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Brian fuels our imagination with high-octane car stories spanning decades. He begins with the unassuming Ford Tempo that was his first car, revealing how humble beginnings can ignite big automotive dreams. We then fast-forward to his ultimate fantasy: owning a stainless-steel DeLorean. Along the way, Brian shares motorsport adventures and car history gems – including how he nearly traded his daily driver to help fund a racing project and the Back to the Future-inspired moment that cemented his love for the DeLorean.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back America to all the cars I've loved
before.
Carslovecom, carslovecom hey,you know it is my habit to say
welcome back America, but thatis actually inaccurate, because
this little podcast that couldhas made its way around the
world.
We are downloaded and followedin Europe, in South America, in
Canada yes, I know, that's thesame continent as North America
(00:27):
and Asia and Asia.
Well, I mean, as we're speaking, everyone's filing on board
thegoodshipcarslovecom.
Hey, I am your co-host,christian.
This is my esteemed technicalguru of how To Doug how you
doing, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm doing great, doing great.
Just coming back off a tripfrom LA where I saw some pretty
awesome cars and some prettyawesome scenery.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, we're going to get into that and it's March for
us, if you're listening, soeverybody's going on vacation.
We've been on a bit of a hiatushere.
As we ramp up.
We're trying to get into acadence of dropping an episode
every other week and seeing howwe can squeeze in some
unexpected interesting thingsfor Cars Love Nation.
And again, thanks for beingwith us.
(01:13):
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(01:35):
once we get that feedback loopof data coming back to us, we
know who is listening what andwhere.
So, hey, good to have you.
We're really surprised,unexpectedly surprised and happy
for the around the World andBack Again attention.
So thanks for following andplease continue to boost.
So that brings us to.
We're really excited to haveour guest here today.
I just met him and he is afriend of Doug's, so for the
(02:01):
warm handoff and introduction,I'm going to pass the baton off
over to Doug.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right, thank you, christian.
So we're going to introduce agood friend author, kind of a
rock star, police officer,detective, dad of four.
That I know of, that he knowsof, he wasn't in the military,
holy crap.
I love it.
I know of that, he knows of hewasn't an anniversary, holy crap
(02:28):
.
I love it.
And he's also who I considerkind of the godfather of the
delorean dmv group, um dcmaryland, virginia group and he.
I found him on facebook and, loand behold, x number of months
later, I end up with thedelorean so weird?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
you're not.
You're not the first person forthat to happen to.
Specifically with me, because inour group alone Curtis got his
Delorean because of me, jim gothis Delorean because of me and I
also helped one other personthat's not in our group, that's
somewhere else in the countryget their Delorean, and it's not
(03:02):
even like I'm trying, it's justlike someone says, hey, I'm
looking and I and it's not evenlike I'm trying, it's just like
I someone says, hey, I'm lookingfor one, and then I kind of
stumble across one and then Iget them to meet up, and that's
how us DeLorean people are and,and you know, with that, um, I
don't want to take anything away, but we have the wonderful, the
handsome, the charming, BrianPaone.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Brian, you want to introduce yourself beyond the
little bit that I just said?
Sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm 5'4", 130 pounds long.
Walks on the beach, tacos aremy favorite food.
Mint chocolate chip ice creamis definitely burnt.
Orange is my favorite color.
I was born and raised in Salem,massachusetts, in a funeral
home, and I was in bands foryears and toured, been an author
for years trying to think whatelse is.
(03:50):
Oh, I have web feet.
You know, if you don't knowabout that, about me,
Incidentally, we, up until myfourth child was born, we were
always under the assumption thatI had web feet as a birth
defect, because my mother wastaking morning sickness
medication in the 70s and thenthey took it off the market for
having birth defects.
Right then my, my daughter, uhedelweiss, is born and she has
(04:13):
the same exact toes on her twofeet up to the same spot than I
do.
So we're like, oh, maybe thisis genetic because you.
There's obviously something tothis.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think we could talk to Brian for 30 minutes and
never get around to cars.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Just from that preamble that we got oh, we're
not talking about cars.
No, we're not even going tonotice, we're going to have him
back.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I think we should have him back as a guest host
too.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, because you'll want to check him out.
If you go to carslovecom, we'regoing to have pictures, links
to all of Brian's personalwebsites.
Will some of them be mycalendar shoots when I was
working at the fire station?
Absolutely, we will get it allup there.
I was Mr March.
(05:03):
And it is the month of March andthat's why we have him on,
quite frankly.
But yeah, so we'll have linksto his books.
I had my suspenders on,immortalized in March, with
suspenders and wearing littleelse, but yeah, we'll have links
to his books, his music, allthe things that he's done.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
His calendar.
Yeah, we'll be for sale.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Download only his calendar.
Yeah, yeah, we'll be for sale.
Download only, I hope.
But I hope that doesn't run usafoul of any federal or state
regulations, but digging it.
Well, brian, it is a completepleasure to have you.
And should we start with newsor should we just kind of get
into to to Brian's world here?
Doug, what do you think?
What are we feeling today?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let's audible, you know let's just say, you know,
we lost a very importantautomotive designer that a lot
of people may not know by name,but they know him by his works.
Do you want to talk a littlebit about our dearly departed
friend?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, I came across this article in motortrendcom
here and Doug and I have beentalking about it today here.
The great Italian designer,marcello Gandini.
First off, I just want to saythe name over and over.
Marcello Gandini has died atage 85.
Okay, and so he was thedesigner of several Lamborghini
cars.
I think by way of Bertone washe with that design house, but
(06:24):
anyway, he was integral in thedesign of the Miura in the late
60s, in, I believe it'spronounced Countach Correct A
little over a decade later, fromthe early 70s on, I think they
made those until the early tomid 90s when they were
outrageous and then just lookedlike spaceships from another
dimension.
But yeah, interesting guy,beloved, just very beautiful
(06:48):
cars, and his Italians, what canyou say?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Hey, I'm Italian.
Come on, I'm a peone.
Yeah, that's why we brought itup Right right, my grandfather
came over on the boat when hewas in his late teens and he hit
Bostonoston harbor.
What year would this have been?
Um, must have been.
It must have been 20, 20something.
He was, yeah, because, becausehe was born in 19, 19, 19, I
(07:16):
think, I think.
Okay, and he was.
It must have been 19, maybeeven 1930s then, because he was
a teenager, but anyway.
So he hit boston harbor and um,they were at the, at the, at
like immigration.
They were trying to get him todrop uh, the pronounce the,
using the e sound at the end ofour name paoni, right, yeah, and
he, because they wanted toamericanize it, because they
(07:36):
thought that he would getdiscriminated against.
Uh, because boston was so irishand was so yeah, you know, um,
he would try to.
They were trying to make hislife easier, but he stead, held
steadfast and said no, keepingthe e sound.
So my name gets butchered.
No one can say my last namecorrectly because it doesn't
look like it should be spoken inenglish, right, you know,
(07:58):
because it's an italian word andit actually, in italian,
loosely translates to peacockand our, our coat of arms, um,
has a big peacock in the middle.
And, another fun fact, on thetop of our Christmas tree we
don't have an angel, we have apeacock for the name.
So I just gave you a lot ofinformation that you probably
didn't want or need and love it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And you mentioned the web feet, so maybe peacock
inspired, maybe.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm part peacock Kind of like how octopuses are part
alien.
You know, so it could well.
I see the tail featherstowering over behind you.
So I think the peacock peacockmetaphor is that you're gonna
want to do something about thatwhen you leave the house file,
but no I was just gonna say justbecause I think you're handsome
and I'm trying to you know,show my feathers.
That's all moving on it'stotally, it's totally working
(08:41):
for christ Any more talk aboutthe legendary designer, the
Italian, and we brought that upfor you because we knew you were
Italian.
You guys know how to partyCappuccino, designer shoes and
supercars.
Oh, now I'm hungry, thanks.
Moving on Next item up for bidsin the car news roundup.
(09:02):
Let's see the tailpipeemissions.
Did we want to get into that?
I know it's just a little bitof regulatory stuff Again.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's good to mention, as it's just like when corn
started being used for E85,people said, hey, there's going
to be a big corn shortage Nowthat electric cars are taken off
right.
Of course there's a shortage inmaterials for batteries right,
but it's created a surplus ofChristian, you want to say the
(09:33):
word?
It's very scientific.
Palladium, did I say it right?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, platinum, palladium, rhodium, all in those
heavy metal families.
Metal families, yeah, go ahead,but but not a shortage correct.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Make sure I understood you right right, yeah
, exactly there's.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
There's a glut because the yeah, so yeah, oh oh
.
So I see what you're doing.
You are expertly interweaving acouple of these different
stories.
But yeah, platinum and theseother metals are used in the
catalytic converters to purifythe air.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Which, which sir?
Which punch?
Yes, they are a catalyst, ifyou will, and you know, the one
good thing about it is there'sprobably less catalytic
converters being stolen and youknow, brian, less work for you
as a detective in that case.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I, I just you know I have not worked a stolen
Cadillac converter case yet, soAll right, fingers crossed.
They know, because they knownot to do it.
In my jurisdiction the weak isyoung.
They're like don't go overthere, that guy Dig it.
That guy will snap your neck bylooking at you.
That's me, I know he will, withthe tail feathers of course.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He'll show you, mr March.
Yes, who knows, don't make mebreak out, mr March.
Last item up for bid on theautomotive news roundup we have.
Let's see now.
This is my favorite story ofthe week.
We always try and end onsomething a little lighter.
Again from Reuters.
Reuters, god bless them.
They just had it going on thisweek.
This was oh, this was just aday ago.
Reuters Maserati workers towork reduced hours at Italy
(11:09):
plants.
So I guess there are a couple ofways to view this story.
They, as they move into, Iguess, decrease in output for
one reason or another.
Okay, so I know the littleelectric Fiat 500 has been has
not had the demand they werelooking for.
This is weak demand for itsfully electric 500 small car.
They're just scaling backoperations at the Mia Fiore
(11:32):
plant and that's where they makeat least part of the Maseratis
here.
And you know, I just and ofcourse this is all contractual,
like labor contracts being ableto just kind of shut in for a
little bit.
But I just, you Italians, brian, I can just see I don't mind
that I don't work the rest ofthe day.
I'm going to go get you know,I'm going to go get my Vespa and
(11:52):
my cappuccino and a pretty girland I'm just going to, you know
, do donuts around the Coliseum.
Check it out.
Reuters Fun story.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, not necessarily in that order.
Sometimes we get the PrettyGirl first and then we get the
Vespa and the Cappuccino.
It mixes up.
If it's an odd number,wednesday, I think the
Cappuccino has to be first andthen, if it's an even number,
friday.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is why we have Brian on, because he gives us
the insight.
He goes beyond Reuters, beyondReuters.
So you'll want to check him outon his website Again,
carslovecom.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Check us com.
Check us out.
Boost payonecom.
We will have that in our shownotes and links to brian's site
on our website, carslovecom yougot it.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, that is it.
Yep, that's it for the car newsroundup and I'm just a
frustrated john stewart herewannabe with my daily news with
the cars.
But, yeah, we kick it over todoug and let's let's dig in with
brian.
What, what you got, brian?
You typically you you've heardit before, but we got maybe your
first car let's get into, and Iknow it was the.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Uh, we were talking a little bit before about the
ford tempo 89 blue and named itthe midnight cowboy and I had
you know.
This is back.
This is before.
You could just like go to etsyand have somebody print
something.
So I actually had to findsomebody who would make me like
a decal and I put it on thedashboard and I tell you that I
got lots of girlfriends becauseof that decal on the dashboard.
(13:12):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Dig it.
So why the Midnight Cowboy?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
So one of my favorite bands of all time is a band
called Faith no More and theyhave a song called Midnight
Cowboy which is like an homageto the movie midnight cowboy and
I.
So it kind of went down thisthing where I'm such a music
lover and it sounded like a goodname for a car right.
It's a midnight cowboy becausemy curfew was midnight and I and
(13:40):
I never made curfew, so I was.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We turned into the midnight cowboy at 12 I wonder
if you would have called it the1 am Cowboy, if your parents
would have given you a littlegrace.
But yeah, I got my back brokena few times.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I think I would have shifted to the KLF and did like
the 3 am Eternal Cowboy.
If you remember the KLF song,Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Brilliant, I was singing that at the end of that.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, oh, I sing it every day.
I sing in the shower.
It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Where did the car come from?
The Delorean or the?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Ford Tempo.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Oh, no, no the Tempo.
Let's stay with the first one,yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
My dad, you know, owned a franchise, an automotive
repair shop franchise, and hehad a customer who came in with
the car.
The amount of work that itneeded to be done was beyond
what they wanted to pay for it.
Because the car was worthless,my dad offered them some
ridiculous low amount of money Acouple hundred bucks.
(14:34):
Yeah, I was like you know what?
I'll sign the title, I'll payyou to stay here.
And he fixed it up and gave itto me as my first car.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How long did you have the car for Brian, the Midnight
Cowboy?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And I had it for quite a while and every time it
broke we would keep fixing it.
I was reluctant to let it go,even though I probably should
have put it into its grave waybefore we did.
I mean, I pushed that car a lotfurther than I should have, but
I was so proud of it.
That was the Minot Cowboy howcould I let that?
I've even named all of mypatrol cars as a police officer,
(15:12):
which is so obviously I have aproblem with, like naming my
cars, you know so I understand.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Not my first car, but one of the first cars I drove
was a 88 white ford tempa thatmy dad had bought so and that
was the most aerodynamic car wehad in the house versus the
brick Oldsmobiles.
It was quite a departure.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Got to reduce the drag.
Yeah, we had like a Buick Regaland, I think, an El Camino at
the time.
I don't know, I don't know, Ijust it's so long ago.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
But so what happened to that car, Brian?
Is there a story?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I think it finally no , I think it finally broke down
to a point where my dad lookedat me and said you know, we've
hit the point where it's saferand probably cheaper now for you
to buy another car Like.
We've run this into the ground.
We got our money's worth out ofit, very good, and I'm not a
Ford guy, but I'm a free car guy, right.
(16:10):
So, like my dad was giving meas a teenager, I love it I
didn't have any.
I didn't have a dog in the fightat all, or you know, I wasn't
you know loyalty to any certaincar company.
I was loyally to a free set ofkeys, you know, and it took care
of you, yep, pardon me,christian if I remember
correctly.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Uh, brian, so besides your dad owning a automobile
repair franchise, he also, or itenabled him to do some actually
semi-professional racing.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, drag, yeah drag .
He owned two dragsters theGodfather and the Underdog.
Those are the name of the twodragsters.
He didn't own themsimultaneously.
I don't remember which one wasfirst.
So if he listens to this he'llprobably be super angry.
Oh, he'll listen.
He destroyed one racing in, Ithink, philadelphia.
(16:59):
The car got a little bit of airoff the front and he flipped it
into the woods and it split inhalf, burst into flames, with
him still in the cockpit.
Good, oh gosh, yeah.
Well, he had a fire suit right,so he walked out of it
unscathed and thankfully, thankgoodness, which prompted him to
buy the second dragster.
So I don't know which one theunderdog or the godfather was
(17:23):
first and which one replaced it.
And then he had a 1970sChallenger that he also raced
professionally and that wasnamed the Budget Breaker because
he said that of the three cars,for some reason that one was
the one that cost him the mostmoney to keep racing.
And then when he retired, hestill had.
He was on the front cover ofmagazines, he won tons of
trophies, he had sponsors, thetrailer, in fact.
(17:46):
Here's a funny story when hegot the dragster his first
dragster it got delivered to hisshop, not to to the house, and
he didn't have a trailer at thetime.
So he had to wait till 2 am,when he knew there was the least
amount of traffic and policeofficers on the streets, and he
drove a dragster down, you know,from his shop to the house, and
(18:07):
the dragster doesn't havebrakes, right, it's a parachute.
So he had to like just likeidle coast, and so do you
imagine being like two in themorning, like coming home, like
from a bar, and passing like alegit dragster, like in cities,
on the city streets.
Anyway, that that's, that's howhe got the thing home, so waking
everybody up yeah, right, whenyou say dragster I'm, it's one
(18:30):
of these that you, that I wouldsee on tv these very long things
yes, uh, the big, big tires,they, they come down to a point,
yeah, yep, wow they call themfunny cars, right as well no, a
funny car is where the top opensup ah yes and it closes on you
gotcha, a dragster is completelyyou're completely open and it's
(18:52):
basically a frame and an engineand a steering wheel and you're
in a cool cockpit, but the twotires in the back are massive
and everything is skinny.
It's very streamlined, right.
The dragster itself isbasically left to right the size
of your body.
There's no like you know.
I mean it's like two pencilsside by side and they go
(19:13):
extremely fast off the line.
You know, and my dad broke abunch of records at oh, actually
you know what?
This is?
Audio only, so I won't get upand show you.
This is video.
I would have shown you because,right behind me, he gave it to
me, my dad.
Whenever you break a new timeon a drag strip, they give you a
(19:35):
patch that says what mile anhour you broke, if you're the
first driver to ever do it.
And my dad has a bunch of thoseand he sewed them onto his
racing jacket.
He gave it to me and I actuallyhave it in this closet right
here, my dad's old racing jacket, but have the patches, the
actual patches that he was givenfor breaking those records at
those drag strips.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
If it's okay with you , I would love to get a picture
of that.
So this is audio only for now,but if we get a picture and
throw that up on the site.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I might even be able to, like, dig up a
picture of my dad, you know fromthe 70s and 80s, in his drag
show oh, that's fantastic, we'dlove to see your dad.
But so when he retired, you knowhe's still involved because
when you're a drag racer youkind of like a home, like a home
base, like a home stadium, soto speak.
You know like a home team, andhis was New England Dragway in
(20:19):
Epping, new Hampshire, and whenhe retired he used to go then be
the starter, be the one thatyou know hits the button to
start the tree, and Issa wasallowed to go up in the tower
and watch from the tower wherethe announcers were.
And then a few when I got evenolder, he would allow me to come
down and start some of theraces with him standing next to
me.
So like I would be this likelittle kid side by, you know, in
(20:39):
between the two, uh, what youknow, whatever was racing that
day and I and I'd get to pressthat button, yeah, so that was
kind of cool.
What a memory growing up,growing up on the pits.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That is wonderful yeah, yeah, so just real quick.
So the dragsters, was he goingfor quarter mile top speed or
it's quarter mile?
Okay, gotcha, yeah, wow, yep.
Do you remember one of the topnumbers.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So we gotta remember we're talking late 70s here,
right?
So these numbers are now likescoffed at right.
These these numbers now likestreet legal cars, do without
thinking, like he, he like 175,well, you know no one's dragway,
I'll show the patches aroundthere, but so they're low
numbers now.
But we're talking 45 almost 50years ago and that was crazy
(21:30):
that people could go that fastin a car, you know so.
So it's all perspective of theera, you know so thanks for
sharing great memory greatmemory does he still have the
challenger and we'll save thatthe ants.
Oh, he got rid.
He got rid of the challengersuch a beautiful car now, yeah,
(21:50):
he, he drives a 2018 challenger.
Now I don't know what year thismight be the modern, the modern
yeah yeah yeah, so he's a.
He's a car guy still, even at83 my dad's 83 now.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So love that, love that still a car guy, very nice.
So if we had the virtual drums,we would maybe talk to brian
about one of favorite cars,maybe a dream car, I think it
was alluded to earlier.
You bet, what do you think,christian?
Cue the drums,dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There you are.
We'll have them digitally addedlater.
We have a whole group of peoplethat dub it in.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, go ahead, tell us about your dream car.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
My dream car was always and will always forever
be a Pinto right, beautiful,safe.
That's why we had you on theshow.
Good, family car.
And then the Yugo.
The Yugo would be second.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, we got one.
Yeah, it's great because youcan get the exploding gasoline
tank option along with the fauxleather trim.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But go ahead.
So no.
So of course the delorean wasalways my dream car, probably
since I was about six years oldand, funny enough, you know, I I
get not blamed but I get, Iguess, accused.
That sounds so derogatory, butI get assumed that I loved the
delorean and own one because ofthe movies.
I loved the car prior to themovies because I'd seen one and
(23:13):
it blew my six year old brain.
But then I kind of I didn'tknow what it was called.
And even if I did know what itwas called at the time, when
you're like six or seven youdon't remember names like that,
you don't think to right, and Iforgot about the car.
I kind of forgot it existed.
As a little kid I played withmy ET toys and you kind of
forget.
And then, back to the Future,the trailer hit like TVs.
(23:35):
They weren't really trailers,they were commercials back then,
right, they weren't what theywere today.
And I remember being like thatwas the car.
That was the car I rememberseeing.
Oh, my God, it's in a movie andit's a time machine.
So the movie, I think, breatheda breath of love and fueled the
fire again, but I definitelyhad experienced one prior to
(23:58):
that.
So there were times when peopleaccused me of just being a
fanboy, and that's the onlyreason why I love the car.
Well, the movies are what keptthe Predated.
The movie, yeah, I don't know,is what made it up, made it
viable, but I definitelyremember loving the car when I
saw it prior to it.
So it's this weirdjuxtaposition that happens, you
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know, when I talk to peopleabout the car gotcha.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And if, if not for the movies, right, you might not
have been able to own yourdelorean because yeah, I might
not even remembered what it wasever called.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I could be sitting here right now being like I
remember seeing a car when I waslittle and I can't remember the
name, and oh no, oh well, youknow.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, my big question for you was so many people have
this crush and then let it go,and in fact you sort of did.
The movie rekindles it.
Now I'm assuming there's thisstretch of time where you either
pine for the car or don't.
And at what point did it?
(24:58):
How did it fall into your lap?
They're hard to find If youwant to buy one, like I was
looking for one a while back andit was never around.
And then there was this optionthat I really didn't want close
to me and I thought, well, it'sjust.
You know, doug kind of inspiresme.
So at what point did you thinkabout it and how did you make it
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a reality?
If that's not too personal aquestion, no, it's not.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I became a woman of the night and I took some exotic
dancing jobs.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's a lot Beautiful.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Very ashamed by some of the things I had to do, but
no, so my love for the car neverwaned after the movies came out
.
In fact, there are photos of megrowing up through the ages, as
a teenager in high school, likewearing DeLorean t-shirts.
There's a picture of me in anamusement park wearing a
(25:56):
delorean hoodie, right, uh, soyou can.
You can follow my not waning ofthe love of the car through
through my whole life.
There's, you know, there's,there's physical pictures that
prove.
It seems like it intensifiedover time yeah, yeah, it did, um
, but I always thought they wereout of reach.
(26:16):
I always, I never in a millionyears it was a pipe dream.
It was a.
It was what I call my geniewish car.
You know, like, well, if I finda bottle and I get to ask for a
car, that's what I'm asking for.
They never in a million yearsever thought I would, I would
have one in my garage, nor, nordaily, drive the thing.
You know, it's a daily driverfor you, then Mine's my daily.
Yeah, the only time I don'tdrive it is so because I have
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four.
No, I'll drive it in the rain,like it's supposed to rain on
Saturday and I actually plan ontaking it because I'm going out
to lunch with somebody onSaturday.
No, rain doesn't bother me withthe car because it's a car,
right, it was built and all myweather seals are new and good.
It doesn't leak.
I'm okay with driving in therain.
What I won't drive it in issnow, because of the salt
collecting on the frame.
(27:00):
So now we're talking aboutdeterioration of materials, but
when I drive in the rain I, justwhen I get home, in the garage
I have like this really longsqueegee almost, and I run it
along the length of the car andI can have that car dry in four
minutes flat.
You wouldn't even know it wasin the rain, right?
So it takes me four minutes todo a little bit of maintenance
when I get in my garage.
But so what, I'm still outdriving, right?
(27:22):
Anyway.
So off topics, but I'd alwaysthe love of the car had never
waned.
I never thought I'd actuallyowned one.
Graduated college, got hired bymy first police department that
I worked for in Massachusetts.
It was kind of Google.
Craigslist was still kind ofnew.
This is 2002.
Yeah, about 2002.
So I was still trying to figureout the internet, what you can
(27:48):
do with it, and I came across aguy selling one in New Jersey.
That was basically like I hadhalf of the money he was asking
for it.
So I got a person.
So I applied and got a personalloan from the bank for the
other half and it got approved.
So I had my money for theDeLorean and my buddy, my best
(28:08):
friend, and I were gonna flydown to Jersey, buy the car and
we're gonna drive it back hometo Massachusetts.
Had it all planned out what I'mabout to say.
I don't necessarily have anyregrets anymore, because now I
do own a DeLorean and I actuallythink that the DeLorean that I
do own was in way better shapeand it was supposed to be my car
more than this one.
But when I tell people thispart of the story, I get some
(28:29):
eye rolls.
I, I get some.
You got to be kidding me, I getsome.
Whatever, I'm a huge footballfan.
That was the year the patriotswent to the super bowl and I
chose to spend my half of themoney going to the super bowl
because I was like, how manytimes did someone get a chance
to go see, to go to a super bowl?
Also?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
right, because that's a once in a lifetime experience
, to say that you so that wouldhave been one of their first
super bowls then, with, withBrady at the helm Right, it was
the year that they Beat the.
Rams, I think you guys beat theRams?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
No, it wasn't.
It was the year that theyplayed the Eagles in
Jacksonville.
Okay, got it.
So that was the 2003 season.
Okay, good, yeah, so I decidedto.
I was like you know, we lookedat tickets.
I have season tickets to thePatriots, I have season tickets
to the Patriots, and you know,so you get first if your season
ticket holder gets first dibs onSuper Bowl tickets.
They do 50 or they do like a30-30.
(29:19):
And then, you know so we lookedat me and my best friend.
We looked at seats, flight,hotel, car rental, and I was
like I can pay for this, likeout of pocket, without putting
(29:40):
it on a credit card, becauseI've saved this money.
Wow, but this is.
But this will deplete mydelorean fund like this.
Will you know, this will exitout.
And I talked myself out ofbuying the delorean because I
was like well, it's not in thatgood condition.
I'm not a car guy, it's, itneeds a lot of work.
I don't even know who aroundhere can work on it.
I know I can.
So I I actually talked myselfout of it by only focusing on
the cons of buying thatparticular DeLorean.
And then I said, well, there,maybe, you know, maybe the few,
(30:01):
like it always is.
Like, well, there's more outthere, right?
So I?
That's how I slept that nightand I went to the game and I had
a great time.
I'm so glad I did them.
So I'm so glad that I can tellpeople that I experienced the
Super Bowl where my home teamwon, right?
Just the pomp, the circumstanceand the excitement around it.
I don't regret it.
The next year, I met the personthat I was going to marry, the
(30:23):
one I had my four kids with andlife starts happening.
You start having kids.
We bought a house.
However, every year, she wouldask me Brian, what do you want
for Christmas, brian, what doyou want for your birthday,
brian, what do you want forValentine's Day?
Every year, no matter theholiday, I would say a DeLorean.
That literally became my go-toanswer.
(30:43):
It got to the point that, aboutfive years into our marriage,
she would then say Brian, do youwant for christmas?
And don't say a delorean,because I was just, I was saying
it so much that, that that shethen had to add that to her
sentence, right?
Well, my first book I got myfirst book got picked up.
It got published in 2007.
It sold um, it sold well enough, where I was able to, you know,
(31:05):
be signed on for a second bookoption.
And my second book came out in2010, 2010,.
I opened up a separate bankaccount.
That um was that all of my booksale royalties went into Um.
So not a penny of my book saleswent to the house, went to the
household, went to the kids,went to the credit cards, went
(31:27):
to me going out eating dinner,didn't go to right, didn't touch
it, and I called it my DeLoreanfund and I said I am going to
rebuild my fund and I'm going touse my book sales to do it.
So I put every penny into thisDeLorean fund, every royalty
check that I got every month.
(31:47):
And then, you know, my thirdbook came out in 2015, which is
my time travel novel, which thengot nominated for a Hugo Award
in 2016, which kind of put me onthe map as actually as a viable
author.
It got taken more seriously.
No-transcript, yeah.
(32:26):
So I started looking.
I do not know how to drive amanual, as we were talking about
, so I had to find an automatic.
So I kept having to.
Every time a manual came acrossmy radar, I had to be like,
nope, I can't do that.
And then Lady in Traverse City,michigan, puts her automatic
1981 DeLorean up for sale onlyon a website called DMC Talk.
(32:47):
She did not put it on eBay, shedid not put it on Facebook, she
did not put it on Facebook, shedid not put it on Craigslist,
she only put it on DMC Talkbecause she only wanted a real,
like DeLorean fanatic to buy hercar.
Because when you put a DeLoreanup for sale on eBay and
Craigslist, people call they saythey're interested, but really
all they want to do is take atest drive in DeLorean and then
you'd never hear from them again.
(33:07):
So she knew and I saw the adand I was like holy shit, it's
an automatic, that's you know,it's it.
Like I couldn't believe it andit was within.
I mean, I had the money like Icould pay in cash.
I didn't even need to find abank to give me meet me halfway,
like I did.
So that's a very long story ofhow I got the car wow, what a
great story.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And, goodness Well, did we have any follow-ons, or
we?
Uh, we're, we're, we're wellpast time.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
We're just scratching the surface.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
My God, we're just scratching the surface inside
info because I'm in the clubthat you are a co-founder of.
I wasn't around to experienceit, but you have a special shirt
(33:58):
and there's some flames on itand it's not from a DeLorean
doing time travel in a parkinglot.
You alluded to not being amechanical guy.
That's more of your dad.
You alluded not driving a stickshift, but so there's a story
here and every car tells a storyand hopefully my ribs are going
to be hurting as hard as yoursprobably were when this happened
(34:19):
or at least after the fact.
But tell the listeners aboutthe fire I've set the car on
fire twice.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Delorean fire yeah, the first one, I think, happened
before you, before your time.
No, I've set my car on firetwice.
Delorean fire fuse in the youknow the compartment, the fuse
(34:48):
box compartment, right.
So all the relays and fuses arein the same compartment and I
just bought every single one,every single one new.
Some of them I bought from davemckean, who's uh in the
delorean world.
Uh, he does uh solid staterelay upgrades, and some were
just you know, bought uh volvoor you know bosh.
But I wanted new ones, like evenif they were working okay, I
(35:08):
said I want to redo the entirething.
What my mistake was was Iremoved every single one and
didn't replace them one by one,like I didn't pull one out, put
a new one in, pull one out, putit into replacement.
I stripped the wholecompartment and then went uh-oh,
I don't know what relay andfuse goes to what connector, so
(35:29):
I'm gonna guess.
Well, I plugged in a electricalcomponent into a relay that was
way off the voltage that itshould be and I buttoned it all
back up and I'm walking on in mydriveway.
I look over the inside of mycar cue, the ominous music is
completely engulfed like afishbowl of that white
(35:50):
electrical sweeping out of thecar.
Cue the ominous music action iskill the battery, stop getting
letting power go go to it right,but the problem is is, after
(36:11):
the smoke cleared out, I stilldidn't know which one it was,
because I'm looking at what Ithought was correct.
So I'm like well, how do I like?
What do I do?
So I had to keep unplugging one, turning the battery back on
and waiting for it to smokeagain until I found the one that
I had messed up on.
Aye, aye, aye, that's harrowing.
Yeah, goodness, it was veryharrowing, right.
(36:33):
And then, the second time I didit, I installed LED halo
headlights.
I took out the stock headlightsand I installed LED with the
amber halo and those.
In order to have an amber haloyou have.
It's a separate set of wiresthat then you have to splice and
tap into your side markers.
(36:54):
So when you put your runninglights on.
The halos glow right, becausewhen you put on your parking
lights, the side markers glow.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Ah, that's how it works, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So that's what you tap into.
So it gives them power, right?
What I didn't do is I didn't.
I guess I left.
I don't quite know still what Idid, but I must have not put
electrical tape on one of thesplices or left something
exposed, because I had therunning lights on for quite a
bit of hours while I was drivingaround.
And I get to a gas station andthe entire front of the car was
(37:29):
engulfed in that whiteelectrical smoke.
Again, it had short-circuitedall my lights.
I had no brake lights, nodirectionals, like it just fried
everything.
And when I went in there therewas a whole clump of wires all
melted together and I pinpointedit down to one of those halos
that I was supposed to splice.
(37:50):
I just wonder if I'm, because Idon't really know what I'm doing
.
You know, is, you know,operator error?
But so I had to replaceeverything I had to.
I had to get new headlights, Ihad to replace, buy new wiring,
you know, and that was, and I'mnot, you know I did.
So I.
That was awful, but those arethe two times that I have, you
know.
So someone made a t-shirt forme for that I wear on tech days.
(38:12):
That's my car upside down withflames and on the bottom it says
looks about right well nice.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Well, we've all made our we.
We've all made our mistakes onour delorean.
Uh, I haven't set mine on fire,but I did cause it to overheat
in my driveway, so that's aspecial one For another day.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, let's, brian.
Let's keep it at two times.
No, third time's a charm forthat bud.
Well, I think it's time to wrapup.
This is our longest episode byfar.
Time flew by and, yeah, this isreally.
It's been so wonderful to meetyou.
You finally, brian, heard a lotabout you.
Thanks for taking the time.
Man and um again check us out.
(38:56):
It is no truer than what you'veheard here.
Every car tells a story, andeven if you're not a car person
and don't think you have a storyby way of your automobiles,
guess what you do?
Some of our best guests havetold us exactly that.
So, hey, if you want to jointhe discussion, please email me,
christian at carslovecom, ordoug at carslovecom.
(39:18):
Check us out on your podcastplatform of choice to all the
cars I've loved before, or atour website, carslovecom.
I think that's it, doug.
Any final thoughts?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
No, just let's not forget, there's a feedback form.
You can also just fill that in.
Give us some feedback and ifyou want to be on the show, let
us know.
Contact us.
We're totally open.
Referrals are appreciated.
As Christian said, if you likeus, click, follow.
If you want to do a review,even better.
But we're growing.
(39:51):
We love the attention.
We love hearing people tell thestories because, as Christian
said, every car tells a storyand we're going to have Brian
back.
You got it.
This will not be the onlyDeLorean story.
That's our teaser.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Oh, we'll have more.
We'll have more in queue.
Hey, brian, again great havingyou pal.
Let's have you back soon, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Oh, thanks for having me Absolutely Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Thank, you, guys All right brother, appreciate it If
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To all the cars I've lovedbefore, every car tells a story.
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Welcome back America to all the cars I've loved
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We are downloaded and followedin Europe, in South America, in
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This is my esteemed technicalguru of how To Doug how you
doing, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm doing great, doing great.
Just coming back off a tripfrom LA where I saw some pretty
awesome cars and some prettyawesome scenery.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, we're going to get into that and it's March for
us, if you're listening, soeverybody's going on vacation.
We've been on a bit of a hiatushere.
As we ramp up.
We're trying to get into acadence of dropping an episode
every other week and seeing howwe can squeeze in some
unexpected interesting thingsfor Cars Love Nation.
And again, thanks for beingwith us.
(01:13):
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So thanks for following andplease continue to boost.
So that brings us to.
We're really excited to haveour guest here today.
I just met him and he is afriend of Doug's, so for the
(02:01):
warm handoff and introduction,I'm going to pass the baton off
over to Doug.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right, thank you, christian.
So we're going to introduce agood friend author, kind of a
rock star, police officer,detective, dad of four.
That I know of, that he knowsof, he wasn't in the military,
holy crap.
I love it.
I know of that, he knows of hewasn't an anniversary, holy crap
(02:28):
.
I love it.
And he's also who I considerkind of the godfather of the
delorean dmv group, um dcmaryland, virginia group and he.
I found him on facebook and, loand behold, x number of months
later, I end up with thedelorean so weird?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
you're not.
You're not the first person forthat to happen to.
Specifically with me, because inour group alone Curtis got his
Delorean because of me, jim gothis Delorean because of me and I
also helped one other personthat's not in our group, that's
somewhere else in the countryget their Delorean, and it's not
(03:02):
even like I'm trying, it's justlike someone says, hey, I'm
looking and I and it's not evenlike I'm trying, it's just like
I someone says, hey, I'm lookingfor one, and then I kind of
stumble across one and then Iget them to meet up, and that's
how us DeLorean people are and,and you know, with that, um, I
don't want to take anything away, but we have the wonderful, the
handsome, the charming, BrianPaone.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Brian, you want to introduce yourself beyond the
little bit that I just said?
Sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm 5'4", 130 pounds long.
Walks on the beach, tacos aremy favorite food.
Mint chocolate chip ice creamis definitely burnt.
Orange is my favorite color.
I was born and raised in Salem,massachusetts, in a funeral
home, and I was in bands foryears and toured, been an author
for years trying to think whatelse is.
(03:50):
Oh, I have web feet.
You know, if you don't knowabout that, about me,
Incidentally, we, up until myfourth child was born, we were
always under the assumption thatI had web feet as a birth
defect, because my mother wastaking morning sickness
medication in the 70s and thenthey took it off the market for
having birth defects.
Right then my, my daughter, uhedelweiss, is born and she has
(04:13):
the same exact toes on her twofeet up to the same spot than I
do.
So we're like, oh, maybe thisis genetic because you.
There's obviously something tothis.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think we could talk to Brian for 30 minutes and
never get around to cars.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Just from that preamble that we got oh, we're
not talking about cars.
No, we're not even going tonotice, we're going to have him
back.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I think we should have him back as a guest host
too.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, because you'll want to check him out.
If you go to carslovecom, we'regoing to have pictures, links
to all of Brian's personalwebsites.
Will some of them be mycalendar shoots when I was
working at the fire station?
Absolutely, we will get it allup there.
I was Mr March.
(05:03):
And it is the month of March andthat's why we have him on,
quite frankly.
But yeah, so we'll have linksto his books.
I had my suspenders on,immortalized in March, with
suspenders and wearing littleelse, but yeah, we'll have links
to his books, his music, allthe things that he's done.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
His calendar.
Yeah, we'll be for sale.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Download only his calendar.
Yeah, yeah, we'll be for sale.
Download only, I hope.
But I hope that doesn't run usafoul of any federal or state
regulations, but digging it.
Well, brian, it is a completepleasure to have you.
And should we start with newsor should we just kind of get
into to to Brian's world here?
Doug, what do you think?
What are we feeling today?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let's audible, you know let's just say, you know,
we lost a very importantautomotive designer that a lot
of people may not know by name,but they know him by his works.
Do you want to talk a littlebit about our dearly departed
friend?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, I came across this article in motortrendcom
here and Doug and I have beentalking about it today here.
The great Italian designer,marcello Gandini.
First off, I just want to saythe name over and over.
Marcello Gandini has died atage 85.
Okay, and so he was thedesigner of several Lamborghini
cars.
I think by way of Bertone washe with that design house, but
(06:24):
anyway, he was integral in thedesign of the Miura in the late
60s, in, I believe it'spronounced Countach Correct A
little over a decade later, fromthe early 70s on, I think they
made those until the early tomid 90s when they were
outrageous and then just lookedlike spaceships from another
dimension.
But yeah, interesting guy,beloved, just very beautiful
(06:48):
cars, and his Italians, what canyou say?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Hey, I'm Italian.
Come on, I'm a peone.
Yeah, that's why we brought itup Right right, my grandfather
came over on the boat when hewas in his late teens and he hit
Bostonoston harbor.
What year would this have been?
Um, must have been.
It must have been 20, 20something.
He was, yeah, because, becausehe was born in 19, 19, 19, I
(07:16):
think, I think.
Okay, and he was.
It must have been 19, maybeeven 1930s then, because he was
a teenager, but anyway.
So he hit boston harbor and um,they were at the, at the, at
like immigration.
They were trying to get him todrop uh, the pronounce the,
using the e sound at the end ofour name paoni, right, yeah, and
he, because they wanted toamericanize it, because they
(07:36):
thought that he would getdiscriminated against.
Uh, because boston was so irishand was so yeah, you know, um,
he would try to.
They were trying to make hislife easier, but he stead, held
steadfast and said no, keepingthe e sound.
So my name gets butchered.
No one can say my last namecorrectly because it doesn't
look like it should be spoken inenglish, right, you know,
(07:58):
because it's an italian word andit actually, in italian,
loosely translates to peacockand our, our coat of arms, um,
has a big peacock in the middle.
And, another fun fact, on thetop of our Christmas tree we
don't have an angel, we have apeacock for the name.
So I just gave you a lot ofinformation that you probably
didn't want or need and love it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And you mentioned the web feet, so maybe peacock
inspired, maybe.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm part peacock Kind of like how octopuses are part
alien.
You know, so it could well.
I see the tail featherstowering over behind you.
So I think the peacock peacockmetaphor is that you're gonna
want to do something about thatwhen you leave the house file,
but no I was just gonna say justbecause I think you're handsome
and I'm trying to you know,show my feathers.
That's all moving on it'stotally, it's totally working
(08:41):
for christ Any more talk aboutthe legendary designer, the
Italian, and we brought that upfor you because we knew you were
Italian.
You guys know how to partyCappuccino, designer shoes and
supercars.
Oh, now I'm hungry, thanks.
Moving on Next item up for bidsin the car news roundup.
(09:02):
Let's see the tailpipeemissions.
Did we want to get into that?
I know it's just a little bitof regulatory stuff Again.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's good to mention, as it's just like when corn
started being used for E85,people said, hey, there's going
to be a big corn shortage Nowthat electric cars are taken off
right.
Of course there's a shortage inmaterials for batteries right,
but it's created a surplus ofChristian, you want to say the
(09:33):
word?
It's very scientific.
Palladium, did I say it right?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, platinum, palladium, rhodium, all in those
heavy metal families.
Metal families, yeah, go ahead,but but not a shortage correct.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Make sure I understood you right right, yeah
, exactly there's.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
There's a glut because the yeah, so yeah, oh oh
.
So I see what you're doing.
You are expertly interweaving acouple of these different
stories.
But yeah, platinum and theseother metals are used in the
catalytic converters to purifythe air.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Which, which sir?
Which punch?
Yes, they are a catalyst, ifyou will, and you know, the one
good thing about it is there'sprobably less catalytic
converters being stolen and youknow, brian, less work for you
as a detective in that case.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I, I just you know I have not worked a stolen
Cadillac converter case yet, soAll right, fingers crossed.
They know, because they knownot to do it.
In my jurisdiction the weak isyoung.
They're like don't go overthere, that guy Dig it.
That guy will snap your neck bylooking at you.
That's me, I know he will, withthe tail feathers of course.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He'll show you, mr March.
Yes, who knows, don't make mebreak out, mr March.
Last item up for bid on theautomotive news roundup we have.
Let's see now.
This is my favorite story ofthe week.
We always try and end onsomething a little lighter.
Again from Reuters.
Reuters, god bless them.
They just had it going on thisweek.
This was oh, this was just aday ago.
Reuters Maserati workers towork reduced hours at Italy
(11:09):
plants.
So I guess there are a couple ofways to view this story.
They, as they move into, Iguess, decrease in output for
one reason or another.
Okay, so I know the littleelectric Fiat 500 has been has
not had the demand they werelooking for.
This is weak demand for itsfully electric 500 small car.
They're just scaling backoperations at the Mia Fiore
(11:32):
plant and that's where they makeat least part of the Maseratis
here.
And you know, I just and ofcourse this is all contractual,
like labor contracts being ableto just kind of shut in for a
little bit.
But I just, you Italians, brian, I can just see I don't mind
that I don't work the rest ofthe day.
I'm going to go get you know,I'm going to go get my Vespa and
(11:52):
my cappuccino and a pretty girland I'm just going to, you know
, do donuts around the Coliseum.
Check it out.
Reuters Fun story.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, not necessarily in that order.
Sometimes we get the PrettyGirl first and then we get the
Vespa and the Cappuccino.
It mixes up.
If it's an odd number,wednesday, I think the
Cappuccino has to be first andthen, if it's an even number,
friday.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is why we have Brian on, because he gives us
the insight.
He goes beyond Reuters, beyondReuters.
So you'll want to check him outon his website Again,
carslovecom.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Check us com.
Check us out.
Boost payonecom.
We will have that in our shownotes and links to brian's site
on our website, carslovecom yougot it.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, that is it.
Yep, that's it for the car newsroundup and I'm just a
frustrated john stewart herewannabe with my daily news with
the cars.
But, yeah, we kick it over todoug and let's let's dig in with
brian.
What, what you got, brian?
You typically you you've heardit before, but we got maybe your
first car let's get into, and Iknow it was the.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Uh, we were talking a little bit before about the
ford tempo 89 blue and named itthe midnight cowboy and I had
you know.
This is back.
This is before.
You could just like go to etsyand have somebody print
something.
So I actually had to findsomebody who would make me like
a decal and I put it on thedashboard and I tell you that I
got lots of girlfriends becauseof that decal on the dashboard.
(13:12):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Dig it.
So why the Midnight Cowboy?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
So one of my favorite bands of all time is a band
called Faith no More and theyhave a song called Midnight
Cowboy which is like an homageto the movie midnight cowboy and
I.
So it kind of went down thisthing where I'm such a music
lover and it sounded like a goodname for a car right.
It's a midnight cowboy becausemy curfew was midnight and I and
(13:40):
I never made curfew, so I was.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We turned into the midnight cowboy at 12 I wonder
if you would have called it the1 am Cowboy, if your parents
would have given you a littlegrace.
But yeah, I got my back brokena few times.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I think I would have shifted to the KLF and did like
the 3 am Eternal Cowboy.
If you remember the KLF song,Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Brilliant, I was singing that at the end of that.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, oh, I sing it every day.
I sing in the shower.
It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Where did the car come from?
The Delorean or the?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Ford Tempo.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Oh, no, no the Tempo.
Let's stay with the first one,yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
My dad, you know, owned a franchise, an automotive
repair shop franchise, and hehad a customer who came in with
the car.
The amount of work that itneeded to be done was beyond
what they wanted to pay for it.
Because the car was worthless,my dad offered them some
ridiculous low amount of money Acouple hundred bucks.
(14:34):
Yeah, I was like you know what?
I'll sign the title, I'll payyou to stay here.
And he fixed it up and gave itto me as my first car.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How long did you have the car for Brian, the Midnight
Cowboy?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And I had it for quite a while and every time it
broke we would keep fixing it.
I was reluctant to let it go,even though I probably should
have put it into its grave waybefore we did.
I mean, I pushed that car a lotfurther than I should have, but
I was so proud of it.
That was the Minot Cowboy howcould I let that?
I've even named all of mypatrol cars as a police officer,
(15:12):
which is so obviously I have aproblem with, like naming my
cars, you know so I understand.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Not my first car, but one of the first cars I drove
was a 88 white ford tempa thatmy dad had bought so and that
was the most aerodynamic car wehad in the house versus the
brick Oldsmobiles.
It was quite a departure.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Got to reduce the drag.
Yeah, we had like a Buick Regaland, I think, an El Camino at
the time.
I don't know, I don't know, Ijust it's so long ago.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
But so what happened to that car, Brian?
Is there a story?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I think it finally no , I think it finally broke down
to a point where my dad lookedat me and said you know, we've
hit the point where it's saferand probably cheaper now for you
to buy another car Like.
We've run this into the ground.
We got our money's worth out ofit, very good, and I'm not a
Ford guy, but I'm a free car guy, right.
(16:10):
So, like my dad was giving meas a teenager, I love it I
didn't have any.
I didn't have a dog in the fightat all, or you know, I wasn't
you know loyalty to any certaincar company.
I was loyally to a free set ofkeys, you know, and it took care
of you, yep, pardon me,christian if I remember
correctly.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Uh, brian, so besides your dad owning a automobile
repair franchise, he also, or itenabled him to do some actually
semi-professional racing.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, drag, yeah drag .
He owned two dragsters theGodfather and the Underdog.
Those are the name of the twodragsters.
He didn't own themsimultaneously.
I don't remember which one wasfirst.
So if he listens to this he'llprobably be super angry.
Oh, he'll listen.
He destroyed one racing in, Ithink, philadelphia.
(16:59):
The car got a little bit of airoff the front and he flipped it
into the woods and it split inhalf, burst into flames, with
him still in the cockpit.
Good, oh gosh, yeah.
Well, he had a fire suit right,so he walked out of it
unscathed and thankfully, thankgoodness, which prompted him to
buy the second dragster.
So I don't know which one theunderdog or the godfather was
(17:23):
first and which one replaced it.
And then he had a 1970sChallenger that he also raced
professionally and that wasnamed the Budget Breaker because
he said that of the three cars,for some reason that one was
the one that cost him the mostmoney to keep racing.
And then when he retired, hestill had.
He was on the front cover ofmagazines, he won tons of
trophies, he had sponsors, thetrailer, in fact.
(17:46):
Here's a funny story when hegot the dragster his first
dragster it got delivered to hisshop, not to to the house, and
he didn't have a trailer at thetime.
So he had to wait till 2 am,when he knew there was the least
amount of traffic and policeofficers on the streets, and he
drove a dragster down, you know,from his shop to the house, and
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the dragster doesn't havebrakes, right, it's a parachute.
So he had to like just likeidle coast, and so do you
imagine being like two in themorning, like coming home, like
from a bar, and passing like alegit dragster, like in cities,
on the city streets.
Anyway, that that's, that's howhe got the thing home, so waking
everybody up yeah, right, whenyou say dragster I'm, it's one
(18:30):
of these that you, that I wouldsee on tv these very long things
yes, uh, the big, big tires,they, they come down to a point,
yeah, yep, wow they call themfunny cars, right as well no, a
funny car is where the top opensup ah yes and it closes on you
gotcha, a dragster is completelyyou're completely open and it's
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basically a frame and an engineand a steering wheel and you're
in a cool cockpit, but the twotires in the back are massive
and everything is skinny.
It's very streamlined, right.
The dragster itself isbasically left to right the size
of your body.
There's no like you know.
I mean it's like two pencilsside by side and they go
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extremely fast off the line.
You know, and my dad broke abunch of records at oh, actually
you know what?
This is?
Audio only, so I won't get upand show you.
This is video.
I would have shown you because,right behind me, he gave it to
me, my dad.
Whenever you break a new timeon a drag strip, they give you a
(19:35):
patch that says what mile anhour you broke, if you're the
first driver to ever do it.
And my dad has a bunch of thoseand he sewed them onto his
racing jacket.
He gave it to me and I actuallyhave it in this closet right
here, my dad's old racing jacket, but have the patches, the
actual patches that he was givenfor breaking those records at
those drag strips.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
If it's okay with you , I would love to get a picture
of that.
So this is audio only for now,but if we get a picture and
throw that up on the site.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I might even be able to, like, dig up a
picture of my dad, you know fromthe 70s and 80s, in his drag
show oh, that's fantastic, we'dlove to see your dad.
But so when he retired, you knowhe's still involved because
when you're a drag racer youkind of like a home, like a home
base, like a home stadium, soto speak.
You know like a home team, andhis was New England Dragway in
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Epping, new Hampshire, and whenhe retired he used to go then be
the starter, be the one thatyou know hits the button to
start the tree, and Issa wasallowed to go up in the tower
and watch from the tower wherethe announcers were.
And then a few when I got evenolder, he would allow me to come
down and start some of theraces with him standing next to
me.
So like I would be this likelittle kid side by, you know, in
(20:39):
between the two, uh, what youknow, whatever was racing that
day and I and I'd get to pressthat button, yeah, so that was
kind of cool.
What a memory growing up,growing up on the pits.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That is wonderful yeah, yeah, so just real quick.
So the dragsters, was he goingfor quarter mile top speed or
it's quarter mile?
Okay, gotcha, yeah, wow, yep.
Do you remember one of the topnumbers.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So we gotta remember we're talking late 70s here,
right?
So these numbers are now likescoffed at right.
These these numbers now likestreet legal cars, do without
thinking, like he, he like 175,well, you know no one's dragway,
I'll show the patches aroundthere, but so they're low
numbers now.
But we're talking 45 almost 50years ago and that was crazy
(21:30):
that people could go that fastin a car, you know so.
So it's all perspective of theera, you know so thanks for
sharing great memory greatmemory does he still have the
challenger and we'll save thatthe ants.
Oh, he got rid.
He got rid of the challengersuch a beautiful car now, yeah,
(21:50):
he, he drives a 2018 challenger.
Now I don't know what year thismight be the modern, the modern
yeah yeah yeah, so he's a.
He's a car guy still, even at83 my dad's 83 now.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So love that, love that still a car guy, very nice.
So if we had the virtual drums,we would maybe talk to brian
about one of favorite cars,maybe a dream car, I think it
was alluded to earlier.
You bet, what do you think,christian?
Cue the drums,dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There you are.
We'll have them digitally addedlater.
We have a whole group of peoplethat dub it in.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, go ahead, tell us about your dream car.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
My dream car was always and will always forever
be a Pinto right, beautiful,safe.
That's why we had you on theshow.
Good, family car.
And then the Yugo.
The Yugo would be second.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, we got one.
Yeah, it's great because youcan get the exploding gasoline
tank option along with the fauxleather trim.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But go ahead.
So no.
So of course the delorean wasalways my dream car, probably
since I was about six years oldand, funny enough, you know, I I
get not blamed but I get, Iguess, accused.
That sounds so derogatory, butI get assumed that I loved the
delorean and own one because ofthe movies.
I loved the car prior to themovies because I'd seen one and
(23:13):
it blew my six year old brain.
But then I kind of I didn'tknow what it was called.
And even if I did know what itwas called at the time, when
you're like six or seven youdon't remember names like that,
you don't think to right, and Iforgot about the car.
I kind of forgot it existed.
As a little kid I played withmy ET toys and you kind of
forget.
And then, back to the Future,the trailer hit like TVs.
(23:35):
They weren't really trailers,they were commercials back then,
right, they weren't what theywere today.
And I remember being like thatwas the car.
That was the car I rememberseeing.
Oh, my God, it's in a movie andit's a time machine.
So the movie, I think, breatheda breath of love and fueled the
fire again, but I definitelyhad experienced one prior to
(23:58):
that.
So there were times when peopleaccused me of just being a
fanboy, and that's the onlyreason why I love the car.
Well, the movies are what keptthe Predated.
The movie, yeah, I don't know,is what made it up, made it
viable, but I definitelyremember loving the car when I
saw it prior to it.
So it's this weirdjuxtaposition that happens, you
(24:18):
know, when I talk to peopleabout the car gotcha.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And if, if not for the movies, right, you might not
have been able to own yourdelorean because yeah, I might
not even remembered what it wasever called.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I could be sitting here right now being like I
remember seeing a car when I waslittle and I can't remember the
name, and oh no, oh well, youknow.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, my big question for you was so many people have
this crush and then let it go,and in fact you sort of did.
The movie rekindles it.
Now I'm assuming there's thisstretch of time where you either
pine for the car or don't.
And at what point did it?
(24:58):
How did it fall into your lap?
They're hard to find If youwant to buy one, like I was
looking for one a while back andit was never around.
And then there was this optionthat I really didn't want close
to me and I thought, well, it'sjust.
You know, doug kind of inspiresme.
So at what point did you thinkabout it and how did you make it
(25:20):
a reality?
If that's not too personal aquestion, no, it's not.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I became a woman of the night and I took some exotic
dancing jobs.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's a lot Beautiful.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Very ashamed by some of the things I had to do, but
no, so my love for the car neverwaned after the movies came out
.
In fact, there are photos of megrowing up through the ages, as
a teenager in high school, likewearing DeLorean t-shirts.
There's a picture of me in anamusement park wearing a
(25:56):
delorean hoodie, right, uh, soyou can.
You can follow my not waning ofthe love of the car through
through my whole life.
There's, you know, there's,there's physical pictures that
prove.
It seems like it intensifiedover time yeah, yeah, it did, um
, but I always thought they wereout of reach.
(26:16):
I always, I never in a millionyears it was a pipe dream.
It was a.
It was what I call my geniewish car.
You know, like, well, if I finda bottle and I get to ask for a
car, that's what I'm asking for.
They never in a million yearsever thought I would, I would
have one in my garage, nor, nordaily, drive the thing.
You know, it's a daily driverfor you, then Mine's my daily.
Yeah, the only time I don'tdrive it is so because I have
(26:40):
four.
No, I'll drive it in the rain,like it's supposed to rain on
Saturday and I actually plan ontaking it because I'm going out
to lunch with somebody onSaturday.
No, rain doesn't bother me withthe car because it's a car,
right, it was built and all myweather seals are new and good.
It doesn't leak.
I'm okay with driving in therain.
What I won't drive it in issnow, because of the salt
collecting on the frame.
(27:00):
So now we're talking aboutdeterioration of materials, but
when I drive in the rain I, justwhen I get home, in the garage
I have like this really longsqueegee almost, and I run it
along the length of the car andI can have that car dry in four
minutes flat.
You wouldn't even know it wasin the rain, right?
So it takes me four minutes todo a little bit of maintenance
when I get in my garage.
But so what, I'm still outdriving, right?
(27:22):
Anyway.
So off topics, but I'd alwaysthe love of the car had never
waned.
I never thought I'd actuallyowned one.
Graduated college, got hired bymy first police department that
I worked for in Massachusetts.
It was kind of Google.
Craigslist was still kind ofnew.
This is 2002.
Yeah, about 2002.
So I was still trying to figureout the internet, what you can
(27:48):
do with it, and I came across aguy selling one in New Jersey.
That was basically like I hadhalf of the money he was asking
for it.
So I got a person.
So I applied and got a personalloan from the bank for the
other half and it got approved.
So I had my money for theDeLorean and my buddy, my best
(28:08):
friend, and I were gonna flydown to Jersey, buy the car and
we're gonna drive it back hometo Massachusetts.
Had it all planned out what I'mabout to say.
I don't necessarily have anyregrets anymore, because now I
do own a DeLorean and I actuallythink that the DeLorean that I
do own was in way better shapeand it was supposed to be my car
more than this one.
But when I tell people thispart of the story, I get some
(28:29):
eye rolls.
I, I get some.
You got to be kidding me, I getsome.
Whatever, I'm a huge footballfan.
That was the year the patriotswent to the super bowl and I
chose to spend my half of themoney going to the super bowl
because I was like, how manytimes did someone get a chance
to go see, to go to a super bowl?
Also?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
right, because that's a once in a lifetime experience
, to say that you so that wouldhave been one of their first
super bowls then, with, withBrady at the helm Right, it was
the year that they Beat the.
Rams, I think you guys beat theRams?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
No, it wasn't.
It was the year that theyplayed the Eagles in
Jacksonville.
Okay, got it.
So that was the 2003 season.
Okay, good, yeah, so I decidedto.
I was like you know, we lookedat tickets.
I have season tickets to thePatriots, I have season tickets
to the Patriots, and you know,so you get first if your season
ticket holder gets first dibs onSuper Bowl tickets.
They do 50 or they do like a30-30.
(29:19):
And then, you know so we lookedat me and my best friend.
We looked at seats, flight,hotel, car rental, and I was
like I can pay for this, likeout of pocket, without putting
(29:40):
it on a credit card, becauseI've saved this money.
Wow, but this is.
But this will deplete mydelorean fund like this.
Will you know, this will exitout.
And I talked myself out ofbuying the delorean because I
was like well, it's not in thatgood condition.
I'm not a car guy, it's, itneeds a lot of work.
I don't even know who aroundhere can work on it.
I know I can.
So I I actually talked myselfout of it by only focusing on
the cons of buying thatparticular DeLorean.
And then I said, well, there,maybe, you know, maybe the few,
(30:01):
like it always is.
Like, well, there's more outthere, right?
So I?
That's how I slept that nightand I went to the game and I had
a great time.
I'm so glad I did them.
So I'm so glad that I can tellpeople that I experienced the
Super Bowl where my home teamwon, right?
Just the pomp, the circumstanceand the excitement around it.
I don't regret it.
The next year, I met the personthat I was going to marry, the
(30:23):
one I had my four kids with andlife starts happening.
You start having kids.
We bought a house.
However, every year, she wouldask me Brian, what do you want
for Christmas, brian, what doyou want for your birthday,
brian, what do you want forValentine's Day?
Every year, no matter theholiday, I would say a DeLorean.
That literally became my go-toanswer.
(30:43):
It got to the point that, aboutfive years into our marriage,
she would then say Brian, do youwant for christmas?
And don't say a delorean,because I was just, I was saying
it so much that, that that shethen had to add that to her
sentence, right?
Well, my first book I got myfirst book got picked up.
It got published in 2007.
It sold um, it sold well enough, where I was able to, you know,
(31:05):
be signed on for a second bookoption.
And my second book came out in2010, 2010,.
I opened up a separate bankaccount.
That um was that all of my booksale royalties went into Um.
So not a penny of my book saleswent to the house, went to the
household, went to the kids,went to the credit cards, went
(31:27):
to me going out eating dinner,didn't go to right, didn't touch
it, and I called it my DeLoreanfund and I said I am going to
rebuild my fund and I'm going touse my book sales to do it.
So I put every penny into thisDeLorean fund, every royalty
check that I got every month.
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And then, you know, my thirdbook came out in 2015, which is
my time travel novel, which thengot nominated for a Hugo Award
in 2016, which kind of put me onthe map as actually as a viable
author.
It got taken more seriously.
No-transcript, yeah.
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So I started looking.
I do not know how to drive amanual, as we were talking about
, so I had to find an automatic.
So I kept having to.
Every time a manual came acrossmy radar, I had to be like,
nope, I can't do that.
And then Lady in Traverse City,michigan, puts her automatic
1981 DeLorean up for sale onlyon a website called DMC Talk.
(32:47):
She did not put it on eBay, shedid not put it on Facebook, she
did not put it on Facebook, shedid not put it on Craigslist,
she only put it on DMC Talkbecause she only wanted a real,
like DeLorean fanatic to buy hercar.
Because when you put a DeLoreanup for sale on eBay and
Craigslist, people call they saythey're interested, but really
all they want to do is take atest drive in DeLorean and then
you'd never hear from them again.
(33:07):
So she knew and I saw the adand I was like holy shit, it's
an automatic, that's you know,it's it.
Like I couldn't believe it andit was within.
I mean, I had the money like Icould pay in cash.
I didn't even need to find abank to give me meet me halfway,
like I did.
So that's a very long story ofhow I got the car wow, what a
great story.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And, goodness Well, did we have any follow-ons, or
we?
Uh, we're, we're, we're wellpast time.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
We're just scratching the surface.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
My God, we're just scratching the surface inside
info because I'm in the clubthat you are a co-founder of.
I wasn't around to experienceit, but you have a special shirt
(33:58):
and there's some flames on itand it's not from a DeLorean
doing time travel in a parkinglot.
You alluded to not being amechanical guy.
That's more of your dad.
You alluded not driving a stickshift, but so there's a story
here and every car tells a storyand hopefully my ribs are going
to be hurting as hard as yoursprobably were when this happened
(34:19):
or at least after the fact.
But tell the listeners aboutthe fire I've set the car on
fire twice.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Delorean fire yeah, the first one, I think, happened
before you, before your time.
No, I've set my car on firetwice.
Delorean fire fuse in the youknow the compartment, the fuse
(34:48):
box compartment, right.
So all the relays and fuses arein the same compartment and I
just bought every single one,every single one new.
Some of them I bought from davemckean, who's uh in the
delorean world.
Uh, he does uh solid staterelay upgrades, and some were
just you know, bought uh volvoor you know bosh.
But I wanted new ones, like evenif they were working okay, I
(35:08):
said I want to redo the entirething.
What my mistake was was Iremoved every single one and
didn't replace them one by one,like I didn't pull one out, put
a new one in, pull one out, putit into replacement.
I stripped the wholecompartment and then went uh-oh,
I don't know what relay andfuse goes to what connector, so
(35:29):
I'm gonna guess.
Well, I plugged in a electricalcomponent into a relay that was
way off the voltage that itshould be and I buttoned it all
back up and I'm walking on in mydriveway.
I look over the inside of mycar cue, the ominous music is
completely engulfed like afishbowl of that white
(35:50):
electrical sweeping out of thecar.
Cue the ominous music action iskill the battery, stop getting
letting power go go to it right,but the problem is is, after
(36:11):
the smoke cleared out, I stilldidn't know which one it was,
because I'm looking at what Ithought was correct.
So I'm like well, how do I like?
What do I do?
So I had to keep unplugging one, turning the battery back on
and waiting for it to smokeagain until I found the one that
I had messed up on.
Aye, aye, aye, that's harrowing.
Yeah, goodness, it was veryharrowing, right.
(36:33):
And then, the second time I didit, I installed LED halo
headlights.
I took out the stock headlightsand I installed LED with the
amber halo and those.
In order to have an amber haloyou have.
It's a separate set of wiresthat then you have to splice and
tap into your side markers.
(36:54):
So when you put your runninglights on.
The halos glow right, becausewhen you put on your parking
lights, the side markers glow.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Ah, that's how it works, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So that's what you tap into.
So it gives them power, right?
What I didn't do is I didn't.
I guess I left.
I don't quite know still what Idid, but I must have not put
electrical tape on one of thesplices or left something
exposed, because I had therunning lights on for quite a
bit of hours while I was drivingaround.
And I get to a gas station andthe entire front of the car was
(37:29):
engulfed in that whiteelectrical smoke.
Again, it had short-circuitedall my lights.
I had no brake lights, nodirectionals, like it just fried
everything.
And when I went in there therewas a whole clump of wires all
melted together and I pinpointedit down to one of those halos
that I was supposed to splice.
(37:50):
I just wonder if I'm, because Idon't really know what I'm doing
.
You know, is, you know,operator error?
But so I had to replaceeverything I had to.
I had to get new headlights, Ihad to replace, buy new wiring,
you know, and that was, and I'mnot, you know I did.
So I.
That was awful, but those arethe two times that I have, you
know.
So someone made a t-shirt forme for that I wear on tech days.
(38:12):
That's my car upside down withflames and on the bottom it says
looks about right well nice.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Well, we've all made our we.
We've all made our mistakes onour delorean.
Uh, I haven't set mine on fire,but I did cause it to overheat
in my driveway, so that's aspecial one For another day.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, let's, brian.
Let's keep it at two times.
No, third time's a charm forthat bud.
Well, I think it's time to wrapup.
This is our longest episode byfar.
Time flew by and, yeah, this isreally.
It's been so wonderful to meetyou.
You finally, brian, heard a lotabout you.
Thanks for taking the time.
Man and um again check us out.
(38:56):
It is no truer than what you'veheard here.
Every car tells a story, andeven if you're not a car person
and don't think you have a storyby way of your automobiles,
guess what you do?
Some of our best guests havetold us exactly that.
So, hey, if you want to jointhe discussion, please email me,
christian at carslovecom, ordoug at carslovecom.
(39:18):
Check us out on your podcastplatform of choice to all the
cars I've loved before, or atour website, carslovecom.
I think that's it, doug.
Any final thoughts?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
No, just let's not forget, there's a feedback form.
You can also just fill that in.
Give us some feedback and ifyou want to be on the show, let
us know.
Contact us.
We're totally open.
Referrals are appreciated.
As Christian said, if you likeus, click, follow.
If you want to do a review,even better.
But we're growing.
(39:51):
We love the attention.
We love hearing people tell thestories because, as Christian
said, every car tells a storyand we're going to have Brian
back.
You got it.
This will not be the onlyDeLorean story.
That's our teaser.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Oh, we'll have more.
We'll have more in queue.
Hey, brian, again great havingyou pal.
Let's have you back soon, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Oh, thanks for having me Absolutely Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Thank, you, guys All right brother, appreciate it If
you are in Asia and you want tobe on the show.
If you are in South America andwant to be on the show.
If you're in Europe and youwant to be on the show.
If you are in Antarctica andyou're a penguin and you had a
black and white car growing up,contact us carslovecom.
To all the cars I've lovedbefore, every car tells a story.
See you next week.
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