February 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Have you ever wondered what happens when sports fandom collides with the worlds of music and classic cars? Join us in the Gearbox at Unique Classic Cars as we navigate the unexpected twists and turns of recent NFL games, particularly the puzzling performance of the Kansas City Chiefs. We also dive into the swirling conspiracy theories about officiating and the growing media interests of Travis Kelsey. And if Taylor Swift's game day appearances piqued your curiosity, we've got some amusing takes that blend sports, celebrity, and a touch of humor.
As our engines rev, we flip back through the pages of musical history, recalling the hauntingly brilliant cover of "Personal Jesus" by Johnny Cash. Ever fantasized about owning a piece of history like Johnny's last Lincoln? Our discussion weaves through the sentimental tales tied to classic cars and their surprising appearances in modern spectacles like the Super Bowl halftime show.
The conversation accelerates with tales of high-octane performance cars like the upcoming 2025 Mustang Shelby GT350 and the joys—and challenges—of bringing such powerhouses home. There's a comedic twist as we strategize ways to sell our significant others on the idea of owning such beasts. Our chat continues with the whimsical world of household cats, their wild antics, and the immersive realm of sim racing. Wrapping up with the famed synchronicity between Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wizard of Oz," we promise laughter, curiosity, and the kind of camaraderie that defines our Motor Hood community.
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Jeremy Thomas (00:00):
How long have you been racing?
Oh gosh at least.
Uh, what three times now, dylan, I've been over there Four,
something like that, is that?
George Blais (00:06):
that's it.
I think I can take you with thejoystick.
Excuse me, he's hot Meanwhile.
That's gonna be a hard one.
Jeremy Thomas (00:17):
Oh no, I didn't even say oh shit.
George Blais (00:22):
Real cars, real guys and real talk Live from the
Gearbox at Unique Classic Cars.
Welcome to Motorhood.
All right back for episodeseven.
Seven.
This is the lucky number.
This is it.
Yeah, could be, but it's notlucky for you, because your
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Chiefs took an absolute dump onnational television last night,
in front of the whole world.
It was global.
Jeremy Thomas (00:54):
Yeah, we used your name in vain quite a few
times yesterday for a couple ofreasons.
Number one your whole oh, it'srigged and the ref's this and
rigged that it's like stop it.
Number two I told my wife it'slike if I was the type of person
that would do the oh, I'm goingto call in sick, I would have
called in sick just so I didn'thave to listen to you gloat and
(01:14):
give me shit about the game.
George Blais (01:16):
Well, Jay is not here today and he obviously
works in marketing and over inour detail shop and he just
happened to have the day off.
Do you think he wasanticipating having to deal with
this?
Jeremy Thomas (01:29):
Well, I think, either way, he was probably
anticipating having a littlehangover, because, whether you
celebrate or drown your sorrows,the net result's the same.
George Blais (01:40):
Let me go back to your number one, the conspiracy
theories.
I'm going to stick with that.
Let me go back to your numberone, the conspiracy theories.
Right, I'm going to stick withthat.
And I think it got to such afeverish pitch that the NFL
officials actually had to weighin and call it nonsense and I
think yesterday, knowing thespotlight that was on them, they
(02:01):
were like Jesus, we've got out,we've got it, we've got to
scale back the first two callsin that game.
Jeremy Thomas (02:09):
Both were hideous and, as I think it was one
against each team, wasridiculous do you think?
They were even the announcersright away, brady and the other
guy.
They're like yeah, I don't likethat call it was.
George Blais (02:21):
They were both terrible right, right, right out
of the gate, right, and I thinkthat they even have to address
it.
That's how much of an issue ithas become.
Right, yep, and I think therest of the game was played
fairly wide open.
But, like you said, the chiefsdidn't even show up.
No, I think they were exposed.
Jeremy Thomas (02:37):
The offensive line was exposed.
That's the biggest thing.
And, yeah, those, that was thegraphic.
The the average of thedefensive line of the Eagles is
like 338 pounds and like 6'6" orsomething like that was the
graphic.
George Blais (02:49):
I'm like, oh my gosh, they're monsters and they
make it work, big guys gettingit done, there's no doubt about
it.
So I think, if you recall thelast podcast, there was a wager.
Does Dylan remember it?
How much was it?
It was like 20 bucks 20 bucks.
Jeremy Thomas (03:07):
that's right, but we're going to put that in the
kitty.
George Blais (03:09):
We're going to put that in the kitty.
Okay Is what we're going to do,and then we're going to resume
this little operation as we movealong.
All right, because I think thatyou're going to wind up just
giving me one of these cars.
Jeremy Thomas (03:20):
That's what's going to happen.
Here's what we should do then.
So the $20 goes in the kittyand every time the kitty gets to
$100, then it's got to get paidoff, We've got to do something
with it.
There you go.
George Blais (03:29):
Maybe that could be dinner or something.
Jeremy Thomas (03:30):
Yeah.
George Blais (03:31):
But I think that it was a bomb, I think it was
not what people wereanticipating and I think that
the run that the Chiefs had isprobably coming to an end.
Jeremy Thomas (03:43):
Yeah that the Chiefs had is probably coming to
an end.
Yeah, it'll be interesting tosee if Kelsey comes back.
George Blais (03:46):
I'm going to be surprised if he does.
Jeremy Thomas (03:50):
Are you a Kelsey fan when he's playing?
I can do without all of hisother BS that he's got going on,
but you know, whatever I mean,you can't take what he's done as
a player, take away from him.
But you could literally see, Ifeel like this year and even
last year, man, the guy just Imean, granted he's a tight end,
but he's still man.
He looks like he's got a pianoon his back when he runs.
(04:10):
It's like he's.
George Blais (04:12):
I'm telling you he wants to be more of a movie
star, oh yeah, than a footballplayer.
Yeah, that was.
I think that was the reason heinitially hooked up with uh t
swizzle, I will call her.
Did you see her reaction whenshe got booed?
No, because they brought thepresident up place, went crazy,
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right.
Then they pan and they bringher up and she's relentlessly
being booed and she got thislook on her face and you could
see her mouth.
What is going on?
Oh right, yeah, exactly, andI'm like, well, there you go.
Jeremy Thomas (04:47):
Yeah, what is going on was the phrase that
every Chiefs fan In fact it'sgoing to cost me.
I've got a friend of mine thatwe friendly bet back and forth
pretty much all season and hetakes everyone who isn't the
Chiefs Really.
George Blais (05:03):
Of course.
Jeremy Thomas (05:03):
Every week Takes everyone except that.
And then, of course, includingthe Super Bowl.
We bumped it.
So it's like okay, you knowwhat Big time let's do $100 on
the Super Bowl, okay, great.
So at about at halftime I startgetting the text from this guy
right, Sure, oh, you know he'ssending me like the dollar sign
emoji and all this kind of stuffand I'm like you know, good for
(05:25):
you, you won one game.
Whatever, dude, I'll pay you,I'll pay you.
Is he an Eagles fan?
George Blais (05:32):
No, he's just not a Chiefs fan, so he always takes
20 bucks on the other team,just because I actually have a
client of mine that's from thePhiladelphia area and he was on
the phone yesterday going thisis what we've been waiting for
for so long right.
Because I don't think thatMahomes is as big a villain as
(05:53):
Kelsey is right now.
I really believe that that'swhy I think he's done.
Jeremy Thomas (05:57):
Hey, you know, and maybe this is a touchy
subject, but what is your takeon when coaches and players and
everything, they start out theirinterview to praise God and
thank Jesus and all that kind ofstuff?
I am in no way shape or formmaking fun of it, right?
Does the public perceive thatas oh wow, there's a Christian
(06:17):
guy, or do they think it's justBS and that's what it's talked
about?
I?
George Blais (06:21):
think that they just say that.
A lot of them, unfortunately,say that because it's become the
thing to do.
Jeremy Thomas (06:28):
Yeah right.
I don't think that a lot ofthem See honestly that's what
bugs me about it is, if that'strue and that's how they feel,
that's fantastic, right, but Ifeel like so much of it kind of
to your point.
We got a rumbler going throughyour Chevelle.
George Blais (06:44):
I love the sound of that motor.
Jeremy Thomas (06:45):
Yeah, but don't use it as a cliche.
That's not cool in my opinion.
Speaking of Jesus, I've got tobring this up.
Speaking of Jesus, did youcatch one of the commercials?
And Johnny Cash I'm a hugeJohnny Cash fan.
I don't know if that's come outon the podcast here or not.
Giant Johnny Cash fan.
(07:06):
I don't know if that's come outon the podcast here or not.
Giant Johnny Cash fan.
So right away the first three orfour chords of this song
started, I'm like, hey, and it'sPersonal Jesus, that's the name
of the song.
So I was like I'm all jackedbecause you think about it, was
it a couple of years ago?
Johnny Cash, the intro to thewhole Super Bowl process?
I think it was Ragged Old Flag,it was bowl process, I think
(07:30):
was ragged old flag.
Sure it was johnny cash, right?
So I love that they're stillincorporating johnny into these
things, or whatever, sure so?
So two things.
So this, this song comes up andI'm like, yeah, sweet.
Well, what I didn't know.
And george popped my bubblelike a jackass this morning.
That's what I do.
He goes, he goes, oh uh, whodid the original version?
I go what do you mean?
I thought johnny did it.
And he's like no, no, no.
So I'm sitting here and Igoogle it.
I'm like are you kidding me?
Depeche mode?
Yeah, this song originally Ididn't know it was a remake.
George Blais (07:53):
Yeah yeah so does that make it less manly?
Now, a little bit.
It kind of it ruined it for you, didn't it?
I?
Jeremy Thomas (08:00):
mean it just made me wrinkle my nose, but I mean
you know, he redid uh, nine inchnails.
Of course, famously, yeah Didhurt, yes, and that doesn't
bother me for some reason, buttake Depeche.
George Blais (08:11):
Mode, depeche Mode .
Come on, man, that's a littleless down that road right.
Jeremy Thomas (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
George Blais (08:17):
But on that note, let's talk about a car that we
had in here that actuallybelonged to johnny yeah, we
still have it.
Jeremy Thomas (08:24):
Yeah, um, uh.
Yeah, we have.
Uh, it's johnny cash's last car, um, and of course I saw it and
had to have it because, again,I'm a johnny cash nerd.
So we have johnny cash's lastcar, um, it's the car that he
took to took june in her lastride, unfortunately, to the
hospital when uh, and then shenever came home after that and
(08:47):
uh, less than a month later hesold the car, um, as the story
goes that he didn't.
He his health wasn't good eitherat that time right, um, but uh,
but yeah, we've got all thepaperwork and everything
documenting that.
That was the car.
You know june died in the inmay and you know John didn't
even barely make it six months.
(09:08):
He passed away in September.
Where is that car now?
George Blais (09:12):
It's in our storage, gotcha, gotcha.
Jeremy Thomas (09:16):
But you know I try to drive it a few times a
year just to keep it limber andeverything.
But there's a cassette tape inthere of Johnny Cash and Willie
Nelson when they did kind of theequivalent of MTV Unplugged or
whatever.
So it's an acoustic thing andin the round kind of little
thing they did.
That cassette's in there, soit's cool.
You kind of feel like you'realmost one-on-one with them and
(09:37):
listening to that tape andeverything else it's kind of fun
.
George Blais (09:39):
It has to feel cool to sit in the driver's seat
knowing that Johnny Cash sat inthat driver's seat and drove
that car.
Jeremy Thomas (09:47):
Yeah, and I don't know.
I mean, it's a Lincoln, it's astretch, it's not a limo, but
it's the sedan that's stretched.
Do you think he drove it or didhe have somebody?
George Blais (09:56):
I think he had a driver my guess is he would have
had a driver for that.
Those are the real men.
Speaking of cool cars.
What did you think of thehalftime show?
I'll tell you what you wantedto talk about it.
The first thing that stood outto me was that GNX that was on
stage as soon as they pulled itout.
Jeremy Thomas (10:14):
I couldn't believe it.
And here's why, a couple weeksago, we had an advertising
agency.
Call and talk to one of thesalespeople.
We had an 86 and an 87 GrandNational, this advertising
company, they're kind oftight-lipped about it, but you
know they were interested in itand all they would say is that
it was going to be used for asuper bowl ad.
Well, and they, we startednegotiating, or you know, they
(10:34):
started negotiating rather, andokay, yep, they, we had a deal,
send us the paperwork.
Well, by the time they got thepaperwork, they said that they
had gone in a differentdirection and they didn't need
the car anymore.
Well, I think it's because thiscar got, you know, committed to
before they got committed toours, right?
So, yeah, imagine my surprisewhen Super Bowl halftime shows
(10:55):
up and I'm like that could havebeen our car on the stage.
George Blais (10:58):
But they had already secured one.
Jeremy Thomas (10:59):
So yeah, kind of a we get calls like that quite a
bit from advertising agencies,movie prop companies, that kind
of thing for all these cool cars.
George Blais (11:09):
So it's kind of fun.
Isn't it funny that you see thetrend in advertising?
Pay attention to it.
Jeremy Thomas (11:14):
I tell people Taka does.
George Blais (11:16):
Yeah, they stole our idea.
Yeah, the Chevelle.
Yes, exactly, but anyways, it'sfunny to watch and I told my
wife yesterday I said payattention to all of these ads
and anything that's going on.
And they are inundated withclassic cars Right, I mean
inundated.
And it's the younger generationas well.
They think those are cool cars.
Jeremy Thomas (11:35):
Yeah, 100%.
George Blais (11:37):
I was having this discussion with Jason this
morning and we were talkingabout he brought up some
pictures of guys actuallydesigning these amazing bodies
years ago and how they did drawthem out on the wall.
They're down on drafting paperand doing all that, and now with
computer automation andeverything, I think that's where
we're losing it yeah, theythrow it in cad and spin it
around and okay go makes me mad.
(11:57):
It makes me mad speaking of mad,I I gotta bring up this road
rage thing.
So I'm out running a fewerrands in the morning.
Here's me Knowing kickoff issupposed to be at 530.
Oh right, and it never usuallycomes until about 6.
At 10 am yesterday I'm like Igot to get everything done.
I can't miss kickoff.
It's eight hours.
I live five minutes away fromeverything, yeah, but I would
(12:18):
like to make a public serviceannouncement right out of the
gate PSA coming.
A PSA is coming here.
Roundabouts are not a four-waystop.
Does that drive you crazy?
Oh, my God yes, I know there's alot of people that visit us and
they're not popular in everystate yet, but they're getting
there.
The whole idea of a roundaboutis to make traffic flow more
(12:41):
freely.
Yes, that's the idea.
It is not a four-way stop.
Do not pull up, look left, lookright and then, if you're clear
, go, because you're wastingyour time and, more importantly,
you're wasting mine.
Yeah, because I'm sittingbehind you, exactly right.
Jeremy Thomas (12:58):
Yeah, that drives me nuts.
Oh yeah I.
I the opposite of that.
I'm going through theroundabout and I'm, you know.
Once you're in it, then youhave the right-of-way and here
comes and granted they'reprobably 80-year-old, look like
they're 80-plus-year-old peopledriving a Buick, LeSabre of
course it has to be, they'rerocking the stereotype.
It has to be and I'm kind ofhalfway through the roundabout
and I see him coming and I justkind of speed and, like this guy
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I don't know if he knew that hecould even slow down I
literally thought they weregoing to rear-end me in the
middle of the roundabout becausehe was just on it, right, I'm
like holy hell man, simpletraffic stuff.
Another one is do you haveanybody in your family that is a
backseat or passenger seatdriver, everyone in my family
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and everyone in my family.
It drives me crazy, everyone inmy family.
We had hockey this weekend,right.
So I've got kids and otherpeople in the car and everything
else and we're on the way.
We're going to go get somethingto eat.
We had time before the game andwe get there.
And somebody made some commentsabout like, oh, I feel so sick,
I hope I can eat, or seasick, orwhatever the comments were, and
(14:07):
I can eat, or or seasick, orwhatever the comments were, and
I'm like look, I'm at point a,right, I need to get to point b,
right?
That in between is a waste oftime.
Yeah, it drives me nuts.
I want to get there as soon asI can and as efficiently as I
can, right.
So, rolling through a curve atseven miles per hour?
No, no, if it says speed limit20, that's merely a suggestion.
I happen to drive a vehiclethat can handle it faster than
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that, so I'm going to Right, youknow, keep your head away from
the window if you don't like it.
You know, you get a littlethump here and there, maybe I
don't know.
But God, dang it, man, if youdon't like it, get out and walk,
Follow this rule whenreasonable and prudent.
George Blais (14:45):
Isn't that what they had actually on stop signs
out west in the 60s?
I think it is Maybe I've heardthe old guys talk about it.
They were like that was thelisting in states.
I think they brought up Montanaand a few of those others.
And that's how, if you canhandle a little faster speed,
then I think that I'm capable ofdetermining whether that's safe
(15:08):
or not?
Jeremy Thomas (15:08):
Yeah, one of my family is like you know.
The only time I ever get carsick is when you're driving.
George Blais (15:13):
I'm like stop it.
Are you that bad of a driver?
I'm not that good of a driver.
Jeremy Thomas (15:17):
They're just not used to getting.
This just reminded me of mymother-in-law.
She was in the back seat awhile back and we took off.
We were like 15, 20 minutesinto the drive and she taps me
on the shoulder, she's in theback seat and she goes hey, can
you maybe drive like there's70-some-year-old people in the
(15:39):
back?
I'm like, okay, so all the wayhome?
I'm like creeping up to a stopsign from a half mile away,
gently accelerating, and I'mlike ready to pull out what
little hair I have left, becausein my mind, you know, I could
have been there and gone intothe next town by the time.
I'm rolling away from the stopsign, driving that way were you
driving the escalator?
oh yeah, tell people that aren'tfamiliar with what your
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escalator is, not your averageescalator so I'm lucky and
blessed to be able to have foundone of these first off and be
able to have one.
But so it's an escalate v, thev series, right?
So, um, that takes a.
I mean, a quick glance lookingat the truck, other than the v
symbol on the doors you reallycan't tell.
So it's kind of a sleeper.
That's the one first thing.
(16:19):
That's cool, uh.
Second thing it's asupercharged 6.2.
It's, uh, just under 700horsepower and it acts like it.
It sounds like it if you wantit to want it to.
The exhaust note is amazing.
And it's zero to 60 and threepoint something in a 6 000 pound
suv I've never been able tounderstand how those things
handle the roll center with that, yeah.
(16:41):
So there's a button in there,it's called v mode and it allows
you.
So if you push that and you'redriving it, literally the
truck's got air suspension, sothe whole center of gravity, the
truck will lower itself.
Okay, how far does it drop?
Oh, like 10 inches no, I'm justkidding um, a couple inches and
um.
But you can adjust thetransmission shift points, the
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steering sensitivity, thebraking sensitivity.
You can change the exhaust note, uh, if you want them all the
way open so it breathes, or youcan tone it down.
You can literally.
If you have it all the way openand you let off the gas and
you're decelerating, it soundslike a popcorn maker, I mean, it
sounds like a hot rod coming atyou and people look and it's a
(17:22):
new truck and they're like whatthe hell is that thing?
So of course I love it, it'sawesome.
George Blais (17:27):
That lift up and down.
It's funny you bring that up.
There's a customer brought us avehicle a while back that the
techs are working on and it's aFrench Citroen, right, and I had
no idea.
But Wyatt was like he's one ofour techs, he's like you want to
see something cool, goes outthere, he fires it up and the
thing lifts into like anoff-road mode Almost.
(17:48):
I'm like are you going to takethis?
I think that's what it'slabeled as Right.
Is that what?
it is, I don't know You're nottaking this thing off-road, yeah
right, but it did come up about6-7 inches, yeah Right, and I
was like, oh, that makes nosense whatsoever.
Jeremy Thomas (18:03):
Now, when you say 6-7 inches, is this the six,
seven inches?
You tell your wife Four, four.
George Blais (18:09):
Listen.
I made this comment the otherday to somebody I said, speaking
of the halftime show in the GNXlast night and Buick Grand
Nationals, I said Buick provedthat six is greater than eight.
Well said Well said Can we godown that road, especially with
a blower?
I mean no, your man tools Okay.
Jeremy Thomas (18:34):
Whoa, where the hell is this going?
Let me rephrase that.
George Blais (18:37):
Any of your power equipment at your home?
Does it all have names yourblower, your lawnmower, Mine do?
I have names for every piece ofequipment in my garage and the
reason I bring that up is I livein a neighborhood that has real
mature trees.
I have 150-year-old oak trees,so every fall I probably get
eight inches of leaves allthrough my yard.
(18:58):
So I went out and looked forthe biggest backpack blower I'm
talking volume of air that couldmove and I bought that thing
and it blows like anything and Inamed it tammy.
Wow, and people always ask methey were like why do you?
Why is your blower named tammy?
Uh, we're going to talk a littlebit about fu cars today.
(19:20):
By the way, the new gt350 for2025 is, uh, set for production
I second quarter of this yearand you know how I love Mustang
Shelby GT350s.
That's one of my favorite carsOver 800 horsepower.
They're teaming up with Whippleagain, because the one that we
had in here last summer it wasthe 2016, actually had that
(19:41):
two-stage Whipple in it.
Yeah, and that wouldn't havebeen put on by Ford.
Jeremy Thomas (19:44):
But it was after the fact.
George Blais (19:45):
But to to have a whipple, don't you have to bring
it to their factory?
You don't have to do that.
It's not in the case of the one, the old one, you're talking.
Oh okay, so that wasn't put onat whipple uh, probably not.
Jeremy Thomas (19:57):
I mean it was put on at a performance shop, I'm
sure.
George Blais (19:59):
Oh no, kidding.
Well, anyways, they've teamedup over 800 horsepower with the
gt350 and you can still get thatbase model.
That's about 480.
But I looked at the car andthey claim that they have
improved suspension handling,even more so than what we've
seen in the past.
So do you?
Jeremy Thomas (20:15):
think with the 800-horse version do you suppose
you could do your patented 66miles per hour 66?
George Blais (20:21):
miles an hour.
I want to drive one of those.
Jeremy Thomas (20:23):
You can push it hard.
George Blais (20:24):
How can I talk my wife into letting me buy one of
those GTRs?
Jeremy Thomas (20:28):
Well, I would start with stop talking about
Tammy.
George Blais (20:33):
Start there.
Let's take a quick trip downthe aisle.
Jeremy Thomas (20:41):
Speaking of your wife, I don't know if she
watched the one.
Did she appreciate your flexabout the age thing here on the
other episode?
George Blais (20:46):
I don't know if she did watch that yet, okay,
all right.
I don't know if she did watchthat yet, okay, all right.
I don't know if that's a flex,it just happens.
It just happens right.
Because for so many years Ijust was like I'm never getting
married again, I'm never gettingmarried again, I'm never
getting married again.
Jeremy Thomas (21:00):
And then I think you and I have both down that
road, then you find the rightone, right, yeah exactly.
George Blais (21:04):
She could be 90.
She could be 18.
Wow.
Jeremy Thomas (21:08):
What movie is that?
The older I get, but I keepgetting older, but they stay the
same age or something like that.
George Blais (21:13):
There's some movie line anyways.
All right, let's take a tripdown the aisle.
Let's talk about some of the FUcars we have sitting in here
right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Jeremy Thomas (21:22):
There's a couple of them.
There's well right over ourshoulders that Hellcat, that
just came in and are you.
George Blais (21:27):
Let me ask you this, just to put you on the
spot Of all of the modern andI'm talking 2010 and beyond Okay
, which one of those is yourfavorite?
When I'm talking Corvettes,Hellcats, Mustangs, things like
that, Do you have a favorite ofthe new?
Jeremy Thomas (21:43):
models.
That's a.
I don't think anyone's everasked me that before.
I probably would go to a C7.
Vette is probably where I wouldgo.
Do you like those better thanthe 8?
I do, I do, I've driven.
Last summer I drove a C8 for afew months just to get to know
them a little bit and had thesalesman drive it too.
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I bought one for the store,strictly so that we could have
one in, everybody could touch itand drive it and feel it and
know what it's like andeverything else, so that our
team can speak intelligently onthem when we get them Right.
So we kind of let everybodydrive them and that sort of
thing.
Yeah, I mean the C8, I meanit's a fantastic car.
But man, I don't know the C7.
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I honestly I like the looksbetter.
It's still.
You know the rear, you knowobviously it's rear drive and
all that.
But you know front engineconfiguration and I don't know.
It's just hard to not like that.
George Blais (22:38):
Well, I think the with the c8s there's a lot of
guys that feel they betrayed theoriginal look of the corvette
right and the original build andthey're like trying to move
towards that European look withthe Ferraris and stuff.
But I do know guys who havethem and they say that they're
super comfortable ergonomicallyto take long rides in and do
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anything else.
Jeremy Thomas (23:00):
But the biggest gripe with the C8s is the
passenger experience sucks.
Why?
Because of the way they've gotgot, I mean, when you're the
driver, you are, I mean, you'resurrounded, it's a cockpit,
right, yeah, but the passengerfeels alienated because
everything is tilted in towardsthe driver.
So you know whether it's, youknow, a spouse or kid or buddy
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or whatever.
You feel like you're on yourown planet in the passenger seat
, right.
That's one of the biggestgripes I've heard since day one
when that car came out and thatwas when you're the driver right
, it's fantastic because it'sbuilt like a cockpit.
George Blais (23:39):
Yeah, right, if you're in an airplane, right,
you want all your controls.
Everything is aimed at youready right passenger.
Jeremy Thomas (23:46):
You're just like it's's almost like that console
acts.
It feels like it's a wall builtup.
So that's one of the negativesthat some people have said.
Right.
George Blais (23:55):
Well, I tell you what the funny thing is.
You bring that up because I gotoff Corvettes for a while.
I'm also not to sound like I'mtrying to butter you up but C7s
are my favorite.
Jeremy Thomas (24:07):
What I'm not making that up.
George Blais (24:09):
I'm not making that up, We've got.
I mean, they come through hereon a regular basis.
Jeremy Thomas (24:12):
Tell me, if they didn't come out with a new body
style, el Camino, you wouldn'tbe that guy.
George Blais (24:17):
I might be the guy Again.
I posted that one, that 78 thatwe have back there.
I sold that to a guy in maine,loved it.
He even did some modificationsto it right, sent it back
because he wanted a challengerthat showed up.
Yeah, this is the hell that carguys go through.
The hunt is never over.
Jeremy Thomas (24:34):
The hunt is never over and, and that's the best
that's.
By the way, that's one of thecoolest things, uh, about this
hobby is that most of the time,especially in the classic cars I
mean you can get something.
And we have customers all overthe place, that that place that
they might have a car for two orthree months, they might have
it for two or three years, right, and they get their fix and
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maybe it's everything theydreamed of and they got the
experience and they're happy,right.
Maybe they got it and they'relike, okay, well, that was fun,
but I'm over it.
And we get people trading carsback in all the time.
And it's funny.
People that aren't in the hobby.
They think, oh, that guy musthave traded it back in because
there's something wrong with it.
No, he traded it back inbecause he wants to play with
something else, right, and so,yeah, we love trading our cars
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back in because we know thehistory.
Now, we know the story, we knowthe service history, because we
keep that on file.
I mean it's, it's great, rightI.
George Blais (25:23):
The one thing I hear a lot from guys is they ask
me how do these guys keepbuying cars?
I, I've figured it out.
Not I mean, if you're acollector, you're a collector,
but guys who just want to have acar once you're in.
You're in because that vehiclethat you buy you could either
bring back to us we'll sell iton consignment for you, or you
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can do whatever you want with it.
Yeah right, but you have.
You have funds to deal withright out of the gate.
So all they're doing isupgrading or just moving around.
Jeremy Thomas (25:52):
Yeah, once that initial price of admission is
paid.
You're kind of it's almost likeyou got a lifelong membership
in the motorhood because nowyou're in, right, and that's the
other thing.
One thing we do that a lot of.
I mean, there's classic car.
We're not the only classic cardealership, obviously, yeah, but
a lot of them do not taketrade-ins or accept trade-ins.
We do, and I try to explain topeople.
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There's, you know, like you say,once you get past the initial
price of admission to get yourfirst classic car, now you, you
know, and whether you spend20,000 or 10,000 or 50,000 or
whatever the number is, you'vegot that pot of money, so to
speak, right, right, so now ifyou want to upgrade, you don't
need to write a check for$60,000, but maybe you've got
your car that you've bought ayear ago and maybe you've saved
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up another $10,000.
How do you move up?
You trade, right, and peopleask us all the time where do you
get your cars?
Is it from the auctions?
It's like the auctions is theteeniest, tiniest piece of it
Right.
Highest percentage is trade-ins, and we love that, we do, we
love it.
George Blais (26:51):
So we're talking about FU cars.
I don't know how this, becausewell, that's just kind of the
mood we were in when we came inthis morning.
But we do have that Hellcatthat's got a supercharged Hemi
V8.
Jeremy Thomas (27:03):
Yep, yeah, that thing.
5,000 miles on it, the HellcatRight, I mean it still literally
opened the door.
It smells brand new.
Tags are still hanging on theseat.
It looks yeah, and that's 700horsepower you could have some
fun with that Superchargedversus turbo.
George Blais (27:16):
We were talking about this earlier this morning,
but there's some guys thatdon't even know the difference
between that.
I know serious.
Jeremy Thomas (27:22):
You were one of those guys like four days ago,
right?
That is the honest-to-God truth.
George Blais (27:26):
The serious car guys do so.
I've learned this in thisbuilding.
If I have a question aboutsomething like that, I'm lucky
enough to have access to theguys in the shop and Pat was
explaining to me the draw,because of the supercharging is
actually run with power off theengine.
Jeremy Thomas (27:44):
Right, yeah, the supercharger is belt-driven or
pulley, so you could change thesize of that pulley, correct,
yes, and now you're playing withfire you can well, and in a
little side note on that, we seethat happen where people you
know whether let's just say it'sa, a mustang, and they want to,
they take a stock gt mustangthat is, you know, 350 horse.
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Let's say out of the box, right, and they want more power so
I'm going to put a superchargeron it.
Well, they do that and maybethey put some headers on it so
it can breathe better andeverything else, and now it's
560 horsepower or whatever.
And then they're going toprogram it and chip it and
change the fuel system and nowit's 600 horsepower.
But here's the problem you boltall that stuff on and you don't
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do anything with the internals.
So you got to remember that theconnecting rods and the pistons
and all the internal stuffthat's built for 350 horsepower,
Right, and now the motor'sdoing 650, and then people
wonder why there's enginefailure.
So I had that happen with acustomer of mine.
(28:50):
He bought a hopped-up Mustangand I kind of warned him about
it and he bought it anywaybecause it was cosmetically, it
was everything he wanted and allthis sort of thing.
And I'm like, okay, I saidthere's no forged internals in
that car and it's got highhorsepower.
You're asking for it andunfortunately and unfortunately
I did not get any joy out of it,but unfortunately I was right.
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He had the car for not even sixmonths and it blew up.
That's insane.
George Blais (29:17):
So when they design these cars, like, for
example, I was talking about theShelbys that are coming out
this year, you can get the GT350base, which is 480, versus the
810 with the supercharged Samemotor.
Or do they do other things whenthey add that Whipple?
Jeremy Thomas (29:32):
Well, it may be the same block, but then
everything else is different,and that's where you run into
problems, right?
George Blais (29:37):
Speaking of Mustangs, we just had a bullet
roll in, yeah yeah, so it's an08 bullet.
Jeremy Thomas (29:43):
It's only got like 30,000 miles or something
like that, and of course that'sa tribute or a throwback to the
original bullet movie car, whichwas a 68.
George Blais (29:54):
Oh, you're so smart.
Well, actually we were talkingabout this at this point, so I'm
not that smart.
Jeremy Thomas (29:59):
I'm trying to give you a pat on the back.
George Blais (30:00):
I know, but I'm a transparent guy.
I don't know a whole lot, butfor some reason I could not
remember the year of that.
That's not my favorite.
I actually had that discussionwith a few guys online when we
were talking about it a fewweeks ago, and the one that
stands out in my mind for moviecars is the Challenger and
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Vanishing Point.
Jeremy Thomas (30:23):
Yeah, I did add that to my need to watch movies.
I've never seen that movie.
George Blais (30:27):
It's a cult favorite and it's kind of weird,
but it's the sound of thatmotor yeah, I know you mentioned
that Just screaming across thedesert, right, all right.
Also we were just talking aboutthis the Corvette's coming in.
Jeremy Thomas (30:37):
We've got a 2015 3LT down there, yeah, and that
car's only got 10,000 miles.
So I mean, of course she'sbright red and the thing looks
fantastic.
And the nice thing about thatcar is, again, only 10,000 miles
on it and it's not a $100,000Corvette, no, I mean, it's
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affordable in the world ofsports cars.
George Blais (31:06):
That's an extremely affordable Corvette
with hardly any miles on it.
For guys that want to dip theirtoes in the water, we find a
lot of them that come in andthey want a Corvette.
I say this to people all thetime they're great cars, yeah,
they look cool and they handlelike a dream.
Of course you would go downthat road right what's
ridiculous is they're even fuelefficient.
Jeremy Thomas (31:22):
I mean, if you don't drive them like a complete
a-hole, right, you'll getalmost 30 miles of the gallon
with them, right, and they areall of what I just said and you
can get them fairly affordable.
George Blais (31:31):
We had a lot of nice Corvettes in here last
summer that were between $20,000and $30,000.
Yeah right.
Some of the older modelsfantastic cars yeah.
Speaking of a-hole A-holes.
Jeremy Thomas (31:44):
After the last episode, people are probably
getting an idea that there's alot of pranking and joking and
stuff that goes on around here,right?
So one of those things thatgoes around is somehow years ago
, I don't even know where itstarted, but there's this
infatuation or prodding aboutcats around here and
specifically the south end of anorthbound cat.
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There's a couple of the guysover here.
It started with just me andRyan.
Well, then Jay got involved andJeff got involved and there's
other guys, you know, whatever.
And now everybody kind of knowsthat this it's a funny cat
thing, right, like I think itstarted.
I was at, I was at a friend'shouse and their cat.
I was sitting in their garageand their cat's rubbing on my
leg.
You know how they want to getpetted, you know, or whatever.
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And right as I looked down, ofcourse he's standing there.
That's a male cat with his tailstraight up in the air, back
hunched, and his business ishanging out in the back.
So I quick took a picture of itand I sent it to Ryan, right,
just like you know.
Just no comment, no, nothing,just a picture of this back end
of the cat, right?
Well, so now that's blossomed.
However, many years later,we've got this running cat joke
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thing going on all the time.
So for Christmas I got Ryan.
I grabbed one of these.
So I don't know if the cameracan pick this up or not, but
they're magnets, right, so itsticks.
It's just the butt end of a catwith his tail up.
So Ryan's got these on his filecabinet, right?
Hey, I wonder if that'll stickhere.
Maybe we can put that there forthe rest of the episode.
(33:09):
Oh my yeah, so we have these catbutts and things going on and
we leave um little cat things.
In fact we were on the way tothe iola car show.
We stopped at some roadsidething and they had a sign there
and a little five dollar signand it said check me out,
m-e-o-w-t.
I gave that to ryan.
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He's got that hanging on hisdesk, so you get the gist right.
He has a collection of catbutts.
He does, he has a collection ofcat butts.
So now imagine my surprise whennew guy relatively new guy,
george, been here a year or soI'm scrolling on Facebook.
So, because of this runningjoke of the cats I've added or
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joined, or it shows up in myfeed on Facebook, these
different, you know differentfunny cat memes, or my cat, and
it shows the cat jumping out thewindow or any of that kind of
funny stuff, right?
So I'm scrolling here onSaturday and here's this one
page called the name of the pageis my Cat's an A-Hole.
Yes, that's the name of thepage.
(34:10):
So right away I'm like, oh mygosh, I need to get in there.
I joined it, you know whenever,and, and all of a sudden I'm
scrolling through and here Ilook, I do a double take and you
know, because it says my cat'san a-hole.
And then the person that postsin it you know their name is
smaller there's george there'sme, there's me his two of them
in my cats an a-hole post.
(34:31):
I'm like serious, I didn't knowyou're into it.
Buddy, tell me how you landedthere.
George Blais (34:34):
The funny thing?
Well, these are two that Ibought for my daughter a year
ago for Christmas and theybasically taken over the house.
And if you know anything aboutcats, they don't.
They're just wild beasts thatlive in your house.
You can't train them andthey're only tolerant of you
because you're bigger than theyare.
That is true, I had mentionedthis to you earlier, but
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scientists believe that if catsweighed 200 pounds, they would
eat their owners.
Probably would.
They would literally kill youand eat you.
But on that note, I stumbledacross that page and we actually
have a few guys in the buildinghere that have cats.
Jay has cats.
Jay, yep, dan, dan, yep.
Myself, you do not like catsbecause you don't want them in
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the house.
I don't.
Jeremy Thomas (35:19):
I can't.
I like cats just fine.
I grew up on the farm.
We had farm cats out in thebarn and a dog out there or
whatever.
The older I got, I tried doingit with my daughter too.
She had a cat.
She earned it, you know, didsomething or whatever.
And I, I can't stand pets inthe house.
Man, the fur you want, I, Ican't.
I can't do it.
I'll snap it.
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I can't stand the fur.
I don't want the piss or puker.
I don't want a freaking dogbiscuit laying in the hallway.
George Blais (35:45):
I don't know no pets, no pets in the house.
Another thing cats are reallybad at is they feel like they're
entitled to jumping up on thecounter and the dinner table and
they get near food and they'llget into it if you don't watch
them.
Oh yeah, so it's.
It's basically like having,like I said, a wild beast living
in your house yeah, that's.
Jeremy Thomas (36:05):
I can't stand that.
So the cat comes, they come outof the litter box where they
just got done, covering theircrap and their urine, yes, and
then they jump up on the counterand oh, it's so cute, right,
right.
And then he steps on yoursilverware or steps on the plate
that you're about to eat off ofand oh, it's so cute, you're
bad, you're bad Give him a treat?
No, he's got crap on his feet.
George Blais (36:25):
Are you kidding me ?
I get it, because I grew up inthe country too, and my dad was
like no cats in the house,specifically you know one meme
that just popped in my head.
Jeremy Thomas (36:34):
I saw on that thing here a couple weeks ago.
It was just a still picture ofa cat standing by a litter box.
Right, you know what this houseneeds?
A box of shh.
Yeah, let's get a cat.
George Blais (36:46):
Right, that's how I wound up in that Facebook
group.
I saw a meme pop up and it wasa cat shoveling his litter out
of his box, just like theyoccasionally do, and the caption
was because F you.
That's why.
That's why I'm like that's theattitude of a cat, right, I
agree.
(37:06):
So we're going to get togetherand we're going to try, maybe,
some sim racing.
We're going to do that tonight,finally.
No, I think dylan and I weretalking about it, so we're like
we're.
We want you to make sure thatyou uh pop in and display your
skill set.
Jeremy Thomas (37:19):
I, um, I'm just gonna say that, whatever, I'm
certain that the boasting aftertonight will happen on the next
episode.
So, um, I'm just gonna tell youin advance I, I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to embarrass you,but it's.
You know how long have you beenracing?
Oh gosh, at least what?
Three times.
Now, dylan, I've been overthere.
Four, something like that.
George Blais (37:41):
That's it.
That's it.
I think I could take you with ajoystick.
Excuse me, listen, it almostgoes down that road.
But I was telling him becausehe has quite the setup and we're
going to get we'll see somepictures.
Oh s***, you believe you'regoing to die.
(38:08):
Right, I'm sure We'll see somepictures, because there's.
I started going down thatrabbit hole and you can get tens
of thousands of dollars deep.
Oh man, in a hurry, yeah, Right.
And the great thing about thatis you can just completely go to
complete shit and just getright back on the track.
Also, it's right-hand driving,in case you didn't notice.
(38:30):
Yeah, also it's right-handdriving.
In case you didn't notice.
Jeremy Thomas (38:35):
Do you think rabbits get offended by?
Everybody uses the phrase goingdown the rabbit hole in a
negative way.
Do you think they get?
George Blais (38:42):
offended.
I don't know, but isn't that areference to Alice in Wonderland
?
Oh wow, I don't know.
I think that's what it is.
Is it really Joe Dillon'snodding his head up and down,
but I think it is Guess whatI've never watched that movie.
You're kidding me?
No, you're kidding me.
No, you clearly didn't doenough drugs in college.
On that note, before we go,have you ever taken the Wizard
(39:05):
of Oz?
Have you heard about this withPink Floyd's money?
No Money, uh-uh.
Initially, when the second lionroar comes up before the Wizard
of Oz starts, hit play on Moneyby Pink Floyd, okay.
And follow that through thesequence of Shut up, I'm not.
(39:28):
Actually, money kicks in.
When she opens the door to Oz,you start the whole CD Dark Side
of the Moon.
Start the CD Okay, right at thevery beginning, and you tell me
if there was not somethingthose guys were doing as that
movie moves along and itsequences with the movie how the
hell did you find out aboutthis.
Listen, I've been just hangingout doing weird stuff.
Jeremy Thomas (39:53):
Okay, no questions asked asked.
If you it will freak you outreally.
George Blais (39:57):
It's like he set that up to time it.
Jeremy Thomas (40:00):
Uh, I'd like to see if anyone else tries that or
knows what the hell he'stalking about.
Put it in the comments, if youwould please.
I'd love to see it.
George Blais (40:05):
Pink floyd dark side of the moon.
Wizard of oz, the second roarof the lion.
Just start, boom, right there,it'll follow the.
You can turn the volume downand just follow the sequence of
the lion.
Just start, boom, right there,it'll follow the.
You can turn the volume downand just follow the sequence of
the music through.
And when she lands in oz andshe opens the door, just as she
grabs the handle and pulls itopen, money kicks in and you
hear that, oh my gosh, it'll it.
(40:27):
Once you see it and youexperience, it.
Jeremy Thomas (40:29):
I feel like I need to try this we're gonna
have.
George Blais (40:30):
Maybe we'll have to get that done as well.
All All right.
Maybe we'll have a night wherewe all get together and do that.
Jeremy Thomas (40:36):
Wow, this is starting to sound like a
sleepover, George.
I don't know if I'm comfortable.
A pajama party.
George Blais (40:41):
Could we have a guy's pajama party?
I wanted to have one lastChristmas.
Oh, by the way, pause.
Jeremy Thomas (40:46):
We need to add that to George's least masculine
thing he ever says?
George Blais (40:50):
Did he just ask me if?
Jeremy Thomas (40:51):
we could have a pajama party.
Really, would you want me tobring my flannel so you can feel
it again?
George Blais (40:56):
Yes, I'm not opposed to that.
Who's got the right fabric?
Oh boy, it's all about thefabric.
All right, so we'll have anupdate on sim racing and maybe
Jay can come in and we'll gethim at some point, because he's
got to settle down.
Yeah, he's got to settle down.
Jeremy Thomas (41:13):
He's got to get his equilibrium back.
George Blais (41:15):
He's the Chiefs fan.
We'll give him a chance to comeup here and defend himself.
Yeah right, when in doubt, gasit.
Jeremy Thomas (41:24):
There you go, hey .
George Blais (41:25):
George, when in doubt, when in doubt gas it.
Jeremy Thomas (41:28):
Watch out for that ghost up there.
This guy I got it right in myhead.
Watch out for that ghost upthere.
George Blais (41:39):
I think you broke George.
I think you broke him.
Jeremy Thomas (41:41):
I threw him from flat screen to.
George Blais (41:42):
VR.
Jeremy Thomas (41:42):
It's kind of a jump.
It's a little bit of a jump,Especially with the wheel and
pedals.
It's pretty cool.
How long have you been racing?
Oh gosh at least.
Uh, what three times now, dylan, I've been over there Four,
something like that, is that?
George Blais (00:06):
that's it.
I think I can take you with thejoystick.
Excuse me, he's hot Meanwhile.
That's gonna be a hard one.
Jeremy Thomas (00:17):
Oh no, I didn't even say oh shit.
George Blais (00:22):
Real cars, real guys and real talk Live from the
Gearbox at Unique Classic Cars.
Welcome to Motorhood.
All right back for episodeseven.
Seven.
This is the lucky number.
This is it.
Yeah, could be, but it's notlucky for you, because your
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Chiefs took an absolute dump onnational television last night,
in front of the whole world.
It was global.
Jeremy Thomas (00:54):
Yeah, we used your name in vain quite a few
times yesterday for a couple ofreasons.
Number one your whole oh, it'srigged and the ref's this and
rigged that it's like stop it.
Number two I told my wife it'slike if I was the type of person
that would do the oh, I'm goingto call in sick, I would have
called in sick just so I didn'thave to listen to you gloat and
(01:14):
give me shit about the game.
George Blais (01:16):
Well, Jay is not here today and he obviously
works in marketing and over inour detail shop and he just
happened to have the day off.
Do you think he wasanticipating having to deal with
this?
Jeremy Thomas (01:29):
Well, I think, either way, he was probably
anticipating having a littlehangover, because, whether you
celebrate or drown your sorrows,the net result's the same.
George Blais (01:40):
Let me go back to your number one, the conspiracy
theories.
I'm going to stick with that.
Let me go back to your numberone, the conspiracy theories.
Right, I'm going to stick withthat.
And I think it got to such afeverish pitch that the NFL
officials actually had to weighin and call it nonsense and I
think yesterday, knowing thespotlight that was on them, they
(02:01):
were like Jesus, we've got out,we've got it, we've got to
scale back the first two callsin that game.
Jeremy Thomas (02:09):
Both were hideous and, as I think it was one
against each team, wasridiculous do you think?
They were even the announcersright away, brady and the other
guy.
They're like yeah, I don't likethat call it was.
George Blais (02:21):
They were both terrible right, right, right out
of the gate, right, and I thinkthat they even have to address
it.
That's how much of an issue ithas become.
Right, yep, and I think therest of the game was played
fairly wide open.
But, like you said, the chiefsdidn't even show up.
No, I think they were exposed.
Jeremy Thomas (02:37):
The offensive line was exposed.
That's the biggest thing.
And, yeah, those, that was thegraphic.
The the average of thedefensive line of the Eagles is
like 338 pounds and like 6'6" orsomething like that was the
graphic.
George Blais (02:49):
I'm like, oh my gosh, they're monsters and they
make it work, big guys gettingit done, there's no doubt about
it.
So I think, if you recall thelast podcast, there was a wager.
Does Dylan remember it?
How much was it?
It was like 20 bucks 20 bucks.
Jeremy Thomas (03:07):
that's right, but we're going to put that in the
kitty.
George Blais (03:09):
We're going to put that in the kitty.
Okay Is what we're going to do,and then we're going to resume
this little operation as we movealong.
All right, because I think thatyou're going to wind up just
giving me one of these cars.
Jeremy Thomas (03:20):
That's what's going to happen.
Here's what we should do then.
So the $20 goes in the kittyand every time the kitty gets to
$100, then it's got to get paidoff, We've got to do something
with it.
There you go.
George Blais (03:29):
Maybe that could be dinner or something.
Jeremy Thomas (03:30):
Yeah.
George Blais (03:31):
But I think that it was a bomb, I think it was
not what people wereanticipating and I think that
the run that the Chiefs had isprobably coming to an end.
Jeremy Thomas (03:43):
Yeah that the Chiefs had is probably coming to
an end.
Yeah, it'll be interesting tosee if Kelsey comes back.
George Blais (03:46):
I'm going to be surprised if he does.
Jeremy Thomas (03:50):
Are you a Kelsey fan when he's playing?
I can do without all of hisother BS that he's got going on,
but you know, whatever I mean,you can't take what he's done as
a player, take away from him.
But you could literally see, Ifeel like this year and even
last year, man, the guy just Imean, granted he's a tight end,
but he's still man.
He looks like he's got a pianoon his back when he runs.
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It's like he's.
George Blais (04:12):
I'm telling you he wants to be more of a movie
star, oh yeah, than a footballplayer.
Yeah, that was.
I think that was the reason heinitially hooked up with uh t
swizzle, I will call her.
Did you see her reaction whenshe got booed?
No, because they brought thepresident up place, went crazy,
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right.
Then they pan and they bringher up and she's relentlessly
being booed and she got thislook on her face and you could
see her mouth.
What is going on?
Oh right, yeah, exactly, andI'm like, well, there you go.
Jeremy Thomas (04:47):
Yeah, what is going on was the phrase that
every Chiefs fan In fact it'sgoing to cost me.
I've got a friend of mine thatwe friendly bet back and forth
pretty much all season and hetakes everyone who isn't the
Chiefs Really.
George Blais (05:03):
Of course.
Jeremy Thomas (05:03):
Every week Takes everyone except that.
And then, of course, includingthe Super Bowl.
We bumped it.
So it's like okay, you knowwhat Big time let's do $100 on
the Super Bowl, okay, great.
So at about at halftime I startgetting the text from this guy
right, Sure, oh, you know he'ssending me like the dollar sign
emoji and all this kind of stuffand I'm like you know, good for
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you, you won one game.
Whatever, dude, I'll pay you,I'll pay you.
Is he an Eagles fan?
George Blais (05:32):
No, he's just not a Chiefs fan, so he always takes
20 bucks on the other team,just because I actually have a
client of mine that's from thePhiladelphia area and he was on
the phone yesterday going thisis what we've been waiting for
for so long right.
Because I don't think thatMahomes is as big a villain as
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Kelsey is right now.
I really believe that that'swhy I think he's done.
Jeremy Thomas (05:57):
Hey, you know, and maybe this is a touchy
subject, but what is your takeon when coaches and players and
everything, they start out theirinterview to praise God and
thank Jesus and all that kind ofstuff?
I am in no way shape or formmaking fun of it, right?
Does the public perceive thatas oh wow, there's a Christian
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guy, or do they think it's justBS and that's what it's talked
about?
I?
George Blais (06:21):
think that they just say that.
A lot of them, unfortunately,say that because it's become the
thing to do.
Jeremy Thomas (06:28):
Yeah right.
I don't think that a lot ofthem See honestly that's what
bugs me about it is, if that'strue and that's how they feel,
that's fantastic, right, but Ifeel like so much of it kind of
to your point.
We got a rumbler going throughyour Chevelle.
George Blais (06:44):
I love the sound of that motor.
Jeremy Thomas (06:45):
Yeah, but don't use it as a cliche.
That's not cool in my opinion.
Speaking of Jesus, I've got tobring this up.
Speaking of Jesus, did youcatch one of the commercials?
And Johnny Cash I'm a hugeJohnny Cash fan.
I don't know if that's come outon the podcast here or not.
Giant Johnny Cash fan.
(07:06):
I don't know if that's come outon the podcast here or not.
Giant Johnny Cash fan.
So right away the first three orfour chords of this song
started, I'm like, hey, and it'sPersonal Jesus, that's the name
of the song.
So I was like I'm all jackedbecause you think about it, was
it a couple of years ago?
Johnny Cash, the intro to thewhole Super Bowl process?
I think it was Ragged Old Flag,it was bowl process, I think
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was ragged old flag.
Sure it was johnny cash, right?
So I love that they're stillincorporating johnny into these
things, or whatever, sure so?
So two things.
So this, this song comes up andI'm like, yeah, sweet.
Well, what I didn't know.
And george popped my bubblelike a jackass this morning.
That's what I do.
He goes, he goes, oh uh, whodid the original version?
I go what do you mean?
I thought johnny did it.
And he's like no, no, no.
So I'm sitting here and Igoogle it.
I'm like are you kidding me?
Depeche mode?
Yeah, this song originally Ididn't know it was a remake.
George Blais (07:53):
Yeah yeah so does that make it less manly?
Now, a little bit.
It kind of it ruined it for you, didn't it?
I?
Jeremy Thomas (08:00):
mean it just made me wrinkle my nose, but I mean
you know, he redid uh, nine inchnails.
Of course, famously, yeah Didhurt, yes, and that doesn't
bother me for some reason, buttake Depeche.
George Blais (08:11):
Mode, depeche Mode .
Come on, man, that's a littleless down that road right.
Jeremy Thomas (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
George Blais (08:17):
But on that note, let's talk about a car that we
had in here that actuallybelonged to johnny yeah, we
still have it.
Jeremy Thomas (08:24):
Yeah, um, uh.
Yeah, we have.
Uh, it's johnny cash's last car, um, and of course I saw it and
had to have it because, again,I'm a johnny cash nerd.
So we have johnny cash's lastcar, um, it's the car that he
took to took june in her lastride, unfortunately, to the
hospital when uh, and then shenever came home after that and
(08:47):
uh, less than a month later hesold the car, um, as the story
goes that he didn't.
He his health wasn't good eitherat that time right, um, but uh,
but yeah, we've got all thepaperwork and everything
documenting that.
That was the car.
You know june died in the inmay and you know John didn't
even barely make it six months.
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He passed away in September.
Where is that car now?
George Blais (09:12):
It's in our storage, gotcha, gotcha.
Jeremy Thomas (09:16):
But you know I try to drive it a few times a
year just to keep it limber andeverything.
But there's a cassette tape inthere of Johnny Cash and Willie
Nelson when they did kind of theequivalent of MTV Unplugged or
whatever.
So it's an acoustic thing andin the round kind of little
thing they did.
That cassette's in there, soit's cool.
You kind of feel like you'realmost one-on-one with them and
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listening to that tape andeverything else it's kind of fun
.
George Blais (09:39):
It has to feel cool to sit in the driver's seat
knowing that Johnny Cash sat inthat driver's seat and drove
that car.
Jeremy Thomas (09:47):
Yeah, and I don't know.
I mean, it's a Lincoln, it's astretch, it's not a limo, but
it's the sedan that's stretched.
Do you think he drove it or didhe have somebody?
George Blais (09:56):
I think he had a driver my guess is he would have
had a driver for that.
Those are the real men.
Speaking of cool cars.
What did you think of thehalftime show?
I'll tell you what you wantedto talk about it.
The first thing that stood outto me was that GNX that was on
stage as soon as they pulled itout.
Jeremy Thomas (10:14):
I couldn't believe it.
And here's why, a couple weeksago, we had an advertising
agency.
Call and talk to one of thesalespeople.
We had an 86 and an 87 GrandNational, this advertising
company, they're kind oftight-lipped about it, but you
know they were interested in itand all they would say is that
it was going to be used for asuper bowl ad.
Well, and they, we startednegotiating, or you know, they
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started negotiating rather, andokay, yep, they, we had a deal,
send us the paperwork.
Well, by the time they got thepaperwork, they said that they
had gone in a differentdirection and they didn't need
the car anymore.
Well, I think it's because thiscar got, you know, committed to
before they got committed toours, right?
So, yeah, imagine my surprisewhen Super Bowl halftime shows
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up and I'm like that could havebeen our car on the stage.
George Blais (10:58):
But they had already secured one.
Jeremy Thomas (10:59):
So yeah, kind of a we get calls like that quite a
bit from advertising agencies,movie prop companies, that kind
of thing for all these cool cars.
George Blais (11:09):
So it's kind of fun.
Isn't it funny that you see thetrend in advertising?
Pay attention to it.
Jeremy Thomas (11:14):
I tell people Taka does.
George Blais (11:16):
Yeah, they stole our idea.
Yeah, the Chevelle.
Yes, exactly, but anyways, it'sfunny to watch and I told my
wife yesterday I said payattention to all of these ads
and anything that's going on.
And they are inundated withclassic cars Right, I mean
inundated.
And it's the younger generationas well.
They think those are cool cars.
Jeremy Thomas (11:35):
Yeah, 100%.
George Blais (11:37):
I was having this discussion with Jason this
morning and we were talkingabout he brought up some
pictures of guys actuallydesigning these amazing bodies
years ago and how they did drawthem out on the wall.
They're down on drafting paperand doing all that, and now with
computer automation andeverything, I think that's where
we're losing it yeah, theythrow it in cad and spin it
around and okay go makes me mad.
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It makes me mad speaking of mad,I I gotta bring up this road
rage thing.
So I'm out running a fewerrands in the morning.
Here's me Knowing kickoff issupposed to be at 530.
Oh right, and it never usuallycomes until about 6.
At 10 am yesterday I'm like Igot to get everything done.
I can't miss kickoff.
It's eight hours.
I live five minutes away fromeverything, yeah, but I would
(12:18):
like to make a public serviceannouncement right out of the
gate PSA coming.
A PSA is coming here.
Roundabouts are not a four-waystop.
Does that drive you crazy?
Oh, my God yes, I know there's alot of people that visit us and
they're not popular in everystate yet, but they're getting
there.
The whole idea of a roundaboutis to make traffic flow more
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freely.
Yes, that's the idea.
It is not a four-way stop.
Do not pull up, look left, lookright and then, if you're clear
, go, because you're wastingyour time and, more importantly,
you're wasting mine.
Yeah, because I'm sittingbehind you, exactly right.
Jeremy Thomas (12:58):
Yeah, that drives me nuts.
Oh yeah I.
I the opposite of that.
I'm going through theroundabout and I'm, you know.
Once you're in it, then youhave the right-of-way and here
comes and granted they'reprobably 80-year-old, look like
they're 80-plus-year-old peopledriving a Buick, LeSabre of
course it has to be, they'rerocking the stereotype.
It has to be and I'm kind ofhalfway through the roundabout
and I see him coming and I justkind of speed and, like this guy
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I don't know if he knew that hecould even slow down I
literally thought they weregoing to rear-end me in the
middle of the roundabout becausehe was just on it, right, I'm
like holy hell man, simpletraffic stuff.
Another one is do you haveanybody in your family that is a
backseat or passenger seatdriver, everyone in my family
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and everyone in my family.
It drives me crazy, everyone inmy family.
We had hockey this weekend,right.
So I've got kids and otherpeople in the car and everything
else and we're on the way.
We're going to go get somethingto eat.
We had time before the game andwe get there.
And somebody made some commentsabout like, oh, I feel so sick,
I hope I can eat, or seasick, orwhatever the comments were, and
(14:07):
I can eat, or or seasick, orwhatever the comments were, and
I'm like look, I'm at point a,right, I need to get to point b,
right?
That in between is a waste oftime.
Yeah, it drives me nuts.
I want to get there as soon asI can and as efficiently as I
can, right.
So, rolling through a curve atseven miles per hour?
No, no, if it says speed limit20, that's merely a suggestion.
I happen to drive a vehiclethat can handle it faster than
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that, so I'm going to Right, youknow, keep your head away from
the window if you don't like it.
You know, you get a littlethump here and there, maybe I
don't know.
But God, dang it, man, if youdon't like it, get out and walk,
Follow this rule whenreasonable and prudent.
George Blais (14:45):
Isn't that what they had actually on stop signs
out west in the 60s?
I think it is Maybe I've heardthe old guys talk about it.
They were like that was thelisting in states.
I think they brought up Montanaand a few of those others.
And that's how, if you canhandle a little faster speed,
then I think that I'm capable ofdetermining whether that's safe
(15:08):
or not?
Jeremy Thomas (15:08):
Yeah, one of my family is like you know.
The only time I ever get carsick is when you're driving.
George Blais (15:13):
I'm like stop it.
Are you that bad of a driver?
I'm not that good of a driver.
Jeremy Thomas (15:17):
They're just not used to getting.
This just reminded me of mymother-in-law.
She was in the back seat awhile back and we took off.
We were like 15, 20 minutesinto the drive and she taps me
on the shoulder, she's in theback seat and she goes hey, can
you maybe drive like there's70-some-year-old people in the
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back?
I'm like, okay, so all the wayhome?
I'm like creeping up to a stopsign from a half mile away,
gently accelerating, and I'mlike ready to pull out what
little hair I have left, becausein my mind, you know, I could
have been there and gone intothe next town by the time.
I'm rolling away from the stopsign, driving that way were you
driving the escalator?
oh yeah, tell people that aren'tfamiliar with what your
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escalator is, not your averageescalator so I'm lucky and
blessed to be able to have foundone of these first off and be
able to have one.
But so it's an escalate v, thev series, right?
So, um, that takes a.
I mean, a quick glance lookingat the truck, other than the v
symbol on the doors you reallycan't tell.
So it's kind of a sleeper.
That's the one first thing.
(16:19):
That's cool, uh.
Second thing it's asupercharged 6.2.
It's, uh, just under 700horsepower and it acts like it.
It sounds like it if you wantit to want it to.
The exhaust note is amazing.
And it's zero to 60 and threepoint something in a 6 000 pound
suv I've never been able tounderstand how those things
handle the roll center with that, yeah.
(16:41):
So there's a button in there,it's called v mode and it allows
you.
So if you push that and you'redriving it, literally the
truck's got air suspension, sothe whole center of gravity, the
truck will lower itself.
Okay, how far does it drop?
Oh, like 10 inches no, I'm justkidding um, a couple inches and
um.
But you can adjust thetransmission shift points, the
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steering sensitivity, thebraking sensitivity.
You can change the exhaust note, uh, if you want them all the
way open so it breathes, or youcan tone it down.
You can literally.
If you have it all the way openand you let off the gas and
you're decelerating, it soundslike a popcorn maker, I mean, it
sounds like a hot rod coming atyou and people look and it's a
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new truck and they're like whatthe hell is that thing?
So of course I love it, it'sawesome.
George Blais (17:27):
That lift up and down.
It's funny you bring that up.
There's a customer brought us avehicle a while back that the
techs are working on and it's aFrench Citroen, right, and I had
no idea.
But Wyatt was like he's one ofour techs, he's like you want to
see something cool, goes outthere, he fires it up and the
thing lifts into like anoff-road mode Almost.
(17:48):
I'm like are you going to takethis?
I think that's what it'slabeled as Right.
Is that what?
it is, I don't know You're nottaking this thing off-road, yeah
right, but it did come up about6-7 inches, yeah Right, and I
was like, oh, that makes nosense whatsoever.
Jeremy Thomas (18:03):
Now, when you say 6-7 inches, is this the six,
seven inches?
You tell your wife Four, four.
George Blais (18:09):
Listen.
I made this comment the otherday to somebody I said, speaking
of the halftime show in the GNXlast night and Buick Grand
Nationals, I said Buick provedthat six is greater than eight.
Well said Well said Can we godown that road, especially with
a blower?
I mean no, your man tools Okay.
Jeremy Thomas (18:34):
Whoa, where the hell is this going?
Let me rephrase that.
George Blais (18:37):
Any of your power equipment at your home?
Does it all have names yourblower, your lawnmower, Mine do?
I have names for every piece ofequipment in my garage and the
reason I bring that up is I livein a neighborhood that has real
mature trees.
I have 150-year-old oak trees,so every fall I probably get
eight inches of leaves allthrough my yard.
(18:58):
So I went out and looked forthe biggest backpack blower I'm
talking volume of air that couldmove and I bought that thing
and it blows like anything and Inamed it tammy.
Wow, and people always ask methey were like why do you?
Why is your blower named tammy?
Uh, we're going to talk a littlebit about fu cars today.
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By the way, the new gt350 for2025 is, uh, set for production
I second quarter of this yearand you know how I love Mustang
Shelby GT350s.
That's one of my favorite carsOver 800 horsepower.
They're teaming up with Whippleagain, because the one that we
had in here last summer it wasthe 2016, actually had that
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two-stage Whipple in it.
Yeah, and that wouldn't havebeen put on by Ford.
Jeremy Thomas (19:44):
But it was after the fact.
George Blais (19:45):
But to to have a whipple, don't you have to bring
it to their factory?
You don't have to do that.
It's not in the case of the one, the old one, you're talking.
Oh okay, so that wasn't put onat whipple uh, probably not.
Jeremy Thomas (19:57):
I mean it was put on at a performance shop, I'm
sure.
George Blais (19:59):
Oh no, kidding.
Well, anyways, they've teamedup over 800 horsepower with the
gt350 and you can still get thatbase model.
That's about 480.
But I looked at the car andthey claim that they have
improved suspension handling,even more so than what we've
seen in the past.
So do you?
Jeremy Thomas (20:15):
think with the 800-horse version do you suppose
you could do your patented 66miles per hour 66?
George Blais (20:21):
miles an hour.
I want to drive one of those.
Jeremy Thomas (20:23):
You can push it hard.
George Blais (20:24):
How can I talk my wife into letting me buy one of
those GTRs?
Jeremy Thomas (20:28):
Well, I would start with stop talking about
Tammy.
George Blais (20:33):
Start there.
Let's take a quick trip downthe aisle.
Jeremy Thomas (20:41):
Speaking of your wife, I don't know if she
watched the one.
Did she appreciate your flexabout the age thing here on the
other episode?
George Blais (20:46):
I don't know if she did watch that yet, okay,
all right.
I don't know if she did watchthat yet, okay, all right.
I don't know if that's a flex,it just happens.
It just happens right.
Because for so many years Ijust was like I'm never getting
married again, I'm never gettingmarried again, I'm never
getting married again.
Jeremy Thomas (21:00):
And then I think you and I have both down that
road, then you find the rightone, right, yeah exactly.
George Blais (21:04):
She could be 90.
She could be 18.
Wow.
Jeremy Thomas (21:08):
What movie is that?
The older I get, but I keepgetting older, but they stay the
same age or something like that.
George Blais (21:13):
There's some movie line anyways.
All right, let's take a tripdown the aisle.
Let's talk about some of the FUcars we have sitting in here
right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Jeremy Thomas (21:22):
There's a couple of them.
There's well right over ourshoulders that Hellcat, that
just came in and are you.
George Blais (21:27):
Let me ask you this, just to put you on the
spot Of all of the modern andI'm talking 2010 and beyond Okay
, which one of those is yourfavorite?
When I'm talking Corvettes,Hellcats, Mustangs, things like
that, Do you have a favorite ofthe new?
Jeremy Thomas (21:43):
models.
That's a.
I don't think anyone's everasked me that before.
I probably would go to a C7.
Vette is probably where I wouldgo.
Do you like those better thanthe 8?
I do, I do, I've driven.
Last summer I drove a C8 for afew months just to get to know
them a little bit and had thesalesman drive it too.
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I bought one for the store,strictly so that we could have
one in, everybody could touch itand drive it and feel it and
know what it's like andeverything else, so that our
team can speak intelligently onthem when we get them Right.
So we kind of let everybodydrive them and that sort of
thing.
Yeah, I mean the C8, I meanit's a fantastic car.
But man, I don't know the C7.
(22:31):
I honestly I like the looksbetter.
It's still.
You know the rear, you knowobviously it's rear drive and
all that.
But you know front engineconfiguration and I don't know.
It's just hard to not like that.
George Blais (22:38):
Well, I think the with the c8s there's a lot of
guys that feel they betrayed theoriginal look of the corvette
right and the original build andthey're like trying to move
towards that European look withthe Ferraris and stuff.
But I do know guys who havethem and they say that they're
super comfortable ergonomicallyto take long rides in and do
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anything else.
Jeremy Thomas (23:00):
But the biggest gripe with the C8s is the
passenger experience sucks.
Why?
Because of the way they've gotgot, I mean, when you're the
driver, you are, I mean, you'resurrounded, it's a cockpit,
right, yeah, but the passengerfeels alienated because
everything is tilted in towardsthe driver.
So you know whether it's, youknow, a spouse or kid or buddy
(23:26):
or whatever.
You feel like you're on yourown planet in the passenger seat
, right.
That's one of the biggestgripes I've heard since day one
when that car came out and thatwas when you're the driver right
, it's fantastic because it'sbuilt like a cockpit.
George Blais (23:39):
Yeah, right, if you're in an airplane, right,
you want all your controls.
Everything is aimed at youready right passenger.
Jeremy Thomas (23:46):
You're just like it's's almost like that console
acts.
It feels like it's a wall builtup.
So that's one of the negativesthat some people have said.
Right.
George Blais (23:55):
Well, I tell you what the funny thing is.
You bring that up because I gotoff Corvettes for a while.
I'm also not to sound like I'mtrying to butter you up but C7s
are my favorite.
Jeremy Thomas (24:07):
What I'm not making that up.
George Blais (24:09):
I'm not making that up, We've got.
I mean, they come through hereon a regular basis.
Jeremy Thomas (24:12):
Tell me, if they didn't come out with a new body
style, el Camino, you wouldn'tbe that guy.
George Blais (24:17):
I might be the guy Again.
I posted that one, that 78 thatwe have back there.
I sold that to a guy in maine,loved it.
He even did some modificationsto it right, sent it back
because he wanted a challengerthat showed up.
Yeah, this is the hell that carguys go through.
The hunt is never over.
Jeremy Thomas (24:34):
The hunt is never over and, and that's the best
that's.
By the way, that's one of thecoolest things, uh, about this
hobby is that most of the time,especially in the classic cars I
mean you can get something.
And we have customers all overthe place, that that place that
they might have a car for two orthree months, they might have
it for two or three years, right, and they get their fix and
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maybe it's everything theydreamed of and they got the
experience and they're happy,right.
Maybe they got it and they'relike, okay, well, that was fun,
but I'm over it.
And we get people trading carsback in all the time.
And it's funny.
People that aren't in the hobby.
They think, oh, that guy musthave traded it back in because
there's something wrong with it.
No, he traded it back inbecause he wants to play with
something else, right, and so,yeah, we love trading our cars
(25:16):
back in because we know thehistory.
Now, we know the story, we knowthe service history, because we
keep that on file.
I mean it's, it's great, rightI.
George Blais (25:23):
The one thing I hear a lot from guys is they ask
me how do these guys keepbuying cars?
I, I've figured it out.
Not I mean, if you're acollector, you're a collector,
but guys who just want to have acar once you're in.
You're in because that vehiclethat you buy you could either
bring back to us we'll sell iton consignment for you, or you
(25:43):
can do whatever you want with it.
Yeah right, but you have.
You have funds to deal withright out of the gate.
So all they're doing isupgrading or just moving around.
Jeremy Thomas (25:52):
Yeah, once that initial price of admission is
paid.
You're kind of it's almost likeyou got a lifelong membership
in the motorhood because nowyou're in, right, and that's the
other thing.
One thing we do that a lot of.
I mean, there's classic car.
We're not the only classic cardealership, obviously, yeah, but
a lot of them do not taketrade-ins or accept trade-ins.
We do, and I try to explain topeople.
(26:13):
There's, you know, like you say,once you get past the initial
price of admission to get yourfirst classic car, now you, you
know, and whether you spend20,000 or 10,000 or 50,000 or
whatever the number is, you'vegot that pot of money, so to
speak, right, right, so now ifyou want to upgrade, you don't
need to write a check for$60,000, but maybe you've got
your car that you've bought ayear ago and maybe you've saved
(26:35):
up another $10,000.
How do you move up?
You trade, right, and peopleask us all the time where do you
get your cars?
Is it from the auctions?
It's like the auctions is theteeniest, tiniest piece of it
Right.
Highest percentage is trade-ins, and we love that, we do, we
love it.
George Blais (26:51):
So we're talking about FU cars.
I don't know how this, becausewell, that's just kind of the
mood we were in when we came inthis morning.
But we do have that Hellcatthat's got a supercharged Hemi
V8.
Jeremy Thomas (27:03):
Yep, yeah, that thing.
5,000 miles on it, the HellcatRight, I mean it still literally
opened the door.
It smells brand new.
Tags are still hanging on theseat.
It looks yeah, and that's 700horsepower you could have some
fun with that Superchargedversus turbo.
George Blais (27:16):
We were talking about this earlier this morning,
but there's some guys thatdon't even know the difference
between that.
I know serious.
Jeremy Thomas (27:22):
You were one of those guys like four days ago,
right?
That is the honest-to-God truth.
George Blais (27:26):
The serious car guys do so.
I've learned this in thisbuilding.
If I have a question aboutsomething like that, I'm lucky
enough to have access to theguys in the shop and Pat was
explaining to me the draw,because of the supercharging is
actually run with power off theengine.
Jeremy Thomas (27:44):
Right, yeah, the supercharger is belt-driven or
pulley, so you could change thesize of that pulley, correct,
yes, and now you're playing withfire you can well, and in a
little side note on that, we seethat happen where people you
know whether let's just say it'sa, a mustang, and they want to,
they take a stock gt mustangthat is, you know, 350 horse.
(28:06):
Let's say out of the box, right, and they want more power so
I'm going to put a superchargeron it.
Well, they do that and maybethey put some headers on it so
it can breathe better andeverything else, and now it's
560 horsepower or whatever.
And then they're going toprogram it and chip it and
change the fuel system and nowit's 600 horsepower.
But here's the problem you boltall that stuff on and you don't
(28:29):
do anything with the internals.
So you got to remember that theconnecting rods and the pistons
and all the internal stuffthat's built for 350 horsepower,
Right, and now the motor'sdoing 650, and then people
wonder why there's enginefailure.
So I had that happen with acustomer of mine.
(28:50):
He bought a hopped-up Mustangand I kind of warned him about
it and he bought it anywaybecause it was cosmetically, it
was everything he wanted and allthis sort of thing.
And I'm like, okay, I saidthere's no forged internals in
that car and it's got highhorsepower.
You're asking for it andunfortunately and unfortunately
I did not get any joy out of it,but unfortunately I was right.
(29:11):
He had the car for not even sixmonths and it blew up.
That's insane.
George Blais (29:17):
So when they design these cars, like, for
example, I was talking about theShelbys that are coming out
this year, you can get the GT350base, which is 480, versus the
810 with the supercharged Samemotor.
Or do they do other things whenthey add that Whipple?
Jeremy Thomas (29:32):
Well, it may be the same block, but then
everything else is different,and that's where you run into
problems, right?
George Blais (29:37):
Speaking of Mustangs, we just had a bullet
roll in, yeah yeah, so it's an08 bullet.
Jeremy Thomas (29:43):
It's only got like 30,000 miles or something
like that, and of course that'sa tribute or a throwback to the
original bullet movie car, whichwas a 68.
George Blais (29:54):
Oh, you're so smart.
Well, actually we were talkingabout this at this point, so I'm
not that smart.
Jeremy Thomas (29:59):
I'm trying to give you a pat on the back.
George Blais (30:00):
I know, but I'm a transparent guy.
I don't know a whole lot, butfor some reason I could not
remember the year of that.
That's not my favorite.
I actually had that discussionwith a few guys online when we
were talking about it a fewweeks ago, and the one that
stands out in my mind for moviecars is the Challenger and
(30:21):
Vanishing Point.
Jeremy Thomas (30:23):
Yeah, I did add that to my need to watch movies.
I've never seen that movie.
George Blais (30:27):
It's a cult favorite and it's kind of weird,
but it's the sound of thatmotor yeah, I know you mentioned
that Just screaming across thedesert, right, all right.
Also we were just talking aboutthis the Corvette's coming in.
Jeremy Thomas (30:37):
We've got a 2015 3LT down there, yeah, and that
car's only got 10,000 miles.
So I mean, of course she'sbright red and the thing looks
fantastic.
And the nice thing about thatcar is, again, only 10,000 miles
on it and it's not a $100,000Corvette, no, I mean, it's
(30:59):
affordable in the world ofsports cars.
George Blais (31:06):
That's an extremely affordable Corvette
with hardly any miles on it.
For guys that want to dip theirtoes in the water, we find a
lot of them that come in andthey want a Corvette.
I say this to people all thetime they're great cars, yeah,
they look cool and they handlelike a dream.
Of course you would go downthat road right what's
ridiculous is they're even fuelefficient.
Jeremy Thomas (31:22):
I mean, if you don't drive them like a complete
a-hole, right, you'll getalmost 30 miles of the gallon
with them, right, and they areall of what I just said and you
can get them fairly affordable.
George Blais (31:31):
We had a lot of nice Corvettes in here last
summer that were between $20,000and $30,000.
Yeah right.
Some of the older modelsfantastic cars yeah.
Speaking of a-hole A-holes.
Jeremy Thomas (31:44):
After the last episode, people are probably
getting an idea that there's alot of pranking and joking and
stuff that goes on around here,right?
So one of those things thatgoes around is somehow years ago
, I don't even know where itstarted, but there's this
infatuation or prodding aboutcats around here and
specifically the south end of anorthbound cat.
(32:06):
There's a couple of the guysover here.
It started with just me andRyan.
Well, then Jay got involved andJeff got involved and there's
other guys, you know, whatever.
And now everybody kind of knowsthat this it's a funny cat
thing, right, like I think itstarted.
I was at, I was at a friend'shouse and their cat.
I was sitting in their garageand their cat's rubbing on my
leg.
You know how they want to getpetted, you know, or whatever.
(32:26):
And right as I looked down, ofcourse he's standing there.
That's a male cat with his tailstraight up in the air, back
hunched, and his business ishanging out in the back.
So I quick took a picture of itand I sent it to Ryan, right,
just like you know.
Just no comment, no, nothing,just a picture of this back end
of the cat, right?
Well, so now that's blossomed.
However, many years later,we've got this running cat joke
(32:47):
thing going on all the time.
So for Christmas I got Ryan.
I grabbed one of these.
So I don't know if the cameracan pick this up or not, but
they're magnets, right, so itsticks.
It's just the butt end of a catwith his tail up.
So Ryan's got these on his filecabinet, right?
Hey, I wonder if that'll stickhere.
Maybe we can put that there forthe rest of the episode.
(33:09):
Oh my yeah, so we have these catbutts and things going on and
we leave um little cat things.
In fact we were on the way tothe iola car show.
We stopped at some roadsidething and they had a sign there
and a little five dollar signand it said check me out,
m-e-o-w-t.
I gave that to ryan.
(33:29):
He's got that hanging on hisdesk, so you get the gist right.
He has a collection of catbutts.
He does, he has a collection ofcat butts.
So now imagine my surprise whennew guy relatively new guy,
george, been here a year or soI'm scrolling on Facebook.
So, because of this runningjoke of the cats I've added or
(33:50):
joined, or it shows up in myfeed on Facebook, these
different, you know differentfunny cat memes, or my cat, and
it shows the cat jumping out thewindow or any of that kind of
funny stuff, right?
So I'm scrolling here onSaturday and here's this one
page called the name of the pageis my Cat's an A-Hole.
Yes, that's the name of thepage.
(34:10):
So right away I'm like, oh mygosh, I need to get in there.
I joined it, you know whenever,and, and all of a sudden I'm
scrolling through and here Ilook, I do a double take and you
know, because it says my cat'san a-hole.
And then the person that postsin it you know their name is
smaller there's george there'sme, there's me his two of them
in my cats an a-hole post.
(34:31):
I'm like serious, I didn't knowyou're into it.
Buddy, tell me how you landedthere.
George Blais (34:34):
The funny thing?
Well, these are two that Ibought for my daughter a year
ago for Christmas and theybasically taken over the house.
And if you know anything aboutcats, they don't.
They're just wild beasts thatlive in your house.
You can't train them andthey're only tolerant of you
because you're bigger than theyare.
That is true, I had mentionedthis to you earlier, but
(34:56):
scientists believe that if catsweighed 200 pounds, they would
eat their owners.
Probably would.
They would literally kill youand eat you.
But on that note, I stumbledacross that page and we actually
have a few guys in the buildinghere that have cats.
Jay has cats.
Jay, yep, dan, dan, yep.
Myself, you do not like catsbecause you don't want them in
(35:18):
the house.
I don't.
Jeremy Thomas (35:19):
I can't.
I like cats just fine.
I grew up on the farm.
We had farm cats out in thebarn and a dog out there or
whatever.
The older I got, I tried doingit with my daughter too.
She had a cat.
She earned it, you know, didsomething or whatever.
And I, I can't stand pets inthe house.
Man, the fur you want, I, Ican't.
I can't do it.
I'll snap it.
(35:39):
I can't stand the fur.
I don't want the piss or puker.
I don't want a freaking dogbiscuit laying in the hallway.
George Blais (35:45):
I don't know no pets, no pets in the house.
Another thing cats are reallybad at is they feel like they're
entitled to jumping up on thecounter and the dinner table and
they get near food and they'llget into it if you don't watch
them.
Oh yeah, so it's.
It's basically like having,like I said, a wild beast living
in your house yeah, that's.
Jeremy Thomas (36:05):
I can't stand that.
So the cat comes, they come outof the litter box where they
just got done, covering theircrap and their urine, yes, and
then they jump up on the counterand oh, it's so cute, right,
right.
And then he steps on yoursilverware or steps on the plate
that you're about to eat off ofand oh, it's so cute, you're
bad, you're bad Give him a treat?
No, he's got crap on his feet.
George Blais (36:25):
Are you kidding me ?
I get it, because I grew up inthe country too, and my dad was
like no cats in the house,specifically you know one meme
that just popped in my head.
Jeremy Thomas (36:34):
I saw on that thing here a couple weeks ago.
It was just a still picture ofa cat standing by a litter box.
Right, you know what this houseneeds?
A box of shh.
Yeah, let's get a cat.
George Blais (36:46):
Right, that's how I wound up in that Facebook
group.
I saw a meme pop up and it wasa cat shoveling his litter out
of his box, just like theyoccasionally do, and the caption
was because F you.
That's why.
That's why I'm like that's theattitude of a cat, right, I
agree.
(37:06):
So we're going to get togetherand we're going to try, maybe,
some sim racing.
We're going to do that tonight,finally.
No, I think dylan and I weretalking about it, so we're like
we're.
We want you to make sure thatyou uh pop in and display your
skill set.
Jeremy Thomas (37:19):
I, um, I'm just gonna say that, whatever, I'm
certain that the boasting aftertonight will happen on the next
episode.
So, um, I'm just gonna tell youin advance I, I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to embarrass you,but it's.
You know how long have you beenracing?
Oh gosh, at least what?
Three times.
Now, dylan, I've been overthere.
Four, something like that.
George Blais (37:41):
That's it.
That's it.
I think I could take you with ajoystick.
Excuse me, listen, it almostgoes down that road.
But I was telling him becausehe has quite the setup and we're
going to get we'll see somepictures.
Oh s***, you believe you'regoing to die.
(38:08):
Right, I'm sure We'll see somepictures, because there's.
I started going down thatrabbit hole and you can get tens
of thousands of dollars deep.
Oh man, in a hurry, yeah, Right.
And the great thing about thatis you can just completely go to
complete shit and just getright back on the track.
Also, it's right-hand driving,in case you didn't notice.
(38:30):
Yeah, also it's right-handdriving.
In case you didn't notice.
Jeremy Thomas (38:35):
Do you think rabbits get offended by?
Everybody uses the phrase goingdown the rabbit hole in a
negative way.
Do you think they get?
George Blais (38:42):
offended.
I don't know, but isn't that areference to Alice in Wonderland
?
Oh wow, I don't know.
I think that's what it is.
Is it really Joe Dillon'snodding his head up and down,
but I think it is Guess whatI've never watched that movie.
You're kidding me?
No, you're kidding me.
No, you clearly didn't doenough drugs in college.
On that note, before we go,have you ever taken the Wizard
(39:05):
of Oz?
Have you heard about this withPink Floyd's money?
No Money, uh-uh.
Initially, when the second lionroar comes up before the Wizard
of Oz starts, hit play on Moneyby Pink Floyd, okay.
And follow that through thesequence of Shut up, I'm not.
(39:28):
Actually, money kicks in.
When she opens the door to Oz,you start the whole CD Dark Side
of the Moon.
Start the CD Okay, right at thevery beginning, and you tell me
if there was not somethingthose guys were doing as that
movie moves along and itsequences with the movie how the
hell did you find out aboutthis.
Listen, I've been just hangingout doing weird stuff.
Jeremy Thomas (39:53):
Okay, no questions asked asked.
If you it will freak you outreally.
George Blais (39:57):
It's like he set that up to time it.
Jeremy Thomas (40:00):
Uh, I'd like to see if anyone else tries that or
knows what the hell he'stalking about.
Put it in the comments, if youwould please.
I'd love to see it.
George Blais (40:05):
Pink floyd dark side of the moon.
Wizard of oz, the second roarof the lion.
Just start, boom, right there,it'll follow the.
You can turn the volume downand just follow the sequence of
the lion.
Just start, boom, right there,it'll follow the.
You can turn the volume downand just follow the sequence of
the music through.
And when she lands in oz andshe opens the door, just as she
grabs the handle and pulls itopen, money kicks in and you
hear that, oh my gosh, it'll it.
(40:27):
Once you see it and youexperience, it.
Jeremy Thomas (40:29):
I feel like I need to try this we're gonna
have.
George Blais (40:30):
Maybe we'll have to get that done as well.
All All right.
Maybe we'll have a night wherewe all get together and do that.
Jeremy Thomas (40:36):
Wow, this is starting to sound like a
sleepover, George.
I don't know if I'm comfortable.
A pajama party.
George Blais (40:41):
Could we have a guy's pajama party?
I wanted to have one lastChristmas.
Oh, by the way, pause.
Jeremy Thomas (40:46):
We need to add that to George's least masculine
thing he ever says?
George Blais (40:50):
Did he just ask me if?
Jeremy Thomas (40:51):
we could have a pajama party.
Really, would you want me tobring my flannel so you can feel
it again?
George Blais (40:56):
Yes, I'm not opposed to that.
Who's got the right fabric?
Oh boy, it's all about thefabric.
All right, so we'll have anupdate on sim racing and maybe
Jay can come in and we'll gethim at some point, because he's
got to settle down.
Yeah, he's got to settle down.
Jeremy Thomas (41:13):
He's got to get his equilibrium back.
George Blais (41:15):
He's the Chiefs fan.
We'll give him a chance to comeup here and defend himself.
Yeah right, when in doubt, gasit.
Jeremy Thomas (41:24):
There you go, hey .
George Blais (41:25):
George, when in doubt, when in doubt gas it.
Jeremy Thomas (41:28):
Watch out for that ghost up there.
This guy I got it right in myhead.
Watch out for that ghost upthere.
George Blais (41:39):
I think you broke George.
I think you broke him.
Jeremy Thomas (41:41):
I threw him from flat screen to.
George Blais (41:42):
VR.
Jeremy Thomas (41:42):
It's kind of a jump.
It's a little bit of a jump,Especially with the wheel and
pedals.
It's pretty cool.
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