whole
definition of power has changedfor me.
Yeah, when I'm running the F5with 1800 horsepower, um, but uh
(09:42):
, yeah, the car is, um, thecar's a proven, solid competitor
.
Um, you never know what you'regoing to get.
This year We have a uh Alpinefrom Europe coming over.
It's a thousand pounds lighterthan my car And, uh, you know it
makes really good power.
Um, it seems to have prettygood arrow uh and a really good
(10:02):
driver.
So we've got our, uh, we've gota work cut out for us.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How do you get 1800 horsepower to the ground?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, they do it.
I mean I, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Big, big tires and wings that push you into the
ground, yeah, but still 1800horsepower and cars that
virtually weigh nothing.
It seems to me like nothing buttire spin all the way, yeah
you'd think.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But uh, i ran the car and it was, uh, I did.
I gave laps in, uh, arizona, ata place called the podium club
at a Tessa, and uh, it was, itwas fucking really good.
Um, i could, really you couldget full throttle and just go
through the gears.
Um, i mean, i don't first gearyour private traction limit.
(10:47):
Actually, they put a shorterring opinion in it because it
was the road course version ofthe car.
Yeah, and I don't think youneeded the shorter ring opinion.
It just it has so much torquebecause it's six 6.6 liter twin
turbo V8, but that that thatnormally aspirated part of the
6.6 liter makes so much torque.
Um, and it, uh, yeah, it uh, itwould actually kind of pick up
(11:12):
the front of the car and and anddrive the front off.
Yeah, yeah, i mean.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm it's, it's, i'm a jet.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I mean I'm exaggerating, but you know you
did have to like pedal thethrottle, not so much just for
the rear but for the front too.
So only weighs 3,000 pounds.
So it's still quite a light carfor something like that.
So you're running again the2019.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
GT2 RS at a pike's peak this year.
Is it the same car, Cause I seeyou've been driving that.
You're making models since 2020.
Is it the same car each year oris the car changed?
It was How.
How do I describe this?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's a different Vin.
It's the same car.
Um 2020 and 2021 was adifferent Vin.
Okay, so it's the same kind ofcar but a different actual
physical car.
Uh, since last year and thisyear, uh, bruno most bought the
car.
Last year It arrived really late, um, it got to the BBI auto
(12:09):
sports shop in California, um, ithink in the beginning of May
last year, uh, and they wenthard at work to um do the
changeover of the aerodynamics,which is no small feat.
I mean it's really uh, wechange it to a center radiator.
Instead of three radiators onthe front, there's only one big
(12:32):
one in the middle and a giantsplitter, um, that sticks about
a foot out of the front of thecar and a dual element rear wing
.
Uh, there's two differentradiators.
Dual element rear wing uh,there's there's just a lot
different fenders and frontwheel and tires and brakes, and
I mean it just goes on and onthe list that the basic car
remains the same.
(12:52):
Last year we didn't do anythingwith the engine.
This year we we rubbed on theengine a little bit and you know
, hopefully we have a a bit moreof a powerful tool at our
disposal.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So as wide ranging as your dad was in motor sports,
did he ever run Pike's Peak?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He never ran Pike's Peak but ironically he started
his career with Hill Clines,where I'm ending my career with
Hill Clines, that's the point Iwas trying to make earlier is
that you've got all thesewonderful awards and
championships.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Do you have an engineering background?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
No, i don't.
I went to school at LehighUniversity, but I had entirely
too much fun and basicallydeclared my major based on what
will let me qualify or graduatein four years.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We can relate to that .
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Some of us didn't quite go to what would graduate
for years.
Sycollege is all a blur.
Some of us don't havebackgrounds.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I don't know that I would actually graduate if I
didn't meet my now wife.
When we would study together,she would actually study.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Go figure, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I studied it.
It would really make her madwhen I got a better grade in a
class than she did.
when I studied all her notes,she told me how to do all the
work.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
She's a good teacher.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
That's it.
Yeah, we've got a friend ofours is going up to Pike's Peak
and actually he's one of theofficials up there, richard
Tomlin, and he's bringing MontyExcel, exocet or something like
that Kind of his own little homebuilt Mazda Miata with a LS7 in
it and twin hair dryers on it.
(14:41):
It's a beast, it truly is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You really need to have forced induction.
There's just so much power losswith a normally aspirated car
up there.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What is your everyday driver?
I have a Taycan.
Yes, a Taycan.
Of course he does.
Yeah, yeah, it would have to bea Porsche.
Yeah, is Porsche everythingthat they say that it is?
I've never had one, i'veactually never driven one, but I
hear all these wonderful thingsand I'll tell you that, all of
the surveys, they are the topcar builder.
(15:14):
When the car leaves the factoryat Porsche, it is as good as
any car can be in a massproduced car.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, they're really hard to modify because you're
spending the money on all thatmodification to begin with.
So if you want to get morepower out of it, it's going to
cost you a lot of money becausethey're so well refined.
It's already there With the 918.
The 918 was a million dollarcar and I hit around that the
(15:46):
engineers had an endless budgetand a whole lot of fun because
the PDK transmission, whichshifts automatically, was so
intuitive, things like that.
You know the engineers, ifyou're half throttle you don't
want to rev it out to redline,right, you kind of want to shift
it at some RPM.
That's a little bit high, butnot not really high.
(16:09):
They just had it mastered.
It would just shift naturallywherever you wanted and the
feedback through the chassis andthe steering and the brakes,
everything was.
It's so communicative comparedto other cars and I didn't
appreciate that until I drove abunch of other cars at a race
track at a club day and I wasdoing some instruction and I was
(16:32):
just shocked that going downPit lane you know what you got
in the Porsche and many of theother cars.
You needed a couple laps ofmistakes to know what not to do.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So the engineers had did a lot of research.
Yeah, the car guys, yeah, a lotof fun research.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, they know what they want out of it and they
make it happen.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Especially when you don't have a budget.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Exactly Well, I'm sure they had a budget.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Well, david, it's great talking to you and
reminiscing about the past andyour history, great to get to
know you and also lookingforward to seeing how things
play out for you on the Pike'sPeak Hill Climb coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Thank you me too, yeah, and we look forward to
talking with you after the,after the hill climb, and see
how things went for you mentally.
Okay, great, thank you.
Thank you, appreciate it.
You have a good day.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Man a month long.
He's going up there for a month.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And be involved in all of that for an entire month.
I'll be beside myself and outof wind.
He's representing Porsche, soyou have to do that.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, you know, when you talk Brumos, you know you're
talking top tier Porscheoperation in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
You're not secondhand in it.
You got a Shade Tree in it,mars What?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
are you?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
trying to say What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Hey, we'd love to hear from you anytime.
All you have to do is shoot usan email.
Our email address is info atinwheeltimecom.
Time now for This Week in AutoHistory, and Conrad has that.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So in 1903, George Wyman became the first
motorcyclist to make atranscontinental trip across
America.
You know, think about that.
He's on a motorcycle drivingacross America before there were
really any roads.
A 1.25 horsepower, 90ccCalifornia motorcycle designed
(18:30):
by Rohrmarchs Be like crossingthe country on a Honda, on your
Briggs and Stratton.
On a Honda 90.
Yeah, wyman's Ardruis journeystarted in San Francisco on May
16th and it took him 50 days andended in New York City on July
6th.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I'll bet his butt was real sore.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
From San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You said that I didn't go there In 1903, david
Dunbar Buick, former plumbinginventor and manufacturer,
incorporated the Buick MotorCompany and formed it in 1902 in
Detroit, michigan.
In 1956, general Motors opensits brand new $125 million GM
(19:13):
technical center in Warren,michigan.
Today, the technical center isone of the landmarks of the 20th
century architecture.
GM spent $1 billion renovatingit in 2003.
And do you know, mary Barragame?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
$29 million last year .
All right, so it looks like awind tunnel, the configuration
Well there's a wind tunnel there.
Yes, but the way Switch to thenext picture.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
It's kind of a bigger view of what it looks like
after the renovation.
So that's the whole complexthere.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I didn't know they had a football field there.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
And then up in the upper left corner you can see
that red building again.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But I mean just the initial impression of the design
.
Looks like a wind tunnel.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And then in 1958, in Monaco, france, team Lotus makes
its Formula One debut at theMonaco Grand Prix, the opening
event for that year's Europeanracing season.
Over the next four decades,team Lotus will go on to become
one of the most successful teamsin Formula One racing history.
Jim Clark won his first WorldDrivers Championship in 1963,
(20:14):
driving a Lotus, beginning thegolden age of Lotus racing.
Both Clark and Graham Hill bothwon multiple Formula One titles
.
Clark also drove a Lotus tovictory in the Indy 500 in 1965.
And then years later, virtuososlike Emerson Fiddepaldi, mario
Andretti and Alessandro Zinardiall represented the Lotus Team
(20:37):
brand in Formula One, by the way, that Lotus is in the Henry
Ford.
That car?
Yeah, okay, in 1981, the 20millionth Volkswagen Beetle was
produced in Puebla, mexico, andthat's actually in the museum in
Wolfsburg right now.
Is that silver Volkswagen?
(20:57):
And 2005, toyota Motor Companyannounces its plans to produce a
gasoline electric hybridversion of its best selling
Toyota Camry sedan, built at thecompany's Georgetown Kentucky
plant.
The Camry became the firsthybrid model to be manufactured
in the United States, and thenin 2007, los Angeles, california
(21:21):
, is the first stop on a crosscountry road show And that's the
stop for the smart car, theSmart 4.2, in the USA, and
actually I think that has kindof fallen under the Mercedes
umbrella as well.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
It needs all the help it can get.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Did you ever get one as a company car?
I?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
did No, not as a company car, as a press car.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, press time and as a press car.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
There are some Mercedes dealerships that use
those as golf carts to takefolks out on the on the tour,
looking for luck, yep.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Do you ever?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
have one.
I never had a smart car.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I was never so scared on the freeway in my entire
life, until I got into that one.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
You could literally put that in the back of a pickup
truck.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, that's not, you know what.
We just need to move on, that'snot even worth the words It's
an automobile seeds what it is.
You plant that and you get acar.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Okay, it's just bad.
That's this week in autohistory.
Well, you know glad I broughtback such wonderful memories for
you now.
You always do.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You know, all that is literally really is a grocery
getter.
If you're, if you're travelingunder 40 miles an hour, okay, if
you got to have something thatlooks weird, drives weird and
all of the things around weird,then that's the car Mars.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're not saying anything And then some other
manufacturers followed it withequally weird cars.
You know, remember Lexus didthe IQ.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
If you're going to do that, why not just get yourself
a motorcycle and a backpack?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Electric car, get an electric car.
I did drive a smart car at oneof the events of the Texas Motor
Speedway.
Are you bragging or what?
I was fortunate that I didn'thave to get out on the highway
in it.
I think it was like 57, 58miles an hour, as fast as that
car would go.
They timed you with a calendar.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
They probably did.
I never understood that.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Me either.
I was never a fan of it.
And you know they sold quite afew of them early on and you
occasionally see one on thehighway here now every now and
then.
I would feel totally unsafedriving in that because I mean,
you know what you would thinklooking up at an F 150, you
would think that that car wouldbe, like you know, $5,000.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's not.
It's relatively expensive forwhat you get.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Oh, when they were new they were in the mid to high
20s.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, you only get the front seat.
But you know, when they firstcame to Texas they made a big
deal in Austin about you knowyou could rent them.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Well, so far yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
But they cars like that just don't work at Texas.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Thank you, let's do sold cars roundup from Hemings
this week.
We always have a good time withthat.
This is for you, jeff, allright And Conrad.
1993 Cadillac Alante car thatwas built in Italy and shipped
to the United States or via anaircraft.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And said custom built 747.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It sold this past week for auction price of
$11,550.
A 93.
A 93.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
93 was probably, if there was forgive me the best
year for an Alante.
That would have been the bestyear for the Alante because that
was the only year the Alantewas available with the North
Star engine.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, you missed it.
You missed your opportunity.
No, I didn't.
Jeff missed his opportunity,That's right.
So 1987 Chevrolet El Camino 87.
87.
Pretty good looking car, hadthe Monte Carlo front end on it
21,242 dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I think that's a lot.
I was thinking less than thatIt's a lot for that year.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
1974 Chevrolet Corvette week in the Bridges
1974.
174 horsepower.
How much money do you think itsold for?
18?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
grand 14.
Yeah, I was going to say 14.
8,100 dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Oh, and the owner was happy to get that much for it.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Probably.
Here's one.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Means.
It didn't sell it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
This is mine a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
Oh yeah, How much A convertible, by the way.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, so it's not the 24-Heads and 390s.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
now We don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
We have to assume it's a 396 because it's a
convertible.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And it's an SS.
We assume it's not the 28.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I'll say 50.
I'll say 135,345.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I only missed it by 100,000.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Can you imagine how smart cars you could get with
that?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Here's Jeff's car And literally what year is your car
?
13.
This is a 2005 Cadillac SRXSilver.
It's a Gen 1.
And it sold for 6 grand 13,388dollars.
That's too much money Way morethan it was worth.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Let me see that A 1969 Chevy Camaro.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Now it says a Z28 on the badging on it.
We don't know whether it's aclone or what.
We don't know anything otherthan it's green, got white
racing stripes on it 69, Z28,69,300 dollars.
1958 Chevrolet 3200.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh, That's the Apache with quad headlights, Would you
?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
would you?
I don't, i don't know if thisis the Apache.
It's kind of shapes the stepside.
So that's the three quartertime.
You never know, Well I mean,does it look good?
Well, these all look good.
Yeah, this one here is 8,000dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
No, that's cheap.
That's cause it's a threequarter ton or one ton.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How about a 77 Ford F-150 for 6,300 dollars Too much
, and a Nash Metropolitan soldfor $4,000.
I wouldn't give you $4 for it.
but whatever, the 1950 Buick41,.
I think my grandfather had oneof these $6,500 at auction.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And I bet you mine did.
Smokey Burnhouse, a 49 Willis.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Jeepster for $30,451.
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We're going to talk to a prettyfamous guy about the upcoming
(00:21):
Pike's Peak Hill Climb And I'mnot gonna I'm not going to do
anything other than just teaseit with that.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think that that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We also have coming up Conrad's this week in auto
history, along with some of thestories making automotive news
headlines Howdy, along with Mikeout of this world.
Mars King, conrad along.
We need more Jeff Zekin.
I don't know what that was.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad youcould join us today.
So let's just get right to ourguest.
His name is David Donahue andyou may recognize his last name,
(00:50):
david.
It's great to have you with usthis morning and thank you very
much for joining us.
Well, thanks for having me on.
Yeah, so, um, you're into thehill climb When, when?
well, let's get a littlebackground.
Yeah, i think that you'rerelated to somebody that most of
us older guys know about.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, my dad was marked on a huge Roger Penske's
first driver winner, the Indy500 and Many other championships
, trans and can am, so on and soforth.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So you, you, you have had racing in your blood since
birth.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yes and no.
My back died popped away when Iwas eight and of course my mom
swore up and down to Never goracing.
So how that ended.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, we see that and you have been a Pretty
proactive in races Well for thelast many years.
Give us a little background.
I understand that you were inthe Bridgestone supercar series
for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, that was really one of the first places I
Started racing professionally.
I did some show them stockraces in the firehawk series
before that and Then that thiswas all in the early 90s, so I'm
dating myself as an old guy.
Yeah, welcome to our world.
Yeah, the and that kind ofrolled into.
(02:22):
I had some support from BMW andthat rolled into BMW North
America semi-factory effort withthe M3 in MCGT competition and
Then I Ended up because I was, iwon the supercar championship
with Bridgestone firestone.
I wanted to kind of keep meunder their wing and out Al
(02:43):
Spire like me I guess andintroduced me to Bruce McCall
and And Roger and and I'm a newRoger.
But they wanted me to do someindie lights races and start
pursuing that.
Unfortunately, is around thesame time the big split happened
between Carton, irl, yep, sothings kind of went haywire
there.
But it opened the door for meto do some stuff with PacWest,
(03:09):
the IndyCar team.
They were starting a supertouring team, so that opened the
door for me to establish arelationship with Chrysler Dodge
, with the Stratus super touringand won a championship.
And that that got kind ofshelved, when you know, as as as
it always happens to racersespecially.
(03:31):
It seems to happen to me.
The whole program got cannedbecause Chrysler and Mercedes
merged, or Mercedes boughtChrysler, however you want to
look at it, and the.
The mental state of Mercedeswas race cars are rear wheel
drive.
Of course the Stratus wasn't,so the, the it was retroactively
(03:53):
canned, the whole program.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
This all sounds very familiar.
It's just like the broadcastingindustry that I've been a part
of radio is being canned.
Yeah, all of that sort of stuff.
So you're not by yourself, justin a different genre.
That's all you also.
You also raced in the Craftsmantruck series for a while.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
There are always like one off races, just a handful
of races.
After the Viper in 98, 99,2000,.
I was working with a NASCARteam and did some truck races
and some that.
What then was Bush races Right,the truck races went better
than the Bush races And it wasshort lived.
So and that's when I startedracing for Brumos and Porsche
(04:37):
was 2002 and 2003.
Actually, 2003,.
I was testing in 2002 for the,the new DP category, and then,
you know, after winning Le Mansin 98 and then winning the Rolex
24 in 2009, which was a sort ofa crowning achievement, i guess
, with Brumos being their lastoverall victory at the Rolex 24.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And so obviously very impressive past.
Where are you?
Where have you come from up totoday?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I just said well, no, no no, no, but I think today
you're, you're, i'm 2006 untiltoday.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Where are you?
How did you get to 2006, totoday, as a ways?
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I 2009.
I mean, I stopped racing fulltime in 2012.
I won the Rolex again in 13.
And it's a couple one off races.
And then I was working forPorsche cars North America for
four years with I was the 918spider climate relationship
manager.
Then that position went away asall the cars were sold and the
(05:49):
customers were pretty happy atthat point And I did some work
locally.
And then I worked for a companyin in Rhode Island, But all
along since 2017, I was stillworking for a Porsche cars North
America I met the folks atPorsche Colorado Springs And Joe
(06:13):
Brenner and some of hispatriots asked me if I wanted to
do the Pecs Peak hill climbwith them.
Of course, I always heard aboutPecs Peak.
I never really watched it oranything.
I just said yes And then I sawsome video And then you said no,
I was wondering what the helldid I just do Exactly?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You've had some pretty good success at Pecs Peak
with first in class, a coupleof second in class.
So it's not like you just wentand enjoyed the day.
You went and won.
You know I went.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I've won twice, although last year the
visibility was so poor the timewas bad.
It's weird that a wind feelslike a DNF, but with so much
effort, i mean we're there allmonth.
I leave on Tuesday for a racetowards the end of the month of
June.
So, yeah, i did a lot ofpreparation that first year on
the simulator So that I knewwhere the corners went.
(07:10):
If you ever watch a run, it'ssort of dizzying knowing, not
knowing what corner you're in,because so many of them look the
same.
You do a 25 mile an hourhairpin to the right, and the
road just goes up to the leftaround the corner And no trees,
no, nothing.
So all you see is sky.
And the same thing happens forthe last year Left turns, the
(07:32):
left hand hairpins.
So it was really important tounderstand the sequence of the
corners.
There's 156 corners.
It's 12 and a half miles long,the start line's at 9,500 feet
or 9,300 feet, with the finishline at 14,000 feet.
So hair is really thin.
In fact, in 2018, the carwouldn't even start.
(07:54):
It was a GT3R race car,normally aspirated.
It wouldn't even start withouthaving the engine management
system adjusted And even afterwe got it started, we couldn't
get to get off of idle without acouple more sending the ECU
back to Porsche car Porsche.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Motors.
And what?
what class are you in now?
What car are you driving upthere for the competition this
year?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I'm doing time attack one.
I've done that every year, butone did run a car in open once.
Just, we thought we thoughtthere was an opportunity in open
at one point with a car.
It was a 1300 horsepower GT3R.
Um, it didn't work out the waywe wanted to.
after four engines, we just ranit, which we ended up taking an
(08:44):
engine out of the pre-owned lotat the dealership.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Now there's a story.
You don't hear every day.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We hear you run out of engines.
It was an expensive year, uh,but TA, uh, ta one is basically
modified street cars.
Um, we're starting with areally good base car, the GT2 RS
club sport Porsche.
So it's basically the streetPorsche turned into a race car
by the factory.
Uh, and then we do significantother modifications for
(09:17):
aerodynamics and power.
So we, it's not um, I mean,it's big power for some people,
not huge power for you folks inTexas We're making um 800 wheel
horsepower.
Um, i know I'm doing work withHennessy, so the whole
definition of power has changedfor me.
Yeah, when I'm running the F5with 1800 horsepower, um, but uh
(09:42):
, yeah, the car is, um, thecar's a proven, solid competitor
.
Um, you never know what you'regoing to get.
This year We have a uh Alpinefrom Europe coming over.
It's a thousand pounds lighterthan my car And, uh, you know it
makes really good power.
Um, it seems to have prettygood arrow uh and a really good
(10:02):
driver.
So we've got our, uh, we've gota work cut out for us.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How do you get 1800 horsepower to the ground?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, they do it.
I mean I, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Big, big tires and wings that push you into the
ground, yeah, but still 1800horsepower and cars that
virtually weigh nothing.
It seems to me like nothing buttire spin all the way, yeah
you'd think.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But uh, i ran the car and it was, uh, I did.
I gave laps in, uh, arizona, ata place called the podium club
at a Tessa, and uh, it was, itwas fucking really good.
Um, i could, really you couldget full throttle and just go
through the gears.
Um, i mean, i don't first gearyour private traction limit.
(10:47):
Actually, they put a shorterring opinion in it because it
was the road course version ofthe car.
Yeah, and I don't think youneeded the shorter ring opinion.
It just it has so much torquebecause it's six 6.6 liter twin
turbo V8, but that that thatnormally aspirated part of the
6.6 liter makes so much torque.
Um, and it, uh, yeah, it uh, itwould actually kind of pick up
(11:12):
the front of the car and and anddrive the front off.
Yeah, yeah, i mean.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm it's, it's, i'm a jet.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I mean I'm exaggerating, but you know you
did have to like pedal thethrottle, not so much just for
the rear but for the front too.
So only weighs 3,000 pounds.
So it's still quite a light carfor something like that.
So you're running again the2019.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
GT2 RS at a pike's peak this year.
Is it the same car, Cause I seeyou've been driving that.
You're making models since 2020.
Is it the same car each year oris the car changed?
It was How.
How do I describe this?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's a different Vin.
It's the same car.
Um 2020 and 2021 was adifferent Vin.
Okay, so it's the same kind ofcar but a different actual
physical car.
Uh, since last year and thisyear, uh, bruno most bought the
car.
Last year It arrived really late, um, it got to the BBI auto
(12:09):
sports shop in California, um, ithink in the beginning of May
last year, uh, and they wenthard at work to um do the
changeover of the aerodynamics,which is no small feat.
I mean it's really uh, wechange it to a center radiator.
Instead of three radiators onthe front, there's only one big
(12:32):
one in the middle and a giantsplitter, um, that sticks about
a foot out of the front of thecar and a dual element rear wing
.
Uh, there's two differentradiators.
Dual element rear wing uh,there's there's just a lot
different fenders and frontwheel and tires and brakes, and
I mean it just goes on and onthe list that the basic car
remains the same.
(12:52):
Last year we didn't do anythingwith the engine.
This year we we rubbed on theengine a little bit and you know
, hopefully we have a a bit moreof a powerful tool at our
disposal.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So as wide ranging as your dad was in motor sports,
did he ever run Pike's Peak?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He never ran Pike's Peak but ironically he started
his career with Hill Clines,where I'm ending my career with
Hill Clines, that's the point Iwas trying to make earlier is
that you've got all thesewonderful awards and
championships.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Do you have an engineering background?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
No, i don't.
I went to school at LehighUniversity, but I had entirely
too much fun and basicallydeclared my major based on what
will let me qualify or graduatein four years.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We can relate to that .
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Some of us didn't quite go to what would graduate
for years.
Sycollege is all a blur.
Some of us don't havebackgrounds.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I don't know that I would actually graduate if I
didn't meet my now wife.
When we would study together,she would actually study.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Go figure, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I studied it.
It would really make her madwhen I got a better grade in a
class than she did.
when I studied all her notes,she told me how to do all the
work.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
She's a good teacher.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
That's it.
Yeah, we've got a friend ofours is going up to Pike's Peak
and actually he's one of theofficials up there, richard
Tomlin, and he's bringing MontyExcel, exocet or something like
that Kind of his own little homebuilt Mazda Miata with a LS7 in
it and twin hair dryers on it.
(14:41):
It's a beast, it truly is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You really need to have forced induction.
There's just so much power losswith a normally aspirated car
up there.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What is your everyday driver?
I have a Taycan.
Yes, a Taycan.
Of course he does.
Yeah, yeah, it would have to bea Porsche.
Yeah, is Porsche everythingthat they say that it is?
I've never had one, i'veactually never driven one, but I
hear all these wonderful thingsand I'll tell you that, all of
the surveys, they are the topcar builder.
(15:14):
When the car leaves the factoryat Porsche, it is as good as
any car can be in a massproduced car.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, they're really hard to modify because you're
spending the money on all thatmodification to begin with.
So if you want to get morepower out of it, it's going to
cost you a lot of money becausethey're so well refined.
It's already there With the 918.
The 918 was a million dollarcar and I hit around that the
(15:46):
engineers had an endless budgetand a whole lot of fun because
the PDK transmission, whichshifts automatically, was so
intuitive, things like that.
You know the engineers, ifyou're half throttle you don't
want to rev it out to redline,right, you kind of want to shift
it at some RPM.
That's a little bit high, butnot not really high.
(16:09):
They just had it mastered.
It would just shift naturallywherever you wanted and the
feedback through the chassis andthe steering and the brakes,
everything was.
It's so communicative comparedto other cars and I didn't
appreciate that until I drove abunch of other cars at a race
track at a club day and I wasdoing some instruction and I was
(16:32):
just shocked that going downPit lane you know what you got
in the Porsche and many of theother cars.
You needed a couple laps ofmistakes to know what not to do.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So the engineers had did a lot of research.
Yeah, the car guys, yeah, a lotof fun research.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, they know what they want out of it and they
make it happen.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Especially when you don't have a budget.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Exactly Well, I'm sure they had a budget.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Well, david, it's great talking to you and
reminiscing about the past andyour history, great to get to
know you and also lookingforward to seeing how things
play out for you on the Pike'sPeak Hill Climb coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Thank you me too, yeah, and we look forward to
talking with you after the,after the hill climb, and see
how things went for you mentally.
Okay, great, thank you.
Thank you, appreciate it.
You have a good day.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Man a month long.
He's going up there for a month.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And be involved in all of that for an entire month.
I'll be beside myself and outof wind.
He's representing Porsche, soyou have to do that.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, you know, when you talk Brumos, you know you're
talking top tier Porscheoperation in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
You're not secondhand in it.
You got a Shade Tree in it,mars What?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
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Speaker 2 (17:54):
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Time now for This Week in AutoHistory, and Conrad has that.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So in 1903, George Wyman became the first
motorcyclist to make atranscontinental trip across
America.
You know, think about that.
He's on a motorcycle drivingacross America before there were
really any roads.
A 1.25 horsepower, 90ccCalifornia motorcycle designed
(18:30):
by Rohrmarchs Be like crossingthe country on a Honda, on your
Briggs and Stratton.
On a Honda 90.
Yeah, wyman's Ardruis journeystarted in San Francisco on May
16th and it took him 50 days andended in New York City on July
6th.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I'll bet his butt was real sore.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
From San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You said that I didn't go there In 1903, david
Dunbar Buick, former plumbinginventor and manufacturer,
incorporated the Buick MotorCompany and formed it in 1902 in
Detroit, michigan.
In 1956, general Motors opensits brand new $125 million GM
(19:13):
technical center in Warren,michigan.
Today, the technical center isone of the landmarks of the 20th
century architecture.
GM spent $1 billion renovatingit in 2003.
And do you know, mary Barragame?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
$29 million last year .
All right, so it looks like awind tunnel, the configuration
Well there's a wind tunnel there.
Yes, but the way Switch to thenext picture.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
It's kind of a bigger view of what it looks like
after the renovation.
So that's the whole complexthere.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I didn't know they had a football field there.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
And then up in the upper left corner you can see
that red building again.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But I mean just the initial impression of the design
.
Looks like a wind tunnel.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And then in 1958, in Monaco, france, team Lotus makes
its Formula One debut at theMonaco Grand Prix, the opening
event for that year's Europeanracing season.
Over the next four decades,team Lotus will go on to become
one of the most successful teamsin Formula One racing history.
Jim Clark won his first WorldDrivers Championship in 1963,
(20:14):
driving a Lotus, beginning thegolden age of Lotus racing.
Both Clark and Graham Hill bothwon multiple Formula One titles
.
Clark also drove a Lotus tovictory in the Indy 500 in 1965.
And then years later, virtuososlike Emerson Fiddepaldi, mario
Andretti and Alessandro Zinardiall represented the Lotus Team
(20:37):
brand in Formula One, by the way, that Lotus is in the Henry
Ford.
That car?
Yeah, okay, in 1981, the 20millionth Volkswagen Beetle was
produced in Puebla, mexico, andthat's actually in the museum in
Wolfsburg right now.
Is that silver Volkswagen?
(20:57):
And 2005, toyota Motor Companyannounces its plans to produce a
gasoline electric hybridversion of its best selling
Toyota Camry sedan, built at thecompany's Georgetown Kentucky
plant.
The Camry became the firsthybrid model to be manufactured
in the United States, and thenin 2007, los Angeles, california
(21:21):
, is the first stop on a crosscountry road show And that's the
stop for the smart car, theSmart 4.2, in the USA, and
actually I think that has kindof fallen under the Mercedes
umbrella as well.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
It needs all the help it can get.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Did you ever get one as a company car?
I?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
did No, not as a company car, as a press car.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, press time and as a press car.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
There are some Mercedes dealerships that use
those as golf carts to takefolks out on the on the tour,
looking for luck, yep.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Do you ever?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
have one.
I never had a smart car.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I was never so scared on the freeway in my entire
life, until I got into that one.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
You could literally put that in the back of a pickup
truck.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, that's not, you know what.
We just need to move on, that'snot even worth the words It's
an automobile seeds what it is.
You plant that and you get acar.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Okay, it's just bad.
That's this week in autohistory.
Well, you know glad I broughtback such wonderful memories for
you now.
You always do.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You know, all that is literally really is a grocery
getter.
If you're, if you're travelingunder 40 miles an hour, okay, if
you got to have something thatlooks weird, drives weird and
all of the things around weird,then that's the car Mars.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're not saying anything And then some other
manufacturers followed it withequally weird cars.
You know, remember Lexus didthe IQ.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
If you're going to do that, why not just get yourself
a motorcycle and a backpack?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Electric car, get an electric car.
I did drive a smart car at oneof the events of the Texas Motor
Speedway.
Are you bragging or what?
I was fortunate that I didn'thave to get out on the highway
in it.
I think it was like 57, 58miles an hour, as fast as that
car would go.
They timed you with a calendar.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
They probably did.
I never understood that.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Me either.
I was never a fan of it.
And you know they sold quite afew of them early on and you
occasionally see one on thehighway here now every now and
then.
I would feel totally unsafedriving in that because I mean,
you know what you would thinklooking up at an F 150, you
would think that that car wouldbe, like you know, $5,000.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's not.
It's relatively expensive forwhat you get.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Oh, when they were new they were in the mid to high
20s.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, you only get the front seat.
But you know, when they firstcame to Texas they made a big
deal in Austin about you knowyou could rent them.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Well, so far yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
But they cars like that just don't work at Texas.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Thank you, let's do sold cars roundup from Hemings
this week.
We always have a good time withthat.
This is for you, jeff, allright And Conrad.
1993 Cadillac Alante car thatwas built in Italy and shipped
to the United States or via anaircraft.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And said custom built 747.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It sold this past week for auction price of
$11,550.
A 93.
A 93.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
93 was probably, if there was forgive me the best
year for an Alante.
That would have been the bestyear for the Alante because that
was the only year the Alantewas available with the North
Star engine.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, you missed it.
You missed your opportunity.
No, I didn't.
Jeff missed his opportunity,That's right.
So 1987 Chevrolet El Camino 87.
87.
Pretty good looking car, hadthe Monte Carlo front end on it
21,242 dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I think that's a lot.
I was thinking less than thatIt's a lot for that year.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
1974 Chevrolet Corvette week in the Bridges
1974.
174 horsepower.
How much money do you think itsold for?
18?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
grand 14.
Yeah, I was going to say 14.
8,100 dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Oh, and the owner was happy to get that much for it.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Probably.
Here's one.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Means.
It didn't sell it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
This is mine a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
Oh yeah, How much A convertible, by the way.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, so it's not the 24-Heads and 390s.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
now We don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
We have to assume it's a 396 because it's a
convertible.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And it's an SS.
We assume it's not the 28.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I'll say 50.
I'll say 135,345.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I only missed it by 100,000.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Can you imagine how smart cars you could get with
that?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Here's Jeff's car And literally what year is your car
?
13.
This is a 2005 Cadillac SRXSilver.
It's a Gen 1.
And it sold for 6 grand 13,388dollars.
That's too much money Way morethan it was worth.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Let me see that A 1969 Chevy Camaro.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Now it says a Z28 on the badging on it.
We don't know whether it's aclone or what.
We don't know anything otherthan it's green, got white
racing stripes on it 69, Z28,69,300 dollars.
1958 Chevrolet 3200.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh, That's the Apache with quad headlights, Would you
?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
would you?
I don't, i don't know if thisis the Apache.
It's kind of shapes the stepside.
So that's the three quartertime.
You never know, Well I mean,does it look good?
Well, these all look good.
Yeah, this one here is 8,000dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
No, that's cheap.
That's cause it's a threequarter ton or one ton.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How about a 77 Ford F-150 for 6,300 dollars Too much
, and a Nash Metropolitan soldfor $4,000.
I wouldn't give you $4 for it.
but whatever, the 1950 Buick41,.
I think my grandfather had oneof these $6,500 at auction.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And I bet you mine did.
Smokey Burnhouse, a 49 Willis.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Jeepster for $30,451.
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